₦airaland Forum

KanwuliaExtra:
When dem nor gree feed them.
Wetin dem dey collate upon collate?
Something that they spent 1 TRILLION NAIRA to facilitate for electronic transmission. Now they are using pen and TIPEX to erase and re-write already collated results.

Unnecessarily tedious and archaic process.

Ijjjjjiots.

. . I had to laugh because I no fit cry!

We keep sinking low. And Yakubu really make mouth o. Now man has bungled a simple assignment and putting a big question mark on the integrity of the elections.

Iwene:
Someone went to urinate and was found dead? Everything about this story doesn't add up.

You no know say "high tension" na killer disease?

You know wetin dem promise u if u "deliver', then con dey see results wey dey daze u and your mind don stretch reach im limit. Kpai can happen!

God forgive his errors and rest his soul.

At least him don free from the madness wey go follow this election as 3 people don dey claim winners already.

Miracood2:
I'm a bit disappointed. What's with all this tiny figures? The northerners will bombard us with APC: 2k+ votes in each polling unit..


But I'm just seeing a meager 150 LP votes in Edo.

I'm disappointed.

Indifference by Southerners, reflected in abysmally low voter turnout, is the reason the North with their largely illiterate but highly politically conscious population would boss us for a long time.

While leaving to vote, I was almost moved to tears to see people who are battered economically rather sit in groups and deliver their verdict "even if he win, dem no go gree give am".

Worse still, the ones you see at the polling units are serving as thugs while some others are waiting to be induced before voting.

My Joy? I've done my bit, the turnout was still a marked improvement from previous cycles and should get better as people perceive the electoral system to be more credible and yet suffer again from policies of future rulers like Buhari.

Overall, I'm positive no victor from this electoral cycle would dismiss the people as "inconsequential" anymore.

NaijaOlosho:
Shoot any Yoruba man who tries to rig election in Bayelsa

Shoot them in their eye balls

please, this is a mission to take back our country and domicile power with the people as it should be.

Our Yoruba patriots equally are on this rescue mission. Give them credit while we galvanize those that still have a part not to lose focus.

Let's refrain from utterances that would breed discord. Thank you.

Legitisreal:
What it needs is 25% requirement in south now

. Then they stand no chance.

The margin here go make eye turn you. Anything greater than 25% for the PDP in 3 states, in both the SE & SS, would amount to a super-brilliant outing.

Legitisreal:
lol, mouth don change

He would win and that's the reality not your emotions

PDP would be annihilated here in our Delta. We wait for a bit till collation is done and you'll see how we rewarded his pillage of our funds.

Fira09:
Obio/Akpor PU, Rivers State
Presidential:

Obi - 202
Tinubu - 7
Atiku - 5

. Na INEC irev portal wey dey fumble dey allow middlemen like you dey mess with our eyes.

What in hell is Obior/Akpor PU?

No address, no ward? Haba!

tuader:
So na only mouth Buhari just dey make that man has been a coward since day 1

Na now day just break for your side?

When we dey shout say na fulani entrenchment gameplan dem dey execute, Una think say na joke.

Cash confiscation: ABAT no fit buy votes to break the Northern bloc votes; ballot snatching for Lagos to save Baba from disgrace; late or non arrival of materials for east; voter suppression for Rivers while North go vote dey go without hindrance.

Naira no dey, yet AA dey mobilize with dollars and person wan dey hopeful?

Give it up already! Atiku is president elect and was a job well done by all parties involved. We shall enjoy the bumpy ride together.

HellVictorinho7:
u will still lose in addition to the 100k, as buhari wants.

. I'm not too sure about what you mean here. If you're happy that I should lose legitimate earnings because of a policy intended to achieve a predetermined result, though masked as well-intended one, then good luck if it makes you feel good.

SmartPolician:
They are very stupid people - no apologies!

Those idiots are the problem of this country.

They should stay back in their homes.

I will call the EFCC the moment I see anyone involved in vote-buying or selling.

Thank God they have publicly released their numbers for speed dial.

Nigerians must have sense by force.

May God bless Buhari for taking a bold step to stop this madness!

. I like your genuine outpouring of emotions.

I'd be voting, but Atiku is the next president!

I would have preferred a situation of rampant vote-buying than this wickedness that has constricted the growth of the economy. By the time we start accessing results of the elections, then shall we know the wickedness that was behind the implementation of the cash seizure policy.

There'd be widespread voter apathy in the South because the momentum has terribly slowed down, and I think that's part of the plan to enthrone AA. You see the North? They'd still record voter turnout of say 60% while you'd hardly get 20% down south.

But how do I say 'God bless Buhari' like you when I've lost more than 100k in legitimate earnings since his enforced nightmare of a policy started?. Moreso, when I feel it is done to confer advantage on a particular candidate and not provide a level-playing field as a lot of people are made to see it.

aariwa:
@ otipoju I don’t expect him or anybody in non political position to be partisan in politics because that is capable of dividing the church or losing goodwill but after the utter humiliation of the church by buhari most Christians expected a healer that will build the church but tinubu Muslim Muslim ticket and Atiku a moslem aspiring to take over from another moslem is a slap on the face of every real Christian in Nigeria. Christendom had never been humiliated like this. Yoruba Muslims, muric and some Muslims in the north cheered them on to spite Christians and ridicule our faith and ensure aso rock chapel will never have a Christian president. Would their reaction have been the same if a ruling party had fielded a Christian Christian ticket after 8 years of Christian presidency? They would have used that as a pretext to start killing innocent Christians in the north

Where a man stands in times of inconveniences matters a lot.

Make no mistakes, PO seems the right choice not because he's not inclined to be as nepotistic as Buhari, but because he is most likely to be timely or proactive in securing the lives of citizens being one in a faith opposed to that which prides and revels in killing.

Most certainly, new levels of carnage shall be tested and that's was frightens me the most. ,,And the reason I think these pastors should have taken sides. Imams did yesterday while CAN and PFN decided to be chickens.

Fair enough, they may be not be easy targets but shall serve as trophies in the bloodbath to come, as such they'd be targeted nonetheless.

As for me, it's time to review my engagement with the Church in my relationship with God. So sad a number of these reverredd Pastor chose to be criminally silent!

Wiseandtrue:
Continue to thank him while terrorists, looters take over power

Also remember to thank him when they start slaughtering you guys

How long do you think that will be

And unfortunately, that would be a regular feature of the Atiku presidency should he win.

The key actors "Islamabad" and Miyetti Allah already gave their endorsement yesterday.

For an Atiku who deleted a post condemning the death of a Christian student to safeguard his chances of being president, the MuMu ticket would be more like a safer choice, when the Jihad resumes again.

MrEverest:
Olodo, how will North determine winner when their votes will be split?

I don't know why people from that side of the always see Northerners as their masters.

Meanwhile, God didn't reveal anything to him. These are things he thought by himself and unfortunately for him, he isn't well informed.

Shame.

How about Kwankwanso steppping down for Atiku 2 days to the election? Of course it's the Joker these Northerners are holding.

Fortunately for the North, even though poverty is weaponized over there, they're most likely to exhibit the "herd" mentality especially if instructed by their respected clerics. The average northerner would elect a goat of northern extraction over a professor of Southern descent. Don't talk about the sufferings of the past years because they're always quick to dismiss it as the will of God.

So, if Buhari does his bit by hampering BAT's capacity to rustle the Northern herd through vote-buying and Kwankwanso is impressed upon to make the sacrifices of retaining the presidency in the North by stepping down; then all regions support their own while having the usual abysmal low voter turnout in the South, tell me how Atiku won't be declared winner by this time next week baring any postponement.

Brushstrokes20:
Another BULLCRAP from the lifeless, SPINELESS, SADISTIC ANARCHIST
# STOP CHASING SHADOWS, you know the criminals, they are your friends, you wine and dine with them! UNLEASH security agencies on them DIRECTLY !

Quit being a COWARD, Grow some balls and act like the commander in chief for once, after 2 terms, YOU'VE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE!....
face and tackle your PRIME TARGET rather than subject millions of INNOCENT citizens to UNWARRANTED hardship!....

Only a SENSELESS scum sets a whole farm on fire just to kill a rat

Buhari is Nigeria's WORST BLUNDER!
ENOUGH OF NONSENSE
ENOUGH OF HYPOCRISY
CALL A SPADE A SPADE!

. A very apt way to describe this man who has proven to be our biggest collective mistake.

For people still hopeful that this wickedness still leaves a chance for Obi to win, I feel sorry for their poor sense of perception and analysis. By this time next week, Atiku would have been declared winner should election hold at all. Then, we shall have to ask again if Atiku is not as old as Tinubu, or as sick as him.

We shall ask again if AA has not be alleged to be as corrupt as BAT, yet one would have me believe this mess of a policy was aimed at preventing vote-buying, than delivering the bloc of northern votes to Atiku.

Was I suckling when sanctimonious Buhari was buying votes in the guise of "trader moni loans" in 2019? Or where then is the record of beneficiaries or how well has the "loans" been repaid?

For those who think all these deliberately inflicted hardship would go after the elections, I feel deeply sorry for them. For those who think having AA as President won't have graver implications for national cohesion and security than having BAT, we shall all be around post-May 29 to experience it practically.

I deliberately refrained from talking about Obi he doesn't seem to matter in the grand scheme of things, though I wish him well.

JustPowerApps:
We need 2 of Emefiele in Nigeria. This drama is unmatched, premium confusing since January.

You already have two sir: Emefiele and Buhari

Biodun556:
I learnt CBN Ibadan is burnt down

. That's to be expected. Emefiele thinks the CBN would be insulated from chain reaction consequent upon grievances to he and his principal's demonic and utterly sadistic policy?

The answer is simple! Make say 50% of mopped up monies available in the redesigned form and good luck with Cashless Banking.

You confiscate cash without a care for our small daily transactional needs like food and transport and expect all to be well? Worse still enforce a mindless slashing of daily withdrawal limits? Haba!

OpinionCounts:
Ok.

FORCE MAJEURE is a provision in a contract that frees both parties in the contract from any obligations if an unforseen, unavoidable and extraordinary event beyond their control occurs.

Some examples of FORCE MAJEURE are Wars, Pandemic, Labor strike, Civil unrest and some events considered as "act of God".

That's just some heads up.

You can look it up in the net for more details.

. I know about its application with respect to oil production, reason I wanted to know how it applies in this case.

If act like this are part of those wherein the Insurance company are not liable, then one has to feel pity for the banks. Scenarios like this would have been avoidable.

Henrymas:
Arrest El-rufai for Treason NOW!!!!!

. And try him in your Ummunna Court?

Or same court whose pronouncement your president has conveniently chosen not to obey?

A number of you don't even know the lawlessness that has been enabled.

OpinionCounts:
Not at all....it's FORCE MAJEURE.

I'd appreciate some bit of enlightenment on this.

Insurance companies go declare losses tire this year!

toneroforever:
U don't want the north to contest but u want to contest against the SE.
U want equity but u don't practice it.
SW- OBJ & Osibanjo, SS- Jonathan. Now we should allow SE to have their turn after which the cycle is repeated.
Tinubu torpedoed that sequence because of emilokan.

Maybe it would help to have you informed that I'm of the Urhobo ethnic stock in Delta State.

I'm against AA because he would only serve to compound the failures of PMB in all aspects. We need someone who can clear a bit of the messed already piled up high by this outgoing man.

I'd be voting for PO because BAT, my preferred candidate, is already weak from old age and should have considered having a deserved rest instead straining himself to land the top job.

drlateef:
I hope you are okay at all? Someone supports the people against the suffering met out by Emefiele, and you say she is against people? What do people want? Is it not money? Are they getting it by Buhari’s policy? And is Supreme Court against the people?

Unfortunately, these feeders that are ecstatic about the commotion that Buhari is brewing would soon realise post 25th February that everything is to confer advantage on Atiku and retain power in the North.

All the hoopla about stopping vote-buying is to ensure their herd of northern voters, already battered by extreme poverty, is not infiltrated and broken by monetary inducements. They want the bloc delivered to Atiku, Yusuf Buhari's stand-in father at his wedding.

The implications: the herdsmen already doing pockets of damage in the Southeast would be better equipped to do the Lord's work as they're doing in Plateau, Benue and Southern Kaduna; those lopsided appointments we waited about would be notched up higher; Corruption? Not as if it waned with this government.

We would be here when the wailing starts for those brainwashed into cheering all these in the belief that they are intended to provide a level-playing field, least of all favouring P.O.

Dsalvo:
Very soon, every sensible political leader will distance himself/herself from Buhari.

This is because they are in the corridors of power to know that all Buhari's rhetoric is a ruse to hide his real intentions of ensuring power does not move to the South.

Interesting times.

. Flesh and blood hath not revealed this to you.

Flier:
Now Politician should be able to buy vote with just 1000 naira new note instead of 10,000 naira
Mind you,only fool will believe that 22 APC Governors or ATIKU or OBI wont have enough new Note to spend on election day

We actually seem to underplay how daft the two stubborn proponents of this mischievous policy are.

It's either the end game is to invalidate the stash of their targets; create an atmosphere of chaos so as to truncate democracy; cause widespread voter apathy and/or make vote vote buying extremely cheap by enforcing this level of strangulating poverty fee weeks to the elections.

Backlaw406:
Walahi, you people are evil, just to punish one person, you people are supporting suffering and pains to the poor masses. It now show most Igbo here are selfish and tribalist. Before this, I thought I would vote Obi but not anymore with the devil act his supporter are exhibiting here. No problem, sit here and be laughing. If you are too big to suffer in this, remember not every of your extend families are too big like you to bypass this senseless and unwise policy that would reck economy totally which your Emefiele that has become your friend because of your selfishness and tribalism.

To be very honest, I feel deeply troubled by the mental levels of a lot of these people who have shown themselves to be diehard supporters of Peter Obi.

Fortunately for the mob, their irrationality is not good enough reason to rescind the decision to vote Peter Obi. After all, their mental incapacity cannot be worse than those of the illiterates Kwankwanso prided as his supporters.

Heaven knows, if Tinubu was younger, I would have voted for him not minding the MuMu ticket. But, with the damage of rehabilitating Buhari, for close to two years, and the irreparable damage to our progress as a nation, I won't dare vote BAT.

Atiku? God forbid! With the non-challance of Buhari, a vote for an Atiku can only accelerate the foray of the deadly bandits and herdsmen to the South. He'd accommodate the way Buhari is doing.

concreteaffairs:
Chai. And i have plenty old notes at home o!

Chill! I'm thinking they've built sufficient capacity to handle the consequences of their sadistic defiance to a court order while paradoxically mouthing their respect for the rule of law.

I know how significant the losses I've suffered are and would wait to see if this is another joke.

To be clear, I still offer and accept the old notes. ....and with the little we have left, we're trying to repair the damages Buhari and Emefiele has caused our local economy.

jaxxy:
1st of all this is not a cash swap were u bring 500m old notes and they will give u 500m new notes.

The policy procedure is u paying the money into the system via ur account or 3rd party account bt nobody is giving u same amount in new notes. u will have to follow the new policy limits for cash withdrawal.

Thus mean any bank giving governors 500m cash have violated the cbn policy. Also if that money didn't come from an account to show the cash withdrawal then it is a crime and they can be accused of sponsoring illegal activities like terrorism and vote buying.

It is left for Cbn to device a mechanism to detect money given to criminals without passing through the system and reflecting in their books.

Thanks for clarification. It's then agreed that aside the governor's thoughtlessness, the policy has already suffered sabotage now that vast sums of it is now with bandits/terrorists.

jaxxy:
The problem is saboteurs. Even if he prints more they will hoard more and sell to politicians and governors

Please o, as a lay man I'd like to paint a scenario and want you to honestly tell who/what a saboteur is:

Suppose citizens A, B and a vast number of others have billions of Naira of illicit funds (amounting to say 2 trillion Naira) stashed away in warehouses, bunkers, safes or suckaways when this policy was announced.

Does the swap then exclude them from swapping their loot/illicit funds? And do you think these categories of people would like to leave a trail when they're doing their cash swaps? Honestly, they'd rather racket with top placed officials in the distribution chain, at a fee, to swap theirs, which is taken back to their safehouses out of circulation.

That way, if the CBN printed #300bn as alleged by El Rufai, you can understand we're not seeing them in circulation and can rationalize how bandits got the vast sums the displayed in mockery of the policy.

So who do you call a saboteur? The man that clandestinely swaps his stash, for a fee, and goes back to save it in his bunker or who?

Were you expecting those categories of peeps to sit idly and wash their monies (though illicit) go to waste?

Putinofrussia:
I am sorry but I think Umefiele is a sadist.

There's a bigger sadist that approved the ill-conceived idea; backed the first deadline; asked to be given 7days to solve the problems thrown up by the timeline for its execution yet did nothing, neither did he address the country despite most likely getting briefed about the constraints.

How it took the meeting of the Council of State to get this revelation should tell you how this government is very misguided and utterly wicked!

FireUpNow:
Banks are selling new nots to politicians and pos operators as well as other big men and women. Pos operators could just a small part of those buying from banks though the banks are to be blamed for all what's happening but politicians will be accusing the opposition for what don't know about. We Nigerians love taking advantage of each other

fair enough!

But I'd rather blame the CBN for hiding vital stats.

And the biggest blame to the president who didn't ask critical questions before approving this.

To tell you the truth, the effects started hitting me badly yesterday.

FireUpNow:
Oga na sterling bank nah. Read the first paragraph abeg you well well. Las las na to sell the new naira notes to pos operators go end am. Wicked people

e get the way una dey look this thing wey e no clear.

Sell to POS operators bi ti bawo? How much is to be made from such base transaction? The patron that offers the bigger kickback is that man that has a vault with ill-gotten funds who'd be ready to part with a fair percentage of his accumulations so as to get the new notes without documentation.

And the problem with that is that, he goes back to store his new notes thus constricting the supply of the new notes and causing the dislocations we're witnessing currently.

Oh, you think those terrorist mocking the CBN governor about being in possession of vast sums of the redesigned notes exchanged it at the bank/CBN after proper documentation?

Dey there dey jonz!

For me, I know the proper backlash would get to them when they'd tell the frustrated poor to lose their paltry sums after they messed up a process that's not as difficult as quadratic equation.

virginboy1:
I just hope this is not a propaganda against sterling Bank.
CBN is just trying to make it seems as if it's the banks that don't want to give out the new notes. When in facts it is CBN that is not giving banks enough money that will go round to its customers... Make dem just kill pride say dem no get the redesign notes to go round...

You gave a bank In a particular region(Lagos) like 100m-150m in a week, how will that be enough for its branches and customers.

You stoped old notes and brought in redesign notes when you don't have enough to go round..
CBN just dey use Nigerians catch cruise....

Here's someone who sees it fairly clearly!

In all of these chaos, the CBN has has come out to tell us how much has been mopped up and what volume of cash has been released in comparison. We need that data to know the ratio. You can't actually draw a volume out of a system and expect say 20% replacement to make things normalise.

Things are really very bad on the streets and would get worse with a brutal reaction from citizens if this opacity is continued.

While,I'd commend the ICPC for its small efforts, it should just go take a rest and seek answers to the vital questions first so we know where to apportion the greater blame.

No way you'd tell me to put the bulk of the blame on a branch where #5m is hidden whereas the CBN may have, hypothetically, printed 300bn after mopping up say2.3trn.