₦airaland Forum

Moferere:
Dear David Umahi, you talk too much. And na why dem collect mic from your hand for Kaduna be this.

You took the words from me. Why dem no go collect mic from en hand?

To think I admired him as governor. Once I passed through Ebonyi to my home state- Cross River. I appreciated his works at the time. What changed?

Donald go weak. Lol.

Well, commending a thing at one point doesn't necessarily mean with better information and the unfolding of events one cannot hold a contrary opinion. For instance, as a non-engineer, I always liked the coastal road idea, but on learning of its non-feasibility around swampy regions of Bayelsa and Rivers from experts, my opinion changed.

favor914:
Na True, na President Tinubu throw una into poverty .

By this time next year 2027, more millions of idle Nigerians would have been added to your poverty association courtesy of the report of the World Food Program (WFP).

So you know this and want these vulnerable to clap for you and your principal?

Having agreed more Nigerians are now poor, the least you can do is quietly enjoy your largesse and not rub it on the face of others.

Ofunaofu:
Behave well is how governments turn rightful dissent into disobedience.

Yes, rights have limits, but who decides what bad behaviour is? If “Jonathan must go” was legitimate political expression yesterday, why is “Tinubu must go” an offence today?

Democracy isn’t the freedom to speak only when government approves.

And remember: the government you defend today may one day make you its victim. When that happens, don’t assume the same machinery you applauded for silencing others will come to your rescue.

Defend rights as principles, not privileges.

Otherwise, it isn’t democracy

Obiedun, please your attention is needed. I particularly want to see your reaction to the "Jonathan must go" part.

No be everything dem dey defend na. Sometimes silence becomes the best form of defence. You don't defend an absurdity lest it comes back to bite you in the bu.m.

I wish APC luck with that.

Source of income is one salient point missed in our public discuss during electioneering. Electorates must have access, know you had, have, a legitimate means of livelihood. Politics should be about service and not a means to amassing wealth.

Dem clear Tinubu aide doubt sha. E no easy to defend government. I see why governments employ the most for PR.

In truth, even Atiku as president will have his aides struggling to defend him because na when you dey government your rubbish go come to fore.

Thiefobi1:
This is as a result of karma.

But Obi isn’t the only opposition. AA’s presidential candidate was delisted by INEC. Is it also karma?
The writer said stop sponsoring attacks against all opposition, not just Obi.
For the records, I don’t like Obi either as he never proved himself a better administrator in Anambra. However I’d he is the people’s will, don’t subvert it, that is the essence of democracy. If a greater number choose a goat, allow them their right. I support Tinubu’s reforms, only have reservations for his handling it and the resultant hardship. However I’d pick him ahead of Obi but not sure majority Nigerians will.

ceejay80s:
I wonder how many of these northern public service holders , house of rep, senator that have university certificate,
Me no make noise , na UNIPETROL I go,
U can confirm from unipetrol for my certificate

Make everybody submit en certificate. Who no get, make e come clean say e no get.

Eventhough I support Tinubu, I agree entirely to this. Please Mr. President, release your record. Knowing the background of public officials indeed raises confidence.

Metrofox:
non sequitur but ok

If that makes you feel better. Best wishes.

Metrofox:
I'm sure you'll run into 50 illogical women before you find 1 male pedophile, so it's safe to reach a safe generalization on their hive mind.

How did you come about this statistics? I am a lawyer and can tell you for free how many men are arraigned on a daily for drug related offences yet are not called names by women.

Stop the fallacy of hasty "generalization."

Metrofox:
Women can be chaotic and psychotic in nature up to age 60 for most of them and when you read about the one who killed her kids recently in the USA you kinda understand where the taliban is coming from.

My guy, some men sleep with their daughters, others with week old babies, yet men are not profiled cause a few others choose to be predators.

There is no justification for Taliban's ideologies especially in relation to women. Thankfully foremost Islamic states as Saudi Arabia are allowing more room for women.

Honestly, I cannot understand why in the 21st century, one will think this way. No wonder they insult the West but move there in droves.

No matter your opinion, you will agree America remains a free country when compared with most part of the world and humans like freedom. We even enshrined it in our constitution.

Sccarrr:
Oga counsel, I hear you 😂. But abeg, no let us stretch the judgment pass wetin the Constitution talk.

Yes, Section 305 gives the President wide discretion when it comes to declaring and handling a state of emergency. But that no mean say anything wey Mr President personally considers serious automatically becomes an emergency.

The question still remains: does a student protest over school fees amount to the kind of situation contemplated under Section 305, and can that alone justify suspending an elected governor?

If your answer is yes, then show me where the Constitution or the judgment says so. Because saying “the discretion is with Mr President” is not the same thing as saying “the discretion has no constitutional limit.”

Oga opposing counsel is still reading o 😂.

My brother I'd advise you look up "discretion" within the jurisprudence of law. Once the law grants discretion, it no longer limits the grantee save as provided for by related sections of that law or another.

It is not for you or I to tell how Mr. President exercises his discretion, hence it is "discretion." What you consider a mere student protest can be termed an act of terrorism or national security risk by another.

To the touted 305, it provides that the president may declare a state of emergency where;
Nigeria is at war or faces an imminent threat of invasion.
*There is a major breakdown of public order and safety.
*There is a clear and present danger of public breakdown.
A natural disaster or severe calamity occurs.A public danger threatens the survival of the country.
A State Governor asks for it, backed by a two-thirds majority vote from the State House of Assembly.

Highlighted 2 and 3 above are sufficient within the circumstances of the student protest to invoke 305.

Shalom!

Sccarrr:
oga Counsel, with respect, you’re proving my point rather than yours. Rivers was not the FG casually “intervening” in a state matter; it was an exercise of the constitutional emergency powers under Section 305, which was subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court. That exceptional power cannot be stretched into a general power for FG to dictate every decision made by a state government or state university.

So if your argument is that FG can intervene in the university fees matter, please point to the specific constitutional or statutory provision that gives it that power. Otherwise, Rivers is simply a false equivalence.... thank you

You should consider the apex court's decision on that matter again. For want of time, the Supreme Court threw out PDP's case against the FG on the ground of locus, but considering 305, the case made by the Supreme Court is to the extent that the FG can invoke "emergency rule|powers" of discretionary grounds. His Lordships found 305 is not circumscribed by a body of rules, behavior or action. The FG decides what it feels is emergency enough to invoke the powers. For your info, a protest as you have just found by the students might in the discretion of Buhari, sufficient to call for an emergency. The discretion lies with Mr. President.

If in his discretion, Fubara should be suspended, then Mr. President can suspend the actions of or even the governor of Bayelsa for student's protest.

Read again the judgement "oga opposing counsel."

Sccarrr:
calm down! Rivers and Osun LG allocations are specific constitutional/legal powers...... they don't give FG a general licence to interfere in every state matter. State universities have their own legal and governing structures. So the question isn't "why can't FG intervene?" but "what legal authority does FG have to intervene in this particular case?"

Since you want to go constitutional, can the FG suo motu suspend a democratically elected governor? Point me to relevant sections of the constitution please.

Meanwhile, it might interest you to know that relevant sections for vacating office will be by impeachment, I'll health or other reasons he can no longer perform his duties.

By the way, who suspends the president because I recall Buhari started this unconstitutional practice by removing Chief Justice Onneghen, a power he does not have.

Note, I am a practicing lawyer called to the Nigerian Bar December 2015, so come with me with constitutional provisions, not second guesses. Thank you.

nairalanda1:
More like, if states were to try to raise more funds, it means, in the short term, taxes, which are unpopular because most people work in the informal sector.

So, they all wait for Abuja, plus deriviation.

My questions are in reply to his concern about the school being state owned. These questions remain unanswered by him or yourself.

I appreciate your posts for it's civility half the time, but it's still easy to determine your biases, and it's fine, for heaven's, we run a democracy.

I would however appreciate if we remain within the context or his and my question. Another day and space, I will be glad to discuss government and taxes.

This is how I used to support some Tinubu's policies and pushed the Buhari idea pre-2015.

Post 2015 and my friends mocked me badly over my choice of Buhari. Their premise was spot on, Buhari is a bad administrator and many APC agents have also come to accept that.

For Tinubu, my mother inlaw laughs hard at me after analyzing his policies like one excellent economist, only to wail and lament when madam says it's time to go to the market.

Like you, I get to admit the hardship is biting off camera, and in case you want to lie about doing well for yourself, what would you say about those at APC rallies complaining about the #1,500.00 they received, are they above the hardship too?

autoez:
Maybe, in a strange way, their departure is also a wake-up call for us. For decades, we have depended heavily on foreign companies, foreign capital, foreign products and foreign expertise to keep our economy moving. Now that some of them are leaving, perhaps it is time for Nigerians to look inward and ask ourselves a very painful but important question: what happens if we finally decide to build Nigeria for Nigerians?

I don't celebrate the hardship that comes with companies leaving. Ordinary Nigerians are the ones who feel the consequences through job losses, higher prices and reduced opportunities. But I also refuse to believe that Nigeria's destiny is tied permanently to the presence of foreign companies.

We have the people. We have the brains. We have the natural resources. We have the entrepreneurs. We have young Nigerians who are exceptionally talented and capable of building world-class businesses. What we have lacked for too long is the environment, consistency, leadership and courage to truly build.

So if a foreign company can no longer survive here, let us not simply sit down and mourn its departure. Let Nigerian entrepreneurs ask, “What can we build that will replace what they left behind?” Let our engineers create. Let our farmers produce. Let our manufacturers manufacture. Let our software developers build. Let our young people innovate instead of constantly looking for a way out.

And to the foreign companies that can afford to wait, wait. Those who believe in Nigeria and remain through the difficult years may eventually witness something extraordinary. Because Nigeria will not remain down forever.

There will come a time when the economy stabilises. There will come a time when the naira strengthens. There will come a time when industries rise again, infrastructure improves and the enormous Nigerian market becomes even more attractive.

And when that day comes, we must not be ashamed that we had to rebuild ourselves from almost nothing.

I genuinely believe Nigeria can rise again. Not because our problems are small, they are enormous but because the potential of this country is even greater.

Perhaps this is our painful season of learning to stand on our own feet.

Let us stop asking, “Who is coming to save Nigeria?” and start asking, “What can I do to help build the Nigeria I want my children to inherit?”

One day, I pray we will look back at these difficult years and realise that they were not the end of Nigeria's story, but the beginning of a new chapter.

Nigeria will be great again. Insha Allah. 🇳🇬❤️

As touching as your message, as much as it resonates hope, the question becomes, what is government doing? You can't live in luxury, send your kids abroad to school, visit UK hospitals for headache, then turn around to ask Nigerians to make the ultimate sacrifice.

If you use all your life sacrifice for Nigeria, which one you go enjoy? Meanwhile Wike and his kids are no making same sacrifice but living the life.

Sccarrr:
no be state owned uni again?

If the FG can suspend River State government, what will it take FG to intervene in this?
If FG can withhold Osun LG allocation, why is intervening here rocket science?
Since the FG policies are chose to remove subsidy benefit from the pocket of the man on the street with the excuse of giving more to state governments, why can't FG help common man from whose pocket he removes the subsidy, and prevail on state government?

The action of FG in Rivers will always bite the government in bum. It shows States are not fully autnomous and the FG asserts great influence over them.

Na WA oo. While I agree that education is not cheap, governance should not be dracunian. This is where I disagree with government's subsidy removal method.

You can't remove fuel subsidy, float naira, increase tax, increase school fees and plan to remove electricity subsidy, all at once. Haba.

These will continue to shrink the middle class. It's therefore not strange Uber left. If there is no middle class to patronize, how do they remain in business?

Nobody should say it is interim sacrifice when those in government aren't sacrificing, those outside government don't know how long they'd go sacrificing before benefitting from the system.

Sermwell:
If not for Amoda Yekini's wickedness, Asuen Ighodalo is supposed to be my governor!! God punish Yekini and all his agbado muching nitwits supporting him!

RIP to Dan

I have regard for Tinubu in some ways but this is one way he did us dirty. Each day I wake up in Benin City, I feel like crying. I decided to set up an NGO to assist in areas I can since government has not helped.
We had a chance at getting Asuen, a technocrat; and powers that be blew it because of politics. Tinubu will not allow our dear governor here enter Lagos governance.

May the best man win. INEC do well to go electronic

Solid points. I’ve mentioned severally on this platform that I love Tinubu but if the elections were indeed free and fair, he’d lose. The reasons are simple;
“His economic policies (less corruption in the government) are on point, but only a few Nigerians consider the long term beneficial effect. The whole lot of others see immediate hunger and we being persons that love immediate gratification are not interested in a long not-so-certain benefit.”

So indeed, if democracy is about the majority, the Nigerian majority do not subscribe to hunger and will vote out the government.

Afonja007:
I no wonder they wanted to have ruga in the east if not for unknown gun men uzodimma for give them land

Well, we bless God insecurity never crept up the East. So where you can, secure your immediate environment because if you do not, you may be forced to move for survival.

Afonja007:
so those people will lose their ancestral lands for ever?

Man is constantly migrating, and foremost reason for this is the need to survive. Their ancestors got to those lands based on a need to survive. They may have to also move for similar reason.
Meanwhile, they might as well stay if it is shown that the area is secure and fit for habitation.

My concern is about those that’ll prefer to shut down the advise because the call is not politically expense for them.

Please do not politicize this good post. We need grow some conscience.

Everything must not be reduced to APC, NDC banter. I don tire for Nigeria. Everything is viewed through the lense of politics.

Bluntemperor:
So,how did he became a Treasurer of Mobil Oil 🪔 giant?
Our Opposition Are just not busy but love Social Media Entertainment 😁

If he says he worked in Mobil and had relevant qualifications before joining, onus is on him to prove that, for he that asserts must prove. Neither Atiku nor Obi has come out to say, “yes he worked in Mobil.” They have faulted his academic history. He thus has a moral burden to show transparency both with his academic records and general bio-data.
You may say he is not burdened by law to do so, and I agree; but do not blame other serious countries if they do not take us seriously, I mean, if it is difficult to explain the family background, academic records of president to most populous black nation; even you won’t take us serious.

jchioma:
Constitutionally, can one be eligible for a political position without his primary and secondary school credentials?

So no moral burden on a president to do what seems right?

Do you know that since Kuala Lampur, Malaysia's earlier capital city, the government chose to build up a new capital inorder to reduce urban migration activities stretching the city's infrastructure. Putrajaya was this born.

Indeed when we decide to spread development, mountain pressures on a few city due to population explosion will abate.

Will you support each geo-political zone to have its capital, and where woul you suggest?

NLFPMod, Seun, Dominique.

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Mandem05:
After all this typing, there is really nothing you can do to stop APC from capturing Nigeria come 2027. Starting with Osun state. APC IS UNSTOPPABLE.

And you feel good about that?
Personally, I want Tinubu ahead of Obi. I believe I have said this enough. However, I prefer a Nigeria with strong systems and institutions. The president should see to credible elections. It is for our collective interest. PDP once thought they'd always be there, so instead of setting an INEC that will be independent, they refused. Imagine at that time PDP ensured INEC chairman is not elected by a president. Today, they probably would have benefitted that because in truth many Nigerians are angry, hungry and would vote out Tinubu. The reason I am routing for Tinubu is not because he is popular but because I believe some of his decisions are right. I also feel in governance he outperforms other contestants (they have all been in government).