₦airaland Forum

By shunning this debate Buhari proves that he is not a true democrat. This would have been an opportunity for him to engage in one of the basic elements of democracy; debate with other candidates before the country and in the process intimate Nigerians with the overall form of one's manifesto.

It is also disgraceful that many people see nothing wrong with this development. Their claims that Jonathan did it before or that the debate will be rigged is nonsense. Jonathan's boycott of the 2011 debate was condemned by all reasonable people so for Buhari to do same is just as condemnable. Besides this is a debate about the candidates and their plans for Nigeria not a quizz in astrophysics or medival history, nobody can outperform the other because they have been privy to the questions beforehand.

There are a lot of insane people on the interwebs. This thread should be closed and deleted, it contains so much vile nonsense its insulting.

cococandy:
Meal finished. Belching loudly.

Where's the imbecilee again?

Madam. So na spoon and fork you take chop pancake?

emiye:
WAEC (GHANA) ?

When did katsina state move to Ghana ? Give up o ye fools. Propaganda will not sell anymore.

Look up the HQ for WAEC. You know how to use Google right?

At the end when you try to put everything together it is confusing but watching the movie unfold was certainly engrossing. Great movie there.

nwaanambra1:
he is a very passionate man.

it takes passion to move mountains!

he is very successful in all he does because he is always very passionate over anything he sets his mind to achieve.

Yeah right. All this shedding tears business is making him look like a wuss, I don't think he is one so he had better learn to keep his emotions in check.

Please back to those beautiful dishes everyone. Trolls have already been reported to the mods.

About damn time.

dstnd:
waiting for el rufai reaction

I'm waiting for Sepp Blatter's reaction.

Lol. Seems Buhari is easily moved to tears. Everywhere I turn there is some report of the General shedding tears or fighting to hold back tears.

barcanista:
Let me advise the pro-PDP, the only way to nail Buhari is by drinking poison. Buhari is as clean as a slate! You can't rope him with propaganda

Clean as a slate dirtied with charcoal right? Mr Clean has yet to come clean on his O'level results.

Noble11:
Your mates names are in FORBES and you are looking for ur own name in COCA-COLA bottle...
Shame on you....

Lol.

Where is your own name listed?

Are they preparing the excuses before they get in already? This statement indirectly tells Nigerians to lower their expectations. Change right?

arresa:
Corruption, looting and stealing in Nigeria is gross generalization?

The fact that $10 billion was stolen and many more billions unaccounted for is gross generalization?

I don't even feel like going down the line with your history of corruption, looting and stealing..

In one breath you are saying corruption is gross generalization while in another breath saying you are not underplaying it? Are you in control of your brains and senses because you are not making any sense...?

You sound like your stealing is not corruption president.

The countries you mentioned have corrupt people, but the difference is in the same countries, corrupt people go to jail, there's accountability, people get fired and sent to jail.

A governor in the US was sent to jail for 2 years just a few months ago for $200, 000 corruption charge. When was the last time any governor or public official spent time in jail in your country? Even the one we saw on tape collecting bribe did not lose his job and didn't spend 1 second in jail. The only governor that spent time in jail was your president's godfather and your corrupt president who refused to declare his own assets pardoned his god father.. Well, stealing is not corruption of course..

SMH

You might as well have admitted that you did not understand my comment. In your righteous rejoinder you are again alluding to the very point that I was making - APC believes that their anti-corruption outlook is the magic bullet that will solve all of Nigeria's problems and propel the country to greatness.
Well that's cute, but I maintain that that position is a generalisation or oversimplification of Nigeria's problems. It is true that corruption is the bane of our problems but an absence of corruption will not automatically translate to sound economic policies and national growth.

It is your economic policies that voters like me are desirous to look at but instead all we hear is corruption this corruption that. I suspect that it because you and your party lack a coherent strategy in this regard that is why you drown all discussions with anti corruption chants.

arresa:
We have more than enough money to manage ourselves with, we look poor today only because of corruption, looting and stealing.

This is the gross generalisation I think that APC suffers from. While one is not trying to underplay the harmful effects of corruption we also have to ask ourselves whether nations like Spain and Greece are in difficult economic straits because of looting and stealing? Are there no corrupt people in the US or UK?

Sound economic policies is the way to growth.

Its quite commendable that APC saw it fit to respond to the questions that Soludo's article raised. Upon careful scrutinization of their plan however their response has more questions embedded in it than solutions.

Embarking vigorously on industrialization, public works and agricultural expansion.

Diversifying the economy through a national industrial policy and innovative private-sector incentives that will move us away from over reliance on oil into value-added production especially manufacturing.

Reviving textile and other industries that have been rendered dormant because of inappropriate economic policies.

Reinvigorating the solid mineral sector by revamping our aged mining legislation and attracting new investment.

Developing a new generation of domestic oil refineries to lower import costs, enhance our energy independence and create jobs.

Working with state governments to turn the country into Africa’s food basket through a new system of grants and interest free loans, and the mechanization of agriculture.

In the quote above APC state that they intend to focus on agriculture, industrialization and public works as avenues to provide the funds and jobs they promise. Supporters of the incumbent party will say that the present administration is already doing these things; GEJ has been pointing to his government's efforts in agriculture, manufacturing (the newly commissioned auto-mobile plants for example) as one of the areas his administration has achieved some measure of success.

I have to ask, how is Buhari's plan in this regard better than GEJ's? This question also marries the concern of policy reversals, something virtually all governments in this country suffer from, when a new administration begins they tend to discontinue plans and policies made by their predecessors even when some progress has been made.

Francis5:
Osinbajo, please tell us how you became a professor

I'm no fan of GMB and his team but I have to admit that this course you have chosen to remain on is played out and counter productive.

Amazing that some people condone capital punishment without any trial because it involves GMB.

Look at these clowns talking rubbish. Everybody with their own version of how USA is the great Satan trying to destroy Nigeria. Kai.

I am not a supporter of GMB at all but there is no arguing the fact that the present government has been insincere in dealing with the security challenges we face. Jonathan claimed he knew who Boko Haram was and that they had infiltrated his government yet he has not taken any actions to get rid of the infiltrators. The way the government handled the Chibok kidnapping was a complete disgrace too. The CCTVs installed in Abuja and other places to improve security are barely functional.

Security is one area that Jonathan's government has severely underperformed. Thats bad.

pring:
Why are people so myopic to see that the US is behind the wars across the world including boko haram.

Not everyone drinks the conspiracy theory kool aid like you.

jorlons:
I'm supremely confident that lawyer is going to make a fool out of himself. Which of these lawyers does he think when it comes to law he is better than?

Prof. Osibanjo

Prof Itse sagay.

Festus keyamo.

Okafor doesn't value his career and whatever is left in it. I have no doubt PDP will become the most Publicly disgraced Party (PDP) after the verdict and after the elections in feBUHARI 14th

I'm sure this was the same kind of talk that was spread about before David took out Goliath.

The courts are back now so legal action in this saga is now a possibility.

The mods have their work cut out for them this election season. Threads like this should closed as soon as they sprout.

Bayswater:
That Buhari documentary is hitting the hard so they are coming up with lies to fight back.

Buhari has been exposed for who he really is, the incarnate of the devil on earth.

Easy sir, incarnate of the devil is too harsh naa.

penisilin:
I saw dis while in a commercial bus in lagos, I had to hold back tears listening a grown man begging conductor to pls accept #120 instead of #150 to his destination. That man's money, my money, our money in an heartless man canadian account... God, gods and Nature will surely terminate all saTANoids agenda.

You need to have your head checked if you believe this story.

BTW who are all these overly emotional men holding back tears everywhere on NL?

The other day they found $700 million cash, today it's $4.7 trillion.

Who is the dunderhead coming up with these figures? This is so silly.

CFCfan:
I agree that coal should be exploited for power generation, in addition to solar panels. The FG could severely limit the importation of generators; allowing only stadium operators and the various Government houses to own one. Then, the FG should subsidize the import/manufacture of solar panels in Nigeria.
The solar panels would be used by house-holds and petty businesses eg hair-dressing salons, restaurants etc.
This measure would lead to much cleaner air, and a drastic reduction in noise pollution.

If only things were that easy. Solar energy still has a long way to go before it can be used as a reliable power source in this country. Visit any site that depends on solar energy in this part of the world and see for yourself the challenges they face. The Germans and Chinese are doing something differently in this area, we just haven't figured it out yet.

grabs:
Everyone knows Buhari's one track formula of jail as the solution of all problems. That's why he remains perpetually unelectable.

Not that GEJ is any better but this is how GMB strikes me. . .

Nigerians: Sir what are your plans for stemming the fall of the naira against the dollar?

GMB: Jail.

Nigerians: A lot of our youths are unemployed, how do you plan to address this?

GMB: We will jail them.

Nigerians: Do you plan to continue with the initiatives in place concerning power or will you have new plans for this?

GMB: The power will come from jails.

Nigerians: What about insecurity and the terrorist attacks we face from the hands of fundamentalists?

GMB: Jail

Nigerians: Sir how do you plan to improve education, what should we expect from you in this area?

GMB: More jails.

Nigerians : How will Nigeria's foreign policy be shaped in your tenure?

GMB: It will be jail based.

Nigerians: Sir don't you think this emphasis on jails is too much?

GMB: You are going to jail.

Johnpaul88:
He knows he cannot attack any issue raised by Soludo, and there were a lot of them, or else Soludo will eat him raw when next he gets their time.

sai Buhari till 2019

If you read and understood Suludo's piece you would have seen that in it both APC and PDP have demonstrated very poor understanding of the challenges that face this nation let alone devised solutions to them.

Truth be told neither Buhari nor Jonathan can lead us to greatness.

wasuka14:
After readin dis article tears come out of my eyes. For votin gej in 2011 n two, for d pple campainin for him to continue till 2019. Dis clueless man, gej n his lunatic wife hav ruined ma country. I seek forgiveness frm Almighty God for d part I play in electin dis gej. Infact, am speechless!

You need to man up, you are too emotional.

kmariko:
The greatest football game is usually the one you played in. Luckily history is not one of the strengths of the citizenry..so we can easily paint obasanjo as the Messiah of our Country.

Lastly, the election is over Peter Obi won and Obiano is doing a fine job - let it go.

True that.

Even with that one cannot deny that the points raised in the article are valid enough. Both parties have yet to spell out how they intend to achieve the grand promises they make; none has been convincing so far.

I think, given the challenges we face as a nation and the penchant for the Nigerian spirit to make alarming choices, it is safe to say that in the long run we are all screwed.