₦airaland Forum

Obiagelli:
Today na real drama Tuesday, i see Fashola and Fayemi's handwritings on this one, don't ask me why

Seems we are thinking alike.

Watch out for these two!

JackBaueress1:
Some powers are clearly bigger than him.

*sighs*

So you know?

I thought you were one of his ARDENT supporters?

Ezenwammadu:
Suspended from the party not the senate.They can always decamp to PDP

They will cite crisis in APC as reason for them to decamp from APC to their new party and still retain their seats.

Interesting!

Reference:
Yeah. I can imagine Fashola raising a glass of Dom Perignon 53 with a wry smile. Politics 007.

Those who joked about Fashola not being able to make even a councillor in Lagos had better watch out!

Indifferent:
As it is now, the only thing Tinubu has is the Vice president

And I pity Osinbajo.

I hope what happens to uncooperative deputy governors in Nigeria does not befall him.

He might have to choose between Tinubu and Buhari.

Choose ye this day who you would serve - Tinubu or Buhari?

Check what happened to Amosun's and Mimiko's former deputies.

Will what Tinubu did to Bucknor happen to PYO?

Tinubu was drafted by Afenifere to contest for governor and "given" Bucknor for deputy.

Bucknor pledged allegiance to the Afenifere godfathers while Tinubu decided to be his own man.

Eventually Tinubu showed Bucknor the way out.

Tinubu and co drafted Buhari and dashed him PYO.

If PYO continues to be loyal to Mr. Everybody, he might get the Bucknor treatment.

Already, his major assignment so far has been visiting on behalf of the president.

BTW

Saraki will be cut to size before 2019!

Emmayur:
He is simply following in the foot steps of his father who was the senate president during the Shehu Shagari's regime.

His father was majority leader not president.

Joseph Wayas was president.

zubby29:
d fact dat kwankwaso was in attendanc spells danger for apc.dey better accept d election or pdp will regain kwara,zamfara and kano and i am apc dont want

Very correct!

The man who came second to Buhari at the APC primaries!

The three strands of APC (CPC-Buhari, ACN-Tinubu, nPDP-Saraki) do dey show face!


Kwankwaso went with Saraki- Governor's Forum/New PDP Ties.

Will Amaechi go with Saraki? I think he will!

If GEJ remains powerful in PDP, Saraki and his new PDP people will form a new party. Mark my words!

The days of an overbearing Obasanjo are over!

Tinubu is being checked!

Buhari will have to confront both the Tinubu and Saraki groups if he does not politic (which is the CHANGE some voted for).

Buhari will have to confront the same people who drafted him into the race to get rid of GEJ. He would not find it easy. I hope he has learnt from GEJ's errors of trusting and trying to pacify these people.

Now, people will see what GEJ suffered in the hands of these people.

As long as they all are not able to gang up against the masses, I am happy.

I'm so loving this!

PS

I suspect a major fall out between Tinubu and Fashola.

I will explain when the time comes.

Change!

teebaxy:
what will happen to alafin of oyo that went with his yellow wives?

They will remain in Abuja until further notice.


Jona, why?

If this is true, let's hope they would not scale the fence again.

orimahspence:
Apc should not forget how it all started. In fairness to Saraki. The senate presidency belong to new pdp/apc. The cpc got president. ACN got the VP. Anpp got the party chairman. Now that it was the new pdp to get theirs, apc now becomes jittery of the PDP. .

You are quite right.

If APC is to be fair, new PDP ought to produce the speaker.

If Saraki loses, it will be interesting to see what Amaechi will do. If Saraki leaves APC, will Amaechi and other New PDP members leave APC?

Amaechi has become invisible...

A new political party is loading...

If Saraki wins, he would stand against Buhari like he did against Jonathan. Of course, he would try to check Tinubu probably by leaving APC.

If Saraki loses, he would definitely leave APC.

I am not sure he woulkd go back to PDP especially if Jonathan becomes the navigator of PDP.

The prospect of a Saraki senate presidency is somehow intruiging to me.

With Saraki as an opposition force to Tinubu and/or Buhari, we would be saved the agony of a one party state (APC).

Interesting!

The new opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has thrown a last minute stunt to the 8th National Assembly leadership tussle at the early hour of Tuesday by endorsing Senator Bukola Saraki for Senate President and Hon Yakub Dogara as preferred candidate for the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, feelers have it that Senators loyal to Senator Lawan on their part after a meeting at about 8.30 p.m. Monday night, were said to have resolved to personally approach Saraki to keep the unity of the party and bury his ambition.

The peace mission to Saraki was, however, yet to see Saraki as it was learnt that the Kwara political colossus had become incommunicado.

However, Hon. Dogara’s camp was also banking on the House rules which provides for secret voting, a situation they claimed, yesterday, would allow their closest supporters to vote for him since the votes cannot be traced.

Dogara’s momentum was, however, tempered by the decision of a Federal High Court in Abuja to remove Gbajabiamila’s name from the contest upon alleged infractions committed in the United States. The court rather asked that Gbajabiamila be put on notice for the case coming up on June 18.

That decision nonetheless, the Dogara camp spread out word that they cannot afford to have a presiding officer who would be parading the court.

With this new twist PDP has positioned itself as a formidable threat capable causing devastating damage for the new ruling party (APC), just as PDP availed it’s senators-elect and members-elect, to enter today’s contest as a united body, putting the minority body which commands 49 of the 108 senators-elect in a decisive position to determine the outcome.

PDP governors and immediate former governors including some who have now entered the Senate were also rallying to present a united front in today’s historic National Assembly election.

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/06/breaking-anxiety-as-pdp-endorses-saraki-as-preferred-senate-president-and-dogara-as-house-speaker/

I thought you guys were compalining about GEJ wearing dark colours?

New APC (nAPC) loading...

NEW APC (nAPC) loading...

seunmsg:
Dogara and his group should please shut the fvck and respect the decision of majority of the APC representative elect. he should quietly respect the party decision and withdraw from the race. The overall interest of the party should supersede all personal ambitions.

Since when did APC start respecting the decision of the majority?

How many election results lost by APC were not contested?

So the overall interest should supersede all personal ambitions now?

Words on marble: "My personal ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian"

agabusta:
Back to the story, this is not nice at all. it seems Ambode has not come to the full realization of the enormous powers that has been handed over to him. One cannot blame him totally though, he is kind of new, with time, he'll be more confident and understands protocol better.
I think this is a big goof sha and his protocol officer and Chief of Staff needs to be fired for this nonsense.

I thought APC said Jimi Agbaje would be a learner and we should not vote someone who would learn on the job?

bastien:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9G0Qa-tBLo

Thanks!

bastien:
u see the one torino v Parma?

No. Do you have a link?

bastien:
Pure match fixing

Gbam!

Is it legal to patronise prostitutes?

Why was the man not arrested for patronising a prostitute when he went to report at the police station?

Wonderment!

Does this put to rest the Ekiti-gate debacle?

You know, the Obanikoro-Fayose election fiasco.

I thought peeps were complaining about the dark colour of GEJ's attires?

sexymoma:
Mugabe is always sleeping at any summit, Inauguration, Conference meeting... So i won't blame him much

The most interesting thing to me is that nobody is bold enough to wake him up when he takes a nap (make the baba go slap them or sack them? ) :-)

Not even the presidents of Equitorial Guinea and Gabon who sat beside him at the inauguration.

The organisers did a good job not sitting him between two dignitaries.

Now, that would have been a sight!

Sveen:
I'm still trying to understand why it had to be built in the middle of a lagoon, ergo, they're gonna have to transport the kids on boat, and their parent would allow it. That's superb.

The pupils and their parents are "boat people."

They live in houses built on stilts within thew vicinity of the school.

The children are used to water transportation,

OkikiOluwa1:
pls, what really happened?
how did SR disrespect Mugabe?

Watch the video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L95kciDCBfw

Watch what happpens after Mugabe enters his car.

It is obvious that SR was not out for an objective interview.

SR would have ridiculed Mugabe no matter his response.

The guy shouting at the end of the clip is Sowore the founder of SR.

Obviously, this is not journalism!

Double post

Max24:
Is that Sowore? I thought he was on exile.

Yes. That was Sowore!

I don't recall him being on exile.

I wonder how he and his team got a pass to the event.

SR is not mainstream. I hope someone did not violate security procedures to get SR the pass.

If that was the case then there is wahala!

What if something untoward had happened to Mugabe? Who would be blamed?

What this means is that any blogger with strong connections can get a pass to such a high profile event, similaly create s scene and report it on his/her blog to draw traffic not minding the embarassment or security risk it could cause$

I hope this does not repeat itself.

As a matter of fact, this ought to be probed!

Reference:
Well society is slightly more complex than most of us assume.

You need power and it comes from the people. The power to change Nigeria comes from Nigerians not the Captain.

It doesn't matter how good your captain is. If he doesn't have a good team around him he wouldn't win trophies, simple as that. In Nigeria leadership is grossly, grossly over-rated. The followershio is too heavy an anchor to bear in this country.

A Junaid who probably cannot win an election in his bathroom will probably decide how this country is run over the next 4 years. We have serious problems in Nigeria. Who the hell is he and where the hell did he come from? But once again, that is Nigeria for you.

Amother Gbam!

Coldflares, Semitunde and Referencen have hit the nail on the head.

When these northern ethnic jingoists want a post, they play the geo-political zone card. They would see nothing wrong in two people who are Hause or Fulani from NW/NC/NE occupying corresponding posts.

I fear we would hear nothing about a national conference or restructuring of the polity under a PMB regime. Too bad!

As for PMB's seeming inertia, time will tell.

It is gradually becoming obvious that strange bedfellows came together to "capture" power solely for their personal interests. While it may cause some initial friction, I see it as an opportunity for our democracy to deepen if properly managed.

coldFLARES1:
God forbid that we may one day wish that Jonathan retained the position. I feel immensely disappointed that Buhari seem to have aspired for the presidency for more than 12yrs without an idea of what to do for the good of the public. How disgusting it is to think that a man of 73 seem unable to assert himself because he may have his eyes set on a second term. With the deceit of a public declaration of asset already executed, it won't be wrong to say PMB is grossly overrated on his 'unique' selling points of honesty and integrity. All too soon, I am beginning to realise we have elevated a loafer to draw salaries and allowances for the next 4yrs while condemning our country to either stagnation or regression. . . .and to all these hausa people priding themselves as powerbrokers and emerging from the blues, we are watching you.

Word!

semitunde:
My point was really that we can have Saraki as senate president and still have a Yoruba as speaker simply because one is from the Southwest and the other is from North Central.

When northerners want to put people in post, they bring out the zone card, but when they see someone like Saraki they say he's Yoruba. They should follow the zone.

There are Hausa and Fulani people in North East/ West/ Central. When they put people in positions through such zoning, we don't complain that they are all Hausa /Fulani na abi?
.

Gbam!!