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Hope it was s not lead by pastor Ayo or money laundering pastor.

Fayose you know Buhari very well, if truly you rigged the election, u will not only be impeached but you know where you are going.

VoteOutPDPJona:
You may be right. He's a good hand. Obama even retained the defense secretary who is from the opposition. Unfortunately, many will oppose Nnaji because of where he comes from, not the content of his character.

May God save us from ethnic jingoists.

Please don't bring ethnicity into this, b4 Jonathan, people from his ethnic group has been making name in different ministries without opposition. Soludo, Okonjo, Oby, Dora etc so please and please don't bring that here.

SLIDEwaxie:
Very funny a guy. A reporter once asked him abt his state of health wen he returned from the campaign breaknin London.
My general said:
"How old are u?"
"42", the reporter replied. The general said, " if they asked both of us to run from here to there", he pointed forward, "u will not even stand up before I pass u and vanish".
Everybody laffed..
And with that, he went way..

He is funny and tough, if you fall victim you are on your own.

That is good.

We want to see the vodoo audit they claimed the had that reduced $20b that okonjo claimed to be $10b to just $1billion.
May God punish all those who wreck Nigeria with corruption.

Funny enough people were mocking them there were doing it symbolically that day, today it is done physically.

Aondoakaa!!!!!!!!!!! God forbid. Please APC relegate all of them to the background, render them useless before they derail you Like they did to PDP.

sammyj:
The fair of GMB is the beginning of wisdom in NNPC !!! How ever they should present the full outcome of the audit report for us to see since their Oga at the top is a goner !!!

No, we want a new report, if military can deny Buhari's certificate under Gej administration, what will be too big to be tampered with.

Abagworo:
Barth Nnaji is our best in power. He was pushed off by the energy mafia.

You understand me, the absence of this two ministers actually created the deficiencies in is government, I still think prof Barth is the best this administration has.

eleko1:
To come and do wetin ? Does it mean,U cant do better than the 2 if giving the post? There are many TOSIN,Mustapha and chinedu out there that can out perform the 2 above.Enuf is Enuf of recycling used product's'

BiHung:
Nonsense. The op is sick
Do you think APC does not have capable and intelligent hands.
We cannot allow a carryover of cluelessness...we asked for total change.

No, I believe APC and Nigeria has many capable hands that can solve many problems we are facing but I believe calling a tested and trusted hands is also good. Obama, Brazilian president and Australian president did the same thing when they won, Obama retain the defence Secetary despite being strong opposition.

Even Auditor general of the federation is in that mood also.

SomBaby:
All these congratulatory msgs to GEJ just for conceding is too much...its becoming plastic believe me... I think d man of d moment is GMB...be as it may...mind U, GEJ had no choice...its either concede or get out...period!

Jonathan has a lot of praise singers, this is what led to the fall of his government and since nothing to praise him for again what will they do. Expect more praise and sycophancy from his hard core supporters.

For me they can continue to praise him for that in as much as they will not turn it to hatred as usual because before you know they will turn it to christain/Muslim thing, north/south, PDP/ APC thing. I wish he will tell them now before the damage he s image the second time.

Professor Barth Nnaji and Bolaji Abdulahi were the ministers who hit the ground running immediately they were appointed.

Barth Nnaji performed wonder and he improved the state of electricity in Nigeria before he was unceremoniously sacked by this outgoing administration, however after his sack, his replacement has been nothing but total failure, he seems to take 10 steps backward from a step prof Naji took forward.

Bolaji Abudulahi met our football in mess and he declared the state of emergency immediately, this led to serious restructuring in sport administration and our subsequent Sporting event proved him right. His positive contribution to our sport ministry was timely and meaningful which led to AFCON victory and other sporting events.However his reign was cut short and our football and entire sporting performance nose dived into negative side from FIFA ban to very poor outing in different sporting arena.

I wish GMB can take notice of this two achievers who were unceremoniously sacked under Gej and recall them to support him to build a better Nigeria.

Long live Nigeria!!!!!!
God help GMB!!!!!
God bless Nigerdeltans!!!!!!.

Matthewbriggs:
The irony is all the above things you accuse PDP of trying to do is exactly what APC did to PDP.

1. You all termed GEJ clueless
2. Derailed the efforts of the government
3. Attacked GEJ reputation
4. And utilize the nations woe to recover and gather mass support.

Why are you then afraid of been fed with thier own medicine.

Jonathan derailed himself, he was loved by all but was very clueless in his actions.
He betrayed the love of people for useless sycophants and corrupt people around him.
He tried to set us against one another north vs south, Christian vs Muslim, Yoruba vs Igbo and others, north against north and so on. We were more divided under gej and that is due to his strategy.

He blamed opposition for his owner responsibilities, imagine a president that claimed the opposition did not make his power project work while we all know that under Barth Nnaji electricity improved, he blamed every thing he does not have solution to on Religion, ethnicity, opposition, tribes and common man. You can imagine a government that blamed innocent immigration applicant for their own death, while the minister moves freely unpunish.

The attitude of his supporters is also very bad, most of them are filled with hatred and evil, even if 20000 people die all they have to say is gej till 2019 or blame the dead, imagine Abia PDP chairman who said bokoharam should kill them very well on channels TV and I ask will you people still ask for vote from same people you wish bokoharam should kill.

I can continue to list why he failed till eternity so please don't blame anybody for his failures.

That will be good, however I want it to be based on verified evidence because I don't want another culture of impunity like this outgoing administration.

The organization I hate most is the military, the role they played with Buhari's certificate issue is very bad for the nation, it simply mean if I'm contesting with the sitting president my university can deny me as their student. It is a flagrant abuse of office the military did not even perpetuate during their infamous regime.
Honestly Gej messed up the institution in that aspect.

Even NTA now claim Buhari was trained in United State. I think both the military and NTA took it too far by denying the truth. For me I always know he has a good certificate but for the uninformed and gullible they should have say the truth.

Funny, I laughed my ribs out.

I respect you sir, if only church, mosque and other religious institutions can do the job properly and say the truth, Nigeria would have been better.

cc: Lalasticlala

Funny guy, he even condemed the man during the campaign some weeks ago.

DAKAR (Reuters) - When Chadian troops occupied parts of northern Nigeria in the 1980s, Nigerian Major-General Muhammadu Buhari chased them back across the border in a show of strength months before he seized power in a military coup.

Thirty years later, the 72-year-old former strongman has returned as head of state, defeating incumbent Goodluck Jonathan at the ballot box this week, and once again seems determined to end Chad's presence on Nigerian soil.

Chad's battle-hardened troops have been a driving force behind a regional offensive against Boko Haram that has expelled the Islamist group from the major towns of northeast Nigeria in a matter of weeks.

Buhari, himself a Muslim from the north, branded President Goodluck Jonathan's reliance on Chad to suppress the insurgency before the election as a national disgrace. He has promised to restore the territorial integrity of Africa's most populous nation.

In his first speech since winning office, Buhari said he would spare no effort to defeat Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people in its six-year-old campaign to carve out an Islamist caliphate in Nigeria.

His determination for Nigeria to wrest back the initiative may signal a check to a planned 10,000-strong regional force mandated by the African Union in January, meant to be headquartered in the Chadian capital N'Djamena.

With Buhari vowing to root out corruption and restore prestige to Nigeria's once-proud military, cooperation with neighbouring countries may return to the previous pattern of joint border patrols, rather than a multinational mission on Nigerian soil, analysts said.

"It's a national humiliation for Nigeria to see Chad doing the job of the Nigerian military and Buhari cannot accept that," said Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos, fellow at London-based think-tank Chatham House.

"That doesn't mean he'll stop international cooperation... but he'll try to leave the job of fighting Boko Haram with the Nigerian army."

In the long wait for Buhari's inauguration on May 29, the regional operation appears likely to continue. On Tuesday, Chad and Niger forces captured the border town of Malam Fatori, one of Boko Haram's last footholds – just as Buhari's election victory was confirmed.

Despite his nationalist rhetoric, Nigeria’s new president-elect was welcomed by West African capitals weary of Jonathan's long neglect of the Islamist uprising in an impoverished and sparsely populated corner of his country.

Senior army officers from Chad and Niger have denounced what they saw as a failure to cooperate by Nigeria, which launched its own separate offensive against Boko Haram. Without Nigerian troops alongside them to occupy liberated towns, Chadian troops have been obliged to retake some communities several times.

"It is impossible for Buhari not to do better than the previous government," Mohamed Bazoum, minister of state for the presidency in Niger, told Reuters. "He will be a good partner for us and I'm convinced that Nigeria will play an important role in eradicating Boko Haram."



CHAD’S DEBY WANTS MULTINATIONAL FORCE

Chad's President Idriss Deby, in an interview last week, called for the African Union force to be deployed quickly and said that the campaign against Boko Haram would take months to complete. He said the group could have as many as 20,000 fighters – far more than usually estimated.

Its revenues sapped by a slump in oil prices, Chad has led African calls for the United Nations to set up a trust fund to fight Boko Haram.

Deby, singled out as the 'Chadian Satan' by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, expressed his country's continued willingness "to contribute to the stability of the subregion" in a letter of congratulations to Bujari on Wednesday.


Leaders from west and central Africa will discuss the fight against Boko Haram at a summit on April 8 in Equatorial Guinea, but Buhari is not expected to attend, a Western diplomat said.

With an easing of Boko Haram's stranglehold over trade routes to Chad – a main motivation for Deby’s intervention – the urgency for its military intervention has eased.

The regional offensive appears to have hurt Boko Haram's operational capacity. Despite pledges by Shekau to disrupt elections in the north, it carried out only minor attacks.

Yet since the killing of its founder Mohammed Yusuf in 2009 in police custody, Boko Haram has proved its ability to go to ground and regenerate.

Buhari’s plan to combat corruption in Nigeria’s armed forces, improve the pay and equipment of soldiers, and impose a clear chain of command from political leaders in Abuja, will take time, the Western diplomat said.

Any return to violence by disgruntled former militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the cradle of Jonathan’s support, would distract attention from fighting Boko Haram. With oil prices depressed, Buhari's government may have less scope than its predecessor to buy peace in the Delta, analysts say.

But Buhari's commitment on defeating the Islamists – coupled with his reputation for toughness and northern credentials – could play an important role in winning the collaboration of the northern population, estranged from Abuja by years of indifference and army abuses.

"Buhari has been in the military. He knows the ins-and-outs of the military and I believe he's going to do better than Jonathan," said Aminu Issa, a civil servant in the northern town of Kaduna, a flashpoint of religious tensions. "There will no longer be any Boko Haram.”

An increase in support from people in the battleground state of Borno - which voted massively for Buhari - could prove his most effective weapon in the war against Boko Haram.

"The people of Borno will look at Abuja as being supportive which was not the case up until now," said Perouse de Montclos. "For me, the main difference will be hope. Simply hope."


http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINKBN0MT1IP20150402?irpc=932

I love Ijaw people, I watched the result in one hotel in Abuja, the hotel is owned by a delta Ijaw man and the place was filled mostly with ijaw and some Delta state extract. I was supprised that many of them have even accepted before they anouced delta result, while I was afraid of delta state result, the owner said I should just forget it that my man has won, his friend then invited me to join their table while they zip their beer.

He said his only concern his the militants and if Buhari can do something for them they will not fight.

I went to the bar outside only to see non ijaw supporters of Jeg whining and claiming they will work with Nigerdeltans to pay back Nigeria for Jonathan's loss. Two of them were even fuming when Orubebe started his madness and were making calls about how they will eliminate and destroy Nigeria from west to north.

While will someone cry more than the bereaved if he or she does not have hidden agenda that does not match with the bereaved.

Heard they are even protesting in Delta state.

Gbawe:
This nauseating u-turn from the NTA shows how badly Nigeria literally needs professionals of integrity everywhere. This is why some of us passionately wanted GEJ to be kicked out. He deliberately created a culture of avarice, political patronage and cynicism that compromised Nigerian institutions that should be independent, professional and entirely neutral. Instead every major institution became an arm of the PDP. I am looking forward to a Buhari-led drive towards a great Nigeria.

I think he likes patronage and praise singing, that was what ended is bright political future.

If not for his last decision which happenend to be his best ever decision, he would have gone down as the worst president ever. Thank God he listen to international advice and the words of real people not praise singers and he yielded to it, we can now write him in the history book. I just wish he can talk to the bitter remnants of his supporters not to use his name to spread hatred.

If you watch the way john Kerry reacted when he met Buhari for the first time, you will know United state has a lot of respect for him.

John Kerry met with Jonathan first and he just attended to him like ordinary man but when he met Buhari, jonh Kerry did not really know how to approach him until Buhari extended his hand for hand shake, that was when I know American government have great respect for American trained military Generals.

I guess ethnic prejudice has reduced us to nothing, we don't even value what we have provided he/she does not come from our ethnic group. May God Help Us.

This is what an intelligent person posted in January.

Eziachi:
Ben Gbulie should not join the bandwagon but tell the kids the truth. This is the sort of story we are used to when we are kids, that Hausa's are all illiterates, that at the London constitution conference , Ahmadu Bello and Balewa cannot write their own names and Zik had to hold their hands to write it with them.

That when tea and bread was served them, that they asked Zik whether they should dunk the bread in the tea or eat or eat the bread and drink the tea separately and Zik told them in Hausa while pretending to be praying.
And finally Zik hold the key to the River Niger, if he ever get angry he will turn it off.

By the time Buhari joined the army, teachers in the north were mostly the British and the Igbos. Most of the civil service post were occupied by Ndigbo until the 1966 fracas. The same with the army, it was the Igbos and the Yorubas that dominated the army when the British left. If he now is saying that Buhari got a preferential treatment, so southerners granted him such they could not grand their own people?

This is why I don't and will never believe the workability of one Nigeria, because of all these lies crooked politicians and so called elders tell young kids and they will grow up with them and believing them and it will continue to shape their thoughts. I am sure Its the same they tell them in the north too about us.

I wonder why people are so foolish to believe he does not have certificate after US government has retreated time without number that he was trained by them.

I guess many are just hypocrite and when you let sentiment determines your judgment, you will lack logical reasoning that is what makes a man foolish.

Many supporters of this present administration lacks logical reasoning that is why they que behind obvious lies and deciet.

I don't like this tribalism stuff I thought we are beyond that, anyway I blame Jonathan's useless government who tried to use religion, tribalism and hate campaign to cover up his clueless government. That is what you get when you have a very bad leader who is not mature and ready to progress.
For God sake why will you continue to stick with a failure all in the name of tribalism and ethnic prejudice when you have option to change him for potential better option.
I don't care who is gorverning the country provided the country is moving forward ( food is on my table, infrastructures are provided, hospitals are working properly, good roads are provided) or what is the benefit of siding with my tribal or religious mate that can not provide for today and guarantee tomorrow.
Kai!!!!!!!!!! I don't know why some people are so backward and shallow in thinking.

@OP please do not descend so low to their level, they just want to blame someone for sticking with a failure, that is what they are known for and that is who they are.

EFCC
POLICE REFORM COMMITTEE
POWER REFORM COMMITTEE
EDUCATION REFORM COMMITTEE
REFINERY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

I think he will fit into any of this area.

giddy01:
Of course Jonathan deserves to be commended. He could decide to annul the results of the election but he chose not to. Buhari would've called out Boko to continue bloodshed. Jona is the man of the moment. He has not called for the slaughter of corps members like some people did in 2011 when they failed at the polls.

Yes we have accorded him the due respect, we will still continue to do so but please let us not start this part of sycophancy and praise singing that affected the man's image badly. One thing I have noticed about his supporters is their inability to praise sing with modesty, without hatred and sycophancy.

Please leave the man alone and stop damaging his image the way you did when he was in the office.

Redoil:
All thanks to gej the hero of our time who in all honesty and humilty chose not to rig the election as it was been done by OBJ and tinubu so that nigeria will not divide. Yet the gworo chewing master and their perpetual slaves still voted him out.

I thought we have pass the era of lies, deceit, hatred and propaganda, even the paymaster who Paid you and gave you the script has succumb. Why all this incitement again? Pls lets forge ahead and build Nigeria as general just called today.

People just want to repackage this man by force after his abysmal failure and disappointment. Anyway I won't blame all of you, I said it b4 the election that this man will lose(because it was obvious only the blind blind will not see) but if he can hand over and swallow his pride that will be his Legacy. He did it and i salute him for that but I just want to warn the sycophants who praise sing him to failure not to over flog this legacy to failure also.