₦airaland Forum

I like.

Always good to see older people enjoying themselves,

It's not going to be an easy win for Buhari's candidate tomorrow.

No delegates from Kwara?

After all the hustle and bustle of Monday to Friday, you go to Church on Sunday, and as you enter, you immediately get a sense of peace and tranquility.

You feel safe. It's a sanctuary after all.

Many of the victims must have felt exactly that. For them to be subjected to this appalling destruction is shocking and beyond words.

Arysexy:
How did they escape? Bike or vehicle? How come no police or military check point spotted them? Amotekun nko? Something is fishy

On Sundays, most streets in the area where the Church is located are relatively quiet.

People are either in church, or are indoors in bed or in the backyard.

Streets don't start bustling with life until around 12 - 1pm.

This probably explains the terrorists easy escape.

successmatters:
Wow, see how everyone is avoiding to mention who might be responsible for the killings?

Where was Amotekun?

Amotekun can't be everywhere. They have been quite effective, but they can't guide every church, mosque, market and other places where people gather in large numbers.

A Church packed with defenceless women and children was an easy target for the terrorists.

It is every teacher's personal ambition to become an assistant principal. And every assistant principal aims to be a principal some day.

Every junior doctor has a personal ambition to become a consultant surgeon.

Every apprentice tailor has a personal ambition to one day become his or her own master.

That is life. Every right thinking person has an ambition to reach to top of his line of career.

The way some people are slagging Tinubu, a senior politician, for having a 'personal ambition' to be President is ridiculous.

The man has a right to be ambitious. Who isn't?

donb06:
Your second statement reduces Tinubu's chance.... Cos a Muslim-Muslim ticket will never happen.

I don't believe this will be a problem in the SW. In the SE, and parts of SS, may be.

Tinubu doesn't wear his religion on his sleeve. You hardly know his religion unless you follow politics.

His wife is also a redeem church member.

AngelicBeing:
Hmmm

If that's true, two things happened:

1. Tinubu's speech at Abeokuta has served its purpose. It made it clear to the cabal that everything will scatter if he is prevented from the primary.

2. With the Northern governors statement this evening requesting that the Presidency goes South, Ahmad, the Aso Rock cabal's candidate was no longer viable.

These 2 developments meant the President could not go ahead with any annointing.

olaboy33:
Getting interesting.

Badaru withdraws.
Apc Northern governors officially agree ticket goes to South.

This is the most significant development of the evening so far.

Ahmad is now out of the question even if Buhari annoints him since most Northern Governors will not support him. Governors control the delegates.

Buhari will either have to annoint PYO or tactically withdraw from annointing anyone.

An annointed PYO is unlikely to defeat Tinubu at the primary.

An annointed Amaechi will be roundly defeated by Tinubu.

In my opinion, the northern Governors statement favours Tinubu massively.

Mr President should announce his own candidate, then let's proceed to the primary.

Whoever loses in a free primary will accept the outcome.

That's democracy.

The constitution does not prescribed a maximum age, so there will be a fundamental human right issue here.

Lawyers will battle it out in court.

NaijaCowFarm:
As the APC convention date approaches. If Tinubu tries what his followers are pushing to, including leaving the party, Buhari will be ruthless toward him and his amassed wealth.

So Buhari will be ruthless against a citizen exercising his constitutional rights to contest an election. Ha ha.

You think we are in the military era.

Any attempt to arrest Tinubu before 2023 elections will throw APC into such turbulence that, they won't even try it.

That'll be the end of APC as a national party anyway a the SW will vote Atiku massively.

They need to change the name.

Some names simply won't sell market.

'Union bank' sounds old, lethargic, and uninspiring.

Ofiadiegwu:
I may not have comprehended what the op meant.

Imposition of candidate?
But the naration says the candidate polled 44votes while the other candidate polled 1vote.

If the lady mentioned won the election, then it ought not to be called imposition of candidate

I used to think like this too. But now I understand that some of the final vote figures are often written by local leaders and have nothing to do with actual votes cast.

This is Nigeria.

Not a single mention of Tinubu in the protesters statements, but the Op included Tinubu in his headline.

So, Tinubu that is fighting for his own political life in Abuja is also the person rigging election in a local primary in Lagos. Not the local APC leaders.

alsudan:
Ndume is saying this because he thinks Buhari will name his candidate Amaechi. He should be prepared for the shock of his life.

Even if Buhari annoints Amaechi, he's unlikely to win.

The one person that I feel, if annointed by the President, can win the primary against Tinubu is vice president. Certainly not Lawal.

He can name his preferred candidate.

That's different from forcing a consensus.

Have your candidate, campaign for him, then let him face other willing contestants in the primary.

Whoever wins will be accepted and supported. That's democracy.

seunmsg:
Shittu is now following Tinubu about

I saw him on Channels yesterday or so, advocating against consensus. I was surprised as he previously said he was a die hard Buharist.

With these pictures, I think he has ported to Tinubu's side.

You can't trust politicians.

I shake my head at those who say 16yrs of northern presidency doesn't matter.

Ok na, vote Atiku.

Atiku will set up such ministry and southerners will only make noise, nothing will happen.

Mr Gumi is Atiku's right hand man. He's floating the idea now to give the ministry a soft landing when they eventually set it up.

youngpresidooo:
give ticket to Tinubu and experience another result like olu falae

No northerner will vote for him

Neither will SS OR SE vote for him.
He is one of the most feared politician and no one wants to risk giving him power

Ticket will not be given to Tinubu or any contestant. They will all contest and whoever wins represent APC.

If Tinubu wins the primary and lose the main election. Well, that's democracy. Atiku has lost a few presidential elections. Not the end of the world.

The tone of the APC NW Vice Chair suggests that there will be a massive ruckus if APC brings in Jonathan.

He seemed to be sending a warning of internal warfare if any cabal tries to bring in Jonathan.

I personally think the cabal will have no choice but to allow a free contest.

People don't appear to understand what 16 years of northern presidency would mean for them, their children, and even their grand children

Don't believe those who say it doesn't matter where the President comes from. It does when it comes to the North and south.

16 years is enough to rig the economy, politics, and the public sector of this country in favour of a section of the country in a way that becomes nearly irreversible for several decades from now.

Remember recruitment into CBN, NNPC, Customs, the Army, navy, airforce and many more like that? You people have been complaining that recruitment has been overwhelmingly dominated by northerners since Mr Buhari came into power. Now extend that situation across 16 years.

That would mean in another 10 years and for about 20 years afterwards, for every four or five northerners that qualify to be CBN governors, Chief of Army staff or the Navy and Air force equivalent, there will likely be only one southerner that qualify.

So, it matters where a president comes from. It shouldn't, but it does.

Southerners should think. Many northerners are happy for the presidency to return to the South, for balance. They must find the noises from a section of the South insisting if they can't have it it should remain in the North baffling, because it is such a grievous act of self-harm.

Munamoqel:
South want to be president .have a single.candidate nah . Now in APC instead of south to have a single candidate they have 10 .hmm

Many of the Southern APC candidates will step down for a northern candidate if they are offered vice presidency or a juicy ministerial position. They would rather do this than step down for a Southern candidate who has a better chance of winning.

Whatever your views are about PDP as a party, the fact they successfully held what appears to be a free, transparent and keenly contested presidential primaries is a big plus for the party.

All eyes are now on APC to follow suit and allow for a proper contest. Anything short of this will be a historic act of self harm from which the party may not fully recover.

Malory:
Southern Nigeria will never learn. With people like Tinubu in the helms of affairs, We will keep playing second fiddle in everything. Northern PDP presidential aspirants agreed on a consensus to choose Atiku and no one from the sleeping south including the garrulous Wike knew about it. Now the northern PDP politicians are teaching us yet another lesson tonight. Next week Tinubu will be reminded that Opolo eye is truly not an open eye. Southerners wake up

You go around insulting a leader from another region in the South 24/7 and then turn around to say the South is not united. How is that going to help the so-called unity.

You don't see people from the North East or even North Central hauling insults and crude abuse at political leaders from the North West non stop and vice versa.

You may not support an individual, but its quite uncivilised to constantly abuse such person.

If true, what a fantastically unserious country.

Went to Kano for the first time last year.

I was surprised. Very surprised. Expansive, clean and not too congested roads. Everyone going about their normal businesses. People were business-like and polite in their dealings.

I came through the airport and didn't have the opportunity to go too far into the city, but the little I saw convinced me it was a great city, comparable to or even better than Ibadan. It's not the pot hole hell that Lagos is.

The Lebanese client I went to see was spending billions on an Ultra modern manufacturing company. The facility is comparable to anything you'd find in Europe. One of the guys said the opportunities in Kano were such that they would never leave the city.

I'm sure the city is not perfect, but which city is in Nigeria. What you read on nairaland is not always true.

Already adjusting just in case APC picks Jonathan.

Chai...so this guy can bring himself to support APC.

tollyboy5:
The OP just don't want to accept that the presidency has high tendency of moving to SW

Yes, they will have looked towards the SW in the past, but their problem is, they don't want Tinubu or PYO, who are the only viable candidates from that region

Right now, many of their options for blocking Tinubu in particular are problematic, hence the desperation for Jonathan.

First they threw Amaechi up, but that fell flat. They floated, deflated, and refloated Jonathan again. In the intervening period, they floated Ahmad, the Senate President, but there's no momentum behind Ahmad. So they are back to Jonathan again.

The whole thing is a mess of their own making.

The presidency would do better to support its own candidate in an openly contested primary and let the delegates decide.

Difficult to see how Jonathan can win a freely contested APC primaries.

You mean majority of APC governors will swing behind him a day or two before the primaries abandoning their own long-held interests?

So El Rufai, Ganduje, or a contestant like the Vice President will order the delegates under their control to vote Jonathan... because that's the order from Aso Rock?

I just don't see this happening.