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andyanders:
Soludo is a bank Magician. He will manipulate some dummy brains to buy his policy to the detriment of the entire nation. He brought “cashless society when you cannot buy any good thing in Nigeria with N150, 000K. He encouraged Islamic Banking to support his BH brothers. He appeared with Alison Maduke and Ngozi SOMTHING telling us of the fraud in the petroleum industry that subsidy should be removed.
During the probe, he did not come to face the Adhoc committee of the House of Rep, he sent another Deputy knowing fully well that he will not carry blame. He vanished.

He is a smart BANK MAGICIAN

experts:
A BAD ROLE MODEL

I have not hidden my dislike for Sanusi Lamido's style of leadership and pursuit for power and relevance at at all cost,this time is not different. I am aware that some youths in Nigeria see him as role model,but i wonder. What role of Sanusi is worth modeling? other than the role of truth distorting,fact twisting,reality confusing,Goldy misrepresenting,history diverting,pride, shoulder Highness,insincerity and hidden agenda. Some would say he his intelligent, yes,but 419's are always intelligent.

Fufuky:
The level of there preparation toward exam, may affect there performance in the exam. sometime they believe that manner will fall from heavy.

johnie:
Ribadu Under Pressure Over New Appointment, ACN Says He’s On His Own
Published on February 8, 2012 by

Former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Malam Nuhu Ribadu is under enormous pressure to either accept or reject his appointment as head of petroleum revenue task force.

It was announced Tuesday that Ribadu had been appointed to head the 17-member petroleum revenue special task force constituted by the Federal Government.

Those who want him to reject the job said it was demeaning for a presidential candidate to accept an appointment offered him by a minister, adding it would have been more honourable if it came from the president himself.

Ribadu, who could not be reached for comments at press time, is said to be away in Afghanistan on an assignment by the United Nations.

However, his party, ACN, has issued a statement regarding the appointment, saying he takes the job in his personal capacity.

According to the party, in the statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, “the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has reiterated its long-standing position barring members of the party from accepting appointments from the PDP-led Federal Government.

‘’As a political party, we wish to reiterate our position barring any member of our party from taking any appointment whatsoever from the PDP-led Federal Government. Any member of our party who takes such an appointment does so in his personal capacity,’’ it said.

ACN said, however, that as a leading opposition party, it will continue to play its role in ensuring good governance and contributing to nation building through its regular constructive criticisms which, hitherto and unfortunately so, have fallen on deaf ears.

The party said despite its efforts, as well as those of other parties, individuals and organisations, in offering well-meaning suggestions to the inept Jonathan administration, the administration has not demonstrated good faith in this respect.

‘’For instance, on the vexed issue of removal of petroleum subsidy, it is on record that our party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, responded with patriotic and constructive suggestions during a meeting between the President in Abuja. At the end of that meeting, President Jonathan promised to further consult with us before taking any further step in respect of the matter.

‘’To our amazement, and true to the deceptive nature of this Administration, we all woke up on January 1st, 2012, to learn that the government has unilaterally removed subsidy from petrol. How then can we, in good conscience, work with such an Administration?

How can we be sure that these slew of appointments are not being used by the Administration to shore up its sagging – or totally sagged – credibility?

‘’We believe that when a party as clueless and inept as the PDP finds itself incapable of solving the myriad of problems facing it, as it is currently the situation, the party should be humble and honest enough to accept its failure and cluelessness and openly seek help from the opposition parties.

‘’However, rushing to poach credible personalities from the opposition without first accepting that it is overwhelmed by the problems facing it smacks of underhand tactics aimed at decimating the opposition and also tarnishing the well-earned credibility of such personalities. After all, one can never be sure – going by the deceptive nature of the PDP – that the kind of appointment now being offered to Malam Ribadu is being made in good faith or just to get credible people to launder the government’s badly damaged image and credibility.

‘’There is also the possibility that bosom-traps will be deliberately set for such credible personalities to guarantee their failure in their stated assignment, after which they will be ridiculed and dumped like an ordinary chump!’’ ACN said.

However, family members say Ribadu is still considering whether to accept the appointment or not, reports Premium Times, an on-line publication.

Premium Times also said it could not ascertain Tuesday if Ribadu was consulted before the appointment was announced, as he is currently outside the country on a special international anti-corruption assignment in Afghanistan.

The publication said sources close to Mr. Ribadu said “the ex-police officer had been under intense international and local pressure to give the nation a helping hand in its accountability quotient especially in the corruption-ridden oil sector, but he had repeatedly excused himself giving his ongoing United Nations assignment in Afghanistan as evidence that he was busy beyond bounds.

“He had also reportedly said he was not opposed to serving the nation in any capacity to advance its good governance, but could not overload his availability because of the United Nations assignment.

“When a new wave of pressure reportedly mounted again last month in the wake of the national outrage over the removal of oil subsidy, Mr. Ribadu was unreachable because, family sources say, he was at a Manchester Hospital in the UK helping to save the life of his only sister.”

Premium Times further reports that “With the Afghan assignment at an advanced stage, Mr. Ribadu started getting calls again. Family sources expect that he will ‘most certainly accept’ the assignment.

The task force, which has the immediate past Head of Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye, as deputy chairman, also includes other prominent Nigerians as members.

They are a one-time President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and constitutional lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba; Abba Kyari, Benedicta Molokwu, Supo Sasore, Tony Idigbe, Anthony George-Ikoli, Omolara, Ituah Ighodalo, Bon Otti, Olusegun Okunnu, Samaila Zubairu, Ignatius Adegunle, Gerald Ilukwe and two ex-officio officers representing the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Federal Ministry of Finance.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/02/08/ribadu-under-pressure-over-new-appointment-acn-says-hes-on-his-own/

alj harem:
Femi fani and Ben Nwabueze calls for SNC now !!!!!!!!

Femi calls all nigerian to stand by SNC

Beaf:
I'll ask a simple question:
What is the alternative to voting PDP? A fairytale? Fantasy?

Everywhere you look Nigeria, there are mushroom parties built on ethnicity and mushroom thinking, all hurdled in ugly bigotted enclaves. It is fair to say that there is only one mature party in Nigeria today, that is the PDP. The rest are just ethnic champs, that are even more corrupt than the PDP.

executinal:
Corruption will never stop overnight, do the right thing at the right time. He should stop the corruption from himself, let him set example simple. There are poor people in that church that can barely feed one square meal a day, but he will still collect tith from them, who is killing who??

I never benefited from any corruption, rather GEJ was on the right track to end corruption, still he Bakare doesn't even understand the foundation of this so called corrupton that he is trying to fight now.

I still repeat when is Nigeria going out to tell federal government that enough is enough on the issue of security in our country?? why should i protest for nothing, which i know quite well that at the end, thesame story ?? Politician are evil people, they can only tell you ok, we have cut this and that, but at the end their pakage or allowance remain thesame so why not channel that your energy for protest to something meaninful than engage the youth for unessary protest. [size=18pt]WHy don't Bakare engage the youth to protest for resource control?? if they are taking about resource control i will be in the fore front with Bakare[/size]

What is the outcome of the last protest, Peter esele or whatever he is called, sold out Nigeria, SNG is not recorgnice if they are recorgnice they could have continue with the protest untill FG go back to N65.