₦airaland Forum

TonyeBarcanista:
Una don start!

Get Nigeria working again

GavelSlam:
The photo should have been taken from under.

senatordave1:
So saraki can't mobilize a larger crowd for atiku? I pity atiku

docadams:
His ancestral compound would have served them well.

4reala:
OP you took the photo feom a wrong direction, because of ur negative intention

DaniDani:
I don't get it, what are you insinuating zombie?

adigun4mee:
I can't figure out why the thinking faculty of most Nigerians are so low, He, Saraka intends to help his people because He is endowed with wealth and i doff my cap for that, is He not better than Tinubu who generates income from all the sw Apc's state? I stand with Saraki because he has the love of his people at mind

Corrinthians:
Butterflyleo! Come and see!

Cc: Midol.ian, Mod.ath, Shukwuokuko.bambi.

Brawnoria:
We talking PVC you talking bullshit.

Attached is current result of Presidential Online Poll by Official Ilorin Facebook group which comprises mainly of people in Saraki's "stronghold".

In this group, you ll find in majority people who are indigenes of Ilorin East, Ilorin South and Ilorin West.

This is to let those thinking Saraki has Kwara in his pockets know that Kwarans are not fools. Right now, if you gather a hundred people from Kwara, hardly will you get 5staunch Supporters of Saraki...and they will be "good boys".

Every sane kwaran is clamouring for real change in the state

Corrinthians:
Some people might damn well just comit suicide tonight!

Midolian, come and see American Wonder!

quivah:
But its nice of him to wish me that??
Of course, it was nice of him.
Anyways, thanks. Will kindly bow out.

The son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the National President of the Buhari Youth Organisation (BYO), Olujonwo Obasanjo, has said that it is not proper to compare his father’s administration with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.

He said the reason he cannot make such comparison is because the circumstances and the indices are not the same.



Olujonwo, who spoke yesterday at an interactive session with journalists at the All Progressives Congress (APC) national secretariat in Abuja, said while he cannot reasonably comment on the performance of his father-led administration, he believes that the present administration is doing a good work and should be given another chance.

Olujuwon said as an adult, his current political view might be different from that of his father but that does not mean he is being disrespectful to his biological father.

The former President Olusegun Obasanjo had publicly opposed President Buhari’s re-election bid and endorsed the aspiration of his former deputy and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.

When asked to compare his father’s performance in office and that of Buhari’s, Olujonwo said: “I think that will be unfair because of what each leader met on ground, and the fact that they came in under different circumstances. It will not be an unfair comparison”.

On why he took another path different from his father, Obasanjo’s son said: “Everybody’s parent wanted his child to be one thing or the other, probably different from what they are today. But at a certain stage in our lives, we choose our part. That does not amount to disrespecting your parents.”

He said as far as he was concerned, the present government has impressed him through some of things it has done, especially in the area of youth empowerment and agriculture.



“I am an adult and as individual, I am here as someone who believes in this government. This government is diversifying the economy from an oil based economy and has made agriculture fashionable.

“Today, people talk about farming and no longer look at it in a degrading manner. People now look at the value chain when you talk about farming,” he said.

According to Olujonwo, it is all about the impact that the government has made to diversify the economy.

“As a country, we must look beyond oil and think outside the box by looking at other areas, which is what this government has come to do. Nigeria is a blessed in several ways and not just oil and this government is promoting youth involvement in all sectors.

“As a young man, I am looking at future and I believe in this government and I am supporting Mr. President. So, I cannot speak for my father.

“When we get to certain point in our life, you are responsible for the decisions you take. With all due respect, my father is my father and will remain my father despite our political differences. At the end of the day, this election will end. Does that stop him being my father?’’

He said the country needs to progress mentally and quit looking at politics as a do-

or-die or as something that separates us.

afroniger:
It seems these SE governors don't really believe Atiku will emerge as the next President, for them to be making this sort of request to Buhari at this point in time. Under normal circumstances they would wait till Atiku becomes president to table this sort of request to him instead.

Apparently worried that no Igboman or woman is in the apex security architecture in the country, the South-east governors have renewed agitation, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a service chief from the zone.

The Chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum and Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Umahi, disclosed to newsmen in Abakaliki that one of the major demands the forum requested from the president during their recent meeting was for a service Chief from the South-east.

However, THISDAY gathered that with the promotion of former Ebonyi State Commissioner of Police, Peace Ibekwe Abdallah, to the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police, she is the highest ranking Igbo officer in Nigeria’s security architecture.

The governor added that though the request was not reported on media, the demand is not new as it was one of the things that the people of the zone have been clamouring for, to address some of the issues of marginalisation against Ndigbo.

He noted that the way Nigeria security apparatus was structured does not reflect the federal character principle which is enshrined in 1999 Constitution as amended, and therefore called for concerted effort to address the imbalance, stressing that South-east would not shy away from the development from the federal government because they are PDP zone.

Umahi said: “One thing newspaper did not report is that we also requested for a service chief from South-east. We don’t have any and all that we requested are not new, they have been the things our people have been clamoring for.

“South-east visited the president to talk about the delay in the construction of federal roads, the international airport, the bridge we do extreme politics in Nigeria. Politics should be separated from the welfare of the people. It was a positive one. We must separate politics from reality. South-east will not say because they are PDP they should shy away from the development from the federal government. For me that is stupidity.

“We are not campaigning for anybody but we must say that the welfare of southeast, the problem of South-east, the future of southeast is beyond partisan politics”.

He added that every arrangement was on top gear for the Ebonyi state government to receive President Muhammadu Buhari on a one-day working visit on January, 2019 where the president would commission the glass tunnel named after him in the state.