Clobisman:

Akpabio that has criminal charges on him is calling another person like him a thief. Was Akpabio not part of the last government that everyone is blaming and if Nigerian destruction is taken sixteen years back, Akpabio was still actively involved in whatever nigeria has become today.

Akpabio knows that we have a nonexistent memory, and that is why the hypocrite is vomiting rubbish.

Jax1:
Vagabonds in power.

Vagabonds ALLOWED to be in power by clueless, tribalist masses, who have short memories

ogugwa1992:

••• VOWS TO INTENSIFY CAMPAIGN AGAINST CRUDE OIL THEFT

https://leaders.ng/2024/02/18/tompolo-bags-2023-sun-newspaper-courage-in-leadership-award/

It makes sense that Peter Obi got an award from the same company for their business.

“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true. What I said about Asiwaju, I gave examples of his vision, knowledge and courage. There is none about Obi. You can’t point to any enduring legacy of Obi in his eight years as governor of Anambra”.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/

magoo10:
This is the mindset behind Nigeria's present economic woes ,they are more concerned with 2027 than delivering to Nigerians .
Their plan is to impoverish the common man so that they will not have strength to vote by 2027.
But thank God the drunkard is only a man

Well meaning Nigerians should continue to pray for Peter Obi as he needs our support ,for now he is the only one who has the political will to break this chain of demons .he did it in 2023 and will do better by 2027

Please how can a demonic liar be trusted to break this chain of demons, when he is not going bunkers in his own head

“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true. What I said about Asiwaju, I gave examples of his vision, knowledge and courage. There is none about Obi. You can’t point to any enduring legacy of Obi in his eight years as governor of Anambra”.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/

Osidazz19:
Atiku and Peter Obi are just doing what opposition politicians do everywhere. They will try to find any fault in Govt's actions and try to make a hill out of a mole. It's their way of trying to stay relevant for the next election.
We know their tactics and we are not bothered.
If in 4 years, Tinubu's policies are not yielding the desired results then people should vote him out.
I am confident that in 4 years, Tinubu will be reelected.

If capital importation is improving as alleged by Bayo, then why is the exchange rate and unemployment plus poverty worsening?

Do you know the reason for this conundrum

emkz:

It is obvious you have basic comprehension problems. Was Obasanjo in charge of privatization?

Has Atiku denied his involvement in corruption?

https://saharareporters.com/2021/08/04/documents-expose-how-ex-vice-president-atiku-used-wife-launder-40million-us-eight-years

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/busted-us-places-atiku-family-under-close-watch-over-alleged-fraud/amp/

If you are not the one who has comprehension problems, then why don’t you just share court convictions against him instead of sharing propaganda stories cooked up by his detractors to deny Nigerians from benefiting from Atiku’s privatisation and deregulation policies as a thoroughbred capitalist?

That should be easy enough for an intelligent, smart and competent person like you, not so

Obakoolex:
most will just rush to comment rubbish without reading first

Please do tell us what is there to read in the propaganda lies and useless excuses of Cardi B, by the masses who have been made hungry extreme poverty paupers by the economic incompetence of Cardi B and his boss?

Dialpad:
I doubt if a competent and qualified person would say that about his job

The only qualifications that are required to work for Tinubu are loyalty and commitment to propaganda lies for covering up his corruption and incompetence, which Cardi B excelled in doing when he was Tinubu’s commissioner in Lagos and in Citibank to launder money stolen by Tinubu from Lagosians to deny the masses of basic services and utilities like ordinary water.

Know that and know peace.

Babalegba:
Nairaland must be full of secondary school children.zero knowledge of economics

Unlike the CBN which your Cardi B heads, that is full of economics experts hence the cry of hopelessness by your guy

Ofunaofu:
He is already overwhelmed

And should resign as a man of integrity

Gossiphub:
Pastor CardiB make we hear word.

If you can't work, resign. You and your sleeping boss have cost alot of people their jobs. While still having your own job.

Is he also a Redeemed pastor like Remi Tinubu and Osinbajo
No wonder Adeboye has been in the news lately for diversionary stories.

fourboys:
So no solutions??

This is an excellent summary of all the propaganda lies that Cardi B vomited.
Instead of all these lies, can’t he just resign and let someone else that is capable take over

emkz:

You obviously misunderstand. He used privatization to enrich his friends.

Unlike Obasanjo, Buhari, Tinubu, Obi and others in our political circles who used their own office and influence to enrich themselves to the detriment of the country and their states?

Did Obasanjo use privatisation and deregulation to enrich his enemies?

You have persisted in your failure to show where Atiku was successfully prosecuted for your allegations. When will you admit your failure

emkz:

I did not allege it. That is an accusation that has been in the public domain for years. Atiku himself admitted to Kadaria Ahmed that he'd make his friends rich because they deserve to be rich. See links below:

https://guardian.ng/news/atiku-vows-to-enrich-friends-if-elected-president/

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/01/18/video-watch-as-atiku-promises-to-enrich-all-his-friends/

https://www.channelstv.com/2019/01/16/im-not-going-to-enrich-members-of-my-family-but-my-friends-atiku/

Obasanjo and El Rufai adduced to Atiku's corruption in their books. Atiku never denied or made anti-corruption pretences. Obasanjo couldn't have prosecuted Atiku as Atiku had immunity. Remember that Obasanjo illegally declared Atiku's seat vacant in 2006. Tinubu gave Atiku succour.

Also recall that there are several allegations against Atiku in the US pertaining to him using his ex-wife, Jennifer Douglas, to launder money through the US real estate market. Atiku's dealings with a former US senator sent the senator to jail.

As for the sale of national assets, PDP messed it up. It was seen as a bazaar. Atiku was Chairman of National Privatization Council.

With Atiku's antecedents and posturing, it is hard to trust him with the national assets and national treasury.

It is one thing to be corrupt, it is completely insane to be proud of it.

Why are you confusing privatisation with enriching friends?

Why are you confusing honesty with pride?

In all your balablu town hall posts you have failed to show where he was convicted of corruption.

Meanwhile Tinubu has shown himself to be a rogue who raises money from the masses and receives federal allocation on their behalf but fails to provide services and utilities to match. Moreover, Buhari, Tinubu and APC corruption has been worse than PDP’s as confirmed by TI and the huge growth in debt with no impact on high unemployment etc.

emkz:

They have not run out of ideas. Those who say these things are not informed of the mess.

Be patient. PDP had 16 years. It was PDP that started defending the naira. It was during PDP that subsidy billionaires emerged. It was during PDP that kidnapping and terrorism started. It was during PDP that people like Atiku stole national assets for personal use. It was during PDP that refineries collapsed completely. It was during PDP that many who are making noise on nairaland today were born.

Those of us who witnessed military rule and PDP knew that the practice that started with PDP was going to lead us to doomsday.

I sincerely pray Bola Tinubu will continue to find the will to do the right thing.

No, their resignation will not confer presidential legitimacy on those who lost the election. They have no solutions. The solutions Atiku mouths reeks of blatant ignorance and lack of intelligence.

If Atiku stole national assets as you alleged, is it not foolish for APC not to have prosecuted him successfully since 2015, and for Obasanjo to have failed to prosecute him in his second term?

PDP is a private business friendly capitalist party that sold refineries before feudal Yar’Adua reversed it to please uniformed labour unions and socialists for credibility after the Iwuruwuru INEC elections that made him president. Thankfully the sale of the petrochemicals units was not reversed by clueless and irresponsibly corrupt Yar’Adua. The same story for Virgin Atlantic and Nigeria Air.

Atiku’s solutions are alternatives from the capitalist perspective to the wobble and fumble socialist agenda of Tinubu.

emkz:
If the elections hold again, I'd still throw my weight behind Tinubu. Atiku had his time, and he had nothing to show for it beyond plundering national assets to cronies. He is one of the architects of the current mess and should take responsibility. He also lacks understanding of presidential processes. Peter Obi is just a revolt against the status quo and people conveniently forgot he was a governor as well and Anambra did not improve.

Any sincere Nigerian would make suggestions to help the nation.

If Tinubu and APC have run out of ideas to help the country as they promised in 2015, why should they continue in office instead of resigning enmasse

Is this not the right thing to do for people of integrity?

adekolaelect:
You are among those that made Tinubu more popular than expected and create easy ways to victory for Tinubu over Atiku with your baseless and unreasonable attacks in the name of Obi unrealistic presidency.

Where did he mention Obi in the post that you quoted

APOPTOSIS:
They should also reduce the sizes of their cars to wheelbarrows. Nonsense & Rubbish!
What will happen if they reinforce those blocks with more cement and possibly increase their prizes?

Extreme poverty paupers in our country won’t buy it.
That’s what will happen.

Why mould a Plywood?
What has Tinubu got to do with operating below the recommended or standards?
You can always increase the prices and cost of doing such, rather than resorting to this mockery.

Do you have any other president of our country apart from Tinubu

Feintline:
What tinubu cannot collaspe does not exist.

Not only him.
The collapse is an APC crisis, starting with Buhari that Tinubu alone made president nine years ago in order to get his own turn for continuing the progressive destruction of our country.

greenermodels:
We long lost faith in Nigeria and the rigging of the last general election once again proves the hopelessness of the Nigerian project so why bother ourselves with a hopeless situation,here in the east people are preparing for eventual economic collapse because there's no sign that the economic and security situation in the country would get better soon.

Tinubu won the election, thanks to Igbo votes for communist labourer Peter Obi.

He deserves part of the blame for the shege promax that Tinubu is inflicting on 200 million Nigerians. Don’t you think

successmatters:
Maybe the Prof has been deaf.

The SE has shouted themselves hoarse during the run up to the elections, no need to talk again.

Breakfast time, all man must keep quiet and eat.

Did Igbo people help Tinubu achieve his APC turn by turn Emilokan dream, by voting for communist LP Peter Obi despite Soludo’s warnings

jameshankss:
Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.

The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”

Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.

But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.

The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.

Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.

“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.

“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”

Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.

Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.

He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.

“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.

“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”

Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”

Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.

He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/15/soludo-i-wont-succumb-to-bullies-obi-knows-he-cant-win/

EzeNwaanyiMmili:
A vote for Tinubu is a vote for incompetence,docility, massive bullion van looting and drug peddling.

everything about Tinubu is bad , terrible and evil
Tinubu must be stop so Nigeria can move forward and progress.
thunder scatter Tinubu
thunder scatter Tinubu urchins
thunder scatter Remi
hahahahaha

Are you a prophet by any chance?
You saw today’s shege promax very clearly back then.
Stay blessed sir.

NigeriaIsGreat:
The erudite scholar prof Chukwuma Soludo is the solution to social media malady

We realise too late. Unfortunately!

matify83:

I clearly stated in my post that the AC runs basically in the afternoons only.

There is no way an off grid solar user can be running all his appliances at the same time and for 24 hours continuously.

Lightening only come up at nights

My fans are Qasa standing fans, very energy efficient.X 6

I'm not a TV person but use about 3 hours for the kids (56W Lg tv)

Ironing is done in regimented fashion about 3 times a week and between 10am and 3pm

Pumping of water is also done at the peak of the sun using a 1hp electric pump.

Of course I go to work, same as my wife and kids (to school). The system is not always under stress as you are painting it except on weekends.

I'm not a a politician nor a pastor, I don't sell hope.

I love this your last sentence.

Even though you don’t sell hope, thanks for sharing your experience to give us hope for off grid electricity.

Gadafii:
In Nigeria we provide our own light, security, jobs, sometimes fixed our own roads cos govt had abandoned it for years, I want to ask…. What exactly are we benefiting from govt as Nigerians ?

How honest are we about paying taxes and tenement rates as well as donations to political campaigns that address the services and utility issues you raised

Is that not a prerequisite for having local, state and federal governments to serve us better?

blazesam:
English cut short. FG try your possible best to provide enough power in the country. Nobody will dare add prices on goods like this.

Most times if you are not prepared for something and you venture into it, you fumble eventually. Tinubu forced his way in and now, there is no agenda to reconcile the rising cost in the country. It is well

I always wish Osibanjo was my president. Let he come in the second tenure

What would Osinbajo do differently, seeing that he was part of Tinubu’s reckless Lagos government for eight years, and part of Buhari’s clueless government for eight years also

Is he not part of the pseudo progressive/socialist APC?

ambale:
An only El rufai get small sense from the past governors, he saw the disaster ahead and japa

Now you want go beg cement producer to start selling at loss abi?

Did he japa or his nomination was rejected for security clearance failure

AnonPoet:

https://dailypost.ng/2024/02/17/rising-cost-of-cement-minister-summons-manufacturers/

Who will the minister meet over rising exchange rates, which is contributing to the rise in cement costs, as we wait for our president to achieve his short term goal of N300/dollar

The President-elect said he would work with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to bring down the exchange rate to N200 in his first term.

“My administration will collaborate with the Central Bank to harmonize the fiscal and monetary policy to achieve immediate stabilization of the value of the naira against the US dollars and other currencies and in the short term, strengthen the naira by boosting the supply of foreign currency and moderating demand.

“The short-term goal is to achieve a naira/dollar rate of 300 naira/US$ and gradually achieve a less than 200 naira rate over the next four years,” Tinubu stated.

https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/world-bank-offers-nigeria-forex-rate-advice-as-tinubu-eyes-n200-dollar-rate/?amp

chopnaira:
Pat Utomi. You are one of the elite class that dined and wined with corrupt politicians.

And he is one of those who Tinubu used to manipulate Obi out of PDP to split the vote and help Emilokan achieve his dream.

How ‘President Elect’, Tinubu Funded Peter Obi’s Campaign To Reduce Winning Chances Of Atiku – Oyo Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Akinwale

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, on Wednesday stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.

Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."

The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.

"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.

"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.

"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.

https://saharareporters.com/2023/05/24/how-president-elect-tinubu-funded-peter-obis-campaign-reduce-winning-chances-atiku-oyo

Timatayo1:
Please God have mercy on good people of Nigeria and all the innocent citizens

How are the citizens innocent if they allowed the people in federal, state and local governments to emerge from their own midst

Vinnie2000:

Ebola Tinubu wants to turn Nigerians to Almajiri beggars.

With great help from Utomi and Peter Obi who laboured in vain to scam us with their communist LP robes in spite of being ruthless capitalists?

Gerrard59:
The 2023 presidential election is less than seven months away. There are three contenders, even though Peter Obi happens to be largely a pretender in my opinion. Tinubu has chosen Shettima to be his VP candidate, Atiku chose Okowa and Peter chose Yusuf. However, of the trio, Tinubu’s choice is the most controversial as it is a Muslim-Muslim ticket, which is very insensitive to the 100M+ Christian populace. To be honest, this choice increases Tinubu’s probability amongst the Muslim community in Nigeria, especially in the north-west and north-east. This brings me to the topic: Peter Obi cannot win in those regions as they will not vote for a Christian when there are two alternatives where Muslims hold sway. In the north-west, Tinubu has a greater probability of winning there as his combination resonates with the populace. Kwankwaso has said he has no problems with the choice he made but with his platform. This means when push comes to shove, he will step down for Tinubu so that BAT’s chances of winning Kano with a wide margin come to fruition. In the north-east where Shettima and Atiku come from, Peter Obi’s odds further decline as indigenes there will rather their sons than someone else.

In the south-west, Tinubu is expected to win. Don’t allow anyone to deceive you that Tinubu will lose his backyard. Yorubas don’t involve religion during elections as they are roughly divided across three religions amidst themselves. Tinubu is seen as a God figure and when the chips are down, the vast majority will tilt towards voting for the APC. However, there exists a section of Yoruba voters especially the Christians who might not/will not vote for the APC or alternatively abstain from voting due to the insensitivity of Tinubu’s choice considering the wanton killings the Christian community has experienced in Nigeria within the last seven years. The massacre in the Catholic Church at Owo rings a bell. To these people, alternatives exist in Atiku and Peter but here is it: due to what I cannot describe as the rivalry between Igbos and Yorubas, the vast majority of these Yoruba Christians will not vote for an Igbo man. They will/might be shamed, mocked at or derided or whatever, but they won’t vote for Peter Obi and/or rather cast their votes for Atiku. On the other hand, Yoruba Muslims will never vote for an Igbo man, certainly not when an illustrious son of theirs has a strong likelihood of becoming the president.

In the north-central, Tinubu’s prospects are pretty significant as people, especially the Muslims in Kwara will vote for him. The same thing in Nasarrawa, Kogi, and Niger especially as the vast majority of people in IDP camps are Christians. Benue, for instance, has one of the highest concentrations of IDPs thereby making them unqualified to vote. His chances in Plateau and Benue are very low but APC’s structures there can deliver the minimum requirement of 25% to scale through. In the south-south and south-east, Tinubu’s chances are extremely low considering he never campaigned in the south-east and only campaigned in Delta and Cross River states in the south-south during the APC presidential primaries. Effectively, he believes he won’t win in those regions, and rightfully so. In fact, I predict that Tinubu will not campaign during the campaign season in any of the south-eastern states and only in Cross River considering the influence of Okowa in Delta. He might substitute Delta with Akwa Ibom but that is it, just two states in the south-south and none in the south-east. The south-south and south-east together are home to the vast majority of Christians in Nigeria. They will not be receptive to a Muslim-Muslim presidency.

dannyspeejay:
Dollar is 1650, we d!e together on the Agbado Mandate

Since the mandate has turned into flẹkẹflẹkẹ wahala, should we consider standing on the manhood of the JagaBandit owner of the rotten mandate

Or what else can we do?

CaveAdullam:

9. Revolution can only take place when it involves every member of society aside from the corrupt officials. There's nowhere only peasants were able to cause and effect a revolution.

This was what happened during the 2012 petroleum subsidy protest. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Pastor E. Adeboye, Wole Soyinka, et al. were at the forefront with the peasants to hold grounds with the government..

The first problem with us is that we don’t have a critical mindset, hence we are easily manipulated and fooled.

Fuel subsidy: We played politics with 2012 Occupy Nigeria – Fayemi
5th September 2023


https://punchng.com/breaking-fuel-subsidy-we-played-politics-with-2012-occupy-nigeria-fayemi/?amp

How many of the 2012 protesters have said anything against Buhari’s 2016 and Tinubu’s 2023 subsidy removal

Subsidy removal: Tinubu backs Buhari

13th May 2016

A former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the decision of the President Buhari-led Federal Government to remove petrol subsidy as courageous.

The government, through the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, on Wednesday, announced the removal of the subsidy on petrol, pegging the upper limit at N145 per litre from N86.50k.

In a statement in Lagos on Thursday, Tinubu said though the decision was a difficult one, it would ultimately become beneficial to the generality of the people instead of enriching the pockets of a few Nigerians, who enjoyed the fraud of the subsidy regime.

https://punchng.com/subsidy-removal-tinubu-backs-buhari-falana-condemns-price-hike/?amp

Solitechworld:

So that is what you use to justify the holiness of a country? If those countries you are Japaing to had left you alone , if they had not meddled in African affairs, we would not have reason to Japa to them in the first place.....

Those western countries are Cancers... Buh majority of you are blinded by their lies and Propagandas...

Is this how you allow your own mates to beat you senseless, and then you will be making balablu noise of how they DEVELOPED themselves to be more powerful than you