₦airaland Forum

Gbawe: This may be true but have you kept up with the administration of Lagos to note some of the outstanding technocrats now involved in driving the State forward? Fashola has far more 'unsung heroes' available to him than Tinubu did when he chose the then unknown Fashola as his preferred successor. Folks should not worry about Lagos because an able candidate will emerge in the end as the ACN candidate and eventual Governor of Lagos.

Gbawe: The truth is that the plans for Lagos are fairly complex. The person to step in must be up to speed, as an involved and key member team player, with everything going on. I actually like Igbokwe. His 'bruiser' style may not be to everyone's taste but he gets it right saying that the problem of Nigeria can be placed at the door of Parties presenting unfit/undeserving candidates, for very important position, who will then bring everyone down to their mediocre level.

Delafruita: there is one thing people fail to realise,asiwaju bola ahmed tinubu is a very wise politician.call him crooked,call him a despot or call him a thief but you cant take away his strategic mind.asiwaju rode on the back of fashola's performance in lagos to grow the ACN into what it is today.the party has been able to make inroads into other states because of his singular action of "imposing" fashola on lagos.other ACN governors are performing but the reality is such performance cannot be as visible as lagos so in essence lagos is the major selling point of the ACN and the future APc.do you really think asiwaju will play kalo-kalo with lagos?

lagos is the key to everything asiwaju wants and no matter how desirous he is to have his wife in lugard house,his interests definitely outweigh such desires.they will pick someone who will have the ability to continue from where fashola stopped

take dat: Oh, slow memory? A certain Dickson was imposed, sham primaries, and what of INEC's report on PDP 2012 National Convention indicting the party? All Patriotic and fair-minded Nigerians(Not hypocritical PDP/APC officials) should publicly denounce the near-absence of internal democracy among political parties.

jmaine: Ain't it hilarious seeing such jokes around here

Na PAC syndrome oo !! ( Post at all Cost)

dayokanu: You can provide evidence to the contrary and show us the Political post Tinubu is holding either by election or appointment

jmaine: Bros, We are talking about a man who is hero worshipped in Lagos and is often hailed for his propensity to dole out good gifts especially cash effortlessly. We are talking about a man whose vice like hold and grip on the political sphere of Lagos is exceptional .

It's even infantile not to believe those 57 stakeholders were not simply beholden to Lord Tinubu here for gains and favours the press won't even know about.

The PDP predicted this move, even though it was stoutly denounced by the ACN despite the treachery that was about to be legalized.

The market stakeholders in millions are behind the Iyaloja simply because 57 Market leaders took a decision on their behalf

More like saying Nigerians were happy about how the fuel subsidy removal protest ended simply because the NLC and the TUC representing their cause accepted the terms and condition of the presidency . .
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Or

How Nigerians are happy on the Alams amnesty saga since all Govs (including the opposition)representing each state and its inhabitant acceded to it.

Bros, No matter how hard you try, this is plain wrong

That's all

dayokanu: So the problem is not that Tinubu family contested but that they contested and won? Or whats the analogy with Keneddy's here?

Kennedy's family contested and lost, Tinubus family contested and won So winning elections make Tinubu bad?

Tinubu presented his family members and they won the elections How is it Tinubus fault that his family won elections?

Maybe the name Tinubu the aura and the support of Tinubu was enough to win them elections.

Kennedys came up and won election, some Lost, Tinubu did the same and whats the big deal about it.

Tinubu stopped being governor or having any political power in 2007 6yrs ago. He presented his family for elections and they won

Kindly tell what Tinubu has done wrong here

Or since anyone is related to Tinubu, they are barred from contesting elections or taking up traditional titles?

DaLover: Nice and dandy thread moving along nicely and slowly...

Imagine GEJ cutting a Manu cake!

Imagine the hell that would have been let loose!

Imagine the number of pages of insults and haterade in a single thread...

Well it is not GEJ....so no hate venting!

absulo: It is never private if you have the emblem of the state government on it....
and to have it side by side with that of man utd?.....not acceptable.

Desola: See reasoning!

I shake my head!

Clearly we are in for a veeeeerrry long ride!

Gbawe: Igbokwe has come out to deny this officially on behalf of the ACN. End of story.

sylve11: if care is not taken, day shall cum when these two shall xchange punches.

Gbawe: Igbokwe has come out to deny this officially on behalf of the ACN. End of story.

take dat: Can Tinubu anoint/impose his daughter on the Association of "Nigerian" not "Lagos" Market Women and Men? Can Tinubu install the daughter as Iyaloja of Lagos when he is not the Oba? Even the said meeting which was meant to confirm or reject did not hold. Not until we hear the official position of the association and the Oba before we can conclude. As it is now, he has denied such intention.

Demdem:
Are u for real? Did u open the link provided let alone read it? What did it say? U prefer to stick to Nduka (pdp) paper and prefer to ignore the official response from tinubus party itself.
U are just a huge joke.

take dat: The title of Iyaloja is not hereditary. Tinubu, through his party has denied the report.

http://premiumtimesng.com/regional/139536-lagos-acn-denies-reports-of-tinubu-appointing-daughter-as-market-leader.html

And mind you, it is impossible for Tinubu or Fashola to impose a candidate on an association(Nigerian Market women and men) which draws it membership from markets across the country, most in PDP controlled states.

Demdem: Fool, did u notice this at all?

take dat: Before she became the President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, she was and remained the Iyaloja of Lagos till her death.

Virgin Finder: You are not a South African afterall.Damn!

Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, has said he will lead a protest against the actions of the federal government and the state Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, and challenged the police boss to shoot him if he wished.

Amaechi said Mbu had turned Rivers to a police state where the movement of people was being restricted by the police, adding that it was time the people rose up to the challenge.

Amaechi spoke Tuesday when the people from Orashi region, comprising Abua/Odual, Ahoada-east, Ahoada-west and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Areas of the state paid him a solidarity visit in Port Harcourt.

The people, who were led by the senator representing Rivers West senatorial zone, Senator Wilson Ake, had recounted how the commissioner of police had mobilised his men to stop the people from leaving their areas and entering Port Harcourt for the visit.

Reacting to the information, an enraged Amaechi said: “You should have recorded the incident so that we can show it to the world how much of a tyrant our commissioner of police is.

“The commissioner of police cannot say he banned protests (assuming you were coming to protest) when it is part of your fundamental human rights and the fundamental human rights are there in the constitution. So his order is now superior to the constitution? And he stopped people who want to merely express their views.

“We have been suffering. We are now in a police state in Rivers State if they block the entire Orashi region; not to allow more than a million persons; that area contains more than a million persons because you have Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Ahoada-east, Ahoada-west, Abua/Odual.

“And all the policemen put together in Rivers State are not more than 17,000 and with their guns they tried to stop you.

“What you showed them is what we call ‘Peoples Power’. That you came out despite the fact that the police blocked the roads, looking for persons in buses; that you still passed them and got to this place, means that you are stronger and more courageous than me.”

He expressed dissatisfaction with the activities of the commissioner and said the state was planning a protest against Mbu and the federal government.

He added: “We are looking for a date we will demonstrate against what the federal government and the commissioner of police are doing in Rivers State. We have told our chiefs to get ready. Once we get a date from people from overseas and Nigeria that will join us, we will give you the date.

“I have told the commissioner of police to be ready to shoot me; I will be in front. I will not sit here and wait for you to come and give me a letter. Instead, I will put the Secretary to State Government (SSG) here, then I with march down with you people and we will give the SSG’s letter to give to the federal government.

“So that if they want to shoot, they can shoot me. We have a right to express our views.”

Amaechi attributed the crisis rocking the state to his resolve to protect the oil wells of the state and also stand on the side of the people against those from outside the state who wished to hijack the resources of the state.

“I have said part of the fight we are having now is over our resolve to protect our oil wells. The next thing is that there are politicians who have played politics with us and in the past eight years, they have not been part of government and poverty has set in.
“They say we are not running an ‘inclusive government’. My brother, Ekiti State governor, calls it ‘stomach infrastructure’.

“Also, part of the problems we are having is that our brothers who have gathered in Abuja have been hijacked by those who are not from Rivers State to cause confusion in the state and using just one weapon: non-inclusive government,” he explained
He vowed that the people of the state would resist attempts to mortgage the state.
“The danger in letting them take power is that for four years they will not be able to do anything. The reason is that for eight years they have gotten nothing.

“So for four years, they will sit down and chop and before they remember that you people are there, it will be too late. But we will stop them. They can bring 20 commissioners of police, they can bring 20 Mbus, but the people’s power will resist them the way you did this morning,” he promised.

The state police command, however, denied its involvement in the said attempt at restricting the movement of people from the Orashi region of the state.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Angela Agabe (DSP), said the police commissioner would not do anything that would infringe on the rights of the people.
Meanwhile, the member representing Ikwerre/Emohua Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Chief Andrew Uchendu, has pledged that no person of Ikwerre extraction would succeed Ameachi in 2015.

Uchendu said yesterday in Port Harcourt, while reacting to the alleged declaration by the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, to run for the governorship seat in 2015, that the people of Ikwerre ethnic nationality got the support of other ethnic nationalities in the state to produce a governor of Ikwerre extraction in 2007, and were ready to reciprocate the gesture at the right time.

Uchendu, who is a founding member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said: “We pleaded with other ethnic nationalities in the state to give us the needed support to produce a governor of Ikwerre extraction in 2007.

“These ethnic nationalities gave us the support. So we are not going to support another Ikwerre man to succeed Amaechi in 2015. If we do that, it will show that we did not appreciate the support these ethnic nationalities gave to us.”


Uchendu appealed to the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to call Wike to order, pointing out that the minister had gone ahead to launch his campaign for 2015 general election when the electoral umpire had not given any go-ahead to do so.

He said: “Wike has to be called to order. Rivers State does not belong to him; PDP does not belong to him.

“How can he go ahead to begin campaign for 2015 election when INEC has not given the go-ahead on that? I am appealing to PDP and INEC to call him to order.”

Jarus: All these motivated me to open another blog to focus on career and mentorship. I enlisted a couple of respected friends to come write for the blog. I'm trying to poach Ajanlekoko and Debosky from NL career section too.
Overall, I still believe Nigeria is underblogged.