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Prof Corruption: GEJ has chosen to remove all pretenses and fight very dirty. At this stage, a lot depends on how strong the hold Amaechi has on Rivers House of Assembly.

Time will tell

thelastpope10: His cup is full. He has been tolerated for too long. GEJ does not need to deal with him. ND people will take care of him. I have been telling you lot. Even GEJ cannot decide not to contest in 2015. It is bigger than him now. It is about complete liberation from the shackles of Northern domination in collaboration with some SW and SS accomplices

rudee007: Just another reminder, so did Timipre Silva. Where is he now? The last time I checked he was hiding in his wardrobe.
You just don't mess with the powers that be!

ifebosco: PROVE ME WRONG

OdionOdion: As a resident of Garden City-Port Harcourt,I can report to NL forum members the insolency in AMAECHI has come to and end. PDP has been the one protecting and preserving Amaechi from being over ran by the political establishments in Rivers state: Amaechi has sinned against ALL in Rivers-Ada George,Diata Spiff,Peter Odili,Omeha,Sergent Awuse,Chibudum Nwuche.Austine Okpara,Merekinlin,Timothy Nserem,.Amaechi has no Youth followers because they been oppressed by him.I wish Amaechi the Best future endeavours in the UNregister APC

ifebosco: ameachi should be made the vp for apc now, and send pdp parking.
becuase political calculations with out sentiment shows that¨¨¨¨
north===BUHARI 70%
SOUTH WEST==TINUBU,FASHOULA AND ADAMS 70% APC
SOUTH SOUTH==THE ONLY STRONG HOLD OF THE PRESIDENT WILL BE DIVIDED
65% FOR THE PRESIDENT PDP AND 35% APC(AMEACHI)
SOUTH EAST==ROCHAS 40% IMO NGIGE ANAMBRA 20% ABIA 20% APC
AND THE WINNER IS APC 2015
WITH OUT REGGING.

mikeansy: People think Amaechi is Timipre Silva

Amaechi will not go down alone, he will take down as much as he can while going down

Amaechi is very stubborn, born to fight and very arrogant

Nigerians will learn a few more things how powerful a Governor can be too?

Stop this childish talk.

slap1: PDP has lost Rivers State.

gregg2: My thoughts exactly, Uduaghan, the returning officer should have been the one to announce the result and not a civil servant Director General employed by Amaechi and working inside Rivers state lodge. Forget this Fayemi man. He is lying. That is why they are keeping quiet.

Goddex: Fayemi claims Uduaghan was the returning officer. In an election, it is the returning officer that collates and announce results. Why then was the DG Governors Forum made to announce the results instead of Uduaghan?

Fayemi is obviously lying. That election was inconclusive. I gathered reliably that disagreements started midway into the elections when Amaechi refused to step down and also accept Jang as concensus candidate. Besides, he was still exercising his powers as chairman and overruling suggestions from the pro Jang group. This got the Pro Jang governors pissed-off and they abandoned the meeting and left Rivers state lodge venue of the meeting for Akwa Ibom lodge. The remaining 16 pro Amaechi governors seized that opportunity to pressure the DG Governors Forum to announce a concocted result.

karl max: jang whetin 24 hours called for NGF meeting 18 out of the 35 governors presented him to the media as their chairman.fayemi and amechi should do same let us see the so called people that voted for amechi or are they not going to fight for what they believe in instead of writing epistle on the pages of new paper they should call for their own meeting and address the media just like the matured jang did and let the likes of fayemi and those that voted amechi present him to the media instead of them releasing statement.the 18 governors that stood behind jang has made it clear that jang is their leader the ball is now on amechi and his follower court is that to hard to do bunch of cry babies.more over its the 4 day after the election were still expecting their so call video of the election.

Toktee: Can someone please explain to me what this old foool is saying here,"our man iz there, is not good going to compete with him;by 2015 every zone might have produce a leader except south east" i have a question for you,
can a cameronian become a president of mali............nah,you guys are from biafram republic don't forget so soon nah,and who told this old man that middlebelt will go with cunning people like igbos,finally,nobody made nigerian ungovernable for Jonathan for the following reason....
1.bokohallam is created by pdp during obasanjo tenure in 2007,u can google the death of yusuf in the hands of ill train nigerian police force,
2.Johnathan was pushed over to take the mantle of leadership where his experience is inadequate.
3.Poverty and unemployment plus massive curruption in the country is the creation pdp,from 2007 upto date no government official is behind bars for curruption as if it dose not exist.
Above all the root caused of all the above mentioned is lack of good leadership in the country,therefore i put it to you that nobody has made the country ungovernable for anybody.

chukel: I accept dat construction work is going on on a lot of fed roads in nigeria. D president is trying on dat one. But dare not mention some roads dat r still in bad condition as being completed. Again I wonder d kind of brains visalo, sincere nigerian nd his cohorts have. Did u read the caption of dis post before going to town wit ur typist work? D caption says nigerian roads are no longer death traps. You folks should mind d way u vomit nonsense here. For u guys to admit and ask if it is possible for the president to reconstruct al roads in 2yrs means dia r roads dat av nt received attention which u kn. Dis also means dat diz roads r death traps, but ur caption says otherwise, which is a fallacy. Dis is y pple kEep crucifying u nd ur cohorts. Shameless unrepentant liars. Did u say "most nigerian roads r no longer death traps", ppl won't condemn u. U pple r too desperate.

freezy: Hi guys,

I do not go around the entire country on road, but I'll speak for the ones I have passed through recently

1. Completed Roads: Oyo - Ogbomoso: It is far from completion. The only completed part is the Oyo-Ibadan axis. You still have to do the meandering form lane to lane on that axis. May I also point out that this road has a poor connection into the Ibadan major roads? This is evidenced by the annoying traffic build up on the Ojoo-Ajibode (such that people have to divert to Shasha) axis. Note: This road contstruction has been on for close to 10 years or more

2. Makurdi-Gboko is far from completion, Annunne (pronounced Wannune) is also far from completion. I did East-West (PH En-route Yenagoa, and Jesus, that was a horrible experience. I also begin to wonder the definition of 'Massive Construction' because the equipment and manpower on ground does not depict my assumption of what massive ought to be. The London underground is about to have another stop @ the Woolich Arsenal station and yes, I can affirm, that is a massive construction. Contsructions going on at the Ibeche Cement plant in my opinion aptly defines "Massive"


3. It will great to know what "Project Safe Passage" intends to achieve. This is because when the Lagos-Ibadan expressway was awarded to JB and RCC respectively, we all rejoiced that in a few months we'd have a lot of respite on the road. JB and RCC did some remedial work on some parts then and before we knew it, they'd all removed their equipment from the road. The sites are empty now and the road is getting worse with each passing day. On Sunday, I spent 4 hours between RCCG Camp and MFM. Funny there was no accident... Just bad roads. It is very regular. The holes are the sizes of gullies and craters. I begin to wonder how difficult it must be to award a contract for road repairs. You won't believe this, but whilst we were grappling with the traffic situation, a government official with about a 14-Jeep convoy got on the opposite side of the road and drove 'One-way' to Lagos. It was appalling.

One thing I have learnt in the course of my work is that, when you have so much to do, you prioritize such that the activities that have major impacts are completed first. Road construction would have been more effective if the ones with major impacts are constructed first. It could be just me, but I really cannot relate with a large number of roads mentioned in the quote. I am WELL traveled within Nigeria by the way.

A good job will speak for itself. I have seen it happen over and over again. But when you need the media to communicate what I ought to see/feel/enjoy, I begin to do a double take.

Cheers.

Sincere 9gerian: Isn't it ironic that some people want GEJ to fix all the federal roads in 2yrs when state govts have not been able to fix all state roads in 6 or 8yrs. Those who tell us that because one or two roads in their vicinity have not been fixed, NOTHING has been done should be seen as mischief makers, DEVILISH LIARS and propagandists.

The undisputable facts is that federal roads are receiving far far more attention under this govt than ever before in the history of this country.

Activities on the roads in the last 2 to 3years are as follows:

The following roads projects have been COMPLETED:

Vom-Manchok road (Plateau State), Yola-Numan road (Adamawa State), Gombe Bye-pass (Gombe State), Kaduna Refinery road (Kaduna State), Kano-Daura-Mai Adua road (Katsina State), Aba-Owerri road(Abia State), Onitsha-Owerri road (Anambra State) and Oyo-Ogbomosho road (Oyo State).

Massive work is ONGOING in various other highways in the 6 geo-political zones, including ongoing dualisation of Abuja–Abaji–Lokoja Road; Kano–Potiskum–Maiduguri Road; the Benin–Ore–Shagamu Expressway; the Onitsha–Enugu Expressway; the construction of the Loko–Oweto bridge( across River Benue); East-West road; dualisation of Benin-Lokoja road; Vandeikia-Obudu-Obodu Cattle Ranch road (Phase 1) in Benue State; Mbaise-Ngwa road in Imo/Abia states, with bridges at Imo River (Phase 1); Abriba-Arochukwu-Ohafia road, in Abia State (Phase 1); Makurdi-Gboko road Phase 1 Wannune-Yandev section, in Benue; Ohafia Abia State-Oso in Ebonyi; Sections 1A and 1B of Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega-Kontagora Roads, respectively in Sokoto State, Kebbi and Niger; Kunya-Kanya-Babura-Babban Mutum Road in Jigawa; Zing-Yakoko-Monkin Road in Taraba; Alkeleri-Bauchi Road in Bauchi; Aguoba-Owa-Mgbagbu Owa-Ebenebe at the Anambra border to the Awaha-Oyofo-Iwollo Road in Enugu State; Ofa by-pass in Ofa council in Kwara; the Ikot-Ekpene border-Ada Owerri dualisation section phase one in Akwa-Ibom, Abia and Imo; Utor Bridge project on Asaba-Ebu-Uromi Road in Delta; Oshodi-Apapa road in Lagos; Ijebu Ode road in Ogun; etc, etc

Bad portions on almost all federal roads all over the country, not mentioned above, are being fixed under a massive intervention called Project Safe Passage. The Lagos-Ibadan expressway and Enugu-Portharcourt roads were among roads that received attention under Project Safe Passage.

The Third Mainland bridge was not left out. Late last year, the EIGHT expansion joints of bridge was re-constructed. Recently, the bridge was re-surfaced by FERMA. Currently, the markings and lighting system of the bridge is being fixed by FERMA, in collaboration with SURE-P.

The ICING ON THE CAKE in the road sector this year will be commencement of work on the Second Niger Bridge (by Julius Berger), and commencement of full re-construction of Lagos-Ibadan and Enugu-Portharcourt expressways.

LARRIE: I really wonder if this man has ever passed through ITOKIN ROAD ie from Sabo in Ikorodu to Ijebu-Ode,the road is unimanginable sorry condition.Vehicle break down every now and then on this same road.It is very pathetic that someone who is believed to know more of the state of the Federal roads in Nigeria could come out and be giving nigerians false hope.If you do not know your job I beseech you to resign.