SECURITY agents yesterday picked holes in the interview conducted with the former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, by the Arab Cable News Network, Al Jazeera.

A source said the interview reportedly granted by Okah over the Abuja twin bombings leading to the death of 10 people was a fake.

[b]He said the interview with Okah was packaged to deceive Al Jazeera.

Sources from the South Africa and Nigerian secret services revealed that “there is a great deal of doubt about the authenticity of the telephone contact between the media organisation and the embattled militant leader”.

The Nigerian Compass gathered last night that Nigerian security agents have confirmed from their South African counterparts who revealed: “At no time did we allow Okah to make such telephone contact.”


Okah, from his South African jail where he is currently facing terrorism charges, was said to have granted Al Jazeera the controversial interview.

“Following suspicion raised about the authenticity of the interview, we contacted South Africa to confirm its validity, but we were shocked to find out that at no time did such an interview take place,” security sources said last night.

Another source also revealed that the South African security services wondered why their Nigerian counterparts could not contact them immediately the interview was aired to confirm its authenticity. “They have been waiting for such security inquiries from their Nigerian counterpart before revealing the veracity of the interview since the content does not concern them directly,” the source said further.[/b]

http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68565:security-agents-al-jazeera-didnt-speak-with-okah&catid=43:news&Itemid=799

Interesting.

jabbok:

which one we go believe now? Abeg PDP should carry their badluck and quit. SAY NO TO PDP

Dude, try to make sense sometimes!
What has a fake phone call or the bomb blast got to do with PDP? Please stop derailing.

The Joint Task Force (JTF) for the Niger Delta has also debunked the veracity of another Al Jazeera programme featuring alleged MEND fighters in the region. The JTF said an aerial surveillance of the region showed there were no longer any militant camps anywhere, as claimed by Al Jazeera

From our own JTF.

Now, the questions;
[list]
[li]Why has Aljazeera stooped to lie?[/li]
[li]Why would a station with the international clout of Aljazeera believe the cheap lie that a terror suspect in custody can make calls?[/li]
[li]Who is behind the deception?[/li]
[li]If the phone calls to Aljazeera  originated from SA, which of Okah's associates is still roaming free?
[/li]
[/list]

We must begin to ask very serious questions of what Aljazeera's motives in Nigeria are.
The standing of that news outfit for all intents and purposes, is now shredded and in tatters.

[size=14pt]Security agents doubt Okah’s Al Jazeera interview [/size]
By Elizabeth Archibong
October 8, 2010 04:52AM

Nigeria’s security operatives have expressed doubt about the authenticity of the celebrated interview with a former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta’s (MEND), Henry Okah, by Al Jazeera, during which he said an aide of President Goodluck Jonathan asked him to implicate Northern politicians over October 1, 2010 bomb blasts, which left 12 persons dead.

A security source said investigations within the security services in Nigeria and South Africa revealed that the interview with Mr. Okah might have been faked to deceive the Qatar-based news network.

The source said last night that their South African counterpart confirmed that, “at no time did we allow Okah to make such telephone contact. Following suspicion raised about the authenticity of the interview, we contacted South Africa to confirm its validity, but were shocked to find out that at no time did such interview take place,” he said.

“In fact, our contact wondered why it took us so long to cross check this information because they did not want to interfere, since the issues did not concern their government directly. They have been waiting for such security inquiries from their Nigerian counterpart before revealing the veracity of the interview, since the content does not concern them directly.”

Al Jazeera confirmation

An Al Jazzera reporter, however, told NEXT that the interview was conducted with Mr Okah. The reporter said Okah called from South Africa and he was passed on to the company’s studios in Doha.

“He called me from prison on a +27 number,” the Al Jazeera staff said. “We had a long discussion about the bombs and the situation in general. Clearly, they are allowed access to fixed phone lines in SA prisons. I asked him whether he would be prepared to be go live on Al Jazeera that very instant. He said ‘yes’.

“So I gave him our newsdesk number in Doha - and alerted them to the fact that Henry Okah was about to call from prison. He called, and they put him right through to the studio and live on air,” the reporter said.

The Joint Task Force (JTF) for the Niger Delta has also debunked the veracity of another Al Jazeera programme featuring alleged MEND fighters in the region. The JTF said an aerial surveillance of the region showed there were no longer any militant camps anywhere, as claimed by Al Jazeera.

“Al Jazeera, it will be recalled, had also during the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s health saga, staged a similar interview with the late president’s cousin, claiming that the sick man was healthy, playing with his children, and climbing 13-storey building,” a security source said.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/5628099-147/security_agents_doubt_okahs_al_jazeera.csp

ndu_chucks:

My temper is always under control. By the way, what say you? Is GEJ a member of MEND? You have to admit that he dropped the ball, big time on the recent crisis. He will soon be impeached like your other idol, Alams. olodo

Instead of you guy's to think straight, you're thinking in the cranky ways that result from being led by old bats like Yakasai and Ciroma. I pity the core North!
Dream on about impeaching GEJ. You think it is the same as impeaching cows?

Can you answer 9ja voice's important question as to why you Hausa - Fulani's always pretend to be Igbo or Yoruba?

^
Don't mind the man. He is so confused, he can't even think up a decent excuse.
Jail awaits IBB.

[size=14pt]JRC Blames Dissident Elements of MEND[/size]

The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) has described Friday's bombing as "the handiwork of a son of the devil with active connivance of disgruntled dissident elements from one of the camps of a former MEND leader who has since relinquished leadership in the former MEND structure."

Spokesperson of the JRC Cynthia Whyte, in a statement yesterday, condoled with "all men of goodwill and the entire citizenry on the callous and gruesome murder of more than 15 people and the injury inflicted on many others."

She said "Our struggle is a moral and just one. We have had no place for gun-runners, toddler-abductors, bank robbers, commercial hostage-takers, prison breakers and bare-face murderers who go on foolish murderous rampage while their families are safe and secure in foreign lands."

According to her, "An email address alone does not represent MEND. In a few days that email will no longer be usable. What must be done will be done immediately. Terrorism is not a virtue for heroic combatants in the Ijaw and Niger Delta struggle."

She said "Millions of young men in the Niger Delta today possess the ability to deploy acts of unlimited violence on the Nigerian State. However, these men have decided to keep the peace because they cannot claim to be more Ijaw or more Niger Deltan than Goodluck Jonathan. They have given him the benefit of doubt and have pledged to work with him and guide him on his efforts in the Niger Delta."

She said the Central Command of the Joint Revolutionary Council will soon confer with Mujahid Dokubo-Asari to arrive at a final decision on the matter.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201010040865.html

If you listen carefully, you will hear the voice of the original Jomo Gbomo in the above writeup. Colourful use of words and hard hitting.

The most painful part is that these desperate guys are already half dead. Checkout Ciroma, looking like one of the demons from hell.

[size=14pt]Did everyone notice that IBB never condoled with the victims and the country?
It was just "it is idiotic", "it wasn't me", " I fought the civil war" and other crap.

IBB what do you care about the victims, how about a word or two to their families, how about a word to calm the nation you plan to rule?[/size]

Nothing sensible, nothing statesmanlike, nothing responsible or wise, yet IBB believes he has a devine right to rule this country. It will not happen!

[size=14pt]Enough is enough •Jonathan warns desperate politicians[/size]
•As Mark carpets IBB, Atiku, Ciroma on Abuja bomb blasts
•It’s idiotic to link me with bomb blasts -IBB

Written by Akin Durodola, Taiwo Adisa, Ayodele Adesanmi, Dipo Laleye and Leon Usigbe Thursday, 07 October 2010

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, came down heavily on people he described as enemies of progress and said that enough was enough of individuals or group of individuals holding a country of 150 million people to ransom.

“Nigeria is bigger than any individual or any collection of individuals. Nobody can hold a country of  150 million people to ransom any more. The interest of a few concerted, ill-motivated individuals cannot be bigger than our national aspirations,” he said.

Jonathan, in his reply to comments made by his friends on the social networking site, Facebook, on the October 1 bomb blasts, reiterated that investigations had shown that some politicians who were bent on seizing power by all means were behind the dastardly act.

According to him, “if the aim of the attackers is to create a sense of insecurity and panic across the nation in order to advance their narrow interests, Nigerians will stand up to them and make it clear that they cannot be intimidated.”

To buttress his point that the blasts and the comments made thereafter by politicians had political undertone, the president noted that there had been unprecedented national tragedy of this nature in Sokoto, Kebbi, Jigawa and Zamfara states, “which the so-called people never addressed nor offered a word of succour to the victims.

“It is unfortunate that an unprecedented national tragedy of this nature has been politicised by people whose only interest is what they can get from the country and not what the country can get from them.

“They specialise in playing one part of the country against the other and riding on sectional sentiments to promote their narrow interests. I believe that Nigerians have grown beyond this parochial mentality.

[size=14pt]“To prove to you that their interests are personal and not for the people they claim to represent, you will notice that while this administration has spent considerable time and resources as well as focused attention on the recent floods in Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and Jigawa states and the cholera epidemic in certain parts of Nigeria, as well as the lead poisoning that has consumed 400 children in Zamfara State, the so-called concerned people have not been known to address any of these issues nor offer a word of succour to the victims.

“This is irrefutable proof that their only focus is how to get power and not the well-being of the long suffering people of Nigeria, whom I have sworn to Almighty God to protect,” the president stressed.[/size]

He promised that the Federal Government would share in the pains of the bereaved and the injured, adding that “we will give the best medical care possible to the injured.”

Also, the Senate President, David Mark, on Wednesday, lashed former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida; former Vice-President Atiku Abu-bakar and former Minister of Finance, Alhaji Adamu Ciroma, for allegedly politi-cising the October 1 bomb blasts in Abuja.

The Senate President, who was rounding off debates on the Abuja bomb blasts, said he was disappointed at the comments attributed to some of the political leaders in relation to the bomb blasts.

However, the Senate observed a one-minute silence in honour of those who lost their lives during the incident.

Mark, while concluding deliberations on a motion, Bomb Blasts on Independence Day, sponsored by Senator Anthony Manzo and 36 others, said it was lamentable that some senior citizens would seek to politicise a criminal incident.

Mark said it was regrettable that the politicians were allegedly making inflammatory statements that were capable of destroying the fragile unity of the country.

The Senate President urged the security agencies to work round the clock to ensure that the culprits were apprehended and justifiably punished.

He advised Nigerians to borrow a leaf from the Americans during the September 11, 2011 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre (WTC) in New York, by coming together to promote Nigeria’s unity and oneness.

The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said what happened on October 1 was  an embarrassment which, he said, brought shame to the country.

The Deputy Senate Leader,  Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, said the incident was a terrorist act, adding that “a terrorist cannot be a friend of anybody.”

Deputy Minority Whip, Senator Kabiru Gaya, also said it was unfortunate that the blasts happened when Nigeria was celebrating its 50th Independence anniversary.

Meanwhile, General Babangida, on Wednesday, reacted for the first time to the bomb blasts which claimed 14 lives and injured 42 others in Abuja on October 1.

He said “it is idiotic for anybody to link him with the incident.”

IBB said “it is idiotic to associate me with something that will threaten the unity of Nigeria, especially on a symbolic day like that.”

General Babangida told newsmen at his Minna Hilltop residence, after receiving a bus donated to his campaign organisation by the Nigerian in the Diaspora Northern America and Europe chapters.

“I fought a war to make sure Nigeria is one, I am still carrying the strap line up till today, I don’t want anybody to carry it.

“I cannot do anything to threaten the unity of Nigeria, only idiots will associate me with such a terrible thing.”

The former military president also said his campaign organisation director, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who was questioned by the security operatives  in connection with the incident, could not have had any hand in it.

General Babangida said people cast their imaginative minds on Dokpesi because “Nigerians have fertile minds; his arrest is borne out of the imaginative and fertile minds of Nigerians,” adding, however, that “it’s is the price he is paying as a politician.”

Babangida blamed the security agencies for not nipping the incident in the bud, saying that “nobody has disputed that the government was given notice by the bombers.”

IBB said “you don’t need more than 24 hours to remedy it if you are informed, two days are more than enough time for reaction, which is vital to security,” adding that “I am not blaming anybody, but there is a lapse.”

On why he failed to attend the country’s 50th Independence anniversary in Abuja, Babangida said he did not believe in the whole concept and the expenditure that accompanied it.

Meanwhile, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday, deliberated on the Independence day bomb blasts and resolved to stand firm with President Jonathan in handling the situation.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, conveyed the cabinet members’ support to President Jonathan, whom they urged not to be distracted by the occurrence.

The Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, who briefed State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting in the State House, said the president had given his commitment to fish out all those who perpetrated the act.

Meanwhile, the council has approved $6.8 million as Global Environment Facility (GEF) grant to support the proposed scaling up of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practice knowledge and coordination project of the Federal Government.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/11836-enough-is-enough-jonathan-warns-desperate-politicians-as-mark-carpets-ibb-atiku-ciroma-on-abuja-bomb-blasts-its-idiotic-to-link-me-with-bomb-blasts-ibb

[size=14pt]Impeachment threat: Niger Delta group issues ultimatum to Northern leaders [/size]
•Arewa wants judicial commission of inquiry on Abuja bombings
Written by Chris Agbambu and Hassan Ibrahim Thursday, 07 October 2010

THE Niger Delta Restoration Initiative (NDRI), a coalition of socio-cultural groups in the Niger Delta region, has asked Mallam Adamu Ciroma and

some members of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF), allegedly threatening to instigate the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan if he failed to resign his office by the end of one week over the twin bombings during the nation’s golden jubilee celebrations in Abuja to recant such statement.

According to the group, “the reports credited to Mallam Ciroma smacks of political indiscretion, recklessness, and brazen disregard for democratic ethos and the office of President and Commander-In-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And the underlying motive is not far fetched: to plunge the nation into another round of tension and instability through fanning the embers of ethnic and religious sentiments aimed at discrediting the laudable leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan.”

Addressing a world press conference in Abuja, President-General of the group, Chief Pupagha Ekpedekumor, said: “In a bid to achieve their inordinate motives, Mallam Ciroma and his group are flying a kite of northern insecurity under a Jonathan presidency, citing alleged claims by Mr Henry Okah, an associate of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), that he had been contacted by a faceless aide of President Jonathan to implicate some northerners in the Friday bombings.”

He added that, “while we condemn the act in the strongest terms and call on the authorities to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to book, no matter how highly placed, we are at a loss on how it affects the safety of northerners to the extent of calling for the president’s head.

“The circumstances surrounding the incident, particularly the intelligence reports at the disposal of local and international security agencies prior to the bombings clearly indicated that it was indeed, a terrorist act.

“After a careful review of the position of the Northern Political Leaders Forum at an emergency meeting held today (Wednesday), in Abuja, the Niger Delta Restoration Initiative deemed it necessary to issue this press statement outlining our position on the issue:

“Though impeachment is a legitimate process in democratic governance, we in the South-South geopolitical zone view the statement credited to Mallam Ciroma and his group as a threat, which we shall resist through all available means. Some few individuals in a section of the country should not regard themselves as holding a birthright to the presidency, and should, therefore, refrain from gang-up and employing largely undemocratic means to destabilise the nation whenever people from other sections of the country assume positions of authority.

“Leadership is not a do-or-die affair. After all, since the existence of Nigeria as a political entity, people from the South-South have never tasted power at the presidential level; yet, they had never fought against the unity of our great country,” the group said.

Consequently, the group said, “we give Mallam Ciroma and his co-travellers a grace period of 48 hours within which to recant their statement and apologise to the presidency and the generality of Nigerians, or be ready to face the consequences. We are using this medium to warn these few individuals pretending to be protecting their people now, but did nothing to uplift their standard of living to act wisely and henceforth, be cautious in their actions and utterances.”

In another development, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Wednesday, called on the Federal Government to set up a high-powered judicial commission of inquiry into the bomb blasts which occurred in Abuja so as to ascertain the truth and effect retribution on offenders against future occurrences.

A communiqué issued in Kaduna signed by the ACF’s National Publicity Secretary, Anthony Sani, after a meeting of the forum’s Board of Trustees, led by its chairman, Lieutenant-General Jeremiah Useni (rtd) and supported by the Secretary-General, Colonel Musa Shehu (rtd), resolved that having considered the claims and counter claims of those allegedly responsible for the dastardly act, setting up the commission of inquiry would also douse the mistrust and suspicion in the polity.

The ACF, however, welcomed the decision of the Federal Government to give the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) more time that would enable the commission to prepare and conduct credible, free and fair elections.

“However, the ACF frowns on any attempt by the presidency to take advantage of the situation to reintroduce the practices whereby political appointees would be automatic delegates in party congresses and conventions, as well as in party primaries.”

“It is still the position of ACF that in order not to confer undue advantage on incumbents, to create level-playing field and to enthrone internal democracies within political parties, all political appointees should not be automatic delegates as amended in the electoral act of 2010,”they said.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/11834-impeachment-threat-niger-delta-group-issues-ultimatum-to-northern-leaders-arewa-wants-judicial-commission-of-inquiry-on-abuja-bombings

The so called Northern Elders are jittery about what might be around the corner for them, hence their desperate and lousy statements about "calling" for impeachment of GEJ (note the word "calling").
Lets pray they weren't involved in the bombing and dastardly loss of life.

ndu_chucks:

hehehehehee. This must be Beaf. Dem don ban you. Too many copy and paste coupled with GEJ/MEND extremism didn't help you this time. abeg make una unban the olodo if na spambot catch am.

No, this is Faeb.
Anyways, I can see your temper has cooled down at last. No more crazy tribalistic rants about oil and groundnuts out of jealousy for loss of power.
Go and tell you people to learn how to play clean politics, cos they will soon all be locked up.

However, in appreciation to these tremendous achievements and enviable records, Chief Dokpesi [/b]has been consistently persuaded by many well meaning Nigerians to run for the most exalted elective position in Nigeria, but the High Chief has declined to tell anyone whether or not he would want to be Nigeria’s President, though many political observers have said his track records can seamlessly stand for him to score the required simple majority under any political party. [b]Interestingly his good name has recently featured prominently in the newly constituted PDP reform group.

http://thewillnigeria.com/mobile/opinion/4622-CHIEF-RAYMOND-DOKPESI-ICONIC-BRAND-FOR-VALUE-INTERGRITY.html

Enough of foolish arguments. Dokpesi is a PDP bigwig.

ayo84:

Has anyone noticed nairaland has come under attack from IBB loyalists,IBB bloggers,online PR people and conspiracy theorists all in a bid to bring down jonathan.
They keep writing new posts ,and they are plenty,you will even see them making multiple comments not just on nairaland,but on sahara reporters website comments.
This is typical of IBB ,he did it during his time,taing control of media to propagate his own news,stories and media,its all a grand plot and strategy

Yup, you're right and it really sucks. Anyone seen Beaf? Here's a mod spilling the beans on why Beaf was banned;

oyb:

seun is an ibb man
nl is an ibb site

see as them don ban squealer

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=526454.msg6888905#msg6888905

kingsido:

who so ever is supporting okah or ibb is going to die soon, aljazera is pro - muslim and they are acting a script. they av been paid and they want to heat the polity, an accused granting telephone interview to an international station, ibb did it and god will destroy him and his supporters, as for dokpesi, god don catch u,sss was trailing u since and u didnt knw, im an ss officer and authoritatively i can tell u dokpesi is beggingggggggg

Bros, abeg tell us. What language is he begging in?

I can't understand why you guys above are going on about Boyloaf. If you read the news carefully enough, you will find out that the person who made all the claims to have recruited everybody, being the owner of MEND etc, was Tompolo!
Its so funny that even "educated" people don't read.

"We are not part of the incident on the First of October," said Tompolo.  "I want everybody in this country to go after anybody who is part of this havoc.  MEND is not involved.  I am the owner of MEND.  I recruited everybody.  And by the grace of God, we are here to support the late president.  And that is the same support we are now transferring to you as our brother.  We are going to work with you to save this country for everybody."

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Niger-Delta-Militants-Deny-Involvement-in-Nigeria-Bombing-104407558.html

Let no one be surprised that we have chosen to leave out Bukola Saraki from the field of presidential contenders. It is an open secret that he does not want to be a president. Rather, he is a carpetbagger, a frontman for Babangida in the race for 2011 presidential elections.

Damn!!!!!!!

I take it that no one here will be voting for him then?

@OnlyTruth
There will be no coup, except its an inhouse event. Neither will there be war.
All the strategic arms of the army have been placed in the hands of Southerners. The greatest example is JTF, which is comprised of air, ground and naval forces, it is by far Nigeria's most powerful and capable army unit; it is headed by a Southerner. The only strategic unit headed by a Fulani or Hausa man in the south is Enugu (Sarkin Yakin Bello), but the JTF can cut him off through the South South and Niger Bridge.
In the converse, there are Southern generals in the most strategic parts of the North and Lagos.

People keep saying GEJ spoke too quickly. . . They are making a big mistake. Lets take a deeper look at GEJ's (and Nigeria's) enemies and find out what their methods are.

GEJ's enemies are the the puppeteers that control the cabal and their modus operandi involves stoking and manipulating fears based religious extremism, tribalism and violence.
Two legs of this evil tripod were employed on Independence day. Violence, as in the bomb blast and the resulting deaths and tribalism as in getting Niger Delta hands involved in order to point fingers at the President who happens to be from the Niger Delta.

Jonathans counter was twofold; to condole with the dead to calm the effects of the violence (expected), and to shift the event from the tribal angle of its planners to outright terrorism. Jonathans second action was particularly effective, in that the planners could not launch their next action with any effect. Their next action was to be a wholly tribalistic one, in which Jonathan would have been accused of not having control or support of the Niger Delta. That has failed and the terrorists are now clutching wildly at straws as the roof comes down around their ears; they are now talking desperately of impeachment (any such ridiculous move will fail woefully).

GEJ has not made any error of judgement rather, what he has done is severely blunt a vicious attack mechanism, whilst strengthening his own hand of cards. It is a patient and painstaking job, but the cabal will be defeated in the coming showdown.

Need to know more? Here are some titbits;

[size=14pt]Jonathan's Presidency: Northern Elements plan Gridlock, Mayhem, may use Boko Haram[/size]
…Military Coup on the table
…How Security Report stopped Jonathan's American Trip
…Fifth Columnists under Security Watch

A crisis of huge magnitude capable of thwarting Nigeria’s democratic process is currently being planned by some Northern elements following the declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 Presidential elections.

It was learnt that the characters behind the plot have at various nocturnal meetings vowed to ensure gridlock, and mayhem if President Jonathan gets the ticket.

Highly placed sources told pointblanknews.com that the plot is in three phases: challenge the PDP’s decision to accept President Jonathan’s candidacy in court, cause religious riots and killings of Southerners in the North and then create a state of emergency in the country and a consequent military putsch.

Spearheading the plot that has on the table, a possible event that could lead to the ‘suspension of the constitution’, are Former Central Bank Governor and Ex- Minister for Finance, Adamu Ciroma, Ex Internal Affairs minister and former Senate President, Iyorchia Ayu, PDP chieftain, Yakassai; former deputy National chairman of the defunct National Party Of Nigeria (NPN), Shetima Ali Munguno;, Senator Kanti Bello, Ex National Democratic Party chairman, and IBB campaign coordinator, Hassan Mohammed Jalo; PDP chieftain, Lawal Kaita, Bello Kirfi, Second republic Ambassador to Switzerland, Yahaya Kwande, and Special assistant to for Vice President, Abubakar Atiku, Ex Chief of Army, General Abdulrahman Dambazzau, and scribe Northern consultative Forum (NCF), Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim while General Office Commanding (GOC), 3 rd Armored Division, in Jos, General Saleh Maina, is said to have been briefed.

Pointblanknews.com also learnt that the extremists in the North are expected to co-opt some influential and desperate politicians from other zones in the sinister game plan.

In line with the script, some of the arrowheads have agreed to start sending signals through the media, of a possible pogrom that would make the Rwandan genocide, a child’s play. They also want to recreate pockets of massacre in the north that led to the civil war. They intend to mobilize ethnic militia like the Boko Haram, to launch all out genocide on southerners in the north, with an anticipated reprisal attacks in the south.

Full story here http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/os3912.html

greateros:

simple solution.

Run an IP trace on the email and see were it emanated from.

Even if the IP is shrouded, we have software to unravel it.

Trace the server.

Trace the ISP and and compel them to reveal who pays for the internet service to the isp.

i guess they are using a vsat.

Then we will know if the email is from the northern part of nigeria or from niger delta.

Simple!

ITS TIME WE STOP THIS MASS DECEPTION BEFORE IT BREAKS US APART

I would expect they have done that, such evidence is only for the courts though.

Mai Suya:

I don't see what the argument is all about. The truth is, there are technically no political parties in Nigeria. What you have is a collection of individuals with interests--mostly selfish, I dare say--coming together with the sole purpose of acquiring power.  The need to belong to a party is simply because the constitution dictates it is the only platform upon which they can contest.  Nothing like independent candidature here.

If we talk of a political party, as someone said, we are talking ideology. Can anyone trace anything specific to any of the so-called parties?

Perfectly delivered. 100% common sense.

~Bluetooth:

South south peoples Assembly is not a political party.I remembered this issue came up when Afenifere was clearly seperated from AD and what made it easier to solve was that AD is a register political party while Afenifere was regarded as a political movement and the elders had no choice but to accpet it that way.
That Dokpesi works for IBB doesnt make him a politician,if not,you can as well call the policemam that aids ballot box snatching a politician including those thugs and even his cook all because he works for IBB.

What would you say about people who run for office without affiliation to any political party?

Saidsalla:

I really doubt if gej possesses doctorate degree. Is it real Ph. D[/color][color=#990000]

You couldn't even contribute one jot to the topic, aside from this crap?
No, his PhD is not real, afterall he got it after years of rigorous study in a uni.
What do you have?

~Bluetooth:

Let me chip in the definition of political parties.
political party is the coming together of group of men or women with certain ideologies under one tent in order to achieve a common goal.The premise from the definition is that IBb campaign organisation is not a political party,so dokpesi is not a politician until he's a member of a political party.its just like saying jarus is a politician just because he moderates the politics section.

What would you say about Dokpesi's membership of the South-South People Assembly?
And what would you say about people who run for office without affiliation to any political party?

If there is no link, the story will be taken as false. Please provide a link (even if it requires a subscription, those with subscriptions will be able to verify it).

One glaring hint in this story is "Stratfor" using a Nigerian Newspaper as a source. For people who supposedly rub shoulders with intelligence agencies, thats just completely laughable.

Chuks84:

I used to be a tentative supporter of GEJ. The other options were inconceivable. The events of the last few day has however, opened my eyes to the kind of president we have. One who seems incapable of making decisions, one who cannot control the people who work under him (patience included), one who surrounds himself with the same old political psychophants. We've had some terrible leaders, but i have never seen anyone as diffident and lacking in charisma like our dear GEJ. The sad thing is that we have to settle for him.

These lines have been used over and over on NL. They're rather old now.

Anybody running a political campaign is a politician.

oyb:

seun is an ibb man
nl is an ibb site

see as them don ban squealer

Interesting.