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This Nigerian so called federation should be called a voodoo federation. So the federal government just call the states and tell them this is your share of this month's oil receipts without showing the revenue profile of the federation or where the money is coming from. Because obviously tge governors have no idea of how much money they are entitled to or whether the money is coming from the federation account, the excess crude account or even President Jona's personal account.
If the excess crude account is supposed to belong to all three tiers of government ( as savings for the rainy day), how come the federal government shared it without informing the states where the money is coming from? they most likely assumed the money being shared must have come from the regular monthly oil receipts.

Even the national assembly have no idea of what is going on with the national finances. Left to me we should not waste time and so much money pretending we are operating a democracy and just have the president as absolute monarchy, who can do and undo and is not accountable to anybody.

I thought Tompolo and co have been contracted with billions of naira to protect our pipe lines and water ways, how come oil theft is such a problem that is causing us such huge shortfalls in our revenue?

Akanbi_edu: And people spend days arguing with this kind of poster.

You should understand what i am talking about, it is difficult to get all your thoughts out when you are typing on a phone with a 2.5 x 1.5 screen. I mean all the time she was in the PDP government, she never showed any ambition to contest an elective post. And that was the height of her popularity.

She only contested after she left government and was drafted by Peter Obi to contest for senator. A politician involved in party politic would always contest for one post or the other in every election season. I hope you get my drift.

Ngwakwe: All these because APC lost an election that is definitely beyond them, even when conducted over and over, APC will still never take 2nd position in Anambra State in this present political climate.

Definitely, the failure of APC to utilise those thugs cum observers arrested in Dysney Hotel in Owerri was a big blow to their success in Anambra guber election.

please remove your ethic lens once in a while so you can see issues in proper perspective. We are not talking about APC or Disney hotel, we are talking about organizing an election which can be seen locally and internationally as free, fair and credible as it is in other smaller African countries.

Rigged elections would come back and hunt everybody, even the winners in the future. So it is imperative we learn how to organize elections.

nedu2000: I equally recommend that jega resigns but dora is involved in partisan politics and thus can't be given such a position....a university don/lecturer can be offer the position

I do not believe Dora is involved in partisan politics, she served under a PDP government and she did not contest any elective post. She was only drafted by Peter Obi to contest for senator and after she lost narrowly, she had remained politically mute.

I think Dora value her integrity, even during the yaradua fiasco she could not take the lies anymore and spoke out against the cabal. I bet that caused her to lose her ministerial position.

The Anambra elections is admittedly flawed, even as admitted by Professor Jega himself. Since he admitted that one senior Inec staff had been compromised, it means others might have been compromised too. Meaning INEC does not have a system to check abuse of the process by it staff.

The so called cancellation is just a face saving gimmick, INEC does not have the powers to cancel elections once the result had been declared, only the courts have that power. If Obiano does not win a rerun or rescheduled election, he has a strong case in court to uphold the original results. Lawyers it is time to relocate to Anambra, there is plenty of meat there.

Anyway, since Professor Jega has shown that he is incapable of controlling INEC, i thing he should resign and go back to professing.
If nigerians want a semblance of credible elections in 2015, i think Dr. Dora Akinyuli should be drafted to INEC, she has shown that she is incorrigible and incorruptible, with the magic she performed at NAFDAC in which she almost eliminated the fake drug pandemic before she was drafted to the information ministry. I am sure she would be able to sanitize INEC to an extent.

Ferdinandu: ANAMBRA ELETION RESULT:

APGA Willie Obiano= 174,710

PDP Ton Nwoye= 94,356

APC Chris Ngige = 92.300

INEC returning officer said that the commission will hold supplementary elections in area where elections were canceled as a result of logostic problem.

election was therefore declared "INCONCLUSIVE"

Lets examine the figures.
The total number of votes cast is about 400,000. The total number of registered voters is About 1.8 million. This means about 23% of registered voters that voted or allowed to vote.

The APGA candidate won with 174,000 votes. This means 9.6% of anambrains voted the governor into office.
It also means that out of the total population of about 5million, only about 3.5% of the population is going to be responsible for putting the governor into office.

Meanwhile, the main political parties - APC, PDP and APGA has at least 10,000 members in each local government, and we are told there are 21 local governments in Anambra. So each of these parties should score at least 200,000 votes from their members in the elections, how come we are having abysmally poor voter records? Didn't the ordinary Anambra citizen vote at all? Is it that Anambra people are not politically sophisticated and so they refuse to participate in elections. Or they were deliberately disenfranchised by INEC.

Please anambra brothers help us solve these riddles, it might help towards the 2015 elections.

The most fatal error any member of the G7 can do is to capitulate to the PDP, whatever carrot they are promised or offered, they would be seriously dealt with once the PDP stabilizes once again. They should go and ask Atiku compromised and accepted the V.P slot instead of holding his ground and deal with OBJ when he had the chance to.

That is why I admire Amaechi, he understands it his has got to the point of no retreat, no surrender, he either wins gallantly or lose woefully.

Lamido, kwankwaso and Aliu better endure now or they would be signing their obituary - politically and physically.

Buchika: why is it too hard for our politicians to accept defeat, apart from the obosi problem, its almost the same situation all over the state. late arrival of inec staffs and voting material. the looser s are crying wolf.

Should you not be concerned that in a single election in a small state like anambra and with the full resources of INEC- both materially and financially, voting materials could not arrive on time in most polling boths?
Forget about who won or lost for a second, are you not concerned about INEC's ability to conduct elections after 13years of experience?

I will not take a position on the anambra elections until I read the report of both national and international election observers, but this election is a dress rehersal for the 2015 elections. But if it was massively rigged as alleged then we are in for a very violent time in 2015. I would advice people to relocate to their ethnic enclaves before the elections for safety.

Having said that, even if this election is declared free and fair, it still cannot pass as a representation of the wishes of Anambra citizen. An election where less than 30% of registered voters voted or were allowed to vote, or put in another way, an election were less than 15% of registered voters or less than 5% of the total population supported and voted the governors cannot be a true representation of the wishes of the people. Even the total number of registered members of APGA or APC would be close to the 200,000 - 250,000 votes that would win this election, so in effect the ordinary voter had little input in the elections.

If Jega, which the full resources of INEC cannot conduct a free and fair election in one state with 21 local government, how is he going to conduct a free and fair governorship elections in over 25 states and national and state assemblies throughout the federation come 2015

Many of us from the Niger Delta view the amnesty program as a reward for crime. It is an error of judgement by yaradua to reward groups who killed, bombed, maimed other Nigerian and kidnapped foreigners with money. While their leaders were rewarded with billions of naira and contracts. I said it then and i am saying it now, more groups would be encouraged to take up arms and bombs to get their own amnesty too.

People try to differentiate between boko haram and militants by arguing that Niger Delta militant were fighting against environmental degradation by oil companies. Really? Are they telling us environmental pollution has stopped? Have the oil companies stopped polluting the environment? Have gas flaring stopped? Have the cleaned previous oil spillages? Are they cleaning up fresh ones? You need to come to my village to understand the amount of pollution going on.

The money used to bribe the militants and their leaders could have been put to better use, it could have been used to equip the navy to better navy and air force to protect the creeks and oil installations, it could have been used to educate and train ALL Niger delta youths, it could could have been used to clean up the environment, but using it to bribe militants is a waste of money. They would start killing and bombing again once the money stops flowing. Once Jonathan leaves Aso Rock, the ijaw militants would return to the creeks.

I did not support amnesty for militants and i do not support amnesty for Boko Haram or any other terrorist group. I support the carrot and stick approach. Provide education(free scholarships), training and jobs for jobless youths being recruited as terrorists and deal mercilessly with the unrepentant onces. Abacha dealt mercilessly with maitasimi insurgency and OBJ dealt mercilessly with anyone that took up arms against the state.

Youngzedd: Hehehe!

This can't stop Ngige from wining tomorrow.

Yes he rigged the other election and did his work perfectly, then who cares.

Nothing on earth will stop me from voting Ngige tomorrow because I know that all the candidates will rig theirs in one way or the other.


Am not voting for APC rather Ngige himself.

Click like if your voter's card is for ONWA.

Peace out!

Correction, Ngige did not rig any election, he neither had the resources nor the influence to rig the 2003 elections. He was a beneficiary of election rigging by those OBJ handed over Anambra to. Just like OBJ handed Oyo to Adedibu who decided to give the governorship to Akala, since Ladoja refused to share, OBJ handed Anambra to Chris Uba who could decide to instal his dog as governors if he wanted. So he chose Ngige after some swearing at Okija shrine to share the booty. The only reason Peter was able to win at the tribunal was because he got the support of INEC, as OBJ and Chris Uba had tried all other means to remove Ngige.

In Nigeria, almost all the governors under IWU's INEC were rigged into power. Even Fashola was rigged in by Tinubu. There was no way Fashola would have won a free and fair AC primary in lagos as he had no political antecedents.

One the eve of the last governorship election in anambra, the leader and soul of APGA - Dim Chukwemeka Ojukwu, endorsed the APGA candidate, peter Obi, with literally his last breath. His last wish was for anambrains to elect peter Obi back into office. And this endorsement played a prominent role in ensuring that Peter Obi was returned as governor.

Now enter 2013, and no Ojukwu has come out to endorse Willie Obiano, the APGA candidate, why? Even though the new leader is now Ojukwu's wife, the beautiful Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, she had not come out to endorse Willie Obiano, not to talk of campaigning for him. What about other Ojukwu siblings and family members, a deafening silence. Could they be supporting another candidate?

Some might argue that endorsements by ojukwu family is not important but they are wrong. Obamas chances against Hillary Clinton and in the US elections was greatly boosted by the endorsement of JFK's Kennedy's sister. People vote based on acceptance by a revered political dynasty.

So why are the Ojukwus not throwing their weight behind APGA in the governorship elections?

maasoap: I was told that three people were to go from each ward and that my name has been included. I asked them two questions without getting satisfactory answers: 1. What is the mission all about? 2. How much are we talking about? Then I told them that the fact that I'm an unemployed graduate doesn't mean that whatever they are going to pay me really worth my life. Two of my friends (also unemployed graduate) were approached, I told them the risks involved in embarking on such a journey but I think they needed money badly. Right now, one of them is among the arrested group. We couldn't reach the other one as at this moment. When my friend went to the meeting with the trip organisers on Tuesday, they told the recruits that they would give each of them #20,000 feeding allowance for five days they are going to spend there right before they leave Osun state. And that their yet to be determined payment for job weldone would be paid to them when they return. My friend even told us on phone that there were screen out in Imo state, those who couldn't speak English Language were screen out. Something they were supposed to have been done before they left Osun state. If some Nairalanders, some APC members and sympathizers, some Yoruba or neutral people refuse to believe this news, I wouldn't blame them because when Farouk Lawal was alleged to have taken bribe from Otedola, I refused to believe it until he admitted taken bribe himself. I wanted to post topic about this thing last week but I just thought that people wouldn't believe me. Because I didn't think that police would be able to arrest some of them. I was only thinking about the moral aspect, risk of travelling on Nigeria roads, as well as election violence in Nigeria couple with risk of going to an unknown territory to illegally participate in an election of that magnitude when I turned down the offer. No way! So, if you are saying it is not true, I would simply ask you to help me pray for my two friends to return home safely.

This story get as it be. It cannot pass as evidence in any court of law.
Now lets analyse the confessions line by line.
1. Who told you that 3 people were to go from ward to ward? Who were they? Names. Were they already known to you or were total strangers? And how did your name get included in their list? Are you a well known reputed thug?

2. You did not state the mission you were being solicited for, so how can you assess the risks involved? Since two of your friends were also approached and they accepted the mission, it means you are in a group of thugs.

You said a lot of things without saying anything. You fail to mention who or the party that was doing the recruiting, you fail to mention the mission and you fail to mention the modus operandi of the mission. So what do you want us to believe? And how is this related to you believing or disbelieving the farook lawan case?

ogologodimkpa: Who said?
A single vote can make a difference.
APC wants to win at all cost and we'tt not succumb to that

A single vote can make a difference? How come? I thought you people said no true igbo son or daughter would vote for Ngige and his hausa/yoruba/ Muslim/terrorist/igbo departing party - APC? So how can 180 yoruba thugs make a difference for Ngige in an election with over 1.7 million registered voters, When he would require simple majority in at least 2/3 of the local governments to win.

gratiaeo: Stop spewing rubbish here, Imo state was only APC state in the east hence they use it as their base. Mind you you can enter Imo state through Delta, Balyesa - Imo without entering Onitsha

Some of you people are more neurotic than I thought. what does where they imo state have anything to do with the argument here. The whole statement you wrote up there is senseless. Imo state WAS only APC state in the east? so Imo state is no longer an APC state?
And someone actually liked your post. A very sad commentry on Nigerian educational system.

So what are you alleging? that Governors Rochas conspired with Governors Rauf to import 180 Yoruba thugs from osun to rig the governorship election in Anambra, an APGA controlled state with PDP controlled police and INEC?

Oh boy, see format. Osun indigenes travelling to anambra via imo to rig elections with 2 dane guns. This is calculated to discredit Ngige on the eve of the elections. A few yoruba youths travelling to the heart of igbo land to rig elections is a confirmed suicide mission. It is like a few igbo youths travelling to kano to rig a governorship election on the eve of the election. I can place a wager that no one of them would make it back alive.

Elections can only be rigged by locals and not by outsiders, not to talk of another tribe.

Igbo are becoming masters of ethnic, tribal and religious propaganda as a political tool. I hope it does not backfire in the long run.

Is indecency dressing the greatest problem confronting us as a nation? I would have thought the Oba's wife would advocate for flogging and jailing of women who indecently steal our collective resources.

khattab02: Well done Op. But u haven't really show us the scientific proves.

scientific proof of what? What of scientific proof that sphinxes, centeurs, fire breathing dragons and other mythical creatures dont exist.

OP thanks for attempting to educate the ignorant, the problem is the ignorant prefers to believe in fantasies and myths that learn real science.

emmy-richie:
Such a huge shame.

Obviously, we are not ripe for state police.

Lust for money, really can destroy.

If we are not ripe for state police, then we are not ripe for state high court, state house of assembly or even state governments. Is it not absurd that federal police implement laws made by state house of assemblies in state high courts.
Besides it is impossible for federal police to police every village and town in nigeria, the number of personel needed would be tremendous.

The problem we have in Nigeria are the courts, if the courts are truly independent and just, it would be difficult for governments - whether state or federal to misuse the police.

The report is slightly misleading. It is not exactly current that is dangerous but voltage. A 12v ac or dc passing through the body is harmless, the current will depend on the resistance of the body. A 110 ac voltage passing through the body can be harmful but not fatal. That is why the us and Japan uses 110V, to avoid fatalities in case of electricution. Meanwhile 220V, which is our own standard is fatal. If you take the full brunt of 220V without any insulation whatsoever, you chance of surviving is very slim.

If 415V (voltage before step down from your transformer) pass through any animal(including humans), the animal would quickly dehydrate and catch fire. Now imagine what will happen if you touch those 125,000volts that feed the subsections. You would simply vapourize.

Having said that people have different tolerance level to electric current depending on the amount of salt in our bodies. But that still does not mean any living thing can survive 415 volts.
So they should tell us the voltage passing through the man's body and not the current

If 70% of nigerians are suffering means 70% of her congregation are suffering, so what is the benefit of all the sowings, things and offerings week in, week out, year in year out.

And why do her and her husband tell people that they can banish poverty and sufferings by just giving to the church.

With the way people give at Redeem, sufferings should have been eliminated, just like small pox.

Is GEJ going to constitute another 3-man or is it 4-woman committee to investigate deziani Allison madueke? Is the house going to inagurate a special committee to investigate - complete with sitting allowance? What of her ijaw and igbo brethren, are they not going to protest intimidation, harassment and intimidation by the Yoruba press? Should they not declare that she should be left alone to continue the good works she had been doing in the oil industry?

solomon111: Then go to UNIPORT and get them you dumb fool.
Are you expecting me to get them for you?
You think i'm jobless?

A response from me would be too undignifying. If asking for GEJ's academic work can get you so worked up, i wonder what asking for yours would do.
I can bet you are you jobless, it is only jobless people that screams "i am not jobless" in a faceless forum.

souldust: do your research. India has been to the moon and they also found water on the moon. This is something the US, EU and russia have not been able to find.

India has been to the moon and only you knew about it? Are you sure you are not dreaming? When the US went to the moon, the whole world stood still but when India went only souldust was aware.

eunisam: Must every thesis be online? Please let gej be jor

Not every thesis should be online, but every thesis must either be in the departmental library, the school library or the national library.

souldust: @wirinet i think you are the one who should do research to find out if what i am saying is true. You can look it up here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/24/water-moon-space-exploration-india

you dont need an atmosphere to have water. Water isnt formed by atmosphere. Infact the water you find in atmosphere is that which came from the ground. You are the one who should go back and learn basic geography and science of water cycle.

I did not want to comment further on the outrageous claim on water being on the moon, as you stubbornly refuse to learn. The site you posted is useless, the very first sentence said it is a CLAIM, no evidence of anything, no even evidence of an Indian every being on the moon. No name of any reputable scientist attached to the claim. Science is not based on claims. The most absurd claim is that the water is not even liquid water but molecular water. What the fvck is molecular water? Please explain. I hope you read the whole article instead of just the headline.

Water is not farmed in the atmosphere but formed in the ground? Abel which school you go? So i can tell even my enemy to avoid sending his child to that school.
Let me give you a nursery one assignment. What is the constituent components of water and where can they be found?

emk4lif: I do not think he is hiding his academic records because it has never been a matter of public discourse, if at all,anyone is interested in obtaining it, its up to the individual to apply from them from his alma mater, however I believe academic records should be the private concern of a person not for public consumption, as long as the relevant bodies are satisfied that he provided the requisite certificates and documents which he must have provided to INEC and also the CJN before swearing in, this issue is trivial at best and I think its best for us to focus on the issues, if indeed you want to see his thesis , you could get it at Uniport, his first degree and masters project are at least available at the AEB departmental library , PHd thesis are prolly kept somewhere else, one thing I'm sure of though is that he indeed has a PHd and he secured it by 1995 long before he got into politics,
Btw what's the deal about 'GEJ paid lapdogs', isn't it possible for there to be people who genuinely support him just like you choose to dissent against him, its a democracy,everyone is allowed to have their own opinion, if they chose to support or criticize,its purely up to them...........I concur GEJ has been a disappointment but its important for us to focus on the issues and stop this unnecessary personal attacks that make it seem as if there is something else......politics section is full of unnecessary antagonism and very few reasonable discourse

it is annoying when you people give lame excuses just to avoid serious questions raised on anything about GEJ. Most people here have passed through higher institutions and so understands the rudiments of obtaining a Bachelors, Masters or doctorate degree. It would be difficult, if not impossible for a doctorate degree holder to hide is doctoral thesis and other academic publication in his field. People are not asking for his grades or actual certificate, what we want to see is his contributions to the field of zoology through his publications or his thesis. Or are you saying he had no academic publications at all before obtain a doctorate degree or his publication are not good enough to be studied by others?

Please help us obtain some of his academic publications, or at least list them.

DerideGull: I get little jolted when human beings try to play God. Nigerians have the knack to postulate what will happen in future especially when talking about corrupted politicians. Nigeria of 1967 to present, Gowon, northern regional politicians and civil war are the reasons corruption runs amok in Nigeria. Disintegration of Nigeria will surely usher new era and political direction for new nation states.

You make amazing claims that borders on utopia or dreamland. How can you make the spurious claim that the northern regional politicians and the civi war are responsible for the corruption in Nigeria? are you saying that the easterner and western politicians are not corrupt or were not corrupt before the civil war? What exactly was the reason Nzeogwu planned and executed the first coup in Nigeria? was it not because be believed corruption had run amok? Please grab some education on the events leading to the civil war, if you were not born then or ask people who survived it.

Please explain how disintegration of Nigeria would help solve corruption problems, would disintegration stop the chairman of a local government chairman or other politicians in the proposed Biafra country from stealing? Would disintegration magically stop the chairman of Onitsha market from embezelling contributed funds? In that case any country with corruption issues should just disintegrate the country into multiple parts, and voila! corruption will magically disappear. The hearts of politicians will immiediately be controlled by the disintegration spirit. Disintegration appart from politicians will clean the hearts of pastors, imams, traditional rulers and all citizens.

Chizua: Why calling the Igbos? Why not face the fact. And when did Igbos become a minority entity in Nigeria?

What's wrong with calling igbos? Is calling igbos now a crime? Don't the igbos have their own agenda? And which facts are you facing? why not state these facts. I never meant igbos are minority, what I mean is igbos and minorities in Nigeria who do not have have the numbers ( census wise )to make make as much political impact as the yorubas and hausa/fulanis.

Why not make reasonable contributions to the discussions, instead it is the mentioning of igbos and minority tribe that caught your attention.

Good suggestion in theory, but impracticable in reality when applied to the Nigerian situation. First of all, the Nigerian constiution (which is the highest law of the land) does not make provision for referendums, so unless the national assemby change the constitution to reflect the use of referendums, the whole exercise would be an exercise in frutility. Secondly even a referendum cannot help the igbos or other minorities realize their goals, a nationwide referendum would suffer the same fate as regular elections, which gives the north and the south west at an undue advantage as a result of inflated population figures and skewed political arrangements. The votes of the north and the south west is enough to defeat any referendum not in their interest. So unless we correct the huge structural imbalances in the nigerian federation and have accurate cencus figures, a referendum cannot change the status quo.

souldust: where America, USSR and EU did not succeed, India discovered water on moon

those people saying India is languishin in poverty are only saying so becos they want to be the only ones doing great things. And for us here in Africa saying the same thing, we have our heads but cannot use it. We take only what we are told.

Major powers had poverty issues when they started their space projects so whats our point?

If all India has spent on poverty reduction does not yield results, it is not the drop in the ocean they put in their space programme that will make a difference if it was put in poverty reduction.

Water on the moon? .... LOL. How did the water get there? The moon that can not even hold down an atmosphere. Please go back and read elementary geography. Maybe it is aliens they will find there next, drinking the water.

Russia and the US went to space because of the cold war. For both pride and military advantage.It is a totally different reason for india and poor countries like Nigeria wasting their money on space programs. Most other countries including Europe and asia do not bother wasting money on bogus space programs. And it is only very recent that China has joined the space race.