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Elections 2015: Jonathanians Vs. Buharists - By Oyede Saheed

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<b>In 2011, a particular leading candidate came out with the ‘I have no Shoes’ campaign while the opposition kept screaming that Goodluck was not synonymous with good governance. Whether he really had no shoes and whether Goodluck is not synonymous with good governance is a debate for another day. Today, the opposition has grown bigger than what it used to be. Essentially, reducing the political debates ahead of 2015 Elections to two parties, the PDP and the APC.</b></div>
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Ordinarily, I need not define who a Buharist is and who a Jonathanian is but for the benefits of non-Nigerians who may be reading this and for the purpose of this write up, Jonathanians are the fanatical and sympathetic supporters of President Jonathan of Nigeria while Buharists are the fanatical and sympathetic supporters of Gen Muhammadu Buhari- one of the leading opposition figures in Nigeria’s political settings.</div>
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When Buhari emerged as the APC presidential candidate for the 2015 Elections, the first congratulatory message from a political party came from the PDP with the tone of that message suggesting that there was more to it than met the eyes. The message was point blank: the only thing that has changed in GMB is his changing into a night suit. We recalled that one of the men paid to cry more than the bereaved for the president had come out crying to the world that if the opposition party survived beyond nine months, we should call him a Bastard. Trust Nigerians, they have given him an overdose of Bastard definition. The same man, some days ago, came out in his usual controversial manner to tell us that our dear president is the Jesus of our time. Most of the president’s supporters, in their attempt to defend him always end up confusing their audience the more. We find it hard to explain that the Federal Government of Nigeria couldn’t legitimately or illegitimately purchase arms from the black market let alone the International Market while Mr. Government Ekpemupolo an ex-militant succeeded in purchasing six warships for the purpose of defending Federal Government properties.</div>
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Several leading figures have lately attacked the president: Chief of them was the Nobel Laureate: Prof Wole Soyinka who likened President Jonathan to Nebuchadnezzar of the Bible. He literally took the insult to the corridors of power. (Although some online versions have it that our Dear Prof has finally and systematically endorsed our President by reminding us that he is the only candidate without any ties to the military) As if that was not enough, Former President Obasanjo gave Insult a direct access to Aso Rock with the publication of his Book – My Watch, thereby allowing insult to have an audience with the president. He not only called President Jonathan weak and incompetent, he detailed his incompetence while also revealing to us that we have five presidents in Nigeria and that President Jonathan was the weakest in the chain. Recall, a chain is as strong as its weakest point. As if that wasn’t enough, Governor Fashola of Lagos at the last APC convention listed out all the unfulfilled promises of our dear president.  Fashola noted that Mr. President’s list of unfulfilled promises is competing with his list of disappointments, though he wasn’t sure which list was longer.</div>
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The president must be duly acknowledged as a man that has the ability to tolerate the opposition to a fault but my fear is that if he eventually wins his re-election, will he still be this tolerant of the opposition? One thing for sure, former President Obasanjo couldn’t have been this tolerant. I also have my fears about the opposition. Should APC win, will they be matured enough to manage their success? Will APC not eventually be the Botanical name for PDP in the long run? The implosion in Ogun state, the outright loss of Ekiti State, the logjam in Rivers and Edo state are a pointer towards that observation.</div>
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Conclusively, President Jonathan deserves all the respect he can get and I have always maintained that Nigeria is a reflection of Nigerians. Whatever the outcome of the 2015 General Elections turns out to be, we hope that it will eventually reflect the wish of Nigerians.</div>
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<b>Oyede Saheed is a postgraduate student of UNILAG and can be reached via email: chiefhumanbeing@gmail.com</b></div>
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Elections 2015: Jonathanians Vs. Buharists - By Oyede Saheed

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OMG! See Americans Reactions To Police Officers Murder

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<b>OMG! Is this what America has become? Celebrating the assassination of police officers? Hailing and saluting the killer? What a world! But who is to blame if not the police. The police that shoot and kill innocent and unarmed civilians and getting away with the senseless murder. The killing of unarmed black teenager Micheal Brown and the resultant nationwide protests are still fresh in our memory. Eric Garner too. Remember? And the killer-police officers are still walking as freemen.</b></div>
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See how the American people have been reacting to <b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/breaking-news-2-nypd-police-officers.html">the assassination of Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos</a></b>. </div>
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Osinbajo: APC, PDP Back To The Drawing Board

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<b>In this report written and compiled by seven seasoned journalists from the Punch stable, the <i>Sunday Punch</i> says the unexpected emergence of Professor Yemi Osinbajo as the running mate to APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari has changed the calculations and permutations of the two major political parties in the country, the ruling PDP and the opposition APC. Both parties are reported to have gone back to the drawing board to thinker with their position zoning arrangements. </b></div>
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Below is how <b><i>Sunday Punch</i></b> reports the story:</div>
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The country’s two major political parties the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Party have kick-started a realignment of forces in order to upstage each other in the forthcoming 2015 presidential election.</div>
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The realignment is said to be one of the fallouts of the emergence of Professor Yemi Osinbajo as the vice- presidential candidate of the APC on Wednesday.</div>
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Both parties, SUNDAY PUNCH learnt, might have changed their zoning formula to ensure that the selection of Osinbajo would not hurt their chances at the polls.</div>
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Osinbajo, a former Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, is a native of Ikenne, Ogun State in the South-West. His wife, Dolapo, is a granddaughter of the first Premier of the Western Region and foremost Yoruba politician, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.</div>
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It was learnt that the PDP was jolted by the APC’s choice of Osinbajo as the running mate of its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)</div>
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Following the zoning of the APC vice presidential ticket to the South-West, the ruling party is said to have revisited its zoning formula. The plan, sources say, is to zone some of the top positions in government to the zone as part of measures to woo the region in the 2015 presidential election.</div>
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SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that besides the speakership of the House of Representatives, which the PDP reportedly agreed to zone to the South-West, the party also, planned to cede some key positions to the zone.</div>
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But even as the PDP makes its move, the APC is also said to have gone back to the drawing board to ensure that the selection of Osinbajo by Buhari does not affect its fortunes in the South -South and South-East.</div>
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SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the APC might zone the Senate Presidency and the Speakership of the House of Representatives, to the South-East and the South-South, if it wins the 2015 elections. The two regions were being considered for the posts because the North and South-West have the President and Vice-President slots.</div>
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While Jonathan is widely believed to enjoy massive support in the two regions, some of the APC’s most prominent powerbrokers, including a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, and Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State are from the two regions.</div>
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Amaechi was one of those considered for the vice-presidential slot before Osinbajo was selected and Okorocha had contested for the presidential ticket and lost to Buhari.</div>
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A change in the formula might also be a plan by the party to ensure that members of the two parties from these regions are given a sense of belonging.</div>
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A chieftain of the APC, who pleaded anonymity, said even though the zoning of positions was yet to be finalised, leaders of the party have agreed on a new arrangement in principle.</div>
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He said, “Apart from the Senate Presidency and the Speakership of the House of Representatives, there is also the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and key ministries that can be given to the zone that didn’t get the President and VP slot.”</div>
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Also speaking to our correspondent, the South-East Zonal Publicity Secretary of the APC, Osita Okechukwu, said the PDP might not be able to get as many votes as it got during the 2011 elections.</div>
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He said, “We will stop the jumbo votes they (PDP) give themselves in these areas. In 2011, General Muhammadu Buhari did not have agents in these places; today the mega platform that we have, which is the APC, has the capacity and will deploy agents there.</div>
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“For example, in Imo there were about 1.4 million voters, they claimed that 1.3 million voted for Jonathan, meaning there was over 90 per cent voters turn out which has never happened anywhere in the world.</div>
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“In Rivers, out of about 1.9 million voters, they claimed 1.8m voted for Jonathan. This kind of turnout was not recorded in Kano or even Lagos. People are wiser now. We will not allow this kind of fraud this time around.”</div>
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Prior to now, there have been complaints from some stalwarts of the PDP that President Goodluck Jonathan had marginalised the South-West in his appointments. Jonathan is from the South-South while his deputy, Nnamadi Sambo is from the North–West. The Senate President is from North-Central while the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, hails from the North-West.</div>
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The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Deputy Senate President and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives are from the South-East.</div>
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Although the PDP zoned the speakership of the House to the South-West in 2011, its candidate, Mrs. Mulikat Akande-Adeola, lost to Tambuwal.</div>
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<i>SUNDAY PUNCH</i> learnt that the president’s move to pacify the South-West which voted massively for Jonathan in the 2011 was the reason he held meetings with some Yoruba leaders recently.</div>
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President Jonathan had at the Yoruba Unity Summit in Ile-Ife, Osun State on November 28, 2014, reportedly said it pained him that the South-West lost the speakership in 2011.</div>
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He had said, “The last time, it was difficult for me because I insisted that the Southwest must get the Speaker. Of course, I couldn’t go through with it because some of us within the Southwest didn’t want it, based on some personal reasons. I am still suffering from that till today.”</div>
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According to 2011 election statistics, the South-West which had 14.29m registered voters was second to the North-West, which had 19.8 million registered voters.</div>
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North-Central had 11.62 million voters, while 10.7 million people registered as voters in the North-East. South-East and South-South had 7.02 million and 8.9 million voters respectively.</div>
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The Chairman of the PDP in Ekiti State, Mr. Idowu Faleye, said the President planned to give appointments to the Yoruba if he wins in 2015.</div>
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“Jonathan is going give more key positions to the region. Looking at the percentage of votes captured in the last election, even he was shocked that the Yoruba did the best they could at that time,” he said.</div>
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However, the Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the PDP in the South-West, Buruji Kashamu, said Jonathan had compensated the South-West for the loss of the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives zoned to the South-West by appointing someone from the region as his Chief of Staff.</div>
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“If they (APC) like, they can choose their presidential candidate, the vice presidential and all their governorship candidates from the South-West. The only thing that I know is that APC is a one-man show. We, the Yoruba, are not dull and foolish. We know what is good for us,” he said.</div>
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<b>Credit: <a href="http://www.punchng.com/news/osinbajo-apc-pdp-change-zoning-formula/">Sunday Punch</a></b></div>

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BREAKING NEWS: 2 NYPD Police Officers 'Assassinated'

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<b>New York (CNN) - Two New York City police officers were shot and killed ambush-style Saturday afternoon as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.</b></div>
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The gunman approached the passenger side of the patrol car and opened fire several times, fatally wounding officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, authorities said at an evening press conference.</div>
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They were "shot and killed with no warning, no provocation," Bratton told reporters. "They were quite simply, assassinated."</div>
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Both were shot in the head, Bratton said.</div>
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The families of the fallen officers rushed to Woodhull Medical Center on Saturday, as dozens of police officers gathered in a show of support.</div>
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The officers -- one with two years' experience, the other with seven years on the job -- were normally assigned to downtown Brooklyn, but were working a "critical response" detail in an area with higher crime, police said.</div>
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Police identified the shooter as Ismaaiyl Brinsley. He was found dead in a nearby subway station from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.</div>
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The gunman arrived in New York from Baltimore, but had a residence in Atlanta, Bratton said.</div>
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Police were investigating posts he allegedly made on social media.</div>
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The shooting occurred near Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.</div>
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the attack "an unspeakable act of barbarism."</div>
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Neighborhood residents were jolted.</div>
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"This can't happen. If you mad at somebody, be mad at the person that you are mad at. Now, we have two families that (are) missing somebody for the holidays," Shaniqua Pervis told CNN affiliate WABC.</div>
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"Where is your humanity? I know it's a war going on and shoutout to Eric Garner's family and everybody else who lost somebody, but you're not at his house, on his lawn. This is two (officers). You don't even know if (they were) good or bad. I don't condone this, and I'm not with it."</div>
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The woman was referring to the controversial July death of an unarmed black man after New York police officers on Staten Island wrestled him to the ground, with one of the officers wrapping his arm around Garner's neck in a chokehold.</div>
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A grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer in the Garner case, as well as a separate grand jury's refusal to indict an officer in a controversial police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, led to nationwide protests against the police.</div>
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In a statement, activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said the Garner family was outraged by news of the shootings.</div>
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"Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases," the statement said. "We have stressed at every rally and march that anyone engaged in any violence is an enemy to the pursuit of justice for Eric Garner and Michael Brown... The Garner family and I have always stressed that we do not believe that all police are bad, in fact we have stressed that most police are not bad."</div>
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Last Saturday, two New York officers were assaulted on the Brooklyn Bridge during demonstrations that have been mostly peaceful. Police arrested four people.</div>
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Tensions between the community and police have heightened around the country since the Brown and Garner deaths.</div>
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"This could not have come at a worse time," City Councilman Robert Cornegy told CNN affiliate PIX.</div>
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So far, police have not commented on the motive for the Brooklyn shootings, except to say the officers were not engaging the shooter in any way when they were shot.</div>
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The city's police union and Mayor Bill de Blasio have sparred over the treatment of officers.</div>
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The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association recently sent a form for members to sign requesting the mayor not attend funerals of anyone killed in the line of duty, accusing de Blasio of "consistent refusal to show police officers the support and respect they deserve."</div>
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The mayor's office expressed disappointment with the PBA.</div>
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"Incendiary rhetoric like this serves only to divide the city, and New Yorkers reject these tactics," the city said in a letter. "The mayor and the speaker both know better than to think this inappropriate stunt represents the views of the majority of police officers and their families."</div>
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Goje Sent Assassins After Me, Gov Dankwambo Claims

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Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State has accused his predecessor in office, Danjuma Goje, of sending political thugs, known as "Kalare Boys" to assassinate him when he visited Kashere town on a courtesy call to the federal university there.</div>
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The governor was reacting to a statement released by the All Progressives Congress [APC] on Saturday in which it accused Mr. Dankwambo of clamping down on APC members in the state and ordering the destruction of properties of the former governor and also arresting members of his family.</div>
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Mr. Dankwambo visited Kashere, the home town of Mr. Goje on Thursday.</div>
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During his visit, Gov. Dankwambo personally ordered the removal of all APC billboards and posters in the town, ordered the police and the army to break into Senator Goje’s family house, where they broke down doors, teargassed and arrested his relations, including children.</div>
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“The governor also ordered the same security forces to break into the family house of Senator Goje's wife, where they similarly destroyed doors and teargassed the occupants, including the 90-year-old father of Senator Goje's wife and the Senator's wife's 70-year-old stepmother, while all her sisters and brothers were arrested", the APC said in its release by its spokesperson, Lai Mohammed.</div>
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Governor Dankwambo, however, denied the allegation, saying on the contrary, Mr. Goje was the one who ordered an attack on him.</div>
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The governor’s spokesperson, Junaid Mohammed, who spoke to <i>PREMIUM TIMES</i> over the telephone said: "what happened on Thursday was simply a case of assassination attempt on His Excellency, Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo".</div>
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Mr. Mohammed also said Mr. Dankwambo was in Kashere on a courtesy call to the Federal University on the invitation of the Vice Chancellor.</div>
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He also said the governor’s visit was conducted peacefully at the University, but trouble started when he decided to visit the palace of the traditional ruler of the town.</div>
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"As is the tradition, the governor decided to visit the palace of the Emir to pay homage, but our convoy was attacked by Kalare thugs near the roundabout right in front of the Police Station.</div>
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"The vehicle I was travelling in was the one that was first attacked because we were in front of the governor’s car, but they did not spare the governor’s vehicle and threw all sorts of objects at it. They destroyed the side glass where he was seated.</div>
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"In all of this, the governor ordered that no one should be maltreated", Mr. Mohammed said.</div>
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He also denied that the governor ordered the arrest of members of Mr. Goje’s family.</div>
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He said all those who are presently in custody were simply invited by the police, who as expected, launched an investigation into the incident.</div>
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"You know the police will not allow an attempt on the life of even a sitting Local Government Councillor, not to talk of an executive governor. So they have begun investigation into the matter and have therefore, invited some persons in that regard,” he said.</div>
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Mr. Mohammed also debunked insinuations that Mr. Dankwambo was planning to relocate the University from the town.</div>
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He said the governor, while serving as the Accountant General of the Federation, alongside many indigenes of Gombe State in the Federal cabinet, lobbied President Jonathan for the citing of the university in the state.<br />
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<b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/gombe-state-governor-clamps-down-on-our.html">Click here to READ APC's ACCUSATION OF THE GOVERNOR</a></b></div>
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<b>Source: <a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/173592-how-my-predecessor-sent-assassins-after-me-gombe-governor.html">Premium Times</a></b>

Goje Sent Assassins After Me, Gov Dankwambo Claims

Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State has accused his predecessor in office, Danjuma Goje, of sending political thugs, known as &qu...

Nobody Can Cage Me, Alao-Akala Replies Folarin

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<b>Former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, tells Olufemi Atoyebi of the <i>Punch</i>, in this interview, that he will break the second-term jinx in the state. He also responded to a boastful claim by the governorship candidate of the PDP, Senator Teslim Folarin that he (Folarin) knows how to cage him (Alao-Akala).</b></div>
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<i><b>After being in the Peoples Democratic Party for more than 10 years, why did you decide to walk away?</b></i></div>
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There is nothing much to say except that I have walked in the path that God has outlined for me. When you are with God, you are in the majority. Everything you have read about me and the PDP in the last few weeks can be described as injustice meted out to me. If it was impossible for our party to conduct free and fair primary elections, why must I remain in it? What they did and the way a candidate was nominated was not what we agreed upon. We had a clear understanding of how the primary election was to be conducted. But, the rule was changed in the middle of the game.</div>
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I was shocked when the party said less than 10 per cent of those who were supposed to make up the delegates list would be used for the primary election. That was far from the channel to be employed in picking a popular candidate. I was not forced to leave the party but I decided that I don’t have to waste my time where ward congresses were repeatedly cancelled. PDP in Oyo was not fair because a level playing ground was not provided for all. Despite our complaints, the party turned a deaf ear and I had to move on.</div>
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<i><b>Why didn’t you accept the proposal of one of the big parties that wooed you, instead of the Labour Party?</b></i></div>
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That is true but don’t forget that I am a leader and I have to listen to my people. The decision was beyond me because politics is about the people, not the individual. If you don’t follow the wishes of your followers, you are going nowhere.</div>
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<b><i>Will you consider returning to the PDP, if you win with LP ticket, just as Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko did recently?</i></b></div>
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When we get to the river, we shall cross it.</div>
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<b><i>How did your close associates react to your defection?</i></b></div>
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My friends were aware of what was going on in the PDP. They called me and I gave them updates on what was going on behind the scene. They advised me to take a decision before it was too late. They are happy with my decision.</div>
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<b><i>What was the reaction of the Presidency to your defection?</i></b></div>
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My friends among them called me and wished me good luck.</div>
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<b><i>LP does not have a presidential candidate, are you ready to work for President Goodluck Jonathan in the presidential election?</i></b></div>
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I will only obey my party’s desire when the time comes.</div>
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<b><i>After you left the PDP, Seyi Makinde also left for Social Democratic Party. What will you say about PDP’s position today?</i></b></div>
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We are not bad losers. If things were done normally, the party would remain strong. You cannot impose someone who has told me that he would write the delegates list that would be used. We were supposed to elect them, not write their names.</div>
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<i><b>You are going to the poll, just like Makinde, Rashidi Ladoja, and the incumbent governor in the state, Abiola Ajimobi. Does it mean that the second-term jinx is about to be broken in Oyo?</b></i></div>
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With due respect to others, we are about to see the end of that jinx and by the grace of God, I will be the first person to break it.</div>
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<b><i>PDP had said it would not worry about your defection and that <a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/i-know-how-to-cage-alao-akala-says.html">it has a strategy to cage you</a>. Are you ready for the fight ahead?</i></b></div>
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Unfortunately for them, I am older in the game. Nobody can cage me because, as a security officer, I have caged someone before. We have started separating boys from men.</div>
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<b><i>If you had lost the primary fairly, would you have stayed back at PDP?</i></b></div>
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I would have exhibited good sportsmanship and congratulated whoever won. I have done it before, what is new in accepting defeat? If the party was fair to me, why should I be stupid enough to reject the result of a free and fair election? I would have worked for the winner to the end.</div>
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<b><i>Why are you interested in becoming Oyo State governor again?</i></b></div>
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I have always dedicated my life serving mankind. When I was in government, people enjoyed my time and those people are the ones calling me back.</div>
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<i><b>There were meetings called by the PDP elders involving you and other aspirants while the stalemate lasted in the party. Would you like to share what transpired at the meetings?</b></i></div>
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That is no more necessary because events have overtaken those meetings. Whatever I say now will not reverse what has happened. That was a time when we thought that we could reason together and move the party forward but that was not to be.</div>
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<b><i>Does it mean that the National Working Committee of PDP refused to listen to aspirants’ complaints?</i></b></div>
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Some of us know our onions. We cannot be going to Abuja to tell the party what stuff we are made of. We have the Abuja politicians among us. They run there to tell them things they only want to hear. Since I am a native man and a grass roots politician, I remain at home with my people. They will not listen to people like me in Abuja because they will have the impression that I am coming with local ideas.</div>
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<b><i>Are you saying the so-called Abuja politicians installed the governorship candidate of PDP in Oyo State?</i></b></div>
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If you study the way the whole exercise was done, you will arrive at the answer. We have a situation whereby the rules were changed midway into the game. We have rules guarding the ad hoc committee, why did the party refuse to let it be? By all means, they were bent on favouring one person. This is not from the Presidency but from the party. Oyo is not alone in this problem, some other states are also having the same issue. In Ebonyi, members moved en masse to LP to protest the same kind of injustice I complained about. If there is justice, things will work better in the PDP.</div>
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<b><i>What are the mistakes you made while in government that you want to correct if you have the chance to rule again?</i></b></div>
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Nobody is perfect in life and we learn everyday. Those things we failed to achieve will be done now and those things we did well will be improved. Having stayed out for some years, I have known better. This is a state where you cannot just bring a novice to run the government.</div>
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<b><i>Why do you think you are the person to beat in this race?</i></b></div>
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I have been tested and trusted. People know who I am and what I can do.<br />
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<b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/i-know-how-to-cage-alao-akala-says.html">Click here to READ SENATOR TESLIM FOLARIN'S INTERVIEW</a></b></div>
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<b>Credit: Sunday Punch</b></div>

Nobody Can Cage Me, Alao-Akala Replies Folarin

Former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, tells Olufemi Atoyebi of the Punch , in this interview, that he will break the second...

Police Intercept Truck Load Of 1550 Ballot Boxes

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<b>Tension swept through Bauchi State political space yesterday following the interception of a truck load of 1550 ballot boxes expected to be used in next year’s elections,  reports Austine Tsenzughul for <i>The Nation</i> newspaper.</b></div>
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The transparent white empty ballot boxes were yesterday intercepted on the Darazo -Dukku road, 110 kilometres from the state capital, by state security operatives.</div>
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Described as non-sensitive INEC electoral materials, the boxes were found in a 24 feet container trailer with registration number plate, Abuja XE784 ABJ driven by one Mohammed Shaidu.</div>
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The consignment, according to Shaidu, was destined for Gombe State.</div>
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Rumour soon spread that the boxes were stuffed with thumb printed ballot cards.</div>
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To douse the tension, the police opened the boxes in the presence of police, state security and INEC officials, reporters and representatives of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Police Area Command head office Bauchi.</div>
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The state Police spokesman DSP Haruna Mohammed appealed to the public to always cross check their information to avoid being misinformed.</div>
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Contacted last night, Mr. Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, said there was no cause for alarm.</div>
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He confirmed that the boxes indeed belong to the commission and were being moved by the contractor to the states ahead of next year’s elections.</div>
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Idowu said the contractors ought to have got security escorts for the consignment and has been directed to seek such escorts for the remaining consignment.</div>
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The driver of the truck said “about 30 vehicles carrying the same materials and quantity have gone to other states in the Northeast.”</div>
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He expressed shock for his ‘detention’ when all the security men should have done was to cross-check from INEC after “I presented my waybill.”</div>
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Aliyu Sa’idu Abubakar, Bauchi State Organiser, Buhari Campaign Organization said: “we in APC have not accused anybody but we want to be sure that things are properly done; no more business as usual. Our people, progressive Nigerians, have to be vigilant.”</div>
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Meanwhile, the truck has since been released.</div>
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<b>Source: <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/2015-tension-police-intercept-1500-ballot-boxes-bauchi/">The Nation</a></b></div>

Police Intercept Truck Load Of 1550 Ballot Boxes

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Gombe Governor Clamps Down On Our Members - APC

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<b>The All Progressives Congress, APC, has condemned the acts of intolerance by Gombe State Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, who has been working hard to obliterate the APC presence and also victimize the party’s members in the state.</b></div>
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In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said the governor’s actions when he visited Kashere, the hometown of his predecessor, Danjuma Goje, on Thursday, were despicable and barbaric, and should be condemned by all right thinking people.</div>
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"During his visit, Gov. Dankwambo personally ordered the removal of all APC billboards and posters in the town, ordered the police and the army to break into Senator Goje’s family house, where they broke down doors, teargased and arrested his relations, including children.</div>
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"The governor also ordered the same security forces to break into the family house of Senator Goje’s wife, where they similarly destroyed doors and teargassed the occupants, including the 90-year-old father of Senator Goje’s wife and the Senator’s wife’s 70-year-old stepmother, while all her sisters and brothers were arrested.</div>
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"All those arrested, numbering over 50, are now being detained at the police headquarters in the state capital, Gombe, while the governor has also ordered the arrest of anyone who tries to secure bail for those in detention. In Gombe town, the governor has gone further to order the police to remove all APC billboards and posters in the town. In other words, as far as the governor is concerned, it is a criminal offence for anyone to belong to the APC in his state.</div>
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"This is intolerance of the highest order and negates the tenets of democracy. It is important for the governor’s party, the PDP, which has been professing political tolerance, to call the emerging little dictator to order before he destroys the state in a fit of primeval rage", it said.</div>
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The APC described as a cruel irony the fact that the PDP, which has been busy criticizing the APC for fielding an “old” man as a presidential candidate, is home to a man who was born in post-independent Nigeria but has chosen to behave like a 19th century emperor.</div>
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"Nigeria has 170 million people and all of them cannot belong to the same political party. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which the governor swore to uphold, allows freedom of association. Therefore, it is not only crude but downright unconstitutional for Gov. Dankwambo to be victimizing those who chose not to belong to his party.</div>
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"It is also uncharitable and brazen of the Governor to have treated his predecessor the way and manner he has treated Senator Goje. How will he feel if his successor treats him the same way, for no other reason than his choice of which party to belong to?” the party queried, urging Governor Dankwambo to toe the path of decency and tolerance henceforth.</div>
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<b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/goje-sent-assassins-after-me-gov.html">Click here to READ GOV DANKWAMBO'S DENIAL AND ACCUSATION</a></b></div>

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Illegal Immigrants Caught With Nigerian Voter Cards

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<b>The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has revealed how it caught illegal immigrants from Niger Republic with Nigerian voter cards, noting that 90 per cent of 430 illegal immigrants arrested in Jigawa State between January and November 2014, were from Niger Republic, reports <i>Nigerian Tribune</i>.</b></div>
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According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Comptroller of the NIS in the Jigawa State, Isa Jere, made the disclosure on Saturday in Dutse, the state capital, while parading seven illegal immigrants from Niger Republic and one from Mali.</div>
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According to Jere, about 10 per cent of the arrested and repatriated illegal immigrants were from Cameroun, Chad and Mali.</div>
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The service, he said, had intensified its mop-up operation to get rid of illegal immigrants in the state before the commencement of the 2015 general election, saying: “We are committed to repatriating illegal immigrants in our midst because they don’t have right or have any business to participate in our elections.”</div>
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The comptroller also said that the state’s command had seized 20 voter cards from Nigerien immigrants, noting that 11 out of the 20 were permanent voter cards while the remaining were temporary ones.</div>
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The NIS chief said that his officers and men were vigilant to prevent foreigners from participating in the forthcoming general elections. </div>
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I Know How To Cage Alao-Akala, Says Teslim Folarin

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<b>Former Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin, tells Sunday Punch's Olufemi Atoyebi in this interview that despite the departure of those aggrieved with his emergence as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State to other parties, the PDP will still win in 2015.</b></div>
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<b><i>How will you describe what is going on in Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party?</i></b></div>
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There is nothing going on that is unusual in the PDP. The party is in great shape in the state and we are on the right path.</div>
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<b><i>But you are aware that some members left the party after the party’s primary elections. Is that not something to worry about?</i></b></div>
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There is nothing wrong in what those people have done. There is freedom of movement. Thus, those who left have the right to move on. It is not the first time such things will happen in politics and it will not be the last time. Movement of members among political parties is not limited to the PDP alone. We have people joining the party from the All Progressives Congress and the rest. We are in the season of movement from one party to the other.</div>
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For us, we are in great shape because we now know who are with us. The worst thing in politics is to have enemies throwing stones within but when they are outside the fence, we will know how to tackle them. We are delighted and we look forward to the battle ahead.</div>
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<b><i>On the day you emerged as the party’s governorship candidate, a former governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, walked out of the party to join the Labour Party. On Monday, Seyi Makinde also joined the Social Democratic Party. Are you comfortable with big players leaving the party at this period?</i></b></div>
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I don’t know what you mean by big players. Alao-Akala, yes he is a big player in Oyo State politics, but what is the parameter for ascribing the tag ‘big player’ to Seyi Makinde. Is it that he had contested before or what is his pedigree?</div>
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<b><i>Considering his financial contribution to the party, people say you cannot strike out his name from the list of people with big influence in PDP.</i></b></div>
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Are you saying that everything in politics is for sale? He is not the only one that has contributed to the party; everybody has done the same. The media have the responsibility to put things in proper context. Alao-Akala is a big player but we have a strategy to cage him. With all due respect, how many people have followed him in Ogbomoso? PDP still has its federal lawmakers in the area; Mulikat Akande-Adeola is the House of Representatives’ Majority Leader, she is still with us; Segun Odebunmi is there; Saka Balogun is still in PDP; Senator Ayo Adeseun is still with us. These are big players and we are comfortable with those who are with us.</div>
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<b><i>The city of Ibadan witnessed a large crowd that followed Makinde when he declared as a governorship candidate. Will you be comfortable losing that number?</i></b></div>
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Anybody with ₦2m can get the kind of crowd you are talking about. What we are talking about is people of substance, not crowd. Let me not talk too much about individuals. We are just okay in Oyo PDP. It is sad they have gone and I wish them good luck.</div>
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<b><i>There are controversies surrounding the primary election that produced you as the governorship candidate. One of them is a ruling in an Abuja High Court sitting, which nullified the exercise. What is you reaction to this?</i></b></div>
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What sort of politician would generate delegates’ list in all the 33 councils in Oyo State and present it to a court as the authentic list?</div>
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<b><i>But a judge gave a ruling which spelt out the list of delegates to be used but the PDP set it aside and settled for statutory delegates. Is this right?</i></b></div>
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Parties are at liberty to decide the delegates they want to use. They can combine ad hoc and the statutory or use what they want. PDP made a decision and we played by the rule.</div>
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<i><b>In clear terms, did Oyo PDP act outside the rule it set to guide primary elections?</b></i></div>
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The party decides what it wants in an election like this. You cannot go to court and generate a list for the primary. If the National Working Committee of the party could no longer function, then, will the court take over its duty in a democratic setting? That is not possible. It doesn’t make sense to me. I think the party did the right thing.</div>
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<b><i>Two PDP ward congresses were held in the state with no results. Why was it difficult or impossible to conduct a credible ward congress in the state?</i></b></div>
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There were results but some people were trying to be funny. During the first ward congress, some big people went to the wards to snatch result sheets. The second one was okay but some people went to court because they have money to generate their own list. They got the court to dabble into the work of the National Working Committee. At least, it is all in the past now. We demonstrated internal democracy in PDP, instead of selecting or imposing candidates.</div>
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<b><i>People have linked you with Senate President David Mark, claiming that he imposed you on the state PDP. How true is this?</i></b></div>
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I worked with Mark for eight years when I was in the Senate. He is a big boss but he did not come to Ibadan to organise the primary elections. I have friends and he is someone who is very honest with me. He is a big brother. The last time we met, he told me that we must ensure we win back Oyo State. People have friends and I will not deny Mark.</div>
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<b><i>What did he do to ensure you emerged ahead of Alao-Akala and others?</i></b></div>
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Don’t think he has the powers to do the works of the NWC. He is busy in his state because he is also contesting.</div>
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<b><i>Would it have meant anything to him, if you had lost out?</i></b></div>
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Yes, he would have been disappointed. I did not come to the state with a big stick to ensure I emerged; after all, I lost out the last time.</div>
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<i><b>Is it true that you hijacked the party’s structure in the state by planting your people in strategic positions?</b></i></div>
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I think that is what a good politician should do. That is what politics is all about.</div>
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<i><b>Could it mean that you have been nursing this ambition for the past two or three years?</b></i></div>
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I have nursed it for four years.</div>
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<b><i>Are you fulfilled now?</i></b></div>
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Not yet until I become the governor of this state. I want to see if I can make a difference. I lived abroad and got used to a standard. When you come back home, it is normal to see if you can use your experience to make a difference. We want to help our people.</div>
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<b><i>Have you put into consideration the complex nature of the state?</i></b></div>
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That is the point I am making. Oyo State is an old state with entrenched interests. These interests are used to do things in certain ways. We will respect them, but then, we will bring in our own idea on how to make things work. You cannot use old idea to solve new challenges.</div>
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<b><i>You have been out of the centre of political activities for about four years, how confident are you to make a return and contest against Governor Abiola Ajimobi and Alao-Akala?</i></b></div>
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We are very confident. Otherwise, we will not be in this race. We have different styles and approach to politics. Some candidates make so much noise but let us wait and see the result.</div>
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In the last three and a half years, we have been talking to our people to know the challenges facing them. When we roll out our manifesto, I am certain that our people will appreciate how much we care for them.<br />
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<b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/nobody-can-cage-me-alao-akala-replies.html">Click here to READ FORMER GOVERNOR ADEBAYO ALAO-AKALA'S REPLY</a></b></div>
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For His Stint In Jail, Bode George Needs Social Rehabilitation - Obanikoro

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<b>There seems to be no end in sight in the ongoing war of words between Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and Chief Bode George. The exchange of tirades escalated after the conclusion of the Lagos PDP governorship primaries at which Obanikoro lost to Mr Jimi Agbaje. Two days ago, Bode George had said Obanikoro needed psychiatric help in response to Obanikoro's outburst that <a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/george-training-sure-p-cadets-for.html">George was training and arming the SURE-P cadets to unleash terror on voters</a> during the forthcoming general elections. In this report by the <i>Nation</i>, Obanikoro says George needs social rehabilitation after his stint at the Kirikiri prison. Read on...</b></div>
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Immediate past Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, yesterday fired back at the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, asking him to seek rehabilitation  for  post-traumatic stress arising from his stint in jail.</div>
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The former minister was responding to George’s broadside that he (Obanikoro)  was a lunatic for accusing him (George) of manipulating the recent governorship primaries of the PDP in Lagos.</div>
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Mr. Jimi Agbaje, favoured by George, was declared winner of the primaries.</div>
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Obanikoro said, "Indeed, there is nothing unexpected about the recent tantrums by Chief Bode George targeted at me in spite of the ignoble role he played in the fraudulent outcome of the Lagos PDP gubernatorial primaries. For whatever it is worth, it is to Chief Bode George’s credit that his family name is tainted and now constitutes a generational blemish as Nigeria’s leading metaphor for gross moral deficit, lack of integrity and public dishonour,” This is in apparent reference to the imprisonment of George by a Lagos State High Court for corruption during his tenure as Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). However, the Supreme Court has since quashed the sentence and declared him blameless.</div>
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Continuing his tirade Obanikoro said: “As Chief Bode George embarks on his feeble attempts at painting a picture of me that exists only in his perverted imagination, let someone remind him that the post-traumatic stress disorder that comes with a time in jail would take more than just an unholy alliance with a pharmacist to heal.</div>
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"It is instructive to state here that not only that I am properly raised in the best of Yoruba tradition, I owe a large part of my successful public service career to a childhood and education built on Godly principles and sound moral values.</div>
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"In all my life and public service career, I have never been accused, arrested or convicted for fraud whether at home in Nigeria or abroad and I have been happily and responsibly married for 34 years."</div>
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George had, in his own statement, dismissed Obanikoro's allegation that he manipulated the PDP primaries as alarmist provocations and described the former minister as "a desperate and obsessed man who is apparently incapable of absorbing the reality of his defeat by a well-bred and better man."</div>
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He added: "For Obanikoro to claim in sheer ludicrousness that I, even remotely, identify with any intimations of violence is utter lunacy and blind, vindictive madness. Surely, Obanikoro is possessed and obsessed. <b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/obanikoro-needs-psychiatric-help-says.html">He needs immediate psychiatric treatment</a></b>. He is a desperate sinking man, grasping and thrashing in self inflicted chasm.</div>
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"What is the pedigree of this young man who has abandoned the typical African deference to elders? We know who sprung from violence and banditry. We know whose antecedents reek in noisome, vagrant, untidy ruffianism.</div>
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"Politics is not a do or die affair. No civilised person with impeccable pedigree will seek a tacky refuge in destruction and ruin simply because he has lost in a free and fair contest. Obanikoro should go quietly into that good night if he means well for Lagos.</div>
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"Enough of his desperate tantrums and lunacy. Lagos has moved on, far beyond the primitive wretchedness of little, ill-bred hooligans."<br />
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<b><a href="http://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2014/12/obanikoro-needs-psychiatric-help-says.html">Click here to READ WHAT BODE GEORGE SAID THAT ANGERED OBANIKORO</a></b></div>
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<b>Source: <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/bode-george-needs-social-rehabilitation-says-obanikoro/">The Nation</a></b></div>

For His Stint In Jail, Bode George Needs Social Rehabilitation - Obanikoro

There seems to be no end in sight in the ongoing war of words between Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and Chief Bode George. The exchange of ...

Much Ado About VP - By Tunde Fagbenle

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<b>Perhaps at no other time in the history of our country’s democracy was so much focus, so much national attention across party lines, so much horse-trading, so much aggravation, so much ado, so much hoopla, so much falsehood peddled, and so many daggers drawn in making a choice of a party’s vice-president candidate as just witnessed of the All Progressives Congress.</b></div>
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In itself, it speaks to many things: it speaks to the rising stock of the APC party as an (the) authentic, formidable opposition party to the overdrawn dominance of the ruling party in our national life. It speaks to the impressive number of high-worth personalities, the surfeit of choice, in the APC. It speaks to the credibility of the process of selection. And, above all, it speaks to the seriousness and huge premium placed on the office of VP by the party; that it ceases to be a “mere appendage,” a “spare tyre,” of the president.</div>
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The reasons for the tussle are not farfetched. It is a combination of lessons of recent history, contested personal ambition, and the contending forces at play.</div>
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Gone, it seems, are those days when it was entirely left to a Presidential-candidate-Olusegun Obasanjo to sleep and wake up with a name of whom he wanted as his VP, and the whole party ceding the right to him without question. Or when an outgoing President Obasanjo could solely determine not only who succeeds him but, indeed, who the deputy to that successor would be. All of that was owed to both the stage of development of the PDP and the force of personality of General Obasanjo.</div>
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But APC is not the then Peoples Democratic Party, its history and composition being entirely different. Still it should have been easy for APC as an amalgam of two political parties and two strong leaders, Bola Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari, with vaulting ambition to be president. And since the two came from differing ethnic groups it was easy to see that if one yielded to the other for president, the other yields to the one for vice-president.</div>
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But not that easy, it turned out. In a country beset and riven with primordial challenges and rivalries; and a country whose people have found themselves unable or incapable of rising above base animalistic instinct of self rather than national interest, then the easy is oft garbed in masquerade of thorns.</div>
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From day one it was clear that Tinubu had his eyes on being the president of Nigeria – one day, and, as Nigerians are wont to saying, if it was “the will of God.” It is not particularly an odd or unjustified, or even undeserved ambition. From humble, even painfully cloudy, beginnings he has risen to become arguably the greatest political generalissimo of our present democracy. He is a man imbued with genuine vision, passion, and intellect for uplifting his people and country; and someone singularly prepared to make huge personal sacrifices in pursuit of his mission. But he is no Aminu Kano or Adelabu Adegoke of yore to whom it is all without consideration for natural need for self, material security, in the process.</div>
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To Tinubu’s credit, he is the architect of modern Lagos. He not only in his time as two-term governor devised means of raising the economic profile of Lagos and deployed such to set the pace for a new Lagos, he evinced himself as a great leader by the quality of minds he courageously surrounded himself with, and most importantly by the quality of successor he singlehandedly chose to carry on the banner. We shall return to that shortly. It was therefore natural, like it was for Chief Obafemi Awolowo, to want to translate what he has done for his state (region) unto the larger national canvass. But again, like it was for Awolowo, the country, full of men of bile and little minds, would not be rushed out of its rottenness and ethnic quagmire.</div>
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So Tinubu had to yield the presidential slot to General Buhari, a man who stands and walks tall amidst all vicious barbs directed at him. His antecedent in and out of power makes him out as a man of unequalled probity, rectitude, indefatigability, forthrightness, and humility. We would again turn to Awolowo to find analogy; for here is a man who is not emptily voluble but whose unguarded forthrightness in moments requiring more circumspection becomes an albatross for his traducers to use.</div>
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In yielding place to Buhari, Tinubu the political guru would have calculated that taking second place is a given and necessary preparatory step to the ultimate – insha Allah! But success though has many friends, draws even more enemies, even in the camp of those who had enjoyed one’s help in attaining their positions of relative power. If the ethnic card would not stop Tinubu, then the religious card should.</div>
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We would not know by how much Tinubu’s ambition was in the mind of Obasanjo when he characteristically lent his voice to decry any thoughts of a Muslim/Muslim ticket for the president and vice-president representation, even for a party he does not de facto belong to. But the cry gained traction after that, and ready to nail Tinubu’s ambition for the VP route to Presidency.</div>
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Unfortunately, that religious wall set to debar a Tinubu would also necessarily block the way to all others who belonged to the Muslim faith, no matter how light he or she is in practice.</div>
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The choice of who to become the VP nevertheless still rested on Tinubu, for fair is fair, he is the equal if not the larger leader of the party.</div>
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The political considerations were clear: The entire (close to 90 per cent of) old Eastern Region (comprising present day South-East and South-South zones minus Edo State) is sold on Jonathan, warts and all. And choosing someone from that region, no matter his/her individual merit, would be of little or no electoral value. Equally, with the old Western Region area largely bent on an alternative to PDP and its long mess up of the country, it is assumed that the area’s vote is given even if the VP slot goes elsewhere, provided to someone of merit. Who then is to be VP?</div>
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Here comes Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, Tinubu’s successor as the governor of Lagos State. From sounding public opinion, one person emerges as the most popular choice of VP if it were to come from the West and regardless of religious tag baggage. And the winner is Governor Fashola. Amongst the Igbos and amongst the “Northerners”, from the elite to the grassroots, many were ready to overlook the Muslim/Muslim bogey for Fashola. That is the extent of how much what Fashola has done to and for Lagos is seen and appreciated all over the country.</div>
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But Tinubu would not take a chance on Fashola. If he Tinubu would not get the ticket on account of his being a Muslim, then neither would anyone else who is a Muslim, Fashola or not. Moreover, Fashola’s image had begun to grow out of being a “Tinubu’s boy” to that of an intellectual and independent mind, a clash first brought to the fore at the time of Tinubu unsuccessfully wanting to deny Fashola a second term, and more recently in the choice of who would succeed Fashola next year.</div>
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Again, here comes Tinubu as a master in the prescience of selecting eminent hands. After in his mind ruling out, for personal or other reasons, all those who were in the forefront of being picked, such as Kayode Fayemi, Rotimi Amaechi, Adams Oshiomhole, etc, Tinubu dug into his magic box to come up with someone no one, not even the person himself, could have contemplated. He picked Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.</div>
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For now, just as it was when Fashola was first picked upon by Tinubu as his successor governor, it is “Osinbajo who?” on the lips of all. He is a man without any national political visibility or vaunting political ambition, yet a man of impeccable character and integrity; an intellectual and technocrat of international repute, and someone the country would be glad they had as Buhari’s vice and as a stand-in when necessary; someone devoid of meanness and ethnic prejudices. At least someone the country could for a change be proud to show off on the international stage, talking extempore or prepared, but with eloquence and intellect.</div>
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Much Ado About VP - By Tunde Fagbenle

Perhaps at no other time in the history of our country’s democracy was so much focus, so much national attention across party lines, so...

Ex-Speaker Dimeji Bankole Tears Ogun PDP Umbrella

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<b>There are very strong indications that the umbrella which shreds are just being put together by the warring factions of the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may again have been torn into further shreds as a result of the controversy generated by the recently concluded governorship primaries. The man holding the razor this time is no other person than the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Dimeji Bankole.</b></div>
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After a relative peace in the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), indications emerged, during the week, that all is not well with the opposition party as close party sources feared that the peace being enjoyed is of the graveyard and may portend danger in the 2015 general elections if not addressed by the leadership.</div>
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<i>Saturday Mirror</i> authoritative sources revealed that the latest crisis rocking the party was not unconnected with the alleged plot by the PDP national executive to impose former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, as the consensus candidate of the party for the 2015 govenorship election.</div>
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This is coming after the December 8 governorship primary where former General Manager of Gateway Holdings and the 2011 governorship candidate of Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN), Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, emerged the party’s flag bearer.</div>
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But in a dramatic twist, a directive from PDP national secretariat ordered that the primary be cancelled claiming that the exercise did not follow due process.</div>
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But the party’s state chairman, Engr. Adebayo Dayo, in an exclusive interview with <i>Saturday Mirror </i>on Thursday, debunked the claim saying the primary conducted under his chairmanship followed due process.</div>
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Expressing his frustration at the turn of events in the state, Dayo disclosed to our reporter that the PDP at the state level had done the needful as far as the primary election was concerned before the PDP at the centre thought otherwise.</div>
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‘When I attended National Working Committee (NWC) last month, I was given the guidelines guiding the primary. I’ve also done all I needed to do, signed all the papers preparatory to the primary election.’</div>
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Continuing, the PDP chieftain said: ‘I have washed my hands clean, I have said all I have to say after all, I am supposed to be an umpire; I don’t have a vote but I believe the matter is in the hands of PDP National secretariat.”</div>
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In a veiled reference to the alleged plot to foist the former Speaker on the party, Dayo, who had vehemently opposed the move told our reporter: “Our national chairman is a law abiding citizen who would not want to do anything contrary to the will of the people but if anybody thinks that Abuja can put somebody down, he should put it into writing because he is our leader.”</div>
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Further checks have revealed that the entry of Bankole from Ogun Central into the governorship race is now tearing the party apart, threatening the fragile peace that is reigning between the people of Ogun West and Ogun Central Senatorial District.</div>
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Indications to this emerged last Monday as prominent leaders of Ogun West Senatorial District stormed Abeokuta, the state capital with different placards to protest the alleged plan by the leadership of the party in Abuja to withdraw the governorship ticket earlier won by their son, Gboyega Isiaka, and impose Bankole who they alleged did not participate in the primary.</div>
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Prominent leaders from the zone who spoke at the party secretariat on Monday included former Minister of National Planning, Mrs. Ebun Oyagbola, Alhaja Salmoat Badru, former Ogun State Deputy Governor and Iyabo Apampa, amongst others.</div>
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Ex-Speaker Dimeji Bankole Tears Ogun PDP Umbrella

There are very strong indications that the umbrella which shreds are just being put together by the warring factions of the Ogun State ...

[Photo of The Day]: Ekiti Stomach Infrastrure Continues

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<b>LOL...Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State seen here handing a live chicken to a resident.</b></div>
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Yeah! It's Christmas time and not everyone has the cash to buy a live chicken for the yuletide. In continuation of his stomach infrastructural development, Mr Fayose is in town handing out live chickens to his people. </div>
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The question, however, is: how many people can Mr Governor give chicken this season? Rather than this deceptive act, the government should provide a conducive environment for the people to generate their living. Did the Bible not say: Don't give me a fish but teach me how to fish?</div>
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Ekiti muslims, be expectant of your ram handouts from Mr Governor when it is Eid.</div>

[Photo of The Day]: Ekiti Stomach Infrastrure Continues

LOL...Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State seen here handing a live chicken to a resident. Yeah! It's Christmas time and not e...

[Adults Only]: Teenager Goes Wild, Posts Nude Pics Online

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<b>Before I stumbled on these x-rated photos of a very young girl, a teenager for that matter, I have on numerous occasions condemned and criticized men who are in the habit of leaking their girls nude pictures and sex clips. I always think the guys are wicked. Now I understand better. The girls are shameless, I should say.</b></div>
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What you are about to see are the x-rated pictures of the girl above posted online by nobody but HERSELF. Yes! She posted the pictures online for reasons best known to her and, maybe, to idiots like her.</div>
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Some months ago, a friend watched and shared with me a video clip of a Caribbean black lady beating her teenage daughter blue-black for posting her nude pictures on a social media! To me, that is what a mother should do. You need to monitor your teenage girls' (and boys' alike) activities on all social media, try to check who they interact or hang-out with.</div>
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Having said that, I'm saddened to see a 16-year old girl posting x-rated photos on social forum all because she 'wants to belong'! All the same, this girl is just too small for all this rubbish! What a wasted generation! </div>
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[Photos]: Occupants Survive When Container Falls On Car

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<b>So miracles still happen for real? I found it difficult to believe that a family of 5 survived this accident having a container fall on the car they were in.</b></div>
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A heavy container fell on a car carrying a family of five, squashing half of the vehicle. The accident happened on December 19, 2014, Friday, along Ikorodu Road, Lagos.</div>
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A twitter user who was at the scene of the accident shared the photos. Witnesses also confirmed that everyone in the car survived. Their survival and how it happened remain a mystery or rather it's a miracle.</div>
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I'm sure they're not gonna wait for anyone to advise them to do a <i>Thanksgiving</i> this Sunday at their church or asalatu.</div>
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[Photos]: Occupants Survive When Container Falls On Car

So miracles still happen for real? I found it difficult to believe that a family of 5 survived this accident having a container fall on ...