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1. I wonder why GEJ supporters think that Nigerians are SO DUMB that we would ALL ignore the CRITICAL ISSUES at stake in the forth-coming election and SIMPLISTICALLY vote along the fuzzy and hazy 'NORTH-SOUTH' divide.

2. Besides, is it NOW that it suits their AGENDA that we are NO LONGER divided into SE, SS, SW, NE NW, NC?

3. Have the CLANNISH and DIVISIVE elements among the GEJ supporters forgotten how they have been viciously and maliciously SINGLING OUT certain sub-groups of their 'southern brothers' for incessant insults and all sorts of cruel taunting?

4. Has the 'southern' president EVER tried to reign in the crudest and most clannish among his kinsmen, such as Clark and Asari Dokubo, when they were publicly and viciously insulting prominent and well-intentioned Nigerians who dare criticize his government, including 'fellow southerners'?

5. How come the SW people are NOW your 'SOUTHERN' brothers, and the people of the MIDDLE BELT are now just lumped as 'NORTHERNERS'?

6. What happened to the 'SS/SE/MIDDLE BELT alliance' that some of you guys have been taunting the rest of Nigerians with?

7. Now that the reality of the VOTING POWER of each SUB-REGION has finally dawned on you, and the imminent electoral defeat of your clueless man is staring you in the face, you have suddenly jettisoned the MIDDLE BELT as your partner in alliance, and they are are now just 'northerners'.

8. I really pity GEJ supporters because this kind of PATHETIC attempt at APPEALING to 'southern' SENTIMENTS to get votes for the Clueless-In-Chief would NOT have been NECESSARY if he had performed up to the EXPECTATIONS of ALL Nigerians in his first term!

PentiumPro:
Nonsense. Where is the link?

1. The OP deceptively chose not to provide the link so as to hide the fact that this is an old story and one of the MANY that the GEJ supporters relentlessly keeping digging out, day in day out, in their desperate but unsuccessful attempts TO WHIP UP religious, ethnic and regional SENTIMENTS that would boost the dwindling re-election chances of their clueless.

2. The OP must be NAIVE to think that he could use what LAWAL KAITA said to damage BUHARI in the eyes of Southerners! Every well-informed Nigerian knows that Lawal Kaita and Buhari are TWO POLES APART.

3. In fact, if the OP does not know, LAWAL KAITA was one of the corrupt governors Buhari SENT PACKING in 1983, and he was one of the FOUNDING FATHERS of PDP and has ALWAYS been in the party, while Buhari, on the other hand, has ALWAYS been in a party opposing PDP.

Even if GEJ is not PERSONALLY corrupt, it is now A COMMON KNOWLEDGE that he ENJOYS KEEPING COMPANY with the WORST among the super-corrupt elite of Nigeria, he pardons even the CONVICTED among them, he re-appoints them and LOOKS THE OTHER WAY as they continue doing what they know best, i.e. looting the country blind at the expense of the ordinary Nigerians.

So even if he is not corrupt, it is an undeniable fact that, of all the presidents Nigeria has ever had, GEJ has proved to be ONE OF THE BEST FRIENDS of the MOST CORRUPT elements in Nigeria.

That is why the corrupt elite have never had such a GOOD and EASY life; all they need do, is to support the re-election of their GOOD FRIEND!

And the wise people would always say, show me your friends, and I will tell you WHO YOU ARE!

OP, if you are old and enlightened enough to know the regimes of Buhari and IBB and how, and why they came about, you would have known that the former was motivated by strong patriotism and passionate drive to root out corruption and establish an egalitarian, pro-people society, while the latter was motivated by sheer personal greed, insatiable lust for power as a means of perpetuating corruption, and unpatriotic subservience to foreign capitalist interests.

Because Nigerians know fully well the differences between the two former military leaders, Buhari can today contest election under ANY political party and get MILLIONS of votes.

On the other hand, IBB CANNOT even dare present himself to Nigerians today in any election, simply because he knows he would be badly humiliated, as the vast majority of Nigerians, including his fellow Northerners, see him as EVIL PERSONIFIED and, as such, would not touch him even with a long pole!

Geoffis:
Besides the bombings and killings of innocent Nigerians for no just cause, some self-appointed Northern elders have derided Jonathan’s presidency and his right to contest the 2015 polls based on the erroneous impression that after the death of former President Umaru Yar’Adua, a northerner would have succeeded him according to their myopic interpretation of PDP zoning formula.

Now that Jonathan has emerged the PDP presidential candidate for the 2015 poll, such campaign of diatribe might have considerably eased. If what happened at the weekend’s fund raising of the PDP is anything to go by, there is no doubt that President Goodluck Jonathan, apart from being the PDP presidential flag bearer, is also a pan-Nigerian presidential candidate. In Jonathan, all Nigerians are united and speak with one voice.

All Nigerians from all tribes and the six geo-political zones gathered in Abuja and donated hugely to his campaign fund that totaled billions of naira. The various endorsements by civil society groups from all parts of the country prior to Jonathan’s declaration to contest the 2015 polls show that Nigerians want another four years of Jonathan transformation contrary to what the opposition has been orchestrating.

There are so many reasons why I think that Jonathan is highly favoured to coast home to victory on February 14 and here are some of them that space could permit. Jonathan did not inter with the freedom of individuals and that of the press. He allowed Nigerians to hold contrary views opposed to his. He did not interfere with the freedom of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in their conduct of elections. Opposition parties won elections in PDP states and Jonathan congratulated the winners.

Jonathan did not interfere with the rulings of the courts. He did not use the security agents against anybody including antagonistic governors. Despite abuses by some Nigerians, Jonathan did not invoke his powers on them in retaliation. Under Jonathan’s watch, no Nigerian went on exile and there was no political assassination; there was no state-sponsored impeachment. Jonathan is calm in spite of all provocations. He listens to Nigerians. Under his administration, the pump price of petrol has remained the same.

He handled workers’ strike with maturity and reason. He restored peace in the nation’s universities and pumped huge sums of money (N200 billion) to revamp them. He built 12 new federal universities, 9 in the North and 3 in the South to ensure that all states in the country has a federal university and open more access to university education to our teeming youths. The polytechnics and colleges of education were not left out the funding largesse. The president also boosted access to education through the Almajiri Education Programme.

The pragmatic education programme is one of Jonathan’s administration initiatives to improve access to education and reduce the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria. Its major aim is to integrate the traditional Tsangaya and Quranic School into the formal education system. Jonathan has done much in road infrastructure. Some of his completed 32 roads include section 1 of the dualization of the Ibadan-Ilorin road (Oyo), Vorn-Manchok road (Plateau), dualization of Section 1 of Onitsha-Owerri road and Onitsha eastern Bypass, rehabilitation of Funtua-Gusau-Sokoto road, Shagamu-Ore-Benin road and the Aiyegunle-Akoko-Edo road (Ondo/Edo states).

Nigerian airports under Jonathan have been remodeled. They now look like others in other parts of the world. This is evident at Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Enugu and Port Harcourt airports. The railways have received some revamping under Jonathan’s administration. Nigerians now commute daily in trains across the country with modern coaches. Nigeria has made modest achievements in industrial revolution under Jonathan. Besides the rebasing of the nation’s economy that place us first in Africa with South Africa taking a second position, Unilever Plc invested $200 million in Nigeria, while Procter & Gamble opened $300 million new plant this year in Agbara , Ogun State. In the area of cement manufacturing, our local production grew from two million metric tones in 2002 to 28.5 metric tones in 2013. It is also expected that it will reach 39 million metric tones by the end of this year. The cement industry has attracted $8 billion in local and foreign investments and supports about 1.6 million jobs. After a successful power privatization, the country now generates over 4000 megawatts (MW) of electricity from less 2000 mw in 2010.

This is why there has been tremendous improvement in power supply. The only problem here lack of prepaid metres, excessive estimate billings or ‘crazy bills.’ The power sector needs to be put more on track. The agricultural sector has witnessed great transformation under Jonathan. We have witnessed new agricultural policies targeted at increasing domestic food production and growing private sector participation in the sector. Nigeria is now the highest producer of cassava. Something is being done to increase our production of rice. There is the need to still tap our agricultural potentials. Nigeria’s future will depend more on agriculture than oil.

If Jonathan could achieve these much under the prevailing insurgency, he would have done more if there was no terrorism in the country. All the money expended to fight the terrorists would have been channeled to national development. With these and other achievements of Jonathan not mentioned, he will definitely be voted into power by Nigerians in the presidential poll.

Anybody who knows the quality of journalists Nigeria used to have in the past, would feel like shedding tears seeing how the noble pen profession is now being so badly tarnished by all sorts of unscrupulous pretenders, semi-illiterates and bare-faced bigots who know next to nothing about the cardinal principles of journalism, talk less of feeling any sense of professional responsibility.

You do not even need to be a professional journalist to know that this charlatan, Robert Obioha, represents all what is wrong with our journalism today:

1. Only a crassly prejudiced, pathetically uncritical, mentally lazy or barefacedly mischievous 'journalist' would continue to regurgitate the old lies that it was some northern leaders that are killing, maiming and displacing thousands of their people, and disrupting the economic and social life of their region so badly, just in order to make the government of GEJ 'look bad' and make the country 'ungovernable' for him!

2. When more and more enlightened and unbiased observers started to CRITICALLY question those lies, have we not seen how THE SAME PEOPLE who started the lies in the first place began to shift their FALSE NARRATIVE by re-directing their false accusation to BUHARI, then to APC, TINUBU, LIE Mohammed, El-Rufai and other opposition figures as being the sponsors of BH?

3. If Obioha were not such a PATHETIC PRETENDER calling himself 'journalist'; if he is not such a morally bankrupt charlatan blinded by bigotry, he would have known that the question many intelligent and unbiased journalists and observers have been asking, and continue to ask is, WHO ACTUALLY BENEFITS, POLITICALLY and OTHERWISE, from the continued, systematic widespread destruction of the North?

4. Does Obioha think Nigerians have forgotten how the president he supports came out publicly and tried most CYNICALLY to REAP A POLITICAL BENEFIT from the FIRST bomb blast in Nigeria, by IMMEDIATELY but FALSELY and DECEITFULLY blaming it on some Northern leaders?

DonaldGenes:
Oh yeah, 'cos he doesn't seem to get it even when it's phuckiq glaring that corruption is gaining Momentum, gaining Tracking in every sphere of his Govt, plus he is not even in tune with the people with so much Poverty in the land. Go to the villages, Come to "Akwa Ibom, Not even a single Fed'al Government Project.- I am tellinq you..

It ain't as if i hate GEJ, Of course far be such. It's just that Giving him my vote will be catastrophic to this country.

If you noticed, GEJ is always Within Abuja, You hardly hear him visit of States talk less of L.G.A at least just to sight-see what is going on in other states.. When last, did you hear him Visit A place like Sokoto, Calabar, Ebonyi, Abia, and so many....

For cryinq out loud, he's the president for all, not Abuja President.

Anyway, He's tried his best but his time is up!

Even my Small 14 - year old Cousin(4) says he hasn't feel anything he's done even in Delta States...You can imagine...

The part in bold is my MAIN reason for opposing GEJ's re-election; I cannot imagine myself ever supporting a leader who is so tolerant of corruption, and feels so comfortable dealing with the super-corrupt!

With the level of corruption that has going on in this country for decades, the last leader we need is one who would fail to even appreciate the extent to which this monster (corruption) is destroying the dreams of the future generations for a better life.

My other grouse against GEJ is his failure to show adequate commitment towards discharging his constitutional obligation of providing security of life and properties to thousands of helpless Nigerians who face daily attacks from the ungodly, blood-thirsty BH terrorists.

"On the need to achieve successful 2015 general elections, Pastor Yahaya, who warned against manipulation of religion, said: “We are calling on all Nigerians to shun manipulators of religion for political goals."

1. Anybody who has been sampling public opinions of ordinary Northerners, Christians and Muslims, with regard to the insecurity ravaging the region, would NOT fail to notice their PROFOUND and WIDESPREAD exasperation and disappointment at the way the GEJ adm has allowed the BH to rage so out of control, and continue to wreak so much destruction and loss of lives and properties in their region.

2. So despite their religious and ethnic differences, the Northerners seem to AGREE on one common denomination at the moment: and that is, the Clueless-In-Chief is FAR MORE CONCERNED with his re-election campaign than with the protection of the LIVES and PROPERTIES of the Northerners, Christians or Muslims.

3. Thus, the stance taken by this group of Northern pastors, and EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANTLY their open condemnation of the 'manipulators of religion for political goals', is yet another POIGNANT REMINDER to the clueless that he is NOT going to be as overwhelmingly voted by his Northern Christian 'brothers and sisters' this time around PURELY on SHEER religious SENTIMENTS, as was the case in 2011!

LRNZH:
IBB was fought by the masses until he quit in 1993. Abacha was fought by NADECO and pro-democracy activists until his enigmatic death in 1998.

Bankole, Umar Dikko, Tafa Balogun etc have been embarrassed in one way or the other for their corrupt antecedents.

So why should GEJ be spared?

Superb logic! I doff my hat to you.

jzdoberman:
But we are all aware of the looting of ibb, abacha, theophilus danjuma...and the rest of them up there. So why the complaints on uncle Joe.

Looters are looters, regardless of their TRIBES, RELIGIONS and REGIONS!

A heartless Northern Muslim Hausa-fulani looter is AS EVIL-MINDED and MORALLY BANKRUPT as a heartless Southern Christian Igbo, Ijaw or Yoruba looter!

And the victims of the MASSIVE looting in Nigeria are long-suffering MASSES of all tribes, religions and regions.

That is why ALL men and women of CONSCIENCE, irrespective of their tribes, religions and regions, should CONDEMN ALL heartless looters, regardless of the looters' tribes, religions or regions!

oathman:
9years old??

Yes, she must be very intelligent to have understood that it's THEIR future and PROGRESS that are being destroyed by the frenzied looting going on in this country.

And she must also be very clever to have realized that the ATTITUDE of a leader to corruption (his body language) matters A LOT, and that a GOOD leader would always side with the VICTIMS of corruption and FIGHT the thieving elite on their behalf, instead of being so openly in close, warm romance with the looters!

In all my discussions with Northerners, I have NEVER heard even an ORDINARY fellow among them, who thinks that it's some Igbos or SS elements that ACTUALLY strap the bombs on themselves and carry out the suicide bombings in the North!

They are enlightened enough to know that if there are some SE/SS VENGEFUL EXTREMISTS within the GEJ's adm who are DESIROUS and HELL-BENT on taking good advantage of their official positions to EXERT REVENGE on the 'children' of Murtala, Gowon and Shuwa, as the Northerners generally suspect, these vengeful extremists do NOT have to carry out the bombings themselves!

In fact they do NOT even have to be physically present in the North for them to be able to use their powerful positions in the GEJ's adm (with or without his knowledge or support) in a way that would AID and ABET the systematic destruction of the north as a 'payback' to the North, or, if they are SS extremists, as a way of checkmating the North and helping 'their son' politically.

LRNZH:
The Police have said they were not aware of the N21 billion donations to President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team by some businessmen.http://www.punchng.com/news/we-are-not-aware-of-jonathans-n21bn-donation-police/

Nobody should REALISTICALLY expect the BLATANTLY PARTISAN and CORRUPT Nigerian police and the SSS to have ENOUGH MORAL COURAGE, professional and personal INTEGRITY and PATRIOTISM to ever challenge the powerful cabal and the super-corrupt associates of GEJ who participated in that show of shame.

The police could say they are not aware of it, but my neighbour told me that HIS 9-YEAR OLD daughter WAS AWARE of it, and was DISGUSTED by it!.

As the billions were being donated, the ANGRY little girl kept repeating "SHAME on you, HEARTLESS looters, SHAME on you, HEARTLESS looters".

And at the end of the show, she concluded with this remark: "I don't blame them, anyway, because the BODY LANGUAGE of our president encourages it. But there's God oh"

OP, sometimes I honestly sympathize with you, the ardent supporters of GEJ!

Because the person you so passionately support epitomizes failure, incompetence and cluelessness, it is EXTREMELY difficult, if not impossible, for you to EVER find ENOUGH concrete achievements to hinge his re-election campaign on, hence YOU HAVE TO be resorting to this OVER-USED religious card.

We can see that even the supposedly enlightened supporters of the clueless, such as FFK, have to resort to this same SHAMELESS tactic of EXPLOITING OUR RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES as the ONLY way they CYNICALLY hope to get enough votes for the clueless?

But unfortunately for you, Nigerians are MUCH WISER today! We know that the cabal and the SUPER CORRUPT who are the ONLY beneficiaries of the four years of this INCOMPETENT administration are FROM ALL THE TRIBES, RELIGIONS AND REGIONS!

And we also know that the VICTIMS OF THEIR LOOTING also the poor MASSES of all the tribes, religions and regions!

So there is NO riding on RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS for the clueless again, come 2015!

PassingShot:
By your warped logic, Christians in core nothern states cannot secure 20% votes for GEJ as well.

This is the same ethnic and religious card that has brought GEJ this poo he's currentlyin.

The part in bold is very true!

The clueless and his supporters HAVE OVERPLAYED the religious card and, like anything overplayed, it has started to REBOUND and BOOMERANG on them hard!

Besides, thousands of northern Christians in the NE and BM have seen CLEARLY how much he and his government CARE for the security of their lives and properties, and how much he CARES for THEIR VOTES!

Franchise21:
Did u just say GEJ is at ease? U must b high on something. It's d same PDP dat criticises APC daily, thanks to dat so-called Olisa Metuh. PDP seems to b afraid cos dey knw their tym is up. Truth be told

1. Many of them do not know how JITTERY GEJ and his campaign strategists are, being FULLY AWARE that the realities of the 2014 are much grimmer than their naive supporters think.

2. The clueless and his campaign strategists know that even though THE VAST MAJORITY of the people in the SS and SE regions would ALMOST CERTAINLY vote for him in the February 2015 election, there WILL NOT be as much ENTHUSIASTIC and EUPHORIC outpouring of support for him as in 2011 in the two regions.

3. This is due to his DISAPPOINTING first term performance AND, to a larger extent, due to some significant changes in the dynamics of the political terrain.

4. Perhaps the most defining of such changes is the fact that there will be far LESS ROOM for any MASSIVE RIGGING in his favour come 2015, simply because MANY of those who AIDED and ABETTED that massive rigging for him in 2011 are today too DISILLUSIONED about his leadership.

5. Even more worrying for the clueless, there are MANY people in the SS and SE who were among those who rigged the election for him in 2011 but who, for various reasons, are today so diametrically opposed to his re-election that they are READY and DETERMINED to HELP IN PLUGGING ALL THE RIGGING LOOPHOLES, which they know so well from their previous experience in rigging!

6. But of course, you cannot expect the DUMB among the supporters of the clueless to fully grasp this reality, until it finally hits them in the face!.

john6006:
[/b][b]This is what you will tell INEC when the time come ......

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john6006:
Election cancelled....after two days of voting....typical june 12 result......
watch out....

1. Any good student of politics, law or history can easily educate you here on WHY the IBB junta was able to SUBVERT the democratic will of the people SO BLATANTLY that time, and WHY Jonathan, or any civilian president for that matter, CANNOT achieve that INGLORIOUS FIAT, even if he would wish to.

2. For instance, the 1993 June 12 presidential election, if you need to be told, was between Chief MKO Abiola of SDP and Bashiru Tofa of NRC; the IBB government that nullified the election was NOT one of the PARTICIPATING TEAMS, but was acting as a REFEREE.

3. Thus, what the NOTORIOUS IBB regime did was like a referee stopping a match in the last few seconds, when one of the two teams was CLEARLY WINNING, and disqualifying both teams and ordering a 'rematch' between two other teams, for no any convincing reasons.

4. On the other hand, the idea that a democratic president WHO PARTICIPATES in an election, and who is faced with an imminent defeat, can just wake up the next day and announce that he 'cancels' the election, is as ABSURD and NAIVE as thinking that a LOSING football team in a final cup competition can 'cancel' the match, declare itself winner, and try to retain the cup by force!

5. The worst a democratic government that loses election can do, if it wants to CLING to power SO DESPERATELY that it does NOT give a damn if the country is plunged into chaos, is to RIG the election and DARE THE PEOPLE!

mojeer678:
It's called self-delusion, a severe psychological malady. He really needs help, and fast!

Yes, it really show how delusional and removed from reality this deceitful clueless is!

1. He does not know that this is not 2011 when unsuspecting Nigerians trusted him, sympathized with him and EXPECTED him to steer the country away from the corrupt and inglorious past, but he failed to do that.

2. Instead, he CHOSE to align with the same corrupt elements we had expected him to fight and tell them, on our behalf, that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Most regrettably, the thieving elite are now even MORE EMBOLDENED to loot with even GREATER IMPUNITY than ever before.

3. His WORDS and DEEDS have shown to them that he does NOT actually give a damn about their frenzied looting, as long as they would help him win re-election in return.

4. So in reality, if there is any such a hall of shame, who else DESERVES to occupy the VERY TOP of it if not his VERY CLOSE political associates, financiers and supporters - the likes of Alamiesegha, Bode George, Al-Mustapha, Asari Dokubo, Stella Oduah, Diezani and others?

5. And when a leader's BODY LANGUAGE ENCOURAGES CORRUPTION (apologies to Tambuwal); when his CONSCIENCE does not tell him that it is NOT RIGHT for a leader to appear so TOLERANT of corruption and so closely ASSOCIATED with the CORRUPT elements of the society, then WHERE ELSE does the name of that leader himself rightly belong, if not on the very top of any hall of shame that there might be?

Some questions for all the evil-minded who want to cynically use the deaths of these Nigerian to score some political points for the clueless:

1. Hasn't the Clueless-In-Chief set up a committee to investigate the post-election riots of 2011?

2. Did he not promise to make the findings of the committee public and deal with ANYONE found to have a hand in those riots?

3. So if you think Buhari has a hand in the deaths of those young Nigerians, why can't you simply publish for us here the part of the report of the investigation where he is OFFICIALLY INDICTED?

You supporters of the clueless we all know you are getting MORE DESPERATE AND JITTERY as the D-Day approaches. But even then, you should have shown some DECENCY and RESPECT to the families of these young Nigerians who lost their lives in those unfortunate circumstances, by avoiding the temptation to use the deaths of their loved ones in this REPREHENSIBLE, VILE political propaganda.

If I were a relative of any one of those young corpers, I would SURELY hate ANYBODY who cynically and despicably politicizes the unfortunate death of my relative as much as I would hate the evil mobs who killed them in such cold blood!.

OP, there are pastors, and there are pastors!

For the intelligent, objective and fair-minded observers, these two pastors, bakare and Osibanjo, are not ordinary pastors!

In terms of PERSONAL INTEGRITY, MORAL CLARITY, INTELLECTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, STRONG AND WELL-KNOWN STANCE AGAINST PUBLIC CORRUPTION, these two pastors stand head and shoulders above most of their peers!

So it is not surprising that Buhari, who is also well-known for his personal integrity and anti-corruption antecedents, would like to pick any of these two highly respected gentlemen as his VP, and each one of them would make a perfect VP and successor to him.

In the same vein, GEJ and Sambo are a perfect match - of the clueless, I-don't-give-a-damn, stealing-is-not-corruption type!

Tolexander:
suprising a word like this can come out from a man that;
freed a woman that jumped protocol spending N255million on cars without any trial.

Gave a criminal(Alamiesegha) a presidential pardon.

Empowered militants financially and politically giving them the gut to verbally threaten the peace of the nation.

Fraternized with a looter(muhammad Abacha) for a second term endorsement.

Didn't order the trial and prosecution of Abdurasheed Maina, the man behind the disappearance of billions of naira of pension savings.

Believes stealing is categorically different from corruption.

Don't mind the deceitful clueless!

1. He does not know that this is not 2011 when unsuspecting Nigerians trusted him, sympathized with him and EXPECTED him to steer the country away from the corrupt and inglorious past, but he failed to do that.

2. Instead, he CHOSE to align with the same corrupt elements we had expected him to fight and tell them, on our behalf, that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Most regrettably, the thieving elite are now even MORE EMBOLDENED to loot with even GREATER IMPUNITY than ever before.

3. His WORDS and DEEDS have shown to them that he does NOT actually give a damn about their frenzied looting, as long as they would help him win re-election in return.

4. So in reality, if there is any such a hall of shame, who else DESERVES to occupy the VERY TOP of it if not his VERY CLOSE political associates, financiers and supporters - the likes of Alamiesegha, Bode George, Al-Mustapha, Asari Dokubo, Stella Oduah, Diezani and others?

5. And when a leader's BODY LANGUAGE ENCOURAGES CORRUPTION (apologies to Tambuwal); when his CONSCIENCE does not tell him that it is NOT RIGHT for a leader to appear so TOLERANT of corruption and so closely ASSOCIATED with the CORRUPT elements of the society, then WHERE ELSE does the name of that leader himself rightly belong, if not on the very top of any hall of shame that there might be?

Who listens to this unscrupulous, devious, fraudulent, despicable imposter?

IGBOSON1:
^^^You lot must think you're talking to fools! 'Nigerians have decide to rise above yada- yada-yada' abi?.....Yet you guys in APC looked around and saw no qualified young energetic hopeful to hand your presidential ticket to besides an ageing analog Fulani ex-military despot!? What happened to Fashola; Okorocha; Oshiomole; Pat Utomi; or any other christian middle-belter?

I had my suspicions long before now that APC was formed just to return power back to the Hegemonic/Oligarchic/Feudalistic/Islamic north!.....All that pretence of conducting primaries was just to fulfill all righteousness and playing to the gallery!

What boggles the mind is how they always manage to find willing mugus in the south to align with.....right from the 60s for crying out loud! I would have thought this was a chance for us to tell them we all are equal partners in this Nigerian experiment, and that terrorism and threats will never be rewarded!

With regard to the part of your post in bold, you should know that politics has NEVER been about just 'looking around' and picking a qualified guy!.

It is FAR MORE COMPLEX, MORE INTRIGUING, and MUCH B!TCHIER than that, otherwise MANY of the current and former WORLD LEADERS would NOT have been ANYWHERE near the corridors of power!

If you must be reminded, politics is about selecting a candidate that CAN WIN an election for a political party, and one has to be REALLY, REALLY DUMB to fail to understand that when it comes to that, there is NO ANY CANDIDATE in the opposition 'rank and file' that has as much popular support as Buhari.

Are we not all living witnesses to the recently concluded APC presidential primary election, where thousands of delegates overwhelmingly, and generally according to the yearnings and wishes of their people, voted for Buhari, giving him more votes than the combined votes of other candidates?

Kbworld:
senseless post, stop dividing us along religion line. Nigerians are wise ppl we want someone who will perform irrespective of his or her religion. sai Buhari

How do you expect the supporters of a UNIVERSALLY-CELEBRATED clueless and incompetent leader like GEJ to EVER find ENOUGH concrete achievements to hinge his re-election campaign on? No way!

Can't you see that even the supposedly enlightened among them, such as FFK, have to resort to this same SHAMELESS tactic of EXPLOITING OUR RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES as the ONLY way they CYNICALLY hope to get enough votes for the clueless?

But as you rightly stated, Nigerians are MUCH WISER today! We know that the cabal and the SUPER CORRUPT who are the ONLY beneficiaries of the four years of this INCOMPETENT administration are FROM ALL THE TRIBES, RELIGIONS AND REGIONS!

We also know that when it comes to LOOTING THE COUNTRY BLIND, these heartless elite are SO AMAZINGLY UNITED, forgetting ALL their religious, ethnic and regional differences.

They NEVER care at all that the victims of their corruption INCLUDE the poor MASSES from their own TRIBE, RELIGION AND REGION!

donphilopus:
The momentum that APC is gathering in the South South, there's God ooo... [b]Contrary to what the PDPians alleged, it's getting more clearer by the minute that APC is gonna perform well in the SS. [/b]APC would be rejected in the SS because it's an Islamic party, but they're being accepted everyday. Now, who's fooling who?! Nigerians are tired of PDP!

The part in bold is very true, and GEJ's campaign strategists, and even the politically savvy among his ordinary supporters, must be fully aware of this fact and it must be giving them some sleepless nights!

Although the THE VAST MAJORITY of the people in the SS/SE region would ALMOST CERTAINLY vote for him in the forth-coming election, there WILL NOT be as much ENTHUSIASTIC and EUPHORIC outpouring of support for him as in 2011.

This is due to his DISAPPOINTING first term performance AND, to a larger extent, due to some significant changes in the dynamics of the political terrain.

Perhaps the most defining of such changes is the fact that there will be far LESS ROOM for any MASSIVE RIGGING in his favour come 2015, simply because MANY of those who AIDED and ABETTED that massive rigging for him in 2011 are today either too DISILLUSIONED about his leadership, and even REGRETFUL of rigging him into power in the first place, or might even be so diametrically opposed to his re-election that they are READY and DETERMINED to HELP IN PLUGGING ALL THE RIGGING LOOPHOLES, which they know so well from their previous rigging experience!

But of course, you cannot expect the DUMB among the supporters of the clueless to fully grasp this reality, until it finally hits them in the face!.

stevecantrell:
Does he even know the implications of such careless talk ?

He SURELY does NOT know! And the fact he said it in an apparently written speech, would make you wonder how GEJ's army of advisers allow him to commit such obvious gaffes.

Let Nigerians ask the clueless this simple question:

These millionaires and billionaires that PDP has created, are they GENUINE BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN who operate on A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD with the rest of Nigerians in the businesses they do, or are they mainly part of the PDP's BIG CORRUPTION EMPIRE and, as such, they get their millions and billions through ALL SORTS OF GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE, which makes them part of the VAMPIRES that live on the blood of the ORDINARY, EVER-SUFFERING vast majority of Nigerians?

This insensitive remark by the clueless is reminiscent of his equally unguarded and shameful remark earlier this year in Kenya, when Nigerians invaded the Nairobi airport with so many private jets, and the clueless SHOCKED THE WORLD by describing that extravagant jamboree by his friends as evidence that 'Nigeria is a rich country'!

He was too dumb to realize that NIGERIANS ARE FULLY AWARE that most of those private jet-owning 'businessmen' are in reality FRIENDS, ASSOCIATES AND MENTORS of the president!. In fact, we saw them at it again last week, when they paid their dues and allegiance to the CORRUPT PDP EMPIRE by donating BILLIONS to the re-election of the clueless, so that the status qua would be maintained!

NgeneUkwenu:
I Can Bet My Last kobo Jonathan Never Went To The University! All His Certificates Were Forged! However we shall look into it, when we assume power Next year!

He might have gone to the university (of Port Harcourt!) and obtained all the qualifications he is said to have obtained, but anybody who is privileged to have interacted with REAL ACADEMICS, or even post-graduate students who are WORTH THEIR SALT, would surely marvel at GEJ's AMAZING LACK OF INTELLECTUAL SHARPNESS.

In fact, sometimes when he gives an unscripted speech, he sounds so uninspiring, so unfocused, so dull, so unintelligent, so unsure of his choice of words and, of course, so CLUELESS that I can't help pitying him!

ILIDEFI:
When you mention north, just remember that the entire middle belt plus Taraba state do not share in those crazy northern ideologies. So you expect people from Kogi, Benue, Kwara, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba whose villages have often been wiped out by Fulani herdsmen, and who know the brain behind BH to vote in their patron as the president of Nigeria? My brother, you are on a long thing.
It is still only a fool that will believe that GEJ has a hand in BH, a group that has done the worst damage to his administration.

If you had read my post a little more carefully, you wouldn't have made this statement that is too obvious! It's exactly because I am fully aware of these differences that whenever I mentioned 'Northerners' and added 'Christians and Muslims'.

And my earlier post addresses exactly the kind of ERRONEOUS and FALLACIOUS thinking you exhibited here, which is prevalent among the SE/SS people and which goes thus: since GEJ has benefited from the Christian-Muslim divide in the North in the 2011, by getting the overwhelming majority of Christian votes out of SHEER RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS, he is going to be so overwhelmingly voted AGAIN in 2015 by the same Northern Christians, based on the SAME RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS!.

If the significant changes in all the DYNAMICS and MOMENTUM that combine to make the 2015 election ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from that of 2011 are beyond the understanding of people like you, I am sure GEJ personally and his advisers can NOT be so oblivious of them.

And if you want to have some understanding of such changes in dynamics, just re-read my original post; you would get a hint on some of them.

BlackHuman:
Iherjerika curbed Boko.Haram?- u're joking....curb ko, puppy ni!....he didn't curb notin!

Please allow them to continue taking the Northerners for fools.

They really think the Northerners, including their the northern intellectuals and former military officers, are all SO DUMB that THEY DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE between using the army to fight BH insurgents and using/allowing certain VENGEFUL, UNFORGIVING ELEMENTS within the army to take GOOD ADVANTAGE of the chaos in the North to CLANDESTINELY inflict as much vengeful harm as possible against the Northerners, Christians and Muslims.

For instance, when the highly respected Northern civil war veteran, Mamman Shuwa, was killed during the Iherjerika's command, IN THE STATE OF EMERGENCY in the region, do they think the Northerners simply believe that he was killed by the BH insurgents, not assassinated by A SPECIAL KILLER-SQUAD of such SNEAKY VENGEFUL ELEMENTS?

And when the LARGEST market in Borno, and one of the largest in West Africa, was ALMOST COMPLETELY DESTROYED in such a way that CERTAIN TRADERS were NOT affected at all, do they think the average northerner, Christians and Muslims, simply believe it was done by the BH guys, especially as the military personnel manning checkpoints around the market were strangely withdrawn just before the deadly attack?

temitemi1:
The only warning to Nigerians is to vote MASSIVELY against their father(buhari) come 2015. Let GEJ continue n come 2015 boko haram will be a thing of past... God bless Nigeria!!!

Yes, the SE/SS people can vote for the clueless EVEN MORE MASSIVELY than they did in 2011 as their reaction to this kind of senseless, brutal and savage attacks by the bloody-thirsty BH insurgents.

But I can assure that there are MORE AND MORE NORTHERNERS, Christians and Muslims, who voted JEG in 2011 but WILL HAVE NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with ANYTHING REMOTELY ASSOCIATED WITH HIM in 2015 simply because they are NOT THE FOOLS you people think they are!

They know how BH insurgency started like a small fire, but it was DELIBERATELY ALLOWED TO rage, and rage and rage and consume great part of the north, and they know WHOSE political interests this serves.

And they did NOT forget how the clueless tried to REAP A POLITICAL GAIN from an Abuja bomb blast by coming out immediately but FALSELY to blame it on Northern politicians!

And they know how MUCH he cares for his re-election bid, and how much he cares for the security of the lives and properties of the Northerners, Christians and Muslims!

kingthreat:
Femi fani-kayode will write articles to insult even his own late father, Just to please his pockets. A man of zero integrity and vast hypocrisy.

It is not only about money; FFK and the other corrupt politicians, and people like Sule Lamido whose sons have been found to be corrupt, HAVE NO OPTION but to continue to display their UNRESERVED AND UNCONDITIONAL PUBLIC SUPPORT for the clueless, and be seen to be ATTACKING members of the opposition party as venomously as WOULD PLEASE THE CLUELESS.

Remember, EFCC is TIGHTLY HOLDING THEM BY THE BA.LLS for GEJ, hence the clueless MUST BE WRYLY SMILING whenever he sees any of them STRENUOUSLY voicing his 'support' for him; he knows it is not a support that comes naturally out of their own volition - it is rather obtained through FEAR OF HARDER AND TIGHTER B.ALL-SQUEZING by the EFCC! LOL