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9jatriot:
Being killed or jailed for centuries for criticizing?? Can you at least not distort facts or tell outright lies.

Well whatever I said was in genuine concern for the OP, no politics on this one.

Yes just for criticizing buhari; they were jailed..ask Nduka Irabor & co...Tai Solarin etc...Even now; AIT is being threatened for airing a documentary on events during his reign as head of state...

AkaGum:
I worked with Rockson Engineering PH some years back ,i was posted and lived on this site(Egbema). i was an electrical supervisor then

on site. so i can tell the story. in fact as we speak now i work with the largest gas turbine maker in the world in Nigeria who supplied those

90% of Egbema equipment.

there is a lot of sham going on in this PDP led administration and that is one of it. the same goes for Alaoji- Aba, Gbarin -Bayelsa.


all this commissioning this and commissioning that none in working. people make una open una eyes oh b4 its too late.

Can you look at the list of those who were incharge when this plant was commissioned and tell me where they are now?....They are all in APC now and they are your new brides and promoters of Buhari presidential ambition...GEJ just shrugged all of them off hence he's bound to move faster development-wise while buhari just accumulated all the baggage and burdens of Nigeria... GEJ is the sure way bro...

attacker231:
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Did i reveal your identity? I am only pointing out your lies and hypocrisy here, why must you lie just to score cheap points. Be clean and support what you believe in instead of opening rubbish threads to wipe up sentiments. Grow up

Why not include his passport, residential cum home address and maybe his next of kin with parents identities too just to show us that you know him while throwing your empty tantrums...childishness!!!

jomoh:
Well simply put, the Buhari of the past was said to be too rigid to govern a democratic government. Hence he was named a DICTATOR that can never change--AIT/NTA.

Now the Buhari of the past has presented himself as a reformed Democrat willing to negotiate as democrats do. Yet some people are still unhappy.

Well the amiable Gen. said it before. "If you don't like me, you're free to join the other party or the mushroom parties and vote against me"---Watch it on AIT/NTA.

The man knows his worth and credentials he's not begging for your votes. If you believe he's got it vote for him and if you think he's not got it vote against him. That's why they call it democracy.

To get to the top in a corrupt environment, you have no choice but to whine and dine with the Devil. GEJ did same with innocent mien of "goodluck" and we all gullibly supported him because he was relatively unknown but his kinsmen from Bayelsa were the first to kick against him cos they knew better. He proved to be a greater DEVIL to the extent that almost all the known devils in the country deserted him for the General. Prof Wole Soyinka described him as "a madman with a cigarette lighter in a filling station". Even one of the greatest DEVILs in the history of this great nation declared himself a saint compared to him.

This time around, its a different ball game entirely. Unlike the unknown angel who turned out to be a great DEVIL, GMB is well known (to some people as a devil) to most people and we know what he's capable of doing to the devils surrounding him. We believe him to be a white pap that will come out of a black pot.

Once again its democracy everyone should have the freedom to choose. All we ask for from GEJ (if we are to go by his personal description of being a democrat) is to give us the freedom to choose and decide who leads us from May 29.

First bro, it is good that you be sure before ascribing statements to individuals as you blindly did here eg Wole Soyinka never said those...

On the other part of this epistle of yours; be sure you didn't even comprehend barcanista's response to egift...In that No 4; he was emphasizing a compromised buhari who seem to have lost touch with all he stood for in the past...go back and read it again bro...

barcanista:
1. I have been writing about the failures and shortcomings of Jonathan and the PDP(though I left out the positives). I wasn't wrong. But lemme add that I criticised the government for not going so hard on BH(Check my points on why I support Buhari). Today, the story of BH is different, the government is coming hard on them. But I talked more on Buhari positives/managing his image on nl and disputed some propaganda.

2. I have no reason to apologise to Jonathan when I never lied on him. I said he wasn't too hard on fighting corruption for instance. I also talked about how the economic growth is yet to be felt on the masses(this point Mrs Alison reitrated few days ago). My defection to PDP only made me to appreciate the good done so far by the government, suggest ways for improvement, constructively criticise and expose the double standard/hypocrisy of the APC. I have never said GEJ has done excellently(Majority of GEJites won't say such either except when in comparism with APC).

3. I don't play zombie-like politics where I say things out of politics. My number 1 and 2 spoke in-depth of my position.

4. When I look at Buhari's antecedent as a candidate, I see a patriotic citizen and an astute administrator. GEJ even spoke well of Buhari. Many people have their own view of him but his assertiveness and other leadership attributes makes even his critics marvel. As ANPP and CPC candidates, Buhari was in firm control of the party. He refused to support the GNU of Yaradua after the 2007 Obj organised flawed election. However, the APC Buhari has shown that he is not what we use to know him. He is not incharge, his party countered him on fighting corruption when the chairman said "they have agreed not to probe the past". He once said that Nigerians will fund his campaign but we see corrupt politicians doing it. The Buhari of the past participate in political debates. The Buhari of the past went to court three(3) times because he felt the elections were rigged, which was a legitimate thing. He never threatened to boycott the court and install alternative government, like what we are seeing. The Buhari of the past run his own campaign and not through a proxy(in Osinbajo). The Buhari of the past had his campaign team fill with reputable men and women like Odumakin and Bakare, not the Tinubu and Atiku type. The Buhari of the past says something and means it. He wouldn't say "No of office of First lady" and turn around to involve his wife in his campaign. It is either he has lost it due to old age or he has been compromised. Meanwhile, the true character of any leader is reflected on majority of his followers. If he can't influence his associate and followers, then something is wrong.

On this note, I restate my alignment with Jonathan. He isn't "perfect" but there are positives to hold on to and hope to change the negatives.

egift kindly come here...the answers are ready; counter barcanista on them especially No 4...God bless you barcanista....

agabaI23:
Cool bro.

I don search tire ooo...abeg if you see am...kindly share the link with me biko

agabaI23:
Bros, I watched a bit of it too. I am sure it will be available on youtube soon. Give it a few hours if it is not there already.
Happy new month!!!

Think GEJ, Think Transformation

Sure love your slogan...I will try search for it then...thanks and best of March...

agabaI23:
We had other Dictators after him and they were not all noise and no substance like Buhari.


Is that the new line? lol

why did you not allow Babangida to transform to civilian president? Why did you kick against Abacha's transformation to civilian president? These two were better off intelligence wise.

IBB before 1990 was focused but after then, his maradonic character became very obvious.
Abacha, had beautiful economic policies which were realistic and not a figment of ones wish. Otherwise he would have continued to force people to sell their products at below cost price, breaking into shops that closed and refused to sell to sell off their products at ridiculously low price.

Vote GEJ

My bro...I missed the program...so painful to me now...plz how can I get details of it?...wanna watch too biko...

Mikedml17:
Spits on thread ... If say dem don do election she 4 no remember una na... She no remember una wen e sure say ehn husband go win last election , dia leg kon de shake nw she get una numba ...ure relevant few days 2 election ... Mediocrity

FRUSTRATION... TAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF BRO...

PassingShot:
Are you for real? Are we talking about the same woman who has run from one court to the other to frustrate the House of Representatives to hold a public hearing over allegation that N10 billion was spent on chartered jet by her?

What misconceptions did she clear other than excuses as I earlier said?

Is that all you understood from this interview

barcanista:
That is why I said like Alamesiegha. You know the kind of bargain we had with Alams and Tafa Balogun is different from the Ibori kind? The Good thing is they will be exConvicts and it will follow them.

Sounds good anyway...but those guys are heavy financially and some are devil incarnates...Hope they don't become "more than" state institutions prosecuting them...Knew one of them in Apapa; a very young guy with intimidating war chest financially... BTW he's APC man for real...lolz

barcanista:
i understand the level of corruption in the Judiciary, but the prosecutors themselves need to do more. A Plea bargain(as it was done in Alamesiegha's case) can be exploited to expedite justice. One good thing is that we have the FOI in operation at the Federal level led by Jonathan. It is a very good platform to explore in tackling these things.

Plea bargain No, remember the case of Igbinedion and his slap on the wrist in the name of plea bargain...
It seemed more like justice denied...

princemillla:
Toor!

Honestly, I think the best way to end all this corruption is stop giving post to all this people that studied abroad.

Most of this people who are mismanaging our resourses now school abroad.

My POV tho!

lolz... can you explain the mismanagement of our resources more plz...

PassingShot:
I laugh at your reasoning.

A minister of petroleum who keeps blaming the occupant and government before her/theirs is not worth listening to because if the immediate occupant before her was that good, she will probably not be appointed. She was appointed to fix a problem and the next question is, did she fix those problems?

We are talking of critical reasoning here mister. She should do the job and stfu!

The problem with folks like you is that you read with prejudice hence your comprehension is skewed...

She cleared the air about some misconceptions especially with subsidy and made reference to other issues to paint clear pictures for biased folks like you...yet insulting her was the best you could offer...

She's achieved a lot already there(investigate independently)....

Now, With your party men obstructing passage of PIB what do you advise her to do now?

barcanista:
The opposition in Nigeria is the worst in history of democratic society. The PIB is being held because of "tribalism", partisanship and personal beef with the Minister. The opposition has politicised everything and not just that, their hypocrisy has been superb. My position on the subsidy thieves is that they be brought to justice and made to refund what they fraudulently took.

Such a pathetic group of opposition...

On the subsidy thieves; it is good they be brought to justice but you know what our judiciary is like...and the "cost" of justice in Nigeria...It won't be easy not because it isn't right but the system is too cumbersome, bureaucratic, costly, and corrupt...

I read James Ibori's conviction cost a whopping #4.4billion...

PassingShot:
All I read and see is a failed minister trying to justify her failure with excuses upon excuses.

In a sane clime, this woman can no longer speak in the public given all her stealing of our resources.

Your obsession with APC, even when not relevant with the topic of discuss is a sign of someone losing his/her sanity just like FFK.

How does the topic have anything to do with the nonsense you've put up there?

If all you saw in this interview was failure...it then means that you aren't fit for the sane clime you advocate and won't even recognise same when you see it...

Opposition style of reasoning in Nigeria is obscured and dangerous to our national sustenance...They never see any good neither do they have an alternative solution which is viable constructively... You mustn't be in charge to make a change...Why not manifest that "change" first in your states of dominance before seeking for the centre...charity begins at home bro...

barcanista:
@OP thank you very much. Though I was reading to hear her explanation for the prosecution of subsidy indicted fellows and the N10billion jet hiring by her. However, I have to agree with some of her points especially as they concerns the local content and the problem with the subsidy regime. She also said that government still need to do more to get the benefit to the populace which I entirely agree. The area I'd also have loved to hear is the PIB bill which is begging for help in the Parliament(NASS).

Sadly, we have opposition that has vowed not to even probe the "past", nor have said anything with regards the PIB. They don't even believe in transparent leadership, so we won't know whether they spend N100b on meal alone or N70billion on tooth-pick(in their state level they are against the FOI), pluse the calibre of men in the camp coupled with hypocrisy.

Let us continue to support the government and seek to Change within the PDP.

Great, your observations were germane...I have tried without success to know why and what exactly is keeping the PIB in the NASS unending now...

The playing to the gallery and politicizing even damn issue by the opposition won't allow us to even know and see the truth about some salient issues...

On subsidy thieves...I have no information about them but I will search for the report on 10billion jet issue to post it here...She's addressed it recently...

theVOICE,agabal23,barcanista,Ngwakwe...Can we have an informed discuss on this interview plzzzz

Cruzeiro:
Yes you av.. Y'all demystified the oil sector wit ambidexterous corrupt activities. Shame.

Can you without rhetorics or any form of ambiguity list out the corrupt areas with solutions as well...
Also, buttress your point with APC solutions to these problems... I am waiting

sincerenigerian:
I created a thread yesterday based on discussion I head with prominent man ((name withheld) in Kebbi State. https://www.nairaland.com/2171244/pressure-jonathan-sack-inec-chairman



We are ready for Jonathan. Go ahead and push Jega out illegally and see what happens. Abacha and Babangida tried it but they failed. Jonathan will definitely fail. If you can win an election, you change the umpire. Jega has done nothing wrong.

I get irritated most times seeing sentimental, uninformed and biased comments like yours littered all over this forum...
1)Why threaten Jonathan as if you can withstand yellow fever bulala talk more of other paramilitary or military forces?
2) Is the topic about terminal leave or sack ? Is it a constitutional matter or an executive fiat?
3)Must Jonathan circumvent the constitution to please your lot and APC? Even if election is tomorrow; and Jega's tenure elapses today. He has to go otherwise any election conducted after then by him is illegal...Or you want Jonathan to contravene the law to make you happy Why is it that other officers before him went on such constitutional terminal leave without rancour except him Should we shift the goal post because of him & APC?
4) Should Jega still be talking about PVC distribution by this time; If he was unbiased and ready for the elections
5)How logical is it to you that Northeast with the insurgency and wanton deaths cum destruction from boko haram has over 70%PVC collection than the seemingly peaceful south
6)Is your rant a product of patriotism or perjured mindset?
7)What was Jega doing since 4years ago which he had to prepare for this election?

Ngwakwe:
Prof Jega had four years to prepare for this election but wasted it.

He had planned to rig not only the election but also 2016 census in favour of North-East and North-west by allocating unimaginable extra polling units to the zone until he was forcefully stopped by the Senate from applying his option A.

Then Jega decided to use inequitable distribution of PVC as option B to rig the election where he allow proxies to collect and distribute in the North while dumping that of the South in various INEC offices across the regions with a stringent set of rules.

To make the matter worst Prof Jega wants to use the loophole in our constitution and electoral law known as substantial compliance to legally deny millions of voters across South their PVC in order to reduce their regional voting power and population estimate

Jega has contributed negatively to fall in Naira against the dollar by repeated lying on the fathom readiness of INEC before 14th Feb, 2014.

God bless you bro...Sincerely, I am finding this forum a little boring with so many unintelligent and uninformed individuals ranting aimlessly around and about here...sentiments without brains...kudos again for this intelligent post...

"It was a thing of joy for me when I visited places like the burnt down Okrika Jetty a couple of years ago to commission the products loading arm that was rebuilt only to discover that companies like Lee Engineering which did the construction of the project from A to Z was 100% Nigerian, all the engineers are Nigerians". Diezani(2015)...



Sure, many Nigerians are getting it right...LOCAL CONTENT POLICY is one the hallmark policies of Jonathan administration whose impact is quite tremendous...

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, recently fielded questions from a select group of editors to clarify a number of issues in the oil and gas
sector ranging from the controversial kerosene subsidy and alleged subsidy scam to the allegation of $10bn expenditure on jet private hire as well as the PwC audit report.

Excerpts.

On Kerosene Subsidy

There was a Presidential directive to withdraw subsidy on kerosene. It is possible that the Minister of Petroleum at that time must have gone to discuss it with the President
and may have been able to convince him on the need to stay action on the directive. I assume that that may have been what happened, that he had a discussion with the
President but he overlooked regularizing in terms of getting him to rescind the order.

So, if anybody flouted the Presidential order then it must have been the Minister of Petroleum at that time. But since the directive was not gazetted and was not announced it was not a law; it was mainly a directive on
paper because there are procedures that a directive must follow to become a law and become implementable. I don’t know why people keep referring to this. But anyway,
another president came and appointed his own
cabinet and moved on.

Now, because of the confusion created by this situation, marketers who, prior to that time, were bringing in kerosene pulled back. The reason was that if they brought in kerosene at the international landing cost and sold at our subsidized rate and didn’t get paid the difference, they would go bankrupt.
So, there was immense confusion and I think it was at that time that the NNPC had to step in and started supplying. That was before I became Minister of Petroleum.

This was where the problem of deduction of subsidy claims at source started. The issue of deduction at source has also been severally argued as to whether NNPC has the right or not to cover all those particular expenses from crude oil sales proceeds.

That was the situation with subsidy at that time. When we came out in January 2012 to try to regularize the system by removing subsidy on petroleum products, of course we all knew what happened.

Efforts to Rid the Subsidy System of Corruption

So, based on all that, subsidy on petroleum products continued up to this point. It is a sore point because, in all honesty, just like PMS, it is a very difficult issue to handle. It becomes even more difficult when revenues are falling because of the price of the barrel.

It is very difficult to pay vast amounts on subsidy which we don’t believe is getting to the actual users, the bottom line users of the PMS, but which is instead making middlemen fat. But we wanted to remove the subsidy. We wanted to deregulate too because we discovered that there was corruption in the subsidy system which had gone so bad that we were not able to move products seamlessly from one point to another.

There was arbitrary price increase in some areas and products were selling above the regulated price thereby making nonsense of the subsidy scheme.

Then there was round tripping, terrible incidence of round tripping. It got to the point that I even had to get the permission of Mr. President to invite the EFCC to come and look at the books and help us figure out what was happening because the level of PMS import we were getting clearly showed that something was wrong.
That was in 2011. At some point the round tripping was extended to kerosene which was being diverted and sold as aviation fuel. Marketers would take their allotment of
kerosene and sell it as aviation fuel which is more expensive. You know the kerosene that is imported into Nigeria is of the same specification as aviation fuel.

That is why it is called Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK). It was not profitable to import what is really the base level of normal Household Kerosene (HHK). These were some of the problems we had. As I said earlier, we had written to the EFCC and didn’t get any response, that meant no solution. In November 2011, even before we tried deregulating, I removed 92 marketers with one stroke of the pen from the PPPRA books, these were
throughput marketers who didn’t have tank farms, who didn’t have any real investment in the sector.

We took this action because the level of investment into tank farm is so huge that if you can do it you won’t want to get involved in any shady deal. Besides, such investment entitles you to carry out throughput for other marketers and they will pay you to do that.

By the law that is acceptable. That law wasn’t made in our time, it was there before we came in. So it was clear to us that the problem of round tripping was coming from those who didn’t have hard investments in the sector. And there were 92 of them in our books which we flushed out.

That was when I brought in Reginald Stanley to head the PPPRA. The fellow I brought in before didn’t seem to have helped in sorting out the issue at all because it looked like it was getting worse. I asked Stanley to try and reform the petrol importation and subsidy system to bring the subsidy bill down.

I told him that after stabilizing things we could bring some of the throughput marketers back, those who pass certain expectations, because it is in our laws, it is not as if throughput marketing in itself is illegal. So I signed them off, 92 marketers in one day. It was after I dropped them that the level of subsidy dropped significantly.

Strides in Local Content

We have been able to domicile some of the jobs in the sector that used to be carried out overseas within the country thereby creating jobs for many Nigeria youth.

Manufacturing of small parts for the oil and gas sector is now being done in-country which was not the
case before now. It is not just the manufacturing but the quality of the goods is such that we now have prospects of producing for other multinationals outside the country.
This has helped to create a lot of direct jobs over this period of time and hundreds of thousands of indirect jobs. It was a thing of joy for me when I visited places like the
burnt down Okrika Jetty a couple of years ago to commission the products loading arm that was rebuilt only to discover that companies like Lee Engineering which did the construction of the project from A to Z was 100% Nigerian, all the engineers are Nigerians.

We are very proud that this sort of thing could be happening at this point in time. Now, these are major steps in the oil and gas sector because it is highly capital intensive, highly technological. We have been able to achieve this because we understand that until you get the industry down so that it can touch what I consider the real economy, until you begin to commercialize it, oil & gas always seem to be up there, a sort of mysterious
sector for the very wealthy, extremely wealthy.

The multinationals have access to billions and billions of dollars, but we are beginning to pull it down so that ordinary people who can gather together the financial wherewithal can also be players in the sector. Like I said, not all of these are highly capital intensive, there are many other areas that are quiet minor in terms of capital outlay. Many people are coming in now. And this was the intent from the onset: to demystify this sector. On
the Nigerian content side, I think we have done very well and we will continue to try to do even better.

Gas Infrastructure Development

During this period too, we started looking at what we could do to develop our gas resources. We have to pull out gas issues from the PIB and specific gas projects from the Gas Master Plan to implement to fast track gas to power, gas to industry and of course to ensure that value is added to the economy.

Source: www.vanguardngr.com

1toRtoiSe1:
The confab doesn't hold yoruba agenda at all- femi falana (a delegate at the confab)

If he said this then; it simply means he is a failure otherwise what did he go there to do? What agenda did he promote? Who's interest was he there to protect?...Femi Falana & co who claim monopoly of wisdom are real poison to the society...

The corruption in this Lagos is a microcosm of what APC will do to national treasury if allowed to smell it...I weep for these unrepentant group of thieves and more so, for their sycophants...just see what egift typed after reading about corruption and mortgaging of the poor in Lagos...why not keep quiet than insulting our sensibilities with such diversionary comment

allenbaker5:
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Sure they are devils in the APC but it seems to me that they have succeeded in telling Nigerians that any thing other than PDP is okay

Maybe true for the folks that bought into those propaganda and lies...

God bless Goodluck Jonathan... It is about strong institutions not strong individuals...Systemic approach to governance and using world best technological tools to prevent looting from taking place at all...

Iamsynord:
shey na Only Northern Council go vote. Endorse Kor Engross no
Sai Buhari

Boy, would you have said or reacted this way if this was in favour of buhari

allenbaker5:
It seems the PDP should have done better within the 16 years they held power because comments from Nigerians suggest that there has been a failure in governance but can the alternative offered by the APC be trusted

The acronym PDP has existed for 16years but APC has existed for less...but the individuals in both has existed and being running Nigeria for same 16years.
If anything at all, APC has existed albeit indirectly for this 16years as well...(Tinubu, Saraki, Amechi, Atiku, Kwankwaso, Rochas, Oyegun, etc)

I prefer following individuals to following party; because they seem same to me though PDP are better in the sense that they accept their corruptibility, while APC claim saints but are very deadly sect of digital criminals and looters...If Lagos domesticates FOI today; you will cry at the level of corruption in that state...

In as much as you tried to sound unbiased and neutral but you didn't disguise your allegiance very well. How can you remember to enumerate the "sins" of Jonathan vis a vis PDP one after the other but at same time, fail to enumerate that of Buhari & APC, just a summary using an ambiguous word to cover it all?...

But no matter what, buhari has no moral right or justification to contest under Democratic rule in Nigeria?
How come his campaign promises are NOT synchronizing with all his stance before this election Why the double standard and hypocrisy?...

Remember, he insulted Jonathan for not granting boko haram amnesty but in election, he's preaching no amnesty again for them...He said an attack on boko haram is an attack on the north but today; he is telling us that he will fight boko haram...Why all the deceit

I think the person of buhari should be judged from what he stood and represented before this electioneering campaigns... He's a dent to any sane democracy and progressive elements...

arabbunkum:
There was this fine girl in my department who refused to help me buy pencil despite the fact that she was going to a shop nearby to buy her own. She went as far as raining insults on me for daring to send her on errand in front of our coursemates.
I remained calm and started targeting her. I became unusually good to her and thanks to my calm tactics, she became my campus wife. She washed and ironed my clothes, prepared my meals, cleaned my room, and willingly submitted 'her thing' to me all through our final year. #Alwaysbecalm.

lolz... as in who laughs last thingz... slow poison bad wella

dein77:
I'm cool. Good you know me.

But is it also a part of the change to compromise someone's identity?

Shiorrrr

You just made me laugh out so loud now...That's their tacit way of blackmailing people and identities...
Don't mind them jare...
Let them start their change with APC debt laden states. Charity should rather start at home...
If Jagaban and Fashola couldn't in their 16years in Lagos build 70% of roads and schools in Lagos state alone, with their intimidating IGR and federal allocations; how come GEJ will solve a 30year problem in less than 5years