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Do you think Jonathan should have visited Borno, Yobe and Adamawa? I think he should but e no get liver. If GEJ were President of the US I am sure he won't have visited Afghanistan and Iraq.

lalasticlala:
Nigerian security chiefs met with President Goodluck Jonathan to discuss issues on Nigeria. This is an insight to what went down.


1 From left, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Kennet Mimimah, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Usman Jibrin, Chief of Air Staff, Air Masrshal Adeshola Amosu, and the Chief of Defence Intelligent Real Admiral GE Okoi arriving the Presidential Villa For Security Meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House Abuja on Tuesday 6th January 2015


2 From left, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Kennet Mimimah, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Usman Jibrin, Chief of Air Staff, Air Masrshal Adeshola Amosu, and the Chief of Defence Intelligent Real Admiral GE Okoi arriving the Presidential Villa For Security Meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House Abuja on Tuesday 6th January 2015


3 From left, President Goodluck Jonathan Yobe State Governor Alhaji Ibrahim Geidam and Adamawa State Governor Mr. James Bala Ngilari at a Security Meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House Abuja on Tuesday 6th January 2015


4 From Left: Chief of Defence Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh, Chief of Defence Intelligent Real Admiral GE Okoi Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Usman Jibrin,, , Chief of Air Staff, Air Masrshal Adeshola Amosu, and the National Security Adviser Col, Sambo Dasuki, at a Security Meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House Abuja on Tuesday 6th January 2015


http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/01/06/in-pictures-security-chiefs-meet-with-jonathan/

Where is the photo of GEJ meeting with the security chiefs? These are two separate photos, one showing the security chiefs and the other showing Jonathan with other member of government and his ADC.

sufido123:
If the statement of the military is true Buhari has to be charged with perjury and disqualified from contesting the election.

It did not make sense in the first instance anyway. No one gives the originals of his credentials to his employer.

GEJ until Buhari presents his GCE!

THe military board say that don't have the originals but they should release what they have, i.e. the photocopies.

Splashme:
IBB once described Buhari as uninteligent and always failing his courses.

The PDP knew why they described him as illiterate

The same IBB that was one of the officers who overthrew Shagari and made Buhari head of state? That is a contradiction.

otbliz:
He was the head of state once, a contestant thrice.
So na Wetin we 1 use certificate do?
2003 there was no fuss, same in 2007 and 2011.
Now what?

The fuss is that in 2003, 2007 and 2011 Buhari was not expected to win so it didn't matter whether he had certificates or not but this time Buhari is looking like he will win hence the panic and attempt to disqualify him by any means necessary. GEJ and/or his supporters are behind this.

Exactly. Thank you Madjune. If Buhari is all that PDP say he is then we should add the failure to arrest and prosecute him to the endless list of Jonathan's failings and cluelesness

Buhari condemns Nigerian election violence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13126839

Boko Haram ideology devilish — Buhari: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/02/borno-massacre-boko-haram-ideology-devilish-buhari/

Buhari, Jonathan, PDP Condemn Xmas Day Bombing of Churches: http://saharareporters.com/2011/12/25/buhari-jonathan-pdp-condemn-xmas-day-bombing-churches

Buhari condemns terrorists attacks in Kano, Jos: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/news/19020-buhari-condemns-terrorists-attacks-in-kano-jos

Buhari Condemns Attack On UN Building: http://saharareporters.com/2011/08/27/buhari-condemns-attack-un-building

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Notice how the words of the news anchor were cut short before she said '...but Buhari is urging people to stay calm and obey all laws'.

Watch this video to hear what she said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5KQiIqikM

Then listen to this to hear Buhari condemn the violence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13126839

The difference is Ojukwu was an Army Officer, a Colonel, and many of the Biafra Army were Army officers, so the war was always going to be difficult to win. Shekau and his army are a bunch of unemployed youth with no formal training. You can't compare this insurgency to the Biafra war. Watch how Gowon handled the press and regularly communicated to the nation during the war, unlike Jonathan who has not even given an open press conference since the war started and has only addressed the nation once or twice.

Believe this, it is fact from probably the most reliable source, the BBC.

Thousands of people have fled their homes in northern Nigeria after clashes following the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan.

In some towns, residents slept in police stations for safety and the Red Cross says there have been significant numbers of casualties.

President Jonathan appealed for an end to the violence and killing, while imposing a curfew.

In a statement to journalists, the runner-up in the election, General Muhammadu Buhari, condemned the violence.

Audio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13126839

For the first time in Nigeria's 16 years of democracy, there is real chance that the president could be someone other than the candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Many times, I have described Muhammadu Buhari, the man who will face Jonathan in 2015, as a "perennially-losing presidential candidate".

In 2003 he emerged as the sole candidate of the All Peoples Party (APP), after two candidates Rochas Okorocha and Harry Akande were pressured into stepping down, while Yahaya Abubakar failed to show up on the date of the primary. In the elections, Buhari lost to then incumbent, Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP.

In 2007, he was consensus candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) after Bukar Ibrahim and Pere Ajunwa were made to back down on convention day. Buhari then lost to PDP's Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.

In 2011, he contested the elections on the platform of the Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), which he formed, losing again, to Goodluck Jonathan. In all three cases, his emergence was without intra-party opposition.

But I am first to admit that Buhari's story has changed. By contesting and winning the presidential primary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) - the first time his presidential ambition has been challenged - Buhari has recorded the most important victory of his political career. And if the 2015 election is free and fair, he could well better that record.

Why Buhari may win

Buhari remains the single most popular man in northern Nigeria. Despite lacking real party structure, Buhari, with CPC in 2011, defeated Jonathan in Yobe, Zamfara, Sokoto, Niger, Kebbi, Katsina, Kano, Kaduna, Gombe and Jigawa. He single-handedly polled a total of 12,214,853 votes, which amounted to 54.3 percent of Jonathan's tally. Riding on the back of APC's nationwide structure backed by 14 governors and their war chest, a Buhari victory in 2015 is quite possible.


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Buhari is popular outside the north as well. Four days after he created his Twitter account (@ThisIsBuhari), he had already amassed 45,000 followers. This is testament to Buhari's growing national - not just northern - acceptability, because the north remains Nigeria's least literate zone. The north, therefore, has a sparse population of Internet users, which means that Buhari's crowd of Twitter followers probably come from across the country.

In truth, Buhari cannot take full credit for his popularity outside the north. Full marks should go to Goodluck Jonathan, the man who has unravelled as the antithesis of his opponent's unique selling point.

Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati can deliver the floweriest prose about his boss's aversion to corruption while his colleague Doyin Okupe hurls the foulest words at the opposition and other Nigerians daily puncturing the president's professed incorruptibility. But the majority of Nigerians have come to accept that Jonathan, even if re-elected for 10 terms, will never fight corruption. The courage is lacking, the political will is nonexistent, the desperation for re-election is so consuming that he would not hurt the weakest of his corrupt political allies. So Nigerians are prepared to turn to Buhari, unarguably the least stained presidential aspirant in the eyes of the people.

When APC was formed in February 2013, senior PDP figures dismissed it as a failure-bound union of four parties. Who would blame them? Many were sceptical that this merger would not survive even a year. Yet, in another two months, this merger would be two years old. But that is not the story.

The story is that all APC presidential aspirants defeated by Buhari have offered him their support. Few expected it. Atiku Abubakar, the man most expected to bolt out of APC in the event of a loss, congratulated Buhari the moment the ex-general's vote count overtook his, even though the winner had not yet been officially announced at the time. There is a massive movement for Buhari, which Jonathan didn't face in 2011.

Negative perceptions

That Buhari stands a good chance of winning does not mean he is not facing challenges. Nigerians, though forgetful, are largely an unforgiving lot. Their memories only need to be reignited by reminders of an individual's past indiscretions.


Living under Boko Haram in Nigeria
That was what Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka did, first in 2007; and his thoughts have been massively re-circulated since Buhari's emergence as the APC candidate. The unjust execution of Lawal Ojuolape, Bernard Ogedengbe and Bartholomew Owoh, through a retroactive decree, will haunt Buhari ahead of February.

There is nothing Muhammadu Buhai can do - and he himself knows - to extricate himself from his perception as a religious bigot. For the second time running, he has chosen a pastor as his running mate. But even if he chooses a pope, there are Nigerians who won't pick Buhari for fear of enthroning a religiously extreme president.

In 2011, Buhari was accused of inciting the violence that followed his loss to Jonathan. The following year, he said "the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood" should the 2015 election be rigged. Buhari has shed blood before for his presidential ambition, some people believe. And they think he would do it again. Such man, they reason, should never taste power.

And there are those who would never vote for a 72-year-old. How can APC be trumpeting change while fielding a man who was military president more than three decades ago? That's no change; it's recycling.

The candidature of a septuagenarian is a dent on whatever progress we think we have made as a democracy. And although there have been arguments on the immorality of voting for either Buhari or Jonathan, Nigeria badly needs the "recycled freshness" that voting Jonathan out would herald!

Fisayo Soyombo edits Nigerian online newspaper TheCable.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/12/will-muhammadu-buhari-be-niger-2014123191647111939.html

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This is an irrelevant site.

The document showed that the president yearly salary stands at N14, 410, 290. 48 yearly.
N14, 410, 290. 48 x 3 = N43,230,871.44 (N43 Million)

Therefore, the title of the article. It should be N43 Million not N4.3 Billion, unless Jonathan don do magic with mathematics

Omooba77:
ABUJA – FOR presiding over the affairs of Nigeria as its president in the last three years, President Goodluck Jonathan has pocketed N4.323 billion as salary.

In the same vein, he had within the last three years,paid N626.422 million as tax to the country.
The years which the president earned the salary and paid the tax, according to document from the Federal Inland. Revenue Service,FIRS, he released to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were 2011,2012 and 2013.

The document which was placed at the INEC office at Area 10, Abuja, showed that the president, in 2011,2012 and 2013, received the said amount.
The document showed that the president yearly salary stands at N14, 410, 290. 48 yearly.

The president also paid a total of N626, 422, 175 million as tax in the years under review.

The income tax clearance certificate from the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Abuja with Ref. No: ABJ/MDA/PAYE/09690150 and dated July 2 2014, revealed that in Year 2011, 2012 and 2013, he received a total of N4,323, 087,144 salaries.

But the total amount of tax paid for three years is N626, 422, 175
While he paid N1, 242, 670, 21 as tax in 2011, Jonathan paid N2, 510, 775.77 for 2012 and 2013.
The document tagged: “To whom it may concern”, indicated that the president’s source of income was “employment”.

The clearance which was stamped and received in the Legal Services Department of INEC on December 18 2014 reads: “This is to certify that Dr. JONATHAN, Ebele Goodluck (Presidency) has paid income tax assessment for the past three years.

Meanwhile, the Code of Conduct Bureau has cleared Vice President Namadi Sambo to contest the 2015 general elections.

The letter of clearance was issued by the chairman of CCB, Mr. Sam Saba, to Sambo for the 2011 general elections.

It reads: “This is to certify that Arc. Namadi Sambo, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has never breached any of the Code of Conduct for public officers as contained in 5th schedule to (sic) the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, (1999), and has been declaring his assets as and when due.

He is therefore cleared to contest the 2011 Presidential election.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/presidency-jonathan-pockets-n4-323bn-salary-3-years/

The document showed that the president yearly salary stands at N14, 410, 290. 48 yearly.
N14, 410, 290. 48 x 3 = N43,230,871.44 (N43 Million)

Therefore, the title of the article. It should be N43 Million not N4.3 Billion, unless Jonathan don do magic with mathematics

donphilopus:
In case you don't know Buhari's wife, here's a picture. You think Mama Piss can stand her in a beauty pageant or an intellectual contest?!

Meanwhile, nice one at Buhari. At least we are assured that Osinbajo would do his job as our VP unlike Samboribobo whose official duty is performed by Mama Piss!

Notice, for those that say Buhari is an islamic fundamentalist, Mrs Buhari is wearing red lipstick and her pretty face is not covered. In other pictures you can clearly see her neck, upper chest and her necklace. Islamic fundamentalist my foot. Fundamentalist don't allow their wives to dress like this.

This is an old article, many years old. Watch the recent Channels TV interview with Buhari, when asked about the performance of military governments, he clearly acknowledged that Abacha was found to have embezzled money but challenged the interviewer about any evidence that his (Buhari's) government did the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOV_qTzZnw

I have never seen the PDP panic this much before in the last 16 they have been in power. Make una calm down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOV_qTzZnw

Yemi Osinbajo was born in 1957, which makes him 57. Check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemi_osinbajo

and Jonathan served as deputy governor to ex-convict governor Alams and never complained. In fact he pardoned him.

Can Jonathan speak without a script like Osinbajo? Even with script Jonathan can't speak sef.

I told you so, way back in November.

The man is a lawyer and professor. Pastor na just part-time. He said in one of his speeches in the past that there are not enough people in Nigerian prisons given the large population and level of crime. Buhari will delegate the task of reforming Nigeria's justice system to him and, watch, we will then see a lot more people going to jail. Impunity will leave with Jonathan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0aOSF48Eyw

VP Slot: Buhari Taps Osinbajo, Targets Redeemed Church:

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/vp-slot-buhari-taps-Osinbajo-targets-redeemed-church/196957/

It is looking like Osibanjo will get it. If so, Nigeria get ready transformation that will put the rule of law at the forefront of our daily lives and many corrupt/criminal minded people in jail. Listen to Osibanjo speak above and you will understand what I mean

I am sure BH leader, Shekau, will never employ a christian cook, neither will the leader of ISIS. These guys probably believe their food should be halal and prayed over by a moslem and will not accept the food being 'defiled' by an infidel as they call Christians. Food and meguard na different levels o. Food is nourishment for body and soul thats why we don't play with who prepares it.

Stupid PDP religious propaganda party. No Nigerian can Islamize Nigeria. Buhari didn't do it as a military leader, in fact he refused to join the IOC unlike IBB, is it as democratic president he will do so? Just imagine, Tinubu all these years has allowed his wife to freely practice Christianity, you really think he would then allow GMB to islamize his wife for him, as if he couldn't do it himself. Same applies to Fashola.

No Islamic fundamentalist will allow a Christian to cook his food, because food, and the way it is prepared, is sacred and can prayed over. The fact that Buhari's cook is a Christian speaks volumes. How many born again Christian will employ a muslim cook?

O boy! See a whole Federal Government de panic over rumour of GMB/Amachi ticket. Amaechi is a winner, a constant thorn in the FG's side and always comes out victorious. The FG panic tells me APC should pick Amaechi as VP.