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Politics, Sociology and International Relations

Please does anybody know if it's possible to combine both Waec and Neco in Unizik when using two sittings.

So what are we to do with the pictures? Useless government that only revels in photo ops for their gullible supporters. How low can a country go when the president is busy commissioning secondary schools?

Well Ambode is much better so many projects going on simultaneously in different parts of the state especially the hitherto untouched parts. He's doing a great job as far I'm concerned but he should tone down on his seemingly aggressive anti-poor policies. Nonetheless his performance in less than two years is already more than what the clueless one in Aso Rock can ever muster in 4 years.


Like Apostle Peter advised in the bible that we should pray for our leaders so that we may live peaceful lives, I hereby declare and decree wisdom into the life of Mr. President because there has been an obvious lack.

*in keneking voice* useless government, useless APC

FTC no big deal.

kinglekan:


All they have to do is form sexy voice or show small cleavage and i don turn mumu... May God deliver us from Karishikas!


Lalasticala which one be your ministry oooo?

Naso one girl carry her laptop come my room that time make I help am do assignment o. The girl no even dey my department. I rush go online, check all the soft copies of materials wey dey her system. I use two days do assignment as per say I wan do better job. After I don type finish I carry system dey go her hostel. As I don dey near na hin I call her say I don almost reach o. Naso the werey girl. Talk say "hey sweetheart I'm very sorry I'm in Daniel's place off-campus. He's sick and I've gone to help him cook. Can you please help me bring it tomorrow morning when coming to the faculty." I just stand there they look like mumu. Daniel na guy wey she tell me say na her toaster who just dey disturb her and she don tell am say dem no fit date. My creator will never forgive that girl.

kinglekan:


This one almost got me shedding tears! .. Gehs are pure evil

JeffreyJamez come see your ministry ooo! Mr FixIT

An average guy has been at least five ABFs. Only God can save son of man. Wetin love of kittycat go do us ehn.

kinglekan:

Wetin my moniker dey find for ABF Stomach Infrastructure?

Do I look like the Minister of Agriculture?

Fantastic Write Up Op....Thumbs up

Minister of Agriculture loooool. Ayaf die. But baba you know how many times wey u don buy shawarma na.

freebreezeyz:
OP ur post is truly unique and accurate!! weldone!!! Some peeps while reading am sure would have already placed themselves where they belong!
You were really funny tho!@''Use all their energy gotten from free food to ride their main guys to heaven''! hehehehe!

Some ladies are wicked nah. Chop ur food finish, give u thank u hug, collect transport money and go to the main guy to ride him.

6. ABF Defence and Strategy
These ones are the defenders of the universe both online and offline. Whenever she posts a picture or write up on facebook or instagram. They are there to give her multiple likes and give her sweet comments. If anybody tries to give a negative comment on her, they go berserk launching missiles, grenades and nuclear weapons. On campus they are always there following her about as security guards. If the lady is the saucy type that can yab a dead man back to life, it is the ABF Defence and Strategy she runs to after finnaly getting her cup full and abusing those stronger than her father. You will hear her running and shouting at the same time "mrcork oooo I don abuse some mad guys o abeg come threaten them with your range rover"

7. ABF Logistics
He's the on in charge of logistics. He follows her to the bank to deposit or withdraw, she wants to collect a new atm card, he'll escort her, her line has been blocked and wants a retrieval, he's there with her. She wants a new apartment, he'll be the one to go and scout, find the agent and caretaker, get painters and electricians to fix the apartment. He's the one to help her copy assignment, he will go online, finish the assignment, type it, print it and spiral bind. He'll do 80% of her final project. Get the "engineer" to repair the faulty gen, go to dstv office to help her pay for subscription, take her gas cylinder out for refilling, help her get a carpenter to repair the kitchen cabinet, take her laptop for repairs. Baba is everywhere at every time.

8. ABF Miscellaneous
Baba is in charge of recharge cards, data subscription, subscription for dstv, lawma fees, money for fuel, buying of a new charger and earpiece after the old one got burnt, buying of new bulbs and wall sockets, refilling the gas cylinder, new cartons of noodles and provisions. Baba is not as financially buoyant as ABF Finance so he can't be burdened with the major expenses so the minor ones go to him because he's either a civil servant or his daily earnings come from baba Ijebu or bet9ja. Once her dstv sub expires, she picks up the phone and call "HungerBad dear please my dstv subscription just finished and I must watch Saloni and Married Again tonight, baby please help me out" or "Vizkiz! sweetie my gas has finished o and I was planning to cook for you this weekend o. How are we going to do it now? And the thing is just 3800"

9. ABF kpanshing
Baba has nothing to offer other than his long and rigid tool and also his strength and virility in bed. Baba gives her multiple orgazms due to the rough and hard way he handles her in bed. Baba blows her out and knocks her off every time they tango in bed. The match always looks like a Chelsea vs Atletico Madrid match. She always leaves for home satisfied. Although they might not be emotionally attached but she doesn't joke with baba as nobody does it better than him.

10. ABF General Secretariat.
Baba is the jack of all trades and master of all. He multi-tasks all the above roles together with to much expertise. The ultimate utility player whose versatility is second to none. He's the closest thing to the main guy and might end up becoming one.

Do you think this list is complete or I should have added or remove some? Kindly show your opinions in your comments.

There is a set of guys we popularly call assistant boyfriends. Just like the name suggests they are assistants to the real boyfriends. Some people might mistake it for a friend zoned guy but they are different. An assistant boyfriend is the mid-point between the real bobo and the one who has a duplex in friend zone avenue. The type of assistant boyfriend a guy is and the level of smartness will determine whether he becomes the main bobo or the friend-zoned one.
Assistant boyfriends are important to most ladies because they play active and decisive roles to them and like I opined earlier, an assistant boyfriend has a good chance of upgrading to the main guy or downgrading to a friend-zoning. ABF as I will refer to it subsequently is not as good as being the main bobo but it's definitely better than being in friend zone. One thing I want us to note is that many of us have been ABFs at different times. While some of us have ended up as main guys some among us also have become BOT chairmen as friend zone corporation. For others in multiple relationships, you might be a main guy in one and ABF in another.

Here are the 10 types of ABFs from my observations.
1. ABF Finance
He is the Dangote and Bill Gate rolled into one. The real money bag so to say. He's in charge of all her finances. The wicked ladies might want to refer to him as "maga" or "mugu" but that's unfair because bros is only being generous. Whenever she wants to pay her school fees, rent a new apartment, pay her rent that's due or go on a shopping spree, his name is the one that pops up in her head. He's the financier and caters for her financial needs. If he's smart enough he might get more than the hugs and kisses and get to visit Aso Rock Villa but you can never tell with some guys. Dear lady are you feeling broke? Please look for an ABF Finance.

2. ABF Emotional Affairs
He's in charge of emotional matters. He's most susceptible to ending up in a friend zone. He's very close to the lady and also a confidante but that's also his albatross. He's knows everything that goes up in her relationship and acts as the chief adviser. He also advises her on who to date and who not to. You'll always hear things like "Wristbangle see David has started again o, he's no longer picking my calls" or "Tosyne2much can you believe Akin used another girl's picture as his dp?" Or "smellymouth do you know that cute guy in our department? He just asked me out, should I tell him yes? Whenever she has issues with her bf or gets heartbroken, it's the work of the ABF Emotional Affairs to provide emotional support; a shoulder to cry on. In fact some go the extent of having the contact of the main nigga and act as mediators whenever there's a conflict. I was once in this category with a girl but in my own case a shoulder to cry on became a deek to ride on.

3. ABF Religious Affairs
He's the brother in the lord. They are mostly Bro David, Bro Samuel and Bro Joshua. Bros sees her as the one whom God might have chosen for him but she sees him as just her brother in the lord. On campus, he's always coming to share tracts and devotionals with her. They read and study the bible together. They pray together. In fact if she has problems, bros sometimes to join her in fasting or even fast on her behalf. But because of his religious creed, he cannot even ask her out straight up. They are both workers in the fellowship and while Bro John hopes and pray God opens her eyes to see him as her dream husband, sister Rebecca continues going off campus to spend the weekend with Lalasticlal.a the main guy. At home, they know him in her house as the brother who comes every evening to do voice training with sister Hannah and discuss biblical issues with her. They know that every Sunday morning Bro Rasaq must come to their house to remind Sister Balqiz that they will be going for Nasfat prayers that morning.

4. ABF Stomach Infrastructure
Like the name suggests, he's responsible for stomach affairs. She remembers him whenever she goes hungry. He's the one that takes her out for meals, buys her snacks and drinks. Whenever she feels like taking peppersoup and malt on a friday night, his name comes into remembrance. You'll hear things like "and I feel like eating Shawarma oooo. Ok let me call kinglekan" I know many of these guys back on campus then. They are always ready to take the girls out to Tantalizers, Spices to take peppersoup and sminrnoff or to eat Amala Skye bank in Bodija with assorted meat yet they can't buy even one bottle of Satzenbrau for their guys. At the end of it all na ordinary hug u go collect as thank you while she uses the energy given to her buy the food you bought to ride the main nigga to heaven.

5. ABF Repairs and Maintenance
Baba is always the one responsible for repairs and maintenance of household items. If you fall under this category, you know yourself. You are always remembered when her wall socket gets burnt, she wants to change the bulb, her wristwatch suddenly stops working, her laptop needs to be reformatted, her small tiger gen is refusing to start or her extension bo blew off, then you fall under this category. Well December is almost here and she wants to repaint her room, bro go and get some of your clothes you no longer wear, change into them and grab the goddamn paint container and brush abeg.

Nairaland is one of the most exciting, informative and interesting online forums in Nigeria today. It covers a whole lot of subjects from politics to sports, entertainment to culture and education to technology. It is a melting point of many nigerian youths of different ethnic, political and religious persuasions. However, as is obtainable in real nigerian life so it is on Nairaland. People get into religious and ethnic fights easily and most times many of these are unnecessary. These have left many people with broken e-limbs and some battered beyond recognition.

The kind of unprintable and foul words adopted during these e-wars usually leave Nairaland mods with little or no choice other than to ban them. However, it is pertinent to note that not all people are banned for breaking the rules as some are also banned unjustly by some mods who turned themselves into tin gods that must be worshipped. This doesn't also change the fact that many have become veterans with bans and become sent back as soon as they come back from one. This is what prompts me to ask the question: How many times have you ever been banned on Nairaland?

For me the answer is twice. I guess I'm not a trouble maker after all.

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Igho Akeregha (President, Civil Liberties
Organisation)

One of the major promises President
Muhammadu Buhari made to Nigerians during his
campaign was that he would free the Chibok girls
if he was elected. He also promised to defeat the
Boko Haram sect and ensure the return of
security to the country. But he has not succeeded
in fulfilling these promises. Unfortunately, it
appears that the President is overwhelmed by the
situation in the country.

The fact that the President stopped Nigerians
from exercising their fundamental human rights
on Monday raises a serious concern. People have
the right to hold him accountable; he promised
that he would be accountable to Nigerians. But he
is not doing that.
When some Nigerians are taken hostage, the
President must explain to the country what his
administration is doing to free those taken as
hostages.

It amounts to arbitrariness and insensitivity if he
uses state machinery to prevent Nigerians from
enjoying their rights. That is a questionable
behaviour on the part of the President.

Everybody must rise to condemn the prevention
of the Bring Back Our Girls group from accessing
the Presidential Villa on Monday. The State House
is not a personal property; it belongs to all
Nigerians. So, Nigerians should have access to the
President whenever they want, especially when an
issue like the Chibok girls is at involved.
The people have to decide whether they can still
put their hope in the President or not. In the
interim, Nigerians must continue to mount
pressure on the President to rescue the girls. We
must not leave the battle for the BBOG.
Every pressure group and civil society
organisation must be involved in the campaign.
We must continue to demand an explanation from
the government on the whereabouts of the girls.
The impression the government is giving is that it
does not know where they are. There are people
who know the location of the girls are; the
government must find and rescue them.

Aisha Yesufu (Co-founder, Bring Back Our
Girls)

Preventing the protesters from accessing the Aso
Rock would not stop the campaign to rescue the
girls. But, what does it say about the government?
It means that it is a government that does not
have any regard for the citizens. When the citizens
are banned from expressing their fundamental
human rights by the same government that
should protect those rights, it means there is a
problem. The BBOG movement would continue to
do what it has been doing. It would continue to
push for the rescue of the Chibok girls. Tuesday
marked 862 days since the girls were abducted;
we have not forgotten them.

For us, it does not matter who is the President of
the country or whether it was the same person
that was in government when the girls were taken
hostage. It is the responsibility of the government
to rescue them.

By rescuing them, we are not doing them a favour.
It is there right to be protected as members of the
society. And that right is guarantee by the
constitution.
I am very disappointed that the administration
that came on the basis of change has decided to
permit impunity. It has forgotten that citizens
matter.

It has forgotten that the highest office of the land
is not the office of the President but that of the
citizens. What happened on Monday was the
highest level of insensitivity.

I don’t think that the President would have done
what he did if his daughters were involved. He
would not have sent the police after those who
went to his office to ask for an explanation on the
efforts of the government to rescue the girls.
What happened shows that we have a government
that is very insensible and irresponsive.

Kucheli Balami (Human rights activist)

The issue has become extremely political. I think
there are better approaches we could use to
sustain the campaign if we stop politicising it.
But I am not sure the politicisation of the entire
process would stop.

As a Christian, I have resorted to prayer. I think
prayers would make a lot of difference if we all
acknowledge that God can do what we are unable
to achieve.

As I said, we can adopt other approaches to make
the campaign more effective.
But would the politicisation allow us to explore
other options?

Mr. Femi Aduwo (National Coordinator,
Rights Monitoring Group)
The international community has the indices for
measuring the performance of a democratically-
elected government. Compliance with
fundamental human rights is one of the indices.

On Tuesday, I posted on Facebook the photograph
of a woman who has been protesting in the front
of the White House in the past five years, abusing
President Barack Obama. At the White House,
there are thousands of people who protest and
abuse the President, day and night. Those people
are enjoying their freedom. Nobody tramples on
their rights.

Unfortunately, the Bring Back Our Girls group was
the same group the All Progressives Congress
used to demonise the Peoples Democratic Party
before the 2015 general election. Then, the
President promised that he would free the Chibok
girls within three months in office. But because he
has failed woefully, he has turned against the
group. What the President is doing is absurd,
insulting and it shows that we only have elected
people not democrats.

There is no difference between the approaches of
the current administration and those of the
administration of ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan. Interestingly, Jonathan allowed the
group to continue its protest without harassing
the members as the current administration is
doing.

On two or three occasions during the Jonathan
era, they even entered the villa and were received
at the gate. Some members of the APC, including
Senator Dino Melaye, joined the group. There is
no problem with that as their demands were
genuine. Nobody molested the group back then.

We expect the current administration to be more
humane in dealing with the group and the issue. It
should continue to discuss with them. The
government keeps saying it does not know the
whereabouts of the girls. That is embarrassing.

The government should stop violating people’s
rights. Just a few days ago, a young man was
detained for naming his dog ‘Buhari’. Who cares
the name you call your pet in a civilised society?

Imoudu Marcus (Lawyer and public affairs
analyst)

The prevention of the Bring Back Our Girls
protesters from accessing the Aso Rock by
security personnel does not speak well of our
democracy. In 1999 and early 2000s, we were
referring to our democratic practice as nascent.
Seventeen years after the military gave way to a
full-scale civil rule, our behavioral patterns need
to reflect the tenets of democracy. But what we
have is different from that.

In my view, there is no reason whatsoever why the
BBOG campaigners should be barred from seeing
the President. I personally feel that the President
would not be happy that overzealous security
agents stopped the protesters from reaching him.

There is no better place the group would have
taken its campaign to than the villa. Stopping the
members from getting to the President amounted
to a violation of their right and it was not
necessary.

It is our hope that the tenets of democracy would
not be militarised as we progress. The police are
expected to nurture the growth of democracy
because of their strategic role in the society. There
is absolutely no need disallowing harmless
protesters from entering the villa.

The President promised to rescue the Chibok girls
during his campaign. If that promise has not been
fulfilled 15 months into his administration, it not
morally right to prevent the BBOG campaigners
from seeing him to remind him of his promise.

Siyan Oyeweso (Professor of History)
I think the Bring Back Our Girls group needs to
adopt an innovative approach to make their
campaign relevant. It is not the number of times
that you abuse the President on public fora and
cry in the public that determines the response you
get from the government.

The President is the father of the entire nation.
There is no way he would not show empathy
towards the campaign for the rescue of the Chibok
girls. The entire saga would soon pass away
because the President is committed to the security
of the country. I know that the BBOG is patriotic
just like the President. Perhaps, some other
important engagements prevented the President
from seeing the members of the group when they
visited the villa.

A more diplomatic approach should be adopted.
The group should be more persuasive in dealing
with the President. The abduction is a tragedy that
has befallen the country and it must be properly
managed. At this stage of the campaign, a more
refined approach is recommended. We must
acknowledge that governance is a very complex
and serious business. There is no president that is
not concerned about the security and safety of his
people.


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Jesu Kristi

Just in case


We all know APC is a useless party. Always complaining and blaming everybody but themselves.

One1after:


That jobless troll is one coward from the sad beast dungeon. Imagine the troll has more than 50 different monikers he registered with Yoruba names cos of shame. Same tactics ojukwu used when he ran to Abidjan. What a shame.

The lost souls will never admit their idiocy. They are always paranoid about everything Yoruba but we hardly give any hoot about their existence. It was after things were getting to much that we started responding to them if not who cares what a flat-headed Osu makes of his pitiable existence? They are always quick to call some people cowards but we know the man that dressed like a nollywood actress to escape to Abidjan. In Yorubaland, the general commander of the army that is the generalissimo is the Aare Ona Kakanfo who must not lose a war. In case the Aare loses a battle, he must take his life immediately. But in the land of the setting sun, the commanders loses and runs away to Abidjan wearing gstring and bra

OlanreJohnson:
We yoruba must be truthful at times. Fulanis own kwara. We are not troublemakers, we will not drag Kwara with fulanis. They conquered and put an Emir there, it is their property now because we don't want bloodshed in yorubaland. We cannot afford to quarel with the fulanis, let them keep kwara.

Yoruba muslim from Kwara state bearing Johnson. Were alaso ni eyin omo olori pelebe yi walahi. You people are just hopeless and pathetic. You know nothing about us yet you always display your ignorance with so much arrogance. That was how a sewer rat from the Colombia of Nigeria created a moniker with two Yoruba names and a female profile. Guess what those two names belong to male Yorubas. Well education is far from you people. Whatever you lot say about Kwara changes nothing. Yes Kwara belongs to the Fulanis because Bolaji Muhammed, Bukola Saraki, David Oyedepo, Layiwola Muhammed, Rashidi Yekini, Femi Adebayo, Adebayo Salami, Kollington Ayinla are Fulanis.

tundexijim:


So where will Lagos belong o.. Biafra?

Oga o you this man sef. Na UGUandans you dey follow drag like this? They are an irredeemable and frustrated lot. Who reckons with them in this country? Awon were alaso.

OPCNAIRALAND:


To chapterfive and one1after,
Igbo's problem is many. The system of governance that the colonials installed here is compatible with that customarily practiced by Yoruba and Hausa and so these two found it easy to merge in and continue, till today. The structure in that system is heirarchical with authotity cascading down from top to bottom. Unfortunately that system is apathetic to the custom and tradition of Igbo society where each community is its own autonomous authority and recognizes no one else above it. In fact each community sees other nearby communities of similar language and roots as foreigners. This is why Anambra sees Enugu as foreigners and question their presence in Anambraland. So they are totally amazed and confused and is intriguing to them that a man from Ogun state would be commissioner in Oyo state or a Lagos man is commissioner in Ekiti state. Why does a Lagos man call thr man ftom Ilorin his brother, why is a man from Kogi made chief in Lagos? Igbo people see their land, uncivilized and backward as it is as the model by which civilized and advanced cities should be structured. Oyo man should be a foreignerr in Lagos, not a son of the soil.

I think the greatest mistake ever made by our great leaders of yore in this country was saying that we have 3 major ethnic groups. We have only two. What's major in UGUandans? Hausa/Fulani people are in 4 geopolitical zones and can also be found in other countries apart from Nigeria as INDIGENES I mean indigenes not settlers. The same can be said of Yorubas who can be found in the Southwest, North-central and the South south as well as a couple of West African countries. The same can't be said of the lost tribe of Israel from the land of the setting sun who can only be found where red mud and erosion ravaged land is an identity. They are landlocked and their total landmass is not up to that of the Kwara State we are talking about.

Whynotthetruth:


Learnt something here irrespective of the aggressions...that ONLY Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ogun are PURELY Yoruba stock states...others they share with other tribes though they tend to intimidate/bully/muscle those tribes to the background...

Btw I didn't see some of you reply with same aggression as you do here now to Alhaji Gwarzo and Junaid Mohammed when they issued such threats to Yoruba...Do you think they are just bluffing? No, History teaches otherwise about them...

So I pray you tell me when did "cowards" start intimidating and bullying others? In Ondo state, Ijaws are limited to just Ese Odo LG which is even dominated by the Ilajes. Then using your logic, Anambra is not totally an Igbo state since there are a handful of Igalas there. Kwara is Yorubaland located in the north-central. And listen Yorubaland is not limited to Nigeria. Yorubas are in large number in Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast. So Chief commander of Osu Republic, I'll implore you to go and make a research and read up on the meaning of the word NATION so that you can understand what we mean whenever we say Yoruba Nation. Foolish UGUandan.

Oh Lord please heal our land.





These useless APC people should stop playing politics with the war on insurgency. Don't rush people back to their villages to make them sitting ducks to Boko Haram attacks neither should you reopen roads hastily just to gain media acclaim and give the impression that you are above board in your counter-insurgency. Work diligently, take your time to really wipe these guys out and while at that feed, cloth and care for the IDPs.


But asking all these from APC is liking asking Pique to say CR7 is the world best footballer. Awon oloriburuku eni iya. Useless party that's propagating poverty and hardship.

We all know it's one hell of a huge joke except perhaps their perennial cheerleaders the UGUandans.

The kind news wey dey come out of the land of the UGWUandans these days sef.

That one sef good

Oga o

E be like say craze dey worry this one.

Damage control

How some people can always come out to defend criminal individuals/groups is way beyond me. Are they catching fun or they are naturally inclined like that?

Skyfornia:


The least we take is 6months, plus we need someone in Lagos and around Yaba due to transportation.

My sister stays around Yaba and her IT is six months Computer Science. Pls help.

Hmmm

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Many Nigerians on Wednesday overwhelmingly
backed the Enugu Catholic priest and Spiritual
Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu State,
Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, for his blunt message to
President Muhammadu Buhari.


However, some Nigerians mocked the cleric on
social media, saying he should have known that
the President was not the ‘messiah’ the country
needed before supporting him during the 2015
presidential election campaign.
Mbaka had in 2015 prophesied the defeat of ex-
President Goodluck Jonathan, who he urged
Nigerians to reject.


On Tuesday, the respected cleric shocked many
when he said that Nigerians would not vote for
Buhari in 2019 unless the President addressed the
socio-economic challenges facing the county.
In the message that is currently trending, Mbaka
said there was too much suffering in the country
and faulted the President for not appointing the
right persons.


He said, “There is hunger everywhere. Landlords
are crying; tenants are lamenting, sellers are
crying, buyers are lamenting – there is hunger on
the streets. I can’t keep quiet when things are
going wrong.
“I am telling the President to look around him and
know those who are advising him rightly and
those who are telling him that there is no trouble.
The President should know that there is trouble. If
things continue like this, in the next election,
nobody will vote for him.”


A former governor of old Kaduna State, Baralabe
Musa, on Wednesday said Mbaka’s message
stated the obvious.
Musa, who spoke with our correspondent on the
telephone, said the President could only win the
2019 election through rigging, which he said
would plunge the country into crisis.
He said, “If the challenges facing Nigeria are not
addressed, Buhari will lose in 2019 except he rigs
the election. And that will be dangerous for the
country.”


Another northern leader, Yerima Shettima, said
the President was fast losing the goodwill that
gave him electoral victory last year. He noted that
the Buhari administration had lost focus, which
had led to abject poverty and suffering for
Nigerians.
Shettima, who is the President of the Arewa Youth
Consultative Forum, said the President shunned
the counsel of honest Nigerians at the risk of his
goodwill and future electoral value.
He said, “The level of poverty is extremely high
and it is worsening. People have advised him, but
he refused to heed good counsel. His goodwill has
nosedived.
“What we have seen is different from the
expectations of the masses. People sacrificed so
much to ensure that he emerged victorious at the
poll. But what we have seen is appalling.
Personally, I have stopped advising him because
he does not listen.”


The National President, Ohaneze Youth Council,
Mr. Okechukwu Isiguzoro, told our correspondent
that Mbaka spoke the minds of the people in the
eastern part of Nigeria.
“I don’t know what the South-West and the North
think; but Mbaka’s statement is the voice of the
Igbo. The reality is everywhere. There is suffering
everywhere; people struggle to feed. There is
hunger in the land because of the President’s poor
handling of the economy,” he added.


A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist,
Liborous Oshoma, compared the waning goodwill
of Buhari to the challenge ex-President Jonathan
faced, leading to his loss to Buhari in 2015.
Oshoma said, “What Mbaka said is the reality.
People who overwhelmingly cast their votes for
Buhari last year are beginning to have a rethink.
People saw him as the messiah Nigerians had
long waited for. However, what we have seen is
not what we expected.
“We should not forget that Jonathan had a similar
support in 2011, but he blew it. Now, Buhari is
gradually blowing away his. If he does not address
the current challenges, even his party, the All
Progressives Congress, may pay for his inaction.”


Mbaka’s bold message also provided an
opportunity for Buhari’s opponents at the poll to
assess his administrative style.
For instance, Remi Sonaiya, who contested on the
platform of the KOWA Party, said a natural
democrat could have managed the challenges
confronting the country better.
She said, “There is no doubt that there are general
problems. Part of the issues people have raised
about the President is that he does not react
quickly to issues, and that his military background
is affecting him.
“Perhaps, somebody with a different background
could have handled the issues differently and
better. The President has just put together an
economic team. One wonders why it took him
over a year to do that.”


On social media, Mbaka’s message got a large
number of comments and they kept increasing as
of 9pm on Wednesday. On The PUNCH’s website
and on other digital platforms of the newspaper, it
received hundreds of comments and shares.


Commenting on punchng.com, Bill Johnson, who
joined other readers to ventilate the issue raised
by the cleric, said he was disappointed at the
manner the President blamed others for the
challenges facing the country. He said buck-
passing was a major reason the administration
had yet to deliver on any of its campaign
promises.
He wrote, “Blaming others is not a quality of a true
leader. A true leader does not blame followers, he
takes the blame, and that compels him to look for
solutions.”


A Twittter user, Tunde Orimidupa, wrote, “What
Mbaka said was not an attack, but an obvious
truth. He did the same thing during Jonathan’s
administration. He is doing it again. Nigerians
should commend him.”


Writing on Facebook, Ayotunde Ajiboye said,
“Mbaka only spoke the truth; there is a threat
ahead because people are hungry. A hungry man
is an angry man. The issue is beyond voting for
him in 2019; I foresee a mass revolt if the
government does not act fast.”


Aldrin Ativie also tweeted, “The truth is that
Nigerians know there is trouble in the land.”
Kingsley Alexander, who tweeted on
@KingsleyAlexan9, advised the President to
urgently fix the economy, adding that he was fast
losing patience.


According to Daniel Igboanyika, Mbaka’s message
aptly captured the mood of the country.
He said over 95 per cent of Nigerians were not
happy with the manner the President had handled
the economy.


On Facebook, Olufemi Mathew Ojo wrote, “Mbaka
said the same thing during Jonathan’s era and it
happened, now he is saying the same thing to
Buhari.”


Akinsanya Waheed also wrote, “If one plastic of
garri remains N600 till next year, I will vote
Buhari out of power in 2019.”


On Disqus, an online commentary platform,
O’seun Ogunseitan, however, disagreed with
Mbaka.
According to him, Buhari’s performance is
constrained by the level of corruption that
characterised the Jonathan administration.
“The administration did nothing in six years to
build a functional refinery although the yearly fuel
subsidy it paid would have built one. Jonathan’s
‘experts’ were only good at ruining the economy.
They left the economy in a terrible condition,” he
wrote.


But one of Mbaka’s critics, Elobyte Formidable,
wrote on Twitter, “Mbaka does not deserve the
attention he gets. When did he realise that Buhari
was not good enough for Nigeria? If he is truly a
pastor, he should have known that Buhari would
not take the country out of misery.”