₦airaland Forum

mikeansy:
Some of you folks tell us IBB is a thief hence only GEJ is qualified. so the question is why is GEJ soliciting the support of a man he should be locking up if IBB is a theif. May be GEJ is not doing his job properly.

So from now onwards, All you GEJ supporters have lost the moral right to call IBB corrupt or a criminal because with this visit, GEJ clearly does not think so.

mikeansy:
I hope this will be the last time anybody will come out here to call IBB a criminal or corrupt.

Because if he is either of the above President Jonathan does not see it that way otherwise what will he be doing seeking his support or meeting him before running for office?

SHEAU:
Those NAIRALANDER calling Jonathan dumb are not too wrong. cos in this game of politics you play with what you have. if GJ is smart enough, he should have use all these pending allegation to victimise and frustrate IBB and make him busy with courts to drop his ambition frustratedly instead of going to BEG. and if he doesn't know how to do it, he should ask OBJ if d man is truly supporting him

dkings101:
Lets see who would kill who now as assassination would soon be the other of the day since it is near 2011. The Question should be?

Can Joe kill Babaginda? or Can Babaginda kill Joe??

Becos 1 person has to kill the other cos the money in the presidential villa and the pen they use in appending their signatory on trillion of naira project is to much money.

Gbawe:
You guys don't get it. Jonathan , despite his insincere pretense with facebook gimmick and similar nonsense , is not a modern politician who believes in selling himself to the electorate. He believes in rigging election and the supression of the will of the electorate . We all saw this with his actions during the Ekiti Guber election. Jonathan is more indicative of past politicians and their retrogressive practices . With the worst election riggers behind him (OBJ, Anenih et al) why does anyone think that Jonathan is interested in genuinely testing his popularity with the electorate when his gang of "do-or-die" politicians have convinced him that rigging and deploying underhand bullyboy tactics is the way forward?

Jonathan is not Donald Duke or Ribadu . He knows he cannot apeal to Nigerians on historical record of achievement, merit and through his current performance in office. WHo has the brightest chance to win if not an incumbent President who possesses the executive power to do the positive things for Nigeria/Nigerians that other candidates can only dream about ? When Jonathan prefers to play Politics the archaic way (renting crowds and jobbers, sacking party chairman, looting the treasury for campaign funds, bullying others out of the race, etc ) rather than making Nigerians fall behind him , because they are encouraged by his achievements in office, it is very obvious he is not the man to take Nigeria forward.

Jarus:
Kulikuli's analysis aptly captures the events in the country today. Although we cannot rule out his working for Kalu, what he says up there are clearly correct. All those mushroom groups rooting for GEJ are nothing plus rented crowds plus AGIP(any govt in power). Youth Earnestly ask for Jonathan.
GEJ's politics is too petty and unsophisticated to me. Maybe because he has never contested election before.

ziddy:
Abiola won '93 fair & square, no dispute about that. What we should be asking is why did IBB disqualify all the other viable candidates because frankly Tofa was a lame horse the North could have done better than that, if the elder Yar'Adua had gone up against Abiola, there's no way Abiola would have swept the North.

Looks like MKO was being set up from the start only he wasn't politically savvy enough to realise it.

By the way rumour had that Abiola gave Atiku a blank cheque to step down for him in the SDP primaries.

ziddy:
Why can't Ribadu be NSA? or better yet GEJ should've kicked Farida out and made Ribadu EFCC Chairman again.

SSA on Anti-corruption seems more like a sinecure, to me.

netotse:
it's almost certain, tariffs are going to go up, for the worldbank to be willing to drop money. . .well they're making all the right noises sha

it'll soon be time to start job-hunting

"yet, it is obvious today that the economy is in even more dire straits. The debt burden has trippled,hyperfinflation ravages the land,the productive sector is shell shocked and astounding paradox is the legacy of THE SAP year"

Guardian editorial sept4 1992

Fresh facts have emerged as to why ex EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu, fell out with President Goodluck Jonathan shortly after the former returned from self imposed exile in the United States. When Jonathan visited the United States, he met privately with Ribadu, where he prevailed on the ex anti-corruption boss to return home and play an important role in his administration.

Pointblanknews.com sources disclosed that Jonathan had two positions in mind for Ribadu, either Special Adviser on Anti-Corruption and Good Governance or Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Considering the hitherto goodwill he enjoyed both home and abroad, and the propaganda machine of Ribadu which peddled his alleged persecution by the late Umaru Yar’Adua administration, Jonathan decided to give Ribadu a soft landing. He ensured the non declaration of asset charge was dropped; he was reinstated by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), while the allegations of misappropriation of convicts funds, and assets while he was EFFC boss were downplayed.

Pointblanknews.com learnt that on arrival, Ribadu had another meeting with the President were the President reiterated the need for Ribadu to work with him. But sources close to the Presidency and Ribadu, told Pointblanknews.com that he rejected the offer.

According to our sources, to the chagrin of Jonathan, Ribadu said he wanted Gen. Aliyu Gusau fired and he be made National Security Adviser (NSA), or at worst he be made the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Jonathan, it was learnt, bluntly refused; maintaining that there was no way he (Ribadu) could be made NSA, or INEC chairman. Our source hinted that he told Ribadu that he was not experienced enough in security matters to hold the office of NSA, considering the fact that he was an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), before his rapid promotion to Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG).


On the INEC job, Pointblanknews.com sources said, the President told him, he had penciled down three names, with Prof. Attahiru Jega on top of that list. However, there was pressure for the President to make someone in the academia, INEC boss, so the he settled for Jega.

Pointblanknews.com sources disclosed further that when Ribadu couldn’t get the NSA or INEC job, he decided to dump Jonathan and the PDP and seek relevance elsewhere. So when some emissaries of the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN), came he was willing to listen.

Said our source “Ribadu is considered to be ungrateful to the President. When the President came to the US, he met with him and assured him he would be part of his administration. So when he came back, the federal government ensured all those baggage like the declaration of asset charge, and the trouble he had with the police were taken care of. The President had wanted him to be Senior Special Adviser, Anti corruption, or INEC boss, but the INEC thing did not work because of pressure to pick someone from the academia. Ribadu rejected the Anti corruption offer and insisted on either the NSA job or INEC boss.”

Our source said further “So when the president would not bulge, Ribadu decided to move somewhere else. He started talking with the ACN which was looking for candidates for their Presidential slot from the north.

According to our source, El-Rufai felt out with Ribadu because there was an agreement between them that they should work with Jonathan, and ensure they play visible roles in his administration after 2011, or support him (Rufai) for presidency. The duo has now reconciled.

But first sign of trouble came when Ribadu set up the Good Governance Group,(GGG), and words filtered to Rufai that his pal was insisting on the INEC or NSA job or nothing. Rufai was also miffed by the fact that that Ribadu was using the GGG to negotiate with the ACN to run as its presidential candidate.

Shortly after, Rufai took swipes at Ribadu, tagging him inexperienced to run for Presidency.

All efforts to get Ribadu’s reaction failed but one of his aides, Chido Onumah was nuanced in his reaction. Asked if his boss wanted the job of NSA, Onumah, in a telephone conversation said “ I know some of the issues, and I have my take on them, but I will want him (Ribadu) to personally react to them.”

Source:http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/os3799.html

mykali:
not for Tottenham . . .their fairytale journey ends by Matchday3

desgiezd:
The guy is just being foolish and too ambitious. Is it that cheap to become a president?

noetic16:
your opinion. jarus is officially the most disgusting, bigotic, hypocritical, imbecilic, moronic nuisance on nairaland.
Thats also my opinion. . . . .live with it.

noetic16:
and who exactly likes jarus? the dude disgusts excellently

Kinezeala:
an illetrate unpolished woman scolding an intellitual governor?
Chai,misplaced power,infact this na power miss road.

Sam Milla:
Very silly Woman. What right does she have to scold elected Official of the state, in his own domain ?

babasoty:
The governor is an elected official, he should know how to comment in public, the local government chairman of andoni was also elected by his people, but was publicly embarrassed and called incompetent in front of the people who elected him by Ameachi, the INC chairman was also elected by his people but was also publicly humilated in absentia in front of his Okrika kinsmen by the same governor, attend any of the town hall meetings and you'd know Ameachi feels his a demigod, publicly ridiculing traditional rulers et al, He just met his match in Patience, People just comment anyhow here talking trash without know the true situation of things in rivers state, the same patience everyone is calling names at the grand reception organised on that same day, commended the governor for his achievements and also enjoined her Okrika people to support the governor in his developmental strides in rivers state, concerning the waterfronts there was a court order retraining the governor from destroying bundu-ama, but he was still adamant and still sent enumerators and surveyors there, someone like him who came into power through the courts should have been the first to respect the courts, we are in a democracy not an autocracy words like "I Must" "we Must" on the people who voted you and supported you is not the best, there are better options in resolving the waterfront issue before it snowballs into another inter-ethnic war in rivers state, ask any real rivers man and you'd know the waterside issue is more than just development it is also about identity and ownership of land in port harcourt, its not only in the waterfronts we have cultist Ogbakiri was a base for militants and cultist during the rivers state crisis period has it been demolished almost every rumu village in port harcourt has their own little cultist and criminals have they been demolished, in as much as the state government has to bring development to its people as that it is civic responsibility the fear of what happened in maroko is still fresh in the peoples memory and I believe dialogue is the best solution to this issue than the language of power or "Must", I still believe in my governor and would be the first to vote for him for a second tenure but I still believe in dialogue as a means of resolving this issue and that was exactly Patience Jonathan meant which everyone now terms scolding, or was advising him to dialogue with the chiefs and heads of the people a wrong idea?

~Bluetooth:
And as the first lady,i expected her to maintain a decorum that goes in line with her status and not behaving like a pepper seller.the fact is that her statement which she made out of politics has gone against against a policy decision of the state.
The government is in charge of the state and anybody coming in is a guest including the first lady and it's expected of a sensible guest to agree with the terms and conditions of her host but patience was not patient enough to do that instead she showed off the hooliganism in her blood.''Listen to me '' ? Can you imagine  ? As she was talking to her son .