₦airaland Forum

Ranoscky:
A 'president wyfe' for that matter, travelled to dubai and it became the HEADLINE in NL.

Una amebo go make dubai visa hard lyke American or Japan visa, then our eyes go clear

Na poverty dey worry all of us daz y we dey here dey talk rubbish about the woman.

President GJ's wyfe, abeg if u went for shoping make u buy 1 nice shox 4 me jare

and 1 louis vuitton hand bag for my GF b'cos she like's LV product so much

but if u went for money looting I CAN'T SHOUT

Thank you. infact the contribution of people i have always respected on NL as very intelligent is even more annoying.

tkb417:
well for some of us who know most of them, we all know the list was not a sham

and of course no banks gave Jimoh money to pay any loan

get your facts right

And you are sure of your facts that he had the money buried somewhere in his house and only had to exhume it. abi?

This government publicly "endorsing" sanusi's reforms is only a wise approach at correcting SLS excessiveness.Fg  will be  working underneat to plug his glaring technical deficiencies. Any other approach by government would have meant , making the same mistakes SLS did by using a bazoka to kill an ant and later wonder publicly why the building is shaking.

Jonathan is a very wise man and knows clearly that removing the erring sanusi at this time will not in any way help our financial  rating internationally. It will only confuse everyone more and inconsistency is one thing that erodes trust.

The pro-SLS guys seem to hinge their support on the easily verifiable sharp practices of the Ibrus and Akingbolas. As much as I do not support SLS especially becuase of his shallowness in understanding economic dynamics, i must quickly add that cecelia and Akingbola were really really corrupt. But the question i keep asking is: does sanusi mean that of all the banks he deem sound, he did not find any executive abuse that would warrant prosecuting some of  the CEOs i hate to mention? Sanusi's logic simply is that all weak banks have corrupt CEOs and no  CEO of a "sound" bank  ever did anything wrong.

Even a nursery school pupil knows that sanusi's celebrated debtors list was a sham. Why did he not publish the enter list of bad debtors in the entire industry? As a banker is sanusi feigning ignorance that the Jimoh Ibrahims that paid  billions after some days , only went to some other banks not under sanusi's radar to collect money and weaken the entire system more?

Finally why has sanusi refused to answer questions that border on loans he gave as ED risk at FBN?

Now the FG has boxed him, he no longer needs to struggle so hard to preach reforms , they will now only ask for a blue print for the industry(we all know the guy has none). we now have seasoned professionals who will make him work and not this his ALUTA CONTINUA mentality

before nko, boiz must wack na. omo people too smart for dis country.

slex:
If this made the news then what will happen if she enters a spaceship and goes to mars

My broda nice question.

I wonder how this is news talkless of making frontpage on NL. It is longer the thieving politicians that make one weep for this country, but the mentality of the average nigerian , where he majors on very very minor issues.

Wetin concern me if jonathan wife travel, in fact make she go heaven self.

marutimon:
The defence line does how ever look very ordinary with only Samuel a standout. The team is very much strong in attack, but the defensive lines are nothing special. Even moreso that Mascherano has had a pathetic season at Liverpool.

Players like Demichelis are liabilities worse than Yobo,

Very correct . Infact if we have fast wingers like ogbuke even Gabriel Heinze will be a big liability. The danger area of the argentines is the attack. Any two of the six attackers can do severe damage to any team.

semid4lyfe:
My biggest fear in that group is not Argentina but South Korea.

So you fear the koreans more than argentines? how funny. Yes they have team work and are better prepared than the nigerian team, but with teams like that we do not even need an exceptional performance to win.

The korean team can be tamed and defeated. simply by retaining posession and slowing the game down. make their stamina count for less. Our boys are at least intelligent enough to know how to do that.
I also do no think they have a defence line strong enough to stop the likes of Obafemi and Ik UCHE.

bgees:
Mekusxxx and EzeUche are presently searching the internet for a brillant student named 'emeka'.

Una no go kill person here.

hollandis:
na so ,were u banned ?
Mikel is injured and a back passer.

Etuhu is a backpasser and was dissapointed with his game against athletico madrid

How many bak passers una want sef?

I was not banned.thanx

Mikel has resumed training, so forget the injury talk. Mikel has never been a backpasser in the SE.

Yes he does that in chelsea, but some off us need to watch the chelsea backline carefully. Peter cech is about the most engaged keeper in terms of backpass. These passes do not come from Mikel.They come from either Alex or Terry, sometimes i get pissed off when terry does that expecially when he is not under any pressure from an attacker, but maybe that is the best way they know how to organise the backline.

Mikel is and will be a relevant part of the SE for a long time to come. He is surely the first midfielder i will pick,Haruna comes next because of his age which will help the teams mobility greatly.

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The list was compiled by alex dimmond of goal.com

http://www.goal.com/en/news/3171/goalcom-season-awards-2009-10/2010/05/18/1930228/goalcom-special-premier-league-worst-team-of-the-season-2009

hollandis:
All the premiership players must go.
Kanu
Utaka
Etuhu
Aiyegbeni
Shittu
Yobo
Mikel

It is even strange that there are seven premiership players and we need to evacuate 7 players.

This EPL hate campaign will do us no good. You are suggesting that we take 4 keepers to the WC becuase you hate the EPL

Anyways, there is just no way Mikel and ETUHU will not make that team.

GK: Manuel Almunia (Arsenal)
The Spaniard's sustained ineptitude just edges team-mate Lukasz Fabianski's preference for short, sharp, unfathomable moments of idiocy. At one point this season Almunia was saving under half the shots hit at him on target. A replacement must be found in the summer. Just not Fabianski, eh, Arsene?

DR: Mario Melchiot (Wigan Athletic)
The former Chelsea man looks about ten years removed from his best, and he is still only 33. The Latics' whole back line was poor this year — as Spurs proved back in October — but Melchiot gets in by virtue of the fact that Wigan conceded over two goals a game when he was on the pitch.

DC: Andre Bikey (Burnley)
The Clarets have worse defenders on their books — a couple, actually — but none quite as infuriating as Bikey. The Cameroonian international is a supremely talented and physical footballer, but one blessed with the mentality of a spoilt 12-year-old. When will he learn?

DC: Mikael Silvestre (Arsenal)
Note it down to experience, Arsene. When Sir Alex Ferguson is prepared to see one of his arch-rivals sign one of his squad members for a cut-price fee, it isn't because he has gone temporarily senile. It's because the player in question is flat-out past it.

DL: Jonathon Spector (West Ham United)
While the likes of Dempsey and Donovan were doing good work for the profile of American football, Spector — admittedly often being played out of position on the left — was doing his best to undermine it. West Ham players were all rubbish — but Spector still stood out.

MR: John Utaka (Portsmouth)
Being on a reported £80,000-a-week went against Utaka all season, despite his insistence he was on less than half that figure. The forward scored just one goal in 18 league appearances all year, struggling just to get into Avram Grant's regular XI. Even for £80pw that would still be a poor return.

MC: Jimmy Bullard (Hull City)
Perhaps it was just asking too much for Bullard to be the saviour of a relegation team again. But football's funny man wasn't even close this year — with that penalty miss against Sunderland a lowlight —and his deadly cocktail of high wages and injuries looks likely to leave Tigers fans cursing for years.

MC: Fabrice Muamba (Bolton Wanderers)
Muamba played nearly 3000 minutes for the Trotters this season, under two different managers, so he obviously has fans within the game. But what did he really achieve? One goal, no assists, 11 yellow cards and seeing his side concede 55 goals. Bully for him.

ML: Robbie Keane (Tottenham Hotspur)
Keane slots in on the left as it seems that is where both Messrs Benitez and Redknapp feel he is best suited these days — if the substitutes' bench is unavailable, that is. The Irishman went from starter, to early sub, to benchwarmer, to loanee in about six months at Spurs. A spectacular slump.

ST: Emmanuel Adebayor (Manchester City)
His seven games missed through suspensions (not to mention his ill-fated African Cup of Nations trip) almost certainly helped scupper City's Champions League bid. Drogba's talent, Adriano's attitude. In the end, 14 goals in 26 games is just a reminder of what could have been — but what also still can be for Ade.

ST: Christian Benitez (Birmingham City)
It speaks volumes for Alex McLeish's work this season that the Blues finished in the top ten despite their big summer forward gamble failing to pay off at all. Benitez has the enviable ability to look dangerous often, without ever actually finding the net. The 'new Afonso Alves' is a tag no-one should want to carry.




On the bench

Brian Jensen (Burnley): Made 139 saves, conceded 82 goals, had three clean sheets. That'll get you, oh, relegation actually.

Emiliano Insua (Liverpool): A promising prospect he might be, but at times this season the young Argentinian threatened to sink when he was asked to swim. Still got a national team call-up, mind.

John Terry (Chelsea): The double-winning captain rides this bench for the sheer controversy of it, really. But he was alarmingly poor ever since a certain other controversy broke in January.

Gary Neville (Manchester United): Described only a few months back by one writer as "looking like he had won a competition to play for United." Even a good final few games cannot redeem that embarrassment.

Mido (West Ham United): Good move: Offering to play for just £1-a-week at cash-strapped Upton Park. Bad move: Playing so badly even that wasn't good value.

Stewart Downing (Aston Villa): Added less than he withdrew from a Villa side that paid £11.5 million for his services. To top it off, his Boro understudy Adam Johnson managed to pip him to an England call.

Jason Scotland (Wigan Athletic): When a striker celebrates his first league goal in April, it's a fair bet he's been pretty rubbish.

Goalkeepers: Vincent Enyeama (Hapoel Tel Aviv, Israel), Dele Aiyenugba (Bnei Yehuda, Israel), Austin Ejide (Hapoel Petah Tikva, Israel), and Bassey Akpan (Bayelsa United, Nigeria)

Defenders: Taye Taiwo (Olympique Marseille, France), Elderson Echiejile (Rennes, France), Chidi Odiah (CSKA Moscow, Russia), Onyekachi Apam (OG Nice, France), Joseph Yobo (Everton, England), Daniel Shittu (Bolton Wanderers, England), Ayodele Adeleye (Sparta Rotterdam, Netherlands), Rabiu Afolabi (SV Salzburg, Austria) and Terna Suswan (Lobi Stars, Nigeria)

Midfielders/Forwards: Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Victor Anichebe (Everton, England), Chinedu Obasi (TSG Hoffenheim, Germany), Nwankwo Kanu, John Utaka (Portsmouth, England), Obafemi Martins (Wolfsburg, Germany), Brown Ideye (FC Sochaux, France), Peter Utaka (Odense Boldklub, Denmark), Ikechukwu Uche (Real Zaragoza, Spain), Obinna Nsofor (Malaga, Spain), Kalu Uche (Almeria, Spain), Dickson Etuhu (Fulham, England), Mikel Obi (Chelsea, England), Sani Kaita (Alaniya, Russia), Haruna Lukman (AS Monaco, France), Yusuf Ayila (Dynamo Kiev, Ukraine), Osaze Odemwingie (Lokomotiv Moscow, Russia)

e don complete?

I believe argentina can be tamed too. All he needs are 11 fit boys that can run 90 minutes.

Argentina does not have a backline that i fear. An Ogbuke, Ik uche will give them enough trouble. Messi of Barca is not the same messi for argentina. More importantly the African crowd at the stadium will be behind our team that day.

mikeansy:
Kennyblues

All I will say to you is to rid yourself of the prejudices your parents taught you and then open up your mind to understand the world better. Your parents do not have the luxury of information you have available to you and probably may not have had as much education as you do. It will be a waste of your parents resources if you can not rationalize issues better than they did.

I heard prejudices about people of other tribe from Igbos too. But I got to live with a Yoruba Muslim as an undergraduate student while studying in the East, grew up in PH, served in Sokoto where I lived with Yoruba boys too and then as a result of service mingled with Hausas for full one year. In all of these situations I met people of various parts of Nigeria all of whom had one prejudice or the other against Igbos. You know what I also had prejudical views of all of these people too even before meeting them.

I once told my Yoruba Housemate in Sokoto that "whatever your parents told you about Igbos, I too have what my parents told me about your people" . The question is which of our parents are right or wrong. The honest answer to this question is none. Judge people individually based on your relationship with them and never tar everybody with one brush.

I have argued severally on this thread that Maurice Iwu is not the sole problem of INEC. But lets assume he failed. Does it make a lot of sense to say he failed because he is Igbo knowing full well that the election judged as the best in Nigeria's history was conducted by another Igbo Humphrey Nwosu? Does it make a lot of sense making this argument knowing that the election conducted by Abel Guobadia was no better and he is not Igbo either?

You talk about vincent ogbulafor being alledged to be corrupt as an Igbo affair. Well Vincent is still alledged to be corrupt while the former PDP chief Bode George has already been convicted. The last time I checked he is not Igbo. If you want to talk about his resignation and not lasting being an Igbo affair. You forget that during OBJ Presidency there was also unstable leadership in PDP and all of these folks were non-Igbos. From Barnabas Gemade to Solomon Lar to Audu Ogbe to Ahmadu Ali.

When some argued argainst Maurice Iwu's sack. They said we were doing so because he was Igbo. That Igbos are being their tribalist self and sticking together. When some others call for his sack, they say Igbos are never united and always in disarray and trying to pull each other down.
So that it seems to me that whatever the Igbos do they will be criticised.

The Igbos are not immigrants, we are Nigerians like everyone else. I think this unfair and bigotted assessment of anything the Igbos do says a lot more about the character of our Nation than it does of Ndigbo.

RESPECT.

@labiyemmy:
Just a question, if an incumbent governor of a state had been told to vacate his office and he still goes to contest the decision in an higher court- is he allowed to still stay as governor or he vacates his seat until the result of the appeal is determined?

I no be lawyer but make i try.

In the case of a governor after the first judgement , he has a window for appeal while still retaining his office.It is assumed that he has accepted the verdict when he fails to file an appeal within that period. However after the appeal , the second judgement is final. In this case i hear , there has been an appeal and a second judgement.

Well lawyers are very funny but i do not know  the basis for DM's refusal to swear in IGBEKE. If he says because of the pending appeal in the supreme court (which i  believe is  just a waste of precious time), then he is supposed to be acting on a restraining order from a competent court , telling him to stay action pending the determination of the case. Has he been served a restraining order?

As for those saying Joy emordi should remain becuase Igbeke is a criminal , i cant help but laugh . This is really medicine after death. Do we call this the post-UME exam that students take after passing Jamb or what? If the criminal won , then give the criminal his mandate. maybe we have more criminals in the senatorial district that see criminality as acceptable.

na im be say price of property even reach epe go skyrocket be that.

Another angle to this sambo issue is that , if Jonathan is not satisfied with his performance in the next few months and fails to pick him as running mate for 2011, then that spells the premature end of sambo's political career.

start strike on monday or call off strike? when did they call off the present one?

I bet many parts of the country will not even know the difference.

But on a serious note Jonathan need to warn those guys, this na national sabotage na.

bilms:
Kwara state captivity by Dr Olusola Saraki.

My People,

I am writting for the world to know,how Saraki has hold my people (Kwara State) in captivity.I am an indigene of offa town.This guy and many more had taken Nigerians for a ride for a long winding ride.The feat performed by Oloye, as Dr. Saraki is better known in the Kwara state is daunting,
For more than 26 years one person determines who will be the Governor and state officials and if that is not a crime,come to Kwara state and see for your self what development has occur over the 26 years
Saraki in about a month ago boasted that ‘God will show him the next Governor of Kwara state in Mecca and he will name the person and install him shortly’.(As if He is trully religious,Which religion support inequality) .
Prior to the emergence of Bukola as the governor of the state in 2003, his father, Dr. Olusola Saraki had explored his intimidating political prowess to catapault many to the seat of power in Kwara State.

Among the beneficiaries of the political wizadry of Saraki, were the following former governors of the state, the late Adamu Attah (1979-1983), Cornelius Adebayo (1983-1984), Shaaba Lafiaji (1991- 1992), the late Mohammed Alabi Lawal (1993- 2007) and the incumbent governor his son, Bukola.

Besides installing people into the number one position in the state, the Senior Saraki had also used his political influence to produce Senators like Suleiman Salawu, Senator Suleiman Ajadi Makanjuola, Ishaq Salman, S.S Ajibola, Ahmed Ahmed, and daughter, Gbemisola Saraki, among others.

In Kwara state we have;
GOV SARAKI,
SEN SARAKI,
REP SARAKI,In addition to installing Bukola as Lawal's successor, Oloye literally moved up his daughter, Gbemisola, from the House of Representatives where she served a term from 1999 to the Senate in the 2003 elections to boot.
GODFATHER DR SARAKI.
NEXT GOVERNOR:MOST LIKELY DAUGHTER SARAKI.

As it wa said,when He was told that the son is not doing well,He told the people to be patient,that the boy's tenure will soon be over and that His sister(Gbemisola Saraki) will do better as a Governor .

Time there was that two incumbent governors - Alhaji Adamu Atta in 1983 and the late retired Rear Admiral Muhammed Alabi Lawal in 2003 - kissed the dust after fierce electoral battles with this "god father" of Kwara politics, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki. They were both epic battles that will not be forgotten in a hurry.

The Intelligence of the people of Kwara state has far been insulted.

Wa lahi ,this is too much.

http://www..com/ng/states-and-lgda-specific-talks/103-kwara-state-captivity.html

The funny thing about politics is that some  just talk while others act. It is not  unlikely that you are not even prepared to vote while the old women in Ilorin that worship saraki have marked out  the election day and are prepared to wait even 10 hours in the sun to vote.

I have stayed in kwara for sometime and sincerely have great dislike for saraki too, but i must be quick to acknowledge that the guy is popular. Yes he rigs elections but even without rigging the guy is popular in kwara, and my broda since the mechanic,motor park tout,the aged-almost-dying women in kwara are entitled to one vote like you even with your PHD, then until the man dies like Adedibu he will be the main kingmaker.

The other problem is , those that claim to have broken free from saraki have not done anything substantial to justify that saraki really is the enemy of the people. Lawal started it but could not make any impact  as people only saw those UP-LAWAL tanks that had no water in them.

I think senator Ajadi was not saraki's boy he contested and defeated Ajibola who was saraki's candidate .

The other important factor is the Ilorin emirate, that is very very comfortable with saraki as he is one of the key factors stopping the emergence of an Oba in Ilorin.

The fact that you are from Offa too will most likely make you  biased against Saraki. From the days of J.S olawoyin , the avergae Offa indigene does not like saraki and they show it at every opportunity. I remember once when saraki was coming from igosun to Ilorin and needed to connect the Offa-iLORIN road at that railway junction after owode market. Some youths blocked the road with weapons , that saraki would never be allowed to pass through their town. Infact it was a laughable scene as the guys dared mobile police men not minding that the road in question was a federal road.

My people , I am of the feeling that before UMYA illness even GJ would have been regreting the decision to dump is governorship campaign for a Vp slot. In Nigeria when one considers the last days of Atiku and all of GJ time as Vp, you agree with me that a VP can be very very irrelevant.

I know it gives national visibility but , it also brings one close to the end of his political career. After VP the only reasonable political aspiration is president and when that is not possible it ends ones political career.

Now another governor is leaving the state for a VP slot. Do you really think it is really a wise decision?

paddy_lo:
Jonathan Goodlucks wife is from IMO state. . .

I am assuring you that easterners will vote for him en masse. . .some are already calling him an igbo man

As for ORJI Kalu contesting,he should come forth and waste his money
also the more candidates the better, it will only split the opposition vote,

Orji kalu can win one state in the east, tinubu can win lagos,and buhari can win 6 or 7 states in the north thats ok

Hmmmm. never knew. _{E be like say me self go go look for IMO girl o}

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Forget story. We seem to be overrating the office of VP in nigeria.

Before UMYA illness even ministers were more powerful than GJ. If GJ is ready to perform a weak VP can not stop him, he has no choice than to learn to be a performer
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The only ground where VP is really important is when the unexpected happens ,like UMYA's case.

@paddy_lo

You cant be so sure that if GJ contests he will sweep the South-east. The running mate of the opposition candidate will most likely be from the SE and that will really affect the results. Another angle is that an opposition candidate like ORJI KALU can contest and win some SE states which will affect GJ base negatively.

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You sure?

Gbawe:
If Sambo is the VP then this is the clearest sign that Jonathan wan't to run for the Presidency. I don't like appointment based on anything other than merit but on this occasion I totally back Jonathan if this is his own initiative . If Jonathan can run for the Presidency and win that will be a new dawn for Nigeria. We will then have officially consigned to the bin the odious practice of zoning important positions to one region alone . The trickle down effect may see Nigeria begin to move away from other harmfully disciminative practices like "federal character".

Nonetheless, I will warn Jonathan to be careful in his daliance with OBJ. I can see that OBJ is up to his usual deception when he stated that "the Presiency is not zoned to any region". This statement , going by OBJ's precedence, is solely aimed at encouraging Jonathan to think that he has a chance while OBJ may actually be working to undermine him.

We can all remember how OBJ decieved Odili, Duke et al . Odili , in particular , covered the entire Nigeria campaigning, spending vast sums of money and seeking support only for OBJ to bully every non-Northerner out of the way for Yar Adua so that the PDP zoning arrangement could be respected. I am sure that OBJ , back then , would have told Duke , Odili and co that the Presidency was not zoned . Mr. President be careful you are not made to look a fool by the devious rogues you are fraternising with.


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Even the PDP knows how delicate the issue at hand is. The big question is if the Pdp has to choose between the Zoning formular (even if the retention of the presidency in the north is actualised by another party) and suspending the zoning for now and place a bet on a candidate who with his national visibility and powers as the incumbent has a massive edge over the opposition, you can be sure they will go for the later.

Ideally PDP would like a case where the zoning continues and the northern candidate that emerges runs on the strength of full presidential backing. In this case this seem almost impossible. If Jonathan does not get the ticket, then they should be prepared to risk the presidency as he will not give the emerging candidate any special support. This in itself will be suicidal for the politcal careers of a lot of people. Another angle to it is that , the returning governors on PDP ticket would have to prepare for a kind of election where no special support comes from the centre.

On OBJ, please note that no serious minded presidential candidate can ignore OBJ for now. The north seem to hate him because they simply fear him. He knows nigeria enough to pull strings that will cut their unity which is their greatest political weapon to size.

On OBJ deceiving Jonathan, I think he  understands clearly how powerful the office of the president is. Jonathan's case is so different from Odili's case as the weapon OBJ used to coerce them to step down for UMYA , presently reside with GJ.

@stuffs4me

And you guys think Makarfi as vice will not be asked by the North to contest against his boss (GJ)? Have you guys also considered that going by media reports Makarfi's health is just as unstable as UMYA before he suffered a relapse and eventually died?

I am almost sure GJ will run and he does not want any deputy that will use the national visibility that the VP offers to run against him in 2011.

The clout of GJ as presidet alone is enough to stop IBB. Many see IBB as a very intelligent  and bold general. I think the opposite is the case. Jonathan's interest alone will stop him. Ibb never goes into any battle with some 50% chance that he could loose.

Forget GJ shooting himself in the foot. The hausa/fulani alone can not stop Jonathan. They need the support of the middlebelt and other northern minorities. If they show their disdain for GJ by rejecting a christian governor over KD, then GJ reaps from that divide. It is a simple as that. He then will almost be sure of total middlebelt and christian support from the north.

mekuszyx:
U.I (and other neighbouring unis) graduates must explain something here

Abeg behave o.
I do not have a problem if you have anything to grind with Yorubas, but my guy if you enter U.I side na big trouble you dey find o.

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Ok you just join NL? please get used to becomrich's maps . the thing don solve many problems for naija and abroad.

Gekko:
Why would anyone put stock in these 2? JG has no legacy, never ran for office nor elected by a popular mandate.  Everything hes done so far is a clear indication of  the status quo.  We are truly fu*ked.  And then we have some clueless folks  claiming Sambo wears the face of humility and hes the best gov in the north   [b]w[/b]hiskey [b]t[/b]ango [b]f[/b]ox.  God I ask you? when are you going to deliver us from bondage?

Abeg cool down. The same Nigerians that shout that elections in Nigeria are not credible, and that winners are not necessarily carrying the peoples mandate, are the same ones that berate some other politicians that they have never had the people's mandate, simply because they have not contested as the primary candidate in any election. Did  Fashola win  any previuos elections before he became governor?

In Nigeria (at least for now), the deputy performs only the duties assigned to him by his boss, so GJ could as well leave him out of critical chores if he fails to show himself worthy.

For those expecting some big miracle in the few months left in this administration, please think again. Even with  very honest intentions , there is  only so little GJ can do now. When you consider the minimum time requirement  from initiation to harvest time for the critical areas we need him to look at, you will agree that much of the judgement can only be done in terms of direction and not necessarily tangible results.

As for those asking about what GJ achieved in Bayelsa, we need to be reminded that he spent just about a year as governor. I do not think he performed badly, expecially when one considers that within six months he had to get in the election fights .

I am learning to moderate my expectations from GJ, however i think his choice has some politcal value if he plans to run in 2011. I think it will be too tempting not to run. Forget all  dis becomerich theories.

rita@NL:
We dont need anybody to tell us Oga Jona is going to take nigeria 20 steps back.I see no reason why he will pick a northerner again,guess he's trying to please OBJ.
Goodluck is going to be another bad luck to Nigeria

make i laugh small first . what are you saying? have you seen the map of nigeria lately? have you ever seen a north-north ticket in poltics or a south-south ticket? so Jonathan should have picked a southerner? maybe Igbo or yoruba?

Please and please we dont need a rocket scientist to tell us that it always had to be a northerner.

While I am learning to moderate my expectations from GJ, I think this is a very wise political move, if he harbours any ambition for 2011.

why is everyone mentioning Ribadu for VP and no reference to El-rufai. IMO El-rufai is broadbased and should be the man Joe appoints as VP. Ribadu is good but should be left in the corruption-fighting agencies of government.