₦airaland Forum

peckhamboi:
Police should gun them down if they cause any trouble.

Yeye People.

joeyfire:
TINUBU’S HIDDEN AGENDA; SAMUEL AJAYI

WHERE ARE NORTHERN VOICES? As media practitioners and consultants, we used to do one thing while analysing national issues: who is commenting and who is not. What are they saying, what are they not The aim is to see if an issue initially presented as a national one is actually an ethnic agenda. It is in this context that I have been doing an analysis of the Buhari presidential challenge and I asked: WHERE ARE NORTHERN VOICES? It has been a 'research' I have been doing since January till this year. Granted that Buhari campaigned in the North and pulled massive crowds but where are Northern opinion leaders?

On mainstream and social media, the vehemence of the Buhari push is being spear- headed by Yorubas! In all his official engagements, within and outside the country, check the pictures: you wont find a Northerner behind him.The odd men out apart from South- westerners are John Oyegun and Rotimi Amaechi. Yet you see Tinubu, Fashola, Fayemi, Amosun, Lai Mohammed, Mamora and co. I may be proved wrong, but only once have I seen Tambuwal in photo with Buhari! Kwankwaso has quietly withdrawn himself! Atiku hardly talks even when his boy runs Buhari's media organ of the campaign. Wammako, Shettima, el-Rufai don't talk. While Obasanjo is talking every day, Babangida, Abdusalami, Ciroma, Coomasie, Lawal Kaita hardly say anything. Is there something going on?

I spoke with a Northern senior friend of mine from Sokoto State who used to head a federal government electronic media arm on why the North is not giving the general the media and moral support required, here are his words: "We want power to return to the North but it seems you Yorubas have a hidden agenda with the way your people are pushing Buhari and turning it into a Yoruba crusade." I prodded him further but he politely declined to say more. I continued this 'research' on Facebook. Whenever someone posts a pro- Buhari or anti-GEJ material, I also usually do a demographic analysis of 'likes' and comments and again, I discovered that it is mostly 75-80% Yoruba thing.

Even the Remove-Jega- don't-remove-Jega campaign is PURELY a South-west 'headache'. If you doubt, do your own media survey. Does it mean the feelers are true that most Northern leaders are uncomfortable with the way Tinubu has 'approximated' the change 'struggle'? Are they aware of any agenda some of us are not? I asked these questions because no matter the noise we are making here, high-wire, high stake politicking is going on at the highest level.

asala1:
I will liken the Igbo people of Nigeria to the African-Americans, they exhibit the same traits which I believe is INFERIORITY COMPLEX and just like the African-Americans it is deeply psychological. You guys need to move on.

alaoeri:
Is it that TANoids are naturally dumb or silly? How will a current serving house of rep member in Lagos will now contest for senate in Ogun? Op FYI the constituency in which YAYI is contesting in Lagos share boundary with Ogun the billboard maybe a sign of support since Yayi & Amosun are in same party.

tutudesz:
i will prefer if only the north is remove from nigeria,because of there of must rule thinking because of their size. south west has always nd will always look for any region to back

noblezone:
If Okorocha believes the PDP is behind Radio Biafra, then too bad.

As far as I can recall, Radio Biafra is calling for election boycott: A call some of us have disagreed with them.
It is politically expedient that we return Jonathan.

Of course, the main hub of Radio Biafra is in London.

Although some of us are not happy with the Director for his violence approach to the struggle, people like Rochas will soon learn that we the Biafrans do not follow personality cults.

Once more, we are calling on all Biafrans to head home!
2015 election is an anti climax.

A Jonathan win is trouble, A Buhari win is also trouble.

Cheers to all.

NewNigeriaMind:
but jona dey beg for phone call naaa

sheep without brains

clevvermind:
their reason might be different, but in Nigeria, we all know that tribalism hold sway and it is the major cause of all this.

clevvermind:
Tribalism is what is killing Nigeria. I'm an igbo, i'm yoruba, i'm hausa, i'm ijaw, i'm this, i'm that. When are we going to see ourselves as Nigerians, as one people? When are we going to put tribal or ethnic sentiment aside and move on as one people? When are we going to love ourselves? When will the tribal hatred ends? Why are we so intolerant and unacommodating? Please let's move on as one. We are brothers and sisters. Let's stand together, let's fight together, and let's live together as one people. In unity we stand.

Symphony007:
The Muslim world wants the most populous black nation back in it's grasp. And they'll do anything to usher in buhari as president.

Symphony007:
The Muslim world wants the most populous black nation back in it's grasp. And they'll do anything to usher in buhari as president.

millstone:
Morocco has recalled its ambassador from Nigeria, accusing the authorities there of using King Mohammed VI in an election campaign.

Its foreign ministry issued a statement, denying the king had spoken by phone to Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan, as had been stated by Nigeria.

The North Africa kingdom denounced such "unethical practices", it said.

Nigeria has denied that the king was being used to win over Muslim voters.

Mr Jonathan, a Christian from southern Nigeria, is facing a strong challenge in the 28 March elections from opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari, who is popular in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north.
'Astonishment'

The Nigerian ministry of foreign affairs released a statement on Sunday, denying reports that President Jonathan had been snubbed by King Mohammed because he was trying to curry favour with Muslim voters.

"This information is absolutely not correct as the president did in fact speak to the Moroccan monarch... both leaders spoke extensively over the phone on matters of mutual interest and concern," it said.

However, Morocco's foreign ministry responded by saying it wanted to state in the "clearest and strongest terms" that "there has never been a phone conversation" between the two men.

"The king has actually declined the request of the Nigerian government because it is part of the internal electioneering," Morocco's official news agency Map quoted the statement as saying.

"The kingdom of Morocco expresses its astonishment and denunciation to these unethical practices that are contrary to the spirit of responsibility that must prevail in relations between states."

As a consequence Morocco's Abuja ambassador was being recalled immediately for consultations, it said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31831833

Olaolufred:
If you know how to put yourself in other people's shoe,

You will understand that the efforts that NTA and AIT had put into personal attack on Buhari showed that BON is dead.

Do not think BON has any regulations to uphold or may be only when it is against the goverment in power.

Some of this things are not okay.

How will a documentary showing Buhari systematically turning into a wolf give me 16 hour power supply in my home?

My 10 year old nephew asked me how is that possible? I had to tell him politicians are using this to paint him bad.

While grown up mind who were born before 1980s will understand, many of our pre-teenage children are seeing all these un-called for attacks on TV.

Let us allow our eyes to see clearly that what is bad is bad.

NTA boss can never be a trusted referee.

obergath:
I obergath,my miserable cursed father,is a dung eating pig.