On one front their's Bola tinubu with his new party APC proving to be a stiff and stubborn opposition... On the other end we Have former PDP leaders from the south west like Olagunsoye oyinlola and co...under the New PDP proving to be a thorn in the flesh. My dilenma is why a region which took the bold step of calling for Yar'adua's Removal in his ailing days(while other regions including SS were still dragging their foot) suddenly destest the same man they once fought for?

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That is because they are very objective, non-sentimental and non-tribalistic. They will support you when you do well or if they think you will do well and same people will oppose you when you do badly. They don't follow you because you are powerful, in-power or influencial (e.g. Obasanjo). They do what they think is right, considering the present circumstance. That was why they were able to push PDP out of power even when PDP was the ruling party. It is in SW we have true democracy in Nigeria. Others just talk and brag but do nothing when its time to vote or voice out.

If GEJ is doing well, be sure he will have the full support of SW during election. If otherwise they will vote him out even if Oyinlola and Tinubu licks hIs boots.

I am not from south west but it is very important to know that the people are highly sophisticated. their ideology is good for our nascent democracy. GEF would not have been the president without the support of this tribe but he disappointed them in the area of good governance and that's why they are against him. if the president change overleaf, Yoruba will be the first to sing his praise song.

jenbost: I am not from south west but it is very important to know that the people are highly sophisticated. their ideology is good for our nascent democracy. GEF would not have been the president without the support of this tribe but he disappointed them in the area of good governance and that's why they are against him. if the president change overleaf, Yoruba will be the first to sing his praise song.

Absolute nonsense, all the yorubas championing anti Jonathan campaign are totally corrupt and failed leaders. If they are sincere as you said why did they keep shut during obasanjo's 8 years

Tribalism. If you notice all the attacks have been very personal, sentimental and towards GEJ's character showing a lack of respect for him because of where he's from and his culture

drunk fisherman
Stupid
his wife is a 'hippo'
he's 'retarded'
he's a militant
etc etc

This is one of 2 nigerian presidents that have a college education and is a self made man from poverty. As stupid as Obasanjo is (openly), and as uneducated as IBB and the rest are, the SW was never so vehemently opposed to them despite them being almost cartoonishly wicked, corrupt and unable to abide by rule of law.


the SW was for amensty for Boko Haram to spite GEJ
the SW was against fuel subsidy removal, and THEN for fuel subsidy removal once Ribadu said what Okonjo Iweala and Allison Madueke and GEJ has been saying the whole time.
the SW was anti-pdp but is now pro "new pdp"
the SW sided with Buhari even after his followers massacred christian youths during youth services

anything that ensure the progress of the rest of southern Nigeria the SW is against. The SW were in the ranks with Boko Haram. Yorubas are the only southern tribe with boko haram members.

It is very clear and obvious that this has nothing to do with GEJ's performance, because they have been both for and against the exact same GEJ policies based on what will hurt him personally. GEJ has done more for the SW than Yar Adua, Obasanjo and IBB combine (Economic boom, revamp airports, revival of trains, manufacturing plants in Ondo, Oyo, Osun, a Space Agency in Lagos etc etc). You can't say it's a matter of performance, it's simply hatred. Everyone from Wole Soyinka to Tinubu even OBJ are unanimously hateful and have no respect for the president of Nigeria because of where he's from.


Igbos have found no reason to dislike him. He's preforming, he's civil, and he's professional. Under him our NATIONAL aviation, power, agriculture, business community, transportation, sports, and oil industries are blossoming and evolving and nobody can deny this.

We're not going to call him a drunk or his wife a 'hippo' because this is hateful and uncivilized.

I would also like to add that this is the ancedotes of a few very loud internet savvy south westerners. If you go to GEJ's page, Yorubas are trooping to support him like anyone else. It's not an igbo convention there or a ijaw party, it's very broad based and national support.

GEJ will win in 2015, and history will remember him as the president that brought industry back to nigeria, aviation back to nigeria, power back to nigeria, international respect back to nigeria, working functional institutions back to nigeria, professionalism and technocrats back to government, and liberated the south from the grip of the north and their southwestern lap dogs.

Ikengawo: I would also like to add that this is the ancedotes of a few very loud internet savvy south westerners. If you go to GEJ's page, Yorubas are trooping to support him like anyone else. It's not an igbo convention there or a ijaw party, it's very broad based and national support.

GEJ will win in 2015, and history will remember him as the president that brought industry back to nigeria, aviation back to nigeria, power back to nigeria, international respect back to nigeria, working functional institutions back to nigeria, professionalism and technocrats back to government, and liberated the south from the grip of the north and their southwestern lap dogs.

Your writeup is ridden with tribalism and bigoted. This is the reason why you will always have opposition from the unbiased SW. Be objective, Obasanjo opposition was majorly from SW that was why PDP lost all SW.

You mentioned a lot of GEJ's achievement but we all know that ordinary man on the street is suffering even greater since he came in. Even the middle class are complaining severely. Petrol price sky rocked, we pay PHCN N750 every month for doing nothing, we pay N1000 at the airport after paying for our air ticket, its costing about N50k to get new plate number and particulars, corruption is at all time high, oil theft is at all time high, no caught, corrupt official is being convicted,5 is more than 27 , 13 more than 16 and many more. Even though Obasanjo was not that good but the poor man on the street was better than now. Its never been this bad for Nigerians and you think SW will support you? You have another thought coming.

I am not in support of people abusing GEJ, he is the president of my country and he deserves respect. This abuse is rampant because the middle class feels cheated, robbed of their vote and are barely surviving. It just happens that its this same set of people that are always online and they use the platform to vent their anger and disgust to the state of decadence in Nigeria.

IMO, if you build airport, provide 24hr power, build road and rail, as long as you allow corruption to strive, you have done nothing because corruption will eat up all your effort. You can not leave the tap running while mopping the floor. It will always look like you've done nothing.

FreeGlobe:
Absolute nonsense, all the yorubas championing anti Jonathan campaign are totally corrupt and failed leaders. If they are sincere as you said why did they keep shut during obasanjo's 8 years

This is the most bare faced lie . Yorubas criticised Obasanjo more than any other tribe in nigeria. This is easily verifiable, but then that is only useful for anyone interested in the truth.

1st Reason: Tribalism
2nd Reason: Tribalism
3rd Reason: Tribalism

software man:
This is the most bare faced lie . Yorubas criticised Obasanjo more than any other tribe in nigeria. This is easily verifiable, but then that is only useful for anyone interested in the truth.

You can't deceive us Mr man. Yorubas only only hated obasanjo because he was not their choice initially. falae was their choice. How many times did yorubas criticize obj's performance the way they are doing GEJ even though Jonathan has performed better. last I checked yoruba sons including FFK and Okupe were Obj's praise singers. As worse as Tinubu's tenure was why don't yorubas criticize him? bigoted tribe

gbigbega:

Your writeup is ridden with tribalism and bigoted. This is the reason why you will always have opposition from the unbiased SW. Be objective, Obasanjo opposition was majorly from SW that was why PDP lost all SW.

You mentioned a lot of GEJ's achievement but we all know that ordinary man on the street is suffering even greater since he came in. Even the middle class are complaining severely. Petrol price sky rocked, we pay PHCN N750 every month for doing nothing, we pay N1000 at the airport after paying for our air ticket, its costing about N50k to get new plate number and particulars, corruption is at all time high, oil theft is at all time high, no caught, corrupt official is being convicted,5 is more than 27 , 13 more than 16 and many more. Even though Obasanjo was not that good but the poor man on the street was better than now. Its never been this bad for Nigerians and you think SW will support you? You have another thought coming.

I am not in support of people abusing GEJ, he is the president of my country and he deserves respect. This abuse is rampant because the middle class feels cheated, robbed of their vote and are barely surviving. It just happens that its this same set of people that are always online and they use the platform to vent their anger and disgust to the state of decadence in Nigeria.

IMO, if you build airport, provide 24hr power, build road and rail, as long as you allow corruption to strive, you have done nothing because corruption will eat up all your effort. You can not leave the tap running while mopping the floor. It will always look like you've done nothing.

The ordinary man on the street is suffering because his country has been run by the Atikus, and Buhari's the 'sw' is trooping to support just because they hate GEJ.

The average man is suffering because in the time of Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Obasanjo and Yar Adua Nigeria could only produce half of the electricity that GEJ has brought to the country in 2.5 years!

The average man is suffering because in the time of Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Obasanjo and Yar Adua not a single railroad worked. Trading from state to state was not worth the pain and cost and only Lagos could prosper because it had the ability to trade with the rest of the world due to an international airport and port. The end result is everyone came to lagos and the city fell under the pressure of supporting an entire nation because Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Obasanjo and Yar Adua couldn't put an international sea port in the SS (where the bulk of out exports come from) due to tribalism and hatred. Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Obasanjo and Yar Adua couldn't put an airport in the SE where the majority of our international travellers and traders come from because of tribe and hate. GEJ has done both


GE is building a plant in Calabar worth 45% of Calabar's total GDP. Nigeria is now exporting rice. Nigeria is now leading africa in foreign policy. Kenya has granted Nigerian investors oil blocs. Ghana is begging industrialists like Innoson to build in their country indigenous companies now lead the oil industry from all tribes and ethnicities. Almajiris are being put to school for the first time. Boko Haram is but a whisper of what it use to be and now local thugs with sticks are chasing them out of the bushes.




The opposition (SW led) begged GEJ to PAY Boko Haram money for killing Nigerians. GEJ took them on bullet for bullet and has won. The opposition is silent

The opposition (SW led) begged GEJ to keep the fuel subsidy. Today we have learned that fuel subsidy theft is the #1 source of looting in the country. The opposition is now in support of 'ribadu's' report.

GEJ have the opposition the freedom to even be this loud when Obasanjo was throwing Fela's mother out of windows and Buhari was assassinating journalists for treason

I left Nigeria for a decade and came back. When I was there (under Abacha) Nigeria has NO electricity for months. Teachers were on strike for 1 year straight. Nobody owned mobile phones, televisions, generators, or cars except the rich. There were no fat people outside of government. Today Nigeria has evolved and people like GEJ are leading it. The average man in nigeria will continue to suffer for a long time because people like GEJ have only had 2 years to correct the mistakes of 52 years of mismanagement! Change is happening but it won't be overnight. Needless to say we're seeing the results.


Before GEJ could you say Akure, Calabar, Illorin, Owerri, Uyo, and hundreds of other emerging cities were what they are today? When Obasanjo and IBB were deliberately trying to sabatoge opposition progress in Lagos under Tinubu, where was this 'opposition' from the SW that hate GEJ so much for doing absolutely no crime to the yoruba people?

You're the opposite of objective. This is pure hatred. Calling someones wife a hippo, the first lady of your nation, is not 'objective'.

Yorubas have followed Boko Haram and Buhari's CPC who's thugs massacred youth corpers because they lost an election by which their candidate spoke only Hausa believing this his people are entitled to Nigeria as their personal property. They are now following Atiku, who is the first man in human history to become a billionaire working as an airport employee.

I can understand wanting to follow Fashola who is a great man and great transformer and leader. I can even understand wanting to follow Tinubu because he united your people. But Fashola hasn't been visceral towards GEJ. He has little bad to say about the federal government. He has requested state police, a stronger fight against corruption and decentralizing powers. That all makes perfect sense. Amaechi, Peter Obi, Oshiomole, Akpabio, Mimiko, Rochas, and Imoke have all asked for the same. you

But when you start asking FG to pay boko haram, for GEJ not to run in 2015 which is his right as a citizen, calling his wife a hippo, calling him a drunkard, cheering when igbos are killed, supporting the party of Yerima and the Abacha family (ANPP) voting yes for child marriage, supporting the party that massacred youth corpers (CPC), attempting the defame prominent igbos like Bianca by spreading rumors about their sex life, cheering for the death of Chinua Achebe who committed no crime against the yoruba other than saying Awolowo was advocating the advancement of yorubas over others (which you all know is true), cheering for efforts to frustrate igbo businessmen in Lagos, and joining ranks with Boko Haram/supplying weapons and your sons, it is easy for the rest of southern nigeria to realize that the only enemy they have in Nigeria is the 'SW', and that there's nothing objective about their 'opposition' other than the fact that it's based on and born in the advancement of hatred and envy.

At OP, u don't need to go far to get the answer. From the days of Awolowo to the future generations, South west is cut out to be in the opposition. Give Tinubu president now and see his wife joining the opposition to fight him. Some call it sophistication. I don't know what to call it.

Ikengawo: Yorubas have followed Boko Haram and Buhari's CPC who's thugs massacred youth corpers because they lost an election by which their candidate spoke only Hausa believing this his people are entitled to Nigeria as their personal property. They are now following Atiku, who is the first man in human history to become a billionaire working as an airport employee.

I can understand wanting to follow Fashola who is a great man and great transformer and leader. I can even understand wanting to follow Tinubu because he united your people. But Fashola hasn't been visceral towards GEJ. He has little bad to say about the federal government. He has requested state police, a stronger fight against corruption and decentralizing powers. That all makes perfect sense. Amaechi, Peter Obi, Oshiomole, Akpabio, Mimiko, Rochas, and Imoke have all asked for the same. you

But when you start asking FG to pay boko haram, for GEJ not to run in 2015 which is his right as a citizen, calling his wife a hippo, calling him a drunkard, cheering when igbos are killed, supporting the party of Yerima and the Abacha family (ANPP) voting yes for child marriage, supporting the party that massacred youth corpers (CPC), attempting the defame prominent igbos like Bianca by spreading rumors about their sex life, cheering for the death of Chinua Achebe who committed no crime against the yoruba other than saying Awolowo was advocating the advancement of yorubas over others (which you all know is true), cheering for efforts to frustrate igbo businessmen in Lagos, and joining ranks with Boko Haram/supplying weapons and your sons, it is easy for the rest of southern nigeria to realize that the only enemy they have in Nigeria is the 'SW', and that there's nothing objective about their 'opposition' other than the fact that it's based on and born in the advancement of hatred and envy.

Flawless

lol at sophistication.

The SW functions as so. Nobody wants anyone to be seen as bigger than them. It's very true that if the yoruba are given power, they will turn against whom ever the yoruba in power is unanimously. They don't like seeing the advancement of people like them and the more like them you are the more uncomfortable they are with your success.

This is why the focus is on Igbos and not Fulanis or Hausas. They would rather the Fulani and Hausa succeed because they are strange and distant. If Igbos and Ijaws start to shine they will feel insecure and begin attacking.

The hard part about this mentality is they themselves are too afraid to be the change they want to see. They won't start something, they will do it after someone else has done it and proved it can be done, but when it's time to celebrate they will claim that they did the entire thing themselves and did it the best with no objective means of showing this.


Instead of Ekiti or Osun leading Imo, Anambra, Abia and Delta in education, they will simply say they are the 'most educated tribe' and begin attacking the states that are leading.

Instead of producing their own Achebe, they will write 150 articles trying to breakdown his character despite the fact that he's one of the only africans that have not only outdone the continent, but the rest of the human race that are in his field.


They will also start propping false 'competition' against the person that's 'winning'.

suddenly Dbanj sells as many records and draws the crowd that Psquare does
suddenly Omotola is equal in pay popularity and importance to the movie industry as Genevive Nnaji
suddenly Tinubu is equal to PDP in influence and power despite the fact that he could only deliver 1 state in the federal election, and lost Ondo state to an igbo man headed party that was tried of tribal politics.
suddenly Ibadan is Enugu
suddenly, realizing the entire region is a slum, they're all from Lagos and nobody else can be a Lagosian despite the fact that the governor is from Ekiti and the state has had 2 igbo governors a bini and up to 4 northerners.
suddenly Nollywood is 'igbo' and Yorubawood(?) is equal to it.
instead of being accomdating, they'll claim it
instead of being sophisticated, they'll claim it
instead of being industrious, they'll claim it.



this is crab in a bucket mentality. If you put a group of crabs in one bucket, and one starts to climb out, the rest of the crabs will pull him down.

Believe me, I have an equally extensive list of things i like about the yoruba and I respect them as a people and culture immensely, but im constantly disappointed but their crabs in a bucket mentality and obnoxious belief that other southerners are the enemy. I wouldn't be this critical if i didn't respect them but how is a person supposed to respect a group of people who see the massacre of igbos in biafra by northerners and feel that this was a good thing? or a funny thing?

again it's very easy for the rest of nigeria to see where the problem is coming from.

The reason is simply because for the 1st time in over 51 yrs, you have somebody who is a non-hausa/fulani/yoruba ruling the dungeon called nigeria. This is seen as a "taboo" by the unholy alliance of the yoruba-hausa/fulani, hence; the need to bring down the GEJ's administration by any means necessary.

Yorubas are the worst type of enemy. Hausas will fight you face to face. They will tell you their strengths and deficits. You are only their enemy once you offend them or their agenda. Yorubas only agenda is to be against you. They don't want to go forward, they don't want to be in leadership, they just don't want you to go forward or be in leadership. The north wants to islamize nigeria and colonize it. the SE wants to be left alone the the maximum extent possible and represented in government. The SS wants to control its resources and destiny. Of all of these objectives, the SW has seen the SS and the SE as the enemy, the north as the ally, and have no objective of it's own other than making sure nobody else achieves their objective.

permanent spoilers. This is why they're always in 'opposition'. They don't have enough focus to move in one direction but enough aimlessness to hold everyone else from their goals. Instead of reading anything Wole Soyinka has wrote, they will wait for someone to celebrate Chinua Achebe to begin saying Wole Soyinka is better or his 'competition'. They can't tell you what he did or why he won a noble prize (advocating for people that were massacred in Biafra). They will celebrate his nobel in the same sentence they attack Ojukwu for supporting the same thing.



If you don't believe me remember this. Of all the vile things i've said on this forum about the yoruba, i have only been banned after posting positive pictures of Aba, Onitcha and Owerri. These are my only posts that have even been deleted. They're ok with us tearing each other apart, tribe against tribe, but if i celebrate the achievements of the Aba people in building an incredible city, i'm ban. This is a sickness and the rest of southern nigeria isn't used to this mentality.

Below is a comprehensive list of those who have ruled nigeria and the total number of years, prior to GEJ:

Tafa Balewa+Gowon+Murtala+Shagari+Buhari+Babangida+Abacha+Abdusalami+Yaradua = 40 yrs for northerners

Obasanjo+Shonekan = 11.5 yrs for yorubas


So folks can appreciate the level of this unholy alliance of vested interested of the yoruba-hausa/fulani vis-a-vis their quest to pull down GEJ.

Combine the achievements of all of these people and compare them to what GEJ has done. Combine the sins these people committed against just the SW alone.

These northerners threw felas mother out of a window because her son's bravery
have killed more yoruba journalists than anyone
imprisoned awolowo
killed abiola
subjugated the yorubas of Illorin in their own home
and have looted nigeria to the brink of extinction
killed dele giwa

to be very honest, Igbo leadership has all lived and died till old age and in peace. Ojuwku, Azikiwe, Achebe, etc etc. No region compares to the Yoruba in arrest and assassination of it's leadership than the Yoruba and it's always in northern hands.
it is in the midst of all of this that GEJ is still the problem.

what can you say the igbos, ijaws or GEJ have done to you?

1 Fuel subsidy fraud- There was no fraud in the subsidy regime until clueless joe came in.all of a sudden, the no of fuel importers ballooned from 6 to 44.
Note that the new ones had no facilities, had no vessels and no infrastructure to store fuel. GEJ gave every fisherman,tomato seller and area boy a license.

2 Boko haram was running riot in the north , bombed the UN building etc and the president did absolutely nothing for 3yrs.

3they told tall tales about removing subsidy. This thing came all the way from their masters,the ones controlling clueless joe in the world bank AND IMF with their agent Okonjo Iweala.
They told tall tales of how that subsidy was going to make everything well and nice.
Jonathan started his tribalist and sectional government during this period.
They told us how it was the yorubas who were enjoying the subsidy and how every other place was paying more for fuel. Are you not still paying more than the SW

Ikengawo: Yorubas are the worst type of enemy. Hausas will fight you face to face. They will tell you their strengths and deficits. You are only their enemy once you offend them or their agenda. Yorubas only agenda is to be against you. They don't want to go forward, they don't want to be in leadership, they just don't want you to go forward or be in leadership. The north wants to islamize nigeria and colonize it. the SE wants to be left alone the the maximum extent possible and represented in government. The SS wants to control its resources and destiny. Of all of these objectives, the SW has seen the SS and the SE as the enemy, the north as the ally, and have no objective of it's own other than making sure nobody else achieves their objective.

permanent spoilers. This is why they're always in 'opposition'. They don't have enough focus to move in one direction but enough aimlessness to hold everyone else from their goals. Instead of reading anything Wole Soyinka has wrote, they will wait for someone to celebrate Chinua Achebe to begin saying Wole Soyinka is better or his 'competition'. They can't tell you what he did or why he won a noble prize (advocating for people that were massacred in Biafra). They will celebrate his nobel in the same sentence they attack Ojukwu for supporting the same thing.



If you don't believe me remember this. Of all the vile things i've said on this forum about the yoruba, i have only been banned after posting positive pictures of Aba, Onitcha and Owerri. These are my only posts that have even been deleted. They're ok with us tearing each other apart, tribe against tribe, but if i celebrate the achievements of the Aba people in building an incredible city, i'm ban. This is a sickness and the rest of southern nigeria isn't used to this mentality.

CLASSIC! Especially @ the bolded words .
In essence, the yorubas are like a people who are happy to remain in hell, so long as they are capable of holding others back in hell I have said it countless times, that yorubas are not really happy to be in nigeria,,,the only joy they derive from being part of nigeria is because others (Igbo especially) are part of the dungeon called nigeria.

Sorry to say, but none of you seem to be talking fact! Every single post here has an emotional or ethnic undertone to it.

My brothers I am totally disappointed with the way some Nigerians are behaving, at times, I ask myself whether these people are really human beings, I am not Igbo, but I find it very difficult to understand why the Yorubas are happy that 3million Ibo people were starved to death during the Nigerian civil war.

We all know that before Gej came to power, companies in Nigeria were moving to Other west African countries because of unfavorable business climate, but all these have changed since Gej came to power. The problem with some Nigerians is that they are very lazy and lack initiative, believing the the FG will come and spoon-feed them, without knowing that Nigeria is still a virgin country with numerous opportunities.

You guys are making a VERY SERIOUS mistake by assuming the position of APC e-cockroaches on NL is the position of the southwest. That is far from the truth. Tinubu dogs on this forum dont even represent the mind of millions of yoruba people in the southwest, let alone other tribes in the region. They only represent the interest of Tinubu.

Go back to the achive of NL and you'll discover the same pattern of opposition leading up to 2011 elections. GEJ lost all the polls conducted on NL in 2011 because of the opposition of Tinubu e-warriors. But what happened on the day of elections? GEJ swept the southwest votes.

DONT mistake the position of Tinubu's dogs on NL for the position of southwest

Wow, this thread is intriguing, captivating, enlightening, informative, eye opening, mind bugling. Mmmmmh so this is how the SW is? I have learned a lot.

A thread for fools, who wonder why any sane human should oppose an absolutely corrupt and incompetent leadership.

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I was not here. Trust me, it will start soon.

But come to think of it, I am awed by the baradge of criticisms and insults given to GEJ as if he caused all the problems of Nigeria, as if he made Nigeria wat it is today, as if he introduced corruption in Nigeria.

In truth, we are not being fair to the man occuppying Aso Rock. He has his flaws no doubt, but we have always compounded his problems. And we will be d first to cry foul and point fingers on GEJ for these issues.

Let d man concentrate and solve d problems we elected him to solve, instead of all these distractions from disgruntled and power-hungry entities.

Lmao @ thread

When did "ikengawo" become an analyst?

Taking anything "ikengawo" has to say seriously would amount to listening to a slobbering down syndrome patient. The guy is a nutcase and he's as psychotic and inarticulate as they come.

gbigbega:

Your writeup is ridden with tribalism and bigoted. This is the reason why you will always have opposition from the unbiased SW. Be objective, Obasanjo opposition was majorly from SW that was why PDP lost all SW.

You mentioned a lot of GEJ's achievement but we all know that ordinary man on the street is suffering even greater since he came in. Even the middle class are complaining severely. Petrol price sky rocked, we pay PHCN N750 every month for doing nothing, we pay N1000 at the airport after paying for our air ticket, its costing about N50k to get new plate number and particulars, corruption is at all time high, oil theft is at all time high, no caught, corrupt official is being convicted,5 is more than 27 , 13 more than 16 and many more. Even though Obasanjo was not that good but the poor man on the street was better than now. Its never been this bad for Nigerians and you think SW will support you? You have another thought coming.

I am not in support of people abusing GEJ, he is the president of my country and he deserves respect. This abuse is rampant because the middle class feels cheated, robbed of their vote and are barely surviving. It just happens that its this same set of people that are always online and they use the platform to vent their anger and disgust to the state of decadence in Nigeria.

IMO, if you build airport, provide 24hr power, build road and rail, as long as you allow corruption to strive, you have done nothing because corruption will eat up all your effort. You can not leave the tap running while mopping the floor. It will always look like you've done nothing.

Nonsense! OBJ did not enjoy support from the southwest right from day one because he was not the preferred candidate of the Afenifere group. Olu Falae was. But for OBJ's second tenure, he got every support from the southwest. It was only during the pursuit of the evil third term agenda that the southwest (led by ACN and Tinubu) joined the rest of the country to stop OBJ.

OBJ was also criticised during his tenure but not at the magnitude the current president is faced with. Come to think of it, it is unthinkable that a leader will not face criticisms, but the problem here is the magnitude and the unfairness and harshness of the criticisms, including the PULL-HIM-DOWN syndrome GEJ is currently faced with.

All the other issues you raised are mere emotional outbursts. There's no evidence that life was better for the people during the OBJ era. All the levies you mentioned are all necessities and people must learn to pay for services in this country. In some of the advanced countries that we would like Nigeria to be like in the nearest future, citizens pay even more for taxes and services. You cannot be asking for stable power supply when the electricity tarrif you pay does not support stable power supply. For decades we've paid low tarrif for electricity but yet we cant find stable electricity. We'll had to pay extra through private generators. So why cant we try something different?

And dont tell me that an APC led FG wouldn't have impossed the same tarrif regime (whether its fuel, electricity, Airport,etc) because we've also seen tarrif or fees sky-rocket in APC controlled states (eg the LASU school fees that jumped over 700% from N25k to N250k).

Again, PDP lost the states in the southwest due mainly to internal disagreements within the party. In the 2011 elections for instance, the votes of the PDP splinter groups in Ogun and Oyo, if added together, surpassed that of ACN.