₦airaland Forum

smirn:
The Igbos hated him First, never expect to reap where you did not sow

LadyNaija:
Abuja-Constitutional Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome has described the 57th independence day anniversary speech given by President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, October 1, as not only un-presidential but un-reconciliatory.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said the speech clearly showed Buhari’s disdain and fixated hatred for the Igbos when he lambasted the entire South East leaders for allowing the agitation of a people feeling seriously marginalized and oppressed. Furthermore, Ozekhome wondered how Buhari could see nothing wrong in the murderous and rampaging activities of herdsmen across the country as well as the illegal authorization by Arewa youths to Nigerians to quit Northern Nigeria without any repercussion against them.

In a statement he signed last night, entitled ‘President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Day Broadcast: Yet Another Golden Opportunity Lost’, Ozekhome said, “The entire national day broadcast by PMB on the occasion of Nigeria’s 57th independence is quite disappointing in all ramifications”.

“It was very un-presidential and un-reconciliatory. PMB left the real issues and pursued trifles”. “The speech was bereft of nobility of statesmanship, and devoid of a calm grasp and appraisals of the dire straits Nigeria is currently in”. “The broadcast was rabidly narcissist, parochial, nepotic and clannish, as it failed to see anything wrong with the blatant and well reported threats by the Arewa youths to quit fellow Nigerians from their domains”.

“The speech followed his now well worn out fixation of perceived hatred for the Igbo race, whose leadership he needlessly scurilized and lampooned, for allegedly being behind IPOB and other agitations”. “I doubt and didn’t hear him mention anything about gun wielding herdsmen that literally vanquish citizens in their own homesteads across Nigeria”. “The President celebrated mediocrity and edified his government’s non-performance two and half years down the line”. Ozekhome continued, “I genuinely wondered if he was discussing the same country, Nigeria, that I am in, or another utopian planet Mars”.

“The beautiful picture of a peaceful country he painted so glowingly and artistically with the paintbrush of breathless satisfaction is quite different from the stark reality on the ground, which every beleaguered Nigerian labours under”. “His speech writers either wallowed in utopian mystic of redemptive messianism, or in crass fraud and grand deception”. “But, Nigerians are no fools. Did I hear PMB say this is the first time a government at the Centre is losing the governorship, senatorial and Houses of Assembly’s elections to the opposite at the state level? “No sir, wrong.

Whoever gave Mr. President this false electoral history has done him incalculable disservice and great damage and ridicule’. “Few examples: Remember Ondo state (Labour Party), Osun and Edo states (AC), Anambra (APGA), etc? “Not only did the ruling PDP party lose the elections to those opposition parties, the then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan actually rolled out the drums and congratulated the new governors, Senators and House members”. “Peter Obi won the Anambra state governorship election in 2010 for the second time on the platform of APGA”.

“Obasanjo was President at the Centre under the PDP party, just as Bola Tinubu won the Lagos state governorship seat twice under AD and ACN, with Obasanjo as president under PDP at the Centre”. “Buhari lost yet another golden opportunity to balm bruised nationalities’ ego and cement Nigeria’s yawning cleavages, hate and divisiveness”.

“Must everything be predicated on falsehood, force, threats and gun boat diplomacy, viet armis? “It didn’t ever work. When he applied such excessive force and threats to the Niger Delta militants, I counseled then it would not work”. “The marginalized youth picked up the gauntlet, serially blew up oil pipelines, tore up Nigeria’s oil jugular into smithereens”. “Crude oil output plummeted to about 700 thousand barrels per day from 1.5m barrels”.

“It took the then Acting President Yemi Osibanjo’s shuttle diplomacy to the Niger Delta region to quell the strife”. “It was Napoleon Bonarparte, a French General and Emperor (1769-1821), who famously declared: “do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything”. “PMB sir, allow Nigerians enjoy the full bloom of democracy and its inbuilt mechanisms for conflict resolution.”

SPEECH BELOW;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_x3CE1hnY

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/10/buharis-independent-speech-shows.html


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dumebiifeanyi:
SECURITY & RELATED MATTERS

1. SIP: Home Grown School Feeding Programme, where almost three million schoolchildren have been fed, while tens of thousands of cooks have been engaged in their respective states.


25. SIP: Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme, under which about 25,000 less privileged Nigerians so far are now being funded with the monthly N5,000 stipend in 9 pilot States (Bauchi, Borno, Cross Rivers, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Osun and Oyo).
http://politicsngr.com/2017/10/01/presidency-lists-57-achievements-buhari-administration/

ashjay001:
Earlier in d epic, churchill said he gave tonto 10m in dec 2016, claiming he has teller proof. She's yet to deny that. Why would he now be owing her 1.7m?

He bought an ambulance for d fire service? Paid hospital bills of over a million in d burn unit!? How is he broke?

Yyeske:
Stop the long epistles over just a question I asked and don't derail please.
Direct the long epistles to those 'you guys'.
Just answer my question

MhizzAJ:
There's nothing wrong in that afterall it's part of our cultural heritage

Yyeske:
On a short notice and just like that? So you are trying to tell me the foodstuffs brought from the north to the SE and traders coming from the north to buy stuffs here should stop abruptly and no problem or impact on the economy of the SE?
It's obvious that you are jobless or not living in the SE or both

apotek:
http://news.bounce.ng/Content/just-in-suspected-ipob-members-kill-4-hausas-in-asaba-20170916



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnY8X3xIDkw

Amarabae:
mr yoruba man, where are the 8 corpses?
No pictures?
You think we are kids that believe lies here?

Groovenaija360:
Anybody that is found wanting, and if it is established beyond doubt that he has committed an act against his rules of engagement or code of conduct, we have a mechanism through which we deal with such a person.

http://punchng.com/no-proof-military-killed-ipob-members-col-musa-deputy-director-army-public-relations-82-division/

roqrules04:
So they had enough time to break that wall choi

9inches:
Chinese police order Muslims to hand in all copies of the Koran and prayer mats or face 'harsh punishment'

According to local officials, Xinjiang authorities earlier this year, began removing all Korans published more than five years ago due to extremist content.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/china/article-4929064/amp/Chinese-police-ask-Muslims-hand-copies-Koran.html

nototribalist:
Buhari will be arrested for putting Nigeria in recession again. Endangered life's and property

9jagist247:
https://i2.wp.com/primebaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ipob-members.jpg

“It is on record that Shetima, leader of the Arewa youths, said with the support of his people, he would make sure that Kanu would be rearrested and that he would ensure that Kanu and members of his group were declared a terrorist group.

Source: http://primebaze.com/ipob-igbo-youths-threaten-shut-southeast/

Raziii:
All of these actions are unconstitutional and represent an illegal takeover of the functions of the National Assembly, the Abia State House of Assembly and the legal authorities.

https://m.guardian.ng/politics/nadeco-back-says-nigeria-is-back-to-dictatorship/

BabaRamota1980:
See how quick the financiers of Kanu and IPOB were trailed. Good job!

Should we not even deploy same intelligence team to assist unravel the bokoharam financiers, and those who fund ammunition for fulani herdsmen.

Keneking:
Ok

Definitely travelling to Western Germany to congratulate Angela Merkel after the October 1 holidays (Sunday and Monday) . He would stop in London to see Theresa May to discuss Nigeria's chances post BREXIT.

Then he would travel again to US in October to see the extent of damages caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. After that he would travel to London to witness the trial of Diezani Alison Madueke in court

He would be back to celebrate Eid El Maulud in December first week and then travel to London for another meeting with Doctors and sign off bills for the year. Then another calendar would be drawn for Year 2018 visits to London

datola:
Pastors should avoid dabbling into issues like train passing through Daura.

I agree with him on the militarily invasion of the east.