there is a movement being sponsored by the cabal whose choppings via the passport route have been closed and we will not sit idly and watch as they drag us back into the mess that we are desperate to leave behind

This is fantastic news. There will always be a few bad eggs who must be dealt with to prevent the scourge from caking the entire force.
What I'll like the minister to address now is the official fees cos the amount online is different from what we are asked to pay at the offices

truly when we have a harmonization of all our data collection systems, it makes it a lot easier to track criminal elements across the country.

The minister of interior clearly is running with the mantra of the President. #RenewedHope for all Nigerians

More than policy, we need the federal government to ensure that compliance is adhered to strictly

Very commendable of the minister

This is a most welcome development

Clearly, if we go by his 8 point agenda, Hon. Tunji-Ojo is a multi faceted peg plugging the ministry of Interiors multi faceted problems.

Nice job done by the Hon Minister of Interior.

At the rate at which the Minister of Interior is going, the only persons who won't have gotten their passport by the end of September are those whose process were not commenced at all by fraudulent immigration officers.
It's definitely a new dawn with Hon. Tunji-Ojo at the helm of the Ministry of Interior

these are constructive measures. we looking forward to a streamlined process devoid of all bottlenecks with a clearly stipulated time frame for passport issuance.

Most of the persons who have commented have spoken either optimistically or pessimistically and you can't blame the latter. The last decade has seen passport collect seem like a Herculean task.
But what else do we have if all hope is lost? For that reason alone I believe that the sheriff will actually bring about a new dawn.

The words have been spoken, what is left is the doing. If we are to infer based on past antecedents, the Minister of Interior is one with whom you can go to bed with both eyes closed once he's set his mind to a thing.

I'm sure the ministry will do well in this lifty ministry

The number 23 has a strong character all by itself what being a prime number to start with then having been worn by such sport greats as David Beckham, Lebron James and Michael Jordan amongst many but the reason for this meander down the rabbit hole is the claymore that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu detonated on the Nigerian politicosphere during a 35 paragraph press release.

In Selecting Senator Kashim Shettima, BAT as we have come to be inundated by, on this presidential campaign has finally confirmed the fears of half the populace of Africa’s most populous nation on his dream of a Muslim-Muslim candidacy reality. A reality that first gains credence in paragraph 23 of his press conference which goes thus:

“Both sides of the debate have impressive reason and passionate arguments supporting their position. Both arguments are right in their own way. But neither is right in the way that Nigeria needs at the moment. As president, I hope to govern this nation toward uncommon progress. This will require innovation. It will require steps never before taken. It will also require decisions that are politically difficult and rare.”

Of uttermost concern is the latter half of the paragraph especially as regards the need for steps never before taken and requiring politically difficult and rare decisive decisions but before broaching that, a little examination of the first half of the paragraph shows a conundrum that already exists and why this was always going to be a touchy subject however one tries to approach it from.

If truth is a state, a fixed point in time and event and a debate has but two sides, then both could hardly be right if there necessitates a need for one to be wrong as is likewise similar for both to be wrong if we expect that one side ought to be right. For a little bit of clarity on the matter we might have to read paragraph 22 which goes thus:

“I am mindful of the energetic discourse concerning the possible religion of my running mate. Just and noble people have talked to me about this. Some have counseled that I should select a Christian to please the Christian community. Others have said I should pick a Muslim to appeal to the Muslim community. Clearly, I cannot do both.”

If we are to assume that the Christian pleasing community made their strongest case based on equity, fairness, and Justice, what points would the Muslim pleasing community have proffered in their arguments? Or are we to take the paragraph at face value and assume that the “Just” people spoke for a Christian Vice while the “Nobles” spoke on behalf of the Muslims seeing as the vast majority of Nobility/Traditional Rulers in the APC strongholds of the North and South-West are Islamic adherents. Anyways we would now never know until a book is written by the main protagonist about the last couple of months.

Do we now return to our main staple of discussion? Going by his personal admission, "the spirit of 93 is upon us, and looking to build upon the sustainable progress that has been laid these past seven years by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari", what difficult political decisions would BAT have to take or make that hasn’t been already done?

If we cross-examine the acceptance of the Hope ’93 team of Alhaji Moshood Kashimawo Abiola and Alhaji Babagana Kingibe the glaring happenstance would be that circa that era, the Nigerian divide was strictly along ethnicity lines, intermarriages across faiths were more rampant in those days as religious tolerance as exemplified by non-other than BAT and his adorable wife Mrs. Remi Tinubu who is a Christian. The monster that is religious intolerance would really start to grow its horns with the advent of this current democratic dispensation we began in 1999.

Were we to throw our search beam on the praise of the current administration, we are once again left with a barrage of missiles as to the current state of the economy as well as the state of security of the nation as a whole. We all know where we stand on the two subject matters, the dollar keeps rising but even more worrisome, the Naira is falling against most African currencies. Bread was shared as a souvenir at an “owambe” I attended yesterday (I kid you not).
The North East has Boko Haram, North West has Bandits, North Central has the Herdsmen and rustlers while the South East has “Ungun Known Men”. Let the South West not sleep with both eyes closed as the Amotekun have their work cut out for them in the shape of kidnappers hiding in the various forest reserves.

Is selecting Senator Kashim Shettima a difficult and rare decision? I would opine that only the politically uninitiated would admit yes and the reason for that is simple, his selection is purely a politically motivated one with the sole purpose of guaranteeing that BAT gets as many votes as possible in the coming elections from first and foremost the North East Zone which is supposed to be the stronghold of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku who is the flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party, the main opposition and later the entire North in General.

The competency of the newly declared Vice Presidential candidate is very obvious from his curriculum vitae, need we add that there are no gaps or missing certificates from primary up to NYSC and even masters to boot but what probably makes him the most qualified man as at this moment is the linage from which he descended.

Senator Kashim Shettima is the son of Sir Shettima Kashim Ibrahim an illustrious son of the Borno whose early career in education culminated when he joined politics in 1951-52; he was elected into the Northern Regional Assembly; he was nominated from the North as a cabinet nominee. Thereafter, he was appointed the Federal Minister for Social Services and later that of Education. In 1956, he was appointed as the Waziri of Borno by the Shehu. Waziri Ibrahim Shettima became the Governor of the Northern region in 1962, holding office until the military coup of 16 January 1966. He was appointed a CBE in 1960 and knighted as a KCMG in 1962.

If this has left you with more questions than answers then welcome to how I am also feeling but the one sure fact we can all take away is that If we are truly going to see innovative, rare, and difficult decisions from BAT and his Vice Presidential candidate (congratulations to the senator) we are going to have to wait and see if voting Nigerians buy into Asiwaju’s dream of a nation blind to its religious differences.

One comes across the minions on Facebook and WhatsApp regularly, it's a thing that we should all be sad off to think that the mentor would demand that the Mentee squash his dreams for him.

While Nigerian politicians should be wary of online polls, this is perhaps the one time where the real thoughts of the people have been captured. With Osinbajo you don't any form of paid trumpeters or placard carrying mobs...
The people truly love the VP

Quite luminary

This kain news no dey blow... Kudos to the President and VP Osinbajo

I'm loathe to respond to people on this platform but this sorta broadside is a complete no no ...
A lil expose on why or how you'd equate an Atiku to Osinbajo would have sufficed to help establish your case but really short of both having occupied the VP position there's really nothing I can think of that would allow you loftily raise Atiku to such plateaus as that.

Onepeople:
Sowore we might disagree on some certain issues, but you see this Osinbajo is no no for me ,you can't hate Atiku and love Osinbajo, on what ground? Pastors tag is to confuse the gullible.

Sometimes we really need to let sleeping dogs lie, cos even when they bark, the carriage keeping matching on...

While we must feel the pain of the bereaved, the unity of Nigeria is Paramount yet the security of lives and properties of all Nigerians must be borne by the chief security offices of the hot zones

As for me and my house we shall vote Osinbajo, for he's proven himself capable on both occasions as the full mantle was given to him.

At this juncture I'd like for you to recommend a candidate from each party and elsewhere whom you think can perform the Job

socialmediaman:


Nobody can end insecurity in the north, the military is as corrupt as anything and there’s little or nothing they can do about it. Replace the generals and a campaign of calumny starts that you have an anti north agenda and that will make the problem even worse

Statistically speaking less than half Nigerians alive today tasted IBB at the helm of power.

As for his claims of two or three, I'm lost on who the others might be as no one else can hold a candle to Prof Osinbajo.

Anyone that knows not the history and hence differences between NLTP and RUGA yet feels he's got a fundamental right to regurgitate fallacies fed him by equally uninformed persons constitute the population that would rather not embrace positive forward steps irrespective of however little.

What's the latest on the customs vs NBBF kit?

It's not the first time we've witnessed the humility of Prof. Osinbajo and to take nothing away from a great personality like Kingsley Moghalu, I think the only thing note worthy is the expression on the faces of the people surrounding both of them.
It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words

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IKUBABAYEYE001:
Kingsley Moghalu is a good man, A patriot, and intellectual but you see that man called Osinbajo keeps radiating Leadership, Service and Humility. A perfect fit for the Nigeria of our dream. Osinbajo 2023, Done and Dusted

I'm not in the habit of calling anyone a wailer, but the urgency with which you respond to all posts concerning Prof Osinbajo's mind boggling

Juliusmalema:
Osinbajo has really shown that one can be Incompetent and still



Still submitting

Whomever says Osinbajo is silent is either paid to do so or is a self delusionist otherwise it's both.

Juliusmalema:



What power does he posses?

He posses power of hypocritical silence...

Else let him resign and go home.

Same Osinbajo who headed so many economic teams that landed Nigeria in prizes of goods tripling.

Osinbajo is a serial disaster, more disastrous than Buhari.

Stay one lane na, how can you be driving forward with reverse?

Myer:


Then he should resign to save his integrity or whatever is left of it.

I used to defend Osinbajo too cos like you rightly said, the office if the Vice President is more or less a figure head unless the president is indisposed and his responsibilities given to the Vice.