₦airaland Forum

oloriooko:
Am I the only one experiencing this? The rate at which I experience power failure along airport road in Abuja is alarming these past few weeks.

You can only boast of few hours of power supply in a day compared to last quarter of 2014 when we almost had uninterrupted power supply.

Please is it only me or others are in my shoes too?
Why?

Jonathanian lying does not last. They have stolen all the power generation money. This government only added about 1000Mw to the grid in six years and that was gas fired thermal power which is unreliable. GEJ himself is not planning to relocate to Otuoke, recall that Obasanjo relocated to Otta, IBB and Abdusalami are in Minna so if GEJ runs to Equitorial Guinea, Gabon or South Africa, this will be height of uselessness.

'President' is a life time title. There is no ex President of the US as a title but calling a former military head of state president means the children have gotten the CHANGE bug and we need to give them what they need.

National conference is a big SCAM. You have a National Assembly you are doing National conference. Clueless, locally minded President and his Yoruba friends confusing him. The National Assembly can restructure Nigeria anyway they want, they are duly elected representatives of the people, the only problem is CORRUPTION and people selling their tribes and ethnic nationalities for a mess of porridge in Abuja. PIB is in the cooler, Revenue reform to give Niger Delta 50% or more of their resources was not even considered by the fake National conference yet you had a Niger Delta president wearing bowler and smilling fake smiles at the DUMB people supporting him.

Everybody's anger is directed at another ethnic group instead of the thieves is office stealing from our unborn children.

Flets:
Rubbish... seems the twitter mallam found time outside his campaign schedule

Even if Muazu leaves today.... there is no stopping GEJ.
Its that settled.

There's no stopping GEJ's home bound trip to Otuoke. Everybody is getting very ANGRY with this man. Meanwhile money is being stolen alarmingly all converted to dollars. Who would take bribe in dollars from a sitting president if not someone who wants to cut and run. The external reserves lost another $3B-) last week. Keep praising GEJ if you advertising your own share if you are not, you are a slowpoke.

sunayo:
I just watched the chairman of Labour party, the 4th largest party in Nigeria as he declared the adoption of GEJ as the party candidate. I think it's game over for Buhari. So many things have changed since the postponement. Take a look: List of parties who have adopted GEJ.

1. APGA
2.SDP
3.UPN
4.Labour party
5. Accord Party
Etc.
Endorement:
Afenifere and almost all Obas in SouthWest.
OPC
Ohaneze
Tricycle and Motorcycle Operators nation wide.
Market women
PFN
Ijaw nation
Nollywood
Sports Men and women. Their rally was great last Saturday.
Etc.

Boko Haram being decimated.
Patience reaching to women nation wide.
Foriegners with PVCs being arrested.
More APC members decamping to PDP.
More people from GEJ stronghold getting PVCs

GEJ has gained more momentum while GMB hyped campaign has greatly dwindled.

This is self deceit of the highest order. Patience and Jonathan have only annoyed the undecideds in the last four weeks. Jonathan knows he has lost the elections and he might postpone it. In the last week before elections the big APC guns will come out and the North will show its true colours.

Billyonaire:
Hate writing. How can a people harbor such hatred in their hearts and still sleep at night ? Someone needs a real job.

Jonathan is actually very annoying. Only those who don't know anything think he is any good. If you are well educated, lived abroad or a little exposed the mediocrity of this nonentity in Aso Rock hits you. It cannot be hidden, it is ingrained.

vjsmiles:
that is pure balderdash
gej being factional....

GEJ took five months to fire Stella Oduah, more than six months to negotiate with ASUU but he was fast to remove Agwai. Any young person voting for this administration is a disgrace to his generation. GEJ is decades more conservative and jaded than Buhari. A complete retrogressive. This sack will have serious electoral consequences for this administration.

Hysmady:
Jonasamboribo...Something he should have done for long...
Watta insensitivity

No serious country keeps a regular Joe like Jonathan as President for very long. Every thing justbsimply slides and abominations become commonplace. It would not have made a difference if Boko Haram had started from Bayelsa carelessness becomes the man.

Scholes007:
my friend GEJ will win states like benue,kogi,kwara,nassarawa and plateau...as for SW keep living your world of illusion until it clears from you eye...without doubts GEJ will take south west forget about the noice online#QUOTE ME AFTER MARCH 28*

Ha ha ha. GEJ to win Kwara, Kogi, Nasarawa and Benue. ....Why? . Because they have to hate "northern hausa-fulani muslims' because Igbo and Niger delta people hate them. This Nigerian politics is very interesting. People are just sitting down and imagining eldorado for their own political side without even injecting a dose of reality.

Long live Nigeria Army, short live GEJ administration

oduastates:
He should stop wasting his time.
PDP will never win in lagos.

This man (Jimi Agbaje) is two times more popular than Ambode in Lagos and might win the governorship. What I am sure of however is that Jimi Agbaje does not have the energy and executive ability to run Lagos. Lagos is more complex and difficult to run than three quarters of the all countries in Africa. It is perhaps more difficult to run than New York city and New York State. APC made three big mistakes in Lagos the biggest being Tinubu led cronyism and corruption yet compared with what they have achieved I wonder if they should be rewarded with defeat. Yet Ambode himself might come in and chop all the remaining money...it is very dicey in Lagos.

slimfit1:
We need simple leaders until we get one from the youths GMB till 2019. We talk about why this old man but forget to ask what the current governors have done to be put into the position. People say Fashola, ask Fashola where #35 billion is going every month.
Ask Fashola why 70% of the schools in Lagos don't even look like a toilet not to talk of class rooms.

Ask Fashola why some roads have never seen gravel for 8 years ?

Ask Fashola why the only departments working in our hospitals are only the mortuaries ?

Ask Fashola why all the councillors and chairmen in Lagos have expensive houses in London.

Fashola is good but not good enough but better than majority of the governors. My teacher use to tell me what ever is worth doing is worth doing well not half way or cosmetics style.

You have hit the nail on the head and this was how I put it some weeks back. Most people who ask you why Buhari, why not Fashola are usually PDP supporters from the SE/SS. They are SCARED of this man Buhari like the devil is scared Jesus Christ. It is deep seated mortal unreasoning fear. They pull the "young, smart, performing" Fashola name out of the hat to provide some moral backing to the fear and dread they have of the Buhari integrity and what it means for their candidate..I think fear should be faced because it provides for growth. Fashola is not ready, he did not stand up to Tinubu and that is the difference. At the end of the day, politics is about deep strong convictions about what is right. That is the weakness of all these young Turks people are throwing up. The worst in this area is Jonathan the PDP candidate, that is one wishy washy, no gravitas, no depth, no ideology, cash and carry politician without vision. No matter how much he pretends or his handlers coach him he is easy to read like a book and most intelligent Nigerians who don't have complexes have read him clearly.

coolscott:
I may understand what they are saying but I think they are using the term "brain death" wrongly.
Retired Gen. Buhari may not be as sharp as he was when younger (actually, he may be slowing) but that is not really brain death.
By the way, I do not support Buhari. I am pro PDP for the presidential elections.

Brain dead means NOT ALIVE. This statement is the two hundred and twenty-first sign that Patience was not properly educated by her teachers in school which interestingly included the President himself some years ago. However if what she meant was "brain not functioning properly" the you have to accept that is not true. Nigeria's old generals don't have slow brains. Are Obj, IBB, Gowon and Abdusalami brain deficient?, No. Indeed it is Jonathan himself who was flinching before Amanpour of CNN and dumbs down every interview that is intellectually lazy By trying to vindicate Patience Jonathan, FFK a product of very high quality UK education has proven again that everyone has something chasing him and if that thing is strong enough, then a weak character might turn himself to a prostitute without knowing it.

This Hennessey, Moet and Charndon speaking.

tociano009:
Rafia onigari

Momi Oloole is funny (that is an ancient name for moi moi maker/seller)
Alao Alawin is downright rebellious. (Alao..who is always buying on credit, that fact has been turned to his I'D).
Akanke Alakara Eebo (cake baker/confectioner), this one brings the house down.

datibo:
It wil surprise u guys that gmb wil not get up to 5% of southeast n south south votes. 4get al d noise. The only people that wud vote 4 gmb is rochas n his family, and then amaechi and his family. Apc wont even get up to 20percent vote in edo. And i have to also say this,d reason most yorubas are voting 4 buhari isnt because jonathan hasnt done to well, its because they feel jonathan is using igbos more instead of them n this scratches their body in envy,n also because of osinbajo. Deep down dey know this,but they will nt always want to admit.u free to insult me but thats d truth.

Imo State and parts of Ebonyi don't follow stereotypical Igbo tendencies. The Anambra commercially driven political tendency which has driven SE politics for long has always been actively resisted in the region even now more so. When you say 5% for Buhari you are putting your own emotions into things

Nigeria is getting highly urbanized so there is no point using geo political zones alone in determining the elections.The elections will be decided in the cities. I will leave out SE, SS, NW and NE out of this analysis.

I will concentrate on swing state cities (please don't use the word battle ground states, it is very shallow).
The cities are in the SW, NC and in Abuja and we have mainly businessmen, government workers, large corporation/bank workers, universities et.c.. These states don't have a big tribal axe to grind as in the SE, SS and NE and NW.
Please don't forget there has never been a composite northern candidate like Buhari, the man is both Fulani and Kanuri from both sides of his parenthood, which is an unbelievably powerful combination. Also Jonathan casts a profile that an Igbo person, a South South person and some Efik/Ibiobio groups would readily identify with.

So back to the 'neutral' cities, the following broad demographics are clear.
Young Urban fresh graduate workers
Young urban established professionals
Young urban self employed
Middle aged graduate workers
Middle aged established workers.
Middle aged self employed.

This is how I see it playing out in these cities e.g Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja, Jo's, Makurdi, Abeokuta, Benin, Ondo, Okene, et.c

Young Urban fresh graduate workers. Buhari 70%: Jonathan 30%
Young urban established professionals. Buhari 60%: Jonathan 40%
Young urban self employed. Buhari 35%: Jonathan 65%
Middle aged graduate workers. Buhari 80%: Jonathan 20%
Middle aged established Professionals. Buhari 55%: Jonathan 45%
Middle aged self employed. Buhari 40% : Jonathan 60%

This is Jonathan's big problem. The voters who don't have the capacity to like him are many. NW, NE and parts of SW. The voters who like him are few - SS, SE and parts of NC and For the people who are neutral (not undecided mind you, just neutral) he has annoyed the gentle hard working struggling city dwellers through unbelievable corruption in government, weakness in fighting insecurity and kow towing to billionaire traders masquerading as industrialists.

otr1:
To even think that he was a former Dep. Governor, a Former Governor, and a Former Vice President beats my imagination. The man has a dangerous psychological problem. An inexplicable combination of complexes.
I really don't know how people manage to work for him. Low IQ, low self-esteem. Spend a minute with him and you'd see what I'm talking about. SMH

Some young fools in the SE and Niger Delta almost swear by this Clueless man and I always have a question for them ; was this how Ojukwu or Ironsi were?. What of the great Zik of Africa?
Compare these three great men with this nonentity and tell me you are proud.

Nigeria's current GDP growth leading to being rebased Africa's largest economy was Obj's doing as well. He achieved this mainly through three things
1. GSM. This alone improved economic growth by 5%.
2. Active personally led economic diplomacy ttsvelling round the world camvassing for invedtments and the financial sector revamp with Okonjo Iweala and Soludo.
3. Revamp of revenue generating NPA, NAA and NRC. NPA quietly contributes about $3bn to Nigeria every year and the Railway
s is actually the slowest to develop of all government assets. The NRC revsmp actually started then.

SeverusSnape:
Goat, Buhari is an illiterate.
Fayose is Buhari's nightmare rather.

Somebody is annoying silent NEUTRAL voters and you are saying he is Buhari 's nightmare. I have never seen a country where people refuse to vote for someone because on the grounds of age he might die before the opponent. All old US presidents have lived many years after office and the young one like Kennedy dies.in it.
In any case for saying Buhari will die and Patience calling him dead brain, expect exactly 5% votes for Jonathan in the North. PVCs speak louder than words.

fitzmayowa:
I never knew 75% of nigerians made you their spokesperson...

Back to topic its hard to say, the election could go either way...IMO

This is diplomateese for saying the incumbent will lose the election.

GMB is winning by a wide margin.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
and ya feel a man wifout a wassce certificate can do better , ya wisdom is fast depleting!

Are we talking about WASC, the certificate that produced uneducated PhD holders. A certificate that produced Patience Jonathan, you know where to shove that worthless paper no university respects.

Pure and simple truth.
What every Nigerian should do is try to chop PDP's money and vote for Buhari at the elections. Good luck is an EXPIRED commodity. We have seen his best and his worst. His best is not good enough and his worst is too bad
He has disgraced Nigeria so much and that will take many years alone to correct.

SeverusSnape:
Hehehehehehehehehehe....Let them come and blame Jonathan.

He is to blame. Jonathan was born into fear, lives in fear, was afraid to take over after Yaradua be cause of fear and will not allow this election to happen because of fear. Almost certain that he will cause confusion that will make elections impossible and destroy his credibility and name for his children because of fear of losing the elections.

ozoigbondu:
Those that died in the hands of boko haram will be avenged.Their blood will not be spilt in vain.They will be avenged with as many heads of buharis children as possible and will be dotted with sheaku head.Only the weak and cowardly attack the weak

Another good Job from chad

#NeverAgain shall we allow a coup plotter who destroyed our democracy to contest for a democratic election
#NeverAgain shall we go backward rather than MARCHing FORWARD
#NeverAgain shall we be deceived by the numerous APC propaganda
#NeverAgain shall we lose hope in our beloved country Nigeria
#NeverAgain shall we lose faith in our military due to APC lies

Never Again!

God Bless Nigeria!
God Bless the Millitary
God Bless Goodluck

This is PATHETIC. You are praising the weakest, cowardliest and most corrupt President Nigerian has ever seen. Ordinary Chad is invading Nigeria. Shame upon the waterside PRESIDENT. I have said it many times that Nigeria's Niger delta cannot survive two months on its own. Cameroon, Equitorial Guinea and Gabon will forcefully conquer and enslave the people and divide up the country amongst themselves.

anonimi:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2057796_buhl_jpeg03e3e6ee2267e7a75623ff5297fa1adb

You are a complete illiterate.

16. Iran
to where?

10. Spain

WE WILL NOT VOTE FOR GEJ.

Ojukwu was older, richer and more educated. The funny thing is he would have gotten on better with Buhari if je had been alive than this bloody civilian clueless Jonathan.