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[quote author=Xavier. link=topic=509989.msg6712775#msg6712775 date=1283856835]The thread smells of religious bigotry. Jarus, Buhari and Fashola (pls spot the similarities).
Jarus, the only thing Fashola and Buhari have in common is religion and it stops there. Fashola is a progressive, Buhari a conservative. Fashola a democrat, Buhari an opportunist and a dictator. Can 2 work together, unless they agree? What relationship has light with darkness? Let him explain PTDF and d 28 bag of cash, then we might start taking him serious.
As for the 6 million votes he got, I reckon there abt 6 million uneducated islamic fanatics (sure the number of enlighted God fearing muslims greatly outnumbers this) in Nigeria.
Ribadu is our man.[/quote]I initially wanted to engage in an intellectual discourse with the poster of this comment and dismantle his venoms one by one, but seeing it's Xavier, my arch-enemy here since his Yemmyse days in 2008, I clicked ignore button

Get a life dude, you're literate enough to be a Chartered Accountant, but you have refused to behave like somebody that went to school. I'm highly disappointed in you.
What exactly is your problem with me that you continue to stalk me around since 2008? Is it a crime to be a Muslim and has acceptability or versatile enough to contribute to issues beyond religion? I have outgrown engaging hare-brained bigots like you who sees things only from religious prism.

And in your rabid fault-finding mission on me, you have goofed several times, including having to apologize, after taking it upon yourself to trumpet an obviously false allegation by another person against me here:

Apologies Jarus. Just that we nid to keep those in the position of power under close watch, less they drift and become tyrants.
@sean, jarus says its spambot.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=501959.msg6628668#msg6628668

Grow, Yemi!

Is this Benin tradition too?
This guy a national clown

I'm no fan of PDP, and I want them dislodged from Aso rock. Evidences abound to support describing PDP as an evil cult that is bent on sucking the nation's blood dry. In fairness, the other parties may not be much better either, but at least let's try them and see what they have to offer, especially as most of the politicians today that have a modicum of credibility and principle are in other parties.

Thankfully, this appears to be a good time to dislodge them on the following grounds:
-we expect INEC leadership to conduct what should be close to free and fair election this time around, rigging should be minimal
-GEJ doesn't appear to have the liver of Obj to militarize the whole process and crush opposition
-PDP doesn't have a formidable presidential candidate - GEJ, IBB, Atiku?
-Obj, their strongest man, even if still powerful, can not be as influential as he was while in power

With these realities, I think the only ticket that can give PDP a run for their money is a Buhari-Fashola ticket and merging of CPC and ACN.
I used to think Ribadu/Fashola ticket was the best before but after reading an advertorial in a national daily few days ago, proposing Buhari-Fashola candidacy, I'm more than convinced it's more formidable than Ribadu-Fashola ticket.

REASONS:
1, Buhari is more popular in the north than Ribadu. In fact, Buhari polled up to 6 million in the 2003 and 2007 presidential elections. He was teh heart of ANPP and the party won six states. He is very popular among the masses. Ribadu is not liked in the north among the elites, and the masses hardly know him. Buhari will be a massive sell in the north, especially now that the north sees GEJ as an intruder to their slot

2, Fashola is very popular in the South-West. I see him sweeping Lagos, the largest voting population, as well as doing well in other Yoruba states.

3, ACN is reasonably popular in other states like Edo, Ekiti, and even Ondo

4, If GEJ gets the ticket ahead of IBB, Bukola Saraki and co, I expect rebellion in PDP, splitting their votes.

5, Buhari is increasingly becoming popular even among the educated, non-northerners. The religious and ethnic bigotry, teh greatest albatross to his previous ambitions, is gradually been shed by many people. I have seen pastors, core Yorubas & Igbos, highly educated people making arguments for Buhari presidency.
In fact, in a recent poll by Nigeria Village square after their interview with Buhari, as I type this, 44% say they will vote for him, 44% say they will not, 12% say they are not sure yet. Majority of the visitors and members of Nigeria Village Square are from the South and highly educated. For somebody so derided and despised by Southerners and non-Muslims and even Southern Muslims before, this result is not bad at all. It shows he's being gradually accepted among this class of people.

6, Buhari is widely believed to be a solution to the cankerworm called corruption in Nigeria. Almost every Nigerian agrees to his disciplined stance on corruption. he is perhaps the only living past Nigerian leader that doesn't have a corruption question dangling on his neck. If corruption, is fought head-on, and the mindset of the populace changes, then many other things will fall in place

7, From past experience, Buhari is known to give his deputy free hands(remember Idi-Agbon). With a proven administrator per excellence as Fashola as vice, we expect great works. Imagine a Fashola as a working, not a figure-head, Vice President. Imagine the transformation of Nigeria. Imagine the wonders.

THE LOW POINTS
1, Muslim-Muslim Ticket: This will be the greatest stumbling block to the realization of this project. But Nigerians have shown that they can discard religious considerations when the need to do so arises. The Abiola-Kingibe ticket comes to mind here.

2,Another Yoruba-Hausa combination: Unfortunately, this is another flaw of this arrangement, given the regional balance reality in this country. Obasanjo-Atiku just completed the Yoruba-Hausa ticket, and here we are saying another Yoruba-Hausa ticket. I know our Ibo and Niger Delta brothers will not find this funny, especially as this will involve dislodging a Niger Deltan(GEJ) that currently occupies the position. I will not, like Chidi Amuta, suggest an 'Eastern Bye-Pass', but I believe we can find a way round this by dialoguing with easterners and making them see reason behind this arrangement while promising to hand over power to them at the expiration of this tenure.

zayhal:
Oh. Welcome back.
That's right. I remember Belloti. What's his fb ID? Perhaps I can talk to him, who knows?
No be only you. Me I admire am self.
Welcome on board. May Allah make it easy.

Eid Mubarak (in advance) to everyone.

Bello Anka

Good to hear that, Uplawal. May Allah crown your efforts and sincere commitment to this religion. Sincerely, you're really trying. And I'm always impressed with your knowledge so far. How's Alhaji?

@Muhsin,
I like your writing skills.

There was another brother, Belloti, that was doing well on this forum few years back too. Tried to bring him through facebook, but it appears he's not so interested again.

awon omo irole aiye

All these sharp practices are perpetrated by one-man businesses and some small to medium size companies. It is very rare in MNCs as well as well big Nigerian companies. I don't think a bank will even do this.

Here, 25th day of the month is for sure, and on very rare occasions, 26th-27th, except at the height of the liquidity crunch when we had it inadvertently delayed till 3rd of the next month.

AjanleKoko:
You need to see the cars and the trains
Making cars that look like they were manufactured for 1881, in 2010? I don't really get the point of that. After all, they are building cars, trains, missiles, satellites, and aircraft in China, Korea, and Japan. India is not yet on that level of engineering at all, I can tell you. Software and services, yes. Engineering, no way. I have seen better built roads and buildings in Nigeria. And my own personal opinion? Manufacturing is overrated. Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden, even the UAE, are not known for manufacturing anything.

Anyway, nobody is comparing them to Nigeria per se. However, the level of physical infrastructure in many areas of India is worse than Nigeria of today, especially Lagos and Abuja. Even their capital, Delhi, I found very disappointing, considering that they plan to host the Commonwealth games next month.

Their politics, not their size per se, is what is slowing them down. The private sector runs the economy 100%, including those hospitals. Government here is struggling to meet up with the private sector's ambition and innovation. They have way too many political problems, apparently. Like 50-odd political parties or something. Some party just won a major court case to split Hyderabad into two states, one for Hindus and another for Moslems, or some weird story like that.

One thing though, their economy is huge. It's unbelievable. Everything is happening here. And they exhibit a huge spirit of entrepreneurship, as well as a strong sense of nationalism and self-belief. I'm talking about the average Indian I have met. In fact, I can tell you that is the main difference between India and Nigeria. We have zero sense of nationalism, and are busy blaming government, Islam, Christianity, Ibo, Yoruba, Hausa, Awolowo, IBB, Ojukwu, and the Mad Hatter for all our problems.

I had dinner tonight with the CEO of a CMMI Level 3 software services firm, and he took time to give me a solid education on the history of his part of the country. I felt kind of ashamed that many of us can't even tell the story of our tribe or local government area in Nigeria. I think that is what nationalism is all about. We Nigerians are all 'Afro-Saxons' jare.

One last thing. I could only see one major difference between India and Nigeria. Just like us, the whole country's wealth is in the grip of a very privileged few. However, these people invest their stolen billions in India. The Reliance-Ambanis, Tatas, Mittals, etc, are the real owners of India. But they are not morons like the OBJ-IBB crew, that steal billions of dollars, of which they can only realistically spend millions. The rest is usually abandoned in accounts they themselves can't even trace.

If you like writing like me, you can do Travelogue on this. Very interesting experience.

Ijebu oda, ijesha o suwon, iwo wade o pe rare ni jebujesha.
No offence meant, just d appropriate proverb that perfectly describe this IBB/Soludo combination

Honestly, pls stop ds. Having gone so close that u used to speak off-NL, and has each other's no, I don't expect u 2 come down to this level again. Spikey aburo mi atata ati Dafidi ore mi, oya e pari ija yin kia kia

See who's supporting GEJ:
-Ebora of owu, Obasanjo
-Jelili, the scammer
-Asari Dokubo

How much is 250,000 for an editorial board Chairman! This is highly embarrassing. With the Azu case still fresh in memory, this man is the least I expect to do this. What a shame!

Is it a coincidence that the people supporting are rabid AGIP? Name 3 credible political leader that has supported GEJ

endorsement galore
waiting for Nairaland Youth Forum, Nairaland Elders Assembly to endorse somebody too

this funny to me

Congress for Progressive Change I think. That's Buhari's new party and I learnt they are gaining ground in the North

mikeansy:
The talk about who can win and who can't is self defeatist and an acceptance of rigging.
May be we should not waste our time having a election, that will at least save us 87billion since we already know who will or can win.

Exactly. I fully agree with you. Why can't somebody win? Anybody can win jare. Like Thisday's Simon Kolawole said in his column last Sunday, we are the one that make the so-called rigging fears self-fulfilling. It works like this: Party B says PDP will rig elections, Party C-Z also say PDP will rig. The masses already believe PDP will rig and win. Now, even if PDP doesn't wnat to rig, there is tendency to want to rig, 'whether we rig or not, if we win, everybody will say we rig, why not let us kuku rig' That is how self-fulfilling prophecy works.

let's for once believe things can be done right.

Also, if another had been discouraged by reality and history, he would not have been US president today.

He said because many people are addicted to these life styles, there are already 60 million people suffering from kidney related diseases in the country.

duplicated thread.

mdsocks:
Wow!, this is lovely,


Not in lag would have loved to attend,

Damn am in the far east, wish it was around October

Please , can you name the people in the pics

Atleast i want some graphic image of some of my brothers in here,

We are sorry we can't name the people in the pics. The anonymity of the forum will be lost, and some people will not be comfortable with it.

Barka Jum'ah my brothers and sisters. The last this Ramadan. may Allah make us witness many more on earth.

I am a Kwaran.

Hmmnnn, awon agbaagba nairalandi nja. Emi kan n woran nitemi ni o. Esaa se suru.

Only an uneducated person with have the kind of thinking that Arabic language is the preserve of any religion. Aren't there Christians? And to educate you further, the first professor of Arabic in Nigeria is a Christian. One professor Ogun-something of UI.

I don't know whether this has anything to do with okada or not but am freaking annoyed now, imagine I left ofis @ Ajose Adeogun two hours ago and I neva reach 2nd roundabout. This is serious. I'm going to Ajah. I regret not staying in ofis till 10PM. LCC is not doing a good job abeg.they should have provided alternative feeder routes b4 starting this project

Ibime:
@ tkb,

Is it because Gateway Television is hosting the debate? I hope say your hand no dey inside o. Hehehehehe

Some legislators have been touched, hence their decision to hold this debate to justify their change of decision. Its all a whitewash.
At the end of the debate they will be justified in voting for the bond having received millions from OGD to do so.

Legislators have no business discussing the economics of bonds and stuff.

The title of the debate should be: "OGD: Corrupt or not". EFCC should be called to moderate the debate. If they rule that OGD is too corrupt to be trusted with N100bln the state doesn't even have, then end of debate.

bad boi

Jarus:
@topic
If I want to go to Saka Tinubu from Ajose Adeogun, how do I go? Waste two hours in traffic abi? Or trek? What if somebody doesn't have car, as there is no commercial transport from Ajose Adeogun or Ligali Ayorinde to say Adeola Odeku or Ozumba Mbadiwe

I retract this. Just learnt those streets are not affected. Only Ozumba Mbadiwe is affected in VI.

wales:
Cutting off the head is not the solution to headache.Everyone knows that their is an abuse of okada riders,but this is not the best solution.Some private riders should be allowed as the special adviser himself knows.Even in India and China,okada is a major means of transportation,only commercial motorcycles are not allowed on the expressway.

On the marble.

@topic
If I want to go to Saka Tinubu from Ajose Adeogun, how do I go? Waste two hours in traffic abi? Or trek? What if somebody doesn't have car, as there is no commercial transport from Ajose Adeogun or Ligali Ayorinde to say Adeola Odeku or Ozumba Mbadiwe