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cheikh:
Kilode?!
@Kilode?!

Thank you Bro Well, what else can we do? It's pretty difficult and interesting. Our forebears have done their bit.

Which other interesting treads are out there? I am not too good at exploring/navigating Nairaland etc. Perhaps I am stuck at the Politics/Economics  and Foreign Affairs sections. I enjoy reading some interesting opinions at times outlandish and funny too. Nigeria is Great indeed. . Sense of humour is very important hence I enjoy reading some funny comments. Do you have any sections/treads to recommend to me?

I spend most of my NL time in this section also. The jokes section if funny if you like that. I think the Romance section is funnier though

But for me, it's Politics/Foreign Affairs/Culture/Sports on NL

PDP agents bribe voters N500 each In Igbore, Abeokuta

Written by Adejuwon Soyinka


Prior to the postponement of Saturday’s National Assembly election, voters who had queued up to vote at Ward 13 in Igbore area of Abeokuta, Ogun State were paid N500 each by agents of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP ostensibly to get them to vote for PDP candidates in the election.

However, things became a little tensed when news filtered in that the elections had been postponed to Monday, April 4. Faced with the dilemma of what to do with those who had already collected the N500 and those who were still on the queue waiting for their own share of the “loot”, the party agents decided to split the money.

In what appears like some sort of consolation prize, those who were yet to receive their own N500 before news of the cancellation of the elections came in were then given N200 each. They were all promised more money if they show up on Monday, April 4 for the National Assembly elections.

Announcing the postponement, Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC chairman said it was due to the failure of one of the commission’s vendors to meet up with deadline for supply of voting materials.

Jega said the supplier blamed the humanitarian crisis in Japan for the failure to import the voting materials to deadline. He said most of the voting material arrived the Lagos airport by 9a.m on Saturday and this accounted for the late arrival or outright non-availability of INEC materials at most polling units across the nation leading to the postponement of the election.



http://www.tellng.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=113:pdp-agents-bribe-voters-n500-each-in-igbore-abeokuta

^ Thank you bro. I tell ya, there are infecting too many people with Daftorrhea. SMH

^^ good MLK videos, that's my ancestor right there


Enjoy this y'all, the first 6 minutes that is, E ku isinmi opin ose

[flash=480,390]http://www.youtube.com//v/vZ0LF2CABe0[/flash]

^^ quit hatin'

Please read this good advice from Citizen cocoduck again, I took creative liberties by editing the few mistakes. I kept the essence, so nothing spoil

cocoduck:
My fellow Nigerians, If you love Nigeria, do not vote for PDP or GEJ, these guys will kill us ooh.
somebody who says he is against corruption surrounds himself with( corrupt individuals like abacha's former ministers and others like (Alamieseghya, Bode George, Alao Akala, Tony Anenih
Look, let me tell you all of you, in case you have forgotten like minds think alike. PDP knows that this is the chance they have to LOOT everything again right and many time over. Because you know very well that PDP of today is still the usual PDP you know, I mean it is weaker than it used to be but your vote will make the looters stronger.
think well before you vote. and in gubernatorial elections look for an untested candidate to vote for  because most of these parties around are all flooded with bad eggs that got kicked out of PDP. I do not  know what to call then gold diggers or what. Look before you leap, do not leap blindly. A word is enough for a wise. Had I known is too late

Thank you Bro! advice taken

If you are a Nigerian Registered to vote, You now have a few more days to reflect and plan on how you will make an example of these Legislooters.

Even if you are not registered to vote, quickly forgive yourself and start doing what you can to make sure those around you with voters cards use it wisely

Do not waste this chance!! Vote looters out!

Think about your families when you are alone in that secret polling booth.

Punish and remove these Looters and Laggards for the pain they've caused you through their ineptitude and wasteful spending of Public Money;


Bad roads = More accidents

No Electricity = No jobs, No business,

Bad hospitals = Bad health = Death

Bad Schools = Poor Education, No jobs, No money, No progress.

Bad laws = Confusion = Bad enforcement, Police Brutality, No freedom, No Justice, No development.

Bad legislators = More waste, more Ghana-Must-Go bags of cash, No one to challenge The president and the executive <---- Bad News

Vote Them Out!! they are not more Nigerian than you and your family.

Thank you folks!

Nigeria needs new breed of legislators

NEXT Editorial
April 2, 2011 10:11PM
   

As Nigerians await the legislative election which was postponed on Saturday and is due to take place tomorrow, it is important to remind ourselves of the role of the legislature in the democratic process.

The 1999 Constitution says that “the National Assembly shall have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Federation or any part thereof with respect to any matter included in the Exclusive Legislative List…” Without laws, a democratic society, or any other society for that matter, is doomed. The 17th century English philosopher, Hobbes, reminds us that without laws, there can be no justice, and the only life available to citizens will be a “nasty, brutish, and short” one.

We have in recent weeks been treated to a semblance of activity from our National Assembly– the passing of the Freedom of Information Bill, an Anti-Terrorism Bill, and the National Tobacco Control Bill. We have no idea what spurred this seeming awakening from a legislature that for most of its tenure has made the headlines, not for its accomplishments, but instead for how much it has cost the nation, and how obsessed it has been with self-gratification.

Perhaps the lawmakers realised that time was no longer on their side, and that if they wanted to be judged kindly by posterity then they had to start passing laws, which is what they were elected to do in the first place. If that is the case, then they need to be told that the realisation (of history’s looming judgement) has come a little too late.

If only they had shown a dedication to duty from the beginning. A look at some of the headlines and comments that have accompanied our stories on the National Assembly in the last two years will give a better idea of the kind of legislators Nigeria has been burdened with since 2007 (not that their predecessors were any better):

‘An Assembly for looting’

‘The luxury cars of our lawmakers’; ‘National Assembly, the most expensive on earth’; ‘Our National Assembly is not producing any laws’. In ‘An Assembly for Looting’ (2009), our correspondents wrote: “If the citizens were to dismiss the entire membership of the National Assembly and find other uses for their money, our treasury will have nearly enough money to fund the N88.5billion that President Umaru Yar’Adua plans to spend this year on building power plants, so that children can do home work under electrical lamps and not paraffin.”

With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the choice Nigeria made was to keep the profligate legislators and instead dismiss our vision of a transformed power situation. Late 2010, the Central Bank Governor disclosed that the National Assembly – made up of less than 500 elected officials– was taking up 25 per cent of “total government overhead.” Even for hardworking legislators, that figure would be unjustifiable.

In June 2009, two years into their tenure, we reported that the Senate had succeeded in passing only 15 of the 284 bills that came before it. At the state level, the situation is not much better. Many State Assemblies are either firmly in the pockets of the state governors, and thus employed for nothing more than rubber-stamping of the governors’ decisions; or embroiled in a cat-and-mouse relationship with the executive. There is the tragicomic case of Ogun State, where the House has been split into two since 2010. We watched as a minority group of nine senators (sympathetic to the governor) met and announced the suspension of 15 members. They then went ahead to elect, from amongst themselves, a new Speaker, who was immediately recognised by the governor.

We hope that the incoming batch of legislators, at federal and state levels, will make a clean break with the past. If the federal legislators want to convince us that they are serious about the wellbeing of our country, they will have to start by doing something about the N63 million (senators) and N45 million (representatives) that they will be ‘entitled to’ per quarter as “constituency allowances”, and for which they do not have to give account.

Legislators have no business awarding contracts and managing project funds. Nigerians also have a duty to hold their legislators accountable. We cannot continue to just complain about dismal performance. Hopefully there will be an election tomorrow and the votes cast will prove to be a just verdict on the performance of the lawmakers. Until politicians get punished – with outright rejection – by the electorate, there will be no incentive for them to shun mediocrity and greed.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5687044-146/story.csp

Make una add more money o! Jega might buy us more time with his slow motion, who knows.

Well, if reports coming in are true, JEGA has bought us more time to influence National Assembly voters with the Jingles.

How far with Mbulela's suggestion about asking Music thread people to help with the Background music?

Did we get the Bakare contact to push a Pidgin translation from him?

Both Elections holding on April 9th means we can do more with the Jingles and cast PDP out.

EDIT: All elections moved forward one week, I was hoping they will conduct them on the same day.

Good decision! Holding the elections on the same day is better for all parties, Even PDP will benefit.

^^ very good analysis Midas02.

@Jarus, great job. Yes Jingle on an Oyo based FM station will be great! Ekiti, Ondo and Osun too if we can afford it, i'm sure those states will offer cheaper rates than Lagos. Ogun will probably listen to whatever Lagos plays anyway.

Make una add more money o! Jega might buy us more time with his slow motion, who knows.

^^ I've been around bro. Just on other threads. It's not easy to keep preaching those broad fundamental messages. But we have to keep at it for the sake of out people.

well done.

cheikh:
niyimat
@niyimat

The "uncle" is behaving like a typical "tenant or Nigerian, perhaps he lacks any sense of belonging or ownership of the said property/land. Is it any different from how a lot of so called 'Nigerians' behave? Do they have any genuine affinity and love towards their environment, neighbours, and street, let alone country? Some internet Nigerians may claim to be more 'enlightened' but those who actually exercise power behave exactly like disinterested [/b]and [b]disloyal 'tenant' or 'uncle' hence they loot and export their loot offshore not even to their villages except for the odd house or two .

The land use Act or law of Nigeria does not engender ownership or sense of belonging with the attendant 'foreignness' of most so called Nigerians outside of their immediate ethnic domain . Development does not happen in an atmosphere of 'innate' sense of insecurity. The 'Uncle' may be right in his 'hopelessness' or worse, so does not have the compelling need to reorganise or 'improve' one's situation or environment. Is it any wonder 'slums' happen? It's not just material 'poverty' but 'psychic' dislocation happening to the 'victim'. It's deeper than what meets the 'eye' of the observer.

The Nigerian perceived 'nationalism' begin and end on the 'football' pitch when they are winning or there are some booty/loot to share amongst the ruling elite. Even a case of 'poor pass becomes acceptable for ambassadorial position. In short a person or society without high expectation for self, where mediocrity is entrenched and acceptable, that household or society will be doomed hence after fifty years we are having this kind of conversation. It's as if we are in a 'marriage of convenience' full of all manner of subterfuge and disloyalty to self and 'society' or 'country'.

In an environment such as ours, it's a miracle that we are still a 'country' because we have never really had any serious national conversation about our assumed 'union', 'unity', 'nation' and 'citizenship' Interestingly, majority of our so called ruling elite do not have faith in the 'country' hence they take pride in owning a 'foreign' passport and visa. You put your money where you have faith in .

Another brilliant post by my bro! You make it easier so some of us don't have to keep repeating ourselves. Well said!

That is what you get when you reward id.iot/s with your vote.

PDP is only efficient at killing opponents and arresting opposition leaders. Common Election paper they can't produce on time SMH << -- very very embarrassing!

Now they want to throw traumatized Japanese people under the bus

Teslim is still free

Akpabio is still running mad all over Akwa Ibom.

The party of Bode George and Alamieseghya <--- convicted criminals, kirikiri graduates  

If you like, file out on Monday and vote criminals again, the Joke is on you!!

aisha2:
Jarus, please send me a PM I will give you someones number in lagos who will hook you up with Bakare in case you need him to translate.

This is a brilliant idea! if we can get him to do it on time, I'm sure they will have a decent media team that can change the background music too.

Send a strong message to looters, don't waste your vote.

^^Warrior, they control the executive and they also have overwhelming majority in the Legislature.

For 12 years straight o!! 

Punish them bro, let's make an example out of those laggards.

Of course if you vote CPC/ACN/SDMP/ANPP and they fail to perform, then you fire them!

Don't reward failures with promotion.

This is why today is important.

Good morning my people!! If you are in Naija and you have light to browse Nairaland, read this before you vote!!!

Anything you do today, don't vote PDP candidates. Punish them for 12 years of bad service! PDP = Bad Market!

No PIB bill

No FOI bill

They make more in a month than Obama makes in a whole year (if you add egunje) while your family suffer from unemployment, no light, no water. Generator fumes no dey tire una?? 

American Senators salary annum = $174,000

British parliamentarians salary annum = $64,000

Nigerian senators salary annum = $1.7Million!!! <--- that na million in dollars o! 

Vote these looters out, replace them, dem too dey chop!

They say yes to everything the executive says after sharing Ghana-must-go bags, Punish them the same way they punish your families. Ignore PDP today.

Make una no put hand for umbrella today o! 

Umbrella = Bad Market 

I don't care who you vote for, just ignore PDP today!! Take your friends and family with you. Punish the looters!!

Good morning my people!! If you are in Naija and you have light to browse Nairaland, read this before you vote!!!

Anything you do today, don't vote PDP candidates. Punish them for 12 years of bad service! PDP = Bad Market!

No PIB bill

No FOI bill

They make more in a month than Obama makes in a whole year (if you add egunje) while your family suffer from unemployment, no light, no water. Generator fumes no dey tire una?? 

American Senators salary annum = $174,000

British parliamentarians salary annum = $64,000

Nigerian senators salary annum = $1.7Million!!! <--- that na million in dollars o! 

Vote these looters out, replace them, dem too dey chop!

They say yes to everything the executive says after sharing Ghana-must-go bags, Punish them the same way they punish your families. Ignore PDP today.

Make una no put hand for umbrella today o!  

Umbrella = Bad Market 

I don't care who you vote for, just ignore PDP today!! Punish the looters!!

agabaI23:
send am fast before I change my mind

You still dey command? you still dey think am? Better go and vote Buhari.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=636936.msg8034385#msg8034385 date=1301688492]I think it is better to have a national assembly that is skeptical rather than a rubber stamp national assembly like we currently have.

It is GOOD to not have everything controlled by one party

Strong democracies have checks and balances and opposition parties.[/quote]I could not have put it better.

agabaI23:
Before sending it to me? you are one hell of a bad marketer

Apologies, if you are now a Buhari/CPC supporter.

I have to choose my business partners wisely bro. Make dem no go add "sontin" join the Oil wey I dey sell.

mbulela:
na catchy tune dey sell market here o!

I totally agree. Do we have any song suggestion? some popular catchy -preferably pidgin- song will do. Regular Nigerians are used to catchy tunes IMO. something emotional/religious can substitute though.

Any Buhari supporter in the Music section?

agabaI23:
send the music to my email too. bntashi@yahoo.co.uk

You no dey support GEJ again? 

Edit.

GenBuhari:
Abeg oh

@9ijaMan,
I never sent u any mail ooh :

@Kilode?!
Please oh !! I never sent u any audio message

Ok bro, sorry for the mix-up

Someone sent me the campaign audio with Bakare's voice.  Thank you to the somebody.

GenBuhari:
I am so proud of us  

I am going to phone everybody I know in Nigeria today to make sure that they vote CPC tomorrow


Please everyone  if you have not already updated your profile , please do so now to show support for  Buhari / CPC

I got the audio message. Thank you! very well done, they only need to take out the song and ensure they retain the rising tempo and echo towards the middle and end.

Jarus:
With Mbulela's contribution, kilode and 9ijaman's pledge later tonight, and my own peanut too, the finance plan is sorted. I have delivered my own brief.

9ijaman, can you have a final discussion with the contact in Wazobia, and let us finalize shap shap?  Let's see if we can get a discount, if not tell her to tell us how we will make the payment.

As per funds, widows mite sent.

The Bakare message is very inspiring, I will advice we use it and alternate with the "general jingle" on The BB-2011 official site for different time slots. They both work for me.

Also, the Yoruba Jingle is not bad. if we have funds to spare, we can pay to play the Yoruba jingle in other states in the SW Battle ground.

This topic on the home page should've been titled "An attempt to Blackmail CPC and Buhari" or just retain the original title :

Don't Blackmail CPC and Buhari - CPC

I'm not satisfied and I'm ready to hug transformer

Genbuhari3:
is it ->  moniker @ yahoo.com?

I sent to mbulela, kilode too

EDIT

Yes Jarus, good plan so far. You will get mine in an hour or so via e-transfer.

BTW, I see nothing wrong with referencing Nairaland in the name of the group. If y'all decide to use another name, I'm fine with that also.

lekyar:
I would prefer if you were non-partisan in you response to my post, why pointing fingers at a particular party as you know and everyone the other parties are also mired in same practices in their strongholds. So I don't much care for that. I would want to believe that these incidences of rigging by thuggery and ballot snatching will be minimized. Lets all be positive.

Dude I'm partisan, it is called partisan politics. I'm not a policeman, I'm biased, that is my duty as a Nigerian voter. How do you cast your vote if you are not biased?

PDP controls the police, they appoint them, they approve their decisions and it is no secret that PDP rigs election like the devil.

I'm sure other parties rig too, but I blame those we gave the responsibility to ensure credible elections for failing us.

For now it is PDP/FG/GEJ's fault. That was what they got voted and are paid to do.

I'm not going to blame my mechanic for my doctor's errors. The blame goes to PDP.

lekyar:
Nigeria is a peculiar political clime and the restriction has its merit. Imagine all these political thugs and ballot snatchers given free rein, what do you think will happen. If the security forces are a tad serious this will go a long way to curbing these excesses. More positives please. BTW not voting 2row no legislator is worth it.

You think state sanctioned PDP thugs will obey this order?

You think they will be penalized for disobeying? Did you follow the recent Delta elections?

This brain-dead decision will disenfranchise decent common Nigerians period.

It will have no effect of the thugs and political goons bent on rigging. The police will look the other way.

Making regular Nigerians immobile will help mobile riggers and official thugs only.