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They are called portacabins, it is a quick way to put up a temporary building, they can be well clad and elevated to serve their purpose.

there is nothing wrong with it.

Bro, are you sure you were not their host?

APC doesnt roll like that, we dont sponsor falsehood.
It is the PDP that must win elections at all cost that will use stolen money to sponsore falsehood against those that want to put a stop to the stealing.

onojiwizardgmailcom:
What is wrong with you guys in APC, you can criticise and publish unconfirmed allegations against the ruling party, but if they do same against your party, you will start beating drum of war. If you feel pained by the documentary why not sponsor your own, on your own platform.

Dear Madam First Lady: I Lack The Patience To Wait For Good Luck!

I am almajiri because I am from the North and one of the products of the Polygamous family, if you “hate” me, you don’t have to wait to a moment that your husband needs my vote before you come with your pretense.



I knew long ago that the killings in my region were allowed to be because, you don’t like my face. So, hold it, you don’t have to tell anyone to “stone” me because of my political party affiliation, you can use the soldiers to continue to kill me when they come to polling units, on the basis that “Nigeria’s economy is in your pocket”.
You are intoxicated not from the amount of beer your husband drinks, but for the power that you are enjoying.
Painfully, for all your utterances recently, you have killed your husband politically.
Yours,

Almajiri (‪#‎myvotemyright)

Not Cool

kennygee:
But why Igbo men dey tey to marry?

Does the second child have down syndrome?

Not bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPpeDw0BGG0

The Peoples VP

what would it have cost the clueless Lot to just announce a subsidy removal when oil prices dropped. No, they still needed to continue funding SureP

Details have emerged that Geneal Martin Luther Agwai’s sack has more to do with disagreements about the usage of SURE-P funds than about his attendance of Gen. Obasanjo’s birthday. SURE-P has always been a set up to help fund President Jonathan’s campaign and the campaign of other PDP party interests. The structure of SURE-P is such that critical positions are held by people who have a direct link with the Jonathan campaign.

For instance, state coordinators for President Jonathan’s campaign in 2011 are also the current state coordinators for SURE-P, this is not a mere coincidence but a well-orchestrated attempt to give the Jonathan campaign an unfair advantage at the 2015 Polls.

Some of the coordinators are Alhaji Bode Oyedele, (Lagos); Mr. Joseph Ishekpa (Nasarawa); Alhaji Garba A. Kurfi.(Katsina): Alhaji Aliyu Mamman (Niger); Alhaji Adamu Yaro Gombe (Gombe); Hon Femi Akinyemi (Ekiti); Jarigbe Agbom Jarigbe (Cross River); Chief Abdullahi Ohioma (Kogi); Dare Adeleke (Oyo); Alhaji Al-Kasim Madoka (Kano) and Alhaji Kolo Bukar (Borno).

The Lagos State coordinator Alhajo Bode Oyedele is a known ally of Mr Bode George, a PDP Chieftain. All of these people were placed at SURE-P to help direct resources to President Jonathan’s campaign.

General Martin Agwai (retd.) as SURE-P chairman got 41% of the funds from the reduction in subsidy. This amounted to N15bn Monthly, FG appointed state coordinators got the rest. The General was sacked because of his refusal to commit SURE-P funds to the president’s re-election ambition. You will recall that in the current budget, the money meant for the Ministry of Works has been redirected to SURE-P. Reports had emerged that the former SURE-P Chairman as sacked because he attended former President Obasanjo’s birthday but appears to only be a sideshow in the whole controversy surrounding his sack.

The nation’s 3,642 megawatts, mw, of electricity dropped to about 3,000mw as vandals burst the Escravos- Lagos Pipeline System, ELPS Gas Pipeline in Delta State.

The pipeline, which was attacked last week, is important as it is dedicated to delivering gas from Escravos to Lagos for power generation.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN which confirmed the attack in a statement yesterday said it has reduced gas supply and by extension power generation.

“Vandals struck at the Escravos- Lagos Pipeline System, ELPS Gas Pipeline at Inikorogha, Gbaramatu Kingdom, Delta State, blasting away about 24 inches of the pipeline,” it disclosed.

The General Manager, Public Affairs of TCN, Mrs. Seun Olagunju who signed the statement, indicated that the latest act of sabotage by unscrupulous Nigerians has once again affected gas supply to electricity generation and resulted in the reduction of generated power to the national grid.

She stated: “The vandals also struck the Trans- Forcados Pipeline a month ago and while restoration efforts were being completed, they struck again, it stressed.

“You may recall that early in February, the Minister of Power, Prof Chinedu Nebo signed several MoUs with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth Matters and several NGOs to embark on sensitization of Nigerians to desist from acts of vandalism and report any plan to vandalize gas and power infrastructure.”

The company assured that the Federal Government was unrelenting in efforts to check these acts of sabotage, including introducing sophisticated technology, in order to provide more reliable and stable power supply to the people.

Stakeholders said the gas pipeline vandalism and other challenges may affect government’s ability to meet set target in the sector this year.

The government had stated that Electricity Generation Companies, GENCOs would generate 6,000 megawatts, mw of electricity in 2015 in order to assist in meeting national demand.

We are only generating 3000mw. This is hardly sufficient for Lagos alone.

Thats transformation

I trust Fayose the Cultist, he will do his possible best to use violence to disrupt an Ekiti Rally. may God keep the Peoples VP safe.

transformation noni

This is a Video of the March. Pls watch and see if they were 10,000 or one million


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=871-o51L9JA

ascaris:
1million abi na 1billion ni. Na people wey no get jobs politicians dey deceive!

It was a Saturday, Those people want change so badly, they got off their buts to take action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=871-o51L9JA

We hope the flaws can be corrected before the elections> thats the only way our votes will count, Without Card readers both leading parties will stuff the ballot boxes. It will be a case of, Who can outrig who.

Sai Buhari.

Hope you deliver on your promises

Well, its a different election now. He is contesting against proven cluelessness.

MOG1D1:
Buhari is well market by the new york outfit paid to launder his image. Same Buhari who lost election in 2003, 2007 and 2011.

It is the same General "Oluwole" Buhari of the "no certificate" shame.

There's a reason our fathers refused to vote Buhari in 2003, 2007 and 2011.

ikombe:
didnt he know they where goin to march today y go to sokoto.

Its called team work, There is a finite time, Too many things to do, Let Tinubu, Fashola and Osinbajo March in lagos abeg.

In this Video, you will see is a softer side of General Buhari in an Interview with Funmi Iyanda.

He talks about Young people in his government, Twitter Voltrons, Why he has one wife and so on.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAuZvgjL8Yg

is the problem actually that this man is old or that he is sick.

Old age is not a disease.

We already know that PDP is corrupt, Just look at the state of the excess crude account and the Foreign Reserves. The Present PDP Govt has depleted them.

There is still no Light, No Healthcare and the Value of the Naira keeps dropping.

We need change.

Buhari

When will we start discussing Issues, what has the beauty of Osinbajos daughter got to do with putting food on my Table.

Well, shes not bad sha.

Thats not fair Na!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlTxX2jsdNk

In this 2 part series, I will attempt to show readers with a open mind that many of the Allegations against the Presidential Candidate of the All Peoples Congress (APC). Gen. Buhari are Lies, these allegations have been repeated on social and traditional Media.

Facts will be checked in a Question and Answer Manner.



Q: Did Buhari call for post election violence or ask his supporters to kill?
A: No.

This is Propaganda from the Ruling Party. See Video for details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5KQiIqikM



It should also be noted that the BBC carried out Buhari’s condemnation of the violence http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13126839 as well as his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/votebuhari/posts/10150155911827734

What about the Dog and the Baboon Statement?

“za a yi kare jini biri jinni: The Battle will be Fierce. The parable of the Dog and the Baboon”
A fight between a dog and a baboon is highly unlikely, unless inspired by a human being.
In Africa and particularly in Hausaland where this highly unlikely idea was contrived as a proverb, such a fight can only happen under the influence of man when in hunting he sets the dog to catch the baboon or its baby. In that case, that fight would surely be one to witness.
The dog uses its power of speed and strong canine teeth, the baboon his powerful shoulders, limbs, claws, hands, and under extreme conditions, his teeth. And this condition is extreme – a fight for his life or that of his baby. So we better assume that the baboon will deploy his entire arsenal.
As the proverb depicts, the fierce fight ends inconclusively with both parties sustaining deeps cuts and innumerable browses. Each contender was lucky to survive it and returns to its shelter licking its wounds
When you tell your contender that za a yi kare jini biri jinni, it simply means the battle will be fierce. In the case of Buhari, he was promising his supporters from Niger State that 2015 elections will be fierce; or put in another way, the PDP wIll not have it easy. Simple.

How this simple statement translated into a political missile that says Buhari is promising a bloodbath come 2015 remains one of those sad stories in our practice of journalism.




Q:Did Buhari promise to make Nigeria ungovernable?
A: NO!

In 2010, as reported by various sections of the media, Lawal Keita, a PDP chieftain stated that if a person from the North did not win the 2011 elections, Nigeria will be made ungovernable .
Below are links to that effect as reported by the press when that statement was made.
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/08/group-wants-kaita-tried-for-treason/
In April 2011, Reuben Abati slandered Buhari in The Guardian about same statements of making Nigeria ungovernable. Buhari sued Abati to court in 2011 for damaging his name. President Jonathan begged Buhari on behalf of Abati to settle out of court because Abati might end up in jail. On 11 July 2013 Rueben Abati and The Guardian published an unreserved apology to Buhari.


Q: Did Buhari cancel the Lagos Metroline project due to any malicious intent?
A: NO!

In January 1985 when the contract was cancelled, Nigeria was in the middle of a recession, brought on by the necessary belt tightening after the years of reckless excess under the Shagari administration, especially in the election year, 1983.
In October 1984 for example, Nigeria had unilaterally dropped the price of each barrel of exported Bonny Light crude by $2, thus putting her national interests ahead of OPEC’s cartel interests. Such short term economic pragmatism was the necessary order of the day. And even though it flew in the face of their consensus on prices and production, OPEC’s most important member, Saudi Arabia, acquiesced to such an unprecedented behavior by a member of the cartel because it was convinced of the precarious nature of Nigeria’s public finances.
Hence, despite over 10% (N80m) of the overall N700m 16-mile overhead railway project being already spent, the cancellation of the contract went ahead as the governing Supreme Military Council (SMC) accused the French consortium leader, Interfina, of excessive project costs. Interfina could not successfully defend such accusations.
The SMC was also quick to point out that despite Shagari’s accelerated timetable for the move of the Federal Capital to Abuja, new infrastructural spending would now have to proceed at a slower pace.
References:
1. African Business, December 1984
2. Financial Times, 28 January 1985
3. West Africa, 4 February 1985
4. West Africa, 11 February 1985
5. African Contemporary Record, (1984-1985)



Q: Did Buhari say Muslims should only vote for Muslim leaders?
A: NO.

In June 2001, Sheikh Sidi Attahiru Ibrahim launched his book at a Dan Fodio University event. General Muhammadu Buhari was invited to chair the event, where he spoke ex-tempore. Buhari Later contested the Presidential Elections 2 years Later in 2003.

Later that month, Buhari granted an interview to Rev, Fr. Matthew Hassan Kukah (present day Catholic Bishop of Sokoto) confirming what he said at the book launch. Here is the relevant portion of Kukah’s report on what Buhari said during their June 23, 2001 conversation (which was published in the Weekly Trust edition of July 6-12, 2001)

“During the course of my comments, I drew attention to the fact that the introduction of Sharia had become one of the main issues in this new dispensation. I explained that Sharia, however, has been with us well before the British colonized Nigeria. Now, Sharia has been introduced in many Northern states and Sokoto is one of the states that has already adopted Sharia. It must be pointed out however that Sharia is applicable only to Muslims. Those elements that have taken the law into their hands and use the opportunity to molest other non-Muslims are not helping the cause. What is amore, they are like bad policemen or judges who are making the enforcement of justice so difficult in Nigeria. Their shortcoming does not do the police force or the judiciary any good, but these acts do not detract from the imperative of both institutions. Midway through our democracy, we have time now to assess the situation on ground in terms of making our choice in the next elections. Vote for good men whether they are in Borno, Katsina, Sokoto or wherever. Vote for those who will protect your interest. This, Rev. Father, is the summary of every thing I said and the tapes are there.” (1)

At that time, there was actually no Controversy around the statements.

The controversy began when Ahmed Oyerinde, a long time Sokoto correspondent for ThisDay and other Newspapers, (who was not at the venue of the book launch when Buhari spoke) made up the false quote and reported this as fact in ThisDay. In the aftermath of his report, the tape of the event was played and no such statement was found there. Oyerinde later confessed to his Editors that he was not at the event and did not hear Buhari say any such thing. I was told that ThisDay later published a retraction of the report. (2)

For the record, Oyerinde, sadly now late, had been the subject of a disciplinary investigation by Nigerian Press watchdogs for allegations of taking money to write false and mischievous stories. The allegations were confirmed and he was reprimanded. One of these investigations dates back to 1990. (3)

Yet, despite Buhari’s many denials, and the defence of neutral observers like Fr. Kukah & Garba Shehu the peddlers of this lie keep repeating them maliciously.

REFERENCES:
1. Kukah, Matthew Hassan, Weekly Trust Newspaper, Abuja, July 6-12, 2001
2. Private conversation with a Senior ThisDay editor with close knowledge of the 2001 incident on Dec. 30, 2014
3. Shehu, Garba, Premium Times, http://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/106982-not-accepting-to-negotiate-with-boko-haram-could-hurt-buhari-by-garba-shehu.html



Q: Does Buhari like democracy, and does he deserve to govern in one (since he overthrew the Shagari government in 1983)?
A: Yes

While the December 31, 1983, coup ended the rule of Shagari’s National Party of Nigeria (NPN), the overwhelming view of the Nigerian populace at the time was very welcoming of the military’s intervention.

The Shagari regime had in four years run the economy badly and turned Nigeria into a civilian, dictatorial “one party state”.(1) Hence, it was no surprise that when “news of another coup reached the public, there was jubilation. People drank, danced and sang all over the country that the decadent, corrupt and directionless politicians had been wiped off the face of Nigeria’s political life. People called for ‘military rule for ever’. Others called for war on politicians, the execution of legislators, ministers, governors and top party men. Yet many remarked that ‘unless we do like Rawlings (who killed corrupt Ghanaian rulers in 1979), Shagari and his men will come back'”.(2)

Just before the 1983 elections, fear pervaded the land as senior NPN officials went around “boasting that there were only two parties in Nigeria – NPN and the Army”.(3) And even inside the other “party” (The Military), fear of the NPN wasn’t unfounded. The “police was equipped with Armoured Personnel Carriers, reinforcing suspicions that the NPN was not merely maneuvering to sustain its political ascendancy, but was also preparing to bully its way through the August 1983 elections, while furnishing itself with alternative defence in the event of a direct conflict with the armed forces.”(4)

Having now overseen a wholesale rigging of the elections across the country, with attendant bloodshed and violence by a Police Force doing the bidding of the ruling NPN, some of the Army’s leaders ousted the political class to prevent a bloody cleansing of the stables by junior officers. Such was the rot in the polity.

Buhari himself was later ousted by a palace coup in August 1985. After years of house arrest, and the eventual fall of the Soviet Union in the late eighties, he became a convert to the idea of liberal democracy.

At his Chatam House Speech, Buhari said:
"Permit me to close this discussion on a personal note. I have heard and read references to me as a former dictator in many respected British newspapers including the well regarded Economist. Let me say without sounding defensive that dictatorship goes with military rule, though some might be less dictatorial than others. I take responsibility for whatever happened under my watch.
I cannot change the past. But I can change the present and the future. So before you is a former military ruler and a converted democrat who is ready to operate under democratic norms and is subjecting himself to the rigours of democratic elections for the fourth time."
The following image is a news report from The Times of Saturday, January 7, 1984.
http://factchecki.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image.png

Lagos honeymoon for soldiers and civilians
REFERENCES:
1. ‘Season of Anomy’, Editorial, The Guardian (Lagos), 24th August 1983
2. Falola T, Ihonvbere J, ‘The Rise and Fall of Nigeria’s Second Republic’ (1985), p 228
3. Falola & Ihonvbere (1985), p. 226
4a. The Guardian (London), 11th January, 1984
b. T.Y. Danjuma, The Guardian (Lagos), 20 July 1986

[Both cited by Othman Shehu, Chapter 8 on ‘Nigeria’, in ‘Contemporary West African States’ (1989) by Cruise O’Brien and Others, pp 134-135]

Sources
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/5195-buhari_vs_pdp_the_dog_and_the_baboon.html
http://factchecki.ng/

Oluwole Isaac.

Source: http://www.nigerianeye.com/2015/03/lies-about-buhari-truth-part-1.html

You wont just stop telling lies, PDP.

The Buses in your image, were Launched in lagos Last Month.

They are the wifi enabled buses that were Launched.

see link
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/177055-lagos-launches-100-air-conditioned-internet-enabled-buses.html

LIES

notobs:
President Goodluck Jonathan has positively touched EVERY SECTOR in #Nigeria during his term so far in office!

Anyone who claims that our President is not working needs to EDUCATE HIMSELF!

He has made life easier for YOU by buying 809 BRAND NEW BUSES that are available in ALL SIX geopolitical zones: South East, South South, South West, North East, North West, and North Central!!

HE HAS upgraded ELEVEN airports for YOUR travel convenience: Kano, Kaduna, Jos, Yola, Enugu, Owerri, Benin, Calabar, Portharcourt, Lagos and Abuja! EIGHT airports are in progress: Maiduguri, Katsina, Sokoto, Akure, Ibadan, Bauchi, Ilorin and Jalingo!

ALL OF THESE ROADS in YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD are being completed under GEJ: Apapa-Oshodi Expresway, Benin-Ore-Shagamu Expressway, Lagos Ibadan Expressway, Kano Maiduguri Road and many more!

ALL of these water supply projects ARE in progress so that YOU can have CLEAN WATER and better ELECTRICITY: Okiriki water supply project, Rivers state, Ojirami water supply project, Edo state, Takum Water supply rehab, Taraba state, Central ogbia regional water scheme, Bayelsa State, Biu water supply, Borno State, Usman Danfodi water supply, Sokoto State, AND Zungeru water supply project, Niger state.

This is only just to name a few! The list of transformation goes on and on under OUR PRESIDENT!

For him to continue the fantastic work, #NIGERIANS need to unite and vote for the RE-ELECTION of our great leader, President Goodluck Jonathan!

I travelled to Ibadan from lagos on Tuesday last week, Journey took 3hrs. its supposed to be a 1hr Journey. keep deceiving yourself

notobs:
#Nigerians , do us a favor and LISTEN to one of General Muhammadu Buhari's plans to revive #Nigeria .

He is spending time planning to do things that PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN has ALREADY DONE!

IS HE EVEN IN TOUCH with the current affairs... of Nigeria? Has he not heard of the TRANSFORMATION AGENDA?

In his last speech, he promised to build ROADS and HIGHWAYS that link states. PRESIDENT JONATHAN has DONE THAT!

ALL OF THESE ROADS are being completed under GEJ: Apapa-Oshodi Expresway, Benin-Ore-Shagamu Expressway, Lagos Ibadan Expressway, and Kano Maiduguri Road!

President Jonathan has LINKED the busiest states and plans to CONTINUE until EVERY ROAD IN NIGERIA IS FIXED!

NIGERIANS, vote for continuation from the RIGHT MAN! Do not vote for a stolen agenda!

GMB copying GEJ on progressing Nigeria's economy:
http://www.punchng.com/news/ill-ban-importation-of-rice-tomato-buhari/

Kontinu, keep on comparing a Governors achievements to that of a President