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Op u ar right...atleast we would av bn better. They shout as if na only his families member work in ds places.

Hmmmm av com to realised that many stories will remain untold,many secret unshared wen most of us will b gone.Welcom to Naija...welcom to the real world.

Pls turn to NTA station Duncan is performing and he jus call mama peace is only mother..pls where is d biological mother.Mama peace organise dinner for artistes in Nigeria though most well recognised artiste ar not present except KFresh and Yinka Ayefele..hmmm dinner in honour of entertainment.

The 19 get me wondering.....

Is d boys don't av confidence in playing anything unlike the era of Ferguson.. jus pray we win today.

Op all am saying pls take me back Buhari..I kno is not all dos dt we read ds we pray our naira shu b higher dn a dollar...som clueless ppu who see stealing as mere corruption we not pray fo ds era.

Chizzy20:
hmm dats if d lady is braless or heavily endowed.

so most time ladies go braless...but some even go out without bra..op u ar endowed?

Sugarpeaches:
Lol well, I was not the only one giving names,twas a collective tin, we named everyone's boobs, there was an avocado,a mango,a lime ,there was also a paw paw ,and an orange,according to de shape of ya boobs ,can't remember d other 3. As silly as it might sound I cried for no reason ,I was jus feeling somehow,I didn't even understand myself ,I jus had to cry.

sometimes u ladies can be very funny..was thinking d name will be Somthin like john or Ellena as in ur children to be name but jus laffing naming ur God endowed in d fruit nomenclature.. so what is d name of urs?

Noloss:
Haba! Let sleeping dog lie joor

Lol abi make we no wake d dog up ba....Lol

My dear d truth is u ar not d only one facing this menace of our time...but its not enough reason u shu continue d act many ar really struggling to halt it but its a difficult thing to do after one start it,my advise is ds; You need to stop watching som erotic or romance films,Don't c the act again as mean to an end but rather as an end to d means;U also need a lot of discipline alot my dear; above all u need God to guide u cos a friend to God is enemity to d world.

The All Progressive Grand Allainace ( APGA )
governorship candidate in Nasarawa State ,
Mr. Labaran Maku has ruled out any plan
to return to the Peoples Democratic Party
( PDP ) from where he defected to his
present party .
Zakari Edego , Director of Publicity, Maku
Campaign Organisation , said insinuations
that the former minister planned to return
to the PDP were “ the manifestation of the
desperation in the PDP in Nasarawa state
having realized that the party has become
an empty shell since Mr. Maku left to
pursue his governorship ambition in APGA .
“
He asked the people of the state to ignore
what he called the lies and blackmail
coming from the PDP .
Edego, in a statement , also said : “In just
two months of Mr. Maku ’ s defection to
APGA, almost 65 percent of the electorate
have turned to Maku , making APGA the
fastest growing party in Nasarawa State .
“We have also noticed with dismay that
some thugs were sent earlier to destroy
the billboards of the APGA’ s governorship
candidate all over the state because of the
huge popularity Mr. Maku is enjoying since
their own candidate is highly unpopular.

“Thereafter, they went on air to spread lies
in order to discourage the mass movement
in Nasarawa state for the election of Mr.
Labaran Maku as governor on the platform
of APGA on April 11 !
“All the major blocs in Nasarawa State are
behind Maku right now . So the best way
for the PDP to remain relevant is to be
part of Maku ’ s campaign as a mark of
honour and respect for the person who
kept PDP alive in Nasarawa State since
2011 .
“The cause of the trepidation in both the
PDP and APC in Nasarawa State is that
the scenario has changed overnight with
Maku posed to defeat both the APC and
PDP in all the three senatorial zones !
“Right now in Nasarawa state the election
is not between APC and PDP . It ’ s between
APGA and APC ! The PDP has lost its soul
since the defection of Maku and it is
evident in their campaign in Nasarawa
state , which is like a funeral procession!
“The only way for PDP to remain relevant
in Nasarawa State is to support APGA
since their own candidate , Yusuf Agabi ,
has no constituency to win elections in
Nasarawa State .

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari started this year on
a very bright note. He was apparently the
most popular politician in the country at the
time the year started.
The hashtag #FeBuhari trended on social
media and a lot people got behind him
strongly.
It looked like he was in the lead to win the
upcoming election. Some issues have since come up this year that
could have diminished his goodwill and
derailed his campaign, but these issues seem
to have worked in his favour somehow, either
by strengthening his popularity or by
weakening his opponent’s popularity. It looks
like he now has an unassailable advantage
with just weeks to the big election.
Here are the five issues that have made Buhari
more popular this year.
1. The Articles
Last month, Charles Soludo wrote a story
condemning the Jonathan administration and
praising the Obasanjo adminstration as a
better one. He didn’t directly support Buhari or
APC in the story, but the story tacitly favoured
Buhari because it aligned with their position
concerning the government and the need for
change, which their campaign is based on. The
article and subsequent sequels generated some
controversy in the country and it was bad
publicity for the president whose rating was
already awful.
Apart from that, the foreign media have also
contributed to the election buildup. The
Economist magazine and the New York Times
each did a comparative story about Buhari and
Jonathan in which they hit the president hard
for his governance. For instance, The
Economist referred to Jonathan as an utter
failure and was heavily critical of the
president. They also criticised his opponent
and called him a former dictator who has
blood on his hands, but they favoured Buhari
over Jonathan. It bolstered support for Buhari
remarkably.
2. The Endorsements
Buhari got some endorsements this year from
important people. It looks like everyone who’s
who in the country wants to take a shot at the
president. This month Obasanjo reportedly
endorsed Buhari and it caused some trouble.
The resulting backlash from the PDP camp led
to Obasanjo’s withdrawing from the party.
Some people say it was the party that fired
him, but anyway the incident considerably
disfavoured the president and further drew
from his support. It was a sign that things
weren’t going well for his campaign team, and
it’s been to Buhari’s advantage ever since.
3. The Mudslinging
People from the PDP camp have been trying to
discredit Buhari on various bases. For
example, Femi Fani-Kayode and Fayose have
been trying to get people to believe Buhari is
sick. Fayose even put an ad out implying that
Buhari would die in office if he becomes
president. Then some people also called him
out and challenged him to produce his
certificate, suggesting he wasn’t academically
qualified to stand for president. They’ve also
tried to vilify him by referring to his past
record as a dictator. But despite all these, it’s
made Buhari supporters stauncher than ever.
4. The Broadcasts
AIT and NTA have been showing some paid
videos on their station this year, clearly aimed
to ruin Buhari’s image and portray him in the
worst way possible. One video features the
voice of a woman who was served the
maximum sentence under the Buhari regime
and showed old pictures of her kids, apparently
to provoke viewers against Buhari. But it’s not
working for most of those people who’ve
already decided to vote the former soldier, plus
it’s cast a shadow on the president’s sincerity
and has even brought those TV stations to
disrepute.
5. The Poll Shift
President Jonathan said he knew nothing
about INEC’s decision to move the election,
but some people thought his team engineered
the shift to buy him some more time to
reinforce.
The deferment is apparently paying off because
the army and its allied forces have since
launched a major offensive in the region, and
now it looks like they have the upper hand and
the insurgency has subsided. Perhaps it was a
good decision after all, but a lot of people
didn’t see it that way at first. They thought it
was a conspiracy, and it affected the
president’s rating badly in favour of Buhari.
It’s now five weeks to the election and the
buildup is starting to pick up again after the
lag that the poll shift caused. Buhari can
maintain his goodwill or Jonathan can turn it
around in the remaining time left. Either way,
what’s most important for the Nigerian people
is to have peace during and after the election.
Goodluck Jonathan is not doing very bad with
his campaign either. The incumbent president,
a few days ago, reminded Nigerians of reasons
why they should vote for him.

Fellow Nigerians, miracles shall never end. That
is the only way to describe the incredible story
of Major General Muhammadu Buhari at this
auspicious moment. No one could have
envisaged or foretold the huge drama being
enacted before our very eyes. It was not as if
his popularity and cult-followership was ever in
doubt but the general belief and assumption was
that it was dominantly limited and restricted to a
particular section or region of Nigeria. What was
never expected was a cross-over appeal to all
areas and segments of our nation.
Buhari’s fate as a perennial contestant was
supposed to have been sealed by many
debilitating factors. The first and most crucial till
this day is on account of his odoriferous
reputation as a coup plotter and rabidly
draconian dictator who appeared mercilessly
vengeful. Depending on whom you talked to in
the past, Buhari conjured different images to
varied people. Some saw him as an Angel who
represented a sword of Damocles to the wicked
and reckless politicians who wreaked havoc on
Nigeria’s economy and wrecked the collective
future of our citizens. But to others, he was a
Luciferous character who must have escaped
from the pit of hell to haunt God’s creatures on
planet earth.
I will not attempt to bore you with well-rehashed
tales of his cardinal sins, both real and
imagined. They are in the realm of fables and
mythology and already in public domain courtesy
of his opponents and unrelenting attackers. But
one can never gloss over the allegations of
religious bias and intolerance. If possible, many
would want us to see and hold Buhari as
Nigeria’s version of Osama bin Laden who was
regarded as the world’s most notorious terrorist.
Buhari would forever bear the cross of ever
defending his personal faith and the interests of
his Northern people like most of us would
normally do. Many quotable quotes have been
ascribed to him but most have never been
properly validated by his accusers thus casting
doubts on the veracity of those vituperations.
The last but not the least albatross against
Buhari is the matter of old age. I must confess
that I belong in the category of the vociferous
proponents of sacking most of our ancient
leaders and replacing them with young and
vibrant whizzkids.
I must sincerely thank the media and publicity
committee of the People’s Democratic Party for
finding my past comments and stance on Buhari
so important and worthy of sponsored
countervailing advertorials in several newspapers
and social media platforms. They were generous
enough to put me in good company by attaching
me to accomplished Nigerians such as Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Mallam Nasir El Rufai.
On a serious note, it was such a great honour
seeing all manner of caricatures about me
including the one stuffing my brains with
noodles.
The truth is that I, like many other Nigerians,
was a veritable victim of the almost
unprecedented propaganda against Buhari. In my
purview, the definition of propaganda is not
about telling lies but an attempt to magnify non-
fiction until it becomes what the famous author
Kole Omotoso called “faction”, when you mix
facts with fiction. The demonization of Buhari
was therefore a fait accompli emanating from
the many years of ferocious regurgitation of his
supposed misdemeanours. But, still, I would
never have imagined that a day would come
when I, and so many former antagonists of
Buhari, would not only change my mind about
this walking firebrand but actually plunge myself
fully into his presidential campaign while not
being a member of his political party. Strange
are the ways of God indeed.
In my nearly 55 years on earth, this is the
second time I would witness a complete
transfiguration of a Nigerian from being most
hated to most loved. My first recollection was in
1988 as I searched frantically for a job. My
dream then had been to get a teaching
appointment after concluding a Master’s degree
in Literature-in-English at the great Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. I was already
contributing articles on the opinion pages of The
Guardian which was edited by Odia Ofeimun and
The Sunday Tribune, edited by Folu Olamiti. I
was then subsequently invited by my friend,
Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, a prodigiously gifted
journalist, to try my luck in Lagos. He tried to get
me a job at the African Guardian, edited by
Nduka Irabor, but wasn’t successful.
Onukaba then suggested that I should try the
African Concord magazine, owned by Chief
Moshood Abiola and edited by Lewis Obi but I
was most reluctant. Just imagine that though I
was desperately in need of a job, but I was not
very keen about working in the Concord Group.
You, like me, will laugh at my reasons now. I
was discouraged by so many things I had read
or heard about the fabulously wealthy ‘Money
Kudi Owo’ Abiola, who was supposed to have
been the biggest thief in Africa, courtesy of
Fela’s album, ITT, International Thief Thief. That
song had done incalculable damage to Chief
Abiola as many self-righteous people, including
myself, completely tuned off the man.
I remember very vividly how there was a war of
words between the Awoists (who believed the
support of Chief Abiola, a Yoruba, for the
National Party of Nigeria was partly responsioble
for robbing Chief Obafemi Awolowo of victory
against Alhaji Shehu Shagari who won the
Presidential election in 1979) and the Abiola
supporters who felt there was nothing wrong in
Yorubas belonging to opposing parties. The
Nigerian Tribune had fiery writers led by Chief
Olabisi Onabanjo, Ebenezer Babatope (aka Ebino
Topsy) while The Concord Group assembled
some of Nigeria’s finest journalists including
Doyin Abiola, Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu, Yakubu
Muhammed, Duro Onabule, Sina Adedipe and so
many others. The columnists of both rival papers
tackled themselves endless and joined issues on
various national and personal matters. Of
particular interest to me was a columnist
popularly known as Abiodun Aloba (also known
as Ebenezer Williams) who wrote so brilliantly
that I asked God for his kind of diction.
In the middle of all this confusion, I would have
preferred to work in the less controversial and
highly cerebral environment of The Guardian but
here I was being asked to try my luck at the
African Concord. I had imagined all sorts about
having to work in a religious conclave, all the
restrictions, prejudices, and so on, but the real
fear of hunger was the beginning of wisdom for
me. I approached Mr Lewis Obi as suggested by
Onukaba who introduced us and was shocked
that I got a job on the spot. I had to plead with
him to let me resume in another two weeks as I
needed to return to Ile-Ife for proper preparation
for this journey of a lifetime. The rest is history!
The meat of this story is that I resumed work on
May 2, 1988, about fourteen days to my 28th
birthday. But contrary to my mortal fears, The
Concord Group was one of the most relaxed and
pleasant companies I would ever work. It was by
far the biggest media conglomerate in Nigeria.
Chief Abiola rarely came around but he breezed
in every now and then and everyone felt the
tremor of his presence as well as the
aftershocks after he’s been long gone. The
Concord titles did not discriminate against any
tribe or religion. I won’t be surprised if most of
us were Christians. The most senior employees
paraded a galaxy of more Christians than
Moslems. We had a bush Canteen within the
premises where we were allowed to eat or drink
even alcohol as journalists love to do. Our
Chairman avoided the News Room as much as
possible because he was certain to be welcomed
by some whiff of cigarette smoke.
Based on the much vaunted alleged prejudices of
the owner, Chief MKO Abiola, I tried very hard to
find out any shade of religious intolerance but
never found one. He was not a saint but he
towered above many of his peers. His love for
the poor marked him apart from others. He lived
for the needy and touched too many lives. He
had attended a Christian school, Baptist Boys
High School, Abeokuta, and could recite Biblical
passages by rote. He attended church services
when required to do so and even sang Christian
hymns from memory at my wedding in 1992. It
was a great lesson for me that we can all
misconstrue many things based on rumours and
gossip without seeking to ascertain the factual
reality.
Chief Abiola worked assiduously at turning
around the wrong impressions about him. Not
everyone ever gets that lucky. It takes a lot to
change human misperceptions. Many are often
too rigid and too set in their ways. As Abiola
himself used to say, the deaf always repeats the
last songs he heard before he lost his hearing. It
was one of those miraculous occurrences that
Abiola was eventually able to endear himself to
Nigerians from all works of lives. The secret of
his larger-than-life image was quite simple. He
never disconnected himself totally from the poor
even as he wined and dined with the rich and
famous. It is a lesson I hold very dear. Abiola
was ready to fight the cause of the common
man despite belonging to the oppressor class
himself. The ability to relate to both with equal
competence was uncommon. The truth is he
never forgot his humble beginnings and made
sure that this reflected in the way he related
with all manner of people.
I wasn’t surprised when he returned from his
self-imposed political sabbatical and jumped into
the fray in 1993. He had bided his time and knew
when to make the right move. Ordinary Nigerians
responded in kind and in sincere appreciation of
his genuinely generous gestures. Even the elites
who initially viewed him with suspicion and likely
disdain finally embraced him warts and all as
the most unlikely man became so radicalised
that he became a symbol of our struggle for
democracy and good governance. Ironically,
Fela’s Brother, Beekololari Ransome-Kuti joined
in that epic battle, and likewise many who were
never fans of Abiola.
As I watch events unfold around Major General
Buhari today, I just can’t help but draw some
comparison and highlight the similarities
between the People’s General and Abiola, the
only difference being that Buhari cannot by any
stretch of the imagination be called a wealthy
man. Both men had powerful enemies. They
were assumed to be religious bigots. Although,
Abiola was a Yoruba man it was felt that he was
too partial to the North as is the wrong
perception of General Buhari’s parochial feelings
for his home region. They derived their power
from the poor. Their passion for Nigeria could
never be in doubt. Abiola was rejected by the
political class resoundingly just like Buhari has
not been able to win the presidential election a
record third time. However, like Abiola, Buhari
seems to have gotten his groove finally and
disabused the Nigerian public of these erroneous
views and opinions.
This deal was finally saved and delivered at The
Chatham House, London on February 26, 2015.
At a public lecture which he delivered at that
world renowned venue, Buhari mesmerised the
world with his presence, carriage, and childlike
innocence. He did not pretend to be who he
wasn’t. It was such a glorious moment as he
introduced himself as a former dictator turned
reformed democrat. He spoke calmly and firmly
in front of a distinguished audience. He
answered the questions fired at him with
candour, sincerity and common-sense. Many
were shocked to see a Buhari they thought they
knew but didn’t know. Standing before the world
was a man whose image was falsely that of a
Muslim fundamentalist, stark illiterate, aged and
tired soldier, wicked and miserable soul,
hypnotising everyone with his carefully chosen
but intelligent words coupled with great wit and
humour. This was a truly transfigured Buhari,
who certainly has a date with history and it is
certainly only a matter of time before he gets his
well-deserved apotheosis.

sometimes u jus wonder why ds election is not issue base let talk about issue and leave tissue fo toilet.If Mandela was 74yrs old and lead his country what is buhari sin been 72?All we wan is a leader dt will giv us a reason to be a proud Nigeria.. If Buhari fail we elect a nu one until we get it right.

All if sudden dey become national nd state heroin cos of poverty..who we play d mother role in their families now,ds might b d end we will hear abt dem.

Sometime its not abt jus opening of new university pls let ask what is happening to d existing one..the universities in naija are poorly funded what is d use of having 100 universities and none is first in Africa?Am jus tired of all ds gimmicks,wh of our university is world standard?

I thot ds Fayose was in d chrch lying down saying he turn a new leaf.. let him face d governance of ekiti state am yet to read something like; Fayose commission road,hospital,or he visit a place he will do something..and time is running ds second time shu b a time to work for his ppu.

Chizzy20:
funny thread.

Funny but d truth so wh number av u done guess number 4 cos it seem all ladies does dt.

Sugarpeaches:
I'll admit I've done number 4, 5 and 15.

So wat name dd u giv dem and what make u cry?

But he said he is not one of them...in one of his poster.

The spirit of Born..lies within.

I just watch the two main Presidential candidates on different channel while GEJ was on NTA for d usual presidential media chat;Buhari was live with Christian Ampour for those who watch this chat: which one represent ur area of interest pls no insult and be candid by click like for GEJ and share for GMB.

so let d game start..thank you.

Naija politician go call money like say na paper 1billion hmmm oga ooooo.

I jus op d ladies we c it actually as a message.." In a bid to get a certificate, they sold out a destiny that certificate cannot guarantee"

MizMyColi:
We need more of this type of news biko.

Yes oo but let us always remember our soldiers in prayer..Nice dp there.

kennygee:
That is why they keep attracting the wrong men. Men who will only eat, clean mouth and go.

She is a beautiful woman, there is no need for all these advertisements.

True talk..but it seem dt is what is in vogue though shu not folo multitude to do evil.

funnyme:
I wanted to see if its bigger than mine, but unfortunately………

so how big is urs?..How ever don't go this length by exposing it cause the wrong will be attracted.

Shortly before he withdrew totally from
discussing and keeping abreast of Nigerian
current affairs, a friend once advanced a thesis
that has since haunted my consciousness and
kept me awake at night. What worries me is not
just the suspicion that his nightmarish
proposition may damn well be right, it is the
knowledge that I have come close to that
conclusion so many times myself. Now, that
really scares me.
He is in his fifties. Some thirty of his fifty
something years on earth he has spent in
Europe, Canada, and the United States (Egbon,
sorry o, I warned you I would have to use this
your story in an op-ed one day). The thirty
something years he has spent outside of Nigeria
has been spent permanently agonizing about the
terrible tragedy that is Nigeria. The success he
has made of his life outside has not been any
comfort. Thirty years of pain and anguish, of
gnashing of teeth, of sorrowing, of headache, of
being in a state of permanent dissatisfaction
because of the terrible failures of his Nigerian
homeland. When he left Nigeria in the 20th
century (1980), regular electricity and water were
the stuff of miracle in his hometown. He visits
every other year. During his visit in 2010, he
realized that he was now in the 21st century and
regular electricity and water were still the stuff of
miracle in his hometown.
That visit was in 2010. What he also realized is
that the Nigerian tragedy has consumed the self-
worth and dignity of the citizen. Water and
electricity were irregular when he left (although
much better than what obtains today) but you
knew that those services were your right. You
did enough social studies in primary school,
enough Government in secondary school, to
understand that those are things that must come
with the territory of your citizenship. And there
he was in 2010 surrounded by citizens ready to
call you a traitor and shout you down if you are
not sufficiently grateful to whoever is currently
stealing from them for providing a kilometre of
road here, one hour of electricity there,
refurbished World War II locomotives here and
there.
There he was surrounded by folks ready to go
and give testimony at Church on Sunday for the
miracle of three hours of electricity. Between
1980 and 2010, the ruling classes had ensured
the total annihilation of civic sentience and
awareness, producing the sort of psychology
ready to be grateful for President Goodluck
Jonathan’s mediocrity – and to label those who
are not grateful for it unpatriotic. Nigeria has
thus produced two generations of citizens
without civics and that in itself is a crime
committed against the people by their rulers.
We are talking about 2010, the year of my
friend’s crisis of consciousness when he
travelled home to Nigeria. Things were even still
good. That was long before the incubus that is
President Goodluck Jonathan went to Kenya to
announce to the world that Nigeria has the
highest number of private jets in Africa and that
is how he measures the well-being of Nigerians.
My friend put all these scenarios together and
announced to me that he was through with
Nigeria. At fifty something, he was going to
dedicate the next phase of his life to being a
patriotic American citizen. I asked him why and
that's when he gave me the rationalization that
has traumatized me ever since.
He told me coolly that he is no longer interested
in thinking through Nigeria's endless self-
inflicted woes and self-designed failures because
he has accepted and made peace with the fact
that not all countries are meant to be good. Not
all people are meant to make a success of nation
statehood. Not all people are meant to make it
to the mountain top of project nationhood. Some
countries, he said, are meant to be permanently
bad, permanently dysfunctional, and permanently
unsuccessful and even if you gave Dubai to such
countries they'd transform it to Darfur in no
time. He is able to live with this sad conclusion,
he tells me, because in their badness, such
countries serve a good purpose, a good cause:
they serve as examples to others of how not to
run a country, how not to envision and envisage
project nationhood, how not to be a country.
Another Nigerian would later make this fatalistic
claim on my Facebook wall: he has accepted his
fate and accepted Nigeria as is because some
countries are not meant to be good.
When I heard of the great evil that Goodluck
Jonathan had visited on our country today, my
mind went to this thesis. I was despondent and
discouraged. My heart palpitated. I very nearly
drove to the Residence of the Nigerian High
Commissioner to drop my passport with Ojo
Maduekwe and be done once and for all with a
nation-space that has found permanent
employment for my tear ducts. I don’t need this,
I tell myself. That one wicked, evil man could
scheme to reverse every gain we have made on
our journey as a people since June 12, 1993 was
just too much for me to bear.
Make no mistake about it, what Goodluck
Jonathan has called a postponement of the
election, after getting his compromised security
goons (especially his irresponsible National
Security Adviser) to intimidate and blackmail
INEC, is a pre-annulment of an election in which
he was going to suffer a humiliating defeat. Boko
Haram has never stopped Goodluck Jonathan
from frolicking and partying away in Kano or
from marriage festivities anywhere. Boko Haram
murdered two thousand Nigerians and he was
more worried about a dozen journalists murdered
in France. To now use Boko Haram so cynically
to rape our democracy is an ultimate act of
treason for which, one must hope, Goodluck
Jonathan and all the enablers of his evil shall
one day stand trial.
Questions assailed me: are we meant to do
Africa and the rest of humanity a good turn by
being bad as a country? Are we the bad example
that aspiring democracies in Africa must use as
a guide out of the woods? If you want to make a
success of 21st-century nation-statehood and
the practice of genuine democracy, study Nigeria
and avoid her steps? Is this the good ordained to
come out of our bad? Is this the joke we have
allowed folks like Goodluck Jonathan to reduce
us to?
I found my answer in hours of online and
telephone interaction with outraged Nigerians all
over the world. Across all our fault lines –
ethnicity, religion, etc – they poured out into our
spaces and spheres of national discursive
communion to condemn evil. Even career
Jonathanians, too far gone in whatever highs he
serves them to be able to openly admit that
Goodluck Jonathan is not Jesus Christ the
infallible – had enough sense to recognize the
great evil that their man has visited on our
country and wisely kept a low profile today. Only
a few irredeemable career Jonathanians have
been out defending this treasonable civilian
coup-d’état.
The near-national consensus on the recognition
of the great evil that was done to our country
today and the strident determination of our
people to persevere, persist, and overcome has
taught me a fundamental lesson. Perhaps some
countries are meant to be bad and, in being bad,
serve a good purpose of example to others.
Perhaps some people are fated to eternal self-
inflicted injuries and self-designed failures on a
doomed march to nationhood. Perhaps some
people are not meant to make it to the
mountaintop of project nationhood. None of
these things matters to me anymore for
Nigerians have taught me today that what
matters is how history records a people’s
reaction to the badness in which they find
themselves on the great pathways of history. In
your millions, you poured out to the public
sphere to have your voices recorded against
badness and evil. The Jonathan junta rolled out
troops, thinking you’d give them the excuse of
violence to shed your blood but the fools do not
know that your victory lies elsewhere.
And we must pity President Goodluck Jonathan,
holder of a (P)owerful (H)igh (D)egree from the
University of Port Harcourt. We must pity him
because he is devious and he has surrounded
himself with criminals and evil men bent on
ruining Nigeria. That is why they are afraid to let
him know the truth they now understand only
too well. Reuben Abati, for instance, has read too
many books not to understand that what is
happening now is a mass movement for integrity
in which Buhari has become a transcendental
sign. Buhari is now a sign and a movement has
coalesced around that sign. When that happens,
no force is powerful enough to stop the
movement of such a tide. Even Buhari is
powerless to stop what is blowing across Nigeria
now and has adopted him as arrowhead
irrespective of his human strengths and
weaknesses. This tide has become so much
bigger than Buhari now – big enough for a Nobel
laureate to sense it and carefully arrange himself.
Those who have read some books in the
confederacy of criminals around President
Jonathan are afraid to tell their Oga that pre-
annulment or postponement – whatever they call
it – is powerless against this sort of tide. This
tide is an idea whose time has come. We have
now heard them in the Ekiti tapes so we
understand only too well what they hope to
achieve with this so-called Boko Haram
postponement: re-oil the rigging machine and
promise juicy promotions to key military men.
Unfortunately for these puny little men trying to
stand in the way of the hurricane that is blowing
across Nigeria, their scheme is dead on arrival.
The people who rose up en masse today to
condemn Goodluck Jonathan’s evil were going to
do just one thing on February 14: punish him for
failure and send him packing to Otuoke. Now, he
has annoyed many more people than were going
to sack him. He has merely strengthened the tide
and the movement. The Nigerians who were
going to sack him for only one reason in
February must now sack Goodluck Jonathan for
two reasons in March: (1) Failure; (2) Treason.

So now ladies are happy after d breaking news that election has been postpone,guys no more excuse this Jega ehen....d guy foil our hands o. Any way who will be my?