₦airaland Forum

Freestainworld:
Buhari no send anybody during election, if you like win, if you no like , no win, you are on your own.

People won't appreciate what Buhari is doing until he leaves.

The man no send anybody....that the reason you have complains in all corners, especially from the elite class.

His infrastructural projects are widespread and massive. He has done well too in Agriculture and Solid Minerals.

Security and the economy are where the wahala lie, and if you look at it critically, you'd see that they have become huge global issues.

olumide4christ:
Succinctly put! You got it so right!

People will be shouting Tinubu up and down as if he has governed Nigeria since the beginning of our democracy. Even if they claim he rules and controls Lagos, Lagos is just 1 state out of the 36 states in this country along with the FCT. Why have the other 35 states not progressed and become small Dubais'?
Is it not because the leaders of the other states have also been stealing money? Why are these hypocrites not firing their leaders too? Why are these hypocrites not voting other parties asides from PDP for these 23 years of democracy? Yet they still stick to PDP even though PDP hasn't developed their region except Akwa Ibom.

Pots calling kettle black!

In the whole of Nigeria, they have proved to be the least politically sophisticated and dynamic. All states in other regions of Nigeria, North, South West, Middle Belt have changed parties over the course of our democracy, only them have stuck with PDP and it's decampees ever since!

The matter taya me o.

Na dem use their hands, hold themselves down with PDP, yet dem wan make progress.

See wetin their leaders use their money do for NDDC. We saw the revelations during the probe ordered by the presidency. Did these revelations cause the people of the region to demand answers...NO.

You need to see how money is squandered in DESOPADEC in Delta state.

You will hear things like Rivers or Delta is PDP....rubbish! What are PDP's outstanding accomplishments in those states over the past 20 years? Let them go to Ebonyi and Borno and see what Umahi and Zulum are doing.

desiredhome:
Well said.......one common thing about Nigerians is blame game......only if they can Chanel the same hate/hit to their various state governors.........but they will rather allow tribalism/religion to blindfold them and be blaming the presidency instead of asking their governors/local leaders questions........

Exactly.

Let's even start with our Councillors, LGA Chairmen and State Assembly Members.

We keep shouting Buhari as if these representatives are statutes, and not humans.

Don't they get fund allocations? And the irony of the matter is, these are people we know their homes, and can readily access their offices. Abi dem dey use juju for us?

Yorubalandlord:
Shettima Will you support Christian Christian ticket if it was the other way round?
As a true yoruba Christian me and my family are obedient to the core and yusful to Nigeria.
Note: No adan(bat) crew should quote me oo

How come both Christians and Muslims voted a Christian-Christian ticket in Osun in a predominantly Muslim state?

You guys should drop this issue of religion. It doesn't take us anywhere.

I think we should be talking competence, verifiable track record of performance etc.

Revolution2022:
Are you not the one in charge of your social media pages?Abi you don turn to Buhari wey na adesina and garba Shehu dey handle him Facebook, Twitter Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp and tiktok?

You be small pikin sef?

Everyone knows that these people hardly handle their social media pages.

You never hear of irresponsibility before?

Military officers and police men wey dey harass people and take bribe, na Buhari send them abi?

PresidObi:
I don't know who advises these politicians, but if Tinubu or Atiku knows the real pulse of the masses, they will resign from this presidential race, relocate abroad and watch things from afar.

The people has really endured too much, no light, no roads, no water , no jobs, no security, no healthcare, schools, no food, no hope. It's an affront for some people to show their faces on a banner.

May this coming presidential election not turn violent against the people that have enslaved Nigerians for the past 24 years.

Oga, stop the hypocrisy!

Your comment reeks of hypocrisy and sentiments.

Why did you reference just Atiku and Tinubu? No matter how you see it, they both are citizens of Nigeria and have the right to aspire to any office.

Secondly, Atiku and Tinubu can't be responsible for the rot in all the states in Nigeria. Governors get monthly allocations in billions. Do they give their allocations to Tinubu or Atiku? What are the functions of the State Assemblies and LG Chairmen?

Why didn't you mention Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso? Are they not former governors?

No election will turn violent. Forget the threat! Tinubu and Atiku have rights to contest just as others. What we can do as citizens, is support whoever we deem most suitable, by our own thinking. Everybody can't support your preferred candidate. That is why it is a contest.

Na Tinubu and Atiku dey govern Nigeria since 1960? Has Tinubu or Atiku even governed Nigeria before?

Go and hold your ward councilor, LGA Chairman, House of Assembly & Reps member, Senator, Cabinet Minister and Governor responsible for those basic things you said that you do not have.

Humblesam:
As a married man with kids, them no dey calculate daily expenses unless you want to kill yourself with thinking.
As single, I can't say, thank you.

No be lie bro.

I no dey try am.

For me, na just to dey focus on saving as much as I can.

The expenses fit drive person crazy.

Moh247:
Umahi's only fault is been an Abakaliki Ebonyi guy, that is why they have decided to support a failure like Peter Obi all because he is from Anambra over an excellently qualified Eng Dave Umahi

Nobody would take you seriously bro.

But what you said is the fact.

Umahi is way superior to Obi, in records of governance.

I am from Anambra state, yet I know this. You can't match the accomplishments of these two men.

Having a pile of short course certifications from Harvard and the rest, isn't what people should be parading as achievements, after getting 8 whole years to serve one of Nigeria's smallest states as Governor.

Let's compare Umahi and Obi's accomplishments as governors. It is that simple.

MALIGNANTGuest:
That could be a Typo error.
Watch his MOVIES!
He is top notch

Watch movies again?

I sabi the bros for Port Harcourt na....

We don meet for bank for Garrison severally, and we talk sef. He was often accompanied by a tall dark lady.

I am not saying that he isn't good with the English language, but proficient? Not sure of that.

If you use proficient for r'am, wetin you go come call use for people like IK Osakioduwa, Bob Manuel Udokwu, Bimbo Akintola, Gloria Alozie-Young, Stephanie Okereke, Dakore Egbuson, Liz Benson, Nobert Young etc, including me?

MALIGNANTGuest:
I have always loved this Guy for his proficiency in English Language. And not the Actors we have now, who present a narrative essay/speech in present & present continuous tense. Although na another person language shaaa.
Meanwhile, Congratulations Elder Bros!

Do you know the true meaning of the word 'proficient'?

Read what Odoputa wrote again...'My wife and I wants.....'

How proficient is that written English?

Abi you dey judge by the quality of English from movie scripts?

PresidObi:
Where were Obi's children born?

I should be asking you?

Where dem born dem?

prince3009:
Point of correction, it was never a project by Muhammadu Buhari!

It was a brainchild of GEJ which his administration paid the contractors to handle just before Buhari was sElected into office.

Let's state facts the way they truly are!

For your mind, you don knack grammar...'branchild'.

Do you know its meaning?

Brainchild ko, brainmother ni...

Oga, the idea to construct a new bridge has always been there for decades.

PresidObi:
Why do Nigerians rush to foreign universities instead of the schools in Nigeria?

Its because subsequent administrations has neglected our institutions of education and fled to foreign schools.

Let's vote for only the candidates we are sure will rescue Nigeria from the present educational calamity we are suffering in Nigeria. Let's support a president that has the interests of our home grown schools at heart, and not a party that will allow students to stay at home with avoidable strikes.

Vote for Peter Obi.

Vote for Labour party

Go and verify

You guys talk as kids.

Where did Obi's children school? Where are Obi's children today?

Obi that couldn't conduct common LGA elections in the 8 years that he was governor.

Abeg, make we hear word. Obi isn't any better. What are his outstanding accomplishments in Anambra?

LegendHero:
If he is not emotionally intelligent, he would have picked a Christian Northerner as vice and people like you would have celebrated his impending loss.

He is bold and audacious, something most of the lily liveried politician will never dare to make.

Currently, the only thing that will stop Tinubu from winning next year election is two things:

—Kwakwanso stepping down for Atiku

—Peter Obi stepping down for Atiku.

If none of the above fail to happen, Tinubu is your next president because he already forgo the Northern Christian votes in his calculation before reaching this conclusion of his. They don’t even vote APC normally before so all this threat is just for aesthetics.

You made a great point.

But I don't think Kwankwaso and Obi stepping down could stop Tinubu completely.

In Kwankwaso's NW, don't forget that Buhari belongs there as well, plus 6 out the 7 NW governors are of the APC. They've got huge stakes to protect.

Kwankwaso couldn't just beat all of these men. Same applies to Obi in the SE. Soludo, Umahi, Ikpeazu, Uzodinma, Ugwuanyi aren't working with him. They have their own stakes and interests in their parties, and can't fold their arms and allow Obi a field day.

Buhari was once governor of the North Eastern State, today's NE region. He has a special bond with the region. Infact, the NE has been one of the two most loyal regions to him, electorally.

On the contrary, I think that Kwankwaso would rather prefer to work with Tinubu than Atiku. But lets keep watching.

Moblux:
Tinubu seems not to be emotionally intelligent in choosing his running mate. How can you not understand your emotions to understand the emotions of others? I guess he is in a rush to be a transactional leader rather than a transformational leader his followers thought him to be.

Oga, Tinubu couldn't have picked a Northern Christian as running mate. That would have be the political mistake of the century.

You do not understand politics and Nigeria more than he does.

Tinubu is more or less a 'Muslim-Christian'. He is a moderate with his faith, hence it is okay to pick Kashim Shettima.

Do you know what it for a Muslim to have a wife who is a Christian and a pastor? How many men would permit that?

Not everyone allows themselves to be drowned in religion.

lytech1:
Obi should have test his popularity by storming osun to campaign for LP Guber candidate.....

That's the point, but what do we know?

Obi's supporters think that it is not about the LP but him.

Two state Guber elections preceding a presidential election yet they think it means nothing...

Naturally, I would think that Obi will go there and mobilize voters for his party's candidate.

Arkmanbuddy:
Tinubu/APC have blown this! No one will vote a Muslim-Muslim ticket. No one!

Mtchewww.

You never know where you dey.

LegendHero:
I sight Fayose my man. Wike is trying to build his own cap thing too with the “NEW” inscription.

Jagaban got that infinity logo, Wike bringing the “NEW” to the picture.

Someone can educate us on the meaning of that NEW on Wike cap these days.

It is just his initials.

Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.

Abeg, leave that man wey no sabi himself.

North don use am remain for Southwest.

They are teaching him politics 101.

He thinks Nigeria begins and ends in Obio / Akpor.

LegendHero:
I sight Fayose my man. Wike is trying to build his own cap thing too with the “NEW” inscription.

Jagaban got that infinity logo, Wike bringing the “NEW” to the picture.

Someone can educate us on the meaning of that NEW on Wike cap these days.

It is just his initials.

Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.

Abeg, leave that man wey no sabi himself.

North don use am remain for for Southwest.

They are teaching him politics 101.

He thinks Nigeria begins and ends in Obio / Akpor.

Anyiamaka:
Wike is a bad loser. He contested an election he knew it was the turn of the SE to run. He lost. He said severally his ambition was to be the president not the VP. Okowa was chosen as the VP and Wike is pained. For him, Okowa betrayed the South but the real truth is that he is pained beyond pacification because he wasn't chosen to be the VP. He should bear his failure. He is not the only aspirant who failed the PDP presidential primaries.

Wike is not a bad loser. He is a fool.

They keep using him.

I wonder what kind of deal he can get out of the APC.

Tambuwal used him and Rivers money in 2019 and dumped him in 2022. No one likes him but he doesn't know it.

Atiku would rather loose the presidency than have Wike as his running mate. Isn't that serious?

What would APC offer him than Amaechi can get?

His medicine is to make him feel important. His colleagues know this, and they are exploiting it very well.

He is the biggest mugu of Nigeria's politics.

Kez11:
In as much as I agree that you can’t close your shop and be
chasing thieves, you can't totally allow those thieves to run away with our money...Most of our politicians individually are richer than some states in Nigeria


with a sound Judiciary and Antigraft agency, the money we would recoup from those thieves, Nigeria may not need to borrow a dime for more than 2years.


VOTE RIGHT, VOTE OBI/DATTI

Obi is not serious.

What has bringing people to account got to do with focusing?

There are agencies saddled with these responsibilities. As president, all you need is show will.

Abeg, Obi should get out before he annoys me this early morning.

How do we now set strong precedences of accountability if people can just steal entire generations of peoples wealth and go scot free?

I keep saying it, this man is not smart enough. How did he come about this 'close shop...pursue criminal' nonsense?

Government isn't a shop. Even if government is a shop, it is not one person that is there na. A few persons can pursue the criminal while others stay in the shop to attend to customers.

What the thief (ives) might have stolen may be worth more than what is left in the store, or perhaps, substantial and required to keep the shop afloat.

tinsel:
This is stupid coming from this man. He is becoming a mad nuisance. Whether born in wedlock or outside wedlock, it is his baby and blood. This is his private life.

And what Reno says about other people in the public space aren't their private lives abi? You don't know that even in public life, there is private life?

You sure say you dey ok sef?

Zonefree:
Joke as how?

No matter how bad you are, Home should be a place you feel relaxed and welcomed. Having this heavy security details around you when you're at Home shows you failed your people too.

Oga, stop being unnecessarily emotional.

Every president needs that much security anywhere.

If you get any plan...e no go work.

Your opinion of him failing his own people holds no water. Infact, it is complete nonsense as he is not the LGA Chairman or state governor.

He is Nigeria's president and deserves to have full compliment of his security details anywhere and everywhere.

Zonefree:
A President that needs all these heavy security details to greet his kinsmen is a failure!

Every president needs heavy security everywhere.

Someone like you, as president, go even tie juju join the super heavy security.

So, abeg shift make we see front!

Totilopussylick:
Nigeria politicians makes themselves an enemy of her citizens that voted them to be whom they are.

Can he walk alone till he gets home without

Those fearlessly looking security men surrounding him .

Come to Germany, a politician walks about without a single security man watching after them.

Akuko!

Why did you refer to 'politician' walking without a single security, and not the Chancellor.

Is Buhari just any random politician?

There is a politician I know, me and am dey trek together, dey even enter Keke together for Nigeria here.

You guys should stop all these....in Germany...in Austria comparisons.

OVB123:
Nigeria is fast becoming unliveable because of the activities of boko haram, bandits, kidnapers etc. We are using this medium to beg the FG government to look into the situation with the aim of finding a lasting solution.

We can do much more than the government ever can.

Community and religious leaders have huge responsibilities. What about parents?

When your son, that is less than 20 years of age, cruises around in a Mercedes C300 or GLK, or gives you a huge sum of money to start up a business, or builds a lavish house and relocates you, or makes weighty donations at worship places etc; and all you do is gather your neighbours to join you in thanking G(g)od for blessing your son. What do you expect society to become?

Every son or daughter comes from a family and community. We can't continue keeping quiet and protecting bloodlines, and also blaming the government.

Government no be spirit, there is a limit to what they can do, especially if society keeps providing 'comfortable habitation' for these evils.

Being broke no be crime. It is a stage of life that should inspire hardwork, dignity and diligence. The craze for wealth and lavish lifestyles is the bane of all that is going on. Prior to now, people would say it is due to unemployment. However, today even teenagers, that haven't completed junior secondary education or learned any trade or skill, want to live in lavish apartments and ride on GLK.

Anybody still screaming government should have a rethink. Even government officials are not immune. We've got to get serious with parenting and the administering of our communities. Traditional rulers have become transactional bankers. They have become a disgrace to society.

They can no longer instill fear, cultural discipline and lay curses on criminals and rebels anymore, because they are now cursed themselves, by their greed and death of conscience.

In the good old days, it is parents and communities that fish out the bad eggs in their midsts, and hand them over to the authorities. Today, parents and communities shield their children and benefit from their ill-gotten wealth. The police, or military, or government authorities in general, can't know of any criminal son or daughter more than the family or community he or she comes from.

What about the schools? What are their roles?

I rest my case!

Grandmeister:
Yes. The projects are so big we can't see it according to liar mohamed. They are so critical that the federal government and state government are now looking for where to borrow money to pay salaries. Very critical projects that caused an over 100 % increase in goods and services. How much was a bag of rice in 20 15 and today? Nonsense!

The sizes of the projects aren't the issue. The hole you are in is. You have to come out of your hole to see.

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway; Lagos-Ibadan Railway; Warri-Itakpe Railway; 2nd Niger Bridge; Bonny-Bodo Bridge; Calabar-Itu Highway etc.

Even without any significant project to show, Jonathan borrowed to pay salaries.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/05/06/fg-borrows-n473bn-to-pay-salaries-okonjo-iweala/%3Famp%3D1&ved=2ahUKEwio74e_o-34AhVBXxoKHXknAYwQFnoECBIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2tFSW_fIt66mPv7oKSfgTx


I guess Buhari also presides over the UK and the US where commodity prices and inflation have hit over 4-decade high.

Jmarjr:
my frnd shut up n keep quiet. Nigeria is a country divided amongst diverse worshippers and as such a circular nation. Muslim-mulim ticket wont work. If na christain-christian ticket would d north agree? Pls think wise biko. Just so u know even atiku marry christian. So no big deal with BAT

You are senseless!

Are there separate constitutions in Nigeria designed for christians or muslims? Which law in Nigeria prohibits a joint ticket by two individuals of the same religion?

We are talking about laws, not sentiments. That Nigerians are likely to be sensitive to such joint ticket is entirely a different issue.

MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe won the 1993 elections despite being Muslims.

Don't make it appear as something that has never happened before. It is not unconstitutional.

Acidosis:
You're wasting your time on theoretical analysis. Electoral data can be found on the web. Go online and show me how and where northerners prioritize strategic collaboration, bridge building, or education, over religion.

I'm waiting.

Peter Obi's ADC as governor of Anambra was a Northern Muslim (Mohammed). Please show me a core Northern governor with a southern-christian ADC.

Again, I'm waiting. I need to see how Northerners prioritize competence, strategy, and all these things you mentioned ahead of religion. Same people that voted Buhari massively on a poll with Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan? Same people that will still vote Atiku ahead of Asiwaju because the former is obviously more "Islamic" and "religious"?

That you are grossly ignorant about things or think so lowly of the North does not change or take away anything from them.

To answer to your question: The ability of the North to activate strategic collaboration played out when Buhari and Tinubu, against all odds, sacrificed their differences, to work together in 2015, starting from 2013 / 2014 when APC was formed. They allowed a bridge to be built across their both sides of the divide. They overcame the mountainous blockade of religion, leading to Osinbajo's emergence.


As for Obi and his ADC being from the North. That is nonsense. Buhari has christians and Southerners working closely with him, including as pilots in the presidential fleet as well as his official photographer.

In Lagos state, we see people from other regions of the country being appointed as commissioners and serving as representatives in the National Assembly. The ADC story holds no water.

Acidosis:
And people from the educationally privileged and, by extension, "woke" states like yours (Anambra) can't win ordinary presidential primary elections, whereas those from the educationally disadvantaged and religiously-primitive regions f00l you to continue to stay "woke and liberal" while they hold on to their primitive electoral habits of voting only people of same faith/region.

I salute your courage and tolerance, sire.

You are obviously not very good at making balanced analysis, perhaps, this may be due to limited exposure.

Even in the states that are supposedly educationally less privileged, there are individuals who are natural geniuses, that could outperform even the very best from the educationally advantageous states.

I will give you an instance, I attended a unity secondary school where you have students from all over the Federation. However, it was a young lad from my school and class and from a state designated as educationally less privileged, that got the best WAEC result in the entire state, for that year. He was a Fulani boy.

Just as they are olodos in states that are educationally privileged, there geniuses in states that are educationally less privileged. So, try and disabuse your mind.

Go to Borno state for instance, and compare the quality of leaders at the LGAs to those of some states in the South. In Borno, you will find professors of outstanding standings as LGA bosses, and who are performing exceedingly.

Unlike education, politics is a game of strategic collaboration and numbers. It is a give and take arrangement. You have got to offer something superior to get support, and of course, there are minimum educational requirements to be met. Educational achievements do not necessarily have to be superfluous, when it comes to politics and leadership.

Experience, strength of character, bridge building capacity, finance and track records of performance play a huge role.

So, please drop your irrational notions of certain 'regions being fools and primitive'. That's nonsense! There are educationally less privileged states all over the South too.

Acidosis:
Yeah, just like how WAEC/ JAMB cut-off mark is supposed to be universal.

WEAC/ JAMB cutoff shouldn't and can't be universal.

Some states and individuals (including countries) are, by certain degrees, more educationally privileged than others, both in the North and in the South.

So, your analogy doesn't fit. Look for something else.

Grandmeister:
It was this same senseless attitude that made them to go and vote an octogenerian in 2015, a known coup plotter and tribal bigot. They stupidly fell for the "he is now a changed Democrat". Nigerian Christians are the most docile set of people on the surface of the earth. In 20 19 it was between Buhari and atiku. Their leaders are being kidnapped and killed all over the country and they don't give a hoot. Na dem sabi.

And the Octogenarian has delivered several critical projects that your so-called youthgenarian, christian former president couldn't.