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Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Sheuns(m): 10:03am On Jan 27, 2025
lol
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by casualobserver: 10:03am On Jan 27, 2025
The problem is educated Nigerians think because they have received western education therefore they live abroad and Nigeria should be fashioned after the west.

I don’t believe in naming things after a sitting president. However unlike many governors who name projects after themselves, Tinubu and it must be said previous presidents did not name these projects after themselves. It was others (often sychophants) who did.


Now this is where the complexity and peculiarities of Nigeria come in. In Nigeria if you reject it, you risk alienating those who chose to name a project after you and that often takes a different dimension of its own. For instance, he rejects the naming of an airport in Niger state and suddenly the narrative is Tinubu hates the people of Niger state.

Nigeria is a complex country to manage, we just seen how elders and kings have lobbied Afe Babalola to drop his lawsuit. Now we won’t know who is lying and what corruption would have been exposed in the judiciary. If Afe Babalola did not drop the case they will say he disrespected the kings and tradition, if he drops the case they will say Dele was right and he simply took advantage of the pleadings of the Kings to cover what would have been exposed.

Nigeria is Nigeria, Tinubu is not the first, I don’t believe in naming public projects after sitting officials but it is what it is. We have bigger fish to fry, so long as it is not the official himself (in this case the president) who name the facilities after himself.

Again I will say we are not the UK, Europe , Canada or the USA. Don’t because you have read western books, say in their classrooms, watch their media and speak the same English as them start to think your society must be fashioned in their image.

Focus on the fact that barracks, roads, airport or hospital was built instead of siphoning the monies to a Swiss bank account instead of what name they chose to give the project.

Again I do not endorse the naming of public projects after sitting officials but it is what it is. I know when monies were collected and nothing was built and nothing to commission talk less name after anyone.
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Babangidapikin: 10:05am On Jan 27, 2025
Welcome to Tinubuland ..Land of the great Agbadorians..
Abeg Tomorrow is not promised , let him Immortalize himself , what is Important is what legacy we see in our hearts .. Their is Oga Yar Adua and their is Oga Abacha ...Trust me both worked day and night for the Nigeria State, both are definitely Immortalize and we will continue to remember them, but what legacies are in our hearts is what important, because that is what we will tell the next generation coming .
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Gandollar(f): 10:05am On Jan 27, 2025
Changing "Nigeria" into Tpain would be most appropriate.
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Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by ogaemma: 10:08am On Jan 27, 2025
The beauty of this write-up is that is coming from a Yoruba man.
What a balance thought and judgement.
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by karkel(m): 10:08am On Jan 27, 2025
I believe Nigeria needs resettlement
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by olisaEze(m): 10:09am On Jan 27, 2025
Dem go soon talk say dis one dey ambitious for presidency! grin
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by PHIPEX(m): 10:09am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
He defined you as sycophant
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Caleb4show: 10:13am On Jan 27, 2025
This should be a sarcasm
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Acidosis(m): 10:13am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
Is anyone surprised? I mean you guys rationalise and glorify poverty.
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Iceberg3: 10:15am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
A Yekinian haff spoken 😁
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by doncartel: 10:16am On Jan 27, 2025
I feel we should go with Federal Republic of Atinuke since a country is supposed to be female. That makes us all Atinukeans.
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by MASTAkiLLAh(m): 10:17am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
na you come dey useful abi ? Shior cool
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Shaketable: 10:18am On Jan 27, 2025
What of Bolaria, Tinuburia or we should rename Nigeria to Asiwajuria. Choose d best so we can get on the project ASAP
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by MemphitzDgreat1(m): 10:23am On Jan 27, 2025
Nigeria should be renamed E-Bola!
Arrant Nonsense
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by lexy2014: 10:23am On Jan 27, 2025
This guy must be an ipob

He has so much hate for tinubu.

People from his region are like that

Reno should reply him ASAP and find a way to drag obi into his reply
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Zetty177x: 10:23am On Jan 27, 2025
iamnotillicit:
That will be nice...

Nigeria should be named Bola
Or Ebola
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Clobisman(m): 10:24am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
I wish I can be allowed to use the right words to describe your IQ without being banned.
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by MemphitzDgreat1(m): 10:25am On Jan 27, 2025
PHIPEX:
He defined you as sycophant
An incredibly stupid one too!
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by anonimi: 10:26am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
Immortalisation of a useless looter who is wrecking the country as he has done for Lagos since 1999 huh

It’s obvious who the useless citizen is between the two of you.
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by lexy2014: 10:26am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
Don't mind this lasisi guy. He is an ipob

He has so much hate for tinubu.

People from his region are like that

Reno should reply him ASAP and find a way to drag obi into his reply
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by patrickcollins: 10:27am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
If other presidents before him were to follow such trend by now some states would be bearing their names
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Clobisman(m): 10:28am On Jan 27, 2025
veekid:
How much is Tinubu pumping into these guys account for them to get high with leprosy of the brain and open their gutter for such suggestions?
Apparently you didn't read this story because it might be too long but if u read then you have comprehension problem but if you still want to debate that then you need to check what sarcasm means
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by anonimi: 10:31am On Jan 27, 2025
Gotocourt:
Ronu City grin
Isn’t it quite remarkable that Yorubas have been the most vocal critics of Tinubu, which is unlikely to happen if Pandora Bitter Obi was the president, seeing as how his tribal headless mob gave him nearly 100% votes in the five south east states, as they unwittingly helped ebilokan continue APC clueless mismanagement of the country.

jameshankss:
Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.

The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”

Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.

But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.

The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.

Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.

“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.

“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”

Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.

Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.

He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.

“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.

“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”

Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”

Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.

He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/15/soludo-i-wont-succumb-to-bullies-obi-knows-he-cant-win/
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by lexy2014: 10:31am On Jan 27, 2025
casualobserver:
The problem is educated Nigerians think because they have received western education therefore they live abroad and Nigeria should be fashioned after the west.

I don’t believe in naming things after a sitting president. However unlike many governors who name projects after themselves, Tinubu and it must be said previous presidents did not name these projects after themselves. It was others (often sychophants) who did.


Now this is where the complexity and peculiarities of Nigeria come in. In Nigeria if you reject it, you risk alienating those who chose to name a project after you and that often takes a different dimension of its own. For instance, he rejects the naming of an airport in Niger state and suddenly the narrative is Tinubu hates the people of Niger state.

Nigeria is a complex country to manage, we just seen how elders and kings have lobbied Afe Babalola to drop his lawsuit. Now we won’t know who is lying and what corruption would have been exposed in the judiciary. If Afe Babalola did not drop the case they will say he disrespected the kings and tradition, if he drops the case they will say Dele was right and he simply took advantage of the pleadings of the Kings to cover what would have been exposed.

Nigeria is Nigeria, Tinubu is not the first, I don’t believe in naming public projects after sitting officials but it is what it is. We have bigger fish to fry, so long as it is not the official himself (in this case the president) who name the facilities after himself.

Again I will say we are not the UK, Europe , Canada or the USA. Don’t because you have read western books, say in their classrooms, watch their media and speak the same English as them start to think your society must be fashioned in their image.

Focus on the fact that barracks, roads, airport or hospital was built instead of siphoning the monies to a Swiss bank account instead of what name they chose to give the project.

Again I do not endorse the naming of public projects after sitting officials but it is what it is. I know when monies were collected and nothing was built and nothing to commission talk less name after anyone.
How does rejecting the offer of a person's name to be named after a project equate to alienating and hating the people that made the offer?

Where did we see traditional rulers lobby afe Babalola to drop his case against Farotimi?

If "we" saw it, where was the location of the lobbying and at what times did these lobbying take place?
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by lexy2014: 10:34am On Jan 27, 2025
anonimi:
Isn’t it quite remarkable that Yorubas have been the most vocal critics of Tinubu, which is unlikely to happen if Pandora Bitter Obi was the president, seeing as how his tribal headless mob gave him nearly 100% votes in the five south east states, as they unwittingly helped ebilokan continue APC clueless mismanagement of the country
This obsession with obi is amazing to the point were some of you can even predict a future that has not happened

For the past and present, how well have Nigerians and Nigeria fared under the governance of tinubu?
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Abioladoks: 10:35am On Jan 27, 2025
and u expect me to read all this ur super story like a lazy Nigerian youthhuh

no way

summary abeg
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by whippersnapper(m): 10:36am On Jan 27, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy
There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization
a zombidiot spotted
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by mightycrowns44: 10:37am On Jan 27, 2025
And Zoogeria to be changed to BATGERIA
Finquas:
Abuja should be named Jagaban state and den Lagos "Tpain state grin
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by Nobody: 10:38am On Jan 27, 2025
Lol... Interesting truth is he enjoys it all... Good morning Tinubarians grin
Re: Let Us Name Nigeria After Our President By Lasisi Olagunju by higgs: 10:40am On Jan 27, 2025
You are making absolutely no sense.Balewa,ZIK Awolowo etc were all immortalised after they were no longer in power and even died.Decent people shouldn't go about naming things after themselves while still in power,especially more than one project within a very short time
casualobserver:
The problem is educated Nigerians think because they have received western education therefore they live abroad and Nigeria should be fashioned after the west.

I don’t believe in naming things after a sitting president. However unlike many governors who name projects after themselves, Tinubu and it must be said previous presidents did not name these projects after themselves. It was others (often sychophants) who did.


Now this is where the complexity and peculiarities of Nigeria come in. In Nigeria if you reject it, you risk alienating those who chose to name a project after you and that often takes a different dimension of its own. For instance, he rejects the naming of an airport in Niger state and suddenly the narrative is Tinubu hates the people of Niger state.

Nigeria is a complex country to manage, we just seen how elders and kings have lobbied Afe Babalola to drop his lawsuit. Now we won’t know who is lying and what corruption would have been exposed in the judiciary. If Afe Babalola did not drop the case they will say he disrespected the kings and tradition, if he drops the case they will say Dele was right and he simply took advantage of the pleadings of the Kings to cover what would have been exposed.

Nigeria is Nigeria, Tinubu is not the first, I don’t believe in naming public projects after sitting officials but it is what it is. We have bigger fish to fry, so long as it is not the official himself (in this case the president) who name the facilities after himself.

Again I will say we are not the UK, Europe , Canada or the USA. Don’t because you have read western books, say in their classrooms, watch their media and speak the same English as them start to think your society must be fashioned in their image.

Focus on the fact that barracks, roads, airport or hospital was built instead of siphoning the monies to a Swiss bank account instead of what name they chose to give the project.

Again I do not endorse the naming of public projects after sitting officials but it is what it is. I know when monies were collected and nothing was built and nothing to commission talk less name after anyone.
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