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Wots d fuss abt GEJ dinin wit d corrupt n hence cant do anyfin... who wuld imagine dat d present gov. Of lag. State will achieve such a feat in lag nt witstndin d kind of predecesors he had wit whom he dines n wine wit... Anyway, we as humans make our comments based on our human wisdom, bt GOD has d final say... We all hv made very gud points. Adexy, admire ur analyses.
I admire all your analysis, The fact is that Scamming has actually moved from individuals to co-operate organizations and now to Government( decieving us the youths and extracting money from job seekers). Take for example NDLEA, FRSC, AIRFORCE, IMO STATE GOVT, DELTA STATE GOVT. etc. Can anybody tell me where in the world this thing happens? The worst aspect of everything is that after this they field in their candidates who may not even buy the so called forms and suffering the less priviledge(adding salt upon injuries). Even the so called NNPC test that people still have high hope for, they are still fielding in their candidates having President, Senator's, Minister's, NASS and so on list, there is no credibilty in any contest again. How are going to grow? For God sake refinery operation is no administrative work. It needs competent Engineers and scientist who have applied what they have studied in school to work, putting safety into cosideration (since is not everybody taken that will be in the Towers) yet our leaders talk about development. The fact is that this so called 500,000jobs through gas revolution right now I even feel is a BIG SCAM ( since corruption and now scaming has come to stay in our great nation). I dont know sha but that is what I feel. Is it that we cannot produce competent and transperent leadership in this so called country? Well God knows the best. People talk about America, China, UK, SA etc. but they never developed their country this way. The well educated ones who know what they have studied wasting at home and vice versa. Wher is the plan for the so called TRANSFORMATION. We are tired with empty promises since 1999 and know the promise still continues. Let God have mercy on us, since our Tertiary certificates has now turned to ordinary paper( Godforbid).
we must make it whether anybody likes it or not
I have benefitted from NHJ for long and I appreciate the efforts of the members in giving help to the ordinary Nigerian trying to secure a good job in order to keep body and soul together. However, I am unhappy with the way this thread went from a simple question to a political discussion involving the display of ethnic sentiments and campaign for candidates. I`ll prefer we stick to the main goal of the forum. If at all we have to share our thoughts on political issues, it should be with mutual respect and understanding.
@adexzy007, I must be frank with you, you were too biased in laying the woes of this nation at the feet of our northern brethren. We all know that our main problem is not ethnic diversity but personal greediness and corruption, irrespective of tribal affiliation. We should be praying for a leader that will be merciful to the poor masses of this nation, who have been at the receiving end of the plundering and mis-management of our resources by cartels that have been ruling this nation. Membership of these cartels cuts across all tribes. Alleging that the north as a whole has been the cog in the wheel of progress of the nation is a show of ethnic sentiments. Was it the north that asked alameyseia (I never knew how to spell his name, sorry) to sacrifice the future of the people of Bayelsa for personal greediness? I believe that alone suffices.
Then you are abusive. I consider this statement from you as a serious insult: “So who would speak for this people where we have this greedy bigots who call themselves Fulanis..”. You must have been very angry to write that, but it has angered me, a south-westerner. What do you think it will do to the fulanis? If we all talk like that, then we might as well start preparing for another civil war. God forbid, for it will do everybody no good. I will appreciate if you apologise to the fulanis for that. And someone made a contribution, you told him: “... U had better shut your mouth...”. No matter how well-informed you may think you are, you should treat your fellow NHJers with respect. I believe Biyison also deserves an apology for that.
As for calling for rigging in order to ensure Jonathan wins, that is unbelievable. I don`t think Jonathan has the same idea, from all indications. Know that it does not matter the tribal extraction of our leader, what matters is good governance, justice, provision of basic social amenities, security, merit-based administration etc. As far as I am concerned, I don’t care who leads, I only care for HOW he governs the nation. But after reading your comments about OBJ, I understood you better. While you consider him a saint, I consider him as one of our worst presidents. The worst of his sins is what you are preaching: do-or-die politics. OBJ sanctioned it during his tenure. He used state power to install PDP in many states, even when elections did not hold, even when PDP did not win. And by the way, was Maurice Iwu a northerner? PDP members had the power to kill and maim opposition, and still get their candidates returned by INEC. Of all the faults of Yaradua, he was better than OBJ in this respect. Do you think OBJ would have allowed the reversal of PDP victories in guber elections, as we have been witnessing lately? I know OBJ will never support the use of Jega as INEC`s chairman. During his days, the late Adedibu was determining who becomes Oyo state`s governor, without any thought for the wish of the people. And OBJ supported him till he died, just because he worked for PDP. In sane societies, Adedibu should have been imprisoned for long. Do you know that the relative success of the developed countries is because their votes determine their leaders? If a governor or chairman of LG knows he will be voted out for non-performance, he will be more responsive to the needs of the people. However, courtesy of the PDP, I have in my area a speaker of state house of assembly, who told the people that he did not need our votes, he will win the election whether we vote for him or not! AND HE “WON”! Courtesy of OBJ`s style of politics. How do you think such a person will serve the masses? What do you think that does to us psychologically? It destroys our faith in the system, hence people prefer to sell their voter`s card because they claim their votes do not count! Worse, this indoctrination will take a longer time to correct, for it is easier to introduce evil than to remove it. I consider OBJ to be a minus for GEJ. It is true that OBJ is an albatross for him and I, for one, will not vote for GEJ as long as he is under OBJ`s tutelage. There is more to be said, but I am stopping here.
@Amaka: You did a yeowoman`s (hope that`s acceptable) job in calling adexy to order, but I`m afraid it was a bit lenient, hence the outburst from kexo. I salute you. We need more of you on the forum.
@kexo: Two wrongs does not make a right. Even if you are Fulani, your abuse was not proper. Learn to control yourself. One thing I have learnt is never to talk (or write) when I am angry, for I always utter statements which I later regret.
@All: My personal advice is that we leave political discussions, for everybody has his own political understandings. If we have to, then lets maintain decorum, treating issues instead of personalities or tribes. May God give us a good and righteous leader who will govern with sincerity and equity.
@Ska: I luv ur writeup, u are okay!
I wonder when people would start reading deep in thoughts..That what I am talking about here has got to do with the few cabals who have been fighting hard to make sure they remain relevant since 1999. This were the same people who went to bring OBJ from the prison in disguise to compesate the people of the south-west on Abiola's death.. Whereas their main mission was to get it back in 2003 before OBJ persuaded Atiku to allow him to come back again for another term....They had thought he was a fool like he did in 70's to hand over to shagari...They have made it their birth right.. .@ska you think this is about bread and butter politics.. You just do not get it that the battle OBJ alone is fighting with this great powers who brought him out from the prison is not just an easy one.... If you do not know.. NPLF(Ciromas-IBB-Atiku) Uhmu..This were the people who negotiated OBJ's realease thinking we are fools here....And one should start wondering why OBJ never allowed IBB or any of those cabals get back to it...You just don't understand..You never asked why or how come OBJ broke the Military forces into pieces by sending many of them home. Those IBB planted to topple the goverment. Do you think coup would be possible like buhari did in 70's. Or you think GEJ would still be there by now if not for what OBJ did to the Nigerian Army.. This were the smooth roads OBJ cleared for GEJ... Everyone wants good governance but where you have the few making it hot for many.Someone must be out there to stop them and for now this is what OBJ is still doing. See forget we sit in our room and turn on our TV listening to news..There is much to what you hear and see...It takes a simple psychological reasoning to ask questions and give yourself an answer. If truely you know this geo political terrain and politics of this nation and issue that lead to many funny decision in this country, you then would begin to ask yourself why? Alamesiyah you mentioned should be able to answer few questions on what actually happened..What has his pallying up with Atiku got to do then? May be you do not know today that most of the then governor were actually working for the emergence of Atiku and IBB but they were too blind to understand the very reason why this men released OBJ from the prison is not to compesate us but for him to foolishly return the goverment to them in old style where the powers remains with them in that cabals.. Am sure many of us have forgotten when IBB (MARADONA) was leaving the goverment. I quote him " I am stepping aside" Meaning I'll be back soon!!! Nigerians wake up!!! Look weather you like it or not. Buhari is still IBB's joker on the side, Ribadu was recently endorsed by him 2 weeks ago.... If we want to say anything here to make the opposition credible..We should tell them to come up with a credible person who we all can support and send the ruling class out that we all complain about. And not still trying to send ourselves back to the old times........Like poles repels and unlike poles attracts.. Meaning corrupt person to fight a corrupt person should be ready to repel itself from Aso rock but unlike poles would attract to Aso rock.......
Dieziani Allison-Madueke’s health --- http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?t...01104077174293 --- There is an adage saying.. "If only the eyes can see the mind mythes,then mind would strive to" If you people like, don't pray for her and still be living in this whole fake gimicks that you find hard to understand in this country. This woman has been working tirelessly to make sure the PIB is passed such that the 500,000 would be feasible. God help us!!! Dem don start again. Those devils who are ready to make sure the woman does not actualize those goals that would give us our dream job... Every goliath power waging war against the freedom of this economy..You must die by fire in Jesus Name.
@Adexzy, I'm ready to discuss politics with you but not before you have admitted and apologised for your slips of keyboard. If you fail to realise the need for that, then I'm sorry, you are not the type of person I can discuss politics with. Cheers.
Apologised to who? I have done that since the lady in this forum said we should keep it low....And mind you, I didnt apologise based on my opinion but the direct words I used to some of those in this forum which I think was only KEXO I did that to for trying to defend those names in North I mentioned.So how does that affect you brother...Look I just do not have time for this baised issues you raised up.... My comment were direct and straight. It has nothing to do with the general populace. I have got friends from every region of this country.Infact my room mate for 2 years hails from North. I still stand my ground that few cabals in the north that are educated have just their family having it good but keeping their people less informed with the conducts of the new world we are ... Their greed for power should just stop !!!!!
News -- Miss World: A disaster waiting to happen Read this..May be that would make you understand me better...
Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Why is almajiri aggression unsolvable? And read this too....
My friend, perhaps you missed these parts of my comments:
1. “So who would speak for this people where we have this greedy bigots who
call themselves Fulanis..” That was directed at the Fulanis, they deserve an apology fot that.
2. “... U had better shut your mouth...”. That was directed at Biyison, for making a contrary contribution.
I have taken these two statemens from your posts. I cant force you to apologise, but I will appreciate if you did. As for the links you posted, lets meet after the apology...
31 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE
In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the following reasons I cannot vote for Buhari:
1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.
1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.
1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.
1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life When he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo Township.
2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.
3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.
4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.
5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologized to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."
6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority
7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a Muslim.
8. He is a coup plotter.
9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-called trust fund.
10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfits to lead the country.
11. Buhari, as part of his Triba-listic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igbo man.
12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari. Up till today we are not told what Emeka’s offence was.
13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention. The then Governor of Ogun State, Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.
14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and consfisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President, the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!
15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.
16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago....Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame
17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the North. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.
18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.
19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.
20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.
21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how important reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologized at anytime.
22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilized citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilized thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.
23. Let’s informed Buhari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project for Lagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Club in the federation.
24 let also remind Buhari that Gbolahan Mudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn. Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given the people of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, General Buhari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on his mind.
25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi was also ethnically fired.
26. So also was the shorter end of the stick he handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.
27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamor for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.
28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.
29. Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.
30. Buhari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.
31. He should reveal to us his health status… Buhari at 69 yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?
If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamentalist, conscienceless human beings like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?
I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.
It is clear that apart from the states of the North-West and North-East, his Congress for Political Change (CPC) would hardly earn 25 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the remaining states of the federation. By implication, two zones just cannot earn Buhari the presidency he is looking for, no matter their voting strength.