₦airaland Forum

MERCHANDISER:
Calm down...The bible says we should always pray for our leaders for divine direction.Without God you can't make any headway in life.You are making refernce to Hong kong masses has been protesting in futility for the past 3months

Larryfest:
Jeez!!!!! is this for real why am i even asking sef when they won't stop chasing 'big boys' who they hardly know their source of wealth around. you wan use iPhone 11 when ur papa for house dey use rubber band tie him phone and you don't want to work and buy it yourself only to depend on 'big boys' this is the possible outcome..

49cents:
Bills must be paid vy disrespecting people's privacy and keeping yours?

Officialgarri:
How can one post contain uncountable senselessness

MERCHANDISER:
we should always pray for our leaders

Igbalaoluwa:
Which kind of hypocrisy is this
He can 'sympathize'
But when it was time for action he did nothing
We Nigerians are too docile. Some of our leaders need to be beaten up

AJOBI77:
Many years to come, this guy will regret this. Internet never forget!

Cantonese:
Imagine that. Using 911 alias gwongworo to carry Fulani people. Anyway who should be blamed if not the same Fulani people. That is their preferred mode of transportation. Standing inside trucks for long distances. They will travel to other towns in the darkness by free transport, live in free houses, bring wives use very thin 15 inches joysticks to impregnate and have 20 children in the city, go back home with free transportation to impregnate other wives to have 40 children, carry daggers, bows/arrows with guns, terrorize and injure hosts and families, try to forcefully take over lands and if no success run away in the darkness. Everything free including cows. Check their pockets and you’ll find assorted charms. Better food dem no go chop sef. Yeye. Yet their leaders tell us they are endangered species. Teeth dem no go brush even with chewing stick. Gworo dey their mouths 24/7. Nonsense.

helinues:
Just because you never migrated out of your hut does not mean you should put others in danger with reckless talk.

Apart from Lagos, other SW states comprises of different people from different regions which your people are the majority..

SW are accomodatives.. Stop being selfish

rockstarB:
I met this new guy. It's long distance and we say we want to make things work. He will visit soon according to him. But he is asking for financial help barely after one week. Last week I sent him 2k for fuel, now he is asking for another money. He said he will bring it when coming next week. I am disappointed.
This is the reality women now has to face, how come it's during the time we met you're suddenly broke? Yet it is the women that are gold diggers. He isn't the first person, more women just need to speak out as much as the guys are complaining about girl asking for financial help barely into a new relationship.
Update; now begging for sub money I don't know what is wrong with some guys of nowadays. No dignity
Friday morning rants

setobaba:
Is like sarz are been placed on target from the office to kill the innocents

udoekere:
I want to go into music but someone just discourage me that musicians don't really make money from music downloads, how true is this?

isthatso:
what you remember is only important if you are relevant to winning an election. Thing is others also have memory. that's why SE are out in the cold politically and 100% why there will never be a SE president.


There is a North SW coalition at the momemt that renders the SE inconsequential. So long as that holds the SE are frozen out.

isthatso:
Thanks for your nonsense, i am not a Northerner, I am from the SW.


The middlebelt is the 2nd most irrelevant voting block in Nigeria.

Let me break down the various voting blocks in Nigeria ranked by their importance in outcomes of presidential elections. A fluid zone is a can change its vote depending on who is on the ticket.

1. Core North, They have the numbers, whether real of manipulated,

2. Southwest. large population and are fluid with their votes, swing from one party to another are enough to determine an election. e.g 2015

3. South South: large population, not particularly fluid but significant penetration into their electorate can be achieved with the right incentive to make a difference nationally. Generally like being alligned with the centre, (NPN, PDP). In 2023 it will be 8 years out of centre politics. Do they stick or twist?

4. Middle belt: fluid zone, can vote for one party today and another next time but generally victory in elections here are a marginal whoever wins this zone does so by a margin that has no overall meaningful effect on the national result. Worth pursuing but not the main bride. APC's marginal gains in the SS was enough to wipe out any gains for PDP in the middle belt.

5. SE Always vote the same way, driven by tribal sentiment and emotion not by strategy There is nothing you can do to make them switch. Not worth pursuing if you are the opposing party because they will never vote for you and not worth incentivizing if you are their party because they have no where else to go. Add nothing take away nothing zone.

madenigga:
If I start listing things he has done for igbo land your narrative would be apart from that what else.

If Jonathan did what he was supposed to do concerning Enugu airport would we be in this mess?

I ask you.

I don't see anything wrong it taxing citizens to develop the country, I prefer Buhari and Apc taxes me at least I know that money would be used for something reasonable than PDP taxing me then stealing my hard earned tax

madenigga:
Any Igbo person who supports Biafra is ipob no matter how much u try to hide it. It will definitely show

Honor10:
Well, Buhari did not neglect the north as Jonathan did to west in 2011 to 2015

madenigga:
Na real o. Our people no too get sense like that, I didn't grow up in Igbo land I thought our people were being misunderstood I no know say one single sense we no get.

No wonder Nnamdi KANU is popular. In a reasonable environment Nnamdi KANU would not exist, the fact that he is seen as a hero in Igbo land shows our level of foolishness

madenigga:
Do u think the mess we are in right now is Buhari that put us into it or you are looking for an excuse to Hate Buhari?

In a few years time u would know what South west way carry Buhari for head benefit from am.

When trains start running from Lagos to Oyo to Abuja to Kaduna to Kano opening and expanding there economy more, while we keep fooling ourselves in the east.

U don't hate Gej but u can't point out anything he did for us in the east.

The person trying to work and help us u hate him for no reason. Second Niger bridge is under serious construction, you can't imagine what would happen to our economy when its completed instead of thanking the man making this possible you are still hating on him.

Is it good?

madenigga:
So to your foolish mind the way to solve this problem is instead of bringing the Presidency down south let's give it to north for another 4years?

madenigga:
Already You failed to support Buhari and he won and we are paying for it, now we don't want to support the west if they win we will pay for it again.

Una still no get any sense

Honor10:
Lolz, I can see that u av bn damaged beyond repair, so ur aim now is, as long as it is not Yoruba, even if the country got destroy, u care less, u need help.

nkwuocha1:
No mind that idiot.Even the FIRS boss Fowler sef for Abuja dey under serious pressure.Northerners want him job and they will surely get it.No be yoruba man?

nkwuocha1:
No mind that idiot.Even the FIRS boss Fowler sef for Abuja dey under serious pressure.Northerners want him job and they will surely get it.No be yoruba man?

madenigga:
The shoulder we dae raise up since where e carry us go?

All of u would be shouting we don't need presidency we can't beg any region for it, when other regions beg and get it, all of una go run go der constitute economic refugees.

Una no go ask for presidency so our region can develop so other people would come to ours.

isthatso:
Nigerians should start getting used to the reality that the North will always control political power and wheras in the past they would play along with the unwritten principle of power shift for peace, I think recent events have changed that. For me the main cause is the revival of secessionist calls, particularly from the SE (IPOB) and some elements from the SW along with the deluge of hate speech emanating from the SE.

I am putting myself in the shoes of the North and I am saying, you know what these people have broken cover and shown their hand. There is no reason for us to continue to play nice. We own the numbers and the votes, do your worst!!! We will occasionally if we deem fit, hand over power to people we can trust, so long as they understand we own the power and dont try to rock the boat.

My advice to Southerners particularly those of a SE persuasion is to forget about presidency and move on with your lives.

madenigga:
To be Sincere we Igbos haven't merited any reason to be President.

With Nnamdi KANU still running around and ipob and Biafra people insulting everybody and leaders of other regions. I don't think Igbo presidency would come anytime soon.

For we Igbos to get the Presidency we need to deal with the Biafran issue permanently I repeat permanently, give Nigeria a reason to know that our allegiance is with Nigeria and not with Biafra.

Make permanent peace with the north and west, then let us be the one to disown Nnamdi KANU and if possible catch him by ourselves and Hand him over to the fg.

This would help in getting us close to that position.

omenka:
Good evening.

It has indeed been an interesting season of political jousting, even though the time hardly seems right for the sort of discussion going on - 2023 succession battle. This is mainly for three reasons:

1. The current administration administration is barely six months old and talks about its succession is kind of premature.

2. The next presidential election is over three years away. Talking about such no doubt constitutes a huge distraction to the business of governance.

3. Discussing 2023 when there is a subsisting case over the conduct of the just concluded election in the supreme court is like foreclosing the case before the court.

Nevertheless, this is Nigeria and we have our unique political etiquette. Preperation for the next election more or less begins right after the conclusion of one- hence all the public racket over 2023. Interestingly, no where else is this racket louder than that coming from the South East.

This brings us to the essense of this article.

The strategy/claims of the South East is three pronged going by the records available on print and electronic media.

1. There are three major languages in the country, two of which have produced presidents since 1999. They claim to promote equity and fairness, the zone needs to produce the next president.

2. Threaten Nigeria with a whole scale regional support for IPOB in an event the zone is denied presidency in 2023.

3. To heal the wounds of the civil war and foster unity, they have to be given a foolproof chance to produce the next president.

To achieve this goal, they are demanding that the APC hands over the presidential ticket to the South East!

Now, let me state this clearly: NO ONE HAS FORBIDDEN THE SOUTH EAST FROM CONTESTING FOR THE PRESIDENCY. NO ONE CAN AND NO ONE WILL.

The demand being made is well within their right we must admit, the snag lies in the MEANS THROUGH WHICH THEY INTEND TO REALISE THE DEMAND.

A little history will suffice at this juncture.

1. The South East is by far the greatest regional supporters of PDP, since 1999 so much so that through the efforts of people from the Zone, PDP almost faught APC to a standstill in APC's greatest stronghold, LAGOS, in 2015 and 2019. Remember in 2003, Lagos state was the only APC state (AD back then) that survived the onslaught of PDP, leading to the resurgence of the opposition from 2007 down to what we have today.

2. Even when the Great Ikemba, arguably the most respected figure from the South East in their political history, stood for election, the South East still stood FIRMLY BEHIND PDP in a rare demonstration of love and loyalty.

3. When Buhari under the opposition, picked a vice presidential candidate from the South East, Chuba Okadigbo, the East STILL stood firmly behind PDP even though no one from the Zone was on the ballot!

4. Any politician from the South East that is seen covertly or overtly associating with APC is immediately ostracized by the people of the region. Okorocha and Umahi are most recent examples, but Umahi to a lesser extent because he remains a PDP member and he seems not to be doing too badly in comparison to others. Notwithstanding his membership of PDP, the mare fact he has a good raport with the president or APC, he is seen as a low key saboteur, what they call SABO for short.

The list is endless.

That is for the East. Enter the West.

The West, just like the East, needs little or no introduction when it comes to their political leanings. What we have today as APC owes its formation and survival largely to the efforts of the West. From AD to ACN to APC with their sister CPC morphing from ANPP, the story is that of resilience, tact, hard work and sheer commitment.

Bear these in mind.

1. PDP is Twenty years old, whereas APC was barely formed in 2013. This means PDP is FOURTEEN YEARS OLDER than APC.

2. PDP has enjoyed and continues to enjoy unfettered loyalty in the South East right from inception. APC hasn't a single governor in the East, therefore the zone can not be said to be a stronghold of the party by any stretch of the imagination.

3. In an event Buhari goes on to complete his second term uninterruptedly, from the foregoing, commonsense demands that the party's presidential ticket goes to the South West. It is almost a birthright!!

Now, given all these, the questions arise:

1. On what basis is the East demanding the ticket of APC? What does their resumé with respect to the party look like?

2. On what basis should the West be denied the ticket?

3. What exactly is HINDERING THE EAST FROM DEMANDING THE PRESIDENTIAL TICKET FROM PDP,
a party on which they've expended incredible amount of resources?

4. Is the East willing to turn a new leaf from their current belligerent posturing towards the APC in exchange for a consideration of having them on the ballot?

These are salient questions that need to be answered from the proponents of an East bound APC ticket.

In all of these, one undeniable joker reveals itself in their deck of cards for discerning minds. The joker Carrie's a roadmap for a return of PDP to the seat of power. A good political observer will admit there is no chance in hell the East will vote APC should both tickets be (APC and PDP) be zoned to the region. Hell, these guys stood against Ikemba (rest his soul) when he contested, it will take a Jesus to sway them to favour anyone besides PDP at a presidential poll.

That is an undeniable fact!

Zoning the ticket to the East IS SIMPLY TANTAMOUNT TO CEDING POWER TO PDP ON A SILVER PLATTER!

The world over, political parties have but one cardinal objective - secure power and preserve it at all legitimate cost. The leaders of such parties then use the platforms to execute the party's agenda for the people. No political party would commit itself to such a suicidal mission as is being advocated by proponents of a South East APC ticket - it doesn't happen fellas.

My advice therefore are:

1. Impress it upon PDP it is time you be rewarded for your loyalty and hardwor for the party that spans over two decades. There is no zone with as much legitimate claims to the party's ticket as you.

2. Shun all tactics of bullying and coercion. That isn't gonna work with Nigerians.

3. Start courting fellow Nigerians and build bridges of friendship. If you want the APC ticket, work for it.

4. Stop investing too much emotions into politics. You didn't become the most successful tribe (head to head) in trade and business by relying on your emotions. You did so through wisdom, tact and cunning. Apply the same principles to politics and see how far it takes you.



May we never be denied the fruits of our labour, amen.


Thank you, and God bless Nigeria.

kotv:
Do you mind them. They don't have any shame. That's how they always pretend to be from SS and SS gets blamed for their mess on this website. Just ignore him to decieve himself.

funmijoyb:
Not Benin. How do u know?

Osaze007:
Who has stopped Igbo from contesting ?

Did Atiku ( north east ) not contest with Buhari ( north west )

What a stupid statement

Osaze007:
Na una sabi that one as for I’m supporting any presidency from the south but rooting for south west