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JohnsonEmma:
Benue people are now wiser. For all those saying makurdi was shutdown today because of Jonathan, I say may God have mercy on u for telling lies. People went with their normal business, all the town service buses that were hired to welcome jona were all empty. It wasn't like the day GMB came to makurdi and everybody were shouting SAI BUHARI all over.

Yes, anybody who witnessed the really MASSIVE crowd that attended Buhari's rally in Makurdi last week, and the crowd's genuine outpouring of emotional, enthusiastic and ecstatic support for the people's general, and then witness this 'massive' crowd for GEJ would conclude that GEJ has lost A LOT of his 2011 appeal in the MB, thanks to his incompetence and probably wrong advice from some elements of his governments, who failed to realize how politically suicidal it would be for him to ignore a constituency that was one of the pillars of his support in 2011.

IF indeed there is a case of forgery as alleged by the PDP, then it is NOT GEJ and the PDP that should be worried about it; it's Buhari and the APC that should be worried because Buhari is surely going to win the presidential election on Feb 14, but his victory would eventually be nullified by an election tribunal/a court of law.

So it is clear that the discredited PDP goons are dragging this issue NOT because they sincerely believe there is a genuine case of forgery or any wrongdoing that they can successfully prove in a court of law against the general or the secondary school, but simply because they think, albeit erroneously, that the more they drag it, the more they avoid discussing THE BIG ISSUES at stake for the coming election, and also the more they distract the Buhari campaign.

But like all the other PDP antics against the people's general, this issue of Buhari's certificate would EVENTUALLY BACKFIRE on the PDP campaign, strike them hard like a thunder bolt and contribute to their FINAL DEMISE, to the relief of all of us!

Only a very few HIGHLY DELUSIONAL SUPER SILLY among the supporters of GEJ would fail to read the VERY CLEAR handwriting on the wall, that the GAME is OVER for the clueless and his so-called largest political party in Africa.

Some of the supporters of the clueless are so DUMB and so pathetically DEFICIENT IN LOGICAL REASONING that we would see them always building their false optimism on FALLACIOUS assumption that because GEJ 'defeated' Buhari in 2011, he would again defeat him in 2015.

You don't need to be Oladipo Fasina (a Pro. of Logic) to know that it is A FALLACY to assume that simply because something has happened 99 times it WILL happen for a hundredth time.

Even as a PRIMARY SCHOOL pupil, if my headmaster were to tell us in an assembly that we WOULD defeat a neigbhnouring school in our next football match, and his reason was SIMPLY that the neighbouring school had NEVER defeated our school in the past, I am sure I would be clever enough, even at that very age, to know that it is NOT the case that because something has NOT happened in the past, it would never happen in the future, or because something has happened in the past, it MUST happen in the future.

But of course, I know I was far smarter as an 11 year old than many adult supporters of the clueless! LOL

PDP is resorting to all sorts of frauds and deceits as a crushing electoral defeats stares them and their clueless candidate in the face:


1. The Onitsha-born Igbo guy, Jideofor Adibe, who spewed this trash has never hidden his dislike and fear for a Buhari presidency.

2. As someone not comfortable with the presidency of Buhari, Ojideofor reecently wrote an article critical of Buhari which drew widespread criticisms from numerous of his blog readers.

3. This same unpatriotic Onitsha-born guy drew so much criticism again in 2011 when he was found out as deceptively campaigning for an IBB presidency, only for him to offer a weak denial when the heat was too much for him.

4. In fact this same guy has been so critical of Buhari that his 'predictions' about GEJ beating Buhari are nothing but reflections of his wishful thinking and day-dreaming.

5. Adibe's thinking and views often mirror a pathetic personality crisis; on the one hand, he wants to appear as a progressive academic, but on the other, he is often found out admiring one corrupt member of the cabal or another.

6. This is why he recently went as far as ridiculing himself and belittling his academic status by re-echoing the clueless comment by GEJ that corruption is not the problem of Nigeria.

7. So only the gullible and the uninformed would fall for this latest display of desperation by the PDP; the smart among us would always know the difference between an election prediction that is hinged on solid, impartial analysis of all the factors and a watery, swishy-washy job that was designed by a highly biased individual with the sole purpose of achieving a hidden, narrow and partisan agenda!

BlackTechnology:
The question is

Why is the South not on fire.?

Answer


We don't play politics with evil , crimes etc

To you, this might be 'the question' but to the relatives of thousands of BH victims, Muslims and Christians,
there are MANY questions which they have been asking of the GEJ governments for all these years, yet they could find no answers. Some of them are:

1. WHY didn't his government do enough to nib the BH insurgency in the bud?

2. WHY does a president of a country be looking so unconcerned, and be doing so little, when thousands of the people he swore to protect are being killed almost on a daily basis, both Muslims and Christians?

3. WHY did he even try to reap a political capital from the first bombing in the north, by coming out publicly and falsely to blame it on their (northerners') leaders, and defended the ND terrorist organization (MEND) who claimed responsibility?

4. WHY did he now try to twist the same bombing as an attempt by the same MEND to 'assassinate' him, just after the organization was reported to endorse Buhari?

5. WHY at the beginning of the Chibok girls kidnapping he and his government were clearly ONLY concerned about the image of his government, not about the fate of the innocent girls?

6. WHY didn't he show prompt, genuine and compassionate reaction to the recent BAGA killings, only for him to send condolence message to the French president for the terrorist attacks there, even though the casualties in the french attacks were only A FRACTION of the casualties in the Baga attacks?

7. Generally, why does he seem much more concerned about the votes of the northerners, Christians and Muslims, than about the security of their lives and properties?

8. These are just few of the numerous grudges the northerners, Muslims and Christians, have against GEJ and his government, hence YOUR question on the the BH killings in their region would surely be different from THEIR questions.

bokohalal:
I do not believe that that was the crowd at an incumbent president of Nigeria campaign. The Northerners are a very politically conscious people and out of curiosity, would have trooped out to see GEJ. It does not mean that they will necessarily vote for him.

Yes, ordinarily they would have trooped out to have a glance of a sitting president just to satisfy their curiosity, but this is NOT an ordinary time for the northerners, both Muslims and Christians. A lot of them are literally BOILING WITH ANGER for feeling that the GEJ government has simply allowed the BH to be killing them in their thousands simply because they are northerners.

Even more dangerous than this, is the suspicion among MANY northerners, Muslims and Christians, that some elements in the GEJ's government, whether with his knowledge or not, are actually aiding and abetting the killings and destruction in the northern for their various agendas.

But all I know is that if the mass BH killings had been happening in the SOUTH under a NORTHERN president, and the northern president had been showing so little concern and compassion for the plights of the southern victims, talk less of taking concrete actions to end the killings; and after all this the northern president goes to the SOUTH to canvass for re-election, I have no doubt in my mind that the southerners would NOT be trooping in their millions to welcome him, no matter how much curious they would feel about seeing a sitting president.

I like the way some of these Abuja-based 'youths' scramble for their own shares of the looted billions set aside for the GEJ's increasingly evaporating re-election dream. And yet some southerners think the northerners are not smart

Even the most notorious southern 419er cannot beat this; imagine this one of the mushroom 'youth' organizations that spring up from nowhere towards this election claiming to have the capacity to mobilize 20 millions youths in the north for GEJ!

And I guess their target for this miraculous job is to get N20m for the 3 or so guys who are the 'national leaders' of this latest 'youth' organization.

As some NE posters on the Leadership website commented, these jokers who parade themselves as 'northern youth' leaders should have shown how serious they are by launching their mobilization campaign right from the grounds in Borno/Yobe/Adama states and making this pledge right from there, instead of hiding in the comfort of Abuja hotels and mansions of their benefactors.

kenex4ever:
Shagari speaks after 32 years. These are what he said to AIT news reporter in Sokoto state yesterday and i humbly quote

"Jonathan may not be the best, but I can mention 3 to 4 breakthrough in Nigeria that occurred under his regime.

Under this administration, train is now back in Nigeria after about 30yrs of neglect (infact, my 27years old grandchild boarded train for the first time in his life in 2014)

First Government to construct modern Amajiri schools & 12 Universities.

First Government to construct cargo Airports & ensure all zone in Nigeria has an Int'l airport.

First Government to eradicate the high level corruption in the distribution of fertiliser.

And the very first Government to start diversifying Nigeria economy back to agric after Nigeria lost its agricultural glory in the 70s.

Now I ask, what are Buhari DEVELOPMENTAL strides as HEAD OF STATE? "

What you may not know is that even if GEJ's incompetence is worse than what it is, Shagari and most of the northern cabal of his overthrown NPN government would prefer the clueless to continue rather than re-live their nightmare of having Buhari as president after the Febr 14 election.

And almost everybody in the North knows this, yet the popularity of the people's general keeps raging like a wild fire!

Louislewis:
[size=14pt]A Must Read: How Buhari Fought Corruption...[/size]

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order.
Buhari – need one remind anyone - was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry.
Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths - Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community – religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear.
The execution of that youthful innocent – for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission - was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power” At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again.
Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media – those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down. They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed – military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition.
So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma!
Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his ‘corrective’ rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested – except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buhari’s coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagari’s government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility.
And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat from dustbins - escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas.
The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention. Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of ‘dis’pline’, it was nothing short of impudent.
Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the ‘judicial’ processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror.
The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration. Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied. The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism.
Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.?
One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary strictures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases – it would appear that they were even closer to fifty - found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders – air, sea and land – had been shut tight. Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets.
Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needle’s eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo – later to become an emir - to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment – as I later discovered - of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the former Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.

Are you just returning to Nigeria from abroad?

If not, how come you didn't notice that your fellow GEJ supporters have LONG ABANDONED all these old stuffs you wasted so much of your time to regurgitate here?.

Your fellow PDP goons have abandoned all these old stuffs because NONE of them seemed to be working at all; as they dwelt on them, the people's general conquered more and more minds, even in the SE, SS and the MB.

Now that you are back in the country, let me help you with the new points of attacks that your fellow PDP desperados had devised in your absence (and you can thank me later):

1. Buhari has no certificate
2. Buhari does not know his phone no.
3. Buhari does not pronounce his VP's name correctly
4. Buhari jailed Nwobodo even though the money he stole could not buy a car.
5. Buhari has cancer
6. Buhari will be flown abroad for urgent medical attention

or

7. you can go for the most outlandish of them all, and that is, Buhari will die before the age of 75!

By trying any of the relatively new antics of your PDP bed-fellows I listed for you above, you would at least be seen as being abreast with the current antics of your party, instead of embarrassing yourself publicly here by spewing the old garbage that even your PDP attack dogs have long discarded, for being so effective!

Mods, why not in the front page?

chronique:
I like the sound of this. I hope APC can come to terms with how the outside world views GEJ's govt,as opposed to what they(APC), try to sell to unintelligent Nigerians.

Do not deceive yourself.

This trash is not from 'the outside world', but was written by an Onitsha-born Igbo guy, Jideofor Adibe, who has never hidden his dislike and fear for a Buhari presidency.

Whatever you read here is from an article that was written by Jideofor and carried on that foreign publication, and the views expressed only represent Jideofor's prediction and wishful thinking, no more no less.

As someone not comfortable with the presidency of Buhari, Ojideofor reecently wrote an article that drew widespread criticisms from numerous of his blog readers.

Strangely, he also drew a lot of criticism from Nigerians when in 2011 he was found out as deceptively campaigning for an IBB presidency.

So as someone who would prefer IBB to Buhari, Ojideofor's so-called prediction that GEJ would not surprise those who know where he stands.

Seun:
I felt very sure that it was a lie, due to the way the OP presented the story and his use of words. If I'm proved wrong, I will surely apologize.

I think you would have done a better job defending your original post by simply pointing out that you used the word 'probably' to qualify your assertion, instead of coming with this one of having 'felt very sure that it was a lie'.

If Edwin Clark and Dokubo Asari had known how much their provocative utterances, crude and malicious attacks and insults against leading politicians of the North and SW regions have contributed towards alienating many PDP leaders of these regions from their clueless ND son, they would surely go and apologize to GEJ after his expected defeat in 14 February election, because these two guys would go on records as being instrumental to GEJ's defeat, albeit unwittingly.

Imagine this old 'supporter' of GEJ publicly and so crudely attacking and antagonizing the national chairman of the very party under which GEJ is contesting the election, at this very crucial time when the clueless is on his political death-bed, gasping for political breath, needing all kind of life support from wherever possible!

Jonathan’s supporter, Clark, attacks Mu’azu

JANUARY 19, 2015 BY OLUSOLA FABIYI



A former Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has accused the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, of misinforming President Goodluck Jonathan on issues relating to the party.

Clark was particularly unhappy with Mu’azu, who he alleged of imposing a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, as the PDP governorship candidate in Adamawa State.

He said Mu’azu misinformed the President on the alleged popularity of the former chairman of the anti-graft commission.

Speaking while hosting members of the Northern Youth Vanguard at his residence in Abuja on Saturday, the Ijaw leader said that he was also surprised when Ribadu visited him with a owner of a television and radio stations from the South-South (names withheld), asking for his (Clark’s) support.

He said, “Mu’azu and some people are misleading the President in the PDP. He imposed Ribadu on the people of Adamawa, saying he’s popular.

“Two weeks ago, Ribadu came here with some people (names withheld) asking for my support. This is the same Ribadu that was arresting people indiscriminately when he was the chairman of the EFCC without following the due process. He was given a list with which to work with.

“There is no justice. Those who parade themselves on newspapers are anti-PDP. Majority of them are working against the party and the President.”

Clark called on youths in the country to deny old men the opportunity to rule the country by voting for young and educated candidates in next month’s general elections.

He particularly urged them not to vote for 73-year-old presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who he said was “close to his departure lounge.”

He said, “My sons and my daughters, I have gone to this very length to show you that the man called Buhari, you do not know him. You are knowing him at the age of 73. Why should they be supporting him when he wants to sleep?

“Can the man stand firmly? I will be surprised that those who are catapulting him will not say, ‘ah, is this another game?

“Anyone of us can go any time but Nigeria requires young men, young governors whose hands are not soiled.

“This is your country, we are building it for you. If you want to spoil it, spoil it. But for people like us who are waiting for boarding pass to rule the country for you, you will be in trouble.”

Clark recalled that as a member of the recently-concluded National Conference, he had observed that those of them from 70 years and above, “were at the departure lounge waiting for boarding pass. But when I got there, they couldn’t give me my boarding pass.

“God said, ‘you have not finished your job, you are one of those who added to the damage in this country. Go and repair it.’ So, they refused me boarding pass.”

He advised the youths to “Guard jealously your age. This is your time. Don’t allow a 73-year-old man who should be getting his boarding pass to leave, to rule you.”

The former Federal Commissioner for Information also knocked some persons who he described as “fish out of the water if they are not ruling.”

On insecurity, Clark observed that people deliberately engineered the Boko Haram crisis to discredit President Goodluck Jonathan and later use it to campaign against him.

Speaking earlier, the leader of Northern Youth Vanguard, Mr. Hameed Olanipekun, had told Clark that they supported the continuity of President Jonathan in office, saying that they would not allow themselves to be deceived.

While noting several programmes initiated by the administration such as YouWIN that were youth-friendly, the group said it had mapped out a strategy for each member of the vanguard to convince 50 persons to vote for Jonathan at next month’s presidential election.

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If Edwin Clark and Dokubo Asari had known how much their provocative utterances, crude and malicious attacks and insults against leading politicians of the North and SW regions have contributed towards alienating many PDP leaders of these regions from their clueless ND son, they would surely go and apologize to GEJ after his expected defeat in 14 February election, because these two guys would go on records as being instrumental to GEJ's defeat, albeit unwittingly.

Imagine this old 'supporter' of GEJ publicly and so crudely attacking and antagonizing the national chairman of the very party under which GEJ is contesting the election, at this very crucial time when the clueless is gasping his last political death, needing all kind of life support from wherever possible!

Jonathan’s supporter, Clark, attacks Mu’azu

JANUARY 19, 2015 BY OLUSOLA FABIYI



A former Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has accused the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, of misinforming President Goodluck Jonathan on issues relating to the party.

Clark was particularly unhappy with Mu’azu, who he alleged of imposing a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, as the PDP governorship candidate in Adamawa State.

He said Mu’azu misinformed the President on the alleged popularity of the former chairman of the anti-graft commission.

Speaking while hosting members of the Northern Youth Vanguard at his residence in Abuja on Saturday, the Ijaw leader said that he was also surprised when Ribadu visited him with a owner of a television and radio stations from the South-South (names withheld), asking for his (Clark’s) support.

He said, “Mu’azu and some people are misleading the President in the PDP. He imposed Ribadu on the people of Adamawa, saying he’s popular.

“Two weeks ago, Ribadu came here with some people (names withheld) asking for my support. This is the same Ribadu that was arresting people indiscriminately when he was the chairman of the EFCC without following the due process. He was given a list with which to work with.

“There is no justice. Those who parade themselves on newspapers are anti-PDP. Majority of them are working against the party and the President.”

Clark called on youths in the country to deny old men the opportunity to rule the country by voting for young and educated candidates in next month’s general elections.

He particularly urged them not to vote for 73-year-old presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who he said was “close to his departure lounge.”

He said, “My sons and my daughters, I have gone to this very length to show you that the man called Buhari, you do not know him. You are knowing him at the age of 73. Why should they be supporting him when he wants to sleep?

“Can the man stand firmly? I will be surprised that those who are catapulting him will not say, ‘ah, is this another game?

“Anyone of us can go any time but Nigeria requires young men, young governors whose hands are not soiled.

“This is your country, we are building it for you. If you want to spoil it, spoil it. But for people like us who are waiting for boarding pass to rule the country for you, you will be in trouble.”

Clark recalled that as a member of the recently-concluded National Conference, he had observed that those of them from 70 years and above, “were at the departure lounge waiting for boarding pass. But when I got there, they couldn’t give me my boarding pass.

“God said, ‘you have not finished your job, you are one of those who added to the damage in this country. Go and repair it.’ So, they refused me boarding pass.”

He advised the youths to “Guard jealously your age. This is your time. Don’t allow a 73-year-old man who should be getting his boarding pass to leave, to rule you.”

The former Federal Commissioner for Information also knocked some persons who he described as “fish out of the water if they are not ruling.”

On insecurity, Clark observed that people deliberately engineered the Boko Haram crisis to discredit President Goodluck Jonathan and later use it to campaign against him.

Speaking earlier, the leader of Northern Youth Vanguard, Mr. Hameed Olanipekun, had told Clark that they supported the continuity of President Jonathan in office, saying that they would not allow themselves to be deceived.

While noting several programmes initiated by the administration such as YouWIN that were youth-friendly, the group said it had mapped out a strategy for each member of the vanguard to convince 50 persons to vote for Jonathan at next month’s presidential election.

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sbaks:
See wetin this one dey talk? You wey just stalk up for for where u de?? wetin you wan even talk sef abi?. This is in northern jos where him people plenty pass (hausas)abi? Nothing for failbuhari. josites wey know? Their own hatred for hausas pass my own sef abi?. Josites are one of the wisest set of Nigerians IMO

The part of your post in bold is the reason people like you would really be SHOCKED this time around! You still think things are like in 2011 when GEJ so easily rode on this religious divide in the North and got almost all the Christian votes in the NE and the MB.

It is only a person who does not interact widely with the NE and MB people who would think that the Northern Christians would again vote the clueless as massively as they did in 2011 simply because he is their 'Christian brother'.

If I must tell you, many Northern Christians, including pastors, are now BOILING WITH ANGER and profound feeling of BETRAYAL towards GEJ, for abandoning the Northerners (Muslims and Christians) to their fate throughout all these years they are being killed, maimed and displaced in their thousands.

A lot of the NE and MB people are wise enough to know that this 'Christian brother' is more concerned with their votes than the security of their lives and properties.

If you were in Jos in 2011, did you see Buhari attract even half of these crowds he is pulling today in Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa?

Why do you think the SURGE in Buharis popularity this time around? The answer is simple: there are FEWER people in the NE/MB who buy the deceit of a self-centred clueless politician using religion to ascend to power only for him to completely ignore them when they are in dire and desperate need of security and protection from the government he is heading.

The greatest enemies of GEJ are those who advised him to IGNORE the sufferings and cries of the people of the NE and MB as the BH insurgency keeps escalating in the region, and those rabid ethnic bigots who gloatingly celebrate whenever a northerner (Muslim or Christian) was killed in BH attacks or ethnic clashes calling such death as 'karma' against the 'children' of Gowon, Danjuma, Murtala, Shuwa, and others.

Now that the pay day has come, the people of the NE and MB would tell the cluesless (with their votes) that as a leader and a 'brother' you cannot be looking the other way as your people are being murdered in their thousands, only for you to come to them when it is time for re-election and expect them to embrace you and vote for you overwhelmingly again.

It simply doesn't happen that way!

Gaystar:
I was with a northern Muslim friend last night and I was shocked when he said he will not vote for Buhari but Jonathan because he believes Buhari is very sick and may die in the office if elected giving way to Osinbajo to reign in his stead.
He said it is very obvious except some hypocrites want to argue otherwise and added that he should do the right thing by providing his certificate and let the matter die a natural death.
He cannot claim to be scandal and corrupt free when he is already breaking the electoral laws of the country he wants to govern

I was with a Christian Igbo a few days a go who genuinely believes that his Igbo kinsmen who support GEJ are either stupid or tribal bigots who know very well that GEJ is a clueless and incompetent leader yet they support him because of religious and ethnic sentiments.

He however expressed his pleasure that many Igbos who voted GEJ in 2011 (including himself) will NOT vote for him this time around. He strongly believes that the chances of an Igbo ever winning a presidential election under a discredited party such as the PDP are very slim, especially since GEJ and his presidency are so closely associated with the Igbos.

He concluded by lamenting how his Igbo kinsmen have become slaves of the Ijaw minority, and argued that the Ijaw would hardly ever reciprocate the Igbos because of their fear of Igbo domination.

dre11:
Different groups keep springing up with different agenda So, its now that these ones one to have their slice of cake from the GEJ funds campaign

Did they achieve any purpose ..... I think its too late
Because I would have termed them relevance if they did come up when the story was still hot and fresh and not now that its stale news and we have certainly move pass the whole stuff

Yes, I just laugh at the people who most naively think that this is a credible group of 'northern youths' challenging Buhari to 'present his certificate'.

For those who do not know, the so-called 'national president' of the 'northern youth' forum, 'Engr' Bello Gambo Bichi is a special assistant to a PDP senator, hence he is a paid agent of the reactionary elements who are scared to the marrow that the end of the PDP era is fast approaching.

So as a known PDP errand boy, Bichi's profile and antecedents perfectly make him a cheap and ready tool in the hands of his PDP benefactors to be used in this absurdity about Buhari's certificate.

But just as another poster remarked, let them continue to ask for Buhari's certificate, while the people's general keeps cruising to victory, making tremendous in-roads, pulling massive crowds all over the country, including SE/SS and the MB.


Bichi as a PDP agent:

"The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Bello Hayatu Gwarzo has donated a vocational/ICT centre to Bichi educational development forum.
Gwarzo, who was represented by his Personal Assistant on Constituency Matters, Engineer Bello Gambo Bichi, revealed that “my greatest joy is to see people committed to the development of their area. I hope this centre will be judiciously used for the purpose given to you”

Linki: http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/14/senate-chief-whip-donates-vocational-centre-cash-bichi-educational-forum/

If GEJ wants to find an elder statesman that behaves like a 'motor-park tout', then he should go far away from home to find a good example.

Trns4mat:
I had serious argument with my father in 2011 on why he should not vote GEJ, but this year I don't need to convince any christian in the north cos GEJ is never there for Christians and won't help Christianity in any way.

In case you did not believe, my people, the Christians in the north, are now refugees spread all over the other regions in Nigeria. Many died in road crashes on their sojournies, many were killed right where they took refuge, others took ill and died. School activities utterly hindered where not just distracted. Marriages strained where the husband's had to stay back amongst the hostilities just to feign for the exiled families. All of us, have either a scar on the outside or in the inside.[/color]

One of the factors that would ensure a crushing defeat for GEJ in the forthcoming election is his loss of one of the pillars of his support in 2011, i.e. the block votes of the Northern Christians.

Only a very dumb and grossly uninformed observer who is so detached from the realities on the grounds in the North would think GEJ is going to be voted again by the northern Christians simply because he is their 'brother'.

So surely this PDP pastor is one of those who would be met with rude awakening next month; the Northern Christians would show the clueless and his agents of divisive politics that they are NOT the fools they think they are, as they are wise enough to know when a 'brother' is interested more in their votes than in the security of their lives and properties.

We shall see!

Too little, too late!

You will HARDLY EVER see any of the following phrases and clauses appearing in the same sentence with 'Goodluck Ebele Jonathan', yet they were used over 30 years ago by a highly respected US army general to describe our equally highly respected army general and his great qualities and abilities:


1. “a most distinguished International Fellow”

2. "his performance was outstanding in every respect.”

3. "man of extraordinary aptitude"

4. " keen interest, sense of responsibility"

5. "solid grasp of the strategic implications of the important global issues"

6. “obvious research and analytical facilities far exceeding the majority of his contemporaries.”

7. “first-rate” written work

8. "outstanding quality of research, logic and communications skills"

9. "his presentations were of exceptional value in that he avoided vague generalities and focused on the issues which involved hard, detailed choices.”

10. "remarkable ability to deal with wide range of issues, no matter their complexities"

11. "key motivator among his course mates"

12. "admired and respected by his colleagues"

Listen to Ekweme on PDP under the leadership of the clueless: "People who founded and worked for the party are alienated by poor management of success, and those who do not have the patience, some of us have decided to find new channels to ful­fill their political ambitions. I, for instance, the chairman of the party, first chairman of Board of Trustees, first chairman from the civil society to G34 and so on, if I was not myself, I’m not bragging, I am being mod­est, I have no reason to be in PDP today. All I have received throughout the years is humiliation and neglect. When there is crisis, they remember that I’m around".

And now listen to him on PDP under late Yar'adua: " The late Yar’Adua, when he came on board as the President, invit­ed me and said he knew our party was in a shambles and he felt that I was the only person, as the person who started it at first place, that could bring people around and together and he put up the reconciliation which I handled all over Nigeria, visited people, talked to those who are disgruntled, people who had issues resolved and made our recommendations. Unfortunately, those recommendations were not fully fulfilled, President Yar’Adua himself passed on".

And yet some uninformed urchins and rabidly hateful and bigoted and dim-witted characters want us to forget all about individual leadership qualities, such as competence and character and re-elect this clueless, selfish, manipulative and divisive president simply because he is a 'southern Christian'!.

1. The way GEJ keeps spewing all types nonsensical jargon in his desperate but unsuccessful attempt to cover his glaring failure to tackle corruption, after so many years in office, is getting more ridiculous by the day: from 'strengthening the system' now to using 'improved technology' as 'the best way' to fight corruption!

2. Mr President, the more you try to wriggle yourself out of your woeful failure in fighting corruption, the more you entangle yourself; even if you establish the best ever institutions in the world and equipped them with the most advanced technology ever, there would STILL be corrupt people who can, and will, beat the system. And if you must be told, the JAIL is built purposely for those people, and they DESERVE to be nowhere but IN JAIL, no matter how highly placed they are, and now matter how close to the sitting president they are!.

3. That is why even in the most developed countries in the world, with all their well-established institutions and most advanced technology (which they effectively use in crime prevention, detection and monitoring) they still have A LOT OF PRISONS and many famous politicians, wealthy individuals, members of the royal families, former and serving army officers, lawyers, doctors, academics and all sorts of people who are convicted of serious crimes such as public corruption (including stealing!) have been thrown to jails in those developed countries.

4. And by the way, do you think we have forgotten how you PARDONED your kinsman who was CONVICTED of MASSIVE corruption by a court in one of those developed countries with the STRONGEST institutions and the MOST ADVANCED technologies?.

5. The truth of matter is that you simply belong to the category of leaders who will NEVER ever muster enough moral courage to fight corruption in high places. In fact, you would go down in the history of our country as THE BEST FRIEND of the WORST CORRUPT among the Nigerian elite. And that is why the cabal and the super-corrupt have NEVER had it so good!

6. You have proved in the case of one of your ministers that if someone is so close to you, she or he can spend up to one BILLION Naira on using and maintaining private jets in one single year, and get away with it and be effectively shielded from ANY form of investigation; maybe the technology is not yet 'advanced' enough at the moment to investigate that minister!

7. When EFCC was established by OBJ, did we not see how it was arresting and prosecuting top government officials right from its inception, yet SIMULTANEOUSLY being strengthened as an institution and given all kind of technical support by the Nigerian and foreign governments who were being impressed by its remarkable successes?

8. Apart from the very dumb among your supporters, nobody buys all these your flimsy excuses you are coming up with; to the rest of Nigerians and the international community, this your latest talk about 'improved technology' as the best way to fight corruption would only be seen for what it is, just another in the series of your flimsy excuses to cover your failure to fight corruption.

Marylyn Ogar represents the ugly face of our today's SSS which is unabashedly and overtly partisan and compromised, and which can go to any length in maligning and intimidating the opposition, while at the same time LOOKING THE OTHER WAY as the real rogues, felons and vagabonds in the PDP perpetrate all sorts of crimes against our nation so glaringly.

GEI's insinuation was clearly directed at OBJ.

But heavens know that for all ObJ's faults, one thing that NO ONE can preach to him is the love for Nigeria and working towards maintaining her unity.

And even if OBJ needs some preaching about keeping the peace and unity of Nigeria, GEJ would be the last person to be doing the preaching to him.

This is because GJE is the ONLY president in the history of this county who deliberately allowed, and by implication encouraged, all sorts of clannish characters from his own kinsmen to be openly, rudely and crudely insulting and threatening prominent people from other regions. Would that make people to see him (GEJ) as a statesman in the future, in the same league as Gowon, OBJ, IBB and others? No way!

oludashmi:
Although, he didn't mention any name but there are indications he may be referring to the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

This is because Obasanjo adressed the Iyalodes and prominent women leaders from the South-West, who visited him at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta on Monday, that the nation’s reserves which as of 2007 stood at $67bn had been depleted by the Federal Government.
More of the story here - http://www.nigerianheadlines.com/

Yes, GEI's insinuation was clearly directed at OBJ.

But heavens know that for all ObJ's faults, one thing that NO ONE can preach to him is the love for Nigeria and working towards maintaining her unity.

And even if OBJ needs some preaching about keeping the peace and unity of Nigeria, GEJ would be the last person to be doing the preaching to him.

This is because GJE is the ONLY president in the history of this county who deliberately allowed, and by implication encouraged, all sorts of clannish characters from his own kinsmen to be openly, rudely and crudely insulting and threatening prominent people from other regions. Would that make people to see him (GEJ) as a statesman in the future, in the same league as Gowon, OBJ, IBB and others? No way!

FFK, what you may not know is that the more you open your mouth throughout this campaign, the more you would remind decent Nigerians how CLUELESS and INCOMPETENT GEJ is, for failing to realize that a notoriously shameless, corrupt and MORALLY BANKRUPT political prostitute like you would NEVER add any REAL VALUE to anybody's campaign.

SweetJoystick:
Just like I thought, I discusses GEJ campaigning in the north today with my colleague today. if he would do so, if he does so, will he visit Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno and Yobe states. I doubt it, he dare not visiting any of the hot northern states, because wetin he go take him eye see, na him body go tell am

GEJ would and should campaign in each one of these NE states, but surely he has little to tell the people of the BH-ravaged region, Christians and Muslims.

If at all the people of these NE states want to hear anything from GEJ, it would be the answers he would give to the following QUESTIONS, which would surely be on their lips:

1. Mr President, WHERE have you been all these MANY YEARS when our fathers and mothers are being killed, our daughters and sons are being kidnapped, our houses, schools, markets and places of worship are being completely destroyed, and we are being made homeless IN OUR COUNTRY?

2. Your supporters often tell Nigerians that you brought 'good luck' to the country, but as a good Christian can you honestly describe OUR PLIGHTS in the past six years as anything, even remotely, resembling 'good luck'?

3. WHRE ARE OUR CHIBOK GIRLS? When are you going to rescue them? Why were you, your wife and MANY officials of your government more concerned with the IMAGE of your government at the time of the kidnapping, instead of swiftly mobilizing all the FG resources and personnel at your disposal to rescue our girls FIRST, and then LATER deal with any possible conspiracies you and some of your supporters think that there might be?

4. If, for WHATEVER REASON(S), you could NOT extinguish the BH fire that started as a very small problem; if UNDER YOUR WATCH the same problem GREW to be such a big monster that brought so much deaths and destruction to OUR region in the past six years, WHY do you think WE should trust OUR destiny and that of our next generations in YOUR hands again for another four years?

barcanista:
Oh bro sorry I was carried away. Honestly, what is the Job of the DSS? Who is doing intelligence gathering for the Police and other security outfit? Why haven't they done any single breakthrough on the Boko Haram? Why Politics?

I know. It is really so pathetic, the way they are so openly partisan. You can hardly tell the difference between Marylyn Ogar, Olisa Metuh, Sulaiman Abba and Doyin Okupe, when it comes to blackmailing, attacking harassing the opposition leaders.