₦airaland Forum

Papi85:
I think he has been released

Oh, hope the experience gained will help him going further.

Kog45:
Yes you are right,players like Taye Taiwo,Finidi George,Kanu Nwankwo,Celestine Babayaro,Gbenga Okunowo,Victor Ikpeba,Sunday Oliseh,Tijani Babangida,Garba Lawal,James Obiorah,Wilson Oruma

Yes sir, but can we say the reason was because the NPFL was a better league then compared to now, or because of the numerous football academies all over the country now? Some of the players are not even interested in playing in the league, they are all in various academies.
Chief Kunle Soname once said Beyond Limits transfers more players abroad than Remo Stars.

AndSunGorilla:
Recently Leonard Ngenge went to Leeds. Also Ejuke Uzoenyi went to France.

Ngenge signed for Leeds academy..

DeloitteNG:
Benjamin Frederick moved from the NPFL to Brentford

Taye Taiwo moved straight to Marseille main team and was a regular in the team. Benjamin ain't even played for Brentford main team but the U20 youth side

Governor Dapo should have used Senator Yayi’s consensus agreement to also negotiate his own consensus candidacy

Validated:
Seyi is running under APM, he has the Taminu Turaki PDP faction working for him in APM, just as Wike's faction are working for Tinubu. Effectively reducing Tinubu’s votes to only Ogun and Ekiti wins. Lagos, Oyo, Ondo and Osun are 25% states in the SW for Tinubu. In the SE and SS, Tinubu will be humiliated.

Seyi may be working for Bola Tinubu to take away dissenting votes that would have gone to the ADC and NDC.

Kog45:
In the 2000s,my good friend Seyi Olajegbensi a very good CB,moved from Julius Beger to frieburg in bundesliga just to tell you how good some lads in NPFL then,moving from local league to bundesliga,he made over 60 appearances 2004-2007 but Taminu had the opportunity but keep on failing with poor clubs.

I think Taye Taiwo was the last player to move from the NPFL to a top 5 league in 2005. That is very poor for the local league.

Akpakomiza2:
Exactly. Let's say Seyi 400k, Tinubu 400k, Atiku 30k obi 40k

Yes, the majority of those who would have voted for the NDC or ADC in Oyo and Bauchi (where his deputy will likely come from) will waste their votes on him. The opposition will split its votes, and Atiku should forget about getting 25% in any Southern state.
Apart from Oyo, where else will the votes come from in the SW? Olusegun Mimiko just joined APC in Ondo State, good addition

SolaFide:
Bromance is over with Napoli

Galatasaray may be interested, Icardi is leaving.

bedah:
D plan is not to win but to split votes

Aforesaid, being on the ballot favors the APC more than being Atiku’s running mate. The votes he would have given to Atiku will not be wasted.

The main reason he is contesting is to win the governorship and assembly seats for his candidates.

OredoPikin:
And reduce tinubu votes in SW🤣
I love this

It even favors APC for Makinde to be on the ballot rather than being Atiku’s running mate, because those votes would not go to Atiku.

So he ain't giving the few votes he would get from Ibadan to Atiku as his running mate, but instead wasting them? He can only win in Ibadan, not even Oyo State entirely.
So which southern states will Atiku now get 25% from? Northern votes alone cannot make him president. He recently rebuked opposition parties for zoning their president tickets to the South...he saw it coming

Agricultural Economics department will receive loads of applications

Kog45:
According to rumour Gala asking price is 150M,now left for Gala to do business if he is leaving but question,why did they bought Osimhen,it cannot be for winning league or FA Cup,possibly European cups or for business,now left for Gala fulfilment and Osimhen satisfaction,likely Gala will accept below 100 but i do not know maybe Napoli is getting cut from Osimhen transfer from Gala.

Napoli will get 10% of the profit Galatasaray makes from the sale, not from the entire transfer fee, but from the profit made on the $75 million paid to acquire the player.

Krankhead:
This is not good for the east, Obi is too much in an hurry, why will he acc3pt to be president for 4 years, what can he do for 4 years.

I don't believe he will serve only one term if he wins in 2027, it is all political gimmick.
How about if he leaves NDC (who already zoned the presidency to the North in 2031) and contest for reelection under another party?
I don't trust Politicians. Power is sweet. According to Atiku, GEJ went back on his words of only one term, that was the beginning of the problem in PDP

Even when Obi was "hot" in 2023, he didn't win Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa state.

Eriokanmi:
Did Wike not recontest ? If I were fubara, I'll defect into ADC but not yet, so they don't impeach him. He may say he's not going to recontest under the apc, but very possible under the ADC. Let them deny him ticket in the primaries and see wonders

The impeachment is already waiting for him. What kind of strategy is it to say he should defect to ADC but not yet, just to avoid being impeached?
When is the primary election? The day he defects, they will serve him an impeachment notice. That is his sorry situation.

success1smyn:
Add the religious aspect to it. In 2023 Obi got a sizable percentage of the votes he got because he used the church and the so called Muslim/Muslim ticket of the APC, that will be different this time.

Very correct. Also, the influence of the Labour Union and the support Obi enjoyed from its members in 2023 are gone. A 90% win in the South-East is no longer possible, elections in the region will be closely monitored. APC will not get 5,000 votes in Enugu and Abia in 2027. Tinubu will win Lagos massively in 2027.

Macphenson:
Fubara see your life. Look how they are messing you up. NDC is here for you now. Jump ship and fight. Don't go down without a fight lest posterity will be harsh on you.

Fubara is still a governor today because he is in the APC, where he is getting protection. Once he defects, he will be impeached. That is his unfortunate situation.

ibechris:
NDC would clear Bayelsa...that is the state where Dickson comes from.

Lol .Dickson was PDP and incumbent Governor when David Lyon of APC won the guber election in 2019 before supreme Court removed him because the running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, had false, inconsistent names on INEC documents.
Even in 2023, Obi didn't win Bayelsa, it was Atiku that won the state.

Parachoko:
Nah Asgard Aminda me I pity pass in all this

Can’t wait to see the "gbas-gbos" while APC watches. It will be like when ISWAP and Boko Haram are fighting each other and the Nigerian Army is watching. What names will they start calling Malami and El-Rufai now?

idonhammer:
Tinubu is scared of Obi and kwankanso

the earlier you stopped fooling yourselves the better for you

This is good news for APC. Obi won't get 90% votes in SE in 2027, he won't also win Lagos. Even with Makinde as Atiku's running mate, ADC won't with Oyo or any state in the South.
Atiku saw it coming, reason he underestimated Kwankwaso electoral influence/popularity in Northern Nigeria.

lbrichman2:
This guy is a bully
If he's able to break into the team, having him, Bassey and Osimhen in the same team will give opponents something to think about o..

I already see Nnadi taking over from Onyeka
If this guy can give us 80-90% what Ndidi gives under Chelle
Then with Iwobi as our Creator in Chief
E don finish be that

Similar to Uche

Reloadedisraelp:
his stepping down is the key to unseat tinubu.... I can bet tinubu would prefer atiku as an opposition than obi.

So, Atiku will step down for Obi and the North will vote for Obi, who could spend eight years in office, compared to Tinubu’s four years before power returns to the North?

Ibadanfarmroad:
you said more than this in 2023, marginalization, rigging and judiciary will be your latest cry after 2027 elections. It’s obvious you guys don’t learn, you just sit and make permutations just to make yourself happy.

I am surprised that he ain't worried for Atiku over Kwankwaso leaving the coalition, but instead sees it as a disadvantage to Tinubu, when it actually benefits the ruling party. What he did is what I would call a deflective narrative

The opposition coalition just wasted Baba Obasanjo's time last week in Ibadan. Kwankwaso may even be going to NDC to fight for the presidential ticket for himself

AMINDA:
Majority votes in the Northeast and Northwest. Decent performance in the Northcentral and a good showing in the Southwest with Seyi Makinde and the legacy PDP's structure as brokered at the Ibadan Declaration. In all possible scenarios, Atiku will emerge with the highest votes even if he fails to get the spread. This will then throw the election into a run off in the worst case scenario. Elrufai already predicted this outcome a long time ago. What a genius he is. No wonder Tinubu has him incarcerated over a bailable allegation. He's the real master strategist and he made Tinubu president.

So, what is the difference between this 3-man race (or even 4,lol) and the 2023 election? Kwankwaso will again act as a spoiler for Atiku. Remember, Tinubu was not the president in 2023, but he is now.

Chucks13:
Hahahahhhaha Makinde I nor tell you say you go weep las las?

Na so that old man called Adelabu died as a betrayer of his people same shoe you Makinde put on but we go show you shege promax.

Makinde we are coming for you the N30billion you collected and cleaned mouth we will need the money back at a point soon so be ready for dss and efcc business ok.

He will dissappear just like Obaseki..

Orji Uzor Kalu always wins his own election, but his presidential candidate usually loses in the same day election, even in his own polling unit.
APC is stronger in Adamawa, a vote for Fintiri is also a vote for Tinubu.

Macphenson:
Obviously you are a kid. Did you not hear when they were shouting Tinubu through INEC frustrated every effort for them to register a political party?

And Dickson was able to form and register NDC?

obailala:
The last election can't be used as a yardstick to measure who's more tribally sentimental because OBI was clearly a better candidate who enjoyed the most genuine and organic support from voters within and outside his tribe.

To answer your question, whilst I would not dismiss the inherent nature of Nigerians especially from the 3 main tribes to be extremely tribal, if Tinubu were to be from the SE, he clearly wouldn't have gotten up to half the votes and support which Obi got in 2023. Likewise if Obi was from the SW, he would still have received a large chunk of votes from the SE. Possibly only 50% of Obi's support in the SE can be linked to tribal influence; the rest of it was largely influenced by merit, which explains why he also got massive suppport from other zones across Nigeria.

As I repeatedly pointed out prior to the last election, if APC had fielded someone like Prof. Osinbajo, despite the tribal influence, Obi wouldn't have smelt up to half the votes he got from the SE. In otherwords, the entire "Obi buzz" from the last election and even to date, and the landslide support Obi got from the SE, was largely a creation of the character and pedigree of the candidate fielded by the APC.

He won outside his region based on Muslim-Muslim ticker of APC, not on any merit. Where was the merit in 2019 that he couldn't deliver it to Atiku when he was his running mate?
Christian population voted for him to protest APC muslim-Muslim ticket. He got the votes in Christians dominated areas.

Great Osimhen. The club believed so much in him, and he delivered, even when he was not fully fit.