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The amendment to the electoral act is a good one. The should quickly override the president if he refuses to sign. The bill will bring quality to the process and take out bandwagon effect.

APC Implosion has started. We knew it will happen. Strange bed fellas!

Guy, you are speaking for yourself and not for the Yoruba nation. You have so much hate in your heart and yet accuse another of hate. Your enjoying seeing Ndi Igbo "squirm in agony" does not affect them. But don't complain when calamity befalls you and your household.

resurgentxtian4:
I don’t care about igbo or Yoruba insults. I have got a thicker skin after my fellow Yorubas insulted me by claiming I am Igbo on my Alcatraz005 handle (now deactivated). Bleep both sides(especially Yorubas insulting me) but igbos should stop the “we told you so” blackmail.

We won’t be cowed by all the insults to accept responsibility for Buhari’s failures. Nigerians has a choice between the rapacious profligacy of Jonathan and Buhari’s much vaunted integrity and we chose the lesser evil. That doesn’t make the igbos right or Yorubas wrong. It was just an election and we voted for who we felt was better for the nation at the time. Going forward, igbos should please usssh it and let each ethnic nationality make the critical choice whether to allow Buhari continue or not. The insults from igbos will bury all rational thinking from Yorubas and make us vote Buhari to see the worst from the igbos. I don’t know about others but I enjoy watching igbos squirm in agony when it comes to Nigerian politics.

Please I want sincerely appeal to all you men/women of good conscience to overlook/forgive the OP's arrogant ignorance. He is NOT speaking for the Yoruba nation. Get your PVCs and let's do away with this inept government of bloodshed and lawlessness in 2019. Pls do the right thing. Ka ihe nile férè búrú anwú ntá.

OP. Rather than be penitent and repent like a lot of other good Yoruba people with conscience, for unleashing this scourge on us, you are degenerating to blackmail. That's being arrogant in sin. It will not work. You can't blackmail Ndi Igbo. And you are not God. It is only the Will of God that can happen in this contraption. Nonsense.

Stop bragging about voting strength. You will be surprised. You seem to forget that Ndi Igbo are also in that your Southwest. Begin to mobilize naaa, let's see how far you can go. Hunger, hardship and suffering had reset a lot of your people head. And come to think of it, why won't they blame? Are you not a major contributor to this failure? Okay, they should be clapping for you! Guy park well. You can't threaten Ndi Igbo

resurgentxtian4:
We won’t do the right thing if igbos don’t stop mocking the very people with the voting strength to help remove Buhari.

Guy, think about it. How would you feel if an enemy tribe keeps blaming your tribe for their miserable existence?

I am sure it will make you double down on doing things the way you have always done them just to spite that avowed enemy.That is the story of Yoruba-Igbo relations and the Buhari debacle.

resurgentxtian4:
We won’t do the right thing if igbos don’t stop mocking the very people with the voting strength to help remove Buhari.

Guy, think about it. How would you feel if an enemy tribe keeps blaming your tribe for their miserable existence?

I am sure it will make you double down on doing things the way you have always done them just to spite that avowed enemy.That is the story of Yoruba-Igbo relations and the Buhari debacle.

Stop bragging about voting strength. You will be surprised. You seem to forget that Ndi Igbo are also in that your Southwest. Begin to mobilize naaa, let's see how far you can go. Hunger, hardship and suffering had reset a lot of your people head. And come to think of it, why won't they blame? Are you not a major contributor to this failure? Okay, they should be clapping for you! Guy park well. You can't threaten Ndi Igbo.

resurgentxtian4:
We won’t do the right thing if igbos don’t stop mocking the very people with the voting strength to help remove Buhari.

Guy, think about it. How would you feel if an enemy tribe keeps blaming your tribe for their miserable existence?

I am sure it will make you double down on doing things the way you have always done them just to spite that avowed enemy.That is the story of Yoruba-Igbo relations and the Buhari debacle.

Stop bragging about voting strength. You will be surprised. You seem to forget that Ndi Igbo are also in that your Southwest. Begin to mobilize naaa, let's see how far you can go. Hunger, hardship and suffering had reset a lot of your people head. And come to think of it, why won't they blame? Are you not a major contributor to this failure? Okay, they should be clapping for you! Guy park well. You can't threaten Ndi Igbo.

Guy you can't threaten Ndi Igbo. It was more of a common hate for Ndi Igbo, NOT love for Nigeria that made you guys vote this scourge. If you like allow them to deceive you again into chanting 'change' and Sai Baba. You better do the right thing in 2019.

Those who support and justify evil should be ready o! Because evil and calamity will locate them. It is just a matter of time. When that time comes remember that someone typed this. A very unfortunate ruling by Justice Binta Nyako. The law of sowing and reaping is still in force and must apply. That is my consolation.

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I have observed that a few people are determined to get back at those who enthroned this regime in 2015. They want to do so by voting this same regime in 2019 since according to them, no one person has the monopoly of wickedness.

I want to passionately appeal to you, if you belong to this category of people or you know someone who does, to please forgive. To err is human.

Whereas some of those sai babarian 'change' chanters mostly voted due to abject gullible ignorance and bigotry. Others were swept off their feet of rational and objective reasoning with forceful propaganda. Most of them have now genuinely and penitently repented. They have come to their senses. Let them go and sin no more.

And yes, I am aware that some are still pretending - suffering and smiling. I am also aware that some are ashamed to own up to their gaffe. Let us still forgive them all the same. Let bygone be bygone.

Endeavor to get your PVCs and be ready to vote right. Don't allow yourself to be bought. Let us not allow this scourge for another 4years. If we do, the despair in land will be unfathomable.

Shalom.

Is it just about being popular and being in power? Even when one doesn't have anything to offer! This is crazy. How did this country get here?

Why are people against Biafra secession? If it was Arewa secession, will people be against them like this? Is it that Nigeria cannot survive without the Igbos? How did the Igbos become so indispensable? This hypocritical and pretentious unity is not working in my opinion o! People are not willing to bring about justice, equity, fairness. Yet they talk about unity. Is unity by force?

People should stop addressing this guy as a Human Right Activist. He has completely sold out and compromised. He suddenly turned blind, deaf and dumb to all the rot and nonsense in this Buhari regime. It is now on IPOB that he is erroneously struggling to be relevant and politically correct. What a shame. How can Keyamo rejoice over what the Army did at NK's house? The waste of human life in the name of Python dance! Posterity will jugde Keyamo.

The hypocrisy of Nigerians are matchless. In one breath, they shout one Nigeria but to support a suggestion for one Nigeria to work is a problem. Pretenders. Let this country be shared abeg.

Nepotism Smelling All Over Nigeria =========================== "Words of Dr. Junaid Mohammed a northern ethno-religious irredentist. “Let me say straight away that whether one calls it a cabal or a mafia or power within the presidency under Buhari, whatever you say it is; it is, and a lot worse. First, the most influential person in the presidency today is one Mamman Daura whom as you know, is a nephew of the president. His father was Buhari’s elder brother. In addition, Mamman Daura was the one who single-handedly brought up Abba Kyari, the current chief of staff to the president. In fact, Abba Kyari knows Mamman Daura more than he knows his own father. “Next, the personal assistant to Buhari himself is the son of Mamman Daura, next is the State Chief of Protocol (SCOP), and is also a son-in-law to Mamman Daura because he is married to Mamman Daura’s daughter. Next, the minister they unilaterally chose, against the interest of the party and against the wishes of Sokoto people, happens to be the daughter of the younger sister of Mamman Daura’s wife. Both of them are daughters of Sultan Dasuki, who was sacked by General Abacha. We have the aide-de-camp to Buhari himself, Colonel Abubakar. He is married to the granddaughter of one of Buhari’s elder sisters. Next we have the woman who represents Kaduna in the Federal Executive Council, she is a cousin to Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai. It is a well known that el-Rufai is one of the closest governors to Muhammadu Buhari. “Next, we have the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Minister of the FCT is the man called Musa Bello, who used to be the Managing Director of the Northern Nigeria Development Corporation, which used to be the biggest holding company that belonged to all the northern states. His only qualification to be the FCT minister is the fact that his father has been Buhari’s friend over the years. Now, there is a young man called Sabiu Yusuf, nicknamed Tunde – probably because of the late General Tunde Idiagbon. He is another PA to President Buhari. He is also a grandson of another sister of Buhari. “This is enough to prove to you that this is shamelessly the worst form of nepotism in the history of government in Nigeria. In fact, in the history of Africa, let me make bold to assert that I have never seen any level of nepotism that has equalled or surpassed this in my entire life – I am now in my 67th year. Another thing I also want you to know is that Amina Zakari, who was and is still a national commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission representing the entire seven states in the North-west; it is being claimed that Buhari knows nothing about her appointment (before he became the president), it is a lie. “When President Goodluck Jonathan was reorganising INEC and he was bringing in Prof. Attahiru Jega, he reached out to Buhari and asked him to nominate somebody from the North-west so that, that person would be a national commissioner. Of all the people in the North-west, Buhari decided to nominate his own niece, the daughter of his elder sister – Amina Zakari. She has been there; when Jega left, Buhari was determined to make her the chairman, it was because of the massive backlash that he dropped the idea like hot potatoes. As we are talking today, that woman is a national commissioner which means she is one of the principal members of the election umpire. “Throughout my reading of history, political science and social sciences generally, I have never heard of any dictator or any tyrant under any system of government whether totalitarian or fascist, appointing his own niece to conduct elections in which he was either a party or going to be a party to; Buhari has done that. The immediate younger brother to Amina Zakari is currently the Minister for Water Resources representing Jigawa State in the same Buhari government. In addition, even though they are from Kazaure, Kazaure is contiguous to Daura. The eldest sister of both of them is now the Commissioner for Education in the All Progressives Congress government in Jigawa State. If this is not nepotism, then I don’t know what nepotism is. For somebody who had the guts and the brutal arrogance to appoint these relations, not bothered about public opinion, about the sense of justice, and about competence, then you can see that he has a very serious question to answer.” SHARED AS RECEIVED

Seconded. This country should be separated again. The Northern and Southern protectorate should be separated again. They were merged for selfish business convenience of the British. Now that the colonial masters are gone. Let this empty, wicked and criminal association be dissolved.

oladeebo:
rumours.
but you should have face the reality here!
majority governors who passed out from ABU or North were not only Northerner and the admission is never restricted to Non-Northerner why rely on rumours for your fact?

I can't place your point really. What reality? I just told you the harm the reality of quota system is doing to our system. I'm NOT also saying that there are no quality and qualified people from ABU and the North. Really I don't get your drift. The fact remains that considerations/criteria are usually watered down to accommodate mediocrity in the North. And ABU is not an exception.

adanny01:
Hmmmmm

U gat issues!

Yeah. I have issues with QUOTA SYSTEM. In fact I hate it. That is part of why Nigeria is not working. I want merit to be the basis for every consideration in Nigeria. Are you aware that in Northern Nigeria, people score 10 and less to get admitted into the Federal Govt Colleges? Whereas in Southern Nigeria, people score 139 - same exam, same admission. Does it make sense. It is the same thing even in their higher institutions. You and I know this except you are pretending.

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This brilliant piece by Gani Kayode Jr Balogun might give you a better understanding of Dinogate

ABU AND ABUSES

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria started its existence as a regional university, just like its contemporaries, University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, ile Ife, established by the government of Western Region, and the deceitfully named University of Nigeria, Nsukka, established by the Eastern Regional government.

Please remember that as at that period, the only University in the country, the University College, Ibadan, was then just a University College, whose admission policy and curriculum were closely tied to its parent university in the UK.

So, the three regional governments, in pursuant of their manpower needs, set up regional universities, even the federal government joined the train with the establishment of University of Lagos, Akoka, on the fringe of the then federal capital territory of Lagos.

Now, while Ife was established to accommodate the products of the free education programme, and Nsukka because, well, if the West can do it, why not the East?

The case of ABU was different. The North had a massive manpower deficit, both in the regional civil service and in the military. To meet those needs, the regional government had to lower entry qualifications for most northern youth to qualify. That was why people like Buhari got drafted into the army with what we popularly call Awaiting Result(AR), and people like Abacha got in despite not meeting the height requirements demanded from candidates from other regions.

For ABU, they had to create so many back bending programmes to meet up with their mandate. This of course led to the establishment of so many remedial programmes that it was referred to as the Remedial University.

Even after it was taken over by the Murtala/Obasanjo Administration which took over regional universities, the original purpose was never jettisoned. In fact, it got to a point where universities in the North were offering Certificates in Law! Which is used as an equivalent of an A/Level or OND, and are used to get into law programmes, cleverly sidestepping the very competitive JAMB entry requirements for Law!

One of the reasons for the stranglehold by the North on the judiciary and the civil service is the application of state officers to fill their state's quota in the federal civil service.

Imagine if you will, two lawyers, one from either side of the confluence, who did NYSC together, and joined their state's civil service the same day.

The southern lawyer would move to Level 9 in 3 years, but the one from the north was employed on level 9, promoted to Level 10 two years later, and level 12 after only five years, while his counterpart at that point is looking forward to his level 10 promotions exam.

If both officers now applied for transfer of service from state to the federal service, one is already three levels ahead even though they graduated the same day!

What makes it worse is that the Northern lawyer probably had only three credits, did a certificate course in Law, and then studied Islamic Jurisprudence, which is not applicable in about fifty percent of the states of the federation!

This man will now become a judge at 30, Appeal Court at 35 and Supreme Court at 40, sitting pretty to become CJN while his Southern mate was just be elevated to the High court.

There are even courses in UK colleges designed specifically for intellectually challenged northern politicians, their wives and their children!

So, those of you showing righteous indignation about Dino's three credits must have been living on Mars, because if you go down that path, the very foundation of Northern education, that has produced numerous presidents, permanent secretaries, Generals, Ambassadors, and majority of Directors of institutions, will be called to question.

Please stop judging some people with your own standards, I am certain if we scrutinize the qualification's of most northerners in public office, the military, the police, customs, immigration, prisons, ports and sundry federal agencies, you will realise that Dino is just one in a million.

ABU is just fulfilling its mandate of producing low level human resources to fill the northern quota in a skewered federal system. It does not deserve your abuse, but your pity.

ndat:
e pain you say ABU lead

Nope. Pain for what naaa! But you know what I am saying. May be you got your own admission on merit with good cut off mark. Investigate these guys, you will see that ABU Zaria was easier for most of them with moi moi cut off and maybe one or two deficiencies in o'level. This researcher or another blogger needs to extrapolate this work to the next level - let know how they entered school and why ABU is more.

adanny01:
I can see that 11 governors attended my alma mater.

An ABUSITE IS NATURALLY AHEAD OF YOU!

Forget that thing. Your Alma mater where you get quota system support abi! We need to know how they got their admission. Who said they wouldn't have preferred the great UniLag, UNN, OAU or UI. I think they focussed on catchment area where quota system will favor them. You know you guys are into quota system wella! You hardly get considerations on merit. So leave that matter of ABU being naturally ahead. Don't take things by their face value. It is good to be deep.

abc115:
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU),Zaria leads the pack, while others follow

Forget that thing. The question is why and how? Not that ABU leads. We need to know how they got their admission. Who said they wouldn't have preferred the great UniLag, UNN, OAU or UI. I think they focussed on catchment area where quota system will favor them. You know these guys are quota system people naaa! They hardly merit what is given to them. So leave that matter of ABU leading the pack. Don't take things by their face value. It is good to be deep. Go and research my submission.

This is being clever by half.

dvkot:
the kind of trash that is being spread by that radio Biafra eeh, that is how last month in aba they said army and hausa are going house to house to kill people... your hatred for unity will consume you, always trying to create fear and panic.
So b4 you come and say Afonja, I'm Igbo frm owerri. we all know all of IPOB gragra na politics. keep on playing politics

Then you must Kayla of We Fm 106.3 Abuja. You only try to be politically correct to please Northern callers. Know that you are creating a dangerous force around you. Unity in not legislated, it is cultivated.

gists:
When will you people learn that playing silly childish victim card will not get you anywhere.
Not even nursery pupils will buy this crap without asking a very basic question:
What are all the true Igbo sons and daughters in the whole of Nigerian Army doing? So you're saying they're dumb and will just fold their arms and let this happen to their people? Or are there no igbos in the army again?

Stop being naive. Buhari held a meeting with the service chiefs the other day. He just held another one with them yesterday. Did you see any Igbo man there? How many Igbo people do you know, that are GOCs of military formations and institutions in Nigeria? So which Igbo sons and daughters in Nigerian Army are you referring to? Please don't be gullible. Ndigbo are several steps ahead of them. Ndigbo know their plans. You guys in the Southwest need to align with the Southeast and Southsouth to move Nigeria forward. The North has messed Nigeria up. Even the Middle Belt has woken up to their use and dump. For me if the next president of this country must come from the North, let it be from the Middle Belt (Since they claim Middle Belt is north) - Benue, Platuea, etc. Shine your eyes.

sarrki:
All ipobs in diaspora won't be spared
Know one can tell our President what to do
Having said that please where is Nnamdi sef ?

This Yoruba moslem sef.

If Buhari didn't win in 2015, we would have thought by now that Nigeria would have been like London.
Thank God he won for everyone to know that he can't perform magic.
Buhari said he does not know anything called subsidy. You clapped. He later paid subsidy. You clapped again.
He said he would never devalue the Naira. You clapped. He devalued the Naira. You clapped.
He said he will make N1 equals to $1. You clapped. $1 is officially equal N360. You are still clapping.
He said he will make petrol price to N40, you clapped, now petrol price is N145, you clapped and do protest in support.
He said he would turn all presidential jets to national carrier. You clapped. Today, he and his family are cruising on all presidential jets. You are clapping.
He said he would build one new refinery each year. You clapped. Its getting to two years, no refinery has been built. You are still clapping.
When PMB promise to end medical tourism, you clapped. When he spent months in UK hospital and allowed local doctors on strike, you clapped.
Your mumu never do?!

Abi this one na hate speech?
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clevvermind:
FOR WHAT?

For helping to totally emancipate you from the bundage and shackles of of huasa /fulani. You are a Yoruba muslim abi!

GavelSlam:
An expired politician talking.

I knew someone will say what I wanted to say. Thank you.

These quota system lawyers sef. Hunger bad shaaa!

Daniel2060:
I actually came to count if they're up to 6
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But, well I'm impress...

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The impact is not in the number. Even if they not more than 6 (though I don't agree with you), it can still make impact. Remember, #ResumeorResign and #ourmumudondo pretest! How many were they? Didn't Buhari resume within record time? So bone, no be by number.

anitapreeti:
He said its a pronouncement and not declaration.

Please distinguish between the two. It is time for English Language lecture. Confused and bigoted Nigerian Animals.