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Forget northern votes – Shuluwa, PDP chieftain
From ROSE EJEMBI, Makurdi
Sunday, December 05, 2010


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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elders in Benue State may have queued behind the state governor, Gabriel Suswam, to jettison zoning and endorse Goodluck Jonathan as the presidential candidate in 2011, there are some of political big wigs in the state who are not favourably disposed to that arrangement.

Also while some members of this group have chosen to either remain silent or sit on the fence, one man who had decided not to hide his feelings is Chief Abu King Shuluwa. The former Plateau State PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman who is a staunch believer in Suswam has said that even though he agrees with Suswam on every other matter, he will not and can never agree with him on this matter of zoning.

In this interview with Sunday Sun, Shuluwa who expressed joy at the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the PDP consensus candidate from the north insisted that, “2011 is not for the south and since Jonathan is not from the north, he will never get our votes.”

Atiku versus Jonathan
Atiku has the capacity more than anybody in every way because he is a crowd puller. Is Jonathan a politician? Jonathan has never contested any election in his life. If you go through the antecedents of Atiku you would see that in 1991/92, he contested as governor of old Gongola State twice and he won but Babangida cancelled it and later disqualified Atiku and all the contestants as of that time. Atiku contested to vie for the president of the country with Abiola. He was to be given the vice president but he was denied again. In 1999, he contested for the governor of Gongola state and won and they brought him to contest as vice president and he won.

Atiku’s chances
I am 99% sure that Atiku will get the PDP presidential ticket and eventually win at the polls. You know very well that gentleman’s agreement is a gentleman’s agreement. There was a gentleman’s agreement between the north and south and we allowed Obasanjo to do eight years which he did. Umaru did four years and of course, Jonathan is a continuation of Umaru.

Is there a possibility the North will relinquish power to the south in 2015 if it gets it in 2011
[/b]Why should we be talking about 2015 now? Let’s finish what we are on now. We don’t know what will happen. There could be changes between now and 2015. Let’s not anticipate what will happen. Let us go on with what is on ground now. If he does well and we decide that he should continue what is wrong about that?

After all after Obasanjo did eight years, southerners are saying Jonathan should also continue for another four years in addition to the continuation of Umaru Yar’Adua. So, we may also ask Atiku to go ahead and do eight years. In any case, unless there is another agreement between the north and south, the first agreement was that the south should do eight years and then give it to the north for eight years. Unless we go into another agreement, if not it would be thrown to anybody[b]

 
Interesting. Their true plan is slowly coming out. Are these people taking Igbos for a ride again?

unbelievably greedy;
unstable temprament;
inane propensity to fight over anything & everthing & according to them, if u dont share this uncivilised trait, u are a 'coward';
inferiority complex ie - 'everyone especially yorubas hates us' 

Thats a certain people for you.

If you have used or are using the services of a borehole company & are impressed with their work, please drop their name & contact details.

What's your opinion - in terms of quietneness, security, cleanliness, quality of houses in d neighbourhood etc

Call charges on new tarrif is 12 naira per minute, one of the lowest in the industry. But, subscribers will have to pay a 36 naira per day to benefit

36 naira!?! That's about 1k of free money to Airtel per month, whether or not you make calls. This is a massive sting in the tail & takes the shine off what would otherwise have been a much-welcome price cut.  Airtel needs to do better. We need a proper price war to give MTN something to think about.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/bharti-s-nigerian-unit-cuts-mobile-phone-call-tariffs-update1-.html

as a follow up to Dapo's comment, print more money, and you -

1) introduce hyper - inflation
2) destroy the value of the Naira
3) cripple manufacturing
4) prepare for mass unemployment
5) destroy your standing in international financial markets
6) pole-axe already low standard of living
7) be ready for mass riots & wholesale breakdown of law & order.

You see why governments avoid it?

First World War Germany, and more recently, Mugabe's Zimbabwe are just two nasty reminders.

Seun - increasing taxes does not necessarily mean more money for the government. What Nigeria needs is to tax more efficiently.

A Buhari/Yoruba (ACN) presidency will leave Igbos hopelessly deflated. I think politically, it will be a massive blow to their psyche, one that I doubt they will recover from easily.

eyin boys!!! ni bo le wa? 

so you dont have an Aristos' cash, the big cars or a mansion, but you've always wanted to have a taste of what Aristos lust after, well, here's a golden opportunity to see with your koro koro eyes. Do not miss

agreed that Lamido's reforms are creating short term pain, but we will come to see that he's God-sent.

The massive jobs created in the sector under Soludo were the result of a glutonuous banking sector built largely on massive fraud, manipulation of figures, declaration of non existent profits etc. It was a house of cards that was bound to collapse. And the eventual collapse would have been worse were it not for the timely intervention of a technocrat with genuine baking experience - something Soluda lacked.

Soludo was a very poor Central Bank governor & many well-informed people in Nigeria now know that.

He certainly gets credit for requiring increased capital base for banks, but as a regulator (d most important job of a central banker), S Lamido is far superior.

Being a Prof makes u a good theorist, but most profs aren't gr8 in the real world. I'm not surprised by the lack of real-world content in Atiku's Soludo-inspired statements.

great, thanks

Someone please - who is the current Director General of the LAGOS Law School?

Thanks

Private enterprise @ all levels exploded during Obj's reign & the economy expanded exponentially.

Paying off external debt - personally, I think this one of the most important achievements of any govt in d past 40 yrs. We know that d economy was paralysed by these debts for almost 2 decades.

Reform of the banking sector - though some of the excesses/inadequacies of those reforms are now being railed back, the original reforms/consolidation was by & large a great success

Just some of d achievements that come to mind. One doesnt have to like Obj to accept he delivered in some areas.

greed, greed, greed!

these people will do anything, absolutely anything for money

Shame

trust a Biafran to surrender when the heat is on

you're so dim.

you cant spare time in England to go to college?

there's some mileage in the argument for splitting Nigeria, though I havent given that option a deep thought yet, so I'm undecided.

To those who say South South & South East can form a union. Highly unlikely I'm afraid. Right now, the SS mistrusts the Igbos prob more than the Hausas.

redsun:
He should ve kpeme d bastar-d.Getting that close to that animal was a good .opportunity he shouldn't ve missed.Obj's demise will be grorious than abacha's to real nigerians.

you're clearly not one of the brightest. Pele.

Obj is a national treasure. Who will we all direct our frustrations at if Obj is not around  

I secretly like Obj anyways. His buccaneering nature is a throw back to the real, strong, bush-man type african men of yesteryear.  Quite endearing . Unlike the mostly metrosexual wimps masquerading as African men these days

Celebrated? I assume you mean, marked.

But this only happened about 40 years ago, marking it now will be too traumatic for those who fought in it & are still alive, as well as the many civilians caught up in it & their younger relatives. I think it should wait a little longer.

Best thing for Nigeria to do for now is take good care of the living victims of the war.

Also, the sight of a smug-looking Ojukwu on our TVs will be too much for many, including me. The guy has never apologised for his failed war strategy & the millions of lives (mostly his own people) lost

My opinion.