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PREMIUM TIMES obtained the computer printout from Cambridge University as well as a statement of result, signed by the current principal of Katsina College, dated January 21, 2015.

cococandy:
pfft.


Sense is not expensive.
If you had some you would know he made a mistake and correcting him about the university or O'level board was quite unnecessary.

I know what that means. I know of Cambridge board O'level of the colonial era.

i know that's what the guy meant when he said Cambridge university.
You think I've to time to gloss over inconsequentials thereby detracting from the fact that a hokus pokus result is being forced on us.

Anyway back to the matter at hand:
this is not from them. As surely as I am not Nicki minaj.

PREMIUM TIMES obtained the computer printout from Cambridge University as well as a statement of result, signed by the current principal of Katsina College, dated January 21, 2015.

Eziachi:
The supposed educated one.
Its not the Cambridge as in university. Cambridge WASC was the examnination board for secondary school GCE during the colonial era for both O'level and A'level.

You are the ignorant one here. My point is that this could have been generated by any willing accomplice pasted on the school's statement of result letter headed paper. This is neither from WAEC or Cambridge as they want us to believe. It is so obvious that this is a generated document to confuse the undiscerning public eyes. Anyone can generate this document in a space of seconds.


Let me explain the fraud here. It is obvious the delay was intentional and I will tell you why, they played a fast one on the military by waiting it out for them to finally come out and state the forged results Buhari of subjects he had submitted with them without any form of verification until recently. Now, the man obviously could not remember exactly what he had submitted to the military and had to play a hide and seek game for them to make it public so he can use them to come up with this scam. This is obviously not from WAEC let's not forget that. It now behoves on WAEC to use exam number to find the man's real results. If you have any evidence that this was from WAEC or Cambridge please show proof

jacobs123:
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If someone is ignorant...let's educate him. see response below.

check the signed date. The principal rewrote the result on this form. This is why it is called statement of result. You will agree that the principa cannot get the same form with which they write statement of result in 1961.

I would advise you mind how you address me, don't just hurl insults because you want to reply. I don't remember insulting you, be WARNED!

MissMeiya:
See your jobless life. Go and apply for a job with INEC if you don't have anything doing.

I am getting confused here, somebody please explain these parts circled in red: first, I find it hard to believe that in the 60s, there are documents whose date can start with 20...... considering this was a certificate issued in 1960 something, it raises question of authenticity if the claim here is that this copy is an exact photocopy of the original certificate.

The most disturbing one is the SSCE/WASSCE/NECO Examination on the statement of result. I want to understand this clearly, does it mean the NECO exam was in existence in 1961 or so, I don't get how NECO came into a statement of result that is alleged to have been issued in 1961. This is very confusing to me....can any of his supporters please throw light on this.

The fact still remain that the Northern political elites have maintained a very deafening silence and Buhari has so far been getting mostly the support of opposition Southern political elites. I am yet to hear or see any political heavy weight from the North that has publicly showed any form of support to him that is the fact. Buhari so far is getting common man support, religious bigots, jihadist support in the North. The problem with common man support which constitutes a sizeable chunk of his supporters is that it can swing either way with heavy enticements and efforts from the political elites. If he is not getting their support, they might as well spoil things for him in silence. A typical case scenario is the mammoth PDP crowd at the kano Gubernatorial campaign. Who would have believed PDP could still garner such a mammoth crowd in spite of all the APC propaganda.

Clerverly:
It is true oo! Atiku has really "abandoned" Buhari. Just take a look at his recent tweets

hahahahh.... So the only time a high ranking party colleague like Atiku is known to have campaigned for Buhari is on Twitter... Lol..... Twitter account that's being handled by one of his many APC aids and handlers. Atiku be you like a man that has time for Twitter or Facebook abi.... Lol

gatiano:
I've witness the wholeworld analyse my Igbo brothers and sisters, and they found one problem prohibiting them from greatness. That is pride. Igbos are extremely wonderful people, but pride is their greatest and major enemy.

Show me one man that has no pride in him..... You have to be an ed!ot to even claim you are igbo and are vomiting this nonsense.

Nobody says him no go school, the matter here is did he graduate and if he did, show us your certificate. The more they try with all these ludicrous antics the more people will be convinced he has something to hide. Show us your certificate, simple.

RUSSIA'S ECONOMY IS EXPECTED TO SHRINK 4.5%
NEXT YEAR IF OIL STAYS AT $60 PER BARREL

Economists now estimate that Russia's GDP will
shrink at least 4.5 percent in 2015 if oil stayed at $
60 per barrel. The plunging price of oil has also
caused the ruble's value to collapse — which is
leading to panic inside Russia and a rise in
inflation, as imports become drastically more
expensive. Many Russians, worried that their
savings may vanish, are rushing out to buy cars
and washing machines — anything that has more
lasting value than currency.

So far, Russia's central bank has been struggling to
deal with this crisis. On December 15, the country
suddenly hiked interest rates from 10.5 percent to
17 percent in an attempt to stop people from selling off rubles. But those rate hikes are likely to slow the country's economy down even further.

And somebody is here making a very convenient argument about how Russia can hit the US with steep cut in production in connivance with Saudi Arabia.... Lol. The same Saudi that is more interested in efforts that will discourage investment in frake oil and even an economically disadvantaged Russia who is supporting the Asad regime the Saudis so want to uproot. I dey laugh this guy and his own version of world politics.

BraniacX:
When I saw his excuse of a post trying to rationalise the irrational I purposely gave it all the attention it deserved...............none. It is simply laughable selling a proposal which you claim is a certainty with many if's, conjectures and personal opinions on an industry which you know little about and are therefore not qualified to profer opinions about.
Bottom line is, there is a very significant political aspect to the drop in international oil prices which he simply glosses over and the implication being that the U.S and saudi arabia the two biggest deciding nations/factors in current oil pricing regime have their political interests aligned puurrrrrrfectly for now and it suits both of them to have the prices drop for now and unless Nigeria can convince both of them that it is in their interests to have oil prices rise, then whoever is proposing other theories and making conjectures is simply on a fools errand and Nigeria simply doesn't have any measures or tricks up her sleeves that a much bigger oil producing country like Venezuela doesn't have or hasn't attempted recently and to say otherwise and suggest that Buhari is the man to do it is a lot more than misleading, it is also mischievous.
Like I told him earlier, short of abracadabra economics, there is nothing else he can postulate as an answer to explain his grandstanding so as it is, I am still waiting for his answer.

I was shocked reading his post and how he simplified everything like he was talking about ECOWAS and not OPEC. The Saudis are not interested in raising oil price, at least for now. And if they don't take the lead, it will be folly for Nigeria to even dare to contemplate cutting or reducing her supplies during a glut. Already we are looking for where to sell our crude oil even at an annoying competitive price and someone is suggesting a gang up that will exclude the majors in OPEC without realizing how that will further put us in an even worse position.

The Saudi Prince is echoing the Saudi government's wish, the investment in shale oil technologies drastically reduce not necessarily that they don't wish for it to go up.

Saudi Arabia blatantly refused to cut oil production for this reason, instead they have continued to favor the glut in the market and hope that falling prices will disencourage energy companies exploring fraking and horizontal drilling to extract usable crude from shale formation in North Dakota and Texas.

The fact still remains that if it continues to fall, even Saudi Arabia with its huge foreign reserve might not be able to sustain the price war and keep waiting when most energy companies in the US and Canada will stop their alternative crude oil source investment.

jpphilips:
Since you asked nicely unlike some losers who peddle pseudo intellect to come here to educate themselves.

here is your answer:
read this post very carefully and ask questions where you are lost.


Do you know who the current OPEC chairman is?? guess?? HE Abdourhman Ataher Al-
Ahirish, Libyan Vice Prime Minister
for Corporations .
On the OPEC table, Libya presents a paltry 1.5mbbls/day, Nigeria puts a whooping 2.5mbbls/day now that is a capacity that cannot be ignored.

A head of state of a country like Nigeria should make OPEC chairmanship paramount on his foreign policy list, that is the brilliance you cannot get from Jonathan, to him, his politics starts with Bamangar Tukur and ends with Amaechi, that is the petty politics that pre occupies his mind.

He forgets that the fate of Nigeria, politically and economically lies on international politics not petty politics.

Back to OPEC, if Libya could get the OPEC seat, why not Nigeria? is it rocket science? of course, for a dumb Jonathan administration, it is indeed a herculean task but I tell you this day, it is not with a positive political will.

About Saudi, well, they are the highest OPEC producer and an important ally of the west, however, as it stands today, The USA is producing highest in the world above Saudi and Russia what it means is that it will get to a point where USA will not need them anymore except for being the middle east police, a job Israel is doing very well which leaves the USA with options.

THE POLITICS

The USA wants oil price down, a single weapon that will humble Putin, downgrade ISIS, and force Iran to make more Nuclear concessions, you know that ISIS makes as much $2b from oil sales stolen from Iraq and Syria oil fields.

to achieve that, the USA needs OPEC who by antecedent has been uncooperative but an ally like Saudi and being the highest producer in OPEC seems to be playing along this time.

THE SAUDI INTEREST:


With a foreign reserve of over $780b Saudi believes they can weather this present storm for a pretty long time, conversely, looking at Saudi's 2015 budget who pegged their oil benchmark at $80 there is no doubt they will run a budget deficit.

Saudi sees the US shale oil as big threat that will most likely push away their North American clients, to them they will like the price to drop to $50/bbl, which will make shale oil unattractive.

It costs between $50 to $60 to produce shale oil, at a price below $70, Shale oil will become unattractive to the American private sector, they will no longer have the capacity to service their exploratory loans, bad debt will ensue and finally will pull out, (we know that exploratory drilling in the Arctic, deep waters and North sea, is very capital intensive) returning the market to status quo. that is Saudi's long term strategy.

Also, Saudi may not like Russia and Iran to take some of its customers should he opt for a supply cut, in my opinion, it is mere paranoia because the production cost of Saudi ($6) is far lower than Russia's ($100), a few discounts here and there keeps your customers in tact. furthermore, It will only happen if Saudi should cut supply ALONE, I don't want that also. This is where a vibrant OPEC chief has to do some home work, he must have the ability to carry along both member and non member producers.

My annoyance is this; why does Nigeria a big player in OPEC, with the lightest crude therein, bereft of any strategy in the face of this crisis?

Whether my plan will work? well, just recently , Libya declared a force ma jeure on their biggest oil field that action cut out 1mbbls from the market, the price effect was a jump from $54 to $63 in just 18hrs, imagine what will happen if 2.5mbbls was withdrawn? it is no rocket science but common sense.

people argue on the contrary that a cut in production will embolden the OPEC rivals to increase production, that theory is subjective, because for every barrel you pump, there is an associated cost to it, therefore, the more they pump to saturate the market, the price will crash further at a point, it will no longer be profitable and both the left and right wing interest groups don't want that to happen.

The shale oil causing all this wahala, is only profitable above $65, how much loses will Exxon incur below $60 before they close down their Shale oil field in North Dakota?
The Shale oil field in Texas is only profitable above $75, what it means is that if OPEC withdraws production and the price jumps to $75-$80, countries like Nigeria will recover from budget deficit while the oil fields in Texas will not dare pump further for fear of rendering their oil useless.


WHERE JONATHAN FAILED WOEFULLY:


Immediately US started their shale production enmasse, Jonathan would have a comprehensive foreign policy to strategically position Allison Madueke as the next OPEC chairlady at all cost. On that seat, we can influence a significant cut in OPEC output which stands today at 40% of world's total oil production ofcourse, with the support of other members whose economies are negatively affected.

This is the best time to woo, Russia and Mexico to join OPEC, that will increase OPEC stakes to 50% of the world's oil being the second and 10th largest producer in the world, a sound OPEC chairman knows that Russia as an OPEC signatory will strike a great blow to the USA.

But for a clueless soul who have enthroned his personal interest above national interest, a man who knows nothing about strategies that will likely make or mar his economy, guess I and my fellow country men should live to bear the brunt.

When buhari said he can do it, I have no doubt he is thinking what im thinking.

Your analysis is full of scenarios that ignores many factors that have affected and continued to affect oil prices in the international market. The US alone has added 4 million new barrels of crude oil per day to the global market since 2008. (Global crude production is about 75 million barrels per day, so this is significant.)

Up until very recently, however, that US oil boom
had surprisingly little effect on global prices. That's
because, at the exact same time, geopolitical
conflicts were flaring up in key oil regions. There
was a civil war in Libya . Iraq was a mess. The US
and EU slapped oil sanctions on Iran and reduced
its oil exports. Those conflicts took more than 3
million barrels per day off the market.

Fast forward to mid-2014, the dynamics have changed;
1. Conflicts in many of these oil producing countries are beginning to ease out. For instance, In July, Libyan rebels opened two key export terminals, Es Spider and Ras Lanuf, that had been shut down for a year. Libyan exports rose unexpectedly. (They have since fallen again as conflicts have flared up, but that's been offset by rising production from Iraq, which is also getting its oil back online.)

2. With the economic crisis in Europe, reduced demand in Europe and Asia, particularly the slow down in China and Germany, and energy companies in the United States using techniques like fraking and horizontal drilling to extract oil from shale formations in North Dakota and Texas. And even In Canada where energy companies are heating Alberta's gooey oil sands with steam to extract usable crude. All these pointing to the fact the biggest consumers have become the biggest producers and have no need to buy more oil or at least drastically reduce demand, oil prices expectedly came crashing.

3. Unfortunately, even the almighty OPEC's influence has greatly been reduced by market share politics giving these developments. Looking at the jostle for oil market share going on between OPEC's member state, there is very little Nigeria can do as countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and their likes have advantages that countries like Nigeria, Venezuela and even non-member State like Russia do not have:

a. Small population to continue oil funded social programs, welfare packages and subsidies in their countries and keep citizens from protesting.

b. Huge exchange reserve to cushion the effects of low prices to sustain the "price war" for a long period of time as they wait for the cost of the technologies fuelling "tight oil" boom to rise to an unattractive level; might never happen or at least not any time soon.

c. Massive foreign-exchange reserves to finance budget deficits and continue to sustain government plans in these countries. All these luxuries we don't have, fact.

The idea of rallying member state to reduce oil production will only see us cede more market shares to the likes of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Russia and their likes who should have taken the front seat of making such moves but are reluctant because they fear they will lose their share of the already dwindling oil market. Saudi Arabia for instance, argued that even if they cut down production, prices will still fall, and they will lose market share, they pointed out how it did not help them in the 80s when a similar situation happened.

Nigeria can not afford to put itself in the position you are proposing because our national budget is still heavily reliant on that 2.8 million barrels per day you are trying to experiment with in the comfort of your arm chair critiquing. Even Russia that has about 50% of its budget being funded by oil revenue can not afford such an idealistic "price war" now with the US shale oil proponents, that's the truth. The issue here goes beyond oversimplifying dynamics and throwing blames around like you really believe a Buhari government has some superior bargaining antics to force the hands of other member states who also have to face economic backlash and prevailing economic realities in their climes.

Again, the proposal of feeding and giving stipends at this trying times is the most brainless idea ever to be suggested by anyone who is watching what is going on with even strong economies in Europe. APC is playing to the gallery and not coming up with any workable solution, that is the truth, it does not matter how you try to grandstand for them.

LadyAmaka:
Imo state had always stood against the basic ethics of Igbo people. I am not surprised. Many of them have blood ties with north so they should welcome their uncle very well.

can you stop this trash talk and comment like you have got some sense. Voting has not even started and you are running your dirty mouth like a broken pipe.... Let them vote Buhari first before coming out to run your mouth like a monkey.

I just pity the man watching that video, he could hardly pronounce any word right.

Rochas just scammed the Aboki, that campaign rally was actually for Rochas. ?Imolites will vote 100% Jonathan, I am from Imo and I know how do it...i be Ngor-Okpala guy, at no meeting has there beebn any agreement to support any Buhari. My advice to him is to relax very well in one of our many hotels and possibly get some fine owerri girls to help him relax, eat some ofe owerri and drink some fresh palmwine to help him remeber the plaec...as for coming there for campaign he is not a long thing...lol..shebi him no see any of him posters for there, that should tell him sth about imo people'

PointB:
Then, Buhari is on long thing. He won't get up to 1% of Imo State vote. He just just enjoy his time there as much as he likes. The next time he will be there would be in 1923, when he will comes to contest (and lose) again!

...lol...if you know the kind of man Rochas is you go use your head with am...lol....the guy is my main man any time any game regardless of his party. He purposely took the shine out of Buhari because the stakeholders would have told him to forget about Buhari and just focus on his own re-election. Abi you think say Imolite don forget wetin the despot did to the likes of Sam Mbakwe and ojukwu...lol...Imolites are stubborn when it comes to what they want, ask ohakim what they did to him when he was busy calling himself ikiri..lol...Buhari just go attent Rochas Rally...lol

londoner:
All I see is "Rochas we know" on the ads. There was nothing at all about Buhari, even as the presidential candidate. the only pics of Buhari, are the ones repeated of him indoors with Rochas plaque behind him.


Not even one person in the crowd had anything even remotey mentioning Buhari. This looks suspect. If this is the Imo leg of Buhari's presidential campaign, why is there nothing there mentioning it?


See........all about Rochas governorship 2015, not Buhari presidency. This in no way points to support in SE for Buhari as president. They are maybe ready to vote for an APC governor, but thats it. People are taking this to seriously....lol

Trypant:
May God Punish Ur rotten mouth!!!! He that put ur brother in Prison wen he was in govt. Him dat never put any of his brothers in govt wen he was in govt. He dat killin d Igbos in d north? He dat wants 2 Islamize Nigeria? R u insane? Plz go check urself cus u r terribly and disgustingly sick in d skull!

Nne dont worry yourself, you dey do like say you no sabi Imo state voting public...lol...All those women in traditional attires, doing cultural dances and all came out for Rochas and not Buhari. Imo state has a very enlightened voting public and they wont fall for all that propaganda of heat and threat from the APC. They will vote Rochas and leave Buhari to fry..lol

lol... e go do them voom na anya say all those women came out for Rochas and not the Malam....Rochas has already stolen the shine from him..lol..no be my guy Rochas again, He will win but Buhari will get a shocker..lolquote author=londoner post=29731091]OP, it looks to me that this is a show of support for Rochas, and not really Buhari.

The only pics I see advertising someone is the ones fo Rochas for governor.

To me, its quite clear that this is not really for Buhari............I see no pics of him with any crowd or on any car. just Rochas.[/quote]

Kororugged:
You have no say on the day he will die. For all you know you might go before him

Keep quiet

I am telling you, I have a say here, if only nwanyi'apari wey dey him back just da sth
na'isi the enwe.....by now now you would have gotten the message that we don't need that pretentious frog anywhere around douglas house.

Only an ed!ot tryint to make some political point will vomit this nonsense. How come Shekarau that was busy boasting about how he was going to sell the girls is not talking about them again. It is either he is some northerner's sidekick talking rubbish at their request and distracting everyone else from the chibok scam or there never was any missing case in the first place. All set up for politixcal gain.

donmalcolm21:
do I look like someone that still support all these partisan politics, one of the reasons I stopped is because I've got a daughter and I can't imagine how I ll feel if anything happens to her. GEJ failed the parents and the society for not bringing back those kids and GMB failed them also for being a voice that commands respect in the north but he kept silent about those girls. Don't link me with my other post when I was supporting GEJ cos I don't give a 2cents if he burns now

Collynzo9:
I can't get myself to describe how he looks in this outfit.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7J1Ft6IcAI5P6L.jpg

like a frog in an oversized traditional attair. I wonder why that woman behind did not get an oshigbo and ku gbio ya there.....enwe!

can people stop this fabricated nonsense. those girls are not missing neither were they kidnapped. It was a perfect Northern scam.

This Chibok girls nonsense has got to be the biggest scam that got many brainless Nigerians emotional. Till this day I am still appalled that Nigerians that like to claim smart can be so hooked on such a political set up...Now it is being used as a campaign line. The truth be told, there is no such thing as Chibok girls missing, it was all a scam for political gains.

EUROBOMBER:
The APC governor of Bornu state was warned to relocate the Chibok girls to Maiduguri where there was better security but he refused. This deliberate refusal of the APC governor to relocate the Chibok girls is what led to the mass abduction of our girls for which the same APC is now blaming Jonathan and using for campaign.


*WAEC blames Borno governor for abduction of the girls
By Ramatu Abdulmuminu

Head of West African Examinations Council (WAEC) National Office, Mr Charles Eguridu, last Friday night, told a gathering of women that included the First Lady, wives of state governors, among others, how the state governor pressurised WAEC to conduct examination against its will at the Government Secondary School where girls were abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents.

Eguridu also said the enrolment list and the passport photographs of the registered students for Chibok secondary school examination centre are available.

Consequently, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has been giving a marching order that abducted girls must be found. President Goodluck Jonathan gave this mandate to the governor during an all night meeting that ended in the early hours of last Sunday.

The meeting had in attendance the President, Vice president, Senate President, Secretary to the Government and Service Chiefs and many others.

The meeting began at 9.00pm Saturday when President Goodluck Jonathan arrived. Shettima arrived in company of the Borno State Commissioner of Education, the principal of the Government Secondary School, Chibok and some parents of the abducted girls.

Dame Patience Jonathan had on Friday invited to the Presidential Villa, the Head of WAEC National Office, Mr. Charles Eguridu, to a meeting of wives of state governors, female legislators and leaders of various women organisations to strategise on the best ways to ensure the release of the abducted children.

Eguridu told the meeting that WAEC was initially reluctant to conduct examination in the area because of the security challenges but had to succumb when Shettima assured the council in writing that adequate security would be provided.

He said a total of 530 students were enrolled for examination in Chibok, adding that, contrary to the widespread belief, Chibok Government Secondary School is a mixed institution which also enrolled 135 out of 350 registered.

He maintained that after the abduction of the girls, 189 students were transferred to Uba examination centre where they are continuing with the examinations.

He told the meeting that WAEC wrote officially through the Federal Ministry of Education, asking the state government to relocate the students from the centre, but was assured at the last minute by the Borno State government that adequate security arrangements had been provided to enable the examination to go on at Chibok centre.

Eguridu tendered the letters written separately to the three north eastern state governors.

According to him, “Following the previous experience, we were afraid to go to the North East this year, yet we risked it and asked for extra security through the Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike.

“We also asked the various state governments to relocate all the centres to the state capitals where there would be adequate security.

“The three governors did not respond to our request but instead said they had made adequate security arrangements.

“The Borno State government also refused to relocate the students from Chibok to safer places like Maiduguri. The Borno State government only agreed to relocate the remaining 189 pupils to Uba after the abduction of the girls.

“On the overall, 530 students registered for WAEC at the Chibok center: 135 males and 395 girls,” he said.

The WAEC boss presented the students bio data containing the passport photographs of all the 530 candidates that registered at the Chibok centre for this year’s examination.

According to a statement issued by Ayo Adewuyi, media assistant to the First Lady in Abuja on Saturday, WAEC also informed Dame Patience that the enrolment list and the passport photographs of the registered students for Chibok secondary school examination centre are available.

Dame Patience Jonathan had expressed her concern and frustration over the security situation in the country, particularly the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok.

The Borno State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajia Inna Galadima, who stood in for the wife of the governor, Nana Shettima, also told the meeting that 53 girls were currently in custody of the state government.

http://www.gongnews.net/find-the-chibok-girls-or-face-sack-jonathan-tells-shettima/

joseph1832:
I must also the way you reason is one sided! A man who can't lead his family can never govern a country, that's a full blown fact!.

If you want to debate about Buhari and Jonathan, I most say it is hard to compare between civilian rule and military rule. The two regime are different and as far as I'm concern incomparable. What I do know for a fact is that Nigeria is better off without GEJ and his government of idleness and ineptitude.

A man who can't lead his family?? Where is that coming from? At this point, it is obvious you have nothing concrete to post I will leave you to whatever it is you are concocting in your head. When you become a leader one day, I hope some haters gang up against you and rubbish all your efforts, may be then you would understand what partisan interests really mean. I am not going to reply to you again cos apparently you have got nothing substantive to post besides name calling and unfounded and unguarded accusations. Bye.

i have said it before that the kind of support and followers Buhari has in the North is a very dangerous one, the type that sees nothing wrong in violence or killing perceived enemy. Buhari is very divisive and dangerous, his support base in the north and to some extent in the southwest is full of religious bigots, tribal jingoist and straight up killers and assassins.

Their new tactics now is to wreck havoc on opponents properties and and then tell their media goons in the southwest to report it as a PDP intra-party affair. How does it make sense that PDP members will go to an area and only destroy PDP posters and campaign paraphernalia, even if the claim was a clash between PDP and APC, how come only APC was able to destroy PDP properties without their PDP counter part doing anything to them. All these ed!ots supporting APC on Nairaland that have buried their conscience, you all better be careful whta you are wishing for. Buhari has been campaigning in the East without anyone destroying APC properties and all, meanwhile Jonathan is yet to start his campaign in the North and APC and their foot thugs are trying to intimidate his supporters from coming out in the North. I thought the general belief was that the whole of North was for APC and Buhari, why then are they trying so hard to maim PDP supporters in the North? This is not a do or die affair o.

joseph1832:
So according to you one need to occupy an electiive position before that one is presume to be a leader? Guy will you listen to yourself?. Osinbajo is a pastor, not just a pastor a district pastor at that, that alone show he's a leader so is any man of God who preside over any congregation.

You speak of 'we' people spewing thrash! You once told me you don't support any political party, hence all I see you do I campaign for our retard of a president!.

A sane man can tell the difference between a professor and a doctor, that are incomparable, they are not even on the same level in the academic cadre. You my good man allow sentiment to cloud your sense of reason.

Dude might I ask if you've collected your PVC?.

Joseph just listen to yourself. Off all the arguments I have had with you, this has got to be the worst thing you will ever post in defence of your stance. You sound so childish and Petty, for a second I thought I was debating with becomrich or musiwa.

You need to raise the I.Q level of the way you put across your arguments, I have no time for kiddish name calling of a man that has achieved way more than anyone you can think of even in your family, that's the truth. Osibanjo being a pastor is not an elective position, neither do we know anything about how he has led his district. As far as public records go, Osibanjo has never run an LGA, a state or any elective position before so you can't be talking of comparing his non-existent leadership style, that is the truth. The way he leads his district is not open to public criticism is even questioning from any of the members, I don't see how that can be applied to Jonathan who is answerable to the whole of Nigeria.

That Osibanjo is a professor does not put him on an advantaged position over a doctorate degree holder with years of political experience in leadership at all levels. It is like saying he will make a better economist than Ngozi Okonjo - iweala because unlike No who is just a doctorate degree holder, Osibanjo is a professor of law so it follows that he must be better, that's the reasoning of a kindergarten kid and not an adult.

And yes, you spew a lot of sentimental crap like this one above. If you want to discuss facts and not propaganda or redundant name calling then let's start with the leadership achievements of the main people involved: Jonathan and Buhari. Let's talk about who has actually benefitted the country more lead the country better. I have no time for rhetoric campaign statements, I want facts and figures. If you are ready, I am ready for you to start, at least let's know who is actually supporting for no reason.

Fayose needs to comment with some degree of restraints giving his position even though he is speaking the reality many Yorubas are taking for granted and acting like these things don't matter. Fact is that they do.

As much as propagandist like to come out in the media and talk about Nigeria as if it were some western country, the reality is that tribe, region and religion matter a lot in the politics of this country. Both PDP and the APC are riding on these factors but the APC are taking it to a whole new level.

People in the east have literally been amazed how virtually everyone in the North and many in the southwest have made it practically impossible for Jonathan to succeed at anything. While his detractors in the North are busy using violence and intimidation to rubbish this government, his detractors are busy selling his all sorts of propaganda, exaggerating the man's mistakes, downplaying his achievements to the point of denial and using all sorts of brainwashing antics to make the man look weak, dull and not working.

The irony of all this is that while they are busy using violence and propaganda to get votes, the people in the East are becoming more resolute to defend Jonathan no matter the degree of his limitations as it has become clear to them that the opposition to Jonathan goes beyond what he has done or failed to do, it is more of a political struggle of regional interests than anything else.
Nobody is giving Jonathan a chance, they surely won't give anyone else a chance in the Niger Delta, that's a fact many supporters like to shy away from.

If BokoHaram are busy killing defenseless children and women just to make Nigeria ungovernable as Keita, one of Buhari's long time friends promised, the Niger Delta militants have even more abilities to disintegrate Nigeria by shutting down the oil wells and kidnapping any Oil company worker that dares to work there. There are I'll action will cost Nigeria more harm than BokoHaram killing a thousand people in a month in the North, that's the unimaginable truth. Let nobody fooled that Niger Deltans militants will give Buhari a free ride assuming he wins. Niger Deltans won't sit back in the creek and watch Buhari use oil money that largely came from their lands to fund policies like giving stipend to some 25 million unemployed youth, obviously a policy that will largely benefit Northerners and have some prominent Yoruba people controlling it.

South-easterners won't hesitate to seceed if it comes to the point that Nigeria can not function again because militants in the Niger Delta have made sure they blew up every oil field and pipe networks that transport oil to other parts of Nigeria. If oil stops today, Nigeria will cease to exist, that's the truth. The only reason people like Buhari and many Northerners are so bent on leadership is because they want to control oil and the licence. The likes of Goodluck and Alison are fvcking it up for them with the way they keep coming up with mechanisms that make sure oil wealth and control revolves mostly around people who come from that region rather than political anormally that gives people far north licences and opportunities in the oil sector unjustifiably. Jonathan is touching areas that even OBJ was too afraid to touch because he feared the Hausa-Fulani political oligarchy. They want Jonathan out not because he is not better than an underachiever like Buhari, or more qualified or better educated or has better concrete achievements than Buhari but because Jonathan does not guarantee their interests, fact. And the boys in the creek are waiting to see how this will pan out before they too will unleash their own terror.

Yesterday I was reading Lindaikeji and she was asking her audience if she should take advert from political parties that have been disturbing her with request to place their campaign advert on her blog, funny enough she mentioned the party I particular that had been throwing money at her to entice her, it was APC.

it is so obvious that the APC relies very heavily on propaganda and engineering people's thought through imagery and mind programming techniques. They know that they have little or no substance, they will rather accuse the government than outline or explain to Nigerians how they can do better.

The other I was arguing with two Yoruba guyz I met somewhere in Lagos Island, I told them to state specifically why they believe Buhari was better than Jonathan, these guyz couldn't come up with anything concrete outside of shouting we want change. Change to what exactly?

A change that is suggesting to use over a trillion naira to pay 25 million unemployed Nigerians instead of coming up with sustainable plans that can create opportunities for large chunk of these people to be employed or create employment for themselves. This is a party that clearly had no idea what they are going to do, they are waiting until they get there yet they are so quick to point out the mistakes and in abilities of the present government without taking into cognizance other factors. No wonder they could ignorantly come up with such unworkable populist welfarist plan of paying 5k to 25 million people every month. Something that is unheard of anywhere.

CyberWolf:
That OBJ and INEC got away with what they want does not mean that they are powerful than God, God's ways is beyond our comprehension..Chimaroke tried to frustrate him all to know avail and as it is today, Mbaka is more popular than the almighty Chimaroke with everything he did..Mbaka attacks you when you do the wrong but will praise you when you do the right thing..As simple as that..

You are not making any sense with your contradiction, if anything you just proved that Mbaka's utterances have nothing to do with God, he just talks carelessly only to realize that the way he judges people and run off to pass verdict on them is quite different from the way God does his things, if anything, he should be humble enough to learn from his mistakes instead of doing more and causing the entire church embarrassment. The Enugu Bishop needs to put the fool on a leash before he out does himself. His so-called prophesies are all junk talk of ignorance and bitter outburst. Nobody takes him seriously when it comes to politics, he obviously does not know jack and gets angry when politicians tell him to sit down and stop ranting like a goat.

mu2sa2:
No northern leader of note wants to be seen as working against the wish of the generality of the people. Some of you were fantasizing about northern christians voting en mass for ebele azikiwe, but are now saddened that will not happen. Across the length and breath of the north the mood is for change, represented by Buhari/Osibanjo. Those who think northerners are illiterates to be manipulated by the so-called leaders are mistaken. In fact northerners are the most informed people in nigeria. There's no part of this country where you see almost everyone has a radio set monitoring events like ordinary northerners do. When you see a rustic northerner, his radio is not for listening to useless music, but for serious news monitoring, including world events .
The people are too enlightened now to be taken for a ride a second time. Ebele has had 6 years of great opportunity but squandered it. In february the people will send him back to otuoke city and that's good for him for he'll hav all the time to ruminate over his failure.

Your logic is dead on arrival, they won't support Buhari because they are ambivalent about his emergence, Buhari has many baggage that might put the North at a disadvantaged position,his frail health being the most concern, it is obvious that Buhari might not be able to face up the rigours of leading a country like Nigeria.

And please cut the crap with the Northern Christians not voting Jonathan, trust me, you have no idea how any of them are going to vote, just because some youngsters supporting APC burnt a PDP bus does not mean every northern Christian is for Buhari.

And don't kid yourself with the Northern voting public being educated, that's so not true, I have had cause to debate with many of them, even the ones that are supposed to be educated, it is all about Buhari being a Northerner and a Muslim and nothing of concrete substance. Until after February 14th, don't kid yourself with the propaganda going on in the media, the real people that are going to vote will decide the elections.