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In Davido's voice; "Mr Dele na my boy, Dele na my boy".


Dele Momodu is indirectly asking Buhari to overlook the corruption/CCT case of his friend(Saraki). Dele is a shameless carpetbeggar.

Fatai Ahmed, the Caretaker of Kwara Government house

TippyTop:
Fashola is still angry that Tinubu's "boy boy" also known as Ambode demystified his holier than thou attitude.

Fashola was there. In fact, he sat beside Fayemi and directly behind Ambode and were gisting. Fashola was one of those who put the event together. Bro, you know nothing.

Na only $8000? Abeg make we do opposition with sense now

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dsquare33:
I see this propaganda against BRF as personal vandetta.Akinwunmi Ambode should tread softly even if Jagaban is prodding him to expose Fashola he should be careful because like the Yoruba proverb that says "the cain that is used to flogged the first wife is being kept in the ceiling to be used on the second the wife". Ambode is acting like a saint and I am sure he will soon be exposed very soon for his many atrocities. Jagaban wants to bring Fashola's name to the mud and is really dealing with BRF through Ambode as if when he was the governor of Lagos state he did'nt cornered and misappropirate contracts for himself.Of course if Fashola is found culpable he should brought to book, if appropirate measures needs to be taken Jagaban should remove the plank in his eyes before removing the dust in BRF's eyes.

Stop getting emotional. Jagaban is also mentioned here as using Olowolafe to execute contracts during his second term. Fashola is only playing the victim meanwhile he it was who stirred the hornet's nest.

Why is he not probing the defense budget from 1999-2007? He dey fear OBJ?

Firefire:
Where you there

Omo Naija ati isokuso

and you think everyone that visits here is inconsequential? Make I just keep quiet because those involved will eventually settle their rift and it will return to business as usual

eagleeye2:
Who wants BRF down?
Yes, I was one of those who protested when he sent some 'foreigners' out of Lagos. But that one action cannot make me to hate BRF. His developmental projects in Lagos, speaks volume.
Abeg, make una free this man.

fashola himself should eat the humble pie. When he was bad talking Tinubu to Buhari immediately after Buhari was declared winner and also undermining him, he didn't know then?

9jatatafo:
How come it is making news now most especially when there is a cold war between him and BAT?

It is because @BudgeTIt, a non partisan, very commendable accountability and transparency NGO beamed its search light on it. They have been on Fashola and others neck for a very long time. The timing is irrelevant.

9jatatafo:
Politics is a dirty game where your deepest and darkest secrets are exposed and revealed. Also in politics there are no permanent friends and enemies. What Tinubu and Ambode are doing is very wrong, trying to paint Fashola bad is not the best way. Tinubu and Ambode should know that Fashalo also have their secrets. Remember dog nor bite dog.
In the face of corruption allegation being levelled against Fashola, he still remains one of the finest governors of Lagos State.

Stop blaming Tinubu and Ambode. Fashola himself gave the directive that contracts executed should be published on the public procurement agency website for transparency before he left office. He is a victim of transparency and nothing else. Those contracts were on the website before Fashola left office.

These senators are jokers. Was Fowler nominated by Tinubu or by Buhari? Rejection of Fowler's nomination is not a rejection of Tinubu but of Buhari.

aresa:
They can not accuse him of anything because they know he did not steal anything or did anything wrong, this is cowardly and smear tactics just to rubbish his image.

All they can do is and have been doing is Fashola spent this, Fashola spent that, but when are they going to get to Fashola stole this and that.?

These are cowards and scumbags especially the new Orobo governor and errand boy...


These are cowards and scum bag.

You don't get it. The so called report according to Punch, is a public document loaded on the website of the LASG procurement agency and there are several awarded and completed contracts on it. The report says its for 2013, so it may have been loaded on the website during Fashola's administration. They are duly awarded and completed projects. It is the media that is feasting on it now after the discovery of the website by BudgetIt.

In the original story published by the Punch newspaper, nowhere is it stated that 'Fashola is being accused of anything by LASG'. These are duly approved and completed projects pasted on the website of the states' tenders board. If anyone is not comfortable with the amount of monies involved, he or she knows where to approach next.

Fashola is not being accused of anything. It is surprising that on one hand some of us call for transparency and accountability in government and yet turn around to call it a witch-hunt. These projects are all approved and completed, hence there is no reason why LASG tenders board shouldn't put them on its website. It is left for those who see anything fishy to come out with their proof, rather than trying to set the former governor against his successor.

Before you blame Tinubu or Ambode, it was Fashola himself who gave the directive that contracts bidded, awarded and excuted be published on the website.

BishopMagic:
The ruling party is not responsible for bringing any looter to justice but the police and judiciary.

And who controls the police who prosecutes? The executive populated by the ruling party.

Story Story,
Once upon a time, time time.


Isn't d is from a PDP site? PDP stop dividing Nigerians along religious and ethnic lines.

Another calamity and embarrassment is that our
President, his Service Chiefs and security advisers
were all led into wasting public funds by entering into
a phantom cease-fire deal with fake Boko Haram
leaders that left them with bloodied noses. Not to also
mention the short-lived public celebration of the
supposed killing of the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar
Shekau, by the President and his security team, only
for the outlaw to appear in subsequent videos posted
online, taunting the Nigerian government. Any four
more years of a Jonathan Presidency can only lead to
more carnage by the insurgents. He just does not
have the requisite capacity to tackle this problem of
insecurity. The truth must be told.
Yet you hear the President say that the nation will
appreciate him better after he has left office. I am
sorry, but we have seen enough bloodshed and
incompetence in the last six years to know there is
nothing more to expect the next four years and we
have seen enough to do an assessment right now and
not in the future.
In all his campaign tours, the President is already
sounding like a broken record. He says he has made
the rails to function again. He mentioned this so much
that you imagine that he was primarily elected to
revive a few train lines. It sounds very funny when
you hear such things, whereas the primary duty of
government is the protection of lives and properties.
If that primary duty fails, then the government has
failed. It is like an undergraduate hoping to be
promoted to the next level by barely scraping through
the ‘electives’ and failing the core courses. It will never
happen. So, is the President providing train coaches
to be transporting the dead bodies from the North to
the South? Are the trains to be occupied by living
human beings or dead human beings?
Make no mistake about it, like the President always
says, it is true that we have a rise of terrorism around
the world. But, we have all seen how governments
around the world respond quickly and decisively to
any attempt for terror to rear its ugly head within
their society and how they quickly crush it. We saw it
happen in the United States after 9/11; we saw it
happen in Britain after the July 7, 2005 bus bombing;
in the last few days, we have seen it happen in France
and in Belgium. In all these cases, all attempts were
nipped in the bud. Even, here in Nigeria, previous
governments have nipped insurgency in the bud. The
ONLY government that has allowed it to fester,
germinate and grow into a full-blown war leading to a
successful secession of some parts of the country is
that of President Goodluck Jonathan. It is so bad that
hardly a day passes by without reports of one
insurgent activity or the other leading to loss of lives
and limbs.
The President is also quick to mention that his
administration has made the Nigerian economy the
number one in Africa. He forgot to mention two
things, though; one, that some of the major sectors of
the Nigerian economy, that is, the telecom sector,
financial services and the Nollywood industry that
were taken into account to re-base the economy were
sectors not created or grown by his government.
Secondly, he forgot to mention that the so-called re-
basing has no impact at all on the ordinary Nigerian
as the 2014 World Bank Survey still shows that Nigeria
is ranked third among world top five poorest countries
with sixty-one percent (61%) of its citizens living below
$1.25 dollar per day. No government can boast of any
economic growth or theory that does not have a direct
impact on the lives of its ordinary citizens. It is like a
father coming home to announce and jubilate about a
pay rise and promotion at workplace, yet the wife and
children cannot eat or live better many months later.
The Nigerian people have tolerated too much and
taken too much battering from the PDP-led Federal
Government since 1999. Under the Jonathan
Government, the situation in the country has sunk to
an all-time low, except for the few benefitting directly
from the government. They are blind to criticism and
blind to healthy opposition. They hurl abuses at
anyone who dares to point out these acts of
maladministration. In saner societies, the President
will not be allowed to campaign in many parts of the
country. The people will rise against him and chase
his convoy away.
The clear alternative to this monumental mess is the
person of General Muhammadu Buhari. Let us be
clear that Buhari does not present the total package
Nigerians want at this time. He is human, he is not
perfect. But at this point in our history, at this time, at
this moment, he presents the only viable option and
avenue for the people to vent their frustrations and
anger against an inept and clueless Federal
Government. He represents the rallying point for the
frustrated and teeming masses of our people. He
reminds me of MKO Abiola (with some of his
imperfections) who became the rallying point in the
struggle against military rule.
That is the change we are talking about. It is not a
change from imperfection to perfection. It is a change
from hopelessness and cluelessness to some hope
and to some expectations.
All the personal attacks on the person of Buhari in the
last few weeks have only convinced me that he is the
best available option at this time. Anyone on the
weaker side in any argument always resorts to
personal abuses and attacks. Have you noticed that
on corruption, the only accusation against Buhari is
that, he was too high-handed in fighting corruption in
the past? In other words, nobody can/has accused
him of lacking the courage, zeal and will to fight
corruption. On the other hand, the President eats,
sleeps and wakes up with corruption. In one of his
famous interviews, he did not even see stealing as
corruption. That is why he does not see the point why
he should not appoint a person standing trial for
corruption as his Director of Media and Publicity. He
just does not care.
So, Nigerians, we must decide what we want. When
Buhari fought corruption and was supposedly high-
handed, he was ruling with Decrees. Now, he has the
Constitution, the National Assembly, and the Judiciary
without ouster clauses to guide him. It is therefore
only an that will believe the propaganda that he
would throw everyone suspected of corruption into
jail. I feel so sorry at times for the gullible masses of
this country who fall for such cheap propaganda. But
it is his type of appetite and revulsion against
corruption that we so dearly need at this time.
You may say whatever you like about Buhari, but in
terms of the character, the steel, the competence to
lead the nation out of this period of insurgency,
nobody can compare a Goodluck Jonathan to a
General Buhari. Just imagine the Service Chiefs (who
were probably in secondary school when Buhari and
others fought the Civil War) sitting in front of Buhari to
brief him about the situation in the North East, and
attempting to mislead him about movements of
artillery, brigades or troops and, the strategy against
the enemy!
The attack on Buhari’s certificate is most unfortunate.
Only fools can be deceived that a sworn affidavit in
place of a certificate that you cannot readily produce
is not sufficient for certain purposes. What is
important is that the school(s) and dates are
mentioned in such affidavits which can be subject to
verification. But unfortunately the President’s team
has carried on as if leadership is a function of
academic degrees and qualifications. This is so sad.
Leadership is a divine quality, almost always
bestowed at infancy so much so that even in primary
schools, we see traits of leadership amongst pupils. If
it were not so, then there would be no need for
elections. We should just look for the most qualified
professor in our Ivory Towers and make him President
because that would be the best material for
President.
Besides, what moral right has Jonathan got to discuss
Buhari’s certificate when I have since informed him
that his Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji
Abdullahi Dikko forged all his certificates, yet the
President has not even ordered a simple investigation
into the matter. He has turned a willful blind eye to
the issue.
The orchestration of the age of Buhari is just another
mischief, symptomatic of the weaker side the
President’s team find themselves in the argument.
Agility and strength and good health is not exactly a
function of age. Yar’Adua did not die in power
because he was an old man. Abacha did not die in
power because he was an old man. Obasanjo ruled
until he was seventy (70) years and it is the same set
of PDP big wigs that are now criticizing the age of
Buhari that were promoting and supporting the third-
term bid of Obasanjo that would have taken him to,
perhaps, seventy-eight (78) years as President. Today,
Obasanjo still jumps about at nearly eighty (80) years
or perhaps more. Professor Wole Soyinka, at over
eighty (80) years, still travels everywhere, delivering
lectures.
The relevant question here is that, is the age more
important than the character or the character more
important than the age? For those who are Christians,
remember that the Bible says in Proverbs 16:31 that
grey-headedness is a crown of beauty if found in the
ways of righteousness. It is idiotic to deride an elderly
person who is still agile and upright in character,
instead of us praying that we live up to that age and
we are blessed with such strength at such an age.
During the Second Republic, the South-West and
South-East massively voted for Awolowo and Azikiwe
respectively who were both over seventy (70) years
old, yet nobody raised an eyebrow.
Finally, this is not the time to adopt the herd
mentality by joining the so-called “winning train”
because the ruling party is always expected to rig
elections in its favour. What we are witnessing with
the large followership of Buhari is a revolution, a
mass movement, a display of anger by the people
against Jonathan and his government. This is a time
for well-meaning Nigerians, the elites to rise up and
speak truth to power, regardless of whose ox is gored.
We can halt the slide to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc
by our simple votes. We must vote out incompetence,
cluelessness and corruption.
The epitaph that will be left for the Presidential years
of Goodluck Jonathan is this: HERE IS A PRESIDENT
WHO DESTROYED PDP AND ALMOST DESTROYED
NIGERIA.
I have purged my conscience. Now, I can sleep.
FESTUS KEYAMO, ESQ.

Keyamo Explodes: Between Jonathan Versus Buhari -
Here Is A President Who Destroyed PDP and almost
destroyed Nigeria.
This is a season of hire-wired deceits, misinformation,
campaign of calumny and spewing of outright
falsehood and lies – all to hoodwink and deceive
ordinary and gullible Nigerians for their votes.
I am not worried about these antics of the politicians.
It is their way. For them, their business is politics and
their politics is business. No scruple. My real worry is
that many Nigerians who are the elites can see
through some of these outright falsehoods but have
decided to sit on fence and keep an embarrassing
silence. They forget that millions of ordinary Nigerians
who are confused and hoodwinked by these
falsehoods and who do not have access to facts
depend on their voices and guidance to make their
choices. This is, therefore, a message directed at those
silent Nigerian elites who should speak up at this
time. For me, I have decided that enough is enough.
This is the time to speak up.
Unfortunately, many of our elites do not want to
speak up now because they do not want to be caught
on the wrong side of any government in the next four
years; they prefer to play safe, not wanting to be
tarred with the brush of partisanship. But, I ask: what
is wrong with partisanship in a country where you and
your children have a huge stake? What is wrong in
speaking up and standing up for what your
conscience tells you is the right thing to do? What is
wrong in being caught on the wrong side of the
government in the next four years, if only you would
be caught on the right side of posterity?
Except for a few class of persons like INEC officials,
security agencies and those on the Bench, every other
Nigerian has a duty - yes, a duty - to speak up now for
our country, and to come down from that fence on
which they are sitting regarding the 2015 general
elections. Those elites who do not speak up now for
fear of being branded partisan and losing face upon
defeat are enemies of the people who are looking up
to them for guidance.
My message to those silent elites today is that whilst
they are sitting on the fence, people are being killed
like flies in some parts of the country on a daily basis;
whilst we are on that fence, our foreign reserves are
going down, corruption is growing like cancer, poverty
is growing even in the face of dubious economic
theories and figures, and we continue to live without
adequate power supply. Yet, those who should speak
truth to power are sitting on the fence in anticipation
of personal gains. I am sorry, but today I have come
down from that fence because my buttocks are
already hurting from sitting on it.
Do not forget that I am from the Niger-Delta region
and all my close friends and associates are the main
supporters and aides of Mr. President. Two or three
Governors who are either my former classmates or
colleagues are the main backers of Mr. President. It is
so easy, so convenient and so seemingly logical for me
to get into that political mix and forget about the good
of my country for personal gains. The disgusting
message we hear all over the streets of that region
every day at this time - promoted by the hirelings of
the President – is that Goodluck Jonathan is “our son”,
so we have no choice but to support him. In fact, I see
some of my “brothers” from the Niger Delta region
these days strutting all over the place, denigrating
people from other regions. It is typical of what the
Yorubas call “omo oju ori ola ri” (a person whose eyes
have not seen wealth before).
But the question I ask those who tell me such
nonsense and behave in such a manner is that, after
the next four years, what is next for us? Is our entire
future and that of our children dependent on a South-
South President for the next four years?
Kindly note that in getting down from the fence and
speaking up at this critical time, I do not mind if you
speak up for Goodluck Jonathan. Yes, you have a right
to do so as a Nigerian. But, as an elite, your stand
must be known so that when the massacres continue
because of cluelessness, when the unrestrained
stealing of our public resources continue, when
darkness continues to befall the nation because of
lack of power, it is important we all remember those
who betrayed their conscience and the people
because of ethnicity and self-aggrandisement and for
posterity to record it as such.
We have a President who has no single appetite to
fight corruption – yes, none. Imagine a campaign that
is dominated by the theme of corruption, yet the
President has decided to appoint a person facing trial
for money-laundering as his Director of Media and
Publicity. If nobody would say it, I will say it because I
am the one prosecuting the fellow in court and the
case has been adjourned to February 23 and 24 for
trial. Part of the lies told is that the fellow has been
freed whereas some of the counts in the Charge were
just struck out and the court held that he has a case
to answer on some other counts. Yet nobody is asking
the President these hard questions.
The President only mouths anti-corruption. The other
day (December 23rd, 2014, I think) the President said
he would like to erect a Hall of Shame for Nigerians
who engage in corrupt and unwholesome activities
that bring the country to disrepute. But he was the
same person who brought a convicted criminal,
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, out of the Hall of Shame to
the Hall of Fame by misusing his power of Prerogative
of Mercy when he granted pardon to this self-
confessed ex-convict. Imagine the pain, the efforts
and resources that go into securing a single conviction
for corruption in this our clime. Yet, the President
decided to spoil the party for anti-corruption
campaigners. On top of that, he displayed corruption
within corruption by selective pardon when the likes
of Tarfa Balogun, Lucky Igbinedion and others who
were convicted about the same period did not enjoy
his Presidential pardon.
Yet nobody is asking these hard questions on the
campaign trail. The funny thing is that, nearly six
years into his tenure as President, Goodluck Jonathan
said the other day that he is just coming up with a
plan to tackle corruption!! Haba, Jona !
To add insult to injury, President Goodluck Jonathan
decided to tackle the corruption of stealing of our
resources in the high seas by empowering small-time
crooks and criminals to police our waterways. This is
because he has no idea as to how to revamp, re-
organise and re-invigorate the Nigeria Navy to
perform its constitutional duty. These days, it is an
eyesore to see our military chiefs and officers kowtow
to these empowered small-time crooks and criminals
for appointment and promotions and other privileges.
The disaster about this initiative of empowerment of
crooks and criminals is that crude oil theft has never
been so high, so rampant in the annals of this country
than it is now. Why? Because the President has put a
rat as a watchman over a morsel of fish. It is sad to
say, but the President, by his actions, has shown no
spine, no appetite, no nerve to fight corruption. He
just continues to sink into an abyss of moral
debauchery.
The other tragedy of this President is that, even as he
is on the campaign trail, in the last one month, the
omnipresent insurgents have attacked towns like
Baga, Damaturu, Biu, Askira-Uba, Konduga, Marte and
Gombe. Even as we speak, the Boko Haram insurgents
are in total control of the whole of Borno State except
Maiduguri, Monguno, Dikwa, Konduga and Biu. The
insurgents are in total control of towns like Baga,
Bama, Gwoza and Banki.
Before Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Boko
Haram was nothing but a rag-tag group of extremists
living in enclaves like Sambisa, while our proud
military boys patrolled the towns. Now, under
Jonathan, the reverse is the case. Our military boys
are now in enclaves while Boko Haram patrol our
towns. Is it not shocking that insurgents have a free
reign to enter cities, abduct young girls like in Chibok,
burn houses like in Baga, slaughter people for hours
like in Konduga, Gwoza etc, yet our military men are
nowhere to be found and they do not even give hot
pursuit to the retreating insurgents? What is really
going on?
One obvious flaw is that our President has lost control
of the military and the top hierarchy of the military is
merely feeding fat on this unfortunate situation and
the President seems to be totally helpless in the face
of this.
The only response the President and his handlers can
proffer is to hide this glaring and crass incompetence
under political gymnastics; they blame the opposition
on the one hand and in the same breath, they say it is
a world-wide trend and Nigeria is just having its fair
share of a global malaise. Is this true? As President,
you are the Commander-In-Chief. If you have
evidence against the opposition, just come out with it
and arrest the ring-leaders. Do not cry like a baby as
Commander-in-Chief. Deal with the situation. That is
why you occupy that seat. Till date, no single evidence
has been produced against any of the opposition
leaders linking them with the insurgency. Rather,
what we see is a President who is supposedly bent on
fighting insurgency but who is wining and dining with
someone who has been directly linked with
sponsoring the insurgents and even traveling with
such a person to Chad at a time when the State
Security Services officially invited that person to
answer questions relating to the insurgency.

Thank God for APC who few days back called on the FG to reduce the price of petroleum products. Again, why aren't they reducing the price of kerosene and diesel? Or aren't these two products also affected by the international price of crude oil?

Bravo.





Sai Buhari

hyfr:
have you eaten this morning??

Another manifestation of your stupidiity.

Does the radio station or this newspaper have any means of ascertaining/verifying the real identity of anonymous callers? No! Okupe or Reno Omokri aka (Wendell Simlin) can call into any radio station claiming to be an APC member.


This is rubbish journalism.

Jimi performed better than other contestants in the 2007 governorship debate but Fashola eventually won the election. Na Ambode go still win the election.

Kabiyesi Awujale, Oba ti ki gba egunje. You have spoken and we your subject believe you.

Amin o

Before nko? We all know its all part of his re-election strategy.

The guy is a member of SURE-P, so you shouldn't expect him to say otherwise when his bread is being buttered by GEJ's government.

The same hypocrites battling to downplay the negotiator's allegations are always the first to believe and re-echo the jargons from the drug addict(FFK). On this issue of boko haram, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

Boko haram is being sponsored by politicians from PDP and APC, top military brass, defense contractors and some northern business men.

Firstly, it wasn't el-rufai who mentioned Iheajirika and Modu Sherrif as boko haram sponsor. It was the Australian negotiator.

Secondly, if what the retired general is saying is true then why didn't he order for the arrest and prosecution of el-rufai while he was in office?

Lastly, its evident that some top military brass(serving and retired) who are making huge money through this insurgency are part of those sponsoring boko haram. The longer the insurgency, the more money they make.