₦airaland Forum

Superwave16320:
Foolish Igbo what happened to Biafra or death ? When did you start caring about Nigeria ?

Can you pray that your Igbo wretched life will be like the evil you are wishing Nigeria with the failure pandora criminal ? May you receive mercy from this foolish n stupidity

The presidential election is just few months away. The heart of all Nigerians is longing to see a responsible and competent leader win in 2023. The winner will be decided by the votes of people and not by rigging this time. The masses are tired of the hardship and insecurity in the country.

Several market women and men were asked on who they think can win the 2023 presidential election. The response from majority of them was rather shocking. I think we can easily tell who is going to win following this polls. However, will our votes and choice of president count?

CoronaVirusRelo:
Gibberish!

Inspiration born out of a faulty liver!

Superwave16320:
Are you talking about the criminal that looted over N250 million cash monthly from Anambra coffers using his governor convoy

Or

The one that looted Anambra State fund into his daugther Gabrielle pandora account

Or

The one that looted Anambra coffers to build himself Malls in Abuja n PH or why is he yet to build another mall since he left the State coffers.

Villa12:
Chinedu

We have two country already

Ndi AfghanEastern and south west

Unfortunately, ndi developers chose to become a refugee in west than an indigine in the cannibalism and terrorism zone

Adblg0610:
By the special grace of God, it shall come to pass. My only advice for you is to begin to learn how to deal with the psychological discomfort it’ll cause you.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidency is inevitable

Superwave16320:
We have that already n Obidient keep on escaping daily from Anamabra n colume refugees into urchin territories in Lagos etc

StreetFight:
Tell us about your own father. You seems to know about Tinubu more than you know about your biological father

UnusualEmissary:
Hmm God knows best

Thanksful:
The way Nigerians talk about impeachment as if anyone can just wake up and make it happen show how bastardized the mental state of the citizens of his country is.

Our thinking has been negativity impacted by the bad government we have had over the years

The bullying of the Nigerian media by the presidential candidate of the All-Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is real. It has heightened in recent weeks as a primitive ploy to cover up the lingering allegations of his drug case in America. But the news media must not succumb to the chicanery.

The pattern of bullying came to limelight when the Boards of Editors of ThisDay Newspaper and The Arise News Channel alerted the nation last week. Of course, the Tinubu Campaign Council did its best to deny the ugly development, but the media organization is not alone. There are many living witnesses, this writer not excluded.

I had actually whispered this storyline earlier in the piece, “Chatham House, Tinubu’s Drug Case, And The Press”, even before the ThisDay exposé.

The observation became obvious given my experiences with the media in recent times. In short, I have been expressing opposing views of every major presidential candidate since the Fourth Republic. Interestingly, as a member of the APC, my critical opinion of the then President Goodluck Jonathan and Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar had appeared in virtually all sections of the Nigerian media during the elections of 2015 and 2019 while I was promoting Muhammadu Buhari. All in all, I had always extolled the Nigerian press as free, vibrant, and fearless. But this electoral cycle is dramatically different—with dishonour.

Any remote attempt to hold candidate Tinubu accountable has been met with all manners of threats and theatrics. These shameless threats are not only directed towards me, but also to the innocent editors who dare to publish my views. Even when they do, some of them are cowed to ensure that the serious scandals of the Asiwaju, particularly the alleged narcotics trafficking, do not see the light of the day. The objective fact is that, as the most arrogant, most immodest, most dictatorial, most diabolic, most authoritarian, most shady, and the most narcissistic presidential candidate in the Nigerian history, Tinubu is bent on playing by different rules.

But the media must not allow the dubious broom of the Asiwaju to sweep the drug case under the carpet.

This matter is serious. It is neither fake news nor planted as an election hue by his opponents. An indelible fact is that Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu had in the past forfeited the sum of $460,000.00 to the authorities in the United States of America. This forfeiture—"a penalty for wrongdoing”—resulted from a case where he was charged for narcotics trafficking and money laundering. At the time of this unfortunate outcome, even though his legal income was a meagre $2,400 per month, the U.S. criminal investigators found over 1 million U.S. dollars in his bank account. The court documents remain unambiguous.

Instead of investigating the case and reporting it as it is, some of the news organizations appear compromised. Any simple scan of such mercenary newspapers will show that their coverages are crafted to favour Tinubu at all costs. It was laughable to read how they embraced the bunkum from the Tinubu Campaign Council that a whopping sum of $460,000.00 their principal forfeited to the U.S. authorities was for TAX deductions. That is, a tax deduction of $460,000.00 from a man who swore under penalty of perjury that he was making only $28,800.00 per year and had no other outside income!?

Fellow Nigerians, what is going on? Who is zooming who?

The simple answer to the above questions is that I can count 1, 2, 3…Clearly, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is attempting to insult his way to the presidency by using pecuniary influence to tame the press.

Granted, the APC leader already enjoys an unseemly sense of esprit de corps within the political press. After all, the Asiwaju of Iragbaji owns a major TV station (TVC), a daily newspaper (The Nations), and other media outfits, whose sole raison d'être is to promote him and undermine his opponents. Further, unlike the other candidates with lean pockets, Tinubu deploys his stupendous wealth to advertise heavily in most of the Nigerian media outlets.

But the consequences of succumbing to the Tinubu overtures are grave.

Let’s play the devil’s advocate for a minute and entertain the optics of Bola Tinubu as president. Even if the Nigerian media are subdued to downplay the drug matter, the United States will not. The American country has a hellish history with individuals who are alleged to have used drug proceeds to gain power in foreign nations. Imagine an attempt for outright prosecution and, of course, the stench of the social media sentiment that is bound to further mar the image of Nigeria. Imagine a potential blackmail and the extent Mr. Tinubu can travel to retain power. In short, having endured all manners of stigma in the comity of nations, the last public pong Nigeria would wish is a president who is globally seen as a corrupt kingpin cum drug lord.

I must not conclude without acknowledging the efforts of notable Nigerian news organizations who have remained tireless in this electoral cycle by upholding an important role of the press, which is to hold politicians accountable. But they are growing very frustrated. Despite Tinubu’s mounting flaws, including the shameless drug case, his abject disdain of the local press, as well malicious threats, his campaign continues to dominate the media space at the expense of his opponents.

But the patriotic men and women of the press should not be deterred. Nigeria has hit the rock bottom. The last resort is a true change, motivated by the masses, and anchored by a free press alert and bold to expose the ills of the candidates standing for elections in 2023.

A way forward is to checkmate Tinubu, particularly with the drug case, by wielding the big stick. It is incumbent upon the press to demonstrate consequences for bad behaviour for a man who undermines the Fourth Estate of the Nigerian democracy. To continue to promote the Asiwaju not only emboldens him but also amounts to aiding and abetting an enemy of the state.

micellgevity:
This is how you spread fake news. See his mouth.

floret23:
https://leadership.ng/electorate-eager-to-disgrace-apc-inuwa/

Saywhat10:
The north is planning a befitting burial for apc

What would be your message to the PDP?

My message to them is one, to remain resolute, united and really work hard towards victory by the grace of God is just a matter of time. Because the people are eager and anxious to disgrace the APC at the poll. So, by the first election of February 25, that is the last day the APC would take its last breath.

JUST GOT THIS MESSAGE NOW FROM KAGORO.
Kpak and sofio kagoro is under a heavy attack now

PastorOku:
Una wahala too much.. U go die if dem no pay u before Christmas? Why the unnecessary religious profiling? Don't you have something else doing?

Benez:
Just as we will not elect a guy as our president

People’s Democratic Party (PDP)
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to waste precious time campaigning for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as it is manifestly clear that Nigerians across board have roundly rejected him.

Indeed, Nigerians have registered their rejection of Tinubu as they have shown that they will never trust or elect a narcotics-related lawbreaker; an individual accused of treasury looting and many other reprehensible acts as President.

Is it not preposterous and a huge spat on the faces of Nigerians that an individual, who is beleaguered by allegations of corruption, perjury, identity theft, inconsistencies in name and ancestry, as well as alleged narcotics offence for which he forfeited a whopping sum of $460,000 to the United States of America, could present himself for election into the office of the President of the Federal of Nigeria?

It is imperative to state that Nigerians will never entrust the destiny of our nation to any individual who is completely tarnished; whose persona is globally tainted with issues of criminal allegations, who cannot explain the source of his wealth in the face of accusations that it proceeds of corruption.

Of course, there is no way Nigerians will trust or elect an individual who is so depraved that he can present the photograph of another person, former Governor of Cross Rivers State, Donald Duke, as his to gain followership in a documentary used as part of his campaign materials to canvass for votes.

Such proclivity to falsehood is evident in the attempt by Tinubu, who cannot point to any resounding legacy project he articulated and executed in his brawling years as Governor of Lagos State, to shamelessly claim credit for the achievements of his predecessors and successors in office.

It is strange that anybody can expect Nigerians to elect a failed State Governor whose only achievement is entrenching governance by brawl, personal enrichment and puffery.

In any case, Nigerians across the country have since established their preference for the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over and above the deflated Tinubu as the next President of our great country.

This is because Atiku has proven himself as a leader with the required integrity, sound reputation and desired capacity, competence, presence of mind, political will and stamina to lead our nation at this critical time.

Nigerians want Atiku on the saddle in their yearning for the return of the good days; the period of Atiku Abubakar as Vice President and Chairman of the Economic Council, when our nation witnessed unprecedented economic growth to become one of the fastest growing economies of the world, where citizens were secure, prosperous and happy.

President Buhari should therefore not waste his time to campaign for Asiwaju Tinubu, who has lost grip of the Presidential contest and is only seen in the public as a butt of jokes for his endless gaffes, display of vacuity and incapacity to lead.

In fact, the overflowing mammoth crowd that received Atiku and his entourage in President Buhari’s home State of Katsina as well as in Imo, Kwara, Gombe, Osun, Akwa Ibom and other States of the federation is a clear pointer to the fact that Nigerians, irrespective of political, ethnic or religious affiliations have pitched their tents with the PDP presidential candidate.

What Nigerians expect from President Buhari at this time is to provide the enabling environment that will guarantee peaceful, free, fair, transparent and credible 2023 general elections as well as a smooth transfer of power in line with the expressed will of the people on May 29, 2023.