₦airaland Forum

bestman09:
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!
What would you have done if you were in G E J 's shoe?

Sometimes some of you peeps deserve a good slap.

Jonathan calls people of the South West rascals  - Na fresh air

Jonathan faaarts - Na fresh air

Jonathan calls IBB like his father - Na fresh air

Jonathan promises Nigerians kerosene - Na fresh air

Jonathan promises good administration - Na fresh air

Jonathan does not plan on making money in government - Na fresh air

Jonathan promises to investigate death at Port Harcourt rally  - Na fresh air

Jonathan accepts Atiku, IBB, Ciroma, Dangote, Otedola, Adenuga, Dokpesi - Na fresh air

Jonathan makes plan to bring back Ibori - Na fresh air

Jonathan is clueless - Na fresh air

We must really have been starved of fresh air in Nigeria!!

Wow! All of that for just one man?!

SMH.

noblezone:
It would be political foolishness for Mr President to go to Minna trample upon IBB.

And yet it was not political foolishness for the Mr President to come to South West and call opposition parties - rascals?

Genbuhari3:
Specific - 3000km of super highways
Measurable - 15000mw of power
achievable - looking at what PTF did in 3 years, this manifesto is peanut!
R? cant remember what R is again
Time bound - 'By 2015'

R - Realistic.

Keep the fire burning bruv. Nigeria must CHANGE!

And this is the man some silly Nigerians proclaim as: ''goodluck to Nigerians''.

The same IBB that had Dokpesi as his campaign manager who was accused of the October 1 2010 terror bomb blast in Abuja.

Like father like son - I would say.

I dreaded contesting against IBB -Jonathan

The Tribune Online
Written by Dipo Laleye,
Minna: Thursday, 24 February 2011.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday confessed that he became “very weak” when he thought he would contest the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida.

Jonathan, who made the confession during his presidential campaign in Minna, the Niger State capital, said he became weak because “General Babangida is like a father to me.”

“Babangida is like a father to me, even in my days as a deputy governor and later as governor of Bayelsa State, I used to consult him. So when it came to the option that I might contest with him, I was very weak, but God knows why and God interpreted it and we never contested the primary,” Jonathan said.

President Jonathan expressed gratitude to the former military president “for congratulating me when I emerged as the standard-bearer of the PDP at the end of the primary” and said General Babangida was absent at the rally on Wednesday because “he had to travel out of the country.”

The president also commended the courage of General Abdulsalami Abubakar for handing over to a democratically elected government in the country within the shortest time possible and despite the pressure mounted on him to extend his tenure.

“We remain grateful to the people of Niger State for giving us a son that has made history in Africa, a son that had the opportunity to continue in office for at least four more years and nobody in the world would have stopped him, if he had come up with a transition programme that would last another four years,” the president said.

Jonathan, who recalled that in 2007 during the presidential rally in Niger State that he stood in for the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, who was in Katsina State for the burial of the Emir of Daura, said he was also alone in Minna for a similar event on Wednesday, because, as the ‘senior,’ he asked the vice-president to preside over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council in Abuja.

“Now I have no excuse. I am in charge. When I addressed the rally in 2007, I was the second in command, now I am in charge. So anything I say I must do it. I will have no reason to give anybody excuses.”
The president said his administration would not discriminate against anybody, either on account of tribe or religion, adding that “we will run an open government.”

He maintained that for Nigeria to change and be among the comity of industrialised nations of the world, “we must create wealth,” saying this would be achieved by stabilising the country’s energy sector and revolutionising agriculture.

“We must work hard to create wealth because if we do not in the next few years, we will create a huge population of destitutes in the country.”

Earlier, the Niger State governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, had said that the state had put the PDP presidential primary behind it and that those still nursing the wound of the primary were bad losers.
He described President Jonathan as a “man of sense and justice,” assuring him that the state would vote for the Jonathan /Sambo ticket.

Other speakers at the rally were the acting national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Haliru Bello Mohammed, the Minister of Agriculture, Professor Sheikh Abdallah, former governor of Kano State, Aminu Isa Kontagora, among others.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18003-i-dreaded-contesting-against-ibb-jonathan

If this is a reality, I feel proud as a Nigerian!!!!

BB 2011!!!!!

Lets go there!!!!!!

LoveKing:
I called Tinubu and he said i shouldnt give a damn about PDP's schemes.

LWKMD!  

proflynks1:
"you expect" rather, - point of correction, don't conclude for everyone!

besides if Nigerians think GEJ is God-sent, is there anything wrong with that?

Only an insane man will think GEJ is god-sent. A rancid lie to enslave the mind of the people into not thinking objectively about their future and taking it headlong.

Alxmyr:
Ridiculous as usual.
Saharareporters reports when it has finish all lies in its basket.

Yawns. . . . . same old balderdash.

When your fellow goons are here spreading the ''The Crimes of Buhari'' written by Wole Soyinka from Saharareporters, where were you all to call it ridiculous?

banom:
Are you kidding or u just wanna have fun ? what dayokanu wrote about Buhari is it new or old ? is it not what he supposedly did in the past that we do not know, Now i exposed the evils he did in the past and you dont want to hear about that any more.

Grow up boy, this is internet age , people are no longer foolish as in the past. Buhari and his campaign team paid you guys to come online to advertise about him with all kinds of colored attributes and you think all of us here will be so foolish to accept all your crabs of Nonsense.

Buhari a jihadist and religious bigot and extremist for president indeed

Seriously dude, you are not saying anything new. In fact, you came late. Next time come early with your myopic accusations. We have heard the same rhetoric over and over again.

I have repeatedly asked people like you to provide proof of Buhari being a Jihadist. Please give evidential facts to the credit of Buhari as being a jihadist. Who is an ''extremist''? What extremist views or actions has Buhari displayed thus far? Your noise making here does not smack of intelligence. It directly shows how ignorant you are.

Buhari paid guys to come online to advertise for him? How ridiculous is this. I advertise for Buhari, and I have never met Buhari, I have never met Bakare one-on-one. I do not know who are in his campaign team and I have no business in knowing them. So kindly make use of your brain when next you want to throw idiotic conjectures online.

Anyways, here below is a video to Buhari answering your claim of him being a religious extremist!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=acd4f_miAvA

Clueless Jonathan is at it again.

How a sitting President can be this thick and clueless is beyond me. So we expect the Atikus to be bagging National Awards. . . . . and this is a man whom Nigerians think he is god-sent?

Saharareporters has learned that Goodluck Jonathan has told associates he plans to include some of his high-profile political opponents in the roster of recipients of national honors for 2011 as a way of neutralizing the opposition.

“President Jonathan wants to use the award of national honors to secure the support of dissenting members of his fractious party,” said one source. In pursuit of this goal, Mr. Jonathan has instructed the minister of special duties to forward a list of "worthy Nigerians" to be endowed with national honors before the end of March.

A directive from the presidency, which was seen by Saharareporters, asked the minister of special duties to expedite the process of granting national awards to ensure that Mr. Jonathan can bestow the honors by the end of March 2011.

The directive was issued to enable Jonathan to use the discredited national awards to woo some of his adversaries. “The president is especially interested in using the instrument of national honors to pacify prominent Northern political elders with whom he has engaged in negotiation in recent days,” said a source close to Jonathan and the deal.

Our source said some of Jonathan’s northern advisors had proposed that he use the bestowal of national awards as part of his bargaining chips with disaffected party opponents.

In recent days, some of Jonathan’s aides have accused Abubakar Atiku, who lost to Mr. Jonathan in a contentious party primary, of grandstanding. They claimed that Mr. Atiku was asking Jonathan for oil concessions before he can fully declare support for him.

A senior campaign staffer to Jonathan said the president was panicked over recently released voter's registration figures which show that the northwest section of Nigeria, where Muhammad Buhari (rtd), is extremely popular, and the southwest, where the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) party holds sway, have the largest number of registered voters.

A political analyst said Mr. Jonathan “can only count on carrying some south-south and southeastern states.” The analyst noted that Mr. Jonathan’s popularity in the south south, which has approximately 8 million registered voters, is undercut by his poor electoral prospects in Edo State, which has 2 million voters. In addition, the analyst said that Mr. Jonathan remains unpopular in parts of Rivers State.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/jonathan-“bribe”-opponents-national-honours

hbrednic:
white washing a tomb,will not change it from what it is
can you change a dictator and self-acclaimed jihadist

Please provide proof of him being a self-acclaimed Jihadist. Furthermore, please provide proof that he has sponsored or is sponsoring any Jihad crises in Nigeria.

Maybe you prefer a Jonathan who now wines and dines with the people alleged to be behind the October 1 2010 TERROR BOMB BLAST.

odumchi:
I am not trying to play the ethnicity problem but I'm tired of seeing Northerners fighting for the election wether it be Ribadu Atiku Buhari IBB ect. Northern Nigeria has had it's chance, tjey should remember that they do not own Nigeria. Let us give GEJ a chancE and see what he can do for us. Everyone is saying Igbo 2015, but weren't they the same people that said SS 2011? Now look.

These northern guys shod sit down they do not own Nigeria give everyobeca chance. Look at how much Jonathsn has done for us in his short 2years : better roads, greater security, steadier bit still shaky electricity etc. VOTE for JONATHAN and say GOOD LUCK NIGERIA!

You are still playing tribal politics. Very sad to read this kind of nonsense in this day and age.

Where are the better roads? Where is the greater security? - Can you decide as a person today to live in Jos because Jonathan has provided greater security? Greater security and yet we witnessed loss of 20 lives with Jonathan's campaign election in Port-Harcourt. Greater security and yet murders undertaken within PDP 12 years of mal-administration cannot be explained or solved. Where is the electricity - please kindly tell me.

Do we want to talk about lawlessness in Nigeria under Jonathan's administration - look no further than Ogun State House of Assembly, OBJ/Olurin doing their own governorship campaign - OGD/GNI doing their own separately. And a president who goes about genuflecting to the likes of Ciroma, IBB, Dangote, Otedola, and Atikus.

Do we want to talk about a clueless president who talks before he thinks? - look no further than Oct 1 2010, PDP SW rally in Ibadan.

Only in an insane society, do we allow this gross madness of PDP to go on.

Bukittes:
But guys what should she have said? Did anybody force them to the campaign ground? No? the woman u r claiming turned her face in the pix, why didnt she talk her son or whoever out of going to the campaign? If u say they didnt die for democracy then they died for what they obviously believed in and thats better than dieing for nothing. Why don't we just for once be positive minded and accept some things. If the first lady or nobody goes to  visit the deceased family we will cry wolf, now they have done some condolence visits and we are still crying wolf! Aiye ma le ke!!!!

Take a good look at that picture, the woman spoke a thousand words even before we have started typing here on Nairaland. Dame Jonathan did not even make any note towards catching the person(s) responsible for that stampede - as we all know, her husband could not stand the sight of his own people walking out on him.

Unfortunately, you have spoken as a heartless woman - sorry to say. What did they die for if I may ask you? Democracy? While we are living in a democratic dispensation? Please get real with yourself! This is another irresponsible, clueless government that we have been saddled with. Never ready to own up to their inadequacies, but most willing to punish the senses of Nigerians with meaningless words, rascality of the mouth, empty promises and fantastic facebook gobbledygook.

Ozin:
Of course that shows you are supporting Buhari because of Bakare a Yoruba man and your pastor since u also claim to be a christain,so please go and sit down and know there is ethnic and religious undertone in these whole stuff

In order for me to reply, I need to sit down. So please construct something more intelligent as a reply forthwith.

Now, are you thinking for me? Your biased opinion on this election thus far reeks of ethnic and religious bigotry. I am far and beyond that spectrum of thinking.

I desire for a corrupt free Nigeria. I desire for a Nigeria, where the Nigeria policeman once again carries respect, honor and value. Where a policeman is not ridiculed and aims to shoot at fellows citizen just because he cannot get his twenty naira. Buhari/Bakare have the sheer discipline, tenacity, vision and passion for restoring the glory of Nigeria to where it should have been!

I desire a Nigeria where all people are accountable for their actions. No more of senseless murders that the PDP government have caused. Harry Marshall, Bola Ige, all come to my mind easily. Even the recent Port-Harcourt stampede, no one has been made accountable for it.

In my State, Ibikunle Amosun is contesting for Governorship position, he is a muslim. I will gladly vote for him. Does that equally bother on me having ethnic and religious undertones? Get it straight dude - anything PDP is a DISASTER! 12 years of sheer malady, frustration, murders, anger, corruption, wanton looting of the national treasury, irresponsible house of assembly leaders is enough. 12 years of promising power supply, good roads, good education, safety of lives and property. How long must we continue in this malady and doldrum of PDP alongside with a clueless Jonathan and his band of institutionalized thieves, terrorist, and murderers

SANITY MUST RULE IN NIGERIA.

Enough is enough - Buhari/Bakare 2011!

Dfash:
Seriously , hitherto am a fan of GEJ though av always been concern abt those that surround him. but having gone through ds thread am beginning 2 think dt av been in a wrong camp all along.
i av never giving any thought Or dAMN abt  Buhari @ all  beecos i used 2 think d man is an old school who doesn't know the latest art of governing a state like Nigeria. but from d fore going i think he is just d most clean and stainless among others contenders, d best MAN 4 d job, even better than Ribadu who will latter be controlled and arm twisted by d Tinubus .

i think we should all vote base on personalities and not parties,
these vultures we hav around av wasted enough of our glorious time, change should come.
I think i will be swinging toward the BB team now dt i know better.
pls ao can i join dem on facebook, i can't wait 2 join.

Welcome on the train to a progressive Nigeria!

Please spread the word and spread the wind of change that Buhari/Bakare 2011 represents.

Nigeria shall be great again!

olumyde5:
Men this guy dey vex oo

Only if you know.

In a sensible government, they would have told us the officer(s) responsible for the death of those people.

In a sensible government, the president's wife would not even open her mouth to say this nonsense alleged to her.

In a sensible government, the religious crises experienced in the north would have been resolved.

In a sensible government, we would not have people dying on October 1, 2010 bomb blast and the culprits accused thereof, now joining the government to campaign for another election 2011.

In a sensible government, heads would have rolled for the deaths that occurred at Port-Harcourt.

In a sensible government, a president would guard what he says.

In a sensible government, a president who dithers on nuances, would have apologized and probably think of resigning or the senate considering impeachment proceedings against for failing to apologize.

But alas, Nigeria has been blessed with a senseless, clueless government for the last 12 years! What do we know??

The madness has to stop. PDP has to go.

Ozin:
For where?These set of people are not supporting Buhari and Ribadu because they have anything to offer.They are rather supporting them based on Etnic and religious reasons.Yorubas ACN because it is an ethnic party.CPC because Buhari represent the Haus-Fulani and a Jihadist.If not why are they not backing someone like Pat Utomi who is discussing issues and is not corrupt.

How can you be this blissfully ignorant?

I am Yoruba, a Christian and I support Buhari who is an Hausa-Fulani man. So pray tell me how you came along with your conclusion that this is about ethnic or religious reasons?

If Buhari is a Jihadist, what do you make of Jonathan having a Dokpesi and IBB on his campaign train? These are men linked with the October 1 terror bomb blast 2010. Please do provide proof that Buhari is a jihadist. Just maybe, I will see the hope in Jonathan that you blindly proffer here,

Becomerich,

Alawada ni e. Ma so awa omo Yoruba lenu oh.

DaLover:
Pataki you should take the full package not the part you like, its either GEJ allows free and fir election or not!!! what there to be shocked about?
What is your alternative to GEJ? I hope it not OBj's attack dog, Ribadu or Jihadist Buhari??

Most pple haven't a clue, they just want to replace one corrupt government with another one.
If you ask me PAT UTOMI, is the only politician I have ever heard making sence, he talks in terms of real development I can relate to,
not free busses, free health care, few tarred roads here and there, free education, buying trash cans, all cosmetic rubbish

Reasonable leaders should state strategies that would lead to real depth in the manufacturing sector, strategies to achieve structured urban development vis a vis electrical power distribution, intelligent talk,
I repeat that I have not heard any of the major contestants talk this way, except for Pat Utomi, but he doesn't have the grass roots support across the country and cannot win now, even in a free and fair election.

So what is the essence of shouting GEJ down when you are not proposing better

Before I begin, I kindly implore you to honor me in your next post here with evidential facts as to Buhari being a JIHADIST.

In a realist and ideal world, Pat Utomi might be ideal. But in the present Nigerian dispensation, we want someone who would be dogmatic, bold and fearless. None other fits that shoe except Buhari at the moment.

Pat Utomi preaches what I call: ''cosmetic politics''. So much of fanciful talks, but we all know corruption would not allow his ideas see the light of the day.

In my honest opinion, I want someone who will give power to the people. Have a sense of discipline. Enable people to invest in their ideas, give Nigerians a reason to think outside the box of corruption and government positions as a means of living comfortably. Someone who has tasted power and yet, has no corruption charges leveled against him or his Vice. A man who has been at the helm of affairs and certainly knows what it means to fight down corruption. No other person than Buhari. I am tired of saying the same thing over and over again here; that Nigeria has corrupt leaders. Jonathan is no different, even though I initially thought he was different.

I am tired of a Jonathan and the PDP of twelve years. A PDP that has shown time and time again, they are only there for their pockets. I live abroad, my flatmate is from NigerDelta, one of his brothers is a current Minister under this Jonathan's administration. When I discussed about the death of Nigerians recently at Port Harcourt with him; his response was ''people must die'' while he was laughing. I weep for Nigerians, because his opinion expresses a microcosm to the kind of mindset of leaders we have in Nigeria and we have had in Nigeria under PDP.

It is easy for presidential contestants to deliver fanciful speeches about what and what programs they would implement once they get into power. However, my bone of contention with Nigeria presently is CORRUPTION. This monster is destroying Nigeria, and the only person sane enough to attack this and set Nigeria right presently is Buhari.

Once again, if you have any evidence to Buhari leading or sponsoring any Jihad war, please tender it. Afterall, the IBBs and Dokpesi linked with the October 1 bomb blast are now part of Jonathan's campaign train.

I await your response.

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=608695.msg7772161#msg7772161 date=1298291568]Yorubaland hasn't had a universally acknowledged leader since Awolowo. Certainly we do not have one today.[/quote]And certainly, we do not need one.

slyopez:
@fstrange, u re a goat, pig, cow in short "ibu anu ohia". Ribadu/Adeola ticket is no threat 2 GEJ. Who the f****k are they? Bet me, they cant get upto 5% of general vote in April poll. Yoruba's are clamouring for Ribadu or Buhari support cos they both have yoruba's as running mates. Confused set of tribalistic cowards.

Your stupidity is infinitely blessed. Either you chose idiocy as your buddie, or idiocy has found you idle enough to keep your company, whichever, you are most definitely blessed with stupidity.

When Bakare (a Yoruba man) was being arrested up and down in Nigeria by the SSS, had his passport seized even under a democratic dispensation, where were you to call him a coward?

When Bakare (a Yoruba man) stood up with SNG and marched to Abuja to fight the AGN and Turai over us not having a President, where were you to call him a tribalistic coward? Where was your Goodluck at that time?

Now, there are Yoruba men contesting as Vice-Presidents, in your idiotic way of thinking, we are ''confused set of tribalistic cowards'' for choosing to support honest intellectual men?

Kennyblues:
Noting that they died for democracy, the First Lady said the Federal Government will not abandon the families they left behind.


According to her, the victims of the stampede have paid the price for democracy in Nigeria.


She assured them that the state and Federal Government would  support the bereaved families while regretting that those who died left at the time when they were most needed to translate the principle of one man one vote into action in the election process in the country.



http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/

Like husband, like wife. Wife of a drunken fisherman - I can see. You are equally running your rascal mouth without guarding your statements. For how long must these set of incompetent glorified beings continue to punish the senses of intelligent Nigerians?

If you have nothing intelligent to say, please keep shut. How dare you say, these people died for democracy. Do you even understand what you mean by that statement dear Dame Jonathan? What is the price of democracy if I may ask you?

Has your husband caught the police officer(s) responsible for the death of these people?

Pack of murderers!

They think the money they have can move people's vote this April, they will be shocked!

Fresh Air?? Must be a terminology only meant for the zoo. We are not animals, and these thieves, murderers, looters, enemies of progress to national development should all be rounded up and sent to jail.

We shall see, how far Jonathan ODECHUKWU will last with all these shameless moves and affiliations he is making here and there.

A DROWNING MAN IS A DESPERATE MAN!

Nigerians be warned!

againstGEJ:
Hypocrites.

When they compare him to Obama, it is sensible. But when he is compared to Palin, they go gaga.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-608237.0.html

Are you referring to me as an ''hypocrite''?

Are you OK at all? Did you see me on that thread comparing Bakare to Obama or whomever? I at first thought you were intellectually deficient, you have proven without doubt that truly indeed you are.

March on with your proliferation of useless and baseless threads on this board. Your idiocy is entertaining just to least harangue you with words today.

Just like their drunken fisherman of a leader - ODECHUKWU GOODLUCK, they are absolutely clueless on campaign strategy, rather prefer to go about exhibiting power drunken rascality.

Even the Sarah Palin you talk of, is of more intellect than your president Goodluck.

No matter how hard you try to campaign against Buhari, the truth must be told and heard far and wide!

PDP must GO!!!

And I am happy that in my lifetime, a voting revolution is taking place! Nigerians are taking their destiny and choosing the man of their choice! The man that will chase out these thieves from Nigeria!!!!

Nigerians are no more blinded to the truth.

A good name is better than stolen riches. Apparently, Goodluck is a contrast to that!!!!!

Buhari/Bakare 2011!!!

agabaI23:
It is very fair if you have chosen to vote Buhari. That is why you are a free citizen. However you talked about being informed and intelligent and  yet you are despising a masterpiece. How can you advise us to make decision based on the exemplary life of Buhari but while you advise us not to consider a masterpiece that listed his exemplary life?
That's dictatorship?

A bigoted and myopic masterpiece, I personally consider it as.

MY ARGUMENT:
I can choose to view WOLE SOYINKA (the author of that write-up), as a cultist who has contributed immensely to the high cultism and student killings in the Nigerian tertiary institutions of today, OR I can view him as a man who is an activist, an intellect with a nobel laureate award to show for it. Which would you prefer I hold of him? Therefore, if a Chinua Achebe arises today, and writes a ''masterpiece'' on Wole Soyinka and his young juvenile misguided cult days, should I then judge him (Soyinka) based on the article? Or I rather consider his exemplary lifestyle which makes him fit for leadership as at when needed. Please let us be objective once in a while!

So also I view Buhari. A man who shows with his exemplary lifestyle that he is above the debacle of corruption entrenched with our leaders in Nigeria even from his youthful days! A Buhari who does not regard one religion as superior to another. A Buhari who is NOT a JIHADIST, a Buhari who carries the burden of the nation at heart, a Buhari who is a DEMOCRAT!

That is no dictatorship.

Genbuhari3:
So Johndoe still has time to be highlighting what Soyinka wrote decades ago

stop living in the past man, you get wahala

I could care less what Soyinka, wrote in the dailies about this man (Buhari).

My opinion and mindset is formed out of the credibility and stand of this man, who has consistently shown that he is upright and forthright in fighting corruption in Nigeria. Although he has had his errors in times past, his credibility speaks achievable volumes of him.

Let the cyber trolls go on and keep spamming every Buhari thread with this gobbledygook. An informed and intelligent being, makes his decision not based on what a Soyinka says or has said, but based on the exemplary life Buhari has so far demonstrated.

Buhari/Bakare 2011!

Please vote and vote wisely!!

Bloody arsewipes and disgusting irritants. The assembly of idiots gathering themselves together to spew ignorant bigoted tribalistic BS on themselves.

Why must their gathering always be in Ibadan or Ogun State? How I wish by May 2011, these idiots and thieves are not only sentenced to long term jail, but openly flogged in public once a month while serving their jail terms.

Nigerians VOTE and kick out these tribalistic buffoons in the April elections!

Nigeria should have advanced beyond this tomfo000olery being spewed and read on the internet.

Voted!

Buhari/Bakare 2011!