Oya OGA enter... I beg no put ne for Kirikiri that place no good like here!

I'm a good fan of The general, but it seems to me he "might" have health issues with the news that he "secretly" travelled to London and according to Saharareporters his "close aides" were not aware of the trip. As much as possible we should prevent the Yar Adua's imbroglio. Note: I'm not praying for any bad thing but just scared of any unforseen circumstances. Nigeria is bigger than any body. Wishing the President-elect good health and strength to steer the turbulent ocean of Nigerian politics.
Caveat: NO ill feelings!!!!!!

Hope so , he need to re-die now!

PDP engaging in corruption since 419BC

Pains or Gain? another set of 'trekkers' I dunno where they are headed may be Chad based on their geographical angle!

If you want to succeed get advice from intellectuals if you want to fail employ Fani Kayode and Doyin Okupe!

Since he (Jonathan) assumed office in 2011, corruption has
gripped and crippled all sectors: oil industry,
pension commission, the police, the military,
aviation, civil service, mint and printing company,
name it. The monies involved run into millions and
billions if not trillions. He promotes corruption by
his actions and inaction. He surrounds himself
with felons and proven thieves and thugs such as
Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayodele Fayose, Doyin Okupe,
Kashamu Buruji, Bode George, Iyiola Omisore, and
other illustrious criminals. He pardoned his former
boss the poster child of corruption, Diepreye
Alamieyeseigha.
Our foreign reserve account, which was $62 billion
in 2008, is down to $38 Billion while the excess
crude oil account, which in 2009 was $20 billion is
down to zero. The domestic gas project aimed at
generating power has gulped $12 billion by
December 2014 and nothing to show for it.
Jonathan remains silent till now on N155 billion oil
scandal involving government officials, Shell,
Subsidiaries in Nigeria. The money was paid on
the order of Jonathan to Malibu Oil and gas, a
company owned by Dan Etete, a former oil
minister under late General Sani Abacha.
Ten billion Naira was expended on chartered jets
by the oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. On top
of the $20 Billion missing from NNPC accounts,
Alison-Madueke was involved on royalties and
signature bonuses and was ordered by
PriceWaterhouseCoopers auditing firm to refund $
1.48 billion to the public coffers. Stella Oduah
former aviation minister, with taxpayers' money
purchased N225 million BMW armored cars for her
personal use.
Alison-Madueke on behalf of Jonathan bankrolled
AIT $10 billion bribe to produce and air negative
documentaries on leaders of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) – Muhammadu Buhari, Ahmed
Tinubu, and Yemi Osinbajo. Under Jonathan, the
federal government's debt has risen by $18.40
billion (N3trillion) in the last four years.
Jonathan paid N7 billion bribe to Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN) for the group to
campaign against Buhari. The cost of Jonathan's
campaign for the March 28 elections was a
staggering one trillion Naira. In fact, by the first
week of March, Jonathan had spent about N1.05
trillion.

A writer once described Jonathan as a “serial liar.”
Each opportunity he has to address the problems
of the nation, he oozes out a bagful of lies.
Samples: Jonathan vows to end Boko Haram
menace (AFP April 19, 2012). Jonathan vows
'Major changes' for Nigeria (Dailymotion, April 20,
2011). Nigerian President vows to Return nation to
Order (Vanguard Apil 21, 201). Nigerian President
vows to Strengthen Democratic Rule (Voice of
America, May 30, 2011). Jonathan vows to “crush
terrorists” (Reuters, Dec. 31, 2011). Jonathan vows
not to shield any corrupt person from investigation
or prosecution by anti-graft agencies in the
country (NewsDiary, May 4, 2012). Corruption: No
more sacred cows, Jonathan vows (vanguard July
26, 2011). I've fulfilled my promises to Nigerians –
Jonathan (Premium Times November 11, 2014).

Ever since the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) declared General Muhammadu
Buhari the winner of the 2015 President Election,
500 or more dignitaries have either visited him at
his country home or his temporary residence in
Abuja.

The photographs are there for all to see: dignitaries
from around the country and around the world.
That’s good, very good! But it is time we see
pictures of students, market women, okada-drivers,
the disabled, farmers and fishermen and everyday
Nigerians visit the in-coming president.
Considering the number of highly-placed visitors
the President-elect has received, I suggest that he
find time and space to host 50 or more everyday
Nigerians. It is a democratic tradition that when
you win an election, you invite representatives of
your foot soldiers for a “Thank You” chat; or you
go visit them to say thank you. In other words,
after you win, you meet with your supporters to
say “thanks” and there are usually photo-ops, too.
Image and perception matters! You want to show
that you are grateful. You want to show that you
will never forget them. You want to show that you
are on their side. You want them to believe that
you will fight for their interest. You want them to
have a sense of belonging and ownership. So, four
years hence, the same group of people will not
only join your army, they will recruit others to join.
And so I ask: where are the representatives of the
youths who spent countless days and nights and
resources contributing to General Muhammadu
Buhari’s historic victory. Where are the people who
walked the walk, talked the talk and went to the
polling stations to get things done? We want to see
the President-elect meet with their
“representatives.” He should go to them, or invite
them!
I repeat: there is nothing wrong with the
President-elect meeting with bigwigs. Absolutely
nothing! They have a role to play in the growth
and development of our country. However, the
everyday Nigerians have a greater stake in our
collective destiny, in nation-building. When
dignitaries begin to throw tantrum because their
demands are not met, it is the people – everyday
people – that the President would turn to for
support and understanding and sacrifice.
In the last couple of days and weeks, we’ve seen
and read about how some bigwigs have been
positioning and repositioning themselves. What did
they contribute to this epoch-making era? But now
they are joining the victory lap. Frankly, many of
the pictures in the public domain elicit concern.
Even so, I have trust in the ability of the President-
elect (and his inner circle) to distance many of
these new-found friends and supporters from the
corridors of power.
Nigerians sent several messages to the President-
elect. But one is clearer than every other message.
And that is that we cannot go back to the old ways
of doing things. Buhari He talked about change. He
invoked the spirit of change. And the people
believed him; they bought into his idea. All I am
suggesting is for the President-elect to meet with
a cross section of everyday Nigerians. That’s all!
Sabidde@yahoo.com

Just only to wake up and Jega says it
was April fool, what would you do?

Ayo Fayose, governor of Ekiti state and one of the
arrowheads of President Goodluck Jonathan’s
presidential campaign, has saluted Muhammadu
Buhari, describing the outcome of the presidential
election as the will of God.
Fayose famously raised health concerns over
Buhari and engaged in an acrimonious media
campaign against the retired general.
With results of the election showing Buhari taking
an unassailable lead on Tuesday afternoon, Fayose
issued a statement, saying “the election result is
the will of God and Nigerians , and all lovers of
peace, progress and development of Nigeria must
accept it”.
The governor said the election results should not
been seen as victory or loss for any political party,
adding: “To me, Nigerians and democracy won.”
Fayose said: “I salute Nigerians, especially the
great people of Ekiti state.
“I salute President Jonathan for laying the most
solid foundation for democracy in Nigeria. And I
salute Major General Buhari for being a resilient
and dogged fighter.
“I urge Nigerians, irrespective of their ethnic,
religious and political affiliation to respect the
outcome of the election in the interest of peace,
progress and development of the country.
“Nigeria as a country is greater than any individual
or group and it is my plea that no one should do
anything to rock the boat of peace in the country.”
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The Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has released the results of eight states and
the FCT in the 2015 presidential elections .
So far, Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All
Progressive Congress (APC), has gathered
2,302,978 while Goodluck Jonathan, incumbent
and candidate of the Peoples Democraitic Party
(PDP) has 2,322,734.
At this stage four years ago, in the 2011 election,
results from these same states and the FCT show
that Jonathan had 3,369,130 while Buhari had
677,546
This compares the figures received in 2011 and
2015 by the two leading aspirants.
EKITI
In 2011, Jonathan garnered 135,009 votes from
764,726 registered voters with 34.2 per cent
turnout. Meanwhile, Buhari polled 2,689 votes.
Lets see four years later. Buhari has received
120,331 votes, while Jonathan has 176,466 votes.
Registered voters were 723,255 while accredited
voters was 323,739.
OGUN
In 2011, Jonathan polled 309, 177 votes of
1,941,170 registered voters with 28 per cent voter
turnout, while Buhari polled 11,890 votes.
In 2015, of 1,709,409 registered voters with
594,975 accredited voters, Buhari got 308,290
votes while Jonathan has 207,950 .
Total valid votes was 533,172. Rejected votes –
26441. Total votes cast 559,613.
ENUGU
In 2011, Jonathan had 802,144 votes while Buhari
got 3,753 votes. total number of registered voters
was 1,303,155 with 62.5 per cent voter turnout.
In 2015, Buhari got 14,157, while Jonathan got
553,003 of 573,173 total valid votes with 12,459
rejected votes.
KOGI
In 2011, the number of registered voters was
1,316,849 with 42.7 percent voter turnout. Buhari
polled 132,201 votes while Jonathan polled
399,816 votes.
Four year later, the number of registered voters is
1,350,883 while number of accredited voters is
476, 839. Buhari polled 264,851 votes while
Jonathan polled 149,987 votes.
Total valid votes – 421,328. Rejected votes –
17,959. Total votes cast – 439,287.
OSUN
In 2011, the number of registered voters stood at
1,293,967, with 39.6 per cent voter turnout. Buhari
got 6,997 votes while Jonathan got 188,409 votes.
In 2015, registered voters is 1,378,113 with
683,169 accredited voters. Buhari garnered
383,603 votes while Jonathan garnered 249,929
votes.
Total valid votes – 642,615. Rejected votes –
20,758. Total votes cast – 663,373.
ONDO
In 2011, registered voters was 1,616,091 with 30.1
per cent voter turnout. Buhari had 11,890 votes
while Jonathan had 387,376 votes.
In 2015, registered voters is 1,501,549 with
618,040 accredited voters. Buhari has 299,889
votes while Jonathan has 251,368 .
Valid votes – 561,056. Rejected votes – 21,379.
Total votes cast – 582 435.
FCT
In 2011, registered voters was 943,473 with 42.2
per cent voter turnout. Buhari polled 131,576
votes while Jonathan polled 253,444 votes.
In 2015, there are 886,573 registered voters and
344,056 accredited voters. Buhari has 146,399
votes while Jonathan has 157,195 .
Valid votes – 306,805. Rejected votes – 9,210.
Total votes cast – 316,015.
OYO
In 2011, registered voters was 2,572,140 and voter
turnout was 33.6 per cent. Buhari polled 92,396
votes while Jonathan had 484,758 votes.
In 2015, registered voters are 2,344, 448 while
accredited voters are 1,073,849. Buhari has
528,620 votes while Jonathan has 303,376 . Valid
votes – 881,352. Rejected votes – 47,254.
NASARAWA
In 2011, total number of registered voters was
1,389,308 with 50 per cent voter turnout. Buhari
had 278,390 votes while Jonathan had 408,997
votes.
In 2015, with 1,222,054 registered voters and
562,959 accredited voters, Buhari has 236,838
votes while Jonathan has 273,460 . Valid votes –
511,547. Rejected votes – 10,094. Total votes cast
– 521,641.

My Dad was very emphatic on any child who dare to vote for PDP, this made me laughing. How
will i disobey my Dad? Just voted for CHANGE GMB !!!!!!!

It gets to this moment, the moment when lies run
their full course and ugly twisted tales are laid
bare. It’s the moment of truth. Four years and 10
months after Goodluck Jonathan assumed office as
president, it’s time for reckoning.
In Jonathan’s early days in office, I remember a
conversation I had with someone very close to
him, someone who had known him since his days
as deputy governor in Bayelsa and who became
very close to him when, as vice president, he had
oversight of the Bureau for Public Enterprises
which oversaw the privatisation process, including
the independent power projects.
After one of his numerous meetings with Jonathan
in those early days in 2010 following the death of
President Umaru Yar’Adua, I teased my
acquaintance that he had become part of an inner
circle preparing Jonathan to stand election in
2011. He said he was sure Jonathan would run,
but added that “the man vowed that even if he did
– and he’ll do so very reluctantly – he will not
stand again for election if the power situation in
the country did not improve.” On that, he said, the
man was categorical.
On September 28, 2010, when Jonathan formally
declared his intention to stand election, his second
promise from a long list was: “We will fight for all
Nigerians to have access to power.”
It’s been five years since. You must ask yourself
today if Jonathan has kept his word. I’m not
talking about a privatisation framework that
completely ignored the gas master plan and
shared public assets largely among cronies, with
little regard for due diligence.
I’m not talking about the fraudulent commissioning
and re-commissioning of power plants that had
been commissioned by former President Olusegun
Obasanjo years ago. I’m not talking about lies in
newspaper adverts that power generation has
reached 5,500MW when, in fact, it is less than
3,700MW as you read this piece. I’m not talking
about TAN adverts, which some estimate to have
cost over N5billion in dodgy funds.
Nor am I talking about a recent memo by Vice
President Namadi Sambo to Jonathan asking for at
least N42billion to buy meters for consumers, only
for the money to be diverted and shared for PDP
campaign.
I’m just saying you should ask yourself a
straightforward question: after five years and
billions of naira, do you have more electricity in
your home today than you had in 2010?
In that same speech by Jonathan, which is
available online at http://
www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/100003/), he
said, “We will fight corruption.”
In words and in deed, no government has
embraced and fed on corruption as generously as
has Jonathan’s government. Sometimes, I think he
does it without meaning harm. He just does not
know how to run a government differently.
That’s why even though the Nuhu Ribadu
committee found that N2trillion had been stolen in
the subsidy scam, Jonathan ended up using the
report to prop his armchair. That’s why, twice in
public interviews, he has made a distinction
between stealing and corruption. That’s why even
though serving ministers in his government
collected N120billion in backdoor payments for
Malabu Oil, he has not lifted a finger. And that’s
why his government cannot account for
N150billion stolen by thieving pension officials
who still enjoy presidential protection.
The theft list is formidable and pervasive, but I
promise you that not a single one in this column is
false or mentioned maliciously. I have, in fact, left
out the famous $20billion flagged by Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi. That figure will get worse if you
tear yourself off Diezani Alison-Madueke’s skirt for
a moment and ask what the government has done
with $81.3billion received from the sale of
445,000bpd of crude oil allocated to NNPC for
almost five years when the price was not less than
$100 per barrel.
Part of the waste trail has been out there for
everyone to see in the last six weeks – in the vile
political campaigns and bribes in place of honest
effort that should have been invested to govern in
the past five years.
In 2011, under this same Jonathan who promised
to “fight corruption,” 450MHz, a premium
spectrum valued at $50million, was sold to an
incompetent licensee for $6million and a waiver of
N1billion granted by ministers Omobola Johnson
and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in a transaction in which
the NCC boss had a vested interest. The first leg of
the 800MHz was sold for 13million euros in
Nigeria – an asset which Germany sold for
1.53billion euros around the same time.
If Jonathan was really interested in fighting
corruption, he would have had the back of Bashir
Gwandu, who not only opposed the NCC bazaar,
but blew the whistle on the fraud. But Gwandu was
shafted and removed, only for a competent court
to overturn his illegal and unjustified removal.
And Jonathan wants to come back? This is the
moment of truth. In his own words, he promised to
“fight to create jobs for all Nigerians.” In his recent
campaign promises, he has even promised to
create two million jobs every year!
Since we can only judge him by his record, figures
from the NBS show that his best has been
2.2million jobs in three years. If you believe that a
man who could not create more than roughly
730,000 jobs a year will create two million yearly
at a time when civil servants are going without
salaries because the government is broke, that’s
fine. But you cannot claim tomorrow that his
promise was counterfeit.
I’ve read about the dubious promises of thousands
of kilometres of roads and the claims of better
education, healthcare and fast trains. These
promises were made five years ago and they are
being repeated for our enjoyment in colourful
newspaper adverts.
How can you forget that the longest teachers’
strike in years – five months and three weeks by
university teachers – has been under Jonathan?
As for healthcare, his own man and secretary of
the Centenary committee charity ball, Kingsley
Esegbue, said in October 2013 that Nigerians
spend N250billion on medical tourism. So where
did they spend the money on healthcare? And the
fast trains? It’s a lie that has no second part.
Security has been a nightmare, with extraordinary
incompetence that led to the kidnap of the 279
Chibok girls and the killing of over 12,000 persons
including the brutal murder of young school
children, before this government outsourced
security, its basic function, to mercenaries and
neighbouring countries.
If Nigeria were a company, the shareholders would
have fired Jonathan long ago. But if after nearly
five years of incredible incompetence and failed
promises you sincerely believe that you must vote
him as reward for his poor performance, that’s
fine.
The die is cast. They are out there as you read hthis
piece, sharing bribes amassed from NNPC and
deploying force where their bribes cannot reach. I
know we have an incredible capacity to quibble
and move on, but let this be clear: we cannot
escape the consequences of the choice we make
tomorrow for another four year.

Leadership

kodded:
boko boys hailing their pay master












Quote me and buhari will lose woefully

Your hatred is first class. Shame on you!!

National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu has assured that he
would call "small boys" in his party who have
engaged in hate campaigns with the opposition to
order ahead of the Saturday's Presidential
elections.
Mu'azu gave the assurance Monday at the PDP
national secretariat, Abuja, when National Peace
Committee for 2015 Elections led by retired
Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe paid him a courtesy visit.
He said with the show of exemplary commitment of
the committee, nothing would go wrong before,
during and after elections, stressing that all
political parties need the committee which he
described as the "watch dog" to do what is
absolutely required for a very credible, peaceful
and transparent election.
"I want to assure you, the PDP will be running a
very fair campaign led by me. If you watch my
utterances personally, you find that there is
nothing I do than to be a good resource man or
what I should be for my party and for Mr.
President; to make people love him and vote for
him.
"Unfortunately, when the opposition go haywire,
some of our small boys in our own party shout
back and that is why you have this. But believe
me, I give them very serious signal that we don't
expect that. That is why it is even the way it is; it
would have gone even much worse, because it is
absolutely unnecessary to call somebody's product
by-product, it is better for you to sell your product
and show how better your own is than the other.
"We don't have any doubt that President Jonathan
has all that we need to sell, therefore we do not
need to speak ill about others. But I only want to
assure you that we will continue to improve and
increase in our caution in the use of our words and
negative campaigns in the next few days untill the
election day," Mu'azu said.
He added: "I assure you that we will sit down with
all the gentlemen and ladies that we need to talk
to, further, immediately so that there will be no
further injuries from our own side" stressing that
the PDP campaigns had been issue-based.
Earlier, Ebitu Ukiwe who led the committee
members on the visit said the visit was to advise
PDP to keep to the terms and conditions of the
peace accord signed by all the presidential
candidates of various political parties in January,
adding that the committee members would visit
the leadership of all political parties.
He advised all parties to ensure that their
campaigns are issue-based, stressing that some of
the utterances coming up during campaigns do not
fit into the peace treaty.
Former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar was
absent, but Ukiwe explained that some committee
members were absent due to various reasons
including flight problems.

Daily Trust

The Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of
Nigeria on Sunday disassociated itself from what it
called “a purported endorsement of President
Goodluck Jonathan”.
The National Youth Leader of the group, Adamu
Mohammed, reacted to the recent endorsement of
President Goodluck Jonathan by a group called
Miyyetti Allah Kautal Hore led by Abdullahi Bodejo.
In a press release issued after an emergency
meeting of the cattle breeders association, Mr.
Mohammed said the group that endorsed the
president was different from theirs.
“The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore led by one Alhaji
Abdullahi Bello Bodejo is a cultural organization
which exists in only one state of the federation and
therefore cannot speak on our behalf on any
national issues because they are not representing
all Fulani’s in the country.
“Therefore, we want to disassociate the Miyetti
Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria from
the statement credited to the Miyetti Allah Kautal
Hore that they have endorsed certain political
candidates in the forthcoming elections.
“MACBAN is not part of the endorsement since we
are not a political association, but an organized
group whose aim and objectives was to protect the
interest of Fulani’s all over the country and
beyond.
He said the group’s membership includes the
Sultan of Sokoto as Grand Patron, as well as the
Emir of Kano, Emir of Zazzau, Lamido of Adamawa
and Emir of Katsina as members of the Board of
Trustees.
The official advised all its members to vote on
election day in an orderly manner.

Premium Times

LocalChamp:
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has revealed that 2,123 policemen provided security for President Goodluck Jonathan while armed robbers raided a bank in Lekki, Lagos last week.

Fashola, who spoke at the Agricultural Food Value Chain held in Agege area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Tuesday said when the president came to Lagos last Thursday, while citizens were being robbed, the president was protected by 2, 123 security personnel.

“Let me be very clear, the president is entitled to every protection, he’s our president, but the question to ask is that; when you were being traumatised yesterday, where were these 2,123 men? Because you are also entitled to be protected. The reason why the president gets all that protection is so that he can protect all of us,” he said.

The governor also decried Monday’s protest march for Jonathan in Lagos by members of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC and other pro-Jonathan groups in which the protesters terrorised Lagosians while brandishing dangerous weapons.

“Yesterday, they also showed the difference between us when the supporters of the PDP and President Jonathan came out. You know on 7th of March this year, just about a week ago, the APC held a solidarity rally in Lagos. Did anybody attack you on that day? So, yesterday, they held their own, but what I heard, because I received telephone calls and text messages from residents who explained to me, I received emails.

“I am sorry for the pain and trauma they put you through because residents continuously complained yesterday that they were traumatised by those people who supposedly were carrying out a rally in support of the president and in support of their gubernatorial candidate, just kidding.

“So instead of canvassing for your votes and showing you why their service record is better, they were showing you knives, cutlass and dangerous weapons. Some residents phoned to say that they were banging on their cars. Let me remind all of us, that the work of a party and a government is to protect citizens and not to terrorize them,” he stated.

Fashola said for those who still said that they did not know what the issues in these elections were, Monday’s event brought one issue sharply in focus, which he said was the issue of security.

He stated that the peace and safety that “all of you have enjoyed for eight years is now at risk. You have seen the kind of people who support the other party on Monday, you have seen the kind of people who support their presidential and gubernatorial candidate, those are the people that you will see around them. Monday’s experience, may God forbid it, would be what you would experience till 2019.

“Unless you come out massively on March 28 and on April 11, that is the only way that God would forbid that kind of thing from continuing in Lagos. It is your vote that would change it. A vote for General Buhari would put to end this kind of abuse of state power. A vote for Ambode will continue the security that we have built and protected you for the past eight years.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/17/lekki-robbery-2123-policemen-were-securing-jonathan-fashola/

I agreed with Fashola the same thing happened in Kano when Namadi came last week security check everywhere i regret being on transit that day. Only if they can protect us like that.

SeverusSnape:
Liar!... Buhari IS A DESPOTIC TYRANT. He was and still is.

e dey pain you o gagan welli welli ooo gagan

barnabasj:


Back to your question, I live in Copenhagen Finland, I have father,Mother and younger ones that i send money to in Nigeria every month, I also have cousin that I have pay their Tuition fees but yet they are unemployed and all of them are complaining about the situation in Nigeria, Me alone I have mobilize about 10 people, I call them and make sure they have there PVC ready and vote against this Wasteful Government,

Each Nigeria in the Diaspora have at-least minimum of like 5 to 10 People they cater for and if they can mobilize those people it will go along way.
Hope you understands why Nigerian in the Diaspora is important.
Thank you

I thought Copenhagen is in Denmark?

shininglite:
David mark is an educated ex military officer dat has served dis country well ,not lyk dat sick illiterate certificateless cattle warlord

Oh! i thought David Mark should belong to the past too he also help in truncating our democracy.

You asking between death and sleep which do you prefer? Professor

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Adamu Mu’azu,
popularly called “Game Changer” and his Deputy, Chief Uche Secondus are
currently at loggerhead over $200 Million (Two Hundred Million Dollars)
bribe from several aspirants seeking the party’s ticket.
Mu’azu, the former Governor of Bauchi State, who took over the helms of
affairs of the PDP from Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, allegedly collected $200
Million from several aspirants seeking the Party’s ticket and did not
share with his Deputy.
It was gathered from some aggrieved Aspirants who did not clinch the PDP
tickets that Governorship and National Assembly Aspirants paid as much as
$10 Million to the Chairman as fees to facilitate the picking of preferred
Delegates and electoral officers.
The National Chairman allegedly failed to deliver on his promises after
pocketing the huge sums.
Ndudi Eleumelu, a Governorship Aspirant in Delta State paid a whooping
N750 Million and the case ended up with the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC.
Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the issue came to the fore when some
of the PDP aspirants complained to President Goodluck Jonathan about how
they were defrauded having paid huge sums for the PDP ticket and yet could
not secure the party’s flag.
Irked by the revelations from the Aspirants who recently met with him, the
President had summoned the PDP hierarchy.
A source told Pointblanknews.com that the President was particularly
miffed after he had received a complain from General T.Y Danjuma who had
complained that few days before the Governorship Primaries in Taraba
State, he had received words that after paying huge sums for his
candidate, the National Chairman was making clandestine moves to deny his
candidate the ticket.
It is not immediately known how much the retired General dolled out for
his candidate. But sources told Pointblanknews.com that the amount was
huge and that the former Defence Minister had threatened to go to the
press.
However, at the meeting with the President, sources confirmed that Party
officials were shocked that the National Chairman had collected such huge
sums without their knowledge.
Deputy National Chairman, Chief Secondus was particularly angered that he
has severally suffered short-change from the National Chairman and vowed
to take a pound of flesh.
At the end of the meeting, sources told Pointblanknews.com that the
President immediately directed that anyone who had collected money from
any aspirants should as a matter of urgency return same.
A candidate from Delta State confirmed to Pointblanknews.com that he has
since been refunded almost N1Billion he dolled out to the Party hierarchy.
It is not known yet if all the Aspirants who paid for tickets have been
refunded.
Up till the time of going to press, the National Chairman and his Deputy
do not speak to each other.
According to a source at the Party National Headquarters in Abuja, “It is
hard to reconcile both leaders now because of the campaigns now. Perhaps
after the campaign, the leadership of the party will meet and reconcile
them,” a source privy to the development told Pointblanknews.com.
The source added, “that is what has been happening here since 1999.
Aspirants always pay. Mu’azu is not the first even if he is removed today;
any other person who takes over will do the same. They all collect money.
Even Secondus who is complaining today has been collecting.”
Efforts to reach both men were not successful as their phones were both.
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/200-million-bribe-tears-muaazu-deputy-apart/

Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso
yesterday said the North will reply the hate
campaign against All Progressives Congress (APC)
candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on March 28
with their massive votes.
Kwankwaso spoke at the Lagos residence of APC
National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during a
meeting with the Lagos Arewa community.
The governor reviewed the hate campaign by the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), especially by Ekiti
State Governor Ayo Fayose and the dollar sharing
in the Southwest by President Goodluck Jonathan
to woo voters.
Tinubu urged the Hausa community not to be
deterred saying “the Arewa community is part of
the government in Lagos.”
He added: “The Arewa community has come to the
reality that we must work for the peace of this
country. We are one. We must work together. No
Dollar can break us, no Euro can divide us. We
had enough of 16 years of lies. They packed our
children inside the stadium without food. They
made them buy the uniform extorting from them,
taking from the poor, we cannot continue that way.
“We are ready, at this time, we need change in
leadership; we need change in vision. There is no
permanent tenant in Aso rock. A villa is a house
and any president is a tenant. God has blessed
and granted him six years. We have bought him
plenty shoes, many jackets. So we cannot give
him our vote.”
Tinubu charged them to keep their Permanent
Voter Cards (PVCs) to vote the APC and benefit
more from government.
Kwankwaso said Governor Fayose had become a
national embarrassment.
The governor who lamented the insults to Gen.
Buhari’s person wondered what is left of values in
the country. He added: “the North will reply them
on March 28 in the presidential polls.”
Recalling his youth service years in Ogun State in
the southwest, Kwankwaso said he had always
believed that Yoruba land paraded an array of well-
cultured, respectful people like Chief Obafemi
Awolowo, Chief Ernest Shonekan, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo, Bashorun MKO Abiola Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, among others, “but anytime I listen to this
young man, the governor of Ekiti State, I feel
terribly embarrassed as a governor and I feel bad
for Yoruba people . This young man, I don’t know
what went wrong, I used to know him even though
I was not very close to him, of course, when I was
first governor, he was not governor .
“He became governor after I left the Goverment
House in 2003, but these days, when I look at him,
I think many things are wrong with his words and
even his mouth.
“When you see Fayose, tell him he should learn
how to respect elders. Even those of us who are
governors at this time are his seniors. In this
business of politics and in any other business, I
think seniority should be respected.
“He has been talking about the age of Buhari, I am
not a medical doctor but I observed Buhari before
the primaries. He went round all the states of the
federation and after the primary elections he went
to 35 out of 36 states and Kano four times and I
am sure he came to Lagos more than once within
this short period of time, what I believe is that
Buhari is healthier than Jonathan.”
Tinubu said he was surprised that the ruling party
is afraid of elections.
Tinubu who said Kwankwaso is a trusted man
added that the Arewa people are part of the Lagos
government.
He said: “Jonathan is afraid of conducting election.

Source:The Nation

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba has dumped the ruling
People’s Democratic Party (PDP), saying the party
has lost its soul.
He becomes the fifth speaker to dump the PDP.
The current Speaker, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
defected to the opposition APC in October. Others
before him that dumped the PDP are Aminu Bello
Masari, Patricia Etteh, Dimeji Bankole.
Na’Abba announced his resignation in a letter
dated March 15, entitled “Notification of
Resignation from PDP, Its Organs and
Committees”, addressed to his ward chairman,
Sharada ward Kano Municipal local government
area.
The letter was also copied to the party’s Chairman
Kano Municipal; Chairman Kano State; Vice
Chairman North West Zone; National Chairman and
the Chairman Board of Trustees (BOT).
In his resignation letter, Na’Abba said no
administration in the history of Nigeria had used
religion and ethnicity to divide Nigerians more than
the current administration under Mr. Jonathan.
He said: “You will agree with me that such
pervasive political behaviour should under no
circumstances be tolerated by all who subscribe to
decent and conscionable political practice.
Nigeria, PDP leadership cabalised
He added: “The Country’s and the Party’s
leadership have become cabalised to the extent
that while Nigerians are aware that they have a
President in the person of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan,
they are at the same time at a loss as to who
governs their country.
“Both Nigeria and the PDP are left to drift,” he
said. “It has left us with the conventional wisdom
that people cannot succeed in life unless they are
ruthless and unprincipled.”
According to him, “It is obvious to me that PDP is
both self-destruct and irredeemable.”
For Nigerians to secure a new lease of life, he said,
they should “get out this inept leadership that has
neither allure nor inspiration.”
He added: “In its place, Nigerians deserve not just
a good President, good governors, and other
political office holders, but true and exemplary
leaders.”
Na’Abba said such leaders must have competence
and capacity to govern and a clear vision for the
future.
The PDP, he noted, “has become characterized by
corruption and impunity in the way and manner
candidates for elective positions are being selected
to the extent that in almost twenty states, crisis
has engulfed the Party over the gubernatorial
primaries and the manner other candidates for
other elective positions emerged.”
Na’Abba contended that the PDP and the country’s
leadership had failed to consolidate democratic
gains for sister African Countries and other
transition countries to follow.
“Under the current leadership, Nigeria is suffering
from loss of esteem, as we are now most often
consigned to the back seat of international
relations.
“Most worrisome is the current anxiety of most
Nigerians as the regime wobbles and tumbles
toward the oncoming election.
“It has today become incontrovertible that cartels
and shady characters are becoming visible,
important and indispensable factors in Nigeria’s
governance.
Patriots not respected
“It appears those at the helm of affairs are more
comfortable with such characters of easy virtue
than with patriotic and altruistic Nigerians.”
Na’Abba who was speaker between 1999 and 2003
expressed concerns that in Nigeria today the
quality of governance was going down by the day
even as he said critical National Institutions that
unified and wielded Nigerians together had been
dragged into politics, contrary to wise counsel and
political correctness.
“I have relentlessly pushed for reform of the
internal policies of the PDP individually and
collectively, without success. In fact it is common
knowledge that all critical members of the Party
have been made irrelevant.”
He noted that members of the party who are pliant
and who lack principle and who stand for nothing
are always more trusted by the leadership to carry
out party assignments because they are said to be
“loyal.”
“Such loyalty,” he said, “is nothing but a
euphemism for people who stand for nothing.”
Why founding fathers are leaving the PDP
He said it pains most of them that majority of the
founding fathers that had died like Chief S.M.
Afolabi, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar Rimi, Chief
Solomon Lar, Professor Osammor, Chief S. B.
Awoniyi etc all died as a result of their frustration
by and with the Party,” he lamented.
However, according to him, even those founding
fathers who are still living like Dr. Alex Ekwueme,
Malam Adamu Chiroma, Dr Shettima Mustapha,
Alhaji Asheikh Jarma Dr, Victor Odili, Mr. Isaac
Shaahu and many others “are equally living with
such frustration.While others like Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim, Alhaji Musa
Gwadabe, two former National Chairmen, Chief
Audu Ogbe and Chief Barnabas Gemade etc had
since left the Party. The Party and
theadministration clearly possess neither
compassion nor empathy.
“I pray that your mind and those of other Patriots
would also be illuminated with truth so that you
may also act wisely and accordingly.”
Speaking with Daily Trust after releasing his
resination later, Ghali said it was necessary for him
to leave the PDP because it had lost its soul and
the deterioration in the party had become
“irredeemable.”
The former Speaker said by resigning few weeks to
the election, he is sending “signal’ to his
supporters and followers all over the country not to
cast their votes for the PDP.
I may join another party
On whether he would join the opposition All
Progressives Congress (APC), which has been
making gains from the gale of defections in the
PDP, Na’Abba said “I may join another party in the
next few days and I may decide to do so after the
election.”
He alleged that the PDP had been distributing
money to aggrieved party members not to defect
to other political parties but that “I was not
approached because they know that I can’t be
bought over.”
The former Speaker said the PDP “has been losing
its sons and daughters including so many of its
founding fathers and members by the day adding,
“I will not stay for the house to fall me.”
back to

In an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters
Okey Ndibe discusses the 2015 presidential
elections in Nigeria, and the failure of both the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All
Progressives Congress (APC) parties.
Professor Ndibe argued that “the APC and PDP
represent a kind of Siamese twins, in that they are
two parties obsessed with the same idea of
dispossessing Nigerian people and looting as
being the essence of governance.” He added that,
“Nigerian politics and governance arranged around
the idea of empowering a few individuals to steal
the resources from the rest of us.”
If Buhari were to win, Professor Ndibe suspects
that Nigerians “are going to realize very quickly
that we were sold a dud. I think that Buhari is
going to bring with him a legacy of personal
restraint, and an absence of interest in obscene
material accumulation,” but that his self-restraint
would not sanitize the behavior of the APC.
Professor Ndibe expressed disappointment that
“the progressive elements in Nigeria were unable
to coalesce around the idea of finding a viable third
[party] alternative, and chose the least attractive
parties in Nigeria” to assume leadership roles in
the country.
“Nigerians know what to expect with Jonathan.
They know to expect he is a president that doesn’t
give a damn; they know he is a president whose
commitment to a transformational agenda is
simply lip deep. Jonathan as a president is in over
his head and does not understand the principals of
good governance,” he told SaharaReporters.
He forecasted that “whichever of the two major
candidates there will, I suspect, be a great deal of
violence…if Buhari wins there will be unsettlement
of the Niger Delta, and if Jonathan wins there will
be an intensification of violence in the north which
may spread.”
Professor Ndibe also told SaharaReporters that
very little in Nigeria will change fundamentally
from the election, citing how Nigerians should
“take a hard look” at candidates from other parties.
“I think we will waste another four years in which
Nigerians are going to return to the same
questions of disillusionment and disenchantment
with the political process.”
He emphasized that, “what Nigeria needs is not a
great man, or a man of great moral example, but
fundamental restructuring” of its political,
economic, and management systems.

From the moment President Goodluck Jonathan knew and or decided he was going
to contest the 2015 Presidential Election, he should not have picked a fight with
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and a few other persons and powerhouses. Thinking about
it now, I am sure that he regrets it. More than anybody else, Governor Amaechi
pulled the roof on the President’s head and in the process preempted the president’s
planned victory parade. But really, what was the president and his wife thinking when
they picked on a man whose support they needed? Hubris, maybe?
Second, what impelled or compelled the president to enter the race this time around?
You look and or listen to him and you get the feeling that he is exhausted, frustrated,
uninterested and angry. He was a deputy governor, a governor, a vice president and
then acting president before becoming the president in his own right. That should
have been enough for him. Or for anyone else in his position. Really, it should have
been. After all, 1999-2015 is a long time to shoulder the weight of a people. Damn,
what was he thinking? Insatiable greed, perhaps?
Even so, if President Jonathan had done what he was supposed to do, he wouldn’t
be in the shape and corner he is right now – gasping for oxygen and for electoral
survival. But look at him now, he is everywhere begging, begging and begging and in
the process have become the nation’s laughing stock. He was in Jerusalem. He was
in Oyedepo's Winners' Chapel. He was in Adeboye's Redeemed Church. He was in
Lazarus' Charismatic Church. He has also consorted with TB Joshua. He has been in
so many Churches and other places of religious and spiritual significance many of us
have lost count.
In his desperation, he is bowing and kneeling before everybody and everything! And
then he shows up at the Ooni palace (in Ile Ife) looking subdued and as if in a trance.
What is he looking for? Power? Power at all cost; power no matter what it takes?
Some voices in the social media have begun linking him with the Ogboni society.
This is sad, so very sad and pitiful!
In the last couple of years, we’ve seen many sickening and un-presidential pictures.
What are we going to see next? Are we going to see pictures of initiations? A
president pledging his kidney, pledging his liver, pledging his soul -- just so he
could remain in office beyond 2015? There is a limit – there has to be a limit to what
a man can and should do in search of power. Does he have loved one? He should be
called to order.
One of the saddest and most unfortunate things about President Jonathan is that he
doesn’t hold anyone or institution responsible for willful transgressions. Clearly, he
seems incapable of penalizing anybody. His aides, it seems, have come to realize
this fact and so they commit offenses knowing they can and will get away with it.
Take the most recent embarrassing situation for instance: someone or a group of
people at the foreign affairs ministry or so made him look small, very small before
the Moroccans and the international community. Yet, the President has only
promised to “look into it.” Oh no! When you embarrass your president (at this level),
heads must roll. At the very least, get the foreign affairs minister to cane and can the
offenders. There should be accountability: people should be held accountable for
their actions and inactions (especially when such egregiousness diminishes the
prestige and reputation of the President and or his office).
If you have a basic understanding of politics, one of the things you never want to do
is surround yourself with mediocre minds and mediocre intellects. But more than
that, you never want to surround yourself with people who are (a) afraid to tell you
the truth: (b) afraid to disagree with you; and (c) afraid to walk away if and when their
advices are constantly discounted.
But on the other hand, we don’t always give our best effort or best advice simply
because we don’t want to be jobless; don’t want to give up the perks and trappings
of the office; or because we came into office insincere about our intentions. In
essence, we are there, not for the good of the collective or the nation, but for the
good of ourselves. This Jonathan should have known.
A leader may be a danger unto himself if he cannot sift the grains from the sands; if
he cannot tell the difference between praise-singers and honest critics. He does
himself no good if he allows superficial noises to cloud his mind and his sense of
self and understanding of people and ideas. This is a problem that’s peculiar to
many Africa rulers. In Jonathan, it is prominent.
And he rarely acts like a leader. When the presidential election (slated for February
14, 2015) was postponed, he didn’t think it necessary to address the nation, to
explain why the election had to be postponed. But instead, he kept shifting blame
and responsibility to others even though he is the nation’s chief executive officer. In
essence, he failed to provide leadership. He was silent for a number of days –
forgetting that he is the leader of our republic.
There is something comforting about showing leadership, direction, taking
responsibility and allaying the people’s fear and doubt. In times of moral, political,
economic or social crisis, leaders step up to the podium. They take charge. They
lead. This singular act engenders and promotes trust and confidence and respect.
Jonathan didn’t seem to know or understand this singularity. Or, maybe he just
didn’t care!
One of the many tragedies of the Goodluck Jonathan narrative is that too many of his
friends and advisers are/were not sincere. They lied to him. They betrayed him. They
used him. And now, like a broke piece of tumbler, they are about to toss him away.
He is being betrayed left, right and center. Another tragedy is this: the vast majority
of those who drank from his cup and ate from his palm, shied away from defending
him. They shied away from going to bat for him. And many of those who defend him
do so because of inducements -- and not because of love, respect or loyalty.
History has shown that electoral outcomes can be unpredictable. Very unpredictable!
Two weeks is a long time when it comes to elections. And that’s long enough for
Jonathan to close the gap and come up with a Hail Mary. But I doubt it. Experts at
reading tea leaves tell me that the majority of voters will vote for Change – as
opposed to Continuity. I am happy with that.


Sabella Abidde lives in Alabama and can be reached at: Sabidde@yahoo.com

I greet you all with gladness and delight to be
amongst you in this engagement; there is no doubt
in our hearts that this gathering is a good one to
help us re-establish the goodness in being in each
others’ company. It is also not a secret, especially
due to the forthcoming elections, that some groups
are being tagged as religiously intolerant of the
other; I hope that this gathering will help quell
such unfair sentiments.
As our nation approaches, perhaps, the most
crucial election in our history, all true patriots are
called to deeper reflection of the basic ingredients
that bind the nation together — these being our
common freedom, peace and unity. This reflection
is even more relevant in the face of the illegal
postponement of the general elections — a feat
achieved through various sinister ploys and with
the sole aim of avoiding the will and verdict of the
people. In all these, I feel the urge to communicate
my personal vision and thoughts to the people of
our great nation, especially on the question of
religion, a sensitive matter for many citizens that
has become the most frequently used tool by the
ruling party.
I must add that no one is exempted from
overzealousness where faith is concerned – just
as the Christians believe so much in their cause,
so also do the Muslims, as well as other religions
in our country. However, those who deliberately
disseminate divisive disinformation and attempt to
stoke primordial sentiments using religion or
ethnicity and create fear in the minds of people fail
the standard of patriotism that this nation demands
of them and deserves from them.
There are talks today about the fear of Islamisation
or Christianisation of the Nigerian state by my
running mate and I, or by our party, the All
Progressives Congress (APC), which is absolutely
impossible considering that the Nigerian
Constitution is clearly against elevating any
religion to a state religion. That said, our religion
or faith is expected to guide us, such that the
good that we do transcend into good living
conditions and to make life more abundant in our
communities, states and the country at large. It
seems though, that the exact tenets of our beliefs
have been abandoned, but often revisited only for
self-gratification.
I would like to solemnly declare that in spite of
what our detractors say, I am not a religious
fanatic of any sort and I have never been. In all my
life I have never supported extremism of any kind,
and nowhere in my record of service to our nation
can this false toga, which political traducers have
tried so hard to put on me, be substantiated.
Indeed, it is very unfortunate and I feel extremely
sad that I have to give this type of assurance at
this time in our national life.
Let me reiterate that I, Muhammadu Buhari, have
come as an individual to serve and not to dictate,
and that as a President – if given the opportunity
– I nurture no ambition to Islamise the country,
neither is my running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
nursing any ulterior agenda to Christianise the
country. Please be clear that no member of our
team puts one religion above the other or one
interest above another.
My background is in the army, and there is no
doubt that the military is one of the most
integrated pan-Nigerian institutions. And even
today, the military is one of the few national
institutions that represent the pride of our nation’s
possibilities in unity. Soldiers from every nook and
cranny of this country come together, work and live
together, entrust their lives to each other and
integrate their families. It is a military where many
of my dearest friends, from all faiths and parts of
the country, lost their lives defending the unity of
our nation. That was the military I served in, and in
the Nigeria military that I know and can speak of, it
was impossible to be a bigot.
Just as it will be considered favouritism when
someone is favoured based on his affiliations even
when he is less worthy of the favour, so also is the
graveness of favouritism when religious sentiments
is brought into a democracy or into a highly
sensitive issue as choosing the leader of an entire
country.
In our Qur’an and Bible, we were never told that
leaders were chosen because they were Jewish or
Israelites, but because they have what it takes to
liberate the people of God; because they have what
it takes to make the people realise the intended
goods and potentials for the growth and benefit of
the society.
In most sincerity of heart, I urge you all to have a
discerning mind; double check any individual who
speaks about another person in ways derogatory
to the dignity of a human being — surely, our
faiths preach against back-biters and gossips.
I enjoin all of us to exhibit the virtue of tolerance;
tolerance because where your strength gives way
is where the strength of the other person begins —
that strength is what you both need to forge ahead
and it is the collective strength that we need as a
people to build our nation.
Tolerance because the supporters of Shari’a are
protecting their customs as the Shari’a law is
synonymous with customary laws, covering
customs of marriage, divorce and inheritance which
cannot be forced on people who do not subscribe
to it, but expecting understanding from them in
appreciation of their customs.
This tolerance should guide us because even in the
south of Nigeria where there are no laws like the
Shari’a, we still experience some level of
lawlessness and jungle justice and in-human
treatments. So it is not about the law; it is simply
that we have lost the sense of dignity that should
be accrued to the human person; we now only see
religion, tribe, place of origin and so on when we
look at our neighbours.
If we know the sacredness of the positions of
leadership, we would wish only those after our
hearts to assume such positions; those who have
won hearts because of the genuineness of their
intentions and deeds; those who will be quick to
rise to your defence rather than deny the attack or
ask for proof of attack.
I expect leaders to treat this position like a
religion; knowing that they have been put there in
trust that they will manage affairs well and make
sure that no member of any community is
neglected. Truth be told, any leader who continues
to show signs of increased wealth while the people
cry of hunger, has not been true to his faith.
Nations around the world are envious of our
diversity. They covet the strength in our diversity,
we should focus on having a leader who stands as
a rallying point around whom people can gather;
one who will mend fences and build bridges, so
that when called to give account of stewardship, he
can boldly say, “not one of the people you have
given me have I lost in the course of our journey.”
Leadership is not a one-man show, so we have to
work together; we must come together, putting
religious sentiments aside and rising above the
vicious lies of the propagandists; seeing those
negative comments as nothing but wicked minds
trying to incite same wickedness in the generality
of people.
I daresay that the prospects of elections are heated
in themselves all over the world, so we do a great
injustice to ourselves if we begin to insult the
things that we hold dear and believe in.
I believe I am speaking the minds of most if I say
that Nigeria and Nigerians are tired of the hopeless
state and the hopelessness our country has been
plunged into. We want to have faith in our leaders;
as we do in our religion, a faith that will help us
recognise the strength in our diversity and in the
long run, unite us as a nation.
God bless Nigeria as we struggle again to build a
united Nigeria in faith, service and good works.
Thank you.
General Muhammadu Buahri, GCFR, delivered this
address at an inter-faith engagement at Hamdala
Hotel, Kaduna on Wednesday 10th March, 2015ij

alaoeri:

Are you blind? Is that not Mu'azu & Mimiko in the pix?



The president has subjected himself to object of ridicule just to return to power, desperation of Jona what a shame.

Very apt!

Almajiri Writes Letter to First Lady Patience
Jonathan

D ear Madam First Lady: I Lack The Patience To
Wait For Good Luck!
I am almajiri because I am from the North and one
of the products of the Polygamous family, if you
“hate” me, you don’t have to wait to a moment
that your husband needs my vote before you come
with your pretense.
I knew long ago that the killings in my region were
allowed to be because, you don’t like my face. So,
hold it, you don’t have to tell anyone to “stone” me
because of my political party affiliation, you can
use the soldiers to continue to kill me when they
come to polling units, on the basis that “Nigeria’s
economy is in your pocket”.
You are intoxicated not from the amount of beer
your husband drinks, but for the power that you
are enjoying.
Painfully, for all your utterances recently, you have
killed your husband politically.
Yours,
Almajiri (#myvotem)

http://saharareporters.com/2015/03/11/almajiri-writes-letter-first-lady-patience-jonathan

Omo eni ku osan ju omo eni nuu lo. Please someone translate to Oga Jona?

A n inside source has told SaharaReporters that
religion was one of the key issues touched on in a
closed-door meeting between the presidential
candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC),
Muhammadu Buhari, and former South African
president, Thabo Mbeki. The two met today in
Kaduna, but the subject of their meeting and its
outcome were not officially disclosed.

But a source told SaharaReporters that Mr. Buhari
assured the visiting South African leader of his
commitment to peace and issue-based campaigns,
and stated that no Nigerian president can Islamize
or Christianize the country. “Buhari told Thabo
Mbeki that those playing the religious card were
engaged in mischievous propaganda to blind
Nigerians from demanding for credible leadership,”
said our source.
The source added that the APC presidential
candidate told Mr. Mbeki that the manipulation of
religion was dangerous, adding that it limited some
citizens’ ability to understand the need to salvage
Nigeria. “He also told Mbeki that religious
manipulation helps corruption to continue to thrive
with impunity,” said our source. “Buhari described
the issue of corruption and playing propaganda
with religion as some of the greatest threats to
Nigeria's future and survival as a united country,”
the source added.
Nigeria’s last military Head of State, Abdulsalam
Abubakar, attended the Buhari-Mbeki meeting. Our
source added that Mr. Abubakar, a retired army
general, had facilitated Mr. Mbeki’s visit to Nigeria.
The former South African president also held a
closed-door meeting yesterday with President
Goodluck Jonathan and Mr. Abubakar.
“Buhari made it clear that there is no president that
can Islamize or Christianize Nigeria,” our source
continued. “He told Mbeki that there was intense
manipulation of religion to present him in a bad
light, but he declared the plan a failure. He argued
that those behind the plan are determined to retard
Nigeria’s progress and sense of unity.”
According to the source, the APC candidate also
assured Mr. Mbeki that, as a military officer who
fought Nigeria’s civil war to preserve the country,
he would dedicate himself to the peace and
political stability of the country.
“He also told Mbeki that his ambition is to ensure
that Nigerians, irrespective of their religion,
ethnicity or state of origin, find a meaningful life
and receive maximum protection from government
against any kinds of terror bedeviling the country.
The source said that Mr. Buhari told Mr. Mbeki that
he would continue to ignore personal attacks on
his person and his family, that he would eschew
political mudslinging, and focus instead on the
issues confronting all Nigerians.
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"Joko" is that not a yoruba name Jokotade plwase xan some one speak language to him. The law is respecter of no one!