Asgard73:


Stop hallucinating based on hear say..

OBi ain’t getting 25% in Kano talk more of north central

Obi is not a force in this election reason no candinate is decamping to Labour

If Obi is a force ..60% of igbo politcians would have decamp to Labour and atleast 29% of Nigerian politcian for join am..

No Dey come online dey type and hype gibberish

I’m told you before Soludo made his statement

OBi would lose Anambra Enugu and Abia

Una can abuse and curse all Una want but that remain the reality on ground

Elections have never been won on social media .. Talk more Nairaland

You guys are just wasting funds

If Obi go win I for don support am tey tey … but reality is always always far from hallucinations and say dreaming



Power to the people
North 2023

In the NW and NE, election outcomes can be predicted by looking at the movement of political bigwigs.

Not so in the SE.

Even in the last Anambra guber, almost all the political bigwigs defected to APC including the Deputy Governor. On election day, APC came a distant third.

Lagos has more registered voters than Kano but they hardly produce more than 1.5m votes. It's not because of voter apathy. It's because in major voting blocs, votes are suppressed. With the new electoral law, let's watch and see.

In Rivers, if Wike had such a stranglehold on the votes, how come PDP has just one Senator?
Wike was a beneficiary of Rivers people's anger at Amaechi and APC for working against their son GEJ. They always vote their minds, not who they're told to.

My point is, do not look at everywhere using the sociology of the North. Politicians are defecting to Labour in droves in the SE, SS and SW, but not the traditional politicians. Those ones cannon control the young ones anymore, so they respect themselves, stay where they are and hope that on election day, they can buy enough votes to sway the election.

Before I forget, Sabon gari votes in Kano had always been suppressed. This time around, it will count. And you already know that neither APC nor PDP has it...

N3TRAL:


I'm not disputing the prevalence of corruption in Nigeria's public and civil service.

I am asking how that corruption and government spending makes the price of a cup of garri to increase by 50% in 6 months.

We know there is corruption. How does it relate with inflation? How will reducing "government spending" fight inflation?

Note, Nigeria does not suffer demand-pull inflation. Inflation in Nigeria is as a result of the cost of producing local goods or importing foreign goods. It is not inflation caused because Nigerians are so rich.

Let's use the biscuit / sausage roll industry as a case study. If the inflation in the industry was a function of surplus money in circulation, the companies in the sector would not reduce the quantity of biscuit in a packet of biscuit and increase the biscuits price by 5% or allow the price to remain. They would rather increase the price of a packet of biscuit by let's say 50% without altering the quantity of a packet of biscuit.

It is because the cost of production is high and the population is poor that most likely makes biscuit manufacturers to reduce the content of the biscuit and retain the price so that Nigerians can still afford biscuits.

I made an edit to my earlier post.

You're right about the cost-push inflation.

Question is, why are costs rising?

It all comes down to the much touted government expenditure, which they are not really "spending" on services. They actually spend it on dollars, pushing up the exchange rate. Which affects the biscuit manufacturer, as his costs rise.
If government blocks stealing and curtails inflation of contract amounts, the nominall expenditure will reduce, and the actual expenditure will increase. The stealing crew will begin to release their cash into the economy, both as bribes to buy their way, or s inducements to sabotage the government or on the normal course of living. Whatever the case, you are right in that the CBN would be in the best position to manage this, not by the government reducing its actual expenditure.

N3TRAL:


You're talking about demand-pull inflation. Nigeria does not suffer demand-pull inflation. A country with a minimum wage of 30,000 naira a month cannot suffer demand pull inflation. We suffer cost-push inflation and promoting an economic policy that will prevent injection will make our built-in inflation worse.

That's by the way. You still haven't shown how government spending in Nigeria significantly causes inflation.

Before we go further, and just for records sake, note that even the minimum wage earner actually spends more than 30k a month. Black tax, subsidies etc all play a part in that.

Now, Government spending in Nigeria is not really what you think. Despite what they say, the government is not really "spending". The billions you hear about mostly go into "savings accounts" owned by public officers. To make it worse, these billions don't even go into the financial system. They end up removing cash from the system. Both in naira and in dollars.

A prudent government will actually curtail these by reducing the amount available for these "black market operations", and actual spending would in reality increase, and be channelled to sectors where there are impacts on the people. When these set of public office holders can steal no more, they will begin to spend from the loot.

They would be expected to actually flood the economy with unexplained cash.

Prudence by government is what will help then, as against chasing them around with EFCC.

Edit: Just seeing your last question.

Real government spending does not affect the price of Indomie in Nigeria. But the higher the amount touted, the higher the amount stolen. And the higher the amount stolen, the higher the demand for dollars to store the loot. When the private sector is crowded out of the FX market by noncompetitive operators, prices rise.

ogododo:
A man wey wan open borders for all products. Una no know wetin una dey do. Obi no get plan.

It's counterintuitive, but it's the way out of this quagmire. Take a look at our entertainment industry. The IT industry. It didn't get where it is today by censure.

We Nigerians being who we are, as well as with our numbers, will be the ones swallowing up these other economies, not the other way round.

N3TRAL:


Can you please explain the correlation between inflation and the size of government? Your explanation will be better if you can provide one or two successful case studies. Thank you.

It's a simple relationship. Reducing the amount of money in circulation can slow down inflation. Government being the biggest spender can reduce money in circulation by making payments to creditors instead, and reducing the overbloated current expenditure.

Thing is, in Nigeria, there are other factors at play, which they don't account for in economics textbooks - the stolen funds stashed away in warehouses, tanks, pits etc. The crazy demand for the dollar as a store of value for the stolen funds, which defies all rational thought.

These people cannot be wished away, but you cannot still entrust our future to them.

This is why we need someone like PO, humble enough to massage their ego and keep them from torpedoing the economy, yet stubborn enough to take the right decisions even he is being manipulated emotionally, as well as disciplined enough not to join the other side when he gets to power.

Both the Op and the FTC made a lot of fallacies in their arguments. Won't try to debate them though. Will just throw in my two cents.

Firstly, the OPS really has no power to decide elections here in Nigeria. In saner climes, whichever direction they throw their money at, can dictate where the election swings.

But not in Nigeria.

Just like CBN policies and money market operations etc never gets the desired effect on the Nigerian economy, the Nigerian OPS is toothless.

This is for the simple reason that the raw cash available to politicians like Tinubu and Atiku is enough to make nonsense of any government policy, and the mob they can buy can flatten any business in days. No security agency has the balls to bring them in.

So, any decision taken by the OPS would not be rational, it would rather be based on an instinct for survival, borne out of fear of people like Emilokan who have apportioned a fraction of everyone's taxes to themselves. That is the hard reality.

The next thing to consider is this - the new generation of Nigerian voters won't be directed on who to vote for by members of these bodies. They don't even care what their fathers think, OPS or not. They just haven't gotten enough numbers to decisively swing the vote. Watch out for them in future, though.

In a nutshell, the Nigerian businessman will vote out of fear, not out of a desire for progress, and we know who they fear the most in Lagos.

God being merciful, they have no real power to decide who wins or not. Each of us do.

Ireportlive:


Ordinarily Seun's Nairaland as a tech company should win Seun international awards from Forbes, National award like OON and compete with Twitter, having Nairaland page verified with blue badge..

With people like Mynd44, Lalasticlala, Dominique, becoming internet celebrity with multiple endorsement as Moderators..

Sadly this isn't happening because some IPOB trolls have invaded this wonderful platform, you can't comment without them constituting nuisance about, they cancel comments insults strangers, derail thread, curse people, invade people's privacy using their family for propaganda and lies, committing crime hiding behind anonymousity


This is terrible and I hope they don't drive us all to twitter

The hate and bile you spew here on Nairaland, can you do it on twitter with your real bio on it?

Realist12:
I don't mean to sound tribalistic, but a section of Nigerians are always willing to believe any rumor that antagonizes their imaginative enemy , this is democracy we can do better .
We all saw how just any man came from no where with no prior political influence to tell them of Fulani agenda they believed him , this said man tested another lie by telling them Buhari is dead and cloned, yet they still believed him , the educated and illiterate could swear he was stating the facts.
Not like they don't have honest and visionary leaders amongst them but they are easily deceived by the con men therefore promoting such to Saint status.
Is democracy not enlightening these guys, David Hundeyin like other political actor knows their weakness and he's about to enjoy the godlike status amongst them just like Reno and FFK have enjoyed in the past.

The Law is Supreme, the Law has exonerated Tinubu but David is who they choose to believe ? Isn't that a prerequisite to Anarchy?

It's the duty of their Lawyers and educated ones to enlighten them , we Yorubas should also support in our own way.


Remember the adage that says if your roommate eats cockroach and you feign, you'd both be affected by his stomach ache at night , coz if he can't sleep you won't sleep as well . Not like Yorubas are not doing her best embracing each other but we can do better.
Hopefully the unrest won't travel to the southwest someday, coz that will be the end .
Our pre colonial systems is playing out here , most other regions have established leadership, the caliphate, empires, kingdoms etc which taxed her territories and provided military security but that can't be said of the East . They need true leadership but always falling into the hands of those that alienate them politically without considering the future of her people.
That's one of the reasons I am against Obi's brand of politics.

We have a duty to protect the democracy we all fought so hard for.
God bless Nigeria.

In a nutshell, you're against Obi because he's from the east.

We know that's the only thing you have to campaign with. Tribal sentiments.

Well, you're on the losing side. And I am not even talking about elections. APC won 2015 and 2019 elections. But it's a fact you'd love Nigerians to forget as you campaign again, BECAUSE AFTER 7 YEARS, EVERYONE LOST.

Now, here you go again. Except, patriotic Nigerians aren't with you. They have joined the winning path. The winning party.

DenreleDave:

Thank God this wasn't Nigeria.. Our igbos brothers and sisters would have been

Keep it up. I guess that's what Tinubu pays you for. Hate-mongering.

If not for NL's anonymity, I wonder how your parents would feel knowing what you do for a living.

You need to change, for their sake at least.

DenreleDave:
read again. I don type am finish

I am not surprised. Somehow, others too are no longer shocked by these hate-filled write-ups you always put up. Only question I have for you is - have you no shame?

Tflex01:


Tinubu will win next February election.

He will win whether Nigerians want him or not? Or because your single vote outweighs millions of other Nigerians'?

It's one thing to generate numbers and win by any means possible. It's another thing winning hearts. After all, even Abacha had all five political parties offering him their presidential ticket. But on the day he died, Nigerians celebrated, and his loved ones watched the same politicians denounce his name and memory.

So you might need to qualify your statement - does he have the heart of Nigerians? Are Nigerians happily and willingly entrusting their future and their children's to him? Or is he just going to find a way and fix himself in there?

Emilokan knows the difference, even if you don't, and wishes he had the former. You doubt it, just take a look at the Supreme Court governor. He knows.

And as long as he does not get the former, any win he gets will be hollow to him.

Now, which of the candidates can I trust my children's future to? I guess you already know.

lhordspy:
Sorry to say this but this is the newest low of Arisetv. These days they have been really really bad. It is so bad you begin to wonder if it is now an opposition sponspored TV station.

Even AIT and TVC, own by known card carrying party members are not this bias and One-sided. Arisetv are more Anti-Tinubu than even opposition political parties. The only sole purpose of the Arise TV station these days is to criticise Tinubu.

A Very silly Rufai oseni, a Tv host will sit at the front of the mic defending a specific candidate and lambasting another. For goodness sake!
What happened to being neutral and professional in Journalism. No wonder ChannelstV has been consistently winning the best Tv station in Nigeria for the past 12years now.

What they fail to understand is that the election is still undecided yet. If it swings into victory for Bola Tinubu. Then gate of hell may be open on them. I just pray they dont cry foul that time because the attention and cheering they are getting from obidients while they puncture the Image of Tinubu unprofessionally and mischievouslly will die down after election. And they will be left to face karma alone.

So, if he wins, he will go on a revenge mission, and abuse the public office - opening the gates of hell on all that did not support him, abi?

These words are the exact reasons why he should not win, and why we patriotic Nigerians would all support an insurrection should he win.

Because no sane human will pledge allegiance to a government determined to "open the gates of hell on him/her".

Ireportlive:




100% fact

Intelligent people are joining the winning team free of charge to reposition themselves strategically for the future


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To explain the bolded better, they are joining:

1. free of charge, because they do not need to make any payment.

2. to reposition themselves strategically for the future, or better put, reposition their bank account balances for the future. No one pays as well as Emilokan...

lhordspy:


I will always keep saying this.

Chimaroke Nnamani's Enugu,
Uzodinma's IMO,
Umahi's Ebonyi and
Kalu's Abia

are all for Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Last I checked, they are all IPOB and their 5% votes are inconsequential.

Maybe Emilokan needs IPOB votes now?

When I was a kid, my parents taught me never to take gifts from strangers or accept food in other people's houses. So when we visit other folks and they offer me food, I'd refuse, even though every part of me wants to seize the food and devour it. I'd look so longingly at it while I decline the offer, before casting a look at my parents' faces. Sometimes, they'd even join in and plead with me to eat. Wise kid like me, I won't fall twice for that trap

So believe me when I say I know how Keyamo feels while making this statement. Because he knows fully well that without rigging and/or vote-buying APC cannot win. And that this BVAS is one of the biggest obstacles standing between them and the Presidency they do not ever deserve again.

I feel u, Keyamo. Yours is a difficult job...

Some years ago, when his people embarrassed him abroad, other politicians - wicked sons of Barnabas - quickly came all out to pledge their support for him, well against the popular celebration with which news of the beating incident was celebrated in the SE.

However, when the people complain that the FG is strangulating them, they're told to hold their representatives accountable.

We now wait for all those that supported him then to come out and speak again...

But they won't - they're busy enjoying the feast Emilokan is preparing for them with his own illicit funds, and lest we forget, it's bad manners to talk while eating...

Some years ago, when his people embarrassed him abroad, other politicians - wicked sons of Barnabas - quickly came all out to pledge their support for him, well against the popular celebration with which news of the beating incident was celebrated in the SE.

However, when the people complain that the FG is strangulating them, they're told to hold their representatives accountable.

We now wait for all those that supported him then to come out and speak again...

But they won't - they're busy enjoying the feast Emilokan is preparing for them with his own illicit funds, and lest we forget, it's bad manners to talk while eating...

buckeyemedia:
Keep dreaming, a Benue person trust an Igbo man with power?

Here goes the thrust of Emilokan's campaign. A campaign whose main cornerstone is to galvanise support by propagating hate for the Igbo.

It won't work anymore...

Fintiri defeated a sitting Governor Umar Jibrilla Bindow in Adamawa State without a single billboard.

That goes to figure.

We Nigerians already know which parties are our problems and which is coming with some solutions...

Every sane Nigerian, that wants the progress of Nigeria is angry.

I am angry too.

We want to express it with our votes, in peace.

God help anyone that tries to tamper with that...

Most likely, monsieur got greedy and gave PO a very inflated bill to settle.

Knowing PO, he must have declined it. Having no other way to coax PO, Fadure Joseph is now playing the SM card.

PO that then refused to pander to Mbaka and donate money unnecessarily, despite the pressure he was under on that podium shortly before 2019 elections?

Fadure Joseph, go and rest. This penchant by PO to refuse pandering to useless blackmail is the reason we are attracted to him.

Go and rest.

FreeStuffsNG:
Hahaha....Let him collect his share from the Anambra funds through his support for HE Obi

If for a pot of porridge and filthy lucre, he chooses to join those who were raised so horribly to hate others and his great grandfather Pa Awo, even more than they hate Asiwaju, na him sabi.

HE Obi who , in a bluff to those who call him a tribalist, could not find a single Yoruba to coordinate his campaign in Lagos state which is in Yorubaland and chose an Igbo to coordinate his campaign in Lagos now hires him to peddle his influence on social media and he fell to him then Seyi is naive niyen. If HE Obi truly wants him, he should make Seyi his campaign coordinator in Lagos.


SW and the whole stretch of Yorubaland from the atlantic ocean front to the north central states of Kwara and kogi, is locked down for Asiwaju Tinubu so paying a social media influence peddler like him is labour in vain and waste of money by the candidate of the mushroom party.

Asiwaju Tinubu lokan

Is04970:
If that isn't stupidity I don't know what it is.
Seyi should have a rethink.
Your grandfather was stoned in Aba.

FreeStuffsNG:
Wow!! At last, praise from the Eastside comes on the Sage, Pa Awo.

Seyi is a social media influencer.He got paid but he is not giving shishi votes to the preferred choice of you hateful lots. He is just chopping your money.

I have always maintained that the only strategy Tinubu ha for this campaign is tribalism, ethnicity and hate. If you doubt it, look at the posts made by his paid social media influencers.

Release the story snippet by snippet,then gradually release the bombshell...

FreeStuffsNG:
HE Obi's delusion of grandeur reminds me of Pastor Tunde Bakare's similar kind of rhethorics during the APC primaries before Nigeria's next President, Asiwaju Tinubu, trumped him by over a thousand votes at the APC Presidential primaries.

Obi is just like the unpatriotic ipob terrorist group elements promoting his campaign on social media for now; their own delusion of grandeur, acting violently against the reasonable and patriotic Nigerians of Igbo extraction, makes them think they can have their own version of Lesotho that is inside South Africa in the Federation of Nigeria with no access to the sea and navy. smh

Apart from Ekiti where his party scored like 100 votes after collapsing into APC on eve of the state governorship election,this is it below; the last election lp scored a paltry 2k in an election with over a million votes at stake. Thank God that numbers do not have emotion.
Asiwaju Tinubu remains the best candidate, the most brilliant , competent and patriotic. Asiwaju will defeat PDP's Atiku in NW, SW, NE and NC. The PDP will take SE as usual while Asiwaju and HE Atiku will share SS.

No room for the mushroom lp party being supported and promoted by unpatriotic elementalists.
check my signature for free stuffs!

Campaign has been flagged off, and we are waiting for your Principal to talk to us, to look us in the eyes and tell us why any Nigerian should vote him. But as usual, he is nowhere to be found.

Which also makes us wonder, why does he not want to live in the Lagos he developed?

Moh247:


If you want to see Bola Ahmed Tinubu then head to his Asokoro residence or Our campaign headquarters

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After developing Lagos, why did he move to Asokoro? He wants to live where there are no touts? Or Lagos is no longer good enough?

seunmsg:


We say no to the saint who stole Anambra dry and used his daughter’s name for fraud. We say no to the man that ruled for 8 years without any verifiable achievement. We say no to the criminal liar whose campaign is based on hate, bigotry and falsehood. We say no to the man who supervised the massacre of innocent Massob members and dumped their bodies in the Ezu River.

So Massob members are now innocent?



Hypocrisy really makes one ugly, and it's working on you...

lhordspy:



Never! . i repeat Never! . i am not even a fan of tinubu. But you see this election, it is a fight between wrong and right, a fight for my sanity.

You see these obi supporters, they behave like nonentities, !diots, insultive, lack of moral or home training group of people.
If obi wins, people and politicians will adapt this campaign strategy of this obidience of bullying people in accepting their ideology. Insulting people, attacking people in an aggressive way just because someone have contradicting opinion to theirs. .. And that will spell doom for Nigeria politics, imagine every party adopting this crazy and irritating means of campaign.


Infact, you wont understand. People thinks me always squeezing my time out of my little shedule coming here everyday to face this nonentity and rude humans called obidients. People think am being paid. Lol, nobody is giving me Nada, i have my job that gives me income. But this is a fight for my sanity and peace of mind.

Just imagine obi wins,i cant even imagine it.. I dont even know if i would be able to use the social media anymore. Even now that obi havent won anything, if i give you my nairaland account to operate for a day, you might run mad. If you see the number of messages i do receive everyday, full with insults,deaming words. Some will even threaten me...

God knows how these people are brought-up, very immoral disrespectful set of !diots. Infact you wont understand, this election is all or nothing for people like me. Obi can and must not win! .

I have wrote to like 5-6 DPO's in my LGA, i made them know of my intentions before-hands that i know how aggressive these animals called obidience are, of recent they beatup a man in Abj here because they accuse him of been one of thr fake bishop tinubu use. Can you imagine, what effontery and nonsense! . i already told the DPO's that if any body, i mean anybody tries hurting anyone or bullying anyone on election, maybe Nigeria war will start from my LGA, i told them that.

And i will be going from one polling unit to another, making sure no one is been bullied. If anyone tries anything... Kai kai. Till that day sha.

Shalom

You're angry, I can feel it.

But you can't fight fire with gasoline.

Also, you are fighting the symptoms, not the malady.

The aggressive approach worked in 2015. The only thing that can stop it now is good exemplary leadership. And the one candidate that clearly embodies that is the same one you're standing against.

More importantly, why would you want to stand between a man and an option he considers his last hope?

lhordspy:


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The way you people scrutinize what i say here is scary. Reason i usually check and re-check my words properly in here. Still yet, you wereys will still use my words against me....

By the way, why do you people get happy if someone use words like 'massive crowd' '2million youth' 'large gathering' to describe you people??

It reeks of people just looking for cheap validations.

We are happy because we are just Nigerians tired of the status quo, trying to change the old order that's kept us down. So we celebrate our little wins. While we wait for the big one.

Join us. You've everything to gain. Nothing to lose.

lhordspy:
Everyday i wake up, my first prayer to God is not to allow me to be stupid like these zombidients fake news monger that believes even the cheapest of unrealistic meaningless thing.



Even George Carlin says:
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Gradually, you'll get to the acceptance stage.

Key phrase: LARGE GROUPS.

From: 4 persons twitting from one room

Ayam not understanding ooo.

Lemme go back and recheck if there are two Igwurutas and Chokoches in Rivers.

Due to the impassable state of the Enugu-PH expressway from Aba to PH, this road referenced here has been our way in and out of PH.

And I assure you, there are still whole sections of the road that look exactly as pictured in the (Before) picture.

But I will check again, maybe the chicken grew a tooth yesternight.

This is someone that had SAs in their thousands. Hundreds of whom he never had any sort of interaction with.

Ask him to identify these SAs from a lineup and watch confusion set in.

He is a bigot. The audio recording of his conversation with Amosun made it clear.

We won't be deceived.

There is only one way to sell Tinubu's candidacy - Tribalism and ethnic sentiments.

That's what this thread is all about.

Shame!!!

So you have always known that only a court of competent jurisdiction can pronounce one guilty, but you have written sick words about a lot of persons who till date are not convicted by any court.

Now, you mention privacy laws to protect someone who is vying for the highest office in the land, on the matter of his age. Something he should first and foremost declare openly and honestly even if he was applying for the office of a clerk in Yorro LGA.

Hypocrisy at it's worst, if I may say.

I have always maintained that all you BMCs do is play the tribal card. You and your principals are just some dirty lowlife rascals out to fleece the country without a care for even educating the children or providing quality basic healthcare.

Granted, some of you have stolen enough to buy a taste of the good life. But then, dirt is dirt. And you're all dirty inside despite your whitewash. You all stink.

Get in line behind PO. You might still have a chance at redemption.

seunmsg:


Tinubu’s university certificate is no longer the bone of contention but perjury. Great. At least, we are making progress. We’ve all agreed now that he went to university and graduated. So, the issue of educational qualification for the office of the president is settled.

Now to your perjury claim, I want to believe you’re well aware that perjury is a criminal offense and as such, it is only a court of competent jurisdiction that can make such a pronouncement and not social media jurist and obituarist.

In case you have forgotten, a certain Dr. Dominic Adegbola sued Tinubu in 2013 for this same forgery and perjury you’re talking about and the court promptly dismissed the case. This is the link from 2013: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/alleged-certificate-forgery-court-dismisses-suit-against-tinubu/amp/
If you want to try your luck again, you are free to approach the court. You will lose just like those that tried before you.

Why do I feel Asiwaju planted this fellow ahead of time to divide the PDP votes?