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APC is a fraud.

And what is buhari, the Mr "integrity" doing in d mist of these wolves? His anticorruption toga is questionable

Third Republic Governor of Anambra State, Dr.
Chukwuemeka Ezeife, tells TOBI AWORINDE that
former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s
endorsement of the All Progressives Congress
presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.), may not be worth its salt

What do you think of former President Olusegun
Obasanjo, who helped found the Peoples
Democratic Party, endorsing the All Progressives
Congress presidential candidate, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)?

Unusual and unconventional things keep
happening in Nigeria. I don’t know whether the
solidarity of the military is so strong that it
compels people to do such things. Is there a
military caucus made up of a different breed of
Nigerians such that an officer must support
another officer? I hear that Gen. Theophilus
Danjuma (retd.) is also supporting Buhari, to my
greatest surprise. The military caucus, perhaps, is
the strongest one in the (political) system. An
endorsement by Gen. Obasanjo can be a kiss of
death for any political figure. I don’t know how
much is left of Obasanjo’s credibility to endorse
somebody and if it can have a positive effect.

But Obasanjo also endorsed President Goodluck
Jonathan in 2011. Are you saying the President
didn’t profit from that vote of confidence?

You are right, Obasanjo brought out Jonathan and
endorsed him in 2011, even when he (Jonathan)
was contesting against Buhari. So, what has
changed? Or is there another caucus of the North
and northern supporters? What happened to
(Chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, Prof. Attahiru) Jega is also
happening to other northerners. But some Hausa/
Fulani Muslims have taken a decision to return
power to themselves—the ‘born-to-rule people’—
and everyone seems to be endorsing Buhari for
that reason. The ways of Obasanjo are sometimes
inscrutable, but I pray that, for him and for all of
us, the will of God will happen. Jonathan is a tool
in the hands of God, chosen to do God’s purpose
for Nigeria. If he has finished that purpose, he will
leave. But if he has not finished God’s purpose,
he will be there and no man born by a woman
can remove him.

Is it normal for an elder statesman of such
prominence to go against his party’s mandate
and endorse a member of the opposition?

A former head of state is a human being and has
human rights. I don’t think anything is wrong with
that. But if you are in a party and you endorse
another party’s candidate, it means you are
indulging in anti-party activities. In honour, he
should therefore resign from the PDP.

Are you, therefore, in support of the Ekiti State
Governor, Ayo Fayose’s proposition that the
party suspend the ex-President over ‘inter-party
activities’?

Let me tell you something: we don’t have parties.
After the presidential elections, we will work to
build two parties in Nigeria. The two-party system
has been demonstrated to be what Nigeria needs;
what works for and integrates Nigeria, crushing
religiosity and tribalism. We have one of the
parties already surfacing—the Social Democratic
Party. We will define the ideology of the SDP
properly and the people who want to be on the
other side will define their ideology. That way, we
would give Nigeria a two-party system. After the
presidential elections, even with Jonathan as
president, the PDP may have to go. Look at how
they cause all kinds of problems for themselves.
One is not sure where a member of the PDP is
heading. You can see that the President is a
member of the PDP. But some people say even
the PDP chairman is not with the party. The PDP
may eventually leave the scene, even with the
President in office.

Obasanjo, in endorsing Buhari, claimed Jonathan
had allowed corruption to creep into the military
and undermine its operations. Do you agree with
this point of view?

No, he was just looking for something to say.
Obasanjo was far more corrupt than Jonathan and
he never fought corruption. Instead, he fought his
enemies who were corrupt. His friends who were
corrupt were never fought. That is not how to
fight corruption. While I cannot say that President
Jonathan has fought corruption seriously, I know
that corruption is just an issue that Obasanjo can
use against anybody except himself. A worse
form of corruption is to prosecute people you
don’t like. Imagine two people commit the same
offence; one is your friend and the other your
enemy. You take state power to crush your
enemy and you think you are fighting corruption.
That alone is corrupt. Impunity is part of
corruption. The effect of an endorsement is
uncertain; whether a blessing or a curse, nobody
knows.

Obasanjo warned that any manipulation of
electoral process by the Presidency could lead to
a military coup. Do you suppose the presidency
might have had a hand in the postponement of
elections?.

After Jega was advised by the National Security
Adviser and all the security chiefs, there was a
National Council of State meeting that raised
doubts about readiness for elections. At the state
council meeting, Jega was advised to make wider
consultations and he did immediately. He then
found out clearly that, in addition to the
allegations made against him by some southern
leaders, in the face of insecurity and other
challenges, he could not go on with the elections
without people crying foul. People say Obasanjo
and others don’t want Jonathan at all because he
is from the minority or he is too gentle; because
he’s not behaving like Obasanjo, persecuting
everybody. It may be true that the military has
been planning a coup. But those who are
targeting Jonathan can only succeed if God allows
it. Whoever is coming to rule us, even if, against
my expectations, it turns out to be Buhari, God
must approve it.
www.punchng.com/politics/crossfire/obasanjos-support-for-buhari-kiss-of-death-ezeife/

Flets:
No greater evil than APC.

When you have Tinubu, Atiku, Amaechi and Buhari working together. ... it can only be fraud, corruption and violence.

u forgot OBJ?

This is why they were so eager to have the election held on d 14th. Rigging was their confidence. God will expose them all.

Only pple of little mind concoct dis kind of story

let them continue to deceive themselves until March 28 when Jonathan will sweep d polls

The Presidency on Saturday said it was aware of a
plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and
some unnamed others within and outside the
country to thwart the forthcoming general
elections and foist an unconstitutional Interim
National Government,which he hopes to head, on
the nation.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and
Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said this in a
statement made available to journalists in Abuja.
Abati was reacting to an allegation by Obasanjo
that President Goodluck Jonathan was planning to
plunge the country into crisis if he loses the
forthcoming general election.
He said the Presidency found Obasanjo’s
allegation odious and repugnant.
He said the former President had repeatedly been
impugning on Jonathan’s integrity for the purpose
of self-promotion.
The presidential spokesman said it was senseless,
irrational and out of place for Obasanjo, who still
claims to belong to the same party as the
President, to accuse Jonathan of plotting to win
the rescheduled presidential elections by “hook or
crook” and planning to plunge the nation into
crisis if he loses the election.
He said contrary to Obasanjo’s claim, the
President would continue to support the
Independent National Electoral Commission and
other relevant federal agencies to ensure that the
rescheduled elections are successfully conducted.
The statement read, “We find the false claims and
allegations reportedly made against President
Goodluck Jonathan by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
on Saturday in Abeokuta very odious and
repugnant.
“As we have had cause to say before, it is most
regrettable indeed that a man like Chief Obasanjo,
who should know better, chooses to repeatedly,
wantonly, and maliciously impugn the integrity of
a sitting President of his country for the primary
purpose of self-promotion.
“It is obvious from Chief Obasanjo’s serial
vituperations against President Jonathan who is
doing his best to positively transform Nigeria for
the benefit of all of its people that he has willfully
chosen to close his eyes to the present
administration’s good works and intentions. For
reasons best known to him, Chief Obasanjo has
set his mind on regime change by fair or foul
means.
“Otherwise, it would be completely senseless,
irrational and out of place for Chief Obasanjo, who
still claims to belong to the same party as the
President, to accuse President Jonathan of
plotting to win the rescheduled presidential
elections by “hook or crook” and planning to
plunge the nation into crisis if he loses the
election.
www.punchng.com/news/obasanjo-working-towards-heading-interim-govt-presidency/

NACTOMORAS, Market women, NANS, Nollywood, Apaga, Labor party, Ohaneze, Afenifere, OPC etc. all have endorsed Jonathan. Who come remain again?

And some pple continue to delude themselves dat GEJ will lose dis election!

chemali:
That is why I listed all the years from 1999 to 2014. You can see it from the data I presented sourced from TI. The inference I made was based on this data! And if you choose to be objective, comparing from 1999 to 2014, you will draw the same conclusion. You can look at the data sourced from TI again above.

Which data did u source from TI? I opened the link u provided, there's no such data there. U wrote them urself.

chemali:
You can start by looking at the CPI index year on year.

http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/results

that link says nothing about comparing GEJ's administration and others.
see the true assessment of Nigeria in 2014
http://www.transparency.org/country/#NGA_DataResearch_SurveysIndices
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=95396

compare it to OBJ yrs
we used to no. 1 or 2 most corrupt country in the world, now we are no. 39. So how did GEJ reverse anti-corruption gain?

OP, u need help! I opened ur link. nothing like what u posted is there.

GEJ said it. those who shout about corruption today are the most corrupt. Imagine Tinubu...

Niger's parliament has voted to send troops to Nigeria to join the fight against militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

The vote took place after Boko Haram attacked a prison and detonated a car bomb on Monday in the town of Diffa, near Niger's border with Nigeria.

MPs said parliament unanimously authorised deploying 750 soldiers with a regional force battling Boko Haram.

The Boko Haram has increasingly drawn in Nigeria's neighbours.

On Saturday Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin agreed to establish a 7,800-strong force to fight the group.

Boko Haram launched its first attacks in Niger last week, and has vowed to create an Islamic state.

'Motorcycles banned'

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, a Muslim, vowed to defeat Boko Haram.

"All the Nigeriens know that these guys are not Muslims. On the contrary, what they are doing is not helping Islam," he said.

Chadian soldiers near the Nigerian town of Gamboru on 1 February 2015 Chad has already deployed troops to Nigeria
Women who escaped a 2014 Boko Haram attack in Nigeria's Adamawa state at a camp for displaced people, 31 January The conflict is said to have displaced at least 3.2 million people in Nigeria
The BBC's Baro Arzika in the capital, Niamey, says many people are concerned about the growing threat posed by Boko Haram.

The authorities have imposed an overnight curfew in Diffa and have banned the use of motorcycles, a common mode of transport, to prevent infiltration by the militants, he says.

A journalist in Diffa told AFP news agency that at least one person was killed and 15 wounded in Monday's bomb blast at a market.

Suspected Boko Haram militants also hijacked a bus in northern Cameroon, abducting at least 20 people, residents said.

The bus was seized near the border area of Koza and driven towards the border with Nigeria, some 18km (11 miles) away, a resident told the Associated Press news agency.

The conflict has forced a postponement of Nigeria's presidential and parliamentary elections from 14 February to 28 March.

At least 3.2 million people have been displaced by the insurgency, launched in north-eastern Nigeria in 2009, Nigerian officials say.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31351514

I just don't understand how pple who claim to be educated will be supporting a certificateless man to be the president of d most populous black nation in d world. Even if GEJ is not good enough, GMB is not good at all....
The best of us shld lead the rest of us; Buhari's presidency will turn dis logic up side down.

Dubai has banned single and unmarried Nigerians
who are less than 40 years old from visiting the
country except the person is accompanied by
someone who is above 40 and bears the same
surname with them.
According to an online news blog, the visa rules
for Nigerians wishing to enter Dubai are as
follows:
• Single ladies/men travelling alone should be 40
years old and above.
• Married women travelling with children should
be above 40 years old.
• Ladies/men who are less than 40 years old will
be allowed to travel if accompanied by someone
who is above 40 and bears the same surname
with them
• All visa applications are subject to approval.
Once applied, full charges are applicable.
• In order to clear a file from the system, a
cancellation charge of AED 110 will be applicable
should a request be rejected by the immigration
department.
• For Moroccans, Algerians, Libyans, Mauritanians
and Tunisians nationality, minimum age
requirement is 40 to apply for a visa.
• For other nationalities, the minimum age
requirement to apply for a visa is 21 for men and
23 for women.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dubai-introduces-new-visa-rules-for-nigerians/201365/

eleko1:
Pdp and their evil scheme

Pls how did PDP come into dis?

Since emerging as the presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC), former
military strongman General Muhammadu Buhari
has played the fox. The man, whose presidential
ambition has seen him through three previous
unsuccessful contests, simply offered himself like
a lamb to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the
Yoruba APC apparatchik to be repackaged. The
repackaging must have included a suggestion that
he refrains from his usual tough-talk and
incendiary statements.

In collusion with a section of the media, the
physical make-over resulted in a suit-wearing,
gap-toothed democrat. We also saw an amiable
grandfather taking time off against the background
of his busy office to do a hi-five with his
grandson. Then he was sold as a leader
intolerant of corruption and who did all those
dastardly things in the eighties in pursuit of our
collective good. Indeed the airwaves have been
busy with stunts to blunt memories of the
jackboot days.

I guess all the while Tinubu and his cohorts told
those lies, they only dreamt of the day their
surrogate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, would mount
the stage as Nigeria's Vice-President and open
yet another door of looting opportunities. As the
grandmaster of godfatherism in Nigeria, the spoils
of office have been Tinubu's driving force. As he
sets to poke his greedy fingers into the pies in
Abuja, he must be chuckling every night that he
has played a fast one on us all forever, believing
the tall tale on Buhari.

Those who were not born or old enough to
understand what it was to endure the worst kind
of military dictatorship unleashed on us by
General Buhari from 1983 to 1985, may have
learnt about his horrific regime from history
books. For those who went through that
horrendous period, it is an experience that is
better not remembered. The mere thought of a
rehash, even if couched in a benevolent civilian
toga, will be nightmarish.

Buhari may have removed his military uniform,
but he has remained unrepentant in his evil ways.
No amount of public relations makeover will ever
change this; the fact that he has not set our teeth
on edge once again during this campaign is
simply because he is acting on advice from his
handlers to play dumb, even for a while. Like
Wole Soyinka said, the crime that General Buhari
committed against the entire nation ... is one of
the most profound negations of civic being. To
now expect a man who has refused to repudiate
the most callous act of wanton murder of
innocents during his military regime to suddenly
turn a new leaf, will be too wishful indeed.

The garb in which he has been dressed since this
campaign, is contradictory in every material
particular, to the man we all know. Nothing better
illustrates this contradiction than his promise to
end Boko Haram. Considered against his recent
outburst on the wave of violence ravaging some
northern states of the country, it rankles that we
should be asked to trust the man who has been
fuelling violence. The spontaneous violence and
mayhem on innocent citizens following inciting
statements he made upon losing the 2011
presidential election, are all too fresh in memory,
just like the remorseless statement that ‘the
monkey and baboon will be soaked in blood’
should he lose the 2015 presidential election.

While President Goodluck Jonathan may not have
totally delivered on some of his key promises,
there is no doubt that the country is moving
steadily in progress. It is hardly a time to move
towards a trajectory that is unknown and
portending grave consequences for the nation.
Tinubu and the greedy flock of overzealous media
hounds portraying him as the modern day
messiah may yet be in for a big surprise. If a
Muhammadu Buhari ever gets near the
Presidency, the old lion in him, with fangs that are
only being hidden, will roar back to life again.
Those black suits and bow ties would have gone
to the bins while those lamb's miens would have
given way to his old bigoted ways. It will be a
backward march into the past, and a future of
uncertainty for the nation whose strides of the
past few years have transformed the nation in
more ways than one. In the annals of development
in Nigeria, it will be a disaster of monumental
proportions.

Abba Adakole, Abuja

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-thought-of-a-buhari-presidency/201382/

I wonder what is so bad abt postponing an election. The election wasn't canceled, it was only a change of date. Why is it such a big matter?
What Are they afraid of?

MARCHing to victory

Lol
This is exactly why APC has been vehemently opposing d postponement of d election.
They had hoped dat election will hold before d case is finished in court.

Amaechi flees to Ethiopia, says consultation ongoing for parallel government - Osun Defender

[quote author=Yungwizzzy post=30403364][/quote]received a wonderful news from ur woman? but ur profile says u are a woman... U be les.b.ian?

But it was his supporters who unleashed mayhem after he lost result in death of hundreds of people including youth corpers.

Why is it not being transmitted live on tv?
Na only una dey see d crowd! pictures can be taken from. anywhere as Osinbajo has proved.

until I see it on television...

Why is it not being transmitted live on tv?
Na only una dey see d crowd!

APC rewriting history since time immemorial!

Thank God there pple who witnessed Buhari regime who are still alive.

U may have 4given him, but has d man repented? We don't want to go back to dictatorship! We don't want to go back to stone age!

berem:
General Buhari must not participate in the debate.

Why?
Even if they gave Jonathan expo, Buhari shld stil beat him, since u pple believe GMB is very 'intelligent '

micolaj:
Expo is not CORRUPTION-GEJ

Forgery is not corruption - GMB

God will not allow enemies of Nigeria to halt d progress dis nation has been making since 2011 by foisting a visionless pensioner on us as president!

Are you saying dat GMB doesn't go to mosque normally or he stopped going because of election? If he stopped going because of election, den he's a hypocrite

wait till after d election, you will see him giving his usual sharia lectures again.