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Afamed:
Wetin him gain, even YPP which spent lower figure has a Senator to show for it.

harryportter:
BRO LETS TALK ABOUT THE MESSAGE AND LEAVE THE MESSENGER ALONE.don't tell me u are in sifia pains

otokx:
Sowore has gone back to his country na.

StOla:
The Orphan that PDP deceived.

abes:
Typical of Atiku's supporters, always stealing...

VulgarVulvas:
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Sowore is come controlled opposition whose campaign is being sponsored by Buhari

His only role is to quickly congratulate Buhari when he rigs himself in.

talkeverytime:
This thought has been on my mind for a long time and I've been watching to see what the likes of Sowore, Fela, Donald Duke, Kingsley will do as the election approaches. It still surprises me that these men are still in the race (correct me if any one has stepped down).

I doubt if their goal is to really make Nigeria better as they claim. These guys are selfish and only aim at promoting themselves (forget their selfish cry about promoting a youthful government).

Right now it is obvious and even the blind can see that none of this people can win the election but they're still bent on running? Why? Simple reason is they are working for Buhari through their selfishness (whether consciously or unconsciously).

Atiku's supporters are made up of a large number of business folks and well exposed people while Buhari has some of this people, a lot of "unexposed" people especially northerners and some tribalistic/religious folks. This unexposed & tribalistic ones are supporting Buhari not because he performed to their taste but because they see him as a man of "Integrity", APC has painted Atiku in a bad light and they see him as a criminal who wants to come and steal "their Nigeria's money", they are yet to understand or grab that Atiku CANNOT be labelled rightfully as a criminal until the allegations against him are proven which over the years have not been proven.

This same set of people who support Buhari are rigid and unwavering and THEY DO NOT EVEN KNOW who Sowore, Fela, Kingsley and others are. I'm serving in a rural area and when I mention Sowore or Kingsley there, they don't even know if Sowore is a name of a person or type of food. The only ones who knows these other candidates are the well exposed ones who want a change (and are naturally suppose to support Atiku).

So what is Sowore, Fela etc. doing? They are simply splitting the votes that is supposed to go for Atiku/Obi. These candidates are very intelligent young people and they have brains enough to see that they don't stand a chance in the election, they still insist on being in the race. If these people really want a change in government, they would step down and support the only man that can take away this government - Atiku.

But for their selfish reasons, they're still there. I even read the news recently where Donald Duke and his party was still fighting about his candidacy I'm like . This dude knows he can't win and he's disturbing himself so much?

Fela has also seen the signs and he tried to seek for a merger but he didn't get (even the merger couldn't have made much Impact). Though knows he can't win, he's still contesting to split the votes that will go for Atiku. Sowore too is intelligent enough to know that he CANNOT win yet, he cannot even win the governorship election in his home state yet.

I have come to the conclusion that these guys don't mean well if they can't join hands to boot out the current ineffective government. Simple reason is that they are working for Buhari/APC but God pass them. God has heard the cry of Nigerians and will not let us make the same mistake we made 4 years ago. A larger percentage of the masses are now atikulating seriously.

ogododo:
You are a key actor in the South-West politics and from what we have seen, it appears the zone has become polarised this time than in previous elections. Afenifere, for instance, has been factionalised. Are you not worried that the so-called Awoists have deviated from the ideals of Chief Obafemi Awolowo?

In all organisations, even when Awolowo was alive, you would always find renegades. I don’t see how they can make any legitimate claim. The only known person among them in the Afenifere leadership has excused himself and has not been taking part in their activities, but I think they just found him useful to use his name and his status. So long as we have takers, there will always be givers.Any incumbent President of Nigeria has the capacity to play divide and rule politics and entice a few people; but at the end of the day, people are not children, you can make a distinction between fake and reality.


Do you see money influencing all these actions?

Yes, of course; what else will you attribute it to? Before Atiku emerged as the candidate of the PDP, in all Yoruba circles, which have affiliations with Afenifere or Awolowo, what we were saying was that restructuring was what we wanted and that we would support any candidate that adopted it. Hence Atiku has been on it for a very long time and even at a cost to his popularity in the North.


So when he emerged as the PDP presidential candidate with that agenda, then we started seeing leaders and elders speaking from both sides of the mouth, about what we all knew then. It is a pity.

Nigeria is in a very traumatic state and of course because of the harsh economy, complexity of human frailty and weakness and some for evasive reasons, we have witnessed a lot of that.


We have seen them talking about Olusegun Obasanjo as if he is the one contesting the election. So this is a kind of escapism, they will focus attention on Obasanjo and I said ‘if you want to criticise Obasanjo, for you to have legitimacy to criticise him, you must reject what we have now; if you are not rejecting that person, that means you are just playing the game you are sent to do.’ The only way you can be considered credible and legitimate is that you disown what is happening. In all indices you may think this government has done badly. How does a President seek reelection on the platform of anti-corruption, accept Adams Oshiomhole as the leader of his campaign? He went to Kano to raise the hand of Ganduje and before that he was making excuses for him. This is an anti-corruption government making excuses for somebody who was caught on camera.


In the South-West politics; Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has remained a potent force and nobody has been able to withstand him….

I don’t agree with you. During the Osun State governorship election, they (the APC) lost the election and rigged it blatantly. So what are you attributing to him? Senator Adeleke defeated them hands down. They had an incumbent governor there, the treasury was open to them and yet they were defeated.


Since 1999, Tinubu has continued to be relevant in Lagos State and in South-West politics…

Don’t forget that he started on the platform of the National Democratic Coalition and because of his role, he has acquired a lot of legitimacy.

In my view, he has a lot of respect on account of that and he is also a very generous and pleasant person; so it is easy for people to like him.


You must also credit him with what you are seeing; to sustain that kind of political relevance, it takes something more than the average politician. But at the same time, he is smart to build up a lot of influence in the media. He understands the power of propaganda and he invested heavily in it. On the contrary, the PDP side seems to be very incapable when it comes to publicity and propaganda. They are like a sitting duck. A lot of it also has to do with luck and make-belief.


To what extent for instance will you attribute Ibikunle Amosun’s governorship election in Ogun State to his (Tinubu’s) support? He rarely did not support (the governorship of) Kayode Fayemi, although the election was stolen too. Like most political leaders, political preeminence has to do with myth. He has succeeded in creating that myth around himself, but if you probe deeper, you will see that he (Tinubu) is in the battle of his life now.


Do you still see somebody like Tinubu holding the aces in the next 10 years…?

Not at all; he has vested interest in Buhari losing this election. If when somebody needs you for re-election, he treated you the way he did; his wife said it publicly on the TV, when he no longer needs you what will he do? It is simple logic.


He, of course, knows that many people around Buhari and the cabal don’t like him. He has more enemies within the APC in the Buhari hierarchy more than he has friends and they are going to go after him and of course maybe he doesn’t understand the mentality of the people that he is dealing with. People like Buhari don’t share powers. There is no doubt he (Buhari) has some kind of Fulani hegemony agenda. You see the personalisation of the security agencies, doing things that imply that the others are second class citizens.


Bola Tinubu is also vulnerable in terms of allegations that have been made against him; so he is going to operate under the sword of Damocles and knowing these people, they probably want to use him to prove a point, that for our supporters, we don’t shield them or whatever it is. So if he doesn’t understand all these, then he would not be worthy of the kind of ability you are attributing to him.


Are you expecting a repeat of 1984?

That was military dictatorship. Up till 1998 when Gen. Sani Abacha died, the politics and Presidency of Nigeria was like a plain yard of the North. The hegemony they had exerted was reinforced in 1966. Don’t forget they wanted to secede but they didn’t.

The so-called northern hegemony of civilians and the military said that they were going to remain in Nigeria on their own terms and their terms of permanent domination. We will be unfair if we are attributing the shortcomings of Buhari to the North. From my own random investigation, I am sure that the majority of the northern elites are not really with him. There is something like mob democracy, so he is able now to appeal to the base sentiments of the northern masses, ‘that is our leader, this is the man, we versus them’; so, once he attains the leadership of that kind of chauvinistic ethnic base, the other leaders are being put on the spot. If you now come out to criticise them, they will accuse you of being a sellout or a traitor. You shouldn’t mistake the silence of many of these people as consent or collaboration with Buhari in whatever agenda he is prosecuting. President Buhari and the so-called cabal, have not demonstrated what I will call enlightened self- interest. They are prone to internal squabbles. The Director-General of the DSS and the EFCC chairman work directly with the President. This President kept on nominating Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for confirmation; the DG of the DSS under him was the one providing evidence why he should not be confirmed. So again this is a kind of dysfunctional administration that you have. Your own the DG of the DSS, answerable to you, goes to the Senate to provide an evidence to propose that the person you, his principal, has nominated should not be honoured. So we are going to have more of this. There is a lot of this in the way they treat Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo like a glorified houseboy

https://punchng.com/buharis-administration-treats-osinbajo-like-a-glorified-houseboy-akin-osuntokun/amp/

rusher14:
Isn't funny how the Atiku team has muted Fayose and FFK so they don't talk about Northerners or Muslims in their usual uncouth way?


Dem for hear am.

Amac2019:
Where is Buhari's waec certificate??

hisexcellency34:
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Chief Olabode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George on Wednesday said a time will come when all the properties illegally acquired by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos.

Spaeking in an interview with Daily Independent in Lagos, George said even if the properties were not seized during his lifetime, his children will take everything away from Tinubu before sending him away from the state.
He said “Tinubu’s day of reckoning will come. But you know why I am not so bothered? He will not remove all those structures from Lagos. Because the land belongs to Lagos State, he who owns the land owns the property on it.
“ I hope that in my lifetime, we will revisit all these illegal acquisition”. If all the former governors have acted like him, what will remain for the people? Let me quote Nuhu Ribadu. He once said the greatest thief in Nigeria is Bola Tinubu. Don’t let him think that it is all over”.
“If Ribadu could call him that and oga (Buhari) is saying he wants to jail looters, then he should begin with the greatest criminal who should be forgotten in jail for all that he has done in my state”.
“If we don’t get all that he has illegally acquired during my lifetime, my children will collect all their resources from and he will return back to his Iragbiji”.
On why it has been difficult for the PDP to win Lagos State since 1999, George said “Some problems had been ours and some of our elders bought into the dummy Tinubu had been selling to them. They have now discovered that they are being taken to the filth and that everything he has been promising them were just loads of deceit”.
“Their eyes are wide open now. I hope with this election, we will tell him ‘Enough is enough’. I know he is a master rigger but we are ready for him. Let no security agency threaten anybody. We are Nigerians. You can see what is happening in Venezuela. We don’t want that here” he said.
https://www.independent.ng/my-children-will-take-all-their-resources-from-tinubu-bode-george/

kirajustice:
@POLITICSNGR

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was recently pictured with members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos.

According to an Eyewitness, Tinubu addressed them as 'Atikulated Nigerians' before he posed with them. PoliticsNGR has pictures.

See below;

https://politicsngr.com/atikulated-nigerians-apc-leader-tinubu-poses-pdp-members-lagos-photos/

AutoReportNG:
Nigeria has cause to thank God that the nation is not mourning and the Vice President is alive, well and healthy. The chopper conveying the vice president crashed landed today at Kabba and its not a good story to tell.

The moment was captured live as the VP was dragged out of the crashed chopper, it takes a strong man to still move about.

Watch the clip below...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiMAd_L0Q6w


Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/02/watch-moment-vice-president-osibanjo.html

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Seun
Mynd44
Marpol

rentAcock:
No sir, the next Facebook creator is in Silicon Valley, USA, Bejing China, Berlin, Germany, Bangalore, India, Vancouver Canada , London UK and not Federal University of Technology Akure. We play too much in this country, some of our schools are still using Windows 94 computers to teach programming while Some don't even have computers but expect you to learn coding by craming. Until we invest massively into IT and skill development, we are not going anywhere and foreign tech companies will country to lure our best minds with blood money kinda salary and residency.

gaby85:
The much awaited presidential debate has come and gone with only three candidates participating. In view of the issues raised and questions answered who do you think, in your opinion, did absolutely well in terms of knowing and having solutions to some of the challenges bedeviling our dear nation?
This is for does who actually listened to the candidates.

donaldeke:
This woman, Adetoun Onajobi, in a video, has challenged a presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore of selectively fighting corruption after clearly having a chance to fight for a set of voiceless girls used as sex instruments. 

She also challenged the presidential candidate to a public debate. She also laid some curse on Sowere who she said suppressed a video clip of the girls being raped and dehumanized. "I dare you, you will not rule this country'', "you have no sense of humanity in you'' You have betrayed us 4 years ago when we thought you can help us when we could not speak. Who did you sell the video clips to?''. 

Watch the video below and tell us what you think.

https://www.reporterswall.com/2019-election-omoyele-soweres-past-catches-woman-lays-curses/

banom:
I agree 100% with Nnamdi kanu's call for Ipob boycott Of 2019 election , for those of you who want IPOB to participate in the election I challenge you for a healthy debate here. Tell me why you Think Ipob should participate in the election. If you are able to give me superior reasons why Ipob Should vote, I will vote in the election and I will equally ask my people to vote as well.

So bring it on. Debate time.

Caveat : for those of you who lack mental substance to engage in any healthy civilised Online debate, who would rather result into insults and name calling instead of maturely and intelligently discuss sensitive issues, please keep off this thread. Cus while I am not open to insults and fowl languages, I'm at the same time not allergic to using them myself. If you deviate from the thread and it's purpose and result into childish name calling and abuse, I guarantee a double dose of it in response.

gentlegenius:
He also mentioned that Atiku is planning to sell Nigeria on Alibaba... I'm sure you missed that.

I don't blame him. I blame our national assembly that failed to make laws that will force INEC to register only two political parties as we have in USA.
When you give all these Street urchins the privilege to register empty parties and call themselves presidential candidates, they start talking anyhow, insulting important people.
The dullard should caution sowore to work for him without insulting Atiku, our next president.

VisaOfficer:
As I'm not at the office, I can't check into this one, but I will on Monday if you don't have a resolution yet. In the meantime, please e-mail us at LagosIV@state.gov and ask for an update. Thanks!

VisaOfficer:
I updated your case to show that you're an IR1. Thanks for reminding us!

Here is the form again -- just click the link.