₦airaland Forum

thesolutions:
This is not about Islamic terrorists. It was an incitement killings. The people that carried out the initial killing knows that it will trigger religious crisis. It is either political or economical. Political because it distabilize the state that APC chairman came from, The governor will be considered incompetent to bear the party, or he will loose his current choice as replacement Vice presidential candidate of the APC come 2027. Economical because foreign mercenaries could be involved to fan the already burning flame of Christian genocide so as to come in and reap the benefits of intervention.

And who are those who commit the murder?! They are Muslims.
In fact, one of them was identified days earlier when he was recording video that he and his goons would attack the town.

You should ask yourself why these killers always hide behind Islam. Why Islam if it doesn't promote the religion?!

Then you should ask yourself why Islamic leaders in Nigeria do not condemn the killings despite knowing that they occur under the coverage of Islam

Firebomber:
It's so funny how the useless nairaland mod don't see this comment nor did they ban the useless hisslamist terrorrrist, but if it was other way round, they will ban the person in the name of antispam 😆😆

Don't worry, your days are numbered.

Iiiinnnfiiiideeeehhl

Cum4me:
Tinubu is incompetent. He was just a noise maker that many didn't see at first. No level

June 12, 2013 by The Nation

PDP, Jonathan have failed Nigerians, says Tinubu

ACN leader lashes govt on economy, security
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is confused about how to tackle Nigeria’s challenges, especially poverty and insecurity, a leader of the newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said.

He said the Federal Government promised peace and security, but under its “unwatchful eye” insecurity has grown and Boko Haram “has turned large tracts of northern Nigeria into no man’s land”.


But, a bright future, he said, is on the horizon as the APC, which he called “the government in-waiting”, would rescue Nigeria from its confused state.


“As leaders of the new party and government in-waiting, we intend to pursue dynamic, time-tested and bold policies that will liberate our people by making sure our wealth works for us,” Tinubu said.

Nigerians, said Tinubu, have become increasingly divided as a people because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government continues to take faulty steps in addressing poverty and injustice.

“They have ignored the cause and gone after the symptoms,” the former Lagos State Governor told a packed audience inside the Grand Committee Ballroom, Westminster Hall, House of Parliament, London on Monday. He identified failed policies on power, employment, economy and security as evidence of bad leadership.


Tinubu, the keynote speaker at the British African Diaspora Conference, spoke on “Leadership, national development and the people”.

He urged the Federal Government to apply a consistent policy of targeted law enforcement operations along with an active programme of economic development, negotiations and potential amnesty for penitent Boko Haram members.

He said rather than take this step, the nation has been treated to series of government inaction and indiscriminate use of force, which culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency in three states.


“The Jonathan government set up a special Committee on Boko Haram and Security matters, but sadly before they could perform, he declared State of Emergency in three Northern states: Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.

“This is symptomatic of a confused leadership. If there is security in this jumbled policy, neither I nor the majority of Nigerians can find it!”

To the fomer Lagos governor, if Nigeria is to mature as a democracy, its electoral system must be improved. He decried the fact that those who control the system manipulate elections with such impunity that they now see misconduct without sanction as a normal way of life.


Said he: “Look at the recent controversy surrounding election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) chairman… A group comprising all the nations’ governors could not even conduct a simple 35-person election without a disputed outcome.

“With this recent experience, I fear the length those in power would go and the means they would employ to manipulate results when the battleground is the entire nation and the stakes are the general elections in 2015.

“The NGF debacle symbolises a disdain for democracy and the popular will. If we are to save Nigeria, we must rescue the electoral process from its abusers,” Tinubu said.

In his view, a great philosophical gulf separates the government from the progressives. “This current Nigerian government is a retrogressive one. Much of what they claim as growth is but the harsh redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The bottom gets squeezed while the top expands. They are serving us the salad of corruption.

“They consume our today and squander the nation’s tomorrow. For 14 years, the PDP-led government cannot turn anything around. A new leadership is required to put a stop to this.”

Tinubu criticised Nigeria’s economic policies, saying the economy is being reconstructed “as an oasis for a small few and a stark desert for the many” while the government pretends to endorse the same budget-cutting austerity policies as much of Europe.

“We are not Europe; we are a Third World economy. That these policies have failed in European nations with higher standards of living than Nigeria gives our leaders no concern.”

Tinubu said the people live in dire straits, yet the government would rather waste the money than spend it on public benefit because they do not believe the people deserve it.

He said the progressives would bring pragmatic solution to the country’s woes because in their approach to the political economy, they do not rely on textbook answers as they do not “live in textbooks.

He said: “We live in the real world and thus seek answers from real world experiences. Here is a real world fact: No large nation has ever attained sustained growth without government running budget deficits to build the required infrastructure and without other government policies promoting development of the key industries that would become the spine of national development.

“Here is another such fact: No populous nation ever attains prosperity solely by extracting its raw material to exchange them for the finished goods of other large nations. We must industrialise and diversify our economy

“It is for this reason – to save the nation from the stranglehold of permanent poverty and poor governance – that the members of the progressive opposition political parties have decided to put aside personal ambition (including my own ambition) to form a new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). We do this because Nigeria has entered a critical state of economic depression.”

According to Tinubu, because of the unfair nature of the electoral processes and the gross imbalance of its political economy, the people have been props in a drama for which they should have been the main characters. “We must change this,” he said.

He said the progressives must move Nigeria away from a place where the whims and narrow wishes of self-centered reactionary elite dictate the fate of over 150 million people.

“On our side, we will take our chances with a free and fair election, for we shall offer the people an innovative programme consisting of a national industrial policy that includes radical infrastructural development and employment targets,” he said.

The former Lagos governor spoke of “the Glorious Nigerian Revolution”, which he said has nothing to do with force of arms.

His words: “The Revolution of which I speak has two major parts. First, is the peaceful conversion of our quasi-democracy into a full-fledged one. Second, is the implementation of policies turning the political economy away from its retrogressive, elitist bearings.

“We seek policies pointing in a progressive direction affording the average person a chance at a dignified life. This will be through the provision of gainful employment, quality education and essential social services for those who need the helping hand of government to survive.

“I see no shame in believing progressive government can improve the political economy and the lives of the people.”

HydraFeeds:
Arm yourself , the government has failed to protect you .

Why are the Governors delaying on state police

What a country! Where is Christopher Musa? Hmmmmm....the guy just go mute all of a sudden, na for APC national convention dem be dey see as chief security officer 😒!
So all thus killing here and there the Government just fold hand dey look make the masses depopulate themselves for the same Government to continue stealing our mineral resources!

I already knew it, as long as these guys have attacked Jos North be rest assured that it will turn to a full blown crisis because I'm sure they are not expecting that Jos metropolis will just keep mute and be watching. Other states fit dey keep calm but you see Jos North they will never do that, they don't have that time to be calling on FG

What was the message? Poor journalism.

SisterAnn:
Army with all their might could not tame Islamic terrorists, is it police that would do it?

The army do not live in those terrorised places! The terrorists are localised. You can only use the locals to solve a localised case!

And this could mean the police giving concise intelligence to the Army!

olabrad:
Yet, budaatum thinks people won't be happy if trump drops bombs on the Islamic terorists causing this.

Budaatum, do you still have your conscience and sense of humanity intact?!

Indeed I will not be happy at all if dump drops bombs on anyone in Nigeria! Those bombs will not only fall on the terrorists heads, but on the heads of innocents too.

Or do you think terrorists are dumb enough to all congregate in one place waiting for dump's bombs to fall on their heads?

Perhaps go ask Libya.

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/01/05/we-came-we-saw-we-failed-libyas-descent-into-the-flintstone-age/

budaatum:
Indeed I will not be happy at all if dump drops bombs on anyone in Nigeria! Those bombs will not only fall on the terrorists heads, but on the heads of innocents too.

Or do you think terrorists are dumb enough to all congregate in one place waiting for dump's bombs to fall on their heads?

Perhaps go ask Libya.

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/01/05/we-came-we-saw-we-failed-libyas-descent-into-the-flintstone-age/

Stop deceiving yourself. Nigerian Isleamic terorists have their enclaves and the FG is aware of the places. Nigeria is not an Isleamic country like Pakistan and Iran where terorists use innocent women and children as shield

Tinubu failed Jos and Plateau State.

AntiChristian:
This Jos crises is really deep o!

I think a lot of those northern states are too big to police!

Or better still the national assembly should fast track state and LG policing ASAP! Even LCDA policing should be encouraged!

If Jos had their own police force and each LG in Jos also has theirs even if small, i think all these will be stopped or drastically reduced.

LG police should know what is really happening around them!

This is just one of the reasons why the northern power bloc is hesitant about the creation of state police , they want to keep using the federal security architecture to suppress the minorities , imagine the governor been helpless and lack the effective authority to deploy men to hot spots to qwell the situation, it's such a painful experience, the moment states police in in place crisis of this nature in states like Platuea and Benie will die a natural death.

AntiChristian:
This Jos crises is really deep o!

I think a lot of those northern states are too big to police!

Or better still the national assembly should fast track state and LG policing ASAP! Even LCDA policing should be encouraged!

If Jos had their own police force and each LG in Jos also has theirs even if small, i think all these will be stopped or drastically reduced.

LG police should know what is really happening around them!

This is just one of the reasons why the northern power bloc is hesitant about the creation of state police , they want to keep using the federal security architecture to suppress minorities , imagine the governor been helpless and lack the effective authority to deploy men to hot spots to qwell the situation, it's such a painful experience, the moment states police is in place crisis of this nature in states like Platuea and Benue will die a natural death.

Willy2025:
This is getting serious about this time of the year. Jos North has always been a hot bed of violence between the Plateau indigenous people and the Hausa/Fulanis. This is a sponsored violence just when everything is getting set for the 2nd term victory of PBAT. The President should not hesitate to deploy the military might to put an end to all these orgy of violence. I know that food is done P.Obi and his 2k online data boys. They surely capitalise on this.

You will surely Dai unmourned for supporting 😈

curfew is not enough there should be police and Military presence on ground.

TONYE001:
The bulk of the responsibility of securing a country is where again? What did Tinubu say?

Very true sir. Is the Governor supposed to just fold and watch his state burn.

boxypane:
Very true sir. Is the Governor supposed to just fold and watch his state burn.

Absolutely no.

But recall Tinubu called for the resignation of the then president because of this same thing? He said then that the bulk of security decisions lies on the table of the president.

Today, he is the president.

Again, recall that all security agencies are under Federal/central control. Governors, therefore, are limited as to what they can do. But this is not to absolve them of any blame.

TONYE001:
Absolutely no.

But recall Tinubu called for the resignation of the then president because of this same thing? He said then that the bulk of security decisions lies on the table of the president.

Today, he is the president.

Again, recall that all security agencies are under Federal/central control. Governors, therefore, are limited as to what they can do. But this is not to absolve them of any blame.

How do you then deal with a communal clash?

Willy2025:
This is getting serious about this time of the year. Jos North has always been a hot bed of violence between the Plateau indigenous people and the Hausa/Fulanis. This is a sponsored violence just when everything is getting set for the 2nd term victory of PBAT. The President should not hesitate to deploy the military might to put an end to all these orgy of violence. I know that food is done P.Obi and his 2k online data boys. They surely capitalise on this.

Please give me an instance where Obi has been synonious to violence? Before the emergence of Obi has there been peace in that region? You see how u have allowed your hate to reduce your senses and sound mind to think

Willy2025:
This is getting serious about this time of the year. Jos North has always been a hot bed of violence between the Plateau indigenous people and the Hausa/Fulanis. This is a sponsored violence just when everything is getting set for the 2nd term victory of PBAT. The President should not hesitate to deploy the military might to put an end to all these orgy of violence. I know that food is done P.Obi and his 2k online data boys. They surely capitalise on this.

Are you not ashamed of your self, playing politics with people's lives. Has it not occur to you that this government has failed in all ramifications.

boxypane:
How do you then deal with a communal clash?

You call what's ongoing up north communal clash?

boxypane:
How do you then deal with a communal clash?

You call what's ongoing up north communal clash?

I think it's beyond this.

This is wide-scale terrorism championed by Islamic terrorists/extremists.

Me thinks first step is to call it what it is.

An attempt to answer your question - the bulk of the responsibility rests on the president's shoulders.

Sadly, since 1999, we've hardly ever had the right leader.

TONYE001:
You call what's ongoing up north communal clash?

I thought we were discussing Jos.

VOsimhen144:
Nigeria Jaga jaga
Everything scatter scatter.
Poor man dey suffer suffer
Gboosa gboosa!
Gun shot in the air

Tinubu don’t fvcking care about you people, he’s busy chasing the bag for his unborn great great great great grandchildren to come.

you expect him to come and fight
When we fail to see how religion has eat us deep

Muslim and Christian fall to see with our each other none will hav exist

JAMO84:
Anywhere Christian is majority in the north, ethnic violence is not far

People who's ancestors have lived in a place for centuries, Christians will just wake up one day and say they don't belong there, and you expect peace.

I just told you the real problem of jos and Benue. If you come here to attack me without first proving me wrong, you will die a miserable death.

Are Christians majority in Zaria?

thesolutions:
This is not about Islamic terrorists. It was an incitement killings. The people that carried out the initial killing knows that it will trigger religious crisis. It is either political or economical. Political because it distabilize the state that APC chairman came from, The governor will be considered incompetent to bear the party flag, or he will loose his current choice as replacement Vice presidential candidate of the APC come 2027. Economical because foreign mercenaries could be involved to fan the already burning flame of Christian genocide so as to come in and reap the benefits of intervention.

Nobody is fanning the ember of Christian genocide in Jos, it's actually happening and in the fullness of time, all terrorists will bite the dust including people that are downplaying the genocide? Shey na today the problem starts?