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ilugunboy:
The issue with Kogi is still unresolved...





See a whole President causing confusion. SMH

The matter is still unresolved for crying out loud, why Andy Uba has to jump the gun is beyond me. I would rather wait until the boundary commission finishes its work and serve a copy of the report to the senate let's see how they won't pass my bill.

Commendable!

http://www.punchng.com/business/industry/food-import-bill-drops-by-n466bn/

Nigeria’s food import bill has declined by N466bn within the last three years, the Federal Government has said.

According to the government, the agricultural sector added N780bn to Nigeria’s economy during the period.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, disclosed this during the inauguration of the first commercial 10 per cent composite cassava flour product from Flour Mills of Nigeria and the Honeywell Group in Abuja recently.

He said the food import bill declined from N1.1tn in 2011 to N634bn by the end of 2013, adding that the decline had continued.

Adesina said, “Our farmers are seeing the benefits and they are producing more food. Our national food production expanded by an additional 21 million metric tons of food within three years. This is a record in our nation’s history.

“The agricultural transformation agenda has added N780bn to the economy within the past three years. And our aggressive approach to ensure that we process and add value to all our crops is beginning to open up new income streams for our farmers.”

The minister noted that all bread, cakes and confectioneries consumed in Nigeria were made of at least 10 per cent of cassava flour.

Adesina said, “All bread being consumed in Nigeria now contains cassava flour. And all cakes and confectioneries you eat now contain cassava flour. (What) you are eating everyday therefore (is) cassava bread and cassava cakes. What a change!

“The landscape of cassava in Nigeria has been changed forever. No more will cassava be seen as a subsistence crop for household and village-level processing. Cassava has now become the raw material of choice for the burgeoning bread flour, sweetener, starch, and ethanol markets.

“With these strong growth markets, the teeming millions of our cassava farmers will have a market that will stabilise prices and provide strong incentives to invest in inputs and global best practices to increase their productivity and secure their livelihoods.”

Adesina said the Federal Government started the cassava bread journey three years ago and was faced with various obstacles such as claims that cassava causes diabetes, “claims that the bread would be of such low quality that some named it ‘akpu bread,’ and the challenges of establishing a strong seed system for a vegetatively propagated crop.”

He added, “But today we have surmounted all those obstacles. We have silenced the scare mongers by demonstrating that cassava bread is healthier than pure white wheat flour bread.”

You know say GEJ no be orator like that.

Corruption is an act of serving self interest. For example if you are an admin staff in your office and you collect 10% of monies payable to your office vendor to enable you approve his payment then you are corrupt.

You didn't steal your company's money but you corruptly enriched yourself. Stealing is directly taking what is not your's. Still not as simple as it looks because stealing is a symptom or offshoot of a corrupt person...

AdeniyiA:
They'd be surprised at what & how we'd would come out of these challenges stronger and better.
What Nigeria needs now is a revolutionary & REAL transformational leadership,not by talking, to drive & diversify our economy with radical and emergence approaches.

Oga you are talking. Nigerians are VERY capable when they are left with no choice but to swim or sink. Moreover God loves Nigeria. Heroes are about to be made

Ii

pazienza:
I see some people rewriting history of Ph here already? Who exactly is Spiff? Nonsense.


It was Michael Okpara, the premier of the Eastern region that laid down the blue print for the greatness of Ph.

He recognized the fact that Enugu, being in the hinterland,might not be able to out compete lagos. So he chose to make a Lagos out of Ph. He created the Trans Amadi industrial estate, over saw the relocation of Shell from Owerri to Ph.

With only palm oil and Coal, Okpara was able to transform the Eastern region economy, as one of the fastest growing economy in the world, he simply was a man of vision, he had no equal.


Okpara was so consumed by the desire to develop all parts of the Eastern region, he had no wealth of his own,no companies when he left politics,he never enriched himself with the public fund, a small house in his Ohuhu hometown was all he had at the end of it all.

A perfect example of the kind of leaders Republic of Alaigbo can produce, once free of the toxic influence of one Nigeria.

Spot on bros. Do you know that Okpara didn't own more than one house? Despite being in charge of allocation of land. His house in GRA Enugu was very very modest.

Do you also know that the Federal Mortgage Bank of today was also an initiative of the Eastern Region? It was hijacked by the FG in the name of nationalisation and rendered moribund for decades until the recent resurgence.

LFJ:
All these stories just because he failed to support an incompetent president. Your case is more pathetic than the case of Amachi. We know who Amachi is and we can see what he has achieved. Who are you? Tell us what you have achieve?
It is not a crime to aim high, that Amaechi aim to become Nigeria president is not a crime. He has right to it the same way others like Tinubu, Saraki, Tabuwa, and many others who sacrifice their ambition for the betterment of their party.

There is a clear difference between aiming high and a ruthless programme to achieve a political goal. The man splashed public cash and even played on ethnicity in the name of "aiming high".

"Moneys he could have used to establish legacies in Rivers, moneys he could have used to better lives of his people, he gave to the press...local and foreign, to politicians, to events, to his hose of Assembly to avoid impeachment...to everyone but Rivers people....well some to Rivers people as well. "

I am ambitious, but let my ambition not be inordinate. May God teach me to remember those who help me, as Odili helped Amaechi, and to, unlike AMechi, be grateful and thank them. May God humble me like Fashola, who having all the popularity and support and even ambition, yet bides his time and avoids confrontation with his people. May pride flee from my presence. Let me not wake up one day and tell people "I AM A LION, I AM A LION". Let my roar tell if I am a lion or bingo the local dog.

customized13:
sam mbakwe

Excellent choice

MKO Abiola. Hope 93 was the model campaign organisation and his politics was not do or die.

I will never forget that as at 1993 every state university in the country had an "Abiola Hostel" donated by Chief MKO Abiola to alleviate the accomodation deficits that was the bane of state owned campuses back then.

Colourful and peaceful campaigning and the elections were free and fair.

Saw this on FB. Hilarious stuff. LWKMD!

MAY OUR HOPES NOT BE DASHED LIKE AMAECHI'S IN JESUS NAME.

The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing. (Proverbs 20:18)

Waking up this Sunday morning to great news news said to me by my oga Rume Ima Niboro, I realize that all of religion is HOPE. It is hope of heaven that Stephen, the first Christian martyr received his stoning with equanimity. It is hope of God's guidance, protection and provision that will have Christians troop to church this Sunday morning. Sadly, it is also hope for 70 virgins that has people bombing churches and Mosques and killing children etc. May God show mercy to the dead and punish the killers. Amen.

There is nothing more painful than dashed hope. If I may be allowed to be a little salacious, a man awaits a girl he has been chasing. The girl promises to "put out" that night. The man takes a looong warm bath, after many push ups, and waist flexings. Not to be disappointed by blood flow, and not to disappoint the girl, he ingests some expensive boosters, and chews his burantashi, all the time, reading the girl's pings that she is on her way. He is ready and staring through the window and reacting to every bike sound and or knock. By 11 pm, her phone goes off and he cnnot reach her. He says to himself that NEPA has made her phone go off. He keeps waiting and waiting and waiting and it is 2 pm and her phone goes through and she says ....well....any story ...long story....annoying story.
Everyone who read the above has either been placed on "high jump" (as we used to say in Sapele growing up) or has placed someone. This "high jump" is not just in matters of the heart or loins. It could be a promise of a job, money, phone, ipad, ticket, etc etc. The point is, it is heart-wrenching.

Amaechi, governor of Rivers, has received such heart-wrenching. He had been promised presidency by the opposition. All he had to do was take down his "brother" Jonathan. The opposition had noticed a crack in the relationship between he and the president's wife. It was a crack that could easily have been mended with a kind word said, and less intrusiveness perhaps from the First Lady. Amaechi, like most men would have told the president, "bros, tell your wife na. Tell am make she free me small na. She dey fall my hand na. Na your eye I dey look oh". That is how dudes act when one of our girls or wives overstep boundaries. "we dey look our paddy eye." But the opposition saw also the greed, ambition, jealousy and pride, as well as a disloyal spirit and pounced. They promised him, to quote Olisa Metuh "moons." Amaechi was already president in his eyes. He was inviting past speakers from all nooks and crannies, to feasts in PH. He was sponsoring APC events from Sokoto to Ogun. Sahara Reporters and Premium Times reported his spittle as honey dropped caringly on the ground for ants to feed. His farts were perfumes diffused slowly from the great governors butt, for the good of all Nigerians.. He even called himself "a lion". hmmmm. And then the acceptance of something lower. He, Amaechi, that had been assured by the El Rufais that Buhari cannot win an election and will not be picked, find that his role has been tweaked. He will be Buhari's vice. Well, considering GEJ became president through being Veepee, all he had to do was fast and maybe Buhari had 72 would die too. It was a good deal. And he fought on. Moneys he could have used to establish legacies in Rivers, moneys he could have used to better lives of his people, he gave to the press...local and foreign, to politicians, to events, to his hose of Assembly to avoid impeachment...to everyone but Rivers people....well some to Rivers people as well. And now, BUHARI, ATIKU AND TINUBU HAVE LOOKED AT THE VERY ACTIONS THEY HAVE REQUIRED OF AMAECHI, AND AMAECHI HAVING DONE THEM, THEY SEE HOW WELL HE DID THEM AND SAY THOSE VERY ACTIONS MAKE HIM UNTRUSTABLE AND UNFIT FOR VP. na wah. Life Sha!!!

I want to ask my brother Eba Okorodudu White how truly Amaechi is taking this disappointment. Is he still in denial? Does he still feel he will be president or veepee? Is he satisfied with the new rol of "Campaign manager for South South? I he reading the Psalms of David and reciting "How are the mighty fallen, speak it not in Garth, lest the daughters of Philistines rejoice?" What is he thinking now, knowing he has lost a friend in the President, he has divided his people unnecessarily, he has wasted billions and now must, as he himself said, and like James Ibori, prepare for self-exile?

The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing. (Proverbs 10:28)

It is why this morning, I plead with Jesus to help me pick my fights and taper my hopes and expectations. I am ambitious, but let my ambition not be inordinate. May God teach me to remember those who help me, as Odili helped Amaechi, and to, unlike AMechi, be grateful and thank them. May God humble me like Fashola, who having all the popularity and support and even ambition, yet bides his time and avoids confrontation with his people. May pride flee from my presence. Let me not wake up one day and tell people "I AM A LION, I AM A LION". Let my roar tell if I am a lion or bingo the local dog.

Baba God, this morning, me and all my people put our hope in you God. No let devil fall our hand in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

pendy179:
Tinubu retired as a treasurer with Mobil Producing, he single handedly funded NADECO during the days of Abacha

WTF?

Reptyle:
I did....and I still wonder why people feel inclined to pen drivel like that.

Leave matter. The writer is 110% correct about OBJ.

Reptyle:
I sometimes wonder why people feel inclined to sit down and pen drivel like this.

You obviously didn't read it

Saw this on FB. OBJ was devoured in this article.

THE FAILED ELDER CALLED OBASANJO:

QUESTIONS FOR PA OBASANJO;

“Baba, if I may ask, what better definition of impunity can one have than the gale of orchestrated impeachments (some carried out with less than ten legislators in hotel rooms) and serial violations of civil liberties orchestrated by you during your tenure as civilian President? You will recall that the National Assembly, because of your unrelenting and undemocratic actions embarked on a process of impeaching you. It took the intervention of my humble self and few of other compatriots to save you and keep our nascent democracy on course. For this, you personally thanked me in writing!

“Weren’t the Halliburton and Siemens scandals part of your legacies to the Nations corruption index? Are you aware that the National ID card project which resulted in the Siemens scandal has been successfully undertaken by the Jonathan administration without any form of under-hand dealings? Didn’t you refuse all pleas to sign the Freedom of Information Bill into law? Which of the poverty and human development indices recorded any improvement while you held sway as Nigerian President for eight years?

“Talking about infrastructure, one may want to ask why critical roads like the Benin-Ore road; Lagos-Ibadan Expressway; Kano-Maiduguri road; the East West Road and even your Otta-Abeokuta dual carriage were recklessly abandoned and could not be fixed in all your eight years as President despite having more oil money from the Petroleum Ministry over which you personally superintended as President and oil Minister. Why should a President double as the Petroleum Minister of a country?

“Why were you unable or perhaps unwilling to unbundle the PHCN and privatize the power sector for efficient management and output all of your eight years?

As typical of you baba, you made superficial attempt to improve power supply in the twilight of your administration when you committed Nigeria to spending a colossal sum of 16 billion dollars which was paid upfront to import gas turbines for the NIPP projects.

“You neither made plans whatsoever to evacuate the turbines from the ports, nor made provisions for the road infrastructural upgrade to transport them to the desired locations. No land was acquired for the installation of the imported turbines neither was a right of way for execution of the project acquired. Also, you made no effort to align the gas national gas pipeline network with the locations of the turbines.

The resultant effect of this shoddy approach to National development was an unmitigated disaster and a colossal loss of a whopping sum of nearly 16 billion dollars as many of these turbines rotted away at the ports until the intervention of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.

“Prior to your emergence as President and considering your antecedents as a farmer, one would have expected that you would use your position to reduce Nigeria’s huge food import bills, boost food production and help reduce poverty in Nigeria. Alas, you government did absolutely nothing in this critical sector!

“Rather, you introduced policies that impoverished farmers and increased poverty, hunger and starvation among the populace.
“Baba, you are one of the African leaders that came up with the idea of the Great Green wall from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. While your friend, President Wade did well in Senegal to drive the project, what did you do in Northern Nigeria to bring this vision to reality? Please go and see what the Jonathan administration is doing on the Great Green Wall project.

“Baba, with all your failures, self- righteousness, hypocrisy and other shenanigan, Nigeria has left you alone.

Please baba, leave Nigeria alone.

I don't blame the soldiers I blame the saboteurs among them. From the Generals down the ranks

Apprenticeship is definitely a factor in the overall general success of many igbo business man but it can't be isolated as the primary reason. I had a number of school mates in University who went into business immediately after graduation. One guy stashed his degree certificate under his mattress after NYSC and opened a roofing material store while we were looking for bank work.

Today they have expanded in a major way.

Gbawe2:
Jonathan,in trying to be all things to all men, playing politics of ethnic division and rancour again. What else is new? This ethnic baiting has always exemplified Jonathan's parochial and prejudiced outlook. One wonders how unintelligent our President is to be patronising the intelligence of a Yoruba audience by stating that he intended for a Yoruba to be speaker in 2011.

This incredibly silly and ethnocentric attempt at currying favours from the Yorubas , ahead of the 2015 poll, will be offensive to the most intelligent and exposed Yoruba person who appreciate that it is ridiculous and hypocritical of GEJ to suggest he would prefer to influence which ethnic group got what instead of letting stakeholders (Reps themselves) determine who leads them. Is it too much to ask for a President who thinks before he says whatever comes into his Machiavellian mind?

Na politics o. Most likely in response to outcry like this -

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/yorubas-decry-marginalisation-in-federal-appointments/138685

The Yoruba nation yesterday reviewed the lopsidedness in elective positions and appointments made at the federal level, and concluded that the region has been shortchanged.

Speaking under the aegis of Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF) in a press conference addressed by former Secretary to the Federal Government (SFG), Chief Olu Falae, the forum remarked that President Goodluck Jonathan has been unfair to the region in the sharing of federal offices.

The conference, which had the Vice-Chairman of the forum, Rev. Bolanle Gbonigi, in attendance, tasked Jonathan to consider the interest of the region in any other top federal appointments.

According to the group, the Yoruba people are being systemically shortchanged in the distribution of entitlements under the Jonathan administration and thus being deprived of their rights to equality of treatment.

The group asserted that the complaints about the systematic marginalisation of the Yoruba nation cannot be equated by Jonathan to the usual cries of marginalisation from all geo-political zones.

The group, which backed the Yoruba nation’s complaints with annexture lamented that no Yoruba indigene was ranked in the 12 topmost positions that constitute the apex of the political power hierarchy in the country.

“Thus, the absence of any Yoruba at the top of the political hierarchy has consequential effect on the Yorubas in respect of appointments and job security throughout the federal service,” they argued.

pendy179:
We won't give in to intimidation, scare mongering and outright slaughter of people to perpetuate themselves in power.

boko Haram was said to be an Islamist agenda yet the most blood it has shed has been people of the same faith that it is said to be propagating.

Pastor bling bling won't say anything now, and I hope and pray the great emir is safe and unharm.

Let those who feel they can ride on the back of the blood of nigerians to continuously remain in power know that If they go Scot free on Earth, they will get judgement on the Last day.

Haba, N4trillion Naira military/defence budget yet Boko Haram or whichever group self cos we don't even know has remain a fugitive to the whole military force in Nigeria.

Something isn't adding up and this points to political agenda than any other thing again.

My colleague's village called Mahia in Adamawa state was overrun by BH and the islamists took over his personal house. Until they were chased out of his village they were forcefully marrying little girls as young as 8 years old.

The threat is real let's stop politicising it

Tinubu is a don sha. I don gree

Jimi Mohammed na sound guy o. I pray he wins.

lanrefront1:
don't have your time.....even if 100 intellectuals analyse from morning till night, you will stick to your opinion because its already set in stone.

You don't have time to itemise what you call lies but you have time to write your first epistle bashing. Na wa for you o.

Don't worry I'm not the author of the article. You copied and pasted part of the article but you didn't say why it wasn't spot on correct.

lanrefront1:
Crap and bullshit..... full of half truths, twisted logic, stating so many speculations as if they are facts, even giving prophecy on flawed and severely biased analysis.

Itemise a few of the speculations, twisted logic etc in the write-up

spenca:
Looking at GEJ's team of clueless mediocrity,
and Buhari's team of incitive Bruhaha, Atiku's polished classy packaging is near seductive.

But no I stick to GMB , change !!

To me the only two candidates that have even attempted to ARTICULATE a vision are Atiku and GEJ

Saw this on facebook.

In her open letter to Gen. Buhari, Dr. Nelson lists a number of reasons of why the General, in her own view, might not be the best suitable candidate to lead Nigeria.

The majority of politicians who encourage you to re-contest in 2015 do not share your vision. Most of them, especially Hausa-Fulani politicians, want to ride on your popularity to their political victory. Even Mallam El-Rufai, who insulted you and described you as a ‘perpetually unelectable’ politician in 2010, is now praising you. What has changed between then and now? These politicians, mostly Hausa-Fulani, know that they are politically dead without you. Hence, they will continue to flatter you, insult your opponents and pretend to support you in order to ensure your continuous participation in partisan politics for their selfish interests.

Most Nigerian politicians are thieves, including members of your party, the APC. Currently, all lawmakers in NASS, irrespective of party affiliation, are cooperating amongst themselves to steal public funds. Those Nigerian politicians who believe you will fight corruption if elected into office will not vote for you. They are into politics primarily to steal public funds and protect their ill-gotten wealth. In addition, there are corrupt and influential ex-presidents, ex-governors, contractors, etc. who have already enriched themselves. As long as these thieves are alive, they will go to any lengths to ensure that your path to Aso Rock Villa is strewn with impassable obstacles.

You supported introduction of Sharia Laws in the North in 2000 and advised Muslims to vote only for politicians who would protect Islam. When ex-Governor Yerima was criticized for amputating a Muslim’s hand for stealing, you supported him. You asked what was wrong if, according to Sharia Laws, Muslims cut off another Muslim’s hand for stealing. You said that Boko Haram terrorists were fighting for their rights like Niger Delta militants did. You also called on the Federal Government to grant them amnesty and stop dropping bombs on ‘innocent Northerners’. In recognition of your support, Boko Haram terrorists nominated you to lead their delegation for negotiation with the FG. A member of European Parliament, Mr. Franz Obermayr, accused you of sponsoring Boko Haram terrorists; up till date, you have not reacted to this weighty allegation. Also, you have not even once condemned the ongoing destruction of lives and properties of Northern minorities by Fulani herdsmen. You are the most popular living politician amongst Hausa-Fulani Muslims, especially Islamic fundamentalists, who believe that you are the ‘Amir’ who will surely implement Sharia Laws in Nigeria. For the same reasons, non-Hausa-Fulani/Kanuri Nigerians fear and detest you with a passion, especially Northern minorities who are being butchered daily by Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists.

You won a total of 12,214,853 votes during the presidential election in 2011. Out of these, you got 10,078,356 votes (82.5%) from Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri-dominated states in North West Geopolitical Zone (NWGZ) and North East Geopolitical Zone (NEGZ). From your geopolitical zone alone, NWGZ, you secured 53% of the total votes (6,453,437 votes of 12,214,853). However, you did not secure the mandatory 25% of votes cast in any state in the South. Though you did not even campaign in those states, you expected Nigerians in those states to vote for you. You said the elections were rigged in the states where you did not win, but were free, fair and credible where you won. The fact is, whether you campaign or not, you will always win elections in those Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri-dominated states. But the opinions held by a high percentage of the rest Nigerians about you are just too negative. Some of your praise-singers are collaborating with Sahara Reporters to produce bogus online opinion polls in your favour. You may wish to hold political rallies outside Hausa-Fulani/Kanuri-dominated towns to see things for yourself.

Your real supporters are products of Almajiri System of Islamic Education whose upbringing does not permit independent and logical analysis of any situation. They are programmed to accept whatever their leaders tell them without reasoning. They consider the use of violence to settle any dispute as a norm. They rarely travel out of their immediate environments. They believe that implementation of Sharia Laws will transform Nigeria into a paradise. They strongly believe that you are the only trustworthy politician who will guarantee Sharia Laws in Nigeria. They believe that Hausa-Fulani Muslims constitute 80% of Nigerian population. Because of this mindset, they believe that you must win in any election, even if nobody votes for you in other parts of the country. Unfortunately, you also believe that you are so popular that no Nigerian politician can defeat you in a free and fair election, hence, your penchant to condemn any election as being rigged whenever you do not win. The truth is, most non-Hausa-Fulani/Kanuri Nigerians do not want you as their leader.
Judging from your antecedent, election is only free, fair and credible when you win. You emerged as a presidential candidate in 2003, 2007, and 2011 through consensus arrangement. You want for the APC’s presidential candidate, preferably you, to emerge through consensus. Now, Hausa-Fulani pressure groups, such as he ACF and NEF, have sprung into action to cause Tambuwal, Atiku and Kwankwaso to step down for you. As for Sam Nda-Isaiah, since he is not a Hausa-Fulani Muslim, ACF and NEF do not consider it worthy to even approach him to step down for you. If you are as popular as you believe, please go through indirect primary election with the rest presidential aspirants. Stop begging Senator Tinubu to anoint you APC’s presidential candidate. Withdraw your ‘attack dogs’ from further intimidating other presidential aspirants to step down for you.

You are reputed to be an incorruptible retired General with impeccable integrity. These two qualities had been your unique selling points amongst politicians. But two decisions you took of recent have cast doubt on them. In 2011, you promised that you would never contest for elective office again and sealed it with a rich dose of tears. Last month in Abuja, you dishonored that promise because, according to you, many Nigerians begged you to come and ‘rescue the nation’. You said a delegation from Niger State and another one from Kano State came to beg you. Can you mention any delegation from any non-Hausa-Fulani state? None, for sure. Recently, you said Mallam El-Rufai was the one who prevailed on you to change your mind. You described him as ‘a kind of person that will respect you if you respect yourself, and if you don’t respect yourself, he will help you go down the drain.’ When he insulted you in 2010, was it because you did not respect yourself? It seems you have embraced doublespeak as a tool in your political career. So, under what circumstance will it be advisable for Nigerians to believe anything you say?

As if the self-mutilation of your much-trumpeted ‘impeccable integrity’ was not enough, you told Nigerians how you got a loan of N27.5 million on a ‘man-know-man basis’ from a bank in Kaduna by telephone call in less than 12 hours without a collateral to buy APC nomination forms. Please, ignore your ‘praise-singers and attack dogs’ but enlist the services of lawyers who will be sincere and bold enough to explain the full weight of this transaction to you. Every aspect of this transaction is corruption personified. If you are this poor, whether you win or not, how do you intend to repay the loan? How will you fund your campaigns? Is it the right thing for a poor person to borrow N27.5 million from a bank without collateral and invest the whole money in gambling (politics)? In a society where politicians respect themselves and do not see election as a do-or-die issue, the least you ought to have done is return people’s money (N27.5m) to the owners (the bank), apologize to Nigerians and withdraw from partisan politics. But here in Nigeria, anything goes, especially when one’s ability to reason objectively is irretrievably impaired by ‘born-to-rule’ syndrome and chronic desperation.

No person or delegation prevailed on you to change your mind and re-contest in 2015, but the following reasons. The first is the massive movement of Hausa-Fulani Muslims to Southern Nigeria to register and vote for you in 2015. With this, you hope to secure the mandatory 25% of total votes cast in each of the 17 Southern states. The current widespread confusion associated with PVCs distribution and registration of new voters in Southern Nigeria is purposely engineered by INEC to accommodate this plan. The second is the plan by Professor Attahiru Jega to create 21,615 polling units for the North as against only 8,412 polling units for the South. Though Professor Jega had reluctantly suspended this plan which he designed to give you undeserved 10,807,500 votes, he had opted for plan ‘B’ which is to replace commissioners in the South with those in the North in order to manipulate 2015 presidential elections in your favour. The third is Senator Tinubu’s promise to deliver Yoruba votes to APC in 2015. Because of above reasons, you concluded that your chance to emerge victorious in any presidential election had never been so bright, hence, you prevailed on yourself to dishonor your promise and re-contest in 2015.
You are one of a few Nigerians who had been blessed by Allah/God, even to a fault.

You have been a General Officer Commanding, Military Governor, Federal Commissioner of NNPC, Head of State and C-in-C of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and Chairman of PTF, just to mention a few. At the ripe age of 72, what do you want again from Allah/God? In 2011, ten youth coppers were among hundreds of innocent non-Hausa-Fulani/Kanuri Nigerians slaughtered by your supporters in Northern Nigeria even before INEC announced the results of the presidential election. As if that is not bloody and despicable enough, you have promised to soak non-Hausa-Fulani/Kanuri Nigerians whom you prefer to call ‘dogs and baboons’ in blood if you lose presidential election in 2015. But what’s next? You may be ‘untouchable,’ with millions of human robots (Almajiri supporters) at your command, to do whatever you like here on Earth, but note that one day, you will stand alone before your Creator for judgement.

People of Niger Delta believe that you are amongst core North politicians who sponsor Boko Haram terrorists and Fulani herdsmen to destabilize Jonathan’s administration. Consequently, if you win in 2015, they will also make your government ungovernable by disrupting oil and gas production. Due to non-availability of funds, it will be difficult for governments at all levels to function. Funding for security forces will be considerably reduced, thereby weakening their capacity and commitment to fight Boko Haram terrorists, Fulani herdsmen and militants in the creeks of Niger Delta. The environment so created will be conducive for Boko Haram terrorists to easily achieve their aim of establishing a Caliphate at least in North-Eastern states. The center will be too weak to enforce laws and order, thereby encouraging ‘self help’ and gradual but sustained disintegration of the nation. With the same zeal that galvanizes you to continuously re-contest, arrange for alternative sources of revenue because it will never be business as usual as far as oil and gas revenue is concerned, or else be prepared to go down in history as a Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachov of Nigeria.

And if you lose the presidential election in 2015, there will be serious problems also. But, unlike in 2011, you now have a reliable partner, Senator Tinubu in SWGZ. While you pledged to soak ‘dogs and baboons’ in blood in the North if you lose next year’s presidential election, your partner, Senator Tinubu, equally promised to roast Nigerians alive in the South if the APC does not win. Since both of you had never accepted defeat in any election, however credible it may be, the country is most likely to go up in flames if you lose. However, both of you have nothing to lose if that happens. Both of you are above 60 years old. Tinubu can easily flee with his family in his private jet to Toronto, while you also can evacuate your family to Sudan in your bullet-proof jeeps. But, as you orchestrate destruction of lives and properties of non-Hausa-Fulani/Kanuri Nigerians in Hausa-Fulani controlled parts of Northern Nigeria, note that there are millions of innocent, hardworking, peace-loving Hausa-Fulani/Kanuri Nigerians living in the rest parts of Nigeria. This time around, there may be disproportionate and uncontrolled reprisal attacks.

“Whether you win or not, your participation as a presidential candidate in 2015 will unleash unprecedented disaster on this nation. Please, step aside for the sake of unity and survival of Nigeria. Anoint and give your total support to any Northerner of your choice. But if you decide to listen to the el-rufais, whose primary aim is to use your popularity to achieve their political ambitions, you will definitely dismiss this suggestion, and even the advise given to you earlier by the revered Sheik Gumi, as arrant nonsense.

“May Allah/God grant our leaders the grace to conduct themselves as leaders.”

saaedlee:
My Friend stop decieving yourself, Nsibidi has its heritage from "efik" and not Igbo

True

The animal FFK is a thief. This is a sad day for justice

As much as I love and support my presido I find some things just deplorable and beyond excuse. The man needs to sit up n some of these annoying things that are going on under his nose. When ppl start saying he knows about boko haram I brush it aside but he need to stop fueling suspicion.

Yesterday an armoured personal carrier escorted Modu Sheriff into Borno. What is going on!

Arysexy:
Bc the sophisticated apc propagandist now see obj as omoluabi

Nope a navigator

Its a crying shame that a huge nation like nigeria at the end of the day has to look to just PDP and APC. A real shame.

Imagine a Tambuwal type progressive who seems okay with the fact that the National Assembly's annual budget is N150 Billion. Is that much money necessary to run a NASS? Let's not even talk about the obscene allowances that the legislators earn

carefreewannabe:
Chapter II
Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy

13. It shall be the duty and responsibility of all organs of government, and of all authorities and persons, exercising legislative, executive or judicial powers, to conform to, observe and apply the provisions of this Chapter of this Constitution.

(...)

18. (1) Government shall direct its policy towards ensuring that there are equal and adequate educational opportunities at all levels.
(2) Government shall promote science and technology
(3) Government shall strive to eradicate illiteracy; and to this end Government shall as and when practicable provide

(a) free, compulsory and universal primary education;
(b) free secondary education;

(c) free university education; and

(d) free adult literacy program me.

http://www.waado.org/nigerdelta/documents/ConstitutionalMatters/1999Constitution/ChapterTwo.html

Tread carefully so you don't mix things up. Section 18 of the 1999 constitution refers to "Government" in a broad sense to include Federal, State and Local government.

Take a closer look

http://wenr.wes.org/2011/08/wenr-julyaugust-2011-practical-information/

"Education in Nigeria is the shared responsibility of the federal, state and local governments. The Federal Ministry of Education plays a dominant role in regulating the education sector, engaging in policy formation and ensuring quality control.

However, the federal government is more directly involved with tertiary education than it is with school education, which is largely the responsibility of state (secondary) and local (primary) governments."