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Ruling party challenges main opposition
candidate to debate
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
Three thousand and seventy three delegates of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are
expected to convene at the Eagle Square, Abuja,
for the party’s national convention, which kicks
off this Wednesday, to ratify President Goodluck
Jonathan as the presidential candidate of the
PDP by popular acclamation.
At the PDP convention, the party’s National
Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, who was appointed
last January after the resignation of Bamanga
Tukur, will also be ratified by the delegates.
Others to be ratified are the National Secretary,
Prof. Wale Oladipo, and the National Auditor,
Wale Adeyanju.
Other items on the agenda include the
amendment of some relevant portions of the
party’s constitution.
According to details obtained by THISDAY, a
motion would be taken on the ratification and
there would be an affirmation election of “yes”
and “no”.
On the second day of the convention, the 3,073
delegates would vote to ratify the adoption of
Jonathan as the sole presidential candidate of
the party.
Providing more details, the National Publicity
Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, said: “There
would be an election in accordance with the
presidential primary guidelines of the party.
“The presidential primary guidelines state that
there would be an election and I can assure you
that there would be an election, even if it is 'Yes'
and 'No' as stated in the guidelines to ratify the
adoption of the president as the consensus
presidential candidate of PDP.”
On the insistence of Mrs. Duke Abiola that she is
still a presidential aspirant, Metuh said: “The
truth is that I cannot tell whether she is
presidential aspirant or not. Only the national
organising secretary can state her status.
“I know that there was a time the party was
begging her to collect her presidential
nomination form, but her lawyers said otherwise
and the party could not locate her.
“But as long as she has observed the
presidential primary guidelines, nobody can stop
her. There is a procedure of due process she
ought to follow, but I am not aware that she has
passed through this process.
“The president went through the processes,
submitted his form, went through screening, but
I am not sure she did so. As I said, only the
national organising secretary can speak on her
status.”
Metuh also said the party was not opposed to
any presidential debate between Jonathan and
any person that emerges as the presidential
candidate of the APC, adding: “Such presidential
debate must be issues based on the performance
of the present administration, unity and
prosperity of the nation.
“We welcome the opposition parties to a
presidential debate and it must be an issues-
based campaign and not a tissue of lies and
propaganda.”
Metuh pointed out that Jonathan remains the
best Nigerian president as records have shown
in his performances, citing electoral reforms,
agricultural reforms, improved road network and
improved standards of living for all Nigerians.
According to him, “The president has been able
to stabilise the polity by his pan-Nigerian
outlook and approach to governance. The
stability of our nation has strengthened national
unity.
“Today, he has been able to give every geo-
political zone a sense of belonging in terms of
infrastructure development, economic and human
capital empowerment.
“Besides the visible and concrete infrastructure
development in our nation, President Jonathan
has been able to demonstrate a deep sense of
equanimity in providing leadership in spite of the
incendiary remarks by some opposition leaders.
“Amidst the recession and economic downturns
in most nations of the world, our economy has
been stabilised, our unity preserved and our
democracy enhanced.
“Under President Jonathan, our nation has
witnessed remarkable progress and landmark
developments in all sectors of Nigerian public
life, through his Transformation Agenda.
“The administration has revived the comatose
railway transportation with some of the rail lines
already in operation. Lagos-Kano is already in
operation with new coaches providing improved
services.
“Not only have the nation’s highways improved,
ongoing works can be seen in almost all parts of
the country. When the Jonathan administration
came on board, only 5,000 out of the 35,000
kilometres of federal roads were motorable.
Today, the Jonathan government has
rehabilitated and reconstructed 20,000 additional
kilometres.
“The remaining 10,000 kilometres will be
completed in the next three years while other
new road projects will be executed.
“There have been monumental achievements in
the agriculture sector, particularly in the
distribution of fertiliser, development in the
production of rice, cassava and other Nigerian
staples.
“There are many more other achievements that
are there for us to show case. The Nigerian
economy is growing at an average rate of 6.5 per
cent. The recent rebasing of the Nigerian
economy, which makes it the largest in Africa
and the 26th largest in the world, with a GDP of
$510 billion, is a major achievement by the
Jonathan government.
“There is no doubt that President Jonathan has
simplified the task for us in the forthcoming
presidential election. Ours is to give expression
to the positive narrative of performance by
appealing to the sensibilities of well-meaning
Nigerians to ignore the propaganda and salad of
lies being served to them by the opposition, and
join hands with us to give the president a second
term mandate on February 14, 2015.
“Our party is therefore proud to present a
credible and dependable candidate with an
unquestionable character and we urge Nigerians
to continue to stand by him as we march to
victory in the 2015 general election.”
As at press time, security within the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT) had been beefed up, with
security agents manning all strategic locations in
the city.
The police alongside the army had revved up
their stop-and-search operations, while the Eagle
Square had been decorated with the national and
PDP colours.
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let d best emerge...

I think Nigeria is getting wise day by day,u dd well we will kp on d seat but u don't we will vote you out.

If only dt d delegates and d electorates we see religion as a form of worship and not as a
reason for hatred and see states of origin as a
form of heritage and not as a right to rule. Den
see corruption as a smear on our national
character and not as a way of life...dey we realise
Nigeria’s greatness as a work in progress and not
as an abandoned project.Let d best of best emerge.

If only dt d delegates and d electorates we see religion as a form of worship and not as a
reason for hatred and see states of origin as a
form of heritage and not as a right to rule. Den
see corruption as a smear on our national
character and not as a way of life...dey we realise
Nigeria’s greatness as a work in progress and not
as an abandoned project.

Anoda PDP wonder 806 greater than 860,may b is typographic error or slip of d tongue..On ds point Koro shu fight against impunity let dem taste small.

Democracy in Nigeria growing u earn our vote if u ar performing.

Hmmmm...if only our politician can be accountable nd delivered d dividends of democracy.

He was once so powerful...hw time fly.

The Ogun State chapter of Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said it
was not aware of the gubernatorial
aspiration of the former speaker of the
House of Representatives, Dimeji
Bankole.
Speaking at the party’s secretariat
yesterday, its state Chairman, Mr. Bayo
Dayo, said that Bankole was not one of
its 11 aspirants contesting in today’s
primary election, saying Bankole was yet
to purchase the PDP Expression of
Interest form.
He said the expression form would have
formally announced Bankole as an
aspirant in the governorship primary
election.
Dayo said unlike the other governorship
aspirants of the party, Bankole had
failed to show seriousness about his
aspiration to become the party’s
standard bearer.
He said Bankole had only been looking
for a “short cut” to becoming the PDP
governorship candidate instead of going
through due process.
“But we’ll continue to say it that he
(Bankole) did not obtain Expression of
Interest form from Ogun State. Until that
is obtained, I wouldn’t know him as one
of our aspirants,” Dayo said.
According to him, I’m still saying that I
am not aware that Dimeji Bankole is
contesting the governorship in Ogun
State. The money we are using to run
this party is enormous. Some people
have been doing that for years.
“Somebody cannot just say because he
has been to Harvard, Cambridge or
Oxford, he’s coming to lead us overnight.
It’s not going to happen. So, if you are
contesting you must come to the state
secretariat and obtained an Expression
of Interest form.
“Those forms that are given to us by the
various aspirants are the forms we are
using for all these primaries, congresses
we are doing. We do not have special
funds for all these things. It is the money
contributed by all these aspirants that we
are using. The arrangement about Dimeji
Bankole, I do not know anything about
it.”
Bayo alleged that Bankole had since 2011
when he lost his re-election bid into the
House of Representatives distanced
himself from the party.
The state PDP chairman however said
that he could not stop any aspirant who
had done the right thing from contesting
for the tickets of the party.
Efforts to get Bankole’s reaction proved
abortive. His telephone lines could not
be reachable and he did not reply the
SMS text sent to him.
Source:
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This seem to be moment of truth fo all polithiefician.

Why a PDP gov aspirant wears
bulletproof vest to primary
A Lagos State governorship aspirant, Mr.
Babatunde Gbadamosi, popularly known
as BOG, caused a stir at the Lagos State
Peoples Democratic Party governorship
primary when he arrived the venue in a
bulletproof vest.
Gbadamosi, while addressing journalists
at the venue, said he wore the vest in
order to protect himself from being hit
by a stray bullet following the violence
that erupted earlier in the day.
Although the party leadership had said
the violence was caused by thugs loyal to
the opposition party, Gbadamosi said the
real perpetrators of the violence were
from within the PDP.
Gbadamosi said the violence was part of
a plot to intimidate the almost 1,000
delegates that have converged on the
venue.
He said, “I am wearing the bulletproof
vest because I am afraid of being shot at
but I am urging all my supporters to
come and not be intimidated.
“There is fear of intimidation and some
people in the party want to intimidate
the delegates but we will ensure that
everyone will vote fearlessly and as it
pleases them.”
He said it was unfortunate that the party
leadership was supporting an aspirant.
He, however said the leaders would have
their say while the delegates would have
their way.
When asked if he was confident of
winning, he said, “Would I have paid
over N11m to purchase the form if I was
not confident?”
By Eniola Akinkuotu
Source
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The most awaited memoir by Baba seem to b out,or wl soon b on sale in d next few days..Baba have ds to say...

Former president of Nigeria, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo has insinuated that
Patience Jonathan, wife of the president,
Deziani Alison-Madueke, Petroleum
Minister, Stella Oduah, former Aviation
Minister and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
Finance Minister are all ‘Presidents’ of
Nigeria, noting that Goodluck Jonathan
comes behind the quartet and is the
weakest of them all.
Extracts from the three-volume
autobiography of Obasanjo, titled, “My
Watch” revealed how critical he is of
Jonathan’s administration. “Five
presidents in Nigeria, these were his
wife, Deziani, Oduah, Ngozi, Goodluck
Jonathan and that he was the weakest of
the five,” Obasanjo said in ‘My Watch’.
Obasanjo also said Jonathan is incapable
of governing well because he his selfish,
weak-willed, callous and incapable of
rising to the challenges of running a
complex country like Nigeria.
According to SaharaReporters, an
attempt by Buruji Kashamu, a senatorial
aspirant on the platform of the Peoples
Democratic Party in Ogun state and a
close associate of President Goodluck
Jonathan, to stop the publication of a
three-volume book by Obasanjo, appears
to have failed as the book is set to go
into circulation in the coming days.
A source close to Obasanjo has
confirmed that copies of the former
president’s exhaustive autobiography
were already available to buyers in print
and electronic form.
Grab your copy!!!
Source
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Hmmm ....let d game begin.Pls no light in area generator don spoil so I need a real update

Its unfortunate dt religion has bn indulge in tday politics but its more alarming seeing it from a youthful generation. The question for dos who have bn into it whr as it taken us to?Lagos ruled by a Muslim has a drastic change den all enjoy d basic amenities..pls let d best emerge.. what I care abt is having d basic needs of life..who give a damn who provide it..If dey can both do it what is d point of a Christian dt see corruption as mere stealing..no name mention abegi o.

God av mercy...

If only he can rule again....

Elo op dt us Achebe opinion.. but atleast we dt alive can tell better wh is k nd d regime we op nd d one we seem to b rule opless direction.

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Thanks!

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A bastard...in his own comment.I am from Nigeria taught to respect elders,but when an decided to b called a name not been christened by his parent but all because of money nd what to eat..who am i not to obey? Mtchew Nigerian selling their birth right since..1845.

what we dey gain in this feud...a drug baron nd a polithiefician...hmmm in mum pat voice diaris God oooooo

I come across this write up,I feel its nice for d guys to read it though its much but pls I beg of u try nd read so d guys in the house will stop clapping.


This was not what I really set out to do.
Since I did the piece ‘And she died’, I have
been inundated with protests from men.
How could I make men look like monsters
and women like saints? Women are mean,
ask Adam. A few male readers shared their
experiences in the hands of daughters of
Eve and some of the stories are quite
moving. So I went ‘digging’, asking more
men ‘we’ have dealt with over the years
what they think of women.
My research findings were baaaad. Women
are bad. Girls are badder. What to do?
Publish the evils that women do and how
they often catch up with them. That was
what I wanted to write about this week.
That is one topic I will write as soon as
possible. But not today. Today, I’m not
really going to hit the men, ahem, at least
not like that. Let’s just say I want to draw
their attention to some obvious facts they
daily ignore.
Now, I must confess that this piece was
triggered by a text message joke I received
from a co-conspirator. Here goes;
11 people were hanging on a rope under a
helicopter. There were 10 men and a
woman. The rope was not strong enough to
carry them all. So they decided that one of
them had to leave, otherwise they were all
going to fall. They were not able to agree
on who that person would be. Until the
woman among them gave a touching
speech. She said that she would voluntarily
let go of the rope because as a woman, she
was used to giving up everything for her
husband and kids or for men in general.
She said she was used to always making
sacrifices and getting little or nothing in
return. As soon as she finished her speech,
all the men started clapping…
All the men, of course, dropped to their
untimely deaths and she flew away alone in
the chopper. Well, what can a woman do?
That is the power of a woman, the brand
only smart men recognize and ac­
knowledge. If there had been at least one of
those 10 excitable men who could see
beyond that woman’s ‘moving’ speech, he
would be alive today. But don’t we all
know that men don’t do much thinking
when they see women they want?
In my mind’s eyes, I could see the woman
in that joke wearing a very short skirt, no
bra and a top with a plunging neckline.
How do you reason with a man drooling
over ample cleavage? If you scream ‘Praise
the Lord’, he won’t shout Halleluyah
because he is far away in la-la land. The
woman in that joke, I’m sure, also had
smooth skin, probably fair skin. All 10 men
simply threw their thinking caps in the air
or how else do you explain why they all
forgot that they did not have third hands
and that once they started clapping they
were going to drop to their deaths?
That is exactly my point. A smart woman
can make a man do whatever she wants
him to do. We are that powerful. Oh, don’t
even try to disprove it. Just save your
energy for the next time a woman is
delivering a speech and you need all your
wits about you to hang on to life instead of
clapping your way into an early grave.
Of course, I’m the first to admit that there
is something comforting about the sight of
a woman. We were created like that. Every
woman has the right gadgets to comfort a
man, make him feel safe, give him life. That
is the reason baby boys suck breasts more
fervently than baby girls and when you
wean him off breasts at 12 months, what
does he do? As soon as he is old enough
to recognize that there are other breasts
apart from mummy’s own, he goes breast-
hunting. Poor men, you can’t wean them off
breasts. They need to be regularly
nourished. Who’s complaining?
Don’t forget that this piece is about alerting
men to the dangers of their bad wild ways
on the one hand and the powers of a
woman on the other. No man should delude
himself that his woman is powerless. If you
doubt my sermon, ask yourself how much
you spend on your daughter and compare it
with how much your sons cost. Even your
little tyke is twisting you round her pink
fingers.
A smart man works all day, sits on his butt
for eight-straight hours trying to seal a
deal. He finally gets it in the can, tired but
happy. He drives home and sights these
half clad daughters of Eve along the road
and stops to give one a ride. He convinces
himself he’s celebrating his new deal.
Before you know it, he is expending more
energy and spending money that is not yet
in the bank.
I see my sisters who have not much to
show in terms of source of income living in
posh apartments in choice areas of town
and driving wonder-on-wheels. Who’s
paying? Men who are clapping when they
should be holding on firmly to the rope.
Well, the girls are having fun and the men
are not complaining. I just feel like warning
them today. Men should stop thinking that
it’s a man’s world. Please, it’s women’s
device to keep you clapping. It suits even
me to convince men that it’s their world.
But it isn’t.
My brother summed up this whole clapping-
when-you-shouldn’t business when he said
‘men are forever prostrating for their
women when the women are not riding
them.’ I’m still trying to decode that one.
Are the men still clapping?
First published December 12, 2009

Ops pls can you guide me hw I can post an interesting topic to any group of my choice eg romance,politics etc.

Na now dey break....if it wl only put an end to d bomb blast every whr....

Hmmmm...na naija we dey,one clueless from d presidency will come out now nd giv us one dullness nd clueless statement.Den d plane wl b release den case closed.

Rubbish...been nude is no longer news,my advice to all dose who feel ds is d trend in our generation can decide to b walking naked d street like madmen?But d question is Y ladies? In naija muzic d real artist wear clothes na d agbero ladies dey open their bodies fo all see rubbish..

Abike best of luck....jus pray d lord lead right.

You mean Onikan and Abuja stadium no dey ur list ops....haaa haa u no try even d most advertised akwa ibom stadium no dey?Naija we can celebrate anything nd yet we parry invite two head of state to join d clueless to commission it.With enof money go down d drain in pparation fo d launching even d Dull Jazzy was invited nd all d mafian record,rubbish.Op let me ask u dd ds ppu throw party or invite president to commission any of this stadium?May d lord make us grow from mediocre to better we.

For wia...strong ke?