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tola9ja:
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apc crowd they where payed by buhari

that means buhari is richer than jonathan


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omenka:
Still speaking in future tense, typical of an "I will do" government.

Next!!!

Mylove55:
everybody is shouting 'what change' wil he bring to apc,is he d one to bring about d changes or they want to change him? beside he is not a member of apc,to clarify u saTANiod,buhari need everyone's vote,both d good and d criminals.like jesus wants both d good and d bad to come to him.forget about corrupt pdp/obj.just vote for change

philips70:
You endorse an article happily yet celebrate a character taken to tatters in it? Go back and read the article with soulful brain again. Let me help you. The writer is saying OBJ cannot divorce himself from the shame and ignominy GEJ and PDP has brought to Nigeria in any way. Now you have a clue go back and read it again.

slimfit1:
We don't have a leader don't deceive yourselves our own father biological father are our leaders please and that is in our own house once we step outside everybody for himself so put that leader my as away please. Nobody should say that again.

Leaders don't invest in themselves alone they invest in everyone no leader in yoruba land at the moment has the interest of just the people in mind so nobody should come and play drama here.

Is it the leaders that are seizing lands from the owners tinubuying land from owners I thought people where just lying until I my family to became a victim of Tinubu.

Are we also talking about the once that doesn't have integrity at all, that collect money from everyone that pays them.

Since Awo Yoruba people don't have any leader so please for curse of the innocent Yoruba people that have died for nothing not to hit you avoid giving thieves and poor actors unconfirmed titles and positions they are not entitled to.

Demdem:
I know, infact Jonah-daft till ur early grave.

Demdem:
Fuckfuckman, mind ur business or get lost.

oloyolo:
War ship ko worship ni
I expect u to tackle those tackling
U expcet u ar not the one been tackled. This goes further to explain the type of president we have
Clueless
And.......
Abeg add urs

Demdem:
The drunkard look amazed. He isn't used to this.
Get him a canoe and see him do wonders.

ginawest:
we r jes so blessed...m more Dan proud to b an IBO maiden

Lagusta:
Is that a warship Looks more like a yaght to me

Now compare that rowboat with this.....

bigwig10:
It won't work @dis 11th hour...abi

Legal moves to stop the Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal from contesting for governorship seat of Sokoto state under the All Progressive Congress (APC) began on Wednesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Two plaintiffs, Senator Umaru Dahiru and Barrister Aliyu Abubakar Sanyinna, had, through their counsel, Awa Kalu, SAN, approached the court to direct APC to withdraw the nomination of Tambuwal as its gubernatorial candidate and to hold another governorship primaries in Sokoto state.

The plaintiffs hinged their prayer on the grounds that the governorship primaries conducted by APC on December 4, 2014 did not comply with the provisions of Section 87 of the Electoral Act 2010 and the APC 2014 Guidelines‎ for nomination of candidates for public offices.

Joined as defendants are APC, Tambuwal and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The plaintiffs ‎argued that despite the fact that they were bonafide card-carrying members of APC, the party breached its guidelines in relation to the nomination of candidates for public office as well as other relevant provisions of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended).

‎The plaintiffs further submitted that the screening of delegates on the day of the primaries was not done between the stipulated hours of 8am and 12 noon, and that the list of the delegates as issued by the National Secretariat of APC was not used in the conduct of the said election of December 4, 2014.

They further said that on the very day of election, members of the Sokoto State and Local Government as well as members of the State Assembly openly canvassed for votes for Tambuwal.

They also submitted that there were instances of delegates engaged in multiple voting to favour Tambuwal, and instead of just a single ballot box required at the election, 23 boxes were provided in order to perpetrate the alleged irregularities.

In Chinua Achebe’s published collection of essays, The Education of a British Protected Child, he narrated a story told to him by his father, Isaiah Okafor Achebe.

Pa Achebe was a convert to Christianity. In his zeal to make a disciple of all nations, he approached his maternal uncle, Pa Udoh, and tried to win his soul for the Lord. The man refused to be proselytised by his nephew and to make his point, he pointed to a row of insignia of traditional titles he had taken and asked his nephew, “What do I do with these?”

Like Chinua, I find the question quite instructive.

The paraphernalia of titles Uncle Udoh put on display were not just mere items, neither were they a trophy of his vanities but they were history. His history. The materials were “culture” and Pa Udoh, from what Achebe described, was an epitome of Igbo culture and traditional values. Those items he showed his nephew disembodied the narratives of who he was and the roads he had been. He could not shed them off to take up a new identity in Jesus Christ without giving away his entire essence.

The question of “what do I do with this?” is also a reflective one. It shows foresight. It asks, if I give up who I am, who I have been and all that defines me, who – or what – do I become?

The Achebe parable is useful to interpret Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest act: He recently tore his Peoples Democratic Party membership card before the very eyes of the world.

Or rather, he handed the card over to a fawning underling – his ward chairman, one Usman Oladunjoye – to do so on his behalf as if the indignity of ripping that piece of paper was beneath his imperious personality.

Obasanjo card-tearing act is not the beginning of the story –and, perhaps, not a climax of it– although it is one of the most dramatic moments of the melodrama that has been playing between the political actors in the PDP for some time now.

Like Achebe’s great uncle, one cannot get rid of one’s association to one’s history and antecedents without having to face the question of identity.

One thing to never forget is this: Obasanjo is the PDP and the PDP is Obasanjo; neither is indistinguishable from the other. For all the faults of the PDP, one cannot deny that they are a formidable political party, strong and resilient. In fact, it is the only party in Nigeria that transcends personalities, for now. The history of the woes of Nigeria cannot be narrated without a significant portion attributed to the PDP and the roles the men that make up its cabals have played in superintending the denigration of the Nigerian essence.

For the past 16 years, Obasanjo has been a member of that party and a prominent one at that. There is nothing that we accuse the PDP of that he does not personify. He has been enabled, ennobled and obscenely enriched by virtue of his PDP membership. When he returned from prison in 1998, looking gaunt and haggard from the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha’s hovel, it was the PDP’s political machinery that rescued him and made a prince out of him.

So, who is Obasanjo without the PDP?

The man gave his reasons for divorcing himself from the party and all of them were quintessentially Obasanjo in nature: self-righteous, self-vindicating and zero reflection. But these should surprise no one. Obasanjo’s narcissism kisses its own reflection in the mirror. He must simply imagine that the world revolves around him such that he is always all over the place, heckling and disrupting everything without acknowledging that the wall crumbling around us was built from his own pack of cards.

There is no Nigerian – dead, living and unborn – that can hope to rise to the level of egotism at which the man operates. Obasanjo even announced his departure from partisan politics and stated his decision to become a “statesman” as if it was some kind of career move.


Watching Obasanjo, you would be forgiven for thinking being a statesman is some kind of job and no longer a status that is derived from years of noble acts to the nation state.

Now that he is cutting away the insignia of his PDP titles, who is Obasanjo now? What is he becoming and what does he do about his past? Does it mean that he is cutting himself loose from the corruption and odium that the PDP currently represents? If that is his move, like he wants us to believe, what does he do with himself considering that some people see him as a repository of all the values he denounces in the PDP? It is tempting to think of his tearing ruse as renunciation of the PDP infamy which he embodies but anyone that knows his antecedents very well will not be blamed for seeing his card-tearing move as sheer multiplication of his infamy.

What is particularly interesting about the spectacle of tearing his PDP membership card into pieces – through a proxy – is the crass drama of it. It would have been wholly sufficient for the former president to have issued a press release dissociating himself from the PDP. It would have been unsurprising if the release was laden with the now familiar menu of Obasanjo-sized nuances that myopically seek to crucify others for sins he himself is seem not to be free of. But no, he needed the klieg lights of reporters as witnesses. Just as he did on the occasions when he wrote a letter to President Jonathan and then wrote a book dedicated to his self-possession, he had to turn the whole episode around himself. There seems to be no end to his cunning.

The video of Obasanjo and Oladunjoye, in their card-tearing mayhem recalls other incidents -in myths- where the act of “tearing” was especially significant. Think of the symbolism of King Saul in the Bible (inadvertently) tearing Samuel’s clothes and having a curse pronounced on him; the instance of Jesus’ crucifixion and how the temple cloth was torn from top to bottom. In both instances, the tearing was the harbinger of a new order. Political actors lost their gamble, power changed hands and another era began.

So, perhaps one should ask what Obasanjo “tearing” portends – for him and for the political atmosphere where he has dominated all these years. Has he sensed a change in Nigeria’s political misbehaviours and, therefore, jumps ship before a new order comes and spots him on the wrong divide?

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/viewpoint/what-obasanjo-really-tore-up/

anonimi:
Abi oh! Thankfully we will not revert to the dark days when FREEDOM of expression was a No. No.



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Seun:
Is he a judge? If not, what makes you think he knows the answer to the question? What else should he have said?

okpurukata:
Is he shifting blames to the ward chairman? I knew it would come to this. OBJ never expected the level of criticism his action has generated.

blym4real:
Mr barcanista the new pdp e-warrior.
Base on your decamping, I will like to ask you if you will take back your previous words about the present government.

Is it that you were lieing to us about the present government then or you were drunk?

Best of luck in your new party, but I wouldn't take your post seriously again as you might wake up tomorrow and change your mind again.

Creamz:
Useless PHCN why take the light! Was enjoying this a whole lot

OLADD:
The INEC Chairman confitmed some minutes ago that between 800,000 and 1,000,000 PVCs were yet to be brought to the country from overseas even as at today and this supported the alarm raised by FFK in his last public statement which many Nairalanders condemned. Can we see the level of mischief and error of judgement on display by many Nairalanders? Can those involved now say sorry to FFK? Was PDP not right to have punctured the claim by Prof Jega that INEC was ready for the election?

Arabambi1:
even the suspected financier of BH Ali Nduwe is addressing the house. That can only happen in Naija

ibibwala:
OP where you see light?

internetpo:
Thanks for your updates. pls are they verifying all d senators?

victorazy:
Jega is jaga jaga. Plz resign now, we don't trust u anymore.

omenka:
Wow!!!! I think this is especially what PDP has been scared of!!