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The no 1 enemy of Yoruba race is this evil called afenifebi. They are nothing but evil men. Saturday is here you all will be put to shamed

This is very painful, and is shame this happens in Southwest, Amosun, u will live to regret this for the rest of your life.

I watched the highlights before the main fight. The guy is a tactical fighter, I wish him more success in Jesus Name

franchasng:
Not only Pastor Chris Okafor, even Daddy Oyedepo is not happy with Tunde Bakare, Osinbajo and co who support Buhari's stupidity just because they are gaining from his daftness, that is why I love Papa Oyedepo, he is one of the few amazing Yoruba cleric and elites, I so much love him because he always stand for the truth no matter what

You will like him because he massaging your ego and emotion, get your PVC vote PMB out if u do not like him, me that like him will vote him. Stop this tears wait till after election

deboysben:
That's the problem of afonjas

Buhari has beaten Gej incompetent above average.

But cos of selfishness and greediness they keep supporting him cos he promised to hand over to them.

You guys are emotionally bankrupt! You always want everyone, to throw logic to dustbins and act by a mere feelings, we assess situation and take most favourable That is Yorubas, we cannot be like you since we are fashioned differently by God, we fight differently
Your Pastor has followers in you people join him and protest and sleep on the main road who cares?

Una no vote PMB in 2015 he still won, so go and do your worse

I cannot laugh, the pulpit of Christ has become a political platform and a place of insult ? It does not take long to discern those wolves in sheep clothing.

Depression comes easily to haters , someone should warn Mr hate preacher.

gratiaeo:
When I read about Anambra state I was like who is writing this nonsense. Buhari will not get up to 2% vote in anambra state

Buhari does not need to win any state in South East, surely Southwest cancel South East Votes with one more state higher.

In SS is against of 50:50, Akpabio will deliver his state, Edo will follow ApC, And Ayade is APC( worst that can happen will be 60:40) so out of the six states let's give pdp 4, that brings the state to 9. And APC 8.

Northwest is no go area, PDP might get votes there but cannot win any state there, so is 7 for APC and 0 to PDP. That is now 15 against 9.

Northeast, give PDP Taraba while the remaining states belong to APC, that means APC now has 20 States and PDP 10 states.

In the North Central, is a bit tight but sure states for APC are Kwara , Kogi, Nassarawa, Niger, PDP can have Jos and Benue. That means APC has 22 States and PDP 12 states, and of course FCT is For APC.

Save this, Buhari will win.

Omooba77:
By Dele Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, please, permit me to make some quick clarifications in this season of general bickering and mutual distrust and spiteful hatred. One. I do not work for any campaign organisation. I’m supporting the PDP candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, same way I voluntarily supported Major General Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. I do so because there is no viable or electable alternative among the fringe candidates. I believe it is within my fundamental right of association and freedom of speech to support whosoever I wish. Similarly, I respect the rights of others to support any candidate of their choice and see no reason why anyone should get angry and jittery over mine.



Two. I did not choose Atiku for pecuniary or any other gain. I have not been paid by him or anybody acting on his behalf. I would not sell myself where the future of my country, Nigeria, is concerned. As I write, I’m already on my way to Oxford University to resume and engage in academic ventures for the next six months. I’m gainfully employed and happy and content to manage my modest income, so I’m not desperate for government appointment or patronage, as the social media trolls try to suggest about opposition figures. But I cannot watch my country disintegrate or watch an incompetent government drown our dear beloved country in an ocean of bigotry, backwardness, bitterness and bestiality. I owe it to myself, and fellow compatriots, to stand for truth, and nothing but the truth, as one of those it has pleased God to give some visibility and voice globally. What shall it profit a man who keeps silent in the face of unbridled tyranny and abysmal cluelessness. If I wished, I could have supported PDP in the 2015 elections. Every comfort was assured and guaranteed. But I chose to support a supposed poor man we believed would be a Mandela figure that would rescue us from the scourge of PDP. Little did I imagine we were in the process of inviting a worse pestilence on our nation.



Three. I bear no grudge or personal animosity against Buhari. I love him the way I love mankind and respect the office he occupies which I once attempted to enter when I contested in 2011. I believe President Muhammadu Buhari has not reciprocated the massive goodwill bestowed on him in 2015 and that he has treated us with great contempt and disdain. He has also not properly utilised his professional, competent and capable Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Had he done so, maybe we would now be saying something else. This is not to cause any disaffection within their ranks, but every discerning Nigerian knows that this quintessential gentleman is the reason that there is any real noteworthy success for this administration. Otherwise, Buhari has embarrassed his supporters, endlessly, with his reckless, insensitive and uninformed decisions. What many of those supporting him in public today say behind him is unbelievable and unspeakable. I have friends who confess to private threats of business and physical annihilation and are thus forced to endorse a man they know can never take Nigeria to anywhere meaningful, even if given four terms.



Four. I have tried strenuously to be fair to Buhari and wrote copiously to advise him, from time to time, as I promised him when we met in his office, one on one, in 2015. I gave up hope, after some time, when I saw the direction he was headed and noticed the irredeemable obstinacy in his DNA. Four years ago, many of us were very excited about the hope this great General offered to our nation. Perhaps, we overrated his capabilities. It has become clear that we wittingly dressed him in borrowed robes and we were all hypnotised and brainwashed, somehow. Today, our eyes have cleared from that giddiness and I’m ready to add my voice to those of others who genuinely believe, Buhari must go. I do this with every sense of responsibility to God and to my country. I will give my reasons shortly.



I have had to apologise in the last couple of months to those who feel very aggrieved that a self-confessed democrat like me could ever support a blatant dictator like Buhari. You can never imagine the gale of verbal attacks I suffered and endured for what I considered my innocuous support. The last one that really hit me was in Ghana recently. I ran into the respected Legal luminary, Mr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, at the lounge in Kotoka International Airport. There were two ladies seated with him, one of who I believe is his wife. I greeted them but the other lady snubbed me, and said, “Dele, I will never greet you.” I looked blank and wondered if we’ve ever met, and how I might have offended her. Madam soon threw a sucker punch. “Dele, you are one of those who brought that disaster called Buhari on us…” and she went into her tirade. I tried to explain that I’m indeed very sorry and it was not my fault that I fell for the charms and scam of APC. The woman was practically inconsolable.



I have encountered many people like her. A guy almost went physical with me on a flight to London, grumbling aloud about how some of Buhari’s ignorant decisions have messed up Nigeria, his business and family. All I could do was plead for understanding. Unfortunately, Buhari himself is totally oblivious to the way Nigerians feel or just couldn’t be bothered or is probably insulated from objective criticism by selfish advisers. The tragedy of it all is his Messianic complex. He and his cronies behave as if Nigerians owe them a load of gratitude for favours received. Such hocus-pocus and inanity.



I have no iota of doubt left in me that President Muhammadu Buhari has performed well below expectations and that he should be voted out, peacefully, on February 16, 2019. The message should be clear henceforth that there is no automatic second term for incompetence, irresponsibility, irreverence and impunity. It is a miracle that Nigeria has not exploded into a civil war with the manner Buhari has treated some parts as second-class citizens with no right to complain. Let me now give reasons why we cannot afford to donate a second term to Buhari when he has clearly not earned it.

One. At 76, and with a failing health, Buhari should go into permanent retirement at the expiration of his tenure on May 29, 2019. No man can cheat nature and Buhari isn’t an exception.

Two. Buhari has not been in charge or on top of government and governance since he assumed office on May 29, 2015. Some cronies, otherwise known and addressed as ‘the cabal’, have been ruling without being elected. This can only get worse if Buhari is awarded a second term through our collective stupidity.

Three. The human rights record of Buhari has never been anything to praise or applaud at any time. Nothing has changed since he was kicked out of power by President Ibrahim Babangida in 1985. He has refused to adhere to the rule of law and has continued to trample on the rights of Nigerian citizens despite several court orders. What makes matters worse is that he behaves like Constantin Demiris, a character in Sidney Sheldon’s Memories of Midnight, who never forgets a favour and never forgives an injury. He has kept his presumed enemies in prison, indefinitely and compensated a few of his benefactors with appointments. Buhari does not hold the Constitution of Nigeria dear to heart and as such behaves with maximum use of force. His goons have been harassing the Legislature and the Judiciary on the pretext that they are fighting corruption, but they deliberately target those they consider inimical to their hold on power. They have invaded homes of Judges in the middle of the night, breaking down doors, and swarmed on the National Assembly with thugs and later with hooded and gun-totting secret agents in broad daylight. He has suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria when he has neither the authority nor the power to do so. Buhari and those who support this brigandage and total assault on recognised and reverent principles of law and established constitutional institutions choose to forget that the worst kind of corruption is the abuse of power itself. When it is for ulterior and base motives, as is now obviously the case, it becomes a menace that all well-meaning and true democrats must resist with all their might. There can be no excuse or justification. Otherwise we may as well embrace not just dictatorship, but anarchy.

Four. Buhari has been a divisive leader who appears not to believe in the unity of Nigeria. Under his government, Nigeria and Nigerians have been more divided. The lop-sidedness of his security appointments have been dangerously fixated on people of the same ethnic group and religious persuasion, and he does it with nonchalance and condescension. If you like, jump into the Atlantic Ocean, our President won’t blink an eye. He claims, with a straight face that he makes appointments on merit, but we’ve not seen the reflection and positive effects of this merit on the war against corruption, terrorists and insurgents.

Five. Buhari’s economic blueprint has been more involved in his stereotypical tightening up the noose on the economy, scaring investors away with ill-thought economic policies and reversal of contractual obligations without negotiations with parties involved, instead of opening up the economy. This has all happened because of his obsession with so-called corruption. Yet, under his watch, not much has been achieved because of his desperation to hold on to power. This has forced him to compromise, capitulate and led him to bring the biggest and possibly most corrupt chieftains of other parties closer to him. He turns the proverbial blind eye to the infamous activities of these nefarious characters because they are perceived as being able to achieve his unbridled ambition for a second term. He had lost elections on three previous occasions and only won when he got the so-called bad guys to help him attain power. Right now, he is heavily relying on them again to bail him out of imminent defeat next week. And this is the man who falsely claims to espouse anti-corruption credentials and touts himself as a man of integrity.

Six. Buhari has failed spectacularly on all his major campaign promises. Nigeria is far worse than he met it. I will be the first to congratulate the government on its achievements in the rail sector and also the success with the militant problem in the Niger Delta. Other than that, he could not even stabilise what he inherited talk less of improving on it. His government has been struggling to control the free-fall of the Naira against the Dollar. He has not been able to cancel and eliminate fuel subsidies which he once described as a big scam and on which the corruption fight has been largely hinged. In fact, payments have more than doubled and the NNPC now holds a monopoly on importation of petroleum products with attendant risk of corruption in high places. We are none the wiser about security spending by him. This was the second plank on which the anti-corruption war was predicated. Loans have ballooned astronomically, yet infrastructure development remains outlandishly backward. We only get to read about monumental achievements on paper.

Seven. The last but not the least in my view is the perpetual and puerile blame game. Four years after getting power from PDP, Buhari has not stopped blaming his predecessors, forgetting that this was precisely the reason PDP was sacked from power. Buhari won those elections not on his own accord, but because the general populace had become totally disenchanted with PDP, it’s profligacy, looting and mendacity. Sadly, It seems we have come full circle. Since Buhari has shown the inability to perform the magic he promised, it is time to send him back home, with the sure message that whosoever comes next will suffer the same fate. It is a democratic template we must put in place now and forever. Otherwise, we must accept whatever fate befalls our dear country.

The world is watching


http://thebossnewspapers.com/2019/02/08/pendulum-the-message-nigerians-must-deliver-to-buhari-next-week/amp/

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Egbon dele e lo ko ju mo Iwe yin. U don't understand Nigerian politics anymore. We would manage our affairs

Necksonnel:
All I see is useless and lazy youth and agbero running around.

But can they vote ? Very soon u will understand that an agbero vote is equal to a Prof vote

I'm never going to be a fan of people treating women like this. Is just too primitive

Gloriousgud:
I watched it live, the crowd was not this much. maybe through Buhari usual remote control they multiply the people.

They put a video for u yet u said is not this much where are u from ?

989900:
I wrote something similar this morning:

Despite progress and milestones achieved by the Buhari administration:
implementation of useful programs i.e. BVN, IPPIS, TSA (of course initiated by the GEJ administration to check malfeasance across board; not implemented), etc., continuing the Agric drive, taking us out of an avoidable recession foisted on us by the past administration, completing/continuing projects abandoned by past administrations, social programs (some I don't really agree with), doing more than previous administrations in terms of infrastructure, Foreign reserves, FIRS, JAMB, etc. . . . despite all those, there's a huge feeling of resentment and lack in the land.

While the President has done very poorly with some of his utterances and his handling of the Fulani herdsmen issue (which is a huge shame), I would be dwelling more on where his shortcomings continuously hurt our pockets:

1. Exchange rates
The current exchange rates ultimately affects prices of commodities, from petroleum products to how much we pay to subsidize it, to house rents, food stuffs, transport, etc. The current rate could be better with the reserves we have and if some aspects of it were not marred in shadowy dealings (corruption).

Let's assume favourable exchange rates being what they are: not something you could directly doctor or make happen by fiat. And it is basically off the essence of this piece to go into details of the intricacies of that here.

How about number 2?


2. Salary non-increment.

If you can't help the exchange rates, how about increasing the wages of your workers since you do relatively earn considerably well above and beyond with the exchange rate in your favour (we're talking crude oil receipts in dollars)?

But you do expect your workers to continue battling everyday living expenses with the same meager wage they did when a dollar was N160 while you earn fat into government pockets at N305?

This is where PMB failed, he should have had this wrapped up since mid last year, the constitution supports him, the people would appreciate it (folks earning N18,000 would cope better with N27,000/N30,000, same for folks presently earning N90,000 who would now be earning say N140,000).
More sales for businesses too.

It will translate to higher tax income for the rejuvenated FIRS too.

If he had gotten these 2 aspects right, the populace's plight would have been highly reduced, and thus, less acrimony against him. All the good works he's tried to do with his limited health, old age, and education have been very wonderful, but a hungry man is an angry man.

P.S. Considering PMB's background growing up, education, his old age and health, he is actually punching way above his weight, few can do as much as he has done and continues to do if we had same pedigree and Achilles.

I wrote an article: PMB Vs Atiku Pros and Cons.
https://www.nairaland.com/5002332/buhari-vs-atiku-pros-cons

This is where we find ourselves as a country, sponsored by no other than OBJ, he rigged in Shagari in-lieu of a sage like Awolowo, Shagari's failures and inadequacies brought back the military on us: Buhari, IBB, Abacha (if only he had done the needful with OBJ) and the whole works: retrogress.

Same over-bearing old man brought upon us Yar'Adua (why didn't he support his deputy Aticou then if he so much believed in him . . . that was easier), even though he knew he was battling serious health issues, but he thought he had a stooge in Jonathan from whence he can still rule by proxy -- he chose a docile Jonathan over a vibrant Donald Duke.

Jonathan's ineptitude and cluelessness brought upon us the old cargo: Buhari (Buhari can't be Landlords & tenants association chairman in my hood, but I'll still choose him ahead of a character like Atiku).

OBJ is backing Atiku now, why? The answer is obvious.
And if we make the mistake, we will pay for it dearly.

We are a sorry nation, it goes no further than seeing agile and intellectual heavyweights like Osinbajo and Obi being deputies to soon to be octogenarians with lesser general qualifications.

I'm out.

Very objectively written. God bless you

Babacele:
and we are dumping him to the dustbin of history by FeBuhari 16, finally.

By the grace of God, he is no 1 selfish man in this world

SalamRushdie:
stop calling scheduled projects abandoned , those projects are not abandoned in any way

Scheduled to finish when ?

SalamRushdie:
The bottom line is that Buhari is known not to have the mental capacity to be able to envision any original project since the 80s and it has remained so till date ..Our point still remains that you show us an original capital project he envisioned

Olodo ni e. We have countless abandoned projects and you said u want to see what the president envisioned and some idiots like u gave u likes, should he not complete the abandoned projects ? Do we have all the cash to throw around ? Is envisioning that benefits people or the actual functional projects? U lack capacity to reason properly

For Christ sake, the rate at which these artists are dying should call for a concern, Government and the concerned organization should start looking into ways to make their jobs lucrative

Numlock:
I hope you will save urs too.

Yeah I will

oilPUSSY:
Nigerians are in big trouble.

Buhari is empowering Boko Haram behind closed doors .

I wasn't surprised when Buhari released billions of naira all in the name of negotiating with Boko Haram terrorists. The same people that have killed thousands of Nigerians and still killing.
Thousands of people will go into extinction if Buhari gets back to Aso rock.
Nigerians should sit tight... This is no more a joke.

Olodo.ni e. I doubt if you analyse this with brain

Numlock:
Lol.. Southwest go disappoint them this year mark my words.

And you will be surprised as well save this comment

After all , Obj said Atiku background is not clear. Kanu just shed light to it.

shortgun:
Nonsensical..... With APC Nigeria is on reverse in gear 7.

But that is not true. Mention a major project of PDP and I can tell u of that of APC. Una never see anything next level ni joo

dockokwus:
Buhari can only win if he massively rigs the elections and the crisis that would throw up would threaten the whole existence of Nigeria.
SS and SE are fully for Atiku.
Atiku would also win the Middle Belt maybe with a smaller margin.
Kano that was APC's joker has been massively eroded by Kwankwaso rooting for Atiku,so maybe 50:50.
Lagos may also go Atiku's way or at worse 50:50 because of the Agberos that would be coerced to vote APC.
The North West in a free fair election would be even with Buhari winning in the NorthEast but with smaller margin than the tsunami he had against GEJ.
So how can Buhari defeat Atiku in any free fair election?It's impossible.

See analysis if a self deluded person. Buy enough tissue papers for tears drying and buy BP drugs una case go worse than 2015

Firefire:
APC, the party of professional liars and career rogues

Someone just boosted your looters lies with facts and you about turning the truth. Hatred has finally blinded you. No one should take any PDP serious anymore. Wait for tears Feb 17th when we would have done with vote counting

olumi4real:
If l am a bastard for voting Atiku, then u are a coward, the level of poverty in the west is okay by you, don't be tribalistic, but let's the fact be told
I will vote Atiku for better Nigeria. Rubbish!!!

You just confirmed what that guy said, the poverty in the west started 4years ago? What were they doing that Buhari has stopped them from doing ? In your mind Atiku for better economy? U think Igbo people would have supported Atiku if not for their interest which is obi? Do you know why Igbo did not vote Buhari in 2015? It was their interest. Following Atiku at this time is like going into relegation Buhari represent our interest

ensamy:
Atiku = 100% votes from South South, south east, north central.
Then 50% from the rest. Ok forward match to Ask Rock..

did'nt Jona got that from those zones? what was the outcome even with rigging ? he lost, that is what is awaiting ur Atiku

The voice of a desperado... love ko, hate ni

Ojoji:
Your Tinubu holds Lagos government till today. As a professor of law, can you explain by theory or examples why is like that? More so you fraternize with such character but you are denouncing other. Pastor indeed! Listen Diya treatment is waiting for you in meantime.

If you understand the principle of sowing and reaping from the Bible, u will know why he is still there. no one even you who do not want to be like Tinubu but can they make the sacrifice he has made ? can they risk what he has risked ? God is not partial my dear, we all choose our place

celeiyke:
Who made this man a prof?

a reputable university of Lagos... never looked down on what other are and have if you ever desire to reach there.

lexy2014:
Set up by Tanko Mohammed. Who are d thieves& robbers?

Can Tanko do it without being given the power to do so ? Can you install another king without first dethroning the one there? Moreso , there is a provision in the Constitution that he can suspend the man. So what is the noise about ? He did not remove, he suspended the man.

Why did Walter suspended NJC.indefinitely ? Nigeria will be redeemed from the hands of thieves and robbers in Jesus Name

Fuckyoumod:
SERAP is mad!

The allegations against CCT chairman, did danladi resign?

Did Gov gandolar resign?

Did Buhari resign after the allegations against his family owning a bank?

Did Burutai resign? After his hotels were located in dubia?

Did osinbanjo resign?

When Aisha Buhari was accused of complicities in N2.8 billion naira with her aide did Buhari open prosecution? Why did buhari not resign?

How long did it take buhari to sack babachir?

How about tinibu's alpha beta?

How long did it take the former finance minister to resign after it was established she forged her certificate? Was she prosecuted

How many barrels of oil do we export daily does Nigerians know? Is buhari not petroleum minister? How much do we make daily on crude and gas sales?

Yet zonb's come out here to shout " war against corruption " CJN is Corrupt, everybody in Nigeria is corrupt except Buhari, his family and APC members.

Thunder fire all of una! Corruption fighting kill all of una dia!

Whalahi olodo ni e. A man who committed the offence openly admitted that he forgot to declare it and u are saying he should not do the honoring thing by simply resign and allow law to take it's course ? Do you have education? Walter behavior simply confirmed the allegation against him that he is already used to proceed of corruption. Una go just commit suicide when PMB is reelected

DrGoodman:
Osinbajo should do better working with MC oluomo in one dirty motor park in Lagos. Nothing to prove he has ever been to school not to talk of becoming a lawyer.

Instead of making a big mockery of the legal profession, he should resign and return to church, he's as useless as the p in psychology in aso rock.

Do you have high tension cable around you ? I know you will if u are a Nigerian, kindly use a ladder and do the needful bitter people should just commit suicide. Even Jesus ate food meant for the priest when the circumstance demands it, we asked him to resign the man treated the word of a president with contempt and you said he should not be suspended?

Eti ri nkankan ( una never see anything)

lexy2014:
D election tribunals have already been set up. U can't use corruption 2 kill corruption

Set up by who ? If already set as u claimed swear in by who ? The same man will swear them in right? No amount of gang up can stop the redemption of this country from the hands of thieves and robbers .