₦airaland Forum

Abagworo:
If the President was not involved then what he should do as an upright leader is to prosecute those in his campaign team that were quoted as mentioning IBB and other northerners.That will serve as a deterrent to those that always try to tribalise sensitive issues.

oyb:
you forget that the fg also granted okah unconditional amnesty in 2009

Jarus:
I strongly doubt that. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Kwara and still follow the state politics, but what many people don't know is that Saraki is in full control of Kwara Central, which alone constitutes 55% of the voting populace. He has great followership in Kwara North too. It is only those of us in Kwara South that constitute the opposition and our population is very insignificant. They can win election without us.

Furthermore, like I mentioned in that article, majority of the people that actually vote are these poor women, who are ready to queue for hours to vote for Olooye's candidate. Those of us that claim to be intellectual, elite, educated etc, are in the minority and we have a long way to go upturn the system.

So I honestly don't think Saraki will lose, even if the election was free an fair.

noibilism:
People should look at this issue from a neutral point of view.Don't say because you like a person you want to defend him at all cost.For me, there is something fishing between The President & Okah. The president came out hastily to say "They didn't do it",nobody is talking about that! Both Okah & The presidency have something hidden that we dont know. For IBB He is only a Joker, He can be Nigeria's president again in his dreams not in this life again.Let us be objective! Don't say because you like Goodluck Jonathan, you want to defend him at all cost.Don't trust a typical Nigerian politician,they're all the same.

oyb:
if you believe that, you will believe anything.

is it the nigerian government we are talking about here, or some hypothetical government?

our government is not telling us the truth in this case

first it was ben jessy and chima orlu - all of a sudden, they are not interested in pursuing these fellows
then it was dokpesi 'na we do am' ' meet us at ibb campaign office'

now it is okah

ring a ring a rosie

can someone say bola ige?

Kobojunkie:
The president shot himself in the arm when he got ex militants to come dine with him in Abuja. Now this case is getting messier by the day and more incredible by the minute.

oyb:
let me get this straight though

they found receipts for arms

is okah not an arms dealer?

sort of like finding receipts for pc hardware in the house of a computer retailer

chosen04:
GBAM at the bolded!!!!!

Funny enough! Is the receipts before or after the amnesty programmes?
Evidences indeed!!!

Prosecutors said they also found in Okah's home a Sept. 3 invoice from a Chinese company not registered to deal in arms in South Africa showing the price of rocket launchers, rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, guns and heavy artillery.

semid4lyfe:
He's that good and he's playing in Division 2 in Turkey? and why will Turkey invite a division 2 player to their National team?

Na big fat lie jare.

Gbawe:
My brother how U dey ? I did not see your post otherwise would have responded . Who do you think Soyinka is accusing of "lack of seriousness" ? Abeg just hint am in code since me and you know the rabid fans of a certain profligate leaders go begin abuse your mama and papa if you mention their god and messiah

Kennyblues:
Becomrich’s always got good ideas but got misconstrued with his presentation probably because of his antecedent. If the Gift Certificate would work it would at least go a long way in solving some problems if not all considering the exchange rate that is Yed1.10 to N1.

By implication; if any of the Yoruba states governors got 500Billion Yed, in exchange to Naira, he would have made an additional N50Billion when if the 500Billion is well expended. These difference could be channeled into making infrastructure work without recourse to FGN allocation….just my thinking not Becomrich’s

Now that the Presidency is denying responsibility for using the police to illegaly disrupt what is a lawful gathering by Igbos in Owerri.

Has President Jonathan ordered IG or anyone to investigate who gave those orders and bring whoever is responsible for such criminal order to justice?

This is a criminal use of the Nigerian Police and the least the Nigerian President can do is uphold the laws of the land or take responsibility for the criminality that went on.

Mere denial is not enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Omo_Tier1:
Whoever said Obasanjo was influential must be having a laugh!!, To really prove to your self that you are having a laugh, ask yourself this simple question: DO I WANT TO BECOME AN OBASANJO?

Again this vey list from vanguard newspaper underscore the shabby journalism that characterize Nigeria's landscape! In civilizied societies, for such a list to be drawn up, a national poll would be taken based on sampled opinion, which in mmost cases are regional opinion samples. A national opinion is formed based on these regional opinion samples, which in most cases reflects the mind of the majority!

TRULY, NIGERIA WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO AND A VERY STEEP LEARNING CURVE TO ATTAIN!

[size=15pt]Definition of Influential A person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events.[/size]

Prisoners may make a phone call instead of a visit, and only  on weekends and public holidays. Group D prisoners may not make any phone calls; group A prisoners are allowed to make an extra twelve calls per year, in addition to those they might want to substitute for visits. Each phone call may last up to 10 minutes

The phone call to NEXT, which lasted for five minutes, followed a telephone interview with the wife  [/b]of former leader of the Movement  for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, (Azuka). During that chat, [b]she promised to get in touch with her husband and set up an interview. A few minutes later, our phone rang, and the caller introduced himself as Mr. Okah.

Kay 17:
Primarily, the bone of contention is whether the zoning arrangement still exists. Atiku, Saraki and co are taking advantage of the chaos caused by Jonathan.

Kay 17:
Could you imagine, that Jonathan is supporting the most infamous politican, gold obsessed Akala.

Kay 17:
Jonathan is just an assshoole, lacks vision, its luck, rather thancompetence he found himself in the presidency. the 6334 has failed for improper implementation.

This is a response to the puerile and opportunistic press statement jointly signed by the quartet of retired General Ibrahim Babangida, Aliyu Guasau, Atiku Abubakar and of course Dr. Bukola Saraki.

Let no one be surprised that we have chosen to leave out Bukola Saraki from the field of presidential contenders. It is an open secret that he does not want to be a president. Rather, he is a carpetbagger, a frontman for Babangida in the race for 2011 presidential elections. As for the three musketeers, this is a reply to their opportunistic attachment to the tragic Independence day bombing of Abuja.

Their argument is based on the Al Jazerra interview with Henry Okah and the perceived fascism that Dr. Jonathan is about to unleash on his perceived political opponents. In as much as one cannot deny the right to subscribe to a media of choice, but in this case, it is pertinent to note that these three musketeers are using the Okah interview with Al Jazeerah as a lifeline.

It is unfortunate that these men have chosen to hang on to the Al Jazeera interview with Okah to further foul an already fouled air. . Where was Al Jazeera when the Yardua cabal held Nigeria by the jugular for several months? Where was Al Jazeera when Nigeria was debased by these northern elements in the Yar'adua cabal? Is this a sign of the Samson Complex? The three musketeers have ruled and ruined Nigeria at various times.  They were neither productive nor innovative. The only thing they achieved was stupendous personal wealth. It is unfortunate that it is these same expired men who are angling to rule us again. Though Babangida pointed to building Abuja and conducting the freest and fairest election in Nigeria, he failed to appreciate the damage he did to the body polity of Nigeria by the annulment of the same election. It seems as if the general does not appreciate that a coup under any guise is like shooting one's parents. It is a sacrilege. His ultimate sin against Nigeria was the annulment of the June 12 election.

More than any one in the history of Nigeria, Babangida debased, despoiled and ruined Nigeria with his recklessness and grand scale theft of our resources. We are therefore anxious to have Al Jazeera interview Babangida as to the source of his stupendous wealth, the murder of Dele Giwa, the annulment of June 12, 1993 election, the mysterious place crash in Ejigbo suburb of Lagos. Will Al jazeerah please interview him as to why he is hiding behind the courts to escape the critical lenses of the Oputa panel.


Will Al Jazeera also want to interview Abubakar Atiku as to the source of his wealth? We all knew he was a civil servant, in the customs and excise department. A department of government known for a type of corruption that is even offensive to Hades. Will Al Jazeera want to be independent as expected to ask Atiku whatever happened to his case in the USA, the reasons for his hasty departure from the USA and why his wife Jennifer is on the wanted list in America. One hopes that Al Jazeera is not trying to insert itself into the high wire politics of Nigeria. A bystander who pulls a gun in a fight is no longer a bystander. He/she has become a combatant. We do not need the poster child of Al Qaeda in Nigeria.

One can safely place IBB in the same camp with Henry Okah, a merchant of death, an anti-social love-peddler; up for sale to the highest bidder. We will not fold our arms and let the so-called Northern leaders pile on Jonathan. It is not a matter of party affiliation; it is a matter of fairness. Where were these people and Al Jazeera when the Yar'adua drama was unfolding? Offices in Nigeria were headed by Northerners Have they suddenly forgotten the ignoble role they played keeping a dead man in power? Whatever happened to Al Jazeera when Christians were massacred in the North?


I wonder if they appreciate the figure of speech deployed by President Jonathan when he reiterated the tragic bombing was not a MEND affair. Let me take these people out of their ignorance. I risk saying that what the president did was to translate his native tongue into the English grammar. Of course it came out sounding otherwise. But for the avoidance of doubt, the message he was conveying was that a renegade group using the name of MEND was behind the bombing. He said no one could be more Niger deltan than him because his home was right beside an oil well with all the attendant environmental fall out. In that instance therefore, as we say in Africa it will only be a deviant child who will attempt to undermine his father. After all, it is only a wicked child who disrupts his father’s outing.

The fact that these people understood what Dr. Jonathan meant, but chose to play politics with it speaks volumes about them. It is a sign of desperation and irresponsibility. What stops Okah from waking up on another day to implicate these expired men in the same bombing? They forget that Okah is an anti social human being, a deviant with little respect for self and for society at large. How about the text message supposedly implicating Raymond Dokpesi, another social misfit, another social love-peddler.

What we ought to do now is to allow the investigations run its course and the rewards given to people implicated as deserved. Indeed, no one is above the law in Nigeria. Finally, one hopes that the three musketeers will get away from the dangerous adventure with Al Jazeera. We do not want the poster child for Alqaeda and the Talibans in Nigeria.

As for the president, Dr. Jonathan, it is not in your place and position to absolve MEND under any guise. It is not in your place to speak in tongues when it comes to the wickedness of MEND. I’m a Niger Deltan like you. But I speak English. I do not translate my local language into the English grammar because I happen to know that it will connote a different meaning. You need to stay away from inserting yourself into the middle of a tragic comedy. All responsible people from the Niger delta felt deep embarrassment by the Independence Day bombing. You need to allow the investigations take its course and the most severe form of punishment meted to all involved. In the interim, you need to reassess the security network around you. You may just be sleeping with the enemy. Be careful.

http://www.saharareporters.com/article/abuja-bombings-and-three-musketeers

Plan (A) use your media house and scream that your life is in danger
Plan (B) Cause the Igbos (SE because most of them can readily sell their mothers) to be against Jonathan by (1) either blowing up their meeting venue or (2) at worst having them locked out
Plan (C) Use renegades of MEND to blow up important landmarks in Abuja and then cry out as the victim as soon as the investigation points to your direction
Plan (D) Capitalise on this and call for the Presidents resignation or impeachment
Plan (D) Use the religious angle by causing a bought over Christian to burn the Koran or vandalise the Mosque, possibly an Igbo or Niger Deltan
The polity must have heated up by now and finally Plan (E) Fellow Nigerians , and all the blah blah blah.
Well Gusau, IBB, Atiku, Ciroma and the hangers on, you guy are in for a big surprise.

[b]It is unfortunate that an unprecedented national tragedy of this nature has been politicised by people whose only interest is what they can get from the country and not what the country can get from them. They specialise in playing one part of the country against the other and riding on sectional sentiments to promote their narrow ambitions. I believe that Nigerians have grown beyond this parochial mentality. To prove to you that their interests are personal and not for the people they claim to represent you will notice that while this administration has spent considerable time and resources as well as focused attention on the recent floods in Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and Jigawa states and the Cholera epidemic in certain parts of Nigeria as well as the lead poisoning that has consumed 400 children in Zamfara state, these so called concerned people have not been known to address any of these issues nor offer a word of succour to the victims. This is irrefutable proof that their only focus is how to get power and not the wellbeing of the long suffering people of Nigeria whom I have sworn to Almighty God to protect.[/b]

[b]It is unfortunate that an unprecedented national tragedy of this nature has been politicised by people whose only interest is what they can get from the country and not what the country can get from them. They specialise in playing one part of the country against the other and riding on sectional sentiments to promote their narrow ambitions. I believe that Nigerians have grown beyond this parochial mentality. To prove to you that their interests are personal and not for the people they claim to represent you will notice that while this administration has spent considerable time and resources as well as focused attention on the recent floods in Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and Jigawa states and the Cholera epidemic in certain parts of Nigeria as well as the lead poisoning that has consumed 400 children in Zamfara state, these so called concerned people have not been known to address any of these issues nor offer a word of succour to the victims. This is irrefutable proof that their only focus is how to get power and not the wellbeing of the long suffering people of Nigeria whom I have sworn to Almighty God to protect.[/b]