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Adelaide2: The question of the car ownership aside, were it in saner climes, the fact that he was out driving that early in the morning (apparently not going to work), where exactly he was coming from, and the possibility that he might have been drunk and over-speeding, are the questions the cops will be asking his father to obtain a clue as to what might have happened. But you Nigerians are dumb, hence your inability to progress.
As for the car ownership, El Rufai was a public servant for many years. Before then, he was an unknown quantity. And if one cannot ask a basic question about the ownership of an accidented car, then no one also should ask about how other looters made their money. Crazy country, craze inhabitants.

Will you shut your ignorant mouth ALUU savage and stop disgracing Nigeria with your caveman utterances that makes it obvious you have no clue what "saner climes" is? Silly M0r0n, 18 year old have cars in "saner climes" and, as young adults, drive themselves to social spots (clubs, bars, Parties etc) and come home at various times in the early hours talk less of a 23 year old who could be married, with kids and even boss of his own business !!!! You are such a backward loser. The 23 year old young man is an adult and could have been coming from one out of a million places early that morning as a member of society free to go anywhere he wants at any time and as needs dictates.

Also, do you appreciate how stupid and backwardly m0r0nic you sound when you say the police, in 'saner clime', would be asking his father about drinking and over-speeding? How the hell would his father have such information? Was he in the car to know the speed his son was driving at when the crash happened? Was he out with his son to know what he drank? The more you losers talk the more it becomes obvious you have never set foot outside your village let alone in a 'saner clime' you allude to yet your ignorant utterance reveal you have never experienced.

With the ownership of the car, you are simply displaying, again, that you are a poverty-afflicted loser and a bum. Young legitimate hustlers in Nigeria drive cars nicer than that so what exactly is your point raising questions about the ownership of a Lexus driven by the son of a successful and seasoned technocrat? What is wrong with you people? Even if you are all losers, do you not know any talented and rich person? Why not just confess that your real beef is with the privileged life of the young man instead of carrying on with this show of stupidity that exposes you guys as bitter, frustrated and hateful losers?

blacksta: Lol @ Obama insult.. The US have stated the obvious... It is now down for Nigerians to act...

Amusing right? These brainwashed simpletons will insult and vilify just about anyone and anything they perceive to be against their failed messiah. Mumus.

Why is it that Jonathanians have no capacity for confronting fact and reality when the failings of their messiah is under scrutiny? Disciples of David Koresh have nothing on Gejites.

Jonathanians funny as f@@k. What frustrated clowns and losers. Is it anyone's fault you lot have chosen to back the epitome of leadership failure? Stay here pouring invectives on Obama and the USA childishly. That does not change the fact that captain Inepto (GEJ) has failed abjectly. MuMu United of Nigeria class of "fresh air" 2014

Adelaide2: Crap, crap and more crap. Does this answer the question of whether he was driving while drunk? Yeah! We know El' Rufai was a ''billionaire'' before he got into Govt. So was Tinubu, Jonathan, Orji Kalu, Atiku and Fasola. Nigerians are unrepentant jokers unable to ask the right questions of their leaders.
You are even quoting Wikipedia? OMG! You are outrageously ignorant.

WombRaiders: That dude is incredibly dense and should have been long banned for life on stupid1ty grounds

Descartes: I'm always appalled with their kangaroo research using Wikipaedia as a credible source

convention of losers and haters much like the envious OP who wants to kill himself over a 23 year old using a Lexus. El-Rufai is a talented and well-to-do individual even if you failures and bums prefer to think otherwise. Empty haters and frustrated bad belle hacks.

The entire world now united in indicting GEJ a failure who has "lost" the fight. He was granted $18 billion to take the fight to enemies of Nigeria but failed deliberately via choosing the path of greed, corruption, cronyism and self-aggrandizement while abandoning Nigerians to their fate. Typically, while the world watched in shock, he said and did nothing for a long period of time after many innocent Nigerian girls had been kidnapped by brutal killers and rapists.

He was dancing a unique mix of skelewu, alingo and azonto at a political rally shortly after a savage bombing left scores of Nigerians dead. What remains than for Nigerians to do the needful and get rid of this callous and failed President who only knows how to flex muscle against political opponents?

dozzzybaba: John Kerry and Barack Obama are both members of the APC

In fact, I hear Kerry is about to take up Nigerian citizenship and replace Oyegun as APC chairman.

There was never a "fight" against Boko Haram under the GEJ government. Just insincerity, deceit and indifference to the loss of Nigerian lives while the focus remained on retaining political control of Nigeria which in turn guarantees automatic control over the use of the wealth of the "biggest black nation on earth".

koboko69: my brother is not my fault. i just had to assume this PDP e roaches are really ignorant set of clowns. going through that thread and reading some comments....i wonder which future the youths this days have. i just had to creat time to give them some education. the pdp e-militia team is just another evidence of a failed political party. everything about them is really clueless.

Sorry to say so but the Nigerian youth deserves everything he gets or does not get from politicians because of his/her inability to think critically and effectively. Have all these god-forsaken youth who support Jonathan blindly ever opened their eyes and minds dispassionately to the misrule of GEJ that is endangering all of us?

Terrorism and insecurity is killing Nigeria yet GEJ supervised the callous looting of $18 billion, over 3 years, sunk into the fight against insecurity and the impending Somaliarisation of Nigeria !!!! What is more wicked and anti-people than that? What of the fuel subsidy scam under GEJ that saw Nigeria record the highest fraud perpetrated against our Nation in history? till today, the silly and ethnocentric fans of GEJ cannot embrace decency to accept that GEJ is responsible since the FG and the NNPC, as the only authorities able to do, issued marketers licence to road side mechanics and cronies of Government who then went on to loot Nigeria silly.

Ditto for this current "power privatisation" which is a case study in cronyism and governance betrayal of its own people for the sake of self-aggrandizement for a few in the corridors of power. Nothing works anywhere in Nigeria today and it is backwardness everywhere while GEJ continues to focus callously on political survival and dominance even though he has never and will never use his political power for the benefit of ordinary Nigerians. yet some, especially misguided youths, continue to support this madness on behalf of a President using ten air-planes when some of his colleagues worldwide have one or none. Hopeless situation really yet one can only hope the good guys amongst our political gladiators win and that GEJ is ousted in time for the serious mission of rescuing Nigeria to begin ASAP. If things continue like this then Nigeria will descend into chaos for sure.

BlackPeni5: If your people had reported it as shrapnels in the beginning, it would have been better. Now see how you guys have lost credibility due to cheap political points.

It is Jonathanians who have lost credibility before the world but they cannot discern this because many are not exposed and cannot see beyond the deck of the sinking PDP ship GEJ is trying to keep afloat with dictatorial antics, gross abuse of power and the hideous looting of Nigeria's commonwealth. It is supporters of Jonathan who are now gaining a reputation for sheer clannishness and myopia that predisposes them to saying the most ludicrous and senselessly unbelievable things.

Buhari had not even stepped out of his vehicle , after being attacked, before ethnocentric, sentimental and clannish fans of this doomed Presidency began shouting "stage managed" attack. We then saw that followed by all manners of wild conspiracy theories. I think it is obvious, beyond even Nigeria, that many supporters of the Presidency have lost their minds, decency, objectivity and the all-important ability to note right from wrong.

@OP. You have time sha.

You should leave some Nigerians to continue making a fool of themselves. We are fast becoming a macabre joke because of the ludicrous things we say in cyberspace these days. If some Nigerians, despite their own fellow citizens being the victims, are not shocking the world via uttering proudly and callously that "Chibok kidnapping a scam" we will hear from millions of Nigerian bomb 'experts' that Buhari is a Nigerian Jack bauer who faked his own attack. Embarrassing really but what can one expect with how Nigeria is now so shockingly divided that many do not bother to think before they speak these days.

blizard44: You're an idiot....

You must be mentally incapacitated to think those that went down with the blast aint people's parents and loved ones.

Buhari my left nyash...

I just don't know where you folks get this misdirected and misplaced anger/blind hate from. Asari Dokubo is blaming GEJ for making this about Buhari alone rather than the many other Nigerians who died. Buhari did not force GEJ to do that. If you need to be angry at someone then face and insult the character central to this which is GEJ. Only God can heal Nigeria and her very frustrated people because it is scary how you guys now go online, ALUU-style, to be insulting those you hate blindly even when they have done nothing wrong. Buhari did not ask anyone to attack his car and he certainly did not ask GEJ to say what he did.

@OP.

What is "active" to you? Do you know how Party chairmen act worldwide or do you take the aberrantly pugnacious and confrontational conduct of numerous PDP Chairmen to be the norm everyone else must emulate to be proclaimed "active"? If Oyegun is a study in 'agbero' behaviour you will be first to shout that "opposition should face the business of telling Nigeria what they plan for them instead of making noise". When he gets on silently with his primary duty of boosting the manpower strength, cohesiveness and internal efficacy of the Party, as is done worldwide, you say he "seems inactive". It seems the PDP, with its "do or die" conduct that runs through every position within the Party, has confused some of you as per the main role of a party chairman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_chair

The role of a party chairman is often quite different from that of a party leader. The duties of the chairman are typically concerned with the party membership as a whole, and the activities of the party organisation. Chairmen often play important roles in strategies to recruit and retain members, in campaign fundraising, and in internal party governance, where they may serve as a member of, or even preside over, a governing board or council. They often also have influence in candidate selections, and sometimes in the development and promulgation of party policy.

ChrisOD: So your son died in a car crash. Sorry for your loss. Your loss is not special as it is just one among many other human losses from car accidents experienced in Nigeria on daily basis.

My questions for you are these. How did your 23 year old son come about such an expensive Lexus car?
Was he returning from a party at 5:30 AM? Was he drunk while driving? If he was drunk, is he allowed to drink alcohol based on his religion?

Hogwash. Aside this garbage thread being the work of a highly insensitive and callous mind, the questions asked are inane and tantamount to ALUU-style summary indictment of El-Rufai than a sincere and objective search for answers.

How did your 23 year old son come about such an expensive Lexus car?

It may not be his car and could belong literally to anyone from his father to his Uncle or Mother. Furthermore, the world is not full of poor people who are so bitter they cannot accept that the rich can indeed give their 23 year old child a very nice car. If El-Rufai gives his son a nice car , especially if he is deserving young man, what is wrong with that? Some 20 year old successful business men and women could afford to use whatever car they want anyway !!!

Was he returning from a party at 5:30 AM?

Even if he was, so what? Does he owe you anything for what he does with his life? At 23, what is odd with him returning from a Party or nightclub in the early hours of the morning? You people , because of frustration at your own lives, have become so draconian in thinking yet remain incapable of confronting the leaders who cause your poverty and misery. Instead you say things, in a cowardly fashion, that target the children and offspring of those you hate but are too weak and fearful to confront. I don't know what kind of mind would ask, as if a crime, if the young man was returning from a Party when we all know that he is at an age when young folks socialise and Party. Did you not party at 23? Were you home staring at the ceiling day and night?

Was he drunk while driving?

More silly questions from an ALUU mind determined to indict El-Rufai and his son of wrongdoing. There are many things that could have been responsible for the crash including over-speeding, tiredness or lack of concentration yet you had to mention drink to exploit the angle that Muslims 'should not drink' and therefore whip up sentiments against 'hypocritical muslim' El-Rufai. You don't know anything yet you have to assume the worst. What does that make you if not a bitter loser with no joy in his own personal life?

If he was drunk, is he allowed to drink alcohol based on his religion?

Just as I stated above, your mention of drink is simply to work the religious angle since divisive losers and bitter elements like you know that nothing drives Nigerians into an ALUU-style lynch mob rage more than matters of religion and ethnicity. You don't even know what obtains in the El-Rufai household and you are already insinuating what their faith, as the family practices it, should follow. Do you know whether EL Rufai is a liberal muslim? Christianity banishes adultery yet does that stop many lecherous christian married men from chasing 19 year old UNILAG girls? Is the boy not an adult capable of making his own choices or are you suggesting the EL-Rufai household is a cult where the father must lord a radical adherence to religion over his adult children?

You guys should let the man and his family mourn their loss. I have children, although much young than El rufai's, and happen to be fairly comfortable in my own right and through my own hard work. Thus I will defend El Rufai because the world is not full of poor, frustrated people only and because successful people do not deserve to be hated and vilified blindly and unreasonably by those who are not. I would have no problem buying my children decent brand new cars when they turn 18 and are going off to University. Indeed this is my plan. When I was at Uni, some wealthy and middle-class parents even bought their children the flat they lived in for the duration of their course at Uni because this made more sense than paying rent which you never get back as opposed to a mortgaged property which, after even 3 years alone, has notched up serious equity and could be rented out profitably when the child finishes Uni and moves back home. Those who want to be successful should not hate those who already are senselessly. EL-Rufai,whatever your opinion of him, is a brilliant man who probably deserves his lofty status in society (see below). We should all seek to be tolerant of each other rather than work with hate and prejudice which leads us to insinuate anyone not living as we are is doing something wrong, dishonest or gained wealth criminally. You should heal your mind of its disposition towards the unobjective and empty hatred of others which leads you to start a totally mindless thread such as this full of malevolent conjectures and ignorance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Ahmad_el-Rufai

Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai



Early career[edit]
Nasir established a Quantity Surveying and Project Management Consulting firm in 1982 with three other partners.[10][11] [size=14pt]The firm was quite successful, handling mainly building and civil engineering projects in Nigeria, and made the partners wealthy millionaires while still in their twenties.[/size] From November 1999 to July 2003, he was the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises and the Secretary of the National Council of Privatization where he spearheaded the privatisation of many government owned companies alongside the controversial former Vice-President.[17] El-Rufai is a known crusader against corruption, having previously successfully exposed two senators that demanded bribes from him to ease his ministerial confirmation.[11] He presided over a real estate boom backed by the radical transformation of infrastructure and land use practices of the federal capital earlier riddled with corruption and vast deviation from the original masterplan.[18] With the establishment of the Abuja Geographic Information System within 12 months of being Minister of the FCT, Abuja became the first municipality in Nigeria with a computerised land register and information system.[19][20] Along with the President and members of the Economic Management Team, he led the reform of the Nigerian public service which had become dysfunctional during years of military dictatorship.[21] At various times during his tenure as Minister, he oversaw the Federal Ministries of Commerce (twice) and Interior.[22] He also chaired several high-profile cabinet committees that led to the establishment of a mortgage system in Nigeria,[23] National ID card system for Nigeria,[24] Electric Power Supply Improvement and the sale of Federal Government real estate in Abuja.[25]

oldenglish: Ok so we don't need strong men like Buhari. If that is the case I don't know why you people is forcing him down our throat as a strong man that will fight corruption. Unknowingly indicting yourself thinking you are castigating Jonathan.

You think you have made sense here or exposed contradiction? Buhari is not a strong man in the sense Obama means. He is a man with very strong will and convictions and those are the sort who build strong national institutions because they do what must be done and abide with such regardless of whose Ox is gored.

Buhari is support iconically because many believe he is one of a very small number of Nigerian leaders with the strength of character and conviction to stay a course and not be intimidated by the forces that have , to the detriment of national progress and greatness, always held Nigeria to ransom. GEJ was was very happy to capitulate to these forces. Jonathan even abets them openly and brazenly to the consternation of the entire world. Buhari cannot do same because of innate character disposition. This is why intelligent Nigerians, aware of the type of leadership Nigeria needs, support Buhari passionately.

dozzzybaba: I miss them too. I also miss Terracotta, Dudu_Negro, bawomolo, Aisha, Jarus etc.

Those guys made Nairaland 'thick' with their intellectual contributions unlike now; Cretins, mo'rons, nematodes and PDP e-dogs have taken over

Too many bright guys, who contributed intelligently to make the forum enjoyable, are gone. Remember the likes of Pukkah, Kilode, Koruji, Akanbi Edu, Ajanlekoko et al. All gone and staying away while cretinous trolls, like the jobless and senseless OP, are everywhere multiplying like Rabbits.

OlaJohnson1: What disturbs me most is the introduction of fixed charges. Just recently my fixed charge for post paid metre was increased from 500 to 650 while the consumption stood at 350. I'm paying more for fixed charge than consumption. What a country!

Bruv, everything about GEJ reeks of scams, deceit, hideous corruption and dubious self-aggrandizement at the expense of Nigerians and their woes. Look at the subsidy scam, the largest recorded scam in Nigeria's history, with no one brought to book today. Pension scam nko? Malabo ? SURE-P or SCAM-P nko? What of the employment scam fiasco that saw young Nigerians lose their lives chasing phantom jobs while the government raked in huge sums from purchase of 'registration forms'? What of $18 billion sunk into the fight against terror and insecurity whereas they are only able to equip our Army with peashooters the Boko boys laugh at? My man, we could go on all day but the world has given us too many example of callous leaders who become stupendously rich at the expense of their people for sensible Nigerians not to know what our "don't give a damn" President is all about. They will continue to rob you bill you for electricity they have not provided because leaders like GEJ come and mortgage every sector of Nigeria into the hands of cronies who only see Nigerians as Cash cows to be milked and exploited.

dozzzybaba: Uncle Gbawe, are you an English professor ?

No my brother. I just read a lot. I always have.

kel4soft: I had a terrible night sleep no thanks to the bloody scam called privatization of PHCN.
OP, folks are tired of complaining, Peeps can longer waste their precious time whinnying and trolling on NL Politics section. Just wait and see. Governing Nigeria is not a rocket science but the cluelessness or lets say the greed of our leaders are the main reason things are not working out as plan.

I happened to be in some international social media site; and I will tell you I have been patriotic over there. I am never critical of our government like I do here over there. Do you know what the international community think of us? we are like a laughing stock with a blind shepherd taken millions of his flocks to abyss of doom.

OP wake up!!! Cos tomorrow, you may have no where to run to when the chips are down. People are only tired of complaining not because they are losing the plot.

I remember calling it "pseudo-privatisation" to only receive insults from those who are ethnocentric, biased and clannish beyond redemption. Now every Nigerian is enjoying 'privatisation' the 'fresh air' way.

What Nigerians will always fail to understand, because many are ethnocentric and sentimental, is that the nature of a man (whether Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Fulani, Ijaw or Ikwerre) will always affect what he does. I predicted it boldly, when it was unfashionable to do so, that GEJ will only deliver "pseudo-privatisation" because his corrupt and totally self-serving nature means he will ruin every good initiative capable of improving life for the ordinary Nigerians via seeking to profit cynically and callously every time and everywhere.

GEJ's uncontrollable lust for self-aggrandizement, for him and his minions, will always lead to laudable projects being hijacked by cronyism, incompetence and greed. We all saw this with fuel subsidy turned into a huge scam benefiting cronies and pals of Government. Likewise SURE-P became another scam after GEJ had assured the 'saving's from removal of subsidy will 'rescue' Nigeria and turn her into Dubai. We saw how $18 billion disbursed to fight Boko Haram has been turned into 'awoof chopulation' for the Government and its pals while insecurity worsens daily. NNPC is now scam and grand corruption personified. Now same is the case with this scam power 'privatisation'. By now, it is obvious to sensible folks that nothing will work under this government because of the nature of GEJ and others like him who are in charge of Nigerian at the highest level. See my talk , from 2013, of 'pseudo-privatisation' that was met, expectedly, with insults by Jonathanians who are mainly ethnocentric and clannish elements too blinded by sentiment to note that their 'messiah' is bad news and 'bad luck' for Nigeria.

https://www.nairaland.com/1533956/electricity-new-owners-complain-overwhelming

They are now complaining. Only in Nigeria. Did these shallow and opportunist profiteers, with nil power sector knowledge, not do their feasibility study to see what they are getting into? Wait, I forget it was AGIPs, oligarchs and callous profit-seekers who won ' transparent bids' for conceded power Stations and utilities.

I stand vindicated. Anyone can check the archives to see I talked of the danger of how "pseudo-privatisation" may be all GEJ will deliver given the ultra-corrupt and amoral "awon boyz" government he leads that is midwifing the "privatisation" of our power sector. Everyone heard "privatisation" and the premature jubilation began. We all forget that numerous evidence, far too many to count, show that the current PDP government , just like others before it, is the sort to cynically bastardize and ruin processes by putting personal aggrandizement above everything else . This is why every institution tha should be independent in Nigeria today remains heavily compromised and unable to deliver.

What, as I argued in the past, was wrong with giving, as first line solution in a true federalism, Nigerian States the freedom to device their own electrification solution As Fashola, Amaechi and other serious Governors demanded? Instead we had Abdusalami, a soldier turned Politician, and his rapacious layman sort 'winning' bids all over the place. Not good at all. It was always going to end in tears. Nigerians, enjoy your "privatisation". You deserve it for thinking thieves could care about you when their actions show they live to fleece you. I sincerely hope the "privatisation" of the power sector works for Nigeria but excuse me for being cynical.

Abagworo: When intelligent people make their contributions, fools remain be-clouded in tribalism and religious differences. Isn't it ridiculous that as at 2009 there was never a case. Of suicide bombing in Nigeria but the refusal of the then dull Preidency of Yar'Adua to understand the root of all religious martyrdom led us into this present crisis. To add salt to injury, Jonathan admin just repeated same mistake last week. To correct the error, whoever is involved in the. Shiite massacre must be judged and executed publicly. I've said my own as a patriot.

Thank you. Imagine what many of us, using balanced and pragmatically dispassionate analysis, predicted 5 years ago now vividly happening today. As it was then also, many Nigerians remains childishly sentimental and clannish to the extent they are only able to insult others while blinding themselves from seeing the big picture. It is anyone's guess where we will be in the next five years with the terrible conducts of this government that shows it has not learned any lessons from the past.

jericco1: @OP why didn't you put a reasonable pic for him. He looks so grotty. And he Tinibu is a wolf in a sheep's skin!

Is it not deplorable how so many of you are childishly focused on Tinubus looks and not his message? Is this a dating or gay pick-up website? How shallow and simple-minded, to non-Nigerians reading this thread, will Nigerians appear? Especially when this is the politics section that should be the epitome of erudition and developed thinking, it is nauseating that you and others talk about looks when the topic is a weighty one inspecting the real and present danger concerning the survival of the "biggest black nation on earth". Tragic.

Tinubu is 100% correct. This is all so predictable for sensible and balanced Nigerians able to rise above sentiments and bias. We have already seen the fall-outs of the GEJ government bastardizing the Army and other Nigerian institutions for political gains. The entire world appreciates the sanctity of strong National institution. Indeed this is what builds developed Nations and this is why Obama stated , in mockery of Nigeria, that "Africa needs strong institutions not strong men".

Sentimental, clannish and ethnocentric Nigerians will never appreciate that a failed and doomed President is one who wilfully makes Nigeria's near-failed institutions more perverse for personal gains when these institutions are crying for serious turn-around reform. In memory, GEJ is worst in this regard and even the army is not spared. God help Nigeria.Yet it is obvious some are too far gone in ethnocentric fervour to ever see let alone support what is right. Tomorrow they will cry and portray themselves as victims never mind all they support today that is wrong, condemnable and dangerous. Those queuing foolishly behind this highly flawed and power-obsessed President, as they fervently worshipped and did the bidding of other seriously flawed 'messiahs' in the past, will always be the last to see the writing on the wall.

“The sun sets soon for the PDP and the party’s end will be ugly. Under the PDP, Nigeria suffers violence. The PDP takes Nigeria by force. “The PDP plays with the tiger’s tail by pillaging the economy, brazenly stealing from public funds, subverting the Nigerian constitution, corruption of the police force, military and SSS in a desperate and near-criminal desire to win all elections.

“The truth is out about the culpability of the Presidency and a select few in the military and the President’s cabinet in the ongoing rapacious employment of state apparatus, resources and electoral institutions to impose a one party rule on Nigeria.” Once the military is politicised, there goes our democracy,” he added.

Descartes: Your concern should be how to salvage your Brown Roof Republic from Stomach Infrastructure and Agberoism

I fully appreciate my 'concern' and my post history here bear testimony to that. I mind my own business and focus on what concerns me while subscribing to the nothing of 'live and let live'. I am not here mocking States of Nigeria or political leaders I am not connected to. I leave that to the electorate in those States. I don't deny my own 'Ghetto' and never pretend it does not exist while nauseatingly trying to fool the world poverty only afflict every other ethnic group in Nigeria but mine.

No well-educated or visionary Yoruba man, because we are balanced and objective, will be ashamed of poverty or 'agberoism'. Indeed we acknowledge it is no crime to be poor and don't go around claiming we are all rich mansion owners and CEOs while openly showing prejudice and disdain for the poor. Indeed we fully understand that it is poor leadership, which can be rectified at any time, that gives rise to most problems Nigerians face such as the poverty your childish and feudalistic kinsmen like to highlight always. We understand that a poor man is not to be mocked. He should be helped to make more of himself by those who are most educated and privileged in society. this is why nations have leaders and strive to produce citizens with the skills and inclination to deliver solutions. No nation can be proud of hateful elements who mock the poor gleefully. Yorubas accept that society parades all kinds and we won't pretend otherwise by making ludicrous claims that defy the reality of Nigeria.

We are realistic and it shows with how many Yorubas here focus on good governance for the SW and Nigeria that will turn things round for the people while many of your nomad-brained kinsmen remain pugnaciously obsessed with making themselves a nuisance over the going-ons in Yoruba land which, ordinarily, should be of no concern at all to them. Don't you people have States and leaders you feel passionately about enough to make such your focus? Why always in the business of the Yorubas negatively more than even the people themselves? Why are you worrying 24/7 about "agberoism" in Yoruba land when your region is bedevilled with serious socio-economic challenges also?

felifeli: Bros you mean say you go run ? Una wan shame me be dat o

Man mi, tell them to go and whip Theodore Orji, Elechi et al into shape. SW dey kampe. Others should mind their own business. What I cannot stand about these hateful hypocrites is the way they can open 50 negative threads about Aregbe and the SW, even complemented with the omni-present picture of brown roofs, yet have absolutely nothing to say about mediocrities like Elechi of Ebonyi. No balanced person does that. I.e neglect his own problems close to home to be obsessing about others many miles away.

felifeli: Ogbeni is a cowboy riding on top of bus and shooting down every Indian , PDP-ers, Igbo
Actually the reason why most people fear Aregberascal is that he understands and represents the power of OPC which is the most dreaded (and mindless) Yoruba reserve army. Igbo people also realise this so every time they see Aregbe fear and cold dey catch dem

Perhaps you have a point sha because this their obsession with Aregbesola and Osun na die. If it is not this foolish OP chasing Aregbe up and down, it will be the lunatic VICTORCIZA or the jobless herbalist from Enugu (Insincere9gerian) shouting about ogbeni. It is now so bad that members of NL from SW States ,except for hardened folks like you, don't even bother with threads about their own States any longer given those who will start the threads and go on to flood it with negativity and insults. Nairaland is just a joke now and many sensible posters, into productive discussions, have left the house to the invading pest and rodents who insist on invading and staying in homes they are not wanted.

rozayx5: shut up who are you calling an illiterate
a fool that was so ashamed to post after loosing ekiti, is now up and about shouting, what performance has he done that we cant see
Osun is a perfect description of poverty whether you believe it or not.
i dont blame you drinking well water surrounded by pit laterines has made you to celebrate mediocrity.

Mumu, I repeat you are an illiterate. I remained posting when I wanted and on topics that interested me. I simply avoided, as many Nairalanders now do, threads full of vile pests and irritating vagrants, like you, who take panadol for the pain of others. How many SW posters do you see these days contributing to post about even their own States when it is your nomad-brained kinsmen who will start the threads about Osun, Ekiti, oyo et al and then fill it with negative comments? Posters are just learning to leave you guys to your vile obsessions, lunatic behaviour and bad belle.

It is hateful illiterates like you who assumed Ekiti election meant more than a clamour for good governance , to others, who will think anyone 'disappeared' over the outcome.

Plus10: Lol...I cudnt believe my eyes when they said these pics were taking from Osun...I thought they said aregbe has turn every where to small London!

rozayx5: Well the South West jweedians on this site want us to believe he is a performer, but the background of where he is campaigning is the perfect description of a failed government

Illiterates. Very sad how you numbskulls are long on blind hatred of others but absolutely bereft of minimal intelligence or adequate reasoning/analytical ability. So skyscrapers will just appear everywhere overnight in defiance of the reality which is that Osun is very poor and needs to raise IGR (internally generated revenue) significantly to boost spending on infrastructure?

When they say Aregbe is doing well do you garish and hollowly materialistic people then think shiny tall edifices everywhere is the only evidence that proves this? In any case, is Aregbe responsible for how privately-owned homes look? Should he be spending Osun's meagre income replacing roofs and modernising privately-owned homes or 'teaching a man to fish' via improving the socio-economic condition of Osun which will then take care of other things?

One does not even know where to begin with people as unintelligent, bling-obsessed and as backwards as you lot. Total waste of time. No wonder all you guys can contribute here is hate-mongering. What makes the pathetic lack of intelligence and exposure of you cretins fascinating is the idiotic chest-beating you operate with everywhere and in relation to everything. Come back when you acquire more knowledge and know what good and pro-people governance entails instead of making a fool of yourselves via suggesting mansions are the indicators of 'performance' given what Aregbe took charge of and what he must deliver first as priority before others.

smartchoice: Hope you won't disappear after August 9th, 2014....like June 21st, 2014....

You must be hallucinating. When did I disappear and why would I disappear over an election? Bruv, don't get issues twisted because I am passionate about politics. My interest in Nigerian politics does not stretch beyond a personal desire to see good governance for Nigerians who have traditionally being given zilch by callous leaders. Whatever happens in any election in Nigeria, I remain a very fulfilled, happy and blessed individual living a good life.

felifeli: Hope you done hear now okoro people. Leave me alone with my governor . If I abuse him , it is out of love either for him or my state and not because I hate Yoruba people okay ?
Now fvck off and go push your otapiapia wheelbarrow . Se e ti gbo ?

Oga Gbawe sorry joor no vex again. Haba you self sabi vex o. see how you scatter their head with grammar.

Man mi, no be so. I just can't stand hateful and prejudiced behaviour. Osun folks like you can dislike or criticise Aregbe and indeed want to vote him out because you are entitled to do so as stakeholders in the fortune of Osun State. Yet, what concerns SE Nairalanders with Osun to the extent they now start virtually all thread about the State? Why not leave the affair of others to them? I would even have no problem with most of them, in the spirit of "one Nigeria" and "I am my brother's keeper" if they are not the same nauseating people always posting unsavoury pictures about the SW everywhere and calling Yorubas all manners of ungracious things google search now throws up routinely. Clearly these pests resent Yoruba folks so why pretend to care about the fortunes of Osun, Ekiti or any other SW States?

lakpalakpa: They will never open threads to discuss Uduaghan, T.A. Orji or Martin Elechi who happen to be the worse governors in Southern Nigeria...

This is what I don't understand. When some are obsessed with discussing the affairs of others while they neglect their own issues, then this simply means they are not happy or satisfied with who they are.

Look at the article below about "6 Things Happy People Never Do" and tell me if it is not the classic explanation for the behaviour of OP and his chest-beating, attention-seeking co-travellers we see here day in day out.

http://www.marcandangel.com/2013/07/16/6-things-happy-people-never-do/

6 Things Happy People Never Do

Happy people do a lot of things. They spend time expressing gratitude, cultivating optimism, practicing kindness, nurturing loving relationships, committing to meaningful goals, savoring life’s little pleasures, and so on and so forth.

But they NEVER…

1. Mind other people’s business.
2. Seek validation of self-worth from others.
3. Rely on other people and external events for happiness.
4. Hold on to resentment.
5. Spend prolonged periods of time in negative environments.
6. Resist the truth.

9jacrip: I couldn't have said all you said better. What amused me is the fact that they think the mud/rusted roofs are things to be ashamed of.

I understand they lack history and culture, hence, facial mark is a source of jocular jabs to them when top classed cultures in North of Nigeria, East of Africa, Americas etc. and to think they also wear 3 stripes marks on the sides of their eyes like Adidas logo makes me wonder what makes tribal marks funny.

Run-down schools? It is everywhere, even in the East, so its no biggie.

They are just trying so hard to debt the reputation the Yoruba are known for world over

Not succeeding and will never succeed. I think some people need to get a life and let go of the hate they were indoctrinated with that makes them always eager to prove a point to Yoruba people.

idumuose: How will you not be lost when you don't understand the dynamism of Nigerian politics.Osun state is part of Nigeria so why wouldn't i be bothered about osun people.We are our brothers' keeper son..

Shut up you nitw1t. "Brothers keeper" when majority of your co-travellers specialise in pictures of brown roofs, facial tribal marks and run-down schools? We are to believe such malevolent behaviour is how you show you are your "brother's keeper'? Simply learn to mind your own business because the Yorubas don't need your own version of looking out for a "brother". When have you guys said anything positive about the SW? If you are not starting silly and prejudiced threads about "Yorubas know nothing about Nigeria" you will be attacking and demonising SW leaders that their own people love and support. What is wrong with you folks and why do you not have limits of decency? Your negative fixation with the SW is ruining this forum and you all should learn to concentrate on your own affairs because lord knows your irresponsible and thieving leaders need to be held accountable.