₦airaland Forum

Will Tiv people agree to relinquish power?

If not, the demands of the Igede people are in order.

How did Donnaruma beat Mendy to Yachine trophy?

efighter:
I support Direct Primaries

Let's see how many people the money bags can buy when all registered party members come out to vote at the Primaries.

Picking few delegates to represent the electorate is an avenue for unpopular money bags to buy the few delegates selected. That was how Atikuchukwu Abubakar outspent Nyesom Wike in Wike's house in 2019 PDP Primaries.

And you don’t think that the money bags will simply change tactics?

How did Andy Uba become APC candidate in Anambra?

You think he was popular?

He simply bought up those who were meant to supervise the elections and they wrote result for him.

So, Direct Primaries is also not immune to the manipulation of moneybags.

duro4chang:
I no wan vote again. All the vote wey I don vote na sufferness the people I vote for dey give in return. O to ge, biko

Lol!

Don’t give up on Nigeria. Better days ahead.

But I don’t understand how you are speaking Yoruba and Igbo at this time o!

duro4chang:
I am not even for any type of election in this country again .

Lol!

But you know elections must hold and the elections must take a process.

So you must choose.

Don’t tag it terrorism, this is an offshoot of Ezza/Ezillo tribal war in Ebonyi.

All these uninformed bloggers should be have their website jammed abeg.

The lawmaker is Ezza, I think, so he was probably kidnapped by Effium people as he is believed to be the greatest backbone of Ezza people in the war.

mrvitalis:
Just answer the questions is simple logic

Lol!

Check my history on Nairaland and you will see I am one of the greatest opponent of Tinubu.

With that said, I think Buhari is not favorably disposed to handing over power to Tinubu because he knows Tinubu is a criminal just like the rest of Nigeria knows.

mrvitalis:
Why do u think NWC supervised ambode faction Congress didn't supervise tinubu lead faction Congress?

Oga the hand writing is clear you people don't want to see it

Let me ask you this

1) if buhari really wants to hand over to tinubu do you think it won't be obvious with his body language ?

2) if buhari body language is to hand over to tinubu do you think buni and malami would be acting this way ?

3) without buhari support can tinubu win APC ticket ?

4) do you think tinubu can fight buhari lead buni faction ?

Why do I suspect that you think I’m a Tinubu supporter?

mrvitalis:
That is only possible when one strong candidate is contesting

The issue your likes don't get about primaries is this the primary results approved by the NWC of the party is the one that stands

Go and ask roachas , how it plays

Tinubu presidency is hanged on the fact that buhari and north supports him that's it and

the funny thing is this not absolutely have no reason to support tinubu really they have no reason ...tinubu have absolutely no bagaining chip here really

North would only support tinubu if they feel like ...south us not United this 2023 game was played n won in 2015 that was it

Give south south or south east vice boom it's 2015 all over again

I know the mode of primaries approved by party NWC is what will stand.

What I’m contesting is the numbers that such exercise manufacturers, how genuine are they?

Meanwhile, APC knows that if it has any interest in winning 2023 elections, then Southeast or Southsouth would produce their candidate. A candidate from the Southwest would be an orphan in the South with Northern votes not guaranteed.

After the general public pressured the NASS to allow Electronic Transmission of Election Results without INEC having to recourse to any other agency, they seemed to try to get back at us by inserting a controversial provision in the proposed New Electoral Act.

The new provision is that every political party in Nigeria must produce its candidates for elections through Direct Primaries without provision for alternative.

The most vocal opponents of this provision seem to be elected governors across party lines, though they are not alone as there are other political stakeholders that are also not in support of Direct Primaries.

Again political parties are also fiercely against the new provision; arguing that political parties do not have good party register that adequately captured members of their parties and as such, they cannot determine when a number from a certain ward exceeds what it should be since there is no record in the first place.

On the other hand, the provision seems to have its major proponents in National Assembly members in both chambers.

Opponents of the provision argue that it is cumbersome, bulky, expensive, etc.

While the proponents are arguing that it is good for the masses as the provision will return power to the people unlike Indirect Primaries where money bags buy up the delegates which they influenced their election in the first place anyway.

Between these two is INEC, which the makers of the law have vested with the responsibility to supervise these primaries in all polling units. Even though INEC seems to be maintaining a calculated neutrality so it won’t paint a picture of aligning with a certain political interest, it is obvious that INEC has some reservations for the provision too. Since the argument began, INEC has stated in many fora that Direct Primaries would increase the cost of our elections if it must monitor it. Most recently, INEC chairman was quoted to have said that the commission would be needing 17,000 staff to be able to monitor the direct primary one political party alone.

Then lastly there is us. The people whom the provision is supposedly meant to favour. What do we want?

To me, as much as Direct Primaries seems like the best way to go on paper, I think it is fraught with a lot of its own shortcomings that make me not think it would be a better alternative to Indirect Primaries.

Let’s consider some instances of direct primaries in the past to get a better picture of what we are talking about.

In 2019, the NWC of APC approved Direct Primaries for Lagos State with the major candidates being Babajide Sanwolu and the then incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode. In the end of the primary elections, Sanwolu reportedly garnered 970,850 votes to defeat Ambode who was said to have garnered 72,901 votes. However, in the main election, same Sanwolu merely garnered 739,445 votes. One is now forced to ask if there was larger voter turnout during APC primaries than the general elections.

Another instance we will consider is Anambra where the candidate of the APC in the past election is said to have won the primaries with over 200,000 votes but struggled with a little above 46,000 votes in the main election. And you ask yourself where are the remaining people who voted for him at the primary elections?

Worthy of note however, is that in these two primaries, the officials meant to supervise the congress tend have reservations with the result of the primaries. In October 2018, Vanguard Newspaper reported how the electoral officials sent from APC national headquarters to monitor the APC primaries disagreed with the result of the primaries but we all know who was APC chairman then and how he can’t go against a certain interest.

Again in Anambra, both the other contestants in primary election, party stakeholders and even party members are still contending that election did not take place with some contending that as late as 6pm, electoral officials were nowhere to be seen in their ward only for Governor Dapo Abiodun led party primary panel to endorse the numbers that were manufactured as result.

So these instances can adequately lay bare my view that Direct Primaries seems to have even more tendency of irregularities than what we have with Indirect Primaries.

As such, I conclude with saying that I am against Direct Primaries as political parties in Nigeria are not yet ready for such exercise and because it will be more chaotic and might not deliver the result it is intended to.

Well, that’s my opinion, what’s yours?

Lalasticlala
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Six30:
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Where I emptied the plates.

#IMove

Touch your chest and say, “All iz Well!”

This, too, shall pass.

JaroMan:
I'm 100% sure this group has the blessing of Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, Jagaban.
So how do rate the chances of a man that sponsors chaos in his party?
Like I've always maintained, Tinubu and Osibanjo will take back seat when the main politicking starts.
Who does he have in the South? He distroyed Rivers APC in order to scheme Amaechi out.
Amaechi is eyeing Aso Rock
He destroyed Edo state so that no one will be ranking higher than Adams.
He used Gulak against Okorocha in Imo. Rochas is eyeing Aso Rock
He used Ogun gov, Abiodun and put chaos in Anambra APC.
Sponsored northern youths against Orji Kalu.
When he sensed delegate primary won't favor him because he has many enemies within the party, he used his contacts in NASS to make direct primary mandatory.
Now, the electoral act is delayed because even the governors of APC kicked against it.
Tinubu's chance of emerging candidate is very slim. That's why Yakasai told him that he will wait after the primary to reply him.

Every calculative and reasonable political watcher knows that Direct Primaries is Tinubu’s brainchild.

Personally I never knew there was anything like Direct Primaries until Oshiomole became APC chairman and we all know Oshiomole was taking orders from Bourdilon.

Most naive political watchers think Direct Primaries will benefit the masses but it’s all lies.

Take Lagos Direct Primaries of 2019 for example. A lot of fictitious results was manufactured to the extent the Party Electoral managers from Abuja rejected the primary election only for Oshiomole to arm twist them into accepting the aberration. In the end Sanwolu won the primaries with over 900,000 votes but struggled with about 700,000 votes in the general election. One is now tempted to ask if APC as a party had more registered voters than the INEC registered voters.

Same thing happened in Anambra. Party members didn’t see a single voting point only for 200,000 votes to be manufactured for Andy Uba from nowhere.

How is that now better than Indirect Primaries?

Lol!

The funny thing is that we will not be surprised when APC finally implodes.

The surprise would actually be APC failing to implode which is unlikely.

Too many strange fellows in APC with parallel interests.

PandoraObi:
Roman Catholic? it confirm that you are worshipping the Pope that presented an idol before you to worship

While you are worshiping Adeboye, Oyedepo and co

PandoraObi:
So it confirm Catholics is different from christianity

It confirms that Roman Catholic is powerful enough to feature in CIA statistics.

No one gives a fvcck about your Redeem, Winners or whatever nomenclature your own mushroom church goes by.

BigSarah:
So Muslims are a majority..
Alhamdullahi

I wanted to argue it.

But I remembered that majority of northerners are Muslims plus Yoruba Muslims.

I think the estimates are arguably correct.

What I like especially is that it separated Hausa from Fulani and recognized that Fulani are just 6% of our population.

It is therefore an aberration, a taboo and misnomer that the entire 94% aboriginal people of Nigeria will held ransom by 6% of marauders from Futa Jalon.

But most painful is that they find their greatest support base in brain-dead online idiotic urchins who can’t think on their own.

PandoraObi:
The biggest threat to Pandora Peter Obi ambition was Igbo governors, they fought him till he lost out

Same way Tinubu will lose.

PandoraObi:
In Igbo land right? Igbos were rendered inconsequential since 2009 in election matters

The two biggest threat to Tinubu’s ambition are Osinbajo and Fayemi.

Are they Igbos?

My own na make Tinubu and his urchins no go drink rat poison like one of their ancestors when BAT refuses to fly in 2023.

PandoraObi:
Ok

Your Tinubu is now like a leper, any one who identifies with him is segregated.

Where are those you said are supporting him?

Lol!

Tinubu online urchins need to explain to us why the generality of the Nigerian people always come for head any of anybody that identifies with either Buhari, Osinbajo or Tinubu.

First, it was the Comedians that uselessly went to meet Osinbajo. Those ones were almost canceled until they had to apologize.

Now, Nigerians are calling for the heads of Mr Ibu, HarryB and Foluke Daramola because of their ill-advised attendance of a meeting that had to do with Tinubu.

Zombies how far? Is it this same Nigerians that you are saying will vote Tinubu abi it’s the ones from the moon?

The elites are not supporting Tinubu.

The masses are not supporting Tinubu.

Only hungry retarded idiots who can’t survive without the crumbs from Tinubu’s table that will online exposing the hollowness of their brain to the world.

This commendable!

But Nigerians, make I tell una, no go follow police drag anything because you saw this o.

If you tell them, them no gree, jejely cooperate make one bullet no go fall you troway.

But las las, stand up to your right.

Hope I’m not confused sha

seunmsg:
Everything is all about Tinubu. I guess news no longer sells except Tinubu’s name is attached to it. Almost every reasonable political stakeholders other than the governors have expressed support for the legalization of direct primary but no, we must make it about Tinubu just to discredit the good intention of the law.

After Tinubu used abracadabra Direct Primaries to chase Ambode out in 2019, he wants to repeat the same template for 2023 presidential primaries of the APC.

All he will do is to pay some hungry idiots in every state to manufacture numbers and you could be surprised to see Tinubu winning APC ticket with about 23 million votes.

Ask yourself why Gbajabiamila, one of Tinubu’s lapdogs, is the greatest proponent of Direct Primaries?

But I can bet my early morning poo that Buhari will return that document to the National Assembly.

ifytrik:
So a friend of mine who is based in Lagos state called me few weeks back and was telling about how he is earning 225$ per week working for a foreign company in Lagos, I converted the money to naira and it was almost 130thousand naira per week

I asked him if there is vacancy in the company so I will apply and he said he will do something about it, he called me yesterday and said there is vacant for two workers and he has already collected one form for me, he said I should prepare myself make sure i come over to lagos between today (Friday 26th Nov 2021) to(Monday 29th Nov 2021)

He said the registration fee is 450thound naira, and I must come with the money, he also said if I fail to come before or on Tuesday morning next week then they will give the job to someone else.

Nairalanders based in Lagos state please help a brother, I don't want to be scammed, do you know of such company? Could this be real or another mmm?

Tell him they should give the job to someone else.

Na big scam o. Don’t say you weren’t told.

Even Shell, Chevron, Agip, etc, don’t pay that much. And even they do they will ask u to pay one naira. You qualify through merit.

Use ur head before it’s used.

Who knows if Obasanjo had done 3 tenures we would have avoided this Buhari disaster?

Maybe it was God trying to save Nigeria but we as humans can’t see the future.

backbencher:
I hear your points, but even then, I have never voted for APC or PDP, and don't intend to start voting for them

I have always supported a third party that has a technocrat on the platform. In 2019 it was Moghalu.

The thing is, we have allowed APC and before them PDP to run Nigeria for years. What have they done, nothing. APC that was voted on the platform that they could do better than the PDP trainwreck has turned out to be the mirror image of the PDP...

And both parties always play the religion and ethnic card to gain votes. No thanks. We have already had enough issues there as it is...fanning the flames to get votes is bad.

At the end of the day, I cannot in good conscience, vote for APC or PDP. Yes, it looks funny, but so be it.

But I do hope you see things from my perspective and realize that voting for those people is just wasting of vote.

Kingsley Moghalu is great, agreed, but he won’t make headway in a mushroom party. So stop throwing away ur vote.

vikgreen01:
You said regular combatant RC. RC na regular course Na NDA cadets dem be.

U for don say na recruit from the onset u bin won put in for.

Forgive my poor knowledge of the technical terminologies for these things.

Not a military personnel you know.

But I really wanted to serve in any security parastatal sha!

vikgreen01:
Your choice bro. But going for RC will still take u 4years of migrating thru the NDA college. Why u will now b saying u would av been dead by BH or bandits from just last year to this moment.

Wetin concern recruit with NDA?

vikgreen01:
Be calming down.

Those who applied last year November as he claimed are still in training. They went to camp in April this year that’s for the ssc folks. Concerning the dssc folks they haven’t conclude their matter hence they haven’t been call to camp. I am replying him in regards to what he said that he would have been dead by either BH or bandits so i am quoting him that he will still b in training that if he’s among the ssc category.

And again direct short service training lasts for just 6months and they attain the rank of lieutenant. You’re talking in regards to short service combatant which training lasts for 9 months Nd commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant.

I have issues with NYSC and as such the only option I had was to apply as a regular combatant.

Would you still have wished I joined?