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Politics › Re: Yoruba Nation, Police Clash: Photo Of The Man Killed This Morning At Ojota by membranus: 2:27pm On Jan 09, 2023
phoneport:
This is what you get when you are so intolerant about people's agitation for nation hold, and you don't know how to dialogue, and refuse to stop corruption and nepotism in the Rotten Republic.
Yoruba Nation is a goal
Biafra is a goal
Even Niger Delta is a goal

Until the Federal Government wakeup to it's task of truly building a nation based on real FREEDOM, UNITY, EQUITY, AND PEACE.
Yes ooo.
Politics › Re: FG Shortlists 20 Candidates For AGF’s Replacement, Begins Accreditation Monday by membranus: 7:32am On Jan 09, 2023
NAIRALANDABOKI:
Becareful
Yes sir. But don't threaten me, or I will direct Bichi, the DSS man to arrest you ASAP.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Brazil Congress Under Siege, Ex-president Bolsonaro Supporters Overrun Security by membranus: 7:28am On Jan 09, 2023
tipsieoladj:
Its loading already.... if u knw u know..
Which loading? If it loads anyhow, na inside gutter we go upload am.
Politics › Re: FG Shortlists 20 Candidates For AGF’s Replacement, Begins Accreditation Monday by membranus: 7:00am On Jan 09, 2023
NAIRALANDABOKI:
Atiku can only come inside his babes in dubai grin
Shebi you be aboki, Atiku no be your brother again.
Politics › Re: Abike Dabiri: Wicked People Are Destroying The Image Of Nigerians Abroad by membranus: 9:24pm On Jan 08, 2023
sreamsense:
The only effective way to prevent wicked people from spoiling our image abroad is to stop Igbos or scrutinize them specially before travelling. Put them under special monitoring unit when they are in abroad for regular search on what they do in term of business they engage in over there, their friends should be privately monitored and ensure their mobile phones, laptop and their social media accounts are regulated.

It is not about victimizing Igbo, not at all; it is the reality on ground to curb this. So far we know the source of problem, no need to cover it up; it is already opened to everybody including India government that sent them parking. Igbo elders also know this, what we need now is the solution from their end and not to cover-up. Impact of this nefarious activity is on everybody once you tell your foreign friend you are from Nigeria, they will keep one eye monitoring you
The best thing is for each region to go their separate ways, and let the Igbos carry their own international disreputable shame on their regional head, and stop spoiling other Nigerian names in their evil and shameless criminal careers.

Let their "On Biafra We Stand" agitation comes to reality after their candidate has lost the February election, so that other citizens can regain their honour and peace of mind.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester City Vs Chelsea : FA Cup (4 - 0) On 8th January 2023 by membranus: 7:19pm On Jan 08, 2023
Chelsea is going, going and gone out of the top 6, at least for this season.
Crime › Re: NDLEA Freezes ₦‎4.3 Billion In Suspect’s 126 Bank Accounts by membranus: 4:39pm On Jan 08, 2023
peculiar2233:
I beg stop shielding tears on my comment
It is "shedding", not "shielding".
Business › Re: Nigeria In Perpetual Darkness: Issues Affecting Power Generation In Nigeria by membranus(op): 1:31pm On Jan 08, 2023
The questions that need to be asked on the power generation failure in the country are: what happened to those that handled the failed contracts, or those that abandoned the contracts after collecting the full contract payments? Where they just left scot free, with no efforts made at recovering the lost or looted funds?

Unless each region goes its separate way, the country will remain in perpetual darkness due to the greeds of the powerful people in control of the national wealth. And this is sad.
Business › Nigeria In Perpetual Darkness: Issues Affecting Power Generation In Nigeria by membranus(op): 1:16pm On Jan 08, 2023
Dr Usman Gur Mohammad
A former Managing Director (MD) of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and former staff of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Usman Gur Mohammad, in an interview on Trust TV’s 30 Minutes x-rays the issues in the power sector and how a better understanding by the presidential candidates will help drive solutions. Excerpts:

You were part of those under the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) engagement that x-rayed the power sector in relation to what the four main presidential candidates of the APC, PDP, NNPP and LP are offering Nigerians. What’s your verdict?


The programme by PWC was on the power sector post-2023. We actually reviewed the manifestos of all the political parties before we went to that programme and the conclusion that we had is that with all the rhetoric about making 20,000 megawatts or 25,000 megawatts, there is no analysis of the problem that made us to stay on 4,000 megawatts as of today and there is nothing to show how the 20,000 megawatts is going to be made.

There are no details and I can conclude that there is no understanding by the four major political parties of the intrigues and the issues in the power sector. So, the conclusion is that if they come to power, they are likely going to spend another four years just like the current government has spent seven years without a significant movement in the power sector; that’s exactly what is going to be.

But don’t you think they will push back and say a lot of the things could not be properly understood until you are actually sitting in office and looking at the figures before you?

The problem is that the power sector has a lot of vested interests and the vested interests will not even allow them to understand the sector for them to be able to do any good analysis.


There was a discussion we had with PWC and we concluded that they would reach out to KPMG – which is another accounting firm – so that together with me, we are going to work with them to understand what the power sector is all about, to understand the intricacies and to understand the issues that have made us be spending trillions on the power sector without movement.

Why is it so difficult for this huge amount to translate to better power delivery to Nigerians?

Let me start with the Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, and Jonathan regime; what went wrong in those times? I will also tell you what went wrong under the Buhari administration.

Under the Obasanjo regime they passed the power sector reform into law and they unbundled the power sector into 11 companies and handed over all. They never embarked on privatisation; they stopped there.

But the biggest investment that Obasanjo did in the power sector was the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP). We embarked on that project without adequate study, we were convinced by some foreign companies that they were going to supply gas turbines to us, and then they said they were not even going to be doing the installation; that they would hand it over to a Nigerian that was working with them who would take the responsibility of the installation.

So, what we did basically was that, it’s like you want to build a house and you award a contract to somebody to build the house for you and he does the roof and keeps it for you when you have not started the civil works; that is exactly what we did with the NIPP.


They brought this gas turbine under FOB, and some of them stayed for more than four years in Port Harcourt, with no road even to carry them; the bridges were not tested to see whether they could be carried. So, we didn’t even clear the place where we were going to install the gas turbines and there was no gas supply to the locations.

This is exactly what happened with transmission also. We awarded so many contracts that we didn’t carry out the studies. Some of those contracts actually failed completely and some of them were completed with a lot of inadequacies.

When I was made MD of the transmission company, one of the first contracts I awarded was for the procurement of three emergency reactors. I had to buy three reactors for a transmission that had been completed under the NIPP.

We installed a reactor in Ikot Ekpene, one in Ugwaji and one in Jos. We had to also do emergency procurement of transposition towers. They built those lines without transposition.

So, no way to evacuate the power?


There is no way; it will not work. The problem with electricity is not like the road where you can award a contract of nine inches and then you do four inches. You will see the road and people will ply it. Whether the road will last for three years or one year or four years; it depends. For electricity, it will not work, that’s the process. So, I had to do that for a contract that had been completed.

I’ll give you another example. A 330kV line was awarded from Alauji to Owerri to Iyala to Onitsha with a 330KV substation in Owerri. That line has been funded 100 per cent through LC and all the money has been withdrawn. There’s no line nowhere and nothing, simply because the necessary studies that were supposed to be done were not done.

These are some of the reasons that accounted for so much wastage that we are seeing happening under the NIPP. We spent so much money but you cannot relate the asset that we got out of the project with the money that has been spent.

When you come to Yar’Adua; he actually did something that many other people did not do. He suspended the implementation of the power sector reform and set up a committee to review the power sector reform to advise him on how to go about it. That is the best thing to do actually.

But what happened immediately after he died, Jonathan discarded the report and called a consultant to advise them on how to go about privatisation.

They employed an Indian consultant who advised them to do what is called pilot – privatise one or two states and see the experience that you learn from those two states before embarking on entire privatisation.

Jonathan discarded that report and completely took a decision to privatise the entire network – distribution and generation.

Meanwhile, there were certain studies that they were supposed to carry out to do the privatisation. For the DisCos, anybody who is taking over a DisCo, a company that is experienced will insist that you have to give them the aggregate, technical and commercial laws determined scientifically. This was not done.

We assumed a 25 per cent loss, so when we went to a road show all over the world, everybody told us, all the companies that have experience told us, “Please go and determine the studies, determine scientifically the aggregate technical commercial, we are not ready to do that.

We eventually knew nobody was going to come. So, we lowered the qualification criteria to allow Nigerian companies to take over those companies. That was how all the DisCos were taken over by companies that have no experience.


Dr Usman Gur Mohammad
Have they not added any value; I mean for customers, as all they are after is just metering and that hasn’t happened?

Unfortunately, for utility, even a company that is experienced, if you don’t monitor them you will end up losing because you can take over your utility, make as much money as you can from that utility and discard it back worse than when you took over to the person who gave you, and that’s exactly what happened, because they don’t have the capacity, they don’t have the experience, they signed what they called “technical partnership” with qualified companies, but what is technical partnership? It’s a loose relationship that has no responsibility on the part of the technical partners.

Is that why some, like Kaduna DisCo, had to be taken over?

I’ll tell you what happened. We encouraged Nigerian banks because those companies have no capacity to raise long-term finance. We encouraged Nigerian companies to invest in the DisCos. I mean the government encouraged Nigerian banks to invest in the DisCos. That money that came from the banks was short-term and very expensive and is not ideal for financing this kind of infrastructure.

We created a liquidity problem for the power sector; that was the beginning of a liquidity problem for the power sector.

At the end of the day, now you have people who have no experience, no capacity. Eventually, most of the companies, yes they have MDs that came from the private sector, but the people that are running the DisCos are actually former NEPA staff; they are the ones running the places actually.

At the end of the day you discover that no significant investment has come to the DisCos.

We sometimes see the Generating Companies (GenCos) claiming they have put back some turbines to work and are generating a bit more electricity…?

When I was MD, distribution was the most serious problem that we had, but unfortunately, as of today, we have actually descended so low that even the generation is a problem.

There is a significant lack of gas supply. Some of the IOCs have pulled out of distribution, like Shell, and now there are several of them that cannot recover some of the turbines that they claimed that they had. At the end of the day, now sometimes we find it difficult to generate up to 4,000 megawatts.

So much talk about Mambilla, especially under this government, and it doesn’t appear as if even this spade work will happen before it goes…

I was the MD of TCN, and throughout the discussion of Mambilla, they excluded me because everybody knew I would tell the truth. Eventually, when China Exim Bank sent their consultant to come to Nigeria and review the project, the China Exim Bank sneaked in and met me and we discussed extensively and I discovered that there was no project actually.

A project is something that is financially viable. If you have a project that is not financially viable, that project doesn’t exist and nobody is going to put in his money.

I don’t believe China Exim Bank is going to put money into that Mambilla project because when we discussed it we discovered that the tariff for Mambilla is going to be 13 cents per kilowatt hour.

You know that we have been making a lot of noise on Azura. Azura was about 10.4 or 11 cents per kilowatt hour; and we have been making a lot of noise because it’s very expensive.

How do we have a hydro that is going to sell at 13 cents? Who is going to buy that energy and how are you going to recover the money? That is the question.

In the review, what we discovered is that the plant factor of a hydro, of Mambilla, was very high. What this means is that the percentage of water, if you are discharging the water at the same time for within the year, you would spend only about 20 to 30 per cent and the water will finish, meaning you are putting a big generator that is generating less. If you distribute that cost of putting that big generator to the tariff, I’m putting it in a layman’s language, the tariff becomes very high.

The tariff for hydro is supposed to be between five and in most cases six cents per kilowatt hour, and this is 13 cent per kilowatt hour. I knew that the project would not fly. The China Exim Bank can be deceiving us and be doing whatever they want, but it will not fly.

So, forget about what they talk about; they have litigation with some people, and there is no project because at 13 cents per kilowatt hour, it doesn’t make economic sense for anybody to put his money there; that is the fact.

What has been the general thrust of the Buhari administration in terms of the power sector?

What the Buhari administration took over from Jonathan is the completely privatised power sector with a transmission company under the government, but it was given to Manitoba Hydro International to manage on behalf of the government.

The government has taken over what you call the Single Buyer Model where the bulk trader is the one buying all the electricity and they sell to the DisCos.

So it is similar to the NNPC importing fuel?

Yes! This single buyer model in electricity has never worked anywhere in the world; it has never worked. I don’t know how they advised us to do this. It has never worked, because it makes the DisCos to be not accountable to anybody; it makes the GenCos to be lazy.

Because you have somebody who is taking the responsibility and taking the cost, meaning, if the DisCos don’t generate enough money to put into the sector, the shortfall that is supposed to go to transmission and go to generation is going to be paid by the government.

So is it another subsidy type of thing?

It is a subsidy. It’s supposed to be a transitional arrangement of five years, but now we have spent more than 10 years and it is still existing.

Under the arrangement, the government of President Buhari has pumped close to N2trn into the power sector to finance this kind of subsidy and at the end of the day that money has not translated to a single megawatt increase because it’s just financing consumption. We are just financing the failure of the power sector reform; that is how it is.

But how come we are having frequent power collapse, the whole grid collapsing maybe up to 10 times last year?

The system will collapse because all the necessary ingredients for a system not to collapse are there. Example, you need to have an adequate transmission line. That was the reason why we embarked on what you call transmission, but first of all, I did 20 LGco transmission expansion, which was the first of its kind in Nigeria, nobody had done this kind of thing before.

Then we also, on the basis of the 20 expansion transmission co, established what we call the transmission rehabilitation expansion programme, where we raised $1.661bn from multilateral donors to put redundancy across the country.

Redundancy means that we have to put what we call N-1 so that every line that you are building is supposed to be in a loop so that if there’s a problem you can back-feed or brand-feed. This means every transformer or any equipment that gets out of that substation should not affect the supply.

We completed all the studies and launched procurement. We were about to sign the contract and everything and then they announced that they had sacked me; no query, no nothing.

But the government is a continuum; so has it not been continued?

I don’t know, because by now we are supposed to be seeing commissioning. For the Abuja transmission; we were to build five substations in Lugbe, Apo, Kuje, Lokogoma and Dawaki. All of those were signed when I was the MD, but up till today have they been commissioned? No. We are supposed to have a line that runs from Lafia to Abuja, where is the line?

Is it a mafia that is making sure that all these things do not happen so that another new contract will be given?

What happened is that the same mistake we made on NIPP; we now came and createe what they call Siemens. I think they distracted the management of transmission and insisted that they should do Siemens.

What is Siemens; is the company or what?

If you look at the video that they did they show everything. They will electrify Nigeria, they did it in Egypt. Meanwhile the problem of Egypt is completely different from our problem. The problem of Egypt that Siemens resolved was the problem of generation. If you want to increase generation, you can actually bring ships, there are ships that are generators, and you can put them in the sea of Lagos.

Like what happened in Lagos under Tinubu who brought all those big generators?

Oh yes! You can bring so many of them. Ghana has so many of them like that. You can bring them and increase generation, but the question is that our problem is actually not generation, it is transmission and distribution.

We were working. We finished TRIM phase one, we almost finished the procurement and were supposed to go to phase two where we were going to have additional transmission lines like from Sokoto to Kaura Namoda to Katsina, and then from Kano to Calabar which will provide redundancy across the areas.

We also connected the Eko Atlantic and completed the loop between Akamba and Alagbon so that Lagos would also have a loop.

Additionally, we were supposed to close the loop between Delta and Port Harcourt, we would have looped Nigeria in such a way that we would have provided all the redundancy that was needed for us to have adequate electricity in Nigeria; now all these things have not been done.

What will be your advice if you are to meet the presidential candidates of the four main parties aspiring to rule Nigeria?

Number one, they have to understand the power sector very well, understanding generation, transmission and distribution. They have to understand that electricity is not like water; you don’t store it. If your transmission capacity is 4,000MW and your distribution capacity is 2,000MW, your generation capacity is 4,000MW, you can only generate 2,000MW. At any point in time supply and demand must be equal.

When you say the system is collapsing, it is because at any point in time supply and demand are not equal and there are certain ingredients that you need to have. You need to have what they call a spinning reserve. As of today, we operate the grid without a spinning reserve.

All over the world, if you want to operate a stable grid in addition to having adequate redundancy, you need to have a spinning reserve, you need to have adequate scada and you need to have frequency under control; meaning all the generators must be on grid code.

They have to have people who are incorruptible. The president has to be the driver; meaning he has to be the person who will champion the power sector otherwise there’s no way we can move forward.

SOURCE: Trust TV
Crime › Re: NDLEA Freezes ₦‎4.3 Billion In Suspect’s 126 Bank Accounts by membranus: 12:28pm On Jan 08, 2023
CodeTemplar:
I believe that happened after he became a suspect. BVN should be able to trigger an alert when one man starts having too many accounts.
BVN does not stop you from having multiple accounts, I believe you too also have more than one account linked to your yours. BVN only make it easy to trace all your accounts when you are being investigated.
Crime › Re: NDLEA Freezes ₦‎4.3 Billion In Suspect’s 126 Bank Accounts by membranus: 12:23pm On Jan 08, 2023
peculiar2233:
When will they seize billions of that drug lord in Lagos? Just asking, I didn't mention anyone's name o before the urchins will call for my head grin
They have already seized it from Nsofor Chukwukadibia. Many are still waiting to be seized from @peculiar2233 and his Igbo kinsmen drug lords.

Kudos to Marwa and his NDLEA team, and the Indian Policemen for cleansing our bastardised country of all greedy and heartless Igbo drug chiefs and criminals.
Health › Re: Man Shares Photos Of Physical Transformation His Friend Experienced In Pregnancy by membranus: 1:47am On Jan 08, 2023
Stargangz:
She's suffering from Gazelle Gagaragainsm grin
Any cure?
Please prescribe.
Travel › Re: India Conducts Mass Deportation Of Nigerians Without Giving Them A Reason by membranus: 11:46am On Jan 07, 2023
Ance4Liverpool:
If Nigeria is a conducive country, what will a sensible person will be looking for in a poor country like India
The Igbos were not going there to work (there is no gainful jobs for non indigene in India, they can barely provide such for their own citizens). The Igbos were relocating there to commit crimes, thereby tarnishing our country image.
Travel › Re: India Conducts Mass Deportation Of Nigerians Without Giving Them A Reason by membranus: 11:34am On Jan 07, 2023
sleek214:
We know the reason. Nigerians are into drugs and internet scam
Please be specific, the Biafrans and the Igbos in India are into drugs and Internet scams, and have therefore spoilt Nigerians chances and image in that country.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Chelsea Vs Manchester City (0 - 1) - Full Time by membranus: 8:48pm On Jan 06, 2023
osazsky:
who told u akanji is nigerian
His name, no more no less.
Politics › Re: The Meaning Of ' Gazelle Gagaraga ' (Explained) by membranus: 8:16pm On Jan 06, 2023
lhordspy:
Dont be stupid. I am trying to cure you of your ignorance. To pull you out of the sea of stupidity.

Dont criticise what you have zero idea about. Gazelle gagaraga is very correct.

It exists. Same as gagaraga. I am a Yoruba. I grew up in Lag. Even if i spent most of life as a northerner. Gaga( in high tone) then raga (in low tone)

O nse gagaraga kiri... This means he is behaving unstable. Not really insane. But not quite settled .

If you say: " O nse Ara gaga-raga kiri. It is used to insult or throw jab at a slim person of skeleton structure walking around without clothe.

It means walking around with skeleton-like body without shame.
Though I am on your side on this, but your attempt at trying to justify Tinubu’s gaffe here is only hilarious at its best. You are only giving his enemies on Nairaland opportunities to fire more malicious arrows at him.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Chelsea Vs Manchester City (0 - 1) - Full Time by membranus: 10:20pm On Jan 05, 2023
ojehmario1969:
Shatap
Yes sir.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Chelsea Vs Manchester City (0 - 1) - Full Time by membranus: 10:06pm On Jan 05, 2023
Two Nigerians in today's match now, Chukwuemeka and Akanji. Nigeria is certainly great.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Chelsea Vs Manchester City (0 - 1) - Full Time by membranus: 9:47pm On Jan 05, 2023
Praying Chukwuemeka will slot in a goal to stamp his arrival as a player of consideration.

Almost does it just now.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Chelsea Vs Manchester City (0 - 1) - Full Time by membranus: 9:43pm On Jan 05, 2023
Despite the initial fear, Chelsea is proving itself in this match capable of outplaying and winning Manchester City. I love their confident display so far.
Culture › Re: Fugar Edo Residents Celebrate As Python, Their "Mother" Returns (Video) by membranus:
Fedrick100:
That’s their tradition

Y’all should respect that
This dark primitive tradition does not deserve any rational man's respect.
Crime › Re: Man Who Came Home For Christmas Found Dead Inside His Car In Anambra by membranus:
franchasng:
To all Yorubas rejoicing over killings in Southeast and mockingly attributing it to IPOB who are even shocked and have come out severally to denounce these killings.


This is not a joking matter neither is human bloodletting a childsplay that you can laugh at and mock thinking you are safe, thinking your region is paradise just because of tribal hatred and political tribalism Tinubu has taught you recent generation of Yorubas. I want to warn you all out of my instinct, you can laugh over it.



Before I continue, let me remind you all that only God and nature upholds justice and whenever man fails to do what is right and just, then God and nature steps in to uphold justice through supernatural ways that are beyond man's humanly understanding.



Olusegun Obasanjo is a Yoruba man, he was the Military Head of State in 1976, and from 1999 to 2007 he was made President to assuage Yorubas for the death of MKO Abiola.


Your elders who know better have told you all this, Obasanjo have said this, but you all prefer to listen and follow Tinubu, a greedy corrupt man chasing after his selfish dream of becoming President.


Yemi Osinbajo is a Yoruba man and currently the VP since 2015 to end in 2023.


Under same government, a Yoruba was the Nigerian Airforce Chief, Speaker of House of Representative, FIRS Boss, current Chief Justice of Nigeria and another held a super ministerial post of being in charge of 3 ministries under Buhari first tenure, your Southern brothers from the Southeast got no vital postion, when they cried of injustice you joined forces with The North to shut them up saying its all about competence and political alliance and smartness.


You maybe right that its all about whatever reasona you have been giving, but I want to remind you all once again that when man fails to uphold justice and equity out of smartness or any other reasons, then God and nature always steps in to uphold justice and its not always funny, you can read history, not just Nigerian history but global history.



Japan never believed that a time would come when ordinary China would wield more political influence in the world over them. Even as small as Taiwan is, they oppressed China and looked down on Chinese just because they had US and Great Britain's backing and they never believed that a forgotten land like China could rise to what they are today that UK cannot dare challenge talk more of Taiwan.


When whitemen were enslaving blacks in the United States, they never believed that a day would come when a black man would occupy the place they called White house.


British Royal family are still finding it hard to believe that a black lineage will become part of their Royal lineage but its happening right now.



Too many histories abound, dear Yorubad retrace your steps, go back to your father's ways that made your land a peaceful and prosperous land, dont bring calamity upon your land just to satisfy one man's selfish political ambition.




To you all, your ways maybe right and there are one million reasons the Igbos are evil and wrong to justify whatever action or political stand you have taken, but remember there is power beyond human that controls the affairs of man.



I am only passing a message, it is not compulsory to heed to it, you can even curse me as usual, I have done what my instinct pushed me to do, thanks
Keep your message to yourself, we Yorubas know better who our friends are, and who are our enemies. And Tinubu is the least of our worries, We are just using his political ambition to catch cruise on this platform, because we know his ambition is giving the hateful section of the Igbo people nightmares. Moreover, we have grander visions for our region than all you are preaching here.

Rather, beg your Igbo kinsmen to stop killing each other before they turn your Ndigbo to another Somalian clannish warfare zone.
Politics › Re: Your Lack Of Integrity Forced Buhari To Stay Away From You: Atiku Mocks Tinubu by membranus: 6:54am On Jan 05, 2023
Alpharey:
They have all done their best. Now looking at the current situation of Nigeria in their care, we are yearning for a new set of leaders who will put the country back to where it rightly belongs
But Peter Obi is not one we are looking for. He also, as all Nigerian politicians, has a bad reputation for corruption (Pandora issues). He is not an exceptional political performer, going by his average records when he was the governor of Anambra.

He is not forthright in denouncing the evils being committed across the nation, especially in Ndigbo. He is also a cunny men pleaser, not ready to topple the evil cart of corruption being flagrantly displayed across all strata in the country, but will become someone like Emefiele, a manipulative tool in the hands of all political jobbers in Nigeria, because he too have skeletons in his cupboard which he is hiding from the world.
Politics › Re: Your Lack Of Integrity Forced Buhari To Stay Away From You: Atiku Mocks Tinubu by membranus: 6:38am On Jan 05, 2023
[quote author= post=119717815]Only in Nigeria will a looter still be talking in this manner.

BETWEEN ATIKU AND TINUBU.


Tinubu contested and won a Lagos senatorial election.
But when IBB banned all old generation politicians just to disqualify Yar'adua, Yar'adua put Atiku forward to run for President.
Prior to this time, Tinubu had jettisoned his Senate Presidential ambition to pave way for a Southern President.
At the Jos convention, Abiola and Adedibu had a long meeting with Yar'adua to drop his boy Atiku from the race so that Kingibe would not defeat MKO in the primary.
Yar'adua initially refused until people like Adedibu, Tinubu, Oladipo etc reminded him how they supported him against southerners before IBB disqualified him.
Yar'adua eventually surrendered and Atiku backed down, not willingly.

IN 1999, Atiku won Adamawa Governorship Election, Tinubu won Lagos Governorship Election.

OBJ picked Governor Elect Atiku as running mate, therefore, Atiku never had the opportunity of showing his capabilities to transform Adamawa.
Whereas, Tinubu grabbed the opportunity and turned Lagos to 4th Economy in Africa while Adamawa became a den of terrorism until Buhari dislodged the terror.
Boko haram that terrorised the state was formed in Borno during the regime of OBJ and Atiku but became a global worry under GEJ.

After 2003 election, when Obasanjo was molesting Atiku, Atiku ran to Tinubu his PFN brother for safety, he got it.
Tinubu formed and funded a political party when OBJ technically expelled Atiku from PDP. Tinubu gave Atiku the platform.
However, Atiku left thereafter to rejoin the PDP because Atiku couldn't cope with the little beginning of the AC,
he wanted a ready made party.
Tinubu must have told himself "Atiku is not following Yar'adua's ethics. Yar'adua was never a political olosho", Tinubu’s trust for Atiku evaporated.
And when Atiku lost in the PDP again, he was stranded. Tinubu and Buhari formed APC, immediately Atiku saw APC, he left PDP officially and ran to Tinubu again.
Buhari was afraid that Tinubu would jilt him for his PFN ally, despite many assurances, Buhari was sceptical until after Tinubu kept his promise at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos.
That was when Atiku also realised that he has lost Tinubu’s trust!!! Atiku again went back to the PDP after the general elections.

Atiku has been moving in and out of the PDP like a celebrity marriage, whereas Tinubu has never been a PDP man for one day.
Atiku is unstable politically, Tinubu is not just stable, his words are bankable, ask Buhari.
tiku is unlike Shehu Musa Yar'adua, ask Tinubu, ask OBJ and ask Nysome Wike.

2023 has brought the two students of the same teacher into a single contest, who actually got the best training and adhere strictly to it? Who has the magic wand of Tafida?
Nigerians have to make a clear choice between faithfulness or Promiscuity. Between Selflessness and Selfishness.
Between Tinubu’s Lagos Performance and Atiku's VP performance.
Between Tinubu’s ExxonMobil records and Atiku's Customs Records.

Between a Dubai based politician and a Lagos Based National Leader!!!



Thanks.[/quote]You are a true student of Nigeria political history. This write up is educative and enlightening. Keep it up.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Brentford vs Liverpool (3 - 1) On 2nd January 2023 by membranus: 8:37pm On Jan 02, 2023
crazygod:
So this is the feeling Man United and Arsenal have been going through these last seasons. It's not nice. I hate this feeling. cry
Enjoy it while it lasts. It keeps your prayer life lively.

Pray for your team, pray for the lily Liverpool. There is still hope for them.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Nottingham Forest Vs Chelsea (1 - 1) On 1st January 2023 by membranus: 5:44pm On Jan 01, 2023
Zico4real:
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Celebrities › Re: Blessing CEO Falls In Love With Late Bimbo's Husband, IVD Ikechukwu Ogbonna by membranus: 4:24pm On Jan 01, 2023
unclejb2:
na death kill her oooo
Hen en, wetin death use kill her?
Crime › Re: Police Is A Noble Profession, Allow Your Wards – IGP Usman To Parents by membranus: 6:33am On Jan 01, 2023
Not in Nigeria. For Nigeria na criminals in uniform full the profession.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester City Vs Everton (1 - 1) On 31st December 2022 by membranus: 4:28pm On Dec 31, 2022
Richy4:
Are you sure it was the current one or the last season they are showingsmiley
Harlaand has just scored. It must be the current season.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester City Vs Everton (1 - 1) On 31st December 2022 by membranus: 4:26pm On Dec 31, 2022
Richy4:
Are you sure it was the current one or the last season they are showingsmiley
I think it is the current one, because they wrote live.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Manchester City Vs Everton (1 - 1) On 31st December 2022 by membranus: 4:19pm On Dec 31, 2022
Showing live on NTA. I am surprised.

Has NTA got transmission rights to all EPL matches now?
Health › Re: My 6years Old Son Escape Death In A Ghastly Accident/faithful God. by membranus: 4:06pm On Dec 31, 2022
Glory be to GOD that you are not spending this year end in grief. We wish the young boy a speedy and wholesome recovery from all his wounds in JESUS Name, Amen.

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