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Losing focus gradually and in cahoots with a citizenry that is at sea with ideas and demands of qualitative leadership..... Mbaka has now taken over from the medley of problems besetting Nigeria to become the most important issue of our time.

Honestly we deserve the leadership we have been getting..... because Nigerians are just juvenile in thought.

The biggest players only fit the biggest clubs.

Hussein035:
I will advise ndigbo to hold on to one party because PDP is practically owned by Hausa unless you want to deceive yourself, APC is practically owned by Yoruba and TINUBU used BUHARI to create popularity for the party, please us ndigbo focusing on APGA or Labour party?

This is a classic example of what i often say of a country where its confused citizens do not have a common goal, common values, common aspirations and so cannot hit a proper target making nonsense of years of democracy and countless elections meaningless.

Do we want ethnic politics or performance based politicking.... no two Nigerians agree on this.
And until we restructure this country we cannot settle for one or the other that will make development a reality.

Restructure first, democracy next, elections last.
No other formula can work to move Nigeria forward.

wagesofsin:
Having an agent at all the polling units in Nigeria will not determine who will win the Election rather we need the Electorate to massively vote for PO.
We will have APC and PDP agents in all the polling units and they will checkmate each other and prevent rigging by themselves.
As for inducement using money, those doing that will fail this time.
Vote PO for a better Nigeria.

But you saw what happened over the weekend and the result.
Nigerians are still not ready to yield their chains.
I mean how do you expect a political party that has performed so badly to win what is effectively our mid term elections.
Only in Nigeria.

The message the people of Ekiti have sent to Nigeria is loud and clear going into 2023.
That failure will be rewarded at a price.
In saner climes the message from the people will be to reject the incumbent party in mid term elections so that the rest in power brace up and work for the remaining months of their tenure, but after congratulating the winner Mr. Buhari has no incentive to improve governance these remaining months knowing that his party will win by inducement.

Will the rest of Nigeria be ready by May next year....I doubt it.
From all indications the highest bidder will still win the general elections.
I still feel the average PVC is useless.
The suffering is still not hot enough to elevate the thinking of the average Nigerian to overcome a N1,000 bribe at the polling booth.

PS: I will return on this after the Osun polls to gauge the electoral temperature to give my final judgement on Nigeria's democracy and determine whether a PVC will still be a useful instrument in the next ten years.

rippa:
So bro u say make we dey wear agbada dey go work?

Eh now...hahahaha.... this cracked me up. You go obey woman traffic warden if she wear boubou with gele for road..... hahaha...

Folks, black o, white o, African o, Oyibo things, wetin matter na common sense abeg, no be fight.

BigBashiru:
Most people in lagos are there not by choice its because that's where the jobs are. If you are white collar worker, where else will you go??

That is why sensible folks vote in thinking governments and lead those governments to spreading the economic base across other territories.

You folks cannot on one hand praise the leadership there for expanding the economy and wail about the social effects. That clearly shows lack of foresight and a fair bit of ignorance.

rajiedreez:
If you visit that same area and see their drainage you'll see that the residents are the primary problems before the government. Pvc can't stop people from pouring refuse in the gutter

Good morning. Now you are talking.
Elections without progress, democracy without dividends.

Safyqueen:
Justice for Tinubu on religious sentiment.

When Tinubu was donating to churches, sponsoring pastors and contributing millions of dollars to the welfare of christians, they didn't reject him because of his religion.

When he built several christians and empowered them, financially and politically, CAN & PFN didn't call him a Muslim.

When he nominated Osinbajo, a Pentecostal pastor, as VP, almost all the christians sang his praises. They didn't call him by his religion.

In the southwest, between 2011-2019, when Muslims dominated the region as governors, CAN was there shouting marginalization, islamization up and down. But now that the only Muslim governor, is that of Osun State, CAN is silent.

In Osun State, where there is significant population of Muslims, PDP has settled for a Christian/Christian ticket for 2023 Governorship election. You will never hear CAN speak against it. At least, there's the Osun State branch of CAN, why are they silent?

Now, because two pastors contested and lost to Tinubu, in the just concluded APC presidential primary, CAN has started playing religious cards. They have started speaking from the both sides of their mouths, saying Tinubu should pick a Christian as VP. Do they really want Tinubu to win the presidential election? No. Rather, they are secretly rooting for Peter Obi, because of religion.

Although, there are many capable northern christians, who will perform better as VP, but what if that puts Tinubu's candidacy at a disadvantage? Is he in the race to win or to balance an equation that may not favour him? Are CAN and those saying he should pick a Christian as VP sincere about their agitation?. Many of them may not vote him, even if he picks Bishop Kukah as VP.

However, there are still many of us in the Christendom, who are independent-minded, and see things differently better. We don't relate with people based on their religion or tribe. We relate based on the mutual understanding that we are all creatures of God almighty, and we are bound to love and help one another. And by God's grace, we will massively vote for Tinubu in 2023.

Finally, the only sin Tinubu committed against CAN and the South easterners was because he supported Buhari to defeat Jonathan (CAN's favorite president) in 2015. CAN just played along all these years because of Osinbajo, as VP. So now that Osinbajo lost to Tinubu, all hell let loose. This is the truth. And as things are going, very soon, we will reveal those churches and pastors who have greatly benefited from Tinubu's generosity. Time to end this nonsense is NOW.

This is not the thread for this and will portray you as insensitive and callous.
People have been killed in a religious setting and you should expect a political blow back from enraged citizens but it doesn't give you the liberty to fan the embers of deeper divisions.
Good politics should preserve and enhance lives not degrade and destroy them for personal or anyone's ambition.
And the Goodluck Jonathan you mentioned said exactly this when he had the opportunity to heat up the country over politics and elections.

jrusky:
Mr Segun Oni my advise is don't waste your money and time vote buying will not change the score just accept and move on but if you think vote buying will stop apc bro you are a joker, apc that make somebody in fourth position as a governor in Imo state you want to drag for vote buying with? apc that said in entire local govt with over 300k voters claimed pdp score zero and other party score minus zero but apc has 300k votes. Bro no waste your time abeg.

My honest advise though....

So you folks can see the meaningless of elections and the futility of PVC's to delivering the right people to advance this country.
The only way out of this unfortunate situation is a popular revolt.... induced obviously by a widespread 'aha' moment when the peons realise their destinies are worth more than a few thousand naira.

Honestly, democracy in Nigeria is not working.

Ekiti has a population of 3.3 million.
Even if only half are eligible to vote, this election means that the governor us operating with just a ten percent validation.

We can see one of the big problems with democracy in Nigeria, rulers operating with barely a popular mandate, a deep, viciously cyclical apathy caused by poor governance and the determination by the ruling class feeding off a broken structure to force themselves on the people.

How then do you get the remaining 3 million inhabitants to cooperate to make democracy work.... Because I just cannot see how.

Folks, this democracy taxi is not working well at all in Nigeria and it is time it's stuttering engine is fixed before it knocks. For the hardened passengers still on board I honestly commensurate with you. I for one will trek the distance or wait till it is fixed.... or wait for a brand new, attractive and functional one comes along.

Can't see any fundamentally positive thing happening in Ekiti over the next four years.... so sorry for the pessimism... but the results are the reality.

tenpipsperday:
Best time to buy is now.

No sir. The best time to buy is after a long, long time in school.... either behind a desk or in the school of hard knocks.
You see the problem with most of the world including Nigeria is that folks put their 'hope' into things they do not understand simply because others are just plain lucky. But the problem is that luck can run out.

They often fail to understand that every set scenario they see is a accumulation of specific things working in a set environment to produce those results they envy. Such that once a parameter fails the whole scheme comes crumbling down.

A lame example is a fellow interested in investing in raising chickens for sale.
There are successes and there are stories of dramatic fails. The cover of the book may say it is a great business or a terrible scam depending on whose experience is behind the write.

Now if I do not read and assimilate the details behind the experiences I may just feet first into poultry business and situate my pens at the edge of a forest where I will end up feeding pythons, jackals and vandals then I will write my own sad story.

That is the lot of the bulk of so called investors. They take one success story and run with it without understanding the environment necessary to make their 'investments' succeed and not understanding the perfect set of circumstances that require a knife edge balance to keep those investments in the black.

So like cryptos they felt it can only go up and up.... then Covid came..... then Putin came.... then...
So better go to school before Ghengis Khan rises from the grave to shake the world to bits....

Lightorder:
A man travelled to Egypt to study how power works and IDIOTS are here castigating him because of thieves who don’t even know that they exist.

What if that flight hadn’t enough Aviation fuel to return to where they are coming from ? Nigeria is cursed with senseless masses who don’t even know themselves. I spiiiiiiiit on them

No. All domestic flights are mandated to carry enough fuel to return and hold for at least another 30 minutes where necessary.

Na so.
He will be 'taking a swipe at the state of the nation', then queue to vote for a failure at the next polls because the candidate is from his hamlet.

Nigerians that are too dull to relate their actions to their experiences.

Acidosis:
The only reason America is working under Biden is because the country has a working system. So, with or without Biden, the U.S. will keep moving.

Nigeria too.
We call our own auto-pilot.... inflation, prices 'skyrocketting', the masses feeling the gees, while the fat cats are 'catching cruise'....

Expected.
In a global high inflation regime cash will always move from virtual to tangible assets, from paper wealth to durable goods.
Better sell your cryptos and buy bags of salt instead.....

gidgiddy:
But Buhari's Katsina is an even bigger killing field, but is ruling Nigeria. Katsina where Governor Masari is telling people to take up arms and defend themselves

They never have an answer to this question....that the north has been gripped with unending security for the better part of a decade and a half yet it has not stopped the hordes of aspirants from flexing the political aspirations at every poll.

It appears there are different moral codes for different sections of the country, the kind of structural imbalance that anchors Nigeria firmly to the mire.

Electrocution is just a hair's breadth away.

TemmyT002:
In my voting center, those of us who are youths are not up to seven or ten

Because they cannot see who to vote for.... or more importantly what to vote for.
Because since 1999 they have voted six time for more poverty, more violence and more misery.... so they vote with their feet.
Leaving the few left at the booths to legitimize goverments that are completely useless and Presidents with approval ratings of 30 percent or less.

The trajectory is sure.
A time is coming when the President of Nigeria will be elected by less that 500 people and completely ignored by the remaining 200 million.
Voting is not the ticket to democracy and does not guarantee the dividends.
What or who is on the ballot and how they got there matters.
It is impossible to get a proper government out of a failed system.

This the first food on the front page that actually attracts my attention and I think actually inspires thought.
Good job and more ideas for healthy living required here.

meetgaya:
SENATE & REPS ARE IGNORANT OF ELECTORAL ACT THEY DRAFT...all in busy to fight MALAMI & GOVERNORS

Going through the primaries, you will realise that the 109 senators and the 360 house of reps members never actually read through the new electoral amendment act.

They were just screaming, "Mr President sign! Sign! Sign!" without even knowing what they have sent to him to sign.
To sound elitist, a lot people kept disturbing our eyes and ears with .. "Muhammadu Buhari is scared of signing!".. what do you know was to be signed.. These lots never showed their constituencies!

From the selection of only delegates.. these funny politicians didn't even know when they wrote off their statutory delegates!

Like football coaches, it was their duty to inform their parties that the game has changed!

They don't even know when they nipped in what made the Yørúbas opt for another candidate other than Yemi Osibanjo, because a VP who has done 2 terms can now only do a one term as president.

This was where Ebele Goodluck Jonathan was seeking for clarification, to know if he is still eligible because, he has done VP that jumped into two terms and a one term President.

PDP has not told their supporters that by the new electoral laws, Atiku Abubakar can only do a one term, haven done 2 terms as VP.

The new law does not permit anyone who has contested for primaries in one party to skip to another for any position in the same election year. So the Mr.Peter Obi coming to PDP or NNPP Kwankwasiya teaming with Peter Obi is gone.

The law does not even permit that any of those that has contested for any position to take up any other in the same year.. so the story of Nyesom Wike or Yahaya Bello, being a VP is off for 2023 cos they can't aspire for president and VP in the same electoral year.

Senate President Ahmed Lawan, Akpabio, etc who have variously contested can not vie for senatorial position or Vice Presidency respectively..

In fact, the scenerio that made Atiku a VP can't happen again, where he won as governor and was later picked by Olusegun Obasanjo.

A beg as you are struggling to get your PVC, struggle to know the rules of the game! Go and read and understand the Electoral Laws.

The smart ones like Peter Obi left PDP before primaries. Akpabio stepped down and did not participate in the primaries. But Lawan went through primaries and failed. So he cannot go back for another post. This time will be very interesting. The judiciary should brace up.

" A gargadi mai gina ramin mugunta"
Abubakar Malami

Where was the law when Hope Uzodinma became governor of Imo state.
Look eh.... for me I have nothing to say....
If the Senate President is still barking then he must be seeing a 'ghost'.... if you know what I mean.

CaptainFM1:
What has this country turn into? Someone that did not contest taking the slot of someone that contested and won.

We need to drain these swamps.

Good morning.
When we say restructuring is the only way, folks keep on chasing failed individuals hoping to make orange juice with quail eggs.

Nigeria does not have a problem of individuals, political parties or institutions but the way the whole thing is put together.
You can have the best spare parts but a totally dysfunctional, problematic engine that will give sorrow and pain all its life no matter how much is spent on it if there is no concept, no plan about what is was meant to do, expected performance parameters and basic architecture.

Nigerians generally do not know what they want of this country and how to use the instrument of democracy to get there. How they expect things to just work out of their own accord remains our collective folly since independence. For I do not know of any nation on earth that did not have an 'Aha' moment when the people collectively stopped their toiling, sat in thought for a season and then radically changed the course of their lives.

Not Nigerians.

4teenblaq:
Super Eagles are ENGLAND of Africa.

Very talented
Overrated
And stupid football sense.

As our colonial masters they taught us many things.... unfortunately the lecturers on hype and corruption worked ovetime and never went on strike.

Limassol:
Carbon footprint has more to do with the choices people make(e.g whether they use renewable sources of electricity, cleaner meaner of transportation such as adopting EV cars , adopting a plant-based diet and so on) than the number of children they have. To make my point clearer, African countries combined contribute less than a tenth of global warming despite their mammoth and burgeoning population, while the US with a quarter of that population generate far higher.

You know this thought pattern of playing down the serious effects of elastic population growth often peddled by our ignorant leaders and influencers in the past with the classic ideology that says, 'I am wealthy enough to take care my bus load of kids', which is akin to what you say is a big error in judgement.

Because even when I was a lot less deep in understanding I often retorted that, 'you may buy them food and clothes, medicare, education, automobiles, etc. But you simply cannot buy the roads they will drive on neither will you be able to buy away the effects of congestion and consumption.

This is where we miss it all. Technology, innovation and wealth will not solve all the problems associates with a run away population because the first law of nature, that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only consumed and exhausted, will always hold sway.

There is no resource on earth that is being renewed indefinitely, every single resource on earth that supports life is depleting, dwgrading and diminishing and population increase is the primary reason for that, attitude, consumption patterns come a distant second.

African's are always behind the curve. All those years ago the 'whites' were viewed as stingy or irresponsible for having just a single child, a couple or just the number to fit in a 'family car'.

Guess no one is snobbish but sober now. That the world is full of uncertainty and no position is safe enough to risk unmitigated liability. And that even all the resources are present today, the complexities of the world makes the average traveller aspire to journey 'light'.

Quality will always trump quantity.

HONESTFACT101:
To think people are still considering APC
Same party that is responsible for this hardship
Still coming with another old man ^{......signing out✈}

Honestly, I am just mystified.
But this is Nigeria where insanity rules.
Any other democracy will confine the present ruling party to a term in 'opposition prison'
To reward it with another immediate term will simply mean performance is not a criteria for leadership in Nigeria.... but on second thoughts, when has it ever been the criteria...

He should watch his weight oh.

Since everyone is talking let me too add a voice to a system, a process that I have little faith in.

I may not be able to predict who will win but one thing is clear, that it will be absolute madness for the party that has superintended over the wholesale destruction of the economy, the ethno-religious cohesion and virtually all the institutions in Nigeria that moderate what a sane society should be over the last seven years, to even dream of coming last amongst the contenders.

What can we call folks who will stand in a queue and thumbstamp the broom that has swept their destinies into the gutter... eh, what can we call them?

Elections have consequences.
If you intend to show us million naira crabs and fishes going forward and still insist on voting sentimentally then you are at sea (pun intended) as far as I am concerned.

Toks2008:
Are you a Nigerian?
Are you resident in Nigeria?
Are you allowed to Vote?

If your answer is a YES to these three questions and you don't have a PVC(Permanent Voters Card) or you have a PVC and you decide to sit at home on the day of election...

YOU ARE THE GREATEST ENEMY OF NIGERIA.

Inec has improved the electoral system and this time around, your vote will count.

Dont be an impediment to yourself, your country, your children and your generations unborn.

Go get your PVC and vote your choice.

Indeed.
So I must be the number one 'enemy of Nigeria'.
And will be the number one enemy of Nigeria until it is restructured,
then, perhaps in my opinion elections will take its place in the machinery to develop Nigeria, then the average Nigerian will vote for the right reasons.... and most of all for the right people, because right now I just cannot see who to vote for or why I should queue up to empower that man who cannot improve my life and from where I stand I have not heard anything from anyone persuasive enough to change my mind about any candidate or the system that has put them on the ballot.

If you wish I vote for your candidate kindly tell me why?

TooNoisy:
We are in the political season again and there has been lots of conversations about betrayals. However, one Interesting betrayal that I see is between Atiku and Peter Obi.

First of all, Peter Obi betrayed Ojukwu. Obi was little known before Ojukwu offered him the platform of APGA to run on. The moment Obi finished his 8 years, he ported to PDP less than one year later. Ojukwu's son publicly accused Obi of betrayal.

Obi then gets to PDP and is very fortunate that Atiku picks him as running mate in 2019. There were 3 PDP governors at the time and they were first time governors who were focused on 2nd term. So Peter Obi was chosen. Peter Obi suddenly moved from Anambra boy to national name.

Then 2022, Peter Obi decides to run against Atiku. In fareness, he knew he couldn't win but wanted to get Atiku's attention for VP. But when it was obvious no governor was with him and he was going to be disgraced, he ported to Labour Party.

In fareness, he Hs never publicly attacked Atiku. Infact, he openly congratulated Atiku when Atiku got the ticket, and even called Atiku his leader and his elder brother. Atiku has not congratulated him though.

To me, Peter Obi has betrayed Atiku just like he betrayed Ojukwu. And now, all he is doing now is to cannibalise Atiku's votes in the South East. He is just being a spoiler.

Poor quality citizens love issues like these where temper tantrums fly here and there but will add absolutely nothing to their experiences as citizens of this country.

Why not rather spend your time and energy debating what each candidate can bring to the leadership of this country and begin to shape the agenda of the would be President.

If the aspirants are more serious than the citizens the lack of respect will never be overcome across the tenure and democracy dividends will never be realised.

Nigerian should get serious about issues that bother them and stop all these mundane, kindergarten discussions.

So what he promised to do to change their fortunes.... and I hope they have their legal counsels to record those so that denial won't be the order of the day in future if not all these gatherings are worthless.

Their choice, their vote, their sufferings.

After 24 years of democracy and 6 general elections aka six opportunities to move forward, a certain people cannot come together to get it right at the polls, I have next to zero sympathy.

Perhaps they need another 24 years to elevate their thinking.