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LRNZH:
This is not just about Buhari. It is about change.

If we have credible elections in 2011, even if PDP wins at the FG level they will not have lanslide victories in the State Govts and legislative houses.

That brings more focused people chosen by the people, who will be more inclined for the nations development causes into governance.

That is change

. . . A lot of the times, a lot of us make the mistake of limiting the problems to just having a free and fair election like it will neccessarily guarantee good and purposeful governance. Even if elections get to be free and fair, it will not automatically be equated to good governance, the system wont make a volte face to become America. That is not to down play the need for free and fair elections, my point is that we should not limit our match to freedom at just free and fair elections because if things fail to look up even after the so-called democratically elected people become the leaders, Nigerians will become so apathic that our polity will be heaving with lethargy and even worse problems.
So far, GEJ has been very proactive in areas where it matters, just because you dont see him on TV talking tough like George Bush does not mean he is not taking stringent actions. I think Atiku needs to be quizzed, it is not coincindence that that he subtly threatened violence days before and violence has been eveloping the country at very strategic dates and venues. Let us not jump into conclusions yet, let's give him the benefits of the doubt.

I know some of us here are trying to be politically correct by not wanting to state the obvious but I still stand by my earlier assertions, islamic ideology and teachings encourage violence. Take a good look at every country that has been unfortunate to have a 50-50 mix or near it, it has been their Modus operandi from the middle east to northern Africa, to northern states of many African countries, violence, violence. I am not going to say things to make an average muslim feel good coz all they do is condemn the act and then fold their arms and wait for the next one to happen. How many of their leaders have made concerted efforts to bring such people to book or even preach against such acts? Instead, they subtly give support to this bunch and then talk nice later.

Written by Mohammad Qaddam
Monday, 27 December 2010 05:57
Fair elections are said to be the
bedrock of good governance that
guarantees peace, stability and
prosperity. However there is much
to wonder why many a times
popularly elected governments
through generally fair elections fail
to make any difference in the lives
of their citizens anyway? This is
what I intend to address with a
view to identifying the missing link
between such popular and fair
elections and commensurate
development in many countries
and entities around the world.
Interestingly this tricky paradoxical
scenario happens exclusively
among the developing countries. It
is also noteworthy that I am not
here to refer to unfair elections,
which are marred by rigging and
violence etc. I instead refer to the
very elections under which
candidates who actually get higher
votes are declared winners.
Fair elections could of course
guarantee good governance but
not under any circumstances. What
actually determines whether fair
elections can lead to good
governance is the extent to which
the electorate enjoy decent
standard of living in the first place.
For instance, a hunger-stricken,
destitute and fear-gripped pauper,
whose preoccupation is how to
keep body and soul together, can
hardly have any guiding principle,
independent opinion and/or
reasonable self-esteem, to enable
him to even identify the best
candidates let alone elect them.
It needs no deep investigation to
realize that the vast majority of
electorate in Nigeria for instance
are not in the position to make
right choices. Their votes are in
most cases effectively for the
highest bidder (i.e. politicians), who
exploit their plights with meager
and tantalizing inducements. Many
of such electorate also fall victims
of mislead under the pretext of
ethnicism, sectionalism or religious
disguise.
Politicians who maneuver
themselves into political offices as
such can not deliver of course. And
the so-called dividends of
democracy would continue to elude
the electorate, which explains how
after every election exercise
including the fair ones the plights of
the electorate deteriorate further.
The bottom line here is that, human
needs and rights are not of equal
importance. They are
fundamentally classified into two:
(1) “Needs to survive” and (2)
“Needs to thrive”. Needs to survive
are those most basic needs without
which one can hardly survive or
can not survive at all. Things like
food, shelter, health, security,
hygiene and basic knowledge fall in
this category. “Needs to thrive” on
the other hand are those needs
that have to be provided in order
for individuals and communities to
lead and enjoy most befitting living
standards. Things like freedom of
information, freedom of
expression, freedom of association
and of course freedom of political
participation etc, fall in this
category.
Though very crucial “Needs to
thrive” are entirely subject to
“Needs to survive”. People are
naturally preoccupied with the
challenges that directly affect them
in the first place. And their mindsets
and attitudes are conditioned to
respond accordingly. The challenges
of modern days have linked
people’s potentials to think
constructively to the grades they
are able to record on their
scorecards in “Needs to survive”
list. The general rule today is, the
better one ’s living condition is, the
higher his chances to think
positively and achieve his
potentials. And the slight exception
to this general rule does not affect
its relevance.
Popular political elections –no
matter how fair- in circumstances
whereby the vast majority of the
electorate are paupers can not
guarantee good governance,
because only those who have
resources to offer and tricks to play
can be elected, which explains the
mediocrity, incompetency and lack
of accountability that characterize
the governments they form. And
the poor masses would always pay
the price dearly.
Having practiced military
dictatorship in Nigeria in the past,
and various democratic systems
including the current one without
commensurate difference, one
may wonder what is the
alternative? And the question is
more confusing for average Muslim
electorate, who had been made to
expect a lot as a result of the
introduction of "Islamic Shari ’a" in
their various states.
Basically there is no alternative to
real participatory system of
government in the modern age.
However for it to yield positive
results, the electorate should-at
least- not be under severe
economic pressure, which unleashes
despair and frustration. Even the
so-called civilized countries, which
boast of functional democracies,
had to provide sound grounds for
their democracies to flourish. In
some points and times many of
them had to sacrifice a lot of
democratic values in order to
impose certain realities on the
ground before introducing full
democratic systems. In fact some
of them had even gone to the
extent of bloody revolutions.
Though I am not advocating for
bloody revolution in Nigeria, neither
do I call for any violence for that
matter, I nevertheless believe that
there would never be any
appreciable progress so long the
status-quo remains unchanged.
Nigerians therefore have to learn
from the experiences of other
countries, which had gone through
similar or even worse crises before
they succeeded in getting it right,
when they decided to do the right
things. Things are rapidly getting
out of control in Nigeria, warning of
a spontaneous anarchy if care is
not taken. See "Looming Class
Struggle in Nigeria".
To sow the seeds of real change in
Nigeria, there shall be an elite
movement of unconventional like-
minded progressives of different
professional, intellectual, business,
technocratic and political
persuasions. They shall have
detailed guidelines, blueprint and
roadmap to guide their activities.
Their desired destinations shall be
the most strategic positions in the
land including the presidency
without any apology. Their
mechanisms shall be flexible but
consistent. And they shall also -
though loosely- adopt the notion
that says “the end justifies the
means” with appropriate
reservation of course.
Once they get to the top, they shall
provide a style of leadership that
assumes that the vast majority of
the citizenry do not necessarily
realize their actual interests and
strategic needs in the first place. (I
do not mean any insult at all.) They
shall systematically impose
systemic and social realities that
focus primarily on the provision of
decent living standards in the light
of “Needs to survive” list, even if it
entails sacrificing some
“ decorative” rights and privileges
as contained in “Needs to thrive”
list.
As the people begin to enjoy such
standard of living, their mindsets
simultaneously begin to improve
until they get to the right level,
where they will be more
enlightened and get better self-
esteem and consequently be ripe
enough to handle the intricacies of
other rights and privileges e.g. full
democratic principles. For example,
the citizens of the oil-rich Arab
countries in the Gulf are ripe
enough for full democracy.
Though sustaining the momentum
of such phenomenon could be as
challenging as creating it, it is
nonetheless sustainable through
creative hard work, until it is right
time for normal democracy.

JaaizTech:
Why are you more interested in abusing the Prophet, or tarnishing his image. The Prophet died thousands of years ago but all you could do is to insult his personality for what happened thousands of years after him.
It is obvious that your aim is to take a swipe at Islam and not even the perpetrators of this evil. Muslims have condemned this action and have dissociated themselves from this action, Many Muslims have suffered and lost their lives either because of the direct impact of the bomb or the reprisal attack by angry christian non-hausa youths that killed more than twice as many people.

No sane Muslim is happy about this, we are all worried and sad about the development. And Islam definitely doesn't preach violence against christians.

the problem I have with muslims(both good and bad) is the way they like to be in denial of the fact that Islam is inherently violent, it can turn average devout muslim(both literate and illiterate) into a violent person filled with hate and intolerance. The ideology of the Quoran is deeply rooted in violent take overz and sense of ownership and duty to take up arms or be violent against non-muslims whom they call infidels. What we see today in Islam are misconceptions and miscarriages of those very vague teachings that always verges on intolerance and violent extremism. Until Islamic scholarz and leaderz learn to speak out and not just condemn it and wait to hear the next terror they inflict on people then every non-muslim will continue to see islam as a Violent religion that fills its followerz with bile and gall and give them justification to be terrorists of all sorts. Muslim leaders are the most culpable of the miscarriages of violent islamic ideology, they never teach their congregation how to be tolerant and peaceful, instead, they are fond of mixing their sermons with doses of politics and use what happens in the middle East as a yardstick for how every muslim must see non-muslims. Yet they are the ones that rush to condemn their acts while in another breath they encourage them, I mean is the volte-face a smokescreen of political correctnessg? Islam needs a departure from its current ideology if it must be seen as a peaceful religion. For now, it is the most violent, hateful, rebellious religion on Earth, that is a Fact!

annawhite:
MSHEEEEW FEMALE VERSION OF MR CORK
IM VERY SURE THIS IS MR CORK

. . .mehn am surpripsed U re not discerning. . .how can U mistake that well written write-up to Mr Cork's incoherent gibberish and misspellings. That guy can hardly make any sentence without grammatical flaws let alone tell a story vividly like Miss Cork did. She is not Mr Cork, I can even bet on it if U insist

I dont care what any muslim thinks, there is sth inherently violent about islam.
People are brainwashed enmass and given justifications to commit acts of terror on so-called infidels. How can anyone downplay the religious undertones of the Xmas bombings and pass it away as mere political sabotage. That is arrant nonsense, extremist muslims and fanatics have continued to abuse the privilege of that excuse, it is no coincidence that a majority of the perpetrators of this heinous acts are islamist fundamentalists that ve their ideology deeply rooted in the Quorans and other islamic extreme teachings. It is high time the islamic community took responsibilities for the social misnomer and miscarriages of their religeously alienating teachings. They should stop venting out and dragging their feet when the obvious is pointed out to them, instead of explaining away the scourge, they should own up and start making changes to their teachings of islam that always verges on extremism and intolerance. No one tribe, ethnic group or religion has a monopoly on carrying out acts of terror on innocent people, if there cant be equal disarmament then there should be equal amarment and terror. Enough is a enough!

Yeah Merry Xmas the only time when Spirituality and Mundane activities can fraternize and ve fun together With the Pope's Blessing. . .by the way, I am bored outta my mind here in dis Church. . .geez I woulda been better off at the movies watching Passion of the Christ than xperiencing this bore in the name of a Mass

Hahahahaha. . . Virgins giving Awards to Virgins, duh! Thatz so gay and dumb. So let Me understand these people, what exactly is their definition of a Virgin? If it has to do with not having had Sex then that takez me to my 2nd question, what exactly can be termed Sex? The simple definition of Sexual intercourse is the insertion of the male penis into the female vagina. Now what if it is possible to actually have Sex and still be a Virgin? That line of arguement is debatable but it is medically possible. Unlike males, people easily can tell if a female is virgin or not by the mere presence of the hymen( a very delicate membrane that partially closes the opening of the vagina).
Do you know that large number of young orthodox women Macedonia and even Muslim women engage in hymen repair surgery which takes less than an hour to fix. I guess they too are virgins, right? So what about girls who got their hymen broken from engaging in non-sex activities that got their hymen broken? Are they virgins too or not? Virginity is an old age ruse, who or what decides virginity? This society that is so technologically advance that it can manufacture a virgin from thing air or a seriously flawed orthodox society that has driven young women to do anything to be falsely called virgins?. . .hahahahaha. . .i laf in my native dialect. . Virgins my backside!

@lastpage
You got me cracking when U gritted your teeth at me, my bad!. . Lol. .
Actually, I did not notice your 5star status until I read that very honest post about the Biafran ish, I got curious, went through a couple of your posts and discovered you had always been uncommonly honest to a fault, I discovered I had even quoted your post in another thread "Also about Dora and her Rebranding exercise". Seriously, you deserve to be taken seriously, I like it when people are open minded & flexible in their arguements, if one is wrong, it is not demeaning to admit and move on. No need lording your point of view on everyone as if you cant be wrong.
On the very sensitive issue of the Biafran war, I ve always participated at a distance cos sometimes, one might end up getting entagled and start reacting the wrong way. I remember in a particular thread about the 1966 pogrom and this guy Katsumoto whom I had always had respect for until that thread. Because he had read extensively on the
topic & felt he was an authority on the topic. Any opposing view, especially those of onlytruth who equally was highly persuasive, he claimed were wrong accounts of the events probably told to us by our parents, relatives, Uncles and community.
I was like dude, so am supposed to believe you who;
1. Probably had not been born then.
2. Read other people's account(who may ve also relied on other people, their own perception of what may ve happened and who may ve had their own biases for or against the sides involved) over my own parents, relatives, uncles and communities, who actually felt the war, witnessed and were the recipients of the ugly realities of the war?
I mean people get so confident with what they read about to the extent of arguing with the characters involved over their own stories or events. It is foolhardy to me, for anyone side to claim superior understanding of what transpired, that War brought so much distrust amongst tribes, and no one side was totally right or wrong, let's just let it go and move on.
On the issue of Dora, you were right mehn, Dora is no Saint & nobody is fooling themselves with that but in comparison to her coleagues, you might be forced to knight the Lady and call her a saint. That is exactly what many people fail to realize. The Nigerian polity and democracy is still at its nascent state, it is folly for anyone to keep measuring our polity here against some quixotic standards that you and I know is not realizable, it is like going to brothel and asking for a "virgin prostitute".

alj harem:
jason put that comment back so they can see, pls

. . Seriously, I am convinced you are suffering from a split personality disorder, it appears you ve many voices confusing you in your head. I thought I had seen it all with Becomrich until you came along and cleared my doubt. You comment with so much delusions and confusion, whoever gave you a connection to the internet does not wish you well. Go and sort yourself out and stop spewing your illusions here, you confused psycho that nobody takes seriously. You just registered in October but your posts have surpassed that of people who ve even been around way longer, dont you have a job or sth.

Wow, Am impressed that even Bbkbaby put his hate aside and for the first time, he commented honestly. Keep it up I must say.
I wish him a quick recovery soon

husu:
I heard somebody say the English is wrong, please think twice: This is the decoded version!!!!!!!!!!!



this guy againnnnnnnnnnnnn

Hon.Patrick Obahiagbon on Pa Enahoro
Certainly the fall of another titan (a person of exceptional importance and reputation).
Chief Anthony Enahoro's modus vivendi (temporary accommodation of disagreement between parties), whilst he peregrinated (traveling or wandering around) through this will-o-the-wisp( delusive or misleading hope) of a three dimensional world, resonated with a divine halo (indication of a radiant light) of an iconic personage who was propelled by the PIRKEAVOTHIAN apothegm (short pity instructive saying) which urges man to realize "that the day is short and the work is great, " No wonder that from a very young age, he engaged in self abnegation (self denial) and mortification ( feeling of shame or humiliation) of the flesh in a Spartan (self discipline), clinical and cerebral bid to salvage the Nigerian project even at the expense of his health infrastructure. He ceaselessly fulminated ( issued a thunderous verbal attack) against vagabonds (moving from place to place without home) in power whose primus mobile (prime mover) had philistinic ( ignorance and aparthy towards culture and intelligence) anchorage on a depreciably mindless crave for vacuous hedonism (the pursuit of pleasure) and ingratiating (pleasing) political megalomania (delusional fantasies of wealth, power or omnipotence). He must have been viscerally pained (felt in as if in the internl organs of the body) to note while he was at the departure lounge (move or act in a lazy relaxed way), that the ship of the Nigerian State was still nosediving and sliding into an eschewable (shunning) oxbow lake and cataract (large or high water fall) and he must finally have wondered if the zoning debate currently going on is not another egregious (conspicuously bad or offensive) insult by our elitist political class on the pauperized (impoverish),sissified (having qualities of women) and ossified (to become bony) sensibilities and sensitivities of our lumpen proletariat (mentally sluggish lowest class). The only way we can honour this great man who gave his all for Nigeria is for all progressive forces to extricate (to release from entanglement) themselves from the arms of morpheus (the god of sleep and dreams), with a view to continously dymistify (make less mysterious),explode and pulverize (grind to powder) the machivellian ( characterized by expediency),Mephistophelian (cunning, ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil) primitively accumulative and rabidly (extremely violent) sybaritic (devoted to pleasure and luxury) propensities of our political class be it at the level of executive suzerainty (people tributary to a more powerful entity) or parliamentary olympian aloofness (distance yourself from something).
Adieu Pa Anthony Enahoro!!

Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon.

Even with your interpretation, can you honestly claim that the piece is sensible. No well educated person structures his sentences, clauses and phrases so haphazardly and with reckless use of vocabularies. If he writes like this in any exam, he can be sure he is not going to pass.

snowdrops:
It aint no fault of mine you use a cheap phone to browse the internet.

On the other hand, had you been smart enough you would have gone to a cyber cafe as all your ilk do.

OK, i get it , you just wanted the house to know that you ve finally got rid of the old nokia phone

. . .hmmm whatever sha! Na U get your mouth, Am way above this nonsense, me and U no dey compete for who dey enta cyber pass, I ve said my piece, you should do thesame and move on. I ve seen many of your posts and honestly you usually sounded like an informed adult until now, you can do better than indulging in unprovoked attacks on people who respect you and expect that you do thesame. Even if you are bored here, there are other engaging things you can actually do with your time you know?

BTW do you remember Dora (or is it Dorathy or Theodora like Naija v Nigeria) role in the Ekiti saga?
[quote][/quote]. . . Abeg what did she do wrong in the Ekiti Saga? Was it her that abducted the Chicken livered Resident Electoral commissioner, Mrs Ayoka Adebayo? Or was it she that almost plunged Ekiti state into Chaos by conniving with opposition politicians to disappear? What exactly was Dora's role. Guy abeg talk with evidence and not your idosyncrasies towards this woman. It is ok not to like but dont let it impair your ability to judge or criticize with sincerity

snowdrops:
i seem to understand his "rubbish" more than yours.

Next time learn to paragraph

. . .you are an !diot. How is it my fault that you are slow? Try typing on your phone pad and still manage to make sense like I did, Fool!

Unfortunately, but obviously very true from the goings-on here, a majority of Dora Bashers are non-igbos, I might sound a bit tribalistic with this submission but a careful and unbiased observation will show anyone here the smokescreen behind all the heated attacks on the woman, it pure, unadulterated and subtle tribalism. How many times do you see these same people scrutinize Segun Adeniyi like they always do with Dora, I mean it can be argued in thesame breath that he played an ignoble role in the Yardy dead-or-alive Saga. But when it comes to Dora Akunyili, you see these haters lose all form of good judgemental abilities and begin to awash their own taste with bile and throw temper tantrums like kids whose candies were snatched by Dora.
I ve said it over and over again, Dora Akunyili has the temperament that is needed to be a leader, brave, fearless and passionate about her convictions. She may not have been great as an Information Minister but she was not a flop either, if not she would ve been relieved of her duties. Facts! Facts! Facts! Those are what are demanded of her bashers. She did her job to the best of her knowledge and never did anything contrary to the demands of her job. Somebody's perception of what her actions or in-actions could ve been is not a fact, neither are the delusional rants of a junkie any fact. You can't accuse her of dereliction of duty, all these stories of her being this & that have no factual basis, just some perceptions of some writers who do not like her and have never been anywhere close to serving in government, ask Segun Adeniyi, he knows this, lol. He used to criticize everything government until Yardy made him his spokes man and he was in the hot seat and felt the sting and bitterness of his own medicine. Since after Yardy, the young man has moved on to another thing different from writing against the goverment on the pages of thisday newspaper.
Moral of this whole thing is that it is easy to stay outside and talk shit about the inside but opinion changes when you are inside and the others are now talking shit about the inside. People should learn to be moderate with their criticisms and criticize in line with what is obtainable and possible in the political clime they are talking about. You can't be an idealist and want to be in politics, I mean anywhere. Dimeji Bankole understands my point very well, I believe. Until you have gone there and come out, you will never argue like a realist, am sure if Segun Adeniyi had not sat on the hot seat, he would ve been of the first to tell us how Dora Akunyili should have performed her job excelently well or how much of a flop she is. . .lol. . People and their insatiably complex demands, nobody will do anything listening to everybody, that is a fact jare!

@LastPAGE
I must confess that for the first time I ve come to respect you for this very true and honest piece. Unfortunately, but obviously very true from the goings-on here, a majority of Dora Bashers are non-igbos, I might sound a bit tribalistic with this submission but you observe for yourself and see. How many times do you see these same people scrutinize Segun Adeniyi like they always do with Dora, I mean it can be argued in thesame breath that he played an ignoble role in the Yardy dead-or-alive Saga. But when it comes to Dora Akunyili, you see these haters lose all form of good judgemental abilities and begin to awash their own taste with bile and throw temper tantrums like kids whose candies were snatched by Dora.
I ve said it over and over again, Dora Akunyili has the temperament that is needed to be a leader, brave, fearless and passionate about her convictions. She may not have been great as an Information Minister but she was not a flop either, if not she would ve been relieved of her duties. Facts! Facts! Facts! Those are what are demanded of her bashers. She did her job to the best of her knowledge and never did anything contrary to the demands of her job. Somebody's perception of what her actions or in-actions could ve been is not a fact, neither are the delusional rants of a junkie any fact. You can't accuse her of dereliction of duty, all these stories of her being this & that have no factual basis, just some perceptions of some writers who do not like her and have never been anywhere close to serving in government, ask Segun Adeniyi, he knows this, lol. He used to criticize everything government until Yardy made him his spokes man and he was in the hot seat and felt the sting and bitterness of his own medicine. Since after Yardy, the young man has moved on to another thing different from writing against the goverment on the pages of thisday newspaper.
Moral of this whole thing is that it is easy to stay outside and talk shit about the inside but opinion changes when you are inside and the others are now talking shit about the inside. People should learn to be moderate with their criticisms and criticize in line with what is obtainable and possible in the political clime they are talking about. You can't be an idealist and want to be in politics, I mean anywhere. Dimeji Bankole understands my point very well, I believe. Until you have gone there and come out, you will never argue like a realist, am sure if Segun Adeniyi had not sat on the hot seat, he would ve been of the first to tell us how Dora Akunyili should have performed her job excelently well or how much of a flop she is. . .lol. . People and their insatiably complex demands, nobody will do anything listening to everybody, that is a fact jare!

This man is a big Jester, verges on needless frivolities all the time irrespective of the occassion. He is a show-off that can't help himself, he loses himself in a verbiage every time he opens his mouth to speak. This was exactly the kind of mumbo-jumbo he wrote to eulogise Gani Fahemi. What is the use of his comical write ups at the scene of a funeral where everyone is supposed to be sober and mournful? The man is junk drunk with himself and the delusional ovation that he gets in the figment of his imagination. Most of the rubbish he says do not even exist in any english language dictionary and style of writing and grammatical construct is seriously flawed. I could point more than five words he used and mis-used in his lavish delusional attempt to impress. He just does all this to divert people from what he is really about. Am sure he does not get comical when he is campaigning. And nobody should put this numbskull in thesame league with Okotie, Okotie is way above his league when it comes to writing and speaking complex english. Okotie uses adjectives in a sufficient manner that matches the description of his complex grammatical construct, Mr Patrick on the hand uses needless adjectives with reckless abandon to his grammatical construct, he is always entagled in his own verbiage and incoherent gibberish. I doubt if even him understands what he writes, this man's write-ups and spoken english are perfect examples of how not write or speak english. Like somebody had joked ealier on, he should be kept at a million miles from any funeral.

Akainzo:
I do wonder how you were able to decipher the ethnic orientation of people on a public forum from their handles. Or do you just assume that since they are against her, they definitely wouldn't be Ibo as Ibos should naturally support her?

I think you are in fact the one that is ethnically biased rather than those you are trying to castigate.

. . .if you ve been on NL's politics and Tribalism sections long enough, you would understand why I made that remarks. Anyway, that's is not all there is to the quoted comment, may be that part struck you the most.

Mr Tex,
What exactly was her role in Ekiti?
I still remember the whole drama that played out in Ekiti state my friend. The Resident Electoral commissioner, Mrs Adebayo Ayoka suddenly disappeared when it was time to announce the results of the re-run election in Ekiti state which was majorly btw Segun Oni(PdP) and Dr Kayode Fayemi(AC). She claimed she was being forced to announce fake results and then chickened out. What kind of leader does that? Her disappearance was all political and not because her conscience wont let her do what was wrong, she almost plunge the state in chaos. Let's not forget that both AC and PDP were fighting dirty in that election. Dora Akunyili made an announcement in her capacity as the Information Minister and urged her not to truncate the democracy the govt was trying so hard to build with her sudden disappearance rather she should come out and tell her own side of the story. So tell Me, Me Tex what did she say again that made her lose credibility? It was very obvious that Mrs Ayoka allowed herself to be pushed around not just by the Powers that be in the PDP but also in AC. For instance, Mrs Ayoka went into hiding on saturday after the re-run, Fayose on Monday, April 27, 2009, said on Adaba FM radio that he was in constant touch with Mrs. Adebayo. Fayose even volunteered to release her telephone number to the public. It was also published in The Nation newspaper of Monday, April 27, 2009 that Mrs. Adebayo spoke with one Mr. Omolayo who claimed to be the Ekiti State chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA). The said Omolayo is an ally of Fayose.
The funny thing about the whole drama was that the news of the resignation was broken only by the media owned by Bola Tinubu, which are Adaba 88.9 FM based in Akure, Ondo State, TV Continental and Radio Continental 102.5 FM based in Lagos.
I will leave U to do the maths and decipher for yourself who was playing who. According to securhty reports then, It was gathered that Mrs Adebayo's son and another native of Ekiti State were the lead actors in her sudden disappearance. They were also very close to the AC (Action Congress) candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
In all of these, where did Dora Akunyili go wrong? The woman was the information minister thus she was privy to classified information that gave her the impetus to go ahead and called Mrs Adebayo to order before she would cause an avoidable blood bath in Ekiti with her dilly-dallying politics. Why do you think the late President ordered for her arrest if she refused to show up? And all of a sudden she showed up and denied the resignation letter. One thing was very clear in all that transpired, Mrs Ayoka Adebayo was not a courageous woman, neither was she not complicit in all that happened. Blame her and the politicians that messed it up, Dora was just doing her Job just like Oluremi was Obj's mouthpiece aid in his first tenure.

It is funny that most of the people criticizing her are non-igbos. . Lol. .some people just ooz with hate that it impairs their ability to think without prejudice.
Good thing there is that it is not up to any of you to stop her, it is useless and a waste of time arguing with hypocrites that will never budge even when they are obviously contradictory. Facts are very sacred, opinions they say are free. Anyone can conjecture any nonsense in their feverish mind and then try to pass it as facts, you might confuse and manage to wow some undiscerning minds but the discerning ones wont be flustered, they will judge both the merit and demerit of any point and reveal intents based on fact. The People against Dora Akunyili have always relied on perceptions they cook up in their minds, they are quick to give their own analysis of what they think she is up to, every move the woman makes has been a hot subject of very partisan scrutiny even when there is no proof of any wrong doing based on fact. Some People have surreptitiously developed a different tenets for the woman to live by. What exactly is the woman's sin? Enough of the mind readings and stupid telepathic analysis of the woman's actions and intents, if anyone has any concrete evidence of the woman's wrong doing let them come out, the peopl of Anambra will not judge her by your unrealistic standards and expectations. To hell with all these immature rants, character assassinations and shifting of goal post to gather and score your own points, if you all do not have any tangible evidence(besides the nonsense the little angel and the demon dancing makosa on both sides of your shoulders tell you) then hold your myopic views to yourself and stop trying to ram it down the throats of the majority of Anambarians and people who vehemently do not agree with you. Stalking every post that has Dora Akunyili's name written on it wont change a thing, you lot will just give yourselves high blood pressure with the way you let this woman contol the blood flow to your hearts and heads.

It is funny that most of the people criticizing her are non-igbos. . Lol. .some people just ooz with hate that it impairs their ability to think without prejudice.
Good thing there is that it is not up to any of you to stop her, it is useless and a waste of time arguing with hypocrites that will never budge even when they are obviously contradictory. Facts are very sacred, opinions they say are free. Anyone can conjecture any nonsense in their feverish mind and then try to pass it as facts, you might confuse and manage to wow some undiscerning minds but the discerning ones wont be flustered, they will judge both the merit and demerit of any point and reveal intents based on fact. The People against Dora Akunyili have always relied on perceptions they cook up in their minds, they are quick to give their own analysis of what they think she is up to, every move the woman makes has been a hot subject of very partisan scrutiny even when there is no proof of any wrong doing based on fact. Some People have surreptitiously developed a different tenets for the woman to live by. What exactly is the woman's sin? Enough of the mind readings and stupid telepathic analysis of the woman's actions and intents, if anyone has any concrete evidence of the woman's wrong doing let them come out, the peopl of Anambra will not judge her by your unrealistic standards and expectations. To hell with all these immature rants, character assassinations and shifting of goal post to gather and score your own points, if you all do not have any tangible evidence(besides the nonsense the little angel and the demon dancing makosa on both sides of your shoulders tell you) then hold your myopic views to yourself and stop trying to ram it down the throats of the majority of Anambarians and people who vehemently do not agree with you. Stalking every post that has Dora Akunyili's name written on it wont change a thing, you lot will just give yourselves high blood pressure with the way you let this woman contol the blood flow to your hearts and heads.

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=562655.msg7342350#msg7342350 date=1292435311]Since she's married to an Ibo man I would believe her husband was aware of the happenings in Abia state. I believe taking her to Aba was a calculated move on his part; U know Ibos do this sort of thing. Clearly, he was hoping for something to "happen". Whats a better story than "She fell over the railing at sea while we were on a cruise" or "She walked out of the car when we were arguing and hasnt been seen ever since??!!!" lol. No story's better than "Political thugs saw my wife and . . . . " . U dont get what I'm saying? No? Okay, lemme ask you, do u have Life Insurance? Is he the beneficiary?[/quote]. . Go and eat from a dumpsite, you common street urchin!
I don't blame you anyway, I blame the likes of Mukina who make excuses for an idiot like you to vent your misplaced frustrations of your never ending family problem on NL. It is nobody's fault your dad walked out on you and your mother, go and deal with your personal issues abeg!

Faun:
It's funny the amount of anger, rage and mental retardation this simple news has triggered.
Wetin you dey drag? Fact is, she has left the crumbling PDP; another fact is that she's moved over to the winning team in her home state; another bitter truth is the fact that she's been more politically relevant and prominent than her direct opponent at APGA, meaning she does have an excellent chance of winning; the most bitter of facts is, during her days of prominence at PDP, she served as an Information Minister, meaning you can't even accuse her of looting a freaking dime; so basically, your rants are meaningless and inconsequential to her!

Sad but true. Hahahaha!

. . I bet if these perpetual whiners have any concrete evidence of her financial impropriety they would ve been posting very long epistles here. . Lol
Some people just hate the woman's guts, there is nothing this woman will do that the likes of Kobo nini wu aha ya sef will not find faults and whine. I ve never seen a bad-belle like her.
Dora is a very savvy politician, it is a fact, she has managed to wheather through times that ordinarily would ve seen the end of her career. Recently, one of my Uncles that has lived for over 30yrs in the states came back and wanted to run to represent Ngor-opkala /Abombaise Federal constituency at the house of rep but got the shocker of his life, the whole thing was so dirty that even before attending one of those meetings to declare his intention to the PdP elders in the constituency, his life history had been published in one of those local newspaper, steeped with spurious claims to damage his person. It came to point, he started geting threat calls, he just had to back out. Some people think it is as easy as writing their political fantasies, abi na to dey write big grammer na im dem dey take do am. . .scheew!

Agreed the resignation letter was patronising, but that still does not make her any less a good person.
The problem I ve with a lot of whiners is the way you lots stay outside and criticize people that are actually making geniune attempts. This is politics for God sake not some hollywood movie about some American idealistic politics where everything portrays an average American politician as perfect and what have you, if you all know so much, go and pick Ur own tickets and compete abeg! Politicians will always be politicians when the time for playing politics comes, irrespective of the country. Politicians will always play according to the prevailing politics in their country. There is nothing wrong with quitting her appointment and joining another party that she is convinced will help her realize her aim. It is up to the people of Anambra Central senatorial zone to reject her or give her their mandate, not some hating junkie some place spewing hokum and complaining all the time. I was in Anambra 3wks back and contrary to haters' wish and hating opinions, the woman is very porpular and has grassroot support.
As for complainers and whiners, keep complaining but the woman is going to the senate even if it is going to give you all stomach Ulcer, you can be sure y'all will get it.

Mukina
I am realy disappointed at the way you like to get involved in arguements even when you re just supposed to be a mediator or moderator, you always want to have a say in support of one party.
In fact, I queried you because you plunge the issue at hand into an arguement by bringing up those names you mentioned. A report was tendered to you, your job is to look into it and take appropriate measures, not questioning the justification as to whether you should act or not act openly. Has anyone stopped you from placing a permanent ban on any of those names you brought up? How does what I believe or support stop you from doing the right thing? Or are you waiting for me to say otherwise before you will know what to do?
You talk like the allegations against bbkbaby are made up and spurious, probably borne out sheer dislike. If you like him so much that it impairs your judgement of what is acceptable then it is unfortunate, may be you should step down from your position as a MOD and argue from an understable perspective of a loving friend. As long as you are a MOD, you re not allowed to make such justifications and argue the case of an accused person brought to you as an Umpire. You re obviously showing a conflict of purpose and interest with all the very petty arguements you keep making for him. Be objective and professional jor!

Mukina
So is that your justification for bringing them up in an isolated case as this. Are you by your own justifications saying Bbkbaby should be allowed to carry on because he is not the only one indulgent in such? How you go about doing your job is not anyone's headach, am sure you understood the enormity of the task before taking it. It is not about what the other ones did now, it is about what bbkbaby did, deal with it and stop arguing and groping in the dark for justifications for bbkbaby. Am sure when those aforementioned names were reported to you, you took actions without resorting to petty arguements and logic.
Abeg learn to be an impartial umpire, you cant be the judge and the judged at thesame time, you know?

Mukina
The fact you even had the nerve to ask such a question shows you do not even know you duties as a MOD. Who are you asking that question? Are You not a Mod? Is it not your job that you Moderate what they say? Am not even goint to go into any arguement of the severity of the junk that Bbkbaby spew irrespective of the section. While those people whose names you mentioned usually make their comments on politics and tribalism sections( which even Seun supports) your darling Bbkbaby spew his hokum across sections and he is not even a Nigerian to begine with yet he feels it is up to him to defend one Nigerian tribe against another. Now you want to play advocate to his overbearing character even as a MOD? I just hope you don't lose objectivity and start justifying nonsense. If anyone is wrong, just call them to order or you ban them if they continue to do so irrespective of how justifiable you think their reasons are, it is not your job to be their advocate. Need I remind you that his latest victim is not even a Nigerian and was not even making any tribalistic comments.
Learn to Steer clear of making comments that make you look partial, you are a mod for your information. Thank You!

Trinigal
Aba is the worst place to be in Nigeria, infact, Ur husband even took a very big risk letting you and the Kids stay there for a whole week with the spate of kidnapping and all manner of political killings going on there.
Your assessment of the place is even nice, if I were to give a description of that city, I will say 'in shambles'. Anyway, do come again next time but make sure you visit other places like Portharcourt, Owerri, Enugu, Calabar, Awka, Lagos and Abuja then you will get a better impression.

Beaf:
Here is a Trinidadian complaining about bkbabe.
Trinigal is not the first and might not be the last to complain about the despicable fungus that is bkbabe.
How can a foreigner like bkbabe be allowed to make racist comments against Nigerians so freely on NL? It just goes to show how much we value ourselves as Nigerians. How shameful can things get?

bkbabe should be banned permanently. If the problem is that users can immediately sign up with similar sounding names, then it is possible to screen all new registrations for similarity to a given list of banned user id's.
_{The simplest way is to employ a system that employs the Levenshtein distance algorithm.}

@trinigal
Thanks a lot.

I support any permanent effort that makes sure bbk/baby does not return to NL, at least, for his own good.
The Kid is the product of the MONSTER created by Seun's insistence to not sanitize both the Politics and tribalistic sections of NL, that kid brings bile to ppl's palate. He is disturbed and lashes out his frustrations here on NL. His ban should be permanent and if he uses any pseudonym, it should as well be blocked permanently, it is time the admin and Seun brought some sanity to the discussions on this site.

People should stop being too idealistic and make their arguement in tune with what is obtainable in the Nigerian Polity 2day.
Dora Akunyili may not have performed like she did at NAFDAC but isn' t it obvious why? Being an Information minister is a totally different ball game 4rm being a director general at Nafdac. As minister you are required to be the mouth piece of the Govt, tell her lies, half truths and what ve U. What Dora has done since is try to suppress her true nature of fighting for the truth just to accommodate the demands of her job. And the results of such struggle has been the conflicting nature of her performance. But we cant take it away from her that she is a good and courageous woman at heart no matter how anyone tries to look it. Some people say she is ambitious, and so what? What is wrong with being ambitious? Who is not ambitious? As long as you submit Urself to the proper process of scrutiny, it is part of any successful person to be ambitious.
I hate it when ppl are always looking for faults and excuses not to accord ppl their respect when they are deserving of it. Anybody that has known that fellow that calls herself Kobojunkie will understand my point, the lady does not do anything else than criticize, whine and complain, nobody is deserving of a chance in her eyes, through her own standards and vetting process every Nigerian is a crook and a suspect. She can manufacture a million reasons from the figment of her imaginations why sth is wrong and everybody is a suspect. Make stupid idealistic arguement and comparisons that are far-fetched. If every Nigerian thinks like that then I shudder at what will be our fate. Abeg people should give Dora a chance not because we think she is the best thing since slice bread but because we all know from our hearts of hearts that the woman is well intentioned, qualify and understand what is required of her. Let's give her the chance and not raise the standards when it comes to her, she will make mistakes and play politics too these are facts but she would also give her sincerity and passion to it and represent her ppl best. Enough of the Kobojunkie junks.