chijike:


Good citizenship and putting this Nation first is an integral parts of ethics. Corruption and other vices are not necessarily the commoner's choice any day.

Cash Consideration for the vulnerable, as you said, is permissible as long as it is appropriately regulated. That should not deter going completely cashless.

Going cashless will ensure accountability and reduce corruption and criminality to the barest minimum.

Once we lay the proper solid foundation, it's only natural that suitable structures will emerge.

Banks will only engage in corrupt practices if the rewards are commensurate. But imagine if there was little or no way to reward corruption.

The cashless policy is familiar in Nigeria. The CBN has gradually come up with a lot of it in recent years. We need to take the bull by the horn.

The opportunity has come once again. Our people need to know the adverse effects of relying too much on cash in this economy. Again broadband penetration is almost 100 percent. If we can depend on BVAS, we can go cashless.

It's not fair to say Nigeria is not ready. We have the necessary infrastructure, and that is broadband availability.

Just stop the delusion.



Nigeria is not ready for a cashless economy.


No adequate power supply, costly fuel, low minimum wage, poor internet infrastructure.


Let me shock you. Even the whole world believes Sweden is not ready. They are however watching to see whether Sweden would be able to pull it through.

Thinkam:
Nigerians can't change this country, have you monitored these creatures called Nigerians, there's no such thing as a Nigerian, a Nigerian is just a soul suckling bum, willing to take advantage of another so long they're not of the same tribe and religion, so really how can such a people get this country working.?

The best that can happen to Nigeria is regionalism, give this country a million years it'll be same. So all you people looking for a good candidate don't bother, just vote the lesser evil.


The only fact he spat is Obi can't win, and since Obi can't win that doesn't really make him an opportunist, deluded or fool hardy, but not an opportunist.



What's the opportunity of Peter Obi in this scenario, you need an opportunity to be an opportunist..

The worst you can say about Obi is he didn't use his state resources, since he was Pro saving, but realistically, Anambra people has as much progress and failure as people living in lagos, Abuja or anywhere else in Nigeria..

Obi was a good governor, one of the best, by Nigeria standards.

Obi is an opportunist in the sense that he is using raving emotions of misinformed youths to gain grounds.



Obi himself knows that the the problem of the country is beyond one man. He once compared Nigeria to a car with a broken engine. Suddenly, Obi thinks he is the driver that can move a car with a broken engine.



Obi knows he is not competent enough to change the country.



What we need is a change of constitution. We need a constitution that would back regional federalism.



We understand why our politicians don't want regionalism. They are scared of secession. They are scared that if governors become more powerful than they already are, they can break away from the country like Ojukwu tried to do in 1966.



But what choices do we have?



Our federalism is not working. Our constitution does not reflect true federalism. We need to sit down, and vote on these things.

blamingthedevil:
Macaroni does not want to be associated with LP failure.

Always Igbo celebs.



Dem manage invite Macaroni, he dodge.

Rubbish poll.


Imagine it projects Labour Party to win Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun, Lagos.

When Tinubu was shouting that they want to postpone the election, all of you were laughing.


Now, you are accusing the same Tinubu of being the one pressuring Buhari to postpone election.

The same Pat Utomi who mismanaged Volkswagen and Platinum-Habib Bank?



Word is cheap.

No connection between the two videos.



First video was a Yoruba man.


Second video, Igbo people.

Eastlink:
Kudos Egbon. You know your history. This is why all southerners irrespective of tribe and religion must rally round and vote Obi.

What Obasanjo, Afenifere, Ohaneze-Ndigbo, Middle-belt Elders and Pan-Niger Delta Elders see sitting on the floor, five thousand Tinubu and his blind urchins will never see even if they climb the tallest Iroko tree.

Remain blessed Eriokanmi. History will be fair to you.

There is a personal beef between some Afenifere chieftains and Tinubu. It is not like they saw anything special. These people would vote anything but Tinubu.



As for Obasanjo, his own case is predictable. He never supports fellow Yorubas. He never supported Awolowo, never supported MKO.



As for Ohanaeze, all they needed to do was be patient. APC is a merger between CPC, ACN, some APGA elements, new PDP elements, and some other parties.


CPC have had their chance with Buhari. The rotation was meant to go to the ACN faction (Tinubu), after which the APGA will have their chance. That was why Buhari said Igbos have a better chance of producing a president under APC.


Even if Tinubu and Obi align, it would only make Kwankwaso to merge with Atiku, and what would have would be the North vs South. And that is not always good. Because if the South wins, the North will go haywire, and Northern Christians will suffer most of consequences.



So, no one should align with anyone. Igbos should be wise. APC is a more solid party than LP. If APC loses the presidency, they will still remain relevant as they are sure to win governor and NASS seats. But LP will fizzle out. Even Obi will leave LP after the election.



The APC might become vindictive, and decide to simply zone the next flag to someone from the minority (possibly Yahaya Bello).



Politics is a game.

dirtydiva:
And dat is where dey will give Obi chance to win because Kwankwaso and Atiku go divide the vote among themselves while Peter Obi will sweep SS, SE, NC & high % in SW

That is why we say you people are politically naive.



Obi cannot win this election.

silibaba:
Please don't take this prayer lightly.

Pray for Nigeria.

Pray for Incoming President,Peter Obi.

Amen.

The Catholic Church always prays for Nigeria irrespective of who is president.

chijike:



1. It is achievable with current advancements in technology. Even when you are allowed to have large amounts of cash, you will need to fill out the appropriate forms.

It is not about the technology, but the ethical matter of choice.


Sweden is going totally cashless this year, but I am sure there would be cash consideration for the vulnerable.


So full cashless economy is plain unrealistic for now.

2. I cannot see how the alternative can help either.

The cashless policy is the alternative. Why have an alternative that is not going to address the problem? It is even going to worsen it.

3. I agree with you, but we need to lay a foundation for sustainable economic development bearing in mind the apparent benefits of going cashless, especially in curbing crime and corruption.

Laying a foundation without addressing existing structures would amount to nothing, or even be counterproductive.



For example, we have had of CBN complain about banks sabotaging their efforts. Why not tackle that obviously corruption driven issue first before demonetizing.


Look at Sweden. They say they are finally going cashless in 2023. They didn't start today or yesterday. Years of planning, or setting things in order, went into it. In fact, Sweden has been planning it for the past 20 years. They invested heavily in sensitization so much so that the percentage of people who made cash transactions dropped from 40% to 9% in 10 years (2010-2020).


Do not also forget that when it comes to currency innovation, Sweden tops. In case you don't know, Sweden was also the first country to introduce bank notes. Now, they will also become the first country to do away with them.


Yet, it took them years of planning.

Nigeria should take advantage of this opportunity.

There is no opportunity here. That is the point. Our internet infrastructure is weak. Phone penetration is just as weak. Sensitization is mostly carried out up north. We don't have adequate power supply to support the cashless policy. No fuel or expensive fuel to power our generators.



No, we are not ready.

Pwettylinda:


He will block all the loop holes Tinubu is using to steal Lagos funds and make sure he loots no more

SMH.



OK. So as Buhari is president, he can block Wike (in Rivers state) from looting Rivers?

Attention seeker. Clout chaser.



You were so well-balanced on the bike, you even held the camera almost steady.




Even people like me who have flown okada more than the manufacturers combined together cannot make videos with such steady hands.

Pwettylinda:
We are calling on Tinubu to be a gentle man and step down for Peter Obi who is competent, healthy, reasonable and strong to move Nigeria out of this mess.


Tinubu would earn our respects if he steps down for a competent leader Mr Peter OBI

Please, tell me one way that Obi can move Nigeria out of this mess, and I swear to God that I will immediately become an Obidient.

CrownOfClay724:
The only thing I pay for with cash is okada and danfo.
I get all my Groceries from a nearby supermarket and they accept card or transfer.

For work, I pay for all my supplies with transfer.

Quit the complaints and embrace change.
Leave this needless ground standing.

Change?


Please, what is the economic benefit of the currency redesign?

Asgard13:


Believe your yorub propaganda

Why Boko no show us the new notes

How come be bandits from northwest

Do you think you dey mention one fool from Yoruba land?

Get att ..

Next!

So,Boko Haram has to show you the new notes before you believe that bandits accessed the notes quite too easily?

chijike:
A completely cashless Nigeria is the only way forward.

A completely cashless economy is not achievable in any country in the world presently.



Secondly, a cashless Nigeria will not reduce inflation nor help the economy all by itself.



A country with a huge trade deficit like Nigeria will not become an economic powerhouse by simply going cashless.



Nigeria still needs to improve its electricity supply, boost production, and have a sane tax system.

Asgard13:
Nigerians are easily decieved… no be Apc again?

Dem terrorist no get sponsors .. dem Dey show us their money before ?

All this are staged .. to mock the cbn policy..

Nobody is fooled

Since when terrorist start to show us money wey dem one use buy guns and ammo..

No matter how dem do am..

No going back


Power to the people
North 2023

Have you been living under a rock?



Emefiele specifically mentioned anti-terrorism as an inspiration for the currency redesign.



The terrorists are therefore telling him that his plan failed.



They didn't just come out to show the cash. They came out to mock a plan that CBN had boasted would render them (terrorists) cash-strapped.

PHIPEX:
Nigerians are like the Isrealites, we want a better Nigeria but a little inconvenience everyone wants to return to Egypt.

You can't go through few weeks inconvenience to rescue the country from vorrupt politicians that want to buy everyone in INEC and voters with stolen billions of Naira

This is not a little inconvenience, and it won't last a few weeks. It will last for years.



Our weakening naira is not caused by one single factor.



You can't improve the naira by merely redesigning it, or making it truly scarce.



There are other things bedeviling our naira. One is the fact that we import nearly all of our goods.



So, even if you redesign the naira and implement a huge cashless economy, nothing will improve until we start producing to meet up with our huge importation so as to drastically reduce or even eliminate out trade deficit.



Our governments are fond of implementing great ideas in a shabby manner.




Take for example, the fuel subsidy removal plan by GEJ. Unemployment was high, poverty was high, and yet you think fuel subsidy removal will work. Fuel subsidy removal is great, but it would make fuel more expensive. It is more of a curse than a blessing for a weak economy, and it would make it even worse.




The same thing with the border closure by Buhari. It was a great plan. But you had not sort the problem of food inflation. That is like planning to throw more people into poverty, which was what eventually happened. Poverty increased.



Our presidents always have good intentions, but poor planning always ruin their intentions and make them look incompetent.

Obi is the true dullard.



Imagine coming up with this trash after Buhari and his team have realized their failure and are trying to save face by shifting blame to Emefiele.



I will say it over and over again, NEVER trust a smooth talker.

LegendHero:


Everything is not about poverty.

People have allegiance to their tribe and nothing is wrong with it. In this election, vast majority of people will vote based in some interest which could be religious, tribal, or proximity.

In USA election, Trump won the first time because there are some people in the rural areas that are hard core Trumpist and mostly conservative whites. No matter how Trump misbehaved, they still stood through to the cause because to them he is one of their own.

In Ogun state, Tinubu will win Obi a trillion times and this is not a matter of voters inducement or anything else. You guys should stop sounding like robots before saying nonsense about inducement and etc.

Voting is based on emotions.



Anyone who says he is voting based on rationality is deceiving himself.


All those rooting for Obi like to deceive themselves that they are rational, but ask them why they will vote for Obi, and all you get is a load of emotional crap:

Biggeststar01:



The man said go and verify....

So I did ...we all did...I don't need to convince you .....millions from your tribe are supporting Obi and they look smarter..so there's no need to engage you..

Just pray the nation divided...so tinubu can make Yoruba nation great again

And atiku will rule his precious North

While Obi will rule the great Biafra

We verified, and found him to be a pathological liar.



He thought all Nigerians are lazy.

Biggeststar01:



Baba he is the most qualified,. You just refused to do you research...you believe whatever Reno and keyamo tell you

I am not an Obidient, so I don't swallow up every laba thrown at me.

sharpden:


So it's now about party and not performance? The more reason the APC must be voted out.

Yeah, GEJ bleeped up just like Buhari but you guys re-elected him.

We are not all fools, you guys betrayed the South thinking you will gain but the reverse is the case today.

Continue wailing

Buhari did credibly well in his first term. You think it is easy to steer a country through a terrible recession caused by a cummulative of excess looting.



Buhari has done well. Give a cash-strapped economy to GEJ, and we would not even have a Nigeria today.

sharpden:


I'm not.

Jonathan sought re-election but most of the SW teamed up against him with an outsider. That of 2011 happened because he succeeded his late principal so the North also elected him.

If Jonathan is going to disagree with me, why didn't he endorse Tinubu when the druggie asked for his support while visiting him in Bayelsa?

Tinubu said GEJ was doing well and I asked, was the Buhari he helped installed doing well when he campaigned for Buhari's re-election?

He was nursing a selfish agenda and wants to ascend the same seat he sabotaged the South from maintaining.

He will fail

The problem with you people is your lack of political sense.



There is nothing like sabotaging here.



The aim of Tinubu was to dethrone PDP, not necessarily GEJ.



CPC had the number in the North thanks to the cult following enjoyed by Buhari, there was ACN, and then splinters of PDP, APGA and one other party. Only such a merger could have removed PDP.



Moreover, GEJ had bleeped up already.

Tinubu is the man for the job. He has the guts.



Unlike Atiku who quickly removed a post because of fear of losing votes, or Obi who has kept quiet in the face of hardship caused by naira and fuel scarcity.

CallmeTrinity:
Okay a friend of mine is being owed money by this chap in port Harcourt who left collateral with him in the form of 2 splitunit ACs

They agreed a repayment date with interest now said date has passed and the dude now got someone to call using this number 0813 790 0404 with name Sunday Ogbonna claiming to be a Colonel with the Nigerian army making threats

Pls is this really a military person and how can we handle this?

Does someone know anyone in the military police here in port Harcourt. Also what rank higher than Cornel do I report this person if truly they are a military personnel too. He has recorded conversations where this Colonel Ogbonna was making threats ,claiming his mother was insulted when no one knows his mother ..
. Thanks

That can never be a colonel.


Are the ACs worth the amount borrowed?

DGOODLYF:
Ok sir.....Me i believe he will do better...Lets give it trial den after 4yrs...we see wat appens....
I would say a lot of things and a lot reasons...why i believe he is better dan d rest...but i cant type epistles...dis one am doing self am tired already...
The worst thing i will do in dis election is to vote Pdapc.... wether Tinubu manifesto different or not...they are still d same...i would v love to eleborate about dis but i no fit type....Thanks bro..
God bless Nigeria
God bless us all

Obi can't do anything differently.



He doesn't even have the guts.

Winnersunited:
You are alone in this your wide thoughts. If as a human being, you don't see anything good in others, then you have a problem.

Look who is talking.



Hypocrite!!!

JASONjnr:


Because he's Nigerian and the most qualified..

How is he the most qualified?


Education wise, he is the least qualified.



Experience wise, he is the least qualified. Even Kwankwaso who is not as experienced in politics as Tinubu and Atiku has been in politics way longer than Obi who joined in 2006.

He's got his senses intact and speaks coherently.

Speaking coherently is not a qualification of a great leader.


Sorry.

Has the energy to withstand office pressure and understands the problems of Nigeria and has propose solutions to them.

How did you know he has the stamina to withstand the office? He understands the problems of Nigeria? Really? This was someone who had eight years to prove himself in Anambra but could only save money and build substandard roads many of which have washed off.

He's actively engaging Nigerians and spewing sensible ideas and way forward for this country.

Why did he not do this many years ago? Why now when he is desperate for president?

He's got integrity and he's not going to enrich his families or friends as a president.

A man who stashed hidden wealth in tax havens lacks integrity.


A man who awarded contracts to his former campaign managers and associates, including the reconstruction of Government House Akwa, will enrich his friends and family.

He has prioritise Nigerians and put us first.

Until he gets there, and shout "I don't give a damn" like the once humble GEJ.

Try and listen to this man and you will love him.

With his crude accent, bad English, and annoying feminine voice?

Massiveglory:


You are also not right thinking as their is no difference between PDP and APC. Both are hoodlums and rogues that have destroyed our nation.

The only viable instrument right now is PODATTI

Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti were both in PDP until only mid last year when they crosscarpeted like typical Nigerian politicians.

DGOODLYF:
My broda....i no get tym for lengthy argument....The political system of Nigeria need to filtered before we get the right person...
Obi has not made borgos promises like apc did 7 yrs ago ...He programs are achievable and if he fails. .he will surely b bouted out in 4yrs.....But votin Apc is telling dis politicians you are very ok with suffering and it almost impossible to remove dem
Am voting Obi wether he win or lose...i dont care but deep down my conscience will be clear just at has been in d last 8yrs

Continue deceiving yourself.



Obi has made far more bogus promises than PDP and APC combined.



Restructuring is a bogus promise.



Routine auditing of all arms of government is unachievable.


Free healthcare to 100 million Nigerians is unachievable.



Ending poverty is unachievable in 8 years.