₦airaland Forum

emilo2bad:
So what you are saying is that the by election in Aba constituency was rigged, to identify PDP miscreant is to mention Apc win in kano or lagos you will hear rigging or democracy under threat, we know your type

Only fools reason as you've done. You can't deny the fact that elections in Nigeria are marred by irregularities arising from manipulations by politicians. Again, you can't deny the fact that the fraud and violence accompanying elections in Nigeria can be reduced through compliance with the Electoral Act.
But first the Bill as prepared by the Eight Assembly with whatever imput the Ninth may wish to make has to be signed into law.
President Buhari's refusal or willingness to assent to the bill lends credence to the belief by many that he's okay with election fraud.

emilo2bad:
You cannot say that, Aba in the heart of PDP in Nigeria, that is nnamdi kanu territory apc cannot win there, likewise, PDP cannot win a by election in lagos or kano

Don't be too sure about that. That's why we're calling for the Amended Electoral Act to be signed into law so that votes can tryly count.
It seems today that PDP can't win in Lagos or Kano because of the irregularities and gross manipulations of election results by politicians. Get the Electoral Act set and see all that demystified.

Can they just start it now? Let's see who loses and cries at the end.
What these mofos don't realize is that as essential as beef is to human nutrition, there are so many substitute. Have they thought that chicken and fish can provide as much nutrients as beef?

When you hear them talk about feeding the South, you begin to wonder if they do it for free? Don't the South pay (heavily too) for the cows they supply?
Keep your cow and we keep our money, na una go cry later.

I remember when in 2016 or so they went on 'strike' in Taraba State, just two weeks later they started crying and begging to come back.

And how has he used his position as Labour and Productivity Minister to advance the welfare of not only the Igbo but the Nigerian workers?
Has he proved himself any different from the so called Igbo he castigate? I know many former Igbo govt appointees who affected the lives of the common Igbo man but won't mention names.

RIP the Dean himself. Back in the days.

Why the idiot mentioning Nnamdi Kanu and Shekau in the same sentence? Does he not know what Kanu represents among the Igbo?

edoairways:
Let me explain further for clarity. He choose to identify with the igbos hence they see her as their sister.

Let me clarify even further. She's Igbo from Delta State just as Nnamdi Kanu is Igbo from Abia State and Rochas is Igbo from Imo State. Her native Igbo name is Ngozi which means blessing.
So she's proudly Igbo no matter what you say.

SmartyPants:
Can't comment on the veracity of the news of the execution, but I find it hard to take this lawyer seriously when he says he is in the Hague to file a case and that the government should expect service by next week.

The ICC does not work like that. You cannot get up and go there to file a case as cases can only be initiated at the behest of:

a. The office of the prosecutor
b. The UN Sec. Council
c. Request by a state party to the Rome Statute--this can be turned down

That is, private individuals are not granted audience at their own instance, though a person who may be a victim in a case may be allowed legal presentation as a corollary to that case.

Moreover, the staff off the ICC are currently working remotely due to covid, so who would he be filing his case with at the physical office?

While you may not be entirely wrong, you need to check Article 15 of the Rome Statute, which permits any individual, group, or organization to send information on alleged or potential ICC crimes to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICC. It is left for the ICC prosecutor to determine whether a situation meets the legal criteria laid out by the Rome

The lawyer must have followed the provisions of the above quoted article. Let's see how it goes though.

gtown:
Good you mentioned his bail condition. Yes it was!
Are you not aware that part of his bail conditon was that he should not be seen among population of people which number exceeded 10?. Therefore, when he gathered crowd of hundreds of miscreants to celebrate his release from Kuje prison the python went there show their own dancing skills too.
But the coward felt apprehensive and budged

Did the judge who gave the bail conditions order the invasion of his house to enforce the conditions?
I guess you don't know how these things work, the army had no business getting involved in a matter that was striclltly out of their jurisdiction. Don't give them powers they don't possess.

The python will only dance in Nnamdi Kanu's house but goes begging on bended knees in bandits and terrorists camps in Zamfara and Katsina

The army only remembers how to shoot and kill in the South but when faced with bandits and kidnappers (the real terrorists) in the North, they become weak.

Praxis758:
The last time I checked, the DSS was supposed to be at the helms of intelligence gathering and be proactive to crutch any egg of violence/crime before being hatched.

It is shameful the Buhari's regime has relegated this sentiment key national security body into a gassy agency who is only hunting for anyone who criticised Buhari and his confused presidency.

FFK can write at length, but DSS should rise up to the task and work on this sensitive issues. And no one should read any religion, political or ethnic meaning to his lengthy write up.

Sorry to sound insulting but you're one of the problems of the South identified by FFK. Problem not because you're causing problems but because you've refused to smell the coffee and acknowledge what is.

Funny that you still have high hopes of the DSS who are obviously part of the grand plans for Fulanization and Islamization of the country.
Why did Buhari refuse to confirm the appointment of Mr Seyeifa as DG of DSS after being appointed into acting capacity by Osinbajo? You think it's just for nothing that virtually all security agencies are headed by northern Muslims?

Why has Mr Buhari not confirmed the appointment of the Igbo guy at NSCDC but was quick to appoint Buba Marwa as substantive CG of NDLEA?

The DSS has no plans to secure the South but instead capture it for Buhari and his marauding jihadist group. The earlier we in the South realize that and work towards countering them, the better for us. Unfortunately, we have the likes of Tinubu, Uzodimma, Umahi, Fayemi, Ayade, Oshiomole and so on who are more loyal to Buhari than to their people.

It's time to do away with political correctness and support Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho (no matter your prejudice against these two) to liberate the South.

gtown:
When your spiritual leader, the hunchback albino pornster sneaked out when the python went to his compound for a dance competition did he used biafran passport, or he went to London without a passport?
May be it was Buhari's plan to set him free.

Why did the python go to his compound for a dance competition? Was that part of bail condition granted by Justice Nyako?

"They look fragile, harmless and friendly" and "we need to understand them"

Coming from the elder brother of Femi Adesina who once asked us to release our lands to Fulani herdsmen to avoid being killed, I'm not surprised.

While the pampering didn't start today but they have become more emboldened by Buhari's overt and covert support of their atrocious activities.
What's there to understand about them? We know all we need to know about them Prof Adesina.

SilverNorGold:
Lol... Sahara Reporters should go do more research... I wonder why this is even an issue with all the current security issues bedeviling Nigeria... Go to court if you feel a law has been broken...

God bless Nigeria.

When I read comments like this from supposedly educated people, I weep. Nigeria is a constitutional democracy. There's a reason why there are laws that guide the operation of the.govt and no leader is above the laws he swore to uphold. The laws sets limits on the powers that can be exercised by the president and he's hound to respect those laws.

Asamu isn't the only person qualified and competent to tackle the "current security issues bedeviling Nigeria" BTW how has his police eliminated those challenges that one can say of not for him...?

Stop rationalizing the abuse of the rule of law by Mr Buhari please.

Politics without principle.

ezenwajosh:
it's in OYO STATE YORUBA LAND not in Southern governors

When they conquer Oyo State, where do they head next? They take on Osun, Ondo and Ekiti. When they are done with this, they move next to Edo and Delta and then to the South East and South West.
Time for all the Southern states to man up and fight before it's too late.

Worst days of my life, the days I lost my parents. Even 16 and 6 years after I can't stop grieving.
May the souls of my parents, John Ogu's mother and the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.

AlhajiImam:
The FG should be proactive here before it escalates.

Fulanis have the right to live and stay anywhere in this country. It is enshrined in our constitution. Nobody likes war but we won't stretch our necks to be cut off without a form of resistance

The Fulani has the right to live and stay anywhere in this country, but they don't have the right to destroy other people's means of livelihood. They can stay anywhere provided they are law abiding and not constitute a nuisance to their host communities and you and me know the Fulani in the last five years have been anything but that.

Truly nobody likes war but be warned that when it comes, everyone will be in for it. No tribe has a monopoly of violence and so can be matched fire for fire by others.

aguele:
By Kolawole Anthony

Nigeria has quite terrible and horrible leaders. One of them is Gov. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, the Governor of Rivers state. Wike’s soul is gravely tormented and he unswervingly finds himself in a state of perpetual restlessness.

Gov. Wike is anguished or tortured by the spirits and blood of the innocent. The blood of those he spilled in his fiendish quest for political power has been his greatest misery in life. His soul is the permanent tent of the devil. It is under him; Rivers state earned the ignoble epaulet of “Rivers of blood.”

Therefore, if Wike does not find imaginary enemies to attack, he directs his irritabilities at everyone in sight. Gov. Wike is a lawyer by training; but there are no records which shows he became famous as law practitioner by winning celebrated cases. Its doubtful whether Wike still remembers court procedures anymore as a lawyer.

Its ironic that Wike has negatively mutated into political and executive brigandage or thuggery. He is the patron of hooliganism in Nigeria’s recent political history. Sometimes, when Gov. Wike speaks, its difficult to differentiate between a garage tout or what the Youbas call an “agbero” and a leader of a state.

He is infamous for it. Of course, what sanity does anybody expects from someone whose convictions about leadership is to murder every opponent on his path? Wanton killings, assassinations’, mysterious disappearance of opponents and barefaced executive brigandage defines the leadership of Rivers people by Wike.

If anyone is convinced that Gov. Wike is not possessed; he needs to approach a Pentecostal pastor for spiritual cleansing. Wike is a character who speaks without a full prehensile of his utterances. He acts without prior rumination; he flows with tide and dangles aimlessly like a street boy.

If anyone understands that lawyer Wike does not know, it is unlawful for an executive leader to resort to self-help, he deserves empathy. How else can anyone explain that in a democracy, Wike ordered the demolition of a hotel because the owner violated Covid-19 executive directives? But that’s what happens, when “madmen” dubiously amble themselves into positions of leadership and authority.

Gov. Wike is boosted by invisible and demonic spirits beyond his control. And they are too many. In his 2019 bid for reelection alone, Gov. Wike allegedly killed no fewer than 35 persons in his state. It has been his story sad tales in life.

He allegedly killed to secure the PDP governorship ticket in 2015 and also, murdered massively to get into Rivers state Government House the same year. Therefore, those who know him intricately are rather empathetic to him each time he vibrates like a lunatic undergoing psychiatric rehabilitation. No one with such magnitude of innocent blood on his hands would find peace with his soul.

The Governor in his characteristic manner defiled the sanctity and solemnity of the 2021-Armed Forces Remembrance Day. In Port Harcourt at the wreath-laying ceremony, Gov. Wike revived and also, practiced his meaningless parroting talents. He asked the Service Chiefs to resign in order to pave the path for “fresh ideas and strategy” in tackling the country’s resurgent internal insecurity threats.

He dreamily assumed the toga of a military and security expert. Therefore, Wike felt empowered enough to advise the Federal Government of Nigeria to change its strategy in combating internal insecurities in the country. Wike was particular that the current set of Service Chiefs have been unable to diminish the fires of Boko Haram insurgency and armed banditry among other security challenges, despite years of full military engagements.

But why would anybody devote his precious time on faulting Wike over his assertions? It’s doubtful whether Wike understands what is a military strategy. This is a lawyer who has never won any celebrated case in his life, but has the guts to advise military professionals and experts on how to combat terrorism and banditry.

Gov. Wike symbolizes the hypocritic and devious clan of leaders in Nigeria today. Wike served as Minister under the Jonathan Presidency for the years of that administration. Boko Haram and armed bandits became notorious and untamable under the administration he served.

It was the time Boko Haram annexed 21 LGAs in the Northeast. It was an era nearly 25,000 Nigerians were hostages of insurgents in different secret camps in the Northeast. It was a time Wike operated in Abuja with a lot of phobia because like some Nigerians coined; “the fear of Boko Haram was the beginning of wisdom.”

Yet, Gov. Wike as a member of FEC never advised the President to change his strategy in fighting Boko Haram. But the same person mouths now, when there is a positively changed narrative in combating acts of insecurities in Nigeria. So, he became an accidental military expert. But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride and Wike’s wish that the Service Chiefs should resign is not actionable by his command. Meaningless busybody!

Nigerians do not need to consult a soothsayer to know their enemies or instigators of insecurities anymore. And some time last year, when Governors Yahaya Bello and Aminu Bello Masari asserted separately that some politicians are behind the resurgent insecurities in the country, most Nigerians failed to grasp their prophetic insights. But Wike’s utterances today are an indisputable indication of his complicity. He is privy to it.

Like many other detractors of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Rivers Governor is angered that in spite of the clandestine efforts to undermine the Buhari Presidency through organized and sponsored insecurities, the President has always broken the hurdles. The camp of opposers is baffled.

And Wike knows that the current Service Chiefs are the reason, the plots of the opposition elements to discredit the administration of Buhari is permanently met with a bulwark. The latest trick now is to cleverly goad Mr. President to sack them in order to create a window for the opposition use insecurities in feasting on Nigeria. But Buhari is smarter than all of them.

So, it was baffling that Wike desecrated the graves of the unknown soldier and those still in service. The occasion was not designed for such partisan campaigns, with the Service Chiefs as nectars. It was a ceremony and a day set aside to remember and celebrate our fallen heroes and heroines as well as those still in active service. He mocked these gallant officers and soldiers on a day, all Nigerians were celebrating their exploits and sacrifices for the nation.

A senseless Wike did not know the occasion was not designed for such partisan campaigns. Surprisingly, he turned his weird leadership activism on the Service Chiefs and the arena into a platform for the anti-Service Chiefs campaigners.

Anyway, those expecting Gov. Wike to see the Service Chiefs as friends and partners in nation-building have misfired. It’s impossible to contemplate it. Wike is a violent, bloody and loquacious election rigger. Certainly, he cannot be a friend of the Military and especially, a repositioned Nigerian Army which blocked most of his rigging tracks in the 2019 governorship elections. He succeeded, but not as easy as he envisaged.

Gov. Wike attempted to bribe everyone or group involved in the conduct and monitoring of the elections; he attempted to bribe soldiers deployed to Rivers on election duty to compromise the ballot; he attempted to bribe consulate officials of the British High Commission in Nigeria to fabricate the report of election observers. Wike is a desperately devious political fly.

Indeed, If wishes were to be horses, it is Gov. Wike who would have been sacked ab initio by President Buhari. But Mr. President is a kind leader. He allowed Wike to twice escape with an obviously stolen mandate. That’s why today, Wike, a low-class lawyer feels, he is competent to offer professional military advice to Mr. President in combating acts of insecurities.

Wike regales in the mere appellation and protocol as “chief security officer” of his state. But it does not translate into his expertise knowledge on security matters. When Mr. President is seeking for advisers on political thuggery, executive brigandage and ethnic militias, Wike would emerge as an unopposed candidate. He has no rival in today’s Nigeria.

Gov. Wike is under the misleading delusion that Nigerians are not aware of his sole sponsorship of the campaign of calumny against the Nigerian military, particularly in the South. It is his tent the street activist Deji Adeyanju frequents on a monthly basis to renew his venoms (Dollars) in nourishment.

Wike is free to keep playing the fools game with himself. But the issue of Service Chiefs is clearly outside his purview. Wike should be patient enough to wait until his rigs his way to political leadership as President of Nigeria to thereafter, depend on street counsels for the appointment or sack of his Service Chiefs. President Buhari cannot be outsmarted with such infantile antics. #

Kolawole PhD is a University teacher and wrote this piece from Keffi, Nasarawa State.

So true. Wike will be an educated version of Buhari but he will be worse. He thirsts for blood like panther for water.

Between Buhari and Nigerians, who's more divisive? Which president since 1960 has taken more actions than Buhari?
How has Buhari tried to integrate people mostly from the south into his govt? Does he run an all inclusive govt?
At a time when many Nigerians have complained of his elevation of nepotism to a state policy, he gets a chance to remedy the situation with the NDLEA and he appoints another northerner.
Of about 13/14 military and paramilitary agencies in Nigeria, southern Christians occupy only two positions leaving the rest in the hands of Muslims.
Tell me who's more divisive.
At a time when there's no link between the South South and South East or between the two and the South West, at a time when majority of federal roads in Nigeria are in deplorable conditions, Buhari is spending billions of Naira constructing a rail line into Niger Republic against public outcry.