₦airaland Forum

Ujujoan:
So you are Yoruba? Hmmmmmn . . .

No wonder!

Ayowumie:
old people's home is a sign of bad omen in the family.

chaircover:
There are husband slappers in Nigeria too o! I dont think that it is entirely the location. It is the person.

Ive never slapped or intend to slap my hubby & I dont live in Nigeria.

nikkykay:
Small & holy indeed Hw did u understand she said if u r small and holy

[size=13pt]Atiku, IBB, Saraki Fault President’s Claims[/size]

Former Vice-President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said President Goodluck Jonathan’s claim on zoning is “ludicrous”.
Also, former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, in his reaction, said it smacks of dishonesty and lack of integrity to say that the presidency is not zoned in PDP.

Meanwhile, Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki has also said PDP will decide who will eventually become the party’s governorship flag bearer in the state and that the party will provide a level-playing field to all aspirants.
He was referring to President Jonathan’s reference to a situation where Senator Gbemi Saraki-Fowora, the governor’s sister, is running for the gubernatorial election after Saraki’s two terms as a demonstration of his claim that there is no zoning at the governorship and presidential levels in PDP.

Atiku said: “It is either President Jonathan is not a member of PDP or is living in denial of the same principle of zoning which saw to his emergence as vice-president in 2007.”
He said for the avoidance of doubt, the position on zoning and power rotation in PDP constitution was borrowed from the federal character provision of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

Atiku said zoning was the foundation of the party and referred President Jonathan to Section 7 (2) (C) of the PDP Constitution, which states: “In pursuance of the principle of equity, justice and fairness, the party shall adhere to the policy of rotation and zoning of party and public elective offices and it shall be enforced by the appropriate executive committee at all levels.”
He promised to mail a copy of the party’s constitution to the president.
Babangida said: "The president's attention should be drawn to Section 229 of the report of the 1995 Constitutional Conference which talks about rotation of political offices including that of president and governors, from where the PDP derives its inspiration to include zoning to its constitution.”

In a statement by his Director of Media and Communication, Prince Kassim Afegbua, the former military president said: "Refer the president again to the meeting of Expanded Caucus of PDP in 2002 in which 47 persons including President Jonathan, then the deputy governor of Bayelsa State, voted for zoning out of 51 persons present, where it was decided that zoning should be the order between the North and South.
"At that meeting, President Jonathan was number 34 on the attendance list. Refer the President again to Section 7 (2) (c) of the PDP constitution, which is still subsisting. All these were the steps taken to ensure that zones are used to maintain stability and unity of the country.

“Anyone trying to be opportunistic by saying there was no zoning lacks integrity and honesty, which are the hallmarks of a true leader. Those fouling zoning today are themselves beneficiaries of the PDP zoning formula. It is bad and wicked politics to change the goalpost in the middle of the game."
[b]Saraki said it was unfortunate for the president to make the claim on Kwara, which he described as factually incorrect.
He said: “Mr. President should refer to the statement by the Kwara State PDP Chairman regarding who will fly the gubernatorial ticket of PDP in Kwara State. It would be recalled that the State Chairman, Alhaji Yusuf Ayedun, stated that the party would provide a level playing ground for all aspirants in the state.

“As a result, half a dozen candidates from across all the zones are known to have picked their expression of interests and gubernatorial forms. Thus, as we are insisting at the national level, we are also committed to due process about respecting party decisions at states and at all levels. This is what we are calling all PDP aspirants to do—to respect agreements and party decisions.

”It is therefore both unfair and unfortunate for the president to have made this factually incorrect allegation. And in any case, the distribution of political positions in Kwara State over the years, even before PDP entrenched the principle in [/b]its constitution, has been guided by fairness, equity and even spread. The first two democratically elected governors of the state were from Kwara South, followed by one from Kwara North, and two from Kwara Central.”

snthesis:
the policemen need to investigate dis further, mayb d guy's kids don tire to wait 4 will

I have never joined a losing side in my life, so, ask me what happens when he wins because he is going to win. I have no plan of losing because I don’t want to lose and I am not going to lose and there is no chance of losing whatsoever. Nigerians are accessible people. They are not going to have a President that is not honourable, that cannot keep to a promise and cannot honor the constitution of his party. Why would they give this man the mandate? The PDP will not give him mandate.

Ikengawo:
no, he's not really saying anything brilliant, he's just speaking.

with a british accent

which is cool

but everyone is being mind blown as if he's telling a poem.
I don't see where is grasp of the english language surpasses that of buharis.

and what are you talking about, every post suggested it and would have kept suggesting it had i not spoke on how humiliatingly slave like nigerians can be.

Ikengawo:
in fact upon listening the man has a full blown english accent, which is ok, i have a full blown american accent.

but you people are just saying its eloquent because it's coming from a white accent and not an african one. slaves.
If Buhari said those exact same words for some reason he wouldn't be called eloquent as a poster above has implied, mind you buhari is VERY eloquent.

im sorry you people are ashamed of your fathers. I couldn't imagine how miserable life would be with a stark inability to see yourself as a dignified human being because of your hatred for the culture that's yours.



i loved the video though, i wish it was longer!

Ikengawo:
a lack of nigerian origin accent makes you eloquent?