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Bro our people are hypocrite. The problem they caused for us is unbearable for many of us that living outside the southeast.

fairfora:
Don't be ashamed bro. I I'm always in support of your cause. Don't give up. You can send those corrupt and selfish leaders packing overnight with your ballots the way oyo people did

I'm really ashamed of being an igbo man. We are mischievous and unrepentant liar finally ungrateful.
We will not complain against misrule of our own leaders but southwest and northern is our major target.

Those Iman can't be trusted. They preach violence and inciting their gullible followers against the public.

But the same igbos are still praising him.

Mraphel:
Yaradua was one of the most criticised presidential candidate by Igbos in the history of Nigeria.

They called him
sickler
slowpoke
They wished him dead even when he was alive.

Niger delta and other militants sprung up in the SS and SE when he emerged the president. Yaradua was looked down upon only to out performed Jonathan.

Yaradua only became hero when Jonathan performed less to expectation unlike yaradua.

If its available till Saturday I will come with my mechanic.

Kayharry:
inspect let's deal

Are you a policeman?

HarunaWest:
It's high time Nigeria spent on its security forces. Even the 1 trillion is small..Naija has slot of criminals police inclusive but the NPF is so poorly equipped...Going to any of their station is an eyesore..Always a rickety pick up truck and disgruntled officers...It's high time Nigeria Invested massively on its security forces...if all the Abacha loot could be channeled to them under strict supervision of NSA and the CinC, it will be better for all...God bless Nigeria

Look this is not about Buhari. Nigeria never have good leader and we must agree with that.

successmatters:
But Buharry is a Mediocre Emeritus

I hope you use your brain next time before you quote me.

ENIGMATIC2023:
Always read with your brain before you comment to avoid sounding foolish

They should name those Gangs. Because these people I'm seeing on this pics are not yoruba. Their heads is f**t.

YarAdua is a bad leader and he has nothing to offer Nigerians. He spent 3years on the seat shouting 7 point Agenda without executing one point till his death.

What is Yar'Adua's legacy? He started initially on a bright note by declaring in his inaugural address that he is "A servant Leader." Despite being elected in a fraudulent ballot stuffing election on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Nigerians wanted Mr. Yar'Adua to succeed and they gave him a chance to prove himself to them. But his sluggishness, distance and detachment from the public view as a President, coupled with the lack of a coherent message about his program earned him the nickname of "Baba Go Slow" after an old, used Lagos vehicle caught up in a traffic jam. He promised a transparent and open government that would be accountable to the public.


1. Asset Declaration: Mr. Yar'Adua became the first Nigerian Head of State to declare his assets. It was commendable and one or two State governors emulated his path by declaring their own assets as well. But Nigerians are skeptical of these politicians' bogus asset declarations because they have some unspecified foreign and local accounts opened in the names of their family members, associates and offshore corporations in which they wired looted, public money. In the case of Mr. Yar'Adua, contracts had gone to companies with links to his family's vast businesses during his three-year tenure as Nigerian president and seven years as Katsina State governor. In 2006, the Nigerian anti-graft agency The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission seized $13.5 million dollars on suspicion of money laundering by the wife of newly sworn President Goodluck Jonathan, then a Bayelsa State governor. There was no prosecution. While a United States Senate report has accused former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of laundering over $40 million dollars of suspicious funds into the United States between 2000 and 2008, the same Atiku Abubakar is one of those people jostling to be Nigeria's next president in 2011 and 2019.

2. Seven Point Agenda: The cornerstone of Mr. Yar'Adua's initiative to reform Nigeria and improve the well being of the people is centered around this program he called the Seven Point Agenda. No one in late President Yar'Adua's cabinet was able to explain in coherent terms what Seven Point Agenda stands for.

3. Electricity: Mr. Yar'Adua's promise to improve the country's paralyzed energy sector did not materialize. The power supply became further deteriorated during his tenure.

4. Corruption: His other top priority, tackling corruption, became only a vague idea that was neither pursued nor practiced because Mr. Yar'Adua was surrounded by moneybags politicians like former Delta State governor James Ibori who was accused of looting his State treasury. In order to prevent the arrest of people like Ibori, Nuhu Ribadu the head of the country's anti-graft agency, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was removed by Yar'Adua and forced into exile with his life in danger and a puppet called Fazida Waziri was appointed to head the organization.


5. Electoral reforms: Mr. Yar'Adua promise to reform the country's electoral system to prevent future ballot stuffing and poll rigging became stalled as a result of his debilitating health issues. Also it was unclear whether he could have fulfilled this pledge since he was a beneficiary of a fraudulent election.

6. Infrastructure: Nigeria's infrastructure lacks maintenance and became further deteriorated during Yar'Adua's tenure. According to a US Department of State report about Nigeria, of the 80,500 kilometers (50,000mi.) of roads, more than 15,000 kilometers (10,000mi.) are officially paved, but many remain in poor shape. These bad roads are often prone to accidents, bandits became kings of the highways, and people were being robbed in broad daylight on Nigerian roads.

7. Education: Mr. Yar'Adua was Nigeria's first elected Head of State and Commander in Chief with a University degree, but sadly Nigeria's education system became worse under his presidency. The Secondary School attendance was only 32% of males, 27% of females, while the literacy level is 40%. Nigerian State owned Universities, often plagued by academic strikes, are ill-funded and ill-equipped to meet the challenges of the twenty first century. Nigerian students only theorize without the practical knowledge and tools to put what they learned in College to good use.

8. Healthcare: Mr. Yar'Adua failed miserably in the health sector. As a President, he traveled abroad for medical treatment like other top politicians do. Nigeria's teaching hospitals are like ghost houses and countless people have died as a result of the country's poor health care system. Life expectancy is 47 years. At the launch of the 2009 State of the World Children Report in Abuja, UNICEF representative, Dr. Soumi Sakai said that one Nigerian woman dies every 10 minutes due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth, while over 500 newborns die daily.


9. Sectarian violence & Religious Unrest: Another area of neglect for Mr. Yar'Adua was his inability to curb religious unrest in the country. We have seen further bloodshed and killing of innocent people, the rise of Boko Haram, and other forms of extremism that were influenced by the importation of Wahhabi-Salafi group from Saudi Arabia into the country in mid 1980s.

10. Niger Delta's Amnesty: One area in which Mr. Yar'Adua is getting much credit was his ability to reduce the tensions in the oil rich Niger Delta through his offer of amnesty to MEND militants.

11. Economy: Nigeria's 2009 budget was $21.3 billion of which recurrent expenditures constitute $11.1 billion, capital expenditures $7 billion, statutory transfers $1.1 billion, and debt service $2billion. Nigeria's inflation in 2009 was 11.5%. The country's GDP growth rate was 4.4%, oil growth was 18%, and non-oil growth 3%. Currency: Naira ( 150 Naira= U.S. $1 as of March 23, 2010)

Mr. Yar'adua's impacts would also be felt in Nigeria's banking sector for better or worse. The Central Bank of Nigeria conducted financial audits of the 24 national banks and discovered 10 of the banks to be undercapitalized. The government replaced many of the failing banks management teams and pumped $6 billion into the sector. Similarly, the Central Bank published the names of prominent loan defaulters in national dailies.


On the other hand, the reforms became short-sighted because credit became largely inaccessible to small-scale businesses, rural communities, real estate sectors, and 65% of the economically active population. Amid accusations of a regionally-driven agenda leveled against Yar'Adua's government and the Central Bank Governor, they weakened the Southern dominance of Nigeria's economy.

Unemployment snowballed under Yar'Adua's presidency and the country's minimum wage was a pittance. This compounded the poverty level in the country and gave rise to prostitution rings and child labor, among other bad vices.

In a country where some families are barely surviving on less than two dollars in a day and others are even homeless, the Nigerian political class and retired military generals who looted the country's treasury are very insensitive to their plight. One of them was the head of President Goodluck Jonathan's Presidential Advisory Committee, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, former Chief of Army Staff. He boasted about how he got a free oil block as a gift from tyrant leader Gen. Sanni Abacha, whom he supported twelve years ago. He recently sold the oil block for a total of $1 billion and made $500 milion as a personal profit from the sale.

Nigeria should be pitied, because a man who is highly insensitive to public anger and with no valuable or fresh ideas about modernity, governance and economics is the head of the Presidential Advisory Committee of President Goodluck Jonathan.


Lt. Gen. Danjuma got his present position so that he could provide the imprint of legitimacy by the military establishment, who did not initially approve of the emergence of Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria's leader.

Nigeria's ruling party's (PDP) unwritten constitution talks about power rotation between the North and the South, but this debate about which region should produce the next president overshadows the critical fundamental questions Nigerians wanted to know such as: "Who is capable of leading the country?


12. Two Steps Backward for Nigerian Women: Mr. Yar'Adua did not use his Presidency to force Sharia States in Northern Nigeria to sign on to the Child Rights Act passed by the country's National Assembly in 2003. One should not forget that Mr. Yar'Adua himself introduced Sharia criminal code as Governor of Katsina State and a woman called Amina Lawal became the focus of international news when she was sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery by Sharia court, in a decision that was later reversed. No wonder that Senate Minority Whip, Senator Ahmed Sanni Yerima, a former governor of Zamfara State who started the Sharia criminal code, boastfully stated that he is not bound by the

Child Rights Act's provisions because his home State of Zamfara did not domesticate the law and as such, he cannot be accused of violating its provisions. Senator Yerima divorced his 15 year old, fourth wife and married a 13 year old Egyptian girl at a ceremony in Abuja. He was reported to have paid the price of $100,000 for the bride.

13. Foreign Policy. Nigeria's celebrated peace-keeping roles, leadership of ECOWAS, and the country Giant of Africa status all took a back seat under Yar'Adua's presidency.

In a final appraisal of the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's legacy, his regime cast doubt on the ability of Nigerian women to be professionals and compete with men as equals. The President reinforced the stereotype of women as trophy wives when he gave two of his daughters, Zainab and Nafisat, away through arranged marriages as third or fourth wives to the wealthy governors of Kebbi and Bauchi States.


Meanwhile, Mrs. Yar'Adua's scheme to retain power by falsifying information about her dying husband gives Nigerian's a negative view of the office of First Lady, as only for greedy, obnoxious, self serving, and arrogant spouses.

The late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will be remembered as a good-hearted man, a reluctant candidate who was promised Nigeria's presidency on a platter of gold just like the Second Republic President of Nigeria Alhaji Shehu Shagari who ruled from 1979 to 1983. Both Yar'Adua and Shagari were mediocre, obscure, and insecure politicians of their days with no aspirations for higher office of the land. But one man who is regarded as a key player in Nigerian affairs is Olusegun Obasanjo, who ruled the country as both military and civilian Head of State. He set them up to run for office so that he could become a proxy ruler behind the scene. The consequences of both actions are the dirge songs of a Nigerian nation that could be in peril.

In the Quran: Sura XCIX, 7- Allah said that he will be the one to reward the good doers and to punish the evil doers.

"He who does an atom's weight of good will see it, and he who does an atom's weight of evil will see it. May God repose the soul of Alhaji Shehu Musa Yar'Adua.

Campaign strategy. Continue fooling yourself.

I'm so sad that I couldn't comment before this topic reach here. But thank you bro for your revelation.
I was thinking if all the commentators gonna be same in views.
Nigerian youths are lazy and we are real problem of this country we don't read and sadly we can't reason beyond our nose.

BLS1:
Look at all the lazy youths above me.....even with the advent of google they cannot verify just a simple few things.

So Yaradua was the first and only president to reduce petrol price?

He introduced Batches into our NYSC system?

No ASUU strikes, students finished in record time?

No herdsmen killings under him? No militancy?

Boko was not around in his tenure?

Keep on lazy youths, keep on .

https://www.bigthink.com/those-who-do-not-learn-history-doomed-to-repeat-it-really.amp.html

Ah omg . This will cause another problem Especially gridlock.

God will punish you yao. So Africa is not connect Because There's no coronavirus case in Africa

When Africa was battling for Ebola then how many cases was recorded in both Europe,Latin America and middle east.

Keep gloating. . It's a destiny nobody can change it.

the kind of fear that gripped this guy when he read the news that pdp would give their presidential ticket to south. He understand the fact that APC will beat anyone they give in the south.

But what you don't understand whether pdp give the ticket to south or north Apc will still carry the day.

Herdsmen:
Secondus remain chairman.
PDP is fielding a Northerner..with S.E/ SS

..is too early to panic over a PDP northern candidate.

Nation go just get one babajide for tvc run am questions and answer

Then post am for daily. Fiam! It becomes news.

All The Nation news , interviews, editorial notes ...
Begins and end inside the compound of print media
Propaganda at best... once dishes .. zombies will serve with feverent arse sniffing frenzy

Disregard The Nation when it comes to PDP .. and opposition.
Na wetin dia brain give them.. dem Dey write..

2019 election news ... saw them printing junks to sell.. all fake.

So he can rule from prison. Where Nigerian journalists they should help us confirm if this man is in prison.

Seun
Mynd44
Lalasticala
Front page. Let Nigerians learn from this man.

He is now a pastor.

Well thanks I just admire your maturity. Happy sale.

greggng:
500k is a big money but not for this type....those issues I raised a mere issues....the only expensive thing amongst them is a radiator which is also not too expensive. There is no way you can buy a Nigerian used car without fixing something ....even tokunbo....The last price remains 950k not negotiable

I wonder why the owner can't fixed the fault before selling. Well I have 500k?

750k

Southeast have been champion the campaign for restructuring Nigeria to Regional system of government. But I keep asking myself if southeast would survive the regional system of government in this present generation.
My reason for saying this could trace back to 1950 to 1960 where the same pattern was operated then. During regional system of government in the southeast ,we have enough evidence that the system wasn't work for them.

When Nnamdi Azikiwe knew that the system wasn't work for them he came to southwest but instead of Azikiwe to learn how Awolowo operating the system that working for his region. Azikiwe sermons Awolowo political enemies to frustrate Awolowo leadership.

Another reason why igbo should stop talking about restructuring . Southeast have no resources to finance regional government.

Also the southeast contributions to federal government is very low compare to what south-south and southwest contributing.

Again many igbo will still not willing to return back to their home state.

Another reason during the regional system of government southeast didn't achieve anything but other regions are flourishing. That is why Aguiyi ironsi introduced unitary system of government. Every government pursues economic development by trying to achieve macroeconomic objectives in a particular system of government.

We are waiting.

mrvitalis:
Of u have ever been to the north u would know that Even nnamdi kalu would give him tough time in the north ...said it here PDP lost the election the moment they gave atiku the ticket ....it was theirs to lose and they lost it

But your brother from other state said it's a lying. And you guys are cool with your government.

fulaniHERDSman:
Not only uche Oga, most acclaimed APC chieftains in Abia are on his payroll.
Even apga people too are getting paid.
What U have in Abia is political elders sharing the state funds. Party is secondary identity.

Liar who is orji kalu before 1999. Southwest don't need southeast votes. 1993 ibos voted against Abiola yet he won with landslide. And for your information stop speaking for the people of south south. They warned you several occasions you dont heed to the warning shame. Edo people will never vote against Yoruba. Even itsekiri and urohbo will never do the same.
Ikwerre people trace their ORIGIN to oduduwa do you think they will abandon their own?

SciLab:
Orji Kalu as BOT of PDP sponsored OBJ campaign.

BTW. What's the difference between 1999 and 2023? Have you ewedurudeens not sustained your anti-Ibo campaign since then?

Oga leave talk, North will not leave their and for you, SE/SS will not vote for hypocrites and betrayals.

Increase the decibel of your 'we will never vote Ibo' noise.

what made Atiku not to get up to 30% in the north what guarantee igbo man that he will get 2%... And for your information a northerner would trust an ijaw man over igbo .... they know your intention and they will not forget what your forefathers did to them then... 2023 is for a Yoruba people everybody know that except those who are politically naive like you.

mrvitalis:
Who would fund Igbo presidential campaign ?

Are you seriously asking Igbo's how to get funds ? .....even the worst hater of Igbo's knows money is the least of our problem

Atiku didnt win because he failed to do his part in the north ...if he had even gotten 30% of north west he would have won

You are making 1999 compare 2023. And for the question you asked. Theophilus Danjumon, IBB Dangote and Joseph lar, founded obj campaign.

SciLab:
Who funded Obj presidency in 1999?