₦airaland Forum

dBard:
Is there a route through to Uyo?
Would love to experience a train journey when next I visit.

olrotimi:
thanks pal, though my trip is for Sunday buh I'd follow ur directive. i hope they have train service on Sunday, is their website up-to-date? can I book my ticket online? soo many questions. Thanks in anticipation of ur reply.

olrotimi:
don't be misinformed,he didn't cancel it. Not giving approval doesn't equate to cancelling. Get your grammar right.

olrotimi:
pls do keep me posted too, am interested in that train ride. Am on vacation @uyo buh hope to return back to enugu over the weekend via the ph -enugu route. Every helpful info is welcomed

Akshow:
He didnt do for his home town alone but for all regions unlike ur bigoted president. Buhari is not only for Daura or Katsina. He is for Nigeria. Enough of the divide rule abeg.

legendsilver:
I like this train and will like to enter one someday. Pls o, is there any railway line from Lagos to Akure,Ondo, Akungba, Edo, Bayelsa and delta? If yes, then I will vote for GEJ but if no, abeg Sai Buhari.
Reason being that the #Buhari I know will do more within 3years, trust me.

barcanista:
I did not speak for your people, Ekwueme did! Is he not your leader and highest office holder frm your region? I'm glad you admit that Ekwueme did nothing for your people when he was in power, this is another reason to vote Buhari. Good morning

barcanista:
Ekweme has spoken the mind of the SE just like Fr Mbaka. Jonathan has failed the SE and they will reject him at the poll. Every SEsterner should vote for Muhammadu Buhari

HugeCock:
keep lying to yourself. They neva brought any photocopy

eighTHREAD:
"Ekweme is now a boko haram member"- TANoids

The South-East leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party and the South-East Governors’ Forum have disagreed with a former Vice President, Chief Alex Ekwueme, over his recent prediction that President Goodluck Jonathan might not secure a block vote in the zone in the February 14 presidential election, as he did in 2011.

Ekwueme, who is one of the founding fathers of the PDP, in a recent interview had asserted that Jonathan had taken the South-East geo-political zone for granted despite the zone’s overwhelming support for him in 2011, as most of his promises to the zone had not been fulfilled.

He warned that the President risked losing the total support of Ndigbo in the forthcoming elections as some of the people would give their support to other presidential candidates with better agenda for the zone.

But reacting to Ekwueme’s remarks, the National Vice Chairman of the PDP, Col. Austin Akobundu ( retd.), told our correspondent in Umuahia that the former Vice President’s “prediction was incorrect and did not reflect the realities on the ground.”

He said the South-East remained a very strong support base of Jonathan, assuring the President that the zone would still give him 100 per cent support as was the case in 2011.

Akobundu said, “I have serious respect for Chief Ekwueme but he should realise that the PDP is dynamic and he should not expect the party to still be what he saw in 1998. The South-East is totally behind Jonathan and nothing can change this. Anybody making any prediction to the contrary is out of touch with the realities on ground.The South-East is better off with the PDP than any other party.”

He added that the former Vice President must have spoken out of annoyance, perhaps, arising from the primaries.

He said that the PDP in the zone had set up a reconciliation panel to reconcile all aggrieved members, explaining that post-primary crisis was not peculiar to the PDP.

In the same vein, the South-East Governor’s Forum said the zone would not relent in its avowed support for Jonathan.

The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, said anybody predicting failure for Jonathan in the zone must be on his own “because the people are united in their support for the President.”

Orji, who spoke with our correspondent through his Special Adviser on Political Matters, Chief Abraham Ama, said, “It is unfortunate that Ekwueme has lost touch with the realities of the moment.”

The governor noted that Ekwueme “is a man highly respected among Ndigbo” but said his predictions about the fortunes of the President in the forthcoming presidential election did not reflect the mind of the people.

He said nothing would stop Jonathan from winning 100 per cent of votes in the South-East as the zone could not afford to abandon him considering his numerous gestures to the people.

According to him, Ndigbo have never had it so good under any other President in Nigeria compared to what they have benefited under Jonathan.

Orji said that apart from Jonathan, no other presidential candidate was popular among Ndigbo. He affirmed that the President would have a landslide victory in the zone.

He said, “The APC here sounds like Boko Haram, and you cannot see any well-meaning Igbo son in theAPC. Rochas Okorocha knows he has missed the way, and Ogbonnaya Onu cannot even win in his ward. So, no other party is recognised here.”

He restated the readiness of Ndigbo to deliver the zone for Jonathan come February 14.


http://www.punchng.com/news/pdp-seast-govs-disagree-with-ekwueme-over-jonathan/

HugeCock:
keep lying to yourself. They neva brought any photocopy

ISpiksDaTroof:
Now let's see GEJ's certificate and thesis.

HugeCock:
You guys are tryin so hard to divert d fact dat ur vp also doesn't have a certificate.

fijiano202:
moral values made u name urself phockphock ....forking dumbo

fijiano202:
God punish u and people way get u

ISpiksDaTroof:
Didn't GEJ say he knows MEND, their activities, intentions and that they were not behind the bombings even though they gave advanced warnings and claimed responsibility for the carnage?

Adextaiwo48:
This man no fit shut up?... Guess he'll still return to the prison whr he belong.

kristina1:
Buhari all the way to Daura home for the aged !!

nigerianvenom:
I'm driving to my lga right now so i can get my pvc tomorrow morning before returning to my base.i will try n post it tomorrow and tag u alongside real gej supporters.

munex007:
Well, not exactly the untold story of former military head of state and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is more like Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘unknown’ story, as not many Nigerians are familiar with the book written by Rosaline Odeh, the then Head of Research and Documentation Section, Federal Department of Information, in May 1984.

The book, Muhammadu Buhari: Nigeria’s Seventh Head of State, was published by the Federal Department of Information, Domestic Publicity Division, Ikoyi Road, Lagos. It is in seven chapters of 95 pages, and details the early life, educational qualifications, career, and thoughts of the then head of state.

Chapter 1 is on parentage and background of the Daura, Katsina State-born retired military officer and politician. He was the 13th and last child of his mother, and also the last of his father’s 23 children.

Gen. Buhari’s father was Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief of Dumukorl, a village near Daura. He, however, died when the young Muhammadu was just four years old. All he can remember of him is that “he was tall and fair in complexion.” The young boy ended being brought up by his mother, Hajia Zulaihalu Musa, who had great influence on him.

Chapter 2 is on Buhari’s childhood and early education. This is the portion that, perhaps, unravels the current raging debate on his academic credentials.

At the age of six, the book says, General Buhari was enrolled at the Central Primary School, Daura. His nephew, Mamman, who is two and a half years older, says of the young pupil: “He was above average academically and more than usual naughty.” Buhari himself corroborated: “I was a truant in primary school. I spent a lot of my time playing around. But when I went to secondary school, I changed.”

Classmates at Daura Primary School remember Buhari as a fast runner and centre forward for the school football team. He was always neatly dressed. He was to finish primary education in 1955 at Kankia Primary School.

In 1956, he proceeded to the Katsina Provisional Secondary School (now Government College, Katsina. According to his schoolmates, he had then become “a serious and hardworking student who tried to excel in everything he did.” Deeply religious, he said his prayers regularly, and was among those who made prayer calls at 4:30a.m.

Who were some of Buhari’s classmates, and what did they say of him?

General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua (now deceased): “He worked fairly hard at his studies and games. He was reserved. He was one of the few boys in the school trusted by his classmates, and was quite dependable.”

Alhaji Fathu Abdullahi: "He made a lot of friends from outside his Daura group. He was very broadminded. Very serious for his age and had no time for frivolous talks. He was very religious, even at the age of 12.”

Mallam Muktari, Zango: “He used to baffle me. He was so strong-willed and principled. He always stood his ground and did not follow the crowd.”

Buhari was a school monitor in Class 2, later a school prefect, a house captain, and ultimately he was made the head boy of the school.

According to the book, of all the boys who applied to join the Army from Katsina Secondary School, only two were taken. Muhammadu Buhari and Shehu Yar’Adua. They both ended up as Generals.

Chapter 3 is on Buhari’s military career, which he started at Nigerian Military Training College, Katsina, in 1962. He then went to the Young Officers Course No. 5 at the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna, from May 1963 to July 1963, Mons Officers Cadet School, Aldershot, in the United Kingdom, and he was commissioned in the rank of Second Lieutenant and posted to 2nd Infantry Battalion in Abeokuta as a Platoon Commander.

What are some of the other courses Buhari attended? According to the book, he was at the Army Mechanical Transport Officer’s Course in Bordon, United Kingdom from May 1965 to June of the same year, Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, India, from January to November 1973, and Army War College, U.S.A, from July 1979 to July 1980.
During the Nigerian Civil War, he was the Brigade Major of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and Commander, 31st Infantry Brigade.

Chapter 4 is titled ‘Food for Thought,’ and it chronicles Gen Buhari’s views on different national and international issues. It also dwells on his private life and family

‘Landmarks Along the Way’ is the title of Chapter 5. It details Buhari’s footprints on the sands of time: as governor, minister, a member of the Supreme Military Council (SMC), General Officer Commanding (GOC), and call to duty as head of state.

Chapter 6 is on ‘A Journey Into the Past.’ What are readers served here? The influences on Buhari’s early life that made him what he became, particularly as a modest, self-effacing man. Hear his comment on leadership: “If there is anything we need in this country, it is leadership, and I also think, if there is anything we have in this country, they are good soldiers. If you stay with your men, and train with them, they will follow you. Much will be accomplished. If you stay with them and train with them, they will do anything.”

And his philosophy? “You will never succeed if you are unjust to your people.”

The final chapter: ‘Moment of Decision.’ Here, readers will get the appraisal and comments of people on Buhari. They include Dr Onolapo Soleye, his Minister of Finance, the Emir of Daura, Gen Musa Yar’Adua, Alhaji Mamman Daura, Gen Martin Adamu, and many others. Adamu, who was Buhari’s Commander during the civil war, said: “I am saying with all sense of responsibility. I don’t think he is an ambitious man. He feels strongly about Nigeria as a country. Given the support of the Armed Forces and the public, there is no reason he should not succeed. This time is the last chance for Nigeria’s survival and territorial integrity. I believe everything he said in his first speech.”


BY LAWRENCE ENYIOGHASU

munex007:
Goofball you are suffering from Mental Poverty..

That's not a computer edit..A fact finding Nigerian emailed the Insititution requesting if GMB trully attended the college and a confirmation was sent by the PR team..

The address is there you can also do the same if you really want to know the truth buh my guess is you won't because you have been so entrenched in falsehood

A book about General Early child hood was written by one Rosaline Odeh the then Head of Research and Documentation Section, Federal Department of Information in May 1984.

At the age of six, the book says, General Buhari was enrolled at the Daura Central Primary School,He was to finish primary education in 1955 at Kankia Primary School.

In 1956, he proceeded to the Katsina Provisional Secondary School (now Government College, Katsina...

The Main problem with these PDP is they lack the intellectual capacity to research for the truth they are far from truth and so entrenched in Falsehood..

It disheartening that people will stoop so low just to score cheap political point
..Let talk about real ISSUE..

Nigeria had spent $156 billion; more than Britain spent to add 30,000MW. Where did the money go,how on earth will Nigeria ever be great if we cannot add just 4000MW, to our power supply in sixteen
years?

And you still want this Incompetent Fool to Continue ?Lemme ask you how much was your conscience bought for? What was your price?

kristina1:
Buhari all the way!!

LouisVanGaal:
is either you a learner, or something is fundamentally wrong with you!

Can you cry more than the bereaved? Tunde Thompson is saying that he has NO problem with Buhari/Idiagbon and that persons shouldn't use his case as a campaign against buhari...cos it holds no water! Did dey fence ur eyes @ the part where he technically endorsed buhari's candidacy? By saying ONLY he has the grit and discipline to call most improbable persons to order..

fijiano202:
sharapp joor i stay at ikotun...very close to his church

customized13:
he would have ruined the economy of the nation if he had been allowed to rule beyond 1985.

Mogidi:
Is this suppose to be certificate?

tit:
Buhari is a Master of Disaster!

Dlionsheart:
That's too much nah - all we need is buhari's primary school certificate. For God sake, is that too much to ask for You want to stop corruption if elected but you're starting your election process with FRAUD AND DECEIT.

AHHH!
I AM TIRED OF THIS BUHARI NONSENSE!!!