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PDP is very desperate and jittery, to say the least. I'd be scared too if I were in their shoes. I'd hate to be in GEJ's shoes right now; all his 'loyalists' are beginning to waver as they see the hand-writing on the wall. They're only being pragmatic. This is politics, after all.

Johnpaul2k2:
Lies from Pit of Hell

Oh, so you sabi pass those Governors on the ground abi? E go do you like film trick.

Barely two weeks to Nigeria’s presidential election, what can best be described as high-wire politics is playing out in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with about eight of its governors now in a secret alliance with sections of the leadership of the main opposi­tion party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

[b]Saturday Sun gathered that the PDP governors went into the alliance in their individual capacity and not as a group in order to get the sympathy or soft landing from the leadership of the opposition party should power change hands after the February 14 elections.

According to an impeccable source close to one of the affected governors, “the political climate is so cloudy and hazy that the leadership of our party (PDP) is not showing any sign of confidence that we can win the coming elections, especially the presidential election. The wise thing any smart PDP governor can do in this circumstance is to play safe and have a kind of working understanding with the leadership of the opposition party (APC) so that if power eventually goes to them, one can actually feel safe and welcome in case there is the need to change political platform immediately.”

Some of the governors, it was learnt went into the secret pact after the national leadership of PDP denied them control of the party’s structures in their states and as a result, their hopes to pick their successors and equally go to the senate were dashed. Others, it was further learnt, had to go into the partnership to save face after discovering that Buhari has huge following in their states.[/b]

The PDP had, in November 2013, lost five of its governors, in a major political earthquake, to the APC. The PDP governors that defected to the APC then were Mr. Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Alhaji Ahmed Abdulfatah (Kwara), Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Alhaji Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), and Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).

Two other governors — Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa) — declined to move with their colleagues to the opposition party after they had shown initial signs of defection.

Over a year later, eight more governors who appear disenchanted with the party may not be defecting formally but might be working to mobilize votes for the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari instead of the PDP flagbearer, President Goodluck Jonathan.

According to some details of the alliance, while some of the eight governors agreed to mobilize total support for Buhari, which will get him majority of total votes cast in their states, others are working on giving minimum backing which will enable the APC candidate to secure the required 25 per cent of total votes cast in their states.

Saturday Sun gathered that two of the governors in the alliance are in the South South region, two in the South East, two in North East and two in North Central. An indication that all is still not well within the PDP emerged last week when the Deputy Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto, and over 200 political office holders defected from the ruling PDP to the APC.

Announcing his defection to newsmen in Minna on Monday last week, Ibeto said: “I am on my way to welcome our party leader and presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at Minna airport for his campaign rally in Niger State.”

One of the governors from a northern state, who justified the support he may be giving Buhari at the polls, told Saturday Sun: “Whatever support my people and I will give Gen. Buhari is informed by the reality on ground in this part of the country. There is no need denying the fact that Buhari is a phenomenon in the North and his kind of followership is fanatical. To secure this state from any post-election violence and the anger of our people, we have to be seen as supporting Buhari even though we are in different political parties. The situation is also not made easy for us at the state level because of these Abuja politicians who stay there and tell the president different lies which prevent him from knowing the truth about the reality on ground.”

When contacted to have his view on the secret alliance, National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed neither denied nor confirmed the development. “I am not personally involved in such talks but I can tell you we are getting enormous support from every stratum of the society and in this case, every support that will give effect to the change the nation so much needs at this critical time is a patriotic effort”, he added.

Dismissing this as a ruse, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh denied any deal between aggrieved PDP governors and APC leadership to ensure victory for Buhari.

Speaking with Saturday Sun on phone, Metuh stated that the idea was being orchestrated by what he called the APC propaganda machinery.

“We don’t engage in wishful thinking. We don’t indulge in falsehood or propaganda. Even some of our governors that lost senatorial tickets are working with us. All our governors are with us. So, how can they do a deal with APC? We challenge them to mention our governors working against us, publicly. It is APC’s wishful thinking”, he argued.

From: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=102566

sammieblaize:
Be it pdp or apc this is actually sad when you think about it we need to actually reason as a country

Not just sad bro, tragic is more like it.

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Ogbon400:
The candidate that you apparently support went public in 2012 and declared that "Boko-Haram is in my government". Given the fact that he heads the Government don't you think that he should be held responsible for the terrorist actions carried out by this group for the past 3 years. (http://www.punchng.com/news/boko-haram-has-infiltrated-my-govt-jonathan/ )

My brother, e go better for you wella. If that statement he made is to be believed it then means that he's so abysmally weak that even with all the paraphernalia of power at his disposal, he still lacks the will to bring those boko accomplices within his govt to book, OR he's simply playing politics with the life of Nigerians over this insurgency issue.

Agukagu:
Now I am convinced that GMB is even more clueless than GEJ on how to deal with BH menace. The solution to the insecurity in North East is not by engaging the Boko boys. These are pawns on the chess board. To curtail the excesses of the boys, you need to strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter. The best strategy in dealing with BH is cutting off the financiers from sources of fund. Take the fight to the root and the branches will wither away. Eg. Boko boys can not kidnap 250 girls and keep them in custody for long if they do not have ample fund to camp such a population. The operation and maintenance cost of their military hardware is an evidence that they were well funded.

Nigerians are willing to try the General's approach for a CHANGE, seeing that Gudluck's approach has been a disaster after 6 years in the saddle. If Gudluck is re-eleced, at this rate Boko Haram will eventually consume the entire North East and will only get bolder.

Gudluck Jonathan has been weighed on a scale for the past years and has been found wanting. He has tried his best but even that isn't good enough. He can't give what he doesn't have.

What PDP and Obasanjo could not achieve against Tinubu, even with all the federal might and OBJ's arsenal, na im Bode George dey jackk off over? He should keep deceiving himself and his godson Jimi. Lol. I dey seriously laugh o.

pautex:
Jonathan lacks will because you, Buhari and your Northern elders said he was fighting the entire North while he wanted to quash BH.
He lacks will because you, Buhari and your Northern elders wanted amnesty for terrorists.
He lacks will because you, Buhari and your Northern elders wouldn't want him to impose a State of Emergency.
He lacks will because you Buhari and your Northern elders were sabotaging his efforts and those of the Nigerian military.
He lacks will because you, Buhari and your Northern brothers will not give him the support needed.
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And now Buhari, you want to make that your campaign point against your opponent.
Shame on you.

You GEJ supporters are just like your principal, always shooting yourselves in the foot while attempting to make a moot point. How can you blame your lack of WILL on another human being's action or inaction The ONLY known cause of a lack of will is WEAKNESS.

If AIT likes they should rerun the documentary 1million times. People's minds are already made up. GEJ is done (like a nicely baked steak), y'all can stick a fork in him.

InvertedHammer:
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The worst thing to happen to a man is to take away his freedom especially away from his billions.
Jail is a deterrent to budding looters. Long prison sentences and confiscation of assets are the best tools for fighting corruption. There are no ways to create a system that can beat the creative imagination of the human mind.

KPOM! He fails to understand that his pro-corruption rhetoric is further alienating him from the masses he's trying to appeal to -- being that the poor masses are at the receiving end of the ugly effects of corruption. The only people who are applauding him are the rich/crooked beneficiaries of his corrupt administration.

holicalpha:
Me know say elections are not won online.

Bet you wouldn't have said that IF Jonathan was ahead. Lol.

adeekiti:
if thats what GEJ wants do with another term then there will be more problem, simple...if any of ur workers knew u wont jail the m or convict them for their crimes then u've given them the opportunity to steal what they intend stealing for years time in just one month and then u can block the source the money are coming from, then there is a big problem here, how can u say this to an international kerry..i'm sure he's not stupid enough to welcome such..pls can u just a good act on ur governance

Are you minding him Telling us he will use technology to fight corruption. No be human being dey control technology? No be the same corrupt people go use/bypass the same technology. I've never heard that kind of rubbish in my life! Never heard anyone sound so clueless!

fresh15:
He is bragging because he and his colleagues are the architects of Boko Haram.Just very soon,they will be doomed.

By your statement you have actually condemned GEJ as a weakling who indeed lacks the WILL to end the insurgency. If GEJ is so sure Buhari is a boko sponsor, why can't he do the needful by having him arrested and prosecuted, and spare the country from any further carnage?? I repeat, his level of weakness is sickening.

GEJ only makes excuses for his failures -- he'll never accept responsibility for them, it's always somebody else 's fault that boko thugs are claiming Nigerian territory, Buhari's the sponsor of boko haram (yet he can't have him arrested -- oops! Sorry, he just said he won't have anyone arrested for practically anything, not even corruption. In other words, no deterrent whatsoever against stealing in govt., considering that nations like China even have corrupt officials killed as a strong deterrent coz they know how dangerous that cancer can get if left unchecked, even the u.s prosecutes and jails corrupt officials, but GEJ is more righteous than God himself).

Someone needs to advise Jonathan to vet his own speeches from hereon coz at this rate he's doing a better job than the APC is doing selling Buhari's candidacy. His weakness is nauseating.

PDP can do better than this rubbish. At this point Buhari should sue them for libel.

Cambridge has already settled the matter after receiving a barrage of enquiries on the matter by posting the fact that Hausa was indeed offered in 1961 on their website here: http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/

So enough of this foolishness already!!!

mactonnyso:
The recycled Buhari man is only popular among apc members on political section of Nairaland. 3 times recycled old man is not the real change we want.On election day,the real change will emerge as the winner with Goodluck

You PDP folks should be sued by APC for trying to hijack its 'CHANGE' slogan. How many more lives have to be lost to Boko haram Or, must it affect us personally to realize the seriousness of the situation?

Dbakre1:
We need prayers in Nigeria.

We have always been praying. In fact our president, Jona, is a prayer warrior sef going by the way he goes to Israel and churches within Nigeria all the time. But God cannot be mocked coz prayer of itself without sincerity of purpose, righteousness, and the will to change the course which has put us in this mess in the first place, will be a futile exercise.

Jonathan seems to be a nice man, but we don't need a nice man at this juncture, not one who has been given an opportunity to prove his mettle as a leader, and has been found wanting.

Why should the nation then reward his failed leadership with a re-election?

As we speak, the nation is under siege by a band of thugs called boko haram, it has been now for over 4 years, and there has been no appreciable progress under GEJ's leadership, and we're supposed to re-elect him coz it's their 'turn'? That's tantamount to cheap blackmail!

soludo93:
I reside in those area and I can authoritatively affirm that nothing has changed. Akko, Biliri, Balanga, Kaltungo are all Christian dominated and are strongly behind GEJ. I know this more than The Sun and that's why I can call names and cite locations when they cannot.

I hear you bro. But for me I'll rather believe the Sun newspaper's version as it sounds more credible. In any case, FeBuhari 14th will settle it.

Abiola080:
What is this one saying?

Excuse him my brother. He's high. After all he has confessed he is a Mugu.

You dey mind those unserious people? While obsessing over Buhari's F9 in mathematics way back in the '60s, they themselves are scoring F9 parallel in governance.

Nigerians are not fools, we can see through their shenanigans.

soludo93:
Speculative journalism, when will Nigeria press try to be professional? Buhari won Gombe and Bauchi in 2011 but Yuguda and Torba won by landslides. There's no panic in that regard. What GEJ needs from both is 25% only. For Adamawa, besides the seating governor, incoming governor, Jonathan Zwingina, Marwa, have great followers and they will ensure that Goodluck triumphs over change(bad luck). I am from Ebonyi State and I can guarantee that we do not have divided loyalty. irrespective of our party affiliations, we will unite to vote for GEJ. Stop this media propaganda, APC would think they are gaining ground when highly educated masses will vote against illiteracy and encourage others not to take Nigeria backward.

Are you claiming to know better than Sun Newspaper, a pro-GEJ news outfit? Perhaps you are more on ground in those state than the Governors. This isn't 2011 bro. LEVELS DON CHANGE. Even Jonathan himself is aware of that so get with the program.

Gejfreesupport:
You have been watching too much Ben 10..

Only if you knew it was Madam that introduced and set the stage for GEJ political career... You won't be spitting trash here..

Oya back to your black and white TV.. It's Ben 10 time

Are you agreeing with those that have been saying that she's more like the "husband" in the marriage, while he's more like the "wife"?

koikoi2:
Do u know dat ignorance is a disease? Keep dreaming. If u think a sickly dying and uncertificated man will be president in Nigeria then u need a serious medical attention.

Na ontop this certificate matter you still dey?? Lol. You never hear? Say even FFK wey raise the storm sef don begin campaign for Buhari! Sidon dia dey dull yourself. Better join the train now b4 you get left behind.

carik:
Think this through.

I think at this point the generality of Nigerians ARE WILLING TO TAKE THAT CHANCE. Enough of us being taken for a ride. If GEJ/PDP lived up to the general expectation, he wouldn't have to PANIC.

What most GEJ people fail to get is that Nigerians are determined to make a statement via this upcoming elections that power belongs to them. It doesn't matter your ethnicity or religion. If you fail to perform up to the expectation of the majority of Nigerians, YOU WILL BE VOTED OUT! No amount of religious or ethnic blackmail will change that.

kate3:
CHEAP PROPAGANDA.

Since when did Sun Newspaper become pro-APC? Everyone knows the owner, Orji Uzor Kalu is a Jonathan PDP man. The reporters are just being objective. The earlier you Jona supporters wake up and smell the coffee the better for you guys. The train has already left the station.

DWJOBScom:
Lies and lies and more lies aren't u APC guys tired of propaganda.

How is the report a lie or propaganda?? Is Sun Newspaper not owned by Uzor Kalu, a PDP/Jonathan supporter?? This report is not from a pro-APC newspaper. This na CONFIRM!

Jimi has always been a great debater. He took Fashola to the cleaners in 2007. Infact, it was his performance at the '07 debates that shot him to limelight. But it takes more than great oratory to win elections. In fairness to him, he has charisma but lacks the political structures necessary to win in a state like Lagos. Ambode on the other hand is more visible to the grassroots. The elites that own t.v's and read newspaper may be aware of whom Jimi is, but the grassroots -- the mechanics, tailors, bricklayers, e.t.c. Those folks know little to nothing about him and what he stands for, beyond his posters. Right man in the wrong party.

In life, you need more than mere luck to make concrete progress.

GMB! Sai Buhari