₦airaland Forum

slap1:
Akpabio is not a mediocre, not by Nigerian standards, and I'm not celebrating him. There are governors who couldn't do projects that are commensurate with the little they receive.

He is a Hero that deserves a Nobel prize by Nigerian standards. That's how convincing and thorough Nigerian standards are. So non-mediocre he was a governor that he had to rig himself to become a senator with 400k votes and then he issued 953k votes to another Nobel prize-deserving President even though both senatorial and presidential elections happened at the same time.

Nigeria I hail thee and thy standards!

Felixsun20:
I bet you've not been to Akwa Ibom before. Has Amaechi been feeding and housing the entire Rivers inhabitants that he can't complete a simple project? Akwa Ibom is more beautiful, well planned and structured than Rivers in all aspects so leave population outta this. I put it up to you that tthe only thing with which Lagos passes Akwa Ibom is the presence of lots of industries and sky scrappers compared to those in the latter but all these put together cannot compete with the revenue generated by the oil in Akwa Ibom. Akwa Ibom has better roads than Lagos, better source of water than Lagos(wells) and all that jazz. Besides, Akwa Ibom is just a baby state compared to old papa Lagos so why should there be rivalling with Lagos?

You're talking about the capital of Akwa-ibom which is Uyo. That is where the buck stops. Go to the inner cities and hinterlands and weep. I have forgiven you for telling me to leave population out of it. If one state has 100k Civil servants and another has 2M civil servants, will we judge infrastructural development(s) of both states without factoring that, and how much allocations they received? Akwa-ibom has which better roads than Lagos? They have more than a hundred new road networks?

slap1:
I don't get what you mean by closeness to the FG and you don't get a seaport by pushing for it. It involves some bureaucratic (and ethnic) bottlenecks in this country. Where is the second Niger bridge?

The governors of Akwa-ibom especially Akpabio since 1999 have been members of the ruling party and in Akpabio's case, were VERY close to the President. What bottlenecks did he overcome in situating an airport? The failure of the second Niger bridge is still the same issue of bad governance. GEJ claimed the bridge will cost him 130B but he was only able to appropriate 10B in his 5 years as C-in-C. Yet in December of 2014 alone, he approved 320B for oil marketers and their so-called subsidy.

This shows you that when a good government pushes for something to be done, they usually get it done.

slap1:
The companies were already there and Lagos was automatically going to be developed as a capital and cosmopolitan city. Akwa-Ibom has started by building roads and other basic amenities. The new stadium and international airport will rub off on the state's economy at some point. You don't sleep and wake up to see all that.

No Sir, the companies were not already there. Infact 80% of them came as the city developed. Abuja has been the Country's capital since 1991 and the growth there is not as brisk as Lagos'. Akwa-ibom was carved out of then Cross-Rivers and Cross- Rivers used to be the capital of Nigeria at some point. Let us stop celebrating mediocres as heroes for goodness' sake.

slap1:
Based on finances alone, not yet, sir. Lagos did not get their overnight. So many factors are involved, right from the colonial days. What would you do, as the governor of Akwa-Ibom, to build seaports and attract multinationals to your state? Lagos was a former capital city which hugely accounted for its development, it's not just down to raw cash alone!

With the resources of the state and closeness to the FG between 1999-2015, shouldn't Akwa-ibom have pushed for a seaport? Is that not what I am talking about when addressing good governance? Do you think good governance is about building a few roads here and there and a stadium?

Whynotthetruth:
It hurts me to see how unintelligent or hypocritical some of us can be...

Now, from your post, kindly add IGR of those states alongside internal cum external debts and tell me where the thieves are...

Try and compare these funds with what is on ground in those states...thanks...

Add IGR of Akwa-ibom too alongside internal cum external debts. Tell me how far that State should have gone.

richidinho:
And Umana Umana was in his cabinet

Tell me one of their achivements

#saynotoUOU

Was Akpabio in a different cabinet?

slap1:
So with the number of companies and commercial activities in Lagos State, Akwa-Ibom should generate more revenues than it abi? How many of those companies did Fashola build, since it's a sign of good governance?

Tinubu and Fashola created a framework and working environment for the companies to see reason for establishing their companies in Lagos. It is the same measure I expect from Akpabio.

slap1:
So with the number of companies and commercial activities in Lagos State, Akwa-Ibom should generate more revenues than it abi?

Lagos started from somewhere. I want to know how far and fast Akwa-Ibom has gone and I like to see how much better they should be doing considering they have Tourism and concessional royalties (FROM OIL COMPANIES) incorporated in their IGR structure together with a sparsely populated region.

Felixsun20:
What is wrong with my Akpabio introducing Udom Emmanuel to GMB? Amebo go kill una! Akpabio is still the best performing governor in Naija, quote me anywhere! Amaechi started the PH stadium project b4 Akpabio started that of the Ibom Int'l Stadium, but where is the PH stadium now? Education, health, transportation and other infrastructural development in Akwa Ibom State is *kisses*. Akwa Ibom receives the highest revenue because it generates the highest National revenue to the Federal Govt, it goes in that order in all the states based on what they generate to the Federal Govt. It is only conventional for a few of the pple in Akwa Ibom to be poor, after all there are poor pple even in the US and in the UK. Pls let's give honour to whom it is due instead of giving silly comments. Akpabio, Fashola and Rochas have all done well. But I heard Rochas used inferior materials to make roads, I don' know how true it is. Mind you, I grew up in PH but currently schooling in Lagos. #Proudly Akwa Ibomite#

Best performing governor in Nigeria?
Built a stadium faster than Amaechi, because Akwa-ibom has the same population with Rivers?
Is it only Federal allocations Akwa-ibom receives? Don't they have internally generated revenues? Should Akwa-Ibom not be rivalling Lagos?

richidinho:
Don't mind them
Is it not the same state an APC stalwart, Victor Attah ruled for 8yrs

Victor Attah, Governed as a PDP man. Try another story.

slap1:
Nothing important like? Have you been to Akwa-Ibom? How much internally-generated revenue does Lagos generate?

How much IGR Lagos generates is immaterial because Akwa-ibom could as well do that. That is what should even be celebrated as good governance and not a situation where a state receives N136B in 6 months and yet their achievements cannot be compared with another state that receives N55B and has 10 times the population of the other state.

UGLYS:
This is B.S.
By B.S. I mean not a Best Seller but BullSh.it.
Why the fear? Why not bother about things you have control over? Is this a late campaign?

Endorsed.

If this propaganda didn't sway voters GEJs way in March, it will still be useless now. Let me give people a run-down of companies whose recruitment is on hold:

NLNG
OANDO
NNPC
Etc.

We did this NNPC test on the 6th of December 2014 when Oil prices were still sinking. Even more interesting of all is that the management and staff of NNPC decided to schedule the test in late 2014 knowing fully well that the price of crude had been declining since August of the same year. It therefore flies in the face of logic for them to suspend the process on the same premise that didn't prevent them from scheduling the test in the first place.

In summary, Companies (especially Big corporations) employ when the NEED arises. If the market is fair, they may decide to employ more hands than before. If it isn't, they may decide to cutback on the number. NNPC is a big corporation so I expect them to do same.

ArodeTsolaye:
Why are people laughing and saying nonsense?. The worst he can do is
1. Cancel all FG projects in the East.

2. Exclude Igbos from all ministerial posts as he did during his days in uniform.

3. Selectively witch-hunt and jail Igbo politicians with EFCC and protect his Hausa-Fulani brothers.

4. Make toxic economic policies against legitimate Igbo businessmen as he did while he was a former head of state.

4.Heavily Militarize the East of the Niger.

....and more

How this will make the North and the West better than the East is what i am waiting to see?

The future of Nigeria is pregnant. What it will bear we don't know.But i know born Survivalists (Igbos) will survive. Let's watch and and see.

16 people endorsed this hogwash? Then Captain Allison Madueke who was appointed military administrator of Anambra state was what tribe? Dikko that was put in a box and headed for Nigeria was what tribe? Make toxic economic policies? Hahahahaha.

Humor us, what did GEJ do for the SE in 5 years? He fixed the Enugu Port? He rehabilitated the roads linking Anambra to Enugu? He built the second Niger bridge? He created favourable economic policies?

BraniacX:
Now am beginning to smell blood cret1n, I've been reasonably impersonal so far but since you can't help being a douche, I'm going to have to take the socially responsible task of reforming you. Next move is yours but am hoping you say something offensive, twill help me let loose

Thank me for teaching you the difference between LOSE and LOOSE. Don't be an incorrigible halfwit. What am I even saying? You are already so far gone. From here on, it's a morgue. What's the cause of death? Delusions of grandeur and plain ol' unintelligence. Get in line. Dullard.

BraniacX:
Dude while it is my style to result to invectives whenever I smell blood in a reasonably worthy prey, the fact that you took that route before me forces me to, well, play the matured dude part and your wordplay might impress you but frankly, I've seen much much better, matter of fact, I was raised by a whole different level better than you'll ever be in your most unrealistic of imaginations but that is not the topic here is it? You started by carelessly using the word obliterate and when called on it, in an attempt to make it passable, you claimed you substituted it for the word effaced which a mere mortal like me wouldn't comprehend, I not so typically let that slide as my eye was on the topic and like a true gladiator, I was looking forward to combat with you in that arena. Now your tack may sound in your head like you being smart but I see through your bluff homo sapien, so quit stonewalling with your fabian tactics which though I play along with, doesn't make me loose sight of the real quarry here but I'll recommend to you that you step of your high horse before you ride of a cliff though I don't expect you to listen.

And erm.....before we get back on track, do you even know what a double entrendre is? I'll like to assume you do because your response says to me that you realise that another meaning could be subtly woven into the first but since you were in a hurry to prove how not so smart you were, you missed it and now, you'll never admit it because it shows you your obvious flaws one of which is the unscientific reliance on assumptions.
You might be good at bluffing yourself out of sticky situations but am guessing you've never been pit against a wolverine have you? Well keep this up and you'll find out what that means when the wear down becomes too obvious for you to pretend it is otherwise.























Waiting for another effing stvpid response from you

Another incoherent tortuous mangling of words from an intellectual fugazi. And all that endless drivel about the life he supposedly leads and why he is so hurt that I put him in his place. I told you to kill yourself. I will be so disappointed if your unintelligence kills you.

ogene007:
The key points here was that the number 2 position was zoned to the niger delta as part of the moves to calm down the militancy, and GEJ got it. The kidnapping of the oil workers apart from increasing the cost of oil production, also forced a lot of the IOCs to declare force majeur. Despite whatever savings you claimed OBJ was making, the fact remains that over 1million bpd was knocked of our oil production, you can confirm that from your sister. You can also ask your sister to confirm to you what is presently happening to the Yoho field, operated by ExxonMobil. People like you who leave in self denial are always the worst hit in times of crisis. The earlier the incoming government starts putting together a strategy to implement the confab report, the better for everyone.
The military option is what the militants are itching for, because it would raise the stakes beyond just resource control. The incoming government would just be playing into their hands. Implementing the confab report is the way to go, else, ruthless sabotage and the eventual collapse of the system would be inevitable. Despite the bravado from people like you, we believe that Those wearing the shoes know better.

You want APC, to implement PDPs CONFAB report? You claim militants are itching for the military option? Hahahahaha. Because during such confrontations only the military suffer casualties and the militants always get the upperhand? Hahahaha.

Hope you are not Gbomo Jomo. You sound like someone whose source of livelihood stems from over-bloating the impact of militancy in Nigeria and her economy. At least, you are a better head than that oaf above who doesn't know the difference between LOSE and LOOSE.

BraniacX:
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Funny, I thought exactly the same thing about you .....tis a strange way the mind works sometimes
Oooh! Now am confused I've never come across that word before e e e e ef ef effac effake effazed efface. Ok you gat me, I surrender to you the almighty wordsmith............. Nah
just messing wif ya so i gat me a puny mind uhn? well, if your delusion helps you sleep at night, who am i to convince you otherwise? So now am an english teacher? Am guessing from you that should be a complement right? Well, tanx I guess you know that thing about pride going before a .............? Well, I believe you're astute enough to remember what humpty dumpty looked like after the ..........
And you're far too smart for your own good mr pseudo-chaucer or is it byron? Oh! I get it you might be angling for Shakespeare...... , yeah so I put a loose in there, now two things are involved, it may either be a typo or it may be a double entrendre, if it is a typo, then I can't blame you for working with any ammo at your disposal seeing how hard it is to scrounge one out with me but if it is a double entrendre, it figures that you might not actually be as good as you rate your self Mr.am so good at comprehension i can't help myself so retrace your steps and think twice before committing further blunders because things aren't always what they seem
This might not be a revelation to you, but still, it is worth mentioning, the fact that you're comparatively well educated doesn't translate into other people being poorly educated so while you let that sink in i'll go further and say with what i've seen so far, i'll rather be a whatsit?..........ah! Yes, self disrespecting cretin than be you.
By the way, haven't we gotten ourselves derailed from the topic?

This show of faux-esoterism worked for those you communicated with in the past abi? It failed today. Don't try to circumvent your way through the LOOSE-LOOSE gaffe. I initially told you to stick to your turf. See why yielding to good counsel is good? Now here is another one that will help: kill yourself before rank idiocy takes the glory.

ogene007:
You can continue to dish out incorrect figures inorder to downplay the adverse effect militancy had on the economy, during OBJ's government, but the reality will remain. The only reason why GEJ was hand picked to run as running mate to Yaradua was to appease the militants. Yaradua, came and followed up with amnesty programme. APC has pressed the reset button, so let's see how the other party responds. It is only positive and genuine engagement with these aggrieved region, with the aim of permanently dealing with the issue of resource control, in a fiscal federalism, that can guarantee peace.
The military option was used exhaustively by OBJ, and it failed woefully, because he realized that the thearter of this insurgency was riddled with the oil and gas pipelines, which made it difficult to take out the militants, without taking down the country. Your line of argument is mere bravado because at the end of the day, those agitating for resource control through restructuring of Nigeria will prevail.
Let me end by correcting some of your distorted figures, before the militancy, Nigeria was at 2.1 million bpd, I don't want to start giving you the breakdown from the various IOCs and local marginal field owners. At the time of handing over to Yaradua, OBJ was at below 700,000 bpd, and that is the fact. As at today, we are doing 2.3million bpd, and Osun and Benue are owing workers salaries. Any form of sabotage will result to mass sack of workers by both the states and federal governments, not to talk of the federal government. Such a scenario will just bring down the government. The only way to avert this is to restructure the country. God bless Nigeria.

What baffles me is the confidence with which you divulge half-baked ideologies and reasons behind GEJs selection. It is on record that Odili was the touted name but Obasanjo, on receiving Nuhu Ribadu's EFCC analysis, decided to renege and seek another unassuming Niger Deltan. It had absolutely nothing to do with the militants and the sooner you come to terms with that, the better for you.

President Yar Adua signed the amnesty deal in 2009, yet the militancy festered till 2012 and someone is here telling us about chimerical crippling effects the so-called militants had on the economy. As though, Obasanjo was saving stones and not dollars in the FR.

FYI, Obasanjo's stop-gap military approach was not as a result of the pipelines for goodness' sake. It was because of the foreign nationals that were usually taken as hostages during reprisals. It just made sense for the military to tread cautiously. Did the Militants have any effect on the economy? Sure they did. But it is not as pronounced as you would have us believe, so get the full message.

Lastly, and most risible of all, save that 'I-don't-want-to-give-you-a-breakdown' bla bla. My sister works with the DPR. If I wanted figures, I'd get it from her. If you cannot see that with 700k bpd and oil at 40-50$ Obasanjo was able to do more than your man with your supposed 2.3M bpd and 50-115$ (from 2011-2014, 2014-2015) and yet devoid of militants, then keep Stevie wondering through life. Very soon, you'd concede that it is the willpower of the leader that gets things done and not the actions or inactions of misled miscreants A.K.A militants.

BraniacX:
And I replied that it is nothing new and besides, obliteration is a nice big word of a sucker punch that only lightweights and empty barrels throw about aimlessly and stewpidly during anonymous e-brawls, now the act,.....the act isn't something I believe you comprehend or you'll never use the word callously. For obliteration, I think an associated word is attrition, and I don't remember attrition being a tactic exclusive to any armed group and besides, aren't your would be protagonists restricted by a not totally adhered to code of conduct? So obliteration.....you wish.
And also, I believe you meant loose-loose-LOOSE with the FG and the economy being the biggest losers, well besides ND civilians of course
Now who has the obvious comprehension issues?

This is what we call verbose gibberish. I replaced the word efface with obliterate in my response to help your puny mind. You and your generation of English teachers will lose fair and square against me, in any comprehension class so save yourself further embarrassment and stick to your turf.

And dimwitted quasi-scholar, I meant LOSE-LOSE which is antonymical to WIN-WIN, you raging ignoramus. The word you put there is the opposite of 'tight'.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother replying these self-disrespecting cretins.

ogene007:
Let me work with your own incorrect figures,say, 1.7million bpd, and the militants knocks out, say 1million bpd, at today's rate of 50 dollars per barrel, that is over 50 million dollars per day.kindly do the maths for one year so that you will know how desperate it was for OBJ, which forced him to go and pick GEJ as Yaradua's running mate. The ultimate loser is the FG who will go virtually broke. You will have to come to terms that in present day Nigeria,the niger delta are the ones who pay the piper, and will ultimately dictate the tune.

They knocked out about 350K barrels in total at their peak period of militancy. If Production dropped to 700-800K does it not show that production should have been between 1-1.1M as I had earlier said?

Now Yar Adua signed an amnesty deal and the activities still continued. GEJ came with his largess and let these militants carter as much as 400K per day just so Nigeria could produce between 1.5-1.9M, tell me is that good governance? And what is to say if the full armour of the military is directed at the militants Nigeria will do any less than the 1.5M?

Men, stop over-exaggerating the effect of these militants. Especially when we have to consider who they're going to be fighting with should this show of shame linger.

BraniacX:
What resources It better be human alone and nothing else



A price we are eager, not just willing to pay plus, has there ever been a time in recent memory when the environment wasn't isn't being affected negatively?

Come with something new abeg!!

Just a few comprehension classes and you'd be good to go. I said "your people will face the environmental impact AND your militants will still be obliterated". That's a lose-lose. Get in touch.

ogene007:
OBJ's military option was a calamity for the economy, because oil exports came down from 2.3million bpd to less than 700,000 bpd. Kindly do the maths at the present price of 50 dollars per barrel, and you will know why OBJ hand picked GEJ. Stop coming here to distort historical facts.

Lies. They were never up to 2.3M. Even GEJ was producing at 1.7-1.9M. So what did his largess really do to the economy?

emmykk:
he will not cancel them however if he dares you will pay for it in nor payment of salaries,high tfares,poor exchange rate.

The militant are not chick heart like yoruba or like shakau they dont see.the more you kill them the higher the distrotion

LOL. What were they doing during Abacha and Abdusalam's era? You keep comparing GEJ with GMB. They're not mates. GEJ is crystallized pusillanimity.

netmillionaires:
and who said OBJ went to bring Jonathan as Yaradus's running mate because of Niger Deltans causing trouble?

Help me ask o.

ogene007:
Let me take you back memory lane, another General tried fruitlessly in 2006 to use the military against them, and he only succeeded in reducing our oil production to less than 700bpd. He was so frustrated that he had to go and hand pick GEJ to run as Late Yaradua's president. It did not stop at that, GEJ had to go to the creeks to beg them to accept the late president's offer of amnesty.
It is either you have a very short memory, or that you were a child, still in school, collecting pocket money from his parents who were obviously suffering the hardship of that time. I honestly think that people like you need to have a taste of the effects of this type of crisis so that they will learn what they don't know. I will advise your Buhari and his APC to start looking at cocoa and groundnuts as a replacement for the oil and gas revenues from Niger delta. The militants are not finding it funny that the north and southwest have ganged up against them. I can assure you that if Buhari goes for the military option, just as OBJ did, it will result to disastrous consequences for Abuja and the entire country. This is not the time for bravado comments from children like you, but for immediate positive engagement to resolve the issues. The way forward is to quickly implement the results of the constitutional conference, that is the true change we should all seek.

Please assay posters well before responding. I am not in the clique of braindead propaganda preachers. In 2006 Oil prices were not as high as GEJ had them so most OPEC nations were forced to cutback on their production figures. As at that time, Nigeria which should have been doing 1.4-1.8M barrels was forced to do less say 1-1.1M. The militancy made production figures to be less than 850K which is not too significant if you are looking at the grand scheme of things.

So when you say the economy was crippled, maybe you need to ask yourself how Obasanjo was able to save close to 60B dollars in the FR inspite of all the militancy. Don't be hoodwinked by what TAN claimed GEJs role was in the amnesty deal. Sure President Yar Adua offered them a deal but it wasn't this ginormous values that GEJ gave them and Yar Adua did so to gain adulations following the charade of an electoral process that brought him in. If memory serves me well, Yar Adua offered to empower the militants with trainings and a stipend of 65K per month and gave some of their leaders reasonable contracts to protect some pipelines.

But GEJ came in and supplanted the Navy with those miscreants while allowing them to bunker as much oil as possible inspite of offering them billions of naira.

The new government will not condone such largess and will be swift to crush any ruckus from such disgruntled elements.

^^^

His major concern is to curtail corruption and not to review remunerations. I don't think NNPC pay that much(to begin with) that it would cause him to be unsettled. The major issue has always been corruption in virtually all sectors of our economy. In GMBs government, stealing will be regarded as corruption.

emmykk:
when boko haram kill people nothing happen but when pipeline are blast it affect national income and fuel scarcity come up.the earlier u stop this buhari will do this and that the better for you.


Better the terraine is creek not desert land,they the militant will get what they want like before while you are there hungry.more of this await buhari,especiallly if he tries to cancel pipeline protection contracts

He will cancel them and NOTHING will happen. Afterall, part of the contract terms was that they were to stop the explosions and instead protect the integrity of the pipelines by themselves. You can't have your cake and eat it.

babasanti:
When I read comments like buhari will smash them like ants, I just laugh. If uve seen angry militant before then you won't say such. See the niger delta man has guts, its all about pipline destruction . Just 4 major pipline explosion oil production will drop , dollar will exchange for 300naira. Buhari should go cut a deal now like yaradua did. The earlier the better, they have war ships now any airspace plane, miles away they will gun it down into pieces.

Ignoramus. Your Otuoke man made you believe your militants were that powerful? Guess again. This is about using the resources available to a country to fight a minor group of misled miscreants. All that pipeline explosion humdrum is like cutting one's nose to spite their face. Your people will suffer the environmental impact and your group will still be effaced.

Guess again.

ogene007:
I guess Daura will manufacture bullets and missiles that will hit the militants with precision while leaving out the mesh of oil and gas pipelines all over the place. Immediately it becomes a full conflict, it will suck in the whole region, and guess what, those who have won elections to go and sit over the oil and gas resources, will have only cocoa and groundnut to sit over. The outlay doesn't look bright at all, except there is an immediate positive engagement to address whatever issues these boys are asking for.

Sadly, your cynicism didn't consider that the "militants" do not hide behind meshes of pipeline(s). They are going to face a ruthless General. This is not the amnesty charade.

Don't be cynical. The Gubernatorial elections are still to hold on the 11th. After that, you can cry blue murder if nothing happens. I am of the opinion that neither this present government nor the incoming one can scuttle the recruitment process for the very reason that it doesn't concern them as such. For the former, they can wrap it up before 29th of May and for the latter, it's all about appending the right signature on the supposed dots when presented to whomever it will be. At the least, he/she will include a few names to the list and sign it off. So no cause for alarm.

Timbuktou, may God bless you.