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plaetton:
Recently visited some parts of the North. Northern Nigeria has incredible potentials.
If only the people can start demanding more from their elites rather than an over- reliance on federal largess.

Ahmadu Bello erred when he insisted and weened Northern elites to rely exclusively on the army and the federal government as the only means of exerting and reaping their potentials in Nigeria.

Perhaps a new generation such as yourself can pass the massage along for Northerners to aspire beyond what the rapacious elites offer them.

You are grossly misinformed regarding the bolded. Sir Ahmadu Bello, on the contrary, advocated for education and supported girl child education in particular, established the largest University in West Africa, and spearheaded the establishment of dozens of farms, factories, tanneries etc. in the North (which were mismanaged by subsequent military administrations), which is part of why he is revered as a great leader.

The dominance of the military and political system is supposed to be a plus, and at no time were they postulated as the only means of prosperity as you wrongly averred.

stzy:
clown hear me!... I read d article n tho he has a point but development n commitment to it is a matter of mindset n northerners rarely have that

This comment just oozes daftness all over. This is why I'm more convinced you haven't been in the North, or you have only resided or visited the rural north as a result of your circumstances. The proof that you were too lazy or lacked the capacity to read and comprehend the post, lies in the truism that the fact that the OP was referring to the near future escaped you.

Which northern state capital is not more developed than that of the SE/SW at present? Which region has the best public infrastructure? What the author was referring to was economic prosperity. Quit spewing your ignorance and feed your eyes on this thread...

https://www.nairaland.com/1945471/true-face-north

While some people were waiting for Jonathan to build a second Niger bridge....

Kano had built the longest fly over bridge in West Africa.

By the time BH and the criminal herdsmen are contained, the plans to fully exploit and mechanize agriculture and solid minerals are implemented, northern Nigeria will surely be on its way to economic prosperity.

Even at present the strides of most northern states are enviable.

Some people are sleeping on a bicycle.

stzy:
Only southwest not including lagos is a lot richer n more developed than north put together to talk of when we include south south n bring in d almighty SE ...

I can bet my life that:

1. This guy did not read this article to the end.

2. This guy has never visited the North.

great664:
Lol, this shows you just read and comment base on writeup.

Next time , read, understand, and apply your own knowledge before commenting, stop believing everything the MEDIA write, use your own knowledge sometimes to analyse write up and see if it can or cannot be true.

ADVICE: Use your NO 6 always before concluding.

Stop being so simple minded. Seek clarification when in doubt. You simply failed to understand the post and are now grasping on straws.

chukwukadibia10:
[s]Go school you no gree!

Try read the post again to see if u can comprehend.[/s]

What part of my post do you want clarified?

fulanimafia:
And what you failed to understand from my post is that I'd rather have the PDP control the Senate than have Saraki set free because of the risk of that happening.

That's cheap and senseless blackmail.

great664:
Bros u forget say if they remove saraki that he and his crew will not vote APC SP aspirant thereby reducing APC number? Commonsense nor tell u that because of ur blind support for APC or do u expect him to also vote for APC?

ShunHate and see clearer

Don't be silly. It was the logic of the post that was being questioned, and the fact is that your assertion is mere speculation.

obongtunji:
What you fail to understand is that, Saraki has about 7 or 9 loyalists in the APC and if he is shown the way out those loyalists will work for PDP naturally.

And what you failed to understand from my post is that I'd rather have the PDP control the Senate than have Saraki set free because of the risk of that happening.

That's cheap and senseless blackmail.

Johnny19:
The op meant that 46 + 4 of the remaining 6 seats would automatically put PDP in contention for the senate presidency

So the corruption charges against Saraki should be dropped for that reason?

Not in a million years.

Hilarious.

So the Ibos/SE/SS want an alliance with the North and desire the terrorist Al-zakzaky as President just because they don't like Buhari?

Do these guys even know who Shiites are? They just heard of an opposing Islamic sect and automatically think the enemy of their enemy is their friend? Even to the point of averring that the clannish and jihadist shiites saved and sheltered Christians in their mosques when under attack? Is this administration the first to jail zakzaky (who has been jailed by almost every administration since the military era)?

These guys and their political daftness are assuming legendary status.

You can only deceive the gullible, you have not proven SR wrong but have shown how desperate you people are to turn the truth on its head. SR mentioned that the chief of staff's aide was injured and Dakuku was not because he sped into the DSS office before security men opened fire on the chief of staff's jeep.

Treazzon blog my left foot.

Lol Saraki is too desperate.

So he is now suggesting we should leave him alone else PDP would have a chance to make a comeback in the Senate? Since when did 46 + 6 = 57? (That's even if the opposition wins all 6 seats)

The APC is in firm control of the Senate and Saraki will continue to face justice come hell or highwater.

Igwe9:
Amechi did not contribute anything, Nigerians voted for Buhari, Gej faced both local and international conspiracies. He was strong enough to garner those votes. Amechi only did not support Gej but Buhari did not win with just two votes, so hat's the fuss?

So Ameachi never sponsored Buhari's campaign as wailers are fond of blabbing?

The propaganda against Amaechi is quickly unraveling.

Igwe9:
Hmm, kids everywhere, many voted for APC as PDP was almost taking people for a ride but I bet you, if APC continues like this, Nothing on earth can save them come 2019.

Of course. The PDP has zoned its 2019 Presidency to the North so if PMB fails, the PDP will simply be reclaimed from the SS/SE and we will vote PDP.

The current PDP Chairman (Sherriff) and Youth leader (Mai Basira) have already set the tone.

IGBOPRINCE:
Kano city is a town I do admired from afar but their men or indigenes of kano do walked around with knives?

They nearly stabbed my sist in 2006/7 for a mistakes done by someone else. Thank God for the people around her who shouted she is not the one o.

Their indigenes re terrible, infact north as a whole, no no no , I don't want to generalise it. But some of their men re terrible menh.


One love.

@ bolded that's a blatant lie.

With all the kidnapping, baby factories, ritual killings, armed robbery, drug trafficking etc in the East, have you heard anyone say that all eastern indigenes are terrible criminals? You cannot generalize the activities of miscreants to the general population as you are attempting to do here.

Keep your bigotry off this beautiful thread. Mynd44 kindly observe.

Amoto94:
Fulaman198, Fulanimafia

Unfortunately I'm Hausa fulani and not Kanuri and I'm not familiar with the NE, but I'll help in the little way I can.

For starters, children in the North generally refer to their mothers as Mama to the best of my knowledge.

P.S. Its Hausa not 'Hauta'.

Ovie56:
But I won't call that slaying the peak of a political career is the presidency he wasn't even kicked out of office his tenure simply came to an end... Assume Amaechi obstruct Jonathan from reaching the peak now id say he slew him.

The peak of a Nigerian's political career is utilizing the two Presidential terms allowable.

Jonathan is the FIRST President to lose a Presidential election and be kicked out after a SINGLE tenure. Only Ameachi and the APC could have achieved this feat that has never been achieved before.

That is why he is the Jonathan Slayer and Lion of Ubima.

ElCule:
Saint Amaechi sponsored mr integrity (Buahri) presidential campaign with rivers money. Or what are you saying exactly?

I am saying that Rotimi Amaechi was a main contributor to Jonathan's defeat. That's why he will forever hold the title of the Jonathan Slayer.

I'm sure that's not too complex for you to understand.

Ugosample:
Lol!!!!! This Nigga is a joker!
So you think it is South West Votes that got Buhari in?
Voted that were shared almost evenly, and APC lost ekiti state?
Or in 2011 when the North West and East votes Buhari but still lost?

Truth be told, no single region in Nigeria is disposable, or more important than the other, and no region can win elections in its own.

Hope that sinks into your head

The fact remains that with the entire North and most of the SW in alliance (as exemplified by the APC), SW and SS votes are useless in any national election. 2015 proved this when over 90% PDP votes in almost all SS/SE states (and some votes in the SW) could not save Jonathan from being kicked out...

...and you know it.

ajepako:
l agree with you ewure iya oshogbo.

but how come your eyes no comot for Rivers,Bayelsa and Akwa lbom?

That tells you the real oyel money remains with.the umbrella people.

lobatan

And who collects the oyel money and shares it to all states (including Rivers State)? The APC controlled FG?

No?

Lol.

ElCule:
So your self-aclaimed anti coruption crusader rides on coruption to power and you still call him Mr integrity. Your hypocray is alarming.

The party was funded not Buhari, and it doesn't change the fact that Ameachi slayed Jonathan.

cckris:
hell-Rufai said so on NTA, that Amaechi SPONSORED 5 APC governors in the North, most probably your Fulani jihadists, beginning with Tambuwal.

So Ameachi NEVER used Rivers State funds to finance PMB's successful election?

Waiting for your answer.

Richydos:
Why are u playing dumb to my point.... Okay let me agree with u on da financial bla bla bla u just said... But how come he couldn't use d financial strength to conquer his own state? N up till now he still can't..... U too know he can't "right?...... Lolzzzz
U n I know how Jonathan lost his election... Sorry Amaechi wasn't a part of it

That's because he has already been painted as a traitor, and Riverians are still hurting from Jonathan's humiliating defeat in the hands of the APC.

No matter how you slice or dice it, Ameachi was a major financier and strategist of APC'S successful presidential campaign that kicked out the ineffectual buffoon, and hence, forever retains the title of the Jonathan Slayer.

paschu:
You are really clueless. How does sponsoring your god translate to slaying GEJ? The man is smarter than your lots. That's why he shocked your god and the world honorably knowing fully well that you guys were not expecting it. It got nothing to do with any slaying whatsoever. Fact is, if he had wanted he would have stood his ground becaude we all know that he did not actually lose the stuff just that he loves nigeria so much, (or did you not hear the kids voting in Kano, and INEC not using card reders many places?). He is never like this present set of desparadoes who don't give a darn about who dies.

Yet he and his goons sent Orubebe to disrupt the announcement of the Presidential election results? Honorable my left foot.

You can only fool yourselves. Ameachi forever remains the Jonathan slayer.

ElCule:
How is Amaechi the lion of ubima and slayer of GEJ? Please explain.

You know it, because you're the ones that keep screaming that he used Rivers State funds to finance PMB's successful election that kicked out Jonathan.

BraniacX:
[s]because you can open your bunghole of a mouth and regurgitate gibberish knowing that many brain dead vegetative zombies/drones will accept and rebroadcast your trash as cannon law doesn't mean facts will be changed permanently by your propaganda afterall, propaganda has a shelf life and an expiry date and there still exists many of us who see through your puerile ranting! if your "16 years of PDP failure and mismanagement/corruption" jingle/lyrics is what you claim it was then please give us back that hell of corruption blah blah blah and keep your buhari's shithole of a heaven to yourself a$shole because heaven never looked so bad and hopeless as it is now and only hypocritical sycophants like you pretend otherwise

tell me, how is your propaganda/body language working in the power, petroleum, security, economic and other sectors? it seems "pyting kwarrufshion" isn't the magic bullet that slays all our demons afterall!

Namaa![/s]

I'm glad you could not deny any of the PDP's failures, and instead opted for invectives, the same strategy that lead to the kicking out of the ineffectual buffoon.

Richydos:
It's funny how you can comfortably classify Amaechi as jonathan' s slayer...... I bet u must have forgotten he couldn't even deliver his own state against PDP almost in all elections in River state...... He is just being a member of ALL POLITICAL COMPENSATION

In one breath you claim Ameachi used Rivers State funds to finance PMB's successful election, in the next breath you try to claim he did not slay the ineffectual buffoon.

I feel your pain through all your confusion.

sinistermind:
I guess you re oblivious why the APC is fighting to get Rivers. They failed in Delta, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom, Rivers was their last target and they have failed in that also. These 4 states are Nigerian oil rich states and if the federal govt can control those states then it will have required funds to fund their party. They only have lagos, which has a seaport. Rivers has both a seaport and also oil rich. Losing Rivers is definitely a big blow to the ruling party.

Bullocks. Who shares the oil revenue to the states?

FLYFIRE:
That is until 2019 when apc WILL loose ALL

2015 has already shown how disposable SS/SE votes are. Your labeling of the APC as an Amala party will also not help the PDP in the SW.

PDP can only remain a state level party in the SS/ SE.

kilokeys:
It's unfortunate that I don't know u personally.. Because by the time this dispensation starts to hit u hard.. And u start regretting, u wouldn't have the cash to eat talk more of buying data to tell us how miserable u have become

Unfortunately for you, you are on your own as I don't reside in Nigeria...and only your likes see doom and gloom for your country.

As for me and other patriotic Nigerians, all we see is bright hope that we will be delivered from this wilderness we were put in by PDP's misrule.

Bullar:
Mr. Amaechi will be sorely disappointed by this defeat. He can go back to Abuja and face his job as a minister and leave Rivers State politics alone. Good riddance....!

Ameachi has been Governor twice which is the maximum allowed by the constitution. He has grown beyond Rivers State politics and is now a national politician.

Ameachi is loved in the NW, NC, NE and SW (the election deciders) and can win any national election. Apart from the SS/SE, where else can Wike be tolerated?

Ameachi has gone beyond state politics and his role in this election was to attempt an increase in the APC's large political warchest. He remains a Senior Minister of the Federal Republic and Dakuku has also gone Federal as Nimasa's DG.

All's well that ends well.