₦airaland Forum

Tannhauser:
Prior to the APC primaries most Nigerians were in agreement that the current administration had failed. We all suffered the insecurity and inflation together.
What happened?

A certain candidate emerged and knowing he would be a hard sell to reasonable citizens immediately unleashed his propaganda machines. The same tactic that was used to destroy the ENDSARS protests, the greatest show of brotherhood of Nigerian youth from all tribes is being put to use today....Tribalism.

If Osibanjo had emerged the presidential candidate we all know that the other tribes would have voted for him...but now the shoe is on the other foot and this tribe is determined to plunge Nigeria into full blown anarchy because they want to support their tribesmen even when it is crystal clear even to the blind that said candidate is morally, mentally and physically unfit for that position.

For shame....For shame.

yomi961:
Atiku Abubakar is by far the most popular and the most prepared presidential candidate in this election. Beyond the fact that he was Nigeria's first democratically elected vice president under this democratic dispensation, he is the only candidate with that level of experience among all those contesting to replace Buhari and his catastrophic government that has reduced our economy to its worst state since we gained independence in 1960 and left our currency struggling for relevance with the Zimbabwean dollar.

There are certain challenges only a salary earner or one who was previously a salary earner can understand. Unlike Obi, Atiku was not born with the proverbial silver spoon. He was a salary earner at the Nigerian customs service for about 20 years and as a result, he understands the pains of salary earners when inflation strikes. This explains why he goes to great lengths to ensure that salaries that are paid at his firms can take care of families and alerts for workers salaries hits their account early enough to keep them motivated and help them take care of thier needs.

As a former civil servant himself, Atiku understands how the civil service works and the need to make government services more efficient. Nigeria today has one of the biggest civil service in the world, with over 720,000 salary earners on the federal government payroll alone. The civil service swallows more that half of the our national budget every year even though they make up less than one percent of our entire population.

With Nigerians yearning for a reform of the civil service, there is the need to elect a candidate with first hand understanding of the problems and issues that has transformed the Nigerian civil service from the engine room that drives development to a clog in the wheel of progress.

Tinubu and Obi do not have any civil service experience, they dont understand how it operates, talkless of how to reform it. In contrast Atiku Abubakar with over 20 years experience in the glory days of the civil service understands the pains of civil servants and his multi dimentional digital approach to restructuring the civil service is what our country needs to trigger the process that will transform our dysfunctional civil service to the "vaibranium" that drives development and deliver real benefits to our people.

Tinubu and Obi were two term governors of their respective states, however, you cannot compare that with the experience that comes with being the Vice President of a country of over 200 million people.

As chairman of the National Economic Council from 1999 to 2007, Atiku Abubakar was an epitome of who a Vice President should be. His passion for a better and prosperous Nigeria is evident in the caliber of technocrats and specialists he personally convinced to return to the country and join hands with the government to develop our country.

As head of the Economic Management Team, Atiku and his team which included the current Director-General of the World Trade Organization Dr.  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, successfully renegotiated and paid off Nigeria’s entire debt with the Paris Club before the current disaster's in government plunged our unborn children into the biggest debt trap in the history of our country with about ₦50 trillion in debts hanging over our necks.

Under Tinubu's lackeys in Lagos, the story is not different, because despite the huge internally generated revenue it rakes in every month, Lagos sits at the top of the list of highly indebted states in Nigeria with nothing to show for it.

When it comes to the private sector experience, Abubakar towers above Tinubu and the upcoming Obi by miles. Atiku co-founded INTELS, one of the biggest oil and gas/ports logistics firms in Africa. His other business are huge job creators that employs more people than many state governments in Nigeria.

Tinubu on the other hand has no real businesses beyond negotiating a slice from your tax and prompting his rubber stamp state assemblies to legalize his tax collection illegalities.

Obi as a business man is mostly interested in importing from foreign countries and taking away jobs. Some of his rookie economic policies will shut down half of our manufacturing capacity in less than 100 days if they are ever implemented because it does not factor in critical aspects of local production.

Perhaps one of the major reason most Nigerians are queuing behind the Atiku presidential bid is his sterling records as Head of the National Council on Privatization, which oversaw the sale of hundreds of loss-making and poorly managed public enterprises into highly successful and profit making ventures.

This action led to the influx of new and badly needed investments in vital sectors of our economy triggering massive growth in our GDP and the highest creation of new jobs ever witnessed in our country.

In addition, his efforts at transforming the telecomunications landscape completely changed how we do things today. Before the Obasanjo-Atiku era mobile phones were a luxury because the 350,000 available telephone lines provided by the then inefficient NITEL was grossly inadequate to cater for our massively growing population.

As Vice President and head of the economic team in Nigeria, Atiku inaugurated a 22-member Telecommunications Sector reform implementation committee, charged with the responsibility of facilitating greater access to phone services for Nigerians. His team went on to facilitate and supervise the licensing rounds for GSM licence in Nigeria conducted by the NCC under the leadership of Engr Ernest Ndukwe whose appointment as the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the NCC was facilitated by Atiku.

Thanks to the patriotism and dedication of Atiku and his team, the mobile connection you are most likely using to read this article and the over 188 million registered mobile lines in our country are helping to improve the ease of doing business, create jobs and open the global space for young Nigerians to unleash their talents and support the development of our country.

In 2019, we lost an opportunity to take back our country because some criminals manufactured non-existent votes and brought in a 'black market Justices" to legalize an illegality in plain sight.

In 2023, armed with the new Electoral Act and increased awareness of what the enemies of our nation can do, let us rise as one irrespective of tribe, religion or political leaning and support the most experienced candidate to help take back and restructure our nation for the benefit of our people and generations unborn.

N3TRAL:
If any party takes over Lagos as it is today with the rate of rural-urban migration and absence of well structured systems in the Country, Lagos will become a big mess and a burden to the country.

Let's use Cross River State as a case study.

As a child during Christmas, we would land at the Airport in Calabar to spend our Christmas vacation as spectators of the colourful bands that will dance past us during the Calabar carnival. The carnival was simply the biggest Christmas event in Sub-saharan Africa.

On our way to the hotel we'd stay, my mother and the tour guide would be discussing how clean Calabar was. I remember trees planted in the city and thousands of waste bins that were not filled up after every 1 meter. I was not yet 10 years old but I think those trips to the hotel used to feed my eyes with neatest gaze of an environment anywhere in the country. We'd visit Tinapa, Marina resort and Obudu Cattle Ranch when father gave us more funds to enjoy ourselves.

After Donald Duke exited office as Executive Governor, the next Governor continued with the carnival but the quality was decreasing, the towns were becoming disorganized and the facilities for tourism in the state were deteriorating.

Under the administration of the current Governor, Cross River State is a ghost town during Decembers. There's no carnival and the towns are as dirty as any Nigerian town. Weed and rodents have taken over what used to be the destination of tourists in Nigeria.

Donald Duke had a vision of creating the best tourism site in Africa. He did that in 8 years but the project was a long term project that should have taken 30 years to reach its prime. All he needed was q chain of successors to achieve the goal and people from that part of the country would be swimming in wealth like the natives of the Emirates.

Getting successors and a team to continue the long term plan of developing Lagos to the best city in Africa is what Tinubu got right.

You may ask why succession democracy doesn't have a place in North America and Western Europe but nations in those continents prosper. Those countries had systems built for more than 100 years before they could work. That is why whether an American President is Democrat or Republican, he knows that he has a responsibility of fighting at least one foreign war before he leaves office because America profits through foreign domination.

We are still in the process of building strong systems and institutions. Don't argue that anything will change soon because even Peter Obi which you portray as something new is bigger than Labour Party. That's a classical example of individuals being powerful than institutions and systems.

You should instead study the rise of the Emirates to understand how the succession of their monarchs helped them in achieving their goals or China to comprehend why there is the CCP.

Afamed:
He bought ventilators for Drs in Anambra who were on 13 months STRIKE when he was a Gov.

Truly zombedients are not different from Obiediots

Macphenson:
The only governor that bought ventilator.

Moh247:
Show me the specific data that made Lagos worst


United Nations Human Development Indexes have Lagos State ranking high in all sectors so show me a factual link to a verified body higher than United Nations

Moh247:
Show me the specific data that made Lagos worst


United Nations Human Development Indexes have Lagos State ranking high in all sectors so show me a factual link to a verified body higher than United Nations

Moh247:
You can't demolish people's home because it wasn't planned pre 1999, Tinubu simply started developing Lekki axis, and also dredged bar beach to have a new planned Eko Atlantic city

When COVID 19 was going wild, wasn't it same Lagos every top Politicians were running to and getting treated

During Ebola wasn't it Lagos State that contained it

If other regions had a Tinubu, a master plan and talented administrators to implement it Lagos the smallest state in land mass wouldn't have to Carter for 15% of Nigerian population

Moh247:
Why not Lagos with 20 million inhabitants is doing its best... They have Bus rapid system, free education, 4 University, Metro line , hospitals that are top in Nigeria, New cities like Eko Atlantic, Bus terminals

If you want to see the beauty of Lagos let Ibos go home for Christmas with less congestion and traffic you would understand they are trying

Moh247:
Is America, UK, Russia, and China debt free?

The main thing is debt to revenue and debt to GDP. It will take Lagos less than 6 months to pay its debt if it so wishes

Tareq1105:
Una wan start another lie?

Which ventilator?

Moh247:




It will take a financial genius like Bola Ahmed Tinubu of ExxonMobil, Price watercoooper and Delliote to Navigate the furtunes of Nigeria moving forward with our deficit



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michlins:
wow suddenly it's the opposition parties.

Buhari has been the minister of petroleum and commander in chief of the armed forces. Is it possible that ships will sail into our territorial waters without the navy being aware?

If that's the case then Buhari has failed on all spheres

Afriifa:
He's the Niger Delta. Nothing wey him no know for the terrain.

aariwa:
If you are looking for a perfect human being go to heaven and meet Jesus. From 1991 Anambra was created to 2002 Awka Anambra capital had only 3 hotels ask anybody above 40 living in Awka, compare it with Awka from Obi tenure from 2007- 2014 ( by 2014 you couldn’t get a land for less than 4m in Awka not to talk of now) and as use an indices to gauge what Obi believes in ie scrape off billions from government wastage and corruption and invest in SMEs to empower the poor. Anambra was no 28 in education with birni kebbi and co but Obi took it to number one in Nigeria before leaving office. While other governors was treating kidnapping with kid gloves Obi signed it into law as death penalty, had their properties destroyed, they all ran from Anambra which made state IG then to declare Anambra was the safest in Nigeria for the 5 years till that date in 2014 under Obi( it’s on nation news online google it) A journey from one community to another before Obi lasted more than one hour because erosion makes the terrain difficult but Obi built best connection of roads that connected the 166 communities in Anambra together, he built multi billion naira secretariats in the 21 LGAs in the state to replace the makeshift classrooms they used as offices, he built and equipped healthcare facilities in the 21 LGAs in state and equipped them to international standards, he built 28 bridges to connect parts of anambra that were formerly cut off from the state, distributed thousands of transformers to power generation of electricity, Anambra was debt free because he never borrowed a dime, left more than hundred billion for his predecessor, employed unprecedented numbers of young graduates as civil servants etc all these are there 247 for anybody that want to see them . Those obvious guffaws from Obi like he might say population of Nigeria is 3bn which every knows it isn’t gets people who don’t like him to start talking about him again and sharing the “lie” to their followers and the ones with tact amongst them will spend time to verify his achievements...and that’s how new obidients are made everyday.Reno is making Obi more popular which is a good thing in politics

Snapchat:
Go tell that to your wretched father and lunatic mother. I’m sure they must be regretting birthing an irredeemable mumu like you.

Ibos are scum of the earth and that’s where they’ll forever belong

Snapchat:
Your never do well father is werey. You are ibo, you don’t need to be ashamed of your lineage. You guys are scum of the earth and your people never fail to show it. Go tend to your silly mother.

Snapchat:
You dey craze. You think I’m as wretched like you and your people. You won’t caution your flat headed ibo brothers but your feeling get hurt when they give you a taste of your bitter pill. The ibo will never measure up to the Yorubas, know this and you still will never know peace.

Snapchat:
The person you replied to a flat headed homo erectus. A confirm ibo bastardd like the majority on this platform. They know the Yoruba tribe is superior to to their and they don’t shy away from displaying their low self esteem by attacking the Omoluabis

Gentlechika:
Its cheering to note that the southern governors are maintaining their stand, and not flinching. Atiku should come to terms with them, and give the southerners a sense of belonging in the PDP because, they've laboured enough for the party and shouldn't be neglected.

Afamed:
But when Asiwaju delegated his Vp to represent him , you wailed from upper Iweka down to Biafra market

thebosstrevor1:
It is not a must for Tinubu to attend all these conferences organised by various interest groups and associations.

Tinubu is for the people not for some organization trying to capture the presidency through Interest groups

All the elite groups and associations in our society are busy calling all the contestants to speak in their gatherings. and most of you supporters are blind to see that all these various groups and associations are trying to capture the system

These groups are creating a system whereby the presidential candidates work for their own interests and not the citizen's interests.


The former Accountant general of the federation who stole 100M naira is a member of ICAN

Hienna1:
Impounded drones for Nigeria navy give that to the police,navy needs advance drones
Not that toy or events drones

adioolayi:
There are many people who can't speak English fluently and have been given US Visas..

Wetin the promoter dey talk na