Elections come and go, likewise politicians come and go but the country remains. While wise citizens are able to witness many elections in their lifetime the foolish ones waste their lives for nothing.

As we go into another election, we wish to appeal to all Nairalanders to shun violence and embrace peace before, during and after the election irrespective of the happenings around you.

In paraphrasing Jonathan, No politicians is worth the shedding of your blood.

Vote for the candidate of your choice and leave the rest to INEC and God. Whatever will be will be.

Experience has shown that most of the politicians that appear like sworn enemies today often come back to wine and dine together, and the not-so-wise people that died for them would have died in vain.

If Politicians' children are too precious to be used by them for violence, you are more precious to your family to be wasted by any politician.

Irrespective of the result now, whether you like it not, there will always be another election in the future and if you are wise, you will participate in many elections..

Vote, that is your obligation. You do not owe anyone a duty to die. Value your life, if you are still alive you can be better than them.

Say no to violence, say no to blood letting.

Make a choice with your PVC & let Nigeria be the winner! Spread the word

# Our Votes Count
# Election No Be War
# Vote Not Fight

When the elections are done and over, we will still remain Nairalanders and Nigerians.

We wish you all a violent free and peaceful election..


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1 + 4 = 5

2 + 5 = 12

3 + 6 = 21

4 + 7 = 32

5 + 8 = 45

6 + 9 = 60

7 + 10 = 77

8 + 11 = 96

Your passion bro! Your passion!

You can never get it wrong following your passion, no matter how long it takes. Even when the money is not flowing you will still be happy following your passion, but you will always look back if you are doing something that is not your passion.

Ibime:
I sold Alonso, David Silva and Arnautovic to accommodate Salah, Masina and Success.

The net cost to me was 30 points this week.

It's like the pursuit of Salah will undo teams this season.

Considering West Ham fixtures, very wrong time to sell Arnautovic. And very wrong week to get Salah, he was away to an improving Arsenal na. While everyone is bringing Arnautovic in and and his price rising, you sold him.

I am looking for way to add Arnautovic to my team sef. Waiting for Mitrovic result tonight. If he blanks again then Mitrovic and Maddison will leave for Arnautovic and another midfielder.

PointB:



Can you not make your point without insulting innuendo? How do you mean I should remove sentiment and think straight? Pls stick to your points and avoid such remarks.

You obviously are not getting the point here in any case. Affidavit is not the matter under discussion here. What is under discussion is Buhari's certificate. He swore an Affidavit that the original certificates are with the military authority.

Yes INEC can accept Affidavit if he's lost his certificate, but swearing Affidavit that his certificate is with military authority is so wrong.

Nigerians are saying that's an abuse of the system. That he can request for the certificate or copies and present same. That' why this issue persists. How is this difficult to understand or how is this sentimental?

You probably didn't follow the whole issue in 2015. When PDP, the party in power then, was making a big issue out of the result, the army already reported then that they couldn't find his results in their records, they only found some other documents, including his recommendation letter from his then Principal. Some of those documents found and the response from the NA have already been reposted on this thread.

The fact that they couldn't find the certificates doesn't mean they were not submitted by him and nobody has claimed categorically that his certificate were not submitted. But we have some other retired soldiers like Jemibewon who said his original certificates were also submitted to the Army back then. And we are talking of papers submitted many decades ago. You should also know how poor we are in Nigeria with records kepping. I went to my primary school 3 yrs ago where I was the head boy while in school... And they have no single record I ever passed through the school. Only stories and excuses.

Even though he is now the commander in chief, is he going to line up all the people that were ever in charge of records keeping in the army, including the dead ones and order them to produce his results by force or by fire? You know that is not feasible.

When your results or important documents are lost or destroyed, you simply make a sworn affidavit to explain the situation.

If anyone disagrees with the affidavit, he can simply take you to court and produce a contrary evidence.

The onus lies on those who think he is lying to go to court and prove it. Same thing INEC has said.

The constitution didn't even say he must pass but should have at least have studied up to school cert or it's equivalent. That same argument was what PDP used to qualify Adeleke in Osun who had only an F9 and absents in all other subjects. But his school confirmed he studied till o/level and waec confirmed same.

Same thing that has been confirmed for Buhari by Cambridge that was in charge of O level then and the secondary school he went. If you want to see the new statement of result released by his school in 2015 andbthe reply from Cambridge just goggle it. It's in the public domain now.

If you think he is lying about his claim in his affidavit, please prove it. I really want to know why you people think he is lying.

Else, let's move on to other things.

I thought this issue of Buhari Certificates was thoroughly debated and even settled by the court in 2014/15.

I cannot understand this new agitation.

Fact is Buhari is educated beyond School certificate, he went for studies in NDA (equivalent to a degree) and US Army War College (which is equivalent to Masters degree). These are apart from other courses he did both in India and UK. To think he went through NDA without a school certificate is ridiculous.

I think we should spend time discussing and debating other important issues that affect us and our country.