Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:07 pm
Mallam Garba Shehu is the Directorate of Media and Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Organisation. In this interview with AYORINDE OLUOKUN, he spoke about mudslinging campaign against Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) and other issues
Against all hopes that the campaigns for the 2015 elections will be issues based, it has become a mudslinging battle between the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. How did it come to this as somebody who has been involved in this campaign?
I think there is a need to make a slight correction- it is mudslinging by the PDP, not between APC and PDP. APC is not mudslinging the President or the PDP. APC campaign is purely based on issues. Since this campaign started, General Buhari has not for a single day mounted the rostrum to mention Mr. Jonathan or Mrs. Jonathan, Mr. Sambo or Mrs. Sambo and attack them. You can review all the tapes of these rallies. And Buhari’s charge to the Presidential Campaign Council when he inaugurated all of us was that “I have not mandated anybody to sort of go and abuse or attack any other person. Anyone among you who does that is a fifth columnist; he belong to the enemy camp.
•Mallam Garba Shehu
So, yes, there is a negative campaign going on but it is by PDP as you can see by the newspapers of Monday where the PDP expressed a death wish for General Buhari. And as I speak to you now, the party and the candidate are trying to calm down followers, telling them that don’t react, because if you react, then PDP has won because that is exactly what they want. They don’t have anything to tell you for the six or so years of the President in office. They have no record to present; neither do they have a record to defend. They want, given the chance, to either create a situation where there will be no election at all or if it takes place, it will be in such chaotic environment, that it would not be credible. They would have rigged it. So, we are saddened by the fact that barely one week after the so called Abuja accord was signed by all the candidates, committing themselves to peaceful electioneering, the PDP has descended to a low that we have seen before, fabricating health certificates from ABU which the University has denied and beyond that, now publishing advertorials asking Nigerians to choose between life and death. And they put General Buhari’s picture with a big question mark, saying ‘what happens to him next,’ after presenting the pictures of former Heads of State who have been killed in office or died in the case of Yar’Adua from natural circumstances.
The question mark on Buhari is to say is he next? And the advertisers are saying we are tired of state funerals. So, we have a serious problem and I think that Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria which approves all advertisements before they are published must explain to Nigerians why a death message was published in an advert on the front pages of newspapers. The State Security Services, the Police who are always very keen on doing their duties when it comes to dealing with the opposition I think also have explanations to offer on this situation.
But what is the APC going to do in respect of the advertorials which you said is like wishing death for the candidate of your party?
People who are expecting APC to go and buy advert pages for similar gutter advert with death threats will be disappointed. Our candidate will not permit this kind of thing to be done against Mr. Jonathan or his family. What we are saying is that the law enforcement agencies should do their duty. Our plea to our supporters is that we are on the home run, PDP is scared with it back against the wall and they know that they are losing this election. So, they would rather bring down the roof than fold their hands and watch themselves being humiliated out of office. So, having known this then, the big challenge for us is to make sure that we keep our supporters in line, that they are not provoked, that they don’t react irrationally to this death threat on General Buhari.
Some of the issues are very simple and it will seem as if APC had responded PDP would not have been able to make it an issue, for example, if General Buhari had applied to the military and obtained copies of his certificate and made them available to the media, the controversies would have ended there…
Let me tell you this, even if the certificate issue is settled today, they will look for another thing. In the last 24 hours, it was health. After health, maybe it will be the kind of dresses General Buhari is wearing or shoes that he is not wearing the kind of shoes that the PDP want him to wear. They must stay on these inconsequential matters because they don’t want spotlight to be on corruption, security, Chibok girls, Boko Haram, economy. Look at this fuel thing- the price of petrol has fallen by half all over the world. The USA has reduced the price of petrol by half but they are giving us 10 per cent. Who is keeping the balance of 40 per that they are taking from me and you?
They don’t want us to talk about these things; they don’t want us to talk about jobs for our teeming youths. These are the issues in this election and PDP has no answers for them. So, I bet you Buhari can bring whatever certificates he has, he can bring the most credible medical report, PDP will still go and look for the manner of his speech and the way he walks or his family members, you know that kind of thing. So, they are not interested in issues because they have nothing to defend.
You’ve been in the thick of this campaign. Do you really think the APC has chance against PDP?
The chances have never been this bright for any opposition political party in the country. Do you know that some weeks ago, they couldn’t open APC office in Bayelsa when the flags were up, even the Police could not secure APC office because of the massive crowd that our presidential campaign drew in Bayelsa. I was with them. In Calabar, people were beating drums, young people were walking on foot following our convoy, from the Airport to the venue of the rally. So, the thing is that you can almost feel and touch the sense of urgency for change in the feeling of Nigerians who want change now. They are doing billboards, spending billions of naira on billboards. If you are driving from the Airport, every lamplight on the road has two wings of Jonathan’s photograph. You can no longer listen to radio; it is boring watching some of these independent television stations and not to talk of the ones owned by government. But the surprising thing is that they are not making any impact because Nigerians are not listening. So, the journey to the change has begun and from every indication, Nigerians are not willing to turn back.
But don’t you think this muckraking may affect General Buhari at the polls as it may influence the way many perceive him?
No, in fact, what is happening is that the more they do this, the more they are alienating themselves from the Nigerian public. That’s what they don’t realise.
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why don’t you help us
thats just too sure, there is compromise about it at all
GEJ people choice
I can testify to the fact that our roads are now of international standard.
All APC are all loser in any way they come up with, PDP all the way #NO2Buhari
the man has tried he deserve second chance
its cyrtal clear like biblical teketeke meneyofacing that buhari is too old to take charge of this country
another name for GEJ is job creator
just try to enlight him if he doesnt know what to say.
winnning winning winning all the way
i support you sir
buhari has not contribute anything tohelp fight insurgent since incception
peaceful government so ever in GEJ regime
that means your ready to live in agony
Let’s bring in a dictator whocan perform and Give us our heart desire rather than somone who promises not to prosecute the looters.
#GEJ4NAIJA,YES2GEJ NO2GMB
al hassan you are on point i share your view,what all Nigerians should be full of praises and appreciation to #GEJ who have achieved so much within a short period of time in all sector across the nation yet some individuals with short memories are shouting for change with a man who did nothing when he had the opportunity to do so when it came to him on a platter of gold,They should just go and sit down and give room for a vibrant energetic purposeful natural born leader #GEJ……….#GEJWINNNNNNS
BUHARI IS A CURRUPT AND HYPOCRITE ….BuharI as Chairman of PTF: The Presidential Trust Fund(PTF) was set up by General Abacha to salvage s the decaying infrastructure of utilities all over the country. On March 21st 1995 when the Board of PTF was formally inaugurated in Abuja, Major-General Buhari was named the Executive Chairman. The activities of PTF straddles the entire gamut of utilities such as education, water supplies, marine transport, health, roads, pharmaceuticals and the like. Although the PTF was heavily funded to salvage the utilities on a nation-wide basis, Buhari restricted his activities to the North of Nigeria , thus validating the fact that he is, indeed, a religious/ethnic irredentist. While one can detect heavy capital intensive projects built by PTF in the Muslim North, in the South East, there are no traces of any surviving vestiges of projects which can attest that there was such a project as PTF in Nigeria. He was so clannish that he deployed the humongous PTF budget to developing the infrastructure in the North while turning a blind eye to the utilities in the South of Nigeria, A person with such deplorable and depraved fundamentals is not my idea of the Messiah Nigerians are looking for. Above all, there is empirical evidence that the major contractor to PTF was his brother in-law who enjoyed a lion share of the PTF contracts.#GEJ4NAIJA
with all these things it is good for jonathan to go mr president keep moving#GEJ$Naija
buhari is a dictator to summarise the whole issue #2Buhari
it is time for him to go and meet his ancestors#NOBuhari
your cup has full abi e never full since 2011 you have been campaigning you no go tire? abi you wan campaign untll you enter grave?#NO2Buhari
well I can’t say I know anything that the APC want to do for Nigerians
except for the loud cry of “change” under the cover of stopping
corruption, am very sorry to say: corrutpion has been there before buhari’s first rule and has contunied even till now so “”corruption”
is not what Nigerians want to hear. We want to hear things that will be
done to move the nation forward just as our President is doing now,
checkout the railway transport that he has been brought back, the impoved
Educational quality in the addition of more Federal Universities all
over the nation.#GEJ4NAIJA#NO2BUHARI.
Its either #GEJ/PDP or no body for the presidency his achievement ever since he assume the position of leadership speaks which has proved beyond every reasonable doubt that he remains the best president ever and not only that as the best candidate for re-election……#GEJ4NAIJA4MOREDEVELOPMENTPLANS
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APC should find another way of bringing PDP and Mr President down because this angle they are coming out from can’t work for them let them go back to there drawing board and come out with another strategy, APC is a party that is filled with a bunch of aggrieved ex-PDP members, so what sort of leadership do you expect from them?
#NO2BUHARI
The achievement of president Goodluck jonathan is so enormous that no Nigeria citizen is not aware of but its quite bizzar that some individual in some quarters claim ignorance! If we must be sincere with our self and put sentiments aside and vote wisely for GEJ I think we would have taken the right step in the right direction towards taking Nigeria to a greater hight.
the fact is that APC is not presenting the right person for leadership, for the country because we all know that our country Nigeria has pass through many difficulties from the hands of leadership so let endeavour to vote wisely, Buhari is not a leader for Nigeria because is not upright not truthful and also a violence one #NO2BUHARI
I want each and every one of us to have it at the back of our minds that president ebele jonatha should be our number one priority.the first president to effectively outlaw toll-collecting illegal police checkpoints in Nigeria.first to give attention to our local and international airports.kano airport upgraded after 57years ,other airports up grades in progress.pls my fellow Nigerians lets vote wisely#GEJ2NAIJA
Buhari is a controversial figure, a man who is conflicted and truly does not have the interest of the nation at heart. No true patriot of the Nigerian state would standby while miscreants and thugs burn parts of the nation and murder hundreds on their behalf. There appears to be no difference between Buhari’s abatement of violence and death and Laurent Gbagbo’s defiant stance in Ivory Coast that led to the deaths of thousands of his countrymen. Buhari wants to be president at all cost but has not taken the time to fertilize the ground to reap aplenty in the harvest. @NO2BUHARI
Today we have a President who believes in the rule of law, who believes in the supremacy of the Nigerian citizen, who believes in freedom, and rights for every Nigerian, yet, we call him a weakling, simply because he is not using force and aggression to rule us, note he is the first president to sign in to law the freedom of information act in Nigeria, he has also addressed the bad state of the benin-ore road which was rehabilitated after 20yrs and many other major roads
in Nigeria, also the kaduna refinery has been broght back to life
.#GEJ4NAIJA
APC’s kind of rule/candidate is what I for one is against, ask me why-it is not democratic, neither is it patriotic. to crown it all, I have not really heard them say any single good thing that the party intends to do for Nigerians through their candidate. APC is a party that is filled with a bunch of aggrieved ex-PDP members, so what sort of leadership do you expect from them?
#NO2Buhari
Buhari said he would fight corruption and jail every corrupt Nigerian and politician who has stolen from the nation’s treasury, would he also prosecute those people who have sponsored his campaign and send them to jail? because you and I know who these guys are, and you can’t tell me they are perfect and would not be found wanting. Can he throw every corrupt politician, past and present in jail, knowing fully well, they made him President? By the way, who would be ruling this country, is it Buhari or Tinubu, Atiku, Okorocha and Amaechi? Does Buhari have the will and courage to say no to these people when he wants to make his decisions that they may not share with him? Can he be like Jonathan who stopped listening to Obasanjo and made his decisions as the President? Can Buhari do all these?
My fear is not Buhari, my fear is the people around and behind him, they look to me, that they are only presenting Buhari as a mere figure head, and when he eventually wins, they will be the ones to rule this nation.
Please think twice before you put this country into another deep mess, because the APC hired a good campaign strategist who has succeeded in blindfolding Nigerians into believing that the APC and Buhari mean well and are the change for Nigeria only so we are trapped in another four years of even worse turmoils. It is better you stick to the man you all know for once who won’t trample on your rights and freedom, who won’t let anyone push him around, and makes his decisions with his team of experts who are steering this nation on course.
We have seen what Jonathan can do and cannot do, there is nothing surprising he would do to us, don’t vote for a party who criticises corruption and the PDP, but are so quick to embrace any defecting PDP member into their folks. The same PDP which is termed corrupt and a failure by the APC, when their defectors come to your party, you embrace these same corrupt men, and they try to sell them to us, we are wiser than that.
Don’t be decieved by the change you hear, it’s fake, yes you will get change if Buhari wins, but what kind of change? The one where the President is not the boss, but answers to the boss or a group of people who are the bosses.I want to remind us about the fact. A lot of us say this has nothing to do with ethnicity and tribalism, but believe me it has everything to do with ethnicity and tribalism, when I speak in favour of Jonathan, people tell me, it’s because I am a Southerner and Jonathan is a Southerner, if he was a Northerner would you support him, and defend him? Frankly, if Jonathan was a Northerner, do you think the North will call for his head the way they are calling for it now? No they will cover his deeds up, they will defend and protect him, they will find nothing wrong in what he is doing, why? Because he is one of them, because he is their brother, and because they believe they own this country and have the right to rule anyhow they want and anytime they want because power belongs to them, but let me remind you all, that for over 40 years, the north has been ruling this country, they brought us to the dilapidated state we were, they laid the foundation of the problems we have in this nation, and just when God chose someone from the south south to rule, they feel he has destroyed this nation, and they have the nerve to attack his convoy, and the most ridiculous thing is we the Southerners are turning against our brother and claiming he is not our brother, who told you the north will ever consider you their brother? How many Northerners have done terribly despotic and tyrannical things in Nigeria, and how many Northerners, rose up to condemn them? Northern Presidents/Heads of State has deprived us of democracy five times, and nobody atttacked their convoys or said any condemning words against them. Have we forgotten about the national conference which has been successfully organised and very critical issues affecting the state of our nation discussed, and a resolution made, despite the frantic effort of the North to thwart this conference so that the truth about our nation would not be told? Have we forgotten the successful privatisation of the PHCN, something that has always been in the plan of Nigeria but will always be marred by corruption, but Jonathan succeeded in that, and we are in the path to revolutionising the power sector in Nigeria. wasn’t he Obasanjo who brought in Jonathan? Didn’t he tell us Jonathan was the right man for the job? Because a child has suddenly decided to be a man, and start making his decisions, the old man thinks he has failed Nigerians.
The fact remains the fact that Goodluck is for the country. is either the APC takes it or leave it
Go GEJ Nigerians are solidly behind you till 2019 #GEJ 4 NAIJA
APC is a group that consists of the former PDP members who left PDP out of sheer greed and joined APC claiming that PDP has failed. They believe in violence and greed. Today they are bringing a Presidential candidate who is not sincere but is coming back for the second time for venegance. We need someone more dignified with the interests of our country heart.#GEJ4NAIJA
I think its high time to face the true fact, from the comment of Mallam Garba Shehu saying PDP advertised General Buhari’s picture with a big question mark, saying ‘what happens to him next,’ after presenting the pictures of former Heads of State who have been killed in office or died in the case of Yar’Adua from natural circumstances. it is never correct, President Goodluck is a peaceful and kindhearted man, he has contributed immensely to growth of this nation, he is the first president under whose tenure multi part democracy blossomed most:6 different political parties have governors in Nigeria: LP,ACN,POP,APGA,ANPP,CPC and also rehabilitated kaduna refinery after 15years.he is the man on point…….#GEJNaija
President Goodluck Jonathan is doing a great job in this country, he is the first president to introduce 35% female appointment in government positions and the first to promise almagiri school which he kept even when he is not from the north he still cares for all indeed he is a leader and not a ruler.#GEJ4Naija
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan remains our chosen one no matter what Apc people say or do
because he has improve our power sector[met power supply at about 2,200mw,now 4,237mw, transport sector and permanetly flow of petroluem products ever in nigeria.#GEJ4Naija.
JONA no worry yourself, after all the wonderful campaign strategy and successful online polls and online votes that we all know are fake and championed by the APC-HIRED-AKPD experts from America we will see if they are the one to vote or not.
Our dear president Jonathan we are solidly behind u. We will continually be. We love Nigeria. President Jonathan We love u.
PDP presidential candidate in the person of president Goodluck is qualified in all angles. His certificate is intact and unquestionable. APC has failed from the day it presented a candidate who is not qualified and is looking for a way of hanging it’s failure on PDP’s neck. Let APC admit it has no qualified candidate,simple.And there is no way an insincere candidate will be given a go ahead to preside over Nigeria. #NO2Buhari
apc still do not unadastand how politics works,nigeria needs a able nd capable president to rule them, and I cant see any one in apc capable of ruling Nigeria,even the so called buhari has done nothing for Nigeria,even nusrsery schools he has not built nd he wants to rule Nigeria with people who hav degree,masters,phd,etc.we nigerias had beta think well and vote wisely.#NO2BUHARI
PDP is the only party in Nigeria that speak against violence,they always maintain peace in Nigeria. Nigerian should also remember that Apc have attack PDP on several occasions killing their members and burning their campaign vechicles.Some of the area were APC have carried attack on PDP are kastina,maiduguri and Niger state, My fellow Nigerians lets vote for the man after the people’s heart #GEJ4NAIJA#
I think it is hightime I expressed my political views. There is no doubt that Buhari’s campaign is doing very well, Offcourse the APC is playing a good game of politics since they hired the Barack Obama’s campaign strategist, and today Buhari is being sold to Nigerians as an agent of change. I wouldn’t blame the APC for a job well done, because it’s politics, and the ability of a politician to cajoule the people to your side is what matters at the end of the day.
I want to say I am disappointed in Nigerians, who have very short term memory, who are only looking at the biscuit-bone being dangled in front of them, and are so myopic to conspicuously see the handwriting on the wall. We are here saying Jonathan has failed us, what has he done in the past six years given to him? We have refused to look at the Freedom of information bill that was passed since 1999, but has been waiting for the Presidential assent for it to become a law, and Jonathan signed that bill into law and today, you and I can even go as far as abusing the same man who gave us the right to freedom of expression, freedom to have access to any information at any given time, without being killed or molested. Today, we have about 12 Federal Universities added to the ones we had before, and the Al majiri school for the northern Al majiri children, today, Nigeria has surpassed South Africa to be Africa’s largest economy with a nominal GDP of about $594.257 Billion dollars making us 21st, and GDP (PPP) $1.058 Trillion Dollars, making us the 20th largest economy in the world. #GEJ4NAIJA
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To be honest these talks about how good GMB’s campaign was are not what we should be looking into at this point in time, rather we should just take some moment to go down memory lane or get facts about GMB’s previous rule and compare it with that of GEJ who was the first president to promise, complete and commissioned 32 Almajiri schools, first president to introduce 35% female appointment in government positions, first president to rehabilitate the Benin-Ore road after 20years, first president to follow due process/rule of law in government conduct, first president to look into the local and international airports, to mention a few. So having a decorated campaign is not the bottom line, the big question is “Can he deliver?
#GEJ4Naija.
mr president in the past years has been consistent in his effort of making Nigeria a better a palce,like in our agriculture sector Nigeria is one of the fastest agriculture growing nation in Africa,even our roads are very good,in health aspect he has built general hospitals in most states and he’s still going to do more,the issueis dat the evil ones will never applaud his effort,but I don’t care bcos jonathan is not just a president, but the peoples man, jonathan all the way.#GEJ4NAIJA
In the history of nigeria who among the past leaders has been faced with wat is confronting mr president today? GEJ is faced with so many problems yet, he is still working. have you ever had roads as it is today? with the distraction facing him he is still fixing our roads.
They who had no distraction couldn’t fix the rail transportation system, which has has been in a state of qumatus for over two decades but he now we can boast of a good working state of the art, train stations, pleas APC stop misleading a whole lot of Nigerians, GEJ has done a good job since he was elected into office and will do more when re-elected. #GEJ4naija
PDP all these while has been doing its campaign based on what and what it has achieved under the leadership of President Jonathan.The party does not have time for distractions such as APC. The president has done much,and is ready to do more for us if we give him our votes. He has touched many sectors of the government.Roads,which Lagos-Ibadan express way is an example.Schools,which creating federal universities in all states of the federation is an example.Railways and new modern trains,youth development,through sure-p program and sending many youths abroad for different training.We cannot mention them all. He who was able to achieve this by Gods grace can do more if given the opportunity. #GEJ4NAIJA.
true word my brother, because he has the most form of human violation please, Nigerians vote wisely#GEJ4Naija
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Who is this guy to say that GEJ has no record or achievements to show, he is nothing but A BLIND citizen who not only pretend to see but also deny to have seen good when good is actually happening under his nose. What of our railways which is up and running now after being abandoned for more than 20yrs, what of the SURE-P, the Youwin, the brand new roads and several other goodies. There is no government without challenges, despite ALL THE DISTRACTIONS GEJ has REALLY TRIED for Nigeria.
Mr president to rejuvenate our comatose railways back to life after 20 years of lull in the sector, colonial laws under review railways sector, states and private investors welcome in the #GEJ4Naija…… #NO2Buhari
With the rate at which this nation is headed, all we need is the strongest arm that can lead the people of this nation to a place where corruption will be ended!#GEJ4naija
Despite all oppositions, GEJ is still making progress and I see us heading to a point where Nigeria will truly be d giant of Africa.#GEJ4naija
yes ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I can testify to the fact that our roads are now of international standard…
Nigerians have seen the good deeds of GEJ and that’s why he deserves another chance!#GEJ4naija
no mind APC ignorant ranting!!!!! vote GEJ
Mr President has done more than expected and he is craving for another chance to do more! All those who are anti-GEJ have been blinded by hypocrisy and they just want to support what is not right by going with the blind crowd! And as the saying goes; a blind man cannot lead another blind man and GEJ has seen the way but the best you can do is follow him so you dnt fall into a ditch! If GMB wants the seat, why did he not make himself useful when he had the chance?????#GEJ4naija
let us always think of how to move this country forward, what kind of change can we expect from a 72years old military dictator!!!!!! pls vote wisely, #GEJNaija
WELLDONE!!!!…,.my fellow Nigerians and Gejites this year is our year I want to formally congratulate all you who solidly stand behind GEJ come failbuhari142015….I urge you to ensue the political propaganda by oppositions and stay sincere to this good course,concerning the issues they have with PDP I just have one word to say…. resilience…..#GEJ4NAIJA
as far as am concerned, GMB should be prosecuted and jailed for life for the countless torture and suffering put on Nigerians…. during GMB regime, he sacked about 200,000 civil servant, about 30,000 army personel were dismissed, he went on a dreaded campaign call “WAR on INDISIPLINE “, where citizens were publicly flogged, jailed and tortured…
all i care for is that GMB is a liar and a brutal then head of state back then in 1983 so lets not decieve ourselves#NO2buhari
well
Nigeria will not be ruled by a dictator again! Buhari is a very dishonest man. The CHANGE been talked about,is it Buhari and his hooligans that will bring it?
Nigerians are about to sell their birth right for the a pot of porridge called CHANGE…..The transformation going on gradually isn’t better than the change been chanted that we might likely not see because those singing this change where all a in PDP and did nothing. Lets vote Jonathan for the continuation of the on going transformation.#GEJ4Naija
Do the Alamajiris have schools ever before? when last did you travel with train? so many more questions on this latest developments go vote GEJ.#GEJITES4NAIJA
Overtime, PDP has been known for practicing justice and equity in all their dealings…. based on what they have done over time, they don’t need to indulge in some kind of media propaganda as a means to covering up the set backs, disappointments and failure they have caused our people as achieved by other opposition party….Vote#GEJ4Naija….
Really we all see all his (GEJ) good works being done, for sure GEJ at work seriously he who has eye let him see transformation for real God Bless GEJ. Go cast your vote for continuity and progress for the future of Nigeria.#GEJITES4NAIJA #N02BUHARI O…… think positively people and let us preach peace.
THEY SAY GOODLUCK JONATHAN IS CLUELESS BUT UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION HE HAS SO MANY POSTIVE FIRSTS. HE CAME 1ST IN MANY AREAS: HERE ARE A FEW:
1. FIRST PRESIDENT TO NAVIGATE NIGERIA TO RANK AS THE LARGEST ECONOMY IN AFRICA
2. FIRST PRESIDENT TO MAKE THE RAILWAY FUNCTIONAL IN OVER 3 DECADES. OUR RAILWAYS ARE FUNCTIONAL AND CARRYING THOUSANDS OF PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT PER DAY.
3. FIRST PRESIDENT TO EMBARK ON A WHOLESALE REMODELLING OF ALL OUR AIRPORTS SINCE THEY WERE BUILT.
4. FIRST PRESIDENT TO REDUCE OUR IMPORTED FOOD COST ASTRONOMICALLY, FROM 1.1 TRILLION NAIRA IN 2009 TO 448 BILION NAIRA IN 2014
5. FIRST PRESIDENT TO REACH NIGERIA’S ALL TIME PEAK OF 4500 MEGAWATTS IN ELECTRICITY GENERATION.
6. FIRST PRESIDENT TO MAKE 90% OF FARMERS HAVE ACCESS TO FERTILIZERS IN ONE CLICK USING THEIR MOBILE PHONES, AND SAVING NIGERIA 5.4 MILLION DOLLARS THAT USUALLY GOES TO MIDDLEMEN.
7. FIRST PRESIDENT TO LAUNCH THE 1ST MADE IN NIGERIA VEHICLES BY A PRIVATE COMPANY (INNOSON VEHICLE MANUFACTURING) IN AUGUST 2014 DUE TO GOODLUCK’S AUTOMOTIVE POLICIES
8. FIRST PRESIDENT TO SUPPORT THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY (NOLLYWOOD) WITH A 300 MILLION INTERVENTION FUND, NOW MAKING NOLLYWOOD ACCOUNT FOR 1.2% OF GDP
9. FIRST PRESIDENT TO USE POLICIES LIKE THE NIGERIAN CONTENT ACT TO EMPOWER NIGERIAN BUSINESSES TO PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN THE OIL AND GAS.
10. FIRST PRESIDENT TO SET UP THE VERY 1ST ALMAJIRI SCHOOLS FOR EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA AND TO BUILD OVER 100 OF THEM WITHIN 3 YEARS
11. FIRST PRESIDENT TO APPOINT OVER 35% (THE HIGHEST EVER) OF WOMEN INTO GOVERNMENT , INCLUDING THE 1ST LADY SUPREME COURT JUDGE, FIRST WOMEN CADETS IN OUR ARMY, FIRST FEMALE PILOTS, FIRST FEMALE PETROLEUM MINISTER ETC ETC
12. FIRST PRESIDENT TO CARRY OUT THE 1ST EVER ELECTORAL REFORMS IN NIGERIA THAT MADE NIGERIAN CITIZENS VOTES COUNT. FOR THE 1ST TIME NIGERIANS CAN ACTUALLY SAY ELECTIONS IS ABOUT ONE MAN ONE VOTE
13. FIRST PRESIDENT TO Navigate Nigeria Into Becoming One Of World’s Fastest Growing Economies Among The MINT Countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey) After The BRIC Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
14. FIRST PRESIDENT TO Launch The Nigcomsat-1r Satellite To Complement The Fibre Connectivity And Provide More Bandwidth For The Nation.
15. FIRST President to Unveil The Country’s First Indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, GULMA, Designed And Constructed By The Nigerian Air Force.
16. The First President To Summon The Courage To Unbundle Electricity Distribution After 52 Years, Power Supply More Than Doubled After Almost 100 Years After Amalgamation (Met Power Supply At About 2,200 Mw, Now 4,237 Mw) States Begin Electricity Distribution
18. First President To Rejuvenate Our Comatose Railways Back To Life After 20 Years Of Lull In The Sector, Colonial Laws Under Review, States And Private Investors Welcome In The Railways Sector.
20. The First President Again To Tackle Fraud In The Oil Subsidy Regime, Identifying N370 Billion In Fraudulent Claims Now Targeted For Recovery.
21. First President To Ensure Constant And Regular Flow Of Petroleum Products In Nigeria (No More Queue At Filling Station)
22. First President To Tackle The Issue Of Ghost Workers In The Civil Service; 48,861 Names (Ghost Workers) Were Removed From The FG’s Payroll After The IPPIS (Integrated Payroll And Personnel Information System) Was Deployed.
23. The First President To Increase NYSC Allowance In The Past 40 Years
24. First President To Deliver On Nine New Varsities, To Accommodate, The Growing Number Of Admission Candidates/Population
25. Nigeria Moved From Being A Net Importer To A Net Exporter Of Cement, With Its Production Capacity Growing From Just 2 Million Metric Tonnes In 2002 To About 28.5 Million Metric Tonnes Today.
26. The First President To Remove Fuel Price Subsidy Partly, And Still Provided Solution To Ease The Effect By Introducing SURE-P (The Subsidy Reinvestment And Empowerment Programme), Which Has Created 185,000 Jobs Across The Country.
27. First President to Transformed The Lives Of Farmers By Ending 40 Years Corruption In The Seed And Fertilizer Sector Within 90 Days Through The Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES) Of Which 14 Million Farmers Have So Far Benefitted From Subsidised Farm Inputs, With 10.3 Million Of These Beneficiaries (75 Per Cent) In Northern Nigeria.
THIS IS A STORY OF NOISELESS UNASSUMING VISIONARY LEADERSHIP.
GMB is a confirmed murderer hiding under a democratic MASK!!!! pls Nigerians make sure he loses in shame…..vote #GEJNaija
i think its high time we all start telling ourselves the truth and also learn to accept and also carry responsibility ….. how can APC turn blind ear and face away from incidence in bauchi when a woman was linched in a PDP campaign for wearing goodluck cloth and also in suleja were no one can mention goodluck or PDP or else u face burning….these are those things we are talking about….. sensitization is needed in APC camp….your leaders have alot of work to do okay.#NO2buhari
All people want to do is drag each other to the ground but President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been so incredible in his office for the past 4 years and he deserves a second term as a result of all the work he has done in the sectors of the economy such as the agricultural, transport, oil and gas, sectors and the refurbishing of refineries in kaduna and port Harcourt .Under his regime ,we had the first female OPEC President in Africa (Diezani Alison-Madueke). During GEJs tenure he gave women 35% participation during his regime. What more can we ask for!!!!! #GEJ4naija
#GEJ4naija
my people, I wonder why Nigerians will even condone the idea of having a killer as the next president in the form of GMB!!!!! please Nigerians vote wisely #GEJNaija
GEJ is the change transforming Naija #GEJ4naija
musa, no mind them apc,.. GMB has nothing better to offer Nigerian, it seems people are not aware that GMB is military personified…….vote wisely #GEJNaija
Daughter of late Professor Ambrose Ali, first civilian Governor of former Bendel state and founder of Ambrose Ali University Ekpoma, Mrs Rosemary Ali-Subaru wee…ps at Uromi “mother of all rallies” today.
– says 14 February, 2015 presidential election in Nigeria is payback time for 73 year old Pa Buhari over the killing of her father.
-reveals that late Professor Ali was fingered and detained by Pa Buhari in 1983, denied of medical treatment and left to rot in prison even when he was being transferred from prison to prison in stretchers.
– Tears flowed uncontrollably when she recounted her family’s encounters trying to plead with General Buhari to grant her father access to medicals even mere drugs, as their pleas fell on deaf ears while Ali was dying gradually.
. this is the same buhari coming back to rule again. well, as far as am concern, this is the second coming of the military rule. believe it or not.
every since we had the problem of boko haram, what significant contribution has GMB done in curtailing the menace!!!! why would Nigerian dare vote for him!!!!
first and foremost I want to really state here that i’m disappointed when I hear our politicians talk in the manner mallam shehu garba has spoken,and It baffles me why men like him cannot tell Nigerians and even themselves the truth even in the face of the public, how can you say the PDP has no records to present or records to defend in the six years or more they have spent, when the records are so glearing, on papers, the medias even on our streets, yes they might not have given Nigerians everything expected which no party or candidate can for the 4years they are clamouring for not even your so called APC or General Muhammadu Buhari, the only team that can assure us that to a large extent is the PDP and President GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN and SAMBO’s team because of continuity of purpose and structures already on ground, now you re talking of a death threat, did president jonathan or PDP make the death threat and insuinating messages? someone woke up on a morning and decided to air his opinion how does that concern MR PRESIDENT and PDP, except you are telling me that whatever negative comment you have made on the PDP and President Jonathan’s team here is a direct message from the APC and Gen.Buhari, in that case you ve also contradicted your earlier comments about APC and Buhari not making negative comments on the president, wife and PDP, please,sometimes I wonder if elders do not say the truth anymore but my father at home does or is it because he is not a politician, but I know a politician who has stood for the truth, President Jonathan, at least he tells us the truth of what he has done and failed to do,they say he that comes to equity should come with cleans hands, you re accusing PDP of not keeping to the Abuja accord, whereas its the APC and its supporters that are busy attacking the PDP and not keeping to the signed accord or how else will you explain the attack on Mr President’s convoy during visits to some northern states and Gov.Rotimi’s attempt to stop PDP from having presidential campaign in porthacort stadium, same stadium used by APC for theirs, we re suppose to be friends and not enemies, if you are so sure of feb 14 then just wait till then and stop making unnecessary issues like Rotimi amaechi, if you do not want the PDP to pick up on issues then do what is right, buhari should provide his certificate when needed and not wait for inec to discover its not there and ask for it, and provide his medical report and clear the air or keep quiet and not complain, but as long as things are not done right and at the right time PDP have the right to complain or get clearification as long as it concerns feb 14, because when you do the right thing @the wrong time its definitely wrong. NB don’t be deceived by the crowds and applause @ APC rallies, most of those people are doing it for the money. Nigerians re not stupid. #GEJ4Naija
tell them ooooooooo…… vote #GEJNaija……. the changes going on in this regime is mind blowing,,,,Transforming the Nigerian economy to be the largest in Africa, giving room for the development of other sector, such as agriculture, entertainment, etc….For those that patronize the airway sector, we can see the immense maintenance done in the airports across the country
why are they laying the false allegation against PDP and Mr President, how on earth can Mr president wish a prominent man like Buhari dead all because of politics…….NO that can’t be possible, if they are talking about that what of PDP house that was got burnt in portharcourt, what do they say about that, the stoning of mr president in bauchi is their, nobody say anything about, please i think will need to be mature enough before saying something on social media, Mr President has really done a lot of things for Nigerians at large. #GEJ4Naija
yes oooo,, he is sick ,blind and has mis road……… if u vote GMB, you bring in a dictator…… vote wisely, vote GEJ…….#GEJNaija
and i asked one APC “fan”what is dis change am hearing as their slogan.he cudnt even give me one reasonable point of wat d change is all bout.i dnt blame him, wen him master no go school how will he know. illiteracy they say its a disease and can be contagious!#NO2Buhari
only a brilliant man with the spirit of a preacher and the humble heart of a kindly family doctor can lead us now in Nigeria.we are afraid, out of ideas, and worst of all out of hope. jonathan is the cure. and we Nigerians have it in us to rise to the occasion. we will.we are in one of the most frightening periods of Nigerian history. our country has rarely face more uncertainty. this is the time for greatness.we have a great leader.we most be a great people backing him,fighting for him,sacrificing for a cause greater than ourselves.GEJ4naija
They said, one gud turn deserves another just as the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Ebele Johnathan desersves continuety Apc can go to hell for all i care you emphasise on baseless issues what advertorial are you talking about? an individual made a comment and you are here blaming johnathan/PDP #GEJ4Naija
unless your not developed or not in existence during the regime of GMB, he is responsible for the death and torture of many Nigerian…. In one of his musicals, Fela Kuti said ” Driver get accident, but Buhari arrest conductor”.
APC should find another way of bringing PDP and Mr President down because this angle they are coming out from can’t work for them let them go back to there drawing board and come out with another strategy, PDP is for peace and not for violence and i can’t immagine how a whole president will be wishing his citizen dead without any course just because of power, i think this is a total false allegation, they also said he has not done anything for the country tell to go to north and ask of al-majiri school, they should check agriculture sector, transport is not left behind, abeg tell them they dont know what they are saying. #GEJ4Naija
Wat do u think bout handing over 2 a democratically elected govt?’ I DONT BLIV IN IT said GMB (1983).Why so much believe now?.can u beat dat MALLAM GARBA*tongueout* #GEJ4naija
Our Agricultural sector have being applauded because of the transformation taking place there, we all can see those changes which have brought more investors to the nation. Our GDP has improved tremendously.#GEJITES4NAIJA carry go… #NO2BUHARI go and rest.
Daughter of late Professor Ambrose Ali, first civilian Governor of former Bendel state and founder of Ambrose Ali University Ekpoma, Mrs Rosemary Ali-Subaru wee…ps at Uromi “mother of all rallies” today.
– says 14 February, 2015 presidential election in Nigeria is payback time for 73 year old Pa Buhari over the killing of her father.
-reveals that late Professor Ali was fingered and detained by Pa Buhari in 1983, denied of medical treatment and left to rot in prison even when he was being transferred from prison to prison in stretchers.
– Tears flowed uncontrollably when she recounted her family’s encounters trying to plead with General Buhari to grant her father access to medicals even mere drugs, as their pleas fell on deaf ears while Ali was dying gradually.
When the day breaks, every nature sees it,even the blind feels a new dawn. For several decades Nigerians having been clamouring for a new dawn in oil sector, in agriculture, in power, in road rehabilitations,change in every human endeavour. And in the last few years, Nigerians are beginning to heave a sigh of relieve, but are however yearning for more of the changes they have witnessed or still witnessing. Let no one drag us back, we have nothing to do with stagnancy or backwardness, when other nations of the world are fast moving like the speed of light. GEJ continue with the good works,those that are with you are more and powerful than those against you.#GEJ4Naija
Apc are known all over the world for nothing but, cheap blackmail now this mallam garba shehu and his APC suppotters are blaming everybody including African Independent Television AIT for being transparent and unbias in their reporttage. my question is can any body please apc and co in this country called Nigeria? the answer is NO! GEJ will not allow undesirable elements to distract his political carrier get it straight to ur gullible minds.#NO2Buhari
As a matter of fact it would be cruel to credit any negative or inciting statement or comments made by any politician to President Jonathan or even the PDP, reason because individuals are entitled to their various opinions, i would advice the APC to concentrate on the forth coming elections and quit this blame game, personally i call it cheap and poor tactics to discredit President Jonathan, and it is certainly not working because most Nigerians have attested to the fact that we have never been so fortunate to have a president as passionate, service-driven and as dedicated to service as we have in humble Mr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Onyenemeremma Omorere Mai-adarchi Jonathan. Instead of all these series of baseless allegations from the APC we should all work together to make sure President Jonathan spends the remaining 4 years in Aso Rock to continue with his marvelousTransformation Agenda, which has recorded tremendous success within the space of only four years. #GEJ4Naija #NO2Buhari
Mr president to address the bad state of the Benin- Ore road which was rehabilitated after 52 years, Wat did u have to say about huuu
We nigerians are solidly behinde u Mr President all we are saying is #GEJ4Naija
GEJ is the best President Nigeria will ever think of having, Pls Let give Him chance to finish what He started.#GEJ4Naija
I think the writer of this article must be very wrong with all his alliegations here, why can’t he do his findings well before coming out in public saying political propaganda, this is totally wrong and i think he should be penalise for this wrong accusation, its only a blind man that will say what has jonathan done during his term in office, we can all see it in all sector of the federation, please tell mallam garba shehu to wake-up from slumber, jonathan has done beyond human immagination. #GEJ4Naija
I concur with you on this issue, if he GMB really have this Nation at heart he should join hands in proffering solution to end this chaos and collateral damages in the north east for goodness sake while will he wait till he is elected to office.. God will punish evil doers. #GEJITES4NAIJA #NO2BUHARI yare vote wisely people.
You people should continue alienating yourselves there and be saying all sort of rubbish . All is I know is that come febuary GEJ will rule this prestigeous country again. #GEJ4naija
I want to ask one silly question is BUHARI really going to Die? I don’t NO BUT If YES What is going to happen after? He should do something now that is not too late so. #NO2Buhari
investment facility concluded for 100 large scale integrated rice processing mills with total capacity for 2 million mt of milled rice per year. completion time of 24 mouths. mills to be owned and operated by the private sector. this will make Nigeria achieve self-sufficiency capacity for milling international quality rice, for the time ever in its history. Nigeria….
jonathan also brings a healing and uplifting spiritual quality to our politics at the very time when our worst enemy is fear fearless jonathan is the cure. he speaks a litany of hope rather than a litany of terror#.GEJ4NAIJA
We realy love BUHARI let him come out clean so he wont face any future confrontation when ever he bacomes the president in mybe 2020. #NO2Buhari
Mallam Garba Shehu is acting on losers remorse, i feel APC has lost hope of winning even before the elections. If u cant beat GEJ with your negative propaganda why not join him in the good works he’s doing in lifting this great nation?. #GEJ4NAIJA #NO2Buhari
sir u said something about the PDP looking for way to rigged the coming election….check and tell urself the truth….how did buhari came to power as an head of state,if could remember is by coup,so if any one is good in rigging election, it should be buhari, jonathan did not come to power by rigging the his first term in office but buhari came to power as an head of state by coup,…….#GEJ4NAIJA
mallam garba shehu kayi karya, munafuncin Apc ta ishemu nigeria! sai gudluck jonathan.#GEJ4Naija
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan have tried for a lot of youth in Nigeria creating job opportunity for them as u can see am one of them #GEJ4Naija
Its very true I think something should be done about this issue, much respect should be given to our dear president enough of all the insults and caricature of him. I heard a 14 years old boy in one country in Africa wrote on a social network abusing his president and he was jailed for that act. please let respect GEJ and his office people. so go out there and cast your vote for transformation and continuity.#GEJITES4NAIJA AND #NO2BUHARI
Next time you meet an APC supporter ask him why he needs change, you will just be surprise that he does not have any fact to support his arguement of change. Pls remember that change can be positive or negative, and I can tell all Nigerians that the change APC is bringing to us is negative one
MR Garba carrying propaganda against PDP will not help us, PDP is known of being peaceful if there is any death threat is from APC to PDP. GOODLUCK IS A MAN OF PEACE AND INTERGRITY, HE has never encourage VIOLENCE, all he wants is A CHANCE TO FINISH WHAT HE HAS STARTED, HE IS UP FOR TRANSFORMATION THAT WILL MAKE THIS COUNTRY A BETTER PLACE COME 2019.#GEJ4NAIJA
if u vote out Jonathan who is capable of leading n taking this country to the promise land who are we going to vote in? pls. we all know that Buhari do not have any thing to offer.#GEJNaija
this is not the time to vote for political parties, it is high time we look at the individual who is aspiring for any position, not minding the ethnicity or regional or selfish interest. how can buhari say when he is made the president that in the first week, Boko Haram will be a thing of the past? if he is not part of it why then can’t he suggest that possibly solution to the present government? these is very bad. is preprioustrious, is indignant.
It is of no use or meaning for us to pretend that there is no tremendous change at all in this country, when we can see the moribund train stations coming back to life, or the textile factories that have been praying for revival for so long, now functioning. What can we say about the racketeering of fertilisers by those that always benefits from where they did not sow, who have been sent packing by this government thereby prevening several billions of naira from going to them. or is it about the 150 classrooms built for the Almajiris in the north which has never happened in the history of this nation…and so on. Even former President Shehu Shagari commented about these changes, Let us face the facts and not fictions. GEJ is the man of the people, and he has our endorsements.#GEJ4Naija
Who said that PDP is not interested in issues-based campaign? The person is either blind to see what President Goodluck Jonathan’s government has achieved in the past 4 years of administration or that the person is deaf to hear all the issues-based and promising words of OUR President in his present campaign in all the states of Nigeria. Which Nigerian President has ever created the number of Al-majiri schools in northern Nigeria as President Jonathan did? Which part of the country are the most beneficiaries of GEJ’s present Agricultural transformation? The answer is THE NORTH. In the transport sector, Kano-Kaduna-Lagos railway has been revived under GEJ’s PDP government. Only in the North did the GEJ under PDP government established 6 new Universities, and 3 in the Southern part of the country. This is just to mention a few. Mallam Garba Shehu of the APC should tender a public apology to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the PDP.
#GEJ4naija lets support president Good luck transformation aganda
The first president to summon courage to unbundle electricity distribution after 52years, power supply more than doubled after almost 100years after amalgation {met power supply at about2,200mw, now4,237mw} states begin electricity distribution. #GEJ4Naija…….#NO2Buhari.
#GEJ4naija lets vote president Goodluck 4 2015
Jonathan is sober voice of reason at a time of unreason. he is the fellow keeping his head while all around him are panicking.he is the healing presence at a time of national division and strife.he is also new enough to the political process so that he doesn’t suffer from the terminally jaded cynicism, the seen- it all before syndrome afflicting most politicians in Nigeria. in that regard we Nigerians lucked out. it’s as if having despaired of our political process we picked a name from the phone book to lead us and that person turned out to be a very man we needed# GEJ4naija.
All APC are all loser in any way they come up with, PDP all the way #NO2Buhari
Mallam garba shehu why is it that APC are so troublesome? Apc are so bias! they derive pleassure in cheap blackmail instead of educating their supportters,throughout this campaign Apc has not constructed any positive crictisism or come up with issue base campaign instead, false allegation and the rest i bet you sir, Apc has nothing to offer nigerians #NO2Buhari
When we call a campiagn evidence we mean make it real not farbricating things so that people i mean nigerians should feel pity so u can get more vote from them when you know nothing about change.#NO2Buhari
Vote for GEJ the peoples choice, he has the nation at heart with all his achievements so far on ground he has plans for the unborn generation carry go GEJ we are behind you for real.@GEJITES4NAIJA.
so obvious APC people are
confused about what to say or do anymore.My
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan wiil be re_elected February 14th 2015.
#GEJ4Naija…..#NO2Buhari.
In the history of nigeria who among the past leaders has been faced with wat
is confronting GEJ today?? GEJ is faced with so many problems but
yet,he is still working. have you ever had roads like it is today? with d
distraction facing him. he is stil fixing our roads.they who had no
distraction couldn’t fix the rail transportation system, which has has been in a state of qumatus for over two decades but he now we can boast of a good working state of the art, train stations, KAI, MALLAM take time o, stop misleading a whole lot of Nigerians, GEJ has done a good job since been elected into offfice and will do more when re-elected. #GEJ4naija
GEJ don’t need to mudsling any shot at Buhari or APC, his performance and achievements over the past 6years will speak for him, the president is too busy campaigning and making plans towards the development of this great country Nigeria rather than buying advertorials to make death wishes to Gen Buhari. #GEJ4NAIJA #NO2Buhari
I think is hightime Mr president act as president to all dat is disrespecting him as a president and his party PDP#GEJ4Naija
jonathan is still the best……..I am just a concern citizen who think that looking is necessary before leaping…..GEJ all the way…….#GEJ4NAIJA
my people of nigeria buhari can never rule nigeria because he is not educated enough to ruled nigeriawe all saying that we dont want him to mislead nigeria weather result or no result we said no to buhari #NO2Buhari
#GEJ4naija
This is just simple politics not something the APC or GMB should take personal,no body or party is crisitizing anyone over the issue of school certificate or body fitness it is just a theory or a means to get point or vote from nigerians,for instance the APC’s fans have been saying all sort of bullshit about GEJ, Eg’ the president is a thife what nonesence but PDP is not taking it personal cause this is all about politics. Do u know that this campaign is an evidence campaign,so plz lets be fear; #GEJ4Naija
Most often than not, we try to look away from the truths, even when they are staring at us in the face. Literarily speaking, we all know the rigour of Presidency; the sleeplessness, the brain tasking meetings in ensuring that the nation is under peace and attractive enough for foreign investment. This is what I feel we should look at. So, PDP cannot in any way wish Buhari or his family any death.
Not only this, what can they say about the various attacks on the candidacy of PDP?,Is this the “change” they are advocating for? or their indirect way of brainwashing Nigerians into supporting their barbaric ways of silencing the true agent of positive changes that we have see in the last shortest time ever. Let it be known that the road to the future is always ahead. Nigerian cannot ask anything else now, but more of the good works they have witnessed in the last six years. Whoever the lord has blessed, no man, power, authority can stop him. GEJ is the general endorsement, let him leads on. #GEJ4Naija.
PDP IS NOT IN SUPPORT OF ANY DEATH ADVERT PLACE ON BUHARI, I THINK APC IS USING THOSE COMMENTS AGINST PDP #GEJ4Naija #NO2Buhari
mallam garba shehu will say anything to the media to rubbish the integrity and image of GEJ and PDP but it wont work. PDP will always remain a violent free party. #GEJ4NAIJA #NO2Buhari
charity begins at home, u told us that u can stop corruption yet u refuse to bring out your result for verification, a country as big as Nigeria cant be ruled base on assumption, we need fact and evidence, so because your little mind told u that PDP will still make case if buahri brings his result for verification does not make your not to do the right thing….was the big deal there, why to bring result go be big deal,if e no get result let him be honest about…#GEJ4NAIJA
PDP has always been a peaceful party, Members of the APC has been ones attacking opposition parties mainly the PDP, like the burning of a PDP campaign vehicle in Jigawa state,throwing pebbles at members of the PDP during one of the presidential rallies and so on. #GEJ4naija #NO2Buhari
despite opposition GEJ wins it ni matter what. He is the man on point #GEJ4Naija
Sir look for another topic all this is just a baseless arguement..The scenario on the issue based campaign, PDP has not in any way involve
it members in any kind of political violence. I guess it was just a
political propaganda from the enemies #GEJ4naija #NO2Buhari
Without attaching any form of sentiment i would say Mallam Garba ought to have taken certain things into consideration before making such heavy comments, to start with there is no proof whatsoever that the so called ‘Buhari’s death wish poster’ was actually made by the PDP, president Jonathan. But on a more serious note it’s high time somebody sincerely speaks the truth, i would say whoever is responsible for the advertorials in certainly not far from the truth, you don’t expect a 72 years old man with series of health issues to successfully bear the burden of a nation as complex as Nigeria for a whole four years, he is most likely going to break down in the process, but to an extent i would say that mallam Garba is only doing what he’s being paid to do (defend the APC no matter what), but if we must all tell our selves the truth, General Buhari should continue to act as an elder-statesman that he is and allow President Jonathan carry on with his good works if he truly has the interest of this great country at heart, A ruler like President Jonathan doesn’t come by easily so we should all work together to make sure he finishes the marvelous works he has already started. GEJ till 2019 #GEJ4Naija #NO2Buhari
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Goodluck is our last choice and there is no going back.GEJ4NAIJA
APC should stop adding sentiments to politics, Mallam Garba Shehu should be able to produce feasible evidence of all claims of deaths to Gen Buhari. President Jonathan is a man of peace despite all the attacks targeted towards him, he still remains humble as ever. #GEJ4NAIJA #NO2Buhari
GEJ/Yaradu’a kelt it in 2007, GEJ/Namadi kelt it again in 2011 and he will still kelt it in 2015 what abou buhari? buhari FAILED in 2003,2007,2011 and he will still FAIL in 2015
Johnathan remains loyal both in his party and his administration because he is a reliable and patriotic Nigerian who is slow to anger and can not even harm a fly ‘while buhari has been known for party cross carpeting as if he’s a prostitude he keeps jumping from one party to the other from ANPP to CPC and now APC is he a Lunard or that desperate? is it not clear to you mallam garba shehu that this so called buhari is unreliable and unpatriotic? #NO2Buhari
Mallam Garba shehu,looking at this issues very well i think there is a mixed up somewhere because i don’t know why a responsible gentleminded and God fearing man like Mr President will be wishing his fellow running mate dead, what will he gain from it? and come to think of it again jonathan is not the one owing the media company neither he is the one giving articles to the media to publish on newspaper, so i think mallam Garba shehu or what so ever he called himself is getting it all wrong here and its very very bad pointing accusing finger to PDP and Mr President on issues they don’t know anything about all in the name of Politics, i think PDP as a whole deserve apology from mallam Garba Shehu for laying false allegation against them. PDP is for peace and not for violence, and Mr President is Daddy peace and again in his word he said and i quote ”They don’t have anything to tell you for the six or so years of the President in office” What about 12 Federal Universities added to the ones we had
before, and the Al majiri school for the northern Al majiri children, Transformation of Agriculture sector, Transformation of transportation sector and so on, i think this man doesn’t know what he is saying at all . God bless PDP……. God bless Nigeria. #GEJ4Naija
Mr Garba Shehu to the best of my knowledge, PDP’s campaign has always been issue based because mr president has done it before and he is doing it again in terms of TRANSFORMATION AGENDA . WE NIGERIAN’S are awear of what was done in the AGRICULTURAL SECTOR which has gone along way to create EMPLOYMENTS, REVITALIZATION OF DEAD RAILWAYS AND TODAY NIGERIA IS AMONG THE FAST GROWING ECONOMY IN AFRICA.#GEJ4NAIJA
PDP is a very peaceful party that every one knows in Nigeria#.GEJ4naija.
I second Opia, it is wrong to preach hatred and lies.#GEJ4Naija… #No2Buhari
well I see such comment as baseless and not in line with the truth….#NO2BUHARI
buhari pack well 4 times trails uve failed go hug transforma joh GEJ wins it. #NO2Buhari
atleast PDP has self esteem unlike APC who wants to buy all telecom network to advertise. using advertorial to pass a message isnt an issue-based, if truly GMB has a ‘”common” certificate, he shud atleast show it so we will all know.sometimes i wonder why ppl keep saying its GEJ dis,GEJ dat, leave dis man to focus abeg,when does he have d time to go to a newspaper house and pay for advert, since this presidential campaign started,PDP has been peaceful bcus dats wat they preach,unlike APC who has been using their slogan”change”to cause havoc and destruction, GEJ all the way come FEBRUARY 2015.#GEJ4naija #NO2Buhari
#GEJ4Naija
It’s so obvious the so called All Progressive Congress {APC} people are confused about what to say or do anymore, come rain come shine My President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan wiil be re_elected February 14th 2015. #GEJ4Naija…..#NO2Buhari.
PDP is the only party in Nigeria that speaks against violence,they always maintain peace Nigerian. Nigerian should also remember that APC have attack PDP severally, killing their members and burning their campaign vechicles.Some of the areas where APC have carried attack on PDP are Katsina, Maiduguri and Niger state.#Gej4Naija…..#NO2BUHARI.
it is obvious that APC members are looking for every avenue to bring PDP down but the good work that Mr president has been doing will speak 4 him and the party. Weldon Mr president #GEJ4naija #NO2Buhari
Mr. Mallam for your information, this election will be won clear and simple by PDP because no matter how APC try to present Mr.president as clueless Nigerians home and abroad keep loving him. Also let me create your indulgence that the issue of calling names was started by APC. This administration has performed, all politicians are liars but this administration has hept to its word. If by circumstance Buhari enter that seat that is when many Nigerians will know that Goodluck is God sent.
All nigerians should know that the regime of GEJ has been a transparent one, he has played his part he has made every posible best to develop Nigerian economy from its grassroot. i wil love a situation that nigerians will open and shine their eyes not to settle for the present (crumps) but rather we should focus on the future we have to make nigerians a better place to be. please lets give GEJ a chance to complete what he has for us in the next 4 years. I remain loyal. #GEJ4Naija
Apc started this game of blackmail against PDP why are they now complaining about what they tought innocent PDP? their strong tool was blackmail against the inccubent president and his party now that they are at the recieving end, they are crying shamefully for who to rescue and save them from the same evil planted by them besides the advert was made by an individual who is entitle to his opinion. Apc shuld stop innvolving Mr President and PDP in their mess i will rather advice them to hug transformer come 14 febuary 2015 without long story, GEJ will be my val that same day PDP!!!!!!!!!!Power!!!!!!!!!!!#GEJ4Naija
PDP is the only party in Nigeria that speak against violence,they always maintain peace Nigerian. Nigerian should also remember that Apc have attack PDP several killing their member and burning their campaign vechicles.Some of the area were APC have carried attack on PDPare kastina,maiduguri and Niger state.
Dr.Goodluck Ebele Jonathan wins it 2015 #GEJ4Naija
Sir I think is high time PDP respond to all this allegations, as far as am consign PDP are to mature than that. About the advert on front page of a newspaper let Fayose face that, President Goodluck do not have hand in it and he has never mention APC in His campaign. All you people want is fight and We wont give it to u becos we are not like that. #GEJ4naija……….#NO2BUHARI
its actually an unfortunate situation here that Buhari volunteers could not even think like nigerian , the think as if they already have the nation. please we have to learn to be patriotic Nigeria in every aspect, being a FANATIC wont get us anywere. thanks #GEJ4Naija
if u vote out Jonathan who is capable of leading n taking this country to the promise land who are we going to vote in? pls. we all know that Buhari do not have any thing to offer
PDP didn’t call 4 any form of attack or death, they are for peace, they are not in support of any death or form of violence, it is APC dat keep burning PDP campaign cars and buses I witness different occasions where APC violence against PDP during their campaign, I urge u all to go and vote #GEJ4Naija2015
your very much on point….Nigerian seems to be suffering from memory lose!!!!!!! vote #GEJNaija
Presdent Jonathan, Sai ka yi ko ba posta!
Apc are just deceiving their-self, Boko BUHARI go and sleep ,my President Jona u must rule Nigeria 2015 Insha Allah
Despite what our humble president has done, the enemies are there fighting against him. what I know is that even in the land of the wicked he will always win..#GEJ4naija
Many respect mallam, but as the directorate of the media and publicity of the APC presidential candidate the only question that comes to heart after reading through ur interview is thus IS THIS AN ISSUE THAT CONCERNS THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN OR THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY OF PLAYING THE DIRTY POLITICS??? if your presumptions are right i feel you should let us the masses be the judge over this case and focus on the issues that affect us as Nigerians, not pointing fingers while doing the same thing, for me this is just another move by some desperate politiains under the group called APC looking for every available means to talk bad about our leader and the head of the Nigerian family…
pls mallam go and strategise on ways that the Buhari/Osibanjo government will affect the various parts of the economy, their vision for the youths, women and Nigerian children, the unemployed and unskilled youth, the students and graduate community. i pray that the ALMIGHTY ALLAH will grants you the grace and on that faithful day would give us our PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN to continue the good strides insha ALLAH. #GEJ4NAIJA #GEJWINSIT #GEJMYVAL
It is quiet disheartening to hear such words coming out of the mouth of an elderstatesman like Garba shehu whom i have so much respect for, dont forget posteritry will judge all of you. If you follow PDP campaign train either on television or live with them, you will understand that mr president has always mention his achievements to the electorates while the APC has been engaged in name calling with the likes of Amaechi, Tinubu, Oshiomole, Buhari and the rest pouring out vituperations against the person person and the office of Mr president. #GEJ4Naija.
To say the fact. PDP is not in support of any death advert placed on the Buhari. I can say that the advert was fabricated by some enemies from other camp. so that people might think perhaps is from the camp of PDP. the scenario on the issue based campaign, PDP has not in any way involve it members in any kind of political violence. I guess it was just a political propaganda from the enemies #GEJ4naija #NO2Buhari
GEJ (PDP) remains our chosen one no matter what APC is hypocrite.
Mallam Garba Shehu who is the Directorate of Media and Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Organisation need to mind what he says because you don’t say what you don’t know all in the name of politics.
I think it is hightime I expressed my political views. There is no doubt that Buhari’s campaign is doing very well, Offcourse the APC is playing a good game of politics since they hired the Barack Obama’s campaign strategist, and today Buhari is being sold to Nigerians as an agent of change. I wouldn’t blame the APC for a job well done, because it’s politics, and the ability of a politician to cajoule the people to your side is what matters at the end of the day.
I want to say I am disappointed in Nigerians, who have very short term memory, who are only looking at the biscuit-bone being dangled in front of them, and are so myopic to conspicuously see the handwriting on the wall. We are here saying Jonathan has failed us, what has he done in the past six years given to him? We have refused to look at the Freedom of information bill that was passed since 1999, but has been waiting for the Presidential assent for it to become a law, and Jonathan signed that bill into law and today, you and I can even go as far as abusing the same man who gave us the right to freedom of expression, freedom to have access to any information at any given time, without being killed or molested. Today, we have about 12 Federal Universities added to the ones we had before, and the Al majiri school for the northern Al majiri children, today, Nigeria has surpassed South Africa to be Africa’s largest economy with a nominal GDP of about $594.257 Billion dollars making us 21st, and GDP (PPP) $1.058 Trillion Dollars, making us the 20th largest economy in the world.
Have we forgotten that in the 70s and 80s, Nigeria’s economic mainstay was Agriculture, and by the late 90s and early 20s, Agriculture had been relegated to the fore, with oil accounting for 80% of our economy, but in 2014, President Jonathan boosted the Agricultural sector tremendously with it contributing 35% to our GDP, second after oil, fertilisers are being distributed to farmers at subsidised rates, and corruption in the fertilizer distribution completely eradicated with the introduction of ICT in the distribution process.
Have we forgotten about the national conference which has been successfully organised and very critical issues affecting the state of our nation discussed, and a resolution made, despite the frantic effort of the North to thwart this conference so that the truth about our nation would not be told? Have we forgotten the successful privatisation of the PHCN, something that has always been in the plan of Nigeria but will always be marred by corruption, but Jonathan succeeded in that, and we are in the path to revolutionising the power sector in Nigeria.
Have we forgotten the facelift of our airports? Have we forgotten the stance we took on homosexuality? Have we forgotten the electoral reform he made, such that today, Nigerians are very optimistic that the election will be free and fair, with others even tipping victory for Buhari, because Jonathan has made the electoral system to be trusted once more, unlike the previous years when an incumbent will boast that the election is a do or die affair, and nobody can do anything about it, as the elections are clearly rigged in our very before, and we all had to just accept it.
Today we have a President who believes in the rule of law, who believes in the supremacy of the Nigerian citizen, who believes in freedom, and rights for every Nigerian, yet, we call him a weakling, simply because he is not using force and aggression to rule us, and make us do things against our wills. Despite all these we say Jonathan has done nothing in the past six years, he has made the nation worse, he has done this and done that, yet we refuse to accept the books of the world Bank that Nigeria is the largest Africa economy, and we hear questions like “How is being the largest economy in Africa translated to your pocket?” but we don’t pause to see people building houses and buying cars and taking exotic trips around the world every now and then, if the economy weren’t good, where would we all get that money to live the outrageously extravagant and opulent lives we live and see everyday?
I want to remind us about the fact. A lot of us say this has nothing to do with ethnicity and tribalism, but believe me it has everything to do with ethnicity and tribalism, when I speak in favour of Jonathan, people tell me, it’s because I am a Southerner and Jonathan is a Southerner, if he was a Northerner would you support him, and defend him? Frankly, if Jonathan was a Northerner, do you think the North will call for his head the way they are calling for it now? No they will cover his deeds up, they will defend and protect him, they will find nothing wrong in what he is doing, why? Because he is one of them, because he is their brother, and because they believe they own this country and have the right to rule anyhow they want and anytime they want because power belongs to them, but let me remind you all, that for over 40 years, the north has been ruling this country, they brought us to the dilapidated state we were, they laid the foundation of the problems we have in this nation, and just when God chose someone from the south south to rule, they feel he has destroyed this nation, and they have the nerve to attack his convoy, and the most ridiculous thing is we the Southerners are turning against our brother and claiming he is not our brother, who told you the north will ever consider you their brother? How many Northerners have done terribly despotic and tyrannical things in Nigeria, and how many Northerners, rose up to condemn them? Northern Presidents/Heads of State has deprived us of democracy five times, and nobody atttacked their convoys or said any condemning words against them.
Obasanjo today is talking how Jonathan has failed Nigerians and promised he was only going for a single tenure, what about him who swore to an oath of office to every Nigerian and the world which was watching, to rule for two tenures, and then when he completed his two terms in office, he took our resources, to start canvassing for how he could amend the constitution so he could come for a third term, and today he has the teremity and gusto to ask Jonathan not to to contest again, someone that is constitutionally empowered to go two terms, and Nigerians have all of a sudden forgotten he contributed to this mess, and are busy listening to the Ota man because he has alligned with the north to paint Jonathan as the devil. Some people do not deserve to utter a word in this country, wasn’t he Obasanjo who brought in Jonathan? Didn’t he tell us Jonathan was the right man for the job? Because a child has suddenly decided to be a man, and start making his decisions, the old man thinks he has failed Nigerians.
And this is my fear for Buhari, the man is simple, he doesn’t have the money a typical Nigerian politician has, he is being supported by the likes of Tinubu, Atiku, Okorocha, Amaechi, etc, who are seriously funding his campaign, now Nigerians tell me, if Buhari who told Nigerians that he has no money, and took a loan from the bank to buy his Presidential form, and is today, organising one of the best campaigns in Nigeria, knowing fully well he has no money and campaigns are exorbitant (expensive), isn’t it rather obvious that the likes of Tinubu, Amaechi, Atiku, Okorocha and co are funding his campaign? If Buhari wins as President tomorrow, would he have the courage to resist the overwhelming influence and control of these political juggernauts? How can he implement the plan he has for Nigeria, when these men have heavily sponsored his presidential bid?
Buhari said he would fight corruption and jail every corrupt Nigerian and politician who has stolen from the nation’s treasury, would he also prosecute those people who have sponsored his campaign and send them to jail? because you and I know who these guys are, and you can’t tell me they are perfect and would not be found wanting. Can he throw every corrupt politician, past and present in jail, knowing fully well, they made him President? By the way, who would be ruling this country, is it Buhari or Tinubu, Atiku, Okorocha and Amaechi? Does Buhari have the will and courage to say no to these people when he wants to make his decisions that they may not share with him? Can he be like Jonathan who stopped listening to Obasanjo and made his decisions as the President? Can Buhari do all these?
My fear is not Buhari, my fear is the people around and behind him, they look to me, that they are only presenting Buhari as a mere figure head, and when he eventually wins, they will be the ones to rule this nation.
Please think twice before you put this country into another deep mess, because the APC hired a good campaign strategist who has succeeded in blindfolding Nigerians into believing that the APC and Buhari mean well and are the change for Nigeria only so we are trapped in another four years of even worse turmoils. It is better you stick to the man you all know for once who won’t trample on your rights and freedom, who won’t let anyone push him around, and makes his decisions with his team of experts who are steering this nation on course.
We have seen what Jonathan can do and cannot do, there is nothing surprising he would do to us, don’t vote for a party who criticises corruption and the PDP, but are so quick to embrace any defecting PDP member into their folks. The same PDP which is termed corrupt and a failure by the APC, when their defectors come to your party, you embrace these same corrupt men, and they try to sell them to us, we are wiser than that.
Don’t be decieved by the change you hear, it’s fake, yes you will get change if Buhari wins, but what kind of change? The one where the President is not the boss, but answers to the boss or a group of people who are the bosses.
Be careful, and be warned, so next four years you don’t start remembering Jonathan and wishing he was the President.
Shun the foolery, vote President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan for sustained democracy and the improved future of our great Nation. Vote #GEJ4Naija
GEJites
Mr Mallam, it seems age is catching up to you, how can you say PDP campaign is not issue based, do I need to remind you all GEJ achieved, it is visible to the blind and audible to the death….
Lets set the record straight, the so called advert was never at anytime credited to neither of Mr Jonathan and his family nor was it credited to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, so why would a respected man in Mallam Garba Shehu insuniate that the PDP and Goodluck Jonathan are sending death wishes to the APC candidate. Stop pendling falsewood, and preching gospels of hatred and lies.
Secondly, what do you call issues, except if you call backmail isuues will i give you a pass for addressing issues, or how has the party addressed the insistent physical attack of Goodluck Jonathan and vandalization of properties belonging or carrying Jonathans pictures or PDP logo by people loyal to Buhari and APC.
OGA, remove the log of wood in your eye before planning on helping PDP and Jonathan with the peck in theirs