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6Ebisco:
President Muhammadu Buhari has said it will require more than one election cycle to fix Nigeria and deliver the promised change.

According to him, the change promised by his government was not an event but a process and it would, therefore, require time to deliver.

He urged Nigerians to re-elect him for another term of four years, promising that the fruits of the efforts he had made in fixing the country in the last three and a half years would soon begin to manifest.

Speaking yesterday in Lagos at the 75th anniversary business lecture of the Island Club, Buhari also debunked the argument that Nigeria lacked institutions, and said the claim was one of the “hyperbolic expressions that fly around these days.”

The lecture titled, “Nation building and institutional development, lessons for Nigeria from the Island Club at 75,” was delivered on his behalf by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola.

Buhari, who is the grand patron of the club, recalled that unlike now, there was a time when the club held its major events in the open air because it had no hall and could not afford one then.

“It took more than one term and one election cycle of the Chairman of Island Club to build this hall just as it will require more than one election cycle to build the nation and deliver change,” the President said.

He stressed that the fact that the Island Club had existed for 75 years had put a lie to the claim that there were no institutions in the country.

This, he said, was another lesson that the nation had to learn from the club’s 75th anniversary, stressing that the fact that people expected more from the existing institutions did not mean that the institutions did not exist.

“The process of change and reform did not happen because Island Club did anything; it happened because people, members of the club, and I believe, non-members, who were men of goodwill, chose to act,” he added.

Buhari said he had put the country on the path of food security by banning the importation of rice despite opposition by vested interests, who frustrated earlier government food security policies such as Operation Feed the Nation and the Green Revolution.

As a result, he said, his administration had produced millions of rice and wheat farmers, adding that his vision was to industrialise the nation’s food sector.

Buhari said under his watch the manufacturing sector had made progress, citing recent statistics by the National Bureau of Statistics.

Buhari said his reforms in the power sector had led to improved power supply, which had rubbed off on small-scale businesses.

“It is because of these small business owners, hard-working Nigerians that I am offering myself to serve for one more time,” the President said.

https://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/10/one-term-not-enough-to-fix-nigeria.html

is he making excuse for GEJ ?

Gratefulheart01:
Wow! Yorubas have always been the most influential/achieving tribe since time immemorial.
Pioneers of great feats. But we're beginning to relent lately, let's keep up the good work and not go backward.
Igbos too have been achieving so well.
Hausas should change their ways, embrace education and shun religious fanaticism and stone age barbaric lifestyle. They can be great too.
Nigeria Amaka! Good people, great nation!

I dont know who you are but,with people like you Nigeria especially the south can still unite. Kudos !

sureheaven:
]At least we now have a President that can read and who doesn't need economic terms to be interpreted to in Hausa.


A presidential candidate that left the country to dubai to go and strategize. Is PDP not shameful for their 16years, Nigeria shld have been better than Dubai if PDP had done well and had not looted the nation to stupor.
How many presidential candidates of other countries come to strategize in Nigeria.

His own will be worst if he becomes the president in ipob land.
Ole Atiku

In your hate and stupidity,you keep making that group popular. Even when it seems they have been forgotten,you from nowhere pop up their name IPOB.

seunmsg:
How many jobs did he create as Anambra state governor? Atiku once served as chairman of National planning council, National council on privatisation, economic management team, how many jobs did he create? They should show us the number of jobs they created while in office and stop trying to deceive the people.

Dont even go there else,you shoot yourself on the leg. Obi transformed Anambra state holistically. Talking about privatisation led by Atiku,do you know how many jobs created by the telecoms industry revolution ? Do you know how many jobs created by private universities and polytechnics?

yjgm:
Why now?. The south east is not safe for even our Corp members.

So what are the thieving military officers littered all over the south east doing there ? Are they not suppose to stop criminals ? They are only good at harassing innocent and armless citizens.

Funnicator:
Ordinary phone call to a whole DSP na en you cool down like hot rice wey them blow air.

DSP. U dun insult ur office.

Both DSP and Atiku are out of the country,what else would you have had them do ? Wait until he comes back when things would have gotten out of hand ? Or travel to where he is to meet him ?

Get some chill jare !

pode:
Let's watch how this movie is going to end, one good thing about APC when they need any member from PDP they will use EFCC to collect the person

They have tried it severally on Ekweremadu and it didn't work. Not everybody is a coward.

bankyblue:
She they important for your time zone

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Good English you cant speak,even pidgin you still cannot speak yet,you question NOI's importance !

Integrator1:
Keep deceiving yourself , nobody takes atikuthief serious in South West..
Atiku is a IPod project ..
we reject PDP with our body and soul ..

Next year , we'd all cast our votes for PMB .

If you ain't pleased you know what to do .

In 2015, Buhari scored 700+ votes and GEJ scored 600+ votes. So speak for yourself and dont say We.

Tell us why we should vote for you and stop making other candidates the subject of your campaign.

WorldRichest:
Season one is about to start. Dear IPOB miscreants both online and offline, your lord and personal saviour Fayose is about to be humiliated, kindly get ready with your keypads for the online war. Sambo Dasuki is still in jail, El-Zakzaky is still in jail despite different Courts setting them free. A man that can lock up his brothers and throw the key of their jail room inside the River Niger, when such a man lays hands on other people's brother, blood may flow. Where is Cownu Nnamdi?

So you think you have made a contribution by what you wrote ? There is an issue posted and instead of making reasonable comment on the subject matter you are here spreading your ethnic hate.

aleeyus:
See the stadium grass unlike that ridiculous UYO stadium grass.

This is North Africa,the weather is not as harsh as ours. Just like Europe,grasses will flourish because of a more friendly weather in tunisia. No matter how had you try,our grasses can never be like this.

seunmsg:
Finally, a pro PDP handle made a honest assessment of the debate. The wailer who opened the earlier thread about people's reactions to the debate simply uploaded pro PDP reactions. Knowing Deji's antecedent, I want to believe this is a more accurate assessment. I didn't watch so I can't assess.

if you didnt watch,then hold your comment. You cant rely on any human being because they can always disappoint.

GoTV:
Instead of the igbos to vote for Buhari and get automatic presidency in 2023, they are rooting for Atiku because of Vice president and a fake promise of restructuring forgetting that Atiku is also a Fulani man that will always favor the Northern Oligarchs. How they trust the same Atiku to restructure a country the North so much benefit from with less contributions is beyond sane minds. Atiku has been chasing power for years and the igbos think he will weaken his presidency with restructuring and render himself powerless at the center with restructuring Right now they are more Nigerian than other patriotic Nigerians all because of VP and restructuring. Just like they did in 2015, when Atiku looses, another miscreant will return from London and start screaming biafra or Death, Nigeria is a zoo and so on. I really pity those people and their kindergarten politics . They miscalculate in every election and blame Yoruba's for their misfortunes

What Benefit will Igbo Presidency provide to any Igbo if the country is run aground ? if there are no jobs,no security,no food,how will the Igbo survive till 2023 ? We dont want the present predicament caused by Buhari to continue,we want him out. We dont care where who takes over comes from.

sarrki:
Atiku misfired

What am I seeing ? Is this really a show of concern ? Good to know this.

ChrisMafian:
Some people won't survive the aftermath of the 2019 elections. I hope they don't have high blood pressure after Baba is announced winner.

After Baba is announced winner you said, not after Baba truly wins !

ChrisMafian:
Obasanjo is of no political importance, Atiku will be disgraced at the polls

we said same when he endorsed Buhari in 2015 !

adioolayi:
See dem faces
PMB don show dem pepper, reduced tithes from political theives don badly affect their fortune.

Never to PDP.

NB:
I have PVC...I will vote, my vote will count.

Thief calling people thieves ! Do you know how many Christians and Muslims that have been brutally murdered under Buhari and APC's watch ?How about churches and mosques that have been destroyed ? And church and islamic leaders who are seeking for stop to these are being abused by a blood sucker like you.

ChrisMafian:
PDP losers thought we won't participate in the election cause of no candidates in all levels Lol.
Come 2019 Zamfara will vote Buhari
Only Ipob and thieves across the country will vote that International Criminal.

And your Buhari and APC could not prosecute him for more than 3 years they have been in power ?

hisgrace090:
If you reach there you will weep, lament and even cry for this country.

Passing through that road is like passing through hell.

AND AMAECHI IS A MINISTER IN THIS GOVERNMENT !

ModsareChevres:
Mimiko, Fayose, FFK, Deji Adeyanju and co are from where

At a time SE politicians were decamping to APC left right centre, the Yorubas there stood their ground.

You must be a very forgetful person.

Like Salvado,former Lagos state PDP Chairman right ? My dear,what is here is there. Ekweremadu, Emeka Ihedioha, Peter Obi,Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, I dont want to call Governors of Abia,Enugu and Ebonyi states. You sounded like there are none that stayed put in PDP even as opposition party being persecuted in the south east.

Buterflyle0:
So far Buhari has been the only one who has shown he cares about the SE unlike PDP.

Buhari has chosen a VP on two occasions from the SE. Although he still lost when he chose his VP from the SE but its on record he has done so.

However PDP for the past 16 years has not even looked the way of the SE.

Go and ask yourself who between the one who has chosen 2 of his VPs from the SE and the one who had never bothered at all, who you think would support SE presidency.

My dear,it is not about presidency. It is about good governance no matter where the person is from. Buhari has failed so,let him go home. if Atiku fail too,we send him home. We shall continue like that until we get the right person. We must ensure that we through our votes are the ones deciding.

diebuhari1:
Yes, most Igbos will never dream of voting for Buhari even with a gun to their forehead, but there are other parties and also an option of boycotting the elections if PDP betrays us and that would be a disaster for Atiku and PDP.
For 16 years of PDP rule, none of the top 2 positions went to the SE despite the unflinching support from the region, now some people are still suggesting rubbish.
I don't know why Yorubas want to reap where they did not sow

When some people make this analysis of southwest having the second largest number of registered voters,they tend to forget that about 40% of that number are south easterners and south southerners. Anyway,we are watching.

iamJ:
so what will happen? she will star in a Hollywood blockbuster? park well with that dream, even God cant make such magic to happen

Foolishly daring GOD ! SORRY !!

gillsway:
But Wike voted Tambuwal? This the era of fake news indeed

Were you with him when he caste his vote ?

sarrki:
President of ipobians

So childish of you !

Earthbound:
Just the way people regret vying for MB, so will they for Atiku.


See the bigger picture if you're not myopic. One Fulani to the other while the rest of us are being herded like cattle. It's what they do best, herding.

Is the Buhari the only Fulani to rule this country ? That one Fulani (Buhari) messed up does not mean another or every Fulani will mess up .

Dottore:
People should learn never to look down on others. If Don Jazzy had accepted to work with her, he could have attributed much of Simi's fame to his hard work.

It is not looking down on anybody. It is a business decision and in most business decisions,you are taking a risk. It is not all risks you may want to take. At times you win and at times you loose. Lets just say simi is one business risk Don refused to take and it turned out this way. maybe she would not have blown under Don.

lonelydora:
Chai... They may arrest him.

MKO Abiola comes to mind

Meanwhile,

Africa/Blackman is not cursed. The problem is the difficulty in changing our thought process. When you have a faulty thinking process, it will lead to problems. Transformation starts with the mind

You mean it is the thought process that is caused ?

seunmsg:
Excellent. Igbos have no excuse not to vote for this great son of theirs. They have always complained of marginalization and Fulani born to rule mentality and Yoruba slavery. This is the time for all ipobs and Igbo supremacist to walk the talk. No Ibo person should vote for the born to rule Fulani candidates represented by Buhari and Atiku. A vote for Gen. John Ogbor is a vote for Ojukwu, Nnamdi Kanu, Biafra and IPOB.

Is Ogbor an Igbo Man ? Sorry to be disappointed !

iammo:
even a day old baby knows the region atiku is picking his VP from, no matter the empty and inconsequential threat of political boycott from region with only 7m PVC , and track record of loosing national politics(Ibrahim tofa/Sylvester Ugoh and buhari/okadigbo). The owner of thisday newspaper Mr Nduka Obaigbena is only writing his own theory based on wishful thinking.... I wonder which northerner would vote for a southeast vice President, after been thoroughly insulted and called illetrates, zoogerians, terrorist, ewu Gambia, gworo chewing malu, or the yellow bar Muslim Fulani slave name calling. How exactly will a tribe given quit notice and ultimatum to leave north or face violence, endup wining anything as a vice president in that same north

Your problem is that you think every Igbo is an IPOB. You pretend not to know that even the IPOB accusses Ohaneze and igbo governors of working against them. Your type give credence to IPOB's claim of hate from Nigeria and Nigerians for the Igbos. Please turn a new leaf.

vecman22:
Okay oooo


BTW atiku should please beg ipobs not to support him ooo cos we all kwn what will happen when those fellows supports you.

How much did IPOB pay you for this publicity stunt for them ? Once it seems like everyone has forgotten about them,you will just throw up their name. We are watching you o !