₦airaland Forum

LollyP94:
I agree with some of your opinion here💯

But do you think the core northern states which form the bulk votes would vote reasonably ( getting 25% ) for Obi as president? Knowing quite well these people are typically Muslim- Hausas/fulanis.

Average Hausa/Fulani person would prefer a Yoruba man as leader than an Igbo man.

That's the essence of the alliance. Kwankwaso is more than capable to deliver that.

Opinion leaders dictate northern votes. District/village heads, local chiefs, imams influence the average citizen on who to vote. Going to directly campaign to the people in the north (NW especially) is useless
Instead, you get the opinion leaders to trust you. Then, they'll do the work. With my experience in the north, Obi can't directly convince these people to trust him, the trust gap is too wide. If he's able to get some big northern politicians to trust him, they will do the work, with the hope of taking over in 2031. They will be the face of the movement in their region.

I believe it's possible but this "I'm the best" mentality of Obi and his supporters won't cut it.

egunna:
Noif obi continues on this trajectory of I am better than anyone else, he will never be president in Nigeria. You guys don't calculate. Of all the big wigs willing to contest in ADC, obi is the least politically. Asides being a governor, what does obi have to show politically? these other ppl are either a senator, minister, governor or vp. Obi has never played on national stage, yet, you expect them to come under him. Una go wait tire

You're either clearly ignorant of the subject matter or being intentionally mischievous. I'll save myself the energy.

GravityDefier:
If Atiku had waited without forming APC opposition against Jonathan, he would have become president after Jonathan's second term in 2019. And he ought to be completing his 8 years next year 2027.

I don't agree. APC didn't need Atiku to win in 2015.
Seems we forget things too soon. Insecurity was at its peak during Jonathan's era, daily bomb. He had to hire mercenaries to reclaim LGs. Elections were postponed to achieve this. It was that bad. Jonathan cracked the PDP. Remember NPDP.

That the present government is a monumental failure doesn't make Jonathan's government good. His government was bad and people were tired. We keep comparing bad governments and rating the less evil as a "good" one.

Atiku's support couldn't have saved Jonathan in 2015.

2023 was Atiku's best chance to Aso rock. He blew the golden opportunity. He lost to Tinubu with barely 1.8m margin. A properly managed PDP could have delivered this.

ThunderFireAgba:
Commit to one term and do exactly WHAT IN 4YRS? If I may ask?
With the sorry state of this country what magic is he going to perform?
Save money and leaveit for the next incoming to squander like he did in his state?
All these stories won't fly and his political career will be ending next year.

4years is more than enough for any serious leader to have impacts. Lots of one term governors with things they are being remembered for, whether good or bad.
Tinubu is barely 3years in power, there are impacts, good and bad, that he'll forever be remembered for.

Amumaigwe:
If not for that his morbid greed and shortsightedness, he would have been the one roundingoff his second term as a president under PDP.

can you please explain this?

ThunderFireAgba:
Get ready for a repeat of 2023. You blame Atiku but not Obi. You want someone with 8million votes to give way for someone with 6million votes that is afraid of primaries abi??
Congratulations to Tinubu in advance cos I will work against Obi this election.

Atiku didn't have 8m votes. He had 6,984,520 specifically while Obi had 6,101,533.

There are traditional PDP votes in Atiku's votes. He had 2.6m with ACN in 2007.
LP has never pooled 200k votes in a presidential race.

Apart from Buhari, no Nigerian politician has ever single handedly pooled 6m. None! Unlike Obi who is running helter skelter with whooping 6.1m votes, Buhari consistently held on to his 12m till big Southern politicians were ready to queue behind him with the hope of taking turn after him. It was largely those Southerners on the queue like Tinubu, Amaechi who funded APC's 2015 elections.

With a viable opposition platform, big northern politicians would gladly queue behind Obi rn with the hope of 2031. This platform is what Obi should be working on and NDC seems the answer at the moment. I hope Obi will be able to convincingly commit to one term deal.

LollyP94:
Obi/Kwa will surely garner reasonable number of votes across the country except SOUTH WEST. Yet it won't be enough to defeat BAT. Because of one single reason-Atiku will divide the votes. Opposition votes will surely be divided 💯.

Mind you BAT still have a reasonable number of supporters in the north-which is the determinant.

Obi/Kwa ticket would deliver nothing less than 1m votes in SW, it'll be way more if they played the politics well which is more than enough spoiler in BAT's base. The combo will clear SE and SS as usual.
It'll clear Christian states in the NC and get required 25% in some NE states.
They don't need to win any NW state, all they need is 25% to fulfill spread requirements.

If you check 2023 results, you'll see that you don't need to win most states to emerge. You just need to drag votes everywhere to give you simple majority, then 25% in 24 states which the combo is more than capable of doing. North is angry rn but they need leaders to trigger the outrage. Once there is a viable opposition platform, lots of northern leaders would dump APC.

Bentacur007:
I expect Obi to resign too.. Atiku is very greedy I have never seen any greedy politician like him..He doesn’t calculate well and he is not very smart

Obi has no business going to ADC in the first place. You can't take 6.1m organic votes to be begging or dragging ticket. Obi, using a party with no structure, lost to Tinubu in 2023 with barely 2.7m margin and Kwankwaso alone pooled almost 1.5m. He doesn't need Atiku to win. Atiku has used smaller platforms before, getting barely 2m votes. With proper positioning, parties should be toasting Obi by now, begging to make a deal with him. Obi is the biggest opposition leader in this country today.

I seriously don't know what he was thinking when he joined ADC. Was it that he would win in primary/consensus or that Atiku would step down for him or that he would be running mate, a combo that would have defeated Tinubu blue black in 2023.

Obi should go and make deal with Seriake Dickson's NDC. Big northerners would align with him, staying on the queue against 2031. He would just have to show unambiguous commitment to a one term deal. Lots of big northern politicians are in the APC today because of lack of viable alternative.

Bluntguy:
Una dey even still see nightlight for una side. For North both nightlife and day life dem no see.

Stop this annoying talk. Talks like this make our useless leaders think a section of the country is better. The length and breadth of this country is facing security challenges...security issues have increased everywhere.

If it's by comparison, there is night life in the north. Some areas of the north only hear of attacks only in the news.

You guys will just hide in one village, after drinking palmwine or ogogoro and be typing anyhow about places you have never stepped foot on.

Ambode, the simp
Zero balls.

Unfortunately, he's a goner in APC. No amount of bootlicking can get him back to the good books of the kingmakers again.

They trusted a pure technocrat like you with the number one seat of a state like Lagos. The politicians played the game, got you installed. In barely 4years, you felt you could challenge them. You failed, then still expect them to trust you again. Isn't that jazz?

Fight that should have been a total one. Once he lost APC ticket that year, he should have sought PDP's ticket even if it meant him resigning or being impeached since he couldn't win a reasonable number of the members of the Assembly to his side in good 4years. The worst outcome is same as what eventually happened. He could have gotten pity votes, support from Tinubu's enemies in Buhari's cabinet, his fellow governors, PDP etc. Even if he would lose, he would have done so after putting up a good fight. His chances of winning was definitely not zero. He didn't put up any fight. Weak man!

He should better join ADC or NDC so that when/if they win, the juice will reach him.

DeZoro:
Truth should remain truth. The Judiciary should appoint INEC chair

The executive appoints judiciary

opalu:
This judgement is like a setup
I hope ADC's team of lawyers will explain to them better to avoid stories.

The SC suppose to declare clearly that the David-Mark leadership is authentic

My advice, ObiKwan should jejely move to NDC.

Leave them. The suit regarding authentic chairman wasn't determined unlike in LP's case. To make it worse, SC referred Gombe's case to trial court. It's a big trap.
David Mark led executives would sign aspirants' election documents, by the time the suit return to SC from trial court through Appeal court, it'll be late for ADC.

I strongly agree with your advice. They should jejely go to a platform without baggage. Tinubu is super desperate to return and a strategic approach is needed to take off all options off his table.

WizardOfNG:
They are incapable of rational reasoning. Everything begins and end with fighting everything and everyone to a standstill for those people.

It's annoying. Politics of tribal and religious propaganda is extremely dangerous especially in a mulitethnic, multi-religious country like ours.

There are more than enough things this government can be held with devoid of dangerous propaganda.

Starcrest1:
Yoruba President has done it again.
Government of the Yoruba, from the Yoruba and for the Yoruba.

The ignorance and hypocrisy you guys exude is stunning.
Adelabu is from Oyo and another Oyo man picked to replace him. It's Oyo state's ministerial slot. What's the fuzz about?

Ojukwu (Anambra) was used to replace Tuggar (Bauchi) as foreign affairs minister, no complaints from you.

Can't you guys just be objective for once?

Spaxon:
Another Yoruba

But it's Nothing right?

It's Oyo state's ministerial slot.
Adelabu is from Oyo

dominique:
If you haven't, go and get a wi-fi router like the one the lady in the video is using. Using your phone as an internet source for remote work can be disastrous. You cannot control the calls that come into your phone

It wasn't a remote work. It was the interview that was remote.

iamjavadem:
Exactly why i dont believe her. Never heardanyone got fired for bad internet.

People can actually be fired for poor internet depending on what the job is about.
Some remote works won't even take you if you're from some countries because the believe is that those countries do not meet the network and power requirements for the tasks. Some will have you do internet speed tests for your workspace and drop you once not satisfactory.
In all, things aren't very reliable in our system tbvh.
Imagine investing in Starlink, three ISPs and still having network issues. What percentage of Nigerians can even afford these things?

This almost happened to me last year.

So, December last year, I got shortlisted for an interview for an overseas job.
I had to drive to the best network area. Waited well before the time.

Interview started, they were asking just what I know. Then one of my cousins who hasn't called me for years started calling. The more I ended the call, the more she called, disrupting my mobile network. I quickly picked it. She said she just wanted to say hi. At this hour and minute?
She hasn't called me again since then.

I apologized to the panel that it was my network and that it was quite unusual bla bla. They understood and we continued the interview.

Minutes into it again, network completely disappeared. No coverage at all. Ha! I drove around a bit and it reappeared and I reconnected. We continued.

Few minutes into it again, it disappeared. Now, I was sweating. After a while, it reappeared and they asked few more questions, I asked mine, and interview was over.

I was convinced the job was gone but days later, I received a contract. Everyone I knew who interviewed for it wasn't picked. It was like a miracle.

Nigeria system is almost built to frustrate everything.

gabbytabby:
I will come back to tell you I told you so. He is focused on tasks and not a great multi tasker.

Not everything has to end as an all out fight some are lessons, moments of self introspection and personal growth except for ungrateful and disloyal ones who never change.

Where is Aregbesola and Obaseki. Others will just use them and move on.

Lolll. This is politics. Powerplay. Why do you think politicians do the unimaginable to be in power? Had Ambode succeeded in his quest in 2019, that would have ended Tinubu's political career.
Tinubu has been in the game long enough not to permit someone capable of attempting that to be too close to him. It was disloyalty. FYI, Ambode didn't repent, he contested the primaries and lost.

The best Ambode can get is an Ambassador (like them FFK, Reno), head of some not very active MDAs, or something similar.

gabbytabby:
Ambode will do well as a minister of the Federal republic.

Lolll. He's a goner. He's simply wasting his time in APC. What he did is a journey of no retreat, no surrender. You don't back out along the line. So, it's either you win and take all (like Obaseki, Ganduje) or lose and lose all (like Aregbesola).

How can you challenge someone's political dynasty, lose out and still be seeking to benefit from it?
Search Ambode's videos in the run up to 2019 elections. For me, he's a dangerous coward for still remaining in APC. I like men with balls. Men who know consequences and ready to face the consequences of their choices.

ceejay80s:
so what happens to ambode

Is he the only eligible person?

Cj4charles:
What then would be or would you say is the equivalent of our 1 naira which is still legal in Nigeria😁😁

Your question is clumsy. I have read it multiple times and still do not understand it. Care to make it clear?

Reference:
My solution. We need foreign management of our economy. We need apolitical, unbiased, qualitative leadership in our central bank and Ministry of Finance to guide government decision making particularly how we handle our finances. Because the people have reformed to a large degree. The problem remains the government and it's unending mismanagement, waste, corruption and visionlessness. We need foreigners in charge for a season to clean up. We need a mirror to tell us the truth.

I agree with your submissions except this solution. Can you kindly tell me one developed country today with foreign economy management? No country can grow except her people are ready to grow it. It is Nigerians that will make Nigeria work. Why will a foreigner be interested in making Nigeria work? If anything, they stand to gain from a shitty Nigeria. So, die that idea of a foreign management of the economy.
Secondly, economy management is political. CBN handles monetary while Finance ministry that handles fiscal aspect of the economy. The head of government decides who head these two.
Government policies, body language, and all affect the economy. It's not apolitical anywhere on this planet.

What we need is good, sincere, and patriotic political leaders who put the people and the country first.

Ozinlex:
It's equivalent which is the highest in dollars is $100 and in U.K ( depending if you are in England, Scotland or Ireland) it is between £50 and £100, so how does the highest in Nigeria that is N1,000 beat the former in value?

Dollar and Pounds equivalent of N1000 is actually 0.7USD and 0.5GBP respectively.

While his argument is flawed, he should be understood correctly.

LeeSmart:
Dem tell you say that person wey you quote go school? 95% of these APC guys no sabi wetin be school now.
Na dem dey always dey for lagos traffic dey intimidate innocent motorists to give them money.

It doesn't have to be insults. Adults should be able to converse respectfully.
Dollar and Pounds equivalent of N1000 is actually 0.7USD and 0.5GBP respectively.

While his argument is flawed, he should be understood correctly.

victoryenergy:
which group are carrying out this killings? the Muslim groups of course. is a genocide, so you think Americans are stupid.this an intelligent report, so deal with it, no propaganda can change that. there's a Christian genocide in Nigeria. and more Christians remain silent,the more this maniacs continue killing them, the UN are silent,they won't say anything until Christians starts taking revenge.

How you guys sleep at night knowing fully well the hypocrisy and falsehood you peddle still amaze me.

That you require someone from a far away continent to tell you what's happening in you're nose tip shows how "smart" you are.

One thing is certain, your ancestors couldn't dominate over Islam with this card. You can be assured that you won't conquer Islam with this campaign of calumy against it. The earlier you embrace tolerance and eschew fanatism, they better for you.

Ever8090:
I agree with you that we have had victims from both sides but the question is, which religion's followers started and are carrying out this killings at ease?...

The followers of the religion of the crusaders started it and are the only ones doing it till today.
The religion of those who killed pregnant Harira Jibril and her four children in Anambra.
Those who are currently committing Muslim genocide in their region out of fanatism. They keep disowning their kins who are Muslims out of sheer intolerance and bigotry. They burn mosques and disallow religious freedom, even in govt institutions. They do all these publicly and they have never been cautioned.

Idaytesj29:
Listen to yourself again. But it's a Muslim that did this or it's a terrorist attack and the person arrested is Muslim. Will accept that not everyone who calls himself a Muslim is a true Muslim? Infact you will say all muslims are terrorists

don't mind their hypocrisy.
Intolerant lots

He's advancing the ministry

johnnyholtby:
STARLINK's website

Thank you but I can't find mini on the website

Oluhgbengaa:
Education na scam for Nigeria this days

no wonder your thought process is unrefined and archaic

Oluhgbengaa:
They don scam you

Using agent in 2026 is insane

Everything about you is "scam, scam, scam"