obynzo:


That's a lie he is even the worst right now because Nigeria is broke there is no free money from oil sales and we are knee deep in debt. a sensible president will cut spending reduce tax to encourage businesses to set up and lift people from poverty so that taxation can be reintroduced. But your man's response is cliche. widen the tax net so that more people will pay tax, people that are already impoverished abi. The same template being used now and they are introducing parking levies in Lagos because income tax is dwindling because companies and SMEs are closing down in Lagos so to raise money they come up with this tax and expect more because Lagos needs to service it's huge debts that is hard to explain based on the projects on ground. That is what your man wants to do at the center.

If Lagos are over taxed in your own opinion, why do you think Lagos witness daily population surge from other states ?

Femiwilli:
I support Wike.
Those Northerners feel they can push the south around.

Well Wike is one southerner they can't push around.

Wike will help the Cameroonian remain in dubai,after all we are tired of foreigners ruling us.
I mean look at what the man from Niger Republic did to Nigeria

The northerners are not the problem but we the southerners. Imagine that SS/SE governors could stand thieir ground as Wike is doing, there is no way Atiku could have emerged a PDP flag bearer. Atiku ticket is southerner ticket he hijacked and that i why Wike is angry. Every southerner with a sense of dignity should be angry at it too.

Obi has not said any thing new in his speech. Since the advent of democracy in 1999, these same talk has been branded by every political aspirants even at the gubernatorial level. He should just tell us what he was able to achieve while he was a governor for 8 solid years in Anambra most especially the intangible assets he highlighted in his speech. As a democrat, did he deepen democratic ethos at the local level, how did he treat oppositions and how peaceful was his reign? How was the rule of law, access to justice, environmental issues etc tackled while holding forth as governor ? We are interested in his past records to make a decision if he really merit our votes or not

Zonefree:
This man is too fresh and decent for Nigeria.

Nigerians are the luckiest to have a personality like Greg Obi to Preside over them.

Pls stop this joke. May God forbid that Obi win the presidency of Nigeria. It will be too calamitous for a know thief, serial lier and corrupt person to ascend the topmost position in the country

Honjoshy4u:
The North is seriously aligning as usual.
Tinubu will be thrown under the bus.
Shekarau will fully take over the structure.
Power belongs to the people

Coward! You guys are pitiable soul. Tunubu this, Tunubu that. Do campaign and pray for your man to win instead of bordering yourself with Asiwaju. I am Tunubu man to the core and I will really feel very sad should Atiku win (God forbid) the presidency.

ambale:
Exercise in futility

The APC shot itself in the foot by rendering their own government incapable when they could not find just one single cabinet member to run for the post of the presidency, it showed how unprepared they are for governance

And our jolly man, will just be gallivanting upandan

Who among them is better than the nominated aspirant?
Asiwaju towers them all. Your hatred for him has influenced your mind

Arrant nonsense. These thieves will cratfully justify theivy and incompetency. This government is a fraud

A befitting message to a great Nigerian by our vintage Jagaban, the incoming president of Federal Republic of Nigeria

TONYE001:


Maybe we should focus on PO... By the way, is Shettima now the presidential candidate of the APC?

Just to play along your deviation tactic: Thank God for NBA. We SAW Shettima and PO on the same stage. I honestly don't believe Shettima's performance was up to half of PO's.

What is the level of your understanding to comprehend and evaluate, dissect and come to a reasonable conclusions?

That is Indigbo for you. Very tribalistic, ethnocentric and self centred people. Even in the house of God, this their evil nature is not hidden. There was a time Abia governor sacked non indigenes (Igbo people) in their workforce not minding these staff were born and raised in the state. Obi did that while he was a governor. Most of the stuffs and opportunities they enjoy in the west, north and other regions can hardly been extended to other tribes in their localities.
I really pity some Yoruba, Edo, Calabar, Ebira etc people ignorantly shouting Obidient up and down. I will recommend them to visit Obi business places (Fidelity bank, Next shopping mall) and quickly survey the staff composition, you will see from the gate to the top level staff are all his people. That should tell you the mindset of Mr Obi who want to be your president.

franchasofficia:
If Bola Tinubu mistakenly wins 2023 Presidential election, his boys will kill Nigerians with heavy taxation.



In fact Nigerians will start payint tax to walk on the road.



Now don't get me wrong, proper taxation is good as it can help a nation generate enough money to build needed infrastructures and give out social services to the citizens, but where Tinubu's taxation policy is bad is the sense that they will tax Nigerians and share and loot it for their personal use.



All the tax they are collecting in Lagos, still a megacity like Lagos state doesn't have city metro, more than 70% of Lagos is a slum. Majority of intra city roads in Lagos mainland are completed worn out and now deathtraps, no drainage systems causing serious flooding whenever it rains in Lagos.


Poor city planning.


LASTMA will collect fines from motorists and share!


KAI will collect from traders and share among themselves.


LIRS will collude with business owners to split their actual tax, so they can pay 30% to Lagos state government and then loot 20%.



A vote for Tinubu is a vote for continuation of massive looting of public funds in Nigeria!



Say no to chop I chop government! Nigeria is bleeding we need to close all leakages and plan for the future of Nigeria

What's this one saying ? Ignorant us a disease. What set Lagos apart from other state save her tax system. Nigeria will never move forward unless it develops a robust taxing system

Zonefree:
How the Yorubas ditched refined man like Osibanjo for crook Tinubu is beyond human comprehension. So much for sophistication

Tunubu is simply the best among the aspirants but a dull and envious Igbos guys like u can't comprehend, besides Tunubu was nominated not by the yorubas but by national delegates Easterners inclusive, get that to your brain

MadeInTokyo:
Reality is dawning on Tinubu and his Strategists that Tinubu can not win the North.
Atiku will pull the highest number of votes in the entire North, now Tinubu is running Helter skelter seeking alliance with Kwankwaso and Shekarau in the North in order to neaturalize Atiku's votes in the North.
If Tinubu lose the North which will inevitably happen , it is bye bye and game over to Tinubu Presidential ambition, as only south west block votes will not be enough for him to overcome Atiku's vote tally in the North, as the stubbornly unrepentant pro PDP south South and South East zones are a no go area for Tinubu and APC right from time and now based on the Muslim Muslim ticket
Hate it or Love it, The Muslim Muslim ticket was a political suicide and political own goal scored by Tinubu, thinking the Northerners will rally behind him. Tinubu and his Strategists mistook the political and religious dynamics in Nigeria today with that of 1992 when MKO Abiola ran on Muslim Muslim ticket
Where are those Confused political naive Tinubu zombies, they should keep on dreaming and hallucinating that Tinubu will get more votes than Atiku in the North

Mr man, talk of your own presidential candidate and not bothering yourself with APC and Tunubu. It's that simple

Dcaliphate:
The ibos Nigerians keep putting down are the only ones that can save them. If una like make una vote tinubu or atiku, na una go still suffer am.

Everyone knows PO is the best candidate and its the time for the SE to rule but this money politics here is blinding them, till another 8yrs of suffering that may end Nigeria na when una eye go clear.

Some of you here supporting APC for presidency may not be alive to see the end of the Tenure you want to vote in. Save yourself. Take back Nigeria. Do the right thing.

What's this one saying? Typical IGBO arrogance and empty foolish pride. Why didn't your governors liberate ýour region first b4 they liberate the whole country? Tell me any outstanding administrators igbo has produced ever. Nonsense

Aderewah:
Lol. The obidense movement will die a natural death in February

You are wrong my friend, Obidense will not die but will metamorphosis to their formal identity: IPOB & UGM and start their carnage and noise again

Another polticians to follow suit will be Chinedu Austin, then Ikechuckwu Tim, Dimgba Igwe, Ugafor John, etc

Kwipay:
Wike will obviously loose his relevance in the Niger Delta because of this selfish move. He wants to dime with the enemy of his people and still expect them to love him.

Note my word, Wike relevance will end after he leaves office, nobody will even reason him matter just like Uduaghan of Delta State. This man just shot himself on the foot for cheap pride.








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I salute Wike courage unlike the governors and people of certain region always displaying courage but are weakling inside. How on earth they allow Atiku picked PDP ticket is still a wonder to me and I can't understand

Typical Igbo complex. He never bowed down for his father while alive and other Igbo leaders like late Ojukwu & Co but can bow for a Fulani man, what a slavish mentality. Nnamdi Kanu, what do you have to say to this?

Prinxzona10:
Even the atheists would testify that what's happening in Nigeria concerning Peter Obi's presidency is divine and anybody that tries to stop it,would be consumed...
The unseen powerful forces are behind Peter Obi buh the lunatics can still keep on deceiving themselves to feel good and also to be able to sleep at night buh the truth still remains that Peter Obi's presidency comes 2023 is sacrosanct both spiritually and physically...
Lastly,I see Northerners in a total revolution for a good governance through Peter Obi and the words of our Legendary Pa Awolowo will be accomplished via"until Nigerians jettison the issue of tribe,ethnicity,party and religious,come together to elect a competent and credible candidate with conscience and empathy for the masses, then the Nigeria progress begins not)..
Lets scrutinize our conscience especially on this coming Nigeria presidential election 2023 to avoid "HAD I KNOW" tomorrow..
I rest my case...Gracias!!!!

You guys can't just make your points with out abusing, please stop all these nonsense

Nigeria Tribune be warned, I find it difficult to believe an institution associated with our great leader can become the agent of Yoruba traducer, very unfortunate

obynzo:


You say PO sacked non-igbos working in Anambra, yet a Yoruba man is Finance director in Anambra state civil service.

Ali Baba, this your joke wan ke me, small small na

Luckydabull:
Is this not similar to the monorail project Amaechi embarked on in Rivers statecand was heavily criticized for by Rivers people??

Ignorance is a disease truly

The fact that the monorail was criticised does not mean he should abandoned it. He should have pushed through and finished the rail, then even those ignorant people will appreciate the effort. I believe Ameachi used the project to steal Rivers money, he never really mean any business regarding the rail project

John4B:
why is he going to abroad for medical attention, he should hv being doing it in Lagos since he developed Lagos. Continue deceiving urself and disgracing ur generation.

Can you tell me and this forum members where your present and past governors access medical facilities. You IPOB guys from SE are incorruptible hypocrites

Cantonese:


Make we hear word abeg.

I am very sure that you were not born between 1979 and 1983 when the late Alhaji Lateef Jakande was the governor of Lagos state.

This same baba go slow that Tinubu brought back from retirement to make life hard for Nigerians, supported and voted for twice between 2015 and 2019, revoked the monorail project planned for Lagos state. Transportation was much more organized under him, with government playing its role in the transport sector. Jakande’s projects are still there for all to see until today.

Lagos was always modern. Tinubu met Lagos as a modern state. He met a state with zero presence of agberos. Agberos were eliminated by his predecessor, Buba Marwa. He revitalized agberos and gave them the structure that has made transportation costlier for Lagosians.

Some of you for children of yesterday, just copy and follow without asking probing questions.

Abi were you not told how much Tinubu took out as loans?

“aggressive revenue generation”, according to you, yet with large chunks of the revenue in private pockets. How has it impacted you or other citizens of Lagos positively?

Please vote right. Look out for a candidate who can make life better for all Nigerians.

Can you tell me any state with out Agbero in Nigeria ? Lagos Agbero is still learning compare to SE agberos especially Anambra agberos. Those guys are arms robbers very deadly

anonimi:


Trains that should have carried millions of Lagosians since June 2013 when Fashola said it would be ready five months earlier?
Someone must still believe that 20 million Lagosians are super mumus to be doing these paparazzi photos since 2000 when Thiefnuibu talked about reviving the Jakande metro cancelled in 1984 by the Buhari he made president seven years ago.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/114370-lagos-light-rail-project-to-be-ready-in-june-fashola.html

At least we are reviewing a project that is on ground. we can see it, feel it, seeing the progress even though it's slow but something is on ground to connect with unlike your state where nothing is happening, no vision, no hope for the people and yet you IPOP guys will be running your mouth unashamedly and writing nonsense about a state where there is a semblance of progress.
You guys are worse human beings i have ever known. shame on you

JASONjnr:
Another name for Tinubu is Lagos state...

Tinubu on a steady sapping of Lagos state resources ....


He used all the monies he made from Lagos state to vie for pregnancy....


But, why would a drug addict think of leading sane Nigerians? How?

Show us the projects that your Saint Governors (both present and past) has done in your God forsaken land, idiot. Be sure that we are ready and prepare to meet you guys at the forth coming presidential poll to deal a heavy blow on Obi. Just wait and see

No weapon fashion against the God anointed (Tunubu) this time shall prosper. Go and gather yourself together all these evil pastos, you shall be frustrated. The good people of Yoruba and all other good Nigerians will not be influenced by foolish religion sentiments as being espoused by this evil pastor but will rather vote based on character, competence, vision and track record of individual aspirant which I believe Asiwaju is far ahead of his competitors

Newton2024:
It will favour Peter Obi as he will receive block votes from Christians but muslim votes would be split into four - Atiku, Obi, Tinubu and Kwankwanso.

Igbo thinking , you and your leaders will be terribly shocked

Mr Cosmos you can not advise me or any Christian for that matter save your fellow IPOB tribe, pls count good people of yoruba our of your devilish scheme, we are not fools

Realtalk20:
Just look at what Tinubu sold to us Nigerians as a good president?

And you FOOLISH Nigerians bought the market. E yeah

I

Having suffered several cycles of electoral defeat, Chief Obafemi Awolowo never realised his life-long aspiration to lead Nigeria. In the twilight of his life, he granted an interesting and wide-ranging interview to the Nigerian philosopher, Prof. Moses Akinola Makinde, in which he reflected on his political career and lamented the failure of his longstanding presidential ambition. Excerpts:

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“In 1959, during the election that was to usher in independence in 1960, I embarked on an elaborate campaign in the North. I don't know how old you were at that time. I was using helicopter to campaign in every nook and corner of the north. The most important aspect of the campaign of the Action Group was free education, life more abundant for the generality of the people etc., etc. Our manifesto was centred on the development of man. We worked so hard that the Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, was forced to come out to campaign, a thing he was never used to. My hope at that time was to liberate the north from illiteracy, ignorance, and the ranka dede mentality of the less privileged majority. If I had won the election, I would have put a lot of money educating the north in order to bridge the educational gap between that region and the western and eastern regions. This was because I saw the lack of education as a stumbling block against political enlightenment of the whole northern region.”

III

“Because they were not educated, the voters could not make up their own minds and make their own choices. Rather, the innocent people of the north had to be dictated to by emirs and the elites who feed them on a regular basis whereas in the western region, people could argue with their Obas, could read manifestos and make an independent choice of which party and which politicians to vote for. Unfortunately, all my efforts to liberate the north from the cruel jaws of the oligarchy were frustrated by those who prefer, and will always prefer, the status quo to a new dawn of educational advancement. You can see that even now, the educational gap between the north and south is increasing by leaps and bounds. All the talk about catching up is nonsense . . . How can you catch up with somebody who is running while you are crawling?”

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“But I think that sooner than later, the leaders of the north will see the repercussion of their selfishness and carelessness in their attitude towards western education. But the time will be too late, and if they don’t regret it or blame themselves for lack of foresight, the northern youth may ask their leaders some questions when they see the rate of development that goes with education in many parts of southern Nigeria. They may then wonder whether it was in their stars or in the selfishness, carelessness and lack of foresight of their past and present leaders. If I had been given the chance in 1959 or 1979, I would have changed the fortunes of the north as a place that can be compared favourably with the south in terms of educational, social and economic developments.”

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“As for me, I don’t think we should always blame a President’s lapses on his advisers. It is the duty of a President, as an educated and intelligent man, to know what advice is good or bad for his people. If he considers the advice just, and of public good, he will take it as he himself would have calculated the consequences of such an action. What is more, he should be able to use his own discretion as Mr. President. If he is in doubt, he calls experts from the universities where scholars must have done researches about such things or known about similar cases with particular consequences.”

VI

“As the Premier of [the] Western Region I chose my ministers strictly on merit and because of their education, standard and discipline. Every minister or adviser and top civil servant had to do his homework properly before bringing anything to a cabinet meeting or any other important meeting where it will be subjected to rigorous debate. Where there are grey areas, expert opinion would be sought for the purpose of objectivity. As the Premier, I had to follow all procedures vigorously and meticulously, always relating our decisions and actions to the public good . . . It is because of this service to the public that I often maintained that the office of the President or Prime Minister is not for pleasure. Unfortunately, in Nigeria, it looks as if the office of the President, Minister or Adviser is for pleasure, like dining and wining and carousing with women of easy virtue both at home and abroad.”