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If he had run for VP, that would have been the death knell for APC. He would have been handing the much vilified and derided PDP/GEJ power on a platter. Even the South West would not have voted for such.
Again, a Muslim/Muslim ticket, as someone pointed out, would not have worked in Nigeria.
The only selling point APC had was GMB, Tinubu running would have rubbished all efforts. The fact is Tinubu is even more greedy than Saraki or any other politician but he knows his best bet is running things behind the scene, installing his stooges and siphoning what he can through them.

tomzman:
This is a disapointing start by the 8th NASS. I would have preferred new bloods in those two posts. It's the same old shit recycled again. Well let's wait & see what lies ahead.

It might have been difficult to have 'new blood' when u have returning senators running for that position. Bukola is 'new blood' though, as far as Senate Presidency is concerned.

Reference:
And I am hearing David Mark has been elected 'Senate Leader'. That is he is made Majority Leader from the minority party.......what the hell is happening.

That is #Change. Maybe not as envisaged but it is what it is. No need to play by same rules or different rules as APC deems fit. Let's all #change the rules! This is really funny and crazy at the same time

iamrealdeji:
someone that corrupt should be compensated? Just pray he doesn't claim one of your father's properties soon

If u did not bat an eyelid when he decamped from PDP with all his 'corruption' and supported Buhari, if you did not squeal with Buhari 'winning' the elections on the backs of people like Tinubi, Atiku, Amaechi and co, then you should not turn around and term him corrupt now. It is a full package and in this case, you don't get to pick and choose. He must be #changed now or don't u think so?

tdayof:
personally i know you have a little sense but being a fan of Jonathan and transfer of hate is your major problem.....

Lol...transfer of hate? In my book, u can only hate or love someone u have personal dealings with. I, probably more than any other person, wish for our country to become great and prosperous like she can and should be. I'm calling facts as I see them cos like it or not, the hype and derision for the recently past govt made Nigerians naturally expect way more. From March 30 at least till date, he knew he was going to be President and APC knew they were taking over Federal power but they haven't set some fundamental issues straight. That my dear, sends wrong signals naturally and has nothing to do with hatred.

Has he done anything? That's the issue! The hype of his wonder-working prowess and messianic-coming made Nigerians alert so the seeming inactivity of his govt will make people pick on just anything

Humblebloke:
42DD...... My minimum criteria!!!!

42 is very fat, probably obese even unless u don't mind in ur quest for large breasts. Otherwise the ideal would be 36-38 E, F, G...ad infinitum!

The re-opening of this very messy case is highly welcome but it would have been more interesting, responsible and in fact more convincing if he had ordered this under his volition not per the instructions of the 'almighty' USA! As it is it leaves a nasty taste but still, whatever will work but let our President not make himself out to be a mere puppet acting out a script! We need to come from a position of strength as much as possible even if things are not particularly in order just yet. You are addressed the way you are 'dressed' so Nig must not be seen coming cap-in-hand and in the pocket of some more powerful countries...
God help us all

I just wonder though, I am certain that there is an Auditor and all such persons that are qualified to carry out any financial accounting investigations, the governor will certainly not do that himself so why do people always say that this is all the Governor will spend his time doing? That is why he is the administrative head among other things so he ensures the proper delegation of duties! In other words, the government will not grind to a halt because he has called for account statements and details of expenditure within a time frame. He is expected to ensure that all fronts work simultaneously and independently where necessary.

If the PDP manages somehow to win, will anything ever get done in the house? APC may just choose to be nasty n never support anything that seems to favour d interests of the PDP so what happens? I guess more lobbying, ghana-must-go packages and ultimately, corruption will be the order of the day. Hmm #Change

CSTR2:
For a man that has ran for the presidency in the past 12 years, an ex-general, and a vociferous critic of the past government, one would expect an already formulated, radical, short-term maybe but an effective strategy that would have been implemented immediately atleast to drastically reduce the lose of lives and reduce rate of attacks.
What short-term policy in security have the APC formulated in all their years in the opposition.?

The truth is that if he was as patriotic as he has held himself out to be, and he actually had any tactical intelligence or solution to offer, he ought to have made himself available to d past govt, offered his 'expertise' and hopefully seen an end to this menace but no, that could only be in his capacity as President and even now he has that, it might seem premature but there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. Unless that is the ultimate aim with very despicable intents n plans against perceived enemies n regions, bearing in mind the 'born to rule' syndrome.

We better start thinking deep and not let ourselves be caught out either sound asleep or with mouths/fingers open wide, spewing/typing empty words.
I hope this is not the beginning of that which we feared but contrived desperation and hardship forced majority of Nigerians to dance to the 'Change' mantra to the detriment of our collective freedom as a people.
I also hope 'Baba' isn't actually working but not in the way 'Change' led people to believe and we're here wondering at his 'silence'.
The uninterrupted spates of attacks...hmm! I do hope it is really as it seems with d intention of getting better, not that there is more than meets the eyes and we are yet to see beyond d obvious.
I hope the majority did not just hand Nig over to something more sinister than any right thinking person wants to imagine or put into words!

There's nothing particularly wonderful about this, it's simply trash meeting trash that's all. Things not needed naturally end up at the dump site...

WINDSOW:
Verily,verily I say.I have never seen a morally descent lady as u save my sisters n fiancee. U are educated. 9ce write-up.Pls miss keep it up cos am ur numero uno fan henceforth.

Thank you!

Dear Nigerians, let's take a chill pill and live in the present. Unless there's any direct relationship or connection b/w d past govt and the present, asking God to punish d past leaders and so on is a mere exercise in futility. Any reference to them should be for constructive comparison/criticism. It's time to ensure that d current crop walk the talk.

Wow! Nigerians! Some myopic ones here have jumped to d conclusion that d op referred to the S/W...kai! Just take d pains to read!

bunmititi:
he cannot leave the west out.
we made him.
he will fail if he tries it.

@op: It's all well and good but whatever the case, Nigeria must be careful not to sell her birth right and real independence cos it's dog-eat-dog out there. China and Russia will dominate n crush if given the opportunity so I hope the affairs of this nation are steered properly to avoid regrets later

kolofem:
Stop buying drinks in recycled bottles. Most of those bottles aren't properly cleaned. Spend a little extra on pet botlled drinks or cans.

That is not the solution. There is nothing wrong with recycled bottles if they are properly cleaned before re-use. The issue is standards that ought to be maintained and proper sanctions issued against those who fail to do so whether negligently or deliberately. The customer also deserves value for his money especially when the manufacturer has held himself out as offering value for money! Even the so called pet bottles are recycled as well and that should be the aim. Rather than waste, we should recycle what we can in a sustainable manner.

Tribalism takes us nowhere...we need to learn to watch each other's backs from the standpoint of honesty, not an attempt to lull one into a false sense of safety and then attack when their guards are lowered. That is why the Bible says to be wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove.

@op: Is there a particular reason why u took pains to use caps when writing specific names of tribes as expected but just couldn't do so for 'Igbo'? You actually wrote Yoruba-igbo-Hausa? I'm even irritated now that I've reproduced wat u did just to make d point clear. It is grammatically wrong and politically incorrect as far as the subject matter is concerned. I daresay it was deliberately done too!

ZeezaRapture:
Thanks! I have answers to all your corrections.

-when you are angry, there is nothing you cant voice out.

-don't say i'm an illiterate because i didn't put 'd' after the 'cause'. I was angry when typing and didn't observe i made that kind of error.


-**the wount**. same applies to what i just say! #NoOneIsPerfect. I know the correct spelling, i might have made that mistake due to my rush to express my anger.


-**the wreckless**. Same applies.



Lastly, if you can take your time to check my posts, i've not been a violent person that insults or breach Rule No.3. I only made those comments because i couldnt believe how someone can be so daft insisting someone in the person of Gen. Buhari is sick and is in the hospital bed abroad......just because of the 'political hatred' you have for him.

It's so uncalled for!

Never called u illiterate. For son of a gun, it is not d right expression to use if you were as angry as u say u were. It is used among pals in an affectionate manner so it means that correction didn't come clear to u.
Besides, u should try to be a little emotionally detached and objective in matters like this, it doesn't affect u personally unless of course u are related to Buhari in some form. Good thing this is an internet forum, with the kind of anger and strong negative emotions emanating from your original post, it means u just might be easily pushed or goaded into physically harming d source of your anger and that my dear, would be a crime. At best, u might take out d momentary anger verbally or otherwise on someone unfortunate enough to have been around u at the time and that would be unfair.

ZeezaRapture:
I repeat, GEJ's loss in the election has cause more harm than good to TANoids like this Op.

Na ur papa go sick!!! You wount make Front Page with this ur worthless and barbaric thread. Go and get a better work u son of a gun.


I dont mind getting banned becos of u. U dis wreckless foooool.

Yeah, u don't mind getting banned but at least keep your sentences, spellings and expressions in check while expressing your displeasure! That way u can get banned for any other reason but not Rule 21.

-Son of a gun is actually an affectionate form of address and I'm sure u bear no affection towards the op!
-...loss in the election has cause...? How na? It has caused and not cause!
-wount? Hmm, ok I won't say much on this but I hope you know it is correctly written as 'won't'.
Finally, 'wreckless'?! Come on! You should know the 'w' is superfluous and by that I mean it's not necessary and should not be there. The proper word is 'reckless'.

Make nice and say thanks ok? Don't get 'wreckless' on this quote/post too...

Drama! What then will come of this?

Let the right thing be done...

Let the right thing be done.

CaptainJune:
I get your drift but you have indirectly buttressed my point that oil is a curse by taking the normative economic approach -what ought to be.

If the oil was not a natural resource, wouldn't we have delved into the production and exploration of other resources? We would have applied our energy in maximizing profit from the little resources we have so that the revenue we derive from them would be used to further establish industries that would expand their production. That way, Nigeria would have grown and developed faster than its current snail-pace development as a result of the availability and abundance of oil.

Moreover, the revenues generated from oil have not been channeled into the repair and maintenance of our refineries which is the MAJOR reason we are feeling the bite of fuel scarcity today.

Oil is a good thing only if the leaders had used it profitably for the wellbeing and growth of the per capita income of the masses. It would have served to justify the title of Giant of Africa if the gains we derived from it had been used to embark on nation wide industrialization to increase not only our GDP but the per capita income. The per capita income of the citizens is a true indicator of economic development.

However, this is the opposite case with Nigeria. Our industries are either few or are neglected. Most working industries you find belong to foreigners. Nigeria, with all its oil, is still backward developmentally. Basic infrastructures of light, water and transportation are under-developed despite boasting of huge returns from the exportation of oil and other natural resources. I haven't even mentioned revenues gotten from tax payment, levies, fines and other sources of government revenue.

There is only one place I quite agree with you and that is where you mentioned the greed of leaders making it impossible for our oil resource to be fully utilised for national development. Their greed exists because of the availability of oil. As long as the oil is there Nigeria will remain backward. This is how they have turned the blessing of our natural resource to a curse.

We agree on various points but calling it a curse again is like throwing away a baby with the bathwater. The fact that babies can keep u awake at night, get sick, become children that can be naughty and some unfortunately turn into the robbers and miscreants we have today does not make babies or children curses. They are still blessings that must be directed and trained properly and that is my point with the Nigerian oil. Look at Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, their oil is also a natural resource and is in abundance, more so than Nigeria's but because they handled it well, u see their countries, how rich and advanced they are. That is the point we should come from. If we did not have oil, we would have turned to other things and the question still remains, 'Will resources from these sources other than oil be utilized effectively?'

Of course, the refineries should be maintained so u can produce more. When jobs are created, people work and get paid. An employer pays his staff and maintains his machinery because that way, his employees remain effective and he maintains optimal output. Anything that generates income must be maintained in the course of its lifetime. Even your clothes are washed and dried and ironed; hangers are bought as well as boxes/suitcases to store them in because they serve their function so u must maintain them accordingly. I maintain that oil is not a curse at all whether abundant or scarce. It is bad handling/management and greed that have brought us to this point.

lalasticlala:
A senior police officer at the station, who did not want his name in the print, told our correspondent that the victim was latter taken to the hospital where she presently had been treated for bruises. He warned female students against wearing provocative dresses.

http://leadership.ng/news/436002/rape-mad-man-assaults-delsu-student-at-atm-centre

This is the issue! So now, her appearance is a factor somehow? The attacker is supposedly insane and rather than the rightful authorities being alive to their duties to ensure that such people are not left roaming the streets and constituting a nuisance to fellow citizens, the idiotic police officer finds a way to blame students for their appearance! So someone not in his right senses as claimed, still knows enough to be turned on by 'provocative dresses', but is too insane to approach her nicely and gain her consent? And THAT IS HER FAULT SOMEHOW?

ken4jj:
Keep saying it. Oil is a curse to this country. But will our greedy government and her citizens allow for a genuine structural development? They answer is no. I hate to say this , in 2019 we will still be in this kind of situation , i just hope i will be wrong . The structure of this country is faulty, will they politicians and citizens allow for a re-structuring to usher in real development? greed will never allow them. The cycle continues.

Actually, it is not a curse, it is our mentality towards it that makes it appear like that. If our leaders and all stakeholders had done the proper thing from day one rather than see it as free lunch, we would not be where we are today. Oil should have been an easy way of making Nigeria great but if we see it as a curse, it is like saying cars are also curses because people have accidents in or with them all the time. Do u then stop the production and use of cars or apply measures to ensure proper usage/maintenance, good roads, that drivers don't operate them under the influence of intoxicating substances, speed limits are followed and so on?

The right attitude is to employ the resources in the right way. Why achieve something the hard way when there is an easy way to achieve same and even greater? It is only unfortunate and in fact criminal, that our leaders from the time of discovery till date saw it as a license for laziness, when for instance, one said there is so much money that there don't know what to so with it... You see that the oil and money from it is not bad, it is the attitude of the handlers and greed that has brought us to this point. It is a blessing only misused!

Exploring other sources of resource generation is absolutely necessary and must be pursued vigorously but that does not make oil discovery a curse. Will the revenue earned from other sources be different in effect from that earned from oil if used judiciously? 100 Naira is 100 Naira no matter the source, the important thing is the use of such revenue. If other sources are developed and revenue is again mismanaged and diverted into private pockets, we remain where we are or even worse.

CaptainJune:
Tell me why you think it is not a curse.

With the figures generated from production and exportation of oil, why is Nigeria still poor as a church rat? Why is the power supply still eratic and not stable? Why can't we afford something as common as potable water in every home? Why is Nigeria still owing very huge foreign and national debts? What has the government done with the revenues generated from the sales of our national resources? How does the abundance of oil reflect positively in our economy and much more? Please tell me why you think oil is not our curse.

Read my full post now...hit the send key before I finished my thoughts

CaptainJune:
The bolded is exactly my thought. Oil is the CURSE of Nigeria. Many developed nations don't even have a barrel of oil as one of their natural resources but Nigeria cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with them in terms of solid national and economic development. Nigeria needs to explore other avenues of resource generation to enhance the per capita income of its citizens. That way, infrastructural and economic development will be a natural by product.

With the exception of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, and Gen. Murtala Muhammed I say shame on our past leaders to the current one. They are all failures for lacking innovation and for pursuing their personal satisfaction rather than the wellbeing of the Nation...Babangida, Obasanja and Jonathan being the biggest failures of them all.

Actually, it is not a curse, it is our mentality towards it that makes it appear like that. If our leaders and all stakeholders had done the proper thing from day one rather than see it as free lunch, we would not be where we are today. Oil should have been an easy way of making Nigeria great but if we see it as a curse, it is like saying cars are also curses because people have accidents in or with them all the time. Do u then stop the production and use of cars or apply measures to ensure proper usage/maintenance, good roads, that drivers don't operate them under the influence of intoxicating substances, speed limits are followed and so on?

The right attitude is to employ the resources in the right way. Why achieve something the hard way when there is an easy way to achieve same and even greater? It is only unfortunate and in fact criminal, that our leaders from the time of discovery till date saw it as a license for laziness, when for instance, one said there is so much money that there don't know what to so with it... You see that the oil and money from it is not bad, it is the attitude of the handlers and greed that has brought us to this point. It is a blessing only misused!

Exploring other sources of resource generation is absolutely necessary and must be pursued vigorously but that does not make oil discovery a curse. Will the revenue earned from other sources be different in effect from that earned from oil if used judiciously? 100 Naira is 100 Naira no matter the source, the important thing is the use of such revenue. If other sources are developed and revenue is again mismanaged and diverted into private pockets, we remain where we are or even worse.

amakaobiemeka:
I want to on behalf of the igbos express my heart felt apologises for the impending diaster we would have caused Nigerians God forbid the CLUELESS ONE was re-elected for another four years. Even though i was wise enough to reason beyound ethnicity and voted for muhamadu okechukwu buhari many wise other wise igbo Nigerians of great repute like owelle rochas, ogbonnaya onu, chris ngige, berem, omenka etc did same for the progress of Nigeria. While some igbos voted gej out of religious/ethnic rivaly, other did so because they were aware gej four years would completly create chaos in Nigeria and give them the hope of Nigeria breaking up for the actualization of biafra headed by theorde orji and asari dokubo. Igbos refuse to be led by militants and militantprenurs who profit billions under this fraud name. Once again accept the igbos apologies, i do so on behalf of all igbos who are too ashamed to do so, but go to buhari nicodameously to pledge allegaince. Hope Nigerians forgive us!
Igbo kwenu! Igbo kwenu!!
Oga dim m'a

Like I told someone else and I will tell you, every Nigerian is entitled to their votes, it is a right enshrined in the constitution and they owe no apologies for it. No matter what government is in power, all Nigerians are entitled to what they ought to get as citizens without any form of favouritism. When you come and supposedly 'apologise' u sound like u do not know your left from your right. All leaders elected or appointed are accountable to the people irrespective of who voted whom into power. The Northerners, South-Westerners as well as other citizens of Nigeria who voted GEJ, which of them have come to apologise? And to whom? How dare u attempt to arrogate unto urself the 'mandate' to apologise for anyone? The Uk just had elections, which person has apologised for not voting Cameron? Even if GMB won by only 1 vote, he becomes President of all Nigerians and same applies to GEJ so better think straight and stop this crap!

That is what a democracy is about, it must not and should not go all in one way and no Nigerian should be held to ransom for his/her choice of candidate. No one should also feel the need to apologise because it is your damned right! When a leader errs, the law should take its course and citizens should criticize as they deem fit. It is not tied to how many votes they get or who voted whom!

chowlade:
I voted for Jonathan 4 second term i'm regretting I did cuz i 4 put my country inside deep well.

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. You are first of all, a Nigerian and you exercised your right and free will. Don't ever regret that. You voted for GEJ and he did not win, rather GMB did. As a Nigerian, u are entitled to all you u deserve as prescribed by the Constitution regardless of who bears the title of President. If, God forbid, things don't get better or even get worse under GMB, will u in good conscience come back or open another thread and say, 'This GMB sef! Thank God I didn't vote for him and GEJ is better?' You had your convictions at the time of elections and no one saw this coming. Hold your leaders accountable at all levels and that includes the President and everyone in elected/appointed offices. Your vote however, is your right and your absolute prerogative.