₦airaland Forum

Frank-C:
While i agree with some of the points raised here, i think election results show how truly the masses think. If you follow fox news on the run up to 2012 US general elections, you will see how Romney won the elections, just like Buhari. To my mind, there is no clear difference in the thinking of both Romney and APC supporters:

Both believe that what a particular section that they consider minority think does not matter.

Both are very noisy in the media. You remember Trump 'revelation'?

Both believe that all they need to win an election is the support of the 'majority blocks', a block that they failed to realise how erroded they have become.

Both also wanted power for the sake of power, no clear alternative solution to existing problems. Romney was even better here because he proposed a tax regime, however faulted, but ACN leader promised us the BH will disappear 3 months into APC government. To strategy was proposed.

Both had the attention of impressionable section of the society.

My point is that real Nigerians don't think GEJ is persecuting Amaechi, they actually think that Amaechi is being used by the 'born to rule people with the collaboration of ACN to distract GEJ'. They like GEJ for his smiles, he calm attitude, his unassuming personality and his story that is similar to theirs. They like him for some things they can relate with and for rail and roads that they observe difference in, something the NL APC folks call 'mediocrity'. Some of them receive 5000NGN for using the FG ante-natal program, something that does not make sense to NL APC commentators. And with the media attack from left, right and center, they think that it is unfair to treat him this way. They actually consider him a victim. And mark my words, before 2015, this feeling will spread. Look at the response to attack by Tinubu's ACN to SOE. Also look at Dino's home page today. Check El-Rufai's facebook page too.

APC has done a TERRIBLE job of responding to the State of Emergency. I agree with that 100%.

I disagree with the part in bold. I don't think people from the North think of themselves as "born to rule people". If anything, that is a Southern perspective.

I'm sure the North has real concerns with the way GEJ has handled Boko Haram and I'm sure there is a lot of anger there about the lack of development. However, I don't live in the North, so I won't guess how they feel.

Interesting thing about CPC is that they received 30% of the vote with virtually no political structure. Half the North was still allied to PDP in 2011, but Buhari still won a lot of votes. If the Northerners from the PDP defect to APC, it won't be an easy race. Also have to take into account that the various opposition parties will all be throwing their weight behind the same candidates.

Personally, the only thing I want is economic development. Fashola seems like the best politician for delivering that. Whatever party he runs on, he will have my support.

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Last time I checked there were 3 million people in Akwa Ibom and 20 million in Lagos.

For tribal reasons, Akwa Ibom has the highest Federal Allocation in the country. Yes, Akwa Ibom gets more money from the FG than Lagos even though Lagos has about 7x the amount of people in it. The little bit you do with all that "cake" is nothing to be proud of.

Lagos is in a completely different league than Akwa Ibom. While that state relies on the FG and SS oil to survive, Lagos derives 70% of its revenue from internal sources like taxes and tolls. It is the commercial capital of Nigeria and West Africa. Everybody must go to Lagos to chop.

You are comparing a small backwards village with a state that has the same GDP and population as Ghana. Don't make me laugh.

There are probably more Igbos living in Lagos than are living in Akwa Ibom.

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You are forgetting that PDP was the only major party until about 3 months ago. It includes EVERYONE and has no ideology.

Nigeria doesn't have two major political parties yet. So any statements you make about makes up the opposition (all of them must be Yorubas, Muslims, or in the diaspora!) are premature.

We will have to wait for the PDP and APC to truly separate from one another (in ideology and in demographics) before we can see who is really on what side.

And like I said, you are fooling yourself if you think the rich (which is 90% of the people on this site) represent the desires of the poor and middle class. There is no country in the world where that is the truth.

APC really needs to work on its communications department.

ACN was on point, they always seemed like they were opposing the government on behalf of the people.
APC often sounds like it just wants power.

If you are going to release a statement about this Ameachi thing, MAKE THE STATEMENT SOUND LIKE YOU DID IT ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE!
"We did it just be a**holes and to bother the President", sounds childish.

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This has nothing to do with what the poster was asking, which is "Are Nairalanders representative of the Nigerian public?"

PDP wins elections because it is able to get the average Nigerian (an illiterate, poorly educated, hungry person) to the polls by using ethnic, religious, and other means.

Most people that voted for PDP AND CPC had no idea who the candidates were, or what the candidates really believed. Most were just blindly following their religious leaders, their village chiefs, and other "ogas" that had been bought off by the warring political parties.

Don't confuse votes, with what Nigerians actually think. The PDP supporters on this site are not representative of the people. The ACN supporters on this site are not representative of the people. The CPC supporters on this site are not representative of the people. Etc.

This is the truth.

Ikengawo: There seems to be a high amount of oil on his face. What is this all about?
When will he build the second Niger Bridge?

When will Igbos build the Second Niger Bridge??

What does the Second Niger bridge have to do with Lagos, the SW, or the Yorubas anyway?

Back on topic - I wonder what Fashola is planning to do in 2015? He can't be Governor anymore, and if Tinubu can't get him to be the APC candidate for Presido what is going to happen to this talented man?

Anyone have any idea?

I thought you had a point, until you suggested that most Nigerians are MORE educated than Nairalanders.

It is the opposite. The Nigerians with access to the internet, and the Nigerians that are educated enough to understand politics are the at the very top of Nigerian society. Most people here are NOT representative of the Nigerian public.

When Reuben Abati writes a response to APC using all manner of big words, do you think most Nigerians understand? NO!

Many Nigerians don't even fully speak English. Many in the North only speak Hausa. Nairalanders might joke about witches and wizards, but many Nigerians actually believe in them. Many Nigerians do not even know who their politicians are. According to the government, over 60% of Nigerians are illiterate and 80% live in less than N160 a day. At the same time most NL'ers think the poverty in Naija is a lie, because most live so far away from it.

Nairaland does not represent the majority of Nigerians, but not for the reasons you mentioned.

I had to change my comment because it was wrong.

A Lebanese man is building Eko Atlantic. That alone means that not all Lebanese are bad.

Is this coming from the same man that gave OPC a 22 billion naira oil pipeline contract a few months ago?!

Now they are dangerous?! This man is either daft or evil. I haven't decided.

Jonathan is getting too arrogant.

The support people have for the State of Emergency is not the same as support for GEJ.

bcomputer101: Hum!
Your surname shows you are a YORUBA.
But you are just displaying your to the world that you are simple definition of OMOALE.

Don't be fooled. That man is an Igbo.

onitshaigbo: Secular education means nothing to me. They only brainwashes you. Christian education is true education.

You sound just like Boko Haram.

Ozichim: U should be sorry for ur self. U are not gay and you don't care about it in the society. U are so careless. Some people are interested to maintain the morality slandered of the society. Naturally opposite charges should attract each other and same charges should repel each other. I'm sure you don't also care about incest (Man sleeping with his mother and father sleeping with his daughter). Africans believe in God and God want purity and morally to be maintained. Bible prescribed death for any homosexual or lesbian. Sodomy is not new, God completely destroyed Sodom & Gomorrah because of evil such as this. We know that evil people don’t care about morality in the society. Many secret society fellows don’t care about morality in the society because everything is good and evil (there is no good and there is no evil. They want to introduce sodomy and bring back babylon into the World. U should be sorry for ur self. U are not gay and you don't care about it in the society. U are so careless. Some people are interested to maintain the morality slandered of the society. Naturally opposite charges should attract each other and same charges should repel each other. I'm sure you don't also care about incest (Man sleeping with his mother and father sleeping with his daughter). Africans believe in God and God want purity and morally to be maintained. Bible prescribed death for any homosexual or lesbian. Sodomy is not new, God completely destroyed Sodom & Gomorrah because of evil such as this. We know that evil people don’t care about morality in the society. Many secret society fellows don’t care about morality in the society because everything is good and evil (there is not good and there is not evil. We are not ignorant of the devises of the enemy.
Repent and give your life to Christ or you perish and go to hell.

What does god have to do with jailing someone for 14 years?

The Quran says that infidels (non-Muslims) should be killed. So I take it you are ok with Muslims killing you because their religion says infidels are going to hell?

My bible says "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." If we are going to start jailing people for violating the rules in the bible, every Nigerian would be in jail.

PS - Muslims should not take offense to this post, because obviously it is only extremists who follow that part of the Quran.

raffite: God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is now left for us to lynch and report any offender to the Police.

Let me send you somewhere where the dont like black people. I'll help them lynch you.

onitshaigbo: Would you stop your child if he decides to rip his hair off or cuts fingers off because he is inclined to do so from mental illness? Likewise, homosexuality (especially male homosexuality) is extremely harmful for the soul, and we have an obligation to prevent people from harming themselves.

Science says that people are born gay, so what is a law going to do?

porka: Just stay where you are practice what you want to practice and not step Nigeria.

It is against our laws to practice such nonsense here.

It is not your business how we regulate our lives here.

The whole of the West currently imprison father and daughter caught having sexual relationship, if they come back tomorrow and tell us to be "progressive" like you are saying, should be jump up and join them as well?

We have our culture, we don't take such nonsense. Period!

ABEG, be quiet about culture. Hate is not a culture.

How are gay people bothering you, or keeping you from living your life? Leave them be.

There are riots in London demanding that all Nigerians be thrown out of the country. Do you support those riots too?

Chomzy19: so you blieve gay marriage is nt a pressing issue in d world of today yet countries all over d world are legislating on it; either banning or legalizing it? So long as society exists there must b injustice n unemployment nd d poor; so saying these things are nt in d western countries is a big lie is jst that it is too much on nig; n on a more imp note everything is nt abt d poor n unemployed d nig society is also made up of other pple, d news everyday is abt these same issues(poverty; corruption, injustice, security) n yes for those saying laws punnishing corruption shld b made first there are host of laws on all these issues(check d criminal code) so d leg. Deserves kudos for enacting their own gay law coz that is actually d matter being legislated on internationally.
Wether you oppose or support their views is immaterial cuz they hv d constitutional power to leg. on marriage n other laws for d preservation of pub morality n good of Nigerians.

The public morality of Nigerians? LWKMD!

Are you saying that the majority of Nigerians are moral and good? Abeg, put down the hemp.

Are you saying that you will be negatively affected if a woman sleeps with another woman? If you tell me that it will, then you must be gay.
Tell me how what someone does in their own bedroom is going to effect you?

I like the American phrase "If you don't like gay marriage, DON'T GET GAY MARRIED!" Simple.
Unless you plan on getting married to another woman, or you think your husband is going to run off and leave you for a man, then you shouldn't be worried about it.

Billyonaire: I am strongly believing that each Politician has a degree of madness in him. Fashola can not authoritatively and sincerely say that he has NOT pocketed some cash outside his salary, but what he can say, is that he is a professional in hiding his own loot. No Politician is without blemish so Fashola cant f00l me.

Just because your deadbeat Governor is robbing you blind, you think Fashola must be stealing too?

Governors already get a bloated salary of over $1 million US Dollars. Let's not forget all the "allowances" and other rubbish our politicians give themselves. Any high ranking politician that steals in Naija is just greedy. They don't NEED to do it.

X-factoria:
Bullshit!

Since he is beginning to sound like a saint, the investigation should start from when he was Chief of Staff to Tinubu (2003 - 2007) in which period, his law firm fraudulently connived with Tinubu to perfect titles and convert large expanse of Lagos state government land in Lekki in the names of persons and organizations with whom/in which Tinubu has interest (including Justice Ayo Salami). It should also cover how his campaign was funded in 2007 and 2011 and all the contracts he awarded to his friends fronting for him.

I know people will jump out to say he is a performer but this guy should not play on our intelligence!

Do you have any proof of this, or do you just enjoy running your mouth?

For all the people calling Tinubu "Tinubu" I haven't seen anyone put forward any PROOF of him stealing anything.
Tinubu singlehandedly created the strongest opposition party in Nigeria, and he did it while transforming the SW Zone. This "Tinubu" thing probably started because PDP was scared of him. LOL, PDP is STILL scared of him.

Stop hating.

donedy: Why are you killing yourself by insulting anyone that's against your stupidity. You must have been the most enlightened black in Nigeria. I presume you're better than the majority of Nigerians that are against the act.

In fact, in you're in a state of delusion of you believe Gay/lesbianism has a place in Nigeria.

I don't like bullies, or people that look down on other people.

A couple of decades ago, people were making these same noises when interracial marriage was legalized. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now.

I am not gay, so why should I care who another man is intimate with? Worrying about who other men are intimate with must make you even more gay than them. Are you jealous of them or something?

ejim blessing: This is a white disease! Pathetic, miserable fools! I wonder the despicable chemistry between two men! They want to change the truth of God into a lie.

Who do you think forced you to worship Jesus in the first place?

SMH...you need to read a book.

Ikengawo: this chick weh face dey like Saddam Hussien is beuitiful to you? guy advance your life.

I was talking about her body, not her face.

I guess you look like Bance.

adaobi123: He makes more than I do

LMAO...maybe you should spend less time on Nairaland!

Why are the Arabs trying to pay for their war with the West in AFRICAN blood?

No right thinking African should stand for this! The Middle East MUST GO!

The stayed up all night with Ethiopian ashawos.

CyberG: This guy Fashola should be Nigeria's president!

Ethnic tribalists are filled with hatred and jealousy at the success of Lagos.

They will rather live in poverty than vote in a Yoruba performer from the South West.

matrixme: This country just sinks into depths of mediocrity daily. The headlines one day would read "I have done well, says Jonathan", the next day, the Senate would approve anti-gay laws. Yet, a lot of people feeling good about these news are unemployed and probably not well fed. This is a country whereby popular baby factories have been recently uncovered whereby young girls would actually sell their babies for money, yet we think we are more morally upright than some 'western' countries whose citizens would not even dare a thing like that. Even the religious bodies that acts as advocates for the marriage institution has a social justice system that is perverted. We either kill innocent people or live extravagantly and insensitive about the plight of the poor all in the name of God. Our country is deeply entrenched in corruption, insecurity, poverty, educational deprivation, lack of infrastructures and quality health services, yet we are silent on any of these pressing issues. We just like ostriches burying our heads in the sand,denying the reality in our lives by appearing morally relevant, yet, our butt is glaring to all. We will see how far this gets us!

Exactly. If you are going to look down on someone, at least have a reason to believe that you are better than them. Most of these people are busy looking down on gays while screaming about South Africans discriminating against them.

Adejoro74: Topic should read ''In SW Nigeria, it's no crime selling human parts - Suspect''

Your comment should read "I'm a hateful Igbo and a tribal jingoist. I am jealous of the South West. I want to move to Lagos."

A wise man once said "Fences make good neighbors."

At first I felt bad for the way we get treated in South Africa.

But looking at all the hateful posts on the front page today, makes me think we deserve to be treated bad.

Remove the log from your own eye, before worrying about the spec in someoneelse's eye.

collynzo2: My son has just told me that because of the way I have treated him growing up , he has abused every girlfriend he has had.
Made me feel so proud, I thought he was gay!

You should be ashamed of yourself.

barcanista: call me ALUU10 na your mouth. but NO try practice homo publicly for my area or advocate for same. if you do?ehm

You are a fool, or you must be secretly gay!

Why do you care what other people do? Are they bothering you? You must be a gay, to be thinking about them that much.

I hope your village and your descendants live as rats and second class citizens wherever they go. You deserve it, because you are acting like a monkey.