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This is just wrong, he was in SA for the AU summit so any attempt to extradite him to face war crimes charges at the ICC will act as a deterrent to other leaders/dictators in future with regards to attending such meetings....
The ICC should stop concentrating on African leaders and other world leaders who have fallen out of favour with western power brokers if it must maintain it's integrity...It's obvious the ICC is a tool of west...
Moreover, the continuous in fighting in southern Sudan years after she voted to part ways with Sudan is a pointer that it's more of greed and other factors rather than Bashir's influence that has fueled the crisis all this years...I'm in no way holding brief for the actions/inactions Al Bashir though...

Guys, sup with the Robert Firmino rumour making waves across boards? Is he any better than what we already have?

Whynotthetruth:
Load of bull crap indeed ...Compared to Osun state as the article did...Is Ebonyi not healthy economically... Dispute this fact objectively based on the comparative analysis of those states as paired and see if your aren't erring...

Selectivity on play here, you leave out states like Benue, Plateau and the likes just to justify your attack on the APC... I'd like to also know your take on the FG which also ran into huge debts overtime...
Half truths, bias and hate doesn't cut it for me...

God bless GMB
God bless Nigeria

hedonistic:
Very ridiculous excuses. In spite of the unprecedented cooperation given to Buhari by the outgone administration of Jonathan after the election, this confused dullard still cannot tell his right from his left, two weeks after his inauguration.

What if Jonathan had been hostile and chose not to prepare any handover notes whatsoever? What if he had not cooperated at all as was the case in Rivers State and other states where the APC were sore losers as usual? So the Dullard of Daura would have needed two years to "understand what the situation was" before appointing ministers and getting to work? Did he understand what the situation was before making fake and unfulfillable campaign promises to hopelessly gullible Nigerians?

You obviously don't know the meaning of "Unprecedented"
Quit the name calling, it doesn't make you appear more intelligent than nothing...

Thing is; they never learn...
Kids have turned this forum to their play ground led by their protection seeking hero

I'm speechless...The system needs a total overhaul...

barcanista:
Let me be frank most of us are not innocent from all these tantrums at prominent oppositions personalities. I just want to appeal to APC fans to endure whatever name is given Buhari or their party chiefs till 2019. Better still they should ask Buhari to resign if they can't endure the names given him.

I'll take this from any other Tanoid but you...You were guilty of insulting GEJ too so you have no obligation to start a thread like this...

Let the constitution prevail, Ekweremadu should resign as he doesn't meet the constitutional requirement required to be elected DSP...
I'm so loving this exposition...

Retired not sacked, haters trying to confuse gullible minds...

Ezenwammadu:
l hope somebody has informed him that Mandela is dead and apartheid over before he goes on a long rant demanding the relase of mandela and the end of the apartheid regime

Even though I'm on the other side of the divide, I find this really funny...You dey craze ah swear...

SmooshCHN:
You're mocking him yet you can't construct a proper sentence.

Nice one

Er0ticAngela:
When are the ibos finally going back to Biafra?

I think I should adopt you as the antidote to Ecouseless and Cry77...Be my guest... lol

They're so many stupid persons on this forum...

ECOTERRORS:
take it easy, you will receive your 40k alert on monday. Your boss wrote two articles this week that made FP.

If you're really a female and this stupid, it calls for serious concern...

It's important to keep track of events as a pointer in any case of attempted misinformation in future...Omenka you're doing a great job...

sosanova:

[size=13pt]Another Animalistic Tajudeen on the loose again
u are nothing but a sophisticated talented monkey from Sudan but made in China
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Common sense is really not common...

ECOTERRORS:
Tinubu dollars lost this time, you can bribe the some but you can't bribe the whole Nigerians

Stupidity is resident in your tongue...Load of trash

torkaka:
. . . . . . . .minion, always read to understand!! . . . . . . . . . .goon, kaase was not arrested by SARS, rather the journalist who demanded 10m . . . . . . . . . . .the case against Okiro is on-going and he was only granted administrative bail by ICPC . . . . . . . . . . .boy, Kaase released a press statement on the 8th of june (http://newsdiaryonline.com/okiro-is-a-drowning-liar-says-kaasepsc-staff/) reacting to his link with the journalist (publisher) in question . . . . . . . . . . . . . .goon, your fallacies are becoming evident everyday . . . . . . . . . . . .too much copy and paste . . . . . . . .minion, Okiro has turned nothing against Kaase, he was rather subdued (as reported by Sahara reporters) during interrogation

I like the way you hit on haters who are bent on propagating half truths...

barcanista:
It is not unexpected. Buhari has never for once supported Military action against BH under GEJ's administration. Instead of him to concern himself with the victims of BH bastards, he's more concerned with probing the military for fighting BH.

It's a pity you don't seem to understand how the activities (action/inactions) of the NA has dragged this war on and on...
The unprofessionalism of the NA lost them the invaluable trust of the locals and hence made the war a lot more difficult to win...

They thought they could bury us but they never knew we're like seeds... Barca and company don't start a war you know you can't win...

ECOTERRORS:
The Nation writing an article to make us belive that Tinubu has the greatest input into PMB cabinet list. Nonsense

You've never made sense...Not yesterday, not today and definitely not tomorrow...
S
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Ezemust:
Rubbish.northern muslims scraping it coz they have many wifes

If you read the article you'd have noticed that they're many northern governors with one wife...The idea is about limiting the influence of wives in politicking taking a clue from the disaster that was Patience Jonathan

omenka:
Good morning.

Ordinarily, joining issues with doomsday prophets is what I hardly do but on this particular occasion, I am compelled to write this in order to set the records straight.

There's certainly no doubt a lot of young lads with impressionable minds roam this site daily to keep abreast with the latest goings-on in our society. These guys have minds like a fresh canvas upon which an image or a painting should be made, most of which are indelible. When you try to erase the painting when the paint sets on the canvas, you wind up destroying the canvas itself- you destroy the mind.

On the flip side we also have genuinely ignorant adults who swallow whatever is served them hook line and sinker, most of them too lazy to go a bit further to verify information they are being fed with. They take the lies they read here, propagate them among their peers and younger folks who look up to them in the main street, and in the end, lies become staple to the general public.

This piece, belated as it may, is meant to be an eye opener to those who care to keep an open mind to divergent opinions as they relate to government and governance in this country.


1. Anti Corruption.

Regarding this, the Op made reference to Timipre Silva's and Murtala Nyako's cases, and said: "Buhari is yet to make any high profile arrest or prosecution since coming into power". He claimed both have been cleared. Haha. How bigger can a lie get?? Nowhere has Murtala been given a clean bill of health, but he lumped it up with Timipre's case in order to deceive gullible readers as to the "similarities" in both cases. Even the link he provided didn't say Nyako has been cleared.

Further, what kind of corruption case can be dispensed of in 12 days!!?? The op wants the president to make "high profile arrests and prosecution in 12 days. Are we in a military regime?? Isn't this totally laughable??

In which court can such be achieved?? What good is there making an arrest and charging one to court when you don't have your facts and evidence to build a water tight case and get a conviction?? Does the op have any idea the investigations going on underground (I'm not saying there are, but chances are there could be) which could possibly result in an indictment??

Now, here are the things I think the op deliberately ignored:

(a) Former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff has submitted himself to the authorities for onward processing.

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/184335-ex-borno-governor-modu-sheriff-hands-himself-in-to-efcc.html.

(b) Some officials of the immediate ps government have started returning stolen monies .

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/184721-jonathans-men-returning-stolen-money-el-rufai.html

(c) Oil Traders, NNPC Officials Interrogated,
Watch-listed in Major Investigation.

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oil-traders-nnpc-officials-interrogated-watch-listed-in-major-investigation/211388/

(d) EFCC arraigns CBN officials, others for N8bn currency scam.

www.punchng.com/news/efcc-arraigns-cbn-officials-others-for-n8bn-currency-scam/

(e) Buhari Reopens $182m Halliburton
Bribery Case, 3 Ex-Presidents May be Jailed.

m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/181746/1/nigeria-buhari-reopens-182m-halliburton-bribery-ca.html

(f) Buhar's Anti-corruption War Takes Off.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/buharis-anti-corruption-war-takes-off/

(g) 14 Foreigners Arrested For Oil Bunkering.

http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/06/10/14-
foreigners-3-vessels-charged-with-bunkering/

(h) Former police IG Mike Okiro in Court over Embezzlement.

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/184566-ex-police-ig-okiro-denies-stealing-n275m-says-own-aide-set-him-up.html

From the foregoing, there's no gainsaying the side to which this government is tilting in terms of sanitising and purging the system of corruption in whichever forms they may exist.

I challenge anyone to show me what the immediate past administration did in this regard within 12days!


2. Transparency.

From anti corruption, the op went on to touch on transparency, pointing to the president's "non declaration of assets publicly".

Here's what people tend not to understand about assets declaration.

First of all, Assets declaration on assumption of office is totally useless with non-disclosure upon exit from office. The purpose of declaring your assets on assuming office is for the authorities, and indeed the public, to know how much you are worth before being handed a position. After leaving the position, you are meant to declare your assets again. This is meant to reveal, as the case my be, how much you acquired over the period covered from your initial declaration. If what you declare is way and above what is deemed "acquireable" under the circumstance, then a case could be established against you for illegal acquisition of wealth. That is, you must have corruptly enriched yourself.

Now, when you declare your assets by filling the form from CCB, a time frame is given within which investigations are carried out by the body to determine the veracity or otherwise of the claims made therein. Most politicians declare their assets in liu of what is to be acquired. They might say they own "XYZ" estate in Banana Island with the hope that they could steal enough money to build same in due time. Eventually, when they happen to declare their assets when leaving office, the content of the form would appear the same as that which they submitted on assumption of office, giving the wrong impression that they've stolen NOTHING!

Therefore, it is very important that verification is being carried out on declared assets and liabilities so as to avoid the scenario described above. When this is done and the assets are not declared publicly or access is being denied the public by CCB perusal of the forms , then we can say the president has gone back on his promise. At this point, it is simply premature criticising them on transparency based on assets declaration.

3. Security.

On Security, the poster talked about non rescue of the Chibok Girls and the spike in Boko Haram activities.

Frankly, this is totally nonsensical, and made me laugh. I really don't know how to go about shedding light on this one but the poster was just being cheeky.

In the inaugural address by the President, he made particular reference to the Chibok girls. He stated that they've not been forgotten and everything within the powers of the government would be done to ensure the girls re rescued and re-united with their parents. The op expects them to be rescued in 12 days!! Wow. Even the Israeli Commandos would find this very laughable. I don't even have to mention the attitude of the immediate past government towards this issue, especially in it's initial stages- two weeks we heard it took the ex-president to come to believe the incident actually happened.

In addition, we've seen the president embark on painstaking trips, rallying our neighbours to form a common alliance to fight this monster head on. He's held bilateral and trilateral talks with some heads of states, brainstorming on how best to approach the knotty issue.

Countries have made commitments on assistance in this regard ( www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/g7-france-canada-germany-back-buhari-on-fight-against-boko-haram/) and hopefully, before long, we'd start seeing concrete outcome of all these

Since the op stated the number of deaths recorded so far (don't know where he got that figure from since he provided no links), here's a time-line of the terrorists related incidents since they barged their way into our consciousness.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Boko_Haram_insurgency

It is simply too early in the day to start condemning Mr President in this regard- come on guys!

4. Economy.

Here, reference was made by the op to the sale of PMS above the official price of N87.

To me, this is another feeble attempt at casting this government in bad light. There is no doubt the situation that obtains today represents a huge departure from what it was three weeks ago when the country was virtually brought down to her knees with an acute scarcity of PMS, and where available, sold for no less than N250 per litre- N400 in some cases I read! Not only was there scarcity and a price hike, electricity was totally nonexistent- the country was, simply put, on life support!

Now the situation has eased up. Even though we are not where we desire to be, there's been a remarkable improvement. No??

5. Governance.

In this regard, the op points to the non-appointment of heads of agencies and parastatals as a mark of failure- very very ignorant I must say. This issue has been thrashed time again but the PDP supporters keep harping on it. I just don't understand why.

Now, check this out. We know what a heterogeneous country Nigeria is with its many ethnic groups and power blocks. We know that a delicate balance must be maintained in the appointment of heads of government bodies so avoid a nasty situation where power appears concentrated in a particular region. Given what has played out in the National Assembly, shouldn't Nigerians be happy these appointments were not made earlier?? Had the appointments been made in such a manner the principals of the National Assembly come from the same regions, states, or ethnic groups as the appointees, who would have been the ones crying of marginalisation??- Nigerians- I hear someone say.

So, the president in his wisdom, refrained from making any official pronouncements of who is to oversee what, and I think that is commendable. Now that the NASS has been inaugurated, the picture appears clearer and such decisions can be taken in a more accommodating fashion.

Lastly, just so you know, "GOVERNANCE" is a sum total of the outcome of all the indices stated above and not just some appointments here and there

I challenge anyone to tell us what Jonathan, or any other president for that matter, achieved in their first 12 Days in office.

Thank you all.

Long Live Nigeria.

Long Live President Mohamadu Buhari.


Cc: Obiagelli, Demdem, Beremx, Midolian, Pendy69, Jarlons, Mynd44, Caseless, Gbawe, Egift, Donphilopus, Aresa, NgeneUkwenu et al.

Powerful piece bro...Missed the fun, please mention me next time

Nairaland resident comedian... If you're not paid to write all these rubbish, then you must be crazy...

barcanista:
I don't think being tall was part of his campaign "change" promise

Na so craze dey start...Anyway continu, it's none of my biz

lala and fp

brownlord:
Idiat, me being neutral or not is not the point, just keep shut if you have nothing to counter the point there.

And you think you made a point... That's the problem with fools, there hardly realize they're stupid...

brownlord1:
Just dance to the music and stop blabbing, Though i want Buhari to succeed for the benefit of poor Nigerians, but APC as a party and you in particular do not have the moral right to spew this nonsense.

I remember seun wanted to make it an offense for members of this forum not to use derogatory words/insult political office holders, please go back to that thread and search for the response of these people you mentioned here.

Egift, Passingshot, Obiagelli, Demdem, Gbawe, Beremx, NgeneUkwenu, Donphilopus, Jarlons, et al.

It was an era you'all felt comfortable calling the president of Nigeria a drunkard, Clueless, Jona.daft etc, to you this was just fine, but few days ago hypocritical you and passingshot already making a post about how bad it is for people to insult the office of the president.

Common bro, you don't have the moral right when all you did was use same propaganda to blackmail Jonathan, won't you be an hypocrite to cry now that your man is there?

On that thread seun proposed to ban people from insulting politicians, please check for my response to berem when she made her usual silly post about seun trying to defend Jonathan. Did it occur to you one day APC/Buhari will be in power and people will pay you back in your own coin?

Hey man, when pointing a finger, there more gallantly pointing back at you, please just enjoy this party.

karma is a bloody bi.tch.

Nonsense

Sometimes I feel you've some kind of personality disorder...
In your quest to appear neutral to the course, you expose your obvious bias without noticing...You're always off point in every discussion I find you, it seems like you were/are a mistake...Accidental discharge might just be the word best for your description...

Never knew Wike represented the law courts...Only in Nigeria...

texazzpete:
Abeg where is that in the APC manifesto?

Help me ask the goat... Barcanista and half truths like 5 & 6...