₦airaland Forum

raskymonojendor:
No, I am Rinu

Another I am a Yoruba, but:

raskymonojendor:
"I am a Yoruba, but"

Check well, na Obidient Ibo boy dey behind the username.

Lotanna2:
Mr Man,ashiru did not win Kaduna,Dave didn't win nasarawa.if they did,why didn't it stand like in zamfara? Between zamfara and kad,which is easier to rig?

You childishly added ladi.i have quoted you severally to follow proceedings on Ogun,you refused.all ladi witnesses are fumbling.either they are lying on oath or they are saying same thing word for word or even impersonating real voters.almost all his witnesses are from sagamu.where is the proof of voting? Because this forum is faceless,that's why you always vomit rubbish.you are losing credibility boy.i hope apcphobia doesn't push you to yabaleft

AntiTerrorist:
The title should be Nigeria and "The Temple of inJustice” By Prof Niyi Osundare. The judiciary is as corrupt as the executive arm of government. Who will save NIGERIA

Mr Seun, if you are not benefiting from Nigeria democracy kleptocracy, this thread have to hit front page.

Cc Mynd44 OAM4J nlfpmod lalasticlala

Unaevince:
Let's watch and see what will play out with this present administration and UK, US and other western powers. Their policy of divide and rule is what has put Nigeria in the present economic mess we find ourselves presently. Lets hope that they will be firm this time around for good governance and positive change.

God bless.

Lotanna2:
Obi brought more materials than this.what happened? Why are you not supporting the lp candidate asake? If actually ashiru won kaduna,it would have stood like kano

Stevedison:
E touch me

adecz:
The issue was that nobody saw LP,
Peter Obi or Kwankaso coming. Everyone assumed it was a straight shootout by APC and
PDP and APC was already sure of its
strongholds of Lagos, Kano & even Kaduna, and Northeast whichwere are always s source of big votes for APC.

But by the time Peter Obi won Lagos and
Atiku clearing the Northeast Kaduna even Katsina, INEC and APC had to act
swiftly by abandoning IREV as it was clear
that APC was about to lose the presidency.

APC had to prevail on INEC to steal
Kaduna, the political capital of northern Nigeria.😡😡😡😡

APCNig:
You will all weep again just as you wept when the election results were announced

Lotanna2:
They are depending on irev copy which is secondary

DaddyJapan:
No, I simply issued a timely reminder about the duplicity of both countries.

All relevant Materials Related to 2023 Kaduna Gubernatorial Election Arrive Court.

No escape route for Uba Sani.

FreeStuffsNG:
A faceless Awilo logonba news on same PG that spreads fake news.smh.

Petrol is overrated , it is not a monopolistic product and we will all soon realise what the marketers realised now about people no longer buying petrol so now being forced to no longer profiteer. As time goes on, other energy sources will come up and petrol too will face less demand and pressure. Diesel and kerosene were once overrated too.

I remember those days people will sleep at fuel stations just to buy petrol to resell as black market petrol and put in their generators to watch telemundo. We can not go back to that era of funding wastages. Now, there is petrol everywhere and we will manage. FG and states should give some palliative but not create another whole industry of wastages again. That petrol subsidy era was a period of the locust. Never again must we witness it.

DaddyJapan:
But both countries have always shown love to Kleptocrats

Is it that they fear this one - the one that've conjured up in the mind - might not be so malleable?

APCNig:
Fraudulent lecturer. Who send your Mama?


The Supreme Court ruled a few weeks back that some miscreants who called themselves Abuja residents were trying to use social media to intimidate the Judiciary, so their useless case was thrown out, and the idiots were fined. Now, another set of miscreants are repeating the same nonsense by trying to intimidate the Judiciary. It's obvious you know where it will end, your useless case will be thrown out, and your lord and saviour Giringori Obituary will be heavily fined. After that, you can also troop to the streets, soldiers that ran from Boko Haram will be waiting to meet you and help reduce your population

Djoel:
Why wouldn't this make the front page O Nairaland Mods? Do not share in the sins of the court Judges in this deeply soul searching piece by suppressing truth and justice.

Nigeria’s just concluded presidential elections have been focusing minds in London and Washington. Like tens of millions of Nigerian voters, Anglo-American officials realized what was at stake. Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy and is on track to be the third most populous country in the world by 2045.

The UK and the US have enduring strategic interests in Nigeria, which are threatened by Nigeria’s kleptocratic ruling class’s tolerance of – and complicity in – democratic backsliding, grand corruption and gross human rights violations. The new administration faces a daunting array of challenges, from underdevelopment to insecurity, fiscal pressures and poor governance, which went unaddressed under outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari.

But over the last several years, the UK and US have been reluctant to focus their bilateral engagement on democracy and governance. Instead, they appear to have turned a blind eye, deepened their engagement with the country’s heavy-handed, highly corrupt military, and done little to prevent Nigerian kleptocrats from spending unexplained wealth in London, New York and elsewhere, while minimizing bilateral fallout from the #EndSARS protests, the Twitter ban, or the Nigerian army’s forced abortion programme.

Don’t mention it

Reactions from London and Washington to contentious episodes follow a predictable pattern. Condemnation and calls for accountability and reform are usually met with Nigerian government pushback, including terse denials, scuttling bilateral initiatives, or even veiled threats.

Chastened, UK and US officials then mute their public criticism and shift gears, making private entreaties to like-minded Nigerian officials. Then, over time and as events slip from the headlines, bilateral relations revert to business as usual. Little, if any, follow-up occurs. Keen to perpetuate this, Nigeria’s leaders reflexively bristle any time UK or US officials push them on democracy and human rights. Over time, officials have become unduly cautious, even deferential.

Over time and as events slip from the headlines, bilateral relations revert to business as usual. Little, if any, follow-up occurs.
Washington’s response to soldiers’ October 2020 killing of unarmed #EndSARS protestors illustrates this cycle. The US Embassy remained silent until over a year after the incident, when – in response to a damning judicial panel of inquiry report – it urged the Nigerian government to address the ‘alleged abuses’. US officials have yet to follow up these tardy and tentative statements, and the bilateral relationship soon went back to normal.

Indeed, rather than prompting a reappraisal of bilateral military cooperation, US security assistance intensified six months later when Washington agreed to sell $1 billion in attack helicopters to Abuja. US defence cooperation with Nigeria had similarly deepened after Abuja ignored Washington’s demand that those responsible for the 2015 Zaria massacre – in which soldiers killed 348 civilians – be held accountable.

UK policymakers have followed a similar pattern. A few months after the panel of inquiry report, London expanded its Defence and Security Partnership with Abuja, promising closer military and police cooperation. Although the post-forum communiqué contains a commitment to respect human rights and protect civilians, Nigerian officials have repeatedly made – and failed to abide by – such promises in the past.

Nigerian forces continue to flout international humanitarian law by burning villages, using combat air strikes as a policing tool, hampering humanitarian operations, conducting extrajudicial killings, and operating charnel houses like Giwa Barracks. Given this context, London’s push to deepen military ties seems to signal the downgrading of democracy and governance concerns.

Room for improvement

Nigeria’s presidential transition offers US and UK policymakers a chance to reset their relations with Abuja. Instead of a focus on quick wins – presidential photo ops, arms sales, and trade deals – they should look to Nigeria’s perennial democracy and governance challenges and recall that much-hyped honeymoon periods following the 2010 transition and 2015 presidential election quickly fizzled.

UK and US officials should take a consistent position on democracy, governance, human rights, and corruption. Rather than the mixed messages of alternately kowtowing and finger-wagging, they should articulate clear red lines. They should also stop trading off long-term progress for short-term gain.

Rare instances cont.

In the rare instances when core values and perceived strategic interests in Nigeria conflict, UK and US policymakers should be able to justify the costs and explain the benefits of overriding concerns about democracy and governance in favour of a perceived immediate imperative. Anglo-American officials should step back and ask whether their elite-friendly approach has improved – or unintentionally harmed – democracy and governance outcomes in Nigeria.

UK and US officials should take a consistent position on democracy, governance, human rights, and corruption.
Such a reset would bring the UK and US into line with the chorus of criticism from experts, legislators, academics, think-tanks, journalists, and civil society voices questioning the wisdom of partnering with Nigeria’s predatory military, and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

By selling democracy and governance issues short, London and Washington have inadvertently undermined their countries’ own interests in political stability, peace and security, socio-economic development, good governance, climate resilience, and expanded trade and investment.

Though timely, UK and US policymakers’ heightened focus on Nigeria’s elections raises significant questions about the coherence of their approach. Just as Nigeria’s leadership is changing, so should the thinking of their external partners.

TheBillyonaire:
You are not smart.

SmartyPants:
I'm not excusing anyone. I clearly called it selfishness which is what it is. However, is it coming frim a place of hate? Was it an insult? No!

SmartyPants:
Out of selfishness - but does that amount to an insult?

SmartyPants:
My position is not that one should have two separate characters. My position is that Kwnakwaso has never been the enemy of the Igbos so many have tried to paint him as.

Kwankwaso never insulted the South East. This is the summary of his position:

“I like people of the South-East so much that the Kwankwaso, Kwankwasiyya you hear, many thought it Okonkwo and sons. They said because an Hausa man can’t say Okonkwo and sons, he now turned it to Kwankwaso.

“The South-East is good in terms of business, very hard working and industrious, but one area they must learn is politics. They are at the bottom line."

https://punchng.com/nnpp-only-option-for-south-east-says-kwankwaso/

In the same statement where he professed his love or admiration of the Igbo people,he also advised that the South East is a political outsider - and that they should align with his party for better prospects.

Please, which one is the insult there? You are the same ones who would say Igbos are being marginalised, now someone is saying to you come to my party for the best chance of overcoming marginalisation,a ndyou then say he is insulting you.