₦airaland Forum

fergie001:
So Pa Osoba & Pa Akande are not SW leaders of repute or what?

No they aren't.
They are APC leaders of (dis)repute with zilch concern for the masses.
That "feyin-feyin" old man called Akande is particularly shameless.
He's still a Tinubu lackey at his age.

mannobi:
Why they keep mentioning Tinubu more than their own candidate still baffles us. You will see even the ones who haven't cross the Niger bridge before screaming tinubu as if tinubu took away their okpa.
Campaign for your candidate and leave the yorubas to decide on the fate of tinubu.
Hatred is bad

You can't be left alone when you want to be president of Nigeria.
Abi is he vying for SouthWest presidency?

His fate is not for Yorubas alone to decide. It's for the generality of Nigerians.
He shall be scrutinized.

Frankest20:
Tinubu is being meticulous about his campaign with greatness and ruthlessness in penetration.
Other aspirants are waiting for PMB unfortunately, PMB will disappoint them as usual.

Other aspirants don't have as much looted funds to throw around as Tinubu.
Abe is only grabbing his own portion of the slush funds.

Brilliant!

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Parachoko:
Tinubu would have solve the power issue in Lagos if he was not stop by the FG under OBJ.

I'm sure he can and will solve the power crisis in Nigeria when he is elected as the President next year.

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OBJ left office some 15 years ago and Tinubu's APC has been in power for more than 7 years now, ogbeni.
Is Buhari also stopping him?

Besides power, your thin god has maintained a stranglehold on Lagos State's treasury for about 24 good years now yet unable to build one, I mean just a single hospital good enough to attend to his frail health without the need to go waste stolen tax-payers' money abroad.

Posterity will judge all of you promoters of this renowned crook.

murecool:
"Tinubu’s quest for power and control is insatiable. The former governor has made Lagos his conquered territory. Its politics, treasury and every decision, ranging from who collects garbage from the streets to who becomes the governor is under Tinubu’s control. Apparently not satisfied, he wants the whole country under his belt. We can only imagine what will happen to the CBN, FIRS, NNPC, Customs, NDDC, NPDC, PTDF and other cash cows if he succeeds. Tinubu’s self-accreditation as the Grand Deity of Nigerian Politics who must be worshipped and adored, and his sense of entitlement to power is the single most dangerous development in the polity since the annulment of June 12 election. President Buhari cannot afford to hand Nigeria back to another set of bandits that has raped the country for eons."

This is it!

Salvador1:

That poster in my opinion is unnecessary, as it serves to confer more sense of self-importance to Tinubu and his lackeys.
As I noted earlier, Buhari would still have won easily without the marginal inconsequential 160,000 or thereabout votes the Lagos APC contributed in 2015.

Ttalk:
2023 will not be monkey dey work and baboon dey shop. Every region will reap their contribution to their beloved party in 2023.

[s]No one can cajole blackmail or intimidate his way to AsoRock, the principle of fairness doesn't support working for Innoson but expecting salary from Dangote group[/s].

That analogy is inapplicable here because both Innoson and Dangote (as per this context) draw resources from coffers funded through taxes paid by EVERYONE. Both Monkey and Baboon are collectively working and deserve to "chop" collectively here.
You (or anyone else) CANNOT lay exclusive claim to an entity/institution funded by all tax-paying Nigerians.

Is the party funded by only SW APC members?

Despite all the noise about Thuefnubu's contribution to the APC, Buhari would still have won easily without the marginal inconsequential 160,000 or thereabout votes the Lagos APC contributed in 2015.
As a reminder, it was Rivers State's tax-payers' money that Ameachi deployed to earn Buhari the APC ticket in 2014 to out-spend the likes of Atiku and Kwankwaso who were on the verge of pummeling Buhari at the primaries.

Make we hear word abeg.

Everyone is now exploiting the toad-eyed robber's desperation to get their own share of his slush funds.

I pray Lagos State's bank accounts survive the ongoing mindless pillaging of tax payers' hard-earned money all in a bid to buy phantom endorsements for an octogenarian, Parkinson disease and incontinence-suffering age-cheating thief.

It's just like a key figure and loyalist of Buhari once asserted:

"We may not know who will be president in 2023 but we certainly know who won't"

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subsidywise18:
Because the people in the UK pay council tax and income tax, meaning the local council can afford to keep the cities clean.

Nigeria....we don't pay those type of taxes. Our budget for a year is what the UK spends policing its people in one year.

So, if you want UK level in Nigeria, pay UK level taxes. But Nigerians will start with 'we are poor'

Annual council tax in band A areas cleethorpes is about 1387 pounds...that's over 700000 naira per annum. If government for this country started charging that...especially in that Benin you live, would you guys be happy?

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What's wrong with some of you gaan sef? What sort of s*lly comment is this?

Pay UK-level taxes from what income?...a paltry 30K ($72) monthly Minimum Wage that some 1diots like Yahaya Bello aren't even paying? ...while the thieves at the National Assembly corner for themselves millions of tax-payers' hard-earned money every month for doing nothing?

How about you tell your irresponsible thieving leaders to first pay a UK-level Minimum Wage?

How about the billions of naira governors loot monthly in the name of Security Vote? ...and the gross wastefulness of a wicked, insensitive president that keeps about 10 aircrafts for himself alone in a 3rd-world country expending over 68% of her earnings on debt servicing?

Why must the already impoverished and oppressed masses who already bear the burden of providing for themselves security, power supply and other basic services that should ordinarily be the government's responsibility be further encumbered with more taxes?

Of course he has no candidate just like "he had no favourite candidate" for the party chairmanship.

Only a political neophyte will see governors fighting tooth and nail to install their successors yet believe that a sitting Nigerian president will be indifferent about who succeeds him.
Regardless of the mode adopted for the primaries, Buhari's preferred candidate SHALL clinch the APC ticket but Nigerians will of course determine who leads them in 2023.

"...someone who can finish the good works of President Buhari..."

What "good works"?

This writer is being insincere to even himself...yet wants delegates to take him seriously?
Aren't there other ways of currying the president's favour and attracting goodwill towards your preferred candidate without insulting our intelligence?

Here we go again.
Wasn't Buhari "Allah's choice" in 2015 as propagated by many Islamic clerics?

Where has that "choice" taken us now?

KingAzubuike:
VGC, Chevron drive , ikoyi in Lagos are more affluent than this.

This isn't Maitama or Asokoro.

sycowisu:
Jagaban!!!! Thanks for this, 5 of my family members benefitted from this

#AgbaMeTA

Your 5 family members got just minute crumbs from their stolen resources.
Nigerians by virtue of their gullibility and servitude mindset are the easiest set of people to govern in the whole world.

Just loot their resources dry, oppress them and then witfully weaponize the resultant poverty...and they'll sing your praises forever.

Move2:
They are thinking twice about letting power go back to the South,” a knowledgeable friend from the North told me last week. And what was his own opinion? “I told them that they needed to have a country before they could exploit it. Continuing northern rule may fatally injure the country.” That was rather deep and, I think, patriotic. But are the drivers of the process listening to
wisdom and its warnings? They think they are powerful and their iron so strong it can’t ever be bent. The Hausa would look at the arrogance of their greed and say: “even the Niger is forced to have an Island.” And, in Ibadan, such people who saw not even a stream in Kudeti were swept away by the river goddess. The manipulators of Nigeria won’t stop. They will use the big parties, especially the one in power.
So, please, leave whatever you are doing at this moment and pay attention to the ruling party and its ways. It will determine whether you will be happy or hungry; safe or sad this year, next year and the next after the next. There is a force in the APC that sees itself as a hurricane. It believes it can wreak any havoc and get away with it. It closed Nigeria’s land borders three years ago without a cogent reason; it reopened the borders last week without a cogent reason. The party just showed us what it could do with the power it has. You’ve also seen how the party of ‘progressives’ confirmed its
status as belonging not to the poor with its scandalous N100 million presidential nomination form. The country’s democracy has long left the people behind. It is now the exclusive property of the buccaneers who inherited the widows of the people’s battle for freedom.
What we run, or what runs Nigeria, is the political version of witches and their coven. Whatever they do there belongs there, unknown and unseen by the unwashed eyes you and I carry about. The Lawan kite is flown already. We wait to see how it works out in a party of threatened alliances. How about if the party does what it did with its last convention? A consensus arrangement – getting every contender but one to drop their aspirations because the real power in the house is interested in somebody who comes from somewhere. There will be noise
there will be protests. And so what? Things will go this extreme way if the spirits in Abuja feel sufficiently threatened by the superior fire power of the dons and are not sure of victory again from delegates or from party members. Think of the Lagos/southern aspirants and the billions they may have spent in the states already. But won’t there be consequences for this ultimate subversion of Nigeria’s diversity? There will be, but who cares? I think they will care when the day dawns. The soon-to-be-cheated big spenders that we see are going to unleash more than “the anger of Achilles
son of Peleus” which “brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades….”  Achilles, Greek’s best fighter and hero of the Trojan war, was cheated by the overall commander of the Greeks who snatched his beloved girlfriend from him. Achilles did not fight back physically but retired into his tent, sulking. Then, with him off the battlefield, the Greek army started suffering a series of defeats, losing men and ground and grace. The overall commander was sorry; he sulking. He was offered rich presents, still he wouldn’t fight. His girl was returned to him but Achilles still sulked while the battle floundered for the Greeks. What those plotting a northern replacement for Buhari will suffer in 2023 may be worse than Greece’s fate in battle without Achilles. The resistance won’t sulk. You remember what happened to the biblical House of Israel when a king refused to give the branches their due share of the kingdom? Every lion has a den; every tribe a tent.
https://tribuneonlineng.com/apcs-2023-dark-horse/

Nothing will happen should a Northerner succeed Buhari...nothing!

You can go to court when he wins.

victorDanladi:
Don't mind them jare

But Ameachi and Osinbajo who are part of the failed government should be exonerated.


Envy and hate everywhere


Nigeria can never be great because before elections, Nigerian think with their brain,during election their reasons become affective and they start fanning sentiments


Under Normal circumstances Osinbajo and Amaechi supposed to be stoned wherever they go.THEY AND BUHARI ARE COMPLETE FAILURE YET OSINBAJO IS SEEN AS ONE NEXT BEST THING AFTER AGEGE BREAD

...and what becomes of the octogenarian Parkinson disease and incontinence-suffering thief parading himself as the "National Leader" of that same party?

Things are getting clearer by the day...for the discerning.

Oracleforce:
Yes...there is a section of the law from.the electoral Act...
So, giving GEJ is about risking the ticket in the hand of PDP...
The maximum tenure suppose to be 8 years for any governor or president candidate...but if he (GEJ) is voted in, he will spend 11 years

Laws aren't applied retroactively.
The new amendment DOES NOT apply to Jonathan as it was enacted AFTER his tenure.

Falana is Tinubu's mouthpiece.

Shetemi12:
If you want to argue about something.. give us fact in respect to the law not what he achieved in his tenure..what's ours with that

He has given you that already.
How many times do you have to be told that our laws cannot be applied retroactively?


"However, in a statement shared with journalists on Friday, Al’ameen disagreed with Falana, saying that the law does not apply to Jonathan because it was enacted after he had been sworn in twice."

“Former Governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Geidam completed the first tenure of the late Mamman Ali and he contested the election twice and won without hindrance of any kind from anybody."

Impressive as per Nigeria's standard.

Dsalvo:
Seems to me you're the one crying. Stakeholders are merely reminding those who feel the Party now belongs to them alone to toe the path of equity and fairness.
Whereas you are a nobody always obsessed with the affairs of the APC when your actually a PDP-worshipping IPOBian.

Every tried minding your business?

Equity and fairness?
Then there should be no candidate from any other tribe besides Igbos on the ballot in 2023.

Johnnycastro18:
When I was supporting the motion that PDP should zone there presidential ticket to the SOUTH, some few southerners who also support PDP were busy advocating for "power reclamation first" by using a northerner probably Atikwu to reclaim power from APC,

What this group of people seeking for "temporal" reclamation of power(as the call it) by using a northerner fail to understand is that the are setting a "Precedent" or practise that would likely continue in the nearest future even if the atikwu manage to win the presidential election
next year and spend 8years in office what make's this group of southerners think he would hand over power back to a SOUTHERNER and not his fellow northerner?? If APC whose presidential candidate buhari who is from the north could spend 8years in power and yet the Northern caucus are still insisting on throwing there partie's ticket open in other to Favour them instead of naturally allowing the SOUTHERNERS in the spirit of equity,fairness and justice to take over power. What makes the PDP advocates supporting atikwu think that after 8years of his rule thesame scenario playing out in APC now would not also come into play in PDP?

" This is even as the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) led by Prof Ango Abdullahi announced fresh moves to pressure the major political parties to throw their tickets open to all sections of the country, saying that the “power shift arrangement is already dead and buried.”

Would prof Ango abdullahi be making such a statement above If it were to be a southerner who is just rounding up his 8years in office and instead of the northerners to be given there own chance, the ticket is now been thrown open with a southerner likely emerging for a further 8years making it 16years of rule for the southerners, how would he feel if the southerners are the one's doing this presently?

If a northerner is clamouring for power to remain in the North in 2023 I can understand there greed and sentiment, but for those southern atikwu advocates who for so called "temporal reclamation" or as some of them would normally say "let us get power back from APC using atikwu first" is it that your own southern region is that useless to you that you are trying to tell the whole world that power should remain in the north, what makes you think a southerner can't win an election in this country except a northerner? Obasonjo a southerner that defeated buhari and even good luck Jonathan defeated thesame buhari
a notherner in his first tenure are they not all from the south? with the present failures of the APC government what makes you think with a good candidate from the southern region and massive campaign to convince nigerians whosoever the APC is to present as there candidate, such a candidate in PDP can defeat such an opponent......

Well since some group of individuals from the south have so be-little there southern region and instead of standing there ground and ensure power returns to the south are now the ones clamouring for atikwu to win for "temporal reclamation" of power, I just hope we would not hear the wailing of been marginalized by a northern atikwu tomorrow, or wailing of atikwus government been a failure and power to return to the south after his tenure after 8years........if you(the southerners) in PDP can't fight for that power now, don't be deceived that after 8years OF your so called Atikwu's government that your region would now finally get it on a platter of gold, you would all be deceiving yourselves

Nice points but unfortunately there's no such thing as "South" anymore, no thanks to Tinubu's 2015 treachery.

If you truly crave justice, equity and fairness, then advocate for the zoning of the two major parties' tickets to the SE.

Nigerialabalaba:
Falana gbo ti e Let Jonathan te

Tinubu lete 'n duro de.

CoronaVirusPro:
PDP stands better chances with GEJ than Peter Obi.

Just waiting for Peter Obi to win PDP primaries and people can start congratulating Okechukwu Ahmed Tinubu in advance.

On what party's platform will Tinubu contest?

Validated:
Thus man's brain is already affected by gutter smell. The Lagos chief Agbepo thinks he is also relevant.

AGNESikpuNNU:

My deepest concern is the criminal attachment of COMRADE to his name.

God bless you real good.

The crook employed that so witfully to hoodwink gullible Nigerians towards earning himself a governorship seat.

Deadlytruth:
Didn't Nigerians also vote for Buhari who was accused of all in the bolded?

If you fool me once, the shame is on you; but fool me twice, then the shame is on me.
Affliction shall not rise a second time.

Rayjnr:
Now we know why they hate tinubu, when I tell people that it is because of religion they don't agree.

False.
Were Abiola and Buhari Pagans when millions of Christians voted them?
Even when a fellow Christian (Jonathan) was on the ballot in 2015 and 2019, didn't million of Christians vote a Muslim Buhari against him out of genuine commitment towards seeing a better Nigeria?

Nigerians simply don't want an octogenarian, Parkinson disease and incontinence-suffering age-cheating thief as president. Stop whipping up religious sentiment.

ArewaNorth:
Have u ever heard the opinion of Northerners about it? Politics isn't abt satisfying ethno-religious desires but interest and permutations to win election!

Ka daina kariya mana, Mallam...haba? Kana azumi kuwa?

The core north votes nothing but religion...and you know it.
Christians have nothing more to prove when it comes to religious tolerance as millions of them voted Abiola in 1993 and Buhari in 2015 and 2019 even against their Christian brother (Jonathan). Can Muslims do that?

While I'm completely indifferent towards religious consideration in politics, I don't see anything wrong with Christians asking to have one of them take over from Buhari in 2023 as the guy you quoted posited.