fk002:




Assume what you like.

Okies

NdiaraIGBO:


Whether Nigerians like it or not a lot of time is needed to turn things around. The people should have been more vigilant and speaking up during the boom GEJ time. But everybody was busy going to Dubai and London to waste and throw away the nation's survival capital. Option 2, we replace Buhari with another GEJ type and blow the money in reserves now, we 'll 'enjoy' for 5 years and suffer for the following 30 years. The choice is ours. We are 180m , we have to be productive.
Importation is BAD BAD BAD!

Anything we cannot produce, we should not consume..,.,finish. That's basic economics.

On Osibanjo, the political reality is that VP is a powerless position and the North have consolidated their electoral power over Nigeria.
Buhari is the realistically electable best we have at the minute.

Agreed agreed disagreed

Yes on paper all you say is what all we intellectuals k ow is the only way out of this .

But we are tired of seeing weak corrupt.leaders with so called good intentions allow the nation's wealth be looted on the alter of trying to achieve a noble motive .

I listed so many corrupt cases what is the out come ?

A leader who doesn't respect tthe rule.of law is no leader to be praised by intellectuals


Or is it because Dasuki isn't our relative that we should say despite the Court granting him bail that the government should disregard this and keep him imprisoned? It could be you or I tomorrow!

A leader whose officers have been indicted in seevral.corrupt cases with hard ore evidence but truns a blind eye says in these are the only people I can use to achieve my aim? Are you kidding me? In a nation of over 150.million people buhari couldn't find a.minister if finance that wouldn't forget nysc? Or an efcc boss who hasn't been receiving brines with properties in Dubai? Oh I forgot he had to be fulani?

Listen my friend you cannot build paradise on a foundation of blood! You cannot be a so called man on integrity yet you ehibit nepotism, religious intolerance and TRIBALISM, it's not possible.. the mind set title takes to indulge in these vices doesn't stem from one capable of.producing integrity in character.

It's like the serial.killer been gacey saying though I was a serial killer I can also look after kida.?

Please let us in this country learn to speak truth

How can a leader who has refused to tag herdsmen as terrorists yet attacked the igbos in their region calling their ipob terrorists How do you prescibe such a joke of an organization terrorists and leave killer herdsmen whom the world has labelled terrorists?

You can't be a wife beater and come out to say you are a man of honor these are two very distant mindsets that produce very different character traits

Buhari should never ever be an option for enlightened intellectuals

I have to stop here work becjo s

Enjoy your day my.brither

Babygiwa:
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has announced he will run again in the 2019 election. He has just started his work on important reforms — but that's exactly the problem, says DW's Thomas Mösch.

President Muhammadu Buhari's election victory three years ago was a moment of joy for many Nigerians. For the first time since the country's independence in 1960, Nigeria had succeeded in electing a new president to replace the incumbent. Buhari's ambitious plan was to make Nigeria safe again, to tackle corruption and take into account the interests of ordinary people.

But in the meantime, a feeling of disillusionment has risen across different parts of the country. Over and over you hear from locals that life under Buhari has become more difficult, rather than easier.
No victory against terror

On the issue of security, it first seemed like Buhari could actually turn things around. The extremist group Boko Haram occupied entire tracts of land by the end of former president Goodluck Jonathan's term in 2015. Within the course of a few months of Buhari's presidency, Boko Haram were forced to retreat to parts of the remote forest regions and the mountains. But in their central zone in the area around Lake Chad, Boko Haram continues to spread fear and terror with suicide attacks and raids. These attacks have been increasing of late.


In other parts of Nigeria, the outlook is even gloomier. In particular, the states of Taraba and Benue in the center of the country have been experiencing massacres on an almost daily basis for a few months now, with clashes mostly taking place between Muslim nomads and Christian farmers, who make up the majority of the population in these regions. Buhari's government there seems to be as helpless as Jonathan's was in his fight against Boko Haram.

Even in the immediate vicinity of Buhari's own hometown in the northwestern state of Zamfara, murderous gangs rage almost completely unchecked. Only recently did the president finally send military reinforcements to the region.
Small progress made towards tackling corruption

The second main theme which helped Buhari win the election was the struggle against corruption. Today, anti-corruption campaigners are less restricted in their operations than they were under Buhari's predecessor. But so far, Nigerians have waited in vain for court rulings. Nigeria has been languishing in the bottom third of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for years — it is currently ranked 148th out of 180 countries. Buhari may have the goodwill to solve the problem, but he lacks assertiveness over the issue.
Meanwhile, the economic balance sheet under the first three years of Buhari looks very poor. Granted, he took over in difficult times. The price of the country's most important product — oil — had dropped and Nigeria's treasury had even been looted. But Buhari has not yet offered a convincing strategy which would relax the country's dependence on oil. Fuel shortages paralyze Nigeria on a regular basis, even though Buhari himself runs the oil ministry — so the issue is a top priority. Even the notoriously poor electricity supply has barely shown any improvement. No wonder, then, that Nigeria's stock market fell following the announcement that Buhari would run for office again.
Physically and politically weak

In addition, the 75-year-old president failed to govern for several months in 2017 because he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness in London. Now, he is seeking another four years as head of state — by the end of which he would be 80 years old.
Nigeria deserves better than an old, ailing president, whose leadership style is characterized by hesitance rather than courage. In the Muslim-majority regions in northern Nigeria, Buhari still enjoys support. But he won the election in 2015 largely because he managed to convince Nigerians in the central and south-western regions of the country — including many Christians. However, the desperate security situation in the central states and ongoing poverty makes it unlikely that the people there will support Buhari for a second time. Now the opposition — that is, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) which was voted out of office four years ago — needs to produce a convincing candidate who will pose a serious threat to Buhari. So far, there appears to be no suitable candidate.
Thomas Mösch (im)

Thomas Mösch is the Head of the Hausa Service at Germany's DW

https://m.dw.com/en/opinion-four-more-years-of-buhari-nigeria-deserves-better/a-43321681

Amazing how people are still supporting him with all that is going on around us

Nukilia:


I feel so sorry for my country.

dingbang:
It will now look as if Nigerians cannot produce a sensible person to lead the country

Saraki is not sensible?

Hopebringer:


Agreed agreed disagreed

Yes on paper all you say is what all we intellectuals k ow is the only way out of this .

But we are tired of seeing weak corrupt.leaders with so called good intentions allow the nation's wealth be looted on the alter of trying to achieve a noble motive .

I listed so many corrupt cases what is the out come ?

A leader who doesn't respect tthe rule.of law is no leader to be praised by intellectuals


Or is it because Dasuki isn't our relative that we should say despite the Court granting him bail that the government should disregard this and keep him imprisoned? It could be you or I tomorrow!

A leader whose officers have been indicted in seevral.corrupt cases with hard ore evidence but truns a blind eye says in these are the only people I can use to achieve my aim? Are you kidding me? In a nation of over 150.million people buhari couldn't find a.minister if finance that wouldn't forget nysc? Or an efcc boss who hasn't been receiving brines with properties in Dubai? Oh I forgot he had to be fulani?

Listen my friend you cannot build paradise on a foundation of blood! You cannot be a so called man on integrity yet you ehibit nepotism, religious intolerance and TRIBALISM, it's not possible.. the mind set title takes to indulge in these vices doesn't stem from one capable of.producing integrity in character.

It's like the serial.killer been gacey saying though I was a serial killer I can also look after kida.?

Please let us in this country learn to speak truth

How can a leader who has refused to tag herdsmen as terrorists yet attacked the igbos in their region calling their ipob terrorists How do you prescibe such a joke of an organization terrorists and leave killer herdsmen whom the world has labelled terrorists?

You can't be a wife beater and come out to say you are a man of honor these are two very distant mindsets that produce very different character traits

Buhari should never ever be an option for enlightened intellectuals

I have to stop here work becjo s

Enjoy your day my.brither

Now he's forcing himself on us. Dont know we're gonna get out of this rut. Too many innocent lives have been lost.

fk002:
Criticism and opposition is allowed in politics but only if it will bring development positively


I am irredeemable Buhari supporter

What development exactly?

Rells:


Who exactly are these guys 'liking' comments like this? How did they go from being the insensitive and minor part of the majority to the 'popular opinion'. Nawa o, abi Dem don share money give boys to dey canvas for Buhari and like their comments?

Obviously na. I dont think any sensible intellectual would see all what's going on in this country and still stand behind this guy