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clevvermind:
so Jega would have been given the go ahead to conduct the election whether he is ready or not? Do you know how many persons would have been disenfranchised including me? My guy, are you well at all?

guy stop bn economical with the truth..

I am not saying JEGA was fully ready for the elections. Rememba I said, "THIS IS NIGERIA". In Nigeria where politics is a bitter game, who cares if clevvermind and many oda Nigerians are disenfranchised or not. As long as a larger percentage had their PVC, then we r good to go. If u recall, the number of pple that voted in the previous election isn't as much as the number that collected their PVCs b4 feb 14.

I repeat, if the odds wernt against the president, JEGA would have bn given the go ahead to conduct the elections considering the fact that he said he was ready.

clevvermind:
why do you think that the february 14 date would have been ok? Does inec seem ready then?

clevvermind, this is Nigeria. We all know if the odds wernt against the president, ready or not, JEGA would hav bn given the go ahead to conduct the elections, considering the fact that he said he was ready and a larger percentage of Nigerians were with their PVCs. Stop bn economical with the truth.

Aisha was probably created on a resting day...And Mama piss, on a busy day

Every right thinking person knows elections were shifted for this reason.

SeverusSnape:
Jonathan will win and no parallel government will be formed.

Time will tell. Its a week to go

SeverusSnape:
This is the kind of rubbish APC wants for Nigeria, A parallel government!!!

Yea, depending on what happens during elections. Its obvious u guyz have connived with even the security agencies to rig this elections from beginning to the end.

...I am sure u can't deny the fact that the NLC election was "PeeDeePeecally" rigged...and hence the parallel govt.
So, Whateva happens during the elections will determine what will happen after the elections. I hope for a free, fair and credible one.

Despite assurances by the newly elected President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, that his leadership was making moves to bring all aggrieved factions back to the fold, a parallel executive emerged on Thursday in Lagos.

The new executive, which effectively splits the Congress into two factions, has the main contender in last Saturday’s rescheduled national elections in Abuja, Joe Ajaero, as President.

The emergence of Mr. Ajaero, the General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has confirmed the threat by members of 23 aggrieved affiliate unions of the Congress to form a parallel executive this week.

Mr. Wabba controls 18 out of the 43 affiliate unions. Two unions have remained neutral as yet.

The threat by Mr. Ajaero’s faction followed allegations that the electoral process that led to the emergence of Mr. Wabba as successor to the former NLC President, Wahab Omar, was flawed by irregularities.

The election in Lagos saw all the participants returned unopposed, two Deputy Presidents – the National President of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Igwe Achese, and General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, Issa Aremu.

Also returned as Vice-Presidents were Kasumu Kadiri of the Steel and Engineering Workers Union of Nigeria; Kelly Ogbaloi of the National Union of Shop and Distributive Employees, and Yashi Yahaya of the National Union of Civil Service Secretariat and Stenographic.

The main National Executive Council of the Congress in a statement on Thursday by the General Secretary, Peter Ozo-Eson, said at the end of its National Administrative Council meeting in Abuja that a reconciliation committee was set up to woo aggrieved members, who lost during the Delegates Conference back to the fold

The Congress had warned affiliated unions invited to the “special Conference” to ignore such invitation.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/178832-nlc-splits-as-aggrieved-candidate-forms-parallel-executive.html

Tell me its not true..

FAINTS

On Buhari candidacy he said “ Buhari is going to win the election and we are going to give him our total support, so those who are making noise about his age are just playing politics. Buhari intelligence is what counts, this is a man that has ruled us before, so age has nothing to do with it. Politicians always look for mundane things to criticise their opponent”.

Nice 1 from JEGA...very hrd to compromise. He knows what they are up to

What if I had done my duties as the president.. I wouldn't be running helter skelter now.

joseph1832:
If he had said Professor Mr Osinbajo to Mrs Osinbajo, then, I would have said something is wrong!.

I've learnt to ignore this kind of threads long ago. May be you should too.

thanks bro..

For those that care to know..PDP was a political party in Nigeria

Nice one..lovin my Naija peepz...

#BabaWhenYouGetThere don't forget to build more prisons. The available ones won't be enough to jail the corrupt bastards that have bn looting our nation dry.

#BabaWhenYouGetThere dont forget to reduce mama piss and her husband's jail terms from 300yrs to 100yrs..

#BabaWhenYouGetThere Remember Nigerians fought for you and with you. Do not forget your promises to them.

So? Is anything wrong with that? He chose to call her a professor.., And so f*ckin wat? I may decide to call you a "dickhead" for creating this kinda thread. It doesn't mean u r really a dickhead buh ur behaviour @ the moment reminds me of "dickheads".

If it was a neutral person, I would have taken him seriously..

You don't expect a PDP chieftain to say Jonathan will lose.

princesslucy83:
HOW MANY OF THEIR ELECTION HAVE WE COVERED?
WHY ARE THEY SO INTERESTED IN THIS ELECTION?

its your choice not to cover, missy. They won't stop u..buh the question still remains "if Nigeria is interested in a free, fair and credible election as she claims, why is she finding it hard to let foreign media cover her elections?"

British media outlets' applications to cover the Nigeria elections languish in a pile at the Nigeria's London embassy. Is the country's government keeping foreign media away?

I was looking forward to being in Nigeria this weekend, writing a preview for the presidential elections at the end of the month. Not the way most Telegraph readers might want to spend their weekend, I grant you, but by foreign correspondents' standards, it's a Premier League fixture.

The contest will decide who rules West Africa's most important country, and in the wake of last year's kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the wider world will be following it in a way they never used to.

Sadly, if it's on-the-ground reportage you want, don't come to me. Or The Times or Channel 4 News. Or any of the 20-odd other British media outlets that have asked for press visas to cover the elections, and whose applications still languish in a pile at the Nigerian High Commission in London. (Fee £300, non-returnable.)

Nobody has actually been refused outright. But given that the process normally takes only a week, and given that my application went in two months ago, I’m beginning to think the Nigerian government doesn't want me there. Or, indeed any of the other foreign hacks whose applications are still waiting other at Nigerian embassies around the world.

Have I written something to offend them? Much as it would be nice to think that I have upset the rich and powerful as a result of previous reporting trips to Nigeria, I don't think it's anything personal. Rather, it seems that elements in the government have decided that it would be best if the international media were kept at bay.

Instead, West Africa's biggest elections - in which a country three times the population of Britain will be casting its vote - will go ahead with only a limited foreign media presence, courtesy mainly of local representatives of the BBC, Reuters and Associated Press.

The government of President Goodluck Jonathan accepted £305m of British aid this year, not to mention British help in training its military and hunting for the missing schoolgirls. But when it comes to elections, it would rather we minded our own business.

So why is this happening? Officially, it's just a matter of bureaucracy: a few have been granted, apparently, but a lot of others are still awaiting "clearance" from no fewer than three different government ministries. The problem with that excuse, though, is that the applications were originally filed in time for a previous election date, February 15. That was then postponed until March 28, to allow the government to make more efforts against Boko Haram, and ensure polling booths could open in the north.

That's an extra six weeks, during which it would surely have been possible to sift through a few hundred press visa applications. After all, Nigerian High Commissions around the world process thousands of routine business visas every day.

True, journalists' applications aren't as straightforward. We have to undergo "security checks" apparently. Although if anyone is useless as a terrorist, it's a Western hack. Something to do with our habit of wandering around with notebooks and cameramen in tow, announcing our presence to all and sundry.

So what's the real reason then? Nobody can say for certain, but most journalists, and a number of foreign diplomats, guess it is because of the deluge of bad press that President Goodluck Jonathan's government got when the schoolgirl kidnapping story became big in May.

Not only was it harsh, it was probably the first time the world's press had decamped to Nigeria since the Biafran War. Most Westerners, until recently, would barely have known who Mr Jonathan was. Now, thanks to the BringBackOurGirls campaign on Twitter, there are teenage girls from Peckham to Pakistan who have been told he's useless.

Fair enough, much of the criticism was unjustified. The government's initial response to the kidnapping was tardy, yes, but also reflected the fact that in north-east Nigeria, where communications are always patchy, it was far from clear at first what had happened.

But brushing off unfair criticism is part of what makes democratic governments what they are, and besides, Nigeria's own lively domestic media were every bit as critical. Who, it should be noted, have probably far more influence than foreign media when it comes to Nigerians making up their minds who to vote for.

But having foreign press there is still part of the "free, fair and transparent" criteria to make sure an election result is recognised by both sides. This is especially true when the vote is close. Remember what happened, after all, in Kenya in 2008, where a dispute over who had won led to the deaths of more than 800 people in violence after the elections.

Nigeria is facing a similarly neck-and-neck race this time around, with Mr Jonathan equal in the polls with his rival for power, the ex-general Mohamadu Buhari. If he does retain power, he will already have handed Mr Buhari's supporters plenty of ammunition to support their case that the contest wasn't a transparent one. And given that violence almost always takes place after Nigerian elections anyway - 500 died in 2011 alone - the consequences could be very nasty.

True, the election isn’t until the Saturday after next, and perhaps my visa will arrive at the last minute next week. But that's not great in terms of giving the elections proper coverage. The idea is to go out at least a week in advance to give the issues a decent airing ahead of the polls, not just turn up to record the vote.

Countries that only let foreign press in for a few days around election times are observing the rules of the game but not the spirit. Which is why it’s a tactic favoured in less-than-democratic places like Iran and Belarus. A category to which I will now be adding Nigeria, unless it proves me wrong by granting those backlogged press visas pronto. I'll be happy to stand corrected.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11482533/.html

This is the kinda 1st Lady Nigerians deserve.

Lol..TANoids, u better do sumtin about this hospital b4 march 29, cos this may be the resting place for your paymaster after hearing the results of the election.

Haz any1 heard of the word "GBAGBO"?

@ the mention of card readers, some group of pple tremble

The United States government has thrown its weight behind the Independent National Electoral Commission to use the Permanent Voter Cards and the Smart Card Readers in the March 28 and April 11 elections.

The introduction of the PVC and the card reader for use in the general election has been a subject of hot debate and several litigation in Nigeria.

The American government on Wednesday through its Vice President, Joe Biden, spoke with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, of the Peoples Democratic Party and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on the forthcoming presidential election.

On Thursday, in a statement issued by the US Embassy in Nigeria and made available to our correspondent, the US Vice President commended President Jonathan and General Buhari for signing the Abuja Accord in mid-January as a show of their commitment to non-violence throughout the election process.

The statement read in part, “The Vice President further expressed the United States’ support for the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission and its work to deliver free, fair, and credible elections, in part through its essential efforts to distribute Permanent Voter Cards and help ensure that electronic voter card readers are in place and fully operational.”

Biden also noted his concern about the violence during some recent election-related events and re-emphasised the need for both presidential candidates to make clear that such violence has no place in democratic elections.

The US vice president stated further that the American government would stand with the Nigerian people in support of credible and peaceful elections, and would continue to stand with the Nigerian people whatever the outcome of the presidential poll.

http://www.punchng.com/news/we-support-inec-to-use-card-reader-us/

Godshand:
Look at who's talking. A pot calling a cattle black. Smh!

ok..so it should be advised as advice is a noun..modified.

sholatech:
The simple english statement made never mentioned it was wrong.

by their posts, you shall know them. The statement may look simple but u and I know its meaning isn't as simple as the statement looks.

sholatech:
Interesting..so Prof Soyinka now talks with the president?

what's wrong with that? The problem with us (Nigerians) is that we see big things as little until they get gigantic or beyond our control and then, we begin to rant.. May God save us All.

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, told SaharaTV about a plot to impose an interim government in an attempt to scuttle Nigeria's upcoming elections. The popular writer and professor of literature stand that after investigating the plot he approached President Goodluck Jonathan to find out if he was involved, according to him, the president denied any involvement. 

Prof. Soyinka warns Nigerians that if care is not taken a shadowy group of former and serving military generals including some politicians might overthrow Nigeria's democracy.

http://saharareporters.com/videos/i-know-those-behind-plot-form-interim-government-prof-wole-soyinka

Watch on vuclips or youtube:

http://m.vuclip.com/w?cid=988753126&nvt=8&bu=5692021495&z=1102&frm=s

It is clear to me now that FFK now fears and respectz Buhari. Maybe he doesn't want Bianca to serve him food in prison.

dexterinc2003:
*$15 million US Private Jet Arms Scandal

*N5 trillion stolen under Jonathan

*N21 billion Pension funds embezzled

*N10 billion private jet scandal.

*N1.6 trillion oil subsidy scandal, and

 much more.

AND ARE ALL THESE NOT TRUE?

dexterinc2003:
Our sources within the Buhari and APC camp have also revealed to us that Gen Muhammadu Buhari is in a quandary about what to do about the very serious allegations that have been made against Bola Tinubu when it comes to his tenure as Governor of Lagos state and thereafter Buhari is said to be overwhelmed by the staggering allegations and compelling evidence that have been documented and exposed in the last few weeks about Tinubu and his closest associates.

Our sources have revealed that Gen. Buhari has resolved that in the event of his winning the Presidential election, he will issue an ultimatum to Bola Tinubu.

The ultimatum will be that either Tinubu would forfeit and give up 50 per cent of the money, property and the illicit gains that he has fleeced and garnered from Lagos state over the last 16 years or he would face the full wrath of the law and be prosecuted for corruption.

IF THIS IS TRUE..

Then, this is to all that have been saying Buhari can't fight corruption when he is surrounded with corrupt pple. I av always said it that Buhari won't hesitate to deal with anybody if found guilty of any crime..be it Tinubu, Bukola, Rochas, Amaechi..be it anybody....And this is the kinda man we want.

Chigold101:
Obama has refused to congratulate Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Nethanyahu after even the opposition leader Isaac Herzog has conceded defeat and congratulated. Sometimes I wonder what is Obama's agenda for the future of our world.
Well I see the same scenario playing out in Nigeria on March 31st when President Jonathan would have won Nigeria presidential election. I see Obama not congratulating GEJ after the election but the only different thing will happen after Nigeria's election will be for the opposition leader to reject the election and head to election tribunal instead of towing the noble path as Isaac Herzog has done in Israel after losing.
The USA sponsored so many anti-Nethanyahu protest before the election. Nethanyahu lost every online poll conducted, at a point I was afraid that he will lose the election. But once again just as we discovered in Anambra state in 2013 that no one wins election in social media. Because many things can be manipulated by whoever that has access to the password, code or PIN.
I am waiting for Obama and his friends to say that Israeli elections was rigged because that is what the USA and their friends will say when ‪#‎GEJ‬ would have won his re-election bid as Nigeria's president.
There are thress common things between Nethanyahu and Goodluck Jonathan. The first thing is the insecurity that is plaguing their country which both inherited. And that is what Obama administration is using to fight both of them. The second thing is that now that Nethanyahu has won, he will be the longest serving Israeli prime minister and when GEJ would have won his own bid, he will be Nigerian's longest democratically elected president. The third thing is that some months ago they were friendly with Obama administration before something went wrong. Because anyone that refused to be controlled by the USA in their neo colonial style becomes their enemy and is tagged either "extremist or weak and clueless.
I congratulate Nethanyahu once again for the victory is for God and Humanity. So GEJ's will also be.

its free to dream..So dream on

This woman fear Jail pass God

ilugunboy:
His father did not move any motion.....Late Anthony Enahoro did.

Take licking mouth FFK serious at your own peril

I once read about the man..its true ...read a lil abou him here

http://www.turkishweekly.net/op-ed/2592/chief-remi-fani-kayode-the-facts-and-not-the-fiction

Its sad..

How FFK's father(Remi FFK) moved the motion for Nigeria's Independence...And now, FFK is happy, ruining the Independence together with his paymaster. What a bastard Son!