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You have no point.

What brings Diezani into this matter?

If you have any EVIDENCE against the lady and her business (NOT beer parlour gossip) ,why not petition the appropriate authorities

How did other Nigerians get start-up capital to start business?


Why not just ask how did Kiki Osinbajo get the power to be alive?

Gval123:
this girl day think say she day talk to baby abi? even daziani was a legitimate biz woman until she left office. Lets investigate how you got your money to startup your biz. Anybody can create a big biz, but how did you get your start up capital? As a financial crime investigator, i know that Nigerian including those living here with big biz have no background to wealth creation,no biz to show how the circle of wealth started, but have big biz. As a Nigerian, i put it to you that even as a tenant in that house, you can't afford the rent. Either your father is paying or you are using your father's position as the VP to make money, which is a crime itself. Bring your books for your startup, and i will nail you in less than a week. You have no background to the wealth to talked about, most Nigeria biz men are political businessmen. New money. They don't have financial History, but they have big biz.

No, it's because of the criminal nature of the case.


Jackson Ude said he can't be intimidated. It's better he comes to Nigeria, go straight to the Police panel investigating the weighty allegations and tell his side of the story.



The blogger is NOT above the law.

socialmediaman:
No I think he involved the police to stop the blogger from further talking. The IG will intimidate the blogger and lock him up and that’s the last people will hear from him.

#800 Million?
You must be a kid to believe everything you read online.



That house can't be more than #300 Million.

valentineuwakwe:
she is a tenant in a house that cost 800m? abeg wetin she dey work?

Congratulations for this prophecy/declaration/revelation

DiagnoPolitics:
I have voter's card and a young respected community leader in my area of residence. A member of the PCRC and JDPC. I don't play, all my political predictions come to pass.

Yoruba won't be president in 2023. It is as sure as the Sun rising in the East and setting in the west.

What's your level of education?

Do you know what's called Jurisdiction of courts in Legal proceedings?

Was the alleged offence committed in the US?

The Vice President of Nigeria should just travel to the US and enter one court in Texas or Alabama and excuse me Judge, I what to prove my case in a place where there is true Democracy? Does this sound logical to you?

socialmediaman:
I will feel attacked and I will fight back by going public to defend the allegations and challenging him to provide evidence. But of course in this part of the world people in public office will rather use the security operatives and silence opposition. If not that the said blogger is in the US he would’ve been arrested longtime and given the Sowore treatment. Why not go to the US and sue him to court? Because we know that’s where true democracy is practiced.

The law is clear.


The Vice President feel someone had maliciously raised a weighty false allegations against him. He has the right to challenge this crime LEGALLY which he has done by petitioning the Police to investigate the matter and charge the suspect ,Mr Jackson Ude to court.

Whether Jackson Ude is in California, Japan or Morrocco doesn't matter. The police can write to the INTERPOL and arrest and extradite him to face his charges in court.

If he can prove it in court that Magu actually gave the Vice President #4Billion and he will be free. Nigerians will even hail him as a defender of the massses and the new anti-corruption activist.

If there is no evidence of such, he should serve a prison sentence as a deterant against future peddlers of fake news which often inflame emotions capable of setting the country on fire.


All the cartoons you are showing haven't broken any law and are not related to the topic being discussed.

socialmediaman:
Can your president and VP stand these? Let’s not pretend like we don’t know people are in detention for abusing Nigerian leaders like the president. Look at the weight of accusation in the third photo below. I can’t force you to accept the obvious, I can only present you with the facts

Obviously you don't know what you are saying.

There's a world of differences between abuse and criminal defamation of character.

Abusing the President e.g saying Trump is the stupidiest President is a mere 'subjective expression of opinions' which needs not be based on any established fact.

How do you define a stupid person? A stupid action to me may be a brilliant action to you and there is no universally accepted criterion to define what is stupid.

Criminal defamation on the other hand is a deliberate statement of information in a permanent form that are false with the intent to bring a person into disrepute especially in a criminal matter e.g saying Trump shot and killed a security guard or that Osinbajo receive #4 Billion bribe.
Both actions can be verified to determine if they are true or not (no grey areas) and if true attract punishments.

There's no punishment for being a stupid person but there are punishments for murder or receiving bribes.

socialmediaman:
His defenders have come!

Nobody said anything about ignoring anything, he should defend himself before the public, he’s a public officer

Take a good look at these 2 images below and tell me if your politicians have faced anything close to what this leader has faced from his people. He goes to the press and debunks allegations, you don’t stifle the press with your influence. It’s called tyranny!

You seems fixated on Tinubu and 2023 that you don't see the bigger picture.


Tinubu is a Nigerian citizen who has paid his dues in the political evolution of Nigeria , like many other actors.

The emergence of the APC in 2013 is very important for at least three reasons;
*Political maturity of our politicians to enter into a political merger.
* The possibility that opposition parties can defeat an incumbent party, a rare feat in African democracies.
* The emergence of two strong political parties which will not make any one of them to take the electorates for granted because of the awareness that a strong alternative is waiting.

If it's part of his destiny to be president, he will become the President and if it's not, he won't.

However, the wheels of progress must continue to roll.

The Fulanis are a powerful political force in Nigeria and will have great impact on the politics of Nigeria. However it's blatant lie that they must always win.

They, like other political forces in Nigeria may win sometimes and may not win other times.

As we continue to mature in this democratic process, certain things and the implications will become clearer to many of us.

OfoIgbo:
That was exactly what the SE/SS alliance tried to do in 2015, but Yorubas decided to support Fulanis.

I don't think the SE/SS alliance will want to dispel that myth, with a SW presidential candidate in 2023.

As you also know, any election is a game of numbers. Blocs reach agreements to increase their votes. Abiola period is not like 2023. Abiola came up when the SS and Anambra were willing to support his presidential bid. This time around, I am not sure Tinubu's people have the confidence of the SS or the SE, and I doubt his team has the support of the middle belt, so it will be a steeper mountain to climb this time around.

As things stand now, Tinubu may only be able to rely on SW votes. Anywhere outside the SW is a no-go area for him

It's amazing seeing people who don't have voter's cards, who aren't card carrying members of any political parties and people who can not influence who will be a councillor in their Streets coming online boasting on how they will determine who will be president and who will not be president.

Excuse me bros, how will you ban people you don't like based on their regions or ethnic groups from contesting for the presidency?

Are you going to secure court injections restraining them or you will instruct the leadership of their political parties not to sell forms for them because I don't know exactly how you think you can stop certain persons from contesting.

I will expect sincere response (not insults, curses and other juvenile pranks), thanks.

Anyiamaka:
OP has made a very good point. With Obasanjo' 8 yrs as President and Yemi's 8yrs as VP, the yorubas have no biz contesting either President, VP, Senate President in 2023. This will be against the ideology of zoning and rotation that favours the Igbos for understandable reasons.
Rather than a SW or SS president in 2023, the North should continue. No shaking! Buhari can even have a third term. Like Atiku, the brown teeth drug lord in Eko will never be president of Nigeria. If he likes, let him share bullion Van's on election day. Mtcheeew

Whether Northerners participate or not (Of course, Atiku will participate.You can take that to the bank), S/West policiticians should and will contest the 2023 elections.

It's the right thing to do.





So many things need to happen to improve our democratic culture.

The myths that a Southern candidate can not defeat a Northern candidate or that an Igbo candidate can not win an election against other Nigerians are nothing but just pure myths.

Certain events like it's playing out now will burst some of these myths.

As we continue in the democratic journey ,other myths will be bursted along the line.

OfoIgbo:
Igbos understand the point you are making, which is why we are saying that, if SWners participate in the primaries, then northerners should also participate. It is fairer that way.

Yorubas is an ethnic group and not a political party. There are different Yorubas I PDP,APC, Labour, SDP.

Ex-Govs Mimiko, Fayose, Gbenga Daniels, Gani Adams, Afenifere etc all worked for the PDP in 2015 such that Jonathan/PDP received about 2 million votes in the S/West while the PDP received about 2.5 million votes in the S/East

The Yorubas in the APC negotiated a better deal for the S/west with the APC.

There were Yorubas, Kanuris, Igbos, Idoma who have committed suicide and there were several other people who have built their own houses, bought cars and improved their economic well being as well.

There were Northern politicians in the PDP but most of the time them had decamped to the APC before the 2015 election.
The remants in the PDP were simply overshadowed by the APC.


Politics is about interests. It's wrong to assume politicians must NOT pursue their own interests but but should have pursued your interests (Jonathan/PDP victory).

Have you bothered to seat down and asked what would have been the interests of Tinubu, Amaechi, Osinbajo, Sylva, Fayemi, Fashola, Gbajabiamila, Saraki,Aregbesola, Oshiomole if Jonathan/PDP had won the 2015 election?

bigfish3k:
Yorubas were calling for electoral reform when they were in opposition but now that the rigging machinery is with them, they are keeping mute

If you say there is nobodys turn you are playing smart because you just want to spoil the chances of the other southerners.

Given southern unity yorubas in APC should have worked for Jonathan the same way the the northerners in PDP worked for PMB for northern unity

People weren't happy with PDP because of ignorance
It is now clear that most things against PDP were propaganda. We now know better

I still remember SW drivers in my area in Lagos praying for Jonathan because of his massive road construction. Fashola also attested to this.
All the roads you mentioned were under serious construction. It was your brother Obasanjo that did not do a follow up on those constructions

The whole country is crying of hunger you said you got a better deal because of appointments

What about yorubas that have committed suicide because of this bad economy. So the deal didn't capture all yoruba interests

The topic is not about Yoruba presidency. Yoruba Politicians will surely contest for the presidency. God alone will determine who ever becomes the president.

Nobody is teaching Igbo or any tribe how to play politics. The PDP leaders in the S/East warning Suswan about the zoning of the PDP ticket to the North are NOT Yorubas.

DiagnoPolitics:
yorubas who have lost more than 80% of every national elections they ever voted in since 1959 wants to teach others how to play politics.

The abookis are pulling the rug under their legs but because they want to save face, they find it convenient to insult the Igbos and divert away from their shame. Of course we Igbos will keep punching their empty skulls online till they grab some common sense. Hopeless noise making barrels who only know how to shout "arrhhhhhhh!" "emiiiiii" like urchins

2023 is not far and a yoruba man will NOT be president, that's what matters. .

Apart from claims and demands, Igbos will still need to CONTEST for the Primaries and general election.

It will be very naive to think that ONLY Igbo candidates will participate in the Primaries and the general election.




It has NEVER happened that only members of one tribe/Geopolitical zone participate in the presidential primaries and main election.

OfoIgbo:
People like Jim Nwobodo and Orji Uzor Kali a d others supported OBJ, and convinced other non Yoruba PDP people to select OBJ, so that the SW will be pacified. That was what happened.

And as a matter of fact, in 1999, Igbos had a better claim to the presidency than Yorubas as OBJ and Shonekan had already ruled the nation.

1) Are you saying rigging can not work against a Yoruba or Hausa presidential candidate? Are you implying that an Igbo candidate will not win unless the Constitution is amended to accommodate electronic voting?

Do you think electronic voting will be foul proof?
Didn't you hear the rumours that part of the Dubai Strategy of the PDP in 2019 was to hire Ray Hushpuppy in Dubai to hack INEC website and post PDP results on the server basking on the assumption that Buhari would be uninformed enough to sign the Saraki-led ammended electoral act?

2) There is nobody's turn.
Are you suggesting that Yoruba APC chieftains should have worked for Jonathan/PDP victory in 2015?

Are you saying people should have stuck to the PDP even if they aren't happy with the performance of the Jonathan administration?

The APC administration has almost completed the Lagos-Ibadan Express road, Lagos-Ibadan Standard modern railway, the Oyo-Ogbomosho Express roads, the Oshodi-Apapa Express and several other projects which the PDP didn't do in the S/West. This is in addition to political appointments of some people from the S/West

Head or tail, the S/West negotiated and got a better deal with the APC than with the PDP.
Politics is all about interests.

bigfish3k:
1.I think we can't win because we don't have a free and fair electoral system. The yorubas and the hausas will use federal might to rig an igbo man out, that's why they are against electronic voting.
2.We call yorubas unprintable names because they didn't need to do what they did in 2015 because they have had their share through OBJ.
All they needed do is to support the other two southern regions to complete their turns the way those regions supported Obasanjo. But no, you people are demonizing us and insisting on using our turn. Your greed is too much and annoying

No political party will deliberately want to make itself too easy to defeat, so political parties will likely pick candidates that they think can win elections for them.

GuyWise101:
Igbos are only demanding that PDP and Apc should zone their candidate in SE alone as it was done to Yorubas and North when it was their turn.

1) Why do you strongly believe that no S/E Candidate can win presidential election in 2023?

2) If this your method of getting to the presidency is a good method for the Igbos, why do most Igbos call Yorubas unprintable names for using the same method?

Thanks for the anticipated sincere answers.

Chris525:
These south easterners are at it again, proving how bad they are at politics.

No easterner can win any election in Nigeria without federal might & the north. The idea is for pdp to present a northern candidate, knick the next election & have him hand over to a SE person after his tenure using federal might & northern appeal. Makes absolute sense!

If the SE goes against this arrangement, then another part of the south will get the slot after the northerner is done & SE are back to square one.

If PDP fields an SE candidate in the next election, it may end 3rd. Even against a SW Apc candidate, the Pdp wont stand any chance. No serious party will like to lose an election before its conducted.

Ndigbo must do away with sentiments at this time, face the hard facts & scheme intelligently.

Why do you assume that a SE candidate can not win in 2023?

backbone503:
Fact. The objective of any political party is to capture or retain power. Presently, the SE cannot facilitate any of these for PDP nor APC, hence it will be suicidal for any party to present a south easterner

Pa Bode George for President under PDP.

He has declared since Jan,2020 that he will contest the 2023 presidential election if Tinubu contest.

Nexus25:
SW PDP is weak and they gave more votes to Atiku than the entire SE?

It is not by noise.

We are putting our house in order and regrouping.

Before 2023, SW PDP will have more legitimate claim to the coveted seat more than their SE counterparts.

Just watch!!

Don't mind them.


According to their logic, all the people from other parts of Nigeria murdered by Ifeajuana, Nzeogwu, Okafar, Nwaoboshi & Co deserved to be killed but political and military leaders from the Eastern Region were saints who said no evil, saw no evil and did no evil.

T9ksy:
So, what about the remaining casualties of your brothers coup like Ademulegun, Shodeinde, maimalari et al? Did they ALL took to the airwaves to disparage your ethnic group as well, to justify killing them in cold blood?

Ifeajunna shot brig. Maimalari at close range in cold blood after the latter had already escaped the first initial attempt on his life, by Maj. Okafor.

Hmn,
Akintola would have survived!

Just like Okotie-Eboh and Tafawa-Balewa who didn't fight back the soldiers?

Akintola would have survived just like Ahmadu Bello and his youngest wife survived, abi?

If you listen to the narratives of the wives and children of the politicians and Military officers from the Northern , Western and Mid-Western Region that were killed in the presence of their families, you will that they will tell different stories.

kingzizzy:
I dont like coups but it happend a lot back 8n the day, almost every country in Africa went through multiple coups and attempted coups. Most coups are ked by people from a particular section of a country, that is the nature of coups. Captain Nwobosi is 81 and still alive. He was even interviewed not up to two weeks ago. Captain Nwobosi led Soldiers to arrest Fani-Kayode, he gave himself up without incident. When Captain Nwobosi moved to arrest Akintola, he chose to grab a gun and open fire. According to to what I have read, Akintola died in the crossfire.

It is what it is. Military officers get up and decide for whatever reason to change the leadership of a country through the barrel of the gun, often with casualties. Akintola was just one of the many casualties of the seven coups that were conducted in Nigeria. I believe Akintola would have survived had he not chose to open fire. Fani-Kayode who gave himself up survived without a scratch

The test result came out positive.

However, he didn't start to have the disease at the point the test was carried out. He has been battling with the disease without knowing that it was COVID.

bisoye11:
Died immediately after testing to corona virus..how are we sure he truly died of covid 19? Meant be other illness attributed to covid.

I am not taking about the evils of the Nigerian Army officers but YOUR stand on the matter.







What goes around, comes around.

No doubts the whole Igbo tribe never planned a coup but a section of the military officers, inspited by tribal loyalty more than any other thing tried to hijacked the political leadership of the country without thinking deeply about the consequences, however it backfired and the rest is History!

kingzizzy:
If you can understand that Nigerian Soldiers have shot and killed hundreds of unarmed IPOB members who were just protesting on the streets, then you should have no problem understanding why the same Nigerian Soldiers would kill Akintola who was armed and open fire on them first.

Let us not pretend to forget or remember military brutality and unlawful killings according to if it is someone we like or hate

You see that you guys duly reaped in ten folds what you sowed.






No one takes your victimhood serious.

Actions elicit Re-actions.

Without that coup, there wouldn't have been civil war the following year.

Dedetwo:
Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo (Field Marshal General) of Yorubaland, committed suicide.

If Akintola were to be your dad, you won't be reasoning like this.


Where did these soldiers derive the power of life and death over a Nigerian citizen let alone, the Premier of Western Region?



You guys reaped what you sowed, BLOODSHED!

kingzizzy:
Even if he was captured alive, the fact that he was offered peaceful arrest, and he rejected that and chose to open fire, would have been enough reason for the troops to kill him.

You are misunderstanding the Prof.
How is he a sell out to Ndigbo? He hasn't insulted Ndigbo and even supported the perception that they are marginalized.

joeyfire:
This Moghalu is just an ass-licker at the end of the day. Fulani will not give him presidency in 2023 just because he is a sellout to his people like Tinubu. When will southern politicians ever have sense?

All politics is local!

You don't understand the politics of Lagos.
There are several political groups in Lagos but the Tinubu's group is the most formidable.
They have members, loyalists, sympathizers, fans and supporters
in every Street in Lagos.

Tinubu by himself didn't pick all those people, rather they belong to a group.


Tinubu is just like the Class captain of that political group.
This Tinubu's group can sometimes work with their enemies to achieve a greater goal or even turn a former enemy to an ally.
Some of the top shots in Lagos PDP are in this categories (The Tinubu's group allow them to 'chop' along the way)

Bode George godfatherism in Lagos PDP is one the reasons why the party is always having crisis and can't unite to fight a common cause.

In 2011, some PDP stalwarts blamed Bode George for picking the PDP Governorship candidate even when he was in prison.

SLAP44:
Do you know who is Remi tinubu, Fashola, Ambode, Sanyo Olu, Fayemi and more than 100 other politicians have been installed by just one godfather in Lagos ?

People are starting to think that there are no more men left in a popular tribe like the yoruba

Bode George has cried himself hoarse about godfatherism in Lagos.

The worse things is that the godfather is not even from Lagos.

Edo is not lagos.

Good but the topic has nothing to do with Biafran and Edo or Lagos are not part of Biafria.

However, what is T.A Orji who spent 8 years as Governor, presently spending the 6th year as a Senator and his Son is the Speaker of the House of Assembly in Abia?

SLAP44:
Biafra is all about stopping Godfatherism. We will only recognise merit in Biafra.

The civil war was NEVER a religious war. Neither Biafra led by Ojukwu (a Christian) nor Nigeria led by Giwon (also a Christian) were Theocratic States.

Please don't attempt to give it a religious colouration.

Dedetwo:
Did so-called Christians in Yoruba land not joined hand with the jihadist to fight predominantly Christians in Biafra? The entire Christians in northern region equally joined hands with northern jihadists to kill Christians in Biafra. The issue of Biafra will always resurrect the instances of old enemies.

You have raised a point shared by some people.
It is better to wait for the election and see how this theory will be tested. This is one of the ways that democracy can be further entrenched in the country, by testing and retesting different permutations and combinations.

kingzizzy:
Of course, but it wont matter how many people contest for the Presidency of Nigeria, only the two contestants of the two main political parties, APC and PDP have any realistic chances of winning. The two main political parties are already plotting their moves towards 2023 and they know that the North will be the decider. That is why both will select presidential candidates from the North

Between APC and PDP, the party that chooses its presidential candidate from the South will lose to the one that chooses from the North. The only way power can rotate back to the South after Buhari has completed his 8 years in 2023 is if APC and PDP field Southern candidates, and PDP is not likely to do so because it will most likely lose to APC

How old are you sir?

In a democratic election, only party can win at a time and those who don't win today can win tommorow . This has been established in many Countries, including Nigeria.
Why are you taking as if the 2023 election is the end of all elections with a death or life outcome?

Ogonimilitant:
Dont worry, 2023 is coming and you will see how the whole Northerners abandon APC for SW and join their brother Atiku to take the presidency. SW will be left in the cold and you will see them start shouting Oduduwa republic.

Be rest assured that APC will loose SE/SS if they dare present any SW candidate.
Betrayal and treachery does not pay. You are a dreamer for thinking that TINUBU or any SW candidate will get the North vote and leave Atiku.
All of them will decamp to PDP. I hope you realised how most of them left PDP their party in 2015 and joined APC to make sure Buhari wins.