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R. Abati, Who did then, if GEJ didn't?

hopelink1:
well i dont know and i think i should meditate on whether i should continue supporting him . your advice will be highly welcomed.

Following a sinking man will only land you in the deepest ditch there is. No true lover of Nigeria still supports GEJ at this time, except those feeding from this corruption entrenched government like Ifeanyi Ubah, et al.

benson81:
Is this not equivalent to contesting for LGA chairman after serving as speaker of House of assembly?Na wa!Politicians and the desire to remain continuosly relevant.as far as I'm concerned wat befitts him is a shot at the presidency win or loose.

The office of the governor of any state is no match when compared in terms of the resources that accrues it, with that of the Speaker of the House of Representatives as the governor pulls more political weight, et al.

hjr2014:
just applied successfully! i hope im taken!

Hi, please help a friend out.
Did you get a confirmation stating that your application is successful?
After I uploaded my document and selected my vacancy of interest, I could not proceed thereafter. Your urgent response is awaited.

ITbomb:
After registering, the email with the login details didn't drop (not even in spam) and you can't use that email again

Yea, after the registration, there is not any email details that will show up. Rather, you would observe that your account has been created and your shall proceed with filling out the application, upload your passport & document. When you have completed this, let me know.
Cheers!

estyann:
No

What stopped you from proceeding & what is your discipline?

estyann:
How to apply o.... The link isn't opening

Have you succeeded in applying? please reply.

Ignorance know no boundaries.

If this is the way to go in achieving our purpose of cleaning out insurgency, we wouldn't be left with a choice than to adopt it.
I do wish we could adopt same practice for our thief politicians and their likes.

I am writing this article in my capacity as Joe Igbokwe, I am writing this piece as an Author and writer and I am writing this as a public commentator on national issues. I am not writing this piece as the spokesperson of Lagos APC. I speak strictly for myself and I crave your indulgence to give me this liberty to speak at a time like this. Nigeria is in a deep crisis and anybody who wishes this country well must speak out now or hold his peace forever.

I have said it before that when a nation is in crisis, the people must search and fish out a great president. When a nation is at crossroads, a competent and strong hand is needed to restore normalcy. When a nation’s territories are being threatened by external forces, you need a president with military background to put a stop to the insurgency. When corruption, impunity and mediocrity ravage a country, you need a disciplined man with puritanical disposition to be on the driver’s seat.
General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) has come of age in Nigerian politics. He contested the presidential elections in 2003, 2007 and again in 2011. In 2007, he was mercilessly rigged out of power and he went to court to seek redress. The case went up to the Supreme Court where the three Supreme Court judges agreed that the elections were flawed while three voted against. It took the vote of the Chief Justice of the federation to save the country from national and international embarrassment...

GMB accepted the verdict. In 2011, he returned to the ring to box again. This time the electoral thieves got bolder in the South East and South South. They loaded and loaded votes until they became satisfied with the number. A friend of mine who went to vote was told to go home because they had got the required number. Again the great betrayal by members of his party and the inability of members to work together created the room for PDP to retain power again. General Buhari cried. He wept for Nigeria, he wept for the state of nation and the level of impunity and corruption ravaging the landscape and he wept for generations yet unborn.

He wept because he reasoned that Nigerians do not want to fight for change. He wept because the few who were choking Nigeria work twenty four hours a day and seven days in a week while the majority and those who should know better go to sleep and pray 20 times in a day asking God to come down to do the talking for them. GMB wept because he considered that he has tried his best to help restore Nigeria. He wept because he saw no hope for this country when the evil ones are getting bolder. The rest is now history.

In the last three and half years the rapacious greedy lots in Nigeria, the corrupt, the meretricious mediocrity and the nitwits became bolder. NNPC, Immigration, Pension funds, NPA, etc became cash cows. It became a big scramble for these characters to pillage anything their hands could touch. NNPC could not remit all the money accruing from crude oil sales to CBN. When the former CBN Governor, now Emir of Kano, HRH Sanusi Lamido Sanusi raised an alarm, he was sacked with ignominy. Federal Ministers became laws unto themselves, attacking the common patrimony with reckless abandon, stealing what they do not need. The great threat to the nation’s corporate existence became the Boko Haram insurgency. Over 5000 Nigerians have been killed in the past three and half years. While the ruling party and the opposition continue to trade blames, the nation continues to go down. Mutinies reared its ugly heads in the Army of Nigeria. Junior officers started disobeying their superiors and our combatant soldiers escaping to Cameroun for fear of the rag-tagged insurgents called Boko Haram.

In the midst of this, our infrastructure continues to decay. In 1999, our power generation stood a 3000 plus Mega Watts and after almost sixteen years we are now under 3000 Mega Watts after spending billions of dollars in that critical sector. Never in the history of this country has any leader played up the dangerous issues of Religion and Ethnicity as we have it today under President Jonathan. The Vice President, everybody including this writer fought so hard to make him assume his constitutional responsibility as president when President Yar Adua died in office, has put a knife on things that have held us together as one political entity. The president has systematically divided Nigeria along ethnic and religious lines, something unheard off in the history of Nigeria. Dangerously and tragically he moved from being the president of Nigeria to become the president of Ijaw nation. To make matters worse, some cowards and efulefus(nonentities) from his tribe took on other Nigerians, pouring invectives on them for asking questions.

I guess it was these errors of history that drove General Buhari to throw his hat into the ring once again to see if Nigerians can go back to history and take the right steps to right the wrongs of the past sixteen years. After giving up hope for Nigeria, GMB decided to return to take his last chance to help Nigeria out of trouble. I may not know what informed his decision to stage a comeback but I guess he knows what is wrong with this country and feels he knows what to do to reverse the trend.

I find it difficult to believe why the other equally good candidates in APC cannot step down for GMB given his antecedents, track records, history and character. No other former Head of State in Nigeria can be said to possess the discipline, honesty and integrity of General Buhari, all things considered. As a war time General, a former minister, a former Head of State, former chairman PTF and a fourth time contender in the race since 2003, I think that the man deserves all the support from all Nigerians to make it this time. Despite his dictatorial tendencies when he was the Military head of state, Buhari restored discipline and probity in Nigeria. His War Against Indiscipline (WAI) paid off handsomely and Nigeria is still reaping the fruits today. His intervention at PTF paid off too. His fight against corruption stood him out.

If today, the people at the corridors of power hate GMB, it is not because he is a bad man but the fear that some of them will end up in jail for corruption and impunity. They know that if GMB becomes the President, things may never be the same again and many of them will enter the next available flight to anywhere outside Nigeria. They know that oil subsidy looters will not go scot free. They know that GMB knows all of them. They know money does not mean anything to GMB and therefore he cannot be bribed.

Nigeria needs a tested and trusted Buhari now and this is the reason why I am pleading with all other APC presidential aspirants to step down for GMB. He is the most prepared for this office at a time like this. The little we saw of him in the 80s tells us that his wisdom, courage, discipline, strong character, fearlessness etc is what we need now to drive the new Nigeria of our dream. We must seize the moment. We must grab it with both hands or history will leave us behind.

Make no mistake about it, if we make the mistake of allowing President Jonathan to continue in office beyond 2015 we would have sowed the seed for this great country to go down. With all due respect, and without sounding immodest, President Jonathan has nothing to offer Nigeria. His emergence in 2010 was a big mistake. It was an error of history. It was something that could never have happened if we had known his innermost disposition, his training, his background, his philosophy, his ideology and his character. He cannot fight the insurgents, he cannot fight impunity, he cannot fight corruption, he cannot fight mediocrity, he cannot hold the country together and he simply cannot get it. The age of his ideas worries me to the marrows.

Let us help to get President GEJ out of the China’s shop to forestall further colossal damage. HE has tried his best and has made history for himself and his people but his best is not good enough for the country. This country is far bigger than the ambition of one man and therefore President Jonathan should be prepared to go because he will be roundly and mercilessly defeated in 2015.
- Joe Igbokwe, Lagos

You could tell that to a man, who understood why he is in government, certainly not GEJ.

GEJ is doing amazingly well in consolidating on the corruption level.

That was also what we were told back in our university days.

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The Pyrates Confraternity, which later metamorphosed into cultism in universities was founded by seven prominent Nigerians back in their days as undergraduate students at the University of Ibadan in 1953. It was the brain child of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who got 6 of his friends - Nat Oyelola, Sylvanus Egbuche, Pius Olehi, AIG Imokhuede, Ralph Okwara and Prof. Bolanle Awe, involved. Prof. Awe, who is now a pastor at Fullness of Christ Evangelical Ministry (FOCEM) in Ibadan explains how it all started...
The idea was conceived by Wole himself, at least I know he was the one who talked to me. I don’t know who spoke to the other five members but we actually assembled at Teeder Hall, the second hall to be completed after Melamby. We assembled in the basement and just made merry in the evening. We were just out to be different and I saw it to be fun. None of us envisaged that we were laying the foundation of a virulent cult in that 1953/54 session, though the association insisted that it was in 1952 hence they celebrated their 50 years in 2002. At that basement we had something to drink, nothing potent, we went around the campus in unusual ways, we were well known and there was nothing like secret oath, nothing spiritual about it all.


You earlier said people doubted your new life because of what you have dipped your hands into. What were these things?
I am one of those who founded Pyrates Confraternity (PC) and I am one of those who maintained that though PC which transformed to National Association of Seadogs (NAS) truly dissociated itself from PC on campuses, it can not really separate itself from it. This was the basis of the attack of Prof. Wole Soyinka on me at their 50th anniversary where he gave an 18-page lecture, where substantial part of it was an attack on me and my ministry. That only showed me that his camp noted that someone has left them. In fact, I have just finished writing a reply to him on that.

My attitude is that whatever we may say today, it was the idea of PC that gave rise to these virulent cults. Even though we were not violent when we started it and we didn’t call it cult, but the cult culture began after when we started. Today, they still recognise we the founders as the Magnificent 7! The NAS does not want to agree with that. Though they decreed that no PC should not exist on campuses, but we all know that they still do. The fact is if they say they have no link to the ones on the campuses, I’ll be prepared to accept that but to say they don’t exist on campuses, I disagreed and we parted ways on that.

At the time you started, what was the criteria used to recruit members
It was solely based on friendship. My own interpretation was that at the appropriate time, Satan hijacked what we started since we didn't know where we were going.

What were the creed of the association?
I wrote it somewhere I can not locate now. I think they were to abolish convention, revive the age of chivalry (where you show deference to the weaker sex) etc. In any case I can’t remember anything that we did to promote those creeds. The motto was; Orders Is Orders. Also, Wole did not stay long enough because he left a year after for Leeds, because he wanted to study English honours which was not available as a course in Ibadan then. I think Ralph Opara took over from him as the head. But I stayed till 1956 when I left for Britain. Three of us Wole, me and Pius Olehie, who formed the PC, were from the same class in Government College, Ibadan while Ralph Opara was a year before us.

So when would you say Pyrates Confraternity became virulent?
I think by the 1980s. The thing is that at the beginning, there was only PC and so many people struggled to be a member because it was a prestigious thing. When I returned from Britain, some students who wanted to become members needed a lecturer to sponsor their membership, those who came to me got my nod.

Up till about 1972, PC was the only association, but when there was schism over one of them who violated the law and he was not ready to subject himself to discipline, he left and started a rival organisation and that was how the Buccaneers Confraternity started. About the same time, Eye Confraternity started. You must not also forget that violence was become rife in the society. This began in Ibadan with Operation Wetie around 1964/ 65. Things became intolerable until the coup in 1967.

Violence became the order of the day and it crept into PC by the time, I had become disenchanted with the club and was ready to leave. Some of the PC members had their vision beclouded by violence and the old PC decided to form National Association of Seadogs and went ahead to register it at the Corporate Affairs. They said PC should no longer exist on campuses but there is a difference between saying and establishing it.

So the whole thing between Wole and I was the inability to establish what they proposed, and so other groups began to spring up in various universities using the name Pyrates Confraternity because nobody has any right on the name. This is the problem between Wole and I.

At what point did you renounce your membership?
I must say that I did not officially renounce until I became a Christian. I kept being less and less active because I kept seeing it as an activity for children and younger people. But when I became born-again and established this ministry, I consciously went to God and confess that we were the people who started this thing, which has become something we did not envisage. I asked Him to forgive me and forgive the rest of us and I confessed on behalf of others too. That is the only time I’ll say I renounced it. It was a private thing.

Have you done that publicly?
No, I have not bothered but I’ve told all who are concerned that I’m no longer one of them. At any public opportunity, I always say it and they know that I am no longer one of them. If Wole could take the trouble to attack me in an 18-page report, then I know it has registered that I am no longer one of them.

Did they make any effort to ask you why you were leaving?
No, we did not bond ourselves to be members forever. I think when they found out that I stopped turning up for their meetings that must have convinced them that I was no longer interested. But I didn’t make any statement concerning them until I started this ministry and got involved in the University as chairman of Anti-cultism Campaign Committee.

Did you take the cultism to a higher level like joining the Ogboni, as people believe it happens?
As I said, I was only active in it between 1953 and 1957after which I left for Britain. When I came back in 1960, I was on the staff of the University and was just an adviser to them. I didn’t know what they did at their services (meetings) I didn’t know when the oath taking, etc started or if it was actually done. However, I know it is done today. This is what the Seadogs pretend not to know.

Have you spoken about Christ to Wole Soyinka?
I have not but I will certainly welcome the opportunity. The only problem I envisage is that unless God softens Wole’s heart, it might be difficult to speak with him on Christ.

Interview with Elife.

Source: www.nigeriatell.com/news/how-soyinka-i-set-up-pyrates-confraternity-82-yr-old-prof-awe-reveals

hairyanus:
Is this guy still alive? These are the accient wizards of Nigeria that survives on the bloods of young virgins...and now they want to give me a 74 years old president. Rubbish, Gowon was how old when he ruled us. Buhari was how old when he truncated democracy and ruled us....i may sound hegemonic but I feel insulted to have youths campaigning for him. So, out of almost 200million people, we cant get a young breed to revolutionize Nigeria with radical development and fight corruption except Buhari. His supporters must be breathing from their a.nus....

Supports Buhari.
A vote for General Buhari is a vote for the younger generations of Nigeria as the General is routing to displace the ruling party (that has mortgaged the future of Nigerian youths since 1999) and set the platform for the younger generations. This is why the General will only do a one term in office, enough for him to clean the rubbish that GEJ & his predicessor lumped us into.

Senator Francis Arthur Nzeribe, this man always has his ways with words.

mcfarlin:
-2/10.

The country just keeps on getting into more trouble..

Then his decision to run for re-election despite his apparent incompetence is hare-brained!.

The clueless dude is got to run, remember he is not in control of himself. His wife & the power hungry benefiaries of his government won't allow him to take proper decisions.

TheIROKO:
It doesn't do the ordinary Nigerian any good to not be objective or been biased in judging our leaders because "WE" at the end bear the pain of mismanagement by our leaders.

This is the exact reason we are pleading with you and other Nigerians not to mortgage another 4years of our future in exchange for a bag of 'expired' rice in the name 'stomach infrastructure.'

saaedlee:
Repositioning of the Economy
Implementation of Human Rights
Improved security Infrastructures
Transport especially Aviation
Improved Health sector as was noticed during the Ebola Epidemic
Job Creation; some ministries, commissions and departments called for applications this year
Etc.

I find it real hard to believe that a young person could write this in support of GEJ 5years of below average governance.[/quote]Job Creation; some ministries, commissions and departments called for applications this year[/quote]Perhaps, the Immigrations recruitment is an awesome example of this.

HrtBrkSteve:
What about Health Minister? Dr Onyebuchi..abii u forget ebola brouhaha nii

We are asked to give an assessment of GEJ government for 2014 running. The ebola issue was fought by the foot soldiers of the Lagos & Rivers States governments. What the health minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu did were to provide an overview and daily progress report to his boss & the international community.
The #200million that was allocated to Rivers State for example arrived the State after the last patient at the quarantine centre has been discharged and certified ebola free. You will agree with me that if the states of Lagos & Rivers had waited for GEJ before taking actions, we would have been in another ebola war today.

saaedlee:
6/10

Please, do a breakdown of your analysis.

2/10.
The two points are due him from the "Golden Egg" of the GEJ administration, the Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Adeshina. The only ministry in my assessment that's working.

kITATITA:
Definitely, but we can't continue with the system. Buhari‘s involvement gives the process some form of credibility. Buhari with all his baggage is better than those holding our mentality hostage. I haven't seen Buhari‘s portrait on a bag of rice. I can't imagine Buhari or his backers hiring crowds to model for his political appearance. Unemployed youths won't be paid their gratuities with bags of rice on their heads. Buhari gives us reason to vote.

I interested in rescuing Nigeria via the person of Buhari.

shadelek:
and you are trying every possible means to destroy GEJs administration but you will surely fail. the man is nt clueless, he knows what to do. soon now, it will be ASUU suspends their proposed strike plan. GEJ rules

Any supporter of Jonathan at this sorry state GEJ has plunged this nation, is a full dumb a$$.

MichaelSokoto:
nothin iz work in dis darn con3!
Electricity distribution situation iz seriously epileptic in Benin city & d whole of Edo state.

Relations up @ sokoto are complainin too

OP, when next you go for election, use your votes wisely and vote out GEJ & his inept team.

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President Goodluck planned going to Kano for a regional rally and there was a
bomb blast a day to the rally and he went to Kano aand he was accused of dancing on the grave of the killed.

He planned to inaugurate the constitutional conference and their was a bomb blast preceeding the inauguration and he was accused of callousness.

TAN gathered in PH for rally and they were accused of being insensitive to the spread of Ebola and on the same day, the former CTC of PHALGA was buried and there was sensitivity to the out-break of Ebola.

A day to declare his intention to seek re-election, there was a bomb blast at
Potiskum killing 49 students. He went ahead and declared and was accused of callousness and dancing on the grave of the students. The next day, Adams celebrated 6yrs in power with Goodluck's accusers in attendance and not sensing callousness or insensitivity.

My questions are these: Who is afraid of Goodluck seeking re-election?

Who is behind these blasts and why is it whenever Goodluck wants to go for any political rally?

An African proverb say 'He coming for equity should come with clean hands'

GEJ told us in 2011 that 'four years is enough to fix Nigeria' and by 2015, he will be 6years as president, yet his performance in office is far below that of a mediocre. What else does he want in that seat, if not his last breath?

Yungwizzzy:
Then GEJ should point them out and bring them to book

Exactly!

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