aslan: @moscovite: thanks for the info. I think I'll consider the second option. that will be easier to set up as I've already acquired my router/AP. all I need now is a range extender to cover more grounds.

What about your hotspot billing system/timer. If you are going to use the regular password protection built into the router then you are probably not doing it for commercial purpose. Not to sell to people. If you need it for commercial purpose then you must have the hotspot timer. What type of router do you have. Is it installed with such capability?. I can help you with that. We can talk on 08052633663.

There is no address in your post. I tried calling and you didn't pick. Can I have the address of your warehouse pls. Tnx

I am a regular in computer village buying all sorts. Sometimes when I go to source for something the sellers their tell me " I go get am for you when I go market" . Where is these market they all go to. Why can't I also go to the market. I have gone to some warehouse that was described to me but i end up seeing nothing or even seeing higher prices. Does anyone know this market they all go for computer systems?

Can anyone tell me where to find a free hotspot billing software. Alternatively i could consider a cheap one

Those bashing the writer should read this www.geocities.com/otimkpujudas/biography.htm and you will understand that he is not talking rubbish. When you have fools leading you aren't you a fool yourself. So we are all fools for letting fools take over our lives.

East Germany, Ukraine, Thailand etc have shown us that we can decide not to be fools. But we decided to remain one.

I agree with you jare i_laugh!

Stumble on this in a local newspaper and saw the referral website. It is interesting but i dont know if its true or not. Whatever it is i hope other PAs can do this about their Ogas so we can know our rulers.  Since they have refused to pass the Freedom of Information Act in the National Assembly. Am sure this are the things they are now afraid of. Shady leaders and their alsatian dogs.

I don't know who this Ekekwe is but i recognise many of the names in the post. Most of the names in it are well known Nigerians like the present PDP Chairman, Present Foreign Affairs Minister etc etc.

Na who be this Ekekwe man sef. He must be connected ooo to be Chairman, Lands and Housing of FHA and knows this many people to be able to bite them.

Na only God go save us ooooo



Here is the posting on the website:www.geocities.com/otimkpujudas/biography.htm




OTIMKPUJUDAS: SHORT BIOGRAPHY BY HIS FORMER PERSONAL ASSISTANT

 

HIS PRIVATE LIFE

Born February 1967, a notorious begger, selfish, wicked, diabolic, controversial, and senseless. He is not married but claims he has a wife who lives in the UK.

He has an illegally adopted son by name prince Ekekwe Egu.  Met him at Tropicana Hotel Lagos where the man was working as a cheff. The man was adopted at the age of 23, years. He speaks igbo and Yoruba fluently. Till date he still lives with this man who hails from Arochukwu LGA in Abia State. Ekekwe claims the man’s parents are dead but the man knows his relations. Ekekwe was cursed by a well known man of God from Ohafia (Uma Ukpai) for trying to blackmail him with his numerous lies and insult. He is an expert in issuing dud cheques and loves drinking to stupor.

 

HIS FAMILY

Ekekwe is from a polygamous family. He is the second son from his mother. He is cursed by his father for accusing him and the third wife for illegally adopting stolen kids and conniving with the local contractor to siphon funds meant for his mudhouse project. He is not in good terms with his family members because of his queer attitude. This led to an incident where he raised down a section of his fathers house in December 2007 and December 2008(On two occasions) in company of his brother igwe and his illegally married sister , Sandra. These two people are the only people who give ekekwe support in that Family because of peanuts he gives them. In fact Ekekwe takes responsibility of his sisters kids because the husband is not capable.

Ekekwe is not in good terms with his elder brother whom he thoroughly beat up and sent packing in the night together with his wife who was at the point of delivery  from their three bedroom flat in worldbank in August 2008.

Ekekwe was given quit notice for presenting dud cheque to her landlady Dolly martins who later took him to court and won out rightly.

His younger brother who was once into fuel bunkering and later graduated to an illegal admission agent in Unical where he duped several people and made them non graduates even his best friend’s wifewho hails from Arochukwu.

   

POLITICAL LIFE

He is an UNREPENTANT Blackmailer and a chronic liar.

Was the person who went to the public telling people that Ojo Maduekwe sent assassins to kill his younger brother( Chimdia)

Was the person who instigated crisis between chimdia and ojo saying it was Ojo that caused the mother’s death.

Was the person who sent text messages against Vin Ogbulafor during the primaries saying he was a fuel pump attendant and sold out his mandate for N11m to Orji kalu. He also carried propaganda  saying that Vin Ogbulafor was practically blind and can’t function as a National Chairman.

Was the same person telling the public that Alfredo Awa is a fraudster , a criminal and a condemned felon.

Was the person who told the public that Ukasanya is a drug addict and responsible for the death of his first wife in order to gain political power. As a result , he refused entering his house during Ugochukwu's visit to ukasanya during the governorship campaign.

In fact Ekekwe never wanted any reconciliation between Ugochukwu and other stakeholders in the state. He wanted only himself to be the Man.

He wrote against BB Apugo  whom he termed a man of yesterday and an intellectual cripple and swore never to associate with BB. In fact ekekwe is a dog. He vomits and Swallows.

Was the same person who blackmailed his fellow kinsman Herbert Orji who was instrumental in employing him as a corper in progress bank not knowing that he was rendering help to an ingrate and imposter.

Was the same person who carried campaign of calumny against prof. Igwe saying that he sacrificed his son (the one that died in a car crash) in order to gain political power for Vincent Ogbulafor.

Was the same man who collected money from Stanley ohajuruka and worked against chijioke Nwakodo his fellow party member.

Was ostracised from their item community  in 2005 by Item People because of  his attitude

To show the level of treachery in their immediate family, the younger brother at one time in collaboration with OTJ carried rumours that OTJ died in a plane crash in order to source funds from people.

What of Agbeze Agbeze, Orji kalu, Even T.A Orji and co?

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Admitted in COTEC now Federal poly Nekede in the Department of Business administration in 88/89 session and supposed to leave 92/93.

Attended item central school

Was a comedian in school and never graduated. He dropped out.

He manoeuvred his way and did his youth service in Progress bank Lagos as a Pseudo corper.

His younger brother who also parades himself as a graduate of UNICAL (Banking &Finance) did only his diploma programme and never succeeded. In fact  he is yet to sit for his O’level. Now he parades with a forged statement of result from UNICAL and a forged letter of exemption from NYSC.

In fact there are no graduates in their family from their mother’s side.

   

HIS FHA EXPLOITS

Was the chairman lands and housing committee . Always quarrel with his collegues, The former managing director and former chairman of the board now a senator.

Reason, he is always demanding for allocation of plots to him for sale in his favour.

This nearly led to his suspension from the board.



SEXUAL LIFE

A confirmed homosexual. His partners include his illegally adopted son, prince Ekekwe egu, Dreams (a friend to the illegally adopted son) a student of  University of Port harcourt and native of mbaise, Ferguson who hails from ohafia.

This is where he spends his proclaimed “hard earned resources”.

The handiwork of the Garrison Commander of Ibadan. No b so Larufa

You guys are all ignorant of Nigerian Politics. It is a shame that El-Rufai's name is not on that list. That is the only man that presently can move the country forward. lets face it the power must return to the north for another 8 years before any southerner can again smell it. Short of that we southerners will shoot ourselves in the foot. Who else to carry on the reform except a reformer himself. Those at the heart of the reform. Almost all the rest are southerners except Monsignor Nasir. So its el-Rufai for president. Mark it and Insha Allah

I think IBB will do the job better than all this people you guys are talking about. All he needs to do is to set his mind to good for this country. The guy has the knowledge and the capacity to do it very well if he decides to do it well

Beautiful Jibitoye!

Though at this stage when we know that the third term issue has been effectively buried by the Senate it still doesn't mean we cannot have our say.

Talking about institution building, you made a solid point which shows that if we can tamper with our constitution for one man then we can tamper with any law, and this will defeat the very purpose of the strenghtening i have been talking about.

You also said strenghtening our institutions does not guarantee much. I beg to differ on that. Segun Adeniyi (of Thisday) made a very obvious example that actually shows how strong institutions can thouroughly insulate us. If you are a friend of the US President or British Prime Minister it doesn't guarantee that you will become a multi-millionaire tomorrow. In actual fact you can be worst-off associating yourself too much to them. Whereas in Nigeria, it takes a call or gesture from the President for you to become a multi billionaire in a second. That is very instructive. There are a whole lot of other examples one can point out that clearly shows the role of a strong institution in insulating the people from bad leadership.

You see I try to do things logically and one at a time. If for forty something years we have been going on a developmental roller-coaster and we don't seem to be getting anywhere, surely you don't want to try any method associated with the ride again. So what do we do. Yes, they say we have to strenghten our institutions and that will guarantee minimal damage no matter who is at the helms of affairs. I subscribe to that.

So, if we now have someone who everyone acknowledges that he is on the right part in reforming the country and doing it progressively (or at least, for the cynics, with minimum damage to us) then why shouldn't we demand and let the guy strenghten those same institutions for us.

I believe that, by "trying" another unknown person then we are going through the same part we have forever gone through. The roller-coaster part. Because the odds are highly against finding an exceptional leader in todays Nigeria. Mark my words, I am not saying we can't find. I am saying the odds are greatly against us. So in other words we are gambling our lives with the odds greatly against winning.

I think people simply got too emotional about the ammendment and it clearly shows that majority were more emotional than rational.

I pointed out that term limits do not exist in many constitutions. I believe this is because term limits are not meant to stop a good government but definitely a bad one. In our case especially, when we don't have strong checks and balances, term limits should apply but it should not becloud the very reasons they are there. To automatically stop bad government and not good ones. So when we clamour for elongation we are trying to say that, yes everybody says this is a purposeful government, then why don't we give it more time until it starts to misbehave then we kick it out through elections.

I will even say we not only give it more time but we demand that its priority is to build/put in place, those institutions that will secure us. So that at the end of the tenure we will not need to elongate again after we know those institutions are there and at the same time we will rest, assured that any bad leader will be frustrated by those institutions.

All this is now an academic exercise. I can only wish us well and pray hard that we get a worthy successor who will cover more mileage than Obasanjo despite the odds.

I also challenge everyone that we should demand that the new leader build and strenghten those institutions that will definitely insulate us from bad leadership and make it easy for someone like me not to clamour for extension of tenure when next I see a very Good leader.

Ono! I can see you are "area". Why are you people worried about resources control then. In your words "Don't worry about the future. Do one thing at a time". Take what is given to you now (18% derivation) and stop worrying about what you would do to get 25 or 50%. Tomorrow will take care of that. In fact why are we all discussing. Why should we be talking about the future. We shouldn't worry about tomorrow now. Abeg make we go drink Ogogoro jare.

Ono, abeg drop that mentality oooo. The mentality no go carry u reach anywhere. Na d mentality make oyinbo man take schnapp carry all our able bodied people go build America.

Ashi-wo!

Yes, I am not a gambler and INSHA ALLAH i would not become one. Do you know what is Russian Roullettte. That is what we want to play with this third term thing. I am truly a coward when it comes to gambling especially when our past is enough to determine if we should gamble or not.

OBJ is not the Messiah. And by the grace of God we should not be looking for any messiah in this century. We should eradicate the messiah mentality. It will not work. What we need is institutions fortified with 21st century norms of society. When that is in place we don't need any messiah. A stupid man will not lead us astray. I say again Institutions! Institutions ! Institutions!.

The only reason OBJ is featuring in my argument is because this is a person we already know. Someone who has tried to do something good for this country. At least we are sure he is not going to lead us completely astray. Equally we know he as been strenghtening fiscal institutions. FIRS, CBN Finance etc etc.

My prayer is: Since he has shown us this quality, and now we understand that we want to change leaders periodically, then shouldn't we tell him to strenghten those institutions that will insulate us from a bad President?.

What you are suggesting and people are saying is that he should just go not caring who comes in next. I think that is irresponsible knowing the type of system we operate. You can say we should bring in someone else to strenghten it for us. The gamble is still there.

Anyway, one thing that pleases me in this whole saga is that some of the possible termites (IBB, Atiku etc) are now on the other side of OBJ. So even if OBJ eventually does not go, by the grace of God he will not let any of those people get near it.

One can thank God for that.

So Ashi-wo! You should try and see my thinking beyond OBJ!

That was a brilliant dig-up Owo. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. That is the price you pay for being a public figure. That is why it is dangerous to say things categorically especially when you are not privy to some information. I guess that should teach everyone including OBJ some lesson. But that doesn't mean we still wouldn't need him to put together our insurance policy for us.

The issue isn't OBJ's character. That shouldn't becloud our sense of judgement. The issue is about responsibly chasing him out. Do we want to chase him out without securing ourselves or do we want to chase him out without caring who comes in next. Whether its another Shagari or an IBB or an unknown who could be worse than everyone put together.

So obviously we want someone who will be better than everyone put together. What are the probability of getting that?. judging from our history less than 20%. should we still try that out. Ofcourse NO NO NO.

I say again. We should have a pact to have him put together institutuons that will protect us from a bad government. Then we should chase him fast to OTA.

Ofcourse if I don't get that I will only pray that we get a better person knowing fully well that the odds are against us.

Reverend Jolly Nyame is (or should i say "was" a clergyman. I think they say politicians have corrupted him. I think Rev. Chris Okotie should not try the Presidency. what would he do if an Nzeribe moves a motion for his impeachment. Is he going to beg, or wouldn't ghana-must-go exchange hand. it is difficult to rule without soiling your hand. If the Niger Delta people start formenting trouble would he not have to send soldiers there to shoot at sight.

If they will not pray at the end of functions isn't that abandoning the faith. At least we say the Grace at the end of every service. Are you saying there will be no more Grace. I don't think he will be able to uphold "Not Praying" in functions. Will he tell people to shut up if they start praying?. There are so many questions beginning for answers that the best thing is not to let the question come up at all.

Ashi! Ashi! haba. You have to see this light at the end of the tunnel ooo. The light too bright now. How can you say OBJ is a failure when everybody else acknowledges that he is a success but are just pleading on moral grounds for him to bow out "when the ovation is loudest". i don't think is performance is in doubt. Na the third term thing they divide people. Unless u want stand alone on the other side of the performance divide.

How can MAN be for his return if they are not doing well. I no just get you. As for my small biz, we dey manage. Things are looking up. We have hope. Don't you know man lives on hope. And when you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel you are telling me to try another turning. what is the guarantee say i go see another light at the end of that turning wey you say make i take.

What is four years in a nations history. When it could be defining 4 years for us. Abeg make you think well oooo. I understand say you dey bitter becos OBJ don use your quota and your child quota. Even if he no use am somebody else go use am

My dude! You dey fumble sha! first and foremost go and read Segun Adeniyi"s (editor of Thisday) piece when he was frantically defending Thisday on the pro-third term advert. Let me quote him

"On the front page of our paper yesterday was the banner headline Vote for Greatness, an advert which seeks a constitution amendment to incorporate a third term of four years for the President which many observers including THISDAY editors, see as a plot to confer on President Olusegun Obasanjo, by a sleight of hand, the life presidency of Nigeria"

Another of hi quote is:

"With democracy, free enterprise and social justice as the core values of our newspaper, it is not a surprise that we cannot lend our support to the third term project which we believe is anti-thetical to either the promotion of democracy or the rule of law. We are also of the conviction that the project is dangerous to the peace of Nigeria. This has been the thrust of all the interventions by our columnists as well as the slant of our editorials".

Do i need to quote more for you. Maybe you simply want him to outrightly say "We are biased at THISDAY"?.


I just don't get your explanation on the voter apathy thing. Are you trying to tell tthe world that people are so worried about who governs them that because they can't stand on the line they will not worry anymore. Or are you saying that not standing on the queue for a some hours is more important than who rules them. Whatever you were trying to say you have just confirmed my submission that there are somethings that are much more important than who is on the throne. Even standing on the queue is much more important according to you.
If your claim is right that they discuss in coffee shops you should rest, assured that all the coffee shops and what not in the world will not take the voters if they were really concerned. They will be all over the place. You see the people who are discussing it are, more likely, those same people that voted. Not those that didn't vote.

I ask you again. Have you ever asked yourself why they don't have electorate quorum in any constitution in the world?. That should tell you a whole lot.


Majority of Nigerians have lived below the poverty line since Shagari. We have now started to see the light. Yes we are not out totally but we are coming out of it. Do you know what is MDG (Millenium Development Goal). Its a UN Goal to all developing Nation. It must be achieved by 2015. That is the target. We must make it. The past administarations ignored it totally such that OBJ has to now be running on full engine to even be able to get to the stage we were meant to have been since 1996. You need to educate yourself on that. Okonjo Iweala does not stop talking about it.


F.D Roosevelt did not come up after the second world war my friend. He was elected in 1932. The second world war ended in 1945. He was serving his third term when the war came to America's doorstep following Japan's invasion of pearl habour. So it was not the war that gave him the third term. You could claim that it was the war that gave him the fourth term anyway.

My dude! all i see in you is that you have a strong disdain for this government. I wouldn't know why but let me tell you that the people will speak not you dude. Obasanjo has done unprecedented things and nobody has called him a messiah. We will never have a messiah. That was a thing of the past centuries. But one thing is certain. We are at a crossroad and we know that given the situation a gamble is never gonna work.

We want to learn from history. We don't want to continue to gamble the future of our children. We will have a pact with OBJ. Let him have another four years but he should concentrate on building institutions that will checkmate a really bad Termite. If that is the only thing he will do in those four years. Then anybody can come and rule us. You yourself said it that he should find a lesser termite. How will you know a lesser termite. Is it written on the face. The only solution is that termite or no termite institutions to checkmate anyone who tries to be funny with us should be on ground-Period. Then we wouldn't have all this explanations anymore.

Haba Ashiwaju! I no fit sell my conscience for 1 million Naira now. 1 million wey no fit buy brand new car sef. Na your partner in crime IBB i dey follow hin foot step now. No be hin suggest say make we chase OBJ out say hin no care if na somebody wey go come chop us dry go come in.

IBB:

i'll say it over and over, there is NO messiah that will lead us to any promise land. so come 2007, let a fellow thief but a more considerate one do what he better than OBJ while he also loots some money into his underground storage room. it's like part of the constitution as well, even though it's not written. OBJ set up EFCC and they pounce on nearly every person, high and low. what are they still waiting for to check OBJ or even many of the things Stella (R.I.P.) accquired while she was alive? the answer is very simple and straight with yet another question; If a servant uses the toilet and doesn't flush, he will get punished by his master. but if the master uses the toilet and doesn't flush, what do you think will happen?

I just dey suggest say make we kuku insert chop-i-chop for inside constitution now. make everybody know where we dey.

@Ashiwaju, IBB
Na wa for una. So you have now attributed ALGON to PDP. Don't ne a bad loser now. The ALGON statement is for real. They are the people. They understand the sufferings of the people and they can see the light at the end of the road. Can you tell me how a tenure extension will favour them when OBJ never interfered in their plight with their Governors. They should be voting to send OBJ out of ASO rock if they were selfish bastards. But they have shown us that wisdom always prevails.

I no dey chop o for Aso Rock. I just dey run my small business here for abuja hoping for the best. But i know the best is around the corner.

Have you asked yourself why the entire manufacturing sector is supporting OBJ. Don't you agree that manufacturing is the bedrock of any economy. They are supporting him because he is banning all those things we can produce here but that you people bring in to sell to bastardise our naira and cripple our industries. Must of the manufacturers are optimising their capacity now.He is doing it against all odds but he is forging ahead. I no blame una wey dey against him. Him don comot chop chop from rent seekers mouth. You guys are listening to people who cannot import or people who cannot get easy money anymore.

Manufacturers dey support, ALGON dey support. Na only the established critics like Gani, Femi Falana, Soyinka dey scream on top dem voice. They must scream now. Dem want people make dem hear dem voice too.

It is naturally assumed that the Local Govt Authorities are closest to the grassroot. They feel the pulse of the people. We can easily say they are the people's voice. It is highly risky for them to speak differently from what the people want because they live amongst the people and are therefore vulnerable. We have 774 of them in Nigeria. Read below and see what the people's voice have said:

THISDAY 30th April 2006
ALGON Backs Third Term
From John Iwori in Port Harcourt, 04.30.2006

As the campaign to elongate the tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo beyond May 29, 2007 continue to generate debate across the country, the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) has thrown its weight behind the move.
Made up of 774 local government areas across the federation, ALGON which ended its two days National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in the Rivers State capital, Port Harcourt yesterday said it is in total support of on-going constitutional review to give the present political office holders another term of office.
It also drummed support for the retention of immunity clause for the President, Vice President, Governors and Deputy Governors, even as it asked the Federal Government to seize the allocation of any local government council dissolved before the expiration of its tenure.
Addressing newsmen yesterday at the Conference Hall of Protea Hotel, Port Harcourt, the venue of the NEC meeting, the National President of ALGON, Chief Nyesom Wike argued that the removal of the immunity clause from the constitution would not allow public office holders to concentrate on the task expected of their respective offices and positions.

Said he: "We are ins support of third term not only for Mr. President but also to the governors. We also want the immunity clause retained so that the affected office holders would concentrate on their roles and responsibilities.
"It is the stand of ALGON that whenever any state government dissolve any local government council before the expiration of its tenure, the Federal Government should withhold the monthly allocation of the affected council from the federation account.
"Besides we want the tenure of councils in the federation to be harmonized. There should be uniformity in tenure throughout the federation. The present situation where some states operate a two year tenure while others operate three or more years tenure does not augur when for the polity", he said.
Wike who was flanked at the press conference by other principal officials of ALGON maintained that as “grassroots men and women, we are in touch with the yearnings and aspirations of the people in the hinterland and our views should be respected by the National Assembly in the on-going constitutional review exercise”
According to Wike who is also the chairman of oil and gas rich Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, council chairmen as the mouthpiece of the rural areas should be given full autonomy to administer their councils.
"It is the belief of ALGON that only a fully independent person that can be in a position to perform his statutory roles and responsibilities creditably. The fight against corruption should not be focus on individuals but on the institutions.
"This is because while the individuals that occupies the office come and go, the institutions remain. And we should do everything possible to strengthen them", he said.




So all of you out there claim to speak for the people should think twice. We now have a feeling of what the people want. It is now our duty to stop all those biased newspaper houses to stop abusing our intelligence. Just because they have the power of the media does not mean they are in the majority. Aluta Continua Victory for continuity and entrenching of strong institution is now certain. Let us give the third termers that pact. If that is the only thing they will do in the next four years let them put together structures that will insulate us from thieves and would-be thieves. Then my brothers "Anybody" can go and rule.

Kalu is O.K. That is what is on his signboard. We all know that O.K. stands for Orji Kalu so is name is actual O.K. but he is far from OK to Nigerians. Aba is the dirtiest place on earth. I hear the contract to clean aba was awarded to his mother, mother-excellency as they call her. How can he come and rule Nigeria. He thinks Nigeria is enyimba. In that case Arsene Wenger of Arsenal or Frank Rijkaad of barcelona would be the ultimate rulers.

Yes you should hear him speak. The poor fella cannot speak correct and complete english. He has to punctuate it with broken or outrightly fire us slavos (if you know what i mean).

Asiwaju, Na Ashiwaju of whom or where you bi. Ashiwaju of anti-third term or Ashiwaju of IBB the evil genius. Nothing dey for that Iwaju oooo make i tell you. You go just Shiwaju into the den of the lion. When them come finish with you your title go drop. Make you change you Iwaju to that of prosperity o. That na the latest o. Abi u no see Tinubu- The Asiwaju of Lagos. When Tsunami go strike from the ocean you go just see say he go drop hin title, say make somebody else shiwaju go meet tsunami.

IBB for President!. Hurray. My bros IBB you don live through to type. Abi, make everybody just go loot jare. In fact make them include looting for constitution make we kuku know where we are. I for agree with you sef if the thing go go round. One million Naira for every Nigerian. The thing no bad o. We go come beg Obasanjo make e make sure say inflation no chop the one million. When e don agree we fit give am 10th term sef.

Danmasani! Nobody is saying Obasanjo shouldn't go. What I am pointing out here is that you can say it responsibly or irresponsibly. I believe if you were a chess player you will understand that there are certain positions of the game when you can exchange your queen (The most powerful piece) for a pawn(The least powerful piece). You will do that because you know that it is absolutely certain that you will capture the King (The single most important piece on the board). You will not exchange it when you know you wouldn't capture the King. You can as well resign the game immediately if that happens.
You are saying OBJ should go not caring what will happen next. I am saying OBJ should go after we are secured enough to know that the next person will not be able to cause serious damage even if he wishes to. That is what is called insurance my man.  You should believe in taking insurance policies. It works. Don't be one of the "What will happen will happen guys". You will only come back again and start screaming when that happens. As I told one of my fellow forumite. If you want a roller coaster ride why don't you simply go to an amusement park. Don't take 120 million other souls with you. Abeg Dansanmi.

The insurance policy is strong institutions that will checkmate anybody effectively and limit the damage he/she can do. That is what we should demand from OBJ, not changing people. At least we know that this President does not have such a itchy hand as the others. Even if he has, we don't know, he is still saving a whole lot for us. Soludo says we will have 50 billion foreign reserve at the end of the year. My prayer is that we should enter into a pact with OBJ. "We give you 4 more years to strenghten the vital institutions that will checkmate a thief-in-power. Even if you don't do anything else, make sure that those institutions work. Then you should run to Ota as fast as you can". I think that will be a good deal

But telling him to run to Ota as fast as he can without insuring ourselves is not worth it. I am for such a pact. I don't know about you but all my kids have insurance policies in case i penkeme one day. I hope yours also have.

Don't mind the vanguard people. All the newspapers have taken positions. Who cares what they say. They are human beings like you and me. Look at how he has condemned all the great achievements that even world powers and leaders recognise as great strides. I wonder which of the masters he is working for. Maybe IBB or is it renegade Atiku. Abeg we too get our power jare. Na the internet be our own. We go exercise am rubbish those who want to rubbish our little achievement in Nigeria. Long live Nigeria

Grizzly! Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly, Ogba wished that in 1999, it never happened. You probably must see further than Bakare or are you short sighted?

Sorry i forgot Gowon. Very fine young man. Well read. Maybe he could make the third on my list.

Sorry i forgot Gowon. Very fine young man. Well read. Maybe he could make the third on my list.

except OBJ, Shehu Shagari, Buhari, IBB, and Shonekan none of your list has been tested. Ruling Nigeria is not a walk in the park. Especially at this cross road when you have thieves on one side and Thieves-to-be on the other. When the going gets tough you need to use tested and trusted hands. At this point in time we can only choose from my list above. Anything outside that can only be possible setback.

Maybe after OBJ we could consider Buhari. I wouldn't go further than that.

What has that got to do with what we are saying maradona (IBB i mean). That is what we call Force Majeur. If we approach problems from the position of Force Majeur always maybe the steam engine would never have been discovered. Maybe you wouldn't be riding a car now. We are talking about conscious decisions here. Of course if he dies then he is dead. Then we have no choice but to go through a probability of mismanagement. But should we consciously vote for mismanagement is another thing. Your submission is invalid IBB.

Its like you having a good job with high pay and then you have a child with your spouse. Your spouse is a housewife who earns next to nothing. While you are working you try to give the best to your child. If you suddenly drop dead what then would happen to the child?. Obviously if you didn't make adequate arrangement the child and wife will, most likely, go through thick and thin to survive as against if you were still alive. Is that what you are wishing for us. To go through thick and thin. If you consider that in our 46 years of existence we have had purposeful leadership for only 10 years the probability of going through thick and thin isn't difficult to calculate. It is really very high. Is that what you wish for us in Nigeria?

You are really living true to your name IBB

Tenure enlogation is exactly what the country needs now. The country needs to get to a stage when anybody can rule it without inflicting us with mismanagement. We have not reached that stage yet. Say Yes to tenure enlogation for OBJ. We need to have him there and keep the Termites away from our huge foreign reserve and BB rating. The reserve will be 50 billion by the end of the year and we will probably be AA rating. Keep the Termites away pleaseeeee ooooooo.

Now i understand where you are coming from. You are one of those who sit comfortably in a good environment and profer anti-people solutions like IMF.

Danmasani:


See the USSR was confused when Josef Stalin died, why? becuase the depended on this man and made him a demi-god. They said to themselves, what will we do now that this man has died? they had no direction, no focus and ked to the collapse of the empire. well that is exactly what people like you are advoacting? u want us to believe that Obsanjo is some kind of demi-god, a messenger destined to us from God to save us! Obsanjo has ruled Nigeria for 13 years now for God's sack.

Unfortunately for you I am a product of the USSR. Yes I speak Russian very well. Your submission on USSR is so wrong that I can't but help asking you to do researches well before you start proffering solutions that can affect millions of people. Yes they made Stalin a demi-god. Stalin died in 1953. USSR crumbled in 1991. 38 Years after.  It went through Nikita Khrushev, Leonid Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and lastly Gorbachev. Five General Secretaries (As they are called). So how did they loose direction and collapse 38 years after. I will remind you that Khrushev negated all the things Stalin did. As such he steered the ship of state away from that direction. Which shows clearly that they knew exactly what they were doing. Anyway don't let me go too far on that. If you want to know why Soviet Union collapsed ask me another day. I was in the thick and thin of it when it was dis-integrating.

Josef Stalin is not OBJ and vice versa. OBJ can never be a demi-god. The modern day society does not understand that. Maybe 60 years ago it would have been possible. We have simply noticed some good qualities in him and we want to tap those qualities until they are there no more then we chuck him out. We haven't seen those qualities in anyone including your Atiku. Maybe when we have strong institutions that will checkmate thieves (or Termites as i call them) from inflicting irreversible damage on us then we can continue to gamble Chief Executives.

Where did you get 13 years from. Yes he ruled first for 3 years (1976-1979) and now 7 years. That is 10 years. Well I think if you build a company in three years and then decide that you want to go on retirement and appoint a new Chief Executive there and then you come back 20 years later to find that the company that you left with 30 Company Cars, 7 Standby Generators, Well tiled  floors, Employees with progressing career, is now on the edge of bankrupcy. 1 company car left, 2-3 dilapidated Generators, Tiled floos are all peeling unattended to, Carrers have been stagnated etc etc. What will you do when you take over the company back. Given that you did enjoy your retirement and you want to go back to it then the first thing you will do is to revive the company and afterwards put all the necessary check and balances that will never allow any Chief Executive inflict such damage anymore. In fact, most people will simply never return to retirement. But in our own case, retirement is a must. I can tell you that the employee of the company will be very glad that the guy is back. Obviously they will not want him to ever go back to retirement. It is only the thieves and mis-chief makers that will want him to go so they can continue their bad deeds.

So how long he rules is not the point. It the quality of leadership we should scrutinize.

Danmasani:


He has been in government or served in it since the time of Gowon. Obasanjo has seen it all and still wants a 3rd term, havent we suffered from him enough. U reel out names of agencies like NAFDAC,EFCC, ICPC( who still havent tried 1 person successfully), NCC, CBN et al, alright how about PHCN,NITEL, Education,health, roads, railways, water, security,refiniries, Niger-delta etc. See
-300billion naira according to Anenih and Obsanjo were sunked into improving our roads, yet there is not one major highway in Nigeria that is safe. Have the come out to pinpoint where exaclty the 300 billion was spent!
- $4 billion( 600billion naira) was said to have been spent on the refiniries, yet not one is working to full capacity there.
-NEPA has changed to PHCN but there is still incessant power interruptions in Nigeria, worse that what Obasanjo met
- people are dying of poor water supply, cholera and other diseases are on the rise across the nation due to poor management
- $1 met by him at 85 naira is now 147 and climbing.

You are either confused or grossly mis-informed. I mentioned those few parastatals because i can't mention all.

I don't understand what you mean by Nitel. Nitel is not a policy making or regulatory  institution. The institution in this sector is NCC. And we all know what NCC is doing. And that is the institution he should be strenghtening not Nitel, a company.

He is definitely strenghtening the power sector.
Between 1979 when OBJ left govt and 1999 when he came back only one power station was built in a country where experts say we should have been building one or two power stations annually. That is the essence of the problem.

First of all, we all agree that for NEPA to work it needs to be privatised fast. Yes he probably goofed in the beginning by listening to advise that rehabilitating alone would solve our problem. Mind you even people like Chief Bola Ige then were deceived into believeing that and that was why he made such recommendations to OBJ. The sincerety of the man shows in the way and manner he removed the Power portfolio from under his long term friend when he saw that was not the solution. Yes billions of Naira had been spent then.  It was then Imoke concluded that for efficiency it must be sold and since then I think the President continued to reduce budgetary allocation to the sector until he saw progress in the privatisation.

I keep telling people that we are so unlucky with the power sector. If the soldiers, through a decree had created a power sector NCC we would have been far ahead in power development. In case you are unaware NEPA was the only company by law that could sell electricity. If you have a generator you can't even give light to your next door neighbour. Yes you could do it, but that will be illegal according to the laws of the land. In short you couldn't "breathe" power without NEPA in Nigeria. Even those who import generators commercially at a time had to collect licence from NEPA. In order to make any move in that sector the law must be repealed and a new one put in place. For your information that law was only passed last year. It was in the National Assembly for over three years.  Now the power sector has been deregulated. There is a regulatory body called NERC (The NCC of the power sector). Licences have been issued and seven new power stations are being built. Now you can come and build a power station and supply whoever you please and make money. If you want to generate less than 1 Megawatt of electricity you don't need a licence and you can supply your entire village without breaking any law. That is a very significant move. Privatisation was the solution to NEPA and we have that now. In fact OBJ has threatened all the major oil companies that they will not get choice block of oil if they don't build power stations. He wouldn't have been able to do that before the law. The oil companies will simply point it out to him that they will be breaking the law if they do that. England with a population of between 70-90 million Generates 72,000 MW of electricity, South Africa with 60million generates 45,000 Megawatts. Nigeria with 120 Million generated 1,600 Megawatts before OBJ and generates roughly 3000 now. Privatisation could only be the solution for a rapid development.If you need to know more i can tell you.

As for the refineries, as you rightly said billions have been spent. That is why they are privatising them now. But nobody will come to invest in those days in Nigeria because we were a Pariah State. That was one of the setbacks privatisation had in the early days. Now with a huge reserve and BB rating investors with the kind of money you need in that sector are coming and those things will be a thing of the past.


You guys talk as if you want someone to wave a magic wand and all things will become good overnight. Americans understood that they needed consistency to get them out of the wood that is why they gave F.D. such a long term.

My main concern is that some of the vital institutions should be in place before we start to gamble, so that we also can live in peace like you are over there. When those institutions are in place, then OBJ, Atiku, Babangida even Abacha can come back to rule. It will not affect us. Can you imagine if NEPA had been privatised long ago by the military and the regulatory commission intact. We wouldn't have the problem of one power station in 20 years. Power Stations will spring up as Banks use to spring up in those days. That is what we want

Dansami, I just thouroughly read through your submission. Hey Yah! Sorry Dariye is coming back. But you can still vote against him. I will only employ you not to sit down in your house thinking all Plateau people don't like him. You had better go out and mobilize for people to vote against him. The people might shock you because we can only guess what they want. We can't truly know what they want. To claim to know what 99% want is wishful thinking. You can at least explain how you got the figure. Maybe people like me will start to believe you.

My dear I am happy you are even able to reel out some achievements. I can reel out much more if you want. How can you conclude that we should simply try someone else for the sake of that. For you to come screaming again tomorrow. If you want a roller coaster ride why don't you just visit an amusement park.

I have explained when i think we should clamour for someone else

Read through my reply to dude to see and lets take it up from there