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A-ZeD:
Dude please!!!!!

When people realise there are rules and regulations to be followed.

Got threatened by who?

I'm pretty sure that lecturer is a dull headed fellow

IBB is no longer in power how come Dr Abalaka has not gone back to work?

Foolishness will never takes us anywhere. Did prof do any clinical trials? What are the side effects of the drug?

the man isn't interested in research anymore, refused an interview with vanguard newspapers some yrs back that's whr I found out he's into ice block sales now. And I repeat the professor should have revealed his research findings properly and not like a road side pharmacist.

luluosas: Are you sure you woke up well this morning with your complete senses? No offense intended. Thank you.

luluosas speaks the truth except you're living in denial

This reminds me of Dr Abalaka in the 90s who was frustrated by the IBB regime over his alleged cure for HIV/AIDS, dude had to run to Zimbabwe whr he was sponsored by the Zimbabwean govt to work on his cure, IBB just placed a nice threatening call and our nice Dr was deported to Nigeria and his travelling documents seized. Right now I hear he's into ice block business in abuja.
Moral of the story is - the cure for hiv/aids will only come out when the powerful west wants it to come out.
Next time prof should do things in the proper way sha

Nigerians forget easily that's why its easy for them to be trampled upon(minus me sha).
No fuel price increase can be taken in Nigeria without the knowledge of the NLC & TUC hierachy loooooong before the prices are increased because they are amongst those who determine what is a "fair" price to Nigerians and they also have their cut on every liter of petroleum product sold in the country, in fact the decision to increase the price of petroleum products come january 2012 had been reached way back october/november 2011 and it was in the news although most Nigerians prefer watching paloma & super story than watching the news. That's also one of the reasons I laughed when the labour unions decided to "negotiate" something they'd agreed upon tey tey just to deceive gullible Nigerians and guess what ? It worked like magic with a caveat (complete subsidy removal by april 2012) the NLC/TUC agreed patapata. I guess you all missed that part too butdont worry the govt go soon remind una this year when the new financial year resumes by maybe march/april.
ALL GOVERNORS in Nigeria ACTUALLY steam rolled the FG into the removal of petroleum subsidy, we all know the governors are in a very powerful fraternity called the "Governors Forum" which have their stooges in the national assembly with said stooges having the power to cause countless headaches eg impeachment proceedings against the presidency. Well these governors including ACN o, APGA o, LP o including PDP decide they need more money to "develop" their respective states and the only way to get such money in abundance is by the total removal of petroleum subsidy so any governor who came out to support any of you protesters just dey play una wayo. If they really hated the FG's decision, they could have rejected any surplus additions to their regular monthly allocations in that spirit.
What we should be asking ourselves now is why can't our beloved national assembly members reduce their emoluments by at least 3 quarters after all they work part time. That's a protest I will support.
What have our respective governors been doing with the SURE - P money they've been receiving since january/february 2012 ? Let's start throwing the stones in our respective homes before going to Abuja.
I believe subsidy MUST go but only after we have functional refineries sha.

Lamido’s son granted bail
on JANUARY 10, 2013 · in NEWS
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By AbdulSalam Muhammad

KANO – Kano police command has released on bail, Aminu Sule, the eldest son of Jigawa state Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido detained in connection with a fatal auto crash that claimed the life of a middle aged man in Kano, Wednesday night.

The release by the police came on the heels of unconfirmed report that parents of the auto-crash victim have been convinced to drop legal procedures against Aminu Sule amidst juicy promises to settle out of court.

Aminu Sule in a SUV sports car was alleged to have crushed to death a middle aged man along BUK road by Rumfa College Kano around 8.55 Wednesday evening and was arrested on the scene by security agents.

Aminu Sule’s detention by the police in Kano is coming barely a month after operatives of Economic and Finance Crime Commission arrested him at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport over alleged money laundery.

The Police Public Relation Officer, Kano police command, ASP Magaji Musa Majia told newsmen in Kano that the case has been referred to the Director of Public Prosecution for appropriate action.

kingoflag: LMAOOOOOO

Youre the one that has to deal with constant electricity blackouts, bad roads, cops that'll blow your head off and splatter your brains on the side walk for refusing to give up a 27cents bribe, a president that grubs on $30,000+/day meals while the average citizen starves or seeks out $2/day to survive, an illiterate First Lady that insists on being a Permanent Secretary in another state even though she'll never show up to work, a President whom strong circumstantial evidence points to the fact that he orchestrated bombing events to kill citizens he's constitutionally obligated to protect, A President whom a known terrorist and former friend of his (Henry Okah) has pointed to as his accomplice in bombings that maimed innocent Nigerians.....

Youre the one that has to deal with Politicians that dont care about you, not me.

Me, Ive never experienced any of the above. I just feel bad for ignorant fo*0ls like you and would love you to experience a life that you fo0lishly think you cant have and is reserved for a select few.

you honestly think I want to argue with someone who believes goats have access to the internet ? SORRY is your name. Ewu congo meat.

Toktee: But why are they (pdp) of these two,are they clean frm johnadul to a community leaders under jonadul administration

olodo what is the meaning of this rubbish you wrote ?

A clear concience fears no accusation

So upon all the awaiting trial inmates languishing in prisons, it is goat state of Osun govt wants prosecute ? Arrant waste of tax payers money if you ask me & I would suggest the sanitation and police prosecutors who bring such case before a judge be arrested and locked instead. Wouldn't it easier to seize the animals permanently instead of this comedy ? Action congress indeed

kingoflag: No, you unfeeling ignorant goat, hes obviously grieving and in pain at the death of a family member which could probably have been avoided had the government been more responsible.

your level of intelligence tell you that in nigeria, a goat has access to the internet and can type out legible words. Sorry for you

babseg: What is funny about this? Even in advanced countries they have Dog pounds that will arrest dogs roaming the street aimlessly

are ther arrested dogs taken to court there or you just like blabbing ? Smh

anulaxad: Not again,you have this ignorant 'Nigerian' mentality that really pisses me off.

Tell me was sani abacha put under trial. In fact was obasanjo put under trial against humanity no.I can see I am dealing with a senseless slowpoke,who's ignorance is blocking your decency to read with out shooting when you comment.

That question in bold that I have highlighted,have I not answered that several times.But as I said you are not ready to be patient and read anything.If I had the time I will post videos and newspapers about how buhari was discriminating Christians in the north by genocide-ing.

Look fool I know what law is,but with all the suffering these corrupt officials have caused Nigerians is it fair for them to get way Scot-free by just shooting or hanging them.They need to face what Nigerians have been facing for years,suffering,but illiterates like you just do things in anger.

Let them rot in the worst jail ever,and face some torturing as well. YOUR SO FUUUCKING INPATIENT.

Was any corrupt person killed in your family? Yes or no? What is the meaning of this,of course not,you need to tell me why you are assuming this.

don't mind the useless boy always ranting as if everyone must dance to his tune. If his oga buhari likes he should not campaign properly ACROSS the country come 2015, he'll just fail woefully as he's already used to. The likes of osunoriginal can keep threatening and insulting people here on nairaland in the name of buhari campaign as if it will change the price of garri in the market.

ALL HAIL KING RONALDO...

kingoflag: See, this is why I get livid. I do not understand how a grown person like the poster above, will not decide to engage his brain and thought process before spewing his opinion to the general public. I guess we can only blame rot in the Nigerian educational system for this.

Now, why am I livid? Ok, first, this poster tells us he feels most that criticize GEJ hate him because he's from the South-South and he's in PDP. I hate him because hes from the South-South; World renowned economist 
Professor George Ayittey--a Ghanaian-- who has advised Nigeria to impeach a clearly mentally unstable President is also a hater of the South-South; Bishop of Bomadi Catholic Diocese, Vicarage Hyacinth Egbebor, an Ijaw man , that recently criticized the President to his face on Corruption hates the South-South; CNN Reporter, Isha Sesay, that severely attacked and disrespected GEJ in an interview hates him because he's from the South-South...... I say most Nigerians have mental problems, nobody's listening.

Then, after falsely accusing all GEJ's antagonists as Ijaw haters, you next go on and list all the corrupt practices which everyone is complaining about.... but, no, the world doesnt like GEJ not because he's horribly corrupt but because hes from a minority tribe. Dude, make up you mind.

Finally, I didnt miss the "TIMI" in your username, so I get where youre coming from.....

whatever you like, you can use to insult me. If you don't understand aspects of my own opinion, ask me to explain and I will clarify but I guess as a pedantic know all that you are, the opinions of others simply should not be considered or listened to.

It seems anyone one nairaland who isn't in support of a buhari presidency come 2015 is a paid PDP agent.

Ronaldo is still da boss SU*CKAZ!!!

take dat: Who says the yorubas cannot vie for the presidency simply because OBJ had spent 8years in office? Is rotational presidency enshrined in the constitution? Please I'll like to know the single largest "ethnic" group in Nigeria!

According to the constitution, the Yorubas can vie for the presidency come 2015 quite alright but all political players know that rotational presidency is an unwritten agreement which must be followed at least for peace to reign in this country if it were not so, why did the ACN field a northerner in the 2011 elections. The issue of rotational presidency cuts across all political parties right now in Nigeria.

From my observations on arguments here on NL & other fora, I've come to the conclusion that most people hate GEJ because

1 He is from the South South
2 He is in the PDP

Not because he is a "retardeen" which isn't even a proper word but just out of pure hatred. When people talk about non availability of jobs I ask how many of them are willing to work in the civil service which is already overbloated IMO, we all go to school hoping to work in Shell or Chevron or some telecoms company at graduation. Our problem as a country isn't what can be fixed in barely 2yrs when you consider the rot started even pre independence and the person who could have nipped it in the bud (Murtala Muhammed) was killed during a military coup, our country's problem will take at least another 2-3 decades to rectify with the proper attitude in all spheres. First we have to be taught how to be morally upright from our homes instead of paying mercenaries to write exams for our children, we have to empower our educational system to teach our children to be self reliant instead of churning out half baked graduates into the already over saturated labour market.
Right now, we need to FORCE our governors to stop stifling the local governments revenues and force the LG's and councils to perform because the president will not come down from Abuja to tell a local government chairman how to perform. We must remember that the local govt is the closest means by which the govt as a whole can make an impact in our lives.
Are we honest with ourselves as a country ? On the issue of subsidy for example which is a very ridiculous concept because its not even supposed to be there in the first place and I tell you these funds wasted on subsidy payments will bring the country to its knees sooner or later. Solution ? Refineries or modular refineries. Niger republic has a refinery capable of 20000 bpd. I believe govt shouldn't even have a hand in refining in the first place but our so called billionaires who have made such a killing during this subsidy regime won't even go near such a legitimate business. The other option is to compel the fed govt to repair existing refineries FAST then they can remove the subsidy and not before.
The issue of Buhari, GEJ or anybody else contesting in 2015 is a non issue because the constitution guarantees every eligible Nigerian the right to so contest such positions, I only implore all Nigerians to conduct themselves in a peaceful manner.

aribisala0: lol why you come dey follow my yansh about na. I never ready to 5hit,wen time reach I go call you ehn? Oluku

ho ho ho, insult me all you wish, I don't care since its obvious insults are your stock in trade. Such a pity you don't intend to utilize your obvious intelligence to greater purpose. Tsk tsk smh

aribisala0: Shut your dirty mouth animal!.
Naff off and stay away from me

see who has a clean mouth. gay

aribisala0: It is NOT fair to GEJ to compare him to OBJ because he was in office a lot longer. However I am not a fan of any of them or PDP they are all FRUITS of PDP and I think we have had enough of PDP after 16 years(by 2015) . Are we to believe that only one party must rule Nigeria? is that democracy. In the 13 years of PDP we have got more oil money than the previous 39 !!! Where is it. By the way Jonathan has been in office for 2 years now NOT 2 .Besides I am neither an ACN advocate or one of those people you engage in contests. I believe none of us has more than one vote.
Let us have free elections come 2015 and see what happens.
Your remark about governor being chief security officer is quite 5tupid really given the reality of NIgeria. So you are telling me GEJ did not use security vote judiciously when he was in BAYELSA and that is why MEND was not curbed . Who appoints the commisioner of police and who does he report to?
Was Ngige not a governor when he was kidnapped ??
I suggest you try and use you brain before posting. I would prefer it if you do not quote me any more because you are not a bright fellow and are wasting my time really

. Must you always insult people anytime you're giving your arguments ? You've insulted a lot of us here including our parents yet nobody has replied you in like way. This forum is meant for people to give their diverse opinions towards topical issues which can be done without insults. Its not fair at all.

[quote author=]who at this moment can be called a national candidate?[/quote]there are lots of "National" candidates and so I don't think that's where the problem lies. The question should be about NATIONAL PARTIES and like Femi Aribisala rightly observed in the article, the PDP is the only party right now in Nigeria with such a national outlook and it is this national outlook that the opposition parties have to rival or match at least to be able to wrest power from the PDP anytime soon. Let's be honest, what are your views about the ACN & CPC ?

By Femi Aribisala

FOR over eight years, Mitt Romney fought assiduously to be President of white Americans. He put up a considerable amount of his personal resources into this ambition. He also spent over one billion dollars of other peoples’ money; far more than the annual budget of most Nigerian states.

When the election results were finally tabulated on November 4, it was immediately clear Romney had achieved his objective. Mitt Romney was elected President of the United States of White Americans with 58% of the votes. As a matter of fact, he won the largest percentage of white votes of any Republican since 1988. Unfortunately, however, the election was not merely for white Americans. It was for all Americans.

Mitt Romney’s faux pas in the U.S. is similar to that of Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria. Buhari was the Northern candidate in the 2011 presidential elections in Nigeria. He hardly bothered to campaign in the South.

Convincing win in core northern states

When the results were announced, he won convincingly in the core Northern States with over 12 million votes. However, the election was not for the President of Northern Nigeria. It was for the President of the Federal Republic of all Nigerians.

Nigeria’s system of government is modelled after that of the United States, but neither Romney nor Buhari seem to understand the system. A lot of noise was made by Yorubas in particular about the annulment of the election of Moshood Abiola in the 1993 presidential elections in Nigeria. But the truth of the matter is that Abiola did not win that election because the Yorubas voted for him. The Yorubas cannot elect a president of Nigeria. To do that, they have to form alliances with other Nigerians.


File photo : Mitt Romney conceded defeat to Obama
The Nigerian Constitution requires a victorious presidential candidate to obtain a minimum of one-third of the votes in a minimum of two-thirds of the states. Indeed, most of the people who voted for Abiola in 1993 were not Southerners but Northerners.  In 1999, the Yorubas, refused to vote for Olusegun Obasanjo, their kith and kin. Nevertheless, he was elected president. He became president by stringing together a coalition that stretched across the Niger into the far reaches of Nigeria, uniting the South-South, the South-East, the Middle Belt and the far North.

Romney’s debacle

In light of a similar requirement, Mitt Romney really bungled it. He fought an election he could not lose. No sitting American president had ever been elected with as many as eight per cent of the people out of work. Romney drummed this into everyone that would listen: no less than 23 million able-bodied Americans are out of work. The parlous state of the American economy, still reeling from the throes of recession, ensured that the people would blame the incumbent for failing to redress the situation after four years. Obama was toast. The pundits on the Republican side were convinced Romney’s election was a foregone conclusion.

However, Mitt Romney lost; and he lost woefully. Since American elections are won or lost on the basis of the Electoral College, the 2012 presidential elections were not even close. Obama obtained 332 Electoral College votes to Romney’s 206. That is something of a landslide. Romney lost in eight of the nine key “battleground-states” in which American elections today are won or lost. When the final votes were tallied, Romney lagged behind Obama by over two and a half million votes.

According to exit polls, the electorate was 72 per cent white. Romney prevailed here 58 per cent to Obama’s 40 per cent. 13 per cent of electorate was African American. 93 per cent voted for Obama. 10 per cent of electorate was Latino. Obama prevailed 71 per cent to 27 per cent, along with 73 percent of Asians. When you add 55 per cent of female voters, many of them young and single, Obama was unstoppable. This makes Romney’s defeat something of an achievement in itself. Romney succeeded in losing an election that could not be lost.  How did he manage to defeat himself so resoundingly?

I watched Romney’s Republican Party Convention in consternation from the comfort of my Lagos home. I could not believe how antediluvian it was. I marvelled at rows and rows of mostly white men. No blacks, no Latinos, no Asians, no Indians. How in heaven’s name could this be representative of the United States of today? Then I watched Obama’s Democratic Party Convention and saw on display the new coalition ushered in by Obama’s election as the first African-American President of the United States. Whites and Blacks; Latinos and Asian-Americans; men and women; young and old; they were all together on a soul train.
Mitt Romney and the Republican Party refused to acknowledge this new America to their disaster at the polls. As a matter of fact, they went out of their way to antagonise every constituency that was not part of their majoritarian white base. The Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, who proclaimed the emancipation of slaves in the United States, disregarded the African-American voters as lost to the Democrats. Romney antagonised Latinos, the fastest growing bloc of voters in the United States, with his far-right stand on illegal immigration during the primaries, as he tried to beef up his conservative credentials. He really blew it by calling for “self-deportation” of illegal Latinos.

Romney antagonised women voters by threatening reproductive freedom, abortion rights and federal subsidy of contraceptives. Missouri Republican candidate for the Senate, Todd Akin, added fuel to the fire by declaring in a television interview that “legitimate rape” rarely results in pregnancy. In Indiana, Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said pregnancy caused by rape is something “God intended” and does not justify abortion. Women voters signified their disgust by giving Obama a plurality of their votes; 13 per cent more than Romney.

Romney was unrelenting in courting defeat. He made no appeal to Asian-Americans. He antagonised the gay and lesbian communities by speaking against homosexuality and gay marriage. In short, he put all his eggs in the white basket. When the election results were announced, the white votes had shrunk by three per cent from the 2008 figure. The Latino share had increased to 10 per cent for the very first time. The African-Americans came out in larger numbers in favour of Obama, angry at the failed attempts by Republicans to prevent them from voting by changing the rules. Obama cruised to an easy victory. The election that pundits predicted would be a long night was over only a few hours after the polls closed. Romney and the Republicans went into shock, disbelief and denial. There were calls for a recount in Ohio. But it soon sank in that they had committed one big blunder.

New realpolitik
”We’ve lost the country,” concluded Rush Limbaugh, a conservative talk-show host. He angrily described the United States as a “country of children.” “There is no hope,” said Ann Coulter, another disgruntled Republican commentator. Added Bill O’Reilly: “It’s not a traditional America anymore.” O’Reilly is correct; Obama’s America is the new America. If the Republican Party does not want to be consigned to the sidelines for the foreseeable future, it has to re-fashion itself and develop a genuine, creative passion for inclusion. This is what Reverend Jesse Jackson has long-called the Rainbow Coalition. Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins told the New York Times: “We have to recognize the demographic changes in this country. Republicans cannot win with just rural, white voters.”

People of colour

Felicia Davis of the Black Women’s Roundtable provided insight into the alliance of groups that gave Obama four more years: “The Obama campaign was able to put together a progressive coalition that included people of colour and white women that then put white men in the minority. This broader coalition now has broken up 200 years of white male privilege to the advantage of everyone else.

Should Obama be successful in rebuilding the U.S. economy during a second term, and once voters grasp that “Obamacare” has liberated them from the fear of being driven into bankruptcy by medical emergencies, the new Democratic coalition could prove to have a kind of staying power not seen since Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Lessons for Nigeria
The lessons of the U.S. presidential elections should not be lost on Nigerians. Many are dissatisfied with the Peoples Democratic Party, which has been in power since 1999 to little avail. But the truth of the matter is that the PDP is the only national party currently in Nigeria. It is the only party that strings together a national coalition in the elections. Its closest rival, the ACN is essentially a regional party. It has no effective foothold in the North, the South-East or the South-South.

The ACN has three years left to address this imbalance before the 2015 elections. Its leader, Bola Tinubu, should recognise that the President of Nigeria must appeal to a broad coalition of Nigerians. Presidential candidates cannot be elected by mere reliance on South-West votes. Neither can they be elected by Northerners, who for long had a lock on elections at the centre. In the new political dispensation of democratic Nigeria, the president of Nigeria must be a true representative of the people.


File photo; Tinubu and Buhari – leaders of ACN and CPC
In the primary season of the 2011 elections in Nigeria, a big song and dance was made about choosing a Northern candidate for the PDP. Some Northern electoral college was cobbled together and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was proclaimed the Northern candidate. That proved his undoing.

Disgruntled Americans

The Northern candidate had a problem transforming himself into a national candidate. He lost to Goodluck Jonathan, a man from a minority ethnic group, but with a majoritarian political calculus.

After Romney lost, some disgruntled Americans signed petitions calling for the secession of their states from the American uniton. When Buhari lost in 2011, some core Northerners went on the rampage, burning, looting and killing. They were clearly fed up with the union. The Boko Haram was revived, asking for the division of Nigeria into a Moslem Northern state and a Christian Southern state.  But that is hardly the answer and that is just not going to happen. Nigeria will not be divided. To be successful, the next Northern candidate must not be a Northern candidate: he must be a national candidate.

The Igbos deserve to have their kith and kin elected as President of Nigeria. The election of an Igbo as president is long overdue. More than anything else, it will signal the effective end of the Civil War, and the successful re-integration of the Igbos back into Nigeria. But that is just not going to happen unless the Igbos learn from the failure of Mitt Romney.

In the past several weeks, Igbos have been engaged in a war of words with the Yorubas over culpability for the 1967-70 Civil War as a result of Chinua Achebe’s provocative new book: There was a Country. That is bad politics plain and simple. No Yoruba is likely to be president of Nigeria for the next 20 years, given Obasanjo’s recent eight years in power. That makes the Yorubas, the single largest ethnic group in the country who have a tendency to vote en bloc, the kingmakers of Nigerian presidential politics for the foreseeable future. Nigerian presidential aspirants should be careful not to antagonise the Yorubas. They should be courted.That is the new political calculus of democratic Nigeria.

So it seems if aribisala can't bend you to his wishes, he'll start insulting your parents. It all good, an apple doesn't fall far from its tree.

aribisala0: WELL WE TAKE NOTE of your multiple IDS. You know I can see your likes and it is quite easy for me to suss you out

he he he nice trick uv got there, keep it up

aribisala0: I MEANT PLAINTIFF NOT DEFENDANT

if you are being paid to talk please choose very carefully what you say and who you say it to. if we do not ever speak again no problem.do not tell people what they should think or say in politics. Are youGod or do you or anyone in your family pay for my internet? I have said it the way I see it and if you don't like it you know what to do. GEJ is the president now and in 2015 IF he chooses to contest will be a candidate.Everyone has a right to canvass and vote so telling people to hold their peace is ridiculous. All candidates will be equal

its now quite obvious, you're just delusional. Your arguments have been speaking loud enough without facts to back them up. You can go ahead and whine all you want its your cup of tea. YOU actually can go ahead and tell me what to "think or say in politics"

aribisala0: I am not against or for GEJ so I have no need to present the case for the "plaintiffs" I analyse things as I see them. Politics is based on perception not reality .Whether or not he insulted them does not matter anymore.
How many books have been written about the Yorubas betraying the Igbos? Has that changed anyone's view. Everyone will hold their view till they die. So we must be careful how we relate to people outside our subgroup. His handlers should know whether the region is happy with him. When the time comes if he presents himself the election result will show how people feel.

in this case I believe you mean "defendants" just that its funny, the SW keeps bringing up perceived grievances against the GEJ administration yet they can't point to one bad thing he actually did TO OFFEND them except you want to count dropping Obasanjo as a godfather as an offence. In my honest opinion, the two regions who actually have an axe to grind with the presidency are actually core North in general and the SS, the north being angry about this rotational presidency issue while the South is angry about the state of infrastructure especially the east west road which they believe GEJ would have fast tracked as no other region/president will bother about it. So like I said before, the West should say wetin GEJ do them or hold their peace.

aribisala0: Whether or not they are a homogenous group what has GEJ done to win their support. Even in the SS and SE it is not sure for GEJ
What do dou mean by "attitude" ?
I think you misuse that word
The president does NOT need a certain percentage from ALL regions in fact there is NO SUCH THING AS REGION in our constitution.
GEJ is from an ethnic minority and cannot gather enough votes BASED ON SENTIMENT ALONE. He must do something to convince others to vote for him.He has two more years to do this

In fact a lot of us in the west voted for him out of sentiment and resentment for the claim by the North that it was "their turn" What have we got in return.? Insults and contempt . You can be almost certain he will not win the SW this time.

This is a map of how we voted last time. He better study it carefully. The reality of Northern Nigeria is The governors must work for him if he is to win and he needs the SW. So far he has been contemptuous of the SW or that is the perception anyway and he needs to work on that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2011_Nigerian_presidential_election.JPG

no vex o but can you honestly point out instances whr GEJ or his govt aides insulted S westerners ? The SW enjoys "juicy" appointments both within the pdp and the govt, the SW through Bankole single handedly betrayed themselves out of the reps speakership zoned to them so in your honest wisdom I implore you to state whr and whr the GEJ administration insulted the SW. This is how people give themselves imaginary problems.