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And whether Atiku's haters like it or not, his time is now.

sleek214:
Don't mind Tinubu paid supporters.. Atiku is the next president..... Nothing can stop him

He's arguably Nigerians' best bet to unseat Tinubu and APC., no doubt about that.

Atiku, Obi, Kwakwanso and even Tinubu have had the course to contest for elections under different political platforms in thier political journeys. Appraising thier leadership qualities should not commossensically, be premised on one-party or multi-party affiliation staus.

In today's politics, local or international, political enthusiasts always tend to sentimentalise issues all in a bid to either denegrate the personalities of people on the other side of a divide, or simply set out to call dog a bad name just to have it hanged.

When a political commentator who has never been known for, or associated with a cleacut ideological stand either in support of a political party or its ideologies makes a bold but glaringly perverse attempt to demarket a frontline political heavyweight like Atiku Abubakar, citing his associations with many political parties in Nigeria over the course of our evolution as country , as the basis for querying his leadership or political status, in today's volitile political landscape, one wouldn't be wrong to describe such person as a mere mischief maker as well as a typical rablerouser who's only seeking for relevance where obviously, there's none.

For many who had followed the dude who parades himself as Barcanista on this popular forum, it requires little or no effort in unraveling how unstable he has been in
chaging alliances between different political parties like piece of cloth. Today, he supports PDP, tomorow, he ports to APC. Overtomorow (the day after tomorrow), he's wearing a different garment in a different support base.

With the above escapades well documented, on what basis would a character often labeled as a camelion blatantly typify himself as a kettle calling the pot black? And while should the leadership status cum leadership quality of a politician be called to questioning simply because he or she decides to change associations?

Please, don't get me wrong, I am not, by any stretch of imagination giving backing to politicians' incessant movements between or among political parties, a practice that clearly becloud their political standpoints, Nigeria as a developing democracy has not reached the point where a democrat can stay glued to a political party. We would surely but gradually get there.

After all, virtually all the celebrated political juggernauts in the country today, have had the cause to change political platforms in the last 24 years. This, as unpalatable as it is for ideological democracy, should not be used as a yardstick for denigrating their leadership qualities, Atiku Abubakar inclusive.

Thank you for the audience.

Cc:.

Nlfpmods

flokii:
It seems Atiku is hell bent on destroying this country.. whoever is advising him better think again.
All the stakeholders from South are saying South till 2031, one man is busy going about making plans to flout that rule.

No, it's your perversed mind that wants to destroy the country. Did your eyes see only northern stakeholders in the coalition declaration today? The southerners in that meeting, are they AI generated robots? Think my friend, think and free your mind.

yarimo:
No any single relevant politician in the coalition self

What's your definition of relevance? Virtually all the people in the coalition had played one role or the other in Nigerian politics over the last two decades or are you one of those with big heads but small brain? Tell me.

SeeWahala:
So, obi being president and someone else being his vice means HE IS WORKING ALONE abi? 🤡

Let me break it down further, if you didn't get it. The so called obedients will help hasten Obi to his political obscurity if he continues to listen to them. Bunch of mobs who lack sense of intuitive reasoning and I don't care if you're one of them.

Commonsense shows that any attempt by Obi to contest as a presidential candidate the same way he did in 2023 would not only end his political carrier, it would further dampen the chances of Southeast in producing president in Nigeria. His best bet for accendancy to the presidential seat, is to deputice for Atiku. Anything short of that would lead to his political damnation.

But take this from me: I don't care what Obi does provided he doesn't use his ego to bring APC back to power the same way he did in 2023.

SeeWahala:
There is nothing like Atiku - obi coalition anywhere anytime you people should stop jumping the gun on political matters.


Obi will NEVER be a vice to anybody in 2027 and better take it from me on behalf of all obidients worldwide

Hubris of the highest order. Always grandstanding on empty political thresholds. It's a pity that someone that once chaired one of the frontline banks in Nigeria would allow some blockheads to deceive him into political oblivion.

Obi will never become president as a standalone presidential candidate unless he disembarks from his pedestal of overblotted ego. Use your heads.

onuman:
Vendetta no good.

Anyway, Atiku Abubakar must not continue to wrestle for power with the younger ones in Nigeria's politics.

How is Atiku wrestling power from the younger ones? Did any youth aspire to become president from your lineage and Atiku stopped him or her?

Try to use your head before typing nonsense.

ddippset:
Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.

Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku.
He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.


He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party..
Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.

This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.

He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.

May God continue to increase your wisdom. I am always elated with this kind of critical thinking, devoid of deceat and ignoble emotions. The fact that many people still listen to the man and take his words hook, line and sinker remains baffling and negates any iota of commonsense.

If many Nigerians can think rationally the way you have done, questionable, double-mouthed and deceitful characters will cease to have field days in Nigerian politics and its rulersship.

Thank you.

helinues:
Comment maturely

That's the mildest comment/reaction I could give to mischief makers who leave substance of a matter and concentrate on trivialities,

Let's cultivate the habit of calling a spade by its name.

Showering undeserved praises on nation destroyers is condemnable. Okay!

helinues:
Wike is the current best FCT minister

Character of development

Idiot. When were you born and what do you know about the trajectory of developments in FCT? Tokenism has reduced your ability to think rationally.

temisartana:
People should try to know what happened between both of them first.

It's not good to be judging from distance while you haven't heard from both of them.

And stop making it look as if is a tribal thing. Her late husband knew her and where she is from very well before decided to marry her.

It's only a fool, outdated educated illiterate, religious and tribal bigots that are still relying on tribe and religion to make a judgement nowadays. The world has advanced beyond this primitive thinking. Change your thoughts

You're a rare gem. I feel honoured and relieved by your comments. The world has gone so perverse and conscienceless to such a level where many do not consciously bother to consider all angles to any issue before passing judgements, forming opinions or drawing conclusions. It's a sign of a people who have lost moral values and critical reasoning.

Has anybody asked why "she's so pained"? Have they forgotten that she knew everything that panned out before, during and after Aketi's travails? Do they really know the root causes of their hostilities?

Nobody is saying she should not " move on ", however she does deserve to be heard out when she ventilates her anger. Simple.

The best any reasonable person can or should do, in this circumstance, is to stand on the fence and let posterity judge all concerned.

CornOak:
I regret watching the match, seeing the results alone would have been better. I'm utterly disgusted, displeased, and disappointed.

AJ should go home.

It's the end of his era. Boxing, just like most of the contact sports, goes with psychology. As soon as a boxer looses the fear factor that scares his opponents, he's gone. AJ lost the fear factor the moment he lost to Andy Ruiz in their first bout. His grit was broken.

Same thing happened to Mike Tyson and Wilder; they were found out and the fear factor disappeared.

If AJ decides to still hang around, he would be pummeled by even journeymen in boxing. He's made some bucks and it's time to quit.

deji17:
Too bad AJ lost. A time for everything. AJ ruled the Heavyweight boxing world for some years. It's time for the younger ones to take it from there.

Not just loosing, but loosing badly. There were rumours this guy rocked him during sparring in the past but AJ and his handlers kept on denying the obvious.

As much as I know anything can happen in boxing, this utterly one sided show really hit me hard.

It's as if AJ didn't train at all, or he grossly underrated his opponent's punching power.

He was outclassed, outboxed and reduced to nothing.

I think it's time he takes a bow.

chiiraq802:
APC = PDP
PDP = APC.
know this and know peace.

I thought by now, your warped senses and those of the mob would have been resuscitated after myopically bringing APC back to power due to inability to reason liberally and conscientiously. For your information, there are only two dominant parties in Nigeria; PDP and APC. If you fail to borrow senses, your lamentation has just begun. I am also sure your conscience agrees with the fact that PDP's 16-year rule was far better than what APC is offering but tribalism and sentimentalism would not allow you to own up to it. Good luck with your mob syndrome.

onumadu:
I never thought it was possible to hate Nigerian politicians the way I hate them these days.
Peter Obi was their last saving grace, but see what is going on...
All I see are all manner of thieves and never-do-wells parading themselves up and down as "Honorable".
Since they came, Nigeria's moral and spiritual levels have continued a downward trend.
The morality of the country has been effectively destroyed by these polithieves.
Today, a son beheaded his own father in Ogun state for money rituals, and people were shouting, cursing him, wringing fingers, etc.
But what is different from what that boy did, and what these polithieves are doing to 230 million unfortunate human beings in Nigeria?
I hate Nigerian politicians with a rare passion.

Morality hardly exists in Nigeria again. It's currently endangered in our lexicon. Plain truth.

Racoon:
You hear Oma Bongo talking trash today in this regard?

Everyday is for the thief but there's an assigned day for the farm owner. He was caught in the act, so it's time to sing a new song. Nigerian politicians should beware, lest they overstretch their luck.

Racoon:
Humn! The fuse have long been lighted. The triggers of these coup frenzy? Legalisation of illegitimacy and unconstitutionality have given rise to it. Lawlessness begat lawlessness. Illegality begat Illegality.Anarchy, lawlessness and unconstitutionality reign supremely where there is no rule of law

There's rule of law. Only that politicians and their comrades in crime, circumvent the rules!

truthhurtsnaira:
As long as Oduduwa, Biafra, Arewa remain subjugated (along with Kingdoms of Bini and co) Nigger+Area will never wake up.

The consequence of further defiance will be too much for the political class to handle.

An adage from the southwestern part of the country soundly situates the waive of forced military takeovers spreading like wild fires across the length and breadth of African Francophone enclaves when it posits that " the death of one's contemporary is nothing but a proverbial warning for the living to take heed".

First it was Mali, then Bukina Faso, and before anyone could say Jack Robinson, despite barking from ECOWAS, the US and its allies (and non allies alike), Gabon, a nation of barely the size of Yobe in Nigeria fell into the hands of Khaki Boys!

Just less than three months ago, our president, Bola Tinubu still revelling in his 'victory' at the polls, sounded notes of warnings against further military takeovers in Africa while addressing ECOWAS assembly as its chair. Spitting fire and brimstone, so to say, he cautioned of dire consequence for continued military adventures in African politics. Regrettably, recent turn of events in both Niger and Gabon has indeed poopooed his thunderous rhetoric and that of toothless ECOWAS!

Now to the crux of the matter. Though many have disingenuously waived aside any possibility of military reentrance into our political landscape, citing the country's demographic dispositions and inherent diversities, however, the greatest mistake we can make both individually and collectively is to throw caution to the winds and behave like the proverbial ostrich. Let no one get me wrong, I am not as a patriotic and responsible countryman advocating for civil unrest or military incursion into our polity. This piece is intended to serve as a dreaded local gong, calling all of us to the reality of our crucial times, judging from what we can see and hear from far and near.

Our country, without unnecessary padding of words, requires leadership direction at these crucial moments in its annals of history. There's palpable fear among the citizens, of possible civil and ancillary disobedience if the gale of recklessness and power mongering continues unabated in the polity. Our politicians' indifferent postures in the face of excruciating pains of the teeming masses do not by any stretch of imaginations help the course of the nation. Day-in day-out, the gulf between the rich and the downtrodden gets wider in the country. News of electoral and judicial suppressions feel the air. Election tribunals are been allegedly compromised and manipulated all in a bid to keep the status quo.

In not too distant past, our society was correctly categorised as a clime of three tiers of citizenship; the rich, the average livers and the poor. That classification without any iota of doubt has practically evaporated, vanished into thin air and subsumed into two classes of merely the rich and the poor. In other words, in today's Nigeria, one is either poor or rich, no middle ground.

Wastage in public space refuses to take downward slide but the hapless citizens are perpetually reminded of the need to persevere. Many are barely living without direction and assurance of tomorrow.

With such despondence and pitiable quagmires, shall we still pretend and assume all is well with the nation? And if those saddled with the responsibility of remedying the situation are now the ones that constitute themselves as clogs in the wheel of the progress of the nation, what hope lies our democracy?

I am just trying to make sense and I wish our dear country best of luck.

Cc; Nairaland Mods.

Oladd writes from Abuja.

ElSudani:
That is not what the law says. 25% in the FCT is only relevant if you have 25% in 23 other states.

What you are saying doesn't make sense since you can win all the states in Nigeria and still not win if you don't have 25% in Abuja.

The crafter of the constitution knew what they were doing by specifically mentioning FCT. If it was not mandatosry and important, it would have been completely ignored in the provision.

Misterone:
Tinubu is the incoming president elected. He has fulfilled the requirements as par the constitution. So any other thing is secondary.

My friend., I am Yoruba by tribe. Tinubu has not met all the required tenets of the law to become president. HE MUST SCORE 25% IN FCT to be declared president.

nairamaniac:
Habaaa I wdnt I know you?
Are you not Lord Lugard that almagatted us all together.
Egbon mi!!!

The man who knows about the constitution and Law more than Falana.
I'm sure you are Gani also.

How can falana be the constitution when we all have you?

I am not claiming to to have absolute knowldge of the constitition but the provision in question is written in plain english language. Even Falana was referring to WINNING THE FCT, the constitim otherwise makes reference to securing 25%.

nairamaniac:
I tried hard to restrain myself from insulting your intelligence when I tried to educate you with my response to you.

But it may seem like people like you need insult or beating as water to push down Lessons(eba) down your throat.

Try to be humble to learning.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.channelstv.com/2023/01/24/winning-fct-not-requirement-to-emerge-president-falana/amp/

Its even on front page as I send this to you.

Or you now have more sensibility than Falana?

Obviously, you don't know the person you are giving subtle threat. When did Falana become the constitution?

oluwaseyi0:
For this purpose Abuja is seen as a state hence Nigeria have 37 states

Have 25% in 2/3 of the above 37 and you are good to go

24 states AND Fct. Simple english.

nairamaniac:
not correct. FCT is counted amongst the states to be secured with 25%

Sometiing is wrong with your sensibility. The constitution says: 24 states AND FCT. It commonsensically and legally means you must secure 25% in FCT. Simple.

CoronaVirusRelo:
We have heard o!

Atiku still won’t win!

Fake or real, His candidacy is DEAD on arrival!

It will be easier for Arsenal FC to win the UEFA champions League, than for Atiku to become President

Surely, your tune will change soonest. Atiku is your next Commander-in-Chief.

Acedude:
I like this Atiku man. Hopefully he wins. He has maintained decorum throughout this electioneering period.

You are absolutely right. He is the most matured and experienced among the lots. The man Nigeria needs now.

switlily25:
Atiku's the safest choice for now.
Please vote for him and you won’t regret it.

You are very wise. Thank you.

ORIENTATION101:
Honestly can't Blame Atiku, it is waste of money spending on a project that is bound to fail.

This time around Atiku doesn't have the usual block votes from SS/SE.

He won Oyo and ondo in 2019, but Tinubu is going to sweep south west votes in the forth coming election.

North central, Apc will win kwara,kogi,and Niger.atiku will have to battle labour party to win Benue,plateau,and abuja. Meanwhile apc can edge him in nassarawa due to emergence of obi.

North east, atiku will take adamawa,taraba,and bauchi .Tinubu will take borno,yobe and Gombe

Northwest - tinubu will take zamfara,kebbi,kaduna,jigawa, kastina. While atiku takes sokoto.
Kano will be a battleground between kwankaso and Tinubu.

Obviously Atiku defeat will be worse than 2019.

Typical nonsense. Just wait till Saturday, Atiku is the next president of Nigeria.