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Less than two weeks from national polls, Nigeria’s ruling party is facing unprecedented shifts in the politics of religion that could spell trouble for the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan.
While he may still be the favourite on February 14, experts said two key factors could remove his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power for the first time since the end of military rule in 1999.
First, opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari, a northern Muslim, has gained surprising traction in the mostly Christian south, despite sustained PDP efforts to paint him as a religious extremist.
The PDP could also suffer a historically lopsided defeat in the Muslim-majority north, where the party has previously drawn considerable support, even when a Christian was at the top of the ticket.
– ‘Surpassing religion’ –
Buhari, a former army general who led a military government for 20 months from December 1983, is hardly the dream candidate for many in the south, experts said.
Some southerners have an entrenched antipathy towards Muslims from the Hausa ethnic group, members of which plundered the country as military rulers through much of the 1980s and 1990s.
PDP efforts to brand Buhari as an extremist devoted to Islamic law have also been successful, said John Campbell, a former US ambassador to Nigeria, now with the Council on Foreign Relations.
“It is grossly unfair. I know him. He is not an extremist but these things resonate,” he told AFP.
Buhari, from the All Progressives Congress (APC) party, is making his fourth run at the presidency and has been billed as Nigeria’s chief anti-corruption crusader, helping him attract nationwide support.
Analyst Jibrin Ibrahim agreed that for the first time in religiously divided Nigeria, governance could be “surpassing religion” as a campaign issue.
“The issue of religion is very present in all our elections and will be in this one,” said Ibrahim, from the Centre for Democracy and Development in Abuja.
“What I think is new about these elections is that it is really about the failures of Jonathan.
“There are voters in the south who don’t particularly like Buhari but they have been extremely disappointed with the last four years and that could shift support to Buhari.”
Jonathan has been heavily criticised for his apparent failure to reduce graft in Africa’s most populous country and top economy, where billions of dollars in public money have been stolen, especially in the oil sector.
Boko Haram’s brutal uprising has also worsened each year under Jonathan’s watch, with more than 13,000 people killed since 2009.
– Rotation in ‘disarray’ –
The PDP has won all four presidential elections since 1999 with support from both the north and the south, which it secured through an unwritten power-sharing agreement within the party.
Power brokers in both regions “were comfortable using the PDP as a venue through which they would arrive at a rough consensus” because it was understood that each side would get its turn in charge, Campbell said.
The 2010 death in office of Jonathan’s predecessor, Hausa-Muslim Umaru Musa Yar’Adua “put that agreement in disarray”, analyst Idiyat Hassan wrote on the African Arguments blog.
Jonathan’s rise from the vice-presidency and his refusal to stand aside for a northerner in 2011 caused initial cracks in the PDP’s national alliance.
His insistence on running for a second term in 2015 split the party, with the north emerging as “the great losers” of the once dominant PDP coalition, Campbell said.
Several key northern politicians have quit the PDP and joined the APC over the last two years, including Rabiu Kwankwaso, governor of the north’s most populous state, Kano, which has five million registered voters.
Jonathan beat Buhari by roughly 10 million votes in 2011, winning roughly eight million in the north and the religiously divided central states.
If Jonathan’s support in the north collapses and Buhari makes inroads in the south, analysts said the president could lose.
Buhari is helped by the fact that he is leading a united opposition, unlike in 2011 when rival candidates peeled off more than three million votes.
– Looking past religion –
Some argue that parties spend too much effort striving for ethno-religious balance, noting that the most popular presidential ticket since independence in 1960 — the 1993 campaign of the Social Democratic Party — a ”.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/buhari-not-extremist-ex-us-ambassador/

This is why his is called "I will do" president.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said that he deserve a second term in order to allow him consolidate on the achievements he has recorded during his first term in office.
Speaking with Traditional Rulers in Kogi state before the presidential Rally in Lokoja, President Jonathan said most governments worldwide perform better during the second term of their administrations.
According to the president, public office holders perform better during their second term because they have enough time to settle down and plan quickly.
“Whatever we have done in the last four years, we believe that we will even do more in the next four years. Most governments all over the world do better in their second tenure.
“This is because the Presidents are more stable that time, especially in this two terms arrangement. They are more stable. They sit down and plan for the country and focus on key areas.”
The president told the traditional rulers that his administration would pay greater attention to the Ajaokuta Steel Company of Nigeria and ensure that the steel is included into the nation’s rail system if he is re-elected.
He promised to continue to work with the state government to develop Kogi State.
Earlier, the national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, had assured the traditional rulers of the present administration’s resolve to restore their constitutional roles.
“Our party leader, President Jonathan, is leading the crusade to bring you back into the constitution,” he told the traditional rulers.
In his speevh, Governor Idris Wada said traditional rulers in the state had always been supportive of the present administration’s transformation agenda.
He expressed the belief that they would do more as the elections draw nearer.
The Attah Igala, Idakwo Michael Oboni II, who spoke on behalf of the traditional rulers asked Jonathan to go ahead with his administration’s laudable projects.
He promised the President that the people of the state, being his second home, would continue to support him.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/will-better-second-term-jonathan/

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mrking3:
A politician once said! "Mere cheers and flatters from the crowd are no good thermometer to guage the political consent and support of a man" ......... The truth is! We all cannot readily say who's gonna win based on the crowd we see at rallies or based on people shouting "sai buhari" this is politics! There can be last minute shock! ... So I think its too early to decide who gonna win! The most popular candidates don't always win elections in Africa!! Beside, how many of these APC e-supporters are actual voters? Some just come online to register their support and it ends there!!!

Another GEJ fan consoling himself
It will shock u...... Heart attack things.....

#SaiBuhari

dachez20:
First I wish to tell Gej fans not to be discouraged about the seeming popularity of GMB.Because it is easier to destroy than to build.What do I mean ,as far as the media is concerned it is easier to say that Gej is not doing and cant do anything but very easy to convince and give 100 reasons why GMB will do something.Forgetting that this is same way it was easy to gej fans to convince people at his initial time before he entered the office.
And because it is easier to destroy and that is why it is easier for GMB fans to win in all media compettion because they have a point to prove but Gej fans believe they have proved their point and that the real time to do real compettion is Feb 14th.Quote me any where Jonathan will win GMB but because of this Buhari media popularity his fans won't believe their eyes and will resort to violence saying that it was rigged.
I FOR ONE HAS NEVER LIKED,SHARED,RETWEETED,OR FAVOURITE ANY MEDIA CONTEST WHILE I SEE ALL OF THEM.AND I BELIEVE THEIR ARE MANY LIKE ME.

AND AM 100% SURE THAT NO GMB FAN WILL SEE SUCH MEDIA CONTEST WITHOUT ENGAGING IN IT.
LIKE I SAID THEY WANT TO PROVE A POINTLESS POINT.
GEJ.TILL 2019.

This is a sign of defeat my brother. Consoling yourself and GEJ fans that is dwindling by the day.
PDP is part of why Buhari is very popular now, every campaign, they must mention the general.

Sai Buhari joooooor!

They went after his school certificate. The proof he provided was dismissed as a forgery. They went after his age and categorised him with dead leaders from his zone. He survived. They said he was ill and even named a disease for him. Yet, he is able to go about his campaign without any sign of illness. Some journalists even wondered about his wife’s whereabouts. When a dazzling, articulate, and well educated Aisha showed up, they said she must be a foreigner. She was smart to quickly issue a disclaimer. She is not struggling to be a political First Lady, she said, but a traditional one, whose duties are well cut out. Go, Aisha! the crowd of women nodded.

Despite the verbal and advertorial thuggery directed at the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), it has been Sai Buhari! all over the place. His rising popularity is evident in the size of the crowd, compared to that of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, even in the same cities. That’s why it is generally believed that Buhari would win the presidential election, if it were held today.

The irony about Buhari’s rising popularity is in the Peoples Democratic Party’s contributions to it. The contributions derive from several related sources. The first is the perpetual factionalism within the PDP caused by the lack of internal democracy and the strangulation of the opportunities for members to realise their political ambition.

As a result, controversy and disaffection often attended the election or selection of party officials, while those who aspired to higher office were often criminalised, suspended, or pushed out of the party. These developments led to a major split within the party and were responsible for the ouster and replacement of the party’s chairman and national secretary. The split led to the formation of the New PDP, whose members eventually defected to the APC. Those defectors are now key players in the APC.

To complicate matters for the PDP, its policy of consensus candidacy during the primaries turned out for many party members to be nothing but candidate imposition, a shortcoming previously associated with the antecedents of the APC, particularly the Action Congress of Nigeria. Incidentally, this time round, the APC conducted primaries throughout the country and came off them with little or no rancour, while sharp disagreements rage on with the PDP primaries.

This continues to anger many PDP aspirants throughout the country, leading quite a number to sabotage the party’s efforts or to switch to the APC. It has been suggested by no less a person than a PDP state governor that the stoning of Jonathan’s convoy in his state was carried out by disaffected members of the party. The stoning of the President’s convoy has since taken place in at least three other states.

It is, of course, barbaric to haul stones and pure water sachets at the President’s convoy. It signals disrespect for the office of the President, not just for Jonathan, while also demonstrating the perpetrators’ backwardness. Nevertheless, the President and his handlers would be negligent to overlook the underlying message of such action.

A second major factor in Buhari’s favour is Jonathan’s failure to keep Boko Haram’s insurgents in check and reclaim the territory lost to them. Similarly he has failed to vigorously curb corruption or at least bring many highly publicised corruption cases to a close. The pardon he granted to a convicted money launderer and the glorification of persons facing charges by endorsing them for big political positions or directly appointing them to manage aspects of his campaign do not sit well with many people.

Ironically, Jonathan’s weaknesses in these areas are considered to be Buhari’s major strengths. Many voters believe that, as an Army general, Buhari is better placed than Jonathan to fight insurgency. At least he knows what the soldiers need and how to get them to work.

He might have angered some people with his highhandedness as a military Head of State and perceived discrimination against the South; but his administration was generally credited with high discipline and intolerance for laziness and tardiness in the civil service. Above all, he is viewed as incorruptible as evident in his austere mien and a testimonial by a former President, being courted by both presidential candidates.

A third factor in Buhari’s favour is the general feeling among the electorate of genuine tiredness with the PDP administration since 1999 as well as the pervasive negative perception of Jonathan and his administration. So much money has been stolen or lost since 1999, leading to perceptible decay in infrastructure, education, and healthcare. Like Chief Nanga, the corrupt politician in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, PDP politicians have taken too much for the owner to see.

Finally, there are credibility issues as recently demonstrated in a campaign video, featuring President Olusegun Obasanjo indicating that Jonathan had sworn to be a “one-term” President, to which Jonathan assented. He even went further to say that whatever he could not achieve as President in four years, he could not in 100 years. His wife, Patience, was seen clapping in agreement.

True, as I indicated last week, Jonathan has done reasonably well in certain sectors, such as transport, especially railway, and agriculture; but his overall grade in handling the economy and the raging insurgency leaves much to be desired. So is his tardy approach to problem solving. As a professorial colleague put it recently, what are regarded as Jonathan’s achievements lie squarely within the normal run of governmental duties. In this thinking, there is nothing transformational about what he has done.

It must be admitted that the rival APC cannot be completely exonerated from corruption. As Professor Biodun Jeyifo pointed out in his Talakawa column last Sunday, the APC is populated by a large number of PDP politicians, who came with the same corruption mien, thus making all of them birds of the same feather (The Nation, Sunday, February 1, 2015).

The difference, however, is that visible signs of development abound in APC-controlled states. Prof. Ayo Olukotun cited the Oyo example in his column last Friday (The Punch, January 30, 2015), while I have repeatedly written on this column about innovative developmental strides in Osun. The case of Lagos State needs no elaboration.

If the above semiotic reading of Buhari’s rising popularity is not giving the leaders of the PDP some feat, then they are not reading the electoral signs well enough. Nor are they effectively decoding the signals from the international community. Worse still, it is either they have no intelligence reports at all about the nation’s electoral mood or they are discountenancing what they are told. However, if they have been reading these semiotic signs well, then it is high time they changed their campaign tactic, by focusing on substantive issues.
http://thecallng.com/2015/02/why-is-buhari-rising-in-popularity-by-niyi-akinnaso/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

In the face of dwindling prospects for his re-election bid, President Goodluck Jonathan has embarked on a renewed three-pronged approach to scuttle the presidential election scheduled for February 14, several sources within the Presidency have disclosed. In a startling disclosure, our sources said Mr. Jonathan was willing to entertain a military take-over as one of his options.

Over the last two weeks, it had dawned on Mr. Jonathan that his hopes for winning re-election had dimmed significantly. Our sources said the president was deeply distressed to find out that several governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been working quietly with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to thwart his re-election. “Apart from Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Mr. President is no longer sure that he can count on the support of any of our other governors,” an insider in the Presidency said.

Another source said several PDP governors were aggrieved that Mr. Jonathan shortchanged or abandoned them during the party’s primaries. Several of them are reportedly paying the president back by standing aloof from his campaigns or actively mobilizing support for Muhammadu Buhari, the APC’s presidential candidate.

Our sources revealed that the president and hawks within his administration held a prolonged meeting yesterday and decided that the elections must be frustrated at all cost. Two of the sources said Mr. Jonathan intends to call a meeting of the Council of State for Thursday to persuade its members to back a proposal to postpone the polls. In place of an election, the president wants to set up “a government of national unity” to be headed by him for 18 months to two years. It is unclear whether the council would endorse the plan to reschedule elections. The council’s membership includes past heads of state and presidents, and some of them have been openly critical of Mr. Jonathan’s record.

One source stated that, as part of the broad strategy to scuttle the elections, the Presidency would refuse to pay the balance of the contract for the printing of ballot papers. The contract was awarded when the Nigerian currency, the naira, officially exchanged for N165 to a dollar. The source said the contractor, who claimed to be sourcing his foreign currency from the black market, is now seeking an adjustment to his contract. “The contractor wants to be paid N210 to a dollar, but President Jonathan and his team have refused to help the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) source the balance,” our source revealed.

Instead, the president and his team have advised INEC to look for a local Nigerian printer to print the ballot papers. INEC chairman Attahiru Jega and some of his top aides have balked at the idea of using a local printer. They argue that such an arrangement would be a perfect recipe for chaos, allowing the Presidency to use its considerable slush funds to illegally print duplicate papers with which to rig the election, as happened in several states in 2011.

A source at INEC told SaharaReporters that the commission’s chairman and some top officials suspect that the Jonathan administration was working seriously to undermine the commission’s credibility. “There is a lot of internal sabotage going on at INEC,” the source said. He disclosed that some resident electoral commissions were giving contradictory statements and reports about the commission’s preparedness for the February elections, without clearing with the headquarters. “Can you imagine also that even non-essential materials are being stolen from INEC offices, all in an effort to undermine the effort to hold elections,” said the source.

The Presidency’s second option is the recruitment of some members of the defunct National Conference to press the case for postponing the elections until Nigerians discuss, adopt and implement the resolutions of the confab. In order to push that agenda, the Presidency has released more than N2 billion to Raymond Dokpesi, the owner of Africa Independent Television (AIT), to coordinate the campaign for postponement of the elections. Using AIT and other willing media, Mr. Dokpesi is expected to press the case for constituting an interim national government headed by Mr. Jonathan. Earlier today in Abuja, Mr. Dokpesi’s AIT aired a live discussion by members of a “post national conference consultative committee”, to begin framing the case for postponement. The live program featured Bolaji Akinyemi, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Femi Okurounmu, who headed a nationwide consultation for the national conference, Maurice Iwu, a notorious former INEC chairman, Mike Ezekhome, a lawyer, G.G. Darah, a professor and close associate of jailed former Governor James Ibori of Delta State, and Balarabe Musa, a former governor of Kaduna State whose involvement is perhaps the only surprise.

Dokpesi’s group is expected to use its huge war chest to argue that elections are untenable because of INEC’s questionable preparedness as well as the tense security situation in Nigeria’s northeast.

The Presidency’s third option is the possible use of the Nigerian military to scuttle the election. Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, General Tobiah Minimah, is reportedly a key player in executing the military option. One source reported that General Minimah, who is from President Jonathan’s Niger Delta region, was initially reluctant, but eventually signed up for the scheme to use the military to intervene should the elections proceed and not go President Jonathan’s way.

Our sources said the president was irate that INEC chairman, Mr. Jega, had been avoiding meetings with him and his presidential aides. “Professor Jega has maintained that he wants to be seen to have conducted a free and transparent election, even if imperfect. He has therefore maintained that there is no point going to Aso Rock to hold meetings exclusively with Mr. President, who is a candidate, and the president’s team,” one source close to Mr. Jega said.

Our Presidency sources disclosed that Mr. Jonathan had started looking for ways to remove the INEC chairman from office. “If they succeed in postponing the elections, the president will either suspend Prof. Jega, the way he did to former Central Bank Governor [Sanusi Lamido Sanusi] or ask him to go on compulsory leave pending the end of his tenure.”

While SaharaReporters was about to publish this report, several sources told our reporters that President Jonathan and his co-travelers have moved to the courts as a way of scuttling the elections, at least five court cases have been filed to either postpone the elections and disqualify the APC candidate , Muhammad Buhari.

A reliable source told our team of investigators that President Jonathan is shopping for a federal high court judge to scuttle the elections with a court order in the next few hours.
http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/02/jonathan-renews-push-election-postponement-hope-fades-victory

So it is after Prof Soludo raised the issue, they now responded. useless people!

Prof Soludo should be opening these people yanshes

"I will do" president

Sai Buhari.

Hhh

Possibly the worst year of my life was 1984. I was 10 years old and blissfully unaware of the changing face of Nigeria’s political landscape. And a rather unyielding face it was – that of Muhammadu Buhari who had recently overthrown Shehu Shagari, a democratically elected president. For Buhari, this was a necessary coup d’etat because Nigeria was being overrun by corrupt politicians. However, his regime would have a devastating impact on my family’s fortunes.

For the first time, at the close of the school term in Edinburgh, my father wasn’t there to pick us up. My older brother, aged 15, took charge and we made our way to Heathrow. Touching down in Nigeria, it was my mother who met us at the airport. She didn’t smile, perhaps couldn’t; her mouth was turned down at the corners like she was being flattened by existence. Something was wrong, clearly. I waited until we were settled in the car and piped up: “Where’s Daddy?” Without turning to glance at me, my mother answered: “He’s in jail.” She always had an aversion to bullshit but even, for her, that was pretty cold. For the rest of the journey, I thought about my Daddy who returned the cash to the phone company when our account was credited with thousands of naira; Daddy who, born into abject poverty, personified what it meant to work really hard and make your own dreams come true, in a hopefully new meritocratic Nigeria.

On getting home, one of my older brothers explained that Buhari’s deputy, the uncompromising, much-feared Colonel Tunde Idiagbon, had commanded that all government contractors in Ogun state had received a notice to appear before a special committee. My dad honoured the invitation and presented all the papers to show that it was in fact the government that owed his company money. He was given two options: to pay a large amount (that no one quite understood how they arrived at) or go to jail. On principle, my dad said he wasn’t going to pay money that he didn’t owe. He was not alone. I have a group of friends with whom I am forever bound by this shared ordeal of seeing our fathers treated like criminals. And as it was for many, this period signified the beginning of financial ruin.

My father spent six months in jail and came out a different man. For one, he started clapping at our solemn family devotion in the mornings, something we never did. He explained that that was what they did in prison. He was never a big talker but seeing him work at adjusting to normal life was painful for everyone around him.

Before his release, the two giant crushers and all the machinery and equipment that belonged to his civil engineering firm were liquidated. As children, our lives changed too. We were placed in state schools and said goodbye to our privileged lifestyles.

My dad is 87 now and he’s an active member of the local advisory board of the All Progressive party, the opposition party that has recently adopted Buhari as the presidential flag-bearer, 30 years after his first outing as a military head of state. Like many Nigerians, my father was saddened when he heard President Goodluck Jonathan claim that “stealing is not corruption”. With 24% unemployment, there are limited opportunities for young people, making them easy fodder for militants in the southernmost parts of the country and dreaded religious fundamentalists in the north. People clamour for leadership.

For the last three weeks, I have been travelling with the presidential campaign team and I have had the opportunity to listen to people and interview them. I have also had a personal need to understand this man Buhari who has run for the highest office a record three times. At the beginning, I admit I had doubts and misgivings. It’s hard not to when you’ve been stung before. But after several conversations with him, I have come to understand what the mass hysteria is all about and why Nigerians would vote for this soft-spoken but highly principled 72-year-old.

It’s quite simple and, having worked as a schoolteacher for years, I can use a school setting in my analogy. Kids like a teacher to whom they can give the runaround but when it’s crunch time, they favour an environment where the teacher is firm, one where clear boundaries have been set. Having a president who is widely described as “clueless” may have seemed to many like an opportunity, but the goodwill that Jonathan enjoyed in 2011 has been frittered away. These days, governors in the opposition parties are starved of funds and harassed when they don’t do the bidding of a first lady who campaigns for her personal candidates. Many Nigerians believe that it is time to return to one of the few faces of anti-corruption in Nigeria’s political history. Even my wrongly-imprisoned Dad would recognise that Buhari’s ambition was to stem corruption.

Unlike many Nigerian past presidents, Major-General Buhari does not have a huge mansion. You won’t hear about him owning a bank or sitting on the board of banks. Neither does he own expansive farmland. In fact, he wrote to the minister of finance requesting that he only receive 10% of the allowance that all past presidents receive on a monthly basis. Overwhelmingly, his lack of greed and personal venality means people trust him. Within a democratic dispensation, whatever excesses Buhari’s singlemindedness at tackling corruption might have shown 30 years ago can and will be curbed.

He has surrounded himself with a brilliant, savvy team of young Nigerians and I much enjoy the passion with which he talks about his three main priorities: unemployment, insecurity and education. For some Nigerians, he might not be an ideal candidate but for many more, people want anything but Jonathan. And even better it’s someone that they feel they can believe in.

Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian novelist and poet
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/31/nigeria-elections-president-muhammadu-buhari-lola-shoneyin

May God be with your people of Maiduguri in this difficult time which will soon end come May 29th 2015.

Will we massively vote out the "I will do" President and bring in the more experience man of the people - Buhari to combat these terrorists.

FACT:
Buhari went to the United States Army War College and attended Officer's Cadet School in Aldershot (United Kingdom) in October 1963 and the Defence Services' Staff College, Wellington (India) in 1973.

PDP is the one renting these rallies with their N21B and looted funds.

“I don’t have dollars to give you but I will give my all to Nigeria” - Buhari. I love this man!!

to GEJ supporters: "May God run your family the way GEJ is running Nigeria, can i hear u say AMEN!!!"

If the Northern groups are backing Boko Haram, they will be complaining. Hypocrites!!! They will be shocked come FeBuhari14. ... heart attack things....


Nigeria and Mexico approached China for credit facility to rebuild their railway systems (and other infrastructures). They both got the credits.
Look at what each country did with the money.
Are you not being short changed?
Don't you deserve Better?

@op u never enter plane before bah? That is an airport shuttle. U are a disgrace to humanity.


Nigeria and Mexico approached China for credit facility to rebuild their railway systems (and other infrastructures). They both got the credits.
Look at what each country did with the money.
Are you not being short changed?
Don't you deserve Better?

Buhari Fills Cabinet with Nonpoliticians

in Olamide's voice "Story for the Gods.."

They should vote for Buhari after all GEJ made polytechnics go for 9 months strike.

"I will do" president
"boko are my siblings" president
"Mr Union strikes" president
"Mr Committees" president
"MEND try to kill me" president
"I have no shoe" president
"stealing is not corruption" president

Real Train Story:
A guy that's works with me on a proj in PH decided to take a train joy ride on the newly deployed train from His city, Enugu to ph. He said though the ride was 8 hours for a trip that is 3hrs by car but the main outcome was that passengers started dropping off from umahia when they could not bear the fumes and dust coming into the train.Those that made it to PH were evacuated to hospital for same reason.I have no reason to doubt Him but will like someone else to take this challenge and verify his claims.

Nigeria and Mexico approached China for credit facility to rebuild their railway systems (and other infrastructures). They both got the credits.
Look at what each country did with the money.
Are you not being short changed?
Don't you deserve Better?

APC got swag mehnnnnn!!!

Nigerians really hate this man. Say no to political violence

mrofficial:
And "How much did Nwobodo stole" ?

$5.1 Million

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the reported plan by the advocates of the postponement of next month’s general elections to sponsor protests across the country against INEC as a way of forcing the commission to shift the elections, scheduled for Feb. 14th and 28th.
Alh. Lai Mohammed
Alh. Lai Mohammed
In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said those pushing for the elections to be shifted are also seeking to instigate the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members who will serve as part of the ad-hoc staff for INEC during the polls to say they do not feel safe to be part of the elections in certain parts of the country.
It said even if the NYSC members refuse to participate in the elections in certain parts of the country, which will be within their right, there will be no shortage of those willing to serve as ad-hoc staff
‘’It has also come to our notice that these election-shift proponents are holding clandestine meetings with various groups, including a section of the media, to recruit them for their dubious campaigns to force a postponement of the election,’’ APC said, adding, however, that all the shenanigans of the election-shift advocates will fail, as Nigerians have seen through them and have stepped up their collection of PVCs in readiness for the elections.
‘’The assurances by INEC, that 65 million PVCs are now ready and that the remaining 3.8 million will be ready in due course have heightened the belief among Nigerians that the electoral umpire is indeed ready, willing and able to conduct the elections as scheduled.
‘’That is why we are surprised that instead of encouraging Nigerians who have not done so to go and collect their PVCs, instead of heeding the advice for the declaration of a three-day public holidays to enable working class people to collect their PVCs, all they are interested in is how to sponsor various dubious individuals and groups to stage protests against INEC.
‘’The PDP has variously said it is ready for the elections as scheduled, but not once has it urged Nigerians to go and collect their PVCs, knowing full well that the problem now is more of collection than anything else. The Presidency has also not made any effort to encourage Nigerians to collect their PVCs. Instead, it has been openly pushing for the elections to be shifted on the basis of inadequate PVC distribution, as shown by the call in London recently by the National Security Adviser.
‘’Undoubtedly, public funds have been deployed to sponsor ‘talking heads’ to make the TV rounds to parrot the lies that over 30 million voters have yet to collect their PVCs, when INEC has said 42.7 million out of 68.8 million PVCs have been collected, and that it will distribute PVCs until the eve of the polls These anti-election antics are too glaring for Nigerians not to notice. The dirty tricks point to one and one thing only: The PDP and the Presidency are mortally terrified of the elections being held as scheduled, because they know they will surely lose,’’ APC said.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/apc-warns-use-sponsored-protests-force-polls-shift/#sthash.3jZMg6M0.dpuf

About 14,000 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs have been declared missing by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Rivers state.
Lagosians checking their names on the INEC list of permanent voters cards (PVC) around 3 pm. at Sunday Adigun polling Unit, Alausa, Ikeja yesterday.
Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Mrs Gesila Khan who disclosed this yesterday in Port Harcourt, said some of the missing cards were stolen at the local government collection centers where they were kept to be distributed.
While appealing to those with the cards to return them, the state INEC boss said there was no way they could be of use to those holding them illegally. According to her, the electoral body was going to use a new device called card readers to identify owners of PVC before they can be used to vote.
Continuing, she said the number of missing PVCs in Rivers was the highest in the country.
“ Am appealing to Rivers people because we have lost a lot of cards. We have lost more than 14,000 PVCs and it’s one of the highest figures in the federation”.
All the cards that are being snatched are useless and meaningless because we are going to use a new system called card readers. Your card readers are just like ATM cards. You take it there and they slot it into the card reader to confirm if it is yours before you are allowed to vote”.
So, if you go there with another person’s voter’s card, it is meaningless. So, I am advising those of you with other peoples’ cards to return them to the local government offices so that the rightful owners can collect them so that they can participate in the general election.
“Polling officer will on the presentation of the PVC by an electorate be slotted into the card reader to confirm if it belongs to you. The next stage is the confirmation of your finger prints by the card reader before you are allowed to vote.”
If you go to the polling booth with someone else’s voters’ card, you would not be able to vote because each card is unique and can only be authenticated by the real owner. The PVC’s are meaningless to those who have stolen them”.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/inec-declares-14000-pvcs-missing-rivers/#sthash.A7J6CPJF.dpuf

Buhari Regime asks Nigerians to Report Sightings of Fugitive Corrupt Politicians

The Ohanaeze Youth Wing, the youth arm of the pan-Igbo socio-political body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has expressed its displeasure with President Goodluck Jonathan and all Igbo sons and daughters in his administration.
The youth wing, comprising all youth organisations in the South-East, accused the president of reneging on the numerous promises he made to the Igbo in the build up to the 2011 presidential election, which they said prompted Ndigbo to give him about 98 per cent of their votes in the polls.
The OYW made its feelings known in a communiqué it issued after an emergency meeting on the 2015 elections in Enugu on Tuesday.
The communiqué, which came on the heels of the endorsement of President Jonathan for a second term by Ohanaeze Ndigbo, was entitled, “A stitch in time saves nine”.
In the communiqué, jointly signed by Mazi Arthur Obiora and Obinna Adibe, deputy national president and national publicity secretary respectively, the Ohanaeze youths warned that it would seek an “alternative” if the president did not address pending issues in his relationship with the Igbo.
It expressed anger at President Jonathan’s failure to keep his promise of revamping the coal industry in Enugu as well as constructing the Second Niger Bridge through a public/private partnership arrangement.
The Igbo youths noted that Jonathan had no intention of completing the bridge by 2019 “assuming he is re-elected this year” since the completion period has been extended by 48 months (four years).
The communiqué partly read, “The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing (Ohanaeze Youth Council) wishes to express her displeasure with President Goodluck Jonathan; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, who was nominated by Ohanaeze into the office and all Igbo working with Mr. President on the shabby and insincere way he has handled issues affecting Ndigbo.
“In 2011, it was our structures that were mobilised to ensure that he scored 98 per cent of South-East votes and also got substantial votes in other parts of Nigeria.
“Yet, our genuine demands, including the revitalisation of the Enugu Colliery/ construction of a coal fired power plant, construction of the Azumini seaport, acceleration of the dredging/expansion of the Port Harcourt and Calabar seaports, the exploration of the oil deposits of the Orashi and Anambra River Basins, etc have been ignored.
“After having audience with youths from other parts of the country who did less for him, Mr. President snubbed Igbo youths despite several efforts to reach him, preferring rather to hobnob with some Igbo elders, most of who may never appear at the polling station on the D-Day!
“The issue of ravaging unemployment which has hung most dangerously on Igbo youths has not been addressed till date, yet hundreds of billions of naira has been spent to empower Ijaw youths through the amnesty programme and other Federal Government jobs and initiatives.
“What have Igbo youths done wrong to be so neglected?”
It added, “The Akanu Ibiam International airport, Enugu, the only significant project the President executed in the South-East after over five years is only international in name, not in practice since it is yet to get to international standards in terms of runway length and other critical infrastructure.
“Hence, major international airlines in the world have shunned it.
“The Second Niger Bridge has become enmeshed in controversy – it is the only Federal Government bridge that will have a toll gate, whereas President Obasanjo kindly abolished toll gates about 10 years ago.
“So far, only N10bn, i.e. 7.6 per cent of the total contract sum of N130bn, has been purportedly released.
“Also, the cost of the bridge has increased by over 300 per cent while the completion date has been shifted from 18 months to 48 months (four years)!
“This implies that he does not even intend completing the bridge by 2019, when he will be leaving office, assuming he is re-elected this year”.
The body also said it was angered by the Federal Government’s refusal to allow Igbo youths partake in the amnesty programme.

http://www.informationng.com/2015/01/why-were-unhappy-with-president-jonathan-ohanaeze-youth-council.html

NAIRALAND SENDS LIES/OLD ARTICLES ABOUT BUHARI TO FP BUT WILL NOT TAKE GOOD ONES PRAISING HIM OR CRITICS OF JONATHAN’S ADMISTRATION TO FRONT PAGE. WHY? WHY? WHY?
#thingsmustchange

Lies lies lies. will not be surprised if mods move this to front page. This is a big lie.

AIT is a big disgrace to the whole media outlets worldwide. They need to be sanction for what they did. They think Nigerians are fools. Fuvk them and their partisan doctrines. It will end come FeBuhari14

Sparkle777:
Everybody, hold ur horses. Daddy Adeboye said that he trusts Yemi Osinbajo not GMB. Meaning Yemi I know and trust but GMB I dnt.
Politicians are not to be trusted esp in Africa. Both gej and gmb are not the change we need but gej is the lesser evil.

He trusts Osinbajo which Osinbajo trusts Buhari. So therefore Pastor Adeboye trusts Buhari. See the logic

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IF a = b, b = c, therefore a = c. Simple Maths. No b so my people.

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