[size=14pt]Group Wants Kaita Tried For Treason[/size]
Author: Date: Oct 8th, 2010.

The Jonathan Sambo Campaign Organisation has called for the trial of an associate of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, for treason over his recent statement that the North will make the country ungovernable for President Goodluck Jonathan if he is able to get the presidential ticket of Peoples Democratic Party and was victorious in the 2011 elections.

The second republic politician also said the North will also not accept the emergence of any candidate from any other part of the country in a recent interview.

But in a press release signed by Sully Abu yesterday, the Jonathan Campaign Organisation said the comments by Kaita is treasonable.

The campaign group therefore called on the security agencies to take appropriate action.

“The point must be made that those promising to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan, as Alhaji Lawal Kaita openly boasted recently, must also be ready to keep a date with the law.

“We are after all a country governed by laws, and the laws of treason are very clear in this regard.

. . .

“But this time, Nigerians can not be fooled. Our people remain eternally vigilant, and we call on the security agencies not to hesitate to charge anyone found culpable with the relevant laws of the land.”

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/08/group-wants-kaita-tried-for-treason/

This is the offensive interview. Make una shine una eye!

[size=14pt]Kaita: North ’ll make Nigeria ungovernable for Jonathan[/size]
Tuesday, 05 October 2010 05:52 Biodun Durojaiye
Ted Odogwu, Kano

THE drumbeat over the 2011 presidential election became louder at the weekend as former governor of the old Kaduna State, Alhaji Lawan Kaita, vowed that the North would make the country ungovernable if President Goodluck Jonathan wins the polls.

He said: “It is becoming apparent that the recent replacement of Service Chiefs is part of President Jonathan’s plan to use state apparatus to scale the 2011 presidential hurdle.

“Anything short of a Northern President is tantamount to stealing our Presidency. Jonathan has to go and he will go. Even if he uses the incumbency power to get his nomination on the platform of the PDP, he would be frustrated out.”

Kaita, founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and close ally of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, warned that the North should not be blamed for the calamity that will befall the country, if Jonathan emerges President next year.

He said: “The North is determined, if that happens, to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan or any other Southerner who finds his way to the seat of power on the platform of the PDP against the principle of the party’s zoning policy.

“Feelers from the South-South clearly show that the North is not the only region that is outraged over the situation. The South-East is there grumbling and the South-South, his (Jonathan) geo-political zone, he is not sure of their support.”

Reacting to the general thinking that the minority and Christians in the North are backing Jonathan, Kaita said it was a wrong assumption.

He said: “What you may call Northern Christians are concentrated more in Benue State where they may constitute about 90 per cent. In Plateau State, if you study that carefully, the Christian/Muslim population is 60 per cent for Christians, 40 per cent Muslims, so Plateau State is not an entirely a Christian State. The only state in the North that is substantially a Christian community is Benue State.”

Nigerians, he said, should be concerned over the prevailing political situation in the country because the North will not accept any government founded on any fraudulent foundation, which, he stressed, would definitely crumble, pointing out that “it should be seen by all as a stolen mandate that must be retrieved by all means”.

Kaita expressed displeasure over the event in Owerri, the Imo State capital, where the meeting of Igbo leaders was disrupted by security agents, saying such an action simply demonstrated dictatorship and disorder, “an indication that there is danger in the country”.

While recalling that he moved the motion in 2002 for the retention of zoning that gave former President Olusegun Obasanjo a second term mandate, Kaita said Jonathan did not say the truth over his comments on zoning, stating that he (Jonathan) was physically present and voted at the caucus meeting as he represented Bayelsa State as the deputy governor then.

To him, the motion for zoning was principally for power shift “which is the presidential power. That was the essence for the zoning, all other offices were to follow”.

“Just for the sake of power, Jonathan has turned to something else, its very bad and he is losing credibility for this.”

Kaita, however, said he was happy that some notable Northerners, such as former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd); Atiku; former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari; former National Security Adviser (NSA), Lt-General Aliyu Gusau (rtd) and a few others are in the race to represent the interest of the North.

http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68531:kaita-north-ll-make-nigeria-ungovernable-for-jonathan&catid=43:news&Itemid=799

I can't wait! Let's split this contraption up already.

As if the country is governable as it is! Foolish people!

Faeb:

[size=14pt]Group Wants Kaita Tried For Treason[/size]
Author: Date: Oct 8th, 2010.

The Jonathan Sambo Campaign Organisation has called for the trial of an associate of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, for treason over his recent statement that the North will make the country ungovernable for President Goodluck Jonathan if he is able to get the presidential ticket of Peoples Democratic Party and was victorious in the 2011 elections.

The second republic politician also said the North will also not accept the emergence of any candidate from any other part of the country in a recent interview.

But in a press release signed by Sully Abu yesterday, the Jonathan Campaign Organisation said the comments by Kaita is treasonable.

The campaign group therefore called on the security agencies to take appropriate action.

“The point must be made that those promising to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan, as Alhaji Lawal Kaita openly boasted recently, must also be ready to keep a date with the law.

“We are after all a country governed by laws, and the laws of treason are very clear in this regard.

. . .

“But this time, Nigerians can not be fooled. Our people remain eternally vigilant, and we call on the security agencies not to hesitate to charge anyone found culpable with the relevant laws of the land.”

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/08/group-wants-kaita-tried-for-treason/

Im not being tribalistic oo but to be candid hausa pple are a curse unto Nigeria. Pls from Tafawa balewa being PM till yar adua, can all the achievements of over 5 hausa leaders be compared with what OBJ achieved in 8years? Pls the only exception was Gowon who was a christian

Im not being tribalistic oo but to be candid hausa pple are a curse unto Nigeria. Pls from Tafawa balewa being PM till yar adua, can all the achievements of over 5 hausa leaders be compared with what OBJ achieved in 8years? Pls the only exception was Gowon who was a christian

And here's another one. Shortly after this was published, there was a deep shakeup in the army;

Date Published: 09/20/10

[size=14pt]Jonathan's Presidency: Northern Elements plan Gridlock, Mayhem, may use Boko Haram[/size]
…Military Coup on the table
…How Security Report stopped Jonathan's American Trip
…Fifth Columnists under Security Watch
   
Mallam Adamu Ciroma Alhaji Tanko Yakassai Alhaji Lawal Kaita Dr. Iyorchia Ayu

A crisis of huge magnitude capable of thwarting Nigeria’s democratic process is currently being planned by some Northern elements following the declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 Presidential elections.

It was learnt that the characters behind the plot have at various nocturnal meetings vowed to ensure gridlock, and mayhem if President Jonathan gets the ticket.

Highly placed sources told pointblanknews.com that the plot is in three phases: challenge the PDP’s decision to accept President Jonathan’s candidacy in court, cause religious riots and killings of Southerners in the North and then create a state of emergency in the country and a consequent military putsch.

Spearheading the plot that has on the table, a possible event that could lead to the ‘suspension of the constitution’, are Former Central Bank Governor and Ex- Minister for Finance, Adamu Ciroma, Ex Internal Affairs minister and former Senate President, Iyorchia Ayu, PDP chieftain, Yakassai; former deputy National chairman of the defunct National Party Of Nigeria (NPN), Shetima Ali Munguno;, Senator Kanti Bello, Ex National Democratic Party chairman, and IBB campaign coordinator, Hassan Mohammed Jalo; PDP chieftain, Lawal Kaita, Bello Kirfi, Second republic Ambassador to Switzerland, Yahaya Kwande, and Special assistant to for Vice President, Abubakar Atiku, Ex Chief of Army, General Abdulrahman Dambazzau, and scribe Northern consultative Forum (NCF), Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim while General Office Commanding (GOC), 3 rd Armored Division, in Jos, General Saleh Maina, is said to have been briefed.

Pointblanknews.com also learnt that the extremists in the North are expected to co-opt some influential and desperate politicians from other zones in the sinister game plan.

In line with the script, some of the arrowheads have agreed to start sending signals through the media, of a possible pogrom that would make the Rwandan genocide, a child’s play. They also want to recreate pockets of massacre in the north that led to the civil war. They intend to mobilize ethnic militia like the Boko Haram, to launch all out genocide on southerners in the north, with an anticipated reprisal attacks in the south.

The plot is expected to also involve some officers of northern extraction and top attorneys. The attorney’s are expected to begin series of legal battles to challenge the PDP in court. The legal option would be a page out of the Arthur Nzeribe’s infamous Association for Better Nigeria, ABN, play book. ABN had in 1993 got an injunction stopping the Professor Humphrey Nwosu’s electoral Commission from conducting the Presidential election.

Pointblanknews.com learnt that, If Jonathan gets the nod of the PDP as its standard bearer, the legal think-tank made up of top jurists, retired justices and judges are expected to fashion out a suit that would be brought before a judge of their peers who would grant an injunction that would restrain INEC from conducting the presidential election.

In a recent letter jointly signed by Ciroma, Ayu, Kaita, Kirfi, Kwande and Bashir Ibrahim, they said “…we are extremely worried that our Party’s failure to deliver justice in this matter, may ignite a series of events, the scope and magnitude of which we can neither proximate nor contain. The peace, stability and unity of our country are superior to the personal ambition of one man. This stability and the corporate existence of our Party are all at stake and we urge you to grant our prayers.”

Recently also , one of General Ibrahim Babangida’s campaign coordinators, and ex National Democratic Party chairman, Hassan Mohammed Jalo , in line with the fiery rhetoric of characters like Kanti Bello and Tanko Yakassai said “we have a leader (Jonathan) that wants Nigeria to disintegrate, that wants Nigeria to crumble on his head. At the rate we are going, if anything happens to Nigeria now the whole blame will go to Goodluck Jonathan because he is the President”

Monguno, 74, former Mines and Power Commissioner under General Gowon said “I am afraid if he (Jonathan) insists on standing for the Presidency, there will be all sorts of confusion, a lot of confusion that could compromise the unity of Nigeria.”

Sources hinted pointblanknews.com that the series of warnings and threats issued by leaders from the North have now reached a new crescendo as options and strategies are now being worked out.

According to highly placed sources, in the event of a crisis, the North would take full advantage of its population in the Military and take over. The source said “they would also take advantage of the fact that the new Army chief, General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika is yet to ‘settle’ down, coupled with the fact that some key officers are still loyal to the sacked Army chief, Gen Abdulrahman Dambazzau.”

Dambazzau who was relieved from his position while attending a conference in New York and is said to have expressed anger over the way and manner he was fired. He has a long list of followers among soldiers of Northern extraction.

General Maina who is a key consideration in the plot was at one time put under surveillance by the military intelligence. He heads one of the most strategic and lethal Division in the Nigeria Army. The other three key areas that are being infiltrated are 2 nd Div, Ibadan; 82 Div, Lagos and 1 Mechanized Division, Kaduna.

President Jonathan have had to cancel his planned Visit to the United States to address the United Nations General Assembly soon after declaring to contest in what a security source said had to do with “immediate security reports obtained.”

Some Northern politicians had warned that the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), must not field President Jonathan, a southerner for the Presidential election insisting that it is the turn of Northern Nigeria to produce the President.

However, security sources hinted Pointblanknews.com that soon after president Jonathan declared at the Eagle Square, Abuja, some top Northern leaders met to strategize and stop the Presidency from “being hijacked by the Southerner.”

According to a source “we received a tip- off almost immediately because they were monitoring the events on television and that was why we advised the president against any foreign trip now.”

But President Jonathan had relied on the provision of the Nigeria constitution as against an agreement in the PDP to declare his interest to vie for the top political position.

http://www.pointblanknews.com/News/os3912.html

Athough I am indifferent about Jonathan and his aspiration, I am convinced that the belligerent posture of the so-called North amounts to serious blackmail and intimidation. Threatening amaggeddon unless they have their way smacks of supreme arrogance - a warped and misplaced sense of entitlement. . .as if the presidency is their birthright. This is absolutely unacceptable. If they want war then let there be war. I have no doubt that their unproductive, goat-herding, cattle-rearing region would suffer most in the event of a disintegration. Their case would be worse than poverty-stricken Chad, Malawi and Niger Republic. Let Jonathan go ahead and win the election; let him rig himself in with a landslide victory if need be. I want these insufferable Northern parasites to do their worst. Rubbish.

I have always known that they will go down fighting but let them have their say. GEJ should have his own play ready. His think tank cannot go to s;eep. They have a lot of brainstorming to do. All options should be on the table. But diplomacy must be exhausted first.

In the meantime, Dokpesi has accepted that the phonecall asking if he had paid the balance 4 million by one of the bombing suspects, pertains to him. His argument though, is that the money was meant for a campaign office in Bayelsa. https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-528786.0.html

Empty barrels make the loudest noise - trial my a s s in same country where nothing works -

I have said it time without number that Jonathan can only win this election by leaving PDP and coming out on the platform of another party.He is still in a position to correct his mistakes.If he goes ahead to rig the election with PDP,he will get us into a chaotic situation in 2011.

Jonathan WILL WIN THE ELECTION IN PDP . I don't know how the ministry of information can allow news papers to print all manners of stories when right there in the constitution is a provision that takes care of the media madness of the last week.
I take many of these stories with a pinch of salt and even if they're entirely true(which i know isn't the case), the ministry of information and it's sub agencies have failed monumentally and all the DGs and Directors should be sacked.
GJ

Abagworo:

I have said it time without number that Jonathan can only win this election by leaving PDP and coming out on the platform of another party. He is still in a position to correct his mistakes.If he goes ahead to rig the election with PDP, he will get us into a chaotic situation in 2011.

How can that possibly be the case? Isn't it ludicrous for a sitting president and Commander-in-Chief to cowardly scamper out of his own party and seek (re)election under an opposition party? With the instrumentality of power of incumbency there is NO WAY Jonathan would lose the ticket to any of those pathetic northern candidates who are no less self-serving than he is.

By the way, the blackmail and intimidation by selfish elements threatening to cause a "chaotic situation" is not enough to frighten away a sitting Commander-in-Chief from his legitimate ambition! Where does that happen. If not that GEJ is too soft, he should have crushed these treasonable felons inciting the public. That is perhaps the only thing I miss about OBJ. By now he would have 'decapitated' these northern noisemakers with all the machinery of goverment at his disposal, and NOTHING would happen. You don't threaten to make a country ungovernable and expect the president to timidly cower under his bed.

^ Gbam

edoyad:

Jonathan WILL WIN THE ELECTION IN PDP . I don't know how the ministry of information can allow news papers to print all manners of stories when right there in the constitution is a provision that takes care of the media madness of the last week.
I take many of these stories with a pinch of salt and even if they're entirely true(which i know isn't the case), the ministry of information and it's sub agencies have failed monumentally and all the DGs and Directors should be sacked.
GJ

Nigerians do not yet know that press freedom isn't the same as anything goes. There is no country in the World in which press freedom compromises national security. There has been an or'gy of irresponsible and possibly reports from the press in the past week. Yes, the Ministry of Information needs to set proper guidelines, so that the press does not agitate the populace in stressful times. We might look at it as a plus for the current regime that the press has been given a very free hand, we could also look at it as a learning process; but like you've pointed out, its been a week of madness, Dora needs to coordinate her troops.

I first noticed this during the UMYA Saudi saga, all manners of stories were allowed to be printed even while UMYA was alive and nothing was done checkmate that situation. That's why i don't support putting non-professionals in certain places, A PHARMACIST SHOULD NOT BE THE MINISTER FOR INFORMATION FOR FCK SAKE.

These rubbish leader think that they can hoodwink the middle into any fight!They are mistaken,the middle belters wil fight wil form alliance with the south and erase this nothing call north.

edoyad:

I first noticed this during the UMYA Saudi saga, all manners of stories were allowed to be printed even while UMYA was alive and nothing was done checkmate that situation. That's why i don't support putting non-professionals in certain places, A PHARMACIST SHOULD NOT BE THE MINISTER FOR INFORMATION FOR FCK SAKE.

You aint seen nothing yet. What about the Minister for Aviation, Mrs Njeze? We definitely need a total shift from the cabal.

This threat will turn out to be good for GEJ, because obviously many Nigerians don't agree with extremist Hausa people that they own this country.

These clowns in the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organization are daft, too daft. Is it possible to try somebody for an offense that will take place in the future? The offense is predicated on GEJ winning the election. This is incredible. Jonathan has not even won the ticket of their party and these morons are calling for the trial of people making political statements for treason! I hope their immaturity would not plunge the country into a mess.

Jonathan, Atiku, IBB Saraki et al - all the aspirants within PDP does not deserve to be elected. In civilized climes, the in-fighting among the presidential hopefulls is sufficient reason for people to jettison anything PDP and switch support to the opposition. In a free and fair election, the PDP does not even stand the chance to win. With all the money pumped into INEC, we shall see if the election will be free and fair. I doubt it much.

Abeem:

These clowns in the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organization are daft, too daft. Is it possible to try somebody for an offense that will take place in the future? The offense is predicated on GEJ winning the election. This is incredible. Jonathan has not even won the ticket of their party and these morons are calling for the trial of people making political statements for treason! I hope their immaturity would not plunge the country into a mess.

Jonathan, Atiku, IBB Saraki et al - all the aspirants within PDP does not deserve to be elected. In civilized climes, the in-fighting among the presidential hopefulls is sufficient reason for people to jettison anything PDP and switch support to the opposition. In a free and fair election, the PDP does not even stand the chance to win. With all the money pumped into INEC, we shall see if the election will be free and fair. I doubt it much.

The bolded is one of the funniest statements ever. To test out your theory, try threatening someone with death and see whether the fact that the event will take place in the future has any bearing on the punishment.

Beaf:

The bolded is one of the funniest statements ever. To test out your theory, try threatening someone with death and see whether the fact that the event will take place in the future has any bearing on the punishment.

There is nothing funny about the statement and I am mindful that Nigeria is a country of anything goes (afterall they smuggled 12 2/3 into the lexicon of the country's constitution to thwart the ambition of Awolowo in 1979). Nonetheless, I still stand by my statement. What will be the premise on which the case for treason will be based on? Their principal has not won the party's ticket.  They can't play God. If he wins after the primaries, then your theory of threatening someone with death might be applicable. Even then, he cannot be categorically sure he will win the presidential election (although the mole he planted in INEC will rig him in) not until the election has taken place that he can stand on high moral ground and order the prosecution of anyone making inciting and reckless statement like Kaita did.

The north self and their quest for power

And they made it ungovernable and forced to to elect the current idiot

Why bringing ancient news now? If this thrash enter FP, then the mods are old school..

BMC crew doing everything to tarnish Atiku won't work, they evening forming partnership with jonathan Sambo organisation.

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