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The fear is how the North will release power to the South in 2023. Will they support 2 southern candidates like was done in the south?

They will tell their people in 2023 that the southern candidate will restructure Nigeria and make them suffer.

luvmijeje:
If South-East cannot elect him as a Governor, there's no way in hell, he can be President of South-East. Charity begins at home. So let us stop imagining what cannot be.

We are not holding people who will are electing at the local or state responsible for what they are receiving now. Is now when more money comes in, we'll hold them responsible.

I'm not against more money to the state or region but what are they doing with what they have now?

The constitution protects the corrupt . Governors finish looting the state, join the ruling party and move to the Senate to make laws that protect them.

So each region will have to hold meetings with everyone from the states to the communities . The aim of a restructured system will be discussed and understood. This will form the constitution for the regions and a system will be in place to function independently of who is the president. And the best way to do this will be a computerized system that clearly shows inflow and out flow.

Enable people to bid for contracts online and the systems automatically shortlist the winners based on.programmed criteria.

The same is done with employment etc. The only way regions and countries in Africa can make progress is to have computers make the decisions.

That way ethnicity or religion will have no role in operation of government. This will create millions of jobs in the IT industry.

Kingseex1:
Though Restructuring is the best option for Nigeria but am afraid on the long run some regions might suffer and it will lead to excessive migration

Regions that suffer are those that refuse to manage the resources given to them well. Migration is not bad or a problem, we are all Nigerians. You can travel to any part of Nigeria that you feel you can achieve your dreams. Some regions will have more jobs than the unemployed available. After all countries like canada etc are still looking for people to migrate and work.

We can't change the current method of operation in this system. But if every region is told to go and meet and discuss and come out with a development and people focused constitution for their region, then every regional government will start off with a good and clean constitution.

Every constitution will have the right of every Nigerian as a foundation.

How the president will be produced will be captured. How much governors and presidents earn is clearly stated.

How contracts are awarded will be there. A computerized system that enables everyone access to the spending of government will be implemented for transparency. Tax, lending rate etc will all be captured in the constitution.

When I see youths celebrating the victory of the 2019 presidential elections, I laugh. Some of them say baba will now take Nigeria to the NEXT LEVEL.

I ask how was the first level? Did employment increase? Did security improve? Did poverty reduce? So Next Level of what are you expecting? Does a country develop by magic or as a result of consistent effort towards development?

With over 9 million jobs lost and unemployment which rose to 23% in the first tenure, add that to the number of graduates that will be coming out in the next four years.

As the unemployment rate increases, it's normal to see an increase in crime. The president has started traveling all over the world again as he did in the last 4 years with no result. Our refineries could not attract a single investor in the past four years.

The truth is that the system that produced all these leaders that left this country in this state can never bring development. It's a fake-life system that borrows to impress the people you borrow from. Imagine borrowing 10 years of your salary to buy the kind of car your boss is driving. You come to work with the same expensive luxury car your boss drives, while you have use your 10 years salary to buy it. Now every month 98% of your salary is taken and that 2 percent can't even take care of your needs . You have a nice car, but you are broke as hell.

That's the Nigerian picture. Our government spends a lot on itself to look good, they even earn more and look better than those countries they go to borrow from. But the people are so poor and hungry.

It's obvious that the problem of this Nation is the constitution and structure of this Nation.

A situation where whoever wins will determine the faith of all the regions. If he is incompetent, the entire nation suffers for it.
Those that enjoy this structure the most is the North because if you find yourself in the seat of power, you drive the entire nation and its resources. As a result of this, creativity and productivity is destroyed, because everyone looks up to the center.

The North also is the major voice against a restructured Nigeria, not necessarily because of oil wealth, but because of what they will become of themselves in isolation.

Let's assume the country is restructured and the oil revenue is still shared the same way. They still won't want it because the condition they put their people over the years to stay in power will hinder their progress. They might end up wasting all their resources to tackle extremism that they created, so it's better it becomes a national problem gulping the nation's resources than a regional problem gulping the regions resources.

Restructuring is not so much a difficult thing, but will provide solutions to many problems of this Nation.

Imagine we had someone like Kingsley moghalu as the president of SE Nigeria. The oil revenue for the SE region is forwarded to the SE government. The entire region will sit and discuss how much the senators governors and those in government will earn in a bid to fast track the development of the region. Drastically cut the cost of governance to make the best use of resources for development.

Each region will borrow based on its viability with a limitation on amount.

The role of the federal government will be supervision to ensure that no Nigerian is treated unjustly by the policies of any region. That the police or security agencies in any region does not discriminate against any Nigerian.

Bulk of the money goes to regional government and not shared by individuals in Abuja.

The regions will now take over the federal roads and fix them. Not a situation where road projects have to be lobbied for at the federal level.

Every region will set criteria for the minimum requirement for selecting those who represent them.

These sharing formula for the oil wealth is done in a way that in the next 10-15 years, total resource control will be implemented.

This gives every region enough time to develop their resources before the oil wealth is channeled totally to the oil producing regions.

Once this foundation is laid, accelerated growth begins to take place.

But the North is afraid that by the end of the 10 or 15 years, when the oil fund must have seized, they still might not be ready to stop being breastfed. They might still be battling bandits and terrorists with their own share.

So rather than face their fears and address it today, they prefer that it becomes a national problem.

Imagine if the billions spent fighting the insurgents created in the North was shared to each region to be shared among SMEs, or invested in infrastructure, unemployment would have been reduced.

So those shouting Next Level, better wake up from that dream and face reality.

Behold your leader.

https://www.nairaland.com/5128981/nnamdi-kanu-wife-uchechi-okwu

The scammer.

https://www.nairaland.com/5128981/nnamdi-kanu-wife-uchechi-okwu

None of them are products of buharis administration.

Please LOOT and be fast, millions of graduates are trooping out of the university to meet the millions who have lost jobs in the first four years of your administration.

Foreign companies are leaving. Everyday one terrible ranking or the other.

I don't know human beings and chicken which one is more valuable in Nigeria today.

The security agencies themselves have turned to something else.

If looting is what it will take you to do the right thing a remedy the situation we find ourselves under your administration, PLEASE LOOT.

You have our permission.

Uyomeyouyo:
Was Obasanjo's second term still a compensation

Didn't he defeat Buhari

Things have changed in the North, those stirring the affairs under this administration are power drunk and have no conscience. Towards the end, buhari would be heading to retirement and leave the entire decision making to the cabal. It won't be easy, it will only take a United southern Nigeria to move power to the South.

Honor10:
To hell with southern Nigeria. their has never being unity of Southern Nigeria and will never be, u guys should just support ur North as usual in 2023 and watch how yorubas will beat u blue black.

Yoruba will be crying before 2023.

haffaze777:
You mean ur people now ready to dine with devilish party?

simple Yes or No is what i need as an answer

It's not about party. The party will rather settle for an igbo president than hand over to the Yoruba.

pcicero:
You guys have not seem to learn anything.

Not surprising though because you are bad students of history.

You have opened countless political threads on Nairaland and some of your opinion writers have written tons of opinion eds to question and mock the political choice of the Yorubas.

Do you guys reason at all? I seriously doubt that because if you really do, you would have left the Yoruba's to their own and fashion out ways for your own political survival.

Leave us alone and shed tears for yourselves instead.

The North will not hand over to the yourba man. Go and write it down. Towards 2023 the yorubas will be at the receiving end.

haffaze777:
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Trashhhhh
Why should APC field Igbo as candidate when ur people has swear never to have anything doing with devilish APC party?

In the interest of southern Nigeria.

They don't hate buhari as a person, but hate a lifeless person playing with the destiny of 200 million people.

nonsobaba:
Op always writing trash like a slave. All these fake and substandard Igbos on nairaland. You want yoruba to give Igbos permission to run for president in 2023. Tueeh! What is stopping you from asking PDP to respect the zoning and give an Igbo man their ticket? Shameless thing.

I'm just saying in the interest of the South, let us not loose because we can't agree. This is what the North is hoping for.

BuhariAdvocate:
sacrciam I guess. If no let pdp field a candidates from north while apc field his candidate in southwest. Let south south and southeast unite against southwest if they want to do that. And see how the game will play out.

If not for the North, Atiku already won Buhari, hope you know that.

eagleae7:
Hehe
Let's see how the next level treat us first

End time politicians politicking already.

Don't expect anything from the Next Level, Tinubu supports Atikus policies and ideas, but supports buhari selfishly for 2023 presidency to return to the SW.

The incompetence of the administration will not affect him, so he is ready to sacrifice the common man of the SW for his political ambition

I urge the people of the SW in the spirit of oneness of the south to support and igbo president in 2023. Failure to do this will provide a platform for the north to remain in power beyond 2023.

Allow APC and PDP to present an Igbo candidate and support them for power to return to the south. We all that igbos are the only ones in Nigeria that does not have an Igbo agenda. The norther has Northern Agenda, SW has Yoruba Agenda, but for the Igboman its simply "Fix this country for the good of all or let us go" .

Igbos have investments and live in all regions of Nigeria, therefore every region will benefit from an Igbo presidency. Okonjo Iweala cancelled Nigerias debt, something no other region will aspire to do.

Now, if the Yorubas choose to be clever and field a candidate from the SW in APC, PDP might field a Northern candidate with igbo VP. The northern candidate will win and that will be the end of the 2023 southern presidency.

We igbos have supported presidents from the North, SW,SS it's time everyone supports us.

So please my Yoruba brothers and sisters, dont let your selfishness cost the south presidency in 2023.

Thanks

True. While some are crashing power bikes worth millions, others can't feed for a day.

seunmsg:
Google is still publicly available for those that have access to the internet - use it.

What percentage of our budget is funded from gold export?

Officialgarri:
Have you gone to the ministry of solid minerals ? mines and steel ? Have you asked the state mines officer ?

Did I go to Niger delta to know how many barrels are sold produced and sold?

It has become clear that the reason for the increased killing in zamfara is as a result of illegal gold mining in the state.

Now, we all have idea of how much oil was sold to the international market, but I'm not sure there is a detailed account of the gold mined and sold from zamfara state.

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Onijagidijagan:
They are not part of you, yet they speak Igbo, they pay taxes, they are requesting for land to burry their dead that you denied them?
How are you reasoning bro.

I Said they have the mindset that they are not part of you, so won't build houses or develop your area. Go to the places they stay and ask yourself if it is habitable.

Igbo man will make money in your land, build and live with you. They go a step further to build houses and rent , thereby developing your land more and solving housing needs.

Other the other hand, these ones just want to live under the bridge, do business and send the money home to their region, because they believe they are not part of you.

Imagine Abacha Buhari.

Borrowing to consume.

They should focus on treasury bills not going for 30 years loan which another government will pay , do they think APC will rule forever?

GavelSlam:
Anyway, Atiku will never be president so referring to him has no use.

Just like referring to Bashiru Tofa.

Isn't it funny that both Tinubu and Elrufai believe in Atikus policies?

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/186622-nigeria-must-kill-nnpc-el-rufai.html

Yes Atiku might not be president, but Nigerians will still remain in bondage of directionless cabal driven government. If you have not noticed, crime is increasing at an alarming rate.

GavelSlam:
You say it is a cabal that made Dangote.

Yet is well known that Dangote was a beneficiary of many waivers and monopoly under Atiku previously.

Can we not conclude that Atiku would run a cabal led government?

Under Atiku as president I guess. Atiku left government and went into business. He will take steps to open the floor for the economy to be run by private sector which his is part of. Unlike buhari who has no business that depends totally on government.

All his decisions will be on the interest of government run by the cabal.

GavelSlam:
Dangote is cabal made from which government?

Let me guess ...Obasanjo/Atiku.

You guys just throw a lot of rubbish hoping something would stick.

I personally believe Dangote is an astute businessman and he's gone to many other nations to dominate. Perhaps that was the cabals at work too.

Anyway, Atiku's wish to be president is in the past.

VAT is consumption tax and not tax for businesses.

When you thrive on monopoly in Nigeria you become rich enough to influence government and compete with other African businesses. Tinubu who has been collecting revenue for Lagos state since he left office, how many people are richer than him? Can't he influence elections in other African countries?

It's time to open the Nigerian floor for everyone , unfortunately the cabal driven government will loose their influence.

Won't the increase in vat increase the price of items?

GavelSlam:
So value added tax on consumption is bad but wanton increase in petroleum products across board is God sent?

Yes, increase that will create jobs. A civil servant who has children to Carter for, you increase his salary to 30k and every other thing increases and his children are still unemployed. Or that he pays a little more for transport while the environment creates jobs for his children.

Majority of the cost in the so called subsidy is due to delay at the ports. If the customs was private sector driven or funded, there would be more efficiency.

In a very little time fuel will still sell for 145 or less without the subsidy.