₦airaland Forum

Flexherbal:
May this election come and go peacefully !

gidgiddy:
I totally support this move, people have been voting in Nigeria for more than 60 years with nothing to show for it.

Alaniyiokorausa:
are you an illiterate or you are just naturally stupid, this guy's are freedom fighters try are mot charity organization, they are nationalist fighters not NGO.

Gaddafithe2nd:
Idiot! What brought about the idea of Boycotting 2019 election if not the Ekiti Gubernetorial election. You are the one that needs to read properly, Oba imado. Ori e ti daru.

gidgiddy:
Wether the vote count is easier or harder, Nigeria won't improve

soberdrunk:
These people nor dey tire!!! I wonder when we will read a headline like "Ipob arranges free healthcare facilities for its members" or "Ipob arranges free vocational training for members", always trouble trouble!

TimFisher2:


Ekiti Election was a total embarrassment!

I av never seen this kind of immature rigging

PDP won 3 local govt while APC won up to 12 local govt

how come the votes margin is not much?

just 20,000 difference

And you expect me to come and vote next year?

Rubbish!

soliddust2020:
Ipob never learn from past mistakes. We are not giving Buhari easy ride to victory. We all must come out to vote, protect our votes.

eunisam:
When your fulani terrorist and your bokoharam brothers do first. I wish I could hate just the way you hates

tstx:
If only Nigerians had one spirit



Check my signature

soberdrunk:
The hate and frustration that has taken over your body did not allow you type correctly, my brother today is Friday, try 3 bottles of 'chilled' Gulder and 1 plate of catfish peppersoup and you shall be alright!!

EODforce:
when you see the kind of vitriolic words hauled towards this IPOB group, you begin to wonder if this people are the ones killing Nigerians like the herdsmen

i give up!!!

TimFisher2:


Ekiti Election was a total embarrassment!

I av never seen this kind of immature rigging

PDP won 3 local govt while APC won up to 12 local govt

how come the votes margin is not much?

just 20,000 difference

And you expect me to come and vote next year?

Rubbish!

JAMESOJAY:
You are very stupid,foolish and useless...if you don't know what they are fighting let me tell you cause I know you are an illiterate

Nigeria is a failed state that why we the biafrans want to pull out of this Zoo called Nigeria

I want you to read this with those fools that like your useless statement you made..You are an illiterate find someone to help you read ok

e more than 1000 entry points. What this means is that the country has a porous border which makes it open to infiltration or incursion by outsiders. Inability to police its borders effectively to prevent such incursions by outsiders is one of the accepted indices or indicators of state failure. PRESIDENT BUHARI MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE HE PUSHES NIGERIA FURTHER DOWN TO THE RANK OF “THE WORST” FAILED STATES TO WHICH ZAIRE UNDER MOBUTU HAD BEEN REDUCED Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC) under Mobutu is my classic example of a failed state – now ranked 5th  among the failed states in the world. It seems that a description of the condition of things in that country at that time will be a fitting way to end this piece. The description will also serve as a warning to ourselves about the prospects staring us in the face if President Buhari is given a second term in office. The privatisation of the state, as in Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah and Malawi under Kamuzu Banda, inevitably results in the society decaying intellectually, ideologically, morally and politically, but, with a ruler like Mobutu who is not endowed, as Nkrumah and Banda were, with outstanding capabilities to an extent enabling him to attempt, with a measure of success, the near impossible tasks of governing a country alone, the decay accompanying the privatization of the state goes beyond intellectual, ideological, moral and political decay and becomes general, permeating the state and the entire fabric of society, in the sense, not just of its malfunction, or deterioration in its ability to discharge its functions effectively, but of its atrophy through an inability to maintain its existence in a recognizable form necessary to fulfill its essential purposes, namely, maximal utilisation of national resources for the welfare of the people, provision of adequate security for life and property, securing its territory against armed incursion from outside and effective execution of its policies, so as to thereby command public confidence in its guardianship of the overall interests of the citizenry. For, though weakened and diminished by the malfunctioning of its instrumentalities – the government and its institutions – the state in the hands of a capable sole personal ruler still continues to exist and to function tolerably well; with a ruler not so outstandingly endowed or a kleptomaniac, it still continues to exist but only more or less as a mere verbal expression; it continues to exist only in name or on the map as a mere geographical entity, or what John Ayoade aptly calls a “state without citizens”. What this means, in more explicit terms, is that, of the three component elements of the state – people, government and territory – the first two are largely denuded of all practical meaning as functional entities. Divorced and alienated from the state, the people exist, not as citizens with a claim against the state for protection and to be catered for, matched by reciprocal duties to it, but simply as individuals struggling for survival on their own. A state without citizens is like a disembowelled person hanging precariously to life or, to borrow John Ayoade’s other metaphors, a “bed-ridden state” functioning by “fits and starts” on the way to becoming an “expired state” or a “morbid state”. Government too ceases to exist as an organisation whose activities are “systematised, co-ordinated, predictable, machinelike and impersonal”, and is absorbed in the person of the ruler and subjected to all his personal whims and caprices, his misperceptions and miscalculations. “State agencies become involuted mechanisms, mainly preoccupied with their own reproduction. Their formal activity tends to become symbolic and ritualistic” and so arises the tragic phenomenon of a state existing only as “an idea without an existential content”. Even territory is not effectively policed and controlled, making possible incursions by exiled insurgents operating from neighbouring countries as well as mass movement of refugees across the porous borders from or into the state and its boundaries are often disputed. Yet, as an idea, the state remains very much part of the social order in Africa. “So deeply rooted is this notion that the state is taken for granted both as empirical fact and normative expectation. The idea of state is ritualised in innumerable ceremonies, small and large…..The banal artifacts of everyday life – coins, banknotes, stamps, party buttons worn by officials – still image the state”, but they are all that remains as physical emblems symbolising the existence of the state. It has thoroughly been denuded of its existential contents. Its principal existential content is of course its citizens who, at some point in Mobutu’s 32-year rule, consisted of “a kinship or extended-family network” and a small band of a politico-commercial bourgeois class, “predators upon civil society”, reckoned to number just about 300,000, who fed themselves fat upon the wealth of the nation and the spoils of the Zaireanisation measure. Such was the state to which the Zairean state was reduced by its privatisation under President Mobutu’s absolutist one-man rule. It was bled to near-death by his unbridled kleptomania, his repressions and oppressions, and by the sheer ineptitude of his one-man rule in the management of public affairs. From all accounts, Mobutu was a clever, intelligent man, with an “unusual combination of psychic energy and personal resources.” Yet he did not belong in the same class with Nkrumah or Banda either in terms of ability to govern a complex modern state or integrity and probity. His conception of the state seemed to have derived from the early beginnings of the colonial state when the Congo was a personal fiefdom of the Belgian king and his notion of government was entirely in terms of patrimonialism, a primitive system in which public office is bestowed in return for personal service to the ruler, and is held on condition of continued personal loyalty to him in a patron-client relationship determinable at the pleasure of the ruler. Patrimonialism went hand-in-hand with the cult of personality – “Mobutism” – which was elevated to a height that stifled rationality, initiative, creativity and the exercise of critical faculty by the people. Yet, the infallibility with which Mobutu was invested in popular belief and by his active prompting and unremitting urging was a complete farce totally unrelated to his actual intellectual capability. In the result, most government policies and decisions were based on Mobutu’s misperceptions, miscalculations, whims and caprices, and his personal political and economic interests, giving rise to incessant errors of judgment – such as his Zaireanisation, “authenticity” and radicalization measures – and to disastrous failures. All Mobutu could offer Zaire by way of ideological leadership was the vague, superficial concept of “authenticity” in the name of which Zaireans were compelled by law in 1972 to discard their Christian names in favour of Zairean ones, and the ban on Western-style suits with tie in favour of collarless safari suits without ties called abacus; when both measures were later abrogated in 1990, Zaireans quickly and joyfully reverted to their Christian forenames and to Western-style suits, which demonstrates the silliness of the measures. (Mobutu’s wife had defiantly refused to drop her Christian forename, and no action was taken against her). But worse still was Mobutu’s utter lack of public probity, of a sense of rectitude in public life. He was simply a charming rogue, a downright kleptomaniac, whose formal education stopped at the level of junior secondary in a mission school from which he was expelled for burglary of the mission library. His piratical misappropriations of public money were so colossal as to be mind-boggling and unbelievable. After 32 years of his one-man rule, Mobutu was finally chased out by invading exiled insurgents led by Laurent Kabila, and died of cancer shortly after. The new regime refused to allow his body to be brought home for burial. CLOSING REMARKS By all internationally relevant and accepted indices and indicators, and judged by the reality on the ground, as analysed above, Nigeria is justifiably categorised as a failed state, now ranked 15th  among the “worst failed” states in the world. I believe, however, that the country can be made to work again, as it was doing before, and to become a great Nation it is destined to be, and a leading star in the affairs of the African Continent and indeed the world. But for that to happen, there has to be a change of leadership.

conductor110:
Shut up. Your "One Nigeria" Shithole terrorist country is dead.


See them, one Nigger-Area N20-per-post sponsored lunatic daftinho zombies.

soberdrunk:
These people nor dey tire!!! I wonder when we will read a headline like "Ipob arranges free healthcare facilities for its members" or "Ipob arranges free vocational training for members", always trouble trouble!

OrientDailyNews:
https://orientdailynews.com.ng/south-east/ipob-insists-boycott-general-election/


https://orientdailynews.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/biafrans-ipob-demonstration-640x360.jpg

conductor110:
Shut up. Your "One Nigeria" Shithole terrorist country is dead.




See them, one Nigger-Area N20-per-post sponsored lunatic daftinho zombies.

gidgiddy:
Who doesn't have Senators and house reps? Has Nigeria become better for it? Let the leaders tell us how voting has helped the common man. We have a country that is not working no matter who votes or doesn't vote. Voting has only helped a few people amass wealth

gidgiddy:
I totally support this move, people have been voting in Nigeria for more than 60 years with nothing to show for it.

odysey:
if only ipob will learn from history ... instead of boycotting elections pick a candidate that will deliver and vote him in if he under performs in 6/8 months impeachments is welcome same should apply to all public offices else you'll be "under " for a very long time

gidgiddy:
Nigeria doesn't work like that. Nobody performs and impeachment is a very hard thing to achieve.