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The law is on Ohakim's side if he decides to fight INEC. Rochas' people disrupted elections in Oguta LGA resulting in the cancellation of elections there.  This cancellation effectively gave Rocha victory because Ohakim would have soundly defeated Rocha in the said LGA.

I suspect however that the courts will rule in favour of Rochas because Ohakim's margin of victory in Oguta may not be enough to change the outcome of the election.

@greateros, give GEJ a break, pal. Don't you realize that he is in Obudu on retreat where he is addressing more pressing national issues such as application of zoning in determining who the Senate President, the Speaker e.t.c will be? How to share the loot is much more important than these security problem from GEJ's stand point.

Dokubo not a genuine N’Delta activist

Asari Dokubo likes to invoke the name of Adaka Boro and what he stood for. But I tell you, none of the militants of contemporary time including Dokubo is like Adaka Boro. They can’t invoke his name. It’s a desecration of the name .Why? Adaka Boro was an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, when he was touched by the plight of the Niger Delta people. He left his studies at Nsukka and organized his five-man revolution. He was poor, not a millionaire. He had not got any bank account, but was fighting a selfless cause, not like these ones fighting for their own pockets. All militants of today are millionaires through kidnapping and all kinds of criminal activities. Adaka Boro is one of the greatest men Ijaw produced in the 21st century.
Dokubo, it’s on record, said he made his first million from former Governor Peter Odili…what brought him into national limelight was the Ijaw Youth Council election which was fixed for him to emerge president because Odili didn’t want another person there.

Leader without followers

You should ask what his political locus is now. He has no followers. All you see around him is hired crowd. He has lost his base with his selfishness an unguarded statement against (Henry) Okah. He sponsored candidates for the IYC presidency and executive, all of them lost. He sponsored for local governments, Asari Toru Local Government, all of them lost and the latest — two of his wives contested in the National Assembly elections, both of them lost. So, where is his political base to make newspaper headlines? He is just looking for relevance.
In my university residence, Asari used to be here to solicit help, including money. This is because his mother and my mother are of the same father, that makes us first cousins, that is why we were so close. He broke his fast here in Sankore Avenue, whenever he was with his Muslim friends at Sallah in Ibadan. We had to cook specially for him. My reaction is, therefore, based on this blood relationship. First, because his vituperations are an embarrassment to the family, and it is also dangerous for Jonathan.
In spite of what he’s done to me, I can’t turn against him, but he has to be cautious. This I told Dr. Karibo, another cousin who took care of him when he was in detention.
Asari once said Awo was a criminal. Then Gani Adams of Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) threatened him and he quickly apologised. Does that make sense? Anyone that can desecrate a personage like Awo, is he a responsible person? Anytime he made such a goof, I always went to the press trying to pour oil on troubled waters. Same way I did, when he called the Gambaris parasites.

Asari Dokubo tried to assassinate me

It’s true, Asari and a group wanted to assassinate me while I was Odili’s guest. It was this security man, Ade, who mounted protection for me. He came shouting war songs. I went to report to the police, he was arrested and detained, then granted bail. But, he jumped bail and the person who stood surety for him was going to be detained, I had to plead for him. If Asari says I’m lying, let him take his Quran and swear by it.
State of the nation
Nigeria is in the most perilous time. If Jonathan stays till 2015, there‘ll be turbulence in Nigeria that‘ll threaten the unity of the country. There’s no guarantee that the Igbo‘ll be president in 2015. The issue of zoning is not dead, but on suspended animation and will rise again in a fiercer form than today .The only people that‘ll probably not lay claim are the Ijaw people.

The April election

The last election was not free and fair because a lot went underneath. What the international observers saw that gave the impression of success were orderly queues, which do not translate to free, fair and transparent election. Their presence doesn’t ensure credibility of the process, although it checked some tempers. What they did was sample. They themselves confessed that Nigeria is so big, they can’t be everywhere. Can they go to the creeks? Let’s not deceive ourselves.

Source: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=16239

We may as well add Beef and his likes to the list of terrorists that may ruin GEJ.

‘I have documents that can put him in jail for life’
They are blood relations, first cousins actually. But, former Minister of Petroleum, Prof Tam David-West and leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Asari Dokubo, rarely see issues from the same prism, even though both had been close at a time. In an interview he granted Saturday Sun, recently Dokubo had made some remarks, which the old professor considered rather inflammatory and denigrating on a section of the country.
In the published interview entitled:”If Buhari is arrested, nothing will happen”, the Niger Delta militia leader had called for the arrest of former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, a close friend and ally of the professor of Virology, for allegedly instigating the post-election riots in parts of the north two weeks ago.

David-West, in this reaction, deplored Dokubo’s outbursts and similar ones by some Niger Deltans, describing them as a threat to the stability of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency.

He advised the president to call them to order and distance himself from them forthwith, as it could antagonize the subjects of such ridicule, who could scuttle his regime.

He said such arrogant verbal excessiveness, which tends to belittle other sections of the country, “in this euphoria of questioned electoral victory” could inflame passions and inspire “those who schemed him (Jonathan) in, to scheme him out.” He stressed: “It is one thing to win the war, it’s another to win the peace”.

The former minister condemned as “irresponsible” attempts at laying possessive claim to the president or sounding as if it was the wisdom or might of the Niger Delta people alone that put him there, without acknowledging the roles of other sections of the country, saying this could endanger the unity and stability of the nation.

His words: “Jonathan is what he is today because of especially northerners’ support. Nigerians from all parts voted for him to be president, without prejudice to my view that his election is stained. Can the Ijaw or Niger Delta alone guarantee the constitutional provision that he must have 25 per cent of the popular votes cast in two-thirds, that is 24 states of the federation, the answer is no. Now, you turn round to say Gambaris must not rule us again. People saying these are not the ones who put him there. They are abusing the people who helped in putting him there and if Jonathan doesn’t call them to order, his administration may be truncated. The abuses may have a backlash”.

David-West came down heavily on Dokubo, who he described as a reckless, incoherent and inconsistent individual who has lost following and was merely seeking attention and relevance.

Below are excerpts of the interview he granted Daily Sun in Ibadan

On Asari Dokubo
I have at least 50 documents that if I released will put him in jail for treason for the rest of his life. I have them planted in various locations across the country with specific instructions. Asari Dokubo is an incoherent, inconsistent person who is essentially ignorant of some of the issues he dabbles into. I’ll give you some instances, first, he has said many times that Ijaws are not Nigerians, but, he never said where we are from. One poet, Odiri, in Rivers State took him to task over this and he had no answer. The contradiction here is this: Jonathan is Ijaw, so why are you interested in Jonathan being president? The constitution of Nigeria is clear on who can be president. To be president of Nigeria, you must be a citizen of Nigeria. So by Asari Dokubo’s statement, Jonathan is disqualified.

Asari Dokubo has said in many writings that Nigeria should break up. Third, Dokubo has openly said he supported Osama Bin Laden and loved what he was doing. Here is a man who says he loves an international terrorist. He even said: “I’m not ashamed to be called terrorist”.

In another forum, he says: “I’m a bunkerer”, an illegal bunkerer because the oil is my own people’s property”. Stupid. He should look at the law, the oil belongs to Nigeria. If he doesn’t know, there is a law on economic sabotage that makes illegal bunkering attract capital punishment. When I was in government, I tried and pleaded for (Gen.) Buhari to sign it. He refused. It was later amended to be life sentence.

My argument is that destroy Nigeria oil industry and 140 or 150 million people die. So, anybody who does that has no right to life. If that law is invoked, Dokubo‘ll spend the rest of his life in jail until perhaps he gets presidential pardon.

Call for Sovereign National Conference (SNC)

It’s stupid. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Those calling for the SNC don’t know what they are saying, because convening a sovereign national conference means conferring sovereignty on few people to take decisions, which cannot be questioned thereafter. We’ll make them super human, a little less than God, WHO is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. You can’t subject the fate of 150 million people to the dictates of a maximum of 500 people. They are human beings and so fallible. Rather, we can have a national conference, whose decision can then be subjected to a plebiscite.

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Beaf:
Their word shouldn't be taken with any seriousness, not after the degree of bad blood they generated.
Its either they are playing a game, or they are trying to curry favours from Abuja, not for their people, but for their pockets.

The above shows how naive and ignorant you are about Nigerian politics. olodo

When you people are able to convince GEJ to convene a national conference, you'll be taken seriously. The only way to secede is through war which you people will lose woefully. How can you manage/win a war against the warriors of the North and the adequate soldiers from the SS and SE? If I were you, I'd spend time designing roads than a flag which has zero chance of flying in Nigeria for the next 50 - 100 years.

O[b]dudu[/b]wa republic ko, O[b]funfun[/b]wa republic ni.  

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=658863.msg8250104#msg8250104 date=1304412303]^-- At some point, you'll have to take responsibility for the mistakes your leaders made. This attitude of "my problems ain't my fault" leads to nothing useful.[/quote]The point you are ignoring is that the co-conspirators/so-called leaders who hail from all partss of Nigeria, share the blame with the thieving leaders of the North for the demise of our people in the North and the ND area. An attempt to limit responsibilty for the said gross injustice to Northerners alone, is disingenuous.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=658863.msg8249630#msg8249630 date=1304405834]Lmao

You guys have governed the country for most of its existence. The 80s and the 90s in which Nigeria's economy was destroyed (hurting the northerners the most), we are responsible for that?

When will you guys take responsibility for your own lack of vision and planning?

If you'd done things properly, by the time 1999 rolled around, the North would be on relatively even footing. Rather than having half the GDP/capita of southern Nigeria ($718 is the northern figure, it seems: http://www.economist.com/node/18621789)[/quote]It is irresponsible to imply that only the Northern leaders ruined the country"s economy during those periods. There are prominent people from all parts of Nigeria who were the policy makers and who implemented the programs which ruined the economy. To blame the condition on Northern leaders and exclude their co-conspirators from the South is less than honest.

OBJ and PDP ruled for 16 years, did we see any improvements in the rrural areas of ND and the North? The answer is definitely not.

[quote author=Mynd_44 link=topic=658228.msg8249062#msg8249062 date=1304395442]We need more fasholas in Nigeria[/quote]err, the idea of reviewing the revenue formular in order to meet the minimum wage requirements is laughable and irresponsible. Several states have already comitted to meeting the said requirements without additional funds from the feds. Fashola may want to source for additional funds by look into the N2billion Tinubu gets per month through Alpha Beta and the other alleged N13billion he gets through various other deals which they all use to fleece Lagos state.

Fashola needs to call for a review for other reasons but not because of minimum wage requirements.

IlekeBebe idi, I"ve been telling you all that the most marginalized Nigerians are the ordinary folks of the ND area and their counterparts in the North. The plight of these people as shown by your posts here and evident by a short visit to the rural areas in the ND, is a complete disgrace to all Nigerians.

The so-called leaders who hail from North, South, East, and West are responsible for this disgrace. Additionally, elite Nigerians such as you, IlekeBebe idi, ekt_bear, and others, who sit idly bye and allow these attrocities to continue without vigorously protesting, while continuing to elect the same irresponsible leaders, are co-conspirators. For that, I say, shame on you too.

I wondder wheether you people are aware of the zoning arangement in place in Imo. Ohakim is supposed to serve his second term or someone from his area is supposed to serve for another 4 years before power is to shift to the next zone. This zoning will be honoured and I can assure folks that Ohakim will prevail. It will be good for peace in the area.

New era ko, new eran ni. The writer is either naive or oblivious to the machinations of governance in Nigeria. Without a very drastic and bold set of actions from the president, it will be busineess as usual. I do not believe that GEJ hass what it takes to drastically change the system.

May the soul of Mr. Laden rest in peace. We must not celebrate the death of any human being.

May the soul of Mr. Laden rest in peace. Lets all remember that despite his claim to fame, he too is a child of God.

edoyad:
Until the day that state is split down the middle so that i don't come from the same state with those hausa people in kaduna(no offense intended), i see no reason to be glad.

Just how do you propose that Kaduna state should be split? Who gets Kaduna city or do you plan to draw the state line right through the city?

I'd stake my naira on the returning of the incumbent governor to office. I went to at least 4 polling centers in the Kaduna this morning and the turnout was quite low. If the elections will be decided by the voters in the rural areas, very ripe for rigging, then the incumbent will surely win.

Letrs wait and see.

Katsumoto:
Were you supporting Buhari because he is simply the best candidate in Nigeria or because he was the best option available to YOU?

I  was obviously supporting Buhari because I thought he was the best option available to me, among the presidential candidates. This is not a presidential election and the Alpha Beta option is not the only one available to the SW states and you people don't have to be held to ransom by Tinubu or anyone else. People like you in your sophistication can put an end to this kind of ra.ping. You have the power to do so, stop rolling over and justifying it at the same time.

Katsumoto:
What is better for the people?
1. 100% of say N2 Billion (coming from Abuja and stolen by the likes of OGD, Akala, Fayose)
or
2. 90% of N12 BILLION (that increases accountability, GDP, Growth, etc)

I have a problem with Tinubu getting all that money but I ignore if for now for several reasons
1. He needed a war chest to chase out the PDP thieves
2. He has implemented revenue increasing policies in Lagos which made Lagos less dependent on Abuja; for crying out loud, OBJ starved Lagos of funds and Lagos did not crumble
3. Every dog has its day
4. Every day for the thief, one day for the owner.
5. If change inevitably comes from all these, then perhaps one day, all those who have stolen will be prosecuted. It is happening all over the world.

I don't understand your Math up there. The N12billion I spoke of will end up on a monthly basis in Alpha Beta's coffers.

The reasons you itemized above should not be enough to allow you to compromise your integrity thus enabling you to look the other way at what is at best, an unfair distribution of the people's income to Tinubu's treasuries.

I don't mean to burst your bubble guys.The priorities of the people you are hoping will lead you to nirvana, are not quite in line with yours.

The more realistic first order of business is to award contracts to Alpha Beta, in every ACN held state in the southwest. That should increase Tinubu's fortunes to N15billion/month.

I suppose thereafter, those southwestern states will generate enough money to build the infrastructure you all are hoping for.  Its  small price to pay for progress, ko?

houvest:
When a fulani man that hates Ndigbo so much starts advising Ndimo what is best for them, you do not need any divine guidance to tell you what is up and who really is the enemy of Ndimo and agent of the fulanis that must be voted out at all costs When did NduChuks start looking out for and wanting what is best for Ndigbo? A word is enough for the wise.

Don't allow your bigotry to consume you. I am a Nigerian and I have a vested interest in all parts of Nigeria. My position remains as stated and if you think my position is unfounded, please read the post of mikeansy above. He is a person who is brighter than you and he is no bigot like you. mechionu gi. olodo

koruji:
Every knee shall bow

To whom

Frankly, the guy is delusional. He fails to understand that GEJ does not have the will or bright enough to assert himself in the manner than many of his worshipers expect. That the  man is part and parcel of the PDP, means nothing to the likes od Beaf.

Madam Umblerra working for Okahim, speaking Igbo with "class".


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My money is on Ohakim.

Here is a young man who has made it to the top in quite a short time. Despite his shortcomings, he has a lot of potentials to become a true Ndigbo leader. He is maturing nicely and his second term will make him become a force to be reckoned with.

In Okiwe communities, I can attest to some of his acievements:

[list]
[li]He has touched all sectors of development in the area. He has engaged 5 different road contractors to address the problems of Okigwe urban roads namely, Okpara road, Ndi-Akwueke road, Umuka-Umuokpara road, Umuzegem road, Ope, Eleazu, Ike-Aba road to name just a few[/li]
[li]He built digital health centres in Ogii and Ezinachi wards of Okigwe LGA, with new air-conditioned ambulances attached to them[/li]
[li]Okigwe general hospital has been renovated and equipped with modern hospital eqipment.[/li]
[li]’Ohakim has renovated so many dilapidated infrastructuire in Okigwe [/li]
[li]e.t.c e.t.c. [/li]
[/list]

There are many more achievements to list. Give this young man a second chance, he deserves it. The pool from which to select future Igbo leaders is not rich at all, the contents of this pool include both political harlots and political dan daudus.

Onlytruth:
Be careful of what you wish for, 'cos you might get it.

Buhari clearly is still living in the past.

One advice to him: The world has changed; anything can happen.

lol, Madame Umblerra has a better chance of ordering Buhari's arrest than your man. olodo

kedu kordi, nwannem?

Fani Kayode is no longer relevant, his attention seeking gesture is now welcomed.

jason123:
ROMFLMAO!!!!
It's a BIG shame that GEJ (with all due respect) does not have the BALLS to do such even if the will of the people is for him to arrest Buhari. As my Brothers in Nigeria say, "DEM NO BORN AM WELL"!!!

They are yet to arrest the known Imams and religions sect leaders who incite violence, because of irrational fear, how in the world can he arrest Buhari, a larger than life figure?

As for Oritsejafor, whose name literally means "God will not allow us to speak (presumably to avoid sin)"  is definitely not living up to his name or position. What a shameful jobber.

@we_dee,  If you want to complie a list of tribalists, I'm afraid your list may include almost every NLer here including yourself. I'd suggest that you check for the meaning of tribalism.

What I think should be objectionable to all is the act of bigotry exibited in the posts of some of the people on your list. You may want to compile a list of tribalist who are bigots and submit it to the mods, if that's your aim. For reference, here are some definitions for you:

Bigot:
1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, tribe, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

Tribalism:
1. strong loyalty to one's own tribe, party, or group.

Beaf:
Its best to get a court as beautifully neutral as the ICC to try Buhari.
The immediate reason is so you people can't start a new song about how Southern "kafirs" and "Zionists" are jailing holy Northern Muslims; or whatever other hogwash gets almajiri's eyes bloodshot and works them into a frothy primeval frenzy.

Your obsession with GEJ and now Buhari, for different reasons have turned your objectivity on its head. You are now making foolish excuses for why GEJ should not provide for the security of Nigerians. Carry on. olodo

Beaf:
Yes, I would like those who plotted the riots to be carted off to the ICC and jailed for eternity.

How about GEJ and his security aparatus cart the known culprits off to jail right now and stop the madness! They know who they are, don't they?

Ibime:
As usual, Beaf reading into sections of the article what he wishes to believe.

The writer expressly states that he believes the imams are responsible for the violence and that Buhari is not in any way a religious bigot and quote "Buhari has been used by opportunist" paraphrase "who've been worked up by PDP zoning issue".

Where the connection comes between Buhari and ICJ is simply a machination of Beaf's mind.

Beaf can continue to deceive himself. We all know that GEJ and his administration can never do anything wrong as far as as Beaf is concerned, particularly because GEJ is from the same region as Beaf's.

I agree with the writer that some radical Imams are responsible for the violence. GEJ and his administration know exactly who they are but the administration does not have the will to deal squarely with the issue. For this irresponsibility, the government is equally responsible for the violence.

koruji:
@ndu_chucks
Even the courts would not disqualify a candidate for the actions of somebody else. Did you hear that he personal conducted any acts of vote rigging or what? This is what I don't like about both sides of this issue. They keep going for the "unreasonable" extreme in their arguments. In any case, the wanton destruction of lives, especially those of defenseless youth corpers in their midst, cannot be justified no matter how you cut it.

It just smells to hear Buhari supporters going from accusing PDP of vote inflation to Buhari would have won in a free and fair election to Buhari won the election to the rigging should have disqualified GEJ's candidacy. Bakare did his own magomago calculations already where he sees 50% of PDP votes taken away to bring GEJ's total to just under Buhari's 12 million. This is nothing but comedy for the masses - the courts are there to settle the matter. What are we going to do about the underage kids that went to the polls up north?

As for PDP rigging the election in the SW next Tuesday, they have already being warned. Mind you, we are not talking about the same kind of rigging. GEJ would have won the SS/SE handily without any accusation of rigging, but for PDP's overzealousness . On the other hand, rigging in the SW would actually be overtuning people's desires not fraudulently enhancing it.

Still it doesn't mean that the SW will devolve into violence or start going after people based on ethnicity or religion or start killing youth corpers. As it happened in Osun, Ekiti and Ondo so it will be - PDP will cough up the people's mandate, whether they like it or not.

The fact is that Buhari put himself in a position not to win this election. He virtually conceeded the SS/SE to GEJ, waited till the upteenth hour, when he had no viable offers to make to the ACN, for an alliance, and did not even have the North and Middle-Belt firmly under his belt - where was his win supposed to come from?

story story. One day we will find the courage to tell our leaders that rigging is no longer acceptable. Until then, you deserve what you get.

agabaI23:
So that you can guarantee that a northerner will win.

And you will not disqualify Buhari for underage voting? I hope you saw the reference to the facebook update where under age voters were forced on the corp member. You also would have seen where he said that they demanded the remaining ballot from him.

Did you also hear that 3 ballot boxes were recovered from some of the killers arrested?

I honestly don't give a damn whether Buhari is disqualified for rigging or not. The point is, you people do not see anything wrong with the masive rigging as long as it favoured your candidate. This is the saddest part of the issue.

If I were you, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that most of the underaged votes were for Buhari . Many of them were responsible for GEJ's showing in Sokoto and elsewhere in the North.

@edoyad, I thought you were brighter than this. Everyone knows where the weakest link lies - the collating centers.