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Collins Colz: Tukur Likes boasting. Is he trying to say that without Him Jonathan can never survive He is only bragging and making noise.

He is fighting for his life "(political life )" and is ready to tell Jonathan anything he wants to hear including subtle blackmail.

2s£xy:
bros, i dey vex for u o. i send u pm tire u no even reply anyone. i offfend u ni?

My brother no vex for me, you are one of the very few people I consider as friend on this forum. The reason I am unable to reply is because My nairaland account is tied to an email I do not use, I only open it once in a. few months when I am on a PC, it. is My username at yahoo.com that I use, and besides that is the mail we have been using to communicate. also I have given you My phone no. twice now, so you should have called.

Anyway i will try and get in touch.

let me begin by stating clearly that I am not in support of sanusi or the federal government, what interests me is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Now, why do the government and it's paid hacks and ethic anarchist always foam in the mouth each time an allegation is laid against their principal? A simple denial and presenting the actual figures would have been the most sane thing to do. We have a finance ministry headed by a world renown banker, we have Firs who should have all receipts of oil sales for tax purposes, we have myriads of agencies who should have records of all oil sales. So why have all remained silent. Only the accused NNPC and some faceless CBN directors are making noise.

I used to be a fan of sanusi but I am not so comfortable with some of his actions and sometimes outbursts but I cannot still accuse sanusi of dishonesty. For him to write the personal letter to the president shows he knows something sinister is going on, but wants to see if the president is aware or involved. I wish tribalists and paid hacks read the letter carefully and digest what sanusi is implying. If they can reason beyond hatred for anything Islam, Hausa/Fulani or APC, they would realize that they would require at least 5 lifetimes to achieve what sanusi had already achieved. But they are here forming smart for someone who had been a banker for over 30 years and have risen to the top of two major banks in the country.

If you read the letter well your should realize that Sanusi was talking about total uncounted for oil sales and not the federal government share of the joint venture. Even if the joint venture oil firms are entitled to 40 percent of the oil sales the total records must be with NNPC, Sanusi claims it is not. Now juxtapose this allegation with the new revelation by Aganga that some oil exports have been sold with fake papers, then you will understand Sanusi's angle and that $49 billion shortfall would not be so outrageous. He is also indirectly indicting the joint oil partners.

we await a proper audit by external auditors, but which ever way it goes, Sanusi should resign. if his allegation is true he becomes a hero and if it is false he becomes a villain.

mikeansy: sorry brother the game has changed

those 4 in real terms only have 4 votes

those 4 can meet all they want, Nigerians are already tired of their meetings! It is time they start meeting their grand children

their meetings have destroyed the country enough

why are you talking as if you are too young to know Nigeria,s history, even if you are too young, you should have at least get books on Nigeria's history and read.

These men you say have only 4 votes have determined the direction of Nigeria since independence. if they only have 4 votes, why did Jonathan go out his way to solicit their support to stabilize his government after the demise of yaradua and during the 2011 elections?

You may wish to deny it but in the event of a conflict, Obasanjo would gather far more support from foreign countries than Jonathan can muster

It is a pity Nigerians are oblivious of the grave dangers ahead. Obasanjo, Babangida, Danjuma and Buhari are the most influential personalities in the country, them coming together is always a sign of something is in the offing.

My take is that Jonathan cannot win a free and fair election come 2015, but due to the rigging structure created for the PDP by obasanjo, Jonathan would rig himself back to power. So I am sure all these politicking is for the aftermath of he 2015 elections.

PointB: What is apparent in this saga is that someone clearly does not know his job. Why didn't sanusi consult with his managers before writing to the press president. It either he Sanusi is incompetent, or deliberately lying to score cheap political points.

I said it in one thread and would repeat it. If it is established that Sanusi misled the public, he should be made to appear on national tv and airwaves to recant and dispel his dangerous rumour after which he should be sacked for incompetence. He is a loose cannon.

Please how does attacking sanusi help resolve the riddle, where is the missing $50 billion? it is not in the federation account as it should be. All the denials, innuendoes and personal attacks have carefully avoided the question.

I agree that once the money is found and it is domiciled with Cbn, Then Sanusi should honorably resign.

onomeasike: @superstar1,I can give you ten solid reasons why igbos can never win a war should remain subservient in Nigeria (if that's what you mean by Achilles heel).
That's my specialty

Before you give your 10 reasons why igbos can never win a war, give me one solid reason why the igbos need to fight a war. Also tell me who is holding the igbos subservient and how.

Instead of facing the real issues facing Nigeria, which is greed, avarice and vanity, we are skirting around the problem. They think that the problem is the national cake sharing formula. Please can someone explain to me how a singe tenor term for governors and president can help tackle corruption which is our number one problem. Besides how does single tenor stop a president from imposing his own stooge as we have witnessed in Lagos and just recently Anambra?

What we need is free and fair elections, independent and corrupt free judiciary, independent legislature and true federation. You don't need a genius to figure out Nigeria's problems.

naijaking1: You can't ignore the points made in this article, just because you want to make a political point.
FIRS and DPR had paid their own revenue into the CBN as required, not to the federation account. The criminal aspect of Sanusi's allegation is that he ignored the sum paid to his agency, and instead is making noise about a missing $50B, when he had received a fraction of that amount into his CBN.
Let him publish how much the CBN had got from FIRS and DPR as stated by NNPC, you see accounting is a predictable science. NNPC simply wants him to state how much of the "missing" $50B was paid into the CBN, maybe then and only then would he understand the math.
Meanwhile, he wants to score a political point with other APC operatives by painting GEJ as extremely corrupt

Although i would not support Sanusi until the facts of the matter are laid bare, you people's hurry to crucify Sanusi or any other person that raise any issue in any agency under the federal government is ridiculous.

Since you are privy to DPR's and FIRS's accounts, can you disclose for us which accounts with the CBN that they paid the missing 50 billion (or a fraction), and exactly how much was actually paid. Then you will have to explain why proceeds from oil revenue is paid into an account other than the federation account.

atlwireles: There is an amphibious brigade in Warri, how effective were they in the Warri/ Nigerdelta crises. Who is the Nigeria air forces bombing from the sky? or you mean the the cities of Warri, portharcourt, Yenagoa, Patani, Brutu, bomadi, Bonny, Nembe, Brass, Warri southwest, KoKo, etc. Is the Nigerian air force prepared to destroy all the oil installations themselves from the sky?. Nigeria cannot win a guerrilla war in SS and that's the only kind of war that will be fought. How you people living in other parts of Nigeria share your misery of no light, no fuel, and no money to run your government is another story.

There is no amphibious brigade or anything in Warri. It is the 81st division in lagos and the 82nd division headquartered in Enugu that are the amphibious divisions of the nigerian army. There is the 2 Brigade at Port Harcourt and 3 Brigade at Calabar under the 82 division. As i said the amphibious divisions had never been deployed during the nigerdelta conflict,what we had were a few personal deployed under the JTF.
A guerilla warfare would of course the difficult for the military to handle, because the main weapon for guerilla warfare is intelligence, which the Nigerian armed forces is very short of. But the ijaws will not be able to sustain a guerilla war for long, because it would lack moral and ideological justification. for guerilla war to be sustained there has to be a powerful ideology of which the fighters are prepared to die for. In this conflict the fighters are more interested in power and money, so the use of bribe money would be a powerful weapon as had been done before.

double post

I am encouraged by few ijaw brothers i this thread who are matured enough to understand the implications of provoking the nigerian armed forces into a full scale conflict. The Ijaws cannot withstand a full assault of the nigerian armed forces. why the Ijaws got away with militancy in the past was because people - both locally and internationally, sympathized with the ijaws, because of environmental fabrication of the environment and oppression by the nigerian state. So a bloody response would have been frown upon. The struggle then was not for power but for better living condition of the ordinary ijaws and besides the struggle was then led by intellectuals who were able to employ propaganda to good effect. The struggle now is only for jonathan to retain power and is being led by thugs and militants. The ijaws have lost both local and international sympathy and so any misbehaviour now would be met with unequal force by the nigerian military.

If the Ijaws are crazy enough to declare secession or war, Odi would look like childsplay, the NIierian army, navy and airforce will descend on every Ijaw village and hamlet. And they can shout genocide and Geneva convention all they want, no body will listen.

I laugh when Ijaws says the nigerian army cannot fight them in the creeks? are they aware that the nigerian army has an amphibious brigade trained specifically for that king of warfare and they have not been deployed yet, all the federal government has been using is a JTF, so as not to be accused of using excessive force.

I must admit nigeria is at loss on how to handle guerrilla warfare and that is why they are messing up with boko haram.They have very poor intelligence capability and so are unable to tactically and delicately fish out boko haram targets. If the conflict were to be between a tribe or section against the military, they would flatten any structure standing and kill anything breathing.

ok we do hear. so how mush unable dem dey owe? and how dem hope to pay back? from 2014 oil proceeds? and pay money borrowed to pay 2014 debt from 2015 oil sales.

yorke1: And when has the country not be in trouble? continue to deceive yourself. The amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Nigeria brought about the trouble of Nigeria. We were/are not meant to be together! So stop wake up from this illusion of yours.

Keep deceiving yourselves, amalgamation never brought trouble to Nigeria, greed, superiority complex, hatred and selfishness did. The irony is that it was the igbos that were the main advocate of unification of Nigeria pre independence, the Hausa wanted nothing to do with a united Nigeria, the Yorubas were lukewarm. it was the igbos that insisted, maybe they felt they would dominate power. it was the igbos that planned and executed the first coup. instead of using the acquired power to split the nation, they unified the country further in a unitary system of government. it was when they lost power that they remembered they want separation from Nigeria.

Even now the arguments for wanting separation is not convincing and comical at best. I hear such arguments as igbos are marginalized politically (but most important political appointments today are held by igbos), then there is igbos are being held down from achieving. greatness by Nigeria (when they have 6 governors numerous senators, house of assembly members all receiving billions of naira monthly to spend as they like). One would have thought they would fight for sectional autonomy, like the unimplemented aburi accord, whereby the igbo states and igbo speaking areas of the south south be allowed to form a political unit in a federation or confederation, and allowed to govern themselves and achieve their own destiny. But they are comfortable. with collecting handouts from Abuja like all other sections of the country.

We are living in perilous times. president; Jonathan is using the Nigerian police to disrupt democracy. He is hounding elected governors and lawmakers. He has succeeded in dividing Nigerians along political, religious, sectional, tribal, social lines. Nigerians have never been so divided. If a war should break out the fronts will be so many. In rivers state the Amaechi factions is as much if not more than Jonathan's faction.
Even among the rivers igbos - The Ikwerres, the fault lines. are down the middle. It seems Jonathan is prepared to sacrifice the lives of his ijaw tribe and biafran sympathizers in order to remain. president.

Ebonyi indigenes sacked from Abia civil service and we have not heard "fiam" from Biafran vanguards. If na fashola sack the thousands of igbos in Lagos Civil service now, Biafrans would have taken up arms crying of igbo hatred and igbophobia. So why the deafening silence over this despotic action? Is this how biafran solidarity and comradeship will be in proposed Biafra? Also i want to know what constitute indigeneship in biafra, residence, father, mother, marriage?

Now back to the main topic. Is it only ASUU that should be proscribed? What of NLC, TUC, PTA, NBA and all trade unions that can go on strike? I think the governor should change the constitution to proscribed freedom of speech and association.

Why the angel be white European? Could she not be Indian, Chinese or even black African?
If na devil or demon now he go be Black man or woman. It is obvious the Abrahamic Gods - yahweh, Allah and Jesus are white and only appoint while workers.

blink182: why are you struggling to show how St.upid you are, for your information FIRS alone in under 12 months remits enough money into the federation account to support the federal budget not to mention NPA, NIMASA, borrowings and the Eca that is always being drawn.

Please if you can't see the big picture then back off.

That is what i have been trying to explain to people whose ethnic bigotry has eroded their senses. Sanusi never complained about remittances from FIRS, DPR or any other government agency. He only complained about remittances from NNPC. It is was not about petroleum taxes or any other taxes associated with the oil industry but actual proceeds from the physical sale of crude oil based on the records of amount lifted from Nigeria.
Sanusi even said that the amount paid as taxes is more than the amount from actual sale of crude oil.

My only grouse against sanusi is that if he is certain of such grand scale corruption, he should honourably resign, because he will not be exonerated from blame if the government fails. Same thing for Okonjo Iweala, who might rubbish the good reputation she had used decades to build.

I recommend everybody read the full text of sanusi's letter before they comment. Because i am sure even NNPC did not read it before rushing out a defense.
Sanusi was talking about remittances for oil sales, while nnpc is happing on various taxes. Sanusi had no issues with the taxes either to DPR or any other agency, what he is asking is where are the proceeds from the oil sales?

taharqa: I just read d NNPC Response to the 'letter' on Punch. NNPC even gave d amount of Oil it 'lifted' as more than 600m barrels (more than what d said 'letter' when NNPC even lifted) and explained meticulously d part of d money they are supposed to remit to d Federation Account and the parts other Agencies are suppossed to remit. The whole tin is making more sense now...

what sense is the whole tin making? Sanusi said from July 2012 to July 2013 (18 months), only about 29% of oil revenue was remitted into the federation account and NNPC which is to supervise our whole oil industry says it is only directly responsible for remitting part of the amount (since January 2012 that is), and that the CBN should look elsewhere for the missing money. And it is making sense to you.

People will jump in and support the government without even thinking of the issues at at.

People should ask;
why is the period from January 2012 - July 2013 different from all other periods in nigerian and NNPC's history? Why is it this period that sanusi is complaining about? After all sanusi had been cbn governor since 2010.

Was there a change of protocol in 2010 in the way oil proceeds were remitted into the federation account and CBN was not made aware?

Why did the Jonathan government not respond to sanusi's concerns for more than 2 months? only for NNPC to rush out a rebuttal less than 24 hours after the letter went public. When was president Jonathan planning to respond to sanusi?

Why is the response not coming from the finance ministry instead of NNPC? Sanusi is accusing the NNPC of graft, you do not expect the same NNPC to agree to allegations. The fact that Sanusi bye-passed the NNPC and the finance ministry and wrote directly to the president shows he has lost confidence in those institutions.

What did president Jonathan do after receipt of the letter? Common sense dictates that he should have sent the letter to NNPC and finance ministry for explanation and forward same to EFCC and ICPC for investigation.

This is just a dress rehersal for the battle ahead. Both sides are strategising and arming themselves. Next year and 2015 elections will be bloody in rivers as wike with support from the Jonathans and Amaechi will fight to the finish for the political soul of rivers.

The Hausa fulanis are at it again with the support of their Yoruba collaborators. They are trying to pull Jona down because he is from the south south and is attempting to transform Nigeria into dubai.

Even if he stole $50 billion, is it not south south oil money? What of Obasanja that stole $16 billion power project money or IBB that stole $12 billion gulf windfall? Where was sanusi then.
Whether sanusi and his yoruba betrayers like it or not, its Jonathan till 2019, and even beyond.

PapaBrowne: The best two performing ministers in Jonathan's cabinet are Yoruba. Adesina and Aganga.

I know too many Yorubas who support Jonathan's government almost to an annoying point.

On Facebook Jonathan has almost an equal number of Yoruba fans commenting positively like you have from other parts of the south.

To put things in better perspective ask yourself how come despite PDP's seeming unpopularity, they garnered enough votes to come second above APC in ondo state.

Forget all those ewarriors. They aren't representative of the Yoruba race who I know as very intelligent and organized set of people.

And so? A lot of ijaws feel Jonathan is not a true representative of Ijaw ingenuity, courage and aspirations. Same way a lot of south south people feel Jonathan was never a recognized political leader but a yoruba- hausa imposition to control the receive Nigerdelta.

The OP is showing the same signs of political naivity as that shown by Jonathan and his handlers. In an underdeveloped democracy like ours, with mostly ill informed and semi illiterate electorate, Elections are not determined by the voters per se. People depend on their leaders to guide them on who to cast their votes for or sell their votes outrightly. I was in rural ondo during IBB concealed primaries in 1992, and on the day of the election, people were asking their political and traditional rulers who to cast their votes for. Word came late in the day that it was yaradua (sheu) that the leader chose, and every body (including my host) went out and voted shau Yaradua as SDP presidential candidate against their homeboy Falaye(even in his ward).

What am i saying? In Nigeria political leaders determine the outcome of elections more than ideology or even campaign manifestos.

I feel like shedding tears each time our president opens his mouth in international fora. up to 100 insurgents in 15-20 hilux buses mounted with rocket launchers drove the whole length of the state to attack military installations and he is blaming external sponsors.

See embarrassments;

He said the recent large scale attack in parts of Maiduguri, Borno State,
including the Air Force Base, had further confirmed the government’s[b]suspicion[/b] that the sect enjoyed international backing.

He stated that Nigeria was seeking the collaboration of friends of the nation
to unravel the foreign sponsors of the insurgents.

“We have not been able to pin down the sources and that is why we are
talking to our friends that we should collectively work together to identify the
source of their funding.

“Initially, we felt that they were local and as such, some people advocated
that because of poverty, these locals carried weapons against the State. So
you expect that sophistication will be minimal and you will be able to contain
it easily.

Can you now blame people that refers to the president as clueless?

A leader that will do one term and leave the scene even though if he decides to run as president till jesus comes, he will always be voted in? NEVER! not in a million years

Insincere9gerian, you and your principal are never tired of playing the victim card, ie they hate jonathan because he is from a minority tribe (even though the yorubas supported him massively for him to be acting president and subsequently president), he is hated because he is christian ( even though he got more than the required 25% votes from most muslim states), oh they are using Boko Haram to undermine his government ( even though every government from Murtala to Yaradua, save abdulsalami had to deal with muslim fundamentalists)

Jonathan style of government can be called excusism, meaning there is always an excuse for failure to perform.

He is the commander in chief of nigerian armed forces for God sake, he should have shown his fangs long ago to Boko Haram and its sympathizers. I expected him to give all the leaders of boko haram infested states - political, traditional and religious, a six month ultimatum to rein in their indigenes in boko haram, and slam a total state of emmergency after the expiration. Whereby he will appoint tough northern retired General to restore order within 6 months. This is an insurgence for god sake, undermining his authority as C in C and the territorial integrity of the country.

About the G7, OBJ had far more dissenting governors against his second term than jonathan, he did not use the tribal card, he used political dexterity. He used compromise, trickery and guile to have his way. He identified the leader of the dissent and reached a political compromise with him(Atiku). I thought jonathan was wise enough to identify Amaechi as the leader of dissent against him and reach a brotherly compromise. But I was shocked the presidents me advice a full scale war. We we are watching how things play out, but people are getting tired of the ethnic and sectional trump card.

Jonathan has alienated ALL the people that brought him to power and is relying heavily on people with little political value or acumen.

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Bishop Magic: Omehia was sworn in. His emergence as a governor from being successful at the poll was not debated it was the primaries that the supreme court ruled on. That same victory for Omeha was handed to Ameachi.

The Supreme court ruling will surely be applied.

And yes I hate ameachi with passion and it has nothing to do with GEJ but his affiliation with those criminal hausa/fulanis that have pillaged the Niger-Delta

What are you arguing? I propose elementary law should be part of GNS studies in our Nigerian universities. It would help make Nigerian, especially graduates better citizens.

The fact that Omehia was sworn in as governors does not make him a past governors of rivers state. If you check the history of rivers state Celestine Omehia's name would not appear as a past governors. His elections was nullified by the courts (meaning it never happened).

The fact that you married with all the ceremonies of marriage, ie signing the marriage register, collecting a marriage certificate, throwing a big owambe party, etc does not mean you cannot be declared never to have married. If the courts decide the marriage was done in error, done in deceit or bigamy is proven, the courts can nullify the marriage and you cannot be said to have divorced, since you were never married.