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Team Tinubu, the camp of the national leader of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, was compelled by some former Nigerian
leaders and Northern Islamic leaders to drop its
support for the 2015 presidential aspiration of
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
Reflective of the pressure which also came from
some close associates of Asiwaju Tinubu, the
political group has switched support towards the
presidential aspiration of Speaker Aminu
Tambuwal who with his entry this week,
immediately turned into a major contender for
the ticket.
He has Buhari and former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar as the main challengers for the party’s
presidential ticket with Governor Rabiu
Kwankwanso of Kano State and newspaper
publisher, Sam Nda-Isaiah also contending.
Several other factors were taken into
consideration by the Tinubu camp in switching
support, close associates of the political leader
disclosed to Saturday Vanguard. Among the
other factors was the alleged overbearing
influence of some close associates of Gen.
Buhari, who they claimed were likely to fence
out other political stakeholders in a possible
Buhari presidency.
Three former heads of state, two from the north
and one from the south and a very influential
retired army chief from the northeast who has
also held political appointments in the present
dispensation were among those cited by sources
as having prevailed on the Tinubu camp to drop
support for Buhari.
The decision of the Tinubu camp to drop support
for Buhari, it was learnt, also followed
reservations from some sections of the north
notably, some Islamic leaders.
“It is not that we dumped Buhari, the Islamic
clerics, the imams and the political leaders in
the north particularly three former heads of state
said that they don’t want the man,” the source
said.
President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former
military president Gen. Ibrahim Babangida met
penultimate Tuesday following the latter’s return
from a medical trip abroad. The two men met for
30 minutes behind closed doors.
However, Gen Baban-gida had in the past been
publicly quoted as urging Speaker Tambuwal to
aspire for a higher office. Speaking at the
presentation of the Vanguard Personality of the
Year award to Governor Chibuke Amaechi of
Rivers State in Lagos on April 6, 2013, the former
military president said:
“When leaders like Tambuwal delivered on their
electoral promise, we advise them to try
something higher. For Tambuwal, your guess is
as good as mine. Well done.” Babangida’s
remark was applauded. .
The influence of some present and past minders
of Gen. Buhari was also another reason taken
into consideration, a source disclosed.
“There is this perception about Buhari that he is
surrounding himself with some people like Nasir
El-Rufai, Buba Galadima, Sule Hamman” the
source said, reawakening complaints about the
overbearing attitude of Buhari’s now dissolved
political machine, The Buhari Organisation, TBO
which had in the past been accused of
selectively fencing out people.
The Tinubu associates also feared that the
perceptions of religious extremism which the
ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP had
sought to tag on Buhari could deny the party
votes in the South were he to emerge as
candidate.
Though many of the Tinubu associates do not
regard him as an extremist, but the perception
already created, it was learned, could be
injurious to their political outing. There were also
concerns that Buhari could be detached from
responsibility and reference was made to his
past roles as head of state and chairman of the
Petroleum (Special) Task Force, PTF where his
subordinates usurped authority in his name.
“When he was head of state most of the power
was delegated to Idiagbon and when he was at
PTF, it was another person, that took charge and
that if APC says they are looking for change that
Tambuwal represents that change,” an associate
of Tinubu revealed.
Another factor that was taken into consideration
which was projected by some associates of the
APC national leader, Saturday Vanguard learned
was the prospect of Buhari turning on Tinubu
and others once he is invested with power.
“There are also fears in Asuwaju’s camp that the
man may destroy Asiwaju and may come back to
hurt him and some of Asiwaju’s loyalists warned
him,” the source revealed.
The matter of General Buhari’s age also came
into consideration in the final consideration to
drop support for the former head of state as it
was reasoned that 70 to 80% of voters fall
between the age of 18 to 40+ and most of them
don’t know Buhari.
Political associates were also disturbed that
inputs made by party leaders into the general’s
speech at his declaration at the Eagle Square
last month were discarded raising apprehension
that the general in office could reject advice.
Some were also understood to have raised the
fact that the former head of state also did not
have enough money for the race ahead.
The factors inevitably helped to shift attention
towards Tambuwal who was earlier aligning
himself towards the Sokoto State governorship
contest.
Support for Tambuwal’s aspiration is also being
boosted by permutations that his sterling
leadership of the House of Representatives
where he has the committed support of more
than half of the members had put him in pole
position in more than half of the federal
constituencies in the country.
The decision of the Tinubu camp to change
attention from Buhari and Tambuwal’s entry into
the contest was welcomed by associates of
Atiku Abubakar who see it as an opportunity for
them to move in to harvest support from the
influential Southwest caucus that is firmly
controlled by Tinubu.
The Buhari camp was yesterday adjusting itself
not to be in panic mood as it welcomed
Tambuwal into the race. Osita Okechukwu, a
strong loyalist of Buhari in a statement made
available to Saturday Vanguard said the
development would not cut off the celestial bond
between Buhari and the more than 12 million
followers behind him around the country.
He said: “The entry of Rt.Hon. Aminu Tambuwal
is a welcome development, the more the
presidential aspirants or any aspirant to governor,
Senate, national or state assemblies the
merrier.”
“Our great party, the All Progressives Congress
(APC) will be the greatest beneficiary, as the
mobilization of the electorate will be wider,
penetrating and robust.”
“Therefore, Hon Tambuwal is highly welcome
into the presidential race. This is why the
constitution of our party was amended
penultimate week, to accommodate in less than
one hour, any person who joins APC.”
“On his chances, one cannot hazard a guess, as
Tambuwal unlike Buhari or Atiku had never
contested nationwide election. He only contested
in a federal constituency and had never tested
his popularity in Kano, Akure or Enugu.”
All one knows is that his entry will neither
diminish nor cut-off the celestial bond between
GMB and the masses and the middle class of
our dear country. The masses and middle class
had renewed at every election GMB’s 12million
Vote Bank, therefore the contest at the end of
the day is between President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan and GMB.”
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/tinubu-dumped-buhari-tambuwal/

what kind of statement is that, yes they are training our army, yet they don't want them to handle the best fighting equipments, something is fishing.

More than one in three Africans have entered the
middle class in the past decade, and their
numbers are set to increase thanks to rapid
economic growth, a study showed Monday.
At least 370 million Africans, or 34 percent of
the continent’s 1.1 billion people, are described
as members of the middle class, according to a
survey by the African Development Bank.
In turn, the bulging middle class will help drive
further economic growth and development, the
Tunis-based AfDB said.
By 2060 the group should represent 42 percent
of the population, according to the study
launched in Johannesburg nearly 20 years ago.
“There is a stable middle class and it is
growing,” said Mthuli Ncube, the AfDB’s chief
economist and a senior research fellow with
Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of
Government.
“It is a big driver for investment in Africa,” he
added at a news conference in Johannesburg.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts that
Africa’s economic growth, boosted by rising
investment in natural resources and
infrastructure, will reach 5.1 percent this year, up
from 4.7 percent in 2013.
It should climb to 5.8 percent next year, the IMF
predicts.
The study, which defined the middle class as
having a purchasing power parity of between
$2.20 and $20 (15 euros) a day, found that the
middle class is strongest in countries with a
robust and growing private sector.
North Africa leads the pack with at least 77
percent of its population counted among the
middle class, surprisingly followed by the central
African region at 36 percent of its people falling
in that category — though many are considered
to be vulnerable.
The southern African region, home to the
continent’s most developed economy, South
Africa, is in third place, level with west Africa
with around 34 percent of their people classified
as middle class.
East African countries are at the bottom of the
ranking, having just a quarter of their nationals in
the middle class.
Consumption and ownership of items such as a
television set, car and refrigerator, and the type
of flooring in dwellings were among the
yardsticks used to define the class.
Other measurements included access to
electricity, sources of drinking water and types
of toilets.
Based on a survey of 37 African countries, the
study polled nearly 800,000 households and
concluded that most of the countries saw a rise
in the size of the middle class over the past
decade.
source= www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/one-three-africans-entered-middle-class-study/

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MY FELLOW NAIRALANDERS
THE DAY MIGHT NOT GO WELL AS WE PLANNED, BUT IS STILL THE LORD'S DOING. WHEN THAT HAPPENED JUST SAY THIS TO THE LORD

“O God, when I lose hope because my plans have come to nothing…
Then help me to remember that,
Your Love is always greater than my disappointments,
& Your Plans for my life are always better than my
dreams..”
(Ameen)

Politics! There is nothing a seating president always do right in the eye of opposition. We understand, you will right the wrong when u are there.

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The Economists said human wants are insatiable, no matter how much the federal govt increase their pay to, when you are the type that is not contented, you will never be satisfy. In this life we should be satisfy with the little we have or else we go into crime.

What kind of rubbish is this? Complaining where there is nothing to complain.

olatunde1234: Osaze good; but .

But getting ollldddd

Odemwingie laughs last

Osaze Odemwingie had the last
laugh after being booed by the
travelling West Brom supporters in
CardiffCity’s 1-0 win over his former
employers.
After a winless streak of five
matches for Cardiff City, Peter
Whittingham headed home the
winner in the 65th minute to
condemn West Brom to a fourth
consecutive defeat and end Steve
Clarke’s tenure as manager at the
Hawthorns.
Odemwingie
Odemwingie came close to scoring
as his free-kick forced a fine save
from Boaz Myhill inside the
opening 10 minutes.
The 32-year-old was lively on the
night and also had a valid penalty
appeal turned down by Howard
Webb, after a West Brom player
appeared to pull his shirt when he
was about to take a decisive final
touch inside the box.
The Nigeria international was taken
off for Bo-Kyung Kim in the 90th
minute, with the game already
won.
The win lifted CardiffCity up to 14th
place on the English Premier
League table with 17 points from
16 games, while West Brom
slumped to 16th place with 14
points from the same number of
games.

One of the greatest artist of our time. Viva Maria

The Iroco has just fallen. Nelson Mandela is dead. May his soul rest in peace.

Eze Promoe: [color=crimson]PDP is not great again because Jonathan has vandalised your money siphoning pipeline[/color]

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Men Are Better Friends!

Women: A wife was not at home for the whole night. The next morning, she tells her husband that she stayed in her girlfriend's apartment. The husband calls 10 of her best friends and none of them confirmed it.

Men: A husband was not at home for the whole night. He tells his wife the next morning, that he stayed at his friend's apartment for the night. The wife calls 10 of his best friends; 5 of them confirmed that he stayed at their apartment last night, and the other 5 are still claiming that he is still there with them!

Gudintent: Lol nice joke even better with the 'revise' hahaha

Hahahahahaha Thanks

If I was the driver, I will zoom off and leave her there.

An old woman boarded a bus from Calabar to Lagos, on their way she told the driver that he should please let her know when they get to Benin, the driver agreed and she call the attention of the passengers on board, they all agreed. On the way, all the passengers fall asleep leaving the old woman and the driver awake. After so many hours of traveling the woman call the attention of the driver ' driver, this Benin we never still reach am?' all of them now shouted, oh we don pass Benin about 2 hours ago. The woman started crying that they must take her back to Benin, everybody persuaded the driver to take her back since she talked about it earlier on. The driver had to reverse back, when he reached Benin, he came town and open the door for the woman to come down, the woman told the driver to wait, and she open her purse brought out two seed of tablets and swallow. She then told them that her daughter told her to swallow 2 of the tablets when she get to Benin, so they should continue the journey to Lagos.

hooged: what's the meaning of this jargons u split out ?

He means this is not the time for politics, they should all come together as one entity, not as a PDP member or APC but as one Nigeria to solve this problem in NNPC.

Beautiful woman. Wish you all the best

What about Queen Elizabeth?

There is a study that shows men are more prone to snoring than women. So men please follow the steps very well and avoid losing your women.

This is interesting, snoring most stop

HELP PUT SNORING TO REST WITH THESE SEVEN QUIT - SNORING TIPS.
1.CHANGE YOUR SLEEPING POSITION
Lying on your back makes the base of your tongue and soft palate collapse to the back wall of your throat, causing a vibrating sound during sleep. Sleeping on your side may help you reduce this. a body pillow provide an easy fix, it enables you to maintain sleeping on your sid and can make a dramatic difference. Taping a tennis ball to the back of your pajamas can also help you from sleeping on your back.
2. LOSS WEIGHT
weight loss helps some people but not everyone "thin people snore too" If you've gained weight and started snoring and did not snore before you gained weight, weight loss may help.
3. AVOID ALCOHOL
Alcohol and sedatives reduced resting tone of the muscles in the back of your throat, making it more likely you will snore. Drinking alcohol 4 to 5 hours before sleep makes snoring worse. People who don't normally snore will snore after drinking alcohol.
4. PRACTICE GOOD SLEEP HYGIENE
Poor sleep habits (also known as poor sleep hygiene) can have similar effect to that of drinking alcohol, working long hours without enough sleep, for example, means when you finally hit the sack you're overtired. You sleep hard and deep and the muscles become floppier, which creates snoring.
5. OPEN NASAL PASSAGE
If snoring start in your nose, keeping nasal passages open may help. It allows air to move through slower. A hot shower before going to bed can help open nasal passages. Also keep a bottle of saltwater rinse in the shower "rinse your nose out with it while you're showering to help open up passages"
6.CHANGE YOUR PILLOWS
Dust mites accumulate in pillows and can cause allergic reactions that can lead to snoring. Allowing pets to sleep on bed causes you to breathe in animal danger. Put your pillows in the sun once every couple of weeks and replace them every six months to keep dust mites and Allergies to a minimum. And keep pets out of the bedroom.
7. STAY WELL HYDRATED
Drink plenty of fluids. Secretions in your nose and soft palate become sticker when you're dehydrated and this can cause more snoring.

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