Tough luck: Travails, sufferings of sick Nigerians who are not as ‘lucky’ as Buhari

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ARUKAINO UMUKORO writes on how Nigerians are groaning under the poor state of public healthcare in Nigeria, while the country’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, can afford several weeks of medical vacation abroad

When Joe Memeh was diagnosed with cancer last year, President Muhammadu Buhari was just about to travel abroad on a 10-day vacation to get medical treatment for an ear infection.

However, unlike Buhari, Memeh, a retired naval officer who was 76 at the time of the diagnosis, could not afford to travel abroad for treatment.

His family took him to a government hospital in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. First, they took him to the General Hospital, Igando, then to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja; where he was referred again to the Military Hospital, Yaba; and then to the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta and finally, to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Memeh’s son, Buwa, told SUNDAY PUNCH it was depressing whenever he remembered his father’s travails.

He said at each hospital, health workers gave a list of reasons why he could not be treated. “The common thing with all the hospitals was that he was not allowed to come down from the car. They were prompt in bringing up their problems – It was either there was no bed space at all or they did not have available medical personnel because they were on strike. And their only remedy was a referral.

“In LUTH, the nurses were on strike. It was a doctor who came to see us and told us there was no need wasting our time. In LASUTH, they didn’t even allow him to come down from the car when they told him there was no bed space. We were asked to go even when I volunteered to bring a bed,” Buwa told SUNDAY PUNCH.

At LUTH, they were told that, since there was no bed space available, they could admit him in a private wing which the younger Memeh said would have cost the family about N2m.

Confused and frustrated, Memeh’s family rushed him from the hospital to a private clinic. However, the doctors said they could not handle the case, and referred him back to the same government hospitals where there were no bed spaces or nurses available. “They said the best place for him to be treated was the teaching hospital,” Buwa recollected, with pain in his eyes.

With no other option, Joe Memeh was taken home, and a day later, at 1pm, he died, depressed and a broken man.

“My dad was a brilliant and educated person. In my car, when we left the hospital, he shook his head and cried. He said to me, ‘I realise what Chinua Achebe meant when he said, There was a country. Indeed, my son, you can now understand what he meant; these are part of the reasons.’ I was driving, but I could feel the pain he was going through,” Buwa told SUNDAY PUNCH.

Buhari has travelled abroad for medical treatment for four times since 2015. The last trip, which ended on Friday, saw him spending 49 days in the United Kingdom.

“I have rested as much as humanly possible. I have received, I think, the best of treatment I could receive,” Buhari said on Friday to a meeting with some governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress.

But for the Memehs, a year on, there has been no cheer. They are still dealing with the pain of losing a father they believed could have been saved if the country had quality healthcare facilities.

“Our President had an ordinary ear infection and he travelled out of the country. My dad had a more severe ailment, cancer. I feel bad that my dad couldn’t get any proper healthcare. It is painful because one cannot compare ear infection and cancer. My dad needed to stabilise his health, at least he would have had more time on earth. It is only in this part of the world that leaders enjoy first class treatment but the citizens don’t, it is really frustrating. If you have not been in that situation, you would not understand how it feels. Now this is what lots of Nigerians suffer, but if I were not a victim, I wouldn’t have known. In Nigeria, one cannot rely on the government.”

Nigerians die daily from lack of health care services

A businessman, Wale Ogunjimi, in his 30s, said he had since given up hope in the country’s health system following a recent experience.

“I had a serious ear infection and because I couldn’t afford to go to a private hospital. I was directed to the General Hospital in Ikorodu, Lagos State, for treatment. I ended up waiting for about nine hours just to see the doctor because there were so many people being attended to at the time for different ailments.”

Ogunjimi said he would have died if he had been battling a more serious ailment. “Many people go through pains just to see doctors and nurses at general hospitals. I was lucky. Some people with more serious ailments had to come back the next day to see a doctor or nurse because there was none to attend to them that day.

“Two weeks ago, an 11-year-old in my area died of malaria because he could not get treatment on time at the general hospital. There are so many cases like that. If our president can travel for an ordinary ear infection, that means there is no hope for the common man like us,” Ogunjimi said.

Empty medical ward at the Central Hospital, Benin following a doctors’ strike last year

It is commonplace to see patients and family members waiting or sleeping outside the wards in many of the country’s general hospitals due to lack of bed space, medical personnel or facilities for proper treatment. Those who cannot afford private healthcare are left to fate, and thousands have died due to lack of proper health care in Nigeria’s government hospitals. In some teaching hospitals, patients with critical illnesses have had to bear the agony of rescheduled surgeries due to lack of essential medical supplies and facilities.

This is the reason Kingsley Ezeamalu believes the country’s poor health system, and not cancer, killed his sister, 39-year-old Uju Okafor.

In 2014, Okafor had three cancerous lumps removed from her breasts. A year later, she had a mastectomy at a private clinic in Surulere, Lagos, which was followed by a six-course chemotherapy.

However, the end unravelled for Okafor when it was time for her post-mastectomy radiotherapy. There was no radiotherapy machine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, in Anambra State, where she worked. At the neighbouring Enugu State Teaching Hospital, the only machine they had, had broken down.

She was faced with the same stark reality at the teaching hospitals in Benin, Edo State, and the National Hospital, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

“For eight months, she travelled around the country in search of equipment for her chemotherapy. She travelled to Lagos in May last year when she was told that the once faulty radiotherapy equipment in LUTH had become operational again. But the equipment broke down some days later before it got to her turn,” Kingsley said.

Sadly, it was too late for Okafor when she was eventually taken to a private hospital in the state where they had the machine. She died a few weeks later in May. She left behind a distraught husband and a son.

“Maybe she would have survived if there were radiotherapy machines in these teaching hospitals,” Ezeamalu said.

There are only seven radiotherapy machines for a country with over 170 million people. Only two of them are functional.

It is the same for many other ailments, with little or no facilities readily available to treat them in the country’s public hospitals.

The Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, with a yearly budget of N167m or about four per cent of the N3.87bn capital allocation for State House Medical Centre, Aso Villa, Abuja, the official home of the Presidency, is one of the country’s tertiary hospitals in need of urgent funding.

“My cousin who had a car accident last year was taken to the teaching hospital for treatment, but because they place was overcrowded, they couldn’t attend to him on time, we had to wait for several hours. He died as a result of lack of healthcare,” said Francis Amadi, who noted that many in the hospital were abandoned by the hospital staff when their cases could not be handled.

The immediate past president, Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr. Mohammed Askira, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the country’s dysfunctional public healthcare system had caused preventable deaths.

“I have several instances of deaths from poor or unavailable healthcare. I am going to give you one prominent one. A former minister of state for labour and employment and his family could not be saved after their car had an accident on one of the busiest highways in Nigeria. He was travelling between Abuja and Kaduna expressway.

“Unfortunately, this man and some of his family members could have been saved if between Abuja, from Zuba to Kaduna, there were one or two functional healthcare facilities that attend to accident and other medical emergencies. But we lack manpower and facilities to attend to emergencies. The truth is, the healthcare system in Nigeria is pathetic and we are running a grossly dysfunctional system.”

A medical doctor, Kingsley Ekwuazi, noted that poverty, lack of facilities in public hospitals and well-trained medical personnel in the public health system were major clogs in the country’s health sector.

“Ordinary Nigerians die every day because they cannot afford or access quality healthcare services.  I know of a woman who gave birth and was referred to a general hospital. She had renal failure and died later because she could not afford dialysis. Most government hospitals now charge for health services, unlike before, where most of these services used to be free,” he said.

Statistics that shame a nation

In October last year, the Minister of State for Health, Dr.Osagie Ehanire, said Nigeria was spending over $1bn annually on medical treatment, noting that the Federal Government was committed to improving health facilities nationwide to stem the tide.

But that tide may take a while to abate as millions of Nigerians groan under the burden of a lack of or poor health care system.

Nigerians reportedly spend at least $3bn (over N1trn) annually on medical tourism annually. An Indian doctor, who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation by his employers in his home country and in Nigeria, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the Indian government makes about $100m from Nigeria alone as a result of medical tourism.

“Half of that sum is spent on treating top Nigerian public officials in India, from top civil servants to your lawmakers. Some of them just come to Indian hospitals for simple medical check-up that can be easily done in Nigerian hospitals. If the right structures are put in place in Nigerian hospitals, from facilities to skilled/trained personnel, at least half of the medical tourism money will stay in Nigeria,” the Indian doctor added.

The US, Germany, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and India are the top four destinations for medical tourism by Nigerians, the doctor said.

Also, statistics from the World Health Organisation show that about 2,400 children under the age of five and almost 200 women of childbearing age die daily due to ineffective health services.

“Every year, 100,000s of children below the age of five die because of malaria and complications of malaria, while 824 women die per every 100,000 live births in Nigeria. It is terrible,” said Askira.

Nigeria has the highest rates of maternal and child deaths after India, and accounts for about 10 per cent of under-five deaths globally.

Just recently, the Federal Government allocated N3.87bn to the State House Medical Centre, Aso Villa, Abuja, a sum that is more than the total capital budget of the country’s 16 Federal Government teaching hospital, which are usually under-staffed, overcrowded and lacking in major facilities for routine healthcare services and medical emergencies.

Experts have said the Aso Villa medical centre’s budget of N3.87bn would have built at least 76 PHCs in many rural communities in Nigeria.

For a country of over 170 million people, there are not enough Primary Health Care centres in 36 states across the country. In addition, most of them are in various state of disrepair or abandonment.

Recently, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said the Federal Government hopes to achieve a target of 10,000 revitalised PHCs nationwide.

A litany of foreign medical trips: Buhari, Yar’Adua, Jonathan, others

In April 2016, the Federal Government said that it would not provide funds for any government official to travel abroad for medical treatment unless the case could not be handled in Nigeria.

However, economic analysts say the Federal Government has reportedly spent billions of naira of taxpayers’ money on these medical trips abroad.

In November 2009, the late President Umaru Yar ’Adua was hospitalised for about five months in Saudi Arabia for an undisclosed ailment. Nigerians were, however, kept in the dark until Yar ‘Adua died in May, 2010 and it was revealed that he had been battling a heart condition.

His then Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan, who took over the reins of power following Yar ‘Adua’s death, was then elected in 2011 as President. In 2014, Nigeria’s then First Lady, Patience Jonathan, was reportedly flown to Germany from Abuja for surgery for an undisclosed ailment. On her return, after several subtle denials from the presidency, Dame Patience, speaking during the farewell service in honour of the Jonathans’ at Aso Villa chapel on May 17, 2016, said she had gone for major operations during the re-election campaign of her husband, Goodluck Jonathan. “I almost died,” she reportedly said.

The wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Stella, died in a Spanish hospital, following a liposuction procedure that went awry.

Similarly, several of Nigeria’s former presidents and top politicians have gone abroad for medical treatments.

Aside from the presidents and their spouses, key government officials, including some state governors, have also embraced foreign hospitals for routine check-ups and medical treatments.

In September 2015, former Akwa Ibom State Governor and now Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, travelled to the UK after sustaining injuries in a car crash in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

This was despite the construction of standard specialist hospital in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital by the former governor, in his time.

The former governor, during the opening of the hospital, had said the health facility, which reportedly cost about N30bn of taxpayers money to build, would dissuade Nigerians from travelling abroad for medical treatment because the expertise is now available in the state.

A faulty health system, national budget

The Nigerian health system operates along a three-tier system – primary health care at the local government level, secondary health care at state level and tertiary health care at federal level. However, primary health care, which was designed as the cornerstone of Nigeria’s health policy and is the first point of contact for most Nigerians within the healthcare system, has been neglected for decades.

Teaching hospitals in Nigeria are overcrowded because the other levels of healthcare in the country – primary and secondary healthcare – are not functional or available, said Prof. Kayode Osagbemi, of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara State.

“If the PHCs are not well grounded, funded and well supervised, people would naturally boycott them and go to the teaching hospitals. But these teaching hospitals cannot concentrate on complications, research and training because of these drawbacks; we don’t have enough consultant specialists, and the ones that are available do not have a functional system to work with. So, these teaching hospitals handle other cases that should have been taken care of by the PHCs and secondary health centres because their levels are not near optimum.”

Osagbemi noted that the major causes of death in Nigeria are malaria, measles, malnutrition and other infections, and pregnancy-related or childbirth-related cases.

The exodus of Nigerian doctors to other climes for greener pastures is also a major headache for the public health system in Nigeria. According to the Vice President, Commonwealth Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, who is also a former President of the Nigerian Medical Association, there are about 3,000 Nigerian-trained doctors in the UK and about 5,000 in the United States.

Nigeria’s annual health budget, compared to other African countries, is abysmally poor, Askira added.

Osagbemi also noted that Nigeria’s annual health budget is usually below the 15 per cent recommended by the World Health Organisation.

The country’s health budget has been on the decrease since 2011. In 2013, only 5.6 per cent was allocated for the health sector.

Askira said this was a major factor contributing to the poor state of healthcare in the country.

He said, “If you compare with most other countries in Africa, Nigeria is the one with the poorest budgetary allocation for the health sector. In 2017, about 4.1 per cent of the national budget was budgeted for the health sector, which is in contravention of the Abuja Declaration of 2001 that says 15 per cent of the country’s annual budgetary allocation should go to the health sector.  If the health sector is not adequately funded, there would be problems. For any country to have sustainable development, it must critically fund three sectors: health, education and security. In Nigeria it is very poor.”

Nigeria’s 2017 budget is N7.298tn, with N304bn provided for the health sector. The per capita value of the 2017 health budget is about N1,700, an amount not enough for the effective treatment of malaria. Less than five per cent of the country’s combined (federal and state governments) budget of about N13.5tn is to be spent on public health in 2017.

Askira said thousands of Nigerians die daily because the Federal Government had failed to provide the citizens with  quality and affordable healthcare.

“Effective, affordable healthcare is not available to Nigerians because the primary healthcare is neglected, secondary health care is in tatters, and the tertiary tier has no adequate facilities or motivated manpower because salaries are not well paid and on time,” he said.

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0 thoughts on “Tough luck: Travails, sufferings of sick Nigerians who are not as ‘lucky’ as Buhari

          1. if he is brain dead, then his contemporaries are cadavers
            he is not the ultimate but he is a lot better than the others

          2. better democrat
            freedom of association
            in so many respects
            look, to move forward, we need to be objective in our reasoning
            so much he can do better but a lot he has done as well
            if the others spent 20% of the time they spend trying to usurp him governing their states, things will be a lot better
            GEJ is not the only political office holder in Nigeria
            have you thought of how much state receives from the FG? your LGA?
            we should also extend the searchlight to them.

          3. Hahaha u r jst lookin for pity for d otuoke donkey… why r u naming all those under him, isn’t he supozd to be incharge of dem n correct or punish dem wen they’re goin wrong? but how? When he neva drink ogogoro finish.. buhahaha

    1. I guess he wants to return the brain-dead zombie he fostered on the nation back to the Otuoke zoo first . You have any issues with that ?

    2. Notice me? Dis man has been president for 3terms.. try n get noticed like dat first.. that ape is better than u in all aspects

    3. why did you want him to go back to ota, he is telling the whole world that he still active no matter the criticism.

    1. And by the way,who is this size XXXXXXL?Oh! You took it after your Madam frequent traveller?then your name must be change from Ramus to BIG-RAMOTA pending your defection to the side of The Progressive.

        1. how can you say that all yoruba are the same,that is the mistake you’ve made that shows you are not knowledgeable enough, it shows that you are an igbo person, why are you been bias on here.

    2. obj has really done well for this country, this is a man that have sacrifice everything to make sure that everything goes, but still yet people still criticize him, obj government is still better than jonathan.

    1. obj is only doing his job, even thought the past wasn’t good, at least you can still tell the whole world that there is always time for change.

  1. So how this story come affect the price of garri..Punch the spokesperson for Amaechi, is he the only governor in the country?

    1. Is Punch the only newspaper online ? How come you are here so early to read Punch “spokesperson for Amaechi”. What happened to your NTA and ThisDay ? Confess it, you can’t do without reading Punch !

      1. Am here because of time difference my guy….I cant do without punch as it gives me the opportunity to see how myopic some Nigerians are as it relates to the affairs of the country thus providing me a platform to instil little contribution to the growth of the nation lol

        1. You want to instil knowledge and yet you do not know the press is free to report whomever and whatever makes the news. You can’t give what you don’t have. Has the same Punch not been reporting the Clown Prince’s recent visit to churches and traditional rulers ? Did you have any issues with that ? Has Jang and Akpabio any project to commission and Punch did not report it ? U claimed to be on the other side of the world and want to dictate what news Punch in lagos decide to print ?

          1. Stay here dey call GEJ names when you don smoke finish while him dey rule you till tomorrow!

        2. One could have expected a very sound and intelligent response from you,considering your”claimed”of exposure,but you choosed to be on a weak defense,thereby given us an impression that you ain’t prepared and even matured enough to contribute on this platform.

  2. Rivers people are saying that these projects are about the only projects of amaechi’s administration and have been commissioned at least 3 times in the past by different people, are there no other projects to be commissioned? This is naked fraud!

    1. Mr. Ashawo, could you avail us with the names of the people who commissioned the projects the two other times please ? Or is this “naked” rumor you are spreading ?

        1. Asking you to substantiate your allegation with facts is not civil, Mr. Ashawo ? Obviously you live by beer-parlour gist and an hypocrite. You can’t take what you dish to others.
          You accuse Rivers govt of naked fraud and I ask if you are spreading naked rumour and you decide to choke on the bottle. If you can’t stand the heat, don’t bother come into the kitchen next time !

          1. Apparently you feel intimated ! Give us the names of the people you alleged commissioned same project two other times and u have been hallucinating since. Your IQ is no different from that of an average garage tout !

          2. Give us the names of the people you alleged commissioned same project two other times …. how difficult is that ?

          3. Moron if that info is meant for me alone then u can die with it . He wants something back for an info that should benefit all; they have replaced what they called “born-to-rule” mentality with “na-our-turn -to-loot” mentality. You are irredeemable …. I am not sure if it is the polluted water or the bottle though but something is definitely not right with you. And I wouldn’t expect someone conceived in a brothel (Ashawo) to be right really !

          4. The dude is exposed to many things since childhood, can you imagine an household full of sapele water and the family name na Asawo.

          5. Whether you believe it or not does not change the fact that those projects have been commissioned at least 3 times before now!

          6. Can you please compare the Ashawo you just spelt and his name you know there is a different between the yoruba “oko” and the Akwa ibom or Ibos pronunciation of “oko”..If you don’t have any other thing to say keep off this page with your bad character and stop increasing the numbers of comment so that we can have more time to read relevant comment from people who cares to learn..

          7. Please kindly do the needful and stop messing up….just mention the names and forget story.

          8. why is it that some people will just come on here and be using abusive words on here, instead of some people to come on here and share their views rather insulting people on here.

          9. which can prove are you looking for again, we have been asking for the missing 20 billion i think they should able to bring out the missing money.

          1. Accent in writing ? Do u just use english without knowing the meaning or you are hugging the bottle too early in the day ?

          2. Ha ha ha!
            Even their son hugs the bottle day and night, sapele water dey sweet them naa.

          3. Old boy, don’t mind them; what does ‘Asawo’ mean in your dialect?. just want to know please.

          4. we are waiting for jonathan come 2015 to pack his loads and go back to his come state, because this the time we need change.

          5. If someone is saying is past wrong doing,why cant we give him a chance to speak more,please Baba we need more confession and we will forgive u.

          6. Who among Obj,Thiefnubu and Jonathan look more like someone who drink ogogoro or sekpe..its the first two,Obj and behave even more like a drug addict and that’s the apc yoruba leader..that’s why his supporters talk like one too..always insulting people as if they don’t have training at home..tan buruba..

          7. But it’s on record that Dumbo Jo was so pissed after consuming his beloved ‘ogogoro’ that he couldn’t even remember his name at the UN Convention!

          8. it seems you don’t have a reasonable something thing to talk on here, so are you telling me that gej is innocent, we are all waiting for him come 2015, because change is about to happen.

          9. o’l boy,i don’t know where i can categorise you. Even your bro Dumbo is not understandable when he’s on the bottle too.

          10. Commander-in-thief ! Officially it is $20b missing and still counting. Unofficial is anyone’s guess.

          11. You talk like someone that’s insane but I guess you are you even follow up the commission set up by the house to investigate and come out with the truth..are you aware that Mrs Okonjo Iweala the Finance minister and mrs Alison Maduakwe Petroleum minister both told the commission to bring an independent forensic auditors to verify all the claims allegedly said by apc member of the CBN..when the truth is known,you shall know that the likes of Sanusi is only acting the script of his party and political mentor Buharam..may be by then you will realise that you are been used by apc leaders..

          12. this two minister have steal our money, they are the one spoiling nigeria economy, they have to be sacked, they are just there deceiving and telling nigeria that jonathan is working.

          13. Dunderhead! When you are chatting,you are assumed to be talking.Hence,accent is quickly acknowledged.

          14. Tunde and the 15 ups i guess you all are illitrate to notice there’s what we called Accent in writing.. A very well educated fellow from the US or UK will tell u where u belong via your writing English unless you’re also very litrate then there wont be an accent in your writings… Go back to school pals.. Now let the olodos start their thumbs down and insult which the yoruba people are fond of…

          15. Mr Literate who thinks a well educated fellow is from US and UK and yet can’t spell literate. Talk of inferiority complex. Have you heard the Scots speak english before ? Does the Scot write english different from the way an English will write it ? NUMSKULL! Once they are able to serve at McDonalds with their 6-months Visiting Visa , they become noisy !

          16. Soh!! don’t you know that these guys can’t write any sensible sentence without taking good dose of Kainkain.

      1. My brother, lets call a spade a spade, maybe you have never lived in Rivers sates. Asawo is very right. Amaechi is only fooling himself, its a pity an old man like OBJ is a party to it.

        1. Yes we don’t live in Rivers and since he lives there it should not be rocket science for him to name those he alleged to have commissioned same project twice in the past. And you are welcome to help him out to mention the names.
          And i guess you live in the North to know an average northerners support Boko Haram … abi ?

          1. is a lie, you’ve lied, how can someone commissioned same project twice it seems you don’t know what you are saying. pdp has failed nigeria. this is the time we need change.

        2. how do you know that amaechi is fooling himself, this is the only the first govrernor of all that has giving the people of river state what they want, can’t you see all what he has done, why must we come on here and be criticizing someone that has really done well for his people.

    2. Mr Asawo, which rivers people are saying ur clams? Have u become a people? U should rather keep silent if u don’t what to say

        1. asawo it seems you don’t have anything to say on here, you just come on here and be criticizing people on here.

    3. You need a brain replacement if you cannot mentioned those that had previously commissioned those projects . You hated Amaechi but God loves him.

    4. You must be out of your mind. Previously you said Amaechi never commission any project, now you are saying the same project had been commissioned 3 time. It seems you are confused. Must you call a Dog a bad name to hang it.

      1. don’t mind those pdp, they just come on here and be saying rubbish, they don’t like seeing good things around them.

    5. this shows that you have not been in river state and see what is happening,amaechi has really done well for river state people, he deserve to be well commended for the good job he has done. i will also implore you that you should go round the state and see what is happening.

    1. Don`t be fooled by this Ota beast.
      Let him confess the abomination he did by sleeping with his son`s wife, and not talking crap about politics k-leg statement.

      1. what has he done that you want him to make him to confess, this is a man that has so much all the necessary infrastructure in place, but it seems gej can’t do anything about it, he just there doing nothing.

  3. Come to think of it, if not for Wike who stood firm here in nigeria pursuingthe court matters for the ingrate Amaechi, will this otta man come here to wag his mouth?, now Wike has turned a detractor. May God forgive both of you.

    1. Lets see how that your Wike in collaboration with Madam pieces,will overcome the political tsunami that is coming there way come May 2015.

      1. wike is being backed by the president that is the main reason he saying all sort of statement. i know that amaechi has really tried for him.

    2. chuku it shows that you have not been reading news, can’t you listen to what amaechi said, he said wike is ungreatful he said he made him who he is today. wike has really betray amaechi, but only time will tell.

  4. obj will surely confess on how they looted the he shut anambra down with mere thugs and what he did with excess petro dollars&16b power fraud,alternate head of inec and ceding our brethren to paul biya.The list is endless.abacha may even be a saint when compared.

    1. You forgot to add the mother of all his crimes; how he bequeath to the nation two sick men; one had no kidney and the other had no brain !

        1. Johnson, though the reply was nice, but is it not also suffice to say that Baba Obasanjo appeared to be moderately sincere in all his speeches above? I watched the whole picture yesterday at the gala night where the issue between Ameachi and Baba was unravelled and settled.

          On this note, I regard Baba for being outspoken and straightforward. He even advised Ameachi never to say some people were his enemies. Baba told Ameachi frankly that he should concentrate on whatever that he is doing in line with his sincere conscience. He must not be distracted by his bigoted belief that he has enemies.

          Though Baba wrongly imposed Yaradua and Jonathan on Nigerians through his political antics. That was part of unilateral actions over which Baba should equally wait for the Supreme Being’s judgement. If his intention was good then, God will surely judge him rightly. But if the intention was the contrary, he will equally be judged accordingly. I rest my case.

          1. He imposed Imposed your fake Yaradua and Jonathan on Your own Nigeria, I and many other Nigerians, vote for the Original Yaradua and Goodluck in this current Nigeria.

          2. You guys really think you own this country eh? What a delusion. WE VOTED FOR GEJ AND ARE GEARING UP TO DO IT AGAIN.

          3. we voted for GEJ thinking that he was the messiah but now his true color is shown,he is a looter of FG funds so we are voting him out this time around

          4. We don’t need a leader who thinks only when he has finished talking. let us vote wisely this time around.

          5. gej is now doing the samething that he did in 2011, he is now going around the country to beg for vote, i think his cheap talk won’t happen this time around.

          6. …old boy stop crying.Try and key into many of GEJ’s laudable empowerment programs and your hunger and anger will vanish. The federal government can only provide an enabling environment and NOT cash in your pocket. Let down your foolish pride and try agriculture. I can guarantee that once you start EARNING some money,you will see GEJ in a different light.

          7. which laudable empowerment has he done, this is the same gej nigeria asked him about the missing 20 billion fund he can’t account for it. he also used the sure p project to steal our money and is now telling nigeria he has create so many job in all the countries, they are just there deceiving nigeria. we need change.

          8. ….which 20 billion y man? I don’t have time for pepper soup joint kind of gossip. How can 20 Billion dollars be missing in a country without any proof.You should be smarter than falling for all this “opposition” insinuations. Some of us are not fools in this country.
            Just key into his agricultural projects and make something for yourself.All this rantings will not take you anywhere.

          9. We all? Old boy you are on your own if you choose to swallow whatever you read in the opposition Punch newspapers.Speak for yourself alone please.

          10. ..if you cannot or refuse to see what The Man is doing,it is your funeral.Majority of us can and you have just one vote.

          11. Quit fooling yourself, you are in the minor minority. It will be easy to chase your like out of town for Nigeria to progress. A fool for 15 years is certainly a born fool.

          12. Only a mad person will choose to walk around with his cloth intact, while his kinsmen is going about naked, GEJ is already there, there is No vacancy in aso rock

          13. Mr Man come on with new thing, and stop repeating yourself on daily, how can you make 50 comment and all of them are still saying the same, o boy stop your duplication of tenses, if you don’t know what to say, you better stay clear and allow people to Contribute, tomorrow if you want comment, na still the same thing, GEJ this and that, APC your saviour and PDP your devil.

          14. You are not democratic enough by abusing people based on their opinion, you are free to choose, so leave others to do so as well, stop being childish.

          15. I will vote for him and you are the fool proper who will vote for apc nay boko haram. May your generations be cursed, beast!

          16. so you want to vote for darkness, that shows that you don’t like change. you want your children children to suffer from this so called failure of pdp.

          17. …in that case we will vote for Buhari or Amaechi or even Ango Abdulahi or Atiku …are we smart now? Give me a smile now that I have proven myself to be a smart guy…







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          19. You have got one vote and within your right to be foolish so please do it again but the will of the majority must prevail !

          20. You are right my Brother, it shows the Kind of Family all them came out from, mostly that Goblin you are responding to

          21. @babakeau..Who re you giving this title;”BABA?”..With shame i read your article which has three paragraphs each mentioning baba twice,i ask you again, who is that Baba?..its a shame that people like you will envoke a title the Yorubas give to a worthy elder to a man who slept with his son’s wife, maimed his own children and also determined to destroy Nigeria bcos one man is about to rule 11 yrs as a president, thereby surpassing his record.This Egba/yewe elder, is he worthy to be called BABA?…i PITY YOU

          22. A man who ruled / governed a Country twice not by asking for , but by the ruling class pressurizing him to, a man who proved himself to be decisive , even to the point of stepping on toes when the occasions demanded, a man did not ” impose ” his own tribesmen on Nigeria when he left office , a man under who Nafdac , EFCC, GSM, Football, thrived , a man who never granted his friends caught stealing amnesty after conviction but rather would enforce their conviction , a man who in his private capacity is respected by and can access world leaders sitting Nigerian leaders cannot. They respect and regard him but we do not appreciate him. My bro he deserves to be called Baba . The issues you raised may be true or false ,we cannot tell since we are nor members of his family. But even at that , most people have one skeleton or the other in their cupboard.

            Obasanjo obviously made a few judgmental mistakes , but let us balance this with his achievements in life and in office. Great countries learn to accommodate their great leaders.

            The important thing for leadership is the vision and the drive to effect the vision into reality. in Nigeria you will have to step on many toes , even sometimes your family , because you are resisting activities that may not allow them to have their way . These people will definitely fight back and throw “mud ” at you.

          23. dolapo or what ever u call yourself, that your baba that commited a lot of atricities while in office that can not commission a federal road through out his tenue that baba that rigged all election in south west that baba that was rejected by his kins men including u in 1999 general election that man that embezzeled 12 bvillion dollars ment for electricity that baba that was fighting his vice through out his tenue that slept with his son’s wife that that has the highest number of political killings more than any other past leader that baba that cause comotion in anabra state that that sold most nigerian properties to his cronies this baba represent evil he has done a lotof harm than good the one of the biggest problem he has is he is shameless.

          24. I do not call myself Dolapo that’s the name given to me , unlike the fake , unNigerian , unAfrican and meaningless name you parade.

            Learn to state your facts intelligently and not emotionally . Of all the Senate , police , EFCC, etc investigations which have taken place in the public domain , which has indicted Obasanjo? Why is it that whilst , other top Nigerians have been fingered , the man you love to castigate has not? I have not said Obasanjo is a saint. But it is certain that his so called crimes cannot be proven or corroborated for now if they are true. So until this can be done lets focus on the positive side we can confirm. If the ministers and other political appointees from all parts of the country steal and sabotage the economy ,why blame Obasanjo. Stone the thieves like the fuel subsidy scammers , airport equipment purchase scammers

            Look at this matter logically , Nigeria is filled with so much corruption by both the leaders and the followers. Are you waiting for an angel to come down to deliver this country. God will definitely use one of us. But the problem is
            Whenever a potential deliverer rises up , we pull him down. You say it is a lie ?
            What of Murtala Muhammed, Tunde Idiagbon etc. ( I will not mention some names so that you do not waste the band width of this forum to abuse me )

          25. You should rather “Learn to state your facts intelligently and not emotionally” when you parade theories as fact without even looking out for the other side, yet you come here to preach intelligence?

            “If the ministers and other political appointees from all parts of the
            country steal and sabotage the economy ,why blame Obasanjo.” absolute noonsense!…i dont even know what to tell you.

          26. why didn’t you talk about jonathan that increased the fuel subsidy, this is also a man that during his administration corruption has been so high.

          27. Mike, you spoke wisely. I highly commend your points and for not taking side. Everyone of us has a skeleton or another in his/her cupboard, BABA is not a saint even saints may have commited some mistake that are not even noticed by them.
            Obasanjo even as he is no longer in power still commend respect across the globe. He is a decisive leader who is ready to fight- if he wins fine and if he loss ok. That is politics! I give BABA IYABO pass mark. In term of fighting corruption, Baba is better than Aburo-GEJ

          28. Well it depends.That’s how you want to remember him. others have the right to remember him their own way.

            That man has serious case to answer for his tenure. just a few question: what happened to the 6b$ sinked in the power sector? what about the privatisation carried out by the BPE? This man missed big time to become another Mandela.

          29. Ethnic jingoist. May your female children have a father inlaw like obasanjo. May all his attrocities to his family and the nation be multiplied in your house hold. All the evils commited by this gorilla never depart in your house hold, amen.

          30. Amen. Is that what you like to hear?
            One more prayer; may your entire life be govern by the like of President G.E. Johnathan
            Please say amen.
            Are you a saint?

          31. I doubt if truly u are a Yoruba son. Baba in Yoruba context is use to address a father, it is entirely another ball game if the father is morally upright or not. As for me, i don’t c any reason while Obj can’t be addressed as such. Most of u if in position of authority wil commit more atrocity than the ones u av alleged ”BABA” .

          32. My friend, Obasanjo is a real Baba in all its ramification; his age, his status nationally and internationally, the father of children and a nation builder during and after the civil war. Why should you pity someone who calls someone who is old to be his father Baba? If we have nothing to contribute to a debate, why not just read and keep quiet.

          33. some people on here they don’t have respect, they just come on here pointing finger at some people, instead of sharing their views, but they rather come on here using abusive words on someone.

          34. @babakeu, did OBJ force his daughter in-law to bed? was it a rape case? Blame the woman much more! Like Daniel Wilson once said in his song, “A woman is like a horse…” you cant force her to drink. would you???????? Boy BABA NA BABA. Straight forward.

          35. mike, u need to learn how to respect elder. stop making ur stupid nonsense online.Did u have elderly person in ur home o ur village.

          36. you are right, this is a man that is well respected. obj is just trying to do his own quota to make sure that nigeria see him as a good leader no matter what happens in the past.

          37. On the same page, Baba wants to thrust on us Amaechi and Lamido. He will come back again with regrets. And yet beg us to wait for the judgement of the Supreme Being. Baba leave us alone..

          38. Babakeu i respect your high regard for the outspokenness and straightforwardness of Baba, the truth i have to tell you that your regard has no impact on the common man because the scene where such attitude is exhibited have a political undertone and the participant in person of baba will never accept such an act if he was a sitting president.

            Right from the first time i watched ameachi and david mark launching projects, i suspected a planting of the seed of higher political ambition by the same ameachi, now the clock is clicking, the man have become so desperate that he has no regard for a sitting president and invited an ex-president, who recently had a letter exchange with the president (sign of conflict), to launch the project. i do not except baba to play such role and making indirect comments, considering his age and his role in Nigeria.

            probably, if Gowon, Shonekan, shagari, samob or any religious head, is the chief launcher, then i will say the tone of political war drum between a sitting president and a sitting governor was not drummed in that so called gala night.

            Let Baba please tell us what was the K-leg. He was not apologetic. What would have been the fate of rivers assuming there was no judiciary or assuming the judiciary choose to behave like him or assuming the so-called sick president did not allow rule of law take its course. As the admirer, can you confirm to me that if Baba had succeeded in his 3rd term, will the likes of amaechi, oshomiole, aregbesola ever have the title G. not to talk of Governor. As a christain i believe every outcome in our personal life and society at large is a conclusion of God. Yardua was appointed by Him and the young man made good of His time. Baba was brought back from prison to take the mantle of leadership and instead of fulfilling God’s purpose he fulfilled maybe part. He cannot come years after and be arrogant about that and you expect me to admire him.

          39. Pedro! May the good Lord continue to bless you and your household multiple times. You have been an honest gentleman saying it as it is. You appreciate the good of others and articulate the wrong done without fear, favor, prejudice, tribe or religion. May those who keep jiving jargon see the light! Thank you sir!

          40. Thanks for saying the truth. Today the people of Odi, Zakibiam, Ogodobiri and the rest whose communities were bombarded and millions massacred would ever remain to hate the name Obj. The families of Marshal Harry, Dikibo, Bola Ige and the rest will hate to hear Obj. Obj did not on his own will pick Yaradua and Gej but necessity called for it and the entire country accepted it. The South South people were strongly agitating for resource control amidst Niger-Delta militants wrecking havoc on the countries mainstay(oil) which called for Jonathan’s vice presidency. Besides, Gej personally visited cam 5 to talk over Tompolo to lay down arms, which no Northerner has been able to do with Boko Haram.

          41. OBJ has technically declared for APC. Every other thing he was saying and doing was just a cover-up. A siting president that used the nation’s resources to built personal library……OBJ? nothing to learn from him.

          42. there is alot to learn from him,because this is a man that laid alot of foundation down for gej to continue but still yet gej still failed nigeria.

          43. Amechi is the over fed little bird who challenged its god for a wrestling contest. The apc will use and dump him later.

          44. is a lie, apc will dump him, he has come to join the progressive, this is a party that has good manifesto, a manifesto that will make you work and deliver the good work to good people of river state.

          45. ” moderately sincere”………i doubt it……….

            politically expedient more like……………..

            we don’t need his “outspokenness and straightforwardness”……… he has had the chance most of us only dream about and would never have while a selected few would die trying to get to that privileged position…………man,he has had his chance to correct all or most of the ills of this country that existed even while he was in power………….the haze shouldn’t be clearer to him NOW………….every dog has its day………..he had his,he should keep quiet and enjoy his loot…………..

        2. whats makes it Nice, because you see where he stupidly wrote no Brain, without even feeling ashamed that a no brain person is leading you with the Highest and most sophisticated brain, what an irony, but i don’t blame any of you, going by your names, we all already known who you people are.

          1. We are ashamed and that is why we are praying fervently for 2015 to come so we can correct the mistake of yesterday.

          2. Yeah, we are so ashamed that people who are claiming to be sophisticated and Wiser than every body on earth,cannot even use their initiatives, well there are mass grave for People who will choose to die in 2015, Gej has won already

          3. That means you are relying on GEJ to fund, direct INEC to do the needful and also hoping for a fair level playing ground. You are so bold to say this because GEJ will not tamper with the result whether he wins or lose Do you see why millions believe in him even you too, though you are busy fighting your conscience

          4. then i should also let you know that gej is the failure, we need change. we need to vote this foolish people out of power.

          5. Pls who is ‘we’? and who are the foolish people? So the foolish people suddenly became intelligent and organize an election for you to vote them out. I don’t think you actually know what that little post of yours imply.

          6. odogwu go and sleep,nigerians were deceived but now they knows better.the man’s brain is filled with looting ideas

          7. You Mazopian Crook monkey, with all your self aclaim wiseness and your GP tank full of sense, yet the brainless man is leading you, you are nothing but an ordinary liifeless dummy. Classical Mumu

          8. dpfrank Go to blazes, Nigerian is now acquainted with the archaic stupid antics of you and your people, we Nigerians, have realized that GEJ is the Best among all, that his Brain is full of Positive thinking and not like brain Of OBJ, TINUBU and BUHARI.

          9. gej that has not provide jobs, they are using the sure p project to steal our money, is the kind of leader we continue to have in power,this is the time we need change, and the change is apc.

          10. apc is the party to be with, it also a winning party come 2015, pdp rigging of election won’t work this time around.

          11. it seems you are very good in Literature Repetition , is this only what you know how to say, every day the say same comment. i don hear naaaa, wait for 2015 too vote Him or other wise you can go and impeach him.

          12. School ke? Have you seen the moron construct one good sentence since. ? The looters deliberately starve them of good education so they would have any army of sycophants who jump at crumbs from their table.

          13. Mr Professor, we came for English Class, Kitikpa tigbuo Nne gi na Nna gi, go and look for your fellow Nursery school Mentality student to teach, Mean while, a desert Camel like you will always be very stupid, but one day your fellow Boko members, will smarsh your Head, ABUZU, Professor Imbe, i am still waiting more of your teaching

          14. What a waste ! My advice; check into a school now and get education. You don’t need to be a Prof. to construct a sentence. Even the Amnesty money you are collecting now, how did you write the application ?
            Amnesty money will stop in 2015 when the Clown is caged back to Otuoke ! Go get education now .

          15. People who like to correct or teach always make sure they don,t practice what they preach against, but in your own case, the reverse is the case, because of MUMUISH character and potty brain you have, you leave a Log of wood in your Blind stupid eye to remove a spec in another’s eye, that’s show how Foolish you are and also go a long way in disclosing the state of your health, please if you want to teach net time, look for those you are better to and not those who are better than you, oh you have to teach your OTA APE how to speak and write, because he is the worst in terms of every thing. you need to go back to Nursery school for ABCD, before talking to me, because i know you are nothing but a Carcass, GEJ issue will soon cause your death, Scalewag

      1. What about his role in the death of Bola Ige ? When he explains his role in this, then Nigerians can call it “confession”. As for Amaechi’s K leg, we all knew OBJ was the sole-carpenter building the “K” leg.

      2. what about his role in the politics of ANambra during mbadinaujus tenure
        as governor? was he not also the architect of evil that begeth the
        state… he should apologize to anambraians

      3. With all the names calling,this is the man your apc was begging to lead them,the same man an apc governor of Rivers state could call to come and commission the state project…if a party want a dictator and election rigger to be in their party,it means they are stragedizing on how to rig and win..the vomit that Jonathan rejected is what your leaders want..funny and shameful

        1. I am curious to see your mouth when you will pronounce “Strategising”. The only thing you can do for me as a friend.

      4. To the best of My Knowledgeable, i don’t think there is any sick Brain or no brain candidate that has rule Nigeria, unless you saw that in your dream, besides OBJ did not bequeath any Body to Nigeria, ObJ can support a candidate, like other Nigerians OK, i voted for who ever i like, but it is Very stupid of somebody who claim to have brain to being ruled by a Brainless man, tell me now, between the two, who is wiser? GEJ is wiser than His Enemies, if he is not wiser, then Go and remove him with your Wiseness.

          1. I am shocked you are able to spell transparent but apparently you don’t know the meaning.
            These looters deliberately starve you of education so that you even find it difficult to know your right from your left and it’s working looking at your post !

          2. I keep on telling you, that before you teach somebody, you have to be sure of yourself, but you don’t even want to listen, ok, carry on with your foolishness bequeathed to you by your foolish father, you need to start all over again from Nursery school or you go and teach your fellow Goblins, because they need your teaching most, stop teaching who is better than you, i know i am not queen elizabeth and will not claim to be as you IMP is claiming but i am better than you, so come let me teach you….A RAG.

          1. Comot hear, you good for nothing Leopard, Your Father is Boring while your Mother is Dumb, and who is your Pay master is it Liar Mohamed? your Fellow Chronic Imbecile Liars? ONUKU.

        1. With your level of comprehension, I am not surprised you “voted GEJ but not PDP”. It takes a little sense to be able to choose really.
          “To the best of My Knowledgeable” …. what are u trying to say ? I won’t even start with your use of capitals, my year 4 son does better !

          1. Are you referring to that year 4 Cripple, Moron, junior Goblin as a human? any way I cannot blame you because, you are out of your senses, you lack the Mental Ability to comprehend my sophisticated and superior logic, that’s why you divert to your stupid English teaching, where as your own Tenses are worst, your punctuation is even the most awkward like you and you 4 years Imbecile,you are talking of Bad leadership and stupid Follower-ship, where as you are embodiment of the Both, because you have failed completely in leadership aspect by allowing your wife to be the most stupid harlot on the market, you also failed woefully on follower-ship aspect by failing to realize that my Amiable GEJ is your leader, rather you choose the OTA APE as your demi god, which also goes a long way in disclosing how mentally deficient you are, you are Nothing but a IMP father to a 4 years junior moronic Goblin.

          2. My son is wondering if you are not a crossbreed of apes and human or an experiment gone wrong. But I told him, it is the result of the oil pollution down there !!! Keep hallucinating.
            I can see your english has improved a little bit. Comparing your last post with the gibberish you have been writing before, I wonder if someone is writing this for you or is it you proof-reading as much as you can ?

        1. I wonder where you would be hiding your shameful face come 2015 when the dumb otuoke simpleton would be disgraced out of our Aso Rock!

          1. Your Grave is already in place waiting for your suicide lifeless body, come 2015, you are nothing but a lifeless dummy.

        2. That is Nigeria, a dysfunctional society where common rogues, certificate forgers,drug barons are in govt. Name me just two achievement of GEJ as a gov in bayelsa ?

      5. Rather i think its the entire Nigerian nation that lacks a collective brain,because we continue allowing individuals like these steer the national ship.And we continue to grant them audience,so they can rub the insult in our faces.

        He prayed and fasted and God directed him to truncate a democratic process.Yet Christ said render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God,what is God’s.And some people think he is being sincere,he is insulting you all to your faces.This same man in his letter to GEJ admitted working for Shagari to become President.At a time when he was head of state,and should have been an impartial umpire.2007 he came out again to impose his will on Nigerians in the most blatantly manipulated elections in history.People like Buhari did not call for blood then,we all know why.i do not have to point it out.

        OBJ is the biggest villain in the history of Nigeria,and it is time to stop giving him and his ilk undue relevance.How a man who had destiny and greatness thrust on him, with little or no effort on his part,chose to spurn this destiny is beyond the imagination.

        1. You with Balls, what you goblin waiting for, to ascend to the position, Prof Imbe, mere looking at your describe how Confused and Foolish you are, IMP!!!!

      6. Since a man with no brain can rise to the position where he can be imposed as president over you with brain, I suggest you remove your brain; may be your life can improve enough for someone to impose you as the president of your village.

        1. It’s a dysfunctional society where the worst of the society rule the best . The worst of the school leavers join the police, civil service and govt. so I am not surprised your no-brain is President today. A goat would have been President in 2011 as long as he would cover OBJ’s back. When your Dumbo was challenged to a Presidential debate in 2011, he chose to debate Dbanj instead ….. what a clown !

          1. that’s what i keep on saying about your already failed tribe, Personal Aggrandizement, Egocentricism, will kill you Goblin, you are wiser than Solomon, Witchcraft. Go and worship your OTA APE and, you will soon see what you have done to your self, Foolish Imbecile

      7. Can you justify the brainlessness of the head. Doing this will confirm if you possess a common sense not to talk of a functional brain.


        Very interesting and very urgent that sickle cell aneama the backward Osun State governor invite this nonentity OBJ to his state to enable him tells us how they killed BOLA IGE so also the short Adamic ADAMS so that he can also tell the Edo people how he used his wife Stella for sacrifice to get third term.

        As for Cheals tealor we are already awared thanks to the former USA secretary

      9. Haaaaaaaaaaaa, Naija for life. You guys are just too gifted. People like you ought to have been employed by ‘the other that has no brain’.

        1. He’s too daft to do that. You think a man who chose to debate Dbanj instead of his Presidential opponents has the capacity to think ?
          I am comfortable in a society where morons don’t run the rules. Where the leaders knows they are there at the mercy of the voters and will be judged by his achievements not by ethnicity or religion. Where leaders don’t dine with thugs and criminals . Where the Minister of Education dare not have his children in private schools even if he can afford it. Where a leader dare not say on TV he doesn’t give a damn about declaring his assets. Where a leader is challenged daily about his conduct without his challengers being labelled disgruntled because the leader sees the challenge as an opportunity to show case what he has done and what more he plans to do. Where the President sees himself as the conscience of the nation and ought to set examples for other lesser leaders and the citizens to follow. Where the leader promptly act on issues of corruption and national security without fear or favour. Where I can challenge the policy of the President without being seen as an irritant. Where a missing or miss-allocation of public fund would get you instant sack and prosecution. Where the people don’t eulogise rogues stealing them blind.

          To be honest going by some of the post here, I don’t know which is the greater curse to Nigeria: Bad Leadership or Stupid Followers !

        1. Go to Port harcourt, you can buy yours too if such titles matters to you. It is called Port harcourt degree down there. Obama and his wife are professors of law but it doesn’t matter to Americans and most people don’t know.I understand if it matters in a largely uneducated voting population in Nigeria but PhD doesn’t translate to common sense. Fashola, Adams Oshiomole and Donald Duke don’t hold PhD, would you compare them with Dumbo ?
          It was Obama’s message of hope the first time and his achievement the 2nd time. Would you be kind enough to list us Dumbo’s achievement as deputy gov, gov and acting President ?
          Do u think Obama would have debated Jay Z in a Presidential debate as Dumbo debated Dbanj in 2011 ?
          Thanks for giving me the opportunity to help you.

    2. what about his role in the politics of ANambra during mbadinaujus tenure as governor? was he not also the architect of evil that begeth the state… he should apologize to anambrians

    3. Obj forgot to add that he is responsible for 80% of all the political and economic crises this country has been going through for so many decades.

    4. you should asked of yourself between gej and jonathan who has looted the nation money. you should know that is gej, he has sold all our resources, he can’t even also talked about the missing fund.

  5. The nigerian devil himself speaking bold. This is how he slept with his daughter in law and still bold.

    Part of the Nigeria’s problem. Need to be destroyed.

  6. Hmmmm!!! Politicians, did i hear you say no permanent friend or permanent enemy in politics but permanent interests. The friend of my friend they say, is my friend and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. These age old saying are playing out between these two folks. Can “unbiased Riverians” on this forum tell us if Amaechi is a truly an achiever or this is just one of those usual political gimmicks

  7. Rikisi pa won po, won d’ore; aboosi pa won po, won d’iyekan. All conspiracies against GEJ concerning the 2015 election will fail in Jesus name. Amen.

    1. Moron , pray for that your cousin, mother, brother, sister , friend who may die because of the bad road, lack of medical care and insecurity.

  8. There are two major projects I want to challenge the governor to commission before the rains commence because they are the two major projects that has gulp more funds than all the schools put together and are also what critics of Amaechi will hold against him 1 the Port Harcourt monorail and 2 the unity road project some believe is a conduit pipe to syphon Rivers resources I want the governor to prove them wrong and that they will not be use in 2015! election campaign as an abandoned projects.

    1. I’m one of those that believe is a conduit pipe to siphon Rivers resources.
      I will patiently wait for Amaechi to prove me wrong. But I’m afraid, I may have to wait forever.
      Sir, both projects reminds me of Odili’s gas turbine.

  9. Confession is very good for the soul. So, for all those who at that time proclaimed “it is the work of the opposition” or “it is the fault of the [Yoruba] [Ibo] [Hausa] etc” or “it is the fault of the [Muslims] or [Christians]”, maybe this confession should elicit a pause from you the next time you are quick to jump on your keyboards.

  10. Yorubas ranting online supporting evil because OBJ is their own why the attack on anybody that has a different opinion from yours? what is then the meaning of democracy? come 2015 let me see if only yorubas will vote APC into power. The confab is coming soon let everybody be represented so we decide on what to do with Nigeria the hatred amongst us is too much we dont wanna live together yet we dont want others to go their way where there is no love there is no progress its either we start loving each other and living like brothers/sisters or we go our separate ways so each group will develop or ruin itself

  11. God will punish obasanjo and the rest of them for causing confusion in our land. They should learn how to keep quiet and stop talking unnecessarily.

  12. We expect many more public confessions from a man who was saved by grace but rather used the divine favour otherwise.our memory cannot fail us with the multitude of ‘democrazic’ things associated with I wish he will confess all for the archives before his ‘requiem mass’.however,I salute his courage telling us a bit how he ‘deepened ‘ democracy as mr president.

  13. Wonders will never end !
    All those roads mentioned above were opened for use some years ago. So Rivers state government simply rehabilitated old roads just to show case OBJ.

  14. WRONG! Obasanjo is responsible for Nigeria’s woes. If Obj had set up INEC and NNPC properly we wouldn’t be facing what we are facing today. If there was genuine fight against corruption. If Obj didn’t allow politicians to use thugs at will we wouldn’t have MEND or Boko Haram. Obasanjo is the demon bedeviling 4th Republic Nigeria. Atiku, Tinubu and Buhari know this first hand.

  15. Next month, Tinubu will commission exactly the same Project. In June, it will be the turn of Buhari to commission the same project too. Both Amaechi and Obasanjo are timid clowns.

  16. I would not have expected Chief Obasanjo causing confusion in our political setting. What could have be his gain when he did not allow Ameachi to contest, rather supporting his Cousin-Celestine Omeha to be the party flag bearer in the 2007 gubernatorial poll in Rivers ? This is clear evidence that the so-called elder state men have been responsible for the woes bedeviling us as a nation.
    So, the Ota farmer was satisfied with the drama in Rivers State prior to 2007 poll by not allowing a rightful candidate to vie for an election. With this k-leg, we are far from reaching a democratic standard attained by other nations with whom we gained independence almost the same year. It is painful and could not see any reason praising him for needless repentance after the damage had been done. What a pity !
    We should not even be surprised that this ongoing BH terror attacks may be a handiwork of some political/traditional bigwigs fighting for their selfish political interests.
    As our God liveth, every strong hold responsible for unrest in our dear country will never know peace.

  17. God forgives us when we confess our sign. So, if a man confesses to the people he has wronged, let him be forgiven.

  18. What OBJ is saying is that if he had been able to get his satanic third term, then the supreme court judgment on Amaechi’s tenure in 2007 would not have been obeyed as the judgment of the same court on the withheld Lagos council funds were not obeyed.

    Obasanjo is a fraud!

    See, for the eight years he was president, all he did for education was to build his own private, exorbitant schools. Amaechi has built pubic schools that are even better equipped and staffed than those private schools all over the place.

    Obasanjo doesn’t realize that Amaechi called him to come and commission them just to rubbish the man. Mumu OBJ!!!!!

  19. wow…..what a 2Face man like Obasanjo….very tricky and arrogant….following your words and footsteps can be deadly… today…white tomorrow…..the power still belong to God almighty…..what Obasanjo cannot control, he will never allow that to be….that’s OBJ, Now you are telling us that you used your power as the then president to deny Ameachi his right and now you are born again…God is watching.

  20. Demi God OBJ, you are always carrying your self as God, once is appointed unto a man to die, then follows the Judgement.

  21. Obasanjo is merely having an after thought. What is that “k-leg” report saying? We want to know because the Supreme Court never decided Amaechi’s case on the basis of a report.

  22. two old men deceiving them selves. talking about the future of the people and using k-leg to describe it. Playing games with the lives of nigerians and feeling cool about it. The take away our right so much that when they give us crumbles we think its a favour.

  23. OBJ knows he’s getting closer to his grave and now is trying to put things right where he has messed up.
    I hope he’s not too late for redemption

    1. The donkey of Otueke better stay away from apeteshi, otherwise he will go to his grave much earlier than OBJ.

  24. OBJ should honorably retire from politics. His errors and wrong doings heavily out-weigh his achievements. He and other old politicians should give the younger generation chance to undo the damages they caused since 1963.

  25. OBJ said he was incharge then,i want him to allow the younger men to take charge so that this nation can move to great height

  26. This “dirty man” keeps vomitting rubbish every time. You’re not only responsible for Amaechi’s woes but the woes of many Nigerians, which you inflicted through your usual corrupt, despicable and wrong decisions often anchored on “if not me, who else?”. Jonathan is only surviving it because he discovered who you are early enough, and distanced himself.



  28. HEAR OBASANJO ; “A report came about him, which indicated K-leg, and I said yes, there was a K-leg and as a result of the K-leg, what was could not continue to be what it was. Rotimi (Amaechi) did what is required in a democratic dispensation; he went to court to straighten the K-leg”.


    “If anybody is not satisfied after that, he has to wait for the judgement of the Supreme Being up there. So, the K-leg has been straightened; not only that, after his first term, he (Amaechi) contested and won with a landslide. Then what K-leg are you talking about again?”


    “Recalling that at a time, he was one of those that felt the Supreme Court’s verdict was awkward, Obasanjo said those who were not satisfied with the ruling should wait for the judgement of the ‘Supreme Being. ……….. “I am one of those who when he (Amaechi) got the judgment or the verdict found it awkward. I did not voice it out publicly, but I found it awkward. Awkward in the sense that how can a man who has not contested an election, a man who has not been voted for be declared the governor?”


  29. Obj had been infected with the Yoruba treacherous spirit ,before now we saw obj as Yoruba man without the treacherous Yoruba blood in him ,but now that he had been infected ,the anti awolowo venom in him has been neutralized today obj had turned a chameleon .when he sees white he turns to white when he sees black he changes to black .this is one of yorubas landmark character that makes them leprous to reasonable people.

  30. OBJ stop this game you are playing with Nigerians because it is old game and Nigerians have gotten used to it. You always claimed to be the best politician in Nigeria but the history is there to judge you not what you said or think.

  31. Oh Lord i beg of you do not allow me to loose my sight and my ears because i have a lot of national drama to watch and juicy political stories to ear. Amennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

  32. Who is a saint? u people talking are u better than this people, all i will say is God in your mercy change our leader for good. IJN

  33. Obj has no apologies for his unlawful efforts to rob Amaechi of his contitutional right to stand elections – and he is right – and IBB has no apologies for cancelling June 12 elections – and he is right too! ‘Two households both alike in dignity…’ says Shakespeare. Interestingly both of them give the same reasons – they felt the decisions were the best at that time!

  34. Obasanjo is almost always wrong, and resolutely so. He is very wrong now in opposing GEJ. He will confess that very soon.

  35. OBJ has cost enough trouble for this country,he should try and keep out of lime light before he ruin his already battered image.

  36. OBJ, Did you “fast and pray” before you took the decision to empower thugs to burn down all the public institutions in Anambra state? Deluded old man, what you are doing now is “Isa Asisa”, (confessing your sins), every opportunity you mention God but you are the polygamous, womanizing, corrupt and unrepentant devil, please leave us alone and enjoy your loot in pieces…

  37. Leadership is about being decisive and taking responsibility for whatever by whoever happened under your watch. No dilly dally. Thank you Pa Obasanjo for driving that home

  38. The baba OBJ himself suppose to put the divident of democracy in order by setting up a kind of an organisation sector who could effect a prompt delivery or discharging their duty appropriately during your tenure. We are still experiencing the K-leg from the previous administration. The best achievement so far now is by calling Mr. President to a round table talk rather than to be doing i know it all. With due respect Sir advise all your good sons in democracy to find a better party that can deliver Nigerian from the poverty because APC is a rebels party that can not help us to achieve divident of democracy in this country. We need an alternative party or if Baba himself is still in the PDP work with your national working committee to see GEJ put the right peg inside the right hole by doing what Nigeria needed from government in due time.

    Every Nigeria has to be important not that somebody who makes all the family to be political influence and relevant in this dispensation that we can be in the same party with. My daughter Iya Loja, my in law house of rep in Ekiti state federal constituency, my wife a senator and myself APC leader what is that position of leader comes from? Let us be wise and know This has been coming too much of this same man in question. Fashola himself might have been tired but issue of God fatherism will not make this gentle and humble man to talk.

    Stop selling us wise man. The man with no conscience that know much on how to manipulate rhings . I don’t care is their motor toba left ja ko ja in as much as my family is intact I’m okay. Sir life is not like that, it better we join hand with the devil will know than unknown angel. I’ve said it all my people join hand with a political party that cater for poverty eradication than a party who increase the University tutions fee to a no go area. Fashola and Adams is the main Governors. Every Nigerian are not smiling why? Go to Benin people that sell petrol or kerosin with bottle were smiling, even those who are selling broom why now as rich as Nigeria its? Let us be wise and tell every selfish politician to abstain from us we want to make our country great. The country belong to ours not mine alone.

  39. What a display of shame in my country God! The ex- president who diagnosed you of K-leg; is now doing the work of a sitting president; commissioning your projects. It is now the right time to give Amechi the true result of the diagnosis he (OBJ) carried on him over seven years ago. What a propaganda?
    For the whole of Amechi’s first tenure when he wasn’t having issues with the President;OBJ never went to Rivers to atone for his attempt to eclipse Amechi’s fate. What a smart way of fathering a child you attempted to abort. What is your plan this time OBJ? Every day you keep giving us evidence to believe how much you love Nigeria.
    The most annoying thing is that you keep calling on God’s name to cover your selfish decisions.
    I keep challenging the elders of Niger Delta to do away with selfishness and find peace between their two children before the outsiders destroy them. Amechi and Jonathan need to be wiser. Your generations will never forgive you if you misuse this opportunity to tell the country that you may be minor in number but not in brains.

  40. OBJ has proven again that he is a traitor. He confessed to have given AMEACHI k-leg the same thing and same way he is doing at the moment with GEJ´s 2015 re-election ambition.
    OBJ will be put to shame after GEJ´s re-election in 2015 then he will be forced to come out again and do the same confession. Anyway, by then he would have become politically irrelevant to the extent that he will begin to live a reclusive life in Ota farm.

  41. objcracy……………….the political pickpocket of nigeria………..

    more confessions please…………………..

  42. It does not seem that this man read the avalanche of attacks and criticisms he receives each time he drops his frequent oral bombshells. It looks like his critics are just tormenting themselves, venting their spleen on a man who does not care one bit about the vituperations. What kind of human being is this? See the way he talks about the man who invited him in honour. His blatant audacity is both his strength as well as his weakness.

  43. Am so so sad with all your comments? Is this how nigeria will change?
    by insulting others with very abusive words??
    I can tell you all we are Missing it big time? How old do you think our past leaders were when they came to the centre stage?
    Ibb etc
    Even in the present dispensation
    You can be the answer Please think solutions as you Post
    God bless you all

  44. “When I have to take decisions, some that I find very important, I fast and pray before I take them. I ask for God’s guidance and direction,” says Obasanjo
    A pity becos it seems God has never answered any of your prayers

  45. Contrary to my suspicions, Mr. Obasanjo as reported here, spoke candidly and forthrightly. Kudos to him. What better advise can be given than to ask one to follow his conscience?

  46. what a country full of K-leggers. Another serious country without k-legs, would have lock up this moron. a country where a leader will subvert the choice of the populace for his wimps and caprices, and then later come out and be proud of what he’s done, is a country of k-leggers and k-brainers.

  47. Obj fasted and prayed and still got the decision wrong with regards to Amaechi, how many more did he get wrong? Relying on your conscience in decision making is good if it is alive and kicking, otherwise, what a tragedy!

  48. I’m using this medium to Thank the YORUBAS and all Rivers children both in Nigeria and Overseas for all their efforts,stand with our dear governor ”ROTIMI AMAECHI” through the thick and thin.
    I’m using this medium to thank the Yorubas who help us to chase away the 7 principalities [Jonathan,madam unblala,Wike,Bipi,Jang and Mbu] that was causing problem in the Rivers. Thank you so much.

  49. This confession by old man from Owu is belated but would not remain unheard and this allow him fob freer in mind and heaven. I hold too that there are more confessions to make, this is the season. You have not seen anything.

  50. The All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has engaged the services
    of an international political consulting firm, AKPD Message and Media,

  51. The
    reputation for supporting leading populist movements across the globe.

  52. Feb 14, 2015: Presidential, N/Assembly elections

    Feb 28, 2015: Guber, State Assembly elections

    June 21, 2014: Ekiti Guber

    Aug 9, 2014: Osun Guber .

  53. “As a party destined to bring change and succour to all Nigerians, APC is
    in the world,’’ the statement said.

  54. It said that the Chicago-based firm was best known for its leading role in
    President Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

  55. AKPD
    Message and Media has worked with key Democratic Party candidates
    throughout the U.S., with a reputation for supporting leading populist
    movements across the globe.

  56. APC
    throughout the upcoming campaign cycle’’.


  58. What a wonderful God we serve that a man solely took decisions that have ruined over 160 millions Nigerian lives and this is called democracy.No, there is no democracy in Nigeria, what we have is selection of tradition rulers and kingsmen. Consequently, OBJ guity minds and the God of poor Nigerians affected by one man dicision have forced him to confess. What General OBJ does not know is how many lives that have be lost and adversely affected by his despotic character of governing Nigerians. Like OBJ said, God will be the final judge. May the souls of people who lost their lives through OBJ irrational decisons rest in peace, May God also comfort those who have suffered through this
    detectorship decisons.

    1. like you said, May the souls of people who lost their lives through OBJ irrational decisons rest in peace AMEN oooooo

  59. The
    highlight of the activities is the scheduled presidential and National
    elections are slated to hold on Feb. 28, 2015. (NAN).

  60. In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the Chicago, U.S.-based firm is best known for its lead role in President Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

  61. Not only for Ameachi, bt for all man woes and sufferings in tht entity called Nigeria during your evil tenures as head of state and democrazy bloody civilian president.. Devil himself…Nonsense!!

  62. It was also by fasting and prayers that Baba handpicked and imposed the late President YarArdua (God bless his soul in heaven) and President Jonathan respectively on us. Most times, when people act according to their own whims and caprices dictated by their ego, they hang it on the neck of God by claiming ‘fasting and prayers.’

  63. You OBJ, is responsible for most of the woes and anguish Nigerians are passing through from 1999 till date. Your politics of ‘do-or-die’ brought us Yar’Adua and the country is now facing disintegration in the hands of the clueless charlatan, aka GEJ.

    1. is a lie why don’t you talk about the present president who is on power, why don’t you ask him what he has done since resumption in his office.

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