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agarawu23:
its a problem bro

are you telling me we don't have professionals Here in Nigeria for the job?

at least the money should remain here instead of giving it out to foreigners.

maybe she doesn't want us to know how Much the project cost because you know say our mouth too dey leak.

Nigeria needs help. How can a nation develop when majority of her people can easily be manipulated. What's wrong in a renowned medical professor building a world class medical facility in Nigeria to serve her people. Is such gesture not to be applauded? I weak for the kind comments I have been reading; truly a shame that hate has blinded our reasoning.
Sahara reporters someday the doom you wish others shall befall you heavyly laden. Your evil works shall be exposed to the world soon including your paymasters.

DaBullIT:
Goats


Work is ongoing in the refineries , nobody said it is operational , i think it was announced that it would be operational by end of August / September

and What if it's not , You are not happy that fuel now sells for 87 naira and its available everywhere??

Enemies of Progress

Which part of this world are you? Certainly, not in Nigeria!

You are in a dream world

naijaspeak:
[size=20pt]Okonjo Iweala should be immediately arrested and tried in a law court and the money allegedly embezzled by her recovered for the nation 's development. She is a mega criminal who took advantage of Jonathan inexperience as a leader and perhaps foolishness and stole the nation crazy.
When Oshiomole brought her criminal records before Nigerians and the international community she is denying it and going personal against Oshiomole.

During Obasanjo government her incapability was discovered and she was thrown from the position of minister of finance to the minister of foreign affairs which she did not accept and decided to tender a resignation. But gullible and clueless Jonathan recycled her back to the ministry of finance as minister of finance. We Nigerians now know why she lost her ambition to become the world bank President. If she had succeeded in her quest she could have stole the world crazy and get Nigeria disgrace. Her carreer is over as she is no longer a trusted person
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Speculations, mere speculation!!! Learn to comment based on verifiable facts not just hearsay.

It's not all you read or hear in the media that is true.

dustmalik:
I'm curiously awaiting the defence of the Wailers on this one.

Did you read the entire article. They never said money was missing but it was diversed for other purposes and the President said, he hope that due process was followed in diversing the funds.

Nothing to wail about or defense. The President also ordered the release of funds for national exigences recently, so I don't see the big deal in this.

Unfortunately, corruption cannot kill corruption, it can only begets the same thing. If the process that culminated to being elected as president is soiled with corruption it becomes impossible to extricate yourself from it.
It's an insult to assert that no enough evidence that is why allegations bordering on corruption by those closest to the president will not be investigated. We all know the truth but we may decide to twist n turn, the truth can never be suppressed for ever.
Let the drama continues to unfold, we are watching and in the end the truth shall prevail.

This man is hated for no just reason. APC and the media created a monster out of an innocent and humble man. They try everyday to justify their lies with more lies but someday their judgement shall surely come.
The worse are those who would rather believe the lies than seek for the truth but would continue to spread the lies that unfortunately have become the truth for many. Blessed are those who can still recognise and stand by the truth in this hour because all around you is filled with so much lies that the truth has almost been completely buried but someday, in no distance future the truth shall rise again and defend the oppressed.

Shame on you the blind followers of evil propagandantists, your time of harvest shall surely come.

pheliciti:
Nigerians are too big on respect but short on compassion for the millions of downtrodden citizens that suffered from the misrule, brazen corruption and incompetence of the Jonathan era.
In fact, GEJ is lucky if the only recompense he gets for suffering Nigerians is just the abuse.

It's a pity when comments are made out of ignorance because they are always off the point. The allegations against Jonathan are onesidded and the man has kept quiet even when the facts show the contrary. Keep insulting but remember the law of Karma and the sins that must be atoned.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Continue with your act, the day of reckoning shall surely come.

Pierocash:
God bless Sahara

Just remember the law of karma. What you sow you reap. Jonathan did nothing to warrant this degrading statement from saharareporters, It's quite sad that people like you encourage them. It comes around what you wish others.

madridguy:
In Jagaban Voice : Amaechi, a 'general' of Common Sense Revolution has spoken.

Most credible,reliable,honest man of the SE/SS.

The North and the SW Dey behind you gidigba.

APC
CHANGE.

I really can believe it that someone could write this after all the rubbish coming from Amaechi. A man praised for providing 80% of the campaign funds for buhari's election. Where did he get that kind of money and yet he doesn't like money.

Na wa ooooo. Let keep celebrating the wrong people and be expecting change.

Amazo:
Unsubstantiated. Several western countries have publicly corroborated the unprecedented massive looting of Nigeria's commonwealth during Jonathan's administration and even pledged unflinching support for its recovery, to mention a few. But yet to you the valid case of corruption against Jonathan's admin is still unsubstantiated. Clearly, it is you that has a stone-age brain

You will soon find out the truth. I never denied the presence of corruption in the previous government but single it out as the most corrupt may not be truthful except an objective probe is done on all previous administrations and findings made public. I tell you if that happens Nigerians maybe shocked at the level of impunity that have been committed including by the so called change agents.
Let pray for a better Nigeria

yorke1:
You have the list and what the fvcking are you still waiting for? This government is a joke. Continuing to play on the mind of the gullible.

Thank you ooooo! That's what we have been shouting. He should quit the talking and get to work. Let the law takes its course. Seriously, I'm fed up with the long tales of corruption from APC that I have to believe that all their promises were made only for election purposes. I stand to be corrected.
If you have the list don't tell us please recover the stolen wealth as you promised. Tomorrow another story

989900:
Don't quit your day job, 'cause with those up there ^^, you've just sent GEJ to jail if you were GEJ's legal counsel.

It's your type that I refer to here. Why go to the media with unsubstantiated allegations with all the resources at the fed govt disposal to thoroughly investigate and get to the bottom of any allegation before going public. They are already sounding like broken records.

Please use your brain freely given to you but remember it needs to be developed before it can be effective

I can safely conclude that this administration takes nigerians as fools and indeed we act as one. I don't think a day passess by without careless comment on missing or stolen funds and no iota of substantiated fact to back up such claims. What is most annoying is the response of the people, without thinking, they start cursing at the previous govt and hailing those who made such careless allegations. APC will do anything to remain in the public eyes especially through lies and propagand forgetting that they are the ruling party now. From USD150Billion, USD6Billion, US9.3Billion to N11.3trillion; which is the actual figure missing or are we back to Sanusi's days where new figures are arrived at every panel set up to investigate the unsubstantiated stolen funds. Shame on you APC and a bigger shame on all those who believe and repeat their numerous lies.

It's high time, we woke up from our dillusionment and embrace the reality. The corruption in Jonathan's govt is not so different from what we had experience in previous administrations and the ranting of the current administration is to cover up their lies, propaganda and deceit that brought them to power. Similar to the weapon of mass destruction slogan that was used to attack Iraq after 911. After the war, no WMD was found in Iraq but the regime accussed has been overthrown and iraq destroyed by the coaliation forces. Mission accomplish!

APC rode to power based on the popular slogan of change which every Nigerian craved for and they conjured up all sorts of unimaginable lies to decredit the previous govt to the extend that no one could seperate reality from falsehood any longer. True to type, it's easier to accept all the lies as facts without asking questions even when there are evidence to the contrary because of our nature and joy in bring down others. Some even echoed that if a NEPA bill is brought as educational certificate it would be accepted. Most ridiculous was the cartoon that depicted two people coming out of a bank like robber with a caption: if burahi and tinubu are caught stealing money from CBN, we will still vote for them. That was the level we descended to and anything and everything was acceptable in the name of change. They can do no wrong, then I knew without a doubt that we are in a big mess. Nigerians have been hypotised and scammed by the very people that promised to take them to the promised land. Only a few spoke out and condemned the sham sold to Nigerians as change.

If you are still among those who still believe in this sham called change I advise you to wake from your slumber you have just been scammed.

PassingShot:
[size=15pt]And the wailing continues![/size]

1. Being a member of APC Security Committee does not mean the man is a card carrying member of APC.

2. And if we assume (a big assumption at that) that Lawal Daura is a card-carrying member of APC, is there any part of our law/constitution that forbids a card-carrying member of a governing party from heading DSS, NSCDC and other similar bodies?

I need documented evidence from anyone please.

It's a pity that you need someone to clarify what is so obvious.

Someday, you will understand better the danger of nepotism and its destructive effects.

helpee:
I am yoruba but so far I am very disappointed that this Govt is actively promoting ethnic marginalisation of Ndigbo. Igbo didn't vote for APC fine. A democratic Govt should by now make them see reason why they made a mistake by embracing them in his Govt. They said they want Biafra. You said no yet you are marginalising them in their own country. Obama made one of his opponent vice president and the other opponent became secretary of state. So far buhari has only be vindictive. Like it or not, he will divide nigeria faster than radio Biafra if he continues to play his arewa ethnic card.

Truth is golden. It accords with any upright individual. It neither know ethnicity nor creed but associates with all that has an open mind to embrace it. You have spoken well. May this your conviction lead you to more truth.

PassingShot:
Stop viewing everything with your biased lens! I just extracted a portion of the report which clearly stated there was a decline over last year's figure, to make a point.

A clear mind will agree that the news is not worth celebrating if we actually performed not as good as the previous years.

You can call on any of the professional wailers to extract figures for the past ten years for your analysis. I have better things to do with my time.

you talked about bias while you are clearly providing a jaundice view. Making conclusion just based on the figures will not tell the whole story and that is my point.

President Muhammadu Buhari believes Nigeria does not need foreign aid if the world powers can help her plug all the loopholes that had been used by government officials to steal her assets.

A Presidency official on Buhari’s four-day visit to the United States (US), which ended on Wednesday, quoted the President, yesterday, as telling US officials that Nigeria has the resources to stand on her feet, and that the world powers should help her.

In the meantime, Nigeria is to draw down investments and cash worth $13.6 billion following negotiations and understanding reached by Buhari with the American government during the visit, Sunday Vanguard learnt, yesterday.


The President met with US President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, among many other top functionaries, during the visit.

“Buhari did not go to the US with a begging bowl. We don’t need foreign aid, he told everyone, so long as the world powers can help us plug all the loopholes that had been used to steal our assets,” Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Publicity, disclosed to Sunday Vanguard.

Whereas the President said, during the visit, that about $150 billion is stolen annually from Nigeria and many other African countries, the Presidency official said, ”Americans hold the view that between $10 billion and $20 billion dollars is lost annually through the crude oil sector alone.”

He quoted his boss as saying: ”There is no organisation or government (across the world) that can give us (Nigeria) $5 billion. If we plug our loopholes and recover stolen money stashed abroad, Nigeria will do well by herself.”

A breakdown of the $13.6 billion earmarked for Nigeria, courtesy of the Buhari US visit, shows that $5 billion is coming for investments in the power sector, another $5 billion is to fund investments in the agricultural sector, $1.5 billion is from the Bill Gates Foundation while $2.1 billion is being provided by the World Bank.

Of particular interest is the discovery that the huge sums being brought for investments into the country, according to the Presidency official, attract no counterpart funding.
Similarly, in its efforts to assist Nigeria eradicate polio, the Bill Gates Foundation, which is revving its support with additional $1.2 billion, is extending its areas of coverage to four more states – Kaduna, Sokoto, Borno and Yobe.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President described Buhari’s outing in the U.S as a monumental success.

According to him, no Nigerian leader ever achieved that kind of success in one visit.

Shehu said: ” From our point of view, no past President of this country has ever netted these for Nigeria from a single U.S. trip. Overall, it is a resounding success.
“The clamour for President Buhari was astounding. He was gone after by every member of the United States establishment. He met Secretary of State John Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden and the President of the United States, Barack Obama.

“I am not sure there was any past Nigerian President who met as many a number of Secretaries of U.S. Departments as Buhari did and, in all of these meetings, the personal integrity of President Buhari came through.”

source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/we-dont-need-foreign-aid-buhari/#sthash.4OVQvL9k.dpuf

PassingShot:
The figure actually represents a decline over the previous year. So, nothing to celebrate here as it's evident that we regressed instead of improving.

Both 2013 and 2014 the same person was in change and if there was a decline there must be a reason for that. Don't be sarcastic. Give us figures before his tenure and let analysis if any progress was made at all. You can't take two year and conclude no progress was made.

This is a quote from the punch newspaper "The NEPC said there was a steady growth in the non-oil exports, with a value of $2.97bn in 2013, accounting for 15.9 per cent increase over 2012, with a value of $2.56bn"

My take

PRYCE:
Another Buhari's Eco Policy paying off!








Sorry! I ain't a #MasturbatingMasturbater

And Buhari Was President in 2014?

we are yet to feel or see toe impact of this government

When Tambuwal emerged as speaker then ACN, now APC said it was democracy. It is still democracy now. They should swallow their pride and move on.

A leader of the Yoruba group, Afenifere and a top member of the defunct Action Group, led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in the first republic, Chief Ayo Adebanjo in this encounter takes on the APC government, where they got it wrong and the mistake Tinubu made. He also talks about why Buhari is not the right person to amend the constitution and the need to implement the recommendations of the constitutional conference of the Jonathan administration.

Excerpts:

What’s your take on the way things are going in this new government?

I have been very careful about commenting because it’s just about less than two months since they took over and it’s too early to judge them. If they were like 100 days in office or even one year, you can now begin to take stock but just over 30 days is not enough. Some people are late starters who start slow and sluggish but eventually pick up and maybe, Buhari is one of them.

If I judge him by his performance the first time time, I can say he has potentials of a good performer but I think he should be given more time. They have four years to perform. Let us not condemn what we don’t even know. After four years, we can judge them but right now, no.

But people have started calling him Baba go slow

I told you I don’t want to start blaming anybody, I still want to give them the long road to perform. I won’t condemn virtually. Let’s give them time and see how it goes. Probably after a year or two, we can now start saying something. It is still early.

But those who pushed the change government spoke about immediate change on coming to board?

Yes, that was the expectation but that does not mean that he cannot perform. Many of you thought this man will perform wonders with the way he was pushing and now, you are expecting the wonders overnight. I won’t talk now because I was not expecting anything. I didn’t believe he would work wonders and so, I’m not disappointed. I didn’t support him and I want to give them time to disappoint me, to prove me wrong. So it is too early to say that they are not performing.

Many are dismayed because of how things started; a house divided against itself cannot stand and many are even beginning to allege that the party is going to scatter and some groups may pull out if party problems continue the way they are now?

There are so many who are good among them. Those of you who are expecting signs and wonders should give them time to perform, say a year or more. And after that, you can now lay your complaints. The Yoruba has a saying that if something did not happen in the morning, it will happen in the night. There is also another Yoruba saying that when a small boy is cutting a tree in the forest, if he does not take time, he will not know where he is.

When people were campaigning of age and talking about the past record of this man put together, some of you said no, that was in the past. They shouldn’t complain now. We want them to perform now and to prove us wrong. It is not for us who don’t want him to judge him, it is left for those of you who put him there to see things as they are.

But he said we should put him on his toes to do the right thing

That is not my viewpoint. I’m saying you should give him time to perform, that it is too early to judge him. There are some people who are slow starters and if you do not give them time, they will start laying blames. They should not embarrass him or divide his attention by cajoling him.

What do you have to say about what is happening in the national assembly?

It is very disgraceful that they are fighting, that is one. The National Assembly should learn how to perform as an independent body, there should be no interference. What is happening there, happened before and heavens did not fall. We know how Tambuwal became the Speaker of the House. The leaders of ACN at that time said it was democracy.

The then speaker, Tambuwal and other PDP members swallowed their pride and carried on for four years. So, they should swallow their own pride and carry on. Why are they quarreling? They said it was democracy when Tambuwal emerged. It is still democracy now. They should swallow their pride like PDP did and move on. You should be judging your candidates. They should compare what they are doing now and what they did in the past.

I would like to give all of them time to perform. Buhari as an individual is a performer. He has a good character. So, some of us are saying that maybe the people around him are the problem. It happens in every government when people who breed confusion surround the persons holding the mandate. So we should not be dwelling on the past records, we have passed the campaign period, we are now in the period of performance. For me, I want to give him time.

There seems to be this issue between Buhari as a person and the APC; the party will stand on one thing and he will stand on the other side. For instance, during the election of the key national assembly leaders, when it happened the way it did, he said okay, it is the rule of law. But the party seems not be happy with his position.

The ball is in your court, you are the judge. All these things are before you journalists, put them together and bring them to the public. You are the people who mirror what is happening, mirror properly and send to the public. That is the only way to help the country.

Many think he’s operating a Northern agenda based on the appointments he made so far

The new President will put his own people. He can choose from any part of the country of his choice. He has the right to do that, but there should be a balance. I still say that you are the judge. You are one of the stakeholders. If there is anything you are not finding funny, say it. There are so many things that are involved.

Where people are allowed to govern not with their ideology or principle, it can never work. People that gathered in APC are people of different sheds of political opinions with one agenda; to remove the government of the day for them to get there. But there was no agreement on power sharing when they get there and that is the problem. That is why I said, let us wait and see, it is too early to judge.

This was our own analysis before the election, when we saw the people gather to remove the Jonathan government. I am not saying that the Jonathan government was a perfect government. Yes, it has all sorts of things that we should disagree with. There was corruption but now it seems Jonathan was the special one. There was always corruption. I think the only thing this regime needs to do is to implement the recommendations of the confab.

Do you think those recommendations will be implemented?

It should be and that was why I said I would not vote for Buhari. That is why I said that in-spite of Jonathan indifference, he should be voted for because that will help to balance the in-balance in the country. But Nigerians said no, I cannot force them to do that. Those recommendations go into the problems of the country.

If you read very carefully the stand of Afenifere in this matter, you will know where we are going. All the problems we are talking about in the country, the lies in the reshuffling of the country, they are all there. Now, we are talking about the atonement of one region or the other. All these things have been dealt with in the recommendations of the confab. This are some things that are supposed to be constitutionalized.

The issue of corruption that they are talking about is because there is too much money in the centre which is still occurring now. We have removed all that. What I was complaining of is what is happening now. You have conducted the election under the old constitution. You now say that you want to play the guide of the states, how do you do it?

If you keep using the revenue formula of the old constitution, the imbalance will continue. And that means more money will be going to the North than to the South because they have more local government areas there and you are going to divide the thing on the basis of that. Is that justice? And once we all refer to the constitution which we have agreed is unfair, the problems will continue. So, since you are getting the result of what you refused to do, don’t complain.

One thing that is standing out now is that this government is bent on fighting corruption?
Tinubu: Leader of ACN

Tinubu

I have no objection to that. I only say that it should not contribute to our problem. I added that under the recognition of the confab, all these things have been worked out. All the activities of the government are under the constitution. Everybody believes that the present Nigerian constitution makes the president too powerful than anywhere in the world. Obasanjo had the problem of changing this constitution. What people are complaining about right now was there before Obasanjo and he said he was going to do it.

He set up a fake confab group while he nominated Goodluck all for himself and he wanted to run for the third time. And when that failed, he left. We have not gone to the basics of our problem. We are just scratching them. As long as we refuse to get a balanced federation where everybody believes that there will be fairness, we will continue having this problem.

The President and the Vice President with some other officials and state governors have slashed their salaries by 50%, do you see that as a solution to the corruption problem?

The salary is nothing. Once anybody gets there, they want to eat as much as they can. It is the allowances of the government officials that is important. It is not salaries. It is the allowances that is the issue and if they are serious, they should cut down their allowances. There is too much money in the centre.

The centre is too powerful. We have to reduce the allocations from the centre to the states. This will reduce the avenue of corruption but they do not want to go to the roots. We have gone to the roots of these things and we have discussed them. All these cosmetic approaches to solving problems will not achieve anything.

The South-West voted profusely for this new government and their leader, Jagaban was a principal figure in the ruling party. But since the assumption of office, things have been falling apart. Everything he wants has been jettisoned. What do you have to say about that?

When people are coming together ,they are doing so for their personal purposes. When they wanted to start this APC, we knew the foundation was not right. We complained about their compatibility. We said they were not compatible. They did not agree with that and continued. On the surface, they appeared compatible but the truth remains they were strange bed fellows.

Jagaban knows very well the position of the west but he thought that he would be clever enough to use the north to achieve what he wanted. There was no agreement on how the country should be run. He should have settled all these problems of equity and fairness with them before doing business together.

But they came in with vested interests just to come into power. They did not agree on how to share power and all that. It was not the right thing to do. They are now trying to share power after getting into power. They never agreed on how to share it before getting into power, it is a basic flop in their arrangement. That was the mistake he(Bola Tinubu referred as Jagaban) made.

Don’t you think this can still be corrected?

I don’t know if they can. It is left to them. I think they can correct all that made them incompatible. One of the corrections is going for the recommendations of the confab. That is the basic thing that the country needs and my campaign then was that we needed a change of the constitution. When you change the constitution, most problems will be solved. Go and read the recommendations of the confab. When we implement them, a lot will change.

You know this winner-take-all syndrome of Nigerian politicians is really affecting the country?

That comes because we have not gotten to the basic issues. If you agree on the constitutional change, winner cannot take all. Under the recommendations of the confab, winner cannot take all. Everybody knows what is right, where to get it and how to get it under a stipulated rule. A constitution that allows a governor to acquire massive wealth when leaving the office is not fair.

They are now getting wardrobe allowance. Were they appearing naked before getting into office? Those of us who have been in this fight for so long know what we are fighting for. They should go to the basics and under the recommendations of the confab, there is equality in the creation of states in all the regions. And we have transferred local government to the state government and thereby, the question of distribution of revenue is equitable.

The problem is that each government changes things. We know about the confabs we have had in the past regimes, we also know about Oputa panel.

You are going back to what we all know. Whether Oputa panel or anything, during the Abacha regime, I agitated for restructuring of the country and I gave the picture of the restructuring that we are talking of. It was the military that structured Nigeria after the coup of 1966. The constitution that we are using now is a military constitution. It is not the constitution that our forefathers got to us.

When the coup happened in 1966, the military changed everything and that is why after the Abacha regime, because we did not want violence, we said let us go to a round table and change all these. That was why we called for a constitution conference to restructure the country. If we do not know where we are going, we know where we are coming from.

If we had addressed all these things from the root, we would not have all the problems that we are having now. The problem we are having now is because of non compliance to the federal principle of the country. I want to ask this question, since that confab, have you seen anybody criticise the recommendations of the confab? If we all agree on that, why don’t we do it for the peace of this country?

If you are asked to advice President Buhari, what advice would you give him?

I will first ask him to go and implement the recommendations of the confab. You will be shocked that in the process of implementing the recommendation of the confab, the solution to the corruption problem will come up. What some of us are saying which he is trying to justify by his action is that a lot of the things in the unjust constitution favours the people of the north and that is why it will not be easy for a northerner to do that. Let him prove us wrong by doing that.

The beneficiary of the in-balance of this constitution are the northerners. We want equitable distribution. We don’t want any region to be more favoured than the other. That is why we are saying he should make everybody equal for peace to reign. He should go back and implement the recommendations. Not doing that is not compatible with his anti corruption stuff.

That means you think he is running a Northern agenda

All that you are talking about goes to the implementation of the constitution. If you want to make everybody equal, go to the recommendation and implement it, and nobody will complain. The bulk of the recommendation is for the interest of the country and until it is done, there will be no peace. Let him do what the people want.

It is very strange that almost 500 distinguished Nigerians made those recommendations from all walks of life and they passed 600 resolutions unanimously. You cannot get the composition of the conference as distinguished as the one Jonathan demonstrated. I challenge anybody to do that. So, you implement it and see what will happen. There will be peace and you will take the glory as somebody who brought peace to the country.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/the-mistake-tinubu-made-in-the-apc-marriage-adebanjo/#sthash.2Ue81ZzU.dpuf

When Tambuwal emerged as speaker then ACN, now APC said it was democracy. It is still democracy now. They should swallow their pride and move on.

A leader of the Yoruba group, Afenifere and a top member of the defunct Action Group, led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in the first republic, Chief Ayo Adebanjo in this encounter takes on the APC government, where they got it wrong and the mistake Tinubu made. He also talks about why Buhari is not the right person to amend the constitution and the need to implement the recommendations of the constitutional conference of the Jonathan administration.

Excerpts:

What’s your take on the way things are going in this new government?

I have been very careful about commenting because it’s just about less than two months since they took over and it’s too early to judge them. If they were like 100 days in office or even one year, you can now begin to take stock but just over 30 days is not enough. Some people are late starters who start slow and sluggish but eventually pick up and maybe, Buhari is one of them.

If I judge him by his performance the first time time, I can say he has potentials of a good performer but I think he should be given more time. They have four years to perform. Let us not condemn what we don’t even know. After four years, we can judge them but right now, no.

But people have started calling him Baba go slow

I told you I don’t want to start blaming anybody, I still want to give them the long road to perform. I won’t condemn virtually. Let’s give them time and see how it goes. Probably after a year or two, we can now start saying something. It is still early.

But those who pushed the change government spoke about immediate change on coming to board?

Yes, that was the expectation but that does not mean that he cannot perform. Many of you thought this man will perform wonders with the way he was pushing and now, you are expecting the wonders overnight. I won’t talk now because I was not expecting anything. I didn’t believe he would work wonders and so, I’m not disappointed. I didn’t support him and I want to give them time to disappoint me, to prove me wrong. So it is too early to say that they are not performing.

Many are dismayed because of how things started; a house divided against itself cannot stand and many are even beginning to allege that the party is going to scatter and some groups may pull out if party problems continue the way they are now?

There are so many who are good among them. Those of you who are expecting signs and wonders should give them time to perform, say a year or more. And after that, you can now lay your complaints. The Yoruba has a saying that if something did not happen in the morning, it will happen in the night. There is also another Yoruba saying that when a small boy is cutting a tree in the forest, if he does not take time, he will not know where he is.

When people were campaigning of age and talking about the past record of this man put together, some of you said no, that was in the past. They shouldn’t complain now. We want them to perform now and to prove us wrong. It is not for us who don’t want him to judge him, it is left for those of you who put him there to see things as they are.

But he said we should put him on his toes to do the right thing

That is not my viewpoint. I’m saying you should give him time to perform, that it is too early to judge him. There are some people who are slow starters and if you do not give them time, they will start laying blames. They should not embarrass him or divide his attention by cajoling him.

What do you have to say about what is happening in the national assembly?

It is very disgraceful that they are fighting, that is one. The National Assembly should learn how to perform as an independent body, there should be no interference. What is happening there, happened before and heavens did not fall. We know how Tambuwal became the Speaker of the House. The leaders of ACN at that time said it was democracy.

The then speaker, Tambuwal and other PDP members swallowed their pride and carried on for four years. So, they should swallow their own pride and carry on. Why are they quarreling? They said it was democracy when Tambuwal emerged. It is still democracy now. They should swallow their pride like PDP did and move on. You should be judging your candidates. They should compare what they are doing now and what they did in the past.

I would like to give all of them time to perform. Buhari as an individual is a performer. He has a good character. So, some of us are saying that maybe the people around him are the problem. It happens in every government when people who breed confusion surround the persons holding the mandate. So we should not be dwelling on the past records, we have passed the campaign period, we are now in the period of performance. For me, I want to give him time.

There seems to be this issue between Buhari as a person and the APC; the party will stand on one thing and he will stand on the other side. For instance, during the election of the key national assembly leaders, when it happened the way it did, he said okay, it is the rule of law. But the party seems not be happy with his position.

The ball is in your court, you are the judge. All these things are before you journalists, put them together and bring them to the public. You are the people who mirror what is happening, mirror properly and send to the public. That is the only way to help the country.

Many think he’s operating a Northern agenda based on the appointments he made so far

The new President will put his own people. He can choose from any part of the country of his choice. He has the right to do that, but there should be a balance. I still say that you are the judge. You are one of the stakeholders. If there is anything you are not finding funny, say it. There are so many things that are involved.

Where people are allowed to govern not with their ideology or principle, it can never work. People that gathered in APC are people of different sheds of political opinions with one agenda; to remove the government of the day for them to get there. But there was no agreement on power sharing when they get there and that is the problem. That is why I said, let us wait and see, it is too early to judge.

This was our own analysis before the election, when we saw the people gather to remove the Jonathan government. I am not saying that the Jonathan government was a perfect government. Yes, it has all sorts of things that we should disagree with. There was corruption but now it seems Jonathan was the special one. There was always corruption. I think the only thing this regime needs to do is to implement the recommendations of the confab.

Do you think those recommendations will be implemented?

It should be and that was why I said I would not vote for Buhari. That is why I said that in-spite of Jonathan indifference, he should be voted for because that will help to balance the in-balance in the country. But Nigerians said no, I cannot force them to do that. Those recommendations go into the problems of the country.

If you read very carefully the stand of Afenifere in this matter, you will know where we are going. All the problems we are talking about in the country, the lies in the reshuffling of the country, they are all there. Now, we are talking about the atonement of one region or the other. All these things have been dealt with in the recommendations of the confab. This are some things that are supposed to be constitutionalized.

The issue of corruption that they are talking about is because there is too much money in the centre which is still occurring now. We have removed all that. What I was complaining of is what is happening now. You have conducted the election under the old constitution. You now say that you want to play the guide of the states, how do you do it?

If you keep using the revenue formula of the old constitution, the imbalance will continue. And that means more money will be going to the North than to the South because they have more local government areas there and you are going to divide the thing on the basis of that. Is that justice? And once we all refer to the constitution which we have agreed is unfair, the problems will continue. So, since you are getting the result of what you refused to do, don’t complain.

One thing that is standing out now is that this government is bent on fighting corruption?
Tinubu: Leader of ACN

Tinubu

I have no objection to that. I only say that it should not contribute to our problem. I added that under the recognition of the confab, all these things have been worked out. All the activities of the government are under the constitution. Everybody believes that the present Nigerian constitution makes the president too powerful than anywhere in the world. Obasanjo had the problem of changing this constitution. What people are complaining about right now was there before Obasanjo and he said he was going to do it.

He set up a fake confab group while he nominated Goodluck all for himself and he wanted to run for the third time. And when that failed, he left. We have not gone to the basics of our problem. We are just scratching them. As long as we refuse to get a balanced federation where everybody believes that there will be fairness, we will continue having this problem.

The President and the Vice President with some other officials and state governors have slashed their salaries by 50%, do you see that as a solution to the corruption problem?

The salary is nothing. Once anybody gets there, they want to eat as much as they can. It is the allowances of the government officials that is important. It is not salaries. It is the allowances that is the issue and if they are serious, they should cut down their allowances. There is too much money in the centre.

The centre is too powerful. We have to reduce the allocations from the centre to the states. This will reduce the avenue of corruption but they do not want to go to the roots. We have gone to the roots of these things and we have discussed them. All these cosmetic approaches to solving problems will not achieve anything.

The South-West voted profusely for this new government and their leader, Jagaban was a principal figure in the ruling party. But since the assumption of office, things have been falling apart. Everything he wants has been jettisoned. What do you have to say about that?

When people are coming together ,they are doing so for their personal purposes. When they wanted to start this APC, we knew the foundation was not right. We complained about their compatibility. We said they were not compatible. They did not agree with that and continued. On the surface, they appeared compatible but the truth remains they were strange bed fellows.

Jagaban knows very well the position of the west but he thought that he would be clever enough to use the north to achieve what he wanted. There was no agreement on how the country should be run. He should have settled all these problems of equity and fairness with them before doing business together.

But they came in with vested interests just to come into power. They did not agree on how to share power and all that. It was not the right thing to do. They are now trying to share power after getting into power. They never agreed on how to share it before getting into power, it is a basic flop in their arrangement. That was the mistake he(Bola Tinubu referred as Jagaban) made.

Don’t you think this can still be corrected?

I don’t know if they can. It is left to them. I think they can correct all that made them incompatible. One of the corrections is going for the recommendations of the confab. That is the basic thing that the country needs and my campaign then was that we needed a change of the constitution. When you change the constitution, most problems will be solved. Go and read the recommendations of the confab. When we implement them, a lot will change.

You know this winner-take-all syndrome of Nigerian politicians is really affecting the country?

That comes because we have not gotten to the basic issues. If you agree on the constitutional change, winner cannot take all. Under the recommendations of the confab, winner cannot take all. Everybody knows what is right, where to get it and how to get it under a stipulated rule. A constitution that allows a governor to acquire massive wealth when leaving the office is not fair.

They are now getting wardrobe allowance. Were they appearing naked before getting into office? Those of us who have been in this fight for so long know what we are fighting for. They should go to the basics and under the recommendations of the confab, there is equality in the creation of states in all the regions. And we have transferred local government to the state government and thereby, the question of distribution of revenue is equitable.

The problem is that each government changes things. We know about the confabs we have had in the past regimes, we also know about Oputa panel.

You are going back to what we all know. Whether Oputa panel or anything, during the Abacha regime, I agitated for restructuring of the country and I gave the picture of the restructuring that we are talking of. It was the military that structured Nigeria after the coup of 1966. The constitution that we are using now is a military constitution. It is not the constitution that our forefathers got to us.

When the coup happened in 1966, the military changed everything and that is why after the Abacha regime, because we did not want violence, we said let us go to a round table and change all these. That was why we called for a constitution conference to restructure the country. If we do not know where we are going, we know where we are coming from.

If we had addressed all these things from the root, we would not have all the problems that we are having now. The problem we are having now is because of non compliance to the federal principle of the country. I want to ask this question, since that confab, have you seen anybody criticise the recommendations of the confab? If we all agree on that, why don’t we do it for the peace of this country?

If you are asked to advice President Buhari, what advice would you give him?

I will first ask him to go and implement the recommendations of the confab. You will be shocked that in the process of implementing the recommendation of the confab, the solution to the corruption problem will come up. What some of us are saying which he is trying to justify by his action is that a lot of the things in the unjust constitution favours the people of the north and that is why it will not be easy for a northerner to do that. Let him prove us wrong by doing that.

The beneficiary of the in-balance of this constitution are the northerners. We want equitable distribution. We don’t want any region to be more favoured than the other. That is why we are saying he should make everybody equal for peace to reign. He should go back and implement the recommendations. Not doing that is not compatible with his anti corruption stuff.

That means you think he is running a Northern agenda

All that you are talking about goes to the implementation of the constitution. If you want to make everybody equal, go to the recommendation and implement it, and nobody will complain. The bulk of the recommendation is for the interest of the country and until it is done, there will be no peace. Let him do what the people want.

It is very strange that almost 500 distinguished Nigerians made those recommendations from all walks of life and they passed 600 resolutions unanimously. You cannot get the composition of the conference as distinguished as the one Jonathan demonstrated. I challenge anybody to do that. So, you implement it and see what will happen. There will be peace and you will take the glory as somebody who brought peace to the country.

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wordcat:
A begger can receive any type of abusive word, can this Leahy of a man dare say so about Iran or North Korea not to talk of Russia?

Since we are beggers; we've to learn how to live like beggers.

While America is busy begging Iranian military; they're calling Nigerian military Rap1sts

The same APC during opposition used every words useable to denigrate our military describing them with such unpalatable words. They forget that sometime luck shine on the opposition and they become the ruling party and they have to work with the same military.

Those careless comments have come back heavily laden to hunt them. This is just the beginning. The Nigerian Army is not Jonathan's Army but the army of the fed republic of Nigeria. I could remember at that time that El-rufai calling them jonathanian army, there stupidity will hunt them. The dogs and baboons have come home to roast. We are watching!

Where are the bigot? Your change has come. I hope you love the taste, a leopard can change its skin. We screamed, begged and provided justifications why Jonathan is a better choice but you turned a deaf ear rather you cursed, insulted and humiliated at the few who saw the scam in the change.

What am effrontery, in a multi-ethnic nation like Nigeria this is surely a recipe for disaster. We are watching. Shame on the southerners that didn't come together to ensure victory for their own and rather choose a former dictator as leader in the 21st century when the world as turned global. So unfortunate, so sad.

They said, Jonathan surrounded himself with incompetent people but recently happening has confirmed once again their lies. Aruma Odeh and Akinwunmi are getting higher appointments, the refineries are scheduled to commence production from a clueless man; an empty treasury is paying hundreds of billion; power by magic is relatively stable and the magic one cannot stop the naira from falling. A whole nation has been scammed and for those who believed in the change welcome to your fools paradise.

what a shame!

asEdeyHOT:
Very funny thread

Always complaining, looking for faults and never providing any useful or intelligent solution

Very repetitive and boring criticisms.

Buhari is not obligated to appoint Ministers according to your time table.

Wailing Wailers indeed

Always deal with the message and not the messanger. If you do that your comments would have been different.

Buhari and his party told us the serious danger our dear Nation was facing under the last PDP govt that continuation will lead to complete destruction of the country. We voted them in and they are acting with no sense of urgency as if all is well. If it was that bad like they told us why then the delay to appoint key govt functionaries that will help in the rescue effort or the economy doesn't need rescuing anymore after less than two months in power? Now what happened to the collapsed economy, the insecurity, the corruption that will kill Nigeria if we don't kill it, etc. every thing seems to have died down and the economy is back on track. Obviously, APC only raised false alarms to get voted in and they have to keep repeating those lies in order not to be found out. That's why Buhari raised the alarm of empty treasury and yet paid over 700billion as bail out fund to states. God is watching.

SaiBuharii:
Goodluck Egbere Azikiwe Jonathan will definitely end up in prison. He deserves to be an exconvict.

The man single handedly finished this country. I am still amazed at where he got millions of votes from certain regions. It shows the amount of stupiid people we have in the winning regions and the country in general. Buhari should perhaps clear this people.

Like I advise, now that the clensing has commenced, it's either you join the train and jejely go to the new prison we are building for you. Baba has gone to get prison plans from obama, airconditioned prisons.

Any trouble from naija delta militants or biafra soldiers will be met with tough comebackz from the govt...we will kill you. We have eneough bombs, you will die, it's one bomb per head. We will tie the bomb to your neck so there will not be a part of your body to bury. We will execute you all. I'm not mincing words today, distractions are not tolerated. You have been warned.

So shocked that anyone could like such a speech laced with so much hate. I think the writer needs his head to be examined.

SaiBuharii:
If Jagaban is still alive, you will be crying every 4-4 years.

APC till Jesus comes.

A pity when you read comment of this nature. Someone in bondage and another scarifice everything to assist him; yet the one in bondage rejected the helping hand because he is not aware of his predicament but rather insult his helper. Man how has thou falling!

So sad that a lot of lagosians are blinded and can not see the wickedness inherent in APC and what they stand for.... lies, falsehood, propaganda, deceit and more lies. Jagaban has mortgaged the future of this state and future generations will bear the burden. A shame that such a man is continually being celebrated. A people get the kind of leaders that they deserve... if we ask ourselves why things are so wrong in Nigeria? we should look at ourselves for the answer not the next man; we are the problem.

Freemanan:


I JUST HOPE THIS WON'T BE SQUEEZED AND DENIED BY THE APC BULL SHARKS...


BABA PLEASE BE STERN ON THIS.

A party of hearsay. For issues of this nature, an official pronouncement is the appropriate medium to state it. Virtually all news comes from the gravevine, you hardly get an official govt position on any issue but just rumor

modath:
E still remain, she will own up when pressure plenty.

How true is this story from another insider source in Aso rock? Definitely, the issue of bogus and unconfirmed news have taken a dangerous dimension in Nigeria today. Anything can be alleged there is no limit to speculation so far the phase of insider source is used. My advice is that we exercise a lot of caution and diligent before accepting any news story.

APc started this rubbish and I'm afraid it seems it maybe with us for some time. You don't know what's true anymore. I hope the people become wiser as false stories are brought to light for what they truly are.

PassingShot:
It's unfortunately true that the minority bungled their opportunity to impress for future considerations. As things stand now, they can only wail while watching how things should be done.

I expect a backlash from this post though

You are so dull like your father Obj. We sold ourselves cheaply to the Hausa Fulani and you are supporting that assertion. So unfortunate that our people are so ignorant that they even praise their oppressors. What a nation?

We truly need help. We don't know what to believe anymore. We hear; various sources, insider source that don't want to be named, a confirmed source, a reliable source, etc. How do we then confirm the authencity of the news? Shame on these media houses, they have thrown professionalism to the gutters and news reporting have been reduced to hearsay and beer palour gist.

Obvious fabrications are published as breaking news without the slight investigation or colloborative evidence to authenicate the news story. Nigerians need to wise up and not be fooled again by desperate agents of the politicians who masquerade themselves as journalists, bloggers and activists who only interest is to line their pockets. May God save us!

Dharniel:
Not a big deal. I think you should listen to Vladimir Putin the president of Russia or Kim Jong-un the president of North Korea when they speak or give public addresses, then you'll know buhari's english is better. The fact that buhari has a poor accent doesn't mean he can't speak good english.
PDP followers just be hating on buhari anyhow.

Ride on baba.
#sai_buhari...

Can you hear yourself. You are comparing a president of an English speaking country with ones that aren't. See what lack of proper education has done to this country. We have educated illiterate and created blind followers that have lost their ability to reason on their own.
Yes our president has an accent challenge that is a bit of problem because he is expected to communicate in English not his native dialect. That's d fact that can't be wished away by 10million of you

We are truly in danger in Nigeria. Where reputable media houses will be publishing hearsays and half truth. No one to help the people with accurate and undiluted reportage. I hope someday we will be wise enough to separate deliberate falsehood from the truth.

Please this is worse than junk journalism