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@lateef4me - the north is instigating a dissolution of the country and if it escalates to unmanageable levels they won't have the resources or moral willpower to stop the rest of the country from leaving, simple and short. If obj ever did anything meaningful, he demystified the northern cartel

@op - mind you, preparedness will have very little to do with guns. If separation is inevitable it will be without violence unlike what most people think. At least not civil war

If you ask me the south west is only second to the north in readiness for possible self determmination. We in the south east have a major lacuna in the area of leadership. If the south west goes, AC.N will be the ruling political authority with elements of south west pdp making up the main opposition

The man had no business on that seat if not for obj and his nonsense. But if he steps down who takes over? Is sambo any better?

^^ how can he be part of the problem abeg. Boko haram is a very different matter from church issues

@ koruji - they just don't have the will to do ANYTHING.there is lots of talk about the implications of locking those troubled states but to me its all hogwash. No matter how highly placed the so called boko haram sponsors are, when a state of emergency os declared and they see soldiers on EVERY single street in maiduguri they will understand that there is something called federal muscle. This kid gloves nonsense has not worked.

If GEJ doesn't declare a state of emergency and
crack down hard on these animals it will be too obvious that he's p.u.s.ii

Gej is a bloody twit and I am starting to believe he may be the worst president ever. From removal of so called fuel subsidy to this? I am scared to ask what's next. Time emigrate to brush up on my french and emigrate to gabon

This is what we've been crying for, do an intensive house to house search for weapons. The only thing they didn't get right was a curfew to pin those animals down in one position while the searches are taking place. That way they can't move their stash to avoid detection

mtchew! I thought there was something to reply to sef. Stupid attention seeking headline

Nice one oga femi, the man na real surulere boy! Unfortunately he belongs to a party which like all others except maybe labour party is rotten to the core. Now back to the national honours freakshow - how on earth can they overlook that bright lad from imo state nnaemeka ikegwuonu, the boy reaches out to over 2 million peasant farmers everyday for free by radio. He gives them priceless tips using simple internet tools, instead ppl like orubebe are getting national recognition, shior!

Whether pdp or can they are lower than pig Poo. They shall get what is coming to them

@ op - I started reading but had to stop at the chris aire bit because I started hyperventilating. This recurring nonsense is leading us in one direction, those who think that history cannot repeat itself don't know anything

Nonsense! Heads must roll for this fiasco

Wrong section for this section. But what the heck - perchstone and grays or banwo and ighodalo, though I don't know what you mean by best

My late boss Gani Fawehinmi and amazingly the army of street hawkers in nigeria, they're like roses from concrete and make a way for themselves no matter what

Check out the definition of fascism. For further reading check out www.dictionary.com

·cism
   /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ Show Spelled[fash-iz-uhm] Show IPA
noun

(sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

@pkv - d man makes my skin crawl. He has the effrontery to talk about job creation, wetin the man don do for oguta (his hometown) nothing! That's why he tried to get reelected and got his butt booted out in a disgraceful way. God save am say we no catch am during the june 12 aluta, e for smell him own nyash

@ ode remo-why must you insult somebody's father because of nairaland gist that's uncouth

Adedibu
Sheriff (former borno governor)
Every politician since 1999

Cleverly is good and anderson is a good attacking midfielder, fletcher is the only really consistent defensive minded player we have in the middle. I don't know why we didn't charlie adam or scott parker (who has been a beast for tottenham this season)

I don't think we have problems with strikers. We have chicharito who is a poacher's delight, rooney (you know now), berbatov (he is pure class but thrives with ample midfield support), welbeck the boy wonder who plays with cheek and confidence no matter the opposition , plus all the other upcoming boys. Our wahala is a general in our MIDFIELD. The combo of keane and scholes was an amazing hybrid of brute strength-skill-leadership and vision, amazing skill-vision-killer passes-intelligence. Since roy keane left we haven't been the same make we talk true, trophies aside. Scholes carried the midfield well and when hargreaves came it was all good and seemed to solve the iron-man (remember the champions league win) deficiency. However hargreaves injury crisis sent us back to square one.

Personally I can never regard anything nzeribe says, the man is an old crook who wants to go out looking like a sage. What he did to fight june 12 rubbished him forever in my book

@ pazienza - mko abiola never made that statement, it was used to turn igbos against abiola's mandate. I don't know where the rumour started but I suspect it was from nzeribe

@ djustice- no vex I'm using my phone what section 1(2) of the 1999 constitution say?

I just wish he could have spilled some more beans. That way somebody from the ACN will be forced to reply and dig up some of Obanikoro's own skeletons. I doubt if it will happen because they all seem to be paddy men. They'll diss themselves silly in the media and meet for some hennessy at ikoyi club later in the evening or a spliff at ''sunday school''

Honestly i like it when politicians abuse themselves.

Tinubu worse than Abacha, IBB–Obanikoro
By SAMUEL OLATUNJI
Sunday, October 30, 2011
• Obanikoro
Photo: Sun News Publishing

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Ambassador Musiliu Obanikoro is not new in politics. He was chairman, Lagos Island Local Government, a former senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and currently the nation’s High Commissioner to Ghana.
In this interview, he speaks on the recent local government election in Lagos, describing the results as shocking.

His son, Jide Obanikoro, contested the chairmanship position of Ikoyi/Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA) on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and lost. But the ambassador is bitter about what he termed brazen disregard for the people’s mandate and accused former governor of the state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, under whose administration he served, of being the brain behind the “fake” results. He also expressed disappointment in Governor Raji Fashola, who he described as a hostage, and retired Justice Fatai Olayinka, who presided over the election.
It was a no-holds-barred interview that took place in Ghana.

Did the result of the local government council election shock you?
If there is any word better than shock that is what I would use. I knew they would try anything humanly possible to rig us out, and I also knew they employed Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) members as electoral officers, but I never thought we could win an election and they (ACN) would write a completely fake result and announce it. Even IBB did not do that. It is completely unbelievable. And this coupled with the fact that the presiding officer is a retired Chief Judge and the governor of Lagos is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. I am not surprised by the former governor, Bola Tinubu, because of his antecedent, but in Fashola and Justice Olayinka, I am grossly disappointed.

How did you know it was a ‘fake’ result that was announced?
Thank God you were there and you saw the results on the table. On the day of the election, we had results from all the polling units. What they did was to instruct all officers presiding at the polling units to bring all the results to the local government for collation. They already knew they lost the election at the polling units. They lost throughout the local government. We won all the five wards. The field officers brought the results while the local government chairman and his people were upstairs.

While we were waiting for them to set up and collate the results, we realized they were thumb-printing ballot papers, trying to make up for what they had lost. Our people went in there and apprehended the ACN members thumb-printing the 500 ballot papers and handed them over to Suruj, the Area Commander. You would expect a fair-minded Area Commander to make an arrest, but up till tomorrow he had not made any arrest. Rather he used the RRS security outfit to smuggle the electoral officer out of the place. There were no returning officers, or electoral officers, the only people left there were the SPOs, who cannot collate results from wards and announce.

The result was left on the table since the electoral officer absconded, so who will now announce the result? Nobody! The most shocking was that the PRO of LASIEC (Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission) announced results that had not been collated and was still on the table. Lagos Television (LTV) and Television Continental (TVC) were scrolling the results that ACN had won. How could that be possible when those responsible for the result from the field were still in the local government with the results on the table? Later in the day the chairman countered it. You can see that this was a premeditated thing. They are all in sync - Fashola, Tinubu, RRS, and LASIEC.

Is this not the reality of politics and democracy you are also involved in?
Why do we call Lagos ‘Centre of Excellence’ if we are going to behave like others? Let me make a point, those of us who are core Lagos people are not into this type of politics, because we are all members of the same family. Look at Fashola, his family background, his family house and ours are not far from each other. Tinubu is the one corrupting all of us. We don’t play politics with bitterness.

We recognize that we have something that binds all of us together, which is bigger than politics. But when you bring somebody, who is foreign to that set up, he doesn’t have respect for what we cherish and protect. Despite our political differences you still see us flocking together. We set politics aside. But, to this man, who is alien to our system, everything is politics, even if it’s going to destroy the family. There is no way Fashola and Olayinka would have done this, but this is what you have when people are not courageous enough to stand up to a dictator.

What next for your son, Jide Obanikoro?
We have not seen the end of this. I don’t have confidence in the tribunal Tinubu has set up. My son has decided to go to the tribunal along with others. I won’t stop them from going, but I don’t have confidence in the tribunal. Let them go to the tribunal, but like I said, I don’t have confidence in them. Look, let me tell you, the entire judiciary of Lagos State came here and part of our job was to receive them, but they refused our hospitality and did not visit the commission. When I spoke with one or two of them, they said they were afraid of Tinubu and Fashola. If they could be afraid over such matters, what do you think would happen at a tribunal? Tinubu does not believe in democracy. Do you know there has not been democracy in ACN since 1999?

Why are you indicting the police?
I was shot at; my son was also shot at. Policemen were there, but they did not make any arrest. They moved the APC they were using to protect us out and within five minutes hired thugs came in and started shooting.

Why is your son in politics?
It was not my decision, it was his. Jide is 30 years old; he can make up his mind. We have family business where we are all shareholders. We are into haulage, downstream sector, farming and real estate. And as a father, I support him.

What do you expect of Governor Fashola?
Well, if there is any hostage here, I think it is Governor Fashola. He is being held hostage by Tinubu and the whole Lagos knows this. I believe his conscience will prick him, but unfortunately, he is also a hostage.

What do you think of Asiwaju Tinubu?
I think those God wants to destroy He first make mad. That’s the situation with him now. The process has begun. What he is doing is worse than what Abacha and IBB did. The only difference is that they were military dictators.

What do you think of Justice Olayinka?
To be honest with you, I am disappointed beyond comprehension. This man is supposed to be a Muslim and a retired judge of Lagos State. He is almost 70. What else is better for a man like that than to leave a legacy worthy of emulation? I still can’t comprehend why a man like that would allow an evil-minded dictator use him.

You talk as if you and Tinubu will not do politics together again, why?
I am not interested in his type of politics. That was the reason I left him, to begin with. I don’t play extreme politics. Moderation is the watchword for anything I do in life. I can’t play his type of politics. I saw some extreme postures, greed and corruption, so I left. One man playing God! Look at the sand-filling going on at Ikoyi today, he is primarily behind most of them.

There is a lot of reclamation going on. I have it on good authority that the secretariat building of Eti-Osa has been sold. I understand he is moving them to Obalende. If you go to Senator Olajumoke’s house and Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi’s, those places used to be waterfront, now Tinubu has reclaimed the land. I wonder why someone like that still goes out without covering his face? How much does a man need to live a good life? I saw some of these things coming, that’s why I left him.

Do you still talk to Demola Seriki?
Yes, if we have reason to talk, we do.

Do you feel let down by his going back to ACN?
Demola is my personal friend, so no comment. Those of us who are core Lagos people; despite our differences we still accommodate each other. We even like Fashola.

Do you talk with Fashola?
Fashola is my brother; I will continue to say this because we are from the same village in Lagos Island. If there is need, I will talk with him.

What about Tinubu?
I have lost every respect for him. Let me tell you, when IBB annulled the June 12 election results, he didn’t go outside to write another result.

Would you contest in 2015?
Nobody is sure of being alive tomorrow, not to talk of 2015. People are saying this local government election is about 2015 and I laugh. It is God that crowns. Let me tell you, in 2007 Fashola and Tinubu were travelling to London in the same plane I was. We sat beside each other and I asked Fashola what next for him, and he said he was going back to his chamber. I told him I was contesting and I am sure I would win, but today, he is the governor. So, it is God that crowns, not any man. This is not about 2015.

What is the way out?
There were two polling booths in front of Tinubu’s house, we won there. We also won at the police barrack near his house; that is to show how unpopular he is. The way forward is that good people like Wole Soyinka, Wole Olanipekun should speak out. There must not be selective justice. People like Wole Soyinka stands for the truth. This is one occasion he should speak out because there is hardly anybody that does not look up to Prof. Wole Soyinka. We cannot condemn injustice on one hand and embrace it on the other.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2011/oct/30/newsbreak-30-10-2011-001.html

My question is did governors or their equivalents from other countries attend the forum he missed or was it meant specifically for heads of states. i have to look it up

kodewrita:
Tres Ethical. Deeply ethical.

There's nothing wrong about studying their strategy but invading their privacy to learn about their detailed company information or any other form of espionage is unethical.

Studying their actions to find out their strategy is ethical. bribing their staff to tell you is not.

talking to their suppliers is ok. compromising their suppliers with promises or gifts is not.

I have nothing left to say

I would have been impressed if aregbe had cited the fuel subsidy removal as the reason for snubbing sambo. Opposition should have a focus beyond personal interest for crying out loud

^^^ honestly I don't care how the truth comes out. He is part of the problem and now he's belatedly blowing the whistle. The time of reckoning is coming. I?e never seen nigerians so fed up