splashbaby: Wait ooo it's like 2015 is around the corner...I can't fine any Igbo in the mix...only Hausas and Yorubas teaming against a minority president backed by the Ibos...will they survive this?

Must u pipo always play the ethnic and victim card

Didn't u see Ogbonnaya Onu's name there?

More so,the 3rd leg upon which APC is standing is supplied by d Ndigbo represented by Rochas Okorocha,Chris Ngige,Osita Izunaso,Emeka Eneukwu,Annie Okonkwo etc

U pipo shd always maintain an open mind to issues and not always quickly view things from the prism of 'we against them' mentality

lacasa:



Nigerians are actually the biggest hypocrites in the world.

You shld ave known that by now bro

I get miffed when we don't act rationally just because we have recalcitrantly a taken position to support someone even if what he is doing is wrong...that was what made me sound out that part to the ethno-religious bigots amongst us

Getting a loan from an Islamic bank(as such loans tends to be very friendly unlike d ones taken from China/IMF/ the Bretton Woods institutions with a lot of loopholes n Technical proviso) is not a bad idea because no nation has all the monies it needs at any particular point in time we can always hedge our future crude oil sales and proceeds to service n pay the loans gradually BUT our history with such loans with absolutely near nothing to show for them under this party is very real issues

Just like some people averred,GEJ is currently preparing to spend us blind towards the realisation of his 2nd term by drawing down on the foreign reserve just like he did in 2011 while using loans like this to cover up d infrastructural deficiency and budget deficit we are presently witnessing but the most heart rendering stuff is that about 50% of the loan will get diverted...making us to borrow more

When it becomes convenient for GEJ thru Okupe to play politics...they will use Religion and Ethnicity to further polarise us. Now nobody is shouting himself hoarse that they should not collect conditional loans from an Islamic Bank

I just hope Nigerians rise above pettiness and see things in proper perspectives instead of gullibly believing whatever the PDP churns out to deceive us

Now they are collecting money from an institution some uneducated folks would irrationally associate with extremism,fanaticism or Boko Haram

Mind u am a christian for the records!

Nigerians shd be wary of PDP scaremongers who would rather we continue the way we have always done yet expecting a different result

APC represents vibrancy and freshness of idea

As for those coming from PDP,the promoters of APC knows how to handle them...there is always the period of reorientation and close monitoring

Just like someone said we need to give APC chance before we can conclude they are the same with PDP....ACN on regaining political power from d PDP in Ogun,Osun,Ekiti and Oyo have not left any1 in doubt of their capabilities

I wonder what Nigerians would say about this action of seeking financial aid from an Islamic bank knowing fully well that lenders always have conditions

If it was Sanusi Lamido Sanusi or APC that as much moot this idea,every tongue would have started wagging in erroneous derision of a harmless motive

SMH

I wonder what Nigerians would say about this action of seeking financial aid from an Islamic bank knowing fully well that lenders always have conditions

If it was Sanusi Lamido Sanusi or APC that as much mute this idea,every tongue would have started wagging in erroneous derision of a harmless motive

SMH

To the feeble minded,ethnically bigotted and religiously immature nigerians,I wonder what we all would have said if it was the opposition that seeks funding from an Islamic bank for any reason at all....am sure the shouts of ISLAMIZATION and BOKO-HARAMIZATION of Nigeria would have been adduced as the motive behind this action

Read below...

Islamic Bank To Assist Nigeria On Infrastructural Projects, Economy
Islamic Bank To Assist Nigeria On Infrastructural Projects, Economy
By: George Agba on August 4, 2013 - 9:49pm


Vice-President Namadi Sambo has called on the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to support projects that cut across the African continent, while still supporting the Nigerian economy.
The vice president made the call in his Royal Guest Palace, Makkah, Saudi Arabia when he received the President of the Islamic Development Bank, Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Ali, who paid him a courtesy visit.
Expressing appreciation for the continued support and cooperation of the IDB to Nigeria, Sambo said that all the approvals granted by the Bank over the years had received the ratificationby the National Assembly and the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
The vice president, who called on the bank to consider the construction of a road linking Lagos to Abidjan in the Republic of Côte d'ivoir, also requested them to extend their support to the Nigerian private sector in the areas of education,aviation , agriculture, while calling on them to partner states in public private partnership (PPP) projects in the execution of priority projects.
Sambo noted the progress made by government in the power sector, construction and expansion of deep seaports, especially those of Lekki and Ibaka, as well as the development of the Aluminum Smelter Company, where he stated that efforts were being geared towards ensuringthe participation of investors in the mining sector .
On the gateway office, the vice president promised that the finalisation agreement would soon be sorted out, even as he further said that for the progress being made in the power sector to be meaningful more funds needed to be injected into the transmission component .
He said that Nigeria would need about $450 million from the Bank to expand transmission to wheel up to 20,000 megawatts of electricity.
In his response, the President of IDB, Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Ali, said the purpose of his visit was to use the occasion to give a push to the Nigeria-IDB cooperation.
He said that the Bank has approved three out of the five projects submitted from Nigeria. They include construction of four new science secondary schools in Kaduna State, worth$17,9m, construction of 300 bed specialist hospital in Kaduna State at $43.15m and the Zaria water supply project worth $81.0m.
He explained that the Jigawa State rural development project put at $32.40m and the bilingual education programme for Borno , Gombe and Niger States worth $30.53m were under consideration.

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How A Defective Justice System Freed Major Al-Mustapha By Femi Falana
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Under the Ibrahim Babangida junta politically motivated killings were rife in several parts of the country. The refusal by the police to investigate such killings lent credence to allegations of official involvement. The gruesome assassination of a prominent journalist, Mr. Dele Giwa by a parcel bomb in Lagos on October 19,1986 was covered up by the junta. The gallant attempts by the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi SAN to ensure the prosecution of those who were suspected to have masterminded the nefarious deed were officially frustrated. However, the SaniAbacha junta devised a dubious method of shielding official assassins from being exposed. Whenever any opposition figure was killed by the Strike Force accusing fingers were quickly pointed at the family members or political allies of the deceased . Thus, sequel to the brutal murder of Mrs. Kudirat Abiola in Lagos on June 4,1996 by unknown gunmen some members of the Abiola family and chieftains of the National democratic Coalition (NADECO) were hurriedly arrested, detained and interrogated by the police on suspicion that they committed the heinous crime!

The Indictment of the Murder Suspects

Upon the restoration of civil rule in May 1999, President Olusegun Obasanjo instituted the Special Investigation Panel which probed the murderous activities of the Strike Force from 1993-1998. Some of the operatives made confessional statements on the murder of Mrs Abiola, the attempted murder of Chief Alex Ibru, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Mr Isaac Poubeni et cetera. In particular, it was disclosed by the suspects that they carried out the iniquitouscrimes on the orders of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the ex-Chief Security Officer to the late maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha. Upon the completion of investigation the Police charged the former Chief of Army Staff, General Ishaya Bamaiyi; the former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. James Danbaba; Major Al-Mustapha; Mr. Mohammed Abacha and Mohammed Aminu with the murder of Mrs Abiola before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court in November 1999.

The prosecutor in the matter was Mr. Nuhu Ribadu who later became the pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The case was taken over by the Lagos state ministry of justice in 2000 which terminated the matter at the Magistrate’s court and charged the defendants for the sameoffence at the Lagos High Court. In his oral testimony beforethe Honourable Justice Ade Alabi the star prosecution witness, Sergeant Barnabas Jabila (a.k.a.Rogers) gave a vivid account and description of how he collected two uzi guns from Major Al-Mustapha. He also disclosed that Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan gave information on the movements of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola while Mr Mohammed Abacha lent his mercedes benz car and allowed his driver, Mr Mohammed Abdu (a.k.a Katako) to drive the killer gang to the scene of the crime. Although Mr Mohammed Abacha did not deny the fact that he also gave $20,000 to two members of the killer squad to flee the country (to escape arrest and prosecution) the Supreme Court set him free in a split decision of 4-1.

In the majority decision of the court read by Alfa Belgore JSC (as he then was) it was held that “The Appellant (Mohammed Abacha), in normal matter of course visited thefirst accused (Al Mustapha) not in course of any business. Hesaw Al Mustapha whispering to Jaabila (a.k.a Rogers) but not knowing what they discussed. He saw two guns taken out of a bag and given to the Jabila. Al Mustapha was Chief Security Officer and Jabila worked with him. Certainly he would not know what the mission was… Katako drove to the scene with Jabila and others where the unfortunate and gruesome murder was committed by Jabila, at least on his own confession of firing the shots at Mrs. Abiola.”. All the other four Justices on the panel of the apex court made similar profound findings based on the proof of evidence before the trial court. Even the Late Olufemi Ejiwunmi JSC who delivered a dissenting opinion had this to say: “There was evidence that the Appellant allowed his driver Mohammed Katako to drive Rogers; and that the said Rogersfired and killed Kudirat while being driven by Mohammed Katako. The appellant had seen Al-Mustapha, the first accused hand over machine guns to Rogers and his boys.” In dissociating himself from the decision of his learned brethren that the appellant had no case to answer Justice Ejiwunmi described the verdict of the court as ” a tyranny ofmajority”.

Before the judgment of the Supreme Court was delivered onJuly 11, 2002 Sergeant Rogers had appeared before the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Panel on Human Rights Abuses which sat at the old National Assembly building at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos. In the detailed evidence given by him sometimes in 2001, Sergeant Rogers confirmedthat he fired the shot that snuffed life out of Mrs Kudirat Abiola as part of the atrocities perpetrated by the Strike Force on the orders of Major Al-Mustapha. He revealed that General Jeremiah Useni who was in the hall visited him and other members of the Strike Force in North Korea when they were training on how to kill the “enemies of Nigeria”. When asked by the Honourable Justice Oputa if he regretted his action he said he did and he proceeded to ask for forgiveness as he burst into tears. Curiously, Major Al-Mustapha and others who were indicted by Sergeant Rogers could not challenge the witness even though they were present at the proceedings.

The Delay Tactics by the Defendants

Based on the unassailable evidence led at the trial court andat the Oputa panel on the brutal assassination of Mrs. Abiolathe defendants decided to prolong the trial by resorting to various dilatory tactics. After the prosecution had led seven witnesses in evidence in the case the defendants applied for several adjournments. The trial within trial lasted for over ayear. Many interlocutory appeals and applications for stay of proceedings pending the determination of appeals were also filed by the defendants. In dismissing one of the bail applications fought all the way to the Supreme Court the defendants and their counsel were cautioned by the Justicesto cooperate with the trial court to bring the murder case toa speedy end “in the overall interest of the administration ofcriminal justice in this country.”

When it became clear that the trial judge wanted to proceed with the case the defendants suddenly turned round to accuse him of having taken a bribe of $10 million toconvict them. They also petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC) which decided to investigate the allegation.

In the circumstance, the murder case was suspended sine die to enable the panel set up by the NJC to investigate the alleged misconduct of the judge. At the end of the investigation which lasted for over a year the NJC committee found that the bribe allegation was a fluke as it could not be substantiated. The NJC gave the trial judge a clean bill of health and directed him to proceed with the trial. On resumption of hearing the trial judge was requested by the defendants to withdraw from the case on the ground that he was likely to be biased having been falsely accused by them. At that juncture, Justice Alabi recused himself from the case and it was assigned to another judge. Through such diversionary tactics the case lasted 13 years in the docket and was handled by five judgesat different times before it was eventually concluded by Justice Modupe Dada. .

The Conviction and the Acquittal

After the trial had lasted for over a decade due to ceaseless adjournments mostly at the instance of the defendants Justice Dada rejected all fresh strategies designed to frustrate the trial. Curiously, the witness protection arrangement put in place by the federal government was discontinued. Not unexpectedly, some of the witnesses who had earlier on testified refused to show up in court. The starwitness, Sergeant Rogers testified but decided to contradict himself by alleging undue influence on the part of the prosecution. In his own defence, Major Al-Mustapha alleged that the trial was politically motivated by two former heads of state. The late Pa Abraham Adesanya (who narrowly escaped Sergeant Rogers’ bullet) and Chief Bola Ige (who was gruesomely assassinated by unknown gunmen in December 2001) were alleged to have collected millions of pounds, dollars and naira from General Abdulsalami Abubakar to betray the June 12 mandate. But when the video recording of the much touted bribe was shown duringthe trial it turned out to be a ruse deliberately designed to divert the course of justice.

In her considered judgment Justice Dada rejected the retraction of the confessional statements of the two prosecution witnesses in line with many decisions of the appellate courts to the effect that a trial court can still convict on a retracted confessional statement as long as the judex is satisfied with the truth of the statement. Having watched the demeanour of the witnesses when they testified before her the trial judge came to the conclusion that the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonabledoubt that both defendants were guilty of the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. Accordingly, her ladyship convicted and sentenced them to death by hanging. Completely dissatisfied with the verdict both convicts challenged it at the

Court of Appeal.

Upon a critical review of the case the Court of Appeal found that the prosecution’s case was riddled with contradictions which ought to have been resolved in favour of the appellants. While condemning the shoddy investigation conducted by the police in the case the Court discharged and acquitted the appellants. As if that was not enough theirladyships descended on the trial judge for “allowing herself to be caught in the web of the conflict”. But convinved that justice has not been done to the deceased the Court of Appeal concluded thus, ” Assuming the culprit is at large, there is nothing hidden under the sun that will not be exposed. The Law of the Lord is perfect. His judgments are true and righteous altogether–Psalm 19:7–9?.

With profound respect to the Court of Appeal it does not appear that “the culprit is at large”. Hence the Court criticised the prosecution for fielding Sergeant Rogers “as a prosecution witness instead of being charged with murder” when he had initially confessed to the shooting of the deceased. In Abacha v the State (supra) the Supreme Court had equally noted, with dismay, that “the criminals have not been charged”. In particular the court observed that “Sergeant Jabila (a.k.a Rogers) gave a graphic description ofhis involvement that if voluntary must amount to confession. He has not been charged with any offence”. While the Lagos state government has indicated its wish to challenge the judgment of the Appeal Court in the Al-Mustapha’s case at the Supreme Court it is high time that Sergeant Rogers and the members of the killer gang were charged with conspiracy and murder of Mrs Abiola. After all, there is no statute of limitation with respect to the offence of murder.

Beyond The Acquittal of Major Al-Mustapha
Some members of the public who were not privy to the deliberate frustration of the trial by the defendants joined in the political campaign for their release while the trial was in progress. As impunity has become the order of the day the Lagos state Attorney-General was under tremendous political pressure to file nolle prosequi with a view to aborting the trial. No doubt, the judges and the prosecutors should be blamed for alllowing the defendants to exploit the loopholes in the criminal justice system to drag the trial for 13 years. Ironically, following their conviction by the Lagos high court the defendants ensured that the appeal filed against the judgment of the trial court was heard and determined within 15 months in spite of the congestion of cases in the Lagos division of the Court of Appeal.

It is however pertinent to note that the Al-Mustapha trial has compelled the Lagos state government to amend the criminal procedure law.

Thus, under the Lagos State Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2011, stay of proceedings pending appeal has been prohibited while the courts are precluded from entertaining preliminary objections filed by defendants until the prosecution has closed its case. Furthermore, confessional statements made by suspects are required to be vídeo recorded to avoid retraction by the defendands which often leads to trial within trial. Adjournments by parties designed to prolong criminal trials have also been banned. It can therefore be said that the case has put an end to the brazen manipulationof the criminal justice system by rich defendants and their lawyers

In view of the incendiary statement credited to the factionalleader of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Dr Faseun to the effect that Major Al-Mustapha is a victim of injustice he maywish to persuade his new political ally to sue the Lagos StateGovernment for malicious prosecution. It is however doubtful whether Dr. Faseun has come across the comprehensive report of the Oputa Panel which specifically named Major Al-Mustapha as one of “perpetrators of gross violations of the rights of citizens under military rule”. Based on the unwarranted brutality meted out to many innocent persons by such torturers the Panel recommended that “those of them not yet retired or relieved of their jobs should be so retired forthwith”. On the suspicious death of Chief M.K.O Abiola and other politically motivated killings which characterised the darkest chapter of our political history the Panel recommended that the Federal Government should re-open such cases for “proper investigation”. But out of sheer class solidarity with the indicted characters the Olusegun Obasanjo Administration could not muster the political will to implement the recommendations of the Oputa Panel.

CONCLUSION

Those who have expressed genuine concern over the discharge and acquittal of Major Al-Mustapha and Mr Shofolahan should be reminded of the fact that General Ishaya Bamaiyi, Mr James Dambaba, Mohammed Rabo Lawal and Mohammed Aminu who had been tried for the attempted murder of Chief Abraham Adesanya and Chief Alex Ibru had been freed due to the fact that the witnesses who had made confessional statements decided to make a u-turn. In the same vein, those who were charged with the assassinations of Pa Alfred Rewane, Chief Bola Ige, Harry Marshal et al were left off the hook on the ground that the charges brought against them were not proved beyond reasonable doubt. With respect to the cases of Dele Giwa, Bagauda Kaltho, Jerry Agbeyegbe, Toyin Onagoruwa, Aminasoari Dikibo and several others the police did not even charge any suspect to court. Since thecriminal justice system of the neo-colonial state has virtually collapsed serious cases involving rich criminal suspects are usually lost in court due to either shoddy police investigation or prosecutorial irresponsibility.

But suffice it to say that under the criminal justice system only the poor are successfully prosecuted for murder and sundry offences because they lack the resources to manipulate the criminal justice system. Ours has become a banana republic that is managed by a ruling class which cannot even protect the lives of its own members. As for the rest of the the society it has become a case of everyone for himself and God for us all. Hence, extra-judicial killing ofunarmed citizens by security personnel and unofficial killer gangs is on the ascendancy. Instead of resigning to fate in the circumstance concerned individuals and organisations should be prepared to struggle for the establishment of a new society where impunity will be consigned to the dustbin of history. And the struggle should begin with a call on the Federal Government to disarm and disband the Strike Force and other killer groups set up by the State and well connected politicians for the violent elimination of their political opponents.

Femi Falana SAN.

dabiko: APC,from my own point of view has no national and grassroot oultook.It will be quite difficult for them to displace PDP which has been in power since 1999.Now from analysis it's pretty clear that pdp has a reasonable support base among the six geo political zones in the country as against apc,which can barely boast of two/ three zones.Btw to win a presidential election a candidate must secure a minimum vote of 50 percent of 2/3 states.

U pretty well don't know d new political calculus and re-alignment of forces set to emerge in d next few months! D greatest threat to PDP is not even APC @ d moment,it is d implosion and rebellion of disenchanted PDP members especially d governors who are like d rock of gibraltar in d PDP...all dis occurences wil no doubt play 2d advantage of APC..u can see d discordant tune playing out lately wt Bamanga Tukur disowing d Insultive statement by his media aide abt d 5 Northern governors while Doyin Okupe is saying another thing.PDP is massively fragmented all across d region...wt several factions and powerblocs....d president himself has not shown enuff leadership sagacity and Turn-around acumen of a cerebral leader which would have endeared him to every section of d country! His performance as d president has bn less than convincing. We are presently witnessing a never-b4-seen division amongst d various ethnic group owing to d failure of GEJ to rally d country 2geda,prefering to pander to d whims of his SS people rather than being a Pan-Nigerian leader...now I recall wt nostalgia OBJ tenure,a man we his pipo villified to no end owing to his insistence on not wanting to be known as Yoruba president alone,now we kno beta wt GEJ who even in d face of glaring mediocre performance is continually deify by his pipo to d isolation of oda region except d SEers who thought GEJ wil dash dem d presidency afta his tenure.Forget all d chest-beating n act of bragadoccio of d Gulaks and Okupes of dis world who can't win a ward for GEJ in dia respective states! GEJ sure has a long rope to walk....!

igbobuigbo: I have just been in a meeting where it was disclosed that Tinubu is planning to storm Anambra with billions of Naira to campaign for Ngige to enable APC gain a foothold in the East by all means possible. What this means is that if Ngige wins, Tinubu becomes the godfather in the most economically-important Igbo state.

Umu Anambra kedu ife anyi ga eme?

1. Do we let Tinubu come with the Billions and we goad him to share it amongst the youths? After all, it's stolen money from Lagos govt, and then we vote for APGA (Soludo)?
2. Do we block him at the bridgehead, collect the money, and ask him to go back and not bring his thuggery-style electioneering into Anambra?
3. Do we allow him in, collect the money (a bird at hand is worth 5 in the bush) and vote for Ngige? Having known Ngige quite closely he is quite strong-willed and may not let Tinubu dictate to him what to do in Anambra?
4. Do we allow him in, collect the money and stone him like A-o was stoned (as the story went) in Aba in the 60s?

Note that in all cases the money must be collected from Tinubu. If you take from a thief you are forgiven.

Your opinions please, and no non-Anambra indigenes are invited to comment here. I will delete such comments
De me nu.

You all should keep fanning d embers of hate and ethnic schism...I am very sure u people have concluded in your minds that any of your ilk would never become the president of this country the way u are going abt it.....your predictability is nauseating...abusing,insulting every known personality of other ethnic tribe

People are waiting for when u eventually wake up frm yr slumber n wish that for 'justice and equity sakes' a person of Igbo extraction shd be allowed to get a shot @ d Presidency then u will reap in abundance all d seed of hate and discord u av sown!

APC's registration is sending jitters down d spine of GEJ...I can sense a marked increase in d cardiac palpitation of some people @ d corridor of power.

That is the more reason youths of nowadays shd be well informed and not always jump into dismissive about issues or personalities

There is no one who can continue to dominate the airwaves all season long cos there is time for everything

Frank Nweke Jnr is d DG of d NESG- National Economic Summit Group a private sector initiative meant to articulate and collate cutting edge solutions to Nigeria's myriad problems in every sphere of human endeavour

Pathetic post, irascible poster..accursed liar! Shouting wolf,wolf where there is none!

PDP's days are numbered,rather than tackle APC on d basis of performance...they are busy encouraging innanities and patent falsehood

APC Exco comprise 35 individuals,18Muslims,17 christians

ACN 9 Members South-West Stronghold(5 Christians 4 Muslims)

ANPP 9 Members(6 Muslim 3 Christians) a predominantly Northern party

CPC 9 Members(6 Muslims 3 Christians) a predominantly Northern party

A Faction of APGA 6 Members-All Christians-Due to its being strong in d East

DPP 2 Members-Both Christians-owing to the fact that its only visible in Delta State(The Late Sen.Pius Ewherido was part of APC in formation

Stoopid thread laden with pure and unadultrated I.diocy,alarmist to say the least

Keep deluding yrself....APC is here to stay!

Aggrippa: congrats to APC...BUT i think this is a huge.... the party is islamized party. if this APC EVENTUALLY get the power in 2015, they will throw GEJ in prison, the SE, SS and MB will be severely dealt with for no reason. all the goodies and freedoms will be drastically reduced, fairness will be thrown out the windows. development will then be significantly suspended till the kingdom come, growth will be terribly severely stunted

Oh my! Wc skool did u go to? Did u write all dat trash up there?

Throw GEJ in prison? Oh may be u re sure he is doing something that will warrant his being jailed than some of us. Development wil be suspended like its bn suspended in Lagos,Osun,Oyo,Edo,Imo etc since d Governors got to power abi

SE,SS,MB will be severely dealt wt? Infact I pity yr soul as you have displayed a crass lack of knowledge of d workings of a democratic govt...stark n patent display of I.diocy I must confess

femi2131: Can somebody tell me the diff betw PDP Ãήϑ this APC! As we have Tinubu as the head of APC...this party to me has nothing to offer this country cos come to look at it from the state that ACN is currently Governing....they just call themself ┏̲A̶̲̅┓̲ progresive party they are party for the Rich lagos state as the example how many poor can afford houses been built by the state government....recently ARegbesola Son made ove 5Billion from OPON IFA the tablet being given to the student of osun state...imagine what this APC will. Want to offer this country....am not saying PDP is doin gud but they will still be better compare to APC.....

You are an accursed lying son of a worm! How much did the whole OPON IMO concept cost? How much does Osun state as a whole collect as federal allocation that will make dem sink N5billion and more into just one project? Yet they are still able to build roads,pay salaries,pay pensioners,do O-meal,Pay O-yes workforce,run d govt n all other activities.

Its obvious u are a lying low-lifer hence will afford to lie incredulously n spin poo from d hateful recess of yr illiteratic mind

Why has d osun PDP not done anything to challenge yr spurious assertion or has EFCC gone comatose?

Anothernauseating thread laden with Ethnic connotations

Pray,why did you people start to make noise after they were allegedly ported back to their states of origin. why didn't any of the families of the individuals raise alarm as to the whereabout of these individuals all the while they were held in d rehabilitation centres.

At least it does not take more than a day before we start hearing and receiving broadcast and social media postings of the 'kidnap','lost' or alleged killing of individuals from their family members for those whose families normally really look for them in Nigeria. So why didn't we hear anything abt any1 looking for these individuals for 6months they spent wt d LASG.
It sure confirms their status as being destitutes! No one should constitute a nuisance at d detriment of other law abiding citizens be they from Ondo,Borno,Bayelsa or Nassarawa

As for anyone voting APC or not,you should only talk abt yrself and stop fanning d embers of discord

Intrepid!:
There's absolutely no difference between this party and the PDP. Same composition of Treasury looters.

Then form your own party or join the remaining inconsequential ones

If you are looking for a party of saints,you will have to take a flight to heaven....don't misconstrue my statement as a tacit support for corruption

At least let's watch n see what their manifestoes would look like before getting dismissive.....

solomon111: *quietly expecting litigations and counter-litigations on the name "APC"*
moronns.

Even if u like see 'delegation'

APC is here to stay! As for the PDP sponsored charlatans going about trying to disrupt dis process...they have failed as d law will tell then their case is stale as issues like dis is 'Time Bound' if u have a smart lawyer around u...ask him to explain to u d meaning of that legal technical term

What the PDP has bn trying to do can be likened to a football team which should have concentrated its effort on preparing for a match but asking the referee to disqualify its opponent

Keep chasing shadows rather than double up effort at shoring up your daily depleting image

APC jooor!!!

2ru9jaman: Nigerian should look very well before shouting halleluyah. Presently Lagos State is islamized already what does development in the board of a national party portend when you have this set up:
(A) Facts without Comment: - APC
1] Party Leader - North, Gen Muhammadu Buhari……(Muslim).
2] Party Leader - South, Bola Ahmed Tinubu ………(Muslim).
3] National Chairman: Abdulkareem Bisi Akande…… (Muslim)
4] Deputy National Chairman: Aminu Bello Masari……(Muslim)
5] National Secretary: Tijjani Musa Tumsah…………… (Muslim)
6] Deputy National Secretary: Nasir El-Rufai…………. (Muslim)
7] National Publicity Secretary.: Lai Muhammed……… (Muslim)
8] National Treasurer: Sadiya Umar Faruq……………… (Muslim)
9] National Financial Secretary: Alhaji Shaibu Musa……… (Muslim)
10] National Youth Leader: Abubakar Lado………. (Muslim)
11] National Legal Adviser: Muiz Banire ……….(Muslim)
12] National Deputy Auditor: Bala Jibrin……… (Muslim)
13] National Women Leader: Sharia Ikeazor……… (Muslim Convert)
14] Ex-Officio Member: Muniru Muse………… (Muslim)
15] Ex-Officio Member: Alhaji Yemi Sanusi ………(Muslim)
• The APC National Treasurer protested this list and resigned his membership.

You accursed liar!!! The guy who protested as u so called it was ACN's Treasurer(Kenneth Kobani) who having realised he won't be given d same post in APC and having started to hobnob wt PDP resigned in frustration and guess what....the next week was among the Anti-Amaechi delegation GEJ hosted in Aso Rock

And now you pipo have started yr well wornout,tantrum-laden walk of infamy of trying to label APC a muslim party after being pooh-poohed a month ago using d same style and guile

You have failed!!!

2ru9jaman: Nigerian should look very well before shouting halleluyah. Presently Lagos State is islamized already what does development in the board of a national party portend when you have this set up:
(A) Facts without Comment: - APC
1] Party Leader - North, Gen Muhammadu Buhari……(Muslim).
2] Party Leader - South, Bola Ahmed Tinubu ………(Muslim).
3] National Chairman: Abdulkareem Bisi Akande…… (Muslim)
4] Deputy National Chairman: Aminu Bello Masari……(Muslim)
5] National Secretary: Tijjani Musa Tumsah…………… (Muslim)
6] Deputy National Secretary: Nasir El-Rufai…………. (Muslim)
7] National Publicity Secretary.: Lai Muhammed……… (Muslim)
8] National Treasurer: Sadiya Umar Faruq……………… (Muslim)
9] National Financial Secretary: Alhaji Shaibu Musa……… (Muslim)
10] National Youth Leader: Abubakar Lado………. (Muslim)
11] National Legal Adviser: Muiz Banire ……….(Muslim)
12] National Deputy Auditor: Bala Jibrin……… (Muslim)
13] National Women Leader: Sharia Ikeazor……… (Muslim Convert)
14] Ex-Officio Member: Muniru Muse………… (Muslim)
15] Ex-Officio Member: Alhaji Yemi Sanusi ………(Muslim)
• The APC National Treasurer protested this list and resigned his membership.

You accursed liar!!! The guy who protested as u so called it was ACN's Treasurer(Kenneth Kobani) who having realised he won't be given d same post in APC and having started to hobnob wt PDP resigned in frustration and guess what....the next week was among the Anti-Amaechi delegation GEJ hosted in Aso Rock

And now you pipo have started yr well wornout,tantrum-laden walk of infamy of trying to label APC a muslim party after being pooh-poohed a month ago using d same style and guile

You have failed!!!

Phygo: No matter d weight of elephant, e'no fit cause earthquake.. GEJ must complete his 8yrs. Any bad mouth?

Keep dreaming! As if yr destiny as a person is tied to that of GEJ...I wonder y u pipo get star struck and won't mind to sink n die with a non-performer.

Keep issuing empty threats even after your fellow Pro-GEJ Godfather Edwin Clark have apologised to other Nigerians knowing fully well that your GEJ can never get d 2nd term some of you are just mouthing with his present style of politics of isolation,alienation,blackmail and insult of other geopolitical group

Eureka!!!

Fasheun is gonna go down into d Hall of Infamy sooner than he could ever imagined!!!

Professor Peter: God please, save from being Arewa's slaves. Let them busying themselves into trouble so that 2015 will be peacefull

Keep mentioning d name of God in what is absolutely a terrestial issue. while others are organizing,u re agonizing and wishing that evil should befall those who are taking the socio-political issues of their people seriously.I hope u don't belong to that tribe that is wishfully thinking that GEJ would handover to them rather than for them to start organising and getting cerebral n strategic?

By Olakunle Abimbola
July 30th, 2013 by Larigold

A community with worthy elders never comes to ruin – Yoruba proverb 

When do elders morph from leaders to dealers?

The latest foxtrot on the Rivers crisis, by the South-South Elders and Stakeholders, a group led by Pa Edwin Clark, Ijaw leader and presidential godfather, might just offer a clue.

The Clark-led elders, on July 24, told Governor Chibuike Amaechi to stop blaming President Goodluck Jonathan and Patience, his ever-meddling wife, for the contrived Rivers crisis; told the governor to shape in or shape out; told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to kick out the governor to serve as warning to other power renegades; pooh-poohed the four northern governors that went on a solidarity visit to Amaechi as cynical meddlers; and branded Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, as an arch-hypocrite who wept more than the bereaved at the legislative banditry of the Rivers G-5, while he kept mute in earlier legislative outlawry in Oyo (where Governor Rashidi Ladoja was illegally impeached) and Soyinka’s native Ogun State (when Governor Gbenga Daniel inspired legislative lawlessness in his gubernatorial dying days).

Indeed, they practically did a pun on the famous author of The Man Died and his work: that the man died in the Nobel Laureate for his alleged quiet at constitutional outrages in Oyo and Ogun states; while jerking awake at the repeat of the same crime in their Rivers!

But, of course, Clark and his “elders”, in their release, never bothered with the rigour of reason. All they barked, conceited folks, was the language of power, boasting neither wisdom nor reason.

The whole thing was some dumb smartie’s response to the five northern governors’ “Save Democracy tour” to former President Olusegun Obasanjo (Jonathan’s estranged godfather), Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, three former soldiers ironically pitched to help save democracy under Jonathan’s reckless assault!

But again, the Clark gambit was a classic from the brilliant dullness of the Jonathan court: no tactics, no strategy, just stark power blundering and bumbling!

Even then, if the so-called elders wilfully lost a bit of their wisdom in anticipation of some power gravy, can’t their young Turks at least work hard to safeguard the integrity of their claims?

The Clark group made the fantastic claim that Soyinka kept mute during the legislative anomie in Oyo and Ogun states. But this claim is either criminal forgetfulness or plain mischief.

On the Ladoja illegal impeachment, Soyinka called for Obasanjo’s impeachment, linking the Oyo legislative crisis to his complicity – just as Jonathan’s link to the present Rivers affront is crystal clear.

“Obasanjo has acted sufficiently against the constitution to warrant his impeachment,” Soyinka declared on 20 January 2006. “There is more than enough evidence to warrant his impeachment”.

That was even a case of 18 (a simple majority) removing the governor in a 32-member legislature, which nevertheless fell short of the constitutionally required two-thirds majority: not a case of Rivers’ “simple minority” of five versus 27! AFP, with Nigerian newspapers, reported the Soyinka stand.

On the Gbenga Daniel legislative shenanigans in Ogun, where the minority G-9 overthrew the majority G-15, Soyinka was no less hard-hitting. “I wish to state, categorically, this cannot and must not be allowed to stand. I call on the citizens of the state to ensure democracy is restored. A minority” he insisted, “cannot sack a majority”.

Indeed, since Soyinka’s famous “Daani Elebo” laconic putdown, he had visited every OGD misdeed with ringing condemnation, including dismissing OGD’s as “government by billboard”.

But where was Clark’s beloved presidential godson in all of these? Feigned culpable disinterest enough to name and retain Daniel as his South West presidential campaign coordinator! For Jonathan, it was, it is and ever shall be: to win and keep power, every constitutional breach is tolerable!

All these were in the public space. They are eminently verifiable with a push of the computer keyboard. Yet, Clark and his elders made such an outlandish claim! Might these elders suffer criminal senility, just to patch up the ultra-bad case of their beloved godson?

Even if Soyinka had kept mum: does that justify the criminality in the Rivers

But Soyinka was right: if Obasanjo had been impeached for the Ladoja outrage or Jonathan seriously reprimanded for playing dumb, for electoral gain, on the OGD-inspired Ogun legislative crime, this nonsense would not have repeated itself; and the Clark “elders” would not ridicule themselves with woolly thinking to back constitutional evil.

But maybe it is good Jonathan is pushing his good luck. And maybe, if he pushes it enough, he just might be impeached to avert any future presidential rascality! Did these elders ever think of this dire possibility?

Really, it is amusing Clark of all people would doubt Soyinka’s total commitment to a Nigeria driven by equity, justice and fair play, and not arbitrary power. Indeed, when Soyinka landed in Ibadan in 1969, after his Civil War Kaduna incarceration, his first response to the war-time jingle, “To keep Nigeria One …” was a snappy riposte: “Justice must be done!”

A younger Clark was busy collaborating with the same northern forces he now wants to demonise, to willy-nilly protect his godson – a power he doesn’t even have. But that is the way of Nigeria’s power men and women of all seasons!

Soyinka comes from a diametrically opposed culture: justice men and women of all seasons. And names like Obafemi Awolowo, Tai Solarin, Ayodele Awojobi, Gani Fawehinmi, Femi Falana – do they ring a bell? They stand for justice and fair play and would battle anyone, no matter where he comes from, even within their own Yoruba stock, that essays impunity.

So those orchestrated merchants of vulgar abuse, who claim the Yoruba are their problems because Soyinka told Jonathan to rein in his henchmen and women in Port Harcourt, miss the point.

The Nigerian Presidency is not South-South property. Whoever occupies that post must play by the rules or face the flak of right-thinking citizens – Nigeria is a republic, after all! So it is with President Jonathan.

As for Clark’s grouse with the visiting northern governors, the late Chuba Okadigbo called it “political arithmetic”. If Jonathan, with his power delusion and certified incompetence, alienates a wide swath of the North and a good chunk of the South West, how does he hope to win a second term? Indeed, if his party is in disarray and he is, for ego, planting further insurrection in his back yard, how does his centre hold?

Elders are supposed to be wise. Clark and co must do some hard thinking, save Jonathan from self-inflicted ruin and stop playing to juvenile gallery.

http://omojuwa.com/2013/07/of-leaders-and-dealers-soyinka-vs-clark-by-olakunle-abimbola/

we wait, we will watch and eventually witness the birth of APC....no matter what!

GEJ trying to save face after all the puppeteer gimicks done to lord himself over amaechi failed

Battered,Bruised,bloodied n Busted...GEJ is doing all the bizarre things all in d name of retaining power come 2015...Nigerians are watching all d macabre show of shame on HD TV

Huff n Puff....keep shouting marginalization under the guise of illegality.

Eni toba ma daso fun eni,ti orun e lama ko ko wo.

PDP is a very profligate party,morally bankrupt,ideologically bereft of anything good,an amalgamation of perfidious personalities whose souls have been offered unto Baal to do evil,a party who has had the (mis)fortune of leading us 4d past 14years with abysmally mediocre performance to show 4 it

If Lagos were Mini-Nigeria as well known n PDP has bn pilotting our affairs in d larger Nigeria space as presently constituted,pray what magic would they bring to fore in a sophisticated state like Lagos?

Dan Failures dem dem!

tomakint:
Guy there is no difference between PDP and APC still the same thieves only in different parties but with the same ideologies-steal and steal again! Partisan politics with a warped system of government is our greatest undoing. My point

What an infantile summation! It sure goes to show that PDP is a party that condones corruption hence would not lift a finger even if others are also stealing! That's a purile mindset. If PDP with all d opportunities they have hd all dis wyl can't do anything about opposition leaders like Tinubu n Buhari but only content wt using d media to spoil their name without any concrete proof? Then PDP is worse off

Man inhumanity to man....'Gambari pa fulani ko ni ejo ninu'. To think that the Notorious Emeka Offor is from d same place as this man further rankles the brain.

That is d brand of selective injustice being meted out to low-ranking Nigerian on daily basis by the PDP...