₦airaland Forum

kingphilip:
It is the citizens of Rivers state that should be angry at the amount wasted both in buying of forms, junketing around and the entire process leading to the primaries.

Northboi:
Hmm I don't know what ladies of this generation are turning into..

tesppidd:
I want Wike, not for anything but only for some comic relief.

Now till February 2023 is going to be a very long period, so i want some fun...
Then watch him lose in February 2023.


I only pity Rivers pensioners and workers, once he is nominated as running mate, bye bye to their pension and bye bye to 40k minimum wage.

Mintum:
They will always want to impose a successor only for them and the same successor to start quarreling few months after handover.

paulolee:
all these unknown coaches wey no even get name for dier country
naim naija like to dey carry for head..
pls we need coaches dt are familiar with african football, if d NFF CNT
get any, we should pls stick with local coach..
this man gat no name n it would be a shame If he cnt take us to d
world cup..

Ahead of the 2023 general elections prominent Nigerians have established a third force, Rescue Nigeria Project, RNP, to give Nigerians alternative platform to the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Founders of RNP include former governor of Kwara state, Ahmed Abdulfatai, Prof. Pat Utomi, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, former Governor of Cross River state, Donald Duke,

Senator Lee Maeba, Usman Bugaje, Prof. Attahiru Jega, Amb. Nkoyo Toyo, Yomi Awoniyi, Dr. Rose Idi Danladi, Dr. Sadiq Gombe among others.

Delivering his keynote address, Abdulfatai lamented the state of the nation, noting that the high level of nepotism and lack of inclusiveness have given rise to agitations by different ethnic groups.

He recalled that in 2015, Nigerians embraced change, adding that today, “that change appears to be what we didn’t expect, as insecurity has taken over the nation.”

He said, “It is based on this that we decided to set up this Rescue Nigeria Project. We want to salvage this country and see how we can fix the mess. We want to set a template and key criteria leaders must have before they can attain any political position.

“Despite the great opportunities of the past, Nigeria has failed to live up to the dreams of its founding fathers and the hopes of successive generations of its citizens.

“Perhaps, at no other time have these failings become more apparent than in the past decade or so.

“In 2015, Nigerians overwhelmingly embraced the promise of change. These hopes have not only been dashed, but they have arguably turned out to be the worst political statements ever to be made in this country. Nigeria today appears set to fulfill all the prophesies of doom.”

He further noted that “Unprecedented nepotism and political exclusion have left the country more divided than ever as evident in the various separatists agitation that are threatening the corporate existence of the country itself.”

Also speaking, Adeniran noted that there is disaster at hand, hence the move to rescue the nation.

He said: “You only rescue when there is disaster and when you fail to rescue during disaster, it is more dangerous.

“We have a disaster in our hands and we need to rescue the country. We need to look back and see how we get here. We know where Nigeria was before now. We know the task is not going to be easy, but we have to determine how to rescue the nation.”

In his opening remarks, the RNP national coordinator, Usman Bugaje, explained that the Rescue Nigeria Project was founded on the premise that the challenges bedeviling the country were largely derived from poor leadership.

Chiding the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government Bugaje said, “when you reduce the problems of this country to what they are, ultimately, it all comes to leadership.

“We have been unable to exit the leadership conundrum precisely because the leadership recruitment mechanism in our political parties is so flawed that, except for accidents, they are incapable of producing competent leaders with the requisite knowledge, discipline and commitment to make a difference. We are living with, or better still, groaning under the consequences of this folly.

“What this means is that any attempt to rescue this country from its troubles must first rescue it from the current leadership recruitment mechanism that seems to leverage on money and connection or ethnic sentiments and no premium on knowledge or competence.

“The challenge is how to introduce a set of criteria or better still re-calibrate the recruitment mechanism in our political parties to prioritize knowledge, competence and character. The deepening crises in the political parties is all the more reason this re-calibration is necessary.

“We must change the conversation about leadership. The first thing we should want to know about our President is not which part of country he or she comes from, rather how competent is he or she? What is the content of his policy document? What is his team made up of?

“We also seek to ensure a seismic shift from the politics of big men to the politics of big ideas. The empty politics of big men have not taken us anywhere but down the drain. We simply can’t continue this way.”

RNP’s vision is “to reconcile and re-unite our country, win and deploy political power for the purpose of nation building and national development, achieving prosperity for all, and the protection of life and dignity of every Nigerian citizen.”

This is even as the mission is “to reconcile, re-unite, mobilize the nation to build a critical mass of citizens capable of driving real and effective transformation, to translate the mass movement into a strong power base within an inclusive and responsive political framework.”

Kayberg:


What courage and audacity!!!
A human being for that matter, and you throway face, carry knife, put am for human being neck and begin dey cut without any human feelings!!!

Arrrghh!!!!!

The live crabs my sister bought and cooked, I refused to eat any of them; upon hearing the crabs were struggling to get out of the heating water killed my appetite.

obehi247:
wow... what a shame

you mean it took you this long to know that SS and biafra can never work

assent:
Dear Igbos on nairaland, hope you can now see that your real enemies are not yorubas? Your real enemies are among yourselves. Your fellow Igbos are the backbitters, not yorubas.

If you are looking for untrustworthy people, don't look in the direction of the southwest; rather, look among yourselves.

Sonnobax15:

No jobs,yet our high institutions keep releasing graduates on a yearly basis.....

Ok, make person still say make he find him way out of the country,it's either village people or government agencies go put hindrance

Daninya11:
Do NFF have to do these things??

With everything that is happening in the country??

They never learn.

NFF appointing mediocres to take charge of the Super Eagles..

Looking closely at Coach Salisu take charge in the friendly against Mali and Luxembourg, If given the right atmosphere to work he will succeed. He invited players based on current form, got his tactics right, his substitution were top notch.

If NFF can't source for a world class coach and source the means of paying him, then let's stick with our local coaches.

Why waste task payers money on a coach because he is white.

SultanOfBrunei:
waiting for the zombies to attack punch and the US .....

omolami:
That is very true. What else can one expect from a certificateless leader? He is fantastically visionless

chiboyo:
Fayose has proven to be persistent thorn in the presidency's flesh...

Why don't they think of the option of winning him over like GEJ did FFK?