my initial post was deleted because it carried a contary and true position of things:

Na wa o:


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/jonathan-vows-to-pursue-all-law-breakers/

Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, kicked off his presidential campaign on both a note of good tidings and one of warning: He declared that better days are ahead for Nigerians just as he warned enemies of progress and violators of the law that his administration would pursue law breakers to the ends of the Earth.


President Jonathan also opened a bag of gifts for the people of the North Central geo_political zone, promising to provide them with universities, proper care for communities along the water ways, and construction of a refinery in the zone.
It was a day reminiscent of Jonathan’s presidential declaration at the Eagle Square.
The day also witnessed the handing over of the party’s flag to Senate President David Mark and the seven gubernatorial candidates of the party in the geo_political zone by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Acting National Chairman, Haliru Bello.

The seven gubernatorial candidates were in attendance and they were made up of incumbents from Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau, Niger and two new candidates from Kogi and Kwara States.

Just before President Jonathan delivered his address, one Shittu Mohammed of the Nigeria Republican Party, NRP, announced that his party and 25 others (making 26), have stepped down from contesting the presidential election and were, by that spirit, endorsing as well as being ready to work for President Jonathan’s victory. The crowd cheered.

The mammoth crowd at the venue in Lafia started arriving as early as 8.00 a.m. as the state governors in the zone had mobilized effectively for the launching. At 4:15pm,

President Jonathan was called to present his address. But he first danced round the area just in front of the podium, acknowledging cheers from the crowd, waving and smiling.

At 4:20 pm, Bello handed over the PDP flag to President Jonathan, saying: “Mr. President, take this flag round Nigeria.”

Jonathan’s address

After acknowledging those in attendance and his wife, President Jonathan said the coming to Lafia was for two purposes.
Jonathan said: “Until you get the flag, you are not yet sure. Today, we have gotten the flag and the flag has been presented to the six PDP governorship candidates in the states. I will not bore you, but it would only be proper for me to greet all Nigerians after receiving the flag.

“There are two key things central to every government in the world. One is the economy of the country. And for any country to move from third world to first world, the economy is very important. Unfortunately, an economy is like a farmer who goes to farm and it is not the day you go to the farm that it yields. It takes a while and we believe that all that we are doing for our people would yield.
“At the same time, the destruction of the economy does not start the same day. Unfortunately, those who worked to destroy the economy are coming out to talk about it.

They can not. For you to create wealth you must improve your economy. The twin sister to the economy is security. If there is no security, the economy would not grow well.

Security comes first before you can even manage the economy. The two are central. But how do we improve the economy.

“First and foremost, before you talk about the economy, the people must be enlightened via education and we want to improve on it through the almajiri system, through the primary and secondary and university education system. And we are insisting that every state must get one federal university.

“Some of the states are yet to get. We are going to complete it by the second year of this administration. The North Central zone is central and so we are giving two to the North Central, one in Lafia and the other in Kogi. The next thing is power, and for you to change the macro economy, you need power and the power system is improving.

“The next is agriculture and for farmers to get better yield, irrigation is key and that is why we are keen on providing water both for drinking and irrigation. Another is our commitment to the rail system for which we have commenced work. Nasarawa has good deposits of tin and other parts of the North Central are blessed with enormous resources, we would develop them.

“We are also looking at coal development in the area of mining. We are fast_tracking investment in coal. From our next administration, we would look at communities that serve as our catchment area for power supply, that is areas along the waterways. We will think about these communities.

“Of course you are aware of the refinery we are planning for Kogi. We know we have our security challenges now and the trend in the world would go. For anybody involved in terrorism or bombings, we would pursue you and catch you. This administration will not sweep any crime under the carpet, no matter how big or small. There will be no sacred cows.

“We will not stop investigation until we get you. We are also looking for more superior methods of detecting crime. I am promising you that we would soon put all these behind us”.

VP Namadi Sambo

Earlier, Vice President Namadi Sambo had started by calling Jonathan ‘Mainasara.’

He acknowledged the President’s wife and then his own. He observed all protocols and greeted the Chief Host, the Nasarawa State governor and the other governors present and the party leadership. He then greeted the members of the party in the North Central Zone.
He thanked the crowd for the mammoth reception and said these were good signs for transformation.
He said: “Today, we’re here to start the next great journey and seeking your support to achieve that.

“Come April, 2011, we shall vote for our dear President, Goodluck Mainasara Ebele Jonathan. I will mention but a few of the things we have done within the very short period our President has been in office for the North Central.

“Education has been put forward by our President to address poverty and he has ensured that every state has a university. Today, Nasarawa has a new university, Kogi has one. There will be refineries and power plants in Kogi and Benue; we are building railway lines and new educational facilities. Why are all these happening, this is because when you look at all the other presidential candidates, Jonathan stands tall because he was a former deputy governor, vice president, acting president and he is going to be our next president.

“In addition, he has a Ph.D, he is a scientist and he has me, an architect as deputy who has been designing with him good things for Nigeria. My people in this zone, I can see from your faces that you have decided to vote for us.”

Flag presentation

The Acting National Chairman, Haliru Bello, who acknowledged the roles of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, thanked all for the support given to the party “because the party has a 100 per cent representation in the governorship sphere as well as a preponderance of local government chairmen in the zone.
After handing the governorship candidates their flags, Bello then presented Jonathan with his own flag.

On the podium was Sarah Jubril, the failed PDP presidential aspirant. Shittu Mohamed, of Nigeria Republican Party announced that 26 political parties under a grand alliance have endorsed President Jonathan.

Among the 26 parties in the grand alliance are:
Nigeria Republican Party
Nigerian Peoples Congress
Democratic Peoples Alliance
Advance Congress of Democrats
Peoples Progressive Party
Action Alliance
Mass Movement of Nigeria
Change Advocacy Party of Nigeria

After President Jonathan’s speech, Kwara State Governor, Bukola Saraki and Sarah Jubril, took turns to shake hands with President Jonathan.

This, according to Bello, “was symbolic of the fact that PDP leaders have since the primaries buried the hatchet.”

this is another Patience bashing topic or what is the meaning of this?

http://saturday.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/17259-buharis-choice-of-bakare-rattles-north


THE game plan of the Northern political class to explore the possibility of another option apart from President Goodluck Jonathan appears to have ended.

Reason being that the key elements in the region are “totally disappointed” in the choice of a running mate announced by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari.

Rattled by the defeat of its consensus candidate, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF), led by former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, had considered other options aimed at returning power to the North.

One of such options, referred to as Plan B, had been the covert move to endorse Buhari and garner support for him in the North until last week’s announcement of fiery preacher and social crusader, Pastor Tunde Bakare, as his running mate.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that NPLF’s look in the direction of Buhari, apart from his wide acceptability and respect in the core North, was informed by the alliance talks between the CPC and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

Buhari had announced Bakare as his running mate two days after the collapse of talks between the two parties, owing to the insistence of the ACN on former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as its preferred standard-bearer for the alliance.

But Buhari’s surprise choice of Bakare, Nigerian Tribune gathered, had halted the NPLF’s plan to explore the retired general’s option.

According to a source close to a leading traditional ruler in the North, the NPLF had confided in most power brokers in the region to ‘tolerate’ Jonathan for the next four years rather than support an unpopular ticket against him in the next presidential election.

“I think Buhari was the person the North was really looking at to confront Jonathan; but from the turn of events, he was trying to balance religion with politics and he overdid it.

“How could he pick Bakare? Is the man a politician? How many people can he control in the South-West where he hails from? These are the issues the people have gone back to look at because they appear to be totally disappointed in the general’s choice of his vice-presidential candidate.

“And from the look of things, the people are already resolving to tolerate Jonathan for four years rather wasting time on a ticket that will not be possible for leaders to defend,” the source said.

He said those behind the widely touted Plan B were faced with the contradiction of their earlier stance for a northerner to replace the late Alhaji Musa Yar’Adua and their support for Bakare, whom he said the North saw as the initiator of the process that led to Jonathan taking office as acting president through the proclamation of the Doctrine of Necessity by the National Assembly.

Only last week, defeated presidential aspirant, Abubakar, expressed his readiness for dialogue with President Jonathan just as he said he was not leaving the PDP.

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nice bro.

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Really - that money is coming from the government, not the family. Did you read the article?

and note - thats for security alone o.

how the person for that video take resemble TuFace, na im i no know.

very funny.

4.2m can not buy any of those cars listed.

Must you talk at all times and on everything?

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Now I understand there are still sensible people on NairaLand.

In Nigeria- they want you to copy everything the West does, but once you surpass them, they still question you and make it seem like you have done bad- because they dont do it like that in the west.

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God bless you jare.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/212005/-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding-80m-for-security-army-for-big-Royal-wedding


WTF

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Its not me whois parambulating- its you. Looking for documents from Singapore, Malaysia, Soludo, Andoakaa, Nureni, Idiagbon etc to back up your point is nothing but hyper parambulating.

LOL

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Really:

I have an MSc degree. What do you have Mr. Loud Fart?

I wonder o.

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So, it is the president that sits down and write?

How old are you sir?

What and who are the cabal?

What will you want him to change in the system?

The way Nigeria is currently structured? He should change it because he was the one that made it so?

In less than one year - his priority should be how to break Nigeria into pieces?

I laugh.


I thought Ribadu was part of the "cabal"? or u forgot he served under OBJ- if you count OBJ as part of the cabal?

2007 - Ribadu was to be stoned and killed because according to people, he was using the EFCC to fight enemies of the so called cabal? Today he is a saint?

Nigerians are confused people. Today you are a saint, tommorrow you are a devil, next tomrow you are a saint.

Buhari? ok - he is a saint now.

How many people will like to do this? We need volunteers.

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You know what the guy is talking about yet you deliberately falsify facts.

Who is talking about those years?

sometimes you wonder if some people have brains or if the brain is full of mucus!

http://www.worldstagegroup.com/worldstage/index.php?&id=1938&active=news


I will be surprised if people dont say this is a lie.

LOL.

http://www.worldstagegroup.com/worldstage/index.php?&id=1938&active=news

NEMA evacuates 1069 from Egypt:

Spokesman for NEMA, Yushau Shuaib, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday that most of the returnees were in Egypt for medical treatments while others were students studying in various institutions of learning in the North African country. Only few of the returnees went for vacation and businesses.


So, government should be responsible for them after bringing them back to safety in their own country?

Honestly. How do people make use of their brain if ever they have one?

ziccoit:

Tell me you typed that while risen from bed after a deep sleep. There is always a provision for this in national budget. These are displaced people that need to be resettled. Go read about the duties of NEMA.

Somebody has said it, they are brought home either to boost election campaign or to vote. I don't expect an irresponsible government to be responsible.

AND I DO NOT expect irresponsible citizens to show any sign of responsibility.

LOL.

Muza:

MJ = foool

What makes me wonder your father calls your mother that name?

If I am a fool because I dont share your opinions, what will you call yourself when you find out you are not even fit to be my houseboy?

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he will say you are making it up or he will say you are me using another name or he will abuse or curse you.

How many Nigerians come to NairaLand?

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expensive "designer" jets.

the likes made by Armani, Versace, YSL, etc?

of course he is qualified, just as everyone else is.

where did i say that?

~Bluetooth:

what has your stu-pid deduction got to do with my comment ? Anyways,I guess you've not been to that area before.the presidential villa covers a wide area and it doesn't necessarily mean jonathan's residence.

LOL Really?

Let them keep preaching hate, tribalism and spread derogatory news, one day soon - come April, they will wake up and put a knife on their own throat because of GEJ.

^^^back to sender bro.

You spew better rubbish than most people in here.

most of these people talking here cant even govern a home talkless of a country:


Before criticizing people, walk a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticize them, you will be a mile away and have their shoes.

Tokotaya:

I dont know why people can get it. It is too simple for there to be anybody who doesnt get it. GEJ is clueless, dumb and without a backbone. He cannot look OBJ or any other person for that matter in the face. He cannot take any hard decision even when convinced that is the only solution to the nation's problem. This man is only good as a spare. He lacks the character to lead.

Bros. Talk is cheap and easy.

Give examples, or dont talk further.


Before criticizing people, walk a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticize them, you will be a mile away and have their shoes.