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philip0906:
Rubbish! I have shown you Buhari's public asset declaration in comparison you've finally delved into semantics. Your Jonathan didn't even declare nada. Now you hypocritical lots are here like bees waiting for another asset declaration, when the first one you hypocrites spilled all sorts of senseless bunkum.

Jonathan is bunkum. Saint Buhari should not follow Jonathan's footstep but follow Yaradua's footstep in this case. Except you want to tell me that Buhari and Jonathan are the same, i don't see the reason why Jonathan's bad behavior should be a benchmark for someone who claimed to be a better person when we have a perfect example to follow in Yaradua. Just remove sentiments and see if it makes sense. Lol

Once again, thank you for providing that link. It drives home the point. Thanks

philip0906:
You liar. Twist & spin it anyhow you want, the internet is littered with ALL the information we need. You do not possess the authority to be heard.

Yar'adua asset declaration:
https://www.proshareng.com/news/General/Yar%E2%80%99-Adua-makes-public-his-assets-declaration/2554

Buhari asset declaration:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34150508
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/declared-asset-buharis-owns-7-houses-n30m/


Jonathan Asset declaration:
“I don’t give a damn. That is a matter of principle and I am not going to declare. It is not the President declaring his asset that will end Boko Haram.”
https://dailypost.ng/2017/05/01/refused-declare-assets-publicly-jonathan/
http://www.punchng.com/politics/declare-your-assets-sagay-advises-jonathan/

You confirmed what i just wrote. It seems you didn't open the link or you are not intelligent enough to understand the differences. Buhari did a voodoo asset declaration (Mentioning assets without the corresponding values or worth). He intentionally did not put the value so as not to surprise Nigerians. What Sane Nigerians are saying is that Buhari should declare his assets properly by putting the values to his assets so that we can see his worth. It is not by force sha but it is for people who have nothing to hide.
What is the value of his houses and the total value of his assets? Read Yaraduas own and read Buhari's own and answer the question. Tell Saint Buhari to tell us the value of his houses and assets if he has a clean mind like Yaradua. Lol

By the way, thank you for providing the link to buttress my point. It made it very easy for me. Lol

Afamed:
I have now known lack of information is seriously affecting most of you. So to you , PMB and PYO didn't declare their assets

PMB did not declare his assets publicly. He did it with CCB and the details is not known by the public. What he did in 2015 was to direct his spokesman then to tell Nigerians that he had some cows, houses in Abuja and Kaduna, some money in the bank and a land in portharcourt which he does not know.

When yaradua declared his assets openly without pressure, he declared it properly in such a way that everyone knew his worth. The value of his houses were mentioned and the sum total of his assets were declared. What Yaradua did was how to declare an asset because he had nothing to hide.

By right, no law mandates Buhari to declare his assets publicly. So he can choose not to tell any one. However, what sane Nigerians are saying is that this is Buhari's opportunity to show accountability and lead by example. If he "Saint Buhari", the only "Corrupt Free" Nigerian politician ever can be doing hide and seek with his assets, what then will the other corrupt politicians do? If Buhari has nothing to hide, why is it so difficult even when under pressure to release publicly his assets when he could have done it without anyone telling him.

When the next president comes, are we now going to have the mouth to ask him to publicly declare his assets when "saint Buhari" did not declare?
Instead of buhari to copy Yaradua and continue a tradition that would have put the next president on his toes to do the right thing, he is the one now killing the good initiatives and yet he is the one "fighting corruption". This is an irony.

I don’t understand the brouhaha this thread is generating.

Retiring abroad and returning to Nigeria is not because Nigeria is the better place to live or any big deal but because it is the most logical thing to do. I am going to the same thing too. No big deal. I don’t think anybody who was born in Nigeria and migrated abroad as an adult will like to stay forever in a foreign land. On retirement, the person would likely move back to naija. The only set of Nigerians I think that are likely to turn their back on Nigeria forever are half Nigerians (Nigerians with one foreign parent) and Nigerians that were born and bred abroad. These set of people have no emotional and cultural ties to Nigeria so it is not out of place for them to call USA or any other foreign country their home permanently.
Returning to Nigeria after retiring abroad is the most logical thing to do and here is why

1. I don’t think there is any Nigerian apart from the set of Nigerians I described above that will love to die and be buried abroad. People who are cultural, at some certain age start thinking of going back home to live their last phase of their life. After retiring abroad with children settled and living on their own, there is nothing much to do anymore. If the person dies abroad for instance, it costs so much to bring back the corpse to Nigeria and this makes no sense. So culturally inclined individuals would return in one piece and live the rest of their lives.

2. At that stage of life, the bullshits and nonsense going on in Nigeria will no longer get to you compared with how a 30+ year person will feel about the shits going on in the country. The retiree with loads of dollars in his account will be less bothered about light problems, bad roads and open dirty gutters littering the city, rule of law etc. Afterall, they have enjoyed those things for 30+ years of their life. At this stage, they tend to be more individualistic. They are less concerned about politics, economy etc. They are only interested about being healthy and enjoying their life the best way they can so that they can live longer. So if the 20-30+ years people are demonstrating for a better Nigeria, they will sit in their house and be drinking tea. It doesn’t concern them cos their Children are not even in Nigeria

3. Armed with citizenship of a first world nation, the retiree now based in Nigeria can travel to anywhere the want at any time. So it is not like they are stuck in Nigeria. So they can fly out of Nigeria for medical treatment if necessary

4. Retiring to any other place other than Nigeria does not make sense for a Nigerian. While the whites can afford to retire to any country like they do, unlike us, they are not culturally inclined. They can adopt any country as theirs and live, die and be buried there. They are not inclined to ancestral lineage like we do

I have a distant uncle who lived in the USA for about 40 years. He came back 3 years ago after he retired. Two years before he came back, he built himself one sweet house in an estate he called his retirement home. Rumor has it that he sold his house in New York above $500K and came back.(I don’t know if it is true). Mind you, all his children and grandchildren are established in the US so he has no responsibility. I learnt that since he came back 3 years ago, he and his wife still ensure they spend 3 months out of the 12 months outside Nigeria enjoying their lives.

For me, I am going to return to Nigeria after retiring. Like I said earlier, it is not because Nigeria offers better quality of life but because it is the most logical and reasonable thing to do. I just finished fencing about 3 plots of land I bought in the estate this my uncle built his retirement home. I am going to erect my retirement home there at some point probably when it is getting close to my return.

Please guys, this is my own opinion. Not interested in arguments. There is no right or wrong answer here

@Op, I wish you good health and long live as you enjoy your retirement journey