₦airaland Forum

Ebuka78:
The civil society groups accused the Federal Government of using the declaration as a political weapon rather than addressing the underlying causes of the crisis.

That's the key point. Learn to read and understand and not to attack.

The underlying cause of the crisis are the governor and the assembly members…..is it that difficult to understand?

Ebuka78:
The civil society groups accused the Federal Government of using the declaration as a political weapon rather than addressing the underlying causes of the crisis.

That's the key point. Learn to read and understand and not to attack.

Who are they to ask for security reports?

Salewa97:
I think all the ministers are performing well.

We have seen the impact of most of them in their various portfolios.

Really? You have seen the impact of Bosun Tijani? Pray tell what he done?

Grade A the star ministers: Aviation, interior, information, works , FCT, foreign affairs, budget. Defense. Finance. Justice.

Grade B: trade and investment, health, youth, I’ll also keep culture minister in here for now.

The rest, I really don’t know what they are doing including the likes of Alake and Agric that are so crucial to Tinubu,s turnaround plan.

Grade F: definitely useless. Tijani and Oyetola.

As for Adelabu, I do t know whether he is an F or an A. He started out looking like an A but he is beginning to look like an F.

fergie001:
That doesn't affect him.

A Court has pronounced on that.... Constitution and laws are not retroactive.

However, the Otuoke man isn't contesting.

Noted!

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DomPerignon:
Says who ?

Which part?

It is almost impossible to recall an elected official.

However, she is most definitely a one term senator.

Gentledove2001:
Then which script did fubara play? The mumu fubara won the most daft governor of the year. You didn't have your own structure on ground, you started fighting a m@d man like wike who has the backing of the federal government, who does that?

I hate to say this but there seems to be wrong with some of our traditional rulers.

Considering Ned Nwoko and yaradua are proposing giving them more powers, I think there is a reason why they were defeated by the British and we should let sleeping dogs lie. Traditional rulers custodians of culture speaking foreign languages and being partisan are the ones we want to give more powers?

press9jatv:
Fubara tried in infrastructures no be small. Not to talk of roads and bridges

Where?

Bookhub:
So ijebu is not Yoruba a different ethnicity entirely.

There is nothing like yoruba. We have ijebu, egba, Ife, Oyo, Ekiti, awori, ijesha etc.

Yoruba is a term used by outsiders to describe the children oor oduduwa. our languages though similar are even different.

It’s like calling us Nigerians when historically there is nothing like a Nigerian, there is no Nigerian language. Just as if you speak to a proper ijebu man you will realize you will realize the yoruba you speak is not their language.

Salewa97:
Wike no dey play at all.

If it didn’t dey, it didn’t dey!

Did they pay ground rent. Were they the only one affected? Is he saying Wike should abuse his office in the PDP way and spare the PDP’s land while revoking others?

All the money from Atikurain, they couldn’t find 6m to pay ground rent?

sweerychick:
I agree with this! as much as I dislike Tinubu and APC but I see a political abracadabra here, have you noticed that Wike is not really talking as usual I bet Wike never saw this coming, this was a strategic political move by Tinubu to tame Wike growing influence. Another clue to support this is that Tinubu never cautioned Wike on the crisis in Rivers state instead he was attacking Fubara, meaning that Tinubu already had a plan to deal with Wike. Wike now has lost influenced in Rivers state, because the sole administrator would now take orders from the President. It was a game plan all along, the game here was that Tinubu would set a fight between Wike and Fubara then at the center of it all he would take over. A classic example of game of Thrones.

FEAR YORUBA PEOPLE…. NIGER DELTA MAKE UNA DEY MUMU

One could see some sense in what you were saying until you wrote the emboldened part and your stooopidity came to the fore.

What was the genesis of this problem? Fubara less than a few weeks into his tenure attempted to stage a coup and remove the speaker. Naturally being a stooopid man, he failed and the Wike group struck back and tried to impeach him. Was it Tinubu that told Fubara to try to remove the speaker? Was Rivers state Tinubu’s priority at that time when he was battling with forex and fuel subsidy? Has he even appointed Wike as a minister at this time? If he had did he have to if his plan was to empower Fubara?

The problem with you IPOB people is that you lack brain cells, even when you reset your brains it doesn’t last and you default to stoopidity!

cucumbar:
Even if Tinubu shit inside your mouth, you must support am, tell am say the shit sweet.

That’s your fellow zombie you quoted. E be like say his brain Dey reset for 1 minute everyday.

So Wike has no fault in the comotion in rivers state ?

You are really a zombie emeritus!

Zombie per excellence!

You people never engage your brains. I attempted to give you logical fact based reasoning, if I am wrong g tell me why. You respond with abuse and insults. Usually when that happens it is because your position cannot be justified and based simply on emotion.

I would have expected if there was sound reasoning behind your position, you counter me by saying this this and that is what Wike or the assembly have done wrong. Or tell us why Fubara right to attempt to change the speaker (the genesis I of this problem). Why he demolished the assembly, why he didn’t investigate the bombing of the assembly if he had nothing to do with it, why he passed laws with 3 assembly members, why he disenfranchised 27 constituencies for 14 months etc etc etc.

This is why this thing led state of emergency because you can’t articulate a sound reason behind the Fubara’s actions.

Abuse and insults are not a logical explanation or argument. Perhaps there is none?

Tell us Wike’s faults since you know what they are. The only fault I see here is he made a daft infantile, unintelligent man who is not up to the task of a governor a governor.

benuejosh:
E come be like Tinubu he fear Wike.

I a feeling that, allegedly, there's an agreement Tinubu and Wike entered into. Because of that, Tinubu must honour the agreement.

Why is he doing Wike's bidding?

It’s not a question of doing Wike’s bidding. It a recognition of the fact that Wike is fighting for his political structure and relevance.

Wike will not stop the fight whether Tinubu sacks him or not. If anything he is likely to get more determined if he is sacked because now he has everything to lose.

Asking Tinubu to sack Wike is asking Tinubu to take sides. Right now Tinubu has sent both sides to the cooler. People seem to forget that 27 lawmakers including the speaker who represent Wike’s interests have also been suspended!

Finally, in all of this, Wike has broken no laws, the assembly men have broken no laws. In fact the assembly men should be applauded for being shut out for 14 months no salary no allowances nothing and remaining calm. The only person who has broken laws is Fubara.

Wow RIP, I met him once in China we stayed at the same hotel!

Atuero:
He is not foolish and slave to godfather
It's only in SW that people call political slavery wisdom

But SW is the only peaceful region in the country. It’s where all of you run. To after you destroy your regions, it’s the only region safe for new investments. Note that although the SS still has legacy oil installations all new oil investments are not onshore but offshore.

So when you add all this together maybe there is some wisdom in the ways of the SW.

Finally why do we have godfathers? Because people like you do not join political parties, do not participate in producing the delegates and the candidates,, manning the polling booths as agents during elections. Etc etc. Somebody has to do it and the person who does spends a lot of money. When you spend that kind of money you want a return or your money back.

The reason why there are godfathers is because the citizens abscond from their civic responsibilities. I was watching Ogunlewe on TV and he said back in the day party agents who manned polling units did it for free. Today if you don’t pay your party agent, he will allow the opposition to change your votes. Where is the money coming from? Somebody spends all that money to put you in office and you say No Godfatherism?

To the candidates, Go and earn the victory yourself! To citizens complaining about Godfatherism, participate in the process, it is because you don’t participate and when you do you expect to be paid that there are Godfathers!

Stolen:
TINUBU STANDS A BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING EBONYI.


AT LEAST THOSE GUYS VOTED APC.


IMO STATE IS JUST A RAPE AND IT IS SHAMEFUL, VERY SHAMEFUL....



APC REALLY NEED TO LEAVE IMO STATE ALONE.

THEY HAVE FOUGHT APC AND EVEN DIED OPPOSING APC.


TILL TOMORROW APC HAS NO STRONGHOLD IN IMO STATE, BOTH ORLU GOVERNORS ARE UNPOPULAR IN ORLU WHERE THEY COME FROM THAT THEY DONT EVEN GO THERE.


HOPE FAMILY COMPOUND IN ORLU WAS BURNT DOWN, SO WHAT DOES APC WANT AFTER SUCH REJECTION?


SHAMELESS PEOPLE AND RAPIST PARTY.

Hope actually won imo state despite his rigging. Osita Chidoka and his Athena did a surgical analysis of the elections in Imo and found widespread rigging but found that even after cancellation, Hope still won. Chidoka is a PDP man.

Like I always say you cannot rig without leaving evidence either via BVAS (over voting) or forms EC8 (altered results). Rigging happens, everybody rigs, why they do I don’t know because if it is the rigging that made you win, your opponent will easily find the evidence. Bad losers will point to evidence of rigging that had no effect on the overall results and claim they were rigged out. It’s a lie. If the rigging made a difference the evidence is there…it can’t be hidden. The will produce it and the results would be overturned. When someone goes to court and starts talking about irev or starts trying to disqualify his opponent just know he lost the election and he knows he lost. Because he has a copy of the authentic results. People who won but were rigged out, go to court with copies of BVAS records and form EC8 results from the disputed polling units.


Watch the video. Those who don’t have data can skip to around 21:00. Osita Chidoka says “ I’d you cancel those results, APC would have still won…PDP were not competitive in the election”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD7VhxgKTbs?si=CirAzJVo49sAYRxh

billyG:
SYFM!where is "There shall be sole administrator to govern state spelt out on section 305 in d constitution"?

Emergency rule gives a president broad powers as may be required to restore normalcy that is why it has to be sanctioned by the national assembly.

You people don’t seem to understand the implication or definition of the word “emergency”. A 14 month stalemate between the governor and the house preventing normal functioning of government and threat of impeachment leading to breakdown of law and order and economic sabotage is the emergency. In which case the source of the emergency ( the governor and the house) needs to be temporarily taken out to douse tensions.

Lesson: Don’t put yourself in a place where they can declare emergency rule on you. Emergency by definition means the suspension of normal operations. If you are the cause of the emergency then you can be suspended…..until decided otherwise by the Supreme Court.

“The President shall immediately after the publication, transmit copies of the Official -Gazette of the Government of the Federation containing the proclamation including the details of the emergency. to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, each of whom shall forthwith convene or arrange for a meeting of the House of which he is President or Speaker, as the case may be, to consider the situation and decide whether or not to pass a resolution approving the Proclamation.”

Sermwell:
I'm not the the you quoted by you're the one who's daft here oh! The SOE was made because there was problem with 4 legislators approving a budget! Now we have only one man to do with the budget whatever he chooses! Did that solve the problem?

I can see now that the problem with people like you is that you read but don’t understand what you read.

To you and the other foooool ddippset: Read my post again, then read it again and keep on reading until you see what is in front of you.

Many of you fail because you lack basic English comprehension.

It’s like a man standing in front of a door marked “entry” asking where is the way in.

ddippset:
They have released 400 billion to him today.

So which joint committee sat on that?

Dey mumu your self.

Damn you are daft!

ddippset:
So normal rules don't apply for financial propriety, accountability,, fiscal responsibility, and financial oversight?
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Another brainwashed dunce..

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Are you really this daft? Did you listen to the declaration and the amendments It is because the system had broken that an emergency was declared!

You are changing the topic from no budget to oversight. A joint committee of the house is responsible for legislative functions and oversight. This you would have known if your brain was switched on or. It overwhelmed by your emotions and bias.

Sometimes when you’ve made a foooool of yourself the best thing is to just run away instead of reappearing and digging a bigger hole!

ddippset:


With each passing day you find yourself at a loss as to how to understand Nigeria..

You cannot release allocation to a democratically elected Governor who is working with a budget passed by 4 lawmakers under the logic that "those 4 lawmakers only represent 12 percent of the state"

But you can release allocation to a man who is not even from the state , appointed by the President, without even one single lawmaker to make appropriation.


I need someone to help me understand this.

Surely the Nigeria Constitution never could have contemplated this absurdity.

This is what happens with poor education.

The operative phrase is “state of emergency”. To save you having to go back to school to learn this with 10-15 yr olds, it means the normal rules don’t apply. That’s why for instance your freedom of movement can be restricted during a state of emergency. Abi was it not the same civilian democracies all over the world you like to report to where curfews were imposed during the covid emergency?

You didnt have a problem when 3 people were passing illegal budgets excluding the input and interests of 27 constituencies? maybe if you did we wouldnt have come to this.

Nigerian education is in a sorry state! . too many dumbasses!

valentineuwakwe:
Another yoruba name will replace him..no cause for alarm!

thats why you should stop nzogbu nzogbu politics and get there so you can continue where you left off in 1966 and appoint your own everywhere.

Please note that Fubara can still be impeached when he returns. From the statement released by Fubara and the Rivers elders, I don’t think they are ready to return or know what time it is!

valentineuwakwe:
Obasa has been in the house for 12years becoming popular and having vested interest in the governorship race in 2027 which seyi tinubu has been projected to fit in....

Obasa was removed and when he went to plead n renounce his 2027 governorship ambition for seyi tinubu, he was re-instated and merinda compensated with deputy speaker.

I just weep for this country!

Can you or see how stoooopid you are. The. Same Tinubu whose son you claim wants to be governor is the one who reinstated the Obasa who you claim is a threat to his becoming governor after he had been successfully removed.

The problem with Nigeria is not APC or Tinubu. The problem is the opposition and their supporters are very very daft as exhibited by not just your comment and Utomi but even recent events from the Natasha to Fubara debacle! Your thought process is always devoid of logic.

Let’s not forget that Rivers is a PDP state, let’s not forget that the opposition have senators and hot members. An opposition that cannot control its state, cannot control its assembly members wants to run a country?

I have always know utomi is daft. Did the problem in Lagos stop governance? were militants blowing buildings or pipelines in Lagos? was the governor and the house at loggerheads? was the allocation to lagos stopped? was the problem resolved in house?


the problem with Nigeria is not that the APC and Tinubu dont have flaws but the real problem is the opposition is made up of daft people!!!

It seems Kanu has finally got himself a proper lawyer not those emotional charge and bail wannabes that look like they just rushed out of an ogogoro joint to appear in court.

Your lawyer cannot be emotional in court!

mrvitalis:
If the election in 2027 have any resemblance of being free and fair Tinubu dont stand a single chance not a single chance he would lose before 12 noon

No body on earth can rig election in the North East and North West if you are unpopular

Tinubu rigged because he was popular somehow not now again

South East... Them no born him papa well to come rig here

3 zone gone... The rest 3 zones he is not sure of winning 2 south South and middle belt rigging can give him victory here but net votes would be so small it would be meaningless

A lot of numbskulls trying to be political analysts.

Oga if he rigged he would have won in those states.

Like you yourself said, you cannot rig where you are not popular. What is the purpose of rigging where you are popular if you don’t rig yourself to a win?

Go and check the results Tinubu did not win most of the states in the North. The secret to winning a national election is to get enough votes n the states across the country and get 25% in 25. You can become president without winning a single state.

Your failure to understand this is why you lose elections. Obi won 99% of the SE and then what? Atiku won most of the north…and then what?

I have already given you a proper analysis of what will play out in 2027, I will reproduce it below. It is shallow for anyone to say an election was won due to rigging. Rigging happens but no rigging can occur without evidence. If the riflfging was enough to alter the results the evidence will exist either in BVAS (over voting) or forms EC8 )altered results). You cannot successfully rig in Nigeria anymore. I know many of you don’t understand English so I will expand: it does not mean you can’t rig. But if your rigging was such that it changed the outcome, you will leave the evidence for your opponent. It is intellectually shallow people that blame rigging. People who do not u derstand how the election system works. There is a reason states like Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Borno that used to declare 1-2m votes before struggle to get 600k total votes now. For the same reason Obi and Atiku instead of providing evidence of any claimed rigging instead challenged the eligibility of the winner.

casualobserver:
People need to be a bit more discerning.

ElRufai wanted to be a minister. Therefore he is clearly still politically ambitious. For someone who has been a governor and a minister what else is there to aim for but the presidency or possibly the VP as a stepping a stone. Park that for now.

Northern ambitious politicians especially some governors want to be president. An opening is coming up for the North either in 2027 or 2031. If you as an ambitious northern politician don’t seize that opportunity, that’s your chance of being the president gone. A Northern president in 2027 cannot hand over to another northerner in 2031 or 2035 especially after denying the South its 2 terms.

The idea that ElRufai, Atiku, Kwankwanso, Bala Mohammed or the likes of Sule Lamido or Tambuwal will work for each other to make one the president in 2027 is to me a fallacy! And to me this is where the alliance unravels. Atiku will run, constitutionally he can’t be a VP again meaning any northern heavy weight supporting him is basically kissing goodbye to any presidential ambition.

My prediction: they will fail to form an alliance or will engage in anti-alliance activities and split the votes again. Be under no illusion, there are ambitious Northern opposition heavyweights who want to be president and would rather wait for 2031 by which time 1) Atiku their main threat would be too old to run thus giving them a smoother path and 2) they would be able to count on undiluted southern votes. Nobody is doing this out of the interests of the people. Where you stand is based on how the permutations serve you politically. It is politically suicidal for any ambitious northern heavy weight to back any northern candidate other than himself. For the same reason the likes of Fayemi, Osinbajo, Tunde Bakare etc contested against Tinubu….they knew it is then or never. After Tinubu the SW will not be president for 40 years….a generation!

For an ambitious northern politician, he knows it is better to back a southern candidate in 2027. Furthermore, he also knows backing Tinububserves his interests better because he can’t contest again in 2031. If he backs a fresh southern candidate like Amaechi or Obi, they could break any agreement to serve one term like Jonathan at which point they would also have the power of incumbency. If Atiku wins he can’t handover to another Northerner so It does not serve the interest of ANY northern governor whether PDP or APC to back another Northerner in 2027 other than himself.

I say this not because I support Tinubu. For me the logical, smart move for an ambitious Northern governor or politician is to back, be seen to back and deliver for Tinubu in 2027. A Sule lamido, Tambuwal, Kwakwanso, Bala Mohammed, even Saraki have nothing to gain politically by backing Atiku or aligning with ElRufai if they nurse ambitions to be president themselves. With Atiku out of the picture in 2031, the SW vote and Tinubu’s backing will play a big role if not determine which Northerner becomes president in 2031.

Politicians make deals all the time, In 2011 despite ACN having a presidential candidate Tinubu made a deal with Jonathan and delivered SW votes. In 2023, Wike and Makinde made a deal with Tinubu. Again I repeat your relevance in politics is predicated on your ability to deliver votes. ElRufai has no votes backing him. The only Northerners I can see as part of any coalition especially are those who are either political lightweights or have no presidential ambition. When the time comes those who have votes and have ambitions will make the right deals for them. Leave ElRufai and his social media content. We know the fate of all social media politicians like Sowore and Fela Durotoye.

So you see, personal ambition will trump any alliance and all that is happening now is just noise.

The difference between this proposed alliance/merger and the Tinubu/Buhari alliance is that the APC merger was a win win for everybody involved in the merger. Tinubu did not want to be president in 2015, so he was happy just to have his party at the center…..win, Buhari became president….win, Amaechi became minister….win, Saraki became senate president….win…..none of the leaders of the blocks that merged were interested in the presidency. The eastern flank represented by Rochas and Ngige were not interested in becoming president. This merger will only produce a win for one and career extinction for the others and that’s why it won’t work. A good deal is a deal where everyone gets what he wants.

CodeTemplarr:
So he should watch rebels take the eastern resource rich part and arm themselves firther with the proceeds right?
Stick to casual observation dude.

Nothing good has ever come of selling away your resources to the west. Your resources will be exploited, development will not come.

….and May I suggest you try and look beyond your nose and be bit more discerning. People are trying to get western powers off their resources you are giving it to them in exchange for what?

CodeTemplarr:
The poster or DRC president? Who is the leader?

The president

CodeTemplarr:
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Ogogoro analysts. How will minerals being exchanged help develop DRC?

These are the type of leaders that sell out the future of their countries in order to keep themselves in power.

These ones are not serious people.

If na pretext why did you give him the pretext?

Person wan burn you and you supply the petrol…..no be foolishness be that?

You are now saying it is because he saw petrol that he lit the match, who carry the petrol come…no be you?