₦airaland Forum

He made some good observations, but one could also say he spoke with an hypocritical mouth. Where was all these voice of reason when PDP was at the centre, what has he said about his own Bayelsa state as to how it is currently being governed, his state is an irony, so rich in allocations, yet so poor in infrastructure.

DickDastardly:

Very true sire, but his caustic & fork tongued offsprings on Nairaland will still attack you in their charasteristic trademark approach to obvious truths.
Simply put, Buhari is in for a long rough ride with his fellow country men

I anticipate this man will be a talkative in assembly.
I reAlly hope nigeria will put strigent laws in not allowing corrupt people run for office.ben bruce is for one not a person. To give advise as his damage as dg of nta is not forgotten
I really don't like this man and hope the govt will force him into his dingy hole,amen

jogojogo:
What if he eventually succeeds?

he will eventually suceed by the grace of God,but by quarantine

shinel:
I have started smelling that CHANGE also it's so interesting!

Baba is now elected, I now see electricity 2hours a day including 1day off instead of the 7 to 8hours before.

Baba is now elected, I bought fuel in the black market yesterday after almost a decade experience of things like this.

CHANGE is truly here!! I will keep watching in Tobago...

Is that all, I hope u know that petrol is sold in a lot of stations at rate of =N=110
On the light problem, same here .

Well said Ben Bruce, but if you had given the outgoing president this same form of advice, may be he would have performed better.
In as much as i share and believed in your views about what the newly elected president needs to do to better the lots of the people of this great country, I am also throwing the challenge to you too as a senator elect to lead by examples, raise the motion to cut down the over bloated allowances in the upper and lower house. Forget individual selfish course, support the new government in the interest of the country, ensure your constituency feel your presence by being an agent for positive change.

You are right, Sen. Bruce. I thought you were closer to Jonathan to have given him this advice? The advice would have gone a long way in shaping Jonathan's government.

A well articulated write-up. I believe Ben Bruce has said it all and for the first time I have no contribution to make but to duly concur. Thumbs up Ben Bruce,You've earned my respect (never knew you are this intelligent).

ideykwum:
You see why you're dull and insipid? You don't read...You don't comprehend...You don't analyse...Yet you comment and argue blindly! Which hate speech are you talking about? Okay Einstein, define "hate speech"! Olodo rapata!

kai,see as them finish... Next time u learn how to read and read thoroughly b4 u spew thrash on social media

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

There's no crime in not reading the article and saying so...but the abuse, to someone far intellectually superior to you?

DickDastardly:

Very true sire, but his caustic & fork tongued offsprings on Nairaland will still attack you in their charasteristic trademark approach to obvious truths.
Simply put, Buhari is in for a long rough ride with his fellow country men

He nailed it.

One succour i have is that Buhari will allow the seasoned technocrats like the VP and the rest to champion his course...he is known for that anyways.

so what if Jonathan win the election? bunch of nothing but hates..... if Jonathan won... would he said something like that? instead of looking forward on how to make the country progress..... their ranting rubbish.

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

I wonder why most people are not open-minded.....pls unlock ur circuit and read DAT article

Did he shared these ideas with Dr Jonathan?

So u r good adviser like this and u allow ur bro from Otueke fail woefully.

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

My friend read before u conclude dont be an illiterate

Novaworld:
Now that Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has been chosen by the Nigerian people, it is my duty as a patriotic Nigerian to help him succeed even though my candidate was President Goodluck Jonathan, a man to whom I will always be loyal and appreciative.


The above data should alert Nigeria and other nations that look to China for oil markets to the fact that China is even ahead of the West in the search for alternative to fossil fuels as a source of energy. ([font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Yet the GEJ government failed to build or cause to be built any meaningful plant to add value to the oil so we can export plastics, drugs, chemicals instead of crude under the pretext of waiting for Dangote, Otedola and foreign investors[/font])


And the General’s choices are limited because he cannot (unless he is extraordinarily brave and politically callous) do the obvious and sack civil servants. Yes, he will eventually have to reduce the over bloated federal civil service, but before he can do that, he has to build up political capital by reducing the overhead of the Executive and persuade the Legislature to follow suit.


Austerity measures must start from Aso Rock. This means that luxurious multi car convoys must be reduced. The presidential air fleet has to go, by way of being auctioned off or sold to local airlines. Estacode allowances must be slashed and the president’s entourages should be lean while non-essential foreign travels should be banned.


The president-elect should not underestimate the big difference these small changes can make and their capacity to buy him enough credibility with the labour unions, the kind of credibility that will see them accepting cuts in the federal workforce and reduction in pay and entitlements.


A small change like flying commercial instead of by private jet saved Britain a whopping £200,000 when the thrifty British Prime Minister, David Cameron, flew to America to meet President Barack Obama on a regular BA flight.


Nigeria is in for very desperate times if we do not tighten our belts while our major foreign exchange earner is facing global challenges.
Russia, a nation that many will say is more prepared than Nigeria for the shocks occasioned by the drop in the price of oil devalued its currency by 11 per cent in just one day.


While Russia is taking these steps, the world is watching to see if Nigeria will continue to spend hundreds of billions annually sponsoring its elite on pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem.


I mean, no economist will get why a nation with over 60 per cent of its people living in poverty at the best of times, will spend almost 1 per cent of its annual budget sponsoring pilgrimages for its elite who can afford to go to the Holy Land on their own dime.


I for one do not get it. A pilgrimage is meant to be a sacrifice of a believer. How is a pilgrimage still a sacrifice when someone pays for you to go? The Nigerian government is sending people on holidays not pilgrimages!


I daresay that the money being spent by the Nigerian government to airlift pilgrims to both Holy Lands is enough to educate all the almajiri in Northern Nigeria. Wouldn’t God and humanity be better served if we looked after the less privileged in our midst?
General Buhari has his work cut out for him and he does not have time to be bitter about who said what, when and where. He must let go of any desire to pay any of his traducers back whether they be from the last 16 years or as far back as 1985.


Four years is only enough time to fix Nigeria. Any time spent on other ventures is time taken from this most important of assignments.
And let me say that General Buhari should not allow himself to be pigeon holed by people who dangle ideologies instead of realities. Yes, the APC may have styled itself as a progressive party, which in itself is a contradiction because Buhari is a conservative, but Buhari should not bother about that.



• Mr. Murray Bruce is a Senator-elect and CEO of Silverbird Entertainment Group




http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/it-doesn-t-matter-if-the-cat-is-white-or-black/208021/

Mr Bruce so you knew all this facts yet you supported and are still loyal to a president who did the exact opposite of everything you advised.
Buhari's views on government sponsored pilgrimage is very clear as daylight that is it is not government business while we all saw GEJ's expansion of the pilgrimage shenanigan to include some Christian hypocrites going to Jerusalem.

Mr Bruce you were going to foist on us a government that budgeted 90% Recurrent expenditure and 10% Capital spending because one yeye loyalty

miqos02:
Did he shared these ideas with Dr Jonathan?

Maybe the circumstances ant dsame.

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

If there was an award for stupidity you'd win it. You know the contents of material you didn't bother to read. May God have mercy on you and give you sense before you die.

d only tin dat cn make me give dis in coming govt my patience is if d first tin it does z cut all dose annoying allowances giving to d executive nd legislature nd stp all d nonsense big broda spending. dat way i wuld knw dey mean cwiuz biz nd cn always patiently wait for d manifestation of dia policies kus dats d first tin on my list wen dey started d change mantra. anytin aside dis nd my patience wont last two months!
#never again would i allow thiefcians to keep doing everything to deny me opportunities and platforms to enhance my life!
bt mr. bruce u aint a true friend of oga jona ooo. dis advise wen properly lookd into culd av brought abt changes dat wuld av secured his second term bid. if u didnt giv him dis advise den u r one of dose enemies posing as friends.

Actually to me this Ben Bruce is a very foolish person all the things he is suggesting like selling of cars the presidential jets etc were they not bought by his foolish supporter(Jonathan) the person he said he will always be loyal to BEN BRUCE you are a hypocrite Nigeria needs to be rid of all these idiots

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

Reasons u didn't read d "thrash" r reason y u may not progress in life... it wasn't filled with hate speech, infact there was no hate speech just a misleading headline... U make me believe that most buhari supporters r robots programmed to follow blindly.

Lord please help this man become a governor of bayelsa soon

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

Why not read first before u insult. I pity you so much.

chmod777:
Try to be civil and think educated. Was the advice a bad one? Was he a senator under GEJ?
Do not let hate deny you of precious things when they come.

Your comprehension skills are lacking and neither will you recognize civility if it slapped you in the face at noon.
What part of my comment was not civil?
Where did I allude to him being a senator under Jonathan?
Did you miss the part where I agreed that Buhari should do away with most if not all of the presidential fleet?
You definition of hate is personal and does not apply to me.

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

. If I were the admin of nairaland I will simply block u for calling him names..without going true his write up. U need to b brain washed.

I wonder why Ben Bruce isn't the governor of Bayelsa now? But I was happy he was elected senator, all the same. If anyone will transform Bayelsa, it's got to be him! The man is just brilliant!

This dickhead will be disappointed big time.F**king Enemy of progress.

This is rubbish. Buhari is ready to work and Nigerians are ready to support.

One thing I deduced from this speech is that Bruce himself is afraid of this CHANGE. Maybe he has skeleton in his cupboard.

Interpreting the CHANGE slogan as mfm wealth transfer is an illusion he need to get over.

If you work for your money, no one is taking them from you but if you stole public fund, you must pay back every penny.

DickDastardly:
No hate speech bro, the thing is that you naturally buried your head in the sand like the ostrish at the mere sight of the topic. Topic is reality 101 for you & buhari

So all of a sudden Bruce knows the truth and he never cared to tell it to Gej, he said 4years is enough to fix Nigeria and his uncle spent 6years doing nothing. Reality my foot. They want to mount pressure on Buhari. Why didn't they mount the same pressure on their clueless brother

olalat:
We voted him, not because we expect some water to turn to wine instantly. We want somebody that will set new national order, new moral and behavioral standard. Put the country on the right path. He may not solve all our problems, but I'm sure he will give us irrevocable blue print to good governance. The cynists will be disappointed. Why is it that the people that did not believe in this man are the ones that raise the highest hope. Why are they hoping in what they don't believe in?

The emboldened is wisdom sire.

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

I think you should please read, Ben Bruce was constructive in this one. If you want hate speeches read Femi Aribisala's articles, that man is a very bitter soul.

deandavid:
this man is intelligent, these are the kind of people Buhari need around him, criticize constructively, he said those people who helped buhari win, might not be those who he will necessarily need to build the Nigeria of our dream, use our best brains, build on past govt's achievements, he has said, stop funding those useless holy land pilgrims(where only the elite benefits), reduce presidential fleets, cut cost of governance start from aso rock, then legislators will follow suite. the guy spoke well. Oga bruce abeg try. thank u

Why didn't he tell GEJ all these?