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So the next thing is to cancel her in the Church right?

Children of hate, why are you so full of hate?

With the way things are going, and until Nigeria probably ceases to exist, it is going to be hard for anyone of you to ascend the Presidency of Nigeria.

Your hatred for other tribes is legendary, but you forget that you cannot achieve what you want without the support of those same tribes.

This story is a plant as it doesn't add up.

What concerns APC senators with what is happening in PDP?

The more PDP fights, the better for APC.

Atiku's people are just planting all manner of stories to discredit Wike, but all nah wash.
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The truth can't be wiped away, Atiku took the slot of the South and he should face the consequences.

slivertongue:
“tell Tinubu not to bring his money to Enugu. Enugu State doesn’t need Tinubu’s money, let them not send it. We will use our money and work”

"...and when we finish the elections, we will go and seek for refund"

Quote the comment in full and don't be clever by half.

Naijanascam:
APC and deception of 2014

The Electoral Act of 2022 did not exist in 2014.

Please receive sense.

Alexmani:
Well, if you're honest about the current situation of the current, Tinubu didn't think about rhe the damages buhari caused the country, given that he supported him for 8 years twice elected for a personal ambition. A visionary leader would have asked for forgiveness and present Osibanjo to be the ticket bearer. PO is not a transactional politician but we want a better country.

Thanks for your concern about Osinbajo but we chose to present an Elephant in person of Tinubu who we know will not be defeated by the opposition. However, concerning your accusations against Tinubu and his support for Buhari, I don't remember your Peter Obi who was a key member of Jonathan's PDP government ever condemning Jonathan for the wanton corruption and inexplicable state of insecurity under his watch. I don't remember Peter Obi ever condemning the fact that government started borrowing to pay salaries despite the fact that Oil was averaging $100/barrel as at 2014. Actually, instead of condemning Jonathan, Peter Obi was at the forefront of the campaigns for Jonathan to win re-elections in 2015. So on what moral ground are you using to judge Tinubu who isn't a part of Buhari's government, while excusing Obi who was an integral part of Jonathan's government?

Buhari did his best. Whether his best was good enough will be left for posterity to decide.

Thank you.

God bless Asiwaju the City Boy
God bless Shettima the Golden Boy
God bless and favour the upcoming campaigns
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Nigeria is a beautiful country, it is not a zoo and will never be a zoo.

We will have a worthy leader, who will bring the midas touch to greatly improve our lot and take Nigeria into a 21st Century Knowledge economy. That leadership team is Tinubu/Shettima.

Haters can keep hating, but their hatred will only make them losers.

Expect PDP to say anything to trend.

Tinubu and his running mate Shettima, have said it severally via their respective spokesmen, that they will build on the positive legacies of Buhari and keep the momentum going to ensure that those successes remain i.e. Infrastructure and Agriculture. They have also mentioned that in the areas where challenges have been persisent and without resolution, they will bring on-board fresh ideas to surmount those challenges.

I don't see how that translates to abandoning Buhari and using Buhari to judge Tinubu is just plainly illogical.

PDP should better invest their energies in resolving the rift in their midst and leave APC alone.

anonabbey:
The fact that you think it is a "black man" thing and not a "politics" thing says a lot

I am not trying to downgrade my race. I am a black man, and will be forever be proud to be of the black race.

However, our own ways are quite vicious and it needs us to willingly acknowledge same truthfully.

Politics everywhere is vicious, but we take it to a whole new level especially here in Africa.

I hope you get my point!

Google told you he is from Osun State? You must be a clown.

4teenblaq:
I checked google I was told he is from osun state and he governed Lagos state from 1999-2007..

Which prompt me to ask again: why didn't govern osun state? And despite his involvement in osun state elections and governance, Osun states is in deplorable state and underdeveloped.. Why is that so?

And I can't find any reasonable thing he did in Lagos from 1999-2007 except BRT and aphabeta.

Can you please tell us more on what he did again apart from BRT and aphabeta?

How was this governance impacted lives in lagos state there? How is the human development compare to other states?

I will leave the critique of your response to those who are from Anambra or those who live in Anambra as I cannot independently verify what you provided. Good luck with your choice.

mycar:
Find below, Records of Mr. peter obi stewardship to the good people of Anambra when he was their Governor and not the one his predecessor or successor achieved. Why some are afraid to tell the world what they did during their own tenure but prefer showcasing the achievements of their successors because they know they performed below percentage. Please happy reading.
1. peter obi built from scratch Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Akwa with 25 building structures.
2. Accreditation of 12 Health Institutions, among are:
Iyiemu Hospital, Ogidi
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala
Holy Rosary Waterside, Onitsha
Saint Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu
Also built different Health Care and Maternal Centres across the state.
3. He was the first governor to purchase medical equipment of about 135 million and 50 live ambulances to some hospitals. All still functioning till date.
4. He built Joseph Nwilo Health Centre, where Heart Operations are performed.
5. Anambra was the first state in Nigeria to distribute 30,000 computers and 32,500 HP Computers at different times.
6. He also distributed 700 school buses to secondary schools and 200 school buses to primary schools.
7. He donated 3M and 444M naira to Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches respectfully to rehabilitate their schools. Considering their needs at that time.
8. He gave 1M each to Anambra First Class Graduates in all Nigerian Universities. Before his tenure was over 160 Anambrans were beneficiaries.
9. In order to promote reading culture in the state, he erected and adequately equipped Prof. Kenneth Modern Library, Awka. He also rehabilitated the Divisional Library, Onitsha.
10. He gave 500 thousand naira to each secondary schools in the state to provide library materials and books to their library. This revolution tremendously boost the performance of students, as the state went from 26th position out of the 36 states in the federation to 1st position in the federation.
11. He gave one security vehicle to each of the 177 communities in Anambra. This in turn improved the security situation in Anambra tremendously.
12. He cleared pension and gratuity owed since 1991 by paying the beneficiaries a whooping sum of 37B.
13. He gave monthly #10k stipend to any Anambran above 80 years of age.
14. Built the first Secretariat Complex to house state government ministries that were scattered around the state.
15. His government attracted the second largest brewery in the world to Anambra.
16. He was recognized as the best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals in the implementation of their programmes in his state. He was awarded by Bill Gates.
17. He constructed two bridges across the popular agrolink in an Onocha Local Government Area of Anambra, a project that cost 2B naira.
18. Funded agrolink hotel project Golden Tower.
19. He reconstructed the popular interchange bridge axis of Enugu and Onitsha Express Way to 6 lanes.
20. Constructed 800kilometers of roads network between the rural and urban areas of the state. This includes:
Igbariam Internal Roads
Aguleri to Adani Enugu Road etc
21. He constructed 30 verifiable bridges and flyovers, such as Nkpor flyover, Obosi flyover which Julius Berger is using today as their bypass.
22. He patronized home built vehicles by buying over 20,000 vehicles from Innoson which he gave to schools, traditional rulers and vigilante groups in the state.
23. He built Nigeria Stock Exchange building in Onitsha.
24. He also created the Industrial Parks to act as catalyst for Industrialization.
25. He constructed and commissioned the governor's lounge at Annex Onitsha, FMR Customary Court of Appeal building, High Court Complex at Nnewi and Ogidi, judges quarters at Onitsha.
26. Built Dunukofia Local Government Secretariat.
27. Distributed 1.2B credit facility to farmers in the state and also cleared 20M debt owed banks by Anambra farmers as a result of 2012 flood devastation.
28. Purchase 90 to 185 vehicles (buses and taxes) in two years for Anambra transportation.
29. Adopted the best practice in waste management disposal by providing over 300B worth of Waste Evacuation Trucks.
30. In 2015 Anambra was adjudged as the least indebted state in the federation by Debt Management Office. This was due to his judicious use of resources coming to the state and not put burden on the unborn Anambra people.
31. The only governor that planned for rainy day. He was able to save and handed over 75B to his successor. The only man that saw that there would be cash crutch in the future and planned for it.
32. The frugality, competence and credibility of Mr. peter obi cannot be overemphasized because he lives by what he preaches. Why other governors made EFCC or ICPC their home after tenure, he has been working around with his head held high. No single history of court case on graft or otherwise.

4teenblaq:
Can you tell me where he is from and the period he governed Lagos state?

Google is your friend for this one. I honoured your initial question with an informative response.

4teenblaq:
Who is your candidate, tell us why he/she is contesting and give us his/her antecedent

My candidate is ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU

He is contesting because he has the experience - both public snd private sector and he is the best man for the job. At a time such as this, we need leaders who have shown capacity and ability to bring about transformation.

His antecedents are too numerous to mention. He is the progenitor of the success story that is modern day LAGOS. He is a pioneer, a visionary and a builder of men and astute manager of resources. He is not afraid of trying new ideas and he thinks out of the box when fashioning long term solutions to problematic situations i.e. Eko Atlantic.

So that is BAT for you in a nutshell.

Vote for him to secure your future.

mycar:
It's not anybody's fault that you can't see anything good in Peter Obi, it simply means that you are myopic and completely at sea with reality.

Why don't you share what is good about Peter Obi so that we may become asnenlightened as you are? I only shared facts which are publicly known.

Everything there is true.

For those who virulently support Peter Obi as the ONLY candidate to follow if we don'twant to keep suffering, I still ask why?

On almost all metrics of governance and key performance indicators of leadership, he doesn't stand out. His knowledge and grasp of the economy is zero as I remember his earlier forays at the Convenant Christian Centre back in the day. Kemi Adeosun practically ate him alive and called out his false statistics and zero knowledge on economic management.

If it is about age, then he also doesn't cut it as he is above 60

If it is about legacies or antecedents, he doesn't have anything clearcut to present.

His perceived humility is also a charade. Preparing your coffee yourself or carrying your bag yourself is never a good sign of leadership. He has a tendency to be individualistic which doesn't bode well. As a president, you certainly won't be making your coffee yourself, carrying your bag yourself or following your convoy to buy fuel at the filling station.

He is one of the biggest importers into Nigeria, and is particularly responsible for the present state of the Naira. So his consumption to production mantra is also a falsehood.

So OBIdients, please be truthful and say your support is because it is turn of the Igbos and then most of us will be able to understand.

Politics without hatred or bitterness.

Also letting the Church know that there is nothing to fear from either Asiwaju or Kashim. They are not and were never religious bigots.

Playermayweda:
All this long epistle and big words just to explain your stupidity. Wrote an essay and made no sense. Go back to eating your agbado and corn.

Since I ''stupidly" wrote a long epistle with big words, why don't you intelligently counter it with a summarised epistle using simple words?

For your information, Agbado is the Yoruba word for Corn. I leave you to your own devices.

There is something wrong with the way the black man plays politics, that makes people who want to keep their sanity to avoid it.

Firstly, it is lack of internal democracy within all the parties. None is an exception.

Secondly, is the lack of proper reconciliation mechanisms. If persons are aggrieved, there should be a means of pursuing justice to a reasonable conclusion within the party.

Thirdly, is the I must win mentality. Politics is all about horse trading - give and take. If you don't succeed today, then work hard to succeed tomorrow. But our politicians never accept this. If I don't win, then I must pull the whole house down.

APC at this stage should put its feet down. The party already has a candidate. Anyone who is still aggrieved despite efforts of pacification and reconciliation should be advised to leave the party.

Typical Reverse Psychology tactics.

Shebi February elections will come and go. Let's see which cause the Son of Oputa will chase after next.

Peter Obi has been seriously deceived, and is still deceived by those who tell him that there is nothing wrong with his supporters and that it is only his supposed enemies who are pretending to be his supporters to malign his campaign.

One of Peter Obi's earliest supporters was Prof. Remi Sonaiya and she also drew his attention to the toxicity that his supporters were spreading online,.perhaps maybe she too is trying to malign his character. At the end, Peter Obi is free to believe what he chooses to believe.

Time will reveal all things.

The only people I have sympathy for is the Labour Party. At the end of the Obi experiment, I hope their reputation will still be intact.

But when Festus Keyamo was helping Debo Adedayo aka Macaroni through his academic challenges with Unilag then, I bet he wasn't "embarrassing".

To say that present day youths are not wise is an understatement. Most reason with sentiments and not with their brains.

Let us keep watching up to February 2023 and see if Keyamo was right or wrong.

Mikhail Gorbachev, a man with a troubled legacy.

In the eyes of the West, he is a reformer, a man who "brought down the iron curtain" and helped destroy the Soviet Union.

In the eyes of the Russian people, he is seen a lily livered betrayer who sold out his country to the West in the name of vain promises and a pot of porridge.

The truth is that Gorbachev was naive. Despite the failure of Glasnost (openness) and perestroika (reform), there was still hope to save the Soviet Union and translate into a China style Quasi-Socialist state under the banner of communism while introducing private ownership (right to own property).

However, Gorbachev allowed the Western stooges Yeltsin (Russian SSR) and Kuchma (Ukraine SSR) to run circles around him, disregard the referendum of 1991 which was in favour of not dissolving the Union and then stupidly accepting verbal guarantees that NATO will not threaten Russia after the breakup of the Union.

Gorbachev failed to do any of the above and the rest they say is history.

The current Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine, is as a result of the failure of Gorbachev to preserve the Union thereby giving NATO a foothold into Eastern Europe.

Nonetheless, his fight is finished. May he be forgiven and rest in peace.

id911:
But you're a diehard Tinubu supporter so, are you not supposed to be happy or playing a reverse psychology games as usual?

The guy you quoted is a parody account. He is pro-Obi

As expected.

Sanwo Lekan si
City Boy Asiwaju for Victory

MyVILLAGEpeople:
Look at that picture very well. Tinubu looks way older than Remi in the picture. At least Tinubu should be 20 years older because Remi looked so young there. Today Remi is in her 60s and Tinubu is saying he’s 70. Issoryte.

Why do you people think like this?

Good points although Tinubu won't make any deal with Makinde. With or without Makinde, Tinubu is sure of at least 65% vote in Oyo State. Furthermore, a deal with Makinde will undercut Oyo APC and he will never do that.

DeLaRue:
The 'house boy' comment is targeted at Atiku. Wike made the same statement a few months ago when insisting that the presidency must come to the South, insinuating that Southerners are not slaves to Northerners. It's difficult to think of any scenario in which Wike will enthusiastically support Atiku. Though anything can happen in Nigerian politics.

As for dismantling APC structure in his state, that's more likely about his fight against Amaechi.

For the presidential election, I actually think Tinubu making a deal with Makinde is more important than with Wike. Getting 70% of the votes in Oyo is more realistic than getting 35% of the votes in Rivers even with Wike on side.

In a best case scenario, a Wike support is not likely to deliver more than an extra 100,000 votes to APC. Is that really worth the price Wike will demand from APC.

lopimas:
Back in China where records must be submitted to the stock exchange, the company that built both lines reported that what they were paid for the Lagos rail is $181 million, but Tinubu's Lagos said they spent $3 billion.Lagos people should ask Tinubu where he kept their $2.8b

Always try to apply commonsense when speaking on matters like this.

While you have not provided any credible link to backup the figures you claimed was spent on the rail, it is important for you to know that cost of equipment is separate from the cost of civil works.

The value paid to the Chinese, for which they will report to the Chinese government, is for the cost of equipment (train engine, train carriages, switching stations, signalling equipment etc). What about the Civil works itself? Have you seen the level of Civil works that was done especially over water in parts of Mile 2, Orile and CMS? Have you considered the cost of the IPP station that is being built to generate electricity for the tracks? Have you considered the amount incurred as pre-development costs (Right of Way, EIA Studies, Relocation expenses etc).

Now amortize all these costs from when Fashola kicked this off in 2007 to date and tell me that it won't be as high as $3bn if not more.

Stop being economical with the truth, it is wickedness.

post=116187153:
Ignorant mind go and verify

I should go and verify what I know are lies? When I was born, bred and lived decades in this Lagos?

You are just a jobless political hack whose bread and butter is to spread lies and falsehood. Like Obi, like you.

Abeg waka pass.

For people like you, my nice and respectiveful policy temporarily takes the back seat.

MDM2021:
OBJ's time was relatively good compared to now. Just save yourself the stress. Employment rate was far higher thanks to GSM alone.

I didn't talk about his economic performance or issue if unemployment.

I was talking about (in)security.

Agboriotejoye:
OBJ did so many good things in govt. You can't blame him for GEJ and Buhari's failures.
Employment rate was very high during OBJ's tenure. Besides, there were no bandits. So I think you should turn on your brain before you start typing. This foolishness does not suit you.

Same way Tinubu shouldn't be blamed for Buhari. Everybody should bear their father's name.

However, to quickly correct some wrong things:

1. There was banditry in OBJ's time. It just wasn't this pronounced due to the non-existence of Social Media and traditional media as it is now.
2. Kidnappings was rife during OBJ's time
3. Extrajudicial killings done by OPC, Bakassi Boys, MASSOB and even the Army in certain instances was rife during OBJ's time
4. South South agitation blew up during OBJ's time
5. Boko Haram led by Yusuf, starting his radical preaching during OBJ's time. It was Yar'Adua in 2009 who later took decisive action, although it now metamorphosed into full blown terrorism.

So OBJ's tenure was some paradise land in terms of security as certain people are projecting.

You are a very wicked liar. All this will end after the February 2023 elections, then you can go back to wailing for your land of heroes.

post=116184427:
Looting going on in Lagos is second to non, Lagos State Government is using private sectors investments to cover up, most of these landmark projects were funded by private firms, they are
*Lagos rail line is being funded by Chinese firm and CBN
*Eko Atlantic City is own by Chagouri
*Lekki Ikoyi cable bridge is a private sector developed by Julius Berger
*Lagos local Airport was built by Bi Courtney
*Lagos water transport is 90% own by private sector
* BRT is driven by private sector
*Oshodi interchange was built by private
Eko conversion centre own by Chagouri family
*Lekki Epe Road was funded by Hi tech construction firm own by Chagouri family
* Mass housing building funded by private
*Lekki deep Sea port own by Chinese government, the list is endless