₦airaland Forum

LegendHero:
See men.

Nice one to all of you. This is how it should be, you must all understand that we are one Yoruba. Everyone is present!!!

God Bless Baba Akande & Chief Osoba
God bless Asiwaju Jagaban!
God bless our leaders in the SW.

And you left PYO out in the Blessing thing. Are you sure you are happy with him?

Truthisunique2:
actions speak louder than words

Those pictures or headlines does not say his anoited is Amaechi or he is not backing Asiwaju. Its all speculation. Anybody can be his choice and he is the only one that knows who that person is for now.

What if Buhari's Candidate is Asiwaju? Since he did not make his choice public its premsture to think its Amaechi or someone else but not tinubu.

Jorussia:
This additional support will make the financial and military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of this conflict to be more than $50b.My fear is in a situation where both united states and Russia don't want to accept any form of defeat or concession,nuclear war may become inevitable.The Egos on both sides is too much and risk catastrophic consequences for the world.I am aware that Poland may moving troops into western Ukraine sometime next month.

Tactical nuclear in Ukraine �� will end the war soonest.

Tinubuadvocate:
Wow really but you should also know that the two people you mentioned don't have the capacity to nominate you as a vice president. Anyway next month is here already.

I thought Starboard and Jagaban are working together. Has anything changed?

plaindealer:
Ukraine go remain standing as a sovereign nation while dumb pouTin the clown go remain inside dustbin of history and Russia a poor and isolated global pariah..

In your mind. Everyone of the western country has a history so Russia is not alone on that. Trying to isolate Russia is like Nigeria trying to isolate ND.

Techsupport:
Ukraine needs to act now ?. please do not hold back Tell us what they are supposed to do. Tell us what they need to do to end this war.
So if Niger Republic invades Nigeria today, you will quickly surrender your property, wife, and children so that there will be no war?

Boy, there are cuckolds on this forum!!

Making comparism with Niger and Nigeria with what is going on in Ukraine and Russia is laughable.

Techsupport:
Angus Roxburgh is an ass. if the world has come together to support Poland on September 12th, 1939 when Hitler and his 3rd Reich invaded them, there wouldn't have been a world war 2. Evil only succeeds when good men do nothing.
You don't negotiate with a lion when he has your head in his mouth, you fight, call for help, activate every action you have to survive that encounter. you will come out bruised and battered but you will come out alive.

This is what Ukraine is doing.

When a lion has your head in his mouth you are as good as gone, if that is Ukrainians situation that means it's finished. The situation of Poland then and Ukraine now is not the same, if Hitler had a nuke then believe me nobody will come to Polands help just like nobody is coming to help Ukraine at least directly.

rickleye:
That's over 30 years. If he has lived a trailblazing life since then - Let's not crucify the man for youthful exuberance.
We have had presidents who have done worse. But he should know during debates this will come up a lot.

mention the President pls

Made a lot of sense. Ego from the West is the only thing that is prolonging this war. The morale boosting and biased optimism from the West to Zelensky is only destroying Ukraine. Ukrainians need to act now to save their beloved country otherwise many other cities will look like Maruopol soon.

Few people in the west doubt that Ukraine is fighting a just war. Russia’s invasion was entirely unprovoked. Whatever complaints it may have had about Nato expansion or Ukraine’s mistreatment of Russians in Donbas, nobody had attacked Russia, and nobody was planning to. Vladimir Putin launched a straightforward war of aggression and territorial conquest.

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It follows that supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do. But it is not at all clear that the kind of support we are giving (and not giving) is the right way to go about preserving the Ukrainian nation.

The longer this war rages on, the more Ukrainians will flee their homeland, and the more devastation will be wrought upon their homes, cities, industry and economy. Yet the west’s current approach of supporting Ukraine’s war aim of defeating the aggressor, and providing arms for that purpose while pointedly avoiding direct military intervention, is guaranteed to prolong the war. Russia’s progress may be slowed, but it’s highly unlikely to be stopped, far less pushed out of Ukraine, and in the meantime the grinding destruction and hideous war crimes will continue.

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No day goes past without some senior western politician proclaiming that Ukraine will be “successful” and that Russia is “failing”. This is certainly morale-boosting. But it is clearly nonsense.

The fact is, day by day, more towns and cities are destroyed and then fall to the Russians. In two months, the area under Russian control – originally just the breakaway parts of Donbas – has grown to perhaps five times the size. If Russia continues to suffer “defeats” at this pace, then in another two months the entire south of Ukraine will be in ruins, cities such as Odesa will resemble Mariupol, and thousands upon thousands more Ukrainians will have died.

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Worse, as the war goes on, and more towns are destroyed, it becomes less likely that Ukrainians who have fled to other countries will ever return, because they will have no homes or workplaces to come back to. How many citizens of Mariupol will ever return? If Russia’s aim was to exterminate the Ukrainian nation, then the west’s approach is helping to do just that.

Surely, if the lives of Ukrainian people are our concern then the west has to do something to stop the war – now. Encouraging the Ukrainians to continue, however just their cause, is merely making their country uninhabitable.

The trouble is, there are only two ways to stop the war quickly, and neither is palatable to most western leaders.

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One would be for Nato to enter the war and make a quick, massive and decisive strike to cripple Russia’s invasion forces. Unlike with Russia’s actions, it would have every right under international law to do so. When Putin intervened in Syria, he very carefully framed this as a response to a request from Syria’s legitimate and internationally recognised government. The west could do the same in Ukraine. Putin himself has no such justification for his invasion.

The risk involved in this – of a third world war – is obvious, and it’s why the west refuses to intervene directly.

The other option is to persuade Putin to implement an immediate ceasefire, by inviting Russia to comprehensive peace talks. Western leaders are disinclined to parley with a butcher such as Putin. But they did it with Serbia’s Slobodan Milošević, only months after the massacre at Srebrenica, and the result was the Dayton agreement that put an end to the war in Bosnia in 1995.

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To get Putin to the negotiating table at all, everything would have to be up for discussion – including Ukraine’s borders, Russia’s age-old security concerns, perhaps even the very logic of basing today’s international frontiers in that part of Europe on what were internal borders in the USSR, drawn up by communist leaders precisely to prevent Soviet republics and regions from being viable independent states. The outcome of the talks does not need to be predetermined. The important thing is to talk rather than fight.

Western leaders cannot bring themselves to broach these matters, which would seem to reward Putin for attempting to redraw the map by force. They would rather fight – or more accurately, let Ukraine fight, in the hope of defeating Russia. But if one thing is certain it is that Putin will never accept defeat. He is already too deeply invested in this war to back off with nothing to show for it. If western leaders think that their arms-length encouragement of Ukraine will bring about a Ukrainian military victory, then they are fatally misreading Putin’s intentions and resolve. For Ukraine’s sake, we need to stop him now, one way or the other, before nothing is left of the country we want to protect.

Angus Roxburgh is a former BBC Moscow correspondent and former consultant to the Kremlin. He is the author of The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia and Moscow Calling: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent

[quote author=tinsel post=112313059][/quote]If you loved the south so well you shouldn't have campaigned for Buhari. Your love for south now is because Tinubu and Yomi are in the race.

tinsel:
So you don't see any thing wrong with the north using Jonathan to short change the south because Jonathan will do only a term?

The north did exactly the same in 2015 when they used some southern politicians to short change the south. He(GEJ) may accept this offer just for tit for tat.

IamWonderful:
Yet the average person in southeast couldn't stay in southeast, he is in the southwest hawking gala, even when fashola send them away they came back

Yes, Just like the ones they chased to river in Ibeno Akwa Ibom.

teadrake:
What kind of human being are these people? Buhari should endorse someone he spent 7years blaming of failed governance in Nigeria?? Administration he (Buhari) referred to as the worst since inception in terms of corruption. No hope for this country again!!!

Their reason to do so is to collect the Presidency after 4 years. Non of the presidential aspirants of today is coming to fix Nigeria, they are all after the power and influence.

seunmsg:
How many times do we have to tell some of you that consensus is not an option for presidential nomination in APC constitution? Una get strong head well well o.

The level of dumbness and stupidity on display nowadays on Nairaland is nauseating. Folks just open threads just to post senselessly. Anyway, all these nonsense will soon end sha. After the election, you all will move on to another wailing point.

The people you are up against don't care about national constitution talkless of party own. Is it in apc constitution that buni a sitting Gov can as well be a party chairman?

Dsalvo:
Well, let us see how it goes. Not long to wait.

That is our default standing for long.

Dsalvo:
Perhaps you miss my point. The Presidency of Nigeria is universally visible and still an office, even if we are only pretending, we should try to ensure retains a modicum of respect in the eyes of the world.

Forget all the internal defections at other levels you're citing. Those, for the sake of international diplomacy and politics, are Nigeria's own 'internal affairs'.

Do you know the implication, even for the survival and internal cohesion of the APC, of a ruling Party ignoring all her own candidate to go and recruit their Presidential candidate from the opposition a month to their Primaries?

Make una dey think these things na. Haba.

All you are saying is right in a sane society but unfortunately Nigeria is not. Which country has elected a coup plotter 32 yrs after? Non bar Nigeria. So in this our country anything can happen and anything is acceptable. Forget about your hollier than thou, you will also defend it if you are GEJ supporter.

Great2017:
Do you think politicians have shame? Let me remind you of Adams Oshiomhole of the APC annointing Ize-Iyamu of the PDP whom he had condemned as a thief in the previous election to dislodge the incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki. Oshiomhole went as far as disqualifying the latter just to have his way. Politicians are after their selfish interest

And Tinubu and his supporters now supported the Oshomole action then. Now they are forming ideology.

Siwel25:
And all the Party's women leaders visited him singing-"On your mandate..." ? I You must be a clown if you think Jonathan will be allowed to reap where he hasn't sowed? Whoever is pushing him wants to ruin the little reputation he has.

So, as an intelligent and reasonable person, U think Jonathan will just stroll to the APC and win the Primaries while Tinubu and Amaechi clap for him? I suspect that there are PDP moles inside the APC who want to sabotage the party . It won't fly cos no reasonable delegate will vote for an opportunist.

If what is being said is true, I don't think delegates are necessary. Remember the news is about him being the consensus candidate. We are watching anyway.

tinsel:
Why are you pitying Tinubu? You are not mad that a person like Jonathan can be used to cut short the two terms presidency a southerner will enjoy if elected because for Jonathan he will rule for only one term.

Was a southerner not used to cut short of a southern two terms?

Proudlyomonna:
The effects of sanctions are not something that manifest in a blink of an eye you know

But sleepy Joe said one month when he mocked roubles to be half a cent.

Instead of finding ways to stop the war, the EU countries are running from pillar to post to punish Russia. Now its has come to sanctioning themselves. When you stay home for three days in a week you burn more gas in heating the home. When you drive slow, you pollute the environment the more.

Stop the damn war and let people live their normal lifes.

joyandfaith:
You are a real man.
RA captured a that was destroyed by them. Even cavemen are not as stupid as Russian army.

How can a losing side capture a city. This is fake news. . Zelensky is winning and must

Mooh247:
Yakubu Dogara... You heard it here first

Cool. Is he not part of the PDP corrupt gang that ruined Nigeria? Asiwaju cannot romance with a corrupt politician unless he is corrupt himself. Is he?

Mooh247:
That Ali Ndume must be a joker if he thinks Nigeria wants a Boko Haram chief as Vice President... Ameachi better find someone else to font for him

Is that the game plan? Who will be Tinubu VP? The Babariga Bullion van?

deltaprincess:
Olodo!!

Tinubu has Kano, Lagos states at his disposal. He doesn't need Kaduna state.

It appears you are a very poor student of History. Tinubu never strikes until he has planned and strategize his path.

He singlehandedly defeated OBJ with all the Federal dictatorial might OBJ displayed. Now how much more a mere non-political VP with little or no experience in Politics.

Did he not strategize in Edo?

Mooh247:
What taxable income and variefieble source will Ameachi say his 100million came from

I read some where that Ali Ndume has already raised 200m for the form for him. Corrupt set of people. MC Olowo will soon announce that he has raised 1b for Tinubu own. ��

Slurity:
You really don't need to under estimate someone who has never lost a battle before with your full chest. Tinubu has never lost any contest and that should give you a signal that anything is possible.

He has not lost any contest cos he has no challenger in Lagos. Almost all of them in Lagos are o'yes members with no balls. When he tried Edo we all knew the outcome, same as Ondo and with Atiku and Ribadu at the national levels.

helinues:
After 2023, tsunami would sweep across SW states.

Make we give you some hints.

All shanties, slums and under bridge house would first be the first target to demolish. Those who left their region with just a poly bag would eventually end up in slums.

All fake products would be fished out from SW region. The producers of those fake products risk going to long term jail

We are going to increase Tax of non indigenes across SW states. Indigenes can't be paying same tax with non indigenes most especially business owners.

More policies coming.

Any one not comfortable with all those listed above should relocate back to his region/state.

When the tax is increased the price of the product will increase as well hence the burden is on the buyer not the seller or producer. Who are the buyers? Nigerians across all region.