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The content in bold refers, I guess you need to allow other regions to have that benefit of hindsight before you can continue with the preaching.

I pointed out very clearly that your motive is not pure before the SW has done 8 years so you now see it as not necessary even when you agreed power was shifted to the SW and I guess you never objected to it.



I have no objection in other areas having their turns, u can see I emphasis the importance of literacy, background and grounded knowledge and approach to doing things. Rather than the North wheeling out another semi illiterate, semi retired geriatric, if they cannot find anyone capable north of the Rivers Niger and Benue; they should allow the thinking man presently in power to continue with the reforms he has started.

If Jonathan knows the mandate is his next year, he would push for so many reforms that will push the nation forward in a giant stride which will enable him fight and win the elections next year.

As it is now there might be a tendency for him to view things from a lackadaisical approach, this might be positive in a way, since he will not be benefiting from the power equation next year, his passive but thorough and well thought misdemeanour might invariably establish a level playing field where all contenders stand equal chances. Obi’s win in Anambra is a pointer and is enough to make many PDP Governors shake in their boots.

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On the OBJ Issue

I was not a party to OBJ’s emergence neither was 35 to 45 million Yorubas, OBJ got coroneted by his own illiterate colleagues, the SW never had an input, the whole exercise was done by Mutineers who have robbed the nation blind.

What are we in the SW suppose do when OBJ was entrusted on us, to go rioting in the streets and get shot like dogs, these fellows holding on to power are not thinking people they are not learned, they are conscripts who rose through the ranks from their misdeeds.

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When the right man is running your Bank account, making sure your money is safe, u can get it anytime u want it, u did not come up with a rotational system. I bet the last time u went to pick up some money in your bank u did not ask for the tribe of the person handing the money over to you, all u know is the banking industry despite all the failures around us is working efficiently, the money u credited into your account yesterday is still visible today.

In that kind of scenario nobody gives a hoot who is the head of that bank because the system works. What if u enter the same bank and demand for your money and the teller tells u, which money, I am afraid u don’t have any money with us would u be a happy man.?

This country has being run for too long by semi and stack illiterates, we have folded our arms in allowing people who cannot manage their own personal life’s adequately to determine the faith of 150 million Nigerians. These people are failures in whatever discipline they must have chosen, mutineers in most cases, people who should cover their faces in shame, tell me what reason does IBB have in overthrowing his Boss in 1985, no other reason than greed.

Dullards have being ruling the roost for too long, Dullards In Power that is why there has being a systematic failures in all facet of the economy. This inglorious path and rut can be and must be stopped.

A renewed and better beginning should be ushered in now, we are fortunate to have a Doctor in place whether accidentally or by an act of God, it is the first time we would have an over-qualified person leading the nation, we all know u don’t need a PhD to run a Country but while reject that person and go yet again for another round of semi-illiterates.

The OBJ issue- he was Head of State by accident in 1976 when his boss was killed that was an act of God. And the Second time he was made President by a compromise between North and South to compensate the SW for the Abiola Saga. Unfortunately with benefit of hindsight it was a poor choice and a wrong decision. We don’t have to continue in this cycle of wrong decision because we want to satisfy one ethnic group or the other. If the system works most Nigerians especially the youths might not even be interested in who runs the country.

How many people in this forum can mention the Prime Minister of Japan or the Chancellor of Germany yet those countries give their citizens optimum value, jobs, money in their pockets, in fact in these 2 countries the moment u start working, u work till the day u drop dead or retire. Workers cannot be fired easily in Germany and Japan.

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The Uwais report has being passed to the House. I think that report would be killed or delayed by the House until next year after the elections.

I would be surprise if they pass the reports in its entirety this parliamentary

If he does a good job, that he has a right to stand for the next election, and no one can say a word.



The Hausa / Fulani has put fear on every Southerner, we cannot be 2nd class citizens in our own country. He won the election with Yaradua and should benefit from the bounty. As u say he should do a good job first then we would access him. History has shown Phd's are thinking men that are doer's rather sayer's. Dr. Nkurumah's expressway linking Accra to the port of Tema happens to be the only expressway in Ghana.

Principles Nigeria has being ruled by

Kleptocracy - Stealing and Theiveing without ignominy


Idiocy - The whole Turui Presidential debacle is the most ludicrous misadventures in the corridors of power in recent years, it is not only laughable it is silly, tactless and embarassing as a Nigerian when queried by foreigners as to goings in Nigeria.


Anarchy - that abounds in the polity in no other place than in Jos where a bosom for tat debauchery is the other of the day. - I hope a 1000 Hausa / Fulani would not have died by tommorow morning.


Gerontocracy - Can someone please tell me what an illetrate 70 year old Nupe man is going to teach Nigerians about good Governance. It is bad enough we have had 8 years of a Yoruba illetrate in Goverment, does the North have to follow the mistake of the South by making IBB the standard bearer in 2011.

Yar’Adua’s govt is sowing seed of Nigeria’s break-up ––Lawyers •Offer synopsis of how president promotes ethnicism, nepotism

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Written by Idowu Samuel, Abuja

A group of Nigerian lawyers at the weekend called on Nigerians to be wary of the divisive tendencies of the government of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua which it said has consciously been sowing seeds of discord in the country, and hence the basis for destabilization of Nigeria and its imminent break up.

The group averred that the style of administration of Yar’Adua has made it the worst in history, given its predilection for playing one ethnic group against the other, and the wanton promotion of nepotism in the country since it emerged in 2007.

The group which referred to itself as League of Lawyers of Conscience said this against the backdrop of criticisms of the Danjuma-led Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC) on the basis that its headship was more tilted in favour of Christians.

The lawyers had last week, filed a suit with a main prayer that the Court should compel the First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar’Adua to stop hiding President Yar’Adua, and make room for top government officials including Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President, David Mark, House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole and others to see and confer with him without delay.

The lawyers of Conscience, 100 in number, berated critics of the Danjuma led PAC, wondering what they did to correct the lopsided distribution of power, and indeed the stuffing of Cabinet with Katsina people by the ailing president.

The lawyers said the government of Yar’Adua had treated Nigerians with ignominy and utter disrespect when it allowed Muslims to head very strategic ministries and agencies of government, a practice they argued has lifted corruption to high heaven in Nigeria.

The group alluded to Key ministries including Finance, Agriculture, Works and Housing, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Petroleum, National Planning and Transport headed by Mansur Muhtar, Abba Sayyadi Ruma, Alhaji Hassan Lawan, Adamu Ailero, Rilwan Lukeman, Shamshudeen Usman, Ibrahim Bio, respectively, as ministers appointed by Yar’Adua with religious bias, all of them being Muslims.

Spokesman for the group, Barrister Kayode Ajulo while expatiating further said Yar’Adua took ethnic bias by his government too far when he appointed Northerners as the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Presidential Adviser on Economy, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Abdullahi Barkindo and Tanimu Kurfi Yakubu respectively, all Muslims.

The chief of Army staff was busy deploying troops to guard Yaradua's corpse when their number was needed elsewhere. Anyways this thing had already been fortold by the US so this should come as no surprise to anyone, Nigeria the country is ending.


Do we have a Cin C at the moment, I think the President  of the Senate should just Impeach Yaradua and Jonathan and call for an election within 3 months. It is clear the Miliatary, Ministers, Governors even the servants at Aso rock dont respect Mr Acting President.

Do you do that on purpose?

Kosovo, who are you trying to impress? Huh

I dont think he did it on purpose, when u feel pain deep inside your soul, some words u might have picked up in your sub-consciuous comes out to the foreshore like a volcano that has exploded. I feel the brother, the holy grail in our struggle is for 150 million Nigerian to have the same pulse are we going to get there is anyone's guess?  

In the real sense people like IBB and their immediate descendants should be banned from holding any public offices in nigeria if we really want a change.

Like fathers like sons they say.Evil is genetic,it passes on.


I think what we need is fit human being as President not someone knocking on 70, that kind of person will not get a lookin abroad, John MCain lost because he is old. There are young fit Msc and Phd holders north of the Niger and Benue River those are the candidates that should be throwing their hats in the ring not some geriatric. This country has suffered so much, it is even getting to a stage any fit suya seller from the North will better than a Sonic Professor of Pysiscs who is incapicitated.

To have a sick President is to have a sick nation no wonder Nigeria is in Coma.

If IBB should be given a chance for a any public office in nigeria talkless of presidency,it will literally mean nigeria is dead as a nation,a nation full of zombies,the walking dead,especially the youths.


Can u imagine re-living the whole Yaradua debacle all over again, I will accept one of Yaradua's son in law preferable Yuguda as the President than IBB. He seem to be cosmopolitan even though I frown at family patronage but Yuguda is a lesser evil.

In this day and age why is the FG  still running this company called NNPC. This old relic which has being the bane of corruption in Nigeria since time immemorial and it is almost synonymous if not equal to in-efficiency, why has the FG not sold it off. At least that way the South will not say the company is run by Northerners.

How any right thinking human being can fathom or give a simplistic reason why a company run under ethnic jingoism and favouritism will ever flourish beats my imagination.

There are enough billionaires from the North,  the FG should sell it off, if the North wants to run it 107% or even 307%   Northerners to Southerners ratio is there own palaver.

This are the kinds of companies I would expect Jonathan to dispose off without a second thought.

@mr knowall did yar'adull give the order for the deployment of troopes to the airport. who gave the order? pls no one is playing the ethnic card here. read carefully before posting



Does Yaradua have to give the other for troops to escort him home from the airport. Moreso the home coming sojourn was meant to be a surprise and top secret; one would have expected the armed forces to behave the way they did especially when that directive is coming from the Presidential spouse.

In our society the Presidential spouse is revered and held in high esteem this behavioural pattern is not limited to Nigerians it is a common phenomenon in Africa. The wife of the President of Kenya once slapped a subordinate sometime ago, so what is new in Turai giving directives.

he has not uttered anything concerning the troops that were deployed to the airport for yaradua without his knowledge yet he is acclaimed to be commander in chief ( i wonder of what?)


To all intent and purposes Mr Yaradua was still the substantive President of the nation at the time of deployment. Do u think Jonathan has a knee-jerk reaction like many of us on this forum.

Phd is not for the less discerning individual and not a child’s play for u to pursue an academic career at that level requires all your faculty to be working in unison.

Jonathan is a thoughtful examiner, he has seen the loop holes and pitfalls b4 some of u agberos open your ethnic fuelled and biased mouth.

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What do u serioulsy expect from a lame-duck because effectively that is what he is. Even if u are the most popular president with an approval rating of 97% at the tail end of your regime u would be lamer than a duck.

****can you please explain further.was the coup not successful?***


You answer that question, who reaped the dividends of the coup, a gentleman called Ironsi, a man who never planned nor had an inkling that a coup was in the offering, if u call that successful then I rest my case.

he was never a revolutionist.his action complimented in bringing nigeria to this sorry state.

He was a revolutionist, is it because he failed to pull it off. Che Guevera succeded in pulling it off in Cuba but was slaughtered like a commoner in Bolivia. His popularity today is based on the success in Cuba and not the failure in Bolivia.

What we have to understand is that the same God that promoted Goodluck will not heal Yaradua,  if Yaradua has ran his course. In fact Yaradua was in and out of hospital when he was the Governor of Katsina State. The fact that he spent close to 3 years as President frolicking with fraudster's like Ibori and other crooks might not be the best way to live one's life especially if u are the throes of death. Just like saul in the bible when the anonting of the lord left him for disobeying the lord. The lord anoited David, Saul tried to kill David but to no avail.

It is funny the annointing have left Yaradua and turai and her gang tried everything to fustrate Jonathan but to no avail, I think Yaradua's time is up, he had 3 years to turn Nigeria round but chose to do otherwise. Jonathan Goodluck has being anonited we cannot have too kings at the same time.


The story of Saul

Why did God lose favor with King Saul?


God commanded King Saul to do something (1 Samuel 15: 2-3). But King Saul did not do it completely (1 Samuel 15:9). Because of this ", God lose favor with King Saul" (1 Samuel 15:11).

says the lord to Saul
>Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and backside.

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.


The verse above clearly demonstrates that Saul lost favor with God, not the other way around. Saul made a deliberate choice (not just on this occasion either) to disobey and it was precisely for this disobedience that God held him accountable - it was after all God who gave him the command in the first place ( as mentioned above).

If we inquire further as to why Saul disobeyed God, it would seem that Saul had a problem with rebellion - he thought he could do it his way rather than God's.

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the money is coming from savings made on Senators and House Reps Salary (see my previous postings). The money is already in the economy, it is not new money, are we buyiny biro for N50 today .

if is true then i guess following pastors will be on the list
1, T.B Joshua
2, Pastor Chris
i dont think Pastor Tonde Bakari will be in the list cos he is a member of save Nigeria Group lol
bt i thought YarAdua is Muslim, why dont they call Imam and Mallams, i lean the head of Imam even prayed for Yar'Adua in Saudi but Allah Refuse to listing, watch out how Jesus will forgive Yar'Adua and set him free for the rest of Muslims in Saudi, Iran, Iran, Pakistan, Yemem, Nigeria, Gaza, Indonesia the list goessss to know that Jesus is a son of God and merciful savior.


I dont think anything can be acheived when u have diiferent people all trying to do surgery on Mr President at the same time. Spiritual healing is based on faith not having a 1000 Imams and Christain praying altogether. It has to be one on one, so that if TB Joshua does the Job our lord Jesus Christ takes the Glory.

Secondly Yaradua would have to be moved to the synagog, I dont see that happening because of his incacipation, he may be exempted but that would depend on TB Joshua. I still remember the story of Abiola, that was a story that really tourched my heart, he was told to go to the synagog for prayers but declined saying I am a muslime leader I cannot go to the Synagog the Pastor should come to my house. We all know what happend to him thereafter. TB Joshua said he would win the election but would not be President.

The healing of Yaradua would be based on a healing Jesus Christ made to the Centurien. Turai Yaradua should have faith like the centurion see excerpts below:



And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, 'Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.' And Jesus saith unto him, 'I will come and heal him.'

"The centurion answered and said, 'Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, 'Go,' and he goeth; and to another, 'Come,' and he cometh; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he doeth it.'


"When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, 'Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

"And Jesus said unto the centurion, 'Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.' And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour."

Of course not, but the movement doesn't rely on them, just wait and see, time will explain



Some of the fellows on this forum need to go and read and familarise themselves with the russian revolution. Arewa politicians should make it a matter of urgency to formally  train the millions of almenjeris roaming from town to town, cities to cities, begging for food.

This squalor looking kids would be the bedrock of a revolution that would sweep the north in which all the Megida's or wealthy home and land owners would be slaughtered. What auwal87 said that less 1000 people are controlling the wealth of the north with  69 million people living in abject poverty would not hold water for too long. The bubble would burst sooner rather than later. Boko Haram is just the begininng.