₦airaland Forum

We're running a budget deficit of 11 trillion. Last year was a deficit of 7 trillion.

Keep playing ethnicity and tribalism card in this year's elections.

Some people anyway don't have a future so they can be toying with their future by choosing a senile fellow to rescue Nigeria's ailing economy.

We're in trouble and need the best to rule this country. Not even the normal.

lhordspy:
Gazettengr.com was where the news of supposedly Tinubu's gaffee emanatted from before been spread like widefire by people who only takes pleasure in making mockery of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

According to their report, it reads "Yahoo boys’ in local parlance means internet fraudsters but The Gazette could not immediately find the meaning of the terminology gazelle gagaraga, despite searches in major dictionaries and thesaurus."

The news here: https://www.nairaland.com/7511552/gazelle-gagaraga-tinubu-suffers-gaffe

But what Gazettengr failed to understand is that there is no stated rules or law that you must communicate with words from 'major dictionaries or thesaurus' in political rallies.

The meaning of gazelle gagaraga
There is what we call gara gara in yoruba. It means unstable or unsettled. Same as the pidgin slang 'gragra' .

We also have the word gagara (ga-ga-ra) or gagaraga (gaga-raga) used by Tinubu which means boastful, pompous, inflated, proud, made, self-important, domineering, pendantic, or magniloquence.

The south-westerners can relate; the yorubas to be specific. There is a street word: Igara (I-gara) which is derive from or shortform of gagara or gagaraga it also means boastful, inflated, proud etc. (as aforementioned)

We normally use it like 'Igara chicken': Which translate to boastful empty chicken which is only covered by plenty feathers.

Or 'Igara iceblock' which means boastful or proud iceblock which will only end up as water.
These words are local street words or slangs.

Gazelle
A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus Gazella. With a horn, Gazelles are known as swift animals.

when we use the word gazelle to refer to person or group of people. It means Proud person, something that dont stay one place easily, something that changes location swiftly. Reason why when we say someone is growing gazelle horn ' it means the person is becoming proud"


So Tinubu saying he is going to “turn so called yahoo yahoo boys into in manufacturing and creation of than being gazelle gagaraga.”

Means he is going to change them from a boastful proud unsettled yahoo-yahoo boys to a product manufacturer and an intelligent creator.

Living and learning, dont be always quick to criticise or make fun of what you dont know.
Mynd44 nlfpmod

I think your case is one of a generational curse. You're actually stooping this low? � Lol

Throwback:
You mean Tinubu was the one that directed the banner picture?

See as goal post dey change by hypocrites.

Dem even block the main pastor name just to have the desperate fellow on the banner.

No. But it's shows the character of urchins. Lol

None of these are official campaign posters

lhordspy:
I dont keep track. Well, you have your answer now. Isnt it?

Sure. Thank you

lhordspy:
But you called me a 30k urchin few minutes ago. Is this question still necessary to ask? And also worthy of reply?

Never quoted you prior to now

lhordspy:
I cant believe you took this thing personal

This little little things. Yet you people attach so much emotion to it. The obsession, the emotion is mindbuggling.

Please stay away from harmful object on Feb 25 and 26.

Do you have a circular job or business? You're always on Nairaland. Seems this is where you get paid from. Campaigning for Tinubu

YorubaNiBaba:
He won't attend any fvcking debate and he is your next president, you are free to drink sniper after he is sworn in as president

Your don't even place any value on yourself. Seems you're a paid agent.

Stop using tribalism to sing the support of your candidate. Doesn't say well of you and has a negative effect on his campaign.

In Nigeria of 2023 that should be competing with countries like Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, we have an election candidate who has blatantly refused to come on television to tell the masses via public debate why he should be voted into power.


He has just gone around paying jobless youths who come online and sing his support.

I wonder why the Nigerian electorate keeps letting themselves get insulted like this?

I honestly believe that anyone supporting APC after 8 years of calamitous leadership and worse still with a presidential candidate like Tinubu, has to be under a satanic spell.

That's the only way I can sleep at night knowing that someone still wants to vote APC and Tinubu.

To start off, I don't live in Nigeria. I live in Europe and what people are more interested in is how to improve their standard of living and get their country on the right track.

Whenever I take time off work maybe to read Nairaland threads I feel very embarrassed.

Nigeria is a sinking ship and what people are discussing in terms of how to turn things around is the tribe of the political candidate they are supporting.

I'm sure some are ready to take up arms to start fighting if their candidate loses. Ideally, this should be about the masses vs the political class that have kept them in poverty.

When I discuss Nigeria in my office, I feel very ashamed. First you explain how rich yet impoverished we are. Then you talk about the upcoming election season and how some candidates, who formed the original political class that got us into this mess, are still contesting and some people are supporting them because they are from the same ethnic group.

It usually very embarrassing and jaw dropping.

Many Nigerians and their shallow thinking are their own problem.

Until you put the country above tribe and religion (both of which don't exist in heaven by the way), we'll move forward. Until suffer truly tire una, una go get sense comot the old political class of APC and PDP that brought Nigeria into this mess in the first place.

Tufia for tribalism and religiosity!

I've analysed the political sphere in Nigeria and comparing it to the developed countries we borrow money from and want to be like, I'm shocked that any normal well meaning Nigerian will want to support Tinubu.

Atiku is no doubt corrupt but he seems to still have his thinking faculties intact.

Tinubu on the other hand has two major problems: he's corrupt (how did he go from a fellow borrowing a car for his swearing in as governor of Lagos State in 1999 to owning private jets just a few years later without stealing?) and equally suffering from dementia.

Below are just a summary of some of his mis-speakings:

-"God bless PDAPC."
-"Cassava, garri, ewa, agbado."
-"Poisoned communion chalice."
-"PDP is a tear tear umbrellatta."
-"Four hundred bags barrels of oil"
-"Go and collect your APV, APC & vote."
-"A townhall is hulaba loo labaalol laba."
-"A dead fish cannot be sweet in any soup."
-"Broom! broom!! broom!!!brooooommm."
-"BUHARRI BUHARRI...Say it again BUHARRI"
-"A father of a child is mother of the father whose child is the father."
-"Turning the rotten situation of the state to a bad one."
-"The deputy senate president...will be the governor of Niger Delta state.”
-"They could not even make a down payment for a roasted corn for that electricity"

After analysing it, I believe many APC supporters are just putting their bellies before this nation and it's an absolute shame.

You're just a very wicked or ignorant person

He was present on Twitter with a post...

The real voters were outside on the street for Peter Obi

Festac

Tinubu is not contesting this election...
Him don drop out.

OsunOriginal:
And how may people are there - definitely less than 2k.

You guys dont know anything.

Bring your own "2k" make we check something

Who comot Tinubu? Abeg ọ

Him must finish wetin him start...

Dividing Northern votes more so Obi can win wella

Moh247:
Why are Zombidiots panicking... Tinubu this Tinubu that

It's just 3 days in the campaign of 6 months

"Wait make campaign start" don change to "we're just 3 days into campaign"

Open your eyes.

We don mark you already as one of Nigeria enemies

Obidients

omenka:
Ehn, we gree. Anything else?

Thought you guys had something up your sleeve for the start of campaigns?

Chizzyjforce:


Someone is crying because of ordinary nairaland likes that amounts to nothing. Grow up boy

I think say they talk say social media no dey win election?