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Aigbofa:
States as paired by whom? Are two states axactly alike? What is a huge debt for Ebonyi, Anambra and Imo may not be for Lagos or Ondo.
Where did you folks study your own economics?

No need engaging you anymore...

atlwireles:
You picked a mission impossible. Everyone will reap what they sow. The bible says, if you sow bountifully you will reap bountifully.

We just have to speak up first bro...silence isn't golden here...

Cc..jackeeh...come and enjoy political discuss...

Aigbofa:
Your analysis is flawed on so many levels. Not only ACN controlled states are facing the cash crunch. The problem started when Nigeria lost a major market for its oil and the prices of crude fell.
This was obviously not helped by Jonathan's mismanagement of oil revenues and the economy in general.
To single out SW states is not only simplistic but also foolish.

And this mindset of people like you fueled this article...

1)List out the areas or basis under which my analysis is flawed...don't make empty blanket arguments...

2)I did comparative analysis of states against their counterparts with similar challenges and allocations...

3)Why not counter me based on the analysis as stated above...

4)Anambra state that just increased its salary payment to workers by another 15% with NO SINGLE KOBO DEBT operates in same economy mismanaged according to you by Jonathan...

5)I singled out SW because of their hypocrisy and belief that PDP is their problem while their leaders at home in ACN/APC keep enslaving them the more...

6)How do a child from Osun state hope to enjoy same future as one from Anambra when his governor has accumulated debts that will take nothing less than 30years to clear supposing prices of oil doesn't fall any farther down

omenka:
Op your arguments and assumptions are horribly lopsided. For your enlightenment, read this report: www.punchng.com/news/unpaid-salaries-strike-imminent-in-18-states/

Haba, fear God oo.

1) Bro, this same link was what Ngeneukwenu abi Cleverly based her/his argument on to defend over 11years of ACN/APC mismanagement of Osun state treasury...So it doesn't hold any water because it has been trashed yesterday...

2)How does it exonerate the fact that ALL South-West states are neck deep into HUGE debts

3)How does it stop the huge discrepancy between states with seeming same challenges as them and same allocations faring better?

4)Based on states as paired above, I challenge you to dispute these facts are laid out by me...

Your last comment is actually meant better for you...

atlwireles:
Nigerians are ignorant and very pretentious. Jonathan is gone now, most cannot blame him for their poor social,economic and political skill. The time to pay the undertaker has come. The current economic landscape will be here for at least 24 months, if not 48.

Sole aim of this piece is simply to educate my brothers of South-West who were brainwashed into believing that PDP is their problem, while the enemy within milks them dry and subjects them including unborn generations to wanton debts with no projects to show to hardship unending... How has 16years of ACN/APC rule in Lagos being with the poor masses...Rich keeps getting richer in Lagos...Over 12years of ACN/APC rule in Osun state has left the state bastardized... So is it still now PDP as their leaders told them through wicked propaganda

Aigbofa:
What a load of bull crap. Ebonyi healthy economically? Is this a comedy routine?

Load of bull crap indeed ...Compared to Osun state as the article did...Is Ebonyi not healthy economically... Dispute this fact objectively based on the comparative analysis of those states as paired and see if your aren't erring...

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Brethren, there comes a time in a people's life when they need some introspection. A time they need to give themselves some home truth albeit bitter at first. A time when partisanship should be dropped in the gutters. A time when that ancient axiom of; "charity begins at home" should be reinvented. A time when some sheepish worshipping of politicians and tribal bigotry should be eschewed for a holistic reexamination of our sanity and ability to remain reasonable beings. A time when religious and political affiliations should not be allowed to determine our allegiance or patriotism or truth. And that time is NOW.

This article is written bearing in mind those states especially APC states who have used wicked propaganda to deceive and thwart the facts to/for their people. Masses in this region are simply smart by half; unfortunately they equate their ability to conjure up sentences as evidence of being smart, but the picture of their emptiness is made too glaring when mere speeches and empty rhetorics of politicians sway them. There hollow thought-process is shown when truth to them is first tested on the altar of religion, tribe, and political alliance before it is accepted or thrown to the dogs. Everything is politics and political to them.

South-West people of Nigeria seem to be the worst heat so far by the dwindling economic situation in the country, thanks to oil price fall in the international market. Most of the states there came from the defunct ACN now APC after the merger. Having brainwashed most of their people into believing that PDP is their problem; one begin to imagine what happened to the economy of their(ACN/APC) states, when most PDP states are still holding forth. Based on their own assessment of PDP, NONE of the ACN now APC states should be seen in such mess as it is now. Remember, states like Anambra operate under same oil economy as them, so why is that state not bastardized economically too like most South-West states?

It is a truism that ALL SOUTH-WEST states are neck deep into debts that will in some cases take over 30years to offset baring any more debts or borrowing by such states(What an inter-generational bondage). Outside, Lagos and probably Ondo state due oil derivation fund, none of these states can survive with the amount of debt they have accumulated par chance price of oil continues to fall. Debts are not necessarily bad but when no meaningful projects are on ground to justify such debts it becomes a curse. Otherwise, what is the economic benefit world's tallest talking drum when you cannot pay salaries? What's the sustainability of Opon Imo tablets? What diversity have these leaders from LGA to states achieved in their state economy independent of federal allocation?

In a nutshell, it is high time the people down South, most especially South-West begin to look inwards and ask important questions to their leaders. If Ebonyi state is still healthy economically, why should Osun state be dead already? If Enugu is still forging ahead strong economically, why should Oyo state be bleeding? If Ondo is still doing pretty well, Why should Imo state be insolvent already? If Anambra is moving on gloriously, why should Ogun state be weeping? Necessary and important questions should start popping up NOW!!! Sheepish allegiance to a political party should be eschewed forthwith.

How can most states in the South-West region be executing projects at ridiculously high amounts? How can a kilometre of road cost a billion naira and over in these South-West states, when it is even far cheaper in the swampy Niger-Delta area?

Suffice it to say, that federal government is NOT a grassroot government. We have LGA and states governments. If we cannot hold our grassroot governments accountable and keep monitoring central government, then our succour isn't near yet. To what extent, has these grassroots provided needed infrastructure and jobs to its people especially in the region under review?

Par chance, federal government of Buhari decides to bail out these seemingly economically "dead" states. I think part of the conditions should be;

1)Resignation of the governor if he has been in office for close to two years( because such debts and mismanagement was occasioned by him and not any predecessor).

2)State workforce should be directly paid from source before any balance is sent down to those state's treasury.

3)Debts of such states should be repaid by withdrawals made from source.

4)Balance after 2 & 3 above can be sent down to such states for any infrastructure development.

5)Such states should not be given option of refusal in these conditions. The masses should be priority here and not the governor's political life.

In all, charity begins at home. South-West should wake up and quit hypocritical allegiance based political sentiments. It is NOW or NEVER for them. Your problem is in individuals not in their platform.

Thanks and God bless us all...

Jonathan in and out of government; you have my respect and support...

In 2011; instead of conceding defeat, buhari and his supporters paid you back with the blood of over 800innocents shed by them...and as we were about forgetting those; boko haram came from same side...In all, you held your peace and smiled boldly through it all...

I wish to learn how to take insults without returning in same measure like you...How to remain unruffled even in the face of blackmail...thank you dear Jonathan...

doctokwus:
Of course nobody has a right to question where d funds are coming from and how much JB is being paid because d money belongs to Wike!Well done.

Hypocrite is u who sees everything right in a governor giving out unknown sums of money to a giant construction firm like JB to fill potholes,while there are staff specifically employed to do such jobs in d ministry of works.Wike will be a failure because he doesn't know what governance is all about.If Wike miraculously survives his election annulment and Rivers people don't start crying in one year time,then its not d Wike dat we all know.

Yes...have you also asked fashola and by extension ambode now that uses jagaban company to collect same revenue which ministry of internal revenue would have collected...You see who's a hypocrite now...

NgeneUkwenu:
Will the Re-filling of The Pot Holes Bring Back The Over 90 Lives He Wasted To Become A 6-Month Governor?

You supported buhari with even the blood of over 800people and youth corpers on his head and hand...notwithstanding bloods from military adventure too...Search your soul...

oluvick:
Amaechi has many questions to answer.
Honestly, he talks too much.

I think he failed because he was not just out to fight Jonathan and his wife...but wanted to demolish the structure or political family that made him whatever he is today...and in all these, he wasn't with the masses hence his humiliation at the polls...

kodded( m ): abeg bro...try to dey arrange your work abi post very well so that it would be easy and fun to read...thanks...great article...

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/interrogating-amaechis-murder-charges/

Cc. Lalasticlala. ishilove...Obinoscopy...this article is more than deserving of homepage... It will help juggle people's medulla about tales of some politicians in their bid to bring others down with themselves...

Ochereome Nnanna
THAT Rivers State will continue to be a theatre of high political drama in the coming months could be an understatement. On Tuesday, 26th March 2015, evidences of this were playing out on two television networks. On the Africa Independent Television (AIT) the crowd of the pro-People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Rivers elite who worked for the victory of Governor-elect, Barrister Nyesom Wike, backed up by former Governor Peter
Odili and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Barrister OCJ Okocha, held the fort, with Wike as the principal focus during a public lecture to usher in his administration.

And on Channels Television, their counterparts of the pro-All Progressives Congress (APC) led by the outgoing Governor Rotimi Amaechi, used the occasion of his 50th birthday anniversary and Children’s Day to gather with
their friends and well-wishers. I could spot Dr Alex Otti, the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) candidate in the Abia State governorship election who is now at the
Election Tribunal to try and reclaim his stolen mandate.

In his lengthy keynote address, Wike made it clear that he would “recover” all the state funds he claimed were looted during the eight years of Amaechi’s rule. Amaechi, who had obviously monitored the proceedings on AIT, spoke in an angry, disconcerted voice. After absolving himself of any act of corruption, he said he did not probe the government of Dr Odili (his former principal and mentor) because, according to him, people would not ask him how many people he probed while in office. They would ask him his achievements.

Let me remind us, before I go on, that Amaechi and Wike were once part of the political kingdom created by Odili when he was the Governor of Rivers State. Amaechi was the Speaker of the State House of Assembly for eight years, while Wike was an outstanding Chairman of the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area; a strategic and influential part of the greater Port Harcourt capital conurbation. Wike, a powerful grassroots politician, was
instrumental to the reclamation of Amaechi’s mandate from Sir Celestine Omehia.

Remember, Omehia was the replacement for Amaechi whom Obasanjo forced Odili to pick at a campaign rally because Obasanjo declared Amaechi’s eligibility to stand for PDP as having “developed “K”-leg? As a reward for Wike’s contributions, Amaechi appointed him his Chief of Staff. Trouble started between Amaechi and Wike when Amaechi could no longer cope with the growing clout of Wike and started looking for ways of whittling down his influence.

At his birthday event, Amaechi told a hair-raising story of how Wike allegedly killed people on his way to winning the governorship election. I quote him: “In a bid for Wike
to be governor, he hired one Atake; they killed a young man and cut his private part. They slit his throats and hung him on a tree”! I have questions for Amaechi, because not everyone who listens to his frequent loose talks is a dummy. Most of us are conversant with every major step he has taken because he has been one of the most visible, audible and controversial politicians in his weight class.

First, his assertion about not probing Odili. That is not entirely true. Why did he set up the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” headed by the late Justice Kayode Eso, who conducted a biased and kangaroo proceeding and indicted Odili without giving him adequate opportunity to defend himself? It is on record that a Rivers State High Court presided over by Justice RI Ahiakwo, later set aside the indictment of Odili, saying he
was not given fair hearing.

Besides, we know that any probe of Odili’s financial dealings during his eight-year rule will also exhume Amaechi’s connivance as a willing tool at the head of a very subservient state legislature. The same thing would happen if Wike’s stewardship in Rivers is probed.Amaechi cannot escape being a collaborator or concealer of “sins” when the going was good between him and them.

Second, this murder thing. Look at that story again, and you brim with questions. This is what I call “cock-and-bull” story. The story has no facts in it. A credible murder story will detail who committed the murder, in connivance with whom? The only clear name was Wike whose identity is public knowledge. Who was the contract murderer? Amaechi only mentioned “Atake”. The only name well-known name remotely sounding like that in
Rivers State is Ateke Tom, an ex-militant warlord. Is that the same as “Atake”? Now, what is the concrete identity of the unfortunate individual who was allegedly murdered in this gruesome manner? He must have had a name. He must have come from a community and family. He must have been murdered somewhere. If such a grisly murder had taken place and got discovered, some documentation of the crime scene must have taken place. Apart from that, there must have been credible evidence linking
this “murder” to Wike. The case ought to have been lodged with the police and charged to court. In fact, that sort of murder ought to disqualify a culprit from contesting for the office of Governor. Even if a conviction had not been achieved, the suspect would be stigmatised by being put in the dock for such a blood-curdling crime.

In spite of the clear absence of evidence and conviction, Amaechi continues to call Wike a “murderer” based
on unsubstantiated allegations. If it is true that Wike committed the offence as charged, he will be going into the gubernatorial office with his hands covered in cold blood, and he will soon be pavilioned with executive immunity for the next four to eight years! Amaechi cannot escape being named as an accessory to the alleged crimes he has been trumpeting on rooftops against Odili and Wike.

Amaechi’s unwise political disposition has cost his state dearly. A state that once boasted of N100 billion in its savings account and received the second highest revenue
from the Excess Crude Account (over N250 billion) is now owing workers salaries! That must be probed.



www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/interrogating-amaechis-murder-charges/

Cc. Lalasticlala, ishilove, Obinoscopy and other mods...abeg homepage

barcanista:
Following the footstep of Ooni Gbese of Gbeseland

Nah now you come we need to keep the tradition alive

barcanista:
That will mean indebting the state...

We open gbese repayment account like fashola;the smooth lootcrat

Chiam55:
Lmao I'm not his sister thou

so I guess the search continues for you

My pastor can't lie under the anointing ...He said the moniker is close to Truck; he didn't necessarily use the word sister... with her moniker on NL ending with 55 and beginning with letter "C"...It must be you either by association or commission

barcanista:
The trucks can't be monetised na

Really... There must be a way out finally... I can as well use them as collateral for some cool cash...why the burden of repayment will fall back on whomever his name is there

barcanista:
You can be overseeing his trucks while we run the business of Rivers Finance Ministry.

Anyway! so far I can monetize the trucks; I am in

francizy:
Well, i brought you here cuz my friend, Whynotthetruth likes you!

Yes, Chiam55; my pastor prophesied to me that I must be entangled to Truckpusher sister who's in NL with her moniker ending with 55...I just found out you're the one

barcanista:
Truckpusher is on his way to Daura to buy new trucks.

U and peppy de do-do for my back abi? Wike need to make Truckie Commissioner of Finance and sole signatory of Rivers State treasury

praise whomever is praiseworthy for your last sentence... just remind Truck where I work once he's sworn in because my services comes in handy here...square peg for square hole

Dieumerci:
Really! Blessed to always leave things worse than he met them.

That's your opinion albeit senseless to me...Pray your life becomes half as meaningful and successful as Jonathan's...

geoworldedu:
Let me expatiate better...Jonathan wished Buhari dead. He spoke thru his wife and Fayose. They wanted him dead by all means just like Haman wanted Mordecai dead. Jonathan didn't do well, so we sacked him with our PVC.

Your explanation makes no meaning to me as it is devoid of common sense...sorry....campaign is over...pray your life become half as successful & meaningful as that of Jonathan...good pm

francizy:
Hehehehe, na Chiam55?

Nah you call name ooo abeg I no like noise for here...make truck no come enter now...make I go wash my ....

francizy:
Oya e do.. From her silence, its clear she's noticed you are not part of the blackmail plot.. Ngwanu, tinye nu isi na ime uno.. Oburu pm, unu ewere mezi zie okwu.. Udo!

thanks bro...but if I send her pm; nah thunder she go use reply me and I never warn die...e get one Truck sister I dey monitor...I go use braca do the job

barcanista:
Whynotthetruth and peppyluv02, una take style de toast unaseld using quarrel format. Make una carry una big heads joor. Francizy de do peaccemaker without knowing the number of PM exchange, phone calls, text and even n*** pictures that WNTH and peppy have shared. Peppyluv02 na 3D wey I take de monitor your new cheat format. You are cheating on me.
WNTH you too like woman sef. Learn from Truckpusher and me

someone who learns from you and truck, no kinda of deliverance can rescue him

BTW nah your babe dey fall my hand...let her mind her lane biko as she warned me earlier...

Where Truck dey sef? abi Wike give am commissioner for asha*o affairs