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“We must have leadership that is committed to the rule of law… that has an identity and credentials that can be verified. We can start thinking of a new Nigeria with competence, and capacity that is committed to fighting corruption. Is it possible to fight corruption? The answer is yes!

“The trouble with Nigeria is self-inflicted. If Achebe was alive, he would have taken back the book. When he wrote it, there was no trouble. Now, there is real trouble in Nigeria. Rascality has become a measure of success in Nigeria. That must change.”

Angelfrost:
Pray?!!.... Dem truly swear for this country and continent Sha!


Is this the new song?!! Pray for the nation!

Issokay... Awon Pray warriors. Ride on.

victorsola:
na igbos run drug pass . And they still kill dem everyday for it

rinzaugustine:
which Nigerians? Nobody voted for the criminal drug dealer or did you see any celebration any where when Mahmoud selected the mandate thief?

Fearyourcreator:
Oni jere

Eriokanmi:
Please tell him. And anytime we speak against the way he's dragging the name omoluabi in the mud cos of his lifetime political ambition, his blind followers would call us ipobs. Birds of same feathers. Ask obasanjo, he knows him too well and that's why he never hobnob with him when he was Nigeria's president, even till now. Oro agba, inu agba l'ongbe

IfnobeGod20:
I am also a Yoruba man, I also say same thing, Tinubu doesn't represent the omoluabis because his character defeats what a real Yoruba son should be. Omoluabis are known for transparency and openness in all things.

Bliss62:
young man listen to yourself as well

Indians , Ethiopian, Egypt, Philippines all have Government backed migrant programs

so what is Our of line in what he said if not hate and more hate without reasoning

Bliss62:
as long as you can stop hiding behind your phone and go to DSS headquarters to say this about Tinubu with your evidence

EtinosaDLaw:
The level of hatred yorubas Tinubu's surpporters have for the Igbos. They don't mind denying their own brother justice, just to make the Igbos look bad.

Bliss62:
Mr President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Jagaban GCFR

Former Senator, Governor and now President

ganisucks:
I hope that by next week this whole debacle is done and dusted. We've danced naked in the market square for way too long. We need to get rid of all these distractions so that the new CBN team can get down to the work of arresting the out of control hydra headed monster of inflation freefall and skyrocketing prices.

Bliss62:

Typical Philosopher like Aristotle

We voted a capable Administrator and an accountant.

IconicR:
😂

I only supported his presidential ambition due to some reasons that has nothing to do with tribe or anything.

The 2023 Nigerian elections have come and gone yet many of the sayings from foremost candidate, Peter Obi before/during the elections continue to be referenced.

1. “If you must be referred to as your excellency, then the process through which you arrived in the office must be excellent.”

2. “I’m not promising Nigerians happiness. It’s the entertainment business that promises happiness. I promise change and progress,”

3. “Leadership is about accountability because people don’t do what is expected. They do what’s inspected.”

4. “We will use merit to employ, dramatically reduce poverty and return Nigeria to a place of strategic relevance with high value”.

5. “Insecurity is a result of ineffective security strategy, address this by projecting strong leadership, state security and pursue a robust reform of security sector”

6. “Borrowing must be for productive purposes, not consumption… enhance human capital development in our youths through investment in education, research and quality health”

7. “I will conduct an Afro-centric policy that will protect the rights of Nigerians abroad, advance the rights of Nigerians businesses abroad”

8. “The problem of Nigeria is based on complex leadership… lead Nigeria for an inclusive and sustaining Nigeria that works for all”

9. “To you, young people, take Back your Country…it is your future they are toying with”.

10. “Those who steal, if they come to church they will give them front seats, so, why would they not steal? They are the ones who are given chieftaincy tittles, they are the ones who get tittles in the world. So, we need to change all that.”

“I reduced my convoy to 5 vehicles and you cannot buy fuel unless I am in the car”.

“If I sleep in a hotel and have to pay N250k a night, I will be awake all night…feeling like I was robbed”.

“It is just that we have a government that has criminalised the society and people celebrate criminality. So, nobody could say to them, stop.”

“You know there are many big men in Anambra state, so when they want to see me, I say to them I will come to you instead”.

“We handed schools back to Churches and by 2013, we were number one in WAEC.”

“I beg you to participate more in politics, the society we help them abuse today will take its revenge tomorrow.”

“What I found in Nigerians and your parents here, including me, I am a victim of that, I was governor for eight years, you can hardly see anybody who tells you something is wrong."

“The only way out of recession is to spend for growth. You can only spend for growth either from savings or from borrowing.
The question is: what are you borrowing for?
Are you borrowing for consumption or for production? When you borrow for consumption, you are heading for disaster.”

”I had to stop the Presidential lodge in Anambra… A project awarded at 400million. I had to close down state house in Lagos and Abuja… Because I felt we dont need it…. Even when other states had.”

“I am going to celebrate and invest in Tech. We’re going to use tech everywhere. We were the first state govt to put internet in all the secondary schools”

“When you have a candidate that has global exposure, it would be difficult to be a tribal bigot.”

“You don’t just open shop and start begging for money. People need to see your efforts and the extent your strength could take you before your start making demands for support”

“I will make Nigeria a Giant, not just in name but in existence, we will be able to stand up to every Nation on Earth as a true Giant”

“I will make Nigeria a giant in name and in existence. We will stand up to any nation on earth. Otherwise, they should just call us any name they like.”

“There must be some people who don’t like me. If everyone likes me, I would stop campaigning. Because I would know something is wrong.”

“I told the Canadian Ambassador that I don’t want Nigeria to be invited to the G20 or G40 or whatever as an observer but as an active member.”

“People will say my plans are lofty. But country after country has done it. So it’s doable”

“I am the only governor in Nigerian history who finished eight years, left money, built infrastructure, owed no contractor, salary or pension”

“Do not vote for anybody because he is from your area or tribe, or because of religion, please. Nobody, no religion buys bread cheaper, no tribe buys bread cheaper; that is what politicians are using to manipulate us. And do not vote for anybody because it is his turn. It is the turn of Nigerians to take back their county”

“No Nation can survive without saving for tomorrow”.

“Government does not create job, it only facilitate job creation”.

“Government borrowing to do flyover bridges when the main road is not good”.
“In Nigeria, nobody tells you the truth when you are in power”

“We want government that will make people to earn a living, government that will give the youth job, we want a country where a son of nobody, a daughter of nobody will be somebody, and it will happen in this country. So I urge you, please, remain prayerful, ask questions about those you want to vote for, ask for their background.”

“Everybody calls you his excellency, that since you came, things have changed, even, when you know that nothing has changed.
“I requested Obasanjo to spend the nights in my lodge Since they said he must sleep over… I asked my wife to pack out of my bedroom… We went opposite to lodge in a hotel (name mentioned) for the week, we paid N30,000 instead of N100,000.”

“I used the 150million for 2 bullet proof cars to buy almost 50 Peugeot cars at 3 million each.. gave 17 to judges and 18 to permanent Secretaries (because I discovered they did not have cars) and kept 10 for govt house… which I used as Governor… I did not use bullet proof cars as Governor.”

richie240:
"I be yoruba'' kee u dia.
You forgot to switch monikers, okwea?

All deez biaflets sef!
Pfttt!

franchasofficia:
They said Tinubu is the political god in Yoruba land

STARGREEN:
I'm yet to read of something of excellent about Tinubu.

franchasofficia:
You think say Yoruba people that founded Oluwole and put the headquarters in Lagos are fools?

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the first runner-up in the February 25 presidential poll, says it is impossible for Elnora Daniel and Niva Lubin to have signed Bola Tinubu’s 1979 Chicago State University (CSU) certificate given that they began working in the institution in 1998 and 1996, respectively.

As the battle for the release of Mr Tinubu’s CSU records rages, Mr Abubakar on Wednesday told the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois that he does not understand how Mr Tinubu’s certificate submitted to Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, bore the signatures of two CSU staff who joined the institution nearly two decades after the president graduated.

Mr Abubakar, the applicant for an order directing discovery of Mr Tinubu’s records, said there were glaring inconsistencies between the certificate Mr Tinubu tendered to INEC dated June 22, 1979, and the one CSU gave Nigerian lawyer Mike Enahoro-Ebah in response to a previous subpoena, dated June 27, 1979.

“The June 22 diploma has a different font and seal and does not have the grammatical error in the June 27 diploma. Instead of three signatures, it has only two. It also purports to be signed by Dr. Daniel as President of CSU—who did not begin working at CSU until 1998.

“The second signature purports to be that of Dr Niva Lubin as Chair of the Board. But like Dr Daniel, Dr Lubin did not begin working at CSU until the late 1990s,” Angela Liu, counsel for Mr Abubakar, wrote to the court on Wednesday.

The former CSU board chair’s legal name is Niva Lubin-Johnson, which is how it is written on all her public records. How her name was spelt as Niva Lubin alone on the certificate purportedly issued to Mr Tinubu could not be understood, further fuelling the suspicions of forgery.

Peoples Gazette’s checks showed that Ms Lubin-Johnson joined the CSU board in 1996 and left after serving two terms in 2002.

Both women (Mses Daniel and Lubin) whose names appeared on Mr Tinubu’s diploma joined CSU long after Mr Tinubu graduated and long before CSU said the incumbent president and board chair usually signed the certificates at the time of request, Mr Abubakar’s lawyer noted.

“The June 22 diploma has indicia of forgery,” asserted Ms Liu. “Although it appears to be signed by three CSU officials, two of the signatures are illegible, and the third purports to be that of Dr. Elnora D. Daniel as President of CSU—even though she did not join CSU until 1998. ECF 5, Ex. F. It also contains a clear grammatical error. ECF 5, Ex. C.”

“Although intervenor submitted an affidavit to this Court from Westberg asserting that ‘all diplomas are signed by the current President/Board Chair’, ECF 21-1 at ¶ 4, both Dr Daniel and Dr Lubin had left CSU by, 2008 and 2001, respectively,” Ms Liu pointed out.

Mr Tinubu successfully begged Judge Nancy Maldonado to delay the release of his school records to his main challenger in the presidential polls as previously ordered by Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the U.S. federal court, pleading severe and irreparable damage to his life, in a last-ditch effort to stop the order from being enforced.

Mr Abubakar wants to use the document at the Supreme Court of Nigeria in his quest to prove Mr Tinubu committed perjury and is therefore ineligible to serve as the nation’s president.

dawnomike:
There's something Atiku knows that makes he keep knocking the doors of CSU.

The die is cast as the litigations at the courts occasioned by INEC’s seemingly contrived ‘glitch’ as well as its ineptitude have commenced. Remarkably, the elections which ordinarily would have been free and fair through the use of technological innovations [BVAS, IReV and real-time e-transmission of results] were botched. Currently, the country is on edge and the brouhaha that has enveloped the country would have been avoided; SANs are having a field day.

Incidentally, Nigeria has trodden the same path in the past when senior lawyers held contrasting opinions with regard to 12 2/3 of 19 States. Why did the courts not deem it necessary to invite as amicus curiae, revered Prof Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate of English Literature and/or Very Rev Fr [Prof] Nicholas Akwanya, Prof of English and Literary Studies/former Dean of Postgraduate Studies at UNN [first class graduate of National University of Ireland] for elucidation of the coordinating conjunction ‘and’ of 25% of FCT, Abuja as was done with late Prof Ayodele Awojobi [first class graduate of Imperial College London], the Engineering genius at UNILAG that addressed the court during the contentious 12 2/3 conundrum of 19 States in Awolowo v Shagari suit of 1979?

The erudite Professors [Soyinka and/or Akwanya], if invited, would have availed the court the exactitude of the conjunction ‘and’ concerning 36 States of the Federation and FCT, Abuja which decidedly would have been unassailable rather than the disparate interpretations of the senior members of the bar, inclusive of SANs – the Agbakobas, Falanas, Osopitans, Maliks, Ozekhomes, Ajulos [not yet a SAN but in this year’s list], etc – please see This Day newspaper publication of 7th March, 2023 or in the alternative, browse the net, www.thisdaylive.com on the topic; “Is 25% of FCT Votes Required To Win a Presidential Election?

Besides, it is expedient to read Dr. Olukayode Ajulo’s treatise on 25% of FCT in Sahara Reporters of 26th March, 2023 or browse the net, saharareporters.com on the same topic. In a similar vein and for a balanced view, it would be necessary to read the interesting/intellectual exposition and rejoinder by Prof Mike Ozokhome, SAN in the NigeriaLawyer of 29th March, 2023 or browse thenigerialawyer.com – ‘Finding The Bodmax X in Mathematics of 25% Of The FCT, Abuja.’

However, it may or may not represent the intendment of the framers of the 1999 Constitution but would be the correct position which subsequently may necessitate a bill by the National Assembly for an amendment of the word ‘and’. There is no gainsaying the fact that lawyers are ‘stewed’ in jurisprudence but Prof Awojobi was considered an expert in the mathematical conundrum of 1979 while Profs Soyinka and Akwanya are numero uno with regard to coordinating conjunction of ‘and’.

It is germane to mention that equity and fairness have flown out of the window with regard to rulerships of the national and subnational governments. Is it not considered necessary to enshrine in the Constitution ROTATIONAL PRESIDENCY between North and South and also, by extension zonal rotation to prevent a repetition of South West doing an encore as Tinubu has done by ascending the throne despite Obasanjo’s Presidency thus denying other Southern zones, particularly South East zone of taste of the pudding?

What is the guarantee that North West zone will not usurp the Presidential slot considering its number of States/numerical strength when it rotates to the North at the detriment of North Central or North East zone if the Rotational Presidency is not legislated by the National Assembly with the concurrence of States’ Assemblies? If other zones are continually muscled out by South West and North West in occupation of Aso Rock what are the implications for the politically oppressed/suppressed zones vis a vis the avowed claim of inclusivity/sense of belonging? It follows therefore that the oppressed zones can only occupy Aso Rock when pigs fly or until the cows come home. What are the possible remedies?

If 2 terms each for a zone are considered too long given the envisaged rotation should the National Assembly not set in motion machinery for amendment of the Constitution for a term of only 5 years to enable every zone swim in Aso Rock waters? Proverbs 16:12 admonished: ‘We must practise justice as it is what makes a nation strong.’ Should Nigeria not embrace JUSTICE, EQUITY and FAIRNESS to avoid the avoidable road travelled by Yugoslavia before its disintegration into many countries?

As what obtains at the Federal seat of power is routinely replicated in States should the same rotation not be enshrined in the Constitution to enable other Senatorial zones also luxuriate in State Governors’ houses rather than successors from the same zones being foisted at the whims and caprices of some imperial Governors? However, it must be acknowledged that some of the States are already practising rotation but other Senatorial zones in some States have used their superior numbers to ensure oppression/marginalisation and retention of the prized diadem.

World history has shown that INJUSTICE, MARGINALISATION and INSTITUTIONALISED OPPRESSION do not last forever and almost always have expiry dates. Regrettably, nepotism, cronyism and prebendal politics became recurring decimals and were elevated during Buhari’s regime and such fatuous actions do not augur well for the fabric of our country. Nigerian needs obviation of Buhari’s shenanigans and should not be sustained by Tinubu and his acolytes. Martin Luther King stated: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny, whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” The time to act is NOW.

Taylor92:
Are you saying Tinubu can’t do that?


You know how many times I don escape from security officials because of my comments on Nairaland till I commot Nigeria.