₦airaland Forum

shukuokukobambi:
The fixation on yoruba is getting boring. Buhari won his election 3 years ago. You guys should get over it and present a candidate that can defeat him in 2019.

Litigating the past will ruin all chances for the future.

Yoruba states are the swing states in Nigerian election. Do you know the importance of swing states? They determine where the pendulum will swing. Already ,we can predict where majority of NW votes will go , majority of SS and SE can be predicted more accurate than SW. Now because of the fairly high level of education in this region than the other regions, you need more than sentiment to win thier votes. Issues such as devolution of power and restructuring of the federation, security of lives and property are the issues that will determine thier votes if the election is not rigged.

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How I wish this man Kslu will know how badly his image has been damaged because of his public comments both against his people and some prominent Nigerians like OBJ who done Yoruba even refer to as an Igbo man.

Why bring OBJ into this discussion just because you want to pull him down?

ofai:
My brother you will live long.

Amen!

If I will take anyone serious, certainly not Festus Keyamo. I believe if Family Fawehinmi can come back to live once again, he will certainly denounce his like. How do we explain the senseless killings of people in middle belter with the heart sinking indifference been displayed by a Commander in Chief? The only excuse he could give is that he didn't know the IGP did not obey his directive to relocate to Benue state. He promised to investigate, did you hear anything after his departure from Benue on the investigation? instead, what we hear is the States should reverse anti open grazing law from his defence minister. At least we have an idea of what they discuss in privacy. He may come out to deny it but ,if he can sorround himself with the likes of IGP and minister of defence, we then can conclude about his disposition to issue.

If Festus think because of one or two board appointments he can betray his constituentcy , he will soon see how wrong his actions are.
OBJ is not our problem, rather we should look at the issues being raised by him. Once you silence the likes of OBJ, we certainly should be ready to embrace a worse regime than Abacha's.

2mercy:
https://www.thecable.ng/buhari-refused-remove-emefiele

Let Mr President face an unbiased monthly press interview and let PDP provide a spokesman to counter his claims.We have been on this blame game for three years now and things aren't getting better anyway.
Jobs are been lost, people are commiting suscide , we can't point to single physical project that has been started and completed by this APC government and Federal level yet it is blame everyday.

Lipscomb:
Nonsense old age dey worry him.buhari has done well and he deserve second time.

That is your opinion and nobody will insult because of that. Civilized people discuss issues and profer solutions.

For reasons of sentiment you may be attached to PMB but I hope you will remember that this same PMB removed a civilian government in 1983?

Now for this country to continue to exist as an entity, you must restructure it. The current structure is much in favour big the north at the detriment of the south (please note am from the political north) this was made possible by successive military administration lead by people of Northern decent.
You may wish to recall the one of the straw that lead to the civil war is conflict on structure? If we don't resolve it , it will continue to hinder development .
The eldestateman at 92 year of age cannot be said to be inexperience as far as Nigeria politics is concerned.
If PMB were sincere, he would have declared June 12 democracy day right from his 1st years in office, if he were sincere, he wouldn't have been telling Nigerian Abacha built road and hospital 80%of which were in the North. If PMB were sincere, he would not be telling us Abacha did not steal whereas 30 years after his demise, USA us about to return more than $500m.

We certainly can think and will not allow anyone to push us around . If we voted out GEJ, we shall surely repeat it with PMB .

Finally, can you list out PMB major achievements? I mean pojects he started and has been completed this past 3 years? Will you break it into zones and see how he has performed across board?

To be honest I may not disagree with all the man post there but I don't expect him to attack the Yoruba race and GTB bank. Innoson for instance is not only been patronised by Igbo nor loved only by the Igbos. For instance, I know I love the man and the effort he's making in the auto industry.However if a case of disagreement emanates between him and GTB, I think the court should be allowed to decide without making it sentimental.
His hatred for the Yorubas as publicly displayed on his Facebook wall is most unfortunate. If at his level he's still generalising an entire race, he must certainly be a small mind.

Vanguard should go extra mile to convince the general public that his opinion is not only at variance with thier value but also separate him from thier payroll.

What I can deduce from above is that the IGP is probably trying to repeat the Kano performance at National level, perhaps by trying to stifle the voices of opposition starting with Saraki and OBJ?

We worry is really with Asiwaju Tinubuvtyat cannot see all these handwriting s of the wall. He can't imagine how irrelevant he will become, first term will be a joke when the Idris and Kyaris have second term .

As for me, I already came to the conclusion that if this PMB can be praising Abacha of all human beings, he doesn't mean well for this country, he cannot and should not be trusted to be president the second time.

It is therefore time for us to start praying hard to God to deliver us from Buhari just the way he delivered us from Abacha. It not enough for APC to sing his praises to high heaven, the masses know better by the quality of life they now live under PMB compared to OBJ or GEJ.

The IGP is having his time, whatever good or bad he does today will live with him and his family.

HonSuQMaDIQ:

Who cares

You should better care. By the time they succeed in silencing the likes of OBJ, you and I won't matter anymore. Can you remember how Abacha started? Do you remember how this same PMB praised Abacha a few weeks ago? Does it suggests anything to you.

The respiration to stay in power will make him to deploy the instruments of coercion against any opposition.

Forget about OBJ imperfections, look at the message.

This River Governor, he can't think of renaming that road after Ken Saro Wiwa and his colleagues that were slain by Abacha? He probably need to convince us that he actually hate the Ogoni people and love the black gogle general for slaughtering his people.

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Which act in unison?

When all of you idiots where shouting Chanji and hating on the SS/SE you did not remember unity it is now that the devil has unveiled itself you want us to join hand to help solve the sh1t you caused?

You must be utterly mad.

I insist, you can do better than this. You think you are more angry than many of us? No.

Discuss issues make valid points and you will be respected for it.

Oga, am not mad .

FSBoperator:
Buhari dare not challenge the Jukum General, Danjuma for fear of what Danjuma's people will unleash on his Fulani tribesmen in Taraba.

But as for the baboon of Otta, Buhari knows his cowardly people will do nothing just as they did nothing when Abacha arrested Abiola and the North eventually murdered him like fowl.

Be it Tinubu or even Osinbanjo, the yellow back cowards will do nothing.

Please you can do better than this. You dont need to insult anyone, dont call anybody baboon, its not a civilized way of contributing to discussion.
Now back to the subject. I think it is time for Nigeria to act in unison to defend our shared value; freedom of expression, free and fair election, etc. Issues being raised by either OBJ or Danjuma are for our collective interest. God forbids, a Nigeria in crisis will not spear any one anguish, what ever we can do by speaking out should be encouraged. If OBJ criticized GEJ and was not arrested, why should PMB contemplate it? GEJ had all the oppourtunities to arrest and jail PMB till after election but he didn't do it. We are watching

This is exactly our fear when, Buhari in 2014/2015 was campaigning to be president, we expressed fear that PMB will gag freedom of expression and opposition using states' instrument of coercion. This is completely bad for democracy.

If we recall the way he tried to gag the press during his military era, we will have an idea of what this man will do if he ever win the second term. Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will NOT be relevant anymore after the 2019 election to PMB and the SW will suffer the most.

GEJ was heavily criticized by OBJ to the applaud of Buhari and his APC members why I am not sympathizing with OBJ or GEJ, our freedom of expression must NOT be infringed by any government in power. I call on Tinubu to remember the day of NADECO and how they feel. Should a civilian government make any Nigerian to go on exile? A leading opposition voice like OBJ's if allowed to be stopped will not be in our collective interest. 21st Century Politics should not descend that low.

Finally, PMB should realize that today is his turn to write his name, he can choose the instruments with which to write his name. No matter how well he try to defend Abacha for instance, we already know where Abacha belong in our history as youth as the worst Head of State. GEJ , may not be a good manager of economy but he was a democrat that allowed freedom of expression. GEJ did not arrange to jail PMB when he said he will make Nigeria ungovernable, that is why he could become president.

If you have a sitting president that does not believe in any other person , it is a problem. I find it indigestible to read that PMB is still insisting that he was rigged at the previous elections because if wasn't declared winner.

One question for Mr. Buhari, please don't just promise us a free and fair election, but put in place structure/ system that will make it impossible to rig, also all your relations with strategic appointment at INEC should be relived of their job . This will further confirm to us that you are ready to conduct a free and fair election.

muykem:
Since they know Buhari will win what do you except. Only 5% is against him.

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If Nigerians could vote out GEJ despite being a sitting government, take no bet, Nigerians can do it again by voting out PMB. Indeed, it is when we are able to repeat this feat that politicians across board will start taking us serious on the need to deliver on promise.

As it stands today, PMB cannot face an unbiased media chat live of national television on his achievements without his popularity rating dropping further.Ask him why he ABADONED the monthly media chat.

Politics is a game of number. Let the game start now.

I don't blame Saraki an inch , PMB brought this upon himself and us and he should be held responsible if this democractic reign is truncated. That means he has done it twice.
He wouldn't take advice from Tinubu or OBJ the people that brought him to power, the same mistake made by GEI. The key rule of power, don't bite the hands that feed you.

PMB should know that it is not that Nigerian love Saraki but people are already disenchanted with his style of rulership.
Many Nigerian may wish Saraki punished for one reason or the other but perhaps not through this approach of seaming political persecution of opponents and subversion of political institutions like Legislature by the Executive with the use of state police.
If Saraki should be tried for the Offa Armed Robbery incident, certainly not by a police IGP that has been declared unfit to hold office by the National Assembly. The way forward, remove the IGP and get another police IGP to investigate Saraki.
Tinubu and the Pro-democracy fighter should remember the day of NADECO. Buhari was not a democrat, don't allow him to scatter our hard earned democracy.

bizzibodi:
Point of order are u saying sen.dino's kogi west.

I didn't mention any Senator. Just visit Kogi West for further research, ok?

Nairalanders, although I cannot confirm the truth, but I have heard about similar story in Kogi State called KADOKO. We were told that its a type of juju wicked people do to exchange hard working men and women with Banana Stalk by making it appear that the particular person is dead the relative will proceed to bury the perceived dead man/woman only for the juju man to deploy the exchanged people to thier farm to work.

In such instance, the people will just see that large expanse of land has been cleared or cultivated without using tractors within a short period of time. Sometimes you hear the voices and cries of people fior water or hunger but you wont see anybody. Such wicked people often fail to feed the exhanged people well hence continua cry for help.

However I have not heard about such people returning back to life. The lady in this report if true must possess some extra ordinary power to have been able to return home.

Late Kolawole Olawuyi once run such a programe on his : IRI AYE. I also know of a village in the present Kogi State where a man was alleged to have involved in such diabolical practice, and was consequently exiled from the village.

Kadoko and banana bunch is real. Want to know more, visit Kogi West.

I wish Nigeria can also reach out to help the country in appreciation of God's mercy upon our country by continuously protecting us from such horrible natural disasters.
Just imagine the smoke with a temperature above 100°c and lava flowing at a speed of 100km per hour? How can one dream of outrunning such disasters with car speed in the event of occurrence? Lord thank you for Nigeria. Please send help to Guatemala.

fykes:
I have no sympathy whatsoever for saraki..I like d guy as a person and respect him for what he's become as a politician but whatever did APC serves him, he deserves it and more.
He failed the test of ambition just like many men before him, today and after him will continue to do

Many of us may not have sympathy for Saraki like you but with different perspective. PMB said he could work with anyone when Asiwaju tried to help him organizer the Senate and House of Representatives. What is however mist annoying now is the tendency of APC led government to use Police to witch-hunt opponents and disregard the rules guiding our hard earned democracy.Some people fought democracy and it won't be in our collective interest to overheat the polity. If the Senators decided to be respirator, moved impeachment motion against him and get him remove d just as they are now trying to get ride of Saraki when it's too late, who will benefit? Mutual respect is better for the three arms of government, we should not encourage the executive to continually attack the legislature.

Viralkid:
This is the only Governor that I know is working.. the day I return to Lagos I may not recognize it anymore..

That is not true. Kogi state Governor is working harder than this man on how to cover his track after office. You know the story of Rev Nyame? The former Governor of Taraba State? If you do, then you will realise that it takes a harder work to cover stolen money than what Ambode is doing with Lagos money.

Ambode, I hail o .Please come over to Kogi state and help us. Please help us beg Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to abandon us for GYB. He should remember that Okun yoruba are part of Yoruba land and the freedom of yoruba will not be truly complete until Okun and Kwara yorubas are truly librated and join SW. RESTRUCTURING OR WHATEVER YOU CALL IT.

I will like him to highlight his achievement as Federal Minister. I am in particular not happy with him the way he's handling the Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Industry Matter.

Oga before you retuen to Ado-Ekiti, tell your achievements!

Paperwhite:
"OBJ is a courageous patriot & stateman who tells the truth to those in power when he is convinced leaders are going wrong."
President Buhari-March 4th. 2015.
However just criticize the dullard & pronto himself & his lapdogs will suddenly remember that one have a dusty file that needs to be probed.

We are going to wait patiently to prove FGN account after the exit of PMB. When OBJ attacked GEJ, APC and thier foot soldiers, including myself applauded him, now that he is criticizing PMB they are look for how to silence him , instead of address information the issues raised by the elderstateman. Please tell PMB, WE ARE NOT IN 1985. THIS IS 21ST CENTURY ,WE ARE WISER. We at least know some of his top officers are corrupt , the grass cutter SFGN in enjoying peace at home why the Mains was allowed to escape. We know who is more sincere between OBJ and PMB. Someone that allowed his IGP for face EFCC trial and the other one that make his IGP ignore the National Assembly. Oga, you can't do degree 2 anymore.

Ijaya123:
This is appalling. Almost all the posts here are questioning and ridiculing the couple with placards but nobody is actually lending their voices to the main issue which is where is the power OBJ spent $16 billion on?

Clear indications why politicians don't take the people serious. When people don't ask relevant question or demand accountability from their leaders, the result is what we have in our society now.

Because there was nowhere 16b was spent in the first place. Yah adua said $10b was invested, Dimeji Bankole invented $16b. figure which was latter confirned to be incorrect. This matter was resolved way back 2010 and there was no where OBJ was indicted because he invested just about $6.5b but his successor messed it up , thankfully ,GEJ completed it.

Let me say for the record, the PMB's praise of Abacha is the height of insensitivity to Nigerian.For a man that claimed to be fighting corruption to come and praise the guy that looted us dry such that 20 years after his death, USA is about to return more than $500m out of the loot. How do we explain the senseless killings of Kudirat Abiola in 1996?the NADECO chiefs including Asiwaju Tinubu were sent on exile by the man PMB claim has built hospital and roads more than OBJ. Mr President missed it.

OBJ building of power station came as a last option towards the end of his regime when all efforts to repair old power plants failed.It is on record that OBJ made a public apology to Nigerian when we had power collapse for three days .Indeed, he proceeded by firing the CEO of the power company. OBJ used to grant monthly interview to press for Nigerian to ask questions about the state of the union.Despite the killings going on, did PMB consider it necessary to address the nation talkless of interview?

On and on, the clamour for $16 is a waste of time and a demonstration of lack of sense of history.

I suggest reader should search YouTube today for journalist hangout on TVC where this issue was properly Marshalled.

HsLBroker:
OBJ, one of the most useless Nigerians dreams killer

OTA road, Sango road proof me right

Yes, he didn't repair Ota road but he built Ibadan- Ilorin road, he also gave Gbenga Daniel money to fix Abeokuta road to Sagamu axis. Do you think if he has had more time, he would have abandoned the road? Nobody is saying hes perfect, but hes certainly better than PMB.

We cant afford not to have the like of OBJ in this country. The same OBJ criticized GEJ APC applauded him, now the same people are truning against him. GEJ is a more matured leader, he didn't reply OBJ .

That guy and the babe have no idea of what they are talking about. Let them ask the late Yar'dua why he stopped the completion of the projects. Let them also check the various report especially the one by House of Rep and EFCC.. No doubt OBJ is one of the most unappreciated leaders in this country.

IS THERE ANY OF OUR PAST LEADERS THAT HAVE ACHIEVED AS MUCH AS OBJ FROM THE BEGINNING OF DEMOCRATIC DISPENSATION TILL DATE?

If PMB can be complaining everyday about past leaders as reasons for his under-performance instead of taking responsibility, we should not even attempt to criticize OBJ that inherited the military mess especially from the worst leader in Nigeria history -Sanni Abacha( Who deserved to be scrapped of all types of honour in this country), unfortunately, that is the man PMB choose to commend. Cant we see PMB dose not mean well for this country? SANNI ABACHA THAT DIVERTED BILLIONS OF NAIRA THAT IS STILL BEING RECOVERED ABOUT 20YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH? Donald Trump is still trying to help us recover about $500m out of these loots. Yet, your PMB appreciate the killer of Kudirat Abiola and persecutor of NADECO in chief to OBJ? I am just afraid for Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu, I hope he can see what am perceiving?

For the record: OBJ meet just a paltry sum of about $3b in Foreign Reserve, with very huge debt that could strangulate our economy, the man OBJ, did not only work tio increase the foreign reserve & excess crude account to well above $68b , he cancelled the entire foreign debt which your man PMB has joined successive leaders to exacerbate to a level IMF is getting son very worried about today. In fact I get so nauseated by all these cry against OBJ that I begging to wonder if people have a sense of history or they are delibartely working against people that means well for this country.

Most of the people making comments on this forum should be reminded that the telephone handset and the internet services they are using were introduced by OBJ government, an effort the Abachas wasted money on without breakthrough.

I will like to use this medium to express my gratitude for the excellent analysis done by Babajide of TVC Journalist Hangout on this matter. If for speaking out the truth and for fighting corruptions ( at least in the most effective way so far), some people think they can attack this man any how of social media, they will FAIL.

Nigerian should note:OBJ was the first and only Nigerian leader to have fired the MD of the then NEPA/ PHCN just because we had system collapse for three days. He then tendered an apology to Nigerian. Has PMB deemed it fit to ever make a public apology to Nigerians on any issue? What happened to the monthly interview OBJ use to grant on the state of the nation? Has PMB deemed it fit to grant similar interview about his government/ Why is he afraid of facing Nigerians?

It was after making relentless efforts to renovate the existing power plants in the country failed that OBJ embarked on hurried building of power plants towards the end of his regime. What did PMB kinsman do to complete those projects? He simply connived with Ibori to mess up OBJ, ensure that those equipment rot away in the Port?

Thankfully the man OBJ has said it over and over again, he is not afraid of being probed. Nigerians are however wiser, you cant probe him for political vendetta. Yes, because he also criticize GEJ much more than PMB to the applaud of PMB fans. I say this with deep respect for GEJ, he did not attempt to muzzle opposition. Otherwise, Lai Mohammed should have being a former tenant in one of Nigerian prisons. GEJ , again completed most of the project started in power sector by OBJ, yet OBJ criticized him.

For the record, I am not in any way connected to OBJ, but I appreciate performance and hate sentiments.

Oga FFK I know the meaning of your names; Femi, Fani Kayode but I dont understand all these oyinbo names o. Please dash the boys one yoruba and Igbo names each. biko, E jowo sir.

Anyway congratulations sir! When are you going to hang your booth?

Here is my advice. Look for a job outside Abuja, probably Lagos, move to your work Location, let her miss you for a while but continue to fulfill your obligations by sending her money no matter how small with evidence. Let the parents know you got a job outside Abuja and you will only be visiting at months end or:
Seek for a Master degree outside the country with scholarship do not disclose untill everything is perfected , let her know to be able to fulfill your obligations as a man, you need extra qualifications since the job is not there, at least when you return, you can be a lecturer.
At least you can have a temporary peace .

PMB /APC government are experts in blame game. Now, we had an OBJ that made good attempt to reposition our power sector after renovation of existing old plants failed to give results.

I can remember, for the first time in history, a sitting president, OBJ coming on live Television to apologize to Nigerian for the collapsein power system for three days and the sacking of the then MD of NEPA/PHCN.

IT WAS WHEN HIS ATTEMPT TO RENOVATE TGE OLD POWER PLANTS ABADONED BY MILITARY FOR MANY YEARS FAILED TO YEILD THE DESIRED RESULT, THAT OBJ EMBARKED OF HURRIED BUILDING OF POWER PLANTS.
Unfortunately, Yar'adua messed it up on the platform of politics on blame game.The same strategy another Katsina man is employing now.? It is time for Nigerian to open eyes o!