₦airaland Forum

Pidggin:
With the alarming number of rape cases, it won't be wrong to assume that many Nigerian men are either rapists or potential rapists.

seriously my sister, i will warn my daughter to be careful now o

OrlandoOwoh:
I thought wailing wailers say "PDP will rise again?"

only in their dreams.

gassdon:
APC states are really slow and steady 419

Where is the change?

did you read the post?

goodmorning40:
Why will these people keep rapping

i kept asking same question bro

greatness22:
PDP will raise again like an erected d.i.c.k

for your dream abi?

A party that is so broke like church rat?

He has a point anyway..PDP is already dead

Blakjewelry:
The rate of rape is getting disturbing, did somebody release artificial testetorone in the air

i think death penalty needs to melted down on anyone caught for rape. it will serve them right.

christinie:
Are you high on your own poo?

help me ask him

Rape, Rape everyday am just tired of this country

Jesus, this pastor is sick in brain

IbokUtoroh:
wike nothing do u, so far u r making that apc to be uncomfortable in ur state.
God bless wike.

yesoooo...The fear of Wike and Fayose is the begining of wisdom for APC.

Chiaka:
Wike is a good leader he listens to the yearnings of his people. Wike Our Governor! Our Governor! We love you Governor Wike

God bless you my sister, may your tea never lack milk. lolzzz

sammyj:
The Wicked One WIKE of course!!

No one but the President of the North.

sammyj:
Wicked Wike has been a dictator during his interim stay as the minister of education in the last clueless administration!!!

Compare and contrast between Wike and PMB. WHO IS A DICTATOR HERE?

jumper524:
try get sense

KEEP SILENCE

jumper524:
tell that your agbero role model to leave g.m.b alone

I know you will defend APC

I know this will definitely hit Front page. APC supporters will definitely come out to defend themselves here. mtchew. I for say make thunder fire una self.

APC Should keep quiet. The should be ashamed of saying this. Is Buhari not rulling like a dictator?

Has he appointed Ministers?

They promised us change but what we are seeing so far is not.

The only change so far is on the power sector. Atleast i have 24 hours light.

boujaye:
Amaechi you see yourself? How can you escape these anticorruption musters running after you: state commision of enquiry; EFCC; ICPC and the hidden IED BOMBuhari. May Allah help you.

Consequent upon petitions filed against them at the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, an investigation has been launched into the tenure of four former governors namely: Rotimi Ameachi of Rivers, Sullivan Chime of Enugu, Ibrahim Shema of Katsina and Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano.

Sources at the anti-graft agency told Vanguard that four teams were on Monday morning dispatched to visit the states to check the books of the states in order to ascertain the veracity of allegations leveled against the ex-governors.

An insider, who does not want his name in print because he is not authorized to speak on the matter, told the newspaper that the allegations bother on dubious awards of contracts as well as contracts awarded to cronies and relatives of the former governors‎.

The Commission, it was learnt, is committed to ensuring that all petitions are investigated to the logical conclusion and those indicted or found to have compromised would be brought to book.

“We will ensure that we thoroughly investigate all the allegations brought before us so that nobody would be left in doubt about our commitment to fighting corruption. The chairman has dispatched a team to the affected states and they are expected to report back in the next two weeks. Nobody would be spared if found culpable” the insider stated.


http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/02/icpc-dispatches-teams-to-investigates-amaechi-chime-others/

donholy28:
PDP is now as confused as APC

may your tea never lack milk bros.

I just drive pass WADATA Plaza now (PDP) Secretariat, its like a shadow. to me, the party is already dead.

DONSMITH123:
well said my powerful lady

abi

DONSMITH123:
REALLY? Dont allow the like of Bacanister and other PDP Member on nairaland to hear this o

The truth must be said my brother, Who on earth will ever believe that PDP will turn to opposition in this country?

nothing last forever bro

as far as am concern, PDP is already dead. simple

like seriously i seems to be enjoying EFCC recently with their recent wake up call on corruption, not until Lamonde was accused of fraud and diversion of funds. Could it be the case of the hunter be hunted? or are we seeing the hand work of saraki in play here? many questiones running riot on my mind.

But if Lamonde feels he's not guilty or his hands are clean, he should come out and defend himself.

DONSMITH123:
Ayodele Fayose!




Asking workers to kneel down for coming to work late reminds me of primary school. Abi Fayose don be teacher?

All the same, civil servant are always found of coming to work late or sometime not even coming to work at all as the case my be.

omo i kneel down wella for primary school too ooo , lolzzzzz

A former Chairman of the Human Rights Committee, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Port Harcourt branch, Mr. Augustine Ojekudo yesterday decried Ekiti Governor, Ayo Fayose’s punishment to workers that reported late to work.

Ojekudo stated in Port Harcourt that the corporal punishment the governor meted out to the state civil servants, especially directing them to kneel down was not necessary.

Fayose was reported to have ordered the workers to kneel down for reporting late to work in Ado Ekiti.

Ojekudo noted that the governor’s action was not only crude but condemnable and said such humiliation should not be taken kindly.

“For a governor elected by the people to punish workers, is the height of torture, torment and intimidation.

“The matter should not be left just like that; he was elected for the good of the people only to humiliate them.’’

According to Ojekudo, the children of affected workers will feel bad seeing their parents and guardians on television kneeling down.
He, however, said the workers in the first place, should not have obeyed the governor’s ‘’crude’’ order.
NAN

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/02/fayoses-punishment-of-workers-is-torture-intimidation-lawyer/

One convenient, yet challenging strategy employed by traducers of Muhammadu Buhari in de-marketing him all the while he sought to be president of the country in 2007, 2011 and 2015 was to clothe him with the ethnic and religious garb. They capitalized on this toga to make Nigerians believe that the ‘People’s General’ was clannish and an incurable northern jingoist.



Pundits believe that it was in a bid to avoid playing into the hands of his political detractors that Buhari, before emerging President chose to be called General Muhammadu Buhari rather than the Mallam or Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari which he could have opted to be addressed as. This was in defiance of the damage which his adoption of the ‘General’ appellation can do by allegedly evoking memories of how autocratic and maximum he was as Head of State.



Experts stretch this theory further by positing that it was in a bid to escape the wrong impression people were led to have of him that informed the President’s decision to be simply addressed as President Muhammadu Buhari instead of having his name mentioned in the media as: the President of Nigeria, Alhaji/Mallam/ General Muhammadu Buhari.



To cap it all, the President in his inaugural address shortly after being sworn into office on May 29, 2015 dealt a fatal blow to the negative perception around him when he declared that: “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.” That single line in his speech so resonated with most Nigerians, particularly those already afraid that he was coming to ‘northernize/islamize’ the country, hence some immediately converted to ‘Buharists.’





However, recent appointments which have been made by the President since assuming office have led many Nigerians to put his “heartwarming” declaration some three months ago to serious trial. The appointments have given one of the staunchest spoilers of the Buhari candidature ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Femi Fani Kayode, an opportunity to mock Nigerians by ‘welcoming them to change’.



Sectional appointments in a federal government



Since assuming office, all appointments believed to have been made by President Muhammadu Buhari aggregates to thirty (30). Although, the earlier ones have already started generating cries of “unfairness, maginalization and Northern agenda” in the polity, last Thursday’s appointment of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief of Staff and four others were what caused the heavens to break loose, resulting in loud cries of insensitivity and injustice from all corners. Many had expected that Buhari would pick his SGF from the Southeast, but he sidestepped the zone and gave the position to Northeast’s Babachir David Lawal. Overall, the Southeast still got nothing from the last six appointments.



Consequently, when spread across the six geopolitical zones, below is the pattern of the President’s appointments:





Zone


Number of Appointments


Percentage
North West (Buhari’s homestead)


13


43



North East 6


20



North Central 3


10



South South


5


17



South West


3 10
South East


0


0





Beyond the fact that the Southeast got no representation in Buhari’s appointments so far, taking into consideration the basic categorization of the country into North and South sees the North getting 75 per cent of the percentage spread of appointments over the 25 per cent which the South got.



The alleged offensive and unjust pattern of the appointments have left many political observers wondering whether the President has not already started living out what he said on July 22 while interacting with journalists in the United States, US. He was quoted to have said: “(Going by the election results), constituencies that gave me 95 per cent cannot in all honesty be treated, on some issues, with constituencies that gave me five per cent. I think these are political realities. While, certainly, there will be justice for everybody but the people who voted, and made their votes count, they must feel the government has appreciated the effort they put in putting the government in place.”



We knew this would be the case, that was why we voted the way we did – Ohanaeze



This summarizes the way in which the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, reacted to the apparent scheming out of the Southeast zone in President Buhari’s wave of appointments. A prominent member of the group, Professor A.B.C Nwosu who is a former Minister of Health stated categorically on Monday that, “many Ndigbo expected this to be so even during the campaigns and that was why they voted the way they did.”



He went further to state that: “Ndigbo should continue to be strong and committed to nation building and await the envisaged remedial action as stated by the presidency even though, personally, I do not see any position that will equal the position of the Secretary to Government of the Federation and its centrality in the exercise of federal power in Nigeria.”



Nwosu’s assertion came as the Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Joe Nwaorgu urged his kinsmen to remain calm despite their snub by the current administration. Addressing newsmen in Enugu on Monday, he said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo urges Ndigbo to continue to be nation builders anywhere they are and not to be downcast by what has happened.



“Ohanaeze strongly believes that a President of Nigeria is the president for all Nigerians and that equity and fair-play for all Nigerians will be respected.”



On his part, the Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha who is presumably the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Southeast, said: “what I can only do is to continue to appeal to the president to consider the Southeast in his appointments. And as far as I am concerned, the president had executed what the office empowers him to do, and it is believed that he did that in the best interest of the nation.



“Again, most of the appointments the president has so far made are like his personal staff. I don’t think South-East will ever be forgotten in this administration, we will get our due. In fact, if you ask me, I would say we should be more interested in the projects coming down to the South-East, and as much as we can get. The projects will bring about development of the Southeast,” he said last weekend while interacting with select political stakeholders in his state.



Buhari, a President of Northern Nigeria



The actions of the President since he assumed office led the Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose to take a swipe at Buhari whom he called President of Northern Nigeria, arguing that it was wrong for him to have made 31 major appointments; having only seven come from the South while 24 were from the North.



The Governor, who lamented what he called President Buhari’s “Northernisation of Nigeria,” asserted in a statement issued on Monday by his spokesman that the appointments so far made by the President runs fowl of the principle of federal character and took for granted the unity in diversity of the country.



According to him, “They said the President made the appointments on merit and I wish to ask whether there are no competent people in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southern part of Nigeria, especially South-East where no one has been appointed.



“Are they saying Igbo leader like Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who graduated with a first class honours degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Lagos, is not competent to be appointed as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)?



“To my mind, these lopsided appointments skewed in favour of the North is a reminder of President Buhari’s tenure as Military Head of State and I hope the President is not seeing Nigeria of today as that of 1984 because doing so will mean that he has turned himself to a northern president, thereby justifying his notion that those who gave him 97 percent votes must get more benefits than those who gave him five percent votes,” he stated.



Our appointments not based on ethnic consideration – New SGF



Aside the defences put up last week by the two presidential spokesmen – Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu – that the appointments of President Buhari were not skewed in favour of the North but were basically about merit, the newly sworn-in Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir David Lawal, re-echoed same position.



Speaking on behalf of his colleagues after being sworn in by the President at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa on Monday, Mr. Lawal explained that they were not appointed on the basis of their places of origin. While stating that “We did not have to pass examination to get appointed into these positions,” he pointed out that “not because of our tribes, or our faiths, or our political groups that we were considered worthy for these positions.”



While the Presidency had given strong assurances that the appointments would eventually “balance out” as there are many more to come, critics have knocked the President for failing to utilize the opportunity provided by the swearing-in ceremony to personally assure Nigerians that he meant no harm by the appointments he had so far made. The President made no remarks after Monday’s swearing in.





However, the Governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiomhole has defended President Muhammadu Buhari by commending him on the appointments of the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and others whose appointments he stressed were based on merit and not ethnicity.



According to Oshiomhole who reacted on Monday, “The Nigerian nation has come to a point where we have to use the best hands to confront the peculiarity of our problems. It is not all the time we descend to the level of geopolitical balancing; we need to employ unusual methods to solve an unusual problem. The level of decay in the country at present requires very seasoned hands and incorruptible Nigerians that will help translate the APC agenda of change for the benefit of all Nigerians.



“We must not reduce governance to political patronage of bread and butter. The governor congratulates the Chief of Staff, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Comptroller General of Customs, all of who he had very close relationship with and whose credentials stand tall among their compeers. He wishes them well in their new jobs of helping to sanitize a system that has become so rotten and corrupt as a result of manifest incompetence and mismanagement”.

The summary, however, is that three schools of thoughts have now emerged with regard to the recent appointments. While some thinkers believe that Buhari’s appointments abuse federal character and promote ethnic agenda, others are of the view that the President has just started his appointment with only key officials which are his prerogative and that he will balance same in short while.

Some have equally argued that the game of nationhood must not be built on ethnic sentiment, but must be built on trusted and reliable hands with less emphasis on ethnic, religion or regional consideration. In that sense, they are of the view that the change agenda of the APC can only be achieved if the right people decide the affairs of the country instead of position sharing that will have little or no positive effect on Nigerians.





http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/02/appointments-buharis-i-belong-to-everybody-under-intense-trial/