₦airaland Forum

I didn't bother reading the unorganized crap.

What I know is that ipobs are illiterates.

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SLAP44:
So why are crying you intestines out about the great Nnamdi kanu?

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At least, you have learnt a good formula from Buhari. Go and use, stop disturbing my mention with rubbish.

Now, get out.

SLAP44:
Buharri that truncated democracy, was jailed by IBB, insulted presidents and even used hate speech became president.

Okay. Buhari has given you the formula. Use hate speech to become president too.

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madamgrace:
Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Abulkadir Balarabe Musa has insisted that for the sake of peace, justice and national unity, the presidency should go to the South East region of the country in 2023.

Reacting to the clamour for the presidency to shift to the South East, the former governor said, “I stand by what I’ve said, that the Presidency should go to the South East, for the sake of peace, national unity and justice. I’ve talked quite a lot about that, I don’t need to say anymore”.




However, foremost Labour leader and former governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Kwara State, Mr Issa Aremu argued that the constitution should be the determinant factor in the choice of the next president.

According to the labour leader,”we should go with the spirit of the constitution. The constitution has defined how we can produce a President. It’s not about geographical location, it’s not religion bound, it’s not gender bound, there is no region limit, no state limit to where a president can come from. So, I think we need to first get that clear, that the Presidency, the governorship, the chairmanship of local government, are open to all Nigerians who meet the conditions as spelt out by the constitution.”

While calling on the media to promote the spirit and the content of the constitution, he however noted that there would always be political calculations and alliances, based on what the parties perceive as fairness and equity.

“But that would be the job of the parties. As a member of Labour Party, I can’t tell you from where the President should come from beyond what my party agrees upon. Those are parties arrangements, they will work it out”, he said.

Aremu argued that “as someone who held many superior positions in the labour union, Nigerian workers never asked me which region I came from. The Nigerian workers put confidence in you based on your ability to represent them, protect the interest of the workers and advance their welfare..”

“Nigeria Labour Congress has produced six Presidents, I don’t think anybody cared which region they came from. I think what is good for Labour is good for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There is no regional President, it is not known to the constitution, it has to be pan Nigerian.”

He added that, “I think rotational leadership, turn by turn arrangement will never deliver Nigeria, what will deliver Nigeria is the ability to serve selflessly. The kind of presidency we need now in 2023 has to be all inclusive, it not only has to be pan Nigerian, it has to be pan African because the problems facing us go beyond Nigeria. Whoever will lead should think beyond the narrow confines of Nigeria, whoever will lead Nigeria in 2023 should be able to think how we can drive the African Continental Trade Agreement and has to think about the ECO currency which the French are undermining in the sub region. So, I think Nigeria’s political class should get their thoughts right and stop this turn by turn mentality which is unhelpful. All this talk about rotational presidency may make sense before COVID-19, but after COVID-19 the world has changed,we must re-set ourselves. We need a new language, this is not the time of sharing, it’s the time for survival,”he said.

In his own contribution, Shetima Yerima, leader of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, said that contrary to his previous position that power should remain in the North in 2023, he has now changed his position.

“If you look at it, I have now changed position. By the time you are thinking that power must reside in a region,you may cause havoc. My view now is on competence, any side of the country should mobilize adults who are competent,” he said.

Nastura Ashir Shariff of Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, said they have not commenced deep discussions into the politics of 2023 which to every discerning mind was dicey at the moment as well as very uncertain.

According to him, “that notwithstanding, the likely turn of events that will shape the politics of 2023 will be agitations for a major paradigm shift. Nigeria deserves a shift of power from its present base in the hands of old people with spent ideas and approach.

“There has to be a new thinking along a generational power shift rather than the current divisive and counterproductive quest for regional or sectional shift. We should all start thinking Nigeria, not regional or ethnic. What we should be concerned with is to have a new breed of leaders with fresh, up-to-date ideas and dynamic energy to inject into governance. It may therefore no longer matter which region or section of the country the president is coming from but rather his capacity, competence and reach would”.

Meanwhile, efforts have commenced towards galvanizing younger elements across the northern states towards achieving a paradigm shift in politics and development issues, a new movement of young Arewa people has said.

According to the Arewa Paradigm Shift Movement, 2023 politics in the north will be different because a paradigm shift in the focus of Arewa politics and development challenges is now underway.

Nasir Dambatta, the group’s Director of Publicity said that “it is high time fresh ideas were injected into governance in Nigeria by young and dynamic new breed politicians. It is abundantly clear by now, that only the young Turks are making waves on the nation’s democratic space today,” he said.

The group said it would not join a section of Northern elite, which has been merely lamenting over the prevalence of poverty, insecurity, palpable healthcare, sorry state of education, gross lack of economic empowerment and the poor infrastructure that does not positively attest to years of northern leadership of Nigeria.

“We’re not persuaded by the claim that the young politicians now making waves on the democratic space are unprepared to assume the mantle of leadership, or mentor other younger ones, just because of one or two isolated cases. Our resolve was informed by the blatant failure on the part of the older brigade of politicians to considerably move Nigeria and Nigerians forward since they took over the reigns of governance in 1999.

“The passage of the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill, was to mobilise and further the interest of young, vibrant and versatile Nigerians to completely relegate our older politicians to playing advisory roles in the background. And we’re determined to fire the imagination of young politicians and crush their crisis of confidence in taking over reigns of democratic power in Nigeria by 2023.

“We’re fully prepared to boost the confidence of innovative and hardworking young politicians, especially in the North to step forward and stop being bystanders in power calculations that could determine what our future should look like, as from 2023″, the group said.


https://www.inform.ng/post/2023-presidency-should-go-to-southeast-balarabe-musa

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SE should contest for presidency on the platform of their darling party pdp and slug it out with other people. That is how it has been and so shall it remain. No region should be given the office on a platform of gold just because "they are entitled to it".

The office of the president is a well contested one even in the US. Anyone that wants to be a president should go get registered with his party of choice and allegiance. No one is "entitled" to the office, especially when you have cultivated the habit of insulting everyone who disagrees with your opinion.

IspitonCowards:
Call the name of the people so I can engage you

I mean those illiterates following lamidi cownu up and down.

Justice35:
Seeing the cone head of the other one,you don't need a prophet to tell you he is an afonja!!! Afonjaz don carry their crime enter East!!! Nwanne Afonja abatago aba.....

Really?

Self deception is curable, but by oneself.

Continue deceiving yourselves.

Bright Chinonso
Eze Ernest
Chisom Godwin
Chinoyerem Chineye

Gradually, these fulani herdsmen terrorising our communities will all be arrested.

Let's pray the tyrant Buhari doesn't order the police to release his fulani jihadist brothers.

Sadly, people majorly involved in these crimes are the same people making the loudest noise about Nigeria's battered image abroad.

In this case, they will say "Nigeria". Meanwhile, few hausas or yorubas involved in crime, same clowns will scream "afonja" or "abokki", not Nigeria o.

They have been living in self delusional lies, always lying to themselves.

Continue deceiving yourselves.

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donstan18:
95% of the beneficiaries of this deceitful looking benevolence will still be the connected ones.


No Nigerian alive can do giveaway or something like this without a hidden motive. Impossible!!!

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Is that the method applied in our wheelbarrow poverty alleviation scheme?

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DuBLINGreenb:
Nice gesture

I hope they are all functioning properly

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Don't bother. At least our wheelbarrows are functional.

overdrive:

Mods, come and see what you moved to fp.

Very fake news

Cc
Mynd44
Lalasticlala

Not in support or against his speech, but I listen to the clip twice.

"90% of kidnappers and bandits are Nigerians", certainly not in this clip.

guruzmarstk:
Good day Sir,

Sorry for quoting you. Just that I felt it is necessary.

Regardless, I strongly believe you're an intelligent man. As such, I wish to point you to something that I feel is important.

Sir, for the good of the whole country, I'd appreciate if you could expunge tribalism from your lexicon and modus vivendi.

[I]N.B.: I'm not Igbo/IPOB neither am I a PDP supporter. I'm just a concerned and apolitical Nigerian. However, If you think otherwise, you can go through my profile online. I just feel this tribalism is doing us no good.[/I]

Ethnicity and religion is just a tool which political elites use to further create division among us, for obvious reasons.

I believe every Nigerian is entitled to his political ideology. Having a different ideology from yours does not necessarily warrant insult. We can actually communicate our ideologies without throwing insults around.

Yes, some individuals in a group are uncourteous and insult other tribes, but does their views capture that of the whole? Does their insult or responding to their insults change anything?

As a matter of fact, most individuals align with a group, for instance the IPOB, because of the rot in the system. Most are frustrated because of the political elites. It is not necessarily because of hate or dislike for certain ethnic or religious groups.

It is human nature to always blame everything and anything when we fail. Not to even imagine that the system is often against our success.

Sir, even in the developed world, most citizens still criticise their government for certain things. I don't think Nigeria should be an exception.

While not all criticism/correction are borne out of love and passion for the Nation's growth and development, yet, not all are borne out of hatred or bad intentions.

Imagine in my LGA, we voted Buhari and Lolo, but now that bandits are killing and destroying millions worth of properties are you going to blame us when we criticise Buhari and Abu Lolo's government?

Think about it!

Don't be deceived, there would be no call for IPOB or Oduduwa Republic if everyone feel included, as well reap the benefits of democracy. Nobody will cry secession when there's no equitable distribution of resources and opportunities.

Yes, everybody hates corruption when we're not the actors. But do you expect a 30k salary earner to shun corruption when the political elites care less about transparency?

This is not a problem particular to a tribe or religion. We need to unite as citizens to win this war against our common enemy —corrupt and clueless politicians.

We can actually have a mature discussion without

Sir, I know I'm too small to point this out, plus my writing sucks. However, I will appreciate if you consider what I wrote above.

Warm regards,
A Nigerian

Brotherly, I'm humbled. At least if not for anything else, the time you spent typing this really says a lot about your concern for the well being of everyone.

I read through your comment twice, seriously searching for a word or expression of insult but to no avail. I'm really touched and accordingly, will desist henceforth.

My concern is not even politics. If you insult Buhari from now till the end of time, I don't give a damn. My concern is mostly the way some people have made it a duty to continue insulting other tribes for almost everything. And I fall into one of those tribes.

All the same, I promise to desist henceforth. Thanks for your concern.

God bless you
God bless yours
God bless your desire.

Really?

Officialgarri:
They are persecuting us o. We are being marginalized, we can't even own a shop in Nigeria, when last did they demolish shops in other regions..
It's Arewa or death!!!

Abi o.

You mean the "real owners" of Kano state who also own 98% of Lagos, 97% of Abuja, 94% of New York and 92 of Washington DC?

Throw which weight?

Great work by the hunters.

Yahaya Bello should give good security appointment to the most prominent of them. He may call the appointment any suitable name.

AFONJAPIG:
Am not surprise because their prophet raped Aisha at that same age

Since the 80 old men in Anambra who raped their own daughters are not Muslims, I suspect such ideology must have been acquired divinely.

Cocolatti:
Hausa men have been doing this to their female hawkers since 1000 AD

It's the social media that's creating more awareness now.

You are correct. The social media is really exposing so many things.

Example, if not for social media, we wouldn't have been aware of the case of 80 old men raping their own daughters in Anambra.

Thanks to social media.

These Ipob miscreants again?

A clear case of manslaughter. Handle this matter that way and move on.

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Bulleye:
I am still searching for rationale behind Buhari's body language on the killings in Katsina that defy explanation. Is it a rehearsal to launch attack on other states and then use Katsina as a benchmark to compare and contrast which states have highest killings? Are the killers more powerful than all Nigeria's security forces combined? Are the killers of different ethnic nationality from their victims? What are the killers demand? Are the killers not Nigerians?

All Nigerians should sleep with one eye closed because Katsina indigenes are slaughtered endlessly and their son Buhari cannot help them. They have become refugees in their own state. In local parlance, " like play like play" Katsina has fallen to murderous bandits while their son, Buhari holds the position of Commander in Chief of armed forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

If Buhari cannot help Katsina people, which state in Nigeria is safe? The fact that Katsina is blood soaked should trigger fear in the mind of other Nigerians. If Buhari's kindred are slaughtered right before his eyes helplessly, Who are the rest of Nigerians?

This is the reason Tolulope does not matter to them; Katsina lives are wasted and no action. A wrong and dangerous development is taking place in Nigeria but Nigerians are not curious.

The message is simple to those demanding detailed investigation into Tolulope's death: is her life more important than those lives that are lost daily in Katsina? Evil ideology is taking root in Nigeria while Nigerians are sleeping. We must change the narrative now before we are killed. Tolulope Arotile escaped Bandits fire but was caught in another type of warfare the rules of the game which she did not understand. We are all in danger. Roads are not safe; barracks are not safe; homes are not safe. Nowhere is safe.

The safest place right now is battle ground fighting the bandits. Tolulope Arotile has dropped that message for us.

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No, Buhari is from Abia state.

MASTAkiLLAh:
then let’s allow them have their Biafra

Dem tell you say na me hold dem ni?

ERockson:
Even from my experience with those people from side.the 1980 could be the birth year of his child. Senseless old foolss plenty there.

Kuku kill me.

IvarTheBoneless:
A fool at 40 is a fool forever.

2020 - 1980 = 40. Very pathetic.

Lol.

I swear you get mouth.

Pls what has been the contribution of the East from pre colonial era to the present day. Has there ever been a time they contributed more than any region?