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He's actually improved though this tendency to simplify questions and make dem non-issues isn't a good thing!

He said his promise to NOT seek re-election was based on a 7 year term! How does 2015 (when he said he wouldn't be seeking re-election and he STATED 2015) become 7 years from 2011 - that was an obvious lie and is part of why too many do NOT trust him! If you lied so obviously, you can in 2018 say you are splitting Nigeria or worse again twisting facts to suit whatever position you wish to hold then!

Manageable but Nigeria can do better

Thanks for not (as has oft been bandied about) insisting its Buhari et Al!

Now whether international or not, Nigeria is a sovereign state - GEJ ought lift the communications embargo and provide quick response squads! The highway incident where 162 (?) were slaughtered may have not been such a tragedy if the victims were able to call for help! Same when civvies see troop movements (especially with anti-aircraft guns - almost artillery) and can call response teams who, with knowledge of what armaments and fire-power they'll be facing can confront with suitable power!

At the start, maybe shutting down GSM allowed for a bit of intimidation but right now, its counter-productive!

Ideas stating its the USA, Germany or Aliens are NOT the issue today - containing and repelling them is what matters, whoever they are!

kingbang: Please list the names of people serving Nigeria in PDP that GEJ replaced! Any sane grown up in Nigeria knows the North's game plan. They desperately need power back in 2015 and cant get that in any other party except PDP. Unfortunately for them, GEJ has taken over the party structure and the only way left for them is to try and destabilize the party and try bullying GEJ into abandoning his 2015 ambitions. They f00ls should let Nigerians decide who we want come 2015 and not heat up the polity because of their selfish agenda.

Son of an empty headed animal, it is thrie right to have ambition! And nowhere does a country belong to one man's misplaced ambitions like you enemies of GEJ want him to believe is his right!

What's sad is that you windbags will all disappear when the chips are down AND fall in line behind whoever replaces him because like it or not, he will be replaced, whether 2015 or 2019!

Animals like you know only food and their tummies but you all should remember, one day, power will return to the north, whether we like it or not! If whoever also decides to become a maximum ruler like GEJ is attempting, he can send the military to wipe out the ND (luckily they are already blowing up national assets and so he has a legitimate claim of treason against them and Syria is proving you can wipe out people and the world will only grumble) and perpetuate himself in power! That's why diplomacy, maturity, sacrifice and trust are utilised by people of honor!

But then, you are beneath humanity, a bestial slow-minded primate and thus cannot understand what honor and considerations of the future means!

kingbang: Like for real? Do you really reason with your brains sir? Who is angling for an automatic ticket? Didnt GEJ pummel this same Atiku in the last PDP primaries? Was the last PDP mini-convention(the one Atiku and his co-losers walked out on) not free and fair?. Why not wait till 2015 and see if there wont be a free and fair primaries. Truth is, the Northern machinery have lost control of PDP and the only way for them to get to power in 2015 is to try and destabilize it. If they are not afraid of GEJ, there wont have been a need for "a new PDP", they would have easily dislodged his hold on the party or allow him contest and defeat him properly. We are not all dumb please.

U have insulted me so I have right to return! It is your empty headed father who therefore didn't pass any brains to you, that I blame!

Your GEJ is moving the goalposts, removing established time-honored structures and replacing everyone with yes-men to serve his purposes, witch-hunting dissension and removing all opposition in a democracy yet you say it is those saying the structures should remain as they were when he became a member, that are wrong? Well, the hole in your head only shows clearer this way!

Passing Shot: You sound just like the typical politicians - no respect for promises and they don't always "give a damn" about the consequences of failure to stand by their promises/words. To them, moralilty, dignity and principles have no meaning in their dictionary. This is part of the reasons Nigeria is failing - failure to stand by the truth irrespective of whose ox is gored.
As an individual, I will feel bad toward anyone who has deceived me to get my support on certain conditions and later turning his back when the time to fulfil his promises has come. It is called hypocrisy, deceit and stabbing in my dictionary.

God bless you! This is the true meaning of corruption - no honor, no adherence to principles of fairplay and truth!

If they allow him do the 2nd term, what guarantee do they now have that he won't say because he's from ND and the incumbent, he wants a 3rd term? Or say he has decided to split Nigeria?

He has broken his word once and said he has a constitutional "right"! So why can't he have some (like pdp is trying to change the rules to hand him automatic ticket) other "hungry" desperadoes change the constitution thus allowing him a 3rd or 4th term?

Point is you cannot trust someone who has NO honor and insists on amorality!

kingbang: So why the fear from the Northerners and their slaves?. If they are so sure GEJ cant win a free and fair election, they should STFU and allow the masses vote him out. SIMPLE!

Who is really afraid? Let there be open primaries with him contesting against Lamido or Amaechi or Atiku or ALL of them (4 candidates)! Why is he afraid of that and angling for an automatic ticket?

They say there was an agreement but he refuses to state point blank if he indeed promised and is now reneging! He just says he has the right to contest (which is true)! So, contest, but NOT holding an automatic ticket!

over a hundred?

Why not provide helicopter gunships (2 or 3)?

Lift the communications embargo so people can call for help?

Provide at least 20 numbers where the gunships can be reached and ensure they are (using shifts) on permanent readiness levels?

Arm them to the brains and ensure there are artileery backups sufficiently near enough to offer support within an hour?

At this rate of politicking and comms blackout, one day, these insurgents will just drive past the Y A B states and wipe out a sizable population in "peaceful" areas just to prove a point! And Jonathan will sit fiddling as chasing 2015 as Nigeria burns down! Its so saddening that the worthy are always afraid whist dolts remain over-confident!

This is failure in government, morality, responsibility and crisis-management!

jamace: Don't blame the OP. This country has been turned to a jungle. You are on your own o. Our political leaders are only interested in being at the top so that they can have access to the national cake.

Your security is in your own hands. To be forewarned, is to be foreARMED.

Basically, what you have just said is that there is NO government, since the roles of a functioning govt has become the responsibility of the man on the street!

so why should the government continue in power if it shirks its responsibilities?

akpomeme: These cowards that attacked innocent people in Kenya shopping mall were screeening their victims by asking them to name Prophet Mohammed mother's name as a way of identifying true muslims.

Abeg wetin be Mohammed Mama name just in case our copy cat BH boys from the north want to take their cowardice to a new height and God forbid any of us are caught within an attack.

Seems you stopped trusting GEJ to secure you - food, shelter (security) and clothing are govts primary responsibility, you know, yet here you are reposing your security in Amina's name

They wont show here but mention Amaechi & they report to state how Jonathan will crush him while under-funding the miitary and seeing only 2015 as important

mekaboy: This is really a shame, I am surprised that the state govt knew ahead of time that enugu will soon start hosting international flights, and did nothing to improve the environment. Seems like the govt in both state and. Federal are all interested in 2015. In anambra obi is worried about zonning to anambra north, in enugu they are about zoning to nsuka. Forgeting the present.

This is very embarrassing, and the govt should be ashamed and fire who ever is incharge of environmental sanitation.

God bless you - this is what posts on "politics" should be! whether lagos, Benin or Katsina, its Nigeria that gets insulted for such dirt! Sadly, one would think the target is to say Lagos is dirtier so Enugu should become dirtier to catch up!

i pray government starts to think like this rather than the usual "we are still better than others" crap!

talk2s: Motifs behind the Thread:
Bias;
Falsehood;
Misinformation;
Imbalance.

Yes, Ameachi's schools are finer than Akpabio's.
But other than Schools, what other developmental strides has Ameachi recorded.
Stop this prejudice. If you want to compare notes, be wholesome, putting all things into consideration.
We won't fall for this lopsided dummy!

Forgive me! I am NOT interested in praising anyone but globally, there are "best practices" when ideas are mooted

Amaechi will be remembered as a hero when the children he is empowering, probably better than any govt in Nigeria, step up in the future and when people see the difference between them and others! You cannot compare qualitative education to ANYTHING which is why the UN suggests a high proportion of budgets (Nigeria should be like 40% because of the pitiful state its education sector is in) should go into education funding!

I wouldn't be surprised to find the same people abusing Amaechi today soon praising him

^^ Dude:

Feel sorry all you want. But its nice you agree those who say the G7 are powerless, can be squashed etc are paid propagandists

They are useless
They are powerless
They are greedy
GEJ can stamp on them like an elephant quashing an ant

[size=13pt]so why is PDP trying to "settle" with them? [/size]

Bamanga will go
$12 Billion Dollars
Kwakwanso refusing to stand beside GEJ that looked like he just swallowed 4 remote controls

Its obvious those who matter regard them more than the noisemakers here

simpleseyi: I may manage to listen to regular looters, but for a looter who is also an ex-convict and a hermaphrodite, NO, NO. This man/woman was a man in Nigeria, he got to UK jail and returned to Nigeria as a woman only to transform back to a man within minutes. I don't listen to fools like that.

Looool!

Na fight?

Once you fall to one large issue, smaller ones can climb all over you!

This Amaechi has an elephant's liver!

Sincere 9gerian: Who is oga insincere? Is that your new moniker?

See dodging by artful dodger himself! Okay o, whoever wants to sell lies should please defend him (them) selves against my post above

I personally feel GEJ has made "some" progress! Sadly, I also feel his divisive and ethnic politics has negated those positives! If he had good friends (not you lying sycophants), 2 simple things would changeall the perception about him - ASUU and NEPA! And keeping patience "muzzled"! But u prefer to lie to him that all is well, right?

Oga insincere?

Would you like to compare his promises to the "repeats" you listed up there? I am sure you know what he promised across the federation whist campaigning - based on those promises alone, would you award 20% marks to your principal?

Or is this where you start the games known as
1. What promises? Show them to me
2. Its Boko Haram
3. Its the opposition
4. Its Amaechi
5. Its evil spirits and Tinubu's bad leg!

Its been slow, dude! Let's agree the rails are up but the cost was prohibitive and the noise rankles! This isn't fresh air at all except you've lived ALL ut life in a pig sty and got transferred to a chicken coop

Deal with the truth!

@OP:

Yes, you are a realist and your figures are sensible! But Oyo state? I wager my nose that the dude cannot get 10% today!the amount of vitriol against him in Ibadan scares even me that didn't much care for him! Same in Osun!

Way I see it, everyone has used 2011 to understand what a war-chest can afford you in terms of votes! Whist GEJ is fighting the masters of "rigging" and listening to dokubo who cannot give him 200 votes (rather is making people hate him even more), APC is consolidating their hold on the southwest and expanding (let's see what Anambra will cost)! The North is certain - they will take GEJs money and vote against him especially since the riggers are now against him!

2011 saw atiku faced with a rebellion from his constituency! 2015 won't see such again! Now, the real killers are asking to become the Vice - IF he gives that, he's dead from within as they can then pressurise to their satisfaction, if he doesn't, more trouble!

APC's growing profile as performers as opposed to a President who doesn't care about youths and prefers to fix PDP rather than universities will further complicate issues!

It will all be made more interesting and whatever happens, society is more aware that the " power" of the presidency requires support to truly manifest!

I'll bet my nose that Jona ought never eat again or enter a jet if he accepts this! Yaradua was an act of God? Another act of God wants to happen without any election issues be dis o!

Not that I will complain if that happens - na dog eat bingo!

ssii: 20 out 36 states?
That's serious.
So presently 16 states' PDP are with Baraje?
That includes the factions within the 20 states , for example in RS the Obuah/Wike faction would have declared support for Tukur but the main Stalwarts are with Amaechi.
Is sincere Nigerian actually celebrating this? Or you have failed to see the truth that GEJ and Tukur have really lost support.

Leave them to their delusions! How 20 out of 36 (and btw, some like Osun & Rivers with the polarisation are amongst that 20) amounts to celebration beats me! You have lost control of 16 state chapters of your own party and are celebrating it - dafts

jmaine: May the best candidate win, rather than the current harassment that a particular section which happens to be the North must rule . .

Give me a sound candidate at the polls and I will gladly vote him/her.

But if we should have a pool of people who feel their only qualification is to enforce a sort of hegemony despite having loads of accompanying baggage. I will gladly chose a lesser evil ala 2011 . .

What if the "rebel" 7 (?) field Amaechi against Jonathan? Who will you choose?

1. Amaechi is SS + Igbo
2. His word can be trusted
3. He is a performer
4. He'll carry along Urhobo, Itsekiri, Ikwerre etc
5. He does NOT believe militants should get 65K whist graduates roam the streets
6. He is NOT divisive as evidenced by feeling its only fair to allow another ethnicity have Rivers governorship after him!

Nothing wrong in him contesting ASiIDE the realizationthat his words cannot be trusted!

What is really wrong is that IF HE WANTS TO CONTEST, he should allow everyone else also to contest - what his internal party opposition is fighting is the "automatic" ticket!

None of them seems afraid of him - but why is he afraid to contest open primaries? Stand against Lamido or Atiku or whoever in open primaries, simple!

Nothing wrong in him contesting ASiIDE the realizationthat his words cannot be trusted!

What is really wrong is that IF HE WANTS TO CONTEST, he should allow everyone lese also to contest - what his internal party opposition is fighting is the "automatic" ticket!

None of them seems afraid of him - but why is he afraid to contest open primaries? Stand against Lamido or Atiku or whoever in open primaries, simple!

Amen to the OP's prayers!

Now my simple addition - GEJ is president of Nigeria, not Ijaw-land! If in anyway, he favors the Ijaws above the rest of Nigeria OR is using the powers of the presidency to favor Ijaws above the rest of Nigeria, then let him never have peace and end up in disgrace! On the other hand, if he is fair to everyone and is not giving pipeline contracts just for support and wealth building for militants, let his EVERY step be filled with joy and happiness!

If he is corrupt and knowingly aiding corruption in any way, let him see all his work (for himself) come to nought and have problems as his harvest! If however he is NOT corrupt and NOT aiding corruption, then every enemy that rises against him should flee before him 7 ways!

If he has used or plans to use, wittingly or otherwise, the blood of Nigerians, to feed his personal ambition, then let his own blood and that of his, be spilled same way! But if he has NOT and doesn't support such, let his life be protected always and let his glory shine before all humanity!

In Jesus Name, amen!

Abagworo: I think the media is part of those fighting against the interest of the Niger Delta people. They refuse to interview the real elders and successful men but rather focus on Edwin Clarke and militants. The media has continued persistently to publish only the voice of the militants as the voice of Niger Deltans.

Amaechi is a Niger Deltan and he spoke the truth to Orubebe. He even offered to work on the Rivers section of East-West road only for militants like Asari and Orubebe to accuse him of insulting the President. Why can't the militants threaten the President to speed up development of the region rather than holding on to power without any positive change. Today Amaechi is almost done with a road joining Opobo to Ogoni and by next year Opobians will travel home with their car and not speed boat. That's the kind of news we need from Bayelsa that by the end of next year one can travel by road from Yenagoa to Brass. Amaechi has also commenced work on Trans-Kalabari highway which will link most of the Kalabari area of Rivers State. When completed you can drive from Port-Harcourt through Degema to Bakana. The 1st time Patience Jonathan insulted Amaechi was when he was commissioning the 1st rebuilt ultra-modern school at Okrika. What has Patience done for Okrika people? Amaechi has also built a bridge linking Bolo and is also doing the Okrika ring road.


So my people not all Niger-Deltans are militants or clueless. Amaechi is an example of what majority of Niger-Deltans represent but is being suppressed by the few corrupt ones in Abuja.

Tam David-West is also from the Niger-Delta! So you have on one side, mature, articulate performers like Amaechi and David-West and on the other side, the windbags like Dokubo and Edwin Clark!

Its sad because GEJ has shown over and over what side of the divide he is on!

chukwudi44: The solution is simply get a kangaroo court judgement to declare their seats vacant

Are you a friend to the President? Or an enemy?

Because if anyone approaches the courts to ask the seats vacated, what stops people who are merely mouthing anger from THEN impeaching him before this your supposed "masterstroke" can be implemented!

Over and over, onlookers keep saying Jonathan doesn't need enemies with the type of friends he has! Your post is an example of such! Stop creating more enmity for him! Posts like this make many wish he'd be kicked out just so the noise about oil etc can be shown as just the noise it is! Nigeria is bigger than any one individual as was proved when OBJ was kicked out

berem: They have totally led the president astray thereby leaving him to his own fate! Since the PDP crises erupted, have you heard from Alameyeisegha, his acclaimed political godfather, where is the bling bling pastor, Oritsejafor, his spiritual father? Clark is equally silent since Obasanjo lashed out on him. Asari Dokubo,the blawdy sycophant and hypocrite has the effontry to call his Ijaw brother a weakling and a disappointment? Where is Doyin Okupe and Abati? All of them are silent and have not made any statement. Sycophancy is really a disease.

I replied one of the online windbags here yesterday that its instructive that their Aso Rock counterparts are now quiet! ANY attempt "NOW" to make noise will only worsen his situation so they've all been told to keep quiet!

You'll notice even PEJ is suddenly quiet!

Because the exact people angry now are those whose support will give him 2015, not the braying by donkeys and bawling of goats!

@Abagworo:

Did anyone ever think Jonathan wants the best for Anambra? Or the SW? Or North? Or Abuja? EVERYONE is a pawn, to be used for self-perpetuating, end of story!

What scares me is exhaustive feedback that proves what BH is for and where it came from - then, there will be gnashing of teeth when people realise just how bad things have gone in deference to personal ambition

berem: .....and what of the Sycophants on nairaland headed by Sincere 9gerian? These guys have totally lost it and are tarnishing the image of the President on this forum.

Tarnish is an understatement! These empty headed windbags that were nowhere to be be found when people were agitating for the man to be allowed, are now the ones telling him he stands above even the angels of God and that he should damn everyone else!

Now the chips are down, they too, like Abati, Okupe et al, are furious but suddenly find themselves on quicksand!

I wish PEJ would dare come out NOW and make a statement telling Kwakwanso and co they are her sons and that she forgives them misbehaving (make them Atiku vex more)!

Now, the poor man is alone again!