₦airaland Forum

goggs:
I saw the General break down on TV.

I thought I saw sincerity in there. I doubt if anything else will make him so emotional. What he must have thought of is how badly things are, and the burning desire to fix them. Great Gani Fawenhinmi also broke down and cried when talking about the country's decadence. I am certain they were not crocodile tears. A careful analysis of where Nigeria is coming from and  is headed can bring  a patriot to tears

I feel his frustration. I am yet to make up my mind for a candidate, but I am gradually becoming certain that Goodluck may not likely get my vote because he is yet to convince me on his plan to fight corruption (if he has any at all), and the lack of a strong economic team. These are the biggest issues I am very worried about.

I am open though; an undecided voter if you will. However, buhari is slightly ahead of ribadu in the race for my thumb this Saturday.

In reference to the highlighted part, please could you list the 'strong economic team' that Buhari parades?

benagozie:
Ribadu is a coward and untrusted fellow.

How is he coward and 'untrusted' fellow?

The very first time they considered an alliance, it was agreed that the party that does better in the early polls should produce the consensus candidate so why does Buhari feel entitled to the throne?

desktop:
They should have asked this old man what really he wants again? and during his time as military head of state was he not aware of democracy then to have steered the country in that direction that now hes fighting for? who gives a flying be intimate with when he joined partisan politics? Also please please please when he loses again this time around would he kindly save us the trauma of his purposeless disillusioned attempt to rule the country and not campaign again either under this or any other party please BUHARI please it is enough you are not (have never and will never be) in tune or aware of what it takes to rule the Nation right. All your other mates now are chilling or running things in the background your political campaign is older than my last three cars yet you still believe you should be a hindrance for  fresh air to blow.
Please go, we dont want you not now. . .not ever you and the deceitful smokescreen you have as a vice. pastor of fake prophecies. I hope he has seen the result in his vision cos its always the opposite of what he prophesies that comes to pass.

next time you want to cry do it on top of a transformer

loser

lol at the highlighted part. Not to worry, we understand what you were trying to say.  

efisher:
^ The Whole Nation? [b]Sorry that was back in the 80's. [/b]Millions of Nigerians have since moved on. Today, GEJ is taking us a step further to join the great economies of the world.

Yes, when he made Nigerians line up to buy essential commodities like Milk and sugar like refugees in some foreign land.

This is atrocious.

If it was fake crying, whoever advised him to do it, hates him. If it was real, its still not good. Someone who wants to be the president of a Nation has to be seen to be on top of issues and not appear overwhelmed by issues.

Whichever it is, its pitiful and pathetic.

GenBuhari:
See humility - This man only cares about saving our beloved country

God bless Nigeria

God Bless Buhari and Bakare

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acd4f_miAvA?version=3[/flash]

Sorry man, its a lost cause .

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This should free you from the work of finding all the folders and changing permissions. Also it is safer as when you are installing modules/components, joomla just looks at your configuration settings and allows the installation. Having all your folders set to read/write/execute is dangerous and may allow exploits.

An interesting Expose' on Buhari : http://www.nigeriaplus.com/all-nigerian-coup-generals-were-rogues-naiwu-osahon/

ziccoit:
Hold your breath, elections tribunal will throw more light on this. Many elected honourable members will be dishonoured. Mark my word.

So what you are saying in essence is that the rigging was across board? You are not singling out PDP, right?

Kobojunkie:
Please tell me the above is a joke? You have a word that exists in the dictionary and you are telling me it is "CONTRAVERSIAL". Newflash . . . there is no such thing as a dictionary word that is controversial. As long as the word has been ACCEPTED as an entry into the dictionary, it is OK to use.

Words are added each year to the dictionary . .  how do you think we got the words  "'oh"( the sound homer simpson makes),"Jumbo"(formerly the Name of a huge elephant in the P.T Barnum circus), "Ginormous" ( from cutting together Gigantic with enormous) etc. into the dictionary?? Please Stop -- Use your dictionary. English like every other language out there is FLUID and so if it changes, you ought to adapt, not declare it INVALID simply so you can win a brownie of some sort.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ginormous

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jumbo

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/d%27oh?show=0&t=1302669619

PS. What the heck is what the wiki-answers link? You actually post an opinion from who knows were as reason againts use of a word in the dictionary?? AAARRGGHH!!

Thats why people like Chris Okotie and that legislator who always appears on AIT, keep cutting and joining words with the hope that one day, the words will find their way into some dictionary somewhere . Aaahhhhhh !!

EPOMA:
This is why we as a country can never grow, as far as I concern this election started well until Hijacking by PDP started. Kwara state, Benue State, Akwa Ibom state etc,. I Don t join that crap of free and fair. With modern tech and the money spent, every polling boot should have  been given a gps device that will sends the result in front of all parties reps involved to INEC HQ. Most returning officer and REC corrupt.Please why are all the result not out by nowif they were counted at the polling stations or the maths too much.

Free and Fair  , day dreaming

If PDP rigged in all those areas you mentioned, why is it that they lost in places like Ogun, Oyo, Ondo and the entire south west where they had the power? Why couldnt they take Ondo from Labor Party? The thing is that where a party wins, they will say it was free and fair but where they lose, they scream rigging

Alj Uche:
Sorry i want to ask a question and i hope you do not mind

Are you a Swestern/yoruba ?

if so, why would you think jonathan is going to win in the SW. What is the economic and political advantage that would give SWers

@Alj Uche

I am Igbo. Have lived for the past 17 years in Lagos. I can tell you that the way they think is quite different from the way people from other parts of the country think.
If you ask the question what political advantage jonathan winning would give the SW, its also pertinent to ask the same question of Buhari.

Like I posted earlier, the Ribadu/ACN advert where they were dissing Buhari is still running now. I was watching a political program and the advert came up like three times before the end.

In the advert, they were asking people to beware of Buhari who scuttled the Metro line project of lagos state during Jakande's time which, in their claim, is why Lagos is bedeviled by traffic problems. That should tell you a lot about their underlying feelings towards Buhari.

Lagos state, which is largely the face of the SW, generates its own money and there hasnt been issue or misunderstandings with Jonathan on anything. In fact, Fashola and Jonathan have been able to come to agreement in major issues and projects since Jonathan came that hitherto , were contentious areas. Like the issue of who should be responsible for some major road constructions. There has been compromises here and there. I dont see how a continuation of Jonathan would suddenly decrease their economic or political progress. In truth, this election further tells them that they can trust Jonathan not to impose himself on them.
For Buhari, there is still a lot of skepticism. Forget about what we read on internet forums. Most of them dont even go out to vote and the rest are most often than not, resident abroad and depend on what the foreign media gives them.

I go out and I ask questions. It may surprise you to note that major corporations and their staff(From communicating with staff of telcos and banks etc) are favoring a Jonathan presidency. That says a lot.

andromida:
The truth be told CPC did a good job a party that young and now a major contender but BB has sold out now his power brokers are IBB and atiku and ciroma? that tells us what? no change just same recycled people cycling around what happened to kicking away Godfatherism? how is he going to confront corruption the power brokers around him are corrupt. How does he plan to deal with this? is he still " mai gaskiya"? lets alwyas tell the truth when faced with it and not try to paint it.

And then part of the deal if the alliance sails through is that bakare be dropped even after the polls. No wonder the pastor is saying Tinubu is Nigeria"s problem. Interesting turn of events at this point if alliance sails through or not Tinubu comes out a master strategist lovely how he used Nuhu Ribadu obviously that one had no ambition of his own and can swing anyway and Buhari if he drops Bakare well sad but guess has been used. Very interesting turn of events. I will be listening,reading and watching the news as the drama unfolds.

Ditto to all you said. Them say na when wind blow, foul yansh show. Things are being exposed and the deepest secrets of the hearts are being revealed.

Alj Uche:
@ this topic

i think Ribadu and ACn should step down for buhari, there is no point because they would not win all they are doing to spliting the SW votes

That bloody Tinubu of a man should lay down is silly pride for the nation and try to convince the SW people to vote Buhari.

The issue is that the South West voted for the AC reps because its their National Reps. The South West is dynamic. Tinubu has control only over card carrying party members and thats why I feel any attempt at courting/wooing him is a waste of time. The people are going to vote whoever they want in the presidential elections. Its important people know this now so that they dont get to start singing rigging again when it happens.

EPOMA:
My friend the same way Buhari attends all the ex president meetings, so doe he attend the Nothern forum

My good friend, this was not a Northern Forum meeting as you know it . This was a clandestine coup-like meeting(gang-up) aimed at removing someone who dared challenge them to their 'rightful throne'

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=645300.msg8114876#msg8114876 date=1302666622]Can Saturday just come?

I hate waiting. . . . why is this world not revolving around me?

What lies have you witnessed?

Or the lies you've heard from your "beer parlor" lol[/quote]lol , firstly, I dont drink so I have nothing to do with bear parlors.


Goodness me, I think say you be butty. *Beer Parlor*?

@vanessaven, no mind jare.

I never used to be so partisan but when I witnessed all the lies that the Buhari Brigade have been peddling, I decided to stand up for someone and thats GEJ.

These people claim that Buhari is a saint but thats far from it. The man is just a vindictive clueless old soldier.

With a Buhari presidency, we will probably have OBJ and countless other people thrown into jail in the first year(and have everyone rejoice) but afterward then what?

The man simply has nothing , in terms of developmental projects, that he wants to do. He is just here to have his own back at perceived foes.

The Buhari Brigade are claiming that Buhari is the change we need and that he has no dealings with the old order and criminals, but how do you explain him meeting with former military President Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former National Security Adviser Gen Aliyu Gusau, former Inspector-General of Police M.D. Yusufu and former minister of finance Malam Adamu Ciroma, just take a look at the former former people in that list.

I guess he is just rolling with his ilk as he also is a 'former' something.

Let me hear anyone calling him a saint here again. He is so desperate to rule this country that he can associate with the worst kind.

This also confirms what we have been saying. The north believe its their right to always rule this nation hence Buhari's doggedness and this unholy alliance that we are seeing.

The heaven-lies are exposing them now.

I just saw the ACN/Ribadu advert again on TV totally dissing Buhari .

I dey Laugh oooo

Tinubu flown to Abuja in presidential jet :

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44681:tinubu-flown-to-abuja-in-presidential-jet&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Yakassai, Zoning Advocate, makes u-turn and campaigns for Jonathan :

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/yakassai-zoning-advocate-campaigns-for-jonathan/89545/

Latest news : ACN angry as CPC scuttles alliance talks. :


Three days to the presidential election, the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and President Goodluck Jonathan, who is flying the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are expected to meet for a rapprochement.

This is as the proposed alliance talks between ACN and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for Saturday’s election finally hit the rock Tuesday night.

The planned meeting with Tinubu, which was at the instance of Jonathan, THISDAY learnt, is for fence-mending following the criticism that trailed Jonathan’s use of the word “rascals” believed to be aimed at ACN leaders during his presidential campaign rally in Ibadan, Oyo State.

South-west, now largely controlled by ACN, is one of the highest voting zones in Nigeria.

However, the possibility of an alliance between CPC and ACN ahead of the all-important election is fading.

Both parties failed to resume negotiation Tuesday night despite a meeting called to that effect, forcing an angry reaction from ACN.

Under the proposed arrangement, THISDAY learnt, ACN candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, had agreed to step down for the CPC flag bearer, Major General Muhammadu Buhari[rtd], if the alliance talks had succeeded.

ACN would then ask all its supporters to vote for CPC on Saturday.

Even though Ribadu had accepted to make the “sacrifice”, fuelling rumours Tuesday night that he had finally withdrawn from the race, the talks have now come to a close.

ACN now believes the time is too short to educate voters on the arrangement as all campaigns must, by law, stop Thursday.

The original agreement was for the party that won more seats in the National Assembly to produce the presidential candidate, while the party that came second would produce the leadership of the parliament if the alliance succeeds in winning the presidential election.

ACN has so far won 13 Senate seats, compared to CPC’s six, in addition to 52 House of Representatives seats, compared to the latter’s 35.

However, it is believed that Buhari is still popular in the North-west despite the poor performance of his party.

ACN, according to sources, was ready to concede the presidential ticket in the hope that Buhari could still deliver the North-west while the South-west is expected to go ACN’s way.

The talks, which had been in fits and starts, finally crumbled Tuesday even though Buhari was said to have invited ACN back to the table “of his own volition”.

Surprisingly, though, the CPC team did not turn up for the meeting, forcing angry reaction from the ACN hierarchy which termed Buhari as “unserious”.

On Monday night in Abuja, at the first meeting between Buhari and former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; former Inspector General of Police (IG), Alhaji M.D. Yusufu; former National Security Adviser (NSA), General Aliyu Gusau; and former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, they reportedly agreed on a working relationship.

According to an insider at the meeting, the harmonisation of the grey areas between the Northern leaders was to usher in another meeting between Buhari and the leaders of the ACN led by Tinubu, who has turned the beautiful bride.

According to the source before the collapse Tuesday night, “we are expecting a special press conference on Wednesday where the leaders of the CPC and ACN will unfold the new working agreement”, which he said might include the stepping down of Ribadu for Buhari.

Asked why he did not attend the meeting of the G15 with CPC and ACN, one of the Northern leaders, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, said an invitation was not extended to him, former Minister of Defence, Alhaji Shettima Mustapha, and Mogaji Dambatta.

But THISDAY gathered that the organisers of the meeting did not invite them because of allegations that they might have “sold out” following their membership of the Federal Government Peace Committee to douse tension in the heat of campaigns in the North.

The National Organising Secretary of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, told THISDAY that the party was aware of the plot against President Jonathan by opposition parties and said: “Surely they will gather, but surely they will scatter.”



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/acn-angry-as-cpc-scuttles-alliance-talks/89546/

How come you guys are saying 'Ribadu stands down for Buhari' and I just saw a ACN and Ribadu advert dissing Buhari for not approving metro lines in Lagos when he was in power. The advert totally dissed Buhari and closed with ' 27 years later, Buhari is now coming back and claiming that he would continue with the metro line who is fooling who' .

I dont know what is going on but that cant be right for Buhari.

How come ACN is still allowing that advert to run?

Meanwhile , the Northern Political Leaders Forum, led by the thieves that GEJ kicked out of PDP(CIROMA), are now having talks with Buhari to back him. They want to make it a north against south thing. Its all good. We are waiting.

The Buhari Brigade are so desperate. Its even manifest in the Buhari supporters in this Nairaland.

This stories are just excuses to prepare yourselves for the imminent loss at the polls. So you can point to your Sahara Reporters-aided stories and boko-quanshasa .com generated news and say, results were rigged.

Why are the Buhari people so desperate and violent? Notice that in all these stories of millions of ballots discovered, its always CPC people that are magically on the scene to help apprehend the suspects. Are they omnipresent people?

The more you engage in this cowardly acts, the more people see through you and the stronger the resolve to stick to where we are, with GEJ.

Am talking to the Buhari people both on Nairaland and every other place as it seems they all think and behave the same way.

luluosas:
Abuja Election Shocker: 12 Persons Arrested With 1 million Presidential Election Ballot Papers!
April 11, 2011 - 23:21 — siteadmin
By SaharaReporters, New York

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has alerted Nigerians of massive efforts to print election ballots for the purpose of rigging next Saturday’s presidential elections, for which 12 people are now under arrest.

This follows the discovery by the police that over one million ballots had been printed at Tulip Press, an Abuja printer. The men are in police custody at Utako Police Station, Abuja, and the DPO, Mallam Usman Umar, has confirmed that the case has been transferred to the Force Headquarters.

In a statement issued this evening, signed by Rotimi Fashakin, the National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, the Congress said two men, Akinlolu Akinto and Habila Stephen, were first caught with 100,000 ballot papers loaded into a van. In the ensuing police investigation, the other one million ballots were discovered.

The CPC noted the allegation that TULIP Press was responsible for the fake ballot papers that have been found in Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara and other parts of North West.

“In another potential ‘show stopper’ for the presidential elections, our impeccable sources pointed that a lorry load of ballot papers had been removed from INEC stores to the Aso rock villa, ostensibly as samples for the view of Candidate Goodluck Jonathan,” the Congress said. “When INEC was confronted with this allegation, the veracity of which was confirmed we were told the matter is still under investigation!”

It said it recognizes that Saturday’s presidential election “is a ‘do or die’ for some because they have a lot to explain to the Nigerian people, should they lose,” for which no effort is being spared to ensure victory.
The CPC then appealed to its supporters to be even more determined to be prepared to give the final push for the espousal of a new Nation.

Source: http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/abuja-election-shocker-12-persons-arrested-1-million-presidential-election-ballot-papers-0

I am very sure that, GEJ fans will no how defend their sponsor Jonathan. One thing I want to let them know is that, if they are not satisfied because Sahara Reporters has exposed their secrets, they should carry out private investigations themselves, to ascertain the true position of this magnitude allegation. Time shall definitely tell.
BB all the way.

As long as you are quoting Sahara Reporters, you are on a looong thing.

cantell:
Igbos can never be free till they realise that the yourbas are not the cause of their problems.
They keep living in the past and this is one of the reasons why they are still the underdog in politics.

Please dont use the opinions of a few igbo people on an internet forum to judge the whole people.

People are beginning to think that opinions on an internet forum like Nairaland, represents the true opinions of the general public.

Dont know why you guys are celebrating this. With 2 billion naira per month, a man can do anything, even make a rival party's logo disappear.

And the person that said Remi Tinubu is the first Legal Female Senator in Nigeria, is probably one of those people living abroad who know next to nothing about Nigeria.

Nigerians everywhere are voting individuals now and not parties. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/jubilation-in-maiduguri-over-gov-sheriffs-defeat/

The people of Maiduguri are not happy with the ANPP Senatorial candidate (Gov. Sherriff) and they voted a PDP candidate whom they all feel is better.

Maybe PDP rigged that one too and asked the people of Maiduguri to celebrate in the streets.

Bottom line is these other parties are mostly made up of people who left PDP for one reason or the other(maybe they lost some primaries or didnt get contracts).

It would be unwise to vote along party lines. ACN is popular now largely due to Fashola and like someone already pointed out, if Fashola was in another party, he would still do the same thing. There are actually some good people in PDP just as there are monsters in ACN, CPC, ANPP, APGA and the rest of them.

For the Buhari supporters who are suddenly claiming that the election was rigged, how come ACN took some former PDP domains?

How is it that they couldnt wrest Ondo from Labor? Please get some other excuse. This one is lame at best.

For your info, ACN/Ribadu, will do better than Buhari/cpc in the presidential elections. And even if they try to form an alliance, Ribadu would have to be the candidate to emerge from that union and not Buhari.

@KenGali,

Some serious insights and strategies you have highlighted there. Its good to read different opinions and outlook on issues.

aletheia:
^^Sour grapes. You actually have nothing of importance to say to me. Now let's hear you debouch to your usual limited vocabulary of "*mo*ron, *re*tard, silverback gorilla" etc, because of your severe intellectual handicap that makes it difficult for you to process intelligent discourse thus resulting in the short-circuiting of your brain neurons. An affliction that perennially manifests in your uncouth and loutish behavior.

Hear Hear. Am sure he will come back at you with further vitriol. I suggest you totally kick the lout to the curb and reply only those worth the time.