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I hear some Nigerians are saying that we should invade his country over Boko Haram issue. I ask, with which military? The Chadian army has over 30,350 active personnel and another over three million fit and ready for military service, 'making it the most efficient force in the region besides the armies of Libya and Sudan.' President Deby is totally different from President Jonathan & I am not even trying to put Jona down or anything. Deby has been a fighter all his life, fighting his way to power, fighting to maintain his grip on power for 24 years and he has been in power long before Jonathan even dreamt of joining politics. Deby came to power in 1990 when as a general, he fought against & eventually deposed Hissène Habré, the then president & dictator of Chad who fled the country & ran to Senegal.
So Deby is a war commander not afraid of fighting. In fact, as recently as 2008, there was the Ndjamena War where rebels challenged his authority and brought the battle right to his capital. Deby won in the 2005-2010 civil war in his country. His army is also involved in the Northern Mali conflict with Islamist insurgents. He is always tackling one rebel group or the other. It is like facing five Boko Harams at a time as president.
Nigeria has nothing to gain but plenty to lose if Chad is invaded. One, we are not even in a position to invade anywhere unless you are talking of Osogbo, Ogbomosho and Ibadan. That is one. Two, the Nigerian Army is not the same as the Chadian Army. The army of Chad can be correctly called the Deby Army because the soldiers are predominantly from his own ethnic group, the Zaghawa, so they are very willing to fight for their man unlike our own army which is an amalgam of many tribes. The Chadian Army is far more homogenous.
Two, if you are fighting Chad, you are surely fighting France so think am well. There is a French military base right there in the capital at the Ndjamena International Airport working with & training the Chadian Air Force. They even sent troops to help Deby when three rebel groups made up of his former allies wanted to overthrow him and take over the presidential palace in 2008. Sudan also wanted Deby out but failed. So no even think am. Jonathan does not have the same level of support from ANY superpower. Or you think Britain will send troops to defend any Nigerian head of state facing internal rebellion? Forget am. The Chadians are also modernizing their military with vast sums of money accruing from crude oil deposits around Lake Chad Basin. I am not too sure if Jonathan and his generals can work out a very nice way out of this complex geopolitical quagmire but invading Chad will be a disastrous mistake, the time General Buhari chased Chadian forces who wanted to take over some of Nigeria's islands on the Lake Chad was in the early 1980s and not 2014. Our system still make sense that time, we had just finished a civil war less than a decade earlier. Even then President Shagari told Buhari to back off and leave Chadian territory.
Another thing that will work against the Nigerian military is the sheer size of Chad. Chad is far FAR bigger than Nigeria in area, in fact it is the fifth largest nation in Africa & 21st in the world while Nigeria is not even among the 10th largest in Africa. Which air force are we going to use to take over such a vast territory? Even the late Muammar Gaddafi regretted it when he tried taking over just the Aouzou Strip of Chad in the Toyota War.
I think a lot of Nigerians are so insulated from what is happening in our subregion that we still think we are one big roaring giant. We were. Right now, we are weakened & the best defence we can have is to strengthen our forces from within & not embark on any costly regional aggression.
Also, the Chadian military is far more battle-tested in local and regional insurgencies than our military. The Chadians have been fighting all over the place & the subregion that another war with Nigeria will just be usual play in the park. I don't think Deby too will take on Nigeria in its weakened state (unless he is backed by France which will also back Cameroon to fight us) but Nigerians as of now, should not even dream along the direction of invading Chad. Many Nigerians like Ali Modu Sheriff actually have their roots in Chad and many of these Nigerians have more loyalty to Chad than Nigeria. Such ties are tribal and have no respect for national borders. Shagari had to deport some of these people back to Chad because they were causing trouble in Nigeria. Chad's population may be less than that of Lagos but when you look at how militarized and weaponized and battle-ready the people are, na for you to just waka pass.

zimoni:
Igbo have huge population in Kano and Kaduna States

So, why are you people not interested in contesting there?

They wouldn't dare do that nonsense on Abokis land.

PROUDIGBO:
^^^Nothing will happen! If he feels he has something to offer, sells himself well, and convinces the electorate of his capabilities, then anything is possible; it's been done before you know!?

Pic is of Alhaji Altine, a Fulani, and the first elected Mayor of Enugu!

Are you serious?

barcanista:
NiÇe question.
Some prodÚcts that Consumers reject may not necessÀrily be a bad prodÙct, likewise those accepted by consumers may not necessarily be gooÐ products. One thing that inflÙences buying decisiÓn is Branding. When a product is poorly branded, it stands a very high chÀnce of being rejected even though it may be the best product. This is one reason companies spend lots of money to in the branding Òf their product and organisatioñ. A brilliant organisation will do a rebranding for product(s) that is nÓt understood in the market.
So to answer your question, the company believe in the product, they believe that it is the best, but they see need to do a rebranding so as to effectivÉly communicate the product to consumers. The product Ðefinitely stand a chance of trial purchase by consumers if well communicated/rebranded

I very much like that explanation of yours, do you know you'll be a good marketer at selling a product?

Say Buhari!

FreeGlobe:
If Buhari wins next year I will deactivate my nairaland account totally. Any APC person up for the challenge too for Buhari? ilugunboy... Gbawe?

Mtcheeewwww.... After all you'll still resurface with another different account.

menix:
Dim Emeka Ojukwu for his guts...

For running?

HBD to the clueless President to ever rule Nigeria.

arewafederation:
This old baba! . It is said that with age comes wisdom, but in your case,it is gross stupidity.

You have been posting nonsense and showing how irresponsible you are. With your display of stupidity, I wonder the kind of training you gave to you children which was passed to your grandchildren.

Tsohon Banza kawai!

Nagode ma, ci min uban shi!

JEITO:
Kaduna North, a minimum of 18hrs daily

i am also from Kad North, but we don't get 18hrs light. I lived in township. Are you from U/Rimi, Malali, Marafa, U/Dosa, U/Kanawa...?

Dereformer:
The one reason Buhari will never get up to 50 votes in the whole of south east is colored red above.

Buhari will surely secure morethan that you are quoating

No amount of smearing campaign against Buhari will make me, my family, my people, my my my my ... to change our minds not to vote for Buhari.



Hope Buhari 2015.

sammyzacks:
Azazi you can be more specific. Who and who in PDP are behind it? Is it Atiku, Chiroma, IBB?

No i think President should be more specific. He should named all those people/boko haram he says are in his gov't.

babestella:
Ibb threatened to expose buhari (claiming he had evidence against him as ptf chairman)if buhari mentioned his name again.Since then,buhari hasn’t said anything bad about ibb.I guess the evidence made him change his mind.

Source or idontbelieveit

babestella:
$12 billion dollar gulf oil revenue disappeared during IBB, $16 billion dollars spent by OBJ on power, do you have electricity in your home today. Do you know what $16 billion dollars could have done in our power sector if it was actually spent on that sector?
Have you asked yourself why GEJ privatized the power sector? Have you asked yourself why we can't have local refineries working? Corruption is too much, Nigerians employed to manage government agencies are overtly corrupt, build a refinery and employ people to manage it, they will run it down. Please the change must start with us too, not blaming GEJ for everything. Please they all have their share of blame. All of them.
Walk into an eatery today and forget your Smartphone for just 30 seconds and tell me if you'll ever find that phone again. Yet the one who took it will come to social fora to condemn others for being corrupt. If you place him in position of authority, he'll loot the place dry.

Please we also need to change to being better people.

You forgot to add the GEJ's loot of 20billion

5thNOTE:
even Hausas are nt half convince to vote Buhari. They are on the fence in this case. Even Buhari is nt even willing to rule. He should wait till 2019.

Karya kake yi! Buhari muke so kuma shi zamu zaba. Dan bakin ciki ya mutu.

jomarq:
Just to beg them anyway,get till.........

...2015

condralbede:
who will quoting me wrongly

Chai!

how comes all the monies donated were in round figures?

opiaoku:
all i know is

gej till 2019

All i know GEJ bus stop is 2015

beejaay:
Greatest hypocrisy is when u exonorate APC and focus only on PDP knowing fully well that both APC and PDP are the samething

The most greatest Hypocrisy is when you cannot vindicate PDP from all the aforemention charges, however, fully knowing well they are all true.

I will collect the rice and vote for APC. That's it!

Hypocrisy is when a guy from South-South criticise Ameachi for joining APC. But praise Bafarawa and Shekarau for joining PDP.
Hypocrisy is when PDP goes to court to stop PDP legislators decamping to APC but celebrate when APC legislators decamp to PDP.
Hypocrisy is when the Senate President refused to read Saraki and co decampment letter to APC but was quick to read
Chukwumerije's decampment letter to PDP!
Hypocrisy is when PDP celebrate the decampment of Governor Theodore Orji & Ohakim to PDP but go to court to stop Kwankwaso, Nyako et al from decamping to APC!
Hypocrisy is when Oghiadomhe is sacked for intending to pursue his governorship ambition and Nyesom Wike is left to double as Minister of Education and Military Administrator of Rivers state.
Hypocrisy is when Mal. Rabiu Matazu writes against GEJ and is called tribalistic and Edwin Clerk's unguarded utterances called freedom of speech.
Hypocrisy is when Stella Oduah is sacked for corruption charges that amount to N255million & Diezani Allison Madueke is left as Minister with corruption charges amounting to a whooping sum of $20billion!
Hypocrisy is when people see nothing in Jonathan visiting TB Joshua to condole with him after church collapse and death of about 200 People but refused to visit North East where almost 30,000 people died.
Hypocrisy is when people called Buhari a Religious bigot but failed to see nothing wrong in GEJ announcing Government Policy in Churches.
Hypocrisy is when PDP say 16 is > than 19 & 5 is > than 26!...
Hypocrisy is when you read this post in NairaLand forum and YOU refused to add your own......

berem:
Hope for Nigeria. A pro-PDP website?

The more the saTANists criticize Buhari,the more they make him popular. By God's grace Buhari is the next president come 2015!

God bless you with this your prayer

Dreyl:
Atleast he's still better than that fedora hat nigga that spends 1billion naira for food.

Don't say atleast, but confidently say GMB is far better than GEJ. I concur with that.

APContherun:
The janjaweedians say the news is false because Hope for Nigeria reported it but when we asked for the supposed letter Buhari wrote to the Ministry of Finance they won't provide it.
If actually Buhari wrote a letter to the Finance Ministry as claimed by his supporters then Buhari must provide a copy of the letter so we could be convinced.

So that you (we) you can be conviced? Look Buhari does not even know a rag-tag like you even exist talkless of thinking to provide you (we) with a copy.

Sai Buhari

arabbunkum:
Politicians are bloody liars from the pit of hell!

eg GEJ and co

Hmmmm.. government of the corrupt people, by the corrupt people, and for the corrupt people.

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(chorus)
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