₦airaland Forum

No strength to celebrate because of Tinubu induced hunger ravaging their lives

Sillymoderators:
We don hear, your noise will not change anything go rest before you get high blood pressure.

Don't be silly, bro

Sillymoderators:
Na this old news una go dey wail about for eternity.... nothing will change Tinubu is your president! This thrash doesn't move or bother us again! Old and stale news!

Old news, stale news, it remains the fact

Burob:
I am a Nigerian, & I have never denied it, you that calls your President a drug dealer, you cannot tell your Togolese or Ghanaian friends that no one in your family isn’t trafficking narcotics also.

He is not just being called a drug dealer, he is actually a drug dealer who forfeited over $460,000 of drug proceeds to the US government and you know it

Burob:
And the irony is that you are a product of that state.

Including you. Infact you're a chief supporter and an enabler of those who have criminally captured the state

slivertongue:
INEC jettisoned her guidelines.

The Courts jettisoned her rules.

These are characteristics of a state that have been criminally captured

slivertongue:
judicial robbery and rascality. The factor been used by the merchants in court of appeal has been settled by the Supreme Court. The so called structure thing is a pre primary issues which is beyond the the concerns of APC who are Interlopers.

Sometimes I wonder

netpro:
Them no dey tell person. If you do anyhow, you will see anyhow.

If Obidents resort to self-help, them must collect.

People resort to self when the state fails

netpro:
The 2023 Presidential Election really exposed Peter Obi. Now everyone knows the following facts about him:

1. He was just an average Governor, despite the economic potential, capacity and opportunity of a State like Anambra. Those who lived through it had a lot to say. Health workers strike, No LG elections, diverting Local Government funds, etc.

2. He is fraudulent like most Nigerian politicians. Diverting State funds into his private businesses, bring in his account officer to succeed him, hiding state money in family and proxies offshore, etc.

3. He is a religious fanatic. Dividing the nation across religious lines. Advocating religious war. Dividing an ethic group religiously - I am sure you have heard the term YorubaMuslim? It is deliberate. Dividing Christians in Anambra in Catholics, Anglicans and Others.

4. A real life 2Face. Him no dey give Shishi, so is the claim but buy LP presidential ticket overnight. Don't tell me they gave it to him freewill donation.

5. Beyond the smile, he is bitter and hateful. Up till now despite the highest court in the land ruling, Peter Obi is yet to congratulate the Winner.

There are many more. An Igboman will be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but definitely not Peter Obi.

While The 2023 presidential election has further exposed Tinubu to be a Guinea pig student of the Government College Lagos, who was used to test run the school four years before it was founded, a certified certificate forger, an ethnic bigot with his emilokan Brand of politics, who ran a same faith ticket in a religiously diverse country like Nigeria which led to him running the most religiously and ethnically divisive campaign ever witnessed in this country.

To win the election, he engaged in criminal state capture by deploying ethnic bigots like Bayo onanuga, by deploying thugs like Mc oluomo to kill, destroy and maim lives and properties of people believed to be from a particular ethnic group because of their democratic choice

yarimo:
Mr GANDUJE one of them is a wanted criminal by UK immigrations , and the other one is already on his way to Dubai till next election

No one takes a man who stuck his babariga with stolen dollars serious

If it was a sane country, gandollar should be in jail answering for crimes committed against the people of Kano state but he is in Nigeria where he was rewarded with a the position of APC chairman

OLAADEGBU:
The eyes of Nigerians are keenly watching Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, expecting them to openly congratulate President Tinubu.

Why should they congratulate him

Did Tinubu win fairly


We are talking about a notorious narcotics drug trafficker, a certified certificate forger of international dimension, someone with emilokan brand of politics who ran the most religiously and ethnically divisive campaign ever witnessed in the history of this country. Who chose a same faith ticket in a country religiously diverse as Nigeria, engaged in criminal state capture, deployed ethnic bigots like Bayo onanuga and FFK, deployed the likes of MC Oluomo, his thugs and hoodlums to kill, destroy, maim lives and properties of people believed to be from a particular ethnic group because of their democratic choice.

Is that the Tinubu you want Atiku and Obi to congratulate?

..By Abimbola Adelakun


It is said that the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled on humans was to make them doubt his existence. The quip, dating back to as far back as the 1836 book by John Wilkinson and memorably quoted in a 1995 Hollywood film, The Usual Suspects, is perhaps accurate only as far as Western society is concerned. The dirtiest trick the Devil has played on Nigerians is to make us believe that though he is an omnipresent source of mischief, he somehow manages to reside only in the people whose existence annoys us.

Since the Kaduna-based Muslim cleric and attention-seeking troublemaker, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, managed to grab some spotlight last week by describing the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, as “Satan,” it has been amusing reading his defenders’ denunciation. Of the plenty words available —from the printable to the cringeworthy—that Gumi could have selected, he chose an evocative one like “Satan.” If he had asked me very nicely, I could have helped his vocabulary range by supplying him with a few words that suit Wike’s crass character better. Since his days as education minister when he and the archenemy that has defined his politics, Rotimi Amaechi, were involved in a public contest of wills, I had determined Wike to be a clown and a mere vulgarian. If anything has improved since then, it is the intensity with which he proves me right.

Those who took offence at the “satanic” attack on Wike were quick to point out the provocation, and that Gumi’s intemperate language could cause religious divisiveness. Under some other set of circumstances, that could be true except that accusing someone of being “Satan” is hackneyed. As recently as mid-last month, a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Pedro Obaseki, described Wike as “Satan’s lieutenant” for how he diminished their party before joining the All Progressives Congress cabinet. Fine, I agree that the difference between being Satan himself and being his mere lieutenant is like a five-star review and a three-star. Still, Wike can at least take some consolation that someone thinks he is a social terror.

That said, what Wike’s defenders missed is that there is perhaps no other politician who has banalised identifying Satan in political exchanges better than Wike himself. There are many examples, but let us start with December 2016, during a Christmas service at the Rivers State Headquarters of the Living Faith Church in Port Harcourt where Wike announced to the church that, “No power can bring me down because I am solidly and comfortably rooted in God. My belief in God strengthens me at all times. We want you to continue to pray for this state because Satan is at work. If God be for us, nobody can be against us. We have had turbulent times, but we have always come out victorious. This state is a Christian state. Therefore, we shall continue to collaborate with the Church.”




Then, in February 2017, when Vice President Yemi Osinbajo visited Rivers, held a town hall meeting in the Government House with Wike, and then turned around to hold a stakeholders’ meeting with Amaechi, he criticised them saying, “Since the Acting President began his tour of the Niger-Delta, this is the first time he will be sleeping in a state. This is the first time he will be passing a night outside his region. What does that tell you? It means Rivers State is safe. But you know Satan will never sleep. Lucifer will always stay awake. Anywhere Satan sees light, he will always want to turn it into darkness.”

Please also note that on some occasions when Amaechi’s defenders stood up to Wike, they also accused him of using “satanic elements and witchcraft.”

In the same 2017, at an interdenominational service to thank God for the Supreme Court ruling that declared the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the PDP legal, Wike once again displayed his unique talents for identifying Satan when he said, “God saved the PDP because of Rivers State. We don’t have Plan B. Every other state had Plan B. Our enemies will be put to shame from time to time. Rivers State is the strongest PDP State. While we are reconciling, we must be vigilant. Nobody will take me unawares. Satan will never sleep. Satan will always find ways to cause havoc.” That same year, Wike tweeted that, “The APC is the house of Satan. They have brought so much problems to Nigeria. Nigeria has never been this divided.”


When he quarreled with his Edo State counterpart, Godwin Obaseki, he did not stop at accusing him of betrayal and lack of gratitude. He had to fall back on his go-to language of identifying the devil in them. He said, “Satan has agents. Most of the people you see are agents of Satan. I am not in the class of Obaseki.” Also, last year when Amaechi ridiculed the people ecstatic over Wike’s supposed achievements in Rivers State, his riposte was that those unhappy were the children of Satan. While still a presidential aspirant of the PDP, his campaign was liberally peppered with describing the APC using the idioms of satanism. In Jalingo, Taraba State, Wike especially blamed the growing insecurity in Nigeria on satanic operations perpetrated through his agent, the APC.

There are several other instances of him denouncing the APC as Satan or “agents of Satan.” If it were not Nigeria we are talking about, his serving in Satan’s cabinet would have been dramatic irony. But the turn of events surprises no one. Men like Wike have neither principles nor scruples. Their tongues are like wind vanes; it blows in whichever direction best assures power access. As inconsistent as he is, how Wike conveniently whips out “Satan” to confront political rivals also gives an insight into the nature of evil in political discourse. The Satan in our public culture is not particularly malicious nor wanders the earth to do evil for its mere sake. The Satan in our centres of power is gravely incompetent, lacks any moral convictions (or even the capacity for reflection), and wreaks havoc merely to keep busy.

A part of me wants to feel bad for Gumi that he could not find anything original to antagonise a man whose stock in political trade is satanising his rivals. Calling Wike “Satan” sounds rather desperate. While I can guarantee that attacking Wike will keep him busy for a while, he should also know that that man is going nowhere. Wike is not the FCT minister today because he has an original idea about urban development and regeneration, or even relevant managerial expertise. He came this far as payment for his role in helping the present government to power and as an APC ploy to systematically diminish whatever is left of the PDP. His endurance in that office will be contingent upon his playing both roles effectively. There is nothing the likes of Gumi can do about it.

Gumi’s desperation must have been so intense that he even played the 2027 election card. He did not base the reason the Bola Tinubu administration will not deserve a second term on its crushing dysfunctionality, only on the political symbolism it fails to sustain. Much of his rant in the press conference where he called Wike “Satan” was about how the spaces that “we” occupied but which have been shrunk by a new tribe of political grabbers. Little minds like him think Nigeria was made for them and everyone else is an interloper. He can cry all he likes, but the reign of this “Satan” will be long.

And if the silliness Gumi portrayed in that video is his best tactic for sustaining his relevance now that banditry no longer makes front-page news, then I am afraid he will be out of consequence for a long time.

https://punchng.com/satan-in-the-fct/

Obidients caused Reno Omokri so much pain

Christistruth00:
Wike is well like and Trusted in Rivers State that is why many of them follow his advice

Is wike a member of APC

Christistruth00:
Tinubu gave Peter Obi a Knockout in Rivers State in his backyard courtesy of Wike

Is Obi from rivers state

As regards Rivers state, we all know that Wike traded it to become FCT minister

Yemmysworld91:
How Wike has been able to outdo Amaechi twice is surprising to me. Wike played a pivotal role in getting Amaechi out of Pdp in 2014/15. He has done the same again in 2022/23.
Can we say Amaechi is not politically smart. Wike seems to have won him in all their political battles.
Amaechi couldn't even win Rivers for Apc in 2015 and 2019.
Can we conclude that Wike is politically smarter than Amaechi?

Is Wike now a member of APC

Nonny95:
Na Atiku and Obi go court, but na Obi be topic.

True True. Igbo man na serious threat to Tinubu clowns

First time an Igbo is giving a good fight. Everyone dey shake for Bobo Chicago camp. From creating fake AI images to creating threads upon threads to be happy.😂😂

Tinubu don win, instead of moving th country forward, Dem still de find Obi to join hands with them to move the country😂😂😂.

So if Obi no join hands, that means una god dey clueless 😂😂

Obi defeated The Emilokan drug lord in Lagos beating him blue black

Wike is a confused fellow

I know he is being haunted by his words because he once described APC as a cancer

FreeStuffsNG:
When you lose a fair and credible election where Nigerians rejected you , your candidate and your party because you deployed the most vicious mob political strategy of the toxic politics of hate, cyberbullying, lies, tribal/ religious bigotry and criminal defamation failed , if you are sincere, you should immediately repent, beg your victims for forgiveness and proceed to eternal purgatory.

Never again will Nigeria witness your mob politics of hate. Never!! Pa Apapa will see to it in the authentic LP while HE Wike will de-Atikulate the PDP.

All the enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose. God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

What do have to say about a notorious narcotics drug trafficker, certified certificate forger who ran the most religiously and ethnically divisive campaign ever witnessed in this country by running on a same faith ticket in a country like Nigeria that is religiously diverse, winning the so called election through criminal state capture, deployment of ethnic bigots like Bayo Onanuga, FFK, deployment of Mc oluomo, thugs and hoodlums to kill, maim lives and properties of people of a particular ethnic group because of their democratic choice

I ask again, what do you have to say

Ttalk:
Now that the SC has validated the victory of President Tinubu as truly the winner of the 2023 election, will our brothers in opposition sheath their sword and embrace democracy as a game where you win some and lose some, doing otherwise will rob their personality and affect their chances and make them lose supporters.

It is high time Prof. Pat Utomi taps Obi and tells him to congratulate Tinubu if he wants to remain relevant in politics.

Politics should not be a game of do or die, and I beckoned on Obi and his followers to congratulate the GCFR for his victory.

To the Obidients and the followers, it is painful that your candidate could not win either at the ballot or at the court, going further in your reckless opposition will not in any way help your candidate. You have done so much damage to your candidate already with your vituperations and attack on opposition, you can't continue to be a clog in the wheel.

Let's embrace peace. Nigeria shall be a great

In his speech after the SC validated his victory, did Tinubu show magnanimity. Did he call on the opposition to join hands with him and move the nation forward.

StOla:
You want him to go then you will begin to question how much the government paid as hotel bill for the team that went on official assignment?

This una wailing no just get direction.

Government attend summit una complain, dem no attend summit una still complain.

Na so madness dey take start.

OP wants him to go there and be isolated like a COVID-19 patient

FACT


The current one is not just an ethnic leader, he is an ethnic jingoist propagating emilokan brand of politics

Pakute:
You can't slander the President and think you can get away with it. SC verdict is sacrosanct, hand go soon start touching una.

Did the SC say he is not a drug baron or didn't forged the certificate he submitted to INEC for the purpose of the presidential election

Maize247:
From today you guys should watch your mouth against recklessness

What are these recklessness

That Tinubu is not a certified certificate forger or not a notorious narcotics drug trafficker engaging in criminal state capture

A bill that seeks to bar a serving Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from partisan politics and equally reposition the bank for efficiency, scaled second reading in the Senate on Wednesday.

A second bill, seeking to prohibit the use of foreign currencies for local transactions was also considered.

One of the consolidated bills, titled: “Central Bank of Nigeria (Establishment) (Amendment) Bill 2023,” was sponsored by Senator Steve Karimi (All Progressives Congress – Kogi West) while the second one, titled: “A Bill to Amend the Central Bank of Nigeria Act 2007, and for Matters Connected Therewith, 2023,” was sponsored by Senator Darlington Nwokocha (Labour Party – Abia Central).

Recall that the immediate-past CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, attempted to contest the 2023 presidential primaries of the APC while in office.


The move was widely condemned by Nigerians who wondered how a serving public servant could seek an elective office contrary to extant provisions of the constitution.

Karimi explained, in the explanatory memorandum of his bill, that the proposed legislation was aimed at amending the CBN Act to allow for greater accountability and transparency in the running of the apex bank and to prohibit the use of foreign currency in local transactions in Nigeria.

Karimi’s proposed amendment to Section 9(2) of the CBN Act reads: “Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or any written law in existence, the Governor and the Deputy Governor of the bank shall not participate directly or indirectly in partisan politics, nor contest any election, during their tenure in office.”


The Kogi West lawmaker’s bill also seeks to prohibit the use of foreign currency for domestic transactions in Nigeria.

The bill seeks an amendment to Section 20 of the CBN Act, by inserting Section 20(a).

The proposed amendment reads: “20(a) Prohibition of the use of foreign currency in democratic transactions:

“(1) No person or corporate body shall use any foreign currency as a means of exchange for goods, services and other transactions in markets supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, airports and other places of business in Nigeria except by a bank.

“Licensed Bureau De Change and other financial institutions duly authorised by the Central Bank of Nigeria to trade, deal and use such currency and no individual or business entity in Nigeia shall advertise, denominate or price its goods or services in any currency other than the Nigerian Naira and Kobo.

“(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to: (a) in the case of an individual, to a fine of N250,000.00 or a term of imprisonment, not exceeding six months or both such fine and imprisonment;

“(b) in the case of a corporate entity to a fine of N1,000,000 and a conviction of three months to its officers or directors who authorised or undertook the transaction.”

On his part, Senator Nwokocha, in his lead debate, said, “This bill seeks to address all anomalies that have hindered the advancement of the apex bank to handle the ailing economy of our nation.

“The thrust of this amendment is to create a people-centered Central Bank by delivering price and financial system stability and promoting sustainable economic development.

“As the nation grapples with economic issues, we need to reposition the CBN to grow the economy, regulate the exchange rate, and unauthorise financial transactions and dollarising the economy.

“This bill seeks to, among other things, separate the head of management from the head of the governing board in line with national and international good corporate governance practices.

“Enshrine real-time controls and effective accountability in the conduct of central banking in Nigeria

“Reposition the CBN towards pursuit and advancement of its core mandates given the Bank’s pivotal role in the economy; and position the CBN as an apolitical entity that will become a worthy example in national and international monetary policy, banking sector regulation, currency management, and supervision.”

https://punchng.com/senate-to-ban-local-fx-transactions-proposes-jail-term/?amp

Gajagojo:
No need for hypocrisy
No need to join hands with lepers

Who are these lepers if I may ask

daygee12:
He has done that before but they Still went ahead to challenge his victory

Was he expecting them not to challenge his victory