₦airaland Forum

You people are taking this Barcanista too serious (just like cramjones). I stopped taking him serious when he started avocating for war with the Itsekiris instead of allowing the juduciary to settle the matter. He actually said even if the supreme court or world court declare judgement, he would not abide by it. This is someone the feels election matters should be settled at the courts.

Although i have been an avid Buhari supporter since 1984, i never really felt the need to fecilitate with Barcanista ( or any other person)in his so called support of Buhari.

That the complete 180 degree turn is because of disagreement and maybe insults from a few APC supporters (not members) on a faceless form is beyond belief. It is liked someone changing from real madrid to Barca because of some disagreements with some real madrid fans on a faceless forum, or changing from believing in Jesus Christ to Mohammed because of insults from a few christians on a faceless forum.

I suspect two things; Either it was planned from the begining as a sort of political gimmick or the other side is offering better incencives.

I for one have never like APC ( i hate PDP ever more), both parties are different sides of the same coin. I am a socialist (leftist) and both parties are hard core capitalist (rightist), no idealogical diferrence between PDP and APC ( that is why politicians can move seamlessly between the two parties). I do not like Bola Tinubu or even the over hyped Fashola, But i stongly believe in Buhari. He is sincere, upright and non materialistic. If anybody can make a change in Nigeria, that person is Buhari.

One man can indeed make a change. chairman Mao made the change in China, Mandela made the change in south Africa, Charles De Gaulle made a change in France, Ben Gurion made the change in Israel, Buhari can make the change in Nigeria.

Oga Madam said a lot but without actually saying anything. So here are the questions that need answers.

How much was the actual sum she used in leasing jets fot her use?

How much was the NNPC jet sold for? and where is the money?

If her administration is the most transparent since its inception, where is the corporation's audited annual report as demanded by law?

Where is the missing(unaccounted for) $1.48 billion as revealed by PWC report. In fact where is the report itself? Why has it been kept under wraps since it was submitted to the president?

Oga jona has to personally apologize to Baba for calling him a motor park tout. Although Baba had been angry at being sidelined by Oga Jona since he won the 2011 elections with Baba's help and influence (he got no ministerial slots, when people like TY Danjuma got 2 slots and his loyalists in PDP were removed from party postions and his enermies were installed), but what broke the carmels back and got Baba raving mad was being called a motor park tout by Jona.

pazienza:
Because the recruitment exercise then was merit based, enthrone merit and the east dominates.

It was obvious why the war victors first move was to replace merit with mediocrity aka quota system/ federal character, as that was the only way they could prevent Igbo re emergence and dominance,and in so doing, they sealed the fate of Nigeria as a failed state.

Buhari and some northerners were drafted into the army, even though they didn't meet the minimum requirement,because they were the best the North could offer. So few of them were picked to give the north some representation.

The colonial Army was merit based, it shouldn't be a surprise that the North/west were poorly represented in the colonial army.

You people are pathetic. You yap nonsense just to sooth your overboated ego. East dominates the military - it was based on merit but North dominates the military after civil war - they shout quota system. Meanwhile Buhari joined the army before the civil war.

Have any of you asked the military what the minimum requirements for joining the army was in 1961? i am certain it did not include a credit in mathematics. Have he military comfirmed that Buhari and other officers did not meet the minimum qualifications for joining the army in 1961?

Where did you people get the stupid idea that Buhari was admitted into the army with only a recommendation letter from his school principal? The recommendation letter was a testimonial that was mandatory for all intending secondary students applying for admission into any tertiary institution. The actual results was to be submitted after gaining admission as the results used to come very late. This was the practice until about a decade ago when results are released one month after sitting for WAEC exams.

Another issue was that there are two types of admissions into the military. Those admitted into the regular course and those admitted into the short service course. Ojukwu underwent the short service course as he was already a graduate, while Buhari and other went through the regular course which is for school cert. students.

doctokwus:
[b]The newly posted Assistant Inspector General of police,zone 2,Joseph Mbu,on Thursday, declared that elections in his zone will be "fire for fire" if politicians play any pranks.
The controversial police boss made the declaration at a meeting With police of the Ogun state police command at its Eleweran headquarters, Abeokuta.
Mr.Mbu instructed his men to be battle ready for the election and warned politicians to have a second thought over any planned criminal act.
He said if any of his men were shot,no less than 20 civilians would pay for it.
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He told his men they were the only authority that has power before,during and after the elections.
He noted that it was not compulsory for the police officers to greet even a governor who comes to vote.
"You have the power to stop the governor",he said."We are in a critical period. We are not paramilitary. We must be bold and brave.Keep an eagle eye on everybody. We are authorised by the constitution to arrest before,during and after the elections".
Mr.Mbu came to national limelight following his public squabbles with the Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi while Mbu was a police commissioner in the state.
Mr.Amaechi accused Mr.Mbu of plotting to kill him and called the AIG a tool of the presidency.[/b]
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/176756-well-kill-20-police-fire-lost-elections-controversial-police-aig-mbu.html

And some fools will call a Governor the chief security officer of a state. Obviously Mr. MBU is telling us that he alone is the chief security officer of a zone comprising about 5 states.

KEVIND:
If you don't have anything to hide why the panic. The soldiers has the constitutional right to be at any part of the country at any time and anyday if the need be.you don't teach Them their job.

Illiteracy of the highest order. What constitutional right does the army have on the streets of Lagos when there is no war going on in Lagos or any part of the south west? Most people living in civilized societies have never seen a soldier in uniform walking the streets not to talk of deploying a platoon patrolling the streets.

The army has no Job patrolling the streets in peace time, they should be confined to their baracks. The Job of patrolling the streets lies with the police and civil defense or at worst the national Guard.

The title of this thread is highly misleading and false. It seems the OP has no ideas what "silver spoons" means. Silver spoon kids means being born into wealth,it does not mean childen whose parents acquire wealth after after fighting poverty.
Imagine someone saying Ibori's children being born with silver spoon.

hunter21:
stealing, embezzlement of puplic funds though a crime is not corruption it is a symptom that manifests in a corrupt system.
Corruption is a state of mind, it is the bankrupcy of moral uprightness, deligence, and dignity, that manifests on the Individual level in things such as two men sleeping together.
If you put a goat where yam is, it will
eat it. If you put people where money
is, they'll steal it, the task now is to stop putting people were they can easily steal money e.g by privatisation and using technology to monitor the system.

You people are attemping to teach the English english language, all because the president has comprehension issues. When Justice Mustapha said 90% of cases in Nigerian courts borders on "mere stealing" and not corruption, she is definitely refering to the thousands of theft cases in court that has nothing to do with corruption. Crimes such as car theft, burglary, armed robbery, phone theft, cash theft and other theft (stealing) case make up to more than 90% of cases pending at the courts. She definitely did not mean to imply that stealing of public funds by public officials like alams, Ibori, Cicilia Ibru is not corruption.

The main difference between corruption and "mere stealing" is that corruption (in termsof stealing) is systemic while stealing is not. A public official cannot just go into the agencies safe or bank account and steal public funds, it has to be a systemic stealing involving many people. In a wider context, corruption is a systemic disruption or a breakdown of a natural or normal process.

Where did you people get the notion that corruption is a state of mind? Corruption is real.

The goat and yam example is lame, childish and unintelligent. A goat can be trained to be put with yam and not eat it. In fact goats can be trained not to eat yam at all. Lions have been trained to live with goats without eating them.

Are you and Jonathan saying that humans should never handle money because of the temptation of stealing it? what of bankers, are you saying bankers should never be close to clients money? I honestly cannot unterstand a world where money would not be handled by others on trust.

SeverusSnape:
Buhari moving toward the case of Benito Mussolini.
Foreign government won't do anything.
Nigeria is moving forward.

How can Nigeria move forward when the west and most of the civilized world is against the government and when more than half the Nigerian population is against the government.

We are gradually sliding back into the Abacha era where Nigeria was a pariah nation

ShineuEye:
[size=15pt]They won't sponsor Christians but would use Christian oil money to send Muslims to Mecca and build Almajiri schools.[/size]

Enough of Northern hegemony, its been going on since the 60s.

Southern states should stop sponsoring pilgrimage for muslims too.



GMB doesn't sponsor pilgrimages, he sponsors terrorism.

Why should government (any government) use tax payers money to sponsor pilgrimages ( a personal spiritual exercise)? Jonathan should also consider sponsoring me to a pilgrimage ( relaxing holiday) to Bali.

DDeliverer:
Comrade, are you saying you wanna opt out from this certificate search? Did I forget to mention the 73virgins award, with @least one million naira and 150'melu-melu'??

Before we can start proving he is educated to the point of a school certificate, he needs to confess with his mouth that he doesn't have a certificate.

But how does one prove he's educated to a particular level, without a certificate to show for it?? Group pictures? Lol.

There is no certificate search. It is only a wild goose chase by you guys.

I am no lawyer, but common sense should reveal that the keyword here is LEVEL. What is school cert. level? Someone that attended secondary school and got up to class 6 can be said to have got to school cert. level, whether they sat for the exams or not. Like wise a person that just went to sit for GCE external exams without having attended a secondary school cannot be said to have got to school certificate level.

Having said that, Buhari certainly sat for the 1961 Cambridge WASC exams, his alma mater comfirm so, his class mates affirm so, there are class photos to comfirm so. He even got a statement of result from his school. So this useless case is a non starter. The Katsina Government college just need to bring a copy of their 1961 student register and the case is dead and buried.

Believe me i doubt if you, your parents and grand parents are as educated as Buhari.

20 million displaced christians in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno , So what is the total adult population of these three states when just communities affected by boko Haram has 20million displaced christians only.

Are they also saying that no Muslims were displaced by the Boko Haram insulgency?

Oritsejafor's CAN is the religious arm of TAN

So who would you reply then?

Obi Ezekwesili challenged you to a debate about the poor state of the Nigerian economy, you won't reply her.

Sanusi challenged to a debate on the massive stealing of oil receipts under your watch, you won't reply him.

Now prof. Soludo is challenging you to a debate on missing/unaccounted for/missappropriated N30 trillion and the poor state of the Nigerian economy, you won't reply him also.

And someone will tell us that it is Buhari that is scared of debates.

DDeliverer:
Good evening, comrades!

Grand pa Buhari is on the verge of being disqualified just because of certificate wahala and it will be shockingly embarrassing for the septuagenarian general to be disqualified before he gets the opportunity to LOSE this year's election..

To contribute my own quota to the prevention Alhaji Buhari's disqualification, I've dedicated tomorrow to search for his certificate throughout the length and breadth of my house..who knows, I might be lucky!

Comrades, I employ you to do the same. 73virgins awaits whoever finds the certificate..

Dalu nu.

There is no certificate wahala. The so called wahala is just a ruse created by TAN/PDP to confuse and decieve young Nigerians into doubting the credibility of the retired general. The law do not specify that certificates must be submitted (just like Namadi Sambo did not submit any certificate), it only specify that a presidential candidiate must be educated up till school certificate level, or its equivalent. Buhari only need to prove he had been educated up to school certificate level. Even at that being educated up to primary school level with 10 years working experience is adequate.

Just like presidential candidiates are not mandated to submit certficates, they are not mandated to submit their passports to prove they are Nigerians or submit their birth certificates to show they are above 40 years of age.

CHM11:
There was an insinuation that Tinubu allegedly made similar request in 2011 when he was negotiating with President Goodluck Jonathan for the South West support in the presidential race. It was gathered that he was promised both money and oil wells but was first compensated with money and told to wait for the oil well allocation later. It was disclosed that he did not get the oil well allocation, thereafter, and has since then, not been happy with President Jonathan for that disappointment.

Do TAN/PDP people understand the implications of what they wrote above? A bribe giver and a bribe taker are all culpable in law.

This was what i said from the very begining, that GEJ could not afford to lose Amaechi. Even within the PDP, he was the most influenntial governor. If Amaechi had not defected, i am certain that non of the other governors would have defected. The creation of a faction of the PDP would never have happened.

Without Amaechi and the Influence( and cash) the defected PDP governors brought into APC, APC would not have even been considered an opposition to PDP.

johnmartus:
Bukola Saraki Wanted Over $133.5
Million Bank Loan Fraud
According to Sahara reportersThe
Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police
Force has declared the former governor
of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki, wanted
over a N21 billion bank loan fraud at the
defunct InterContinental Bank of
Nigeria.
An SFU source told Saharareporters that
an arrest warrant is in place for the
immediate arrest of the senator who
went into hiding after a federal high
court in Abuja cleared the way for his
arrest on Thursday.

Abeg whish one be bank load fraud again? Is it a bank fraud case or a bad load case? If it is a case of bank loan gone bad, then many more people would need to be declared wanted. People like Ifeanyi Uba, Peter Ololo, Femi Otedola and all the people that crashed intercontinental bank (and other banks rescued by Sanusi) should be declared wanted.

Then the council of state should consider taking over the role of INEC and organize the elections

RayCharles:
You are wrong. The biggest dam in the world (Yangtze Three Gorges Project) China cost almost the same amount stolen and it generate 22,500MW Purpose status: Power, flood control, navigation Operational. Imagine what dis dam will do for the economy

Forget it, we do not have the technical, managerial and logistical (not to talk of financial) capacity to undertake and subsequently maintain such a massive projeect. All our mega projects have failed ie Ajaokuta, the 4 refineries, even kainji is badly maintained.

Shebi, some people support Jona because he is from the SS, he is from minority tribe, he is christian or simply because they hate the gambaris, well i have news for you, being from the SS, a minority tribe or a christian will not give you jobs, put food on your table or educate your children. We will all swim or sink together. You do not need a sooth sayer to tell you Nigerian economy is in deep shite, lots of companies are packing their bags and leaving, others are selling their assets. The PZ factory in Ikorodu was recently sold off to some indians. It is only those Nigerians that have jet planes as jona likes to boast that would be immuned from the economics crisis (but they would not the immuned from the attendant security crisis).

One begins to wonder why OBJ sacked (or is it demote Okonjo Iweala to the interior ministry). To me she mismanaged the economy as minister of the economy.

I hereby challenge your attempt to blame others for not saving for the rainy day. It is not a virtue when you are quick to appropriate all the credit when things are going well, but shift the blame when they go wrong. You blame the state governors— who, according to you, have taken the Federal Government to the Supreme Court—not that a Supreme Court judgment forced your hands. For your information, the governors have never agreed to savings and always threatened court action even under Obasanjo. Why did we save under Obasanjo but not under Jonathan? Two keywords explain it: leadership and integrity. Governor Amaechi said the governors insisted on sharing the funds because they found out that you were illegally fiddling with the savings. So, as Nigerians still wonder, if billions of dollars are now ‘missing’ under your nose, why should governors trust you to keep their money? Do the states that have taken the federal government to the Supreme Court and refused to save also include the PDP governors—who are in the majority? If so, then it is fatal: even governors of your own party, PDP, do not trust you to keep their money! Furthermore, did the governors also stop the Federal Government from saving part of its share? If you ran a surplus budget at the Federal level, you would have had credibility to blame others or to say they did not listen to your advice. The key point is that since you were running huge deficits yourself, it was also in your own interest to share the ECA. You did not show leadership or credibility, full stop! - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-missing-trillions-1-charles-soludo/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter#sthash.d3mC7iHd.dpuf

Touche!!!!

raumdeuter:
Marilyn Oga and this Omeri are in competition for who is more stupidd

Whats the weight of a bomb and whats the weight of a chicken

Now explain how Chicken fit carry bomb.

All this is to explain their incompetence to fight Boko Haram

Next news would be Boko Haram plans to use mosquitoes to carry bomb, or na wind dey carry bomb

Merilyn Ogar is a joke, so cows can be given military trainings. The cow would be then be kitted with guns, bombs and granades (with military uniforms) and then transported to the war front.

Please Nairaland cartoonists provide us with a graphic illustration of "Rambo" cows.

Fools. Just one bomb would send the cows running in all directions or just a couple of fully automatic machine gun firing 500 rounds per minute would clear all the cows in less than 10 minutes.

[size=14pt]No previous PDP presidential candidiate has ever attended a presidential debate before wining the election[/size], so why is PDP and Okupe crying at Buhari's refusal to attend their stage managed PDP/AIT/NTA/FRCN debate. Why are they now acting as if they believe in debates to win elections?

Lets call a truce;

Jonathan can have his debate with AIT/NTA/FRCN with Pastor Oritsejafor saying the opening prayers and Bishop Oyedepo saying the closing prayers, while Buhari have have his debate with TVC/Premiumtimes/ Saharareporters with Rev. Mbaka saying the opening prayers and pastor Adeboye giving the closing prayers.

It would be difficult for Buhari to face reporters from AIT after the lies and character assasination propaganda they aired last week.

[size=14pt]Jonathan should first attend a debate organized by Sahara Reporters, TVC and premiumtimes first ,[/size] then Buhari would attend the one organized by NTA, AIT and FRCN.

silvernus0:
I WONDER WHEN A STATE GOVERNMENT STARTED ISSUING WAEC CERTIFICATES?,

Which state government issued WAEC certificate? All schools are empowered to issue statement of results if needed a former student. I used a statement of result from my school to gain admission into Obafemi Awolowo University. I only went to collect my certificate years later.

You people need to stop acting stupid and dumb.

Here2BustnScrew:
uduaghans 8 yrs what did he do for delta north

At least he build an airport at the cost of N27.7 Billion.

Here2BustnScrew:
itsekiri people are so selfish. they have been ruling delta state for many years now, now Okowa from Delta north got the ticket and decided to support APC. an end has come to marginalization in Nigeria.

Itsekiris are very pragmatic not selfish. What did the Itsekiris gain by an Itsekiri man ruling delta for many years? The Itsekiris gain far more under Ibori, an Urhobo man. So the Itsekiris (just one organization) are supporting APC because an Okowa man got the ticket of PDP? I was not aware that APC presented an Itsekiri man as governorship candidiate.

What did the Itsekiris gain from President Jonathan during his nearly 6 years reign. Please name how many federal projects in Itsekiri land or how many federal appointments the Itsekiri's got.

neenar:
Itsekiri mi dede, mo ki han o!

Ene oton Iwere dede je!

pekeyim:
Other participants of the
July 28, 1966 coup included,Lt-Col Murtala Muhammed, Lieutenant Muhammadu Buhari ,2nd Lieutenant Sani Abacha, Lieutenant Ibrahim Babangida , Major Theophilus Danjuma, Lieutenant Ibrahim Bako among others


4 out of this list have been President.
N/B Obasanjo was V.P to Murtala Muhammad.

Indirectly We've been ruled by the same set of people since 1975- 2007 this is over 50% of our nationhood after Independence.

With little exception of the Shehu Shagari's Democratic regime, Interim Govt of Ernest Shenekon*, and Abdulsalami Abubakar.

We've been playing a script.
No wonder when OBJ was about to leave Babangida wanted to contest,
No wonder Buhari is doing the same thing endlessly.

If these set of People were prudent with our Resources, We won't be in our current situation.

There is No Change in Buhari!!!

Correction, 1966 counter coup . The 1966 coup was carried out by Kaduna Nzeogwu, aguiyi Ironsi and their fellow Igbo compratriots.

GBTYO:
We are back to INEC.

First we started our journey at INEC office only to be directed to a federal court from where we were told o head to the military board. From there the military board said we should go and ask Buhari again because they don't keep copies. Buhari then told us to go to katsina. Katsina was not helpful as they issued a fraud to us. Not to be deterred we went to Cambridge but they told us only Buhari can get his supposedly certificate. We asked Buhari to get it but he told us to Fark off. But here we are again at INEC wanting to see what Buhari has now submitted.

You are a bloody liar. When did you go to the federal high court, and when did the federal high court direct anybody to the military board? The Federal high court had been on strike till last week and a case was only filed a few days ago. If you alleged that Federal Government School Katsina issued a fraud, why not take the matter with them and sue them for fraud. As far as legality is concerned, the legal statement of result applicable for now was the one issued by the Government College Katsina, until a court of law render it a fraud.

In the meantime, where is president Jonathan's birth certificate as it is not with INEC. What is the proof he is above 40 years. Sworn affidavid would not be accepted in place of actual certificate. What about Sambo's certificates, how are we certain the letters from ABU are not fraudulent?

FFK shows sympthoms on someone on a very potent drug. It is a miracle such a person could be given the responsibility of selling president Jonathan to the Nigerian electorate. Instead of him to highlight president Jonasthan's positive attributes and achievements, he is obsessed with Buhari.

Now lets analyse the stupid press release he gave;

“It would mean that it has collected his newly-acquired certificate, 40 days outside the stipulation of the Law.
“We say this because Section 31(3) of the Electoral Act says INEC shall within 7 days of the receipt of the receipt of the personal particulars of the candidate; publish same in the constituency….”

What is he even talking about here? Where in this act does it specify which personal document documents that must be submitted? and when submitted, what was INEC expected to do. Did the law mandate that a certificate must be submitted? Ok what about other personal documents? or is it only Buhari's certificate that PDP/ffk is obsessed with? What about birth certificates to comfirm age, international passport to comfirm nationality? Did Jonathan submit any of these? because we did not see it published in Otueke.

Chief Fani-Kayode maintained that INEC “must come clean on this matter; otherwise we will be compelled to pass a no-confidence vote in it”.

He added: “If INEC is complicit in the desperate and despicable attempt to extricate General Buhari, without compliance with the provisions of the law, from this lingering embarrassment, we will have no other choice than to harbour the suspicion and fear that the Electoral Body is already compromised and can lend itself to the ungodly agenda of truncating our victory when our candidate wins.”

Fani-Kayode appealed to the election observers to keep watch of the unfolding events regarding General Buhari’s qualification or otherwise.

Maybe FFK and PDP should take over the functions of INEC. Then they are free to do as they please. As far as the discretion of INEC is concerned Buhari is eligible to contest elections in Nigeria, if PDP or any other person feels otherwise, the courts are open.