There is a long tradition of defining leadership by virtues. It was the standard approach of philosophers and orators, widely attested in literature, inscriptions and personal correspondence from classical times, through the Roman Empire and Middle Ages, and down to the present.
Today, benefactors and heroes are praised for their virtues on monuments and plaques in our own cities. Therefore, no matter how we look at leadership, for a leader to be loved by his people, he must possess some positive attributes MJ Barde has long become a phenomenon in the polity of Gombe and Nigeria at large, as an emerging statesman, an astute technocrat.
He is now the toast of social media headlines. In fact, if you want followers in Facebook today, write something about him. 99 percent of views content extracts about some group or team are fabricated around his person or presumed aspiration {having not heard from him}. Most times it appears he is the only brand that is seen as a contention come the next electioneering season.
The real reason he has become a hit political sensation is his speaking attributes and its habitual “Talk and Do” character which endears him to the masses and the political elites. He is humble, honest, trustworthy, generous, prudent and above all God fearing. One of the major setbacks of leadership in the world is honesty, or the lack of it. It accounts for the many demonstrations, protests, and even calls for the demotion of leaders at different stages and in various climes.
This situation stems from the attitude of a leader who lies. True leaders act ethically and are committed to the needs of the people. Everyone require their leaders to be trustworthy and leadership is essentially based on trust. Because many people choose to follow leaders they trust, they have a sense of basic trust. It’s basic honesty too. Without honesty, a leader can’t lead with integrity. It is therefore logical, true and trite to conclude that it is the uncommon honesty of MJ Barde that made him an acceptable brand.
For Danbarde to rise from the position of banker, considering where he comes from, it can be attributed to his addictive sense of honest and you cannot say you know a man until you have handed him billions to manage and he does it without being fraudulent.
MJ Barde’s honesty is what exulted him at the Bank where he had worked and back home, he has transferred the rare virtue to the admiration of all.
His show of honesty endears him to all and sundry and that is why moral leadership is very strategic because it determines the success or failure in achieving goals. Honesty is the most essential characteristic of a leader and the most easily seen. Honesty is the basis of every action leaders take. If leaders can’t show others that he can be trusted in word and deed, the leader will have no followers.
Honest leadership is regarded highly in any clime aiming to develop at top speed. That is why statistics show that places where corruption index is low, more development takes place. Transparency is an effort to enforce honesty. With transparency, participation in monitoring the entire government will be accommodated so as to minimize the potentialities for dishonesty.
The direct consequence of a conduct that is not transparent is political corruption, the abuse of public office for personal gain. Corruption can be expressed as a dishonest act. Muhammad Jibrin Barde has over the span of his career displayed this transparent honest. It is worthy of emulation and trust. Humility is defined as the quality of having a modest or low view of one’s importance. Words that are considered synonymous include humbleness, meekness, diffidence and unassertiveness.
We are well aware of the perils of hubris, we are taught from an early age that pride comes before a fall, but is there not an inherent tension, or indeed contradiction, between being truly humble and being a leader? How does humility square up with leadership? Is there a place for humility in the practice of leadership? And can a truly effective leader be truly humble? Too many people remain enamoured by the view that leadership is really about control, but in fact great leaders demonstrate again and again their humility by influencing, inspiring loyalty and providing support.
They do so however from positions that are not necessarily to the fore. In fact they lead from behind, putting others in front especially when there are things to be celebrated, and then only coming to the fore when there are dangers to be confronted.
A humble leader does not create class of association, he wines and dines with the low and high with no sense of red lines in class. Every humble leader is a practitioner of servant leadership which is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better governance and ultimately creates a more just and caring world.
A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. While traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the “top of the pyramid”, servant leadership is different. The servant-leader shares power, puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible.
This is one of the virtues embedded in the life of MJ Barde that has confirmed him a servant leader administrator and this has made the people to accept him unconditionally.
The great wise one Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that “A great man is always willing to be little.” Prudence comes from the Latin “prudentia,” meaning foresight and sagacity; in Old French, “prudence” means wisdom to see what is virtuous, suitable and profitable. Prudence is knowing when to hold them and when to fold them.
In working with leaders, prudence applies in at least three areas: Wisdom, insight/foresight and knowledge. Prudence is an orientation to one’s personal future, a form of practical reasoning and self-management that helps one to achieve long-term goals effectively by considering carefully along the way the consequences of actions taken and not taken.
The prudent person does not sacrifice long-term goals for short-term pleasures but instead keeps in mind what will eventually produce the most satisfaction. The prudent person makes “smart” choices as opposed to no choices at all. Prudence is not paralysis. It is the strength of character when it leads us to do things in a judicious way. Alh. Muhammad Jibrin Barde is a prudent man , whose dignity has made him great through wisdom and integrity.
It is his wisdom that earned him a productive career as a banker and is the same vein which made Gombawa to demand for his service to come and usher in the service to the land of his birth. He has continued to endear himself to the people.
Kolmani Oil and How Dankwambo will Stand for Gombe at Nigeria’s Senate Chamber
By
Abbakar Habu Gwani
Nigeria’s NNPC had in October 2019 announced the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in the Kolmani river of the north eastern (Gombe / Bauchi) part of the country. The new oil field has over 1 billion barrels of oil reserves and 500 billion cubic feet of gas according to an official statement.
The discovery alone attracted over $3b investment in oil and gas sector when the project is almost zero percent, imagine now and what type of investors it will attract in the future.
The first phase of the exploration will entail an in–situ oil refinery of up to 120,000 barrels per day capacity, a gas processing plant of about 500 million standard cubic feet per day, a power plant of up to 300-megawatt capacity and a fertilizer plant of 2,500 tons per day, according to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited.
However, this God-given resources is never without socioeconomic and political challenges and other many issues on ground; frontier exploration funds (FEF) with the allocation of 30% profit, constitutional statutory allocation of 13% to the oil producing states, Gombe/Bauchi refers. The discovery, exploration and commissioning of the said oil is not even and issue of concern, but, who will stand for Gombe?
In the case of the above, the question of who will stand for Gombe is very critical and therefore, needs a critical and rational answer. For us in Gombe, we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly leadership style of all the past and the present leaders, ranging from the governors and the national representatives. Some stand to be different and exceptional, while others have shown their true colours of failure.
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But, out of all, Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo stands to be different and outstanding in all ramps of leadership style. He is one of a kind with full economic and political experience. His knowledge and experience cut across all boundaries of all sectors of the economy and development. Dankwambo is therefore, the only answer to the forgone question.
To draw my conclusion to what makes Dankwambo the right choice for the senatorial seat of Gombe north, the following four (4) factors must be taken in to consideration.
1. His intellectualism 2. His Administrative experience 3. His Financial and economic knowledge 4. His love for peace building, equity, fairness, patience and perseverance
Abbakar Habu Gwani writes from Gombe Local Government Area of Gombe State.
How time flies! So the saying goes. Here we are, preparing for 2023 general election, a time to vote and be voted for. At the same time, a time for electorate to take stocks of those who represented them in the last four years. A time to scrutinize dossiers of performance of Representatives in office with a view to make or mar them as they present themselves for election.
Senator Saidu Ahmed Alkali, currently representing Gombe North Senatorial District is contesting 2023 elections on the platform of the APC for the third time. As he contests alongside others, it is curious and incumbent on any rational mind to know his performances in the last 8 years.
Let me be quick, therefore, that I don’t want to be partisan, but to look at the issue at stake from the logical perspective. It’s reasonable for one to dissect issues between facts and fictions, between propaganda and reality. It is on this premise, I dare to say, Senator Ahmed Alkali has damning performance as Senator representing Gombe North Senatorial District in the last 8 years at the upper legislative chambers.
Maxim goes, “res ipsa loquitor”, facts speak for themselves. The social vices, lack of federal government infrastructure, under development, the lack of strong voices each time the Senatorial district was attacked/fracas are facts that speaks for themselves.
Very damning to an extent that he fears the unknown each time election approaches, hence, he resort to helping himself by ballot snatching in connivance with corrupt elements at the INEC system.
For now, it will be suicidal for the zone to fall prey, beguiled or hypnotised in voting Alkali again. The reason is very simple. The lawmaker hardly initiates, or sponsors motions that concern the zone he represents at the red Chambers.
For example, when there was floods and all in the Northern Senatorial district, Alkali did not raise the issue of urgent national importance to draw public empathy until his colleague from the Central district
Secondly, the unfortunate incident happened sometime this year, and since then, the Senator has neither visited the scene, nor called on the Federal government to send relief materials, or lobbied the Senate Committee on Nema to pick up the issue.
“Lobbying”, the world over, is a privilege of lawmakers to lobby for infrastructural development and it remains incomprehensible that the Senator representing Gombe North has never moved for the zone to be connected to the national grid.
Time has come for political office holders to see that they were not elected to the office for perks, but to trigger development. In Gombe North, development has eroded and was still eroding the zone. Of the three Senatorial district of Gombe State, the Central flank has two Federal Institutions, National Institutes of Transport technology and Federal Medical Centre which was sponsored and passed into law by Senator Goje. The question begging for answers is, what has Senator Alkali attracted to the zone in the last 8 years?
In as much as the electorate would not be exculpated in woes that betide the land for always being there for the Senator when he needed their votes, the lawmaker needed not belabouring himself that much, if he had performed.
It’s no wonder that he would always arm-twist APC primary election process and resorted to the coward’s alternative, thereby becoming a subject of legal fireworks thereafter.
For sure, 8 years was quite a long time. Political enlightenment of the electorate has grown alongside the election dynamics. A time when a politician is voted into office and suddenly disappeared only to emerge from the blues with handouts during election is gone. Now is time to try Alh. Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo PhD., OON (Talban Gombe), a man who has been tested and trusted from far and near.
A document on the raid and invasion of APC thugs on the campaign offices of the PDP Governorship candidate of the PDP in Gombe State, Alhaji Jibrin Mohammad Barde, on 10th November 2022
…governorship candidate unveils plans to move Gombe Forward to next level of development
By
Abu-Ubaida Ibrahim Kuna
Gombe, Nigeria…The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has flagged off its campaign in Dukku Local Government in Gombe State. Party faithful in their thousands came out to witness the ceremony.
Dignitaries present at the flag-off in Dukku include Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo (Talban Gombe), former governor of Gombe state and leader of the PDP in Gombe, Senator Usman Bayero Nafada, director general of the PDP Campaign Management Team, Alhaji Ahmed Yayari, PDP national treasurer, Senator Abdullahi Idris Umar, Dr Abubakar Ali Gombe, Maj Gen Amnon Kwaskebe, PDP state Chairman and John Lazarus Yoriyo, former deputy governor of Gombe State.
Alhaji Muhammad Jibrin Barde, PDP gubernatorial candidate used the occasion to unveil his plans for Gombe and save it from drowning. He said that the mandate of the good people of Gombe State has been stolen and the economy of the state is in serious danger and in need to be rescued from total disintegration.
‘One of the things at the top of my agenda is to safeguard the treasury of the state and build up a strong economy for the betterment of the good people of the state. I am committed to the establishment of the Educational support fund in order to uplift the educational standards of Gombe State to world class standard’, Alhaji Barde said at the flag-off activity.
Alhaji Barde promised to invest in the agricultural sector by providing fertilizers, farming tools, capacity building and support funds to the local farmers in the State.
He also assured his teeming supporters in Dukku and Gombe State in general on his plans to provide potable water supply across all nooks and crannies of the state.
The flag-off also witnessed the presence of former senators, members house of representatives, commissioners, advisers, members of the state house of assembly and all senatorial, House of Representatives candidates and members state house of assembly of the PDP billed to contest the general elections in 2023.
He said Adeleke wont be able to win even the support of Omisore, The Omisore is the same person APC went to meet with enormous promises APC gave him 480 Million# Cash, offer him ticket to Senate, 2 House Of Reps ticket, 2 commissioners in Oyetola’s cabinet and to drop all EFCC cases against him and return his International passport, which has been with EFCC for almost a year. but i cant blame APC but Omisore who has shown that his people freedom has a price tag. @ Iyiola Omisore How much is the freedom of your people worth? How many millions? How much? A Leader is the man who shows his people the pathway to liberty, freedom and development. Let their pains speak to your conscience Sir.
If Dariye can buy ticket from prison then that shows that President Buhari claiming is fighting corruption is rubbish and lie. someone sentenced for 14 year jail term in kuje, where did he get the money, Who sold the form to him. Nigeria Government will not kill me.
gracedarwin08: Nigerian senator jailed for fraud and money laundering has reportedly purchased the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) nomination and expression of interest form to seek re-election.
Joshua Dariye, a former governor of Plateau State, is currently serving 14 years jail term at Kuje prisons, Abuja after found guilty of money laundering, breach of trust and criminal misappropriation.
According to reports, Joshua Dariye’s personal assistant Itauna Dinka obtained the nomination form for his principal’s re-election on Friday, September 7.
The senator was on 12 June sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
Justice Adebukola Banjoko, who gave the ruling, held that the former governor would serve a two-year and 14-year jail terms concurrently but did not give him an option of a fine.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission charged Dariye with money laundering in 2007. He was accused of diverting N1.126bn from the Plateau government’s ecological funds through an account, Ebenezer Reitner Ventures, an unregistered company, he operated.
Punishments imposed on the ex-governor for the two categories of offences of criminal breach of trust and criminal misappropriation are the maximum as provided under sections 315 and 309 of the Penal Code Act, respectively.
The judge threw out eight of the 23 charges on the grounds of either duplicity or lack of sufficient evidence.
Lawyer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), had in opposing the defence lawyer’s plea for mercy, urged the court to impose the maximum sentence to serve as deterrence to others.
In her ruling, Justice Banjoko said “I can’t imagine such a brazen act. Is it the transfer of as much as about half a billion naira from the state’s Ecological Fund into a personal venture account? Everybody is a victim here.”
She said from a random check of some documents tendered as exhibits, she discovered that “the defendant was, in fact, richer than his state.”
“This is a trauma of the trial; and there should be no compromise to corruption, by whatever shade or colour, or region, rich or poor; corruption will forever be corruption,”
“Every case is different on its own, and I have no personal animosity, I’m just doing my job the way I know how to, and not only the Ecological Funds were misappropriated, but funds from the Plateau State government.”
The judgment, which came at the end of about 10-year trial, saw over eight years of delay caused by the trip Dariye’s appeals attacking the validity and the competence of the charges took from the trial court to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court even as he lost all the way.
Here are the reason why Buhari need to be voted out. The PDP-led government under former President Olusegun Obasanjo went further to work assiduously to settle foreign debts accumulated by previous administrations and extricated the nation’s economy from burdens of the London and Paris Clubs debt overhang
The PDP administration set up the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit, otherwise known as Due Process Unit, which ensured transparency in government procurement's and spending. This is in line with the determination to establish a moral and ethical society.
Under the PDP administration of GEJ, Nigeria witnessed the successful unbundling of the power sector with massive investments, resulting in the construction and rehabilitation of various power projects. There were also Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of our oil refineries In the works, transport sectors, PDP administrations invested in the revitalization of the railways, inland waterways, re-modelling and re-equipping of our aviation system to international standard, rehabilitation and construction of thousands of KMs of roads and bridges
PDP administrations changed the face of agriculture from a development Programme to a business for national wealth creation. By 2014 our national food production had expanded by an additional 21m metric tons, exceeding the national set target of 20 million metric tons for 2015. In education and health, meticulous execution of deliberate policies resulted in significant achievements. Healthcare become more affordable and accessible, culminating in an unprecedented 50% drop in maternal mortality and increase in national life expectancy by 2015. In education, the National Open University of Nigeria was established to boost opportunity for tertiary learning. By Q1 2015, 14 new universities were established. The Almajiri system of education was established to ensure that no Nigerian child is denied access to education. The record ending of the Niger Delta militancy by the Yar’Adua-led PDP govt using the Amnesty Initiative and the containing of kidnapping menace in the south east, all give credence to the efforts of the PDP.
Despite their temporary setback in the last election, the PDP still have a success story than APC and Buhari. The PDP is the only pan-Nigeria party, fully committed to the Nigerian project, accommodating all national interest & whose agenda remains the unity, stability & prosperity of Nigeria & its people.
#PDPTakingOver in 2019.
behosgroups2019: As 2019 approaches, those who brought Nigeria to its knees, vandalized and wrecked it and left it for dead before 2015 are busy trying to weave a comeback mantra that will help them access power once again in 2015 after a disastrous 16 years trauma that left Nigeria for dead.
They are being joined in this vain mission by those who thought the coming of Buhari would shift the looting tent to their side and as it never happened, they became bitter, inconsolable enemies of the regime. Also in the train are the confused ideologues who have good intentions initially but are so disoriented as to be captured by the pedestrian feel-good stories of a utopia which Buhari would have wrought even with the fact that he inherited the most austere economic realities.
They have massed together to lead an erroneous chorus that Nigerians should vote out Buhari in 2019. Sho? Some of us who have been assaulted by this perverse gospel have asked why we should vote out Buhari but we have gotten no convincing answer than a rehearse of a more perverse narration of how Buhari has turned Nigeria to a land of hunger and misery and how killings have been happening under Buhari? Is that so? When you prod further, what you get is a string of poorly articulated narration of how life was a seamless bread and butter affair in Nigeria before Buhari came. If you try to run some comparisons to prove this story, they tell you to forget the past and face the future.
Truth is that those who weave sordid stories to make Buhari look bad are so afraid to confront the past, which itself introduces a huge paradox to their badly-arranged stories. Can you face the present and the future without excursing into the past? To them, life should start from May 29, 2015 when Buhari took over from the scandalous regime they ran. That itself, is a cut-and-paste effort to manipulate. It is as fraudulent as the claim of these same people that they have repented (and you ask, repent from what?) and their more notorious request to be allowed back to power. They are so pathologically hunted by the past they created that they make every effort to shout down any person that refers them to the hell they presided over here for a whole 16 years. They want Nigerians to abridge their memories and senses and join them in voting out Buhari based on their micro-managed but hardly agreeing narratives, which sees Buhari as having failed. Some of them are even telling Nigerians that Buhari has proven not to be the solution to our problem.
Since we have an Eldorado they claimed they did here in 16 years, which other problems are they talking about? Which problems are they claiming they will offer solutions to when they brought down heaven on earth to Nigeria n their 16 messy years in power? PDP claimed they did beyond expectation so why are they apologizing and telling Nigerians of their readiness to be born-again rulers if given back power?
But then, the question remains; why should I and other Nigerians vote out Buhari and bring back the locusts? Should I vote Buhari out because he is meticulously rebuilding an economy that was eaten down and ran in red during a providential oil boom? Do I vote out Buhari because he is frantically building up our foreign reserve that was so badly vandalized when oil, our solo export product, went at over $120 a barrel and the country was exporting over 2.5million ever day? Do I vote out Buhari in 2019 because he is achieving this unbelievable feat at a period the oil price crashed to between $27 to $50 a barrel and our daily sale volume was cut to as low as below 700,000 barrels a day because those that lost their power to loot saw oil facilities as one of the sectors they must avenge their electoral defeat on? Do I vote out Buhari because at this very arid economic turn, he is making the highest investment in capital projects?
Do I vote out Buhari in 2019 because he has channeled all the money that would have used to service the gluttony and bacchanal greed of party men, cronies, hirelings, friends, subalterns, bed mates and party members of the party in power and its government to critical capital projects that will drive the Nigerian economy? Should I vote out Buhari because he adamantly refused to bow to the pressure to sustain the corruption omnibus and ensure Nigerians live straight and narrowly without stealing from the treasury? Do I vote out Buhari because he has taken up the nation’s decayed infrastructures and is fixing them in a way no other government has done in the past?
Do I vote out Buhari because he decided to implement strict monetary policies to save Nigeria’s resources from yam eaters, rodents and plunderers who are anchoring the noisome battle for his replacement? Do I vote out Buhari because the treasury raiders who looted a richly endowed country dry before he came feel that he should satisfy their senses of entitlement and continue abandoning the infrastructure that should drive our growth as a nation? Do I vote out Buhari because he has stopped evil servants from operating millions of phantom accounts through which they bleed the treasury while we collectively suffer? Do I vote out Buhari because the economy is no more about looting, plundering, sharing and stealing?
Should I vote out Buhari because he has insisted that he will neither chop nor allow pests to feast on our commonwealth? Should I vote out Buhari because he insists that Nigerian wealth must serve us all instead of a ravenous few? Do I vote out Buhari because in a period of austerity, he saved states that went bankrupt when we were having oil boom and had made them solvent through prudent and honest management of our economy? Do I vote out Buhari in 2019 because he insists that Nigerians should work for what they earn? Should I vote out Buhari because he is fixing federal roads, the power sector, the energy sector in a way no government has done in the history of the country?
Do I vote out Buhari because he is no longer feeding corrupt-former leaders who not only looted Nigeria to the bones but insist on being serviced by what remains of the treasury? Do I vote out Buhari in 2019 because he is no longer pandering to the indecent corrupt interests of the legislature whose members are being ran ragged by frustration that they are no longer enjoying the bazaar as they used to do? Should I vote out Buhari because he is no longer deploying sacks of billions of Naira to bribe the legislature on sundry issues? Should I vote out Buhari because some of his party men who expected being spoon-fed from the national purse are disappointed he is not doing so? Do I vote out Buhari because those that stole the country to the bones and who thought they had escaped with their loot are being called by to return what they stole?
Do I vote out Buhari because the professional scavengers that flood around the seat of power with the hope of free-loading from our commonwealth have been made extinct? Do I vote out Buhari because he stopped the murderous escapades of Boko Haram that killed in tens of thousands, that took a huge size of Nigerian landmass and subjected the entire country to unrestrained attacks and untamed danger? So do I vote out Buhari because he is building the Second Niger Bridge for which past regimes duped my Igbo people? Do I vote out Buhari because he is building the enormous Mambilla Power Station which past governments played around with for decades without as much as turning the foundation soil on the project site?
Should I vote out Buhari because he is building massive railways across Nigeria? Should I vote out Buhari because he is meticulously building a viable economy from the rubble of the chaos he met on ground? Should I vote out Buhari because the vampires that wrecked the public treasury are angry and baying bare blood because, for the first time in the country’s history, they have lost access to the treasury? Do I vote out Buhari because the vampires that sucked life out of us especially in the fatal 16 years’ period before 2015 are wailing their eyes out and feigning hunger as an elaborate dubious project to take another injurious bite on us?
Do I vote out Buhari because he paid off trillions of Naira past governments owed contractors for contracts they used to enrich their members? Do I vote out Buhari because he paid off over N600 billion subsidy the past regime owed fuel importers and saved the energy industry from collapse? Do I vote out Buhari because he has rebuilt what remained of the four refineries that previous governments abandoned as scraps? Do I vote out Buhari because he stopped the payment of fraudulent subsidy to phantom fuel importers as was the culture before he came? Do I vote out Buhari because sundry, corrupt interests are no longer being awarded fake contracts where they walk away with the contract monies without even visiting the project sites? Do I vote out Buhari because he paid off trillions of Naira owed pensioners in federal government ministries, parastatals and agencies during our unfortunate oil boom? Do I vote out Buhari for the trillions spent on the most ambitious social intervention scheme to rescue the most vulnerable in our society, which is the most elaborate any government has ever embarked in Nigeria?
Why should I vote out Buhari? Do I vote out Buhari because he has stopped the drainpipe of freaky importation of freebies that served as feeding bottle for corrupt politicians before he came? Do I vote out Buhari because he stopped the importation of foodstuffs and through this bold action, has made Nigeria a sustainable agricultural country where citizens feed themselves? Do I vote out Buhari because of the agricultural revolution he is doing in Nigeria, which has seen the country unravel as sustainable food producer from its recent past as a top food importer? Should I vote out Buhari because he has made politics a non-rewarding venture unlike in the past? Do I vote out Buhari because he had securely locked up our treasure box and restrained access to it to even his appointees and supporters? Do I vote out Buhari because he is strongly ranged against the gargantuan corruption complex from which most Nigerians eke out a living?
These are just few posers I want those that have launched a project to get Nigerians to turn against Buhari. I don’t know of any incoming leader but I make bold to say that President Buhari has done far more than any other President that ruled Nigeria. I am open to correction by any person that feels otherwise and this would be done through telling us any president that has done better by listing what such president did. So are these reasons why I should vote out Buhari? Make no mistake about it, the project to stop Buhari flows from no patriotic reasons but squarely on the reality that Buhari has capped official stealing and plundering. It is for the singular reason that Buhari has plugged our treasury from these leeches that he is making huge investment in growth-driving capital ventures even when we are going through difficult economic realities because the oil we have, over time, depended lazily on, has met turbulent times.
So, on what ground will I and millions of Nigerians that endured very desperate pressures in 2015 to vote out the moths and rodents, not vote in Buhari in 2019 to continue the good works he is doing? Is it because the looters and their accomplices that neigh the country’s treasury have weaved enough incoherent and contradictory lies against Buhari that I will dive into a fatal voyage in 2019? Is it because those that ate down our country are breathing enough vain fury? Is it that we are simple-indeed enough to be taken advantage of by desperadoes that want power for its corrupt ends? Is it that those who raped and pauperized us before 2015 are right in their feeling that we are a simple-minded and memory-challenged people as to fall for any silly prank Never! I see no reason why we should not vote more emphatically for Buhari in 2019; not based on who he is but on what he had done with the mandate we gave him in March 2015 and based on the fact that he is the most assured hand to deepen the recovery of Nigeria and the setting of a credible template for the growth of Nigeria.
One Reason his that he his the most scandalous and directionless government in the history of Nigeria, @MBuhari . A leader without mission or vision.
behosgroups2019: As 2019 approaches, those who brought Nigeria to its knees, vandalized and wrecked it and left it for dead before 2015 are busy trying to weave a comeback mantra that will help them access power once again in 2015 after a disastrous 16 years trauma that left Nigeria for dead.
They are being joined in this vain mission by those who thought the coming of Buhari would shift the looting tent to their side and as it never happened, they became bitter, inconsolable enemies of the regime. Also in the train are the confused ideologues who have good intentions initially but are so disoriented as to be captured by the pedestrian feel-good stories of a utopia which Buhari would have wrought even with the fact that he inherited the most austere economic realities.
They have massed together to lead an erroneous chorus that Nigerians should vote out Buhari in 2019. Sho? Some of us who have been assaulted by this perverse gospel have asked why we should vote out Buhari but we have gotten no convincing answer than a rehearse of a more perverse narration of how Buhari has turned Nigeria to a land of hunger and misery and how killings have been happening under Buhari? Is that so? When you prod further, what you get is a string of poorly articulated narration of how life was a seamless bread and butter affair in Nigeria before Buhari came. If you try to run some comparisons to prove this story, they tell you to forget the past and face the future.
Truth is that those who weave sordid stories to make Buhari look bad are so afraid to confront the past, which itself introduces a huge paradox to their badly-arranged stories. Can you face the present and the future without excursing into the past? To them, life should start from May 29, 2015 when Buhari took over from the scandalous regime they ran. That itself, is a cut-and-paste effort to manipulate. It is as fraudulent as the claim of these same people that they have repented (and you ask, repent from what?) and their more notorious request to be allowed back to power. They are so pathologically hunted by the past they created that they make every effort to shout down any person that refers them to the hell they presided over here for a whole 16 years. They want Nigerians to abridge their memories and senses and join them in voting out Buhari based on their micro-managed but hardly agreeing narratives, which sees Buhari as having failed. Some of them are even telling Nigerians that Buhari has proven not to be the solution to our problem.
Since we have an Eldorado they claimed they did here in 16 years, which other problems are they talking about? Which problems are they claiming they will offer solutions to when they brought down heaven on earth to Nigeria n their 16 messy years in power? PDP claimed they did beyond expectation so why are they apologizing and telling Nigerians of their readiness to be born-again rulers if given back power?
But then, the question remains; why should I and other Nigerians vote out Buhari and bring back the locusts? Should I vote Buhari out because he is meticulously rebuilding an economy that was eaten down and ran in red during a providential oil boom? Do I vote out Buhari because he is frantically building up our foreign reserve that was so badly vandalized when oil, our solo export product, went at over $120 a barrel and the country was exporting over 2.5million ever day? Do I vote out Buhari in 2019 because he is achieving this unbelievable feat at a period the oil price crashed to between $27 to $50 a barrel and our daily sale volume was cut to as low as below 700,000 barrels a day because those that lost their power to loot saw oil facilities as one of the sectors they must avenge their electoral defeat on? Do I vote out Buhari because at this very arid economic turn, he is making the highest investment in capital projects?
Do I vote out Buhari in 2019 because he has channeled all the money that would have used to service the gluttony and bacchanal greed of party men, cronies, hirelings, friends, subalterns, bed mates and party members of the party in power and its government to critical capital projects that will drive the Nigerian economy? Should I vote out Buhari because he adamantly refused to bow to the pressure to sustain the corruption omnibus and ensure Nigerians live straight and narrowly without stealing from the treasury? Do I vote out Buhari because he has taken up the nation’s decayed infrastructures and is fixing them in a way no other government has done in the past?
Do I vote out Buhari because he decided to implement strict monetary policies to save Nigeria’s resources from yam eaters, rodents and plunderers who are anchoring the noisome battle for his replacement? Do I vote out Buhari because the treasury raiders who looted a richly endowed country dry before he came feel that he should satisfy their senses of entitlement and continue abandoning the infrastructure that should drive our growth as a nation? Do I vote out Buhari because he has stopped evil servants from operating millions of phantom accounts through which they bleed the treasury while we collectively suffer? Do I vote out Buhari because the economy is no more about looting, plundering, sharing and stealing?
Should I vote out Buhari because he has insisted that he will neither chop nor allow pests to feast on our commonwealth? Should I vote out Buhari because he insists that Nigerian wealth must serve us all instead of a ravenous few? Do I vote out Buhari because in a period of austerity, he saved states that went bankrupt when we were having oil boom and had made them solvent through prudent and honest management of our economy? Do I vote out Buhari in 2019 because he insists that Nigerians should work for what they earn? Should I vote out Buhari because he is fixing federal roads, the power sector, the energy sector in a way no government has done in the history of the country?
Do I vote out Buhari because he is no longer feeding corrupt-former leaders who not only looted Nigeria to the bones but insist on being serviced by what remains of the treasury? Do I vote out Buhari in 2019 because he is no longer pandering to the indecent corrupt interests of the legislature whose members are being ran ragged by frustration that they are no longer enjoying the bazaar as they used to do? Should I vote out Buhari because he is no longer deploying sacks of billions of Naira to bribe the legislature on sundry issues? Should I vote out Buhari because some of his party men who expected being spoon-fed from the national purse are disappointed he is not doing so? Do I vote out Buhari because those that stole the country to the bones and who thought they had escaped with their loot are being called by to return what they stole?
Do I vote out Buhari because the professional scavengers that flood around the seat of power with the hope of free-loading from our commonwealth have been made extinct? Do I vote out Buhari because he stopped the murderous escapades of Boko Haram that killed in tens of thousands, that took a huge size of Nigerian landmass and subjected the entire country to unrestrained attacks and untamed danger? So do I vote out Buhari because he is building the Second Niger Bridge for which past regimes duped my Igbo people? Do I vote out Buhari because he is building the enormous Mambilla Power Station which past governments played around with for decades without as much as turning the foundation soil on the project site?
Should I vote out Buhari because he is building massive railways across Nigeria? Should I vote out Buhari because he is meticulously building a viable economy from the rubble of the chaos he met on ground? Should I vote out Buhari because the vampires that wrecked the public treasury are angry and baying bare blood because, for the first time in the country’s history, they have lost access to the treasury? Do I vote out Buhari because the vampires that sucked life out of us especially in the fatal 16 years’ period before 2015 are wailing their eyes out and feigning hunger as an elaborate dubious project to take another injurious bite on us?
Do I vote out Buhari because he paid off trillions of Naira past governments owed contractors for contracts they used to enrich their members? Do I vote out Buhari because he paid off over N600 billion subsidy the past regime owed fuel importers and saved the energy industry from collapse? Do I vote out Buhari because he has rebuilt what remained of the four refineries that previous governments abandoned as scraps? Do I vote out Buhari because he stopped the payment of fraudulent subsidy to phantom fuel importers as was the culture before he came? Do I vote out Buhari because sundry, corrupt interests are no longer being awarded fake contracts where they walk away with the contract monies without even visiting the project sites? Do I vote out Buhari because he paid off trillions of Naira owed pensioners in federal government ministries, parastatals and agencies during our unfortunate oil boom? Do I vote out Buhari for the trillions spent on the most ambitious social intervention scheme to rescue the most vulnerable in our society, which is the most elaborate any government has ever embarked in Nigeria?
Why should I vote out Buhari? Do I vote out Buhari because he has stopped the drainpipe of freaky importation of freebies that served as feeding bottle for corrupt politicians before he came? Do I vote out Buhari because he stopped the importation of foodstuffs and through this bold action, has made Nigeria a sustainable agricultural country where citizens feed themselves? Do I vote out Buhari because of the agricultural revolution he is doing in Nigeria, which has seen the country unravel as sustainable food producer from its recent past as a top food importer? Should I vote out Buhari because he has made politics a non-rewarding venture unlike in the past? Do I vote out Buhari because he had securely locked up our treasure box and restrained access to it to even his appointees and supporters? Do I vote out Buhari because he is strongly ranged against the gargantuan corruption complex from which most Nigerians eke out a living?
These are just few posers I want those that have launched a project to get Nigerians to turn against Buhari. I don’t know of any incoming leader but I make bold to say that President Buhari has done far more than any other President that ruled Nigeria. I am open to correction by any person that feels otherwise and this would be done through telling us any president that has done better by listing what such president did. So are these reasons why I should vote out Buhari? Make no mistake about it, the project to stop Buhari flows from no patriotic reasons but squarely on the reality that Buhari has capped official stealing and plundering. It is for the singular reason that Buhari has plugged our treasury from these leeches that he is making huge investment in growth-driving capital ventures even when we are going through difficult economic realities because the oil we have, over time, depended lazily on, has met turbulent times.
So, on what ground will I and millions of Nigerians that endured very desperate pressures in 2015 to vote out the moths and rodents, not vote in Buhari in 2019 to continue the good works he is doing? Is it because the looters and their accomplices that neigh the country’s treasury have weaved enough incoherent and contradictory lies against Buhari that I will dive into a fatal voyage in 2019? Is it because those that ate down our country are breathing enough vain fury? Is it that we are simple-indeed enough to be taken advantage of by desperadoes that want power for its corrupt ends? Is it that those who raped and pauperized us before 2015 are right in their feeling that we are a simple-minded and memory-challenged people as to fall for any silly prank Never! I see no reason why we should not vote more emphatically for Buhari in 2019; not based on who he is but on what he had done with the mandate we gave him in March 2015 and based on the fact that he is the most assured hand to deepen the recovery of Nigeria and the setting of a credible template for the growth of Nigeria.
what shall it benefit a political party formed with lies and deceit. Even the party members are experience the deceit and lies because their national leader in person of Bola ahmed Tinubu has these nepotism spirit in him.
The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has said that Nigerians will soon realise that his former political party has been cursed, now in confusion and urgently needs deliverance.
As a result of that, Frank said it is increasingly difficult for APC to unite its members and make decisions that are in their best interest.
Reacting to current division on the mode of primary elections to be adopted by the party which has pitched one organ of the APC against the other, Frank said in a statement in Abuja on Monday that if a ruling party cannot be united in making a decision on whether to adopt direct or indirect primaries, such a party can neither unite nor lead the country on the path of progress.
Recall that the APC’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting had adopted the direct primaries for presidential nomination and the indirect primaries for Senate, House of Representatives, Governorship and State Houses of Assembly nominations but the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee unilaterally reversed the decision - a situation that has lead to widespread dissatisfaction and disaffection among the top hierarchy and members of the party.
Frank, however said that the current chaos in the APC is reflective of the lack of direction which the ruling party had foisted on the country in the last three years.
According to him: “It is a shame that a ruling party cannot unanimously take and stand by its decision on the mode of its primary election.
"Nigerians will soon realise that the calibre of people remaining in the APC are only there for their personal political interests and not for the good of the country.
“It is only in the APC-led Federal Government that more than three camps exist around the President - where the Chief of Staff has his own camp, Vice President leads another camp and the President himself is comfortable presiding over a divided house.
"The case is the same among the security agencies where there is no synergy and harmony. So how can a disunited ruling party protect or unite a vast country like Nigeria?”
Speaking on why some prominent members of the party - himself inclusive - recently defected from the APC, Frank who was a pioneer member, said those who are rushing to join the APC currently will soon have themselves to blame as they will soon rush out with bitter experiences.
He said that the APC is a one-man-show-political-party where nothing happens without express orders from the Führer.
He also recalled how the President himself was talking back and forth on whether tenure elongation or not should be adopted during the last days of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun’s chairmanship of the party.
The former APC spokesman said that the infighting within the party "epitomizes APC’s lacklustre leadership approach which has manifested in unmitigated crisis, policy somersaults, dwindling economic fortunes and rising unemployment and insecurity across the country.
He, however called on Nigerians to unanimously reject the APC at all levels in 2019, warning that if the current administration is allowed to continue beyond the next general elections, Nigeria might witness further economic and social stagnation.
Signed: Comrade Timi Frank Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC timifrank40@gmail.com 07033555555
His legacy has showed that he has economic development and prosperity for the country. He was the Accountant general of the federation during Jonathan regime with many corrupt minded politician he still respect himself and do his with utmost fear. As the governor of governor he was award best Governor in northern Nigeria, he also recorded many achievement in the state. e.g within Gombe metropolis alone, 87 roads including six dual carriageways have been constructed; over 300 km cumulative length of asphalted roads has been constructed across the state. “Under Dankwambo Government, Gombe is the only state that owned University of Science and Technology in the North East, College of Education Billiri, Polytechnic at Bajoga and College of Legal and Islamic Studies, Nafada. and many more things he has done. Please try read about him @ Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo and see the kind od leader he his. He his the only politician in Nigeria a God fearing heart and also a good democrat.
shakmati: I have become scared of so called incorruptible/corruption free people. Please give me tested people who seek economic development and prosperity for the country. This incorruptible slogan won't fly this time around.
Dankwambo as State Acct Gen returned excess money paid to Gombe to FG. This made OBJ appoint him as AGF. That’s a strong credential to run on as an incorruptible actor. @OfficialPDPNig has to use @HEDankwambo to show the world that the party is rebranded and its ready to move the country economy forward. with the candidate without any scandal attach to his Governance #GoingBeyondPromises #Dankwambo2019 #RigthmanRigthchoice
Dating or going out with wizkid is an act of stupidity and immorality, i beleive everybody want to move forward in this life not backward. Tiwa savage is living her life in reverse. No matter what could have conspire between her and husband wizkid is never a solution or option.
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You have said it all sir, islam is a religion of peace which has nothing to do with politics, I hope many politicians could learn from your word and also take the great and good step you are taking toward making the country a better place to live and call home. #GoingBeyondPromises #Dankwambo2019 #RigthmanRigthchoice
Dankwambo42019: Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe state, has urged politicians to shun politics of blackmail and violence and ensure the sustainability of peace and unity in the country.
Dankwambo gave the advice during Sallah lunch held at the state banquet hall, shortly after the Eid-el kabir prayers. While pleading with those vying for political office to maintain decorum and avoid using inflammable words, he said that.
“As we are approaching critical political era, it is our hope that politicians in the country will allow the peace and unity of Nigeria.” According to him, the celebration is an opportunity to learn the lessons of Eid-El-Kabir by living peacefully in obedience to the dictates of Allah.
“ I admonish us all to learn from the lesson of Eid-El-Kabir and show love to one another irrespective of religious or ethnic differences. “We must imbibe the tenets of Islam by promoting harmony and peaceful co-existence amongst our diverse people.
“ Eid-El-Kabir festival connotes sacrifice, selflessness, love and obedience to the dictates of Allah”, he said.
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