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Labour Party Disowns Alao-Akala, Ogboru, Others

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<b>A faction of the Labour Party (LP), under the control of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), yesterday disowned some of the governorship candidates on the platform of the party, saying such persons were not known to the party reports Johnbosco Agbakwuru for <i>Vanuguard Newspapers</i>.</b></div>
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Specifically, the party said that the former governor of Oyo State, Chief Christopher Alao-Akala, who is campaigning as LP’s governorship candidate; Princewill Tonye, who also wants to govern Rivers State on the party’s ticket and Chief Great Ogboru, who was said to have picked the party’s governorship ticket for Delta State, were not known by the Labour Party.</div>
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National Chairman, Caretaker Committee of LP, Comrade Salisu Mohammed, who disclosed this while addressing journalists at Labour House, Abuja, said LP was not fielding any candidate for the 2015 elections as its main concern was how to recover the party from those who had allegedly hijacked it and using it to trade.</div>
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Explaining that when the trade unions in the country founded the party, it was registered as a party for social democracy, Mohammed noted that some persons were using the party as a trading instrument to extort the people.</div>
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Besides, he said efforts had been made to recover the party from Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, its former National Chairman, and reposition it as well as collecting all the necessary documents of the party in his custody but the erstwhile national chairman had allegedly refused to hand over the documents to labour unions that gave them to him.</div>
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He said: “As a result of this unfortunate situation, we would like to assure him that we will take all legitimate actions to recover the certificate and other property of the party.</div>
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“We need to regretfully state that impostors have ganged up and are deceiving unsuspecting members of the public. These are politicians who for one reason or the other left their former political parties to seek other platforms for the realisation of their narrow political dreams.</div>
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“Of recent, the media has been awashed with purported entry of former governor of Oyo State, Chief Christopher Alao-Akala, into our party to contest for governorship of Oyo State. He is said to have been given the ticket by Mr. Salam and Mr. Dan Nwanyanwu, former National Secretary and the former National Chairman respectively.</div>
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“This ugly situation also goes to Chief Princewill Tonye of Rivers State, Chief Great Ogboru of Delta State, as well as some followers of Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State.</div>
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“They are now the latest victims of political buccaneers. In one word, we honestly counsel you all, don’t jump from frying pan into fire.”</div>
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<b>Source: <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/lp-disowns-alao-akala-tonye-ogboru-others/">Vanguard</a></b></div>

Labour Party Disowns Alao-Akala, Ogboru, Others

A faction of the Labour Party (LP), under the control of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), yesterd...

[Photo News]: Buhari Meets Campaign Volunteers

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<b>Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari was in Lagos Tuesday to meet with a small group of his most passionate volunteers – and after an engaging evening of ideas, vision, and intense engagement on the future of the country, he took some time out… for his first selfie!</b></div>
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The event had in attendance his key supporters including Governor Babatunde Fashola, Nasir el-Rufai, and Director General of the campaign, Governor Rotimi Amaechi and Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora. They were joined by several prominent young leaders volunteering for his campaign, including ‘Gbenga Sesan, Idiare Atimomo, Akintunde Oyebode, O O Nwoye, Isioma Osaje, amongst others.</div>
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“The fall of the Soviet Union informed my change of mind, towards the idea of multi-party democracy,” he said about his staunch belief in the power of democracy.</div>
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“I flew into Adamawa as Head of State and that was the last we heard of Maitatsine (sect),” he said of fighting insurgents when he was Head of State.</div>
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“This is the beginning of a series of engagements,” he told the volunteers after a robust question and answer session. “We will keep you updated on series of engagements from January. Follow @ThisIsBuhari.”</div>
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One of the excited volunteers tweeted after: "I had doubts, because I was not born when he was President,” said talent manager, Isioma Osaje. “But tonight I have zero doubts. My vote come 2015 is for CHANGE.”</div>
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After the event, he stopped by at the screening of <i>Saro The Musical</i>, a production written by Bolanle Austen-Peters and produced by Terra Kulture.</div>
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<b>Credit: <a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/173737-photosnews-buhari-meets-campaign-volunteers-takes-first-selfie.html">Premium Times</a></b></div>

[Photo News]: Buhari Meets Campaign Volunteers

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[In Case You Missed It]: Ghanaian Prof Calls Jonathan 'A Mediocre'

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<b>Exactly two and a half years ago, President Goodluck Jonathan held a chat with the media on June 24, 2012 at which his ability (or otherwise) to govern was brought to bare. Nigerians at home and abroad who watched the below average performance of the President could not hide their disappointment in having a mediocre as the head of the most populous black nation. Our foreign friends were not left out in the bashing of Mr Jonathan. One of them was a Ghanaian professor and one of the world's foremost economists, George Ayittey. Prof Ayittey could not hide his disappointment in the way Mr Jonathan answered most questions from the media guys as he took to twitter to lash out at Dr? Goodluck Jonathan. Read Prof Ayittey's reactions below as published on June 25, 2012 by <a href="http://samuelobour.com/2012/06/25/media-chat-ghanaian-professor-blasts-goodluck-jonathan-says-this-guy-is-a-joke/">Samuel Obour</a>, a Ghanaian blogger and journalist.</b></div>
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One of the world’s foremost economists, Professor George Ayittey has lashed out at the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ), describing him as "a joke" and a mediocre President after his (GEJ’s) encounter with the media last night.</div>
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According to Professor Ayittey, Nigeria “deserves a better leader”, judging by GEJ’s poor, almost unfortunate responses to some of the questions posed to him by the Nigerian media last night.</div>
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The Professor indicated that GEJ’s refusal to declare his assets and his failure to tackle the Boko Haram crisis suggest that he is of an unsound mind.</div>
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He therefore called on Nigerians to rid themselves of GEJ as soon as possible.</div>
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He said: “Nigerians should not put up with such mediocrity and should mount a RECALL GEJ campaign. They should check Chapter VI of their Constitution. See Sections 143 and 144 about removing the President and Vice-President from office other than through elections”.</div>
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“137: 1c: “A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if under the law in any part of Nigeria, he is adjudged to be a lunatic or otherwise declared to be of unsound mind.”</div>
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Professor Ayittey, a Ghanaian economist, author, president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC, professor at American University, and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, made this known on twitter this morning (June 25, 2012).</div>
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“Look, this GEJ guy is a joke – a meretricious mediocrity. Nigerians deserve a better leader. Fancy his statements and responses to questions in a media chat on June 24, 2012:</div>
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• He has not visited Borno state, the center of Boko Haram attacks, because the airport there was not functional at the time he planned to visit. “And we did not want to land somewhere and fly in to Maiduguri with a helicopter for obvious reasons.”</div>
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[Why is the airport not functioning? Why hasn’t it been fixed? And are there no ROADS into Borno State?]</div>
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• Asked why he had not declared his assets, Mr. Jonathan replied in an impatient tone, stating “I don’t give a damn” about declaration of assets. He related that he had gone to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua to caution “that we should not play to the hands of some people [by openly declaring their assets].” Mr. Jonathan added, “That is a matter of principle and I am not going to declare. It is not the president declaring his asset that will end Boko Haram.”</div>
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• The president said it’s a matter of principle and whether he is criticised from “head to toe” he will not declare his assets. “It is not right,” he said. “I didn’t want even want to declare my assets as VP” but was forced by the then president, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. He said asset declaration is “not the right thing to do.”</div>
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[Damn it, it is a constitutional requirement to declare your assets, Mr. President. See Chapter VI, Part 1, Section 140 of Nigeria’s Constitution: “Declaration of assets and liabilities, oaths of President.” And what the hell has Boko Haram got to do with declaration of assets?]</div>
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• Agriculture: The president said his government is revolutionizing agriculture in Nigeria. "We are giving cotton seeds free in the North” he said.</div>
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[This is the most crass definition of an “agricultural revolution” – by providing free seeds.]</div>
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• The President said the government is doing very well in railway construction. “You may not know, but we are working,” he said. He added that his government has made a “significant progress” in railway construction. “You should commend us,” he adds.</div>
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[What “significant progress” has been made in railway construction? How many Nigerians are working on railway construction with the contract given to Chinese firms?]</div>
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• UNILAG name change: The president said what he did, in terms of law, was correct. You change the name first, then send the bill to the National Assembly later, he argues. “What we did, was the normal procedure,” he said.</div>
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[No, Mr. President, you had it backward. Before you change the name of University of Lagos (UNILAG), you consult with the university and the students body, which you did NOT do.]</div>
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• Crude Oil Theft: “The stealing of crude oil is a Nigerian phenomenon,” the president said. He adds that it has gone cancerous. “We will stop it, but it is like allowing a cancerous cell to grow into a major tumor.”</div>
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[Mr. President, theft of crude oil is a CRIME, not a “Nigerian phenomenon" or a disease afflicting Nigerians. Describing it that way means you are CLUELESS about how to solve it.]</div>
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Nigerians should not put up with such mediocrity and should mount a RECALL GEJ campaign.</div>
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They should check Chapter VI of their Constitution. See Sections 143 and 144 about removing the President and Vice-President from office other than through elections.</div>
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Professor Ayittey holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon, an M.A. from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba. He has taught at Wayne State College and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.</div>
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He held a National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution in 1988-89, and then joined The Heritage Foundation as a Bradley Resident Scholar.</div>
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He founded the Free Africa Foundation in 1993, to serve as a catalyst for reform in Africa.</div>
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In 2008 Dr. Ayittey was listed by Foreign Policy as one of the “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” who “are shaping the tenor of our time”. He lives in Lorton, Virginia.</div>
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What do you make of his comments? Is Professor Ayittey justified in his criticism of GEJ?</div>

[In Case You Missed It]: Ghanaian Prof Calls Jonathan 'A Mediocre'

Exactly two and a half years ago, President Goodluck Jonathan held a chat with the media on June 24, 2012 at which his ability (or othe...

Buhari Is A Semi-literate Military Jackboot - PDP

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<b>Now, issues are being left out of the campaigns. And, I see this situation is an indication of the massive post-election violence that will erupt regardless of whoever wins. And, come to think of it, does not attending a university make one an illiterate or, rather a semi-literate? Ouch! That's an unpardonable goof by a supposed PhD holder. The Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) is a degree-awarding institution. So anyone who graduates from NDA and not UNILAG or UNIPORT is a semi-literate? I pity the doctor who reportedly made the statement. Below is how the <i>Punch</i> is reporting the story as written by John Alechenu and Sola Fabiyi.</b></div>
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The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that its presidential candidate in the forthcoming election, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will be contesting against a semi-literate candidate.</div>
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Ostensibly referring to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the party also said the election would be between Jonathan and "a military jackboot".</div>
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Buhari, a former head of state, is the only presidential candidate who has a military background .</div>
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Section 131(d) of the 1999 Constitution allows anyone with school certificate qualification to contest any elective office in the country.</div>
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The PDP, through its National Secretary, Dr. Wale Oladipo, said when some leaders of the PDP in the   Diaspora visited its national secretariat in Abuja on Monday that there was no way the President would not win the election.</div>
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It said, “The next election is going to be between darkness and light. It is going to be between a cosmopolitan highly-focused Ph.D holder and a semi-literate jackboot.</div>
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“Our candidate is a man who believes in integrating the economy of Nigeria into the world economic order. He is a man who believes that the power sector should continue to be reformed so that we will attain the level of power generation and distribution that is commensurate with our aspiration in terms of industrial development. Nigeria cannot afford to go back. We will continue to move forward.”</div>
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The party said having won three presidential elections in which Buhari ran on the platforms of different political parties, there was no way it would not floor the APC which had decided to field   the former military leader as its presidential candidate.</div>
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Describing the APC as a party not ready to offer alternatives, the party advised Nigerians to remain with it.</div>
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It said, “Even though we are not a perfect party, our mission is perfect.</div>
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“We do not belong to any religious organisation and we don’t belong to any ethnic group. In preparing for the next election, which is not going to be like previous ones because for the first time, the opposition has coupled together a contraption that is called the APC.</div>
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“They have passed through the motion and endorsed their perennial candidate. We have beaten him three times, we are going to beat him once again.</div>
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“The APC is not a political party that is ready to offer an alternative to the teeming masses of this country. The only agenda they seem to have is to see our back.”</div>
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The PDP said that God had decided that Nigeria would not only continue to wax stronger,   he had also “decided that this country will not go back to 1983 when we had to start doing trade-by-barter with Brazil; when we went back 500 years to start practising what our ancestors practised when there was no currency in this country.”</div>
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“God has decried it that we will continue to pilot the affairs of this country and continue to implement the transformation agenda,” the PDP added.</div>
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But the Director of Publicity of the Buhari 2015 Support Group Centre, Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, expressed shock about the PDP comments, saying they showed the depth of their understanding of Buhari.</div>
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He said, “How can the PDP refer to a man who had his initial military training   in Nigeria and the best officer cadet training institutions in the world as semi-literate. They are so lazy that they can not check Gen. Buhari’s profile in this internet age.The general went to the Military Training College in Kaduna; the Mons Officer Cadet School in the United Kingdom; the Defence Services College in India and the Army War College in the United States. The certificates given by these institutions are equivalent to university degrees.</div>
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“If they want a copy of the general’s CV (Curriculum Vitae), they are welcome to have one.”</div>
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The BSGC boss advised that it would better serve public interest if the record of performance of Buhari was put side-by-side that of   Jonathan.</div>
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According to him, it was pedestrian for the PDP to reduce the issues at stake to educational qualification.</div>
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Maduekwe said, “Buhari had the opportunity to govern this nation in the past and his records are there for all to see.</div>
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“He managed our economy very well and paid up our debts and built up our foreign reserves. This was a man who was in charge when our refineries were built; this was a man who was in charge of the PTF(Petroleum Trust Fund) and left an enviable record.</div>
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“Contrast him with our Ph.D holder (Jonathan) who has run our economy aground and our foreign reserves depleted and we are today raking up debts.</div>
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“Under this Ph.D holder, Nigeria has come last among nations in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals with a 2015 deadline. Nigeria came last because; we have a PDP government which is visionless. Nigerians certainly do not want a continuity of this suffering.”</div>
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Prof Akinyemi Writes Jonathan, Buhari On Election Violence

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<b>There will be violence after the 2015 presidential election no matter who wins between President Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, a former minister of external affairs has warned. </b></div>
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Bolaji Akinyemi, a professor of political science and deputy chairman of the just-concluded National Conference, has written an open letter to both candidates urging them to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) committing themselves to peace and security in prosecuting their campaigns.<br />
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The MoU, according to Akinyemi, should compel the candidates to undertake a civil and peaceful campaign,”devoid of threats”.<br />
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Akinyemi warned that if Buhari loses the election, there will be violence in the north and if Jonathan loses, Niger Delta militants will resort t violence.<br />
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He asked prominent traditional rulers and religious leaders to convene a meeting between Buhari and Jonathan ahead of the elections.<br />
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<b>THE FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER IS REPRODUCED BELOW</b><br />
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<i>President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, President, Commander-in-Chief, The Villa, Abuja </i><br />
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<i>General Mohammed Buhari, APC Party Headquarters, Abuja </i><br />
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<i>Your Excellencies, </i><br />
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<i>Shortly after his appointment as National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi, at his own request, met with me in my office in Lagos to discuss the State of the Nation. It was on the eve of the 2011 elections. I told the General that I was not worried about the conduct of the elections or about the outcome which I expected President Jonathan to win. What really worried me, I told the General, was the management of the violence that would ensue after the elections. I was sure that there would be violence on a massive scale and I made some suggestions to him about how I thought the violence could be contained. My suggestions were not acted upon. The elections occurred, President Jonathan won and all hell broke loose. Missing were the conflict-controlled measures which I had discussed with General Azazi. </i><br />
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<i>Now we are back at the same crossroads again, except this time is more precarious and dangerous than the last time. Firstly, we have this very notorious prediction from United States semi-official sources that the world is expecting a cataclysmic meltdown of the Nigerian nation come 2015. Of course most Nigerians have taken umbrage at this prediction for their country. But there are Nigerians who are indifferent to the outcome of this prediction. One of my low moments during the just concluded 2014 National Conference was when in an attempt to break an impasse, I painted a grim picture of devastation which would follow a breakdown of the Nigerian state, to which a delegate between 45 and 55 years old replied “so what?” I thought to myself, here is a man who would probably run away to a neighboring country at the boom of the first gun but was callously indifferent to the fate of the youth, women and children who would be caught in the middle. </i><br />
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<i>Secondly, the certainty of violence after the 2015 elections is higher than it was in 2011. If President Jonathan wins, the North would erupt into violence as it did in 2011. If General Buhari wins, the Niger-Delta will erupt into violence. I don’t believe that we need rocket science to make this prediction. </i><br />
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<i>The violence of 2015 is going to be horrendous and worse than the one of 2011 for the simple reason that the illegal massive importation of weapons into the country has reached such alarming proportions that I really wonder which is better armed, the militias on one hand or the official armed forces on the other hand. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not imputing the illegal importation of arms to any particular zone. Some years ago, some Iranians were arrested for bringing in a shipload of weapons into Lagos harbor. They were tried and jailed and then smuggled out of the country. Some months ago, sophisticated weapons were discovered buried in the basement of a Kano house. All these have now fallen below the radar. These are the ones we know about. How many do we not know about? </i><br />
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<i>There are states and movements out there, African and non-African, which do not mean well for the Nigerian state, which wish Nigeria to dissolve into a theatre of bloodshed, gore and instability. They will succeed if we continue the politics of making enemies of ourselves and friends of our enemies. </i><br />
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<b><i>WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD?</i></b><br />
<i>The first step forward is for the two Presidential Candidates to meet and sign a Memorandum of Undertaking that will commit both to: </i><br />
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<li><i>A civil and peaceful campaign, devoid of threats. </i></li>
<li><i>A commitment to preach peaceful elections to their supporters. </i></li>
<li><i>A commitment to control their supporters after the elections. Supporters of whoever loses should be entitled to peaceful protests but not to violent protests.</i></li>
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<i>I also appeal to the following: </i><br />
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<li><i>The Sultan, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III </i></li>
<li><i>The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II </i></li>
<li><i>The Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha </i></li>
<li><i>The Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade </i></li>
<li><i>The Oba of Benin, OmoN’oba Erediauwa </i></li>
<li><i>Chief Emeka Anyaoku </i></li>
<li><i>Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor </i></li>
<li><i>Pastor Enoch Adeboye </i></li>
<li><i>His Excellency General Yakubu Gowon </i></li>
<li><i>His Excellency General Abubakar Abdulsalaam </i></li>
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<i>to facilitate the pre-election meeting between the candidates, the preparation of the Memorandum of Undertaking and as a Council of Wisemen to assist in managing the post-election conflicts.</i></div>
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<b>Source: <a href="http://www.thecable.ng/akinyemi-writes-jonathan-buhari-warns-impending-post-election-bloodshed">TheCable</a></b></div>

Prof Akinyemi Writes Jonathan, Buhari On Election Violence

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[Video]: "I'm 100% With Buhari", Says Pastor Tunde Bakare

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<b>Contrary to the falsehood being spread across social media platforms that Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly Church opposes the candidature of General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) as the standard bearer of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), the Overseer said he's 100% in support of GMB and his aspiration. </b></div>
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Bakare debunked the insinuations in an exclusive interview with <i><b>SaharaTV</b></i>, the television arm of the <i>SaharaReporters Media Group</i>.</div>
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Bakare ran with Buhari in 2011 on the presidential ticket of the Congress for Progressive Change.</div>
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He explained that the audio tape being circulated was a talk he gave immediately after the last governorship election in Ondo state in 2012, saying he made it clear for those who cared to listen that he supports Buhari’s ambition any day.</div>
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Bakare, who is also the convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) reiterated his total support for the APC presidential candidate, asserting that he has never wavered in his support for Buhari ever since meeting him.</div>
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The pastor, who had just arrived from a trip to the United States, told our crew that he was knowledgeable about the behind-the-scenes political horse-trading that produced Yemi Osinbajo as Buhari’s VP candidate.</div>
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The interview was conducted at the Latter Rain Assembly Church in Lagos, and Pastor Bakare spoke on a variety of topics.</div>
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Click the video below to watch the record- straightening interview.</div>
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