₦airaland Forum

OrlandoOwoh:
You mean the same Yoruba tribe he described as having rascals during his campaign in Ibadan in 2011? One thing the President is unaware of is that Yoruba people respect their oba, but no oba can lord anything on his subjects. If he tries it, it will be resisted. In my Government classes in secondary school, I learnt that one of the reasons the Indirect Rule didn't record much success was because of the academic advancement of the Yoruba people which made them, unlike the Hausa/Fulani, resisted any oba that tried to lord anything on them.

i dont care abt wat e said, but dat very statement has no tribal stand! He will stil win south west because nobody likes buhari in south west! Except for his party members! South west is an undecided zone in terms of canditates for presidency so he is wise courtin d elites.

fashola no need to get urself workd up, dont act like some oda stupid apc members; abt 2million voters data were lost in lagos alone, so oga no vex..urs is among! Am sure they are doin all they can to re-register and print new PVC for u guys! Dont add politics to dis! My own self dey miss! Y d man com para pass me??

lilflipnerd:
Abi na, He can't do everything buh his six years tenure is a failure

pls wit wat yard stick are u judgin wit? I dont care abt Gej, d under 40s of dis country too weak! If we so tired of PDP, i can tell u Apc will nt solve our problem, PDP is a stable party y Apc is nt! Apc a party wit no form of contuinity..all am sayin is dey dont care for u and i. Until Apc starts usin wisdom nt pranks dats wen i wud take dem serious if nt dey wil stil convert d party to JPD!

coded01:
Its too late Mr. President...


Less I forget, we as Nigerians regret having a toothless leader as you...


(1) Over 200 chibok girls are still not found

(2) Value of Naira is degrading everyday

(3) School fees are on the rise

(4) Standard of living are stagnant and in most cases below poverty level

(5) Nigeria is losing its people everyday to this blood sucking demons

^^^ Let me stop here cos the thread won't contain everything...

Yet Mr. President is still campaigning... SMH...

am nt defendin him but do u think he can solve all dis or beta still anyone can? 1.200 girls missin shows our low level security since 558Bc so dat can happen to any president . 2. Wen A dollar was N1 and wen it tilted, we kill d president den? 3. Federal skools are tiution free ask ur state government to reduce theirs 4. Low Standard of living? has always been a tale of d white man of d african nation but still d standard were never grt or even medium b4, people dey work and dey are gettin richer in dis country, no food for lazy man! 5. BH is a new chalenge to d Nigerian government or even to its people, and i believe we wil get stronger in d area of security! No vex am nt defendin Gej but all am sayin is cut d man some slack! Only u can change ur life!

YoursGEJ:
Imagine the supposed President of our country talking like a drunk tribalistic idiiot and further dividing the country. I don't blame him because tribalism is the only thing he has going for him and the few that will be voting for him in 2015 will only be doing so based on tribalism. No one can justify voting this fool in again based on his performance, his fight against corruption, economic growth that impacts the common man or anything positive. Even OBJ brought GSM. Someone whom providence gave the opportunity to occupy a vital position but he decided to use it towards personal gains and aims. All I see is a man is a clueless, drowning man who is fighting a lost battle against his God, his friends, his enemies and his citizens by assaulting their elected representatives. He will soon be sent to the evil abyss from whence he came...along with all those who don't mean well for Nigeria. I will forever curse the day I voted for this man in 2011 and I will continue to apologize to the upcoming generations of Nigerians for that decision. I had no shoes indeed

Meanwhile, thank God say oil prices continues to fall. Less money to loot for the fisherman and his shepopo. We are enjoying the lowest fuel prices in the US in 10 yrs even without a single dime of subsidy from govt. If oil prices were increasing, dem for don raise pump price of petrol sharp sharp and present am as New Years gift.

Let that baboon Okupe come and arrest me for calling the drunk fisherman a drunk fisherman.

sometimes i wonda d kind of people dat likes post on NL....and pls tell me hw he was tribalistic in his statement? I wil quote a portion for u.....He assured that he would continue to cherish
the contribution of the Yoruba race
alongside people from other parts of the
country

OrlandoOwoh:
This man is dividing this country on tribal grounds.

pls how? Go back and read again...let me help u! He assured that he would continue to cherish
the contribution of the Yoruba race
alongside people from other parts of the
country

OneDy:
He assured that he would continue to cherish the contribution of the Yoruba race alongside people from other parts of the country and promised never to leave the region behind in the developmental programmes of his administration, while hinting that booklets that would contain all his achievements in all the regions of the country would be developed

I laugh at the bolded. You need to print booklets to list what you have achieved in 5 years of Governance? Really?

printin of booklets is a norm in Nigerian politics, governors, even past leaders av done it. We are here crying fowl over Gej, wen d closest arm of government to us is as useless as lame man's feet. Abeg make una free Gej, i no even knw my cousellor talkless of chairman! Every one of us shud go home and take wat has been stolen frm us as individuals and as communities, mayb if we do dat, d ogas at d Top will knw they are next.

RIP to d dead!

very soon! Polio, bh go disapear

holatin:
are u blaming fashola

nobody is blamin fashola, but dat is d lagos we ve all been living since tinubu, and it has nt change till now and y we no go blame fashola? Touts for lag na arm of government o

like mama like pikin!

bros aw to apply, good for undergraduate

wud love to watch dat...i jst hope one d apc t.v stations show it live

neenar:
Pathetic thing. You somehow cut out the part where INEC said the voters were old and outdated. How low can saTANs possibly go?



@topic: So, a whole security outfit couldn't produce evidence?

if if they are expired and old..dat also means dey av been used in previous elections, and u cant expect dem to show u dis and oda evidences, there is always a process for these things, all these cant happen in 3 days.

By Femi Aribisala Have you ever heard the parable of a man
who stole a goat and was arrested and
prosecuted? When brought before the judge,
his line of defense was that others had
stolen goats in the past but had not been
prosecuted. How does that absolve him of guilt? The man is a thief, pure and simple. When one talks of the treachery of Aminu
Tambuwal’s defection from the PDP to the
APC, his apologists trot out opposition-
party legislators and governors that also
defected to the PDP in the past. So what? All
such defections are equally treacherous and morally indefensible. What we have today is
the glorification of treachery for political
reasons. The honorable thing for any
defecting politician to do is to resign his or
her seat in the legislature and then seek a
fresh mandate under the new party through a by-election. Dishonourable politics.
In 1983, Abubakar Rimi resigned as
Governor of Kano State when he defected
from the Peoples’ Redemption Party, PRP,
to the Nigerian Peoples’ Party, NPP. He did
this because he was an honorable man; a true progressive. In 2014, Aminu Tambuwal
defected from the PDP to the APC but has
refused to relinquish his seat in the National
Assembly. He did this because he is not an
honorable man; neither is he a true
progressive. Tambuwal has been Speaker for four years, and yet he has not
championed one single piece of progressive
legislation in all that time. With his defection, some busybody
parliamentarians with N27.5 million to burn
bought the APC nomination papers for
Tambuwal so he can contest for the party’s
presidential ticket. Almost immediately, he
was touted as a spoiler for Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential ambition and was
shamelessly courted by the Tinubu brigade
in the APC. Realising that his hopeless
candidacy would only be used to foment
problems within the APC, Tambuwal wisely
resigned from the contest, forfeiting the millions paid. As a face-saving device to camouflage his
signaled readiness to ditch Buhari for
Tambuwal, Bola Tinubu went public to
congratulate Tambuwal for deciding not to
contest for the APC presidential nomination.
He said: “This sacrifice you have made will not be in vain. It must be noted by all
democrats across the country as an act of
great patriotism.” Police attack at National Assembly:
Lawmakers scaling gate of National
Assembly as Police blocked National
Assembly gate in Abuja. Photo by Gbemiga
Olamikan Trouble-maker Tambuwal
This is really neat. Tinubu’s definition of
patriotism applies to the APC and not to
Nigeria. Tinubu forgot to mention that while
Tambuwal decided not to cause trouble in the
APC; at the same time, he decided to be a trouble-maker at the national level. Should
this man who has the good sense to withdraw
as APC presidential candidate “as a
sacrifice for the cohesion and unity of the
APC” not also have the good sense to resign
from the National Assembly now that he has defected from the PDP for the sake of
national peace and cohesion? Apparently not! According to the godfather of the APC, a
patriot can be a trouble-maker at the national
level, as long as his trouble-making is in the
interest of the APC. That, in a nutshell, is the
crux of the problem with the APC. It is a
party of trouble-makers. The APC does not really believe it can win the 2015 elections.
Therefore, it is determined to cause as much
mayhem as possible; even threatening to
create a parallel government when and if it
loses the election. The Tambuwal saga is the latest example of
APC mischief. The party’s strategy is to
achieve power immorally and illegally. It is a
party of treacherous defectors. It even
went to Obasanjo, a former PDP president,
asking him to defect to the APC. Instead of attracting its own membership, it gathers
together a coterie of treacherous defectors.
All its presidential candidates have jumped
from party to party. It is now encouraging Tambuwal in his
treachery of attempting to defect to the
APC with the position of Speaker. However,
the APC remains a minority party in the
National Assembly. The position of Speaker
belongs to the majority party. The APC cannot receive by subterfuge what rightly
belongs to the majority PDP.
Tambuwal knows he can no longer be
Speaker. He knows that APC cannot win a
majority of the seats in the legislature in the
coming elections. He knows the mago mago he used to become the Speaker cannot be
duplicated in the next House of
Representatives. Therefore, in defeat, he
has picked up the nomination form to contest
as Governor of Sokoto under the APC ticket. Show of shame Since this is the new reality confronting
Tambuwal, the man should stop causing
trouble and simply resign his seat in the
House. But rather than resign, and with his
security detail removed, Tambuwal drove
with a convoy to the National Assembly. This led to a show of shame that was televised
and broadcast to the whole world. The fact
that Tambuwal led this brazen display of
lawlessness at the National Assembly shows
that he is unworthy of being the number four
citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Public Relations
Officer of the Nigeria Police, had this to say:
“The speaker came with thugs, refused to be
searched and six of the hoodlums attacked a
police man, after which the police tear-
gassed the Speaker and his riotous crowd so as to restore order. Everybody has seen that
somebody was even beating somebody;
somebody was pushing a policeman from the
car. Somebody was removing road blocks
mounted by police.” Those “somebodies” are
supposed to be Nigeria’s law-makers. In effect, championed by Tambuwal, our
law-makers became law-breakers. Impeded
by the police from entering the House, some
climbed the gate. The Speaker himself
flouted the directives of the police. He
forced his way inside. Later, in disgrace, he sent his media aide with the statement that:
“The honorable speaker wishes to state that
he is a law-abiding citizen of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria who has no immunity
against arrest and prosecution.” This is what
is called “campaigning after failure to be elected.” The video of his lawlessness had
already gone viral on the internet. Time to resign
There is nothing left for Tambuwal to do
now than to resign from the House of
Representatives and save Nigeria from all
this wahala he has created. Defecting from
one party to another is against the spirit and the letter of the Nigerian Constitution.
Section 68 (g) of the 1999 Constitution says:
“A member of the Senate or of the House of
Representatives shall vacate his seat in the
House of which he is a member if being a
person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a
member of another political party before the
expiration of the period for which that House
was elected…” Tambuwal’s name did not even appear on the
ballot-paper when he was elected to the
House of Representatives from his
constituency in Sokoto. It was the PDP that
was on the ballot. That is how Rotimi
Amaechi became Governor of Rivers State. He was not even the candidate who ran for
the office. However, the courts ruled that he
should have been the PDP candidate. Since
the PDP won the election, Amaechi became
the Governor of Rivers State even though he
did not campaign in the election for the post. The only proviso in the Constitution for
Tambuwal to remain in the House is if his
defection to the APC is as a result of a
division in the PDP or the merger of the
PDP with another political party, or the
faction of another party. This situation does not exist, except in the imagination of APC
supporters. The courts in Nigeria have ruled
that the PDP is not divided and is not
bedeviled by any factions. Everyone in
Nigeria knows this in any case. Some people say it is not the business of the
executive to determine if Tambuwal should
remain as Speaker or not: it is a matter for
the courts. However, the courts don’t
execute laws: the executive does. The
Constitution says if a man defects from his elected party to another party, he
automatically loses his seat. Tambuwal
resigned; therefore he has lost his seat. The
executive has implemented that loss. If Tambuwal has a problem with that, the
onus is on him to go to court. The onus is not
on the executive. Until the courts say
otherwise, Tambuwal can no longer be a
member of the House of Representatives;
and someone who is not a member of the House cannot be the Speaker. We borrowed
our political system from the United States
where it is well understood that the Speaker
of the House cannot belong to the minority
party. Attempted coup Tambuwal, the Speaker, is APC. Emeka
Ihedioha, the Deputy Speaker, is PDP. This
situation is unacceptable, especially given
the fact that the mandate for leadership in
the House was freely given by the electorate
to the PDP and not the APC. You cannot have a situation of minority rule, when in actual
fact it is the majority that has the mandate. Indeed, at the national level, the APC is
unknown and has yet to be recognised by the
Nigerian electorate. The APC has never
presented a candidate to the electorate at
the national level. Therefore, the APC cannot
come out of nowhere to commandeer the major office of the Speaker. These
shenanigans have gone on for too long. The
APC did not win any seat whatsoever in the
House of Representatives in the 2011
elections. Therefore, it cannot provide the
Speaker of the House. Tambuwal should have known that by
resigning from the PDP while hanging on to
the position of Speaker he is bound to
generate unnecessary political tension. If he
did not know this before, he knows this now.
Failure to resign from the House now only portrays him as a troublesome opportunist.
Tambuwal needs to redeem his battered
image soonest. He should do the honorable
thing and resign from the House without
further delay.

masseratti:
There is nothing wrong with security agencies investigating criminal activities,but the DSS is fast assuming Police role,be that as it may,where are the evidence of the clown cards?

They should focus more on National security and leave politics to politicians please or else the politicians will overwhelm them with their accusations and counter accusations,right now they should have discovered the source of Boko haram funds,sponsors,with all the haramites in the detention.

and u think Nigerian politicians aint a threat to national security?? Even their choice of words alone fit finish any country...abeg DSS catch anybody abeg...jst me one favour....annouce d party involve.

my thought exactly! Abeg make dem share gun make we invade chad sharpally!

well said boss! We shud stop recycling leaders! I stil wonda y our youths are still suppotin dis old fools, we don agree say we no fit do am? Or we are jst fools like dem?

smartleo:
Governance is far beyond infrastures,its all about Policies that provides a frame work for infrastures and create an enabling environment for all round development.if this definition is to be critically followed,GEJ is a complete failure with all the troubles nigerians had known since this guy came on board.

seriously In areas of policies he is d best, we ve had more influx of foreign investment in his term than we ve had in d past 30yrs! If we use d same yard stick used for our ex-presidents..gej wil score above 80% because Nigerians go say baba score above average! For me i wil vote Gej for d next term den we can try whoeva follows but our political scarfs are blockin our reasoning.Obj self dey talk!

NgeneUkwenu:
And the useless Okupe, the Compromised police and yeye jonaTAN will never call this "Treason" neither would they condemn it!

PDP must be swept away anyhow!

must call pdp into dis? Wat abt d ones said by Buhari or dokubo Infact some politician dont deserve imunity!

obejoseph10:
the dude is rich menh.................do u knw how much dat red range cost?

wetin dey pain me b say, in d next 10 yrs u will neva c him again..den him self go dey write c.v!! Rich my ass!

lolz!!! If u get big eye(oju kokoro) for anytin, you wil surely fall victim of scamers!! Olee San

y dem no call me na!!

citizenisb:
A lot of suffering awaits the masses this Christmas. They have refused to reduce their bogus salaries and allowances and the savings they have made from subsidy due to the reduced price of crude oil will be eaten by them as well while they raise taxes for us.

Nigerians cannot be fooled forever!!

even d opposition is nt talkin abt cuttin excess in government's payroll on their campaign shows one tin dat d elite or politicians are all thieves and yet some youth wil run here and fite ova people who dont av d interest of d people at heart.

government insensitivity towards education should be stopped! Karki fc do ur work o

Samchelsea:
what about the anonymous intelligence source that spoke to thisday newspapers

well its anonymous! It can b anyone

Samchelsea:
Why must this guys make every of their plans public....when boko haram wants to attack do they announce it?.....fed up of this old military tactics

read d post again..they didnt announce anytin! U cant move dat kind of personell hidden! Since our journalist c dis one, y dem neva see d Bh boiz own..or beta stillmake dem do documentary on d captured town...lazy people

goodluck and God's strenth is urs! Make dem sa use sense make dem no leave yansh open o!

mmark12:
hahaha, Nigeria is indeed a moving train to the bottom of the ocean - OLODO

If they give u a US passport, u probably be the first person to run away from the Banana Republic of Nigeria - HYPOCRITE

u curse d land and yet u want to reapd fruit of d land?? Nigeria is movin, and we wil leave guys like u behind....cowards!! See wetin u call ur country! Omo ale

RFella:
Passion keh? Only JAMB and post UTME will kill any passion you have for a particular discipline, because you"ll find someone who passionately wanted to study chemical engineering for instance, being given Industrial chemistry or just chemistry even. Its that bad.

in Nigeria we celebrate Grades nt innovations!! Anyone can read his ass off and get first class but d intelligent ones are killd morally!!