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This is the real issue. General Buhari should look into the slow motion that is synonymous to our judicial sector. Thank God our vice president-elect is a lawyer. Our judiciary should braze up in delivering its verdict.

Will Buhari rape the judiciary by using his tribunals again?

It's a democracy now, Mr. No muzzling of the other arm by the 'superman' executive.

Be reminded that the three arms are; the executive, the legislature and; the judiciary.

They act independently.

Nigeria is governed by rules; it's called the constitution.

Imam Buhari won't be able to have his ways like an Ayatollah this time, at least he will be openly resisted and fiercely too.

He claims he is civilized now, you shouldn't push him to start acting like a barbarian.

The judicial reforms have been on-going and cannot be decreed into conclusion.

sammy455:
I go tru many coment..i don't understand how state government is now higher in rank...than d federal government.
d center government control every other gov't in d country..yes, a Governor is elected by d people..and he control many resources than d minister, but, that does not mean d Governor is more in rank than d minister..no"
let say, d military for example...a civilian defense minister appointed by d president...and al d service chiefs report to him, he in turn report to d president...
any policy made by any minister affect every state..thats y today if a country fail, people blame d president..and who make d president fail, d ministries and their policies,..

You are contradicting yourself.

No one blames the ministers for the president's failure because he appoints and can change them when he notices that they are not performing well.

But everyone in the state blames the governor for gross mal-administration as the case may be.

It is the president's and state governors' pictures that are hung in public places like banks and not the minister of finance's.

SLIDEwaxie:
I will make this as simple as possible for u guys:

A state govnr is in charge of his state, a minister is in charge of his office that deals with every state of the federation.

A minister of education can say we shall operate a 3-4-5 system of eduction and all the state commissioners who are answerable to the state govnr must comply.

The state will work on regulations while the law will still prevail.

A Govnr seems higher than a minister because he is not answerable to a minster, but indirectly, he is.

Take for example, if the finance minister says all state accounts must be audited every month, no state govnr will refuse to comply. Their finance commissioners must submit an audit of the state to the ministry of finance. The audit must have the ascent of the state govnr so, indirectly, a state govnr answered to a minister.

Think abt it.

So, in recapitulation, a govnr cannot override a minister's order, but a minister can override a state's regulation as long as it doesn't confirm with the laws laid down thru his office.

Your submission is inaccurate.

The minister of finance cannot order for the audit of the state. (Haba! In Nigeria? Do you mean state governors are that dull? In Nigeria that some state governors have challenged the EFCC's powers over their affairs?)

On policy matters, there are concurrent and exclusive matters in the constitution. It is just for administrative convenience.

Be that as it may, the following are to be considered - some have been mentioned already;

a) State governors are elected - Ministers are appointed

b) State governors can only be removed by political and judicial process - Ministers can be removed by administrative process (Obasanjo allegedly had his ministers sign an undated resignation letter, he merely put the date at the time of his own chosen)

c) State governors are sworn-in by the judiciary after elections - Ministers are subject to confirmation hearings at the Senate before being sworn-in by the president if approved

d) State governors are responsible for the state budgets - Ministers advise the president on his budget

e) State governors control some 'secret' funds called - the Security Vote - Ministers do not have such financial leaverage

f) State governors are members of the Council of State; the highest decision making organ in Nigeria - Only the Attorney General and Minister of Justice is a member of this body among the ministers

g) State governors enjoy immunity from prosecution while in office - Ministers can be sued while in office

h) State governors lead their constituencies - Ministers head ministries

i) A state governor may insult the president everyday if s/he chooses (the president may move against him through orchestrated impeachment process which may or may not succeed) - a minister must 'bow down and worship' the president every breaking of day in order to keep his/her job

If Tinubu and his APC have an idea of the kind of spirit that inhabit the people of Ekiti and Ondo, he would leave Fayose alone and concentrate on forming 'his' government in Abuja.

He should have learnt that resistance to undue interference is their food in that part of Nigeria. Iroko's case should have taught him a lesson or two on how not to pit one Ondo/Ekiti head against another.

The same Omirin or whomever will resist him so vehemently that he would lick his fingers more than he did when Mimiko showed him how to be a man.

By the way, getting another Fayemi type who would empty Ekiti's modest treasury at Bourdillon Drive may be very hard.

lilprinze:
The last time I checked, I thought being on times influential list was for well meaning individuals who have achieved and still achieving a lot.
Why elevate an evil person? Please what's the essence of this publication?

Wait till they make him the next president of your country!

That's the reality for now.

Shekau will soon be packaged; dressed in suits and made to give speeches in Chatham Houses of this world; and sold to you and your children as a STRONG leader you need for CHANGE!

It won't be long!

Your children will make excuses for all his brutality. Chibok girls (if ever they are found) and the whole communities in the North East will tell you to forgive and forget.

They will bring out heavy monies and new election winning tactics.

Oby herself will be called to make campaign appearances for Shekau. She would tell you it wasn't Shekau but Jonathan who was doing the killings. (Notice how she has never said anything against Boko Haram but against her government?)

They will tell you how just and fair minded Shekau was. That he was fighting for the oppressed. They will remind you how he married one of the kidnapped Christian girls. They will look for another willing Christian to be his vice.

With Buhari, brutality is the new tool of influence, and the 'best' path to leadership in modern times.

Watch-out for 'President Abubakar Shekau'

iykofias:
6yrs u took us for granted, u forgot d masses n was busy empowering militants, ebele now see ur life. 'no body life is worth my ambition' yet atlest 14 people died in rivers state in d jux concluded election, all tnx to u n ur wife. So go ahead wit ur lies if u'r lucky u jux mite start believing them. #clueless

800 Nigerians were slaughtered in 2011 because Buhari lost. Among them NYSC members who tried to prevent underage voters. They were slaughtered!

They will not die in vain, Buhari and his blood thirsty supporters will have their day in ICC some day. No matter how long it takes.

olatade:
The officers and men of the Command assured the First Lady of their support, a source claimed.

When the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Zone 6, Calabar, Tunde Ogunsakin, an ex-Rivers Commissioner of Police, who supervises Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Ebonyi States, arrested a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) with electoral materials in Rivers, the First Lady immediately intervened by calling his husband.

The source disclosed that President Jonathan quickly got across to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba, and directed him to order Ogunsakin out of Rivers State. The AIG returned to his Calabar base at about 5am on April 11.


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/how-first-lady-influenced-rivers-governorship-poll-for-wike/

[size=16pt]His husband?[/size]

One way or the other he will gone

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adeblow:
mumu you mean u didn't see where the same military
said they found it? ode of Highest order

Where did they say they found it?

Where is it now?

Who has seen it apart from you?

Wonder how they continue to bring out these pictures and still no sight of Buhari's certificate anywhere.

Obiagelli:
This guy must have really performed to keep his seat, this will likely be the only pdp state in the entire North.

Taraba
Plateau
Nassarawa

Are in the North too.

CORRECTMAN78:
This man will start by looking at the electoral malpractices that brougth him into office; the underage voting in the north( he has to clear that mess up north, get his people sensitize and punish those who surmon this children to vote). Then he should look at those PUs marred by APC paid thugs in his favour.

It will be too bad of him and unjust to single out Rivers, Imo, and Edo cause his band of political thugs(Amechi, Rochas, Osho respectively) failed woefully.

I want to believe his coming to deliever to Nigerian excellent leadership and, not to bruise the head of his political opponents.

Afterall, from all I could envisage, those who predicted Nigeria fall in 2015 has not lost it. The signs are there, glaring; SE and SS standing as opposition. You can see the crack so visible on the wall. They have started packing their belongings from the country called Nigeria. So, if I were the president elect, I will rather re-integrate them by deplomancy, not this approach of adding fuel to a flame.

[size=16pt]The bold refers.

If you believe this then you are one of those who bought the deceit by their propaganda.

These guys are anarchist and anti-democratic elements.

What about the alleged billions spent by these governors he mentioned to purchased his primaries for him.

Is that not an electoral offense?[/size]

[size=16pt]And this is coming from someone who did the most violence to the constitution of Nigeria?

Shouldn't we start by prosecuting Buhari for subverting the constitution in his military coup in the 1980s?[/size]

Following their success in annihilating Christians in Borno, Yobe and parts of Adamawa and emboldened by their new found "change" in conjunction with the new spread of Islam across the globe by the current "leader" in the West, the Islamists have launched yet another deadly attack on this Kano Christian clergy and his family.

Christians in the Middle Belt that have been a shield for the Southern Christians are the next, followed by the Southern Christians who the Islamists think are the easiest to get because of their "worldly reward system" kind of Christianity. Many of them are the most dismissive of the present realities, they are the first to tell anyone who cares to listen that their "change" was done without bigotry. To the Islamists however, their "change" is a license to carry out their agenda, to kill and subdue.

By Saturday, Omirin and his co thugs would have been voted out by Ekiti people.

EggovinMma:
LIAR!!!!!!!!!!
YOU PEOPLE HAVE FAILED. IT MAY NOT BE EASY BUT IT HAS STARTED ALREADY, EVEN THOUGH HE IS YET TO BE SWORN IN.


Kindly double check this for me:
The fear of Buhari is the beginning of. Nigerian systems' sanitation.

1. Nigeria army finds Buhari's certificate;

2. Missing $20b found with Zenith bank;

3. NTA calling GMB masters degree holder;

4. Dezieni visits Abdulsalami;

5. Industrial training funds began payment of outstanding they have been owing students for more than 2yrs;

6. Nig stock market recorded a gain of # 906b , biggest gain in 50yrs;

7. Naira made a gain of #27 against the dollar

8. Numerous filling stations that were padlocked under
the pretext of fuel scarcity suddenly opened gates for business.

The war on corruption and indiscipline has already started....

Where is the certificate?

coogar:
they should give it to rochas okorocha!

which yeye saraki?

Are you one of the low information 'change' agents?

Senate presidents always emerge among existing senators.

They don't just 'give' someone. It's not something to be 'dashed-out'.

Okorocha is a governor still, he is running for another term. Someone who is not in the senate cannot be 'given' the senate presidency.

This information is public knowledge, don't just be following, you too can improve yourself so they won't be selling you dummies every time.

naijafresh:
Different faces, same outcome.
From what we can see with names like Saraki being mentioned another era of impunity and reckless corruption will be starting very soon.

Politicians have an insatiable appetite for power, wealth and influence. Now APC is coming into power they can only perform worse than the PDP (personal development party) in looting and accumulation of personal wealth as PDP has set the standard and I doubt they would allow themselves to be outdone.

Looks like APC will be known as Acquisition for personal consumption party. so whats new with politics and politicians in Nigeria?
A few more billionaires will be made and a few million more nigerians will slip below the poverty line yet again.

If APC disappoint then nigerians will have truly had enough, we will sweep away all old school politician and disband both the PDP and APC, watch this space..

May God help us.

From one illusion to another.

From 'change' to 'sweeping'.

You have not even allowed the 'change' to start before thinking of another thing? They have not even been sworn-in yet.

Are you that restless?

Yet you had access to all and every information you needed before you started chanting your 'change' slogan. You boasted that your lord and saviour has all the answers.

Common! At least give your 'change' two years before thinking of bringing 'Angel Gabriel' and 'Archangel Michael' from the moon among the youths with your sweeping.

femialiu:
People talk of Saraki in a bad light..but is the man really that bad...just to mention a few.
1. He was the one that exposed the fuel subsidy issue as the then chairman of NGF.
2. He was the one that harmonized the NGF and made it politically relevant
3. He has been shouting about kerosene subsidy and even took it upon himself to conduct a research nationwide on how much kerosene is actually being sold for. This is a policy that should favour the masses. Saraki is one of Diezani greatest headache.
4. He led other PDP senators to decamp from PDP to APC...infact, he submitted the letter to David Mark which mark didn't accept.
5. He stood his ground against the appointment of Koro as a minister and when David Mark insisted, he led the walk out.
6. He worked assiduously for the election of GMB despite the fact that GMB jailed his father (talk of politics without bitterness).
7. Bukky is the leader of APC in the north central and GMB won in 4 states out of 6. 3 of the 4 states won are PDP governed states (Kogi, Niger and Benue) losing in Plateau and Nasarawa with very small margin.

Follow him on twitter and you will understand Bukky is not as bad as the media has made him look.

I was born and bred in Ilorin, ABS as foundly called performed as one of the best governor in Nigeria...He championed some laudable project and even though he "ate the yam", you can not compare him to the likes of suswam or orji. He started most of the things fashola did in Lagos that people are hailing him e.g clearing of Oja Oba, Kw WA, sweeping of the road, planting of trees and flowers, completely renovated Kw State oldest school and many other schools, started Kw State University, distributed free text books to all state owned secondary school students, even Kw United got to Confederation cup during his time....Yes he is corrupt just like most politicians in Nigeria...but his 8 years as Kw State Governor left the state much better than he met the state...

But you probably believe that President Jonathan is as bad as the media perceived him.

The chicken are coming home to roost.

Now that you are having a taste of that bitter pill you guys (including Saraki himself) used against Jonathan's administration to bring his government down, you are bitterly complaining.

Welcome to the real world.

Longluk:
Well....Saraki may be the likely candidate, but it won't be that easy for him to clinched Senate presidency because of PDP goons. PDP will have a big say on who will be the next senate president through voting. Saraki leave their party nd went to APC which is one of the reason why they lose Kwara. PDP has never lose in Kwara before if not now. They will want to use this to take a pound of flesh out of Saraki and vote for whoever will contest with him just like how Tambuwal emerge as speaker then. Mark my words.

The argument also applies to all the top contenders of the post.

Akume was a governor under PDP for 8 years too. He too, like Saraki, also left the PDP.

fred06:
It would have been Ngige being senate president...but the Igbos know how to destroy their own son...only reason being that he supported BUHARI...

It's called democracy.

People have a choice to destroy whoever they want to destroy, including themselves.

Majority Nigerians just voted for someone without a requisite qualification for the office. That's their choice.

You chose your own and allow others to chose their own.

Yoruba was in the opposition for decades.

masseratti:
i dont understand this arguement,George Akume also won in benue,Benue voted for APC in the Presidential elections and George Akume is the minority leader,its only natural hew becomes the president of the senate.

Sidon there.

The government of the Fulani, by the Fulani and for the Fulani.

Buharitocracy.

The same Buhari will come after the social media with intense intolerance never have witnessed.

Once a dictator always a dictator.

Premise 1, Lagos State government bans all commissioners from speaking to the media only through the information department. AKA gagging the press.

Premise 2, Lagos State refused to 'domesticate' the freedom of information act.

Premise 3, Yemi Osinbajo (Vice President Elect) sued some media houses to prevent a documentary on him from being aired. Decree 4 loading...

We've heard this before.

Obasanjo said a similar thing and then surreptitiously brought Stella in full-time as 'First Lady'

We wait and see.

It could be part of 'Islamization' of Nigeria. To relegate women totally to the background - in 'ba shiga' style.

Where is the certificate?

This is the same Afikuyomi who claimed he helped Tinubu filled his INEC form in 1999. He is at the centre of certificate forgery and bogus claim by Tinubu then.

The thought of having elected a person without the requisite qualification is bringing them shame and they have to come up with this type of spin.

Buhari is now the president elect, let him simply write to Cambridge to release the certificate promptly. He has nothing to lose by doing that.

Shame! Shame!! if this is how they want to run Nigeria.

They have not even been sworn in and they have started lying.

This type of boy boy show should be discontinued.

Osinbajo is not Buhari's staff, he's the Vice President elect. They are not going to be working in the same office. Buhari will have his own staff while Osinbajo too will have his.

This master/servant picture is embarrassing.

Common!

shinejackie:
It was part of it, whether we agree on it or not, u don't bite the finger that feeds you, Obasanjo cannot be ruled out in the whole scheme of things, he still commands respect in the North and all serving and retired military generals operate like a cult, they support themselves, look at the first letter he wrote to congratulate Buhari, he hammered on the military institution that nurtured him and others that has been ridiculed by the Jonathan administration, forget all the disagreement u see they display outwardly in the media, they respect each other and operate like a cult, l am not a fan of OBJ but he does command respect in the Nigeria political horizon.......fact!!!

The same Obasanjo reduced the military to a toothless dog by refusing them funds for weapons and combat training.

During Obasanjo's time, the only training he allowed were the ones subjecting the military to civilian authority. The military was funded for operation last in the '80s during Shagari's administration.

Successive governments beginning from Buhari's have been decimating the capacity of the military to prevent them from military take-over even though Buhari himself came in through a coup d'etat.

On one hand these actions are positive for Nigeria since it has prevented the military from disturbing the civilian governments since 1999, nevertheless, it's the main reason the military has been having difficulty in battling the insurgencies, first in the Niger Delta and then Boko Haram in the North.

A combination of the two will be good for Nigeria. I.e. continue re-orientation to prevent military incursion into politics and training for operations, combat and acquisition of first grade weapons to quell internal aggression and repel external challenge. This has been started by Jonathan, let Buhari not come and be playing to the gallery.

It's all looking like everyone is regretting the lose of the president in the elections.

Now we know that it has nothing to do with performance or lack of it.

We are also knowing now that it has nothing to do with Buhari's alleged credibility.

An neither is it because of alleged corruption. No government has ever invited an international audit firm to look into its books in Nigeria. None has been that transparent. In spite of the alleged multi-million dollars Harlibuton scandal, Obasanjo still got re-elected.

Analysis by analysis, President Jonathan is being vindicated that his administration was excellent in doing public good more than other administrations.

These UK, US and other analysts can write whatever they want but the main reason he lost is the gang-up between 2 major tribes in Nigeria against a minority president.

If he was Hausa or Yoruba, 2 million Obasanjos cannot stop him from getting re-elected. We recall that late Umaru Yaradua was assisted into office by Obasanjo and we witnessed the utter ruthlessness in decimating his legacies. He even went after his daughter with the EFCC and was going to jail her.

We also recall how Bola Tinubu took on Obasanjo even as a governor and heaven did not fall.

No one wrote about Mafia Don in the above circumstances, no one called them to order nor blamed the actors for doing such to a 'Mafia Don'. Instead, Obasanjo's public perception took a nosedive; he was seen as a meddler in the case of Yaradua and as a bully in the case of Tinubu.

Note that it had nothing to do with the abysmal performance of these two guys in office.

The disdain for minority by the majority tribes is the a serious problem. Deep inside the majority's mind, any other person who is not from them is not presidential.

Jonathan's support in 2011 by the South West is nothing more than a sympathy support and a proxy war with the North. In any case, he was already a sitting president on the account of Yaradua's demise in office, it's not like they purposely voted for him.

His few supporters like Fayose, Odumakin etc were tongued lashed and literally cursed. The Lagos State governor openly castigated a group of Yoruba elder statesmen who were not part of the conspiracy as betrayers.

How can anyone explain why South West did not bother about the low collection of PVCs in its region; to the extent of planning to go into an election with 30% collection rate on February 14th. What is the explanation behind seeing evidence of underage voters across the North and the traditional media turning a blind eye?

Update:
You can check the post by mainman7 above for evidence of my theory.

If this report is half as true in reality than intentions there would be zero unemployment rate in Nigeria.

Truth is, it's cheaper to have intentions than to execute.

duni04:
I think Buhari should instruct the CBN to block all FG accounts, same way Fayose blocked Ekiti state accounts when he was Governor elect, so we prevent Jonathan from embarking on any last minute looting. He has looted enough already

This is how trouble starts, Buhari is openly being encouraged to subvert the Nigerian constitution.

And he would be praised for his high-handedness for a short while till his cup is filled up and then Nigerians will start loathing him.

Mr Man, Buhari's tenure won't start until 29th May, check your date.

6. Gang-up of the majority tribes against a minority president.

Congrats to APC and Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd).

The last time Kerry came to threaten Nigeria on the postponement of elections from the 14th February.

They escorted him to his aircraft and postponed the elections immediately.

We are still awaiting Kerry's Armageddon.