Calllaris Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 What is happening in Nigeria?, Is Buhari running a parallel govt? If so, please call him to order. Idealy, until the sitting president of Nigeria leaves office, veto orders/ power/ national designations lies with his government. It has never happened in Nigeria, where a president elect has an office, gives national instructions and receives foreign envoys. Is this right? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I actually thought about this morning but I think him receiving foreign envoys is pretty harmless. I mean you know how everybody wants to hang with the winner and its usually tagged a courtesy visit and courtesy demands he receives them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calllaris Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 As long as its foreign national dignitaries and envoys, GEJ should receive and handover to GMB for discussions. Even when its a courtesy or congratulatory visit, they came as their country's envoy and should be received by Nigeria's national "team" or by the host himself, not the host elect. Per adventure they aren't given standard reception, or something in security goes wrong, who will be blamed? Nigeria or Buhari? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Yeahhhhh... true... Well apparently GMB isn't thinking like this, neither are the foreigners. The beginning of his regime isn't far off. We'll be watching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators FlyJ Posted May 3, 2015 Administrators Share Posted May 3, 2015 What is happening in Nigeria?, Is Buhari running a parallel govt? If so, please call him to order. Idealy, until the sitting president of Nigeria leaves office, veto orders/ power/ national designations lies with his government. It has never happened in Nigeria, where a president elect has an office, gives national instructions and receives foreign envoys. Is this right? No, it is not right. I think he should respect the President and hold off his parades till he is sworn in as President. If it were Buhari as president and Jonathan as president elect, i doubt Buhari will give him as much free hand as he is getting now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Lmao @free hand Its true though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dequeen Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Observing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abystacy Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 True talk ... Buhari is really beginning to piss me off But then again we all just have to sit and watch...just like the way he barred AIT from covering his activities of which he have no right to. He should be reminded of Decree 4,section 32 of the constitution 1984. it is mandatory for the media to hold public officials accountable to the people, and AIT alongside side NTA and Silverbird has that license.. no government has the right to take away the freedom of speech of the press... I wonder if we are going back the military era Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Shey nor be una vote am? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iris Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 (Sorry for the digression. This is for those who are aggrieved over the alleged ban of AIT by Buhari). Written by Omolara Owoeye Wise, she's known personally. Was with STV as a reporter, now a broadcaster on AIT. I want to appeal to all Nigerians, friends on Facebook, pro GMB, pro GEJ, anti GMB, anti GEJ, but lovers of this our beautiful country called Nigeria, to ‘take it easy’ like we normally say here. Take it easy, people. I have always said that the social media is a crazy place where irresponsible journalism is the norm. You don’t believe me? Just start a rumour on your wall and see how many people will share and even claim they were physically present when your rumour happened. BUHARI BARS /BARNS AIT… Thousands of you have shared this message. Let me ask you some questions. Where was AIT barred from? What was the event? What is the name of the crew that went to cover the assignment? When and where did this happen? I work in AIT so I’m privy to what some people are not but let me say this: this same AIT sent me to Daura to shoot a documentary on the president-elect. That is professionalism. This same AIT foot the bill for this expensive project and gave me what I needed for this assignment. This same AIT is working to see that the documentary meets international and professional standards and is already creating airtime for it. While in Katsina state, some overzealous aides, friends and sympathisers of the president-elect reacted to my presence in their state. The emirate council? Oh! You guys don’t want to know how ‘God delivered Daniel from the lion’s den’, literally. At a point, I had to hide my official car and moved around in an unbranded vehicle for security reasons, okay? But this same Buhari was informed that “AIT was on their soil” but his informants got the shock of their lives when he told them to allow us do our professional job. He told them to allow us access to whatever and whoever we needed to interview. At his command, we met everybody and spoke to them. In his family house, AIT was offered drinks but AIT turned down food because AIT was working. AIT took pictures with his sister, nephews and nieces. I have gone ahead to tell these two stories to show that we are fighting over nothing!!!! Absolutely nothing!!!! Whatever happened during the build-up to the elections were for that time and period. Those ‘aggrieved’ have forgiven and let go. ‘Offenders’ are doing the right thing now because the era of campaigns and lies are over! After reading these stories, I do not expect anybody to be aggrieved anymore because the principal players have probably forgotten all about what happened. We have bigger problems on our hands, people. Bigger problems. Our Chibok girls are still missing, our refineries, hospitals, rail systems, schools, our pensioners, infant and maternal mortality rates, power, security, etc. Tell me, is it possible to drive a car on a high speed and be looking back at the same time? A few seconds on even the rear view mirror is recipe for disaster. Friends, let’s keep our gaze on our mission. Nigeria is bigger than any one of us. God bless our dear country! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iris Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 http://africanspotlight.com/2015/05/02/how-buhari-treated-us-ait-crew-in-his-home-town-daura-ait-staff-lara-wise/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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