It's a lie. Buhari needed the debate, even more than his challengers, to explain what he has done so far, what he intends to do if voted second term, and how he intends to do what he promises the electorate.
Abagworo: One step at a time. If Uche Nwosu succeeds Okorocha and continues undeterred in the next 5 to 10 years we should be talking about Singapore type of development because he hired international experts from Singapore that drew the map and procedure of what he is doing in Imo modeled after Singapore of 1965. His problem has been lack of funds which slowed down execution but it's obvious that Imo is heading in right direction.
Tufiakwa!! Imo now needs a well educated governor. For Uche Nwosu, Imo state is Owerri.
The Defence Headquarters has announced the date for the burial of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (rtd).
PoliticsNGR gathered that the Acting Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General John Agim, made the announcement in a statement on Friday.
Activities lined-up for the interment of the former defence chief will begin on Sunday with the Service of Songs scheduled to hold at the Nigerian Air Force Base Protestant Church in Abuja.
This would be followed by a church service expected to hold at the same venue on Wednesday next week.
Badeh would be laid to rest later in the afternoon at the National Military Cemetery in the nation’s capital.
Mbaise people made nearly all development projects of govt in Imo state reside in Owerri only.
Mbaise cried loudest every time Udenwa, Ohakim and Okorocha tried to locate IMSU permanently outside Owerri zone which hosts about six public tertiary education institutions in Imo state. Mbaise's Comfort Obi and Senator Anyanwu petitioned all over the place when gov Okorocha tried to locate IMSU in Orlu zone.
Ihedioha from Mbaise has started again to talk only about Owerri in his campaign.
Ohakim the governor who started the phenomenon of Owerri zone must have the development attention of govt 80%. Okorocha copied him but went on 90%.
Ohakim refuses to see that his Okigwe zone has only 6 local government areas, against Owerri zone's 9 local government areas, and Orlu zone's 12 local government areas.
Okorocha through his boys now says gov Uche Nwosu shall complete the building of Orlu Stadium started in 2013, started before Okigwe's. Rochas staged a football match last week at the completed Okigwe Stadium. Orlu is rotten, govt projects in Orlu forced to rot, many streets in Orlu scrapped by Rochas contractors since 2012. They show us Rochas' ten lane streets of Owerri to taunt angry people in Orlu. Rochas says he is contesting to represent Orlu zone in the Senate. The game of Rochas VS Orlu intensifying.
[Gov Okorocha, Build us Owerri to a Mega City, in future, other governors may attend to Orlu and Okigwe]. Okorocha agreed. The most parochial people behind this fraudulent advice brought about gov Okorocha's present pitiable political situation. Today, scores of streets of Orlu look like in war days. Okorocha and his advisers maligned even existing govt infrastructures in Orlu. They now celebrate Owerri boulevards. In 1976 when Imo state was created, there were little differences in the levels of urbanization between Owerri and Orlu. Politics is a game of numbers. Okorocha scored the highest number of votes in Orlu urban LGA in 2011, with about 10,000 votes more than the second highest LGA vote giver to Okorocha.
InvertedHammer: / Oyibo started out in Lagos, then gradually spread into other areas. Take it or leave it.
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But Oyibo didn't concentrate nearly all government development infrastructures in Lagos first, as your gov. Okorocha is doing for eight years in Imo state, concentrating all his government's development efforts in Owerri, in just one portion of Imo state.
Which federal government is backing Rochas Okorocha to "win" whatever you believe he is contesting in 2019?
If you believe president Buhari is a fraudster, go and chill out with your Rochas obsession.
APC has ejected Rochas Okorocha from its fold, because of Okorocha's misdeeds in Imo state.
APC openly pronounced recently that some of Okorocha's acts in Imo state as governor are embarrassing to APC. Which president or party can take in a governor Okorocha who demolishes what his predecessors built without providing alternative?
Okorocha now supports his son-in-law in another party for Third term for Rochas Okorocha, while Rochas Okorocha attaches himself to APC, campaigns against APC guber candidate on Imo state.
Look beyond the nose. You people with your Iberiberism can't continue to rule millions of people in Imo state, waste federal allocations to Imo state on frivolous projects.
InvertedHammer: / Modernization needs to start somewhere(usually state capital) before extending to other places. Start from Owerri and spread out. Sadly it hasn't even started in Owerri--a city that is currently without form or plan. 8 years gone! It is too late for Okorocha to be initiating any projects now. To redeem a little of his totally battered image, he may need to start clearing backlog of pensions, salaries and debts.
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Modernization is never first started in state capital before spreading to other parts of a state. There is no moral or constitutional backing to your talk that modernization should be started with state capital.
If Roman Empire concentrated on building Rome while London, Paris Athens,etc waited, rest of Roman Empire outside Rome would have rioted.
Your first line is a huge lie. It's a huge falsehood propagated by people in one zone of Imo state, but unfortunately sold out to dummies in Orlu and Okigwe zones.
If government first restricted modernization to Lagos or Abuja, what we shall have today is Owerri as a glorified village.
The implication of your starting modernization first in Owerri is that as Owerri expands and populates, every governor must be constrained to use nearly all of Imo state's capital development funds to provide infrastructures to populating and expanding Owerri, to the extent that time shall come when there is no more money to build even the most basic social infrastructure in Orlu, Okigwe and other once developing towns in Imo state.
Okorocha's education did not allow him think beyond the box.
InvertedHammer: / Okorocha should have taken the steps of ex-Gov. Chime of Enugu State and build standard inner city roads. Owerri has one of the best infrastructures in the SE considering what I saw along Owerri-PH road. But bad roads hide the beauty of these individuals' endeavors.
One would think that it is common sense. But the leaders think from their rear ends. Do you want rapid development in a city? Build the roads! Gov. Chime is still the pacesetter.
Okorocha is finally going with his son-in-law.
Owerri is not all there is in Imo state, such that every angle of Owerri shall be decorated, as Okorocha has been doing for eight years as he abandoned the once developing towns of Orlu and Okigwe to decay.
Most parochial group in Imo state can't give up the falsehood that a state was created for successive governors to first build the state capital while rest of the state waits, till Owerri is developed by government.
Industries attract population and urbanization to an area, development can't be only from ignorant or poorly educated governor like Okorocha who wasted the state funds on demolishing inner Owerri to build ten lane streets, while humans in the other towns of the state outside Owerri dwell on dilapidated two lane streets, no drainage facility, no running water. Enough of Okorocha and people who think like him, do not accept that modernization in Imo state must extend beyond Owerri.
arinzeejikonye: Hmmh, So many unearthed can of worms, just hope you're not blowing things out of proportion as they seem. Nonetheless, these are issues needed to embolden the opposition and capitalise on the forthcoming electoral battle, where they gonna lock horns together,
Yet to lay my hands on the manifestos of the gubernatorial contenders.
How well was representation of ihedioha and uzodinma to their respective constituents over the years in NASS?
These guys could worsen the situation of things. Am skeptical of the ill feelings that imolites might take a plunge from frying pan into fire, should any of the duo of uzodinma and ihedioha clinch the seat, I make bold to assert this position, steming from the fact that the antecedents of their representation is below average.
While allowing the son in-law have the crown is a leeway to the expansion and elongation of the owelle dynasty.
Imolites, the choice is yours to make.
The investigation has since been going on.
Okorocha acquired massive land in Ideato South lga by using a trick that IMSG was relocating IMSU to Ogboko.
Land owners agreed and gave up their lands.
Once the lands were acquired by IMSG under Okorocha, he built his private Eastern Palm University in the lands.
To placate Owerri, he literally reduced Imo state to become Owerri, even planed to relocate IMSUTH from Orlu to Owerri, all with his hope that Owerri natives shall not bother to ask how Okorocha built a private Eastern Palm University in his village while still sitting as governor of Imo state.
To try to legalize his illegal act, Okorocha said IMSG owns 10% share in Eastern Palm University, while Private group invested and owns 90% share in Eastern Palm University.
Okorocha hopes to sell the IMSG 10% share in Eastern Palm University, Ogboko, any day soon to a private concern, obviously, Rochas Foundation.
Okorocha told National Universities Commission in 2016: "Eastern Palm University has been my 12 years dream come true."
That's part of reasons for Okorocha's struggle to succeed himself through his son-in-law as Imo state governor.
1000 bed capacity Imo state free mother and child hospital /referral centre owerri in top gear,
This is reminiscent of 27 general public health centres he built in all LGA s, can't tell if all of'em have been fully equipped and functional,
Seems owelle truly wanna finish strong,
Courtesy of rochas pikin.
People don't yet understand why the hospital madness since 2011 in Imo Govt House.
Orlu is Okorocha's enemy territory.
Okorocha suffocated the Imo state University Teaching Hospital in Orlu, refused till today to re-coat asphalt on the 1.5 km dilapidated road to IMSUTH, his agents can't even allow diesel to IMSUTH generators, he owed arrears of salaries to health workers to frustrate then to leave.
Today, IMSUTH where Imo state govt and private orgs invested billions of Naira is a ghost of its former self;
as Okorocha deliberately suffocated IMSUTH in 7 years, but builds 27 now mostly empty general hospitals, 1000 bed hospital in Owerri, equips Imo Specialist Hospital Owerri and about 5 of his new general hospitals in and around Owerri.
Okorocha took ancient and modern grudges against Orlu to Govt House. The grudges are behind Okorocha wasting Imo state govt funds building unimaginable things in Owerri, including federal police headquarters and prisons in Owerri.
Okorocha litters every space in Owerri with empty buildings ranging from this hospital to federal prisons, federal police Headquarters, Federal high court, NUJ House, ten lane streets, City Schools at nearly every Owerri street junction, roofed Owerri streets, underground car park to ..... name any thing that comes to his mind he builds in Owerri;
....all to waste Imo state money in Owerri, because ancient and modern grudges against Orlu would not allow him look beyond Owerri.
-Says "I will not handover Imo to armed robbers" -As Imolites besiege him
The Performing Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state is not relenting in his efforts to leave lasting legacies in the sands of time by building monumental projects even as he counts down to the end of his administration in the next five months.
Apart from building 27 General Hospitals in each of the respective LGAs of the state,Owelle is at the completion stage of a people-oriented project, the One thousand bed "Mother & Child" hospital situated at the former New Market site barely few months after the relocation of the popular spare parts hub to Imo International Market Naze.
While addressing mammoth crowds of Imolites who besieged him during inspection of the project Thursday evening, the Governor said; "This is a free medical facility for our pregnant mothers and poorest of the poor children who can not afford high cost of medical bills.Also, no fewer than Eight hundred youths will be employed at the completion of the hospital including,Paediatrics and gynaecologists, nurses & other medical science related personnel. He assured the crowd that,he will not handover power to those who will destroy the state or rob it".
It is on record that,Owelle has more than one thousand monumental & verifiable projects to his credit the past seven years and counting and has promised to complete all ongoing projects before May 2019.
#ROCHASwillfinishSTRONG
Mazi Anayochukwu Abasiodu Idiong Special Assistant to the Governor On Social Media Networking www.Facebook.com/Imosocialmedia
He will not hand over to anybody that can extend development to Orlu, that's the meaning of Okorocha's long fight to succeed himself.
IMSUTH in Orlu was strangulated in seven years by Okorocha, he refused to asphalt the 1.5 km road to IMSUTH.
Okorocha built about five new big hospitals in and around Owerri.
Okorocha told elders from Orlu zone that people of Orlu zone should come to settle in Owerri and claim Owerri as their town.
AMANPOUR: Would I be right in saying that yours is a real long shot candidacy, you know, one of the smaller parties, the main established
parties are kind of duking it out between themselves? What do you really expect to achieve by running for president?
EZEKWESILI: I hope to disrupt the politics of failure, the politics of bad governance and bad leadership that has only produced this small result.
Such that today, Nigeria as the world capital of extreme poverty, certainly unacceptable. That's what I intend to do, to disrupt this and build a
nation that is based on prosperity, stability, cohesion and equality of opportunity for our people.
AMANPOUR: OK. So, let's break this down because we have a graphic that shows that Nigeria has overtaken India as the world's greatest
concentration of extreme poverty, 87 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty and it's growing by six people per minute.
I guess what everybody will want to know is this, Nigeria is known for rampant corruption. I mean, unbelievable amounts of corruption. It is
also a really potentially rich state with all your oil, with all your natural resources. I mean, how is it possible that 87 million Nigerians
live at the poverty line or below?
EZEKWESILI: It is the -- it is what happens when there is a bad governance. Bad governance is so endemic when there are no expectations of
results from those that govern society. And therefore, there is no demand for accountability. And if and when there is demand for accountability,
there's no incentive on the part of the people who govern to produce results.
I was one of the co-founders of Transparency International and we know that corruption is a tax on the poor and we already know that there are ways to
tackle corruption. To prevent opportunities for corruption you reduce corruption. And part of what my agenda is, is to deregulate the economy in
the kind of way that public officials don't have too much presence in the economy, to be able to utilize it for personal gain.
And also, to compliment actions on the prevention side, which is system that punishes corruption every time it happens. Because then, you create a
deterrence against that very malignant cancerous action that has kept our country under developed, less modern at anything that we could have
imagined at independence.
AMANPOUR: Yes. You know, it is extraordinary because all those things you say make us sit back and take notice, particularly because we see so much
Nigerian money coming out of Nigeria, spent in the West on high-end real estate, on all sorts of, you know, playground of the rich and the powerful.
And I guess I'm trying to figure out, other people have complained as well, including the current president about corruption, they've all pledged to
somehow wipe it out. How will you take on these vested interests, these people who have, I guess, a reason to keep the system and the status quo?
EZEKWESILI: Well, the society knows me for having taken on them before. I was the one that walked on fixing of our public procurement system. It was
chaotic until I entered government many years ago, (INAUDIBLE) ago. And I effected the reform of the public procurement system and drew initiative
that was called due process, as a result of that work that fix up public procurement that used to be the honeypot of the politicians, the country
began to call me "Madam Due Process."
So the politicians know me. I am not a stranger to them at all. What I did in extractive industries transparency initiative is well-known,
globally. So I am not one who is going to be fazed by the strength of our political class. I think that the lack of courage on the part of our
society to stare down at these ones who have given us bad governance is now over. It is time to confront it and I believe that I am the candidate of
the Nigerian people.
We are not -- I am not running alone, as we say, we are all running, all of us that want a different country, a new direction for our country are
running together. This is a contest between the established class of politicians who have not delivered anything meaningful in governance and
the rest of us, I simply am the candidate who is providing the direction for the rest of society to take on this group. AMANPOUR: Now, as you mentioned, of course, you've been recognized for many of your efforts not just Transparency International, which got you a
Nobel Peace prize nomination but also you spearheaded the Bring Back Our Girls Movement when Boko Haram stole all those hundreds of Nigerian school
girls.
Tell me a little bit about how you came to do that? Your experience in public policy in the public sector in Nigeria.
EZEKWESILI: Well, I was -- I was saddened, I mean sad is such an underwhelming word to describe how I felt that my society was stealing the
children of the poor who went to school. Girls who went to school.
When I was Minister of Education, one of my reform areas had been in getting more girls to go to school especially in modern Nigeria where for
every five boys in school only one girl would be in school. And so when these girls went to school and were abducted. What I expected from my
government was immediate swift response, but that did not happen and I was completely aghast at it and I decided that on the basis of my shared
humanity with those girls that I was going to be a voice for them until they all come back.
As far as I am concerned, we have no credentials on which to ask girls to go to school around the world until the rest of the world and all of us
especially our government bring the remaining 112 Chibok girls back, as well as Leah Sharibu as well as Alice, a humanitarian aid worker who was
abducted because of meeting the needs of those who are displaced in our country.
AMANPOUR: You bring up another major issue, it's not just humanitarian, but its security. Your country is in a state of war with Boko Haram. Do
you have a plan for dealing with that aspect at the source, at the root? There's terrorism and there's war there.
EZEKWESILI: I think that the number one thing is we had a research at the World Bank that showed that in environments of conflicts, the most
important thing to do is to get that community thinking about jobs again, providing economic livelihoods for the people because that then dries up
the sauces of young people who have no stake in society and who are willing to unleash violence on their own society, so broadening security to be
human security is a major strategy for me and the second bit is to completely overhaul our security system and to ensure that there is
performance, accountability that is tied to results adequacy the top end is to make a lot out of intelligence.
Today's cutting edge technology means that we can be pre-emptive, we can be proactive. We can be preventive and that means we must walk with our
neighbors. We must walk with the rest of the world that can offer us support in every kind of definition of cutting edge expensive technology
that will enable us to have greater surveillance of our country and people.
AMANPOUR: All the candidates running including yourself are pro-American. You were educated at Harvard for a period of time and it's the second
richest country in Africa. What kind of relationship would you expect to have with the United States, and particularly, with President Trump who has
his own views about Africa, the transactional relationship and also his own -- you've heard what he said about a lot of African countries. I don't
need dot repeat it.
EZEKWESILI: I wouldn't be dignifying any of the pejorative words that have been used by the President of America. What I would simply do is show to
the President of America that is a contemporary in the leadership of countries.
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EZEKWESILI: His country and me leading my own country and what I would try to show clearly to him is that it is of interest to America that he should
maintain the global norms that enable America to be at the leading economy in the world as we watch the trend of the global economy, it is very clear
that even the US needs to continue to do even more with the rest of the world in order to maintain a reasonable level of economic prosperity and
trajectory that it has been known for.
Our country, Nigeria is a leading country in the world. We definitely have a lot of contributions that are notable around the world and we will do
more. Africa is going to be the center of our strategy but, our relationship with the rest of the world is going to be on the basis of its
strategy to be a productive country, a competitive country and a country that actually stakes a claim to the 21st Century.
AMANPOUR: We have a picture of yourself as a child with your father. And he once told you not to dignify a whole load of nonsense. What did he
mean? Tell me about that relationshipo?
EZEKWESILI: It was an amazing relationship. My dad believed that I could do anything and spoke it into me so often that I grew up not allowing
anybody to invalidate me because as I would say to them, my dad already validated me. So there's no words, there's not a thing that you say, there
is no opposition to me that can hold me back. My dad said I can do anything I choose to do.
AMANPOUR: So that's really adorable. It's really important as well. What is it like as a woman to come up through these political ranks in a male
dominated society and try to fight for the biggest prize?
EZEKWESILI: Leadership is gender neutral. What matters is that I come into these with character, competence and capacity. I can -- I am the
better candidate than the men that are in this race, even they would tell you that, so I'm simply going to keep on with the issues that I want to
solve. I'm a problem solver. The country knows me to be that. I am ready to do this. I always say to people who say, well, you're not a politician.
I say to them, that's fine. I know one thing, I know one thing and that one thing that I know is how to care for people. That's what governance
should be about, caring for your people. I bring that into this race alongside my character, competence and capacity. So I am really the
winning candidate in this race.
AMANPOUR: Well, you make a very strong case. Oby Ezekwesili, thank you so much for joining me.
87 million Nigerians live in poverty because the political structure created by northern military dictators springs up people like Buhari and Atiku from the north to preside over Nigeria.
When the northern political class are tired of ruling Nigeria, they support people like Olusegun Obasanjo or Goodluck Jonathan from the south as proxies.
Southern politicians, including Oby Ezrkwesili are merely employed by the politics of Nigeria When they lose out, they resort to siddon look, or to what Obiageli Ezrkwesili is now doing,merely to be heard so that next government can hear them for political appointments.
Two days to presidential election of 2015 in Nigeria, Amanpour invited Sanusi Lamido to CNN where both campaigned for Buhari; Amanpour was even putting the right anti-Jonathan phrases into Sanusi's mouth.
Amanpour played ugly roles that brought Buhari to power in Nigeria in 2015.
haywire07: The Great Napoleon said "Religion is a power, a political engine and if there was no God, I would have to invent one"
For example, take a look at the young man below, he believes the Igbo politician having met a Holy Man, has been canonized and as thus, he is undoubtedly "Holier and better " than the 'devil' in Aso rock.
Perhaps, you are an Islamic Extremist. You don't accept the fact of devil
olajizz01: The most prosperous tribe in criminal activities, you are the developers,you developed the whole world by pushing hard drug into it,the most tribe sent to gallon every day through out the world
Records all over the world show that Omobas are the greatest number of drug pushers.
Even the Jaga political leader of Omobas paid cash in the US for freedom from drug trafficking offenses. Check it out.
tendingNews: Here is the moment angry Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state sounded a serious warning to Adams Oshiomhole, the APC national Chairman.
Yari says: "I'm saying that the committee sent by Oshiomhole to come and do their dirty job should never dare come to Zamfara state. And we are ready, including myself to be taken to the grave yard tomorrow. If he knows that his mother and father born him, he should send those people to see and it's fight to finish."
PureMe01: shehu of borno,u are a disgrace to the north for ever saying that..buhari we know.sai baba even if boko haram take over the whole North & kill us all.
The Shehu knows what he wants.
Boko Haram emerged shortly after the twelve northern Nigeria states adopted unconstitutional Islamic Sharia Criminal codes.
Boko Haram also fights for a country to be governed with Islamic Sharia Criminal codes.
Southern politicians are just marking time in one Nigeria, earning their pay from politics.
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