₦airaland Forum

adelaja70:
Buhari is a weakling, a president wey dem dey use playball is that one president. I voted for him cause of his ruggedness when he was military head of state..... But now na Obolo.

Oga, you voted for him because of Tinubu and Osinbajo, no dey disguise

Trumann:
Slaves who cannot come out on Mondays are not part of the equation.

I agree. Those south easterners no sabi anything. They think.they are doing Buhari . Bubu no even send them sef. He also no send Tinubu. Make SE and Tinubu forget presidency 2023

adelaja70:
All this mumu self... Not tilting towards Tinubu? How did you know that? Make una
dey apply brain sometimes now. To dey argue with all these under 17 is sickening.

Lmao. Na you insult Buhari before now o . You wan change mouth now.

Aufbauh:
The PDP Northern aspirants are cooking something & when it's done they'll serve it hot to the Wike camp.

The Truth and reality is that a Southern PDP candidate does not stand a chance against an APC Southern candidate in the general election.
These guys understand this fact & are fighting hard to avert the misfortune of such decision.

Zoning the presidency by the PDP is going to be the biggest dilemma for the party.

Oga, you sabi politics

adelaja70:
Buhari is a weakling

This Yoruba people sef . You people have been singing his praises all tenure long, but now wey him body language no dey tilt towards Tinubu, him don turn weakling

I love all the wahala in APC at this time. PDP waiting to capitalize on their confusion. 26th March will be interesting

eguarojeona:
Naive people like you.Same buhari has been contesting and losing(thrice) and crying and causing destruction. Its till same tinubu supported him he finally won.No northerner can win without the south.

No southerner can win without the north . Plus now, the south the north needs mustn't be SW. North can unite with SE and SS and get what they want

bennybuhari:
So Ambode or Sanwo-Olu became governors through Buhari? A Buhari that cannot save Ambode

Lagos and Nigeria no be the same thing brother

Trumann:
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Typical ipob coward. If have touch you now, you start crying marginalisation, hatred and start looking for the shortest cut to Abidjan. Your entire region doesn't have a single viable Presidential candidate. Peter Obi is waiting for them to donate ticket to him, OUK has no direction, others are just fooling themselves. That doesn't concern you, it is those who are doing better than you that is your concern. No wonder you abandoned Igboland and ran to Lagos.

Buhari is being used as a puppet by Malami and other ignorant political rejects. Let Buni, Malami and Co show up at the Convention and square up to those more sensible than them.

Lmao. Buhari now na puppet? Omo. I'm sure Buhari's eyes are on nairaland now. Una go hear am come 26th . If una get mind, don't make Adamu chairman and see all hell let loose. I so much love Buhari

hisexcellency34:
The governors respect Buhari but he thinks they fear him. See how El Rufai is abusing him

El-Rufai no fit abuse Buhari boss. Not while he is president

hisexcellency34:
They will do it and nothing will happen. There is nothing Buhari can do because they both enjoy immunity

Oga, they can't do shit. You people don't know who Buhari is

abu12:
APC convention will hold

APC primary will hold and APC will win the next general election

Party wey go break up after convention

Baawaa:
Tinubu is pushing for nothing

He knows

RapistOnBail:

PDP, nothing concern una for here.

Una own matter worst pass sef. Make una just get out!

PDP matter better pass 100 million times. Make we no dey cap for here

Afolabimills:
u have no shame like your satanic jihadist poverty spreading evil fulani terrorist party it shall never b well with all those who supports this demonic party

Amen

Investigative:
El rufai after APC dealt with him
Tinubu loading

Tinubu that they've been dealing with?

perambulator:
Nigerians have a habit of thinking with their heart and not their heads.

Lol. You are not reading the room

perambulator:
. Nigerians don’t vote on issues, neither do they really determine their president. The next president of Nigeria will be determined at the party primaries, people voting at the primaries don’t worry about the things you are worrying yourself about. Whoever APC present will win if they manage to stay together as a party because PDP do not have anyone formidable enough.

Don’t flatter yourself that they care about your vote, the people whose votes really matter care about N5000…….and they outnumber you 20 to 1! They are the ones whose votes matter, the job of people like you and I was to get involved n primaries to determine who the candidates will be but we spend all our time online. So we have absolutely no relevance in the political process which is why our concerns are never addressed!!!

Toh, you don talk am. They won't stay together. PDP lost because they were not united. They seem very united right now and actually that's all that matters. APC convention hasn't happened yet but chaos plenty like this. Oga, APC is not going anywhere in 2023. Buhari will actually make sure of that if the person he wants as president doesn't scale through primaries

Toks2008:
Confusion everywhere.

All I know is that Osinbajo will declare his intent to be the CEO of Nigeria and when he does, the hosts of heaven will back him, Nigerians home and away will rejoice, on the day he declares, there will be rejoicing all over the land of Nigeria.

He will contest and he will win.

I present to you the incoming president of the federal republic of Nigeria.

No one will vote for this economically bereft individual. Someone who thought 5k to poor Nigerians would somehow alleviate their poverty? Someone who has headed FEC more times than his boss but our economy is still on a downward spiral? This guy should just wait for someone else to be president, then that president can now appoint him to be AGF/Chief Justice.

Some Tinubu urchins are here celebrating . They forget that these same crop of players also visited Yahaya Bello and gave him their support last year . When that happened, they were calling Yahaya Bello a clown . Omo. Tinubu urchins no dey politically savvy. Because if you are, you'd know these ones dey find their daily bread. If Atiku call them for visit now,they'll go and endorse him too. Just pay better money, that's all. Even me now, if Tinubu invite me to endorse him, I will do that immediately . No be to chop and go?

sotall:
Which people are boarding the train?
You people should eat Tinubu's money very well and deceive him before election day.

He cant smell Aso rock

Boss, free them make dem dey deceive theirself. Even if Tinubu invite you go him house, won't you go? Lol. Everybody dey find free money

naptu2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuVNG2C5WnQ

More pictures.

Even if Tinubu invite me today, I go rush go. Country hard brother, everybody wan chop clean mouth

Lexusgs430:
How many youths, can afford ₦20,000,000..........

This our so called democracy, is rigged against good people .......

What use is a law,when the financial cost is punitive......

My brother, matter tire me. But people will be shouting that the youths should get involved in politics. How can they get involved in politics when money is 40 million for presidential ticket? Very sad

Cryofigbos:
No one said he won't be interested but will he tell others to not contest or hw does he intend to force a presidential candidate on d party......u fools don't even know d election was won for Buhari himself, his not a good party man he only became president due to his popularity in north and without strategy,being popular alone can't win election with structure

U igbos r just dumb and d reason president can never go to d east...imaginary manipulation will not finish u ppl.......if Buhari was left alone atiku would have finished him during APC primary in 2011....

Una wey no know anything or hw APC was formed don become expert from Google for our ewedu party matter

See this mumu wey think say I be Igbo man . Oga, I continually say here that no one from the East would be president in present day naija. You're hatred for the Igbos make you feel anyone against you is an Igbo man. Igbos too have their issues. I just finished telling one like that on twitter who feels because he is Igbo, he is the most important person in naija. But this discourse isn't about them. After the convention and primaries is over, you will not be on nairaland again . You will run like your coward brothers, probably change moniker. Shock us for once and be around at that time, then I'd remind you

Almaigaa:
Who told you? They are all fighting for their political future, including Buhari himself. Cause if he fails to make his anointed candidate becomes the next President, that will expose all the corruption and misgovernance that took place during his 8 years as President.

Don't mind these mumus who feel Buhari will not be actively interested in who succeeds him, especially from APC

Cryofigbos:
U don't even know what consensus means.....its unfortunate that most of u started seeing interest in political drama yesterday and u think u know it all from ur hut in abakaliki......oyegun and oshiomole was a consensus and no one contested against them, anything consensus means it has been agreed for a particular candidate....anybody can win including adamu, dis is a chairmanship position of a divided party so anything can happen......bello is in charge of d affairs of APC nw and buni was only tolerated due to inec guidelines and to avoid constitutional consequences.......u can keep bringing ur imagination to d public but just know u have little or no idle of what is going on aside d nonsense u guys come online to always write

If adamu wins u will say d president will handpicked d presidential candidate too abi?

Keep giving yourselves hope . Buhari just dey laugh una

Oluwatobike:
26th of March is going to be a remarkable day to remember in Nigeria. You can quote me any day anytime.

Lol. Nothing remarkable will happen. Buhari will have his way

Cryofigbos:
All dis ppl get money oh, 20M.............it is good APC zoned the chairmanship position to north central and any interested candidates can vie for d position


Meanwhile all those useless and jobless ipob that won't face how pdp will give igbos chance neither as d party chairman or presidential aspirant instead waiting for tinubu to make them president won't come close to trend like dis bcoz of there gullible way of playing politics.....we told them but dey said buni will hand pick or have a consensus for d party chairman

Lmao. Igbos na really your problem bro . Wait and see if Adamu, Buhari's candidate will not be the chairman. You people made mouth that Buni will not chair the convention, now tori don change . Oga, Buhari will settle all these people coming out. It's all part of the game. You think when consensus was mentioned, others won't contest for formality sakes? Events of March 26 will help you to better understand Buhari and the north at large. Even Saliu Mustapha will vote for Buhari's candidate. Be calming down

IN the midst of our current misery, the Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu thought we needed something to cheer for last week, so he offered a joke which was telling and disturbing.

In the row between the Governor of Yobe and interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mai Mala Buni, and governors who wanted to overthrow him, Akeredolu, who was on the side of the protagonists, reached into the gutter for words to describe his enemies.

He plumbed the depths, far below the sepsis reached by the sarcasm of Salihu Lukman, the former director-general of the Progressives Governors Forum, and gave the gutter language a new lease of life. Akeredolu called governors of his own party yahoo-yahoo governors.

Let me be clear. I have absolutely no interest in APC’s house of commotion. And if it is true, as is being alleged, that Buni procured court judgements to stall the party’s national convention for the third time since his inexplicably extended tenure; if it is true, as is being alleged, that Buni the referee plans to join the race; if it is true, as has been alleged, that Buni is offering the party’s primaries ticket for sale; in short, if it is true, as is being alleged, that Buni is the party’s problem, then perhaps Akeredolu’s description would be a fitting epitaph.

But Akeredolu being not just a lawyer but a senior advocate and former president of the Bar knows there is a difference between an allegation and a fact. It’s possible that he was overcome by the poor habit of politicians who hardly talk to make sense. To call governors of his own party yahoo-yahoo deserves not only the attention of the party but also that of bystanders who should take more than a passing interest in this linguistic slur.

After Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State made an unusual appearance on Channels TV and vowed that Buni may return as Alhaji Buni but certainly not as chairman of the APC, it is possible that Akeredolu may have seized on that premature funeral to make his own obsequies. But in doing so, he described governors of his own party in a language which even the opposition may have been reluctant to deploy.

Yahoo-yahoo, a cruel twisting of the search engine, is Nigerian speak for con-artistry; a confidence trickster who earns a living – often outrageously flamboyant living – from transactions guaranteed to leave the other party with the short end of the stick, if not in premium tears. The ruling APC has 22 governors across Nigeria, but Akeredolu did not name names. He did not say which of them is yahoo-yahoo, but mocking fingers are pointing in the direction of three governors – one in the South East, one in the North Central, and the other one in the South West, reflecting a federal character of sorts.

As of the time of writing, Buni, the man who El-Rufai vowed publicly will not return as chairman for causing the inexplicable disappearance of APC’s manhood among other embarrassing misdemeanours is back in the saddle, riding the party’s horse with his team, including John Akpanudoedehe.

From a bystander’s point of view, it is not only Buni’s dramatic comeback and the potential resurgence of the so-called yahoo-yahoo governors that are concerning. Akeredolu’s mudslinging also says something about the ruling party and the political elite as a whole that is tragically true.

And it is true for a good number of the progressive governors today as it is for governours and politicians in the opposition. How, for example, do you describe a governor who upon falling out with his godfather on the eve of an election, goes on his knees just to trade his party’s broom symbol for another party’s umbrella and then after securing reelection, drags and beats his benefactors with the umbrella?

Or a governor who after being elected on the platform of a party, decides in the twilight of his second term, that he must decamp to the ruling party to serve not those who elected and re-elected him in his state, but to ensure the success of his new paymasters in Abuja against whom he had been in opposition for nearly seven years? If that is not yahoo-yahoo, then what is it?

How do you explain the ascension to power of a governor who was not first or second but third by 176,919 votes, but who in spite of that ascended to power through a rare process of judicial iberiberism (apologies to Rochas Okorocha, wannabe pilot and presidential aspirant), and is currently being paraded as the icon of the new politics in the South East?

If it is not yahoo-yahoo, then how come a politician who once said a government that cannot fix power in six months is unfit for office now serves in a government that has been unable to fix power for seven years? And this same government is struggling to guarantee the supply of petrol after the country spent $5.8 billion to repair refineries between 2015 and 2020?

It seems that after the temporary relief from drug barons and their yahoo-yahoo cousins who took politics hostage in the 2000s, we’re once again returning to the era when con-artists ruled the roost. And what is more: between the accusers and the accused, it’s increasingly difficult to know who is yahoo-yahoo by politics or yahoo-yahoo by nature.

There are many reasons this resurgence which Akeredolu said has taken hold of the ruling party, is worse than the current low-grade version popular among desperate, young people holed up in many hotels across the country today. While the police and other crime-fighting agencies can still hope to pursue and rout perpetrators of the low-grade version, what Akeredolu has described is a more dangerous variety.

The perpetrators of yahoo-yahoo in Akeredolu’s class and party, not only enjoy immunity from prosecution while they are in office, they also have the security agencies at their beck and call. In other words, yahoo-yahoo politicians swindle you and yet reserve the power and resources to protect themselves from being held to account. If the governor insists that he used the phrase in a more general sense, perhaps as a rallying cry to save his party from falling apart, it would then be fair to insist that indeed not only those accused of backing Buni but perhaps a significant number in the current class of governors fall under this yahoo-yahoo group.

We don’t have to go far for example. After a week during which power supply has been at a catastrophic low, with many urban households going for days without electricity, not to mention the long petrol queues and run-away inflation, the memes of politicians who swindled voters by making empty promises have flooded the internet. It would be unfair to write politicians off, especially those in the ruling party, as all scams and no work. Some serious work has been done to rebuild infrastructure, which may take some time to show. But if, for a moment, we set aside Akeredolu’s passion for the regional security network, Amotekun, and for legalising the sale of Indian hemp it would be interesting to see what his five-year ledger in Ondo looks like.

Even though the governor would like us to believe that con-artistry in his party is limited to Buni’s circle of supporters, the evidence is that it is far more widespread. If it is not political con-artistry, how can a ruling party which promised so much seven years ago leave the country struggling to secure itself, and its citizens bereft, poorer and more divided than they were when the government came to power?

And see how even the management of the party’s convention has shown that yahoo-yahoo is not just an accident but a lifestyle for the party: in less than one week, the same man who was vilified as a political fraud unworthy of the progressive banner is back in charge, and his enemies, including Akeredolu, must now bow at his feet under strict presidential orders.

It’s a Nollywood script written in a London hospital beyond anything that Akeredolu’s genius or sense of humour could have imagined. Yet to think that Buhari who hardly says a word has written two epistles in one week to save his party is proof that even the directors of this script are sometimes victims of their own con-artistry. A most humbling experience indeed. Or does Akeredolu still think it’s a laughing matter?

Odidigboigbo:
Whether NAS delete it or not, that section of the electoral act cannot stand, it's at variance with the constitution. The constitution is clear on this matter, any act or law that is not in concurrent with the constitution, the constitution takes precedence. The constitution says governments appointees should resigned a month before the election, If NAS is serious, they supposed to have amends this section of the constitution before inputting it in the electoral act.

You're the only one with sense here. Others are just arguing blindly. NASS get ulterior motives. But they don't want to use sense to actualise it. That clause cannot stand. They should forget it

Racoon:
And the corrupt and utterly useless AGF quickly expunge the section without input from the NASS? And when has it become that the court will just give injunction for a legislation to be removed from the law.

Good to see that the executive is paying the NASS in it own coin for condoning many of its illegality.Lets see where this fight leads them to.

Oga, electoral act CANNOT trump the constitution. The constitution stipulates resignation at least 30 days before the actual election. These lawmakers are greedy people. Fixing laws for your own selfish interests. If they so believe in that clause, they should amend the constitution to tally with the electoral act. It's as simple as that