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longview007:
Big congratulations the Obedient hardworking youth.

You never worked in vain.

She's a Yòrùbá moslem not Obidient biko

Man wey get sense...

eldoradoxx:
I just defined what he meant by the net getting bigger and u are running riot here. Did I lie in my definition of getting the net wider? Who says that Federal Government cannot take his 2019 suggestion, in fact this is what they have been implementing attempting to tax everything. Are u aware that there is a tax on every 10 litre of beverage made with sugar? That is after imposing VAT and other taxes on sugar and sugar manufacturers who of course pass the tax burden to consumers

Who is running riot?

Ogbeni your definition of what he meant is false, misleading and mischievous.

Widening the tax net simply means covering more ground in tax collection i.e ensuring that those not paying are paying. Everybody, rich or poor, pays VAT. So, increment of vat will lead to rise in cost of goods and services. This will affect the poor far more than the rich.

How can he want the masses to pay more tax since he feared that such action would reduce the purchasing power of the masses?

In case you sincerely don't understand the statement, tax net could be widen by ensuring that those who consume luxury goods pay more tax. That's what they do in UK and many other advanced countries.
Below is other part of the report from Thisday Newspaper:

Tinubu also advised FG against pushing for additional layer of taxes but instead he said efforts should be made to effectively bring more persons and organisations into the tax net so as to increase revenue earnings for the country.

Still speaking on the way forward for the country’s economy, Tinubu said Nigeria must divorce itself from the fixation that GDP rate and similar statistics were an end in itself.

He said to pull the nation from poverty, government must play a decisive role. According to Tinubu, the goverment must at times direct and even develop markets and opportunities.

"Tinubu Kicks against Proposed Increase in VAT – THISDAYLIVE" https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/03/28/tinubu-kicks-against-proposed-increase-in-vat/amp/

Zeemam:
Why will he mention Osinbajo’s name, is he the president?

He advised that the VP's economy team should put a question mark on the idea of VAT increment as probably suggested by the minister. Meaning, it should not be supported. Perhaps the VP was present at the event where the speech was made.

eldoradoxx:
Nigerians clamouring for Tinubu presidency must be made to be very aware of what Tinubu stands for. To widen tax net is simply o create various categories of taxes thereby taxing various goods and services that were hitherto not taxed. Example, just yesterday, FG announced 5% tax on calls and data on all network in Nigeria,that's exactly what Tinubu meant in that video. So when he becomes President, your baby diaper will have its own tax, milk will have its own tax, agbado and garri will have its own tax, that is exactly how you widen the tax net by bringing all citizens including babies to be paying one form of tax or the other.

Let's try to be objective sometimes. Nobody can be wrong all the time. He gave this advice as far back as 2019. You are obviously misquoting him. This is what he said:
“Let me appeal to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his team to put a huge question mark on anything that concerns VAT.

“If we reduce the purchasing power of the people it can further slow down the economy. Let us widen the tax net. Those who are not paying now even inclusive Bola Tinubu, let the net get bigger and we take in more taxes and that is what we must do in this country,”

He made the speech in 2019.

Tinubu Kicks against Proposed Increase in VAT
Latest | 3 years ago
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ahmed Tinubu, has asked the Federal Government not raise the Value Added Tax (VAT) as it will inflict more pain on the people.


Tinubu who was advising the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration on how to deal with present economic challenges in the country said that any additional tax will reduce the purchasing power of Nigerians.

“Let me appeal to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his team to put a huge question mark on anything that concerns VAT.

“If we reduce the purchasing power of the people it can further slow down the economy. Let us widen the tax net. Those who are not paying now even inclusive Bola Tinubu, let the net get bigger and we take in more taxes and that is what we must do in this country,” he said.


Tinubu also advised FG against pushing for additional layer of taxes but instead he said efforts should be made to effectively bring more persons and organisations into the tax net so as to increase revenue earnings for the country.

Still speaking on the way forward for the country’s economy, Tinubu said Nigeria must divorce itself from the fixation that GDP rate and similar statistics were an end in itself.

He said to pull the nation from poverty, government must play a decisive role. According to Tinubu, the goverment must at times direct and even develop markets and opportunities.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/03/28/tinubu-kicks-against-proposed-increase-in-vat/amp/

An initiative of
the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice,
Princeton University




Interviewee: Bola Tinubu

Interviewer: Graeme Blair

Date of Interview: 7 August, 2009

Location: Lagos
Nigeria



Innovations for Successful Societies, Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Princeton University, 83 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA www.princeton.edu/successfulsocieties
Use of this transcript is governed by ISS Terms of Use, available at www.princeton.edu/successfulsocieties




BLAIR:
This is Graeme Blair; I am here for an interview for Princeton University with His Excellency the former Governor Mr. [Bola] Tinubu. Thank you very much for agreeing to speak with us.
TINUBU:
You're very welcome, it’s a pleasure.
BLAIR:
You initiated many reforms during your tenure. I wonder if you could begin by telling me which you think were the most important, the ones that had the most impact on people or opened up the window for further reforms.
TINUBU:
First and foremost, when I became governor-elect, I assembled the best brains that I know of because of my previous training. I was trained by Deloitte Touche, formerly Deloitte, Haskins and Sells in Chicago, out of the Illinois practice office, before I joined Mobil. Corporate governance is essentially a great element in public sector management and governance. You have to take a critical
evaluation of what is on the ground–what is the situation on the ground. What are those long-term, medium-term, and short-term gains that can unleash the prosperity of the state. Thinking for change is quite extremely important for such a research-oriented administration. So thinking for change was my mode and my philosophy. Now it can look—there was tremendous decay in the infrastructure: traffic, chaos, unmanageable. Levels of solid waste management requirement that is becoming epidemic for the state, and the state going bust with population; completely disorganized transportation system; disintegrated infrastructure and near bankruptcy; perilous financial situation that required reengineering.
Antiquated accounting system, lack of transparency. It is a two-engine approach.

One, financial engineering of the state that is the commercial center of the country. Constrained with population drift, serious one. Constrained again with a debt asset known as land, and which is the smallest among all the states in the country but with unlimited potential for prosperity. So after the transition group put their recommendations together, it was necessary to develop an agenda from their recommendations. That is when I assembled the best brains and people of integrity to the cabinet to work with me, particularly finance. Legal, that is administration of justice, budgetary process, information system—there was no assistant at that particular time. Created ministries that were needed, various government agencies that I needed, new agencies. I broke some of the [...] over webbed government agencies that were called ministry to a manageable and compact environment to start to work the system.

From there we set the ten-point agenda for the administration, in the short-term; what we see as lower-hanging fruit, the education system that was completely decayed and moved from hope to hopelessness—believing that we must invest in the future of our state and the country if we are to work for the transformation that would be long-term. Education is the greatest weapon against poverty. But if you just talk about it and fail to invest in it you have problems. The schools were collapsing and killing children and pupils, parents in agony. The public school was completely abandoned over the years of military regime.

You have hills, what I would describe as hills or mountains of refuse, solid waste, uncleared. Roads were taken over. Tremendous man-hours, productive hours spent in the traffic, chaotic traffic situation and indiscipline in the driving system in the country. Land system not accounted for. No accountability whatsoever.
Financial statement of seven years not done. The state was running consistently on overdraft, not able to meet its obligations over a bloated payroll system that you could not even identify which workers and which way to do. The problem could have been very overwhelming, but I had a very great team of men and women of strong determination. We had reviews, several times reviews of that agenda, and we developed this system.

First, sustain work force: fail to create additional poverty, or not to sack people first. Look at the system. Tackle the refuse problem. Gradually convert the dead assets, that is the land possession of the people, into valuable means of prosperity for the state. Then, creative means of improving the revenue base to take the state out of bankruptcy or near-bankruptcy was very prominent in my—. The working environment, a time of manual and tedious filing system, missing documentation, untraceable documentation, a humungous bureaucracy that has created elephantiasis—a disease called elephantiasis—for progress of the state.
It was very, very challenging. But we confronted it.

To identify that we needed to be creative and be proactive while we were trying to remove the refuse. The planning period was very, very critical. In the time of wars back then, critical path analysis of what it is that you must do to survive— that was built in the long-term plan of sustainable growth. And we collaborated with the private sector as the engine of growth in the economy of Lagos as well. No investor would come into the state unless we had an effective security, not direct for an investment. What happened, this is being prevalent in this place. I can go on and on in this myriad of problems, a complex situation, can break it into manageable components. Reengineering of the financial system, reinventing governance such that it is a two-engine approach.

Bring in knowledge-based innovation. A ministry of science and technology, a ministry of finance, partnering with outside consultants to develop software that we sought for an effective tax administration, effective accountability, innovation for prosperity. Bring in energy consultants, knowledge-based science and
technology. Because revenue receipt of the government is fudged all over the place. Within one week. No matter what level, hologram or monogram you put on it, it has a printer somewhere, and not many people will look at those things. So if you have to put a control in place, it would be effective.

Now, you cannot do it without building the control mechanism of verifying support. Otherwise it becomes garbage, in garbage out: collusion. So you must be ready to give something up. So when we set up the tax table, as we introduced technology, we brought some other banks to meet with our consultant. The banks now have to respond to the needs of the consultants. If you want to do business with Lagos state, you have to go on the SWIFT system. That you must be able, as governor, must be able to sit in my office as the commissioner for finance—must be able to sit in the office and track the payments to the bank. No more cash payments to government.

So revenue that was 600 million a month grew phenomenally to 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion, 5 billion, and it was fluctuating between ten, sometimes a bad month you have eight, before I left office. That is the story of the financial recovery of the state.

BLAIR:
One of the things that we’re interested in is, what some of the political challenges are to getting this work done. What was the political coalition that you put together? Who did you count on for support politically?
TINUBU:
Then?
BLAIR:
Yes.
TINUBU: The public who elected me, first. The group who understands me and the cabinet. Asking them not to expect up front, not to expect patronage in the form of corruption. We would credit their work. If you are competent, they have the employment. We will bring the image of labor back. Unemployed youths who are drafted to become traffic coordinators like LMATS, Lagos Metropolitan Authority Transport System. Brain drain was being turned to brain gain by bringing in some of our well-trained individuals back home from overseas to look into our transport system, LAMATA, that is there today, Dr. Mobereola used to work for the London Bureau of Transportation. The man [Shayo)] Holloway in the Water Corporation used to work for the water—I think, company—in Illinois; now he is there. Bringing back home some of those medical doctors, and I mean the ex-sector. Our hospital was a death clinic. Nothing to be described as a hospital in the health scheme program, part of which had a problem. Today I am very, very proud of what is available to the public, and the healthcare scheme that we introduced in this state was equally an asset of value.


BLAIR:
One of the things people talk about is the difficult relationship with the federal government during your tenure. How would you describe the relationship with the federal government and how you worked on that relationship?
TINUBU:
You have a constitutional democracy and a federal system of government, and there’s a constitution. Unfortunately, you have a president who had governed as a military dictator. They say old habits die hard, and I believe in the federalism, and that’s the principle of federalism. I believe in the federalist constitution written by Jefferson and the American system. Each area of complaint, I wanted the president to see me as an autonomous state, freely elected to govern my state, a state that has given, a state that has surrendered some of its powers to the federal to administer—not to be a military administrator or a representative of the president—may declare from the one, and that is the area of conflict. There is an overlap and cumbersome process, and the president wanting to laud his view over us in the Council of State of National Economic Council, raised issues.

But I headed for court several times to challenge over [...] portion of the government. How can I seek approval before I plan my state? The planning approval of the state road, the plan approval for real estate development is a serious matter. I went to the Supreme Court and challenged several unconstitutional habits of the federal government. Use a civilized manner to correct the anomalies which impeach—a previous military officer would not see as positive, not as a matter of principle, from the man who sees it as confrontational, but I didn’t care. I was not intimidated, I was just focused seriously on what I need to do for the state and communicated this effectively with the citizens.
BLAIR:
What are some of the ways that they were able to frustrate the work that you were doing? Was it through funding or—?
TINUBU:
It was through funding, sometimes—the irony of it is, so much—. We’re kind of at the story today, not much over time, but the inhibition of approval over deduction of what is even classified as old debts. I brought independent power generating ideas, saying that the most important discovery for humanity in the last 1000 years is electricity, and we must start to tackle the question of electricity. But what have they done in other countries. I consulted with the corporate council on America, in the United States, and as for their needs used my contact with my old colleagues in Deloitte to help me look into means of creating an independent pass which was linked to badges that were being used in the Philippines, pending the activation and commissioning of their nuclear power program. I brought the idea, broke it down to management and the micro level. The impact on the barbershop, creating private employment, creating small-scale business, the need for little capital, exponential effect that we would have on our economy, have on the quality of life, to the president.
Strong determination to ensure that it was done. They killed the idea to some extent, but I was able to salvage about one third of the projects to show a model of 270 megawatts of independent power generation. It worked, even though they fought it initially. If they had allowed it, larger portion of the program, Nigeria would have somewhat to recover the shortage of electricity. But they allowed the 270 megawatts, and instead of allowing it to be dedicated to the industry and the people of Lagos State, they now deliver the generated electricity to national grid and they are charging Lagos State revenue 250 million—it is like a toll gate to nowhere, and I still pay for consumption. We just resolved the matter in court
now. It is such a disincentive, so discouraging. Now they’ve gone back to this IPP Model.

BLAIR:
So you think the relationship has now improved between the Lagos government and the—?
TINUBU:
I think now it is better than before.

BLAIR:
Tell me about the decision to go outside of the political class and go inside your own staff in choosing the next governor. What made you do that?
TINUBU:
I remember noting, part of quality of leadership is the ability to develop a successor. Break [...] the symbolic legacy of an achiever and a leader. But sustenance of the program, long-term recovery and prosperity of the state is more important than those [...] So, after laying a very strong foundation for infrastructural development, the transformation of Lagos State, the financial reengineering, the focused vision for change, you have to look for a successor who can actualize so many dreams, so many ideas, and build from there— opened the difficulty of the past, too, with the government, with the ease of—, and create a conducive environment for an accelerated transformation achievement of the state.
It’s very, very difficult; it needs an assigned person, that can be highly disciplined, highly focused, who understands me, the vision for Lagos—and, you’ll find, incorruptible, that wants to build the system. It can collapse easily if you don’t have a strong, dependable integrity; strongly focused individual that could be tried and tested in known, certain assignments that have given to so many of them. Fashola, he joined the administration five years before as my chief of staff. I evaluated the same work. So the greatest achievement of a leader, I believe, is the ability to build and develop other managers and a good successor that would take the entity beyond the level of ordinary thinking, would combine the thinking and the dream.
BLAIR:
Was it challenging to convince others in the party?
TINUBU:
It was very challenging, it was chaotic. It was crisis, a huge crisis. There were newspaper explosions and so on and so forth. But I stuck to my guns.

BLAIR:
Did you play a role after his inauguration or now? Some people say you are the political minder while he is getting things done?
TINUBU:
We set a model. We set a model. I know what I went through. For example, I had to return a mission school. That was taken over by Fair Act, the Catholic school, the Baptist, all of them. It was shocking to the Muslim community. As a Muslim to want to return these schools to the missions that had been taken over. It was one of the toughest decisions of my administration to really convince the public why we must [...] a competitive environment. The mission must be allowed to work on their schools, we can’t say public schools. We will build our own if you like, take your own back as a community. It was tough. My parents nearly disowned me at this stage. I almost lost support.

After they were convinced, that support, that was a tremendous amount of support. They see the wisdom, they see the value. If you go to those schools today you’d be proud, I am proud I did it, created a competitive environment, great standard for education and so forth. So since I went through so many political conflicts, and here is a private-sector-oriented technocrat, mixing politics and job would slow him down, definitely. So we built a model that he should focus purely on the job, driving tradition, transformation program, building on those foundations. I will take care of the political nuances and conflicts that will help to release his time, because time is the most valuable asset.

For full interview in PDF, visit: https://successfulsocieties.princeton.edu/interviews/bola-tinubu

Kurutinto:
Small thing like this, he don pee for him pant.
Maybe he is related to Tinubu

Nope, he is Obidient, Didn't you watch the video? Abi you no get data ni?

iReddington:
Crap, that video doesn't prove or show anything that relates to Bello mocking Tinubu, what a poor, misleading headline and the dunderhead mod that pushed it to FP. If you don't have data to watch, refrain from commenting so you don't sound stupid.

many of them are broke and stupid...how can someone rush to comment on just a headline for God's sake?! The video shows Yahaya Bello flying his agbada in a playfully exaggerated manner whilst music is being played in the background, and that's all.

What in that video of just few seconds suggests mockery of Tinumu? This man is truly your nightmare.

Harmlesspill:
Here you got it wrong,mate!
You can frustrate a president that wants to work because all the powers is in his hand......
You think say Obi na Jonathan wet go dey romance with bokoharam?

All the power in his hand you said? let's end it here, please.

Harmlesspill:
Mate,are you saying that osun people voted for PDP and not what they believe Adeleke can do??
APC was structureless in before 2015, remember!
People believed in buhari that he would fight corruption

Point of correction. APC was not structureless before 2015. Remember it was formed when opposition parties (ACN, ANPPC, etc.) merged their structures. These are parties with governors and legislators.

MITCHELL96:
Yeah, you're right, I just hope others understands this, and thank you for enlightening me

You're welcome



I'm for Bola Ahmed TINUBU though. However, I have nothing against Peter Obi as an individual. However, I don't see him being different from any other politician.

vanunu:
The question you should ask is, can Obi win? , If he miraculously wins, no Jupiter can impeach him.
To impeach a president in Nigeria is almost impossible.

I don't think he can win. In fact, he can't win.

It is not about impeachment. They will frustrate his government and render his efforts useless. Eventually, he would be seen as the worst president ever.

Only a naive kid who knows nothing about governance will play down the significance of the legislature in the success of a government.

Obi as a loner with legislative power in the hands of the opposition will be a total disaster.

MITCHELL96:
Google doesn't have much about him, but I learnt he was impeached (The first to be impeached)

He was a friend to the poor and some other amazing facts like that...

Yes, but the state's legislature was controlled by opposition. They frustrated all his efforts until he was eventually impeached. He served without cabinet because all his nominees for commissioner were rejected by the house.

It is obvious that many of the LP online warriors don't know anything about politics and governance. May be they are mostly kids.

It is not too late if you sincerely believe that Peter Obi is the solution to our problem, please mobilize support for all other candidates under LP (state assemblies, federal house of assembly, gubernatorial) and stop shouting Obi Obi Obi because one tree can't make a forest.

AmUmokeme:
NO BODY CARES OF LP AT ANY LEVEL EXCEPT PRESIDENCY. MY WARD COUNCILOR MAY DIFFER FROM GOVERNOR,HA,HR AND D SENATE AS MY CHOICE POLITICAL PARTIES IS WHY WE R BEHIND

You are shooting yourselves in the leg with this mindset. No president will survive or be effective if legislative arm, state and local governments are all in the hands of opposition parties

MITCHELL96:
Obi isn't contesting for osun governorship election na

Don't panic, when it's time, you'll see the turnouts, We just need Obi as the president

Now I agree that something is wrong with the way you guys thing. If Obi wins and becomes president and the legislature is controlled by APC and PDP with one of them having the majority and hence the principal officers, what happens to Mr. President who has the legislative arm totally controlled by opposition and all state governments also in the hand of the opposition?

This should be what the so called Obidents be worried about right now, but they are too sensational.

Go and read about Balarabe Musa of Kaduna State.

But the 'lebira' actually laboured in vein....






....Rejoice with caution; this isn't a good omen for the Labourers

Fujiyama:
"You people"...
"you think..."
"You guys..."

Who is "you", for God's sake? Are you just reaching or what?

Don't ask me silly question.

Why did you quote me in the first place since you have no idea who I'm referring to...Look, I won't respond to your nagging anymore.

Just know that no amount of epistle from you or your kinds will change my view.

Buona notte!

Fujiyama:
^^^
This is dishonest.

Not everyone of Igbo extraction supports secession. That is a proven fact. There are those for and those against. It really is that simple.

So do yourself a favour and stop the sly generalizations. Note your phrasing up there: "from a tribe that has...", "You guys..." etc.

And by the way, any Nigerian who does not want to be a part of the union has the right to feel that way. You may legislate against separatist action but you cannot legislate against separatist thought.

Also note...only the unlettered liberally use the term 'tribe' these days. A more appropriate term is 'ethnic group'.

Your last sentence is the most laughable. You speak about unspecified Biafran agitators and you 'demand' an 'apology' from them. Yet you remain silent on Ahmed Tinubu who once gave a press interview stating explicitly that he does not believe in Nigeria. Who would have thought this...Bola Tinubu now wants to be president of a country he does not believe in?

Of course it can't be everyone but tell me with concrete evidence, any group or individual from Igbo extraction that openly criticize the agitators and condemn the tagging of Nigeria a zoo.

Your comment on TINUBU further exposed your hypocrisy. You people do tag people from a region of this country as 'one Najeriya' because you think they are the only ones that benefit from the present structure. He only condemned the structure, not the union. But you guys wanted your own country until few months ago.

Now, know this and have peace, an Igbo president is impossible with the current situation. It will take time before other regions begin to trust you guys.



....Don't quote me again

Sunday2021:
then why most of the Muslims telling Christians that religion doesn't matter?

The fact is it matters in Nigeria of today, bro

He was in a mosque.... nothing politically wrong with what he said. He has the right to canvas for Muslim support. Christians do samething in churches. This is politics!

You guys complaining are doing same thing here. Haven't you been calling on all Christians to vote for Obi? Are your analysis of Obi's chances to win the election not based on religious line? Are you not predicting a landslide victory for Obi in Christian Dominated states? Isn't that hypocrisy?

This attitude of rushing to attack any one whose opinion is contrary to yours will never help your cause. You can hardly win the mind of a neutral citizen with this attitude.

Remember that Peter Obi is from a tribe that has for a long while, been agitating for secession and has been hurling insults on other tribes and Nigeria as a country. It is therefore, funny how his kinsmen are handling his campaign with such arrogance and insolence.

You guys supposed to first denounce your Biafra agitation and apologize to Nigerians for calling the country of your birth a zoo before giving us reasons why Obi should be our choice for presidency in 2023

abbey621:
People wey dey lick sugar dey claim happiness.....Someone writing from Benin City is speaking for the North, NO BE JUJU BE THAT?

Leave them. Let them continue to deceive themselves. In fact, I enjoy reading their comments. It's a kind of comic relief

Tareq1105:
It's just to show you how liberal Tinubu is just like any Yoruba man either christian or Muslim. My father was a Christian and my mother was a Muslim. Both are late. Out of 5 of us only one joined my mother in practicing Islam while 4 are christians. Therefore, religion card would not work effectively in south west more so with a liberal Muslim like Tinubu.

You're right. I'm a Muslim and my both parents died Muslims but I have a sibling and many other relatives who are Christians. Religious sentiment is minimal in SW as matters will end up being settled in a family way. My paternal grand parents were also Christians. My Dad willingly reverted to Islam as a teenager.

Buhari4dullard:
Forget this Pastor by day, Alhaja by night.

Truly RCCG is Godless


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXkUpYbWYAAWvj-.jpg

Don't be mischievous. Her dressing in that picture is normal for a well trained Yoruba wife. It is a show of respect to her mother inlaw, Late Alhaja Habibatu Mogaji whom she knew was a devoted Muslim that would feel happy seeing her dress that way.

Ballack1:
That argument does not hold water, are we voting for Tinubu or his wife?

Were you going to vote for TINUBU?

Faiththatworks:
Nigeria politics is what I call yam pepper scatter scatter,the politics of leaving the meat and chasing after the bone.
These same people who were obstinate in opposing Baba Buhari have come again to oppose Asiwaju.
In the Build up to the presidential election of 2015,these crazy people were more concerned about Baba Buhari's academic qualification and his islamization agenda,that they ignored more important issues.
We are in 2023,and these delusional people still haven't learnt their lessons,Baba Buhari is retiring back to Daura and Nigeria isn't yet islamatized,but the country has gone back a lot of steps.
Can we please leave all this bone chasing and start asking our presidential candidate what they will do to solve the problem of Nigeria.
ENOUGH OF THESE CRAZY ISSUES THAT DON'T AFFECT MORE THAN 8O% OF SANE NIGERIANS.
What will ATIKU,OBI, ASIWAJU and all the other presidential do to move the country forward.
1) How will they stop the problem of territorial territorist like IPOB and BOKO HARAM
2) What will they do to increase the revenue profile of Nigeria
3) What's the plan to create employment
4) What about the perennial issue of ASUU,let them give us time lines on how they intend to solve the problem
5) The issue of oil subsidy,can they lay out their plan on when they intend to totally remove subsidy
6) How do they intend to fight insecurity in Nigeria,from birin-kebbi to aba,from ilorin to uyo,what is their stategy.
7) What's the plan for energy in Nigeria,how will they generate electricity for the woman in ikot-ekpene,what's the plan to generate more electricity to fire our manufacturing companies.
So many things to talk about,and all we keep hearing is muslim-muslim ticket,these people still have learnt from 2015.
I believe if we allow these presidential candidate to talk more about the real issues hurting these my dear country Nigeria,the masses will be ready to give them their score sheet at the polling booth next year February.
So u know I'm voting for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
God bless Nigeria

Well said comrade! Very civil contribution, but I won't be surprised to see someone quoting you with a loutish response. This is NL

olaboy33:
The goal of a political party is to win elections for its members.

Tinubu would not have picked a Muslim VP if Pdp had not picked a northerner to succeed another northerner who ruled for 8 years.

Nigeria is divided today between the North/South and Christian/Muslim.

Why is there so much fuse over an idea Muslim/Muslim ticket when we all kept mute over an idea of a northerner succeeding another northerner?

God bless you abundantly

una no go kee person for nairaland....me sha dey enjoy comment dey go

CoronaVirusRelo:
Your English fell down.

Allahisarapist:
Wetin be the name for koran

Isah. He is also referred to as Masihu ibnu Maryam

Allahisarapist:
Then wetin be Jesus in Islam?

Jesus is Isah son of Maryam (Mary). He is messenger and prophet of God.

Have you ever heard a Muslim mock Jesus the way you people mock prophet Mohammed? It is a sin of blasphemy to do so.

Muslims name their kids Isah (yeshu in aramaic, yeshua in hebrew and jesus in english)

Allahisarapist:
As a true yoruba Christian.
We reject Muslim Muslim ticket, we already know who they are.
I and my family are obediently yusuful

You are seeking the wrath of God with this your monica.

Allah means God in English. It is not a specific diety's name. It is an Arabic word that means God (the creator of earth and heavens) just as yoruba will say olohun and Igbo call Him chukwu. Arab christians also use same word to refer to God.

There is only one God. Arabic and hebrew are sister languages. Eli in hebrew is ilahi in Arabic. English use the word 'god' while italians use 'dio' .
John in English is giovanni in italia, juan (pronounced yuan) in spanish, jeane in french, juao in portuguese, yahya in arabic, etc.

Muslims and christians are believers of God. What separate both faiths is the perception of Jesus and his celestial position. Muslims call him messenger of God and christians say, son of God (or God?). They both believe in angels (e.g. Jibril [Gabriel], Mikail [Michael], etc.) and that God does send prophets and messengers.

Noah-Nuh
Abraham-Ibrahim
Isaac-Is'hak
Jacub-Yaqub
Joseph-Yusuph
Moses-Musa
David-Dawd
Solomon-Sulayman
Elijah-Ilyas
Ezekiel-Zulkifl
Jonah-Yunus
Zakariah-Zakariyau
Maria-Maryam
Jesus-Isah

*Christians reject prophet Muhammad (SAW) and demonize anything that has to do with him mainly due to his explanation of who Jesus is, as revealed to him by angel Gabriel (Jibril).

*Muslims accept Jesus and name their kids after him (Isah). They believe he was created by God not born. They also believe crucifixion is false. According to Islam, Jesus didn't die, but ascended to heaven.

If you mock Allah, you should know that you are mocking your creator. Dire consequences await you if you desist not.

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