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Gggg102:
no 'fresh young hand' can win 2019 election on the basis of lack of popularity and influence.

any vote for them is an indirect vote for the incumbent.

believing otherwise is engaging in a fool's paradise.

joefazee:
This is interesting, remember to add your own comment.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRA10r8GYNo?t=21

onuebonyi:
Atiku vs Buhari: Agbakoba reveals who should win election, gives reasons


Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and foremost pro-democracy activist, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has said that former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar was the right man to win the 2019 presidential election.


Agbakoba told the Sun that what Nigeria needed was a good president irrespective of where he comes from.

Agbakoba who is also the leader of the National Intervention Movement, NIM, pointed out that he couldn’t have bothered if Buhari continued as President so long as he (Buhari) was doing what is right.

I don't blame him at all, they are in law and he stand to gain good at the Villa, he could AV come out to say he supports him on personal ground.

So Agbakoba didn't see any of the other young aspirants, and even Oby to support but association of looters . I weep for the youth of this nation.

I pledge my vote for Ahmed Buhari no matter what.


According to the Senior lawyer, Buhari has turned out to be a very bad President and the only alternative now was Atiku.

I would not have minded Buhari to continue if he was good. Unfortunately, he has turned out to be a very bad president.

That is the problem. He has destroyed the economy. Everything is on the floor. He has divided the country.


Everywhere and everything is scattered. So, I cannot give him my own support. I would rather support a person who I think will turn Nigeria around positively. And that requires a lot of thinking.

There are so many presidential aspirants on the field. But we need to look very carefully to pick the best. We need to be cautious so that we don’t make another mistake.”

Asked who he think fits the bill among all the presidential candidates, he added, “Atiku!
“Yes, in spite of all corruption allegations laid against him, there has not been any charge brought against him.

“Secondly, he has a broad business vision. He has a deep political experience. He has a pan-Nigerian outlook.

“He is married to an Igbo woman, married to a Yoruba woman. He is detribalized, even in the employment profile in his companies.

“He goes for the best regardless of where the person comes from. He understands Nigeria. My money is on him.

“Whether he will win, I don’t know. But I am only looking at someone who I think will draw from his experience to turn things around.

“I don’t care if he does eight years. That is the joker. Let us forget this North and South nonsense. Let’s forget it.

“Let us focus on getting a good president. Turning Nigeria around has an ideological and structural element.

“The ideological element is that we have to decide who we want it to be. The constitution is very correct when it declares Nigeria to be a secular state. Enough of this religion.

“It is killing us. Look at the Miyetti Allah thing or the herders problem as it were, if the leader of Nigeria is crystal clear about saving Nigeria, all this Hajj, Christian, Muslim pilgrimages that are state-sponsored should not be allowed.

“The second important point is restructuring. We have to understand that it can only work if the entire Nigerian nation is behind it.

“Right now, that is not what we see and a lot of people in the North do not understand it, except Atiku.

“And I know why. The language of the South is so threatening. You can’t restructure the South alone.”

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/dailypost.ng/2018/10/14/atiku-vs-buhari-agbakoba-reveals-win-election-gives-reasons/amp/

sLentlover7778:
enough of Apc looting us and pretending to be fighting corruption,

I'm 100% sure Buhari will pretend he didn't watch the video..

The Time is now.. #Atiku2019


I have OBIdiently ATIKUlated...have You?

adetumi:
Instead of the usual APC blame game, ATIKU tailored an amazing reply to I GO DIE After the former accused him of using sympathy and present hardship the country is facing to seek for youth support. His response �

Dear I Go Dye,

I read your post on Instagram. It was hard to miss it because it was on every major news website. I would like to say that you were mostly right.

The questions you raised in your post are similar to the ones I have been asked by other young people on social media, so I am replying this not just to you as a person, but to all young Nigerians who have asked similar questions.

Firstly, you are right. The Nigerian youth have often been taken for granted, and almost every leader in our history has taken young people for granted.

But it’s important to point how this started?—for people like me who saw Independence; our leadership was mostly driven by young people.

Then came the coups, and the civil war, and then more coups. Nigeria ended up with a long period of military dictatorship for many decades, in which time; those young leaders aged, but still remained leaders. Fela, Gani, Enahoro, and Beko were young leaders, yet remained leaders until their demise.

That was because of the instability brought on by decades of instability. By the time we got to 1999, the young people of the day had not been prepared for leadership, because there was no leadership or apprenticeship process under dictatorships.

This is one of the reasons the age of leaders has continued to rise. That was because of the leadership stagnation brought on by decades of political instability.

Imagine a school that did not graduate any students for 5 years, by the time the top class finally graduates, you will have a backlog of undergraduates.

Our young people are not to blame; we need to remedy this national failure. Last week, there were local government elections in Akwa Ibom State, with over 60% of the seats won by young people, less than 35 years old.

That’s how progress can be made. Young people need to participate from the grassroots, all the way across board. Appointments are good, but getting elected is even better.

I also understand the issues around funding elections which keep women and young people out, and I will address this in an article I am publishing soon.

I do understand your frustration on the issue, however. I tell people my age that to understand young Nigerians, we need to understand the difference between Nigerian and Naija.

Naija embodies the hopes and dreams of young Nigerians, the country they love and long to go home to when they are abroad.

Naija is the country that brings them pride in music, film, comedy, fashion, and technology. It is the country of WizKid, Asa, Davido, Tuface, the Olympic bobsled team, Iwobi and Don Jazzy Again.

Nigeria on the other hand, is the country of their parents, the country where leaders are constantly failing them, of Boko Haram, of herdsmen violence, of recessions and joblessness. Our young people need us to make our country live up to the aspirations of Naija by fixing the problems associated with Nigeria.

I think it’s important to address the accusation about my tenure as Vice President, that I did nothing for young people. Firstly, as VP, I can only be judged on the responsibilities I was given. A VP obviously is not the driver of government. For example, you can’t blame Prof Osinbajo for all that is going on with the current government. He can only do what he’s allowed to do.

But let me speak about what you can judge me by, my assigned responsibilities. As VP, I assembled what is arguably the best Economic Team ever in Nigeria. It was made up of young, world class professionals, who came home to work. Some of those professionals are now political leaders, governors and world leaders in their own right.

If you ask what our first task was, coming into government in 1999, it was to bring stability to the economy after decades of military rule. For example, between 1999 and 2003, oil prices then were hovering between $16 and $28 yet we managed to pay up salary arrears from decades back, clear up our national debts and built up foreign reserves. Our GDP grew at the fastest rate we’ve seen since the return to democracy.

You mentioned that I never brought young people into leadership, but my record speaks differently. I have a proven record of bringing young, unknown professionals into service. Many of the professionals and ministers I brought in were in their 30s and early 40s.

Some of those young leaders have become governors in their states. I went to the World Bank and met a bright lady, convinced her to come back home, and she became a star in our government. To show you we had effective leadership, the same lady could not replicate her exploits under a different government.

I was also in charge of privatization and I have witnesses that I never interfered with the process. I never bought anything belonging to the government. I was quite wealthy before coming into government, with declared assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars in 1999 (which was put in a trust when I became VP); so it was understandable that many of the wealthy Nigerian business people who participated in the privatization programme were my friends.

Did I use my influence to get them better deals? No. As the then DG of BPE testified under oath, I never used my position to interfere with his work.

My legacy as Vice President, I would say is the banking consolidation process, for which I gave political backing for. Many big people were putting a lot of political pressure to not change the status quo, but we knew that if that consolidation was not done, Nigeria could not grow. Because of that banking consolidation, Nigerian banks don’t fail anymore the way they used to.

I oversaw the telecoms revolution, which is why young people like you, I Go Dye, now have a flourishing career. Under our tenure, we witnessed a large repatriation of Nigerians back to Nigeria, driven by the hope of the recovering economy. It is sad that many of those young people are heading back abroad now?—?this is to show you that leadership matters.

I know many of these have been forgotten because it was a long time ago, and successive administrations did not follow up on the progress we made. But that is also not to say we were blameless. I was largely frozen out in the second term of our tenure, and I regret that we had that disagreement with my boss.

Some say I was disloyal, but I looked at the events in Zimbabwe recently, and it gives me confidence that I did the right thing fighting the attempts to elongate the presidential tenure beyond eight years. If I did not win that fight, do you think we would be having a discussion on young people getting into leadership today?

Intels. I want to address this because you mentioned it. It was the Shagari government that started the Onne Port and later abandoned it.

In summary, my business partner and I saw an opportunity to build Nigeria’s oil industry using world class infrastructure, but driven by Nigerians. We went out and took loans to build the facilities, but as we went on, more opportunities opened up, which allowed us access to even more capital.

We ended up borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars, mostly from Europe, to build the port, singlehandedly charting the course of Nigeria’s oil industry.

Honestly, I did not ever think we would be that successful, which was why I kept my day job, when we started it. It was just what you would call, a side hustle, but it grew so big, and I had to quit my government job to focus on it. Today, every oil major uses the facilities we built.

The government only became clients after the oil companies. Our company has expanded to several countries in Africa. Even the FG has seen that that company is the most competent logistics company in Africa, which is why it gives Intels the most complex operations to manage.

But Intels as a corporate citizen is loved in the locations it operates. That’s because we invest in scholarships, hire young people from the community and train them to become world class technicians. As CSR, we have gone into partnership with the NFF to train young Nigerian footballers, and provide support for the local league. We are loved by the youth in our local communities.

In my home state of Adamawa for example, I’ve created over 50,000 direct jobs and 250,000 indirect ones. We are the largest private employers of labour in the state only second to the state government. It’s not a lot, but it does help reduce unemployment. Who do you think are holding those jobs? Yes, young people.

I Go Dye, I’m not a messiah. I do not promise Eldorado or $1 = N1. But I always ask to look at the economic progress we made under my leadership and what I am doing in private business and judge me by those. People say I became rich in government. It’s a lie. I had hundreds of millions of dollars in assets declared in 1999.

My businesses (my shares of which were held in a Blind Trust while I was in government) continued to grow since then. I was able to personally bankroll the PDP back then, so surely I was not poor.

But I understand it is politics. So it’s normal to be called names. But how come in all these years, none of my opponents has found any evidence to indict me?

The people who are afraid of me changing the status quo they enjoy will always try to frighten young people about me.

Some people believe youth empowerment is giving handouts to young people instead of building a strong economy. They are wrong. They want to give handouts so they can control young people.

But how long can we continue like that? Our country is borrowing to pay salaries, yet we are still holding on to outdated models just so we can control young people for elections.

The success of young Nigerian entrepreneurs in IT & technology, retail, music, and arts shows that given the chance, they can run anything. My job is to be a bridge, which supports our young people achieve these ideals. I will never say only I can do this.

I can’t do it alone. I need your support, I Go Dye, so help our economy grow, to ensure that within 10 years, our young people can take over completely.

In summary, I Go Dye, I am not a person who says what he cannot do or show proof. I am giving you an invitation to sit down and ask me any questions you may have.

I would also like to take you around, show you some of the businesses I have built, and let you speak to the young people who run those places. It is good to try to convince you that I can do better by our young people, but it is even better to show you. Send me a direct message on Twitter, and we will take it from there.

alexisok10:
I Feel Very Sorry For PDP.

Gggg102:
no 'fresh young hand' can win 2019 election on the basis of lack of popularity and influence.

any vote for them is an indirect vote for the incumbent.

believing otherwise is engaging in a fool's paradise.

Gggg102:
you people like fooling yourselves. who knows this one?
someone that won't even get 10000 votes.

you are just dividing opposition votes.

Validated:
Very knowledgeable. We will still vote for ATIKU so that he can create 1,800,000 personal jobs, that is 50,000 per state. As you mentioned he did all those for himself, so he can replicate same for himself in the 36 states of the Federation.

Captainrambo2:
just a few nairaland hooligans I tell you.

He is not incharge if his wife and his own affairs. Let alone nigeria.

Yomboy4ever:
We are currently at the border btw Egypt and promise land and we shall not retune to Egypt Insha Allahu. No to Atiku in Nigeria..
Only goat will be shouting atikuleni.. Una do. Die

technuel:
Atiku matter done scatter APC
They cannot even breath without mentioning Atiku
Atikulation 2019 is a sure project.

Victorygold:
Someone said atiku built university, hotels, etc
Please where is the university?
Where are his seven star hotels?
They are outside Nigeria
He own a generator company here in Nigeria an that is one of the major cause of our electrical issues.

Please for those that want to articulate, think and think again,
Atiku is not a Messiah
Has never been one
And will not be a Messiah over night.

Don't say because we hate buhari then bring in someone worse than him.

As if a snake is chasing you and you ran into the hands of a lion for safety.

Remember when atiku was put as a head of BPE during OBJ tenor he sold all the companies that belongs to Nigeria to himself disguising he was selling to foreign investors (validate)

That was when the sitting president OBJ called him a thief openly.

For me I'll rather have a younger objective persons as our president not all these old power drunken, power hungry, power corrupt fool.

#buhari is bad atiku is worse
#lests get a younger alternative.

I just wan to make a common sense.

boss1310:
"any child that heard his late father was shot in the head by a stray bullet usually wear an iron cooking pot as cap"this proverb is to tell you that anyone bearing the name Buhari will not be acceptable even if he is an educated youth

waleadex:
Nigeria is just a pure joke...

Stanweezy:
OP if I'm to read what u post again, both Atiku and Buhari are the same because all the achievement accredited to Buhari are all based in the North including Atiku own

odiks:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ogundamisi/status/1051481542193831936

blujoi:
You forgot to add that he’s the owner of the ikoyi millions, also add the Air Nigeria fraud, also the CBN fraud where some set of people are buying forex at lower rates, also in addition the billions of dollars unaccounted for in NNPC for which Kemi Adeosun was blackmailed for. There are many other stuff you forgot to add. Please dig harder

slimfit1:
Look at the people close to him another Buhari be careful .

Mklanceee:
you should use the word north ownership not public ownership because all the projects seems to be in the north

Redhot111:
NgeneUkwenu why ur voice e no dey gree loud again for this platform? Ani you sef don dey Atikulate small small? Na small small dem dey catch monkey. Una APC house of commotion is gradually being deserted by all. Pele ooo