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PoliticsRe: Don’t Use Military Force On Bandits —sheikh Gumi by cocolacec(m): 9:32am On Sep 07, 2021
Gumi,Atiku and Obssanjo should call their boys to order.
PoliticsRe: Buhari’s Government Pays Ex-Militants N2.63bn As Stipends In 2 Months - ICIR by cocolacec(m): 7:15am On Sep 07, 2021
WUdec:
Spoken like a true poor man. And for the record i was referring to ownership of the terminals, son. Bye
You are the poor man,liar from the pit of hell.
PoliticsRe: Buhari’s Government Pays Ex-Militants N2.63bn As Stipends In 2 Months - ICIR by cocolacec(m): 9:45pm On Sep 06, 2021
WUdec:
Hahahaha@igbo pockets


Mr. Man, Igbos can never lack money until judgement day. So I don't get where you get your figures from. So relax

Obi Cubana ain't even top 100 when it comes to people and families that have money in Igbo land. Dangote ain't even near top 100

Here's a tip: In Lagos, you should find out how much shipping, clearing and forwarding companies make per month. They can feed a nation in one month. And find out who owns them.

So the money is long my friend. Super long.

Examine this for a minute:

In 2018, 1,560,000.000+ containers arrived in Nigeria.

Each terminal makes money off each container dropped in it. Do the math. Igbos own it all
You are a big liar,I also ship containers to Nigeria and i am not Igbo.How can Igbos own all the containers when the country is not filled with only Igbos?Many foreign companies also ship in containers with their raw materials etc.

Without Yoruba port,Igbos will starve to death be that,if we dont give your people access to our seaport.

You guys must worship Yorubas as your lord and saviour as people who put food on your table.
PoliticsRe: A Vote For Atiku Is A Vote For A Dubai Based President. by cocolacec(op): 5:14pm On Sep 06, 2021
Reno must see this
PoliticsRe: Fayemi Bows Down For Olu Of Warri, Tsola Emiko (photos) by cocolacec(m):
Rugaria:
"Attache by Force"!?
.

We are not igbos who do attachee by force.Itshekiris have Yoruba ancestry.
PoliticsRe: Fayemi Bows Down For Olu Of Warri, Tsola Emiko (photos) by cocolacec(m): 2:01pm On Sep 06, 2021
Rugaria:
This one Yoruba leaders are flooding warri to bow down to anybody in traditional regalia, are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?

Sophisticated treachery again!?

First Obasanjo, then Sanwo Olu now this one! Show me you are a land grabber without telling me you are a land grabber?
Olu of warri is a Yoruba king.
PoliticsRe: Why The North And West Hate Igbos So Much? by cocolacec(m): 1:02pm On Sep 06, 2021
Grgton:
Because Igbos are strictly against injustice!!

They are the mouth piece of the south Nigeria
Igbos are the mouthpiece for themselves,other tribes are not dumb to advocate for themselves and didnt appoint Igbos as their mouthpiece.

Every tribe in Nigeria have their hopes,wishes and aspirations which is different from what Igbos want.
PoliticsRe: Why The North And West Hate Igbos So Much? by cocolacec(m): 1:00pm On Sep 06, 2021
onyeokwu:
can someone enlighten me what has igbos done wrong to warrant all this hate
The west and North hate Igbos for killing their leaders in the first republic and the evil propaganda of the igbos against other tribes.

Igbos need to be humble and work with others nor chest beating about dominating others.
PoliticsRe: Buhari’s Government Pays Ex-Militants N2.63bn As Stipends In 2 Months - ICIR by cocolacec(m):
Yoruba militants must spring up.We must take our national share of the treasure.How can we be feeding Nigeria but have nothing to show for it?
Our money end up in fulani and Igbo pockets(the least productive regions in Nigeria).
PoliticsRe: Abia State Government Set To Demolish The Popular Ariaria Market. by cocolacec(m): 11:48am On Sep 06, 2021
Kayzy8:
Abia State government set to demolish the popular Ariaria market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUrJjpaLpBs
Marginalization of igbos in abia state.
PoliticsRe: VAT Ruling:lagos Responsible For 70% Of Collection Across Nigeria by cocolacec(op): 10:32am On Sep 06, 2021
At the moment, he said the hopeful winner from the latest development would be Lagos state.

“I don’t think any other state would make more money as of today from collecting their VAT than what they are sharing from the Federation. The reason is very simply, there is customs VAT that is collected by customs on behalf of FIRS, and that accounts for somewhere around 12 to 15 percent of VAT and that is a VAT no state would be able to lay claims too. Also, maybe 60 to 70 per cent of the nation’s VAT is generated in Lagos. This means all the other states are barely contributing 30 per cent.”

He noted that if this enacted some states would then state to reconsider adjusting VAT collection as well as ask companies to register operations in different, which in entirety would be cumbersome

He said: “This is a judgment of the Federal High Court and I don’t think any state would want to implement it. You expect there would be an appeal to court of appeal and then Supreme Court. This is a major issue so I don’t think anyone would allow it stand at this level were it is. So, the reality is that I would not be implemented now, it would still be under appeal and I don’t know how many more years that would take.”

“Today, VAT is somewhere around N1.5 trillion TO N1.8 trillion a year. About 12 to 15 per cent of that is collected at the border by customs and no state can collect at the border, it still has to be the federal government. And VAT you would get from the border from imports is not very different from what is gotten form the VAT pool. So, the impact on federal government would be negligible and Lagos state would make five times what they are getting from VAT and they would be the winner from this. Many states from the North would have almost nothing to collect. Some sates like Rivers, Ogun maybe they would be balanced because they have g good number of VAT within their states but more than 30 of the 36 states would be far worse off if the judgment is implemented.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/
PoliticsVAT Ruling:lagos Responsible For 70% Of Collection Across Nigeria by cocolacec(op): 10:29am On Sep 06, 2021
Analysts: Lagos Major Beneficiary of Rivers Court Ruling on VAT, Responsible for 70% of Collection Across Nigeria
editorAugust 11, 2021 12:46 Am
Nume Ekeghe

Following the ruling by a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, stating that Rivers State Government should collect Valued Added Tax (VAT) and Personal Income Tax (PIT), analysts have noted that Lagos would be the major beneficial of this ruling.

Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at PwC Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, in an interview with THISDAY, noted that the practice of the federal government collecting VAT and PIT on behalf of states has been an ongoing practice since states didn’t have the capacity to collect personally.

However, he pointed out that with the complexities involved in collecting VAT state by state, the FG will allow the ruling to stand.

Oyedele added that if states collect personally, Lagos state would be the major beneficiary of the ruling adding that 70 per cent of VAT collected nationwide are of Lagos origin.

He said: “Based on the constitution, consumption tax belongs to the states and I don’t think that anyone is debating that. So, what happened in 1993 when the VAT law was introduced was the understanding that the Federal Government (FG) had the capacity to collect. At the time, even Lagos state did not have the capacity to collect. So, FG was only collecting on behalf of the state and then keeping a percentage of the state to cover the cost of collecting. So, we can debate on whether the percent is high or not and that is why they only keep 15 per cent and 85 per cent goes to the states and local governments.”

“We have also had different cases in the past including up to the Supreme Court which was between Lagos state and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and it was a debate between VAT and consumption tax. And the Supreme Court said VAT law has covered the fees and therefore Lagos state should not introduce consumption tax. Now even though this is not the same, but they are related.

I”f you think of a law like personal income tax, it is a state tax and no one is debating it with them to collect it but the law was centrally enacted. So, a way, I see VAT playing out the same way. Centrally enacted maybe at some point states would collect it themselves but at the moment, FIRS is collecting on their behalf, ”he said.
PoliticsRe: Buhari Can Never Steps His Feet's In Igbo Biafra Land by cocolacec(m): 8:10am On Sep 06, 2021
Madmohamed1:
If buhari steps his feet's in igbo land (lMO STATE) I will stop my attach on Yusuf buhari

The only thing he can is to send Osinbajo the man buhari can never try it.

If he do I will give up.
nonsense when is kanu going to bring buhari head from aso rock?
PoliticsRe: A Vote For Atiku Is A Vote For A Dubai Based President. by cocolacec(op): 7:48am On Sep 06, 2021
AuroraB:
He was there for a Course. What's Tinubu in the UK for huh
fulani slave defending his master.
PoliticsA Vote For Atiku Is A Vote For A Dubai Based President. by cocolacec(op):
Atiku the Dubai vassal

Dear Reno,

RE: DO NOT VOTE FOR TINUBU IN 2023

Good afternoon, Mr. Reno ‘Wendel Simlin’ Omokri.
It has come to our notice, a jabberwocky written by your humble self and shared on your social media handle warning Nigerians not to elect (should he throw his hat in the race), in 2023 a foremost All Progressives Congress, APC leader, Asiwajú Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is said to be recuperating from a knee surgery in his London residence. Ordinarily, as a Group with so much to do on our hands, we would not have dignified you with a response but because it is social media where majority take what they read online hook, line and sinker without discerning thought; hence, the need to quickly respond and correct your gobbledygook. This is fundamentally germane as we move faster into the politicking of politics against the 2023 elections.

Like we posited above, one would not have taken you very seriously considering the fact that you have always spoken with your tongue in your cheek. Risibly though, for a former imagemaker of sitting president who did very poorly and abysmally to launder the image of his paymaster to the extent that his master became an object of derision and laughter across the globe as a dipsomaniacal boozehound, it is not stupefying therefore that such a man would throw decorum into the wind spewing balderdash about another man. We understand quite alright your pains. That your paymaster was ousted when you least expected, a time you were living the best of your life with unfettered access to our national treasury; it is only natural that Asíwájú Tinubu would become an adversary.

It is lugubriously absurd and rather flabbergasting that a man who worked for an Atiku presidency in 2019 after his master failed to retain his seat in 2015 but who did not see anything wrong in an Atiku staying back in foreign land for more than 2 years after losing election would come out and make an odoriferously odious statement warning Nigerians not to vote for a Tinubu presidency. It is overt you are only being clever by half. Only the doofuses will not understand your game. Your position is not about your love for Nigeria but majorly for two reasons. First, Tinubu was the architect of the ‘fall’ of your paymaster – GEJ in 2015. He prevented him from returning as the country’s numero uno, therefore, sending him on a voyage of political oblivion while you are denied access to the national ‘cookies jar’. Secondly, ‘e dey pepper una’ how suddenly Tinubu has turned his London residence to a political Mecca of sort, that even a sitting president had to ‘move’ the presidential office to his abode. But not to worry, your pains have just begun!

We are by this release therefore constrained to serve you a note of warning that this is just a preamble. We have not in any way begun the real politicking. And that when the game starts in earnest, ‘una go sá’ré kàbàkàbà’ with nowhere to run to. You are warned by this rejoinder to keep your puerile and infantile exuberance within the confines of those you usually drag for clout chasing. Coming for the political juggernaut, Asíwájú Tinubu shows you are on a self-destruct, digging your own grave and ready to be crushed. And that is exactly what you will get if you do not desist from crossing this line.

You are seriously warned!

Signed

Ọmọ́gbọ́láhàn L.A. BABAWALE
National Coordinator,
For: Director-General
Nigeria Diaspora for Aṣíwájú
riches.babs@gmail.com

PoliticsRe: What Made Me Change From Tinubu’s Bitter Critic To Campaigner – Ogunlewe by cocolacec(op): 2:17pm On Sep 05, 2021
You and Chief Olabode George were political allies. Did you discuss with him when you chose to leave PDP’s umbrella to pick APC’s broom?

Honestly, I tried my best to make sure that he saw things the way I saw them but he didn’t and I didn’t want to be frustrated, so I had to move to where I belong. APC is progressive and it is the offshoot of AD. I was a member of AD so I simply came back home to people that have similar ideals and views in politics like me.

George recently recommended supporters of Tinubu, including you, for check-ups. He wondered why you were never consistent. He also said you had made what he described as vicious comments about Tinubu before. How would you react to that?

The question was, if they zoned the presidency to the South-West who would you support? So they just talk without addressing the question. Anybody who is saying something else should tell me if they zoned it to the South-West this is the person I will support, so don’t abuse Ogunlewe. The question is who will you support if they zone it to the South-West? Make your choice.

Are you ready to take on George on the suitability of Tinubu for the office of the President or not?

No, it is not a personal issue, it is a political matter. If Olabode George wants to be president he can come out too. If Bola Tinubu wants to be president, he can come out too. Whoever wants to follow Bode George will follow him and whoever wants to follow Bola Tinubu will follow him. Where is the competition there? I’m saying if they zone it to the South-West, I will be the campaign manager of Bola Tinubu, that doesn’t mean any other person cannot be the campaign manager for another person. I’m talking about myself so there is no competition at all in whatever form.

Apart from being discerning, as you said, what other things made you turn around to recommend someone you claimed while serving as a minister was not suitable to govern Lagos State to be President of Nigeria?

His capacity to build human resource; capacity to predict things; capacity to be a lot reasonable in whatever he wants to do and get it. If you know how the presidency under the PDP revered Bola Tinubu, you will not believe it. (Former President Goodluck) Jonathan believed that Tinubu is a magician. Let me give you an instance. In 2011, during the general election, we were about to defeat ACN at that time. Bola Tinubu called Jonathan to cancel the election in Lagos State and he cancelled it at 5 o’clock in the afternoon on the day of the election which we were winning.

Why would Jonathan, a PDP member, cancel an election that is going in favour of his party?

Go and ask the Independent National Electoral Commission. That was what happened; I don’t know why. At 5 o’clock, they announced they had cancelled the election. It was so devastating. When I write my book on the things that go behind the scenes in politics that are unknown to people; the magic Bola Tinubu has performed in this country, you will not believe it. When we wanted to use (Mulikat Akande) Adeola to replace (Dimeji) Bankole as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, it was a PDP government and House of Representatives was a PDP majority. He single-handedly brought in (Aminu) Tambuwal to defeat our own people and Tambuwal became the Speaker. Obasanjo was the one supporting Akande, still they manipulated it and Tambuwal won. Do you think that kind of man (Tinubu) has got no sense? When he said (Femi) Gbajabiamila was going to be the Speaker and (Ahmad) Lawan would be the Senate President, many people said no, but Tinubu waited, he planned it and put his people there. That is what anybody who is a political scientist should investigate and research. What is the purpose of this man on earth that he could manipulate the entire nation for (Muhammadu) Buhari to win the 2015 presidential election after he had tried three times and said he would not contest again? Who could convince Buhari to contest an election again and how was that person able to convince him?

When you think about the killings going on under the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, how do you feel that you belong to the same political party?

Anybody that is in Nigeria now and doesn’t have a father and a mother should not answer that kind of question.

Would you say Buhari was the best man for the job both in 2015 and 2019?

I was not part of the party at that so I wouldn’t know, but that was the person they brought and he won. However, PDP should have suspected that Buhari was going to win. I was not in doubt because I knew that Jonathan and his hangers-on were not reading the handwriting on the wall. I was a member of the Presidential Campaign Council for Jonathan and I could see the people surrounding him were not honest; they deceived him. When Buhari lost in 2011, people burned the houses of so many PDP members. They killed some of them; they killed corps members, because the man won that election. It was rigged. In 2015, it was the turn of the North and they were saying no, you are the president, you are going to win. He shouldn’t have contested that election.

Why do you say that?

He was going to fail. There was no way he would win, and he had the information. He had the security reports. Hassan who was his PA, Political was a Fulani man; the IGP; his security details were all Fulani. We were at a meeting and (former Kano State governor) Rabiu Kwankwaso stood up and said Mr President, in 2011, we put up our lives for this election for you to win; we couldn’t vote; our people said we wanted to sell the North to the South, don’t contest. (Former President Olusegun) Obasanjo begged us that you were going to be there for only one term; Also, five governors left the PDP and Jonathan still believed he could win because [the late Chief Tony] Anenih told him not to worry and the South-South was saying don’t worry. What is the number of their votes? He would have been more honourable to say I have a pact with Obasanjo; it’s only for four years, let the North have it. We wouldn’t have been in this position at all. You cannot confront these people. Their own ideology is different from our own. For them to even install him after the death of Yar’Adua was a miracle.

Some feelers suggested that Jonathan’s mistake went beyond his belief in his hangers-on prior to the 2015 election.

No, Nigeria’s politics is not like that. Even if you pave all the roads with gold it won’t matter when it has to do with North and South or when it is Christian and Muslims. It doesn’t matter at all. At that time, they made up their minds it was the turn of the North. Honestly, immediately Obasanjo told him you’re not going again, that would have been the end, because he (Obasanjo) was his backbone. Let me put the record straight, 2011 was the turn of IBB (Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida). We were already campaigning for IBB to come back. He had the structure already. We started the campaign. It was former President Obasanjo who went to Ibadan and called all the South-West governors; he called all our party members that no, it is Jonathan and that anybody who dares me would be in trouble. We then said whatever Baba (Obasanjo) said was the final. He said it must be Jonathan and not IBB and we agreed and it was going to be four years. We agreed. At the end of the fourth year, these hangers-on started to tell the man (Jonathan) you are going to win; win what? Is it so easy to win?

Some people alleged that Buhari doesn’t have certificates while Bode George also accused Tinubu of not having certificates. Does it bother you that the party may be presenting those without considered not to have certificates as its presidential candidates?

Why are we in a hurry? If the man fills the form and he inputs a certificate there; tell him to bring the certificate. If he doesn’t have then we can talk. But I know he has a certificate; Bode George is new to this struggle. We started the struggle. He doesn’t know about the struggle at all. Bode George is new to Lagos State politics. He doesn’t know anything. It is not true that Tinubu doesn’t have a certificate. He went to the University of Chicago but there were so many other things he didn’t have which he included in the form. So, he is not going to be stupid now and fill those things on his form again. He has the certificate. I have a copy. All these things Bode George is saying, he doesn’t know about this struggle at all. How can you say somebody who worked at Mobil, who was our senatorial candidate in Social Democratic Party doesn’t have a certificate? Where was Bode George then? These are new politicians. How did he go to the Senate then?

Copyright PUNCH.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/what-made-me-change-from-tinubus-bitter-critic-to-campaigner-ogunlewe/%3famp
PoliticsRe: What Made Me Change From Tinubu’s Bitter Critic To Campaigner – Ogunlewe by cocolacec(op): 2:16pm On Sep 05, 2021
When you were a minister, the then governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, erected billboards, saying some roads belonged to the Federal Government and appealed to residents to bear with his government. How did you feel about that?

We repaired all the roads they (Lagos State Government) put ‘bear with us’, because they were federal highways. It was easy for us to do federal highways. In the federation, 60 per cent of the roads belong to the local governments, only less than 35,000km belong to the Federal Government, so it’s very small.

As a minister, you were the rallying point for the PDP in the state, would you say your popularity earned you that or it was because of the position you occupied?

It was so contentious. Leave it to researchers to give you an evaluation because if I begin to tell you about how I did it; how important I was at that time, it’s not going to be useful.

You led a campaign against Tinubu then with lots of cartoons, saying the real name of Tinubu was Sangodele and that he was from Osun State. Do you still hold that belief?

Times have changed. That was my perception at that time but the man has outsmarted everybody. He’s an extremely clever person and you have to study him, either to criticise him or to love him. If you are not discerning and you cannot see facts, you will be having the same thoughts that you had of him ten years ago. Honestly, I am so perplexed about the way he has been able to perform this magic. I didn’t believe it but he has done so. Who in the entire country can install the President, the Vice-President, the Senate President and the Speaker? For eight years? One person! Don’t you think there is something in that person we have to admire? He would determine who was going to be governor of Imo State; Yobe State; Ogun State, Osun State, and he would be correct. He would determine who was going to be ministers and those people would be appointed. He would determine who was going to get appointed as ambassador and such persons would get it. Whether you like him or you hate him, just focus on his person. How has he been able to get to this level? That is what is amazing to me. You see people groping in the dark: he is this, he is that, but the man has moved on. Are you going to sit down with your frustration? The man doesn’t even know that you are frustrated. This man, one single person, installed a presidency in Nigeria. Who has done so before? He is the rallying point for Nigerian politics today and he has the background of political development; he has the knowledge. Hate him or love him.

Where do you belong; do you love him or hate him
I’m discerning. I’m marvelled at how he has been able to lift himself up from almost nobody to this envious position that every Nigerian knows his name today.

Was that what informed your decision to switch sides from PDP to the APC?

No. In Lagos State, there is nothing like PDP. The leadership is corrupt. They would make noise today on the television, tomorrow they are dining with the man. Believe it or not, many politicians and even those that are politically minded know what I’m saying. People have seen it, they have witnessed it that these PDP people make noise that when election comes they will perform magic because they want to get money, but what do we see?

Some said your defection was because you were broke and needed state patronage. How would you react to you?

I have never been a contractor. I don’t have a company. I don’t get any patronage from anybody. I’m a civil servant to the core. I grew up in the civil service, so where will I get a company to use to seek for a contract? People will talk but ask them for proof. I have held enviable positions in this country; that can never make me broke. I was the Permanent Secretary for Land and Housing and Survey from 1986 for at least three years. All the lands at Victoria Island, I shared them. Talk of Victoria Garden City and Dolphin, I built them. The Housing Scheme at Ebute Metta, I built them. I built the 10,000 Housing Scheme in Lagos State under (the late Lateef) Jakande. All these houses tagged ‘Jakande Houses’ I built them. I built the roads; I built the schools. How can somebody that has gone through that ever become broke in his life? So, apart from me having the opportunity to have properties, I have extensive goodwill. Do I want to build a new house or buy a new car? Somebody that is broke will have no house, but if you have a house you cannot be broke.

Talking about housing, Nigeria clearly has housing deficit that seems insurmountable. Why is this so?

Is housing part of the policy of the government? It has to be part of your policies before you decide it is an issue. Did the government say it was going to build a certain number of houses? Unlike the Lateef Jakande period, when the governor said he was going to construct 10,000 units of houses in four years and he did so. So, if providing houses is not part of your policies, how can we now judge you by the number of houses you are able to build? It is not part of your policy so it is not an issue at all.
PoliticsWhat Made Me Change From Tinubu’s Bitter Critic To Campaigner – Ogunlewe by cocolacec(op): 2:14pm On Sep 05, 2021
What made me change from Tinubu’s bitter critic to campaigner – Ogunlewe

A former Minister of Works and Housing, Adeseye Ogunlewe, speaks to ‘SOLA BABARINSA on his backing of the rumoured presidential ambition of a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, among other related issues

As an experienced politician who was a member of the Alliance for Democracy, the Peoples Democratic Party and now the All Progressives Congress, what, in your view, could make the PDP to win the governorship and senatorial elections in Lagos State?

Planning. By planning, I mean the conviction to win. If you don’t have the conviction that your party can win then you cannot win; it has to do with your state of your mind. If we want to win an election, what must we do? One, we must accommodate all members of the party; all the tendencies. Whether you oppose me, you like me as a leader or you don’t, it should not matter in an election. Two; you must have the right candidate; the candidate that must be loved by all. Not a candidate that half will work for and the other half will work against. Three; you must have the money and the money must be invested properly and not converted for personal use. Given that the money is meant for a purpose, once you deviate from that purpose you will lose the election. Also of importance are your manifesto and personality. The person who is leading you; what is his pedigree; where is his own community; where is he going to vote; can he win in that community? This is because when there is no assurance that the leader will deliver his ward or local government area, that party can never win. It is like contributing to a common purse. In politics that is how to win. That means if you are from Alimosho Local Government, another person is from Ikorodu and another from Epe, what is their respective contribution from their local governments to enable us to win the election? So, if you don’t have the commitment, forget it. You can never win an election without the commitment to win; you would only be wasting your time.

People saw you as a politician that is very formidable, how would you say you impacted the political parties you have been affiliated with?

It depends on leadership; you cannot do it alone. When I was in the Alliance for Democracy, it was not a difficult situation because we formed the grassroots that made the AD. I mean the network. We had the structure. Structure means you must have certain individuals in each of the wards who can deliver for you. If you don’t have them there is no way you can win. We had them in AD. However, because of some confusion and conflict, we moved to the PDP. We had it in the PDP as well but the leadership was not ready to win. Once the leadership is not ready to win or deliver, no matter how hard individuals in each local government work, how can you win? You would always be frustrated. So, it is a problem of leadership.

You once won the election to be a senator on the platform of the AD. Since your defection, some people say neither you nor those from your camp have been able to win an election again in the state. Why is that?

That is not correct. In 2010, in my constituency, Lagos Constituency II, we lost a House of Assembly member, Rotimi Shotomiwa. He belonged to the Action Congress of Nigeria. So, there was an election between the PDP and ACN and I delivered and won. Gbenga Oshin won that election because the leadership was committed. The presidency was committed to that victory and we won. If during that period, you were not recognised as somebody who could deliver, what can you do? We were totally handicapped.

PoliticsRe: Lagos, Rivers Begin VAT Collection, FG, North Disagree by cocolacec(m): 12:18pm On Sep 05, 2021
EndBuhariNow:
and you will always be the first to comment and condemn the East when ever they demand to leave with their little but nothing to national purse... don't you think it will be nice they go and stop taking from the one you contribute through mining of skulls in ogun huh Coward
Support a return to regional government.Britain will never allow The Nigerian enterprise to break dont you get that.
We are all prisoners in this enterprise until we as Africans have more sophisticated weapons than the British.
PoliticsRe: APC Is Nigeria’s Biggest Mistake – Atiku Tells Defectors To PDP In Adamawa by cocolacec(m): 8:19am On Sep 05, 2021
Atiku the Dubai based President of Arewa Republic.
PoliticsRe: Lagos, Rivers Begin VAT Collection, FG, North Disagree by cocolacec(m): 7:38am On Sep 05, 2021
Bundaweber:
A very terrible and greedy move by wike. Trying to take advantage of the ethnic and religious tension to line his pocket. Vat and income tax should be in the exclusive preserve of the federal government but folks won't see it because of the current atmosphere of hate. Welp that's what the average Nigerian politician does, stir up ethnocentric and religious tensions in order to profit from it
Why should the rich man in your village share all his wealth with all his villagers leaving him with little to feed his own children.
Yorubas must exist this fraudulent union,if the country will not go back ro regional govt.
PoliticsRe: Lagos, Rivers Begin VAT Collection, FG, North Disagree by cocolacec(m): 7:35am On Sep 05, 2021
EndBuhariNow:
Northern states contributes absolutely nothing to Nigeria development... how I wish yellowbar Muslims go see things as it unfolds
The East and the North contribute little to the Nigerian estate.The two parasites in Nigeria are Northerners and Easterners.

Ogun IGR Is More Than The Whole South East States Combined - Deji Adeyanju
PoliticsRe: The 10 Regions According To Sir Henry Willink Minorities Commission(1957-1958) by cocolacec(op): 7:24am On Sep 05, 2021
Kundagarten:
When did you do referendum to ascertain where the Itsekiris and Akoko Edo would go?
Itshekiris and Akoko Edo are Yorubas.They can request for a referendum,that wont be a problem for the Yorubas.
PoliticsRe: What We Want From President Tinubu Come 2023? by cocolacec(op): 7:15am On Sep 05, 2021
Jagaban for life
PoliticsRe: Lagos, Rivers Begin VAT Collection, FG, North Disagree by cocolacec(m): 7:10am On Sep 05, 2021
Princedapace:
Oga, u made a good point but calling for secession is not crime o.

Black man should know this. It is a crime. If u don't want people to leave the union, do the needful. Make the system favorable to all.
Nigeria will suceed,if the country goes back to 10 regional govt,each region will control its resources,military,Parliament etc
The regions should be
1.Yoruba region
2.Hausa/Fulani region
3.Ibo region
4.Edo/Urhobo region
5.Upper middle belt region
6.Kanuri region
7.Ijaw Region
8.Efik/Ibibio region
9.Lower middle belt region
10 Central middle belt region
PoliticsRe: Ogun IGR Is More Than The Whole South East States Combined - Deji Adeyanju by cocolacec(m): 7:05am On Sep 05, 2021
Ndi developers
PoliticsRe: Lagos, Rivers, FCT, Ogun Earned More Than Other 33 States combined 2020-NBS by cocolacec(m): 7:03am On Sep 05, 2021
OVB123:
Leave them, let them be making noise. The report is out now, even Enugu that was in top 10 in the last 2 years report, is nowhere to be found. The question I always asked them is: "if u people are the one generating IGR for other states, why not do thesame in your states from the east?"
Abi oo
PoliticsRe: What A Classroom Look Like In Igboland? by cocolacec(op): 9:50pm On Sep 04, 2021
U
paramakina202:
Blessdom of a woman can pick pictures from Zimbabwe and tag it Igboland just to entertain her Notrhern and western followers.
The other day she posted a native foot bridge in the middle of a forest and term it somewhere in Igboland she failed to name the location even after I ask her.
Blessedom got the pictures and video from a broadcasting page

PoliticsRe: How To Construct Bamboo Road In Igboland? by cocolacec(op): 9:48pm On Sep 04, 2021
Images from Amechi Idodo in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State.

PoliticsRe: How To Construct Bamboo Road In Igboland? by cocolacec(op): 9:44pm On Sep 04, 2021
But eeem "Fulani" whyhuhhuh Why do this to Imilike Etiti in Udenu LGA of Enugu State? "Fulani" whyhuhhuh

https://fb.watch/7Gh7s25fNC/

PoliticsRe: How To Construct Bamboo Road In Igboland? by cocolacec(op): 9:42pm On Sep 04, 2021
Chai, "Hausa/Fulani-Tinubu/Yoruba" Whyhuh? What is the offence of Igbo people that they have to suffer this kind of roads? I ask again, Hausa/Fulani-Tinubu/Yoruba" Whyhuh?

Images from Ideato South in Imo State. Rochas Okorocha placed a billboard and ran away.

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