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Most of them (including Tinubu & Amechi) knew deep down in their heart that Buhari is not the right candidate, not after his 3+ years of disastrous leadership, but they rather he remain there creating and causing more worries.

It's clear old age is hitting hard on him.

Please allow this man to retire in peace and rest.

Please can anyone educate me on the numerous benefits of belonging to cult group in higher colleges.

There must be something we don't know that attracts our young ones to cultism.

Someone help pls.

Bishop Kukah spoke very well. A man of wisdom.

For me the present political structure will always make the center too powerful.

If we restructure Nigeria, it will allow for devolution of power so that there would be more chances of competitiveness and consequent attraction of brilliant chaps to leadership.

Can you imagine such arrogance coming from the mouth of mr Sagay on why Buhari will not debate.

El-Rufai the hypocrite!
El-Rufai the religious bigot!
El-Rufai the enemy of Nigeria unity!
Go and tell Buhari and Ganduje to resign first to protect the office they're occupying.

Petroleum sector is experiencing unprecedented "force change" for survival.

This sector will never be the same again. Caution is the language!

Abfinest007:
if u want restructuring then vote atiku

The restructuring beat from Atiku was initially strong until he won Presidential nomination of PDP and the beat died down.

What happened?

Omololu001:
Instead of having a general election, I don't know why we can't just restructure this country through a SNC, and if we don't agree on how to live together, then everybody should go there differ ways.

I thought GEJ would have fought really hard for restructuring, but the man was just another weakling that fears and favours Hausa and the Fulani's

GEJ's attempted restructuring discussions apparently was not clear to many Nigerians (me inclusive), may be I have not read wide enough, but ultimately he lacked political will and courage to implement it even imperfect version.

It should be one of his regrets if you ask me.

This is my deep thought, after all that has been said and done, that for Nigeria to genuinely move forward it MUST restructure.

It doesn't matter how we chose to paint, pretend or belittle it, this is a more important and permanent solution to our present predicament that seems to be gradually overwhelming us. I hope we don't sink beyond salvation. Thinking about Venezuela!

It doesn't matter how bright or educated our imaginary president would be, if he or she will work with the present structure, to me it will amount to getting fairly similar result as with previous presidents (including the incumbent) and will fall within the band of "failed promises" by "failed presidents" and may be more failures to come, if we don't do something.

If companies or organisations, in their wisdom embark on restructuring, it is mostly driven for efficiency and profitability, and often signals that the present subsisting structure is malfunctioning, not sustainable and would not deliver promises to shareholders.

I baffle a lot when "restructure" as a term in current Nigeria political parlance appears to sound like something sinister from opposition politics and not intended for good.

But in real sense of it, this should be a topic that by now, should have heated up the political debate because it is really important. It is our only existential life jacket and meant so much well for Nigeria's future irrespective of party or interest.

The good thing about it is that it allows wealth generation and distribution to be created, driven and championed by the natural constituent geographical units while at the same time giving them sense of control of their own resources (both human & natural) and yet ultimately belonging to one federated Nigeria.

It's better said as decentralizing power or sharing power to natural geographical units rather than present divided geographical entities called "state".

We have gone with the military created "state" entities for a while now, like roughly 50years, and we can all see how dysfunctional it has come to be. And it has become even worst as the day go by, considering how unfortunate we are with crop of recent/present leaders who lack visions except in gorging their stomachs with our collective wealth regardless of how their acts sets us back. Trust is never a language in our political lexicon!

Now, do we continue wasting our time and prolonging our misery and poverty, or do we sit down, ponder and correct ourselves? I chose the later and I think you'll do too.

After experimenting fruitlessly for nearly 50 years, we should now have learnt enough to be able to fashion something that works for everybody irrespective of political leaning or interest.

Chinese and the likes, copied western technology and may be business skills too, but when it comes to political system they cleverly created their own. And this and other things, sums up in making them great and powerful nation as of today.

Conversely, Nigeria a 3rd world country, chose to copy political system of America, not minding its peculiarity and dynamics. OK, when you copy someone in exams do you just copy everything including the person's exam number? We should remind ourselves that cheating in exams is amorphous solution to real problem of lack of knowledge or understanding.

Even when you copy from someone presumably better than you, could we not regard the "copy" as template to create or adapt to our own peculiarity and needs?

I will rather we reverse to regional structures but with some modifications, to accommodate more minor ethnic groups that would chose to be uniquely identified to pilot themselves. It may be within a threshold of (to be agreed) minimal number of group of people with commonality in ideas, economics, shared vision and future, culture and language.

And in worst case scenario, we can restructure the present "state" entities to be more people driven than elite driven. The latter have been our albatross!

We can cut wastage by adopting unicameral legislature in the Federal just like in States, and make local councils more functional with more responsibilities and fund. This will balance the power a bit and allow the natural ethnic groups to be more in charge of their evolvement, governance and opportunities.

Today the Local Councils are nothing but waste of space. It's run by political godsons/goddaughters and aliases of governor or any powerful political person or elite in an area rather than what it should have been - Democratic! - run by elected person from the people.

If people have a say about themselves, it will no longer be a contest about large population for electoral purposes but rather healthy economic competition, thereby getting a little bit of hand on unnecessary population growth.

Ideally this should be our yearnings as a nation at this politically feverish time. Let's be patriotic for once and put the so called presidential hopefuls to task. What are their precedents and actions in their life endeavours so far? How clean are they (not physical features of course)? Do they have what it takes to lead a complex society like Nigeria? Who is trustworthy amongst them? Who has delivered in little tasks before? Who among them can listen?

Ultimately, after all these parameters, personally I will ask, who amongst them can initiate restructuring process and deliver! That's where my vote will go!

This is my 50 kobo (not 50 cent) to gauge our heart on the real issue we MUST tackle head on, preferably NOW, because a stitch in time saves nigh.

Nonsense! She simply drowned!

Wait...of all places to have sex, it's the river?

Such a sweet & bitter combination.

Horrible Nigeria politicians. Always 2faced. Lie yourself to the top and keep on lying.

That's what privileged people in civilized society do. Help others. Distribute wealth in any little way possible and inspire others positively.

Flashing houses, cars, money, clothes and even showing body for the world to see, is too lame for me that I sometimes I chuckle on why some individuals do it.

Omotola, well done. Sometimes I see you do the 2nd paragraph but please do more of the 1st paragraph and your name will be forever. Try it!

Well said, "cultism is world of deception".

Restructuring is the best way forward for Nigeria. I stand with afenifere.

ascendo:
Yes... He can represent him nah! He's the vIce as well as the president. It's funny that in this 21st Century; things like this will be said of someone intending to go for re-election.

What has the past 3 and half years taught him?
Has he redeemed the image he painted of himself the past four years and beyond?
Who has Nigerians offended?

Is Nigeria cursed or are we the cause?

We are the cause! Nigeria did not offend anybody.

We chose to be politically stupid and backward; and this has affected almost everything.

We are not politically evolving to become a great Nation but simply revolving in one spot.

How can a presidential aspirant at national level not debate when ordinary primary school class leader aspirants sometimes debate.

Let's keep on fooling ourselves until Nigeria becomes unsalvageable and a write-off.

If you, as a man that will potentially head a family, cannot stamp your feet on a wedding date then you are not yet ready for marriage.

For your fiancée disrespectfulness, I'm afraid it might not change. Are you sure she's not the one making or bringing most of the money in the relationship?

And the people in France have protested for many weeks now but police only uses tear gas and water cannon to dispel them.

How come Nigeria soldiers opened fire to unarmed peaceful protesters and turn around and claim they were assaulted with stones. When did stone and automatic rifles become mate. The brutality meted on these shia protesters is too much even with no provocation whatsoever.

Such a reckless army that runs and hide when they see BH, is that one an army.

Nigeria was not fortunate with leaders. It's really sad.

They are simply greedy, selfish, power drunk and unpatriotic.

IBB plundered Nigeria. He wrecked it. And Nigeria started spiralling out of control like an helicopter that is about to crash. And if care is not taken, this present government might finally crash it and bury everyone, with the way things are going.

Racism can never end no matter what. It is a thing of the heart irrespective of how they chose to show it or pretend.

In their eyes, being black is tantamount to being inferior and may be a leach to them. It doesn't matter how much you have done or attained in life.

It is inbuilt except for very few.

I'm really worried about church as a whole. Most of the leaders are not Christ-like.

They often start well, and once they starts commanding great multitudes, power and the money and popularity that comes with it, they become something else.

Pastors and/or priests should be very careful with politicians especially Nigerian ones. They're multidimensional personalities if you understand what I mean.

A rare woman that chose to stand on truth regardless of comfort and power that surrounds her.

Not really a common thing among ordinary Nigerians how much more the elites.

I throway salute to you First Lady.

jafol:
Have you send this comment to your igbo brothers n sisters here. If not, im guessing you r part of the problem and you r igbo. You are still going round and round and not going straight and talking of integration and problems of NIGERIA. Pls which tribe integrates more with other tribes than any tribe in Nigeria? You will see a typical yoruba man marry from any tribe in this nation but hausas and igbo men cannot do that. YORUBAS don't have problem with any tribe and I'm sure they also are trying to survive like the rest of the nation. Coming here to insult a tribe because you feel they are joining hands with hausas whereas you are doing the same to get a VP ticket. Why are they angry when they caused the first problem in Nigeria? Why are they angry when PDP was governing, they excluded Yorubas from top positions even in the United States embassy in New York. Jonathan regime was terrible for YORUBAS, i remember trying to renew my passport in New York and the igbos that were at the embassy were giving passports and visas to their igbo men and women. In fact once you r igbo, You can jump the line and get your passport faster than anybody. To get your passport on time was a big problem. They ridicule anyone that is not igbo. The stupid thing is the embassy folks were speaking igbo to their tribe folks while they know they ought to be professional and speak English. Observing their population, i noticed only one yoruba man that was among them. The embassy was chaos everytime i went there, even White people were there and shaking their heads. So my friend, just from that how can you tell me of integration when a tribe is tribalistic against others. Sorry if they want integration, they need to get out of that evil shell of hate and divisiveness.

If you noticed, I was very careful not to mention tribes because all of them are guilty in one way or the other, of what Nigeria is today. It is a collective failure! None of us is saint especially if you've travelled round Nigeria.

I'm not here to cast stones, for the mere fact that Nigeria itself, unfortunately is a forced alliance. My emphasis is more about solutions, solutions, solutions...on how to get Nigeria moving in the right direction. We have pretended too much while fire is burning under our couch.

If WE keep on whining till eternity and as well hope for the best to come it will never come. But if we decide and put a stop and start fashioning out a system that will work for everyone, then there might not be time and energy spent on tirades about tribes. We should grow beyond tribes and rather look at how to fight poverty that ravages all tribes. Don't be carried by what you read on social media.

Let's be honest for the past 5 decades we're still rotating in one spot. It's not about tribe A, tribe B, tribe C, etc but more of getting to our feet and help ourselves.

jafol:
The only tribe that talks about the past are igbos, they can't seems to move forward cos they r stuck in the past. They love to use their failure to blame us yorubas instead of facing hausas . They know they cant face hausas or else they r dead. They look for the easiest accommodating people who they can put their frustrations on. we yorubas have seen their insults and we won't take it any longer. YORUBAS have been the middle man in this nation also trying to find a common ground for both hausas and igbos. If we go for hausas, igbos will hate us, if we go for igbos, hausas will talk him own. Hausas r nice people and they r way better than igbos in character and morals. Igbos better be careful cos they will find yorubas against them in this country and it won't be pretty for them.

You see we can't move forward as a country if we don't get back on drawing board collectively, and genuinely discuss on how to get the country working for everybody and not only for the few elites, or particular tribe(s).

Don't forget we were all scrambled together by the British for the ease of governing us and not for any other useful purpose. We didn't really choose who were married to neither did we choose who colonised us.

Being what it is, and after the colonial master have left, we have not succeeded to get along together, mainly because of military misadventures. Rather we were torn apart further.

But we can't keep on shying away from solving this key collective problem of distrust and to an extent lack of patriotic leaders. And this core problem which was a sore in our national conscience have gotten so badly infested that we are currently battling for survival.

This is not where we ought to be after more than 5 decades as a nation and we are here spending so much energy fanning the ember of "disintegration" rather than "integration".

I'm worried about Nigeria and why we are so pretentious and hopeful of good tomorrow without any concrete plans or effort to solve today's problems.

I expected someone like Dan Ulasi to come out with such allegations and I expected even more of such to come up...that's Nigeria politics for you but it's up to Nigerians to shine their eyes this time, and not fall for such dirty propaganda games that brought the mask man - Buhari to power.

You should have known that it's politics. Whenever there is a shining star around the corner (by Nigeria standard) it's expected that opposite camp would throw stones.

Peter Obi has been talking even before he became VP nominee so nothing really to hide. He is not a saint but he's far more better than most of the guys running the federal government of today combined.

And they know he is good and would trouble them, so obviously, opposite camp must throw everything at him and btw campaign has not officially started.

El Rufai is still jittery about Peter Obi's emergence.

He could see the shining star in Obi and he decided that the best form of defense is to attack first...but shamefully he has no substance for the attack than to create "bigotry" thing for Obi.

He's watching by the side to see if it will stick.

My problem with Africa is how we waste so much time in frivolities. We spent so much energy about our past failures instead of focussing in solving current problems.

Poverty, corruption, bad governance, senseless killings, is ravaging Africa. We should rather be spending our energy to try solving some of these problems, not coups, ownership of Lagos, fruitless tribal hate talks, my religion is better than yours childish talks in Nairaland.

We should spend energy to think and innovate and push Africa out of dungeon of poverty.

We should spend energy to heal, repair, restore the dignity of Blackman through creativity, smartness, equitable wealth distribution, etc.

What's wrong with Blackman!

You guys should try another line.

This Peter Obi is causing terrible fear and panic to the men in masks.

BTW is ElRufai the so called person calling someone else a bigot? Wonders shall never end.

globemoney:
El Rufai and Peter Obi deserve each other, they are both religious and ethnic bigots. Let the drama begin

False ! Peter Obi is never an ethnic bigot.

Proudly professional criminals who are not ashamed one bit. What a wicked souls. Am speechless :

He was Igbo folklore legend. We should learn how to preserve our own geniuses.

Enugu/Anambra Ministry of culture over to you.

Peter Obi is like a ripe mango on the tree, definitely he will receive more stones and BTW he is not even the main presidential candidate.

El-Rufai is one of the two men in high political positions in Nigeria, that I consider as wearing masks. Gradually they are being unmasked and Nigerians are now coming to reality that these men are simply scammers.