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Cross river state, the most fortuate state in Nigeria.... Always blessed with the best leaders most especially Donald Duke. Wish he could become the president of Nigeria.

Only possible if only this country was fair

Otherique:
This state is a very fortunate state,

They've hardly had disappointing Governors since 1999.

Thanks for speaking my mind bro, you just nailed it on the head. A word is enough for the wise.

Life is too short for tribalism, rascism, hatred and all absurd habits.

sammied:
When you see frustrated people, they're always very clear... guy, hatred has taken over your life, I am very sure you're a big failure...

See how tribalism has destroy your thinking, the guys you're talking about, your generations cannot even untie the boots.... Carry go...

As you quote me... may you never do well... tribal bigot!!!

The guy is crazy lol

I would try and make this as brief as possible.

I was at Ojodu yesterday and decided to branch at the Zenith bank ATM to withdraw some cash to enable I and my friend whom we were together to get fuel to our car since we were opportuned to see where fuel was available around.

My greatest shock however was when I approached the ATM and slots in my card to withdraw 6k from my account, lo and behold I was presented with N5,500 which comprises of 5 one thousand naira notes and 1 five hundred naira note. Being the typical me, I didn't wait to count the money there as I headed back to join my friend in the car and while we were approaching the filling station and decided to count the money, believe you me when I thought we had already seen it all in terms of corruption in this nation, I was perplexed and in immense confusion when I realised I have just being scammed in my country Nigeria by a bank's ATM.

Honestly, I am still enormously disappointed and had wanted to go back to the bank to lodge my complain but due to my busy and hectic schedule time is obviously not on my side really and also to imagine going into the bank to lodge complain and ranting over just N500 is kind of a disgusting thought to me. But sincerely I do hope I'd get to inform them when ever I am opportuned to go tothe bank for any transaction. Either ways, one thing I have learnt now is, this is Nigeria where any thing can happen most especially in this desperate time we are in, and hence forth I would never trust any ATM in Nigeria and ensure I do count my cash being withdrawn right there for crystal confirmation before leaving.

Love to round up by saying "Naija I hail o!"

I usually don't post on nairaland, just reading comments but kinda force to as the op seems so embittered and arrogant. Bro as much as I understand ur plight, it's illogical for you to generalise and its so obvious & crystal clear that you are either a teenager or an immature youth filled with so much hatred towards others judging by ur responses to others trying to express their opinion and correct some of ur views on this thread. My verdict is try change ur beliefs n correct ur character & learn to respect other people and their opinions as respect they say is reciprocal. Lastly, u are wat u attract. Thank you

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Ten registered political parties on Thursday insisted that the February 14 presidential and National Assembly elections must hold.

They said that the calls for the postponement of the elections were the handiwork of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, which they said, was going to be defeated at the polls.

In a statement released in Abuja, they said they would not support calls for the shift of the elections.

Those who signed the statement, which was read by the National Chairman of the PDM, Bashir Ibrahim, were APA National Secretary, Samaila Umar Sifawa; National Chairman of KOWA, Alh. Umar Mustapha; National Chairman of MPPP, Mr. Olu Falade and the National Secretary of the SDP, Dr. Sadiq Umar Gombe.

Others were the Presidential candidate of the ADC, Mani Ibranim Ahmad; National Chairman of HDP, Ambrose Owuru; National Chairman of DPP, Mr. Gashon Benson; Presidential Candidate of UPP, Chekwas Okorie and the National Chairman of Accord Party, Alhaji Mohammed Lawal Nalado.

Under the coalition of Progressives Political Parties, the group said that the call for the shifting of the elections was meant to plunge the country into chaos.

The statement read, “We the undersigned, on behalf of our political parties, are shocked at the conduct of some of our colleagues who have joined the infamous campaign to scuttle Nigeria’s hard-earned democracy by calling for the postponement of the general elections barely a week before its commencement.

“We condemn, in the strongest terms possible, this underhand and undemocratic tactic meant to plunge our country into anarchy, on top of the debilitating state of insecurity which has become pervasive in the land.

“The call for the postponement of the general elections has nothing to do with the preparedness of Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct the election or the pace of distribution and collection of Permanent Voters Card.

“INEC, the authority empowered by law to fix the date of the election had said, countless times, it is ready and prepared to conduct a free, fair and credible elections on February 14th and 28th.

“As a matter of fact, Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman of INEC and his colleagues in the Commission had stated time and time again, that they had four years to prepare for the election and they will deliver better election this time around.”

Besides, he said that the military, led by the Chief of Defence Staff, had guaranteed adequate security on land and air for a successful and safe conduct of the 2015 general elections.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/10-parties-insist-on-february-14-elections/

When news first broke out that the secondary school leaving certificate of the presi-dential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) was to become a campaign issue in the Nigerian presidential elections, every right-thinking Nigerian dismissed the idea and considered it a huge joke. After all, the retired Major-General was not running for the Presidency for the first time. The supposed joke soon developed into headline news, became talk-of-the-town and subject of a satirical musical denigration before finally ending up in court in surrogate litigation. It was the continuum of a desperate bid to secure the return of the incumbent President for a second term in office.

In the course of the malicious propaganda drive applied exclusively by the ruling party of President Jonathan that attempted to apply all forms of dirty tricks in the hope that one would stick, an obviously outraged aide to the Presidents Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs came up with very angry verses transmitted through the Blackberry Messenger. Mr. Deji Adeyanju left no doubt about what he considers a sheer unthinkable option of a Buhari Presidency in a democratic Nigeria. “Buhari can never be President of Nigeria. Quote me any day, any time. A military coup will even be allowed than for Buhari to become the President of a democratic Nigeria” Conclusively, he repeated “Quote me any day, any time!”

More than a fortnight has passed since the launching of campaigns for the coveted office of President in Nigeria. Again another joke is brewing in the political clouds.

Media information is simply not going away insinuating that the President of Nigeria is mulling several incredible options to short-change the democratic process if he is unable to stop the present momentum from translating into palpable electoral gains for the ex-General of the opposition party come February 14, 2015. In testing the waters to feel the depth of public reaction, the President had obviously delegated a junior Officer in the person of his National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki to call for the postponement of the elections that is due in barely 10 days. The ensuing aftershock reverberated far beyond the shores of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Unfortunately, one cannot help but live with the impression that Nigerian politicians have failed to draw any useful conclusion from the Wikileaks scandal of 2010. At least we do know today, thanks to Julian Assange, that the foreign diplomatic missions of world powers all over the world are hardly anything else but intelligence-gathering stations. It did not seem to have dawned on Nigerian politicians that the election campaign was being closely monitored with reports wired back home by the invisible observers of the United States and the European Union covered by diplomatic immunity.

In the end, the Secretary of State of the United States had to squeeze an unscheduled visit to Nigeria into his itineraries. In the ensuing consultations that saw him meeting with the President and the opposition candidate on Nigerian soil, he successfully extracted assurances from both sides that the presidential election will be peaceful and above all, will not be postponed. The President gave him his word and no government functionary came out ever since, with calls for the postponement of the election. With knowledge of how such meetings are held however, anyone in the know will report of stern warnings and coercions that the strong often uses against the weak.
As the days pass by, it has become obvious that the President is losing more following in a groundswell of public disenchantment with the image and performance of the President since the past six years.
In place of government functionaries, investigative reports now do the talking and the gist just won’t go that the postponement option is still very much on the table if other options fail.

Other options are the judicial disqualification of the opposition candidate in cases filed by surrogates of the President himself while the threat that was messaged by Mr. Deji Adeyanju has suddenly taken center stage all over again. The military may be allowed to take over government rather than permit the handover of political power to the ex-Major General of the opposition in an impending landslide victory. In an Obama-type juggernaut cruise, the momentum and pendulum that have unmistakably swung the way of the opposition is bringing out a degree of massive desperation in the President’s camp that transcends all the imaginations of any mortal observer.

The truth however is that all the options on the table mean trouble for the incumbent President no matter the odds. In the characteristic fashion that has defined the Presidency of Mr. Jonathan for the past six years, a realistic appraisal of the real situation with a view to working out the best solution in the interest of the country doesn’t seem to be a choice to make. The belief and trust in the power of incumbency seems to be so massively exaggerated in the President’s camp that a defeat seems to sound like a sacrilege in their ears particularly if that defeat is suffered against the man called Muhammadu Buhari. For this reason, national interest is sacrificed at the altar of personal ambitions to keep the clique feeding fat.

Given the bitterness and desperation with which the campaign has been prosecuted so far by the President’s men (with chains of trivial muds thrown at the opposition candidate unnecessarily), it will be difficult to appeal to a sense of goodwill and benevolence on the part of General Buhari if eventually, a smooth transition is finally enforced. On the other hand, if Major-General Muhammadu Buhari gets disqualified by any corrupt and compromised judge (that is not hard to find in Nigeria) in spite of all the clarifications offered so far, not only by the secondary school attended by the candidate in his early days but also by Cambridge University as a major player in the high school leaving examinations of those days, Nigeria will surely descend into uncontrollable anarchy. The fuel subsidy protest of 2011 will be a child’s play in comparison.

In the end, the merit of the case will be of no interest to any single person anymore in and outside the country since the plot is known to be a deliberate design of the incumbent power to perpetuate itself in office. Furthermore, if the President’s tribal companion and hatchet man General Kenneth Minimah who was elevated over forcibly retired senior officers into the position of Chief of Army Staff to guard the President’s back, takes a shot at a military coup d’etat, he will have to march over hundreds of corpses to consolidate whatever power he may have left. He will quickly realize then that Nigeria in front of the United States of America does not command such strategic importance as Egypt does to get away with the massacre of innocent civilians in the name of securing and consolidating political power.

It is true that there is hardly any world power, for which Nigeria commands so much importance as Cote d’Ivoire does for France. It can therefore be safely expected that no country will march into Nigeria to arrest Goodluck Jonathan (like France did in Cote d’Ivoire to arrest Laurent Gbagbo) if Jonathan plunges Nigeria into chaos for his own selfish ends. Yet there are several countries that will not fold their arms and watch Nigeria disintegrate. Intelligence gathering has already armed several key countries with all possible and plausible scenarios that may unfold under the heightened tension unwittingly sowed on Nigeria by Goodluck Jonathan.

The fear of the scale of his involvement in large-scale corruption that has now enveloped Nigeria and his involvement in the atrocities of Boko Haram that Jonathan probably fears will be unveiled by Muhammadu Buhari will be hastened with even more intensive consequences if collaboration with foreign forces finally enforce the defeat that he will ultimately suffer.

In each of the scenarios that may play out in the aftermath of Jonathan’s unavoidable defeat, armed resistance by his militants that he so well equipped with weapons that he has denied the Nigerian Army, will be crushed with the help of foreign alliances despite misleading and superficial successes they may achieve at the onset. How quickly warships can be destroyed with missiles that are remotely fired from a comfortable distance will be realized by these illiterate perpetrators and probably awaken the much needed sobriety in the consciousness of these intoxicated sons of Jah-most-high in the Marijuana creeks.

Today, the magic that the presidential election has worked is made manifest in the sudden permission of 7,500 armed fighters of the African Union into Nigeria in its battle against Boko Haram where American military trainers were unceremoniously kicked out in controversial circumstances. The fact that the Americans and the Israelis have refused to sell sophisticated military hardware to Nigeria should be warning enough for President Jonathan that the international community has no appetite whatsoever to help the President arm his private army in the creeks of the Niger Delta to detriment of the Nigerian army. And we know only of these two countries.

In the end, Mr. Jonathan hardly has any alternative to the staging of a free and fair presidential election devoid of any misuse of the judiciary, the military and the electoral commission. He has no choice but to concede defeat on the 15th of February 2015 when he will be declared beaten hands down. Nigeria will not survive international economic sanctions on top of the present hardship endured by the common man to satisfy the political whims and caprices of a single person. Jonathan will end up an international fugitive and a candidate for the International Criminal Court if he allows the worst-case-scenario take hold on Nigeria. Then he may quickly realize how the 7,500 soldiers of the African Union may be quickly bolstered by aids from all over the world to not only crush the resistance of his private army but also to facilitate his own arrest. Once again, a word should be enough for the wise!

Credit & Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/03/desperate-president-jonathan-weighing-suicidal-options-frisky-larr

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