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Seun:
Check out this 1993 picture of Professor Yemi Osinbajo's actual dad, Sir Adeyemi Osinbajo, who died at the ripe old age of 95, according to a reliable source. He's the handsome man in all white. The other men in the picture are his sons, including Prof. Yemi Osinbajo with the bowtie.

None of them look like the man . This guy need a Dna test with the original photo posted earlier.

obailala:
Please I am tired of this back and forth argument. Come March 28th, please vote your choice.

As for me, there are too many weighty issues to be considered when choosing a leader and I am too intellectually exposed to be deceived or bothered by the religious or ethnic nonsense.

Then you are too young to understand that religion and ethnicity has always played a major role in our political activities.
Even our laws recognises the idea of ethnicity and region (federal character act).
When you are in Nigeria, face reality and stop acting like you are in France.

Zedric:
Which truth? In a country with a good judiciary system, that dude will be reeling from the barrage of lawsuit that ll be filed against him

Indeed #jegamustgo

Delafruita:
i am quite suprised the mods dont think this moniker deserves a ban for the continous spamming of all threads and the breaking of almost all nairaland rules

Why? Abeg Nairaland need musiwa nation

alaoeri:
March 28 loading you all will be shock, this is 2015 & not the previous ones wake up from your slumber.

Your guy dey fear o. I hear he has only three months to live but I wish him quick recovery so as to be defeated yet again at the polls.
Errant nonsense. You think say Na by sai GMB. Election will come and go and he will stand defeated again. Sharia drivers. Killers of innocent souls, power hungry corrupt GMB who cannot give good stewardship of his past leadership positions.

kennydee05:
Yes they have.....
Since they have aired it let them face the consequence of bad journalism...

There are no consequences. What exist are facts behind the message.

You think an org like AIT hasn't done their risk analysis?

This is the beauty of democracy. Till date Buhari has been begging for apology from AIT and even threaten to burn the plce down. Heaven has not fallen.
Tinubu can go to court; Kermit will be there sipping green tea.

obailala:
Seeing things from ONLY the microscopic prism of politics will never allow you understand my simple explanations. All I am saying is that there have always been sharia courts in certain areas of northern Nigeria since the beginning of time. Nigeria's real sharia problems arose when in the year 2000, a certain paedophile called Yerima decided to make an extremist and intolerant version of sharia law compulsory in his state.

Now referring to the topic of this thread which says "Buhari Implicitly Suggests That Certain Aspect Of Sharia Will Be Made Law," my responses so far have been based on this wilful misconception.

The sharia law in our constitution which Buhari talked about has to do with marriage/inheritance disputes and is NOT the extremist, inhumane, compulsory type. This form of sharia law is optional to the accused and has ALWAYS existed in the Nigerian constitution. It makes no sense for anyone to imply that Buhari wants to introduce something which has already been in existence in our constitution even before Buhari was born.

Implementation and introduction are not same words and can never be used in the same context...
"Made law" as used in this context implies the will to drive the acceptance of a given principle in the constitution that is not generally accepted.

Nigerians know that Buhari over time swore to see that sharia law is spread across the six geo political regions of Nigeria. Since such statement can be associated to him, I have no doubts with the powers of Presidency he can incentivize the acceptance and implementation of sharia law.
Just as the USA is driving the acceptance of gay practice globally. Not all American President will be bent to pursue such goals unless they believe it is the right thing to do . This is Obama's qugmires.

Same will be Buhari's since those promises are on record.

sincerenigerian:
And does your own opinion make it right? Don't forget I called you a dreamer.

Based on precedence; YES my opinion is more plausible.

Knowledge is not infinite but common sense is not common. This may explain your views.

#jegamustgo !!!

alaoeri:
Don't know what will become of AIT after the clueless one is booted out of power.

Buhari has history of loosing. Why is this year any different? Absolute bobbings.

olapluto:
''Jega has a five-year tenure which is renewable under Section 155 of the constitution. There is no provision for sabbatical or terminal leave. He is not a civil servant to be ordered by the head of service to proceed on leave and in any case, you can't go on leave when the basic duty for which the constitution has appointed you is being performed. So there is no room for resignation or sabbatical leave''. - Femi Falana, SAN

That is Falana's opinion. It does not make it right.

kennydee05:
Good move
You don't need to be arguing with them.
Jagaban teaching them lesson since 1999....

For many years now I have stopped watching AIT they lack content... I begin to ask myself is AIT a national TV station...
Thank God that Babaginda is absent from public ...Tinubu will be able to teach Dokpesi lesson big time...
Scape goat
AIT is going down going down
AIT is going down...

Any communication house is at liberty to air the views of those willing to pay for airspace.

Chio!!!! Oya sue.
#sueait loading for ever. As if Nigerians and Lagosians don't know he is a thief.
Days of salami selling judgment to Tinubu is over.

Let see how he will buy this particular judgment.
#biggestlagoslandlord

DaGC:
Honestly, I'm tired of all this. Let election just come and go sef. Everyday 'sources' 'sources' 'sources', allegations without proofs etc.

The president has no constitutional power to remove the INEC chairman, as reported by this same people. Last I checked, the APC is now the majority of the house so why fret over something they have the power to decide. No need smearing the office of the president.

This is a democratic country, not a dictatorship or absolute monarchy like Botswana.

This is the most sensible input by a NAIRALANDER of late. If he is required to leave based on the tenets of the constitution, so be it. The president has no intention to take him out but the constitution will . #jegamustgo

NeduLuiZ:
i cant match you with insults ... Am different...am civilized and well bred.

Being tamed is not the same as well bred. You are a follower and does not have the requirement to query what has been pushed to you as right or wrong. Thus your stand is as good as no stand. You will be continually pushed around and told what to do; be it right or wrong (MOB).

ijustdey:
so, that PDP can rig their way through ....




such desperation by the government of the day

Morally speaking. Jega has many unanswered questions over his head right now.

He can't defend some of his actions. Like holding meeting with APC leaders in Dubai, distribution more PVCs in the North and the scuttled attempt by Jega to allocate more voting centers in the North. What bravado!!
What impudience!!! A biased umpire like Jega Must go.

NeduLuiZ:
jega stays or leaves has no effect on my life ... My quote wasnt politically driven,i felt pity for him ernestly... Incase you choose to rant more ... Am not interested

#jegamustgo call it rant or whatever you wish. He has failed Nigerians and has nothing more to offer.
I pity guys like you without a strong stance on national issues then tomorrow you will complain from the side lines.
Why waste your energy to even write anything if you are not a defeated bigot.

sincerenigerian:
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I have no time for dreamers like you. Go get some sleep.

This is a national issue, we should be able to defend our stands or not take one.

I have given you reasons why Jega cannot continue be it because he is due for terminal leave or not. I have lost faith in him as an unbiased umpire.

I rather he resign.
To you sincerenigerian, put out a plausible view on why he should not go and let Nigerians figure the rest out for themselves.

EmoBoy:
If he gets removed, whats the big deal? I wonder why these APC members are protecting Jega like this?

Curiously, the only institution of government that the APC approves of is INEC under Jega. This begs for many answers as to why?

What deal does the APC have with Jega? What is Jega not telling Nigerians

Why is my PVC still missing? I have the same constitutional rights to vote as any other Nigerian!!!

Why are PVC printed in far away China?

Allowing Jega carry out the elections in 2015 is like taking a "slow boat to China". We may never get there democratically with questionable characters like Jega in position of authority to over see a non biase entity like INEC.

sincerenigerian:
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Nonsense. Same discredited lines that are not believable anymore.

You will soon wake up from your slumber and face reality that no one, region or party is above the law...

Genius100:
Are you daft or what? Which law stipulates that he proceed on terminal leave?

The guiding principles of 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria requires civil servants to proceed on terminal leave three months to the end of their service.

Stop shouting daft because you appear far more daft than the man you questioned.

TechRev:
If JEGA is truly a man of integrity he should proceed on his terminal leave as the law stipulates and not over heat the polity.

Period... His allegiance to Nigeria is in doubts. Thus he is no more fit to perform national duties since the same regional bug that bit Buhari when he was PTF chairman has bitten him. Bug that made Buhari execute over 80% of PTF project in the North.

Same bug that made him cancel Lagos metro line when he was a dictator has bitten Jega. Otherwise how do we explain the disparity nature of PVC distribution in the north and southern part of Nigeria? #jegamustgo

NeduLuiZ:
i feel pity for you ...how on earth can a nigerian youth be this jobless ... All you do is copy and paste same crap all day on nairaland ... No offence my brother ...may God grant you your heart desire and a job inclusive. #cheers

#jegamustgo ... The man you quoted is not as jobless as yourself because he has written the truth. Concerning oneself with issues relating to what is best for nigeria can never be considered jobless. It is known as patriotism.

obailala:
Sharia customary law is different from the inhumane form of sharia you refer to... Go and do your research, sharia customary law has been in existence in the Nigerian constitution and has been practised since forever. Also, a culprit has a right to choose whether to be tried in a sharia court or not.

You see you are bringing a new twist to this conversation. When sharia is mentioned anywhere in the world, people quiver with fear.
There is only but one sharia type of law. Call it customary or otherwise; sharia is sharia.

Obviously it is in human nature to say things that protects our interest but in this particular instance, sharia has no room for justification.
None whatsoever!!!

Inec staff in Lagos confirmed to me that there is something fishy about how Jega had distributed the pvc and that they from the southern prt of Nigeria are bemused that INEC has distributed more PVCs in troubled areas of Nigeria than in the south.
It is troubling and I have been going back and forth for my pvc without success.

Jega has failed and must go!!!

sincerenigerian:
“Once Prof. Jega is removed, Mr. President will nominate a new chairman who will declare that INEC is not ready to use PVCs. And once PVCs are removed, it will become easier to carry out major rigging,” an INEC source said.


SaharaReporters has learned that hawkish members of President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle have convinced him to move in an aggressive and decisive manner to remove Attahiru Jega as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) this week.

Sources within INEC as well as the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) disclosed that, barring a last-minute change of heart, President Jonathan will go ahead this week to force Mr. Jega to embark on a terminal leave prior to the end of his year in the middle of 2015.

Our sources said the decision to remove Mr. Jega would open the door to appoint a new chairman, a national commisoner of INEC, Amina Bala Zakari, who would be open to jettisoning the use of permanent voters cards and other anti-rigging technologies. “Once Prof. Jega is removed, Mr. President will nominate a new chairman who will declare that INEC is not ready to use PVCs. And once PVCs are removed, it will become easier to carry out major rigging,” an INEC source said.

He added that the Presidency had been able to use its massive slush funds, sourced from deals in the oil and energy sectors, to compromise a majority of INEC officials in the states. Over the last four years, Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been stashing away funds that President Jonathan is now using to bribe electoral officials, traditional rulers, and even some members of the civil society groups. One PDP insider told SaharaReporters that Mr. Jonathan had distributed more than $200 million to different groups since INEC postponed elections two weeks ago.

Several sources said the removal of Mr. Jega is a major part of a strategy developed by President Jonathan’s team to ensure that they win the presidential and other elections by hook or crook. The presidential election is now scheduled for March 28 while governorship and legislative polls will hold on April 11.

Two weeks ago, facing a groundswell of opposition and in the face of rising unpopularity, the PDP and Mr. Jonathan used a series of maneuvers to compel INEC to postpone elections for six weeks. SaharaReporters had detailed plans by Mr. Jonathan and his team to postpone elections in order to slow the momentum of the All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

The Presidency knew that the APC and its presidential candidate were short on campaign funds, said our sources. In forcing the postponement, Mr. Jonathan and his inner circle achieved a temporary crippling of the main opposition party’s ability to continue to run political campaigns and to sustain its electoral lead over the ruling party.

An APC top official told SaharaReporters that the party was truly short of funds. “The president and his people have been putting aside public funds for a long time. They are now sharing the money around the country, but Nigerians are not fools. When the elections come, people will remember that all that money was stolen from them,” he said.

Prior to the postponement, some PDP officials had confided in SaharaReporters that their party and Mr. Jonathan were on the ropes and faced certain defeat. But following the postponement, some of the same officials now wax confidence, asserting that Mr. Jonathan and their party would comfortably win the elections.

A PDP official told SaharaReporters that Mr. Jega’s removal was a done deal. According to him, the hawks around Mr. Jonathan, including Ms. Alison-Madueke, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, Vice President Namadi Sambo, and presidential aides Doyin Okupe and Femi Fani-Kayode, believe that the PDP and Mr. Jonathan can weather the storm of any fallout from the firing of the INEC chairman. “They believe the APC, the world press, the US and EU will make noise, but then everybody will eventually calm down,” said the source. He added that the same situation played out when President Jonathan removed Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Governor of the Central Bank.

Our sources said Mr. Jega’s refusal to be compromised in the conduct of this year’s elections had spelt his doom. “Many RECs (resident electoral commissioners) are in the party’s [PDP’s] pocket, but Professor Jega has refused even to pick up the phone calls of those representing the president. That’s why the decision has been reached to push him out of the way,” one INEC source said. He added that Mr. Jega knew that the eyes of the world were on him, and had decided to run elections that are acknowledged as credible.

Our sources added that, before and after Mr. Jega’s removal, the PDP plans to launch a major campaign to depict him as incompetent, corrupt, and a servant of the APC. “His successor will come out and say that INEC’s preparations for the elections are in a state of mess and that further delay is needed to make proper preparations,” he added.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/03/01/presidency-may-remove-jega-week

Jega cannot be removed. He will only be required by our constitution to embark on compulsory terminal leave. This is typical and acceptable practice in civil service. Iwu embarked on similar leave and nobody threatened the government of Nigeria.

How does voting in an advocate of sharia law help Nigeria make necessary democratic progress...

Let advocates of change and progress debate me on this.

obailala:
To further clarify your statement, Sharia customary law has been in practice in Nigeria since 1960. Over 20 years ago, I learnt about the existence of sharia courts in my JSS1 social studies. Politicians are simply playing on the ignorance of millions of NIgerians to stir up the waters where there is no storm.

Now to elucidate what ever point you are trying to put forward. Are you justifying the principles of sharia and should it be seen implemented across Nigeria? We know and have witnessed the cruelty associated with the law which includes but not limited to beheading of adultrers or criminals. Does this practice in any shape or form promote constitutional human rights bestowed on every Nigerian?

KnowAll:
The civil law as we know it is an off-shoot of biblical laws. Are we then under a christain law. I believe certain aspects of d sharia law might be commursable with civil and that should be accepted.m

Your postulation is very wrong. Civil law is born out of globally accepted sense of right and wrong. Sharia law will remain questionable because the tenets on which it stands is born out of the need for a given group of people to sub due another. Sharia principles have no place in a democratic entity like Nigeria.
It cannot be tolerated or observed in one form or the other.
So much for the money wasted by your parents to educate you. Pathetic!!!

noblezone:
If states are permitted to have their own laws, then it must go with resource control.
Kano destroys liquor, but then get share of liquor tax sold in Lagos.

haba!!!

Thank you o... It simple logic. Selective implementation of policies that affect Nigerians as a whole is what is baffling about this country.

atbu1983:
I watched it. AIT is only telling us what lagosians already know about Tinubu infrastructural development of lagos at d same time making money 4 himself. Though he took advantage of it to enrich himself, every lagosian is aware that Lagos also benefit greatly from it. Tinubu kind of corruption is far better than that of Ibori, lucky igbinedion, Goodluck Jonathan and PDP.

We are not saying APC is made up of saint. We are only saying when you compare APC to PDP, APC is a saint. Since we must choose between d two. , we have to choose d less evil one.

That is why we are asking for Buhari to be our president in 2015. Because with Buhari, corruption will be reduced.

March4Buhari
vote Buhari

Your sense of change is amusing and pathetic. You can't eat your cake and have it.