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2011: ‘PDP must win Kano, Lagos’
Written by Muideen Olaniyi & Sulaiman Bisalla, Abuja
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:00
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Prince Vicent Ogbulafor

Kano and Lagos States cannot continue to be ruled by opposition parties and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] intends to capture them in the 2011 general elections, its national chairman Prince Vincent Ogbulafor said in Abuja yesterday. The two states, this country’s most populous and most commercial, are currently controlled by the All Nigeria Peoples Party [ANPP] and the Action Congress, respectively.

Ogbulafor, who was speaking when the newly inaugurated members of the Kano State Executive Committee of the PDP paid him a courtesy visit, said the two states are of great importance to the party considering their status in Nigeria. He charged the leadership of the party in Kano State to unite all stakeholders in the state and bring it back into PDP’s fold.

He said, “Kano State is of great importance to us. It is a state with 44 local government areas, which is almost equal to 8 or 9 states considering the number of local government areas. The same thing is the case of Lagos State. There are some states that we can’t joke with. Kano is ANPP. Does Kano deserve to be in ANPP? We want Kano to be, like my colleagues will say, in the basket of progressives. Go back, organize Kano State and return the state to PDP.

“We challenge you to look for anybody who is not with you now but he or she is supposed to be with you so that they can join you to build Kano State. We need to be strong in Kano. It’s a state with the largest number of local government areas and largest population in the North. We should win it back. Let it be a challenge to all of you. We will give your chairman necessary financial and usual support to win Kano State,” Ogbulafor told the Kano delegation led by former state governor and one-time Defence Minister Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Responding to Ogbulafor, Kano State PDP Chairman Barrister Farouk Iya, who presented copies of inauguration CDs to the national chairman, said the party PDP is determined to win back the state in 2011.

Earlier, Kwankwaso had briefed the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on the State Congress on August 16 and the October 13th inauguration ceremony of the new state officials, describing the two programmes as successful.

Kwankwaso, who said the officials were democratically elected, added that both state party leaders and followers, who are all major stakeholders, would be involved in the efforts to reposition the PDP and win Kano State back in 2011.

The party chieftain, who said the visit was to show their allegiance and total loyalty to the national leadership, also said PDP is very strong in Kano State.

Ogbulafor’s statement drew sharp reactions yesterday, with AC’s National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed saying it is a dream to think that PDP will win Lagos State in many years to come.

Speaking to Daily Trust on telephone, Mohammed said rather than wasting energy thinking of how to win Lagos, Ogbulafor should dissipate such energy in solving the riddles before him in Anambra and Plateau States before the next election.

“A man that can’t solve the problem before him in Anambra State is now putting his eyes on Lagos and Kano. This is a tall dream. Let him manage the 27 states that the PDP snatched away first,” he said.

According to him, Lagos will be the last state that the PDP will think of winning in view of the massive transformation going on. “Has he been to Lagos in recent times? Has he seen the rapid transformation that is going on in Lagos under the AC government? It will take a dream to think that PDP will win Lagos. We will certainly chase them away,” the AC spokesman said.

Also reacting, Kano State Commissioner of Information and one time ANPP National Legal Adviser Alhaji Isa Haruna Dederi described Ogbulafor’s comments as an empty boast, saying the Kano chapter of the party “cannot be shaken” by that.

Dederi, who was also a onetime ANPP state secretary, said the party is “indivisibly solidified” in Kano and is ready to “counter any attempt to divide it.”

“For now, we will remain focussed in our vision,” he said, adding however that power belongs to God and He gives it to whoever He wants.

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This is mighty interesting.

Hi, Mod

Why can't I start a new topic on your board? This is the topic's title: Modest HIV protection confirmed!!! Is this not a health related topic?

Honor Killing is not Islamic; we've just finished discussing the same topic on Islam for Muslims childboard. Will provide the link now, inshaAllah.

Only Allah knows.

Assalamu alaikum,
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I asked Allah's Apostle to teach me an invocation so that I may invoke Allah with it in my prayer. He told me to say, "Allahumma inni zalumtu nafsi zulman kathiran, Wala yaghfirudhdhunuba illa anta faghfirli maghfiratan min 'Indika, war-hamni innaka antal-ghafururrahim (O Allah! I have done great injustice to myself and none except You forgives sins, so please forgive me and be Merciful to me as You are the Forgiver, the Merciful)."

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Mts. I opened most of the replies you made but all I see is stupidity at its peak. I wonder where the heck you are from?

Any way, lets examine the one you advertise here:

focused123:
Yes, the Quran contains satanic verses because Muhammed was NEVER a prophet in the first place and as a result could not discern when the devil is speaking to him.

Produce them and lets dissect them. Period.

Even Aisha said it in the Hadiths that Muhammed cannot predict future events.

What that got to do with "Satanic Verses"?
The prophet, may Allah exalt his mention, only knew of things which Allah, the Exalted, gave him knowledge of. And it did happen when the prophet told his companion of their forth coming victory over Romans.

By the way, can you tell me is there any verse in the bible where Jesus (pbuh) is said to have knowledge of the future events? Kai or any other prophets?

Muhammad claimed that his Quran was above human invention. He challenged anyone, including "jinn" to produce something like the Quran.

Yes, Qur'an is inimitable. Qur'an is wholly guarded; unlike other Scriptures where you guys interpolated it. And if you disagree or even doubt lets see your version. LOL

Well, we see that Satan was able to do so, and with incredible ease. The question to follow should be:

Only myopic and deluded folks like you see this. Or else show us.

What other verses in the Quran are actually those from Satan?

Forget the other. Which one is specifically Satanic?

Gabriel had to confront Muhammad with the fact that those "Satanic Verses" were not Allah's words.

Where/how was that done?

Also note, that all of the Muhammadans, i.e., Muhammad's followers, also prostrated when Muhammad prostrated. They did not suspect that a FALSE Quran had been spoken.

Who told you that? Only your anti-Islamic websites contain such fairy tales. Apart from there lets see your proof. Waiting. . .

Obviously, the "Quran" is not that special since even Satan was able to bring forth similar material to that of Allah's without Muhammad realizing the difference.

Apparently you are a first class ignorant since you think Satan had done this.

*** Fundamentalist Muhammadan Muslims complain about anyone who investigates and or questions their religious beliefs BUT are not at all ASHAMED or CONCERNED at their unilateral attacks against ALL OTHER BELIEFS everyday of the year in their Quran, in their MOSQUES and in their MEDIA.

This is your business. It's off-topic thus I careless to discuss it.

Muhammedans exhibit an OBSCENE degree of HYPOCRISY and a PATHOLLOGICAL and DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE to REALITY, FACTS, MORALITY, History, RELIGION, JUSTICE or WORDS.

These are words you wrote; every Tom and Dick can just do the same. Pure rubbish.

All the time they PRETEND to be the VICTIMS when in reality they are invariably the first to AGGRESS against ALL those who do not BELIEVE AS THEY DO.

Who? You must think again. Poor guy.

Against all: HINDUS, BUDDHISTS, ANIMISTS, CHRISTIANS and JEWS; AGAINST 85% OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS ***

Which one are you? LOL

God will lead us to the right path (Amen)

Only who opens his heart/mind to ponder.

Mts. I opened most of the replies you made but all I see is stupidity at its peak. I wonder where the heck you are from?

JeSoul:
Yes, my student
I already directed ya'll to Bawo's thread here. https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-336457.0.html#msg4719939 For the leadership of a country to behave like this is indicative of the fact that they have no morals. This would never happen in Isreal, or any other rational-thinking nation on the planet. Simple.

Really?

I wonder where the heck you focused123 hails from? All your replies contain nothing but sheer stupidity.

Assalamu alaikum,

I have been trying all I could to make this private but you never reckon to that. I wonder where your intelligence goes whenever it comes to matters like this one. I therefore prepare to let it open since that is what you want; and I don't care wherever the discussion goes.

In short, I today want to you to tell me what do you mean by your "suspicion" about me. You have been saying this here and there. And only Allah, the Exalted, knows how I have been trying to discuss this discreetly with you. Go straight forward and tell the world your "suspicion" about Muhsin.

Waiting. . .

You know what you mean.

Like both.

Abuzola:
Caught in a corner. Very good muhsin.

LOL Thanks

@aloy, what u quoted is simply not pertinent to what we are discussing, i can as well quote diferent verses of the Quran that have to do with kindness using it to refute any attempt on apostate in islam meanwhile there is a direct instruction on apostate in the book of hadith instead of going round the table, thats what you did.

Provide one verse that abolish the law of apostasy and lets settle the strive

I am too waiting for this, Emeka.

Where have you been? Hope you are cool.

Very good brothers, littleb and Olabowale. And may Allah, the Exalted, bless you.

BTW, I just come to have a peep at whats going on as I've been criss-crossed with things to do. InshaAllah, you'll see my response tomorrow, dexmond. I see your case is, in a way, simple. May Allah guide us all, ameen.

Honor Killing is not Islamic.

Prove if its.

honeric01:
interesting topic sits down to see what happens

LOL

matrim:
it's like you don't know the meaning of a terrorist.a terrorist is one who inflicts violence on innocents as the means of making a political point.isreal did not set out to kill palestinian citizens they were after the palestinian govt in gaza who had declared war on isreal and provoked the death of their citizens by using them as human shields.

You are talking of "mere" meaning while am using the word in its real sense. See the difference?

;d

Assalamu alaikum,
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I heard the Prophet saying, "There is no envy except in two: a person whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it in the right way, and a person whom Allah has given wisdom (i.e. religious knowledge) and he gives his decisions accordingly and teaches it to the others."

Bukhari - Volume 2 - Book 24 - Hadith 490[/center]

By Segun Balogun
October 15, 2009 10:58PMT

The Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday restated the need for State Police to supplement the inadequacy of the Nigeria Police.

"For me, the question of a State Police is no longer if, it is when," he said. "Should a State that has its own House of Assembly, university, and hospitals not have its own police? What are we afraid of?"

Mr. Fashola said this on Thursday at the third town hall meeting on security, which is annually held by the Lagos state security trust fund, a public private partnership for improvement of policing in Lagos State.

He made the statement against the background that about 33,000 police officers in the Lagos command of the Nigeria Police cannot effectively police about 18 million people.

The focus of the meeting, which was titled "sustaining and growing the security model," was to present an overview of the status of security in the state and launch the trust fund website with an e-donation capability which gives everyone the chance to donate any amount through the online/ATM portal.

He said the State has procured two helicopters, which are customised for emergency evacuation, aerial security survey, and quick response, from Bell Corporation.

"No country has ever been able to get away with reducing spending on law enforcement and security. I call on those who have contributed before to do so again in our collective interest. I particularly call on those yet to contribute, both corporate and private entities whose improved security could be said to have been subsidised by those who have donated, to do so now, in particular to the tank farm owners, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Nigeria Ports Authority, and other agencies engaged in economic activity around Apapa and Atlas Cove area," Said Mr. Fashola .

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Can I laugh?

Are you fair, dude? Any way, lets go. . .

The Council or whatsoever fatwaa come from the "sources"--Qur'an and/or the sayings of Mohammad (pbuh) called hadeeths. They are just different arguments/points of view of these sayings hence none of them can 'invent' anything. Can they? NOPE.

Am simply waiting for you to bring up any Qur'anic verse that clearly decrees execution for an apostate. Or Hadeeth, an authentic one.

[quote author=Aloy~Emeka link=topic=339047.msg4752533#msg4752533 date=1255795843]Literally he is. If he used to be a christian and dumped his faith for some reason, he is referred to as a back slider and as such an unbeliever. An unbeliever is someone who does not believe in a cause. I am an islamic unbeliever, a capital punishment unbeliever, an unbeliever in our current super eagles etc.[/quote]LOL Emeka. You had me smiling at your last line.

To business: check up the meaning of these two words and see; they do not mean the same, I repeat.

[quote author=Aloy~Emeka link=topic=339047.msg4752443#msg4752443 date=1255794805]That is the reason why Christ came and changing the laws of Moses was the reason why he was crucified or why do you think the Jews killed him?. What you wrote above is the Jewish law and is not practiced in Christianity albeit in the new testament. The Christian religion was founded on the life and teachings of Jesus and not the teachings of Moses. There are instances in the NT where Jesus faulted the laws of Moses and this angered the custodians of these laws like Olabowale and co behaves anytime you question ancient laws in their quran they still uphold. The holy spirit is the teacher of all things and until you guys submit to the spirit of God, you can never see light.[/quote]You folks always miss some very significant things; although in your scriptures, but you never see them rightly.

One, these "books" are divine revelation from one and only GOD to His messengers, thus their true teachings (unless in a few instances; and with reasons) are virtually the same. If you come across some of these changes are mostly due to abrogation. For instance, some NT verses abrogate some OT verses, likewise some Qur'an verses abrogate NT & OT verses. It goes like this. . .

Salam,

I can't watch the videos. Probably the problem lies with the system am using. Get to keep on re-trying, I think.

@Abeem,

Allah bless. And I understand what you are telling Abuzola the moment I opened the thread.

[quote author=Aloy~Emeka link=topic=339047.msg4752349#msg4752349 date=1255793808]What are the teachings of Moses?. You think the old testament is all about the teachings of Moses while the new testament is the teachings of Jesus?. Also, show me in the OT where Moses taught his people to kill unbelievers?. You lack an in depth understanding of the bible and from what I am seeing, you will sink further into a hole if you cannot to toe this line of argument.[/quote]I have never claimed myself having in depth knowledge of bibles. That is the prime purpose of this thread; to learn.

But for certain, OT contains teaching of Moses and NT of Jesus.

And lastly, an unbeliever is not an apostate. Is he?

Deceptionist. . .

I laughed, wallahi.

Abuzola:
@muhsin- Are you sayiing punishment for apostate does not exist in islam and that Saudi arabia is unguided by killing apostate ?

What punishment? There is of course a punishment for him/her.

BUT I am unaware of any hadeeth that states execution for Riddah unless it was a specific case. If you know of any hadeeths to disprove this then please post them here so I can cross-check them against the 'real' Arabic hadeeths. I urge you to go and read and understand what folks like Emeka circulate on internet.

And, saying SA does that does not automatically make it purely Islamic.

And lastly (as I am going off-line now ), open up your mind. I kinda feel certain premonition. . .don't be gullibe, brother. May Allah increase in your knowledge; open up your heart and guide you, ameen.

[quote author=Aloy~Emeka link=topic=338294.msg4752255#msg4752255 date=1255792672]Thank you for coming through. She is a fake muslim and you muslims should be careful of wolves in sheeps clothings.[/quote]Literally kidding. Metaphorically deception.

BTW, Muhsin is a HE; and not SHE.

Again?