₦airaland Forum

OAUTemitayo: Liar.

Bros that is exaggeration( I don't lie), it is actually 1.6 trillion Naira (1.2 tillion + billions of NAIRA)and spent a total of 3. somthing tirllion naira during his adminitration

ntyce: I agree with you on the stoppage of construction, that is one of my grievance with him. He started one work too many at the same time. he needs serious funding for those roads. All construction activities have stopped in Abk except for Iyana mortuary bridge.

As per salary bro, since inception he has been paying on time. Don't say things yu can't substantiate. Only played politics with the payment of 13th month salary.

He should just follow his Lagos counterpart by borrowing 4.7 trillion Naira abi

ntyce: Soofi, what did you write here?
we know ur type, you stay in the corner of ur apartment in the UK/USA and drop incendiaries when there is no need.
Imagine saying Lp/pdp/accord . have you seen any accord party logo in Ogun state?
bros, move to another topic, you know jack about Ogun State.

uk/usa . well shebi na how you talk for Ekiti, make we they watch na

Hamazz1: n wht has pdp offered 4all d donkey yrs it has ruled ds country..

Who are the people that have ruled this country ?

Obasanjo and Atiku both are now members of APC so get your facts right

Abbycite: Osoba first tenure is preferable to Amosun's..... But if u mean, Osoba coming back to govern d state, am sorry......he belong to d past!

Very interesting, good insight as well. Hope PDP/LP/ACCORD present credible candidates

ntyce: I used to give you some regards b4 but ur posts this morning shows how myopic you are.
Bro, I reside in Ogun state, shuttle btwn Abeokuta and Ijebu. You know nothing about Ogun state politics.
No traditional ruler will ever support Daniel, he desecrated the Obas while he was in power.
Osoba will rather support Amosun than join forces with Daniel.
Obasanjo is very very relevant in Ogun, Egba people love and respect him.

The PDP and LP stand a better chance without Daniel than with Daniel in their team.

Also, OGD is 20ce worse than Tinubu. He can't be trusted with half of the power Tinubu has right now, he will overuse it.
.His reign as governor was filled with rituals, bloodletting, corruption, impunity and lies.

I don't think you have any brain in your head . Where did I say Oba or Alake will support Daniel ?

You truly understand the problem of Nigeria.

When a man like buhari (71) and Atiku(69) what power desperately, A man like Tinubu (62 yrs and he is actually way older because his real name yekini is 69) are still holding this country. When likes of Obasanjo another APC member and Annieh pdp are still in control of this nation then there is a problem with the youths. These people are unwilling to leave space for the next generation

Youths that have been paid to lies to other gullible youths likes themselves.

Abbycite: Am so tired of dis Amosun administration....... I can't endure another four years of dis man in power. PDP/APC/LP/PPN should just present a credible candidate, and we are good to go!

I think Osoba is not bad. Whats your thought on that ?

Donfox2: I have realised that amongst 2 evils, one is still better.Atiku might have stolen but, he has balls. GEJ has stolen more than Atiku yet, hes got no balls. He is as clueless as a primary school student trying to solve a university mathematics would look. GEJ has no idea of what he is doing except that he wants to sit in Aso rock.GEJ is so gutless and confused i am embarassed to hv supported him.Truth be told, Atiku would have been by far a better president than gudluck will ever be and lest I forget, those saying Buhari, wake up!!. A leopard never changes its skin colour. A religious fanatic like him cannot be given the presidency.it would be National suicide

This is shocking

Nairalanders have gone mad See people defending ATIKU Chai !

customized13: yes, he owes them a lot. Shun what your see on TV and let's face reality.

Also Ajimobi

You have a very valid question there. What is the point.

Was Lekki-epe built by LASG or a private company ?

enkay4love: Why can't Nigerians ever learn their political lessons? Is it not this Bankole man that once looted billions from the coffers of House of Reps during his time as speaker? & now some clueless misfits are endorsing his gubernatorial candidatureship.I love my country & I luv being Nigerian,but our political system is just a mess.

No one is supporting Bankole. PDP should just present a credible candidate.

Orunto: Among humans and in Nigeria now GEJ is the best but I AM THAT I AM IS THE CHOICE!

GEJ is not the best. truth be told GEJ can only be considered the best among the aspirant

a Fashola president will finish GEJ but will APC give him the ticket ? NO

OAUTemitayo: Mr. Man, What makes you think the Alake of Egbaland will support OGD against Amosun?
The same OGD that nearly dethroned him because he complained about the roads in Abeokuta?
Osoba loved by Ogun state Indigines?
No wonder he cannot win his re-election in 2003.
You dont know anything about Ogun state politics.
TAN money has stuffed out the sense in your head

Currently Osoba has the APC party structure in Ogun

Alaka of Egba was OPENLY INSULTED BY THE APC NATIONAL LEADER

Osoba is way preferred than Amosun, go an write it down.

ba7man: Gov Babatunde Raji Fashola.

Nuff said.

I actually support this but he needs to drop his liability of a god father

Naavah: Don't mind him. I prefer OGD to this Tinubu's world. We r tired of aMosun's govt here.

I know a lot of them will not believe that APC has under performed and have liabilities like Atiku, Buhari and Tinubu on their team.

They deceive themselves so much that they believe their own lies. They have given the victory to PDP without them even knowing.

customized13: Both amosun and daniel are hated in ogun state, unless a credible candidate who will be loved by the masses emerges will PDP try to win.

But Osoba is loved by the majority of Ogun state indigenes

Couple with HID Awolowo and Alake of Egba. It is a sure defeat of APC

Obasanjo is not loved in Ogun remember

2cato: I know most of the governors are hoping that the BH will give gej bad name so that APC will coast to victory.

God bless you

You understand clearly what is going on

estyvino: His! right. The entire south governors should be proactive security wise, especially now that they are all on the run, hence; Nigerian Army is winning the war against boko haram.

How can they be active then they are sponsoring it ?

arsetalks: just as you all prefer Bode George. It is not knew, corrupt people thrive under GEJ.

I insist Daniel is an idioot. A proper one.

Again a million Bode George over Tinubu.

I don't think you know the level of corruption going on in Lagos state

It is monumental !

Although Gbenga is not a credible person as he is one and the same with those that destroyed this country

martins0: Who evens wants an Atiku for president?

APC corrupt members of course

arsetalks: He is not running. PDP is reportedly forming an alliance with him so the iidiot's supporters can vote for whoever PDP present.

why insult them

We will prefer a million Gbenga daniel to Tinubu so you are the iddioot here.

sexyseun: OGD Again? Can one run for governorship as many times as possible? Because gbenga daniels did two tenure as a governor of ogun state

They didn't ask him to run but to support PDP thats all

The reality is that with Tinubu still in APC, APC is going down in the SW starting with Ekiti because APC has nothing to offer us.

egift: It is a known fact. Just search on Google for - Association of Witches and Wizards of Nigeria - in fact they are more into politics than sorcery

LOOOOL Nigerian politics sha !

God bless Femi

This is the undiluted truth.

By Femi Aribisala

To be truly progressive, the APC must not just talk progressivism, it must walk progressivism.
The fact that Nigeria is a country with some 350 ethnic groups makes it imperative that we must always be politically mindful of ethnic, religious and regional considerations. Failure to do this on the idealistic grounds that the quality of our public officials is more important than their ethnic and religious origin is bound to be problematic.

Nigerians are yet to believe, if we ever will, that the competence of a president is more important than his ethnicity. In any case, the background of a president is without prejudice to his ability. There is no ethnic group in Nigeria that does not have people who can be excellent presidents. However, if issues of federal character and ethnic-balancing are not addressed in Nigerian politics, even the best presidential materials will become ineffective.

The average Nigerian is not a sophisticated voter. Therefore, people like me will continue to analyse Nigerian politics from the perspective of the need for regional and ethnic-balancing.
Northern agenda
The APC is seen as a vehicle for Northern domination of Nigerian politics and many people are implacably opposed to this. Although the APC claims not to subscribe to zoning, everyone knows its 2015 presidential candidate must come from the North, otherwise the centre will no longer hold. Certainly, all those insisting the North must regain power have flocked to the APC precisely because they see it as the vehicle for realizing their dreams.

There is also widespread perception that the APC is sympathetic to the Boko Haram. Fani-Kayode, a former APC member, complained that the APC is the political wing of the Boko Haram in the same way that Sinn Fein was the political wing of the Irish Republican Army in Britain. Indeed, for the longest time, some APC members were Boko Haram apologists. Murtala Nyako even claimed the Boko Haram was a Southern hoax. He called it a “phantom.” Muhammadu Buhari sought political amnesty for the Boko Haram; demanding the insurgents should be given the same golden handshakes as the militants of the Niger Delta.

Therefore, it will not be easy getting non regionally-chauvinistic votes for a Northern APC presidential candidate in 2015. If that Northerner is a Muslim, it would be harder still. The Boko Haram insistence that Nigeria must become a Muslim Caliphate and the systematic bombing of churches and killing of Christians in the North ensures that religion will be a major factor in the coming election.
Southern strategy

While Muslims may have no qualms voting for a Christian president, Christians are likely to see the defeat of an incumbent Christian president by a Northern Muslim as succumbing to Boko Haram. That feeling is unlikely to be assuaged by a Southern Christian vice-president, in the same way that the demands of some Northerners for a Northern president have not been assuaged by the fact that the current vice-president is from the North.

The blunder of Atiku Abubakar in stating that the North will not be voting for President Jonathan in 2015 betrays the Northern bias of the APC. If the North will not be voting for a Southern candidate, why would the South vote for a Northern candidate?

A Southern Christian presidential running-mate in 2011, in the person of Pastor Tunde Bakare, did not help Buhari, who remains a hard sell in the South. Buhari was only able to muster a measly 391,922 votes from the South, out of a total of over 38 million votes cast nationwide. That is conclusive proof that fielding Buhari yet again as the Northern presidential hopeful, on a fourth time lucky gambit, is bound to fail. Chances are Buhari would get even less votes this time out than he did in 2011.

The challenge for the APC is to get Southerners to vote for a Northern APC presidential candidate in 2015, in spite of the current regional and religious polarization of Nigerian politics.

The APC desperately needs a Southern politician to balance its Northern presidential ticket. However, such politician cannot come from the South-East or the South-South.

In spite of the presence of men like Rochas Okorocha of the South-East, and Rotimi Amaechi of the South-South, the APC has little chance of getting significant South-East and South-South votes. These geopolitical zones remain Jonathan strongholds. Their voters are not likely to agree to truncate Jonathan’s South-South presidency in exchange for a Northern president and a South-South or South-East vice-presidency. If APC is to get vital Southern votes in 2015, the answer lies in the South-West; a region of residual APC/ACN political strength.
Game-changer

The APC needs a vice-presidential candidate with sufficient political clout to galvanise South-West votes. There is only one man in South-West politics today that can conceivably marshal bloc South-West votes for the APC in 2015. That man is none other than Babatunde Fashola! As far as the APC is concerned, Fashola is the game-changer!

This truth will be very bitter for die-hard Tinubu supporters. But the fact is that Fashola, and not Tinubu, is now the poster-boy for the APC in the South-West. In spite of having the second-largest bloc of voters among the six regions in the country, the South-West had the least number of voters in 2011. Only 34% of the South-West’s 14 million voters bothered to vote. Fashola could conceivably invigorate South-West voters in a way no other politician currently on the horizon can.

Fashola as APC vice-presidential candidate will do for a Northern candidate what Bakare could not do for Buhari in 2011; he will clean up South-West votes. If nothing else, Fashola has a legacy of eight years of tarring roads, building bridges and planting grass and flowers in Lagos. Moreover, he does not come with the political baggage of Bola Tinubu, who has become a political liability, even in the South-West.
Unlike Tinubu, Fashola has not antagonized the Afenifere and the Yoruba Obas. Indeed, the coming regional elections in the South-West are shaping out to be as much about the need to bring an end to the domineering politics of Tinubu as anything else. With Tinubu on the ticket, allegations of certificate forgeries, inordinate land-grabs, nepotism, alpha beta scams, toll-gate deals and anti-democratic manipulations will come to the fore. Therefore, in contrast to Tinubu, Fashola is a breath of fresh air.

Neutralisation of Tinubu
A Fashola vice-presidency would have the added political bonus of spelling the end of the political pretensions of Bola Tinubu in the South-West. Vice-president Fashola will quickly upstage “party leader” Tinubu. A Fashola vice-presidency would mean, to all intents and purposes, the passing of the baton from Tinubu to Fashola. It would spell the end of the self-appointed “godfather” of South-West politics. Therefore, Tinubu can be expected to say to a Fashola vice-presidency: “over my dead body!”

But the fact of the matter is that the APC only has a chance in the coming presidential election “over the dead body” of Tinubu. Tinubu must be marginalized in any marketable APC equation. Any attempt to accommodate him inordinately, as happened in the rigging of Oyegun as party chairman with the collusion of APC governors, will turn far more ugly and disastrous for the party than it was the last time. To have any reasonable chance of success nationally, APC must have a viable South-West policy. That means its presidential ticket must be built around one man: Babatunde Fashola.

Fashola as APC vice-presidential candidate would be a stroke of genius for the APC in addressing yet another liability of the party: its widespread perception as a Muslim party. This perception has come about because Bola Tinubu’s ACN never ever fielded a non-Muslim candidate as the governor of any South-Western state. When the APC registered as a political party with INEC, 17 of its 18 board-members were Muslims. For months until recently, all members of the APC national executive were Muslims. Foolishly, the APC even rationalized its earlier plans for a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket on the pages of the newspapers.

However, the vice-presidential candidacy of Babatunde Fashola would prescribe a Northern Christian as APC presidential candidate, for the simple reason that Fashola is a Muslim. The emergence of a Northern Christian as APC presidential candidate would open many doors closed to the APC politically. In one fell swoop, it would dispel all notions that the APC is the political arm of the Boko Haram because the last thing the Boko Haram want is a Christian president.
Changing of the guard
APC fools no one by talking power shift and then touting people like Buhari and Kwankwaso as its presidential hopefuls. How does another Hausa-Fulani president of Nigeria speak power-shift? This is Atiku’s bargaining-chip; that power needs to shift from the North-West and the North-Central to the North-East. Unfortunately, apart from supposedly having a fat war-chest, Atiku is not sell-able as president of Nigeria. He has tried before and failed woefully. In any case, Atiku is a Muslim. There is need for power shift in the North from Moslems to Christians in defiance of Boko Haram threats.

A Northern Christian as APC presidential candidate will achieve this. It will make the party more attractive in the predominantly Christian South, where voters may be dissuaded from voting for a Northern Muslim president in this era of Boko Haram insurgency. It will also open the APC to Northern Christian votes which might not be forthcoming otherwise. It must be pointed out that there are far more Christians in the North than many realise. Adamawa, Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau and Taraba all have majority Christian populations; while Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, Kogi, Kwara and Niger have significant Christian populations.
For the APC to have even a look-in in the coming presidential elections against an entrenched PDP, it needs a fresh slate from the political has-beens of Atiku, Buhari and Kwankwaso that it is still currently touting as its presidential hopefuls today. To be truly progressive, the APC must not just talk progressivism, it must walk progressivism. A Northern Christian presidential candidate will definitely give political backbone to APC’s progressive pretensions; neutralising the damage done by its earlier suicidal plans for a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/northern-christian-presidential-candidate-apc/#sthash.7Eul31mK.dpuf