₦airaland Forum

Arostar2023:
Which sacrifice? International media will carry the news, " former Nigerian president dies in a London clinic". I guess that will bring honor to Nigeria? Since he couldn't build a single hospital during his 8 years reign that could look after him and his cronies. What a shame.

YOu want to know why our leaders die in UK hospitals?

Because UK citizens pay very high taxes, and yes, it is not like they like paying it or they can afford it...for their NHS, and as a result, they have superior hospitals.

You are asking for UK level hospitals on a health budget of 2-3 billion dollars....i dey laff. UK health spending is probably at least 200 billion dollars...or somehwere around 250 billion dollars. And you Nigerians want us to have UK type hospitals on 2-3 billion dollars budget.

Also, UK runs an industrial and diversified economy. Nigeria? The oil we produce can sustain a country of 10 million people....not 200 million people.


Ok o. There is realistic, and there is dreaming.

You guys, we should vote serious leaders, not people like buhari, obi, tinubu , gej and obasanjo. Leaders who will diversify our economy.

He was not a good man; truth be told!

Nevertheless, he did his time.
Farewell!

englishmart:
I won't pretend he was a good man. The man was horrible. Very horrible.

But still better than Tinubu.

5 years too late

You started well but end with unreasonable name and word. it will certainly be better for Tinubu to continue rather than let Nigeria sink in the hands of a born failure who couldn't manage a state.

socialmediaman:
No matter how much I oppose the APC today, I was a Buharist until 6 months or so after he was elected President. I realized I was wrong, he didn’t have it in him, GEJ was the best choice to continue.

I created this account to support his Presidential ambition, but ended up parting ways and being very opposed to his presidency.

I wasn’t a fan of GEJ but he was the best choice to be president over Buhari, and Peter Obi today is the best choice to be President so I remain Obidient

ceejay80s:
No matter how u hate the person, u must fill sad when someone dies, I am surprised some are happy about it,
His rule was bad but he is human,
Me sef na one day ,
I don dey show my wife my atm pin to move all my money in case I enter coma let alone death, bank no go chop my penny, my car dey to sell and further my kids studies,
I no play ruff play

When Abacha died, this country erupted with celebration. That kind of celebration will be what will happen if some certain people pass away as well.

Gone is the terrible scam sold to Nigerians. He is to me in the same league as Abacha and Babangida who set the stage for the current misrule and bad governance plaguing us today.

Levels1:
You started well but end with unreasonable name and word. it will certainly be better for Tinubu to continue rather than let Nigeria sink in the hands of a born failure who couldn't manage a state.

I don’t think Nigeria can sink lower than Tinubu has sunk it. However, one thing I never do is reward a failed President. If you fail, the right thing to do is vote you out of office.

socialmediaman:
GEJ created new sectors of the economy. It was during his time that social media and content economy was created. I remember how FG was funding and promoting local content creators. Okonjo Iweala and Olusegun Aganga and others were doing great at innovation and bringing new investments into various sectors.

Buhari’s Presidency slowed down the economy very badly with his tight financial policies and lack of innovation due to alienation. Tinubu completely destroyed what was remaining.

When you see a spade, call it a spade. I can hold my head high and say I am supporting good governance not nepotism or tribalism. What about you?

Social media and content creators. Ok.o. The thing that millions of people around the world do.

That's not enough to power an economy.

What powers an economy is selling goods and services the world needs that you have made here in country. That is how China went from being behind sierra leone to lending to sierra leone .

Think about what I have said. GEJ and company were not good leaders. Because at the end of the day, they kept our economy depndent on oil. ANd when the oil price dropped, GEJ started borrowing to keep up.

Look, I did not say buhari or tinubu were good leaders o. And I never voted for gej or buhari or tinubu. Because of what I said above.

Abeg make una stop to dey write all these things

Rest in peace sir.
Just that you made the price of ashawo to rise from 500 to 2000.. I am still pained by that rise in price

othermen:
Elegy for the Tired Men

He said he was not corrupt.

He said his hands were clean,

only weary

Too old, too tired

to hold the men beneath him

gorging on the country’s marrow.

Too tired to stop the looting,
too worn to question the men
who drained the country dry
while saluting him.

He said he meant well.

But meaning is a thin roof

when rain falls through every rafter.

Meaning never saved a child

in a gutted clinic,

or the doctor killed by bandits
or kept a surgeon from packing up her books,

and leaving forever.

He grew tired
while lecturers died in dim rooms
their salaries months behind them,
while the classrooms emptied,
and the students drifted home
to wait for a year
that never came back.


He grew tired
of the young men demanding to be seen,
While he rested behind guarded gates,

his soldiers raised their rifles

and fired into a crowd

of unarmed voices—

young faces demanding to be seen,

to be heard,

to be safe.
The bullets found them.

And the country learned

that a tired man

can be more dangerous

than a wicked one.


He said he was not corrupt,

only old,

only unable.

But not having the will or strength

to stop the rot

is a form of rot itself.


When sickness came for him,
he flew across the sea,
seeking mercy in a place he did not build,
a clean bed he never offered his own.
And there, beneath foreign lights,
the tired man closed his eyes
under the white lights of a hospital,

he never built for his own people.

And no one was surprised.

This is how it ends for the tired man,

the body laid out in foreign soil,

the headlines politely phrased,

the country left with nothing
but bats.

I raise my hat, very nice piece

Rich4god:
If only buhari didn't contest and allowed GEJ to continue, by now our nation would have gone far.

He came in and terminated the machineries who were fighting and clearing boko haram. Also he was part of those who brought bandits to wreck on the nation should he lose election.

Without him, our nation would have been a little bit better than what it is today.

Nothing like hero.

I disagree with you bro, I am not disagreeing bcus Buhari did well o, I am disagreeing bcus even I as a supporter of GEJ, me and over 80% of Nigeria really wanted a change from GEJ and PDP. So we got the change and started missing GEJ, it is still happening now. We all clamored for Buhari's exit and now somehow missing him with what the present govt is doing to us. It has always been like that and will continue to be so in this country cus no Messiah yet to redeem the country

Levels1:
You started well but end with unreasonable name and word. it will certainly be better for Tinubu to continue rather than let Nigeria sink in the hands of a born failure who couldn't manage a state.

TInubu is just like GEJ. He is not a good leader.

They talk a good game, but acutal changes like reducing overspending, budget padding, etc? They don't.

Even subsidy removal was forced on them by circumstances beyond their control. Circumstances which they were partly responsible for.

nairalanda1:
YOu want to know why our leaders die in UK hospitals?

Because UK citizens pay very high taxes, and yes, it is not like they like paying it or they can afford it...for their NHS, and as a result, they have superior hospitals.

You are asking for UK level hospitals on a health budget of 2-3 billion dollars....i dey laff. UK health spending is probably at least 200 billion dollars...or somehwere around 250 billion dollars. And you Nigerians want us to have UK type hospitals on 2-3 billion dollars budget.

Also, UK runs an industrial and diversified economy. Nigeria? The oil we produce can sustain a country of 10 million people....not 200 million people.


Ok o. There is realistic, and there is dreaming.

You guys, we should vote serious leaders, not people like buhari, obi, tinubu , gej and obasanjo. Leaders who will diversify our economy.

You are trying to justify the unjustifiable. It was a British Prime Minister that said your country is fantastically corrupt. I guess you don't know what the means. You want more taxes, what of accountability? What have you guys down with your oil revenues? You loot, loot, and even loot what was budgeted for state house clinic. How much would it cost to build and maintain a standard hospital? The new coastal highway, how much is it? The railroad that was built to Niger Republic, how much was it again? Since you claim that you guys have no money.

Btw, tell me the industries that are in Qatar, UAE, etc that made them what they're today?

Another Nigerian leader has died in a foreign hospital. Shameless country; useless leaders; useless citizens; bottom of the totem pole worldwide.

He was the worst we ever had as president. A very incompetent leader. Highly clueless. An ethnic bigot. However, he was a human being and as such, I say farewell.

Divija:
Today, we say goodbye to a man who once carried the hopes of a nation on his shoulders. A president, a father figure to many, a symbol of change whose journey began with promise and passion.

In his early years, he was a beacon of hope. He spoke with fire in his bones and dreams in his heart. Streets once chanted his name, not out of fear, but of faith. He walked into power with the blessings of the people and for a moment we believed again. We believed in justice. In growth. In peace.

But history, as it often does, unfolded with its own script.

In his final days, weakened by time and circumstance, he made a choice that will haunt generations. He handed over the soul of our nation to a tyrant one who rules not with love or law, but with fear and fire. Since then, we have watched our people drown in silence, our freedoms strangled, our dignity auctioned to the highest bidder.

Was it weakness? Was it blindness? Was it betrayal?
We may never know.

But even in the pain of the present, we cannot erase the man he once was. The leader who once gave children books instead of bullets. Who once built bridges where walls stood. We honor that man today not to rewrite history, but to remember the full picture.

To mourn him is to mourn what could have been.

May his soul find the peace he couldn’t give his people.
And may we, the living, rise stronger wiser knowing that legacy is not just in what you build, but in who you leave the keys with when you are gone.

Rest well, Mr. President.
History will speak your name with both hope and caution.

Arostar2023:
You are trying to justify the unjustifiable. It was a British Prime Minister that said your country is fantastically corrupt. I guess you don't know what the means. You want more taxes, what of accountability? What have you guys down with your oil revenues? You loot, loot, and even loot what was budgeted for state house clinic. How much would it cost to build and maintain a standard hospital? The new coastal highway, how much is it? The railroad that was built to Niger Republic, how much was it again? Since you claim that you guys have no money.

JUstify which unjustifable.

I always don't like it when people accuse me of supporting corruption. You know I do not.

I am telling you that if you want UK level hospitals, you should, and you must vote in leaders who will give you the type of economy that makes trillions of naira, not billions.

Simple.

I did not justify tinubu's overspending...check my posts, and you will see i don't like the new road project.

Oga, can you build UK level hospital on a budget less than 5 billion pounds.?

Justifying corruption indeed.

socialmediaman:
No matter how much I oppose the APC today, I was a Buharist until 6 months or so after he was elected President. I realized I was wrong, he didn’t have it in him, GEJ was the best choice to continue.

I created this account to support his Presidential ambition, but ended up parting ways and being very opposed to his presidency.

I wasn’t a fan of GEJ but he was the best choice to be president over Buhari, and Peter Obi today is the best choice to be President so I remain Obidient

obi is only good for being frugal but might nor be best for the country because he said he will maintain the disastrous Tinubu policies,which has not helped anybody

Lol amazing do the other guy

Arostar2023:
Buhari really disappointed many of us. We thought PDP and GEJ was corrupt until Buhari and APC came along.

Yes GEJ and PDP were corrupt only that APC and Buhari took it a notch higher

Maybe you aren't living close to Anambra state during obi tenure as a governor ?
I lived in Anambra then and the state was nothing to right about

infact every one both the civil servant and even the king are against him cause of power handling of the government affairs


Tinubu isn't doing well but giving obi a chance is a dome to the nation.

We can support a neutral individual out of all the available once at least during 60's We have young men at the end of the affairs...

The youth should come out with a political party and let's vote for one of us ,irrespective of Tribe an ethic lines

socialmediaman:
I don’t think Nigeria can sink lower than Tinubu has sunk it. However, one thing I never do is reward a failed President. If you fail, the right thing to do is vote you out of office.

Divija:
Today, we say goodbye to a man who once carried the hopes of a nation on his shoulders. A president, a father figure to many, a symbol of change whose journey began with promise and passion.

In his early years, he was a beacon of hope. He spoke with fire in his bones and dreams in his heart. Streets once chanted his name, not out of fear, but of faith. He walked into power with the blessings of the people and for a moment we believed again. We believed in justice. In growth. In peace.

But history, as it often does, unfolded with its own script.

In his final days, weakened by time and circumstance, he made a choice that will haunt generations. He handed over the soul of our nation to a tyrant one who rules not with love or law, but with fear and fire. Since then, we have watched our people drown in silence, our freedoms strangled, our dignity auctioned to the highest bidder.

Was it weakness? Was it blindness? Was it betrayal?
We may never know.

But even in the pain of the present, we cannot erase the man he once was. The leader who once gave children books instead of bullets. Who once built bridges where walls stood. We honor that man today not to rewrite history, but to remember the full picture.

To mourn him is to mourn what could have been.

May his soul find the peace he couldn’t give his people.
And may we, the living, rise stronger wiser knowing that legacy is not just in what you build, but in who you leave the keys with when you are gone.

Rest well, Mr. President.
History will speak your name with both hope and caution.

What?

Buhari os gone?

othermen:
Elegy for the Tired Men

He said he was not corrupt.

He said his hands were clean,

only weary

Too old, too tired

to hold the men beneath him

gorging on the country’s marrow.

Too tired to stop the looting,
too worn to question the men
who drained the country dry
while saluting him.

He said he meant well.

But meaning is a thin roof

when rain falls through every rafter.

Meaning never saved a child

in a gutted clinic,

or the doctor killed by bandits
or kept a surgeon from packing up her books,

and leaving forever.

He grew tired
while lecturers died in dim rooms
their salaries months behind them,
while the classrooms emptied,
and the students drifted home
to wait for a year
that never came back.


He grew tired
of the young men demanding to be seen,
While he rested behind guarded gates,

his soldiers raised their rifles

and fired into a crowd

of unarmed voices—

young faces demanding to be seen,

to be heard,

to be safe.
The bullets found them.

And the country learned

that a tired man

can be more dangerous

than a wicked one.


He said he was not corrupt,

only old,

only unable.

But not having the will or strength

to stop the rot

is a form of rot itself.


When sickness came for him,
he flew across the sea,
seeking mercy in a place he did not build,
a clean bed he never offered his own.
And there, beneath foreign lights,
the tired man closed his eyes
under the white lights of a hospital,

he never built for his own people.

And no one was surprised.

This is how it ends for the tired man,

the body laid out in foreign soil,

the headlines politely phrased,

the country left with nothing
but bats.

Hmmm.... What a beautiful prose or piece of literature