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Politics / Re: Davido Performs At Pdp Presidential Campaign Rally, Hails Atiku (Photos) by ItzBIM(m): 3:56pm On Feb 11, 2019
David you really disappointed me
Pdp for 16 years did mad
Apc in 4 years manage to do worse

Why not use ur influence to show Nigerians a better alternative.

Sad cry

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Politics / Re: The People's Presidential Debate Live On TVC by ItzBIM(m): 11:22pm On Feb 10, 2019
Effiongdbest:


Who?? Who is a professor?? Toutish Sowore?? Abegiii stop talking rubbish like his fellow illiterate. Idiot!!

If only u will google this things, bigot man.
Politics / Re: The People's Presidential Debate Live On TVC by ItzBIM(m): 8:30pm On Feb 10, 2019
ednut1:
Sowore talks like mc oluomo smh

A professor that teaches at a New York college ??

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Politics / Re: The People's Presidential Debate Live On TVC by ItzBIM(m): 8:25pm On Feb 10, 2019
We have the data but can’t process it because of our analog rulers.


Omoyele Sowore

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester City Vs Chelsea (6 - 0) On 10th February 2019 by ItzBIM(m): 5:49pm On Feb 10, 2019
Chelsea In the dressing room

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester City Vs Chelsea (6 - 0) On 10th February 2019 by ItzBIM(m): 5:33pm On Feb 10, 2019
MaziOmenuko:


This is what you get when men meet boys!

Ahhh

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester City Vs Chelsea (6 - 0) On 10th February 2019 by ItzBIM(m): 5:26pm On Feb 10, 2019
What is going on nitori olorun
Politics / Re: No Rational Nigerian Will Vote For APC, PDP In 2019 - Omoyele Sowore by ItzBIM(m): 11:18pm On Feb 09, 2019
surevik:
How would someone who know how to control mouth know how to control a divers country like Nigeria. This man need to mature
The truth hurts ..irrational somebody

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Politics / No Rational Nigerian Will Vote For APC, PDP In 2019 - Omoyele Sowore by ItzBIM(m): 9:02pm On Feb 09, 2019
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has said that there is no rational Nigerian who would willingly cast vote for the two major parties APC and PDP in the imminent elections.

He stated this in a chat with media while making references to the past years of waste and stagnation under the watchful eyes of the two parties, saying they are unrepentant and mastermind the country’s political and economic doldrums. How we plan to mechanize agric sector – Osinbajo “Every trick in the political world has been played and outplayed by these political class. Nobody is carried away by money anymore. Nobody is swayed by rented crowd out there, with silent majority making decision to vote their conscience this time. If the elections would be free and fair, there would be no rational human being who will vote for the two major parties this time and what that means is that, we have the brightest chance in AAC,” he said. On the premise of their bad antecedents, Sowore pointed,“I understand there is a lot of anxiety and despondency. Many people are actually depressed about the country. I mean– clinically depressed. That’s the truth, but, that is exactly why things must change because it is either we give in or brace ourselves up for a struggle like this in providing the liberation that we need. And the reason this must happen is because we have nowhere else to go.

For those of us who are outside the country, we have seen other parts of the world and found out there is nothing as good as having a country that works and you come back so much energized considering you know that only less than one percent of the population is holding the country to ransom. “If you can break through from them, you have a country and you will be happy in it and be proud that you did something for the next generation. You know that when we look at the process, we blame our parents and when I do so, I do so with some level of bitterness. I wonder how my children would feel to know that I could do something different but did nothing about the situation. What if I did and it didn’t work? Maybe, they will be proud of me and others could be happy as well. That’s part of it, better to try than not trying at all,” he added. While urging the citizens to brace up, Sowore emphasized the need to vote for conscience rather than allow votes to be swayed by pecuniary gains and transient gratifications that have been consistently used to bait the electorates. Re-elect Okowa for equity in Delta- Ereyitomi, Okorodudu He expressed optimism about his victory at the polls, observing that a silent majority amongst the electorates who have awakened to the call for self-liberation and are poised not to be deceived by stomach infrastructure offered by desperate politicians during electioneering campaigns would ensure his emergence “I am worried that the opportunity that we have is not being adequately utilized especially when you look at the electoral map and see that the highest number of eligible voters are young people. And that they could just take a snap decision to vote for one person that would bring an end to the very oppressive and destructive guise of the ruling class.” He further stated, “The disruption has been done in the last nine months. I made a pronouncement in one of the first town hall meetings that, since I have disrupted the media I was going to disrupt the political space and, you can count the number of things that have happened since we started. “First, was that we wanted to demystify all the very powerful criminal institutions in politics and we have done that. We have demystified the power of money, the notion that Nigeria is complex and vague, the notion of religion and ethnicity in the sense that, we have been able to travel round the country, get wide acceptance, under the same political party, young people from across all different ethnic groups and religious beliefs. Nobody is thinking ethnicity and everybody is thinking humanity till now. We have disrupted the political process to the point that we are forcing conversations that ordinarily don’t happen. “We created one of the most popular political parties in Nigeria today, AAC and it’s just six months old. So, a number of theories have been disrupted and the disruption process is completed as we wait for people’s mandate in the election,” Sowore concludes.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/no-rational-nigerian-will-vote-for-apc-pdp-in-2019-omoyele-sowore/

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Politics / Re: Obasanjo Is Expired Milk, Dump Him In The Dustbin, Tinubu Tells Nigerians by ItzBIM(m): 6:13pm On Feb 09, 2019
Whilst they fight each other let’s take back our country

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Politics / Re: 10 Richest States In Nigeria In 2019 (by IGR) by ItzBIM(m): 3:40pm On Feb 08, 2019
For productivity

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Education / Re: Different People's Reactions On ASUU Calling Off The Strike #yanbaba Meme by ItzBIM(m): 1:25pm On Feb 08, 2019
The end of ASUU strike !!!

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Politics / Re: Olu Falae Resigns As SDP Chairman, Quits Politics by ItzBIM(m): 12:45pm On Feb 08, 2019
The only man who can’t not be bought,he created his own party which is now one of the most popular parties.

#AAC

Politics / Re: Ezekwesili Dances With Supporters After Withdrawal From Presidential Race by ItzBIM(m): 10:54am On Feb 08, 2019
Strong will and character is needed in Nigeria.
#revolution now

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Politics / Re: What El-rufai's 'body Bag' Statement Will Do To Buhari's Government - Ben Bruce by ItzBIM(m): 7:47am On Feb 07, 2019
Idiots

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Career / Re: How To Join Nigerian Institute Of Public Relations, NIPR by ItzBIM(m): 7:45am On Feb 07, 2019
When there is change of power to people that value education.

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Politics / Re: Here Is The Moment Atiku Used An Award As Microphone. See Reactions by ItzBIM(m): 2:54pm On Feb 06, 2019
Just for this nonsense I’m voting Sowore

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Politics / Re: We Will Get More Endorsements - Obi by ItzBIM(m): 4:13pm On Feb 05, 2019
lordempire:
I just hope and pray that the better leader wins!
The guy above me is a pained zombie.

Like for PDP and share for APC
What about Sowore

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Politics / Re: Pictures From Atiku, PDP Campaign In Taraba State by ItzBIM(m): 3:43pm On Feb 05, 2019
Rented

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Politics / Re: APC Accuses Gov Darius Of Intimidating Traditional Rulers, Civil Servants by ItzBIM(m): 3:43pm On Feb 05, 2019
The cure

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Politics / Re: 2 PDP Federal Lawmakers And 4 PDP Chieftains Defect To APC by ItzBIM(m): 9:40pm On Feb 04, 2019
Nigerians what more evidence do u need that apc and pdp are the same. With them in control of this country, sadly this is the best they can offer.

Sowore 2019

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Politics / Re: I Just Feel Like Insulting Buhari And Osinbajo by ItzBIM(m): 4:09pm On Feb 02, 2019
bastardmod:

Better atikulate

Never !!!
If they couldn’t do it for 16 years why now ??
Politics / Re: I Just Feel Like Insulting Buhari And Osinbajo by ItzBIM(m): 3:54pm On Feb 02, 2019
Vote sowore

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Politics / Is Spicy Omoyele Sowore The “deviant” Nigeria Needs? by ItzBIM(m): 3:44pm On Feb 02, 2019
Omoyele Sowore’s political journey first began nearly forty years ago. On Christmas Eve 1981, the then ten-year-old watched terrified as his home was ambushed by the military. Hundreds of soldiers descended on his village in Ondo state. They seized his mother and half-brother before raping his 17-year-old cousin. That night, the young boy decided he would dedicate his life to fighting injustice.

Fast-forward to 2019 and Sowore, now 47, is running to be Nigeria’s next president. He is among the scores of outsiders in what is currently a crowded 72-horse race. For any of these candidates, governing Africa’s most populous country will be a daunting task. But Sowore believes the responsibility goes even beyond the country’s borders.

“We’re doing it not just for Nigeria but for the continent of Africa,” he says. “If Nigeria gets it right, Africa will start to get it right.”

In the 16 February presidential election, it is widely accepted that the only two candidates with a realistic route to victory are President Muhammadu Buhari and former vice-president Atiku Abubakar. Despite both being unpopular in different ways, the two men in their 70s have the political and financial backing of the ruling All Progress Congress (APC) and main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) respectively. In Nigeria’s big money elections, the chance of a third party causing an upset against these behemoths is negligible.

Nonetheless, Sowore, backed by the African Action Congress (AAC) party, is determined to “spice up” what he sees as a “tasteless” political environment. He argues that Nigeria desperately needs change, starting from the top.

“We haven’t had leaders who know what they’re doing and it’s because our leaders are a product of godfathers,” he says. “They are a product of a compromised political system that has destroyed any opportunity to have leaders who are patriotic, honest and selfless.”

Sowore insists that by contrast, his own vision and experience could solve many of the country’s challenges. These range from a faltering economy to weak infrastructure to multiple security threats.

“Nigeria needs a leader who can stand their ground against these ragtag terrorist groups,” he says referring to this latter issue, which includes the threat from Boko Haram, herder-farmer clashes and more. “There’s no big deal about them and, with the right leadership, you can crush these guys in a matter of weeks.”

This might seem like hubris, but Sowore maintains he is no newcomer to tackling security issues. He cut his teeth in student politics in the late-1980s and early-1990s, including as president of the student union at the University of Lagos. In this time, he was engaged in an intense battle with confraternities, secret student groups renowned for violence. He says that because of his leadership, “not a single student was killed by the gangs” during his term but that after he stepped down, members of the confraternities “shot people like flies”.

“They knew that there was principled resistance on campus not to try it while I was there,” he says. “It is the same thing Nigeria is in need of: principled leadership to tackle Nigeria’s multifarious problems.”

In a way, Sowore is used to resisting repression, both economic and political. He was the first of 19 siblings and remembers his father, a teacher, going for months without pay and the family going hungry. He also recalls fish going extinct along the area of the Niger Delta near his home due to pollution and the trauma of losing two siblings to curable diseases.

“All these combined together just made me want to change society since I was conscious enough to do so,” he says.

The first clear opportunity he had to do so was in 1989 when he joined a student protest against a $120 million IMF loan package that threatened to reduce the number of universities in Nigeria from twenty-eight to five. From that point on, Sowore became increasingly embedded in the student movement and, by 1992, was leading a group of 5,000 protesters against the military regime of Ibrahim Babaginda. The police fired on the rally, killing seven, and arrested about 120 others including Sowore.

“I was 21 years old and I was being accused of trying to overthrow the government, which carried the death penalty,” he says.

The activist was released, but expelled from Lagos university and banned from readmission to any other. Backed by fellow students, Sowore challenged the decision in court and won. He returned to the University of Lagos and, in 1993, was elected president of the student union. He continued his activism and led anti-military rallies against the nullified presidential elections of MKO Abiola.

But standing up to the government was risky and, on the eve of his final exams in 1994, the enemies he had made caught up with him. Scores of confraternity members allegedly colluded with law enforcement to attack Sowore. They beat him with a baseball bat, injected him with an unknown substance, and cut his head. He has the scar to prove it. Eventually, other students intervened and his attackers fled. Sowore was hospitalised.

Sowore believes his leadership and bravery during these tumultuous times demonstrate his aptitude for the presidency.

“To lead students, you have to know what you’re doing, to convince them to go risk their lives,” he says. “That is why leaders don’t like educated people; it’s easy to lead people who are ignorant.”

Adeeko Ibukun, an official on Sowore’s campaign, agrees. Like many of the other young activists that make up the majority of Sowore’s team, he was inspired by the events of the early-1990s as well as by the candidate’s charisma.

“I was invited for his first town hall meeting,” says Ibukun. “I remember overhearing someone saying ‘I can die for Sowore’.”

For him, what distinguishes Sowore from other candidates is his audacity to “tackle the corrupt estate of the established politicians” and his quest to “redistribute national wealth in a manner that is beneficial to more Nigerians”.

In 2018, Sowore dramatically vowed to increase Nigeria’s minimum wage to N100,000 ($276) if elected. This was a huge upgrade on even the trade unions’ own demands for the current N18,000 ($50) wage to be more than tripled to N56,000 ($154). Sowore’s promise was derided for being unfeasible, but Ibukun sees it differently.

“We need to start having some faith that there are people who stand in the light no matter how difficult; history is about these iconoclasts and deviants,” he says. “Some people insist on lighting the candles. Sowore is one of them.”

Not everyone shares such a favourable view, however. Sola Kuti, who attended the University of Lagos at the same time as Sowore, remembers the student leader being biased and impulsive. He recalls an incident in which he says the student union president detained students based on hearsay that they were members of confraternities but without proof.

“I think he is someone that is flippant, reckless and totally unprepared for leadership at any level,” says Kuti. “Sowore running for president just shows that he is either not sincere or just lacks basic reasoning skills.”

Kuti, a PDP supporter, also criticises Sahara Reporters, the New York-based media company Sowore founded in 2006. He accuses the widely-read investigative news site of “peddling unfounded rumours with an intention to damage people”.

All presidential nominees have their fierce supporters and passionate detractors. But for Sowore’s campaign, and those of the other outsider candidates, the main uphill battle in the 2019 elections is simply to be seen and heard.

Nigeria’s televised presidential debates provide an enormous opportunity for candidates to reach millions of voters in one go, but Sowore was not one of the five contenders invited to participate. He responded by launching a legal petition and described his omission as “a malicious attempt to stifle robust political engagement in Nigeria”.

More broadly though, Sowore has learnt not to rely on coverage from the mainstream media. He has taken more readily to social media channels. This is particularly effective given the group he is targeting most heavily: young people.

The AAC slogan “Take It Back” connotes a restoration of power to a long marginalised but increasingly politicised demographic. Meanwhile, Sowore’s boyish charm, student activist past, and record of challenging power appeal to many youth voters. His progressive policies in championing solar energy, increasing teaching of coding, and legalising cannabis also resonate with this group.

It is a smart political strategy to target this demographic in a country where 60% of the 190 million population is aged below 25. But Sowore is not the only one tapping into their widespread concerns. Other outsiders such as Kingsley Moghalu, Fela Durotoye and Oby Ezekwesili are also presenting themselves similarly.

In 2018, these three runners and others, including Sowore, formed a coalition to select a single joint candidate. The alliance gradually disintegrated, but as the February election draws closer, calls to unite in order to enhance the chances of the “third option” beyond the APC and PDP have grown louder. Ezekwesili recently pulled out of the race citing a willingness to reform a coalition, while Durotoye has expressed an interest too.

It remains to be seen how Sowore will respond and whether he will be prepared to defer to another candidate. He insists that “extraordinary situations demand extraordinary leaders”, and it is unclear whether he believes such a figure exists elsewhere within the 72-strong field.

Either way, Sowore has charted a remarkable journey from the ten-year-old boy who witnessed an ambush on his village to presidential candidate. And regardless of the number of votes he picks up on 16 February, he has already seasoned the 2019 presidential race with something a little different.

Referring to “SPICER-HEAT”, an acronym for his party’s ten-point agenda – spanning from security and power to tourism – Sowore breaks into a smile as he says: “If we have a chance, we’d spice up this place and heat it up at the same time.”

Source:https://africanarguments.org/2019/02/01/is-spicy-omoyele-sowore-the-deviant-nigeria-needs/

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Sports / Re: Ethiopian Athlete, Sintayehu Legese Wins Lagos City Marathon Race by ItzBIM(m): 10:46am On Feb 02, 2019
Our president was there too.

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Politics / Re: Atiku/obi Shut Enugu/ebonyi Down by ItzBIM(m): 10:44am On Feb 02, 2019
Sowore 2019

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Politics / Re: Atiku Abubakar And Peter Obi On "The Candidates" Live At 8pm Tonight. by ItzBIM(m): 9:39pm On Jan 30, 2019
DesChyko:
Can you explain the rationale behind cutting corporate tax?

Atiku: When you cut corporate tax, you're giving incentives to investors to come in and invest.
When the investors set up, they create jobs.
The people who get this jobs get to pay taxes as a result.

'SMART'
Not smart no serious ceo cares about tax, they meet a working environment security and good policy.

Atiku just want to make rich People richer

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Politics / Re: Atiku Abubakar And Peter Obi On "The Candidates" Live At 8pm Tonight. by ItzBIM(m): 9:37pm On Jan 30, 2019
Atiku lies with confidence

Reduce corporate to benefit his many business and other rich people

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Politics / Re: Atiku Abubakar And Peter Obi On "The Candidates" Live At 8pm Tonight. by ItzBIM(m): 9:18pm On Jan 30, 2019
The guys are just playing with Nigerians intelligence wetin concern replay with politics,

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Politics / Re: Atiku Abubakar And Peter Obi On "The Candidates" Live At 8pm Tonight. by ItzBIM(m): 9:00pm On Jan 30, 2019
Obi Just answers the questions he wants

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Politics / Re: Atiku Abubakar And Peter Obi On "The Candidates" Live At 8pm Tonight. by ItzBIM(m): 8:23pm On Jan 30, 2019
So obi is now a thief too

Bobo invested in a business is “parents” had shares in

Sowore2019

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