₦airaland Forum

All these nairaland mods are slowpokes. Why can't they just give all these guys lenghty ban,say like 10 years? Am beginning to suspect they are somehow inclined to all these monikers. Ndi ara

make una let this man rest nah

SGF or no SGF, all I care about is that by 2019, it must be the SE turn to produce the president. Otherwise, we secede.

kaybams1:
Nigeria Politics is a Time Bomb and Saraki is the Judas Iscariot by Wunmi Akintide- Sahara Reporters

President Buhari‘s insistence that he was not
going to interfere on the affairs of the Parliament
is a major gaffe any way you slice it. The
Parliament, as stipulated in the Nigerian
Constitution, would determine whether or not his
change agenda would fail or succeed in Nigeria.

As a Political Science major with a deep passion
for politics, I can tell you that.
The PDP began to irredeemably fall apart the day
their own Speaker of the House,
Tambuwal began to show more loyalty and
favoritism for the opposition party, and there was
nothing the PDP could do to bring him to order
before the situation got out of control.

Only in
Nigeria is that kind of disloyalty tolerated in a
party official. It is true that the Speaker of the
House must be neutral in his dealings with
members as much as humanly possible, but the
‘river that forgets its source or origin’ as
reminded us by Elemure Ogunyemi, the Ekiti
country music idol, is bound to dry up sooner
than later.

Tambuwal got away with his disloyalty because
he figured out that he could only be removed as
Speaker by a majority of members in his
Chamber, and nobody else, as stipulated by the
obnoxious Nigerian Constitution. Unwritten ‘laws
of decency’ should have required the Speaker to
do the right thing without being told, but
because politics in Nigeria is all about self rather
than the ultimate interest of the Nation and the
institution, Tambuwal got away with his perfidy.
Not only that, he went on to be called a hero and
a consummate politician in a country where
corruption has become a virtue and a way of life.

Everybody in the PDP knew he was to all intent
and purposes an APC member, but the PDP and
President Jonathan were in total
denial. Tambuwal kept that advantage until the
very last moment when he publicly admitted he
was going to be the APC Governorship candidate
in Sokoto since he could not run for President. He
won the governorship election by a landslide.
That could only mean he had been rooting for
the APC long before he made it official.
Even though Goodluck Jonathan tried to shake
Tambuwal up by using the Inspector General of
Police, Abubakar Abba by withdrawing his
security details and the official cars and drivers
assigned to him as Speaker. Tambuwal went to
Court to challenge the move and won on legal
technicalities. The PDP went into the last
elections totally embarrassed and humiliated by
their own Speaker, legislators like Bukola Saraki
and Governors like Kwankwanso and Amaechi
who openly decamped into the opposition APC.

In his own case, Tambuwal only stopped short of
openly crossing carpet into the APC. He was
widely known to have been holding nocturnal
meetings with the APC Caucus while still claiming
allegiance to the PDP.

The House of Assembly in Abuja under the PDP
was a House of Commotion, Intrigues, Horse-
trading and Bribery if you get my point. Even
though Nigerians massively voted for change on
March 28 and April 11, I can assure you that
nothing has changed and nothing is going to
change in Nigeria for two important reasons.

First, neither of the two major political parties in
Nigeria today have any verifiable ideology that
explains their value system and political leanings.
Neither of them operates the kind of party
supremacy that is so critical in every Democracy.
Once the Party takes a decision, no member,
however powerful or rich can change it, whether
on the floor of the Parliament or anywhere else in
Nigeria

The Action Group under Obafemi Awolowo
became the powerhouse that made the Western
Region the pace setter in Nigeria among its peers
like the NPC and the NCNC. Rich individuals like
Pa Alfred Rewani, late Pa Ajao and Pa Shonibare
of Lagos were moneybags in the same Action
Group, but they all had to abide by what the
Party says.

Even Awolowo, arguably the most
conscientious politician and strategist among our
leaders, knew he could not achieve anything as
party leader without party discipline and
supremacy.
Awolowo initially wanted to make free education
in the Old Western region both ‘universal’ and
‘compulsory’ but the party settled for universal
only. Awolowo had no other choice because the
party was supreme. If Awolowo, the party leader,
could do that, no other member could challenge
the party and remain in the Action Group.
Awolowo was that strict. It was not like the
“animal farm” of today where a deserter from the
PDP like Bukola Saraki would not take no for an
answer because he is hell bent on becoming
Senate President to gain immunity from public
prosecution for atrocities he committed with
“Societe-Generale Bank“ a public institution he
plundered.

I don’t blame the APC for accepting “leprous”
Saraki into their fold. The APC was like a
drowning man that would cling to a snake at the
time it accepted Saraki, and the gamble paid off
big time in Kwara State, if not the whole of
Nigeria. They must now deal with and tame the
monster or suffer the same fate as the PDP
suffered in Kwara. Saraki is a true son of his
father. He is in politics not to help humanity but
to laugh all the way to the Bank for his own
benefit. As Saraki has become Senate President,
forget it. That is the end of Buhari’s anti-
corruption agenda.

I have cited the above examples to show that
neither the PDP, nor the APC that dethroned the
PDP for the first time in more than 55 years in
Nigeria has anything other than selfish interest at
heart. It is a complete outrage that Bukola
Saraki, who destroyed the PDP for his own selfish
gain is attempting the same thing in the APC.

Saraki is just like his twin brother in crime, Ayo
Fayose, the current Governor of Ekiti. He is the
Judas Iscariot of Nigerian Politics.
Ayo Fayose, the outlaw Governor has got away
with murder in Nigeria, so to speak, because
Goodluck Jonathan’s policy was to join the rotten
eggs of Nigerian Politics rather than beat
them. Fayose openly encouraged the PDP
members in the new Senate and the House of
Representatives to muddy the waters for the APC
and cause confusion by voting en masse for Sola
Saraki as Senate President.

He has the effrontery to do that because, under
the Jonathan government, he completely
outmaneuvered the 19 APC legislators he drove
out of Ekiti so that the 7 PDP legislators could
continue to do as they liked with him as the
overall boss. One would have expected the new
APC Government to have paid more attention to
Fayose and what he was doing in Ekiti prior to
the APC’s victory in the last election. The APC
dropped the ball on Fayose, who took advantage
of the APC’s silence and ineptitude to wait out
the 19 legislators till June 6th when his new set
of PDP legislators took over the Ekiti House of
Assembly.

I have completely lost confidence in the APC and
President Buhari for being so sluggish and slow
at doing what was expected of them. I could not
understand the strategy of the APC to put Ayo
Fayose on notice that his antics in Ekiti would no
longer be tolerated by Buhari. They were
supposed to hit the ground running, but grew so
careless that Ayo Fayose treated them like
amateurs in Politics. The man beat the APC arms
down in Ekiti, if the truth must be told. He
definitely put “Okaraba Baba Edi“ on the APC and
juggernauts like Ahmed Tinubu. The wizardry of
Ahmed Tinubu has been rubbished by Ayo
Fayose.
I agree that it is true that there are more urgent
problems to tackle than facing Ayo Fayose, but I condemn the APC, President Buhari and Vice-
President Osinbajo for completely taking their eye
off the ball in reference to Ayo Fayose and the
ugly developments in Ekiti.

I am also amazed, if not totally shocked, that one
week after Buhari’s inauguration he still has not
found the time to issue a statement on the 60
Nigerian officers and soldiers awaiting execution
for not fighting Boko Haram with their “bare
hands”. Boko Haram was fighting Nigeria with
tanks, armored vehicles, AK-47 rifles and other
deadly improvised bombs like what Biafrans call
“Ugbunigwe” during the 1967 to 1970 civil war.
These soldiers were expected to face this people
with prayer and fasting. That is just wicked.

It is unconscionable that Buhari, a retired 4-star
General has not seen the need to issue a
statement on the fate of those brave soldiers
within a week of his inauguration. The cowardly
Chief of Defense Staff and the other heads of the
Army, the Navy, and the Air Force who worked
with Goodluck Jonathan are still there, enjoying
their loot from Jonathan. Buhari looks insane to
me right now to keep quiet and not say a word.
Many, if not all, of those officers should have
been let go immediately.

It also beats my imagination that the same
Buhari, up till now, has not said a word on the
fate of Captain Sagir Koli, who blew the whistle
on the covert operations that helped Fayose rig
the election in Ekiti on June 21. Brigadier-General
Aliyu Momoh, the commanding officer of the
operation is still in the Military, while Sagir Koli
has had to runaway from Nigeria to avoid
assassination or victimization by his commanding
officer. Yet, Buhari still wants Nigeria to believe
he is the Messiah, coming to save Nigeria. If you
believe that crap, I have an island to sell to you
in the Pacific. Time is of the essence. Buhari is
damaging himself irredeemably in the court of
public opinion for all of the above.

I was one of the strongest supporters of General
Buhari during the election and I still support him,
but disillusionment has set in for many of his
supporters across Nigeria and for me. I am not so
sure any more from what he has done in his first
two weeks in office. I am more worried today
about his silence than anything else. I know
there is a limit to how much he could have done
in 2 weeks but he should at least have issued
some statements to assure Nigerians that he is
not totally lost or overwhelmed by the sheer
enormity of the problems he has to confront.

I suggested to him more than a year ago, that he
needed to set up a Rapid Response Team to draw
attention to many of these lapses, since he was
not avid reader of briefs sent to him. He should
have had somebody looking into social media to
compile information and advice he needs. The
Sahara Reporters of New York is a major resource
that he cannot afford to ignore. If he is in any
doubt, he should talk to his friend, Pastor Tunde
Bakare, who visits the website every day before
breakfast. Buhari is losing momentum and I deeply regret that.
Buhari has told us enough about Nigerian
problems. What Nigerians want to hear now are
his solutions to these problems. I am not talking
of solutions that would require the involvement
of the Senate or the House of Representative or
the Judiciary. I am talking of solutions that he is
able to do with executive orders. He should make
himself and his Vice President a shining example
of the change he wants to see in Nigeria just like
El Rufai and his Deputy Governor have done in
Kaduna State. They both declared in their
inaugural address that they would both accept a
50 percent salary cut until further notice.

That Buhari is yet to name a single member of
his cabinet and principal officers close to 2 weeks
after inauguration is proof that the man is not
ready for prime time. I am saying it out loud
because I want the man to succeed. I can tell
you right now that what Buhari has promised to
do in Nigeria cannot be achieved with the level of
sloppiness and lethargy he has shown in his first
two weeks in office.
He offered Nigerians a sartorial list of the
problems he wants to tackle but he has not
articulated the ends, the ways and the means for
solving those problems with any comprehensive
strategy. What he is trying to do cannot be done
with his current level of commitment and drive.
It is sad to say but it is the truth.

I fully understand that Buhari is trying to
convince his critics he is no longer the maximum
dictator he used to be as a military ruler but he is
doing it the wrong way by looking weak and
incompetent. By openly telling Nigerian he would
not interfere in what is going on in the
Parliament, he became spineless.

I would not be complaining this much if I saw
some convincing evidence he really wants to
strengthen the supremacy of the APC. I see no
evidence of a guiding ideology that should
influence all of Buhari’s decisions. I see none of
that and I think the observation should be of
concern to all Nigerians like me who voted for
change on March 28 and April 11.
The APC won 59 seats in the Senate and the PDP
won 49 in the new Parliament. The APC won 213
out of the 360 seats in the House of
Representatives leaving the remaining 147 to the
PDP, the APGA and the other parties in Nigeria. If
you compare that margin of victory with what
normally obtains in stable Democracies like the
United States, Britain and the State of Israel, you
will all see that the APC has a majority that is
comfortable enough to be able to effectively and
successfully govern Nigeria. What if the margin
of victory for the APC was much smaller? The APC
has no excuse to give right now. If it fails it will
have nobody but itself to blame.

I don’t care about the horse-trading currently
going on in the Parliament. The bottom line is
that the legislators sponsored by the majority
party must be seen to have won. That it did not
happen is a bad omen for Nigeria’s nascent
Democracy under the APC.

I don’t care how the APC and Buhari do it, the
duo of Saraki and Ekweremadu as Senate
President and Deputy President is as a major
humiliation and defeat for the APC, and more so
for Buhari and Osinbajo, and a bad omen for the
interest and future of Nigeria.
I rest my case.

talkative how market?

Enugu state nma nma nuo, ife oma lue anyi aka..... ife'a bu nwanne Unu levelszik from anambra state na ekele si Unu jisie Ike n'olu. Anyi gana enwezu aku site Nike lue nike........iseeee

cjrane:
Asha,
I am personally not against people taking pride in other African languages. I speak yoruba very well. You just have to have a good sense of person, so that you can see what is better to emulate from other cultures and what is better in your own culture than the new culture. So that you don't copy wholesale and blindly. If you cannot see anything good about yourself, then you'd be a rolling stone and object of ridicule to others. In a way our younger generation have no sense of who they are and what forces have been shaping their lives. This is what concerns me the most.

As a person, i also believe in compromise just to let things be.However, I soon realized that i had actually learned this attitude from my parents as Igbo people! I soon asked my parents and others why they had this laid-back attitude of not speaking out against evil, and they said "The War"
Then, they refused to talk about "the war". My father, a former Biafran soldier, did recommend 2 books; "Nigerian revolution and the Biafran war" by Alex Madiebo, so that i could see the true sequence of the tragic events and the dairy of Ojukwu published as " Selected speeches & random thoughts" to understand the desperation of the time and why nobody wished to recall those days in stories.I had since added Faraway in the sky, an account of an American missionary and the legendary Chinua Achebe's personal account "There was a country".

These four books are a must for our youths to get a peek into why Nigeria is how it is and why we must change the tactics we have used in reacting to this oppression that started on May 27th, 1967. Unfortunately, nobody can find the time to tell you these facts unless you disciplined yourself to read and find out for yourself. I recommend these books especially to Chino and Abagworo. It will help them understand who they are and how others see them....and most importantly how to reason in order to see they are actually on the same side!

My point is that we tend to be afraid of speaking out against what we know in our hearts to be false for fear of being disrespected, labeled "Igbotic",illiterate, "tribalistic" or worse. While our adversaries donot hesitate to play the ethnic or religion card when it suits their cause.The reason why many more Igbos died in the second pogrom was simply that naivety of thought that we are all the same, "One Nigeria" and they see me as i see them.So i can call katsina my hometown and invest all my life savings there. What tragic fallacy!
The result of the acceptance of the so called "One Nigeria" heresy carefully sculpted to appear innocent so that our people now adopt the narratives and concoctions of their enemies as solemn facts! The first pogrom against the Igbo was spontaneous following the killing of Ironsi as a punishment for the "Igbo coup" that brought him to power, while the second pogrom was planned and systemic massacre only comparable in scale to the Rwanda massacre of Tutsis. The reason why it happened so successfully?......Disastrous underestimation of the intent of the people we call "Fellow" Nigerians. That is why Igbos have continued to invest all their money in god forsaken parts of the north and elsewhere trusting on the benevolence of those folks, just as our parents disastrously did just in the 1960s. The tragedy of it is that our people will believe they are from Kano or elsewhere simply because they were born there and speak hausa fluently just like Musa and Jibril that were born in the same hospital as them. Only for the facts to hit them at some point when they are treated differently! Just as our parents learned the hard way.
I know i have not made my point clearly in black and white, but it was deliberately intended to be fuzzy. So that people that can read between the lines and search the truth for themselves.

nice piece there, I just got the book "there was a country" sometime last week,but laziness and work won't allow me read up till now. But before that, I had read "why we struck", a book written by a yoruba ex soldier (adewale ademoyega) about the war. He was on the biafran side, though under circumstance! .....his people rejected him because of the role he played in the 1967 coop. After reading through your write up, I had a renewed burst of energy to go through the book squarely. Thanks bro

codedslayer:
Buhahahahahaha. Ebuka sef dey form

shut up arzz

chinolization:
Anambra has boundary with Edo at the north(water boundary), has boundary with River at the South, has boundary with Abia and Imo at far south, has boundary with Enugu state at the east, has boundary with Delta at the west(water boundary, has boundary with Bayelsa though a tiny water boundary and Kogi at the far north.

Edo

Rivers

Delta

Bayelsa

Abia

Imo

Enugu

Kogi

Bia nwokem, ur lies are becoming too epic for my liking. Remove bayelsa and edo (and to some extent rivers) from that list.

Ghen Ghen

Beremx:
There's no fuel scarcity in the SE but the price of a litre of fuel in the SE is the same as what is sold in lagos. The price of a litre of fuel in the SE has increased suddenly from 87naira to 120/140naira

where have you been all this while?

There was a boss looking to hire someone. But, this boss had one funny thing about him, he didn’t have any ears and was very sensitive about it. First day someone comes for an interview and does great on the exam. Then the boss asks him “do you notice anything funny about me”? After pausing for a second he says “yes, you don’t have any ears”. The boss throws him out.

Next day another guy comes in. He too does great on the exam. The boss asks him if he noticed anything funny about him. He start stuttering and fidgeting trying to get out of the situation. The boss urges him “c’mon tell me what’s funny” finally he tells him “you don’t have ears”. The boss throws him out too.

Third day another guy comes in. He aces the exam and the boss is very excited. Then the boss asks him ” do you notice anything funny about me”? He thinks for a second and then replies “Yes , you wear contact lenses”.Amazed the boss asks him “Wow, how did you know that”? To which he responds “Easy, you don’t have any ears so you can’t wear glasses”!!!

What do you think the boss would do?

danny301:
This an insult to the good people of Nigeria whose life and economy have been wrecked by Iweala and her co-travellers.

mechieonu, nkakwu ocha

She sure deserves it

jaysniggs:
But of course she was honoured!
Plunging Nigeria into debt, running to the World Bank and the IMF for advice
She deserves the award.
What an irony
Little do people know that those who operate at the helm of power of the Yale University are the same cabal who own the World Bank and IMF.
Nigeria is being raped

Guy wetin u smoke this early morh morh?

FreeGlobe:
Why is Governor Willie obiano protecting Peter obi from probe and invesigations? Governor obiano must act in the greater interest of the state.

u and anything Obi shaaaa, forgive the guy nah

Honestly I think Pa Awo is overrated.

Ilekeh,thunder fire your left ball

Ontarget:
I saw it immediately I opened the thread.

that means ur eye is naturally bad,hence no need to close it b4 u could read it.m

Kingsley1000:
yea,it all boils down to austerity issues,bad economic condition,stagnant development in the state,high rate of governance,and unprioritized spending(eg buying of horses for security officials),destruction of kidnappers abodes(why not create jobs opportunities for them,thats the best preventive measures for all these vices,juvenile de'linquencies)...and patronizing of foreign products instead of revamping and encouraging the local ones..these are the symptoms of bad governance which we'v suffered over the years,is quite unfortunate none of them knows the verge the shoe hurts us

A glance at all these baseless point highlighted by you above made me draw a fast conclusion about you. Simply put, you belong to the specie that has to stand astride to urinate and must not be taken seriously. Evaporate and find somewhere to decay osiso. Otororo disease!

Schematics:
Where is freeglobe when you need him?

when you need him-her-she-he nairaland, a land of omnigenders Ife eji abu anambra erika(in chinos voice)

Schematics:
Nwanne abu kwanu m ocho udo mgbe ututu..

My brothers are arguing, as an elder of peace I have to calm them down.

Abum onye udo.

so the zebra can actually bleach it's stripes, Otuto diri Jeso!

Kingsley1000:
...THis is the only sane and honest man in this thread,very deplomatic and intelligent..more orijin to your stomach sire...ANAMBRA STATE HAS BEEN VERY UNLUCKY IN GOVERNANCE,and our people are the prime cause of this,we want stomach infrastruture more than competent leaders,have this notion"make we chop now becos when they enter,we mightn't get anything"...AND WE're TOO SENTIMENTAL,THATS WHY NGIGE LOST THE SENATE PRESIDENTIAL SLOT..OUR PEOPLE ARE TOO FOOLISH,YOU NOTICE THAT BY THE ATTITUDE,SYCOPHANCY AND SENTIMENT(apga party ndigbo)they exhibit here..i weep for my state,wish OUR PEOPLE COULD TAP SOME IOTA OF POLITICAL SENSE FROM ENUGU AND IMO STATE PEOPLE...WE HATE APC TO BONE,EVEN IF JESUS is under apc,he will fail in anambra..quite pathetic

@bolded, what we need is the presidency. What did Ken Nnamani and Adolphus Wabara fetch ndigbo politically as senate president or even their states (enugu and abia)for donkey year? Forget that slot abeg.

Schematics:
Nwanne m, its okay. He is still our brother, no matter what..

Obiano is a performer. So far as he is delivering excellence in governance like he is doing already, he has our full support.

Anambra adigo mma.

chino preaching love and peace. Anambra adigo true true nwannaaa ndaa.

poor art

Judging by the uniform, he's definitely a chadian soldier

After bleeping camels, they use the same joystick to bleep humans. Boko are rams

Oloriburuku sambari.

After all they've embezzled in office, these thieves ain't got conscience at all.

Buhari to move against pension for ex-governors
on april 15, 2015 at 6:48 am in headlines, news
Facebook Share Twitter Share
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Gbenga Oke
LAGOS — President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), is to lead a campaign to repeal the pension laws for governors enacted by many states of the federation, Vanguard has learnt.
The proposal by the incoming president is based on what sources close to him affirm as the incongruity of the laws under the country’s socio-economic environment and also, as a way of demonstrating moral leadership from the top.
Majority of the nation’s 36 state Houses of Assembly have enacted generous pension entitlements for governors that in many cases provide 100 per cent pay for the incumbent governors buildings, generous medical allowances for them and their family members and annual holiday provisions, all of which are to last for life. Provisions in the pension allowances are also made for staff, security and vehicles that are renewable every three or four years.
Buhari’s inclination towards a review of the pension for former governors was first publicly declared few days to the presidential election at the All Progressives Congress, APC, retreat in Owerri, Imo State.
It’s scandalous
A source conversant with the development disclosed that Buhari told the governors that there was no way Nigeria could survive under the financial weight of the pensions that had been earmarked for governors. He was said to have described the pension laws as enacted by states controlled by APC and PDP governors as scandalous.
According to the source, “he was very blunt about it and said that it was something that was going to be done immediately, especially because it is not something that can be sustained.
“The feeling was that not only was it wrong and morally unconscionable, but that it was not something that should be encouraged, and he was appealing to them that it should be changed.”
However, the response of the governors, who were present at the retreat, was not immediately given.
It’s a welcome proposal —Keyamo
The development was, yesterday, welcomed by leading Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo, who described it as a fantastic proposal but disclosed that it was something that could, however, only be accomplished through moral suasion.
“Fantastic, fantastic. It is a very welcome proposal,” the Lagos lawyer, who backed General Buhari against President Goodluck Jonathan in last month’s presidential election said.
He, however, said the proposal was something that Buhari could only effect through moral suasion as the pension acts were enacted by state Houses of Assembly.
The crave for financial safety out of office was recently also extended to the legislature after the Lagos State House of Assembly passed pension laws to guarantee generous pension entitlements with proposals for former presiding officers of the house.
States that have passed the law
Many states of the federation had steadily been passing the law since return to civil rule. States like Lagos, Edo, Gombe, Oyo, and Rivers have passed the law, through which several former governors are already drawing applicable benefits, which in some cases are 100 per cent of what the incumbent is earning, while in others, some benefits in the pension laws are as high as 300 per cent of what obtains in some states.
100% of basic salary in Lagos
The Lagos State Governor and Deputy Governor Pensions Law of 2007 provides that “a former governor and family (spouse and children both married and unmarried) are entitled to free medical treatment which is not capped. Another highlight is that the ex-governor is entitled to a cook, steward, gardener and other domestic staff who are pensionable.
The benefits:
Annual Basic Salary: 100% of annual basic salaries of the incumbent governor and deputy.
Accommodation: One residential house in Lagos and another in FCT for the former governor; one residential house in Lagos for the deputy.
Transport: Three cars, two backup cars and one pilot car for the ex-governor every three years; two cars, two backup cars and one pilot car for the deputy governor every three years.
Furniture: 300 per cent of annual basic salary every two years.
House maintenance: 10 per cent of annual basic salary.
Domestic staff: Cook, steward, gardener and other domestic staff (no limit) who shall be pensionable.
Medical: Free medical treatment for ex-governor and deputy and members of their families (not just spouses).
Security: Two DSS operatives, one female officer, eight policemen (four each for house and personal security) for the ex-governor; one SSS operative and two policemen (one each for house and personal security) for the deputy. PA: 25% of annual basic salary.
Car maintenance: 30% of annual basic salary.
Entertainment: 10% of annual basic salary.
Utility: 20% of annual basic salary.
Drivers: Pensionable (no limit to number of drivers).
Severance gratuity: Not specified.
100% of basic salary in Kwara
The law stipulated that qualified former governors and their deputies be paid pension for life, without other perks like accommodation, cars, etc.
The law was reviewed in 2010 by Bukola Saraki, a former governor of the state and a serving senator, who with the support of the state House of Assembly imposed outrageous raises on all the benefits.
The 2010 law gives a former governor two cars and a security car, replaceable every three years. The governor is also entitled to a “well-furnished 5-bedroom duplex,” furniture allowance of 300 per cent of his salary (which totals over N6 million).
The law also gives the governor five personal staff paid for by the state, eight policemen, three DSS operatives (of which one must be a female), free medicals for the governor and the deputy.
Other entitlements are 30 per cent of salary for car maintenance, 20 per cent for utility, 10 per cent for entertainment, 10 per cent for house maintenance.
100% of basic salary in Rivers
The Rivers pension law was first approved in 2003 by former governor, Peter Odili, having been passed by a state assembly headed by the present governor, Chibuike Amaechi as speaker.
The 2003 pension law provides pension for life for governors and deputies, defining “pension” as embodying annual terminal basic salary, annual transport allowance, annual rent subsidy, annual utility allowance, entertainment allowance, domestic staff of not more than four.
Like Lagos, the new law gives the former governor a house in Rivers State and anywhere in Nigeria. The former governor is also entitled to pension for life at the rate of the governor’s basic salary, 300 per cent of salary for furniture paid every four years, three cars every four years, free medical and 10 per cent for house maintenance.
The law gives the former governor a security detail comprising two DSS operatives, four police officers, 30 per cent for car maintenance, 10 per cent entertainment, 20 per cent utility and several domestic staff.
100% of basic salary in Edo
The Edo State House of Assembly on May 16, 2007 passed a law entitled ‘Provision for the Pension of Rights of the Governor and Deputy Governor of the state.’
This law was passed few weeks before Governor Lucky Igbinedion left office as Governor of Edo State.
It provides for 100 per cent pension for the governor at a rate similar to the salary of the incumbent office holder and for domestic staff among others for the former governor.
300% of annual salary in Oyo
The Oyo State Pension Law 2004 provides that the Governor and Deputy Governor after leaving office shall be entitled to Pension for life at a rate equivalent to the annual salary of the incumbent Governor or Deputy Governor. Furniture Allowance of 300 per cent of the annual basic salary, Leave Allowance of 10 per cent of annual basic salary and severance allowance of 300 per cent of the annual basic salary.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/buhari-to-move-against-pension-for-ex-governors/

otemanuduno:
Yes!!! The names we bear really speaks for us. PDP chose POWER while APC chose CHANGE.

In the end, CHANGE changed POWER.

GMB becomes President-elect, AMB rhymes with it, so AMBode will definitely win.

Jona and Jimi go with each other. They both will definitely lose.

Obasanjo and Osinbajo goes together, Obj is never a loser; Osinbajo followed same path

Aregbesola and Fashola goes together, they both succeeded in transforming their respective states where they came from.

Fayose and Fani Kayode goes together. They are impeachment candidates.

Rochas and Okocha and Nkwocha sounds alike. They are all achievers and skillful.

Ideye and Ebele sounds somehow. Make I nor tok abeg

Notwithstanding the fact that am pro-PDP,i can't help but say classic