ryloy:

https://punchng.com/ohanaeze-fumes-alleges-injustice-as-tinubu-declares-presidential-bid/

Where is Ohaneze statement against the declaration of Saraki and the intentions of Atiku or Tambuwal?

NaijirianKing:
Great analysis. This is what many southerners do not understand, their time is not 2023, they have ruled this nation more than their fair share.

2000-08 was ruled by the SW
2008-10* the NW
2010-2015 the SS
2015-Present the NW

As anyone can see, the North only has had 8 years thus far, while the south has been in power for 15 years and still wants more. This is the definition of greed. The North is not deceived.

Anyone in favor of justice, equity and zoning should solidly be behind the NC as the NC has had neither the President nor the VP. We will accept a NE candidate as it seems the PDP will zone the ticket to the NE, but APC should also zone the ticket to the NC and allow these zones to taste power. Instead, the south wants to greedily take every position even though they have been in power the most leaving the North to rot...

Enough is enough. We will meet them at the polls...

Lies won't help your cause, the president of southern origin have ruled for just over 13 years while those from the north will hold power for almost 11 years by 2023

SarkinYarki:


You are not okay

You finally got the response you deserve for your useless post.
You feel you have the monopoly of madness

Temptee101:


This old wizard promising to build on the dullard's 'vision' clearly shows the drug lord has nothing to offer other than to loot with bullion vans.

In saner climes, this evil statement of his is enough to disqualify the old fool from anything election, but again this is Nigeria where illiteracy, tribalism and foolishness reign supreme.

Buhari himself knows he has nothing to offer except hardship, hardship and more hardship, death and blood, etc...

This how failures talk, it's always the fault of others, they never take rraponsibiity

Suspect33:
I see some Nairalanders showing support for this man so as to spite the easterners, it's the same mistake they made in 2015, supporting Buhari bcus he had a Yoruba vice and bcus they thought he'd deal with the easterners, seven years down the line and everyone is suffering for it..

They're about to make the same mistake thinking they are in some competition with people who don't care about them

Is your hatred/envy or even Insecurity towards the people of the east worth another 8 years of poverty and regression?

After all the hate speech, abuses, ipob strategy, threats and blackmail, reality is now slapping you in the face.

GoodHardDick:
GEJ all the way!!

Dude is full of wisdom and of course things were apparently very cheap during his tenure

You talk like a typical market trader.

What did GEJ do to make things cheaper during his tenure? Did Tinubu make prices more expensive in his own time?

What will GEJ do to make things cheaper if gets elected.

backbencher:


Which also has provisions for its ammendment, which you guys don't want to use because it is too too hard.



Because most of you guys don't care really. Like how many Nigerians know that they can fight for changes to their constitution? And those who know aren't interested.


Under which 1) many minorities were complaining of marginalization 2) didn't allow for creation of states which most Nigerians then and now want. 3) did not solve Nigeria's economic problem, which is resource dependency, and if we had kept it, our population would have outgrown our resources eventually, as is happening now , and we would still have been broke d) did not solve the issues of election rigging, and corruption(Nzeogwu's ten per-centers), and tribalism, and religionist tendencies e) did not allow for secession in any form f) did not allow for productivity of the regions. We were just sharing money,noting like industrialization or exporting industrial goods, just exporting raw materials and importing and over importing, which the small educated population benefited from more than the majority, which is why many of them think those days were the good old days..they weren't most people were still poor, and anyway, almost half still went to government g) did not solve things like raising revenues from taxes.g) did not solve political violence, and may have even indirectly laid the foundation for the 1966 coup and the civil war.

Seriously, 1963 is not 2022. Nigeria was a different nation then.



Then do the hard work of democracy. Run for office, fight for amendments, etc etc.

Amerika that most of you love to praise...their perfect constitution once referred to black people as 'three fifths of a person' and did not allow women or most males to vote. That they have rights now is because people did the hard work for those rights.

Youre very right, Nigerians like knee jerk solutions, difficult and complicated routes that are almost like wild unachievable dreams. Now they are clamouring for 1963 constitution that led us to political crisis civil war within 4 years.

We don't like following any laid down process, we do prefer using hammer to smash everything and end up creating fresh intractable problems.

The same people clamouring for amendment have never asked aspirants for Senate or House of reps their position on burning constitutional issue. They've never meet their reps at constituency office or town hall meetings.

They just make noise in the media to burnish their personal profile.

CaptainAyub:
Won't vote any of them but for the records GEJ will be far better than the brown teeth,90yr old drug lord whose real name is Yekini Amoda abi wetin,who nobody knows d real father or mother.

Modified.
For those saying Thiefnuubu laid d foundation for Lagos bla bla,it's always easy for anybody governing Lagos to shine due to the huge IGR and federal allocation.
And Lagos doesn't have public running water,no intra-city railway,no stable public transportation.
Maybe they're talking about the MC Oluomo/owo mi da type of foundation

Why did Oyinlola fail in Lagos and refuse took over the roads filled with potholes

seunmsg:
The Federal Republic of Nigeria raked in N8.6Trn and not the Federal Government of Nigeria. Media platforms and bloggers should try and be getting some of these things correctly and stop publishing misleading news.

I don't think revenue collected by FIRS apart from VAT is shared among the states. Each state have their own IRS and they don't share the collections with FG

BrandSpurNG:

The federal government of Nigeria (FGN) has taken-in the sum of N8.6trn as taxes for the year 2021.

A data released by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) disclosed that both agencies generated N2.2 trillion and N6.4 trillion respectively.

The Executive Chairman, FIRS, Muhammad Nami, gave the figure in Abuja at a public presentation and breakdown of highlights of the 2022 Appropriation Act.

“We collected more than 70 per cent of the target set for 2021 with the help of technology and I assure Nigeria that we will do better in 2022. “The figures will be fully published soon.’’ said Nami.

The NCS said the N2.2 trillion it generated at the end of 2021, surpassed the target of N1.6trn it set for the year.

Similarly, a statement by the Service Public Relations Officer, Comptroller Joseph O. Attah yesterday, showed that the amount generated was a 43 per cent increase of the N1.5trn generated in 2020.

Attah also disclosed that the service’s efforts to prevent the entry of items that could compromise the security of citizens, economy and the well-being of the people resulted in the seizures of 5,096 assorted items with a duty paid value of N13.7billion and 160 suspects at different levels of investigation or prosecution.

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) attributed the feat to “resolute pursuit of what is right and willingness to adapt to changes brought about by global health challenges occasioned by covid-19.”

He expressed delight that the service revenue generation profile had continued to be on the rise annually.

SOURCE:https://brandspurng.com/2022/01/08/fgn-rakes-in-n8-6trn-from-firs-customs/

It revenue from FIRS alone is over 8 trillion apart from another 2.2 trillion from customs, amongst others, why is the false infirmation gaining traction that we use 90% of our revenue to service loans?
Our loan service is about 3 trillion abd that appears like less than 30% of our total revenue.

Ruggedniggaone:
yobe,bornu and part of Adamawa

Abuja, Sokoto, Kano, Gombe, Kogi, Niger were all ravaged and bombed by Boko Haram elements from 2010- 2015

NGpatriot:
The failed PDP used ZIK mausoleum to fool and collect votes from the people in that region for decades, but after 26 years of abandonment, Fashola completed the project in less than 2 years..

See as them treat the memory of dem papa, even after being the pillar of GEJ govt for 6 years

Asgard63:
Is a pity

That after 7 years of change and next level

Apc is still campaigning with Pdp lapses

If that’s not cluelessness what else

That a grown adult .. will come in Year 2022 to remind Nigerians of a party that left power over 8 years ago..

Then asked them what their Apc party has achieved in 8 years .. and he starts showing pictures from 15 years

And you’re saying the adult is normal and not shameless

This is not a thread showing APC achievements, there are many picture threads showing that.

It's showing PDP failures. If you can't prove these are false news, best you keep quiet and return the money PDP is paying you to defend them

Tpharell:

So, in 2021 government reintroduced VAT on imported LPG and requested importers to pay the tax on imports going back 3 years, yes cargo that has since been sold. So importers are now gradually trying to offset the outstanding VAT, with the attendant cost transferred to buyers. So the 7.5% VAT importers are paying at the moment is effectively much more than that and is being transferred to Nigerians. You probably never heard of this thats why you argued that removal of the VAT would not change the price much.
On the lighter side, i wonder what you make of that fellows argument of 'manufacturing' LPG?

Back collection story of VAT story is completely false. The VAT was not due on the previous years and they cant ask for it.
It only becomes applicable from last year.

The VAT on imports is meant to encourage local producers to invest and enlarge their capacity but I know Covid impacted a number of projects negatively, I know because I was involved in one the Chinese workers could not come back in January 2020 due to lockdiwn in China

Bigchristo:
You’re the dullard here, You’re not smart at all because you couldn’t comprehend my first comments, now I understand is not everyone who uses smartphones are normal, your head Dey touch bro

The ofe.manu is confused

lexy2014:


Since u don't have comprehension problems, answering my questions shouldn't be a challenge for u:

So is it d age of d leaders of Nigeria that is d problem with Nigeria? So when a new cargo arrives, all d problems in Nigeria will be solved?

Like Donald Duke and Yahaya Bello transformed their states because they were young

CoolAmbience:



You can't compare Nigeria with other world power nations....why?

Are the people in those countries not humans?

You guys just like to make unnecessary social media outbursts. Why not start replacing these leaders you believe shouldn't be there any longer, and stop just wishing?

Tell me, how well are Nigerians that aren't in leadership doing in improving the country?

You didn't have to mention GEJ in your remarks for me to reference him.

Nigeria's problems are societal. Buhari is not Nigeria's problems. Every one has contributed one way or another. Buhari didn't stop his predecessors from fixing our electricity and other key Infrastructures.

Leaders emerge from societies and not societies from leaders.

I do not expect your kind to appreciate this. We hardly have respect for knowledge and people who bear them.

In Northern Nigeria, knowledge is much valued... little wonder, despite widespread Southern denigration of the North, in respect to their inferior educational accomplishments, they continue to maintain vantage and strategic leadership positions in the country.

I maintain, this has nothing to do with whether a leader is recycled or brand new. Nation building is onerous, ongoing and collective. How much is the individual Nigerian doing? That is what really counts.

These are the kind of monikers one should follow on this app.
Not mere rabble-rousers and noise makers

ashawopikin:
The problem lies more with the legislature, if we have more intelligent people in the senate, then they can change that useless constitution and this country will be better, make dem change those old pot bellied rubber-stamp senate and house of rep members

I will tell for free that when restructuring takes place and realise most of your problems remain the same, you will still come back to say the above all over again

skj1377:
He may be making money from it. Probably from donation. The first presidential election he campaigned in we sat on the same 3 row seat on the flight from abuja to lagos. He suddenly asked me if am aware he is contesting for President I thought he was joking so I asked him when he is stepping down. He got angry because of my question , his pa a lady seated in out middle then brought out his campaign poster. He told me categorically he will be the next president.

If he got angry because of that little jab you gave him, hmmmmm

TemmyT002:


They are only being practical.
Sentiments won't win elections.
As long as the South is combined with the North, no party apart from APC and PDP has a chance.
The Northerners are the bigger factor. They decide the election.
That's why we must break up for real development to happen.

Thats why any serious small party should focus their energy on ward, LG and legislative districts first and prove their mettle or show a different path. Then they can grow from there.

But they will abuse anyone talking of reality, they prefer operating on sentiments and wild dreams.

durangokid:
. The same way bubu contested for 3 times before now

Moghalu did not get 1% of the lowest votes Buhari ever got in all elections he took part in.

isaacola57:
Nigeria can never be better.. Honestly if u can just leave this country.. From the comments I have read, most Nigerians deserve the poverty, insecurity, power failure and all the hardship

And you think security problem, power failure, and hardship will disappear overnight because Mogjalu is president? Perish that childish thought.

UTILITYMAY:


Yes! You are right. But a reality we can't shy away from is that without a solid platform, no one can win election, most especially Presidential or Gubernatorial elections. Here are the things that wins election (combination of all in that hirachy, without leaving one out):

•Party
•People
•Money
•Candidate
•Media
•God
•Strategy
•Programmes/Manifesto

Can you see where Party is and where Candidate is?

You are one of the nearest to reality.
Why wont a prof know this?

49cents:


NIgeria is yet to have ideological parties.

PDP and APC are only soap boxes ..full of career politcians who we wrongly call leaders.

Republicans and Democrats are idelologies not just parties.

I would not even say ADP is that ideological...but my point is that if APC or PDP offer even Jesus Christ a platform to contest it will be at a great price such that we the masses will not get one tenth of what they promised

Republican and Democratic party have evolved over the decades and did not start as ideological parties.
If fact they used to be same party called Democratic-Republican before they split and they ran against the Whig party etc.

They have both moved from extreme spectrum to the other. The Democratic party uses to be the southern party that was racist and blacks would never touch, while Republican was Lincoln party that freed black slaves.
But it was Democratic party that pushed for civil rights and sent Marines to enforce it.

Now Republican party is seen as party of white supremacists and seen as racist. 85% of black voters wont vote Republican candidates.

One day SS and SE might be the greatest promoters if APC, that's the nature of party politics.

Parties ideology grows organically, and can change from one extreme of the spectrum to the other.
APC is mere 8 years old. Entire experiment is 22 years old

Organs:


Liar, GEJ actually got lots of Northern votes in 2011. OBJ was not favoured in 1999. Everyone predicted he will fail based on your analysis, his fellow yorubas did not vote for him, yet he won. The problem is the "machinery" i.e the party. If Moghalu is the APC presidential candidate, he will most probably win.

These are realities many young hot bloods in Nigeria cant understand. We were mostly at the mercy of PDP controlling 30 states until about 10 years ago when the fragmented opposition coalesced.
Yet a prof wants to win with an invisible fragment. I belive he knows he will not win anything, i refuse to accept he is that dull like those shouting carry go on this thread.
There's something else Moghalu wants and it's not the presidency.

49cents:


Nobody is saying Oisbajo is dull but he has no presidential ambition....

Have you even looked at his stand on restructuring, on state police? On electrol reforms On industialisatoon?

Let us argue on actual poiints

He has expressed his stand at every opportunity that we need state police and restructuring plus industrialization.

But knows the reality that all above can only be achieved by persuasion if those who will vote for it, not by issuing threats, ultimatum and resignation as demanded by many dullards.

07kjb:
From the comments above Nigeria won't get better,a Nation were intellectuals are hated...tufiakwa

You think Hillary, Trump, Biden, Obama were the most accomplished intellectuals in the USA? Or all their leaders were the most brillant citizens in existence?

This myopic reasoning is the reason a lot of you fail in politics and motor park toughs, igbohos, Chris Ubah etc are succeeding. Your education seems to have become an impediment hence less educated people lead you.

With your intellectualism, you keep violating the laws of salesmanship an essential ingredient of democracy. Once you can't connect with voters and their influencers, your 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees can't do nada

optimusprime2:
To be honest I would vote this man...

I can see some posts saying that; The man looted, The man is from the east, it's not time for the east yet blah, blah... All these posts make it very clear that "Most Nigerians", have an obvious problem. Due to collective hatred and flimsy sentiments based on religion or ethnic arrangement, "Most Nigerians" now lack common sense.

In Civic education, sound democracy is made up of two elements; (Leaders and Followers), apparently "Most Nigerian's" are so focused on the ills of Leadership, that the ills of followership is overlooked. Why can't followers use Common Sense to vote in a leader in Nigeria?? (and that's the main reason Buhari did a second term). It's obvious to see that Nigeria needs a fresh leader, however "Most Nigerians" will deliberately still vote for one of these old Cargo's again to come and keep repeating this cycle of Leadership and then expect a monkey to suddenly develop wings... that's what is sooo frustrating.

Even if this man looted, or even if he is from the "East-Middle-Eastern-East", even if the east have not reached their turn etc... If a Presidential Candidate like this shows up alongside the regular Old Cargo's can't most people use common sense anymore?

Just imagine a situation where there is Atiku, Tinubu and this man running and people deliberately vote for Tinubu or Atiku... cant you already see that first of all the voters already have a problem??

I remember once asking someone "Give me a solid reason why Tinubu should be president?" and his response was "Because he is the Jagaban"... Just imagine ... To think that this the reason of "Most Nigerians", outright gives me chills.

How can people be voting for mere sentiment in these critical times that call for urgent restructuring...

Have people actually listened to this man's blueprint for Nigeria before? or what they rather listen to is ethnic placement, timing or partisan representation?

Regardless of anything, in a population of 200Million if more than 100Million people agree to vote with common sense, won't the direction of Nigeria change from - to + ??

To be honest I am sick and tired of Nigerian's voting based on political parties, or because of religious sentiment, ethnic sentiment...

I am actually appealing to the common sense of "Most Nigerians" to vote for an actual person that is not the usual fixture.

The man does'nt have to be perfect, he just needs to present the best option... and this guy clearly has it comparing him to the "usual old cargo's"

If you don't know how to mine popular sentiments to create a transformative leadership class and insist on changing everyone's mindset to forget race, ethnic origin and religious affiliations first, before you ascend power, then you've already failed from the get go.

That's why USA did not elect an Indian, Chinese, African or even Irish for over 200 years after founding.

Moghalu is just clowning with this approach as it won't gain traction with 98% of voting population. If he's not smart enough to know how to reach and ride on the sentiment of voters he's just wasting his time.

This approach may not deliver his local government to him as candidate not to talk of his state or Nigeria.

Bigchristo:
So why are you defending him? I don’t understand this one is like your head is touching.

You are a real suegbe, have you blamed him for your headache and fever too? I thought they said Nigerians are generally smart? You must be an exception.

Tpharell:

When situations spiral out of control government cannot fold its hands and say that 'it is a deregulated market', thats not how it should play out please. On VAT, it is fully in place for imported LPG this very moment, you must know.
Finally, not everyone can be decieved about 'Naira manipulation in the past'. Now that CBN 'no longer manipulates it', is forex readily available, and has foreign reserves grown reasonable more than in the past? Are you saying there is no forex scarcity today or what? I still maintain that government can still do something to make LPG more affordable to Nigerians, if the mean it. Its not totally out of there hands.

Govt cannot create forex if we don't earn it via increased export of goods and services. Or alternatively reduce imports if items we can easily produce at home

Tpharell:

There is no 'manufacturing' of petrol from crude oil (thats what you are saying), but processing (refining) crude into petrol, please! Enough of this!
I maintain, there is what government can still do to make the product more affordable in the local market. Government makes laws hence can review the VAT to ease the burden on Nigerians. I see you have nothing to say about the exchange rate adjustments I mentioned by the government which badly impacted on the price of domestic LPG

Lets stop harping on semantics, that's not the subject of discussion.

One thing govt can do is introduce another form of subsidy or withdraw VAT in imported LPG, 7.5% which won't reverse the 200% price increase and will discourage local investment in LPG production.

Bigchristo:
You be mumu, what makes the naira weaker?

Suegbe, it's Buhari that makes naira weaker nah