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trendysturvs:
Do I sound confused to you?

EPL: Arsenal, La Liga: Real Madrid

and if the two meets in champs league who do you prefer they win?

Ahead of its national convention billed to hold in Abuja Wednesday and Thursday, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed any threat posed to President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election by his two major challengers.
The party said even where All Progressives Congress, APC’s frontline contenders, former head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, presented a unified candidacy, Mr. Jonathan would defeat them both and still emerge victorious at February’s presidential election.
The spokesperson of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, made the assertion when he addressed a press conference, Tuesday, at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja.
“We are today serving notice to the opposition APC to expect a crushing defeat at the polls,” Mr. Metuh said.
“In view of our confidence, preparedness and the popularity of our candidate, we declare that the APC can put forth its two frontline aspirants in one bunch, namely General Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as joint presidential candidates with their collective credentials and followership to face our candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan,” he said.
Mr. Metuh added that the job of selling the idea of re-electing Mr. Jonathan to Nigerians has been made easy by the president’s record of performance.
“The PDP is (rest) assured that we have a very good product to sell to Nigerians,” he emphasized. “We are confident that President Jonathan, as our candidate, is primed to win the 2015 presidential election based on his popularity deriving from his forthrightness, humility and steadfastness to the Nigerian project coupled with his record of verifiable achievements.”
The National convention of the PDP is expected to ratify Mr. Jonathan’s status as the party’s sole presidential candidate having been endorsed by all organs of the party.
In the same vein, the APC will between Wednesday and Thursday choose one of five candidates to face Mr. Jonathan.
At the party’s national convention holding in Lagos, delegates will pick one amongst Messrs Buhari and Atiku, the governors of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Imo State, Rochas Okorocha and newspaper publisher, Sam Nda-Isaiah.
Mr. Metuh said the PDP is going into its own primaries with great excitement.
“For us in the PDP, it is neither a matter of conjecture nor propaganda; we are certain that with the grassroots support and the love he enjoys from Nigerians across board, President Jonathan will secure an emphatic victory at the polls,” he said.
Why Jonathan needs a second term
The PDP spokesperson said Mr. Jonathan deserves a second term to continue with the job of maintaining the country’s unity, stability and prosperity, arguing that such has been the driving force and inspiration of the PDP government in delivering its mandate in the last three years.
“This trinity of unity, stability and prosperity has made him the most suitable President for our great nation in these present times,” he said.
Mr. Metuh said Nigeria has never witnessed the kind of security challenges it is presently facing with insurgency in some part of the north.
“The insurgency is hitting at the heart of our national unity and cohesion. Instead of reacting in ways that could damage the trust and love of Nigerians for one another, the President has acted more on the side of caution by ensuring that actions to defeat terrorism are carefully thought-out and pursued,” Mr. Metuh said.
Mr. Metuh recalled that when President Jonathan was to declare a state of emergency in the northern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe last year, some persons were of the view that the emergency rule should be total by removing all the democratic structures.
He said the president thought differently and refused to tamper with the democratic structures in those states.
Doing so, according to Mr. Metuh, would have threatened the country’s democracy and by extension the unity of the nation.
“The president must be commended for showing leadership,” he said.
He also said Mr. Jonathan must specifically be praised for embarking on electoral reform, which has helped to strengthen the integrity of Nigeria’s elections.
He said the president intervened in the aftermath of the 2011 general elections, which witnessed political polarization along ethnic and religious lines.
“We remember that the results of the election were greeted with violent protests in some Northern States.
“Following his demonstrated commitment to credible, free and fair elections, the votes of the electorate now count as exemplified in the Edo, Ondo, Anambra, Ekiti and Osun gubernatorial elections,” he said.
He said the president has been able to stabilize the polity by his pan-Nigerian outlook and approach to governance.
The party said Mr. Jonathan has been able to give every geo- political zone a sense of belonging in terms of infrastructure development, economic and human capital empowerment.
“Besides, the visible and concrete infrastructure development in our nation, President Jonathan has been able to demonstrate a deep sense of equanimity in providing leadership, in spite of the incendiary remarks by some opposition leaders,” he said.
“Amidst the recessions and economic downturn in most nations of the world, our economy has been stabilized, our unity preserved and our democracy enhanced.
“Under President Jonathan, our nation has witnessed remarkable progress and landmark developments in all sectors of the Nigerian public life, through his Transformation Agenda.
“The administration has revived the comatose railway transportation with some of the rail lines already in operation. Lagos-Kano is already in operation with new coaches providing improved services.
“Not only have the nation’s highways improved, ongoing works can be seen in almost all parts of the country. When the Jonathan administration came on board, only 5,000 out of the 35,000 kilometers of federal roads were motorable.
Today, the Jonathan government has rehabilitated and reconstructed 20,000 additional kilometers. The remaining 10,000 kilometers will be completed in the next three years while other new road projects will be executed,” he said.
He said there have been monumental achievements in the agriculture sector, particularly in the distribution of fertilizer, development in the production of rice, cassava and other Nigerian staples.
The party said the Nigerian economy is growing at an average rate of 6.5 percent.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/172852-put-together-buhari-atiku-cant-defeat-jonathan-pdp-boasts.html

trendysturvs:
Yeah, I support Arsenal and Real Madrid!

You have to choose one...don't be a confused...which do you love most??

Gej till 2015...

Progressive indeed.....berem said apc primaries has been calm and transparent

Come and defend it now @berem

iceberylin:
Thats cause you gave yourself your virginity

LoL....who loses virginity without bleeding hearing it for the 1st time...

macpetrus:
GEJ....2019

Seconded

trendysturvs:
Spanish giants Real Madrid became the first club in Champions League history to win all their group matches on two occasions after 4-0 win over Bulgarian side Ludogorets on Tuesday. Already through to the last 16 as group winners, Real, who are the holders, eased to a 19th straight victory in all competitions, surpassing the record of 18 they jointly held with Barcelona. The 10-time champions previously achieved the feat in the 2011/12 season according to UEFA.

Hala Madrid. More here - http://.com/2014/12/10/real-madrid-set-new-champions-league-record/

You a madridista??

Unibenstudent:
wonderful job ur parents are proud of u

Yea 4 sure

A Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Prof. Akasoba Abiola, on Tuesday alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan is using her nomination form to seek re-election in the 2015 general election.

According to her, Jonathan had declared for President on her behalf on the grounds that he used her nomination form to declare for re-election.

Abiola, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja, said she was the first PDP presidential aspirant to pay for the party’s nomination form and wondered why the party refused to give her the form weeks after she had made payments.

She said, “For the interest of integrity, transparency and accountability, they should get my nomination form for me because I am available and they are aware of it. Someone’s got my form and he is the incumbent President in Aso Rock and they should please tell him to give me my nomination form.”

Details to come…

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-using-my-nomination-form-to-contest-abiola/

egift:
Here in Enugu PDP has 3 parallel candidates and there is no state in Nigeria trouble is escaping PDP. APC has nothing to worry about the Killer Party.

Nigerians are sending the Zoologist Home.

Dreams are allowed,

egift:
[s][/s]

NEXT!

Get lost anf face your party's primaries tomorrow

berem:
What a group of confused human beings. They couldn't even count the votes well,what primary school kids could do better.

Rochas for second term jare!!

Screw you there murderfucker,

berem:
What a group of confused human beings. They couldn't even count the votes well,what primary school kids could do better.

Rochas for second term jare!!

Screw you there murderfucker, everybody makes mistake

Ngwakwe:
Eighty percent (80%) of people shouting and criticising the choice of Dr Okezie Ikpeazu are doing so based on Ngwaphobia.

This is the same Ngwaphobia that sabotaged the creation of Aba State. We have seen what Abia North and Abia central offered. I know the worst of Dr Ikpeazu's regime will be far better than both Orjis combined.

Dr Ikpeazu has no other hometown accept Aba and will definitely transform the city and bring it back to its lost glory

If you don't like Dr Ikpeazu, don't vote for him but we Ngwa people will definitely support him.

Hahaha and that's why this won't make front page cos ngwakwe is from ngwa....ndi Otu onu......if you know how abia state is you will reject any thing that comes out from T.A orji...

Collynzo9:
Your vote is your power.
There is nothing to spread, every Abian home and abroad knows that T.A Orji falied woefully.
Vote APGA's Alex Otti, he has a proven track record.

Proven track record from where?? From his diamond bank work or where?

Firefire:
ihe mere

Ezigbo Ihe mere

kendrick9:
absolute rubbish.. messi is already considered by most as the greatezt footballer ever.. ahead of d lyks of maradona and pele.. u are a learner or a biased fool if u tink ronaldo is better.. ronaldo can win 100world best for all i care but messi will still be rated and remembered more for generations to come.. hav u ever heard c.ronaldo name amongst pele and maradona? hell no.. infact ronaldo de lima is still the real ronaldo,the phenomenom.
don't get me wrong c.ronaldo is a great player but messi 2008-12 was perhaps the most gifted and greatest player i have seen and also most experts and fans around world can attest to this... messi's at his best floors ronaldo best anytime,simple

For you to make an opinion you have to insult, if people consider hin greatest then is an opinion Errybdy has their opinion he can't be greates wt no world cup, hes not greatest in goal he's beyond cr7 don't know why you killing yourself and insulting to make a point when it's obvious messi is just being helped Errybdy knws it d mvp he took 4rm d world cup he didn't deserve it, the year Spain won world cup he didn't deserve it cos he flopped even wt barca bt fifa helped him n even admitted n it back fired nigga u knw notin bout football won't reply you again. Thanks

Firefire:
Very delicious.

Snake Pepper Soup or Tortoise Pepper soup.

try it and come give testimonies here...

*yuck*

kendrick9:
have u also considered d age difference.. ronaldo is older dan messi

so football is now about age? does it mean every body should do better than the younger one man football is about what you played not age.....messi is good but cr7 is better simple

LogicPower:
Since you are so inconsolably pained by Tinubu's influence in Lagos politics, why can't you just be MAN ENOUGH to join (or even lead) the actual struggle to 'wrestle' Lagos from him, instead of hiding in the peripheries, like the cowardly, confused, hateful and parroting clown you are, thinking that you could drum up enough sentiments against him for OTHERS to do 'wrestle' it from Tinubu?

Nigga hush u making noise

Thumbs down

9inches:
Isn't it too early for this

With the name you bearing on NLL is not early infact it's late for you...hehhehE

Firefire:
I don't take beer I prefer snake pepper soup.

Snake wetin?

Yuck.. imagine a man banging a strong nyash claiming to enjoy it, na ogbanje dey worry dem homosexuals

In his latest book titled My Watch scheduled to be launched in Lagos this morning, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has chronicled the genesis of the uneasy relationship between him and his former deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as well as how his aides planted moles within Atiku’s camp to monitor him.

Obasanjo, who denied ever seeking Third Term in office, blamed Atiku for what he described as a campaign of calumny against him on the issue after buying up the media.

Revealing details of their private conversations at different times, Obasanjo also traced the ascension to power of President Goodluck Jonathan and the compromise deal that was struck for him (Jonathan) to spend only one term in office.

He said it would be dishonourable for the president to now go back on that promise by contesting the 2015 presidential election.

Obasanjo also accused the Jonathan administration of promoting corruption. He cited several examples to buttress his claim, including what a Chinese told him about how a presidency member of staff demanded a million dollar bribe just to be granted access to the president, a charge which he said he reported to Jonathan without any action taken.

Divided into three volumes and containing 58 chapters and 1,522 pages in all, the tell-all book reads like Obasanjo’s responses to all the people who have dared to criticise him in the past as well as those he believed wronged him politically, most of whom he described in unflattering terms.

In this category are: his anointed successor, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, whom he called an incompetent ingrate, who was busy reversing his (Obasanjo’s) decisions; Jonathan for whom he also has some harsh words for what he considers his shoddy leadership and inability to honour solemn commitments; and Atiku whose political ambition he said was fuelled by marabouts.

Writing on how Jonathan became vice-president in 2007, Obasanjo confirmed that it was the former Rivers State Governor, Dr. Peter Odili, who was initially shortlisted to be running mate to the late Yar’Adua before he was dropped at the last minute, adding that Odili behaved “childishly” thereafter as if it was a matter of life and death to him.

There are also several salacious details in the book about who was sleeping with whose wife among prominent citizens, the military officer, who would be in the arms of a woman and yet be claiming to be fighting rebels at the war front, etc, while revealing names of those whom he claimed told him unflattering things about other people.

He also did character profiles on some prominent Nigerians, including Prof. Wole Soyinka, Senator Uche Chukwumerije as well as the late Dr. Bala Usman and Chief Gani Fawehinmi.

However, rather curiously, Obasanjo dismissed the letter written by his first daughter, Iyabo, in just one paragraph, claiming that she was hired by the current administration to get at him, while he had no response to the claim by his son, Gbenga, that he (Obasanjo) had an affair with his wife.

He also said he would not respond to any of the damaging allegations by his first wife, Oluremi, in her book even though he admitted some things she wrote were true while others were false.

From Obasanjo’s account, it would seem that his relationship with Atiku began on a sour note:

“By the Constitution, I had to inaugurate or prorogue the National Assembly on June 4, 1999. The most important officer in the National Assembly is the senate president and that office had been zoned to the South-east. And here was where Atiku Abubakar, my vice-president, first showed his hand and his character.

“Without seeking my view or approval, he started planning the installation of Chuba Okadigbo as the senate president. I did a background check on Chuba including his past as a student and made enquiries about him in the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) under (President Shehu) Shagari and no one would recommend him for the post of senate president.

“I left Atiku to go on his chase while I carried out a meticulous and detailed investigation and background check on each senator from the South-east. The one that appeared most appointable was Evan Enwerem. I canvassed the senate across the board for his election and he was elected. Atiku did not expect it and he felt sore.

“He began to strategise for Enwerem to be removed and Chuba Okadigbo to be installed. His strategy worked because I was at Abuja airport to receive a visiting head of state when the news reached me that the Senate had impeached Enwerem and elected Okadigbo. I was not perturbed. I came to understand from some senators including Florence Ita-Giwa, who later became my Special Adviser/ Liaison Officer to the National Assembly, that Atiku distributed US$5,000 each to some senators to carry out the ‘coup’.

“That was the beginning of bribing the legislature to carry out a particular line of action to suit or satisfy the purpose or desire of an individual or a group. The National Assembly had tasted blood and they would continue to want more. From the day I nominated Atiku to be my vice, he set his mind not for any good, benefit or service of the country, but on furiously planning to upstage, supplant or remove me at all cost and to take my place.

“That was what I brought him for, but he was impatient and over-ambitious. He was not ready to learn and to wait. His marabout, who predicted that despite being elected as governor, he would not be sworn in as a governor, which happened, also assured him that he would take over from me in a matter of months rather than years.

“All his plans, appointments of people and his actions were towards the actualisation of his marabout’s prediction. Once I realised his intention and programme, I watched him like a hawk without giving any indication of what I knew and letting down my guard. I could not succumb to the distraction, diversion and malevolence of an ambitious but unwise deputy.


Read more at :

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/obasanjo-in-new-book-says-he-planted-moles-in-his-vp-s-camp/196244/

There is a popular Yoruba song that says: “Eko o gba gbere rara o.”  It means: “Lagos does not take any nonsense whatsoever.”  It is high time for Lagos to fulfil the intent of this song by putting a stop to commandeering of the political processes in the state by Bola Tinubu and his cronies. 
 
Enough is enough.  The domination of Lagos politics by one man has gone on for too long.  Lagos must be wrested from the control of Bola Tinubu who has enslaved the politicians in the state and privatised its resources for the last 16 years.  Senator Femi Okurounmu, a Yoruba Afenifere leader and co-coordinator of the recently concluded National Conference, said early this year: “Now that the Yoruba people have known that the APC is worse than PDP- in corruption, impunity and lack of internal democracy- we have to vote against APC.” 
 
Divided house
 
The shenanigans of Tinubu at the just concluded APC gubernatorial primaries in Lagos provide strong confirmation of the veracity of the Senator’s position.  Nobody should be fooled; the primaries were nothing but one big charade.  Those of us who have insisted that there is nothing progressive or democratic about the APC were sadly proved right once again.  Tinubu frustrated every pretension to democracy in the elections and manipulated his cronies into office; all in the interest of sustaining his domination of Lagos politics.
 
In the process, he has sown the seed of his own downfall.  A house divided against itself cannot stand.  Tinubu has effectively divided the APC in Lagos.  It is now up to the PDP to capitalise on his high-handedness by coming up with a candidate that can be sold to Lagosians.  If it does, the days of slavery to Tinubu in Lagos will certainly come to an end on 29th May, 2015.
 
We have seen this before.  In 1991, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) seemed to have Lagos under lock and key.  In the House of Assembly election, the SDP won an overwhelming 26 of the 30 seats.  However, it lost the election of governor to the National Republican Convention (NRC).  Sir Michael Otedola became governor of Lagos as a result of conflict and split within the SDP and he was the beneficiary of the resultant protest vote. 
 
The evidence suggests that, thanks to Tinubu’s high jinks, history might repeat itself in 2015 with the probable loss of Lagos by the ruling APC to the opposition PDP.  
 
Mafia godfather
 
Bola Tinubu is a political leopard that cannot change its skin.  The man is not a democrat, has never been a democrat and will never be a democrat.  The truth of the matter is that democracy does not suit Tinubu’s the political agenda.  In a moment of Nebuchadnezzar exuberance before the Ekiti poll, Tinubu declared: “Nobody, no one under the sun, under the United Nations Human Rights Charter, can stop Bola Tinubu’s ambition.” 
 
After what we witnessed on Thursday at the APC primaries for the prospective governor of Lagos, it is clear that the onus is now on the Lagos electorate to put a stop to Tinubu pomposity in Lagos. 
 
Tinubu never even found it necessary to pretend in the past to be a democrat.  According to his own choice of expression, he fashioned his political style in Lagos State and, indeed, the entire South-West, grandiloquently as “godfatherism,” claiming: “godfatherism is biblical, which is why Christians refer to God as their father.”
 
However, Tinubu’s “godfatherism” is more akin to that of unscrupulous mafia dons in Sicily.  It is certainly anathema to democratic norms and principles.  Tinubu’s “godfatherism” means candidates for public office of his political party are not elected by popular vote but selected from Tinubu’s bedroom in Bourdillon Road and then imposed on the party.  They are then held under a tight leash by the Jagaban and are required to do his bidding on pain of being summarily replaced or impeached. 
 
Bisi Akande, former chairman of Tinubu’s legacy ACN party, declared unapologetically that democracy had no place in the internal arrangements of the ACN.  “Anyone that is not comfortable with that should go and contest in another political party,” he said.
 
Anti-democratic APC
 
Nothing has really changed in this stance beyond the fact that ACN has since metamorphosed into the APC.  The first test was the so-called election of the chairman of the party.  Recognising that his choice candidate might not be elected in a free and fair democratic poll, Tinubu engaged in backroom deals whereby, instead of electing a new APC chairman, Odigie-Oyegun was rigged into the office. 
 
APC governors went along with this charade out of fear Tinubu might otherwise lose interest in the new party and deny it valuable South-West support.  The lie was sold to the convention that all other candidates had agreed to step down for Odigie-Oyegun.  As a result, he was declared the new consensus chairman of the party.
 
Unfortunately for Tinubu, he had to contend in the APC with new people who were not beholden to him and refused to be subservient to him.  Thus, Tom Ikimi blew the whistle on him, insisting he never dropped out of the race for Oyegun but was forced out because, at that time, Tinubu had designs for a Muslim/Muslim APC presidential ticket, with him as the vice-presidential candidate.  Ali Modu Sheriff was even reported to have been so incensed by Tinubu at an APC NEC meeting that he threatened to beat him up.  Both of these men have since left the APC.
 
Sharp practices
 
With these antecedents, it is not surprising therefore that the APC primary for the party’s gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State was yet another sham orchestrated by Tinubu.  Long before the election, Tinubu had unveiled Akinwumi Ambode as his preferred candidate.  Oba Rilwan Akiolu, who Tinubu arrogantly announced is one of the very few Obas worth his salt in the entire South-West, had already publicly endorsed Tinubu’s irrefutable choice. 
 
But there were already rumblings that some were not going to take this lying down this time.  Muiz Banire, one of Tinubu’s former acolytes, declared publicly that the imposition of a candidate on the APC should be resisted.  He said: “I want to encourage our people, particularly APC people, to shine their eyes. They must shine their eyes this time around and not allow anybody to pull the wool over them. They have their votes, their rights, and they must go all out to ensure that we have and enjoy free, transparent, and just primaries.”
 
But this was not to be.  Tinubu manipulated the process from beginning to end.  Delegates were not chosen from the 20 local governments recognised by the APC constitution. Instead of direct primaries in the different local government wards, indirect primaries were held, enabling the powers-that-be to select their preferred disciples and give them voting instructions.  To that end, the delegate list was not made known to any of the candidates, except favourite-son Ambode.
 
Once the results started to be declared, the other contestants realised they had been conned.  They all stormed out of the venue in protest; leaving only Ambode and Ganiyu Solomon.  Tokunbo Wahab, one of the aggrieved candidates, declared: “I can say categorically, that what happened today was not a primary but a pre-orchestrated drama. We shall be making our positions known to the party and INEC within the next few hours and we shall pursue this to a logical, legal conclusion.”
 
It should be clear to any but the most politically naive that in a truly free and fair election, Ambode is no competition for many of the other contestants.  Ambode is not a politician, and he is an unknown political quantity in Lagos.  How then can he prevail over far more popular and better–known politicians in APC, including Ganiyu Solomon, a serving Senator; Adeyemi Ikuforiji, a long-standing Speaker of the House of Assembly; and other household names like Femi Hamzat, the State Commissioner for Works.
 
The results themselves gave the lie to the entire process.  Political lightweight Ambode received a whopping 3,735 votes; while Hamzat could only manage 1201 votes; Ganiyu Solomon 272 votes and Adeyemi Ikuforiji 182 votes.
 
Tinubu pleaded with aspirants to accept the contrived outcome, saying: “You are 12 aspirants and like the 12 tribes of Israel you have some differences but you must remain one and united.”  Someone needs to inform the Jagaban that the 12 tribes of Israel were not united.  As a matter of fact, they split, with two tribes becoming the kingdom of Judah and the remaining ten the kingdom of Israel.
 
Emasculated governor
 
Tinubu’s machinations are all about power and control.  By choosing a candidate without grassroots support, Tinubu is ensuring that he would not be a threat to him if he becomes governor.  Moreover, he would not be able to rely on his own independent sources of power outside of Tinubu.  That way, the man would be at Tinubu’s beck and call.  This ensures that Tinubu would emasculate the governor; making him entirely dependent on him without having a significant political structure of his own.
 
If the governor grows wings after a few years in office, the threat of impeachment by Tinubu’s henchmen in the House of Assembly would be held as a sword of Damocles around his neck to keep him back in line.  Through the same flawed process, Tinubu loyalists also swept the APC House of Assembly primaries, even as his supporters swept the election in the 20 LGAs and 30 LCDAs.  With this clean sweep, Tinubu’s continued control of the state legislature is assured should the APC candidates prevail at the polls in February.
 
It is therefore imperative for the Lagos electorate to throw out Tinibu and his gang lock, stock and barrel in the coming elections.  For too long, Lagos has been run as the personal estate of one over-bearing man.  This must come to an end.  Come February 2015, Lagos voters must send Tinubu into early retirement, recognising that a vote for APC again is a vote for political slavery to the whims and caprices of one insatiable godfather.  

http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=166280

SlyIg:
Exactly, the story is just fake.

*After their wedding and before their Sunday thanksgiving, the girl has started work already? Was there no leave?

*The husband stated he bought her a car after their marriage which she accepted with very little appreciation and she used the car for work and church.

*It was just 10minutes to church service when the husband asked her for sexx, they wasted time making love, she still dressed up and drove out of the house pretending to be going to the church and came back home, yet still, the pastor in that church still left the congregation to come to their to settle their dispute? Which time did they use for all these things and when did they go back to the church?

This story get as e be sha.

Free the yeye op and his lies