₦airaland Forum

When did number of votes cast for a presidential candidate determine the number of minister appointed from certain constituency?

badboywizzy:
E be like say this current world don pass Sodom and Gomorrah own.

What are Sodom and Gomorrah when appreciating the creation of God?

He needs only cowardice.

geometricaxis:
who cares about what Ibos think and who they hate? it does not affect the lives of non ibos one iota. I simply point out (whenever the issue of Ibo presidency is mentioned) that Ibo presidency is a pipe dream because nobody votes for a man (or tribe) who hates him and that's the only time i mention the issue of Ibos hatred, to point out that when you do not use your brains and enter a war you cannot win, when you lose you will come out worse off than before when you went to war similarly when you abuse those whose votes you need to become president, you simply ensure will never become president.


This whole Ibo, Massob, Ipob, Biafra thing is simply an exercise in ego and false pride over intellect and strategic thinking.

You can have and even shove your SHITHOLE presidency for I all care. Nigeria's disintegration is a matter of must occurrence. There must be a Republic of Igbo land or Biafra. I do not give a ratass if Nigeria burns to ashes now or in future.

Nasir123:
I will not want to go with you on that. That's simply means the wold will never know peace ( because we are all different).

I will suggest will take the route of true Federalism.
That's my view.

No, I suggest total and unconditional disintegration. Pretense is a hallmark of insincerity. I want Republic of Igbo land.

omoelerin1:
There is nothing like 'acting like fools'. They are real fools! It is as simple as that.

I guess it takes a real fool to recognize another real fool.

whirlwind7:
For once I agree with you.
This report left a sour taste in my taste buds. The statement by the massob spokesperson is as callous as it is uncalled for. An entire generation has passed away since after the war.
What dismays me is how the people of Benue and some parts of the northcentral region can't seem to make up their mind about how to place its relationship with northern Nigeria.
There seem to be certain identity crisis among them, as majority of what they stand for seemed to have been imposed on them from their northern neighbours.

The north has made it clear, overtly and covertly, that theirs is to take. If you are going to relate with them peacefully, then you must be willing to give at all times, without expecting anything in return.

If you had experienced the civil war, you would look foolish in calling the statement accredited to massob's spokesperson as callous. The word callous is reserved for every goon who joined leadership of the so-called defunct northern region of Nigeria to precipitated war of attrition on Ndigbo and Biafrans. They were singing and laughing when mowed down Igbo and Biaframs with guns made available with money from the Arab league of nations.

HungerBAD:
Sad.

The war ended 48 years ago,and these guys still carry this bitterness?Liberia, Sierra Leone and Rwanda lost millions of their Citizen's in the 90's and they are healing well.

This hate will not take you guys anywhere.

I suggest you talk to Jews about the WWII that ended long before Nigeria/Biafra war. The wrong done by one generation usually befall another. Unfortunately, Liberia, Sierra Leone or Rwanda is not Nigeria and the people of these countries tend to think differently. The only time that will start any form of heeling in Nigeria is disintegration.

omenkaLives:
Cc: MASSOB and other demonic blood sucking entities who desire to see more people slaughtered in Benue state.

Your death wish will come back to hunt you and your generations yet unborn right down to eternity a thousand folds.

There shall be peace in Benue state whether MASSOB and Pigs and Idiots like it or not.

Swines.

Are you this moronically senseless? Why would MASSOB want anybody dead when they want people to engage in commerce after they have actualize Biafra? I cannot imagine that a person will manifest the fear of Biafra existence into idiotic hatred. Anybody connected to the process of actualization of Republic of Igbo land or Biafra had primarily wanted others to achieve their countries too. I guess your idiocy is completely misdirected.

lastempero:
Pakistan of all countries sold their used aircraft to us.i pray our cadets will be safe n alive when they will be piloting the flying coffin.

What do you expect from a sh..hole country such as Nigeria?

NonsoWow:
Are they the only ones producing yams?

It is safe to say Benue farmers with respect to the recent massacre in Benue State allegedly by Fulani herdsmen.

Not only the hunters should be armed but the entire community.

NonsoWow:
Ipods fabricating stories all the time. Where is the proof that this is Benue?

Benue farmers are known for yam production.

Why would uneducated Fulani bushman carry Ak-47 and not labeled armed robber while a professor in the southern Nigeria is labeled armed robber when found with a den gun?

Handshake with perennial cowards is a dream trip. Ndigbo should avoid this nonsensical drama with Yari.ba.

redsun:
It is not about making you look inferior, it is about reality. Nigeria is a shit hole, s our is Haiti. Trump himself is a Mr miserable,because he is fundamentally ignorant and he can never be truly happy,even though his name is on every currency in the world.

Trump is not a Mr. miserable or fundamentally ignorant. If he was ignorant as you would want us to believe, he would not have referred to those countries as shitholes. Nigeria is apparently a shithole and cesspit.

The liberal politicians and the so-called "blacks" in USA are moronically idiotic. They want every fool to depend on USA. If the countries referred as shitholes are far from it, why would the citizens of these country drawn in muddy waters trying to reach USA?

AAinEqGuinea:
Stop acting like you didnt see this coming?. I'm certain people saw Buhari's and Trump's laughable aptitude for starters. Trump is as smart as Buhari.

This is not about smartness on the part of Trump but lack thereof on the part of the so-called Nigerians. If Nigerians were half as smart as you would want us to belief, Nigeria would not have been referred as shithole country by even a dunce.

Was he partying with the entire Arsenal Football Club team? This is an idiotic scapegoating by the officials of gunners team.

erunz:
It is happening all over again. History is repeating itself and, alas, within such an agonizingly short span of time. How often must we warn against the enervating lure of appeasement in face of aggression and will to dominate! I do not hesitate to draw attention to Volume III of my INTERVENTION Series, and to the chapter on The Unappeasable Price of Appeasement. There is little to add, but it does appear that even the tragically fulfilled warnings of the past leave no impression on leadership, not even when identical signs of impending cardiac arrest loom over the nation. Boko Haram was still at that stage of putative probes when cries of alarm emerged. Then the fashion ideologues of society deployed their distancing turns of phrase to rationalize what were so obviously discernable as an agenda of ruthless fundamentalism and internal domination. Boko Haram was a product of social inequities, they preached – one even chortled: We stand for justice, so we are all Boko Haram! We warned that – yes indeed – the inequities of society were indeed part of the story, but why do you close your eyes against other, and more critical malfunctions of the human mind, such as theocratic lunacy? Now it is happening again. The nation is being smothered in Vaseline when the diagnosis is so clearly – cancer!

We have been here before – now, ‘before’ is back with a vengeance. President Goodluck Jonathan refused to accept that marauders had carried off the nation’s daughters; President Muhammed Buhari and his government – including his Inspector-General of Police - in near identical denial, appear to believe those killer herdsmen who strike again and again at will from one corner of the nation to the other, are merely hot-tempered citizens whose scraps occasionally degenerate into “communal clashes” – I believe I have summarized him accurately. The marauders are naughty children who can be admonished, paternalistically, into good neighbourly conduct. Sometimes of course, the killers were also said be non-Nigerians after all. The contradictions are mind-boggling. Wole Soyinka Victor Dlamini

First the active policy of appeasement, then the language of endorsement. El Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, proudly announced that, on assuming office, he had raised a peace committee and successfully traced the herdsmen to locations outside Nigerian borders. He then made payments to them from state coffers to cure them of their homicidal urge which, according to these herdsmen, were reprisals for some ancient history and the loss of cattle through rustling. The public was up in arms against this astonishing revelation. I could only call to mind a statement by the same El Rufai after a prior election which led to a rampage in parts of the nation, and cost even the lives of National Youth Service corpers. They were hunted down by aggrieved mobs and even states had to organize rescue missions for their citizens. Countering protests that the nation owed a special duty of protection to her youth, especially those who are co-opted to serve the nation in any capacity, El Rufai’s comment then was: No life is more important than another. Today, that statement needs to be adjusted, to read perhaps – apologies to George Orwell: “All lives are equal, but a cow’s is more equal than others.”

This seems to be the government view, one that, overtly or by implication, is being amplified through act and pronouncement, through clamorous absence, by this administration. It appears to have infected even my good friend and highly capable Minister, Audu Ogbeh, however insidiously. What else does one make of his statements in an interview where he generously lays the blame for ongoing killings everywhere but at the feet of the actual perpetrators! His words, as carried by The Nation Newspapers:

“The inability of the government to pay attention to herdsmen and cow farming, unlike other developed countries, contributed to the killings.” The Minister continued:

“Over the years, we have not done much to look seriously into the issue of livestock development in the country….we may have done enough for the rice farmer, the cassava farmer, the maize farmer, the cocoa farmer, but we haven’t done enough for herdsmen, and that inability and omission on our part is resulting in the crisis we are witnessing today”

No, no, not so, Audu! It is true that I called upon the government a week ago to stop passing the buck over the petroleum situation. I assure you however that I never intended that a reverse policy should lead to exonerating – or appearing to exonerate – mass killers, rapists and economic saboteurs – saboteurs, since their conduct subverts the efforts of others to economically secure their own existence, drives other producers off their land in fear and terror. This promises the same plague of starvation that afflicts zones of conflict all over this continent where liberally sown landmines prevent farmers from venturing near their prime source, the farm, often their only source of livelihood, and has created a whole population of amputees. At least, those victims in Angola, Mozambique and other former war theatres, mostly lived to tell the tale. These herdsmen, arrogant and unconscionable, have adopted a scorched-earth policy, so that those other producers – the cassava, cocoa, sorghum, rice etc farmers are brutally expelled from farm and dwelling.

Government neglect? You may not have intended it, but you made it sound like the full story. I applaud the plans of your ministry, I am in a position to know that much thought – and practical steps – have gone into long-term plans for bringing about the creation of ‘ranches’, ‘colonies’ – whatever the name – including the special cultivation of fodder for animal feed and so on and on. However, the present national outrage is over impunity. It rejects the right of any set of people, for whatever reason, to take arms against their fellow men and women, to acknowledge their exploits in boastful and justifying accents and, in effect, promise more of the same as long as their terms and demands are not met. In plain language, they have declared war against the nation, and their weapon is an undiluted terror. Why have they been permitted to become a menace to the rest of us? That is the issue!

Permit me to remind you that, early in 2016, an even more hideous massacre was perpetrated by this same Murder Incorporated – that is, a numerical climax to what had been a series across a number of Middle Belt and neighbouring states, with Benue taking the brunt of the butchery. A peace meeting was called, attended by the state government and security agencies of the nation, including the Inspector General of Police. This group attended – according to reports - with AK47s and other weapons of mass intimidation visible under their garments. They were neither disarmed nor turned back. They freely admitted the killings but justified them by claims that they had lost their cattle to the host community. It is important to emphasize that none of their spokesmen referred to any government neglect, such as refusal to pay subsidy for their cows or failure to accord them the same facilities that had been extended to cassava or millet farmers. Such are the monstrous beginnings of the culture of impunity. We are reaping, yet again, the consequences of such tolerance of the intolerable. Yes, there indeed the government is culpable, definitely guilty of “looking the other way”. Indeed, it must be held complicit.

This question is now current, and justified: just when is terror? I am not aware that IPOB came anywhere close to this homicidal propensity and will to dominance before it was declared a terrorist organization. The international community rightly refused to go along with such an absurdity. For the avoidance of doubt, let me state right here, and yet again, that IPOB leadership is its own worst enemy. It repels public empathy, indeed, I suspect that it deliberately cultivates an obnoxious image, especially among its internet mouthers who make rational discourse impossible. However, as we pointed out at the time, the conduct of that movement, even at its most extreme, could by no means be reckoned as terrorism. By contrast, how do we categorize Myeti? How do we assess a mental state that cannot distinguish between a stolen cow – which is always recoverable – and human life, which is not. Villages have been depopulated far wider than those outside their operational zones can conceive. They swoop on sleeping settlements, kill and strut. They glory in their seeming supremacy. Cocoa farmers do not kill when there is a cocoa blight. Rice farmers, cassava and tomato farmers do not burn. The herdsmen cynically dredge up decades-old affronts – they did at the 2016 Benue “peace meeting” to justify the killings of innocents in the present - These crimes are treated like the norm. Once again, the nation is being massaged by specious rationalisations while the rampage intensifies and the spread spirals out of control. When we open the dailies tomorrow morning, there is certain to have been a new body count, to be followed by the arrogant justification of the Myeti Allah.

The warnings pile up, the distress signals have turned into a prolonged howl of despair and rage. The answer is not to be found in pietistic appeals to victims to avoid ‘hate language’ and divisive attributions. The sustained, killing monologue of the herdsmen is what is at issue. It must be curbed, decisively and without further evasiveness.

Yes, Jonathan only saw ‘ghosts’ when Boko Haram was already excising swathes of territory from the nation space and abducting school pupils. The ghosts of Jonathan seem poised to haunt the tenure of Mohammed Buhari.


Wole SOYINKA

http://saharareporters.com/2018/01/10/impunity-rides-again-through-killer-herdsmen-wole-soyinka

Let categorically to Mr. Wole Soyinka that issue of Nigeria is above lengthy grammar. Few people know about your little sympathy of 1966/7 when you showed objection to foolishness of Nigeria under Gowon to precipitate war against Ndigbo and Biafrans. Anyway, you can recall that one man’s empathy does not represent that of the general public. Your people drove in mass to join Gowon and marauders from northern region of Nigeria to atrociously kill Ndigbo and Biafrans. Of course, the IPOB could not engender sympathetic support from the southerners of Nigeria simply because they were not able to wear a jack boots and carry AK-47 while laying waste to idiotic Nigeria public. If IPOB would have come like Boko Haram, you would have singing a difference praise of them because the outcome would have been a little different from today. I guess if the IPOB had come down more forcefully than they did, they could have attracted generous public empathy.

This is just kick life into Yari.ba and let them know that there is nothing in fear but fear itself. At a stage in one's life, act of cowardice has to be jettisoned. It is the right time for Yrai.ba peeps to stand up and be counted. Simply forget about the bad dreams of Afonja and Aole.

APC and Muhammadu Buhari are turning the zoo called Nigeria into military state. If large number of police and other paramilitary outfits in Nigerian cannot maintain peace, it is safe to say that these groups should be abolished and return the local safety to people to the local folks. Everywhere in the damnable zoo called Nigeria is military or police check points yet the safety is very alien to the inhabitants. I wish there is power that can sweep away the crap known as Nigeria for birth of new country. Nigeria is no longer a fun place to holiday.

zendy:
What is indeed funny is that most Yorubas have never crossed the River Niger into the East but most of them will tell anyone that they know where Igbo land starts and stops i.e, the South East.

Some will even say that Igbos are only indigenous to 5 states.

But once they hear Chukwuma Nzeogwu or Igwedibia, they suddenly remember that Igbo are indigenous outside the SE


Rivers state is largely made up of Igbos/Igbo speaking people/Igboids.

So when something bad happens, he is Igbo. When something good happens, he is SS or Nigerian

The hypocrisy is too much

Just be very patience with Yrai.ba people because they are colorful story tellers. They are also human experts in creating deficiency of the mind.

Every narrative about him represents chameleonic demeanor. It is was the same unassuming pretense Lt Muhammadu Buhari used to also kill his company commander, Major Megwa, in cold blood.

oodualover:
Voter turnout was higher in the south than in the north. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Moshood Abiola received over 8 million votes, and won in 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate Alhaji Bashir Tofa received over 6 million votes and won in 10 states only. Over 14 million people voted. Abiola won in Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba, and Yobe states, and the Federal Capital Territory. Tofa won in Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Enugu, Imo, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Niger, Rivers and Sokoto States.

Abiola’s victory was comprehensive as he won almost 60% of the total votes cast. Only in two states (Kebbi and Sokoto) did Abiola fail to obtain at least one-third of the votes. Abiola even defeated Tofa in Tofa’s home state of Kano.

https://maxsiollun./2008/06/14/june-12-1993-election-full-results/

I hope some people are sane. How could any reasonable fellow talk about election result when the said election was cancelled? Do you have WACE result when such examination was cancelled? When will these jackasses grow common sense?

6pax:
Wow! Wow! Wow!
Guy you never sieze to amaze me. Never knew that IMO state have such a treasure
We need no industries , we need no oil nor gas. All we need do is to take tourism and hospitality business to international level cos the state have more than the potential.

I guess in Las Vegas's manner. The place needs International Airport for easy access from many international hubs.

abdelrahman:
Let assume every Nigerian will should
go back to his state of origin can the
south east contain the Igbos I see in
every state. The parcel of land called south east
Nigeria is bigger than Oyo state slihtly.

From the above post, it is safe to say you are uselessly educated. The so-called south-east zone does not limitedly represent Igbo land. Igbo land is greater than the nomenclatural south-east zone. Whenever you want to use Igbo in any foolish sentences of yours, you should first get enlightened. What a dumbass donkey.

Spiritualism:
Hassan Dankwambo: A Sure Bet for Another PDP Presidency

By Chief Edwin Emeka Aboh

In less than six months time, active political gymnastics would start across the country in preparation for the 2019 General Elections.

I am talking about party primaries which is one way of pruning down the number of aspirants who have declared interest to run for various elective posts within some political parties.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are the two main parties to look out for because the choice of who gets their tickets for elective positions later in the year especially their presidential candidates would go a long way in determining the strength of supports they would enjoy during next year's general elections.

From the unfolding political realities, it is most certain that President Muhammadu Buhari is going to pick the Presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), but that of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is still in limbo because they have eminently qualified aspirants interested in the party's ticket and are waiting in the wing for electoral guidelines by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Some of the aspirants include; the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, the former Governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose and the performing Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji (Dr.) Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo. Others may throw their hats in to the presidential ring, but are still watching events with keen interest.

Of these aspirants, it is only Governor Hassan Dankwambo that can lead the PDP back to the Presidential Villa after the February 16 Presidential race.

Without being sycophantic, I want to say that all the political odds favours Dr. Dankwambo because he is the only aspirant that can give the PDP a relax mind from any arrest or trumped-up charge during the campaigns because he is still a serving governor with immunity from arrest and prosecution.

Outside the fact that he enjoys immunity from harassment and intimidation, his giant strides in Gombe State would also speak for him during nationwide campaigns.

Though Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is from the same Northeast region with Dr. Dankwambo; a region that have suffered disturbing political neglect since independence. In fact, since the late Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was assassinated, no person from the zone had being elected President of Nigeria either in democracy or in military. But with Governor Dankwambo coming from the zone, his age would serve as great advantage as he will only turn 56 years on April 4th this year.

Dr. Dankwambo being an erudite Economist himself knows how to revamp our national economy and give it a quick fix from the current recession slowing down every sector in the country.

Besides studying Economics at the Msc level, Dr. Dankwambo also has the needed practical skills and experience required to 'quick-fix' the economy as a former senior banker with the Central Bank of Nigeria between 1988 and 1999. His practical knowledge of the nation's accounting system as former Accountant-General of Gombe State as well as the Accountant-General of the Federation will put more money on government accounts which would be used for the country's development.

Dr. Dankwambo had been a loyal and committed party man who did not abandon the party during its turbulent times but silently worked for the reinvention of the PDP back to national reckoning.

Despite being a Governor of the Northeastern state of Gombe; a region ravaged by the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram, Dr. Dankwambo still used good governance and democracy dividends to wrestle the state from the violent activities of the sect.

When the Buhari Tsunami wrecked havoc in the entire northern region in 2015, both Sule Lamido and Ibrahim Shekarau fell victims and lost their states to the APC, but Dr. Dankwambo tactically resisted the the Buhari Tsunami by getting himself re-elected as PDP governor. This is a great feat achieved considering what transpired during the election.

Another factor that will work for Dr. Dankwambo is the fact that he a scandal-free aspirant compared to other contestants. For Instance, Sule Lamido has case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) while Ibrahim Shekarau has similar baggage because of Dasuki-Gate. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has some perception challenges because at the mention of his name, everyone already knows the reaction to get from the people, but Dr. Dankwambo is a clean aspirant without any issue with any of the anti-graft agencies in the country.

Also, his easy-going stature is an added advantage which he will turn in to great asset for the PDP during polls.

Though Governor Ayo Fayose has declared his intention to run for election under the PDP, but he is technically out of the race already because the PDP has zoned it presidential ticket to the north thereby making Fayose's aspiration a dead one.

Former Governor Sule Lamido will be turning 70 this August and would not have the strength and the agility required to embark on vigorous campaigns for the party. Apart from EFCC case, his age will not make him a darling of the youths who wants to change the fortunes of their country. Some of them are already complaining that he does not pick calls neither does he responds to text messages nor grant favour.

Another factor working against him is the fact that he is from the Northwest region; a zone that have produced many civilian and military presidents for the country.

Similar thing can be said of Ibrahim Shekarau who is also from the Northwest region, a geo-political zone that produced the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling APC.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has the required war-chest, Nigerians already have fixed mindset about him. Though he has being trying to endear himself to the youths, but his candidacy may chase the youths away because they are fed-up with septuagenarians.

Therefore, judging by all standards, Dr. Dankwambo is the credible and stainless alternative left for the PDP ahead of the February 16 Presidential race.

If Dr. Dankwambo could achieve that feat of stopping Buhari tsunami in Gombe State for PDP when President Buhari was seen as a messiah in the north, he will surpass it now that Buhari has become Baba-Go-Slow.

Therefore, Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo is a sure bet for another PDP Presidency come 2019.

Chief Edwin Emeka Aboh is an award-winning Columnist and Author.

He writes from Anambra State.


Contact this dude on edwinemeka54@gmail.com

Please note that the view expressed here does not reflect the view of Spiritualism but for the sake of deepening public debate.

Signed by member of spiritualism

Nigeria must cease to elect the quota system products from northern region of Nigeria into elective offices.

ipodstinks:
[s][/s]To the dustbin straight.

A sign of inadequate and low acumen.

I have solemnly begged for Nigeria to be disintegrated now. There is no atom of love among Nigerians. They are willing to destroy lives and properties belonging to their so-called compatriots on a slightest provocation. The population of the country is growing with lips and bounces so also is the hatred among the ethnic nationalities. Whenever the people could openly and easily lay their hands on automatic weapons instead of cutlasses, the destruction that will fellow shall be momentous in nature.