₦airaland Forum

Massiveglory:
Urchin, go down memory lane well and quit giving half truths and lies.

Baba Awolowo never wanted to run a christian- christian ticket. The northerners refused to run with him and he had no choice than to pick a fellow southern vice. That was why he lost.

How the North denied Awolowo a running mate, by Chief Babatope

Chief Babatope makes a very startling disclosure about why the Yoruba leader, Papa Obafemi Awolowo, chose a fellow southerner as his running- mate in a country divided usually along North and South lines. Babatope should know.

At the age of 35, he became the Director of Organisation of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN.
Babatope asks: “Did you know that Papa Awolowo contacted some of his trusted friends in the North, requesting that one of them should come and be his running-mate but they turned him down? They rejected, especially those from the Hausa-Fulani clan.

One of them who was Papa’s good friend, Papa Yahaya Gusau, he told Awolowo that it would be meaningless for him to come and be a running-mate because people are not going to vote for us. Papa also contacted the late Ibrahim Tahir and Tahir said it was going to be difficult for him to team up with Papa. Papa then moved to the Middle-Belt states.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/12/how-the-north-denied-awolowo-a-running-mate-by-babatope/amp/

This is not true.

Wonder why Aminu Kano, Shagari and Awolowo all had Igbo running mates?

maxzzo1:
U guyz should read his points well....anything can happen note Wike hardly lose in court....Atiku is not helping himself why not settle this matter once....

Mary Odili has retired.

byteem:
Wike is not a lot of things .. but one thing he is not is a pushover. Do so at your own peril.. Call him what you will.. this is strategic and yes the grounds of this case is heavy.. in reality pdp had no right to assign tambuwals vote to atiku midway into an election just because tambuwals stepped down.. if he threw in the towel before the election some of those votes that went freely to Atiku howbeit illegally would have been cast for wike ..it's a good move. Now he has more leverage.. politics is about leverage and interest.. wike has played his card.. over to atiku..

Tambuwal's vote was NOT assigned to Wike.

This is just a nuisance suit.

Lawyers like to deceive people.

omohayek:
Actually the joke is on you. The governor of the CBN is statutorily independent, meaning Emefiele has no legal obligation whatsoever to pay attention to Buhari's economically illiterate demands, yet Emefiele does so anyway, like a fearful houseboy afraid of his master's koboko. This makes Emefiele far more deserving of scorn than any of the ministers who serve purely at Buhari's pleasure (and who can therefore be dismissed at any moment).

Emefiele has spent the last 7 years helping Buhari destroy the Nigerian economy when anyone with a backbone in his position could have simply said "No", but as usual tribalism blinds you and all the others on here who refuse to criticise him to the reality of his culpability. Godwin Emefiele is the most feckless and incompetent person ever to serve as governor of the CBN.

Was Sanusi statutorily independent? Why was he technically fired?

Emefiele's incompetence is directly linked to Buhari's. If you can't understand that, then I don't know what to tell you. You could make Alan Greenspan the CBN governor and as long as Buhari is in charge, you will either get the same result or Greenspan will resign and someone who would supervise the same bad result would be the new CBN governor.

You say tribalism blinds me, on what evidence are you basing those spurious allegations? If your next retort includes such ad hominems, I will let you know right now that I would reply you with pure insults devoid of any form of decorum.

You launch into a strawman attack/argument, ignoring my basic point: any governor in charge of the CBN would have provided similar results because of the president in charge. C'est fini.

If you are arguing that Emefiele should have resigned, that's a different argument but anyone who would have served as governor under Buhari would have provided the exact same results. I could as well accuse you of being reluctant to blame Buhari and his poor economics but I won't.

Only an ignorant Nigerian would claim that anybody serving federally is actually independent. They may be statutorily independent but in reality, they are only as independent as the president wants them to be.

Nigerian army and torture.

If the man was armed, will they try this?

If they see Boko Haram or Ansar-ud Deen, them go pick race. How many actual Boko Haram have they given Tabay?

Enkidu70:
Not to excuse the current set of thieves from APC, but Goodluck Jonathan foisted this bastard Emefiele on Nigerians. That bald, worthless beast is the legacy of GEJ's cluelessness, compounded by Buhari's illiteracy. The man studied engineering, then he went to work with a bank...he's not even an accountant talkless an economist. Dude has no business running the central bank of any serious country.

Didn't Buhari retain him?

Joke is on you if you think Emefiele is the problem. He is only obeying orders. That's why Ngozi Okonjo Iweala performed better under Obasanjo than under Jonathan (even though she had much more power under Jonathan). The head of government matters in countries like Nigeria because there is no independence to government roles.

Mokason288:
The surprising thing to me is that a lot of Northerners are still willing to die for BUhari despite destroying the North

Because they don't believe he is the cause.

Buhari said there was no subsidy but yet he has paid more subsidy than any other Nigerian government in history, while also more than doubling the price of PMS. I blame the foolish Nigerians protesting in 2012 not knowing they were being remote controlled by the Action Congress of Nigeria.

Is OBJ afraid to state the correct choice?

Did he not say Buhari was the right choice in 2015?

Bonesbreaker:
I wish i was this dude Chima faced on twitter oh! Chia i for finish him even dig his yeye past and presents sin he did recently he will be shock by his criminal crime he feels nobody is seeing how he stole enugu how he killed innocent people how he did kill someone recently his love paddling of underage and married women his EFCC cases how he refuse to put his money in bank but Digged up tanks to store money how he stole NDI Agbani land in the name of giving them ESUT more and more even his wife death

You know his Twitter handle.

You can tweet @ him. Tweet and let's read. stop chest beating on a faceless forum.

Femijohn198:
foolish ex governor wey no get shame supporting bat the old fool to continue where bubu stop. God no go agreed with them. we want a new Nigeria. The foolish Enugu ex governor that said he rule as governor at 38 years where Nigeria is still little better, how many youth can rule at that age today. support Obi the rock

He is not supporting BAT.

Do you guys need English lessons?

yusluvad:
What he's doing is notice me by force. Yeye old man!

I hope you are aware that Obi is just a year younger than the "old man".

Nonsense youth like you.

Nice one, Ebeano

meobizy:
If this happened in the UK, them go deport the boy back to his country of heritage. Those people don’t play when it comes to troublesome immigrants.

The boy is American. Can't be deported. His father is American and he was born in America.

What does strong mean?

Are the Japanese Yen, Korean Won and Vietnamese Deng "strong" currencies?

What you need is a stable currency not a strong currency.

Nyanabo:
In trying to sound wise, the goat ended up making himself so foolish than he appears to be.

What a clown Other countries are making 1st degree the minimum education level their citizen must have and this baba is saying secondary school education are we still in the 70s ?

I'm not surprised we ended up with buhari if a 1st degree holder can spew this rubbish then we deserved buhari and all his baggage.

There is no country in the world that makes first degree a minimum. The hallmark of a good educational system is that a secondary education should be enough to provide needed literacy, numeracy and civic education. Tertiary education is then for more purposeful reasons.

If you give universities 1.1 trillion over 5 years, ASUU members will end up embezzling it. No difference between ASUU and the politicians. After all, during elections, ASUU members are used as returning officers and over the years, we can see how much rigging these ASUU people have facilitated.

BinamRex:
I still wonder why some people think it's ok to reward Tinubu with the presidency after the role he played in Buhari's emergence as President.

I can forgive people who supported Buhari in 2015, but withdraw their support when they saw how inept he was. But someone like Tinubu who has always stood by Buhari and wants to continue where Buhari stops should not be elected president.

And let's begin to ask questions. Who ordered the clampdown on protesters at Lekki Toll gate?

Do you think it was Tinubu that ordered it?

Do you think Peter Obi has questions to answer on the extra judicial murder of many young men during his tenure by SARS Akwuzu?

NoobSaibot2082:
You Tinubu supporters should reason because Mike Tyson was one of the greatest boxers on Earth doesn't mean he can beat Mayweather now! Nigeria's problems are far too great for a feeble old man to handle, that is the truth, forget tribe and vote for the best candidate!

Can you bet that if Tinubu wins, each time he goes on a medical tour, you will pay 50k into my account? you will go bankrupt in just 6 months and this country would be unbearable to live in.

Wrong analogy. Mike Tyson will destroy Mayweather. Not in the same weight class.

RayRay06677:
Good evening house, please if one has 100 shares of MTN, at the current dividend of N5.60 kobo per 2 kobo share , how much will the person be expecting? thanks

504 naira

Akharmony:
Once they are charge to court and found guilty, what then now happen to the exibits collected from the suspect.(cars ,laptops ,mobile phone). Aunction as usual

Property of government and property of some efcc agents.

chigoizie7:
And you think it still remains the same?

Of course.

I can bet you that Akoko Edo, Etsako and Owan will all vote APC. That's 5 local government with APC landslide victory. APC will also do at least 25% in Edo South. It is only in Edo central that APC will do poorly.

I know several people who relocated this year from the US to Nigeria. One actually had a 120k usd (annual) job in private equity in the US but relocated for a 3 million naira monthly (plus paid accommodation) job in Lagos.

Life is individual.

wiseoneking:
This Edo seem to be the highest state after SE states that abhors APC as a party

That's not true.

In Presidential elections, APC has scored above 40% in the last two elections.

That 2009 own and 2010 delay our graduation.

ASUU keep striking, claiming they do it for the students. They do it for themselves.

In future, they should not get paid for the strike days.

Will Jesus do that?

One day, someone should start a religion actually based on the teaching of Jesus Christ

How?

You are 11 years older than her bro.

She would always cheat.

philpelwhiz:
Ahswear.. Up to 25m for naira
I feel say that show promoter dey lie

Lie about what? How much you think say them take they book artiste? Three years ago, Naira Marley was getting 25 million per show.

Pretty obvious the song was formed by Easterners in NAS.

Mostly likely fake news.

He should post the appointment letter with Delta state seal.

Who is he to have gotten an appointment without lobbying for it? In today's Nigeria?