₦airaland Forum

Let them continue. The more they continue, the more they will relocate to South west to contribute to our economy and help us to develop our states

AareGaa:
Jagaban is your president.
You can wail till eternity, Obi has been crushed and battered.
He will only become biafran president.

there won't even be Biafra, because they ain't going nowhere

Not surprised. He is a Biafran

Who fokn cares?





Nairaland no sweet at all this week, na so so dry news full am

This is just the beginning.







Nairaland no sweet at all this week, na so so dry news full am

Kajaard:
It's people like you that use fake certificates. Just imagine the terrible assassination of the english language

what did I did? Abeg leaf me alone jo.

dust144:
These matter is now more than national issues.

I was tolded by a friend that boat CIA and FBI are investigating it

Results made in Aba

Babalawo and gbogbo nise to the rescue

ALEX OTTI IS PLAYING WITH FIRE!

By

JESUTEGA ONOKPASA.

A picture is currently circulating of Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, addressing a group of people with his portrait on the wall behind him, where it should be by order of protocol, but an empty space where that of President Bola Tinubu should be by virtue of that same protocol.

It is being flaunted by those adamant on not acknowledging President Tinubu "as their President", whatever they might think such utter nonsense might really amount to, and of course condemned by those who see it for the dangerous development it actually is.

That Mr Otti has refused to place President Bola Tinubu's portrait on his office wall is, of course, not at all a simple matter of a Governor having a choice whether to do so or not.

It is a different kettle of fish altogether if someone like vote wasting phenomenon, Sarah Omakwu, keeps pouting nonstop never to "recognize" President Tinubu as her President - she is, at the end of the day, just another private citizen, just as entitled to her rights as to her delusions.

Mr Otti, on the other hand, is the Governor of a state comprising one of the federating units of this country and he is most certainly not at liberty to ventilate his political grievances as some schizophrenic bigot or hysterical tribalist might be inclined to.

What he has done by thus undermining the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, is not even merely condonement of REBELLION (or, in this context, SECESSION) but outright approval promotion and sponsorship of the same.

This is a very serious matter and must be taken just as seriously, for in seeking to undermine constituted authority in this most visible and crucially symbolic manner, Otti has made himself into an active participant in rebellion.

Perhaps, some might want to shrug off what Governor Otti has done as ultimately inconsequential and just some infantile excess better ignored.

Indeed, "what is the importance of a presidential portrait on a wall, anyway?" they might wonder.

Well, by that token, we might as well ask what is the importance of referring to a President as "Mr President" and maybe not as "hey you there, how far?"

For those who might be ignorant as to the significance of a mere photograph, there is a compelling reason why all over the world presidential portraits and those of other categories of heads of state are conspicuously placed in such places as post offices, train stations, banks and government buildings where they are most likely to be seen by the greatest number of citizens.

The practice is a device for asserting the authority of the state and legitimacy of the government.

It is taken so seriously, even in those jurisdictions with ceremonial heads of state, that the moment Queen Elizabeth II demised, the entire machinery of the British state immediately proceeded about replacing her portrait with that of her son who had thereupon ascended to the throne and become King of England!

Alex Otti is not the first Governor with an axe to grind with a President in this country and is not entitled to challenge our constitutional order because his tribesman lost an election.

At the height of former President Olusegun Obasanjo's wickedness against then Governor Bola Tinubu and the people of Lagos State, Asiwaju Tinubu still kept his portrait on his office wall and in all public buildings across Lagos throughout his tenure.

Former Governors Nyesom Wike and Samuel Ortom, easily former President Muhammadu Buhari's most implacable adversaries, never once took down his portrait from their offices or government buildings.

If Alex Otti says he is waiting for the courts to deliver their verdicts before recognizing President Tinubu as President of this country, then his own portrait ought not to be on his office wall, as well, since his mandate is similarly being challenged in court!

But, all of that is really beside the point; the offices of President and Governor are creations and creatures of law and the protocols pertaining thereto are not up to the whims, caprices or mere preferences of anyone, not even the occupants of those offices.

What is really happening is the latest manifestation of a poisonous dimension Peter Obi and his ulta-bigotted and rabidly ethnicist rabble are insistent on foisting on Nigerian politics.

It must be fiercely rejected and the legitimacy of state power, authoritatively asserted.

There can be no question of allowing a governor "to do what he likes with his office", for by that standard, we might as well allow Mr Otti to use his office as the staging post for high treason contrary to the Constitution of the Federal Republic.

It is clear what Otti and his co-travellers are up to in Abia; they are testing the waters and will keep escalating their excesses in geometric proportion to the extent to which the Nigerian state proves itself to be so weak as to allow them get away with them.

I cannot imagine what Alex Otti and his cohorts might have been thinking - if, indeed, he was thinking at all - when he decided upon what might seem, at face value, a most sawdust-headed stunt but is actually a clear and unambiguous challenge to the authority of the President of Nigeria.

Whatever delusions their ethnocentrism and religious intolerance might have misdirected them into, we simply cannot, as a sovereign independent country, have a situation whereby we have a President, recognized as such by, and, according to law, and yet tolerate some other authority that is similarly a creation of law to howsoever seek to detract from the authority, prestige and legitimacy of the highest office in the land.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the President of Nigeria, therefore Peter Obi's President and Alex Otti's President.

Indeed, President Tinubu is Alex Otti's President where Alex Otti is not his Governor.

Bola Tinubu is also the President of absolutely every other Nigerian including the most implacable "Obidients" currently applauding Otti's unconscionable excess.

While these children of discontent and apostles of hate may elect to wallow in denial, Mr Otti is a public official, indeed an elected one like his President, Tinubu, and he will just have to place President Tinubu's portrait on his office wall and everywhere else in Abia, wherein it normally belongs, or God help him.

Less than two years from now Alex Otti will be sixty but if in his case wisdom has not come with age, then he will just have to suffer the consequence appropriate to rascals and fools.

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State is playing with fire and will soon find, the hard way, that if you play with fire, fire will burn you.

Onokpasa, a lawyer, was a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council and writes from Abuja.

Kukutenla:
It's not a good signal. That's how y'all kept making excuses for Buhari
He was declared winner a whole two months to taking over. If he can't satisfy the interest groups in two months, then he certainly can't in five.
It reeks of cluelessness if you ask me

gbam! I do not expect anything from him or any government in Nigeria again.

Baba go slow part two




Mynd44, ajepako, fatymore, folake4u, odefagirl, funkybabee and vickyrotex if I call any of you to come chop, make I bath naked for road.

Na dat kind useless thing we sabi for Africa. No be your mate dey go inside ocean, go dey look for the Titanic, to rescue the people wey dey inside since 1912? Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeew!

Make this kind competition too start with nairaland jare. The shakara and banning by the moderators too much. Make somebody too open something like nairaland for Nigeria, where person go fit express himself freely without Mynd44 and co banning person from 2022 till 2033 as if na person kill Jesus Christ.

Just because she managed to pass small for school, person no go ear word again for Nigeria. Mtcheeeeeeew

All of them from Biafra. People of Lagos is a no man's land republic

KingKO22:
No place like home

I hope you’re not referring to Nigeria as home?

Make I borrow Uche’s English, I wish you a soonest recover sir

ghramnishe:
Sugardaddy looking govnor

husband snatcher spotted

perfecta1:
Omo you dull gan o😂😂😂

he over dull self

Yeye people. Most of them na fake certificates dem dey carry up and down

VawuIenceProMax:
it's very annoying.people can't even Express themselves. I Registered and on my second post on thread I got a ban. Facebook and Instagram will ban you for being Nigerian sef . Very useless app trying to compete with the OG app. No app can ever beat Twitter. S eun on na to look for am and punch am remain

welcome to my world. Multiple accounts is the answer

For sey na Yoruba land this madness dey happen, the Lagos is a no man's land people, for don laff us tire.

VawuIenceProMax:
It's a useless app. It can never match Twitter
. Twitter is the real definition of democracy and freedom of speech. In Twitter u can say anything and not get banned . You can post pussy. And boobs and not get banned . The owner is savage and a definition of violence. Don't ever compare anything produced by that simp mark with anything produced by an og like Elon.
Roger that

Zuckerberg too dey ban person jare. Him and seun of nairaland just dey compete with banning of people. Dem don ban me tire

TemplarLandry:
Zuckerberg seems greedy to me. He wants to take it all. He owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, now he covets Twitter.

the sky is big enough for all the birds to fly. If Zuckerberg is greedy, what would you say of Dangote that controls almost everything in Nigeria?

Abeg what is the name? I'm sick and tired of being banned on nairaland, I will like to move there and be part of the new world. Enough of banning and deleting of thread by Mynd44 and co

See the head of Boko Haram making noise. Mtcheeeeeeew




Dominique abeg bring me my brake fast jare

Toothless blue dog



Ajepako how are you coping these days?

ajepako:
4th generation Lagos pikin by birth and parentage

and by boyfriends

Shebi na wetin you wan hia be that?

Werey Ibadan

so na only Lagos boys you dey date?you're too tribalistic. Try ondo boys and thank me later

AlphaWolf27:
anyone can express it how they like, but JAMB which is the administering body says it is forgery and they have taken their own disciplinary measures. if she or anyone else feels that's unfair, then that person or body can approach higher authorities in this case the courts to seek justice. that's the challenge for Mmesoma Ejikeme. She's got to make that hard choice. she's not a kid.

she is a "minor" with bear bear under her