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I had to delete a few comments here to forestall an impending digression.

Barka Jum'ah

Yes, I warned them. If that's what you want to hear.

August 05, 2010
Dear BK,
I am not very comfortable with your activities on Politics section, especially for turning every thread into tribal war.
Most of the reported posts I have received were your posts. Haba!!!!

Please thread softly.

Thanks

August 06, 2010
This is the last warning. Please stop the inciting posts you litter the politics section with or you get banned.

Last warning

It must have been released for it to be active as recently as this morning: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=profile;u=598074
Go log in using it

Down to earth.

Becomrich is not a tribalist. He hardly bashes other tribes. He's just obsessed with his tribe. He is only passionate about his own tribe. There is nothing wrong in promoting your tribe. Unlike other guys in the poll, and some others not included like new sensation environer, Seanets, Bluetooth, who insult other tribes. Auwal87 is also like Becomrich of the North, always canvassing for Arewa republic but he too goes ahead to insult other tribes sometimes and is also qualified to be called a tribalist.

Equitorail Guinea -  for a revenge of last edition final defeat

[quote author=Mr~Cork link=topic=548121.msg7120206#msg7120206 date=1289467766]who the heck is Becomrich? , is he another IBO? [/quote]By the time he maps your face, you will know Becomrich aka Mapomeji, Mapsta

1. How is Buhari funding his campaign Buhari has been contesting the presidency since 2003 and has spent some fortunes running campaigns all over the country. Running campaign for a councillorship election in Nigeria could cost you almost what a civil servant will earn working for 35years! We need to know how the campaign of a man who is reputed by many as being "incorruptible" has been funded so far.

Buhari's campaign has not been known to be flamboyant. In fact, some analysts have identified limited campaign funds as one of his biggest obstacle. Secondly, it is party, not candidate, that does more of teh funding after clinching the ticket. You should also know that Buhari's active campaigns usually starts/started after clinching party ticket. Of all the frontline aspirants today, Buhari is the least visible in terms of campaign. Where you see him are newspaper interviews and visits that make news headlines. I personally have not seen a single poster or billboard on Buhari. And a quick question: can you explain same for GEJ, whose campaign is so far the most flamboyant.

2. Has Buhari ever given account of his stewardship as the Chairman of PTF under Abacha where corruption in public offices was huge? Perhaps he has not been investigated in that light and so has not been found out to be corrupt.

Your second sentence answers the question raised in the first sentence. If there is anything suspicious, let them investigate.


That said, I have learnt not to give 100% trust to any political personality in Nigeria, but until something is categorically brought up against him, I remain convinced that he, alongside Ribadu, are the ones that can go far in tackling corruption and mass indiscipline in Nigeria.

Genius10:
Moderators, please restore my handle Genius100. I was trying to post an article on a thread and the bot thought it was spam and restricted my posting privileges.

I believe this has been sorted?

Welcome back Abuzola, Mazaje, okunrin meta

Now to why I don't support GEJ. GEJ initially entered the polity as a gentleman. We all fought the cabal and believed Jonathan should be installed. He started well, appointing someone believed to be credible as an electoral umpire. But later events showed that the man is getting more and more desperate for his ambition. The manner he managed the Independence Bomb Blast was amateur - his incoherence is unpresidential, every statement he makes needs interpretation. Using all means to fight opposition - like the plot to remove his opponent Bukola Saraki as NGF Chair and install the coordinator of his campaign in SW as replacement. Pls don't tell me GEJ doesn't know about this. Take it or leave it, no governor dared look at Obj's face when he was there, but today, governors don't even respect him. Will such a man be able to manage a whole country with its complexities? Slow as YRD was too, he was able to avert nationwide strike in 2007 when Obj left increasing VAT charge, fuel price, selling refineries etc. I fear for GEJ's crisis management skills.

Add other events like the attempt to change electoral laws, make MPs delegates etc and you will agree that GEJ is just another PDP politician or at least having good intention but being pushed by some evil people.

toba:
U ve never failed to exhibit your dislike for Gej. Almost on every thread that discusses Gej as the subject, u ve had opposing views about the man. Why?
2. Which of the other 4 [b]Hausa Muslims in persons of babangida, atiku, buhari&the former security adviser Gusau would perform better than Gej judging by their antecedence?[/b]

First, I'm an avowed PDP hater, and I have subscribed to Sonala Olumhese's proposal that 'to defeat PDP is a task that must be done'. IBB and Atiku are surely worse than GEJ, Gusau only a joker, and Bukola Saraki, even though more charismatic than GEJ, can also not be trusted. So all the PDP aspirants are five fingers of a leprous hand, to quote the Cicero of Esa-Oke's word.

I have never hidden my choice on this forum: Give me Buhari or Ribadu. You can not call either of them weak. With a Buhari or Ribadu presidency, I expect corruption to be tackled head-on, an entrenchment of discipline, a farewell to the era of lazy civil and public service. You can say Buhari is a religious bigot, but no less Christians than Pastors Tunde Bakare and Moses Iloh have openly declared their support for him. Buhari has a clear cut economic ideology if you don't know. That NR is passionate about this country is not something for debate. Even if NR rides on Tinubu's back to power, I'm confident he will not do Tinubu's bidding if it will not be to the interest of the country. These are men that can make difference.

becomrich5:
Thank you, No I do not want to be a moderator on nairaland.

ok, i remove you

Ejoo sir

excanny:
These's a little bit of Becomrich in everyone of us.

Bad boi

Enjoy this piece from yours sincerely:

The Rebellious 'Children' of Philip Emeagwali's Internet

To many non-Nigerians, when a sentence contains the words ‘Nigeria’ and ‘Internet’, such a sentence will hardly be complete without a word like ‘fraud’ or ‘scam’. But beyond the fraudulent use of internet by some Nigerians that has earned the country such unenviable perception, there is another set of Nigerians that have found in this information superhighway a veritable platform for discussing everything discussable.

The last five years has witnessed the popularization of online discussion forums, social networking sites, online citizen journalism, massive blogging and other web-based activities. Issues are brought up for discussions as they occur. Past issues that did not enjoy the benefit of far reaching debate when they were hot are now being exhumed for renewed discussion. Some aspects of pre-internet era Nigerian history like the almalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorates, the role of our nationalists in the struggle for independence, the Biafra war, the Babangida years etc are now being refreshed and thoroughly debated in these online media. On daily basis, history is being revisited, sometimes revised.

But when the advent of internet takes centrestage in global discussions, Nigeria has something to be proud of. Its citizen is among the ‘fathers’ of this technology (internet) that has enabled these interactive activities! To every literate Nigerian, Philip Emeagwali is a known name and face. He is widely believed, until recently at least, to be the greatest scientist from Nigeria and indeed one of Africa’s greatest men ever. And if anyone thinks it is only Nigerians that think of Philip Emeagwali that high, he is flatly wrong. No less a personality than Bill Clinton, former U.S. president, has described him as a shining star from Nigeria. But today, the internet he claims to be a ‘father’ of is now his greatest albatross. His ‘children’, the users of his ‘invention’, have turned against him.

Since Sahara Reporters broke the story of his allegedly fraudulent claims a couple of weeks ago – even though it was no news to some people, including this writer – the Nigerian cyberspace has been awash with discussions – some, unfortunately, to indecent level – on the claims of this hitherto widely respected Scientist. The Sahara Reporters story elicited a lot of comments. Few people did not find the revelations as news, many expressed shock. Yet some see SR’s story as complete hogwash and an attempt to bring down a Nigerian that is doing well.

On Nairaland.com, Nigeria’s largest online discussion forum, the story also elicited fierce debate. Opinions were almost divided equally between forum members who were convinced by facts brought forward by SR that Philip Emeagwali fraudulently exaggerated his achievements, and claim to being a ‘father’ of the internet. Pitiably, like many other issues, ethnic rivalry soon replaced decent discussions and the issue was reduced to Igbo Versus Yoruba ‘e-war’.

Not less than two popular writers on Nigerian Village Square, one of Nigeria’s most popular discussion sites, have lent their voices to the debate. Like in other places, their contributions also stirred raging debate among the ‘children’ of Philip Emeagwali’s internet. Some dismissed Emeagwali as a liar of uncommon sophistication, some others refused to believe the articles have no ‘bad belle’ undertone.

Titled ‘The lies of Philip Emeagwali’, Musikilu Mojeed, the high flying reporter with NEXT newspaper, did another expose on the claims of the scientist in the Sunday November 7, 2010 edition of the paper, and with NEXT’s comment-enabled website itself being one of the hotbeds of online discussions, the story also threw up debates among online readers.

Earlier, Businessday columnist, Iheduru Dike, had also written on the falsity of Philips Emeagwali’s claims. Another columnist with NEXT, Jibrin Ibrahim, also discussed the subject in his column.

All of these discussions generated wide comments, more than even discussions on 2011 elections. On Nairaland.com, in few days of opening the topic, more than 600 comments have been registered. On Nigeria Village Square, the most recent article on the subject, less than 24 hours after being posted, has 48 comments , more than the number generated by Presidential aspirant Bukola Saraki’s interview posted on the same website in the same period. On Sahara Reporters, the comments were even more. The NEXT stories were no exception. Raging comments followed all the articles.

Philip Emeagwali is at the moment the most discussed Nigerian on the internet, not as complements for his ‘wizardry’ in being one of the inventors of this technology that enabled these discussions in the first place, but to puncture his claim to fathership of the tool. The discussion is spreading with unprecedented voracity. More and more voices are being lent to the talk. But despite all the rebellion from the users of this internet he has contributed to inventing, the man has remained unruffled. But for how long will his silence be golden? Now that the Nigerian ‘children’ of the internet have turned against the ‘father’ of the internet, whether Philip Emeagwali will survive this onslaught remains to be seen.

http://jarus.blog.com/2010/11/08/the-rebellious-children-of-the-internet/

The reasons I personally believe GEJ is too weak to control this country.

One Kelechi Eme’s comment on THE NATION website (www.thenationonlineng.net) last Thursday is instructive. Verbatim:

"Another humiliating defeat for President Ebele Jonathan’s team. The team is now a serial loser and the trend will continue until the final defeat is inflicted upon them in 2011. Check out the list of defeats:

· Failure to persuade PDP caucus, BOT and NEC to expunge zoning from the party’s constitution

· Failure to win the battle for e-registration in PDP

· Failure to ensure that the presidential primaries of the PDP is conducted first in the order of election

· Failure to smuggle ambush clauses into the amended electoral law

· Failure to install his South West campaign coordinator as chairman of governors’ forum.

Is somebody listening?
http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/columnist/monday/soji-omotunde/18257.html

I'm highly surprised you can be curious about the comparison. You are the meeting point between them - being No 1 anti-SLS nairalander and No 1 GEJ supporter. You hold sharply contrasting views on both. So I wanted to know informed it.

The subject of the thread is more political than tribalist, even though, as usual, it degenerated into ethnic bashing. The thread starter brought up some things, even if mischievously, which can be sanely debated. I will not because of that move it to Teribalism section.

Thanks.

Ifedisky:
It was manual for me cos that was what I learned with and I jst couldnt stop moving my hand on the knob, that was until I moved to Badore and encountered monster traffic. Just ask anyone living in Lekki/ Ajah, driving a manual transmission will send you to an early grave

Even with my Auto, I cannot drive to work 3 consecutive days on this road without falling sick. I can't remember the last time I drove to work. Staff bus does it for me.
It's one hell of a road.

Looking at next year too, insha Allah.

I learnt driving with manual some 11 years ago, but I'm not sure I can drive manual again without fumbling.

I have two questions for you, Beaf:

1, Can anything good come from Sanusi?
2, Can anything bad come from GEJ?

Continue here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-547678.0.html

Ina aeni jama'a hausawa nairaland

Done.
Thanks

seanet02:
Jarus, can you see your unrivaled Partiality, Your Unfairness is No 1 in the world. When I started the thread Justifying The Killing Of Tafawa Balewa, you imidiately went over board and edit the Title of the Thread, ileke idi also complained about it and you quickly start spewing garbage on me, now ezeuche started a thread since Saturday with the title


" Awolowo Admired Hitler—both Men Were “devil Incarnates” That Committed Suicide"
Yet you did not see anything bad in This or you will say you did not see it? and if you said you did not notice, How much does a Cataract operation cost? You see you can not just keep showing your Hatred for Awo and His followers!!!
Is its Awos fault that you have remained in Political Bondage Under Sarakis all this while?
Stop Being Partial, IBB henchman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apologies it took me long before modifying the obviously highly insulting title of that thread. I had marked it for retitling, but escaped my mind.
Next time, use the Complaint thread, and desist from opening thread for every sentence you want to make.

As for the bolded, you seriously need help. Thankfully, NL, being an all-round forum, can still be of help. Enter here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-3465.0.html

mystikal:
According to the NL polls so far, Ribadu is GEJ's closest rival

2, GEJ doesn't have up to 50% as one would expect, meaning if Buhari, Ribadu et al form alliance, they may give GEJ a good fight.

If Mr Barzini is an advanced Becomrich.