₦airaland Forum

Fela Durotoye is not a nice person at all..he is as proud as peacock and nasty to people he perceived to be lesser in status ..my friends who his wife relative stayed with them briefly and he was treated like thrash until he had to borrow money as fast as possible rent his own place ..they are not nice people..no human empathy..we need a leader with a human feelings..Durotoye will only focus on the elite and forget the poor..I dont see him as some one that has the interest of the poor masses at heart because he lacks empathy for the masses that are poor and vulnerable..ask him ..how many intelligent and poor student from his relative or community has he put on scholarship...for the betterment of humanity and society ? with all his wealth..how as he affected his community and surrounding.They say charity begins at home..if you cannot make any positive impact in the life of your immediate environment/community..how then do you intend to improve the whole of Nigeria..you cannot give what you dont have..what he seek is power and not love for the yearning and aspiration of Nigerians.he should start from LG OR House of Rep..so that people can test him.words are cheap.

APC ....SHAME...You guys have failed in all aspect of governance ..na only mouth una get..una use propaganda so te una PR agents don run out of lies to cover una ineptitude..your president is inefficient and non functioning and no world leader want to reckon with him..he cannot even hold a five minute conversation without committing blunders...if this is the best that your party has to offer then you guys should all cover your head in shame..
I am ashamed of the educated people in APC that see how this country is been ruined by Buhari henchmen but they choose to remain as blind loyalist and are too happy to eat what ever scrumps that they can lay their hands on under Buhari's rule..shame on the Elite in APC...you guys are worse than the evil PDP that we already know...Nigerians deserve better and not this lifeless bonny old man that you are trying to impose on us again because you dont have the balls to speak up so that you dont get a backlash from your Fulani masters.

ZeeBaba17:
I wonder when younger counts for better. Buhari might be older and slower but he's far more preferable than these younger bunch of rogues thirsty for power at all cost

preferable why whom? His kins-men, sycophants and ass lickers .They are the only ones who are benefiting from this government while others languished in pain and misery..Buhari is a slow pork..he is a disaster that the south west and middle belt brought upon us..if not for them, we wont be having Fulani heads men flaunting thier arrogance after killing hundreds of men women and children.I prefer a terrible Saraki to this religious bigot who only think nothing bit his cow.Buhari indeed.

Baselm:
I just laugh when I read people's comments about Saraki, I was born in Kwara and I've been following Kwara state affairs for 20 years.
U people call Buhari a religious Bigot, U can hardly find a Christian commissioner in Kwara state, u turn on the radio and all you hear is Islamic recitations even on UNILORIN fm.
All the senators from Kwara state are Muslims, A Christian hasn't been a Governor in the state before, I've never known a Christian VC of UNILORIN, almost all the commissioners are Muslims, In fact ull find it difficult to find a Christian public school principal, it took a serious battle with CAN before mission schools that are now controlled by govt can be headed by a Christian.
would u believe the percentage of Christian to Muslim In the state is almost 50-50?
u claim Buhari is appointing only northerners, wait till Saraki becomes president, only Ilorin Muslims not even (Kwarans) will rule Nigeria if possible.
The guy isn't even a devoted Muslim, he's just the kinda guy that will betray anybody/thing or group he considers vulnerable in order to keep achieving his selfish interests.

The less devoted he is to his religion the better for us..Buhari that always hits his head on the ground 7 times a day..how has he faired so far with govenance..he is the worse president ever recorded in the history of Nigeria who has ruled and failed twice..he is a failure because he a dullard..Saraki is corrupt and cunny ..no problem..since the other oppsition parties are still sleeping..Saraki can be the necessary idiot that can be use to unseat the lifeless bonny and fanatic man that call himself president of Nigeria.

CarlyX8:
can someone please help me out, i am hopelessly in need of 15K

If you in Lagos , Go to Balogun market and steal it..I hear they make cool money there..but make you are not caught...thank me later

BiafraAmaka:
That man Bullhari is a total failure,I will even support Bobrisky to unseat him

BOOOOBRISKY KE!!!..

xbernardx:
iBB that cannot walk again? If PDP are serious about unsettling Buhari, then Kwankwaso is a better annointment to drag the votes with Buhari


Saraki is almost a photocopy of Atiku, but more subtle and cunning

Kwankwaso is anti restructuring and very sympathetic to his kinsmen at any cost..we dont need another Buhari..Atiku would have been the second choice but it seems saraki seems to be getting more popular each day..they are all corrupt but these two are the only two necessary evil that i can see from the opposition party PDP..the rest parties such as SDP are still sleeping..I wonder why?

Scatterscatter:
The day one of them will goan find trouble, the other one will know the difference between twins and ibeji

this got me laughing..kai that day nor go good at all...

op this is a twisted story from you,this is a doctored article from the actual one ..you did it in order to manipulate people opinion..why? you nor serious ooo!I have read the main article posted here on Nairaland and i discovered that yours is bullshit.

If you had channeled all your energies into this policies of yours, I am sure by now we wont be where we are..He wasted all this time pushing for things that would further devide this country in other to favour his kins men and going on a wild goose chase on a vendetta mission...now election is coming and He is saying what we need to hear..so you get this kind intelligent view about developing our infrastructure since, nai you allow your Fulani agenda to take the best of you..We dont trust you any more.

Olabestonic001:
Do you know politics at all?
Ambode did not award contracts to the politicians and that's why Tinubu said his hand is tied.

If you deal with Tinubu, you'll probably be extremely loyal to him because he's someone who butters his followers bread through contracts, favors and the likes. In politics, you need patronage and Tinubu have that in quantum. Ambode didn't and that's the reason for his travails.

Now i get it..these people eeh!

DeeTweenie:
If Ambode should defect to PDP, that means PDP has taken over Lagos State.

Who the hell does Tinubu thinks he is?

I wonder ooo! they should just allow this man to re-contest and if possible have a meeting with him to iron out their misunderstandings...before these vultures come for him..I dont like either parties but I like the security we have been having in Lagos state for a while now..Ambode should just clean up Lagos and make it cleans as it use to be...haba!

Nice write up..If only it could be implemented in a country like Nigeria

barrmey:
buhari failed, yes it's true
but a government can create jobs. The highest employer in India and China is the government..
If legislature is truly needed, he should have helped buhari . just because of his stupid presidential ambitions Nigerians are in pain. He is also part of the government that created the problems in the country right now. I suppose it's wrong of him(saraki) to criticize Buhari . Saraki is first class liar and hypocrite

Does Buhari look like some one that listens to people? He is a rigid man with an archaic mind set..who told you development is his priority..if it were, he would have allowed Osibanjo to fully handle that with is economic team..do you know what is his priority is...creating colony for Fulani heads men across the country and ensuring they are well protected even after they have committed havoc in other people land...That is Buhari for you.He brought hardship to the land when he became head of state in 1984 and now that he has become the president of Nigeria ..he has even made our life a living hell...Nigeria is more divided than it was before..I have never nursed any hatred for any ethnic group until this very moment...he has made the country worse than the way it was..He is non functioning because he is taking care of his ailment..he is sick and need to step aside for functioning brains..we dont need a dead brain to rule Nigeria.You can be one of them for all i care..but this is not some one fit to rule Nigeria.He is lame Duck

Chimezirim121:
The gladiator has spoken, Ambode is the next PDP flag bearer probably. Do you want to argue?

Ambode is APC ..he can never never decamp..if he tries it, that will be the end of his political career.Lagos politic is dirty.

IntrovertedK:
mumu ipob yoot disguising as Ijaw man.. First, what's the romance between a tiger and a snake? When did Yoruba ever have any affair with the SS? Or is your brain on strike? Our job is not to romance any region buh install the president of the federal republic of Nigeria for our own benefit and bless God we've never failed in our duty since 1999 till date. Your useless Ijaw man that got his mind poisoned by his fellow Ijaw man is only living regretting his actions and will regret all through his lifetime.

I am sure you must be very proud of the lifeless and dull president that your tribe was able to install on all Nigerians..clap for yourself for a job well done and for exhibiting your this level of blind loyalty and stupidity...you should be hiding your head in shame for this disaster that you guys brought upon us and not to be on here bragging like a mediocre...May i remind you it is a mental state of mind?

Elliot2:
u r losing it..to stupidity

Perhaps he forgot to take his pill today.

Jerrypolo:
You don't like spiff

Humour is really relative.

I dont see him as a funny guy, though he act so hard to be..my view though

akpooooooooor!!! this always get me laughing when the women start with her exclamations..stiff id th eonly one i dont like in that show.

nellyquash:
PLEASE MY TECHNO BOOM J8 WAS STOLEN YESTERDAY. ANY CLUE ON HOW TO MAKE THE PHONE USELESS FOR THE SO CALLED AMU ROBBER?

The only thing you can do is to erase all your files, pictures, messages, on your phone and allow it to be reset..that means they wont be able to see any of your personal files on your phone anymore..the files in the memory card will be erased when the it comes online..it will just be plane.your network providers cannot help you with that,trust me because they are not interested..so go to your g-mail ( if you have a g-mail account) and proceed to your account in your gmail settings..please note that you can only do this if you have connected your number & phone to gmail at a particular point in time.
It will even give you the options to send a message and alternative number to the person with your phone to reach you (in the case if it was not stone but got lost ).if you want your phone back.

slivertongue:
RESTRUCTURING IS INEVITABLE.

RESTRUCTURING CAN BE DELAYED, BUT IT CAN NOT BE DENIED OR REJECTED

I concur..remember back then, the campaign promises of these politician were mainly bases on free education, good infrastructure, better welfare and healthcare system for the poor bla bla bla!! usually vague promises without a clear cut direction of how they intend to achieve them..Restructuring was not even heard off..because its a topic that so many elites did not want to hear...more like a taboo to mention.But now, it is one of the hot topic for campaign promises ...it a nice development..but the most important thing is who do we now trust between these two devils of parties

Shukuakukobambi:
But of course PDP hasn't failed Nigerians yet? Is this your shallowness on display or hypocrisy?

Whom will you for? Atiku or Moghalu? Let me know if you stand for any principle or ideology

I do not belong to any political party..I will only vote for credible candidate across board..

maestroferdi:
You know abundantly well that APC/Buhari has failed woefully... You cannot be objective for once.

Nobody is choosing to be domiciled in the past apart from you and your likes.

What logic supposes that Nigeria should continue to condone Buhari's misrule because PDP didn't do well?

The last time I checked PDP paid a price in 2015 for failing in governance.

Why should Buhari, whose stewardship is atrocious, be allowed to continue dispensing misery?

Be objective for once, ogbeni...

Nice one..Pls tell them...what we have these day are shallow minded youth that belong political parties only, and not for the principles and Ideology the party stands' for.

Victornezzar:
Apc members daily routine

Wake up

Recite the daily zombie anthem

Go to the media and start blaming Saraki or Pdp for their failure

Rinse and repeat everyday

chai! you won kill me with laugh.

sportskid:
This is Highly Ungodly, and Unnatural. May It never happen in Nigeria,

the way our law be self is such that there wont be any room to even form association to sponsor the bill for court to hear self..the law really tightened every corner.

Naajjii:
I doubt if you are from south south

I am from the South South( Delta State)

Xaos:
You'll never know how you'll react if something bad ever happens to you. If posting on Facebook to garner more audience for sympathy will make him feel better then so be it!

I really do not see that as a wise decision..while he mourns his dead, he mustn't advertise the corp of a love one to the public for all to see..its depressing..you can talk about it on social media and you will get all the sympathy that is need but not to display pictures of the deceased.It not decent.

geometricaxis:
Ibo cannot become president of this country anytime soon....by anytime soon I mean decades.

ibos always go on about civil war as if they were the only ones with scars. They forget that they killed Tafa and Sardauna, the 2 fathers of the North which is like killing Zik or Awo. The North has never forgotten and will historically never vote for Ibo and now they have alienated the SW who tended to be more liberal


because of what happenned to Yaradua that brought in GEJ who then failed to honor the gentleman's agreement to hand over to the North even the VP slot is off the table as far as the North is concerned. They wont repeat that mistake with a SE VP.

because the rest of the country thanks to the anonymity of the internet has now seen the heart of the Ibo and their true feelings, the Sw in partucular who were indifferent and had no beef towards the SE will now not vote for Ibo whether presidency or VP. The truth is the average SW never played tribal politics against the Ibos but now it's all tribal politics. The avearge SW will vote for anyone except the SE.

Take this to the bank..there is no vacancy in Aso rock for any Ibo, this is a fact. SS and SW will enter and leave Aso rock at least 2 more times each before SE can even sniff it and if they continue in their ways they just prolong it.

politics is about allliances and trust. North and the SW are building links and trust between themselves, the SS is coming on board gradually while the SE is busy hating everybody...goodluck getting to Aso rock

As for restructuring, that will never happen, the North will never vote for it. For the same reason there wont be a SE president, it's a numbers game!!

you must be a Pure northerner to be talking like ..this is how you guys reason..you dont reason any other thing that will be of benefit to mankind beside aside politics and how to enrich yourself and your immediate families and cronies and not for the good of the country..

you guys go outside the shores of this land and see how beautiful other countries are but you have neglected yours because of greed and hatred for your fellow citizen..I swear this to you that restructuring will take place and the north thinking they are the lord of the manor will now know if khaki is really leather..how can people in this decade still be reasoning like this?..do you think we like the fact that people are being killed left right and center on the basis of ethnic cleansing and the various governors are handicap because they cannot mobilize the police in their state until they get a node from the federal govt who tend to look the other way because the people committing the crimes are your monster kinsmen...do you think we like the fact that Nigeria is a hell hole where nobody like to come for holiday but to only come to suck what ever resources we have and run back to their country ? or the fact that we are so ashamed to even Identify ourselves with our nationality because it is now a shadow of itself.
Why are you a component of the failing country that we are having right now?..the way you reason is the same way it is channel toward voting nuisance into power and later complain about their inefficiencies and neglect ..is that not stupidity on our part?

Nigeria has now been relegated to the back while other African countries like Rwanda are moving ahead and we are now the laughing stock of the world? what manner of man are you, that you will choose to still suck the breast of a cow instead of having your milk from a treated and refined source?

..you shock and disgust me with your way of reasoning and i hate the fact that I share the same country with your kind...your hatred for another ethnic group will continue to be our undoing.while the rest of the world are moving forward in other to catch up with advance technologies and development, Nigeria will continue to be stuck in the dark and become the scum of the earth just because we have your kind all over the place sharing the same country with us.

Nigeria will be restructured either you like it or not..there will be delay but it will surely come to pass and if your backward ethnic group feels they are not ready to move forward, then they can go their way and form alliance with their cousins in Chad and Niger who are nothing to write home about,..nobody is your slave and a second class citizen.We are all Nigerians and we deserve the same respect from you..I am from the south south and I am a Nigerian too.

fergie001:
This should be Ariaria,one of the dirtiest places in the world.....
Having lived in Aba for 2years...its a common sight everywhere....
And the present Governor hails from that axis..he was former Dep.Director of the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency,and Aba was a mess...now its messier....
When I complain,they say its Ngwa turn everybody should go and die.......Ariaria was the place I swam inside soakaway because the rains covered everywhere at 'Ukwu-Mango'..that is under the senatorial zone of Sen.Abaribe(coincidentally was Senate Committee chair on Information,2011-2015),you dare not wear white to Aba during the rains...
Infact,any car coming from Aba to Umuahia,we usually know from the car tyres....We,Igbos and especially Abians should think home more and leave the directionless Buhari because we have worse at home.....we have never been blessed with good governors...
Never...from OUK to Sen. Orji to the present one,they only share money........
It's becoming worst...worster...worstest(if there is anything like that)...
Aba is an eyesore....the Federal and state roads,none is in order....they are all the same....
God help us......

who voted him into power..is it not the same people of Abia state.This should show Nigerians that anybody coming with bag of rice and salt to lure them for vote, they should know they are selling that of their future and that of their children future.what a mess.

magoo10:
see how you are telling lies and implicating yourself at the same time just to deceive yourself .

Jonathan's PDP conducted summit on restructuring. Was mark not part of the PDP government? The best APC could do is implement the confab reports and stop beating about the bush and if they cannot do it they should simply give way for PDP to come and continue where they stopped on restructuring.

This is not about APC OR PDP..I am no fan to these parties full of thief and selfish people..I am only taking about him and his party not using all those years they wasted in passing stupid laws that have little or no impact in the lives of Nigerians to focus on how Nigeria can be restructured for it to work properly..or he is telling us that he is just coming to his senses, that it now Nigeria need restructuring? This same David once said that Nigeria does not need restructuring..why is he changing his mouth..I am not a blind follower..I argue from an objective point of view because I am part of the suffering masses.

This man was a senate leader for several years and He is still in the corridor of power but did nothing when his party was in power as regard our clamor for restructuring ..they thought they were indispensable and thus they could do as they liked..we cried and shouted about restructuring but it all fell on deaf ears..until Goodluck Jonathan decided to organised a conference to that effect of which this same PDP did not even consider as something important..do what is this one now saying now? he think he can fool us once again using restructuring to buy our vote? throughout his leadership in the senate, he and his colleagues did not believe in restructuring, as such they were not interested in our clamor for restructuring..but now he is suddenly interest just to win vote back because they have lost power..he is not serious..

Benue is still a backward state today..and no meaningful development has come to that state by virtue of his presence in the corridors of power. ..I only like him because of his maturity in handling both the senate and national affairs during his time has a leader but he certainly does not belong to the change we so much desire..which is devolution of power and fairness for all ethnic group in Nigeria.

Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar has through a new publication lectured professor Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president of Nigeria, on the ‘concept of restructuring’.

Atiku also accused the vice president of attempting to revise history.

In the new publication, the former vice president, Atiku, took time to explain some steps on how Nigeria will be restructured to solve the country’s problems.

The full publication read:

“My attention has been drawn to a letter written to Premium Times in response to an essay on restructuring authored by me.

Faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is understandable that the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has written to Premium Times to douse the tension his comments created. However, in doing so, the Vice President should not attempt to revise history by saying that he spoke against ‘geographic restructuring’.

I have been in the forefront of the discourse on restructuring since the 1995 Abacha Constitutional Conference and to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any term like ‘geographic restructuring’. It is a strange concept, not only because it is not what the restructuring debate is all about, but also because the words of the Vice President, which prompted my response were clear, unambiguous and unequivocal.

Mr. Osinbajo said, “the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring”. That I disagree with and so do many other Nigerians. If the Vice President has changed his stance, I welcome it, but we should not use one finger to hide behind semantics

For the Vice President to say “Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition”, is most unfortunate.

I have been very clear, detailed, and unambiguous about my ideas for restructuring. At several occasions, including, but not limited to my speeches at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (made in April this year and July 2017, respectively), I gave very clear and concise ideas about administrative, political and economic restructuring as follows.

.Devolution of powers and resources to the states.

· No state will receive less Federal funds than today as a result of restructuring.

· Matching grants from the federal government to the states to help them grow their internally generated revenue position.

· The privatisation of unviable federal Government-owned assets.

· A truly free market economy driven by the laws of demand and supply.

· Replacing state of origin with state of residence, and

· Passing the PIGD so that our oil and gas sector will run as a business with minimal governmental interference.

I am hard pressed to see how these clear and specific ideas can be described as ‘vague’. One would have thought that if anything is vague, it would be the idea of ‘geographic restructuring’ whose meaning is hanging in the air.

Be that as it may, in his letter, Vice President Osinbajo then jumps from the topic of restructuring and goes on to say:

“Good governance involves, inter alia, transparency and prudence in public finance. It involves social justice, investing in the poor, and jobs for young people; which explains our School Feeding Programme, providing a meal a day to over 9 million public school children in 25 States as of today. Our NPower is now employing 500,000 graduates; our TraderMoni that will be giving microcredit to 2 million petty traders; our Conditional Cash Transfers giving monthly grants to over 400,000 of the poorest in Nigeria. The plan is to cover a million households.”

While what Professor Osinbajo says may be true or false, I must say that his dovetailing into the area of the economy does not explain certain facts such as the fact that the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics reported in December 2017 that Nigeria lost 7.9 million jobs in the 21 month period under review.

Professor Osinbajo also harps on about “prudence in public finance”, but he fails to show the wisdom in sharing out $322 million of Abacha funds to the poor only to take a loan of $328 million from the Chinese the very next month. Many Nigerians, myself included, see this as imprudence.

Finally, while the Vice President is not exactly correct when he says “In four years from 2010 to 2014 the PDP government earned the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, USD381.9billion. By contrast the Buhari Administration has earned USD121 billion from May 2015 to June 2018”, let us for the sake of argument say that he is right.

My response to Vice President Osinbajo is that while I was Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2006, Nigeria’s Economic Management Team, of which I was a prominent member, paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt of $30 billion, at a time when we were earning one third of what the Buhari administration is currently earning from oil. So such arguments are puerile at best.

My advice to the Vice President is that he should choose whether he is for restructuring or whether he is against it and stick to his choice. This continuous prevarication, this approbation and reprobation, helps no one, least of all true progressives who know that Nigeria needs to be restructured and restructured soon” the statement added