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Ok. I'll tell that Nigerians that wash plates abroad to survive and pay their school fees.

Are Nigerians not trusting Buhari, a man with no higher education and with a history of despotism and ethnic prejudices.

You are leaving as the most democratic president Nigeria has ever had.
You gave Nigerians the ultimate freedom they wished for, the freedom of expression through the ballot and through their voices. They have seen what it finally feels like and they will demand for nothing less from future presidents.
Adios Mr Goodluck Jonathan.

You are leaving as the most democratic president Nigeria has ever had.
You gave Nigerians the ultimate freedom they wished for, the freedom of expression through the ballot and through their voices. They have seen what it finally feels like and they will demand for nothing less from future presidents.
Adios Mr Goodluck Jonathan.

tripod:
Wike helped himself and not amaechi. He was an erand boy for amaechi and you know it. He made so much money with that case. As a sitting speaker, amaechi had connections. He went under because of obj and sent his boy, wike, around to meet with his contacts and also ship cash to prosecute the case. I hope u know how amaechi made omehia too. How he brought amehia into govt during ada george's regime.
We know the roles everyone played including karibi whyte. Stop misleading the public. Between 1999 and 2007, the highest political position wike could hold was a local govt chairman. And this was made possible by his boss and brother who was the speaker of the rivers state house of assembly within the same period.

Maybe u want to tell me wike as local govt chairman made amaechi speaker. You guys can turn a lizard into a crocodile. Guy u carry first frm back with this ur post.

Wike an errand boy for Amaechi? Lol.
In case you don't know, if it wasn't for Wike, Amaechi wouldn't have been made governor twice!
Wike was chairman of Obio/Akpor local govenrment, not just any local government but Obio/Akpor!
That position was almost bigger than Amaechi's speakership.

You are leaving as the most democratic president Nigeria has ever had.
You gave Nigerians the ultimate freedom they wished for, the freedom of expression through the ballot and through their voices. They have seen what it finally feels like and they will demand for nothing less from future presidents.
Adios Mr Goodluck Jonathan.

hardywaltz:
We have our grand finale on Thursday in Okirika
U are invited. This tym let us see if Mama Peace and her son Evans Bipi will cause any trouble.

Lol.

We shall see. Tell them to fortify themselves.

StealthIdeals:
U mean Okrika that is already mourning?

Yes.

If Amaechi is a lion, he should go to Okrika. Nonsense man

Emteebee:
In 2011 nko ?

In 2011 there was no APC.

barcanista:
Leave am. Amaechi no be "cultist" self. The same amaechi wey Rivers people knw.

Everybody know say Amaechi na cultist. A cultist ruled rivers for eight years and these people didn't complain.

taharqa:
The Rivers State elections is perhaps the only election I would be following very closely this Saturday.

It is VERY IMPORTANT that the people of Rivers do not allow anybody even remotely connected to that useless traitor, Ameachi, anywhere near the seat of power in Rivers again. Vote for KOWA party if need be.

Nuff said

Dude, you don't need to follow the election. Wike is already the governor of Rivers State. The presidential election should have told you what's up- a sitting governor could not deliver up 20,000 votes for his party in his state. Amaechi is done and dusted in Rivers State, that was why he was apologising.

And Dakuku is not a cultist? LMAO! I love rivers politics die!

Nigerians are in for a shocker.

True. Change starts with every Nigerian. We need to educated ourselves more. Our problem is that majority of Nigerians are not properly educated, its not necessarily about bad leadership or corruption. If we can truly embrace personal change and develop ourselves to add positive values to our country, good leadership will naturally come and corruption will reduce.

Which kain picture be dat?

emperorchedda:
What fuckery?

Are we now overhyping a man that did the right thing every right thinking man should do?? The constitution states if you lose an election you hand over to the winner and Jonathan did just that.

He couldn't have incited violence because the international community were watching with keen interest than previous elections. If a politician loses and fails to concede defeat thereby provoking his supporters to violence that politician should be hung to a stake and disgraced like Laurent Gbagbo but when you handover quietly like GEJ then you have done the RIGHT thing and not the extraordinary thing!

I'm still stunned people are regarding a man that did the normal thing as a hero, he might be your hero but not mine. Had he been he stepped down for Buhari even before the elections then we'd have taken him as an exceptional human and treated him heroic, not when he contested and lost and handed over just like the constitution stipulates.

GEJ's action is COMMENDABLE but not HEROIC

You guys keep referring to Gbagbo because you think Nigeria is Ivory Coast. You people are either blind, ignorant or hypocritical. If GEJ decided to be high handed and rig the elections, nothing unusual would happened. The south south and south east were solidly behind him and act to disgrace him out of office will lead to the ultimate division of Nigeria. Let us stop deceiving ourselves.

Mynd44:
You can also explain +20,000 dead people, the Chibok girls and the billions of dollars that has gone missing

Every administration always has thousands of people dead and billions of dollars missing. You're talking like its something new.

esere826:
please do you have a link to a specific web page that I can access for the information for some critical analysis


I ask this because there's a plethora of material out there about Eskom and its link to the economy
much like there's a tonne of materials out there about governance in nigeria and its link to the economy

You'd agree with me that such generalizing although having some truism
does not help in identifying the exact "hows", "whys" and "so whats" which are necessary for rigour in strategizing

For example, it would be naive to simply say "good governance would lead to jobs"
yes, it sounds like a reasonable conclusion, but how rigorous is this?

Does this mean that once jobs are not created that there was no good governance, or that once jobs are created, then there is good governance? what is good governance?

You can see why I would be reluctant to feel confident that electricity almost equates to jobs
although this is a popular "rumor" on the streets
...before electricity was invented there must have bee cities with lots of jobs

I'd rather that electricity and jobs be separately dealt with
even if they might have some inter relationship

Reasonable posers you raised.

Lol. And Nigeria remains the same, same old politicians with new tricks.

Ignorant Nigerians. GEJ is leaving Buhari with the largest economy in Africa by GDP, a transformed power and rail sector and various investor and business friendly policies and institutions. If Buhari messes up nobody should blame GEJ.

What is holy spirit?

She has no arse, no bòobs and no vagìna. How are we sure she is a woman?

You see. . .

Nobody cares

Its time for new ideas. JK is the man.

Besides, Tinubu and his gangnam style politicians have held Lagos since 1999. Lagos is the most strategic and commercially viable state in West Africa. The progress in terms of infrastructure and socio-economic development Lagos has had since 1999 is too little.

Nigerians typically tell Buhari and the APC that if they fail in four years, they'll be voted out in 2019. The same should be done with Jimi Agbaje in Lagos, if he fails in four years, Vote Him Out!

Lol @ APC winning Rivers.

Jega is Howard Webb and APC is Manchester United.

Figure it out

Better sex for men

He's a hero!

If GEJ was anything like Obasanjo, Tinubu or a typical Nigerian or third world politician, he would have had his way either through rigging or any other means possible. He is the president and commander in chief, which is the most powerful position in the country. He can do and undo!

Think about it, what will have been the worst if GEJ had decided to subvert the will of the people by rigging the elections or any other means (Which he had the power to do)?
Nothing unusual would have happened. There will be violence in parts of the north and that's all. Security operatives would be deployed to restore order.

The belief that he would be treated like Gbagbo is absolute nonsense!
Nigeria is not Ivory Coast. GEJ has the complete support of the south south and south east zone. We were willing to back him up in every action he took to undermine Buhari and the north in reclaiming power (This is the consensus right now in the south south and south east)

However, GEJ decided to let the natural progression and ascendancy of events take place. That is something not peculiar to politicians from third world countries (like Nigeria). He deserves accolades for his altruistic actions. Let us be honest.

[s]I personally think he's a weak man, he has no balls and he's an embarrassment. [/s]

Enough of this nonsense already. You can't take away the accolades and goodwill GEJ has garnered from his altruistic actions after the elections.

Honestly, I pity the north. It will take them about fifty years to catch up with the south in terms of human and economic development and that's only if they agree to eschew their religious extremism and embrace western education strongly.

The Boko Haram menace has taken them twenty years back because as it stands, investors will be very wary of investing in the northern part of the country due to resurgent fears of insurgency and violence. Violence and war never pays. The Biafran war totally destabilized the east and Nigeria at large; the warri riots almost crippled warri even till today; militancy in the Niger delta drove away foreign investors and citizens especially in port harcourt. Port harcourt became a shadow of its former self. Violence never pays.

The north will need about 100 billion dollars in order to develop critical social institutions and infrastructure in their zone over the next 10 years. Where will the money come from? No wonder their politicians and leaders are scared of resource control.