₦airaland Forum

AlfaSeltzer:
What is Tony Blair sitting on?

he's levitating. Just say you're jealous because you cant do it


Sai Buhari

DaGC:
I don't know what you are trying to say or point to.....but this is extremely st.upid

shis hapun gerrova it

1toRtoiSe1:
stop spreading false info. Abagworo pointed up there that the properties have been his way before he became governor.

how do you know Abagworo is right and she is wrong

1toRtoiSe1:
is it a crime for a rich man to build his own private estate? You guys just hate him cos he's APC. Last I checked, GEJ is corrupt, yet you guys still choose to support him. You have TA Orji. To call to order, you are here witch-hunting our performing governor.

did she tell you she's from Abia state ?

politifact:
may the momentum of progress in your life slow down and never pick up again you miserable fool

what's your problem with Femi Aribisala ? He only stated his opinion and nobody stopped you from countering them

PDPwayoo:
If na GMB fayose and TAN will be celebrating.
PEJ confirmed in interview that those ladies came with their problems, cos they believe only she can solve it for them. they went to beg or collect money and pledge their loyalties. This woman like to be on top and will sacrifice anything to hold on to power.

I cant believe a human being can be this callous and happy about it just because of party affiliation. Wickedness is wickedness, please don't support evil just because it happens to your opponent. We should pray that none of our friends/loved ones perish or get involved in accidents after visiting us or at any time for that matter

I don't know why op is trying to destroy our poster boy governors reputation. These places are not in Lagos, they're in Abakaliki and besides Lagos is bigger than Nigeria so development cannot reach everywhere at once

Ban danfo/molues and shut down Lagos.

grinface98:
Clueless GEJ and his despicable wife causing the deaths of innocent Nigerians since 1874
Vote APC
Vote GMB/PYO
SAI BUHARI
SAI BABA!!!

you're a very wicked and heartless human being for turning this tragedy into politics. May God forgive you

kennygee:
We get it already.

Can y'all leave this man alone?

First pics even looks photo shopped.

HOW ?

@op what do you want the government to do when your vicinity is not highbrow like lekki/ajah axis. Better stop asking stvpid questions jor, what fvckery

People have been having fun with this photograph since morning with different captions

I can see APCankerworms being flabbergasted by their own disgraceful folly looking for excuses in the dust

I hope APC bingos will educate themselves better before spewing trash

The management of Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, owners of the National Integrated Power Project has refuted reports that the recently inaugurated 750 megawatts Olorunsogo ll Power Plant was commissioned by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The General Manager, Communication and Public Relations, NDPHC, Mr. Yakubu Lawal, said the completion and commissioning of the phase II Olorunsogo plant was a fulfilment of the present administration’s promise to complete inherited power projects.

Lawal, in a statement, said the phase II was a combined circle plant consisting of four units GE made Gas turbines, four heat recovery steam generators and two steam turbine units, with each turbine having a 125MW capacity.

He said, “The power plant thus has the capacity to generate 750MW, a positive development over the phase I plant commissioned by Obasanjo regime which has eight turbine units each of 42MW with a total of 335MW.”

He stated that while the Olorunsogo II project was built by the NIPP as a joint investment of the three tiers of governments of Nigeria, the Olorunsogo I project was basically a Federal Government project.

“Both of the projects were built by SEPCO III of China under distinct and separate contracts. The two power plants sit adjacent to one another but on defined and distinct survey coordinates. They can be accessed by any investigative journalist or indeed any inquisitive person seeking accurate unbiased information at any time.”

Lawal stated that the NIPP was conceived in 2004 by President Obasanjo as a major fast-track initiative to add significant new capacities in generation, transmission and distribution to Nigeria’s electricity supply chain.

He noted that President Goodluck Jonathan’s commitment first as the steering Chairman of NIPP and later pioneering Chairman, Board of Directors of NDPHC actually gave life to the success stories of today.


http://www.punchng.com/news/obasanjo-didnt-inaugurate-olorunsogo-ll-power-plant-ndphc/

fyneboi79:
Before you jump to making any comments ask yourself these questions.

1.How easy it seems now to curtail Boko haram after the 6 week full war declaration. This is a sect which has revaged d north and killed thousands over a period of more than 4 years.

2.How casually Nigerian soldiers are pictured interviewing a so called captured terrorist dressed as a female who's has supposedly killed innocent civilians. No hand cuff and was not stripped of his disguise yet.

3.Was Boko haram an intentional plot to garner votes during elections by claiming defeat and efficiency of the fed govt.

4.Is it possible pdp used peoples lives and innocent children as a negotiation tool?

Doesn't it seem weird that the so deadly and invisible sect has suddenly become visible in less than two weeks of election postponement?
GEJ God is watching you!And if you are in any way behind this act of callousness we constantly hear about Ijaw people then your reward awaits you in Hell

wetin concern Ijaw people for this one now ? This is totally immature and unprofessional of you.

Tandullceblog:
Please they should leave us out of that fight o. We re still battling BH here and we've not succeeded to take on another.

IS is in Libya and Libya is mot that far from Nigeria (ask those who travelled by road to get there in the name of hustling) I fear its already too late but the sooner something is started, the better

GeneralBosco:
Talktimi, when I read that part where Femi Aribasala claimed that the crowd in Kano and Borno states were rented crowd, I immediately knew he wasn't to be taken serious. Alas, I'm surprised y'all are dancing and merrying cos of this ...anything that give PDP supporters hope, they hold on to it

Read this while you "celebrate"

I support KOWA party and I'm going to vote for that woman even though I don't know her name

shawnfamous:
Wow! U fit drop ur phone 4 bus now na! If i handle d fone! 4get am!

armu lobbar

The apc rogues used that fake account to great effect ni

SLIDEwaxie:
Did anybody read that?

me sef gan no read am

[quote author=FastShipping post=31025243][s][/s]

[s]Momentum is with APC. Just wait till middle of March and see tsunami and waves of March4Buhari sweep the entire country.[/[/s]quote]


RUBBISH

The sad children are gradually coming out to mark attendance

By Femi Aribisala
I HAVE news for APC stalwarts. You don’t win an election in Nigeria by being the champion of social media. You don’t win by renting crowds to fill up your rallies. You don’t win by putting up your billboards everywhere while tearing down those of your opponents. You don’t win by master-minding in the media a false sense of the inevitability of your victory. When you do all this successfully, you simply end up deceiving yourself.

You win elections by mounting an effective ground-game at the grassroots level; designed to bring out the people on Election Day to vote for you. Instead, APC strategy was to stampede the electorate into victory. The design was to proclaim victory even before the election, laying grounds for protests and acrimony in event of defeat.

Attempted coup d’état

The APC blueprint is see-through. Present a new refurbished, suit-wearing and church-visiting Buhari to the electorate chanting a mantra of “change.” Give him a Teflon-coated Redeemed pastor as vice-presidential running-mate. Shield him from public scrutiny and debates to hide his weaknesses and absent-mindedness. Gloss over his objectionable past and pedigree. Mount an aggressive image-laundering social media campaign.

So doing, before the PDP and the public would be up to your game, the election would be over. Nigerians would wake up on February 15th to discover to our cost that we had been hoodwinked into handing over power to Buhari and the Tinubu cabal.

The APC mechanism for perfecting this plan entailed bullying the PDP into defeat. In the North, PDP supporters were threatened and harassed. Some quickly packed their bag and baggage and left town. Even Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy was stoned by APC “democrats.” In Gombe, a suicide bomber paid a courtesy call on the president’s campaign rally.

But the killer-punch was to be the disenfranchisement of literally millions of PDP voters. With the complicity of Jega’s INEC, APC strongholds were supplied with PVCs: while PDP strongholds were denied them. Ghost-voters came out of the woodwork by their hundreds of thousands in unlikely places like the war-torn North-east to collect their PVCs. However, in peaceful higher-population places like Lagos and Kano, non-indigenes were denied their PVCs, suspected of being likely PDP supporters.

It is telling that, in all the ensuing brouhaha over 23 million people not yet receiving their PVCs seven days to D-Day, APC remained resolute that the election should go ahead nevertheless. This indicates that it knew the missing PVCs belonged disproportionately to PDP supporters.

The denouement

However, the entire strategy of the APC met its Waterloo with the postponement of the election. With the postponement, the Buhari election-train came to a screeching halt. Some have argued that the postponement was a military coup by Jonathan and the PDP. However, a more truthful assessment is that the postponement scuttled the APC plan to win the election by subterfuge.

APC blundered because it refused to entertain the possibility that the election could actually be postponed. As a result, it did not plan for that eventuality. In this gaffe, it was carried away by its own hyperbole. APC big-guns shouted themselves hoarse warning all and sundry that the election must not be postponed, or else. Worse still, they believed their own rhetoric.

APC is used to making threatening noises. It is all stuff and bluster. If it loses, the dogs and the baboons would be soaked in blood. If it loses it would form a parallel government. If the election is postponed, Nigerians would not stand for it. Therefore, it expended all its political and financial capital on a 14th February election. When it finally dawned on it that the election might be postponed, Buhari made an unusual visit to the Council of State to mount a pathetic eleventh-hour resistance.

But alas, the APC was completely outplayed. INEC succumbed to the inevitable and the election was postponed, and for six weeks no less. As a result, the APC stampede came to an end. The orchestrated Buhari momentum came to a screeching halt. Since then, APC pundits have been in shock; scratching their heads because, in all their impetuosity, they had no Plan B.

The APC was banking on the element of surprise. That is now gone with the postponement. It was hoping to win the election by disenfranchising PDP voters. That is no longer possible. It is now confronted with fighting an election it always knew it cannot win because it does not have the appropriate structure on the ground at the grassroots level.

PDP fight back

Sixteen years in power had made the PDP over-confident. It seemed to have been caught unawares by the scripted APC nomination of Buhari and the gimmickry of choosing a Redeemed pastor as his running-mate. As a result, an election that should have been a cake-walk for it suddenly turned into a tight race. Part of this was self-inflicted. PDP had a bad set of primaries; creating considerable dissension within its ranks. Moreover, the PDP was bested in the public relations department; allowing the APC to define the narrative of the election on social media.

Had the election gone on as scheduled on 14th February, it would have been close but Jonathan would still have won. But with six weeks delay, the election will not even be close. Even though it was ebbing discernibly, APC had momentum for the 14th February election. By 28th March, that momentum would have dissipated and disappeared. Even now, the momentum is no longer there. Buhari is in London on a dubious visit. APC has run out of breath.

Make no mistake about it; the six week postponement of the election has effectively crippled the APC. It is no wonder then that the party has been grumbling non-stop. In the meantime, PDP has been able to get a full measure of the APC. Putting all its eggs in the 14th February date, which it insisted cannot and must not be changed; the APC played all its cards. It put all its eggs in one basket. However, PDP held some in reserve, banking on the postponement of the election.

APC’s confusion

What happens now? APC is confused. It is stretched for funds. It has lost its mojo, scrambling in panic mode to raise additional 50 billion naira from donors. Speaking to APC stakeholders at the party secretariat in Lagos, Bola Tinubu said: “We have to re-strategise; all of you should go back to your various constituencies starting from tomorrow.” This is a belated acknowledgment that the party now likely to win the election is the one best able to mount an aggressive and effective nationwide grassroots campaign.

In that department, the APC is clearly second-best. The party best positioned to mount an effective ground-game and mobilize votes at the grassroots level is the PDP. It has been around for 16 years. PDP local government councilors account for nearly 70 per cent of all councilors in Nigeria, comprising 6,521 members, making it a truly grassroots-based political party. The APC, on the other hand, does not have the nationwide political structure to win the coming election. To date, it is a newspaper and television political party. It has yet to build a formidable grassroots support. It is a JJC party, a little over a year old.

With all the noise about Buhari, it should not be forgotten that the man chronically lacks skills at building political party structures. In the APC presidential primaries, Northern delegates did not even vote for him; preferring instead Kwankwaso and Atiku. He was elected primarily on the strength of ACN votes. PDP strength on the ground everywhere in Nigeria explains why Jonathan was able to win 37% of the vote even in Buhari’s home-state of Katsina in the 2011 election.

While APC was busy stoking up the press to create its air of inevitable victory, PDP was busy mobilizing its local government councilors. Its Presidential Campaign Organisation brought all its elected and appointed councilors from all over Nigeria to Abuja to mobilize them to secure victory for the party at the grassroots level. In what was captioned “Operation Deliver Your Ward,” Professor Jerry Gana re-fashioned them as political foot-soldiers and grassroots mobilisers for the PDP, split into six groups according to their geopolitical zones.

Resurgent PDP

Since the postponement, Jonathan is no longer the issue. It is once again Buhari; the coup-plotting former dictator and alleged ethnic and religious jingoist. Thanks to the postponement, Nigerians can no longer be panicked into voting for Buhari. We now have enough time to appreciate that he is old, and completely bereft of ideas as to what to do when in power. It is not enough to shout “change, change.” The question is: change to what? To this question, Buhari provides a deafening silence.

In the meantime, the true message of Jonathan’s considerable achievements in office is now resonating. With the commissioning of new power-plants, we are now generating 5,500 megawatts of electricity: a new Nigerian record. We now know from PricewaterhouseCoopers that the allegation that $20 billion is missing from NNPC accounts is one big fat APC lie. The army is now fully-equipped for battle. For the first time in a long time, the Nigerian air force has come into the fray. The Boko Haram is being bombed to smithereens up North. There is even talk of capturing Abubakar Shekau alive.

Within the next six weeks, all that is left is for the PDP to put its house in order and APC will be toast. Since Buhari has whipped up himself and his supporters into an unrealistic psychological frenzy in this election cycle, it is certain he will end up at the tribunal, when it finally dawns on him that, in spite of all the bluster, he has lost again. The fate awaiting Buhari brings to mind that of Mitt Romney who was so deceived into believing he would be elected America’s next president in 2012, he had only a victory speech on election night when he was roundly defeated.

When the history of the 2015 presidential election is finally written, it will be recalled that the postponement of the election for six weeks was the final nail in the coffin of the APC.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/the-end-of-apcs-fabricated-momentum/