₦airaland Forum

JAWBONE:
Sunday Oponu Karimi,

Yahaya Bello stealing the future of Kogi State did not embarrass the state,

Yahaya Bello inviting thugs to Government House Lokoja for electoral violence did not embarrass the state

Yahaya Bello thugs burnt an opposition women leader alive in her house did not embarrass the state,

It is a Senator who is speaking up for her rights that has embarrassed the state.

This country is too full of useless elders.

This one will see you tomorrow and demand respect from you as an elder but imagine the rubbish coming out from his mouth.

Cherrybae:
Ipob and obedients who insulted the supreme Court in the other thread will shift goal pist now if this news is true.

When it favours them, they rejoice, when it doesn't favour them they insult everybody.

Ipob , obedients, what do you really want ?

Ndi Ara

MrSundry:
All these sycophancy won't take us anywhere in this country. Mr Governor focus of delivering good governance to your people, simple!

It is the 200m Nigerians that will decide if BAT will be reelected not some decampees

Innocense:
Nigeria will be great again!

chopnaira:
Where was their juju when OBJ leveled odi.

hisexcellency34:
Nigerians reject emergency rule in Rivers. We are ready to die for Fubara

GboyegaD:
At least now, Wike go rest small. The House of Assembly members can now rest too. They wouldn't want rest for themselves and now they are forced to go and rest.

Nnamdipapa:
Do not listen to op, live your life at your own pace and never compare yourself to others. Rather you should compare your present self to your past to ensure you are making consistent progress. I bought my first car at 22 and also bought for my dad the same day. I bought a 33,000ltr petroleum tanker for Ago business before 30 but still I do not diminish or look down on the struggles of individuals who do not have same opportunities I had in Nigeria. I was merely lucky to work good multinationals from my early 20ies.

Live your life at your own pace, try to be better every day in some form and take care of your health. Do not feel bad if you do not have a car or house at 35, you understand your own struggles the best. Life is a rat race and none of us is coming out of this race alive.

Commentor:
US

US Trump administration deports hundreds of Venezuelans despite court order.

He is no respecter of law.

EpicDude123:
Thunder faya that mouth of yours

PressMyButton:
This is an elder stateman that puts national interests over ethnic sentiments. While some narrow-minded buffoons like Buba Galadima were putting ethnic narratives into the reduction of food prices, a patriot like Tanko Yakasai is appreciating the President for the economic relief.



Shots fired at Elrufai.



After God, na Tinubu 💪 God bless Nigeria

SadiqBabaSani:
When envelope talk, we recognise the voice

casualobserver:
People need to be a bit more discerning.

ElRufai wanted to be a minister. Therefore he is clearly still politically ambitious. For someone who has been a governor and a minister what else is there to aim for but the presidency or possibly the VP as a stepping a stone. Park that for now.

Northern ambitious politicians especially some governors want to be president. An opening is coming up for the North either in 2027 or 2031. If you as an ambitious northern politician don’t seize that opportunity, that’s your chance of being the president gone. A Northern president in 2027 cannot hand over to another northerner in 2031 or 2035 especially after denying the South its 2 terms.

The idea that ElRufai, Atiku, Kwankwanso, Bala Mohammed or the likes of Sule Lamido or Tambuwal will work for each other to make one the president in 2027 is to me a fallacy! And to me this is where the alliance unravels. Atiku will run, constitutionally he can’t be a VP again meaning any northern heavy weight supporting him is basically kissing goodbye to any presidential ambition.

My prediction: they will fail to form an alliance or will engage in anti-alliance activities and split the votes again. Be under no illusion, there are ambitious Northern opposition heavyweights who want to be president and would rather wait for 2031 by which time 1) Atiku their main threat would be too old to run thus giving them a smoother path and 2) they would be able to count on undiluted southern votes. Nobody is doing this out of the interests of the people. Where you stand is based on how the permutations serve you politically. It is politically suicidal for any ambitious northern heavy weight to back any northern candidate other than himself. For the same reason the likes of Fayemi, Osinbajo, Tunde Bakare etc contested against Tinubu….they know it is now or never.

For an ambitious northern politician, he knows it is better to back a southern candidate in 2027. Furthermore, he also knows backing Tinububserves his interests better because he can’t contest again in 2031. If he backs a fresh southern candidate like Amaechi or Obi, they could break any agreement to serve one term like Jonathan at which point they would also have the power of incumbency. If Atiku wins he can’t handover to another Northerner so It does not serve the interest of ANY northern governor whether PDP or APC to back another Northerner in 2027 other than himself.

I say this not because I support Tinubu For me the smart move for a Northern governor especially an ambitious Nirthern governor or politician (it is the governors that have the power) is to back, be seen to back and deliver for Tinubu in 2027. Because with Atiku out of the picture, the SW vote and Tinubu’s backing will play a big role if not determine which Northerner becomes president in 2031.

Politicians make deals all the time, In 2011 despite ACN having a presidential candidate Tinubu made a deal with Jonathan and delivered SW votes. In 2023, Wike and Makinde made a deal with Tinubu. Again I repeat your relevance in politics is predicated on your ability to deliver votes. ElRufai has no votes backing him. When the time comes those who have votes and have ambitions will make the right deals for them. Leave ElRufai and his social media content. We know the fate of all social media politicians like Sowore and Fela Durotoye.

So you see, personal ambition will trump any alliance and all that is happening now is just noise.

The difference between this proposed alliance/merger and the Tinubu/Buhari alliance is that the APC merger was a win win for everybody involved in the merger. Tinubu did not want to be president in 2015, so he was happy just to have his party at the center…..win, Buhari became president….win, Amaechi became minister….win, Saraki became senate president….win…..none of the leaders of the blocks that merged were interested in the presidency. The eastern flank represented by Rochas and Ngige were not interested in becoming president. This merger will only produce a win for one and career extinction for the others. That’s why it won’t work. A good deal is a deal where everyone gets what he wants.