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The fireworks between ##### and ***** gladiators have actually reduced
Baba God, I thank you ooo.
Let it remain so for better days to come.
E-tribal fights don't favor anyone. And it's so shameful that those that should learn from you are the ones advising you.
Please let's the ceasefire continue.
Compliment of the season.

Security is everybody's business. So dont relax if you think you are safe. https://www.facebook.com/127503268408/posts/10158939675098409/?app=fbl
Those killers are the same. Former Senate President Ameh Ebute accused some northern governors of exporting terrorists to the South. I may be wrong, but some killings are unusual and the motives, unfathomable.
This is quite painful

helinues:
May be you should try and take some cold water and go through my comments again

Cold water taken. Yet to understand the Loop sided aspect. What do you mean?

helinues:
If you can agree about Buhari's cabinet z you shouldn't have issue to agree about your loop sided epistle

Please you're sounding incoherent.

helinues:
Very loop sided analysis

Like Buhari cabinet? Lol

I won't be involved in long tales, because I'm not Wole Soyinka or late Sage Chinua Achebe.
These are the games that will give the north the presidency in 2023.
1. APC and PDP fielding northern candidates.
2. APC fielding SW candidate and PDP fielding a northern candidate.
The two above are not impossible but number 1 seems unrealistic while number 2 is very possible.

Northern Project:
Consolidate on the gain recorded under Buhari, because no sane Southerner will condone the extreme abuse of power by Buhari and his kinsmen.
These gains are in the hands of nonpoliticians but backed by acts of politics.
The Ministry of Communication is one sector the north is making inroads. The recent bid for 5G spectrum where a little known Mafab knocked out major players to clinch one of the slot.
In oil and gas, the north is forcing is down our throats that crude oil has been found in Bauchi and Gombe. Before Buhari leaves office, he must Gazette it so two states will enjoy as Niger delta people.
There are other sectors the north is rapidly taking over from the South.

So they want to consolidate on these milestone which a southerner might not guarantee them.
The game plan.
They have selected some fringe politicians from the north to do a hatchet job on the South. All they do is to promote the candidacies of South West politicians, because they know that the greater South(SE and SS) will not buy into it.
While they are at that, another group are working against APC from within the party, so that if eventually, they give the ticket to the South, it will be seen as regional campaign, while weakening the party structures through litigation and antiparty activities. Like what they did to PDP in 2015.
This will position PDP and north as the last resort.
While PDP may present a liberal northerner to attract the greater south, the major things will be done at the background consolidating on Buhari's achievement while the new president look away.
North is going north East.
The north East development commission has to be consolidated.
Bauchi and Gombe are in the north East and the president said they have oil. This gain has to be sealed.

Electoral Act Link
One would believe that direct primaries was the reason the president withheld his assent. Not at all. Why not the law makers expunge it since it started generating contention even before it was sent to the president? Why not the president sign the bill, then sent an amendment against that contentious clause?
The problem is the introduction of technology into the election.
Technology will affect the north great deal. Bear in mind that 2023 election will not run on this electoral act. By the time the politics around it is resolved, the timetable for the election is out. This is a fact.
So the president is preparing the stage for a northerner who most likely, will come from PDP through the existing system.

What the South should do.
The South should rally around South East. This is the only antidote that render the north powerless.
Apart from this; another 4 years in the north is inevitable.
Happy Christmas

adekolaelect:
Buhari and these Flatt headed poeple is five 5&6 in the show of hatred and unending envyness . As am seen it .It will be very diffiult for bubu to give political power to Igbos,Give Kanu freedom or allow Biafra to come in reality. Though Flatt headed poeple too are full of hatred and Insults . They failed to realise what is their problems but resulted in personal attack to every other Tribes in Nigeria. They always established on how to damage others but failed to build theirs politically.

You're worse than a fool.

Buhari wants to hand over to PDP: Here’s how - Azu Ishiekwene
AFTER four weeks of delay, confusion and indecisiveness, President Muhammadu Buhari finally refused on Monday to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill, citing a raft of reasons which took him so long to improvise you could clearly guess he wanted the cup to pass over him.

But every leader must, at some point, face their demon. President Olusegun Obasanjo was in a similar position 20 years ago, when he refused to sign the NDDC Bill on the grounds of a disagreement with the National Assembly over what percentage of statutory allocation the commission should get.

While he proposed 10 percent and a reduction of the annual budget of the oil and gas companies from three to 1.5 percent, the National Assembly wanted 15 percent statutory allocation to NDDC and three percent from the companies. In the end, the former president was overridden by a National Assembly with his own party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in majority.

In spite of the huffing and puffing by the current All Progressives Congress-dominated, APC, National Assembly, it’s improbable they would muster the will – or even the numbers – to override Buhari.



What’s in a bill?

What’s the sticking point in the Electoral Amendment Bill? There are a few, but the obvious one is the provision in the bill for mandatory direct primaries by the political parties. Under the law, the parties may choose their candidates through direct or indirect primaries – or even by voodoo executed in the coven of some party godfathers. This latter option is elegantly called consensus.

Things fell apart between members of the National Assembly who want a statutory end to the indirect primaries because they say it’s undemocratic and largely liable to manipulation, and governors who say mandating primaries for parties is undemocratic and expensive.

The governors have captured the President and, against the public mood, his refusal to assent to the bill was full of excuses that hide the truth in plain sight. It’s a shocking Christmas present from a man who after being a victim of a shambolic electoral process that thwarted his election three times, vowed after his success at his fourth attempt, to leave a legacy of free, fair and transparent elections.

If Buhari’s refusal was a PDP curse, then they’ve got him. And if it’s a trap by insiders in his party with a vested interest in his failure, that’s even worse as they have failed to give him even a fig leaf’s shred of argument to cover his weak and naked excuses.

Fig leaf

How could Buhari say he withheld assent because of cost, for example? Cost to who? The parties, and not the government, are responsible for primaries. Even though the parties have made it a bazaar of sorts, which is precisely what governors want because they hold the wallet, it is not government’s business to pay for or organise party primaries.

Rank and file members who are truly fed up with eating out of the hands of governors should organise themselves and put their money, time and talent where their mouth is to wrest the parties from governors and take back control. It’s not Buhari’s job to save the parties.

And in case he was talking about the cost of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, conducting the primaries, he said nothing about what the current cost is, never mind the expected revised cost.

It is regrettable that a president interested in making a serious argument for not assenting to a vital public legislation, did not have the courage to show the public what INEC’s actual feedback on cost was, weeks after he claimed seeking the commission’s advice on the matter.

And he’s right about something, though. The parties, including his own, have dubious membership registers. So, how can we be afraid of something we don’t even know, something we’re not sure of. Conjecture is not evidence.

The argument about security did not make sense either. If anything, it’s not only an indictment of Buhari who was voted principally to secure the country. It also hints that the president is leaving such a deplorable legacy of insecurity, he does not even see things getting better long after he is gone!

That’s a blow to the reputation of a man in whom so much hope was placed for a more stable and secure country six years ago. And yet he makes the argument so casually that he cannot even see that he is undermining himself.

That’s not all. Buhari said he was withholding assent because to sign the bill in its current form would infringe the right of choice of citizens and the political parties. Citizens, he said, specifically party members, should be free to choose their candidates anyway they want. Why put them in a straitjacket? Also, the parties, under their present titles, have greater discretion of choice and should not be tempted with any other options that might lead to needless litigations.

That sounds really seductive, the sort of argument a philanderer espouses before he finds his next victim: it won’t hurt, trust me – it’s for your good! But it ends in premium tears. To pretend that the current system is a voter’s carte blanche is to be disingenuous. Choice is already circumscribed by the Constitution and the Electoral Act, and the latter permits selection through one of three means – direct or indirect primaries or voodoo.

The strongest argument for mandating only direct primaries is that it vests the decision for the selection of candidates in the rank and file. And why not, if they are prepared to invest in the system and if CSOs are also prepared to help build a culture of volunteerism to strengthen the democratic culture?

Even though a number of National Assembly members who favour direct primaries do so out of spite for state governors, the system offers far greater guarantee of transparency and fair competition than does the current muddle.

Suspicious love

But the emptiness of Buhari’s argument does not end with its self-serving pretension that it seeks to defend voters’ rights. It also claims that it wants to save smaller parties from the logistical nightmare of direct primaries. Well, this Salvation Army is coming rather late.

If Buhari was interested in saving smaller parties, he would have sponsored a bill that dismantles the current system which insists that whether by hook or crook, parties must have offices in every local government and every state, for “national spread”. Who needs that? That is what is killing smaller parties and making even the bigger ones wrecking balls.

One of Nigeria’s brightest lawyers, Jiti Ogunye, made this point in his intervention on why the National Assembly should override the president; it’s a must read. To make it even worse, there is a provision in the electoral law that disqualifies parties that fail to meet a certain threshold at elections from registration! Is Buhari not aware? Or does he just prefer the sport of attacking the ringworm while the leprosy festers?

Isn’t it a shame for a man who covets a legacy of electoral reforms that even this contentious bill is not an executive bill? Yet, Buhari is happy to be led by the nose by a Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who obviously is in cahoots with some governors to bend the system (in Kebbi, his home state, and nationwide), to his personal advantage. Apart from chewing the microphone, what has Buhari done, in concrete terms, in the last six years, to promote electoral transparency and internal party democracy?

Legacy, whose legacy?

I’m amused by the nonsense from quislings in the ruling APC, who say that a National Assembly veto must be prevented to save Buhari’s legacy from stain. Really? Are they serious? Can’t they see that the party itself is in grave danger, going for years without a chairman, a national convention, a board, or anything whatsoever on which it can stand as a party, beyond the first quarter of next year? If the lawmakers love Buhari and if they love their party, they must save the president by a veto.

If they don’t, the fallout would swell disenchantment among swathes of already disenchanted members in the rickety ruling party who would, in turn, be obliged to leave the empty shell for Buhari and his remnants. Heads or tails, the governors will be alright; but Buhari will be miserable in retirement.

The Electoral Amendment Bill is more than direct primaries. There are also provisions in it to cap election spending further, toughen the penalties for vote-buying and validate the use of biometrics and electronic transmission of results. There have been suggestions that it is this last bit about biometrics and transmission of results that Buhari doesn’t want, and not necessarily direct primaries.

Truth is, except in Buhari’s fantasy, nothing in this Electoral Bill threatens his legacy. And I’m ashamed to say this: that a man who was not once, not twice, and not even three times a victim of electoral fraud, should shirk the opportunity to make things better when he can and should. He’s just about to hand his presidency over to the PDP on a platter.

A project the president said he's doing because of his cousins and relations in Niger. That the project Amaechi is spending so much time and energy to deceive people that he wants to do it.

TrackerXL:
There's nothing to understand from the lies hopelessly senseless Igbos make daily on NL.

Imagine the lunatics claiming Igbos are the largest tribe after the indigene in every given state. May it never be well with the OP for making that assertion.

Even in Lagos foolish Igbos make noise daily Igbo are not to talk of being the next after Yorubas, talkmore of every other tribe.

You're actually pained because of his opinion. To the point you said "it shall never be well with him". And it shall be well with you?
That aside: if you check Nigeria census figures, the column of State of Origin will put this to rest.
But I know from census figures have confirmed his claim.

flokii:
Stop lying to yourself.. Igbos have played themseleves out of any polotics in Nigeria with IPOB no election and sit at home orders. How many people came out to vote in the last Anambra elections?

How many Igbos have voters card and registration for 2023 elections? or you think Yorubas and Northerners that are registering are fools that will go and vote an Igbo candidate whose people don't have belief in Nigeria or here progress. 2023 no far again, na your eyes you go use see am.

You still didn't understand but you rushed to comment.

tamdun:
No matter what, direct primary will always be a better option, during the last anambra election,I believed maduka and uba outspend soludo and still lost, so money cannot buy everyone especially when it comes to direct primary, how many people u wan bribe, now compare that ro few delegates they will camp in hotel...

All a moneybag needs to do is to spend money the same principal officers who control these members of the party. He will obviously spend more but he will get the ticket. Is it not the same people that will print membership card and number them?
They can do that overnight and give to people they like and the rest is history.
Guy I'm a party man and have been involved in these things. Manipulation will be worse than indirect

1. The big party gets bigger, the small parties die off. Two parties will survive, PDP and APC. But having more states means having more members and that's road to one party state.
2. Money bags will have their way as in indirect primaries but money will reach grassroots, no matter how small.
3. The manipulation will be worse than indirect primaries because it's those with AUTHENTIC register that will determine the winner.
4. Multiple Party membership will be the order of the day. This will inflate the membership registers of these parties and will conflict with INEC voters register. E.g. where INEC register has Lagos as 6,000,000 voters. APC members could be 4,000,000 while PDP could be 2,000,000. So other small parties could amount to 1,500,000. This is 7,500,000. Mind you, every party member has PVC.
No be juju be that?

So it's a noble political move because it engenders political inclusion but ... you see black man? We can destroy heaven if given chance.

This is becoming a pandemic.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/i-bought-human-head-for-n60000-to-make-my-life-better-islamic-cleric-confesses

fergie001:
Jurisdiction is the lifeblood and existence of any case.

No matter how finely worded a case is, once there is no jurisdiction every decision on it is null and void.

Once the Appeal Court establishes that there is no jurisdiction like I suppose they will, the judgement of the Federal High Court will be thrown out.

Moghalu sued INEC, APC and Andy Uba and it's a preelection matter. I think the issue of jurisdiction is sorted out there.

Abdul05:
As long as the power doesn't remain there but here [down wave] .. l am happy with this news...

Osinbajo is a Yoruba man right and also from tinubu's camp abi.. he is welcome ....


His royalties towards tinubu will always remain cordial l believe so..

Thought IBB is evil and shouldn't be involved in any that concerns puritans? This is desperation.
Please we don't want desperate politicians as leaders
Peter Obi, Dave Umahi, Ogbonnaya Onuh are better materials with good heads.
Meanwhile, it is Loyalty not Royalty.

NewsForYou:
How am I coward? My tribe championed regional security outfit your tribe never even know wetin e want do till date. My tribe fought for states to collects its vat, my tribe is fighting for each region to have his own Supreme Court. Beside cannibalism what have your useless ancestors, governors, grandfather championed? My tribe is contesting to be president while your tribe is kneeling down. You don’t have shame at all.
Coward.

I'm not saying your tribe is coward. I meant that you are the coward. What is my business with your tribe?
Look at the list of things your tribe have done. The question is: what have you done? My tribe this , my tribe that: you, yes you; who are you? Only to come online and waste you time and energy hating without comprehension.
Get out of my mention you good for nothing.

NewsForYou:
I see how your smartly avoid chastising the OP for bringing Tinubu into what the senate and president of Nigeria are discussing. Your great Igbo has tied corn to its buttock and has become laughing stock to the fowl.

You can chastise him if you I didn't.
Igbos tied corn while your tribe tied cucumber. Coward

People should react to opinions on personal ground and not tribal.
The OP spoke his mind as an individual, no matter how useless; but I've seen people bringing The Great Igbo tribe into it.
Ahmed Tinubu is an enigma, who has become a metaphor in Nigeria political landscape.
I'm so happy that even the north has recognized that someone from South have so much influence on the control.
It smacks of cowardice for any southerner to gloat over the falling of such compatriot. Currently, the north doesn't have a politicians Tinubu standing. That's why they're envious of him and using some urchins to run him down.
The direct primary thing is neither here no there. It only favored big parties who have money to amass membership registration.
This members will in turn vote during primaries and general elections.
So if APC roll out N10B for membership registration, they can pool more than 70% of the electorate. These electorates will vote using their PVC during primaries and this prepares them for the main elections.
So the party benefits more than the individuals. It's even those moneybags, who invest in party that will control the electorates. But those moneybags that don't work for the party won't succeed. So it is all to the benefits of the party.
But why are some APC members working against it? Because they are planning to betray the party.
That's why PDP are calm but you see some of them saying "president would've sent a bill to for amendment on that particular item, while he sign the bill".
That's a game. They knew it won't be signed because they've been campaigning against it since that direct primary was introduced.
So no one should gloat over this because Tinubu can still sail through since he is pure party man.
Note:
I'm for Nigeria President of South East extraction, in APC or PDP.
It's a breath of fresh air.

El Rufai is playing to the northern gallery and that's why they have been in dire trouble in the hands terrorists.
However, IPOB is making things difficult are creating enemies both in home and abroad.
Why are they fighting Umahi over Ebubeagu? Is it also in their purview to determine for governors how to protect their states?
They have become a crack by which snakes and scorpions come in Igbo land.
They are not responsible for the dirty things happening in the East, but because they have failed to be tactical and wise, the enemies have exploited their foolishness against Igbo.
I hate to defend them these days.

StreetFight:
Flattino, will you keep quiet?

First, you said I'm coming. And when you finally came you ended sounding delusional and stupid.
All you come online to do is to display utter senseless and shallow with no hope of redemption.
If that's how you were brought up, I'll blame your parents. But I'm dead sure no parent will want his child to be seen as online lunatic. So I blame you for choosing to be a/an disappointment, unfortunate and regret to anyone of your relationship.
It's so unfortunate.

aribisala0:
Lol


There is nothing like south or north be more specific

Yoruba idolize nobody

Aji se bi Oyo la n ri
Oyo o se bi baba enikan

When you say North are you talking of Yahaya Nello, Saraki or Ortom?

You lots idolize Buhari more than OBJ and don't even argue it.
Go to Twitter and other SM platforms and see why majority of your influencers are falling over who impress El Rufai more. Omojuwa and co are there. You celebrate any moment these politicians shine teeth to any Yoruba politicians, especially Tinubu. As if to say Tinubu is incomplete without them.
Igbos on the other hand idolize IBB, Atiku, kwankwaso, even over Peter Obi.
Imagine in Abuja, some south east APC members were jostling for party positions so they could vote Yahaya Bello. When Umahi and Orji Kalu are nursing ambition.
South South idolize Atiku, Saraki, Kwankwaso etc even over GEJ.
So it's general, don't argue it.

StreetFight:
Tinubu can reconcile Satan with God. We all know that Ganduje is Tinubu's right hand man. We also know that Shekarau and Kwakwaso are in the same camp against Ganduje. You will all recall that Shekarau paid a visit to Tinubu last week. This is the result of the visit. Tinubu's political dexterity is second to none. But, is he working for the good of the masses? I am not sure.

Why will you concerned about what happens in Kano state politics?
Lagos is bigger than Kano in all ramifications and should take center stage in all facet of the country. Tinubu knows this and that is why he is using it to his advantage.
But you masses think otherwise, thereby giving featherweight politicians gut to look at southern politicians with disdain.
Go to North, their masses rarely talk about South politicians. They don't even know handful of them. Nnamdi Kanu and Igboho are more popular in the north than our politicians. But here, Atiku, El Rufai, kwankwaso even Ganduje are more popular than some of our own politicians.
Mental slavery at work.

aribisala0:
Instead of playing paranoid victim why not hatch your own plot in Onitsha instead of running bitterleaf mixed with kolanut commentary
Why can't you plot and hatch?

Don't mind the coward. The way some people idolize the politicians from the north is nauseating to say the least.
I means, these are normal guys in political cycles, whose influence begin and ends in their zones. But you southerners, especially my Igbo folks being ecstatic about any move they make.
That's why these northern politicians take southern politicians for granted because they're aware masses in South idolize northern politicians than southern politicians.
Talk of mental slavery

Nemere2020:
https://dailytrust.com/breaking-senate-passes-n17-126trn-budget-for-2022

It's almost impossible to sustain Nigeria with this current structure.
Every month, FG and states share N650B revenue and the budget is N17T on the part of FG.
How can this happen? So invariably, FG has projected over 60% of the budget will be on credit: how sustainable is this?

PressMyButton:
Bro, imagine the foolish talks. na dem develop Lagos, with wetin?.. Buying & selling. Before the Ghana must go saga, Ghanians were everywhere in SW buying & selling yet dem no make noise.

Make dis people waka, make we see how e go be.

You're not from Lagos state. You just adopted Lagos state and Lagos state didn't adopt you.
All these your "we against them" drift, na your body e go tell.
One day, you will display this your madness in real life and see even your Yoruba brothers beat hell out of you.
Useless mofo

EcoBrick:
https://thenationonlineng.net/senators-move-to-override-buhari-on-electoral-bill/

Which Senate are they talking about? The one led by Lawan? Or the house led by Gbajabiamila?
A rough screening will tell you those senators will sign their original signature. And they're not up to 5.

Imagine the condition an Igbo man must meet before he will become a president.
fact is: Nigerians of southern zone consciously handed over Nigeria to the north by trying to impress the north.
The South is far more powerful than the north but ignorance is our bane.

When I say APC is just deceiving the south, people will doubt it. The only option that will save APC in 2023 is giving an Igbo man the ticket.
Watch out!!!
https://independent.ng/udoedeghe-defects-to-pdp/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

treesun:
https://punchng.com/nine-hydropower-projects-to-add-2672mw-to-national-grid-fg/

All na wash. Audio grid. Audio MW.