₦airaland Forum

DaddyCoool:
Same place the votes came from for him to win APC nomination

Exclusive101:
Same thing you said about Buhari yet he rules twice

Alcatraz001:
Of course and they know. But they will never allow Osinbajo because he’s a Christian and it would derail their plans. We really entered one chance with APC oooo and many Nigerians died and suffered for it. Marriages and destinies were destroyed.

My prediction is that they will lose and refuse to relinquish power. The biggest loser in all these will be Tinubu because he will not be President and will become persona non grata to Nigerians all over the world and he will be shown to be hooligan by his conduct after he loses. He will kill Nigerians this February but he won’t still win. Just watch out,

Alcatraz001:
Very bad image ooo. I don’t know what they have against igbos. Me sef used to dislike the igbos but on this election issue, it’s clear that Obi is head and shoulders above Tinubu.

I mean, it’s a disgrace to Nigeria for Tinubu to even contest for President. That’s a sick, dirty and old drug lord for Christ sakes. He can be a yoruba tribal leader but not the President of Nigeria. The dirty money from Lagos state has deluded him to think he can be President of Nigeria. That’s a very dignified office and it is definitely not for people with tainted public image like Tinubu.

Alcatraz001:
E be like say I no remember ooo. I don dey old walahi. I for no even log in if not for these Tinubu boyz wey dey misrepresent Yorubas for social media.

Alcatraz001:
Which one ooo cause I don’t remember. I was on sabbatical for almost 3 years too until I had to log back in refute the lies of these Tinubu boyz.

Alcatraz001:
You see the mind of an average APC voter?

I hope Igbos who want to vote APC see how Tinubu boys and the APC hate you? Me I know them and I’m not surprised by the hate coming from some Yorubas but they don’t represent the views of majority of Yorubas. Most of them are Muslims.

I will speak for sane and fair Yorubas!!!

Yorubas are fair and we uphold Justice and we shall vote Peter Obi!!!

yarimo:
Obi should go and show his popularity in any part of south east state by holding rallies on MONDAY

Waterysperm:
I can see you are an Apc man. I would have contributed my own findings but no need. But let me burst your bubble now, Peter Obi is your next president.

Putindbutt:
If bandits could display millions of naira of the new notes, what's stopping the politicians who owns most of the banks?. Do you think Peter Obi, for example, who is a shareholder in Fidelity bank with access to billions of naira, gives a hoot about you queuing under the sun?.
I know that Obi supporters are kind of happy that the harsh policy would push people to anger to vote against APC but I can assure you that this events. if not checked would further encourage vote buying. How would someone who struggles to get as little as 2000 naira all week reject free 5000 - 7000 free cash on an election day?

Worried by the effects the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s naira redesign policy is having on the residents of their states, the governments of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara have dragged the Federal government before the Supreme Court, seeking a restraining order to stop the full implementation of the policy.

In a motion ex-parte filed on their behalf by their lawyer, AbdulHakeem Uthman Mustapha (SAN), the three northern states are urging the apex court to grant them an interim injunction stopping the Federal Government either by itself or acting through the CBN, the commercial banks or its agents from carrying out its plan of ending the timeframe within which the now older versions of the 200, 500 and 1000 denominations of the Naira may no longer be legal tender on February 10, 2023.

The Plaintiffs in the suit are the three Attorneys-General and Commissioners of Justice of the three states, while the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), is the sole Respondent.

The Plaintiffs said that since the announcement of the new naira note policy, there has been an acute shortage in the supply of the new naira notes in Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara States and that citizens who have dutifully deposited their old naira notes have increasingly found it difficult and sometimes next to impossible to access new naira notes to go about their daily activities.

They also cited the inadequacy of the notice coupled with the haphazard manner in which the exercise is being carried out and the attendant hardship same is wrecking on Nigerians, which has been well acknowledged even by the Federal Government of Nigeria itself.

The Plaintiffs further maintained that the ten-day extension by the Federal Government is still insufficient to address the challenges bedeviling the policy.

Recall that over the weekend, the CBN Governor at a press conference held in Lagos insisted that that the apex bank will not extend the deadline for swapping old naira notes with the newly redesigned ones.

In the suit filed at the apex court, the Plaintiffs have also filed a motion on notice to abridge the time within which the Respondent may file and serve his Counter-Affidavit to this Suit and an order for an accelerated hearing of this matter.

The states are seeking a declaration that the Demonetization Policy of the Federation being currently carried out by the Central Bank of Nigeria under the directive of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not in compliance with the extant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007 and actual laws on the subject.

They are also asking the court to make a declaration that the three-month notice given by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Central Bank of Nigeria under the directive of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the expiration of which will render the old Banknotes inadmissible as legal tender, is in gross violation of the provisions of Section 20(3) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act 2007 which specifies that Reasonable Notice must be given before such a policy.

The Plaintiffs are also urging the court for a declaration that given the express provisions of Section 20(3) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act 2007, the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Central Bank of Nigeria, has no powers to issue a timeline for the acceptance and redeeming of banknotes issued by the Bank, except as limited by Section 22(1) of the CBN Act 2007. The Central Bank shall at all times redeem its bank notes.

The Plaintiffs further want the court to direct the immediate suspension of the demonetisation of the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Central Bank of Nigeria under the directive of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria until it complies with the relevant provisions of the law.

In an affidavit filed in support of the suit and sworn to by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Kaduna State, Aisha Dikko, she averred that although the naira redesign policy was introduced to encourage the cashless policy of the Federal government, it is not all transactions that can be conveniently carried out through electronic means.

She maintained that several transactions still require cash in exchange for goods and services hence the need for the Federal Government to have sufficient money available in circulation for the smooth running of the economy.

Dikko also pointed out that the Federal Government has embarked on the policy within a narrow and unworkable time frame, and this has adversely affected Nigerian citizens within Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara States as well as their Governments, especially as the newly redesigned naira notes are not available for use by the people as well as the State Governments.

“That the majority of the indigenes of the Plaintiffs’ states who reside in the rural areas have been unable to exchange or deposit their old naira notes as there are no banks in the rural areas where the majority of the population of the states reside.

“Most people in rural areas of the Plaintiffs’ states do not have bank accounts and have so far been unable to deposit their life savings which are still in the old naira notes.

“There is restiveness amongst the people in the various states because of the hardship being suffered by the people, and the situation will sooner than later degenerate into the breakdown of law and order.

“The Plaintiff State Governments cannot stand by as they are duty-bound to protect citizens in their states and prevent the breakdown of law and order.

“I know that if the Federal Government of Nigeria had given sufficient and reasonable time for the naira redesign policy, all the current hardship and loss being experienced by the Plaintiffs’ State Governments as well as people in the various states would have been avoided.

“I know that the 10-day extension by the Federal Government is still insufficient to address the challenges bedevilling the policy. I also understand that the Federal Government cannot bar Nigerians from redeeming their old naira notes at any time, even though the senior notes are no longer legal tender.

“Unless this Honourable Court intervenes, the Government and people of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara State will continue to go through a lot of hardship and would ultimately suffer great loss as a result of the insufficient and unreasonable time within which the Federal Government is embarking on the ongoing currency redesign policy,” she stated.

No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.

Aufbauh:
Everyone is not an Igbo man that voice out what he wants to do.
It's an unwritten consciousness that everyone holds to his chest and disclose to only his/ her brethren.
Besides, such is not to be voice out cos of the optics of sentimentality.


I'd hope you've not forgotten so soon that it was mostly the middle belt officers that retaliated the Igbo coup of 1966.


Anyway I'm just giving you the privilege information as an insider so that you don't expect much from people who disdain you.

You should recall that in 2019, you all PDP apologists went to town telling all that cares to know how killers Fulani herders have murder all Benue people and Buhari is their grand patron.
The result of the presidential election then which Atiku won merely by 7k votes should have thought you guys some lesson that you can't write people's history for them.

All politics is local and Benue people cannot inherit your enemy for themselves.