₦airaland Forum

joseph1832:
if this is true, then I wonder how much Wike must have 'looted' when he was governor.

Fubara offering to give him 10% of that allocation is something else...

vanitybutiwanti:
SIM doesn't care, he offered to resign, the Kings from bonny and opobo and some Elders and opposition leaders are cheering him on, I don't think Tinubu wants to be distracted by the drama unfolding In Rivers, there's little no tricks now in wikes playbook, I watched his video at the FEC meeting today, he looked distressed, I'm just not happy that the fight started sooner than expected especially when they are yet to complete their court cases. It's a Complex situation

BlueRayDick:
Wait till u have full executive powers in a democracy like Nigeria’s before u talk the bolded .

Do u think all these governors who have had ruckus with their political godfathers in the history of Nigerian politics are all natural born betrayers ?

We’ve had Adedibu vs Ladoja in Oyo , Oshiomole vs Obaseki in Edo , Tinubu vs Ambode in Lagos and now Wike vs Sim in Rivers . Do u think all of these people are just natural born betrayals ? Or that they didn’t know what they are agreeing to an initio?

Methinks it mostly has to do with executive power at ur disposal . It’s very very hard for u to see the extent of ur executive powers in a country like naija and u will have almost 90% of ceded out to a godfather. I believe every politician that has fell out with their political godfathers think they can please them ( just like u are thinking now ) until they get voted in and the godfather starts making one unreasonable request after another.

From my understanding , the Nigerian political market is a black market where one party(the godfather ) has all the market information ranging from cost price , selling price , opportunitu cost market dynamics and the risks in the market ; while the other party ( the political godson that ends up clinching the executive power ) just buys a product he will eventually have little or no control over .

I am sure some of these political godsons (especially the ones not popular in the political scene before their ascension to power ) prolly didn’t they also have a breaking point where they will have to break off character .

So my friend , wait till u get full executive powers before u know what u can or cannot do

vanitybutiwanti:
nothing will happen, the people are behind him, unfortunately wike miscalculated, he'd have just left the guy ti do his job, and still gotten his respect regardless, how can wike single handedly pick all his appointees? I reckon that sim would have handled it better by speaking to respected Elders like Odili and possibly someone in the presidency, rumour has it that aonr of the reasons for he fight was sims insistence to revitalise the songhai farm project started by Amaechi, wike got angry and retorted that 'we didn't ask you to do agriculture ' because it was Amaechis project, I'm happy because everything that played out today would have been handled differently, it's a shame. That Edison guy from Ahoada is also gunning for the top seat after sims tenure, that's why he stood behisim to take down wike, I believe sim has promised to hand over to him since power is supposed to rotate to his senatorial district. Wike had everything Going for him, he just hosted the APC Rivers faction loyal to him, his arrogance brought him down, he was starting to feel like God, he should resign and go on exile, his enemies are out baying for blood.

Ibime:
PH violence is sporadic. When violence is breaking out, you will know. Most of the violence is political rather than economic so when politics is hot, you just avoid certain areas. That's where the inhabitants sense of peace comes from

Rivers State in general (outside PH) is not safe and quite unpredictable. The violence there is economically driven especially toward Ahoada, Omoku, Ndoni side on the road to Bayelsa. There was a time between 2015 and 2017 that that East-West road saw one or more kidnappings/killing of road users every night without fail until Don Wanni boys were chased out. There will still be violence and crime there no doubt as there is a power vacuum but not as before.

For the record, most Ijaw towns controlled by warlords are safe except during election time. Ateke keeps Okrika safe and Asari keeps Kalabari safe. But during elections, anything goes. If you know the seasons you'd be fine. Where there is violence is those towns with power vacuum, where you don't have a warlord under amnesty program such as the towns I mentioned above (Ahoada, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Omoku) and sometimes part of Etche, Eleme, and Ogoni. But Ateke has ability to bring Ogoni under heel when it gets too hot as he has many boys there and his mother is from there.

Abonnema itself is relatively safe (compared to militancy days) except at election time due to Asari presence. Abonnema Wharf like Nembe Waterside is in Town/Borokiri and separate from the real Abonnema and Nembe which are in Kalabari (Sombrero river) and Nembe Kingdoms respectively.

Theflint1:
More than 90 is vague. It could be any number from 90.1 to 99.9...even if we choose to work with mean, it's horrible stats and would make it one of the most unsafe places to live in Nigeria.

Theflint1:
You mentioned 90%, I did not. Even if we decide to make it 95%, the average of both extremes, it's still ugly stats. Take note, I'm not giving my personal opinion on the issue, working with what you said.

AsianLoyalist1:
The first time I went to abonnema I spent more than five hours on the road. And I was going from rumuola. How can I spend more than 5 hours + on the road going to somewhere in port Harcourt from Rumuola?

These folks here are overreacting. I go out and come out very late a lot, and nobody has ever blocked my way before.

The market also recorded a turnover of $88.3 million a 66% drop from $259.8 million recorded last Friday. Intra-day highs and lows were N998/$1 and N475/$1 respectively. The intra-day low is rather remarkable, and represents a N523/$1 discount to the closing day rate

DissTroy:
PH city is made up of many LGAs:
ONELGA
PHALGA (Port Harcourt LGA)
Obio Akpor, and parts of some other LGAs.

Uyo city is made up of many LGAs:
Uyo LGA, and parts of:
Itu LGA
Ibesikpo Asutan LGA
Uruan LGA
Ibiono Ibom LGA
A little of Etinan LGA
And in recent months, a tiny part of Nsit Ibom LGA.

Point is PH city, like most cities isn't just one LGA.

Your tears would make me keep exposing the violent crimes you whitewash. You can't keep putting people's lives at risk indirectly by underplay a deadly vice.

vanitybutiwanti:
Rivers is not as bad as you paint it here, last week a man went on shooting spree in America Killing about 17 persons on the spot, judging from that incident, does it mean that America as a country is unsafe and all its inhabitants are cultist? Can we also agree that Rivers is safer than America?

Theflint1:
If these are real stats, it pretty much proves the point what BluRay and Disstroy are trying to make. A state where there's a 1/10 chance you get to suffer violence, armed robbery or kidnapping is not safe

akwesenana:
Although to be honest, the same way you supposedly can't walk around by 7pm in Artillery is the same way you dare not walk around with any valuables at Nwaniba, Ekpri Nsukara.

BlueRayDick:
I read newspapers and I see what they say about the crime rate in that state .

I was there recently and I heard first hand the situation of security there .

The incident that happened yesterday is still fresh . I don’t know how old u were when Chidi Lloyd broke Michael Chinda’s skull with this same house of assembly’s mace .

U can keep posturing as if these things didn’t happen , but they did. Facts don’t care about ur emotions or love for ur home state . If the violent elements in ur state won’t stop violent acts , then people like us will always talk about it .

seankafor:
but why those sim security no release shots back to that useless police wey teargas Dem

Na why e good make everybody carry guns.. you get your own, I what my own.. no intimidations

OasisX:


.....Wike should let SIM breathes. He is the Governor, let him performs his functions independently and optimally.

I want PBAT to intervene and caution Wike on this matter. Leave SIM to serve out this term and don't make the state ungovernable for him, otherwise its gonna ruin his own legacies.

BlueRayDick:
But SIM sef supposed know say he dey dine with the devil na. Wike wey him boys dey petol-bomb the house of Atiku loyalists, SIM supposed know say crossing such man means getting ready for a bloody fight.

OasisX:



.....Itsrm!! We are waiting for your confam update. Seems kinda too early for Sim to betray Wike though. Also, I doubt its that so simple to impeach a sitting Governor without prior allegations in this era.

We ain't in the era of OBJ again, even Edo and Ondo Lawmakers failed to impeach deputy Governors of their respective States.

seankafor:
Itsrm

What's happening in rivers, Dem say Dem wan impeach sim..

Is it related to betrayal of wike..

Day never break we don dey hear this kind news 🗞️

https://twitter.com/vanguardngrnews/status/1718834000666460246?t=4CSKKOjWCmi_tBi9a201pA&s=19[/quote]This is news to me and I doubt this vanguard story. Will confirm.

NinjaMetahuman:
exactly

Looks like we are going to struggle against small club with low club and do well against big club.


Unto the next one.

Bluelines69:
It’s not an overreaction when even armchair supporters like us can see the problem, how about opposition coaches who eat and sleep with football

Jodera:
E be like say the only reason wey Chelsea fit stay up na if dem pack top teams give dem.

Beginning of season against Liverpool, they looked like title challengers.

Against arsenal, you'd think it's sky blue that's playing arsenal instead of dark blue.

What happened between these two matches have been smh!!

vanitybutiwanti:
you can't convert USDT to actual USD for eurobond, USDT only exist on crypto exchanges, If you need USD, you can buy from the issuing house or you source locally, tell the bdc to transfer to your DOM account

Ballzproblemm:
the usdt represent dollars already

seankafor:
you don't need to, usdt is backed by stable USD.. just buy and hold..

BlueRayDick:
Na the timing of Atiku's case mess am up na , the 180 days timeline. i don't think there's anything the supreme court can do about it.