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Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state on Monday evening informed President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari that the North-East needs more oil money for the rebuilding process ahead.

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According to LEADERSHIP Shettima who is now chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum [NSGF], made the demand known in a paper which he is expected to deliver today at Day-Two of a conference organised by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD).

He said, ''Importantly, it is necessary for the federal government to recommend the allocation of at least 13 % of revenue derived from petroleum resources in addition to the usual monthly allocation to states in north eastern Nigeria in order to improve equity in the share of resources. Moreover, there is untapped petroleum in the North East. This will go a long way in improving national security, since inequality in the allocation of resources is one of the most significant factors in the current raging insurgency affecting the region and threatening to engulf the outside world.

''Therefore, we are calling for the establishment of a special intervention programme to salvage the region from socio-economic deprivation on one hand and environmental degradation on the other hand which leads to desertification and droughts with the consequent imbalance in ecological dynamics. It is our firm belief that this will go a long way to address the current socio-economic upheavals experienced in the region''.

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The police in Lagos State have arrested a driver, identified simply as Utebor, for the death of a lady in his apartment. Investigations had showed that the suspect took the lady home and as they were having sex, the victim died.


A neighbour was said to have alerted policemen from the Ipaja division, who arrested the suspect and deposited the victim’s corpse in a mortuary. The suspect picked up the victim around Baruwa Estate in the Ipaja area of the state, on Friday.


Nobody knew the victim’s name and address, just as no member of her family had shown up.

A source told PUNCH Metro:

“The man was driving his cab that fateful day when the lady flagged him down.She asked him for money, but he told her he didn’t have any money on him. He then asked her to enter the car and follow him home.

He took her to his apartment in Baruwa Estate and it was that night that the girl died. Investigation showed that it was while he was making love to her that she died. It was the following morning that somebody alerted the police.”

However, the suspect, in his confession told the police that he had picked the victim from the bus stop and taken her home when she suddenly died.

Another source explained that the suspect had continued to plead his innocence, saying he only helped the deceased and did not have sex with her. He said:

The man did not deny taking the girl home. But he explained that while she was in his room, she started shouting that she had a headache, and before he knew what was going on, she fell down and died.

“He said he was confused and didn’t know what to do. But obviously, that may not be all the truth.”

When PUNCH visited the area, residents were not willing to talk about the incident, as they claimed that they were not aware.

It was, however, learnt that the matter had been transferred to the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, where the suspect was undergoing interrogation.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident.

He said, “We have arrested the man. As I speak with you, the matter is under investigation at the DCI, to know what actually killed the lady. The deceased’s name and address are unknown.”

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this thread carried the news earlier. https://www.nairaland.com/2322959/nigeria-governors-forum-crisis-ends

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he really should go for checkup.

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Some of the women and children rescued from Boko Haram insurgents
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One of the women freed by soldiers from Boko Haram’s captivity, Meriam, 36, has narrated how the sect fighters trained and prepared girls and women for suicide missions.

Meriam, who had just arrived at one of the internally displaced persons’ camp in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital from Gwoza, revealed this to the New York Times.

She narrated how she was imprisoned with dozens of other women including some who were being trained as suicide bombers.

According to her, the suicide bomber after being brainwashed, will be assured of Allah’s forgiveness after death.

“The Boko Haram would recite the prayer for the dead,” Meriam said. “Then they would put on the hijab,” covering the suicide belt.

After they had prepared, “They said, ‘God will forgive us,’” she said. “Then, they would enter the vehicles, and they would send the women away.”

Meriam said she had seen a few of the Chibok village girls at the hospital in Gwoza, and said that the Boko Haram appeared to give them a special status.

The New York Times also reported that hundreds of women and girls captured by Boko Haram had been raped, many repeatedly, in what officials and relief workers described as a deliberate strategy to dominate rural residents and possibly even create a new generation of Islamist militants in the country

In interviews, the women described being locked in houses by the dozen, at the beck and call of fighters who forced them to have sex, sometimes with the specific goal of impregnating them.

“They married me,” said Hamsatu, 25, a young woman in a black-and-purple head scarf, looking down at the ground. She said she was four months pregnant, that the father was a Boko Haram member and that she had been forced to have sex with other militants who took control of her town.

“They chose the ones they wanted to marry,” added Hamsatu, whose full name was not used to protect her identity. “If anybody shouts, they said they would shoot them.”

Yahauwa, 30, used her green head scarf to wipe away tears as she clutched a plastic bag full of medicine. She had just tested positive for H.I.V.

“Is it from the people who forced me to have affairs with them?” she asked a relief worker, tears streaming down her face.

Later, she explained that she and many other women had been “locked in one big room.”

“When they came, they would select the one they wanted to sleep with,” she said. “They said, ‘If you do not marry us, we will slaughter you.’  ”

As the women spoke, two trucks crammed with more people arrived at the rudimentary camp guarded by watchful soldiers. Even the local news media are kept out.

Many of the residents of the camp spend the day outside in blazing 100-degree-plus heat here. They dare not return home.

The humiliation of what the refugees have been through led many of the women interviewed at the camp to deny being abused by the militants. But relief workers here said that when they arrived, many acknowledged that they had been raped.

Yana, a young woman wearing sparkling golden bangles, said the fighters had “parked” her – a word many women have used to describe their imprisonment – with about 50 other women in a house in Bama, Borno State’s second city, with a population of several hundred thousand. Bama was occupied by Boko Haram last September.

Inside the house, “If they want to have an affair with a woman, they will just take her to a private place, so that the others won’t see,” said Yana in a singsong voice. She could not recall her age; a relief worker at the camp here said she had been raped so often by Boko Haram that she was “psychologically affected.”

Yana said the militants had forced her to have sex with them.

Her feet and stomach were swollen and the relief worker said she was likely pregnant, though her test results had not come back yet. Others workers here said many of the women had signs of physical and psychological trauma from being raped repeatedly.

Fanna, a delicate 12-year-old who had arrived at the camp here three days before, crouched on the floor, clasping her knees, and insisted in her thin child’s voice that Boko Haram had not touched her.

“The sect leaders make a very conscious effort to impregnate the women,” said the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima. “Some of them, I was told, even pray before mating, offering supplications for God to make the products of what they are doing become children that will inherit their ideology.”

“It’s like they wanted to have their own siblings, to take over from them,” added Abba Mohammed Bashir Shuwa, a senior state official in Maiduguri.

A relief official at the camp who is working closely with the abused women echoed that thought. “We are going to have another set of Boko Haram,” said the official, Hadiza Waziri. “Most of these women now, they don’t want these pregnancies. You cannot love the child.”

The militants have openly promised to treat women as chattel. After Boko Haram militants kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from Chibok last year, the group’s leader called them slaves and threatened to “sell them in the market.”


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Anything that would fix Nigeria. if single account would stop the rot in the system, so be it.

barcanista:
The Governor-elect Ikpeazu will attend to it.

i pray so. That is, if he can survive the tribunals. All we need is good governance in aba. We don't care about the party. Just fix aba.

adedolapo4:
pretty sure you had a verrrry low GPA or currently having one...

would have made sense if you had removed the 'always'

the president of your country has first class abi? Dangote has first class abi? Abi Bill gate or carlos slim, the richest men in africa are first class graduates? When you graduate with a very high GPA, all your mindset would be to go find a very good job because you can't just let that fantastic GPA go to waste. I repeat, people with high GPAs would always be under people with low GPAs. That's the way the world works so you better deal with it.

PDP is going down and there's nothing anyone can do about it. so sad.

wow.

Nature always has a way.

Happy Birthday To the big man of CHANGE.

people would high GPAs would always be under people with low GPA. GPAs are crap.

When your mum is your junior....

i thought he was going to the UN?

Lagos – Some residents and business operators in Ikorodu area of Lagos on Thursday, expressed satisfaction at the cancellation of the annual tradition Oro festival.

Oro festival is traditional festival that restricts women and non indigenes’ movement, paralyses economic and social activities in the town for its duration.

Some of the residents and business men said that the cancellation of the 2015 Oro festival was due to the absence of a traditional monarch in the town.

They said that the festival, which was scheduled to hold on May 16, was cancelled because there was no king to give approval.

Mrs Silifat Adeyemi, a pepper trader at Ayangburen market said, “I am so happy that the Oro festival has been cancelled for this year. If it had held, we will not be able to come to the market as our movement will be hindered.

“I am trying to save money from the profit of my trading for the balance of my children’s school fees and unhindered trading activities is very crucial to me right now,” she said.

Mr Femi Awobona, a bricklayer said, “normally, I give my wife money for house upkeep on Saturdays but when she told me about the Oro festival scheduled for Saturday, my heart sank.

“This is because I knew I have to drop money before then and I didn’t have any money. When I heard about the cancellation of the Oro, I leapt for joy because God saved me from disgrace,”Awobana said.

Mr Innocent Ekegazie, an accountant, said that the Oro festival practice was archaic, barbaric and should be abolished by the government.

“The Oro tradition is an infringement on the rights of residents of the town and its practice is long overdue for abolishing .

“It is not an ideal practice and the world is too civilised for such an outdated tradition.

“It is unimaginable that on the day the festival is celebrated, we can not go out, businesses will not open, markets will be shut, even beer parlours will not open.

“The government should intervene and ensure that the cancellation is permanent. We do not want Oro festival again in Ikorodu,” he said.

It will be recalled that since the death of the last traditional monarch, Oba Salaudeen Oyefusi, on Aug. 2, 2014, a new king is yet to be coronated in the town.

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Chinedu Ikedieze, known popularly as Aki received a plea for mentorship messages from a fan who wants to be an actor, and his advice to the fan was pretty straightforward.

Was he a lil bit harsh?

See the convo after the cut:

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Residents of Orisigun Street, Iyana School bus stop, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State say they have been living in fear since the conclusion of the elections.

They explained that a gang of jobless political thugs had resorted to robbing them in the community at dawn.

According to reports, the gang, numbering six, laid siege to the street “almost every day” between 5am and 6am and dispossessed dwellers of their valuables, residents, who went to work at daybreak being the main targets of the political-thugs-turned-robbers, who reportedly wielded cutlasses, among other weapons.

Including shops in the area, had also fallen prey to looting, with owners losing millions of naira.

A resident, who claimed to have witnessed the incident twice, Sunday Adeyemi, said he escaped by a whisker on Wednesday while he was going to his office in Ikeja. He added that a lady was not lucky on the fateful day as the gang snatched her bag.

He said, “We were about four passing through the street around 6am on Wednesday. All of a sudden, the robbers ordered us to stop. We fled, but they chased us. The lady fell to the ground and that was how they were able to collect her bag. When we met again at Iyana School bus stop, she said her phones and N 7,000 were inside the bag.

“On Thursday around the same time, I narrowly escaped again. I saw them from afar and hid somewhere. They were six in number. A girl was going to buy recharge cards when they attacked her. They escaped through Aliu Street.”

Another resident, who identified himself only as Bukola, said the robbers were thugs used by politicians during the electioneering.

“They (the robbers) are the same set of people that caused trouble in the community during the political campaign. Now, they have resorted to robbery after the elections. We cannot walk around confidently again, particularly early in the morning,” he said.

Lamenting the incident, a landlord in the area, Muritala Akinyemi, said a man was equally robbed on Tuesday and injured by the gang. Akinyemi, who is also the welfare secretary of Orisigun Oja Oba Community Development Association, said robbery had been thriving in the community for years, but took a new dimension after the 2015 general elections.

He said “Around 6am on Tuesday, a young man ran into the mosque that he had been robbed of his money and phone. We contributed N200 for him to take a bus to his place of work. The robbers have been operating on the street for more than five years now. Sometimes, policemen patrol this area, but nobody has been arrested so far.”

The vice chairman of the association, Chief Musbau Akinyemi, urged the police to intervene and put an end to robbery attacks and cultism in the community.

He said, “We have petitioned the Area H Command and Alapere Police Station over the incidents, but we have yet to see any meaningful response from them. We want the police to take urgent steps to curtail these ugly trends.”

The Lagos State Police spokesperson, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, enjoined the residents to assist in securing the community and avail the police of credible information to track down the miscreants.

He said, “The residents need to provide us with credible information and actionable intelligence. We will act on it and get the perpetrators arrested.

“They should also put in place some vibrant neighbourhood watch programmes to protect the community. Common sense shows that for those miscreants to rob at daybreak, they must be residents of the area.”

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operamini hands down.

i see two fat lips.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 arraigned the Kwara State Commissioner for Information, Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye, and Ope Saraki, cousin to Bukola Saraki, former governor of Kwara State and Senior Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, before Justice A.O Faji of the Federal High Court, Ilorin for offences bordering on abuse of office, awarding contracts to cronies, diversion of public funds and money laundering.

Moronfoye was docked on a three count charge while Saraki who was arraigned alongside his companies: Cogent Integrated Service Nigeria Limited and Ladida Support Service Limited were arraigned separately on a five count charge.

Moronfoye while being the Senior Special Adviser to the former governor (Bukola Saraki) allegedly used his position to enrich himself.
Specifically, he allegedly awarded contracts to the tune of over N200m (two hundred million naira) for the renovation of Ijagbo Primary Health Centre and Specialist Hospitals within the State, to a company in which he has interest and was the sole signatory to the account.

Saraki similarly abused his office and laundered state funds for his personal benefit by awarding inflated contracts to companies owned by his cronies.
In one of the transactions involving the purchase of Ambulance Buses for hospitals in the state, Saraki duped the people of Kwara State by procuring thirteen Hiace buses from a

“Local Car Dealer” and converting them to ambulance in place of factory built ambulance for which a contract of N171,990,000.00 (one hundred and seventy one million, nine hundred and ninety thousand naira) was awarded to Chemiroy Nigeria Limited.
One of the counts read:

“That you, Ope Saraki being the Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to Governor of Kwara State sometime in 2012 at Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did by undue interest conducted procurement fraud in the procurement of 13 Units of Ambulance for 13 General/Specialist Hospitals in Kwara State at the sum of N171,990, 000.00 (One Hundred and Seventy One Million, Nine Hundred and Ninety Thousand Naira only) a contract awarded to Chemiroy Nigeria Limited and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 58 (4) (b) of the Public procurement Act, 2007 and punishable under Section 58 (5) of the same Act”.

The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to them.

Upon their pleas, counsel to EFCC Joseph O. Uzor urged the court to fix a date for trial to commence. But, the defence, represented by J.O Olatoke, SAN, told the court that, he had a pending application for the bail of the accused persons.

Moving the application, Olatoke, argued that bail is a constitutional right of the accused noting that the accused has been on administrative bail of the Commission since 2013 and had not breached the bail condition.

Olatoke further told the court that, the accused, Moronfoye, is suffering from a peculiar ailment that warrant him using respirator consistently to sustain his life. According to him, the prison service does not have the medical facility to treat and maintain the peculiar health condition of the accused.

“Having not abused the administrative bail granted him (Moronfoye) by the prosecution, we urge your Lordship to admit him to bail while assuring you that he will always be available to stand his trial”, Olatoke pleaded.

However, Uzor countered, saying that “the accused could be evasive if admitted to bail”.

Uzor argued that the Nigeria Prisons Service had well organized medical facilities in its locations across the country with equipments and competent manpower to attend to any ailment. He urged the court to exercise its discretion judicially and judiciously.

After listening to the submissions of both counsel, Justice Faji admitted the accused to bail in the sum of N50m (fifty million naira) and two sureties in like sum. The sureties must produce “Certificate of Occupancy” of landed property within urban area of Ilorin and must swear to affidavit of means. The sureties must also produce evidence of tax payment for three years. The accused must be reporting to EFCC Head Office every three weeks and must also notify EFCC whenever he intends to travel outside the country.
Eventually, when Saraki’s case was called, since the case is similar to that of Moronfoye, both parties conceded that the court has a discretionary power to grant bail.
In the circumstance, Justice Faji adopted his earlier ruling on the bail application granted Moronfoye. The difference in the two rulings is that while Moronfoye retains custody of his International Passport, Saraki would have his own deposited with the court.

The case has been adjourned to September 22, 2015 and October 20, 2015 respectively, for hearing.

In a related development, one Kayode Gabriel Adeniji together with his companies, Kabriel Global Concept Limited and Mide Landmark Ventures Limited were also arraigned today before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Jabi, Abuja on a five- count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, cheating and fraudulent conversion of property.

The accused are being prosecuted for allegedly defrauding the complainant, Mrs. Christiana Adetola Makanjuola, owner of a parcel of land situated at Plot 19, Gwarimpa 1, Cadastral Zone CO2, Abuja, to the tune of N235 million( Two Hundred and Thirty-Five Million Naira).

Both Adeniji and Makanjuola had initially signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for the development of the property, but the former defaulted, thereby making it impossible for the parties to draw up a proper property agreement.

One of the counts reads:
“That you Kayode Gabriel Adeniji; Kabriel Global Concept Limited and Mide Landmark Ventures Limited on or about January 2013 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did conspire among yourselves to dishonestly convert to your own use proceeds from the sale of fractions of plot number 19 Gwarimpa 1, Cadastral Zone C02, Abuja belonging to Mrs. Christiana Adetola Makanjuola, thereby committed and offence contrary to section 96 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 97 of the same Code.”

The accused person pleaded not guilty to all the charges when they were read to him.

Justice Halilu, however, ordered that the accused be remanded in Kuje Prison pending the determination of the bail application and adjourned the matter to June 8, 2015 for commencement of trial.

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A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has ordered a former governor of Anambra State, Jim Nwobodo, to vacate his rented home in Maitama, Abuja, over his failure to pay his accumulated rent of about N11m.
Justice S. B Belgore ordered Nwobodo to relinquish the property located at 24, Ona Crescent, Plot 768 Cadastral Zone A5, Maitama Abuja, to the owner, Adin-Miles International Limited.


The property is said to be a six bedroom mansion with one bedroom guest chalet and two rooms boys quarters.


The court ordered Nwobodo to pay the N11m arrears due from June 1, 2009 till May 31, 2011, when the suit was instituted and other sums of money covering the period before the judgment was delivered.


The court had delivered the judgment on March 3, 2015, but a copy of it was only sighted by our correspondent on Wednesday.


The suit was said to have been instituted after many failed attempts to get Nwobodo to pay the accumulated rent.


The landlord had then asked a lawyer, Mr Obinna Ajoku, to institute the suit, after futile efforts by the landlord to implement the judgment.

In the judgment, the judge granted all the reliefs sought by the plaintiff, including an order that Mwobodo “should deliver vacant possession” of the property to the plaintiff.
The court also ordered that he should pay the sum of N11m as rent arrears and that he should pay “mense profi at the rate of N458,333 only per month from June 1, 2011 until judgment was delivered”.


The court also ordered him to renovate the premises or pay N3m to the plaintiff for the same purpose.


‎”I have no hesitation therefore in granting all the reliefs of the plaintiff/defendant and dismissing the counter-claim of the defendant,” the judge had held.


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Ishau Arowolo has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl, Sofiatu Akilolu, to death.

According to reports by Punch, the incident apparently happened when the suspect decided to lurk in the bush in the community where he saw his soon to be victim and pounced on her, raping her and then dumping her body in the river before crying death by drowning.

Sofiatu had been sent by her parents to a river in the area to fetch water when she was ambushed by her attacker.

Luckily for the deceased, she was accompanied by a friend, identified simply as Abibatu, who when the incident happened, alerted the community that Sofiatu was being raped in a bush.

Apparently, it isnt the first time little girls would go to fetch water at the river called Agude. On that day, the two girls met Ishau (Arowolo) and greeted him.

During her narration, Abiatu said they observed he was coming behind them. Suddenly, he grabbed Sofiatu and entered into a bush to carry out the act.

According to the Police, “When we got to the place, we did not find both of them, except their clothes and shoes. We began to comb the forest, until someone raised the alarm that Arowolo was hiding in the river. When we checked, he was found and pulled out.

“Minutes later, we also found Sofiatu. He might have drowned the girl after he raped her. She was unconscious, while blood was dripping from her private parts.”

Sofiatu was taken out of the river and rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was confirmed dead.

Angry youths, who learnt of the girl’s death, reportedly beat up Arowolo, but they were said to have been prevented from lynching him by elders.

The little girl has been buried and Arowolo charged to court on several counts.

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shout out to the trekker. His hustle don finally pay.

e wan kill the servant slave ni?

Few weeks ago, Senator-elect and chairman of the Silverbird Group announced that he has never flown first class before.

Last night,Murray-Bruce who has become an over night sensation on Twitter shared a picture to back his claim.

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is she castigating her religion?

not good.

In 2004 when George W. Bush junior, who had called an illegal war against Iraq, propelled by exposed lies, won the US presidential (re)elections; Daily Mirror UK was not abashed to immediately call-out the conscience rejects who voted for Bush’s second term. The magazine came out with the caption, “How Can 59,054,087 People Be So Dumb?”

gejj

Nigeria’s case was called even before the elections. Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka put it aptly (allegedly), when he said:

“Only four sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) Those who are intellectually blind, (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity, (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands, & (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses."

It was so before the elections set for February 14th 2015. It remained so before the fraudulently postponed elections were later held April 28th 2015 and it remains so, ever more so, after, with the revelations about gross squandering of Nigeria’s common wealth and the preparation for transfer of a nation so indebted it cannot afford to pay its workers salaries.

12.85 million votes were recorded for the wicked. Now, do not get it twisted; we do not believe the PDP/Jonathan scored these 12.85 million votes. More than half were made-up, rigged as we now see with Akwa Ibom and Rivers state where almost a million votes a piece were manufactured in the gubernatorial elections, over the accredited votes as INEC instruments reveal. So we do know that in the alleged PDP states, votes of millions of good people were tossed in the trash as fake ballots numbers were made up; but still the numbers of misled and wicked voters is quite uncomfortable across certain states in Nigeria.

These people (who include the likes of Nuhu Ribadu and his ilk in Adamawa, so do not think it is limited to regions), voted for a murderer of my brothers and sisters. These people voted for a thief who has confessed to be a thief and protector of thieves. There is no question with the election associated successful last minute (6-week war) campaign against Boko Haram, that these (Boko Haram) murderers who freely unleashed a pogrom on the people of Borno and Adamawa were tolerated for 6 years by Jonathan. Those who voted for him voted for the killers of innocent Kanuris and abductors of Chibok’s princesses. What type of wicked or confused people are these who would do such?

What type of people will vote for a ruler and party that have led Nigeria for 16 years (30 if Babangida, PDP patron’s military rule is included) who have led us to a state where we are so broke we have to borrow to pay worker salaries and borrow to keep up with legislooters raking in 30% of our income? Only very wicked, very misled or very criminal people will vote for such a wicked choice.

Now do not get it twisted. You do not have to vote for Buhari. Those who read my writings know that I initially supported the candidacy of the younger Kwankwaso and was a fervent red cap revolutionist, before the wise, elderly Buhari won the primaries, however if you decide not to vote Buhari, that is fair enough, you can abstain from voting then, but to put thumb down for Jonathan; you are evil, misled or criminal and there is no mincing words about that.

This is not a game. It is not some politics game as the colonialist tries to teach you where everyone has a say and choice and no one is evil for exercising his democratic constitutional rights; No! This is registered evil. To put thumb down for a man who today confesses that he is a criminal, blaming his friends and advisers, and expects to be killed for his robbery; to put ink on thumb for a man who we now all see stole the nation’s billions of dollars to pay for his personal presidential campaign; who lied about Boko Haram and allowed the murder, rape and abduction of thousands and displacement of millions. To vote a kakistocrat who with his party supervised terror of Boko, MEND Ombatse (who the Fulani’s had to help us get rid of after Jonathan tolerated them even after they killed police families), who supervised oil theft and pollution destroying the entire Niger Delta irreparably; who pays terrorists to “protect” oil lines…voting for such a man/Party is evil and in excusable. I am reading the lying Aribisala who falsely claims Buhari promised to make Dollar: Naira 1:1, I am reading Chidiebere’s “Cry not for the Igbos (2),” where he shamelessly stands by the evil of voting for a self confessed clueless thief. The Bible says of them: “Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.” – Proverbs 19:24.

As I have said in the past, you must apologize to your neighbor and repent to God if you voted for Jonathan and the PDP. It is sickening to live with such people; I wish they could carve out their own planet to live with Jonathan as their king upon.


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Dr. Peregrino Brimah; http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something] Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian

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“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

THE 2015 general elections might be over but the indelible footprints it left on our political shore will remain trans-generational in the annals of history. Historians will continue to make reference to 2015 as a year that redefined Nigeria’s political voyage, when taken into considerations landmark successes recorded during the course of this noble exercise and the entrenchment of democratic principles in the polity, which ultimately made Nigeria the true winner of these elections.

It is no longer news that President Goodluck Jonathan of PDP, gallantly lost to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressives Congress, who is now President-Elect of Nigeria. Congratulations to the nation’s indefatigable President-Elect, Gen.Muhammadu Buhari, who defiled all the hurdles placed on his way to emerge as the nation’s democratically elected president, but a million congratulations should go to President Jonathan, who made it possible for the long-silenced voice of Nigerians to be heard now by creating an enabling political environment that enabled our votes to count, by providing Prof. Attahiru Jega’s led INEC adequate resources and true independence it required to deliver the much-needed free and fair elections. President Jonathan transcended into heaven of statesmen and engraved his name in gold when he made that historic call to congratulate Gen. Buhari, which secured the much needed post-election peace in the country.

This courageous step has not only deepened our democracy, but has set the pace for losers in the just concluded Governorship and State Assembly polls to congratulate the winners.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (L), and APC main opposition party's presidential candidate Mohammadu Buhari shake hands under the eyes of Chairman of the Abuja Peace Accord former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar (C), after signing the renewal of the pledges for peaceful elections on March 26, 2015 in Abuja. Security is a major concern at Saturday's vote both from Boko Haram violence against voters and polling stations to clashes between rival supporters. In 2011, around 1,000 people were killed in violence after Jonathan beat Buhari to the presidency. AFP PHOTO

*Jonathan, Gen Abubakar and Gen Buhari

The story of 2015 general elections would not be complete without mentioning the roles played by Igbos in deepening Nigeria’s democracy. I was inspired to write this piece when I came across articles written for the sole purpose of portraying Igbos as being politically naïve for throwing their weight behind President Jonathan. Some of the so-called voodoo analysts described Igbos as a race wallowing in ‘political wildernesses’ because of their massive and formidable support for President Jonathan. Unfortunately, all these baseless and ignoble attacks on Igbo nation for making their choice were borne out of sheer ignorance of what truly defines an Igbo man or woman. These media tigers pouring venoms on Igbo race are simply bereft of the reasons why Igbos voted for Jonathan. Igbos voted for Justice, Equity and Freedom not Jonathan, fortunately for him, he represented the three main reasons why Igbos voted for PDP in bloc. President Jonathan did a lot to heal the wounds of civil war which endeared him to the Igbos; he gave Igbos a sense of belonging by integrating Igbos both politically and economicallyinto the nation’s centrifugal equation of governance. He made Igbos understood that this country belongs to all of us, irrespective of our places of birth, tribe and religion.

I can say it authoritatively without mincing words that Igbos will still vote for Jonathan a thousand times again without regrets if he chooses to contest again in the near future; as long as we continue to sense that scent of justice, equity and freedom in him. Anyone accusing Igbos of being gullible for voting for justice and self-emancipation in the name of Jonathan, is either drowning in the ocean of naivety or wandering in the desert of illusions, which is the hallmark of a person crying more than the bereaved.

I CAN say it authoritatively without mincing words that Igbos will still vote for Jonathan a thousand times again without regrets if he chooses to contest again in the near future; as long as we continue to sense that scent of justice, equity and freedom in him. Anyone accusing Igbos of being gullible for voting for justice and self-emancipation in the name of Jonathan, is either drowning in the ocean of naivety or wandering in the desert of illusions, which is the hallmark of a person crying more than the bereaved.

Most of the self-righteous opinion writers are of the School of thought that it would be difficult for an Igbo man to govern a heterogeneous nation like Nigeria base on the current political permutations. Unfortunately for them, an average Igbo person is productive, progressive, industrious, self-determined, republican in nature; and independent of government at the centre to survive. This explains why Igbo has remained the most adventurous nation in the entire black race, which positioned them as the engine propelling Nigeria’s economic development.It is an irrefutable assertion that Lagos State as the economic capital of Nigeria attained this enviable status because of economic dexterity and investment prowess of the wise men of the East who migrated to the City of excellence in search of greener pasture as a result of their metropolitan nature and adventurous spirit.

Political power or not, Igbo nation would continue to thrive, survive and progress in any corner of the globe where human beings have the innate ability to survive.

Therefore, those crying for the Igbos for expressing their quest for justice, equity and freedom should spear their tears for other noble cause. President Jonathan lost the election, but the Igbos won the war against agents of divide-and-rule by uniting and speaking with one voice for the first time, which is sending jitters down the spine of those who have being using divide-and-rule to incite Igbo brothers and sisters against each other. Never again will any Nigerian with Igbo blood flowing in his veins be treated as a second class citizen in this forced marriage called Nigeria.

Why it is that other regions expressed their franchised without fear, but Igbo nation is being vilified and insulted for upholding their fundamental human rights by voting for candidates of their choice? Must everyone be intimidated into voting for a particular candidate? Igbos are not against President-Elect, Gen.Mohammadu Buhari but against the proponents of marginalisation and inequality, who view Igbos as a conquered and defeated race that must be kept down at all cost.

Igbo nation is ever ready to give their maximum support to the incoming administration provided it will prove to us through its policies and programmes that the civil war has ended and Nigeria of the 21st century is no longer the same country of 1960s, that every Nigerian irrespective of his language and faith is free to live and work in any part of this country without fear of intimidation or segregation.

As long as humanity persists, Igbos will continue to co-exist peaceful with other fellow Nigerians in any part of this country. To my fellow Igbo opinion writers, who insult the sensibilities of Igbo nation in other to project themselves as pan-Nigeria, or those who have sold their conscience and birth right to be able to eat the crumbs falling from their masters’ table, posterity beckons! Why I am at a very high risk of being tagged an ethnic bigot for standing up for justice and freedom of my people, I will like to state clearly that a man, who is not ready to die for the cause he believes in; is not worthy to live, apology to Martin Lutherking, Jr.

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