tutu1: GEJ sits down and doesn't say anything while his brothers makes unguided comments, pride comes before a fall even Abacha was removed from power and nothing happened, Nigeria survived civil war, no man is bigger than this nation, honestly this country is too big to fail it will only consume trouble makers

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misterh: Obviously, he doesn't understand the meaning and workings of democracy.

Farcrook Adamumu is the same stock as his fellow Northerners. Should it then be any wonder that

he doesn't know anything about the workings of politics

ARES: The south have spoken, and the north has replied... East and west lets hear ur own

barcanista: No matter the threat, Jonathan is not leaving Aso Rock till 2019. If it means we split- SO BE IT!!! We the people of South South/East will en mass send THANK YOU NOTES to the North for granting our WISH FINALLY.

emmasege: Am not a northerner, but i think a serious govt should have reacted immediately to Dokubo's statement like they are always quick to do anytime Buhari talks. The way and manner GEJ is running his govt and wants to perpetuate himself in the corridor of power is making him to bcom more unpopular by the day. if only opposition parties could get credible candidates that will be pleasing both to the north and the south, the xtians and the muslims, it will be easier to send this fisherman back to the creeks in 2015.

dramendra: Thank God for this, atleast the story have begin to unfold.. PDP is going down the drain. I don't care who rules naija, as far the peroson is God sent.

barcanista: No matter the threat, Jonathan is not leaving Aso Rock till 2019. If it means we split- SO BE IT!!! We the people of South South/East will en mass send THANK YOU NOTES to the North for granting our WISH FINALLY.

yertyr: North: these people breathe 4 power, sleep 4 power, eat 4 power. OBJ deceived them... They've neva been absent from dat seat 4 dis long. In as much as I detest their rule, please give it to them come 2015. Am not saying this out of cowardice but when you look at events in the past-We, the masses have been at the receiving end... It all ends up with bloods of citizens being spilled... Buhari has talked of blood, the Igbos are seeking for biafra, the niger deltans are issuing threats, boko haram... Please I like my life o.

miqos02: IN 2015, ITS EITHER A YORUBA MAN OR NO NIGERIA....... FOOLISH PEOPLE

lacasa: Some ibos on nairaland no go kill person wt laughter wallahi

Every other thread about Presidency and power is an open invitation for them to resume the call for Biafra, Biafra


Question:

I- this new Biafra that they won't allow us to rest, who will lead who to it??

II - Ojukwu died and he took Biafra wt it . Or is it the multiple Nd'Igbo factions or the tens of autonomous Biafra groups we see in the East, SS or the ones abroad, each villifying the other as fake and insincere to the Biafra struggle


III - una heads never dey organised and u wan bust wind-pipe on-top nairaland with yr empty cry for secession


#... Dnt u guys think

dramendra:

The south-south should be wise! The east is not in favour of the south-south, the south-south have betrayed the easterns.. If I may ask, we we split who will rull the igbos or the south-south?

AnanseK: War Threats: Dokubo spoke for Jonathan — Aliyu



Published on Tuesday, 07 May 2013 05:02
Written by Turaki A. Hassan
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Farouk Adamu Aliyu
Former member of the House of Representatives Farouk Adamu Aliyu yesterday responded to threats of violence by Asari Dokubo, saying the Niger Delta “thugs” should be aware that they have no monopoly of violence.
Dokubo had said at the weekend that violence will engulf the country if President Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015, re-echoing similar statements earlier attributed to the presidential adviser on amnesty Mr. Kingsley Kuku.
Reacting to these statements, Aliyu told Daily Trust in Abuja yesterday that it was obvious that both Dokubo and Kuku spoke “in connivance with President Jonathan” given the silence of the Presidency on their threats.
“We are not surprised that whatever people of Niger Delta do or say, they are doing that with active connivance and input from the president himself. Just recently Kingsley Kuku, presidential adviser on amnesty, spoke in the same line of violence. It was just received by a thug, because Dokubo is a thug,” he said.
“I want to remind all people of Niger Delta that they don’t have monopoly of violence…. And clearly the Niger Delta is threatening people all the time about the sanctity of the unity of this country, who told them that we also want to remain in Nigeria?”
Aliyu, a chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), said many northerners sacrificed their lives during the civil war to protect the Niger Delta region, but that “when 2015 comes we are willing to match them word for word, weapon for weapon.”
“President Jonathan’s government is a government of thugs because Kuku is a presidential adviser on amnesty, when he said what he said nobody, not even the President called him to order,” he said.
Aliyu said it was disingenuous of the Niger Delta people to threaten northerners given that Jonathan would not have become president without the votes he got from the North.
“This is a president of Nigeria who got 419,000 votes, more than the 25 per cent he was looking for from Jigawa state that is 100 per cent Muslims but his people did not give any vote to our candidates even though we knew what happened,” he said, referring to the 2011 elections.
“If you remember also there was post-election violence in which Sule Lamido, Ghali Na’abba, Salisu Buhari, Galadima of Kano and so many people lost their lives and property all in the defence of Jonathan. Is this the way he is going to pay back the people of the North for all the support they give him by allowing thugs like Dokubo to be close to him and be threatening people and causing commotion and even threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria? Who told them that we want to be in Nigeria as well?”
He further accused the Niger Delta elite of siphoning monies allocated to the region but turn round to blame other parts of the country for their problems. “I was a minority leader in the National Assembly and a member of the committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the amount of money that is stolen by the Niger Delta elites if they are only putting the 13 per cent derivation, NDDC, monthly allocation and the amnesty in proper use there will not be poverty in the region. Why should anybody from Niger Delta blame other parts of this country for their problems? Their problem is squarely blamed on them.”