ilugunboy:

Wish I can LIKE this One Million times....spotless!

I was just about popping champagne 4 Pukkah's incisive rendition!

That was a 3-pointer of an analysis

As for GEJ, his naivety and divisiveness will be his achilles heel

PNU-Prince Nicholas Uka(God)

What is God in Igbo language sef? Could it be the man?

One don't know how true the story is albeit!

I wonder why anybody hasn't mentioned Baba G

A rabblerouser per excellence and a dye in the wool Pro-GEJ lickspittle

Anitaeke47@yahoo.com

Pls MODs I opened a thread about Burna Boy a while ago,I didn't know the issue has been done justice to earlier by someone else. Pls do help delete my own thread!

Gracias!

This guy and his bow tie didn't just start their alliance today, e don tay!

The SAN with the SOUND mind!

At least he can't be alleged to be indebted to any Bank! Its better we have professionals in politics than Professional politicians

I commend his sagacity,you can do more for the people through the instrumentality of popular franchise

Peace Mass Transit boss dumps PDP, joins APC in Enugu

Opposition leaders excited over defection of popular transporter

The All Progressives Congress, APC, at the weekend welcomed some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, into its fold. The proprietor of a popular transport company, Peace Mass Transit Limited, PMT, Sam Oniyshi, led his supporters to join the opposition party in Enugu State, South Eastern Nigeria.

Mr. Onyishi announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the APC on Sunday at a meeting with its leaders in the state.

Among the leaders who received him were the party’s National Welfare Officer, Emma Eneukwu, Peter Okonkwo, Okechukwu Ezea and Valentine Nnaedozie. Messrs Ezea and Nnaedozie were the governorship candidates of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Labour Party, LP, in 2011.

A statement by a leader of the APC in the zone, Osita Okechukwu, on Monday said the transporter also announced his intention to contest the 2015 governorship election in the state on the party’s platform.

He said Mr. Onyishi’s defection was a clear signal that PDP was on the decline in the state.
Mr Okechukwu added that as a patriot and man of the people, the defector had read the APC manifesto and appreciated the difference between its progressive philosophy and the conservative philosophy of the PDP.

“Naturally, APC is the home of all social democrats and humanists like Sam. He is welcomed in our fold and luckily coming from Nsukka zone, our great party after wide consultation may make him the consensus candidate,” he added.

Mr. Eneukwu, confirmed to journalists that Mr. Onyishi had joined the APC.

“We have welcomed him to our fold. He went to a party he felt will serve his purpose better. Maybe he felt that PDP is being run like a cartel and decided to look for a better platform,” Mr. Eneukwu, who was the spokesperson of the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), said.

Mr. Ezea also expressed joy at Mr. Onyishi’s decision to pitch tent with APC, adding that it was a welcome development.

He said he was happy that other people now believed what he and others had said that the PDP would not guarantee everybody a level playing ground.

Akpabio has emerged in this political dispensation to be a rabblerouser!

He is sure going into the overdrive mode to bootlick the President. Who are the APC heavyweights who are begging to join the PDP? Akpabio is a man whose penchant for silliness these days drawfs that of Baba Suwe

#yinmu @ Stella Oduah!

Do I sense an attempt to curry sympathy here?

taharqa: You are one IGNORANT son-of-a-******

You CEREBRAL but woe betided son of an h*****t

Sincere 9gerian:
The vultures and devils have chased yet another good and credible Nigerian out of govt with their relentless attacks, propaganda and rumours. And all these Just because some people dont like the face of the president or where he comes from?

Anyway, I wish Dr Christopher Kolade many more years of good and sound health

Resident Spin Doctor for Team GEJ, can you in all honesty say that those vultures and devils you are quick to mouth off are not the same people that pays your fees? Because a cursory look at everything SURE-P is from the beginning of time spells just one thing SURE-PIT!

SURE-P was hurriedly concocted together to bamboozle us into giving the GEJ govt a snippet of hope and believability when he knew that Nigerians aint gonna take the proposed jerk-up in fuel price in good faith. After all said and done SURE-P is a failed project owing to the fact that all it was enumerated to intervene against never came true. The Govt who promised to provide palliatives and critical infrastructure and tacitly failed to do so is the real DEVIL and carcass eating VULTURE

gurnam:

It was always going to be a combustible issue right from it conception...the politicians will always have their eyes on the slush funds accruing to such self-accounting organization with such huge funds.

I believed the old man took the job thinking he can make a positive difference with the funds....but politicians will never allow you to do such with their demands...most often unreasonable.

I agree with your summation. If one seeks to place the motive behind establishing the interventionist agency side by side with present realities/scorecard of its performance,one needs to herbalist to tell one that the agency hasn't fared well at all on its mandate

And the fact the 2015 is in the horizon,SURE-P is no doubt one of the agencies through which humongous and unverifiable contracts would be channelled with a view to building a warchest to prosecute the election. Baba Kolade must have seen through all these shenanigans and decided to call it quits now that the Ovation is still salvageable citing old-age of course as a DECOY!

The SURE-P job is an albatross no one wants around his/her neck now. Owing to the fact that the intervention the money accruing from excess petroleum product pump price can hardly be felt! A man of Integrity will think twice before taking up that job as the government might not give you the free hand to deploy the resources so generated to the core areas of need.

I hope Baba Kolade don't spend the rest of his life battling to extricate himself from the negativity some aspect of SURE-P was subjected to without telling him about it in the first place

Christopher Kolade Resigns As SURE-P Chair

A new chairman of the Subsidy Re- investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) may be named any time from now as Dr. Christopher Kolade is set to step down from the position this week, THISDAY can reveal today.

The newspaper learnt that already Kolade has communicated his decision to resign to President Goodluck Jonathan, who is said to be hunting for another credible Nigerian to lead the intervention committee.

A source told THISDAY that the challenge before the presidency at present is getting an immediate successor for Kolade, given the fact that his former deputy, Major- General Mammam Kontagora (rtd), who could have naturally stepped into his shoes, had died in May this year, a development which was said to have delayed the retirement of the committee chairman till this month.

According to the source, the presidency was still shopping for a replacement for Kontagora when Dr. Kolade moved to formalise his resignation in a letter.

In the letter (a copy of which was obtained by THISDAY), Kolade informed the President of his wish to step down as chairman of SURE-P latest by the end of November before his 81st birthday, which comes up in December.
The letter dated September 25 and entitled “Withdrawal from Chairmanship of the SURE-P Committee” reads: “I wish to inform you, respectfully, of my decision to resign from the position of Chairman of the SURE-P Committee.

“My desire is that the resignation should take effect as soon as Mr. President names a new chairman, but not later than the end of November, 2013.

“Mr. President, it has been a worthwhile experience for me to serve as chairman since the inauguration of the committee in February 2012. However, as I approach my 81st birthday, I wish to retire from the more time and energy consuming parts of my responsibilities and activities, one of which is the SURE-P Committee chairmanship.

“Mr. President, please accept my sincere thanks and appreciation for the opportunity to serve in the position of chairman, as well as my prayers for good progress and success for Nigeria in the years ahead.”

Kolade confirmed his resignation in an exclusive interview with THISDAY.

He stated that it was his desire to step aside before his 81st birthday, saying although he is still mentally and physically fit, time has come for him to attend to his private life and his family.

Although, the outgoing chairman cited old age and the attendant rigours of his schedule as reasons for stepping aside, a source said he may have been frustrated by the spate of rumours trailing his tenure as chairman of SURE-P despite his efforts to educate Nigerians on the true position of things.

According to a source, Kolade, who is a former chairman of Cadbury and former Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, feels he has been ‘messed up’ and should take his leave.

He was said to have wept profusely last week at a review meeting of the committee and at one stage left the meeting before he was persuaded back.

Speaking on his resignation, he told THISDAY: “As at the time I was asked to come and take charge of the SURE-P, on the day that the President spoke to me, I was a few days away from my 79th birthday. So at the end of last year, I was 80 years old. I thank God that I’m strong, and in good health and my simple mind is still ticking over simply, but there comes a time when you are at my age that you ask yourself, is this what you should be doing now? Should you be spending your time at this moment fighting rumours and try to explain the same information many times?
“So, middle of this year, I went to the President and said to him, I want to leave but if you remember my deputy chairman then, Mamman Kontagora had just died.

So the President now agreed that he would appoint another deputy chairman and that I would work with this deputy chairman for a while so that the place is not suddenly empty. The deputy chairman dies, the chairman goes but that is what we have been working on and I have actually written a letter to the President to let him know that latest at the end of this month, I’m out of SURE-P. So, he has that letter.”

Kolade explained he decided to make his planned exit public in order to prevent another round of rumour.

“We feed on rumours and both in my family and in my religion they don’t like rumours. The letter was dated September 25, 2013. So if you hear or if rumour begins to indicate that I’m leaving, I want you to know that members of my committee already know that I’m going. So, it’s not a secret,” he stated.

When asked if his resignation was subject to the approval of the President, he explained that there is no going back on his decision to quit at the end of this month.


SOURCE: Thisdayonline

eggheaders:

In willywilly world of imagination.

Y ridicule yrself by engaging wt that clannish irredentist?

Save yr brilliance 4 more effective discourse sir

taharqa: Let the PROPAGANDA stop, abeg. I just HATE it.... Say only what you know

I doff my hat for you!

APGA have never hidden the fact that they didn't intend to run an issue-based campaign and those of superior arguements but of propaganda,ethno-religious divisions,mudslinging and downright falsehood against Ngige particularly owing to his soar away popularity

I thought this election should ordinarily be a walk-over for APGA if we juxtapose Ngige 2.5yrs with Peter Obi's 7.5yrs in terms of achievements

But obviously the party that is supposed to have the upper hand is the jittery one here hence the resort to campaign of calumny and divisions rather than contest of ideas

Ngige sure must be making some people have sleepless night!

noblezone:

We dont need the Presidency please. Nigeria is not worth it.
We are only trying to manage the situation till the Biafran flag flies high.

You are right, we don't have regional leaders and that is our undoing.

My brother you are making a great mistake and I believe you people should always have PLAN B but obviously some of you are too emotionally attached to BIAFRANISM hence can't be bothered about some salient fact!

If you are expecting Jonathan's National Confab to be an easy way to getting Biafra you will be disappointed!

Even Femi Okunrounmu have tacitly said with both sides of his mouth that 'there will be no no-go-areas' but at the same time said 'Nigeria's Unity will not be discussed'

I put it to you,your elites and business people are even the ones that are secretly against the break up of this country unlike the belief that it is the Northerners and South westerners who are against you people leaving to have your own country

Tell me,if Peter Obi sure wants this country to break up,would he have gone ahead to commit N5billion into the NEXT SHOPPING MALL in Abuja a project which has employed about 5000 people outside the SE coupled with his several investments in Lagos and other places

If you all can't smell politics and manipulation in all of these towards this coming election and against 2015 then you are naive

All your billionaires have some of their investments outside the SE,they will never open their eyes and allow your sentimental cries and wailings to turn them into paupers overnight!

That is why I am advocating that rather than SEners to curse,abuse and alienate themselves from other parts of Nigeria,you should tread softly and build bridges politically

The SEners are too widespread in all parts of this country to risk making people go through another round of blood letting because the power brokers in this country across all the geopolitical zones including SE will not lay low and watch this country disintegrate!

I expect people to curse and shout me down!

But the Ifeanyi Ubahs,Orji Uzor Kalu's,Cletus Ibetos,Peter Ubahs,Arthur Nzeribes,Emeka Offors,Arthur Ezes will not all carry their billions investments which include High rise buildings,Oil blocs,Oil Vessels,Tank farms,Warehouses,Jetties,Private Jet Hangars on their heads should what most sentimental and emotional folks are happen

The worst that can happen is a little political concession like State creation in the SE,Improved Revenue sharing formula and a loose federalism

I don talk my own sha

phri*globe:

Emeka Offor and Aurthur Eze are his major financiers. I was happy seeing GEJ campaign for him today. I'm sure he will beat Willie boy in Anambra north.

I watched the campaign too. Jonathan spoke tongue in check! At a point he even demonstrated who people should vote for by pointing to Nwoye's picture on his shirt rather than speak vehemently against APGA and endorse wholesomely Tony Nwoye

He rigmarolled and perambulated but later promised people a free and fair election

For sure he provided a soft landing for APGA by not criticising it unlike Godswill Akpabio who spoke vehemently against APC using the 'deportation' saga

noblezone:

he won the election as a result of the APGA platform. If there is no good deal, then he will loose woefully in the next election.
You fail to get the big picture. SE has no regional force because of people like Rochas and Ngige who sold themselves so cheap.

The fact that APGA couldn't manage its success with Rochas is a negative for it

I wonder who the regional force you are talking about?

Who is that person that commands strong supportership in SE across all the 5 states that can speak for the region? And the Governors are scattered into PDP and APC

It is the Governors who can lead the way provided they have the charisma to pull their weight and I think Rochas fit that bill and Ngige too

People like Peter Obi have shot themselves on the foot by turning this campaign period into tribal and religious discourse! Other political jaggernauts from other regions can never take them seriously

And if the truth be told and shunning sentiments,APC provides a shorter distance to the Ndigbos attaining the Presidency of this country using all the realistic political parameters and best-case-scenario analysis

At those who have opined that South East shd nt. Join APC now or that Rochas just went blindly into APC without strong negotiation

I wonder how you all came to this flawed opinion because in politics and politicking you can't be taken seriously until you have done something tangible like say winning an election

Rochas having won an election as a Governor and sits atop a state and has capacity to dispense patronage is more primed to negotiate better than anybody asking that APC shd 1st do something substantial for him or SE 1st b4 they take the party seriously....it dosnt work like that in politics!

If Ngige wins,even PDP will become jittery and by so doing will seek to do more for the SE other than d present lock-down mode the SE is for PDP. Should that happen the SE will bcum the beautiful bride to both parties and then the zone can then re-negotiate with PDP or go with APC having extracted a good deal from it

But you can't force APC to do anything tangible for you unless you show it the capacity to bring something to the table

If SE has 2 Governors in APC,more can be expected from the party!

Vote Ngige!

#TeamAPC
#TeamNgige
#Onwa

Always representing!

Danhumprey: Let's be sincere with ourselves. This isn't about giving GEJ blind support. If he has done well since he became President,then let his work speak for him. Most you giving him your blind support,he doesn't know or care whether you people exist.

Word!

How I wish Nigerians should be open-minded and place their support or otherwise for anyone for that matter on the basis of PERFORMANCE alone

Some people support a man cos he is their kinsman,'na our time to chop' syndrome

Some do cos he is closer to their ethnic group

Some do cos he is a christian/Muslim as they are

Some do cos it must be anyone but a Northerner in order to spite the fact that the 'Northerners' have always exhibited 'Born to Rule' mentality
or cos Power must shift to the Southern part of the country

Some would support cos he is a Catholic/Anglican/Redeemer/Baptist/NASFAT/Fatui I'll Quoreeb/Ansar Ud deen/Morcas like themselves

Only few Nigerians can commit Class,Ethnic,Religious and Tribal suicide in supporting a man or a woman based only on his/her capacity to deliver and devoid of any of the above sentiments

I am one of them....no chest beating!

I concur totally! It is the 'kari ka chop' politicians who seems to have stumbled upon a oyster of daily bread in GEJ are the ones who are mounting pressure on him

The Neighbour to Neighbour crew
Goodluck Support Group
Friends of Goodluck
Wives of Friends of Goodluck
40 Laptop crew
Association of Insincere 9gerians
Talaka Men of the Belly
Ochendo Support Group
Tomahawk Kith and Kin
Deride the Gully Pressure Group
Goodluck or You Die Association of Nigeria
Go and Hug Wet Transformer Chanters of Nigeria

Infact those who are mounting pressure on GEJ to run are so many as we all can see

greatgod2012: The man is confused, but from the look of things, he has interest in joining APC. But, sincerely, i dont know why APC is always after deserted PDP members, why do they always woo the PDP members, cant they perform withut them? If this continues, then, it's still the same old wine in a new bottle.


I understand that there is no permanent friend or foe in politics, but with the way APC is going about wooing and snatching desrtet PDP member, then, nothing new apart from what PDP is known for should be expected from and of them.

It is well.

Some people indeed are naïve to the teeth with their reasoning!

Why do Real Madrid always wants to have very popular players who they feel can win matches and competitions for them in their midst despite the fact that they have their own football academy where they are expected to groom their own up and coming players?

A player who transfers to a new club is sure expected to jettison his love and affection for his old club while imbibing the philosophy of the new one

In politics,you don't play the game of exclusion! It is the more the merrier

Even PDP and their adopted babies LP and APGA all do it

In politics,you have to go into enemy territory and poach them using your own strategy and capitalizing on their weaknesses or unresolved issues

Even our earlier politicians in the mold of Awolowo,Azikiwe and Ahmadu Bello and later Shagari all jostle to poach dissenters from the enemy camp to further strenthen their own grip and territorial interests!

Those of us who hide behind a laptop and condemn what APC is doing can't even mobilise our own family members to support a cause but are blaming a party that is talking to people who have millions of potential voters lock down under their political structure and vice-like grip

When ACN,ANPP,CPC were all individual parties,we all were the ones who derided them and wished they coalesce into a strong,united National opposition party. Now they are trying to spread to every cranny of this country,it is still some perpetual critiques who are scoffing at their expansionist adventure

Taaaaaaa!

OP I just asked about you in another thread cos I know you will never let this occassion pass you by!

You sure have an anoiting to do the bizarre and seemed to have pushed up the frontier of sycophancy to an all time olympian height

Other commenters have adequately answered you with undoubtable facts about what happened during the tenure of other past leaders hence I need not add more

It is silly acts coupled with your capacity to delve into inanities like this that have made you the butt of all jokes and snide remarks on this forum

Enjoy your moment of self delusion!

A-ZeD:
Insincere Nigerian have you told them this policy is anti poor or is Tinubu/APC now running the FG?

Where is that chap sef? He has been consistently Inconsistent on this forum lately

Hope he hasn't been slammed with a ban?

Whoever that wants to challenge Aregbesola to an electoral duel just want to waste his or her hard earned money

Osun state is on a lock-down for Aregbe!

Let them not bother trying at all. All the political bombs and propaganda landmines laid on the path of Ogbeni have been strategically neutralised

Lobatan!

FreeGlobe:
does south west have any resources? now tell me who will die of poverty when Nigeria divides?

Mazi Freeglobe ah ah...you are sha always in a combative mood for this your Igbo-Yoruba imaginary civil war!

Try and hang your boxing gloves this time in honor of the Golden Eaglets unnugo?

Up Nigeria!!!!!!

koonbey: Hmmn,I hope your School has a Money Back Guarantee...that's assuming you've ever seen the four Walls of one tho

I was just about sending an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile(IBM) called Agbelepota to the guy you quoted owing to his purile mindset and terrible tense construct

You can now see type of people one is unfortunately hoping to engage in cerebral political discourse on this forum? I plead the 5th amendment!