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VERDA:Restitution comes before forgiveness. I think Obanikoro,among other thieves, was made to make refunds,after confession. Though not ideal,atleast something is better than nothing. It is similar to amnesty for militants:Confess your sins,return your loot and go sin no more. A deal is a deal and must be respected by all parties,no matter how painful or unfortunate. |
pawesome:My friend,we are on the same page,but different paragraphs. Yes there is hardship and hunger in the land.Corruption is not being fought as expected,correct. But should I vote out Buhari because of that? No! Has Buhari failed,yes.Will I allow him to repeat the class? YES! Why?: 1.The hardship and hunger was not avoidable. -From 1999 to 2015,Nigeria was transformed into a petrol importing country by PDP.It is practicable not possible to reverse the trend within 4 years,so I will give Buhari 4 more years to do that. -Even the best economies with the best economists in the world pass through recession.Our won was triggered by the unavoidable crash in the oil price and worsened by the fact that we relied solely on oil . As a family,if your aggregate source of income diminishes,are the members of the family not going to suffer? Is that Buhari's fault? NO,at least for now. Now oil price is bouncing back and we are bouncing back out of recession.Simple economics! Is the effect immediate? CAPITAL NO! 2.Insecuirty Yes Buhari can do more.But do I think it could have been better without Buhari,NO,my personal opinion. Fulani herdsmen? hmmm.....a very low point. But then I asked my self: did the crisis just start? NO it predates Buhari. Is the situation now under control,Yes! 3.Nepotism I asked my self: Should I reject Buhari because of perceived or real Nepotism,above his stance against corruption? No! I am aware nepotism is also part of corruption,but I am also aware that nobody is perfect and a saint will be very difficult to come by. So I weighed Nepotism against Stealing of public funds,and I vote for the lesser evil,nepotism.(Remember nobody is a saint) 4.Restructuring Yes we need it.But the major issues are being and can only be handled by the legislature: devolution of powers ,resource control,and state policing. Can any other restructuring be achieved without the present legislature(by dissolving the present 4th democratic republic,or by say military coup or revolution)? CAPITAL NO! ANY CLAIM TO THE CONTRARY IS A BIG SCAM! 5.Corruption I asked myself: Will our treasury be safer under Buhari or Atiku? And my conscience voted for Buhari. Will the present fight against corruption,despite its negativeness,not better than nothing at all? There is still corruption every where,but corruption is not a risk that could be zerorised, not even in 100 years! So I asked my self,is the stealing more now or less?And my conscience says it is lesser now. 6.INTEGRITY Caution: this is in relative term,no body is perfect! Yes even in private enterprises,integrity is every thing. Any day any time I will vote for a failure with integrity than a thief with lots of promises! Many great achievers have succeeded through many series of failures. So failure can never be a reason for voting out Buhari! |
pawesome:What he is try to say is quite clear! That Atiku has now been tagged corrupt because he left APC to pick a PDP presidential ticket,whereas before then he was not tagged corrupt. But I am saying that is a big trash! As a party member in APC then,how could his N50m and plane donation be rejected? can they be directly tied to a specific corrupt cash inflow? Or was it practically possible to deny Atiku APC membership then? Then there was no need to compare Buhari and Atiku. Now that we have to chose between the two personalities,so many factors must be considered,including corruption which is the major bane of Nigeria! Things are not working in Nigeria because of corruption. Even corruption will kill any restructuring of Nigeria! A big question:Could APC have given ATiku a presidential ticket over and above Buhari? |
I do not understand the essence of this rubbish post. Was corrupt Atiku given the APC presidential ticket? Corruption is now an issue because PDP has given a rejected corrupt politician a presidential ticket. Now it is very apt to compare the personalities BUhari vs Atiku. Then, it was not an issue. simple! Is the OP so daft? ![]() |
Dhugal:It is obvious you lack wisdom and understanding. The APC national chairman stated that they held a convention at an hotel where a consensus candidate was confirmed,in compliance with section 87(6). The law did not make it compulsory for the presence of INEC . What INEC requires is an evidence that indeed a special convention was done. The deadline for submission of names is October 18,2019. What is wrong with your brain and that of INEc? |
CilicMarin:On point. |
Shuku0kukobambi:Point of correction: PDP SW leaders. |
This indicates that the SS will be shared between Buhari and Atiku,whilst the SE goes for ATiku largely because of Obi. NW,SW,NE(except Adamawa) goes to Buhari. NC comprising of Plateau,Kogi,kwara,Benue,Niger and Nasarawa at worst will also be shared,but PMB has a slight edge here.Only Benue is sure for ATIKU. Coupled With incumbency factor,plateau is also likely to be shared.The last local government election in plateau is a pointer.(If you say rigging,then also expect rigging in 2019,lobatan! )Buhari/PYO all the way to 2023! |
From the provisions of the electoral act,it is quite clear that INEC does not have the locus stand to determine that a party has not held primaries. Also ,attendance by INEC at primaries, is not compulsory towards determining whether a party has held its primaries or not. Section 87 of the act is quite clear: Nomination of candidates by parties 87. (1) A political party seeking to nominate candidates for elections under this Act shall hold primaries for aspirants to all elective positions. (2) The procedure for the nomination of candidates by political parties for the various elective positions shall be by direct or indirect primaries. (3) A political party that adopts the direct primaries procedure shall ensure that all aspirants are given equal opportunity of being voted for by members of the party. (4) A political party that adopts the system of indirect primaries for the choice of its candidate shall adopt the procedure outlined below- (a) in the case of nominations to the position of Presidential candidate, a political party shall- (i) hold special conventions in each of the 36 States of the Federation and Federal Capital Territory, where delegates shall vote for each of the aspirants at designated centres in each State Capital on specified dates, (ii) a National Convention shall be held for the ratification of the candidate with the highest number of votes, (iii) the aspirant with the highest number of votes at the end of voting in the 36 States of the Federation and Federal Capital Territory, shall be declared the winner of the Presidential primaries of the political party and the aspirants name shall be forwarded to the Commission as the candidate of the party after ratification by the national convention; (b) in the case of nominations to the position of Governorship candidate, a political party shall, where they intend to sponsor candidates- (i) hold special congress in each of the Local Government Areas of the States with delegates voting for each of the aspirants at the congress to be held in designated centres on specified dates, (ii) the aspirant with the highest number of votes at the end of voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and aspirant's name shall be forwarded to the Commission as the candidate of the party, for the particular State; (c) in the case of nominations to the position of a Senatorial candidate, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly a political party shall, where they intend to sponsor candidates- (i) hold special congresses in the Senatorial District, Federal Constituency and the State Assembly Constituency respectively, with delegates voting for each of the aspirants in designated centres on specified dates; (ii) The aspirant with the highest number of votes at the end of voting shall be declared the winner of the primaries of the party and the aspirant's name shall be forwarded to the Commission as the candidate of the party; Now read section 85: Notice of convention, congress, etc. 85. (1) A registered political party shall give the Commission at least 21 days notice of any convention, congress, conference or meeting convened for the purpose of electing members of its executive committees, other governing bodies or nominating candidates for any of the elective offices specified under this Act. (2) The Commission may, with or without prior notice to the political party monitor and attend any convention, congress, conference or meeting which is convened by a political party for the purpose of - (a) electing members of its executive committees or other governing bodies; (b) nominating candidates for an election at any level; and (c) approving a merger with any other registered political party. (3) The election of members of the executive committee or other governing body of a political party, including the election to fill a vacant position in any of these bodies, shall be conducted in a democratic manner and allowing for all members of the party or duly elected delegates to vote in support of a candidate of their choice. |
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ogunnoikitaiwo:The internet is agog with hired Buhari '" assassins''.They are doing a ''great job" But the voting is at the polling units. Very soon their eyes will clear. #IStandWithBuhari |
ericsmith:Thank you. I think it is even insane to compare a 3yr plus tenor, with a 16yrs of failure. courtesy of PDP,Nigeria,an oil producing country,is the only and largest importer of fuel among OPEC members! And they want to blame BUhari for the current exchange rate of N360. Very laughable!!!!! |
edupedia:This comment caught my attention. They say Buhari failed even before the end of the session(lol), and so what? So many stories of very successful people who had gone through many failures in life. In Buhari/Oshibajo,I see people that can be trusted with our common treasury. I had rather Buhari repeat the class than have a thief take over his position. |
JudasNaCarrot:What damage control? I just wonder what people like you gain from supporting corruption? If somebody dies after a list was compiled,so what? Does that make the list void or ineffective? Does that remove the fact that corruption remains the main bane of Nigeria? Rubbish! Atiku,president of Nigeria? GOD forbid! |
''But Sani explained that the idea would have made more sense if African countries were producing what they consume and not importing from Asia, Europe and America. The lawmaker tweeted on Sunday night, “The African continental free trade is a great idea if African states are locally producing and not importing goods from US, Europe and Asia.'' These two paragraphs sum it up! Any other argument is just playing to the tide of anti- Buhari. In addition,Nigeria would be the worst hit,being the largest African Market! |
abayoy2k:Correct. You really watched it. |
opalu:From your own parochial and partisan perspective. Keyamo dusted the Atiku guy,in all areas especially in the area of corruption and NNPC. PDP is all about lies and propaganda,capitalising on the minister's mere complain against alleged lack of due process ,to mislead Nigeria and many fools , that $25b is missing in NNPC. Very irritating lie! |
resurgent4oodua:The next four years shall be better,by GOD's grace. But I want to assure people that our present economic predicament as a Country, was very much unavoidable.Even the best economies in the world do not have any permanent vaccine against recession. So do not be deceived by any political propaganda and promises. Recession is like a cold virus,it must come and run its course.Our case was worsened by the crash in oil price. It has nothing to do with having a late cabinet of ministers or economic team. I trust PMB/PYO more with the treasury of Nigeria,than an Atiku/Peter Obi,it's not about ethnicity,its about the plain truth and available facts on the ground. Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria. |
OkaNaUbe:So Because I entered my corrupt friend's private jet yesterday will remove the fact that my friend is corrupt? Senseless reasoning. ![]() |
Was Peter Obi not the governor of Anambra? I am not aware anambra was better economically, than Lagos,lead by a Lawyer,fashola. ![]() |
NextBuhari:Moreover,he has been very clever,aligning with the ruling party,except during election period. After loosing,he jumps back to the ruling party. |
The North Central geopolitical zone has been touted misguidedly to be a no go area for Buhari in 2019,in terms of electoral votes,because of recent killings. But alas! The North Central comprises of six states viz: Niger,Plateau,Benue,Kogi,Kwara and Nasarawa. For Obvious reasons,Plateau and benue MIGHT be a no go area,but how about Niger,Kogi,Kwara and Nasarawa.? Taraba is North East! It is therefore very laughable,that many people have been misguided for so long. As a matter of fact,Buhari is more likely to have 4/6 and Atiku 2/6, at worst they share it 3/6 and 3/6. What a myth! |
Doyin2:Correct. |
This well documented case study on Atiku,from a very authentic source is to say the least,disgusting! So what next?EFCC? ''Abubakar Case History. From 2000 to 2008, Jennifer Douglas, a U.S. citizen and the fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and former candidate for President of Nigeria, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts. In a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from Siemens AG, a major German corporation. While Ms. Douglas denies wrongdoing, Siemens has already pled guilty to U.S. criminal charges and settled civil charges related to bribery and told the Subcommittee that it sent the payments to one of her U.S. accounts. In 2007, Mr. Abubakar was the subject of corruption allegations in Nigeria related to the Petroleum Technology Development Fund. Of the $40 million in suspect funds, $25 million was wire transferred by offshore corporations into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Ms. Douglas, primarily by Guernsey Trust Company Nigeria Ltd., LetsGo Ltd. Inc., and Sima Holding Ltd. The U.S. banks maintaining those accounts were, at times, unaware of her PEP status, and they allowed multiple, large offshore wire transfers into her accounts. As each bank began to question the offshore wire transfers, Ms. Douglas indicated that all of the funds came from her husband and professed little familiarity with the offshore corporations actually sending her money. When one bank closed her account due to the offshore wire transfers, her lawyer helped convince other banks to provide a new account. In addition, two of the offshore corporations wire transferred about $14 million over five years to American University in Washington, D.C., to pay for consulting services related to the development of a Nigerian university founded by Mr. Abubakar. American University accepted the wire transfers without asking about the identity of the offshore corporations or the source of their funds, because under current law, the University had no legal obligation to inquire.'' https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FOREIGNCORRUPTIONREPORTFINAL710.pdf |
Fela Durotoye must respond to this! Oh my God ,what is happening to our very much cherished ANN? YOU CANNOT REAP WHERE YOU DID NOT SOW: A MESSAGE TO FELA DUTOYE AND HIS CO-TRAVELERS. I first met Fela Durotoye, FD as he is popularly called in August of 2017. This meeting was brokered by Pastor Jim Bent who was introduced to me by Naseer Daura the erstwhile Interim National Secretary of ANN. I later found out that Jim and Daura have been friends from their days in the Nigerian Military School. My meeting with FD took place in my hotel room at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel. This meeting that I thought would be a one-hour exploratory discussion to my amazement, started at 8pm and ended at well past midnight! After that meeting I was perplexed trying to make sense of all what we discussed. Two things that I could take away from that meeting was that FD wanted to court my friendship as a way of guaranteeing the ANN ticket and that he believes he is on a spiritual journey that had been ordained by God so he set out to bamboozle me with all sorts of revelations and prophesies to make me have no choice than to offer the ANN ticket to him right there and then. A couple of weeks after this, we had another meeting in the same location and followed the same pattern. The only difference this time was that he asked if I had presidential ambition to which I replied that my focus as at then was to build a credible platform that he and others can contest on to realize their various ambitions. As a follow up to this meeting we agreed to have a meeting of our teams in Abuja. To this day, that meeting is the most embarrassing meeting I have ever attended because one of our founding members at the time in the person of Prince Adebola Adekoya thoroughly embarrassed FD which I felt wasn’t necessary. His grouse is that FD does not have what it takes to be president and that he is not welcome to join the party. A follow up meeting was hosted by FD and his team in Lagos and I attended with Onome Ojigbo our Lagos State Coordinator at the time, Samuel Ajayi our adviser on Media and Strategy and Olumide Olutayo one of our strong members in Lagos. One of the next steps following that meeting was the need for Team FD to fuse into the party and to start attending ANN meetings with other members. Another action point was the setting up of the ANN state secretariat which FD promised he will provide. Till this day, that promise is yet to be kept. In fact, the secretariat we currently have in Lagos was donated to the party by Olumide Olutayo! The first sign of FD’s treachery was, rather than work with our Lagos Coordinator to strengthen the party, he attempted to poach Samuel Ajayi who he had identified correctly as the architect of our media campaign, by aggressively following up with him to device media strategies for him and placed him on a retainership of five hundred thousand (500,000) naira monthly. If Sam wasn’t a loyal and trusted friend I wouldn’t have known about this because he told me about it, showed me the check, and he was shocked to find out that FD didn’t inform me about this before engaging him. One of the other things discussed in the meeting and some other subsequent ones were the roll out plan of FD’s presidential aspirations. All this left me with the feeling that all what FD was about was projecting himself as the undisputed candidate of ANN. Subsequent events were to confirm this. Now, all these meetings and discussions were going on while we were still pursuing the party registration by INEC. In October 2017, we received notification from INEC that they will be coming for verification of our application and this includes assessment of our secretariat. As at then we had yet to complete the fit-out of the secretariat. I reached out to FD for support and he managed to send in a total of One Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira in three tranches over a 2-day period. TILL THIS DAY, THAT IS THE ONLY CONTRIBUTION FD HAS MADE TO ANN! Another issue of concern for most members of ANN including myself was the issue of accessibility or otherwise of FD. He doesn’t pick calls neither does he return calls. He responds to messages sometimes after 72 hours. I made several appeals to him, cajoled, shouted and sent people to talk to him on the need for him to support the party and the platform he wants to run on, but all these were to no avail. Instead, he went about trying to undermine the party. Installing people in state party executives and even in my office to advantage himself. Even Daura confessed to me that he was approached by Pastor Jim Bent to do all he can do from the inside to ensure that FD gets the ANN ticket. As part of this grand plan, Jim approached me offering a proposal to provide security and protocol services for the party. By January of 2018, it became very evident that the relationship between FD and ANN was doomed to fail and I personally had made up my mind to move on. However, with intervention by some concerned individuals like Samuel Ajayi, Dr. Dale Ogunbayo and Greg Aduda, I agreed to have a meeting with FD once again. The meeting was very candid, and I told him my mind especially how he tried to poach Samuel Ajayi from the party. He apologized for that and he also raised his own concerns. Again, the issue of funding for the party was raised and he promised to do something about it. Of course, he didn’t but went ahead to publicly declare his membership of ANN on February 22nd. An accident involving FD’s wife happened on that day at the party secretariat and she was promptly attended to by Dr. Shola Olutayo, Olumide’s wife who is a specialist in medical outreaches having worked with several multinationals. The report that got to me subsequently was that having realize Dr. Olutayo’s skillset, FD attempted to poach her to work for him and she referred him to the party. So, consistently, FD have been trying to steal from the party in a bid to steal the presidential ticket. Tell me, how is he different from the people he has been lampooning? The only positive we got from FD as a party is the increased awareness and influx of new members at the time he joined. But all that was negated by the fact he never allowed those people to be fully integrated into the party. In fact, most of them are not financial members of the party as all their donations are channeled to Team FD. I have since come to learn that politics is about interests: my interest is to provide a credible platform. Yours is to get the ticket of that platform from without. Why would you be crying like a baby because someone’s else interest is to get the ticket from within by supporting the party? No amount of blackmail and propaganda by you and your team can shake me. I am purposed in my mind and my conscience is very clear. You know in your heart of heart that I have put in my all to bring ANN to where it is today. I will be addressing the issue of the failed hijack of the party by some powerful forces who you are working with in subsequent releases. God Bless Nigeria! Dr. Jay Osi Samuels National Chairman Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) ANN, The Difference! https://www.facebook.com/alliancefornewnigeriaofficial/posts/2280483848838262?__tn__=K-R |
raumdeuter:Thank you for this. 3/6,what else? The OP is nothing but an idiot! |
It is finished for Tinubu.. ![]() |
how many inec officials witnessed this your kangaroo event? |
Something tells me Sanwo-Olu could still step down for Ambode,the runner up in the primary,after APC ''family'' meeting. In politics, anything can happen. February 2019 is till a very long time in politics! |
Dotng:Receive sense na. We are talking of May 2019 and beyond. Fashola cannot be minister for life. By the way, Ambode is still the executive governor of Lagos State! |
Wow! What a selfless leader!! A selfish leader would have sought for another party platform!!! |
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