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[size=16pt]Oh shut up malam,you're not even sure you're gonna fly ACN Tinubu's flag during the April polls,so go occupy yourself with that aspect and leave GEJ to do his job,he is the PRESIDENT,live with it[/size].

Blimey

And it keeps getting messier from Tinubu's camp,after imposing his wife,daughter,inlaws,outlaws i.e girlfriends/concubines,he now wants to impose himself by sacrificing Ribadu

I naff in ACN

[size=14pt]Confusion in ACN over Ribadu, Buhari •Govs, Tinubu part ways •Pressure mounts on Ribadu to withdraw[/size]

A huge crack has developed in the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), following moves by loyalists of former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, to get the party’s presidential candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to withdraw from the presidential contest.

Sources close to the party said that pressure had been mounted on the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to withdraw from the race and concede the seat to the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, in line with the ongoing alliance talks between the CPC and the ACN.

It was confirmed that the pressure being mounted on Ribadu to quit the presidential race was at the instance of former Governor Tinubu, who is hopeful of picking the vice-presidential slot of the CPC/ACN alliance.Investigations revealed that Ribadu was almost falling for the bait to withdraw from the race, especially after his meeting with General Buhari last week, but some governors of the ACN were said to have insisted on having his name on the ballot.

It was gathered that the governors, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State; Dr Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Mr Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, were said to have insisted that they wanted the party to field Ribadu, irrespective of whatever any sector of the polity would say.

The governors were said to have insisted that the ACN should not fall into the same pit which consumed the Alliance for Democracy (AD) when it failed to field a presidential candidate in 2003.

A source knowledgeable about the development said that one of the governors argued that the ACN should learn from the mistakes made by the AD, when it failed to field candidates for the presidential slot in 1999 and 2003.

“In 1999, the AD went into alliance with the APP and in 2003, its name was not on the ballot at all and that led to the extinction of that party. Today, we are trying to build a new structure out of the ashes of the AD,” the source quoted one of the governors as telling the leaders of ACN.

The position of the governors was also said to tally with that of the national chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, who was also said to have argued in favour of Ribadu.

The decision on Ribadu’s candidature was said to have negatively affected the push for an alliance between the CPC and the ACN. It was gathered that while Tinubu had sanctioned the alliance with the aim of neutralising Ribadu and then clinching the vice-presidential slot, the governors, who influenced Ribadu’s entry into the presidential race, believed that his name could be used to popularise the party among a new set of Nigerian voters, the youth.

It was learnt that Tinubu initially did not oppose the bid to recruit Ribadu into the presidential race as a result of his belief that the former EFCC boss could bolster his (Tinubu’s) credibility and withdraw some negative comments he made about the former governor when he was EFCC chairman.

But it was further learnt that Tinubu knew Ribadu might end up being used if his own vice-presidential bid sailed through.

It will be recalled that when Ribadu held sway as the boss of the EFCC, Senator Tinubu, who left office in 2007, was one of the governors alleged by the EFCC boss to have corruptly enriched themselves. He said then that Tinubu’s case had international dimensions as he made no bones about his readiness to prosecute all corrupt governors.

A source explained that Senator Tinubu, being a very shrewd and calculating politician, did not forget the role of the former EFCC boss in the corruption issue and part of his plan was to gain some level of credibility by associating with the former EFCC boss.

This claim was corroborated by Saharareporters, an online news blog which recently quoted Senator Tinubu as telling some of his close associates that with his association with Ribadu, he had gained a “clean bill of health regarding the allegations of corruption against him as governor of Lagos and his continued dominance of the financial and political scenes.”

A source said that Tinubu’s ambition to be vice-president, is “partly the reason he wants to form an alliance with CPC of General Muhammed Buhari. Even after Mallam Ribadu was picked as the presidential candidate of the ACN, the party leadership, at the insistence of Senator Tinubu, was still holding alliance talks with the CPC.”

Sources said that the alliance talks were ongoing at press time on Thursday but it was learnt that fundamental differences about party platform and choice of running mate had stalled the talks.

While Tinubu’s camp is pressurising Buhari into joining the alliance and fly the ACN flag, Buhari’s loyalists are afraid that if he dumps the CPC, his supporters in the North could have serious problems tracking him.

It was also gathered that Buhari’s men are already pointing to the way former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was shoved aside by Tinubu in the AC as an example of what could befall Buhari if he joined the ACN.

Another source said while Ribadu was aware of Tinubu’s plot, he was uncertain of broad support in the party until the governors decided to back him.

“Mallam Ribadu was aware of the plan to dump him. That is the reason he refused to sign the clause in the form that says the ticket can be withdrawn from him at anytime, which candidates for other positions were made to sign,” said the source, confirming also a meeting between General Buhari and Mallam Ribadu in Kaduna, where the former EFCC boss bluntly refused to step down for the former military head of state.

“Ribadu is aware of the game plan of Senator Tinubu and is ready for a counter move of his own,” he said.

But the spokesman for Ribadu campaign organi-sation, Alhaji Ibrahim Modibbo, in a telephone interview, said his team was going ahead with the campaigns.

He said the campaign team was unaware of moves to stop Ribadu and gave the ticket to the CPC candidate.

Spokesman for the ACN, Alhaji Lai Moha-mmed, did not respond to a series of questions on the state of affairs in the party, especially following the protracted negotiations between the CPC and the ACN.


http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/16804-confusion-in-acn-over-ribadu-buhari-govs-tinubu-part-ways-pressure-mounts-on-ribadu-to-withdraw

Kennyblues:
I am a Nigerian and i didn't remeber saying no to ACN over imposition of candidates

Good for you

yemmight:
I cannot even interprete your grammar

[quote ]Like some of you have suggested, I have tot of the option of leaving my sister's house, but were will I go to?

[/quote][quote ]sob sob sob sob. Some of your comments are making me cry so hard.I feel like killing myself now because I dont see a way out anytime soon. I am in 300 level and will not be leaving the house soon. I can handle that of my eldest sisters husband cos my emotion is not involved but the one I am living with, I dont trust I can but I want to. The guilt is killing me so much that right now I wish I could go back to being 16 when I was innocent and get treated with so much genuine love. sob sob sob sob sob.

Crocrodile tears of yours

[quote ]Leaving my sister's house is out of the question because my big sister wont here of that.I wish really could.I have toasters from school and even my neighborhood, but dont give them ears cos I could pass for a virgin due to the way I conduct myself outside. I have an IT friend that fixes my laptop but it doesnt go beyond that. He has tried making passes at me but I usually always politely decline without hurting his ego. Generally, I dont have a boyfriend because I dont want to pass for (one of them girls) as boys will say, and my sisters and their husbands are way too protective of me. Even if I met one, I cant keep up the relationionship because I wont be there for him. I am ready to die with this secrete cos I can not stand it going public or my family findind out

Hypocrite

[quote ]TThose that felt my situation is a make-believe for the simple fact they felt I've given out so much information either never went to school or are privileged to attend a special school for the blind, Abeg make them free me jore. I no come here because I dey find person wey go believe my story.
[quote]

This exposes your total lack of contrition or genuine feeling of regret over your ignoble action

Anyway,you posted this your story for the first time on the 20th of January,this is the 28th,what has happened since then?are you still sleeping with your sister's husbands,or you have stopped?

dayokanu:
Would it be right if your husband takes your money without you knowing?

I'm still waiting for ze answer to zis qiestion

This taking you're talking about,is it the one that comes with the giving?cos taking not preceded with giving is stealing,don't try to garnish it under any community property bullcrap

Before, I used to do 4 rounds, but now, am virtually impotent, this is because I will have to make trouble before we have one round. I've not had second round for more than 3years now

LOL

@ OP

You really cracked me up,sorry I didn't mean to laugh,but with the above line,I just couldn't help it

Mpcheewww
Y'all should get real abeg

semid4lyfe:
I've got the finest and sweetest sounding surname in the world. . .any lady would be proud to drop hers and adopt mine

And what would that be; 4life or life

*_chuckles*

naijafrend:
@Topic
If you must have a house help and since there is seed of distrust amongst the couple, it is best to decide the gender based on who spends more time with the help. As in, if the husband spends more time at home, it is better to get a male help and vice versa.

Fa fa fa foul
That logic doesn't always work.Have you not seen/heard of married men/women with children who're attracted to their own sexI used to know one very highly placed Schlumberger manager like that in Warri

I love my nairaland sisters,some thread topics really have a way of bringing out the W-O-M-A-N in them

Why is Sarah Sosan;the amiable,humble,helpful deputy to Fashola,not being considered to run with her boss for the second term?it's again because she refused to betray her boss last year(when she was approached to distance herself from BRF) during the ignoble court case era of the so called true face of Lagos,when Tinubu met a brickwall in Sosan,he had to work through that useless house speaker from Epe(now Ikeja GRA-aspiring assembly man),Ikuforiji.She is not alone in the league of Lagos politicians/office holders who have come under the vindictive hammer of the all-ACN-powerful Tinubu,just because they had the good sense to tell Tinubu/his stooges to let Fashola be as BRF was doing a good job

Not done with edging out percieved pro-Fashola politicians,the power-drunk Tinubu has gone beserk as apart from imposing his wife for senate,daughter and son-in-law for house of reps,some of his mistresses and relatives have been pencilled down for sensitive appointments in the expected next cabinet of Fashola

There's a new name for what Tinubu is doing;SELECTOCRACY

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/politics/16391-ripples-from-selectocracy-in-oyo-acn

Kobojunkie:
Please I understand Fashola is apparently ACN's claim to fame but so is Amaechi, Chime etc. for the PDP party.

Well said,plus the fact that this same Fashola would not have done half of what he did in the area of infrastructural development,if Tinubu had had his way.What tax receipts are Tinubu's firms printing for LASG that he pockets N2 billion monthly in addition to so many other clandestine payments/extortions he gets from LASG,little wonder Fashola is complaining.

I'm happy we dont have to wait too long to see the full manifestation of Tinubu's despotic and undemocratic traits

Ozin:
And are you saying somebody like Senator Mamowora can not win election? Fashola who was almost dropped can not win election? So only Tinubu wife,family and cronies with other ACN leaders cronies and family can win election? I beg say something else and stop this self delusion

Any keen follower of the NASS in the past few years will know that Senator Mamora is the finest senator Lagos has produced in the past 11 yrs plus,for Tinubu to now replace him with his wife,just because he sided with Fashola during his face off with Tinubu,should really give any lover of democracy the creeps

^^^
The beauty of democracy is that everybody ought to have a say,that's why madam Sarah should not be crucified for her thinly veiled attempt to call out to GEJ's camp to carry her along in the scheme of things,even if she's using the decoy route of a pretentious flimsy court case.
In the same wise,sessy 2 is entitled to his opinion,no matter how offensive,dour,sour or unintelligent you think they are,he still is entitled to them,so ko si oro

houvest:
Rasputin, enough already. They will never agree with you. The SW is always right in whatever they do.

Really

Is this real or one of those up coming 007 movies?

Hurray
KK is now special assistant Niger Delta affairs,like play like play,we're getting there,KK we go wash am na

Madam Sarah is annoyed that unlike Atiku who has been promised forgiveness of his foolishness and a role in GEJ's campaign,she appears to have been completely ignored

Gosssshhhhhhhhh
It's amazingly unbelievable that some fellows dont really see anything wrong in all of the anti-democratic ills Tinubu is perpetrating,,,,and what is their cheeky and regrettable reason:Tinubu is of the ACN and not some other party they hate blindly

^^^
Your uncouth and silly remarks are totally pointless,if you have a point of view per the topic,why not state it,rather than making meaningless noise

@ Gooners

Please ignore Dayo and all the other irrelevant haters,I'm sure their heart's desire yesterday was for Ipswich to make it to the final at our expense,all these yaba yaba doo they've spilled on this thread na just to cover their shame and disappointment.Well I've got news for all you haters,there's more shame and disappointment coming your way this season as The Arsenal is poised to win trophies(not just a trophy) this season

^^^^

Swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch

Where are those scumtwat knuckleheads that are wont to refer to Berbatov as Berba suck,he's silenced you for real

Well GEJ deserves all the accolades

@ Sweetie

Are you a tour operator??

@ ALL

What of the physical development of the students??It's not enough to say fully AC'd classes and dormitories,ICT blah blah blah(as if those are different from the ones in their homes and cars),good as they are,our children run the risk of growing up like feeble agric fowls by attending all these private schools that dont pay attention to physical and health education of the students.Little wonder secondary school students now present with unprecedented rates of obesity,heart and other diseases,plus the fact that the athletic potentials of the students are never dicovered.

In this regard, a school that has good PE curriculum and facilities;especially with a good sports field to boot ranks high in my book

[size=16pt]Tinubu Presents His Wife, Daughter And Son-in Law As Acn Candidates[/size]

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-592327.0.html

This is what imposition gets you