₦airaland Forum

BloomingDale:
Resource Control for South South, please. Hope the South South Governors take note. We have to take control of our resources to develop our region.

Any oil company not paying taxes to South South should be booted out of the region. Let them go drill their oil wherever they are paying their taxes to.

Any banks, companies etc operating in your region and not paying taxes should be booted out too. Priorities should be given to regional companies, banks etc etc. let’s all develop all region.

I ❤️ restructuring.

While i agree that resources should be controlled largely from origin. Experience and reality in Niger Delta so far has shown that it is not only about how much more money can come to the state governments but how judiciously they can use the limited funds they already have

Shedrack777:
we believe the court will pass judgement in favour of obi on or before 15th may, 2023

Dream on!

Tntsi:
Are u sure there will be an inauguration?

We should ask you if you see otherwise in your dream.

As for those planning committee.

Aso Ebi is ready .


Only d bitter and sore loser may visit d hospital for depression on that day.

I hope you will all b alright las las

Corridon:
I haven't seen a woman so uncouth, crass and mannerless than this Abike of a woman! Her parents failed to instill discipline on her right from childhood. One can only but imagine how mannerless her children will be. I really weep for her husband that's if she has any. I give up on her.

She has a right to reply. Those who hide behind keyboard to insult people old enough to be their mother are d uncouth. I wonder how hold you are. She has shown repeatedly that mannerless children of hate will not insult her and go free. That is her own style. By d way, we have a whole lame duck minister of foreign affairs (Onyema) who should be doing d evacuation job but d haters will not call him out.

If you do not see what is wrong with d idiot who insulted her, and all you can do is to rush here to type rubbish about her, perhaps you are not different from him.

Just because she is a government official who is doing her best to help, does not mean any mannerless kids should insult her.
We know some do not regard respect as big deal in their culture.

infofta:
We all know the kind of rest he went for.

An old fragile, corrupt man who should be resting permanently in his house or in prison if Nigeria is a sane country wants to be President by fire by force.

We all know where Nigeria is heading for: Disintegration, civil war or bloody revolution. It's just a matter of time

Hatred kills faster than Cancer!
Why do Igbos hate Tinubu? Why do you guys carry his matter for head? He has no connection with any of your governors in d east who have refused to develop ur towns and villages. All the richest igbo sons and daughters made their money in other regions. D last time i went through d east, i could not undetstand why d igbos are not doing anything about their underdevelopment but d same people are quick to condemn Tinubu. How many Igbos will accept other tribes to insult their race as much as igbos do to d yorubas.

Yorubas do not discriminate about religion until Obi start looking for yoruba chrstians votes.

When you look inward and reflect, you will realise your enemy is not Tinubu or Yorubas. It is within.

IgOga:
Even the bible said of God in Genesis 2:2 "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."


Obi o gentle...Obi o dull

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Charly68:
Tinubu's own na final certificate he don collect ..no man can take that one back except you show me where somebody has won an election petition at the tribunal over presidential election. The onus of proof is an onerous task that can't be done in one year considering the data base. Nigeria is a large country

You get their time?

Headlines like this help d obidient to relief their pain temporarily. It is like mkpuru miri to them. Let them Dream on! It is their right to believe an imaginary stolen mandate will soon be reclaimed in their dream.

aariwa:
Tinubu the mandate thief drug dealer will return his.In a fee and fair elections Kwakwanso will beat tinubu hands now and tinubu knows he lacks legitimacy and doesn’t have mandate of Nigerians but that of Mahmoud

In a free and fair election, I am sure you will beat your state governor.

SMH

manutdrichie:
Tinubu in my mind

If wishes were horses.......

Built2last:
Nigerians in Sudan are mostly Northerners studying Islamic courses

There are many airlines owned by Northerners

The president is a Northerner.

The African richest man is a Northern.

But,

It is the chairman of Airpeace, Allen Onyema, AN IGBO MAN, who has AGAIN, in his characteristic manner, volunteered to use his planes to bring back Nigerians trapped in war-torn Sudan.

Nigerians from North and South are praising him to high havens, calling him a patriot.

Ironically, IF the same Allen Onyema decides to run for president of Nigeria tomorrow, these same Nigerians praising him today will tell him that he is IPOB and cannot rule Nigeria. Even the people he brought back will tell him that they rather vote one of their own even if he's on wheelchair.

Whatever you do as an Igbo man in today's Nigeria, always remember that IGBOPHOBIA is alive and well. In fact, there is a sense in which it can be argued that that is the major oxygen sustaining the Nigerian state.

The late literary god Chinualumogu Albert Achebe was right;

"Nigerians will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo."

You are damn wrong. Ask Allen Onyema if he has achieved all he has done alone without the help of people from other regions. Airpeace is largely patronised by people from other regions. D airline fly more to other regions than the southeastern states. Many northerners prefer to fly Airpeace than airlines owned by fellow northerners.

Finally, airpeace may be owned by Allen Onyema who is xonsidered as Delta igbo, but without the patronage of all nigerians, he would have been out of business long time ago, that he chose to give back to d society that he makes his money is a business strategy and social investment, he is not stupid.

D same argument i hear many igbos in lagos make, we need each other, Check majority of who patronise the igbo businesses in Lagos and Abuja, they are yoruba and Hausas.

For example, Igbos dominated auto spare parts, but majority of the mechanics who decides to buy are yorubas. Same in other industries. Can d sellers survive for long if there are no buyers?

No one individual or group can do it all alone. You may not appreciate d value of ur neighbour until you are lonely.

As an employer, i have employed sizable igbos, in my business without any worry but d last presidential election and d many comments of igbos also known as obidients about d yorubas as if we all sat somewhere to deny them d presidency.

In 4years, another presidential election will be conducted and another opportunity will be opened. But many obidients are prepared to destroy their century old relationships with yorubas

Arthur Nzeribe (An igbo man) of the infamous ABN, was used to scuttle June 12 Election but Yorubas did not castigate d entire igbo race as responsible for their woes.

Many do not know d implications and consequences of all these anormalies.

If Igbos do not trust yorubas again, how can yorubas trust igbo too? Go to any market in lagos, both tribes dominate businesses. These dangerous narratives may do more damages to individual relationships than we think. We should allow d courts to decide and stop castigating each other's tribe

I come in peace. 🕊🕊🕊

AdolfHitlerxXx:


Very funny how SE hates Tinubu and he blatantly cheated them out of their turn.

1. Ohaneze begged him not to contest, yet said nothing to Atiku whose PDP enslaved them for 24 years.

2. Sponsored Obi to run against him, under the table without even Obi knowing. Started Obidient movement to insult him while putting him in Aso Rock.

3. Released Yes Daddy audio and Guinea dual citizenship to cause distraction.

4. It is so amusing when I see Obi supporters still on his case here not knowing their 5 States were his puppets.

Imagine your chained dog that you feed daily, flog when you want, barking and calling itself the master of your house.

Tinubu is just a Grandmaster. A colonial Master. Effortlessly leading SW and SE by proxy.

I agree 100%

Obi actually worked for Tinubu.

He did a yo man's job to destroy any hope of Atiku by taking away all hitherto PDP votes in the SouthEast, SouthSouth and Part of Middlebelt. He nonetheless gqve Tinubu some bruises in lagos. But All in All, To God Be The Glory.

Obi really deserve some recognition from Tinubu's govt for his gallant effort.

I will suggest tinubu should give him MON and possibly a ministerial post, Import Minister. will be a good one to start from😂😂

Malory:
Then show us his current picture.

Retardation at its peak.

Not suprising. If they believed El Sudan is in Aso Rock, not Buhari,what more or new low can we expect from haters.

We know for sure that hatred kills faster than cancer. And those who hates fellow humans for no just cause than d fact he contested and won, they may die very young if they continue on hating.

NaijaCowFarm:
This is a response to the topic that made the front page with the title “Prof Osunbor: No Place In Constitution That Says You Must Score 25% In FCT” with the link below: https://www.nairaland.com/7653249/prof-osunbor-no-place-constitution.

I am therefore hoping that the Nairaland moderators would be magnanimous enough to push this rejoinder or correction to the front page as well.

Firstly, let me make this clear When a lie is repeated so many times, people tend to believe it as the truth. This we have seen in APC in the past and they have not changed.

The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (section 134 subsections 1 & 2) states as follows:
“Section 134
1. A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected, where, there being only two candidates for the election a. he has the majority of votes cast at the election; and b. he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
2. A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election a. he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and b. he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja”

Now, let me educate the professor and some of his few fans that FCT is conferred a special status by the Nigeria constitution.
I will treat this topic with the following subheads. I could merge some of these into one subhead to reduce the length of the discourse

i. The President is the Governor of FCT while the National Assembly is the legislative assembly (Section 301) and the president governs the t by proxy (Section 302) and appoints the Chief Judge of the FCT (Section 256:1 &2)

ii. The FCT is deemed a mini or little Nigeria (Section 2: 2)

iii. The FCT is NOT a federating state (Section 3:1)

iv. FCT has one Senator, other federating states have three senators each (Section 48)

v. All Federating states have a Governor, a legislative assembly, and a judiciary, with the Chief Judge appointed by the governor

1. The President is the "Governor of FCT" while the National Assembly is the legislative assembly (Section 301) and he governs the FCT by proxy (Section 302) and appoints the Chief Judge of the FCT (Section 256:1 &2)

For anyone to be governor of a state, you MUST be elected by a majority of votes cast and score ¼ of at least 2/3 of the LGAs in the state. This is the provision of Section 179 of the Nigerian Constitution. Taken in the same context, the president CANNOT be elected without having 1/4 of FCT votes, Take note that by the provisions of Sections 256 (1&2), 301 and 302, state that the President is deemed to be governor of the FCT. He appoints a minister to govern on his behalf. So, just like a governor cannot be elected unless he fulfills the requirements of sections 178 and 179, the president MUST fulfill the requirement of ¼ of the votes in the FCT to be elected as its governor. This is the context with which Section 134 (2) was written and it is not ambiguous and does not need a professor to teach us what the constitution means by adding a conjunction[b] AND[/b]

The FCT as a mini-Nigeria and Not a Federating state (Sections2 &3). The Constitution states "Nigeria shall be a Federation consisting of States and [b]a Federal Capital Territory". [/b]

The constitution envisaged a situation where a presidential candidate may win in his region tribe or zone but only pick some votes in other regions due to tribal and religious inclination, hence to be a president of Nigeria, you MUST have been voted for by ¼ of miniature Nigeria, the FCT. The fact here is that whereas some states are ethnically dominated, the FCT is assumed to provide equal representations of each of the Federating States of Nigeria, This confers to the voters of FCT a SPECIAL STATUS. Quite unlike the professor tried to "teach" us.

The FCT is NOT a federating state but rather deemed a State ONLY for the purposes of GOVERNANCE.
Hence Nigeria DOES NOT have 37 states as being wrongfully portrayed for selfish reasons

All the federating states are listed in Section 3:1, but the FCT is not listed there. So, to understand the provisions of Section 299, you need to read in context the section and the subsequent subsections. You cannot just pick and chose, but read to understand the intent of the section.
Unlike the FCT, which is the capital of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, each state has a capital. Section 3:3 states “The headquarters of the Governor of each State shall be known as the Capital City of that State as shown in the third column of the said Part I of the First Schedule opposite the State named in the first column thereof”. Here is the catch, to be elected as governor, you need to score 25% in 2/3 of the LGAs of the state. The constitution does not recognize the State Capital as it recognized the FCT for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This clearly confers on the FCT voter a SPECIAL STATUS

The misconception of Section 299 shows that some of our lawyers need to be re-educated. With all due respect, let us examine Section 299. It states as follows:
299. The provisions of this Constitution shall apply to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as if it were one of the States of the Federation; and accordingly –
a. all the legislative powers, the executive powers and the judicial powers vested in the House of Assembly, the Governor of a State and in the courts of a State shall, respectively, vest in the National Assembly, the President of the Federation and in the courts which by virtue of the foregoing provisions are courts established for the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja;
b. all the powers referred to in paragraph (a) of this section shall be exercised in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution; and
c. the provisions of this Constitution pertaining to the matters aforesaid shall be read with such modifications and adaptations as may be reasonably necessary to bring them into conformity with the provisions of this section.
Even a not too educated person would know that the above provision DOES NO[/b]T confer on FCT the status of a federating state. Hence the argument that Nigeria has 37 states is clearly [b]FALSE.

F[b]CT has one Senator, other federating states have three senators each (Section 48) and 2HOR members. [/b]
No need to belabor this topic, it simply shows that FCT has a SPECIAL STATUS because all other states have 3 senators.

So, with all due respect, someone needs to tell Professor Osunbor that he was wrong, because, if his student had put up this argument in an exam, he would probably have failed him/her.

You have obviously turned reasoning on its head.

If you feel you know too much, i will suggest you join the Legal team of PitObi and go argue your point at the tribunal. You are d one repeating lies not the other way round.

Why dont we allow d judiciary to do their work?

NaijaMutant:
Mandate thief

You mean

Manhood thief!

Leave Obi alone to search for his stolen mandate. He will find it by 2070! God of Men have assured him to search harder! It is in Angulu😄😄😄

Freethinker87:
If you were a PO, EO, RO or any other INEC designator in the last election, just make sure you didn't partake in the fraud cos you're going to experience first-hand what it means to be persecuted by the state when Obi reclaim his mandate.

In your dream

Wake up! Collect your money!

You need to smell d coffee too

ganisucks:
All the election riggers have united in support of Baba blue, the father of election rigging.

This guy's interpretation is really funny.

Make APC dey play. Let them not go and start preparing for rerun, like their internal memos have suggested. Let them continue petting Baba blue.
When Tribunal sacks them, them go dey alright.

Everybody suddenly becomes a professor of law interpreting to suit their wish like you like Datti

If a professor of law's interpretation is funny. Are you a lawyer?

By d time d supreme court dismissed all the Eluupee bogus prayers, you all will still come here to cry that Tinubu had bribed all the Justices to get d judgement in hid favour.

Even right now. Some Obidients are claiming that Tinubu and APC bribed the British immigratiin to embarass Obi. How low can people go!

Ofunaofu:
But Obi flogged Tinubu blue black in lagos State

We know how it all happened.

No thanks to god of men.
And the religious war slogan.

Obi was able to make such impacts because the Muslims really do not see Tinubu as a Staunch Muslim, he is too liberal for many muslims. How can a thorough muslim allow his wife and all his children be christians. And Remi is even a pastor of RCCG.

Yet Christians are using that as a smoke-screen to promote religious war. Which is unfounded. If Tinubu has chosen a christian as Vice, most muslims in the north would not vote for him because he would be seen as [b]"Christain-christian ticket."[b]

If the entire Yoruba Muslims and the Hausa communities in lagos were to mo bilise for Tinubu just like d christians did, d story will surely be different.

Even in the Governorship election, most muslims did not participate becos the two major leading candisates are christians.

However, the precedence being laid by yes daddy and god of men in the southwest may come to hunt the christians later. Those ypruba pastors who know too well how the southwest has succeeded in breaking ethnic and religious barriers are now unwittingly allowing an ethnic and religious bigot like Obi to divide us for his own personal ambition.

Hope d muslims will not be called bigots when they do d same in future.

The stage has been set.

happney65:
N

Pastor Adefarasin was also attacked few days before the election for being neutral. The Obidients dragged him online, insisting he must openly endorse peter obi. Many obidients even called on Igbo members of his church not to attend his church again.

The philosophy of the Obidients is "You are either with us or you will be brutally attacked like an enemy. No room to be neutral". Either their way or the highway".

Despite many prominent yorubas like Pa Adebanjo, Obasanjo, Doyin Okupe and Many Yoruba Youths like Mr. Macaroni, Falz etc supporting the Obi against their Son-Tinubu, while very few well known Igbos are supporting Obi, many will still make sweeping derogatory remarks about the entire yoruba race.

Rather than appeal to people and sell your candidate, they go on over-drive insulting everyone they expect to vote for Obi as if the South East alone can make Obi d presidenr.

After coming third, they are still insulting everyone who doubt Obi's victory and "his stolen mandate".

I know once they lose at the court, They are likely to resume the agitation.

Rather than re-strategise for the 2027 election. They will burn themselves out on an already lost election.

Atiku that came second knows how this politics works, he is not making so much noise.

I ask the obidients. Those who voted for Tinubu and Atiku, are they not nigerians too?

If indeed the votes were trully rigged, is it only one region out of 6regions will be crying by now?

BrotherShade:
😎

Tinubu is a tribal bigot for accepting a muslim muslim Ticket against Christian muslim Ticket.

No man born of a woman can swear in Tinubu as Nigeria president 😎

Calm down! bros

That possiblity of Tinubu's swearing in is loading....... 97% already.

Only God can stop his swearing in. Know this and know peace

apache4:
Over my dead body will Tinubu become my President

Let god take my life on the day of his shameless inauguration

Hmmmm

Even if you do not want Tinubu to be president.

You still need to be alive nonetheless, your life is too precious to swear with.

Becarefull what you say, No politician is worth your *"swearing over your dead body"*

Great0ne1:
So you believe a useless country like Nigeria, can be allowed to join BRICS ? To contribute what ? Debts and borrowing ?

Your country is useless?!

What does that make you?

Omoawoke:
Some people still dey cry for Mandate when the world is moving on

I like this Jagaban ehn… lol, baba just know how to keep his enemies distracted while focusing on the bigger picture.
He left them confused, they were there debating CJN, asking for his whereabouts, etc
He threw one bone at them like a hungry dog to keep them chasing shadows

When he go their time to play again, he sent them yes daddy to keep them busy.

The most insulted and hated by some people will end up being the best president Nigeria has ever had

He was doubted, called all sort of names, mocked for his age, Muslim Muslim ticket etc.
But on the irony, he will be the best that has ever happened to Nigeria. He will surely deliver and unify everyone. I just too believe in Asiwaju and his strategies to make Nigeria great again.
He will make his enemies love him.
May the new regime be regime of blessings and abundance for me and every Nigerian including lovers and haters of Asiwaju

Aaamen to that!

jchioma:


The "in-going" president 's'elect and his 1st Lady.

Enjoy your vacation and come back to face the tribunal case with ya full chest. Nothing to fear. Good thing Nigerians are willing to abide by a just and lawful decision of the courts. We move.


[/b]Wahala for who carry Nigerian politicians' matter for head.

[b]

My sister, i agree with your bolded.

All of them will enjoy the power with their families with minimal impacts on nigerians who carry dem for head, see Buhari's case. Somebody even trecked from his village to Abuja because of Buhari, now many of these Buharists know better after Emiefele dealt with us with his crazy naira confiscation policy

No single politician can turn nigeria around overnight. Growing and developing as a country do not happen overnight and human beings change once they get hold of power.

Personally, i hqve learnt my lessons from all the previous politicians. They say different thing before and do different after gaining power.

My hope is on God and my personal efforts to make things happen not on any of these politicians. Never!

Dafresh:
The money is too small they would have demanded 300 million because INEC made billions from rigging election

Would you have been this heartless if any of them were to be your family member?

What goes round comes round, if you rejoice at other peoples' misfortune just because your preferred candidate did not win. You will get what you wish for others. Karma is real. Dey play.

How much were these people paid? So you will be happier if the kidnappers demand 300million?

Now i truly believe that hatred kills faster than cancer

I pray God will intervene in their issue and they will be freed sooner to go back to their families safely.

Emma1Oj:
Tinubu can't be 71yrs. His first daughter is 56yrs. Which kind lie be dis?

Why not focus on substance.

Even if his daughter's age is 99yrs.

Who age help?

Some 30yr old men are worse mentally than 71yr old

Besides, he is not applying for marathon race or gymnastic job.

Can we talk about other important issues?

Tinubu is not the best politician but i know his administration will surely be far better than Buhari's tenure.

We cannot continue to undo what is already done.

Time to move on.

Anyone expecting a different result from the Supreme Court is only waiting for Baba Ijebu to run bankrupt.

Ofemmanu1:
He should relocate to Enugu

What about UGM?

Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

We have noticed the use of ethnic slurs and other derogatory names by a small but persistent group of political actors and trolls.

This practice of derogatory name-calling adds no value to the forum. It's bad for our mental health, our harmony as a community, and the reputation of Nairaland. It's simply toxic. It's absence and the absence of the people who use those slurs will not be missed.

Therefore I have decided to ban the practice entirely. I have instructed dominique, mukina2, Lalasticlala and Mynd44 to ban anyone who uses an ethnic slur or derogatory name on Nairaland. The antispam bot will also contribute to the effort. Please report any case that you see.

- Seun Osewa, Founder of Nairaland

Long over due but will really believe you when you match your words and warnings above with actions and sactions.

Until then.......

barbstee:
It's actually necessary to do

I don't think any government can sustain that.

All the major presidential candidates promised to remove it too

I wish our refinery can function to full capacity.

But...
If only they had allowed GEJ to remove it then

That opportunity has been lost already
It is like a tumor in a body.

The surgery will be neccessary but no doubt painful.

The issue is what has APC done in the last 8years to fix our refineries or encourage private refineries aside from Dangote's refinery.

Personally i know Dangote is a Shylock monopolist. He will milk us dry.

If you do not believe, check the price of bag of cement in neihhbouring Benin and Togo, All the major materias used to produce cement are locally available yet his cement prices are not competitive in price, instead Dangote cement prefer to declare outrageous profit margin to the shareholders.

Most other Cements manufacturers like lafarge are strugling to survive

I honestly do not trust Dangote to help us, his petrol may be more expensive than imported.

Way out,
Get Inverter and a 200ah battery, increase the inverter and capacity based on your financial capacity add Solar panels when you can.

Get Byd Chinese electrical vehicle like Picanto for less than $5000 if you can. Some companies are already using this mini-cars for Uber. They are like Korope or Hi-jet very strong.

It is cheap and durable, most can do 200km before next charging.

You have to be creative to survive in nigeria.

We will not leave this country and become second class in a foreign land for anyone. Nigeria will be better in our lifetime. No one but Nigerians will do it.

Benwallt:
Bola, on your mandate we stand. An altruistic leader. Your name alone causes fear and makes many tremble. They run from pillar to post looking for avenue to pull you down but you are damn prepared.

You started your journey of a thousand mile with a standard step why your pairs are chasing shadows, cutting corners and jumping fences to catch up with you. They couldn't. They have retorted to asking questions from trees and animals as to whether they saw you spit, shit or per by the road side as you surge and sojourn in your calculated and meticulous journey.

You defeated the beast with one swipe, you caught and tether the lion to a tree, you used the Viper's fang to pick in between your teeth. You arrived your promised land unscathed with the multitude you picked and helped along the way.

Sewer rats, bald headed vultures, hyenas, and jackass jackals cannot deny you of the reward that you were given by the people you sacrificed for. No.

[/b]Come May 29 they will be put to shame. We have identified a massive acres of infertile land where the labourers will laboured harrowingly for 8 years. They will wish for death but death will deny them rest.[b]

As you are resting there, drink french tea, proceed to London, drink London wine, plan your government and hit the ground running as soon as the oath is finalised.

[/b]No children of dogs, pigs and perdition can stop you.

[b]

My dear brother, let us moderate our comments, we are all nigerians and Tinubu will be the president of the country. So we should know better to empathise with those who have lost. Healing takes time and we do not need to react to all their comments. D crown is enough. Patience and understanding will be needed from all Tinubu supporters. Because we will all be here again in 2027.

The Bolded is really not necessary.