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ShehuAba:
I beg to disagree sir. In politics there's what is called loyalty to the party and failure to do so usually leads to anti party.

You think a politician who knows what he's doing will come out publicly to ridicule his party without been talked to except you're an OBJ.

Or why do you think people who're less superior to obj has the guts to slam him for anti party.

If barcanista has any thing tangible against his party, there are better ways to so, coming out publicly to degrade a party he so much loved was and will still remain his greatest undoing.

koboko69:
anti party activities is not welcomed sir. Will u be of the same opinion if Sincere9gerian created similar threads to stylishlishly rubbiah APC. abeg shift

koboko69:
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MY POST JUST HOURS AGO. I KNEW IT

Agents of change,

There is a fake agent lurking among us. He is a TANoid at night and a fake CHANGE agent at day. I do not know who he is trying to impress on a faceless forum. Dont be surprised if tomorrow, he creates a thread of how he made a mistake all along, and wants us to vote for the clueless one again.

Remember FFK, he was a supposed CHANGE agent in the day, but @ night he sat and dined with touts, vampires and thieves. HE finally came out openly to declare he is back to the killer party. That is what we should be expecting soon from this fake CHANGE agent.

Hence forth he should be treated, addressed and considered as a TANoid, till he traces his steps back. There is no room for someone who talks with 2 sides of his mouth. It is total disloyalty and dishonesty to create a gibberish like this » Interim National Government: One Propaganda Too Many with the reality on ground. This is just the latest among the series of suspicious posts and comments.

Same thing when the alarm was raised about election postponement, quoting one constitution of the other. He saw it as another PROPAGANDA. At the end what happened? REALITY!!!! then he openned another thread of lamentations.

We have decided to March for Buhari, no matter how many moles planted among us.

i thank cleverly and orignal sincerenigerian et all for placing the fake CHANGE agent where he belongs; a place for clowns.

Sai Buhari 2015
#March4Buhari

[size=15pt]Goodluck Jonathan’s Last Fight?[/size]

There are several forces at play that make the new timeline for Nigerian elections a one-time chance for a decisive strike against Boko Haram. In addition to Boko Haram, Nigerian elections have a potential for violence themselves. With or without a domestic Islamist, insurgency a delay of elections is interpreted by the Muslim north and the All Progressive Congress party of presidential candidate Muhammadou Buhari as an extra-constitutional attempt to prolong power. That was one rational against the postponement of elections until the decision was made to do so on Saturday, a week before the scheduled elections.

Apart from a rational, the calculus for Nigerian incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan might well have been to keep the election date, avoid the appearance of prolonging his term in office, and allow the disenfranchisement caused by Boko Haram to work in his favor. Such a scenario would allow for Candidate Buhari’s camp to reject the election results and resort to violence.

Mr. Buhari was believed to be behind the 2011 violence in the north when a Muslim rejection of a southern Christian’s election led to more than 300 deaths and thousands displaced. With Boko Haram in the mix, the collective downsides over-shadowed appearances of good protocol by keeping the original date. The U.S. and the international community had urged as much.

The presidential and parliamentary elections will now take place on March 28. Elections for governors and state legislators will take place on Feb. 28. Until now it has been ostensible that Mr. Jonathan had little interest in confronting Boko Haram and the international attention has put him in an awkward spotlight. If Mr. Jonathan’s administration fails to seize this window to take the reigns of the Nigerian military and significantly disable Boko Haram, it will confirm that he does not see himself as the president of all of Nigeria but only the south. The strength of former military dictator Buhari’s campaign is that his supporters believe he can achieve security and defeat Boko Haram where Mr. Jonathan has failed. The political moment between now and the Feb. 28 regional elections is likely the last calm moment for Mr. Jonathan to galvanize against Boko Haram before Mr. Buhari’s political leverage reaches a critical mass. If Mr. Jonathan makes it through the elections without taking the upper hand against Boko Haram, he will face greater challenges with an even weaker mandate.

At such a crossroad, it’s important to have a good measure of who Mr. Buhari is. The fundamental political difference between Mr. Buhari’s group and those who would become Boko Haram back in 2000 was a factional split over who could best purify the Muslim north of political corruption and enforce the best interpretation of shariah law. In the year 2000, Mr. Buhari’s political colleagues were debating whether they could accept a moderate enforcement of shariah law in the North.

“I can die for the cause of Islam. If necessary, we are prepared to fight another civil war. We cannot be blackmailed into killing Sharia” - Muhammadou Buhari, 2000 Freedom House.



Of course Mr. Buhari will play the role of a moderate now. Not enough eyelids were raised by U.S Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit so close to the election last month. It was then fair to speculate that Mr. Kerry was offering assurances of cooperation in exchange for assurances of a peaceful election. Despite the administration’s recent lectures on state visits near election time that concerned Bibi Netanyahu of Israel and Angela Merkel of German, the State Department played tone-def to the legitimacy and perceived U.S. approval given to Mr. Buhari in his meeting with Mr. Kerry. The public acknowledgement of the meeting in diplomatic currency was indeed a clear act of favoritism.

Thanks to the reporting of Adam Kredo, we now know that it was something more nefarious. David Axelrod is Mr. Buhari’s lobbyist and in this administration you can buy the presidency of Africa’s most populous nation. According to the Washington Free Beacon report, Mr. Axelrod’s firm, AKPD, was employed by Mr. Buhari’s APC party as recently as December 2014. The timing of Mr. Kerry’s visit the next month within in that context puts a shorter lifespan on the Jonathan presidency.

President Jonathan must now fight without firm footing against Boko Haram, his political opponents, U.S. diplomats and their lobbyists. He has about a month to make something happen.

Nicholas Hanlon is Chief Africa Analyst at the Center for Security Policy.

jaybee3:
Yes i would.
I've commended GEJ's effort on restructuring the public sector by streamlining the workforce and getting rid of duplication which in time should increase efficiency and reduce waste.
This action is even more necessary in this tough economic times.
He is doing what a responsible government should do.

jaybee3:
My issue with GEJ is simply the "In your face" corruption.

jaybee3:
I've never criticised for the fun of it bro.
Do you have evidence to back up your claim?

We also have an ongoing crossrail project in the uk (118km costing about 16 billion pounds).
You can't just compare cost per kilometre since the factors considered when costing aren't the same. You should know this bro

jaybee3:
Value of land and/or real estate to be compensated exactly the same?

jaybee3:
How is it logical since;
The unrest is restricted to a specific region,
It was never an issue during the gubernatorial election conducted in ekiti and osun despite,
It's not an issue despite the commander himself using around a thousand officers for his campaign train

zealot4me:
this is serious

jaybee3:
I know you are better than this matthew common!!!!!!

Why do you keeep bringing something entirely different to the topic on discussion?

WHY WHY WHY matthew?

anonimi:
Are you talking of Thief'nuibu cabal that has been rapingg Lagos state for the past 16 years



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despite IGR increased from N7.2 billion in 1999 to N246 billion in 2013 i.e. over 34 times

Revolution:
What Bakare said is not news, I read about it in the papers four years ago. The propaganda is the attempt to unearth old news and insinuate that Osinbajo will do the same. It is a scare tactic.

jaybee3:
Are you suggesting i go back in time and sack Buhari from his role as chairman of PTF or what exactly are you saying?
The inquiry into his leadership of PTF didn't find him wanting meaning he couldn't have been Jailed as he didn't directly benefit from any of the alledged missing money.
I would have called for him to resign if he was still in charge of PTF and similar amount of money went missing under his watch.

sexymoma:
I guess

jaybee3:
Stop looking at it from political view point bro. You should be condemning the act irrespective of the party.

$1.48B was stolen and you should be demanding answers not hiding under the fact that some other guy wasn’t punished when money was allegedly missing under his watch.

This isn’t about selective justice, you should be demanding answers as a responsible citizen of the entity called Nigeria

jaybee3:
Are you remotely suggesting it's okay for it to be swept under the carpet simply because his head wasn't chopped on the table?

Besides, OBJ publicly gave him a clean bill of health on TV with regards to the alleged missing PTF funds

jaybee3:
But she is the minister responsible for that Government department. That makes her equally culpable since she can't necessarily feign ignorance for allowing a whopping 1.48Billion to go missing under her watch


Geezzz

smartigo:
I am still trying to get your drift? What is your grouse with his choice of words? I love to learn a new word. Is it apolycapse or apocalypse? Elucidate.

The least you could have done is to refute his write-up and not this lame comment about his availability.

CJ310:
Excuse me Mr Genius that uses his brain, did u not read that the military keeps a copy of their enlistees credentials? Why then is GMB's case so different that they can neither find nor verify his. Its a shame that our armed forces who were once respected all over the world can be compromised and degraded, being used as political tools for the incumbent ruler. Even if APC is hypocritical as you say, they're much better than the corrupt, inept, unintelligent, greedy and desperate PDP you want to waste a vote for.

englishmart:
Osinbajo should have been the Apc flag bearer. While Buhari his vice

CJ310:
Which justice did u bastardise? So the real friends of Nigeria are the clueless doctor and his fanatic architect of doom? Pls leave the peoples general alone, if he did not have a certificate he won't have been enlisted in the army cos back then there was no maggot called PDP to allow such corruption!

Ps: you guys will fail come feBuhari 14.

MizMyColi:
Pickabeau1
Matthewbriggs

Please what's your opinion?

Nonso23:
We aren't designed to be innately lazy