₦airaland Forum

orangemen:
at least one important thing we are lacking here in nigeria today is political freedom.
i think ibb is big enough to bring nigeria from the demonic hands of obasanjo who has made nigerian politics his personal business.
we can nolonger afford to remain useless in our own country.
we need to have a say in our political system. how many nigerians can boast of having their votes counted in the last 11 yrs or more.
what we see is a selected group of criminals who call themselves rulers and steal at will.
jonathan is not the violent type or the radical man we need to liberate this country from these demons.

Most of IBB supporters don't know that their man is an unsaleable poison. OBJ vs IBB is like bright daylight compared to deep night darkness.

IBB is a certified fool who wanted to fool Nigerians for the second time. I will have all candidates becomes life President but not another oppoertunity for IBB who has regard for no one.

Yes oo, they are 'BORN TO RULE' nothwithstanding their incompetence, inept and inability to string together a good future based vision and policy.

Even, our so called first graduate Preident was reading from his press statement and scripts about 7 pointless agenda and visionless 2020.


Unless we have a Northern leader who knows what good governance, leadership and becominga President is all about, they will continue to vie for the office and abuse the office of the Presidency without nothing to show for it except milking the nations cover dry and borrow more.

Before OBJ all the government before him have huge foreign debt with no foreign reserve.

I have said it number without times that a school cert drop out in the South is better than all those Political elite in the North.

Vindy:
IBB will be disgraced come 2011, make my words.

My concern is that the man IBB has NO GRACE so he may not be disgraced, but he will die and be roasted like a MARKET GOAT.

May his generation who partake in disgracing Nigeria never know peace.

Because the Presidency of Nigeria is IBB family property including his 'BORN TO RULE' Northeren oligarchy. I think IBB is playing Northerern messaiah.

He is also trying a contest on who will rule Nigeria most, him or OBJ?

May IBB not know peace and prosperity the likes of him denied to majority of Nigerians. 99% 0f bad Nairalanders are far better than IBB. He is just a bully with stolen wealth to further confuse and bring Nigeria into disrepute world over.

IBB and people like Olajide are MARKET GOAT who never gives up even with their dishonesty , blantant fraudster like and thieves.

I don't know any DECENT Yoruba race that will even recognise let alone vote for IBB. It is all paid per speech political noise making.

We have to continue to flog IBB and his cohort , the MARKET GOAT with whatever we can lay our hands on. YEYE PEOPLE.

IBB a man who is nearly 70 years old but with a brain of 15 years old, shameless buffon.

Disgrace will IBB get, unfortunately IBB does not understand grace so it may be difficult for him to understand disgrace.

SHAMELESS people do not understand shame, nonetheless may IBB and his cohorth be put to shame by human being and God. People like Afugbuea, Dokpesi etc.

unipol:
please can you sumarize it in ten sentences. we are tired of reading newspappers

Summary will not do the article any justice.

THis is the best way to explain who IBB is truely is, a non repentant die hard market goat. Anybody who need to understand IBB psyche should read this fully and digest it.

The other game I think IBB is playing is that 'Power must go to the North if the rest of the country don't want him'

For IBB to even consider and coming out to try to contest confirm him as the Market goat otherwise how can he expects despite his dictatorial years when he has absolute power to be less better than during the give and take of a civilain political administartion for someone who has absolute authority, legislaive, executhieve and judiciary and power to kill as a miliatry dictator.

May market goat rot in hell and end up as Isi ewu.

mikeansy:
Nigeria will be better off with Jonathan contesting

But it is also my opinion that the country will even be better off if he does fail at the polls.

As our system stands, it appers that only PDP candidades will win the election, so out of all those candidates who is better than GEJ? In a blind man land, one eyed person is the King. All the Northern candidates known up on till today, GEJ i betr than all of them put together.

Please don't let A DISHONOURABLE PROMISE of IGBO President by 2015 by IBB and ATIKU influence you. Those guy antecedent are nothing to wite home about.

Infact IBB should be disqualifed straight away from trying to benefit from Democracy he tries to destroy, and at age 69 going to 70 he is a spent force. LIES is the only thing IBB can offer.

My own canddates are in the mould of Donald Duke but whether he has mobilise enough nationwide support to pull it off is another matter.


They only relinquish power to South West to keep Nigeria together to pacify the Yoruba's. THey want their power back
If by any chance the power goes to the North Nigeria is doomed, because theose guys are 'born to rule with Islamic fist'

The whole country will disgarce IBB. The North has always being backward set of people through their non- leader leaders who did not let them progress physically and mentally.

IBB ( God forbid, if he get to power will NEVER handover to Igbo's ) he has done it once to a southerner before and he will repeat it again.

I IBB beleives in one Nigeria, he should be asking the Igbo's to produce a candidate now in 2011 not in the future.

Once Arisekola comes out to support IBB we all know that THIEVES ARE looking back to come into business. The Lord will make them to fail. all enemies of Nigeria.

ferari90:
kteww
saharareporter should go and sleep

#isittheirTVstation?

You are afraid of the truth. yor man IBB is a certified EVIL and the people of Nigeria should not have evil befall them twice.

IBB WILL FAIL RESOUNDLY as anyone who does not want to upliftment of the people of Nigeria.

Nigerians HAVE SHORT MEMORIES.

IBB dna is calamity. OBJ with all his imperfectness like any candidates that may come from the South is better than most candidate produced so far from the North, IBB infact is the worst because he indirectly produce ABACHA who is a brutal person eithout the brain.

OBJ is by far the best President Nigeria has up on till today. HE PAID ALL OUR NATIONAL DEBT AND LEFT $50 BILLION DOLLARS IN OUR FOREIGN RESERVE.

Do anyone remember Bil Clinton and his surpulus and reserve he left for GW Bush and what a mess Bush 43rd left for his country and the whole world because his utter stupidity.

IBB is evil and if you dine with devil, please do not complain of the consequences because this time it will be big.

OBJ never kill his opponents but IBB hs killed several.

Only one word CONTEMPT by IBB which has always be his hallmark. 'He' IBB in his wisdom has more sense and ability more than 150 million Nigerians.  IMO IBB end is coming very quickly

The 'jobless' minister should BAN Poverty and govt corruption. we will then get rid of prostitution

yeye man with yeye brain and agenda

Osama10:
Hopeless, Senseless, Useless senators.

we need more adjectives to qualify those morons legislathieves. Even Jonathan has more important job to do in Nigeria rather than going to some football ceremony.

According to lagbaja , i am sorry for this country.

Osama10:
Its either this group of people are insane or they have been cursed.

It is a combination of both and more. IBB will fail more than failure nothwithstanding any corrupt money he may have spent. we are no longer in the military era that he can use guns to intimidate and bully anyone. yeye people

~Bluetooth:
Jonathan The road to 2011 presidential election may become messier. Yesterday, The Nation learnt that if President Goodluck Jonathan wins the ticket to contest the election, the North may dump the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) for another political party that presents a candidate of Northern origin. A source close to the Northern leaders described the decision as ‘a fall out of the secret meeting of Northern elders’ held in Abuja late last week. The meeting was attended by former military President, Ibrahim Babangida and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar among many others. Though Northern governors were absent at the meeting, our correspondent learnt that many of them are in favour of the move. Another source said: "Well, the game plan is that once Jonathan gets the PDP presidential ticket through the power of incumbency, the North will speak with one voice and shift loyalty to a party with a Northern presidential candidate. These decisions are some of the highlights of a six-hour meeting of some Northern leaders on Thursday in Abuja ’ Though the North is considering a protest vote against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) if President Goodluck Jonathan secures the party’s presidential ticket at all cost, but some observers doubt the possibility of a common position by the North given the growing polarization of the region along ethnic and religious lines. A reliable source said: "The Northern leaders have made their position known that they won’t accept any move to alter the zoning formula in favour of the South-South in 2011. They are insisting on allowing the North to complete its two terms of eight years which ends in 2015. "In the alternative, the leaders are already working on ‘Plan B’ which will involve protest vote by the North in 2011 against PDP as long as the Federal Government lives up to its pledge of a free and fair poll. The source added, "Once the votes count in the next poll, the North is ready for Jonathan and his loyalists." "Since Jonathan is from the minority tribe in the South-South, the battle will be that of figures at the poll between the North and the South-South. The Nation learnt that the decision by some of the Northern governors to back moves to stop Jonathan from contesting next year’s presidential race is informed by the voting strength of the region. Out of the 36 states in the country, 19 are from the three geopolitical zones in the North but not all of them are controlled by the PDP. The Northern leaders are also considering producing a candidate with a Vice President from either the South-West or the South-East. It was learnt that although the leaders have decided to make their position known to PDP leaders and eminent Nigerians across the six geopolitical zones, they have also put in place the ‘Plan B.’ However, it was gathered that three Emirs favour negotiation with Jonathan for a term in office but some Northern leaders described such a proposal as "dangerous and unrealistic in view of how ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo disowned zoning arrangement in PDP." "For it to retain power in 2011 , the North would not mind to negotiate with the South- West to produce a Vice-Presidential candidate for its candidate for 2011 poll. "That is why the North is ready to open up discussion with the main opposition group, led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the South-West for a joint ticket in 2011. "As for the South-East, the bait from the North is likely to be an agreement (North- South-East accord) that if the Igbo give backing to a Northern candidate in 2011 , they will produce the nation’s President in 2015. "That option will pay the South-East than for them to allow Jonathan to be in power from 2011 to 2019. The Northern delegation will make the Igbo to realize that after the completion of Jonathan’s tenure either in 2015 or 2019, no Southerner can succeed him again." Responding to a question, the source said: "The North is actually shopping for a presidential candidate. "If it means Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar stepping down or jettisoning their presidential ambition, the Northern leaders are ready to support a credible candidate from the North. "They will leave the PDP en masse for Jonathan and team up with any other strong opposition party." The source added that "faced with worse scenario, the Northern leaders may back either Gen. Muhammadu Buhari or Governor Ibrahim Shekarau." As at press time, there was anxiety in Jonathan’s camp over the Thursday meeting by Northern leaders in Abuja. It was also gathered that Jonathan loyalists are also worried by fresh reports that Babangida, Atiku, some governors and Northern leaders met again in Makurdi on Friday before a book launch. The source said: "Some Northern governors are already backing the 2011 project on the retention of the presidency in the North. "In fact before the book launch in Makurdi, there was another round of discussion by some Northern leaders with Babangida and Atiku on the political future of the nation in 2011. "But the Thursday meeting has jolted loyalists of Jonathan because of its security implications."
http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/48976/1/2011-North-may-dump-PDP-if-Jonathan-wins-ticket/Page1.html

The North will jettison the 'zonining' thing anyway come 2015, it is just a dress reheasal. They are never sincere. OBJ got into power because the SW will have seceeed and that would have been the end of Nigeria.

Let those clueless buffon go to hell and take up residency so that Nigeria can make progress

N10 billion naira is the official spending. What is the unofficial spending, maybe a Trillion? naija has zeal for those spending spending, consuming consuming

One 1:
Clearly It shows that the northerners are power hungry and greedy. This shows that they have no intent of keeping to the zoning arangement. This guys says that it should be done away with after 2015( the time it is the turn for the Igbos to rule). Wow and they talk about honor! Look at the extent these people went with the apparent lie of yaradua being alive just to keep power and you think people like this is going to just let the South get power just like that? No, not happening!

Any Igbo that votes for other than Johnathan just so the Igbos can get presidency after 2015 is a fool , Also dont think for a second that kalu is not running to take igbo votes away from johnathan to make sure he loses and power remains in the north so "hopefully" the SE can have presidency.which isn't going to happen. whether he is in the PPA or not it doesnt matter he is an elite and has connects in all parties and many godfathers,

There was even a time back a few northerner politicians were encouraging that geographical zones should be done with around 2015 because they feels that it just leads to more division is Nigeria and we are one, COMPLETE BULLSHIT! They have been planning and are still planning to stop the SE from ruling after 2015. They have no plans on letting that happen so dont be fooled.

I have said it times without number that the North are political fraudster. Come 2015 anyway they will change whatever rules about zoning. It was just meant to be one off so that power can return back to 'born to rule'. Until the south unite politically or the country break , we will be going in circle of incompetent and clueless Northern politicians aided and abbetted by minority right sellers in the south.

Is it me or Kosovo being sarcastic?  The President is talking about INEC chairman and NOT PDP chairman, or is Kosovo saying that INEC chairman is equal to PDP chairman?

Kosovo family member IBB has no chance in hell of becoming President of Nigeria with all his ill gotten wealth.

Trying to sell IBB to Nigeians in Diaspora will be a very hard sell indeed.

Raw wounds are still sour. Most Nigrians in diaspora tody are sent therr by IBB and his programms of the late 80's. With due respect, our society are full of opportunist. I noticed that BEN TV and Alistair soyode suddenly became close to
Yar A'clueless, and he Soyode in particular was just 4 ft away from the late President at his commissioning of a project in Abeokuta , Ogun state last year.

My take then was that Soyode is from Ogun state, and President of NIDOE and BEN TV was there to cover the events but also he was raised in the North and cut his teeth with the Northern mafia. He was able to speak Hausa, and his English more like an Hausa man, so he want to be seen as a Yoruba man and all the Ogun state indigines who will deliver south west to IBB forgeting the murder of MKO Abiola as a direct result of IBB action. shame on all his accomplices

IBB is a non starter no matter what he tries. He is a failure ab initio. He is clearly not thinking and taking the pulse of the nation, and some people will do anything for more money to help him launder his tattered image but it is all going to end up in failure and disappointment.

YEYE People, they don't know that Nigerians have shine their eyes.

desgiezd:
Could the President have been talking about a wooden trophy?

The President Name is Goodluck, his wife name is Patience. With those 2 combinations PIGS might fly ( oops sorry Eagles/elephant)

The present Team does not have the technical know how BUT if they have THE BELEIF, anything is possible, especially if Goodluck charm rub on them, most of their opponents kapsih somehow along the way.

Dream on Super non flying eagles. I don't even think that they can beat Abuja X1, yeye team

mikeansy:
They should either dump zoning now or have it fully enshrined in the Nigerian constitution and continue to respect it.

remaking an unwritten rule just to accomodate one President without even trying to redefine the rule itself or enforce it at all times is a recipe for catalysis.

If they want Jonathan to run which I believe he should, then lets consign zoning to the dustbin of history. If they want to uphold zoning suggesting it is the only way democracy can work in Nigeria, then let us have it written in the Nigerian constitution so that it is binding on all. After all PDP control both houses.

The problem is that the whole thing within the PDP or by the way other parties are not that simple. ZONING as articulated by the NOrth that brought OBJ is a FRAUD by the North on the rest of the country.

IF we apply the best man/woman for the job, the north may not be in power for a considerable period of time.

The North used the divison between SW and SE to always 'win' an election.

If we work hard on getting the best candidates then we wouldn't be worry about marginalization because the best man/woman will work for the interest and benefits of all Nigerians.

BTW PDP is making it to sound as if the are the only political party in the country, and the last time I checked there are at least 6 more credible others.

buffox:
Why won't they vote people like this into power?

Because Umar is one of the rear exception from the North. And he was lucky to be a direct descendant of Uthman Dan Fodio otherwise he wouldn't have been 'able' to confront IBB on why, he, IBB annullled June 12 election. He is in the mould oF Ribadu.

BTW, his opinion is NOT radical according to that lazy journalist. He is just speaking the facts as they stand. Deputy Governors to 2 Govenors, and the only reason why they may not like to see him as the Governor is that he is a Christian? what a load of bulls from these Islamic fundamentalist

sheriffman:
Remember OBJ recently made a comment concerning the issue of Zoning and some politicians called him a liar,Now Solomon Lar has his own version of things.One thing is becoming clearer and some pple ve started seeing the demerits of Zoning @ d expense of performance.pls read on.

Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) Chief Solomon Lar has said that the party's zoning arrangement as agreed at the time was not supposed to be a permanent.

The party leadership is therefore at liberty to dump it in order to consider President Goodluck Jonathan as a presidential candidate next year, if he declares interest, he argued.
Lar was a foundation member of PDPand its first national chairman. He was a member of the G-34 that metamorphosed into PDP.

The politician from Plateau State said that [b]zoning was actually meant to pacify the Southern part of the country following years of the North occupying political leadership at the national level.
Lar made these comments when he was responding to questions from journali[/b]sts at his residence, while commiserating with them over the killing of their colleagues as well as the three-year anniversary of the death of six others in 2007.

He said that when they agreed on zoning, “there was a rule that before anyone becomes President, he must deliver his ward, local government and state to the PDP." But that rule was relaxed so that former President Olusegun Obasanjo could emerge in order to achieve the purpose of zoning.

Obasanjo, at the time, had no political base. Lar said zoning has greatly stabilized the country having allowed Obasanjo to rule for eight years.

On the North, he said: “You will remember at that time, it was a military and civilian regime and leaders continue to come from one part. Shagari, Buhari, Babangida, Abacha, Abdulsalami; all from the North and the entire country was complaining and some of us in the PDP said this time around, lets give them (South) a sense of belonging."[/b]According to Lar, “We were tempted to back Alex Ekwueme in 1999 but we said lets consider the South-west because of the election that was annulled. We said let’s be fair to the South and give them a sense of belonging as Nigerians because after the annulment of the election, there was too much complaints."

He argued that PDP could take a decision on Jonathan, saying after all, the “doctrine of necessity” was employed when the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was ill.
[b]What Nigeria needs are leaders who can deliver. People should be supported based on their performances and not their ethnicity, he said.
The former PDP chairman advised Nigerians to pray for Jonathan to do well in the one year he has left to rule, instead of dragging him into the debate of whether or not he should contest elections in 2011. He added that when the time for that comes, he could make his feelings known to the public.

On political parties, he stated that funding should not be the responsibility of government and that anyone who wishes to remain registered should be prepared to take care of the financial implications.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=173652

I have said it repeatedly, the 'zoning thing' is the figment of imagination by the Political 419 North. They are trying to pacify the Yoruba's after the murder of MKO ABIOLA so that the country will not break up and they know there will be no more oil if that happens.

If North were to be in power, come 2015, they will change goal post and change party or bing in the militry. 'BORN TO RULE' has yet to leave them

vote out all the pdp party thieves including our dear goodluck. pdp is a yeye party

With due respect to the Honourable member, he is very sick. We know that NASS is Federal House of comedy but to actually turn it into circus for the world to view is another thing.

He himself barely understand what he is talking about let alone his dishonurable members and most important the general electorate public.

Maybe he should seek a job as a stand up or sit down comedian. yeye man of a yeye party

Yesterday I was going to open a thread on

LAW OF ATTRACTION, POLITICIANS AND OFFICES SEEKING.

The basis of my 'article' or write up is, do politicians ( in Nigeria especially) seek political office to serve and develop the governed ( ie, the people) or themselves.

Now, as we in the law say, the an who want to be in political office and doing illegal and criminal act is exhibit 'A', pure greed. self serving selfish people just looking out for themselves.

Strange though, if I were his defence counsel, I have a pretty good line of defence for him which is propably true in most cases of desperate people.

We need a God sent visionary leader to reposition and re -orient our minds/psyche. It has been basterdise by the military and thieveing political class.

When I hear Akunyili saying good country great nation or whatever she is trying to say, I feel sorry that we are in self denial and not facing the truth. we are bunch of people who need help from those leading us because 75% + are outright criminals who should have been locked away n maximum prison for life. But we 'celebrate them as some role model'.

PDP will break up and we prayed that it shoul happen now now, they are an evil party. If there were ever to be zoning agreed, that is a matter for PDP and not other parties let alone the whole of NIgeria.

The PDP guy also assumed that the PDP will always win because they own the rigging machinery. Everyday is for the thief, one day is for the owner.

To be frank, after Yar A'clueless anyway, the North will have changed party. They are very insincere people.

IN the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, every political party and politicians that does not want the well beings of NIgeria break by holy ghost fire.

AMen. Amen and Amen

Whether or not the Jonathan contest 2011, come 2015 the North will abadon PDP and rotational nonsense.

I have said it repeatedly, the North are political scammer and the south political mugus.

The 'zoning' the North claimed to have brought OBJ was the figment of their imagination. Allowing OBJ to lead Nigeria in 1999 was to pacify the Yoruba's after they have murdred MKO ABIOLA because they have no choice.

Why is that the North must have the Presidency? Especially given their track record of incompetency and cluelessness.

Bad as OBJ may be, he is by far the best of majority of Nigerian leaders and certainly all the Northern leaders to date.

The 'born to rule' has not gone away from the Fulani's brain. They have also showed their hand about trying to dominate the country with Islam.

If they want they can form 10 other parties, we are know wise to their antics, I am not from the SS, but if Jonathan cannot contest the Presidency, he should just go to ND an turn off the OIL. Shege

kosovo:
Lets find a lasting solution to the end of the leadership of the same old gray headed Politicians who have decided to ruin this nation called Nigeria,
within the year myself and a group of people are settin up a massive anti IBB online rally which will see the use of massive online ADs, if you share in this dream to put an end to dictatorship, and all the issues associated with bad governance in Nigeria, Join me Here!

If you have woken up to the real world of IBB Northern rabbit zoning agenda, congrat brother.

IBB has never and will never be good for Nigeria. He is one Head of state I suspect not to be a Nigerian despite being in the Army from 'his birth'

Just to show his mental retarddeness, he said the youth of this country cannot lead, so apart from the dysfunctional eductional system he created during his tenure as military head of state, HE HAS NOT EVEN TRAIN HIS OWN CHILDREN TO BE ABLE TO LEAD. THAT SHOWS THAT THE MAN IS INSANE.

If you have been following my postings, you will have read my analysis of IBB diversionary politics. The North are using him like rabbit to 'compel' the south to agree to zoning or rotational presidency.

The game is for we in the south to say anybody from the North except IBB because they know that IBB is an hated figure in the whole of Nigeria more especially in the south.

The North are political scammers aka 419 whereas the south are political mugus.

IBB knows that without guns, even his money can never buy the Presidency of Nigeria.