₦airaland Forum

AMINDA:
What is the incentive for the North, that's currently VP, to support Obi to remove another Southerner from power that has already done four years? If Tinubu is doing a fantastic job as a Southerner, then he deserves a second term. Let him continue. The Southeast should actually be more desperate to get Tinubu out of power. In 2015, Tinubu had to travel from Lagos to Daura to convince Buhari out of retirement to come get his fellow Southerner out of power. Even then, he didn't ask for the ticket. He was willing to deputise Buhari. That's how he moved from opposition to incumbent. Clinical, strategic, long-term vision. When he said "Emi Lokan" in 2023, the North understood and returned the favour. Northerners always pay their debts, but nothing goes for nothing. Any region playing politics with emotions is already set to lose. Nigeria was a nation of diverse regions amalgamated into one. The only question that matters when you play national politics is "What's in it for my region?" And leverage is the only currency that players transact in. Not pity, not emotions, not insults and certainly not threats. Only leverage.

Igbophobia:
You don't get it: nepotism is nepotism whether Buhari was appointing his Muslim friends in the north or Tinubu appointing his Yoruba croonies in the SW. The fact is that Nigeria was three regions at Independence. Tinubu, a Yoruba man is nepotistically aligned to the SW, while Buhari is nepotistically aligned to the north. At independence, there were the north, the southwest and the eastern regions. And bigoted leaders like Buhari and Tinubu would naturally alienate others they feel are not theirs. That's why the PDP era was Nigeria's golden democratic era when at least, there were no bigots piloting the affairs of the country.

By the way, wasn't Atiku you're now parroting among those that brought in Buhari, and consequently, Tinubu, the two ethnic bigots who have brought the country this low? Why would any sane person support Atiku? He simply has a poor sense of judgment just like you and Kperogi, and any other person blinded by ethnic and religious considerations in choosing a leader.

Nigeria is going down the drain because there are more people like you chaps than there are people with balanced sense of reasoning in the country.

AMINDA:
Lol. Kogi and Kwara are now Yoruba states? No wonder Tinubu has channelled every appointment meant for the Northcentral to Yorubas in those states. Yet he wonders why he's been accused of tribalism. Even the other regions of the South are marginalised, hence why Tinubu's quest to build a "Southern conscensus" is failing. There's no "middlebelt" as a geographic region. There's only Northcentral. In 2023, the Northern Christians who mostly identify as middlebelt voted Obi. No matter how you turn facts on it's head, Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and never won Rivers. The North made him President.

Na this same delusional belief made Atiku lose his best chance in 2019 and 2023 elections be this

Stupidly thinking Nigerians will hand him the presidency on a platter because of Buhari’s abysmal performance in his first term in 2019 and APC overall failure in 2023

Now he’s foolishly thinking he will get it because of Tinubu’s expected poor performance and his unpopularity in the core north

If Atiku gained any ground it would be some in-roads in the north west, he hasn’t gained a decent ground in the north central and he thinks he stands a chance when the south is a no go area….

You better advise your waziri but I know you won’t because you need the Dubai dollar windfall to sustain your life

Tinubu isn’t a political neophyte like Jonathan, you’ve to do more to snatch the presidency from him but your oga’s camp is not even united to start with

helinues:
Both the opposition leaders and their supporters, just ask them for solutions for any of what they have been condemning and see them speaking in tongues.

Why did they think Buhari win his reelection, was it by performance or because there was no alternative.

The current crops of opposition showing interest in the position of president of Nigeria are not close to better alternative to president Tinubu

AMINDA:
If Nigeria was three regions at amalgamation, why then do you say it's Southern turn instead of coming out bold to say it's the turn of the Southeast.

We have no problems with a Southeasterner becoming president but power is not demanded for. You either play the politics like the two other regions are doing to get it or you step aside.

Wickedtruths:
Because Nigeria started existing in 1999, abi?

The north has ruled Nigeria for more than 40 years out of Nigeria's 66 years and this one is here crying.

Let this sink in.
The South MUST complete it's own turn of 8 years whether you like it or not. Must.

Dogalmighty17:
Kperogi just came out and confirmed what most of us have basically known. He is a shill for the APC.

SadiqBabaSani:
When did Tinubu supporter suddenly love Atiku, since Obi starting famzin Kwankwaso? Seems the Atiku on the ballot is not what you fear most, you are Banking on RMK refusing to support deputize Obi, because once that happens it will be a massive problem for you APC Bandits of poverty and pain

anonimi:
1. The south should organise its own military coups to make up for the gap before 1999, noting that southern soldiers opened the floodgates of military coups in January 1966.

2. In which of our japa destination countries are they using unevolved tribalistic zoning and rotation to have public servants in local, state and federal governments both in their legislative and executive branches?

3. Should we forever be the lowest class of people in the world due to our preference for tribalistic values over merit?

benardtotti:
Oga stop threatening the south east ,you Northerners have held power longest in this federation yet your region is the most backward in all data and stats.

Every 4 years s northerner must rise up to contest ticket ,no respect for other regions .
The pdp had a gentleman agreement of zoning as its policy , atiku came and scattered it.

You guys will not taste power till 2031 and if you vex us even more in the south we will elongate southern rule beyond 2031.

alterego17:
Very possible 4 dz elongation southern rule my brother n nothing go happen...infact if Peter obi is wise den he should join Apc n become concensus candidate by 2031 with tinubus full support

Parachoko:
I don't know why you keep on spreading this falsehood

The north didn't make Asiwaju the President.

Only the North can't make someone the president, if it's possible, Buhari would have win in 2007 or 2011

aswani:
To be fair, President Tinubu needed Northern votes and got it mainly though President Buhari's goodwill in not (totally) betraying the agreement they had.

Parachoko:
Nigerians made Asiwaju the President

Northern votes alone can't make anybody the president of Nigeria.

aswani:
They certainly helped President Tinubu. Don't forget Northerners voted President Tinubu over Atiku in 2023 and there is a statistic about more of them, percentage wise, voting for him than Yoruba people did.

helinues:
How did Buhari win the 2 elections? With northerners votes Only?

aswani:
They certainly helped President Tinubu. Don't forget Northerners voted President Tinubu over Atiku in 2023 and there is a statistic about more of them, percentage wise, voting for him than Yoruba people did.

PigTormentor:
This clown is now waking up from his slumber. Something that I have been saying since
Their biggest problem is that Tinubu is Yoruba and also a Muslim.
I can guarantee you that if Obi jad been president and enacting these same policies, they eill be telling us by now that he is the greatest president that Nigeria has ever seen.
This clueless professor is just now seeing what I have been saying all along.
I have always said that being a professor or having a PhD doesn't really mean that you are smart and intelligent, in most cases, it means that the holder is of at least average intelligence with determination to become a prof or aquire the degree.
I know people with PhD and I don't really see them as been really smart or super intelligent.
This guy is definitely one of the not too smart ones.