₦airaland Forum

Ratello:
Now I know you are too funny to even tag he likes of Awolowo, Azikiwe, Alvan Ikoku as youhe in the First Republic let me leave you now

you are really funny for trying to use military dictatorship to discredit young persons in democracy. The people i mentioned were young persons when they held sway. whether it was the first republic or last republic is irrelevant. The point is, they burst into the scene and did quite well when they were still quite young.

Sirjamo:
You see failures, we see opportunities being created in many sectors like infrastructure, mining and agriculture. Continue wailing while your mates are grabbing opportunities. Bye

This your rubbish propanganda won't fly this time. Your principal officer is a gargantuan and humongous failure in leadership

jieta:
and all the youth you listed are from the south, why not list some of the northern youth then.


one thing i believe can put Nigeria on the right pact is education, Nigeria should invest heavily in education and we will start seeing changes.

The point is they are still nigerians. i believe one of the reason why nigeria economy was stronger in the seventies even after the civil war, was because we had so many young persons in govt at the national level then. But that is a far cry from the stark reality on ground today.

following in the footsteps of cross river

KEVIND:
Buhari apologist are hell-bent on promoting Dankwambo for PDP so that Bahari will have an easy ride in 2019. As far as Nigeria politics is concern Dankwambo is not a match and does not have the political spread even in the North.

my brother buhari never had national spread until a tinubu with media campaign happen to him. Let proper campaign begin then you'll understand what national spread means. Dankwambo only needs to split buhari votes in the north. the young nigerians will do the rest for him down south. i will not cast my vote for a candidate is similar to buhari

Ratello:
A President engage his intellectual gifts to run a Country since he will be surrounded by "lieutenants" to carry out specific instructions given them. Forget that he will be "too old" tag, Trump became President at 71 and he is doing fine Ronald Reagan became President at 69 and he spent 8 years in power going down as one of America's finest and best so my brother it is not about age but what you have upstairs! Here in Nigeria we have been ruled by youths as President in case you don't know and their inexperienced exposures cost us a lot. Gowon was 31 when he became head of state yet led Nigeria to a wasteful war with Biafra, this same youthful Gowon carelessly said, " the problem with Nigeria is not money but how to spend it". This same youthful Gowon against wise advice went ahead to pay an outstanding salary of a carribean Country's civil servants to the tune of then Nigerian N1.5 million free of charge in 1973 which was a lump sum. This same youthful Gowon left a Marshal Plan of 3Rs to Rehabilitate, Reconstruct and Reintegrate Biafrans after the war in 1970. A youthful Murtala Mohammed was 36 years old when he became head of state in 1975 yet he sacked over 10,000 Southern populated civil servants (against professional advice offered him then by those elderly super permanent secretaries in the civil service) which gave birth to ghost workers in the civil service commission that had cost the Nation wasteful expenses on "workers that don't exist", this same youthful Murtala Mohammed hurriedly map out a certain portion of expansive land (now Abuja) as Federal Capital Territory in 1975 at a time huge funds were being spent on Lagos as the then Federal Capital Territory. What would I say about a youthful, chubby cheeked Obasanjo who messed Nigeria up as a youthful 38 year old head of state in 1976 who scripted the 1979 Constitution that is still plaguing us till date as it has now metamorphosed into the erroneous and one sided 1999 constitution. This same Obasanjo perfected the art of rigging for FEDECO (the regulator of elections then) that rigged for NPN and Shagsri to emerge as President. I can go on but let me stop here but bear it in mind that I am not rubbishing the entire youths but just telling you that to govern Nigeria requires deep understanding of politics and great experience and not for greenhorns.

the fact is you can't compare the youth of today with that of the sixties. because youth of today are more exposed and more advanced due to technology. Moreover all the instances you sighted was in the military where youthful rascality is heavily encouraged and the same is still obtainable today even in the military. we once had youths with finese, such as alvan ikoku, nnamdi azikiwe, obefemi awolowo, wole soyinka, matthew mbu, samuel imoke etc.

Sirjamo:
Hypocrites, you people always go on and on comparing both presidents when it suit you; but would always termed it excuse when we point it out that they operated under different circumstances. Grandstanding laced with acute hatred is a chronic disease

What was obama excuse when he took over America at their worse after bush's maladministration? What was OBj excuse when he took over a failed govt from the military? One of the sure qualities of a failed leader is constantly giving excuse, passing the bucks and blaming others.

billyG:
If Buhari is a punishment frm Jah d almighty i,who are we a mere mortals 2 complain,may b d punishment is for 8yrs.

hehehehhe. i beg He should have mercy on us.

westernized:
I just weak sef, all these old men na em go still dey rule us, small time dem pikin too go take over.....Smh

That's exactly what they are planning to do.

this is fatality for folorunsho. Any mortal kombat fan in house can relate with that.

transformed:
Na by force?...we want digital president. Atiku baggage too much sef, when he messed up, we wont havr anybody to blamr, Atiku be like say we dey take open eye enter fire

hehehehehehehe. Atiku is buhari version 2.0 loading

Ratello:
A President engage his intellectual gifts to run a Country since he will be surrounded by "lieutenants" to carry out specific instructions given them. Forget that he will be "too old" tag, Trump became President as 71 and he is doing fine Ronald Reagan became President at 69 and he spent 8 years in power going down as one of America's finest and best so my brother it is not about age but what you have upstairs!

My brother leading nigeria, is a very tough task that is not meant for an old man. incase you forget, so many things that works out smoothly in advanced countries seems not to work out well in this country. i can even refer to advanced countries as well oiled and automated machine, meanwhile nigeria is still an analog country that still requires manual labour to function. This task is beyond the physical strength of a septuagenaria. Even GEJ who was young came out with grey hairs all over due to the stress of the position.

once upon a time, nigeria was topping this league. but incidentally a buhari happen to nigeria, now we are fighting with relegation.

Sirjamo:
Powered by high oil price 110d/b average, I would love to see what he would have done with the economy when oil price dropped to 30d/b

Excuse is only what you guys are good at.

westernized:
Oga does that mean that these listed people are d only ones who can rule dz country? As we plenty reach for dz country.

lols i wonder. infact the statement of buhari is the best option available is a big insult to our collective intelligence as a nation.

Ratello:
A Dankwambo simply means Buhari till 2023 bro, please reject this nonsense at once! It will only be a suicidal mission if a Dankwambo should emerge as PDP flagbearer. The only man that can face Buhari and win remains Alhaji Abubakar Atiku!

personally i would have loved Atiku, but he will be too old like buhari, so whats the difference? it's time for the young ones to take over, is that not what we have been crying for?

Ratello:
A Dankwambo simply means Buhari till 2023 bro, please reject this nonsense at once!

the truth is buhari is over rated. his failures will be his greatest undoing. Nigerians are yearning for a young presidential candidate. The truth is dankwambo fits the bill more. infact with a dankwambo, young nigerians from SS, SE, SW and NC will happily vote him.

buharitill2023:
meaning buhari is still the best among his contemporaries and among his contenders

base on what parameters, because all indices point to the contrary

Even though Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has contested several elections for the post of president and failed, merely disregarding or treating his political influence with levity amount to sheer gulliblity. No matter how we down play his role, his endorsement of this present administration in 2015 after losing the primaries played a role in this adminstration emerging victorious. In the event of Dankwambo emerging as PDP presidential flag bearer, Atiku's endorsement will go a long way in helping dankwambo emerge victorious in 2019 polls. As Atiku's political experience and support structures in the north will be a huge leverage for dankwambo, since SS, SE, some parts of NC and SW will willing accept dankwambo who is young, detribalised, intelligent and represent the popular sentiments among young voters, who are tired of septuaginarians dominating our political space with inept and archaic leadership style making us lag behind other nations we are more better of than.
If dankwambo can get the political backing of all the PDP stalwarts, he will massively floor PMB in 2019 polls. I laugh at those who think dankwambo will be a feather weight for buhari to win, they had better pray PDP don't project dankwambo, because it will be a battle between the young and the septuagenarians. Of course i can't forget in a hurry how the youth were really instrumental in making buhari emerge the winner in 2015. This time around it will be a batlle between the young and the old, since the old have dared the young to seize power by force rather than wail for power to be handed to them. Under estimate the young at your own peril.

i will have supported atiku but not for his age. so i go with dankwambo

nobody is ganging up against buhari, rather his failures is too monumental to ignore or endure again for another 4 years.

how can you in the same breath say something is the best thing and at same time a failure. Buhari has had his time to prove himself and so far failed woefully than the previous administration. So we will simply do what we did to the previous administration, which is to kick him out. We will continue this way until a good leader emerges.

if PDP produces dankwambo as president, they will beat APC blue black at the polls with buhari contesting. Because, they will be satisfying the present desire among nigerians of wanting a young and vibrant president.

its so appalling the way the govt is treating this strike with so much levity.

Chelsea fans, when Conte said bakayoko will not feature against barcelona.

Chelsea fans, when they realized that, they will be facing barcelona with bakayoko in midfield

Chelsea fans when they realized they will be facing barcelona with bakayoko in midfield

Chelsea fans, when they realized Conte will never bench bakayoko

chelsea fans, whenever they see bakayoko in the team sheet starting lineup

chelsea fans watching bakayoko against Roma in the champions league

Chelsea fans, watching bakayoko play his second game for chelsea

Chelsea fans when Matic played his first match for Man utd.