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0balufonlll:
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Everyone knows power is coming back to the Southwest in 2023 then back up north after 8 years then back to Southwest & the cycle goes on.

the one you had what did you do with it

Meritocracy:
I know and I believe that if Tinubu use that dirty mouth to call you and your father you will only remember that you didn't wear shoes when you reach the place

ok

oyatz:
Where did you bigots get this nauseating idea that other Nigerians can't compete?

How are you competing in Animal husbandry, meat and the leather industries?
What told you that you are dominating the in the petroleum products distribution business across Nigeria?
How are you coping in the Multibillion Naira Timber and logging industries?

Are you the ones dominating the local production of iron and steel industries in Nigeria?

Where is your domination of Nigeria Fashion and garment production?
Are you dominating Nigeria's Newspapers industry?
Are cash crops(cocoa, cashew nuts, palm kernels) production and export dominated by you?

What give you the assumption that you dominate the private health sector in Nigeria?

Is the Poultry industry dominated by you?

Check the boards of directors of ALL the companies quoted on the NSE and see if you are dominating.

#Park well Mr Bigot, ALL parts of Nigeria are working hard to contribute to the economy of Nigeria.

Children everywhere!

Please mention one billionaire from the South West and Northern Nigeria worth remembering both past and present that did not or are not enjoying government patronage as the main lifeline of their business. From Abiola, to Tinubu, to Alakija to Adenuga to Dangote, Dantata, Indimi. I can go on and on.

It is still fresh in our minds the outrageous FOREX bazaar Dangote and other Emirs enjoyed even when Nigeria had a crippling FOREX crisis. At this defining time in our history as a country, the accustomed parasitic patronage culture of the Western and Northern Elites did not deter them from almost collapsing the Nigeria's economy. At a time when other legitimate FOREX users couldn't source, CBN was allocating them to your elites, Emirs, Obas, Hajj pilgrims and Northern black market traders on a commercial scale yet at a ridiculous rate even as low as #1 to a dollar. Recall that the Emir of Kano called them out at that time.

This is one instance amongst many more. Let's not talk about oil wells, NNPC allocations, licences , concessions and appointments both into political and civil offices. In all these, Igbos (coming from the ashes of a devastating civil war UNAIDED) perpetually hold the shorter end of the stick from deprivations and a litany of other unfavourable government policies targeted at their interests till today, yet stand shoulder to shoulder with them in all indices and often even tower over then in visibility and achievements nationally and to a greater extent internationally.

Taming Igbo is a national policy and their failure to achieve this even with all their sophisticated warchest frustrates them.

By this practice, the Western and Northern elites admit they cannot compete.

Amumaigwe:
Children everywhere!

Please mention one billionaire from the South West and Northern Nigeria worth remembering both past and present that did not or are not enjoying government patronage as the main lifeline of their business. From Abiola, to Tinubu, to Alakija to Adenuga to Dangote, Dantata, Indimi. I can go on and on.

It is still fresh in our minds the outrageous FOREX bazaar Dangote and other Emirs enjoyed even when Nigeria had a crippling FOREX crisis. At this defining time in our history as a country, the accustomed parasitic patronage culture of the Western and Northern Elites did not deter them from almost collapsing the Nigeria's economy. At a time when other legitimate FOREX users couldn't source, CBN was allocating them to your elites, Emirs, Obas, Hajj pilgrims and Northern black market traders on a commercial scale yet at a ridiculous rate even as low as #1 to a dollar. Recall that the Emir of Kano called them out at that time.

This is one instance amongst many more. Let's not talk about oil wells, NNPC allocations, licences , concessions and appointments both into political and civil offices. In all these, Igbos (coming from the ashes of a devastating civil war UNAIDED) perpetually hold the shorter end of the stick from deprivations and a litany of other unfavourable government policies targeted at their interests till today, yet stand shoulder to shoulder with them in all indices and often even tower over then in visibility and achievements nationally and to a greater extent internationally.

Taming Igbo is a national policy and their failure to achieve this even with all their sophisticated warchest frustrates them.

By this practice, the Western and Northern elites admit they cannot compete.

Leave those Afonja sons of darkness. Imagine Tinubu saying he will support a Buhari in comma just to tell you how wicked and evil their hearts are, they are not after the progress of the country but to hold onto power. I just wish the Middle Belt declare a Gorilla was against Yorubas cos what is happening to them in Benue is indirectly a result of Yoruba greed and selfishness, as long as they are not the ones at the receiving end they dont bloody care..

ridwanomooba:
The Tinubu Rhetoric: My Response, by Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki

I have always restrained from joining issues in the media with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and this is based on my respect for him. However, I will not allow him to create a wrong, false and mischievous impression about the reasons for my decision to exit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and present his prejudice as facts for public consumption.

I have been consistent in my complaints to all leaders of the APC, including Tinubu, that a situation where the National Assembly is not constructively engaged or carried along in key policy decisions, particularly those that will eventually require legislative approval, is not in the best interest of the nation. No genuine leader of the legislature will be comfortable that the Presidency will simply write a terse letter to the National Assembly on key issues which the federal legislature is expected to later deliberate upon and give its approval. The Buhari administration consistently treats the legislature with contempt and acts as if the lawmaking body should be an appendage of the Executive. To me, this is unacceptable.

In the same way, I find it very objectionable that many stakeholders who worked strenuously to get the administration into office have now been excluded in the government and not consulted on key decisions as necessary and expected. In fact, some of them are treated as pariahs. A party that ignores justice, equity and inclusion as basic pre-conditions for peace, unity and stability cannot sustain its membership and leadership.

Let me redirect the attention of the former Governor of Lagos State to the aspect of my July 31, 2018, statement announcing my exit from APC in which I emphasized that the decision "has been inescapably imposed on me by certain elements and forces within the APC who have ensured that the minimum conditions for peace, cooperation, inclusion and a general sense of belonging did not exist".

In that statement, I further noted that those APC elements "have done everything to ensure that the basic rules of party administration, which should promote harmonious relations among the various elements within the party were blatantly disregarded. All governance principles which were required for a healthy functioning of the party and the government were deliberately violated or undermined. And all entreaties for justice, equity and fairness as basic precondition for peace and unity, not only within the party, but also the country at large, were simply ignored, or employed as additional pretext for further exclusion. The experience of my people and associates in the past three years is that they have suffered alienation and have been treated as outsiders in their own party. Thus, many have become disaffected and disenchanted. At the same time, opportunities to seek redress and correct these anomalies were deliberately blocked as a government-within-a-government had formed an impregnable wall and left in the cold, everyone else who was not recognized as “one of us”. This is why my people, like all self-respecting people would do, decided to seek accommodation elsewhere".

Tinubu himself will recall that during the various meetings he had with me at the time he was pursuing reconciliation within the APC, I raised all the above issues. I can also vividly recall that he himself always expressed his displeasure with the style of the government and also mentioned that he had equally suffered disrespect from the same government which we all worked to put in office. I also made the point that whatever travails I have gone through in the last three years belong to the past and will not shape my decisions now and in the future.

However, during those meetings, the point of disagreement between Tinubu and I is that while I expressed my worries that there is nothing on ground to assure me that the administrative style and attitude would change in the next four years in a manner that will enable us to deliver the positive changes we promised to our people, he (Tinubu) expressed a strong opinion that he would rather 'support a Buhari on the hospital stretcher' to get a second term because in 2023, power will shift to the South-west. This viewpoint of Tinubu’s was not only expressed to me but to several of my colleagues. So much for acting in national interest.


It is clear that while my own decision is based on protecting the collective national interest, Tinubu will rather live with the identified inadequacies of the government for the sake of fulfilling and preserving his presidential ambition in 2023. This new position of Tinubu has only demonstrated inconsistency — particularly when one reviews his antecedents over the years.


Again, let me reiterate my position that my uncertain and complex relationship with Tinubu has been continually defined by the event of 2014 when myself and other leaders of the APC opposed the Muslim-Muslim ticket arrangement about to be foisted on the APC for the 2015 polls. It should be noted that he has not forgotten the fact that I took the bull by the horns and told him that in the interest of the country, he should accept the need for the party to present a balanced ticket for the 2015 General Elections in terms of religion and geo-political zones. Since that time he has been very active; plotting at every point to undermine me, both within and outside the National Assembly.

It is a surprise to me that Asiwaju Tinubu is still peddling the falsehood about the fact that my defection is about automatic ticket and sharing of resources. Members of the public will recall that when the issue of my decision to quit APC came to the fore and many APC leaders were holding meetings with me, a newspaper owned by the same Tinubu published a false report about the promise of automatic tickets, oil blocks and other benefits. I immediately rebutted their claims and categorically stated that I never discussed any such personal and pecuniary benefits with anybody. My challenge that anybody who has contrary facts should come forward with them still remains open.

It should be known that Democracy is a system that allows people to freely make their choices. It is my choice that I have decided to join others to present a viable alternative platform for Nigerians in the coming elections. Tinubu and leaders of the APC had better respect this decision or lawfully deal with it. As for me, Allah gives power to whom He wishes. Human beings can only aspire and strive to fulfill their aspirations.

Signed:

Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, CON
President of the Senate

Saraki doesn't know that he's endearing APC to the heart of d southwesterns

Peacecore:
Saraki doesn't know that he's endearing APC to the heart of d southwesterns

Who cares, APC has always been endeared to SWesterners but their time is up. Tinubu's evil plans has been exposed by Saraki, let's see who will vote for Yoruba to be president.

geometricaxis:
No Northerner will ever vote for SE to be president of Nigeria, this is as ingrained in them as the Biafran war is ingrained in the pysche of the ibos. This is a deep seated thing. Ibos refuse to forget the civil war, well neither have the Northerners forgotten that Ibos killed their 2 greaters leaders in sardauna and Balewa, the difference is they dont go about making noise about it...but they havent forgotten.

Without northern vote, ibo cannot be president simple as.

Why cant Afonja leave the SE and North alone and face whats facing them, this thread is about Tinubu's exposed plot to ruin the nation all in the name of getting power zoned to the SW in 2023 but you have moved it to SE as if Sarki that is dealing ruthlessly with your lord and master Tinubu is from the SE.

Leave the North to decide who to vote for dont preach to them like you are able to remote control them. If the North wont vote the SE then so be it but bear it in mind that we the SE know the ones that hate us more are the yorubas and so hiding behind the North to make derogatory comments wont work on us, we know who our real enemies are. If Hausa and Yoruba contest in any general election i'm certain you already know the outcome from the SE, Hausa will sweep our votes in the SE as against any yoruba candidate. The status quo was set by you so we run it to the end. Chameleons!!

*It is Guerilla war not gorilla was.

The Middle belt are not foolish people like you assume.

BlastAfonja:
Leave those Afonja sons of darkness. Imagine Tinubu saying he will support a Buhari in comma just to tell you how wicked and evil their hearts are, they are not aftehe progress of the country but to hold onto powee. I just wish the Middle Belt declare a Gorilla was against Yorubas cos what is happening to them in Benue is indirectly a result of Yoruba greed and selfishness, as long as they are not the ones at the receiving end they dont bloody care..

2019: No election in Biafra land!

IGBOmarryme:
Why cant Afonja leave the SE and North alone and face whats facing them, this thread is about Tinubu's exposed plot to ruin the nation all in the name of getting power zoned to the SW in 2023 but you have moved it to SE as if Sarki that is dealing ruthlessly with your lord and master Tinubu is from the SE.

Leave the North to decide who to vote for dont preach to them like you are able to remote control them. If the North wont vote the SE then so be it but bear it in mind that we the SE know the ones that hate us more are the yorubas and so hiding behind the North to make derogatory comments wont work on us, we know who our real enemies are. If Hausa and Yoruba contest in any general election i'm certain you already know the outcome from the SE, Hausa will sweep our votes in the SE as against any yoruba candidate. The status quo was set by you so we run it to the end. Chameleons!!

oyatz:
*It is Guerilla war not gorilla was.

The Middle belt are not foolish people like you assume.

I know they are not foolish to not know the people killing them and those supporting the killers.

BENZINA:
There is something great about this man(Saraki) i still find difficult to explain.

where is saraki today?