₦airaland Forum

989900:
There is 'godfatherism' too in the states, virtually almost everywhere (silent/vocal/visible/invisible). I get what you mean though (liked ur comment), our is just tooooo much.

OBAFEMIawolowo:
shouldn't we be interested in the progress of this nation? Rather than being a partisan in this. The statusquo of this country reflects the fruitlessness in the reasoning of people like you.

anonimi:
Obviously many do not understand that OBJ is supposed to be an elder statesman and should behave as such not like some ragtag tout who can make any pronouncement.

Why does Bush, Clinton others not criticise Obama openly unnecessarily

lalazticlala:
am asking my self that question too

not4sure:
Don't Mind them do you notice that ever since Obasanjo has made that act of tearing the Membership card Mr President has been staying in southwest. So tell him Obasajo is not relevant. I am sure if OBJ open his doors, GEJ will run to him ASAP

rusher14:
1 Dollar = 215 Naira only

Lolz... Kindly take out the "only" abeg. Some of us using the Dollar in international markets know that the "only" is painful to let go.

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President Goodluck Jonathan has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of ridiculing Nigeria before the international community and of scaring investors away from the country by his consistent criticism of his administration.

In an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, Mr. Jonathan said Mr. Obasanjo, by his utterances, was creating the impression that Nigeria is a country on the verge of collapse.

Mr. Jonathan therefore advised the former president to be civil in his criticism so as not to create the impression that the country is in crisis.
“For one reason or the other, Obasanjo may disagree with me as his first political son. You can even disagree with your own biological children, as a human being, not to talk of disagreeing with your political children. So, he can agree or disagree with me, but the utterances have to be managed in a way that it does not affect the economy and security of this country.

“But I will use this opportunity, because you asked, to just plead with my father that he is a leader, a former president of the country. He has led the country more than anybody — eight years of democratic governance and almost four years of military governance. No other person has that kind of record.

“The stability of this country is critical in terms of the economy of this country. Rating agencies downgrade countries that are going into elections because the feeling is that there would be crisis. When you paint the colour of instability for your own nation, you are doing so much injustice to the country because it affects the economy of the country, not just affecting the country in terms of security and social issues alone. It affects the economy directly. So, I plead with very senior citizens that Nigeria is dear to us; we don’t have any other country than Nigeria.

“So, actions and inactions, or utterances, should be guarded so that we don’t expose our country to the international community as if it is a country in danger, a country that is about to collapse. You are frightening investors, especially those who invest hot cash, to pull out their money from the country and that would affect the stock market and it would affect the economy.”
Mr. Jonathan however insisted that he remained a political child of Mr. Obasanjo, saying he owes his rise to political prominence to the influence of the former President.

“First and foremost, Obasanjo is a father to me. By divine providence and the grace of God, I am the President of Nigeria today. It is not by my strength. But God uses human beings to actualise His own blessings on human beings. And he used so many Nigerians, including former President Obasanjo, to play one role or the other for me,” he said.

“I became the deputy governor of a state, became the governor, the vice president and president. I have no issues with him, and I really don’t want to join issues with President Obasanjo. I think it is not necessary,” he added.

The relationship between both men worsened after Mr. Obasanjo’s wrote an 18-page open letter to Mr Jonathan on December 2, 2013, blaming the president for failing to deliver on his promises to Nigerians. He also accused him of making no effort to check the growing corruption in the country and allowing insecurity to degenerate.

In the letter, Mr. Obasanjo also accused Mr Jonathan of hounding prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party opposed to his second term ambition.

Since then, Mr. Obasanjo has relentlessly criticised the Jonathan administration and all efforts by party chieftains to reconcile both of them have failed.

Matters got to a head last Monday after Mr Obasanjo, who apparently got wind of a plan to expel him from the party, dumped the party before the plan was executed. On the occasion, Mr Obasanjo, not one to leave without creating a spectacle, asked the PDP ward leader to tear his membership card.

He also announced his retirement from active politics and expressed his desire to be a statesman.

Mprex:
Op dont mind these people asking you to stay away from the guy oh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXySRSUSR-0

A phone conversation between SaharaReporters and Idowu Adelusi, the Chief Press Secretary for Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, reveals the latest attempt by Fayose’s team distort his involvement with rigging the Ekiti State gubernatorial election last year.

Governor Fayose’s position on the audio recording of a meeting between him, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Police Minister Jelili Adesiyan, Senator Iyiola Omisore; and Brigadier General A.A Momoh plotting to rig the Ekiti State election has continuously evolved since SaharaReporters first leaked the story.

The story of the plot was first broken by SaharaReporters on February 5th, which only described the conversation between Governor Fayose and the others; the recording would not be released until later.

On February 6th Fayose denied that a meeting ever took place, and that the audio was fabricated by SaharaReporters using special computer software—this before SaharaReporters had even released the recording and transcripts to the public.

About one week later, SaharaReporters revealed another audio recording of Fayose speaking at a public rally the previous day. In it, Fayose offered a new version of events and admitted to have participated in the meeting with Obanikoro, Brigadier General Momoh, and others. Fayose can be heard on that audio recording saying “listen to the [leaked] tape, you will see I am one accusing the army of compromise,” indicating that he was at the meeting and that he was confronting Brigadier General Momoh of rigging the elections.

Governor Ayo Fayose is no longer the only individual admitting to have been present at the recorded meeting, both Jelili Adesiyan and Musiliu Obanikoro have said they were there but that they were not offering to bribe Brigadier General Momoh or plotting to rig the election. All three men now claim that Brigadier General Momoh was taking bribes from the APC, and that they were simply confronting him about his compromises.

Mr. Idowu Adelusi, the Chief Press Secretary for Governor Fayose, told SaharaReporters during a recent interview “if you listen carefully to the audio tape you will discover that it was Ayo Fayose was complaining that he was accusing it. The Brigadier General Momoh who was taking bribes from the former governor Fayemi and APC.”

When asked whether Governor Fayose was present during the recording, Adelusi said “Yes Fayose, I won’t call it a meeting, Fayose was acting on information he got on between Brigadier General Momoh and the APC trying to manipulate the election and trying to rig the election.”

However when SaharaReporters began quoting Fayose’s statements on the audio about bribing INEC officials to bring him blank election ballots Mr. Adelusi argued that “you didn’t listen to the recording very well,” and that “you will find the things you are saying about is not on the audio tape.” When pushed to on the subject of Fayose demanding to know why the blank INEC ballots had not reached him Mr. Adelusi repeatedly claimed that he could no longer hear SaharaReporters questions.

Idowu’s statements become more confused when he was asked about Fayose’s anger that Brigadier General Momoh was not arresting APC leaders like they had previously agreed. Mr. Adelusi argued that Governor Fayose was demanding that Brig. General Momoh arrest the APC leaders for trying to manipulate the elections in Ekiti. Adelusi said: “[Ayo Fayose] as a candidate must report to Brig. General Momoh that certain people are trying to cause problems. And that they should be arrested. [He has] the right to report to the head of security.”

Idowu Adelusi could not explain why Governor Fayose would go to Brigadier General Momoh to arrest the APC leaders for rigging, when he had first said that the meeting was called because they “had information” that Brigadier General Momoh was taking bribes from the APC.

Last week President Goodluck Jonathan told the Wall Street Journal that the audio SaharaReporters leaked was not worth investigating because “it’s not real.” His statement to the Wall Street Journal, however, contradicts the statements by Governor Fayose, Senator Obanikoro, and Minister Adesiyan who now all admit the recording is real.

tolextony:
HOW TO BE AN APC MEMBER OR
FAN
1. Create lies; 2. Attack and insult
violently when facts are presented;
3.Scream "Sai Buhari" if faced with
superior argument.
4. Lose your sense of rationality and
logic.
5. Insult the president and anyone
that supports him
6. Lie that GEJ stole $49 billion.
7. Disagree with any event or post
that portrays GEJ in a goodlight and
agree with any event or post that
portrays GEJ in a badlight.
8. Disagree with any event or post
that portrays GMB in a badlight and
agree with any post showing him in
a goodlight.
6. Celebrate bokoharam attacks by
shouting "GEJ is Clueless, Our
soldiers are weak and 6weeks is
counting oh"
What surprises me is the ease and
unremorseful impunity at which
Buhari and his supporters tell lies.
You can never see any iota of
morality in them, it's such a shame!
If they tell you they represent
change tell them to refute the
attached picture. Imagine Tinubu
telling you he will fight
corruption..don't be decieved..Vote
wisely.

Sorry, but you obviously posted rubbish. Come to think of it, I've seen a handful of this post on the forum. Are you guys paid to copy and paste? Why are you guys living up to the name "robot"

deletrue:
Intelligence nor dey for age, except that when one becomes matured, his level of reasoning also increases. What you have posted shows that you are a top class individual, be it academics, be it maturity just name it. You are too much.
Am usually happy when I come intelligent people. In my days, I usually study very hard, infact, day and night to be able make above average.

ManMountain:
oloshi, keep writing nonsense

Oloshi abi Oloshi! Iya yen lo n ko won ni Geesi

safarigirl:
so na that one you dey eye for here abi? We go dey catch una one by one

udemzyudex:
thanks for correcting me bro..

Show us ur English result lets see what you score.
Even person wey no get even D7 dey form professor..

Emmafrancis:
How can you be so sure that PEJ or PDP is behind this attack?

udemzyudex:
This is what av been waiting for,as usuall the APC dancer will come out to say trash....

Yes, as usuall. It seems PEJ is your English language teacher

sincerenigerian:
Nigeria is slowly drifting towards anarchy. We have a lawless president and co president in PEJ. These two monsters are desperate to hold on to power. PEJ wants to turn Rivers State to her pet project and ATM.

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, of being responsible for the attack on members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress in Okrika, Rivers State, on Tuesday.

Amaechi, who spoke on Tuesday with newsmen in Abuja after an enlarged APC leaders’ meeting at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, condemned the act of violence and expressed disappointment over the law enforcement agents’ failure to ensure a hitch free campaign for the APC, despite having earlier assured the party of security and gave approval for the campaign to hold.

He added, “Again, as usual, the wife of the President won’t allow the APC hold rally in that place (Okrika). The wife of the President and the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers again organised thugs to disrupt the APC rally.

“As usual, the police couldn’t protect us; over 200 policemen. I asked the commissioner of police and he said they have over 200 policemen there. Yet, three explosions and then they opened fire on members of APC. The Channels TV reporter, I hear, was injured, stabbed, and members of APC injured.

“We had meetings with DSS (Directorate of State Service) and police and they confirmed we could go ahead. There were 200 policemen and there were over 20 to 30 DSS men, who came there and they did nothing.”

ammyluv2002:
U've said it all..1000 likes from me jare and for the records you're sounding very real and not like an old man dis shows you have seen what life is and what it should be through Christ that strengthens you. I'm really impressed with your post *kudos *

naijabioy:
Rubbish thread
Op you can go to hell for all I care