₦airaland Forum

unitedigboworld:
op thank you for saying the truth, anyone who's against injustice to igbo is ipob but the truth remains that we igbos is not tribalize like the two other major tribes in Nigeria that is why we are shortchanged in political position in Nigeria. Igbos believes in a free society where the every one will be treated as one, we simple do not fit in a country like Nigeria where every things are based on where you come from. How can one called himself Nigeria but you will see your fellow countrymen as a foreigner in Nigeria were he or she reside.

Op this is not bragging but if igbos be like other two tribes in terms of tribalism nothing they want to achieve in Nigeria that they will not. The problem is that igbos doesn't play tribal politics because they are very democratic in nature.

Let me tell you that igbos will support you to exel in everything you do not minding your tribes but like you said what they hate so much is when you start looking down on them. If you look at big musicians and artists in Nigeria you will see igbo people helping to promote them to highest point but will a Yoruba man help an igbos artist to grow without calling him omo igbo the answers is no, if actually we will tell ourselves the truth. The same thing happens in church is today without igbo there won't be adabayo, oyedepo and like others but go to the churches that igbos are the pastor and come reply to me on how many Yoruba you will see there.

When will you learn?

Insults don’t win elections
Sentiments don’t win elections
Aggressiveness does not win elections
Nzogbu nzogbu, does not win elections

Only one thing wins elections. Votes.—Reno Omokri

Love and light

My heart goes out to the bereaved family.

This is beyond Barbaric

Real sabi Real

Congratulations to a real nigger from 1919

Ngorbungor:
Who care about your vote?
Suffer no dey tyer you?
Please vote for those people you've been voting for as usual nonsense.

When will you learn?

Insults don’t win elections
Sentiments don’t win elections
Aggressiveness does not win elections
Nzogbu nzogbu, does not win elections— Reno Omokri

MedicH:
Your voting Peter obi is not for anyone's good. You're not doing anybody a favor voting a seasoned industrialist and somebody that is accountable. Suffer no de tire you? Your mumu never do? Carry your one vote and give tinubu now u people don't have sense.

Peter obi does not need to be president more than u particularly need a good government that can better ur life do I need to tell u this?

Ode

When will you learn?

Insults don’t win elections
Sentiments don’t win elections
Aggressiveness does not win elections
Nzogbu nzogbu, does not win elections— Reno Omokri

tsmat:
This kind of politics doesn't win an election.
Majority of you are not even selling Peter Obi. But trying to downplay other candidates.

Exactly, sometimes their attitude is really pushing my vote away from the man I swear

Egalitarian1:
Succinctly captured Mr Chairman.


"In his response Obi praised the Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, for the outstanding infrastructural development of in the state. He described Wike as his brother and friend, and appreciated him for the warm hospitality he granted him in the state."

The above quoted response made by Mr Peter Obi goes a very long way to show Nigerians that one can't give what he doesn't have. Obi is a presidential material unlike Wike! Whereas Wike went to Anambra state to insult himself thinking he was insulting or de-marketing Peter Obi, here is Obi distinguishing himself as usual in Wike's Rivers state.

Self-discipline and integrity at its peak!
Carry go Mr Peter Obi!
On Peter Obi 2023 honest Nigerians stand and I'm one of them!

Personally I will vote for Obi come what may but What is the percentage of your kinsmen that will votes? Remember Soludo won the last governorship election with just 130k plus votes a whole Governorship election!
And you now want The Yorubas and The Northern people that majority of your kinsmen demoralized upandan to support you with votes right?

They are in severe pains

PerfectlyPerfect:
You don't seem to know the meaning of the word "progressive"

2023 Political Realities That Will Annoy You, Then Heal You!

First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in today’s ThisDay.

As the party primaries draw near, it is sad to see many people still playing the same old sentimental politics which has left them perpetually in the back burner. Why do they do it? Is it that they are unteachable, or unreachable, or that they lack the ability to suppress their sentiments in favour of cold hard facts?

Political realities will always overcome political sentiments. That is a fact of life. So, in order to win, you do not cry over the realities, or argue about them. You simply understand these natural principles and then harness them.

One political reality is that the ONLY Southern candidates with name recognition in Northern Nigeria, and especially the Northwest and Northeast, are Bola Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo. Even Rotimi Amaechi does not have it. I know some people will not like to hear this, but truth is bitter and better!

And amongst these Southern candidates, only Bola Tinubu stands a chance in the Northwest and Northeast, for almost the same reasons that Abiola stood a chance. Even Buhari, with his real or imaginary Northern cult following, can’t persuade the core North to vote for a Christian pastor.

Another bitter, but better truth. Although people will like to hear butter lies.

Asking core Northerners to vote for Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, who, rightly or wrongly, is seen in the core North as a Christian fanatic, who carefully put members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in key positions, is like asking Southerners to vote Isa Pantami, who was caught on tape expressing his delight at the death of non Muslims!

Any sensible aspirant should cultivate the Northwest and Northeast. You can win the Presidency without the votes of one particular region I will not name because of their ability to insult more than their ability to vote. But you can’t win without the Northwest and the Northeast.

Alas, with the comments of many Southern aspirants, you would think that they can win the election based on bravado alone. Even the British tried to win the heart of the North, though they were colonial masters. It is a reality we must face as long as Nigeria remains one country.

I have a lot of personal disdain for Bola Tinubu, who I believe lacks personal hygiene and morals. I also have reasons to believe that he is corrupt and grossly so. But despite my misgivings, he is acting more sensibly than other Southern aspirants in courting the North.

Osinbajo is just delusional. He thinks he can win the APC primaries by speaking English. Even Buhari does not command the delegate votes to make him win. Yes, he has name recognition. But his name recognition in the North is like beer. Northerners know it, but reject it!

From what I have seen so far, 2023 will be a race between Bola Tinubu and the best Northern candidate the Peoples Democratic Party can come up with. Other than Bola Tinubu, the top three Northern PDP candidates have no match in the South. For now.

You doubt me? Okay, let me ask you this question. Who are Osinbajo’s coordinators in each of the nineteen Northern states? He either does not have such a machinery in place, or where he has them, the coordinators are inconsequential people who are political lightweights that add value to him.

Which Northern Governor is for him? With perhaps the exception of Nasir El-Rufai, the answer is zero. And if El-Rufai is for you, then you should consider that as a very big minus.

Contrast that with Tinubu. Whereas Osinbajo has food soldiers in the North, Tinubu has foot soldiers in every Northern state. Every time he is moving in the North, you can see top level Northern power brokers with him, from Ganduje, to Ribadu, to Shettima.

I will not even bother about candidates from the Southeast. If you critique them because you want them to be better, their followers (who are invariably mostly from the Southeast as well), will troop to your public profiles to insult you, as if they alone can make their chosen candidate the President. I wish them luck in their chosen path to ‘victory’.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Bola Tinubu will win the presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress. If his challenger in the Peoples Democratic Party comes from any zone other than the Northwest or Northeast, then Tinubu will be the President of Nigeria in 2023.

This much is obvious to people who have political vision. I do not know how anybody will actually allow their ethnicity to blind them to the point where they can believe that any Southern candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party can win an election in 2023. That will just be like gifting the election to Tinubu.

I have the voter turnout numbers of every Local Government in Nigeria from 2019. So, I look at elections from a statistical and scientific point of view. The Southeast of Nigeria has the highest Twitter and online turnout in the nation, but the lowest voter turnout during voter registration and election.

There are those who are being moved by ethnic sentiments and their disillusionment will come very soon. I do not need to belabour the point. But I will say this: Even in the Southeast Bola Tinubu is very strong. Look at the former Eagles that went to endorse him. Where are they from?

Let us learn from the Northwest and Northeast. This is Ramadan. How many of them have you seen traveling? Even during Sallah, they don’t travel. But let it be voter registration or election, they will travel. You travel for Christmas, but not for election, and you want to win election?

Refusing to work with political realities, and instead promulgating political delusions and building castles in the air, will not get any region, or any part, or anyone, anywhere at anytime. 2023 must be faced using cold hard facts. If Tinubu emerges in the All Progressives Congress, NOBODY among those who have declared so far in the South can defeat him for the Peoples Democratic Party.

In Luke 14:31 Christ asked if a king with 10,000 soldiers can defeat another with 20,000.

If the All Progressives Congress gives Bola Tinubu their ticket, the Peoples Democratic Party should be mindful of the fact that Kano alone delivered 2 million votes during the 2019 election, while the entire Southeast delivered 2.09 million. Do the math and stop sniffing meth!

In every election since 2003, Buhari has always had a captive audience of 12 million Northerners, plus or minus, one million. Buhari’s political foot soldiers in the core North are united behind him. What the opposition must do is to find a way to divide them. If the Peoples Democratic Party fields a Southerner in 2023, they will unite and obey Buhari’s command to vote for Tinubu. And Tinubu will win. The only way that those foot soldiers can be divided enough not to obey Buhari’s command is if the Peoples Democratic Party fields a Northerner!

Any scenario other than the Peoples Democratic Party fielding someone from the Northwest or Northeast is an own goal. I know this will infuriate a lot of people, especially from a particular geopolitical zone, but that is what truth does. It makes you mad as hell. But it makes you heal as well.

Southerners who think Buhari is no longer popular in the North are under the mistaken belief that Northerners care about the things they care about. When terrorist kill Northerners, Northern masses do not see it as Buhari’s fault. They see such deaths as the will of God that could not be altered.

The number one factor militating against the political progress of a certain geopolitical zone is their inability to work with people they do not like. Tell them an inconvenient truth and to a large extent they will gather to insult, abuse and attack you. Then after they have finished alienating everybody, they will believe that everybody hates them.

Northerners understand Southerners more than Southerners understand Northerners. Northerners like themselves more than Southerners like themselves. And more importantly, Northerners vote for region and religion. Southerners vote for region and competence

Both politics and war are a game of life and death. Once you understand that, everyone in your bloc will be motivated to win. Northerners understand this. Southerners do not. We see politics as an idealistic endeavour. Northerners see politics as a realistic venture and act accordingly

Individually, each state in the Northwest is politically powerful, especially the KKK axis. Kano, Katsina and Kaduna. But their individual strength is not why they influence ejections. The power of the Northwest is their ability to vote as a bloc. Only the Southwest is that politically disciplined in the Nigerian project.

In politics, it is better to use your intellect and foresight than rely on stubbornness in the face of facts. Political momentum is built in the grassroots, not on social media, and that momentum is growing quietly in the North.

The great Chinese military strategist said “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” The Peoples Democratic Party should imbibe this wisdom. Look at the voting pattern from 2019 and be guided by that, not by sentiments.

No party zones from a position of weakness. You only zone from a position of strength. As an opposition party, the preoccupation of the Peoples Democratic Party should be how to win. When they win, they can zone. But if they zone before they win, they will never win!

The Peoples Democratic Party must understand the military strategy that “the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.” The All Progressives Congress is likely to present a very flawed but politically astute candidate in Tinubu. Thus, the PDP must respond by presenting a candidate who has numbers, not one who has sentiments.

It takes energy to bend the bow, but it takes strategy to know how and when to release the arrow. The Peoples Democratic Party has energy on its side. Now, all they need is strategy. Because, in Bola Tinubu, they are facing an opponent who relies on strategy, not sentiments.

Reno’s Nuggets

ASUU is on strike due to lack of funds
NASU is on strike due to lack of funds
ASUP is on strike due to lack of funds
NUT is on strike due to lack of funds

Meanwhile, the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, whose salary for the seven years he has been minister is not up to ₦100 million, and who is prohibited by law from running a business while he is in government, and who should be focused on providing funds for these striking educational bodies, just bought a ₦100 million APC Presidential nomination form?

If only EFCC knew their job!

#TableShaker

Lalasticlala

When will you learn?

Insults don’t win elections
Sentiments don’t win elections
Aggressiveness does not win elections
Nzogbu nzogbu, does not win elections

Only one thing wins elections. Votes.

That is a political reality. Face cold hard facts. Because, as long as you cannot control your emotions, you will NEVER control power!

The PDP should understand and utilise the military strategy that “the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.” APC is likely to present a very flawed but politically astute candidate in Tinubu. Thus, PDP must respond by presenting a candidate with numbers, not one with sentiments.- Reno Omokri

#TableShaker

funshint:
It's not the amount of oil that makes a great Nation....may we not have a President like Buhari and Obasanjo again....never again!

What about Jonathan?

Progressive President.

Reno sabi how to press a particular region mumu button

Only tribal sentiments are spoiling this beautiful conversation

As we can see, this Man sabi the game.

PYO
PO
BAT
AMEACHI ........ May the best man wins

I pray for peace, love and unity In the land

Reno and his wahala sha

The man don sabi how to get Igbo attention

In Luke 14:31 Christ asked if a king with 10,000 soldiers can defeat another king with 20,000 troops?

If the All Progressives Congress gives Bola Tinubu their ticket, as is likely to happen, the Peoples Democratic Party should be mindful of the fact that Kano alone delivered 2 million votes during the 2019 election, while the entire Southeast delivered 2.09 million. Do the math and stop sniffing meth!

Refusing to work with political realities, and instead building castles in the air won’t get anyone anywhere anytime soon. Face cold hard facts. If Tinubu emerges in the APC, NOBODY among those who have SO FAR declared in the South can defeat him for the PDP.

Sentiments are not good substitutes for strategy. If we want these realities to change, we must learn from the Northwest and the Northeast. This Ramadan, do you see them traveling? On Sallah, they also don’t travel. But for voter registration or election, they MUST travel. We travel for Christmas, but not for voter registration or election. And we want to win elections? Ko le werk!

I have the voter turnout numbers of EVERY LGA in Nigeria from 2019. I see elections from a statistical and scientific point of view. The SE has the highest Twitter and online turnout in the nation, but the lowest voter turnout during voter registration and election!

#TableShaker

Lalasticlala

Wish you the best PO

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Prison Break
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FG no pay me my balance up till now yeye fifu mtchew

This is beyond me but wait

eziemich:
Though I'm not a film freak but so far I've watched films 24HRS JACK BAUER is the best season films ever in this world.

You’re a comrade

If not 24 hours-Jack Bauer it ain’t shit

I watched the Live performance, he’s truly an African Giant

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