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PoliticsPdp Boast Of 15yrs Of Uninterrupted Democray by smsshola(op): 1:55pm On Jan 12, 2015
Naija!!!!! I hail thee...am watching the PDP presidential campaign in Ibadan Oyo state what a turn out of people..but surprisingly the one thing that caption my mind is the caption " 15 years of uninterrupted democracy". Is this really an achievement? why not boost of uninterrupted power supply? Why can't they scream of uninterrupted price of naira stability....am jus asking.
PoliticsRe: So VP Namadi Sambo Didnt Show Up In Channels TV by smsshola(m): 9:31pm On Jan 11, 2015
I hope we will not hear any excuse during the presidential debate...pls a better TV should try nd fix a debate to debate issue.
PoliticsRe: Why Is APC The Only Party Encouraging People To Register & Pick Up The PVC by smsshola(m): 10:26am On Jan 11, 2015
Because they want us to be involve in the governance.
PoliticsHello Mr. President, How Market? By Gbenro by smsshola(op): 8:04am On Jan 11, 2015
‘An age is called Dark, not because light
fails to shine but because people refuse
to see it.’-James A. Michener
Anywhere, whether on the main streets or on the
cyber streets you turn to in Nigeria today there
is one loud but shameless noise of celebration in
the air. People are rejoicing! Celebrating; naked
and unashamed. Virtues have died.
Values are already in the grave. Come on, let’s
celebrate! It’s their Funeral! Yes, funeral of
values and virtues. That is the reason for the
celebration. "No thought, no sense, no break!
Joro-jara-joro" as Fela has sung.


A thorough definition of the Dark Age is catching
fire. It is a time when people rejoice in falsehood,
iniquity, heresy and evil and go ahead to honour
those who package, promote and market them!
The gross darkness is here! A time when ‘Papa’
Deceive ‘Pickin’ and ‘Pickin Deceive ‘Papa’ has
arisen. For the reason of what to eat, some
women, men, young and old have become lovers
of lie, apostles of falsehood and retarders of
virtues.
This type of happenstance was what provoked
Prophet Jeremiah in the Bible to write about
once upon a time in the beautiful city of
Jerusalem in The Book of Lamentation. A city
that then laid barren and reduced to rubble by
Babylonian hordes that invaded it. It was a tear-
stained image of a city that became the shadow
of its old self. Nigeria is fast becoming the ‘old
testament version’ of that Jerusalem, a city once
loved by God, but battered down by its own
rulers.
A city whose rulers are products of whoredom
and whose large number of her people are given
to reprobate mind. A nation where falsehood has
become the foundation for policy details; and
profanity, the guidance of practice, has slender
chance of recovery from the mire into which it
has sunk.
That slender chance is what the February 2015
Election is about. Slender chance of rescuing the
country from those that are irredeemably
corrupt.
They met the pump price of petrol at 65 naira
and they are leaving it at 97 naira. They met the
exchange rate of the naira at one dollar-147
naira, and they are leaving it at one dollar-197
naira.
Interest Rate was 14% when they came in; today
it stands at 21%. The Gini coefficient keeps on
escalating, revealing the exponentially populating
of the "parish of the poor"; widening the gap
between the rich and the poor and crippling the
potential for peace. These are the insignia of
their transformation mantra; turning gold to
ashes and making simple sand grain out of un-
cut raw diamonds.
In their time, men and women are even becoming
robots, in thoughts and in placing truth in its
rings. They have turned to disgusting abusers of
compatriots with divergent views, cursers of the
righteous and molesters of anyone with a slight
air of integrity.
Ambassadors of corruption are parading
themselves as "Transformation Ambassadors",
dancing ‘Skeleu’ with their ‘Dagon’ who has
forgotten, as in Chinua Achebe’s words, that his
palm kernel was cracked by sheer benevolence.’
Biting the fingers that fed him, forgetting that
those who bite feeding fingers often end up
licking the boots that will kick them.
What manner of a presidential candidate would
appoint an indecorous light-fingered hate monger
like Fani Kayode as his Campaign
Spokesperson? A man whose corruption charges
were traded for partisan loyalty to a president
who is expected to be Chief Champion of Anti-
Corruption. The man who recently celebrated his
sexual prowess as veritable tool he used to
conquer the widow of the prime Igbo Chief.
The man who has on several occasions
perfidiously projected the hegemony of his
Yoruba tribe over the Igbos, just as he is doing
currently with the Hausa/Fulani in a nation
desperately craving for unity. The man that has
indiscretionally called for Oduduwa Republic to
the provocation of others. A perverse and
perverted mind with history graft and betrayal;
and who has ordained himself as ‘preacher of
hate’, reading his own greed into the creed of
God by adulterating the words of God.
Deceiver of brethren whose belly is his god. Little
wonder the former President Obasanjo said "I
know Femi Fani Kayode, give him food to chop,
he will sing and dance for you."
What manner of a president would be this
consumed by personal ambition to the extent of
no longer recognizing what bitter division is all
about? How can a president be persistently
holding his political party’s (PDP) meeting in the
State House and did not see that as an initiation
of division?
How can a president of a country, who claims to
be a Christian be gallivanting from one church to
the other like those that Jesus called Pharisees,
making political statements without giving a
damn to the sensibility of others, more so that a
chapel has been built in the State House to make
his religious belief a private affair; and yet thinks
he is not dividing the country along religious
lines?
They go from church to church, from Jerusalem
to Galilee, yet they do not stop stealing
government money! They love God with their
mouths but their heart is far from God.
Hippocrates! How can a president of a country
yearning for national integration allow a group of
rag tag supporters like TAN to go to the extent
of dividing Nigeria football supporters club by
inscribing ‘TAN, Supporters of Goodluck’ on the
T-Shirt worn by supporters of a national football
team during the Africa Cup Qualifying Match?
Indeed, I agree that such a president needs a
parent. Thank God he has found one among his
type. His newly adopted father is Babangida.
Babangida has endorsed him. However,
Babangida has also made it clear that his
government was run by angels given the scale of
corruption which prevails in Nigeria of today.
I do not know why people are frowning at
Babangida’s endorsement of Jonathan. The
exchange between the two men-united by
expertise in science and art of corruption-is
mutually beneficial. Through words, Babangida
has endorsed Jonathan. Through acts, Jonathan
has canonised Babangida. Combining the two, it
can be said that what Babangida can do,
Jonathan can do even better.
Nevertheless, God is fighting back already, the
people’s blind eyes are opening, the Dark Ages
have almost passed out of our land. This market
will soon be over; but before then, and as TAN
would say, "Keep on doing it Mr President." The
dealers with you are more than the minders who
tell you the truth! Hello, Mr. President, how
market!
PoliticsRe: The Fear Of Prison Is The Beginning Of Change – By Adebayo Rasheed by smsshola(op): 7:53am On Jan 11, 2015
Am still rereading this part of the article..
"Now I understand why former governor of
Bayelsa was pardoned. I understand why
“corruption is not stealing” and I
understand why the audit report on
missing $20 billion won’t be released. I
understand why we have more
expensive GEJ bill boards than road
signs".
PoliticsRe: The Fear Of Prison Is The Beginning Of Change – By Adebayo Rasheed by smsshola(op): 7:52am On Jan 11, 2015
Am still rereading this part of the article..
PoliticsThe Fear Of Prison Is The Beginning Of Change – By Adebayo Rasheed by smsshola(op): 7:33am On Jan 11, 2015
Considering utterances from PDP
campaign groups, issues bothering on
well-being of Nigerians are not being
addressed.
They are simply asking: “DO You WANT
TO GO TO PRISON?” President Jonathan
asked the question, Governor Akpabio
asked the same question and so many of
them were so much campaigning against
prison. Now I am wondering why they
are so much worried about prison.
Why the sudden fear of Prison? The
answer is: “when dry bones are
mentioned in a story, an old woman
becomes very uncomfortable.” If they
are not corrupt and are really fighting
corruption. Why are they so much
preaching against prisons? Now I
understand why former governor of
Bayelsa was pardoned. I understand why
“corruption is not stealing” and I
understand why the audit report on
missing $20 billion won’t be released. I
understand why we have more
expensive GEJ bill boards than road
signs. Some billboards cost more than a
million and these people have mounted
thousands of them. Instead of
channeling resources appropriately.
They resorted to wasting them on
billboards and jingles on radio and TV.
Who has been funding these things and
with which money? Now they are asking
us, the suffering masses if we want to go
to prison. President Goodluck from his
speech has shown that he is not ready to
stop corruption. You can’t stop
corruption without sending people to
jail. I don’t fear prisons and if I commit
a crime I should be given the
punishment I deserve. Why are there
laws if we can’t use prisons? They have
suddenly become so afraid of Prison cell.
They should also remember God
Almighty also has a prison : HELL. If you
want to help PDP please vote them out.
Let them go to prison cells so that they
will repent and avoid HELL. Vote APC,
vote #Buhari_Osnbajo
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PoliticsINEC Orders Decentralizationof PVC Distribution by smsshola(op): 9:39am On Jan 10, 2015
Nigeria's Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) has today ordered the
"decentralization" of on-going Permanent Voter
Cards (PVC) distribution from local government
to ward levels. The measure has been
undertaken, the commission said today in a
press release, in order to facilitate PVC
distribution.

The commission also resolved to extend the
period for the distribution of cards.
Read INEC's full press release below.
The Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has ordered the decentralisation of on-
going distribution of Permanent Voter Cards
(PVCs) to ward levels, in order to enhance
access by persons yet to collect their cards.
Before now, the distribution was done at the
local government offices of the Commission,
since the end of distribution at the polling unit
level. But distribution of the PVCs will henceforth
be at ward level nationwide.
The Commission, at its meeting on Thursday,
January 8th, 2015, resolved that the period for
distribution of the cards should be extended.
Registered voters who are yet to collect their
cards can now do so from 8. 30 a.m. to 5.30
p.m. daily.
Secretary to the Commission, Mrs. Augusta C.
Ogakwu said Resident Electoral Commissioners
have been mandated to set up effective
monitoring strategies and ensure that the
specified hours are strictly complied with by
relevant INEC staff.
Kayode Robert Idowu
Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman
CareerRe: 90-Year-Old Asked To Bring 1950 Appointment Letter To Get Pension (Pictured) by smsshola(m): 9:21am On Jan 10, 2015
If this is true wh am not too sure then its wickedness..
PoliticsRe: 40 Days To Presidential Elections. If You're Voting Remember These Factors by smsshola(m): 5:50am On Jan 10, 2015
segzyj:
Bad Belle People
we gree but power must change hand.. For how long shall we continue in ds mess and still expect development.
PoliticsNig: Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago? By Bayo O by smsshola(op): 9:36pm On Jan 09, 2015
During the American presidential debate in
1980 with the incumbent President
Jimmy Carter, President Ronald Reagan
pointedly asked Americans: “Are you better off
today than you were four years ago?” Ever since,
the now-famous quote features prominently
every four years in the American political
dialogue. That one-liner has become a line that
people all over the world can personally relate to
in many ways.

When President Goodluck Jonathan assumed the
presidency May 6, 2010, after the demise of
President Umaru Yar'Adua, the country was
mired in political debacle and economic crisis.
Corruption was rife, a persistent economic slide
was uprooting the very foundations of survival
for Nigerians.
Nigerians were ready to try the “shoeless” native
son of Otuoke. Jonathan was elected by a
landslide in 2011. That was the beginning of the
end of a society that bears resemblance to a
country with a government. By the end of
Jonathan's four-year term, his presidency has
become a misery memoir. I hope Nigerians have
learned their lessons.
History is an amazing guide if Nigerians choose
to pay attention to it. But sadly, many Nigerians
don't give a damn. The coronation of Emperor
Jonathan not only meant the ascension of
corruption that ruined our country, his
administration is staffed by professional and
career criminals. His four-year reign has proved
beyond any reasonable doubt that Jonathan is a
terrifically horrible president and a liar.
The Jonathan era is an era of economic disaster.
A black hole debt was created by supper
corruption, hyper-inflated contracts, zero
accountability, and a complete looting spree by
the president and his men and women. The
reality of the Jonathan administration is that the
richer (treasury looters) get richer and the poor
poorer. Out of 170 million people, only about 12
Nigerians control one-eight of the entire Nigerian
economy. “And within this period that the PDP
has been ruling,” boasts Jonathan, “we've
actually created a number of millionaires and
billionaires.”
The middle class – if there is still any class by
that name in Nigeria – has further slid into an
economic abyss. Most Nigerians are now living
on the edge of poverty. In fact, they are now
fully and permanently embedded in that poverty
cycle. It will take them many years to come out
of the hole – if they ever come out – if they keep
on electing political species like Jonathan.
Nigerians are denied equal opportunities. Indeed,
no equal opportunity exists in Nigeria. In the
present set-up, the opportunities that are
available require more than just desire and
talent. How can the marginalized get started
without a bankroll to create the opportunity?
Pensions which were one time a guaranteed life-
saver no longer provide a rainy day insurance for
peace of mind when the time comes to rely on it.
University and college graduates and other
professionals are now living with their parents
longer than at any other time in our country's
history. The jobs are disappearing faster than
they are created.
The short time Muhammadu Buhari was in office,
though there was no equal distribution of wealth,
there was safety and security from armed
robbers, abductors, kidnappers, hired assassins
and the men of the underworld. Despite his high-
handedness and the abrupt termination of his
regime by the gap-toothed, aged despot and the
destroyer of our nation, Ibrahim Badamosi
Babangida, Nigerians find a way to love him,
now even more than then.
Here are GMB’s achievements put together by
SaharaReporters’ comedian-satirist Adeola
Fayehun on her show “Keeping It Real With
Adeola Fayehun” The achievements were
attained in just two years in office between
1983-1985.
· Before becoming Head of State from
1976-1978, as petroleum minister and head of
NNPC under Olusegun Obasanjo, he built 3 oil
refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna.
Nigeria was refining and exporting its own oil.
He also masterminded the construction of 20 oil
depots across Nigeria, laying over 3200km of
pipeline
· He took over from a very corrupt
government (similar to what we find ourselves in
today), and ensured as many corrupt public
officers as possible were punished
· He reduced inflation from 23% to 5%. The
Naira was closely competing with the dollar and
pounds and Nigerians could spend Naira abroad.
He refuted pressure from the IMF to devalue the
Naira to promote trade and resolved to trade by
barter in the international market. This led to the
IMF supporting the candidacy of IBB, who helped
carry out their plans
· He instilled culture of discipline in
Nigerians, and promoted the principle of first
come first serve, regardless of position or class
and discouraged oppression
· Under Gen. Sanni Abacha's regime, as
chairman of the PTF during his four-year reign,
he constructed more roads than the Nigerian
government has constructed in the last 15 years,
along with construction of several amenities
· He remains the only past president without
foreign accounts and real estate in the country
and beyond the shores of Nigeria. He has one
house in Kaduna and another in his hometown.
He has no oil well and currently lives on pension.
He discovered late Dora Akunyili (R.I.P) and
nominated her for a position in NAFDAC
· He is the first head of state to put women
in cabinet and there's no proof of him being an
Islamic extremist as widely rumored, in fact he
has domestic staff that is Christian
Though one thing is indisputable: Jonathan's
Transformation Agenda has ruined Nigeria.
Nigerians must wake up to the reality of the
choice before them. Of course, voting GMB is not
the only answer. But in the short term, it is, to
be candid. The engagement of Nigerians in the
politics of politics is essential if we want a
change.
I am not blind to the fact that Jonathan and
PDP have the money but we have the people.
The problem with us is that we allow their
money to show up more consistently than our
own people do. In this election cycle, this must
stop.
We have just a few weeks to motivate people to
get out the votes on election day. I believe I am
doing my part and I hope every progressive
element is doing his/her part. Let this article do
some talking for you and I hope every Nigerian,
especially the oppressed poor, understands the
importance of this election.
It is dreadful and dangerous if the Jonathan and
his PDP ATM cash dispensers beat us to the
polls on election day. If we don't vote, they win.
If they win, then the question that was first
asked in 1980 and that I'm asking now won't
need to be asked again because we would know
the answer.
So, are you better off today than you were four
years ago?
Are you?
Contact the writer at byolu@aol.com.
PoliticsRe: Police Disrupt Apc Walk Of Change by smsshola(m): 9:19pm On Jan 09, 2015
Can't PDP put is people to order...they shot APC supporters at rivers now you are disrupting their peaceful rally..na wa o.....before you cough now police will say they are tug..or tout.
Christianity EtcRe: IMAGINE! Oyhakhilome’s Church Had A Gate Fee Of N1000 For New Year Service. by smsshola(m): 8:59pm On Jan 09, 2015
Oooops ooooips Op hw many time did I call u? If u love ursef jus dey look many things ar wrong ds days in our of worship. You do well sha but Bfo u kno now his disciples will almost burn u alive.
PoliticsWe Are Building Institution To Fight Corruption..gej by smsshola(op): 3:33pm On Jan 08, 2015
Are you people out there watching Gej speaking,he said they are building institution to fight corruption please for 6 years they are still building institution to fight corruption. Please what happened to EFCC,ICPc and the like?
PoliticsI Vow To Do More..gej by smsshola(op): 2:27pm On Jan 08, 2015
If you are watching the PDP presidential flagoff as I am then look properly at the stand above you will see a caption " I vow to do more " most of the people speaking none as been able to tell the crowd what the presidential intend to do more even the president. please am asking now what is it GEJ intend to do more..if for six years will live under illusion of promises promises and most of the development on paper..
PoliticsIs Bode George Right Comparing Lagos Apc Nd Pdp? by smsshola(op): 2:04pm On Jan 08, 2015
Am watching the live transmission of the PDP Presidential flag off, is Bode George time to talk and he asked a question: If the people of Lagos are better than the way they were before for the past 16years as APC rule Lagos compare to the best PDP as rendered to Nigeria since 16years ago. Though I lived in the north but visited Lagos last year Esther and I was surprised with wat I see in term of development.. though I may be wrong that is why am asking the question here...is Bode right?Let lagosian judge is life better for them compare to the PDP central government?
Jokes EtcRe: If You Used Any Of These Items Then You Are Older Than You Think by smsshola(m): 11:41am On Jan 08, 2015
Time flies...it got a wing none can clip.
PoliticsRe: SSS Displays Documents Recovered From APC Office In Lagos(with images) by smsshola(m): 9:18pm On Jan 07, 2015
In as much I want to b silence on this issue some question beg fo ansa:

1. Where ar the PVCs card?
2. What is the relationship Btw APC multiple member reg and inec ?
3. Is APC planning to hack the Inec data base or they have hacked it already?
4. When will DSS check on PDP sectariate fo a fair playing ground.
5. Can DSS also display the machine they ar using fo the clone?
6. Is our investigating team so bad or poor that it took the DSS two months Bfo coming with this mess.
PoliticsRe: Buhari Visits APC Members Who Were Shot On Their Way To His Campaign Rally In PH by smsshola(m): 5:26pm On Jan 07, 2015
Nice leader show empathy not just sympathy....
CelebritiesRe: Fr. Mbaka Reveals He Has Been Receiving Death Threats by smsshola(m): 10:30am On Jan 05, 2015
Na wa ooio..
PoliticsRe: What Was Power (NEPA) Situation Like In Your Place During This Festive Period? by smsshola(m): 9:39pm On Jan 04, 2015
Op two days in my area no light during the nu year nd d second day ooooo....in Katsina Gaby hotel area. yet my clueless presido dey promise...
PoliticsRe: Prof.Osinbajo:I Consulted Pastor Adeboye B4 Accepting 2 Be Buhari's Running Mate by smsshola(m): 6:34am On Jan 04, 2015
prof ride on joor haters..hmmm.
FamilyGMB And GEJ: Who Among The 2 Would You Want To Leave Ur Kids With? by smsshola(op): 10:12pm On Jan 03, 2015
Imagine you are to make a short distance with your wife for two weeks and no one to leave your lovely kids with except GMB or Jonathans. Who will you choose?
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Must Go : Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka by smsshola(m): 8:34pm On Jan 03, 2015
Hmmmm...father Nop from shoeless to the one with shoes..from being a clue person to clueless presido..
PoliticsRe: Maku, Emerges Apga’s Gov Candidate In Nasarawa by smsshola(m): 8:31pm On Jan 03, 2015
Nigerian politician have no ideology.. to them any party is a party.
PoliticsRe: Abati Explains Why The president Didn't Say Amen To anti Corruption Prayer by smsshola(m): 7:40am On Jan 03, 2015
Hmmmm thank you Oga Abati you should also join the likes of basket mouth as stand up comedian I can't just stop laughing... u are so great.I wonder where Jona get these type of spokesmen they are always making the public to get back at the presidency.. hmmm so pls can you tell us that section of constitution limiting the numbers of amen that the public servant can say..we never hear things like this during obj...I dey laugh...but Abati know diaris God oooo chai chai all this comment you ppu are making diaries God oooo diaris God oooo.
Politics2015:The Truth And The Fake Prophecies.. by smsshola(op): 7:05am On Jan 03, 2015
It’s foolish to argue with a man who says
God said. You take it or leave it. At this
time of the year, persons who claim they
have seen the future by some divine
connection inundate the public with
predictions of what is going to happen in
the new year.
Even outside the realm of faith,
predictions can be hazardous. There’s
hardly any effective way of keeping
predictors honest. A student of Leon
Trotsky, one of the leaders of the Russian
revolution, once said of him that the proof
of his farsightedness is that none of his
predictions had come true yet.
Yet, since the future is the only bargain
store where hope is the currency, we can
hardly resist looking in.
I’ve been doing that in the last few days,
but unlike in the previous years, I started
this year by looking at how much of the
divine predictions made on the eve of
2013 actually came true in 2014. A
certain Prophet Babatunde Ayodele of a
Lagos-based evangelical church, who
claimed he predicted the Bellview and
Sosoliso plane crashes in 2005, was at it
again in December 2013.
Among other things, he predicted that
there would be a massive surge in oil
prices in 2014, a devastating sea surge in
Lagos and deterioration in the health of
First Lady Patience Jonathan, almost unto
death. By the time of writing this piece,
just about 12 hours before New Year’s
Eve, none of the three predictions had
come true.
In fact, the year was closing with record
lows in oil prices, beach parties at the
shores of Lagos waterfronts and a First
Lady in robust health and set to claim the
prize of ghastliest public commentator of
the year.
But to be fair to the prophet, he was on
point on the removal of the PDP
chairman, Bamanga Tukur, who was
already in purgatory when the prediction
was made, the oil workers’ strike and the
catastrophic warfare between former
president Olusegun Obasanjo and
President Goodluck Jonathan.
For 2015, two predictions have struck me
so far. They are the one by Pastor J.T.
Kalejaiye of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God and the one by Primate
Olabayo, founder of the Lagos-based
Evangelical Church of Yahweh.
First, Kalejaiye. In his column in the Sun
last week, Mike Awoyinfa quoted Kalejaiye
as saying there would be a “pleasant
surprise in 2015.” He reportedly told the
congregation to “go and mark my words.”
Kalejaiye lamented the level of corruption
in the country and asked whether it made
sense to play the religious, ethnic or
crony card in the face of the suffering in
the land.
The key thing he said was surprise, which
has sparked off a huge debate in
cybernistan about what he really meant.
Most think Kalejaiye is pro-Buhari/
Osinbajo, especially because the APC vice
presidential candidate is a senior pastor
in Redeemed Church. They insist that the
“pleasant surprise” means Buhari/
Osinbajo will win the February 14
presidential poll.
My advice to both sides is neither to get
mad nor complacent. Anyone who follows
these things closely must understand by
now that the first rule of divine prediction
is to leave enough room for manoeuvre.
The prediction must be pointed enough
for you to get the credit when it goes
right and vague enough allow for
deniability when it goes wrong.
By the same token that some have
claimed Kalejaiye was speaking of an
upset, if it doesn’t happen, it might also
be safely argued that Jonathan’s survival,
in spite of the tough odds against him,
will also be a pleasant surprise.
You only need to read the last part of
Awoyinfa’s column where Kalejaiye was
apparently speaking of Governor Kashim
Shettima letting the Chibok girls go ahead
with their exams in spite of an alleged
warning to the contrary, to get the point.
He was for APC and against it at the
same time.
Yet there’s obviously one prophet who
doesn’t mind hanging out to dry. Primate
Olabayo is not a stranger to controversy.
He predicted that Al Gore would win the
US election in 2005 only for George Bush
to emerge. In 2010 he prophesied that the
tide of the post-election crisis in 2011
would sweep Jonathan away. The
violence, which didn’t need a prophet to
happen, occurred and over 1,000 lives
were lost.
And Jonathan? He transformed from a
lamb to a lion, and very much in charge.
Olabayo is at it again. He has, among
other things, predicted that there might
not be elections next year, and that even
if elections are held, there would be a
stalemate. According to him, the seat of
the president is not vacant; in other
words, expect Jonathan to win. The talk
of whether or not there would be
elections next year or the chances of the
elections ending in a stalemate are not
exclusive matters of divine visitation. It’s
being spoken about in the ivory towers
and discussed in beer parlours. Was that
not the whole point of Bolaji Akinyemi’s
open letter to Jonathan and Buhari in
which he asked them to sign a pact of
restraint?
If we’ll have to listen to Olabayo – for
foretelling beer parlour common wisdom
– then he either has to get a fresh
anointing or we enlist him in the book of
fake prophets.
And in case he thinks we’ll forget this
gaffe as we have the previous ones, we’ll
wait to see the result of the governorship
election in Lagos which he said would be
won by the PDP. Except if the hosts of
heaven have been enfranchised and are
under divine instruction to line up behind
Bode George and Jimi Agbaje, I don’t
know how this would come about.
The structures in Lagos, from the ward
level up, are so firmly in the hands of the
APC that any prediction of their
displacement can only be a joke. But
Olabayo might respond that in God’s
book, there are numerous examples of the
triumph of the weak over the strong. Only
a fool will argue with a man who says
God said.
We’ll see. February 28 is not a century
away.
PoliticsWe Want Atiku, Kano Gov,others Back —PDP by smsshola(op): 6:43am On Jan 03, 2015
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on
Friday said that the All Progressives
Congress (APC) presidential aspi-rant,
General Muhammadu Buhari is too old to
rule Nigeria just as it is making moves to
bring back into its fold former Vice
President Atiku Abubakar and other
aggrieved governors, who had dumped the
party for APC.
Making this disclosure during an
interactive session with journalists in Ile-
Ife, the PDP national secretary, Professor
Wale Oladipo, averred that the “APC
presidential candidate is “democratically
untested.
General Buhari is too old to rule Nigeria.
The 72 year old man who retired from
Nigerian Army has nothing to offer this
nation. His age will not even allow him to
give Nigerians what they deserve. I am
sure that no youth in Nigeria will vote for
Buhari. I will advise Nigerian youths to
tell the world through their votes that the
young ones can perform better.”
He also said that former Vice President
Atiku Abubakar and Kano State governor,
Dr Rabiu Kwakwanso and some ex- PDP
members were being contacted for
negotiation to facilitate their possible
return to the party before February, 2015
general elections.
Oladipo, who said he currently heads a
committee saddled with the responsibility
of speaking to some former aggrieved
members asserted that “Vice President
Atiku and Dr Kwankwaso are some of the
those we are in contact with. In case of
our former VP, Alhaji Atiku, who was
humiliated by the owners of APC during
the party’s presidential primaries, we
believe he can only enjoy his deserved
influence in PDP and we are in contact
already”.
“Dr Kwankwaso is also being contacted
because we know they belong to us and
the earlier they realise that PDP remains
the only party where they can only enjoy
their deserved leverage, the better. We are
in contact with them and we are hopeful
of fruitful negotiations”, he stated.
According to Oladipo, the PDP
reconciliation committee recently
constituted by the National Working
Committee (NWC) of the party would also
meet all identifiable and genuinely
aggrieved former members of the party
who are in the APC and other political
parties.
He maintained that all these
developments were aimed at achieving
total reconciliation before 2015 general
polls, with a view to further consolidate
on its advantageous position ahead of the
exercise.
Commenting on the crisis rocking its
Ondo state chapter, Oladipo observed
that the PDP was close to total
reconciliation of all aggrieved factions,
explaining that both chief of staff to the
Governor, Dr Segun Mimiko and one of the
leaders of old PDP in the state, Chief
Nathaniel Oke were in Ile-Ife as part of
reconciliation efforts.
PoliticsRe: Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Wife, H. I. D. Awolowo Backs Osinbajo by smsshola(m): 10:50pm On Jan 02, 2015
Mama Awo God bless even if papa dey alive he will support this train of change. He won't be in a group of corrupt ppu..that see corruption as mere stealing.
Nairaland GeneralWhy Will A Bride Wear White And Groom Black? by smsshola(op): 10:39pm On Jan 02, 2015
To the gurus out there please can you help me with a good answer to this question..I have bn wondering why wl a bride wear white even though she is not a virgin..and the Groom wear black even if the guy is a virgin?If my little knowledge is correct for a bride wearing white gown connote sanity nd dt her virginity is still intact...but it seem the same is not applicable to the guys please why?
Come to think of it most of our ladies this day are not even clean enof to put on the white gown cos they av lost the value..so can't we giv them black gown to put on nd any guy with is virginity intact to wear white suite.
Jokes EtcRe: Buhari's WAEC Result Finally Exposed! by smsshola(m): 9:41pm On Jan 02, 2015
Hmmm naija..
PoliticsRe: BLOODY LIAR Of Life (photo) by smsshola(m): 11:01am On Jan 02, 2015
Ops pls can you indict this man with any corruption allegations... if there is a hole in his statement does not make him a liar...concerning the bank everyone knows anything you do wt bank is confidential...so you believe Jona when he said he had no shoes..you can believe Jonas wen he said he is not an army commander even wen d constitution empowered him,so you believe Jona wen he said he does not giv a damn...Op you believe Jonas wen he said corruption is just mere stealing...You also believe Jona wen he said ystaday he is jus plan for anti-corruption program..Op you believe Jona wen he said he will only run for a term and now he is going for second term...My dear you believe a man who said 4years is enof to fix the power but now nothing is done for ur info from 4000mega watt..we now have 2900 mega watt.hmmm pls I can see who you believe don't want to imagine who you are...

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