₦airaland Forum

garfield1:
Let your pdp do it

What? Is APC or any political party an exclusive property of any zone or tribe in Nigeria?

You people can’t stop in amazing others with your kindergarten political calculations in this country.

At least, PMB government made church bombings in Nigeria to stop.

anselem87:
urban part of the state what of rural areas? he should abandon them, in oguta IMO state government can't boasting of anything there despite our contribution in terms of revenue yet no one is wailing, except oguta - mgbidi road that is yet to be completed

The same foolish idea you have against development of other urban areas in Imo state outside Owerri is what keeps your Oguta you grade as rural area unattended to by IMSG.
Develop more sense.

anselem87:
u want IMO state government to come and develop Orlu so that it will look like new York what is ur useless Orlu contributing in terms of revenue in IMO state compared to my town oguta even egbema too, have u ever seen anybody from oguta wailing like u in this forum, if u have problem go to ur representer in the house of assembly if u can't meet ur governor, nonsense

In your own world, Owerri where you truly must have come from generates the devt money for Imo state, therefore right to plough nearly all the devt money on urban development of Owerri?

Unknown to you, that Orlu must be contributing more than Oguta to the funds for development of Imo state.

Little money from the oil producing company in Oguta goes to the federal government and a tiny percentage of it paid to IMSG as 13% from derivation.

Your stupidity in not recognizing nature that Orlu is the headquarters of Imo West Senatorial district robbed Nd’Igbo the commensurate political representation at Abuja when some people went for Orashi state instead of Njaba state proposed.
That stupidity still holds you to not even understand that many of the states who profit from shared revenues from oil do not contribute oil money to the National coffers.

MasterRahl:


A very critical matter... very critical indeed.

Establishment of more universities means less stress in getting admission. With more universities, there'll be more slots for admission seekers.

However, studies have shown that ASUU has gone on strike 15 times between 1999-2020. The reason for this is not far-fetched:

UNDERFUNDING BY THE FG among other issues

Is there any guarantee that these universities will be well funded?

Let's see how things will go.

Mass education is key to human and economic development.
An educated population is easier to govern.

Let them use the money being stolen by politicians to establish education institutions all over the place for the youths to get tertiary education. With time, the standard in the tertiary education institutions shall improve.
Even at that, the students who truly entered university to get knowledge do study on their own, and often measure up with others who studied in universities with best standard.

Islie:
READ MORE

Most important thing is let the NASS establish a university in the largest senatorial district (Orlu, Imo state) in the east with 12 LGAs and a population of about 3 million people but with no operating university in the senatorial zone.

[quote author= post=100287358]That is MASSIVE mehn!

We hope they use it judiciously for the development of their various states.

A better Nigeria is all we want.

When the citizens learn how to hold their governors accountable, they will have a better life.

That is MASSIVE mehn!

We hope they use it judiciously for the development of their various states.

A better Nigeria is all we want.

When the citizens learn how to hold their governors accountable, they will have a better life.[/quote]The many non viable states proliferated in the north by IBB and Abacha to siphon oil money and excess political representation to the northern region and starve the south economically and politically - those non viable states should be better merged into other closer viable states to enable peace and development in Nigeria.

benjackugo:
''You Cannot Bring Down What Is Already Down'' - Aisha Yesufu Replies Garba Shehu Who Said Nobody Can Bring Down Buhari's Government

Aisha Yesufu has replied the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, who on Friday, March 26, said in an interview with Channels TV that nobody can bring down the Buhari-led administration because it is a democratically elected government, IgbereTV reports.

''I want to assure Nigerians that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is addressing multiple challenges that are facing the country especially in dealing with security and yet we are still making progress in agriculture, economy, anti-corruption.

It is sad for the country that opposition is exploiting some of these things. It is quite unfortunate and I want to assure that the president remains focused in preserving the security and unity of this country.

We accept that dissent is allowed, this is a democracy and people have a right to tell truth to government but we must be careful in doing that. Nobody can bring down the government because this is a government elected democratically.

Government in a democracy come through periodic elections and if we have a government in office as we have, sponsored by political parties to win the elections, it is telling you that that confidence of the public is still there.'' Shehu said

Ms. Yesufu in a video shared on social media said she totally agrees with Mr. Shehu. According to her, nobody can indeed bring the Buhari government down because it is already down.

She wrote on her Twitter handle;


https://twitter.com/AishaYesufu/status/1375738773175164933?s=20

See video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNy1FWTT12U

https://igberetvnews.com/1386115/aisha-yesufu-replies-garba-shehu-said-nobody-can-bring-buharis-government/

Buhari government is not yet down in the area of sending armed forces to the east to molest and kill people who they have no evidence to adjudge they are IPOB members.

Obamaofusa:
Yoruba nation or Oduduwa is not in Nigeria but separated and independent from the sinking Fulani ship called Nigeria when it fully comes to fruition.

Yoruba group is the only group in the south who can declare Yoruba sovereign country from Nigeria without any group firing a shot against Oduduwa sovereign country.


So when is your “when”? After Yoruba loses presidential election in 2023?

bilms:
Look, I believe that the Presidency should be won by merit. Now, there are times when you have to be sensitive to what is going on. At a point in time when you have a crisis and political leaders get together and say, ‘okay, for the purpose of the crisis we are facing, let us try to work out these arrangements.’ But then, you cannot impose that on anybody. And that was what happened in 1998, when some Northern leaders with whom we formed the PDP were trying to say ‘okay, let us try and get a candidate from a specific zone.’ It was not formalised.

The proposition came from the North. Either of those leaders of the party with whom we formed the party then could have become the President. Alhaji Adamu Ciroma, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Prof Jubril Aminu, Prof Jerry Gana, Dr Iyochia Ayu, all these people from the North are with big profiles. They could have been President at that time. Because some people were trying to reduce the annulment of the June 12 election to be something targeted against a particular ethnic group, they said ‘let’s go to that zone and pick somebody.’

They were not really routing for Obasanjo then. I was in all those meetings. I was one of the youngest among those old men in those days. The prevalent sentiment was to go for Olu Falae. But Olu Falae and the Afenifere team took a premature position of withdrawing from the PDP. Because they didn’t want to have a contest, they just wanted the party to say it has been zoned to them and they left the PDP prematurely. In fact, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and Prof Jerry Gana were sent to go and talk to Chief Olu Falae that he should not leave the PDP. But, he said, ‘no, I will go with my Afenifere people’ and he went with them. And they had a smaller platform, because the PDP was a big party, so there was no way Afenifere would have won with AD. But I am not saying what they did was wrong. They still controlled the South West in that election and they still remained relevant as a voice. They have the rights as a political organisation to determine their strategy and tactics of engagement and what was important for them at any particular point. This is by no means judging what they did. I am only trying to enumerate what happened


So, what I am saying is that people can take such a decision, but you don’t come blackmailing other ethnic groups and say ‘it is our turn, you people have had your fair share.’ You need to cultivate understanding and even then, when people were saying that, I was not for that. I was for Alhaji Abubakar Rimi who contested until our group, the Social Progressives Platform, then, met and it was decided that we should support Obasanjo.

In that contest, there were many people from the North and everywhere that contested against Obasanjo, even though there was a preponderance of opinion. So, it was that opinion that swayed in his favour, it was not as if the party said nobody from any other zone could contest.

The division of the Presidency on an ethnic basis always causes its own division. The last time I checked, the only country that tried that at the executive level is no more; that was Yugoslavia. It has broken into pieces. This is because once you start that thing, there is no end to it. Because in Nigeria, we don’t just have Igbos, Yorubas, Hausas and Fulanis. Nigeria is made up of 350 ethnic groups. About 250 of them are in Northern Nigeria. So when you start this rotational presidency, the assumption is usually ‘Oh, once a Yoruba man has gotten it, the Fulani, Hausa and Ibo have gotten it, everybody is fine.’ That is not it. Under that your arithmetic, when will an Okun man in Kogi become President? When will a Nupe man become President? When will a Jukun become President?

Look, your long epistle could not have been if you had considered the fact that we share oil and gas revenues among the states in Nigeria, therefore we need to share (rotate) the presidential seat among the political blocks of Nigeria. Therefore, it’s turn of the SE zone to produce presidential candidates in the two largest political parties and succeed PMB, after the NW, SW, and SS have had their turns. Okun gets share from natural resources therefore Okun’s turn to present president for Nigeria shall come one day, unless you want Okun to take turns before the Igbo.

Since 1960, northern groups have ruled Nigeria till 1999, except the few years of Obasanjo who succeeded late Muritalla Mohammed.
The present skewed political structure of Nigeria also necessitates rotation of presidency among the zones, and by extension, the states.
One or two groups in Nigeria dominating apex political power in Nigeria by abolishing rotation is like asking for worse situation than the Yugoslavia you cited as example for Nigeria.
If you want functional Nigeria where no groups will bother to agitate to present president for Nigeria, sign up for political restructuring of Nigeria in a National Conference with conferees equally drawn from the three regions that formed Nigeria in 1960, to return to regional government system.

In today’s political structure of Nigeria, if north fields a northern presidential candidate in any of the two largest political parties, while a southern presidential candidate contests from the other largest political party, the northern presidential candidate must win the election.

seunmsg:
Apart from south east, which other region will the ticket win?

Why apart from the SE?

For rotation and justice sake, both APC and PDP need to have presidential candidates from the SE for the 2023 presidential election.

We did similar things for the SW in 1999
when we placed Obasanjo and Falae on the presidential ticket of each of the two largest political parties then, to ensure that a Yoruba utilized rotation to emerge president of Nigeria then.

Olawepo Hassim cancels rotation of presidency.

He cites MKO Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo as having constructed right political alliances that enabled both win.


But the political structure of Nigeria has not been skewed in favor of north when Abiola purportedly won the election.

What political alliance did Obasanjo who was in Kuje prison form, when Alex Ekwueme with his group of 33 formed PDP, extracted power from the military, thereafter, Obasanjo was released from prison by northern military dictators who funded and supported his run for presidency?

The shophistiWretched Olawepo with his group campaigning for Yoruba president in 2023 now cancel rotation, because it’s the turn of the SE to produce successor to PMB.

In other words, north shall retain the office of president after PMB.

Attention:
Serious is the word.

Yes, only serious looters as politicians will want to join or remain in APC of today; not honest politicians.

No honest politician can join APC, the party which brought Nigeria to be the country of the world’s poorest human beings in less than 5 years.

Grgton:
this is no excuse !! why not apply the common sense in utilizing the limited budget in constructing inner street roads in other urban part of the state.. ??

Before anselm87 says you are stupid, be informed that their agitation all over the place for successive governors of Imo state to forget other urban towns in Imo state but build them Owerri state capital first - that agitation found sympathy in misguided state governors of Imo state since 2007. That’s how inner urban roads in the other urban areas of the state have not been attended to since 2007. Successive governors since then demolish and rebuild in Owerri.

anselem87:
u can't carry everyone along with such IMO state budget,I think common sense should be common for everyone but seems to be expensive for some people

This is how your people organized a honeymoon on flooded road in a rural area Orogwe near Owerri and posted on NL to blackmail governor Hope Uzodinma to come and asphalt the road which has been under construction.

Only most greedy set of people ignore the rotten urban roads in Orlu and Okigwe but blackmail government on NL with a rural road in Owerri area.

anselem87:
u can't carry everyone along with such IMO state budget,I think common sense should be common for everyone but seems to be expensive for some people

Imo devt budget, however lean, MUST be used to develop the entire state evenly, not applied by misguided leaders for urban development and expansion of only your Owerri home area.

Onye oshi. You lack common sense because you don’t understand that by using the devt budgets mostly for devt of Owerri, that Owerri shall soon be a hell hole to live in as population of people from Orlu and Okigwe areas continue to migrate to settle in Owerri.

NgeneUkwenu:
http://saharareporters.com/2021/03/28/police-arrest-two-pastors-masterminds-esn%E2%80%99s-killings-violence-south-east

Instead of Arewa north to sign on to restructuring Nigeria politically, they use the armed forces commanded by Fulani president to arrest people on bid to secede their regions from Nigeria.

What country did armed forces succeed in keeping one when groups in the country were not happy with the country? No where.

Obamaofusa:
Yoruba nation is birthed.

Yoruba nation or Oduduwa Republic, which do Yorubas want? Yoruba is already a nation inside the country called Nigeria.
Enough of deception.

SocialCritic:
…Say it’s a plot to negotiate 2023 presidency

…They can’t create problem and run away from its consequence

…Actualizing self determination must follow due process

…Whoever thinks Nigeria will disintegrate is dreaming

…We need restructuring, not secession…It’s time to renegotiate our union

…We can’t ignore Yoruba agenda of self determination

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa; Festus Ahon, Asaba; Egufe Yafugborhi, Port Harcourt; Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo; Ozioruva Aliu, Benin City; Chinonso Alozie, Owerri; Steve Oko, Aba and Paul Olayemi, Sapele



...CONTINUE READING BELOW

But it’s only babies who don’t understand that Oduduwa Republic agitation now is Yoruba blackmail of Fulani-cabal to operate to make a Yoruba to succeed PMB.

rtdCivilservant:
Senile decay has set in I swear, cos it is obvious u are sick, so it is here on nairaland that u will call to the attention of the government? No wonder we are where we are. Shioooor

Ha ha ha. I don’t think there is any other insulting epithets left in the dictionary that you have not employed to describe yours truly.
But I am here to educate people like you that if only one spot - Owerri - in Imo state remains far ahead of rest of the state in modern development, it doesn’t augur well for the state.

Those who have head understand what I write about, others who have no head continue with their insulting epithets.

sarrki:
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/03/28/tinubu-colloquium-moved-to-kano/

But is Tinubu truly dreaming of presiding over Nigeria? A dream that can never be realistic.


Moslem don’t succeed Moslem as president of Nigeria.

By rotation principle, it’s not the turn of the SW to produce president. It’s the turn of the SE.

If rotation is canceled, the North then produces president to succeed PMB.

Insecurity partly resulted from 12 northern sharia states adopting unconstitutional Islamic Sharia criminal laws.

BigYash:
10 fools.

Real fools who didn’t know that if people bear arms in Nigeria, they would have died of hunger.

They see gun as the solution for their senseless.

mysportdab:
Paul Onuachu has now spoken for the first time after his winner for the Super Eagles to defeat Benin 1-0 today.

He scored with a good header in the 93rd minute as the Super Eagles ended Benin’s eight-year unbeaten run at home.

Speaking after the match, Paul Onuachu said:

"I am just going to say, thanks to the nation for the push, they really pushed me to show what i have for the national team.

"I am so happy."

The Super Eagles remain top of Group L with 11 points from five games, and Benin are second with seven points.

The Super Eagles host Lesotho in their final Qualifier match on Tuesday in Lagos.

Watch Video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53o9P_4-_hQ

Good boy Onuachu.

But you needed to understand the difference between nation and country.

Nigeria is a country but not a nation.


Nationhood can never come to Nigeria with the existing skewed political structure and system of government.

But that’s undisputed - though with some lousy women exempted.

rtdCivilservant:
So what do u want everyone here to do with ur lamentation? Go to the appropriate quarters where ur voice will be heard and cry to them.

......while you stay here soliciting to Imo state government for development institutions and amenities for Owerri alone on a thread meant for Imo state.
Small brain.

joinpreneur:
https://www.channelstv.com/2021/03/27/restoration-of-lake-chad-will-help-curb-illegal-migration-says-buhari

What has Lake Chad got to do with Bini or Igbo young man trying to escape the hardship in Nigeria?
PMB speaks from where his heart is - Niger and Chad Republics.

What did it take ISIS to capture all of Iraq? Little.

What did it take the Taliban to retake nearly all of Afghanistan after years of American-led Allied forces liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and left for home? Little.
Boko Haram is fighting for the same objective with Moslems from the 12 northern Nigeria sharia states - a Nigeria to be governed with Islamic Sharia criminal laws.
Waiting for the day Nigeria’s or any allied armed forces shall defeat Boko Haram is like waiting for Godot.

Numerouno94:
Hahahah. I read that theatre of absurd during my undergraduate days. Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting Godot, who never arrives. Lol.

The same way the good leadership Nigerians are waiting for to reposition Nigeria for good will NEVER arrive from the extant political structure of Nigeria skewed by northern soldiers to favor Arewa.

Officialhorlah:
https://punchng.com/nigerias-economy-remains-weak-despite-exit-from-recession-tinubu/

Ok, blame me for the weak economy of Nigeria since you can’t openly admit your 2014 error in journeying to Daura to invite a Muhammadu Buhari to come out from retirement to oust GEJ, a Buhari who had announced before then that he was no longer going to participate in election politics in Nigeria.
Ethnoreligious bigotry is the disease of Nigeria. The bigotry can’t allow good leader to emerge for Nigeria.

At one point , frustration shall make the nations merged in Nigeria to become fiercer for their sovereign independent country from Nigeria.