I wish GEJ is able to convene a national conference, assuming he has no intention of taking the country on to the path of a true federal structure. Having said this, I do not think he is capable of doing anything right. I only wish he does not idle around as more innocent Nigerians are killed.

I condemn the riots in the North and call on Buhari to rise up and control his supporters. If they do not believe in Nigeria, they should go. Actually, many people would prefer to be rid of the yoke of that union. It does not serve any purpose, only there for the benefit of rulers from both sides of the union.

ochi

You said, "On the other hand, for the first time in Nigeria’s history, the South-west, South-east, South-south and the Middle Belt voted for the same candidate. President Jonathan's decisive victory is traceable to this unprecedented coalition."
Yes, because majority of Nigerians gave President GEJ the mandate. This is perhaps, the most transparent presidential election Nigeria has had. It is fair and credible. Buhari, on the other hand, won the 12 Northern States are with strong Shariah laws. His followers are the ones perpetrating the heinous violence and killings in Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Borno, etc. It’s going to take decisive leadership to deal with these irresponsible political desperados and their senseless followers- otherwise Nigerians must have a serious conversation about their cohabitation – whether is still expedient or not. Gobs bless May God bless President Good luck Jonathan and Nigeria!

You said, "On the other hand, for the first time in Nigeria’s history, the South-west, South-east, South-south and the Middle Belt voted for the same candidate. President Jonathan's decisive victory is traceable to this unprecedented coalition."
Yes, because majority of Nigerians gave President GEJ the mandate. This is perhaps, the most transparent presidential election Nigeria has had. It is fair and credible. Buhari, on the other hand, won the 12 Northern States with strong Shariah laws. His followers are the ones perpetrating the heinous violence and killings in Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Borno, etc. It’s going to take decisive leadership to deal with these irresponsible political desperados and their senseless followers- otherwise Nigerians must have a serious conversation about their cohabitation – whether is still expedient or not.
May God bless President Good luck Jonathan and Nigeria!

Areas or states that voted Buhari are right to agress that Buhari only should rule them. Why not???

I am glad to see more people are starting to see the need for dividing Nigeria along the lines of mutual interests. I think the elections actually drew the lines of how the nation should be divided and it makes sense for the middle belt to join the south as they are actually under constant jihad attacks from al-queda controlled islamic Northern Nigeria!

Some people here who wanted Buhari to come back are now probably regretting their choice of candidate. As we speak a man like Buhari who cried crocodile tears the other day has not once called his jihadists to order, what tears has he got for the people who have been murdered in his name! Thanks he will never contest any elections in Nigeria again but i am sure another mujahideen leader will take his place, enter pedophile Sani Yerima...AKA mohammed wannabe!

What will be great is to divide the country in 2 and hand Buhari the presidency of the islamic republic of Northern Nigeria and he can work his miraculous "leadership wonders" on that lot and have them live in peace with neighbouring countries like Southern Nigeria! That should be something!

I echo your sentiments as pertains the convocation of a sovereign national conference on the way forward for Nigeria's good. This is the time to the President to lead since he has been given a clear and decisive mandate to lead the nation out of our sorry mess by the people. By implication we are already have two nations with two constitutions in Nigeria. I have always said that the Sharia states already the decision to seceded when they voted to adopt the sharia code as their governing constitution in a supposedly circular nation like Nigeria. The result of that referendum is very apparent when look at the map of the this election.

And on Jonathan, Nigeria will experience another 4 wasted years of leadership because he lacks the requisite values, confidence and skills to make any meaningful changes.

Jonathan win only achieved one goal, that the northern born to rule clique has finally ended their monopoly of leadership in this country!

But a Jonathan presidency is a wasted opportunity because he is corrupt and weak! For Nigeria to progress it wants to stop corruption, recover stolen wealth and destroy nepotism. Jonathan, his family, associates and clique is actually part of the problem so he cannot act on it and risk implicating himself.

Jonathan cannot implement major changes to the economy because he himself is in need of reform and rehabilitation, he does not know what it means and where to start! He will make announcements about building new infrastructure but most of the money will go toward graft, theft and mis management.

Jonathan cannot bring about change in violence in the Niger Delta because he is closely linked to it and his support base comes from the perpetrators of the violence.

Jonathan cannot stop the cold blooded murder of christians in Northern Nigeria because he is powerless over the cabal at the heart of it, he cannot confront them or use his military to do it because he is a soft hearted fool with no strength to enforce anything.

Jonathan will be recorded in history as the weakest Nigerian head of state since Aguyi Ironsi and Ernest Shonekan!

What is happening in the far north after an election described by observers as the best Nigeria has ever had is revealing more of the faulty foundations of Nigeria.

We may first have to go for a conference for true federalism. If indolent ones refuse true federalism and still continue to confuse it with resource control, then we go for a full blown sovereign national conference.
In this conference, representatives of discernible ethnic groups that make up Nigeria are made to come together and express their choices vis a vis Nigeria.
The people have never had the opportunity to express this choice, and it is an infringement on their rights.

Jonathan and the gang of PDP just rigged a peaceful election and we are still here blogging rubbish instead of being in streets protesting peacefully like people of Egypt or violently like people of Ivory coast. Please leave Buhari out of this. He should keep mum just like Jonathan kept mum when the election is being rigged on his behalf by the people of the southern states. by the way am from the south.

Buhari's silence in this kind of times is a betrayal of the thousands of southerners who believed in him and supported his ambition.
The few irregularities notwithstanding, I am firmly convinced that Buhari lost to Jona' fair and square.
He should call his supporters to order immediately lest he confirms what many have been saying and end up etching his name in Nigeria's history as a tribal warlord.

It is difficult to fault NVS editorials. But I think there is a problem here with our expectations, desires and our appreciation of exactly how much time we have to usher in this new dawn.

1. We have voted for a President not an aid facilitator or a peace envoy. What we need is a Nigeria that works - water, light, education, health, social security, transportation, communication, shelter and housing - all those things that enable individuals and the progressive society function. That's what GEJ's primary task is - not to convene a sovereign national conference or to pacify certain people over others.

2. Those who burn the north should be free to do so. It is their home and their people. Let others be intelligent enough to leave the burning fires. Enough is enough and that means enough of burying our heads in the sand. If a move to a place is not condusive to peaceful living what are you still doing there?

3. The only thing that can get Nigeria out of the pit it is ever ready to sink back into, is to move this society out of the retrogressive, too much talk-talk, greedy, unproductive quagmire we slide into with the least resistance. Get the factories working, create jobs, provide an enabliing environment, make Nigeria a functional society. If GEJ and the new dispensation can bring a system that rewards productivity, that makes it impossible for people to remain indolent while they preoccupy themselves with 'talking without working' and 'praying without bearing fruit' aka politics and religion (as we understand them), we're on our way to somewhere.

4. The current leadership must engineer the rule of law, practice true federalism, and reinstate secularism at government level. It's in the Constituition already.

5. We waste too much time with trying to 'pacify' and 'reach out'. There's a country to be run. Let GEJ have the guts to run it- that's what we need.

Zanderlex,
so Buhari should keep mum when his name is being screamed out loud by terrorists murdering people on the streets of the country he aspired to rule?

You people make me sick, what a poor example of Nigerian citizenship! shame on you and shoot yourself immediately, moron!

Yes!!! This is the time to come out of "DENIAL" for the sake of the common impoverished Nigerian.

It will not take long before the real manifestations of the TRUE STATE OF OUR FINANCES start to appear, and suffering that may come with it may be unbearable, we hope Nigerians will not be pushed to the wall and more importantly, that "WE REALISE WHERE THE WALL IS"

It does not speak well of us as human beings to deride the 'anger' of the almajari, who in the last few weeks or months have been dreaming of finally having a way out of the cul-de-sac of poverty he is being forced to live in right in the midst of the plenty he sees around him.

PLEASE LET US PUT OURSELVES IN THE PLACE OF THOSE ALMAJERIS AND THE MILLIONS LIVING IN THE SQUARLORS IN RUBBISH DUMPS IN LAGOS; WHILE OUR LEGISLOOTERS; EXECUTHIEVES AND JUTHIEFTIARY MAKE THE BANKERS IN LONDON AND NEW YORK JEALOUS.


This is the essence of the sovereign National conference; NOT NECCESARILY TO DIVIDE THE NATION.

Gentlemen, the best solution out of this; let Ribadu rule Osun State that he won, Buhari...those core north. As for me and my people, GEJ is President and will rule till 2019.

Eire,
The problem with Nigeria is with people like you who are dishonest and lack principle. What make you think that you guys can stampede Jonathan unto Nigeria?. The election just showed the man was rigged in to get a Southern mandate. What kind of president is he going to be in a divided Nigeria surrounded by cabal of corrupt gang of PDP. My friend rethink your support for this illegality.

I may sound like a broken record or a cracked CD. A unitary government will continue to be a perfect recipe for conflicts and wanton destruction of lives and property in a multi-ethic country like Nigeria with extremely strong sentiments. Ethnicity was the over-riding factor in the demand by Ciroma and co for a consensus Northern candidate. The current mayhem in the North underlies the need for a loose or true federalism that will allow the various nations more leeway and freedom to choose their priorities. Even if there is a kiss and make up, what is the guarantee that , 4 years from now, we shall not have worse destruction of lives and property? Is it not time to set the country on a different path? How many lives must be lost before we realize the obvious?

Asides from the above...He also needs to resolve the issues in the Niger Delta once and for all.

Number2 needs no more strenghtening.....they just have to be on top of issues before they happen......and deploy unusual tactics that are unique to the environment to nip crisis in the bud.

We're still waiting after almost 6months to know the full details and those behind all the bombing incidents and importation of arms into the country

Hello Everyone!
I'm writing from ancient city of Lund, Sweden.
I’m delighted to read you guys comments and congratulations to all Nigerians for conducting international acclaimed free and fair election. The battle is not yet over but quarter final match has been won by Nigerian voters. The next stage is the semi-final, President Good Luck Jonathan (GLJ) and his executive, the legislature and the judiciary should handle the post-election violence quickly and decisively too. Nigerian did not vote for PDP as a party, PDP has bad reputation but the person of GLJ gave him the votes. This is because Nigerians for a long time have been clamouring for a change due to obvious concern. They feel that few Nigerians have dominated the rest of the population for too long. Nigerians wish is that having a person from minority group will be good for everyone. If you want to set a programme that will benefit everyone, take the poor and make him/her the head the organization in charge of distribution of such benefit and by so doing, there is most certainty that everyone both rich and poor will benefit but if you choose to have the rich to head the organization, only the rich will benefit and they will exclude the poor. Hence, Nigerians have made the right choice by choosing GLJ who is from the minority.
The President must not delay to bring all those involved in post-election violence to justice and no one should be used as escape goat and nobody should be above the law, this will be a test of GLJ capacity to govern the most populous country in Africa with above 150million.The final will be for GLI to fulfill long time expectation of most Nigerians by calling for “sovereign national conference” In the study of democratization one of the most influential theorist Dankwart Rustow suggested three stages which a country desiring to attain democratic stability has to pass through and the first stage is to settle the issue of nationality. And some Africa countries like Ghana and Benin Republic that are relatively stable have passed through the same process. Nigerians need to know where he or she belongs and after that, they can move to the next stage, adopt the constitution that all should be proud of. Off course, they will respect such constitution if the people approve it. As it is today, Nigeria constitution is military constitution and lack credibility hence most Nigeria are not even proud of their citizenship because the law that prevails in the Land seems to be selected or it is interpreted in a selective manner. Acceptance of the constitution will be seen not only in normative sense but must manifest in the behaviour of the political actors and Nigerian citizens.
Anyway I hope that this is just the beginning of victory for Nigerians and the battle ahead will be in favour of all Nigerians. Those guys that are protesting in the Northern Nigeria is doing it out of desperation, they had hoped that their candidate, Mohammed Buhari might be the Messer to change their situation for good and in the same way those in the South East, South West and Middle Belt are hoping that President GLJ might be the Messer to change their situation for good but since the victory is in favour of the South let both North and South unity to collectively challenge the system that have put 95% of Nigeria into collective absolute poverty.

God bless Nigerians!

Patco: who are your people ? You do not have any......

@Edwardus superbus:
You are not alone.

is the answer.

Sovereign National Conference(SNC) is the answer.

Sovereign National Conference SNC is Ad Hoc Rubbish!

There is a document known as the Constitution of Nigeria
There is someone known as your Senator
There is also someone known as your House of Representative member

Let your political leaders engage in constitutional amendments and fine tuning... so that our constitution reflects what our hearts desires

SNC is not the way to advance, promote and entrench true democracy, due process and the rule of law... we all must say no to those who would want a truncation of democracy, due process and the rule of law

We mus all say no to arbitrariness, gra-gra and gidi-gidi... democracy, due process and the rule of law may be painfully slow.... but we must not prefer unconstitutional Ad Hoc SNC as panacea or quick fixes as bandage to open wounds... instead of strengthening our constitution through amendments by our elected representatives in our National Assembly or Parliament!

Say NO to SNC !!!!

Eire,

It is difficult to argue with the logic you have presented here.

Although GEJ was not my candidate of choice, I nevertheless congratulate Nigerians for their choice, for what it is worth.

BTW, the BB ticket did not enjoy my support either, but I have come to the realistic point of not sending money home to family and friends in Nigeria because they "are suffering" since the results of the elections have demonstrated clearly that Nigerians are satisfied with the status quo and my widow's mite remmited home once in a while is only used for feeling good in the nearest and first bukateria or peppersoup joint!

You said it all.

Nigeria should be in a hurry to hold a sovereign national conference. Too many people have died for the sake of this fraudulent british contraption. It cannot continue like this. Nations are to serve the ultimate needs of security and prosperity for its citizens. when it becomes the opposite with periodic deaths, mass poverty, hatred and total deprivation then such a nation looses its purposes.

Just like the recently organised free and fair elections, nigeria should not be a do or die affair. Nigerians post-colonialism should for once be allowed the opportunity to choose for themselves if and how they want to be nigerians. This is a fundamental right and postponing it will only postpone the evil day. Some ethnic groups in nigeria have more population than 90% of african nations and most nations in the world. As the evidence has so far shown, nigeria is not working and will never work untill the people who make up the geographical space dialogue and claim ownership of the space under a mutually beneficial arrangement. This simple common sense

hmmmm..... talk about breeding..lol I dey laugh oooo...:-)

I love nigeria

What do you have against SNC? I note that you have suggested constitutional ammendments by our elected members. Ordinarily, this sounds good. However, have you observed that since 1999, our elected members have shown great passion for their welfare, looting the treasury in one way or the other and hardly any appetite to work for the common good? What guarantee do we have that the present crop will be any better? We must also take cognizance of the fact that our constitution was not subjected to a referendum. Events have shown that the present unitary form of government is creating unnecessary inter-ethnic tensions. Don't you think that it is time to decentralize power?

THERE IS REALLY NOTHING TO REJOICE ABOUT!!!

JONATHAN IS A DISASTER!!!

First, let me start by declaring that I AM 100% YORUBA MAN. Secondly, I supported Ribadu/Adeola's ACN ticket because I AM CONVINCED WITHOUT ANY IOTA OF DOUBT that all emotions apart, the duo, in actual fact are the most qualified and are best positioned to start tackling Nigeria's complicated problems. In addition, ACN is virtrually the only party that could set up a cabinet of REAL PROFESSIONALS within the shortest period of time. My series "FREEDOM COALITION: $250M FUND TO ELECT ABUBAKAR UMAR (RIBADU) AND AKUNYILI IN 2011 AND GET RID OF BABANGIDA, JONATHAN AND THE CABAL FOR GOOD! YES WE CAN!" (available on nigeriansinamerica.com) reflected my position.

Third (and perhaps the most important), we need to understand that Jonathan won the elections (assuming that the election was really free and fair) mainly from the votes of the South but NOT because of his competence or any positive/significant result/achievements since he became the president, but JUST BECAUSE HE IS FROM THE SOUTH!!! This is just the simple truth. Try to assume what would had happened if ACN had fielded a respected, popular and competent Ndigbo as its presidential.

Fourthly (and most important) the BITTER TRUTH - sorry, but we just need to accept this whether we like it or not - is that JONATHAN IS A BAD PRESIDENT. The few months that he has spent as the president has shown that he is NOT only NOT prepared AT ALL for this very serious task, BUT HE DOES NOT HAVE THE NECESSARY BACKGROUND AND SKILLS TOO.

@Eire's comment really reflected the true state of things. I completely agree with him. The problem with most of us Africans is that WE ARE VERY EMOTIONAL. In addition, good and OBJECTIVE political analysts are really very few among us. Based on my analysis of Jonathan's policies, decisions, actions and performance in general, I concluded BOLDLY that Jonathan really pozes a serious threat to Nigeria/Africa's political stability, economic interests, sovereignty, development and lives of Nigerians. Infact, his performance, as far as I am concerned is worse than that of Yaradua. Please, I am not trying to raise any false alarm or exaggerate but I am only stating things the way I see them. Jonathan has already spent more than enough time in Aso-rock for me to be convinced beyond any reasonable doubts that he does not have any original idea as regards to how to overcome Nigeria's sophisticated problems. To me, Jonathan gives the impression of a traitor, western stooge who has entrusted the management of Nigeria into the hands of the west. His economic policies and decisions are being worked out for him in Washington, London and Paris. Ladies and gentlemen, if you have any doubts as regards to my statements, please I implore you to read two of my series "WHY JONATHAN, AGANGA AND ALLISON-MADUEKE MUST BE REMOVED NOW AT ANY COST AND BY ANY MEANS! and "Sovereignty, Economic Security, Barrack Obama's Visit, Jonathan, 2011 Election And The Development Of Nigeria: Correlation" with AN OPEN MIND. Irrespective of the fact that Jonathan has won the election, I hope to continue the series which will now be available at nigeriansinamerica.com.

In my latest series "Nigeria at 50: a failed state, biggest banana republic, very sick and doomed and country!", I wrote in part 2 - just I did in some of my series and comments too - that the present political structure and system that we practise in Nigeria and the emergence of Nigeria and other African countries WILL NEVER allow us to produce the best of the best to represent us. The election has proved me right again. And for those who are calling fo SNC, I have some bad nes for you. A couple of months ago, Jonathan said that THERE WAS NO NEED FOR SNC BECAUSE ACCORDING TO HIM NIGERIA'S PROBLEMS IS ABOUT BAD LEADERSHIP AND 'NOT RESTRUCTURING OF THE COUNTRY.

My advise for ACN now is to start AN UNPRECENDETED OPPOSITION to Jonathan and the PDP. I have no doubts in my mind that if ACN does not committ any serious blunder, the 2015 presidential election is theirs to loose.

Finally, I am in support of any legal means to remove Jonathan NOW!!!

WE MUST ALL BE ON THE ALERT!!!!

YIU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!


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Patcho,

cant you simply shut up... and keep LOLling...

Eire and the other ARO inmates were let loose again:

they were !!!

But Dr. OSUJI will takde care of'em:

trans-tribally, I mean.

we do like our ILLUMINATI - dont we?

we DO !!!

Les simples-d'esprits sont toujours

de bonne humeur...

as they say in Porto-Novo, Cotonou and Grand-Popo...

gerd - always . FULL name!!!

NEVER anonymous : NEVER !!!