₦airaland Forum

Jorussia:
Oyegun is not a political big shot in Edo state.It pained me to see people yesterday in where I voted in Edo collecting #2000 to vote for PDP At all levels. If not for the money PDP massively distributed, APC Would have gotten up 65% of vote cast.can you imagine PDP sharing #5000 at st.Paul in Egor yesterday.At least buhari will get 45% votes cast in Edo.

This is the sad thing about southern Nigeria yet we tag ourselves as more literate than the north.

How literate is a man ready to sell 4 years of his life away for 2000 naira?

LydiaBI:
As if the correction is inaccurate

Which is why I wonder the problem you have with it

LydiaBI:
Where did you see ward? The op said LGA!!!

If only u have patience as a virtue, you'd have seen where she acknowledged my observation and made necessary correction.

Always read through before rushing to type dear sister.

Now go through the thread and come tender your apology

I'm sure oyegun didn't/won't dispute this.

Let's see how muazu will rewrite results from Bauchi. An area known as a fanatical base of GMB

WilyWily:
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See Trash

but of course

WilyWily:
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Straight to bin bag

Wilywily is a ghost so I'll understand if you can read what living souls write

No matter the rigging and inflation of votes, no of PVC collected has put a limit on how much votes we are expecting from every region e.g se can't be more than 7million plus while nw can't be more than 18million.

Let's chill and see which magic wants to unfold

NgeneUkwenu:
Thanks it was a typo! Corrected!

Rilwon:
Daura is a local government area itself

Sure

That can't be for a ward, it should be a local govt me thinks

sniperr007:
U rily dont know about human behavior. Price isn't jus moni. It cud b power etc.. But bliv me,d north rally around a leader and if dat leader has being bought, his followers ve also being bought.

Remember dat everyone has a price including u.

You're right the north rallies round a leader and that leader those poor insignificant northerners rally round is GMB. They were with him when he was alone in 2011 and they're still with him now that he has a wider support base.

Of course I have a price: its called good governance

sniperr007:
But remember dat every man has a price tag. North ir south, we all ve price tag and can b bought.

Do you have 72 virgins to offer?

The average northerner doesn't get moved by pecuniary things. If you can go spiritual or ecclesiastical, then you might have a chance

In Benin yesterday, they were offering 500 naira in my in laws polling unit. You won't dare that in bauchi

I assume you guys have conceeded defeat already then and are only awaiting good fortune at the courts?

sniperr007:
Wat will happen, will still happen.

And that is what makes violence erupt after elections. The north isn't docile like the south about defending election results. No southern state can do what these guys did. Even me couldn't go through that 'stress'.

This is why the north, despite the level of illiteracy always have their voice in governance.....they take politics seriously while we southerners are only serious about the money that comes with politics in Nigeria.

No bagger dares rig this particular unit's vote......the consequences would be dire

Thoughtful posts all round.

Truly we deserve better than we are getting. I consider myself fortunate to have a good means of providing for myself and family but I see the frustration andcdespibdency etched on the faces of the less privileged and I know we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder.

Had a discussion with a friend and his Chinese businessman associate a while back. The man arrived at the same conclusion every sensible analyst of the Nigerian situation has arrived at and that is: Nigeria is headed for abyss if the style of governance we've seen in the last 5 years is allowed to continue for another 4 years.

Well, they say a people deserve the govt it gets. Maybe Nigerians don't deserve any better in the final analysis.

@pendy79, well done on the updates bro

I hope they let the votes count and whoever wins to rule

expressglory:
It gets to this moment, the moment when lies run their full course and ugly twisted tales are laid bare. It’s the moment of truth. Four years and 10 months after Goodluck Jonathan assumed office as president, it’s time for reckoning.

In Jonathan’s early days in office, I remember a conversation I had with someone very close to him, someone who had known him since his days as deputy governor in Bayelsa and who became very close to him when, as vice president, he had oversight of the Bureau for Public Enterprises which oversaw the privatisation process, including the independent power projects.

After one of his numerous meetings with Jonathan in those early days in 2010 following the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua, I teased my acquaintance that he had become part of an inner circle preparing Jonathan to stand election in 2011. He said he was sure Jonathan would run, but added that “the man vowed that even if he did – and he’ll do so very reluctantly – he will not stand again for election if the power situation in the country did not improve.” On that, he said, the man was categorical.

On September 28, 2010, when Jonathan formally declared his intention to stand election, his second promise from a long list was: “We will fight for all Nigerians to have access to power.”

It’s been five years since. You must ask yourself today if Jonathan has kept his word. I’m not talking about a privatisation framework that completely ignored the gas master plan and shared public assets largely among cronies, with little regard for due diligence.

I’m not talking about the fraudulent commissioning and re-commissioning of power plants that had been commissioned by former President Olusegun Obasanjo years ago. I’m not talking about lies in newspaper adverts that power generation has reached 5,500MW when, in fact, it is less than 3,700MW as you read this piece. I’m not talking about TAN adverts, which some estimate to have cost over N5billion in dodgy funds.

Nor am I talking about a recent memo by Vice President Namadi Sambo to Jonathan asking for at least N42billion to buy meters for consumers, only for the money to be diverted and shared for PDP campaign.

I’m just saying you should ask yourself a straightforward question: after five years and billions of naira, do you have more electricity in your home today than you had in 2010?

In that same speech by Jonathan, which is available online at http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/100003/), he said, “We will fight corruption.”

In words and in deed, no government has embraced and fed on corruption as generously as has Jonathan’s government. Sometimes, I think he does it without meaning harm. He just does not know how to run a government differently.

That’s why even though the Nuhu Ribadu committee found that N2trillion had been stolen in the subsidy scam, Jonathan ended up using the report to prop his armchair. That’s why, twice in public interviews, he has made a distinction between stealing and corruption. That’s why even though serving ministers in his government collected N120billion in backdoor payments for Malabu Oil, he has not lifted a finger. And that’s why his government cannot account for N150billion stolen by thieving pension officials who still enjoy presidential protection.

The theft list is formidable and pervasive, but I promise you that not a single one in this column is false or mentioned maliciously. I have, in fact, left out the famous $20billion flagged by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. That figure will get worse if you tear yourself off Diezani Alison-Madueke’s skirt for a moment and ask what the government has done with $81.3billion received from the sale of 445,000bpd of crude oil allocated to NNPC for almost five years when the price was not less than $100 per barrel.

Part of the waste trail has been out there for everyone to see in the last six weeks – in the vile political campaigns and bribes in place of honest effort that should have been invested to govern in the past five years.

In 2011, under this same Jonathan who promised to “fight corruption,” 450MHz, a premium spectrum valued at $50million, was sold to an incompetent licensee for $6million and a waiver of N1billion granted by ministers Omobola Johnson and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in a transaction in which the NCC boss had a vested interest. The first leg of the 800MHz was sold for 13million euros in Nigeria – an asset which Germany sold for 1.53billion euros around the same time.

If Jonathan was really interested in fighting corruption, he would have had the back of Bashir Gwandu, who not only opposed the NCC bazaar, but blew the whistle on the fraud. But Gwandu was shafted and removed, only for a competent court to overturn his illegal and unjustified removal.

And Jonathan wants to come back? This is the moment of truth. In his own words, he promised to “fight to create jobs for all Nigerians.” In his recent campaign promises, he has even promised to create two million jobs every year!

Since we can only judge him by his record, figures from the NBS show that his best has been 2.2million jobs in three years. If you believe that a man who could not create more than roughly 730,000 jobs a year will create two million yearly at a time when civil servants are going without salaries because the government is broke, that’s fine. But you cannot claim tomorrow that his promise was counterfeit.

I’ve read about the dubious promises of thousands of kilometres of roads and the claims of better education, healthcare and fast trains. These promises were made five years ago and they are being repeated for our enjoyment in colourful newspaper adverts.

How can you forget that the longest teachers’ strike in years – five months and three weeks by university teachers – has been under Jonathan? As for healthcare, his own man and secretary of the Centenary committee charity ball, Kingsley Esegbue, said in October 2013 that Nigerians spend N250billion on medical tourism. So where did they spend the money on healthcare? And the fast trains? It’s a lie that has no second part.

Security has been a nightmare, with extraordinary incompetence that led to the kidnap of the 279 Chibok girls and the killing of over 12,000 persons including the brutal murder of young school children, before this government outsourced security, its basic function, to mercenaries and neighbouring countries.

If Nigeria were a company, the shareholders would have fired Jonathan long ago. But if after nearly five years of incredible incompetence and failed promises you sincerely believe that you must vote him as reward for his poor performance, that’s fine.

The die is cast. They are out there as you read this piece, sharing bribes amassed from NNPC and deploying force where their bribes cannot reach. I know we have an incredible capacity to quibble and move on, but let this be clear: we cannot escape the consequences of the choice we make tomorrow for another four years.

One thousand one hundred words are enough….

After reading this piece, all I can say is Nigerians deserve the govt they get.

I just hope votes are allowed to count.

pendy79:
They brazenly call their ignorance facts, they call their stupidity wisdom. Thanks for educating and enlightening the dull and block head ignoramus.

Segun Adeniyi today work as Deputy Director Media of the Jonathan Campaign Organisation. That's the irony of life, they eat with both hands.

This piece is a masterpiece full of thought provoking and empirical sterling qualities of GMB. If GMB was allowed to finish what he started in 1983, Nigeria will be going head amd shoulders with the Singapore and Malaysia of today.

The stupid PDP advert comparing JonaTAN with Lee Kwan Yew didn't put it there that the man was a military ruler before changing to a democratic leader 12years later yet he is called the FOUNDER OF SINGAPORE TODAY.

JERRY RAWLINGS is the most popular Ghanaian president today yet his first attempt at governance was by a bloodied military purge that killed many politician deemed to have stolen the commonwealth of mother Ghana yet Ghanaians today wished he could come back and save their Land.

This opportunity to save Nigeria is the last chance by GMB and for Nigeria to get back to the track of purpose driven and sincere leadership.

I'm more comfortable with a former military ruler who was a petroleum minister but not a single oil bloc can be traced to him or any body called his front. No other ruler of Nigeria can come out to BOAST of same. You need visit his abode in kaduna to see how simple this man and yet they try to vilify and ridicule him just because they are scared the status quo is about ending.

He refused giving the babangida boys who removed Shagari the opportunity to steal, pillage and rob the Nation dry and that was rhe reason he was removed from office because they were not comfortable with his anti-corruption stance today IBB, Abacha, Danjuma, Jerry Useni and Murtala Nyako are some of the richest people in Nigeria today because they ripped off the nation after they kicked GMB out. ALAKIJA is the richest black woman in the world today courtesy of IBB giving her an oil bloc.

This status quo must end, Corruption must be killed in Nigeria before it kill Nigeria.

In GMB I see a new Nation full of pride, glory and honour spring forth from the abyss the PDP and other corrupt military leaders has led it.

I'm proud to be a NIGERIAN no matter what other passport I possess. It is NIGERIA first for me.

Its painful I tell u. Its like Nigeria has been doomed

Aegon:
Sorry My extreme bad. Apologies.

OK bro. Cheers

jdilight:
Firstly, your acclaimed should have retired but still using his brain to guide 'the coming generation of Nigerian scientist, is the reason we are not moving forward. When will the old retire for the young to take over. If really he is as good as you have painted him, he should have produced at least 100 persons to replace him. This is a sign he is a failure as a prof.

My dear, true professors e.g wole Soyinka, Tam David West, Chinua Achebe, Ali Mazrui never retire from educating people and they dont need a classroom to do that. Only death stops them e.g Achebe

Google Stephen Hawking and tell me if you think he should have stopped working.

Secondly, I despise no Nigerian. My love for Nigeria run beyond ethnic/cultural divide. If you think people hate you, check your hate parameter because your reflecting what you are.

Really?? Thank God for you o. Pls help pass this your message to all the gej people who believe a Fulani cattle rearer and his religion are to be loathed and hated.

Don't worry, you can't hate me because I'm neither Fulani nor muslim

jdilight:
What do Tom not Tam west do for a living? I want to compare with with that of the Fulani man in the forest driving our economy forward.

He's an emeritus professor of virology at UI striving to impart education to upcoming Nigerians hence driving the economy forward. He should be retired now but his brain is still there to guide the coming generation of Nigerian scientists.

Meanwhile, where's this sudden love for a Fulani cattle rearer coming from? I thought you and your friends despise them?

jdilight:
Only honest Nigerians will vote Goodluck according to the Fulani man.

Only retarded and corrupt nigerians will vote gej according to Prof Tam David West

Just like prof Tam David West, Ambassador Ignatius Olisaemeka and other honest SS/SE will vote GMB.

In fact see what Ambassador Olisaemeka said

“As far as I am concerned, four short
phrases summarize my overall impression and opinion of Buhari. An incorruptible man! A patriotic Nigerian devoid of any trace of ethnicism and parochialism! A
deeply religious man. Above all a stern disciplinarian.”

Just let the votes count

Aegon:
[s]Is this not Femi Adesina that I know? Yar' Adua's media secretary? After all the lies you told Nigerians about his state of health. Your late boss contested with Buhari Why didn't you write this epistle then? Oh don't tell me you're one of those currently unemployed and unemployable former sycophants who loitered along the corridors of power seeking scraps of bread from the biblical RICH MANS TABLE. You have decided to use your writing skills to do a hatchet job to temporarily relieve your hunger and convince yourself and your paymasters that you're still relevant. Perhaps you might gain employment with the Buhari regime as the Jonathan administration doesn't favour you. So its about personal interest that's an absolute no brainer. Politically paid writers like yourself should never attempt to don the toga of intellectualism as you shame the craft. This is coming a little bit late, the undecided voters who you hope to sway are not reading this[/s].

I believe your anger should be directed at Segun Adeniyi who was the yaradua media man. Femi Adesina didn't work for yaradua and didn't lie to the nation about yaraduas health.

Get your facts right before spewing bile next time

ba7man:
It was a sight to behold.

PDP / OPC campaign train in all their guns/charms carrying glory.

What a lovely strategy to win South West votes.

Abeg if I continue with you, I will wake my sleeping baby. Your own pass my own

ba7man:
Bro, Everyone around me were in awe and they all simultaneously fell in love with GEJ.

They loved the OPC guns too.

Abeg no kee me with laugh......

I'm sure you were in tears out of admiration for the gej 'heroes and patriots'?

ba7man:
:DWhen I saw OPC members in their numbers walking down Ikorodu rd destroying APC campaign boards, carrying guns and harrassing people, I was moved and immediately decided to vote for PDP.

It must have been a very 'convincing' action

Property Destroying Party

This is pure propaganda......

Pls its not that bad. Why will they arrest him?

Someone is trying to paint gej bad here

hardywaltz:
U are on ground.

Ps; abeg how many people follow Ikuru go PDP?

I don't have the actual figure but some commissioners dey go with am

Meanwhile his Oga has been begging and bribing the SW for over 5weeks for support and he's there screaming. The same Oga has just written a love letter to the north still begging. Maybe he hasn't gotten the memo.

Even jona knows that talking tough won't take him anywhere. Politics is a game of numbers and compromise and jona is very deficient in these areas even as we type here.

I wish him Goodluck.....he needs plenty of it now

This news is false

Tele Ikuru decamped primarily because of the rivalry between him and Dr Ikanya. Even if Ikanya will decamp, it won't be to join Ikuru in the same party. Its like kwankwaso and shekarau.....they can't mix

natureblack:
please don't cease to remember :


Shehu Shagari - he was never jailed,but given house-arrest.While Alex Ekwueme was left to rot in jail/kirikiri.


Shehu Kangiwa - He was the Sokoto state governor that supervised the well-known Bakolori massacre.Yes,he was arrested and subsequently placed on house-arrest.


Awwal Ibrahim - He was the Niger state governor that was caught with almost 15million pounds at Heathrow airport,London.He was also arrested,and as usual placed on house-arrest.


You think the Truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration.What is true is always revealed,and what is fake fades away.



The truth is incontrovertible.Malice may attack it,ignorance may deride it,but in the end,there it is.

I'm sorry about the above.....were u jailed too? Adefulu was wrongly jailed but he has come out to say the problem on ground now is bigger than whatever happened 31years ago. In fact he lays the blame squarely on Diya the then Ogun governor. Shoneyin was jailed too but at over 80years now, he and his daughter, Biola who was denied His presence as a child realise the future is more important than whatever wrong GMB govt of 1984 meted to them. Thompson of the guardian was jailed but he has come out to absolve GMB of complicity in his travails because Rafindadi, the intelligence chief was their traducer.

I feel your pains bro......just like I also feel the pains of the 15000 souls allowed to perish in the north because gej forgot he was the commander in chief and the many more that would perish from physical boko haram and economic boko haram if this administration is allowed to continue

HzRF:
No be joke oo
Aregbe dey starve us just to fund a certificateless quota beneficiary
Lag nko fashola,ambode and his wife no let treasury sleep come see indomine, sweet,semo 4 everywhere
Nawa oo

Make God help Nigeria be dat o