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Local government councils not receiving their federal allocations, thus, not functioning, is reason why only state capital cities are the only functioning places in most of the states.

Thieving governors collect Local government allocations, reconstruct a few roads in the state capital, that's all for the governor's tenure.
People living in the state capital praise governor for repairing the capital city roads.
Rest of the funds go into private bank accounts.

Let the local government councils have their allocations to develop their area councils.

Kwanza:
https://www.channelstv.com/2022/05/23/2023-elections-seven-political-parties-merge-to-become-3rd-force-mega-party/

JJC can't move mountain.

Bring more and more of the national cake to Arewa. That's the attitude of most northerner Nigerians in Abuja central government of Nigeria.


If a northerner steals the entire year's budget of Nigeria, most northerners see it as a deed well done.

N80 billion stolen.

They will go and borrow more from China.

Igbo:
You condemn ‘the murder’ in Sokoto but you don’t have the courage and the conscience to condemn the murderous activities of Gunmen and unknown Gunmen in your area (shokoto),including the slaughter of a legislator; that is hypocrisy and cowardice.

https://twitter.com/ShehuSani/status/1528650122799742978

Shehu Sani.

You are assumed to be a well informed person.

The mayhem going on in the South East is like rest of the United Kingdom sending killers to join with 5th Columnists in Scotland to do killings of Scotts, in order to let the world see Scotland's Independence agitators as terrorists; the world to say that Scottish people are now killing themselves in the process of agitating for Independence for Scotland from the United Kingdom.

Golan007:
No need to condemn.

In fact, you can applaud.

The perpetrators of the mayhem in the SE are secretely applauding.

The buck stops at the president's table to stop the killings in the SE, the once most peaceful part of Nigeria before 2021.

IPOB people operated in the east for more than 4 years without harming a fly.
The online propaganda machinery set lose by the Jihadi killers in the east can convince only the uninitiated in the east.

The killings in the SE can be stopped if Nigeria is a country governed by people.

tamdun:
Hypocrites, ipob just killed an hijab sister and her 3 children,same ipob kill husband and wife then removed her private part,same people cut off the head of their law maker and throw it in the street, they keep committing crime on daily basis, now tell me what makes south east better than north?

Only a parasite would posit that IPOB people are killing Igbos.

IPOB has consistently condemned your Jihadi mayhem in the SE since you started.

Greatzeus:
They are MF-ing hypocrites that's why.

What does condemnation yield? President Buhari has been condemning killings since 2015. But the killings increase.

Some people boasted before 2021 that they would make the SE to look like the NE in violence. That's their method to stem agitation for restoration of Biafra.

Igbo:
You condemn ‘the murder’ in Sokoto but you don’t have the courage and the conscience to condemn the murderous activities of Gunmen and unknown Gunmen in your area (shokoto),including the slaughter of a legislator; that is hypocrisy and cowardice.

https://twitter.com/ShehuSani/status/1528650122799742978

Condemn or arrest the criminals of both sides?

Don't we have a government and Police force in Nigeria?

Sani must answer this. Enough of encouragement for lawlessness.

Whoever the president in Aso Rock is must be held responsible for the killings if he doesnt resign.

Except Lawan, and Tinubu,
any of the other two is okay.

successmatters:
All these money you are wasting to pay those who should be gainfully employed doing good work is not necessary, use the money to pay off your workers in Kogi who hunger has almost ruined their lives.

Nigeria and misplaced priorities.

who is Yahaya Bello?

thinkmoney:
Docile. Retard. Illiterate. Mistake of a human being
You should get intoxicated by the blood being spilled. Bastard. Your father land is being reduced to a place that animals don't even desire and you are here displaying foolishness

You are one of the animals who are creating the undesirable condition in the SE. You are either an Islamist Aboki, or an ignoramus who can believe that his mum aborted him during pregnancy.

dre11:
https://thenationonlineng.net/apc-insists-on-screening-jonathan-emefiele-ngige/

Six geopolitical zones?

Nigeria is unique.

The only country formed by 3 regions at independence, but now 1 region (north) became 3 zones, while the other 2 regions (West and East) became 3 zones.

Thus the new zones consign3d absolute political powers to the northern region.
The same way proliferation of 19 states in the northern region consigned absolute political powers to the northern region.
The north now spurns all requests by the south to regig the political structure created by northern military dictators.

thinkmoney:
I am afraid of leaving nigeria now. If Biafra actulizes now, the government will be at the helms of this mad men staining our ground with blood. We biafrans would be the one running back to Nigeria (or Arewa) as a refugee

Ignoramus or Aboki terrorist sympathizer.

AfricanColumbus:
Videos
Eke Adazi Nnukwu market
https://pic.twitter.com/m31FxKMbpd

Agulu
http://pic.twitter.com/nxKd69JyhE

Nnobi
http://pic.twitter.com/QcZxWHKudY

Years back, they promised to make the SE look like the NE being ravaged by Boko Haram.

Fear is before long, they will start mass kidnap for ransome of school children in the SE and say it's IPOB looking for money to restore Biafra.

43Ronin:
Guys it might be harsh to swallow but reno is saying the truth. If PDP fields PO & APC fields Osinbajo or tinubu, kwankwaso in NNPP will have a straight victory, because the northerners will always vote along ethnic and religious lines. The killing of Deborah & the threat to Atiku should have woken u guys up by now to the reality of 2023. The south will always beg & be second fidle if we do not restructure Nigeria to true federalism. The only reason tinubu is touring the North is to remind them that he's Muslim, he is playing the religious card and hoping it will deliver him come 2023. Why should the south always beg? Why can't the leaders of the south agree to constitutional restructuring? because they also want to go there to steal and get an oil well when they leave office. Nigeria will never be better under this system because d people that determine her fate are religious fundamentalist who are grossly illeterate

Tinubu spent nearly 15 years in the SW campaigning for political restructuring of Nigeria.

But when the grand opportunity came up for political restructuring of Nigeria during the 2014 CONFAB, Tinubu kicked against political CONFAB, but went to join the most anti political restructuring northern political parties for APC merger, all because of his selfish ambition to rule Nigeria in the same political structure, after Muhammadu Buhari.
Who trusts Tinubu?

jmoore:
Reno Omokri is very DUMB.

Atiku he is supporting wasted his money in 2019 election.

Mumu that claims to be a Christian but is defending Atiku for deleting a post that condemned Islamist terrorists killing Deborah.

The foolish Reno says Igbo insults him, but he has been insulting Tinubu and Buhari.


Reno be confirmed idiot!!

Reno claims he is a Pastor.
But he has been using the clout of former President Goodluck Jonathan to make quick money.

seunmsg:
And Peter Obi Pandora is the only person in Nigeria that can end our suffering and provide for the future of our country, right?

Now tell us, was he able to end suffering in Anambra when he was governor for 8 years? Was he able to provide for the future of Anambra when he was governor for 8 years?

Tinubu supporter, your fear of presidential candidate Peter Obi of PDP against presidential candidate Tinubu in APC, is gripping you.

You are setting impossible standards for Peter Obi to surmount.

You people wanted to shift the goalpost in the middle of the football match by asking for the north to adhere to zoning to enable south produce a successor to President Buhari, but you refused zoning in the southern regions because it's the turn of the Igbo to present a successor to President Buhari.

Sltp:
I'm not an Igbo, but Reno is an enemy of the Igbo people and the common Nigeria. He's a very dangerous man that everyone should be wary about

Reno is one of the BackwardEvers and ForwardNevers of Nigeria.
That's behind his camping against Peter Obi .

He is singing his political swan song, dropping names to seek attention; because after the next presidential election in Nigeria, he will go into political oblivion.

Igbo:
https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1528651756321783808

This semi-imbecilee Reno openly demonstrating hostility to Igbo needs quarrantine from normal human beings.

Peter Obi is one of the most sophisticated and most qualified of all the presidential aspirants.


Reno is fit for a dungeon of a country where halfwits rule and reign.

Umahi, you must be out of your mind in this your quest for Fulani to dash you presidency of Nigeria.


Igbos have never killed Igbo in the history of mankind.



Fifth columnists/Infiltrators,
as usual in liberation struggles, are responsible for the killings in the SE.

In other words, time is ripe for the SE to leave
Nigeria of inequality and slaughtering of citizens, let those remaining in Nigeria continue to preside over themselves without the SE.

.... in Sabon Gari, Strangers new quarters, Kano.


Those who believe in continuation of one Nigeria of murders and inequality are fools.

ivandragon:
Who makes laws You? You talk as if sociopolitical laws automatically make themselves.

You keep skipping the reality that the corruption you keep heaping at the centre has its foundation at the grassroots.

The state governor & LG chairman that steals & diverts revenue meant for the people to private pockets are they doing so because their states & LGs are ethnically diverse?

If the values of the people poor, how can you make good laws?

Is the policeman corrupt because of ethnic diversity? Does the yahoo boy commit atrocities because of ethnic diversity?

Look at the SS. They clamouring for increased derivation & they got 13%. Has that reduced corruption in the SS or is the development there commensurate to the allocations received? Can they be said to have truly managed the 'little' received so far, properly?

Now, based on the last part of your last statement, your opinion is like people with bandwagon mentality. Because they hear 'restructuring', they use it at every instance to downplay the reality which is that the people must first restructure their value systems before they can restructure the polity.

So we must stick to the bogey political structure created by northern military dictators?
And you feign ignorance of the fact that it's the bogey political structure which springs up inept political leaders at the central government level; and that once the central government is inept in the unitary government system, the state governments, the local government councils, and the society at the grassroots get bad.

The north of Nigeria clutches tight to the roguish political structure and governance system created by northern soldiers, and tells the southerners that restructuring the political structure and governance system is not what's required to make Nigeria good. Northerners who deride this needed political restructuring of Nigeria are being smart by half.

gentiles:
Anyone aside Yorubas can become the president. We will rather vote a cow than vote a Yoruba man as President in 2023

Fulani-led North wants to produce a successor to President Buhari through Atiku, Saraki, Lawan,
or Tambuwal in PDP. The south must also be watchful over who picks PDP ticket.

ivandragon:
How does my quote you highlighted translate to being born a thief from birth?

In nigeria, does it matter where our politicians come from before they show how corrupt they are?

You keep talking about restructuring, if you restructure & the local community still hails yahoo boys & others with ill-gotten wealth as 'sharp people ', what has been achieved? You have only further localised the corruption, nothing more.

Like I said earlier, at the LG level where it can be argued that communities are 99% homogeneous, has that stopped corruption at that level? Even if that LG becomes a country of its own today, if the people don't adjust thier value system, do you think anything will change?

In bold:

Yahoo Yahoo people are not hailed in American, European and Asian countries because the law enforcement systems in those countries are highly effective.
Because Nigeria has no effective policing system due to the political structure and governance system institutionalized in Nigeria by Arewa military dictators, Yahoo Yahoo criminals are hailed by some people, hyper corruption in official places thrives.
You play down the reality that Nigeria is not supposed to be one country, thats like an enlightened person being insincere to oneself.

This one shall steal his own billions of Naira before May 29, 2023.

Nigeria's political structure and governance system encourage official corruption.
No Nigerian was born to be corrupt.
Institutionalize fiscal federaism with regional government system in Nigeria, hyper official corruption shall go down drastically.
Insecurity shall leave.

ivandragon:
A thief is a thief, whether you put him in rags or King's garbs...

If the family values are corrupted, do you really think the 'restructured polity' would be any different from what we have today?

Take a look at states & local governments. While it is easy to keep pointing accusing fingers at the Centre, what have states & LGs done with the 'little' they have received? At least the state & local government officials still come from the people themselves...

For the totality of the system to change, we must first reform the mentality of the people.

In bold.

Nobody - no Nigerian - was born to be a thief.

It's Nigeria's roguish political structure and governance system that turns many Nigerians into thieves.

The value systems of a family in Birnin Kebbi or Sokoto is different from the value systems of a family in Eket, or Awka - the moment we tell ourselves this truth, the better. You don't build a Sovereign country from nations with diverse value systems. Thats why nearly all the countries of Europe are comprised of single nations. Switzerland with three nations had reps from the three nations agree on how the country would be structured and governed.
Belgium made up of diverse nations has remained in political turmoil.

Nigerialabalaba:
5% of 5% don become 0.25% be dat .

While dem dey chase Tinubu upandan with pestilence like rabid dogs and planning evil for APC, PDP troway those hateful Ibo under moving bus.shiorr

Must you continue to share one country with people of the SE region? Parasite !!!

Hamzaaaaaaaa:
He will be shocked that his boys are constituting nuisance in the SE abi
If this action of theirs is a means of fighting for freedom, then, ipobs are fools

How do you believe that Igbos are killing and beheading Igbos as part of agitation for restoration of Biafra?

Fifth Columnists/infiltrators paid by government to discredit Biafra agitation, are doing the mayhem in Igbo land.

Lawan and his fellow northern presidential aspirants see southern Nigerians as less equal to them northerners.
How can a northerner aspire to succeed President Buhari in Nigeria where zoning of the presidency between the regions have kept the country intact since 1999 after northern military dictators used proliferation of states in the old Northern region to assign excess political powers to politicians of the northern region?

The skewed and lopsided political structure necessitated zoning of the presidency since 1999.

magzey:
Obi that don't know Nigeria who will vote for him in West and North?

Obi knows every in and out of Nigeria.
The Backward Evers and Forward Nevers shall not vote for Peter Obi for President.
The Forward Evers and Backward Nevers shall vote for Peter Obi for President. You know where you belong.

ivandragon:
The first part of your submission is correct to a very large extant.

The second part is not so straightforward. The issue with Nigeria, within the context of your submission, goes beyond political structures. It is about the value system at the grassroots level.

For instance, today, there are teenagers with questionable wealth, but nobody questions him/her, not even the parents. Instead, such person is hailed & worshipped by people within the same community...

It is that same teenager that would grow into an adult & occupy positions of authority or use influence to put persons of likemind in place.

So, if the people do not do what is right at thier own personal levels, no amount of political restructuring will correct the present corrupted system to an appreciable level.

In bold. Value systems.
The value systems of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria are different, and can never converge.
Commonly shared value systems are the bedrock of nationhood.
If Nigeria is politically restructured such that every zone controls and uses the resources in its environment to govern and develop itself and people, there shall be no more conflicts in Nigeria.
The present political structure and governance system encourage looting of the national treasury.