₦airaland Forum

JackBaueress1:
from my own point of view,I think PDP gave Saraki an option for him to pick a PDP senator as his deputy if he wants their support. Saraki ran to his old friends to bail him out and he was given that condition.

Like i always say,it's the beauty of democracy. Saraki will definitely reconcile with his party and that will no longer be an issue.


I must warn Lai Mohammed to always take things easy. He cannot say something different from what President Buhari says. He should learn to make consultation with the president before issuing statements

For the first time you be making sense in your miserable nairaland life

omenka:
[s]Good evening all.

This thread isn't created to spite any one or any people. It is just a wake up call to majority Nigerians, who happen to be very poor at remembering events of history and how they are meant to shape our thought processes and indeed orientation.

Now, very interesting events happened in the last 24 hours in our National Legislative Chambers. Both chambers were inaugurated and their leadership elected. APC being the dominant party clinched the top spots in both chambers, but as we all know, PDP and her supporters seem to be the most jubilant party over the outcome of the elections, why, one might be tempted to ask.

In the run up to the general elections, Saraki whom PDP supported doggedly in the just concluded NASS election, was hounded by the same party, threatened with all manner of sanctions that eventually culminated in his exit from the party. His rift with the party (PDP) and the presidency back then, began with his blowing the lid on what has come to be known as the biggest heist in the nation's history- the Subsidy Scam- which ran into tens of billions of dollars. He was buffeted from all sides with all manner of allegations and barely survived having himself locked up in jail. He eventually found a sanctuary in the opposition, now the ruling party.

Now, inexplicably, the same party that threw everything but the kitchen sink at this recalcitrant and rebellious congressman sees him as a valiant, their knight in shining armour. Wonders huh? Well they voted for him in the absence of half of the members of the Senate as the Senate president, case closed., and for what?- just to spite the opposition, maybe, and to have their man as the Deputy.

In the Green Chamber, Dagora emerged the Speaker. I know quite little about him, but nevertheless, that is immaterial to the crux of this piece.

Here's what my problem is: during the electioneering campaigns, Nigerians/electorates were subjected to all manner of divisive and potentially catastrophic propaganda from the PDP. To mention a few, we saw things like-

1. Buhari is too old to be a leader.

2. Buhari is a terrorist sponsor.

3. Buhari has fossilised ideas and cannot lead a 21st century country effectively.

4. Buhari has prostate cancer and might die soon.

5. Buhari's candidacy is a product Northern conspiracy for National domination.

6. Buhari is "tribalistic".

7. The Northerners suffer from a "Born to Rule Syndrome".

8. APC is a party akin to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. It is dominated by Muslims and Northerners.

And others too numerous to mention.

Numbers 5-8 are my major concern.

Most of the points listed above were propagated and hammered on by same people who are jubilant over the emergence of Dagora and Saraki as Speaker HoR and Senate President respectively. Dagora is a Northerner, Saraki is from North Central (includes christian dominated states such as Taraba, plateau, Benue, but when the time comes, PDP will call him a "Northerner", and when you say "North", everyone thinks "Islam/Muslim). It is necessary putting this in writing because a time will come, perhaps in 2019, when PDP would want to replay that ethnic, religious, and regional cards which appears to be the only ammo in their arsenal- polarise Nigerians along these lines, have them vote based on these sentiments, and see to your retention in office!

Now, the situation we have at present shows Three of the Top Four Positions are occupied by "Northerners" but PDP is happy about it and apparently has no qualms whatsoever with the arrangement.

I have always been against all that North, South, East, West, Muslim, Christian, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo politicking. It has never and will never be the panacea to Nigeria's innumerable problems. Have always been pro Nigeria and would always support whoever it is that gets into an office as far as their competence isn't in doubt.

Without the support of PDP, what happened today wouldn't have happened, so we would hold them to account when the time comes, and remind them of their lofty stance at this time.

The events of today should effectively put to rest all that ethnoreligious politicking that PDP is known for.

We look forward to a very productive National Assembly.

Congrats to Saraki.

Congrats to Dagora.


God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.



Cc: Seun, Ishilove, Lalasticlala.

Cc: Passingshot, Mynd44, maclatunji, OAM4J, Obiagelli, Gbawe, Donphilopus, Midolian, Beremx, NgeneUkwenu, Chuhbie.[/s]

Rubbish

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onatisi:
you are very very correct. The same thing I have always been telling ppl too that buhari will disappoint the south west and tinubu. The allowed tinubu and amaechi to waste their billions . Even before buhari swearing in many power brokers have been telling to realize that it is the northern votes that won him the election and not the south west votes. With the way things are now ,tinubu is virtually back to being in the opposition. The next game plan of atiku and the northern causus will be finding ways to remove key party executives loyal to tinubu. in fact ,the north will take over apc and there is nothing tinubu will be able to do about it .

Bro, tinubu is finished, I'm surprised people are looking at the speakership and senate president election from party angle, the north has completely achieve their aim and tinubu is now useless, I mean useless, if he dare raise his head right now, his file will be open and he knows what that means.

The sophisticated region are not as smart as I thought for all I know, Osibanjo is just a domestic staff in Aso rock right now.

Tinubu invested wrongly this time.

okotv:
I don't reason so. Remember ondo and Edo are up for grabs next year and the tinubu magic in the south west will continue. Let me tell you this since you have bias for PDP, when PDP came up in 1998, they had the same issues, learnt from their mistakes and became better but pride came in and they lost.

This is the first time tinubu will be on the national scene in charge and mistakes are bound to happen. The difference between tinubu and the rest of politicians in the south west is that doggedness to success. He tried it in 2011, failed came back again and now he is up there.

All in all, Nigeria wins.

Which of the edo are you talking about?

PassingShot:
Some of you guys lack the ability to distinguish between those who are partisan supporters and those who are patriotic supporters.

I have many posts here where I have voiced my opposition to some of Tinubu's positions just as I have posts where I have supported him.

Try go through my posts so you know that I deal with issues and not personalities.

Lmao, this guy be clown.

Passingshot, a well known tinubu asss licker suddenly "patriotic supporter"? Are you denying tinubu already?

millionaireman:
With 3 senators drawn from each state - and nearly the same formula for choosing legislators in the House of Reps. - and with north's 17 state Houses of Assembly, north of Nigeria holds a near veto power on what must happen in Nigeria - it must win any competition; no political restructuring can pass in the National Assembly, etc.

South of Nigeria was raaapeeeed to bleeding point when northern soldiers proliferated undue 19 states and Abuja in the once one northern region, but only 17 states in the once two southern regions. Land mass has never been used as criterion to create federating units in any federal country - except in Nigeria.

Yakubu Gowon who started state creation lamented about three years ago that state creation was ultimately hijacked to create a super political class - of course, in the north of Nigeria.

But the irony of it all is that when people in the southeast ask for additional state to have a semblance of equity in political representation between the north and south, it is usually the Yoruba led by Fashola that leads any objection.

Good one, Yoruba are the problem we have in south and Nigeria in general

Realconfo:
You guys need to learn about reverse psychology, PDP played directly the way APC wanted them to play, they knew PDP will support whoever they opposed. Lawan and Gbaja were just props. Now VP/SP(Yoruba) while Presido/Speaker (Hausa/Fulani). For you to understand politics, you need to look beyond regions. The way i see it, PDP just buried themselves more, why did APC announce their supposed candidates after the mock election. Normally parties do not have chosen candidates, you just put your name, campaign and the whole house votes. So they created the illusion of a broken party because they knew PDP will always vote against them.51 APC members did not vote at all today, why is that? PDP keeps burying themselves politically, David Mark and Bukola have totally different ideas (the Open NASS situation),Lawan would have worked better with David Mark. PDP need to start using their head cause we still need them. To all those who thinks Tinubu lost, i am laughing cause Tinubu's main purpose is to control government without being directly involved with it, So if Tinubu and Bukola are in cohorts, you can't blame Tinubu for Bukola's actions cause he did not publicly endorse him, Do you know what goes on behind close doors? All these will not affect them, it will affect us, the citizens.

Keep deceiving yourself

onatisi:
not only on gbaja but even on buhari. Buhari no longer needs tinubu now. He has to move with the new power blocs in the senate and house of reps . Tinubu is only left with his 3 western states and the ministerial slots buhari will give him. This seems to be a coup by the northern caucus of apc against south west apc controlled by tinubu .

Your head is there.

Like I told my sister this morning, while people be shouting PDP/APC here, the north only have one agenda, return power to the north at all cost, they used tinubu and their slave in the west to achieve this.

Tinubu has got to learn something different from his amala politics

Ayekotoo:
Bukola Saraki is not a true Ndi Yoruba. An omoluabi would never utter that rubbish.

You are the foolish one here, so a true omoluabi is someone that is completely loyal to tinibu?

This man milked Kwara dry and still never satisfied. Arrogant Foool

The truth is coming out, i thought they were all saint

jaybee3:
Where exactly is the money coming from and how is it being budgeted for through monthly/yearly allocation?

Is it the same money shared through the ECA account?

Are you a learner?

Security vote is a legitimate unaccounted money to governors, that's just one of their alawi, like when you hear a governor donate 6 van to the police, that's where the money come from, but we all know the governor don't spend up to 1 million in a month from that money,

As for ECA, that one na LAPO money now, them dey share that one anyhow them like.

Nigeria is too rich for 70% of the graduates to be roaming the street without job or underpaid.

But the foolish youths don't even know, all they care about is scream Change and Transformation on social media.

Find out from any of those student union executives in schools how much they get on a visit to state governor in their respective state, a visit to Edo state governor is 500k and the governor call it for transportation, i can't be sure of now, but then when i was in school, if the union is able to fix an appointment with the governor, omon that day na to dey sing #Godwin. Of course you need to settle the governors PA as they would be the one to set the ( racket ) appointment

Too much money in the hands of our politicians

Image123:
Why did barcanista forget to tell us how much hero Goodluck Jonathan was paid monthly as security vote?

Keeping your mouth shut and letting folks think you are a fool is better than opening it and confirming the fact.

Justfollowit:
Let's try again

Did he run for an elected office?
Yes but does that make him a politician?
No. Why?
Well, has he ever been involved in other politicking?
What motivated his desire to run for the office in the first place?

Crap

ECOTERRORS:
@ barcanista, I think if you will expose the person that sent you those messages, it will go a long way to give this screenshot a strong credibility. I know you are saying the truth but I think you need to do the needful to put this APC scam to shame.

This are the list of people that will receive their 40k alert today.

Passingshot

Beremx

Omenka

Gbawe

Midollian

Doniphilous

Obiagelli

Cleverly or NgeneUkwuen

Caseless

I'm sorry if you are not listed here you are part of the hungry Sai Buhari slowpoke who are *monkey dey work baboon dey chop*

So my good friend Demdem, i not is not on that list?

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Dat babe na e-olosho
I only pity her husband to be

Abeg easy, na married woman you dey talk to.

Olosho-No
Liar-Yes

JackBaueress1:
brownlord, is there any policeman near you? Kindly borrow his gun and shoot yourself.

You're ignored henceforth!

Yea, i don catch you pant down now you don run.

Yeye, no be only rich nairalnder

Justfollowit:
It is self-explanatory. Why don't you prove me wrong for once and try to come up with a reasoned argument of why Buhari is not a politician?

You must be a complete dunce.

I asked a question and you spewing rubbish here

JackBaueress1:
A very rich nairalander who is a friend to President Buhari paid for my flight ticket to Abuja and back to Lagos for a friend's wedding. I didn't go seeking for protection.

I am a celebrity on Nairaland. I too much joor!

Oya kill yourself!

Okay, you mean you were to attend a wedding in abuja, the person is not a nairalander.

You then gave an invitation to someone else to attend the wedding with you, while your husband is in Lagos?

Did you forget you and the person made the trip?

Common, this sound stupiid.

Justfollowit:
Oh my days! Seriously? You must be dumber than I had initially assumed. How on earth is Buhari, a politician? Educate me, please?

Ode!

Oh jesus, buhari's cow are now giving politics a new meaning.

You please tell me who is a politician, thanks

JackBaueress1:
Why don't you ask Barcanista why he seeked protection from Gbawe? Why are you asking someone else the question when you know who you should direct your question to?

No, I can't go asking someone for what i know he can't give or have no means of giving.

If Banicansta is asking Gbawe for anything, this means he is very sure Gbawe can meet his request.

Now assuming Gbawe is just an ordinary citizen and he too is not receiving a dime from any politician or party, will Banicansta be requesting anything from him?

Justfollowit:
Let me see....Buhari has a proven record, he did not need to invoke God's name a million times for people to believe in him. Why are you still living
if after all this years you find it difficult to grasp that fact? You should kill yourself becuase your whole existence is a joke

This is pointless fooool.

Your earlier submission is that people with principles should not be found in politics.

Foooool, is there a disconnection between your brain and fingers?

Coolabbie:
Jeez! Ur thots are all over the place!
You keep mentioning 20k, why not use dat money in treating ursef. You are obviously bipolar.

Coward put up the pic or go and die

PassingShot:
So, you don't know hypocrisy when you see one!

According to him, he was offered an appointment by PDP while in APC camp to which he refused at first.

Thereafter he asked for "protection" from Gbawe (APC) if he must continue to support them but he didn't get it.

Naturally, it made sense to thereafter consider the PDP's earlier offer (as a typical Nigerian politician); which he did. Or how else do you resolve his defection?

Therefore, it is hypocrisy for him to come here to prove "holier-than-thou" point.

Why did he ask for protection from Gbawe.

I thought Gbawe is just an ordinary citizen who swore he never received anything to support APC

Justfollowit:
The way you invoke God, Time, Integrity and Conscience is baffling. A man whose principles matter to him wouldn't bother about politics in the first place yet you did and you wouldn't stop invoking persuasive elements to vindicate yourself. You are a pathetic sociopath! You will make a very good politician

goon, yet you are a troll for buhari?

are you this stupiiid?

ilugunboy:
I've been away for a long time now.......so I don't exactly have the grasp of what is going on here.

Barcanista......one advice for you, focus on your career in real life and not this make-belief life on social media.

Time wait for no one.....you are wasting too much time on things that are irrelevant in your life.

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