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Ndydy:
Fund you blocked acct before your interview it saves some time also write to the school for enrollment extension. I'd advise if you have to certify your documents do so before your interview as your originals will be with the embassy till you get a decision on your visa. For my uni TUB we enroll by just posting our certified documents, insurance and other forms to the school. So if this is your case you can do that and tell the school you are in the process of getting your visa.

Thanks alot I appreciate....

In the process of funding my account, before my interview...
The enrollment must be done physically not online. Am just confused.

Nellso:
Perhaps try and fund your blocked account before the interview. But your best bet is to seek for an enrolment extension. Good luck.

Thanks alot...

Enrollment extension is not an option for the school.
I just pray I don't get shut down.

PS: is there any FasTrack method to get Visa in 2 weeks?

Hello guys,

Here have been quite resourcesful and I appreciate you guys.

I received my admission letter July 29th, and subsequently applied for visa on 2nd August after opening a block account.

The problem is that my enrollment deadline to the school is 1st October, and my Visa appointment date is 6th of September.

Can I still be able to get my Visa to travel before 1st October since it's less than 25 days from my interview date.

What can I do, to FasTrack the visa to be issued earlier.

Thanks and anticipating a response.

Alariwo2:
Enugu indigens will be given more preference for the 'not so many' slots.. Just like they do in Imo, Abia, Anambra and Ebonyi.

No preference is given.
Preference is given to only the qualified person and not based on state disparity

frenzydilz:
OP...Na so you use idea collect FTC abi

Lol, Am doing a community work and passing information that will be adding value to my fellow youths.

seunny4lif:
If I sound you?
Why you laughing

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vickjoeobi:
This is a great innovation that needs to be encouraged to Move this our great Nation forwward.

You are so right brother.

Good Day my fellow nairalanders. Earlier this year and again in September, I brought you information on this forum about the first private science, computer and technology secondary school in Nigeria called Shalom Science and Technology Academy (SSTAC). In fact, the school was actually commissioned by His Excellency Governor IfeanyiUgwuanyi (GburuGburu) in September 2016. Many people made remarks, some positive, some negative and some on the border line of doubt. Well last week, as the first term was coming to an end, I got a call from the school, that I should come and check out an innovation which the Engineering Department of the secondary school built, that will revolutionalise our mobile phone usage. They call it, The rechargeable Mobile Phone Charger. I turned up on Monday the 12/12/2016 and meet with the Director of Admin of the school
The device was produced by the schools Engineering department which houses the “Basic Technology” workshop and “Automobile and Mechanics” workshop which they have here in their our school.
The device which is a bit similar but different from power banks will be used in charging our electronics devices, If there is light, then you can plug in your rechargeable mobile charger and it charges your phone as well as recharges. When the light goes off, then it charges your mobile device as if there was light.
This is a wonderful innovation that should be praised and supported especially when the idea is coming from JSS1 students and they are properly guided by their technology teacher.
They further said that there is plan to commercialize the product after further constructions to make it sleek and create a design for it.
Find below the Images and an excerpt of my interview with the director of Admin.

I am currently working on a Project of Two Storey Residential Building and am considering using Precast Concrete Parapet.
I would love to be fetched with the following information please.

1. Cost of the Parapet in relative to our commonly used Parapet
2. Where i can get the Precast parapet or people that specialise in it (contacts if possible)
3. Advantages and disadvantages
4. Life Span of the Precast Parapet.

Thanks alot as i await a response.


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NB: School fees of the school is nearly 500k Per term.

Thanks for your response.

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wow, thats a relief to himself and the family.

a pity




Vickjoe

its very simple, we should vote only for people who deliver on their promises.





Vickjoe.

its very simple, we should vote only for people who deliver on their promises.





Vickjoe

Every Thursday,our AD CDS will visit our various CD groups and mandate us to go out to the streets and recruit at least 10 people every week.
The problem is not recruiting them, the problem is the people you are talking to, giving you listening ear.
They have not done any form of Publicity about U report, yet they want people to enroll without asking much questions.
Nigerians get alot of unsolicited sms and do not need you to use U-report and add to their sorrows.
Some percentage of Nigerians are illiterate, they dont understand or care to understand what U-report is and its value to their life.
You are telling people let their voice be heard through U report, yet my voice have not been heard to increase my alawi.

Dont know your thought on this issue, cos its really frustrating to me.
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A Federal Capital Territory High Court in
Wuse Zone II, Abuja, has granted an order
restraining former President Olusegun
Obasanjo from going on with plans to publish
or have someone publish on his behalf, his
new autobiography titled, ‘My Watch.’
Request for the order was made by a member
of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun
State, Buruji Kashamu, in an ex parte
application.
Justice Valentine Ashi made the order on
Friday as he agreed with Kashamu’s lawyer,
Alex Iziyon (SAN), that part of the content of
the book related to the subject matter of the
N20bn libel suit instituted by the PDP chief
against former President Obasanjo.
The court restrained the former President
from publishing the book, pending the
determination of the libel suit instituted
against him.
The content of the book was said to be
related to a letter dated December 2, 2013,
written by Obasanjo to President Goodluck
Jonathan, claiming that Kashamu was
wanted for drug-related crime in the United
States of America.
Iziyon had argued on Friday that since part of
the content of the autobiography related to
the December 2, 2013 letter, which is the
subject matter of the libel suit, it was wrong
for Obasanjo to be allowed to proceed to
comment on, write books about or make
publications on the issue yet to be decided by
the court.
Justice Ashi, in his ruling, restrained
Obasanjo from either publishing the book or
have it published on his behalf by anybody,
pending the determination of the main suit.
The court order read in part, “The defendant,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, whether by himself,
his agents, servants, privies or any other
person by whatever name called and
howsoever described, is hereby restrained
from publishing or caused to be published in
the yet to be published book, ‘My Watch’ or
any autobiography or biography and any
extracts of same, by whatever name called or
howsoever titled, pending the hearing and
determination of the motion on notice
hereof.”
The judge further restrained Obasanjo and his
agents “from further writing, printing,
publishing or causing to be published or
printed or circulated, or otherwise, publishing
of and concerning the plaintiff, the statement
contained in the Daily Sun (pages 47-49) and
The Leadership (pages 3 to newspapers of
December 12, 2013, and which statements
are alleged to have reproduced the letter
written by the defendant to the President of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria, titled: ‘Before
it is too late’ or similar statements pending
the determination of the motion on notice.”
But the judge also directed Kashamu to enter
into a bond with the Chief Registrar of the
court for damages he would pay should the
order restraining Obasanjo from publishing
the book turned out to be something the
court ought not to have been granted.
The judge asked the applicant to “execute a
bond with the Registrar of the court to pay
such damages as shall be assessed should it
turn out that the order ought not to have
been granted in the first place.”
The court adjourned hearing in the main suit
till December 10.
Kashamu had, shortly after the content of the
letter was widely published in electronic and
print media, sued Obasanjo for alleged
defamation of his character.
He argued that Obasanjo “maliciously and
recklessly published a letter, titled, ‘Before it
is too late,’ which contained words which he
(Obasanjo) knew to be false.”
In his writ of summons, Kashamu stated that
the criminal imputation made against him by
Obasanjo in his letter, had injured him
(Kashamu).
He is praying the court to award in his
favour, and against the ex-President, N20bn
for the damage he had suffered as a result of
the allegation.

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echobee:
Too long . My eyes dey pepper me

Lolz, they are all stories for the Gods.

midep:
And u want us to read this long story ?

If u want to hide something from a black man, put it inside a book.

It is no longer news that top actress Ini Edo’s


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marriage to Philips Ehiagwina has collapsed.
So much has been written mostly by writers
relying on third party sources as to why the
marriage failed.
The widely speculated reason has been the
issue of infidelity that the husband alleged.
But was that the main reason the couple went
their separate ways? According to a source
close to the couple and was there when the
romance started in 2008, and remained close
to the now divorced couple, the media has
been scratching the surface of what indeed
was a story of irreconciliable differences the
actress endured for over six years of her
marriage to her estranged husband; and why
she gave her all to sustain the marriage. It is
a story as told by an insider who knew the
couple way back from New York, where Philips
once lived, before moving to Texas, then to
Atlanta and now Ghana.
“I think Ini Edo was badly in love. Philips was
a charmer and, as a human being and deeply
in love, she followed her heart. It is so sad
that a woman blessed with such a good heart
could be treated in such a hurtful manner.
Most people may not know, but Ini Edo is a
dedicated and totally committed spouse any
man could hope to have. That’s why she
endured all she did, for six years without
letting the world know the pain she was going
through in her marriage,” the source stated.
“Most people do not know that Ini Edo gave
up a lot of acting jobs to be with her husband
in America and, unlike the widely peddled
story that the actress was involved in
romantic relationships with other men, for the
six years that Ini was married to Philips, she
never cheated on him. Ini Edo adored and
loved Philips; she was very fond of him,
cooked his meals personally, and was
practically splitting her time between two
continents, all in her efforts to be a good wife.
“ There is no doubt that Ini was madly in love
with her ex-husband. In a 2009 interview she
had with my newspaper, The Diasporan Star in
New York, she effusively declared her fidelity
to Phillips and debunked all the stories of her
liaisons with other men. “I am usually at a
loss when I read stories about my sexual
relationships with phantom figures and
personalities. It is really astonishing when
people just manufacture stories, give them
legs and let them fly when they know the
stories are absolutely false,” she had said.
“It is perfectly legitimate for men to have
designs and desires on stars. I was recently
voted by the public as Nollywood’s Sexiest
Actress. So it comes with the territory that
men would want to date me. The question
then becomes: do you fall prey to every man
that comes your way? The answer is
absolutely “no”. I was raised well by my
parents and I have always been a one-man
lady. All the sexual shenanigans that the
media have associated me with are all false.
The problem with our journalists is that if they
saw you at a coffee shop with a man – just
any man – even if that man is your cousin or
brother, they will automatically assume that
that is your new lover, and without asking
questions, will rush to publish that you were
seen at a coffee shop with a new lover.
“I have lost count of the number of such
innocent outings with family members, friends
that the media misconstrued that I was
dating. What the media failed to understand
was that I had not allowed stardom and
celebrity to becloud my values. What they did
not realize was that I wanted to be married,
and start a family, and that the notion that I
was some kind of a sexually crazed hormone
raging young woman, was totally false and a
bad reading of who I am.
“Did I have friends in the past? Of course, just
like any other young and single woman out
there, I had friends. Did that make me an out-
of control sexual goddess? Absolutely not! It
has been very painful for me each time I read
all the stories written about me, stuffs that are
patently false. I have, however, come to accept
it as part of the price you pay for stardom. I
just wished they could do a little investigation
before rushing to publish.
“One story that pained me a lot is the notion
that I snatched Philips from his ex-wife –
Ruth Okoro – while she was recuperating from
cancer treatment. Nothing could be further
from the truth. The ex-wife said I was callous
and mean-spirited to have done so. Initially, I
had wanted to ignore what she had said about
me. But I would like to use this medium to
state that I did not take Philips from Ruth
Okoro.
“When Philips came into my life, he was a
single man, with no marital encumbrances.
••••
Philips was divorced from Ruth at the time we
began seeing each other. So, I do not
understand what she is talking about. I
remember asking Philips to come clean with
me, and tell me everything that had happened
between him ‘and his ex-wife. I demanded to
know if he was still married to her, and Philips
said “no” and produced a divorce paper to
back up his claim. It was after that that we
began dating.
“ There is no way I would have dated him if he
was still married to Ruth. My values would
have been in conflict with that. There is no
way I would have dated and agreed to marry
Philips if I knew that he had abandoned his
wife in hospital while she was recuperating
from cancer treatment.
“ That would have been a huge turn-off. The
Philips I met and got married to is a perfect
family man – a dependable, God-fearing man
who treasures his family. Philips was there for
his ex-wife throughout her hospitalization,
and she knows it. Let me also add here as a
piece of advice to our fellow women: If you
had a home, one that you truly love and
appreciate, treat that home as a prized
possession. Treat your husband well.
“There is nothing to gain if you maltreat your
husband, and make his life miserable. Men do
not like that. I hope Ruth understands and
appreciates the depth of what I am saying
here. That will be my response to everything
she has said about me – all the negative
things she has written and caused to be
written about me. “Philips and I met during
one of his many visits to Nigeria, and I
realized I had met the man of my dream.
When that special person who excites the
passion in you comes along, you begin to do
things that are out of range – you begin to be
consumed by his thoughts – you begin to
send text
messages, call him all the time and just feel
so much in love. That was the way I felt when
Philips came along. I knew that he was the
man for me.“I realized that we had the same
outlook about life, that I could start a
sentence and he would finish it for me, and
would convey the same thoughts I had in
mind. When I took him to see my parents, they
wholeheartedly accepted him, even though he
is not from my part of the world -that is a
testament to Philips’ humanity that is very,
very transparent. “Philips and I have the same
ideology, and I am excited and happy to be
his wife. Our attraction is mutual, our focus is
interlocked and what a great family man he is!
Philips calls my family even more regularly
than myself. He would just call to find out
how they are doing. He has such good heart
and kind spirit that is just a beauty to behold.
“That is the man I met and agreed to marry.
All other depictions are borne out of malice
and hate, and we do not even want to dignify
their hate with a response. Our marriage is a
celebration of love borne out of deep sense of
mutual attachment, trust and abiding
companionship. The machinations of the
naysayers will not hold”. Perhaps one should
ask, what happened to a marriage that
appeared to have been made in heaven as
attested to by Ini Edo in her interview. Our
source stated that the marriage began to
experience challenges months after the
wedding that took place in Houston, Texas.
“Philips financial stability was still a work in
progress but as a dedicated wife, Ini was
determined to support and encourage her
husband. She wanted him to be more frugal
and to invest whatever resources he had in
things that will yield some dividends. But
things did not quite work out, “ the source
said.
“ Ini Edo is
very
industrious
and wanted
combined
efforts from
her husband
to get things
done.
Eventually
fights began
to occur. The
last straw
that broke
the camel’s back was the house Ini bought in
Lekki, a beautiful edifice.“Philips wanted it to
be a joint property, but Ini vehemently said
no, that she would have none of that. Philips
was said to have threatened to move out of
their home if Ini refused to put his name on
the deed. She stood her grounds and Philips
also made good his threat. He moved out of
the house and took up residence with another
lady in Accra, Ghana which has been his home
for the past six months. All entreaties by
family members for Philips to return home
were rebuffed; he wanted his name on the
deed or no marriage. For three months, Ini
Edo did not set her eyes on her husband and
he had started flaunting his new girlfriend to
spite Ini. Scheduled appointments by her
father in-law to resolve the issue amicably
were rebuffed by Philips and ini was shocked.
“ There is no truth to the story that was
peddled that Ini Edo was involved in extra-
marital affairs. It was Philips who actually did
not respect the sanctity of his marital vows.
While still legally married, he left his
matrimonial home and moved in with another
lady in Ghana”. When I contacted Ini Edo and
asked her to conform what our source had
told us, she said she was done with that
chapter of her life and was looking forward to
new possibilities.
“Ekerete, you were there when we started
dating and eventually got married. Does
anything that has been written about me,
remotely resembles who and what I am about?
I wish Philips the best in life”, she said. Efforts
to contact Philips were not successful, but we
hope someday to get his own side of the story
Stories that touch the heart
As promised when this column made its debut
three weeks ago, that every other week, I will
publish gripping true-life stories that shine
the light on the mountain and valley of
marriage and relationships, I begin today with
this story that will sure touch your heart.
Remember, this was a genre that I started in
today’s Nigerian media, so even though there
are over a dozen of such columns currently
running in major newspapers and magazines
(and I thank God for giving me the vision and
the talents to have started this genre in 1986,)
you can’t replicate the original, you can only
copy, so straight from the pioneer, I present
you one of the longest lasting columns in
contemporary Nigerian media “Stories that
touch the heart”
One night of wrong judgment and one hell of
painful experience: why every woman must
read this story (1)
Ken was the love of my life-until my husband
came along. We had met in our sophomore
year in a political science class and took to
each other instantly. Ken was the brightest
student in our class, and most student s
gravitated towards him. He had women who
practically offered themselves to him, but he
chose. Ken unlike me, was not from a
privileged background. Father was a taxi
driver while mother did janitorial job in a
multinational company. But what he lacked in
material
terms, he had plenty in smarts and good looks
and it was those qualities that all came back
together on that night that my life changed
forever. As I stated above, Ken was not
materially comfortable but he had an
infectious ‘swagger’ about him that you
couldn’t fail but notice. Above all, his
brilliance and general demeanor was all too
evident. I can still recall vividly that afternoon
when our eyes met, and we smiled
affectionately at each other, and my heart beat
was racing at a rate I thought it would just
burst open. I knew from the way I felt that I
would be defenseless if Ken were to make a
move on me, and that was exactly what had
happened when, at the end of the class, Ken
walked briskly towards me, and displaying
those charms that made him stand out in
spite of his austere material circumstance, he
told me “hi pretty,
I think you are indeed a great specimen of
God’s creation. You are absolutely stunning
and if you don’t mind, I would like to get to
know you better. As I am sure you already
know, my name is Ken, and here’s my number.
Please feel free to call me anytime you have
the chance”. “Have a chance”? I had asked
myself. Of course, the chance was now! And I
wasted no time in calling Ken later that
evening, and we met and went out for coffee.
Ken was the sweetest and unpretentious guy I
had ever gone out with. Unlike those highly
sheltered and overfed sons of the rich and
mighty who thought they had it all, and were
doing you a favor by even talking to you, Ken
was down to earth and was totally
comfortable in his skin in spite of the paucity
of the material things around him. I fell
hopelessly in love with him, and as I went
back to my room that night, one thought
occupied my mind: how to love Ken and use
some of my family’s material blessings to help
him whenever things were rough with him. We
started dating soon afterwards, and we were
soon known all over the campus as the
inseparable lovers. Apart from when we went
to bed, Ken and I were together all the time-
we had the same classes and also the same
major.
Convinced that Ken would be the man I would
end up getting married to I had brought him to
see my parents and there, I realized that our
future together may have some challenges. I
am what you would describe as ‘daddy’s little
girl.’ I love my father so dearly that I can walk
on broken bottles to show my love and
affection towards him. My daddy in my
estimation is the best father anyone could
hope to have. He had showered me with love
and anything I wanted that was within his
range, he would provide without questions. I
was the apple of his eyes, and he always told
me that though he won’t interfere in my
choice of a life partner, but if he felt such a
choice would not guarantee me happiness and
a sense of stability, he would object to it, and
prayed that I would understand should such a
moment arise in future. My mother on the
other hand was completely liberal-whatever
floats my boat was ok with her. She trusted
my sense of judgement.
When I brought Ken to our home, I could see
that all was not well, when my father gave me
the ‘look’- whenever he started down and
suddenly looked up, with his eyes squinting, I
knew the coast was not clear on my demands.
That was the look he wore that day, soon after
he received Ken and had asked him some
questions. My father, unfortunately, is big on
pedigree, which in and of itself is not a bad
thing, and would always wish for her
daughters to marry equally into money like he
had done himself. To him, Ken may not be
able to guarantee me the kind of lifestyle I
was used to, and he didn’t want to be
meddling into our material affairs, by
providing us with everything we wanted. “That
may bring resentment from your husband, and
signalthe beginning of marital crises you may
not come out intact emotionally.
Why go into it in the first place if you could
help avoid it now”? My dad had counselled. As
we went back to our school, there was no
denying the fact that Ken had realized he had
not been completely accepted by my father,
and he felt hurt and bruised by that. And on
my part, there was no doubt that I love my
father, and was therefore, not willing to
dismiss his concerns simply because I loved
Ken. I was torn between two extremes.
Needless to say that our love, though still
solid, was showing signs of stress and stress.
It was during this time that on a summer trip
with my parents to Houston, Texas, that I met
a man who in a short six months later would
become my husband.
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*’Why President must call Edwin Clark, others
to order’
By Ochereome Nnanna
Congresses for the nomination of Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) candidates for the
Houses of Assembly election in 2015 took
place nationwide on Saturday, November 29,
2014. Governor Sule Lamido joined his fellow
delegates to participate in the exercise in
Birnin Kudu, Jigawa State. Lamido later spoke
to Sunday Vanguard on some political issues.
Excerpts:
Your contemporaries – some governors
finishing their second terms in about six
months – are heading to the Senate and you
have decided not to. What is your political
future?
I have been around for a long time. In all
modesty, I think I have acquired the status of
a father who should be guiding the children
in this very difficult period of our history. I am
in the last group of public office holders linked
to the old order playing roles in the new
generation. I am like a bridge with which
people can cross over to the new generation of
leaders in Nigeria. The old order fought for
Nigeria’s independence which we got in 1960.
Then there was military intervention and an
unfortunate civil war. In 1979, we returned to
civil rule and the founding fathers were again
part of our democracy. That was when I
came into politics. Those who plotted the
military coup against our country in 1983,
psychologically, did not see themselves as
leaders. It was a defining moment in our
history. They tried to wipe out our history.
They sought to literally destroy, rubbish,
terrorise, distort and obliterate the vision of
our forefathers.
They felt that was the only way they could
stand. While some of us remained with the
founding fathers, the rest of them who went to
the military college and fought the civil war
decided to topple the very institutions that
made them. For them to be seen as leaders
they must wipe out the legacies they met in
place.
I do not think there is anyone who was in
office in 1983 still occupying elective office
today. I was in the House of Representatives
in 1979. I was a very young man, but I
enjoyed the mentoring and support of the
founding fathers. Being the last man standing
from that generation, I think the best I can do
is to help the younger generation to capture
some values one of which is the value of
seeing public office not as an industry but
service. So, I am going to be much more in
the political arena than the government arena.
I will be active, politically, in my ward after I
leave office. I will also be very active in Jigawa
State.
I will be vigorously active at the national level
in the party. I will be mentoring, influencing,
guiding and advising. I will add more value
outside government. My involvement in
politics will not be seen as a means of
employment or a sanctuary for me. I must not
occupy a political office to be seen to be
relevant. I am already relevant. I don’t need
to be in the Senate to be relevant. I don’t
need to be in an office for protection. So, it is
only fair for me to allow the younger
generation to play their roles in government
while I act as a guide. I will be seen as father
to all. I will be seen as the property of the
people, whom they own. They will be coming
to me as a father, friend, brother and mentor.
You were running for president. You were
warming up for it. Then suddenly you
withdrew for President Jonathan. What made
you withdraw? And what role will you play in
your party? Will you be active or merely
passive during the presidential campaign of
the PDP?
Let me correct you, and I want to underline it:
I have never, ever said I am gunning for the
presidency. Never. Some Nigerians just
thought I was good enough to be Nigeria’s
president. They started promoting the idea,
and it caught on, and people thought it was
me. I feel flattered that some people find me
worthy of being asked to run for president, and
I thank my Creator, my Allah, for giving me
that standing. I thank them, but it was not
me who was running for president. Secondly,
as a party man, I strongly believe in party
culture and party tradition. I have to take
cognisance of the peculiar political culture of
Nigeria, where occupiers of political office
tend to transform into political leaders.
A councillor who was nobody before being
elected becomes the political leader of that
ward while in office. He begins to lord it over
the ward chairman and executives. The same
thing happens at the state level. A governor
who was not being noticed before as an
individual uses that office to also become
political leader of his state. At the federal
level, a president who was not even known
before uses the huge office he occupies… the
aura of the office, the power of the office
distorts his thinking, and therefore the person
becomes the political leader not only of his
party but also of the whole country.
But these are public offices, under certain
rules and regulations, conferred with some
powers to function within a defined period.
When President Obasanjo was in office, he
radiated the power and glory of the
presidential office. But when he left and
handed over to the late President Umar Yar’
Adua, he was almost eclipsed by the new man
on seat. That public office, from top to the
bottom, should not be confused for leadership.
It is transient. Leadership is not transient, but
political office, within its powers, is. But in
Nigeria, elected office now combines the power
of service and leadership in the hands of the
current occupant of the office. So if I run
against such an incumbent, with the
enormous powers he wields under our
constitution and political culture, he will
certainly defeat me.
There is no way a governor can beat a sitting
president to the presidential ticket of the
party. The same thing applies in the states.
There is no way in a party arrangement that
an outsider can come and defeat a governor
seeking re-election at the party primaries. He
can go to another party, collect his ticket and
he can win at the general elections, but
certainly not within the party. If, for instance,
I go with the yearnings of my supporters, I
will only cause them more heartache and pain
because I will be defeated by the president.
There are some facts which cannot be ignored.
It will also give my opponent some
credibility and legitimacy because he will
say: ‘I contested with Sule Lamido and I
defeated him’. I will end up becoming
frustrated because the process is not going to
be transparent. If I want to hurt my party, or
perhaps hurt Nigeria, I will say I will run. They
will bring EFCC, ICPC after me, but no
problem. I will raise all the sentiments, North,
South and what have you. I know the areas I
can touch if I mean my party and my country
ill-will. At the end of it, I will be defeated.
Then, I will refuse to concede defeat; I will say
there were no level grounds. I will storm out
and address a press conference… I refuse to do
that. I love my party, PDP. And I love my
country, Nigeria. I can never allow my personal
aspiration to blind me to the dangers it can
bring on my party and my country. I will ruin
my party, I will put my country in danger, but I
will also be crippled politically. Why should I
willingly go through that? A country that
made me what I am, gave me space to grow?
I will do everything in my power to pay back
Nigeria for what Nigeria has made me. I will
work hard to see that Nigeria is stable, united
and strong, so that as Nigeria has enabled me
to grow, other Nigerians will also have the
opportunity to grow to the best of their
potentials, to be governors, ministers,
parliamentarians, academicians, captains of
industry, scientists, professionals and what
have you.
To answer your question, it was people who
felt I had the qualities that were promoting the
idea that I should run. Having opted out of
the race, it should not in any way dilute my
commitment to my party and the progress of
the country. It will not.
Will you support the president fully during the
campaigns, or will you play ‘siddon look?’
What we are going through today in Nigeria
should go beyond partisan politics. Only
yesterday, there were bomb blasts in Kano.
How many people died? How many were
injured? People in their place of worship. No
matter how you see it, sometimes there are
difficult situations. My party and my Federal
Government must assist me in ensuring my
safety. Right now, we are overwhelmed by
grief.
Government must be seen to have the political
will and commitment to confront this
insurgency. Even though I believe in Nigeria, I
am also coming from a political environment.
And when a certain arrangement seems to be
undermining me, ignoring the circumstances
under which I live in my environment, it
becomes very, very difficult for me to give the
required political support. Government should
also be willing and able to encourage me to
support it. It should be able to provide me
the comfort I need. Immediately after the
Kano mosque bombing, text messages began
to circulate.People are saying, ‘the North
should not forgive Murtala Nyako, Shehu
Shema, Sule Lamido and Isa Yuguda’, they
listed four governors for supporting President
Goodluck Jonathan to be president in 2011.
Are they saying that the president is
connected with the bomb blasts?
You see, as human beings, when you are
going through frustration, and you are literally
overwhelmed, you can get disoriented and
over-react. Otherwise, what do the bomb
blasts have to do with the 2011 election? I
am coming from a tribe, from a region and
from an environment, and these types of
things drain me of all moral authority, all
political authority. And, therefore, when things
are not working very well, I am one of those
people hold accountable. I am part of the
leadership of the country and so my people
hold me accountable.
When people like Edwin Clark say people of
the South-South are angry with the North for
being against their son, it diminishes my
contribution to the making of the Jonathan
presidency. When people are overwhelmed by
hopelessness, they can take it out on anybody
who is around, and people will now be making
reckless statements. I must be given the
moral authority, and things must be decisively
checked. And people should not be making
reckless statements. We need to work towards
a Nigeria for all Nigerians, not northern
Nigeria or southern Nigeria. People should be
defending the interests of Nigeria, not just the
interests of their regions and abusing people
who are from the other side.
There seems to be a slow descent to anarchy
as we move towards the 2015 general
elections. What is the way out?
The way out is to give Nigerians security. The
insurgency in the North should not be seen as
a northern thing but as a challenge facing the
whole nation. It should not be seen as a
gang-up of the North against the Federal
Government or the President. There has to be
a clear political will to confront this thing
head-on. Every Nigerian, from North or South,
must come together to confront this problem.
Today, if you go to the bus station to travel to
Enugu, you could become a victim of bomb
blast. Even though it is happening in the
North, the victims can be from anywhere, they
could even be expatriates. We are living by the
second.
How can you feel happy living in a country
where you don’t know what will happen to you
the next second? We must live in a secured
country. That is the principal reason for
having a government. This notion that Boko
Haram is something being used to undermine
someone, as being posited by people like
Edwin Clark and the others, will not solve the
problem. He must be publicly admonished. We
should restore confidence in the citizens.
Nigeria must be seen to belong to all
Nigerians. When you see government as ours
and not theirs; ours as in tribe or group, not
as the whole nation, as the whole citizenry of
Nigeria, then you are part of the problem.
Recently, the police invaded the National
Assembly. I am putting this question to you as
a former member of the House of
Representatives. When the legislators
managed to get into the chambers, some of
them started signing impeachment notice
against the president. How do you see that
incident? Were the police action and
impeachment move justified?
What is the National Assembly? How do you
get there? It is an assembly of political
leaders elected from their constituencies. It is
not an assembly where you always pat each
other’s back and hug each. It is a place to
contend and canvass interests, so conflicts
will naturally arise from time to time. It is not
unusual to have fisticuffs there, and this
happens in every parliament. It is not the
business of government that there could be
anarchy there. They created the impression
that some people were allowed to get in while
the gate was shut on some people. That was
wrong. It is their office. It is not for the police
to begin to anticipate that there could be
crisis. It is an assembly of disharmony and
harmony, of crises and peace, of idiocy and
anything. It all depends on the issue in
discussion. That is not the police business.
So the police were wrong. Even if the police
had reasons to take action, the way they went
about it created the
problem. They should have closed the gate,
allow members to get in and keep away non-
members, even if it means keeping away some
categories of staff, at least for that day. Let
them go in there, fight and box, it is not the
business of the police.
So, you are saying they can be lawless on the
floor, they can kill each other and police will
just watch?
I was once a parliamentarian, and the late
Edwin Ume-Ezeoke was our Speaker. A fight
erupted when we were trying to unseat the
Speaker. It happens in every legislature, even
in America, Russia, everywhere. It is a human
institution, and there is no perfection. It is an
assembly of contending interest, values, and
cultures and not to mention political camps.
So, what the police did was wrong. And it was
also wrong for the House members to say they
are impeaching the president because two
wrongs cannot make a right.
We witnessed the congress for the election of
the PDP candidate for the House of Assembly
in your ward in Birnin Kudu today. We saw
you queue up like other delegates and you
voted. What was the significance of the way
the process was conducted?
Parties have processes and traditions. There is
a difference between a party function and a
government function. Government functions
are full of officialdom and red tape. When you
are in a party function, such as congresses
and conventions, whether you are the
president, vice president, senator, member of
the legislature or governor, you are there first
and foremost as a party man. Therefore, you
should be able to bring the power, aura and
charisma of the office down to the level of the
other party men and women and youth, the
party grassroots, in such a way as to make
them feel this is mine. The party grassroots
must feel today is my day.
You must connect to them because it was
from there that they sent you to your high
office, and when you finish your tenure, you
must return to them. When you appear among
them they feel elated, that that thing which is
up there, which I sent up there is now among
us today. It gives the party a lot of cohesion.
Many people make the mistake of erecting
too many barriers and subject the ordinary
party members to hardship just because the
people they produced in public office are
around. That is wrong.
If you annoy the people, they can walk away.
In fact, they should walk away if they are
harassed too much. I make sure that fellow
party members are respected. I give them their
due courtesy, and I give them a sense of
belonging to the party and to me. I see it as a
family reunion. And that is why at the end of
the function, there was no rancour. Rather,
everybody went home happy and feeling part
and parcel of their party. What you saw today
was part of the tradition of the Peoples
Redemption Party (PRP), and that is what we
have entrenched here in Jigawa State.

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