₦airaland Forum

all those stupid igbos crying For biafra on nairaland should prepare For the second civilwar in east but don't involve we south south ooo

amarilo: Yorubas and their bickering, odi kwa egwu

igbos and confused mind. mumu

I pity Ibo people especially those in sw, north central. nd north west because they re good people and hardworking. but For those stupid naira land fools who think Jonathan is thier saviour ,and kinsmen.... hmmmm

Hon. Fort Ifeanyi Dike, who represents Ihiala
Federal Constituency of Anambra State in the
House of Representatives, is the House
Committee chairman on Inter and Intra Party
Relations. An engineer by profession, he is
also a member of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP. Unlike some of his colleagues who
had pitched their tent with the “new PDP”
following the crisis in the ruling party, he has
not yet taken position. He however told
Vanguard in this interview that President
Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition is
the cause of the crisis in the party. Excerpts:
BY Levinus Nwabughiogu
No one expected that the PDP crisis would
assume the dimension it assumed in the
House of Representatives. Do you think that
your colleagues made the right call in joining
the new PDP?
One will be politically naïve not to expect what
is happening. You know in most states
whether we like it or not; and that is one of
the distortions in our current democratic
dispensation, most of the people who came to
the National Assembly came with the goodwill
of the governors. The governors were
dominant in giving them tickets in the
parties. Lack of internal party democracy is
one of the things my committee is fighting. So,
you found out that the governors were
instrumental in getting them to the National
Assembly.
So, in return, most members of the National
Assembly owe allegiance to the governors who
helped them. So, in a scenario where the
governors are taking sides or joining a
particular faction, you would naturally expect
that they will take as many members of the
National Assembly from their state as
possible except those who were helped by the
Presidency or who have developed rapport
with the Presidency or the national PDP,
otherwise.
Don’t you think staging a walkout on the
President on a day of a ruling party’s national
is an affront on the office and person of the
President?
Ethnically and conventionally, it wasn’t the
right thing to do. One may be pushed to term
it as disrespect to the President. But you also
know that we are in a democratic
dispensation. So, it depends on how the
people were pushed to the wall. It depends on
all the efforts they had made previously to get
these issues resolved whether those efforts
they made were recognized or addressed and
so on. So, in a democratic system, people
have so many ways of fighting for their right.
And what they did is within their right in a
democratic system.
Do you see the Speaker taking side in the new
development?
I am an observant member of the House of
Representatives and based on that I want to
tell you something. All the clamour or
speculation about the Speaker, Aminu
Tambuwal is because of his direction, his
understanding of the issues of leadership in
this country. Tambuwal is not out to merely
promote the party, PDP that he belongs rather
he is concerned about the welfare of the
Nigerian masses.
So, what
drives him is
the
improvement in the condition of the masses of
Nigeria. In doing that, he now finds critical
those acts of omission or commission by the
ruling party. So, as far as I understand
Tambuwal, he is not pro this person or anti
this party. He is not pro-APC or Pro-new PDP
or anti-PDP.
Where do you belong, new or old PDP?
Personally, I am an agent of change. Without
necessary being of new PDP or old PDP, I am
not a member of the new PDP yet. And it may
not be on my cap to join immediately. I will
prefer to stay in the old PDP. But I must make
this observation. Nigeria requires change. As
the Chairman of the House Committee on Inter
and Intra Party Relations, I recognize that
political parties in Nigeria including the PDP
need to undergo radical changes and
reforms. The way they are going about their
affairs are not in consonance with the ethic,
spirit and modalities of an ideal democratic
system.
Do you think the centre will still hold for PDP?
To me, it is clearly an issue of 2015. People
have interest, both the current President and
other people; they have interest to become
President. That is the issue. Each group, each
faction, each person will try to put in place
condition that will suit and advance his own
ambition. In spite of reconciliation efforts,
unless certain issues are addressed, they will
come to nothing.
The issues that need to be addressed are: Is
the President going for a second term? If the
President is not going for a second term, all
these issues will not arise. If the President
deems it right to go for a second term,
naturally, he will now have the interest to
retain a Chairman that will promote his
interest in the party primary. So, it is expected
that he will try to retain the present chairman
or have in place, a chairman that will be loyal
to him when the presidential primaries come.
Now, if he makes the mistake of removing the
chairman or in the pursuit of peace, give away
the party’s structure to other people who also
want to be President, he will be doing himself
in. So, he will never give up if he is politically
wise. He will now try to hold the old PDP as
much as possible and the only condition he
will yield to will be to now try to make
cosmetic efforts but ensuring that nothing will
affect his presidential ambition in 2015.
On the other hand, the other people too who
want to be President know that if they don’t
fight and remain in PDP and PDP doesn’t have
a crisis, they cannot emerge on the platform of
the party and they will not emerge on the
platform of any other alternative viable
platform because they may find that in spirit
or under certain condition, they may not able
to make it in the APC or the APC may not by
their opinion be able to secure as much votes
in the North.
So, they will be bent on creating a division in
the PDP in order to afford them a platform to
run for the Presidency. This is natural. They
will be doing it in such a way that if they want
to desert the PDP, they will cause a lot of
havoc and of course create a lot of factions in
the PDP to allow National and state assembly
members to be able to follow them to the new
party. So, what is happening is a normal
scenario that is expected in politics. So, if PDP
is indeed, serious about solving this problem,
they will go back to basics.
What are the basics? Did the President
promise not to run a second term in 2015?
Was there any such agreement? If there was
such agreement, what are we going to do
about it?
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/jonathans-second-term-ambition-behind-pdps-crisis-rep-dike/

Today a great protest is taking place in the
Catallan region of Spain. According to the
polls, 52 per cent of the people from that
region wish to break off from Spain and to
establish a new European sovereign state.
Later this year, the people of Scotland are
having their own referendum to determine
whether or not they will stay in the United
Kingdom and, again, from the polls, it is very
clear that the majority of Scots wish to have
their own new sovereign state and that the
Scottish Nationalist Party enjoys massive
support. Nobody in either Spain or the United
Kingdom has insulted those people or labelled
them as ‘’ethnic jingoists’’ or ‘’primitive
tribalists’’ for wanting to break off from the
greater whole and establish their own country.
Fani-Kayode
This is because everyone respects the right of
the various ethnic groups and nationalities
within their wider nation to exercise their right
of self-determination which is an integral and
fundamental aspect of international law.
Exercising that right does not turn them into
villains and does not make them any less
patriotic than their compatriots who do not
share their views. It just means that they have
a different perspective and that they believe,
as many believed before Malaysia and
Singapore broke up, that the interests of their
various peoples are better served when and if
they go their separate ways.
They opted to be friendly neighbours rather
than to be compelled to remain within the
same territory against their collective will. As
we in Nigeria approach the 100-year
anniversary of our 1914 Lugardian
amalglamation and, as the 2015 elections are
fast approaching with both the northern
region and the south-south zone desperate to
take or to hold on to power at any cost
respectively, we need to begin to ask ourselves
some basic and fundamental questions about
our future. For example, is our interest better
served by remaining as one nation or is it
time for those nationalities that wish to leave
the federation in a peaceful and orderly way,
as a result of a legitimate and honest
referendum, be alllowed to go?
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
If the breaking up of larger countries into
smaller and more viable ones is good enough
for India (which broke into three), the Sudan
(which broke into two), Czekhoslovakia (which
broke into two), Yugoslavia (which broke into
5), the Soviet Union (which broke into 15) and
numerous other countries over the years, why
is it not good enough for us? Again, why
should those that believe that Nigeria ought to
break up be subjected to so much suspicion,
ridicule, contempt and insults from those that
do not share their views?
Some of the questions that need to be
answered are as follows- firstly, is our union
working? Secondly, is our marriage a good
one and is it a happy one as well? Are we
satisfied with what has essentially become a
country that has been turned into nothing
more than (with apologies to Chief Bode
George) ‘’Turn by Turn Nigeria?’’ where each
ethnic group simply looks forward to enjoying
its time to control the federation and all the
nation’s resources from an all powerful
centre? Are we not meant to be far more than
this? Is this what the founding fathers of our
nation envisaged?
More than anything else the recent igbo/
yoruba debate over the issue of the status of
Lagos state and the deportation of a handful
of igbo destitute back to the east has proved
to me that we as a people are very different
from one another and that our interests may
be better served if we are no longer bound
together as one. I dare to voice this opinion
even though many Yoruba share it but will not
say so publiclly.
Is it not time for us to begin to accept the
bitter truth that our marriage is uncomfortable
and unhappy and that it may not have been
made in heaven or ordained by God? Is it not
clear that each region or each nationality
ought to be able to develop at its own pace?
Is it not time for us to have a confederation of
nationalities in Nigeria and to restructure the
country drastically to give maximum
autonomy to the various regions and
nationalities or indeed is it not time to just
break up and go our separate ways?
DIFFERENCES Many may disagree but one
thing that I believe that we can at least agree
on is that perhaps it is time for us to be
courageous enough to begin to talk about
these issues openly and debate them. We
must not sweep our differences under the
carpet and ignore them as if they do not exist
but instead we must find the courage and
muster the resolve to acknowledge them and
understand them. As far as I am concerned,
this is the challenge of our time and these are
the questions that need to be answered.
Whatever happens in 2015 and whoever wins,
whether it be a northerner or Goodluck
Jonathan of the south-south, I see blood on
the horizon and I see disaster approaching.
Stark promises from notable players such as
‘’there will be bloodshed if Goodluck is not re-
elected’’ do not help and are not encouraging.
There are equally strident and
bellicose murmurings from the other side as
well and some have threatened that if there is
a repeat performance of the massive rigging
that the North witnessed in the presidential
election of 2011 anywhere in the country in
2015, ’’Nigeria will burn’’ whilst another key
player said that ‘’both the dog and the
baboon shall be soaked in blood’’.
2015 AS KEG OF GUN POWDER
These words must be taken very seriously
indeed and they reflect the thinking and
mindset of millions of people from both sides
of the political and regional divide. Worste
still, whether we like to admit it or not,
religion has now become a major factor in our
politics with Christians being told in their
churches that it is their solemn duty to
support a Christian presidential candidate and
Muslims being told in their mosques that it is
theirs to support a Muslim. We are sitting on
a keg of gunpowder and, in my view, 2015
really will be the year of make or break for
Nigeria. Sadly, in my humble opinion, it is far
closer to ‘’break’’ than it is to ’’make’’.
If we wish to avoid the road to Kigali, we
must change our mindset and make the
necessary concessions that we need to make.
We must begin to think outside of the box and
be far more innovative and adventurous. For
example, why is it a must in the minds of
some that the PDP must field a Christian as
it’s presidential candidate and why are some
in the APC of the view that the party must
field a northern Muslim as its own?
These hard and fast fixed positions are most
unhelpful and the right thing and proper
thing to do is to completely discard them and
attempt to find a presidential
candidate that is a Nigerian before being
a northerner, a southerner, a Christian or
a Muslim. And thankfully there are quite a few
of such people around in the new generation if
only the system will be far-sighted and
enlightened enough to allow them to emerge
and run. Failing that we must open up the
space now and consider the unpleasant
assertion that the premium that a united
Nigeria attracts may not be worth paying
simply because we are getting nothing but
failure after failure and sorrow after sorrow as
our consistent return.
I do not have all the answers and neither do I
claim that I do. Indeed I may well be wrong
which is why I would be interested in hearing
the views of others and particularly those from
the younger generation who may see things
very differently. Whichever way it goes and
regardless of what we all think, let us not
allow this debate to be driven by the
uninformed or ignorance, pettiness, hate and
acrimony. Let us not insult one another or act
as if any tribe or nationality are a collection
of angels whilst others are nothing
but demons. Let us join issues and exchange
ideas in a civil, restrained and decent manner
without hurling insults at one another or
allowing our emotions to becloud our
thinking.
At the end of the day, we all want the same
thing- namely, to put in place a system that is
in the best interest of the Nigerian people and
to empower a new leadership that will allow
them to achieve their full potentials? That is
the objective and that alone. Over to you.
*Fani Kayode was a Minister of Aviation

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/nigeria-to-break-or-not-to-break/

rubbish!!!!!!!!!! .wetin concern me ,I no get light since lastweek, I abeg I wan go buy fuel to watch man u match! stupid Shoeless man

OGA Jonathan abeg don't sack my girlfriend Alison my love

O boy na d new bin.laden b dis oooo


I pity america !!!

this what will happen if they strike Syria....
child soldier, infant soldier, even baby suicide bomber

O boy na d new bin.laden b dis oooo


I pity america !!!

na chop make I chop oooo
free d guy oooo wise up nd use ur brain.



haaaa and a stupid and foolish tribe still think gej will hand over president to them after 2019! confused people

na chop make I chop oooo

what Jonathan should
do is to be a true democrat by allowing
internal democracy in his party, the PDP, and
making it a truly people’s party. By doing this,
President Jonathan will edge out all the dead
woods in Nigerian politics; he will show them
that our generation is a better generation. Let
him borrow a leaf from other countries that
underwent similar transition.

Jonathan should not listen to his tribesmen and
opportunists who are only interested in
milking the resources of the country. Is there
any difference between a poor Ijaw man and a
poor Hausa man, or between an Ijaw oil baron
and a Hausa oil baron? President Jonathan,
please be a great man and change Nigeria. As
you have always said, your cabinet is made up
of men and women of high capability, please
demonstrate to the world that Africans can
also do it. Please, use this cabinet and others
to build a party like the Liberal Party of
Japan, or ANC of South Africa, or the ruling
party of Sweden, or the ruling party of either
Singapore or Malaysia. These are parties that
are programme-oriented and committed to the
emancipation of their peoples, not power
hungry like the current Nigerian PDP.

criminals ,ex-convict are uncle Jonathan friends asari dokubo : big fat fool
bode George: thief,convict nd stupid Old man
doyin okupe: loudspeaker
pej-aka shepopo : the real. jona political advisor
and d some confused igbos
2015 is doom for gej

oxford: let the so called new pdp cry from now till 2019 if they like. Thats their own cup of tea. Transformation even in power blogs has come to stay. Power has changed hands but the reality hasnt dawn on some people yet.

Tukur is going nowhere.
Obj and his boys should come up with another game, this one has failed big time
Mark cant join the stup!d gang
GEJ will definately contest 2015 polls. No jupita can intimidate us.
GEJ does not need the vote of every nigerian. Even if power supply is 24/7 some people can still not see it.

bros abeg how can I apply for gej lapdog, I need job ooo.

US president makes case for " limited "
strikes against Syria , as Putin says Russia
" will help " Assad if action launched .
US President Barack Obama has
reiterated his case for " limited " military
strikes to launched against the
Syrian regime after its alleged use of
chemical weapons against civilians .
Addressing reporters at the G20 summit in
St Petersburg on Friday , Obama said he
was " encouraged" by his conversations
with other world leaders on the subject ,
but cited " paralysis " at the UN Security
Council as the reason he sought to act
outside that organisation 's ambit .
" Failing to respond to this breach of [ the]
international norm [ on chemical
weaponon use] will send a signal to rogue
nations, authoritarian regimes and
terrorist groups that they can use [ such
weapons] and not face consequences , "
Obama said .
He said that there was " growing
recognition " that the international
community " cannot stand idly by " as
chemical weapons are used .
He said that while there was a
" unanimous " view among G20 leaders
that chemical weapons had been used in
the Syrian conflict , there were divisions on
how to respond to their use , with several
countries voicing their support for any
action as long as it was mandated by the
UN Security Council.
The US president conceded that a military
strike in response would be " unpopular " ,
but that it was important to maintain the
norm , and that he would be spending the
coming days making his case to the US
nation .
" This [proposed military action ] is not
convenient. This is not something that I
think a lot of folks around the world find
an appetising set of choices, but the
question is , do these norms mean
something? And if we 're not acting , what
does that say?"
Obama has asked for Congressional
approval for launching " limited " and
" proportional" US military action against
Syrian regime targets , although he does
not legally require it. Debate will begin in
Washington, DC on the subject on
September 9 .
Responding to a question , he refused to
clarify what course of action he would
choose if the Congress were to reject the
resolution.
Russia 'will help Syria '
Vladimir Putin , the Russian president ,
meanwhile, drew a somewhat different
picture of discussions at the summit ,
saying that of those countries present, a
majority were against launching a military
strike.
Putin said that the US, Canada , Turkey ,
France and Saudi Arabia came out in
support of taking military action during a
debate on Thursday, with Russia , China ,
India, Indonesia, Argentina , Brazil , South
African and Italy coming out against it .
He said that UK PM David Cameron had
supported taking military action , even
though his parliament had overruled him
on the subject.
Responding to a question , Putin said " we
will help Syria " in the event of a foreign
military intervention, without detailing
exactly what such support would entail .
The United States says that 1 , 429 people
were killed in an alleged chemical
weapons attack in the Eastern Ghouta
suburbs of Damascus on August 21, while
aid groups have put that number at closer
to 355 .

http://m.aljazeera.com/story/20139615186635326

[quote author=iphy42][/quote]let them keep dreaming

Tension heightened in the
Mediterranean on Thursday as the
United States and Russia deployed
warships to boost military presence in
the region.
For the US Navy, this was the fifth
destroyer; the USS Stout, being
deployed to the region. Other
destroyers that have been earlier
deployed include the Ramage, the
Barry and the Gravely. Each is said to
be capable of launching their
Tomahawk missiles directly from the
sea toward Syria if ordered. Russia, a
stout ally of Syria, is said to have
deployed an anti-submarine ship and a
missile cruiser.
In addition, six Royal Air Force jets
belonging to the British government,
were said to have been deployed from
Cyprus on Thursday. The world powers
have each in turn, defended their
actions, citing them as either routine
military actions or precautionary
measures.
Russian government news service,
Rianovosti , described the movement as
part of a planned rotation, unconnected
with the situation in Syria. A naval
spokesperson said, "The vessels in the
Mediterranean, like those in other parts
of the world, act under plans by the
Russian Naval Command and General
Staff, and fulfil tasks set.
"On completion of these tasks, the
vessels then either return to their
bases, or are replaced by other vessels
to complete the tasks set. This does
not amount to a renewal of any
grouping or groupings, it is a planned
rotation."
Britian's Defence Ministry also released
a statement on the deployment of the
air force jets on Thursday. It read,
"This is a movement of defensive
assets operating in an air-to-air role
only. It is not to take part in military
action against Syria. The (prime
minister) has made clear no decision
has been taken on our response and
the Government has said that there will
be a Commons vote before direct
military involvement."
The defense official, speaking on
condition of anonymity was quoted by
News24 as saying that it was normal
for three destroyers to patrol the
Mediterranean in an anti-missile
defence role. The official also indicated
that the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and
its escorts would remain in the area of
the US Fifth Fleet, which extends from
the Red Sea to the Gulf and Arabian
Sea.
As military action inched closer, Syrian
President Bashar al Assad's forces are
said to have removed several Scud
missiles and dozens of launchers from
a base north of Damascus, possibly to
protect them from bombardment,
opposition sources claimed.
The White House said it is on track to
release an unclassified intelligence
report on Syria this week, although the
information is not a "slam-dunk" that
will make an open and shut case for
military action.
A spokesman added that what the US
is contemplating in terms of its
response is "very discrete and limited",
Skynews reports.
Russia and the US are taking part in an
"urgent" meeting of the five permanent
UN Security Council members in New
York – the second such meeting in two
days.
Russia is strongly against any military
intervention in Syria, with Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
believing it would seriously destabilise
the region.
UN Security Council members
discussed Syria behind closed doors
Thursday as British Prime Minister
David Cameron argued the use of
chemical weapons requires Western
intervention in that nation's civil war.
Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee
has concluded it was "highly likely"
that Syrian government forces used
poison gas outside Damascus last
week in an attack that killed at least
350 people, according to a summary of
the committee's findings released
Thursday.
Speaking in the House of Commons,
Cameron said failure to respond would
undo "decades of painstaking work" to
prevent such weapons from being
unleashed.
"The global consensus against the use
of chemical weapons will be fatally
unraveled," he said. "A 100-year taboo
will have been breached."
CNN reports that the debate appears to
be putting the brakes on possible
strikes against Syria, even as the
United States moved an additional
warship into the eastern Mediterranean
Sea.
"It certainly seemed 48 hours ago that
there was an all-party consensus that
Parliament today would be endorsing
the bombing of Syria this weekend, and
I think people have pulled back from
that," said Diane Abbott, a Commons
member from the opposition Labour
Party.
In Washington, White House
spokesman Josh Earnest said
President Barack Obama was still
weighing a potential response, but said
his administration was working on a
"compressed timeline."
And in New York, the Security Council
convened Thursday afternoon in a
session called by Russia, Syria's
leading ally, a Western diplomat told
CNN.
http://mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/world/syria-tension-as-us-russia-deploy-warships/

ABUJA — Elder statesman and leader of
the Patriot, Professor Ben Nwabueze,
yesterday reiterated his call on President
Goodluck Jonathan not to contest the
2015 presidential election, saying he
should concentrate on transforming the
country to make it more united and
stronger through a conference of ethnic
nationalities.
But President Jonathan said his
administration had no objection to
Nigerians coming together to discuss how
they will continue to live together in peace
and unity.
Speaking with newsmen after leading
members of the Patriot to a meeting with
President Jonathan, Professor Nwabueze
said though the President was eligible to
contest, he should sacrifice ambition for
the greater good of the nation and
become an instant hero.
He said: “I still believe that the problem of
this country is national transformation.
You cannot combine national
transformation with contesting election.
“The two are so different, because once
you get involved in the election
campaigns you undermined your
authority to lead the nation for national
transformation and I said if I were the
President of Nigeria that I would restrict
myself to serving the nation; to
transforming this country; to creating a
new Nigeria, creating a new society. that
would be my concern and I would go
down in history as a hero.
“So if Mr President does that he would
become an instant hero in this country,
but it is for him to chose. If I were him, I
would choose to become a hero, to lead
the country into transformation and
abandon the ambition of a second term,
that is what I said and I still stand by it
and that is what I would do if I were the
President of the country, but
unfortunately, I’m not.
Speaking on the mission of the patriots to
the President, Professor Nwabueze said
the group was in the Villa to submit its
position on the the need for the convening
of a conference of ethnic nationalities to
tackle the multi-farious problems of the
country.
He said: “Briefly, we talked about the
transformation of this country, what we
said is that this country, the situation in
which we have found ourselves today is
in dire need of transformation. It’s entire
economy, the polity and the society would
need to be transformed. We believe that
the way to achieve that objective is
through a National Conference, a National
Conference of ethnic nationalities in this
country.
Sovereign National Conference
“We have done our own research and we
came up with the fact that we have in this
country 389 ethnic nationalities. We need
to bring these nationalities around a
conference table to discuss how we are
going to live together as one country in
peace, stability and security as one
country with the aim of achieving national
unity.
Asked how such a conference would be
held when there is a National Assembly in
place, Professor Nwabueze said the
power granted the National Assembly by
the constitution is to alter the constitution
and not to change it or write a new one.
He said: “It is important that the National
Assembly is putting forward that their
powers under Sections 8&9 is to alter the
constitution. Power to alter is not as
important as power to abolish what you
are altering and replace it completely, and
we said no, this country, we need the
people’s constitution whose source of
authority derives directly from the people.
Forget about the contents, we will talk
about the contents later.
“Though important, but they are not as
important as the source. Where does this
supreme law derives its authorities? It
must be directly from the people and that
is the position of at least 85 percent of the
countries of the world. So we examined
this and we said this is a bogey, there is
no problem, don’t confine yourselves to
Sections 8&9, because the 1999
constitution is a schedule to Decree 24. If
you read Section 1(1) of the Decree there
are preambles to that Decree and the
1999 constitution that you are talking
about is a schedule to Decree 24.
“Repeal the Decree and the constitution
will disappear and you enact a brand new
constitution which would derive its
authorities from the people.
“That was what was done in 1963, when
we adopted the Republican Constitution to
replace the Independent Constitution. That
1960 Constitution was also a schedule to
British Order-In -Council just as the 1999
Constitution is a schedule to the Decree
24. In 1963, we abolished the schedule
under Section 2 of the Order-in-Council
and made a new constitution called the
Republican constitution.”
Other members of the delegation were
Professor. Kimse Koko, Chief Ayo
Adebanjo and Mrs Bola Kuforiji-Olubi.
Meanwhile, President Jonathan has said
his administration had no objection to
Nigerians coming together to discuss how
they will continue to live together in peace
and unity.
The President, who spoke after receiving a
memorandum from the Patriots, said
ordinarily, the issue of Nigerians coming
together to discuss their future should not
be out of place.
According to the President, there has been
constant discussion within government on
how to create an acceptable and workable
platform for a national dialogue that will
reinforce the ties that bind the country’s
many ethnic nationalities and ensure that
Nigeria’s immense diversity continues to
be a source of strength and greatness.
President Jonathan said: “The limitation
we have is that the constitution appears
to have given that responsibility to the
National Assembly. I have also been
discussing the matter with the leadership
of the National Assembly. We want a
situation where everyone will key into the
process and agree on the way forward.”
While thanking the Patriots for
acknowledging the Federal Government’s
efforts to implement his administration’s
agenda for national transformation,
President Jonathan reiterated that “as a
government, we are totally committed to
transforming this country, positive things
are being done and by the grace of God,
we will get to where we ought to be as a
nation.”
President Jonathan also welcomed the
group’s call for the moral re-orientation of
Nigerians, saying he shared their belief
that ongoing efforts at national
transformation and development would
be greatly enhanced and facilitated by the
cultivation of better national ethics and
attitudes.
The Patriots had in the address presented
to President Jonathan by Professsor
Nwabueze, urged him to support the
production of a new constitution that truly
derives its authority directly from the
people of Nigeria.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/nwabueze-to-jonathan-be-a-national-hero-dont-contest-2015-election/

karl max: And zamfara is a progressive state.. and yerima is one of the progressives that wants to rescue nigeria... in their manifesto they said they would give free education,but in their states its either there are no plans of educating its citizens or school fees are been increased beyond the reach of the common man. The govenor of zamfara abubarka yari and his god father yerima are the so called progressives apc that are coming to rescue us

must u pull apc in this issue

oxford: i agree intoto with okupe, apc manifesto na 'copy and paste'
we know their real manifesto and it include

1. School fees hike #lasu
2. Toll fares on all federal and state roads
3. Deportation of all nigerian back to state of origin
4. Enlarging tinubu empire
5. Imposition democracy
6. Funding and supporting boko haram.
7. Turning nigeria to an islamic country
7. Spending 1.2b on each gov's son wedding
8. Replacing firs with tinubu tax collecting firm
9. Spending 26b on each bridge nationwide
10. Propagation of falsehood

guy much are they paying per month nd can I apply for gej lapdog cos I need job oo

chidindufrank: Break up na our prayer be that oooooooooooooo and if we must stay 2geda till 2019 GEJ must be president oooooo

why igbos re so dumb

bullshit

There are strong reasons to believe that his fairy tale
journey to the Presidency may end in his first term.
Apart from the unfolding infighting threatening to tear
his party apart, President Goodluck Jonathan appears
to have squandered the goodwill that ensured his
becoming Nigeria's first minority president.
There is a depressing sense in which one cannot just
imagine that this country would endure another term
of this administration for another four years in office
ending in 2019. This will be suicidal. Even now, 2015
looks too distant into the future in the eyes of
ordinary Nigerians. In 2011, the president won the
election by playing the underdog card.
The 2011 presidential election was won because
ordinary Nigerians insisted on voting en masse for the
country's first minority president - the man who said
he walked barefooted as a child; the man who also
became the symbol of an end to the North's bragging
right to power since Nigeria's independence from
British rule. In 2015, Jonathan will not have the luxury
of leveraging on the sentiments that swept him to
power in his first term.
Now, he will have to look for other reasons. Except
that this time, he will not be able to whip up emotions
based on his poverty as a child. His ethnic background
will also not matter. If he does, no one will believe
him again.
Rather in 2015, the President will be confronted with
the record of his performance. He will have to answer
hard questions about his first term in office. And if
truth be told, if the present situation in the polity is
anything to go by, President Jonathan will be heading
back to his hometown in Otuoke come May 29, 2015.
The President will not stand a chance against a
formidable opposition with the right candidate in a
free and fair election. But even at that, it still does not
matter because it appears any type of candidate will
still beat this President.
His performance so far makes him vulnerable to
defeat in a free and fair election. He just has not lived
up to the expectations of Nigerians. And I suspect the
President and his party are in for a surprise.
Perhaps, for the first time, Nigerians will witness the
power of their votes. The incumbency factor will not
matter in 2015 because the President is poised to
lose the election. But President Jonathan should not
blame anybody for his predicament if he loses. He has
so far been the architect of his own misfortune as a
President. He had no excuse not to perform. Let's
face it, the President has fallen short of expectations
that Nigerians had of his presidency.
There is no better expression to measure his
performance since 2011. For a President that came
into office to have squandered the enormous goodwill
and support from Nigerians is evidence of
opportunities gone awry; of hopes deferred. The only
people who will support the President are the army of
praise singers from his ethnic group who have been
singing his praises to no end. And this brings me to
the attitude of the so-called Niger Deltan activists and
leaders. The leaders of the region have been so
disappointing to say the least.
This attitude of it-is-either-Jonathan-for-a-second
term-or-we-will-all-perish does their ethnic group no
good. It is even an embarrassment to the office of the
President. Why do they act as if Jonathan is the
President of only the Niger Delta? Why are they
threatening to bring Nigeria down if Jonathan does not
get a second term?
Did the President emerge in his first term only by the
region's votes? Can threats make a non-performing
President stay in office in perpetuity? The culture of
entitlement that pervades the region is the reason
why the Niger Delta might still be backward even if
Jonathan gets a second term.
They should know that it was the support of Nigerians
that got the President a first term. Nigerians thus have
the right to demand performance from him. And right
now, the situation in our country today does not look
good. In 2015, President Jonathan will have to present
his scorecard.
Nigerians will ask him why corruption which he
promised to tackle in his inaugural address has
become a hydra-headed monster in his
administration. He will have to explain why his
administration has not so secured a single conviction
in spite of massive corruption in the land. Nigerians
will in 2015 ask this President why all the cases of
corruption involving individuals in his government have
all died a natural death.
The President will explain why all the anti-corruption
agencies have all become toothless bulldogs. It has
become glaring that President Jonathan has lost the
trust and goodwill of Nigerians. The dominant view of
Nigerians is that this government has failed. The
impunity that has become a culture in the country
today is because the president has not been decisive
in the fight against corruption.
That is why all the agencies of government have been
left to their own devices. The culture of impunity has
been so pervasive. Take the power sector for
example.
The President has not arrested the unending
conundrum that has dogged the unbundling of the
sector. This should not continue beyond 2015.
Meanwhile, the power situation continues to get
worse. The 2015 elections should be about
performance and the President has a lot of questions
to answer about his stewardship unless something
drastic happens between now and the election date.
The President also has to explain why million of
Nigerian youths cannot find jobs. All we hear from this
government is how the economy is growing at an
unbelievable rate. Pray, how can the economy grow
while millions are unemployed?
What kind of voodoo economy is that? Didn't the
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the
Economy say the last time that the unemployment
figures give her sleepless night? What further evidence
do Nigerians need that this government is not
providing an enabling environment for job creation?
The millions of youths who had hoped in this
government will ask hard questions in 2015.
The security situation in the country is a cause for
grave concern. The other day, about 40 pupils were
murdered by suspected terrorists in Yobe State. As I
write, nobody has been apprehended for perpetrating
the dastardly act.
The Jos crisis continues to claim more lives. In many
parts of the country, lives and property are not secure.
Yet, the government blames everybody else except
itself. How can a government whose primary duty is to
safeguard lives and property fail woefully in performing
the same duty? Meanwhile, the country also lags
behind in all development indexes.
The argument advanced by the supporters of this
government is that our problems are not created by
President Jonathan. But has the administration
demonstrated the political will to tackle the problems
head on? Does government not exist to solve
problems no matter how old they have existed?
However, there has been some good news lately. The
President recently inaugurated the construction of the
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Let's just hope the project
will not become abandoned like the previous
attempts. The federal roads across the country are
also said to be getting the attention they deserve.
This is not forgetting the ongoing rehabilitation in the
nation's airports. But all this will pale into
insignificance when compared to the dashed
expectations of this government. It is for these
reasons that Jonathan may lose in 2015. All things
being equal, anyway.
By Bayo Olupohunda
The handwriting is on the wall. The bold imprints are
seen in the failings of this administration. Now the
dashed expectations of the Jonathan's presidency all
seem to be leading to one predictable end - he may
not be re-elected in 2015.

Say no to gay people

disgusting

haitto99: do u guys know hw many corpers dat hv lost their lives,through accidents to camps,boko haram,ritualists it has tripled in d last 5yrs

they don't no oo! last week three corper were kidnapped in rivers state, beside since have relocated from zamafara to osun state, nysc haven't pay me, so what is the essence of serving ur country without no reward, even soldiers dey collect moni

m.k.o2005:
From the pictures above,i can see the slave raiders/traders and also the 'christians'among them ! Atleast the men on robe and crosses hung around their necks depicting that they are missionaries without the gun,cutlasses,rather they used the advantage of the in-thing then to sell the word of God to the 'slaves'and their families ! But if it turned out to be that it was actually the christians that perpetrated these heinous crimes,then they failed to adhere to the teachings of Christ !
Galatians 3:28''Now, in Christ, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or free, male or female. You are all the same in Christ Jesus''
1 Timothy 1:9-11''We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers--and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrinethat conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.''
From the above scriptures,the highlighted to be specific shows that Christianity DOES NOT support slave trading but admonished any one who is a slave to submit to his master(s)as unto the lord if they can not leave and also for Christians who by any standard happens to find any in their custody considered as slaves to be treated as brothers in christ !
Please 9ja pagan,God loves u.Allow Jesus into ur life and do not continualy grieve the holy spirit so that you can have the opportunity to ask for forgiveness so u can be forgiven. JESUS LOVE U EVEN IN UR CURRENT STATE !
God help us

na sooo

bullshit

am currently serving in osun state, and never receive any allowee since i Redepoly from zamfara nd report there in January 2013 .ain't easy bt I no nysc re saving it for me shaa, 118800 six month.

drnoel: do i still hear people call GEJ clueless?

gej still clueless ,becos not an achievement. security is the responsible of any president