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BlueRayDick:
Exactly, simple because that's not their job.

Anybody alive and has free access to the internet will be conversant with how APC criticized almost every PDP government's decisions between 2012 (when ACN, CPC & other parties were still contemplating a merger to form a mega party) to 2015 when they finally gained power.

It's not a new thing that started 2023.

BlueRayDick:
The job of the opposition is to act as a watchdog by criticizing government policies and programs they feel may not be in the interest of public good in a democracy .

If the ruling party wants praises for their policies and programs yielding desired results , they have their supporters and numerous support groups to do that job for them. It's that simple .

The common man like me and u are interested in having opposition checkmate ruling party so we can have a semblance of good governance .

BlueRayDick:
There are just some moot points not worth addressing .

When Buhari was 4cking this country and the media & opposition were singing it loud APC supporters and Buharists called them all sorts of names .Deacon Femi Adeshina even called them wailing wailers .

Today APC is blaming Buhari's 8 years of governance for the woes we found ourselves today and u start to wonder if that same APC was not the same one that its supporters called people wailers for criticizing Buhari's Policies .

We never ready for this country .

If u look back in time and point to the fact that during PDP rule ; even the poor rest of the poor can still manage to feed well compared to now when even middle class dey struggle to chop, u will just be hearing all kinds of shalaye .

DissTroy:
This isn't the point. You are doing a sum-total.

If you have 2 parts of rices and 19 parts of beans, the beans do not invalidate the presence of the rice. And you avoided naming any good thing of the last administration or the present because we've been conditioned to notice only the bad and champion it. You can't really think of any good on the go.

For example, no matter what we think of this administration, power supply has improved. Probably for the first time in our lifetimes as young persons, the idea of dependable electricity or 18 - 24 hours daily power supply on a wide scale no longer seems farfetched.

NigeriaStories on Twitter was doing a list of places with regular power supply the other day - something which seemed almost utopian two decades ago. That's one positive. So many bad parts, but still good parts.

There's the revolution in the digital tech sector.

We are no longer completely dependent on oil according to the NBS so a diversified economy is also no longer farfetched.

Doesn't change the fact that on the whole Tinubu has been poor and Buhari was poor, but not seeing any good bad is hatred.

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Doherty, the same man who exposed the illegalities and budget padding in the LASG expenditures just last year which began a wave of inquisitions into the budgets of state governments, including Alex Otti being fingered for the same wrongdoing which was discussed here, was still the same man who was the first to praise the LASG for the Red Line Rail Project.

Now that's how opposition is done. Praise where necessary, criticize where necessary. But for us, "Them bad, we good". Why would I even bother as a President or Governor explaining myself to you when you already have a pre-conclusion to any and every move I make and word I utter?

Bitter opposition which we mostly seem to practice isn't opposition.

DissTroy:
You know why governments in power never really take the opposition seriously most times? It's because the opposition does bitter opposition.

If you ask followers of Atiku and Peter Obi if anything good came off Buhari's government, most would say "no". It's barely ever been discussed even on this thread. We just shit on the government at the center for every reason, justified or not.

I can point out good in the Buhari administration. I criticize Tinubu, but I can point out certain positives in his administration, the inflation regardless.

If you ask other persons who identify with the opposition what good has been achieved so far, almost all can't point to one. NOT EVEN ONE. That's hátred.

We criticise blindly because we are most stuck on identity politics - " Them bad, we good". Sometimes it's pointless justifying your actions to someone or people who would never see anything good in you.


I criticise Akpabio. I was the first to shit on him. I'm the one who insistently opened up on some of the below-board activities he was up to as Governor even some person in and from Akwa Ibom still do not know.

I didn't celebrate his emergence as Senate President because I knew he has an antecedence of poor money management, and being chummy with the President meant a Yes-man Senate. I still criticise him but won't criticize blindly.

Same for Tinubu or Buhari or the state governor whom I didn't vote for.

Akpabio wasn't wrong in the instance in question, but since he's of the APC and we are on the other side, we must shit on him. He's the Devil like all of his associates in the APC.

What we have is a bitter opposition. Constructive criticism is the best way of being a critic. A good critic praises where necessary.

eph12:
If tomorrow ETH rates Amad, Chris will rate him too. He only rates the players ETH rates

Joezinho:
I come dey baffled when Chris say Amad nor dey impress Ten for training. 😂😂

Agenda must agend.

Joezinho:
Hey Chris, what makes you think Amad can’t win him over on the training ground?

obontami:
That girl was damn good. Too bad her career didn't turn out great, I found out she's out-temperd as well. She had huge fall out with her record label boss which was Clarence Peter; the video director. The hoe was kicked out, her rap career nosedive since then. She now works with lagostalks93.1 FM now.

eph12:
Within the last 2 years, over 10 players have come in via outright purchase or loan

eph12:
The matter tire me. Clear out the team let it be clear to everyone that you don't have first team players anymore. Force the board hand to splash money on the transfer window. But then they have splashed and he used the money to buy otondo and rejects from other clubs

eph12:
Who is the we that is going to get rid of the certain players?

Jodera:


I've already acknowledged earlier this week that Ole went over the top with that pressing ish and I thought the matter was already closed.

Jodera:
Lol, you came late to the Party na.

TrebleChamp:
This is the reality right now..

Jodera:
You're the one who brought it out about Ole wanting Ronaldo and sarcastically talking about recruitments team here.

I just brought out the quote that even though he wanted him, he still claimed it was a wrong move for all parties and the his presence actually complicated things.

TrebleChamp:
Which structure did Ole had before Ronaldo joined? Was he winning trophies before Ronaldo joined to he team? David Moyes also claimed it was unfair that United sacked him, cos he believed he could have turn thing around. Ole claimed Cavani was good with pressing, but how many goals did Cavani score? Abi when did pressing become the main job of a Striker?
Ole that was so useless tactically/generally, a certain Doc named him Amaka. His uselessness led to the famous e-war between OleOut (true lover of United) and Olesexuals. Ronaldo was a huge success at United, given the rubbish atmosphere he met and rubbish footy Ole and Rafiu gave us. Ole is my Club legend and i love him, but that interview was utter rubbish.

Jodera:
Nobody is blaming Ronaldo, at least not me. It's just like it's a partnership gone wrong or shouldn't have happened cos it doesn't fit.

And using pep is an anomaly. Pep is the top coach in the world that has a complicated system. Not everyone with his type of system will allow a striker have 9 touches a game and be comfortable. I doubt even Klopp would accept that

Jodera:
You said Ronaldo's presence didn't affect the structure, so I'm showing you quotes from Ole himself that said his presence did affect his structure and plans

Jodera:
Admittedly he went overboard with that "pressing" thingy (or maybe he has his own definition of pressing) but one thing that I can deduce from his talks is that the presence of Ronaldo changed most of the plans he had entering into that season. Ronaldo might have got the goals but then to Ole, the way he would have loved the teams to have set up that season is not the way it panned out

Jodera:
This is what Ole had to say. At least, even Ole is agreeing that he also affected the pangolo structure.

He even said you guys were one of the highest pressing teams before Ronaldo and that Cavani was one of those who ensured that.

TrebleChamp:
Ronaldo that came to our shitty team @ 37years and was top scorer. United is still feeling the effect of the damage Ronaldo did to the club..

ChristoBam:
Lmao. Definitely not spending time arguing this, after getting called different types of names for months for pointing the effects of Ronaldo on the team only for Ole to confirm everything we said.

Go leave main arguments for months come latch on side-comments lol. Nibo.

TrebleChamp:
So Ronaldo was truly going to Mancity, before United begged him to come to Old Trafford instead? Haterz said Pep was never interested in signing him, i agree with Ole that Ronaldo made a wrong decision returning to United.

ChristoBam:
No one's ever said Ole didn't want him. They gave him the option and he said yes. Like he said, so many other clubs were interested in him. He wasn't going to allow him go there.

It was a huge mistake on his part Sha.

Ellexy:
Solskjaer on what he would have changed during his time as Manchester United manager:

"I've thought a lot about this. The right thing was to sign Cristiano, but I think it would've turned out better for Cristiano and for us, if he hadn't signed."

Spy360:
I thought that after misquoting me you would have at least stated how your BAT is solving the hunger crisis ravaging the country. Does shouting 'Peter Obi is a failure' cure the hunger. APC and BAT adopting 'Peter Obi is a failure' as their mantra to inspire confidence in Nigerians simply show how insecure they are with the mandate they stole.

CrystalTiger:
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You're hounding Obi without him being in Aso Rock but you wouldn't have judged him in his one year in office, lwkmd