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...closing remarks

"Yet, Atiku will not simply roll over. He’s a fighter, and the coalition of angry generals in his corner – from former President Olusegun Obasanjo to former military President Ibrahim Babangida, and General Aliyu Gusau – have a dog in the fight. Expect to hear more from these generals – and even a few highly placed anti-Buhari traditional rulers shortly before the election. The home stretch promises to be nasty.

But that won’t change much. The die is cast, and the race is won and lost."

cont'd...

Indigenes who are indifferent or those who belong to a different faith still believe they have to be in the good books of the well-connected Hausa-Fulani to climb up the social ladder.

With the south west, the second largest voting bloc, still firmly in APC’s control; one flank of the south south riven by the epic fight between Governor Udom Emmanuel and his estranged godfather, Godswill Akpabio; and the other flank stranded over Governor Nyesom Wike’s reluctance to lead the Atiku campaign, the picture for PDP in the south south is grim.

Add that to the situation in three south east states – Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi – whose governors are working almost flat out for Buhari’s second term, and you will be hard pressed to find the advantage that Peter Obi is supposed to bring to the Atiku ticket.

Will the record of the last four years not count? It will count for next to nothing. The mixed bag of the fight against corruption, the yo-yoing war on Boko Haram, the fragile economy and unflattering unemployment figures ought to put Buhari in a tight spot; but the indescribable fear of who the real Atiku in power could be – that unknowable quantity – makes it a bit easier to forgive Buhari’s shortcomings.

Get this straight: Atiku Abubakar will lose the presidential election on February 16. I’m not Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka or one of the tongue-in-cheek seers whose predictions you’ll be struggling to figure out after dropping your offering in the bag at midnight of December 31. I’ll say it the way it is, walking where angels fear to tread.

You’re free to believe who you want or what you choose, but here’s why Atiku will lose. The two main candidates will split the north, the country’s largest vote bank, with 38.9million or over 50 percent of the 72.8million registered voters as at January. But President Muhammadu Buhari’s fanatical hold over the north west, which has over 18.5million registered voters – the highest in the country – will still give him an edge over Atiku.
The deciding vote is not in the hands of the northern elite, who loathe Buhari and have loathed him for over 30 years. It’s in the hands of the mass of the rural and urban poor who will die for Buhari before they know why. His fabled 12 million votes may have become distant memory, but his name remains a talisman unmatched by Atiku.

Wouldn’t the farmer-herdsman crisis in the middle belt in the last three or four years and Buhari’s sluggish response favour Atiku in that area, and possibly redeem some of the votes he would lose in the core north?

I doubt it. There’s a significant and growing Hausa-Muslim population in the north central today who identify more with Buhari than they do with Atiku. If there was still any doubt about their loyalty, Miyetti Allah, an important segment of this group, settled it by endorsing Buhari recently.

At last?

@akinsmail51

The second image you posted in the OP has a wrong vowelization... [size=8pt]انزلتُ[/size] rather than انزاتَ.

What the vowel as it is written there would me is..."whatever good I send down for myself... (we seek refuge with Allah from arrogance and ignorance)

Some genuine crtiics but also many naysayers have been saying the same things - unrealistic, unrealistic.

What's the problem with being ambitious and optimistic?

In the end a budget is a budget - projections within reasonable limits.

For an economy that needs the fiscal expansion like yesterday, I'll rather budget for 15 roads and maybe build 10 if the revenue falls short, than plan for 10 roads and be caught keeping excess fund or worse, spend without planning, if revenue expands within the fiscal year.

As I type, Brent is about 54 dollars (53.80) and production is about 1.9mbpd. With possible OPEC cuts in Q1 and the likely coming on stream of the FPSO Egina, the projections of 60 dollars and 2.3mbpd are, yes optimistic, but are also within reasonable limits for rightly ambitious economic targets.

What's more..

All the 6 South-south states = ~8.3m

The remaining states in the NW =~8.7m

So assuming 100% turnout in the 3 regions, and no rigging, the NW alone delivers about a million more votes than the SE and SS combined.

There's work to do.

There's work to do, even if this figures are correct.

Abia+Anambra+Ebonyi+Enugu+Imo = ~6.5m

Kaduna + Kano = ~7.2m

Never mind Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto, Zamfara

@lalasticlala
Moderator should shut down this thread!
Too much hate speech ongoing...

I don't know how or why the admins of this board don't get worried about what their platform is being used for.

I don't know the commerce of these things but if it's about keeping the traffic, is it more important than the danger that the type of hate speeches that's allowed to go on here can pose to everyone and the society?


I'll never want to own /administer a medium that's used to spread hate from both sides in probably the same way it might have been allowed to fester in Rwanda, early to the mid 90s.

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Optionalx:
You're just dumb. So a Muslim who did not wear hijab is (not/less) Muslim.
What is the percentage of Muslims who wear hijab to those who did not?
Religion continues to deprive some people common sense reasoning.

Insults and abuses are not intelligence.

Rather than answer a question even as a 'medulus interloper', you result to adult tantrums. It's only lack of capacity that makes one behave that way.

Have a good day.

freecocoa:
I hope other kids will also be allowed to represent their religions with the appropriate attiresonly then would this make sense.

Please tell us the religious attire that the "other kids" wear every time and everywhere they go.

Pls tell us what the other kids are required to wear by their religious tenet at all times.

As if we don't know what some people wear into even their place of 'worship'.

UgwuAghachi:
Oya come let me school you father. All these Anambra people that are Bini and Igala descendants should not be talking when an Amadi is talking


Do you know the difference between MSC and MBA at all. OSU Anambra?

An MBA and an MSC are both 'Master' level qualifications. The key difference is that an MSc is for fresh graduates or those trying to improve their chances on the labour market while the MBA is for busy business executives who already have their leg dipped in the business world and hence the the MBA is acquired in a shorter time.

LOL!

This is manifest error or confidence in ignorance!
M.Sc is for fresh graduate whole MBA is for busy people.

MBA are shorter than M.Sc because it's for busy people.

Now listen and learn!
MBA is a professional qualification whether you're fresh or stale. M.Sc is an academic degree that leads to a PhD and further research preoccupation.

To what end is this?

You don't have to enter the mosque with the aim of pleasing muslims, albeit some muslims - it's futile.

Just be fair to them and everyone, in appointments, rights and allocation of state resources.

This man obviously has integrity issues himself.

A man that can not organize and manage his NIM to become relevant, making excuses for his failure, and he's quick to accuse a man that manages an entire country of not doing anything.

He's a closet PDP apologist.

globemoney:
I dont see Wike wanting any other thing apart from completing his second tenure. Infact I believe Wike will pick his second tenure over being President right now, Wike is very attached to PH, he will only start aspiring for higher office after his second tenure.

As for deep pockets, Atiku does not need Wike, Atiku can fund his election 100%. Atiku only needs international support to win Buhari and the best person to get his that is either Soludo, Akinwunmi Adesina or Okonjo Iweala I would be surprised if Atiku does not pick between these 3

Atiku might not be picking a running mate all by himself.

I have the feeling the party would be giving Atiku options of names to choose from.

The new brigade leaders of the party led by Wike and the top primaries runners-up would have the privilege of nominating candidates for the VP slot, in order to placate them and forge a united front.
These group would not be nominating Soludo, Iweala et al. They would be nominating their lackeys and trusted people.

Views are welcome, without insults.

Yes, Wike is a first term governor. I'm sure he'd want a lackey in the vice presidency that can hold forte for him and that would position him for a shot at the top ticket in 2023.

OPINION:
Any keen political observer and one who understands how Nigerian politicians think would easily see that gov. Wike had the most bargaining chips to emerge as the running mate to Mr. Atiku.

The old guards in the PDP had their way in the emergence of Atiku, the new leaders of the party would most likely insist on picking the VP slot. Wike leads this group and he'd project someone he trusts or can control for that slot.

The party wants some cohesion in the party and would be more than willing to concede to Wike. Remember, he also has the deepest purse to help the party. He's also known to have threatened the party before.

This would not be Atiku's choice but rather the party's.
Former gov Daniel though, laboured hard with Atiku and should be recognised, but it would be argued that so did the likes of Markafi, Fayose and Wike for the party when it was down. And you can forget all those assemblage of names from the south east.

The odds favour gov. Wike.

How does a Muslim girl wearing the hijab affect the other person?
What is a school rule that contradicts the Constitution?

Muslims tolerate having to go to school and office on Fridays even though it directly affects their worship, whole Christians got Sunday all free. One can only imagine if it was the other way round, but they still turn around a make noise about Muslims not agreeing to be second rate citizens to them.

Many of these folks here are hypocritical hating bigots.

Christian nuns don't ever get told such nonsense on public spaces like this. It's only Muslim girls that are harassed by these Christian terrovangelists like this new principal woman and her ilk on this board.

NB: I acknowledge some Christians are free minded and not blinded by hate and islamaphobia - I salute them.

lagosrd:
If the issue is that they can obey conventional secondary education. It's simple let them go to an Islamic secondary school that has the same educational standard and academic records and stop this nonsense. Goverment has more stuffs to deal with.

It's hate, intolerance and chronic bigotry that make people lose the benefit of their education , if they even have any at all.

A Christian principal arrives and orders Muslim girls to remove a head covering that's a requirement of the practice of their religion.

Imagine a Muslim principal arriving and ordering Christian nuns to remove their head covers, especially when the court of law has ruled that they have the right to wear the head cover in and out of school...

But of course bigots choose when to recognise the court and when to obey their hate-inspired, unrefined heart prompts.

Whether haters and the silly principal like it or not, the girls would wear the hijab and your hate would only eat you up from inside.

hello everyone,

the application page is not displaying the option to 'Continue Application' I have my ref no and I've paid. In fact, I've begun filling the form before. Anyone experience same thing? Any help?

Butterflyle0:
My brother I own a farm and that amount is even too much for those starting off. You are talking about 5 hectares of land as if everyone must begin with 5 hectares.

I know people who began with as little as 3 acres (18 plots) and grew from there.

Is 3 acres also meant for subsistence farming?

I admire you commitment and energy.
If I were you though, I'd leave this lot alone. If the loan credit alert had been 1m naira, this eternal cynics would still have found a reason to whine that it's too much or still too little.

He wants to start from 10 hectares. Yeye.

MaziOmenuko:
And you think APC doesn't know that? Everyone at the APC knows, but will pretend not to know until election is won. Then they will remind him that he wasn't among the founding fathers; then will support shift to the APC candidate for senate president.

Right now, he thinks he is using APC. Soon, he will realize he's being played. APC needs headway into the South generally. So even if that headway is coming from Judas Ischariot himself, no qualms until after elections.

I understand your standpoint and I infact agree with your second paragraph. But APC's antecedent with the saraki case does not agree with the opinion in your first paragraph.

One can't be too careful to drum it in their ears not to be second time silly.

magoo10:
story story and APC must use a pdp they claim are looters and evil to achieve success abi?

Naivety!

Politics is a game of numbers. Anybody that brings the number might be accepted but what position they get in governance is a different consideration altogether.

magoo10:
APC are meant to be foolish always
It is a huge joke to think that they can use hard core pdp members to achieve their aim.

Saraki taught them the lessons of their life dem no learn now they want to use akpabio.
I laugh

The first time might be understandable.
I don't think they would make the same mistake a second time.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a second time?

Would be interesting to hear what reasons Mr. Akpabio would give for his cross-carpeting.

...by the way, the ramble above me remains ignored, deliberately.

If Akpabio gets to become Senate president with the APC, the saraki leadership of the red chamber would simply be repeated, and the APC would have only itself to blame.

This is a no-brainer and I'd want to think that the supposedly smart ones in the APC would not allow that to happen again.

The senator should lose his seat anyway.
Abi there's division currently in his party ni?

Good enough

Finally

It's the tragedy of democracy. Even the most glaring idiots can express an opinion and worse, even vote!

Is it not now safe to say 90% of folks on this forum these days are at best semi-literate? And these are the same folks always expressing opinions on about every issue on this forum, seeking to shape other people's opinions.
They go from topic to topic shouting "dullard" "dullard".
They are in their hundreds on this forum with bare comprehension of even the most basic issues, giving one another 'likes' in hundreds.

Now I understand why many people don't take this forum seriously anymore... Such a shame!