₦airaland Forum

jmaine:
Opposition wins , they claim it is victory for democracy. Opposition loses , they claim it was rigged . . The Nigerian politicking story so far

You said it all! I have nothing to add

I append my signature to the petition to withdraw NYSC members from the Northern States

GenBuhari:
^ Buhari founded CPC

You are requested to vote for the good CPC Governorship candidates that have been vetted by Buhari

Wait a minute. Is CPC a political party? I thought it was a terrorist group. Do they now allow terrorist groups to field candidates for elections?

Kenyy:
Thank you for this Vital information as it has proved that there was in fact a conspiracy between INEC and PDP to hastily  announce a Fraudulent Result knowing fully well that it will take, if not more than, 4years for the Supreme Court to pass Judgements ordering that the Ballot Papers be subjected to Forensic Analysis and a run-off of the Presidential Election.

That has always been the position of the Law since 1999! And in case you also dont know, the law also provides for a newly sworn - in political office holder to spend a full term of 4 years. Therefore, CPC has nothing to worry about the lenght of the trial because Buhari would still have a full 4 years tenure if he ever wins.

1025:
@muami,
jega told us that ballot materials were coming from Japan but Bakare is saying is not true. if it is a normal country with normal ppl, the issue here will be prove. but what do u get from things like u? it is criminal for jega to lie to us. again, jonathan told us that Chief raymond Dokpesi was behind the 1st oct 2010 bombing in abuja. since Dokpesi joined the jonathan campeign, how far?
pdp said zoning and obj did 8 yrs so why is the hausas not doing 8 yrs?
for your information, i am an igbo man from imo state but my only interest is that we have an organised way of life free from these old embeciles who cannot emulate the likes of mandela. what is there to rejoice in the winning of pdp if they have been arround since 12 yrs? i am not going to reply your insults just for one reason which is, most of nigerians have lost their senses in their battle to survive the hardship in the country.

What was all this rambling about. I asked you a simple question to point to the law that gives INEC powers to accede to CPC's request and you went about rambliing. In my days in secondary school, your post would be referred to as 'a classic case of OP' ( Out of Point)!

1025:
@vigasimple,
if jega feels Bakare's accusations are lies, let him sourrender the ballot papers to the independent accountants.

Illiteracy is indeed a disease. No wonder it is easy for you and your fellow almajiris to be easily decieved to commit crime against humanity.
If you were educated, you would have known that INEC does not act according to accusations or wishes of individual political parties made in useless press conferences. INEC ACTS ACCORDING TO LAW, in particular the Consitution and the Electoral Act. Did you see any section in these laws which gives parties power to compel INEC to 'sourrender' ballot papers to 'independent accountans' or any other person without an order of court?
For your information, the Electoral Act is very clear that once a result has been duly announced, all complaints should be directed to the courts and only the courts can order INEC to give a party in the suit access to the election materials. When ACN was rigged out in Osun, Edo and Ekiti State and people were protesting, they immediately issued statements advising their supporters to remain law abiding while they go to court to reclaim thier mandate, which they eventually did. On the other hand, the CPC keeps issuing press statements and writing petitions making requests which they know only the court and not INEC have the power to grant. What does that tell you? SORE LOSERS!

We need to tell ourselves the home truth:Nigeria is a mistake and a forced marriage. The earlier we stop decieving ourselves that the marriage would work, the better for everybody. Please read the Coup Speech made by Major Gideon Orkar over 20 years ago and tell me if any thing has changeed

APRIL 1990 COUP D'ETAT SPEECH

Fellow Nigerian Citizens,

On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialise and other human rights violations.


The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect. Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to emphasise that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of this country.
Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.
They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south.
It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and marginalisation is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.
Anything that has a beginning must have an end. It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However, those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.
For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration. The reasons are as follows:

(a) To stop Babangida’s desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria’s life president at all costs and by so doing, retard the progress of this country for life. In order to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his desires.
Examples of groups already neutralised, pitched against one another or completely destroyed are:
(1) The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.
(2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State, especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of this country.
(3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.
(4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree Number 47.
(5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.
(6) Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the members of the armed forces.


Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a life president against the wishes of the people are:
(1) His appointment of himself as a minister of defense, his putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent fraternisation with other African leaders that have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively.
It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990’s, and, therefore, must be resisted by all.
Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues, domination and internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few. This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians.
This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress.
This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a nation.
This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately. It is strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan.
Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state. (Sic) It is suffice to mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent past. These are:
(1) The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the Babangida administration.
(2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida’s administration by the all powerful clique.
(3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.
(4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and their stooges.
(5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded parts of this country.
(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute affluence on a daily basis without working for it.
(7) Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them by God.
( The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as they circumstances may dictate.
In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following conditions are met.


The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:
(a) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the people’s choice.
(b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be practised in any part of the Nigeria state.
By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.
They are also required to move back to their various states within one week from today. They will, however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.
In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria. A word is enough for the wise.
This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date. Even in these hard times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.
We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our people. You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm. We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God. All airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith.
The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.


A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice. All members of the armed forces and the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks.
All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be ruthlessly crushed. Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new order.
All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the national network programme until further notice.

Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all.

You know a sore loser when you see one. If CPC believe they won the election as they claimed, they should take thier case to the tribunal which has the constitutional mandate to scrunitize the elections. Addressing a million and one press conferences, issuing a billion press releases and encouraging their supporters to continue the mayhem in the North would NEVER change the result of the elections.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=652716.msg8186141#msg8186141 date=1303531933]Though I'm certainly not alone; many people on the ground have realized the obvious, this Ambadassor Campbell, Prof Aluko, and Nasir El-Rufai being just a few of them.[/quote]You should have your head examined if the only people you can cite in support of your junkie-thinking arguments are the people mentioned above.In case you dont know, both El Rufai and Pro Aluko are staunch  CPC members while Campbell has never seen anything good in PDP for reasons best known to him ( check his blog and you would see), which is why the US government posted him to where he would be insignificant. By the way, if you cite CPC members like El ufai to support your arguments, why is it difficult for you to accept the point made by the same CPC members in the South East who say that the elections were FREE AND FAIR.Anyway, the elections have come and gone, so it is either you and your fellow terrorists in the CPC go to court or jump into the lagoon!

Almost two years ago in the heat of the Niger Delta crisis, the Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Hon. Bala Ibn Na’Allah, said Nigeria could afford to sacrifice 20 million people in the crisis-prone Niger Delta if that would bring peace to the remaining 120 million other Nigerians.

I think his suggestion is now applicable to the North

koruji:
Quote from NL GenBuhari (A Supporter of Gen. Buhari who thinks NL polls were a credible gauge of the national elections): "I know in a free and fair elections Buhari was the rightlful winner."

This statement shows the kind of naivety or delusion or both under which Gen. Buhari and his supporters operate. Although having contested the presidency two previous times, by the time of this election Gen. Buhari was again contesting under a party with no political base - no governors, no assembly men, no local council chairman.
Gen. Buhari actually stood no chance of winning, or getting a runoff for that matter - unless "spending political capital" to achieve political ends is not how politics works anymore. As I have said before, the SS&SE message was: if you 've got underage voters, we have got thumbs aplenty or as we are currently hearing, votes can easily be inflated.

Similarly, Gen. Buhari has rightly determined he was wrong in foreclosing the courts and is heading there as we speak to challenge the election. Although I would really say that he has little to no chance of winning, that is what he should do rather than banking on "lynching" mobs to reclaim his "phanton mandate".

It is not suprising then that after leading a phantom party to the elections, choosing a person with phantom political base in the SW as his VP, getting trounced in the legislative elections and losing the presidential electioins Gen. Buhari's supporters have no qualms talking about a phantom "free and fair election in which they KNOW Buhari is the winner".

For me, the fame of Gen. Buhari has always been more myth than reality - his real records are nothing to write home about. His political career is over - even if the presidential elections were to be re-done, and that is not going to happen any time soon.

I implore all 'intelligent' Buhari supporters to read this and then proceed on a sober reflection on the outcome of the elections. perphaps, that would help clear the delusion that they have about Buhari winning the election. I have said it before that no matter how you calculate the elections, Buhari would never win.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=651177.msg8183745#msg8183745 date=1303502917]Koruji. Great post. I think it deserves a separate thread of its own though. . . perhaps as a post mortem of Buhari's campaign.[/quote]Seconded!

GenBuhari:
You are delusional if you think you can accept massively rigged elections and still maintain you are in democracy

Chei! See as mama and papa come waste thier money train person finish na im ganja come turn he head. Abeg shipeeshi supporters dem make dem helep carry GenBuhari go Yaba left na wey him never run enter road yet oh!

For those who are too blind to read the news on 234next.com. Here is another link.
http://www.channelstv.com/global/news_details.php?nid=26787&cat=Politics

MeGaStReEt:
@GenBuhari

Who dey sell your own leaf give you? e be like say you get special dealer. The thing dey work for your body well well.

@MeGaSteEt: I am going to sue you for causing me personal injury. You made me fall off my chair laughing uncontrollably until I strained my ankle

By the way, since you beleive that BB won, I would be grateful if you can post your own (or CPC's own) result here.

arsenal1:
@ GENBUHARI May GOD help you

I hope he gets the help because at this rate, yaba left may not be far

egift:
@muami (or should I call you directly, Beaf)
Bunch of liers. Where at 234next.com

You read my post with you head in a sack. Am glad its out. Below is what I was saying:

If it was Jonathan that lost, would the SS people of all people be peaceful?

I am not surprised that you didnt see it seeing that most of you BB supporters are either stark illiterates or half baked. I dont know which one is worse. Anyways, I have quoted my source and anyone who can read and understand simple English would see it there.

As for your question, I would assume that it is a rhetorical one because no one in his right sense should be asking that question now as GEJ has already won the SS.I would rather spend my good Friday responding to live issues. BTW, would the North have been peaceful if Atiku had won the PDP primaries?

egift:
Source?

And the yeye Jonathan's boys behave as if Jonathan had lost the SS of all places will be peaceful.

Source: http://234next.com/
There is no way Jonathan would have lost in the South South and there is no way Buhari would have gotten 5% vote there. Buhari got all the votes he can possibly get from parts of the north where his support starts and ends. I was really surprised that people are deluded to think that Buhari can win this election. Buhari lost in 2003 and 2007 because only almajiris support him. He has lost again in 2011 for the same reason. Why is it difficult for him and you guys that support him to get it into your thick skull that almajiris are in the minority in Nigeria and democracy unlike military coup or terrorism is government by the majority.
Anyways, that is not the purpose of this thread. Bakare and Buhari would surely continue to cry.

Nadanbata:
10 million votes = inflated PDP numbers

37% Edo turnout
70% Delta turnout
Please explain this. Are they not both Neigbour SS/SE states? Take off your tinted glasses and go study the data. How can Delta state have double turnout?  
This is just one example. Before even an explnation of how GEJ got 45% in Jigawa etc etc.

It is obvious that most Buhari's supporters have not been involved in Nigeria politics  before thats why they don't know how politics works. The difference between Edo state and Delta state turnout is simple. Edo state is controlled by ACN  and ACN does not have a serious candidate aside the fact that he was from the North while the GEJ is from the same SS like Edo. In the circumstance, you are likely to expect voters apathy siince mobilization would be low by the State government. In Delta state however, almost all the political office holders are from PDP and GEj is from the SS. As a result and just like it happened in Rivers State, the government spend time and money doing voters' education and mobilization campaigns encouraging people to come out and vote. Also, on the day of the election, all political office holders from the governor to councillor went back to thier base to mobilize and naturally, you would expect those who benefit from thier benevolence to come out and vote which automatically would lead to a higher voter's turnout. It is partly this same factor that gave GEJ 45% in Jigawa because it is a PDP state and you dont expect all the PDP political office holders from PDP to suddenly vote for Buhari, do you? Furthermore, if you had listened to the build up before the election, you would not have asked how come GEJ got 45% in Jigawa. Rather, you would have been surprised that GEJ didnt win the state. Apart from the fact that all the opinion polls predictd a narrow win for GEJ in Jigawa, thier governor Sule Lamido is one of the few Northern governors who has been vocal in his support for GEJ and in his criticism against the North's insistence on zoning. He even opening promised at several occasions that Jigawa would vote fully for PDP. So for me its actually shocking that GEJ lost.
Winning elections is not by wishing thinking as most of you Buhari supporters seem to think. It requires strategy, grassroots mobilization and structure. So rather than wondering why GEJ got the votes he got, It would be interesting if you guys can rationally explain how Buhari and you guys believed he could have won the election.

Tunde Bakare, The Vice presidential aspirant of the CPC has started to recieve his punishment for abandoning the the task he claimed to have from God and going into partisan politics with a terrorist party as his lagos home was ravaged by fire this afternoon.

The evil that men do would live with them. This is just the beginning

“The following are the legacies of retired General Mohamadu Buhari as the maximum ruler of Nigeria between 1983 and 1985. All of these atrocities are in public domain, but it is important that once again, they are recorded for history,

1. Buhari’s overthrowing of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1983 was to checkmate the possible angst against the ruling oligarchy who are of his ethnic stock and keep the rest of Nigeria in bondage

2. To prove that Buhari’s objective was to protect his Hausa/Fulani oligarchy to the detriment of other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, he dealt with politicians from his part of the country with “glove hands” and gave politicians of other regions “bare knuckles.” The following are examples:

a) He detained President Shehu Shagari in a guest House and remanded Dr. Alex Ekwueme, the Vice President in Kirikiri Maximum Prisons. Yet, they were both the leaders of the NPN led government that has just been overthrown. What offence could have Ekwueme committed that Shagari could not have done worse?

b) Buhari sent his goons to ransack the home of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. This was aimed at insulting the sensibilities of the Yoruba Nation by disrespecting and embarrassing their Hero and Liberator from poverty and want. Chief Awolowo was not a member of the party in power that has just been overthrown, yet he had to be subjected to such unwarranted, politically and ethnically motivated vendetta. Pastor Bakare wanted us to believe that this was the handiwork of “fifth columnists” in Buhari’s regime. If this was so, what stopped Buhari from publicly apologizing to Chief Awolowo on behalf of himself and his regime, especially if Buhari’s intentions were clean?

c) He ordered Pa Adekunle Ajasin, former Governor of the old Ondo State to be retried two times when they could not find anything against him. This meant that the old man was tried three times unfairly. Buhari ordered Pa Ajasin to be detained regardless of the fact that the old man was squeaky clean. His unfair detention impaired the old man’s health and led to early death for him. When this Honorable man died, he has only one old bungalow that he built as a teacher and principal in Owo town, well before he became the governor, to his name.

d) He detained Professor Ambrose Ali of Bendel State in an inhuman condition to the point that the esteemed Professor became blind and died shortly after he was released. When the Professor died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

e) His detention of Chief Ayo Ojewumi led to the blindness of the man. Buhari refused to let the man receive medical treatment until he completely went blind. Chief Ojewumi died exactly 28 days after he was released from Buhari’s gulag.

f) Buhari refused to allow Chief Bisi Onabanjo, the governor of Ogun State to have access to medical treatment in detention. He treated the man as a criminal and shortened the life of the esteemed governor.

g) Chief Jim Nwobodo, Chief Bola Ige, Chief Lateef Jakande, Chief Sam Mbakwe and several other southern politicians were given unreasonable sentences ranging from 100 years to 250 years while Governor Awwal Ibrahim of Niger State who was caught in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds and several millions in dollars and Naira, was detained in guest house.

2. Buhari jailed Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, on trumped up charges, allegedly as an economic saboteur with the legal backing of the Miscellaneous Offences Decree No. 20 of 1984, for having less than 10,000 dollars in his possession on his way out of the country. The judge in the case later apologized and confessed that he was ordered to jail the famous Musician regardless of his innocence. The Buhari junta would later say publicly that it “decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all.”

3. Buhari instructed his ADC, Major Mustapha Jokolo to smuggle 53 suit cases, allegedly stuffed with foreign currency, through Murtala Mohammed Airport against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, who was then Acting Director General of the Customs and later became the Vice President. A case of all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

4. The change of color of the nation's currency notes (except the fifty kobo note) in April 1984, allegedly to stop currency trafficking. The exercise rendered almost half of the estimated N6 billion of had earned money of ordinary Nigerians, worthless at the expiration of the change.

5. Buhari enacted Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree 4 of 1984 with which he jailed journalists Nduka Irabor and Tunde Thompson for writing the truth. He said publicly that it did not matter if any of the journalists wrote the TRUTH, as long as he and his junta did not like it, the writers would go to jail. This casted Buhari as someone who never cares about the truth and a vindictive person.

6. He cancelled the METROLINE PROJECT that Governor Lateef Jakande embarked upon as a vendetta against the Yoruba people. He chose rather to pay a fine of $60 million rather than guarantee $100million needed for the completion of the project. Soon after, he procured several Airplanes for the Nigeria Airways costing several millions.

7. He put in place a retroactive law with which he murdered three innocent men: Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26), by public execution. Buhari did not allow them to go through the judicial system. He never respected the laws of the land. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Buhari left untouched an alleged well known drug baron in Ibrahim Babangida who later overthrew his government.

8. Buhari is the first Nigerian to be involved in stolen fund to the tune of billions. $2.8billion dollars of our money disappeared from NNPC under Buhari, when he was the Minister of Petroleum. Pastor Bakare called this “poppycock.”

9. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of Northern population majority.

10. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

11. He is a coup plotter.

12. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.

13. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such not fit to lead the country. He was later to say publicly, on the tenth anniversary of Sani Abacha’s death that Sani Abacha never stole anything from Nigeria.

14. The Human Rights Violation and Investigation Commission (HRVIC) headed by Honorable Justice Chukwudifu Oputa an eminent jurist, was insulted and disrespected by Buhari who refused to appear before it. His message to Nigerians is that he (Buhari) is above the law and could not be held accountable.

15. He made Nigerians to go through the agony of having to scavenge and scamper for what was described as “essential commodities” such as milk, sugar and other diary products, thus creating emergency wealth for those who were very connected with his government.

To be continued,

He is not only a psycopath but also a deluded slowpoke. Imagine him talking about 'stolen mandate'. Well, maybe he was refering to the mandate he gave to the almajiris to lynch people.

Odunnu:
GenBuhari of NLand would hang himself if you remind him of that poll.

Lol! The only poll he remembers is NLand poll which he believes to be the most credible poll in the world. Its just sad that some people are just bad losers. I have thought about it through and through and the more I do, the more I just cannot see how Buhari would have won the election yet I hear him talk of 'stolen mandate'!

Equities Sustain Upward Swing

The Nigerian equities market continued its upward swing at the close of business Tuesday as investors upped their stake in the market with the  hope that the momentum that followed the presidential election would  continue.

see more,
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/equities-sustain-upward-swing/89955/

Kai! Good times are here again!

Jarus:
I have issues with some areas:

1, 90% plus voters turn-out in some SE and SS is very curious

@Jarus. Please dont join these almajiris who argue with sentimens and not facts. There was no '90% plus' turnout in any state. The allegation is just a way by CPC to cover for thier woeful performance in the SS and SE. Take a look at at the percentage of voters turnout in each state arranged in a descending order which I have produced below and you would see that some states in the north had even higher turnout that some in the SE and SS. While I agree that CPC and its supporters have a right to complain about the results, this should be done based on facts.

STATE VOTERS TURNOUT REGISTERED VOTERS PERCENTAGE OF VOTERS TURNOUT
Bayelsa 506,693 591,870 85.6%
Imo 1,409,850 1,687,293 83.6%
Abia 1,188,333 1,524,484 77.9%
Rivers 1,854,116 2,429,231 76.3%
Akwa Ibom 1,232,395 1,616,873 76.2%
Delta 1,410,379 2,032,191 69.4%
Kaduna 2,569,963 3,905,387 65.8%
Bauchi 1,610,094 2,523,614 63.8%
C/River 726,341 1,148,486 63.2%
Enugu 814,009 1,303,155 62.5%
Plateau 1,411,117 2,259,194 62.5%
Gombe 770,019 1,318,377 58.4%
Anambra 1,157,239 2,011,746 57.5%
Jigawa 1,140,766 2,013,974 56.6%
Kebbi 924,099 1,638,308 56.4%
Taraba 739,065 1,336,221 55.3%
Kano 2,673,228 5,027,297 53.2%
Katsina 1,639,532 3,126,898 52.4%
Zamfara 942,679 1,824,316 51.7%
Adamawa 907,706 1,816,094 50.0%
Nasarawa 694,527 1,389,308 50.0%
Borno 1,177,646 2,380,957 49.5%
Ebonyi 502,890 1,050,534 47.9%
Niger 1,019,167 2,175,421 46.8%
Yobe 622,115 1,373,796 45.3%
Benue 1,047,709 2,390,884 43.8%
Kogi 561,782 1,316,849 42.7%
Fct 398,094 943,473 42.2%
Sokoto 909,808 2,267,509 40.1%
Osun 512,714 1,293,967 39.6%
Edo 621,192 1,655,776 37.5%
Kwara 414,754 1,152,361 36.0%
Ekiti 261,858 764,726 34.2%
Oyo 863,544 2,572,140 33.6%
Lagos 1,945,044 6,108,069 31.8%
Ondo 486,837 1,616,091 30.1%
Ogun 543,715 1,941,170 28.00%

[quote author=Muk-Ldn link=topic=649729.msg8165814#msg8165814 date=1303237970]Maybe the margins are. The complaint is the VOTER TURNOUT in SS/SE where you see 99.83% GEJ, is far far inflated, and GEJ getting 40% In Kebbi, Sokoto, Jigawa, Kaduna etc is impossible unless 419.

I mean the turnout in Buharis home state Katsina was 50%, but in GEJ home state we seeing 90% or so. And Buhari got 0% in Bayelsa but GEJ gets 25%+ in Katsina.[/quote]The highest voters turnout is 85%.Also, states like Bauchi had over 60% turnout which is more than the turnout in Edo, Ebonyi, Anambra and Cross Rivers state.

As regards GEJ getting 40% in Sokoto, Kebbi, Jigawa, Kaduna etc, except one wants to become deliberately naive in political analysis, there is nothiing strange about that. All these states have PDP governors, House of Assembly members, special advisers, local government chairmen, councillors etc. In a normal elections all these people would mobilise thier supporters to vote for their party. So it is amazing to see people getting surprised that GEJ got 40% in these states. Were you expecting all these PDP political office holders to mobilize people against PDP?

Furthermore, the 50% voters turnout in Katsina and the low turnout in mose northern states is also expected. Most of the States in the North are governed by PDP which means a significant number of voters are sympathetic to PDP(as seen by the voting pattern in the NASS elections), Furthermore, the northern elites like IBB. Ciroma etc are PDP members. While they do not support GEJ because of zoning, they also do not like Buhari. In the circumstance, the alternative for most of them is to be neutral which would naturally translate with low turnout.
To cut a long story short GEJ WINNING CAN BE EXPLAINED BY RATIONALE ARGUMENT. BUHARI LOSING CAN ALSO BE EXPLAINED BY RATIONALE ARGUMENT. THE ONLY OUTCOME THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN INEXPLICALE WOULD HAVE BEEN BUHARI'S VICTORY

After an almost 24 hour ban for this post, I have finally been unbanned. What have I missed?

Jarus:
^^^^
Neither of us can ban. I'm not sure whether it's spambot or banning authorities that ban you. I will take it up and see what went wrong.

Thanks Jarus.Im back!