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babyosisi: On the pages of the Internet?
To bring ridicule to the Church?
Do you know what confession is and what it should achieve?
When the bible even enjoins Christians not to take a fellow Christian to court but seek to amicably settle

If the confessions she did to her God and the man of GOd she spoke with are not enough to free her soul then she has mental issues and can't get over the affair
She needs a shrink

Stop attacking the girl. She may not be a victim but the pastor is definitely a charlatan. He it is who has a crowd of church members that he deceives. Not her. She did great by exposing him. Same way we want our policemen and politicians exposed, that should also happen to pastors and everyone else who has a responsibility to the public. That is how societies cleanse themselves - by naming and shaming.

You're an intelligent woman. I just hope you're not one of those that fawn over these charlatans called MOG

I attended this church in Unilorin then. I have to admit that the man can teach the word. Really. But apparently, it wasn't out of a desire to do the work of God, but to impress and hypnotize young minds so he could have his way with our money and sex with the girls. I was never one to worship or fawn over a pastor, and even though I was a worker, I never really got close to them, and I liked it that way.

Most of my friends hated the church cause of all the "fakeness" there and how everyone wanted to be the best-dressed even when you could see on their faces how poor they were with their sunken temples and prominent cheekbones. None of that bothered me though. I just wanted to hear the word. O tan.

Even back then I had friends who told me about how the man made passes at them or slept with someone they knew. But I just thought it was because they didn't like him. As soon as I read this story, it all came together for me. I believe her completely. All the parts fits together. The mannerisms she described of the pastor and how pastor Flo reacted to it. I could just imagine those exactly.

Since this story broke yesterday, I have been hearing tales of other pastors and what goes on in churches. To Nigerians I would say: I don't believe in your version of God anymore. He's either phony or he doesn't exist. Not because of this charlatan pastor, but because I've been thinking about it since I've been in the US. The whites believe in hard work and using the talents God gave you. The result is a developed country that harnesses the capabilities and potentials of all its citizens. We, Nigerians, are brainwashed from childhood that it is not by power or might, it is not of him that willeth or runneth, etc. hence absolving us of responsibility for our own lives and its outcomes and placing everything in the hands of a god that hasn't been favorable to us. Look at our country. Even with all the religion going on there... nothing to be proud about. I could go on and on but I'll just stop here.

Very sad.

Mumu people full here no be small. Make una dey here dey shout end times and dey get high on top gay people wey no concern una, the rest of the world is moving on, inventing new things and trying to better the lives of its inhabitants. Always carrying religion on your heads yet you're the most corrupt nation, your lives are miserable, and nothing works in that god-forsaken country. smh

Gbawe: @Topic.

The day one of the fans of GEJ/PDP can present themselves to defend, with facts , the glib saying "ACN is same as/worse than the PDP" will be the day I accept that Nairaland has GEJ/PDP fans as some of the politically sophisticated members of the forum able to defend their arguments with facts. As it is, the reality is that most GEJ/PDP fans are just like market gossips who deal in conjecture however ridiculous such sound.

They only excel at clannishly jumping behind anything negative stated about the opposition without inspecting such for facts.

Here, Oduamkin is now favourite "truth teller" of some because he is antagonising the ACN and the enemy of their 'messiah' never mind that he is saying things that make no sense to built environment professionals. That he gets away with it and is called "truth teller" for such show the functional illiteracy bedevilling Nigeria.



N50 million per KM is £200,000 per km i.e £0.2 million. You can all go to the thread below, from skyscrapercity.com, to see informed contributors talking about cost per KM of road in Europe and the USA with estimates ranging from $3 million to many times that amount !!!! How can Odumakin say what pays homage to functional illiteracy and he is hailed as "telling the truth"?

To a sensible, informed and erudite person, Odumakin is on a character assassination mission and he is not doing a good job of such except of course to an audience of clannish messiah-worshippers who simply prefer to be deceived than to read. It is only in a parallel universe all roads, never mind terrain challenges and appendages (median, drainage and culverts, pavements et al), will cost under £200,000.00 as 'uber town-planner' Odumakin tells us. Next some butcher who hates the ACN will tell us modern rail lines are built for thousands of pounds and not the millions the ACN say it is spending - never mind such is supported by appropriate documents.

Can Odumakin not simply get a hold of a bill of quantities or similar to show the "fraud" he is going on about instead of just pulling any figure that comes to his head from the air?

Anyway, Odumakin and co, i.e disgruntled elements bitterly envious of what the ACN has achieved while they are effectively zeros in the SW, will never be short of unthinking and clannish fans for their diatribe that is long on bitterness yet short on simple logic. You guys should simply go and get a bill of quantities and prove your case factually. Same as his example of road construction "fraud" does not stand up to Professional/factual scrutiny is how it will be established Odumakin simply does not know what he is going on about with most of his petty and personalised rants.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1520537

You guys are a disgrace to any decent person. SMH. You are an ACN looney and I never believed in your sincerity for one day. Want to know how I knew? 1. You were all for Ribadu because your master, Tinubu said so, until he didn't. You saw nothing good in Buhari. Now you're all for Buhari because Tinubu said so. 2. You never praise Jonathan even when he stumbles upon doing something good once in a long while. That is how I knew that all you ever do is dance to Tinubu's tune.

Don't just go online and pick out the cost of road projects in spain or wherever. You should also give us details of the soil test in those areas. Even in the Niger delta region with their poor soil conditions, how much is a kilometer of road built for? We aren't morons now. How is it that your neighbour builds a road for 50 million and you build yours for 1 billion? What are you building it with? Gold? SMH

Please remove your head from Tinubu's a$$. You're a grown man and it is disgraceful that you follow someone without thought.

@topic. Yinka spoke the truth, and Buhari should be ashamed of himself for not standing by him.

This has been my exact sentiments for a long time. Lagos will soon become a Tinubu dynasty if Lagosians don't act quickly and if Fashola does not grow a spine and put Tinubu where he belongs - an ex-governor who should have no say whatsoever in how Lagos of today is run.

Please take time to read this brilliant piece.

JUNE 27, 2013 BY ABIMBOLA ADELAKUN (AA_ADELAKUN@UTEXAS.EDU)

“This new development portends great danger for our democracy and indeed Lagos integrity. We are thus calling on the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, not to sit on the fence at this auspicious time. Fashola must rise up and be counted now. He must exhibit control in governance especially when Tinubu’s interest conflicts with the public interest. He must see to it that the process leading to the emergence of a market leader and any other leadership in the state is transparent, liberal and credible.”

—Lagos State Chapter of the PDP

Life has some pleasantly ironic moments. Before the Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party woke up to the news that the former governor of the state, Bola Tinubu, was about to install his daughter as the Iyaloja of Lagos, who could have thought the party would ever understand –or even acknowledge- that anything portends “great danger” to Nigerian democracy? Or, that the party would even canvass a process that is “transparent, liberal and credible?” These are surely interesting times we live in.

Since the PDP put out its press release, part of which was quoted above, there has been some robust discourse on the social media about whether another Tinubu should step into the shoes of the late Abibatu Mogaji, “pioneer Iyaloja/President-General of Nigerian Market Men and Women” who held the prestigious position for many years even when she was old and frail; and at 96, was clearly incapable of functioning in that role with as much vitality as she would have exuded in her younger years.

The PDP, on getting to know about the announcement purportedly made at Mogaji’s burial, panicked and quickly issued the press release I excerpted above. It does not quite seem it has awoken to the reality that Lagos is Tinubu’s property; from there his influence extends to other states in South-West Nigeria. He is the go-to godfather of the region such that men like Lamidi Adedibu who once trod that path look like upstarts when contrasted with him.

My advice to the PDP is to cease its caterwauling and focus its energies on winning the 23 states President Goodluck Jonathan recently stipulated as their 2015 target. For now, not much will change as regards the ownership of Lagos political structure. The Tinubus own a lot and like the proverbial greedy man who insists on acquiring every parcel of land that touches his land, they keep expanding.

It is not for nothing that Tinubu was assigned an anti-democratic title of “Governor Emeritus.” There are similar examples of such labels created by fawning Nigerians to massage the egos of their leaders who are obviously plagued by the Mugabe Complex. This attitude, taken in its entirety, illustrates the intractable problems of leadership in Africa. The Mugabe Complex is a fear of ordinariness; a symptom exhibited by people in power who just do not want to be out of the picture. In their minds, they are the awaited messiahs so they impose themselves on people by every means possible. Such people jump from Governor to Senator; from First Lady, they become Permanent Secretaries or Mother-of-the-nation; or transform into tribal leaders and godfathers. They practically configure the state finances to lead to their pockets. They clog the state machinery so that those who succeed them in office would have to contact them for solutions.

Leaders from this part of the world who are plagued by the Mugabe Complex lack virtue. They do not walk away when they complete their tenure; rather, they create enough problems so that we can always look back wistfully at their tenure. They cannot even stand successors who outshine them in performance. They will do anything, as long as it gives them continued relevance and help them exhibit a sense of patriarchal proprietary over their constituencies.

During the 2011 elections, not a few people were astounded at how the former governor reportedly put forward members of his family in the Lagos State elections when it was quite certain they would win since their party controlled the state. If it had been a PDP leader who was taking advantage in that manner, it would be an opportunity for the Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Lai Mohammed, to gallop on his high horse over and over again. He would have issued his famous press releases to “yab” the party and then self-righteously proclaim a fatwa on them. That is one of the reasons the PDP is an easier party to understand than the ACN; it has no progressive agenda that enables it to pretend. The classic opposition-to-the-rescue image the ACN has created for itself over the years has enabled it and its Big Daddies to evade a lot of scrutiny.

The ACN has tried to play down the Iyaloja story by pretending that it has bigger fishes to hunt than the leadership of mere markets. That kind of attitude –pretended or otherwise — is wrong. Whoever eventually emerges as the Iyaloja is important, actually. The post is a culturally created one but considering how traditional market systems are a vital component of our existence, it’s not a trivial one.

A scholar, Manthia Diawara, pointed out that the traditional market system poses the greatest obstacle to modernity in Africa and should be coopted into efforts made at building modern societies. The traditional market system forms a significant part of cultural life that we cannot divorce from our corporate-contemporary existence. They are important gateways to trade and globalisation. Markets, anthropologically considered, represent interwoven strands of primitiveness and modernity in our societies. How far our country will go can be determined from the dynamics of these markets. In Nigeria where manufacturing efforts are low, what constitutes our economy owes a lot to the markets. I hope the ACN treats the market system with more deference than the political advantages accruable from the office of the Iyaloja.

As things go, I am not hopeful the PDP can achieve much by seeking Fashola’s intervention. In 2011, people grumbled out quite loudly about a leadership that was inbreeding to the point of incest, but then what? The Tinubu family members still won with a landslide. The grumblings ceased and life continued. If the post of Iyaloja gets ceded to another Tinubu, people will murmur and live with it. If anything will change, it should –and will — come from Lagosians themselves. Lagosians are sophisticated people and when they have had enough, they will do the needful.

http://www.punchng.com/viewpoint/lagos-belongs-to-the-tinubus/

Crayola1: Oh my God shut up, you sniveling bastard. You have nothing in your own life to be proud of so you ape others accomplishments. If Soyinka named a new book Untitled your stup1d behind would think its unique too.

That guy is a disgrace, and a complete waste of whatever wasn't free that was spent on his education. A very annoying a$$licker of an uncommon breed.

Crayola1: I think he should have went regardless. If someone is your friend and colleague you should pay your final respects, damn the naysayers. All these dribbles and essays from Soyinka, seem to make the problem he is rallying against much worse in public opinion.

People will talk always, so your damned if you damned if don't so it is what it is.

My thoughts exactly. It's always much easier to attend a friend's funeral than have to give explanations later.

Then again, even if for some reason he couldn't attend, why bother with all this long story? That only elevates his naysayers and fuels the suspicion of the viewing public.

Very boring game. Waste of time really

should have been 6-0 by now

That guy is a certified slowpoke!!!!!!

1-0

are those clowns booing us?

I kind of like the national anthem of Tahiti. Tahiti to win this by reason of a more melodious anthem

When will Tinubu take his hands out of the coffers of Lagos State? Has he not eaten enough already? Haba!

Governor Fashola Releases Fantasy Video Of Lagos

A pricey video recently released by the Lagos State government touting the state capital, Lagos, as a megacity has been described by various critics as “a myth,” “sheer fantasy,” and “a series of false representations.”

The video, which is available on youtube, offers a spruced up, non-existent image of Lagos as a safe city that – in the words of Governor Babatunde Fashola – anybody “would like to call home.” The video ostensibly made by the Lagos Internal Revenue Service also feautured the former governor of Lagos, Bola Tinubu, whose Alpha Beta tax collection company reportedly makes billions of unearned income from the state coffers on a monthly basis.

The video presents a glitzy and glamorous portrait of the city of Lagos that is at odds with the experience of the vast majority of the millions of residents. A Lagos-based businessman told SaharaReporters that “most Lagosians can’t recognize the Lagos in this video.” He added that, while Mr. Fashola has done a commendable job in cleaning up parts of the city and building some roads, “It is farfetched to claim that Lagos works as a modern city should work.”

A Lagos-based lawyer pointed out that the video gives a rosy picture of the sharp rise in internally generated revenues in Lagos State, “but ignores the fact that there’s no transparency and little accountability in the process.” He added that it was common knowledge that former Governor Bola Tinubu “is fattening his pocket daily by keeping a big chunk of these revenues.”

Another critic wondered why the video failed to focus on the neglected slums of the city as well as the plight of millions of Lagosians who reside in shanty sections that lack the most basic sanitary facilities. “Where are the real residents of Lagos who live next to open and overflowing gutters, whose children go to schools that are not fit for cockroaches, and who have to travel in overcrowded molue buses?” she asked. “Let us hear the voices of the teeming millions of Lagosians stating that their city is Eldorado on earth. Then I will take the video seriously,” she added.

“I am not saying that Governor Fashola is not trying, but this video of a clean Lagos filled with music, smooth traffic, and recreational amenities is pure fiction,” a Lagos-based writer told SaharaReporters.

http://saharareporters.com/video/governor-fashola-releases-fantasy-video-lagos-city-most-lagosians-have-never-seen

LAGOS, AFRICA's BIG APPLE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-YiOvZuzAg

By CLIFFORD NDUJIHE & DAUD OLATUNJI

LAGOS —TWENTY years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections presumably won by late business tycoon, Chief M.K.O Abiola, the Head of Abiola family, Mubashiru, yesterday, exonerated former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida from the complicity that led to the death of Abiola in government’s custody. Rather, he said that Babangida, who annulled the election, had been a pillar of support to the Abiola family since the business mogul died in detention on July 7, 1998.

Mubashiru, M.K.O Abiola’s younger brother spoke at Abiola’s Oja-Agbo family house in Abeokuta during the 2013 June12 democracy walk organized by the Ogun State Government.

The disclosure came on a day that President Goodluck Jonathan said that ‘June 12’ had changed the history of the country for good as leading politicians, activists and groups at different events to commemorate the 20th anniversary of June 12 lamented that little or no improvement in the welfare of Nigerians had been achieved since 1993, adding that poverty among the citizenry had worsened.

Meantime, the Federal Government said, yesterday, that it was ready to immortalise Abiola and urged Nigerians to come up with suggestions on how best to honour the late politician. The government’s effort to name the University of Lagos after Abiola last year hit a brick wall with opposition from stakeholders and students of the institution.

Mubashiru, who in an interview with newsmen in Abeokuta appealed to the Federal Government to pay the debt it was owing Abiola, said Babangida‘s support to the Abiola family was unparalleled after the death of their bread winner, saying, the family believed strongly that, it was not possible for the General to kill his former friend.

He said: “Babangida did anything we wanted in this family. Unless he did not know, he would come. He has been supporting this family. He always supports the family. There was a time Abiola’s daughter was wedding, Babangida was here with his wife right away from Minna, sat down with us; he left his wife to stay with us till the second day. She slept in M K O’s house till the second day.

“That is the major reason why I will always support him and I don’t believe that Babangida was the one that killed M KO, no. That is capital no. Everybody knew that Babangida was not in the government when M KO died. How could you say that somebody who was not there did something? It is not possible. Babangida does not know anything about the death of M.K.O.”

Delivering a speech on behalf of the family, Mubashiru described IBB’s regime as the best urging current governments at all levels to embrace the vision of June 12 by ensuring good governance.

“I want to state unequivocally that General Babangida’s administration remains the best ever in the nation’s history and I implore our current administrators at various levels of governance to embrace the vision of June 12, by ensuring that every Nigerian family gets food on their table and shelters on their heads, all employable youths get jobs while the nooks and crannies of the Federation enjoy basic amenities.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/ibb-has-been-our-pillar-abiolas-family/


SMH. These guys have no pride or shame? With all the millions MKO left them, what pillar of support should they be looking for outside? Even if IBB didn't have a hand in Abiola's death, it was still his action that ultimately lead to that death, so they shouldn't even be seen with him in public or have his name on their lips except to pronounce curses.

Na wa for these people sha

Tunsbobo: It can not work because it is idiotic to even imagine the idea in the first place! Besides, my opinions tackle matters from the origin! Sometimes, i like to ask why the totality of a thread is created in the 1st place
Punchline: You are obviously and failingly trying to seek relevance from this topic; i advice you my sworn hater to think of something else

I think you're ascribing too much relevance to yourself. You obviously have a false sense of your importance.

You still haven't said anything, btw, all the while trying too hard to appear intelligent. Ciao, and don't let the door hit you on your way out.

SouthEast: You really are a dolt. BUHARI-Fasola ticket indeed. Now buzz off with your Islamic mentality and obvious intolerant.

It's intolerance, bro. The only intolerance I have is for corruption and visionless leadership just as we have right now. You're the one that is hemmed in by ethnicity and foolish religious considerations.

Tunsbobo: Some people live in a fanatical and symphathetic world of their own! The op of this topic is probably one the numerous jobless minions that parade the dusty streets of Nigeria! I mean, Fashola and Buhari? Honestly, i didn't expect the degree of idiocy of any Nigerian to be this high!
Punchline: The Op should be offered a job, no matter how dirty it might seem would ultimately improve his derailed plight!

You haven't enlightened anyone with your tirade. Don't you have any opinions, any intelligence to add aside flailing like a man trying to see his a$$hole?

Let's have your own permutations and why this one may not work. Some people have stated their reasons. You can't be that shallow, surely

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SouthEast: Why should he leave the PDP? Are you that intolerant? You want everyone to belong to ACN? ACN is not corrupt, right? You are a joker. Anambra won't be voting Soludo for president, Nigerians would.

You're reaally not making sense, and your comprehension skills aren't very good. Read again.

Chime is sick. Y'all should leave him alone to take care of his health. As for all the others, they should win elections at state levels first (Gov/Senator) before stepping up to presidential level. That's how it's done the world over. I like Utomi a lot. But he should build a base in his state first. But I see your problem is having an Igbo president. To that I say, be patient. The time will come. Let's not get too myopic and bigoted.

SouthEast: Soludo has the vision and the intelligence. Can you support him?

Yes. IF he leaves the PDP. Remember the slogan "vote for Jonathan, not PDP"? How did that work out for us? The party is too evil right now and no one will succeed as president in that party. The entire party structure is built on corruption - chop make I chop. They have to lose elections before they can be motivated to make changes.

Besides, Soludo couldn't win Anambra, among his own people. What prospects does he have with national elections?

SouthEast: What brazen cockiness. Before you finally hit the aro mental home, please tell me why the North, who using Boko Haram, has done all they could to destabilize the country should be allowed to rule and why MASSOB who only rants and has not done any tangible thing to achieve their call should not be. Can you mention any notable Igbo politician who supports MASSOB? Tell me why the south-South (GEJ) was allowed to rule after ND militants bombed uncountable oil installations and nearly crippled the economy? And as a caveat I support GEJ 100%.

I think you know the answer to that. GEJ was supported mostly out of sympathy for the SS. The MEND guys were never calling for secession, but for resource control, and they had very good reason. The region had suffered decades of neglect while never producing a president for all the money the federation gets from there.

MASSOB, on the other hand, have not articulated any credible reason why they want to secede. All they call for is Biafra, WITHOUT a proven reason why. See the difference?

BH is a relatively new phenomenon. There's no established link to GMB, Tambuwal or any of the pols you hear people mentioning for national office. Besides the North is too big to ignore on a presidential ticket. A credible pol from the region should be on the ticket

SouthEast: SS will vote for no one other than GEJ. SW will not support anyone from SE. Rochas has no serious base. Let GEJ simply finish his 2nd term. He is not the best but certainly not the worst we have had. FASHOLA might not do well as a president; he has been draconian and has even deported Nigerians from Lagos. Lagos is only 1/36 of Nigeria; too complex for Fasola to handle.

That is exactly the attitude that will keep us a third world country for decades to come: mediocrity.
While Fashola has his faults (I've often criticized some of his policies myself) he has VISION. Very important. He has a good grasp of what needs to be done. He will be able to fix the big things that will set the economy on a roll. GEJ has neither the vision nor the charisma or know-how to even lead a local government.

brownlord: @OP, You and your friend needs help, why i will advise you ask your friend to see a psychiatrist i think you need to visit ombatese for spiritual cleansing to get over this madness of yours, Fashola and Buhari, in which country

1. Buhari wont want to be a boy to Fash.
2. Nigerians dont trust buhari enough to vote him either for president or vice, hes old and should retire
3. Muslim/Muslim ticket? joke of the century, we are not yet ripe for that to trust a religiously divided country as ours to one religion, certainly not muslim.
4. Northerners have ruled this nation for over 30 years, why must they be either in the no. 1 or 2 position, what happen to Fashola/Rochas, or Fashola/Oshiomole must any of the first 2 position be given to the north?

My friend, if this the place of APC, then i think they will remain in opposition till 2019

Na wa o. Guy you can make your points in pigeon English. No be by force. See person wey dey tell someone to see psychiatrist meanwhile im dey yarn incoherence like drunkard.

Muslim/muslim ticket is joke of the century and two southerners on a ticket is not? See logic. Meanwhile you guys should stop persecuting the north for the military head of states we've had. Under civilian rule, it has been balanced, with the south having the edge.

chukwudi44: You are calling someone an ethnic and religious fanatic yet you claim "this country is not rerady for a south easterner as president" what the hell do you mean by this statement? Is fashola better than the akunyilis,ezekwesilis,soludos of this world? The sw just finsihed their quota of 8 yrs with obsanjo and now you want to smuggle elitist fashola through the backdoor.

Buhari can never condescend to be vp to anybody let alone fashola and a fashola/northen vp ticket would only win in the sw.The north would never vote for such arrangement as they already have a vp who is even more positioned to be president in 2019 than a fashola presidency that would likely push that to around 2023

I see your problem is that there is no Igbo man in the ticket. I am also Ibo, so cool off. Akunyuli et al don't have the same experience as Fashola, so that's a poor comparison. Use your education and enlightenment for once, so the money spent on you won't be a waste. Think beyond your nose. In countries that have made something out of themselves, they choose the best from what they have. We cannot hope to get anywhere anytime soon with your quota system. Wasn't it your brother that was livid with anger about quota system into FGCs? Someone from Gombe with a score of 2 is admitted while another from Anambra with 104 cannot get in. Quota brought us clueless GEJ and Yar'adua, quota will keep us down. Use your head for once.

Ikengawo: Im curious as to whether or not Rochas will out do Fashola and vice versa. I feel that Fashola's popularity is largely among the yoruba and the internet. nobody else cares. I don't know about rochas cause i haven't been home since his vice presidency but Fashola doesn't command are much support in Lagos as Rochas does in Imo (if there were an election today it would be 90% for Rochas), so this is a measurement.

Rochas and Fashola are two different types of leaders though, i would compare Fashola to Chime Sullivan if you need an eastern 'counter part'

Ikengawo: so if the standard is low why not pull high quality guys into the pool to improve it?

The speaking ability of any American grade school teacher surpasses Fashola's. If Nigeria had a politician that can give a speech, a bare minimum good speech, we wouldn't be compromising for mediocres. Also, the SE and SS don't like Buhari, so there's no openness. Buhari is a primitive relic of an era we're trying to pass.

a 70 year old undereducated former dictator isn't the best we can do. Lets stop lying to ourselves. His constituency happens to be the least educated and most brutal portion of the country, if he makes sense over there then fine, but in the SE and SS the guy is a cave man. middle belt as well.

The proposition was GMB for VP, not president. So save your grouse with the man. And as payless suggested earlier, GMB could be magnanimous and float Tambuwal or someone else. As for Fashola and grade school teacher, don't be ridiculous, okay? I live here in the US too. I also TA'd undergraduate students and their English is poor. So save that for the ignorant. More importantly, you choose from the current pool of leaders you have, so again, get your head out of the air.

Btw, Chime has done okay, but the dynamics of Lagos compares more closely to that of Nigeria. Besides, Chime is sick, so let the man be. We don't want another Yar'adua situation. IMO, Rochas still has to prove himself in Imo. 2 years is not enough.

ogb5: guy, if you don't understand what I wrote, pick up your secondary English book and study comprehension all over again.

I rather have a Christian as president than have a boko haram sympathizer as president.

Apparently, you had no idea what it was you wrote earlier. Sympathizer and active funding are two different things. Btw, the proposition is VP not president. Comprende?

ogb5: It has given us the comfort that FG fund is not being used to progress a religion that takes pride in killing fellow citizens

And you have proof that BH was ever funded by the FG? Please share your proof...

SouthEast: The country is not ready for SE as president but it is ready for two muslims as president? You live in planet Mars, right?

Can you explain to us why the country is not ready for a SE president? Who are those in the country who are not ready for a SE president? You need to convince me.

You only just need to view threads here to perceive that. There's still the civil war trust deficit as to the motives of an Igbo man, and only more time practicing democracy will heal that. The continuous talk of Biafra among SEasterners has also not helped to put that episode in our past.
Even in the south-east, Rochas will find it difficult cos outside Imo, people see him as stepping out ahead of his time in national politics. He should conclude two terms and prove himself, then he'll be ready. Take the country by regions: SE, SS, SW, NW, NE, NC. Put Rochas up against Fashola and except for SE and possibly SS, Fashola will do better in the regions, IMO

ikwere militant: don't mind d maleria patient

Obviously you're one of the poorly educated/illiterate people who can't see beyond ethnic, regional and religious persuasions.

At the end of the day, I don't think the country is ready for a south-easterner as president. So at best they'll still end up with a Fashola/Tambuwal if GMB decides to do the right thing. What has GEJ's christianity done for you?