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[b]Why would anyone vote for APC

A party with an Ex-Dictator who's government
killed a crippled mother of disabled kids,
Flogged civilians
kidnapped people,
locked up people without trial...
And who wants to return 30 years after
(In a sane country guilt and shame will not make this type people come out talk-less of contesting for presidency)

A party
were the leader is known for drug dealings running into thousands if not millions of dollars in the 1990s... that is like mega money $50 million kind of money equivalent in today's money all confiscated by the US government.
Same guy that came with little as a new governor and now the richest of all ex governors in Nigeria today.

A Party that calls itself change
when 90 - 97 percent of its members are true reflection of change(get the PDP joke?)
And 101 percent of Members are the same old leaders Nigeria has always f..ing had.

If this bunch of people should get in power the Irony will be too strong

Nigerians are a stereotyped people

It could then be said that Nigerians are drug dealers lead by a drug Mafia,
Corrupt 419 people led by corrupt leaders,
Oppressed people lead by dictators that they respect, fear and praise

and one Pastor.


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Baawaa:
Jonathan,when you get back to Otuoke on the 30th of May,tell them all these lies,we are fed up of your lies.We need a CHANGE

Which one is a lie there...?
Say it or else keep quiet

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Some reasons why you should vote for Goodluck Jonathan

It is International women's day today 08/03/2015

Decided to ask Google who the next US president will be after seeing that 1923 teacher contract.

I wanted to see Hilary Clinton in the top searches but Google knows best and blatantly has a special notification on top of the page that says it will indeed be Hilary Clinton.

Use the Thread to Vote for your Presidential Candidate


Simply type -

GEJ for Goodluck Jonathan
or
GMB for General Buhari

No need to add any other comments or article...
This thread is not for explaining why your candidate is the best,
Just type GEJ or GMB

teemanbastos:
lmfao...photo edit..

Its actually real... but old..

I think it was about launching some water project

I wish the Niger Deltan's and all other oil states are left to themselves and then see if there is tussle to rule a no oil Nigeria

At Lagos , Seun’s mother, Mrs. Beatrice Adewumi, had become apprehensive after learning that corps members were being killed in some parts of the North including Bauchi.

Though her son spoke with her a day earlier (on Sunday), she still called her younger brother, Venerable Samuel Ojo, who is also the Vicar of The African Church Cathedral, College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos to confirm if he had spoken with Seun in recent time. The woman, who spoke with our correspondent at the vicarage of The African Church Cathedral on Sunday amidst sobs, said she did not know that that Sunday was the last time she would speak with her son.

“He called me on Sunday and said I should please tell one of our distant relations who is a lawyer to get a job for him as he was scheduled to complete his service year in June. I did not know that that would be the last time I would speak with my star. Seun had made a lot of promises to me. He said I should not worry that he would take good care of me.

“Each time he came home from school for food and money, he would call me aside and say, ‘Mummy, don’t worry, I know that you don’t have money but please try and finance my education, I will soon complete my education and after graduation, I will take very good care of you.’ I didn’t know that that promise would not be kept. They have killed my hope, they have killed my shinning light,” the woman who was surrounded by relatives and her brother, Ojo, cried.

Beatrice said she retired in 2009 from the service of the Lagos State Government. She pleaded with the NYSC to release the corpse of her son to her.

“My brother spent over four days before he could get the NYSC Bauchi to confirm his death. But please tell them to give me his corpse because in our tradition when you say somebody is dead, we must see the corpse. Omo eni ku san ju omo eni sonu lo, e bami gbe oku re abi kile fe fi se leyin igba ti eti pa (It is better to lose a child to death than to say a child is missing, please give me his corpse or what else do you want to do with the corpse after you have killed him,)” she said to no one in particular.

Seun’s sister, Ruth, also said that the family would miss the deceased in so many ways. “Seun suffered; many times he would go and do odd jobs to complement the little money our mother could give. He was determined to succeed but see how some senseless, uneducated and barbaric people just killed him. Government should scrap the NYSC. They should compensate my mother because she sacrificed a lot to see him through the university,” Ruth, who is a trained hairdresser, said.

Speaking on the trauma the family had gone through since the young man was killed on Monday; Ojo expressed bitterness at the inability of the NYSC to inform them about the death. This, he said, further traumatised the family as members were left in the dark concerning his whereabouts.

Narrating the event that led to the death of Seun, Ojo said Seun called him around 10am on Monday, April 18 to pray for him as there was a crisis in Giade.

“I asked him what the problem was and he said the rioters had attacked the INEC office and they were on their way to the police station because their lodge was not far from the place. I said he should not worry that we would be praying. But when I called him back, he said they were already in the police station. I was happy but when I called him back around 1pm his mobile phone was dead. I became apprehensive.

“We started calling all his friends and other people from our church that were posted to Bauchi. Nobody knew anything about his whereabouts. Some of them gave us the number of the Bauchi State Coordinator of the NYSC, that of his personal assistant and the Zonal Inspector of Seun’s local government. We tried all the numbers but nobody picked it. It was not until Thursday that the personal assistant to the coordinator picked my call and confirmed that Seun was no more. What the NYSC did was not fair. We were traumatised and subjected to emotional trauma between Monday and Thursday last week,” he said.

The angry cleric said if not for God and his faith in Jesus, he would have gone on a vengeance mission, because according to him, there was no reason why corps members should be attacked because of election.

“Even Seun did not participate in the election. He was not one of the corps members used for the election, so why should they kill him. They should just release his corpse to us and they should compensate the family,” he said.

Some of the seven corps members killed at the police station, according to one of the Corps Liaison Officer in Bauchi State , include Ukeoma Ikechukwu, Anslem Sylvester Nkwazema, Obinna Okpokiri and Kehinde Adeniyi.

According to the CLO, who pleaded anonymity, because corps members are not allowed to speak to the press, Ukeoma and Nkwazema were chased by an angry mob on April 18 and ran into a police station at Giade.

“Unfortunately, the mob was so large than they were able to overpower the policemen after setting the station on fire and all the corps members ran out. Ukweoma and Nkwazema were beaten to death by the mob.

“Adeniyi, a Muslim, who was identified by one of his pupils, was subsequently beaten to death by the angry mob.

Okpokiri, according to a friend that schooled with him in the United Kingdom, was not only beaten to death, but was burnt after he was killed.

The CLO added that Ikechukwu had by 6.48am that day posted a message on his Face book wall narrating how he nearly escaped being lynched by election riggers after he refused to hand over ballot papers to them during the election on April 16.

“The timely intervention of the police saved me,” Ikechukwu whose Face book name is Ukeoma Aikfavour, had written.

“These CPC supporters would have killed me yesterday, no see threat ooo. Even after forcing under-age voters on me, they wanted me to give them the remaining ballot papers to thumb print. Thank God for the police and I’m happy I could stand for God and my nation. To all corps members who stood despite these threats especially in the North, bravo! Nigeria our change has come,” he added.

On the same Face book page some hours later, a friend named Vivesparkle Emmanuel wrote,

“Please, you all should pray for Aik. As at yesterday, some angry mob were shooting guns around them. They were able to take them later to the nearest police station only for him to call that the mob were threatening to burn down the place. We’ve lost contact with him because his phone has been unreachable. Kindly pray for him and others in the same condition. Thanks.”

But the call for prayers came rather too late as Aik was one of the unfortunate corps members killed by the rioters.

Their deaths have, however, renewed calls for the scrapping of the NYSC as most parents including Ojo, are now calling on the Federal Government to do away with the scheme.

But Seun’s mother said that if government would not scrap the NYSC, it should only post corps members to states within their geo-political zones.

“In Ekiti, we don’t maltreat corps members. We take care of them, we give them free accommodation, if the Hausa people are killing our children, then they should not be posted to the North again. Let them serve in their geo-political zones. But they should please release my son’s corpse so that we can give him a proper and befitting burial,” the sad mother said.

to him, there was no reason why corps members should be attacked because of an election.

“Even Seun did not participate in the election. He was not one of the corps members used for the election, so why should they kill him. They should just release his corpse to us and they should compensate the family,” he said.

Some of the seven corps members killed at the police station, according to one of the Corps Liaison Officer in Bauchi State, were Ukeoma Ikechukwu, Anslem Sylvester Nkwazema, Obinna Okpokiri and Kehinde Adeniyi.

According to the CLO, who pleaded anonymity, because corps members are not allowed to speak to the press, Ukeoma and Nkwazema were chased by an angry mob on April 18 and ran into a police station at Giade.

“Unfortunately, the mob was so large than they were able to overpower the policemen after setting the station on fire and all the corps members ran out. Ukweoma and Nkwazema were beaten to death by the mob.

“Adeniyi, a Muslim, who was identified by one of his pupils, was subsequently beaten to death by the angry mob.

Okpokiri, according to a friend that schooled with him in the United Kingdom, was not only beaten to death, but was burnt after he had been killed.”

The CLO added that Ikechukwu had by 6.48am that day posted a message on his Facebook wall narrating how he nearly escaped being lynched by election riggers after he refused to hand over ballot papers to them during the election on April 16.

“The timely intervention of the police saved me,” Ikechukwu whose Face book name is Ukeoma Aikfavour, had written.

“These CPC supporters would have killed me yesterday, no see threat ooo. Even after forcing under-age voters on me, they wanted me to give them the remaining ballot papers to thumb print. Thank God for the police and I’m happy I could stand for God and my nation. To all corps members who stood despite these threats especially in the North, bravo! Nigeria our change has come,” he added.

On the same Face book page some hours later, a friend named Vivesparkle Emmanuel wrote,

“Please, you all should pray for Aik. As at yesterday, some angry mob were shooting guns around them. They were able to take them later to the nearest police station only for him to call that the mob were threatening to burn down the place. We’ve lost contact with him because his phone has been unreachable. Kindly pray for him and others in the same condition. Thanks.”

But the call for prayers came rather too late as Aik was one of the unfortunate corps members killed by the rioters.

Their deaths have, however, renewed calls for the scrapping of the NYSC as most parents including Ojo, are now calling on the Federal Government to do away with the scheme.

But Seun’s mother said that if government would not scrap the NYSC, it should only post corps members to states within their geo-political zones.

“In Ekiti, we don’t maltreat corps members. We take care of them, we give them free accommodation, if the Hausa people are killing our children, then they should not be posted to the North again. Let them serve in their geo-political zones. But they should please release my son’s corpse so that we can give him a proper and befitting burial,” the grieving mother said.

Source http://contraculturemag.com/?p=420

Sad read about 2011 post election violence. Buhari could have done better by calming his followers with a speech.

Tomisin Teidi and Seun Adewumi – Two other youth corpers killed in their prime
3 May 2011

The federal government recently released the names of nine youth corps members killed in the violence in northern Nigeria. They are:

Teidi Tosin Olawale (Osun State, BSc Computer Science)
Nkwazema Anslem Chukwunonyerem (Imo State, HND Electrical Electronic Engineering)
Okpokiri Obinna Michael (Abia State, BSc Environmental Management)
Adowei Elliot (Bayelsa State, BSc Computer Science)
Adewunmi Seun Paul (Ekiti State, BSc, Social Sciences).
Adeniji Kehinde Jehleel (Osun State, BSc Banking & Finance)
Gbenjo Ebenezer Ayotunde (Osun State, BSc, Education Economics)
Ukeoma Ikechukwu Chibuzor (Imo State, BSc Medical Microbiology)
Akonyi Ibrahim Sule (Kogi State, HND Business Administration).

Find below the story of how Mr Teide, from Osun State was brutally murdered in the prime of his life:


Tomisin

Facts have emerged on how Tomisin Teide, a corps member, was lain in the violence that rocked many states in the northern part of the country following the recent presidential elections.
Tomisin, 24, was posted to Giade Local Government Area of Bauchi State by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for his primary assignment after the orientation exercise at Wailo Camp last September.

An indigene of Osun State, he was among the 200 other corps members recruited as electoral officers by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cover the 20 Local Government areas in the state. As it turned out eventually, those of them posted to the northern parts of Bauchi State like Katagum, Darazo, Giade, Dambam Jammare became the biggest casualties of the senseless riots that trailed the presidential polls as many of them were attacked and killed.

The Batch C, 2010 corps member ran to the police station in Giade to seek refuge as their lodge in Giade was attacked. The rioters attacked the station and overpowered the policemen on duty before setting the station on fire. They brought out Tomisin, a graduate of Computer Science from the University of Ilorin and about six other corps members and killed them. Daily Sun learnt from reliable sources that the female corps members among them were allegedly raped.

The discovery was corroborated by one of the rape suspects arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command and paraded among the 67 other suspects by the Commissioner of Police posted to the state for the general election, Mr. John Abakasanga in connection with the post-election violence. The suspect confessed in an interview with Daily Sun that he saw some of the female corps members being raped in Giade but did not participate in the act. A female corps member who miraculously escaped when the lodge was attacked told Daily Sun that she ran and climbed a tree where she hid before the police came and rescued her.

“It was a horrible thing to witness,” she said. “I will never wish even my enemies to meet this kind of death,” the corps member who also pleaded anonymity told our correspondent. She said that while Tomisin and some other corps members ran to the police station, she ran inside the bush. She displayed to our correspondent pictures of Tomisin which she took shortly before the police and other security agents came to rescue them. The horrifying pictures indicate that the deceased was inflicted with several machete cuts on his head and body leading to his death.“I ran out of my room barefooted in my underwear. I did not run to the police station with Tomisin and others.

“When I saw the crowd coming, I shouted and ran out and had to climb a tree. Somehow, they did not see me and I almost fainted on top of the tree,” she said. According to her, the news of her colleagues’ death shocked her beyond imagination.“He was a very nice person and carried everyone along. He did not deserve to die.”

Many of Tomisin’s colleagues and friends were shattered over his death and the killing of their colleagues.
According to the story, Tomisin was preparing a meal of beans when the attackers stormed the Corpers’ Lodge that Sunday afternoon. “They were carrying big sticks, machetes and chanting Sai Buhari, Sai CPC,” one of the corps members who was rescued by the police said. But Tomisin and six of his colleagues made for the police station to escape being lynched.

His friend and colleague who had been evacuated to Port Harcourt shared with our correspondent on phone his last moments with Tomisin. The deceased friend who pleaded anonymity said: “I spoke with him that morning and asked him to come to Bauchi to spend the weekend with me. He usually came to Bauchi to spend the weekend with me. I asked him to come to Bauchi as usual. I waited for his call but he did not call which was unusual. I tried his number but I could not reach him.

“I went to ECWA church in Bauchi to see a friend when another friend now called me to inform me that Tomisin had been killed in Giade. It was like a joke to me. I was told that he was at home at the lodge cooking beans when the mob attacked them and he ran to the police station. The policemen tried to disperse the mob but they refused. They even fired tear gas at them but they did not run. They now set the place on fire and killed Tomisin and the other corps member. I don’t know the number.”

He described the death of his colleague as shocking. He said: “We met in camp last September and became friends. He was a very lively person. Our last discussion was that he was coming to Bauchi. His dad was even trying to get him a job at NNPC. He also told me that he wanted to go for his post graduate degree after the service.”

Tomisin’s friend said he was posted to both Giade and Bauchi, the state capital as an electoral officer. “I was surprised to see two postings in my name so I settled for Bauchi since it was nearer and it is the capital. I never knew that it would become a killing field.”

Tomisin’s friend said that the parents were devastated by the news.
“I can say that the NYSC is a good scheme but the implementation is very bad. Corps members are just posted to places to serve but there is, in most cases, no careful plan for their welfare and security. It is very sad. As for me, I am through with the service. I am not going back to Bauchi for now. I will only go to that state to collect my redeployment letter or certificate.”

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Next is the story of Mr Adewumi and several other corps members:


Seun and his mother

When Seun Adewumi completed his degree programme at the Olabisi Onabanjo University , Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, his dream was to take care of his 62-year-old mother, a retired cleaner of the Judicial Service Commission, Lagos State .

With enthusiasm, he gladly received his posting to Bauchi State for the one year mandatory National Youth Service Corps Scheme with the hope that he would get a good job after his service year and move his mother from the uncompleted building she lives in, at Agbado, an outskirt of Lagos , to a more decent apartment.

But this dream was shattered as life was snuffed out of the 27 year-old Political Science graduate in a gruesome manner last Monday by post-election rioters in Giade, the headquarters of Giade Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

Born in Lagos , Adewumi, a native of Imojo-Ekiti in Oye Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State, was the only graduate out of his mother’s six children.

One of the corps members that survived the attack where over seven of her colleagues met their untimely deaths, Wumi, said Seun was butchered to death by rioters.

According to the female corps member, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday, the corps members became agitated when they discovered that the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission located beside the Youth Corps Members lodge in Giade had been set on fire by the rioters.

“The Youth Corps Members’ Lodge is just a stone throw to the INEC office, so when we saw it on fire, we all ran to the police station for safety. The Divisional Police Officer allowed us to stay. But a few minutes later, the rioters numbering over 300, swooped on the police station, stoned the policemen, overran the station and set it on fire. The rioters had their way because the policemen were only shooting teargas canisters against them. One of the stones hit the DPO on his head and it was at this point that he ordered all of us to leave the station,’’ Wumi said.

The corps members were thus forced out of the police station into the waiting hands of the devil-inspired rioters. While some, including Wumi, escaped with wounds, seven others including Seun could not make it. They were butchered by the rioters, who were protesting the defeat of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, (retd), the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in the April 16 Presidential Election.

“It was a war situation and all of us were just running at different directions. They were inflicting machete cuts on us. They hit me on the head, on the shoulder and back but I kept on running. But thank God, two men on Okada just emerged from nowhere and confronted my attackers. They pleaded with them to leave us alone but when they discovered that they were desperate to kill all of us, one of them just carried me and put me on the motorcycle and sped off. I was taken to a village far from the war zone,’’ she narrated.

When her rescuers saw that she could die of bleeding, they reported her case to the Emir of the village that assisted her in getting medical attention.

“The emir sent a car to take me to the hospital. But before I was rescued, Seun and others were killed by the rioters in a gruesome manner. Some of them were set on fire,” she said.

The Council of State meeting


Present at the meeting are; former President Shehu Shagari, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.), Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar and Chief Ernest Shonekan, Vice President Namadi Sambo; President of the Senate, David Mark; Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke


When a bunch of military men that has put Nigeria where it is are holding meeting with the only civilian president and the topic is taking power

Rawani:
Sai literally means "Only" in Hausa language.

Therefore when we say "Sai Buhari", we are saying Only Buhari for 2015.

Hope this helped...

Now say SAI BUHARI!

Thank you for this Answer, now i join you in saying SAI Buhari

can someone give the actual meaning and explain.. abeg

I have been seeing Sai Buhari everywhere,
Forgive me for not knowing but is Sai a title or a language
Can someone please explain


I am starting to take another look at Buhari to see if he might be a better option than Jonathan

I am not a supporter of Buhari, but the request for his certificate is stupid.

His position in the history of Nigeria is self recognition

I think it was Fashola that said when the kitchen is too hot get out.
The kitchen certainly became too hot for a bunch of corrupt old PDP officials such that they have become the new APC(probably the contracts stopped coming as usual)
Goodluck should be credited for creating New PDP
All the old cargoes have migrated to APC and even old PDP Godfathers like OBJ and Babangida are less relevant in the party

Now take a quick look at the Deception that APC is

Amaechi - 8yrs speaker; 7yrs governor under PDP,
Atiku -8yrs Vice president under PDP,
Akume - 8yrs governor under PDP,
Bukola Saraki - 8yrs governor; 2yrs Senator under PDP,
Timipre Sylva -4yrs governor under PDP,
Audu Ogbe - 2yrs chairman of PDP,
Aminu Masari - 4yrs Reps speaker under PDP,
Chris Ngige - 3yrs governor under PDP,
Kwankwaso - 7yrs governor,3yrs Defense minister under PDP,
El rufai -4yrs FCT minister, 2yrs BPE chairman under PDP

...and to cap it all they went to OBJ begging
Buhari the toast of APC - Worked with Abacha government and OBJ

The only person that understands what APC is is probably Tinubu - A grand distraction from prying

People do not let them pull a wool over your eyes

If Nigeria should vote for Buhari and he wins, then Nigeria deserves whatever they get.

genieplus86:
Because I want corrupt government officials to go to jail. Did you not hear our president GEJ mention it during Lagos campaign that people would go to jail if Buhari becomes president. Akpabio said same. Why are they afraid of prison if their hands are clean ? Buhari made sure that suspected theives even Umaru Dikko a Northerner was almost brought back from UK to face corruption charges. We need a system that would punish offenders and thieves that is the society I deserve to live in and hopefully I will get it. IJN

How will people going to jail help the common man?
Will Tinubu go to Jail?
Will Atiku go to jail?
Will all the corrupt APC crooks go to jail?
Will Buhari put himself in jail for accepting donations from all the corruption that surrounds him?
If someone told you Obama tried to bundle someone out of Cuba in a cargo illegally to face corruption charges in the US, do you think Obama will not be impeached the next day?
Do you think the UK respects Buhari and did not support IBB for taking over from someone that seemed to have the recipe and traits of a dangerous dictator?
The likes of those that Egypt, Libya and Tunisia just got rid off?
Do you think the world will respect Nigeria with a past dictator as president.
Do you think such is possible in the US, the land of freedom and independence.

Think?!

Buhari might be a changed man but.... the questions remain

Why do you want to go back?

He is getting better
Watch it yourself!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5Qm4t5HvY

Same way the UK thought Nigeria how to handle corrupt Nigerian politicians by lucking them up, Deporting and denying visas to top Nigerian pastors.... and all kinds of Nigerian untouchables
That is the same way they are indirectly telling Nigeria Buhari is the wrong choice based on human rights record..
will the UK ever get a PM that tried to bundle someone out of a foreign country? No flipping way!

For an old man Buhari works hard!
He as been seen everywhere campaigning
thumbs up for that


Anyway - My vote still goes to GEJ for his humility and great team of ministers and government

Poor photoshop.... Cap and glasses...

Adminisher:
I am very sad to find that GEJ is the center of the universe for you and other like you. I think the problem now is not tribalism it is a vision thing. You guys don't know better and can't see much because you are locked in your restricted alternate universe. Even amongst Southern politicians, GEJ is not in the second hundred and he himself knows it. He crashed into presidency and has suddenly become your god. Well you can keep it up.
Nigeria has decided to move from simpleton Cluelessness to national glory. We need a president not a joke amongst other world leaders, we need a backbone and some integrity not shifty decision making and a fake smile. Most important of all we have decided to stop people begging to go into office only to start stealing when they get there. The presidency is not for poverty minded people, it s for honour able people. This man you have been praising so much could not have won PDP primaries for governorship before he got quadruple promotion to VIce-president then to President. We will not blame God for manifesting he destiny for his life but we are also not too stupid to realize that the good luck has expired. GMB for President 2015 - 2019'.

I wish for the likes of you that you could have a nation of yours where you are ruled by a leader 35 years after... Its like inviting your grandfather from the village to come and show you the way because he had potential way back then. Leave us the forward thinkers

My lover will thank me