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Nice one 1025

@Violent

I have noot asked to excuse the guy, contrary, rather we should be focusing on issues which have far more impact on us. Now tell me which is more destructive  Oga backing a know election Cheat or some Scientist lying about his achievements.

now is we have an effective government in place, this kind of rubbish will be at a minimum.

Rather than venting all our anger on this guy, Lets face our lying, cheating, stealing decieving, Governors, House of Reps, Senators and President, Politician in general

Why dont we put as much effort into condemning our corrupt leaders, and eventually drive them out. Whilst I agree that what he might have done is wrong, and condemnable, I can fail to see this as a very cheap target.

The biggest problem facing our nation is corrupt and failed leadership, I think it is imperative that we speand most of our effort in getting it right, the rest, including the above will fall in place.

Shouldn't we be condemning in the strongest terms the current craziness in government?

Na today Nyash dey back. Welcome to reality

My Brothers I simple dont get where all the belief in GEJ is coming from. Or is it a case that Nigerians have gotten so weak and lazy that they are not prepared to take hold of thier destiny.

Look at it a man practically disgrace out of office for cheating his way, runs off to Oga who then gives him solace, a room in his house and a firm promise to support his candidature. What a country, and yet we wonder why the country is in the state it is.

If the truth must be said, we might blame our leader 5% and the rest 95% Nigerians in general. We are the planners and ochestrators of our troubles

@Gbawe,

My brother you always speak well. Like I say people like you give me hope, and that hope is what keeps me fighting on. I have been accussed of hatred toward GEJ because he is of Ijaw persuation, when all I am doing is pointing out the same mistakes we have made for the last 12yrs, some might even suggest 50yrs.

I am a ND man, and I do not accept that GEJ is the best that the ND can come up with, believe me we have far more intelligent and competent hands. Secondly, I am astounded that someone who is hoping to lead with transparency and fairness is prepared to Support and Election cheat. it tells you so much about the person.

But our spirited resolve will not be defeated by some folks who are hook on scraps. We will ensure that Uduaghan does not come back to that government house

@Mbulela,

Very true the ball is in our court for us Deltans, so it is for all Nigerians come 2011. As Deltans we will work tirelessly to ensure proper peace and good governance comes back to our state.

@Excanny,

Please ignore those unecessary comments, we have a big task before all of us. Deltans must ensure we use this opportunity to send a very clear message to the Ibori clan

Guys this has nothing to do with what part of the country one comes from, so please lets keep the post clean.

@Excanny,

believe me, uduaghan is a big thief, some even suggest worse than Ibori.

Lets start with the PDP primaries. Do you know much about what happened? well, if you dont , I suggest you find out. that was a black day in the history of Delta state.

1: Asaba international airport, originally priced @ 6BN now 40BN
2: Street lights in Asaba, currently light by generator @ cost of 4Million Naira per week, contract assaigned to Roli Uduaghan
3: Warri stadium, what a big scam and rip-off, Assigned to uduaghans in-law
4: constant cases of sexual harrasment
5: 27 brand new jeep cars bought for house of assembly member to support governorship bid

This is juts to name but a few. Now there are suggestions that Uduaghans daughter is schooling in canada, where did the money come from.

Listen before he came into Politics with his brother Ibori, he was a very poor man. not a successful anaesthetist or business man, but a poor doctor that worked for DSC driving an old volks

And if you think this is a tribe thing, find out why prominent Itsekiri people do not like the man. he stands for trash

We must learn to question our leaders. Same goes for Ibori. he was not a successful business man as some would claim, neither did he come from a wealthy family

@Ugoani,

Have you looked properly at the other candidate from other parties? If you have, how have you come to the assessment that they are no better than GEJ?

Listen, we must wake up from this long political slumber we have been in for years, and really excersize our political right. Look at all the candidates properly, and if you dont understand what they represent, please ask. You owe it to yourself to choose the best, and the one who is likely to look after your needs. Choose wisely, if not you find yourself complaining for another 4yrs

As for me, The Ribadu's, Pat Utomi's represent wonderful opportunity

@Jamesugo,

no one know for sure. Like I said, this is a real test for INEC and will set the scene for next years elections. they have a real opportunity to get things right, and they must utilise it. I will be surprised that with all the fraud in the last elections, that uduaghan will be cleared for the re-run. Infact if I remember quite well, Uduaghan was not cleared till very late on the day of the PDP primaries. even then INEC found him to be suspect

@rasputinn,

My brother I tire for our people. I cant understand why people are prepared to continue to live in hell. Uduaghan must not be allowed to come back. The man is wicked, I have heard so many unsavoury stories about him, including him boasting that he is wicked, believe me, this is from a very reliable close source. We heard about the jubilation and celebrations that took place in Government house when he was kicked out.

Besides, just like you know there was no PDP primaries or elections in Delta state. We all know the very ugly scenes that took place in Ogwashiuku, and how Ibori threaten people with the unthinkable. We also remember how he promised Oga then that he will bankrole the presidential elections if his brother was allowed to stay.

We must reclaim our state. Uduaghan must go to jail

@Excanny,

That is the point, we may not totally agree with EK Clark, but he has set the ball rolling for the lazy ones amongst us to wake up and claim our state back.

@Excanny,

There is not way GEJ can claim honour while being associated with the devil (PDP), there is just no way he can be taken seriously, by those who matter whilst remaining in a party whoes primary goal is to destroy our country. After all the bible cautions that one cannot have two master. He needs to go an wipe himself clean, before his comments and actions can be seen in the light of progress, I am far to old to be tricked with goody-goody and tom-tom.

In terms of EK Clark, I honestly believe the man means well. This is coming from very close friends and. You may perceive his actions as vengeful, but I choose to see it as someone who is prepared to jump into the mud you and I wont dare doing and fight the rascals. I honestly cant fault him. I do accept that the way forward would be to ensure That Short ugly man does not come back to Government house through the ballot box, but this means Deltans must be prepared to vote and defend thier vote. I haave said it that Delta state re-run will set the tone for next year, we should be able to accurately judge how free and fair next years would be. Not holding my breath tho

raw sentiments. for htose who claim either Ibori or his short ugly brother did anything

I have been meaning to put up this same question, you beat me to it. Anyway to the question in hand. There are several reasons why I wont vote for GEJ and I am quite happy to list them

1: GEJ belongs to the Party which is single handedly responsible for the terrible governement we have today
2: GEJ has shown very little understanding on how to manage the countries finances properly
3: GEJ has shown that he is selfishly desperate that he would go against the people sensitivity to archieve his selfish aim(Uduaghan issue)
4: GEJ lacks the vision to move Nigeria where we should be headed
5: GEJ lacks the power and foresight to deal with serious issues decisively and in a manner become of a potential president with a clear vision
6: GEJ lacks the desire and will to tackle corruption head on
7: GEJ lacks the necessary address book to pull those that can make the changes we need

Besides all this, there is nothing exceptional about him. Nigerians must not sell themsleves short by no taking a proper look at other candidates from other parties. It is not written that the next president must come from PDP. Infact change is good, and we as a people will do ourselves justice by seeking that change

He is fast finding he is not upto the top job.

I dont accept this personal vendetta angle you are taking. You may not like his methods, Clark means well. Are you prepared to take up this fight he has picked? as long as you and I are not prepared to Challenege Uduaghan, evem when people who know him well agree that he is damn useless, we loose the moral authority to complain.

I am more concerned about Oga himself who has chosen to back this crook/cheat, I ask you a question, would GEJ have backed Uduaghan if his crime was that he raped Oga's daughter? Well, I can say what the answer would be, but it is certain that GEJ lacks sincerity of purpose, and nigerians are just wasting their time as usual

@Excanny,

Funny, that no court in Nigeria found Ibori guilty of stealing a banana talkless of state funds, but the british government wants him desperately for serious money laundering charges. this same charge the Uduaghan was named severally. so who is being naive here?

I understand how the typical Nigerian works "Do nothing even when I am oppressed to death", and I am prepared to take my chances with an EK Clark who is prepared to challenge the status quo.

Uduaghan is going to meet with very steep opposition, mark it. the good people os Delta state will send a resounding and clear message to him. NO

@Excanny,

dont you think we should be discussing the integrity of a President, prepared to back a deposed, cheating and corrupt ex-governor? This country Nigeria, you guys should leave EK Clark alone, he is the only one prepared to take the fight to these crooks, so you and I loose all moral authority to question his actions

Lets start my challenging a president without Intergrity

Well, I think it is good the GEJ lets everyone know the sort of person he is, one who is prepared to back crook for the sake of remain in power. I hope Nigerians can now make a somewhat informed decision on who they will get if they decide to go with GEJ.

Nigeria remians an amazing country, with extremely selfish people. This is all about Jonathan and very little to do with the people.

E K Clark is very right in what he is doing, and I am glad he is prepared to stand up for the truth, even if the threat of loosing out in PDP hangs over him. The Delta people will fight Uduaghan all the way, even if it means civil suits brought against him for his disgraceful time in office. The Man is a Big Thief, and there is no way we can allow him access to our money any longer

Some paid Nyash lickers are at it again

For the progressive Deltans, this is a very good summary of life under Ibori / Uduaghan, Please we all have an opportunity to effect change. Uduaghan must not be allowed back, we must send a clear message to him that he is not welcome as the Governor of our great state.

The annulment of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan’s election as governor of our state is a victory not only for Deltans but also a welcome development for the democratic process of our time. And if we are to move forward, Deltans must reject Uduaghan, Ibori’s sidekick, in the upcoming gubernatorial re-run.

For the past eleven years, the people of our great state have been subjected to the politics of selection, intimidation, suffering, and killings. The re-run of the 2007 gubernatorial election is an opportunity for the people to reclaim democracy from Ibori’s cabal with Emmanuel Uduaghan as nominal head.

Make no mistake about it: Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan is James Onanefe Ibori. The two are one and the same, except that one was the de facto governor– governing without lawful authority. The other was the real governor (until Tuesday, November 9th, 2010).

An Uduaghan governorship means four more years of Ibori’s control over our state from prison. A good example of the oneness of the two was when the Uduaghan administration obtained a court order from the Federal High Court, Benin City, restraining the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) from investigating the finances of Ibori’s regime from 1999 to 2007.

While all attention is on the annulment of Uduaghan’s election and the extradition of James Ibori to London for money laundering and massive looting of Delta State’s treasury, the message is being lost that Uduaghan, as governor, was an incompetent, a gross failure, massively corrupt, and that he mis-ran Delta State in the manner of Ibori. The Uduaghan-equals- Ibori theme needs to be pushed not just by the Chief Clark’s group and Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, his opponent in the forthcoming re-run election, but by every Deltan, from Jeddo to Orugbo, Aboh to Ozoro, Kiagbodo to Oghara, and Ughelli to Asaba among others. It needs to become a mantra: A vote for Emmanuel Uduaghan is a vote for James Ibori.


It is no surprise that Uduaghan was removed from office for stealing the people’s mandate. Instead of going back to Abigborodo to brief his kinsmen of his stewardship; thinking it is politics as usual, he ran to his adopted city of Abuja, where he thinks he can use the machinery that be to force himself on our people once again. The Uduaghan administration was a lot of things: It was a secret cabal, corrupt, and a cavalcade of incompetence. If incompetence were a criminal offense, he'd be behind bars while he was commissioner of Health under the Ibori’s administration. After all, there is abundant evidence that, in terms of leadership, he is a spectacular flop as Governor. But seen from the point of view of the Deltan, what it increasingly resembles was a bad forced-marriage. Deltans finds itself married to a guy who turned out to be a complete dud. He has spent more time in Abuja than in Asaba.

Personally, I just don't care whether it's an Urhobo, Ijaw, Kwale, Isoko, Igbo or Itsekiri, who emerges as governor of Delta state. The system is too broken, too corrupt, and too secretive to be fixed by breed of politician we have in the state today, unless he or she possesses the heart and courage that we almost never see in politics today.

But for anyone to think that a vote for Uduaghan would be a wise one is beyond my comprehension. I supported him in 2007 under the aegis of Concerned Deltans Inc.USA. I traveled to Nigeria to campaign for candidate Uduaghan because I believed in his campaign promises. After 3 years in Asaba, he has been a monumental failure and a fraud.

In defending Ibori’s trial in London, Uduaghan once said that, “Ibori was a wealthy man before he became governor of the state, adding that his 8-year tenure actually stalled his business interests” The recent testimony of Theresa Nkoyo Ibori (nee Nakanda) has shown otherwise. Uduaghan has shown why Deltans can’t trust him to govern them.

Uduaghan should not be contesting an election but should be arrested, tired, and sent to prison, where he rightly belongs.

I cant understand why people believe that PDP must produce the next president? It smells like political Laziness to me. If you want change go and fight for it. Sitting down and sifting through dirty chaff to find some semblance of purity smacks of downright Laziness.

@Pharoh,

No vex, so it is this same GEJ who has decided to back a depossed election malpractoce cheat, whose party is fill with very essence of thievry and corruption that is likely to do well. If you are telling me that you think GEJ is likely to be successful without dealing with the biggest scurge that faces us as a people, then I am afraid you are getting it very wrong.

We just saw a report that indictes Atiku for money laundering, Ibori probably one of the biggest criminals known to man and a big ochestrator of the ND crisis, his brother Another big thief. all walking free, and surprise surprise all belong to same party, and you think they can be an honest sense of purpose.

Sorry I will take my chances with Ribadu or Buhari, not that clown GEJ

See, but are these not the sort of question NLC and Co should be asking.

Corruption has eaten so deep into the fabric of our society that we are prepared to sift through all the chaff to find best of the criminals to lead us. What a country

@jumobi1,

It is a big deal when the 4th wife of a them poor wretched ex-cutoms man turn VP spend $9000 cash in one go. It will raise eyebrows no matter where.


I continue to say it that the present administration does not have the balls to clean up the system. There is no way that this sort of information would be out there and Atiku would be walking free, even thinkin of running for president, in a semi-sane society.

We need someone with no ties to PDP, who is prepared to sanitise the whole country and vigorously go after these guys

@Pharoh,

I disagree that GEJ is the only responsible candidate. The truth is that there are conflicting interest and he is not likely to deal with the issue objectively.

what is wrong with Ribadu or Buhari? you may not totaly agree with them but I think they are likely to provide a better outcome, they are probably the only people with enuff balls to tackle the issue head on.

what a country.
Presidential aspirants indicted of money laundering
Governorship aspirant kicked out of government house and accused of election malpractice

Only in Nigeria

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Atiku

A United States Senate report has accused Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former Vice-President, of laundering over $40 million in suspicious funds into the United States between 2000 and 2008. And his partner in the lucrative effort was Jennifer Douglas, his fourth wife. Ms. Douglas is sometimes known as Lady Jamilah Jennifer, or Douglas E, or Jennifer Iwenjora, the name by which she was known in the 1980s when she was a reporter with the Nigeria Television Authority in Lagos. According to the report, which was written by the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, most of the funds were through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts.

Of the $40 million identified in the US investigation, $25 million was reportedly wire-transferred by offshore corporations into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Ms. Douglas, primarily by Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd., LetsGo Ltd. Inc., and Sima Holding Ltd.

“In a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from Siemens AG, a major German
corporation,” the report says. “While Ms. Douglas denies wrongdoing, Siemens has already pled (pleaded) guilty to U.S. criminal charges and settled civil charges related to bribery and told the Subcommittee that it sent the payments to one of her U.S. accounts.

The report also recalls the 2006/2007 corruption brouhaha in Nigeria between Abubakar and then President Olusegun Obasanjo over the Petroleum Technology Development Fund. At that time, both a government panel and an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission panel found Atiku guilty of diverting funds meant for the Fund's operations nationwide to various banks to promote his private interests. Obasanjo dismissed his own extensive gains from the account as pointed out by Abubakar as mere "gifts" over which he had no control.
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The report goes on: “The U.S. banks maintaining those accounts were, at times, unaware of her PEP (Politically Exposed Person) status, and they allowed multiple, large offshore wire transfers into her accounts. As each bank began to question the offshore wire transfers, Ms. Douglas indicated that all of the funds came from her husband and professed little familiarity with the offshore corporations actually sending her money. When one bank closed her account due to the offshore wire transfers, her lawyer helped convince other banks to provide a new account.

”In addition, two of the offshore corporations wire transferred about $14 million over five years to American University in Washington, D.C., to pay for consulting services related to the development of a Nigerian university founded by Mr. Abubakar. American University accepted the wire transfers without asking about the identity of the offshore corporations or the source of their funds, because under current law, the University had no legal obligation to inquire.”
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