Why i love politics #1

One thing i have learnt in life is never underestimate anybody politics they say is a dirty game but u believe politics is a game of craft mind and skills i am about to embark on a political journey starting from school it might look like a small step but i know it is a step in the right direction i keep hearing people giving excuses like i dont like politics and other similar excuses even though everyone cannot do politics it pays for people to understand the basis of politics as a game of interest of people who are able to make a difference and get power by either hook or crook I dream of being a senator and even peharps the president of my country one day but one thing i see is that in my country politics is a dirty game but me i believe with the right set of mind frame not about self interest but common interest its not about dictatorship but partnership i will be able to have a set of principles that will help me to attain my goals and aspiration in politics but now on school i feel that being the gen sec of my department is a right step in the right direction so help me God

BREAKING NEWS! Obasanjo dumps PDP, tears membership card

Former Nigerian president Olusegun
Obasanjo has dumped the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), stating that, he is
no longer interested being a member.
He reportedly tore his PDP membership
card and said he would continue to serve
Nigeria as a statesman.
Obasanjo has faced a barrage of criticisms
and abuses from PDP stalwarts and aides
of President Goodluck Jonathan, after he
alerted the nation Saturday on a creeping
agenda by Jonathan to win the postponed
election by hook or crook and plunge
Nigeria into war, as done by Ivory Coast’s
former leader, Laurent Gbagbo.
After he left office in 2007, Obasanjo was
chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees,
but also resigned the position.
For some years, he has declined to play
front-bench role in the party, insisting he
will operate at the ward level.
The former president recently endorsed
the candidate of the opposition All
Progressives Congress, Maj. General
Muhammadu Buhari from courtesy of
Sunnewsonline.com

Inec postpones election to march 28 and april 11

In the new schedule announced on
Saturday by the Chairman of the
commission, Professor Attahiru Jega said
that the Presidential Election will hold on
March 28 while the Governorship election
will hold on April 11.
Professor Jega said that the commission
had had wide range consultations with
relevant stakeholders before the decision
was taken.
He said that the decision of the
commission was in the interest of
Nigeria’s democracy.
Post your comments is the postponement a good news or part of pdp plans

INEC to postpone elections by 6weeks

Nigeria’s electoral commission will
postpone next Saturday’s presidential
and legislative elections for six weeks
to give a new multinational force time
to secure north-eastern areas under
the sway of Boko Haram, an official
close to the commission told the
Associated Press on Saturday.
Millions could be disenfranchised if
the voting went ahead while the
Islamic extremists hold a large swath
of the north-east and commit mayhem
that has driven 1.5 million people
from their homes.
Civil rights groups opposed to any
postponement started a small protest
on Saturday. Police prevented them
from entering the electoral
commission headquarters in Abuja,
Nigeria’s capital. Armed police began
deploying to block roads leading to
the building.
The Nigerian official, who is
knowledgeable of the discussions,
said the Independent National
Electoral Commission would
announce the postponement later on
Saturday. He spoke on condition of
anonymity because of the sensitivity
of the issue.
A major offensive with warplanes and
ground troops from Chad and Nigeria
already has forced the insurgents
from a dozen towns and villages in
the past 10 days. Even greater
military strikes by more countries are
planned.
African Union officials were ending a
three-day meeting Saturday in
Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital, to
finalise details of a 7,500-strong force
from Nigeria and its neighbours Chad,
Cameroon, Benin and Niger. Details of
funding, with the Africans wanting
the United Nations and European
Union to pay, may delay the mission.
Nigeria’s home-grown extremist
group has responded with attacks on
one town in Cameroon and two in
Niger this week. Officials said more
than 100 civilians were killed and 500
wounded in Cameroon. Niger said
about 100 insurgents and one civilian
died in attacks on Friday. Several
security forces from both countries
were killed.
International concern has increased
along with the death toll; some 10,000
have been killed in the uprising in the
past year compared with 2,000 in the
four previous years, according to the
US Council on Foreign Relations.
The United States has been urging
Nigeria to press ahead with the
voting. The US secretary of state, John
Kerry, visited Nigeria two weeks ago
and said that “one of the best ways to
fight back against Boko Haram” was
by holding credible and peaceful
elections, on time.
“It’s imperative that these elections
happen on time as scheduled,” Kerry
said.
Officials in President Goodluck
Jonathan’s administration have been
calling for a postponement.
Any delay is opposed by an
opposition coalition fielding former
military dictator Muhammadu Buhari,
though the opposition stands to take
most votes in the north-east.
Supporters of both sides are
threatening violence if their candidate
does not win. Some 800 people were
killed in riots in the mainly Muslim
north after Buhari, a Muslim, lost
2011 elections to Jonathan, a Christian
from the south.
A postponement will give electoral
officials more time to deliver some 30
million voter cards. The commission
had said the non-delivery of cards to
nearly half of the 68.8 million
registered voters was not a good
reason to delay the vote.