afam4eva: I want to throw my hat into the ring and contest for an elective position. I think i can make a change by starting off by contesting for the chairmanship position in my local government, Enugu South LGA. It's not like i'm ready at the moment but i want to plan for the future. I chose to contest to become the LG chairman position because it's the closest government to the people. I want to make my LGA the pride of NIgeria and Africa. Infact, i don't mind being the LGA chairman for the next 50 years if the constitution permits as long as i can make my own little contribution in my local government.

Now, what are the things that i need to know and which party do you think is progressive and encourages young people like myself?

What's the minimum age to be elected in to such a position?

As an LGA chairman, how much power do i wield?

I'm currently working on my economic plan for my local government and i will also like ya'll to contribute and tell me what you think local governments need the most.

Thanks

afam4eva: I want to throw my hat into the ring and contest for an elective position. I think i can make a change by starting off by contesting for the chairmanship position in my local government, Enugu South LGA. It's not like i'm ready at the moment but i want to plan for the future. I chose to contest to become the LG chairman position because it's the closest government to the people. I want to make my LGA the pride of NIgeria and Africa. Infact, i don't mind being the LGA chairman for the next 50 years if the constitution permits as long as i can make my own little contribution in my local government.

Now, what are the things that i need to know and which party do you think is progressive and encourages young people like myself?

What's the minimum age to be elected in to such a position?

As an LGA chairman, how much power do i wield?

I'm currently working on my economic plan for my local government and i will also like ya'll to contribute and tell me what you think local governments need the most.

Thanks

Intrepid!:
You need advanced Jazz, tons of money, and no morals...

afam4eva: I want to throw my hat into the ring and contest for an elective position. I think i can make a change by starting off by contesting for the chairmanship position in my local government, Enugu South LGA. It's not like i'm ready at the moment but i want to plan for the future. I chose to contest to become the LG chairman position because it's the closest government to the people. I want to make my LGA the pride of NIgeria and Africa. Infact, i don't mind being the LGA chairman for the next 50 years if the constitution permits as long as i can make my own little contribution in my local government.

Now, what are the things that i need to know and which party do you think is progressive and encourages young people like myself?

What's the minimum age to be elected in to such a position?

As an LGA chairman, how much power do i wield?

I'm currently working on my economic plan for my local government and i will also like ya'll to contribute and tell me what you think local governments need the most.

Thanks

afam4eva: I just got inspired by
the dismal showing of
Nigerian athletes at
the London 2012
olympic games. I just
want to anounce to
the world that i'm
going back to the
tracks and i will
represent Nigeria at
the next Olympics in
Rio De Janeiro. I just
hope Usain Bolt is still
available by then. The
world will witness a
rude awakening
because i'm about to
set a new world
record thereby
rendering Bolt's record
redundant. But first i
need to see a doctor
to know if i;m fit to
still do competitive
athletics.
Afam bu Afam

Demdem: what exactly do u want? were u not the person that told us u will like to represent Nigeria in an olympic sport and u are working towards it?

DICKtator: This is simple
1. Join a strong political party
2. Do their dirty jobs
3. Learn how to fight
4. You will rise to the top

koolg:

@op
If sulivan is not your father n you don't have millions of naira, ever heard of favour ? Where was sullivan before he became governor ? Its all about favour man ! Wake up
This will work for you.

achi4u: A big THANK you to mr Surveyprof for ur guardline and ur Maradon tactics
You must be one of those PDP thiefs guyz making alot of money

Where's AFAM?
Abeg come and copy this one!!!

Me i wan rule my state EBONYI

surveyProf:

You can say dat again, follow who know road, so dat make u nor fall inside gutter, while not, you can rule ur state Ebonyi!!

Demdem:

didnt get that

surveyProf: Continue for where I stooped!!

• Send ahead a 4-wheel drive jeep to your hometown for later use

• Then begin frequent visits home. Stock up on bags of rice and salt, posh mobile phones and recharge cards

• Stock up on expensive alcoholic drinks

• Sink a borehole or two

• Start attending funerals, chieftaincy parties, church/mosque dedications

• Pay some school fees – but only at the Primary and Secondary school levels

• While you’re doing this, do not let it cross your lips that you are interested in any political office oh

• After about a year of this, step up the frequency of your visits home

• Find out who in your LGA is in sweet with your governor. This is when and where you begin to distribute your fancy mobile phones

• Get what the Italians call a Consigliere. In Nigeria, he is called an Agent – a trusted foot soldier. He should cost you no more than N1m at the end of the day

• Take your expensive drinks and your GMGs (Ghana-must-go) and begin to visit the stakeholders

• Visit all the Ward chairmen, Ward secretaries, Women leaders and Youth leaders and do the needful

• This is called ‘Entry Behaviour’

• Become friends with the controller of the NURTW in your area. These fine gentlemen do more than just the control of road transport workers you will find

• If you can, get a small government contract to build a small road or a small public building in your LGA. The people will think you are doing that in a private capacity. Do not correct that misconception

• Then you make your formal announcement

• Present yourself at a function where your State governor is in attendance. Grab the microphone, make a sizable donation after you have lavished His Excellency with much praise for his socio-infrastructural achievements in your area even if you yourself can’t see any. Don’t stop there, lustily pour invectives on the heads of His Excellency’s political enemies

• The 419 boys will outspend you. Some of them will even turn up at local palaces and community events with a troupe of dancers, but don’t let that trouble you unduly. Play up your professionalism, ideals and gentlemanliness

• If you’re coming from abroad, your ‘greenness’ is actually an advantage. It is perceived as refreshing as you won’t be seen as too negatively clever, hard nosed or cynical like some of your home based competitors. You’ll also come across as more believable

• Play possum; allow a local idiot to be your oga

• Get your good deeds in the local media. Make sure your Agent at every opportunity is telling your governor, “My man did this and that.” And the governor should delightfully respond, “Ah, so and so from London/US/Lagos is still on the ground?” Your Consigliere would say, “Your Excellency, that transformer that we commissioned the other day, that was him oh!”

• All these should get you in

• Now, you’re in, let’s say your LGA is due N98m every month. Your State Finance Commissioner will diligently go to Abuja and collect that N98m

• Your fine supportive governor will only give you – on a good month – about N48m

• On assuming office, you discover that LGA workers have not been paid for 2 months

• There are about 14 wards in your LGA. Councillors earn about N232,000 every month in salary and allowances. Supervising Counsellors earn more

• Recurrent costs, teachers, secretariat staff, sanitation people, technicians, clerks, etc, etc have to be paid promptly every month

• Traditional rulers and political warlords have to be paid even more promptly every month or you are out and the governor would appoint a caretaker LGA chairperson in your stead

• When all that is done, you barely have N3m left

• But that is not all. You are frequently called at short notice to host and entertain State and Federal visitors to your LGA. That means lodging, food, drinks and gifts

• You cannot directly source for this of course. You have to contract it out to one of the stakeholders’ wives - possibly the wife/girlfriend of the governor or one of the traditional rulers for about N1.5m

• Remember the 4X4 you shipped home? Vulcanisers keep planting nails at strategic junctions in town, how many times can you patch one tire. Moreover, your roads are tough and have told on the poor jeep. You have to replace it

• You have laid out close to N40m to be elected and have creditors to settle, plus your wife won’t stop shinning

• Halfway through your tenure, you realise that the financial arithmetic don’t add up so you become a philosopher-politician and begin to think very deeply

• You cannot possibly go back to your old life and old work after your tenure. You would need a moderate modern house in Abuja, Lagos or Kaduna as you plan your future and, hopefully, bigger political adventures like, for instance, being one of the many PAs or Advisers to your governor

• Meantime, on one of your trips abroad, you talk your town’s people in the Diaspora into promising to build a community hall back home

• You’ve come to rightly understand that in Nigeria, loyalty is bought so you begin to cultivate the very special friendship of the Finance man

• With the help of your new special friend, the Finance man, you don’t pay worker’s salary for the last 2 or 3 months of your chairmanship. You simply keep those

• Now, there’s just the one remaining matter – the elephant in the room: You have done bugger-all for your LGA in 2 years. Don’t worry; you simply didn’t have enough time or money for that.

Change is of course, the only constant in life. So this will change too for the better at some point in Nigeria, but for now, that is how it’s done.

Finally, Do not forget to buy your membership form (PDP)....powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

saintiyke: @op . How about shooting the incumbent LG chairman in the head or eye like u've had wanted to do to TA Orji, Doctors in Garrison hosipital PH and a host of others .

Abagworo:

Abeg I prefer my simple life and Nairaland blabs.

dayokanu: The same AFAM who feels he is AMerican.

The guy is definitely on drugs

CHAIRMAN1: Bros, u think say na the course rep you be for futo be this?

CHAIRMAN1: Bros, u think say na the course rep you be for futo be this?

Wake up o... This one na national runs!
Anyway, I wish you luck.

Jarus:
He can achieve both, olympian and LG chair.