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viczing:
Admit that igbos got huge stake in lag NL e rat like mayoroflagos and oduastates will be. Talking trash

You're right.


Seun, Ngwakwe.

"...... In 2005/2006, when the population census was taken, the government of Bola Tinubu did a census alongside the Federal Government and came out with the figure that Igbo have 43 per cent population in Lagos State. As a result of the insurgency in the north today, the population has increased......... "

Popularly referred to as the economic hub of the country, Lagos state has a population of 20 million people, making the sprawling city bigger than the developed cities of London, Buenos Aires and even Beijing.
In Lagos, there are 20,000 people per square kilometer while it has been estimated that some 3,000 people from other states of the country flood the state every day without leaving.
But perhaps the most impressive project for the Lagos of tomorrow is no other than the Eko Atlantic, a pioneering residential and business development located on the Victoria Island, along its upmarket Bar Beach coastline.
The ambitious project is being built on three and half square miles of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to provide accommodation for 250,000 people and employment opportunities for a further 150,000.
Aside this, the United Nations has conferred a megacity status on cities with a population of 10 million and above.
Interestingly, Lagos belongs to this category.
But a megacity requires a stronger financial base. The sheer size of funding required in sustaining a megacity is beyond what a government could provide on its own.
Progressive increase
This is where creativity comes in as other sources of revenue must be sought in order to finance government’s expenditure.
These other sources include borrowing, both internally and externally, grants, bonds, Public Private Partnerships and others. In Lagos State, for instance, despite the progressive increase in the monthly Internally Generated Revenue, (IGR), of the state from a meagre N500 million in 1999 to about N20 billion presently, the state government still has to invent options to fund its projects.
Perhaps, this informed the need for the scramble for Lagos by political actors across party divides.
With elections around the corner, the battle for the governorship position in Lagos State promises to be fierce as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have begun flexing their political muscles ahead of the April 11, 2015 election.
For the ruling party, the polls will be keenly contested.
Already, the is cast between the APC candidate, Mr Akinwumi Ambode and his PDP counterpart, Mr Jimi Agbaje.
Interestingly, the two contenders have gone round the nooks and crannies of the state to tell the people of the state their plans, visions and missions for the people of the state.
The clamour for votes has reached a height that not only have appealed to indigenes of the state but have gone a step further to seek the support of non-indigenes resident in the state.
Like the scramble for the African continent by European powers in the 18th and 19th Century, which eventually led to the partitioning of Africa, Agbaje and Ambode are making efforts to transverse the state to get support from non-indigenes.
It is imperative to note that non-indigenes in Lagos State have become a major factor in Lagos politics and as such, their votes are important to determine the outcome of elections in the state.
Daily influx
It would be apt to state here that Lagos has become home to many people as there are daily influx of people from all parts of the country.
Expectedly, non-indigenes make up bulk of the population of the state but not only northerners, easterners and those from the South-South are non-indigenes resident in Lagos.
There are also a large chunk of people from the South-west, who are resident in Lagos.
Interestingly also, the non-indigenes have, over the years, occupied political offices in the state. With the governorship elections around the corner, pundits posit that the roles of non-indigenes cannot be overlooked as they remain a major factor that will determine the outcome of the elections and also, who emerges next governor of the state. In 2005/2006, when the population census was taken, the government of Bola Tinubu did a census alongside the Federal Government and came out with the figure that Igbo have 43 per cent population in Lagos State. As a result of the insurgency in the north today, the population has increased.
The APC and PDP have realised the importance of the non-indigenes, hence the parties decided to concede some elective positions to them.
Presently, the non-indigenes resident have continued to endorse Ambode and Agbaje, promising to throw their weights behind the duo owing to their voting population in the state. However, the two candidates have found the non-indigenes from the South-East geopolitical zone as the beautiful bride.
Overtures by the APC and PDP have been made to leaderships of market associations and political leaders from the region resident in Lagos to support their cause. Also, promises of democracy dividends have been made to the Igbo resident in Lagos by both Agbaje and Ambode.
It is important to state here that in the 16 year rule of the present administration, those from the South-East have benefited from the political appointments in the APC-controlled government having served in the executive cabinet of the state state.
The PDP governorship candidate, on the other hand, has promised the Igbos of not only political appointments, it has assured those who are mostly traders, to protect their business interest in the state. Perhaps, this has left the Igbos divided over which of the governorship candidate to support.
Ambode gets endorsement
Only recently, Igbo traditional rulers in Lagos, under the aegis of Eze Ndigbo in Lagos, endorsed noting that Ndigbo has enjoyed robust and cordial relationship with the APC administration since 1999.
At a briefing in Lagos, Eze Uchechukwu Nwachukwu said Ndigbo in Lagos will vote for Buhari and the Lagos State APC governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on March 28 and April 11.
Reportedly, Nwachukwu said “after a strategic meeting of Ndigbo in Lagos, we have resolved to vote for the APC. Our interest in the state has been protected and we equally want to show appreciation by voting for the APC candidates. “I call on all our brothers and sisters to use their vote wisely, by this pronouncement we have endorsed Akinwunmi Ambode.”
Agbaje too
Similarly, an Igbo group, the Association of Ndi Eze Ndigbo in the Diaspora comprising all Ezes in the North, South West, South South and overseas in conjunction with the Lagos State chapter gave its backing to the candidature of Agbaje. In a press conference, Eze John Greg Uzobuadi, who is the association’s spokesman, said the Igbo supreme traditional head in the state, reaffirmed its support for Agbaje whom they described as friend of Ndigbo.
The association stated that it was no longer news that some Igbo chiefs (not traditional leaders) hosted the conference where they claimed to be the leaders of Igbo tradition in Lagos State.
While stating that the constitution of Nigeria guarantees the chiefs the right to free speech and association, it does not give them the right to misrepresent Ndigbo.
The race for Alausa House is reaching its crescendo, non-indigenes have a large population in the state that can decide who becomes the governor or any position.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/ambode-agbaje-racing-for-non-indigenes-votes/

owobokiri:
Another vicious PDP campaign of calumny mounted against an honest governor. . PDP internet hirelings masquereding as imo students. Oppossing everything; free education o o, una oppose, general hospitals o o, una oppose, village roads o o, una oppose. Everything he does, they will jeer at it. Why? Because they want to make one green cap wearing green snake our governor. E no go work. .

Oya list the achievements of Rochas Okorocha or... ..




Sharrraaaaap.

iamrealdeji:
This has nothing to do with APC

Sharrraaaaap, what do you mean? Is this not part of APC educational policy?
Why rejecting it? But APC is claiming the success story of oponimo in osun.


APC is scam.

DexxyAlebs:
interesting! can we have a full spec of the laptop?

The fact that the laptop has only 128 mb ram shows it's a scrap.

NgeneUkwenu:
I watched it live on TV. The Stadium was so scanty that the cameramen struggled so hard to pick human beings! Jonathan has finished himself!

What you must know is that, the president don't need to win all the state to become president.
He knows where his votes will come from, yobe may not be one of them.

kestolove95:
Why are igbo's allergic to good tinz?

Sharrraaaaap, what is good thing? Okorocha?

bondingman:
Let him keep winning in the virtual world
the likes of him aren't needed in d physical realm ; too blood-thirsty

Buhari is dreamer.


GEJ TILL 2019.

jayfolarin:
2011, Rigging was the trend, fastforward 2015, there's hope that votes will count. No matter how you spin and un-spin, Only God can stop buhari now. People are already calling him President Buhari..

SaiBuhari.

Yeah, Buhari is the president of FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF INTERNET.


Lest I forget GEJ TILL 2019.

I'm always marveled at the way children of pain and anger celebrate online poll victory as if it's real. Almost all online polls in Israel suggested that Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose woefully, today, he won, the noisy opposition lost.

barcanista:
The baba don old and has lost touch.

I'm at lost at reason my generation will be desperately asking a spent force like Buhari to rule them.


It's unfortunate.

Pictures or video of six thousand pastors endorsing Buhari.....


... or it's a foolish propaganda.

Lest I forget, GEJ TILL 2019.

omenka:
The only thing AIT is destroying is itself.

Cry me a river

holatin:
Nigerian will decide dat not you.

say no to incompetence

sai baba

I'm I not a Nigerian?

That's my president.





No vacancy in Aso Rock.

midolian:
Thunder fire my mama and papa for giving me this foolish name ..from my name, I wld know why I'm irresponsible.. Too much sperm in my brain

Story that touches the heart.


Sorry brother.

midolian:
y u dey squeeze face? Na lie? What could be more embarrassing than this? Over 200grls missing and no trace of them @ all for almost a year now. This grls probably are in Nigeria. Do you know the implication of this? It has tarnished the image of the Nigerian security agencies and Nigeria as a whole.

How can such a large number of grls be missing without a trace. They weren't kidnapped with an aeroplane. They must have used buses. And the buses defin8ly must be more than 20..Now tell me, how could this have happened without any1 taking note? Its a big slap on our face as a nation. Truth be told

It's a huge slap on your ugly face. So, you expect Jonathan to be at the gate of chibok school to guide the girls?
This evil conspiracy by Buhari and his party will surely fail them.


Lest I forget, GEJ Till 2019.

kay1one2:
Hopeless low life!

Gej Till 2019

1MCN:
Wetin konsain am?
Na im be the state PDP chia-man?
Notis mee!

I fear o o..


Mumu governor, mumu party.

1MCN:
Wetin konsain am?
Na im be the state PDP chia-man?
Notis mee!

Mumu governor, if yuu are popular as you claimed, why shivering?

Mynd44:
Does that python look like it can swallow a person?

@OP, the battle stage is a forest. The snake is a native of that forest minding its own business.

Why do people like to read meaning to everything?

That Python will swallow you without drinking pure water.

This is a huge Python o o.

saduman:
Mr. Man I still hold my view on the fact that their is no basis for comparisons between GEJ n Netanyahu. One is a performer n the other is an underperformer! Natanyahu may b unpopular outside Israel due to his hardline stance on issues but he still has widespread appeal across Israel which d elections hv shown.
U said GEJ has performed better than yaradua n OBJ combined, I think with this statement it is u that is gullible to pdp propaganda n lying machinery.
Now let's b realistic, successive pdp governments from 1999 till date hv largely under performed but I tell u GEJ is d worst of them all giving the resources he had at his disposal with little or nothing to show. 
What has he done sef...?

1. Is it d repainted airports?
2. Is it d second hand locomotive trains they borrowed to bring back?
3.  Or is it d patching of potholes on our major high ways?
4. Or is it d so called agricultural transformation that has done little to d prices of food stuffs n levels of poverty?
5. Or is it d renaming of schools to universities n degree awarding institutions?

Pls tell us what true transformation means n one u hv experienced under your hero.

Before I answer you, I want you to list the achievements of your saviour buhari during his times as head of states and PTF chairman.

saduman:
Viva mumu OP!
Comparing Natanyahu to Clueless
Natanyahu has a selling point, strong persona and has kept israel stable economicaly and safe from d enemy through out his stay. Now tell us what GEJ is riding on, corruption or insecurity or unemployment or scandals or mama piss

You are the mumu here not the op.It's either you're blind or confused with APC lies and propaganda.
What Jonathan has achieved in his first term, Obasanjo and Yaradua didn't achieve in their years combined.

Princecalm:
all those ones na wash, some one should tell me how much he paid them.

Yeah, anything against Jonathan is patriotism, anything in his favour its because of bribery.

Mtcheeeeww.

DrSaleh:
THIS PIX WILL EXPOSE YOU TO A BRIEF SKELETAL STRUCTURE OF PGEJ SO FAR....
@dynastydollar on twitter.....

Op, this disappointment you are sharing to weedians ,
dia is God o o.

omenka:
Jonathan has clearly seen the handwriting on the wall. I'm very sure he has already thrown in the towel in this contest but doesn't wanna make that obvious to the general public, but discerning minds can read his body language.

When he had all the time in the world to make an indelible mark on this country's quest for salvation, with so much wealth at his disposal, he was too busy stealing, empowering criminals, idly going around the globe in a convoy of jets, watching nollywood films, fighting everyone who dared to question his style of leadership and involving himself in all manner of useless ventures.

Now the time has come to give account of his stewardship and he's come up empty handed, running from one pastor to another, one Oba to another, one marabout to another, one cult to another, etc. But none of them can save you sir. You time is up and your fate has been signed, sealed and delivered.

Armchair politician, I hope you won't deactivate this your Igbo wanna be moniker after the election.

Gej till 2019

berem:
I can do so many things with that fish. One week I never chop am finish.

Sai Buhari!!

Sai Baba!!

Onye akpiri ogologo

EMMAACHILE:
Why was the equipment just ordered now?

Do you think military hardwares are like rice and beans you prepare and wait for buyers?
You order and wait for it's production.