₦airaland Forum

'This generation of Nigerians, and indeed future generations, have no country other than Nigeria. We shall remain here and salvage it together' - General Muhammadu Buhari (1983)

As apt today as 31 years ago!

WombRaiders:
Change off course but which change?

Is it to stop the insurgency in the north that your northern slavers started in the first place to blackmail and threatened themselves back into power?

Is it the capitalist government for profit that you have in Lagos?

Is it change based merely on regime change?

Or is your change based on that of Arewa Consultative Forum which is that power must return to their region?

Is it change involving that forger, d0pe feign kleptomaniac, Tinubu?

Barring rigging, you and I have one vote apiece. I intend using mine to vote the APC candidate for President. It is up to you how you use yours. I just hope that in the future, you will be able to look your 'children's children' in the eye when they ask you what you did as a young man to to try to put a stop to the rot.

borie4u:
I d rather stick wit a man that has shoe n willnot bother to collect my shoe than one who has no shoes but will collect my shoe. of wat use is jonathan to the masses. if I must tell u, Jonathan is a complete failure. for a man who spent 8 yrs as an administrator (6 as president n 2 as vice) n still want to contest n die there. is presidency his father's heritage or birthright? I am a niger-delta n I must say that I can n will never vote Jonathan or pdp again. its time to sample wat other ppl or party has to offer n for all I care, after abacha the worst president is that man from otuoke?

You make me proud.

OLADD:
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Check your network my friend because you are completely offline! Anyway, let me do justice to some of your fables;

Firstly, Nigerians want change but not the satanic version been heralded by APC. No way. We do not want change for imperialism ( do you remember the famous increase of tuition fee by Fashola from N25,000 to N350,000, which was quickly reversed when they lost election in Ekiti? Hope you have not forgotten the PHOTOCHROMIC BALLOT PAPER invention of this same APC after Ekiti electoral loss. That can only bring negative change!

Secondly, those that condemned the Fed Govt for proscribing Boko haram can never be apostle of positive change.

Thirdly, a party that celebrated some politicians for defecting to their fold only to tag them terrorists after falling out with them are the most treacherous people any nation should dare associate with.

Fourthly, events post-Arab Spring has laid credence to the fact that not all clamour for change should be honoured. Are you aware of the rots in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and the rest? Those people engaged in blind push for changes.

And finally, can you tell us the current performance rating of Obama even amongst the black race? Of what benefit is Obama presidency to Nigeria and Africa at large.

Friend, we want positive change but APC as presently constituted cannot bring such change. Period.

Unlike you, sir, I am not a paid e-rat, paid to defend the indefensible online. I merely speak out of genuine love for my fatherland. As things stand right now, APC is the only realistic agent of change in Nigeria.

publisher:
GEJ's revival of Nigeria's vehicle assembly plants alone has flawed all the achievements of any Nigerian leader from 1984 till date combined.

I'll not even talk about Agriculture and manufacturing.

Jona has tried, abeg. Let's Buhari make himself useful by helping us go negotiate with Boko haram!

Without a doubt, sir, you must be a product of the same failed educational establishment which would award a retard like Jonathan a PhD, since evidently, you cannot distinguish between 'floored' and 'flawed'. Smh for you!

Nigerians, humiliating themselves before the White man since 1914.

Change is imperative. Of what use is our democracy if the ruling PDP keeps winning elections? PDP, relying on the power of incumbency, has been 'winning' elections at the centre since 1999. Until we have a change of government at the centre, our democratic credentials remain suspect. Us Nigerians like to believe wrongly that we are the Giants of Africa, but the true Giants of Africa are countries like Ghana, Senegal, Zambia, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Benin Republic, Malawi and Kenya. These 'minor' fellow African countries have all succeeded in effecting democratic change at the centre, following democratic elections.

Using the English Premier League which Nigerians seem to follow passionately as an example, how compelling would the EPL be for fans if year on year, one football team, say for e.g Man United, had been winning the Premiership since its inception in 1992. Any genuine football fan would tell you how boring and predictable that would be. The joy of sport most times is for the underdog to triumph over the top dog.

Likewise for politics. Nigerians must not forget how fervently we all supported Obama's candidacy during the U.S elections because we were all fascinated by his underdog status - a black man, the son of a mere Kenyan immigrant father, taking on the might of white capitalist America and winning!

Fellow Nigerians, it is time for CHANGE!!

que4:
Am I the only Nigerian that remembers GEJ promising in 2011 to not contest for 2015 election?

pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/jonathans-2015-covenant-with-nigeria/

Me sef remember o! The man no get principles

Idrismusty97:
So now you are all complaining of "copying" and you are celebrating Christmas, Sallah, Valentine etc every year. Ironic! If you can worship their gods why does this seems weird?

Hmmm. My guy, u talk sense die! Collect one big Orijin from ya local joint. Tell dem say na Muscomide send u.

Mtcheew!! Nigerians with dem follow follow.

Pamcrest:
This man is sick, sick, sick.....stolen loot and dope are killing him slowly yet he won't rest- nemesis! Let him not collapse at one of their rallies oh. Ojuyobo ole!
My humble submission

As you wish Tinubu, so shall your portion be manifold.

icedbreez:
You sound very bitter. Tinubu must be responsible for the bread on your children's table.
well, he's not responsible for my own daily bread and when you finish hero worshipping him you ll look for a job to do. The fact I dont bow and kiss his ring doesn't make me a tribalist. Its infact little minds like you that will probably fight and kill for him that is tribalist and ended up creating the Monster or "god" that tinubu is now.. we re in the 21st century bro. Not in the era of slavery or serfdoms.

You are damn right, I'm bitter, my flat headed friend. Bitter at folk like you who only see things from the distorted prism of tribe and region. If you have nothing good to say about Tinubu's return to Nigeria, then stfu!

Pamcrest:
Who is this hungry clownish jobless comrade pretending to represent yoruba youths? What has any nigerian youth benefitted from this so called president? U want to carry placards, so u can be noticed n rewarded handsomely, kwo? Heavy rainstorm must disrupt that evil plan IJN. U better congregate in Abuja if u don't want to be lynched
See GEJ's legacy for our youths!
My humble submission

My sister, see me see trouble o.

Awon omo ale Yoruba! Like Judas, sold their souls for thirty pieces of silver shekel.
No true Yoruba son or daughter will endorse the inept and clueless one for another four years.

Eziachi:
Law is different from personal feeling. In law you can declare favour for your enemy, not because you want to but because you have to or you landed yourself with anarchy.
Nigeria is too complex for me to understand sometimes, It's not the IG's job to decide who defect and who didn't. PDP can easily come to the house, ask him to resign and if he doesn't they can impeach him with their majority.
Speakers position is not the exclusive of the party in majority anywhere in the world, it just a normal human feeling that you control when you are in majority, not the law. He is not the speaker of PDP.
That is how it should be done and once that is done, they should write the IG and he then act based on the law, if the law stipulated that he doesn't merit security detail. Then so be it.

But because of politics of personal feelings and intimidation, abuse of position and power in Nigeria, people do things in a ways that look like the old Abacha days. If this IG is so on point with the law, why wasn't the same treatment visited on governor Mimiko?
Until public servant realized that they they don't work for politician but the nation, things like this will keep on happening. Am not saying that the speaker deserved to have security detail but let thing be done in civilized and lawful way and without being selective.

Well said. Like Obama said, what our people need are strong institutions, not strong men. The Speaker remains the Speaker until another is selected.

icedbreez:
This thread must be for lagosians or at most South Westerners because I dont see how Tinubu coming back from Europe affects my schedule for the day or my weekend.
NEXT.

Bigoted tribalist like you! I bet you benefit from living and working in the south west. What are you doing on Nairaland anyway? It is owned by Seun Osewa, a Yoruba from the same South-west you denigrate. Whether you like it or not, Tinubu is a Yoruba hero and indeed a true Nigerian hero. Any man who is instrumental in the formation of a viable opposition to this inept PDP government headed by an equally inept, clueless and divisive President is a personal hero of mine. Without this man's wile and guile, the all-powerful PDP led Federal Government would ride roughshod over us all.

Evidently, this man is a selfless patriot who loves Nigeria and has decided to return home to coordinate the opposition as we approach what will be crucial elections for Nigeria, despite his failing health.

So you know what to do if you are not happy with this piece of news, either wind your neck in or crawl back into the rat infested hole from whence you've come.

And these students are the so called leaders of tomorrow? Shaking my head for Nigeria.

akinvest:
See dis small boy, childish statement!

Shine ya eye o. Na true the guyman talk.

Read between the lines, you Nigerian sheeple. Jonathan is being damned with faint praise by Reuters.

sarutobie:
pure and undiluted balderdash! since only the SE and SS are shouting muslim/ muslim ticket wont work, pray tell, will the north( especially NE) 'shout' in favour of a christian/Christian ticket? have they ever? will they ever?

Was the North not instrumental in GEJ clinching the presidency? If your neighbour behaves like an illiterate because of a lack of education, must you join him in behaving like one? It is not in doubt that southern Nigeria is more sophisticated politically and more liberal than the North. Are you now going to think like an abolish cattle herder, an aboki manicurist/pedicurist, an aboki shoemaker or an aboki water seller because you want to play tit-for-tat?

What real benefits have the years of Presidents/Heads of State of Northern extraction brought the average northerner?

Godson32:
What's ur end point?

My end point is that OBJ as a so called 'Christian' president failed to protect the rights of minority Christians in the north. The leadership qualities we require in our leaders should be competence and good character, not their religion.

This is the same Obasanjo who during the Sharia crisis under his presidency, failed to act to protect Nigeria's secularity as enshrined in the constitution. It can be argued that in failing to act against the northern states who declared Sharia at that time, Obasanjo was complicit in sowing the seeds of the deadly Boko Haram insurgency we are experiencing today.

Unlike the weakling OBJ, Buhari's swift and decisive action in crushing the Islamic Maitatsine revolt in the 1980s is on record. Even Muslim clerics like Sheikh Gumi are in trepidation at the prospect for radical Islam of a Buhari presidency. A Muslim Buhari will protect Nigeria's secularism more than a weak Christian Presidents in the mould of GEJ and OBJ.

sexyexcalibur:
Guy u r not a xtian , if u r u would care if some1 does not know Christ or IG some1 is a sinner eg gay et all

Typical Nigerian religious hypocrite! Mr Holier than the Pope! How dare you accuse anyone of not being a Christian? Was it not just last month that the Pope embraced Catholics who happen to be gay? You so called Christians go ever fall person hand with una judgmental attitude.
'All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God'.
Immoral Christian hypocrite that you are, compare your signature to mine! A so called Christian with fornication on your mind. 'sexyexcalibur'!!

geophyscist:
no matter how competent buhari and fashola his,both are muslim and we christian are risking extinction like turkey if we vote for them.To prove to the op that we christians are religous conscious click like and if against click share.

It is people like you who prevent this country progressing.

Keenysbojan:
Ape pee see must not win 2015presidential election..if dey do,all the Christians shud find dia way out of this country coz dia wud mass killing (they wud be killing Christians)... quote me how and I will send you the tape... Ape pee see primary assignment it to eradicate Christians,to turn Nigeria to Islamic country

Stop with scare mongering, abeg. So Tinubu and Fashola go kill them own wives wey be Christians? I keep telling people that the Yoruba race is too liberal for all this attempt at introducing religion into our politics. A Yoruba man is a Yoruba first and foremost before being a Muslim.

Omimah:
I would love a Buhari/Amaechi ticket.

A Buhari/Amaechi ticket will not get bloc votes in the SE, SS, SW, Middle Belt
A Buhari/Fashola ticket will get bloc votes in the whole of the core North, SW and split the Jonathan/Sambo vote in the SS, Middle Belt.
It must never be forgotten that Democracy is a game of numbers. Buhari/Fashola is a winner all day, everyday. Do the Math!

tivta:
You are a typical example of why religion is so important in Nigeria. Instead of saying let the best man win you are putting it in the hands of God. Will God vote on that day? My signature says it all.

No mind them. Na so so God this, God that!

Obasanjo may be a sage but he does not have sole repository of wisdom. If true, I am very disappointed in his intervention. Regrettably, we seem to have allowed religion to creep into our politics and public life. Ethnicity and religion should not be a yardstick for determining the most qualified appointee but performance and content of character. I am Christian but I really do not give a damn whether public officer is Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Efik, Edo, etc, gay, straight, bisexual, Christian, Muslim, animist, traditional worshipper, etc, etc. OBJ does not always know it all. APC sacrificing their best candidate at the altar of religion is akin to Argentina not playing with Messi because of his faith or Brazil not selecting Neymar because he is Catholic/Christian, or may be even Portugal not fielding a fit Ronaldo.
Only an unpatriotic Nigerian will deny that a Buhari/Fashola candidature will be formidable. Obasanjo is just a hypocrite. Did being Christian prevent him from being corrupt whilst in power? Is it Christian to have sex with one's daughter-in-law as Obasanjo has been alleged to have done? When Abacha/IBB stashed millions of dollars in foreign banks, is that what the Koran teaches?
OBJ should not pull the wool over our eyes, abeg!

Collynzo29:
Abati is not helping Jonathan at all, it would have been better for him to shut up.
GEJ's Yoruba spokespersons: Abati, Okupe, Olukolade, and Omokiri have all failed him woefully

Father: Look son, a tribalist!

Suarezilla:
I am not into politics but Ameachi went too far with his rants about the president. Jokes apart,that is the highest office in the country and the No. 1 person in this country and he deserves all the respect he can get. We have now turned our country's politics into a laughing stock as international bodies would defintely be amazed at Ameachi's public show of shame. I think its high time some people know where their boundaries lies and be made to stay their. He behaved really rascally...like a motor tout!

Bros, dey your lane joor! Na GEJ ridicule that office by himself. Na true Amaechi talk.

Band of brothers thingz. Anyone ever observed pigs eating? They eat collectively with their snouts in the trough.

Ilekere:
Some of us have the luxury of turning off the lights.


*chilling in 24-hrs electricity while nggas be blowing stank breathe on firewood*

Nigerians enjoy darkness because they hate looking at other Nigerians at night. Just saying......

I enjoy reading stories that touch from Nigerian government.

I'm guessing you are one of these Nigerians in diaspora. If you are, I fail to see why you are rejoicing and celebrating another country's accomplishments. There is a Yoruba saying that only a bastard child would point out his father's house with his left hand fore-finger.