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liveLongNprospa:
So which is it? Should LP remove him or not..

Lolz... He's tacitly accusing LP of doing same thing Bubu did.... He spent months to select ministers only for us to be served people like Malami, Lai Mohammed and Kemi Adeosun with forged Nysv cert of discharge.

This blame game ehn

Nnamdi Kanu discharged and acquitted.

https://www.nairaland.com/7381593/nnamdi-kanu-discharged-acquitted

Interesting times ahead.....

It will be interesting to see how Nnamdi Kanu will affect the politics of the southeast and the national politics with less than 6 months to general elections.

How the Simon Ekpa faction will take the news and how it will affect Peter Obi's presidency ambitions etc.

All these is if Buhari's government obeys court ruling and release him o

Nelson os still shiiit ( until proven otherwise).

Saka makes is 1-0

I just hope Odegaard never collect like this

Jodera:
I believe he'll fare there well. He played Lcb in some games at Marseille

It's a back 4 tho it seems he's playing LCB all the same

Jodera:
Europa League is also another avenue for big match exposure to boost their confidence/performance. How do you think Someone like Saka, Smith Rowe and Martinelli et al gained their confidence with time?

We've got 1 or 2 talented players, this is the best platform to build them without much attention.

They started playing league cup and FA cup matches first.

I think the fact that we don't rate Europa league ( considering we were regulars in UCL for years) doesn't mean others don't rate the competition. Maybe Arteta doesn't want to throw the youngsters straight at Europe....but then one can't really understand his position on these things

Livescores has classified Saliba as LCB in a back 3 for this match. I look forward to seeing how he will fare there considering he's played RCB in a two-man CB defence all season.

iamoyindamola:
Partey they bench

Jodera:
I can see Partey on the bench oo

Chai! Arteta ehn, if he can't trust those youngings for Europa, then maybe he should just crash out of the competition and focus on the more important EPL and play the youngsters in the cup matches

Jodera:
So the time wey Martinelli deh rest naim Saka wan start shebi? What happened to Marquinhos.
Cedric?

Omo ehh??

Maquinhos was disappointing at the last outing. I don't know wassup with him aside that.

I really can't explain Arteta's thinking these days, now I feel we can have that All or Nothing every season end for us to have a glimpse of what actually is happening behind the scenes beyond what we see and read on print media.

iamoyindamola:
If anything happen to these guys
I swear arteta go hear am
Cedric haven't kick a ball since forever

U no even Thank God say Partey and Jesus no dey match day squad

Jodera:
I swear, I remember that cartoon skit then

E too funny

Those were the years of the locust

iamoyindamola:
Arsene wenger ko ni dafun yin
Stingy coach buy player you no buy

U remember his words perfectly well.

Martinelli finally gets to rest. Nelson starts

Jodera:
It's the mentality and togetherness for me. And as for the conditioning, I read that half the squad have gotten their own personal fitness trainer this season. Note, this isn't forced but what the players willing did. That tells you the kind of hunger and elite mentality this group have and the desire to go far.

I've been talking on these mentality and improvements since last season, I just didn't know we'll get to this extent this season

I just hope we keep having little or no injury concerns as the season progresses. That way I'm sure we will have a very good season and maybe win one or two cups on the way

iamoyindamola:
You know the kind mumu goal cb and keeper go they blame themselves about
Na that kind goal

Sometimes e do me like make I enter plane go London and go deal with him like that old animation skit one fan enter plane to go fight Wenger for press conference when he dey talk about "Pacion" after we lost a match

TrebleChamp:
Peter Obi is not the only person that nominated members of the PCC, make una dey calm down small. Labour Party Exco would also have its own candidates plus the Vice Presidential candidate too. Peter Obi is on the ballot and that is the most important factor, Nigerians want him and badly want APC out......

U are missing the point. Peter Obi is the one on the ballot alongside his Vice. Most youth u see rooting for him are doing so as a result of the fallout of the ENDSARS protest. ( I'm sure Peter Obi won't even deny this obvious truth).

You remember how a lot of Twitter influencers and neutral persons admonished the youth to channel that energy to a political struggle i.e they should get actively involved in politics. That's why most people took it upon themselves to support his presidency ambitions and even encouraged him to pull out of PDP.

So u should understand that whatever decision that is taken either by him, his vice or the party surely rubs off on him and will be one of the parameters people would use to assess him. You can see people not taking a go at Datti because he is known for his activism and one of the lawmakers that spoke against Obasanjo's third term agenda that was unconstitutional. Same can't be said of people like Okupe. Even this Enenche nomination will just piss some fence sitters off

Jodera:
No matter how out of form Liverpool was, this below picture(esp the 2nd paragraph) just showed the kind of overall improvement we've made and how dominant we are starting to become.

Are the good part is that, we're still getting better

The fact that we even scored Loserpool within 2 minutes of kickoff showed how far we've come.

I like the current conditioning and mentality of the players now; they don't wait for u to take take the game to them, they bring it to Ur doorstep pronto. I'm glad evwryting Arteta and Edu planned is now coming to fruition after shedding some baggages like Pepe, Laca etc along the way.

iamoyindamola:
Our 2 wings highly secure
2 world beaters, this was what we ask from pepe but he became proud and arrogant

God punish Pepe one more time! The greatest money laundering I've ever seen in football history

donstan18:
Peter Obi wasn’t joking when he said he takes advice from a mad man.

Damn! This doesn't look good at all.

The number of youths who got on the Peter Obi train as a follow up to the ENDSARS struggle, I can imagine how disappointed they will feel now.

I mean we watched DJswitch live video that night on IG and saw bloodied persons and Enenche later said those videos saved and pictures were actually photoshopped. Now Enenche is campaigning for Peter Obi whom the youth are hoping is not one of dem politicians.

It is well o

raumdeuter:
Even Buhari that was a military dictator na his party people Saraki even tackle am and he couldnt do anything

Nigeria is too complex a state for one person ro start forming Mummar Ghadaffi. It won't end well.

Donjazet2:
This doyin matter I just read today weak me honestly.
Since this year, this man has been Obi's pillar of support, it's even said that he was the one who gave Obi the final push to leave the PDP and test his popularity outside the big party.
They said he's also majorly responsible with intense lobbying for the endorsement of the afeniferi group of Obi which has given Obi a minor percentage of legitimacy in Yorubaland.

To learn of his corrupt antecedents was a big blow for me, I guess nigeria would always be nigeria.
The solace I take from this is the fact that okupe is not the one on the ballot. It's Peter Obi.
Obi is the one with integrity, with humility, simplicity and no evidence of greed or kleptomania in government. He owns his campaign fully. So I expect that that will definitely rub off on the rest.

The truth is most people who worked under Jonathan had their hands in the cookie jar. People were just forming bogus companies and having monies transfered to the company accounts for ridiculous reasons. Even tailors had money transferred to their account under Jonathan's government.

Jonathan was a very reckless president, he's one of the people that pushed us to this Buhari wahala. People like Doyin Okupe, Dokpesi, Fayose, Obanikoro, etc should actually not be in the forefront of trying to rescue Nigeria from the pit they pushed us into.

Appointing someone like Doyin Okupe is as good as Appointing Dino Melaye as Ur campaign DG.

patrickmuf:
I have said it time without number that if Obi wins, the same old politicians that have heldback the country will decamp from the APC and PDP to the LP and will become major players in his government...I have this feeling that for Nigeria to head towards a new path, the president will have to be somewhat autocratic...

Being autocratic won't even work in this age and time; except u want to be fighting a guirella war within the boarders of Ur country.

Any leader or president that chooses not to carry all component units along like governors, senators, local politicians etc will just have the country go to flames under him

liveLongNprospa:
Don't choke

I wonder what someone like Dele Farotimi will have to say about the person of Doyin Okupe heading the campaign team of Peter Obi. I've watched several videos of Dele Farotimi on Arise TV and I know him to be an activist who condemns corruption, hammers our leaders for their excesses as far as governance is concerned, etc.

I wonder how he will feel being a spokesperson on a team that has Doyin Okupe one of the beneficiaries of the Dasuki largesse as the campaign director.

I guess politics does make people strange bed fellows. I mean look at Keyamo who took Tinubu certificate forgery case heads-on that time is now the man acting as his spokesperson today

raumdeuter:
Wait till they tell you that this civil war account is false and only theirs is true.

They have never wronged anyone, they are the only ones who were wronged.
Their forces did not kill anyone, did not rape anyone, did not bomb anywhere

They were simply sharing roses along the way

In July 1967 my old man escaped death by the whiskers ; Casino cinemas in Yaba was bombed that day in the wake of the war. He usually regale us of how his date not showing up on time saved him from being among the victims of the bombing.

I believe that bombing incident shaped the perception of south westerners about the war. Initially southwesterners felt like uninterested party in the war; I guess that incident changed a whole lot of things.

The Nigerian civil war is a very complex war that a whole lot of truths, half truths and falsities being peddled then and even some being mouthed till date.

Until all surviving actors in the war can come out, state their accounts, apologize where they need to and reconcile on their differences, Nigeria will continue to be a divided country

Emmynator:
Just forget about corruption.
Like you said, no one is importing anyone to form his government.
For those saying new political class will solve corruption issues are both delusional and naive
For instance, Sowore who is always making noise, was found to have misappropriated his party funds, imagine putting him in a government parastatal that sees in flow of money (that can be stolen with little threats of being found out). Your guess is as good as mine.
Lack of opportunity should not be mistaken for virtue.
New people in government will not solve corruption wahala, but they may very well solve other issues, who knows.

Yeah, I agree with u much may not likely change as regards uprooting corruption in our system ; but if some progress can be made in other sectors Then maybe things can get better.

For example if we can get a system that believes in meritocracy and not a system that will retire all DIG's because they are mostly southerners and then promote AIG's to DIG's towards the end of an IG's tenure ( Just to pave way for appointment of a northern IG again), same happening in our armed forces like army, navy and airforce ; just maybe people will start believing in Nigeria and we won't have powerful Nigerians tacitly supporting separatist agenda.

I've seen Àtiku having his child name mentioned in those CBN recruited secretly even when they never announced vacancy, I've seem Tinubu over ruling the wishes of King makers and making his associates kings at different times ; I mean I've seen this nepotism being painted by the silky pen of their wordsmith as " He made them", "he rewards loyalty", etc...... These two certainly do not believe in meritocracy. I have little knowledge of Obi and what he did when he held power in Anambra but I've not seen his critics knock him for being like those mentioned earlier, they've not knocked him for favouring his own people over the good of the rest of the public.

So I understand when some youth who are neither easterner nor aggrieved members of PDP Stan him and prop him as being in good standing as against the two septugenarian on the ballot of APC and PDP

I think at this point one needs to agree that Obi's presidency won't do much compared to others. Yeah there's the corrupt and sick Tinubu on the ballot and the corrupt Atiku that sold as many national assets for knockdown prices to his friends under the privitization scheme as VP.

But then Obi being surrounded by people like Doyin Okupe and Co will certainly find it difficult to fight the corruption institution we have in Naija. Obi may have the reputation for not having any corruption charges against him in the past nor have any major scandal that hovers around misappropriation of public funds, but having people of questionable character campaign for him ( and most likely end up with a place in his government) will certainly affect his government. The fact that he's not going to import people from another country to run the show but make use of EX-PDP members (who may pay lip service to his desire for new Nigeria, but deep down they want to have access to keep eating our yam) just weak person.

https://www.nairaland.com/7380035/doyin-okupe-prosecuted-over-arms

nihilistjnr:
Bro trust ne when i say I've done my share on this forum.

This forum different from this thread o. U no see as everybody body dey hot ? Maybe if these boys booze and merry dem go calm down .

I can see the bottles of Azul’s flying here and there , make una senior men do giveaway wey no get condition .

Raumdeuter , nihilistjnr this post surely requires ur attention . Afrodoc no do like say u no see am o.

PS: some of us have day jobs that requires our attention during the day and we can’t be all day here arguing and responding to quotes . Make una no use quote kee me.

Like izzou said , I unfollow this thread once in a while cos for me I can’t deal with the toxicity of the thread each time I have time to read and see different poster’s posts , quotes and replies .

I hope the election comes and goes ….. looking forward to what this thread will look like post 2023 election irrespective of whoever wins the election . Like I’ve always admonished , let everyone sell their candidates without name calling . If anybody Asks u about ur choice of candidate , be free to answer them on the merits of ur candidate and don’t be mad when their integrity , background , beliefs , political ideology and education are questioned .

Itsrm:
Wike is arguably the best governor in Nigeria. The only one I know who is still flagging off projects despite leaving in 8 months.

Every promise Wike made to the people while he was campaigning he has fulfilled. A proper grassroot politician.

He would have been a very good president.

As for the aides he just appointed, anything to teach PDP and Atiku a lesson is welcome by me. The same thing was done to Odili and now Wike. When they need money, they know how to run to Rivers state. You'll see what will happen when they finish blasting the money made from sale of forms.

Rivers state must stop bending backwards and allowing them have their way.

Really ? Even if what he does belabors the state financially ? So u are saying u are cool with the idea of a Governor who has less than 6 months to rule appointing 14,000 "advisers" that will have to draw compensation from the state purse ?

There should be a distinction between playing party politics and actual governance , I know u like him as ur governor but trust me when I say he would've been a terrible president. He would've been Jonathan Promax

https://www.nairaland.com/7378065/wike-appoints-14000-advisers-359

There’s something that puts someone off about this Wike guy . Niggggga spent most of his days as governor attacking buhari and the north ( irrespective of the party card they were carrying at that time; APC or PDP) , the north showed him pepper at the primaries and all he has at his disposal is to chop and chop more before he leaves the center stage .

Honestly Nigeria as a whole dodged a bullet having someone like him on the ballot .

Imagine a governor leaving his office in less than a year appointing 14,000 aides who will get paid one way or another . This guy would’ve been a menace at the national level. We would’ve wished for a rebirth of Jonathan presidency under him sef If by chance he becomes president

Dem don bloody Rudiger face o