bjdon:

Please wake up and smell the coffee. Nigeria is a lawless country. Sensible international investors will never come here unless the entire legal and regulatory framework is overhauled. You need to stop thinking that this current democratic system can provide the leadership the country needs. It cant. We need a complete change of course, a firm dictator who will rule with an iron fist and ensure the rule of law is totally adhered to. Anything else is just more of the same.

budaatum:


I think she will sacrifice herself for us if we asked her but we must not allow her to sacrifice herself by doing our fair share of the work.

I will gladly follow her lead more than anyone else I can currently think of. Wouldn't you?

budaatum:


Are you saying we are not yet sufficiently intelligent enough to use democracy to provide ourselves with the leadership that will change the course to where we would willingly choose to follow?

Then we better start learning because if you remember, we fought really hard for this democracy so its a bit too soon to be running back to Abacha!

On saying that, the irony of running back to Buhari doesn't elude me, and to Obasanjo, so if President Abacha had lived say lol.

Discipline yourselves, people.
We should be too old to be undisciplined!

bjdon:

"Are you saying we are not yet sufficiently intelligent enough to use democracy to provide ourselves with the leadership that will change the course to where we would willingly choose to follow?".......That is exactly what I am saying unfortunately. Was it Nigerian voters who voted for Buhari TWICE. A man who has shown no ability whatsoever to lead a complex country like Nigeria.
What of the national assembly? Is it not the same Nigerian voters that vote for the senators and reps, who pass laws to legalize looting? Look at 2023, is it not the same Nigerian voters who have STILL not learnt their lesson, and would rather pick a president based on which ethnic group they belong to rather than what qualities they bring to the role.
We are simply not ready for democracy. We need focused dictatorship for at least another 20 years

Brian47:

Even if she runs, Nigerians would never vote for her. Take Ezekwsili for instance she's been running for president since 2015's election and she's only gotten like 20 votes in 2015's elections and 2019's elections.

budaatum:


So we have a couple of years to the next election. If we begin to educate ourselves now nkọ?

We'll at least acquire a taste for dictating to ourselves. We might work much harder to achieve it say in 10 years if we found it good for food, instead of hoping a dictator will force what we most likely wouldn't want on us in 20.

bjdon:

Do you see any iota of education occuring? For goodness sake we have been running this democracy since 1999 and we actually worse off today than we were then.

bjdon:
The rule of law has completely broken down.

bjdon:
Even if by some miracle, a quality person like NOI were to become president, do you think they would let her work?

budaatum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpgelmg4FsQ

budaatum:

No, she isn't. Not as far as I know. I first figured to ask Nairalanders what you all think before I asked her.


Not with the might of Nairalanders behind her will any of the useless politician frustrate President Ngozi-Iweala, and she is far too strong to give up a half done job.

TripleOh7:
I think that's a terrible idea.

Not because she's Igbo, but because she was part of Jonathan's profligate era.

I suspect strongly she was an American mole/puppet.

Read "The Economic Hitman" to understand better.

I'll gladly vote for any capable Igbo hand as president of Nigeria but definitely and absolutely not this woman.

budaatum:


I don't like her complicity in Jonathan either, but she surely must have learnt by now to be much wiser and do the right and proper thing. I mean, mothers, just like fathers, are never perfect, we all must know, so why expect her to be squeaky clean? Is she not much cleaner than most?

Imagine our pleasure reporting her to WTO and UN and World Bank and Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and everyone else in the world if she misbehaves as our president?

She will be the first president whom the youths will have her ear. A mother of many children with diverse characters, is her qualification.

Femiblacky, please give 10 copies.

budaatum:


I don't like her complicity in Jonathan either, but she surely must have learnt by now to be much wiser and do the right and proper thing. I mean, mothers, just like fathers, are never perfect, we all must know, so why expect her to be squeaky clean? Is she not much cleaner than most?

Imagine our pleasure reporting her to WTO and UN and World Bank and Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and everyone else in the world if she misbehaves as our president?

She will be the first president whom the youths will have her ear. A mother of many children with diverse characters, is her qualification.

Femiblacky, please give 10 copies.

Imagine our pleasure reporting her to WTO and UN and World Bank and Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and everyone else in the world if she misbehaves as our president?

TripleOh7:

This comment here made me smile.

You'll report her to the people giving her instructions on how to run the country to their benefit? Lol

If you make her president, you've sold Nigeria to the West.

And no, they aren't coming to develop your country anymore than you sucking the last bit of juice out of an orange makes it more succulent.

Penguin2:
Rubbish!

Is she qualified? Yes!

But in 2023, the South needs to present a tough man who will weld power in a way Buhari welded it.

Even if not to deal with the North, but to recover all the South lost in this inglorious era of Buhari.

So, no to Mummy Ngozi.

She has the world trade to reposition.

preciousademc3:
If only they would allow her, I would gladly vote for her, but come to think of this we have more female voters why can't they come together and vote for one.

MrColdsweat:
We need an expert at economics to turn things around.

budaatum:


We should not want to suck the last bit of juice out of an orange to make it more succulent, we should just plant more oranges so you buy another. Burn the building down report her and the hypocrisy of her backers or at least ridicule and make fun of them, all the same, make us aware of what they always do so we can know what it is we are fighting.

Just somehow I don't think we can so easily be sold like we have been in the past because I think we learnt a lot from slavery, and if we strive we can be even less swindled and develop our own country with their money.

Am I the only one who dreams of Lagos-Abuja in 2hrs on bullet train, and Lagos-London in the same time and to New York in 3 on Naija Concord Airline?

2050 will be upon us soon you know. In this lifetime of most of us!

Ikea81:
Good, finally one Nigerian who thinks. God fire anybody that calls Tinubu

budaatum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YpticqS9-8

She'll be something new. And feminine.

bukatyne:


I have very mixed feelings towards this.

Pros:
She is very smart and has done well for herself. I believe she should be able to move Nigeria economically forward and even if she wants to steal or be corrupt, she will do so with sense while growing the economy & other sectors in the country. I have no doubt in her capacity.

Cons:
1. What party would she contest under? If it is APC or PDP which is most likely to clinch her the ticket (except if we wake up and vote personalities instead of party), then she is already indebted to some demons who would be serious clogs in her wheel.

2. Nigeria has systematic corruption which would be hard to eradicate except she decides to do J. K. Rawlings style before she settles into her tenure

3. Failure due to 1 & 2 would be a huge stain on her achievements so far.

As much as I want better leaders in Nigeria, I would prefer a dark hero first to sweep it clean for two terms then the NOIs can step in for maintenance.

budaatum:


Your "J. K. Rawlings style", did you mean Jerry John Rawlings? If so, Nigeria w/should not put up with despotic extrajudicial killings! Buhari, 31 December 1983 – 27 August 1985 was our version of Ghana's Rawling with his 200 year jail terms. We hoped he'd have brought back something remotely like it but na democracy we de now.

People underate this NOI. Thing is, she has the knowledge, experience and international institutional support to transform Nigeria, and all she lacks is the support of Nigerians who can't think of a better person to rule Nigeria, mind. I see an Angela Merkel in her.

budaatum:


Your "J. K. Rawlings style", did you mean Jerry John Rawlings? If so, Nigeria w/should not put up with despotic extrajudicial killings! Buhari, 31 December 1983 – 27 August 1985 was our version of Ghana's Rawling with his 200 year jail terms. We hoped he'd have brought back something remotely like it but na democracy we de now.

People underate this NOI. Thing is, she has the knowledge, experience and international institutional support to transform Nigeria, and all she lacks is the support of Nigerians who can't think of a better person to rule Nigeria, mind. I see an Angela Merkel in her.

crackhaus:

NOI is not a politician, Angela Merkel is a politician...

Even if she is given all the support, NOI would not make a great president.

GERMANY BIDS FAREWELL TO ANGELA MERKEL

With six minutes of warm applause, on the streets, balconies, windows, the whole Country applauded for 6 minutes - spectacular example of leadership and defense of humanity, chapeaux!

The Germans elected her to lead them, and she led 80 million Germans for 18 years with competence, skill, dedication and sincerity. She did not utter nonsense. She did not appear in the alleys of Berlin to be photographed. She was dubbed "The Lady of the World" and who was described as the equivalent of six million men.

During these eighteen years of her leadership of the authority in her Country, no transgressions were recorded against her. She did not assign any of her relatives to a government post. She did not claim that she was the maker of glories. She did not get millions in payment, nor did anyone cheer her performance, she did not receive charters and pledges, she did not fight those who preceded her.

Yesterday, Merkel left the party leadership position and handed it over to those after her, and Germany and its German people are in the best condition ever.

The reaction of the Germans was unprecedented in the history of the Country. The entire population went out to the balconies of their houses and clapped for her spontaneously for 6 continuous minutes. A standing ovation nationwide.

Germany stood as one body bidding farewell to their leader, a chemical physicist who was not tempted by the fashion or the lights and did not buy real estate, cars, yachts and private planes, knowing that she is from former East Germany.

She left her post after leaving Germany at the top. She left and her relatives did not claim advantage. Eighteen years and she never changed her wardrobe. God be upon this silent leader.

At a press conference, a female Journalist asked Merkel: We notice that you're wearing the same suit, don’t you have any other?" She replied: "I am a government employee and not a model."

At another press conference, they asked her: Do you have housemaids who clean your house, prepare your meals and so on? Her answer was: "No, I do not have servants and I do not need them. My husband and I do this work at home every day.

Then another journalist asked: Who is washing the clothes, you or your husband? Her answer: "I arrange the clothes, and my husband is the one who operates the washing machine, and it is usually at night, because electricity is available and there is no pressure on it, and the most important thing is to take into the account the possible inconvenience for the neighbours, thankfully the wall separating our apartment from the neighbours is thick." She said to them, "I expected you to ask me about the successes and failures in our work in the government!"

Mrs. Merkel lives in a normal apartment like any other citizen. She lived in this apartment before being elected Chancellor of Germany. She did not leave it and does not own a villa, servants, swimming pools or gardens.

Merkel, the now former Chancellor of Germany, the largest economy in Europe!

bukatyne:


Nobody underrates NOI:

We are saying the system we want her to change needs a cleanup first.

This is not about the sex either; it is about her personality thus far.

I believe a repentant/changed Dizeani or Stella Oduah would do a better job than NOI to clean the system first (which would include a lot of killings or jail terms) then NOI can step in.

What you call despotic extrajudicial killings is what I call cleanups which is what we require a dark hero for.

I look at issues on ground and proffer solutions; I don't do theories someone dreamed up in their bedroom in Chicago.

bjdon:
It does not matter who is president in 2023. It really doesn't. As long as the country retains its current inefficient political and economic structure, nothing will change.

bjdon:

2 ex military leaders have been unable to restructure the country, and you think she can. Dream on

Tinubuadvocate:
She lack the ability and credibility to be a governor talk on president.