₦airaland Forum

Georgry:
Why can't we campaign for and/or vote into power one of these younger minds?

maxiuc:


The way Nigeria is divided it can't work

You have the North who has the most oldest active politicians

You have the South West who will sell their birth rights to make sure they rally and vote those old northern politicians

You have the South East shouting Ipob or nothing

You have south south shouting our oil our oil

The way Nigeria is it can slightly get better and the better was during goodluck Jonathan era

jumich1:
Muoghalu is a brilliant mind no doubt, but he is only popular on social media.
Donald Duke is a role model worthy of emulation, but is disconnected from the grassroots.
Sowore is daring but you can't bet that a typical Ariaria trader, a Kano based maisanu, an Ibadan roadside mechanic can point out his face in a newspaper.

You cannot just win elections because you are young. You cannot rule Nigeria because you are smart. You cannot get millions of votes because you are courageous. Politics is local , you must do some work at the grassroots level. You have to test yourself at the lower tier before you can be trusted with the tough task of leading at the highest level. He who does not understand the microcosm will struggle to have a grasp of the macrocosm.

We are blessed with brilliant minds in Nigeria but intelligence, alone, is not enough. Nigerians are tired of Buhari, but casting your vote for any other candidate but Atiku is a blatant endorsement of ineptitude. Don't reinforce failiure.
I am #Atikulating

psychologist:
The truth is, in this present day nigeria, if u will win any election you must have enough money to throw around, or have a backbone (Godfather) that will do equivalent.

And non of these guys Av that luxury, even if we campaign from now till June next year, selection will still be done before the election

cinoedhunter:
truth is that Nigerians are short sighted.... in other words, these old politicians constantly use our brain to fry pofpof ..... what stops us from being France ?
We will say "who's this one?; he is testing his political popularity or the best quote "he is too young to handle Nigeria"". And see how the youngest governor dey Jones for Kogi state

LordAdam16:
Because they have no chance of winning. And this is not because of the candidates per se, but because of the current stage of our democracy. Our democracy is only 24 years old. As such, we can't have a Trump or Macron rise from obscurity, because we haven't tackled the basics.

We have not reformed campaign finance. In terms of policy, the economy, and most of our critical issues; the vast majority of our voting population is grossly uninformed or unable to engage. 80% of those who'd read both the Next Level and Atiku's Policy Plan will not understand up to 5% of it. Then there are the subtle but very real ethnic and religious bias that cloud the election process.

As a result, campaigning for any of these candidates is an exercise in futility as anyone doing so would be setting the cart before the horse.

Lastly, virtually all of those candidates are just as complicit as to the state we've found ourselves as any of the geriatric front runners for 2019.

* Donald Duke was a governor who performed averagely. His star project Tinapa is one of the most iconic white elephant projects of the last two decades. He is on record for sabotaging an elected government on the direction of the same powers that be.
* Madam Oby served under OBJ, like Atiku. She also sold us the scam in 2015. If Buhari had rewarded her like her BBOG co-founder Hadi, it is highly unlikely she'd be contesting for the Presidency. She's no different from Keyamo and the other anywhere-belle-face activists.
* Sowore also sold us the scam in 2015. And as late as 2017 was still selling the scam even when the illiterates in the village knew otherwise. He like Buhari has a narcissistic complex thinking he holds all the solutions. There's no one he hasn't derided forgetting as President, he'd would need to handle these forces with care and engage if he's to make any progress.
* Moghalu was a CBN deputy governor. Enough said.
* Durotoye also sold us the scam in 2015 and his campaign rips directly from the books of how our established politicians ply their trade. Bottom line, his candidacy does not hold as much promise as his high-sounding words may appear.

These our young aspirants are the Babangida, Abacha, and other young military officers during Nigeria's infancy. Pillars that have been part of the problem whitewashing themselves as saviors. My advice for them is to go local and change things. If the Presidency is the only way you can effect change, you need to take a chill pill.

Buhari was a military governor. Atiku won a governorship election. GEJ, Yar'Adua, and OBJ same thing. It is the height of arrogance to expect that because you run a newspaper, ran an activist campaign, or are young, then the nation's seat of power should be gifted to you.

-Lord

COOLDK:
Because most of Nigerians minds are too young and myopic to see the tyrannies in the current set of polithievians parading themselves year in year out.

They have turned Nigeria politics to friends and family business jumping from the executhieves to the legislooters(back and forth).

Our destinies is in our hands to do always with these old cargoes through our ballots. But the questions is:

Will the current electoral system allow this ?

TONYE001:
Nigerians would rather vote for tribal and religious reasons. Who cares about competence in this part of the world?

Our politicians have recognized this anomaly in our thinking pattern and they are exploiting it for their selfish gains.

This isn't a new knowledge. We know it. We won't stop doing it. Not in the years to come.

The problem, I think, is our orientation. If we don't solve this, we would remain like this.

What a sad reality!

Georgry:
Why can't we campaign for and/or vote into power one of these younger minds?

Lordofthewest:
I'd rather have that thug as my president than a buhari or Atiku.

Georgry:
Why can't we campaign for and/or vote into power one of these younger minds?

torres2:
The few youths who has been given the chance to rule what was their output?.

Just look at yaya Bello

NwaAmaikpe:




Simply because all the younger ones are either sell-outs and vote-splitters.

Donald Duke who is the only viable, credible young candidate is just getting the experience for the actual contest in 2023.

All of us here stand with Atiku/Obi.
Not because Atiku is a saint but because Buhari is a disaster.

gidgiddy:
All 6 of them are Southerners who the North will never vote for. That means they have no chance of winning. So why spend energy on a candidate who has no realistic chance of winning?

Ihateyoumod:
That's because macron didntnjust come from no where to be president of France. He started from the grassroot and worked his way up. These parties tht these young pple belong to r not popular at d grassroot. Instead of vying for presidency, they should present candidates tht will contest local govt elections, councillorship elections, HOA elections when they start to win seats at the grassroot, then their popularity will increase, of they do not do tht, then they r wasting their time

jumich1:
Muoghalu is a brilliant mind no doubt, but he is only popular on social media.
Donald Duke is a role model worthy of emulation, but is disconnected from the grassroots.
Sowore is daring but you can't bet that a typical Ariaria trader, a Kano based maisanu, an Ibadan roadside mechanic can point out his face in a newspaper.

You cannot just win elections because you are young. You cannot rule Nigeria because you are smart. You cannot get millions of votes because you are courageous. Politics is local , you must do some work at the grassroots level. You have to test yourself at the lower tier before you can be trusted with the tough task of leading at the highest level. He who does not understand the microcosm will struggle to have a grasp of the macrocosm.

We are blessed with brilliant minds in Nigeria but intelligence, alone, is not enough. Nigerians are tired of Buhari, but casting your vote for any other candidate but Atiku is a blatant endorsement of ineptitude. Don't reinforce failiure.
I am #Atikulating

somehow:
Is your name Nigeria? Only fools will vote in Atiku that sold us to enrich himself and ready to repeat it for himself and his elite friends.

psychologist:
The truth is, in this present day nigeria, if u will win any election you must have enough money to throw around, or have a backbone (Godfather) that will do equivalent.

And non of these guys Av that luxury, even if we campaign from now till June next year, selection will still be done before the election

maxiuc:


The way Nigeria is divided it can't work

You have the North who has the most oldest active politicians

You have the South West who will sell their birth rights to make sure they rally and vote those old northern politicians

You have the South East shouting Ipob or nothing

You have south south shouting our oil our oil

The way Nigeria is it can slightly get better and the better was during goodluck Jonathan era

LordAdam16:
Because they have no chance of winning. And this is not because of the candidates per se, but because of the current stage of our democracy. Our democracy is only 24 years old. As such, we can't have a Trump or Macron rise from obscurity, because we haven't tackled the basics.

We have not reformed campaign finance. In terms of policy, the economy, and most of our critical issues; the vast majority of our voting population is grossly uninformed or unable to engage. 80% of those who'd read both the Next Level and Atiku's Policy Plan will not understand up to 5% of it. Then there are the subtle but very real ethnic and religious bias that cloud the election process.

As a result, campaigning for any of these candidates is an exercise in futility as anyone doing so would be setting the cart before the horse.

Lastly, virtually all of those candidates are just as complicit as to the state we've found ourselves as any of the geriatric front runners for 2019.

* Donald Duke was a governor who performed averagely. His star project Tinapa is one of the most iconic white elephant projects of the last two decades. He is on record for sabotaging an elected government on the direction of the same powers that be.
* Madam Oby served under OBJ, like Atiku. She also sold us the scam in 2015. If Buhari had rewarded her like her BBOG co-founder Hadi, it is highly unlikely she'd be contesting for the Presidency. She's no different from Keyamo and the other anywhere-belle-face activists.
* Sowore also sold us the scam in 2015. And as late as 2017 was still selling the scam even when the illiterates in the village knew otherwise. He like Buhari has a narcissistic complex thinking he holds all the solutions. There's no one he hasn't derided forgetting as President, he'd would need to handle these forces with care and engage if he's to make any progress.
* Moghalu was a CBN deputy governor. Enough said.
* Durotoye also sold us the scam in 2015 and his campaign rips directly from the books of how our established politicians ply their trade. Bottom line, his candidacy does not hold as much promise as his high-sounding words may appear.

These our young aspirants are the Babangida, Abacha, and other young military officers during Nigeria's infancy. Pillars that have been part of the problem whitewashing themselves as saviors. My advice for them is to go local and change things. If the Presidency is the only way you can effect change, you need to take a chill pill.

Buhari was a military governor. Atiku won a governorship election. GEJ, Yar'Adua, and OBJ same thing. It is the height of arrogance to expect that because you run a newspaper, ran an activist campaign, or are young, then the nation's seat of power should be gifted to you.

-Lord

Wahala90:
I am not against them. I am just against Buhari. The man who took our young ready-to-grow democracy into series of military dictatorship rules that crippled our democracy.