₦airaland Forum

But there's a black child sitting with the whitemen. They may think they were being innovative, as is the case with advertisers now painting people completely in white colour, and placing them at strategic locations.

RedEboe:
These are my personal observations;

APC fans operate and attack in packs on the social media space (NL). When a compelling anti-Buhari arguement is placed in front of them they tend to become very abusive and take turns with different monikers to insult pro-GEJ Nairalanders often accusing them of being 'Igbo'.

GEJ fans on the other hand seem to accept criticisms better, putting forward facts and figures to dissuade unjust accusations made against Jonathan.

Just my observation.

You're funny. Are these what you call compelling arguments?
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Buhari is too old ................
Buhari is a coup plotter ..............
Buhari is an ethic bigot ...............
Buhari is an oligarch ..............................
Buhari is a smuggler ..........................
Buhari is unforgiving ..................................
Buhari is discriminating.............................
Bihari is a racist
Buhari is Fulani .......................
Buhari is a Hausaman ...................
Buhari is a northerner ........................
Buhari is a Ghanaian ..................
Buhari is a West African ....................
Buhari is French .................
Buhari is jobless ................
Buhari is Tinubu's boy ..................
Buhari is El-rufai's enemy ....................
Buhari is a cow........
Buhari is a goat....................
Bihari is a sinner .................
Buhari is a semi-illiterate jackboot.........
Buhari is a terrorist.....................
Buhari is an Islamist.........
Buhari is a liar
Buhari is a thief
etc.
etc.

Ozin:
I will stabilize oil price
- Voodoo Economist

I will protect the economy with the military
- Voodoo Economist

I shall consult the retired and serving Generals to defeat Boko Haram
- The 18th Century Leader


...And so many want us to put the destiny of this great country in the hands of a self righteous, whose current obsession is self pity to get our votes? No way!

Put these words in quotation marks, if you are sure he said those. Only then you'll be engaged and your lies torn to shreds.

Acidosis:
So the Buhari campaign is a muslim strategy + gullible christians?

Why ask the question when you seem to have READYMADE answers?

dis one na Roforofo fight!
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Get away
Bleep off
Who are you?
Go and die
Bleep away
Get away
Who are you?
Go and shit
You dey craze
I no craze
Bleep away
Who are you, eh?
Na two people dey yab so
Na two people dey yab so
Where them dey yab, roforofo dey
Where them dey yab, roforofo dey
Now listen to me now now
– Fela Kuti

I had fully attuned myself to the fact that our Owu retiree soldier and prolific author is an infliction that those of us who share the same era and nation space must learn to endure. However, it does appear that there is no end to this individual’s capacity for infantile mischief, and for
needless, mind-boggling provocations, such as his recent ‘literary’ intrusion on my peace.

Perhaps I ought to interrupt myself here with an
apology to some mutual acquaintances –‘blessed
peacemakers’ and all - especially in this season
of ‘peace and goodwill to all men’. Please know that your efforts have not been entirely in vain. I
had a cordial exchange with Obasanjo over the
phone recently – engineered by himself, his ground staff and/or a chance visitor – when I had cause to visit his Presidential Laundromat for the first time ever. During that exchange, I complemented him on making some quite positive use of landed property that was acquired under morally dubious circumstances, and blatantly developed through a process that I denounced as ‘executive extortionism’. That obscene proceeding has certainly set a competitive precedent for impunity in President Jonathan’s recent fund-raising shindig, editorialized in THE PUNCH (Dec. 23, 2014) as “Impunity Taken too Far”. So much for the latest from that directions - we mustn’t allow Handing-Over notes between presidents to distract us for too long.
To return to our main man, and friendly interventionists, you may like to note that I went
so far as to engage him in light banter, stating that some of his lesser sins would be forgiven him for that creative conversion of the landscape – a conversation that he shortly afterwards delightedly shared with at least three mutual
acquaintances. I promised a follow-up visit to view some mysterious rock script whose existence, he informed me, was uncovered by workers during ground clearing. The exchange was, in short, as good as ‘malice towards none’ that any polemicist could hope to contribute to the ongoing season of peace and goodwill. Obviously that visit will not now take place, any more than the pursuit of vague notions of some creative collaboration with his Centre that began to play around my mind.
That much I do owe you from my report card. Perhaps you will now accept that there are individuals who are born incorrigible but, more
importantly, that some issues transcend one’s
personal preferences for harmonious human
relationships even in a season of traditional goodwill. The change in weather conditions sits quite well with me however, since we are both acquainted with the Yoruba proverb that goes: the child that swears his mother will not sleep must also prepare for a prolonged, sleepless infancy. So let it be with Okikiola, the overgrown child of circumstance.
One of the incessant ironies that leapt up at me
as I read Obasanjo’s magnum opus was that we
are both victims of a number of distasteful impositions - such as being compelled again and
again to seek justice against libel in the law courts. I felt genuine empathy to read that he still has a pending thirty-year case instituted by him against his alleged libelers! Judgment was delivered in my favour regarding one of the most nauseating only this year, after surviving technical and other procrastinations, defendant evasions and other legalistic impediments for nearly as long as his. That leaves only a veritable Methuselah on the court list still awaiting re-listing under the resurrection ritual language known as de novo. Unfortunately, not all acts of defamation or willful misrepresentation are actionable, otherwise, my personal list against this newly revealed fellow-sufferer would have counted for an independent volume of the Nigerian Law Report since our paths first crossed during the Civil War. My commitment to the belief in the fundamental right of all human beings NOT TO BE LIED AGAINST remains a life obsession, and thus demands, at the very least, an obligation of non-commission among fellow victims.
I must therefore reserve a full, frontal dissection
of Obasanjo’s My Watch for later, most especially
since the work itself is currently under legal
restraint and is not readily accessible to a general
readership. So, for now, let me single out just one
of the most glaring instances of this man’s compulsive career of lying, one sample that the media can readily check upon and use as a touchstone – if they do need one - in assessing
our author’s multifaceted claims and commentaries on people and events. I refer here
to the grotesque and personally insulting statement that he has attributed to me for some
inscrutable but obviously diversionary reasons. In
the process, this past Master of Mendacity
brazenly implicates an innocent young man, Akin
Osuntokun, who once served him as a Special
Adviser. Instead of conferring dignity on a direct
rebuttal of an ignoble fabrication, I shall simply
make a personal, all-embracing attestation: I despise that species of humanity whose stock-
in-trade is to concoct lies simply to score a point,
win an argument, puff up his or her own ego,
denigrate or attempt to destroy a fellow being. However, even within such deplorable species, a
special pit of universal opprobrium is surely reserved for those who even lack the courage of
their own lies, but must foist them on others.
When an old man stuffs a lie into the throat of an
age-mate of his own children - omo inu e! - we
can only pity an irredeemable egomaniac whose
dotage is headed for twilight disgrace.
D.O. Fagunwa, the pioneer Yoruba novelist, was a
compulsive moralist. I suspect that he may have
exerted some influence on our garrulous general,
resulting in his pupil’s tedious, misapplied and
self-serving deluge of moralizing. It seems quite
likely indeed that the ghostly, moralistic hand of
Fagunwa reached out from the Great Beyond, sat
his would-be competitor forcefully before a mirror
and bade him write what he saw in that image. I
invoke Fagunwa because, at his commemorative
colloquium in Akure in August last year, I drew my
audience’s attention to a remarkable passage in
Fagunwa’s Igbo Olodumare . The passage had struck me during translation and stuck to my
mind. I found it uncanny that the original creative
moralist, Fagunwa, had captured the psychological profile of a being whom I have been compelled by circumstances to study as an eerie creation, yet this was a character Fagunwa was unlikely to have encountered in real life at the time that he produced that work.
The section comes from an account of a visit to
the abode of Iku, Death, the terrifying host to Olowo-aiye, the narrative voice of the adventure.
Iku, the host, had been admonishing his guests
through the histories of seven creatures who were
not permitted a straightforward passage to Heaven or Hell, but were subjected to admonitory
punishment at the halfway house to the abode of
the dead. The most horrendous tortures were
reserved, it would seem, for the last of the seven
such ‘detainees’, and I invited my audience to ponder if they could identify any prominent
individual, a public figure whose life conduct
seamlessly fitted into Fagunwa’s portrayal, which
went thus:
“The seventh…. is not among those who set out to improve the world but rather to cause distress to its inhabitants. It was through manipulations that he attained a high position. Having achieved
this however, he constantly blocked the progress
of those behind him, this being a most deplorable
act in the eyes of God, and rank behaviour in the
judgment of the dwellers of heaven – that anyone
who has enjoyed upliftment in life should seek to
be an obstacle for those who follow him. This man forgot the beings of earth, forgot the beings of heaven, in turn, he forgot the presence of God.
The worst kind of behaviour agitated his hands –
greed occupied the centre of his heart, and he
was a creature that walked in darkness. This man
wallowed in bribery, he was chairman of the circle
of scheming, head of the gang of double-dealing,
field-marshal of those who crept about in the
dark of night. With his mouth, he ruined the work
of others, while he used a big potsherd to cover
the good works of some, that others might not see their attainments. He nosed around for secrets that would entrap his companions, and blew them up into monumental crimes in the eyes of the world. He who turns the world upside down, places the deceitful on the throne, casts the truthful down – because such is a being of base earth, he will never stand as equal among the uplifted.”
My co-occupants of the High Table, in side remarks, and those who came up from the audience afterwards to volunteer their answer to
the riddle, without exception named one individual
and one individual only, even as I remained non-
committal. Indeed, one or two tried to put up a
defence of that nominee, and I had to remind
them that I had named no one! Fagunwa wrote
largely of the world of mongrelized creatures but,
as I remarked, his fiction remains a prescient and
cautionary mirror of the society we inhabit, where
beasts of the forest appear to have a greater
moral integrity than those who claim to be
leading lights of society.
In this season of goodwill, we owe a duty to our
immediate and distant neighbours: CAVEAT
EMPTOR! Let all beware, who try to buy a Rolex
from this indefatigable watch peddler. His own
hand-crafted, uniquely personalized timepiece has
been temporarily confiscated by NDLEA and other
guardians of public health but, there is no cause
for despair. Such has been the fate of the misunderstood and the envied, avatars descended
from the heavens before their time, the seers, and
all who crave recognition. Our author invokes God
tirelessly, without provocation, without necessity
and without justification, perhaps preemptively,
but does he really believe in such an entity? Does
our home-bred Double-O-Seven believe in anything outside his own Omnipotency? Could he
possibly have mistaken the Christian exhortation
– ‘Watch and Pray’ for his private inclination to
“Watch and Prey? This is a seasoned predator on
others’ achievements – he preys on their names,
their characters, their motivations, their true lives, preys on gossip and preys on facts, preys on
contributions to collective undertakings…..even
preys on their identities, substituting his own where possible. Well, hopefully he may actually
believe in the inevitable End to all vanities? So, let our Great Immortal, the Unparalleled Achiever, Divinely appointed Watchman even on the world
that is yet to come remember Fagunwa’s Iku, the
ultimate predator whose visitation comes to us all, sooner or later.
Chei! There is Death o!

donphilopus:
OP, you see what you've caused yourself?! Everybody is now distancing himself from you. At least, you would have done yourself a favour if you had looked up the word "charismatic" before creating this thread.

Na phockphockman's classmate.

Hitler too got lots of charisma, but evil.

justin87:
Its is very clear dat we ve been lead to believe lies,how can one promise to make a country ungovernable if he loses election and dat dogs nd barboon ll be soaked wit blood

Don't speak about what you don't know or understand.

1. Sole Soyinka, Lateef Jakande, Tai Solarin, and even Pa Awolowo have all worked for military regimes. Are they hypocritical and sanctimonious too? Why is Buhari's different?
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As for Buhari marrying whoever, tell that to Ojukwu and Bianca. If what you said is even true, he didnt just snatch the lady. Ojukwu married his friend's (C. C. Onoh's) daughter, without her dad's consent. I'll like to hear your opinion on that.

TRUTHTELA, these your questions too much. I don't know which one to answer.

Pls don't post the Part II. I wont read it. You've already made your point.

Kzinne:
bla bla. Is Lagos as complex as New York or even London? Have you been to Hong Kong? Do you have any idea how complex these places are? With the cash coming into Lagos then Fashola has underachieved. Lease Lagos to London to manage and give say five to ten years and check out Lagos and you'll know that Fashola is a learner and a glorified village champion

The argument put forward by iziegbe2015 is valid. In the context of our conversation, Akwa Ibom or any other state couldn't be more complex than Lagos, and therefore no state is as difficult to manage.

Firefire:
“No one should say Fashola is doing well in Lagos.

Go to Akwa Ibom and see what the governor is doing there. Look at the stadium in Akwa Ibom.

How many stadiums has Fashola built? There are bad roads all over the state with heavy traffic every day.

“Instead of Fashola to fix the roads, he was busy repairing Federal Government roads and sending inflated bills to the Federal Government as

the cost of repair.”


Fashola is the selling point for ACN turned APC,


Fashola 2nd Term is a complete failure. due to pressure from BAT.

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/is-fasholas-second-term-a-failure/

Fashola is over hyped!

Firefire, sey na only stadium we go chop?

Na wah oo! I have somebody who truly loves me and you're telling me to stop praising. Who I do praise then? Or, are you telling me you know more than me what's better for me? Not only praise, I am also copying Fashola's style.

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West, Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe, says
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has not done too well to merit the praise he receives from residents of the state. He said Fashola had not performed as well as his Akwa Ibom State counterpart, Mr. Godswill Akpabio.
Ogundipe said this at a forum of Local Government Area chairmen under the aegis of Goodluck Lagos Grassroots Project in Lagos on Monday.
He spoke alongside PDP leaders in the zone at the event themed, ‘Transformation Agenda: Continuity for National Progress’. He said, “No one should say Fashola is doing well in Lagos. Go to Akwa Ibom and see what the governor is doing there. Look at the stadium in Akwa Ibom. How many stadiums has Fashola built? There are bad roads all over the state with heavy traffic every day.
“Instead of Fashola to fix the roads, he was busy
repairing Federal Government roads and sending
inflated bills to the Federal Government as the cost of repair.”
Ogundipe admitted that President Goodluck Jonathan had not been able to do much for the
people of the South-West but said it was because
Yorubas were not contributing to the success of
Jonathan. He, therefore, called on the people of the South-West especially Lagos, to ensure that the Peoples Democratic Party won most of the elective positions including federal legislative seats so that Yorubas would be able to get juicy positions.
He said, “If you take a look at the current structure of the Federal Government, you will see that the South-West has been shortchanged. The reason is clear; we did not contribute to the success of the President. We are not even in key positions at the National Assembly and we find it hard to get highly placed positions.
“We must ensure that we vote for the PDP in all
positions so that we can have a National Assembly that will make life easy for the President.”
He said the political career of a former Governor
of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would come
to an end next year after his party, the All Progressives Congress, would have lost the Lagos
and the presidential elections.
Also speaking, the chairman of the state chapter of the PDP, Captain Tunji Shelle (retd.), said Jonathan would get 99 per cent of the votes in Lagos State.
“With a voting population of six million and counting, we have assured Mr. President that he will get 5.9 million votes in Lagos,” he said.
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http://www.punchng.com/news/stop-praising-fashola-pdp-chairman-tells-lagosians/

Correction: Sorry ooo, I misread 'the learners' as men.
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And, why are they quoting the whole thing just to write two or three lines?

Ibadannimowa:
hmmn shymex.

You are wrong about that.

laykorn:
Lol. I have a lot of his pictures with quotes too. I could open a thread to post them soon.
Ayamlaykorn

That'll be great.

laykorn:
Nobody can give you freedom.
Nobody can give you equality or
justice or anything. If you're a
man, you take it.
Malcolm X

I memorised that at 13. Lol
Man's my personal hero.
My personal role model.

Have you read his autobiography?
I have it in pdf if you need it.
Ayamlaykorn

I have. Thanks a lot buddy. Have lots of his pictures. Just that I am not able to upload them from the folder they're in.

laykorn:
Are you a fan of the late hero?
Your moniker.....
Ayamlaykorn

"This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "I'm the only Negro out here." "I'm the only one on my job." "I'm the only one in this school." You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, "Let's separate," you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation. "What you mean, separate? From America, this good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?" I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa." – Malcolm X
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Yes I am, buddy!

festusfeezy:
Pls who is Tinubu, we don't know him in Germany here

We in Nigeria know him.

tit:
Buhari should not worry.
Tinubu no get power again.
He cannot do her anything.

How can I vote for PDP with this kind of campaign. Is this the issue-based campaign your party asked for?

HzRF:
That I don't know

Fair enough! Then, would they enrol any almajiri they know into Almajiri schools?

justi4jesu:
Hmmmm exact traits of your imaginary "wanna be" leader Buhari, They always insult people and treat things with violence. Hope you don buy rope to take hang yourself when the Ijaw man wins come 2015. Because na sorry go be una Name.

Is this not the case of the kettle ...

theshadyexpress:
Can he also explain why he jailed ekwueme and put shagari under house arrest

Was there any other person who was under house arrest apart from the President?

homesteady:
What is this nonsense? what is my name doing here? have you ever seen me doing some tribal shiit?
I'm neither igbo or yoruba, so what concerns me with their nonsense beef?
Please I consider this as a very big insult, remove my name now! !!

You don't have to be either to be engaged.

HzRF:
What works with me might not work with you
U can't separate hausas from Islamic education expect u want total chaos
Alligning Islamic education with Western education is the best bet.... Which some are not even happy with

Would Buhari, El-Rufai, Kwankwaso, etc. agree to attend Almajiri schools, given the other alternative?

Descartes:
I think Ministry of Education knows better

Now, what do you think?

justi4jesu:
As far as my Eyes and see and Eyes can hear.

Perception bro, perception bro! We see what we want see.

justi4jesu:
Its an Almajiri system of education that the federal government uses as a way of intervening in the menace of street begging by school-age children. Thereby reducing the level of illiteracy in the northern states in the country, So the Schools are called Almajiri Schools

How far has it gone in reducing this 'menace' in northern Nigeria?

HzRF:
Well almajiri is an Arabic word for some one who leave his house in search of Islamic knowledge
Itz centred on school that teaches Islamic doctrines... Purely Quran related (ile kewu in yoruba)
(in case u want to know)
But due to their stark illiteracy status GEJ decides to break the status quo and crept in subjects so as they learn they Quran they learn other subjects


Visit this link http://transformationwatch.com/2012/07/01/sokoto-two-months-after-how-the-almajiri-school-operates/
To know how it operates

Why different schools for Almajiris?