₦airaland Forum

egift:
We supported and voted Buhari so that the massive stealing under Jonathan will stop. Those of you who attack and did everything to stop him are just looking for every imaginable lie to discredit him. It will not work.

Kai!! Is not me that is saying it na!!
Please blame Vanguard who interview GMB's aide!!!
Left for me all political leaders from 99, till date will have 150yrs jail term.!!!
Satisfied?

dearpreye:
Egberi! Story, story, storrryyyy

Egberi-ama!!!!
lol!!!

When people started shouting!!!

The Mesiah has come!!!

Suddenly!!!
They are disappointed!!!

Well, let him not make us miss GEJ
too early!!!

By Gbenga Olarinoye
OSOGBO–The Buhari Support
Organization, a group that
championed the campaign
activities of the President elect,
General Mohamodu Buhari has
declared that the incoming
administration of General Buhari
will not probe previous
administrations in the country.
Also, the group has disclosed that
General Buhari will not probe any
of the country’s former leaders,
stressing that his administration
will focus on human and societal
development for the overall good
of the country.
The Director, Research, Planning
and Strategy of the organization,
Mr Jamal Tijani-Bello in an
interview with newsmen in
Osogbo said General Buhari is
concerned with how to develop
the country and not on how to
probe his predecessors.
According to him “Buhari’s policy
is to serve the people first. His
philosophy is about people first.
He is not concerned with those
who had ruled the country before
but his major concern is how to
serve the people and develop this
country to the admiration of the
former leaders and the upcoming
ones.”
He disclosed that the incoming
administration will focus on
economic development, youth
employment and social stability in
the country, adding that “Buhari
believe in given maximum care for
the masses, especially the
downtrodden ones.”
Bello who is a close associate of
Buhari said members of the
Buhari’s kitchen cabinet are not
worried by the influx of members
of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) into the All Progressives
Congress APC, saying “Buhari is
too principled to be misdirected
by anybody.”
He assured that the government
of General Buhari will not jail any
individual, but focus on how to
restore the lost glory of the
country and make Nigeria a pride
of the people.
He also hinted that a committee
had been set up to ensure the
proper implementation of all the
campaign promises of General
Buhari, assuring that the incoming
government at the centre will not
disappoint the people, but will not
condone corruption at any level of
government.
Meanwhile, a second Republic
Senator, Chief Olorunnimbe
Farunkanmi has advised the
President elect General
Mohammodu Buhari to be
conscious of those he will appoint
as members of his cabinet for the
good of his administration.
He admonished Buhari to put
tested and trusted people with
impeccable character in offices in
order not to tarnish his image.

onatisi:
honestly I won't be surprised if akala sold out to ajimobi and only contested to split votes . I said it that 4 serious contenders going into an election will only give the incumbent greater chance. The selfish interest of the 2 babas has now cost the good ppl of the state another four years of hardship. Already ,many workers sack letters have been prepared especially workers who have put in 25 years in service .

I thought that all APC controlled states are massively progressive with development everywhere. So it is on NL that we are having such progresss eh?

La wa oooo!!!!

firstEVA:
incase you have not noticed, the North and south West are already having a formidable alliance, if the SE refuse to corporate, we bullshit them.

suit yourself!!!
up Yoruba and Hausa!!!
lol!!!

Politics will remain a game of number. SW without the support of SS and SE will remain a minority. It means for a Yoruba man to be a President he must win in these region.

anigbajumo:
nigg,stop dwellin ignoranc here....if election is conducted no of times in kano,kaduna,katsina nd niger GEJ can neva win any of dat state bt I can't say in Bayelsa....GEJ till 2019 oh! I mean till may 28....

Exactly, thst is what indegenes of Rivers state are saying. Just like GEJ can never win Niger, Katsina, Yobe even if the elections are conducted a million times, APC will never win in Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa, Enugu, Delta.!


Remember we are saying thesame thing in different ways.

TYPING FROM DEGEMA, DELGA.

Make una no worry, continue typing from Oshogbo, Surulere, Abeokuta, Ilorin, Yaba!!!

APC!!!

For Rivers state?

TYPING FROM DEGEMA!!!

When they where defecting to APC they were hailed as saviours, today the story is different.

Mediocrity!!!!

PassingShot:
@ bold, why not? After all he conceded defeat in an election he lost!

This shows the level of our readiness to accept and praise mediocrity. to you and your likes, all his past atrocities are not worth looking into since he conceded defeat in an election he clearly lost. Why not award him with a Nobel Peace Prize as canvassed for by some people.

Now lets look at our past leaders since the inception of democracy, I will say that OBJ exhibited the epic of mediocrity. However, he is still celebrated by some people.! In my opinion, I still rate GEJ on high ranking compared to all of our past leaders, both dead and living. I certainly owe no one any apology for this.

I like the way Nigeria is dividing gradually.!!!

PassingShot:
OP, please let me first humbly ask you to reduce the type size of your posts. They're tough on the eyes to read.

Now to your topic, my take is that some of the so-called "civilized politicians' are the main culprit and architects of election violence. These wicked and greedy politicians are educated, exposed, enlightened and have seen how politics is played by other nations that can be called model of democracy.

However, instead of these wicked persons to engage in delivering true dividends of democracy, they loot their constituency's resources and give peanuts to the youths they failed to empower so as to unleash terror during election.

As someone rightly pointed out already, the situation is improving especially in the SW and some Northern states. It now seems the SS and the SE are the epicenter of election terror now.

It only appear as if the SS and SE are the epicentre of electoral violence because GEJ did not win. There would have been massive killings if GEJ had won the election in the North.
It is a worrisome situation, my fears are that it should not extend to oil facilities our mainstay economic product. Already, some states have not been able to pay salaries for many months.
I still consider GEJ as the father of modern day democracy in Nigeria.

redcliff:
Rivers people would know the damage they did to themselves when the time comes. Wike is a devil

Just like Nigerians will regret voting in GMB.!!!

rydow:
That's d biggest lie in 2015 or I will ask u to stop assuming, even if Jonathan wins election the South and east wouldn't have in any be peaceful.

Violence is in there blood already but the Northerners believe in there appointed leaders. That's all,or don't u notice the massive Party step down to propell on candidate in the North for the past few weeks

ok you win!!
suit yourself.

Boko Haram is in the SE.!

The North only wanted power in the centre. There would have been massive violence if GMB had lost. It will not be too long when Boko haram will be a history. On the hand, there would have been calm in the South if GEJ had won.
This is why I will still rate GEJ as the father of modern democracy in Nigeria.

dipopooo:
I am very sure the guy is a nairalander. He wanted to take their photograph n upload it on nairaland n caption it as SOLDIERS TOOK OVER SURULERE or SOLDIERS STORMED SURULERE

This makes me laugh so hard.

Because there is too much money to steal in most of the SS states. You can imagine giving a plotician as governor over N2Billion monthly for security vote when there is no war anywhere in the state.

Jorussia:
I think it should be in the electoral act.The REC OF Edo,said before voting must commence at any polling unit,the presiding officer, must show every everybody present the result sheet, ballot papers and other voting materials. He even said,that there is no way you will be given ballot papers at the INEC headquarters without result sheets.If you get to a polling unit,and there is ballot papers without result sheets just know that a politician has hijacked it.

Its the quote from these two legal documents that I need.!!!

Jorussia:
Result sheets must be present in all the polling units in River state this Saturday,to guarantee a peaceful poll.

Is there anywhere in the constitution or the Electoral Act mandating INEC to show result sheets to voters before voting?

PORT HARCOURT— GOVERNOR
Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State
has warned that members of his
All Progressives Congress, APC,will
not vote in tomorrow’s election if
they do not see result sheets at
polling centres.
He also said that an alleged
renewed upsurge in militancy in
parts of the state ahead of
tomorrow’s governorship and
state Houses of Assembly
elections was as a result of the
alleged quest by Mrs. Patience
Jonathan, the First Lady, to control
the affairs of the state and further
mastermind the rigging of the
elections in favour of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP.
Chibuike Amaechi
The governor, yesterday in Port
Harcourt, at a stakeholders
meeting, said: “We will not vote if
we don’t see result sheets. Ask the
Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, officials for the
result sheets. If they fail to
produce them, then form a human
ring around the INEC officials and
together with the security men
escort the ad-hoc staff to the local
government headquarters and
lodge your complaints. But make
sure nobody votes in any unit
where the original result sheets
are not produced. We will not
accept photocopies.
“We will do what we did in our
village; we call it the Obima
formula. Our youths usually lock
down the village. No one comes in
and no one goes out. I am
pleading that INEC should not
endanger the lives of its staff by
holding on to the original result
sheets.
“Don’t allow any INEC official to
leave your unit or your village if he
or she fails to do the right thing.
This time nobody will write fake
results and go scot free. Don’t
allow voting to commence until
you see the result sheets. And also
ensure that the results of your
units are announced and pasted
by the INEC officials before they
leave,” he said.
The governor also said he had
assurances from security agencies
that adequate security
arrangement had been put in
place to secure lives and property
during and after the elections.




http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/dont-vote-until-you-see-result-sheets-amaechi-tells-rivers-apc-members/

Some Igbo leaders, yesterday,
blasted former Chief of Army Staff,
General Theophilus Danjuma
(retd) over his comments that if
former Biafran Leader, late Dim
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu,
had conceded defeat quickly
during the 1967-1970 civil war like
President Goodluck Jonathan did
after the 2015 presidential polls,
Nigeria would have been saved
one year of bloodshed.
Danjuma spoke on Wednesday
shortly after a closed-door
meeting with President Jonathan,
who visited him at his Abuja
residence. He said the President
averted civil war in the country by
timely conceding defeat and
congratulating Major-General
Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), a
move he said Ojukwu failed to
make and thereby causing the
country avoidable blood shed.
Coming at a time the Igbo are still
seething over Oba of Lagos, HRM
Rilwanu Akiolu’s threat that Igbo
living in Lagos would drown within
seven days in the Lagos Lagoon, if
they did not vote his governorship
candidate in tomorrow’s election,
Danjuma’s comments elicited
caustic criticisms.
Reacting to Danjuma’s comments
yesterday, some Igbo leaders
accused him of ridiculing the
president, insulting Ojukwu and
continuing the genocide against
the Igbo by other means.
Among those who berated
Danjuma are former Secretary-
General of Ohaneze Ndigbo and
officer in the Biafran Army, Col Joe
Achuzia; Second Republic
Politician, Chief Guy Ikokwu;
botched Third Republic Governor
of Anambra State, Dr
Chukwuemeka Ezeife and former
Deputy National President of the
Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),
Chief Abia Onyike.
He is no longer strong mentally –
Ezeife
Piqued at the comments, Ezeife
said: ‘’I know Danjuma is not very
well. So I am not surprised.’’
Igbo will respond – Ikokwu
Alleging that Danjuma killed
Nigeria’s first military Head of
State, General Ajuiyi Ironsi (an
Igbo), Ikokwu said General
Danjuma will get a full response
after the elections because by
talking about Ojukwu, he is talking
about the South-East and South-
South geo-political zones, which
constituted most of the former
Eastern Region and later the
defunct Biafra.
His words: ‘’I don’t think we
should take issues with Danjuma
until after the elections. Jonathan
went to him and not him to
Jonathan. We shall respond to
him.’’
Danjuma’s comments confirm the
genocide against Igbo – Achuzia
In his reaction, Col Joe Achuzia
said: ‘’I am happy that my friend
Danjuma owned up that there was
bloodshed and pogrom against
the people of Biafra. I don’t
understand what he meant by
Ojukwu conceding defeat. If the
Federal Government had
implemented the Aburi Accord,
the bloodshed would have been
avoided.
‘’Ojukwu believed in Aburi as the
road map for peace at the time of
the crisis but the Federal
Government reneged on the
agreement reached in Ghana. One
does not concede defeat half way
into a battle. Doing that would
have amounted to cowardice. I
don’t know where Danjuma got
the idea of Ojukwu not accepting
defeat from. He has little
knowledge of the intricacies of the
war. He didn’t even know the
terrain of the Enugu that he talked
about. If the necessities of
capitulating were there, why did
the war last for three years? I
fought the war for three years and
I know that the necessities were
not there. Sometimes people talk
for talking sake.
‘’The President’s visit to him was a
private one and he should not
have used that opportunity to
insult all that Ojukwu stood for. To
say publicly that the President was
defeated was even a mockery of
the President. It does not portray
the President in good light. Of
course what he said was an insult
on Ojukwu. His reference to the
fall of Enugu is laughable because
the war was just starting then.
Which military officer will
surrender in that kind of situation
even before firing a bullet? When
some people make wrong
comments on the civil war, I
wonder what often inform their
judgement. Ojukwu was a General
and was right on all the decisions
he took in the interest of the
Igbo.’’
His comments ‘re diversionary –
Onyike
In a chat with newsmen in
Abakaliki, Onyike, one-time
commissioner for Information and
Orientation in Ebonyi State, said it
was most unpatriotic of Danjuma
to make such comments at this
point in the country’s political
history.
He alleged that Nigeria’s problem
now is not from the Ndigbo but
from Danjuma’s North-Eastern
zone occasioned by the Boko
Haram and Hausa/Fulani
herdsmen insurgency, insisting
that the General’s comments were
mere diversionary tactics deployed
to denigrate the integrity of
Ojukwu.
Onyike said: “In the first place, it
was Danjuma that backed the
spilling of the blood of the Igbo,
with the killing of Aguiyi Ironsi in
Ibadan in 1967 and we want to say
that Danjuma belongs to the
group of Army Officers who led
the gruesome genocide and
massacre of over three million
Igbo during the Nigerian civil war.
“We want to say that the problem
with General T. Y. Danjuma is
mainly psychological because at a
time when some of them felt that
they had become great statesmen
and patriots for presiding over the
attempted extermination of the
Igbo, unfortunately for them, the
Igbo people survived and have
come to assert themselves and
their identity in the Nigerian
federation.
“Secondly, a twist emerged in the
Nigerian scene where people like
Danjuma and the minority group
where he comes from in the
Northern have been subjected to
the same gruesome murders by
militant elements of the same
northern oligarchy which they
serve, and to that extent Danjuma
cannot go to his village.
“So, let him go and resolve that
problem first because when
Ojukwu was making them
understand the nature of the
Nigerian federation and the
dangers inherent in the politics
that was emerging, Danjuma
preferred to be a surrogate. So let
him stop using the Igbo to hide
his inadequacies.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/criticism-of-ojukwu-achuzia-ezeife-ikokwu-blast-danjuma/

ikeyman00:
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saintopus(m): 7:24am


and who are we in niger-delta; what a hell is south south and ever since God knows how far have they gone with Niger-delta

i guess it just limit to blowing up pipe line and polluting your land and fishing industries

Only Biafra will save the stupidity that have been destroying your people

You people sat in the creeks to pretend that the igbos hate u lot we have once again demonstrated our solidarity to proof blood is thicker than water by not voting at all; u think this is moi moi eh. Yes the yorubas will soon come in to tell you igbo man want your oil hahha

Ignorance is a serious killer indeed! believeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Am reacting to the topic or thread. Making Biafra a reality is a story for another day.

chuks01:
If you believe that result from rivers state election that wike wrote then you can believe anything

Saturday is not too far my brother, let us see.

They dont really need to do much, all they need now to achieve an Igbo presidency in no too distant future is to form a stronger alliance with SS. This is so because the North are majority, the SW are minority without SE and SS.
This is why GEJ acts are a sure way to usher in an Igbo presidency. If he had acted otherwise, it would have been a permanent nail for either the SS or SE ever smelling the presidency of this nation.
For now the SS and the SE may not form alliance with SW to vote out the North if the incumbent is considered incompetent.!!!
So, I will trust an Hausa man in power than a Yoruba man in power. An Hausa man may pay you back if you do good to him, he will not forget. A Yoruba man will do the opposite, history had it so.

Am not Igbo, am from ND

Is a win, win situation for him. Because the defection is not about him contesting an election or going for senate but to have a greater say in the Rivers politics of which he was not getting. If he was not carried along as an APC member while PDP was in control, how is he sure he will be carried along now that APC are in control? Being faithful and honest in little things certainly gives one confidence if greater things should come along the way.
But wait, what if PDP wins in Rivers state in the guber? It is a possibility. Afterall, Amaechi could not deliver the state to APC.!!!

kpolli:
The North has the majority because the SW will need the SE and SS to kick him out.... And those two regions will not team up with the SW for now because of how the SW deserted GEJ....

Plus remember APC has a lot of SW people.... So they will support Buhari even if he performs 1000 times worse

From this smart thinking of yours, an Igbo president may likely come earlier than I thought. I am not from Igbo, but I saw sense in what you wrote.
Am not a fan of Okorocha too, but sometime last year in his address to the Igbos in diaspora, he said that it will be more easier for an Igbo presidency with APC than with PDP and this your calculation may be correct.

I am from Rivers state.

kpolli:
The North has the majority because the SW will need the SE and SS to kick him out.... And those two regions will not team up with the SW for now because of how the SW deserted GEJ....

Plus remember APC has a lot of SW people.... So they will support Buhari even if he performs 1000 times worse

Good thinking!!! Good product!!!!

Let us see how the people general will bundle her to prison without trial in a democratic setup. May be he can do so by throwing away the constitution of the nation and utilize decree instead which is a possibility from the way poor minded people are thinking.

Anyway, a minor point to consider!!
She has been a minister of petroleum for more than 8yrs now which include her ministerial years from our late president to the current one.
She has been a regional director in SPDC for years. May a thorough check on her credentials will save a lot of misinformation.

Certainly she will never be a poor woman. She has never been one!

Yes!! History indeed repeats itself again and again!! " I took the pains to read through the entire article, saw lots of truth and lessons to ponder about.
President Goodluck Jonathan no doubt is a rare breed. He showed it all in the elections. But my problem is if in the next four years, if the opposite should happen won't "baboons and monkeys not soaked in blood? ". Because "some corpers were gruesomely murdered in 2011".
That could have repeat itself even in a greater massive scale if not for the right thinking of a dear president to allow the will of the people and ignore the temptation of greed and attachment, two deadly passions of most African leaders.

Time indeed will tell!!

God bless Nigeria!!!

God bless Goodluck JONATHAN!!!

acenazt:
u do know u r d illiterate right? Cos if u just help or self and read about measures of curbing inflation, u'd see that making the naira better than the dollar is possible.

I can't wait to see when the Naira will be equal to the US Dolar.
I can't wait to see the day a cleaner will be earning $15,000.00 a month which is equal to the previous N15,000 the person is earning.

I can't wait to see our senators whose monthly salary is worth N45 million to be earning $45 million.

I can't wait to see when the world richest man will come from Nigeria.

Atleast in his first 100 days of the peoples general in office, we hope to see at least $1= N100.
Before four years we hope to see his dream come true.

One more thing, the Sai Baba group should not come to tell us to provide a link, video or audio of where our much loved president promised us all of these.
Because from the way am seeing, they will soon say so.