₦airaland Forum

Civory:
@itoroetti you seem to be crying more than d bereaved. I'm yet to hear the Kutis crying as you are concerning Buhari!

It's either you've forgotten or didn't know that Fela contested under the Movement Of the People Party that he formed and that could be the reason he made up such song about Buhari who was made to head the military govt then!

All the things you said Buhari did was as a military head and not a Democratic head. So it's like comparing apples with oranges!

The ones who are elected and yet doing the stuffs you've accused Buhari about are definitely worse off! Under GEJ, newspapers where seized in the name of national security! Under GEJ, an AIT reporter was unjustly arrested for using the adjective 'controversial'! I can continue mentioning what a democratically elected govt of today has done wrong.

Why not let's see a democratic and progressive Buhari's regime before you can then be said to be comparing apples with apples!

If GEJ were a military head before now then you could make a better comparison!
If you desire to compare Buhari's military regime then let it be with any other military regime head!

Mind you, apart from Abacha, no military head of state that ever ruled Nigeria planned a coup de tat. Go and check history. They were all placed there by the SMC(supreme military council)!

I rest my case!

you gave logic a very BIG kick in the bombom with this your post here

dem don dey show

Chewing bitter cola seriously while I observe

Truth never hides op, bet you they'll have derogatory names for even the late Tai Solarin because of this evidence you posted

Mc4larin:
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria is not
interested in running for reelection in
February 2015. Instead, Mr. Jonathan and his
most trusted associates are surreptitiously
plotting to build a consensus for a two-year
tenure elongation for the president and other
public office holders across the country.
SaharaReporters first learned about this
presidential design two months ago. Our
investigations since then reveal that Mr. Jonathan and his most trusted associates have been working underground to sell the plan to some lawmakers, governors, and political office holders tagged “key stakeholders.”
Our investigation indicates that the president and his trusted allies are still playing the card close to their chests, ensuring that they sound out only those political actors deemed likely to be sympathetic to the plan. One strategy, according to one source, is to seek support from governors who are already in their second and terminal term as well as senators and members of the House of Representatives who may be vulnerable to challenge in an election. Among the political personalities identified as tacitly backing the elongation plan are Senate President David Mark, Governors Martin Elechi of Ebonyi, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, and Segun Mimiko of Ondo, former minister Kema Chikwe, the chairman of the PDP’s board of trustees, Tony Anenih, and Ijaw political figure, Edwin Clark. At various times, both Mr. Mark and Governor Elechi have insinuated that the 2015 elections may not hold, hinting at severe security challenges.
Sources who spoke to us on the plan included
several legislators in Abuja and aides to two PDP
governors. They disclosed that President
Jonathan intends to defend the politically
explosive scheme on two grounds.
One is that a general extension of tenure, for a
minimum of eighteen months, would be
necessary to enable Mr. Jonathan to shepherd the creation of a new constitution. This argument rests on the need for Nigeria to fashion a constitution that incorporates some of the important recommendations of the national
confab convoked by President Jonathan and
chaired by retired Chief Justice Idris Kutigi.
According to several of our sources, the Jonathan administration plans to contend that the task of writing a new constitution should be resolved before Nigeria is subjected to another potentially volatile general elections.
“We should not see this as a matter of Mr.
President trying to stay longer in power. The fact
of the matter is that we should address the
constitutional issues first before talking about
another election,” said a source who is a
confidant of Governor Elechi.
The source added that the sheer task of going
through the voluminous report submitted by the
national confab on August 21, 2014 would require “almost a year of hard work.” According to him, it would be politically suicidal for Nigeria to go through another election and transition on the basis of the current constitution “which most
Nigerians are dissatisfied with.” He added: “If
elections happen next year and President
Jonathan wins, he may no longer feel the need to push for constitutional reforms. If another person wins, then that new president may not make a new constitution a priority. That means that this country will be back to square one. It will also mean that all the efforts we made in the confab would be in vain.”
President Jonathan’s other argument for tenure
elongation is that he needs about two years more In office to stabilize Nigeria by finally handling the security crisis posed by Boko Haram. A few sources disclosed that the president intends to make a strong case to potential critics in the US and European Union that the situation in Nigeria’s northeast zone is so dangerous that it would be impossible to hold elections in the area. He would pledge to devote the extra time in office to a decisive plan aimed at dislodging Boko Haram from all parts of Nigeria. Mr. Jonathan is expected to cite the recent string of successes by the Nigerian military against insurgents as proof that
he has a formula for defeating Boko Haram.
Nigeria’s political calendar sets aside next
February 2015 for the next set of elections, but
President Jonathan has not formally declared his
intention to run. Our investigations revealed that the president’s silence is deliberate, part of his strategy for pursuing tenure elongation. Mr.
Jonathan is reluctant to ratchet up the rhetoric of elections because he wants more time to quietly fine-tune and sell the option of a two-year tenure elongation.
Opponents of any form of tenure elongation
contend that President Jonathan wants to avoid
an election because he is scared of losing to the
opposition. “He has had six years to fix the
security problems and also advance a new
constitution, but failed,” said an Abuja-based
activist. The activist added; “President Jonathan
may also be afraid of a possible constitutional
crisis. The Nigerian constitution forbids anyone
running more than two terms in office. The
president has been sworn in twice already, once
to complete the tenure of [the] late President
Umaru Yar’Adua and then as substantive
president in 2011. There is likely to be a legal
challenge seeking clarification on whether he can run and possibly rule Nigeria again.”
A source at the Presidency stated that Mr.
Jonathan had sounded out some members of
national confab about the idea of the body
declaring that he should be given extra time to
complete a constitutional process, but the
response was not encouraging. “Those who were
consulted in the confab felt that any talk of
elongation would have divided the confab. So
they asked us to try alternative ways.” Our
investigation also revealed that the Presidency
considered the idea of using the Boko Haram
insurgency as a pretext to declare a state of war,
thereby shelving elections. That plan also fell
apart.
Mr. Jonathan’s current approach is to send his
associates to approach potentially sympathetic
senators and members of the House of
Representatives with the proposal of a new
constitution as justification for tenure elongation.
Our investigation disclosed that the latest
approach has met with mixed reactions.
Several senators who spoke anonymously with
SaharaReporters disclosed that Mr. Jonathan’s
emissaries spoke about postponing the elections
for two years in the interest of “Nigeria’s unity.”
The sources said legislators who are most likely to lose elections seemed enthusiastic about the
prospect of elongation. Two senators also
admitted that the president’s associates are likely to win over some legislators because of their ability to offer hefty sums to bribe those willing to support the elongation agenda.
A political adviser to former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar said he had heard speculations about
extending the tenure, but said he had no
independent confirmation of it. However, he
stated that Mr. Jonathan must be scared of
running in an election in which most northern
voters will be against him along with a significant
number of southerners voters disenchanted by
the president’s non-performance.
He said that Mr. Jonathan’s electoral fortunes
would be precarious in all the northern states
because of the divisive nature of the president’s
governance style.
“Apart from Benue and Plateau states and a
section of Southern Kaduna Christians, the
president has little chance of campaigning let
alone winning in the north,” said one of the critics of tenure elongation.
A strong opposition also looms in the southwest,
except in Ondo state where Governor Olusegun
Mimiko might help sway voters. But Mr. Mimiko’s
electoral boost may have fizzled with the
governor’s mismanagement of state resources
that has led to the non-payment of workers
salaries for at least four months.
Mr. Jonathan will likely win easily in the five
eastern states as well as the Niger Delta zone, but votes from the two areas would be insufficient to steer him back to Aso Rock. Besides, the enthusiastic welcome received in Imo State over the weekend by Muhammadu Buhari, a former military head of state and opposition presidential aspirant, suggest that some parts of the southeast may not wholly back Mr. Jonathan.
The president also faces considerable political
threat in Rivers State. Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s opposition to Jonathan’s candidacy suggests that the electoral victory figures cannot simply be written.
Several political sources, activists and pundits
who spoke to us predicted that Mr. Jonathan’s
tenure elongation plan would be doomed in the
same way that other such plans, hatched by
retired General Ibrahim Babangida, late
maximum dictator, Sanni Abacha and former
President Olusegun Obasanjo, also collapsed.

k

Monorail to nowhere aka expensive jangolova.

Funny its only those living faaaar far away from Rivers state who are hailing the project

kingson001:
Gej is so weak so dat Amaechi withstood and still withstands all mechanisms plotted against him (Amaechi).
Dont seem forget the 5 over 26 and 16 over 19 scourge so easily.... including the "controversial" Joseph Mbu. He is still the Governor of Rivers state till date.

don't get things warped bro, I maintain if Gej was involved in Amaechi's travails, Amaechi wouldn't be on that sit at all.
Amaechi's problems has always been with Patience Jonathan. Forget that Mbu story, there are lots of things that happened underground that people know nothing of

kingson001:
If you were rational enough and genuine in ur thinking, you would known dat as at the time Amaechi was serving his first term performing projects that were admirable and a model for development as u rightly sed, he hadnt any issues with d federal govt (GEJ &PEJ) not until the ill-mannered Patience struck. I blame Gej for foolishly using the federal might as a political instrument to battle the Governor at the detriment to the Rivers People which unfortunately people like u cant see. I enjoin the Governor to blame the federal govt for some of the woes in Rivers state.

I assure you, if Gej used federal might on Amaechi, he wouldn't be on that seat today as governor.

shachris03:
I do not know why sentiments has caused some people to think with their anus!

If amaechi has used that money to build more roads, what do you think would happen? the amount of cars plying PH roads would automatically increase, at the end it would end up solving nothing. it's only a mad man that does the same thing over n over again and expect a different result.

I know its a 50 naira transportation cost, but have you thought about it this way; do you know the amount of cars that would be packed at home, at least for those living along that axis?

PH is already a congested town, so any idea on how to decongest it would be welcomed.

The monorail project can never be a one tenure project, amaechi has laid the foundation stone.

if every governor that follows him would at least add 1km to that rail, before 16 years, PH would be accessible by train all round! and my gosh, what amount of traffic and time that would safe, plus te tourist attraction. Time is money. This is one of the best project by any Nigerian governor....unlike one governor that is going to use 40 billion naira to build just a governors lodge.....smh for some people sha.

those living along which axis ? You people should come and see things for yourselves LIVE before making statements

SeaGold:
I can see your sentiment for your riverine area.

All the PDP elected members, appointees and coordinators are all members of GDI.
The PDP executive is also made up of GDI members and Wike fund them not forgetting they form the bulk of the elective congress.

My dear, Rivers PDP is GDI and GDI is PDP, how else do you intend to defeat Wike that has both party structure and grassroot mobilisation platform of the party? The only way to stop Wike is to disqualify him by whatever arrangement necessary.

Tony princewill is a paper tiger politician, he may not even get the votes of his kinmens in a congress and the only strong contender is Sekibo George who might use the Restoration Team group of Odili/ federal influence of PEJ to make an impact.

federal influence of which PEJ ? That woman is solidly behind Wike and point of correction she has only influence (solid though) but not federal. My take is the governorship should either go to the riverine people or Ogonis

Ikengawo:
Maintenance isnt the core issue. Revenue is and without it maintenance will only be a gesture of charity. How will the stadium bring revenue? Davido? Nigerian premier league?

so in other words Akpabio shouldn't have built the stadium at all ?

voltron:
So what if Tinubu was a drug lord and smokes pot.. there are far more worse peeps in this present government walking freely and doing so much damage

CHAIII naaa wa Oooo

APCankerworms coming out in full force to defend their paymaster

himkers:
This AyeDee should go and sit down jare...imagine kettle calling pot black.

He's an enemy of progress and shouldn't be taken serious.

WHY

nigerianvenom:
musi musi was right ooo but we thought of it as a joke

my brother na so we see am o, wonders shall never end

In all fairness and honesty, Wike should forget about the Rivers governorship. The Kalabari's and Ogonis have a more valid case to produce the next governor

VERY BIG MISTAKE

good role model

seems Musiwa was right ALL along about Ahmed Magaji

But why na

hardywaltz:
Rome was not built in a day, believe me even Amaechi regrets embarking on that project but as a leader after committing several billions of taxpayers money on the project the only logical thing would be to finish this phase let the onus of continuing the next phase be on the next Governor.
Peter Odili was also misled with building of a gas turbine, several billions where sunk into the project and when he was about to leave office he was mocked for embarking on a white elephant project, then Amaechi came along and insisted that the Gas turbine be connected to the rumuola sub-station and prevented PHCN from evacuating the electricity generated throu the national grid insisting that the gas turbine must serve only port harcourt/Rivers state. that is why there is fairly stable electricity supply around Elekahia, Peter Odili, Rumoala, Mile 4 etc.
so in essence what i am saying is that the next Governor can push on with the monorail project till it gets to Oyibo.

I'm not privy to know if Amaechi regrets this monorail decision since I'm not a confidante of his, all I've been saying from day one is that there were other cost effective measures that could have been used which would have taken this project very very far

APCankerworms have taken the art of lying and propaganda to a whole new height. Their talent in such vices are amazing indeed.

hardywaltz:
Let the next Governor take it up to Waterlines and then the next one takes it to Artillery or Eleme junction. Government is a continuum

if he could take it up to water lines, do you think anybody would have questioned the integrity of this project ?

First of all, this is phase 1a of the project and its worth 50 billion naira and not 21 billion like some people will want us to believe.

The op's photographs are the original facts on ground though not taken with a fancy camera like demdem's own

Is it possible for phase 1a (which is a very strollable distance by the way) to be completed by December ? Most definitely.
But the point remains this project doesn't represent more bang for the bucks expended on it and what those expended bucks would have done otherwise hence the valid observations that this is a white elephant project or as I would like to call it an expensive jangolova

Gbawe:
What is this fool talking about. You are the scum in so far as everyone can see your immaturity and predisposition for lying. You are just beginning my friend. You will see. Mark my word.

HAHAHAHAHAHA Gbawe leave me alone na Haba na by force ?

omenka:
Ignore the r3tard jare. It's not worth it.

hehehehheheee small sh.it like you. Omenka pls kindly take your time

omenka:
Wash your eyes with acid then perhaps you can see clearly.

I suggest you use the same solution

Liars repeat their lies many times to deceive us into believing that they speak the truth. Disgusting SCUM

Demdem:

Fool, then share what u know. So far, u Av been empty.

sorry about that fool, pictures op posted are actually recent facts on ground and not those propaganda stuff you fed us with

Demdem:

Eeyah.......now I know that u are indeed daft.
NEXT.

Dumbdumb stop talking about what you know nothing about

donphilopus:
Bros, pls just have mercy on the hapless guy. He ain't worth your precious time!

shut up you fool. You're a hopeless mo.ron if you don't know, now you know

Demdem:

Are u blind to see that my pictures are far superior to what the op presented or u think it's photo trick.?

yeah, you indeed used a nice camera. Is it Canon, Nikkon or Hasselblad and does it come equipped with Carl Zeiss optics ?