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Festus Keyamo is a Nigerian Lawyer,a Senior Advocate Of Nigeria , social crusader, critic, columnist and human rights activist.

Not anymore since he became Buhari's attack dog. And he does that job free of charge because of "Belief and Trust" in Buhari. Oga Fes, no be so?

LaudableXX:
People like Babagana Kingibe should be removed from that list. And Humphrey Nwosu the former INEC Chairman who refused to announce the winner, should also be excluded. Kingibe betrayed Abiola even though he was Abiola's running mate and went on to serve in Abacha's govt. As for Nwosu, the less said about him, the better. He lacked the balls and forthrightness of Attahiru Jega, and rubbished the whole 1993 election result. .

How old are you?
So your parents didn't tell you that even with the annulment pronoucement, Prof Nwosu continued to announce the results only to be arrested by the regime, rough handled, slapped and even tortured for disobedience.
Much later, he published/launched a book where he actually confirmed Abiola as the winner of that election. So get your facts right before ranting.
Between Nwosu and your Jega who do you think supervised over a rigged election?
Answer me before Amadioha will .........

"The tension is artificial, it is not real. There is nothing going on in real sense that suggests that there is anything like ethnic cleansing or religious war in Nigeria".

“I will also urge the US legislature and all stakeholders who are interested in Nigeria to come and speak to the ordinary people in Nigeria and they would get a different picture.”

Oga Keyamo, ARE YOU SURE?
Because you were made the Campaign Spokesperson you now know more than an army General about security issues. You think America, as well, doesn't know?
Anyway you have to earn your dollars. No be so?

Alariiwo:
Nnanna and his vanguard crew are fools..

Are Yorubas the ones stopping you fools from getting biafra? Useless nincompoops

Yes. You are. Otherwise why did you participate against them during the civil war and masterminded the starving of non combatant innocent Biafran children and women?
Tell me another story jo. Nonsense.

Without any prejudice,I make my submission:
1. Abiola was never declared a president elect not to talk of being ever sworn in as one.
2. He committed treason and for that Abacha had to put him in prison where, unfortunately, he died.
How then could the same government now confer an award meant for presidents on such a person- posthumously for that matter?
3. A learned former CJN has pointed out the illegality of such action but it seems to be falling on deaf ears. And some people are even rejoicing!
In which other countries in this world will such a thing happen? There are so many other ways to honor this man if the president thinks it's expedient.
I weep for my beloved country.

TheAngry1:
My Igbo peeps will come after me, but I don't give a fvvvvk! Listen guys, it was war, it was not a tea party. In wars, people unfortunately die and strategies which are inimical to all sense of humanity are plotted; that is why it is war. The Igbos also massacred other ethnic minorities in the Biafran region such as the Efiks, Ijaws, Ogojas and Ibibios; it is a well-documented fact. Igbos and their rabble rousers like FFK should stop telling a single story of the War, some of us know the full story. IT WAS WAR GUYS, not a tea party.

Go and tell this to Buhari so that he should stop telling lies. He should have said "War is war and we did what we had to do" instead of trying to rewrite history. Nonsense .

Don't worry when campaign starts you will know .

And the S/W Yorubas can celebrate June 12 without hindrance but with support from their leaders.
Suppose coincidentally a shop owner falls sick and therefore can't open his/her shop. What happens?
Governor, you missed this one.

Only by rigging will this"Presidency" win the 2019 presidential election.
You can tell a blind person that there is oil or no oil in the food but as for whether there is salt in it, no way. Propaganda and deceit reach a point where a 'blind' person begins to notice.
This government is worse than the previous one by all indices.

I use to have respect for this guy. Not anymore and I don't know who missed it - him or me .

So this is what Strategic Communications DG is all about. Oya earn your pay Mr SAN. Nonsense.

This is Osinbajo the politician speaking. Surely the professor and the pastor in him know better.

Mogidi:
Going to Britain.
Probably to seek permission from the British government.

Permission and support.

I was sceptical about believing the story but now that that is denied, I believe it is authentic. Of cource you don't expect the man to use his real name. Do you, Oga? The email makes more sense to me than the reasons given by Mr Lie - sorry Lai Mohammed. Nobody wants to unseat anybody. Nigeria needs more than a Buhari now if we really need to develop.
Fighting corruption and insurgency is good but there is more to development than these.

Three months after? Condolences indeed.
Popularity test in progress. Let's see whether people will also climb billboards and trees to welcome and cheer him.

But why deny that he was flown abroad for further treatment when the news leaked. Or wasn't it?. Not that it matters to or concerns me but ........SMH.

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He said the Presidency was still wondering the criteria or facts used by the anti-corruption watchdog to arrive at its very "misleading and unfair conclusions" in its assessment of the federal government's efforts in this anti-corruption crusade.

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It is the same criteria that was used to place some countries in the first, second, third positions and so on.
Okay? As if you don't know.

Ohhh! I am liking this.
FIRST PRACTICAL STEP TOWARDS RESTRUCTURING.
Oya every ethnic nationality over to you.

So who impersonated you,Sir? I read that statement and it couldn't have come from an imposter. The language was presidential.
Okay, it's me that issued that well articulated advice on the state of the Nation. So what? Is it not the simple observable truth?

Kanu's passports were seized so he couldn't have traveled out of the country. So the Security agencies should ferret him out if they really want him to appear in court. America did same to Osama Bin Laden.
The Army chased a truck loaded with arms into his compound and he has been missing since that moment . Is this to prove that Kanu leads an "Armed Terrorist Group "? You then went ahead and took him out of the equation by whatever means. And the judge now wants the sureties to produce his ghost.
"The law is really an ass" as they say .

“Nigerians will not reject President Buhari in 2019 because former President Obasanjo said so but because President Buhari may have wittingly or unwittingly rejected Nigerians. He alone by now should know his status with Nigerians. A word is enough for the wise.”

Oga Sagay, hear your colleague talking maturely. It's people like you that benefit from the status quo that will always defend your boss - emotionally.
As a SAN, why not challenge OBJ with superior arguments on the issues he raised - one by one. Can you fault any of them?

Sister, go and be seen no more. As for all ye little children mocking her, I leave you to your consciences.
This beautiful woman will eventually marry and have children. No doubt about that. Get up and go on with your life.

BlessMySoul:
Will you shataap there you dumb arse mothafucka.

For the avoidance of doubt, go and read that communique again especially the last part. This is what he said and I quote



The Knight clearly states here that he is not against Rochas naming all roads in Owerri after Buhari for all he cares. But their concern is that this particular road has a very big history with Imo catholics being that it is the road that leads to the first Cathedral in the Old ecclesiastical province of Owerri region. But you are trying to twist he narrative now to suit your demonic thinking.

If I may ask you, can the road that leads to the Palace of the Onii of Ife which already has a name that has lasted hundred years be changed to Ojukwu road despite its rich history? Don't even bother responding to me to avoid giving you a hot slap this afternoon kid.

I don't even know why am responding you because from what I have observed on this forum, you Yorubas are negatively smart and very demonic in thinking

Don't mind them.
Why didn't they allow UNILAG to be changed to MAULAG ( Moshood Abiola University, Lagos)?

ivandragon:
pmb's supporters are like rabid dogs.

once the clueless man is exposed, they begin to bark, yap & yelp.

this 'regime' set a bad precedence when it started indiscriminately arresting people alleged to be corrupt, harassing them & their families, breaking into houses without warrants, freezing bank accounts of the accused & those related to the accused, disobeying court orders, releasing false & damaging information to the public just to embarrass the accused etc...


we argued that that this was not the way to fight corruption, but PMB & his mad dogs insisted it was right.

so, now that pmb's own people have been found to be 'corrupt', how come they have suddenly realised that due process must be followed?

how have they suddenly realised that they have to take time to consider reports for months before taking action?


when did they suddenly realise that there is an explanation why it is not proper to arrest & harass corrupt people?


when did they find out that a corrupt person can be excused & actions explained 'logically'?

now that the fly has landed on their scrotum, they have suddenly realised that aggressiveness/violence does not resolve a problem, that gentility, caution & negotiations are best solutions...

hypocrites....

The senator that talked about using air freshener and insecticide in his fight against corruption was absolutely right.

Sir, nothing is impossible since it was possible to restructure the country from 4 regions to 12 (by you, Sir) , then to 19, and so on to the present 36 states.What is sacrosanct about the present structure?
Since the Army is supposed to have left the scene ( or haven't you? ), let's go back to the system we were operating before you people's intervention. The present six geopolitical zones is a good starting point.
After all, if the Aburi Accord was implemented, we won't be talking about restructuring by now.
Weren't the 500 ethnic nationalities comfortable under the regions. Actually the creation of states by the Military regimes has motives far far away from pacifying the minorities. So please don't play the minorities card here.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think that you are a fool than open it and talk trash thereby removing all reasonable doubts.
- Anonymous.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us look at it this way :
Somebody was granted bail (of course under someone as surety). The accused disobeyed the bail conditions. What was the logical and reasonably legal thing for the prosecution to do? APPLY FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE BAIL AND REARREST HIM.
This was already in progress before the python, who couldn't wait for the court to decide, swallowed the accused. Or could it be that the court had already decided and then sent the military to arrest/deal with him? This seems most likely since even the army is not above the law. They acted as directed.
It is absurd that in all these happenings, the army just paid Kanu a courtesy visit on the day he was declared missing and they never saw him? Or they saw him, shook hands and left?
Anybody asking the sureties to produce Kanu is like giving a child a load of salt and mischievously causing rain to beat him /her. The government knows Kanu's whereabouts.
I rest my case.

Any history of Nigeria will be incomplete/false if fails to discuss the "Aburi Accord " and why/how its non implementation led to the creation of Biafra and consequently the Biafra /Nigeria war. Abi na lie? Remember the slogan "ON ABURI WE STAND"?

During the Biafra Nigeria war, Biafrans really bore arms, put up a fight and gave Nigeria a run for their money. Many people died on both sides.
But I never heard Gowon or anybody refer to them as terrorists. They were simply called "Rebels" while the Biafrans were calling the invaders "Vandals". Terrorism is more serious than rebelion. Buhari should have borrowed a leaf from Gowon and revisit the famous Aburi Accord.
Luckily, the people who own the English language (EU) know the difference and have refused the categorization and proscription.

The reason for my preamble must be obvious to you all. I was seriously angry after seeing a video purportedly showing how our soldiers were brutalising fellow Nigerians and subjecting them to the worst indignities known to mankind. I’ve been praying that the videos were shot in outer space and not anywhere near Nigeria. But if what I saw very vividly actually took place on our planet and in this our dear beloved nation, then we’ve truly missed the road. I did not see any sign of weapons with these hapless victims of oppression and repression. At the very worst, even if as the military authorities claimed, that the soldiers were pelted with pebbles and stones, the treatment meted out to the personalities in the video is undeserved by any human being. How was the response from the military commensurate to that of the supposed hoodlums? Was it not an act of provocation in itself for soldiers to be engaging in drills in an area already soaked with tension?

Let me stretch the argument a bit further. Whose idea was it to draft the soldiers onto the streets to intimidate Nigerians in areas where there was no war? How can anyone send soldiers to threaten a people who already feel marginalised and are saying so very resoundingly? What is wrong with empowering members of the Nigeria Police Force and especially the anti-riot police squad to tackle cases of hooliganism and even terrorism. Soldiers are meant to come out in open battle only in extreme cases where there is total chaos and mayhem.

If truth must be told, this is the height of intolerance on the part of the Nigerian State. I have not seen any Lawyer who believes in the legality of what our soldiers have done. Kanu may be reckless and irresponsible by promoting internecine wars and heating up our country unnecessarily but no one can deny him the right of expressing himself and agitating for his beliefs. What could have been done to him was very simple; send the police after him and get him rearrested for flouting his bail conditions. Some of his hard core loyalists and acolytes could be easily identified and kept out of circulation. For the past few months, Kanu has been raking and ranting but he has not fired a bullet.
I’m aware that our President is a retired Major General, a man well known for his taciturnity, who packs his punches and loves to take on known and imaginary enemies. But we supported him because we believed Baba had transfigured into a born again democrat. The Buhari we supported was not the man who ruled with draconian Decrees from 1983-85 and was forced out of power and his detractors rejoiced openly and widely. The same Nigerians who praised you for beating your child would soon turn around to castigate you and ask why you’re so wicked. That is the reality of Nigeria. This particular case is even more precarious. Some Northerners had issued threats to the Igbos to quit their territory or face monumental reprisals. A few of the respected people in the North cautioned them but they were rebuffed with insults in a most vicious manner. No security arm ever tried to even invite them for any chat not to talk of arrests.

Anyone who opposes this master piece is either biased or does not understand English. If it tastes bitter to others , it's because it is the truth .