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PoliticsRe: Pre-election Votes / Nairaland Ballot Box by PrinceB1(m): 11:53am On Jan 16, 2015
PDP
PoliticsRe: Comment With Your Location And The Average Power Supply by PrinceB1(m): 2:49pm On Nov 19, 2014
Rivers State Oyigbo Location Rd. 20hrs not bad
PoliticsRe: Niger East Senatorial By-election Results by PrinceB1(m): 11:58am On Aug 31, 2014
Source NTA News.....,
The Nation
This is INEC result so far. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Saturday by-election in Niger East Senatorial election inconclusive.

The candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Shem Zagbayi Nuhu is so far leading by 89,640 votes against David Umaru of All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 84,698 votes.

Declaring the result inconclusive at about 6:30am Sunday, the Returning Officer for the election, Professor Wole Morenikeji said there problems in 7 units in 5 local government areas which rendered the results of the units void.

He said fresh election will hold in the affected units on Saturday September 6 befoire a final result of te by-election would be announced.[/quote]
PoliticsRe: Niger East Senatorial By-election Results by PrinceB1(m): 11:15am On Aug 31, 2014
This is INEC result so far. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Saturday by-election in Niger East Senatorial election inconclusive.

The candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Shem Zagbayi Nuhu is so far leading by 89,640 votes against David Umaru of All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 84,698 votes.

Declaring the result inconclusive at about 6:30am Sunday, the Returning Officer for the election, Professor Wole Morenikeji said there problems in 7 units in 5 local government areas which rendered the results of the units void.

He said fresh election will hold in the affected units on Saturday September 6 befoire a final result of te by-election would be announced.
PoliticsRe: Important Opinion Poll: do U Want President Jonathan 2015? by PrinceB1(m): 10:50pm On Aug 28, 2014
Yes
PoliticsRe: Who Wants Buhari Dead? 6 Possibities by PrinceB1(m): 3:53pm On Jul 27, 2014
3
PoliticsRe: After Jonathan, What Next For The Ijaw? by PrinceB1(m): 5:09pm On Jul 07, 2014
After Jonathan no more Nig. ;
PoliticsRe: Will You Vote Goodluck Jonathan If He Contest In 2015 by PrinceB1(m): 2:40pm On Jun 28, 2014
Yes oooo
PoliticsRe: Rivers Plans N3bn Creative Village by PrinceB1(m): 4:37pm On Oct 23, 2013
some politicians are busy building houses and buying new cars and you are busy buying Jet.
PoliticsRe: Breaking News, Video Of Snake Market In Badagary Lagos by PrinceB1(m): 4:03pm On Oct 06, 2013
Is not snake is fish we have them in revers.
PoliticsRe: Describe Asari Dokubo In One Sentence by PrinceB1(m): 6:35am On Oct 01, 2013
Asari Dokubo is a Walrus looking tribalist who happens to be from Bayelsa state and is also a militant.[/quote]Asari Dokubo not from Bayasa is from Buguma Kalabari in Rivers state
PoliticsRe: Can We Trust This APC? by PrinceB1(m): 9:33pm On Aug 25, 2013
Trust no body
PoliticsRe: I Will Vote For Jonathan In 2015. What About You? by PrinceB1(m): 9:16pm On Aug 24, 2013
Me and my Family will Vote Jonathan come 2015
PoliticsRe: Calabar Was Never The Capital Of Nigeria by PrinceB1(m): 12:46pm On Aug 23, 2013
After reading this article, please ask yourself if creating a country is meant to be for economic, administrative or financial gains of a different entity? or to achieve a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure to better the general standard of living of its citizens.

THE FORMATION OF SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN PROTECTORATE OF NIGERIA:
SOUTHERN PROTECTORATE - In 1862, Lagos Island annex became a colony of Britain and Mr. H.S freeman became the governor. 31 years after then, (1893), Oil river protectorate that was renamed to be the Niger Coast protectorate with Calabar as the capital. In 1890, British reporter (Flora Shaw) who later married Lord Lugard suggested that the country be named Nigeria, after the Niger River. Then in 1897, British overthrew Oba Oronkanwen of Benin, one of the last independent West African kings. All the events stated above occurred in the late 19th century, then in the 20th century, 1900, Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria, formed in 1900 from union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River.

The Lagos colony was added in 1906, and the territory was officially renamed the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. Niger Coast, formerly Oil river protectorate was merged with the colony of Lagos and the protectorate of Lagos was named the protectorate of southern Nigeria. (Colonies were merged but not the people).

The Yoruba's and Igbo's and close to 200 other ethnic groups were of different ethnic groups, having different culture, norms, and values, but they were merged into the southern protectorate by the British in their own understanding and discretion to form the southern protectorate. It was very clear that the ethnics and values were different, yet what we hear much noise on is about the amalgamation of northern and southern protectorates.

The merging of Niger Coast and Lagos Colony was a clear merger of different culture and value, but because of the African spirit which is love and unity, it is easy for us to live and live harmoniously. This gesture of our inheritance as Africans does not stop with the Niger Coast and Lagos Colony alone, but extended to southern and northern protectorate of Nigeria. It even extend beyond that,it extend of every part of Africa as a whole.

NORTHERN PROTECTORATE - In 1885, Niger district protectorate was under African company and Niger Delta protectorate was under Royal Niger Company which was formed in 1886. In 1900, both protectorates were added to some part of Niger territory to form the northern protectorate. Northern Nigeria was a British protectorate which lasted from 1900 until 1914 in the present country of Nigeria. The protectorate spanned 255,000 miles (410,000 km) including the pre-colonial states of the Sokoto Caliphate, the Bornu Empire, and the Kano Emirate. The first High Commissioner of the protectorate was Frederick Lugard who actively suppressed revolutions and created a system of administration built around native authorities.

On 1 January 1890, the Royal Niger Company's charter was revoked and the British took control. The Royal Niger Company was paid £865,000 and was given the rights to half of all mining revenue in a large part of the areas for 99 years in exchange for ceding the territory to the British government. Lugard was appointed the High Commissioner of the newly created Northern Nigeria Protectorate.
In 1900, British officially took over what it named the Northern protectorate from the Royal Niger company, they originally divided the area into eleven province, which were, Bauchi, Bida, Bornu, Kabba, Kotangora, Lower Benue, Ilorin, Muri, Sokoto, Upper Berma, and Zaria. But it was later reduced 13 provinces after merging some together. Zungeru became the headquarters for the protectorate in 1902 because it was the most northerly city accessible by river transport. In 1903, 6 more province that were captured were added to make it 17 province.

Northern Nigeria Protectorate had a budget deficit; and the colonial administration sought to use the budget surpluses in Southern Nigeria to offset this deficit. They also faced unhealthy climatic conditions and lacked transportation and communication. The British needed the Railway from the North to the Coast in the interest of British business. So they had to actualize the amalgamation, not long after in 1911 the railway to Kano was completed which would enable him to ship produce without passing through Southern Nigerian territory since since under the terms of the Berlin Convention of 1885 the Niger was an international waterway.

The Order - in - Council was drawn up in November 1913 signed and came into force in January 1914. In those dispatches, Lugard said a number of things, which are at the root causes of yesterday and today's problems.

Finally In 1914, Southern Nigeria was joined with Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the single colony of Nigeria. The unification was done for economic reasons rather than political operating in the interest of the Crown.THE ALMAGAMATION OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN NIGERIA

Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, a mercenary, soldier, explorer and colonial administrator, Lord Lugard came here about 1894. Major Lugard was not originally employed by the British Government. He was employed by companies. He was first employed by East Indian Company, by the Royal East African Company and then by the Royal Niger Company. It was from the Royal Niger Company that he transferred to the British government.

In 1897, as an imperialist Frederick Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force in the interest of the Company initially with 2,000 soldiers, about 90 percent of them were from the North mainly from the Middle belt. That was the beginning of our problems. Between 1898 and 1912, he sent a number of dispatches to London which led to the Amalgamation of 1914.

Towards the end of his term as Governor of Hong Kong in 1911, he indicated that he would be willing to undertake the task of amalgamating the two Nigerias, he seemed the ideal choice. In 1912, Frederick Lugard returned to Nigeria as Governor of the two protectorates. His main mission was to complete the amalgamation into one colony. Although controversial in Lagos, where it was opposed by a large section of the political class and the media, the amalgamation did not arouse passion in the rest of the country. From 1914 to 1919, Frederick Lugard was made Governor General of the now combined Colonies of Nigeria.

When the amalgamation took effect, the British government sealed off the South from the North. Between 1914 and l960, for a period of 46 years, the British allowed minimum contact between the North and South because it was not in the British interest that the North be allowed to be polluted by the educated South.

In June 1949, the North formed a political party, the northern leaders called it Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) and not Nigeria Peoples Congress. That was in accordance with the dictum and policies of Frederick Lugard. However, in 1950 when Aminu Kano formed his own party, it was called Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) not Nigerian Progressive Union.

''All these were the basis on which we got our independence in 1960. That was what Frederick Lugard created in Nigeria, a permanent majority for the North.

The population figure of the North was false. Infact, a British Colonial Civil Servant who was involved in falsifying the figures tried to expose it but he was never allowed to publish it. The analysis is as follows: If you look at the map of West Africa, starting from Mauritania to Cameroun and take a population of each country as you move from the coast to the Savannah, the population decreases. Or conversely, as you come from the Desert to the Coast, right from Mauritania to the Cameroun, the population increases. The only exception throughout that zone is Nigeria. Nigeria is the only zone whereby you go from coast to the North, the population increases and you come from the North to the Coast, the population decreases. Well, geographers, anthropologists and population experts, draw your conclusions. The last population census was done by computer, a computer is as good as its programmer. A computer will produce what you ask it to produce.

The amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorate in 1914 by the British colonial masters was a landmark event in the evolution of Nigeria as a sovereign entity.

Importantly, the amalgamation of 1914 was accomplished in three phases beginning from 1900. First was the uniting of the Northern states into the Northern Protectorate in 1900. The second phase was the declaration of a Southern Protectorate from the old Niger Coast Protectorate and finally the formal merger of the Protectorates into Nigeria.

A colony is not a sovereign state. The great Historian Michael Crowder in his article Lugard and Colonial Nigeria – Towards an Identity, posited that “By definition colonies were not sovereign states and where relations with other countries were concerned, these were conducted for them by their imperial governments. Likewise, the colonial official did not ‘represent’ his country in his colony, even when he bore a diplomatic title like that of ‘Resident’ in Northern Nigeria, but rather exercised power on its behalf over people who had lost their sovereignty.”

Opposition to the amalgamation policy started beyond the formal pronouncement in 1914. At the forefront of this opposition was mostly emerging elites from the Southern Protectorates who had been exposed to Western education and the works of African-American nationalist like Booker Washington, Marcus Garvey among many others. These new elites used various means including local newspapers to express their opposition to perceived obnoxious colonial policies. They also formed political unions like the National Congress of British West Africa and the West African Students Association formed between 1913 and 1925 respectively. The amalgamation engendered fervent debate on its relevance and practicability to the States. Moses Ebe Ochonu in his article 1914 and Nigeria’s Existential Crisis: A Historical Perspective (2), pointed out that the elites ‘made it clear in their protest that the peoples of the North and those of the South were starkly different, had different worldviews and that any nation created out of an arbitrary union of the two territories would not function.’

The amalgamation was also opposed because it was perceived as an arbitrary decision taken by the authorities without the consent of the natives. The elites argued that British showed contempt by not consulting with the natives to decide whether they were interested in the merger of their territories considering the vast differences that exist between them.
However the opposition mounted by the Southern elites suffered because of their perceived distrust and contempt for the north. It has been pointed out that the position of the elites may have garnered desired attention had they allied with some northern elements who also opposed the amalgamation. In an editorial by the Times of Nigeria, the elites were unsparing in their resentment of not only the union but also people from the north:

“Unification was synonymous with a sellout of the South. The subjugation of Southern Nigeria by Northern Nigerian laws, Northern Nigerian land laws, Northern Nigerian Administration must be made to supersede every system in Southern Nigeria.”

The resentment was mutual though. The Northerners also felt they were being short-changed in the union arrangement. This was fiercely resisted in Lagos by some educated Africans while the other parts of the country remained lackadaisical due to the fact that many lack proper education and never knew the scope in which the amalgamation will operate and it benefits. Moses Ebe Ochonu suggested it may have been this mutual distrust that informed the British separate educational policies for both regions- while the south were exposed to the Missionaries, the North were left alone to continue with Quranic institutions.

The amalgamation was also opposed because it was perceived as an arbitrary decision taken by the authorities without the consent of the natives of the lands. The elites argued that British showed contempt by not consulting with the natives to decide whether they were interested in the merger of their territories considering the vast differences that exist between them.

The amalgamation of southern and northern Protectorate by the British was for economic and administrative purpose, but having derived economic benefit from both protectorates in agricultural products and others cash crops like groundnut, palm oil , wheat, cocoa etc. The British authority relent on stating the expiration of this decision. The advent of coal and crude oil became dilemma for the colonialists. They schemed up hurriedly contrived document called constitution which was at best a legitimacy for further economic enslavement.

Under United Nation Charter, ''all forms of amalgamation and forceful take over of indigenous land was to expires after a hundred years''. This new slavery charter permitted colonialists to under-develop Africa through economic enslavement as the colonialists were not willing to let go of Africans state. In view of this charter which has been seen as an experiment, the duration was pecked at 100 YEARS for it workability. Therefor the Amalgamation of Nigeria contract would be void by the 1st of January 2014.

The British amalgamation of Nigeria was nothing but the culmination of years of conquest of independent kingdoms, empires and states that were then forcibly yoked together for greater exploitation. No people in the world celebrate their defeat and subsequent subjugation by a conquering colonial power. Nigeria should not be the exception as the people of the Niger Delta are tired of been slaves in a 21st century.

A World Bank unit has continued, for seven years, to list Nigeria as one of the world’s fragile states with its economy falling off the cliff. Thirteen years into the Fourth Republic, tribalism, ethnic and sectarian violence and the desperate contest for presidential power, among others, have killed over 5,000 persons, making analysts to recall the famous quip by the late premier of the defunct Northern Region, Ahmadu Bello, on the need to correct “the mistake of 1914″ and the reference to Nigeria as “a mere geographical expression” by the late premier of the defunct Western Region, Obafemi Awolowo. Nigeria, almost 100 years on, remains both a mistake and a geographical expression.

We must accept the dreadful truth that Nigeria is composed of different peoples with diverse histories, cultures, religions, worldviews and values.

''The British amalgamated the Administration of the North and South and not the people of the North and the South, that is one of the root causes of the problems of Nigeria and the Nigerians''.

The consequences for Nigeria’s long-term political development of the formula Frederick Lugard chose need not concern us here except in two respects. The first is that not surprisingly Frederick Lugard’s amalgamation largely involved imposing on Southern Nigeria the administrative and judicial systems of the North. The second was that the amalgamation was only a partial one. Whereas the Colonial Office has overruled Egerton’s scheme for partial amalgamation of the two southern territories in 1906, they allowed Frederick Lugard’s scheme to go ahead. The consequences of this partial amalgamation were to haunt Nigeria for the next fifty years and many would argue that the Nigerian civil war had its roots in the form of amalgamation Frederick Lugard imposed on the country.

Lord Lugard the first Governor General who set up Nigerian nation and the founding fathers of Nigeria that fought for her independence in 1960 with the major universities, streets, public buildings, national currencies and postage stamps named in their memories did not believe in one Nigeria from the various comments made below about Nigeria:

Lord Lugard: “The North and the South are like oil and water, they will never mix.” Yet he went ahead and amalgamated them.

Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa: “The Southern people who are swamping into this region daily in such large numbers are really intruders; we don’t want them and they are not welcome here in the North. Since 1914, the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country. But the people are different in every way, including religion, custom, language and aspirations… we in the North take it that Nigeria unity is only a British intention for the country they created. IT IS NOT FOR US”.

Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo: “Nigeria is only a geographical expression to which life was given by the diabolical amalgamation of 1914, that amalgamation will EVER remain the most painful injury a British Government inflicted on Southern Nigeria”.

Al-Hajji Sir Ahmadu Bello: “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate from our great grandfather, Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the south as conquered territories and never allow them to have control of their future.”

Retired General Yakubu Gowon: “Suffice it to say that putting all considerations to the test, political, economic as well as social, the basis of unity is not there.”

Nigeria is a camouflage of deceit.

Long Live Niger Delta Republic.
PoliticsRe: What Will Happen If Jonathan Wins 2015 Presidential Election? by PrinceB1(m): 3:45pm On Jun 27, 2013
erickajay: Nothing will happen 2015 will come and pass just like 2011
But something happen in 2011 the killing of NYSC huh
PoliticsRe: What Will Happen If Jonathan Wins 2015 Presidential Election? by PrinceB1(m): 3:40pm On Jun 27, 2013
erickajay: Nothing will happen 2015 will come and pass just like 2011
But something happen in 2011 the killing of NYSC huh
PoliticsRe: Jonathan's Bodyguard Blocks Amaechi From Greeting President by PrinceB1(m): 1:29pm On Jun 27, 2013
Localtrouble: Lai Lai..he was WAF in Fac of Law UST(reason why he has so much bile for the school), and then went on to study english in Uniport. Got his Law degree much later
Stop the fighting this Ameachi Personal Data
CURRICULUM VITAE

Surname : Amaechi
Other Names : Chibuike Rotimi
Date of birth : 27th may, 1965
Place of birth : Ubima Town, Ikwerre Lga, Rivers State, Nigeria
Local government area : Ikwerre L.G.A. Rivers State, Nigeria
State of origin : Rivers State, Nigeria
Nationality : Nigerian
Religion : Christianity
Marital status : married
Name of wife : Mrs Judith Amaechi
No. Of children : Three


Educational institutions attended with dates

St. Theresa’s primary school, Ubima, 1970 – 1976 (first school leaving certificate)
Government secondary school, Okolobiri, 1977 – 1982 (west African school certificate)
University of port Harcourt, Nigeria 1983 – 1987. (BA. English
PoliticsRe: Army Captures Boko-Haram Leaders, Recovers Weapons In Borno, Yobe by PrinceB1(m): 9:36pm On Jun 25, 2013
Don't Capture Kill them all
PoliticsRe: How Did Ijaw Become The 4th Largest Ethnic Group by PrinceB1(m): 12:19pm On Jun 23, 2013
[quote author=Abagworo]While it is not good for an Igbo like myself to talk about Ijaw, I'll have to refer you people to pre-colonial books. Ijaws actually occupied the waterside from around Bayelsa all the way to Lagos. They are actually not land people hence they tend to leave people to occupy lands which they 1st settled. The other half Ijaw known as Eastern Ijaw were not really Ijaw. Even Jonathans Ogbiya was not Ijaw. They called the West Ijaw and themselves by different names. Most of them have Igbo origin and Ijaw influence to form new ethnicities. Nembe/Brass, Ogbiya, Kalabari, Bonny and Opobo are some of the Eastern Ijaw groups. However they have recently decided to do away with their differences and come out with one voice as Ijaw, hence the claim of 4th largest ethnic group.

As for the ethnic composition of Rivers of which my mother is from, Ikwerre is the largest ethnic group with over 1.5 million people. Rivers State does not officially recognise Ijaw and Igbo as ethnic groups in the State.[/quote]
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The Ijaw in Rivers state are the Kalabari, Okrika, Bonny, Opobo,and Adoni. that make them the Largest ethnic group in R/s.
PoliticsRe: 100 Jonathans Cannot Be Compared To Buhari – Tam David-west by PrinceB1(m): 9:07pm On Jun 17, 2013
"Buhari was one-time Minister of Petroleum and we have good records of his tenure as minister, {over $2.8Billion was stolen by Buhari and seen in his UK Bank}.

Secondly, he also presided over the Petroleum Trust Fund ( PTF) which records we also have, {where Billions of Naira was unaccounted for and same amount given out on consultancy Companies that Buhari has interest in}.

We challenge him to come out with clean hands in those two portfolios he headed. Or, we will help him to expose his. “Records of performance during those periods. - Gen Ibrahim Babangida.

Is this a good Records? Let him clear him self.
PoliticsRe: Oshiomhole Cant Ban Okada For He Belongs To The Working-Class, by PrinceB1(m): 8:57pm On Jun 14, 2013
Just 1 year Oshiobaba don pass the working-class Na waa ooooh!
PoliticsAnnulment Was Payment For Abiola’s Evil Deeds – Sen Owie by PrinceB1(op): 7:26am On Jun 12, 2013
Former member of the House of Representatives, former Senate Chief Whip and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rowland Stephen Owie says the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election was a divine recompense for Abiola’s alleged past political misdeeds.

What is your perspective on the June 12, 1993 election?
When people talk about June 12, June 12; June 12 has no meaning. June 12 is the repayment of evil for MKO Abiola. Whatever you sow, you reap. I said about four years ago that if Abiola had been president he would have been dead.

You think so?
Yes, let me tell you. Before anyone can say that the annulment was evil they should answer four questions. Number one, who was that politician that brought what was called the Maroko land deal to limelight? Who was that politician who used the Maroko land deal as an albatross on the neck of Chief Obafemi Awolowo? Who is that Nigerian or group of Nigerians who went to Obasanjo and connived with him and removed the Electoral College act from the decree of 1978?

Who is that politician or group of politicians that aided the military to take over the government of President Shehu Shagari in 1983 after the NPN convention? Who is that politician? Who is that politician that aided the military in disqualifying all the major candidates of SDP and NRC?

I say if they can answer it and the answer is negative for MKO Abiola, then the annulment of June 12 is evil. But if the answer is yes and it’s MKO Abiola, the annulment of June 12 was the best thing that happened because you can’t plant mango and reap yam.

In 1979 I was in the UPN as a member of the House of Representatives and there was a provision in the transition decree of 1978/79 which made provision for Electoral College if the presidential election became inconclusive, and it really was inconclusive, because Shagari did not get two-third of the 19 states. So, we were preparing for Electoral College. NPP, GNPP, PRP and UPN we had majority in the National Assembly which constituted the Electoral College.

The late Mallam Aminu Kano of PRP, Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim of GNPP, Nnamdi Azikiwe of NPP and Awolowo of UPN had met and we had all met. But three days to the Electoral College Obasanjo removed the clause on Electoral College; he removed the goal post within the run of play.

Sen. Owie
The Electoral College was removed after the election when we were getting ready for it and that was why Awolowo had no other option and he had to go to court and the judgment gave rise to the issue of 12 2/3! A human being cannot be half, he is either full or… and that is why Justice Sowemimo said that that judgment cannot be quoted in future.

Abiola and Obasanjo were involved as Egbas to remove that clause. Concord brought the headline “Maroko land: Awolowo where is your sincerity”. We were in Minna when it was published. Look it deflated the old man, it scattered him, in fact, he was no longer himself and he started battling how to explain.

Now NPN went for their national convention in Kano and Umaru Dikko, he is alive, he said the presidential candidate of the NPN is not for sale. MKO Abiola wanted the presidential ticket he didn’t get it and he then came and aligned with the military people who now came in.
And IBB came and set up two political parties, Shehu Yar‘adua, Adamu Ciroma and other major contenders in SDP and NRC, overnight the military disqualified all of them, aided and abetted by MKO Abiola. Because if Yar‘adua were (involved) there was no way MKO would have won. He was not even in contention until the disqualification of these major contenders. That is why I said that June 12 was a repayment for evil that was done against other people.

But how do you see the June 12 election in terms of electoral conduct and fairness?

The June 12 election because it was an open ballot and had only two parties which cut across tribal lines was one of the fairest elections ever held in this country. June 12 showed what a good government can do in an election. If IBB and Aikhomu wanted to tamper with the election, they could have tampered with the election, but they didn’t. It was a free and fair election but what I am telling you is that the annulment that came later was the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob.

What do you mean?
What happened was a repayment for evil.

But was that justified on the nation?
Yes! What I am saying is that it was God’s own work, it was God’s own work.

For Abiola’s alleged sin of…
All the sins!

But did that justify the derailment of the collective hope of Nigerians?
What is the collective hope of Nigerians?

Democracy
Was the Buhari coup against Shagari justified? Was that the collective will of Nigerians?

That is debatable because many Nigerians welcomed the coup just as majority of Nigerians were against the annulment of June 12.

It is because you are a pressman. Do you know how many people in my village that were not interested and were happy with the annulment, even though some of us were not happy.

You, were you happy with the annulment?
The annulment served Abiola right, quote me! You cannot be destroying other people and expect to have victory. There is a parable that all those who destroy other people will end up having destruction at the hour of their victory. MKO should not have expected anything less. Tell me, was it justified for Shehu Musa Yar‘adua and Falae in the SDP to be disqualified? What did they do? Was it justified for Adamu Ciroma and co in the NRC to be disqualified? What did they do? They were all disqualified in both parties so that MKO Abiola who was a friend of the military could emerge as the strongest candidate.

It was no secret that he paraded himself as a friend of the military. That man could not have expected to become president of Nigeria when he had ruined many people. The truth is that God does not come down to do some of these things Himself. He uses human beings as instruments and that is why when a man is looking for elective or appointive position, maybe as LGA chairman, governor, minister or president, he is looking for an aspect of the divinity of God. It is out of that divinity that the man in charge of affairs takes, compassion, service to the people, ability to manage everybody, forgiveness.

Unfortunately, the moment you get that position and you do not utilise it, not generally, just some part of it…if you watch when Christ cured the ten lepers only one came back to say thank you, but he said where are the other nine? And if you read Hipppolytus he said that as soon as Christ asked where are the nine that the leprosy returned to the nine and they died of leprosy.
PoliticsRe: A Coming Revolution In Northern Nigeria by PrinceB1(m): 7:47am On Jun 10, 2013
You Guys are RIGHT.
PoliticsList Of Nigerian States By GDP by PrinceB1(op): 9:52pm On Jun 09, 2013
Rank State PPP GDP (2010;
in millios
of USD)

1 Lagos State US$33,679
2 Rivers State US$21,073
3 Abia State US$18,687
4 Delta State US$16,749
5 Oyo State US$16,121
6 Imo State US$14,212
7 Kano State US$12,393
8 Edo State US$11,888
- Federal Capital Territory US$11,448
9 Akwa Ibom State US$11,179
10 Ogun State US$10,470
11 Kaduna State US$10,334
12 Cross River State US$9,292
13 Ondo State US$8,414
14 Osun State US$7,280
15 Benue State US$6,864
16 Anambra State US$6,764
17 Katsina State US$6,022
18 Niger State US$6,002
19 Borno State US$5,175
20 Plateau State US$5,154
21 Sokoto State US$4,818
22 Bauchi State US$4,713
23 Kogi State US$4,642
24 Adamawa State US$4,582
25 Enugu State US$4,396
26 Bayelsa State US$4,337
27 Zamfara State US$4,123
28 Kwara State US$3,841
29 Taraba State US$3,397
30 Kebbi State US$3,290
31 Nassarawa State US$3,022
32 Jigawa State US$2,988
33 Ekiti State US$2,848
34 Ebonyi State US$2,732
35 Gombe State US$2,501
36 Yobe State US$2,011
PoliticsRe: Amaechi's Only Sin Is His NGF Victory by PrinceB1(m): 4:03pm On Jun 06, 2013
He is Disobedient

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