Yesterday, as I sat in a cab, waiting for the driver to completely load the vehicle, heading to Odili road, a man around the ages of 36-40 got in and sat Next to me, in a few moment, the cab was filled.

A little drive, spotting the Ameachi billboard, here is the conversation that went on between us.

Pdp: This yeye man, I just hate am.
Me: Bros why u hate am?
Pdp: Him wan change Rivers State to pdp.
Me: Bros na the reason u hate am, Abi him no work?
Pdp:Him work when him been de pdp, (looks at me). All the projects na pdp projects, nothing Amaechi do.

Me: bros add more reasons na.
Pdp: Wike go flush am commot.
Me: So bros na Wike u like, and why u like Wike?
PDP: Yes I like Wike and GEJ, Wike don fight for the state, And Jonathan na my brother.
Me: So wetin Wike and Gej don do?
PDP: Jonathan na my brother, even if him no do anything thing, make him de chop the money, hausa people don chop am since.
(at this time I looked at his shoe, to confirm something sha)
Me: and Wike?
PDP: Na only Wike de fight since, where all these Tonye Princewill, Lulu Briggs, Jack them de when wike de fight the war?
Me: So That na why u want Wike as Governor?
Pdp: Wike don promise say Amaechi go run if him win, so I wan make sure say them pursue Amaechi from Rivers State.

At this time I go to where I will drop, till date I wonder, do we get the kind of leaders we deserve? You support a man becos he fought a member of the party out, even if he doesn't have a vision. You Vote a president becos u want him to continue stealing.
I tell u the truth, Ya'adua did more for the south than Jonathan, I stand to be corrected.

The average Nigerian is politically stunted and illiterate.

Welcome to Nigeria.

all conversations are merely the figment of the OP's imagination

That's the way an average Nigerian thinks, always with sentiment and no constructive criticism.

Not seeing any hope for the future

He is one out of the millions that has been brainwashed by PDP. You can't blame him honestly!

berem:
He is one out of the millions that has been brainwashed by PDP. You can't blame him honestly!

take it or leave it all that amaech achieve was done when he was in the PDP

The average Nigerian see politics like a football match rather than a matter of life and death.

The policies of politicians determine how you live and die.

Obiagelli:
The average Nigerian see politics like a football match rather than a matter of life and death.

The policies of politicians determine how you live and die.

True about the last sentence but APC has to move into the grassroots or else PDP will expose their big big talk.

ijawcitizen:
all conversations are merely the figment of the OP's imagination

No.
It is a true representation of the of socio-political discourse involving the average "ordinary" Nigerian. I've had similar discussion severally here in Lagos with Okadariders,yellow bus drivers, traders and in once in Jos with a TANoid (as you call them here). The ones in Lagos do not even know that all the PDP states are implementing the very same policies they are complaining about. The Jos guy wast spewing the very same lies of the PDP against APC and GMB.

otokx:


True about the last sentence but APC has to move into the grassroots or else PDP will expose their big big talk.

You are right about that.

@op, I had similar conversation with an okada man in Katsina State like ten years ago (can't remember the exact year). The Okadaman told me he preferred Babangida over Buhari as president. When I asked for his reason he told me that at least IBB who is not even from Katsina state, has a house in Katsina city while Buhari who is from the state has none. (Buhari has a house in his village, Daura, not in the state Capital.

I was shocked at this kind of reasoning.

We shouldn't only pray for credible leaders, we also need citizens that can think

sleektalker:
Yesterday, as I sat in a cab, waiting for the driver to completely load the vehicle, heading to Odili road, a man around the ages of 36-40 got in and sat Next to me, in a few moment, the cab was filled.

A little drive, spotting the Ameachi billboard, here is the conversation that went on between us.

Pdp: This yeye man, I just hate am.
Me: Bros why u hate am?
Pdp: Him wan change Rivers State to pdp.
Me: Bros na the reason u hate am, Abi him no work?
Pdp:Him work when him been de pdp, (looks at me). All the projects na pdp projects, nothing Amaechi do.

Me: bros add more reasons na.
Pdp: Wike go flush am commot.
Me: So bros na Wike u like, and why u like Wike?
PDP: Yes I like Wike and GEJ, Wike don fight for the state, And Jonathan na my brother.
Me: So wetin Wike and Gej don do?
PDP: Jonathan na my brother, even if him no do anything thing, make him de chop the money, hausa people don chop am since.
(at this time I looked at his shoe, to confirm something sha)
Me: and Wike?
PDP: Na only Wike de fight since, where all these Tonye Princewill, Lulu Briggs, Jack them de when wike de fight the war?
Me: So That na why u want Wike as Governor?
Pdp: Wike don promise say Amaechi go run if him win, so I wan make sure say them pursue Amaechi from Rivers State.

At this time I go to where I will drop, till date I wonder, do we get the kind of leaders we deserve? You support a man becos he fought a member of the party out, even if he doesn't have a vision. You Vote a president becos u want him to continue stealing.
I tell u the truth, Ya'adua did more for the south than Jonathan, I stand to be corrected.

Takara:
@op, I had similar conversation with an okada man in Katsina State like ten years ago (can't remember the exact year). The Okadaman told me he preferred Babangida over Buhari as president. When I asked for his reason he told me that at least IBB who is not even from Katsina state, has a house in Katsina city while Buhari who is from the state has none. Buhari has a house in his village (Daura) not in the state Capital.
I was shocked at this kind of reasoning.

Hahahahahaahaha!
You guys have made my day!

You get such from a jinxed nation.

2cato:
take it or leave it all that amaech achieve was done when he was in the PDP

My brother, he is not the only one that has had such experience, Rivers has a lot of thugs who don't reason with brains, Wike and his supporters believe firmly in Violence, Let a pdp member tell why he (Wike) deserves to be a Governor...

Takara:
@op, I had similar conversation with an okada man in Katsina State like ten years ago (can't remember the exact year). The Okadaman told me he preferred Babangida over Buhari as president. When I asked for his reason he told me that at least IBB who is not even from Katsina state, has a house in Katsina city while Buhari who is from the state has none. Buhari has a house in his village (Daura) not in the state Capital.
I was shocked at this kind of reasoning.

You're right bro. I was discussing 2015 Presidential election with my immediate elder brother the other day and he was trying to tell me that my almighty Buhari wouldn't even be able to scale through the Primaries. I asked him 'Why?' He said he diverted some briefcases at the Lagos Airport, I asked him to provide a proof but he couldn't. He then said 'when his mates were looting money, where was he? Why couldn't he steal? Let those who know how to steal money go there joor'. I was so perplexed when he said that. So it's now a crime for a Politician not to enrich himself while in Office!

2cato:
take it or leave it all that amaech achieve was done when he was in the PDP

Pls my brother, was Amaechi the one executing the projects or the pdp? Sometimes u people make me wonder oh.

I am afraid we may not v d nigeria of our dream for a very long time except God in his mercy decides to dash us good leaders. As long as electing leadership is concern it may takes those who are well elightened a lot of work and time to elighting d average Nigerian what democratic leadership is all about. As at now an average Nigerian will elect their leaders for d very wrong reasons. 2011, I tried asking pple why they are going to vote our current president and I heard them say bc he his from d minority, he was once poor, he was persecuted by d cabals who didnt want him to take over from Yar'dua etc and I asked do you know his performance as a former Governor and almost all d pple I spoke with didnt care about his performance as a Governor, they didnt even want to access his performance as acting President. They claimed as an acting and substansive President he cant do anything bc he's not serving his own tenure and even today some foolish pple still say he cant take serious decision in his first tenure but that when he gets 2nd he will perform and I am like a man who couldnt do much in almost 6years how much will he do in another 4years. The truth is Nigerians deserve d leaders they get. The only hope Nigeria has is that d few enlightened Nigerians will work very very hard to enlighten d majority of Nigerians who v very very bad idea about leadership.

The Topic of this Thread should b changed and moved to FP

My Experience was with Two Igbo Boys. Am Ashamed to say this they are Graduates. My Igbo friends Agree GEJ Administration is Bad but they said they don't want any other Tribe for now even if The Individual is better than GEJ.


It's painful Four/Five years in tertiary Institution wasted.

Here we are. This is one of many problems we are having as a people. We don't seem to have a right mind set to critically justify our needs, and to objectively evaluate or criticize issues: this is a fallout of ignorance & short sightedness. Ethnic and Religious Sentiments have been bedrock of our plight as a nation.

PDP: Jonathan na my brother, even if him no do anything thing, make him de chop the money, hausa people don chop am since. 

Chai

People will never understand, When I watched a documentary of Jonathan's 2011 Campaign, he promised 2015 to be the end of his tenure, he said "4 years is enough for anybody, to handle electricity, unemployment, and poverty. The video also showed where he sat with 20 pdp governors, to mKe the agreement. Nigerians, I beg u people, In Rivers State, if Wike wins, if at all he will ever, he is only here to fight, not to do anything. Be has no goal, no vision. If he performed well as a minister I would had supported him. Nigeria. Students encountered the worst strike action during his reign.

You hear him say "I want to chase Apc away, is that a goal"

ijawcitizen:
all conversations are merely the figment of the OP's imagination

Then you must be lying to yourself and still believing the lie.

2cato:
take it or leave it all that amaech achieve was done when he was in the PDP

Ahn Ahn!!! Bros. You wasted all the money spent educating you.

I cringe when i see the way some of our so called leaders of tomorrow reason

Its just amazing the way many of us, Nigerians, think. Many people will go to the polls to vote for their preferred choice of leaders simply because "the man is handsome" or that "he has a beautiful wife" or that "I like the way he talks". I guess this is the reason why till date one still sees vehicles from the northern part of this country with stickers of Abacha. If the man appears today and contest, he would have a large followership in spite of the fact the he ruled with iron fist while he was at the helm with nothing much accomplished.

Many of us are like slaves who have fallen in love with their chains, they would tarry for long in slavery.

We need a paradigm shift and a new orientation!

My people its not only a nigeria thing but a BLACK thing, just look at africa as a whole, ask any black american why he voted for obama,what u hear is"I'm black he's black,that's why". Anyways, we don't reason like that here in france.

rodbel:


Ahn Ahn!!! Bros. You wasted all the money spent educating you.

I cringe when i see the way some of our so called leaders of tomorrow reason

stop the lie, how should we be the leader of tomorrow, when our great grandfather refuse to vacate what is meant for we(youth).

Another apigshit lie.

I'm telling you,this country is doomed.

Me at the office with my colleague;

colleague: This people will do anything to discredit Jonathan's Government because of 2015 but God will not allow it.

me: how are they discrediting his government?

colleague: all the bombs they are throwing, its the work of APC and northerners

me: how are you sure its APC and northerners?

colleague: who no know say na them? we know all this things

me: so "we" know all this things yet government no dey do anything? if government no dey person way the throw bomb, why them never arrest them?

colleague: my brother this people are powerful, wetin you want make government do?

me: no be Jonathan be commander in chief? and if na because of 2015, why them dey throw bomb for their stronghold?

colleague: my guy you don't understand how these things work, just leave matter

me: but you haven't answered me, if them dey discredit am because of 2015, why them dey discredit am in a way wey the voting strength of their strongholds go reduce?

colleague: (raising his voice) they know what they are doing, they don't want a man from that side to be president

me: and by throwing bombs and reducing their voter strengths, they will achieve their target? if election no hold for those places, na to who benefit?

colleague: guy forget, na those people the sponsor boko haram

me: to achieve wetin? to discredit Jonathan and lose their voter strength? even if them dey discredit am, as commander in chief, Jonathan no suppose stamp him authority?

colleague: just forget, all their plans no go work.

chamboy:
My Experience was with Two Igbo Boys. Am Ashamed to say this they are Graduates. [/b]My Igbo friends Agree GEJ Administration is Bad but they said they don't want any other Tribe for now even if The Individual is better than GEJ[b].


It's painful Four/Five years in tertiary Institution wasted.

Are you going to blame your Igbo friends for thinking like that?