₦airaland Forum

There have been report of voter apathy in most parts of the country,violence in some and late arrival of electoral materials/officials at some centres in some.
However,of all the observations,the one that appears to be most troubling is the issue of missing logos of some candidates/parties.The most prominent in this regard is the case of Dapo Durosinmi-Etti the Labour Party’s candidate whose name was omitted on the ballot paper.As a result of this,most voters in Lagos state,especially Lagos central were so dissappointed as they appeared poised to vote for the Labour party's candidate,largely because of the sensitisation exercise embarked upon via sms by the Lagos Rescue Team(a group of aggrieved former party members who were displeased by the manner of Mrs Tinubu’s emergence as the party’s standard bearer) who had over the week,exposed some alleged under-hand activities of Tinubu in Lagos state by which he was reported to be arm-twisting Gov Fashola and collecting N3 billion naira monthly from LASG coffers amongst others.

To remedy this,I call on INEC to,as a matter of urgency,ensure the names of all candidates and their party logos appear on the ballot papers to be used for the subsequent elections.Also,the results of today's election in Lagos state should be CANCELLED and rescheduled for a later date by which the labour party's candidate's name and his party logo would've been printed on the ballot papers.Hmm Jega

So guys,in addition to the above,what were your observations,what were the flaws you noticed and how do you think Jega and his INEC can remedy the flaws before the next bouts of election

This is very troubling,Jega and his incompetence appears poised to give us the most non-transparent election that may reward crooks like Tinubu,his family and clique

wunmilyn:
This is just not fair! I don't think d people behind dis has got any senses. People who are responsible

This is the handwork of all those power-hungry northerners  who are backing Buhari who think that to rule Nigeria is their birth right.Buhari himself openly went to Maiduguri and canvassed for violence and killing of people,now he has started killing from Suleja and Maiduguri

Only GEJ has not canvassed for violence,this is the reason Buhari should not be voted for.

If  GEJ wasn't contesting I might as well vote Ribadu or Shekarau or even Sarah Jibril,but never a violent,intolerant,expired dictator-cum-tyrant like Buhari who openly asks Nigerians to go out and kill their fellow citizens.

franktolk:
@ Efisher, I guessed u never knew that Pastor Tunde Bakare is a Lawyer called to the bar.

Abeggi make we hear word boh,which bar was he called toit could only have been the tombo bar where they serve palm wine,ogogoro etc cos that's the only explanation for his many gaffes(false prophesies and fake visions),double-speaks,erratic comments and attacks on real pastors.

10cirenoh:
My likeness for him cancels that of your hatred for him. (case closed)

But he has more than 20 million eligible voters alone in the Northern parts who love him (excluding those who love him in the south o). so your hatred is useless, sorry old man.

Again,I assume you're talking in your age bracket,old man

Conversely,my hatred of him annuls the misfortune of your likeness for him.Since when did tens of thousands of unregistered almajiris amount to 20 million eligible voters
Much as I hate to do this(engage in back and forth argument with you as I prefer to attack the person/policies of the aspirants),I must remind you to wake up from yourt dream as you could only have manufactured bogus figures as you have just done,only in a dream

BTW,why did you people go and plant bombs in Maiduguri,remember tyrant Buhbari went there and canvassed for violence,now it's playing out,hope y'all are happy killing innocent Nigerians

^^^
No,on the contrary,I hate buhari with the same passion as I've hated other negative factors in life,such hatred can only be good for one's being,gives me a breath od FRESH AIR 

Did you say 30 I assume you're talking within your age bracket.Small pikin

Though the two of them do not have what it takes to rule this country in this day and age,I tend to agree with Ribadu cos Buhari is not only an expired and senile dictator he is completelty intellectually empty

Ask Buhari to step down for me – Ribadu


By John Bulus, Gombe
The presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has vowed ahead of next week’s presidential election not to step down for anyone.

Answering questions from journalists in Gombe yesterday when he came to seek voters’ support for has aspiration, the former EFCC boss said Nigerians wanted a generational change.

He said, “why don’t you ask Buhari to step down for me? We are looking for a progressive who can take this country forward not to look back.

This country requires a change, a generational shift, we want people who can deliver, people who can work. We want modern people who can address modern problems confronting our country and that is what the challenge is all about”.

Mallam Ribadu said that Nigeria must embrace a generational change in its leadership if it wants to be enlisted in the map of advanced countries.

He said Industrialising the country remained the only solution for curbing unemployment adding that it could only be feasible if the lingering problem of power sector is tackled.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/ask-buhari-to-step-down-for-me-ribadu/

Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the follwoing reasons I can not vote for Buhari

> 1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers whose land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

> 1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

> 1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

> 1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

> 2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution. He left untouched an alleged well-known drug baron in Ibrahim Babangida who later overthrew his government.

> 3. He jailed Nduka Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not.

> 4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash througth the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku (then Comptroller of Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself). This smuggling of the suit cases were supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo, now Emir of Gwandu.

> 5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under emergency law which prompted the sentencing Judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

> 6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of Northern population majority

> 7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

> 8. He is a coup plotter.

> 9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.

> 9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled Trust Fund.

> 10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on the precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

> 11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi, while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

> 12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in Kiri Kiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

> 13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

> 14. Buhari ransacked the house of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International Passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

> 15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, he went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

> 16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, co ordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame!

> 17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people; to the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the North. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election as Katsina Governor in 1999.

> 18. Buhari is unforgiving! When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army function where he was reported to be very openly pro-Fulani and pro-Islam to the exclusion of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

> 19. Buhari's intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries (without prior warning to the other candidates) and a few of them protested, Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined.He subsequently spoke on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened his listeners and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

> 20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

> 21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel, despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

> 22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) for trafficking in drugs. To put it quite plainly, one of those three - Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are itching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.

> If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious fundamendalist, conscienceless human being like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the Presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

> I cannot in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.

> For the good of Nigeria, vote any other candidate, but SAY NO TO BUHARI!

Comprehensively factual
SAY NO TO BUHARI THE LIAR

Oh shut up,you retarded foo.l,all the ones you stole from the petroleum ninistry and while you were head of state and at PTF nko?na God go punish that your useless mouth,grand hypocrite

I dunno whether to take the apology with a pinch of salt,seeing Osaze only went that route cos of the condemnation he got on his twitter page and on the www in general from Nigerians and other Sia1 admirers

Well since he has said it,I hope he means it and that HE WILL NEVER repeat that nonsense again

Way to go mama

Say NO to dictators that are intolerant of other religions and cultures,dictators who do not even understand the economy,dictators whose only plan for Nigeria is top waste four years constituting and carrying out unhelpful probes,while the real business of governance and development suffers
Say no to Buhari,[size=16pt]Vote GEJ FOR PRESIDO[/size]

The man does not understand what governance means and he is an enemy of democracy,he is corrupt and pretends not to be


Ohh,for Ayatollah Buhari,that's one word

Criminal

Dunce

babytoun:
He cancelled a project of N100m and agreed to pay the backout penalty of $60m. What a senseless ethnic bigot. Lagos paid at least 60% of the entire project sum as penalty for defaulting without getting any value. i dey laff.

The man is a DUNCE,a certified one at that,he knows next to nothing about democracy/governance,free enterprise,free speech,secularity and all the freedoms as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution and th UN charter on human and people's rights.

To now expect him to understand mathematical calculations in loans will be tantamount to expecting Almadinejad to either be a pope or rabbi.

My question is why wont this ignorant bigot wallow in his idiocy alone??,must he want to flaunt it on our collective national psyche?

Bensonite:
I certainly believe you do not leave in this country or you dont have eyes or worst you are abnormal. [b]The PDP you are referring to whose former members who caused all the problems and reputation for them are now full time members in CPC and ACN. So no party is holy here. That 12years of democracy nothing to offer reiterates that you leave in moon. Certainly as a nation we are far off from our targets but there are a lot of things to show that if not for democracy we could not have achieved them.[/b]Your Buhari destroyed democracy and played a role in ABACHA regime. He told Nigerians that Abacha did not steal money while in power. One day he will tell us Abacha did not kill Saro Wiwa in 1995. His statements are always geared towards inciting violence. Let him tell the world how elections are rigged not just an open ended accusation.

Word brother,word
Honest words from a patriotic Nigerian

Apart from the fact that I just cannot bear to hear any rubbish the hypocrite has to say,I'd need an iterpreter to interprete Buhari's own english into the English language as the world knows it

The eediot has to tell us how he ran the petroleum ministry in 83 and PTF,infact let him just go and die cos I cannot bear to listen to whatever he wants to vomit


GEJ represents fresh air,WE ALL MUST SUPPORT AND VOTE FOR HIM,despite the antics of Jega and Buhari

Terrorist

Enemy of democracy and free enterprise

Regional/ethnic bigot

Hypocrite

Very correct

VOTE GEJ MASSIVELY ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Sharia bigot

Clueless

Doofus

Will someone tell Buhari to shut his dirty mouth;the postponed elections were a blessing in disguise not for him,but for GEJ,cos now all the clandestine plots by Jega to favour the north and Buhari have been exposed.

If not for the postponement,would we have known that Jega fired the 9 operational heads in INEC and ended up having 8 new inexperienced heads from the north contrary to the former arrangement that represented national spread??Also we would not have discovered Buhari's plot to use child voters as has been exposed in katsina and some other states in the north,so what is the old foo.l ranting about?
More importantly,we would not have known that he rejected the bids by better qualified and more experienced vendors and went ahead to award the contracts to his kinsmen

Jega,no worry,breeze go bloww well well and we go must see fawo nyash

[size=14pt]Buhari is a certified economic dunce.How does taking a loan devalue a country's currency?? :oSMH,I'dve said shame on the adviser that fed Buhari with that garbage,then again,I quickly remember that Buhari was not known to have any technocrats as advisers that he listened to

Sadly,the truth is that the ethnic and sharia bigot,as well as highly anti-democractic tyrant called Buhari only canceled the well-intentioned Lagos metroline project SIMPLY BECAUSE IT WAS NOT LOCATED IN THE NORTH[/size]

medjai:
Raul is eternal. 72 CL goals

Raul was built for the UCL.I love the guy

dayokanu:
Inter need a 4 goal win next fortnight to progress

No way they have a chance,Inter are out already
If it was Bayern they were going to face,prolly dem for get small hope.How you sheck am Dayo

dayokanu:
We left our younger bros to deal with them

Which younger bros,,,abeggi Schalke senior una now joor

I have a feeling,those dreadlocks exerted so much pull on Adebayors scalp that it affected his capacity to think and act correctly,now that he's cut off the jaga jaga hairdo,see how satisfactorily fantastically he's playing