₦airaland Forum

MrHenshaw:
AND WHO TOLD YOU THAT UK RESIDENTS ARE NOT SUFFERING?

Psalmuel92:
Hoping for a Free and Fair election in the State

blackpanda:
Pdp have started their normal tactics. When u cant win, destroy. Instead to focussing on what u can deliver, u are coming here to tell us cock n bull stories. Mtscheeew

sabi159:
Apc = change
Pdp = change the change

APC is planning with their collaborators to withhold campaign materials from all the areas in Edo State where the PDP has clear voting majority supporters.”
The plan, according to the statement, will lead to an electoral crisis that would invariably force INEC to declare the election inconclusive, adding that the APC in Edo had also perfected plans to influence INEC officials to supply faulty Card Readers to areas where PDP is very strong in order to deprive and reduce PDP votes.

By Gabriel Enogholase

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has cautioned those he claimed are planning to rig the elections not to contemplate such saying that a meeting of APC henchmen reportedly held last Friday to manipulate the elections were open to him.

Ize-Iyamu speaking through his Campaign Organization said the plan involved using security agencies and some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to push the APC candidate through by hook or crook. He thus urged those involved to rethink as PDP members across the wards in the state are ever prepared and ready to defend their votes by ‘’any means necessary.”

The campaign organization’s assertion was in response to an alleged meeting held by the APC leaders with their Unit Heads on Friday at former Leventis House, Sokponba Road, Benin City, where according to the PDP campaign, they were said to have instructed the Unit Heads to disrupt any polling unit where the PDP candidate wins during voting and counting of ballots papers.

According to the Statement, “We have been informed by an insider at the meeting that APC leaders further warned their members that the election results must not be allowed to be declared by INEC Presiding Officers should PDP wins in any unit in the state. ‘’

The insider further informed us that APC had finally given up any hope of winning the election, and they are now planning crude measures to rig the election, including making their members as INEC ad-hoc staff members. And if this is what they are planning then, they have failed because our members have been instructed to defend their votes by all means necessary.”

The PDP campaign organization alleged that the APC had also deployed huge sums of money to their collaborators in the state in a bid to prevail on them to help in the plot, just as it alleged that the PVCs of the electorate in various wards across the state were being collected by APC’s leaders daily and in some cases the serial numbers copied out for cloning. ‘’

Our evidence is very strong. We know for sure that the APC is planning with their collaborators to withhold campaign materials from all the areas in Edo State where the PDP has clear voting majority supporters.”

The plan, according to the statement, will lead to an electoral crisis that would invariably force INEC to declare the election inconclusive, adding that the APC in Edo had also perfected plans to influence INEC officials to supply faulty Card Readers to areas where PDP is very strong in order to deprive and reduce PDP votes.

It added, “They have also mapped out seven local government councils where they will disrupt election results and make the election inconclusive. We therefore strongly recommend to INEC to be law-abiding and fair to all to avoid crisis it may not be able to manage. On our part, we have advised all PDP member and indeed Edo people to be law abiding, for victory is ours.”

Stuntkid172:
where she dey go?

MadeInTokyo:
Buhari is a bas-tard..quote me anywhere

FanYogo1:
Because you're truly 5%ers....enemy of progress.

reuben79:
aftre pdp ruled 4 16years wat do u see,corruption and terriorism..apc all d way

Ibrahim1975:
. Highly disappointed. These are oil wells and they are still there, where are the refinaries to refine the oil? Do u really listen to Okonju Iwela's confesions on the economy? Every single peny made in the sells of oil disappeared. I challenge u to list just one project Jonathan concieved,lunched,completed and commissioned fantastically apart from corruption.

Ibrahim1975:
.Inconclusive election 100% better than stolen mandates. Can u list out economic parameters put in place that made nigeria giant economic in africa that is no more? What were we producing b4 that is no more?

Jhanny:
And if somebody says you don't have sense u think the person is insulting you,not knowing he is advicing you to get urgent medical attention..
Wailer oshi...

gists:
Yeah right.
Kachukwu does not have vision and does not understand the industry.
Why should I believe that?

kelvine:
"...what is happening in the country now is not due to oil price. It is due to lack of vision, commitment, and understanding the industry.”

David Tam West 2016

ConqueredWest:
So David Tam West has started wailing after condemning Jonathan and saying fuel will be sold for 40naira under Buhari

Afonjas come and defend Buhari

Former Minister of Petroleum, Prof Tam David-West has said that the plunge in oil price should not be made the scapegoat for the economic crisis the nation is wading through.

David-West who first expressed this view in a report published yesterday clarified that the headline on the cover page of Saturday Sun, ‘You must fulfill your promises – David-West tells Buhari,’ conveyed an erroneous message, different from the import of the story.

“What I said in the interview has nothing to do with the campaign promises of the All Progressives Congress and President Muhammed Buhari,” David-West pointed out yesterday.

The former minister stressed that instead of blaming low oil price for the nation’s woes, the government should rather focus on addressing the problems of bad orientation, bad organization and selfish interests bedeviling the oil industry.

“Don’t blame oil price for your woes. The problem is bad orientation, bad organization and personal interest. There are a lot of personal interests in the oil industry. Why should somebody, who is a major oil contractor have a say in what happens in NNPC?”

David-West, who said that the Federal Government should make public offices less attractive in order to block the drains in the coffers of the country, stated further, “Now, oil is selling at around $40 per barrel. There is no reason to complain. I agree that if oil price is low, Nigerians should worry because oil makes up over 80 per cent of our annual budget and over 90 per cent of all Nigeria’s money abroad – foreign money. So, oil is the life blood of the monolithic economy of Nigeria.

“We should be concerned if oil price is down. Of course, it will affect us. We should be concerned. But we should not over dramatise it. Why? It is because this is not the first time.

“Fortunately, when I was Minister of Petroleum, I served under Muhammadu Buhari as the Head of State in 1984 to 1985. During my tenure under him, oil never sold more than $30 per barrel. So, why are they complaining about $40 per barrel now?
“When I was a minister, the highest price of oil was $30 per barrel. The oil that was sold for $30 per barrel was Bonny Light, which is one of the best oil in the world. Bonny Medium was selling at $28 per barrel. We never complained.”

David-West, who noted he earned higher as a lecturer in the University of Ibadan, more than his initial salary as a minister, continued: “Sometime in 1984 when the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided to start its market share, oil price went down to $10 per barrel. Yet, we still did a lot for Nigeria. So, why are they complaining about $40 per barrel? They are complaining because of lack of industry, selfishness and personal interests.

“I have decided for a long time not to say anything about oil industry in Nigeria under the present administration so that I would not be misunderstood. But a lot of things are wrong. But I cannot now, after balancing the interest of Nigerians vis-a-vis my own personal interest, keep quiet.
“From now on, I will be x-raying the oil industry and speak in the interest of Nigerians and the interest of the President himself.

“In 1984, Buhari’s government was not popular with the West. They liked the previous government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari. They were doing everything to bring him down.

“Two countries – Norway and Britain, that were in rivalry with us cut down their oil price by 50 cents, which is not up to a dollar. The British Brent Crude is like the Bonny Light of Nigeria. The two are very similar.
“Some Western countries gave them money to undercut Nigeria. They thought by doing that, Buhari’s government will collapse. What did Buhari do? He and Tunde Idiagbon called a meeting. Buhari said oil price had collapsed and what they had done was to destroy Nigeria.

“I told him at the meeting that there was crisis and we had three options. The first option was, he should not do anything. If he did not do anything, the economy would collapse and the government would fall.
“The second option was that they had cut about 50 cent, let us also cut about 50 cent. But it would seem as if we could not think and we were just doing follow-follow. The third option was he should surprise the world.

“Buhari then told me after he had weighed all the options that I should go and cut oil price by $2. Can you imagine that? They undercut us by 50 cent. I announced to the world that we had cut oil price by $2. Then, we never complained.

“By cutting oil price by $2, Bonny Light sold for $28 and Boinny Medium sold for $26. We survived. We built new refinery – the Port Harcourt Refinery was built during that time.
We started petrol chemical. We started NLNG. We stopped bunkering and smuggling.

“We had a strategy for selling oil, which London Financial Times said was extraordinary.
So, what is happening in the country now is not due to oil price. It is due to lack of vision, commitment, and understanding the industry.”

oluwafreshkid:
Yes..lack of funds for preparations and training is a huge determinant in the performance and outcome of #TeamNigeria

Not sure Solomon are wise... example: Solomon Dalung

queencalipso:
APC lies are becoming annoying. How can someone be openly lieing about something that is staring the masses in the face how petty and pathetic can they be!!


Chai!!!!! Nigja see una change o!!

HungerBAD:
Sai Baba.

My man for life. Good family man.

Joel3:
PDP is leading seriously.

The witches spokesperson said the election is going to be a straight battle between the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Godwin Obaseki, and that of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Ize Iyamu.

“The battle is a straight one between Iyamu and Obaseki, and the election is going to be hotly contested. But on who is going to win, we are holding an emergency meeting at Ofosu next Wednesday, and the person who is going to win the election will be revealed to us at that meeting.”