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Enangson: Nigeria has the financial power to Higher Mourinho with two assistant in the calibre of Guardiola and Ancelotti to Manage our team, Maybe there will win the world cup for us next year with the quality of Foreign players we have, since Keshi is not Technical Enough and have soft spot for local players. Nigerians don't believe in building process, the pundits out there like Oliseh believe there is someone out there that can do the job better. So lets go for the best hands in the biz and fire a clueless man that won a trophy that has eluded us for well over a decade, after several attempt by foriegn and local coaches that has the technical capabilities, fielded XI foreign based and yet Bronze was the reward which is still better than the achievement of a certain Pundits and fans favorite that couldnt even qualify us for a nation cup.

JESUS OF NAZARETH!

I am a Youth Corper and would be passing out in October. I however started applying seriously for jobs since around march. I attended 2 job tests which I failed and the 3rd one I wrote, I passed... I was invited for the final interview last week and was then asked to meet the H/R manager to discuss my pay.
I feel as a corper, one should not see the service year as just one to catch fun. One should think ahead about life after passing out parade.

Best of luck bro!

sincerenigerian: Aregbe is working, PDP lapdogs in dilemma.

And you are not an ACN lapdog?

kaze4blues: Joblesness

who is jobless?

To put it in a popular Nigerian parlance, if you are selling Asiwaju to me, it is my right to price your market. Pricing your market in this respect means that I can raise very serious critical and ethical questions about the ruinous financial slavery of Lagos state – and increasingly the southwest – to one man today. I have the right to ask questions about tax collection processes in Lagos state. I have the right to raise an alarm over tolling at Lekki and where the money goes.

If you are selling Asiwaju to me, I have the right to wonder if you are not asking me to replace the corrupt dictatorship of the PDP at the centre with the no less corrupt one-man show of an aspiring emperor. I have the right to ask if you are asking me to replace Nigeria’s failed Federalism with Tinubu’s political empire, which is emerging somewhat parallel to and somewhat in opposition to that failed federalism at the centre. When I peep into this emergent political empire and I see things injurious to the spirit of democracy, I have the right to ask you questions if you persist in selling that product to me.

I could tell you that looking at the untidy way in which Asiwaju’s wife was imposed as a Senatorial candidate, the untidy way in which his choices are imposed as Local Government Chairmen everywhere he holds sway, the untidy way in which his choices are imposed as Governors everywhere he holds sway (until the Ondo rout), the untidy business of attempting to impose his daughter as the new Iyaloja of Lagos, the untidy way in which he and Chief Bisi Akande have privileged a rigid babacracy over internal party democracy in the political party over which they preside and, now, the absolutely horrible, undemocratic, and arrogant way in which he is trying to abort democracy in Ekiti by asking Opeyemi Bamidele to wait for his turn – I could look at all these things, all these dictatorial tendencies, the recurrence of the word ‘imposition’, and decide that the corrupt democracy of Aso Rock is better than the corrupt babacracy of Bourdillon Road. At least the pretense of democracy exists in Aso Rock whereas there is no room for even democratic pretense in Bourdillon road. Indeed, the unfolding outrage in Ekiti has confirmed my long-held suspicion that Bourdillon road is the most formidable antithesis to democracy in Nigeria now. I certainly hope that Opeyemi Bamidele will be buoyed by the precedence of Ondo and defy imposition and empire building.

When bold and patriotic compatriots raise these legitimate issues, Tinubu’s social media supporters, who have no liver for debate, resort to knee-jerk ‘eebu tins’. They rain insults and curse and curse again. They bully and intimidate the same people they are trying to persuade to adopt their orisha of Bourdillon. Yet, the very next minute, these devotees of the orisha of Bourdillon begin to hold out the southwest as an example of democracy to the rest of the country. They purport that the southwest has lessons to teach the rest of the country in democracy and its practices. I always wonder who dashed them the mouth to make such spurious submissions. Until the southwest deals with the untidy legacy of Tinubu’s impositions and his long-winding trail of subversion of democratic principles, they must understand that they have lost the mouth with which to contribute to broader national arguments about democratic ethos. The rest of the country would be justified if they told the southwest: abeg, make we hear word.

What goes for Tinubu’s supporters also goes for a vast majority of General Buhari’s supporters. Indeed, General Buhari’s avowed online loyalists make Tinubu’s supporters look like kindergarten pupils in the department of ‘eebu tins’. Unlike Tinubu’s supporters who are trying to sell a political orisha because their principal is trying to consolidate an empire rather than openly jostling for an elective office, General Buhari’s supporters are trying to sell a political candidate jostling for the office of President. They insist on the General’s personal capital: simplicity, integrity, leadership, zero-tolerance of corruption, sound moral and ethical stock. According to this narrative, corrupt politicians would scamper out of Nigeria were General Buhari ever to be elected President for he would not spare them.

So far so good. Things get a bit more complicated for General Buhari and his loyalists the moment you move beyond the General’s impeccable personal capital to other things you need to be acceptable to all Nigerians irrespective of tribe and creed. General Buhari’s loyalists are quick to insist that he is a pan-Nigerian statesman. His statements and actions suggest otherwise and when concerned Nigerians insist on raising that significant issue, the General’s loyalists, like Tinubu’s supporters, recourse to ‘eebu tins’ to sell their product. They curse and curse and curse. They rain insult upon insult on Nigerians for being simpletons who just can’t understand the General. One wrote an article in Sahara Reporters advising the General to withdraw from politics because he is too good for Nigeria or Nigerians aren’t good enough for him. The stupidity of claiming that 160 million of us are not good enough for or are undeserving of one of us was not apparent to this Buhari loyalist. I’ve encountered more bellicose variants of that insult coming from General Buhari’s army of online loyalists. Nigeria, they insist, is not ready for him because Nigeria is not good enough for him.

But the Nigerians who are being insulted by Buhari’s loyalists are not the people responsible for the persistent question mark on the General’s pan-Nigerian credentials. The General is and the blame must be placed firmly and unequivocally at his doorstep. General Buhari has done more in the last two decades or so to forge an image of himself as a closet geopolitical irredentist and very little to encourage perceptions of himself as a pan-Nigerian statesman. This is not limited to his healthy syllabus of northern and Islamic irredentist statements – his supporters are ever ready to insult us that we are just not intelligent enough to understand those statements – but also to his inaction. I will explain the bit about inaction presently.

Suffice it to say for now that the insults and curses rained on Nigerians daily by Buhari’s supporters are far worse than the treatment we get from Tinubu’s supporters. My stomach churns whenever I encounter pro-Buhari statements starting with such illogicalities as “Buhari is the only living Nigerian capable of this and that”. Really? Please! There are 160 million of us. There must be limits to hyperbole. And there is no greater insult than saying that 160 million of us are either too mischievous or too unintelligent to understand the repeated careless statements of your hero. Personally, I’m loath to have a President of Nigeria who constantly needs the service of the extra-talented geniuses in his core support base to explain his constant stream of misstatements and misspeaks to 160 million unintelligent simpletons. We must ask the question again: why is it that only fundamentalist loyalists have found the key to understanding General Buhari’s statements?

Now to Buhari’s inaction. We must ask his supporters: exactly where is Buhari’s national presence, say, since 2011? His statements, careless or reasonable, mostly get to the south of the river Niger whenever local journalists are lucky enough to monitor an interview he granted the Hausa service of BBC or VOA from his Kaduna base. I know that he was at my friend, Nasir El Rufai’s book launch in Lagos and was, also, recently at the funeral of Asiwaju’s mother in Lagos. There may be other unreported low-profile ventures outside of the north by the General. However, if I were in Buhari’s shoes, I would have been all over the Nigerian map physically since 2011. My social and political calendar across Nigeria would have been very busy and active. I would have been attending well-publicized events all over the country, delivering speeches on critical national issues in Universities all over Igboland, all over the south-south. I would even have ‘invaded’ Professor Bolaji Aluko’s fief in the Federal University, Otuoke, by delivering a significant lecture on critical national issues from that pregnant location. I would have been all over the southwest, the MiddleBelt – everywhere - engaging people and issues, strategizing about the way forward with critical stakeholders. Newspapers would be reporting that some of my national statements and interviews were monitored in Isanlu, Kabba, Amawbia, Nnobi, Calabar, Nsukka, Enugu, Okene, Owerri, Osogbo, Ore, Ibadan, Abakaliki, Ogwashi-Uku, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Ijebu Ode, Akure, Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, Warri, etc.

If , rather than cultivate this broad national praxis in the service of my presidential ambition, I cocoon myself mostly in Kaduna, releasing northern and Islamic irredentist statements to the rest of the country in interviews granted the Hausa service of BBC and VOA, going as far as to carelessly equate a legitimate clamp down on Boko Haram with a war against the North, I should be prepared to accept responsibility for a certain perception of myself and work very hard to address the issue. Genuine supporters of General Buhari have serious work to do. I know many of them, patriotic compatriots working tirelessly for Nigeria, convinced that General Buhari is a far better option than the disgrace currently residing in Aso Rock. They are not into the business of insulting Nigerians to sell their product.

They are my friends: Adebayo Adeneye-Adejuwon, Marian Iyabode Awolowo, Kizito Agba-Injo. One of them, Tunde Asaju, is my cousin. What these believers in the Buhari project must understand is that their genuine efforts to sell Buhari online is largely crowded out by the ill-reflected strategies of the more fundamentalist Buhari supporters who believe that the best way to sell their product is to constantly insult and bully Nigerians. Adebayo Adejuwon and co must understand that they have their work cut out for them. Not only must they continue to try to sell their product using the time-tested strategies of democratic debate and superior argument, they must also work harder to convince those who are trying to sell the General via insults that they are damaging Buhari’s brand – to borrow a way of speaking made popular by my sister Bamidele Ademola-Olateju. And unless they believe that General Buhari is infallible, they must be prepared to reach out to their hero, engage him, and see how he could work on the statesman and de-emphasize the northern irredentist. Accusing those asking questions of ill-will or inability to understand the General will not cut it.

Personally, I’m not on the Buhari train because I am not convinced me that we cannot find a Nigerian in the age bracket of 40-55 among 160 million people who fits the bill for 2015. As a friend of mine, Kemi Sisi Eko, once observed, there is something fundamentally wrong with you if you are a Nigerian in your 20s, 30s, or 40s and you insist that a septuagenarian is the singular and the only answer to your problem in the age of Obama, Cameron, Merkel, Harper, and Hollande. If I raise this issue, it is your responsibility as a Buhari loyalist to engage or confront me with superior logic and try to persuade me. Don’t come hurling insults at me, avoiding serious issues by claiming that I harbor some undefined animus against the General. That is the lazy strategy that General Buhari’s loyalists often deploy to kill genuine debate.

Building democracy is not just about the struggle to rid our country of a corrupt, comatose, and visionless leadership such as we currently have in Goodluck Jonathan; it is not just about the struggle to build credible and genuine institutions; it is also mostly about the need to forge, inform, and instruct a critical and civic-minded followership. A democracy without a followership that questions is doomed. And questioning does not mean criticizing Jonathan endlessly while being intolerant of any criticism of your own political orisha. By resorting ever so often to ‘eebu tins’ in the marketing of their heroes, too many supporters of Asiwaju Tinubu and General Buhari are endangering democracy. They are part of the problem. They are tolerating democracy only to the extent that their respective heroes shall neither be critiqued, questioned, nor engaged. Those of us whose singular premise is Nigeria – and not sacrosanct heroes – shall not allow this to happen. We shall continue to question, to critique, to engage.

Perish the thought that we shall ever allow the emergence of a Nigeria in which it would be possible for some citizens to crown political orishas that are deemed too good for some undeserving 160 million people. If you belong in the group of workers for Nigeria who are not beholden to any political orisha, then by all means continue to raise very pertinent and critical issues whenever and wherever the loyalists of Tinubu and Buhari sell their heroes on social media. That is the stuff, the essence of democracy. Followers must be able to ask legitimate questions of other followers without being intimidated or insulted. That is the Nigeria we envisage and envision.

If Buhari’s or Tinubu’s loyalists insult you for asking questions, shrug your shoulders and tell them that insults do not grow on the forehead of the insulted or, as the Yoruba would put it, “eebu o so”.

It’s been ‘eebu tins’ (insult extravaganza) in the arena of political discourse and public commentary since this column decided to award itself an extended vacation five weeks ago. So massive has been the scramble for pottymouthing by critical segments of our commentariat that one was compelled to punctuate one’s vacation in favour of the occasional Facebook commentary on the matter. And the Nigerian penchant for flourish and exhaustiveness in negative matters means that we invaded the house of ‘eebu’ (insult) and appropriated all resources therein.

Name calling, bullying, catfighting, mudfighting, and roforofo became the building blocks of a colourful national orgy of insults and pottymouthing: Presidency versus Opposition; Presidency versus NGF; Presidency versus Media; Presidency versus former Facebook friends suffering from buyer’s remorse; NGF versus PDP Governors Forum; PDP versus PDP; PDP versus APC; APC versus APC; APC versus PDP; Jang versus Amaechi; Amaechi versus Jangjaweed Governors. In the middle of it all, the triumvirate of sophistry and chicanery, Doyin Okupe, Reuben Abati, and Reno Omokri, migrated their mouths from the gutter to a more scatological habitat in the pit latrine, trafficking in words unbecoming of any presidency as they engaged the Opposition while servicing the lies of a glaringly inept President Jonathan. With these three clowns throwing insults all over the place, D.O. Fagunwa would refer to Jonathan’s Aso Rock as ‘Eebudimeta’.

Sadly, the season of ‘eebu tins’ was contagious. It would have been an occasion for rejoicing had the season of national pottymouthing been restricted to the pestilential ranks of corrupt government officials and political actors for one’s heart is always gladdened when the rapists of Nigeria tear at each other while dancing naked in the public sphere.

President Jonathan fighting the NGF, Tambuwal and Wamakko clawing at Bamanga Tukur, Rotimi Amaechi and the Jangjaweed Governors pottymouthing one another are all occasions for rejoicing by the people. These are all instances of the Yoruba philosophy of ‘fun ra won ni won o ma fun ra won l’ogun je’. In other words, o ye people of Nigeria, rejoice and be merry whenever the corrupt rapists of our commonwealth feed each other poison. You do not need to inherit their cant and chicanery; their bickering; their pottymouthing; their pettiness; their irrationalities. For in the dead of night, when all doors are closed and you guys are still outside abusing each other along religious, tribal, and geopolitical fault-lines and lining up behind one political gladiator against the other, these guys close ranks, embrace, and declare aloota continua behind your backs.

There is one group of fellow citizens who, apparently, does not subscribe to the notion that we, the grass beneath the feet of the gorging elephants in the political class, do not need to tear at each other and spread the contagion of ‘eebu tins’ just because we support a particular political actor and believe that he is Junior Jesus and Deputy Mohammed combined. I am talking about the formidable armies of social media marketers of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and General Mohammadu Buhari who have taken on the task of marketing these two prominent figures of a very amorphous opposition to the broader Nigerian electorate. The methodology and strategies of these marketers have very serious implications for the democracy we all envisage and the Nigeria we all envision.

Asiwaju Tinubu’s claim to an oppositional/progressive patina stems from his investment in NADECO and the anti-Abacha struggle of the era, his relatively successful tenure as Lagos State Governor during which, we must admit, the foundation was laid for much of what Raji Fashola is doing today. It was also during his tenure in Lagos that the state became a model of resistance to Federal brigandage as he was largely able to resist what I call our “almajiri federalism”, which has state governors singing “asiri a bo bam bi Allah” all the way to Abuja, becoming cowering and conquered houseboys of an omnipotent President in the process. Rotimi Amaechi’s laudable resistance to Goodluck Jonathan’s arrogance of power today is nothing new. By successfully resisting Obasanjo’s crudeness, Tinubu paved the way for any Governor willing to remember that Federalism does not mean that states should become vassals of an arrogant centre with irrational powers. Is the pathetic Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa really a state governor today or Goodluck Jonathan’s palace eunuch?

Nigerians know the answer. Lagos is also where Asiwaju marshaled strategies and resources to eventually rid the southwest of the ruinous stranglehold of the PDP. He resisted Obasanjo in Abuja and also brought in new brooms to sweep away all the corrupt PDP governors that Ebora Owu had rigged into office in the southwest.

This is a broad summary of the achievements that have earned Asiwaju the right to become he who must be obeyed and never questioned in the world of his supporters. If these supporters were content with just sacrificing their own right to civic questioning, becoming marionettes, and letting Asiwaju take over the responsibility of thinking and deciding everything for them in the political and democratic sphere, that, I guess, would be their own kettle of fish. We must concede to every Nigerian his democratic right to be the political toilet paper of his own chosen hero among the gladiators in our public sphere. But Asiwaju’s fans are not content with worshipping their ordained orisha. They fan across social media as onward Christian soldiers, sorry, onward Asiwaju soldiers, trying to force-feed their idol intravenously into the Nigerian electorate in a manner that brooks no argument, opposition, or genuine debate.

Asiwaju, the argument goes, liberated the southwest from the PDP and his reward must be the everlasting silence of all Nigerians, even beyond the southwest. We should just all submit ourselves uncritically to his every whim, his every caprice, his every political calculus. We should just all become eternally grateful citizens of the nebulous empire that Asiwaju is building, no questions asked. To ask any question is to attract the ire of his supporters who mass in and rain insults on the critical questioner, blind as they are to the essence and meaning of democratic citizenship.

Democratic citizenship starts with my fundamental right to ask questions and probe the practices and politics of any participant in the political destiny of my country. If you are selling a political hero, democratic citizenship starts with my right to haggle, to critically examine the product you are attempting to sell to me, to ask questions about the provenance, usefulness, and durability of your product. Questions of worth and value are pertinent.

franchizy: I ve said it over and over dat d only solution to dis Boko Haram menace is 4 GEJ to suspend the state of emergency, appologise to the Northern Elders forum, dialogue and grant Boko Haram Amnesty, rebuild all mosque. The military can't win d war cos 80% of Boko Haram are from d SS, SE and SW and are christians who are used to tannish d image of d North and kill our people but Allah will fight 4 d North and vindicate us.
Many of d Boko Haram sponsors are from d SS, SE and SW all in d name of Power but the North must complete there remaining 4yrs come 2015.
I urge Nigerians to support Buhari 4 a change and better Nigeria.

Congratulations! You have succeeded in taking stupidity and dumbness to an amazingly astonishing height!

errr. GBAWE, DEMDEM THE RETARDEEN, PROF CORRUPTION, ILUGUN BOY , DAYOKANU (Chairman of the NURTW Youth Wing), and other members of the anti-GEJ brigade, we need your attention please.

We have received several enquiries about a story titled “Nigerian Government broke; targets pension savings” posted on the website of Saharareporters.

The story, like many other recent articles by Saharareporters purporting to be exclusive stories on various aspects of the Nigerian economy, is a complete fabrication.

As Nigerians know, the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan recently presented its mid-term report which is a forthright account of the achievements as well as challenges facing the economy.

The country has $48 billion in reserves, including N5 billion in the Excess Crude Account to help shore up the economy. So the idea that the country is broke is alarmist.

It is true that the country is experiencing some revenue shortfalls that everyone knows about due to oil theft for which the President is taking some serious measures.

Also, contrary to the claim in the story that the country has borrowed from local and international banks to finance recurrent spending, the Jonathan administration has in fact reversed the tendency of borrowing to finance recurrent as was the practice in the past.

Also untrue is the claim that the country has been downgraded by international ratings agencies. In fact the truth is the exact opposite; ratings agencies and international investors have consistently stated, through various platforms, that the Nigerian economy is a well-managed one with good prospects in the medium and long term.

Regarding the country’s debt situation, the overall picture is positive as the Coordinating Minister showed clearly in her recent well publicized statement. The multi-dimensional strategy adopted by the Jonathan administration is leading to positive outcomes.

The level of borrowing has been brought down, bonds are being paid off through a sinking fund and the country is not taking the kind of high interest loans that led to the debt burden which existed before the historic Paris Club debt deal. The Borrowing Plan which was approved by State Governors and the National Assembly is focused on financing power transmission projects, inter and intra city rail projects, dams and other key infrastructure.

The notion that the Jonathan government is “eyeing” the N3.4 trillion pension funds to finance deficits underscores the desperation of this “activist” medium and its sponsors. It is a total invention. In fact, the government is currently engaged in strengthening institutions and critical processes in the sector to enhance security and stability of the funds.

With this latest outing, Saharareporters has reinforced its well-earned reputation as a discredited purveyor of falsehood.

Paul C Nwabuikwu,
Special Adviser to the Coordinating Minister

lool. Rubbish Article.
1. Which Law has he violated?
2. How did he 'corner' 3 Billion?
3. Has he done anything illegal?

I think Premium times are taking stuidity to an amazing height. they are unprofessionalism personified!

Abagworo: Can't wait for Ngige to win Anambra.

wake up from your bad dream!

hmmm. he who comes to equity must come with clean and unblemished hands.

tpia@:
amaechi looks very angry.



he actually looks like the guy in one of those james bond movies- the one set in jamaica.

Sir Sean Connery in Dr No?

Ms_Steph: my dear dats not true. A lot of companies employ corpers nd retain dem

during the interview, they had hinted that they 'might' let me finish my Youth service first

Ms_Steph: Dat means u dint "wow" dem. Since some1 else has bin given d job

well, i beg to differ. they are doing 'massive recruitment' and are not out to employ just one person. Actually, people who passed through the process told me that they might not be in a hurry to call me because i am still serving

i need answers please

hello everyone,
i am a Lawyer who is still doing his NYSC programme. 1 applied at a Law firm on the Island and i was called for a test with some other 10 persons. Only 3 of us were called up for the interview (the other 2 are not corpers). My last interview was carried out by the Principal Partner who told me 'they would get back to me in 2 weeks'. 2 weeks elapsed on friday.
Meanwhile, they have gotten back to the other 2 guys, one made it while the other did not. what do you think this implies? And how long did most of you have to wait before you were contacted after your interviews?

And please pray for me. My blood pressure has risen by mad!

GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!! #SaveOJBjezreel

The government officials of LAGOS STATE HAVE SUSPENDED ANY FORM OF ASSISTANCE to OJB JEZREEL due to VERIFICATION ISSUES stemming from ALL THE HYPE about HOW MUCH WAS RAISED ON HIS BEHALF! In their view, HE DOES NOT NEED THE HELP OF THE STATE!...SEE WHAT YOU HELPED TO DESTROY?...KILL?

TUFACE N1.5million...NOT TRUE!
D'banj N7Million...NOT TRUE!
Whizkid N3Million...NOT TRUE
Ini Edo N2Million...NOT TRUE
Olamide N1Million...NOT TRUE!

Your "FACT-LESS HYPE" of those who have contributed nothing so far in this matter is preventing others willing to help from doing so!!!

If your name is used falsely as AN ARTISTE/ENTERTAINER, it is the DUTY OF YOUR MANAGEMENT TO STAND UP AND CLEAR THE WRONG IMPRESSION...Your SILENCE ONLY MEANS YOU ARE TRYING TO REAP WHERE YOU HAVE NOT SOWN!...CLEAR YOUR NAME NOW!

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One day after work, I decided to take a ‘break’. I have been having too much to worry about these past few weeks and I feared and still fear I might just pass out never to awaken. I needed and still need to take things easy.

So that day after work and when I say ‘work’, I mean the process of having to absent-mindedly perform the same rituals daily, drafting court processes, having to face haughty clients who believe they know better than me because I am young at the Bar and would prefer to speak to my Boss instead, I decided to go to another ‘Bar’ where seniority isn’t of paramount importance; where no one cares about your age as long as you can drop some quids to get some green bottles… bottles filled with bitter liquids, though sweetening to the mind… enough to make me forget my sorrows and worries albeit temporarily.

Some tables away from mine were two weather beaten men. They were drinking the local gin called paraga peacefully and all of a sudden I heard some noise from their end. From their vituperations, I could decipher their names: Baba Kamoru and Baba Silifa. Below is the exchange that ensued between them:

Baba Kamoru: How dare you insult Bola Tinubu. He is GOD.

Baba Silifa: Are you alright? How dare you call him God? God should slap your mouth for that blasphemy

Baba Kamoru: Look at you, Mungo Park. Don’t you know that Asiwaju Tinubu rescued us from the evil PDP? Don’t you know he has liberated us from slavery?

Baba Silifa: I can see that you have had too much to drink. How on earth would you say that Tinubu liberated us from slavery? Were you ever in bondage? And how is Mr Tinubu innocent of the many vices the PDP guys are accused of?

Baba Kamoru; What are you talking about? Our Asiwaju does not impose candidates on people, he is not corrupt, and he is not guilty of nepotism .

(Baba Silifa cuts in)

Baba Silifa: Are you saying Asiwaju is not corrupt? How come he is a BILLIONAIRE today when it is an open secret that when he returned from exile in 1998, he was broke? You said he doesn’t impose candidates on people, but would you pretend not to know that about 6 of his family members hold strategic positions in Government?

Baba Kamoru: I have nothing more to say to you. But I have to tell you that Bola Tinubu was responsible for Goodluck Jonathan’s electoral success in 2011…”

There and then, I felt I had had enough of Baba Kamoru’s gibberish. I did not even wait to finish my drink before I sauntered off.

Bola Tinubu means different things to different people. To some, he is a GOD. Infact, they believe that he should be worshipped on Mondays and Fridays. These set of people don’t even mind cutting off their testicles to appease him or even a burnt offering. One even told me that he can sacrifice his SON to Tinubu just as Abraham sacrificed his son Isaac to God. To them, he can do no wrong. He is the all in all, the alpha and omega, beginning and the end, unmovable mover, unchangeable changer, the “I am that I am in Nigerian politics.”

To some, Asiwaju Tinubu is just like any average politician we have around: corrupt, inept, grossly and acutely incompetent, gallery player, macabre dancer, opportunist and a propagator of the gospel of ‘Do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do’.

I have always felt indifferent towards him actually. To me, he is no different from any other politician we have around. He says something one minute and does something the next moment. This write-up would attempt to deliberate if Bola Tinubu is as ‘important’ as his supporters sum him up to be,

A scrutiny of his democratic and ‘moral’ credentials would also be attempted.

The following issues would be attempted.

How did Bola Tinubu come into prominence?
What role did he play in ACN’s sweep of the South West?
Did he influence Jonathan’s victory in the South West during the 2011 Presidential elections?
Is he different from the typical Nigerian politician?
Isn’t he overrated?

ISSUE ONE

The raging question here is how Bola Tinubu came into prominence. Till 2003, he was just another AD Governor who did not even win the AD primaries in 1999 but who got the AD ticket because the ‘Afenifere’ elders prevailed on the winner of the primaries, the late Funsho Williams to step down for Tinubu because Tinubu is an Awoist.

So how did he become so powerful?

Olusegun Obasanjo has to be credited with Tinubu’s rise. He, it was who gave Tinubu national prominence when he refused to pay Lagos State Local Government Allocations, even when the Supreme Court ordered him to.

After standing toe to toe with Obasanjo, he became ‘GOD’ to some people. Many wondered how he was able to steer the Lagos ship without federal allocations. Many failed to realize that he was able to do that because Lagos state makes trillions yearly from Internal Generated Revenues (IGRs), in other words, Lagos can survive without federal allocations.

To cut the story short, Obasanjo has to be acknowledged for making Tinubu a ‘thin-god’ out of nothing.

ISSUE TWO

Another bugging question is “what role did Tinubu play in the ACN capture of the South-West”?

I must confess to you, that the PDP defeated the PDP in the 2011 gubernatorial elections. Apart from the states won under the Salami led ‘Court of Appeal’ the other states were lost because the PDP self-destructed – apart from Lagos.

Let me use Oyo State as an example.

Adebayo Alao-Akala was not a bad Governor. He only had problems with human relations and public perception. He had problems with many PDP members from Ibadan who supported ACN’S Ajimobi to spite him. His ex-boss, Rashidi Ladoja also ran for the post of Governor under the Accord Party and he effectively divided the PDP votes in the state.

Without Ladoja’s ‘spoiler act’ and Akala’s beef with the Ibadan PDP elite, Ajimobi of the ACN would NEVER have emerged as Oyo State Governor.

So how was Tinubu responsible for ACN’S victory in Oyo State? Any hands up?

ISSUE THREE

Now, this is the most annoying of all. Many people believe that Goodluck Jonathan won the Presidential elections in 5 out of the 6 South Western States because of a deal he struck with Bola Tinubu.

How true is this bold assertion?

I would debunk that vexatious and false claim by using a case study and an example.

Goodluck Jonathan won Lagos State by a wide margin and many deluded people are of the opinion that Tinubu did it for him. How? Lagos state is not just a Yoruba state. It is inhabited by a lot of Igbos and South-South indigenes (PRO-JONATHAN). Did Tinubu have to beg or coerce these people to vote for Jonathan because they had a deal?

The other example is this. During the elections, I was a student of the University of Ibadan. Many UITES voted en masse for the ACN during the governorship election. However during thepPresidential election, the average Yoruba man, Igbo man and Ijaw man on campus voted for Jonathan and he won by an alarming margin. Jonathan also won my area which is Oluyole (AJIMOBI’s neighbourhood). Now tell me, did Tinubu go door to door to beg or order people to vote for Jonathan because they struck a deal.

NO! The people in the South-West voted for Jonathan because they wanted to. Tinubu had NO imput in Jonathan’s victory in the South-west because people in the South-West are not dogmatic and do not require Tinubu to tell them their left to their right,

SIMPLE!

ISSUE FOUR

Is Tinubu different from the average Nigerian politician? No! Like many politicians, his massive wealth is questionable. He reportedly owns many hotels, The Nation Newspaper, Alpha Beta, TV Continental and many other business interest, he plays to the gallery (The Boko Haram issue is an example), he encourages nepotism as he has more often than not imposed members of his family on the people. His wife is a Senator (His wife was reported to have told the Late Habibat Mogaji that “I am contesting for the post of Senator because I am tired of staying at home”), his daughter has reportedly been appointed IYALOJA OF LAGOS to replace his late mother, his In-Law is a member of the State House of assembly, and many many more.

His party ACN is the perfect example for undemocratic practices. Bisi Akande has been the chairman of the party since 2005, ‘LIE’ Mohammed has been the spokesman since 2005 too (8 years). They have not held conventions to replace their National officers in ages, candidates do not hold primaries as Mr Tinubu ‘s Bourdillon house is the place where candidates are picked by the godfather himself. Candidates are imposed on the other candidates (even the ‘devilish’ PDP are angelic enough to hold primaries’).

So, is Mr Tinubu different from the PDP politicians he fervently criticizes?

NOOOO!

ISSUE FIVE

Is Bola Ahmed Tinubu overrated? I think so. His supporters have made it seem like the Yorubas are so dogmatic that they follow Mr Tinubu’s instructions and orders to the letter. The ACN is in control of the South-West because the the PDP self-destructed and also because the people got tired of the PDP leaders. Not because Mr Tinubu ordered them to vote the ACN in.

So, to the people outside the South-West who think we are under the emperor’s spell over here, I am sorry to disappoint you. The Emperor and his followers suffer from a grand delusion of grandeur…they are lost in a world of their self-importance. We vote for candidates whom we believe are capable and not because the emperor has willed it to be so.

- Follow this writer on Twitter: @Oddy4real

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The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, is considering the cancellation of today’s meeting by the members of the forum.

Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja showed that the cancellation might be in deference to the dinner President Goodluck Jonathan would have with the governors later in the day.

Amaechi, who is also the Governor of Rivers State, was already consulting with other governors.

http://www.punchng.com/news/amaechi-cancels-ngf-meeting-in-deference-to-jonathan-2/

Gbawe: My guy, I don't know you here but I would hope you are not one of the haters unable to give credit where due and always looking for negatives about others to justify the rigid position of negativity you have taken against them. It is no longer "propaganda" or "talk". ACN governors are really delivering the goods everyone can see and feel.

In a nation like ours, and typified by the mindless hatred we see here daily, it is normal to see folks cutting their nose to spite their face. I.e failing to hail development because it comes from people who are in the "wrong" Party, "wrong" ethnic-group or practitioners of the "wrong" religion.

Amidst all that, the most intelligent and refined in society will still see what is crucially important. These doctors should approach the Governor with genuine grouse because Amosun is not god and he will benefit from inspecting their objective criticism. Nonetheless, there is no decent Doctor who will not admit that Amosun is doing well in efforts aimed at addressing what was met on the ground.

We are not talking excuses as Gbenga Daniels and most PDP administrators know how to deliver. We are dealing with real tangibles here being achieved with brick, mortar and cash spent on the needs of the people. Below are pictures of Primary health care centres constructed as models of what will be the standard in all 20 LGA's of the State.

The doctors, especially those over 60, should tell us when they have ever witnessed this sort of revolutionary and very expensive 'from the ground up' approach in Ogun State and the SW in general. Ogun doctors should simply partner with Amosun so that deficits are addressed to the benefit of the State. Genuinely neutral and objective observers will know that the man is trying especially in terms of newly built modern infrastructure when previous administrators had always told doctors point blank that there was no money available to build the upgraded modern healthcare centres they are demanding.

How many times have we seen administrators in Nigeria embrace the much harder course of building brand new and modern infrastructure that cost more money and leave less to be embezzled? Does it not make sense, if ACN administrators are the "illusionist" you claim they are, for these guys to just 'patch' what is on ground already (as many administrators in Nigeria are doing currently) and pocket majority of accrued allocation? Why are they spending money on the people and embracing a costly path that leaves them with little to embezzle if their sole mission is to 'deceive' you? Why don't they just take all the money and give absolutely nada as previous PDP Governors did in the SW with impunity?

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This is Ogun State's definition of what a modern Primary Health Care Centre should be. This will be replicated in all the 20 LGAs in Ogun State with a pilot scheme starting in each of the 3 senatorial districts. This is the picture of the one located in Ogun Central, Abeokuta North LGA. Mission to rebuild on course

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Completed pilot hospital to replace the inadequately ancient health centres OGD persevered with and was happy to plaster now and then.

Epistle of St Gbawe!

Breaking News: APC Orders President Jonathan to resign on account of the Super Eagle's 3:0 loss to Spain

GEJ does not need to rig the 2015 elections. he will win.

dayokanu: This is an indictment on the PDP who ruled the state for 8 straight years.

Thank God the people of Oyo booted out the PDP

AD (ACN) led by Governor Lam Adesina ruled Oyo State for 4 YEARS before the PDP took over.
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The governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2011 elections in Nasarawa, Onje Gye-Wado, has formally joined the Peoples Democratic Party.

Mr. Gye-Wado joined the PDP at a ceremony on Saturday alongside other top opposition figures including the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party in 2011, Nawani Aboki.

Leading members of the ruling Congress for Progressive Change in Nasarawa also joined the PDP at the decamping ceremony. These include the immediate past Special Adviser to Governor Tanko Al-Makura on legislative affairs, Adamu Liman; Illiya Diko; and a former member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Raymond Aklo.

On hand to receive the decampees was the National Chairman of the PDP, Bamanga Tukur, who welcomed the politicians saying “it (PDP) is your home and we receive you with all hearts and thank you must sincerely for making that wise decision.”

The chairman said his major assignment in the party is to ensure equity and reconciliation of aggrieved members; and declared that there will no longer be imposition of candidates in the party.

“I will build the party based on equity and there would be no imposition of candidates on members of the party,” he said.

He said only by so doing will the party attain success at all levels and that the new decampees should feel at home as the PDP is big enough to accommodate everybody in the country.

Also at the occasion, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, said the major infrastructure in the state were provided by the PDP.

Mr. Maku alleged that the CPC is behind the recent crisis in the state and called on residents of the state to leave in peace and harmony. He said the movement of Labour Party, CPC, and ACN leaders in the state to the PDP predicts the failure of the opposition merger before its birth, referring to the All Progressives Congress.

The immediate past governor of the state, Aliyu Akwe Doma, who made his first appearance since the 2011 general elections that he lost to the opposition, said the party will conquer the state in 2015 and he has forgiven everyone that wronged him.

He also urged aggrieved members of the party to come back so as to build a formidable force against the ruling party in the state.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/139420-acn-governorship-candidate-cpc-leaders-others-decamp-to-pdp-in-nasarawa.html

Eko Ile: Village illiterate, that's a new school built from scratch to accommodate 900 students and they put the inset there for you to show clowns like you the old schools they are getting rid off, same old schools you dumb asses are killing yourselves over...



Dumb villagers...


Try harder next time...



Case Closed..

no cry na

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