Mayor_of_Lagos: In a state where citizens are politically gullible and not actively engaged in practicing their civic responsibilities, it would be expected that marginal lines of ethnicity will be exploited to channell collective sensibilities and self evaluation in parity to others.

Pointless grammar! Pls learn to be sure of who you should be talking about and seperate Obi from the average anambra man

AKUNWATA1: SAGOMBUGO HOW MARKETI.

With all due respect, an average Anambrarian should be sober and very angry at that charade of an election!

Ndi Anambra should seeth with holy indignation against Peter Obi and Victor Umeh for doing an ordinary election as though it were a war employing different criminally debasing underhand tactics thereby bringing your reputable state to international ridicule

You can do 'ntoor' all you want but the larger picture and take-aways from that election midwifed by Peter Obi's desperation in cahoot with a malleable REC and INEC in general has consigned the 'Ido-Osi' Ekiti election saga to political history while catapulting that of Anambra to an Olympian height of Infamy

Thank God it wasn't only Ngige that alleged foul play,even Tony Nwoye,Ifeanyi Ubah and several observer groups alluded to the scientifically pre-programmed manner of disenfranchising millions especially in the perceived strongholds of opponents!

If that election is the basis for which you ask me 'how market'? I will gladly say 'Market was good' as the last hasn't definitely being heard about that charade and scam of an exercise!

The Anambra State Governor, though a man, is effeminate. No wonder he is called adaObi.

nnenna.1:
Igbos generally don't care about parties and (rigging and cut-throat politics aside) will try to vote in a competent leader.

However a few occurences this year turned many Igbos off apc and its many derivatives (Ngige, FFK and Igbokwe included).

Your guess is as good as mine as to what these occurences are.

If anything, let this be a PR and constituent-relations lesson to APC. Learn from the Americans and be as subtle/sophisticated as you claim when dealing with potential votes.

Anyways its not like I care for APGA either...Just sharing my 2 cents.

Let me understand you. Did people vote for APGA because OBI has done well this past eight years and obiano will represent a continuity of his good governance?
OR
they voted AGAINST APC because it is awolowo and Hausa peoplle party?
Any which way, do you people seriously think we care? The bottom line is that , as usual , anambra has distinguished itself negatively.
it is not about having billionaires and high scores in jamb exams.

THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN A PEOPLE WITH A TOTALLY MESSED UP VALUE SYSTEM.

IBO KWENU, KWENU, I WANT TO THANK MY YORUBA BROS AND SIS FOR THE INTEREST THEY HAVE SHOWN IN THIS ELECTION IN ANAMBRA. ITS OVERWHEMLING AND SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT NDI ANAMBRA AND IBOS AT LARGE ARE VERY IMPORTANT. LET ME ASSURE MY YORUBA PEEPS THAT WHEN ITS TIME FOR ELECTION IN OSUN AND EKITI, WE NDIGBO WILL NOT GIVE A Bleep, A DAMN, because AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED THE ELECTION IS JUST FOR LESS IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF OSUN AND EKITI WHO ARE PARASITES AND CONTRIBUTE NOTIN. THEIR RELEVANCE IS UNDERNEATH THE FEET OF THE ALL IMPORTANT PEEPS OF ANAMBRA. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH

luvmijeje:
Obi didn't have to play politics of hatred to win the election. He didn't have to play tribal cards knowing how sensitive we all are to it. Their rigging machinery is enough for them to win it.

What is more disappointing is the silent. Obi is playing politics with the lives of Igbo, nobody is speaking up.

We can't continue like this, we are not meant to be a country. We are just so different.

Precisely the point. Did OBI and APGA have to descend to this level of vile ethnic baiting to win this election? Can you imagine that even after the election OBI said the women that protested in awka are from osun state!

presher: YOU HAVE RIGHT AS A NIGERIAN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ELECTION,BUT U DONT HAVE RIGHT TO STOP PEOPLE FROM ENDORSING THE RESULT,I THINK UR COMPLAINTS SHOULD BE AGAINST INEC INSTEAD YOU BLAME THE ENTIRE IGBOS, I THINK YOUR PROBLEM IS NOT THE MANNER THE ELECTION IS CONDUCTED INSTEAD YOUR PROBLEM IS THAT IGBOS VOTED WILLIE OBIANO, DNT ASSUME U ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN THE ENTIRE ELECTORATE

You make me laugh when you say Igbos voted Obiano, So who are those that voted Ngige, Nwoye, Ubah, are they Hausa,Yoruba, Igala, Tiv, etc. i laugh at your low thinking faculty.

presher: OK I WILL USE SMALL FONTS ,you are right bro the election is flawed,even in my own side of idemili people came and scattered the election material in ogidi,my own problem is when people from other region appear like they are blackmailing my people to vote ngige that is fraud,complain about the election you are right,blame obi for election malpractice dats your own opinion, blame igbos for voting willie obiano dats where you are very wrong

Can you quote anyone or anywhere they blame people for voting Obiano, We are only concern about the flaw and the rigging not about who you voted for.

bashy_demy: You make me laugh when you say Igbos voted Obiano, So who are those that voted Ngige, Nwoye, Ubah, are they Hausa,Yoruba, Igala, Tiv, etc. i laugh at your low thinking faculty.

LOL PLS IF YOU ARE NT FOLLOWING THE TOPIC STOP WHINING ,HE IS BLAMING IGBOS FOR WAT? USE YOUR SENSE BRO

99/100:
Why are people being too hypocritical?
What is wrong if we say APC have no place in Igbo land?
Can APGA win a senatorial seat in Kano,Borno,Lagos or Ondo?
The earlier dis hypocrites believe Nigeria is far from being a united entity d better for them.
If u say Peter is playing d 'ethnic politics', what would u say of d hausa man that believes He must rule Nigeria for there to be peace.
Ethnic and religious politics has always been d norm in Nigeria.
-We say NO to HAUSA/YORUBA party!
If d Yoruba man has agreed to be d Aboki stooge,we decline to be anybodies stooge.
We are Igbos we leads.

Why on earth will APGA win an election in those regions mention above, APGA is a regional party and never want to a national party at all. AD/ACN was once a regional party, But the leaders did there home perfectly and push the Party up to National party even though they are not there fully. We yoruba are tollerance and that was why you have an Ibo/hausa man in Government in SW. APGA is dying gradually cos there so call leaders are seeling out to PDP.

AtlanticBreeze:
APGA cannot win elections in the SW because they are unserious. They only want to govern Anambra. Where were you when the greedy duo of Victor umeh and Peter Obi were washing their dirty linens in public,

No amt of seriousness can make apga win in SW.
and Are they still washing their dirt linens now?
or u must dig up what happened when lizards were still in ones and twos

gbanikiti: mba! Ha bughi ofu ihe. Ha di iche.

When the fundamental rights of a nigerian citizen is denied,you don't know what it is okwa ya? According to you,Fashola deported some igbos against their will. Obi had a hotel arrest on El-Rufai against his will. Tell me,what's the difference between the two?

smh

nedu666: IBO KWENU, KWENU, I WANT TO THANK MY YORUBA BROS AND SIS FOR THE INTEREST THEY HAVE SHOWN IN THIS ELECTION IN ANAMBRA. ITS OVERWHEMLING AND SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT NDI ANAMBRA AND IBOS AT LARGE ARE VERY IMPORTANT. LET ME ASSURE MY YORUBA PEEPS THAT WHEN ITS TIME FOR ELECTION IN OSUN AND EKITI, WE NDIGBO WILL NOT GIVE A Bleep, A DAMN, because AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED THE ELECTION IS JUST FOR LESS IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF OSUN AND EKITI WHO ARE PARASITES AND CONTRIBUTE NOTIN. THEIR RELEVANCE IS UNDERNEATH THE FEET OF THE ALL IMPORTANT PEEPS OF ANAMBRA. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH

Help me out

Wetin Afonja wan for Anambra?

Ethnic sentiments or not, fact is El Rufai had no business being in Anambra on election DAY. He was neither a voter nor an INEC accredited observer. So what was he doing in Anambra on election day? He was just there to cause chaos and confusion on election day. Peter Obi was right on this one.

Ethnic sentiments or not?
Chai, internet no dey forget.

Atikulation, Atikulation, Atikulation.... Make una help me sing

2009 US WIKILEAKS CABLES: ATIKU ABUBAKAR INVOLVED IN LARGEST SCALE OIL BUNKERING, ARMS DEALING – NIGER DELTA COMMITTEE SOURCES

According to Uranta, the Technical Committee’s subcommittee on illegal bunkering identified the late Shehu Yar’Adua as the biggest illegal bunkerer whose interests were inherited by his brothers, and managed by his friend former Vice President Atiku Abubakar with the complicity of the Intels Nigeria Limited oil services company. This large scale bunkering is tied to arms dealing, Uranta said.

https://newsrescue.com/2009-us-wikileaks-cables-atiku-abubakar-involved-in-largest-scale-oil-bunkering-arms-dealing-niger-delta-committee-sources/

Atiku wan to chop the money! 2020 nah good year to chop the money!

Atiku’s INTELS apologises, pays N13.2bn into TSA

February 22, 2018

INTELS Nigeria Limited, owned by former Vice President Atiku has finally apologised to the Federal Government over a controversial contract arrangement which it was accused of breaching last year.

National Daily gathered that the company has paid $42.6 million (N13.2 billion) into the Nigerian Port Authority’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) as part of the revenue it collected for the agency.

The Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, stated this while addressing members of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee probing into the matter, saying that the company after receiving termination notice from the Agency, wrote to apologise for not complying with TSA and the new sharing formula.

She said as a result, INTELS has paid the sum $28.1million into the Agency’s TSA account with a notice of additional $14.5million said to have been paid, but yet to be confirmed by the NPA.

“The implementation of TSA by the Federal Government compelled the authority to remit revenue generated directly into government coffers while NPA in turn pays agency fees of 28 percent of whatever was generated to INTELS,” she said.

She said according to NPA’s calculation of $4 million per month as government’s share, based on the previous agreement, what accrued to NPA would be $48 million.

Usman said NPA has two layers of relationship with INTELS namely management agency where it collects revenues on behalf of NPA and keeps 28 percent and port infrastructure development on the basis of which INTELS constructed and manages the Onne Port in Rivers State.

She explained that the initial agreement gave INTEL the powers to generate and keep 28 percent of revenue collected on behalf of NPA.

“The NPA under the new management had to come up with a new draft that incorporated a sharing formula in a model that complies with the TSA, which was why we said they should start remitting directly to the TSA while the NPA pays its 28 percent agency fees,” she added.

The agreement, according to her, expires in 2020, which makes it 10 years.

https://nationaldailyng.com/atikus-intels-apologises-pays-n13-2bn-into-tsa/

AnyoneButAtiku:
Atiku wan to chop the money! 2020 nah good year to chop the money!



https://nationaldailyng.com/atikus-intels-apologises-pays-n13-2bn-into-tsa/

Stop spreading lies

SarkinYarki:


Stop spreading lies

I just dey start boy.
When I Atikulate finish, who no know go know.

AnyoneButAtiku:


I just dey start boy.
When I Atikulate finish, who no know go know.

Bitterflyleo? Is that U?

Lmao Karma is working overtime this season. It has located its targets and doing its job so well.

Wetin good for Ota man (after prison), good for Adamawa man (after financial distress). To chop and chop, is the task that must be done.
Corrupt papa chop, corrupt pikin chop - Devil no go vex

Staff of Atiku’s media outfit cry over unpaid entitlements

October 8, 2018



The staff of the multimedia organisation, Gotel Communications, owned by former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, are currently in distress over owed severance benefits and delays in payment of salaries.

The Yola, Adamawa State based media organisation, which has a television channel and two radio stations, has also scaled down its operational hours due to challenges associated with finances and management.

Uncertainty is brewing among staff who the company owes over N97 million in unpaid entitlements, due to disengagement of their previous appointments.

Insiders blamed the situation on what they called a “sit-tight and overbearing committee” which Mr Abubakar set up to reposition the company three years ago, and the former vice president’s carefree attitude to the business.

The indebtedness started in 2016 after the committee appointed to re-organise the station sacked all staffers and re-engaged some of them in fresh appointments.

Those who were asked to go were reportedly paid promptly while those re-absolved in the organisation are yet to get their pay despite issuance of disengagement letters bearing what every staff was due to receive.

Staff retrenchment
Insiders at the station told PREMIUM TIMES the business became distressed with the economic recession of 2015, leading to a series of reorganisation measures.

To coordinate the reorganisation, Mr Abubakar, who on Sunday emerged the presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 elections. appointed a seven-member committee named Gotel Communications Restructuring Committee (GCRC).

The committee is headed by Adamu Modibbo, a retired banker and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Adamawa State.

Others in the committee are Babakura Jatau; a son of Mr Abubakar, Abba Abubakar; Timaus Mathias; Abdullahi Nyako; and Abdullahi Babalele. The organisation’s acting managing director, Mohammed El-Yakub is the secretary of the committee.

In October 2016, the committee took the decision to cut down staff strength of the station.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported how the workforce was scaled down in the wake of the reforms, which brought down staff number from 306 to 125.

The disengagement and re-absorption were initially carried out verbally before local unions pushed for formal communication.

It took almost a year before the management issued letters dated August 2017, backdating the actions to October 2016.

One staff who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of victimisation, said the reduction in staff strength was so sharp that current staff are being overworked.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that apart from those retrenched, some staff also resigned their posts due to the situation at the stations.

One staff alleged that a few staffers later hired by the controversial committee were not as competent as those sacked, and therefore unable to cope.

“For example, I work for almost seven days a week running from one task to another, something that ought to be done by nothing less than three staff. I hardly get a day off, throughout the week,” he said.

There has also not been a new condition of service and salary scale in place, despite the spirited effort of the local chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the National Radio, Television and Theatre Workers Union (RATTAWU).

A November resolution of the combined sittings of the two unions seen by our reporter catalogued the issues and appealed to the reorganisation committee for redress.

The company’s managing director, Mohammed El-Yakub, said his management team is pushing for the settlement of the owed benefits through the restructuring committee.

But speaking to PREMIUM TIMES, chairperson of the Gotel Chapel of the NUJ, Muhammad Mustapha, said almost a year since the November 2017 submission to the management, the issues are yet to be addressed.

Rather than attending to contending issues, in line with the purported reforms sought to be implemented, the committee is overseeing what one staff called “strangulation” of the radio and television channels.

“As I speak to you, we don’t have internet connection. We use modem, and even the modems are inadequate that some of us have to provide for ourselves,” one source, a presenter at one of the radio stations said.

The radio station on AM frequency, which used to operate for 24 hours has scaled down hours of operations, and insiders said even in those active hours, the stations often go off air due to short supply of fuel.

“Sometimes, if there is no electricity, we have to be off air as diesel is not always available to power the stations. Finances are now controlled by the committee and the managing director is just there, helpless,” on operation staff said.

Committee reacts
When contacted, chairman of the restructuring committee, Adamu Modibbo, denied charges of mismanaging the stations.

He admitted that staff were being owed benefits from the retrenchment but, contrary to the promises his committee made to the staff about payment, Mr Modibbo told PREMIUM TIMES they are not paying anytime soon.

Mr Modibbo, who initially said the new system has written off the old condition of service which “was not contributory pension system” however, said under the new contributory pension arrangement, the company cannot pay those benefits until those staff are unemployed.

Reminded that the old system was different, by his own admission, and that beneficiaries were already issued with letters of engagement bearing the amount they are each entitled to, Mr Modibbo maintained his grounds.

“Those that are not paid are those that were asked to continue to work. We reabsorbed them,” he said.

“In other words, the reason why we said they were disengaged and reabsorbed is that is the nature of the new condition of service because it is the contributory pension scheme.

“We disengaged them under the former system but reabsorbed them under the new condition of service which is contributory pension scheme. How do you expect us to pay them entitlement when they are still working? Can you pay someone pension when he is still getting salary?”

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/289103-staff-of-atikus-media-outfit-cry-over-unpaid-entitlements.html

Unfortunately majority of voters are not on nairaland.

Butterflyleo:
Lmao Karma is working overtime this season. It has located its targets and doing its job so well.

AnyoneButAtiku:

One Paranoid Athiefkulator is already thinking you are me

They don't know that there are so many who share the passion as I do to ensure Atiku does not come within 100km of Aso rock

This breeze you are blowing is not good ooo. It's opening Peter Obi's yanch ooo.

Butterflyleo:


One Paranoid Athiefkulator is already thinking you are me

They don't know that there are so many who share the passion as I do to ensure Atiku does not come within 100km of Aso rock

I see dem. Atikulooters as dem be.
No do no do - nah lie.

Atikulooters wey get poor reasoning skills.
Atikulooters wey dey do garagara for me

No do, no do
No do, gararara for me
No do, no do
No do senrere o
No do, no do
No do, shakara owe
No do, so do
No do, gararara for me o, ehhh

AnyoneButAtiku:


I see dem. Atikulooters as dem be.
No do no do - nah lie.

Atikulooters wey get poor reasoning skills.
Atikulooters wey dey do garagara for me

No do, no do
No do, gararara for me
No do, no do
No do senrere o
No do, no do
No do, shakara owe
No do, so do
No do, gararara for me o, ehhh

Don't mind them

Atiku has always been an Elitist who hates associating with the poor. He went to the north and said God does not answer the prayers of the poor.

He was VP from 1999 to 2007 and robbed Nigeria blind from 2000 to 2008. He began robbing Nigeria a year after he became VP.

Peter Obi the bigot himself has done nothing but insult Yorubas and Hausas and now he will beg for those votes and not see any.

The same northerners Atiku insulted. He will also beg for their votes and not see it

Lol Pita Adaobi

Atiku wan to chop the money...

Atiku’s Proposal To Sell Refineries Callous, Anti-People, By Austin Braimoh And Cassidy Madueke

May 18, 2018

....Of course, we acknowledge the fact that Alhaji Atiku has an unwieldy track record in cornering national assets and expropriating them to his personal financial advantage. We point to the scandalous diversion of Nigeria’s wealth through Intel, the Alhaji Atiku controlled company that had to be forced to pay back $48million dollar by the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in what has been described as an exploitative partnership between Intel and the NPA, apparently so skewed because Alhaji Atiku used his political influence when the contract was consummated.

We like to remind the AASG that privatization is not a single fit-all solution to an inefficiently run entity, this is why the International Monetary Funds and its conditionalities had become particularly odious to Nigeria and some other developing economies. But of course, we acknowledge Alhaji Atiku’s proclivity for IMF policies and conditionalities, when applied, it opens the economy to all manners of vulnerabilities that allow the very rich to cherry-pick at will, national assets that would be disposed.

This is in contrast to what President Buhari stands for. The preservation of our collective patrimony for the economic good of all, and even, the Bretton Wood Institution are applauding him for this in the short span of time he has occupied the office of the President. It is the World Bank that rated the Nigerian economy, for the first time since 1999, as one of the world’s four best improving economies. It is also the World Bank that returned the great verdict of Nigeria moving up 24 places on the Ease of Doing Business Global ranking. Besides, two weeks ago, the IMF sent a team of its Directors to Nigeria for on-ground review of economic policies, the team excitedly announced that the government economic policies, as encapsulated in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, were impressive and realisable. These are commendable international applauses for the home-grown, ingeniously coupled economic policies.

https://theeagleonline.com.ng/atikus-proposal-to-sell-refineries-callous-anti-people-by-austin-braimoh-and-cassidy-madueke/

AnyoneButAtiku:
Atiku wan to chop the money...



https://theeagleonline.com.ng/atikus-proposal-to-sell-refineries-callous-anti-people-by-austin-braimoh-and-cassidy-madueke/

Old Generals wan chop again. Atiku wan chop again.
Atikulation, Atikulation, Atikulation...

"Bí a bá to sílé, onípò a mo ipò"
By Dr. Gary K. Busch 27/11/05

...Who are these bunkerers?
Recently, an aerial surveillance of Lagos coastal waters revealed no fewer than 50 vessels and boats being used for oil theft. Minister of State for Transport, Alhaji Musa Mohammed said the survey extended up to 10 miles into Lagos waters.
The minister, who expressed shock at the findings, said that operators had no license for the vessels and boats and that they were not manifested. There are even more vessels in the Delta. Earlier this year three prominent naval officers were reprimanded and one dismissed for their part in this illegal bunkering. Several vessels had been captured. There are fifteen such vessels arrested in the Delta. There is no mystery in Nigeria to whom these vessels belong and into whose pockets the revenues stream.

The most shocking bombshell was dropped by a ship owner and active stakeholder in the industry, Isaac Jolapamo, to the effect that 15 more vessels are currently roaming the Nigerian waters doing illegal bunkering. Testifying before the House of Representatives panel probing the missing vessel, Jolapamo alleged that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Pipeline and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), major and independent oil marketers patronise these vessels which he said are "owned and managed by known international crooks."

According to Jolapamo, these vessels and their customers engage in round-tripping with refined oil and stolen crude oil which they sell
at rock bottom prices at the international market. He also revealed that the bunkering vessels change names at random in a bid to beat
coastal surveillance by security agents. In this way, they are able to clandestinely carry out their illicit trade which oil companies
in Nigeria claim has been costing the nation $ 100 million weekly.

Equally disturbing is the allegation that three Nigerian banks are being investigated for allegedly funding this bunkering. They funded
the recently exposed MT African Pride bunkering activities to the tune of $ 15 million. In August last year, the Navy impounded a
tanker reportedly laden with 15,000 barrels of crude oil. Also impounded within the same period for similar offence were five other
vessels namely MT Jimoh, MT Efunyo, MT Cape Breton I, MT Destiny and MT Betty Nello. These are expensive vessels to charter and operate
so bank assistance is welcome. This backing for this bunkering goes to the top.

It is widely believed that both the President and the Vice-President, as well as key members of the PDP, condone or participate in the illegal oil bunkering (stealing of crude and refined products) which represented almost 300,00 bbl/day in 2003. When a real effort at anti-corruption was undertaken by the journalists of the "Insider", retribution was swift and severe. The editor-in-chief, Chucks Onwudinjo, and Janet Mba-Afolabi, both executive editors of Insider, a weekly magazine, were picked up by men of the State Security Services. Their arrest and detention were on the orders of Atiku Abubakar, the vice-president. They were arrested on Monday, November 24, 2004

While the nation enjoyed Ed-el-fitri public holiday, the trio cooled their heels at the Panti Police Station in Yaba, Lagos where they
were detained for a story the Insider ran in its November 24, 2004 edition. The story, which made the magazine's cover alleged that
Abubakar and a close colleague were behind a bunkering ring recently smashed at the Forcados and Escravos Creeks.

Specifically, Atiku was accused of being behind three of the vessels, MT Gloria. MT Tina and MT Sara, which had about 4,000 metric tonnes of crude oil aboard, while his colleague was allegedly linked to two vessels, MT Berinelo and MT Breton 1 with 17,800 metric tonnes aboard. The eight ships captured in the bunkering deal collectively had about 124 million barrels on board valued at N35 billion.

On August 30, security officials attached to the Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, attacked and beat into coma, Akintunde Akinleye, a photojournalist with the Daily Independent newspaper. He was eventually compensated in a face-saving mission by the Vice President. He received $1,900 and N56,287.00 cash. There is a widespread belief that Atiku and his front men are major figures in oil thievery in Nigeria and Sao Tome. This is the type of corruption which is very hard to confront.

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/africa/ads/1378.html