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GEJ has crossed 1000 . Heading for 2000

Vigilante:
This GEJ people will not grow up.  Atiku loses in Adamawa and you say you were SHOCKED.  Gej loses in Sokoto and you say its because of zoning.  Una too de childish. haba  

Na so e pain you reach??

I am so excited. Go GEJ

slap1:
Atiku would give everything for a second chance. He must have realized belatedly that his speech was just ideal for the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, convention, not a presidential convention.

LWKMD  

Nigerians are good problem analysts but, never solution providers. Always criticizing, never suggesting or even getting involved themselves.


One thing that must be understood is that uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Maybe you are expecting GEJ to cut off so quickly from the powers that be, then you must be joking cos its never done anywhere.  It takes more time than you can imagine.

I am not surprised at the inciting remarks made about the president, it is part of politics.

Nigerians lack a great deal of patient

got married, divorced. Got married again, then separated, therefore became single. So my relationship is kind of complicated

Olabukola

I'll recommend you for some rehabilitation programs, you really need it. Your posts portray you as a violent illiterate who is privileged to have an internet access close to him.

You claim to know what is right write, yet you cannot differentiate the two from each other.

My missing rib

galek:
Now I know NLs formed bulk of the 80% candidates that failed WAEC this Nov/Dec,  None of U is sure on the CORRECT sentence Madam GEJ should have made used of,  Shame to U all!

Please correct yourself.

Nigerians cannot even express themselves correctly in English anymore- Posters are busy revealing their illiteracy while trying  to correct my first lady.

What is really going on in Nigeria ? Is it part of the mber month happenings ? Nigeria needs prayers.

im not missing you - Stacie Orrico

2011: Jonathan, Ribadu, Buhari top presidential rating list -Survey
• Saraki, IBB, Atiku trail behind
By SEYE OJO
Monday, November 01, 2010

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A survey conducted by a Nigeria-based opinion research organisation, NOI Polls, has revealed that Nigerians are currently rating President Goodluck Jonathan higher than all other presidential aspirants for the next year’s election. The former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the snap polls stated, came second while former Military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) occupied third position.

The survey conducted between September 20 and October 11 this year showed that Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State, former Military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar are trailing behind. The telephone interview, which sampled opinions of 1, 058 Nigerians on the presidential aspirants, was silent on the chances of former National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Gusua (retd).

According to the NOI Polls, 87 per cent of the people polled agreed that Jonathan should run, 55 per cent felt that Ribadu should contest, 41 per cent said Buhari should also run. While 35 per cent felt Saraki should contest, 27 per cent agreed that Babangida should run,27 per cent saw nothing wrong for Atiku vying for presidency in 2011.

On Jonathan, the survey declared: “Almost all (99 per cent) of the people polled said they were aware of President Jonathan’s intention to contest in the upcoming presidential elections. Eighty-seven per cent of respondents said they felt he should run. This figure is slightly higher than a similar poll conducted in August 2010, before the president declared his intentions to contest, where 81 per cent felt he should run.”

Also on Ribadu, NOI Polls said: “Eight-six per cent of respondents are aware of Ribadu’s intention to run for the 2011 presidential elections. Just over half of Nigerians – 55 per cent, think that he should run, while 41 per cent think he shouldn’t run.” Participants in the survey were asked if they were aware of Buhari’s intention to run for presidency in the forthcoming elections, 97 per cent surveyed were aware of this fact, 41 per cent said he should run, while nearly 58 per cent was against his ambition.

While 88 per cent of the people polled were aware of Saraki’s intention, 35 per cent among the respondents felt he should run. Sixty-two per cent said he should not run while three per cent maintained neutrality. The survey result on Babangida pointed out that 97 per cent was aware that he has declared his intention to run for the 2011 presidential elections, only 27 percent thought he should run for the office.

Also on Atiku, the survey said: “Awareness of Atiku Abubakar’s presidential aspirations is also high at 90 per cent, however only 27 per cent of the respondents think that he should run while 70 per cent believe he shouldn’t run for the office the president.”

The NOI Polls stated that the results revealed wide disparities in the level of knowledge, opinions and preferences of the respondents about the aspirants. Nigerians formed their opinions on each presidential aspirants based on their reputation, need of a change in leadership, corruption, right to be voted for, zoning arrangement with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and so on.

“What is clear, however, is that on one key question – “Should the candidate run?” three candidates – President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu and General Muhammadu – are ahead. Governor Bukola Saraki, General Ibrahim Babangida and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will need to do more work from the results of the Snap Polls.

“It is also important to keep in mind the fact that these results could change as other factors such as the choice of Vice Presidential Candidates and the current efforts of some Northern politicians to choose a consensus candidate from the region are factored in.”


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/nov/01/national-01-11-2010-013.htm

Element G when last u see ur vet

Element G:
huh its kinda too long, but u try

by d way, didnt they teach u summary?

I understand Nigerians don't like reading, so I put it this way to encourage reading as well as pass the message

Once upon a time, when Baba (Obasanjo) was in office as the president, he got an invitation from the Queen to come for a visit to England. After all the banquets and carriage rides and what not, Baba finally got the quiet moment he had craved all day in order to have a one on one chat with her majesty. After the usual small talk, Baba quickly popped the question. He asked her what the secret to her success was. You know Nigerians, we think everything is a secret…the President’s health status is a secret, his whereabouts is a secret, reports of the various panels of enquiry set up by govt to investigate the causes of different crises around the country are kept secret, we even have secret registries in every government agency in d country. Maybe we are a secretive people, we love secrets.

Anyway, back to our story. So Baba asked for the SECRET to the Queens’s success and she told him that she relies on her people a lot and therefore she makes certain that only the intelligent get to positions of authority.

She decided to show him exactly what she meant and so she phoned Tony Blair. "Now listen carefully, Mr. Obasanjo. I'm going to ask Mr. Blair a question to determine his intelligence.”

Queen: "Hello Mr. Blair, I have a question for you: your mother has a child, and your father has a child. This child is not your brother and is not your sister. Who is he?"

Tony Blair replied instantly, "It's ME Your Majesty!"

Queen: "Correct! Thank you and goodbye"

"You see Mr. Obasanjo?" said the Queen.

"Yes”, he replied “and thanks a lot, I'll definitely be using that!"

Once back in Nigeria, he decided that he had doubts about Mantu’s level of intelligence and he decided to test him. He arranged a meeting with him and asked him:

"Mantu, I have a question for you; your mother and father have a child. The child is not your brother and is not your sister, who is he?."

Mantu thinks,  and thinks………and thinks, and finally says, "Em, Mr. President, you must give me more time to think about it."

And Mr. Obasanjo gave him 2 weeks to come up with an answer. That afternoon, Mantu called a meeting of all his aides, advisers and assistants to discuss the question, but NOBODY knew the answer. So he decided to take it to the floor of the Senate. After a heated debate the Senate President thought it wise to clear out the gallery and go into a closed session as he believed the revelations that might result could be damaging to the family and reputation of the distinguished Senator Mantu.

After about two hours of deliberations, the house decided to set up an ad hoc committee to look into the matter and report back to it in ten days. The committee was given the following terms of reference:

1. To come up with a complete family tree of the entire Mantu clan
2. To pay a courtesy call to the traditional ruler of Mantu’s village and the State Governor
3. To interview all living relatives of Senator Mantu
4. To determine if Sen. Mantu’s dad had any extramarital affairs
5. To determine the DNA composition of Sen. Mantu (in Germany of course or Saudi)

On completion of its assignment, the committee was to submit its report to the Senate which would then pass it on to the Senate committee on special duties. This committee would then review the report of the ad hoc committee and come up with a draft “white paper” (whatever that means). This draft “white paper” would then be brought back to the Senate and on approval would be passed on to the President through Senator Mantu.

The Ad-hoc committee then submitted its budget which, of course, was kept SECRET, but included funds for;

a) The immediate purchase of Land Cruiser jeeps for each of the 12 members of the committee. The jeeps would be used to travel to Mantu’s village because, as you know, Nigerian roads are bad and Mantu’s village is remote.
b) Air tickets (first class of course) and hotel accommodation in Jos for committee members and their numerous aides. They’d stay at the Hill-station hotel and drive to Mantu’s village in the morning.
c) Air tickets (again first class) to Germany and back, and hotel accommodation (five star) for everybody.
d) Estacodes and hazard allowances
e) Logistics
f) Miscellaneous

Even though the budget was kept secret, you can easily come up with the figure by taking the actual estimate of the above list and multiply by ten. You’ll only run into problems when you get to the final two items (logistics & miscellaneous) , as these are usually added to cover for all the people that need to be “settled” in order to ensure that everything goes smoothly. Therefore the figures have the tendency of varying widely and so it can’t really be predicted.

Anyway, the money was released and the committee started its assignment in earnest. They finished within the time frame that was stipulated in their terms of reference and they prepared a voluminous report which was to be presented at the senate at plenary. But on the d-day when the chairman of the committee was about to make the presentation, a distinguished senator from the Southern part of the country raised a “point of order”. He argued that the committee was illegal because its composition was lopsided in favor of a certain region in the country. He pointed out that of the 12 members; seven were from the North and only five from the South. Not to be outdone, another senator, this time from the North, raised a “point of order” on the “point of order” that was raised by the senator from the South. He argued that since the committee’s assignment was primarily to investigate the lineage of Senator Mantu (who was from the North), they needed
senators who knew the terrain, who understood the culture of the people and their language.

More points of order followed and after a while the Senate President decided to put a stop to it by subjecting it to a voice vote.

And thus he announced, “All those in favor of the committee being considered legal and thus go ahead to present its report say “AYE””. And the house responded accordingly.

And then he asked again, “All those not in favor of the committee being considered legal and thus should not go ahead to present its report say “NAY””. And the house responded accordingly.

Unfortunately for Mantu, the “NAYs had it” and thus the report was never presented. Now Mantu had a really big problem, because the President was waiting for an answer and he had run out of time. So in one last effort, he decided to phone his very good friend Jerry Rawlings who had always sounded intelligent to Mantu and thus might have the answer to this really difficult question.
"Jerry, your mother and father have a child. The child is not your brother and is not your sister, who is he?."

Jerry answered immediately. "Hey, Mantu, It's me of course, you dumb Nigerian!"
Mantu couldn’t believe his luck and so he rushed to Aso Rock Villa, his motorcade of five cars moving at top speed with sirens blaring. Ordinary Nigerians going about their normal businesses scampered out of the way. When they finally arrived their destination, Mantu literarily ran all the way to the President's office.

"Mr. President, Mr. President”, he called out, breathing heavily. “I know who he is.”
Obasanjo: “Good, so tell me”
Mantu: “It’s Jerry Rawlings Sir! In fact, when he revealed the SECRET to me, I started to see the resemblance between us"

Obasanjo: "Jerry Rawlings ko, Jerry Gana ni. You are such a silly senator. Olodo rakpata! I'll make sure you don’t return to office after this term. silly man, the correct answer is TONY BLAIR!"

And that’s how Mantu never returned to the Senate even though he supported the President’s third term agenda.
This is how Africa is governed.

@ OP I did a research on waste management in 2007. If you want to start recycling in naija it would be interesting but you have to pass thru alot.

Because I used Lagos as the starting point, when I met with commissioner, ministry of environment, she told me that any company that wants to start such a program is free but, the govt will make only land and resources (waste) available. No cash. Also there are many recycling companies in naija, even my mum works in a glass making company and they are also into recycling and she told me that they get empty bottles from nigeria bottling company for recycling.



@ honeycome I would like to be part of your team. I just sent you a skype request

excanny:
In politics there are no permanent friends and permanent enemies. What you need to have are permanent interests.

It seems you've been on vacation on some isolated island. The events of the recent times have shown that GJ is the man to beat. Like most posters have said here, he's a one-eyed man in the land of the blind. Not really the best, just better than the rest masquerading themselves as candidates.

In other words, political prostitution is permitted. Which goes on to say that you can change course as many times as possible- Unstable as water.

Well in this case I have no qualms since it's for the right course. Hope they remain in it.

From the comments above, I see some anti-Jonathan posters have all of a sudden given their support to Jonathan. It means there is hope for Naija.


Well, I still believe that there are more hurdles to cross before Jonathan grabs the PRIZE- GOD HELP US.

@ OP

Anyone criticizing FB based on it being fake, must be having serious

LOW-SELF ESTEEM.

Probably, your invites have been ignored on several occasions.

Pls work on your self.

My greatest challenge is completing my MBA program and coming back home within the shortest possible time. My belief is that there are greater opportunities back home which any average Nigerian youth can take advantage of, compared to abroad.

GEJ! carry go!!!!!!!




till 2019

I don't wanna argue with anyone.

we've heard alot of theories, political debates, very inspiring and articulated manifestoes in the past, but I want to ask, HOW MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN PRACTICALIZED?
despite all, elections must hold, and Nigerians must vote (unless you want someone to help you do that).

If you think you can do better as an individual, no need posting that here. Just do what is required of you. If you can survive  the pressure, FINE,  if not, 

My vote is for GEJ.

the poll gives us an Idea of what to expect on the 22nd of january 2011.

Go GEJ

its suprising that Ojukwu is not on the list, or wasn't he informed?

I remember telling some Ojukwu loyalists that a wise man does not utter all his mind- that OJUKWU may have given his support to IBB in the open, but that doesn't count as his true choice is still a secret no man can reveal.

well, they failed to understand my point. this is a clear indicator to that fact.

many atimes some fellows are carried away with loyalty, that they don't even know where to draw the line. well, let them ramble on.

How is the highlighted different when you don't even know my mind- Amusing!

well, it's not visible.

I was wondering why you highlighted a part of my post. I thought you wanted to correct something. all the same- NO QUALMS.

@ Kobo, could you please expatiate.

simple grammar you cannot SPOKEN

GEJ has declared, if you are not happy with that- then go and drink acid

Its madness to compare years of other rulers to the few months he has stayed, and expect him to pass their records.

A wish come through.


He already had my support before now.


Wishing him all the best.