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CAN president relegated to the background. Oritshejafuck brought shame and dishonor to his name and office.

JonaTAN bringing BADLUCK to any thing or anyone that comes close to him.

Sai Baba

babyosisi:
Like these lagosians in the BBC Documentary,enjoying life?

Like it is not the lots who learn the trade at oba dumpsite in onitsha who came to practise their trade in Lagos.

Your peeps should think home and go develop it rather than fixate on Lagos. A small state yet carrying over 20million people with more than half of them non indigenes yet they are not appreciative of the fact that the poverty that made them run away from their enclaves and villages would have killed them there if not for same LAGOS.

Keneking:
Great...immediately he is pronounced winner, I plan to dedicate time to assist the new government chart a new path of recovery. This article clearly articulates some of my thoughts.

I am aware that the new government headed by Buhari would be expected to hit the ground running from the first day being May 29,2015 therefore I pledge to contribute as much as is required to make him succeed.


cc: lalasticlala

Sai Buhari

so much rot from head to toes in the way the Government runs

POPdecorator:
Bbc also comfirm it
sai buhari

The International Community is prepared for a POST JONATAN NIGERIA.

The clown of a presidunce set us back 40years.

Over 30trillion Naira lost to waste and corruption in the system

babyosisi:
And these people that feel and bore the consequences of a failed government don't include those in APC states?
If APC was a savior why haven't they transformed APC states into the ideal we are all clamoring for
Bunch of jokers

Don't know the hellhole you are from but the Lagos I've been for 2weeks now is in an almost perfect state of A WELL GOVERNED STATE.

I have gone round some states since my arrival and I could say most of the APC states are miles apart from their PDP counterparts.

THEY ARE SO SO SCARED OF LOSING ASO ROCK.

They are so trying their best to scuttle the process, I watch the garrulous and loquacious FFK on Channels trying to justify the detention and arrest of a citizen who have not committed any known offence.

How can any one in his senses say A VENDOR LEAK CODES TO A PARTY WHEN HE KNOWS IT WILL BE LINKED BACK TO HIM.

It is clear why they have been buying up PVCs from poor people to try clone use it but Card reader be their stumbling block so they need the codes infiltrate the backend of the database.

They say they are confident of winning yet so scared of PUTTING THEMSELVES UP FOR A FAIR CONTEST.

kudos TO THE CHINESE GEEKS WHO CREATED AN IMPENETRABLE CARD READER WITH SUPERB FIREWALLS.

OUR DSS WHO SOMETIMES AGO WERE LOOKING FOR CPU FOR AN APPLEMAC ARE AT A LOSS ON HOW TO SCATTER THE WHOLESOME JOB DONE BY JEGA AND INEC.

THEIR MAIN PURPOSE IS TO ENSURE THE DATABASE CONTAINED IN THE CARD READERS ARE WIPED OUT TO CREATE FAILURE OF THE ENTIRE PROCESS AND CAUSE COMPLETE STATE OF CHAOS AND COLLAPSE ON SATURDAY.

THANK GOD THE PLAN LEAKED AND THE MAN HAVE SINCE YESTERDAY REFUSE TO DIVULGE ANY PASSKEY FOR THEM.

SHAME ON THE PDP AND EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

ishiamu:
Mumu

Buhari is a terrorist


Don't you know









Thats









It's gej till 2019

ARE YOU ORDINARILY THIS STUPID AND DAFT OR IT COMES LIKE THIS IN THE EVENINGS?
I HOPE IT IS NOT GENERATIONAL.

BUHARI ASO ROCK STRAIGHT.

BYE BYE TO JATI JATI

Nigeria's presidential election, postponed until 28 March, promises to be a closely fought rematch between incumbent Goodluck Jonathan and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari.

The rise of Islamist group Boko Haram in the north-east has put security at the centre of their election campaigns, but the candidates are at odds over how to handle the insurgency in Africa's biggest oil producer. Boko Haram has recently pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

The elections were postponed for six weeks, just a week before they were originally due to be held in mid-February.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said this was because the military had advised it would be unable to provide security as its soldiers were committed to the fight against Boko Haram.

Past elections have been marred by violence and allegations of vote-rigging. Since campaigning began in mid-November, both the ruling and opposition camps have reported violent attacks which have killed a number of their supporters.

Who are the main candidates?

Fourteen candidates are contesting the election but only Mr Jonathan and Gen Buhari have a realistic chance of winning.

President Jonathan is seeking a second four-year term. His People's Democratic Party (PDP) has dominated Nigerian politics since civilian rule was restored in 1999 but now faces its toughest election challenge, from the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Jonathan is expected to do well on his home ground in the mainly Christian south. But his government has been fiercely criticized for its failure to combat Boko Haram in the north-east.

President Jonathan told the BBC on 20 March that Boko Haram was "getting weaker and weaker every day" and that their territory could be recaptured within a month.

The government claims that major gains have been made with the help of Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria.

Gen Buhari has lost the last three elections but some sections of the Nigerian media are predicting a win this time. He has described the PDP's 16-year rule as "a disaster for the country and its citizens".

Gen Buhari has made security a priority during his presidential election campaign. He has promised to crush the Islamist insurgency within months if elected.

He has publicly denounced Boko Haram repeatedly, branding them "bigots masquerading as Muslims." Last July, he survived an attack on his convoy allegedly carried out by the group.

Fears are rife that Boko Haram's insurgency may disenfranchise voters in the north, seen as a Buhari stronghold.

Gen Buhari is also expected to do well in the south-west around the commercial capital Lagos.

But former militants in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta have endorsed Mr Jonathan's candidacy and warned of violence if Gen Buhari wins. The APC party has condemned their threats as "barbaric".


Where they stand on key election issues

While the personalities of the two main candidates have been at the forefront of this election campaign, certain key issues - namely insecurity, elite corruption among high-profile politicians and business leaders and the state of the economy - have become increasingly important to voters.

How does the electoral system work?

The Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has promised a clean ballot. All 14 candidates have signed an agreement binding them to credible and non-violent elections. Official campaigning is due to end on 27 March - 24 hours before polling day.

To win in the first round, a candidate needs more than 50% of the national vote and at least 25% of the votes in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states.



Permanent Voters' Cards are being used for the first time in Nigeria

Biometric cards will be used for the first time. Inec says more than 80% of the nearly 70 million eligible voters have obtained their identity cards. The minimum voting age is 18.

An extra 30,027 polling stations have been set up, bringing the total to 150,000 nationwide.

Polls will open at 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT). All voters must be present at their designated polling station by 13:00 local time to be allowed to cast their ballot. Polls will close when the last person in the queue has voted.

The authorities say 360,000 police officers will be deployed at strategic areas, along with sniffers dogs.

Inec has approved the presence of international and local observers to monitor the elections, although the European Union says its observers will not deploy in the north-east due to security concerns.

Displaced people fleeing from violence wait in line to receive relief materials at a camp for displaced people camp in Borno State

Women fleeing Boko Haram violence queue at a camp for displaced people in Borno State

Parliament amended the electoral law on 15 January, allowing an estimated one million people displaced by the insurgency to cast their votes. They can vote at specially-provided facilities near or within camps in their states of origin.

What happens if there is a run-off?

If there is no outright winner in the first round, the law states a run-off election must be held within seven days. But Inec has said it is doubtful whether a run-off vote could be organized in a week. Victory in a run-off election is by simple majority.


What about the parliamentary and gubernatorial elections?

Parliamentary elections have also been put back to 28 March, with 739 candidates vying for a place in the 109-seat Senate and 1,780 seeking election to the 360-seat National Assembly.

Nigerians will vote again on 11 April to choose new governors and state assemblies for 29 of the 36 states.

Like the president, governors are limited to two four-year terms, so this election will see new occupants in many states.

Governors hold huge sway because they allocate federally disbursed revenue and shape policy on development and security in their states.

Among the key states to watch are Lagos, Kano and Rivers - currently in APC hands - because of their large populations and economic power.

Some of these states have budgets larger than those of neighbouring countries, meaning there is fierce competition to run them


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31111572

I SAY WELCOME THE NEXT EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

General Buhari as expected will be declared the Winner by overwhelming percentage of the Population come Saturday. I buy most of the assertion of the writer of this piece and it is indeed a masterpiece.

Do you observe the general acceptance of GMB by the Local and Foreign Media who aren't beneficiaries of the DOLLAR RAIN of the PDP


Lalasticlala I don't know why my pendy79 account was banned since sunday but would appreciate if it can be unban so I can deactivate it. Thanks and God bless.

For all PROGRESSIVES it was a hard fought victory and the REWARD is so SWEET.



Out and always yours PENDY79

till 2019 folks

A things to do list(REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde)

No one is sure what the outcome of the Nigerian elections will be. In recent days the state-by-state projections have multiplied, occupying the front pages of major Nigerian newspapers. The opposition believes that had the elections held as originally scheduled, in February, before a controversial postponement, General Muhammadu Buhari would have won comfortably over president Goodluck Jonathan.

But six weeks, in politics, is an eternity. Since the postponement the momentum has swung away from Buhari’s All Progressives Congress, towards the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. What is unclear is the extent to which the gap between the two parties – if indeed there was any – has narrowed.

There is understandable nervousness regarding these elections, never before now, it seems, have the stakes been this high. If the election takes place as planned (there are a number of court cases that appear aimed at scuttling it) and is not attended by a stalemate, and Buhari is declared winner by the electoral commission, here are five things the new President should – or will have to – do:

1. Apologize

Thirty years ago Buhari and his deputy, the late Tunde Idiagbon, ran the country as stern, unsmiling, bordering-on-ruthless military generals. They jailed hundreds of politicians (a good number of them unfairly; such was the blanket nature of the clampdown), muzzled the press, retroactively instituted the death sentence for drug trafficking (resulting in the execution of three convicted persons), and generally presided over an increasingly stifling atmosphere. While they may have had good intentions – cleaning up in the wake of a corrupt and inept set of politicians – and while it is important to understand that a dictatorship, by its very nature, requires dictatorial action, I still think that Buhari owes some people, or groups of persons, an apology; a symbolic action to turn the page on a past that was as marked by error as it was by its idealism. People like Adeyemi Adefulu and Tinuoye Shoneyin, who insist the Buhari regime unjustly treated him – even while taking their place on a growing list of Buhari victims who have since forgiven him and are now championing his candidacy. Shoneyin’s daughter Lola, a writer, is even on Buhari’s campaign team and has written on this.


Adefulu says: “I [would] still like Buhari to vocalize an apology and offer some succour to people like me whom his government brutalized in the past. It is the least he can do. To do so is not weakness. Indeed, it is strength to admit the mistakes of the past and to promote national reconciliation.”

Assert

There will be hundreds of appointments to be made, starting May 29 – ministers, special advisers, senior special assistants, special assistants, ambassadors, members of governing boards for tens of federal government bodies, possibly even new leadership for the military and police. Much of the attention will be on his choice of chief of staff, finance and petroleum ministers, and his economic management team.

In his book, The Sixteen ‘Sins’ of General Muhammadu Buhari, Tam David-West, Buhari’s minister of petroleum during his days as military head of state, and an enduring supporter, says his appointment as a minister came as a surprise; based purely on his resume and his reputation. While Buhari’s pedigree suggests that in making his key appointments merit will stubbornly trump political pressure, it is important to note that he is also now, in his most recent incarnation as presidential candidate of a motley coalition of politicians, a much more pragmatic player than ever before.

Nigerians will also be expecting him to provide moral authority and hands-on leadership to the team. He has himself hinted, in a recent letter to Nigerians, of his desire to ensure “the Federal Executive Council, which has been turned to a weekly session of contract bazaar, will concentrate on its principal function of policy making.”

Assess

Four years of $100 plus per oil barrel prices have come to an end, and Nigeria hasn’t got very much to show for it; understandable when you consider that the last four years have been awash with stories of dodgy oil deals and large-scale oil bunkering. Buhari’s first task will be to assess just how bad things are. (We already have an idea, Nigeria is expected to earn, this year, only two thirds of what it earned in oil revenues last year). In recent speeches Buhari has repeatedly hinted at drawing a line between past and present, by which he means restricting his anti-corruption clampdown to infractions that occur on his watch as president, and not those that preceded him. This seemingly mollifying stance is likely to have arisen on account of the frenzy with which the ruling party has sought to portray him as being still as obsessed with sending perceived opponents to jail as he was three decades ago. As a civilian President he will probably realize that he has to decide, on a case-by-case basis, where that line-drawing will apply, and where it will not.

Finally, Nigerians deserve, within Buhari’s first hundred days in office, a State of the Nation Address, in which he will provide an honest and detailed view of the country’s financial situation. Which leads to the next point:

Articulate

The entire system of government communication requires overhauling. Currently it’s divided among several officials, including a minister of information, a special adviser to the president on media, and any number of presidential assistants and special assistants assigned to specific functions like “social media”, “new media” and “public affairs. The result is an alarming incoherence, visible every time you open a newspaper, or your Twitter feed. As president Buhari should immediately take steps to streamline government communications, and create a unified, hierarchical structure in which all roles and responsibilities are clarified. He may also want to consider creating a central management team for government communications, similar in intent and style to the one former president Obasanjo created for the economy.

Attack

Boko Haram has in the last few years proven to be the ultimate disciplinarian of the Nigerian state. If elected, Buhari should take immediate steps to shore up the confidence and capacity of the Nigerian military. His opponents have worked hard at labeling him an Islamic fundamentalist, an apologist for Sharia Islamic law, and even a Boko Haram sympathiser. On the strength of available evidence – including testimonials, and his record as Head of State – the allegations are implausible. In his book Honour For Sale, Debo Bashorun, one-time Nigerian presidential spokesperson (during the regime of military dictator Ibrahim Babangida, who overthrew Buhari in August 1985) suggests that Babangida, not Buhari, was the one who tolerated religious fundamentalism. Bashorun writes of the “sudden re-emergence” during Babangida’s time, of “self-proclaimed clerics and Islamic fundamentalists whose nocturnal and divisive activities had earlier been effectively curtailed during the Buhari/Idiagbon administration.” As head of state Buhari showed little mercy or tolerance towards religious extremists or militant challengers of the Nigerian state whether they were Chadian bandits laying siege to the northeast at that time Boko Haram, or the rump of the Maitatsine sect, a 1980s precursor of Boko Haram. A similar approach to Boko Haram will be required



http://qz.com/369673/the-five-things-buhari-should-do-if-nigeria-elects-him-president-this-weekend/

MANY DIRECTORS AND CHIEF EXECUTIVES OF PARASTATALS AND AGENCIES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL FIND TEARS AND NOT SEE FROM THE 30TH OF MAY 2015.

They allowed themselves to be used as tools for oppressing the OPPOSITION forgetting their Agencies are the PROPERTIES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND EVERY SINGLE NIGERIAN and NOT THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY OR BADLUCK EGBERE ISEEKAWAYJONATAN

2015 IS ABOUT CORRUPTION CONTINUATION OR A DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO END IT.

Uchenna Awaji :My brother you are right. Odimegwu Ojukwu only got 3 votes in Bayelsa state during the 2003 presidential election. Wish my fellow Igbos can reason so well and wake up from their slavery as Clark said

Gift Okedinma Seriously i pity Ndigbo so much. Showing Jonathan the kind of love that they couldn't show to Ojukwu and other Igbo leaders. What a shame! The same people favouring Jonathan were those that voted against Ojukwu during 2003 Presidential election.

Chijioke Ugwa: GEJ must go, 80% of his project was in North, while 3% was done in Igbo land, he did it because he saw Igbo's useless set of people, who he can use money to buy

Princess Augusta Njemanze: NDI IGBO NTI IKE! OLE OGE UNU GA AMUTA IHIE?
OLE OGE UNU GA EWERE OWE UNU BIKO?
What is wrong with we the Igbos? I said it before, and am saying it again that after NIGERIA AND BIAFRA WAR they IJAWS and ndi NBA NMIRI'S as a whole took everything that belongs to any IGBO man including my own fathers house and call them ABANDONED PROPERTIES BECAUSE IGBOS DID NOT WIN THE WAR! They even kill some IGBOS who tried to fight and get back what belong to them. Now The same IGBOS have forgotten so easily, They now want to Vote IGBO haters who took away everything an IGBO man owns in their State. What has JONATHAN done for the IGBOS, for 6yrs his been in the office. We danced around money, and forget PROUD IGBOS THAT WE ARE.
VOTE JONATHAN, YOUR SUFFERING CONTINUES. IGBO MAN WILL NEVER HAVE CHANCE OF BECOMING THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA IN 2019. VOTE WISELY, VOTE BUHARI!

Chinaza Elizabeth :I jst which my pple (ndi igbo) will listen and b reasonable. My hrt bleeds each time I see or hear an Igbo man campaigning 4 GEJ. In d past, wen an igbo man comes out 4 electn, d Ijaws will rather vote 4 an Hausa man instead of an Igbo man. Where is the spirit of d Igbos? Where is our pride. No wonda Chinua Echebe wrote in his book 'there was a country' that d Igbos are nt wat they used 2 be. 'Where is our PRIDE? Evn if we dnt want Buhari, there is an Igbo man 4rm anoda party. Pls let's b reasonable

Nelson Iheagwam: what baffle me is igbos don't usually recall the memories of past civil war , The ijaw usually say they are not related to we Igbos, but we some igbos are sayin Ijaw are related to igbos . Igbos shine your eye , don't be easily decieve ,,,, Why not go for change

Chinedu Njoku C: Buhari is the best option for us the Igbos without any sentiment

Chinedum Lawrence Ugwu :It is tym for igbos to think outside d box & drop childish sentiments. We can't become president in 2019 or even 2023 by supporting a fellow southerner for president in 2015 . GMB is our finest option

Mc Anyanwu: SaiBuhari 2015 ...Jonathan is boring and distraction to Igbo's and Nigeria as a whole

Chukwudi GMayor Udechukwu: We are voting GMBuhari for high level integrity. At this point in our national history, We need a man like him to save us of an imminent shipwreck

Obih Okechukwu: What is the lie here ?, are we all not aware that the ijaw and other south south never liked us,will never support us.
After the civil war the properties of the igbos in the north were spared,managed and proceeds payed back to the igbos
But just your so called brothers in Port Harcourt called them abandoned property and took them from the igbos until this day
And many igbos are here talking of half or close brother.

Adiole Ejike Cyril They all remember the igbo nation during election. And we the Igbo keep being tools in there hands. So funny

Leonardo Cyma Aguodogwu: "No body can destroy the bond between the North and the south south" ......Edwin clarke.. "We fought and stopped the dredging of the river niger during the time of Abacha".......Joseph Eva (former president, Ijaw National Congress)

some hard discussions on Facebook concerning this FACT.

Lynn Carson :No matter how hard my Igbo brothers shout GEJ till thy kingdom come, the Ijaw nation will always see them as foreigners. It may sound bizarre but is the truth. Forget the "Ebele", forget the "Azikiwe" Jonathan does not even know the meanings of them. It is so disheartening to see my Igbo brothers and sisters insulting each other because of an Ijaw man. Forget it my bros, they don't know you and you don't count.


Khojo Obinna Nwaeze Gift Onyinye, even if tommorow Jonathan calls ndi-igbo fools that do not worth him going there to campaign, they will still give him 80% votes and more. That tribe is a lost one. You can imagine how they even talk on this thread.

Hope NDIGBO know their true enemies. Same Edwin Clarke kicked against Obasanjo choice of Jonathan in 2007 but today Obasanjo is the Devil while Edwin Clarke is the ANGEL.

Flex Dino Kempes: "If we support the Igbo to have a president today the abandoned property issue will come back. They have not forgiven us, I believe the issue of abandoned property shall be reviewed by any Igbo president so that the Igbo will take all their property in Port Harcourt which will make them own Port Harcourt ". - Chief Edwin Clarke, the supposed leader of the Ijaw nation

Yet the YORUBAS KEPT AND MAINTAINED ALL IGBO PROPERTIES IN THE SOUTH WEST. I THINK THE IGBOS NEED HISTORY LESSONS.

The leader of Ijaw nation and a well known jihad from South South Zone, Chief Edwin Clarke sometime in 2003 granted an interview with a Saturday sun newspaper where he lambasted Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu of Igbo land calling him a civil war blood sucker. Dissatisfied, Clarke took the Igbos to cleaners chiding them as a "defeated civil war slaves" that wanted to reap in Ijaw land where they never sowed; (apparently referring to their OIL).


When Dr Dozie Ikedife from Anambra state and other few Igbo leaders lambasted him over the barrages of insults on Ndigbo, the issue became a media war of accretion between the two ethnic tribes as other Ijaw Leaders joined Clarke to abuse the Igbo nation, including the then Secretary of Ijaw Elders Council from Bayelsa state.

But 12 years later, the same Ijaw Leader Chief Edwin Clarke is the one begging Ndigbo to support his Ijaw brother Dr. Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan without any recourse to the past. The same Clarke today has remained the "POINT ONE" man to his brother Jonathan at Abuja pretentiously urging the Igbos to support his brother. Hmmm! ......Any Igbo man that cast his vote for Jonathan is not just a sellout but a very big disgrace to Igbo race....IGBOS SHOULD VOTE FOR GEN. BUHARI or CHIEF CHEKWAS OKORIE, because a vote for an Ijaw man is a wasted vote for anti Igbo tribe.


http://esabod..com/2015/03/bombshell-ojukwu-is-blood-sucker-while.html