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CeoNewshelm:
Twitter user Kehinde Olusola, took to the platform to tell the how a Yoruba man rejected a cheque of N5 million naira because it was presented with left hand.

See his tweet below;

What do you guys think?

http://www.newshelmng.com/2017/12/yoruba-man-allegedly-refuses-n5m-cheque.html

cc lalasticlala mynd44

...and you believe the story?

Thats like a some guys saying " Oh, She offered me her virginity but I turned it down because she is k-legged". What an absurd story!

May his soul rest in peace

tsdarkside:
present your candidate....where is he or she....??...

who is it?...am confused...

is it okorocha that you dont like or obiano that you dont like too...who is it...??...

you are demanding for things but you are not even ready for it....

They have a candidate

chrisbaxtian:
give it a rest! You have not succeeded

Park for side if you no get answer...


Meanwhile Igwe dey search for money.

Since 2015 when PDP was booted out only SW has had the gut to play opposition and keep Buhari on his toes.

SS has turned back to militancy
SE picked back on rebellion.

Neither SS or SE cared about PDP as a party. So why reap reward where you did not sow?

Now that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has finally slunk back into the PDP once again, the party that he once helped found and twice futilely helped to kill, all absurd arguments to justify this third missionary journey into the party are been spewed by different characters across the nation’s political landscape. Only recently, the so-called Adamawa State PDP’s leadership and an amorphous group that calls itself Katsina State People’s Democratic Party Elders’ Consultative Forum are reported to have publicly pleaded with the erstwhile Vice President to come back to the PDP. The Katsina group implored him “to forgive former elements within the PDP, who forced him to seek further political relevance and justice in alternative political enclaves and return for a successful rebirth of the PDP.” The so-called elders hailed him as a “political son of Katsina State, who has made indelible contributions to the foundation and development of the PDP.”


While I do not here intend to dispute whatever contributions Atiku may have made to the PDP, I however reject the notion that he was maltreated in the party. Nobody treated Atiku unfairly; whatever happened to him in the PDP was the result of his own making! With an avid ambition for power, Atiku took many indecent steps to achieve his political self-interest, and many of these steps came back at him with devastating consequences. As Vice President, he plotted against his principal by conspiring to unseat the president and take over power in 2003. It was an opened national secret that Atiku did not want Obasanjo to contest a 2nd term and took to so many subterranean antics to stop the president from doing so. Nigerians are not in a hurry to forget how Obasanjo on good ground accused him of conspiring with Ghali Umar Na’abba, the then Speaker, to serve him with impeachment notice in August, 2002 after failing to get the president adopt “the Mandela option” - i.e. not to contest a 2nd term and handover to his deputy! No sensible president would simply sit back and watch his deputy run him down the way Atiku tried on Obasanjo. Hence, Obasanjo’s defensive move of taking away PDP from Atiku’s grips and subsequently bludgeoning him against contesting under its platform were the results of Atiku’s own political misdemeanours to his principal and not the other way round.

So when he left the party in 2006 and desperately persuaded Bola Tinubu to join him form the AC and contested the presidency under its platform in 2007, Atiku was simply pursuing his own self-ambition. But, perceptively, events were not kind to him in that presidential election as he came a distant 3rd with a mere 2 million votes. Then what happened after he lost that election and lost at the tribunal was shocking. Without telling any of his compatriots in the AC, he sneaked into Abeokuta to beg Obasanjo for reconciliation! Not only Obasanjo did not forgive him, but he further lost the confidence of his AC compatriots who stood by him in his ill-advised fight against Obasanjo. That brought the end of AC, except that Bola Tinubu, being a man of will, foresight and means, restructured it into ACN and forged ahead to build a colossus political empire. But Atiku, having abandoned his new-found compatriots, creeped back into the PDP in July, 2010, shortly after the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua, in the hope of pushing out the supposedly weak and inexperienced President Goodluck Jonathan. But again events were not kind to him, for in the December presidential primaries, Atiku managed to scoop a mere 800 against Jonathan’s over 2000 votes.

So when in August 2013 Atiku, along with others, derisively walked out on the PDP at its national convention and subsequently joined the newly formed APC, which he described as his last and final political bus-stop, all those who understand his politics knew that he would still jump ship the moment the APC fails to satisfy his self-interest. Just like his returning to PDP after President Yar’Adua’s death was aimed at displacing the ‘inexperienced Jonathan’, his joining APC was also with the naive plan of using the power of money to defeat ‘poor Buhari’ and gain APC’s presidential nomination. Again, like in the previous two elections, events were not kind to him as he woefully lost the contest to a distant 3rd, after Buhari and Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso - thanks to Bola Tinubu who refused to allow himself be bitten twice by the same insect!

But of course the turn of events in all his three self-serving contests were just as they should be - you just don’t reap from where you did not sow! Agreed, politics is said to be a game of interests; but being a matter that directly affects the lives of people in society and determines the future of society itself, politics is indisputably also a game of principles. In playing the game, therefore, one just cannot pursue one’s interests at the expense of its principles. It is a standard universal norm that any political actor who pursues self-serving interest against public interests is acting against set principles of politics; and time has ascertained that such a politician is sure to fail. The politician’s skill or lack of it to distinguish the great disparity between self-interest and principles, and the ability or inability to balance these two elements, is what makes one a good or a bad politician, and consequently what decides the ultimate destiny of one’s politics. Characteristically, over the years, Atiku’s unprincipled politics not only failed to conform to these political dynamics but it also defines him merely as a self-serving politician.

This character trait didn’t start in the presidential villa - it started much earlier! Nigerians can recall that, by his own testimony, Atiku claimed to have joined politics at the behest of late General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, who he always refers to as his political mentor. Although this claim did not prevent him from abstinently opposing the late General’s immediate younger brother, Umaru, when the latter emerged president, but for the purpose of the present discourse, let’s take him by his words on this. So together with General Yar’Adua, Atiku formed or joined several political associations and political parties, including PF, PDM, SDP and NCPN. In the process of building the NCPN, popularly called the Centre Party, his political mentor was arrested by the General Sani Abacha government, charged with treasonable felony and sentenced to death. While General Yar’Adua was languishing in jail on a commuted sentence of life in prison, Atiku had no qualms in abandoning the Centre Party to join the government-favoured UNCP and be given its Adamawa State governorship ticket. Shortly after, Yar’Adua died in jail.

And he has now again crawled back into the PDP with, no doubt, a vein political trajectory to get the party’s presidential nomination. He must have calculated that with the zoning of the party’s presidential candidate to the North, being obscenely wealthy, he will use money to secure its ticket. That may well be so, but it is also clear to all discerning analysts that the man has again not thought through this political gambit. Atiku has once again not only committed another morally repugnant action to advance his self-interest, but by it he also proved himself to be an undependable and unreliable political ally, both to the people he associates with and the political parties he joins. He neither embodies virtues Nigerians can emulate nor holds worthy moral and ethical principles upcoming generations may extol. But like all acts, we all get wiser after the events; he therefore won’t know the folly of his present move until the effects come calling. And, as sure as God made little apples, the universal truth of ‘what is morally wrong cannot be politically right’ will, as before, ultimately become the bane of his political failure. But, as the saying goes, time will be the true judge of all affairs.

Dr. Ardo wrote this piece from Abuja.


https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/atiku-s-politics-and-the-specter-of-failure.html

If NURTW has a party platform, and Atiku believes he will get their nomination, trust me he will become member and turn to agbero.

Thats how much he wants Presidency....he is blinded by his ego.

Is there not a single APC Senator anywhere in SE?

What a pity!

The Guardian Politics


Politics
Issues, anxiety as Senate decides on Southeast development
By Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Abuja
04 December 2017 | 2:35 am

Senate President Bukola Saraki


The Senate is set to pass its final verdict on the need or otherwise of establishing the South East Development Commission to take care of infrastructural deficit in the region.
The legislative piece had failed to pass necessary test in the House of Representatives earlier in the year but hopes were rekindled for the proponents and supporters of the planned South East Development Commission, when the Senate approved it for legislative consideration few months ago and referred it to its Committee on Establishment to be processed in four weeks.

The bill is co-sponsored by two Southeast senators, Stella Oduah from Amabra State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Samuel Anyanwu from Imo State also on the PDP platform. The two senators seek for the establishment of the development commission to “act as catalysts to develop the commercial potential of the Southeast,” according to Mr. Anyanwu in his lead debate.
He said, “The commission will also help enhance infrastructural development of the region.”He noted how the region had contributed immensely to Nigeria, “Yet, the Federal Government is not doing enough for the region.”


To him, the passage of the bill would engender “greater sense of belonging to the Nigerian project, in the Southeast.”The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, in a comment, after referring the bill to the committee noted that development and unity of Nigeria “goes beyond just a bill.”

According to him, “We have the responsibility to bring down tension, bring unity. In doing this, we are showing we listen to everybody but the issues go beyond this bill. More work needs to be done, there are people we are leading and we have to play our role. We have only one country.”

When news filtered in last week that the committee’s report is ready for final consideration by the Senate, the issues, facts and sentiments that led to the emergence of the Bill took centre stage again.

A lawmaker explained that the sensitive nature of the issues in the Bill would not allow for a hurried job and so the Emmanuel Paulker-led Committee had to take its time.

“You know that the Senate is respected for its ability to thoroughly consider issues that border on injustice, particularly since it was constituted based on the equality of states. So since this particular bill had failed in the House, all hopes are now in the Senate for solution.”

The principles behind the Bill received a boost just last month when in his appearance before the Senate Committee on Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) recently, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, confirmed that the worst roads in the country were located in the Southeast geopolitical zone.Disclosing this before the Magnus Abe-led Committee, the former Lagos State governor noted that some of the major federal roads in the Southeast states were constructed before the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War.

Political pundits quickly went to town creating impressions that Fashola’s statement represents the beginning of the Federal Government’s careful consideration of the dilapidated state of roads in the region.Of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, Southeast had been in the news since the assumption of office by President Muhammadu Buhari in May 29, 2015, over neglect and marginalisation by his administration.

When passed and signed into law, the Commission is expected to provide roadmap for development of roads, education, health facilities, industrialisation, agriculture, housing and urban development, water supply, electricity and commerce in the five states of Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia.

The Commission is also expected to provide policies and guidelines for the development of the Southeast, conception of plans for development in accordance with set rule as well as produce regulations, programmes and projects for sustainable development of the region.

It is also expected to provide master plans for reduction of unemployment, while also providing master plans and schemes to promote the physical development of the region.Other functions of the Commission include: tackling ecological and environmental problems that arise from soil erosion problems and other related environmental challenges in the area and advise the Federal Government and member states on the prevention and control of the erosion and environmental challenges as well as identifying factors inhibiting the development of the Southeast and assist member states on the formulation and implementation of policies to ensure sound and efficient management of the resources of the region.

The bill also indicates that the management board of the commission shall consist of the chairman and one representative each from Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states; and representatives of Federal Ministries of Finance and Justice.According to the proposal, a member of the board of the commission shall hold office for four years and can have his appointment renewed for another four years.If established, the commission could be operational for only 10 years, after which the President could propose its dissolution following the approval of the National Assembly.


Section 1(4) of the Bill provides the leeway for the commission to only exist for 10 years after which the President can wind it up by seeking the approval of the National Assembly.The Section reads: “The President may subject to the approval of the National Assembly wind-up the Commission after 10 years.”


In her lead debate, Senator Oduah submitted that the Bill seeks to address the infrastructural deficit of the Southeast and act as a catalyst to develop the commercial potentials of the region.In her words: “The Southeast as a region has contributed immensely to the overall development know-how and other areas of endeavor yet the Federal Government is not doing enough for the region. What the region requires now from the rest of the country is support and understanding and this will help to engender its sense of belonging to the Nigerian project.

“The Senate is in the right position to show maturity in the face of the plethora of problems and challenges facing the geopolitical zone. Nigeria has abundant capacity to beam a sympathetic focus to begin to address these issues in a more holistic and systematic manner. The public works projects to be executed by this Commission will engage the youths in a more serious fashion and help to develop needed human capital in both the public and private sectors. This will also curb the cases of kidnapping and other criminal activities that create a security situation not conducive for growth and development. The peaceful co-existence of the Nigerian state will be enhanced with the establishment of this Commission.

“The enactment of this Bill will help to rebuild the Southeast and provide the opportunity for the people to display their talent and contribute immensely to the development of the country.”The most contentious aspect of the bill is in the area of funding. Unlike the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the North East Development Commission (NEDC), which are majorly funded through intervention fund by the Federal Government and international donor agencies, Section 14 (1) (a) of the SEDC Bill provides that the Commission will be mainly funded through 15 per cent deductions from Federal Allocation to the five member states.

Stakeholders from the region are expected to make a strong case for federal funding of the SEDC just like the NDDC and NEDC, at the public hearing this week.Their argument is that with the inability of most Southeast states to pay workers salaries as at when due, as a result of dwindling Federal Allocation, funding of the commission may run into troubled waters.

Other sources of funding as enshrined in the bill include: “50 per cent of monies due to member States of the Commission from the Ecological Fund; such monies as may from time to time be granted or lent to, or deposited with the Commission by the federal or a state government any other body or institution whether local or foreign;

“All moneys raised for the purposes of the Commission by way of gifts, loan, grants-in-aid, testamentary disposition or otherwise; and proceeds from all other assets that may from time to time accrue to the Commission.”

Lawmakers from other regions have also thrown their weight behind the bill. For James Manager, a PDP senator from Delta South, the commission should focus on construction of deplorable state of roads in the Southeast.

Contributing to a motion seeking to commend President Buhari for signing the North East Development Commission Bill into law, he said: “there is the North East Development Commission Bill that came to this Senate and it received over 85 per cent support. I have travelled almost all the Southeast and all the federal roads are in bad state. Entering the states has been very tedious. Mr. President, my respected colleagues, that region needs urgent attention. All the federal roads have collapsed. The South East Development Commission Bill must be worked upon.”

Also, in his contribution, another PDP senator, Mr. Ben Bruce from Bayelsa East, warned against the use of funds accruable to development commissions for running overhead expenditures rather than in providing infrastructure.

He cautioned: “We should be careful with these multiple commissions. If 50 percent is spent on overhead, the purpose of establishment is defeated.”With calls for secession by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Saraki expressed the hope that establishing the bill will assuage the people in the region by giving them a sense of belonging.

According to him, “We have the responsibility to bring down tension, bring unity. In doing this, we are showing we listen to everybody but the issues go beyond this bill. More work needs to be done, there are people we are leading and we have to play our role. We have only one country.”



https://m.guardian.ng/politics/issues-anxiety-as-senate-decides-on-southeast-development/

Atiku is a failure. He cannot win the primary.

liberalsinnerx:
I Can Confirm To You From A Reliable Source...Atiku Will Be The Next President of Nigeria. The source also confirmed that either Ben Muarry Bruce or Prof. Charles Soludo will be his VP. In the weeks and months ahead, Like Arewa that just endorsed him over Buhari, more organizations and societies like Ohaneze, Afenifere, CAN and hundreds more will follow suit. All these have been decided months in advance before decamping to PDP. Most importantly, the global powers that supported Buhari have all backed out and in 109% behind Atiku.

Buhari is a goner! The source did also confirm that the presidency is shocked at the sudden surge in Atiku's popularity overnight; all social media is Atiku, Atiku, Atiku! They cannot understand what is going on! Go on the street ask anybody who will they support...it's Atiku, Atiku, Atiku! As I write now, presidency is having serious consultation on how to stop him. They have been trying to get hold of IBB and Obasanjo for weeks now but they are not responding or answering, and indication they may be throwing their weight behind Atiku.

Ipobs will boycott the 2019 election.
Ofe Nsala day!

stonemasonn:
Hmmm Lagos is A bundle of power worth dying for...even the Ezeship.

Lagos Ibo has a swaga and pride he uses to intimidate other Ibos.....just saying he lives in Lagos alone is enough, others go submit to am. Then let him open mouth and speak Yoruba...girls left and right will start offering themselves to him. Lagos is power!

Yorubas dont know because its our land, foreigners appreciate far more.

Attention should be drawn to states whose citizens flee to Libya because their states have become unlivable due to hardship.

The National Assembly should find ways to refocus attention of the Governors to taking care of their citizens as a first priority, and reserve gifting of SUV for some other day.

chrisbaxtian:
no way I am gonna do that! ritualists are everywhere in Nigeria, why you are particular about this one and want to give it tribal colouration will not change the fact

This one is igbo skull miner. We are not talking about everywhere.

bounty007:
he might not have "INSTALLED " but he has created more opportunities for the citizens much more than his "Fellow THIEVES "..

Thats a myth!

Give me verifiable info on Atiku's job creation.

Atiku is counting on hiring political consultants abroad, particularly Volpi will connect foreign interest in his favours.

Here is reality of the barriers stacked against him.


Obasanjo and Tinubu.
Both are successful in politics, both are political godfathers and have installed Governors and Presidents in Nigeria. Beyond Nigeria, both have installed Presidents in other African countries.

Atiku has not sustained political success, never installed a Governor, has struggled since 1993 (24yrs) trying to become President and changed political party every election cycle.

chrisbaxtian:
are you not tired of this stuff? what sort of human are you?

Shut up and tell me what the girl said. Which autonomous community is Mgbirichi, who is their Eze over there?

Jamesibor, In case you missed it....

Dayoto:

back at ya!!

jamesibor:
Once again let me repeat, the Igbo people do not give a rat ass who the president or vp is as long as attached pics remain the norm

You should. There are politicians in Nigeria, and there are political godfathers in Nigeria.

Atiku is not a political godfather....he is not even a politician.....he is a political failure!

Atiku needs a politician to sponsor him. Then his political sponsor needs a godfather to endorse him.

Can you get it? You see how far he has to go?

Look, follow me so you can learn a thing or two about real politicking in Nigeria.

Amarabae:
I knew that their sai baba noise in 2015 was because of osibanjo and the VP position.
They secretly prayed that buhari will not return back alive so that osibanjo will take over but they were disappointed.
They want to launch another sai buhari noise but its unpopular even in the north.
What happened in the election that brought about shagari will repeat itself in 2019.
They are jittery because the north know clearly of their chameleon character.

Really?

The North want Osinbajo to succeed so he would pick a Muslim Norther for VP who enters Presidency in 2031. Thats why you se Abba Kyari hanging around Buhari and Osinbajo a lot. On the Job Training. Its Kanuri turn!

Alcatraz005:
Atiku irrespective of the corruption allegations hanging on his neck is a good candidate any day anytime who can give Buhari a run for his money already but he has a new problem:the igbos have already hijacked his campaign and seek to be made VP. With this problem, Atiku is already seen as an anathema in the SW, a very important voting block in Nigeria. The Hausas would also have an aversion to him seeing that the groundswell of his support is from the east.

The solution now is for Atiku to choose a VP candidate from either the SS/SW. I would urge he chooses his candidate from the SS as Yoruba already have the VP spot with osibanjo and it might not look well if another Yoruba man is chosen as his VP candidate. However, if Atiku chooses Fayose as his VP, Buhari would have a lot of problems as Fayose is Christian and more radical than the Pastor we have there now. The Atiku campaign with Fayose on the ticket can also play on the religious bias of the Buhari Presidency. That would give the campaign more gravitas and bite.

Conversely, if Atiku wants to end his political career in disgrace and lose very surely and easily to Buhari, he can choose an Igbo VP and incur the wrath of millions of Nigerians.

This is my own analysis of the Atiku conundrum in 2019.

NB: I have not addressed the problem posed by Obasanjo so I can be excused on that score.

Atiku will never evver choose Fayose. Atiku should be paired with a meek person that he can control. Fayose cannot be controlled. Fayose will get Atiku into lots of problems because he is a conservative.


Atiku should pick Dino Melaye for VP. Melaye doesnt care as long Atiku is not in the way of his swag.

If you want tp hear go to page, scroll down till you see the below frame and click on the play


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/graphic-video-security-personnel-apprehend-teenage-girl-with-human-head/

The govt needs to arrange rescue mission to go get them. Where do they expect people in slavery or bondage to get phone to use? How will they even know that this message has been released, do they have internet, do they have data subscription?

Nigeria should get a rescue mission together to go rescue them.

I encourage people to please watch this. We need to empathize with people trapped in Libya or those returning from Libya.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7lCbzHGnBQ

sarrki:
Baba you dey Quote yourself

Hahahahahaha....

You are funny! I had to look again, Lasgidiowner, you are a f00l!

BruncleZuma:
Did they both reconcile else remove this trash from FP

They were never in a fight. Politics is competition, not enmity.

What development can Ibo point to anywhere in the world. This is what i want to know. Just one development, just one....identify one development incubated by Ibo anywhere in the world.

The only PDP Presidential candidate that has a true touch with the common man.

No be that yeye Atiku posed for camera eating rice with no meat.

She is beautiful, he is handsome.
Their wedding is down to earth, they didnt break the bank...I love it!

Hey Nwanne and Nwanyi, may God bless and bring you plenty good fruits and fulfillment in this marriage.
You inspire with the simplicity, yet beautiful setting and smiles and romance.

Thank you!