₦airaland Forum

datribune:
Initially BH was local. Their ideology & modus operandi was no different frm d perennial fundamentalist problems we hav always had in d north like Maitatsine etc. & dat was why it was easy to round up its founder Mohammed Yussuf & his members. Unfortunately, d nation took its eye off d ball & they got affiliated to Alqeada & dat was when it became a whole new ball game. If we had nipped it in d bud we would not be having dis discussion now. Unfortunately our suspicions of each other did not allow us to do d right thing & tribal & religious bigots were having a field day each coming out wit a narrative dat fits its own narrow view. It is an insurgency QED. When we see each other as one. As dis recent victories show, when d giant of Africa comes together we can overcome anything. But will we or will we give in to our suspicions?.

hush15:
Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with these APEdiots. One min, the NA is the president tools for selfish desires, now the NA is a just force in APCheats' lives. abeg, make una tell me o, why are these APC double Minded abi NA is operating independently now ni?

iwaeda:
The All Progressives Congress has said President Goodluck Jonathan “bears a huge moral responsibility that will hunt him for a long time to come” for allowing the Boko Haram menace to fester, leading to the deaths of over 15,000 Nigerians and the displacement of over 3 million others in the past six years.

In a statement issued in London on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also hailed the military for the successes it has recorded in the battle against Boko Haram in recent times, saying the string of victories confirms the party’s stand that the Nigerian military can hold its own anywhere and anytime, if provided with the necessary equipment and if the morale of the troops is not undermined.

President Goodluck Jonathan has finally owned up to his globally-acknowledged incompetence, a development which, in truly democratic societies, should be part of a statement of resignation by a leader whose terrible error of judgement has caused so many deaths and inflicted so much pain and sorrow on his compatriots.

APC said the truth is that President Jonathan deliberately allowed the Boko Haram crisis to fester because he and his team saw it as their trump card for winning re-election in 2015 by currying local and global sectarian sympathy with a Muslim-group-killing-Christians narrative that totally distorts the fact that Boko Haram is a band of marauders who have no consideration for ethnicity, regionalism, religion or any other thing beyond their mad disposition to terror.

The party said the marauders are equal-opportunity killers who went after Christians, Muslims, northerners, southerners, men, women, the old, the young, the rich and the poor.



http://www.punchng.com/news/apc-carpets-jonathan-over-boko-haram-hails-military/

"I've always maintained that knocking Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) for his achievements all because I'm running for Governor on a different platform will just be playing mere politics - and that's not what I've set out to do in this campaign. However, I like to think that Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) and I have very different positions and ideologies when it comes to leadership and what we both think is critical to developing Lagos into a world class mega-city.

This leads me to an issue that needs to be addressed. An issue that has to do with our doctors and healthcare workers

First and foremost, I find it heart wrenching that at our level of development in Lagos, we still have to grapple with the decision of paying the salaries of our doctors. You see, quite simply, we cannot expect to have grown our economy by almost a hundred fold in the last 16 years without improving the lives and working conditions of our healthcare workers. It's not just logical. What's the purpose of building schools, if our children cannot afford it? What's the purpose of building bridges, if it doesn't connect people to commercial activity? What's the purpose of leadership, if there are no followers? What's the purpose of such great prosperity, if it doesn't trickle down to the least of us? This is where I think we fundamentally differ. There's a semblance of being progressive on the surface but the position and decisions that the honorable Governor has made over his tenure leaves us to wonder if truly he and the leaders in the Lagos' ruling party, the APC, are true Progressives - in the footsteps of great Yoruba leaders like Awolowo and LK Jakande.


You see being progressive has nothing to do with your party. It's in your lifestyle, in your instinct, it's subconscious. I learnt this from my great mentor Pa Abraham Adesanya - A man that took me under his wings as a young politician and taught me all that I know about politics. He would say, "It's about the people, Jimi. At the end of the day, no other metric counts, no validation is greater than the one you see on the faces and in the lives of our people. If they are hungry and without jobs; if they're without a roof over their heads; if they're uneducated and lack the basic life skills to compete; then we've all failed even if we build the tallest of skyscrapers or the longest of bridges."
That's what I call being Progressive.
So don't lecture me on experience. If your so called experience doesn't have a human face to it, it's all for nothing.

Let me assure Lagosians that hope is on the way. And being a Pharmacist myself and understanding the importance of a healthy people to national development, I intend to do more in this area. I have said under my watch, we shall introduce a free-health insurance scheme that would be beneficial to Lagosians and service providers, amongst other things. It's bold - no doubt - but it's possible. As long as we have the the political will to see it through, it will happen.
Government must begin to work not for a few elites that gather on the main streets of Bourdillon but for ALL people. Whether you're a banker or a blacksmith, an electrician or an exporter, teachers, Okada riders, students and lecturers. We are all one people in pursuit of the basic needs in life: opportunity, liberty, dignity of work and the pursuit of happiness.
So in this election, let us make it clear to the opposition that when it comes to being Progressive:
It is not in the size of the cap, it's in the THOUGHTS.
It's not by the shape of the glasses, it's in the VISION.

And it's definitely not for them to decide whose feet the shoes fit. Our progressivenessis about the PATH that Lagosians themselves choose to travel and our ability as leaders to harness that.
God bless."

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Like apc luvs seeing boko haram killing naija, so dey can use it against d govt, whoz d commander in chief of d armed forces? Even d so called change chanters ve refused to hail our president for working tiredlessly to bring an end to dis boko haram. Dey re not happy seeing jona transforming d lives of d north, buh wen boko kills civilians dey start to rant like mad cows . Sometimes, I wonder d type of brain dey ve, if dey can't commend jona for taking d bold step rather wen boko triumph dey come on NL to condemn d govt. Where re dey now? . Sahara reporters won't hail jona now, buh wen our country was being attacked dey celebrated it. Shame on apc leadership, shame on change chanters shame on sahara reporters

1miccza:
Not just tribal and religious u forgot to add political bigots too,as for your last line on when we come together and see each other as one,this is why i get so angry at this two so called political parties in the land they tend to politicize what they shouldn't and they are both guilty of this in Unity lies our strength why i feel they have some kind of back up which isn't ISIS or alqaeda is this,the kind of weapon used and the way they were replaced as soon as any went missing points to that fact of course this was prior to the bombardment by the military

his globally-acknowledged incompetence, a development which, in truly democratic societies, should be part of a statement of resignation by a leader whose terrible error of judgement has caused so many deaths and inflicted so much pain and sorrow on his compatriots.

daveP:
Quoting Jimi Agbaje himself.....

"I've always maintained that knocking Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) for his achievements all because I'm running for Governor on a different platform will just be playing mere politics - and that's not what I've set out to do in this campaign. However, I like to think that Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) and I have very different positions and ideologies when it comes to leadership and what we both think is critical to developing Lagos into a world class mega-city.

This leads me to an issue that needs to be addressed. An issue that has to do with our doctors and healthcare workers

First and foremost, I find it heart wrenching that at our level of development in Lagos, we still have to grapple with the decision of paying the salaries of our doctors. You see, quite simply, we cannot expect to have grown our economy by almost a hundred fold in the last 16 years without improving the lives and working conditions of our healthcare workers. It's not just logical. What's the purpose of building schools, if our children cannot afford it? What's the purpose of building bridges, if it doesn't connect people to commercial activity? What's the purpose of leadership, if there are no followers? What's the purpose of such great prosperity, if it doesn't trickle down to the least of us? This is where I think we fundamentally differ. There's a semblance of being progressive on the surface but the position and decisions that the honorable Governor has made over his tenure leaves us to wonder if truly he and the leaders in the Lagos' ruling party, the APC, are true Progressives - in the footsteps of great Yoruba leaders like Awolowo and LK Jakande.


You see being progressive has nothing to do with your party. It's in your lifestyle, in your instinct, it's subconscious. I learnt this from my great mentor Pa Abraham Adesanya - A man that took me under his wings as a young politician and taught me all that I know about politics. He would say, "It's about the people, Jimi. At the end of the day, no other metric counts, no validation is greater than the one you see on the faces and in the lives of our people. If they are hungry and without jobs; if they're without a roof over their heads; if they're uneducated and lack the basic life skills to compete; then we've all failed even if we build the tallest of skyscrapers or the longest of bridges."
That's what I call being Progressive.
So don't lecture me on experience. If your so called experience doesn't have a human face to it, it's all for nothing.

Let me assure Lagosians that hope is on the way. And being a Pharmacist myself and understanding the importance of a healthy people to national development, I intend to do more in this area. I have said under my watch, we shall introduce a free-health insurance scheme that would be beneficial to Lagosians and service providers, amongst other things. It's bold - no doubt - but it's possible. As long as we have the the political will to see it through, it will happen.
Government must begin to work not for a few elites that gather on the main streets of Bourdillon but for ALL people. Whether you're a banker or a blacksmith, an electrician or an exporter, teachers, Okada riders, students and lecturers. We are all one people in pursuit of the basic needs in life: opportunity, liberty, dignity of work and the pursuit of happiness.
So in this election, let us make it clear to the opposition that when it comes to being Progressive:
It is not in the size of the cap, it's in the THOUGHTS.
It's not by the shape of the glasses, it's in the VISION.

And it's definitely not for them to decide whose feet the shoes fit. Our progressivenessis about the PATH that Lagosians themselves choose to travel and our ability as leaders to harness that.
God bless."

(shrugs) I just want what's best for my Country.

Shubbylee:
All APC is saying is that....why is it when election is around d corner that he's crushing Boko Haram? he could have crushed them since but he delayed it till now so he can use it to campaign and win votes from gullible and sentimental pple like you!! OPEN YOUR EYES NIGERIANS!!! WHY IS IT WHEN ELECTION IS AROUND THE CORNER? WHY?

Shubbylee:
All APC is saying is that....why is it when election is around d corner that he's crushing Boko Haram? he could have crushed them since but he delayed it till now so he can use it to campaign and win votes from gullible and sentimental pple like you!! OPEN YOUR EYES NIGERIANS!!! WHY IS IT WHEN ELECTION IS AROUND THE CORNER? WHY?

conscript1967:
Because the army hadn't the neccesary equipment and arms. GEJ inherited a poorly equipped army due to the neglect of previous leaders (especially our dear OBJ who did nothing at all for the army even though he is an old soldier). Now GEJ has bought arms and the army is better shaped for the fight.

APC should be objective in their politics. Let us not 4get that Nigeria will be here long after we are all gone.

aresa:
empty platitudes with zero vision or any credible plan for the future...

mifavour:
na them know shaa..GEJ2019...and btw if actually failhari wins he'll call his boys to order bah.. He should do it already! he's not winning. tho! We Don't need a 75year old man to come rule us!

icecalm:
So what is your point?.I see you are very hot.[ [font=Georgia] So what is your point?.I see you are very hot.

aresa:
He didn't know the Nigerian military was poorly equipped after six years in office and and Boko Haram murdering rampage, but the will to equip and fight BH just miraculously appeared right before election right?

Have we not been saying for a long time that this is what he planed just to win election?

We are not stupidd...

danjumakolo:
Nna...u go school so?
You kept repeating yourself as if u can't construct a simple sentence.No wonder smn called u ediot.

Y are u opposing what gej said...or have u forgotten general said the sponsors of bh are within his govt?.

icecalm:
GMB you see how you have affected some Nigerians with your illiteracy and APCite phony propaganda. GEJ became acting president February 9 2010 and with thugs like APC sitting him out while he is till in power it's no easy statement to utter about what GMB is really doing to our youths that they have even forgotten about the vision of youths in the Nigerian government.
see below when he assumed office and stop saying gibberish. I see you are still unlearned, try to get insight, it is the fortitude of wisdom.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodluck_Jonathan

aresa:
You mean as acting president he did not have statutory powers to equip the Nigerian military? Even as the substantive president, how come it took him 4 years to do his job.

See how silly and redundant you sound because 6 or 4 years, you still sound absurd, clueless and mentally incompetent...

Buhari bought more weapons in 2 years so what;'s this dullard's excuse with even more money at his disposal...


Worthless president...smh..

ojaydedon:
na so dem go talk... Apc always hating on gej..







Whats it with APC and attacking transformation progress...


Maybe they are A ttackers of P rogress C ongress of GEJ


if u love NIGERIA, VOTE GEJ TIll 2019

agabusta:
Lai Mohammed is talking facts here. I am very sure if an independent panel of enquiry is asked to look into this Boko Haram issue, they will definitely indict President Jonathan. How come the military could not curtail Boko Haram until elections are here before they suddenly woke up?

I must commend the military anyways for their recent victories, because they are the ones doing the dying and fighting but I still maintain as I have been saying that it seems the military was purposely on a systematic stand down until now.

They have always maintaned a defensive fighting strategy which even people without a military background saw was a mistake. They usually wait for BH to attack before fighting back. They usually wait for Boko Haram to take towns before going back to attempt to retake them. They refused to go on the offensive for the past 4 years.

It is now that elections are around the corner that they saw the need to go offensive in the BH war. This seems fishy, but anyways, I am happy they are giving the Boko Haram the death and misery they deserve.

agabusta:
Lai Mohammed is talking facts here. I am very sure if an independent panel of enquiry is asked to look into this Boko Haram issue, they will definitely indict President Jonathan. How come the military could not curtail Boko Haram until elections are here before they suddenly woke up?

I must commend the military anyways for their recent victories, because they are the ones doing the dying and fighting but I still maintain as I have been saying that it seems the military was purposely on a systematic stand down until now.

They have always maintaned a defensive fighting strategy which even people without a military background saw was a mistake. They usually wait for BH to attack before fighting back. They usually wait for Boko Haram to take towns before going back to attempt to retake them. They refused to go on the offensive for the past 4 years.

It is now that elections are around the corner that they saw the need to go offensive in the BH war. This seems fishy, but anyways, I am happy they are giving the Boko Haram the death and misery they deserve.

aresa:
He didn't know the Nigerian military was poorly equipped after six years in office and and Boko Haram murdering rampage, but the will to equip and fight BH just miraculously appeared right before election right?

Have we not been saying for a long time that this is what he planed just to win election?

We are not stupidd...

agabusta:
You better go for mental treatment before it is too late.

GBTYO:
Liar Mohammed will not end well

datribune:
As of dis moment boko haram like Al-shabab is an Alqeada affiliate wit training & techniques like suicide bombings, IED etc & that's why routing dem has been more difficult than routing d hapless boko haram of Mohammed Yussuf.
As 4 d sponsorship, weapons etc, there ar several theories & everyone is telling a narrative dat fits their own perspective. If u ask me, my honest reply will be dat it's an insurgency by religious fundamentalists. We've had such problems b4 & because of d lack of politicization we were able to overcome it. I totally agree wit u dat d politics is d problem.

Reference:
But you know when the special military budget was approved. You know when the money was released. You know of the failed and successful attempts at securing weapons. You know when the weapons started arriving. You know when the Joint Commission was put in place. You know when the armies of neighbouring countries started operations leading to these results so why.....

Why, why do you question the timing. Why do you link it to the elections. Why do you choose to look away from the facts and timelines. Oga. What is the matter. What is the military's business with your politics.

Truckpusher:
These APC folks seem to reason from their bum sometimes .

Castigating Jonathan and praising the military only shows their desperation even to the blind as it is obvious that they want Aso Rock at all cost and this questions the very agenda of the cult-like party because even their agenda is only known to them.
Nigerians should not make the mistake of their lives by voting this party into power as it is obvious that APC is an anti people's party as they do not have Nigerians in their heart by their actions and inactions.

realGURU:
Is u believe pdp is sunk with mortal fear if power should change consequent upon their recent demoralizing nta campaign against the rtd GeNERAL, HIT LIKE, if not Hit SHARE.

inisco:
wat do u knw about war strategies,u think its american movies,is the ukrainan army on offensive or defensive wen the rebels attack them?mayb i shud give u a riffle so u can go on the offensive since u a warlord and u have like five lives to finish the battle since think its a computer game,in war u plan b4 u engage or u might be ambush.kudos to the millitary