recoome:

Yes o! U forgot 2 add buba marwa, abba ruma, ishaya bamaiyi, el-rufai, aminu masari, amongst other CPC vampires, also olowolafe, akume, iyorchia, udoedehe, ikimi, uzamere, onoja, akaagerger, audu ogbeh, ararume, udemwa, ngige(the rigger), sekibo, ajimobi, amosun, amongst other ACN monsters. All i know is that GEJ is winning by a landslide victory come rain come shine. GEJ has the SS/SE/major chunk of the SW/NC/and parts of the NW & NE. GOODLUCK/SAMBO=TRANSFORM NIGERIA!! We will never be blackmailed.

Evil Brain:


Nobody is saying that the other parties are full of saints. Politics is never black and white. What I'm saying is that PDP has been in power for 12 years and since then things have gotten worse for the vast majority of Nigerians. Jonathan has been commander-in-chief 1 year and has not been in any way different from his predecessors. Democracy means that the people can punish bad leaders when the government makes the masses suffer. PDP has to go!

And without massive rigging, there's no way in hell GEJ is winning by a landslide. He's only guaranteed to win the SE and SS which are the smallest zones terms of population. At best, he'll split Kaduna 50:50 with Buhari and lose badly in the rest of the north. The SW is likely to decide the winner and there is a massive anti-PDP sentiment there thanks to their rigging and their useless governors. Buhari and Bakare have made huge inroads there and Ribadu is no longer reckoned with so there'll be little splitting of the vote. In the end, I think it will come down to the 1-2 million ibos living in Lagos. The PDP expects them to vote for GEJ along ethnic lines. They may be in for a rude shock. Nigerians are not as stup.id as you think.

marvix:

A lot of peeps here have failed to understand that Power became an issue recently, but it was not caused by those ruling today, but the past leaders since 1980.

I have said it before that it is because we now have a larger percentage of the population exposed to power supply that is why it has become an issue, uptill 1999 my hometown in Edo state did not have electricity.

If truly what is said about the power generation been 1500MW when Obj took over, then the PDP has tried in bringing it up to 3800MW despite the amount of corruption in their system.

A commentator criticised Jonathan on paying only terrorists from his side of the country allowances and not other terrorist, but I am sure that person forgot that it was Yaradua a man from the same state as Buhari who acknowledged that the Niger Delta militants were justified in their agitation and that was why he granted them amnesty, forgiving them for all the nations soldiers they have killed in the past and openly asked for their forgiveness of their people that have been killed in the crisis, this is also what Obj from the same party and a southerner failed to do in his 8yrs while he was levelling communities in the Niger Delta, dont forget that the same Yaradua was the man who gave the command to shoot at sight at the Boko haram militia and even the extra njudicial killing of the leader had implicitly been given by Yaradua, this is a man of striong conviction.

If anyone still believes that corruption is our single biggest challenge, that person should realise that the day you attempt to solve corrption by force in a democracy like ours you may as well say good bye to the nation called nigeria becase I have looked at it critically and concluded that as at today corruption is the thread that holds our country together as one, remove corruption and give me one good reason why we should exploit oil in the Nigerdelta and build roads in the North west?

agabaI23:

So you want the sinners in other parties to rule Nigeria?
Good since they are all sinners, stop the holier-than-thou attitude and let us discuss issues. No more Buhari is a saint and will fight corruption mantra.

If you remove that, then you all know Buhari has no chance. It is the false sainthood bestowed upon him which has been sleekly marketed that is giving him hope.

Outside that, he is an empty barrel

recoome:

@evil brain: stop decieving your self. GEJ is leadin in the NC, and as 4 igbo's in d SW, they are seriously rooting 4 GEJ, take a trip round lagos and ask any igbo who they'll vote for, they'll tell u, that's it'r their 'in-law' [/b]they are interestd in breaking the Northern dominance,igbos will never vote 4 a northern candidate esp after mass killing of igbos in the north & the biafran war,so think again. Also, of the 20 million votes in the NW, no less than 5 million are igbo's and the apex igbo org. And igbo govs have made their stance clear, [b]GEJ's helping of ojukwu, who is seen as the leader of the entire igbo race, was a master stroke, he's endorsment by APGA, by Aka-ikenga is also a giant stride. Even in d NW, he was given a tumultous reception in kebbi, jigawa, kano, &zamfara. South kaduna is going 2 GEJ, dnt also forget the sambo effect.bottom line, GEJ will win in the SE,SS,SW,NC and will get an appreciable no in the core north

marvix:

Demdem I agree with u, but u wld agree that corruption has to be dealt with systematically, because as it is now corruption is systematically entrenched in the system.

Buharis style and Ribadus style of fighting corruption may only plunge us into a deeper mess, I prefer the Jonathan way of fighting corruption allow the agencies fight corruption allow more information and allow the issues come 2 public domain.

Justice always grinds slowly but surely, so we must mitigate new corrupt acts by placing checks that will make it impossible to get away with a corrupt act and maybe legalise some acts that are corrupt 2day so we can all benefit from them.

marvix:

Demdem I agree with u, but u wld agree that corruption has to be dealt with systematically, because as it is now corruption is systematically entrenched in the system.

Buharis style and Ribadus style of fighting corruption may only plunge us into a deeper mess, I prefer the Jonathan way of fighting corruption allow the agencies fight corruption allow more information and allow the issues come 2 public domain.

Justice always grinds slowly but surely, so we must mitigate new corrupt acts by placing checks that will make it impossible to get away with a corrupt act and maybe legalise some acts that are corrupt 2day so we can all benefit from them.

Demdem:



i cant belive I and Evil brain are on the same page here

onye_ngbu*:

Man u said it like it is.

You forgot to add that after shamelessly dining with Abacha, Buhari arrogantly REFUSED to appear b4 oputa panel and then as if to add salt to that injury came back in '08 to tell us that Abacha never stole from Nigeria!
Now to further prove it, he adopted Abacha's son as his party's kano gubernatorial candidate.
What a man!

GEJ will need to nuke a whole state to match the sins of this unrepentant tyrant.

logica:

LOL. Talk about history revisionism. So if power was not a problem in the 80s, which country was Fela singing about then?

Evil Brain:

[b]You clearly didn't read my post properly so I'm going to repeat myself. The PDP needs to lose massively to establish the principle that if the leaders mess things up for the people, the people will vote them ou[/b]t. This is the basic principle underpinning all modern democracies. The leaders have to be taught to fear the wrath of the people. How will they ever learn if we keep rewarding them for stealing our commonwealth? If Buhari messes up, he'll be easy to get rid of in 2015. Eventually a good leader will arise from somewhere.

The situation improved in the 1980s, with two 120-megawatt units added to the Kainji hydroelectric station, ten units of 120 megawatts each installed in Sapele, new hydroelectric stations built at Shiroro on the Kaduna River and Jebba downstream from Kainji Reservoir, and another 200 megawatts added at various smaller plants. (http://www.cbcglobal.org/CBCG_Library/OVERVEIW_OF_NIGERIAN_ELECTRIC_POWER_SECTOR.pdf)

Kobojunkie:

It seems people are dense or just trying really really hard at it . . . . back in the early 80's(82-83)

a) consumption in the rural areas was still relatively low . . . . If anything, back in the 80's many people only needed elecricity to power light bulbs and radios. Most no house in my village had a tv or even a refridgerator

b) Consumption in the urban areas was also low compared to what you have today

c) Many in the rural area had also not been connected to the grid -- and we are not talking of a situation where they once were and suddenly were taken off. We are talking of areas where they had not had electricity before

Electricity issue was still on the back burner during the early 80s in Nigeria. . .  Y[b]es, the government was working on building and getting plants online BUT the power issue was NOT, I REPEAT, was NOT a pressing issue in the early 80s.[/b]  There were no blackouts as you now have today  and there are so many reasons for that  . . . . lower consumption rates back then, and better investments in the start into NEPA than later on and into the 90's.   

In 1982/83 there was a global recession. The Economy and corruption that were viewed as hindering factors to growth. The papers was filled with stories of the economic woes and blunders of the Shagari regime, and appointments were ridiculed. Power supply rarely made the papers. I remember when Jebba, and then Egbin went online in 1983, Ikorodu was treated like the latest town on the map because of Egbin. There were celebrations for a couple of days and the papers went back to attacking the politicians.

If anyone, I say again, anyone has information to show that it was as big an issue as it is today,all you really have to do is show it  . . . . no need to continue to insult yourselves thinking you insult another for stating what was back in the 80s. I lived those years myself --- I had a home in a rural zone and in the city.

efisher:

She carefully deleted that part from the quote. I knew she was going to try taking advantage of it. BUSTED 

efisher:

That post was a response to this blab:

The point there is that blackouts were frequent and had catastrophic effects on the economy. It was a huge issue as far back as the 80's. No need to move the goalpost!

efisher:

^^ You forgot to add: [size=16pt]During the IBB Regime!!![/size] 

IBB completed the Jebba and Shiroro dams.
The retrofitting of kainji dam to increase its capacity for electricity generation was carried out by IBB.
IBB constructed the challawa gorge dam.
IBB completed and commissioned the Egbin thermal plant.