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Protesters attacked the Akwa Ibom Taxi scheme garage
Cars burnt
Akpabio's campaign cars were razed.
The Jonathan/Sambo campaign headquarters razed by the mob.

Angry youths in the opposition party, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) reportedly visited their anger on Akwa Ibom state capital in Uyo in response to attacks on the ACN candidate, Akpan Udoedeghe.

Rumours had filtered into Uyo that Mr. Udoedeghe convoy had been atacked and the candidate killed in an ambush. ACN operatives said the governor, who coordianates president Goodluck Jonathan's campaign in the South south region, made life unbearable for opposition in the state.

The response was mayhem that led to destruction of public properties and death of several youth caused by indiscriminate shooting by the army and police in the state.

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I wonder what are the amounts

I wonder what are the amounts of Toyota parts ordered weekly in this parts of the country? As far as I can see, infrastructure doesn`t show too much quality, cars don`t quite look like they`s afford to skip some parts changing. This all needs some improvement, at a first glance.

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Stupidity

You must be daft for making these statements. If you are dissatisfied with the 'flower planting', why not go back to your own state which am guessing is Ogun State; with all its problems. Only a dummy closes his/her eyes to good deeds. Despite the awesome change in Lagos within four years, you still open your gutter to spill such rubbish. Even fellow governors of opposing parties have agreed that the governor is working. I am always irritated when people like u make comments like this. You are comparing paying #40 or #50 years back to paying #70 now and not even factoring inflation and the comfort of these buses. I will have to stop here so as not to lamblast u any further. Words of advise though are; think before you talk. The governor is not a god so will definitely not be able to satisfy everyone but at least he is working!!!
Osagie
Bristol, United Kingdom

Witch craft

Top news was how a 2 years old baby was burnt for witch craft in Uyo, may be this is one of the Heavens we are takling about in Akwa Ibom

Nate dogg why?

Goodbye NATE DOGG

If u say u live in Lagos and

If u say u live in Lagos and u have seen a thing good,rthen you should get yourself examined. Even a blind can. A new thing in Lagos. It is not about sentiment but reality.

Only credible elections will

Only credible elections will prevent things of this nature
http://www.makeyourvotescount.org

GODSWILL AKPABIO

GODSWILL AKPABIO should give peace a chance
http://www.loversguilde.blogspot.com

ARE YOU JJC OR MYOPIC?

If you have not seen anything than planting of flower in Lagos, then you must be a typical village man and BIG JJC that, was visiting Lagos for the first time or a myopic person whose concience has been bought by the bastardised Nigerian Politicians. We need to be frank and enhance a better future for our country Nigeria.

You must be out of your sense

You must be out of your sense to say that nothing is in Lagos! The best state in Nigeria is Lagos state...I say this without fear or favour!! Its only a lunatic that will compare Akwa Ibom with Lagos state!! So if you are one of the paid writers, please stop it and find something positive to do with your life. Akwa Ibom state is second to hell fire while Lagos state is a brief indication of heaven.

foluwole, I know you're a

foluwole, I know you're a Yoruba man/ ACN member. You people have brought your Wild Wild West to the peaceful Akwa Ibom. You people are not happy seeing what Akpabio is doing in that state. You're jealous of the man of all people/ race. You thought that, the developmental strides should have been done in the west. Fashola is doing nothing. The so called trees/ flowers planting is being done by the former Cross River state gov. Donald Duke. Our prayer is; All the enemies of progress & development in Akwa Ibom state will fall down, and die, including you Foluwole in Jesus' name. Amen.

foluwole, I know you're a

foluwole, I know you're a Yoruba man/ ACN member. You people have brought your Wild Wild West to the peaceful Akwa Ibom. You people are not happy seeing what Akpabio is doing in that state. You're jealous of the man of all people/ race. You thought that, the developmental strides should have been done in the west. Fashola is doing nothing. The so called trees/ flowers planting is being done by the former Cross River state gov. Donald Duke. Our prayer is; All the enemies of progress & development in Akwa Ibom state will fall down, and die, including you Foluwole in Jesus' name. Amen.

WHAT IS IN LAGOS

akmovich,I'm in Lagos, the only thing u can see here is planting of flowers, is that an achievement? state hospital are on strike for over six month now poor people are dying, high cost of living,thugs destroying poor people goods, high cost of transport, the so call BRT from Ojota to palmgroove is N70 whereas in few years back we paid N40, N50 everywhere smiling, you are talking of Lagos you would have said go to Akwa Ibom and see thing for yourself. the day I travel to Akwa Ibom i thought I was in London,beautiful roads, just go to the state capital Uyo u can't compare to Ikeja here. Pls go and rest what is in Lagos.

WHAT IS IN LAGOS

akmovich,I'm in Lagos, the only thing u can see here is planting of flowers, is that an achievement? state hospital are on strike for over six month now poor people are dying, high cost of living,thugs destroying poor people goods, high cost of transport, the so call BRT from Ojota to palmgroove is N70 whereas in few years back we paid N40, N50 everywhere smiling, you are talking of Lagos you would have said go to Akwa Ibom and see thing for yourself. the day I travel to Akwa Ibom i thought I was in London,beautiful roads, just go the state capital Uyo u can't compare to Ikeja here. Pls go and rest what is in Lagos.

PDP HAS NEVER DONE A THING

PDP HAS NEVER DONE A THING LIKE THIS.

Those who support what has been done are worse than those they think they are criticizing. ACN in Akwa ibom is EVIL and sahara reporters supports such evil as this... better to have an animal rule, than any of you sahara reporters people, if you do not see things wrong with what has been done in uyo.

Don,t force these Horses to drink from a pond in Nigeria

Nigera
Submitted by umu oke (not verified) on March 28, 2011 - 11:36.
There is no basis for democracy in Nigeria. The country is not one, not united and most of all, not in love. There are many nationalities yearning for independence, asking for a right to self-determination and wanting to determine their future by themselves. This is a reality. It makes Nigeria look like a pressure cooker. The entire Southern Protectorate indigenes want a fiscal Nigerian federation as it used to be when groundnut, cocoa and palm oil were the main source of revenue, that was when Nigeria was Nigeria. Pogrom destroyed one Nigeria, the war buried one Nigeria and Northern Military-lords gave birth to many Nigerians by creating and imposing states on the Southern Protectorate, willy-nilly. There are obvious numerous differences, divergent interests between various ethnic groups that need to be addressed before we plunge our heads, looking for a common Nigerian leadership by way of a democratic convenience. A Sovereign National Conference SNC is the only road to democracy in Nigeria. SNC shall prepare the ground suitable for a people's democracy. SNC shall give Nigeria a people's constitution, that makes sense and will be acceptable to all ethnic groups in Nigeria. SNC shall create a nation made in Africa by the Africans vis-à-vis imperium regnum of yesteryears. Our various ethnic groups will be proud to belong to it. There shall be a genuine citizenry and genuine leadership will emerge easily through a nonviolent, free and fair democratic exercise.
Convene a SNC as a means to an end, at best, it will remove the lid from the boiling pot, besides uniting the ethnic groups for a common interest, be it political or economic.
It is sad to remember that President Obasonjo (OBJ) did not understand why he was advised on convening a sovereign national conference SNC. He messed it up like he used to, in everything he does because of ignorance. President Jonathan's stand on SNC leaves me wondering why a former University don is another ignoramus at ASO Rock. Let me say it again, there has to be SNC b/4 democracy can take off in Nigeria and there has to be a unification process to bring all the different ethnic groups on a conference table to agree on how to be together as one country or as two, three or more countries with economic benefits, on a solid plate. Such SNC is needed for putting a hard crusting on the 1914 amalgamation. The past military governments, wittingly or unwittingly, destroyed the four Regions that had fused into a democratic platform just before 1966. If allowed to continue, the fusion could have produced a very hard, solid and suitable ground for democracy,- comparable to Indian democracy. Lord Lugard tried fusing two protectorates to make room for unity before he introduced democracy. Later, our neo-colonialists divided the two protectorates into thirty-six pieces. What an arrant nonsense. These States were imposed on disunited ethnic groups under force of arms and intimidation, quite characteristics of a Jihad. Really, there is no Unity, no common ground, no love, no true and genuine citizen of Nigeria in Nigeria and so there is absolutely no true and genuine leadership/ judiciary/ INEC / institutions. Every institution in Nigeria is fake for the same reasons of ethnic dichotomy. Everybody in Nigeria is a false Nigerian. There is no true Citizenry. You are either Igbo, or Yoruba or Hausa or Benin or Fulani or what have you....... You cannot be a Hausa and an Igbo at the same time. It is hard to understand how one Hausa + one Yoruba + one Ijaw + one Benin + one Fulani + one Ibibio + one Igbo will be equal to one Nigeria without an acceptable common ground to house them peacefully. Let's face this reality. What is happening on the ground today in Nigeria are direct consequences of taking horses to a pond and forcing them to drink the polluted water. What is holding the ethnic groups together is the crude oil , it is not Love in a democracy. We need love and common interests to hold different ethnic groups in Nigeria together firmly.
Without a unifying SNC, the whole exercise by INEC and the various 63 Politburos in Nigeria will be a ruse to deceive the International Community and the Nigeria "Citizens", who believe, and wrongly too, that Nigeria is immersed in a democracy and is being involved in a democratic exercise. But so far, the whole democratic exercise is a ruse. The huge amount of money given to INEC-chieftain and the cost in terms of human resources have come to nothing and the wasted fund means nothing to PDP government. 2011 presidential- and governorship election campaigns are already violent , already undemocratic, already not free, very unfair and very worrisome both in the North and in the south. People are seeing, daily, how PDP governments in these states are busy preparing the substratum to celebrate election victory. Every community had received and shared billions of Naira, bags of rice, bags of salt, motorcycles (Okada) in a direct exchange for votes. Traditional rulers and religious leaders had been bribed already with billions of Naira to share to their subjects/members. Limousine cars, jeeps, and small buses had already been distributed to influential persons to help the ruling party in a state, return to power . Look here, boys and girls, university students, jobless graduates, the 2011 election is already rigged and many dishonourable Judges had been positioned and hoisted at the core of Electoral Tribunals to complete the magic and rubberstamp the results. After that, they will tell you and the world,: "Nigerian democracy is a nascent democracy that needs five hundred years to mature," while your senators, MPs and Presidents- earn emoluments, ten times more than those of any developed democratic country, in Europe/America. And your misery continues to worsen. Reject the election results, because whoever wins this April election had rigged it. You are the youths of different nationalities, you are the majority in a true democracy where your votes determine the winner. But in Nigeria there is no true democracy, there is no people's democracy, what you have is a group democracy or party democracy akin to Egyptian- or Libyan- group dictatorship. In Nigerian group dictatorship which recently has become a family dictatorship your votes don't matter at all because the minority in politics use public finance to buy votes and to wines everything. You allowed this minority blindfold your eyes, close your mouths, tie your hands and feet together, to take away all keys to the public treasury. You sit down de look them. Sorry, you can't do much. It is your time now to say " no to cheating and looting" in politics. It is your time to open your eyes wide and reject injustice in the election results. It is violent, unfair and " untrue". You must pour out massively onto the streets and market squares, in every city and hamlet to cry aloud demanding a true Nigerian constitution with a true democracy immersed in a genuine sovereign national conference( SNC )that shall remould this ram-shackle old North- and South Protectorates that had lost its direction and importance. Your votes will matter very much after a SNC and believe me, the new constitution with a true fiscal federation will always offer a united, solid and firm ground for a peaceful, free and fair democratic elections. Before SNC every democratic exercise in Nigeria shall be a ruse to deceive the entire public. Do you understand ? All the Northerners, Buhari, IBB, Atiku, N.Ribadu, etc, love the Niger Delta Petrodollars and the oil only.
All youths in South-South, South-East and South-West must rise up now for their rights to a peaceful free and fair democratic elections through a Sovereign National Conference SNC. Reject the outcome of already rigged April elections.SNC or a referendum.
Umu Oke -Germany.

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Don,t force these Horses to drink from a pond in Nigeria

Nigera
Submitted by umu oke (not verified) on March 28, 2011 - 11:36.
There is no basis for democracy in Nigeria. The country is not one, not united and most of all, not in love. There are many nationalities yearning for independence, asking for a right to self-determination and wanting to determine their future by themselves. This is a reality. It makes Nigeria look like a pressure cooker. The entire Southern Protectorate indigenes want a fiscal Nigerian federation as it used to be when groundnut, cocoa and palm oil were the main source of revenue, that was when Nigeria was Nigeria. Pogrom destroyed one Nigeria, the war buried one Nigeria and Northern Military-lords gave birth to many Nigerians by creating and imposing states on the Southern Protectorate, willy-nilly. There are obvious numerous differences, divergent interests between various ethnic groups that need to be addressed before we plunge our heads, looking for a common Nigerian leadership by way of a democratic convenience. A Sovereign National Conference SNC is the only road to democracy in Nigeria. SNC shall prepare the ground suitable for a people's democracy. SNC shall give Nigeria a people's constitution, that makes sense and will be acceptable to all ethnic groups in Nigeria. SNC shall create a nation made in Africa by the Africans vis-à-vis imperium regnum of yesteryears. Our various ethnic groups will be proud to belong to it. There shall be a genuine citizenry and genuine leadership will emerge easily through a nonviolent, free and fair democratic exercise.
Convene a SNC as a means to an end, at best, it will remove the lid from the boiling pot, besides uniting the ethnic groups for a common interest, be it political or economic.
It is sad to remember that President Obasonjo (OBJ) did not understand why he was advised on convening a sovereign national conference SNC. He messed it up like he used to, in everything he does because of ignorance. President Jonathan's stand on SNC leaves me wondering why a former University don is another ignoramus at ASO Rock. Let me say it again, there has to be SNC b/4 democracy can take off in Nigeria and there has to be a unification process to bring all the different ethnic groups on a conference table to agree on how to be together as one country or as two, three or more countries with economic benefits, on a solid plate. Such SNC is needed for putting a hard crusting on the 1914 amalgamation. The past military governments, wittingly or unwittingly, destroyed the four Regions that had fused into a democratic platform just before 1966. If allowed to continue, the fusion could have produced a very hard, solid and suitable ground for democracy,- comparable to Indian democracy. Lord Lugard tried fusing two protectorates to make room for unity before he introduced democracy. Later, our neo-colonialists divided the two protectorates into thirty-six pieces. What an arrant nonsense. These States were imposed on disunited ethnic groups under force of arms and intimidation, quite characteristics of a Jihad. Really, there is no Unity, no common ground, no love, no true and genuine citizen of Nigeria in Nigeria and so there is absolutely no true and genuine leadership/ judiciary/ INEC / institutions. Every institution in Nigeria is fake for the same reasons of ethnic dichotomy. Everybody in Nigeria is a false Nigerian. There is no true Citizenry. You are either Igbo, or Yoruba or Hausa or Benin or Fulani or what have you....... You cannot be a Hausa and an Igbo at the same time. It is hard to understand how one Hausa + one Yoruba + one Ijaw + one Benin + one Fulani + one Ibibio + one Igbo will be equal to one Nigeria without an acceptable common ground to house them peacefully. Let's face this reality. What is happening on the ground today in Nigeria are direct consequences of taking horses to a pond and forcing them to drink the polluted water. What is holding the ethnic groups together is the crude oil , it is not Love in a democracy. We need love and common interests to hold different ethnic groups in Nigeria together firmly.
Without a unifying SNC, the whole exercise by INEC and the various 63 Politburos in Nigeria will be a ruse to deceive the International Community and the Nigeria "Citizens", who believe, and wrongly too, that Nigeria is immersed in a democracy and is being involved in a democratic exercise. But so far, the whole democratic exercise is a ruse. The huge amount of money given to INEC-chieftain and the cost in terms of human resources have come to nothing and the wasted fund means nothing to PDP government. 2011 presidential- and governorship election campaigns are already violent , already undemocratic, already not free, very unfair and very worrisome both in the North and in the south. People are seeing, daily, how PDP governments in these states are busy preparing the substratum to celebrate election victory. Every community had received and shared billions of Naira, bags of rice, bags of salt, motorcycles (Okada) in a direct exchange for votes. Traditional rulers and religious leaders had been bribed already with billions of Naira to share to their subjects/members. Limousine cars, jeeps, and small buses had already been distributed to influential persons to help the ruling party in a state, return to power . Look here, boys and girls, university students, jobless graduates, the 2011 election is already rigged and many dishonourable Judges had been positioned and hoisted at the core of Electoral Tribunals to complete the magic and rubberstamp the results. After that, they will tell you and the world,: "Nigerian democracy is a nascent democracy that needs five hundred years to mature," while your senators, MPs and Presidents- earn emoluments, ten times more than those of any developed democratic country, in Europe/America. And your misery continues to worsen. Reject the election results, because whoever wins this April election had rigged it. You are the youths of different nationalities, you are the majority in a true democracy where your votes determine the winner. But in Nigeria there is no true democracy, there is no people's democracy, what you have is a group democracy or party democracy akin to Egyptian- or Libyan- group dictatorship. In Nigerian group dictatorship which recently has become a family dictatorship your votes don't matter at all because the minority in politics use public finance to buy votes and to wines everything. You allowed this minority blindfold your eyes, close your mouths, tie your hands and feet together, to take away all keys to the public treasury. You sit down de look them. Sorry, you can't do much. It is your time now to say " no to cheating and looting" in politics. It is your time to open your eyes wide and reject injustice in the election results. It is violent, unfair and " untrue". You must pour out massively onto the streets and market squares, in every city and hamlet to cry aloud demanding a true Nigerian constitution with a true democracy immersed in a genuine sovereign national conference( SNC )that shall remould this ram-shackle old North- and South Protectorates that had lost its direction and importance. Your votes will matter very much after a SNC and believe me, the new constitution with a true fiscal federation will always offer a united, solid and firm ground for a peaceful, free and fair democratic elections. Before SNC every democratic exercise in Nigeria shall be a ruse to deceive the entire public. Do you understand ? All the Northerners, Buhari, IBB, Atiku, N.Ribadu, etc, love the Niger Delta Petrodollars and the oil only.
All youths in South-South, South-East and South-West must rise up now for their rights to a peaceful free and fair democratic elections through a Sovereign National Conference SNC. Reject the outcome of already rigged April elections.SNC or a referendum.
Umu Oke -Germany.

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well spoken

Good talk men.

Interesting

I hope we can see how things are turning out? We need to all be careful o!

I thought Thisday Newspaper

I thought Thisday Newspaper said Akwa-Ibom showed a 100% rise in Jonathan(PDP) popularity?

How strange. lol

We deserve what we get!

This is Demonstration of Craze (Democracy) in full effect. This is not a party thing, this is a tribal issue and our elders need to call these hoodlums to order. This is a case of Anang versus Ibibio. No need to hide this fact guys. Akpabio is Anang, Uduedeghe is Ibibio, Anang doesnt want Ibibo ACN candidate to campaign in Anang, so they attacked ACN, ACN whose candidate is an Ibibio, retaliated in Uyo. Lets call a spade a spade. Anang has been agitating for their own state. Thats the root cause of this mess ...

acn again

when wil acn stop violence. just less than how many yrears old. what will become of the pple when u leave for like ten yrs

LET US BE CAREFUL

If it is establish that it was the supporters of PDP that first attacked that of ACN, PDP should be ashamed of themselves because the best form of defence is attack however if the ACN are found guilty of inciting hatred and organising attacks on PDP they should face the law.
Therefore let us not use this forum/space to jump to conclusion without any fact and begin to lay blame to a particular party due to personal interest.

TRUE TALK

GOD BLESS YOU

@ YETUNDE

I read your post,and it made me laugh,who is the originator of thug? OBASANJO OR TINUBU ? Let me challenge your to a public debate on both name,am sure you will leave to regret,you called tinubu a thug.Tell me the achievement of your so called PDP in states under the anarchy of PDP..Come over to lagos,go to osun,ekiti and ondo....your time is up..its time for the youths,no more do or die...its about time.

Charged for Treason

So because the supporters of ACN retaliated for the killing by the PDP, the authorities used that bases to arrest the aspirant Gov and charge him for treason. The PDP are resulting to every means possible to suppress the wish of the people, but this time around, whatever they do, will backfire on them, it will only make us the populace to be more resolved in ensuring they are swept out of our polity with a resounding and overwhelming landslide. PDP be more dignified. This do or die politics is no longer tolerated in this global village anymore. The eyes of the world are on us and this time around no one is turning a blind eye when katakata starts to happen.

I weep for my country

Why all these damages when we know it all belongs to us,,by doing this we are giving this criminal politicians opportunity to loot more of our money,,cos they will try to replace all the damaged property thereby having the opportunity to quote more money and using less as what they used to replace those things,,,our youths are not doing really fine,,,if only they should ignore this idiots that call themselves politician and vote wisely for the man of their choice,i think it will be better,rather than taking #500 or some cups of rice to act like animals without future,,how many of those politicians they support will allow their children or even relations to join in this demonstration of madness...i cry for my country and my fellow youths,,,,

My people need to be educated

Why all these damages when we know it all belongs to us,,by doing this we are giving this criminal politicians opportunity to loot more of our money,,cos they will try to replace all the damaged property thereby having the opportunity to quote more money and using less as what they used to replace those things,,,our youths are not doing really fine,,,if only they should ignore this idiots that call themselves politician and vote wisely for the man of their choice,i think it will be better,rather than taking #500 or some cups of rice to act like animals without future,,how many of those politicians they support will allow their children or even relations to join in this demonstration of madness...i cry for my country and my fellow youths,,,,

How can?

@Solomon Akanbi, how is it possible to vote out a party that isn't in, in the first place?

Association of Criminals in

Association of Criminals in Nigeria

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