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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by anonimi: 6:49am On Sep 22, 2022
ceeceeco:
Let me see the miracle Tinubu will perform to win this Presidential election. Because, alot of people are against his ambition of becoming the president.

Any sensible Nigerian won't repeat the mistake of 2015, when Thiefnuibu used propaganda to package the Abacha PTF a-looter comrade as a corruption fighter to revive our economy and deal with terrorists. Seven years later, should 200 million Nigerians not be wiser?
Will we allow ourselves to be scammed again?
Must affliction arise a second time

Emergingnation:
Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party

National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.

During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.

He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.

His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.

“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.

“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.

“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.

Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/01/flashback-how-bola-tinubu-spoke-highly-of-buhari-in-2015-named-pdp-poverty-development-party/

socialmediaman:
The 2018 Rating by Transparency International placed Nigeria at 148th position out of 180 countries. Nigeria was improving over the years under the previous government, until Buhari got elected as president, things became worse.

There is a difference between fact and fiction. We need to face facts, Buhari is worse than GEJ when it comes to fighting corruption, at least that’s what the facts prove.

Most of us believed there was corruption under Goodluck Jonathan’s Government. I agree with those who did, there was corruption, but not as bad as it is today under Mohammadu Buhari.

In 2012, Nigeria was placed at 139th position, In 2014, Nigeria gained 3 steps and was placed at 136th position. Under Buhari, Nigeria has lost many positions down to 148th.

There’s no further proof needed that corruption has worsened under Buhari’s government compared to previous years.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/02/21/transparency-international-ranks-nigeria-148th-worlds-least-corrupt-country

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Maccar02: 6:49am On Sep 22, 2022
You like it or not his the next president

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by joe1309: 6:52am On Sep 22, 2022
Antyislam:
Even WE Yoruba Christian's will never vote Tinubu on muslim Muslims ticket, we are not fools
you don't know us, we are very tolerant when it comes to religion, that is why in a family, the father could be a Muslim why the kids could either be Muslims or christians. We are not like those of you from the southeastern part of the country.

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by ObosiUkwalla: 6:53am On Sep 22, 2022
rusher14:
Ezeife wey even him own people dey call goat.

grin

Agbado people dey call am shitty shitty
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by zoedew: 6:53am On Sep 22, 2022
Louder please!

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Fiscus105(m): 6:55am On Sep 22, 2022
Instead of u to be campaigning for Obi u re condermning

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by anonimi: 6:55am On Sep 22, 2022
Maccar02:
You like it or not his the next president

Are you one of those who will push the druggie there?

Francis5:
04.27.155:18 AM ET

Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring

General Muhammed Buhari’s political partner is a former bagman for two heroin traffickers. But that’s just business as usual in Nigeria.

Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. But the man most responsible for midwifing General Muhammed Buhari’s ballot triumph over current President Goodluck Jonathan has a spotty CV. Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.

Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.

In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999.

In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 “in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions.” This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside.

In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler’s checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives.

“There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash.”

Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande’s wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande’s relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application.

At the time, Tinubu’s take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991.

Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu’s role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn’t keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu’s First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/27/nigeria-s-next-leader-s-ties-to-a-heroin-ring.html

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by AderonkeOlaniyi(f): 6:56am On Sep 22, 2022
Pwettylinda:
Every Nigerian with brain knows na

Unless those without brain

You're right. Some idiots are brainless.

Cc: leotheking, throwback

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by ceeceeco: 6:58am On Sep 22, 2022
May you live long Mr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. You said it, & it's happening!

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Bar1941(m): 6:59am On Sep 22, 2022
Werey, go remove am now.
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by ceeceeco: 7:02am On Sep 22, 2022
Tinubu will be a total disgrace to Nigeria at the international level if he becomes the president. I can't imagine such a vegetable as a president, I reject it. I want to be proud of my president and not to be so ashamed.

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by ogatboy(m): 7:05am On Sep 22, 2022
adenigga:



Source: https://punchng.com/2023-Tinubu-unfit-for-presidency-says-Ezeife

This is simple. Can Tinubu go for a medical and fitness test sponsored by the citizens and release the result to its citizens?
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by sangresan(m): 7:07am On Sep 22, 2022
adenigga:



Source: https://punchng.com/2023-Tinubu-unfit-for-presidency-says-Ezeife

Ezeife is an Ibo rabid dog always spewing nonsense.

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Nobody: 7:09am On Sep 22, 2022
You that is fit why not contest? Evu

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by jrusky(m): 7:13am On Sep 22, 2022
You better keep quiet Mr ipob. Is this not the Ezeife that want Kanu to be release for him then talking blabla?

I know it's only ipob miscreants who will say obi green snake is their Lord.

Tinubu not fit, Atiku not fit but yet Tinbu and Atiku has done more rigorous political consultation, travelling here their than the deceptive obi and none of these two men fall sick or being rushed to hospital nor any of the 2 drops or slump they are even more active than obi Mr 60 years claimant shit.

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Horokrox: 7:13am On Sep 22, 2022
Throwback:


Does he mean like the Semifinalist?

The one who went on CNN and could not remember what he crammed?

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Nobody: 7:13am On Sep 22, 2022
Between Zik And Obi: Lessons Of History

By

Jide Oluwajuyitan

On Sep 22, 2022

History often repeats itself. The trending videos of Obi’s angry supporters threatening expulsion of anyone who fails to vote for their principal from the east, mob action against Tinubu’s supporters in Alaba Market in Lagos added to shameless assault on the person of Asiwaju Tinubu through hate songs by Seadogs Confraternity, during their public procession are all but sad reminder of the past when Lagos Igbo urban immigrants were mobilized to buy off all the cutlasses in Lagos market in readiness to battle their Yoruba hosts, labelled enemies of Igbo by leaders they looked up to for direction.

Perhaps we again need to return to history to remind our angry youths where we are coming from and how the seed of today’s mutual suspicion was sown by self-serving Igbo political leaders especially since the late president, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and Peter Obi share some parallels.

They were both beneficiaries of Lagos benevolence. It was in Lagos that they had their professional, financial and political breakthrough. The former, fresh from Ghana, first “elezikified’ the Nigerian press in Lagos before establishing his newspaper chain across Nigeria cities. The latter started as Alaba trader graduating to importer of everything including wines before becoming a bank owner.  They both built their political fortunes in Lagos as leader of Igbo urban immigrants that needed a spokesman in a stranger’s land. They both freely deploy rhetoric to confuse their largely uninformed Igbo youths and unquestioning Nigerians.

For his oratory and brilliance, Zik was loved by the Yoruba. As an adopted son of Herbert Macaulay, he could do no wrong among the Lagos white cap chiefs and Imams who saw him as their son. Although NCNC was a Yoruba party with only one Igbo man during its inauguration, he became an unchallenged leader of NCNC after Herbert Macaulay’s death. And before the party was hijacked by his Igbo supporters, Zik was winning all elections in Lagos, Ibadan, Ilesha, Akure and Ondo among other Yoruba towns.

Like most young men of his generation. Awo used to follow Zik to his lecture venues.  But he was the first to discover Zik was a fake god in spite of his rhetoric and endless railing against the imperialists. Awo also discovered that sometimes nationalism may not be driven by altruism.

He gave reasons in his autobiography. Zik was using his paper to promote interest of Igbos while downplaying achievement of others especially Yoruba. His devious role in the collapse of Nigerian Youth Movement after fraudulently labelling Awo a tribalist for supporting Ernest Ikoli, an Ijaw easterner from today’s Bayelsa against Oba Akinsanya, his fellow Ijebu man. He went on to form Egbe Omo Oduduwa in London in 1945 along with the Akereles, Ayo Rosijis and Akintola Williams..

Unlike Awo, it took the Yoruba Lagos aristocrats of the period, including Sir Adeyemo Alakija, Dr Akinola Maja, Sir Kofo Abayomi, Chief Bode Thomas, Chief H. O. Davies and Dr Akanni Doherty, among others, much longer time to see clearly. In 1948 however, they launched Egbe Omo Oduduwa in Lagos around the same period similar group like Jamiyyar Mutanen Arewa (Northern People’s Congress) was formed in the north.

Zik and his supporters’ attack on the Egbe promoters was vicious. The West African Pilot editorial September 8, 1948 said “Henceforth, the cry must be one of battle against the Egbe Omo Oduduwa, its leaders at home and abroad, uphill and down dale. In the streets of Nigeria and in the residences of its advocates. The Egbe Omo Oduduwa is the enemy of Nigeria. It must be crushed to the earth. There is no going back until the fascist organization of Sir Adeyemo Alakija has been dismembered”. This was followed by physical assault on the persons and the leaders of the Egbe and damage to houses and properties of some of them”. (Awo: The Autobiography of Obafemi Awolowo page 171].

Then followed Zik’s Freudian slip during his 1949 presidential address to Ibo State Union, formed since 1943. According to Zik: “It would appear the God of Africa has specially created the Ibo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of the ages…The martial prowess of the Ibo nation at all stages of human history has enabled them not only to conquer others but also to adapt themselves to role of preserver… the Ibo nation cannot shirk its responsibility. He went on to complain about Ibo non-representation at the executive council and complain Ibo taxation was being used to develop other areas.

That was the impetus Yoruba political elite needed to shift their support to Awo and his Action Group in 1952 thereby frustrating Zik’s attempt of becoming the premier of the West. Of course, the Yoruba did not regret it as the West became the pacesetter between 1952 and 1959. But for preventing Igbo internal colonialism, Awo and Yoruba were labelled tribalists by Igbo political leaders who tolerated no opposition in their own strongholds. The fallout was that Awo did not get any support from the east where his helicopter was stoned by fanatical Zik supporters during the 1959 election.

The north at independence constituted five–eighths of the entire territory of Nigeria with 56 per cent of the entire population. Their system according to Awolowo, “was feudal and autocratic; at best oligarchic and authoritarian and completely antithetical to liberal tradition of the Western Region and egalitarian beliefs of the Eastern Region”. He believed “the problem of Nigeria “cannot be solved until the problem of the north has been solved”. His solution was the west and the east with some support from middle belt taking over power.

But greed-driven Igbo political elite preferred an NPC and NCNC coalition. While ordinary Igbo on whose back they rode to power got nothing, Igbo elite secured all important appointments in Balewa’s government from finance, to external affairs, agriculture, control of University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, Yaba College of Technology, Nigerian Airways Nigeria Railways forcing Akintola to ask Ikejiani:  Iketaani, Ikerinani, where is the one for Yoruba? (Meaning Igbo shared all available positions leaving nothing for Yoruba).

The blame for secession and civil war was put on Awo and Yoruba and not Ojukwu and Igbo leaders who seceded with 16 riffles (Ojukwu) while declaring “no power in Africa can subdue us.”  Of course that was also an excuse to justify Igbo NPP’s ill-advised coalition with NPN with Ojukwu who later became Abacha’s ambassador to Europe to de-market MKO Abiola returning from exile to eat with his former enemies. It is on record the 1979 alliance like that of 1959 collapsed over sharing of spoils of office.

For the same reasons, Igbo political elite mobilized their people to support NRC’s Bashir Tofa in the 1993 election and when MKO Abiola won a landslide despite securing only one Igbo state, leading Igbo politicians joined Babangida in annulling the election.

In 1999, Igbo political elite rejected the Yoruba candidate and supported Obasanjo who also rewarded them abundantly with positions after his victory. It was all about the interest of Igbo political leaders.

As a heterogeneous society, Igbo elite consensus with the northern political leaders with whom they share a common worldview of exploiting the innermost fears of their people for political gain is not unhealthy for democracy. But conscious of the cost of how past fraudulent claims and political subterfuge have haunted us for over 70 years, I don’t think abusing Yoruba and blaming their leaders for Igbo leadership failure is helpful for Peter Obi who, I am not sure, can freely campaign in Anambra where he ruled for eight years and where eight security officers made the supreme sacrifice as ransom for Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s life last week.

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Sunkyboie(m): 7:15am On Sep 22, 2022
Obi will never will this presidential election. Igbo people are just winning it on Nairaland with their Mouth.
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Khaysee: 7:15am On Sep 22, 2022
Atiku is in germany for weeks
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Nobody: 7:15am On Sep 22, 2022
This is the obvious truth.
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Horokrox: 7:16am On Sep 22, 2022
Throwback:


Does he mean like the Semifinalist?

The one who went on CNN and could not remember what he crammed?
No he meant the agbadó munching vampire BAT undisputed leader of brainless urchins like you undecided

Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Nobody: 7:16am On Sep 22, 2022
Sunkyboie:
Obi will never will this presidential election. Igbo people are just winning it on Nairaland with their Mouth.

I am bonafide Yoruba and Peter Obi will win by God's grace. Enemies of Nigeria will be put to shame.

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Psalmvic: 7:20am On Sep 22, 2022
I think we should stop this campaign of hatred. We are not God even if Tinubu sick let God determine who becomes our president 2023. Take it or leave it Asiwaju is coming.
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Abdulqareem: 7:24am On Sep 22, 2022
EYAAAA. ANOTHER PAINED, DISGRUNTLED AND RELEVANT SELF SEEKING IPOB MISCREANT HAS SPOKEN. NEWS FLASH, WE WILL NOT VOTE FOR PETER OBI. SAI BABA TINUBU. OBI CAN ONLY BE PRESIDENT IN THE ZOO. Igbos ARE DECENDANT OF SANBALLAT AND TOBIAS
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Rayjnr: 7:25am On Sep 22, 2022
ceeceeco:
Let me see the miracle Tinubu will perform to win this Presidential election. Because, alot of people are against his ambition of becoming the president.

Igbos or people?
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Rayjnr: 7:26am On Sep 22, 2022
ceeceeco:
Let me see the miracle Tinubu will perform to win this Presidential election. Because, alot of people are against his ambition of becoming the president.

People or Igbos
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Alpharey: 7:26am On Sep 22, 2022
Throwback:
The he-goat of Biafra has spoken.

Truly Tinubu does not deserve to be President of Biafra.

That is for Simon Ekpa, Nnamdi Kanu, Peter Obi and he-goat Ezeife to jostle for.

Tinubu should retire to Iragbiji to stay closer to his ancestral home. And he is not even fit to be their towns union president, Just stay there dey eat agbado and ewedu.

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Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by Gourdoinc(m): 7:29am On Sep 22, 2022
Truth must always prevail
Re: 2023: Tinubu Unfit For Presidency - Chukwuemeka Ezeife by porawio: 7:30am On Sep 22, 2022

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