₦airaland Forum

AcuraZDX:
https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1598793917222223873?t=NcOxr93usTvK-qAGwHLqJw&s=09

For context and to PDP boys Thiefnubuu's urchins crying up and down because of Peter Obi, here is Atiku visiting different Mosques as a Muslim he is

Strikethem:
Urchins and APC slaves will roast the governors for this.

And these same governors are supporting the same party that plunged nigerians into poverty.

Zombies.

For a country whose population is bursting at the seams, 211.4 million and counting, the fact that some persons need to leave - to give way for others - is a no-brainer. Migration abroad is actually one of the main solutions to Nigeria's population and unemployment problems.

The persons relocating abroad are usually those who could afford it - people with well-paying jobs in Nigeria. Their relocation frees up these jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in the country. Massive efflux of persons also eases the pressure on our dilapidated public facilities - hospitals, schools, roads, etc.

Migration is necessary. Migration should be encouraged. That is why you hear Mr. Peter Obi saying that we should encourage people to leave. These individuals often move to better jobs and better living conditions and are in a better position to contribute to nation-building from the outside.

Majority of the persons in government today, persons heading parastatals once left the country in search of better education, global skills, world-class work experience and are back decades later, deploying all they have learnt.

Remittances from Nigerians in diaspora is key to keeping our dwindling economy afloat. How do we increase these remittances if we don't encourage people to leave and earn in hard currency? A lot of families in Nigeria are sustained mainly by the monies that a son or daughter abroad sends on monthly basis. This is migration helping to stamp out hunger and poverty.

I am an apostle of saving Nigeria from the outside. For most of us in the diaspora, Nigeria will always be home. We look at the myriad of problems and see countless opportunities to proffer working solutions. Solutions that can help pull our nation out of distress.

Migration will help us save Nigeria from the outside. �❤️

successmatters:
Peter Olayinka Oluwadamilare Obi

yarimo:
Online 100% will votes OBI , in reality OBI will get less than 11k total votes cast

Gaabasky:
Between the two I don't know the best comedian

yarimo:
A comedian and next president of nigeria, according to majority of nigerians

BATified2023:
if u do anyhow u go collect

TheNiceGuy:
Then you and your family should prepare for the WORSE you've wished because Tinubu is the next president

The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Sunday, mocked his counterpart in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as a clown, who was only fit to contest the post of “Grand Comedian of the Federal Republic”.

The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Sunday, mocked his counterpart in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as a clown, who was only fit to contest the post of “Grand Comedian of the Federal Republic”.

Atiku advised APC to immediately replace Tinubu following his unceasing helpless gaffes, to avoid further embarrassments.

Atiku spoke in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu. The PDP candidate alleged that Tinubu was only suitable for the position of comic chief, and never president of Nigeria, going by his error-ridden utterances, which signify failing health.

Relatedly, in Kaduna State, director-general of the PDP campaign council, Haruna Sa’eed, dismissed Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s recent apology to the people of the state as “meaningless”, because it would not “reverse the hardship and pain he had inflicted on the people”.Atiku said in the statement that it was common knowledge that Tinubu goofed every time he came out in public to speak.The statement said, “If he is not saying that voter’s card has expiration date; he is saying that young Nigerians are Tweeting on WhatsApp or that 50 million youths should be recruited into the Nigerian Army and be fed with cassava in the morning, and Agbado in the night. How can you say Nigerians are Tweeting on WhatsApp?“Common, is that the kind of person we want to hand 21st Century Nigeria over to? In his latest gaffe at the Lagos rally, he asked Nigerians to get their APV in order to vote for APC, when even primary school children know that the PVC is the only item that admits a voter into a polling unit.“Without mincing words Tinubu’s gaffes already supply comedians, skit makers, meme-makers, and TikTokers with content. He is a self-writing joke and will make Nigeria a bye-word for scorn among the comity of nations, which is why he shouldn’t get close to power.

“Truth be told, lack of mental depth complicated by dementia occasioned by old age is the most mis-recommending criterion against a Tinubu presidency. And examples abound to buttress this point. Just listen to any of his extempore speeches and what you find is lack of coherence, logic and verve.“It is for the purpose of unmasking the real Tinubu and exposing him for who he really is, that we have challenged the APC standard bearer to an hour-long television interview.”The statement added that APC’s seven and a half years reign was a sad reminder of Nigeria’s arrested development since 2015, when they came to power.It said Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s claim at the Lagos rally that Tinubu would lift Nigerians out of hardship and hunger was an indictment on the APC, an admission that, indeed, over 133 million Nigerians now live in abject poverty, as reported by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).Atiku stated further regarding Tinubu and his party, “Now they are selling a message of a renewed hope. It is common knowledge that darkness cannot cure darkness and sickness cannot cure sickness. How can the APC be promising to fix problems exacerbated by the APC? This is balderdash.”According to the statement, the most compelling reason for APC to be de-registered is the fact that it has driven millions of Nigerians deeper into poverty since 2015, when it came to power, and spent trillions of naira procuring hunger, darkness, and insecurity.

Atiku stated further in the statement by Shaibu, “If the APC are not keen on replacing this disaster of a candidate, they should in the alternative apologise to all Nigerians for bringing them nothing but suffering of unquantifiable proportion since 2015, and proceed to make a solemn pledge not to have anything to do with governance, especially, with the February 25 election fast approaching.“I must confess that I consider the remarks credited to the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Saturday, November 26th, 2022, where he laboured, albeit unsuccessfully, to paint the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate as ungrateful and overambitious as not only offensive but reckless.“Instead of attacking Atiku, he should have dissipated that energy on telling Nigerians about himself, especially, at this time, when it is said at various fora that the only thing that is real about Tinubu is his person and that every other ascription on him is a borrowed robe.“To be sure, Nigerians believe that Tinubu should come in the open to effectively disclaim the allegation that his name, as it appears on public documents, is not his name; that the parents he claimed were not his; that the certificates he claimed to be his are not and that the schools he claimed to have attended didn’t know him.

“The issue of which schools he attended is already in the public domain, as only few months ago, he told the Independent National electoral commission (INEC) that he didn’t attend primary and secondary schools. The former Lagos governor, however, claimed he had two degrees from two American universities, which he further stated had been stolen by unknown soldiers during the military junta of the 1990s.”He stated further, “Lagos is used as evidence of his leadership, but Lagos is the major reason he should never be president and the leader of the country and party. He will become an immutable sole administrator in Nigeria as he is in Lagos.“If Tinubu’s ambition were about good governance, we dare to ask why he forced former Governor Ambode out? This self-appointed ‘maker’ of President Buhari and ’emilokan’ exponent, wants to be the Groom in every wedding and the corpse in every funeral. The centre of the political universe.“In Lagos, he is the State. No one can be anything without his approval. Governors are his little errand boys and can only disagree with him at their risk. He keeps them guessing about getting second term so he can have absolute control over them. Only Fashola showed some independent streak. The rest are like cyborgs. The current one is acting like a victim of a brain transplant“Since emerging as the presidential candidate of the party in early June, Tinubu has not shared a stage with any of the candidates. Tinubu has continued to avoid public scrutiny or elaborate media interviews where he can answer questions about his source of wealth and his background. Now that he is seeking the highest office in the land, Tinubu has made it clear that he will not attend media interviews or debates. In other words, he wants automatic job employment without an interview.

But the issue of his involvement in drugs needs to be settled once and for all so that Nigerians would know whether Ahmed Bola Tinubu is an innocent man getting a bad whack from the opposition, or whether he is a danger to Nigeria and its democracy, because Nigeria cannot afford to elect a drug lord.“The question is, did Bola Tinubu ever have something to do with heroin trafficking and money laundering leading to the forfeiture of $460,000? If the answer is in the affirmative, then the APC should do the most honourable thing by apologising to Nigerians and withdrawing him from the race because he presents a major national security risk and places Nigeria in the rank of pariah narco-nations.”Meanwhile, in a statement Sunday, Sa’eed said the attempt by El-Rufai to distance himself from the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Senator Uba Sani, was like a crude attempt to separate conjoined twins.

“El-Rufai cannot deliberately and recklessly create hardship for the people of Kaduna State for eight years and then think that he can conveniently utter a political apology at the twilight of his tenure,” Saeed said.

El-Rufai had while addressing party members during the inauguration of the APC campaign council, last week in Kaduna, apologised to those he might have offended in the course of his work and asked for forgiveness.

He had said, “We know in the course of this job, we have offended some people. They should forgive us. I will not contest again, so, do not blame others for my mistakes. Those I mistakenly offended, I seek their forgiveness.”

But Saeed, in the statement, said, “On the surface, this apology might look noble, but since El-Rufai has, probably, not heard of the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, who admonished people not to ruin an apology with an excuse, this apology, apart from being made in a political gathering to suit itching ears, is bereft of honesty and sincerity.”

The PDP chieftain said El- Rufai and Sani “are one and the same. The fear that the people of Kaduna should even entertain if the anointed candidate would not exceed his anointer in apathy.”

He maintained, “In addition to the fact that an apology followed by an excuse means that the same deliberate act could be repeated again, it came at a time when it lacks substance and offensive in context.

“More disingenuous is his attempt to separate his insensitive and intolerant mode of governance from his anointed candidate in 2023. It means he is repudiating the known democratic principles of governance as a continuous process. So sad!

“El-Rufai cannot deliberately and recklessly create hardship for the people of Kaduna State for eight years and then think that he can conveniently utter a political apology at the twilight of his tenure.

“At what point did he think an apology was appropriate? Was his apology targeted at those he sacked from work without paying them their entitlement? Those whose homes and businesses were demolished on the altar of aestheticism?

“Was his political apology targeted at the lives of millions of Kaduna people that he endangered when he made reckless and boastful statements on insecurity? Was his apology targeted at the millions of Kaduna people who, today, can’t go to their farms or even stay at their homes because of the pervasive insecurity in almost all parts of the state?

“Was his apology aimed at the bastardisation of the state’s civil service, or his naked intolerance to those, who dared to oppose him?

“El- Rufai can apologise severally before he leaves, but it won’t change the fact that his meaningless apology won’t reverse the hardship and pain he brought to the people of Kaduna State. It rankles more that this apology came without restitution, which smacks of only a cosmetic act without substance.”
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Moh247:
Why are you worried over Tinubu

Youths in Jigawa State and other parts of Nigeria have been urged to massively vote against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates at all levels during the forthcoming 2023 general elections.

This was contained in a statement by the Deputy Director, Media and Publicity, Santuraki Campaign Director (SCD),Umar Kyari Jitau Madamuwa on Friday

The statement quoted the Director, National Youth Campaign Council (NYCC), Alh. Bello Badayi who made the call during a meeting in Dutse.

He pointed to the failure of APC government to secure the lives of Nigerians as one of the cogent reasons why they should be rejected in totality.

Badayi also urged youth in Jigawa state to rally around and vote for the PDP Gubernatorial candidate, Dr Mustapha Sule Lamido, in view of the qualitative policies/programmes he has for the development of the state particularly youth and women.

He congratulated the PDP in Jigawa and Nigeria for having Dr Mustapha Lamido and Alh. Atiku Abubakar as the Gubernatorial and Presidential candidates respectively.

The first meeting which was held at the Directorate’s conference hall was attended by all the newly reconstituted Executive Committee members.

spagettiluv:
jeki muric tan mi
It non of your business emeka

spagettiluv:
emeka,we the real yoruba Christians are voting for TINUBU cos AWALOKAN.
Sw don’t vote base on religion at all

successmatters:
He knows his candidate is ot even sure of winning his own region, that's why he had to deflect

It's not easy selling a bad market like Tinubu or Atiku

spagettiluv:
chinedu yoruba Christian’s you mean
Lols
Yorubas are saying “AWALOKAN”(it our turn),you dey here dey mention one imaginary yoruba Christian

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has described Nigeria as a country that was needlessly ran down through cumulative effects of bad governance, adding that it could only be salvaged through collective efforts.

Peter Obi spoke on Friday with Aviation Correspondents at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos State.

While answering questions, he said he just returned to Nigeria from the United States of America, where he had gone for two days critical meetings, all geared towards seeking solutions to the many problems facing Nigeria.

Describing the major problem facing the country as economic, Obi said that however advanced a country was, once the economy failed to the point of engendering massive unemployment, hopelessness, and hunger caused by uncontrollable food inflation as Nigeria was presently witnessing, such a country would doubtless witness massive crimes and criminalities.

“This is what we are suffering today in Nigeria,” Obi said while assuring that his government would reverse the trend through a cocktail of measures, including reducing the cost of governance, improving production and reducing endemic corruption.

On his preparedness to restore the country, Obi said he was perhaps the most prepared because of his deep and sustained interest in the progress of the country as well as his experience in the management of men and resources.

“You may wish to verify from all the corporations and institutions I have managed, including Securities and Exchange Commission and Anambra State,” he said.

Obi, who described his trip as “worthwhile”, said he was encouraged by not just Nigerians, but Africans who feel that after Nigerians would have successfully taken back their country in February 2023, that it would encourage other African countries that are experiencing bad leadership to do the same without recourse to the destructiveness of war.

Obi also took the opportunity to condemn the killing of the Labour Party Woman Leader in Kaduna State, Victoria Chimex, saying: “Though I had already done so, but it is still okay to take this opportunity to do so again.

“I therefore call on Nigerians to join hands together with me to build a country where security will be top notch.

“Where Nigerians will love one another and the country above all.”

Moh247:
Statement of fact... Verifiable with figures

Moh247:
Statement of fact... Verifiable with figures

Moh247:
Unserious clownish candidate .. he would intentionally go to a crowded church were people came to worship then turn it to campaign opportunity

hotwax:
But tinubu and APC claimed there are no Christian's in Nigeria

Aonkuuse:
This is just nonsense, why are you blaming the police and not the citizens Is it not the same east that has been killing policemen and burning police stations

It's hypocritical to blame the bandits for unrest in the north while you people put the blame on the police but fail to call out those responsible for unrest in the east.

A former Board of Trustees Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Walid Jibrin, has accused the All Progressives Congress of planning to disunite Nigerians with its Muslim/Muslim Ticket ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Jibrin who is the Chairman of the PDP presidential and governorship campaign council in Nasarawa State made the accusation in the Awe Local Government Area of the state during his party’s zonal campaign rally on Thursday.

Our correspondent reports that the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, a Muslim, had picked the former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, who is also a Muslim as his running mate ahead of the poll.

The development caused discontent along religious lines as many Christian faithful protested what they referred to as an attempt to “Islamise” the country.

The action of the APC also forced some stakeholders of the Christian faith out of the party.

Senator Jibrin said, “That singular unpatriotic gesture, coming at a time of rising security challenges confronting the nation is never a welcome development.

“The apparent late excuses by Tinubu to justify what is clearly an anomaly, that his wife is a Pentecostal pastor, are lame and insulting to the sensibility of Nigerians.

“And with what the APC and its presidential candidate have done, it is obvious that Nigeria cannot be safe in the hands of the former governor of Lagos State whose decisions and actions could plunge the country into chaos.”

Jibrin, however, said the country will be safer in the hands of the PDP, adding that the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the Nasarawa state governorship candidate, David Ombugadu, are men of high intellect and composure who would ensure steady growth and development of the nation.

He appealed to residents of the state to vote for all PDP candidates in the 2023 elections, promising that the party would tackle the numerous challenges confronting the nation by providing the dividends of democracy to the people.

On the current disagreement between the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, the former Board of Trustees Chairman said leaders of the party were making frantic efforts to settle the disputes before the commencement of the 2023 elections.

“What is happening now in the PDP is a family matter. Alhaji Atiku and Governor Wike are brothers. As leaders, we are making efforts to address the issues, and we are hopeful that they will be resolved before the February 2023 elections.

“I stepped down from my position as BoT chairman to allow peace to reign in the party and pave way for other party stakeholders who had never occupied my former position to do so.

“I am confident that the PDP will retake the presidency and win many states during the forthcoming elections, so I am urging our party members and supporters to remain resolute in the struggle,” Walid Jibrin added.

Moh247:
They can't just help themselves from wailing over Jagaban

It’s time to rethink Nigeria
There are expressions that stand out statesmen from the crowd. Such remarks announce their visions for their people. They come from the heart, with the force of bullets and encapsulate their thoughts. Those declarations speak louder than the manifestoes at campaign grounds.

That sums the admonition to patriotism by John F. Kennedy, the 35th US President, on his countrymen and women, on coming to office on January 20, 1961. Kennedy was elected president at a time the world was reeling under the uncertainties of the Cold War. He was confronted with the challenge of galvanizing his people in rebuilding the country and called on them to commit themselves to service and sacrifice to the fatherland: “My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”,

48 years after, President Barrack Obama, on January 20, 2009, spoke in similar vein when, he called on Americans to unite and look towards their common national heritage as a guide for facing the challenges of the future. Obama had inherited a country in serious economic downturn and needed all hands to bring it back on its feet. He did not give up but said; “The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness”.

For erstwhile President Nelson Mandela, the years of struggle against apartheid demanded a change for a more equitable system, hence on coming to power in 1994, he stressed the need for building an inclusive society where no one would be oppressed. “We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity – a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world”, he said.

These leaders demonstrated good understanding of their countries at the time. Nigeria is at such critical juncture, presently. With daunting security challenges in all parts of the country, deplorable infrastructure base, widening corruption index, crippling economic uncertainties manifested in youth unemployment, dwindling fortunes of the national currency and debilitating poverty among the people, the country is without doubt, on a sorry curve. The copious absence of disciplined leadership class to steer the ship of state on the right course, makes the situation more worrisome.

The signs are not encouraging. All indices of state failure are starring at us. Since 2018, Nigeria has been the World’s Poverty Capital. It currently ranks the second most terrorised country in the world after Afghanistan. There are 22 million out-of-school children in the country. Inflation is slipping out of control, at the rate of 21.09 percent – the highest in over 17 years. Insecurity has been on the rise. Hardly does a day pass without sordid incidences of Nigerians being slaughtered in their homes, on the roads or places of work by criminals. Increasingly, the citizens troop out of the country in search of better living outside.

With the 2023 general elections barely three months away, the stakes are high. Nigerians want to hear from the political parties and their candidates how they intend to reclaim the country from its piteous state. Sadly enough, the older political parties – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or All Progressives Congress (APC), are not offering any idea in that direction. Their standard bearers, Atiku Abubakar (PDP) and Bola Tinubu, are politicians of the old order, who are still entrenched in throwing muds at their opponents without addressing the issues of the day.

This is where the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, has made a world of difference from the lot. From the moment he signaled his interest for the presidency, he knew that the office is not a prize to be won but a job to be done. With this uncommon approach at analyzing issues with facts and statistics, he has elevated the language and context of the contest beyond his counterparts in the race.

But perhaps, where he strikes it, most is in his insistence that Nigeria can only get out of its economic crisis by conscious transition from the current culture of consumption to production. Like the Biblical John the Baptist, Obi has been making this presentation to Nigerians in all the states. “When I say we are not a producing country but a consuming one, it is true”, he stressed at a recent summit organised by his party.

The thrust of his argument is that Nigeria has over 84 million hectares of arable land with only 40% of it cultivated, pointing out that her arable land is her new oil and gold, if properly managed.

He cited instance of Borno that is situated on 70.9 square kilometres of land and harbouring the Sambisa Forest which should have been an asset for Nigeria but has become hideout for terrorists due to non-utilisation. Sambisa Forest, he observed, is twice the size of Israel and an agricultural land that can feed the nation.

Also, compared with Vietnam that lives on 331square kilometres of land and a population of 100 million, Obi says Nigeria is not harnessing her potential adequately. This is because while Vietnam’s export is 312 billion dollars, Nigeria does not do 10 per cent of such, even with a vast land and a population of 200 million people.

Niger state, he added, is two-and-half the size of The Netherlands, yet the state could not feed itself or the country whereas The Netherlands’ agricultural export for 2021 was 120 billion dollars.

He was initially a lone voice in the consumption to production crusade and was mocked by his opponents. But many are beginning to reason with him. The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has bought into the message. At a recent event organised by the Senate Committee on science, technology and innovation, Osinbajo emphasised that Nigeria must shift from consumption to production if it must attain greatness. “Nigeria will be great only when we begin to shift our emphasis from a consuming nation. We must rely on production and that is the only way to go”, he said. These are men of ideas thinking alike. That is the way to go.

NigeriaIsGreat:
Obi go soon step down for him gay partner Atiku this December

Make i talk like you obingo small.. E go shock una


Bunch of clowns

NigeriaIsGreat:
if they ask you this low life bitch to bet your money since you are so sure and so convince your Obi go win and una go deal with APC ruthlessly

Why are you obingo foolish biko?