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The people are not friends with T.A Orji and any friend, ally or worst to say, Stooge of T.A is an enemy of the good people of Abia. T.A, posterity would spit at the mention of your name.

Seun:
I'm aware of the modus operandi of PDP and APC e-trolls on the forum. Based on this, I predicted that this is just simply a lie. If it happened, one of you would have recorded the video and posted it here for all to see instead of saying "I swear it's true". I am an e-troll skeptic.

I saw it on tv, I tot my ears were playing tricks on me at first then I saw this thread. I am now sure and certain it was " Sai Buhari " they were chanting

herald9:
Who is Doris David? Has she forgotten that no incumbent president has ever lost an election in Nigeria?


Jonathan should be given a chance to Balance us before Buhari come looking for Change

sounds like you are begging for Jonathan but it's too late, he didn't make hay while the sun shone.

Failure and a corrupt man has no true friends, he cannot be trusted by anyone. Only pocket hungry friends.

APC may have some corrupt elements in their midst but GMB I know would never influence the judgement to their favour. When the time comes, they too, would be made to dance to the music.

Come 14th of February Port Harcourt that I know and live in would surprise the whole nation by giving GMB over 40% of our votes. Most people clamoring for GEJ to return are sentimental Rivers state indigenes that make up about 25% of the Port Harcourt population. And the rest are business people that would most likely sit at home on that day.

Orunto:
Till 2019 for some of them, unless the very good ones like PYO, FASOLA and Oshiomole defect anytime after February to be made serious ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the cabinet of GEJ. PYO FOR MOJ; FASOLA FOR MOFCT AND Oshiomole as State minister with A. Madueke.

thank God you wish you can have these men of change in Jonathans cabinet, but who can I wish for among the PDP governors, Nobody Sir, Nobody. They are all bunch of corrupt people that kirikiri awaits.

The dream and prayer of every father is that one day, his children becomes bigger and greater than him. Even our Lord Jesus Christ said "....far more greater things than I have done would you do...". Little wonder that our President's adopted father after endorsing him, said some days later "his government was run by angels given the scale of corruption which prevails in Nigeria of today". And if Gen Babangida the most corrupt President before he was dethroned by his son GEJ according to him(no be me talk am oh) can publicly say this, that means we Nigerians have no idea of the amount of money that would have been decleared to have mysteriously disappeared( not stolen) by Sanusi if he was not forced into early retirement.
And like Mr Gbenro said "I do not know why people are frowning at Babangida’s endorsement of Jonathan. The exchange between the two men-united by expertise in science and art of corruption-is mutually beneficial. Through words, Babangida has endorsed Jonathan. Through acts, Jonathan has canonised Babangida. Combining the two, it can be said that WHAT BABANGIDA CAN DO, JONATHAN CAN DO BETTER."
Renown convicts, fraudsters, drug barons and soon to be convicted corrupt politicians(by Gods grace when Buhari wins) are known to be stunch supporters and even top officials in his campaign committee. So only God knows if stealing and crime would be the order of the day if Oga Joe wins come lovers day. "Tufia, Chukwu ama nkwe".
But as our friends who are yet to see the light, the saTANoids would say "Ride on sir", but remember, the end is near and a day of reckoning would come.

A party where the candidates offering the highest amount to the delegates gets the ticket during the primaries. Even their non political office holders in the persons of their delegates are corrupt, selling their votes for money. So such a part cannot and I repeat will never fight corruption.

Buhari, the change we need.

PDP #Denofthieves

He wouldn't comment on this, but he is busy commenting on issues in france. #jonathanOUT

masterpower:
I TRUST THE IGBOS. THEY ALWAYS KNOW WHAT TO DO. IN IGBOLAND EVERYTHING IS BUSSINESS.

THEY WILL NOT LET THE NORTHERNERS SHARE ALONE THE STOLEN 34 BILLION NAIRA OF RIVERS MONEY THAT AMAECHI GAVE TO Buhari.

THE IGBOS WILL COLLECT THE MONEY AND WHAT NEXT?
VOTE JONATHAN.

THE IGBOS ARE GUY MEN.

I laugh, we are tired of Jonathan. His actions and inactions has cost us greatly. #JonathanOUT #PDPdenOFthieves

They say he is only coming to fight corruption, forgetting that corruption is the mother of all other problem we face.

#feBUHARI

#Joe, nata Otueke

In many nations, whenever it is felt that hard times have befallen a people, elections represent a real opportunity for contemplating a variety of options. Voters become relatively more attuned, more sophisticated, more attentive to policy debates between candidates. Many voters jettison primitive partisanship. Instead, they leave themselves open to consider new directions, receptive to new ideas. In fact, many voters become impatient with politicians who stick to the usual, easy game of mudslinging. Eschewing the politics of personal attacks, these voters insist that political candidates wrestle with issues. Often, they listen to, and reward, candidates who are most adept at spelling out what they understand the problems to be—and most gifted at proposing ways to fix things.
Let’s take one recent example, from the United States. A man of African descent like Barack Obama was able to get to the White House in large part because too many Americans had become fatigued by the escalating cost—in lives and dollars—of George W. Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Candidate Obama’s promise to de-emphasize war and to zero in on revitalizing economic growth resonated with voters who despaired of a recession that sucked jobs, weakened the real estate market, and gutted real incomes.
Faced with the prospect of a deepening economic crisis, US voters demanded answers from seekers of elective office, whether it was state legislatures, Congress, gubernatorial posts or the presidency.
I’d suggest that Nigeria has hardly been in a more dire time, but you would not know it from the tone and tenor of the current phase of politicking. Nigeria is not about to slip into a crisis; it is fully mired in one. Even so, with elections approximately a month away, it is—for the politicians and voters alike—very much a season of business as usual.
How bad are things in Nigeria? Grim, from the evidence of my eyes and ears during two recent visits—in November and December. I was there as tumbling crude oil prices forced the Federal Government to devalue the naira. I had drinks at a restaurant with a contractor who bemoaned the woes of putting in bids in naira. I met another businessman in Abuja who told me, in a weary, forlorn tone, “It is impossible to get paid for any jobs now. They [political parties] have mopped up all the money for the elections.” In Enugu, a state commissioner spoke in a similarly bleak accent: “The way things are going, most states will not be able to pay salaries in a few months.” Several state governments were already behind in the payment of salaries. And the Federal Government was not about to be left out. As I left Nigeria on December 22, thousands of Federal Government workers were yet to receive their November pay!
Any government that is unable to meet its recurrent obligations might as well be declared moribund. Yet, in Nigeria, this is about to become the new normal.
In the face of such a crisis, you’d expect the political space to be abuzz with solutions. I was in Nigeria as various political parties carried out their primaries. The space was abuzz all right, but it was the buzz of vultures hovering overhead, bent on pecking away at the carcass of a near-bankrupt Nigeria.
If the candidates and delegates at the various primaries knew a thing about the desperate state of Nigeria, they did a terrific job of concealing it. Yes, there were speeches, lots of them, but there was nothing clarifying, no attempt to offer a reasoned critique of opponents’ policies and to articulate alternative, differentiating policies. There was no light at the political events, only the dust of insults hurled at opponents and hollow self-bragging. If anything, most of the speeches were feckless regurgitations of standard clichés: “moving the nation forward,” “delivering the dividends of democracy,” “total transformation” of this and that.
Above all, the primaries were a cash fest, occasions for candidates to splash obscene sums of looted cash on so-called delegates. Delegates were bought and sold, and they in turn traded their votes in exchange for the highest bid they could get. It was a particularly ugly example of political prostitution, of political mercantilism.
It is as if the broad confraternity of politicians had set out to offer comfort to those who argue that Nigeria is not tailored for democracy, that what we need is a benevolent dictator—or God. Nigeria is virtually bankrupt, but few politicians are insisting that we have a conversation about it at all—much less that we ponder how to get ourselves out of the jam. The price of oil has dropped sharply, but there’s nothing in the Nigerian public space about how to sustain ourselves in a post-petro-dollar time. Nigeria has squandered hundreds of billions of dollars of its oil bequest, with little or no infrastructure to show for it, but nobody is talking about effective ways of plugging the loot, holding looters accountable, or prudently husbanding what little resource we have left.
No, the country’s disappearing wealth has bred a new fever pitch among the rats racing to gnaw at what’s left. No political party, as far as I know, is seriously pushing any ideas for reducing the untenable cost of running this monstrosity we have misnamed a democracy. No party has backed the idea that legislatures, at the state and national levels, should be on part-time basis, with legislators earning sitting allowances only when they meet. Few have raised objections to the abuses of the security vote, or demanded a drastic review of Nigeria’s immunity clause, arguably the most expansive such stipulation in the world.
At a time like this, with the US shunning our oil, with our foreign reserves evaporated, with Boko Haram abducting, maiming and slaughtering victims as they please, with armed robbery as rampant as ever, with roads, universities, healthcare and electric power supply terribly wrinkled, with hundreds of thousands of graduates without jobs, one would expect this year’s elections to have an illuminating effect, a winnowing moment. You’d expect politicians to speak seriously about these crises, to proffer considered solutions, and to map roadways to a different, more hopeful future.
Instead, the politicians are strutting the length and breadth of Nigeria in festive mode, their agbada more suited to inebriated excess than to work, their speech alternating between pompous self-inflation and infantile denunciation of their opponents. On social media, oblivious to the depth of crises that have gripped their country, confused choruses of partisan commentators are having a gleeful time as their country burns. They are content to make sport of people of other ethnicities, other religious faiths, and to heap scorn on those who profess a different political loyalty. It is as if our politicians and many of us—the victims—believe that the answer to our bankrupt, bankrupted lives lies in mastering the art of proclaiming the virtuousness of our partisan cliquishness and spewing invectives and stigmas at the occupants of other tents.

By okeyndibe

Marvin67:
That's what a pastor should say. It places him in a neutral position and doesn't translate to mean that he's urging Christians not to vote for GEJ. If you look at it in that direction, you could also interpret it to mean that he's urging muslims and northerners not to vote for GMB.

The pastor just placed himself in a neutral position.

Pastor Eneche was talking about christians not voting for Jonathan and not muslims not voting for GMB because there were no muslims in d gathering to hear that Sermon and he knows d possibility of a muslim watching his program on the TV is almost zero.

summer:
Hmm. You mean you live in PH? I doubt.

yes you can but that doesn't mean it's a lie. Been living here for over 2 decades.

Like he said, the educated once know the truth but out of fear for their lives, they dare not say the truth. This is because lack of education makes it easier for their Emirs, Sultans and the rest of their religious and traditional rulers to manipulate and control (not rule) these people for their own selfish interest. But to the Emirs and Sultans, we know you are in charge and on top of your game but remember that at this point which to us all is darkest part of the night, we grieve. But in our grief, we are still hopeful and we rejoice for the sun is on its way up. The morning will come and we as a nation will laugh last. God Bless Nigeria

That is a good and welcomed development. I thank GEJ administration for this, but the million dollar question is how much is the fare, how fast is the train and where are the stations located It is not about providing alternative means of transport that are two and a half times expensive as the current means, slower and the stations are located at places where u wud have to pay close to a thousand naira as transport to get into town......Penny wise, Pound foolish.

Leave those people, pocket conscious politicians, 95% of them have no meaningful jobs outside politics that's why they are jumping from party to party to get recognition and contracts. That's why a man who ruled a state for 8years wud still be seen fighting for a senatorial position telling us he wants to add value to the lives of the members of his constituency. Oga which kind value you want add, wey u no add when u where the Lord of the manor, wey u want come add as the chief steward? And the funniest part of all is that they are suppose to be working for us, our employees.

And you claim to have the interest of Nigerians at hand Oga Jona, if you hv such wealthy friends why can't u get them to contribute to a particular cause that can add value to the lives of the masses you claim to love

Forget sentiment and your political affiliation, when it comes to HEALTH, EDUCATION AND JOB CREATION, The oda 34 shud let it go, it's CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI all the way. 13000 graduates, who are not just employed in the papers but currently receiving salaries, forget it. It's him by a long shot. I live in Port Harcourt and I know not just indigenes but even non indigenes who are beneficiaries of his administration's job creation program.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.... After killing and rioting in 2011, what was the outcome of their actions. This tells you that violence is never the answer instead it makes the matter worse and complex. IYC shouldn't listen to threats by some mischief makers in the north. Such comments by a well recognize body like IYC can even start a crisis. So IYC, you must not always reply such comments or maybe you are just trying to remind us all that you guys still exist.

Sentiment has blinded the eyes of Nigerians and no matter what, they wud follow blindly. Now I see that is not just his aides that sees this man as jesus bt his followers. Read this post and tell me there is no truth in what she has said, Jonathan's actions and inaction are chiefly responsible for the state we find ourselves.

I weep for my father's land, bad leadership has so robbed us all of our rights as citizens of this great nation. Goodluck's 100% tolerance of stealing and corruption (since he said stealing is not corruption) has made his government the most corrupt democratically elected government ever in the history of our country. A man with six years under his belt and nothing to show for it still asking me to put my faith in him, I LAUGH. Well done Mr Goodluck Ebele Azikwe Jonathan for executing the biggest heist ever.

I am based in Port Harcourt, rumuokoro to be precise, I am not a member or die hard supporter of any political party and I believe in voting for a credible candidate. Wike as every smart person both those who his victory in the polls would and wouldn't favour will tell you, is a tout. He claims to have genuine plans for the state but as most people who are conversant with Rivers politics will tell you, he was the master mind behind the PDP's rigging of the election in Rivers. Wike is a man with questionable character and at such cannot be voted into power. Wike's possibility of receiving votes, lies in the hands of those that would benefit financially from his victory. He is just a man who hungers for power that he would use in enriching himself. SAY NO TO LACK OF CREDIBILITY, SAY NO TO WIKE.

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abbakacici:
in the last 20 years christians such as United Holy Salvation Arm, lord resistance army, army of christ etc are responsible for more than 3 million death for Liberia to Sierra Leone to Rwanda to Uganda. but nobody is blaming christianity for it

This is because Christ didn't preach violence, and anybody killing in the name of christ is simply a blasphemer while Mohammed as we all know was a violent man, killing the non believers in the name of evangelism.

[quote author=ratiken post=28451117][/quote]writing this at this point in time when many people are still aggrieved and mourning their lost ones, I am disappointed and ashamed to call u a fellow christian or a fellow citizen of Nigeria. U shouldn't jst write anything because u have d ability to do that. Shun religious sentiment, shun tribalistic sentiment, shun ur political affiliations and pray for the soul of the lost ones. NOT EVERYTHING IS POLITICS. Think b4 u write

So much is being said about how the APC would kick out the PDP and how the PDP would disgrace the APC and nothing is being said about how they intend to improve the life of Nigerians and make our country a home where all its populace would be proud to come from.

Is quite funny how the Inspector General of Police a man who is suppose to be a symbol of hope to the masses is being used as a puppet or is trying to please Mr President and ends up making a mockery of his office to not just unbiased Nigerians but to the whole world. Mr Abba, please let the court decide who is the speaker or not and for now pls obey the rule of law and address Mr Tambuwal as the speaker. God bless Nigeria