₦airaland Forum

We cannot throw democracy open as we all do at d moment. B4 d colonialist came deliberation of how towns can move forward was done by d oba and his chief on behalf of d people. We should go back to that system.

Zandena:
That will be a sure way for the North to rule this great country forever .
I pray it should be adopted soon!

There is no monolithic North. There majority Christians in Benue,Plateau, Taraba, Nassarawa state. And about 40% Christian’s in Bauchi, Gombe, Niger and Kogi. There is no grand rule Kwara would vote d core north.

I think whoever candidate that can negotiate the best with d various stakeholders would carry d day.

Sangoamadioha1:
You will still complain because going by your calculations the north will still maintain majority and the south east will still have the least in the electoral college 😏.

If we are talking about government of d people for d people, the area with higher population would have leverage but would still work with other parts of Nigeria to produce a president.

Look at how Asiwaju won d APC with d delegates. That was free and fair.

There are about 10,000 wards in Nigeria. By having 2 representatives per ward that would give us a 20,000.00 capacity who would now vote who they want to be president electronically. That is by using their phones.

This would not only reduce the billions spent on present day INEC to bear insignificance. But would entrench a free fair election all over d country.

The following individuals are dictators they are not democrats

1. Nyesome Wike because he had to hand he had no option. If he were from one of those mentioned counties Wike would sitting down put.

2. Hope Nzodima another dictator in d making. The way they dealth with d NLC shows dictatorial tendencies.

3 . Yaya Bello he is dictitorial in all his manifestation.

4. OBJ who wanted a 3rd term

Who else should be on this list.

seunmsg:
And only educated people will participate in the voting, right? So, How do you define these “educated people” who have the right to vote?

The voting is open to everyone in d ward but only educated ones would be drafted for elections. Minimum a back degree or it’s equivalent.

Mynd44:
I knew you were heading here. This is plain censorship and blatant classism and it will not stand.

What you and your elk want is a country where you can look down at people because theu didn't have an opportunity to be educated hence you seek to take away their right to vote. You want to take their voice because you see them as less than humans and so their talk cannot be meaningful.

Unfortunately for you the very first things the constitution set out is that every Nigerian has equal right to be heard (no matter how senseless you consider what they have to say) and they can be heard by that vote.

Do you believe you are contributing meaningfully right now? Because to me, you are not. Taking people's right to vote based on educational level isn't meaningful in my books, it is just discrimination

The current system where the elites hijack everything. Look at imo elections d guy wrote the results winning all lg areas. If he has to contend with some 3000 higher intelligent delegates from d ward, it would not be east for him. Because even if you bribe them, they might stab you at d back by voting someone else.

omenka:
1. What defines "most educated"? What indices/criteria would be used to assess the people's degree of education and enlightenment?

2. What process/mechanism would be used to arrive at this "consensus"?

3. Who would be the people involved in this process?

What you're suggesting seems perversely counterintuitive my dear friend.

I have answered your question, once a consensus is impossible then electronic elections would ensue by using our phones since d catchment area would be limited to d ward and only residents living within d ward be eligible to partake.

omenka:
1. What defines "most educated"? What indices/criteria would be used to assess the people's degree of education and enlightenment?

2. What process/mechanism would be used to arrive at this "consensus"?

3. Who would be the people involved in this process?

What you're suggesting seems perversely counterintuitive my dear friend.

Basically we are introducing Nigerians into politics bureau phenomena. As a one party state only people who can contribute meaningful in discussion would be allowed to vie for the delegation post. As I already said once consensus cannot be reached an electronic voting using our phones would be deployed by only residential members of d ward.

seunmsg:
The most educated as in the top ten most educated people in the ward? In a ward with over 100 PHD holders and professors, how do you select the ten most educated among them?

If a consensus cannot be agreed upon then they go into an electronic voting using their phones. Since d catchment area is small, it would not be difficult to manipulate. Since population of a ward cannot be more than 10,000 people.

seunmsg:
How will the delegates be chosen?

You choose the 10 most educated person per ward, I think by consensus would be ok after all we are all African. That is d way Africa do things b4 d white men came.

This system you don’t need parties. It would be a one party state like china. The 10 ward delegates represent all parties.

spy24:
The way you people reason just dey weak person...

So you think that an electoral college will be different 🤣🤣

So the wuruwuru that goes on in party primaries has not convinced you ?

Wuruwuru will always go on but it would be secret ballot. They can take your money and still shenck you.

WhizdomXX:
Supported. Let it be by LGAs and subject to review according to population and contribution to the nations GDP and sovereign wealth.

No u can’t throw it all open to every dick and harry, ward by ward, educated electorates. Throwing elections open to stack illetrates is not d best. Most Western democracy we copy have high literacy rate. So let enlighten people select our president.

spy24:
That one eh

The rigging go loud!!

There is no rigging, if you want to buy all 100,000 delegates then it is up to them. U can give them money, that does not mean they would vote you. They would just take your money. The voting would be by secret ballots.

Look at d senatorial elections , look how close it was despite some people saying they would vote for Akpabio about 5 senators renegade.

Mynd44:
Do you really understand what an electoral college system is?

This is a form of electoral college, not necessarily USA Electoral college. Indirect representation. What China, the ANC in South Africa and SWAPO in Namibia is a form of electoral college.

In China, SA, and Namibia it hierarchical in nature. They know who would be d next president in ANC & SWAPO if there president steps down.

This election of 11/11 is nothing to write home about.

Instead of having a general elections let us select 10 people from each ward, they would be the ones to vote in a presidential, gubernatorial and National Assembly elections.

As we have 10,000 wards nationwide it means that 100,000 delegates would select our president and a samaller number would select the governor and down to the National Assembly.

The technology exist already. All these billion giving to INEC would be unnecessary.

Abi I lie

As long as the president takes a holiday journey from Baro port in Niger state to Bonny Island in Ricer once a year in other to encourage Nigerians to travel by boat instead of travelling by road I don’t have a problem with the yatch.

What do u think.

It is a cruise by Arise TV. This is the second time this man would have a clash with Rufai.

Clearly Arise TV knew those 2 would have a clash, a man that greeted both Abati and Mrs Ese, but did not recognise Rufai when d interview started.

Arise want a million hits on you tube. Rufai has not asked any serious questions the man started barking like a dog. To me it looks like it was planned.

The 2 biggest killers in our democracy the Governors & the Senators are taking out in one swoop they’re by saving the nation a lot resources.

The House of Representatives would in charge of what d current Senators are doing.

There would be no time limit on Senators running their districts as it is with Governors who can run for only 2 terms.

This would enable benevolent administrators continue what they are doing.

Even though there would be no tenure limit there should be a cap on age which would be 80 years and above. Once you attain that age you would not be able to run again.

That means allocations would be distributed amongst 109 senatorial districts. This would bring faster development to the grassroots.

The House of Representatives would take up most of d functions of the previous senator.

Senator henceforth would be part time and would only sit for 30 days a year.

Most of the new Senators would be based in their senatorial district doing what state Governors do.

The senator would be elected with a deputy senator so that when d senator is not on seat his deputy can take charge of running the senatorial district.

Since LG administration has collapsed in Nigeria, the best way to achieve accelerated development in the rural areas is to re-jig the current system.


What are your take guys.

sholatech:
who said? Thats just two weeks ago. See their own version of abokifx website: https://afriswap.com/bdc/#sell

Bank of Ghana as well moved to 11.45 Ghs to 1 USD on 24th October

From 11.84 to 12 compare ours from 700 to 1300

emerged01:
Bro,11.84 will be 1 dollar in real sense and you will be here doing what? Stop displaying your ignorance in public. Na so ghana better reach

What is dollar to a Cedis today, google is your friend mate.

Any wonder y the Ghanaian currency is not dropping like a stone.

LeopardX:
Story. Even the elites are looking for how they can mop up the scarce dollars in the system and take them out of the country.
We only hear of Abacha loot. What about the loot of OBJ, IBB, JONATHAN, DEIZANI, BUHARI, SARAKI, TINUBU, ATIKU AND EVEN SAINT OBI plus all state governors past and present. People who have emptied all the treasury totally and hidden Nigeria's wealth in their personal accounts in Switzerland, Panama, etc.

But guess who's to blame: 'greedy' Nigerians trying to protect themselves from government maladministration.

Make una rest abeg.

Everyone who has been Governor since 1999 are culprits of how bad our economy has been ran. Just a few weeks ago we read of how JJ Rawlings could not pay his wife hospital bill in Germany only £10,000.00

Zimbabwe dollars loading up…………………….

YoungBlackRico:
Kenya Shilling wasn't left out too

They are not falling like Naira.

creativehubb:
Our import volume keeps increasing due to population growth, and greedy Nigerians are hoarding dollars via currency speculation, Nigeria is peculiar in greed, both the politicians and citizens are greedy idiots. CBN must work with banks, and set a limit for domiciliary accounts, others finance solutions applications should be regulated, Nigerians should not be allowed to save money in dollars in Nigeria. The specualation, hoarding of dollars and chronic importation are the problems.

I agree with you. Greed is in over drive now. Just like the P & ID scam some Nigerian officials who have stolen lots of money are undermining the Naira by speculating.

CodeTemplar:
Theirs too has been falling compared to dollar but our has made theirs look stable. Ghana cedi dropped from 12.5 to 12.8 to a dollar few days ago but no one noticed it because ours was screeching as it was falling.

But today it is 11.81 that means it has dropped.