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Aliyu Nigerians are not myopic to believe such a blatant falsehood and sheer ignominy from you. do u think we are almajiris.
time for you to shut up and work in your state.

most mischievous topic never waited for the 6th Friday to start complaining.

if you want to contest against the president you are free to contest against him. shikena

desperation by the opposition to cling to power at the federal level.*sigh in Latin*

So, for those already filling their
glasses with Alomo bitters, clinking
their glasses to say a toast for the
repose of the soul of the PDP, I am
sorry to disappoint you but that
Umbrella will not tear…at least not
yet!
I lived somewhere around Iyana
Mortuary in Abeokuta at some point of
my growing up. Not too far and too near
from my house existed a family; a family
more than the number of a football team,
almost the size of a football Academy, a
very noisy, rapturous and garrulous
bunch who always engaged in mini-riots,
major riots, brickbats and swearing
competitions.
‘The Majiyagbes’, they were called.
Everyone in the neighborhood knew
about the Majiyagbes. Err, let me say
almost everybody knew of their existence.
And who wouldn’t? The Majiyagbes were
very notorious for infighting. Every day,
there was almost always something to
fight about. The father was either fighting
his wives collectively or individually, the
wives were either fighting each other
individually or engage in tag fighting
(Fighting in pairs). The kids who were in
the lightweight category were not to be
left behind. Confusion always reigned
supreme. Everybody was so sure that the
family would disintegrate into at least 3
factions.
But they did not.
In spite of the constant and rabid
infighting between them, threats of
creating different factions or acts
resembling creation of different factions,
they did not split. Why was this?
There was something very strong holding
them together…something greater than
the madness, or over-ambition of any of
them. They always found a way to rally
around themselves whenever the need
arose.
For those already preparing to pop
Champagne, Alomo bitters, or Ogidiga
over the ‘breaking’ of the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP), I am sorry to
disappoint you…You might have to wait to
drink your Champagne or Alomo and you
might get to never drink it.
On Saturday, 31 August 2013 while the
PDP convention was going on and Abuja
was literally made to stand still, a group
of losers who glaringly saw that they
have/had lost out in the scheming of
things in the PDP decided to go
somewhere else and announce a faction
of their own PDP.
News filtered out that the PDP had
broken up and our twitter warlords went
into frenzy. To them, that is the end of
the evil PDP. They reasoned aloud that
with these developments, the All
Progressives Congress (APC) will stroll
leisurely into Aso Rock in 2015 while Mr
Jonathan will go back to Otuoke and
purchase a canoe so as to continue with
the job of his forefathers; FISHING!
However in this piece, I will attempt to
take a rather incisive and cursory look at
the situation of things in the PDP. How
did things get so messy? What is Atiku’s
grouse? How important is Atiku in the
scheme of things? Can Atiku and the 7
Governors lead to the fall of the PDP? Do
they have guts or as Don Vito Corleone
said in the Godfather “Does he have
balls”? These amidst others are some of
the issues I will attempt to address in this
piece.
There is however a caveat: I will annoy
many of you with this piece. In fact, I
know I am annoying some of you already
and you already wish you can lay your
hands on me. However, if you are so
angry with this piece, I expect 3 things
from you:
Write a rejoinder and join issues with
me. Or go on twitter and rant about this
useless boy who won’t join people in
attacking the PDP
If you do not have the intellectual
wherewithal to write a rejoinder, you can
copy Uncle Femi Fani-Kayode’s style by
‘hiring’ voltrons to fight on your behalf.
Or you can vent your anger by
smashing your laptop or phone or
whatever you are reading this with.
Having said that, I will now go ahead and
distill some issues for determination. I
will also attempt to ‘lift the veil’ behind
the issues for determination and decipher
Why these things are happening, Who
will gain from this, Which person/persons
should be blamed and How to solve the
impasse.
ISSUES
1. What is the Background of the
problems in the PDP?
2. Who are those behind the new ‘PDP’
and what are their grouses?
3. How powerful and relevant is Atiku
now?
4. Who gains most from this impasse?
5. Will the PDP fall apart as a result of
this?
6. Who will be the greatest loser in all
these?
ISSUE 1
What is the background of the current
problems in the PDP?
It stems from the main fact that some
people who had hitherto has unfettered
access to the control of the PDP suddenly
became outsiders. These group of people
felt that because of the President’s
perceived weakness, they will seize the
party’s machinery from him and then
make him to be at their mercy.
However, the President isn’t as dumb as
many believe. As a President who wants a
second term, he knows the importance of
taking charge of the party machinery. He
took effective control of the major organs
of the PDP namely a) National working
Committee” and b) the “Board of
Trustees” of the PDP. The fact that some
of these people lost out in the power
game is the cause of the imbroglio that is
now playing out.
ISSUE 2
Who are those behind the new faction of
the PDP and what exactly is the grouse?
What is the main motive behind their
actions?
Spearheading the renegades is washed
politician and perennial political
prostitute: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Others
are the Governors of Rivers, Kwara,
Adamawa, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and
Niger States. With them is Olagusoye
Oyinlola (Who has been crying since he
was removed by a Court as PDP general-
Secretary) and some other disgruntled
but ambitious elements.
What do they want? Just one thing-
POWER!
It is an open secret that Atiku wants the
PDP Presidential ticket but he knows he
cannot get it as long as GEJ contests
against him. The same can be said of Sule
Lamido of Jigawa who wants to run for
President with Rotimi Amaechi as his
running mate. Meanwhile, Rabiu
Kwankwanso of Kano harbours the same
ambition. Oyinlola has found himself
consigned to the backdoor in the South
West PDP and he earnestly wants to be
‘important’ again.
To achieve their aims of getting ‘POWER’,
these men decided that the best option is
to form another political party (PDM) and
also to form a splinter group of the PDP
since they know they CANNOT wrestle
control of the party from the President.
Hence their decision to form a ‘parallel’
PDP which is an illegal association
anyway!
ISSUE 3
Since Atiku is the main person behind
this new ‘PDP’ and also the new political
party ‘PDP’, how powerful is he? Is he so
powerful as to successful wrestle power
from a sitting President?
I am of the opinion that Atiku’s days as a
politician are EFFECTIVELY OVER. He
self-destructed the moment he started
‘tackling’ his boss, Olusegun Obasanjo
when he was the Vice President because
of his ambition to be President. This same
Atiku left his party (PDP) and joined the
Action Congress. When he got the ticket
to fly the Action Congress’ flag as
Presidential aspirant, Atiku suddenly
developed diarrhea of the mouth and said
many bad things against the PDP. He said
he would rather die than join them
again.
Fast forward some years later, Atiku in
‘limpopo’ style limped back to the PDP,
ate his vomit and even licked the ground.
He went back begging the same PDP he
called unprintable names. On his return,
he probably looked at himself and said “I
should be able to defeat that clueless and
shoeless man from Otuoke for the PDP
Presidential ticket”. Against all common
sense and without shame, Atiku contested
against GEJ.
What happened afterwards can neither be
called rape or consensual sex. GEJ beat
daylight out of Atiku and Atiku was
buried alive politically.
He has lost all relevance in the Political
circles but he has failed to realize it. It is
even said in some circles that Atiku
cannot win an election in his local
government.
I believe this conceited and delusional
politician who lacks principles has no
‘powers’ neither does he have the
‘followership’ to give the PDP problems.
ISSUE 4
With keen interest, I watched one of the
Twitter champions analysing on Twitter
yesterday. To him, the APC will gain from
the ‘factionalization’ of the PDP. I refuse
to agree.
The Governors of the States who are part
of the splinter groups are even Governors
of the States the APC are relying on for
votes. They will share the votes with the
APC (votes from Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto,
Borno, Zamfara) and leave GEJ’s PDP to
take a clean sweep of the South East,
South-South (INCLUDING RIVERS), some
states in the South West (e.g Ondo, Oyo,
Lagos), the Middle-Belt and some parts of
the core North.
Those thinking GEJ will suffer as a result
of this ‘faction’ should think again and
again.
ISSUE 5
Will the PDP breakup? I don’t think so.
Inspite of the ‘faction’, I still believe that
the PDP is one. Those people that formed
the Splinter PDP already registered the
PDM some weeks ago. I do not see them
as members of the PDP any longer, I only
see them as people who want to make a
little noise before they finally leave the
PDP.
Will the PDP miss the Governors?
NO! One thing about the PDP that people
overlook is that it goes beyond a single
individual. The PDP has grown to become
an institution which will outlive any
person at all. I know that for every PDP
Governor who wants to leave the party,
there are tens of very powerful PDP
people in the state who will ensure that
the Governor’s impact is not felt. For
every Kwankwanso in Kano, you have
Ahmed Makarfi, for every Rotimi
Amaechi, we have Austin Opara, Nyesom
Wike, Peter Odili, Abiye Sekibo and a
number of very powerful PDP stalwarts.
The PDP is not a one man party unlike
the APC which is reliant on Bola Tinubu.
Those Governors will not be missed.
ISSUE 6
Who is the biggest loser after all these?
Atiku Abubakar?? Atiku is down already
and he that is down needs fear no fall.
The biggest loser is Rotimi Amaechi of
Rivers State.
He is allowing himself to be used as a
pawn in the hands of the Northerners
and he will be discarded when they no
more need him or the strike a deal with
the President. And by then, the EFCC will
be waiting for him.
WAY FORWARD
I am of the opinion that the PDP
umbrella is safe and that the 7 Governors
leaving the PDP will not be missed.
Like the Majiyagbe family, the PDP is a
‘coven’ and there is a very strong bond
that ties the members together. It will
take an effort from the Heavens before
the party will split and become History.
The over-ambition, over-bearing attitude
or the delusion of some people will not
be enough to break the PDP up.
I also believe there is still time for those 7
Governors to make peace with the
President. It is a good thing that all these
is happening now. It gives the party time
to mend fences before elections.
So, for those already filling their glasses
with Alomo bitters, clinking their glasses
to say a toast for the repose of the soul of
the PDP, I am sorry to disappoint you but
that Umbrella will not tear…at least not
yet!
—————————–
Ayokunle Odekunle , a Lagos-based
lawyer tweets from @Oddy4real

By Ogunjimi James
Taiwo
August 28th, 2013 by Larigold
Ever since the All Progressives Congress
(APC) was registered, we have been
subjected to non-stop tales of a mystical
democratic journey beginning in Nigeria.
Admirers of the party chieftains, loyalists,
and gullible Nigerians have bombarded us
over and over again with tales of the
inevitability of change in Nigeria because of
the emergence of APC. On closer inspection of the constituents of
APC and their antecedents, we see clearly
that their words are not in tandem with their
actions of the past and the actions of their
current flag bearers. You see, when people
realize the gullible nature of their audience,
they spin tales knowing for a fact that their
audience will swallow their lies hook, line
and sinker. That is exactly the scenario
between APC and the Nigerian populace. It
is easy for Tinubu to start giving speeches
today on a so-called democratic journey
beginning in Nigeria, it is easy for him to
lash out at past military leaders, but the
question is what was his own ACTIVE
(emphasis on the word ‘active’) role in
enthroning this democracy? After the results
of the June 12 1993 presidential elections
were annulled, although Tinubu became a
founding member of the pro-democracy
National Democratic Coalition (NADECO),
which mobilized support for the restoration
of democracy and recognition of the June
12results, less than a year after, he went
into exile in 1994 and only returned to the
country in 1998 after the death of Sani
Abacha to benefit from the active struggle of
true fighters for democracy. So when we
hear tales of him championing the cause of
democracy, we must ask if some clowns
are trying to re-write history. When he was
elected on AD ticket in 1999, he promised
10,000 housing units for the POOR
(emphasis being on the word ‘poor’), but as
of today in Lagos state, a Mega city for the
rich is what is being delivered. The El-Rufai
vs Buhari saga is another pointer to
deception. An El-Rufai that had spoken so
much about Buhari being unelectable and
levelled so many allegations against him
now sits at the same table with him in the
same party and suddenly, everything seems
to be ok. El-Rufai said Buhari is insensitive
to Nigeria’s diversity and his focus is
parochial. He claimed that in 1984, Buhari
allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his
ADC’s father to enter Nigeria unchecked at
a time the country was exchanging old
currency for new, that against all canons of
legal decency, he used retroactive laws to
execute three young men for drug-peddling
after they were convicted by a military
tribunal and not regular courts of law, that
Buhari was so high handed that he gave
himself and his officials immunity even from
truthful reporting, that the obnoxious Decree
4, against which truth was no defence, was
used to jail journalists and attempt to cow
the media as a whole, etc. The question now
is, have all those allegations suddenly been
solved? Has Buhari stopped being
parochial? Has his attitude to our diversity
changed? Why did El-Rufai say all these?
Was it for the sake of the country? If yes,
what is our fate now when the same
‘whistle-blower’ now flocks with the man
he warned us against? Another saga is the
Tinubu vs Nuhu Ribadu issue. When Mallam
Nuhu Ribadu was EFCC Chairman, he had a
lot to say about Bola Tinubu. In September
27 2006, Ribadu claimed that Tinubu “is a
looter with international dimension.” The
same Ribadu went on to contest the
Presidential election under the same party
as Tinubu. Is that to say that he has
suddenly been absolved of all ‘charges’? If
the courts of law have covered it up, has the
court of conscience in which Ribadu claims
he has absolute belief cleared him? The
mother of all deceits is the 8-point agenda
released by the party. If you’ve seen
deception in the past, this one beats it
hands down. The manifesto is filled with
plans that are in direct opposition to their
antecedents and their current actions. APC
promised to provide free education. I think
that should go down as the joke of the year.
In Lagos state, tuition fee was jerked up by
over 300%, students pay as high as
400,000. A look at the post-utme exam
written sends the message to us clearly. In
some departments, only 3 people applied for
admissions because of the hike in fees. In
Ogun state, the early part of this year was
filled with protests over the same issues of
tuition fees. These lies just cannot be
accepted; it’s an assault on our
sensibilities. They promised accelerated
economic growth. In APC states, is the
economy growing? Are the masses happy?
Are the states not in debt? When they talk
about free health care, we need to ask them
to explain. Is it in Ekiti, where patients carry
standing fan to hospitals? Or the health
care is so wonderful in Lagos that Asiwaju
couldn’t have knee surgery there? See, we
know that with the current political
atmosphere in Nigeria, coupled with the
gullible nature of an average Nigerian, the
possibility is high that APC will win come
2015, but we are just asking them to stop
insulting us by selling these crap to us. We
refuse to believe in self-acclaimed change
agents who have done nothing to change
their immediate environment. We refuse to
believe in change agents who have not
settled the problem of corruption amongst
them. And we definitely refuse to believe in
Change agents who will sacrifice their
gullible followers in a bid to lay their hands
on their share of the national cake.
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me: hullerj@yahoo.com

transformation all the way join the train.

I am saying that Nigerians must stand
together to defend the Presidential
institution. On his own part the President
continues to take action to extend the
frontiers of our freedom; His politics is
clear cut and it is anchored on:
deepening our democracy.
A friend called me from Gboko, Benue State,
insisting that we aides of President Jonathan
must do more “to defend the President and
the institution of the presidency”.
Specifically he said that negative “words are
used on a daily basis by desperate
individuals who are out to capture power and
destroy our country”.
My dear brothers, sisters and friends here
gathered in Mark Zukerbergs’ Stadium, I told
my friend that though President Jonathan
has no newspaper, radio or TV Station outlet
of his own to defend himself and propagate
his views without distortion, ordinary
Nigerians will stand with and defend him
when it matters most.
The words my friend mentioned have been
used to unjustly describe leaders around the
world.
Specifically I drew his attention to President
Barrack Obama the first black to be president
of the USA and his travails of
“incompetence” “cluelessness” and
“corruption”.
I said it maybe because Jonathan is also a
pioneer on account of him being the first
minority from the South to become President!
(quite an unexpected event that only God can
explain).
When you put yourself forward for service I
reminded my friend, you become a target for
all kinds of diatribes. My friend was not in
the mood for excuses, “rambling and noise”
he said and asked: “what has Obama got to
do with the insults been heaped on our
president?”
I said to him quiet a bit! A quick Google
search at 0.29seconds speed on “Clueless
Obama” revealed a hit of fifteen million
seven hundred thousand references
(15,700,000); a search for “Incompetent
Obama”, at 0.35seconds gives three million
nine hundred thousand (3,900, 000) hits,
while “corrupt Obama administration” will
grant you a whooping fifty-four million, eight
hundred thousand (54,800,000) hits.
Now if you add the latest word in Nigerias’
political lexicon “Kindergarten” and do a
search on “Kindergarten Obama” you will get
Seven million eight hundred and forty
thousand (7,840,000) hits at 0.25seconds!
These are citizens of the most powerful
nation on earth expressing themselves! As
we expand the frontiers of our freedom and
deepen our democracy, more of such high
decibel negativism is to be expected.
The result from Google on GEJ says that: two
million one hundred and fifty thousand
(2,150,000) hit by persons who allege or
wrote on “corruption” dragging GEJ into the
piece (compared to 54, 800, 000 against
Obama); one hundred and seventy-six
thousand (176,000) below the belt punch on
our beloved President on “incompetence”,
compared to (3,900,000 punches on Obama),
Seventy-four thousand five hundred (74,500)
slams on “clueless” (compared to
15,700,000 on Obama) and Eighty five
thousand five hundred (85,500) knocks on
“Kindergarten” GEJ (compared to 7,840,000
kindergarten Obama even though most refer
to Obama visiting kindergarten schools!).
I am saying that Nigerians must stand
together to defend the Presidential
institution. On his own part the President
continues to take action to extend the
frontiers of our freedom; His politics is clear
cut and it is anchored on: deepening our
democracy. He has “no enemies to fight”, All
votes must count and that “one man one
vote, one woman one vote and one youth,one
vote” in addition to “a dialogue based
inclusive approach to decision making”.
The current diatribes to detract and distract
GEJ from continuing the good work of
building our economy through Agriculture,
Aviation, Transportation, Energy Security,
Trade and Investment, Education, Peace and
concensus building etc, may have been
designed to delay Nigeria’s forward march.
His desire and commitment in delivering on
critical infrastructure (rail, roads, airports,
electricity etc) plus his abiding focus in
strengthening our institutions especially,
NHRC, INEC, EFCC, ICPC, NASS, etc. (no
interference) is what will eventually count.
The DNA of good governance can only be
transferred from one government to the other
and from one generation to another when
governance institutions are allowed to grow
strong and complement one another!
————————-
Oronto Natei Douglas is the Presidential
Adviser on Research, Strategy &
Documentation.

the problem of Nigeria is Nigerians, purge yourself of corruption first. the police is the product of the society.

APC in action.

In a recent interview
on an online channel TV360, the current
Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike
Amaechi stated that President Jonathan and
his wife were bent on removing him from
office as Governor of Rivers State.
See video here http://tv360nigeria.com/
tv30-exclusive-my-problems-with-
president-jonathan-amaechi/
As indigenes of Rivers state and people who
understand the origin and nature of the
current crisis in Rivers State, We were in awe
and were rudely shocked. We could not
believe that the elected governor of our state
and one who is supposed to be the political
leader of the ruling party in Rivers state
would denigrate himself to so lie during a
recorded media interview. It was a shameful
thing to watch and more than anything else,
gave us another reason to add to many
others that Amaechi was not fit to be a
political leader who should have built the
political skills to manage men and
relationships.
Even though many of us have known that his
strategy was to rope-in the President and
win cheap sympathy from a section of the
media in the South-West and Lagos
specifically, this direct affront on the
President was clearly a no-brainer and a
dirty below the belt hit which portrayed
Rivers people in poor light as being run by a
very flippant governor who does not think
before he talks.
We have listened to some of his colleagues
such as Jigawa’s Sule Lamido and Ekiti’s
Kayode Fayemi and none of them talks as
recklessly as our Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
Ekiti’s Kayode Fayemi is a lot more cultured,
intellect founded and careful with words. Not
so with the Governor from Rivers State who
incidentally graduated with a degree in
English Language from the University of Port
Harcourt.
We have heard Amaechi gave just too many
reasons why he thinks the Presidency is
fighting him. We have heard him say it is
because he had previous disagreements with
the President’s wife bordering on the
demolition of certain waterfronts in Rivers
State. We have also heard him say that it is
because the President’s wife wants him to
confer with her on certain state policies. We
have also heard him say that it is because of
his stance on establishment of the sovereign
wealth fund. We have also heard him say
that it is because of his stand of the over
bloated fuel subsidy claims. We have also
heard him say that it is because of his
decision to run for NGF Governorship. Not
done yet, we have also heard him say that it
because the Presidency suspects that he
intends to run for the Presidency or is Vice
Presidency in 2015?
How many reasons will Amaechi give on why
he thinks the Presidency is fighting him?
Curiously, in all his vicious and nauseous
attempt to rope-in and incriminate the
Presidency in the crisis in Rivers State
through his very reckless rhetoric, we have
never for once heard Governor Rotimi
Amaechi explain to Rivers people or
Nigerians why he is at war with his former
Chief of Staff and now Minister of State for
Education Chief Nyesom Wike. Rotimi
Amaechi has cunningly and deliberately
refused to tell Rivers people and Nigerians
why there is lost love with his former
confidant Nyesom Wike. Neither has he ever
explained why Nyesom Wike is bent on
bringing him down in spite of Nyesom Wike’s
very loud and defiant media briefings where
he has directly attacked Amaechi. The
question is, why is Amaechi scared of hitting
at Nyesom Wike? What is he afraid of?
It was at a youth program in Ekiti state that
Governor Amaechi said that Nigerians are
too timid for a revolution and that the nation
is almost in a dictatorship.
How ironic. Are Rivers people also too timid
for a revolution? Does he think that Rivers
people are happy about the tens of billions of
naira wasted so far on the proposed Rivers
Mega Hospital which is yet to get off the
ground? Does he think that Rivers people are
happy about the fact that a project which
was supposed to be a (Public-Private-
Partnership) PPP project has suddenly
become a contract awarded to the supposed
PPP partner Clinotech Canada?
Does Governor Amaechi think that Rivers
people are happy about the more than N20
bn already spent on the Rivers Monorail for a
less than 5 km stretch and just pillars to
show thus far? Aren’t these good enough
reasons for Rivers people to begin a
revolution?
How many people know that the initial PPP
partner for the monorail project, a company
called STI Group and facilitated by a former
Governor of Rivers State General Anthony
Ukpo had chickened out of the project
because they felt Rivers State was not yet
ready for that kind of heavy financial drag
down and the existing support infrastructure
constraints?
More than 90 per cent of internal roads in
Port Harcourt are at various stages of
hopeless disrepair. From Mile One Diobu to
Mile Two to Mile Three and then Old GRA and
even the New GRA are over burdened with
bad internal roads even though billions of
naira had been previously budgeted for these
roads. Isn’t this a good enough reason for
Rivers people to begin a revolution against
Governor Amaechi’s government?
Whatever happened to the hundreds of
millions earmarked for the Operation Zero
Pothole Project? Did Amaechi punish the
Commissioner of Works who was
responsible for such a scam? No. Instead,
the Commissioner was sent to the house of
representatives where he is now House
Chairman overseeing the Downstream
Commitee.
Infact, Governor Amaechi had himself told a
group of clergymen at the Royal House of
Grace Church or so that the Operation Zero
Pothole was used as an opportunity by some
to embezzle money. The question again is,
did he punish those who were responsible?
Again, NO.
Visitors to Port Harcourt have seen some
fancy model school buildings strategically
located at visible parts of Port Harcourt
township. They look very good. They were
built at the cost of One hundred and twenty
(120) million naira each and there is one in
almost each community in Rivers State.
The truth is that apart from those in Port
Harcourt metropolis and its environs such as
Tai & Eleme, the others (in the hinterlands)
are at varying levels of decay and
abandonment. Some have been abandoned
while others were improperly completed and
left to decay. Some have even been overrun
by grasses and bushed. I am sure the people
in these communities are a little too timid
else they would have begun their own
revolution by now.
At the Ekiti Program, Governor Amaechi also
used the opportunity to tag the Jonathan
administration as some sort of dictatorship.
Some of us find that funny coming from a
character such as Governor Amaechi. It was
Governor Amaechi who suspended local
government chairmen because they were
having a meeting with someone who he
considered his opponent. It was Governor
Amaechi who revoked the Certificate of
Occupancy of buildings that he perceived
were being used by opposition elements for
meetings in Rivers State. It was Governor
Amaechi who suspended a local government
chairman for being loyal to the Minister of
State for Education.
So how can an Amaechi call a Jonathan a
dictator? It beats us.
We have other questions. Infact too many to
list out here.
Was it President Jonathan or his wife that
caused Amaechi to fall out with his former
confidant and Chief of Staff?
Was it President Jonathan or his wife that
caused Amaechi to be at war with many of
the elders and key stakeholders of Rivers
State PDP?
If the President is behind the crisis in Rivers
State, would he have just five (5) house
members behind him?
We believe that Governor Rotimi Chibuike
Amaechi have set out to gravely undermine
the office and person of the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria and this is not a
good thing.
It is not in the nature and tradition of Rivers
people to disrespect, undermine or malign
those who have set to provide leadership
over us and if Governor does not retrace his
step and apologise to the President
immediately, we will have no choice but to
mobilise Rivers youths to publicly disrespect,
undermine and disgrace him.
The truth is, time will tell IF Amaechi is his
own worst enemy.
Written By : The New Rivers Alliance (TNRA)
Douglas Akarolo – President, River
Redemption Group & Leader, TNRA
Eben Amadi – President, Rivers Youth
Coalition & Sec-General TNRA

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fashola just portrayed the foolishness of his party Acn (Apc) who diversionary tactics is to politicise Every issue.

I wonder why this four Northern Govs did not junket around Nigeria in search of peace when the boko haram crisis was at it peak, why didn't nyako take charge of his state allowing security situation to detiorate. there are all fooling themselves.

that was the original mace I wonder where you got the version of your story from

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Yeah a good one from metuh.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Personnel records of former and current members of Nigeria's top domestic spy agency, including home addresses and names of immediate family members, leaked onto the Internet in a threatening message that claimed to come from a radical Islamist sect that's killed hundreds of people this year alone, The Associated Press has learned.

The leak of personal data of more than 60 past and current employees of Nigeria's State Security Service remained easily accessible on the Internet for days and had details about the agency's director-general, including his mobile phone number, bank account particulars and contact information for his son. Many of agents listed who could be reached by the AP said they received no official warning from the spy agency that their information had been posted online nor been otherwise alerted. The material has been deleted from the comment section of a website, but the security breach astonished veterans and calls into question whether Nigeria's intelligence community, whose agents already have released suspected terrorists out of religious and ethnic sympathies, are too compromised from within to stop the violence now plaguing Africa's most populous nation.

"This is a national embarrassment," said one Nigerian intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as information about the leak was not to have been made public.

Marilyn Ogar, a spokeswoman for the State Security Service, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday about the leak.

The State Security Service, created in 1986 by then-military ruler Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, monitors domestic dissent in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation of more than 160 million people. Though geared toward stopping terrorism and destabilizing coups, the agency routinely faces criticism for targeting government critics. In Abuja, Nigeria's capital, the agency operates out of cars made to look like the many green taxis that roam the streets. Plain-clothed agents of the service routinely question foreign journalists at airports, border crossings and on city streets if they see reporters conducting interviews. Agents carrying assault rifles often guard major events in the country.

Many agents for the typically secretive agency are preoccupied with concealing their identities, as most try to blend unnoticed into society.

The information leak came in two postings earlier this month on a website that provides rewritten news on Nigeria. The first posting threatened to kill agents of the State Security Service on behalf of Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect responsible for more than 660 killings this year alone in Nigeria. The second posting simply offered a block of text containing biographical and other details about the agents.

Though the comments have been removed, the AP is not identifying the website involved as cached versions of the comments remain online and intelligence service agents have been killed by Boko Haram members in the past.

The list includes former and current agents across the country, including Director-General Ekpeyong Ita. Those reached by the AP who were willing to talk expressed disbelief that sensitive information like that could make its way to the Internet.

"I was shocked to see my details posted on the Internet," said one former agent, who declined to be named out of safety concerns. "I've not heard anything from anybody. I was surprised that such information could be leaked."

Another man on the list said he simply once served as a doctor to help the agency on an on-call basis only. The list appeared to include lower-ranking agents, as well as one-time state directors for the agency.

Some of those contacted suggested that the list appeared to come from the agency's pension department, as it mostly included retirees and listed bank account information for nearly all those named.

The release of the information comes as Nigeria's intelligence agencies have made a series of blunders in trying to fight Boko Haram in Africa's most populous country, with some likely influenced by ethnic or religious sentiments. Intelligence agencies allegedly released a suspected Islamic radical in 2007 who later masterminded Boko Haram's suicide car bombing of the U.N. headquarters in August 2011 that killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 100 others, officials previously told the AP. A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable also show U.S. officials complained in 2008 about Nigeria's government quietly releasing other suspects into the custody of Islamic leaders as part of a program it called "Perception Management."

Another U.S. diplomatic cable complains that State Security Service agents nearly let a suspected bomb maker trained by the Somali terror group al-Shabab onto an international flight, despite an Interpol notice for his arrest. The agents who allegedly tried to release Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed "not only knew about the Interpol notice, but simply said they did not want to hold him any longer," the February 2010 cable read.

Ahmed, an Eritrean, pleaded guilty to charges in June in a U.S. federal court that he supported terrorism by associating with al-Shabab, a terror group with links to al-Qaida. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

Most of those on the leaked list of agents reached by the AP said no one from the federal government or the spy agency warned them that their personnel information had appeared on the Internet. Instead, colleagues and other former agents called each other to spread the news and later contacted the State Security Service themselves to report the breach.

It is unclear if the person who posted the information online really does have ties to Boko Haram, which has targeted security officials in the past. Violence has been centered mostly in the country's Muslim north. One retired agent who spoke to AP said he was grateful he lives in the largely Christian south, away from the sect's attacks.

"It's worrying that they have access to that," the agent said. "Those living in Abuja (and the north) are the ones who should living in fear."

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Bashir Adigun reported from Abuja, Nigeria. Associated Press writer Yinka Ibukun contributed to this report.

When el-rufai was the DG of the bureau of public enterprise he used his position to buy government properties where he under valued them and sold them to himself.

Abuja— Possible reasons why the north appears to be angry with President Goodluck Jonathan emerged, yesterday, with a revelation by the President of the Arewa Youth Forum, Gambo Gujungu, that the north has been marginalised by the government.

Speaking exclusively with Vanguard, Gujungu maintained that they would no longer tolerate the continued exclusion of the region from major government development and empowerment programmes, which appear to have been skewed in favour of the Niger Delta.

Beyond that, the youth leader described as unacceptable the growing poverty and underdevelopment in the North that have given rise to anger and violence, thereby stalling the economy of the region with the Federal Government doing little or nothing about it.

The Arewa leader said: “We are really angry with this government because we feel marginalised in its scheme of things.

“We are all Nigerians who should be treated fairly and equally by the government but a certain section of this government has been adequately taken care of while the rest languish in abject poverty.”

He said the lopsided distribution of amenities and opportunities has given the impression that the Presidency is catering for a certain ethnic group in the country to the detriment of the rest.

 vanguard.

Must lai mohammed always make noise?

The solution to nigeria's problem is to practice real fiscal federalism where the resources in the domain of a state belongs to the state and the state have more powers patterned like the USA which we claim to be copying, let ♏ε̲̣̣̣̥ see how some states will be eyeing others resources and not work for thiers instead of waiting for month end to share money from abuja and go black to sleep.

Was in an office in school today and they said GEJ is weak for not bringing down the whole borno state and arresting IBB I laughed.

Check george akume's record as a crook who is being tried by the efcc in court and also ACN mminority leader, only in nigeria crooks tell their fellow crooks they are thieves.

The Presidency on Wednesday refuted a report that it purchased 200 exotic cars for the African First Ladies Summit which formally opens in Abuja on Thursday.
In a statement by Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Dr. Reuben Abati, the Presidency said the report in a national newspaper (not PUNCH) was not correct.
It said, “The true facts of the matter are as follows:
“The African First Ladies Peace Mission which is holding its summit in Abuja is a Non-Governmental Organisation.
“Its activities are funded by stakeholders and members of the private sector who support and identify with its objectives.
“In accordance with its modus operandi, the AFLPM set up several committees, including a finance committee to raise funds and sponsorship for the organisation of its Abuja Summit.
“As part of its own contributions to the successful hosting of the summit by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Coscharis Motors Ltd. offered to provide some cars for the event at no cost to the organisers or the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“Under an agreement signed by the committee and Coscharis Motors, all the cars will be returned to the company after the summit.
“As indicated in the body of the report, the editors of Daily Trust were apparently well aware that they had no facts to support the claim in their banner headline that the Federal Government bought the cars in question.
“Daily Trust admits in the report that it could not confirm if the cars were ‘bought outright or hired’ yet it went ahead to publish the totally unsubstantiated headline claim – “FG buys 200 cars for first ladies summit.”

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Only crooks makes noise in nigeria, the house of rep is stinking with corruption, they are fighting gej because he reduced there constituency project allowance from 40million to 20million and due process must be follow in awarding the contracts, a departure from the past where they award the contracts to there companies or simple pocket the money.sorry not business as usual.

When last did bakare preach the message of salvation in his church or an anionting service, as a member I rather listen to discussants on tv or radio then coming to church to hear political issues again.

Progressiveness is working, oyo state can't pay minimum wage and needs to sack workers to meet up. So shameful public funds is readily available for few, not for the masses.
Assuming it was a PDP state the likes of elfufai,omojuwa etc could have be awashed with rants on the social media.why haven't lai mohammed issued a statement to condemn such as he always does.

Now the opposition should learn from Adams and learn to call a spade, spade this is political maturity not some amateurs like elrufai the political dropout.