₦airaland Forum

ichidodo: Story story.

You are the sort they hide things from by putting it in a book, so I am not surprised a few lines on a political forum is "story story". Why will your sort not remain on face book and 'like' the retarded, senseless and narcissistic one line sentences full of cuz, wuz, lolz etc. Counter what I say intelligently or get lost.

Billyonaire: Today, History has been made. The Great Lion of Bourdillon has been awarded 2 Great Titles:

1. Betrayer - from Atiku (North)
2. Rebel - from Olu Falae (West)

And I humbly award him a bonus: Iscariot, you heard me, Judas Iscariot of Nigeria.

Yet Tinubu has never been in the position to perpetrate the greatest betrayal possible. I.e the betrayal of the Nigerian people your 'messiah' GEJ is conducting with open deceit, duplicity, aplomb and impunity.

How many Nigerians would have voted for a President who will come in to embrace profligacy, waste and corruption via saying "leaner Government not possible"?

Did Nigerians back GEJ to institutionalise a style that consist of Government, openly and disgracefully, compromising it own problem-solving task forces and committees as was done to the Ribadu petroleum task force?

How many Nigerians would have backed a President who avoid fuel subsidy scammers, he deliberately issued with marketers licence, only to go after the pocket of poor folks?

Hard to believe Nigerians supported GEJ so he could resurrect and support the Anenihs of the world.

Which Nigerian voted GEJ so he could come and pardon those convicted of the crime killing Nigeria? I.e corruption?

Ultimate betrayal is telling a people you will be "transformation" only for them to see you, in every aspect of leadership, as far worse than those you replaced leading to the amazingly huge loss of worldwide goodwill your messiah has brought upon himself that sycophants like you wish to pass off as the criticism of "yesterdays men". Of course David Cameron is yesterdays man.

I could go on all day suffice to say take your GEJ azzlicking away from here because he is the greatest betrayer in so far as politicians betraying each other can never be compared to a President, on so many levels, betraying his electorate.

[quote author=musiwa-x]The comments of these so-called elders in the Nigerian political sphere seems fishy as I do not trust their honesty and ethical standards. An Atiku that wanted to become president at all cost has the audacity to call someone a Betrayer? I think he would have preferred a situation where Tinubu would designate him as the presidential candidate for ACN/APC unconditionally, because it's his birthright to rule Nigeria (Born to Rule mentality). In his region, what does he stand for? who are the politicians being mentored by him? How has he helped his community and region?
We can continue to ask these questions that begs for answers without making meaningful progress, because he simply has no moral right to question someone's personality seeing him as a man who would join any party that will serve as a vehicle for the actualisation of his presidential ambition[/quote]Thank you. The rants of a frustrated and lazy loser. Was he not 'bed-hopping' when Tinubu was working hard to make the ACN what it is today? Let Atiku face GEJ and others for the PDP ticket. Tinubu dey kampe while it is Atiku fading into political obscurity fast.

shymexx: The article says a lot without actually saying anything...

There's no permanent friend(s) in politics - it's a dirty game...

It's either this guy is naive, or not political savvy... asking for loyalty in politics is like asking a who.re/prostitute for commitment...

Thank you. Fact is that Atiku is not even a truthful person. He is fraudulently revisionist. Who is the personification of "betrayal" more than Atiku? Did he not abandon Tinubu and the ACN to 'drown' when he assumed the ACN was sinking and no longer a veritable platform after his 2007 'adventure'? This tirade comes because of what Tinubu has led the ACN to become, i.e an integral part of the ACN, while he remains grappling with GEJ and others for the PDP ticket !!!

Ask the dishonest folks here what Atiku did after he was made Party leader, i.e Presidential candidate, and ran as ACN candidate coming third in 2007. Did he not pack his back and leave vacuously looking for the next 'ready-made' platform to make him President? Where was his spirit of loyalty and sense of duty to others?

What did Tinubu do when Atiku left? Did he follow suit and jump ship also? Some Nairalanders should get real and stop arguing issues from an ethnically bigoted perspective alone. Atiku is the face of betrayal not Tinubu. Tinubu is an effective and pragmatic politician yet he builds things and endures with people if he believes in them and their chances. Just ask Fashola or Oshiomhole, Fayemi and Aregbesola the man spent serious money to help promote even to the point of sticking with them to regain their electorally stolen mandate. Too much self-deceit and revisionism on this forum prompted by sectional bias.

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

Presidential run

On 25 November 2006 Abubakar announced that he would run for President; he did not announce immediately which party he would represent, although he inaugurated a presidential campaign committee.[4]
On 20 December 2006, he was chosen as the presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC).[5]
On 15 March 2007, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the final list of 24 aspirants for the 21 April presidential election. Abubakar's name was conspicuously missing even though he is seen by many as the only 'credible' opposition candidate to the powerful ruling PDP party in the election.
In a statement released by INEC, it states that Abubakar's name was missing because he is on a list of officials indicted for corruption by a panel set up by the ruling government. The creation of this list is seen by many as a tool to weed out opponents of the PDP who may have a strong showing in the forthcoming polls. This school of thought is supported because officials like Andy Uba, a former presidential adviser to Obasanjo, is being allowed to contest in the polls despite a history of well publisised fraudulent activities, i.e. fake educational certificates and money laundering charges in the USA. INEC disqualified Abubakar even though there is a court judgement which states that INEC doesn't have the power to disqualify candidates. INEC appealed this court decision and this move cast doubts on the neutrality of INEC as an umpire in the 2007 elections.
Abubakar headed to the courts on 16 March to get his disqualification overturned despite a statement from the INEC chairman which says it will be impossible for him to contest even if he gets a judgement in his favour as it will be logistically impossible to reprint ballot papers and distribute them round the country before the April polls.
According to reports on 26 March on a Nigerian newspaper run website, Professor Iwu, the chairman of INEC may be prepared to adhere to a court ruling in the case of Abubakar but with the caveat that it has to be a ruling by the supreme court. His words “Yes, he (Abubakar) will run if the Supreme Court says so. This is where the logistics issue actually comes in. We must have our own fallback preparation. I am not the type that makes plan without having plan A, B, and C. If the Supreme Court decides that, we will obey the Supreme Court.” [1]
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on 16 April that INEC has no power to disqualify candidates. The ruling allowed Abubakar to contest the election, although there were concerns that it might not be possible to provide ballots with Abubakar's name by 21 April, the date of the election.[6] On 17 April, a spokesman for INEC said that Abubakar would be on the ballot.[7]
According to official results, Abubakar took third place, behind PDP candidate Umaru Yar'Adua and ANPP candidate Muhammadu Buhari, with about 7% of the vote (about 2.6 million votes).[8] He rejected the election and said that it should be cancelled and held again, describing it as Nigeria's "worst election ever".[9]
He said that he would not attend Yar'Adua's inauguration on 29 May due to his view that the election was not credible, saying that he did not want to "dignify such a hollow ritual with my presence".[10]
Atiku returned to the People's Democratic Party, a party he was a founding member. Since his return, the former Vice President has declared his intention to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. On 22 November, the Ciroma Committee selected Atiku as the Northern Consensus Candidate over former Military President Ibrahim Babangida, former National Security Adviser Aliyu Gusau and Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State.
Atiku contested for the Presidential ticket of his party alongside President Jonathan and Sarah Jubril. He was defeated by Jonathan in what many described as "strategically rigged" primaries.
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dougivilla: A man in the office of a presidential aspirant goes against his party position and the party does nothing and you call it political maturity? Come on! Thats absence of principle!Oshiomole fyi is on a political survival scheme, unlike your Ribadu who does not even have what he represents.
ACN is nothing but a toy in the hands of PDP, a place where pdp rejects find solace. How can we take as serious a party that prides itself as the major opposition presenting their presidential tickets to pdp factory rejects of Atiku and Ribadu. Does it mean they never had presidential materials?
Later, i'l respond to your Government of National Unity Misinformation!

Stop the dishonesty. Are you asking the ACN to be dictatorial? It seems you don't want to align with the admirable tenets of democracy as obtains laudably worldwide and not as we bastardize it in Nigeria.

We may be feudalistic and aberrant in the practice of democratic Governance in Nigeria but that does not mean you are free to talk as if our political actions and thoughts are correct or even desirable. Worldwide, the ruling government can call on anyone, from any Party, to include the opposition , to serve in a National role. A Party can advise its member to reject the call but they cannot force him to because there is no provision in democracy that means any Party can or should have an official position that entails a proviso for its members never to work with the ruling government .

Get that aspect very clear because what you are saying is an outright lie and an unthinking admission you do not know what democratic politics is. The ACN can say they do not believe anything good can come from working with the ruling Party, and even discourage members from working with the PDP government, but they can never make this an official or legitimately acceptable Party "position" binding on all members. They can therefore not boot out a member who accepts a national assignment. At worst, they must agree to disagree as happened, and reconcile afterwards.

Regards what is written below, you, as proven above, are the misinformed person. Forming a Government of National unity remains an idea every Party has the discretion to accept or reject. End of story. No wriggle room at all and no allowance for running from pillar to post. The ruling Party puts the notion to others and they are free to accept or reject. Yet I can appreciate how you get that wrong because you don't seem to know what the word democracy mean and, glaringly, you don't understand the concept of free choice. Fashola is right to call the PDP "politically immature". That immaturity, for 13 years, is what has entrenched undemocratic notions as 'correct conduct' in the minds of folks like you.

Later, i'l respond to your Government of National Unity Misinformation!

Afam4eva: Granted that Atiku is a political prostitute and has his own faults. But we should not throw away the baby with the bath water. Let's address what he has said. This is the believe that a lot of people have held about Tinubu and his party. They promise their presidential candidates heaven and earth but go to the back and hobnob with the enemy. Let Tinubu come out and defend himself.

When did Atiku become an honest or even upright Politician? What is there to "address" when the possibility Atiku is lying is 99%? I am sorry if I don't want to speculate on Atiku's allegations. I have solid reasons not to. It is called "past conduct". Tinubu is a pragmatic Politician and every allegations against him remain unproven. Even your claim here, if you will argue in the realm of what can be proven, is false because it is one you cannot factually validate. It is merely conjecture. There is no way you can prove Tinubu undermined his Party's Presidential candidate.

Like or hate Tinubu, you cannot dispute the fact he is an astute and very effective politician who plans ahead. Go back to 2010-2011 to know Tinubu worked hardest to ensure the merger took place to deliver a candidate that can genuinely challenge the PDP. When this did not happen, Tinubu simply rejected expensively backing Ribadu with his funds and machinery.

If Tinubu truly accepted inducement to undermine Ribadu, why did Aregbesola not go along with this scheme? Why was Aregbesola still free to work for and deliver a Ribadu win in Osun? The conclusion of a pragmatic thinking man, especially those capable of linking up events that led to Tinubu's eventual apathy, can only be that Tinubu logically, and acceptably for a pragmatic politician, simply refused to throw money or effort away chasing what he believed to be a lost cause. Unpalatable for some, but that is politics and this is indeed why many of us are voters and not politicians.

Tinubu took a hands-off approach yet the man, most importantly, did not stop anyone in his Party working independently for Ribadu as Aregbesola did. That is not the action of someone undermining his Party's Presidential candidate. If indeed Ribadu felt truly undermined and betrayed then he would not be an APC member today. More plausible to think Ribadu himself accepted that he could not have won and that Tinubu was only being a pragmatic politician.

Atiku is a dishonest and drowning man clutching at straws. Obvious he envies Tinubu's popularity and the efficacy of the platform the man has created, attracting the likes of Utomi, he does not have the talent to nurture. He is reduced to 'bed-hopping' to actualise a doomed ambition. This is why he launches this pathetic tirade instead of facing GEJ and others who want the PDP ticket.

dougivilla: Are you also not aware that his 'party' was against his accepting that assignment, because they said they prefered to play purely opposition politics? Was forming a gov't of national unity not a national responsibility too?

Are you not aware you are even arguing in favour of the political maturity of the ACN and Ribadu himself? The ACN , for good and justifiable reasons, felt nothing good could come out of an ultra-corrupt Government that compromises everyone and taint them with sleaze. The ACN' stance has proven correct with how the Ribadu task force was openly and disgracefully compromised while the submission and recommendations of the task force, as is same for many before it, has now being tossed in the bin.

Ribadu, rightly also, felt he could not refuse a national calling even if it meant working with the 'devil'. After all, it can be argued Ribadu was successful as EFCC boss even if his own boss then (OBJ) was a hideously corrupt individual. Ribadu has proven there is 'method to his madness'.

In the end both, Ribadu and the ACN, accommodated each other's position graciously and the rest, as they say, is history today. So also Oshiomhole siding with GEJ over subsidy removal. The ACN never attempted to forcefully make him toe Party line. Ribadu and Oshiomhole both have no compunction to remain with the ACN and now APC. They could both , as intelligent men, have moved on but it is obvious both know it is best to remain with the better devil by far. The fact Ribadu and ACN are reconciled means, ultimately, you have no point.

Also, forming a Government of National unity is not a "National assignment" if sufficient proof exist that the ruling Party has no interest in leading well. Only an untruthful person will not admit the ACN made the right choice given all we have seen today.

Atiku is now a hero to some? The same worthless Politician who threatened violence if a Northern candidate was denied the PDP ticket is now a credible voice?

At the end of the day, Atiku will always bring to mind the image of a bitter, desperate, frustrated and talentless politician. Afterall, he was a "founding father" of the ACN.

One wonders why he made nothing of the Party in the North while Tinubu persevered to turn it into what it is in the SW. I remember now. Atiku was too busy 'bed-hopping', in "born-to-rule" desperation, to understand the aspect of working hard to gain what one wants instead of assuming he has a divine right to claim it. What a sad loser. The part about "count me out of the APC" got me laughing hard.

olabukola: I did not see any hate in the post you quoted. All i read there is just question. Is like you have problem with the eziachi before or something.

@ op. I thought you guys accused INEC of being part of PDP.

My bad. I actually confused Eziachi with someone else. I have apologized to him. I actually respect Eziachi here. The character I had in mind is one of those who cannot go two post without a hateful anti-Yoruba diatribe i.e Ezeuche.

The reason I find the whole Ikimi = APC talk annoying is because it is one that people present without even inspecting the legitimacy of their utterance.

I challenge, here and now, the "Ikimi = APC" brigade to prove their case and show a 'messiah' Politician who is not in the APC. Let critics just show, without excuses or further ado, an accomplished Nigerian Politician who would give the APC 'legitimacy' yet is not with the Party already.



Let me ask now, once and for all, and with the hope of getting a factually intelligent answer, "what politician do we want to see in the APC that is not already there"?

When has the few (Ikimi, Ogbeh et al) some are obsessed with stopped the APC being the coalition of 'good guys' it is in reality and for those not into self-deception?

What transformational position has Ikimi been pencilled down for? President? VP? Senate President? Speaker lower House, AGF, EFCC boss, Petroleum Minister? Can any "Ikimi= APC" critic honestly and factually prove that the Parties that have merged have a practice of promoting mediocrities into transformational offices? Or is it no longer about having undoubted achievers manning the most influential offices?

Why Are Nigerians always obsessed with pessimistically talking about Ikimi when the reality is that the APC is indeed still host to, by far, the most genuinely progressive politicians in Nigeria who are being given a platform to deliver while the ruling Party remains firmly about promoting mediocrities who help maintain the status quo for the hideous looting of Nigeria?

Why has the likes of Utomi moved to the ACN and now APC if not his recognition of how they are the Party that can bravely embrace his sort and provide them the platform to attain political office? Is it not same for the most progressive politicians in Nigeria today or are some APC critics going to go and import messiahs from Mars to suit their self-deceit [size=14pt]when it may be easier to face the fact that Nigeria's best are already with the APC ?[/size]

Can one politician (Ikimi) be deemed to disqualify a Party's progressive credentials while the many genuinely progressive members of the APC are disregarded? Does that not show some are not operating with a fair mind towards the APC in regards to the real constituent members of the Party and in the face of the reality of the Nigerian current political environment? It makes absolutely no sense. That is why I made the Barcelona analogy.

Eziachi: So what makes men like Tom Ikimi a progressive?
Is there anybody in the Nigerian politics who would br called a real progressive?

Sorry, Eziachi, about my original post. I actually confused you with someone else. Yet my original premise stands. How can you continue to make the APC about Ikimi? If you have a genuine problem with the APC then air it and let it be a cogent one. As it is, there is no Party in Nigeria that will not be host to an Ikimi type.

Continuing to mention Ikimi just means you are not ready to deal with the reality of Nigeria and what our political climate is about today and now. Okay for the kids here to indict APC over Ikimi but I would think the sensible posters here would understand the APC still remains about the many good names who are delivering or have a history of delivering. I brought an article here recently where the author, in relation to the Ikimi argument you present, stated that Nigeria cannot be what its people and leaders are not. If anyone wants the APC full of saints, then come back in 100 years when you and your leaders are majority saints.

As it is, and as realists and pragmatically sound people cognisant of what evolution entails, we can only hope the APC delivers a platform to enable us get a Buhari, Ribadu, Fashola, Oshiomhole, Utomi, Femi Falana et al into transformational positions rather than what obtains currently where the most transformational offices, that can make Nigeria great, are manned by non-visionary gradualists, mediocrities and defenders of the status quo like GEJ, Sambo, Allison-Madueke, David Mark, Anenih, Adoke Bello et al.

We should begin to see what matter by first acknowledging and accepting what our real situation shows we should, as reasonable people, aspire to in the short term secure in the knowledge evolution will kick things on from there.

You start, as a Nation, embracing the sports of boxing today yet you want to go to the Olympics tomorrow and clear all the boxing medals?

HNosegbe: @ OP,

Nairaland is a microcosm of Nigeria. Whatever ethnic rivalries you see here are reflective of the state of affairs in the larger country.

No my brother. You are flat wrong. You are intelligent enough to know that we would surely see a reflection of your assertion on the ground if Nairaland is indeed a microcosm of our Nation.

There are other Nigerian forums that are not like Nairaland specifically because of the calibre of people who join those sites !!! If you are tribalistic, hateful, prejudiced or an ethnic jingoist, you will be lonely on those sites and leave in the end because no one is in the mood for your prejudiced, toxic and discriminatory views/antics. On Nairaland, the 'Jerry Springer' of Nigerian forums, you are a star the more bigoted or outrageous you are.

The truth some may be uncomfortable with is that Nairaland is a forum, by its very nature, that losers, failures, frustrated, hateful and thrashy people are encouraged to join. This is why they troop here to behave in a manner that will not be encouraged or tolerated elsewhere. This place is simply a congregation of the worst and most disturbed Nigerians although that does not mean you will not find a few good people here.

Ultimately, you cannot land in hell and claim it is a microcosm of Earth. Rather, hell has evil people there because it is their natural home same as Nairaland is a comfortable home to deviant and aberrant folks. You cannot say the Jerry Springer show is a microcosm of the USA when we all know it is a congregation of thrashy, uncouth and poorly educated people. Abeg, let us put Nairaland in perspective ojare.

naptu2: It is TERRIBLE! It is REALLY TERRIBLE! This was the reason I said that I would not celebrate the earlier improvement in power supply, but would watch and wait.

We've had such increases many times since 1999, but after a while everything returns to normal (meaning blackouts). During Yar'Adua's presidency we had almost a month of uninterrupted power supply (the battery in the diesel generator ran down), but after a while, everything returned to normal.

My hope though, is that they can quickly and properly conclude the privatisation process. That is when, hopefully, we can shout uhuru!

My brother, I said nothing throughout that frenzied period of "GEJ has improved electricity massively". As one of the "Chief haters" of GEJ here, I thought I was the wrong person to point out the obvious , highlighted in your post, to sentimental folks into self-deceit and the massive worship of mediocrity strong enough to even affect their short term memory.

Even before this latest 'boom and bust" we were down this same road on this very same forum under GEJ where some over-celebrated the usual seasonal fluctuation only to gnash teeth when the inevitable crash came. When the latest noise began, I just thought to myself, "these people never learn". Na wa sha.

eldoradoxx: Na grammar u just dey blow oh make I tell u. Nigerian politics is not for grammarians because over 80 % of real voters don't really read opinions in print, electronic or social media. They re the tomatoes seller, the plantain roaster, the bean-cake seller, the keke napep/maruwa rider, the wood hewer etc. So all that was analysed above is stil to the figment of the writer's imagination. PDP perhaps quarrels more than other parties, but it has first class in resolving all disputes before elections. I asked earlier, would pdp governors be ready to be ordinary floor members in APC? Or would APC guys like Buhari, Tinubu, Rochas allow their party to be hijacked by pdp (corrupt) governors whose only interest is to use the party machinery already created for them to further their interest? The union can't work.

Any one stopping you writing "grammar"? Please don't patronise us with that "on the ground voter" garbage. Are they the ones I am talking to here? I just hope some of you making noise and working the wrong angle will ever be able to discern what the author of the article below is saying. I think it is simply that many on this forum cannot appreciate that evolution cannot be denied. The APC is the beginning of what has led to others developing. I.e two strong Parties capable of deposing each other and therefore acting as the automatically most effective check-and-balance anyone can conceive. It is so in the USA, UK and even Ghana for example.

So because PDP politician migrate to the APC that makes everything about the APC wrong? I would not want to insult anyone. So let me just put it mildly saying many here lack political sophistication and the vision to see what must happen as a sign of an inevitable movement in the right direction. That is why I said in my "grammar" post: regarding an inevitable entity very much long overdue as per the concept of natural evolution.. I guess anyone troubled by the use of grammer from others may struggle to understand the above and what the author is saying below.

He is blowing grammar too and delivering an "epistle" so it is fine if,as expected, you do not bother to read it. The talk of many here show me that the 419 mentality we are tagged with is perhaps deserved. Some of us appreciate the reality to know the best expectation is simply for the APC to be better than the PDP and deliver for Nigeria better in our march towards genuine Nationhood .

It is dreamers, not into reality and what currently obtains, fooling themselves the APC should be about saints to be different. Where are the saints in your corrupt Country full of crooks everywhere? Perhap 99% of our politicians are crooks !!! Some of you should simply accept the concept of the lesser devil till the beautiful ones are born and let us stop fooling ourselves about what our nation is i.e a den of criminality, open corruption and the hideous deification of mediocrity.

http://saharareporters.com/article/apc-game-changer-zainab-usman

APC: The Game Changer? By Zainab Usman
Posted: March 23, 2013 - 16:03

By Zainab Usman
"This is a new dawn for our generation. This is unusual. It is gratifying that they are here to see and share with us," the middle aged man remarked with tears of joy when he saw the nine state governors trekking through the volatile Monday Market in Boko Haram hotspot, Maiduguri, shaking hands with fish mongers, vegetable sellers and taxi drivers. To this middle aged man, to the yam-seller who exclaimed “unbelievable” and to countless other ordinary Nigerians in that market, interacting with the governors up-close was far beyond what they had come to expect from the detached, conceited and unapproachable persona Nigerian politicians have cultivated over the years.

This daring act by the opposition governors brought to life for many, the ongoing merger of five main opposition parties under the banner of the All Progressive Congress (APC). This merger has recently dominated the agenda of political calculations for the 2015 general elections, and is the favoured discussion point for many pundits. Importantly, many justifiably question the APC’s capability of providing a credible alternative to the norm, the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), focusing especially on the APC’s lack of a coherent ideology.

One of the notable commentaries critiquing the proposed APC is the one by former Central Bank Governor, Professor Charles Soludo titled “Where is the Political Party for (the) Nigerian Economy?” In it, he mirrors the sincere concern of many Nigerians – that the APC is an alliance of convenience by disgruntled politicians lacking any progressive ideology save their inordinate ambition to grab power at the centre, that the “soul of the party” is not really different from the much derided PDP, and that it lacks a sophisticated manifesto. As close to the truth as this description probably is, [size=14pt]many do not quite appreciate that the dominance of the PDP behemoth and the emergence of its soon-to-be arch nemesis, the APC, are manifestations of the continuous evolution of our democratic process. The APC cannot be that which we are not.[/size]

The much cited APC’s lack of a coherent ideology is an interesting paradox. When many including Professor Soludo refer to ideology, they mean either or all of two things. One, they hark back to the left-wing right-wing parties of the 1960s to the 1980s whose class-based identities were critical elements of their mobilisation strategies. Two, they are also referring to the clear articulation of the vision, strategy and proposed programmes of such parties in an ideologically-driven manifesto. As ideal as these normative expectations of a what a party should be seem, they are neither entirely relevant to our present Nigerian reality, nor are they necessary requirements for the APC or any such movement to be agents of the much desired change in the Nigerian polity.

An ideologically-driven movement is not relevant to Nigerians because globally the ideological parties that pundits long for are no longer tenable in our present unipolar (yet increasingly multipolar) world. When those class-based political parties existed decades ago, the bipolar world had two superpowers representing rival systems of political and economic organisation – the American-led capitalist West and the Soviet-led socialist East. Countries and their constituent political parties, academics and civil society organisations strongly defined themselves on the basis of either of such doctrines. In Nigeria, progressive-pro-masses politics were personified, to varying degrees, by Awolowo’s Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), and Aminu Kano’s Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), while conservative and aristocratic politics were the forte of the Northern Peoples’ Congress (NPC) and later, the National Party of Nigeria (NPN). Consequently, such parties articulated their manifestos and strategies for policy execution loosely based on the political orientations they subscribed to.

Presently, the exigencies of the global environment and Nigeria’s present realities have rendered such ideological movements – at least in the way many pundits envision – untenable. First, the global dominance of capitalism as the preferred system of economic organisation, means most of the world’s countries have adopted some variant of capitalism – whether its America’s free market capitalism, China’s state-led capitalism or Nigeria’s crony capitalism. Secondly, any movement that employs the rhetoric of a “proletariat revolution”, promising the usurpation of the “bourgeois hegemony” to appeal to the Nigerian masses – of which people under the age of 30 constitute almost 70% – will find itself left in the cold, dry winds of the Harmattan.

The basic needs of ordinary Nigerians which sadly haven’t changed that much, are to be met with pragmatic promises to be achieved via strategically crafted but importantly, easily accessible methods. Nigerians still need the basics: electricity, jobs, access to quality education and efficient healthcare services; Nigerians want to feel secure in this era of kidnappings, suicide bombs and diabolical killings by “unknown gun men”; marginalised swathes of Nigerians want to feel they matter too in the scheme of things beyond being used and dumped during elections and importantly, many are just fed up with the dysfunction and culture of impunity that pervades the polity, which the PDP symbolises.

Since grandiose ideologies and fancy manifestos will obviously not resonate with ordinary Nigerians, what the APC or any movement needs is the ability to tap into the collective yearnings of Nigerians from all walks of life. The enthusiasm and fervent idealism of young Nigerians from the 1960s to the 1990s fuelled by left wing political ideology has been replaced with brittle cynicism. This frustration stems mostly from our exclusionary and testosterone-driven political system especially at the core of decision-making. The archetypal decision-maker being an “Oga at the top” anywhere between 40 and 80 years, typically arrogant, accessible to cronies and colleagues, yet inaccessible to his constituency, gets away with defying many manmade, marital and divine laws with impunity, and retires to be celebrated in his local church or revered in his neighbourhood mosque rather than to the societal opprobrium he so deserves. It’s no wonder that some young Nigerians find an outlet for this frustration through Twitter and Facebook, others at markets and motor-parks perpetually feel like second-class citizens, while many in rural areas who hardly feel the impact of governance at any level just couldn’t be bothered until elections season. This cynicism pervades all segments of society.

The APC or any such movement ought to become a rallying point for Nigerians to coalesce around, at the barest minimum to set the tone for a more inclusive type of governance where ordinary Nigerians will be regarded as people who matter in the scheme of things. Such a movement could learn a thing or two from Zambia’s Patriotic Front (PF), the platform on which the current president, Michael Sata sailed to victory in 2011, thereby upstaging incumbent Rupiah Banda and his ruling party, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD)’s 20 year hegemony. Observers such as Cambridge academic Alastair Fraser, attribute the PF’s victory to its ability to mobilise ordinary Zambians across ethnically diverse communities, especially the critical youth demographic, through a grassroots approach to politics. The PF focused not on socialist slogans, but on the unmet needs of individual communities especially employment and infrastructure, employed a fiery anti-Chinese rhetoric and the famous “Don’t Kubeba” (accept bribes from parties but vote for your choice at the polls) slogan.

Barring slight differences in context and dynamics, parallels can clearly be drawn between Zambia and Nigeria. Apparently, the key for any movement that seeks to mobilise ordinary citizens is its ability to reach out to and connect with marginalised segments of society, communicate through the language of their lived realities and basic needs, and importantly, make them feel relevant in deciding their own destinies. The brazen visit by APC governors to Maiduguri a few weeks ago, prompted President Jonathan to visit Maiduguri days later, his first visit since his election in 2011 despite the daily carnage there. This is healthy competition on both sides to score political points with the masses, and this competition is the stuff responsive democracies are made of.

Ultimately, Nigerians need a credible alternative, not just to replace the PDP in power, but an alternative way of doing things, an alternative to the dysfunctional and malevolent “do-or-die” politics that has characterised our polity throughout the past 13 years of democratic rule. In this quest, it matters little whether the APC is an alliance of convenience by “desperate” power mongers, as they have been variously described, all that matters is their ability to provide an inclusive platform and a reliable alternative that Nigerians can choose to either support or ignore. The quality of our politics needs to be lifted from the grubby bottom through healthy competition engendered by a worthy rival to the PDP. Whether the APC is capable of this arduous task, only time and the strategies it adopts will determine.

djon78: I am Igbo but to be honest, the Yorubas may have their fault but to me they respect the Igbos more than any other ethnic group in Nigeria, even more than our neighbors SS, example an Igbo man has been a commissioner in Lagos for a long time, they know the value we have added to development of Lagos, they do respect us. I think we Igbos should forget about the past and relate more with the Yorubas, they are the best allies we can have. They have their faults, but we Igbos have our own faults too. And they are peaceful, not violent, when have u heard that they fight against us killng us like it is done in the north, I say t again they are our closest allies in this nation, a word is enough for the. Wise.

Thank you. Truth is that with the way humanity is integrating, races would be homogeneous in future let alone alone ethnic groups consisting of people of the same colour intermarrying at a rapid rate. Throwing around stereotypes and peddling falsehood about hatred that is non-existent on the ground is just shameful. Especially when found in young people who should be busy living productive lives and forging progressive bonds for the sake of their Nation.

[quote author=Chima_Adeoye]For the bolded, i agree with your view.
The originator of this thread is seriously naive or just silly.Over the years,I have observed the difference between a typical Igbo and Yoruba, and i have come to the conclusion that Igbo is boldly outspoken (sometimes naively)and result oriented. Thus, would dine with the devil himself if that is what it takes to produce results. Yoruba on the other hand is the exact opposite of Igbo character and a natural diplomat. Thus, it you would require a truth serum with a lie detector test machine to extract his true feelings or position on any issue at all.I think it is useless and naive for Igbo to trust Yoruba in any strategic political arrangement, even if Yoruba were the sole beneficiary of such.

Except for a few, a typical Yoruba don't understand the word integrity nor solidarity. Mind you, I'm yoruba by marriage,but i can confidently tell you that apart from my husband's people, i'm yet to come across a yoruba that isn't wholeheartedly anti-igbo and also committed anti-hausa, but just don't have the nerve to express their true feelings in your presence,except when you leave. Most of the yoruba internet warriors here will serve an Igbo friend delicious amala if you visit their homes. But the Igbo that hates yoruba here,will not even invite them to his home. That is the difference,and it is a critical difference when trust is at stake.[/quote]If you believed all what you wrote here, then you should not have married a Yoruba man to begin with because I can tell you it is not the OP who is naive. It is you thinking your husband and his people are "different". What ever good you attribute to your husband and his people , you naively feel is unique to them, is present in most Yoruba people.

Stop deceiving yourself that things are otherwise because real events on the ground should bear out this hatred you claim Yorubas vehemently harbour for you. You could have been married to any random Yoruba man and your argument would still be same. I.e him and his family are "different" while you will not simply accept it is you who perhaps needs to reject negative indoctrination and just move on. You cannot continue insisting a people hate you when they have never been anything but hospitable to you. For the sake of your children, I suggest you simply try and work on a achieving a more tolerant mindset otherwise how do you want to raise them?

I really pity them with the divisive prejudice you openly harbour. You are showing what I talk about here when I speak of the indoctrination that ruins children and make them the embodiment of the hopeless haters we see here daily. When , contrary to the reality on the ground, you are busy telling your children stereotypical lies you also were told, as a child, that their father's people have no "integrity or solidarity" and that, conversely, your people are the saints of Nigeria always clean and without blemish or blame, will you be surprised when they are here in 16 years time disturbing others with their crass and odiously false generalisation you passed on to them? What a pity.

Paschal007: Why not allow those he addressed to defend themselves?

"Defend" ourselves from what? The OP is a decent person siding with what is right, even if not Yoruba, unlike fence-sitting "e no consign us" folks like you who cannot simply stand up in defence of what is right. Why should Sanusi Lamido, given the reality of Nigeria, say such thing that destroys the reconciliatory spirit and healing conduct many decent Yorubas embrace when they deliberately refrain from generalising against the North?

We all know political Boko Haram, likely to be the end of Nigeria if unchecked, is a creation exclusively sponsored and abetted by Northern politician. No other area in Nigeria host politicians who wickedly and inhumanly imprisoned their own with illiteracy, underdevelopment and backwardness more than the North.

How dare Sanusi make such a claim, all things factored in, against a people who will be regarded, by any neutral non-Nigerian, as part of the fabric that has kept Nigeria peaceful and whole?

Sanusi Lamido, even as I once held him in decent esteem, is not a fair or even principled man. How have the Yorubas, by any stretch of the imagination, constituted themselves to be "the problem of Nigeria" more than the Hausa/Fulani or anyone else for that matter? I am one of those who argues we should look forward, never backward, but the likes of Sanusi Lamido should refrain from dishonest and self-deluding revisionism that sees him portraying his own people as saints while pointing the finger at others when we should all be uniting to move forward with a dedication to modern principles making others great .

What Sanusi Lamido wrote, never mind it was in the past, is the bane of Nigeria's development even if many of us are too myopic to see it. I will never support such as him to lead Nigerian in a higher capacity. He should learn from Ribadu because his utterance marks him out as a disgrace to the North and an example of the arrogant 'throwback' born-to-rule leaders in the region who have a thinly-disguised disdain for others.

LADY OF RAGE: Yorubas and Igbos uniting? Biggest joke of the century! definitely not on nairaland. In the real world Igbos and Yorubas are not enemies. At least my over 3 decades in Lagos i can attest to that. If people like dayokanu and Onlytruth who are chief ethnic bigots in their different ethnic groups in nairaland are still allowed to exist, sorry this unity is just a fuccking mirage!


@ Gbawe, you need to take a chill pill bro! i can see some peeps are trying to anger you. nuff respect to you s ir.

Thanks. I do, as much as possible, but I like to 'flip the script' on these liars sometimes. Some are such hardened and hateful liars to the extent they are only encouraged to lie more and slander others if they are not challenged to factually prove their wild and paranoid allegations.

omonnakoda: You are big B1 we all know this

We "all" know this? You and which other madmen? The dance of naked madness in the public square. I pity you. Life is hard enough without suffering malevolently negative and hateful indoctrination that makes it even harder to navigate our years on earth.

Accept my sincere sympathy as a happy and well-adjusted person who grew up in a household of love with the constant message of respecting others. I feels sorry for what has been inflicted on you. I truly do.

omonnakoda: I was not expecting confession and a plea for Presidential pardon. Normally you would try and do the I won't dignify you with my time routine.The fact you are now insolent and foul- mouthed is enough for me.

who is Big B1 ?? YOU !
As for your madness the only way we can prove that is if you come for evaluation. But making strange faces,muttering mysteriously and spitting into the air whilst responding to unseen "friends" is reasonable cause for suspicion,no?

Believe me, the entire forum, including the mods who see IP addresses posting simultaneously from different physical addresses, will be laughing at you now as an example of those who just will not live life and face modern challenges. You insist on embracing the hatred you are indoctrinated with that you should reject. That hatred is powerful and it is what is making you have hallucinations. Instead of this paranoid rant, exposing your lunacy, why not beg Afam4eva to help you "expose" me if such is factually possible?

omonnakoda: You are Big B1
.Naturally I expect you to deny like the pussy you are.

Men, folks like you are more sick than I think you are. No wonder, wherever you are in the world, you are consumed with making wild and false allegations against others. Who is Big B1? I pity your fellow bigots like Afam4eva who, even as they clannishly support you, must be shaking their head at your paranoid delusions and crazy public implosion that shows everyone you are insane.

Afam4eva is a mod. He is sympathetic to his fellow bigots like you. He would also love nothing other than to discredit me here. Why don't you ask for his help to help you prove I am Big B1 you paranoid madman? You are nothing but a hateful loser who needs to get a life instead of nursing an obsession of turning every Yoruba man into "demonic" bogey man who wants to "kill" and "wipe you out". Get a life. Pathetic loser.

omonnakoda: Don't be silly what does IP address prove. Any dunce can have a dozen IP addresses .Only shows your joblessness and desperation.What you can't hide is your style of thinking.
Just know that I know and WILL (not may) but WILL expose at a time of MY choosing.Naturally I expect you to deny like the pussy you are.

Mumu. See how you disgrace yourself here? This is all irredeemable haters, malevolently indoctrinated, are capable of doing. You said you will "expose" me. I challenge you to do so and you are running from pillar to post. Why do you not simply expose me with fact and science instead of the paranoid-delusional conjecture and lies folks like you were brainwashed to deploy against your "enemies" the Yoruba? Stop talking and "expose" me as you threatened. Nothing more, nothing less. Conjectures and lies will not get you anywhere. Prove your case. "Expose" me you pathetic and pitifully hateful creature.

omonnakoda: You are a hypocrite using your several other Ids to do what you preach against.Shut up before I expose you!

Go on. "Expose" me.[size=14pt] I 1000% dare you. Coward[/size] The sad thing is that even a mod like Afam4eva, not exactly my 'buddy', cannot "expose" me, since there is nothing to expose, let alone a hateful creature like you. Sad lunatics like you live in a paranoid world where you will rather create wild fantasies than face the fact you are mad and damaged by malevolently hateful indoctrination.

I challenge you, all mods, the super mods, the owner of Nairaland and everyone to show I have ever posted from any IP address connected to me with any user name different to Gbawe. I know your sort, mad and suffering from paranoid delusions, don't do facts or reality but I challenge you to "expose" me. Take up the challenge or accept you are a discredited nonentity.

[quote author=nnenna.1]He wrote truly divisive articles which flamed the embers of tribalism, such as

"Yorubas Are The Problem With Nigeria."

Painting whole groups of people in a negative light.

He was simply a jealous and low-achieving nonentity who envied the success of his predecessor, Soludo.

How did the Nigerian banking system improve under his tenure?

Bitter old fool.[/quote]All I know is that folks should focus on what is real, on the ground, and what any honest and decent father/mother can take to their children as 'gospel truth'. If this is done, and given the current reality of Nigeria, would Sanusi Lamido not be thoroughly ashamed to repeat his ludicrous and logic-defying claim today?

If the North implodes through Boko Haram that is almost entirely, in its latest renaissance, the creation of Northern politicians, will the myopic 'Ostrich' Sanusi not relocate his entire family to the SW to live safely amongst those he claims are the problem of Nigeria?

Yet reality on the ground continue to expose the likes of Lamido to be deluded and divisive egotists consumed with self-denial and an arrogance that makes them fully dedicated to blaming others when, after all is said and done, Nigeria's current problems fully exonerate and validate the choices the Yorubas have made.

ZUBY77: @Gbawe, thanks for teaching that fucktarrd what hatred means. The first thing i wanted to do when i saw his post was to remove it but i do not have that priviledge. It is people like him that are causing problems. Imagine what he would tell his children about Yoruba, a tribe that houses and dines with his tribe.

I cannot stand people like him. We need to move on as a people and folks like him, and many Yorubas here, will never allow that as they continue to stoke the fire of disunity and abide with an insistence we are all only capable of hating and fighting each other. People should grow up and use their brain for once and for god sake !!!

We will all , more or less, be fully integrated, to be virtually one, in the next 200 years. That is scientific fact whether some here, like adults, will confront proactively or , like children, prefer to ignore. The wise man will prepare himself and his future progeny for that inevitability, i.e position himself and his children to win in a world that will be defined totally by merit in future, instead of wallowing in retrogressive issues relating to propagating that races and ethnic groups must fight and hate each other.

Are we all blind to the progress humanity has made from the very dark and evil past it overcame? We cannot forget slavery but much better to look at where we are today and focus on it than hating a caucasian person today because of what we assumed his ancestors were involved with !!!!

Ikengawo: Yorubas are in Boko Haram. They're also celebrating the death of Chinua Achebe. They have also celebrated the malnutrition of igbo children during Biafra. Igbo people have nothing to gain from 'uniting' with Yoruba people because all of the ills the north is inflicting on Nigeria, Yoruba's have always agreed with them and been on their side. Tinubu is now asking for Boko Haram's amnesty, as are many Yoruba leaders and many northern leaders meaning these people will be paid for killing Igbos and except from the law. Yoruba are worst than Hausas because Hausas are inflicting the evil Yorubas want to inflict but are too cowardly to do themselves.

You are a despicable character and, unlike the OP, an example of the problematic folks never interested in giving peace a chance because of personal egocentric complexes you are not able to move on from. Nothing typifies cowardice more than using superior number to gang-up against a minority group.

Everyone, into the historical science and logic of humanity, will know you are a deluded and vacuously hateful loser. When the Yorubas have the numbers, then nothing more would bear out the hate you claim they have for you than for their "cowardice" to lead them into attempts at murderous cleansing, in all corners of the SW, of those they "hate" and "want to exterminate" as deluded lost soul and ingrates like you postulate daily here.

As things stand, and with the reality on the ground, the Yorubas are nothing but the embodiment of tolerance, hospitality and relative sophistication in a totally mad nation. I really wonder why people like you are such evil liars and demonic ingrates. It is almost as if you must taunt even saints to hate you by continuously and falsely insisting they are demons after your blood.

Nothing confirms that you are a loser in life , and a big failure, more than your rabidly false hateful pontifications you deliver here. Your mates are thriving and finding love, success, fulfillment and happiness where and with who they find it , be that in Yorubaland or Igboland, while a frustrated loser like you remain here lying and showing how paranoid delusional you are.

This is what I hate about this forum. Not enough brave and principled people able to stand for what is right so we can heal and move on as a Nation . Can the many decent Igbos living peacefully in the SW - and I know you are here - not simply stand for what is right by coming out and denounce this clown who is a divisive embarrassment to you all and the sort obsessed with stoking division and creating problems for you where there is non?

The Yorubas are not the enemies of the Igbos as the OP correctly asserts. If they were, as deluded and bitter souls claim here daily, then events on the ground will bear this out 100% as is severally documented throughout history when real and toxic animosity existing between groups of people has led to continuous and unabated blood-letting. Even the Hausas/Fulanis are not your enemies if one is wise to know the real problems of Nigeria and how they have mingled to create the sad feudalism we are all forced to live with today.

omenka: The gej balls cleaners and brown eye lickers would do well to always remember the author of this statement.

They are fond of turning truth on its head, but I've delibrately opened this thread for the singular purpose of record keeping as regards the man calling for violence.

Nobody should come here and tell us he meant what he said metaphorically because whatever statements Buhari makes are always taken in the literal sense. They might even wind up sayin Buhari made the statement and not Tukur!

Bunch of troglodytes.

Thank you. Self-deception is something common to those characters. Imagine, what sane person would go around proclaiming Buhari as a Boko Haram leader when the former top intelligence officer in Nigeria (Azazi) stated that PDP is Boko Haram?

You are certainly correct stating that these deluded elements may well turn around tomorrow to attribute Tukur's utterance to Buhari.

I salute your 'record-keeping' effort but it ultimately serves no purpose since you are dealing with characters who are extremely biased, completely unprincipled and ultra-deluded individuals.

They don't operate with the principles of factual right or wrong you abide with. They have no honour or abiding principles. They are completely driven by their blind biases and devotion to sectional affiliations. To that end, they will find a way to blame Tinubu and Buhari , for future electoral mess Nigeria encounters, while forgetting the incendiary 'do-or-die' antics of Tukur et al.

Sibrah: If the Opposition party comprises people who have registered a party before then common sense dictates that they can always register one when the decide to. Your daft logic above, S9, is like criticizing a team of scentist who are into research to profer solution to a nagging problem for not give the end product of their research a name before going into their research or hiring lawyer to registre their patents.

Don't expect common sense utterances from some here. I often joke with friends that Nigeria is one of the few Nations so aberrant that even PHD holders will get in the mud, to begin fighting like Pigs, once they have decided to abandon their core training, revolving around the utilisation of the logic and science of things, to be like most Nigerians who embrace a sentimental and bias-driven take on issues.

Even a fool will know that the APC will be birthed sooner or later. Solution providers, winners and leaders will not concern themselves with all the registration mischief , neither here nor there in the overall scheme of things, unintelligent PDP backers are obsessed with. They will focus on real plans, calculations and probabilities. To that end, forward-planning disgruntled PDP Governors will certainly look to move to the APC while charlatans and olodos will focus on and remain obsessed with highlighting registration issues regarding an inevitable entity very much long overdue as per the concept of natural evolution.

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White007: My question is, Why is it not enough for Alams to live quietly and luxuriate in the billions he has stolen and would still have coming to him by virtue of being a kingpin of the Niger Delta and a benefactor of a sitting President who cares little about the market noise on corruption that is about to kill Nigeria?

Of course it is clear that the stage is only being set for worse "in your face" to come when Alams will run for Senate and (not to be ruled out) even President of Nigeria.

Oh dear! Jonathan can do anything he wants in his privacy and to his private estate, but to assault the conscience of the nation in this most disdainful manner is the unkindest cut of all! Yet for anyone to assume this is how the country will always be run is to live in a fool's paradise. One day, and soon enough, a Pharaoh will come who will not know Joseph.

Crux of the matter. This is why I laugh at the sycophants of GEJ here who, if even minimally visionary, should engage themselves in efforts to implore their 'messiah' to lead well instead of daily backing his every 'throwback' actions.

Bottom line is that Nigeria cannot exist in a vacuum because the principle of minimum meritorious standard, that would disqualify the GEJ's and OBJ's of the World, is being embraced for the most important offices in African nations.

Nigeria, ultimately, will not continue to be an aberration. The only thing is that no one can say, with certainty, how "Pharaoh" will arrive. What is certain is that he must arrive or Nigeria will become unsustainable as a Nation under GEJ or another of his sort.

Demdem: To be honest, the minimal improvement I saw when barth was around is currently no more. Nigerians seems to have been duped.

My brother, let us stop proclaiming grown adults as 'victims'. Nigerians duped and will continue to dupe themselves in so far as they remain, for several sentimental and sectional reasons, committed to backing mediocrity while ignoring what their adult sense should make very obvious.

It is soul-destroying to note Nigerians are so sentimental to the extent they can even ignore the very simple logic of seasonal highs and lows of hydro-electric power, especially in a developing nation where compensatory planning is often zero, to be praising an opportunist and deceitful President for "increasing" power supply.

It is the fact that sentiments and bias can so easily cloud simple logical reasoning that worries me the most about Nigeria. We fail to see that we should not even be in this position where we are left fighting over and celebrating seasonal highs and lows. When a Nation, to begin with, needs upwards of 30,000.00 Megawatts why are people celebrating supply that has not really changed , for decades and in real terms, from perhaps an optimal supply of 4,000.00 Megawatts? Man tire for Nigerians. This was always inevitable for anyone who took time to rise above sentiments and understand the logic and science of things.

Sincere 9gerian: President Jonathan should be impeached because he nearly pardoned @Gbawe.

Lack of negative report of recent is causing opposition elements chase shadows.

MaybeTinubu has no moral standing to be the leader of the Tinubu's APC because he was nearly convicted by the code of conduct bureau.
Lol...

In case you don't appreciate it, as citizens of politically sophisticated nations would, it is perfectly in order to assume this report is entirely correct given GEJ's odious and shameless pardon of Alamco. It is no different to a judge using past criminal offences to make certain conclusions about a defendant. Yet we know thinking is not your thing. Blind sycophancy is.

gbadexy: We only hav a few hours of electricity a ady here at surulere.
Am just having electricity today after 5 straight days of darkness.
Jonah just use scope increase electricity tariff without any improvement and he still want to increase it further.

Same in my Bode-Thomas, Adeniran Ogunsanya axis of Surulere. There are perennial challenges, especially in developing Countries, that makes power supply fluctuate seasonally. In Nigeria, issues like optimal gas delivery and decent water level help massively. Ghana, for example, is now having serious outage issues, leading to load shedding, because of perennial problems they must overcome comprehensively and robustly given that demand has increased vastly yet supply lags behind as it has not been met by an appropriate upgrading of generating ability - the most important consideration.

For Ghana, an over-reliance on Akosombo Dam, with the real estate/construction boom going on, means the current government, if serious, must be up and doing to boost generation instead of copying GEJ and deceptively celebrating "increased power" when water levels and gas flow are optimal.

Ultimately, if generation ability is not increased then all cynical and opportunistic politicians need to do is to optimally 'tweak' what is available to get a mediocrity-loving people celebrating a 'placebo' effect. In the end national electrification will still remains susceptible to the perennial challenges which, sooner or later, will show up and it is back to square one. The sad thing is that we never learn in Nigeria and we not evolving quickly enough to be united in the rejection of mediocrity. People should learn, once and for all, it is only real and appreciably tangible increase in generating capacity that can improve the power woes of Nigeria permanently.