ajepako:
Every utterance of this man shows his bigotry, bias and hypocrisy

After feeding fat on the oil wealth of the south, silently encouraging Fulani herdsmen to kill and maim them in the north, now you want their oil to dry...

I wonder what this bigot would have said if oil comes from the north..

Elenu rirun, elete pelebe...

Zeze06:

Prayer of a heartless and wicked "dwarf" witch...

TheGoodJoe:


Oil is not our problem. Our problem has to do with the mismanagement of the oil resources. Instead of investing and channelling it for growth, it is siphoned for individual greed. Simple. Even if you restructure, without the right leaders, we will still have mismanagement issues.

If we are to diversify and grow, we can not do it without Crude due to the lack of other avenues. So please, no need trying to defend what El-Rufai is saying.

Crude is a blessing and is not our problem. Greed and wastage is. Other countries have shown Crude is a blessing.

TheGoodJoe:


Why pray for Crude to dry when the Hypocritical El-Rufai can easily stopped allocations coming to his state, so they can think?

oladeebo:

brilliant!
i. We must let the the politicians play their political game, we mustn't allow them to drag us into political game.
ii. we must know our interests and protected it!
iii. The 1999 constitution is an headache to our politicians not because of nothing, it's favour the nation than them!
If we do this we will exercise our right to vote for the best among them through their manifestos that suit us,
The other who rejected will change, they can't do with out politics, and mandate belong to us!

Nigeria can be well manage under any system and all the world systems had been managed by our politicians finish, Now they were taken us back to the beginning 1963!...to restart circle.
And want people like me to believe all will be right...wicked!
Personally I can manage any state in Nigeria better than our managers of our country today.
ask me how? I will tell you!

obailala:





Of course oil is not the problem, the problem is the combo of easy oil money and a bunch of greedy useless leaders; a horrible combo which forced a once thriving and diversified economy into a comatose mono-economic huge mess.

El Rufai saying he prays for oil to dry was obviously a figure of speech; he was only trying to make an emphasis on how bad the easy oil wealth polluted the minds of Nigeria's leaders over the years thereby killing Nigeria's productivity. I'm surprised you couldn't figure that out but rather swallowed his statement literally, I'm sure it's cos you hold a prejudice against the man.

paschu:
Simple question @ obailala:

Why do you go to war over oil, if you truly hate it so bad?

Why do you antagonize ND and IPOB when they talk about disconnecting you from the oil?

You simply pray for oil to dry up because it is not yours.

Admit it.

It's like that woman that stole another woman's baby. She was quick to wish death to the child rather than see the other woman take the child home.

Pure wickedness.

omohayek:

Yours is the first sensible comment on this thread! The unanimous condemnation in all the others only goes to show that El-Rufai was telling the truth: Nigerians have become so addicted to (and dependent on) "free" oil money that they can't even conceive of another way of life other than scrambling by any and every means to maximize their share of the fixed "national cake" derived from oil rents. How much oil, gas, gold or other mineral resources do the likes of Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland or Austria have? Can anyone say they are worse off than resource rich countries like Congo, Nigeria or even South Africa?

The parasitical mindset which oil money has bred in Nigerians is at the root of so many of the country's problems, but the allure of eating without working is so strong that most Nigerians can't even see the problem.

TheGoodJoe:


Even if the free Oil Money is not there, these same corrupt leaders will tax us and make us pay through our noses to fuel their ostentatious lifestyle. The Crude is a blessing. The problem are those handling the resources. Put better people on the seat and this Crude will transform the nation.

Dare2Try:
Well I go with el-minget in this but that doesn't change my prospective about him, I think when the oil wells dried up, we will have true restructuring, good state policies, credible and creative leaders, hard working and smart thinking people in leadership

obailala:
When Nigerians had to work hard to produce wealth, Nigeria was very well diversified and a thriving nation. In otherwords I'm saying, the corruption in the country was definitely not as bad as this when the stupendous easy wealth from oil wasnt available. That is the point I'm trying to make. And isnt this the reason why many sharp minds have called for restructuring of the country?... In order to force the different zones to get back to work and stop sitting idly waiting for feeding bottle money from the south south?

kudosamass:

So, what is your own idea of how to move Nigeria back to track since we all know that it is not working?

We are all trying to solve the same problem because it affects all of us.
Some of us did our Arithmetic and said, restructuring is the answer!
You said no, thats not the solution!
OK, what's your own idea after your own Arithmetic?

TheGoodJoe:


When Resources started dwindling due to a drop in Crude Oil prices, what happened? Pump price increase. This in turn led to the Occupy Nigeria protest.

What we need is the masses waking up. Demanding laws and policies that will lead to the right channelling of our resources.

Not they want to blame Crude Oil, instead of them.

#OurMumuDonDo

Dare2Try:


Well I totally agree with u but the problem is that we have too much useless and gullible citizens, how do u expect what u just stated to happen when most of the citizens can easily sell their conscience for money

kudosamass:


Agreed, the present managers are horrible guys!
But they are horrible because we have a system that ferlilizes horribility & makes it profitable! They will seize to be horrible when horribleness is made inconvinience & unprofitable.

There is structural impediment to growth & development in Nigeria. Unless it is removed, there is nothing anybody can do including you.

The evedience is the woeful performance of the present Government! I never believed Buhari would fail. But then, I realised the system under which he operates cannot allow even the Angels to succeed! It is as bad as that!

And since Buhari of all persons has failed to do much, even the so called corruption fight, it mean that no other leader in Nigeria can succeed under this system.

Nigeria as presently designed cannot work in the 21st century! Analogue ideas & policies cannot achieve any tangible result in a digital environment!

So, let's search for new path as the one we followed has been tested severally and proved to be unworkable!

mazimee:
After enjoying the Oil money and building empires from it you want it to dry up? The oil in your brain will dry up.

TheGoodJoe:


That is why I am against all forms of just restructuring. What we need is orientation. Understand the consequences of our actions will come back to hurt.

Find the right activists and professionals. Support them when they speak. As soon as we have sound policies and laws, looting will become difficult and diversification will take place.

oladeebo:

brilliant!
i. We must let the the politicians play their political game, we mustn't allow them to drag us into political game.
ii. we must know our interests and protected it!
iii. The 1999 constitution is an headache to our politicians not because of nothing, it's favour the nation than them!
If we do this we will exercise our right to vote for the best among them through their manifestos that suit us,
The other who rejected will change, they can't do with out politics, and mandate belong to us!

Nigeria can be well manage under any system and all the world systems had been managed by our politicians finish, Now they were taken us back to the beginning 1963!...to restart circle.
And want people like me to believe all will be right...wicked!
Personally I can manage any state in Nigeria better than our managers of our country today.
ask me how? I will tell you!

ivolt:

You didn't get my sarcasm. An average Nigerian believes that prayers will and can solve all problems.
Just keep praying they say.

ivolt:

You didn't get my sarcasm. An average Nigerian believes that prayers will and can solve all problems.
Just keep praying they say.

obailala:
I expected this to be a common sense issue, I even went ahead to explain in my previous post. But you went ahead to cancel my post and then returned with further meaningless questions.

The allure of easy oil wealth forced the corruption and laziness out of Nigerians. Before oil, Nigeria had a thriving diversified economy and no region was parasitic on any other. But all that changed after oil.

El Rufai's prayer for oil to dry up was only a figure of speech to lay emphasis on how oil wealth in Nigeria turned out to be a curse instead of a blessing; he wasnt literally asking for oil to dry up. Today, 5 out of the 6 zones in Nigeria are lazy and unproductive parasites to the south-south because of this same feeding bottle economy which Nigeria became because of easy oil wealth.

As it stands today, the damage has already been done, oil is still Nigeria's only source of income. So I'm sorry, your question about the uproar due to militants stopping oil production is a very pointless question.

Alcatraz005:


Who is this idiot? I don't understand all what you have been spewing! Kindly desist from uttering balderdash when important issues of politics are being discussed.