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We don't need his colored greeting, election is no more

Die die no dey for him dictionary

I just can't believe the set of orientation being exhibited on this platform now. A receipt is now an evidence of frugality, continue wallowing in frivolity

Lagos shall start modern markets soon if you like shed crocodile tears that you're targeted.
No more unnecessary fire outbreaks

[b]*Obafemi Awolowo Speaks on His Relationship with the Ibos:*
*An excerpt from a town hall interview in Abeokuta in 1983*.👇🏽👇🏽

*CIVIL WAR*

Question: Chief Awolowo, …Your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it might have been to the Biafrans or Ibo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being castigated as the sole enemy of the Ibo people because of that stand, by among others, some of the people who as members of the Federal Military Government at that time, were party to that decision and are today, in some cases, inheritors of power in one Nigeria which that decision of yours helped to save. How do you feel being painted in this role, and what steps are you taking to endear yourself once again to that large chunk of Nigerians who feel embittered?

Awolowo: As far as I know, the Ibo masses are friendly to me, towards me. In fact, whenever I visit Iboland, either Anambra or Imo, and there’s no campaigning for elections on, the Ibo people receive me warmly and affectionately. But there are some elements in Iboland who believe that they can maintain their popularity only by denigrating me, and so they keep on telling lies against me. Ojukwu is one of them. I don’t want to mention the names of the others because they are still redeemable, but ….Ojukwu is irredeemable, so I mention his name, and my attitude to these lies is one of indifference, I must confess to you.

I’ve learnt to rely completely on the providence and vindication of Almighty God in some of these things. I’ve tried to explain myself in the past, but these liars persist. Ojukwu had only recently told the same lie against me. What’s the point in correcting lies when people are determined to persist in telling lies against you, what’s the point?. I know that someday the Ibos, the masses of the Ibo people will realize who their friends are, and who their real enemies are. And the day that happens woe betide those enemies. The Ibos will deal with them very roughly, very roughly.

That has happened in my life. I have a nickname now, if you see my letterhead you’ll find something on top, you’ll find a fish done on the letterhead. Some people put Lion on theirs, some people put Tiger, but mine is Fish. And Fish represents my zodiac sign, those of you who read the stars and so on in the newspapers; you’ll find out that there’s a zodiac sign known as Pisces, in Latin Pisces means Fish.

So I put Pisces on top, that’s my zodiac sign being born on the 6th of March,….er well, the year doesn’t matter, it’s the day that matters. And then on top of it I wrote Eebudola. All of you know the meaning of that. You know I don’t want to tell a long story but………………Awolowo school, omo Awolowo, the school…… started in Urhoboland, in the Mid-west in those days. They were ridiculing my schools, I was building schools – brick and cement, to dpc level, block to dpc level and mud thereafter. And so the big shots in the place..”ah what kind of school is this? is this Awolowo school? Useless school” and when they saw the children..”ah these Awolowo children, they can’t read and write, Awolowo children” that’s how it started, with ridicule, and it became a blessing, and now they say “Awolowo children, they are good people” no more ridicule about it, that’s how it started, so the 'Eebu' has become honor, the abuse became honor.

And so when I look back to all my life, treasonable felony, jail, all the abuses that were heaped on me, to Coker Inquiry, all sorts, and I see what has happened to the people who led, who led all these denigration campaign, where are they today? Those that are alive are what I call 'Homo Mortuus' - dead living, 'oku eniyan', that’s what they are, those that their lives have gone.

So when I look back, I come to the conclusion that all these abuses which have been heaped on me all my life for doing nothing, for doing good, they have become honor, and so 'Eebudola' is one of my nicknames. So I’ve cultivated an attitude of indifference, I’ve done no evil to the Ibos.

During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to Iboland - South Eastern states they call it, at that time..East Central State, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….were librated I handed over the money to them - millions of pounds. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the Executive Council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the Executive Council at that time, the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the Executive Council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention – 990,000 pounds almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course - South Eastern State, North Central State, Kwara and so on.

But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds (£3,500,000.00) to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view: you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as Federal Commissioner for Finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the Ministry of Economic Planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

*TWENTY POUNDS POLICY*

That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated, at the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them. Of course I couldn’t do that, if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt. We didn’t know about Biafran notes and we didn’t know on what basis they have printed them, so we refused the Biafran note, but I laid down the principle that all those who had savings in the banks on the eve of the declaration of the Biafran war or Biafra, will get their money back if they could satisfy us that they had the savings there, or the money there. Unfortunately, all the banks’ books had been burnt, and many of the people who had savings there didn’t have their savings books or their last statement of account, so a panel had to be set up.

I didn’t take part in setting up the panel, it was done by the Central Bank and the pertinent officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter, they took some months to do so, and then made some recommendation which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approved, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war.

And anyone who goes back to look at my broadcast in August 1967, which dealt with post-war reconstruction would see what I said there.

*STARVATION POLICY*

Then, but above all, the ending of the war itself that I’m accused of, accused of starving the Ibos, I did nothing of the sort. You know, shortly after the liberation of these places, Calabar, Enugu and Port Harcort, I decided to pay a visit. There are certain things which I knew which you don’t know, which I don’t want to say here now, when I write my reminisces in the future I will do so. Some of the soldiers were not truthful with us, they didn’t tell us correct stories and so on.

I wanted to be there and see things for myself, bear in mind that Gowon himself did not go there at that time, it was after the war was over that he dorn himself up in various military dresses - Air force dress, Army dress and so on, and went to the war torn areas. But I went and some people tried to frighten me out of my goal by saying that Adekunle was my enemy and he was going to see to it that I never returned from the place. But I went.

But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a kwashiorkor victim you’ll never like war to be waged. Terrible sight, in Enugu, in Port Harcourt, not many in Calabar, but mainly in Enugu and Port Harcourt. Then I enquired what happened to the food we were sending to the civilians. We were sending food through the Red cross, and CARITAS to them, but what happened was that the vehicles carrying the food were always ambushed by the soldiers. That’s what I discovered, and the food would then be taken to the soldiers to feed them, and so they were able to continue to fight. And I said that was a very dangerous policy, we didn’t intend the food for soldiers. But who will go behind the line to stop the soldiers from ambushing the vehicles that were carrying the food? And as long as soldiers were fed, the war will continue, and who’ll continue to suffer? and those who didn’t go to the place to see things as I did, you remember that all the big guns, all the soldiers in the Biafran army looked all well fed after the war, its only the mass of the people that suffered kwashiorkor.

You won't hear of a single lawyer, a single doctor, a single architect, who suffered from kwashiorkor? None of their children either, so they waylaid the foods, they ambushed the vehicles and took the foods to their friends and to their collaborators and to their children and the masses were suffering. So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process, the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer most.

*CHANGE OF CURRENCY*

And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra. He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu taking the money which his soldiers had stolen from our Central Bank for sale abroad to buy arms. We discovered he looted our Central Bank in Benin, he looted the one in Port Harcourt, looted the one in Calabar and he was taking the currency notes abroad to sell to earn foreign exchange to buy arms.

So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place. I decided, only three of us knew before then- Isong now Governor of Cross River, Attah and myself. It was a closely guarded secret, if any Commissioner at the time says that he knew about it, he’s only boosting his own ego. Because once you tell someone, he’ll tell another person. So we refused to tell them and we changed the currency notes. So Ojukwu said the change in currency defeated him, and starvation of his soldiers also defeated him.

These were the two things that defeated Ojukwu. And, he reminds me, when you saw Ojukwu’s picture after the war, did he look like someone who wasn't well fed? But he had been taking the food which we sent to civilians, and so we stopped the food.

*ABANDONED PROPERTY*

And then finally, I saw to it that the houses owned by the Ibos in Lagos and on this side, were kept for them. I had an estate agent friend who told me that one of them collected half a million pounds rent which has been kept for him. All his rent were collected, but since we didn’t seize their houses, he came back and collected half a million pounds.

So that is the position. I’m a friend of the Ibos and the mass of the Ibos are my friends, but there are certain elements who want to continue to deceive the Ibos by telling lies against me, and one day, they’ll discover and then that day will be terrible for those who have been telling the lies.

*Omoba Bisi Odukoya*

Via Ayekooto[b][/b][/b]

Oga, you should not have participated in the elections in the first place if what your assertions on the INEC was considered but bigotry has beclouded your inferences on the presidential elections

The erratic network signai will get worse if the cashless policy sails through considering the prevalent situation
The bottom line is that the IT personnel are undervalued, shortchanged with a lot of workloads hence they move abroad..
Those in Nigeria are also planning to leave the country if the trend continues

Confused goons, na small time remain.

Governance should be about people's developments, kudos.

We are used to his consistent inaccuracies, you can't expect an emergency candidate not to pass through it because he wants to score cheap points

Alpha Beta can make Tinubu billionaire in dollars if fully integrated into Nigeria's system.
The state governments that have so far adopted Alpha Beta automation are upto ten but they are reaping the gains.
Tinubu is opening a positive era for right thinkers not dullards and bigots

South South Region has really turned to something else, forming allies and brandishing territorial authorities because crumbs at expense of people and Infrastructural development

We need competency and loyalty to the nation who cares if they are all traditionalists, take your coloration elsewhere not in the Jagaban"s team as usual.
Meanwhile, the president-elect has full prerogative to choose his chief of staff without the party's influence

A Nigerian sprinter has a high stake on the track tomorrow in the 200 Meters race which has already created a crazy heat runs already; watch out

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/dog-affection-here-are-the-10-least-and-most-loving-breeds-of-adorable-dog-from-afghan-hound-to-affectionate-labrador-retriever-3589268

How does this relate to winning an election or gaining more voters. You are busy running your energies on frivolity, please don't cry foul when the results start rolling in favour of people who take nation building as a serious project. If you Oga like join your oga dey cry on the airwaves no kerchief for una

The rot in the system is so wide that you can hardly see impact of a two term president but with continued policy and programme this administration should be making headway for all Nigerians

Majority of people are saying if the power sector is fixed Nigeria's problems are halfsolved but i don't share that reasoning.
I believe strongly that the security of both lives and properties should be paramount because whatever progress we could make or dream of in any sector if there's no concrete security in place everything will be in shambles in a twinkle of an eye
The police personnel is to be totally overhauled with adequate training, proper equipments and worthy remuneration including strigent recruitment standards.

Who occupied these positions now? Are the occupiers same class of cabals or you just want a change of names not better replacements?
If you don't get it right don't dare complain because president is just one officer.
Meanwhile, you are still calling INEC useless, that the elections wasn't fair. HYPOCRITES

I never knew Shekarau was in NNPP and who wants to wrestle political power of Kano from them. Gov Ganduje is a beneficiary so he dare not!!!

That is personality test, they didn't want any cover from any popular political parties and they triumph. New brides they are; RESPECT!!!!!!!

Well said

How market??

Imagine the kind of emergency president they want to shove on Nigerian citizens.
Where was he when electoral bill was being debated? Afterthought !!!!!!

The keys to victory

1. Naturally intelligent, master strategist and tactician, political savvy.

2. Mentorship under MKO Abiola.

3. Political philanthropy, ability to work with even his perceived enemies for a common cause e.g. Saraki and Buhari.

4. Played a prominent role in uprooting an incumbent President (GEJ) and installing a President and Vice President.

5. Very adept in fishing out traitors e.g. Saraki, Obaseki.

6. Very smart to ALWAYS see the bigger picture. He ignores the trivial matters. Dino Melaye and Bukola Saraki insulted him many times, he ignored them and hit them where it hurt the most - at home. Made them politically irrelevant.

7. Fearless unlike Atiku who retracted the tweet condemning Deborah's lynching or Peter Obi who ran from PDP Primaries even before the battle started.

8. Certified warrior. He confronted OBJ as President and survived (very few ever did). He confronted the so-called Cabal twice with EMILOKAN and predicting chaos & anarchy with the fuel crisis & cash shortage even before the effects manifested.

9. Uncanny ability to form alliances and incredible negotiation skills. El Rufai, Akeredolu and Fayemi have ALL insulted him publicly. He NEVER responded once. When the time came, they all bowed and showed their unflinching loyalty. How did he do it?

10. Who beats the President + Vice President + Senate President + Party Chairman COMBINED? Some claim he bought the votes. Do you have an idea what Governors get as security votes monthly?


Ladies & Gentlemen.... allow me to introduce the next President of Nigeria - Asiwaju Jagaban, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

They cannot even volunteer
They know not but think they know all. They should not cry foul when they eventually lulę.

As it stands today.. 20/02/2023
1. Abia State - Atiku or Obi
2. Adamawa - Atiku
3. Akwa Ibom - Atiku/Jagaban
4. Anambra - Obi
5. Bauchi - Atiku
6. Bayelsa - Jagaban (APC strong)
7. Benue - Atiku/Obi
8. Bornu - Jagaban
9. Cross River - Jagaban
10. Delta - Atiku
11. Ebonyi - Obi/Jagaban
12. Edo State - Toss Up
13. Ekiti - Jagaban
14. Enugu - Obi/Atiku
15. Gombe - Jagaban
16. Imo - Jagaban/Obi
17. Jigawa - Jagaban
18. Kaduna - Jagaban
19. Kano - Jagaban
20. Katsina - Jagaban
21. Kebbi - Jagaban
22. Kogi - Jagaban
23. Kwara - Jagaban
24. Lagos - Jagaban

25. Nasarawa - Jagaban
26. Niger - Jagaban
27. Ogun - Jagaban
28. Ondo - Jagaban
29. Osun - Jagaban/Atiku
30. Oyo - Jagaban
31. Plateau - Jagaban
32. Rivers - Jagaban (Wike Factor)
33. Sokoto - Jagaban/Atiku
34. Taraba - Atiku
35. Yobe - Jagaban
36. Zamfara - Jagaban
37. FCT - Jagaban/Atiku

It does appear as things stand 2day. The next President of the Fed Rep of Nigeria will be The #Jagaban, Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will come 2nd & #PeterObi will remain the undisputed social media President of Nigeria

Don't waste your Vote...Vote For Asiwaju 2023

What you Nigerian purported elites lack is your distance from people. The true voters don't know or read Economist if at all the endorsement is genuine because the past ones have been rubbished already.
Hope you people who read The Economist will come out to vote this time since you think your fire brigade abracadabra will work?

He would be the president on the poll, Obigoons and Obi supporters

BAT will be magnanimous to appoint Obi and his revellers, PSquare, Rinu, Utomi, Charlie Boy and Co in the Nollywoods and weigh their performance for a start. We are also waiting for Obi hackers on election results as they have promised him. Bunch of jokers

REVEALED: How Aso Rock Cabal Misled Buhari Into Fuel, Naira Crises Over Plot To Make Atiku President[sub][/sub]



By Alhassan Bello

As Nigerians suffer on the crises caused by the fuel scarcity and naira swap, it has been revealed that the Aso Rock cabal led by Mallam Mamman Daura is behind the problem that is making Nigerians to suffer.

Credible sources disclosed in Abuja, Katsina, Adamawa and Sokoto states that those who lost the primaries of APC tried to convince Daura to change President Muhammadu Buhari's mind in his support for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. No particular person among the losers was mentioned in the plot, but reports suggest that the plotters sold a dummy to Daura that Tinubu will not respect Buhari after getting power.

According to the sources, Daura first snubbed the promoters of the idea. It was learnt that Daura later agreed to join the plot when Atiku Abubakar, who is very close to him, convinced him that Buhari would be making a terrible mistake to allow power move to the South where northern interests may be jeopardised. Atiku told Daura several fabricated stories by a team of blackmailers he set up in PDP to argue his point.

It was learnt that to achieve the plot, Atiku and some  PDP leaders set up a blackmail group led by Nduka Obaigbena to paint a frightening picture of Fulani suffering under a southern President.  According to the sources, in this group are Dino Melaye, Sokoto Governor Aminu Tambuwal, Sule Lamido and Raymond Dokpesi.

The sources explained that Melaye and members of his group are playing on Daura's mindset in his pro-Fulani sentiment to always place Fulani interest above any other interest in Nigerian politics.

They convinced Daura that his kinsman, Atiku Abubakar, will protect Fulani interest in the coming administration while they had discovered an alleged grand plan by Tinubu and some Eastern leaders to work against Fulani interest after taking power down South.

Convinced by the presentation of  Obaigbena, Atiku was again invited by Daura, who promised Atiku that situations would be created that would make him enjoy support across the country. By this time, Atiku himself was in the dark about what the plan would be. He was asked to come back again.

Before he came back, Daura had perfected his plan. He lied to Buhari, relying on the stories by Obaigbena-led blackmail group. To implement the plot,  Daura asked Atiku to raise N85 billion to start organising his campaign. Atiku said he could not raise the money because he was broke and was yet to recover from the last presidential primaries and election expenses after losing to Buhari.

Daura therefore hatched a plan to convince Buhari to reimburse PDP states that implemented Federal projects so that he could be seen as a national leader who does not discriminate. Buhari agreed. Daura, who is widely known for his rabid pro-Fulani disposition, thereafter tutored Atiku to worm himself to the hearts of PDP governors that will benefit from the windfall. Buhari was convinced by his nephew and paid the money to the states. Some of these governors include Nyesom Wike of Rivers, Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta and Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. But the plan failed to work as Wike began a political war with Atiku and so could not release Rivers money to Atiku. Obaseki also refused to surrender his state money, but Okowa released huge sums of money to Atiku for their joint campaign.

When details of how Okowa surrendered Delta money to Atiku leaked, civil servants and pensioners protested on the streets and asked Okowa to explain how he spent their money. The South East governors that benefited from Buhari's windfall also refused to surrender their money.

With Atiku facing imminent failure, Daura called in Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and NNPC Managing Director, Alhaji Kyari, a Fulani, to join in the plot to blackmail APC into failure and set Nigerians against the party. Emefiele was not difficult to convince to join the plot because he and Okowa are cousins from Agbor, Delta State. Daura worked on Emefiele to convince Buhari about the international honour he will get if he organises credible election devoid of votes buying. Emefiele therefore bypassed Finance Minister, his supervisory authority, to convince Buhari to change Nigeria currency to purportedly prevent votes buying.

The ignorant Buhari who always wants to be seen as upright, bought into the idea. Even the Federal Ministry of Finance fumed over the plan because without its input, Daura convinced Buhari that naira change was the best option for Buhari to organise a clean election. While Daura had hoped that PDP governors would surrender the reimbursements by Buhari to finance Atiku's election, reality dawned on him when these governors, except Okowa, refused to surrender their money.

Kyari also quickly joined the plot that has potential to keep him in office after Atiku's victory, hence the crisis in fuel distribution system that has crippled the nation's economy, resulting in sufferings all over Nigeria in which APC government is held responsible, not knowing that PDP is at work in collaboration with Buhari's nephew.

In the last few days, Dino Melaye has been visiting Emefiele's house during dark hours along with some CBN senior officials of Fulani stock,  according to another credible source in Abuja.

And so with failure imminent in Atiku's camp, the  option of blackmailing APC as a bad party is better, by setting Nigerians against the party by twin plots of petrol scarcity and printing of small quantities of naira notes while setting a short timeline  to effect a change of naira to create scarcity, a method that can't work even in a country of 30 million people. By these plots, Nigerians will naturally campaign against APC as a bad party amid widespread suffering that will create opportunity for Atiku to win.

But all the plots collapsed as northern governors led by Nasir El-Rufai and Atiku Bagudu got wind of the plot. They spoke with Buhari about the problem, reminding him about the sacrifices the Southern politicians made to give victory to Buhari. Surprisingly, Bauchi Governor was reported to buy into El-Rufai's group argument. Therefore, within a short period, the cabal held several meetings while El-Rufai group also held their meetings.

In one of the meetings, Buhari was reminded about his place in history and that he should remember that he could not spend his youth to keep Nigeria one during the civil war but now spend his adult life to divide Nigeria. He was told clearly that the West will naturally join the East to end the union called Nigeria if Buhari sticks to the Daura plot to retain power in the North.

According to sources, Buhari had to bend from his hard line stance when young elements of his Fulani stock told him the truth about the impending danger if Northern politicians break the agreement with their Southern counterparts, more so that the last Constutional Conference recommended power rotation between North  and South, which political parties in Nigeria, including PDP and APC, adopted in their zoning arrangement in their constitutions.

The fallout of the initiatives of the young elements in Northern establishment led to the meeting with Buhari on Friday where Buhari was told about the dangers of failing to follow the agreement on power rotation.

For now, PDP's plot with Daura, who wants a Fulani man to succeed Buhari at all costs, may fail as Buhari may not be able to control the anger and rebellion that will follow the failure to take power back to the South.


(I am Dr Alhassan Bello, a patriotic Nigerian writing from Abuja FCT)

That's why the status quo will remain in the country called Nigeria. The less the military are involved our democracy the better for us