Punch is a Yoruba newspaper. The editors  are most likely Yoruba. This reporter is only a small fry who in any case lives in Lagos and has imbibed Yoruba ways of life (lying and deceit). The editors (and of course, the publisher) decide what gets published. So the news remains an Yoruba news

All na Yoruba dagbo. A religious crook like Oyedepo cannot invoke nada on anyone.

Nwobodo makes another politically sane contribution in this Obasanjo-induced imbroglio.

2011: Don’t truncate PDP zoning formula –Nwobodo
01 May, 2010 02:17:00 MUHAMMAD KABIR, Kano
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Former governor of old Anambra state, Chief Jim Nwobodo has warned that any attempt to scuttle the zoning formula in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will only cause tension and uncertainty in the nation’s polity.

Also, Chief Nwobodo decried the actions of certain people in the party who are hell-bent on removing from office the party’s national chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, insisting that even his removal will hardly solve the chains of problems affecting the party.

Answering questions from journalists in Kano when he paid a condolence visit to the family of the late former governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, who was also his bosom friend, Chief Nwobodo said for peace and tranquility to reign in the country, there was need to continue with the existing zoning formula in the PDP.

He added that anyone trying to go against it will just end up creating tension, unnecessary bad blood and uncertainty in the country.

Emphasizing that though the zoning method is a PDP affair, Chief Nwobodo explained that it did not mean that other Nigerians have no right to contest every office of their choice.

For kicking against the zoning method, Rimi was strongly condemned, Chief Nwobodo said, explaining that because Rimi was a peace loving man, he at a time, accepted his fate and allowed peace to reign.

"Therefore, truncating this arrangement is a great disservice to Nigerians because it will only cause uncertainty among them," he cautioned.

He recalled that in 1999, despite the fact that PDP zoned the presidency to the south, the late Rimi still went ahead to contest, thereby rejecting the zoning formula, adding that his contesting in the election did not bear any fruit because "we forced him out of the contest; and I could remember that was when I had a disagreement with my bosom friend."

The arrangement was strictly followed, leading to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s victory for his second tenure in office, according to Chief Nwobodo, who quickly added, "therefore any attempt to truncate this arrangement will be tantamount to causing disaffection in the nation’s polity and it will not go down well with everybody."

He said: "For peace and love to continue to exist, I want the zoning exercise to remain, and about the other parties; anybody who wants to contest should do that."

On Ogbulafor, who some groups in the party are calling for his head, Chief Nwobodo said, though the party’s national chairman has been rejected by some people, he is not solely responsible for the image problem the party is having now. He noted that dialogue, rather than removal of Ogbulafor, will resolve the problem so that "the party can forge ahead."

On the other hand, shedding tears openly at the residence of Rimi, Chief Nwobodo remembered how they operated their progressive ideologies, emphasizing that "for only I was not in the country when Rimi died, I would have been the chief host of his sympathizers because this is not only a friend but a family member who so much cared for me." He added: "We have all lost a rare gem whose attitudes and concern was all for the talakas."

He, however, rejected the notion that Rimi’s death has brought about the complete demise of the progressive ideology, insisting that all other progressive elements that were actively in the quest for having a "just government, have been spread in other political parties and I want to believe that their ideologies are still intact."

Don't be an eddiot. It is law only unto PDP and does not affect other parties. If you do not like it, form a different party and take power from the PDP. As long as PDP remains in power, that agreement must be allowed to stand.

Violent.

Just so perhaps you understand it better, if you ever will. The ruling party is the PDP. As it is now, no other party is capable of wrestling power from PDP EVEN if the election is free and fair. The other parties are disjointed and rag-tag. People like Atiku understand it and have since moved back to the PDP. Now the party in authority has deemed it fit to put in place a mechanism that will ensure fairness to all parts of the country, namely rotational presidency. The relative political peace we enjoy today is due to this and Obj has attempted to kill the joy that peace has brought by denying an agreement everyone knows exists. Any sane person would have noticed that Igbo clamour for presidency has died down considerably since rotational presidency came to be, simply because they now have the hope that someday they will be opportune to provide the national leadership. Now what will any reasonable Igbo do who have been crying against marginalization in the past? He will support that which provides the hope that he gets what he deserves, in time. Thus, my support for the North at this point is based on that and  is ACTUALLY not about IBB per se. So please keep you viewpoints to yourself, or at best express it without trying to preach to me. You have met a dead end on this one.

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Do you know what it means to drive home your point and hammer the nail even harder? Incompetent + nincompoop makes whoever is concerned a thorough eediot.

Violent (just to indulge your brainless bulk a bit),

Sentiments and rationalizations aside, what makes anyone think  IBB is a slowpoke? What makes IBB despicable to you? Because he cancelled June 12 election purportedly won by a world renowned thief?

Let's get the argument straight, are you saying that the North has no right to continue ruling until 2015 per PDP arrangement or is it that IBB is the issue here? When I get the crux of your argument I might continue with you. . If it does not matter where the president comes from, why do we have rotational presidency? Why was Yoruba compensated for June 12? Why are Igbos crying of political marginalization? Why are Ijaws promising hellfire if Jonathan is not made Ag president? For now you are catching on straw and behaving like an incompetent nincompoop. You have nothing to argue here ok?

The News was reported by an Yoruba Newspaper. If it turns out to be untrue, it depicts what I have been harping on about the quality of anything Yoruba-mediocrity. My own is to highlight anywhere an Igbo excels, or is reported to have excelled. That is my number one mission here and the second is to whip omo ngbatis into line. So take your angst to Yoruba press, PUNCH.

LELELE and KATSUMOTO

The news about Ikegwuonu was reported by a Yoruba paper Punch, and I was proud to showcase what an Igbo can do and why not? That is the reason I am here on NL. If indeed Ikegwuonu can ginger over 250, 000 poor rural farmers by advocacy, practical problem solving strategies and stuff like that, then he deserves a mention anywhere in the world. Go view the programme CNN Heroes and see the little, yet significant things people do to become influential.

Talking about me and my claims, you are 100 % at liberty to argue as you wish. I have shown myself here in the past, including my visa type which only few Nigerians here can boast to have obtained when they came in. Plus, it takes only a thorough-bred professional to be considered for a National Interest Waiver (please google that up) for permanent residency in the US. Go figure.

Makinde himself has no credibility as an ardent OBJ supporter. Fake clergymen all over the place.

Hahaha! Imagine these two low lifers, lelele and bk/babe97

Sure, you are familiar with the word slowpoke. Slowpokes (you and others like you) move together. Hahahah!

Lelele
You are a freaking urchin. Get off my face.

You are a serial loser

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I owe an imbe-cile like you no explanation. Please go and attend your Oduduwa union meeting for that is where you are best suited, mediocre.

You can mention any schools you wish, its all lies, heap of it. Or at best, Oluwole Harvard and Cambridge.

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How can you know me or my work when you do not play in my league? Stop kidding yourself.

Lelele

I know you are a fool. Otherwise you will have realized that my claim of 2 million expenses is cumulative over years.
Yes, I was trained free of charge by at least 4 different countries in a 25 year period, and the sponsorships are completely exclusive, no connection with each other. Again, take it that I am not your mate. Ok (I know your Yoruba head is too thick to comprehend)?

I know you are poor and hobnob with poor people like you, hence my staying in choice hotels wows you to no end. When you are a lead speaker in ACS meetings, you have no choice but to stay in choice hotels. Poor you.

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You are definitely impressed, hence you are here responding. Dude, I should not be caught by my peers corresponding with scums such as you. Take a hike.

Lelele

Tution fees from primary to PhD level, plus an MBA to garnish it
Innumerable flight tickets for holidays, field trips, conferences, seminars and workshops
Acommodation in choice hotels and home accomodation, feeding and an extremely handsome monthly allowance- tax free
All for over 25 years and absolutely free
That amounts to well over 2 million USD and that is modestly put.

I did not pay fees to study, govts did so for me.

Can you beat that?

Lelele

Not on NL. Mekusxxx is only but a screen name and NL is not the place to proffer anything useful- only mediocres attempt to do so here; so if you want solutions from me, you'd have first to find out my real identity. Then  you will be wowed by whom you are having to deal with in reality. I am not your mate, buddy. Now buzz off and go do some fraud.

Lelele

Plus, only unintelligent, at best average people like  you spend their own money to study. My tuition fees, well over 2 million USD, were paid for by:
1. Nigeria govt
2. British govt
3. Dutch govt
4. US govt

Govts begged me to study, all expense paid. You can only dream of possesing some of my degrees and achievements to date.

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With such unintelligible gibberish up there, do I need to define mediocrity any further? I have read of gangs of Nigerian fraudsters and I know you belong in that group.

Awon omo ole. No be thief born all of them?

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Abia and Imo specifically evacuated their people willing to leave. Do some googling

Yes, it does not have to be IBB, but a northerner deserves to rule till 2015 based on the PDP agreement. If, however the North has no other candidate and present IBB to Nigeria, Igbos have no choice but to vote for him because a northern president at this time is the only way to ensure that Igbos have the opportunity to lead in the near future. Igbos have been sidelined since OBJ came in-typical Yoruba penchant- and it is only strategic that they do all they can to bring themselves back to reckoning. As a matter of fact, IBB has not done anything that others have not done-they have all looted, including OBJ, MKO, Tafa Balogun, Bode George and others. The difference may be that IBB helped stop the mother of all thieves, MKO from further milking the nation dry. Nigerians may yet be thankful to him. Those who think June 12 is a national issue should ask themselves why only Yorubas and a few non-Yoruba living in Lagos (Yoruba arse-lickers) are the ones still talking about it. Yoruba have been compensated for June 12 with OBJ and that should rest the issue of thief MKO for life.

Adeboye is a bleeping religious thief. He must have bribed his way through. Adeboye hobnobs with all known thieves in Nigeria.