₦airaland Forum

ShopifyWordPres:
I still don't know why schools are closed down and markets are opened... Anyway check my signature

are you normal? do children go to markets, rubbish

from the comments here, its obvious we now have a young generation of educated illiterates and its no fault of anybody but theirs because they don't read very wide. I now know why my Dad back then forced me to read the daily newspapers. Ignorance about the country you live in is truly a disease.

Imagine folks thinking it was NBET was a betting company, omo wahala dey

Quaddafi29:
Nigerian Bulk Electricity what? That's the kind of useless positions they allow Igbos to assume. Does Nigeria produce any power talk more of bulk electricity? Why not Nigerian Ports Authority, NNPC, DSS? Abeg let me come and be going

mumu, go and appoint yourself nah,

DonFreshmoney:
PDP should adopt Obaseki. To me he is more popular than all their 3 aspirants combined. You cant be more popular than a sitting governor (good or bad)..most times negative criticism is also good publicity

Politics is all about taking risk, PDP should take the risk and give obaseki the ticket. He has more financial leg and spending power than their 3 aspirants combined, he will only do 4 years in office, that ize ize iyamu of a fool might want to do 8 years which means edo south may hold power for 12 years.. I am sure people from edo central and north should calculate and allow obaseki complete his tenure so power return to their constituency.

Have you not seen sitting Governors loosing elections? you pdp goons wan use Obaseki cash out abi?

ddippset:


Papa Edwin Clark abeg just stay your lane, no use us play.

Which one be "I am neither APC nor PDP"


You are neither APC nor PDP in the day time

but completely PDP at night time.

that is how they deceive their followers o

bigtt76:
If Obaseki pulls through with PDP, Oshiomole should forget Edo state as his home town

you will withdraw his citizenship of edo state?

kikero:
Yes, school cert holders rule us, because most of us educated people leave our villages, head to the city, get a job, and are completely disconnected from the lives of the ordinary people.

Some time ago, I read about a guy from a village who was complaining that after graduating, he had no job...meanwhile, his agemate, who finished primary 6, was a councillor.

The truth is, his primary 6 agemate stayed at home, became a local leader, and as a result, when politics came calling, nautrally the people of the village voted for the leader they saw, not the one that was in some far off country....studying.

The problem I have with online discussion sites is that we sit down and build castles in the sky all day long. But we won't go to our home towns, or even at least join a poltical party, start from the bottom, and build our way to the top. We even call poltics a dirty game....and refuse to even take part. Meanhwile, the 'certificateless and lifeless ones' go and do the hardwork, and build connections, grow their followership, and work hard....and build up their party.

While we sit down in our air-conditoned offices, quaff beer at night, and hold 'learned discussions' about 'the situation in Nigeria'

Instead of complaining about lifeless politicians, go and join a party, fail at an election a few times, build your base, and maybe in due time, you will have the power you need to make a change. No body will dash you power.

One of the best posts I have ever read on nairaland. Pls do this often or regularly to reduce the influence of blockheads' comments we see here everyday.

ModestGal:
Well, these men never had influence on the common Nigerian. I'm sure he was able to have all that because of the way Nigeria was, but they all destroyed it for us.

Look at his profile and you would wonder if he wasn't born of a woman, yes he was, and he might even be from a poor family, there are many professors like that in UI

A time will come in this country, that we would do thesame thing the black Americans are doing for some statues in the US for some of our elders

A poor person would not be able to achieve what this man achieved in this age, not because he won't be brilliant but because he won't even have access to a good primary education

I do not like the old generation and have no respect for them because the destroyed the lifes of our generation. The old generation did not try at all

entitlement mentality, too bad mhen. No one is responsible for misfortune but you!

pdp is fast becoming a busybody in APC internal matters, how did Clark know Obaseki has done well in Edo state, is he now a resident of Edo state? if the things happening in APC now were happening in pdp and APC governors and chieftains were talking like wike, clark and others were doing, we would have been hearing news from pdp like APC should stay clear off its affairs. If pdp wants to give its ticket to Obaseki let them go ahead nah since Obaseki is the best thing that has happened since slice bread instead of all these statements of why did they embarrass a governor like that. If at the end pdp does not give its ticket to obaseki, then its obvious pdp is just a joke, nonsense

defeatist mentality!

OfoIgbo:
It is not in the SE or SS interest to vote for a SW candidate in 2023. This is especially so, because it was not in the SW interest to vote for a SS president in 2015.

We will shop for a suitable candidate both in the SE, SS and possibly the north, and present such a person as the candidate for 2023, of course keeping tabs on who the APC presents

exactly, this is what you guys should be saying and not making empty boasts and threats. It's a game, play the game and let's have a winner and also loser

proeast:
These guys are very funny. They forget that there is nothing noble about asslicking and anyone can easily do that.

They teamed up with the North in 2015 to remove a SS president only to force a disaster on us. Now what stops us in the SE and SS from teaming up with the North to ensure a yoruba does not win in 2023?

They are so self-centered that all they think about is their own interests but they forget that others have their own interests to protect.

If APC fails to give their presidential ticket to an Igbo man then the North (maybe NC or NE) is going to continue from where Buhari stopped because there is no how a Yoruba man should rule again when the Igbos are yet to have their own turn.

chest beating, prove it and walk the talk, talk is cheap

OfoIgbo:
Unlike during the Abiola era, when every SE and SS state votes against a Yoruba candidate, the SW will have to hustle for votes in the north against a northern PDP candidate.

That is when you will know we have the numbers

you guys are lazy and ignorant in Nigerian politics which is your bane look here, at the highest level of political horsetrading, ethnicity and religion are not considered but deep political interests and that is why even politicians from the same village can go against each other cos its all about interests first. Your calculation that yoruba will hustle for votes in the north is not tenable especially looking back in history. It is who the political gladiators trust the most that they work for. This is what we saw in 2011 when gej won and same people who work for him then turn against him in 2015. That is how it works not a south vs north thing. Northerners has voted for southerners and vice versa and it is a dynamic system depending on the swing of political interests. Track records of political participation and those marketing the candidate are also considered.

The Yorubas are masters in this game and will settle for a candidate that the northerners will trust barring whoever pdp will pick as candidate whether from the south or north. We know these are your fears and that's why you are begging for both parties to present an igbo candidate which is impossible because the igbos are yet to contribute anything meaningful to APC. You guys can try your luck sha but your sentiments can't win this game.

proeast:
So far we still pay tax in Nigeria and our resources are still used by Nigerians then we will continue to seek for our rights in Nigeria or we go our way.

then seek your rights democratically and not by threats, no one listen to such, create your own political platforms or join and build existing platforms instead of begging and throwing tantrums all over the place, no food for lazy political men. Your prowess in trading, let's see it also in the political scene instead of noise and blackmailing.

OfoIgbo:
A fulani man emerged as the president in 2019 and not a Yorubaman.

And we also promise that another fulani man will emerge in 2023, if a Yoruba man gets the APC presidential ticket

you guys don't have the numbers to make it happen, you have failed twice on this.

proeast:
Don't get it twisted. The quest for Biafra was borne out of the injustice meted out on Igbos in Nigeria.

We are only seeking for Nigeria to be a just, fair, peaceful and progressive country where every part would have a sense of belonging. However, if these noble demands are not met, then Biafra becomes the only alternative.

The choice is yours to allow peace, progress and equity to reign or we go our way.

2023 will be the last straw and we are watching keenly.

stop wasting your time on Nigeria, focus on your biafra and get your thieving members of the National Assembly to do the needful.

KINGwax007:
your sense is clearly.not available

no be lie

Igbos should stop disturbing our peace and face their biafra struggle abeg. You guys should just focus

OfoIgbo:
The SE and SS will pay the SW back in 2023, if the SW dares produce a presidential candidate on the APC platform

same thing was said in 2019 and here we are. keep crying till 2023 and beyond

cosef:
If Sagay and yorubas are sincere and really want southern presidency, let them campaign vigorously for both parties to zone their tickets to the South east. If it is impossible to do so, then they have no right to complain about power staying in the north.

The greed of yoruba and their desperation to ensure the political emasculation of East will keep power in the North.

There is no two ways about it, yorubas have taken their slot as president and should wait for others to take their turn.

Zoning means "turn by turn" , if the yorubas have sworn to be greedy then it is justifiable to keep it in the North.

bring your northern candidate, he will still loose in 2023. Mark my words and don't cry foul if that happens, shebi na Atiku una wan flaunt again

Trailblazer1:
Game over


It's a palace coup against Obaseki by the APC national hierarchy


Gather here if you support Obaseki to fight back with all his might like a man rather than chicken out like one coward from Epe

I just want this new precedence of godfatherism to end in our polity from Edo to Lagos

Go and form your political party to challenge the status quo

A lot of our youths are really ignorant about their country, you think Nigeria is big for nothing? Nigerians don't know how poor these african countries are, they think any town or city outside Nigeria is heaven. na wa o

Africans shd stop the pretence, no African nation is doing well at the moment. SA was on recession before covid, Ghana has been in Sifia pains since border closure. Any African nation despising Nigeria is just being deceived. They are not better in any way

SirBunky85:
I thought some silly people say dat tinubu has bn sidelined in the apc?why complaining to him now?

How can you sideline the owner of the party? Na so atiku, saraki, dino, ambode and co sideline run comot

ThatFairGuy:
Why raising dust. Give him automatic ticket in PDP nah

If the pdp does not give obaseki the ticket with all the mouth they are making, then pdp is worse than a snake

He was not sworn it so that cannot happen. Nigerian presidency is not a tea party.

Cosbyrich:
My take is there is no single Eastern states names here.It is my area.I wonder why it was so and it is still so.
Mind you,both Igbos and the Hausas are very scanty in these area but if it were done for cultural integration,the present govt in Lagos should at least give 2 or so streets SEastern names.

no be only eastern name, create even a new state out of Lagos and call it emeka state. Una never Sabi wetin de worry una. Keep crying shior

Cosbyrich:
In Ebutte Meta cum Yaba here,we have Ibadan,Abeokuta etc streets but my surprise is how the Northern names came to be without the Eastern names.Mind you,both of them are very scanty in these areas....as residents....except for commercial visits.

Na the Eastern names wey no dey there dey pain u?

seunmsg:
This one think we’ve forgotten how Jonathan and mama piss treated Timipre Sylva. Was Sylva not a sitting Governor when Jonathan bundled him out of office?

Don't mind the pdp and their hypocritical followers, when they do it it's okay but when it's APC, it can't be good, awon werey

talk is cheap, difficult to believe any info from this ministry nowadays

NazoTimes:
I would also like to say a few words about UNN many people may argue that UNN is a Federal University and therefore should look better, but the truth is that the Nigerian government abandoned UNN to rot simply because it is located in the East.

Most of the infrastructure you see in UNN today was built by the government of Eastern Nigeria between 1956 and 1967, others were built with Students school fees which is why UNN is the Federal University with the Highest school fees.

Una Don come again with una victims mentality, so cheap

jaxxy:

U think there aren’t whites in Ethiopia or even helping them in the management of the airlines??

Yes Adesina issues isnt corruption I know bt sm politics and abit of ethics.

China deals with corruption especially the one that is destructive to the common good of National development bt here in Africa we don’t care our know what we shudnt tolreate. China willl sentence u to death if ur corrupt practice affects their development. No questions.

My point is Africa and Africans need to wake up.

but who is in charge and who get their thing?