₦airaland Forum

Firefire:
Action speaks louder than the words.

GMB supporters in the north burning other political party vehicles

APC Management in Lagos removing other political parties posters.

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FELLOW NIGERIANS WHERE IS THE CHANGE [/size]

I totally agree with you...

where is the change that we so badly yearn for APC is definitely not that change going from the current happenings as it draws nearer to the elections...

Thank you for this write up.

I don tire for people wey dey chop their lies hook, line and sinker...

I pray the scales fall off the eyes of many more Nigerians if not all before the polls of Feb 14th.

May God save our dear country from vultures and hyenas... Scavengers of the highest order...

APC - Desperados personified...

Nice one.

What goes around comes around.

This is just the beginning of her woes.

The president and definitely not his wife would back such a person who almost destroyed his government and was sleeping with every tom, dick and harry in government. Mrs. Patience will never back such.

I wait to hear more news of her doom. She is one of the first casualties, more will undoubtedly follow...

Stella Oduah!!! Horror in disguise!!!

Oduduwaboy:
Lets see how fit and 'speechy' you will be when you are 72years old. We dont need a lying demagogue now, all we need is a good leader who can hold his lieutenants accountable and stem the rising tide of corruption/theft that is about to destroy this country.
Sai Buhari!!!

Do we want someone who can not give us good representation a midst his counterparts Do we want someone who we can not hear or understand just because we seek for change I really wonder how we Nigerians think. Didn't we also complain about the representation by the current president?

Maybe it would be best in your opinion if Mugabe came to rule us...

Checkout the corruption index; Pakistan ranks worse than Nigeria but their country is not destroyed... There is no country in the world no matter how 'corrupt' the government is that can collapse on the basis of 'corruption'. Check through history. Let's do some research...

With all the previous military administrations' corrupt practices and that of previous governments of which we know both at the local, state and federal levels, how come Nigeria has not been destroyed.

Its is more of hype than reality. They are saying what you want to hear; 'we will tackle corruption'... Have they explained to you how they would exactly?

All I'm asking is for us to put on our thinking caps as intelligent Nigerians...

For they say 'all that glitters is not gold'...

This was given to him at the flag off of the party's online campaign. There were pictures on Nairaland that showed them teaching him how to use it...

An analogue man wanting to lead a digital age...

Shall we probe Obasanjo then?!

Here are some snippets of Buhari's antecedents...

Buhari truncated the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo's free education programme for the whole South West region of Nigeria thereby preventing many of the youth from getting quality education.

The military dictator cancelled the Lagos Metro line project which Chief Lateef Jakande who was the then governor of Lagos state had committed to developing in order to mitigate against the traffic situation Lagosians face today. Chief Lateef Jakande had borrowed $60-75Million to execute this project. Those funds went down the drain. The military dictator cancelled such grand development ideas and initiatives.

As the head of PTF, the self-consumed dictator truncated the infrastructural development of Bayelsa state by refusing to provide funds required for major projects which would have led to a fast paced development of the state and region. Thereby, depriving the citizens of the state the much needed development as a newly created state. He strongly believed that the PTF funds were for the development of the north!!! A non-oil producing north!!! And that was exactly what he did. All projects that were embarked on during his tenure focused on the development of the north with crumbs from his table being sent to the south...

When the PTF fund was about to be probed on how it was utilised vis-a-vis the purpose for the fund, Buhari's cousin Gambo died mysteriously as he was to testify on the inquest at the parliament. The said Gambo was the MD of the sole consulting firm that consulted for Buhari while he was at the helm of affairs at the PTF.

Thus he deprived the South south region of the much needed development both infrastructural and educational and today he can not admit and apologise to the same people he comes to seek their vote.

What does a military dictator have to offer when he disrupted a budding democracy and wants to have a second opportunity in the same democratic state he once destroyed forcibly. He truncated a budding democracy when he overthew the democratically elected government forcefully. (That is what he used the military weapons to do...)

Buhari spurred the consecutive military rules that ravaged and raped Nigeria of her innocence and growth opportunities for if he had not disrupted the Shagari led democratic government; who knows where Nigeria would have been in terms of development.

We are grappling today with the ruins left behind by past military administrations... Our visions have been blurred by the military oppression doled out to all and sundry during this man's government and that of his successive fellow military men.

Today we blame civilians for the nation's misfortune; forgetting the very beginnings of the problems as we were governed by greedy looters who wore uniform.

Today, we do not have competent military men who can fight for us... the reason being that the time these military dictators would have used in preparing themselves to be useful in Nigeria's future, they squandered it preparing for military coups and takeovers which ravaged and stripped the nation and her people of every thread of dignity and understanding of democracy and of right thinking civilians.

Today he poses as if he is a saint and the solution to the nation's woes and wants to confuse Nigerians to thinking that we 'bloody' civilians (as we were called during his reign) can not solve our problems and that he is the military civilian that would bring succour.

He leaves me with no choice but to think that if he Buhari was still in the military, he would have organised a coup to topple the government. Instead of leave us civilians to chart the course of our democracy and our destiny. Thus, he is very bitter and pained that he is no longer a serving soldier but now has to go through the democratic process for which he sought to destroy to be elected...

What an irony of life!

Have you heard Buhari make any promises on what he shall do when he gets into power during these campaigns? I have been following closely hoping to hear of some basic promises that can be made to make the lives of the teeming populace better and he hasn't said anything.

Instead he keeps asking for us not to vote in fidifi (PDP) and to vote him instead. To what betterment of the people is he requesting for our votes?

At the rally in Port Harcourt he made mention of the fact that he would improve on the economy and by so doing would fight corruption... Nigeria is not an island. There is a global economy that dictates the state of different economies world over.

The current happenings in our nation's economy is a ripple effect from what is happening globally. Read about the economies of similar nations like ours such as Greece, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico etc. You see that in these developing nations, their economies are hard hit by the occurrences in the global space. So how can you end corruption through the revival of the economy And how do you revive the economy in isolation of the global situation?

Nigerians though have seen negligible affirmative change under the current government which some Nigerians have benefited from at the grassroot such as the farmers as well as sole traders/entrepreneurs.

Nigerians should I say are a bit desperate and because of this, we are ready to jump into any form of bandwagon not caring even if it is 'one chance' where the gang in operation are ritualists and we might not make it back alive!

I would like to suggest that we step back from all the excitement, incitements and think for a minute, and ask questions on how we would be better off...

The publicity and perception projected of Buhari has been done in such a way that they want us to see only Buhari; forgetting that the people promoting him and the party on which he is running are full of rogues, rapists, corrupt and depraved men who have contributed their fair share to the problems of this country. Some jumping ship and cross carpeting as if it was their day job...

Buhari hangs around and dines with proven culprits of all types and then they say he is 'credible with integrity'. How can he condone or tolerate these sort of blatant grievous men and still say he is credible Selah! As the saying goes, show me your friends and I will tell you who you are... Another saying goes birds of the same feather, na the same mama born dem...!!!

What happened to Tai Solarin and Wole Soyinka when they took public offices and the people under them were corrupt and depraved? They resigned in order to preserve their precious names instead of permitting their names to be dragged in the mud.

So why would Buhari join himself with thieves and day-time robbers who steal with pen and paper and still want us to believe he is 'credible'?

In retrospect, his quest for power shows that he is desperate. Desperate to do what Cause a man with a worthy cause and good intentions will wait for the right opportunity.

Nigerians, let's not be hasty to climb a slippery slope that we do not know how deep it goes...

We think this is funny... It just goes to show the level of poverty in our society today. We are ready to sell our civic right for a pot of porridge to whom we are not sure can deliver to the people.

Have you heard Buhari make any promises on what he shall do when he gets in during these campaigns? I have been following closely hoping to hear of some basic promises that can be made to make the lives of the teeming populace better and he hasn't said anything.

Instead he keeps asking for us not to vote in fidifi (PDP) and to cote him instead. To what betterment of the people is he requesting for our votes?

At the rally in Port Harcourt he made mention of the fact that he would improve on the economy and by so doing would fight corruption... Nigeria is not an island. There is a global economy that dictates the state of different economies world over.

The current happenings in our nation's economy is a ripple effect from what is happening globally. Read about the economies of similar nations like ours such as Greece, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico etc. You see that in these developing nations, their economies are hard hit by the occurences in the global space. So how can you end corruption through the revival of the economy And how do you revive the economy in isolation of the global situation?

Nigerians have seen negligible change under the current government which some Nigerians have benefited from at the grassroot such as the farmers and sole traders/entrepreneurs.

Nigerians should I say are a bit desperate and because of this, we are ready to jump into any form of bandwagon not caring even if it is 'one chance' where we might not make it back alive!

I would like to suggest that we step back from all the excitement, incitements and think for a minute, and ask questions on how we would be better off...

The publicity and perception projected of Buhari has been done in such a way that they want us to see only Buhari; forgetting that the people promoting him and the party on which he is running are full of rogues, rapists, corrupt and depraved men who have contributed their fair share to the problems of this country. Some jumping ship and cross carpeting as if it was their day job...

Buhari hangs around and dines with proven culprits of all types and then they say he is 'credible with integrity'. How can he condone or tolerate these sort of blatant grievous men and still say he is credible Selah! As the saying goes, show me your friends and I will tell you who you are... Another saying goes birds of the same feather, na the same mama born dem...!!!

What happen to Tai Solarin and Wole Soyinka when they took public offices and the people under them were corrupt and depraved? They resigned in order to preserve their precious names instead of permitting their names to be dragged in the mud.

So why would Buhari join himself with thieves and day-time rubbers who steal with pen and paper and still want us to believe he is 'credible'?

His quest for power shows that he is desperate. Desperate to do what Cause a man with a worthy cause and good intentions will wait for the right opportunity.

Nigerians, let's not be hasty to climb a slippery slope that we do not know how deep it goes...

(food for thought)