₦airaland Forum

soroptimist:
why do PDP always input ethnoreligious and divisive slur in any of their messages?

Are these people bipolar? Why always whipping up silly sentiments when it seems things are not going in their favour

stop saying what you don't know, this the truth!! They are doing!!

dat9jaguy:
I don't really see any improvements.
1>No improvement in electricity supply.
2>price of food stuffs going up everyday(2011 price of rice 50kg bag-N5,500.2014 price of rice 50kg bag-N10,000)
3>security situation getting worse by the day.
4>No jobs,even the one we pay for we are not given.
5>In the midst of poverty our leaders still display obscene wealth.
We the masses would now be fed with some mumbo-jumbo economic slangs telling us the economy is doing well.
I don't need anybody to tell me the economy is doing well,I would feel the effects myself.

before now people talk about only Lagos but today many states are witnessing unprecedented improvements, ranging from foreign direct investment, eg ogun state, Anambra abia state, and Akwaibom, these states have improved tremendously, and we are all seeing it. Go round the country. I know a city in Anambra state that boast of up to 18 to 20 hrs of power supply. I know some parts of Lagos state that have also improved. People can now go to the Discos and lay their complaints. Unlike before. When last did you u cue on line at petrol stations? How often do you eat PoINT and Kill in the past? How about now? You guys are being unfair to GEJ. You lost are yawning dust because he believes in democracy, why don't you try this shit on LAgos state government. Have you ever wondered why all media houses in Lagos don't criticise the government? Well if you try that, they will shut you down immediately, just like how oshomole did to a radio station in edo state.

teemanbastos:
if universities were well funded.
Why the strikes ?? Over schl. Fees hike.
Poor hostels?
why more failures in wassce?
You dnt care abt d teachers?

What did you do in the Airports?
MMA is damn bad.
Poor conditions.

You did well in train projects but we would have appreciated it more if our roads were simultaneously constructed.
How many people ply trains in relation to road users?

You fought corruption yet
ur administration didnt probe ANY.
$20m oil deal? $15m arms deal?

compare federal schools number with state owned. ASUU demand was the highest ever in the country and it has been met. Gej actually quoted someone when he said stealing is not considered as corruption in Nigerian court. If you guys will be sincere, he explained what a former Chief justice or so, told him when he asked him why it was very difficult to prosecute corrupt officers. People like you are not honest!!

Obiagelli:
This nonsense with $ 40 billion dollars debt and average oil prices @ $100 a barrel. SMH

mumu state governors are also borrowing!!

Look if you are using what this soludo guy wrote against peter obi as your basic point then you have no case, peter is seen as a hero in anambra state today, it also underscores the fact that GEJ really did well since he is grouping peter Obi and GEJ. Because the former did a lot of work in anambra!

sincerenigerian:
Below is nice piece by Prof. Soludo: God Bless Prof. Soludo.




[b]"The parallels with the Shagari regime are troubling. First, at the time of oil boom, Nigeria again went on a consumption spree such that the budgets of the last five years can best be described as ‘consumption budgets’, with new borrowing by the federal government exceeding the actual expenditure on critical infrastructure.

Second, not one penny was added to the stock of foreign reserves at a period Nigeria earned hundreds of billions from oil. For comparisons, President Obasanjo met about $5 billion in foreign reserves, and the average monthly oil price for the 72 months he was in office was $38, and yet he left $43 billion in foreign reserves after paying $12 billion to write-off Nigeria’s external debt. In the last five years, the average monthly oil price has been over $100, and the quantity also higher but our foreign reserves have been declining and exchange rate depreciating.
I note that when I assumed office as Governor of CBN, the stock of foreign reserves was $10 billion.
The average monthly oil price during my 60 months
in office was $59, but foreign reserve reached the all- time peak of $62 billion (and despite paying $12 billion for external debt, and losing over $15 billion during the unprecedented global financial and economic crisis) I left behind $45 billion. Recall also that our exchange rate continuously appreciated during this period and was at N117 to the dollar before the global crisis and we deliberately allowed it to depreciate in order to preserve our reserves. My calculation is that if the economy was better managed, our foreign reserves should have been between $102 –$118 billion and exchange rate around N112 before the fall in oil prices. As of now, the reserves should be around $90 billion and exchange rate no higher than N125 per dollar."
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[b]"Fourth, poverty incidence and unemployment are
also simultaneously at all-time high levels. According
to the NBS, poverty incidence grew to 69% in 2010
and projected to be 71% in 2011, with
unemployment at 24%. This is the worst record in
Nigeria’s history, and the paradox is that this
happened during the unprecedented oil boom.
One theme I picked up listening to the campaign
rallies as well as to some of the propagandists is the
confusion about measuring government
“performance”. Most people seem to confuse
‘inputs’, or ‘processes’ with output. Earlier this
month, I had a dinner with a group of friends (14 of
us) and we were chit-chatting about Nigeria. One of
us, an associate of President Jonathan veered off to
repeat a propaganda mantra that Jonathan had
outperformed his predecessors. He also reminded us that Jonathan re-based the GDP and that Nigeria is now the biggest economy in Africa; etc. It was fun listening to the response by others. In sum, the
group agreed that the President had ‘outperformed’
his predecessors except that it is in reverse order."

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[b]First, my friend was educated that re-basing the GDP is no achievement: it is a routine statistical exercise, and depending on the base year that you choose, you get a different GDP figure. Re-basing the GDP has nothing to do with government policy. Besides, as naira-dollar exchange rate continues to depreciate, the GDP in current dollars will also shrink considerably soon.
We were reminded of Jonathan’s agricultural
‘revolution’. But someone cut in and noted that for all the propaganda, the growth rate of the agricultural sector in the last five years still remains far below the performance under Obasanjo. One of us reminded him that no other president had presided over the slaughter of about 15,000 people by insurgents in a peacetime; no other president earned up to 50% of the amount of resources the current government earned from oil and yet with very little outcomes; no other president had the rate of borrowing; none had significant forex earnings and yet did not add one penny to foreign reserves but losing international reserves at a time of boom; no other president had a depreciating exchange rate at a time of export boom; at no time in Nigeria’s history has poverty reached 71% (even under Abacha, it was 67 -70%); and under
no other president did unemployment reach 24%.
Surely, these are unprecedented records and he
surely ‘outperformed’ his predecessors! What a
satire!
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[b]"One of those present took the satire to some level by comparing Jonathan to the ‘performance’ of the
former Governor of Anambra, Peter Obi. He noted
that while Obi gloated about ‘savings’, there is no
signature project to remember his regime except
that his regime took the first position among all
states in Nigeria in the democratization of poverty—-mass impoverishment of the people of Anambra.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics,
poverty rose under his watch in Anambra from 20%
in 2004 (lowest in Nigeria then) to 68% in 2010 (a
238% deterioration!). Our friend likened it to a father who had no idea of what to do with his resources and was celebrating his fat bank account while his children were dying of kwashiorkor. He pointed out that since it is the likes of Peter Obi who are the advisers to Jonathan on how to manage the economy (thereby confusing micromanagement which you do as a trader with macro governance) it is little wonder that poverty is fast becoming another name for Nigeria. It was a very hilarious evening."

"My advice to President Jonathan and his handlers is
to stop wasting their time trying to campaign on his
job record. Those who have decided to vote for him
will not do so because he has taken Nigeria to the
moon. His record on the economy is a clear ‘F’ grade. As one reviews the laundry list of micro interventions the government calls its achievements, one wonders whether such list is all that the government could deliver with an unprecedented oil boom and an unprecedented public debt accumulation. I can clearly see why reasonable people are worried."
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thankyouJesus:
Tell me five things GEJ has done, that you have beneficted from.
Benefit of the doubt.

increased minimum wage! Sign freedom of information, transparency increased Nysc allowee! Doubled the university funding. Increased the number of higher institution, Youwin programme, good roads, we won many major laurels in sports under him, improved medical care, low maternity death rate, reduced polio to barest, railway is back, look at our movie industry,and so many other things

mankevo:
Yes, it produced BIG result as below

hey don't be deceived with what u see online, normally opposition fans are always fanatics! They are very vocal and ubiquitous, but the ruling party fans will still pretend so you will not hit him/her hard..

atlwireles:
Not enough was spent. PDP should distribute that video to every household in Nigeria. The Oluwole fraudster Buhari must be presented as he was then and as he is today.

I tell you that video is an eye opener I thank God for the video it has opened a lot of people's eyes!!

VirginFinder:
It is no more news that ibos have ditched their own son, Bob Okoroji of APGA, in favour Jimi Agbaje of PDP despite the fact that the ydid not get the much coveted deputy governorship slot.

It's ok by me. It's all part of democracy.

However, I make bold to say that this open/glaring show of support for Jimi Agbaje by the ibo community in Lagos will be his(Jimi Agbaje's) undoing in the forthcoming elections.
If I were him, I'll caution the ibos against so doing.
The reason is that, he now looks like an ibo candidate set to dance to the whims and caprices of the ibo community who will claim to have been responsible for his victory should he emerge the winner at the polls albeit by general support.

Personally, I have nothing against Jimi Agbaje and he looks like a more serious and better candidate than Ambode. Ambode can't just stop smiling unnecessarily. It pisses me off!

However, with the way ibos are carrying Jimi Agbaje on their head, I have no choice but to throw my weight behind Akin Ambode of APC if not for anything but to prove to ibos that their '90%' population in Lagos will neither be able to give them any elective position in Lagos or decide who wins any election for that matter.

This is the feeling among majority of Yorubas and it's the reason most of them will vote for APC.
Take it or leave it.

Serving ibos the humble pie every now and then is a task that must be done!!
In Lagos, APC win! Ambode wins!! By God's grace. Amen.

Cheers.

if you hear these yorubas online you would think this is the reality! You need to be in Lagos to know how much they despise APC fashole and thiefnunbu now you are playing ethnic card don't cry when its against you!!

Adminisher:
Jonathan has already destroyed yours, making your culture corrupt knowing you will never amount to much with corruption. He already has $69B-) debt on your head. If you are afraid of discipline, hard work and moral rectitude you better leave Nigeria in February. The country is changing for the better and we are not having crap.

what discipline? I so much liked the video that is in circulation now about BUHARI it exposes the true intent of WAI .. Can you imagine? "walking without commitment" "activists gathering" and among other useless things! Where all they were hunting down!!

See another bomb shell!!

FreeGlobe:
How much did Peter obi invest on Anambra people while saving his money is what you should ask not the erroneous thinking that Anambra people are all making money from trading. Peter obi placed an embargo on employment, no LG and councillorship election, no empowerment or jobs for youths,civil servants were one of the least paid in the country. IGR stood at 500 million (lower than even Niger and Ebonyi) These are things you should consider as an educated fellow.

my friend leave that matter, where in Anambra state can you find people living within poverty level, and what is their percentage! Where did they get the 68% from?

pazienza:
You truly believe that Ndi Anambra are on the average poorer than Niger state people?

I don't need anything else to know how wrong that stat is.

that is very unbelievable, I mean can they show that 5% of Ndi Anambra are poor! Where? Where can you find people living below $1 a day, where in anambra state can you find such people?

Chigold101:
Soluda has once again proven that he is a weak man. A man i so much loved but his unforgiven spirit is second to none.

Soludo is writing like this against GEJ because GEJ is the reason why he lost Anambra election in 2010(I worked as member of his campaign team).

In 2013 he joined APGA and was talked about how to continue with Obi‘s good work as governor of Anambra state but Obi who already had Obiano in mind used style to push Soludo aside...

He joined Atiku‘s camp in 2011 thinking that GEJ will lose at the PDP primaries, but their camp was disgraced. Now he has come here to cause confusion in the polity because all he wants is to see GEJ disgraced, but it will not work for him in Jesus name.

This is how his unforgiven spirit made him to make sure that Dora Akunyiri (his wife‘s aunty. Dora is the younger sister to the wife‘s mother) never win Anambra central senatoral sit. He took it upon himself to make sure that Ngige is decleard the winner even when there was a little confusion in few constituencie. All because Dora through GEJ & Abuja PDP helped Peter Obi defeat him in 2010.

As an insider who knows the fight going on between Soludo, GEJ & Obi am not suprised at all with the this piece. It has some elements of truth but it is coated with many sweet lies.

He took sabatical after Peter Obi messed him up in 2013 prior to Anambra state guber election. Which sabatical? He went in to leak his wounds...

He thinks he has seen where to nail GEJ.

if Nigeria is being run the way Obi ran Anambra state the whole country will be a better place, soludo lied in most of his claims. He even went as far as saying that peter obi okonjo iweala are traders!! Imagine that kind of rubbish. peter obi is a trader yet he (soludo) praised peter obi during the last election, obi has been the governor for 8years, richer than him, He is simply aggrieved!

mustymatic:
The Igbo Internet thugs who campaign for
Goodluck Jonathan are an utter disgrace to
humankind. They are, indeed, a strange species
of homo sapiens. Maybe, they are a hybrid of
homo erectus and home sapiens!

how dare you mention IGBO in your write up? Is it a crime for igbos to support a particular candidate? Are you not support buhari? You belong to 19th century for supporting buhari .

ak47mann:
They are fighting us very hard but one thing they did not realized is that both drilling and exploiting going on more than half of the funds are going straight back to anambra state treasury,this is the same reason why the state government is not announcing the huge reserve gas we have in the river basin which is the one of the biggest in oil producing states.We are not fools the music is on we will dance till the last man drop

biko wepu this post now.. I beg of you

eighTHREAD:
what's the difference? A Generation consists of all humans that exist in it most of which are leaders, CEOs, doctors, teachers, engineers etc.

we are on the same page!

eighTHREAD:
if everyone becomes a CEO, who will now govern or preside over national issues? We are talking of leaders that failed and not CEOs. Mugu

you obviously don't know what Generation means!!

eighTHREAD:
we are talking about leaders that failed, not CEOs. Saying that fashola failed cos he didn't invent anything like steve jobs is like saying obama failed too, cos last I checked, he didn't invent anything too. These men are leaders and not CEOs of companies. You can't expect everyone to be inventors cos some where made to lead.

GEJ didn't say "leaders" he said Generation! You see they have Steve jobs, who do we have? Even wole soyinka, and Emeka anyaoku's generation were far better!!

prinznazzy:
my guy, d govt itself didn't help matters in making things easy....u r sayin apple's wealth...can u compare d education Dis Ppl r exposed to? caltech in California is 1 of d best uni currently n dr's lil surprise wit d sudden n continued rise of apple having dr main base in California....dr govt laid down n encouraged education at d highest.....whr r we today...infact our universities r dying n using past glory instead of improving...I said past cos dey were better under d older regimes n Shuld hav just continued improving.....r u still tryin hard to c ma point?

yes! But can you mention anything the American's youths can bring out on their own, Nigerian's youths have not brough out? Talk about websites, they have Facebook we have nairaland, they have MeDia take, TMZ we have LIB and Bella Niger, they develop apps, we develop our own too, they musics and movies we have our own. So what can you say that their(fashola) generation has done to match their counterparts overboard? I can see how you try as much as possible to stick the argument on politics! But no generation cuts across board!.. So bros, they are failures!!!

prinznazzy:
r u sayin Lagos has nt improved drastically?....do u even kno whr Lagos is?.......if u do,u wuld never compare fashola n jona....DR's a reason y 1 accepted failure....Whr's d vision 2020 dey whr yellin abt....come off Ur brainwashed cell.....its becoming so pathetic

bros you really expect me to follow in to your mudslinging? No I'm talking about innovation, can you compare Lagos's wealth with APPLE's wealth? You are fighting very hard to prove a point! I can tell you that the younger generation has done very well more than their generation.. What were they doing when automobiles, ITs, and electronic giants were establishing? That's what we are talking about and not political issue that will continue to mislead the masses!!

tbaba1234:
Fashola has commissioned more projects and built more infrastructure than any Lagos Governor in my lifetime.

Tinubu improved revenue collection and was forced to do that because OBJ refused to release Lagos money.

Fashola has definitely built on that system because revenue generation has grown under Fashola.

omg commissioning projects are what he was elected to do, and he should be grateful to people for electing him, not the other way round. Their generation has no legacy for the youths!! They are failures!! Google alone make more money than Nigeria.. What has he developed as his own idea? If he has not done that then he is not only a failure but a catastrophe!!

eighTHREAD:
you call pictures of his achievements propaganda? I can now see how much of an hater and a bigot you are. You must live faraway in alaigbo not to have noticed the several housing estates built all around lagos, the roads, the lekki bridge, the fly-overs, badagry expressway which will have a mono-rail, the schools, the parks, the buses, the neatness of lagos, the newly commissioned police station etc. You don't live in lagos and you probably don't have access to google. Simple

bros nobody is talking about bigot or tribe here!! their generation has failed!!!! Just look at Steve Jobs, and other IT CEOs are all their age mates, look at electronics giants, Automobile and other money spinning companies that generate millions of jobs to the youths!! Now tell me what we have in Nigeria? Look at fashola, he built roads and school he was elected to do with people's taxes and he is feeling like a king!!

eighTHREAD:
you call pictures of his achievements propaganda? I can now see how much of an hater and a bigot you are. You must live faraway in alaigbo not to have noticed the several housing estates built all around lagos, the roads, the lekki bridge, the fly-overs, badagry expressway which will have a mono-rail, the schools, the parks, the buses, the neatness of lagos, the newly commissioned police station etc. You don't live in lagos and you probably don't have access to google. Simple

there generation have failed!!!! Just look at Steve Jobs, and other IT CEO are all their age mates, look at electronics giants, and other money spinning companies that generate millions of jobs to the youths!! Now tell me what we have in Nigeria? Look at fashola, he built roads and school he was elected to do people's taxes and he is feeling like a king!!

Adextaiwo48:
Shows that GEJ is getting more scared and desperate whl Buhari is getting more confident and assured
SAIBUHARI

see blind man! People publish GEJ quotes everytime, can you publish buhari's quotes? I hardly understand what he says..

blackstreak:
7. APC are only males bah,,, during which time was Late Dora Akunyili discovered to be honest?

you belong to slave group.

Foxycarol:
I ve said and I will keep saying it PDP is full of touts, whether u like it or not BUHARI will rule nigeria come 2015. Jona refused 2 provide jobs for u yet u still fight for him, dats d height of foolishness. Wise up and vote 4 a man dat will bring change 2 Nigeria. Vote for BUHARI

like seriously? Dangote adenuga and co were given a job by president? Joblessness is a disease!

Change2015:
Smart move by a sharp man. I am certain that Fashola is destined for greatness. A list of worthy people of substance.

#change
#GMB
#APC

these individuals are packaged tout, propagandists, failures

efilefun:
Dear Nigerians,
The fear of Prison is the beginning of Change. I have taken time to hear from many people in PDP campaign groups. I have observed that they are not campaigning based on issues bothering the masses. They are simply asking ; "DO You WANT TO GO TO PRISON? "
President Jonathan asked the question, Governor Akpabio asked the same question and so many of them were so much campaigning against prison.
Now I am wondering why they are so much worried about prison. Why the sudden fear of Prison? The answer is: " when dry bones are mentioned in a story, an old woman becomes very uncomfortable " If they are not corrupt and are really fighting corruption. Why are they so much preaching against prisons? Now I understand why former governor of Bayelsa was pardoned. I understand why "corruption is not stealing" and I understand why the audit report on missing $20 billion won't be released. I understand why we have more expensive GEJ bill boards than road signs. Some billboards cost more than a million and these people have mounted thousands of them.
Instead of channelling resources appropriately. They resorted to wasting them on billboards and jingles on radio and TV. Who has been funding these things and with which money? Now they are asking us, the suffering masses if we want to go to prison. President Goodluck from his speech has shown that he is not ready to stop corruption.
You can't stop corruption without sending ppl to jail. I don't fear prisons and if I commit a crime I should be given the punishment I deserve. Why are there laws if we can't use prisons? They have suddenly become so afraid of Prison cell. They should also remember God Almighty also has a prison : HELL.
If you want to help PDP please vote them out. Let them go to prison cells so that they will repent and avoid HELL.
Vote APC, vote #Buhari_Osibanjo

if you think they should jail the opposition alone you are on a lonnggggg thing, tinubu, fashola and Amechi will be jailed too else you won't withstand the heat! But I don't see buhari being the president!!

southniyikaye:
too much talk,na lie dey full am...na today,pls ignore them very soon their mouth go enter hole

if it was gej stole 5billion now you will swallow it without questioning the authenticity.. Talk about Nigerian,,hypocrisy comes to mind

9jagirl4ree:
It seems that Dr Goodluck Jonathan does not understand that Nigerians want change from the current level of corruption in the country.

Some people say he is personally a good person but just surrounded by bad people, I think this might be true but how do we defend him when he makes the following comments?












Please how can we fight corruption when the C-in-C is making these type of comments? Some people say that people misunderstand his comments.

Can both Sides of the divide explain to Nairalanders what they think.

Intelligent discussions please, thanks

you don't pull up those quotes out of the contest and expect an objective discuss.
Did you witness bakassi boys era? Did that do anything to crime rate then in Anambra? but here, we have a governor who has positioned CCTV at strategic positions to curb crime, and I can tell you that crime has reduced to the minimum in Anambra. You hardly hear of robbery in Anambra, infact it doesn't exist anymore. Gej has embarked on similar tactics, because he believes that prevention is better that cure. He has made sure that people in government have less access to the raw funds, eg in fertiliser distribution that has been an area where corruption has thrived over the years is no longer the same again, this is because E-wallet was developed, it has removed diversion or any attempt to siphon money from the FG. Another one is having DaTA base for all workers in the country. This one alone has saved a lot for government, by removing ghost workers that abound in every sector. So preventing people from having access to the fund can go a long way, in strengthening our institution. Which I find very welcome unlike chasing around perceive enemy which will also escalate another problem. For instance if GEJ jails borno state governor for an alleged misappropriation of funds or embezzlement people will attack him for hunting his opponent! This can't stop corrupting in the system!! #Myopinion

fanex:
stop claiming what you will never get or become a part of. GEJ has done nothing for your tribe he clearly doesn't need you. your tribe means nothing when people are dying like flies in your country.

how about minding your eff bizness? When hausas support buhari blindly its equity but when an igbo man supports ijaw man its tribalism.