₦airaland Forum

mazzi:
u be foool! So we should shun history abi?

opunu which history did he increase the price atleast your master increase it from #65 to #97.

asadike:
That's good my president. Na so him go take congratulate u by march 28. After all, one good turn deserves another and my people dey talk am say, 'ezi oyi ka ajo nwanne.

yeye dey smell

he shall congratulate to you in prison

Nigerians wake up the change we seek is here.No more corruption

Pdp + daft=gej.THat man is God punishment to we Nigerians

mama piss ur jail go have air conditioning

it won't work

if I hear

he should be hang

na my VP be that

pastor alatenuje

ozo13:

http://newsrescue.com/documentary-lies-aitgej-barcanista-nairaland/ another political ashawo.dey switch side wn ever thre s gonna b a gain.

My brother your head dey there

may Allah help FFK.Bcose this guy need help

oshi rubbish.wetin make we do,hissssss

Redoil:
Never again should we fall into the hands of evil cabals been controlle by tinubu and his evil minions from the sea/hell
Nigerians shine ur eyes ur destiny is in ur hand APC and their evil minions are the biggest problem we are having and facing if we make any mistake with these people then and then you are on ur own.
Last warning

ode oponu,mad man on the loose

ections
Science & Environment
Science & Environment
Solar Impulse plane begins epic global flight
By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
9 March 2015
From the section Science & Environment
A record-breaking attempt to fly around the
world in a solar-powered plane has got under
way from Abu Dhabi.
The aircraft - called Solar Impulse-2 - took off
from the Emirate, heading east to Muscat in
Oman.
Over the next five months, it will skip from
continent to continent, crossing both the
Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the process.
Andre Borschberg was at the controls of the
single-seater vehicle as it took off.
He will share the pilot duties in due course
with fellow Swiss, Bertrand Piccard.
The plan is stop off at various locations
around the globe, to rest and to carry out
maintenance, and also to spread a
campaigning message about clean
technologies.
Before taking off, Borschberg told BBC News:
"I am confident we have a very special
aeroplane, and it will have to be to get us
across the big oceans."
"We may have to fly for five days and five
nights to do that, and it will be a challenge.
"But we have the next two months, as we fly
the legs to China, to train and prepare
ourselves."
The project has already set a number of world
records for solar-powered flight, including
making a high-profile transit of the US in
2013 .
But the round-the-world venture is altogether
more dramatic and daunting, and has required
the construction of an even bigger plane than
the prototype, Solar Impulse-1.
This new model has a wingspan of 72m, which
is wider than a 747 jumbo jet. And yet, it
weighs only 2.3 tonnes.
Its light weight will be critical to its success.
So, too, will the performance of the 17,000
solar cells that line the top of the wings, and
the energy-dense lithium-ion batteries it will
use to sustain night-time flying.
Operating through darkness will be particularly
important when the men have to cross the
Pacific and the Atlantic.
The slow speed of their prop-driven plane
means these legs will take several days and
nights of non-stop flying to complete.
Piccard and Borschberg - whoever is at the
controls - will have to stay alert for nearly all
of the time they are airborne.
They will be permitted only catnaps of up to
20 mins - in the same way a single-handed,
round-the-world yachtsman would catch small
periods of sleep.
They will also have to endure the physical
discomfort of being confined in a cockpit that
measures just 3.8 cubic metres in volume -
not a lot bigger than a public telephone box.
Flight simulators have helped the pilots to
prepare, and each man has developed his own
regimen to cope.
Borschberg will use yoga to try to stay fresh.
Piccard is using self-hypnosis techniques.
"But my passion also will keep me going,"
said Piccard.
"I had this dream 16 years ago of flying
around the world without fuel, just on solar
power. Now, we're about to do it. The passion
is there and I look forward so much to being in
the cockpit."
The support team is well drilled. While the
mission will be run out of a control room in
Monaco, a group of engineers will follow the
plane around the globe. They have a mobile
hangar to house the plane when it is not in
the air.
It is not at all certain Solar Impulse will
succeed. Computer modelling suggests the
ocean crossings are feasible, given the right
weather conditions.
But that same modelling has shown also that
there may be occasions when the team simply
has to sit tight on the ground for weeks before
a fair window opens.
"Last year, we had a very good exercise. We
went around the world virtually, but with
actual conditions," explained Raymond Clerc,
mission director.
"For the Pacific crossing, it was an easy
decision. We had a very good window on 2
May. But when we were on the East Coast of
the USA, we had to look to cross the Atlantic
and we had to wait 30 days to find a good
window to cross the Atlantic. And then it was
easy - 3.5 days and we were in Seville, [Spain]
," he told BBC News.
If the pilots should come unstuck over the
Pacific or the Atlantic, they will bail out and
use ocean survival gear until they can be
picked up by a ship.
Of the two protagonists, Andre Borschberg
perhaps needs a little more introduction.
A trained engineer and former air-force pilot,
he has built a career as an entrepreneur in
internet technologies.
Bertrand Piccard, on the other hand, is well
known for his ballooning exploits.
Along with Brian Jones, he completed the first
non-stop, circumnavigation of the world in
1999, using the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon.
The Piccard name is synonymous with pushing
boundaries.
Bertrand's father, Jacques Piccard, was the
first to reach the deepest place in the ocean (a
feat achieved with Don Walsh in the Trieste
bathyscaphe in 1960). And his grandfather,
Auguste Piccard, was the first person to take
a balloon into the stratosphere, in 1931.
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and
follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos
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Now Buhari’s brain is bracing up
on march 06, 2015 at 1:49 am in elections
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In his fourth pursuit for the presidency,
Muhammadu Buhari is in his old age adopting
new patterns of political behaviour. How the
rebranding will help him is another matter.
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
DEMENTIA is an ailment of the old and it was
not surprising when First Lady Patience
Jonathan, at a campaign rally in Lokoja last
Tuesday, warned Nigerians about the
prospects for Nigeria if an old man like Maj-
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, is elected
president.
“Wetin him dey find again? Him dey drag with
him pikin mate. Old man wey no get brain,
him brain don die pata pata ,” Mrs. Jonathan
was quoted as telling enthusiastic supporters
of her husband before doling out rice, meat
and brocades in thankful appreciation of the
women.
The assertion remarkably did not go down well
with the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign
Organisation which in response urged
President Goodluck Jonathan to warn his wife
for taking the campaign away from the issues
of concern to Nigerians.
Alleged degradation
•Buhari: Decked out
If President Jonathan cautioned his wife on
the matter, no one can for now say. Buhari
has himself not personally responded, neither
had his wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari spoken out on
the alleged degradation of her husband’s
mental faculties.
Irrespective of Mrs. Jonathan’s delivery, the
issue of Buhari’s age and mental alertness is
a matter for any one wishing to lead a country
of more than 170 million people.
It is thus not surprising that Buhari’s handlers
and associates are prompt to assure the
citizenry of the mental alertness of the
candidate.
“If you watched or listened to the Chatham
House lecture, you will not condone anything
of that sort that the PDP people are saying of
him. Especially the question and answer
session where he interspersed his answers
with humour,” an associate of the general told
Vanguard .
“He is someone that listens a lot and would
wait until the end of a discussion before
giving a response. He is very diplomatic and
tactful, and when he speaks, he is very
deliberate in his choice of words as you saw
with him at Chatham House,” the associate, a
member of the APC’s Presidential Campaign
Council said.
General Buhari has also sought to reach out
to voters in other ways, moving out from his
closest as a taciturn, conservative that only
associates with fellow Fulanis.
Remarkably, the general has been almost
reticent on responding to insinuations of him
being a religious fanatic, only saying that he
had more Christian associates than Muslim in
the army.
Gen. Sam Momah (retd.), a Christian who
worked as Principal Staff Officer when Buhari
was General Officer Commanding, GOC, of one
of the army’s divisions said: “if anybody is
trying to input that Buhari is a religious bigot,
just know that the person is playing naked
politics, far from the truth.”
The Chatham House lecture was only one
opportunity for Buhari to show the world that
he is not the kind of person that his political
adversaries have sought to project.
In a number of other ways, the candidate has
also rebranded including in his dressing and
political strategies.
Several dimensions of the new look Buhari, it
was gathered were worked out by Governor
Chibuke Amaechi, the Director-General of his
campaign organisation. Indeed, the
appointment of Amaechi was the first
indication of Buhari’s determination to branch
out from the stereotype he had been used to.
Northern eggheads
In the past, his campaign had been managed
by a few northern eggheads within The Buhari
Organisation, TBO, who were seen at that time
as being narrow minded and only preoccupied
with projecting Buhari as a champion of the
north.
Unlike in past campaigns, when he only
donned the Hausa-Fulani attire in his
campaign outreaches to some other parts of
the country and when he did not even visit
many areas, this time, Buhari has worn
different attires to reflect the custom and
attire of everywhere he went.
That, coupled with the challenges of the
incumbent president, have helped to blossom
support for Buhari in distant places.
From the South-East through the South-South
and to the South-West, support for Buhari has
skyrocketed to the point that he has become a
potent threat to the PDP’s Jonathan in a
number of southern states.
In the Southeast, a number of dissidents
within the PDP are believed to be covertly or
openly working for Buhari including a son of a
foremost crusader of Nigeria’s independence.
Aisha Buhari
Buhari’s associates say he is also not that dry
and humourless person. A member of his
campaign team disclosed how one occasion
as the campaign bus travelled through the
night bushes in Delta State, some campaign
officials decided to loosen up and framed a
song: “we no go tire…we no go tire. Until we
win, we no go tire..”
As they sang, Buhari who all the while kept
mum, received a phone call and all of a
sudden everyone kept quiet. Once he was
finished with his call, he now bellowed unto
the singers, “Now you can continue with your
noise,” the official said and everyone burst out
into laughter.
“He has a sense of humour which you will not
get until you come close to him,” the
campaign official told Vanguard .
Mr. Uche Ofearoh, who served as Anambra
State Coordinator for the Buhari Campaign
Organisation, BCO, prior to the presidential
primaries spoke in the same manner.
According to him, the general had been widely
misconceived, but he expressed satisfaction
that a number of the misconceptions have
been widely seen to be ill-founded.
But even as he crusades for change of the
Jonathan administration, Buhari campaign
insiders say he remains stuck in his old
conservative ways of handling relations
especially exposing his family to campaign.
Though his daughters, Halima Sherrif and
Safina Buhari, represented him at a Valentine
Night outing themed for his political
campaign, the candidate remains stuck in the
culture of keeping one’s wife and family out of
the limelight.
It is one argument that Mrs. Jonathan sees as
a threat to her personal crusade to project
Nigerian women as she had in the past
warned that Buhari could cancel the office of
first lady.
After Mrs. Jonathan’s dig on Buhari’s brain,
there was pressure from his sympathisers for
Aisha to respond. Those who suggested this
were motivated by the fact that Aisha is
regarded as a better speaker than Mrs.
Jonathan and would as such rubbish her. But
few dared to personally bring up the matter
with the general.
“We know what it took for him to allow his
wife come out at campaign rallies, and I am
not prepared for that again,” a source within
the Buhari circle confided. So even while he
may have branched out in terms of political
pattern, Buhari remains dogged-in in his
cultural upbringing.

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chicha:
Well for me it is better to have first ldy who can't read than Have a whole president who is a complete illerate. Thank you

oloriburuku omo ale

Professor Deceiving PeopleBy Sonala OlumhenseI have reproduced almost the entire text of the letter. Ianswered Nwana right away, inviting him to substantiate his allegationsagainst me. Predictably, he retreated into hiding. On account of the fact that once in a while one receives similar write-ups from pro-Jonathan bigots of all shades, I now enter a public response.by SONALA OLUMHENSEFeb 28, 2015Sonala Olumhense SyndicatedTwo weeks ago, I received from a Nigerian who identified himself asProfessor EJC Nwana, a letter in which he told mehe was “thoroughly worried that your hatred of President Jonathan has been elevated to a dangerous level.”“…You and your band of travelers constantly display your miserably poor understanding of this country, particularly it's history, politics and peoples…”He accused me of not giving “some respect” to President Jonathan, arguing that the Nigeria ruler is not the author of Nigeria's woes and has “struggled in the midst ofhate, disdain, threats to his life and intolerance by those "born to rule" including poisonous pens like yours to serve our sorry union called Nigeria.“The bitter memories of our civil war and it's consequences have not faded for those of us who were unfortunate victims. I am sure that you never experienced that war and so can continue to indulge in your poisonous prescriptions for many ofa generation that have been denied the opportunity to know and understand their country through a deliberate policy of not teaching history in our Secondary Schools for several yearsbecause they should be kept in the dark about the origins, tribulations and in built deceptions about Nigeria.“…I do hope you will be around to witness the resultant effect of the hatred you have been brewing in your column. By the way, go and find out how many officers, men and civilians are being lost daily in the North-East because we were told that the country will be made ungovernable by personswho are walking the streets free.”I have reproduced almost the entire text of the letter. I answered Nwana right away, inviting him to substantiate his allegations against me. Predictably, he retreated into hiding. On account of the fact that once in a while one receives similar write-ups from pro-Jonathan bigots of all shades, I now enter a public response. First of all, I do not have “views”; I have one. Thatsingular view, spanning the past 40 years, advocates strong, fair and accountable governance. That is why I often say that in all the years God has granted me to write for public consumption, I have written only one article. That article has made various appearances in various places, but it is my only one view, one position, and it is guided by one philosophy: right or wrong, good or bad.That is it. That is all I have written about since I was a teenager appearing in Lagos post offices to mail handwritten articles and letters to newspapers. That is all I have done since I learned touch-typing in a roadside secretarial institute in Lagos, and since I took my first job and wrote my first column and bought my first computer.It is with that mind-set I have written about Nigeria since 1975. I have done stories involving Heads of State and presidents and dictators; governors and Ministers and commissioners; Senators and Representatives and Assemblymen; institutions and parastatals and agencies; ideas and philosophies and proclamations; plans and budgets and projects; fictions and fantasies and phantoms.Good or bad, right or wrong. I have never been guidedby the comfort of a philosophical or material paymaster, because I have never had one; or the displeasure of anyone.But then, there are people such as Nwana, who preceded his name with the title of professor,who—limited by poor vision, information and empathy—arrive to deploy accusations of hate. They say ‘History,’ when all they have read is a couple of newspaperarticles in a 40-year span. Hatred of Mr. Jonathan? If the opposite of hate is love, his argument is really why—like he—I do not love his candidate, Mr. Jonathan.I use the word, candidate, deliberately. You know the issue is presidential candidature and the brewing electoralcontest because they begin to spray into the air such poisonous emotions as “born to rule.” They deploy misinformation, such as Jonathan being “not the author of Nigeria’s woes”as if anyone ever said so.Of greater significance, the issue is not Jonathan, but Nigeria. It is in the context of Nigeria that the questions are and always have been—sinceMurtala Mohammed in 1975—“Right or wrong? Good or bad?” You do not place ahead of the issue mere names that are simply passers-by like everyone else. You should not give a studentpassing grades simply because of the name he answers or praise a leader just because of the title. Worse still, it is shameful when people who claim professorships and Ph.Ds have no hesitationsupporting dirty toilets as they do dirtier politics.Anyone wishing to question my position on Jonathan is welcome, but focusing on Jonathan with no reference to a 40-year world view, or even on his accomplishments, is ridiculous. Of these 40 years, it is only in the past nine that Mr. Jonathan has appeared on my radar, introduced by his federal money-laundering indictment in 2006. I did not indict him; the government he now heads did.Mr. Jonathan would eventually become President, a position he has now held for six years. The problem is that ‘President’ is not a chieftaincy title; it is a job. People who do a bad job are normally fired, not praised.I have chronicled Jonathan through this period fairly closely, as have many others, a process that people like Nwana consider to be “hatred” rather than history.My verdict is not different from that of many others who have observed as Mr. Jonathan unveiled the official and personal lapses that have thrown Nigerians into poverty, servitude and violence, and made Nigeria the butt of jokes the world over. I know that Nwana’s daughter was not kidnapped in Chibok, his son not trampled to death in the NIS job scam or burnt to death inBuni Yadi. The Nwanas of Nigeria seem to be proud that Dipreye Alamieyeseigha was pardoned, Diezani Alison-Madueke enjoys presidential protection, and Stella Oduah was never prosecuted. For them, it is hatred for me question why the SecondNiger Bridge promised for delivery in 2015 will now be completed in 2019; why a war that could not be fought in five years is now conveniently scheduled for six weeks; or why presidential electoral promises and vows are not honoured.Finally, it is no coincidence that fiction and manipulation are often the resort of those who seek to justify President Jonathan’s failures, which they blame on the victims. Contrary to Nwana’s claim, for instance, it wasLawal Kaita—he of the PDP—who spoke about Nigeria being made ungovernable after the 2011 polls. Evidence, for the Nwana’s who claim “capacity for proper research and interrogation of the truth”: presidential spokesman Reuben Abati. After being sued by General Muhammadu Buhari for that same fiction, he settled out of court, and apologized. It is distressing to reflect on the fact that Nigeria’s rulers are often advised by the Nwanas of this world who say those who ask for the truth are the ones paving the road to war. That is further proof that while you may buy an electoral office or even professorship, thecapacity for honour—like empathy—can neither be taught nor bought. Top of Formsonala.olumhense@gmail.comTwitter: @SonalaOlumhense

Slynonny:
That's a good one.
In other news.
How you living Mr Ayo Fayose for exposing APC lies and propaganda?
Ans: In Mansion and Benzes giving headache to APC and it feels stupendous.
How you feeling Mr Femi Fani Kayode for dumping APC?
Ans: Am feeling good like never before.
APC is dead and is on the news.
How do you feel going back to PDP Mr Barcanista?
I feel at home.
Is been a long time coming and am glad am finally home.
Just like the biblical prodigal son i've realised my mistakes and gone back to PDP.
In Jonathan we have seen real and positive change.
Vote Wisely GEJ 2019

chai guy u sure say u finish school

temitemi1:
Pelee ooooooo... Next time stay away from apc because nothing good comes from them! GEJ till 2019!!!

ode oponu idiot

Mbu the Brave
 February 15, 2015
 Written by Festus Eriye
The newly posted Assistant Inspector General
of Police (AIG), Zone 2, Joseph Mbu, fancies
himself a special kind of cop. He came to
national attention for his confrontations with
Governor Rotimi Amaechi whilst he was
Commissioner of Police in Rivers State.
While the clashes between the two were often
under the cloud of partisan politics, Mbu
obviously rates his time in Port Harcourt as
the high point of his law enforcement career.
Ever since, he hasn’t stopped regaling us with
tales of how he “tamed Amaechi.” He is clearly
proud of this “accomplishment” – if that is
what it is. But I wonder when the humiliation
of a state governor or disrespecting his office
became the hallmark of policing.
Mbu is clearly fascinated with governors –
that’s why he’s been going around making
snide comments and threatening them. His
outbursts are supposed to show us how brave
he is: the only police commissioner in Nigeria
who can confront a governor. Congratulations
Mr. Commissioner! Now we know you have
hair on your chest!
While the police officer’s former utterances
have been entertaining, he entered dangerous
territory at a meeting last Thursday at the
Ogun State Command, Eleweran, Abeokuta. In
briefing his men on how to handle the coming
elections he said: “If one of my men is killed, I
shall kill twenty of them but don’t shoot first.
If they shoot you, shoot back in self-defence.
Anybody who fires you, fire him back in self-
defence.”
Let’s be clear: anyone who shoots at a
policeman must face the law and pay the price
for his crime. It is totally different matter,
however, for a senior police officer to be
encouraging his men to engage in murderous
reprisals.
In which of our statutes is it written that 20
citizens must be killed for the death of one
policeman? This is an outrageous statement
that makes you wonder about the sorts of
excesses which Amnesty International, Human
Rights Watch and others have blamed our
police for.
There’s a limit to self-lionisation and
overzealousness. It is always wise for public
officers to choose their words carefully. Mbu
has spoken. But when he orders such a
shooting he will suddenly discover the limits
of the powers of an AIG!

sbaks:

APC
A - ABSOLUTELY
P - POOR
C - CANDIDATES
APC!!!!!!!! CHANGE (AS IN CHANGE FROM YOUR WICKED WAYS)

chai,guy u fall my hand oo u neva finish primary school. APC-CHANGE

focus7:
Awesome writeup. But try to change topic to a more captivating caption.

like what sir

LUNATICS ON THE LOOSE
Lunatics On The Loose
Abba Mahmood
— Jan 29, 2015 | Leave a comment
The PDP has never been this frightened. It has
never been so mismanaged. It has never been
this desperate to remain in power.
To make matters worse, it has fielded a
presidential candidate, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan,
who declared at the party’s recent rally in Jos
that he “will increase youth unemployment”!
He went to Maiduguri and told his party
people that if he was “re-elected” he would
end Boko Haram. Is he not the president now
and has Boko Haram not been around for the
last six years? What did he do in the last five
years to end Boko Haram to warrant another
four years? If anything, Boko Haram had no
territory before Jonathan but now controls a
large chunk of Nigerian territory and attacks
with impunity. The PDP simply has a bad
product and everyone is now aware.
I like the way former CBN governor, Professor
Chukwuma Soludo put it: “No other president
had presided over the slaughter of about
15,000 people by insurgents in peacetime; no
other president earned up to 50% of the
amount of resources the current government
earned from oil and yet with very little
outcomes; no other president had the rate of
borrowing; none had significant forex earnings
and yet did not add one penny to foreign
reserve but losing international reserves at a
time of boom; no other president had a
depreciating exchange rate at a time of export
boom; at no time in Nigeria’s history has
poverty reached 71%; and under no other
president did unemployment reach 24%.
Surely, these are unprecedented records and
he surely ‘outperformed’ his predecessors!
What a satire!”
To further aggravate an already bad situation,
instead of the president and his party trying to
explain what they did in the last six years,
they have let loose some deranged individuals
whose only stock in trade is to abuse and
vilify. Enter Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, the chief
propagandist of the current dispensation. His
corruption charges were dropped and he got
appointed as media director of the PDP 2015
campaign. It appears he was only hired to
disrespect the person of Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari, the PDP nemesis. And he went about
in the most crude and uncouth manner to do
the dirty job, such as making a ridiculous and
false claim that Buhari does not have a
certificate!
No less a personality than defence minister
Gen. Aliyu Gusau, a PDP founding member,
was quoted as saying on page 7 of Sunday
Sun newspaper of January 25: “You know that
I am not a politician but the truth needs to be
told that I have known Buhari since 1960. He
passed through the school that I also
attended; he sat for his Cambridge/ WASC
examination and came out with Division 2. He
then joined the army, rose to become major
general and head of state… They passed out in
1961 and we passed out in 1964. Buhari had
leadership qualities since secondary school; in
form five, he was a house prefect… By 1961,
when he was in form six, he was chosen to be
the head boy of the school.” Hope the lunatics
are listening.
As Idowu Akinlotan wrote in his back page
column of The Nation newspaper of January
25 also,“The election is not really about
Buhari, what he can do or won’t do, what
certificates he brandishes or does not hold,
what acts of cruelty he performed in the past
or acts of kindness. The election is strictly
speaking about Dr Jonathan, by what margin
to repudiate him, and about how to punish
him for the humiliation and disgrace he has
brought upon the country locally and
internationally. The PDP is already distressed.
The more they abuse Gen. Buhari and paint
him as a monster, the more the crowds at his
rallies swell.”
Nothing has exposed the PDP’s weakness
more than the recent meeting of ex-militants
and some government officials in Government
House, Yenagoa. In attendance were known
lunatics like Asari Dokubo as well as the
presidential adviser on Niger Delta. They were
widely reported in the media to have resolved
that “any attempt to dethrone the president
would be seen as a direct attack on the Ijaw
nation, (and) threatened to unleash violence
on the country and take back Niger Delta oil
should Dr Jonathan lose re-election.” Do these
creek warlords really know what it is to live
with others in a decent society? Do they really
know what democracy is?
We have passed this path before. These
people must be reminded that there was no oil
when Nigeria was founded by the British. It
was the agricultural potential of the hinterland
as well as the mineral resources of the central
zone especially that attracted the British. That
was why they built the railways vertically to
carry these resources to the ports in the
south. In any case, no one can intimidate
anybody with a finite resource when we have
the greatest gift of nature: hardworking people
and rich lands which no one can take away.
Those people are misjudging the mood of the
moment and the spirit of the time which is for
change.
Are Femi Fani Kayode, Asari-Dokubo and
others like them aware of the implications of
what they are doing? How can they abuse,
insult and disrespect a significant section of
this country and expect the people of that
section to vote for their candidate? Democracy
is about ideas and since these lunatics have
run out of ideas and are marketing a bad
product, they have resorted to what they know
best – insult, blackmail and intimidation. But
they are mistaken this time.
Another dangerous dimension being deployed
by the PDP is the use of religion during rallies.
In some states in the northwest, Vice
President Manadi Sambo was busy reciting
Quranic verses to the unimpressed audience
while PDP chairman Adamu Muazu was
reciting the Shahadah! This is a dangerous
precedence in a supposed secular, diverse
polity like Nigeria. This election is not about
Christianity or Islam. It is about corruption,
poverty and insecurity. It is a verdict on our
current situation and future aspirations which
the PDP and its candidate have so far
mismanaged.
As scholar-activist, Dr Jibrin Ibrahim wrote in
his column on page 66 of Daily Trust
newspaper of January 26, “increasingly, the
body language of the president and his aides
is that they are afraid they would lose the
elections and, if they do lose, appear unwilling
to hand over to the probable winner. The body
language is to seek postponement
arrangement”. But it is too late and rigging is
out of fashion. Like pregnancy, elections have
time limits. A government that cannot get
ready for elections in four years can never be
ready even in 40 years.
Today, everyone knows that the APC is the
largest party in Nigeria, and if every largest
party here is the largest in Africa, then, the
APC is the largest party in Africa. All the most
populous states in Nigeria are controlled by
the APC. It was the majority party in the
House of Representatives even before the
elections. Gen. Buhari, its presidential
candidate, is the single politician with the
largest following. Thus, no insults or
intimidation can postpone the imminent defeat
of the PDP. Cancer and AIDS have infected the
PDP and, as everyone knows, these are
terminal diseases. Come February 14 we shall
bury the PDP monster and entrench peace and
love on Lovers’ Day.

LUNATICS ON THE LOOSE
Lunatics On The Loose
Abba Mahmood
— Jan 29, 2015 | Leave a comment
The PDP has never been this frightened. It has
never been so mismanaged. It has never been
this desperate to remain in power.
To make matters worse, it has fielded a
presidential candidate, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan,
who declared at the party’s recent rally in Jos
that he “will increase youth unemployment”!
He went to Maiduguri and told his party
people that if he was “re-elected” he would
end Boko Haram. Is he not the president now
and has Boko Haram not been around for the
last six years? What did he do in the last five
years to end Boko Haram to warrant another
four years? If anything, Boko Haram had no
territory before Jonathan but now controls a
large chunk of Nigerian territory and attacks
with impunity. The PDP simply has a bad
product and everyone is now aware.
I like the way former CBN governor, Professor
Chukwuma Soludo put it: “No other president
had presided over the slaughter of about
15,000 people by insurgents in peacetime; no
other president earned up to 50% of the
amount of resources the current government
earned from oil and yet with very little
outcomes; no other president had the rate of
borrowing; none had significant forex earnings
and yet did not add one penny to foreign
reserve but losing international reserves at a
time of boom; no other president had a
depreciating exchange rate at a time of export
boom; at no time in Nigeria’s history has
poverty reached 71%; and under no other
president did unemployment reach 24%.
Surely, these are unprecedented records and
he surely ‘outperformed’ his predecessors!
What a satire!”
To further aggravate an already bad situation,
instead of the president and his party trying to
explain what they did in the last six years,
they have let loose some deranged individuals
whose only stock in trade is to abuse and
vilify. Enter Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, the chief
propagandist of the current dispensation. His
corruption charges were dropped and he got
appointed as media director of the PDP 2015
campaign. It appears he was only hired to
disrespect the person of Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari, the PDP nemesis. And he went about
in the most crude and uncouth manner to do
the dirty job, such as making a ridiculous and
false claim that Buhari does not have a
certificate!
No less a personality than defence minister
Gen. Aliyu Gusau, a PDP founding member,
was quoted as saying on page 7 of Sunday
Sun newspaper of January 25: “You know that
I am not a politician but the truth needs to be
told that I have known Buhari since 1960. He
passed through the school that I also
attended; he sat for his Cambridge/ WASC
examination and came out with Division 2. He
then joined the army, rose to become major
general and head of state… They passed out in
1961 and we passed out in 1964. Buhari had
leadership qualities since secondary school; in
form five, he was a house prefect… By 1961,
when he was in form six, he was chosen to be
the head boy of the school.” Hope the lunatics
are listening.
As Idowu Akinlotan wrote in his back page
column of The Nation newspaper of January
25 also,“The election is not really about
Buhari, what he can do or won’t do, what
certificates he brandishes or does not hold,
what acts of cruelty he performed in the past
or acts of kindness. The election is strictly
speaking about Dr Jonathan, by what margin
to repudiate him, and about how to punish
him for the humiliation and disgrace he has
brought upon the country locally and
internationally. The PDP is already distressed.
The more they abuse Gen. Buhari and paint
him as a monster, the more the crowds at his
rallies swell.”
Nothing has exposed the PDP’s weakness
more than the recent meeting of ex-militants
and some government officials in Government
House, Yenagoa. In attendance were known
lunatics like Asari Dokubo as well as the
presidential adviser on Niger Delta. They were
widely reported in the media to have resolved
that “any attempt to dethrone the president
would be seen as a direct attack on the Ijaw
nation, (and) threatened to unleash violence
on the country and take back Niger Delta oil
should Dr Jonathan lose re-election.” Do these
creek warlords really know what it is to live
with others in a decent society? Do they really
know what democracy is?
We have passed this path before. These
people must be reminded that there was no oil
when Nigeria was founded by the British. It
was the agricultural potential of the hinterland
as well as the mineral resources of the central
zone especially that attracted the British. That
was why they built the railways vertically to
carry these resources to the ports in the
south. In any case, no one can intimidate
anybody with a finite resource when we have
the greatest gift of nature: hardworking people
and rich lands which no one can take away.
Those people are misjudging the mood of the
moment and the spirit of the time which is for
change.
Are Femi Fani Kayode, Asari-Dokubo and
others like them aware of the implications of
what they are doing? How can they abuse,
insult and disrespect a significant section of
this country and expect the people of that
section to vote for their candidate? Democracy
is about ideas and since these lunatics have
run out of ideas and are marketing a bad
product, they have resorted to what they know
best – insult, blackmail and intimidation. But
they are mistaken this time.
Another dangerous dimension being deployed
by the PDP is the use of religion during rallies.
In some states in the northwest, Vice
President Manadi Sambo was busy reciting
Quranic verses to the unimpressed audience
while PDP chairman Adamu Muazu was
reciting the Shahadah! This is a dangerous
precedence in a supposed secular, diverse
polity like Nigeria. This election is not about
Christianity or Islam. It is about corruption,
poverty and insecurity. It is a verdict on our
current situation and future aspirations which
the PDP and its candidate have so far
mismanaged.
As scholar-activist, Dr Jibrin Ibrahim wrote in
his column on page 66 of Daily Trust
newspaper of January 26, “increasingly, the
body language of the president and his aides
is that they are afraid they would lose the
elections and, if they do lose, appear unwilling
to hand over to the probable winner. The body
language is to seek postponement
arrangement”. But it is too late and rigging is
out of fashion. Like pregnancy, elections have
time limits. A government that cannot get
ready for elections in four years can never be
ready even in 40 years.
Today, everyone knows that the APC is the
largest party in Nigeria, and if every largest
party here is the largest in Africa, then, the
APC is the largest party in Africa. All the most
populous states in Nigeria are controlled by
the APC. It was the majority party in the
House of Representatives even before the
elections. Gen. Buhari, its presidential
candidate, is the single politician with the
largest following. Thus, no insults or
intimidation can postpone the imminent defeat
of the PDP. Cancer and AIDS have infected the
PDP and, as everyone knows, these are
terminal diseases. Come February 14 we shall
bury the PDP monster and entrench peace and
love on Lovers’ Day.

FATHER & SON!! The Fani-Kayode’s; The
History of RFK & FFK.
Who is RFK & FFK?
FFK brilliant but eccentric; like his father,RFF,
an anarchist with fascist tendencies, Remi
Fani-Kayode broke ranks with the old Action
Group, crossed to the old N.C.N.C to become
opposition leader in the old Western House of
Assembly, and together with late Samuel
Ladoke Akintola formed the old Democratic
Party in 1962/63, the party used by the
Hausa/Fulani mafia of the North as an
instrument to disorganise the Action Group
and the Yoruba leadership of the West. This
led to the downfall of the West, the
proclamation of the State of Emergency in the
West by prime minister Tafawa Balewa, and
the military coup of 1966 and the fall of the
First Republic. RFF fled into political exile in
Britain only to re-emerge after the end of
Nigerian Civil War only to remain in precarious
existence until 1993/4 when he died unnoticed
at the age of 72 years. Known for his
addiction to hard drug, RFF seemed to have
bequeathed to Nigeria a son who is following
his footstep.
Written. By Ishola Ogelu.