₦airaland Forum

biafranqueen:
[/s] The usual APC rants without proof. This is sounding like a case of bad belly. What is your proof or erase that slander! You have already lifted his back feather show us the rest!

Look, I don't care whether you believe me or not. I did not write what I did for your kind. You are a wretched hag and an enemy of Nigeria's progress. You secretly enjoying all the hardship and misrule GEJ is foisting on Nigeria and you will go to your grave with the wicked heart that motivates your contributions here. The day someone like you believes what I say is the day I know I am lying. You are a wicked, ethnocentric, hateful and bitter individual who does not want the truth.

APC fans here, and even objective PDP fans who have known me for years, know I have no time for this nonsense. I stepped in out of a sense of duty to team GMB/Osinbajo and to strengthen the efforts and awareness of those who truly want change for Nigeria. You can therefore get lost as those who needed my message have gotten it and noted its implication. I have no issues with Barcanista because he is nothing in the grand scheme of things and I would not waste my post on him if I did not feel I had something important to share with APC fans and all Nigerians who want change from our current horrid status quo.

@APC fans.


I can tell you all 100% that Barcanista is not who you think he is. Cleverly, Omenka, Rawani, Sincerenigerian, genius100 and others have worked him out somewhat with their gut instinct but I can tell you guys I have 100% proof Barcanista is a divisive and entirely self-serving individual, much like GEJ, who is working for his own agenda and motivated by what he can get for himself. Dude has PMed me a few times. His PM are all self-serving requests even the most self-serving mercenary would be proud of. I graciously and diplomatically 'swept him aside' every time because I don't trust people I do not know and I am aware that people can be full of deceit and claim to be what they are not.

As an honourable man, I will not reveal the content of the PMs from Barcanista. Suffice to say I have been a member of this forum for 5 years and people know I am solid, dependable and stand for what I stand for yesterday, today and tomorrow. Barcanista switches sides like a prostitute. I became aware of him on NL because of his passionate defence of Obanikoro. I pointed out to him that Obanikoro is a failure and Nairalanders can go and trace our exchanges back then. Today , backing Koro no longer 'pays' for Barcanista. I have watched all his antics of late and laughed to myself. I would even have continued to ignore this thread and let Barcanista carry on with his two-faced attempt at deceiving the biggest online community of Nigerians, because I felt I owed him a dignified slience over our PM exchanges that shame him and reveal his true motivation, if Barcanista had not gone too far with his "Now you know your friends" quip.

I can tell you all this guy is a self-serving turncoat trying to play all sides against each other and profit personally in the process. APC fans know me here and many understand I am not interested in attention, money or anything else. I just want a Nigeria that works. Not so self-serving individuals like Barcanista. I really struggled with my conscience to come out with this because I did not want to out Barcanista even as I also felt strongly about what he is doing which I know to be dangerous and pure grade A deceit. I had felt I owed Nairalanders the truth about Barcanista for a long time but I also wrestled with the fact that a PM (Private message) should remain that and not be used to compromise anyone. That said, I knew what Barcanista was up to when he began initiating subtle anti-APC threads. I had hoped he would come to his senses and change his ways especially because Barcanista knows he has shown himself to an outspoken APC supporter in myself. Yet Barcanista did not stop. Instead he grew more brazen in his attempt to deceive the forum and begin his new 'contract' of working for and laundering the image of GEJ.

APC fans, I sincerely urge you guys to begin ignoring this guy. We are here to gain a better Country. Politics is not even my thing per se. I am here because I want a better Nigeria. Someone called Barcanista an "enemy within" earlier. That is what he is and I warn APC fans to be strong and united because the 7 weeks postponement of the election is to facilitate a huge financial drive to sabotage Buhari through the use of anyone who makes their mercenary services available to the PDP for monetary reward. Barcanista wants to leverage on what he assumes to be his "APC Nairaland leader" popularity to begin sabotaging the chances of the Party from within. I have warned APC fans. Barcanista forced my hand with his deceitful behaviour and pretense. He went too far, knowing I know what he is about, with his "I am objective" duplicity. The last straw that broke the Camel's back is his " I Know my friends" attempt , after I know the deceit he is practising, to make out APC supporters have now turned against him wrongly. Many of you know my integrity is not in doubt here. I am still here after many of my Nairaland contemporaries have left because I passionately want a Nigeria that works as well as the nations of the world I have access to. When Barcanista starts these sort of threads, kindly ignore him so he can talk to his PDP comrades. [size=14pt]Barcanista is exactly like Femi Fani-Kayode. [/size]

Rad1cal:
The confused flea is trying to wriggle himself out, why should you be contradicting yourself on the same thread. Pathetic propagandist.

There is no contradiction retard. It is called further clarification of a point. Your parents wasted their money educated you because education has not improved your mumuism at all. Go back and read my post that you quoted here in your idiocy to note that I specifically stated "from 2010" indicating from the beginning of the reign of Jonathan upwards . This is consistent with my utterance on the other thread you brought here. The entire forum can see both below to note that there is no contradiction at all. It is all in your dullard and confused head. Olodo jati jati.

Gbawe wrote:

You did well Clerverly. The truth is that GEJ is gone because majority of Nigerians want Buhari. They are only trying to delay a guaranteed outcome , i.e a Buhari win, because the atrocities they have committed from 2010 to date is truly horrendous and will see many of them jailed. There is no rest for the wicked and there will be no rest for GEJ and his cronies. They have ruined too many Nigerian lives with their misrule, deciet, dplicity, divisiveness and corruption

Gbawe wrote:

It will not be feasible to recover everything everyone has stolen but specific task force recommendation will underpin the recovery of major looted funds. The Buhari Government, as one example, will get to the bottom of the alleged missing $20 billion. The "amnesty" is aimed more at those who are not linked to governance today. Those who have destroyed Nigeria by abusing their public office in the GEJ government will still be punished if probes and task force investigation indict them. This is why Okupe et al are ranting about "Buhari will never rule Nigeria".

Rad1cal:
See this confused flea . gbawe a few days ago penned this



https://www.nairaland.com/2143469/buhari-fight-against-corruption-post


Una dey see this man like so ? Pure liars and deceivers

Olodo, good to see you are still following me around, like a frustrated and rejected groupie, trying to look for contradictions in what I said. Sadly for you, your low intellect does not match your 'gra gra'. Go back to the same thread to see I made further clarification of issues to show that GEJ and current misrulers will indeed be punished. You need to get a life mumu because you're not very not good at stalking others mischievously. Ode oshi.

It will not be feasible to recover everything everyone has stolen but specific task force recommendation will underpin the recovery of major looted funds. The Buhari Government, as one example, will get to the bottom of the alleged missing $20 billion. The "amnesty" is aimed more at those who are not linked to governance today. Those who have destroyed Nigeria by abusing their public office in the GEJ government will still be punished if probes and task force investigation indict them. This is why Okupe et al are ranting about "Buhari will never rule Nigeria".

Clerverly:
Yesterday we took to the streets of Lagos to March4Buhari!

Just look at picture very well, you would see the irrepressible Cleverly leading the march!

Enjoy

You did well Clerverly. The truth is that GEJ is gone because majority of Nigerians want Buhari. They are only trying to delay a guaranteed outcome , i.e a Buhari win, because the atrocities they have committed from 2010 to date is truly horrendous and will see many of them jailed. There is no rest for the wicked and there will be no rest for GEJ and his cronies. They have ruined too many Nigerian lives with their misrule, deciet, dplicity, divisiveness and corruption

henryangelo:
Is laughable that at this stage some people still can't understand that Buhari is a looser, well everyone have his choice of candidate but don't just be selfish, consider our democracy,consider the unity of our country, consider your freedom to speak, consider your freedom of movement before voting in a tyrant, never mind his vague promises, all politicians are the same but some are better than the other. Consider a government were you don't talk unless you are asked to do so with the present one where we all have freedom to speak against the government.

GEJ is still the best credible candidate if we all can be able to put off the sentimental fire burning in some of us

You spell Loser as "looser" and you are here calling Buhari names? You are the loser mate. A big one for that matter. I suggest you enrol in adult literacy classes instead of wasting your money on browsing credit.

agabusta:
Why are some people pained na. why una dey hate like this?? Anybody stop una from marching in love for ya candidate??

Abeg nothing do us, on GMB/PYO we stand!

Bros, I don't get it at all !!! Why are they so pained? Why commenting negatively and bitterly in relation to supporters marching for their own candidate out of their own free will as entitled to do? Wetin concern me with supporters of GEJ marching for him to the extent I will begin to comment painfully? You just know some people are really scared the game is up for their corruption baron, i.e GEJ, to the extent they must now 'encroach' forcefully in what is not their business. As an aside, I don't think I have come across a more bitter, unfulfilled and frustrated set of people than TANdroids and Jonathanians.

We know GEJ is a shameless man but his nairaland fans should be ashamed of themselves. The Minister of Police affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, has already confessed that the tape is authentic. It is obvious that those still supporting this totally disgraceful and amoral President are complete and irredeemable enemies of Nigeria's progress.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/176501-ekiti-rigging-tape-authentic-police-minister.html

Ekiti rigging tape is authentic — Police Minister


Contrary to the blatant denial of former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, and the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, that they were involved in a meeting where strategies for rigging the 2014 Ekiti State governorship election were discussed, the Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, who was also at the meeting, has admitted that the meeting actually took place.
A recording of the meeting, which also featured other top officials of the government and Aliyu Momoh, a Brigadier General, was leaked last week.
Mr. Adesiyan, however, said the conversation in the leaked tape was an altercation between Mr. Fayose and Mr. Momoh after the former accused the later of being bribed by the then incumbent governor of the state, Kayode Fayemi.
“Fayose accused the General who supervised the Ekiti election of taking bribe from Fayemi and APC, that was two days before the election. They called me because they said the General disarmed policemen and I told him to allow the policemen to do their job,” he told the Sunday Punch newspaper.
“I was there, Fayose was there, Otunba Omisore was there, Senator Obanikoro was there. I am not denying that there was a conversation but it was not what they are saying.
“Nigerians are not dummies. These people are mischievous; somebody recorded the scene but let everybody listen to it. Listen to it yourself and get back to me.”
Mr. Obanikoro had denied that he was part of any meeting to rig the election.
“Whatever they are spreading within the social media, is something that APC made up. There is nowhere in the world you will find me talking about rigging an election anywhere in the country,” he said during an interview on Rhythm FM.
When the leaked audio was played back for him during the programme, Mr. Obanikoro replied that the recording showed someone was complaining about the plan of the APC to rig the election.
“The recording did not say I have manipulated any result from what I have listened to, rather, from what you have played is someone shouting at someone who is co-operating and collaborating with APC and trying to frustrate something.
“What that is, I don’t know, but from what I have heard, somebody shouting out loudly telling the other person that you are working with somebody else other than me, that’s what I could hear,” he said.
On his part, Mr. Fayose said his voice and that of other people in the recording was manipulated using speech software such as Natural Voices.
“Nigerians should be reminded of how the APC people lied in 2007 that they recorded how the governorship election was rigged even in the palace of the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe, but the party could not produce a single photo evidence at the tribunal because their plan to do what is known as Morphing and Synthesis was exposed.
“Nigerians should also be reminded of the existence of a technology called speech software, which is good at reproducing the sounds, inflections and intonations of a human voice. The APC that we all know is a party of crooks, who are capable of doing anything, no matter how criminal to achieve its aim,” a statement by his media aide, Idowu Adelusi, read.
Similarly, the police minister, Mr. Adesiyan, said the recording is another devious move by the All Progressive Congress, APC, to discredit the victory of Mr Fayose after their previous attempts failed.
“In order to set the record straight, we say emphatically that the offensive YouTube (audio) was unfounded and meant to hoodwink the unwary and portray the PDP and its leaders across the South West in a bad light.
“How did Omisore and those mentioned in the YouTube (audio) rig election when all the stakeholders in Ekiti voted for Fayose? Initially, the APC claimed it was stomach infrastructure that won the people’s mandate for Fayose. When that would not fly, they say it was photo-chromic rigging.
“Now, it is army and police who were coordinated to rig for Fayose, what balderdash!”

elbinmanny:
APC hiring Jega is enough..the rest will fall in line . SIMPLE REASONING

I hope you know that GEJ 'hired' Jega ?

macof:
Jonathan's government remains the least corrupt government anyone can think of

Jst compare with past leaders

Is it by force to comment let alone lie horrendously and shamelessly? How can the Government that supervised the biggest corruption scandal in Nigeria's history be the "least corrupt government anyone can think of" ? And this is as we have not even touched on the pension scams, the looting of $18 billion disbursed to the Nigerian army for the purpose of fighting boko Haram, highest level of oil theft ever, billions of dollars missing up and down et al !!!

You can support GEJ and the PDP but why not show your uprightness as a person a parent can be proud of by sticking to GEJ's few areas of strength instead of this laughable effort to say darkness is light? Has even a single Nigerian been convicted over the fuel subsidy scam? Na wa for you TANdroids and Jonathanians. You guys are simply very dishonest and shameless.

http://nigeriapolitico.com/fuelsubsidyscam.html

[size=14pt]Fuel subsidy $6.8 billion scam: Nigeria’s biggest corruption scandal ever, Jonathan under pressure to arrest culprits, will he?[/size]

elbinmanny:
Any wise person will know this is the handwork of those protesting the shift of the election. If PDP had done this...why then did they say inec wasnt ready.. ? Why was it Apc that fought tooth and nail to have the election on today...? Simoke queations . Some nairalanders no get sense at all

Is it the APC that hires printing contractors for INEC? Even if you love and support GEJ/PDP to high heaven take time to think before you talk. How, logically, can the APC have a hand in this? Unless you are now telling us that the APC has official power and influence above the ruling Party of Nigeria. We can all be biased towards our side of the fence but let us not throw away our capacity for simple reasoning because of this.

seunlayi:
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Jega needs to be sack, this is an very bad
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Indeed. Why is everything to do with Nigeria always tainted with fraud, indolence, overt criminality and the personal desire for self-aggrandizement ? Why on earth will the contract for printing Nigerian election ballot paper be handed to a company who then subcontracts to another firm? Why did INEC not ensure only security printers of the highest standing and credibility handle this aspect of things? Jega is to be blamed for this. If this report is to be believed, then it even appears there is a plan to rig the pivotal SW with how ballot paper for SW States were seen only for an employeeof the London printing subcontractor to deny this and claim they were only printing ballot material for Jigawa.

A spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission, Kayode Idowu, confirmed to SaharaReporters that Cemoz International Limited was ONE of the firms awarded the contract to print ballot papers.

It appears that, upon GETTING the contract, Cemoz went SHOPPING for printers in LONDON to print the ballot papers and then contracted these other printers to serially number the ballot papers. Although the ballot papers for the presidential elections for several southwest states were seen lying around the premises of the printing company in Essex, a staff at the company, speaking to a correspondent of SaharaReporters, said the firm only had the contract to print some of the ballot papers for Jigawa State.

Bless you OP. Is GEJ even an option given that in 5 years he has only delivered deaths, poverty, darkness, hideous corruption, destruction of our institutions, scams up and down, insecurity, deprivation et al.

aljharem:
This is APC's handy work

Apc is a party full of election riggers

Guy, are you and others who have mentioned APC on crack? These very sensitive print material ( ballot papers) were found outside the premises of the subcontractor to one of the firms officially contracted by INEC to print the Nigerian 2015 election material and you are here blabbing about APC inanely. Do you guys ever use your senses at all? Can you ever think and comment ike responsible adults? Is APC now responsible for hiring contractors for INEC? You guys do not even see, in your haste to always defend the PDP, how you write as if the APC is the powerful ruling Party and the PDP is the cowering and weak opposition.

SaharaReporters was able to confirm that a Nigerian firm named Cemoz International Limited had been contracted to print some ballot papers for the 2015 presidential elections.

TheOtherview:
Incisive analysis!

Indeed. Very 'layered' and sublime submissions. Odimegwu speaks well and patriotically. The section quoted below, for example, succinctly relays the crux of the matter which is that good and exemplary leadership, that genuinely transform lives plus deliver positive changes citizens can see and feel, speaks for itself. Good and effective leadership does not need propaganda or the need to deploy desperate mudslinging.

Leadership by example, will be a product that does not need propaganda or display of obscene advertisement to sell. It will sell itself. It has sold itself without making effort as it can be perceived and felt. Truth is self-evident. Facts do not need debates. All the propaganda in the world cannot make a lie true. What is Right, like Goodness, uplifts. Evil depresses, even to one who pretends they are hardened.

dre11:
Still trying to digest the content first

Just skip to the conclusion which makes Odimegwu's opinion crystal clear.

Conclusion: Size matters. So, I believe that progress within Nigeria will be better than progress as ethnic champions. Nigeria has had a chequered history from colonial times through the years of the locusts, years of occupation army of fortune to the recent years of the Jonathan failed Presidency. Upcoming democratic election gives Nigeria another chance and all signs point to Change, as a popular choice of most Nigerians and nothing should be allowed to derail that.

General Buhari needs to be secured. Nigeria needs him. Nigerians want him. When his party wins the Presidency, Buhari should continue to provide integrity-based leadership. He should then lead the Presidency, as the first citizen, doing the right things for all Nigerians at all times. Leadership by example is the best way to lead. The best way to think. The best way to speak without words. And the best way to act. It will be there for all to see, feel and honour. Leadership to secure Nigeria and improve the well-being of all Nigerians.

Leadership by example, will be a product that does not need propaganda or display of obscene advertisement to sell. It will sell itself. It has sold itself without making effort as it can be perceived and felt. Truth is self-evident. Facts do not need debates. All the propaganda in the world cannot make a lie true. What is Right, like Goodness, uplifts. Evil depresses, even to one who pretends they are hardened.

With a continued personal example, a Greater Vision for Nigeria and all Nigerians and with an honest hard work towards the seven key challenges identified here as the basic minimum, the Golden Era of Nigeria will start and the life of Nigerians will be properly rebased in reality. For now, all should do whatever is in their power to support the election of Buhari and ignore all campaign propaganda and mis-information and even assassination threats from panic-stricken political thugs. It is too late in the day for PDP. The party needs to take stock after losing and reform to become an effective opposition party. It will be good for its soul. And good for Nigeria. Above all, it will be good for Democracy: to keep the ruling party then, APC, in check. No condition is permanent, says the visionary Zik of Africa.

And may God continue to bless Nigeria, our HomeLand, and all Nigerians!!!
Eze Festus Odimegwu, CON, is former MD/CEO NB Plc and immediate past Chairman of the National Population Commission

omicron:
GEJ just know how to shoot himself. Which one is goat and yam again. Why cant he ever speak like a president?

Because someone like him, by virtue of his talent/skill-set and limitations, was never meant to be a President of any nation. Jonathan is not even local government chairman material. At best, given all GEJ has shown the world, our highly incompetent President should be the leader of a rural, isolated and largely agrarian community where he can regale simple, unexposed and scantily-educated folks with tales of "Goat and yam" to thunderous applause in the village square gathering. To inteligent, well-travelled, well-read and exposed folks, Jonathan just sounds like a cringe-worthy embarrassment. Claiming this man has a PHD is just a huge embarrassment to Nigeria and her education sector.

Splashme:
GEJ got it right because it detailed how to curb corruption - computerisation of transactions and keeping money far away from reach of officials and strengthening our institutions

Buhari talking about killing corruption blah blah blah . . . .how? This is a mere political statement with no defined procedure how to go about it

You guys make me laugh. I would like to believe that your unfortunate value system and utterances are the manifestation of your lack of exposure to saner climes. How can you say the garbage above and imply that "keeping money away from reach" fights corruption? How about swift prosecution and punishment which act as a deterrents and disincentive to those who are considering engaging in corrupt practice? Lest you know it , perhaps because Nigeria is your only reference point, one of the most effective method of fighting corruption is to make punishment for corruption severe and 100% guaranteed.

You can "keep money from reach" as much as you want but dishonest and corrupt folks will never stop trying to loot public funds once they understand there is no repercussion for doing so as is currently the case under GEJ to the detriment of Nigeria and to the extent we are now seeing monumental and unprecedented corruption destroying every institution, parastatal and sector in Nigeria today. Spin and dice it all you want but corruption is going nowhere when Ifeanyi Ubah loots Nigeria blind yesterday with his fuel subsidy scam and goes unpunished to then be co-ordinating Jonathan's TAN election initiative tomorrow. I only pity so-called educated people like you creating excuses for what is plain wrong and condemnable while destroying your own Country in the process.

All this back-and-forth is not necessary. GEJ's words are the unfortunate utterances of a man trying to cause confusion over the wrongdoing he is personally involved in. Same as a paedophile Pastor may, with some religious mumbo-jumbo, try to justify sleeping with a gullible church member who is 14. The monumental corruption we have seen GEJ abet directly means that his words in regards to corruption carry zero credibility.

GEJ fans will not kill me with laughter . OP, I nominate you as Nairaland comedian of the year. The fuel subsidy scam alone, the biggest corruption scandal in Nigeria's history, makes a distinct mockery of you and your messiah i.e GEJ. Let us not even start delving into NNPC missing billions and the 18 billion dollars disbursed to fight Boko haram that was looted by GEJ and his cronies. You guys are jokers. Nauseatingly dishonest jokers as well.

http://nigeriapolitico.com/fuelsubsidyscam.html

[size=16pt]Fuel subsidy $6.8 billion scam: Nigeria’s biggest corruption scandal ever[/size]

myweb:
NA BIG LIE. OP, HOW LOW CAN YOU GET TO DISCREDIT APC? FOR YOUR INFORMATION, I BASE IN ABEOKUTA. THE LAST TIME BUHARI CAME AROUND WAS DURING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. NOBODY, I MEAN NOOOOOBODY CAN EVER STONE AMOSUN PRESENTLY LET ALONE BUHARI EVERYONE AT HIM LIKE A god. ABEG TALK SOMETHING ELSE.

Please leave these supporters of evil to their delusions. That video is about local politics 100%. Anyone who thinks GEJ and the PDP can gain anything from Ogun State is clearly not from the State or even the SW. Anyway, misrulers and their fans can hope sha.

Dasini:
Is it your GEJ that is not a lead choirister in corruption. This tanoids will never address the issue, is tinubu the essence of this thread, what you are raising does not hold water,because your jona has stolen more than anyone,.face the issue, the desperation of jona, and the intimidation of the opposition shud be checked.what goes around,comes around.

Don't mind them. I don't know how fans of GEJ can have the effrontery to indict others when they already support the most corrupt leader, by far, in Nigeria. The $6.8 billion fuel subsidy scam alone, committed by GEJ through his cronies like Ifeanyi Uba, is the biggest scam in the history of Nigeria yet hypocritical TANdroids cannot see that their messiah is the undisputed king of corruption.

Immune1:
You cant run before learning to crawl; the difference between full scale manufacturing and vehicle assembly we have today is a more complex supply chain and OEM local presence. I never really believed in the feasibility of the new auto-policy until i took out time to attend forums where officials of NAC further educated us on certain aspects of the policy as a whole.
Heard of RMB?Wesbank is their subsidiary and they will roll out specialized loans/financing for customers willing to buy from our local manufacturers. And for your information 70% of the 33manufacturers already on ground are commercial/Utility vehicle producers; this means passenger vehicles are not the primary targets for the first phase of the policy implementation.

I am an business analyst in the automotive industry and i can assure you that the policy is very feasible if all the other pieces of the puzzle are fixed; thats the more reason Nigeria needs continuity and a stable political ambience.

Is that not what Osinbajo is saying also? Is it wrong to then direct that punitive import duty, which mainly punishes and disenfranchise ordinary Nigerians, should not be deemed a compulsory option for assisting the development of quality local vehicle production? Your adage about running before learning to crawl actually applies to the approach of the Nigerian Government in my opinion. Creating a local car manufacturing sector should not come at the expense of destroying choice and affordability for all tiers of Nigerian pockets. That approach won't work.

J12:
If you think otherwise, then you're a shallow minded Nigerian who doesn't wish this country economic progress.

I think you, like many here, view issues too parochially. You do not achieve "economic progress" with one consideration alone. Helping citizens to be empowered and productive also has massive positive implication for "economic progress". An empowered citizen is a productive citizen. Whatever a nation can do to empower its citizens must be done because the wealth of any nation are its people. Getting as many Nigerians as possible owing cars, via ensuring an affordable overall mix catering for all levels of new and used cars , is economically productive. Just look at developed nation where virtually everyone can afford a car. Personal productivity is very high and it is the nation that benefits economically from developing/empowering its human capital.

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

Human capital is the stock of knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.

For example, the productivity and economic value of an average Briton to his nation, despite enjoying far greater per capita income, will be far higher than that of a Nigerian because he can buy a well-maintained relatively low-mileage year 2005 Nissan Primera at around £850 (after negotiating from the asking price of £990 below) whereas the same car may cost upwards of £2,000.00 in Nigeria with most Nigerians not being able to afford such. The difference is that proactive policies and provisions ensure majority of Britons can afford to buy a decent car. Simplistically this is what Nigeria must try and achieve to promote real and transformational "economic progress" centred around empowering ordinary Nigerians. Nigerians should be assisted to be as productive as they can and Nigeria should continue promoting economic policies that produces higher level of per capita income which sees most of their citizens able to afford most things they need. You cannot seriously believe "economic progress" is singularly and inextricably linked to producing new cars which 80% of a population cannot afford. I just think we are yet to understand in Africa that it is human capital we must empower and invest in.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201502100838069/sort/default/maximum-age/up_to_10_years_old/make/nissan/radius/1500/page/1/model/primera/postcode/sw153de/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/usedcars?logcode=p

[img]http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/imgser-uk/servlet/media?id=8d951f78c6554e12ecab51f745404a62&width=350&height=262[/img]

Look at the price of the car above being sold in the UK i.e £990.00. Consider that the per capita income of the UK is $34,694.00. The same car will cost at least double what it sells for in the UK in Nigeria where per capita income is $5,440.00. It is a a grave, unfortunate and immediate 'affordability' reality like this responsible leaders must address before chasing unrealistic 'pie in the sky' development models.

http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/gdp-per-capita-2011-ppp

ilugunboy:
It's is criminal to shot up tarrif on imported new and second hand car without a corresponding increase in local production at competitive price.

You only encourage smuggling and the resultant loss of revenue to the government by way of reduced custom duty...

You can't inconvenient Nigerians because of some cabal close to the seat of government ...promising the govt they can meet demand, which obviously is a daunting task...

You gets the 'trust' of what Osinbajo is saying. The simplistic point is that "what is worth doing is worth doing well". You cannot starve Nigerians of affordable vehicles, when doing such creates another set of problems altogether, all for the sake of protecting "local industries" that cannot operate and produce optimally.

It is for similarly reasons we import refined crude in the form of petrol. This is a measure that keeps Nigeria economically functional till Nigerian refineries can produce enough to satisfy domestic reply. It is for the government to do its job so that our refineries can work optimally as soon as possible same as government must produce the conducive environment and conditions that will facilitate the growth of a local vehicle industry instead of just punishing Nigerians with high tariffs while doing little to deliver this conducive environment. If posters put sentiments aside they will see that Osinbajo is not advocating a measure that will harm local car production. He is merely saying that for now, and while efforts is made to improve other important factor which will enable the delivery of a high quality local car manufacturing sector, Nigerians should not pay a punitive price, in the form of high duty, for car import.

In most Nations of the world, leaders must strike a balance between protecting local industry and depriving citizens quality/freedom of choice whcih helps them get the best out of the work/productivity and leisure equation. It is patently wrong to try and force Nigerians to patronise made in Nigeria vehicles if those vehicles cannot meritoriously compete with the best available !!! Osinbajo makes the distinct point that local vehicle production cannot be encouraged to the detriment of giving Nigerians greater choices , through importation, when some of the factors that prevents the local production of high quality cars are still glaringly missing.

It is clear Osinbajo takes a broad and long-term view to local production, not local assembly, of cars because that is the only way to look at things if we want uncompromising quality that will make 'Nigerian cars' as good as any other. He argues that while a holistic environment is being created to achieve this local production of high quality cars Nigerians should still have the option of importing cars at reasonable costs. This is a perfectly reasonable solution that takes into consideration the need to try and have balances which suit all sides rather than deploy drastic and ill-thought out ideas that benefit no side at all. The Government cannot just say it wants to help the development of local production of cars using punitive tariffs while major problems impeding the growth of the local car industry are not addressed adequately eg power supply. On this thread, many are taking the view that it must be one (import) or the other (local production) while Osinbajo , correctly in my opinion, is of the view this does not have to be the case. A balance can be achieved, till we reach our target, which allows as many Nigerians as possible to be on the road.

He said, “We do not agree that there should be high tariffs on imported cars whether new or old ones because Nigeria is not producing cars for now.

“What we will do first is to fix power and encourage local production of cars. But before then we will reduce the high tariffs that Nigerians are paying to import vehicles into the country.”

OBJ is 100% correct with his summation below. Any Nigerian who truly loves Nigeria will know that GEJ has to be replaced because he has virtually destroyed Nigeria.

With all due respect. Nigeria, if you love it, you would look for the best for Nigeria and I don't believe that at this point in time we have the best" he said

As a further example of the simple concept of Buhari that TANdroids will pretend not to understand, let us take the recommendation of the Ribadu Petroleum task force submitted to GEJ years ago.

Ribadu stated that Nigeria, as the only major exporter of crude doing so, must stop selling her oil through traders because this self-destructive practice abets massive theft and corruption against Nigeria. Not only did GEJ ignore this recommendation that was within his power to implement in minutes but our President also sanctioned his attack dogs (Omokri, Okupe, Abati et al) to attack and discredit Ribadu and his findings!!!! What will we have in place today if GEJ had done as Ribadu charged? It is not rocket science people. It is about political will and the character to do the right thing and turn one's back on greed as GEJ is unable to do and as Buhari will surely do. When Buhari talked of "stabilizing the oil market" this is what he meant while enemies of Nigeria's progress played mischief with that quote.

Buhari meant that Nigeria can make her oil sector very effective, to the benefit of Nigeria, with the implementation of measures that will defeat corruption, introduce transparency and enshrine accountability. The sort of accountability that will ensure, in the fight against corruption, that corrupt acts are quickly recognised and punished.

Another example comes via the 'ignored' recommendation of Femi Otedola who is a member of GEJ's own economic team. Otedola stated that is was easy, if that is what the Nigerian government want, to block the avenues that facilitated the fuel subsidy scam which led to the theft of around $6.8 billion by crooked fuel marketers. Otedola advised that Nigeria, if we must import refined oil while trying to shore up domestic refining capacity, should simply enter into direct contract with foreign refineries and cut out scamming middlemen !!! The PDP refused to do this because many of the Party's bigwigs directly empower and collude with these criminal fuel marketers to loot Nigeria. Under Buhari, and as a powerful example of how to fight corruption, the General will simply direct that the system of using fuel marketers and middlemen be abolished so that transparent arrangement with respectable refineries be put in place to handle Nigeria's need.

These are merely two examples. There are many, many, many reforms a sincere leader, i.e Buhari, can put in place to defeat corruption which a corrupt and duplicitous leader , i.e GEJ, will always reject because of his need to benefit and 'eat' from a corruption-friendly environment.

rozayx5:
gbawe still deceiving himself

fight corruption with who?
tinubu?

This thread is for intelligent folks, whether they support APC or PDP, and not biased and vindictive dullards like you devoted only to your enemy-of-progress agenda.