₦airaland Forum

zinosleek:
Bayelsa always provide Nigeria with people with questionable characters- alams,alaibe, sylva, jonathan. How will the state move forward with people like this.

Chiori:
Whether or not Jonathan left things in a bad state is not the case; thing is, Sylva is an under-achiever if he could not make any headway out of the "mess" he inherited. That speaks volumes of the type of administrator he is, not being able to improve whatever he finds. If then, that is good riddance.

numo86:
d truth is sylva knows he'l be apprehended immediately he leaves governors throne, so he's makin sure he exposes goodluck b4 dat time, and infact sylva is ver right, d goodluck administration in bayelsa took a lot of loans and did embessle a lot of cash for his elections while runin to be v.p, he carted away wit bilions, and so wen sylva came all he met was debt! Debt!! Debt!!!, so our oga goodluck is corrupt, how can corruption rule corruption??, thats y 9ja wil remain like this, thief thief rulers, but d truth is goodluck wil so end sylva's career, him go so deal with am ehh, sylva no go know himself again

Babasessy:
Military rule in Bayelsa
By Sam Omatseye

If you followed what happened in Bayelsa State over the weekend, you can appreciate why President Goodluck Jonathan cannot understand the meaning of honour. A gangster moment played out in his home state and his signature was all over it. He turned a party primary into brigandage. It was an act of shame and dishonour barely a week after he bemedalled many undistinguished Nigerians. Chinua Achebe, a literary luminary, taught President Jonathan a lesson about honour: he rejected his Greek gift.

A primary of his party, the PDP, took place in spite of a court order forbidding it. But that in itself was lawless. The number one citizen of the country and leader of the party sat cozy in Aso Rock while a full force of the military unleashed impunity in his home state to execute a kangaroo election. On the ground, he deployed soldiers and Ringim’s men, the police force. In the air, the Nigerian Air Force planes buzzed ominously. The water was not left out. The navy ships chugged on the high seas in full gear. The sledge hammer fell on an ant.

Was this the same Jonathan all those who shouted transformational president hoped to get? What happened was clearly an act of brigandage by a power vortex in Abuja with the president at the top. It had nothing to do with due process. It had nothing to do with fairness. It had nothing to do with law and order. It was a day of jackals.

It was an attempt to ensure that a candidate, Chief Seriake Dickson of the House of Representatives, became the party candidate for the governorship election billed for February next year.  The drama unfolded in interesting ways last week. On Monday, the ward congresses were scheduled to take place. All the delegates appeared. But the PDP sent security men with party officials from Abuja to Bayelsa, gathered material, pretended they wanted to pay a visit to the governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, but fled to Abuja.  No election happened.  The only party candidate who endorsed the charade was Dickson. The other candidates cried foul. The party top brass had done the unexpected: a brazen heist of electoral materials.

Consequently, the court ordered that the party should not conduct the primary on Saturday. The party leaders said the court order was illegal because an electoral act said nothing should stop a primary or election. But an electoral act is an act of The National Assembly, and it is subordinate to the constitution. The court is a product of the constitution. Rather than go to court to challenge the decision, the president’s men tossed the law aside and went ahead with the so-called primary.

They turned the state into a zone. People in the state could not move around in some parts and had to trek in others. What we had was military rule in Bayelsa State. This reminds us of a time when militants overtook land and water, and it was easier to take shelter under the militants than under government. Thanks to the efforts of the Governor, Timipre Sylva, who initiated the idea of amnesty, that story is in the past, to all intents and purposes.

But what happened at the weekend was the flip side. Militancy became the official act of government, a contradiction of the officers of the law acting like militants. We cannot forget that then Governor Jonathan of Bayelsa State once ran away from the Government House when militants came calling.
It is an irony that he should deploy official force to pursue the same as the president and commander in chief of the armed forces.

The Bayelsa crisis began after the president asked the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, to disband the security outfit of the state. That was the quiet seed of the coming of the federal might to the state. That preceded the screening process, and it became a drama resembling the Baba Suwe tragi-comedy over the famous narcotics charge. The NDLEA expected the substance to come down but the watch became endless until the court intervened and said it was becoming too dark a drama for Nigeria’s appetite. But in the PDP histrionic, it was more enigmatic. Day after day came with the party playing coy in telling the nation whether the state governor would be cleared or not even though he had been cleared in Port Harcourt. It took the rally in Yenagoa over a week ago to force the craven party to say Sylva would not be their candidate.

Even at that, they went ahead with their impunity last Saturday to hold a primary. Why did the president not attend the event? After all, in January this year, he voted at the primary in which Governor Sylva flew high as the party candidate. He is the party leader in the country and also in the state. He should have attended to show example. Here again, the president played to form. He would not come out in the open but play the serpent by hiding in the shrubbery.

Analysts still wonder how the delegates were arrived at. The president, members of the House of Representatives – except Dickson -, senators, members of the state assembly and local government council chairmen, among others were absent. We must add that former governor Alamiesiegha was present. He is now playing poodle to his former lieutenant.

So it was a primary of impunity, and that makes Dickson a candidate of impunity. The Independent National Election Commission was not present. So, how does the PDP want to get away with the act of gangsters of Saturday? If they go ahead with this in the primary, would they do same in the election and make Dickson a governor by impunity, a chief executive by illegality, a chief law officer by fiat?

This is not good for our democracy. Neither is it good for Goodluck Jonathan, who has bumbled in about every task he has placed his finger. He was a barefaced dictator last week, and we have seen one case after another where he is acting the role of a sole administrator with a deceptively gentle face.

Yet another irony. While he deployed full force in Bayelsa, three persons were kidnapped in a Niger Delta creek in a Chevron offshore field. In Bauchi State, some persons died and several injured in a communal clash and two died from gunmen’s fire in Kogi State. The president was shooting in the wrong direction. Yet, in his day of honours, he bedecked his service chiefs and IG with national medals. Was he thanking them for the deaths and fear in the land or was it a case of ignorance? Has the President forgotten about Boko Haram?

This is tragic.  What Jonathan and the PDP have done is an ominous precedent for this democracy. President Jonathan ought to give us a moral explanation for this act of brigandage. If Dickson was indeed popular in the state and the party, why not set the process free and see if he would win? It is clear Jonathan is bringing Hobbesian and Machiavellian logic to this democracy. This is what many fought against in the days of military tyranny. The PDP chiefs and Jonathan remind one of misuse of power dramatised in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. A character spoke of “my false overweighs your true.” This is what we saw in Bayelsa. But the victim in the play replied, “To whom shall I complain?”

It has to be the law to which we must complain. Now, will the courts stand by impunity or by justice? The Bayelsa case is a crucial test for this democracy, and we shall see if Chief Justice Musdapher’s judiciary will rise to its impressive claims.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/26984-military-rule-in-bayelsa.html

dadicvila:
With the huge Allocatiön Bayelsa state recieves Monthly it will be Unwise to place any oda Governor b4 Thief Timipre Sylva, that Man has taken bayelsa state 20yrs backward, i was in Aba recently and with what i saw i will place Thief T.A orji 2nd,But Why are these Men so wicked??why steal everything??Na wa oO!

sheyguy:
he gba mee oh!! thing tee jona tan  (thing do burn finish 4 Yoruba)

Jonathan please dialogue with these pple oh

Rolly83:
Look my Guy i have said this once that 'silver or sylva' I no sabi, will neva govern Bayelsa State again! CHIKENA!!!
My source?I BI SON OF THE SOIL, 'See Me See Government'

Rolly83:
Are u 'daft' hav u not been listening to the radio or something! Go buy urself a 'transistor'.RUBBISH

ammamat:
@ m m m, is not about getting what he wanted coz we ve actually not done anything yet. Am thinking if he has new catch

blackmann:
[b]So winning money from a dumbass reality show is now an achievement? What about those that make millions from their inventions? If he is so myopic, maybe he should travel round the world and see what achievement is. To me an achievement is constructing things like solar-powered cars, Robots, Vehicles that can be used on the surface of the moon(all these done by undergraduates as their projects, mind you), carrying out research to develop cures for un-heard of diseases, just to mention a few. Achievement is doing something that has not been done before, like building the tallest building in the world, or the fastest train in the world, or the longest bridge to connect two or more countries. That is ACHIEVEMENT.

If in the mallam's mind winning BBA is an achievement, and he's publicly stating that, then i feel sorry for the youth of Nigeria. They can as well go rob a bank of 30 million and call that an achievement as well. Bunch of irresponsible losers. [/b]

livedit:
I feel a true friend is someone who will have your back by being faithful, loving and loyal to you. A true friend is someone you can trust and rely on in your time of distress or to share in your happiness. Someone you can talk to or just have someone to listen when you need an lending ear. Someone who will be themselves by being honest with you to tell you the truth rather if it's good or bad. A true friend is someone whom you can be comfortable with to express who you are without putting up a front or a facade. A true friend is someone who can accept the good AND the bad in you. A true friend is someone who won't be quick to judge you or be jealous of you when things are going good in your life.


i agree wit d bolded part .
A true friend does not judge u by your successes, failures or how much u r worth, but accepts u just d way u r.

I'll end it there because livedit could go on and on.