₦airaland Forum

Vikkie14:
That's impressive. You know, there is a time when one says "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. That is the stage our military is now. "the child wey talk am say im mama no go sleep, that pikin too wont sleep". We have a well trained Army. With the right training and armaments, Nigerian Military could take on/ confront any aggressor. Still the BEST, EDUCATED Army to me. As Ruthless as an Army.
#NeverAgain
#MarchForOurTroops
#VictoryForNigeria

sunshine1974:
I was just wondering if Abubakar Shekau is finally captured and makes confessional statements indicting some top opposition candidates and big witts...........could this be a game changer?

Share ur thoughts

nationwide1:
Op, you simply mean that Nigerian law should be bent because of Buhari. Get this straight: Because Buhari does not have school certificate but can express himself in spoken and written English does not in any way take away the fact that we have Nigerians who have suffered to study to acquire certificates and can express themselves in written and spoken English better than Buhari.

I have met many people who don't have school certificates but are good writers and speakers of English language. You cannot justify Buhari's disrespect for Nigerian law with such baseless analogy. That's how Buhari refused to appear before Oputa panel. Are you saying those who sat down to outline (in the constitution) the presentation of school certificate to INEC were fools?

skulboiy1990:
None of them has any credible agenda to deal
with, especially within the context of the
evolving global economy and Nigeria’s broken
public finance. In Nigeria’s history, the two presidents who
made the most fundamental transformation
of the economy, Babangida and Obasanjo,
were exceptional in the quality of the teams
they put together. I therefore pray that Buhari will be
magnanimous in victory – if the wins- to put
together a “team Nigeria” for the rescue
mission and I know if Buhari wins, he will ride
on the populist wind for “change”.
If Jonathan wins, then God must have been magnanimous to give him a second chance to
redeem himself. My advice to Gen. Buhari and his team is to
build a true political party with a soul from the
patchwork of political associations. It is
surely easier to oppose than to govern. Buhari
and his team must realize that they do not yet
have a coherent, credible agenda that is consistent with the fundamentals of the
economy currently. The APC manifesto
contains some good principles and wish-lists,
but as a blue print for Nigeria’s security and
prosperity, it is largely hollow. My advice to President Jonathan and his
handlers is to stop wasting their time trying
to campaign on his job record because his
record on the economy is a clear “F” grade. I
refer PDP as dining table politics, I am not
sure how many PDP members can tell you what their party stands for or its mission and
vision for Nigeria. I will like to draw the
President’s attention to two issues;
First, beside the coterie of clowns who
literally make a living with the sing-song of
transformation agenda, President Jonathan must know that it remains an empty slogan.
Second, Jonathan must claw back his powers
as President of Nigeria. He largely
outsourced them, and must now roll his
sleeves for a new beginning. I take liberty to
tell you this brutal trust: if you are not re- elected, there is little to remember your
regime after the next few years. Be assured that those of us who are prepared
to die for Nigeria will never spare you or
anyone else this bitter truth. Nigeria must survive and prosper beyond
Buhari or Jonathan!

farobat:
Guys

The truth is raft we have some economic saboteurs here in Nigeria

Naira has stabilized at 198 at the interbank market but speculation and rent seeking at the parallel market is alarming

There is also the political aspect of it
The Northerners that controls about 90% of the BDC market are deliberately devaluing the Naira by creating artificial scarcity to give the Govt of GEJ a bad name - They buy from CBN weekly at 198 and refuse to sell to the public

LagBlogger:
I want to understand a few things which I know will offend some Buhari supporters because they are quite embarrassing if you are sold out on the Buhari candidacy. By the way I won't be voting in this election so I'm not supporting Jonathan.

1) If Tinubu is Buhari's biggest Ally and Tinubu controls all the south west Governors except Fayose and Mimiko (if Fashola is in a government meeting and he receives a call from Tinubu to leave whatever he's doing and come to meet him at his house I'm quite sure Fashola would obey), that means Tinubu will play a key role in ministerial selection in Buhari's government if he wins. How will Buhari stop Tinubu from appointing his own stooges as ministers who will report directly to him or does he intend to betray Tinubu after being sworn in if he's serious about fighting corruption?

LagBlogger:
2) Does Tinubu love Nigeria more than he loves himself? If Buhari knows the real answer to this question, can he honestly say he'll be a serious anti-corruption crusader? Or is Tinubu also like Buhari, a man who hates corruption?

LagBlogger:
3) If APC represents change and change in this case means better governance, where will the patriotic Nigerians who will serve this country and produce this change we're talking about come from? a) Amaechi, Dino Melaye, Afikuyomi and co or is it b) Fresh incorruptible, competent Nigerians we've not heard of?

LagBlogger:
4) In the event that APC loses this election and the come and chop battle begins are there any guarantees that present APC members won't decamp to PDP and chant different songs against Buhari in 2019 if he decides to contest again?

LagBlogger:
5) What makes APC the more reliable of the two front line parties in this election? a) Merely being an alternative to a bad government b) Being the real choice.

Waiting patiently!

EzePromoe:
[color=#DC143C]Everyone knows about the Boko Haram issue but is the government doing anything about it or not? That is what Buhari should be sincere about without attaching political sentiments.
Meanwhile keep your insult to yourself.[/color]

Jarus:
Oga, if you ever imagine Buhari losing in Kano, then you're not qualified to discuss politics.

Actually, Kano is surer for Buhari than even his home state of Katsina (which is equally sure anyway).

And if you think Mohammed Abacha and Shekarau have 10% of Buhari's popularity in Kano, then it shows the level of your knowledge.

Then you mentioned Sanusi? ...don't let me laugh.

If Buhari loses in any of the North West states, I will quit Nairaland.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
At least, jona told us he's going for medical trip, and dose who wished him well prayed for him, while dose dat wishes him bad said so many tinz. I still can't imagine maself to be dat dumb and dull like apc supporters, ya party lied to ya instead for ya to be ashame of yaself and ya useless party, ya still justify dem foolishness. Well, as dey say, only a mad person will know d oda. Foolish party foolish supporters!

FastShipping:
Don't mind that hungry man. he and his fellow TANists should tell us at what hospital Buhari is being treated. They are the one telling Nigerians he is being treated in London and they should be in better position to tell us at what hospital.

barcanista:
It is not a crime for Buhari to travel abroad for medical treatment, what the PDP is asking to know is that the APC tell Nigerians whether or not Buhari is in the UK/US for meical treatment so that Nigerians can pray for him. Personally, I see nothing wrong with the PDP's position. On my own part, I will never play politics with the health of anyone, because it isn't worth it. But the APC should come clean... That is it!

Mynd44:
The APC which seems to be the main opposition to the PDP in Nigeria has for sometime now been vigorously pushing for the ousting of President Jonathan and his administration in the next general elections and they will need the votes of the general public. They’ve been doing some convincing to the people who are undecided, now regarded with the somewhat derogatory term of “fencist”. Right now, I find myself sitting down wondering about some important issues. My questions are based on these points.

Body Language: In the last Presidential elections, the APC (or if you like ACN) had a candidate to run against the president and just hours before the election, they allegedly dumped him for reasons best known to them. This singular act shows them as unserious and some might even say they are just in the race for running sake. In my opinion, the greatest damage done by that singular act was to their supporters and of course the candidate, AIG Nuhu Ribadu (rtd). After all the resources and funds put into a campaign you chicken out in the end and leave your people to dry? It speaks volume as they have set a precedence of them being unserious.

How is that your business? We that they left dry are not complaining. Stop taking panadol for someone else's headache.

Candidates: I am not comfortable with some presidential candidates the APC brought. Buhari, Atiku etc are not what I will call presidential materials either based on past mismanagement of funds or being a dictator to human right abuses. Why not others? How come more people are not opting to contest and seek office? Must we be saddled with the same old people? Yes we know people like Kwankwoso and Rochas contested in the primary but still it was evident from the start that it was a battle between Buhari and Atiku. Atiku was third (which remains a shocker)

[b]When ACN chose Ribadu in 2011 as the consensus candidate, you people cried as if someone has collected your bread that the ACN did not have internal democracy. Now that PDP chose GEJ as its consensus candidate, that cry about lack of internal democracy suddenly disappeared. Now Buhari was elected in the most transparent primary with thousands of delegates nationwide and the primary was devoid of any sort of rancour and those that lost even congratulated him against the expectations of doomsayers like you. You guys now come out with bul! sh!ts asking for others. Didn't Kwankwoso and Rochas you mentioned not contest. I am sure you would have prefered the primary election to be rigged to favour your so called preferred candidates just like pdp rigged many if not all its primary elections. BTW if the APC primary was rigged to suite your preferred candidates, people like you would have still come out to castigate the APC for rigging. Just in case you have not noticed, APC leaders are not in politics to satisfy TANoids - sorry about that [/b]

Insecurity: This is another problem. We all admit that this is a problem for all Nigerians but has the APC done enough to fight it? Have they shown support towards fighting this scourge that has left thousands dead, about a million displaced and also fear in the heart of a lot of Nigerians? What has the APC done to support the fight apart from endless criticism? Have APC brought out or proffered solutions to fighting this? The killing of members of the NYSC in the North after the elections comes to mind. Some may say that most of the perpetrators were CPC supporters but they have joined the ACN to form APC, so APC should please answer. Statements: This is another point that has been scary (well to me). A lot of statements credited to top members of the APC has not been comfortable ones. I find it careless and annoying the statements I hear and sometimes, I fear they can cause war.

Notable amongst these statements is the threat by the Director-General of their Presidential campaign, Governor Rotimi Amaechi that a parallel government will be formed if they lose. Does anyone remember that this kind of action led to the arrest and detention of Chief MKO Abiola?

Now I have to say a BIG THANK YOU for admitting (even though indirectly because you may not realise what you are admitting) that this GEJ government is incompetent and cannot solve the problem of insecurity. Tell me which opposition candidate did OBJ or even Yar'Adua seek advice from before checkmating insecurity in their respective governments? Or are you so forgetful to remember that there were issues of insecurity that GEJ's predecessors faced? So it is now confirmed by a TANoid that GEJ is incompetent. Even at that, let it be on record that there were quite a number of suggestion given and I recall Tinubu's publication sometime last year where he gave his own little suggestion.

Political Prostitution: It is difficult seeing a candidate scream XYZ today and tomorrow screams ABC. Most of the members of the APC were once in the opposition which they labelled as thieves and corrupt. Look at the case of Ekiti where Segun Oni joined the APC. That is a move that shocked even me because everyone remember the propaganda war he had with Fayemi before the courts declared in Fayemi’s favor. Endless Criticisms: Okay so the APC plays the role of an opposition party well. Yes they know how to criticize everything this administration does when campaigning but is that what their campaigns are about? I am tired of hearing what the other guys are going, what do you have for us. When you criticize, you need to also give solutions so you don’t seem to be just doing it because you can or because you are against them. The APC and PDP are both agents of Nigeria’s development right but how about saying what the government is doing right and then when you say what they are doing wrong, tell them what they should have done.

please, I am trying not to use some not-so-good words on you. How on earth can someone say APC has not told Nigerians what it plans to do if elected. Of all the rallies around the country, you have not seen where they mentioned what they planned to do. OK let's assume you missed all the rallies, do you also miss their manifesto? I mean come on!

Future Plans: What does the APC have for us? What are their ideas, what will they do about security, poverty, electricity, mortality rate. Education etc. No one is talking about this or they are not talking about it enough. It seems to be a case of making a lot of noise but not really saying anything.

Ditto

http://opinionriver.com/oluwamynd-vote-apc-2015/

LRNZH:
A discredited ruling party faces its greatest electoral test yet

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They also hope that, as a former military man, he knows “how to make soldiers fight, not run away.” He has some form. Under his command in the early 1980s the Nigerian army drove out Chadian rebels from areas now held by Boko Haram (and which, ironically, are now being contested by Chadian soldiers who have been sent to assist Nigeria).

omenka:
Nice one Are you okay?? Tell him to go ahead with the lawsuit. Why the heck is he backing down??

#Shame.

OLADD:
Try to be objective in your reasoning. The success been recorded over Boko haram lately was partly due to the support of Chadian, Nigerien and Camerounian authorties who had hitherto been reluctant to key into Nigerian Army operations. Don't forget also that our attempts to acquire arms were frustrated by US and SA until we approached other more friendly nations.

gists:
GEJ is a gonner. He squandered his opportunity and the enormous goodwill he enjoyed in 2011 - especially in south west which happens to be the 2nd largest voting block in the country. Whatever the outcome of the military onslaught against boko haram, it will surely count against GEJ. The way I see it, there are only two possible outcome:

1: The military fail to effectively defuse boko haram. This will confirm the skepticism of Nigerians wondering how the military can tame boko haram in six weeks what they have not been able to do in six years. This will finally confirm that the GEJ administration is either not competent or at least not sincere about ending boko haram and in fact may be complicit -especially giving the fact that no high profile arrest of sponsors have been made after 5 years. War is an expensive venture and BH definitely has some big money bags as financiers. The DSS and other intelligence operatives in the country (all under the presidency) have not been able to pin any of the sponsors, but the DSS was super quick to detect the Hacking video tutorials which the APC was allegedly planning to use to hack into INEC database.

2: The military succeeds in checkmating boko haram. If this happen, it then mean that this administration deliberately left boko haram to kill tens of thousands of Nigerians for the past 5 years! It means the Nigerian army has the capacity and resources (both human and material) to eliminate boko haram in six weeks yet the terrorists were left to go on killing spree for 5 years unchecked -deliberately!
All the excuses put forward will amount to mere smokescreen deliberately put forward to justify the lack of decisive action against the terrorist group. Excuses like "the Nigerian Army is not trained to tackle insurgency", "the army is not well equipped compared to boko haram sophisticated hardwares" will all fall flat because the same Nigerian army that couldn't defeat BH for the past 5 years as a result of all these silly excuses are now able to perform the "miracle" in 6 weeks.

Now I know some people will say the NA is able to do it in 6 weeks because of the support from other countries. But our neighbours have been involved for a while and there are records that the Cameroonian Army had on a number of occasions recorded victory over boko haram. Even our own civilian JTF fighting alongside with the Nigerian Army had some measure of success against boko haram. So to say Nigerian Army has been in a solo fight against boko haram and that is why it was unable to defeat BH is not entirely correct. So it will be obvious that the Nigerian Army deliberately allowed (or made incapacitated by "orders from above" ) boko haram to kill 10000s of people even though as we can now see, it has all the resources to have easily eliminated BH.

The way I see it is that its a lose-lose situation for GEJ. I am sure APC is just using this "cool-off" time to put some facts together to pounce on the opportunity presented by whatever the outcome is.