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In athletics news Nigerian youngster Favour Ofili has broken the national record for the women's 200m with a blistering 21.96 sec! at her college meet. She's already run 11.00 sec in the 100m. Seems we may have a new queen of the tracks after the unceremonious exit of Okagbare.

Still speaking from both sides of your mouth are we?

komekn:
Here and Now not past and irrelevant.

Hi good afternoon and Happy Good Friday and Ramadan Kareem my brother. You make solid points but I will bring counter arguments to the reasons you listed.

1. Tinubu has a formidable political structure especially in Lagos agreed but that structure is not as invincible outside Lagos. Yes his structure is very strong generally in the SW but not unbeatable. Fayemi, Akeredolu have shown they can match him in controlling the state structures of their states so it's not totally 100% in the bag but admittedly this is his strongest.

2. Osinbajo as well has also forged strong alliances over the years relating with various governors, senators and HOR members. Even opposition figures regard and respect him so he also has a good network of political friends who can help him match Tinubu.

3. The Neutrality of PMB especially in areas where he feels he has a stake is a myth. The way the chairmanship of the APC emerged is a strong pointer that what he says almost always surely goes. Rumors have it that Buhari is surreptitiously backing PYO which can't be outrightly dismissed. Plus as much as PMB respects and holds BAT in high esteem he doesn't fancy him to be president but hey I could be wrong.

4. Also read point 2. PYO has also worked and interacted with the senate and HOR caucus over the years, but in my opinion the APC governors apart from PMB will largely determine who gets the ticket.

5. This might be true but remember in the beginning OBJ, GEJ and late Yar Adua had no national structures going into their elections yet we all know what happened. For PYO to have confidently declared shows he has serious BIG backing.

6. Of all the points you have made I think this one is most unfair. Osinbajo has been nothing but a loyal, competent and dutiful VP to President Buhari. When PMB was ill Osinbajo acted well as an acting President. He didn't show any hint of personal ambition to unseat his principal infact history has so far shown that he's the only VP since the return of democracy who has been trusted to be acting president at least twice. PYO by wanting to contest for presidency is just natural common in democracies world over where the sitting VP is mostly given right of first refusal to run when his principal is on his last and final term. PYO is contesting against BAT in a fair open contest so I'm surprised where this betrayal talk is coming from. When BAT was 'selected' to run for governor ahead of the late Funsho Williams was that betrayal?When Ambode was kicked to the curb in favor of Sanwo-Olu was that betrayal? Please let's not bring unnecessary divisive talk into what should ordinarily be a fascinating contest of ideas and intellect.

For the record I'm not Tinubu's biggest fan but I respect him for his intelligence, political smarts and doggedness. If he gets the APC ticket I would vote him over every PDP candidate in a heartbeat but I just think at the stage we are as a country a PYO presidency will offer a soothing balm to all the bitterness, anger and strife across the land.

May Almighty God make the best man win.

PassingShot:
I read a NL thread https://www.nairaland.com/7077990/why-tinubu-lose-osinbajo-apc#up suggesting reasons why PYO will defeat BAT in the APC primary election to select who flies the ticket of the party in 2023 and I could not help but to laugh at the naivety and desperation of the writer. Well, without paying any attention to the weak and unfounded reasons he presented in his article, I make bold to advance the following arguments to conclude that Jagaban Borgu remains the only candidate who will win the primary contest, barring any last-minute jettisoning of primaries for consensus which is not even contained in the constitution of APC.

1. Tinubu’s political structure and machineries
Even, his political foes will attest to the fact that BAT has built a well-oiled political structure that has not only survived the best of political warriors in OBJ and GEJ (with federal might), his structure has endured the worst of political earthquake and has remained very solid and functioning. In the primary contest for the presidential candidate which will be decided by delegates from APC across the 36 states, Tinubu structure will come in hand to deliver the goods.

2. BAT’s political alliance
This is somewhat related to the first point but not entirely the same. In the course of single-handedly building and strengthening his political base (ACN), Tinubu it was who took ACN into alliance with CPC, ANPP, a faction of APGA and a faction of PDP. In fact, most political watchers agreed that the 2 most important figures in that successful alliance that produced APC are Buhari and Tinubu. The rest were only needed to make up the numbers and the spread. BAT has since that alliance built a working relationship with strong politicians in the north. The likes of Ganduje, Ribadu, Ado Dogawa, Ahmed Lawan, etc. are staunch Tinubu’s supporters who will deliver the delegates from that side of the country.

3. Neutrality of PMB
PMB remains a political juggernaut whose support and influence can, to some extent determine who wins the APC ticket. From what I have read and heard, it was this support that Osinbajo was looking for that delayed his declaration. Unfortunately for him, PMB did not assure him of anything, instead preferring to be neutral and asking all the contestants to work hard to win the ticket. While it is possible for PMB to have a preference for PYO (highly doubtful), Buhari has demonstrated many times that he handles situations like this with utmost maturity and fairness to all involved. If he has forgotten how BAT deployed his resources to make him defeat Atiku and Kwankwaso in 2014 and to win the presidency in 2015 and 2019, he will surely be reminded by his close allies like Ganduje and the Senate President of this fact. And Buhari will choose to remain neutral. It is PYO who needs PMB so much and not the other way round.

4. Clear message of endorsement by the APC Senate and Rep Caucuses
Not many watchers of political development will have missed the enormous support Tinubu enjoys from the APC senators and representatives. They are not hiding it and they have been saying it loud and clear even to the hearing of PYO. You only need to watch the Senate session when BAT paid the APC caucus a visit to intimate them of his ambition. You can also listen to Ado Doguwa’s recent interview on the same subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqe6AQllcPA and here https://www.nairaland.com/7079123/doguwa-speaks-bola-tinubus-aspiration. I also read that of the seventy-something invited by PYO for Iftar, only 24 or so honored the invitation with majority of them spotting facemask with BAT logo. These speak volume about their position. They are the people that matter in this election and they are not politicians you can intimidate to change their mind. They believe in BAT and they are ready to reward his past support for them too.

5. Osinbajo has no political structure
After seven years of being the VP of Nigeria, it is a fact that PYO has no political base or structure of note with which he can be guaranteed of delegates votes. This is someone who lost his polling booth in the last general election. Irrespective of whatever sentiment anyone in the party top hierarchy may want to have for a PYO candidacy, they will realize what a dangerous option his candidacy represents for their party and they will bury the thought without wasting time.

6. Perception of PYO as someone who cannot be trusted
Like it or not, Osinbajo’s declaration has portrayed him as someone who cannot be relied upon. In politics, the currency is loyalty and anyone who is perceived as not loyal is usually avoided by those who matter. Even among those currently propping the professor on, there are those who will be murmuring within their heart that the VP cannot be trusted not to betray them at some point, especially if he becomes president and thus untouchable. I will personally be weary of such character too. Yes, he has the constitutional right to contest but he has thrown morality to the dustbin by standing up to challenge his one-time political mentor. I read a piece about how Tiinubu reluctantly agreed for Osinbajo to be the running mate to PMB out of the three names suggested to him. The fact that BAT’s choice was still going to be picked and that he eventually agreed to PYO being named as the running mate is enough for our erstwhile star boy to abandon his ambition for BAT’s.

Anyway, let’s see how far the support of sycophants and traducers of Tinubu can carry him in his quest to wrestle APC’s ticket from Jagaban.

Passingshot (O.S. Olayiwola)

It's not Nerdie too.

daveP:
Its not Joe. Most likely Nerdie. His silence on this thread for sometime coincides with this appointment. That's if its down to Joe/nerdie option.


I think its none other than our "Alll right" youtube analyst.

Pass that Rosicky used to execute with his eyes closed

Subzero47:
People really compared Modric to Xavi and Iniesta because of one pass...

Ighalo played in Serie A at roughly Osimhen's age only scored 1 goal, also played in Segunda for Granada and was never the divisions top scorer abeg talk another thing

komekn:
If you are good enough then age should not be a factor.

If you put Ighalo in the Segunda, Eredivisie, , Belgium league he would be a top scorer.

If you put him in Seria A he would have scored at least 10 goals by now.

I disagree with you not on sentiment but objectivity.

I'm impressed fresh new blood. Good thing he frequents this thread so he understands how he wants the national team to play. Plus he's qualified from the looks of it.

ChrisKels:
This is the 26 year old newly appointed match analyst for Super Eagles team A and B.

Eboboritse Uwejamomere holds a UEFA B license and several certificates bagged in Europe.

He is one of us here, but we won't be revealing his moniker

Thing is I can't confidently say for sure the next NFF president will be any better. The system like that of the national polity always throws up
more charlatans than competent individuals.

fabyom:
Pinnick is the problem. That guy needs to leave else nothing will change.

Na the ojoro balon D'or they give am for 2018 dey deceive people. Modric is class no doubt but guys like Zidane, Ronaldihno, Xavi and Lampard were on another planet.

andrewbaba44:
Lampard is better than modric

Chelsea try yesterday make I no lie. Highlight for me was Werner mighty making Casemiro lie down in green pastures

First leg really hurt them bad.

A competent team should be able to make light work of Madrid. Too many chinks in the armor of Real that a good team can exploit.

andrewbaba44:
E don Dey happen

3-2

! bros e still dey pain me enter bone.

Ppogbae:
How the heck do we have these folks banging in goals week in, week out but fail to secure a simple win over Ghana in 2 legs?

We are slowly turning into another Ivory Coast.

But you never know. Pinnick might be able to convince (confuse) Otedola or Dangote to foot the bill for Blanc or Valverde's Salary .

andrewbaba44:
Nff is trying to play the ambitious role here by putting big names to make some gullible Nigerians happy

No coach listed there applied for any job sir

Nff is camouflaging velverde ,Blanc while they must have decided on appointing a peseiro or any other ekuke European coaches ,those big names are there incase the lowly rated European coach they employ fails ,then you will now hear velverde and Blanc was our choice but we could not reach a deal with them

Nff is just giving us what we call sharwama and cold zobo

One thing I've noticed about our Falcon teams over the years is we find it hard to retain possession especially against superior opposition. Our defence and goalkeeper can barely get a breather, because before we regroup at the back the opposition will already be bearing on our goal. Like the men's team the Falcons need more quality central midfielders like yesterday.

I don't know is it a problem of coaching, scouting or both? Why can't we produce half decent CMs?

Samueltemi337:
playing five at the back and still chopping goals

Very good weather. Pity the inter-ethnic clashes of the past 20 years plus have robbed the area of peace. Very chill location. Like Obudu in Cross River and Mambila plateau in Taraba.

GeneralDae:
To be honest, we haven't really started doing justice on Jos. Jos in my opinion is amongst the top two most beautiful cities in Nigeria. The other being Abuja. I'll try to show more content on Jos soon.

Emphasis on WINNABLE. They beat Fiorentina in the reverse fixture earlier in the season so they not that unbeatable. Napoli has the resources to beat Roma as well so they don't have much of an excuse.

Samueltemi337:
Fiorentina is not an easy team


they even have Roma next

Is Simi Nwankwo a joke to you

daveP:
Nigerian with most goalsin a serie A season

Osimhen continuing to hit the back of the net nice! Sey Napoli no go open bottling company cos I don't understand how you can contrive to choke again at this point in the season. Their fixtures are even relatively winnable smh!

Subzero47:
They want him to trap the ball and shoot inside the 18 yard box like it was not two defenders on him for 90 minutes, people wey no know that when you try and overhead kick it is a ball that you can't afford to control

I personally don't fault victor for the bicycle kick it was getting desperate and he was just trying everything. My only issue with him is the crude way he responded to Ikpeba. Ikpeba as well should have been more broad minded in his criticism by also pointing out the mistakes of the technical crew and other players who didn't show as much fire as Osimhen who played like a man possessed

Hello house kudos to everyone for keeping things moving just finished drying my from last week
Osimhen is a very talented footballer with huge potential but his unguarded social media posts hurling insults have no justification whatsoever. Yes Ikpeba was selective in who he was trying to criticize but the content of the criticism was fair and didn't deserve that kind of uncouth reaction. The young man needs to do better not just on the field but in the way he controls his emotions.

Sad to hear about your predicament.

Please reach out to Nigerian twitter influencer Japhet Omojuwa. He usually handles such cases for free and he will be discrete. His handle on twitter is @omojuwa.

Keep your head up you have done nothing wrong. The perverted criminal will be apprehended and dealt with.

Angela1996:
I'm just depressed over this situation, I'm tired of him, he snapped me while I was naked and threatened to release my nudes...I've told him to sign the undertaken and leave me alone but he has refused...
Please I don't know what to do again!...Don't judge me or insult me because no one is perfect

Yes tears of joy

gustav25:
Many Nigerians will cry today

Me too but I'm scared the Egyptians will go and park a jumbo Airbus in Dakar. From their AFCON antecedents the Pharoahs are definitely capable of defending a one goal lead.

Sad things is if Salah and co some how qualify they will be beaten black and blue in Qatar.

andrewbaba44:
I hope Senegal qualifies for the World Cup as I predicted

I don’t want to see the Egyptians and their negative football at the World Cup ,it’s like wasting Africa spot ,that negative style might not take them past the group stage

Good lineup overall though I think I would have left Zaidu and Simon in the starting XI

safarigirl:
Anyway, team news


Good line up, yes?

Looks like 4-3-3

Game day wish our team all the best. May God reward their efforts and hard work. Amen.

LET'S GO SUPER EAGLES!

No that's bad na! However is in charge should do better. Now they will say we deliberately did it when it's just incompetence on someone's part

[quote author=OscarJaden post=111450648]Meanwhile the light has just gone off when the Ghanaian team are about to train
The whole stadium is totally in darkness right now
Here is the link

If you were doubting, here you go pic.twitter.com/qrHpxPDU18

— Yaw (@theyawofosu) March 28, 2022

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gustav sef don prepare enough memes and drafts full tomorrow. The banter or wailing this time tomorrow will be epic

Seriously hope we won't be on the receiving end.

elyte89:
Meanwhile darkelf/bluelf is waiting patiently at d corner to attack by dis time tommorow

Lol If I didn't know better I would say Seun hired Komekn to once in a while drop controversial takes to liven up the thread if it's going stale . For one the engagements that usually follow his posts are plentiful.

Mujtahida:
You don't understand him. He likes being contrarian not on the merit of the issues but just so that he can be annoying gadfly.

He'd look at the forum and once he notices that the forum is not supporting a player because is not cutting it, it is that very player he will start supporting. He will support the player just so he can annoy forumites. Thats what he does

Here you go bro. Simon's chance is around the 6 minute mark


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-3H_Q3sOqE

lovewins:
Kindly post the link. What I have seen so far is the short version

Just watching the extended highlights Simon should really have buried that chance

Seriously hope Eguavoen doesn't bungle this qualification with it in our grasp already.

I usually defend Austin but how can you go into an away match against a team like Ghana with a threadbare midfield in an area that is the black star's strongest weapon? He should please in the name of God come with a better formation on Tuesday.

Plus what is it with our wingers and unnecessary dribbling? Even Dennis that came would almost always dribble himself into a cul-de-sac when players are available for a quick one too.

If we qualify (seriously praying we do!) this team will need a whole lot of work even at that only a stroke of luck and a less complex group would see us make it to the second round.

I second Goodjoe's submission that however dropped Uzoho to the bench doesn't mean well for Nigeria.

Still backing the team to secure qualification.

Let's go Super Eagles!

Game day expecting a tough affair but we will triumph

Whatever doubts we may have let's put all that aside and back the team 100%. Not as casual fans but real SUPPORTERS!

Looking forward to Osimhen, Aribo and Simon to do the damage.

May God reward their hard work.

LET'S GO SUPER EAGLES!!!

They have a good midfield admittedly not as strong as the Muntari, Essien era but still decent non the less.

I hear you but forget quality of players, when it comes to Nigeria Ghana will put extra pashun!

We can't be over confident and throw all caution to the wind. We should deploy a formation that will make good use of our strength (attack) but still shield our weaker areas (midfield and defence to some extent).

I'm cautiously optimistic the boys will get the job done against Ghana but it won't be a work in the park.

gatecrash123:
It was the same formation we used in defeating egypt. Remember we are going there to win and not to play safe. Forget We are better than this guys. It is better we use more of attackers which we have in abundance than playing defensively which we are not strong at. Football is about scoring, if we concede no lele, so far we outscore them. You see this ghana their defence is f9, midfield e7, attack e8. What's there to be scared. I'm not bragging but that is the fact.