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thank God for GEJ.
our messiah.

Ibime:
Ride on Sanusi, Mr Central Banker of the year for subsaharan Africa. The fake pastor go soon enter kirikiri for colonic examination. Detractors go chop mud. This conviction is one of the only pieces of good news under GEJ's administration so far.[b] I hope Beaf will cite this conviction as evidence of GEJ's good work. [/b]Hehehehehe.

Beaf is busy attending to other matters.
His able assistant Marvix has done justice to that task.
6 months in reddington hospital for stealing billions
i just tire for this country.
meanwhile a lastma official was sent to jail for 4 years for collecting bribe of 10k

Madagwa Da:
Greater power flows from the ink of Azu's pen than from the barrel of a gun[b]. NO matter what people say, think or do about Azu, watch out, like Kanu a big bang is coming from him[/b]. Resigning is not part of many Africans, he proved different.

It's not over with him, he is not buried he is only planted he will grow again I believe. Steve Ayorinde and others like him should be o the watch

He has landed at Thisday, still spewing the same old c r a p without any remorse nor shame.

AjanleKoko:
Just asked. Team lead is generally around N6m. It's comparable to manager level in MTN or Etisalat, though of course you don't get a car like in MTN.

slight correction, 6m is still team lead in MTN, although they were phasing out the term team lead for manager.
anything that is level 2H is around that 6m. level 3 which is proper manager is above 7m.
all that is before tax, so nothing to be excited because it also includes lots of silly things monetised and the tax is world class.

Gbawe:
I respect Bakare as he stood up for what was right recently while cowards hid away but I am , first and foremost, a supporter of Ribadu. While I agree that Buhari may be more credible overall I think Ribadu is not far behind. I think Buhari is a harder sell accross Nigeria than Ribadu. Buhari may not signify enough of a departure from the past to raise the revolutionary zeal in Nigerians that will get them to go out, vote and protect their vote. We must remember that Buhari has tried twice to become President recently. Nigerians need something/someone new they can believe in with total passion .  Nothing less will be require to defeat the PDP . I think Ribadu can deliver a sense of hope better than Buhari and I think this is why the likes of Akeredolu (former NBA boss) and many respected individuals endorse Ribadu with gushing enthusiasm . That is my opinion and I expect that others may think otherwise.

i respect your views and the way you put them across, although i am hesitant in supporting your candidate.
he has to work harder to earn my vote.

commenting on the 2011 presidential race yesterday, Convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Pastor Tunde Bakare, described the aspirant on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, as “the most respected presidential aspirant from the North”.

Bakare who made the remarks on Buhari, during a state of the nation broadcast in Lagos, solicited support for Buhari, describing him as the best presidential aspirant because his track records as a former head of state and Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) portray him as an incorruptible individual.

He added that he is the only presidential aspirant from the North who does not have a label of corruption hanging on his neck.
He dismissed calls for a generational shift from the old to the younger generation as invalid, arguing that what Nigeria needed at the moment was not a generational shift, but rather “a leadership and paradigm shift as well as generational integration”.

According to him, given the magnitude of support that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) commanded across the country, only alignment of forces among other political forces could stop the ruling party from seizing power again next year.

Bakare, who is also the pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly in Lagos, emphasized the need to encourage Buhari’s party, CPC, to become a national party, so that it could be easier for the party to wrest power from the ruling PDP, which he alleged had ruined the country in the last 11 years.

He called on all and sundry to commence the process of national reconstruction, warning that by 2014, when the country would be due to celebrate the centenary anniversary of its emergence, the country might have ceased to exist if there are no spirited efforts to rebuild the country now.

Bakare said the task at the moment was to ensure that the best of the North (Buhari) and the best of the South, whom he said had not yet been identified, are fielded at the forthcoming general election.

The clergy man explained that his support for Buhari was a product of a survey carried out on all presidential aspirants which he said singled him out as a man of integrity and character even though he had records of blunders when he was head of state.

He expressed shock at the insinuation that former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, will run on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), saying it sounds so ironic that Ribadu who investigated the former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and made allegations of corruption against him now chooses to run in Tinubu’s party.He said a corrupt tree “cannot bear good fruit”.

Behind The Figure By Ijeoma Nwogwugwu,email:ijeomanwogwugwu@thisdayonline.com, 10.10.2010

Iis the season of politics at its best and worst, a season when the gloves are off, and all is fair in love and war. In moments like this, politicians desperately need the media to help sell themselves and their agendas to the electorate. Deep down they know that a significant portion of the electorate does not have access to the news, be it in the electronic or print version. Yet, the media is instrumental in creating a buzz around a candidate seeking elective office. The media can make or mar a candidate, depending on how it feels about his/her policies, background, religious and ethnic affiliations, and acceptability, among other attributes.

As such, it did not come as surprise when Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, governor of Kwara State, flew into Lagos last weekend to sell his candidacy to the media. It was the second time this writer had encountered the candidate in person. The first time was almost three year ago when he hosted an end of year dinner in his home in Lagos to which he had invited some media executives. For the purpose of this article, more emphasis will be laid on the second, albeit, brief meeting.

Buky, as he is known among his friends and peers, is seeking to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. For him to succeed, he will have many rivers to cross. He would first have to secure the nomination of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, a contest that is being fought by the incumbent president, and three other much more seasoned, wily politicians; of which two have a military background for added measure. It is only if he can trounce the other candidates by securing a simple majority win at the party’s presidential primary that he can contemplate contesting the presidential election as the flag bearer of the PDP.

As most of my colleagues told him last Sunday, his will be a hard candidacy to sell. Based on Nigeria’s geopolitical delineation, Saraki is from the Northern part of the country, but is of Yoruba ethnic stock. They see his attempt to contest the presidential election as a throw back to the same unsuccessful bid made by his father Dr. Olusola Saraki, a medical doctor cum banker, former senator, PDP chieftain, and widely considered to be the doyen of Kwara State politics.

Like father, like son, who have followed an uncannily similar career trajectory, very few people believe that the younger Saraki has much of a chance of succeeding in the PDP primary, much less the 2011 presidential contest. The irony is that he has some sympathy and support in some sections of the media. After all he is young, good looking, has an excellent pedigree, has the support and financial backing of some exceedingly wealthy Nigerians, and is urbane and seemingly smart (so say his supporters). Add to this his family’s political dynasty, which in other parts of the world is considered a bonus, not a disadvantage as is wrongly perceived here. On the face of it, Saraki has almost all the attributes that most upwardly mobile educated Nigerians would want to see in their leaders, especially on the world stage. But that’s where it all ends.

The big set back for Saraki’s candidacy is that he and his political strategists have failed to think up a winning formula that can secure him the ticket at the PDP primaries and go on to galvanise a nationwide popular vote in a free and fair contest. He has made the unfortunate mistake of selling himself as the candidate of the north, and has aligned himself with the same ethnic jingoists that have divided this country for most of its existence.

For a man of his age, exposure and background, who should have been preaching the oneness and indivisibility of Nigeria, he entered into a dalliance with an retrogressive establishment that spares no thought for the people they claim to represent, whose time is up, but is fighting tooth and nail to preserve the status quo. The long and short, the younger Saraki may have missed the bus.

As this writer informed him during our parley last weekend, he more than any of the serious contenders in the race is uniquely positioned. Geographically, he is from the north-central geopolitical zone, and yet, he is a Yoruba Moslem. This gave him the once in a life-time opportunity to present himself as the Bridge Builder – the unifying force between the north and the south - the candidate who can steer this nation from the divisions that have stymied development and deepened the chasm between the predominantly Moslem North and mostly Christian South. Saraki junior could have been that bridge over troubled water; that breath of fresh air needed to unite us behind one man.

But Saraki and his handlers disagree. They have attempted to defend their political strategy on the grounds that their only chance of winning the PDP primaries is if he is pro-zoning and presents himself as a core northern candidate. Except there’s something they are not telling us, they may be barking up the wrong tree. They seem to forget one critical set back that their candidate has: Abubakar Bukola Saraki cannot communicate in Hausa, a language a Hausa-Fulani friend of mine once described as the most imperialistic language in the West African sub-region. Yet, Saraki, whom I understanding is undergoing a crash course in Hausa for the purpose of the 2011 election, cannot speak the language, at least fluently.

However, his inability to communicate with the northern electorate in their language is not as important as what he is bringing to the table. Aside from presenting himself as the candidate of the north, Saraki is promoting his stewardship as governor of Kwara State in the last seven years plus. According to Saraki and his handlers, his primary focus will be to replicate his achievements in the state.

The emphasis will be on creating more jobs through agro-based and agro-allied schemes; fixing the power sector by ensuring that the transmission network is upgraded and fortified to deliver extra capacity from the new power plants coming on stream; combating crime and insecurity in the country; and facilitating private public partnership schemes for other infrastructure projects. Does this sound familiar? Indeed it does. It is no different from what other contestants in the PDP and other political parties have been telling the Nigerian electorate for months – the same generic theme, but all short on specifics.

The agriculture sector, for instance, seems to be a pet subject that Saraki has harped on as a selling point. There is no denying that the sector has the potential to provide more jobs for Nigerians than any other sector in this country. If a comprehensive programme on agriculture is formulated and effectively implemented, it has the capacity to not only guarantee food security, it will help to diversify the country’s economic base and whittle down its over-dependence on crude oil.

Saraki, nonetheless, failed to inform the media last week how he intends to achieve this through agriculture. Does he intend to provide implicit or explicit subsidies to farmers and those engaged in agro-allied businesses? Will he provide agro-credit schemes? If he does, how much will be required and how will this be funded; from direct budgetary allocations or through the commercial and specialised banks? What programmes does he have in place to ensure that the assistance needed by farmers actually gets to them? What plans does have to see that the Abuja Commodity Exchange lives up to its role of enhancing agricultural production by providing a platform where produce can be sold and bought by those with the warehouses and silos to stock commodities? What measures will he put in place to stem desert encroachment in northern Nigeria and rehabilitate the dams for water irrigation scheme? The questions, as we can see, are endless.

The only thing that stands Saraki out from the current list of contestants is that like other former governors before him, he has made the mistake of thinking that their states are microcosms of Nigeria. Sadly, they are not. Nigeria is a lot more complex and heterogeneous than that. Managing Nigeria is akin to juggling so many balls and keeping all of them in the air at the same time. If he must know, managing the economy as well as all the complex components that make up the nation will be a lot more difficult than one small state in north-central Nigeria.

But if the electorate were to ignore the lack of policy specifics and somewhat flawed political strategy of the candidate, can it ignore his antecedents before and during office? Saraki comes with considerable baggage, which he cannot wish away. His reputation as a former banker continues to haunt him. Although he has not been charged with any wrong doing, possibly because of the immunity he enjoys as a sitting governor, until Société Générale Bank of Nigeria, the family owned bank that was mismanaged in 2003 is recapitalized and depositors can recover their money, Saraki will continue to rue the day that the bank shut its doors to the public. In addition is the recent allegation made by the former managing director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, another discredited banker, of Saraki’s indebtedness to the bank and the decision by its current executives to write off the debt.

This aside, as chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum for a number of years, Saraki presided over a period when the governors grew in influence and magnitude, and were perceived as interlopers; a group that promoted agendas that primarily served their own personal interest instead of the overall national interest. With Umaru Yar’Adua and later Goodluck Jonathan (also former governors) at the helm of affairs, they saw to it that the excess crude account was emptied and unrealistic federal budgets were passed into law. In so doing, Saraki and most of his governor colleagues acquired reputations as profligate executives and imprudent managers of resources.

The younger Saraki certainly has his work cut out. So far, his campaign has been disappointingly unimpressive and is no different from the rest of the pack. The main thing he has going for him are the extra number of months all the candidates got when the Independent National Electoral Commission asked for more time to conduct the elections. His looks and age are also an added bonus and could perhaps attract female voters, states with youthful governors and delegates, and other young voters to his side. That his team has not yet capitalized on this just goes to prove how shortsighted his campaign managers are. What any political strategist worth his salt knows is that in the information age, coupled with Nigeria’s maturing democracy, the electorate will become more sophisticated, thereby rendering old worn out political strategies of yesteryears obsolete.

During the extra time Saraki and his team have, they would need to go back to drawing board. Campaign strategies have been known to have been changed mid-stream. In fact, it is those defining moments that have proved to be the most critical for candidates that have succeeded in tight contests. It will be inept to think that Saraki cannot redefine his candidacy at this juncture. Instead of running a hawkish campaign, he needs to represent himself as the progressive bridge builder, one who has a comprehensive vision and programme to bring about the much desired change for the north and the south. He must also come clean with the past by expunging himself of the ghosts that continue to lurk in the background. Who knows, Nigerians just might be able to see beyond his past, and see in the younger Saraki a bright new future.
•The assessment of the candidate is the first in a series of articles that will focus on deconstructing candidates seeking elective office in the 2011 general election

I know we have sunk low as a country, but i never knew it was this low.
we know seek for truth and validation in gun runners like Okah and serial opportunists and inept politicians like GEJ (am an who represents a summation of all that is wrong with our recent past)?
how low can it get?
these men are just taking us for a ride.they will realign forces when their greedy ambitions collide.
Then we, the people will be left with nothing but misery and despair.

Ibime:
Just like I said, Ateke has never been a member of MEND. He was only assisted in 2007 in his fight with Omehia because MEND wanted to recruit him.

Like I also said earlier, the only militants who were there at the inception of MEND were Boyloaf, Farah and Tompolo.

Okah is right. GEJ is not interested in Naija Delta. He only believes the politics of thuggery and election rigging, hence his refusal to meet the Aaron team. This is the main reason for MENDs dissatisfaction with GEJ because Yaradua had time to discuss the issues as presented by the Aaron team.

More to come. Stay tuned. . .

guy, you too dey fall my hand.
As intelligent as you are, i wonder why you find it difficult to appreciate that these men you mentioned above are all criminals.
Not one is a militant.
The only ideology is money.
there might be slight differences in the modus operandi but not one, i mean not one has any interest besides their pockets.
the people of ND are entirely on their own.
Neither GEJ nor Okah is on their side.

KnowAll:
Nigerians are illetrates, 98% of correspondence keep on harping on stealing. How could it be theft, when there are traces of how the money was spent OR apportioned, thus funds were given to individuals and companies albeit and with the benefit of hindsight,  Ibru has links to these entitites, the proper demeanour OR name for this kind of crime  is mis-appropiation, combined with gross misadventure using share-holders equity,  bordering on bad advise. Having said that,  if the deal had brought-in enough profit, the same share-holders would not complain if their diviends where larger than previous years.

There was also a bit of nepotism, double standard, conflict of interest and falling foul of Bankig rules and guidelines. Her detrator in no other person than Sanusi is a beneficiary of the same broken system, the only reason why he was able to nail Ibru and Akingbola and the Chief Executives was  becos he has what is called " inside knowledge" of the unruly and unethical banking culture that is prevalent in the Banking industry.

We must not lose sight of the fact that it takes " a thief to catch a thief". Sanusi has not done anything extra-ordinary he has only broken the secrecy in the Banking fraternity, in Yoruba language they say " o dale " which means he has broke an oath of secrecy which is prevalent in that industry.

Sanusi is just a shameless whistle blower who cannot cut it in the rough and tumble of Banking, he tried to compete,  but those guys where just not in the same league as him, what did he do,  when he became CBN Governor,  he chose  the simplest way out,  spilling the beans in the industry that to me is not bravery but cowardly.

Nigerians should see the cataclysm in the Banking Industry has a fallout of greedy and selfish men fighting over the overwhealming wealth and power some insiders within the industry have made to the detriment of sulkers like Sanusi who out of envy and jealousy result to bullying.  They say when two elephants fight, it is the grass that would suffer. We are all suffering from the ego tripping fight by these shameless Bankers.

No man of honour would go down this road of shameless perdition for a few fistful of dollars, but that is the road Sanusi chose and some of us want to follow suit. To say the Banking industry would remain in the doldrums for decades would be under-statement. That Industry is dead and buried only an act oof God would revive what today is tantamount to safe keeping houses without a focus nor a value to stir any interest from foreign investors.

I thought Sanusi came to London to hawk his damage goods not suprise there were no takers, I wish him the best of luck next time. 

dude, you came late to the party.
Naijaking1 et all all tried this line of reasoning, today they are hiding their heads in shame.
your argument is hollow.
Sanusi did not send Ceceilia to steal.even if he did, she should have resisted the temptation, afterall she has the Holy Spirit in her.
Sanusi and Cecelia are not in the same league you are right. a look at their resumes confirm that.
Cecelia was never qualified to be a Head of Operations in the smallest branch of Oceanic, let alone a bank CEO.only in Naija.

Beaf:
Dude, the gist is that there were many more bombs than the ones that went off. I read somewhere that the rest were jammed with high tech signals. It is widely reported that there were just two blasts, but there are a few pictures showing a soldier lying face down from wounds received by a third blast that happened right inside Eagle Square. Nobody knows the full extent yet, cos we haven't been told; but I guess in a weeks time, we might have a fuller picture.

all these beer parlour gists will ruin this country.
I said it earlier, what will wreck this country is not corruption or ethnicity.
it is lies, rumours and deceit that have been elevated to tools of governance.

Jarus and Aisha,
we have had enough fun with this thread.
it is time to move it to either the joke section or business section (depending on your view point).
one thing is certain, there is nothing political about this thread.
Kindly do the needful.

why 236.9 billion?
let them just round it up to 237 billion jare.
Mobil you can do it.

By Imam Imam, 10.08.2010
Unforeseen complications have arisen over the much-hyped move by the four Northern presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic to pick a consensus candidate to contest for the party’s ticket, THISDAY can authoritatively report.

The four northern aspirants are former military head of state General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen Aliyu Muhammed Gusau (rtd), and Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State.

Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, widely believed to be the brains and architect of the consensus candidacy plot and is supposed to be one of the ‘17 wise men’ expected to decide on the candidate, has broken ranks by deciding to contest the presidential primaries of the PDP.

Ayu, sources confirmed, will on Wednesday next week declare his intention to contest next year's presidential polls, but will require a waiver from the party’s National Executive Committee to run.

The former senate president left the PDP in 2006 along with Atiku and only returned about a year ago. He is therefore ineligible to seek elective office on the party’s platform.

However, Ayu is said to have appealed to some of the ‘wise men’ saddled with the responsibility of picking a consensus candidate to support his candidacy, but their response could not be verified at the time of filing this report.

Sources informed this newspaper yesterday that the failure by the 17 men to agree on the modalities for selecting the consensus candidate, as well as the seeming inability to compel the candidates to slow down their campaign activities pending the conclusion of the committee’s work, is making it difficult to reach an agreement on who should represent the North.

Before the turn of events yesterday, some members of the committee had sought to include some emirs and other opinion leaders in the North, but the effort was not successful following a plea by the emirs that they did not want to be dragged into matters that are purely political.

Phone calls to some members of the committee for clarification were not answered yesterday, but a source close to Ayu confirmed that the Benue-born politician had concluded arrangements to declare his candidacy next week.

"We have already received copies of his manifesto and declaration speech from the presidential advisory council he earlier set up. We are waiting for next week to formally join the race," the source who declined to be named said.
Until now, all four aspirants had publicly committed themselves to abide by any decision reached by the committee, but with Ayu’s decision to run, they may have to go back to the drawing board.

However, another source close to the committee acknowledged that other members have been aware of Ayu’s ambition for a while, and that his decision to contest for the PDP ticket will not stop them from concluding their work.
“An announcement on the consensus candidate will be made next week,” he assured.“The committee does not believe that Ayu’s decision will stall the search for a consensus candidate.”

oluwabamis:
this is a fake letter. the undersigned does not exist in mobil producing nigeria. i know all the top shots in mobil. I dont know what the authors of this post want to achieve, but the news is not true. Mobil does not write that kind of letter. $236.9b is not possible. thats the conbine profit of the corporation for the last 15 years.

they may be planning to borrow the money from banks to pay the supreme commander

This is a country governed by lies, rumours and deceit.
we have sunk so low that we believe a man like Okah.
I guess in our desperation and disappointment in the inept barbarians running the show at the centre, we are looking for hope in any one, even Okah.
I do not believe GEJ nor Okah.
They are both liars and deceitful characters.
suprisingly, the truth might never be known and we would continue our downward slope towards the abyss as a nation.

Oga,
i will be glad to hear your views on this.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-527888.0.html
Has Sanusi chased bribed the judges or drugged madam Ibru into a plea bargain?

buhari get 2.8 billion Kobo (not to talk of naira or pounds) anmd him life dey like this?
i beg find another story.that one is dead on arrival.

there are no militants in Nigeria, only criminals.

fyneguy,
even with all the confirmations from EFFCC et al, i am still worried about the weird titles of the man.
can you please explain them to me.
i am completely overwhelmed by those titles i see up there.

Gbawe:
Netotse, I read the interview and I think your conclusion , along with those of some on NVS, is wrong . The Interview may not be brilliant , because it is impromptu, but it will actually endear Ribadu to Nigerians because the former EFCC boss spoke honestly , passionately and intelligently on many issues . I have always found NVS to be a sanctimonious forum full of pompous charlatans , with an overblown and deluded appraisal of their own intellect  . Many on NVS are actually dense because their thinking is clouded by a clamour for unrealistic idealism. Nairaland is actually a better and more honest mix of Nigerians. This is why I post here and nowhere else. Ribadu may not be an economic guru like Utomi but an economic guru is not what Nigeria needs right now. Nigeria needs a leader who has the good qualities of  OBJ plus the sincerity and the integrity to eschew cynical self-enrichment that our former President did not have.

Ribadu is the only sane choice and those who are undecided should hear me out impartially.

Ribadu is an OBJ with sincerity. We all know that OBJ is brave, singleminded, detribalised, determined , energetic(rumoured to work almost 24 hours) and capable of inspiring others. OBJ is no economist but he showed good leadership when he meritocratically assembled technocrats and supported them to deliver results for Nigeria. Where OBJ falls short is his corrupt nature and desire for personal aggrandizement.  The NIPP, TRANSCORP, sale of refineries are a few example of good initiative hijacked by the greed and lack of enduring integrity of OBJ. Iyabo Obasanjo got NIPP contracts when she knows Nada about power generation!!!!

Now, let us imagine what Ribadu brings to the table that is pertinent to Nigeria of today. Ribadu will be everything OBJ is but without the greed , corruption and primitive lust for self-enrichment. This is a man who took $15 million bribe to the CBN as evidence of graft   We all know that , like OBJ, Ribadu is tough, resolute, energetic and highly driven. Ribadu will encourage the best technocratic hands to transform Nigeria and , unlike OBJ, he will not hijack their initiative to enrich himself and his cronies as OBJ did many, many times. I know , for example, that the NIPP scheme would have been a success under Ribadu. Someone (and I might actually join up to do it) should tell those shortsighted observers on NVS that Nigeria , right now, simply needs a President who is brave, has integrity, will fight corruption vigorously and enable many  highly talented technocrats to deliver for Nigeria.

Let the noisemakers at NVF also make sure to tell us when other presidential candidates refuse to grant them an interview . The stonewalling and lack of interviews I am predicting NVS will experience with other candidates , with a realistic chance of becoming President , will only highlight how Ribadu , even if he makes mistakes, is always available to dialogue with Nigerians as a mark of an individual who wants to serve genuinely. Can this be said of IBB, GEJ, Atiku et al? Ribadu will make mistakes but will emerge from them stronger. Dreamers can back the likes of Utomi , who can design impressive economic growth spreadsheets, but those who are really aware of what Nigeria need will understand that we want an OBJ who is sincere . We want an OBJ who , through sheer strenght of character, can support other good leaders and their good initiatives without then turning around to use said initiative as a 'get rich quick' scheme. Ribadu is far out there as the best choice candidate who has OBJ's good qualities without our former President's flaws.

my brother, i see your point but i am still not impressed with that interview.
the fact that GEJ et al are bad does not mean that we need to gloss over the fact that Nuhu seems ill prepared.
GEJ is no bench mark as in sane societies, men like him would not aspire for anything beyond a local government chairman.
the fact that this country has to stumble through his uncoordinated,inept and corrupt presidency is one of the greatest tragedies of our time.
I would vote in this election and had considered voting for Nuhu but after reading that interview, i am perplexed.
while you say Nuhu has the good qualities of OBJ, what about the bad qualities of Nuhu.
I do not doubt his courage but he seems ill prepared for this journey.
he has not been able to win me over his comments so far.

bawomolo:
after an attack of this magnitude.

in a civilized world, resignations would be flying left and right.

in china and saudi-arabia, heads would be hung left and right.

in nigeria, rumours and legends would be flying left and right.

blessed is the womb that bore you.
this is the tragedy of our country.

[b]What a bloody, barefaced liar, this Ribadu! Below is a direct quote of what he said on the senate floor in 2006 about both Tinubu and Mrs Jonathan. If you declare that someone (Patience) "is involved in money laundering" is that not an indictment? If you say "Tinubu's corruption has an international dimension" is that not a damaging indictment? Is that not the widely published statement, made on the senate floor, that prompted Tinubu to fire back that Ribadu was being used by OBJ against him.


I cannot believe that Ribadu would go on record to deny these two indictments! Gosh! If nothing else, this NVS interview has solidified Ribadu's reputation as yet another flaky pol who would lie, compromise his integrity, and exonerate corruption to win power. What a loser! What a waste! Indeed, Ibori should offer to finance his campaign and the next thing we'll be reading is that "I never indicted Ibori."

I am weak.

Then there is the annoying, non-stop whining and complaining about being held accountable for his own record--being asked to explain his actions and statements. Would someone remind this buffoon that he is running for the highest office in the country and that it is legitimate to scrutinize every fiber of his past record, including his many silly unguarded statements? Listen to the fool: "you're asking me about something I did four or five years ago, in which I gave my best, bla bla bla!" Answer the frigging question and quit whining. Defend your damn record or own up to and apologize for your mistakes.

The gra-gra in this guys is unbelievable. What a bully and intemperate fool! He thinks he should be worshipped. He thinks he should not be asked to explain his curious/controversial, and image-undercutting statements. He doesn't think it is "fair" to ask about what he did or said as EFCC chairman. He should not be asked to provide specifics. You can't ask him to explain why Tinubu, whom he clearly indicted (see below), is bankrolling his entire campaign and shadowing him around. He should not be asked how that might hamstrung him as president and undermine his future war on corruption. You can't ask him why it is hypocritical to rail against corruption and those who embody it and then say that you do not mind being funded by corrupt politicians' money "as long as they won't put the money in my pocket." You can't ask him why he exonerated corruption kingpins like Andy Ubah, OBJ, and Bode George (who was later convicted of the same charges). You can't ask why he removed Yardy's name from his so-called corruption list because he was told that "his corruption was not personal." No he won't let you ask these questions without whining about how "I have suffered," how "they wanted to kill me," how "I was humiliated," without him accusing you of trying to "pin me down" or to "smear me." He thinks that because he was dismissed and humiliated out the police, he should be given a free ride to the presidency of the most populous black nation on earth; we should simply gather at Eagle square for a coronation of Savior Ribadu. He should be patronized with easy questions that'll elicit more grandstanding and populist drivel.

This is the nail in the coffin of Ribadu's campaign. For starters, this guy may have to learn to act maturely--to act his age. He is close to 50 for crying out loud and he's acting like a 22 year old caffeinated, self-absorbed bully. [/b]

Not my exact words but i agree with every word in there.
I am so disillusioned.

netotse:
i cant fault the article, GEJ and his handlers have been going from one faux pas to the other. . .they should just calm down and make factual statements, i think there are too many people being touted as speaking for GEJ, imo the guy needs to rein in the praise singers before they do irreparable damage to his profile.

@oyb
you should head over to NVS and read the ribadu interviews. . .your guy no try at all, he gets an A for passion though. . .

_{P.S. you really need to come to my neck of the woods to hear gist about the guy sef. . .in fact a lot of your fav people have ties to this area sef}

kai, walahi! the guy no try at all.
He is so naive that he cannot even tell a proper lie.
how could he not think out the Tinubu and Babangida angle properly?
He has too much work to do but very little time.

my vote is just hanging,looking for who to vote for.
certainly not anybody in PDP.

By Imam Imam, 10.07.2010
The leader of the Niger Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF) Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari yesterday said security agents failed to heed his warning on the likely bombing of strategic targets by Henry Okah and members of his group, alleging that Okah has been stockpiling more weapons in an effort to destablise the country.

Dokubo said the attack in Abuja on October 1 was meant to destablise the Goodluck Jonathan presidency, in continuation of the deep-seated hatred Okah has for the president.

In a statement issued on his facebook page, Dokubo said Nigerians should not take Okah serious for alleging that he was asked to implicate the Northerners, saying when fully subjected to facts test, the statement would not hold water.

He said: "15 days before now, the intelligence unit of NDPVF had a stunning revelation and uncovered a plot by Henry Okah to re-arm militants - to re-arm his criminal gangs in the region. We intercepted large parches of arms that were being sent to his new recruits around the Bonny, New Calabar, Sombreiro and St. Bartholomew rivers.

"This information was promptly forwarded to the security agencies that Henry Okah was up to something. These persons in government and its agencies dismissed it! That, I was a rabid hater of Henry Okah. And this information was passed by some unscrupulous top government officers to Henry Okah, that 'Asari' had informed them that he, Henry Okah, was planning something.

"What a shame! I was still worried and sent warnings to them that Henry Okah was still up to something. A close associate of the President just dismissed it by saying “which time you and Henry Okah quarrel go end?” he added.
On the call by some Northern leaders on President Goodluck Jonathan to resign or face impeachment, Dokubo said the remark is like sounding the drums of war.

"The drums of war have been sounded by the Adamu Ciroma's, the Tanko Yakassai's, the Ali Mungonu's. We are not afraid of war! Let them come with their war."

He said attempts were made in the past by some rogue elements in the Niger Delta region to pin the attacks on him, but by God's grace, such moves have failed.

"First they made an attempt to hang it (the bombings) on me - Alhamdullahi - they failed! Today, it is Goodluck Jonathan - Insha Allahu - they will also fail," he said.

how much has been allocated to the probe panel?
I hope the panel reflects federal character in terms of geo political representation?

By SaharaReporters, New York
The former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, today almost personally closed down Thisday newspaper.

Kalu won a libel lawsuit against the newspaper, which is published by Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, along with an award of N500 million in damages. He jubilantly and immediately procured the services of a large number of police and court bailiffs and proceeded to the newspaper to shut it down.

Kalu who himself publishes a soft-sell tabloid, The SUN, has several libel lawsuits against Thisday.

Saharareporters learnt that when a woman friend of Mr. Kalu’s died recently at his Maryland, United States residence, he took umbrage at the gleeful and detailed reporting of the event by Thisday, and strengthened his legal team to push the cases against Thisday. One result was today's judgment.




The police activities around Thisday headquarters heightened tension in Nigeria as many interpreted it to mean that the federal government was clamping down on the newspaper over its reports on the Abuja bomb blasts.

the titles of the Commanclem CEO makes this sound like some sick joke between senile old men.
Is the guy for real?

The Nigerian police this morning stormed the premises of ThisDay Newspaper in Apapa, Lagos.

According to sources close to the media outfit, security operatives, acting on a court order, forcefully entered the company’s office complex and chased away all the workers on duty.

While there, they seized both the official and private cars parked in the premises and  also carted away all the computers (both desktop and laptop) found in their offices.

Source: PM news

HAH:
If Boyloaf as he claims is the owner of MEND since we all know that Jomo Gbomo is a character and anybody that has the password can be Jomo Gbomo, let Boyloaf use his password to retract the statement. Useless opportunist

Why can't he even change the password, so no one else can use the email address?
After all, he and his fellow criminals that went to drink tea at Aso rock are the true generals of MEND

this fraud no get part two.
Mr. Obot, Football Club (F.C.).

There are no militants in the ND.
only criminals.
all of them are criminals without exception.
all that differs is their level of criminality.
this is election season and they are all available to the highest bidder.
The only ideology these men have is money.
Do not be deceived.