Sincere 9gerian: It is the JOINT responsibility of the states, federal and local govt to create jobs and eradicate poverty.

The national purse is shared 50-50 by the federal govt on one hand and the states and local govt on the other (via state-local govt joint account).

So, while we ask how many jobs the federal govt has created in the last few years and what percentage of Nigerians have been lifted out of poverty through policies and programmes at the federal level, we should NOT forget the states.

How are the states and local govts creating jobs and eradicating poverty with their share of the national purse? How many jobs has Fashola or Sullivan Chime created in the last few years? These are critical questions that demand answers.

The problem of lack of jobs and increasing poverty cannot be solved without looking at the issue of exponential increase in population. But how can we tackle the problem of population if Buhari and other northern leaders see population as a tool for winning elections, wrecking havoc and earning more funds from the national purse?

In the long run, if we TRUELY want to drastically cut down unemployment rate and poverty, we MUST re-structure this country. Power must be de-centralised down to the states. The present arrangement where Abuja tries to feed 160million people can only breed more poverty and unemployment. It should be the other way round. It is the 160million people that should feed Abuja. In other words, the states must be allowed to harness their human and material resources for development and pay taxes to the centre. This is the only way forward.

But unfortunately, the northern politicians, with eyes fixated on oil money, we resist any attempt to re-structure this country. Currently, even passage of PIB is witnessing major resistance from the north.

Until the much needed re-structuring happens, we have to make do with what can be achieved under the present arrangement.

jas_o: This storry is nothing but tragedy. The way the man died and conivance of evils in form of human was also shoking in this revelation. Nigeria is dominated by evils and something brutal shouldb done to ensure such did ot repeat itself.

AmicableEd:
It was the same Abacha that ensured that Abiola returned. Abacha had to change the guards at the airport, replaced them with his own guards and asked them to fly Abiola in from Cotonou. I was close to Abacha to know all these. Abiola landed and trouble started. Then there was the afternoon coup, Abacha took over from Shonekan. As far as Abacha was concerned, his reign was not to be permanent, he had to remove Shonekan to foil Ibrahim Babangida’s plan to come back. Babangida’s intention was to transform into a civilian president.... http:// www.kemifilani.com/2013/06/secrets- how-mko-abiola-really-died-his.html

tawa89: Even the igbo poilitician that signed that document did so with 'reservations'. This could mean he did so under duress, while Shonekan and other Yoruba politicians signed away MKO's mandate gleefully.LMAO

Ola Johnson:
I've read that before, the question is, this he win the election or not?

Ola Johnson: #Oro nla l'eda eh, oro nla l'eda. Eyin t'epa Abiola, ti e je o bo si ipo, oro nla l'eda#

Itoroetti :


By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
Former member of the House of Representatives,
former Senate Chief Whip and chieftain of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rowland Stephen
Owie says the annulment of the June 12, 1993
presidential election was a divine recompense for
Abiola’s alleged past political misdeeds.




Who is that politician or group of politicians that
aided the military to take over the government of
President Shehu Shagari in 1983 after the NPN
convention?
Who is that
politician that aided the military in disqualifying
all the major candidates of SDP and NRC?
I say if they can answer it and the answer is
negative for MKO Abiola, then the annulment of
June 12 is evil.

you can’t plant
mango and reap yam.

Awolowo of UPN had met and we had all met. But
three days to the Electoral College Obasanjo
removed the clause on Electoral College; he
removed the goal post within the run of play.
Awolowo had no other option and he had to go to court and the judgment gave rise to
the issue of 12 2/3! A human being cannot be half, he is either full or… and that is why Justice
Sowemimo said that that judgment cannot be quoted in future.

Abiola and Obasanjo were involved as Egbas to remove that clause. Concord brought the headline “Maroko land: Awolowo where is your sincerity”. We were in Minna when it was published. Look it deflated the old man, it scattered him, in fact, he was no longer himself and he started battling how to explain.


MKO Abiola wanted the presidential ticket he didn’t get it and he then came and aligned with the military people who now came in.
And IBB came and set up two political parties, Shehu Yar‘adua, Adamu Ciroma and other major
contenders in SDP and NRC, overnight the military disqualified all of them, aided and abetted by
MKO Abiola. Because if Yar‘adua were (involved)
there was no way MKO would have won. He was not even in contention until the disqualification of these major contenders. That is why I said that June 12 was a repayment for evil that was done
against other people.


What happened was a repayment for evil.

The annulment served Abiola right, quote me!
You cannot be destroying other people and expect to have victory. There is a parable that all
those who destroy other people will end up having destruction at the hour of their victory.

MKO should not have expected anything less. Tell
me, was it justified for Shehu Musa Yar‘adua and
Falae in the SDP to be disqualified? What did they
do? Was it justified for Adamu Ciroma and co in the NRC to be disqualified?
What did they do?
They were all disqualified in both parties so that MKO Abiola who was a friend of the military could
emerge as the strongest candidate.
It was no secret that he paraded himself as a friend of the military. That man could not have
expected to become president of Nigeria when he
had ruined many people.



www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/annulment-was-payment-for-abiolas-evil-deeds-sen-owie/

Desola:

Lol, what an irony!

Ola Johnson:
If you're Akokite and you're saying all this against WS it means you're suffering from tribal bigotry. As for me, I adhere strictly to the motto of my alma mater: FOR LEARNING AND CULTURE.

Ola Johnson:
What exactly about this that makes you fear? Tell me, I can help you.

occam:

Correct. Nigerians instead need to search deeper about events leading to day and not just make it a symbol of democracy. Too many questions, too few answers on what transpired and led to that annulment. Did we have a true democratic election or an "arrangement" between a dictator and an influential businessman?

Ola Johnson:
My 'free education' has proven to be far better than your costly one which you made costlier with 'sorting'. Or are you not one of the three guys among the ESUT 4? Say the truth, Abali (Ehihe).

Ola Johnson:
I pity you, using that for a renown professor of Comparative Literature of close to 50 years.

Bandit C.:


Man, (or woman) you talk too much. May 29th is democracy day and that's it. There is nothing you or anybody can do about that.

Do not come here, disturbing the peace over what's fair or not or somebody would refresh your memory about the civil war.

Noisemakers.

Ola Johnson:
It means you're afraid of WS.

klodike:
Wole soyinka has lost it. Perhaps senility could b blamed.

Ola Johnson:
You're suffering from Soyinkaphobia.

Desola:

Anything else will be mere parroting of that which has been intelligently written by the amiable madam. Sheer writing if a genius that was. Why water it down? At the moment, I'm in awe of an intelligent female poster. Please allow me to bask in the euphoria.

Ola Johnson: My prof, as you wish so shall it be.

Desola:

Very intelligent retorts from you madam!

madam_oringo:

Well, OBJ was right in spending N 16 Tr for roads during his years including roads in ibo land, appropriating 60 B for your still-born 2nd Niger bridge which is yet to even see a single shovel digging the ground? I hope he was right in those circumstances too!

madam_oringo:

Well, give that advice to yourself, you need it MORE! Prof. Soyinka has no reason to argue, he was there, live, were you? Are you so bereft of mental capacity not to know that by declaring which day is the REAL Democracy day, June 12, he is telling YOU and NIGERIANS which day is the RIGHT ONE? Or do you expect him to descend to the level of a toddler mind like you to say, "here is the R-I-G-H-T and here is the W-R-O-N-G", etc? So everything OBJ did is right when it feeds into the hatefest frenzy of Ibos towards the Yorubas, a people they can not like because they boss them COMPLETELY, without even arguing or seeming to pay attention to Ibos always trying to "measure-up"? Well, OBJ was right in spending N 16 Tr for roads during his years including roads in ibo land, appropriating 60 B for your still-born 2nd Niger bridge which is yet to even see a single shovel digging the ground? I hope he was right in those circumstances too!

madam_oringo:

Prof. Henry Nwosu who was the umpire of the electoral body announced the result of the federal elections which said Chief Abiola won, how is it fair to not give him the credit? Was it not ibos that helped to sabotage the process?