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This is not democracy.

We need to look for a Nigerian Solution to a Nigerian Problem. Else we will just be going back and forth. Welcome to another 4yrs of business as usual.

What a president!!!

Nice development. Serves Ibori right. I hope other criminals will learn from this.

BTW, How come everyone is believing Sahara reporters on this? Seems we choose to believe what we want to hear and disagree with the one we don't like.

This is really sad, WE will continue to be in this state of confusion as long as we keep doing this to ourselves.

This is not about party, this is about NIGERIA.

As i have posted in my former contributions, Nigeria is not ready for democracy and it wont work in for us at least not now or in the 10years. we are just simply being cajoled into a system of governance that is not for us. each set of people should look out for the system of governance that best suits them.

In Nigeria today, the number of people that wants things to be good using the right methods are very few compare to those that do not, so its simple they are going to win even if we decide to vote whether we want Nigeria to be good or not.

How do you expect someone you didn't vote for to represent you or make favorable decision for the Nation.

This is not an issue of prayers or God's intervention, its a matter of us standing up and defending ourselves and our future.

Read the Link again.

i tot they said "the road to heaven is narrow and full of difficulties". Apparently that road has be rehabilitated by some individuals. I only hope it still lead to heaven.

@playmode, pls contact me on deyou1400(at)yahoo(dot)com, fyi, its a decoy email, from there we can connect. you can use one too until we get to know better.

‎"I was not born rich", Before nko? she we no know who born u? Fisherman dey get money?, "I had no shoes, "U no need am. U wan wear shoe swim go class?" I neva imagined I'd be whr i am today" , Cuz u had no business being there in the first place."If i can make it, " u made it cuz somebody died."I, Goodluck Jonathan, "Abeg abeg! E don do jor!

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@Onye_ngbu, Do you really need evidence that GEJ gave SNG $50,000 for transport? Are you serious with that question, Remember i didn't call it bribe.

Now this is not funny.

Some Nigerians and their fetid thinking.

When GEJ was giving out $50,000 US to Save Nigeria Group for transport where were y'all? (They say it was for transport fare from Abuja to lagos)

When GEJ and his wife were dishing out rice, where were y'all?

When GEJ was giving each participant of the Northern Islamic Council $7,000 US where were y'all?

When GEJ was dishing out raw dollars for the PDP primary elections, where were y'all?

The recent Nigerians that died when a PDP governor in Nigeria was throwing out money, where were y'all?

Now, Saharareporters presented pictures, and venue as to where this money sharing was done, y'all are saying it is not true?

Are we ever going to be honest in this country again

From PATAKI: best of talk.

This is really sad, if this is what governance has reduced to in Nigeria.

Buying the peoples vote publicly and nobody dares to even ask. The wife gives out food and money virtually everyday on the streets just days to the election too. We are in for this one, really.

GEJ has no vision for this country, personally i am disappointed with his performance, this guys has the opportunity to make a huge difference, alas this is what we get back.

Really serious.

@Amalaaba, xterra and poetdee1

You guys spoke my mind, The west call the shot, they define who is stay and who is to go, they were doing this subliminally before, now its open eyes korokoro, one question i keep asking is what is the criteria for being indicted to the international court of justice.

George bush and Tony blair led a war under a fake pretext of WMD and destabilizes a country for about 8 years now, this war was not backed by the UN and no body has ever thought it for these guys to even give the International Court of justice a hearing, but if any African leader does anything straight to international court, I do not support the African rulers dictators but at the same time, these other Western leaders should be checked. The question is by who.

The current trend on how UN is handling issue is alarming, two days ago they blew up the govt. villa of Cote-Ivoire saying Gbagbo is not the recognized winner of the country's election, I am not saying he is, but does that means if a presidential candidate get UN support before the election, he already has 50% chance of winning. cos even if he doesn't win who dare say so.

Lets hope our country will not be next practice ground.

Nice jobs guys.

Another DE in the house, currently working in in the North sea from aberdeen, on soem fields in the west of shetland. Nice to know that IWCF school is in Port harcourt.
good one guys

lol, Very funny. Enugu_ukwu suddenly couldn't answer any question after his accusations.


@Enugu_Ukwu, could you please mention the names of the governors

Some people are waiting for your response.

and someone will come out boldly to say its "our turn" to rule when others are planning for the future.
As long as we keep making decisions based on sentiments rather than merit, mediocrity will be the order of the day.

My challenge to us all individually is, take a look inward and ask yourself quietly, this guy i intend to cast my vote for, does he really worth it on merit and is he the best of all options to move this country forward as one?

Nice one fashola and the think-tank of Lagos state. I pray other states are thinking in this direction too

@Beaf

I was actually expecting you to debunk those points raised, in "your opinion" what do you say to that. You are far better than putting up such pix, at least i take you to be better.

cheers

@Ibime
The summary is that ICPC should be going for me and you not the people stealing our money for us. thats PDP policy. What do you expect from mediocrity?

Worth sharing i guess,

WHO IS AFRAID OF BUHARI? I wrote this because of millions of Nigerians who are below 30 and who constitute a significant chunk of our voting population. This is the ICT generation that is largely ignorant about the events of the Buhari era (1983-85) and so can be misinformed and misled by needless propaganda. I have sat with many in the under-30 bracket and those slightly above who only have faint recollections of the Buhari era and the level of ignorance about that era is amazing.

Before being MILITARY Head of State, Buhari had been Governor of one of the Northern States (under Obasanjo’s Military government) as well as Minister for Petroleum. He later served as Chairman of PTF under Abacha. Please consider the following unassailable facts:


· He birthed and supervised the establishment of our existing refineries.

· There was no religious crisis while he was Head of State. It started under his successor IBB!

· in his time as Head of State he reduced inflation from 23% to 4%, by fiscal discipline and a homegrown economic team (not achieved under any other era, even military).

· JJ Rawlings of Ghana took over 2yrs before him, and killed all the corrupt leaders, while Buhari only sentenced the corrupt leaders here to prison.

· Under his watch as PTF Chairman, what he did in road construction in that short period hasn't been matched by 12yrs of the PDP.

· Hospitals and universities around the country never witnessed as much benefits as they got from the PTF from any government after or before his time.

· Despite serving in senior capacity in the oil sector, first as Minister for Petroleum and then Petroleum Trust Fund, Buhari has no petrol station, much less a rig, refinery or an oil block like so many of our leaders.

· He could have retired into nauseating opulence like an IBB or Danjuma or even OBJ but didn't.

· Instead of hobnobbing with the high and mighty, he has cast his lot with the ordinary man most of who follow him out of hope and belief in his values. People who know him have said of him, "All I need from Buhari is his word, I can take it to the bank".

· He is the only politician in the North today who fills rallies without renting a crowd. The Kaduna rally of 2nd March is eloquent proof!

· He refused to collect an allowance while serving as Chairman of the PTF because he said since he was already drawing a pension from government, his conscience would not allow him to draw another salary from the purse of the same government.

· He is the only former head of state that does not own property or land in Abuja .

· Every attempt to rubbish him through probes in time past eneded up vindicating him! The man who was asked by OBJ to take over the running of PTF before it was scrapped with the aim of probing and indicting Buhari, was the one who ended up being prosecuted for misappropriating $100m of PTF funds! Buhari again, was vindicated

· He has OPENLY challenged those who accuse him of religious fundamentalism to come out and show proof. No one has till today, taken up the challenge. His personal driver of many years is a Christian from Plateau State !


· His government initiated the War Against Indiscipline that has made environmental cleanliness, queuing up, not urinating by the roadside etc features of our national life even till today Does it then surprise you why corrupt people would be spreading such heinous rumours about Buhari?

He is a threat to them and they know what he is capable of doing to corruption and corrupt people when he comes into office! So shine your eyes and make the right decision.

If honesty and probity are the things you want for Nigeria ,now is the time to choose right. When you cast your vote for the BUHARI/BAKARE ticket, you would have cast one vote for two honest men.
Now that you know better, will you please educate another person BY FORWARDING THIS TO AS MANY AS YOU CAN??


Source is Unknown.

I really don't know the source of this and i dont need to hear it from one prof or another before agreeing with it because it is eternally true and i totally share the same view with whoever mentioned it.

Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP:

(1) those who are intellectually blind;
(2) those who are blinded by ethnicity;
(3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally
(4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

Just ruminate over it before responding within yourself if its true or not and be sincere to yourself.

At Naijangel, this is a nice move and we youth need to welcome this kind of initiatives, its one of the ways we can measure those people promising to lead us to the promise land.

@Johndoe100, you conspicuously disappear after you were asked these questions below by Naijangel, pls respond.


Really? Seems you're not impressed that for the first time ever Nigerian youths are finding their voice and the courage to scrutinize their leaders and people who want to lead them. How old are you? Do you think you have the courage to take a step like this, since "everyone is organising debates these days"? Why does the fact that some people choose not to be blindsided into voting without scrutinizing the candidates make you so unhappy? Yes, now i almost believe that it's true that Nigerians get the type of leaders they deserve. Shame! You call constructive people "busybodies", history will judge people like you. Did you check the credentials of the youth associations/individuals that make up the coalition before posting at all? Is someone like Chimamanda who has often been compared to Chinua Achebe hungry for money, fame or what?

I hope your children and grandchildren someday ask you what you did in your own little way to salvage the country at this point in our history.

, This Loius Farrakhan guy is surely on point.

Much as i don't support GEJ, i refuse to believe that he actually said this. If he really did, Then we are in trouble.

@ Crazyman so you don't wonder much, it was a muslim that was killed by other supposedly "muslims" when he told them what they are doing is wrong. I think it shows that one of the parties want peace and the other does not. why generalize?

@Poster,
Pls who should we vote for jare? that will perform more than him, you can include your name too if you are contesting, By the way, i hope you are not expecting an angel to govern us.

GEJ to me has a good heart. but i find it difficult to see him as a LEADER and a president to see us through this period.

Nigeria needs more than someone that doesn't have an account abroad, it depends on why he doesn't have the account in the first place, someone that does business legitimately around the world would need to have an account abroad and could still be a leader.

GEJ is too passive and indecisive, apparently he is not proactive and charismatic. his economic policy is terrible where he only believes handing out is the way out. another 4 yrs of him will just be a waste of time, there probably might not be looting and stealing of fund but there will hardly be any plan for the future. I strongly believe decisions are being made for him by those around him, He lost me when Sepp Blatter shouted him down.

He is a nice man and that is it, Period

, its really sad that someone will deliberately put up topics just to ignite tribal warfares, and sometimes reduce a credible topic to tribal issues,

Btw, the prof actually made me laugh when he said:

“I have refrained from talking about June 12. I have my reasons. I don’t think it is time, as a public servant, to begin to talk about things which came to your possession by virtue of being in that office. That is a violation of the very principle of oath of office. That is my position and I stand by it."

and he went on to say the reasons why the election was not free and fair!!!

, I hope the libyans will be successful with this protest, 41 years in power is too much except if its in their constitution that its allowed. that is leadership till death, which i doubt.

Looking from the Nigerian context., what are we going to protest about? i really will like to hear from you guys,

On a normal ground, remove politics . would you compare Jonathan to Fashola?

i really don't think they belong to the same class. Fashola is way superior. thats why he was reminding GEJ that he didn't get there by luck!