chukxie: Does it really matter who started a project or who completed it? It's sad Nigerians have become so divided along political party lines. Quite sad!
Will you shut da heck up and crawl back into your mat?!!! Were you deaf when Buhari made his infamous 95% to 5% speech? Be warned...
Op you should be checked into a mental health facility. Before you commit suicide ... Let me quote you before you decide to edit.
googi: SARAKI PROVES ODDS OF WINNING AGAINST CORRUPTION 1:99
The Senate President Bukola Saraki has been “vindicated” by Supreme Court, the highest court in the land. It is not the first time. James Ibori also fought all the way to Supreme Court before he was also “vindicated”. People celebrated and danced. Even when Ibori was finally convicted in England, he was welcomed back to Nigeria with special prayers in the Church and traditional chiefs welcomed him. Saraki may get the same reception.
We still remember how Justice Ayo Salami, the former President of the Court of Appeal rejected inducement to be promoted to the Supreme Court by the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aloysiuos Iyorgher Katsina_Alu; as “Greek Gift” to throw a case before him. It is even worse now that judges keep a pile of foreign currencies at home and solicit lawyers for presents to fulfill wedding ceremonies of their children like Justice Ademola!
When you read this statement from a member of the gang of the most corrupt leaders in Nigeria as innocent citizens are languishing in our jails because they have no money to bail themselves out, pay police or judges; we must wonder which country this Saraki rouge is referring to. Is it not sickening when due process, rule of law and democracy are used as excuse?
“I have always believed in the infallibility of our Judiciary, secure in the knowledge that our courts – the last refuge of the oppressed - would never condemn the innocent. This outcome is also a vindication of my belief in the rule of law”
Corruption is winning everyday in Nigeria and people are celebrating against Nigeria.. If there is a place corruption fights back with the cooperation of the masses dancing and celebrating, you can count on Nigeria. The Judiciary is so corrupt, you would think most of them were train or from Chicago before the clean up as some of their governors end up in jail. But the case of Nigeria harboring the poorest people on earth is so sad, there is no poverty comparison with Illinois, United States.
Other Nigerians watched, dismay that if someone as crooked and barefaced as Saraki could get away with impunity, there was no reason to jail poor people stealing in the market or beat them unconscious. Even armed robbers and kidnappers are wondering why they did not go into politics because their own acts involved greater risk of being jailed or lynched by the mob. These are the same people celebrating corrupt politicians.
Bukola Saraki is a qualified medical doctor but the job is too tedious for him and prefer the comfort of banking and politics. The family including the father left many Nigerians hanging dry after Societe Generale Bank liquidated all their savings. The father and the son became the Governor of Kwara only to steal the State blind. He was involved in so many schemes, even the Chief of Police could not move him an inch on bank fraud.
Recently another Chief of Police queried the same Saraki when it was established that he is the godfather of Armed Robbers gang at Offa where so many people were killed as if their godfather is bigger that the God of common people. These type of nefarious activities can never be connected to God fearing people. But when you sponsor thugs, they know that if they get caught, their godfather is waiting to bail them out!
These were the qualifications he presented when he wrestled the position of Senate President against his Party. But then, there were precedents since Tambuwal did the same to become the President of the Senate with the cooperation of Tinubu’s (Yekini Amoda Ogunlere) Party then, ACN. Tinubu got paid back with his coin when Saraki used his chicanery to sidestep him in APC and became the Senate President.
Tinubu and Saraki have more in common than political magomago. Yet, some youths are celebrating one against the other in the wake of Saraki “victory” at the Supreme Court. They are both crooks and vultures that have looted their states blind as governors and continue to enjoy the dividends of corruption. This is the Augean stable swamping the country with the highest number of poor people suffocate daily.
The poverty mentality has overtaken any form of decency in the polity and children born into it have no sense of normalcy without corruption from the lowest level of the society to the highest level of government. As much as a few people that could work against corruption tried, they were overtaken by the wave of corruption swamp. As some move a few steps forward, many more move the goalpost backwards in multiple steps.
One needs to visit Nigeria and see how poor people work from dawn to dusk. Even children struggle on the streets to supplement the income of their parents. The more they work, the less the money they earn could make a difference. Those that are totally exhausted and worn out live under the bridge, pick anything they can eat or sell dangerous elements from environmental dumps in one city or another.
These poor people watch as conspicuous spenders like Saraki that make their money from corruption display what they buy with it. They have fleet of luxury cars that only the rich and the famous can buy in rich countries. Homologous houses are built in capital cities, bought in world most famous cities and designer materials in clothes and shoes ostentatiously displayed to spite the poor and those celebrating them.
Saraki is a “devoted” Muslim. Churches and Mosques used to depend on them for tithes but now realize pastors and imams can become rich too by predicting calamities and performing fake miracles in order to entice the gullible looking for salvation, riches and miracles. Jujumen have also joined the pastors and imams promising heaven and earth by rituals if they sleep with mad people, their mothers, bring the heads of their relatives.
Saraki and other politicians in his gang have sucked money out of development. This is how the society has gone down from bad to worse, as we say. The respect for hard work, humility and perseverance have gone out the window. Families have broken down and everyone is for himself. Schools have become money making ventures where the rich politicians, churches and foreign duplicated names are now the norm while government schools and colleges suffer without books, desk and chairs. Saraki and Co., trained abroad also train their children abroad. They don’t care. The poor worship them.
The youths can only emulate these “successful” enterprises of corruption they are born into. They wonder when God is going to pick their calls so that they can make money like Saraki and other politicians from every nook and corner of the country. Many of the youths have never seen hardworking people from their towns and villages that made it from grass to grace. They are surrounded by corrupt people that are either in politics or servicing politicians.
Youths neither have clean role models nor agree on one; except the one that can grab the biggest loot or rob by 419 (Yahoo Yahoo boys). How then can we blame the youths for being lazy when their mentors looted local, state and the federal treasury dry?
TheCabal: I agree. However, the internet, if anything has shown us that Nigerian's biggest problem is her growing youth population who have a very low IQ and cannot hold an argument without religious or ethnic connotations or stay attentive unless it a half naked woman or man or both.
And, it is not like other countries, where they have a high performing 2%, Nigeria has none, they all have fake results.
Maybe youths in your household have a low IQ. .but never in your life project that to hard-working long-suffering repressed and oppressed Nigerian youths..
Bolowolowo: If not for the herdsman insecurity crisis, baba would arguably be one of the best leaders in Africa. Nonetheless, his infrastructure works have been commendable.
Name a project he initiated and has completed? Don't mention any PDP projects at all! I dare you!!
I doubt if Guardian newspaper wrote this one sided thrash.
Agreed that OBJ initiated the project, the man that gave it form is GEJ. If had continued, that project would have been far commissioned because I learnt it was in its final phase as of 2015. This stupid delay is to make it seem like much thing was on it. And again, I think it was purposely left for election period so it would be used to score cheap political points in the eyes of the gullible.
But my only surprise is the fact that there was no mention of GEJ in the write up just so no credit will go to him. But I'm sure majority of Nigerians know whose project that is.
But it seems clowns are multiplying here on daily basis or do the old ones change nomenclature?
Are you responding to the "your land or your life" political party?
FriendNG: They supposed to complete the project in 2014 but they where buzy looting the money until the incorruptible man come and complete it. Even if it was started Dr Nnamdi Zik in 1960, we will write Buhari name in concrete commissioning block which will there for generations to come. Also Ameachi name as 3 transport Minister who mastermind it. Ntoor.
If you like write Futa Jallon on it .... your area of origin... and inscribe Sani Yusuf the founder of Boko Haram.
PDP projects. Initiated by PDP's Obasanjo, continued by yaradua, and rounded up by PDP's President GEJ. Commissioning tactically delayed by the herdsmen leader to claim cheap glory.
Abuja to Kaduna railway entirely completed by PDP's President GEJ.
Lagos Ibadan expressway 85% completed by PDP's President GEJ
POTUS Donald Trump has been severally criticized about his attitude towards women..... However a comparison with President Buhari is appalling as shown below .... very appalling...more worrisome is the smile on President Buhari's face....
dominique: This is a woman with a rich educational background and a lot of achievements but we're not supposed to care about all that. Out of everything she said, the only thing noteworthy that you can bring out is that she kneels down to greet her husband? Stupid, sexist journalists
The group said Adeyeye had enjoyed robust opportunity to serve in several capacities, including Minister of State for Works, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, and Chairman of the Ekiti State University Governing Council, all with the support of Fayose.
Okeya stressed that it was unbecoming of Adeyeye to continue to disparage the personality of Olusola, who is also his brother from Ekiti south.
He added that Adeyeye was given an ample opportunity to emerge as the PDP standard-bearer in free, fair and credible primaries, but lost due to his unpopularity.
He accused Adeyeye of pursuing selfish interest by joining the APC to work against the agenda of Ekiti south, which he was actively involved in before his defection.
The group urged Adeyeye to quit the stage for younger aspirants to also benefit from the PDP, and stop the campaign of calumny against Olusola.
“It is in public records that the former minister got all his past positions with the support, effective collaboration and approval of Fayose, whom he has also been disparaging and blackmailing.
“Adeyeye has displayed bad loser’s syndrome and uncommon spirit of avarice and self centeredness, by joining the opposition against a party that made him,” the group said.
Politics › Re: Buhari To Launch Abuja Rail Mass Transit Project On Thursday (Tomorrow) by ReformedAPC: 5:31am On Jul 08, 2018
what Tinubu cannot mend a thousand oshiomole cannot join together
