₦airaland Forum

Weselion:
please brother, enlighten me. The electoral law book is beyond my reach, does it state that someone without formal education can become president?

gratieao:
Do u expect Buhari to contest election without constitutional minimal requirement? So we must bend our constitution to accommodate the illiterate general. To rule Nigeria is not by force, if Buhari does not have the requirements let him try Duara cattle rearers association president

Billyonaire:
Why are the ignorant persons comfortable with bolding fonts and advertising their ineptitude ?

Billyonaire:
You sound unintelligent my little friend, I havent seen any intelligent person supporting Buhari, just some kids born yesterday without knowledge of history of military dictatorship that ruined the structures of democracy in this country.

Ngwakwe:
When has humanitarian work in Nairaland become an issue to worry about?

TheBitterTruth:
Gengle frd, the blast occured at 3am and that's midnight. How do you expect workers to be at work by that time?. Always try to be fair when passing any comment for God sake.

Descartes:
...in as much as am not holding brief of GEJ and his Administration, it will amount to a global insult on Nigerians and internationational community to have a "semi-illiterate" and "clueless" entity called Buhari who wants to stabilize International oil market price and secure the economy with armed forces to pilot the affairs of the most populous black nation. Tufiakwa!!!

vanbonattel:
that kind of talk should not be heard from the pulpit of the church of God
mbaka should resign and join politics
apart from that, he is just heating up the nation unnecessarily

vanbonattel:
the difference is that okogie is correcting an errant subordinate

ucheeee:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/father-mbaka-saga-ill-close-adoration-ground-if-cardinal-olubunmi-okogie/

Politicians are taking their campaigns to churches. Is it a healthy development?
It is not! They should keep religion out of politics. Don’t forget each person has his or her own mind. During harvest, you have the priest and the assistant priest and you go out to invite another priest to preach, that will affect what I am going give, because I have already made up my mind on what I am going to give. They come to church to canvas for votes.

It should not be allowed by anybody. I don’t really know what to do because this election, hmm hmm hmm, I am afraid. Imagine their utterances! Look at what Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) said about Shariah in 2011, that is what they are harping on now in 2015. Why? When did you hear about Shariah last? This kind of thing is annoying. Look at the recent campaign launch that produced over N21 billion. Where did they get the money from when people are hungry? No water. No electricity. No roads. I just wonder what kind of government we have in this country. These are all corrupt persons and they will want me to cast their vote for them.

citizenisb:
http://tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/26469-presidency-northern-leaders-express-concerns-over-buhari-s-health

neocortex:
You are ignorant of history. I am not surprised because your Buhari has no primary school cert , I don't expect you to fare any better.
Let me school you. In 1984, your god Buhari destroyed our nascent democracy and installed himself as head of state.
He put the vice president Alex Ekwueme in prison while he exonerates Sheu Shagari of corruption.

neocortex:
You are ignorant of history. I am not surprised because your Buhari has no primary school cert , I don't expect you to fare any better.
Let me school you. In 1984, your god Buhari destroyed our nascent democracy and installed himself as head of state.
He put the vice president Alex Ekwueme in prison while he exonerates Sheu Shagari of corruption.

Gboliwe:
Does his fellow illiterate fanatic use twitter? How will they know he is condemning their life blood? Mcheeeeew

Abeg, some of us can still see through you.

cigwegbe:
We are not serious in nigeria, if not someone like buhari should not dare, talk of contesting any election, after removing a democratically elected government.

Gbawe:
@OP.

You run here quickly to 'report' Momodu as if the man owes you anything. After all is said and done and putting emotions aside, Dele Momodu is a private citizen, albeit a famous one, who is allowed to support GMB or anyone else passionately. Momodu, as far as I know , is not linked with the Buhari campaign in any formal way.

Momodu has banned you from following him for his own reason. He has the right to do this because you willingly decided to follow another private individual without coercion. You must accept that you exist in their space on their own terms not yours. Deal with this development by simply staying away from Momodu also. Momodu, right now and in his private citizen capacity, owes you no explanation. It is not by force to follow famous folks

rozayx5:
ekwueme/buhari generation put Nigeria in this mess, we will move forward when we discard them, old senile people who knew nothing about development, when singapore was moving forwar buhari was looking for power

Truckpusher:
I do not expect a certified iidiot like you to get the message when clever people are speaking.

Clever people?

Truckpusher:
This Jonathan is just too intelligent for average Nigerians whose past and future was bastardized by people like Buhari and his old cargoes of military numbnuts.

But just because of his humility and his hunger to follow the rule of law they labelled him clueless, now that the chips are down the C-IN-C has spoken let APC say theirs without their usual negative rhetorics filled with insults and name calling.

Jonathan intelligent Ol boy you just stated your own level of intelligence o. Choi! Wetin person no go hear from these TANoids

easy4beno:
Well..In as much as I want to say quite a lot, I will try to make it short as possible as I can.
I watched the presidential flag off yesterday and saw the president spoke. I must say from the few lines I can remember, they were very poor and lacked articulation from a president on campaign as I still did not see that campaign emphasis like this is what we have done, this is where we are and this is where we are going in his speech, it is not about attacking the opposing political party, well maybe some of our politicians are either not educated enough or they just lack how-to-campaign-education.

In his words "I know Nigeria does not belong to old men like us, because I know we have failed already". What the president is trying to let us know is that he has spent 6years in office and he has failed us, so giving him another 4years MAY BE an opportunity to make it right. The question is, why will I give an opportunity to a self proclaimed failure who has perceived himself as a failure to rule me for another 4years, definitely if after 4years, the situation is still status quo or gone worse, I should not ask him why and can't hold him responsible if he fails because from the on-set he said he was a failure and didn't give any clue or hope of how to even succeed or improve on the present situation.

"I apologise to the workers who were not paid december salaries, what happened is that some govt ministries' officials tried to act corrupt by adding up some funds to the regular salaries but in the process due to how scientific the IP system(which automatically pays salaries) works, it brought up a red light and shut down, so now we are deviating to another new system in order to avoid these corrupt people so they will not steal your money". Now he gave credit to himself because deep down he felt like he had curbed that corrupt practice from that end. In my own take, I think its obvious our president runs away from tackling and facing some problems squarely, if the system had made this attempt, why not trace these govt officials, investigate the incidence and actions, and bring some culprits to book, that sends a strong msg to the whole country that you are fighting corruption. In an ideal situation and country, its very simple, if you are corrupt and caught, you will go to jail, automatically your subordinates will not make such attempt in future..it will send a strong message to the whole nation and that oga no take nonsense..and to a large extent pple would have a self consciousness in their minds that if I steal na jail, trust me it will go a long way in changing peoples' minds.

That's just the few two points I would like to discuss, there are still some I remember vividly but I do not want to bore the readers, let's say thats it for now. From my analysis of the speech again, it was quite unlike GEJ, he spoke out of anger, out of reaction and out of emotion and I think a little desperation in his countenance, it may not be enough to just read manuscripts online, because some times a writer has a perception, so I can advise that before giving an analysis or passing judgment or nailing Buhari or Jonathan, kindly go online and watch the video, it is just about 30mins - 40mins, carefully observe and pass your comments. I hope we will choose our leaders rightly by not being sentimental, its not by age, or by ethnicity, or by education level if I may say..it is by having a well articulated ideas/solutions and clearly cut out vision. I hope we can get it right his time around.
God bless!

millionaireman:
Orator, have u finished?
What you listed here are figments of your imagination. there is no better alternative to Jonathan so far for the next presidential election.

barcanista:
Well, I was surprised myself until I saw it on channel's website. It is a shame

barcanista:
This kind Oba na wa o

ayukdaboss:
Barca how did we get here as a country? I dont believe some people here are commending Jonathan on today's act of shame.

Jonathan never stated anything he wants to do for Nigerians,spent hours campaigning against Buhari and blaming him for all his shortcomings. Look at the comment from Akpabio!!!! It's a shame.

rozayx5:
when i was attending diplomatic parties in dar es salaam, asari was still in the swamp. he is a nonentity to me
but a big man to you

rozayx5:
what do you know about level.