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MrDavidson:
Why are his lawyers not allowing the case to proceed speedily so that he can be set free if he's innocent? They're only compounding his woes of staying in jail for a longer time when the trial has not even started. Do they think even if a South easterner is brought to hear the case he'll simply close his eyes and tell him he's innocent and have him discharged? That won't happen.

I'm not saying he would be convicted by all means, but I don't see him getting free. If Buhari could rebuff all entreaties to intervene in the case of the nation's Number Three citizen, what chance does Kanu stand?

You should stop comparing Kanu with common thief like Saraki.
Saraki has dozens of genuine case against him, while federal government finding it difficult to lay hand on any evidence to nail Kanu.
Why must federal government ask for masquerade witnesses against Kanu while they didn't do the same against Saraki, Metuh and others.

So Shameful.

The pressures from both sides is squeezing life out of this judge.

Right decision.

Proudlyngwa:
This is very wrong write up....

How?

So unfortunate that Nigerians naively chosed bondage without thinking about the painful consequences.

Change was your idea not ours.
Change was your manifesto, we do not have a manifesto
Change was your mantra, not ours
Change was your magic word
Change starts with you.
We did not vote us into power...
We voted you into power because we bought into your Change mantra.
Change you sold.
Change we bought.
And Change we want.
Change we can touch, Change we can feel, Change we can relate with, and Change that has a human face. And we want it from you.
Show the light, we will find the way.
In 1937, when the Great Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe( Owelle Osowanya Onitsha) launched The West African Pilot newspaper. He chose a very special motto for it.
"Show the light and the people will find the way".
Zik knew leadership is everything.
The very idea that 'Change' starts with the led and not the leadership can be best described as an abdication of responsibility by the leadership.
That was the utopia Carl Marx preached, but as he also found out, it took the intervention of the ruling class in the person of Frederick Engels for his ideas to be heard.
There is no known historical precedent where the people led the change paradigm without the leadership.
I have ruminated through my books on political and economic history. There is no known reference.
The closest was the French Revolution of 1789, and if you take a closer look, it was not even started by the Proletarian class. Danton and Robespierre were not ''the masses''.
Every dramatic, and drastic change witnessed from the 19th to 20th century across the globe has been top down.
Nnamdi Azikiwe studied it quite well in his Renascent Africa, and came to the conclusion that "Show the Light, and the people will find the way"...
Chairman Mao failed woefully in China because he believed change could come from the people that was why he launched the Cultural Revolution.
But it took Deng Xiaoping to show that leadership is everything when he manipulated the ''unseen finger'' that has pulled over 600 million out of poverty in the last 30 years.That is leadership!
Cuba withstood the world's blockade, suffered all sorts of indignities, yet gave their people one of the best education and health care services in the world. It took the leadership of Fidel Castro....
General Park knew this quite well when he set out the policies that encouraged the Chaebols in South Korea.You can describe him as a dictator, but he laid the foundation for the take off of a prosperous Korea. Today I am writing this with a Samsung mobile device thanks to the foresight of General Park, whose daughter incidentally is the present President of South Korea.
Lee Kuan Yew is an evident testimony that change can only be effectively and efficiently launched top down. He enumerated everything succinctly in his well received book, From the Third World, to the First World. Singapore today is a living testimony to that.
Mahathir Mohammad pointed out that principles can be replicated. He learnt from what happened in neighbouring Singapore, and helped steer Malaysia in same pathway.
Can we take a loot at what leadership caused in Chile, that is today well referenced as the Chile Miracle? The bringing in of the Chicago Boys who helped drew the economic blue print that led to the emergence of the first rich society in South America? This too is a well documented case study.

What of Dubai?
Was it the poor people of Dubai that caused the change or the Sheikh who pursued his dreams inspite of contrary views from 'knowledgeable folks'....today, the Dubai experience has been duplicated in Qatar, Oman, Bahrain etc etc...and in each case, it took leadership.
Brazil already has an economic growth template initiated by President Cardoso while he was the Minister of Finance. But it took Lula Da Silva to take Brazil to global prominence...

Now let us come home to Africa.
Botswana has always been described as an oasis in the midst of poor leadership, mismanagement and chaos. Was it the Batswana people that engineered the change process or the leadership of Ketumile Masire who followed in the footsteps of the first President of the country Sir Seretse Khama. He mentored Festus Magae, reputed as Africa's incorruptible leader. Is Botswana today not regarded as Africa's most stable country, with the continent's longest continuous multi-party democracy. It is relatively free of corruption and has a good human rights record.
Look at Rwanda....
Just 20 years ago, it was the most destroyed nation in the world. Go there today. It is a model, walk through the streets of Kigali, it is the neatest city in Africa. Even Rwandans dont even walk around dressing haggardly. Interact with them to check out their level of patriotism. Check out their growth rate and how today they are the most respected African country at international diplomatic circles.
Look at Ethiopia, hitherto known for poverty and hunger...today it is the driving force in the Africa rising story. They are building a massive 8000 km railways criss crossing the entire country.Their airline is the most profitable state run airline in the world, and the rate of infrastructure development is second to non in sub Sahara Africa.
I can go on and on....
I can also go into Europe and give examples where just one man or woman came up with an idea, sold it to everyone, and ensured everyone is part of it.
Even democratic Germany survived the economic crises of the last decade because of the leadership of Angela Merkel.
In the United States, and at different times in their history, we have seen the emergence of someone who took the bull by the horns, and steer the nation from economic doldrums to prosperity.
It started with Thomas Jefferson.
Then we had Abraham Lincoln
Then Franklin Delano Roosevelt whose astute leadership ensured Americans elected him four times as President even when he was bedridden.
We had John F.Kennedy, whose dream was to put a man in the Moon.
We also had Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton, and ofcourse Barack Obama......
These leaders stood out.
In the UK we had men like Winston Churchill whose words, just words boosted hope in time of despair, and whose wisdom helped save an entire continent.
In France we had men like Charles de Gaulle. He was France, France was him.
He was affectionately described by the French as "Celui qui dit non"
Your Excellency Sir, show the light, and the people will find the way!

LEADERSHIP IS EVERYTHING.

Ochi ato gbuo m.


Biko,, onye ga agwa m ihe bu Ikemba Biafra? Ndi iberibe.

That Agbaje has empty brain.

Fyno:
Outside Abia,everyone including our stupid journalist who will stay in Lagos and castigate Dr Oga for trying so hard to liberate Abia from the hands of Evil men that has held the state hostage since 1999.
Ikpeazu been an Ngwa man was expected to give Aba a face lift but has chose to follow the template set by his godfather and predecessor TA Orji,in fact Aba as a city has never had it this bad that most major roads in Aba has been divided by lakes referred as 'Isi Nmiri'.
This is faulks road,the busiest road in Aba that leads to Ariaria int MKT, it now takes 3/drops to get the market because of rivers that has divided the road.

Abeg shut that trap, it's your type that comes here to say it's too early to judge Buhari's government but you're here expecting Ikpeazu who got to office the same day as Buhari to turn Aba to Dubai within the same period.


Hypocrite.

omogidi234:
Like I said in another thread, I hope they won't bring this to Nigeria in 2019!

Yes o o.

We're always made to understand that USA is a leading light in civilization, Decency, democracy bla bla bla bla.
But the show of shame being exhibited by the stakeholders in the campaign for America's forthcoming presidential election is appalling.
I know politics is dirty, is it worth this Nakedd show of shame?
How can a people be proud to parade the naked portrait and sculpture of their incoming president?

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BELLOW IS THE SCULPTURE OF CLINTON AND TRUMP.

OP, na so your own madness take dey start?

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I have told the people who brought Buhari will end up inside his stomach. The story is like the story of a rich man who brought a lion home.

Fayose

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Progressive01:
I must say, going by what I've read here, what EFCC did to the gentleman was absolutely unjustifiable. This is a clear violation of one's civil rights. Dude hardly did anything wrong IMHO.

I hope he sues and claims damages.

Will you have been so civil in your comment if this guy is not your fellow fulani herdsman?

It will be a delight to meet him one day. He's a nice and intelligent guy.

Beremx:
....not until i see the effect of the increase in my house. till then, it's all a lie!!

Good that you're now taking based on reality on ground not on partisan point of view.
Yesterday, I opened this thread with flat battery,

https://www.nairaland.com/3296835/update-electricity-supply-situation-port

as I'm writing this, no light. Unfortunately, generator is no longer an option because of high cost of petrol and diesel.

Proudlyngwa:
Certainly not as stupid as your posts
Every governor is in charge of security in his state, except a state of emergency is declared in that state.
You are an insult to the Igbo race.

Mechie onu there. Which state Governor is in charge of security in his state?
Just two days ago, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state was harassed, embarrassed and humiliated by security agencies that ought to be under him at PDP convention right in his backyard in Port Harcourt.

cktheluckyman:
don't mind them.Shell and Chevron will soon leave the ND to come and drill the 12,000bpd oil in lagos

I'm happy for Lagos o o, it's time for them to feed the rest of the country.

owobokiri:
To put things into some sort of perspective; the amount in billions lost as as a result of Niger Delta unrest in a month is bigger than the total amount budgeted for amnesty in a year! Essentially, if the Daurra disaster contineud funding the amnesty programme while doing the needful by exorcising himself of his clannish demons, we will have peace, kids from that area will have more trainings in schools both locally and internationally while learning skills that will put them in a better stead to help the economy later. But what do we have now? Bombs here and there, deepleting reserves / reveneu as Buhari sticks to his guns. All these while he is feverishly borrowing billions of dollars to "reconstruct" his north east. This can only happen when an 80 year old granpa tries to play Rambo. Change indeed. .

On point.

I'm here to give update on power situation in part of Port Harcourt I'm staying.
I'm not here to exchange words with anybody but to contribute to national discuss, because I heard that electricity companies are performing very well in some parts of the country.


I Don't care whose responsibility to solve power problem in 2016 between Jonathan, Abacha , Obasanjo, Abdulsallami, Buhari or Shagari, my point here is that Electricity situation in Port Harcourt is terribly bad

This post may be my last today because my device is down already..

TyrantInAsoRock:
NgeneUkwenu blood pressure be raising like my fav
Garri


Garri ijebu

She needs this urgently.

Beremx:
Congratulations to him.

All these court judgements are distracting his government. Can they just allow him to work?


btw, ponponkon, ole nke n'eme nu?

Nonsense government.
APC is disservice to humanity.

This news sweet die.



Cc omenka ngeneukwenu modath dropshot, Beremx, Aresa, Caseless, donphilopus Orlandowoh, egift, Abagworo, phantom, Obalaila, Demdem.



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APC has successfully failed in their bid to destroy opposition.



Shame to all zombies.

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See their tweets

Environmental implication advisers over to you.

Tokety7:
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The inconsequential few like ur kind will always have ur say but the majority lot will definitely have their way. Ur pathetic kind can't be found wanting on our blessed land so no big deal.

Yeah, you people believe Nigerians will be decieved second time in a row.
The majority of people you're talking about, are they not 5k a month candidate like you APC failed woefully to appease? We shall see.

APC is a mansion built on quick sand, EASY COME, EASY GO.

jeje123:
Alimodu Sheriff would make sure PDP becomes an history in Nigeria if due caution was not taking.

Illiterate.

Tokety7:

Not until wadata plaza is burnt to Ashes and wike made to kiss Amaechi's arse. The best Rivers governor in her history.

Be ready to wait till eternity.