₦airaland Forum

femisplash:
With due respect, Chinua Achebe died a tribalist, his book, there was a country, gave a one-sided account and opened up dead wounds.

I agree. It was so disappointing seeing things he wrote in that book. He remains an icon i admire and look up to but i was extremely disappointed when i read certain aspects of that book.

Hendrixky:
We are the giant of Africa for a reason


But tinubu and Apc is taking us back to retrogression


We say no to tinubu

He can't distance himself from this administration
We can not handover Nigeria at this present condition to some one who is not aware of his environment with dementia. Someone not physically and mentally fit

You see the pic below...the national anthem was going on but this man is not aware of his environment oshiomhole was looking at him like what da fuccck his wrong with this man....in oshiomhole mind he is like Nigeria will be the greatest fools if they allow this man to rule

Funnily Oshiomole like Osinbanjo would have been a decent president. APC really dropped the ball by presenting Tinubu when they have so many decent options.

I say this as someone who has a high degree of respect for Tinubu of the 90s to 2000s.

Winterhaven:
you are talking off point. My emphasis is on the mode of debt retrieval in cases of defaults. Only backward countries result to shaming tactics to retrieve their debts.

Your post was not worded clearly.

Yes of course I went through a lot of trouble to get my PVC.

But I may not vote or if I vote it may be done only in a symbolic way i.e by voting for someone like Kwankwaso or Sowoer who are decent men but not likely to win.

Winterhaven:
I blame the loan bank. Lending money to people without any credible means of getting compensation in cases of default is a recipe for disaster. I'm sure this only happens in hopelessly backward countries.

One must be a member and a committed one before you will be given a reasonable amount of money. What they do is that you will join the group and start making thrift with them. It is the evidence of this thrift through your card that will qualify you for a loan which you must either pay back outrightly or in batches.

And no this doesn't happen only in "backward countries". Governments everywhere create soft loan facilities to stimulate businesses. It's smart, and a one-off case of person committing suicide out of thousands of beneficiaries does not invalidate the idea.

Thinkam:
I believe you ma, but don't lie it was Mr Shettima that gave you the money , but I know the money wasn't for free of charge.

How many inches did he give you?, or only the tip

Atiku is coming

Sometimes you need to stop and question your humanity. This is too depraved, politics or not.

Massiveglory:
No grammar can stop and idea whose time has come.
The incoming Presidency of the federal republic of Nigeria is PODATTI .
Know this and have rest.

"No grammar can stop an idea whose time has come"

Okay, what is the idea? Is Peter Obi an idea?

You guys never cease to amaze.

winterfell007:
I beg to disagree here. We have 150 million user with a smart phone. Surely those users are also in the villages, you think they don't know about Peter Obi, you must be cynical. You guys will soon experience the true power of social media. Just dey play...

Good sir, Nigeria's smartphone penetration is between 25 - 40 million according to Statista.

Where did you get your figure of 150 million?

azpekuliar:
I personally rate the polls conducted by ANAP/NOI, Stears, Nextier and Bloomberg the highest.

I don't rate ANAP either. They are too close to the action because they are clearly pro Obi and relied on telephone interviews which have obvious limitations - being that the phoneless poor are excluded.

Stears has been the best for me.

azpekuliar:
Now the CORNfused mob says we should disregard the over 10 polls that says Obi is Nigerias most preferred candidate going into the election

Let me shock you even Redfield & Wilton strategies has predicted an Obi victory. Even vote buying will not save you CORNmen.

If you ask me, the Redfield and Wilton poll is the weakest of all. Pure social media poll.

This is the major issue with all these polls. The methodology is clearly not effective.

When 52% of people you polled say they use social media as their primary source of news, then you know for sure that you have excluded a vast swathe of the country that doesn't even understand English, not to talk of using social media.

With 77% of Nigerians below the poverty line - meaning they don't even have access to smartphones, these polls are representative of affluent, young Nigeria.

It's really too late for polls anyway. By this time next week, we will march to the real polls and then everyone can rest.

OP at your big age you don't know what the CBN governor looks like?

franchasng:
Peter Obi is a man that believes that one shouldn't be diving into a business he doesn't understand very well and have a grip on. He once demonstrated this in 2012 or so when he was approached by some people working under Goodluck Jonathan if he would love to own an oil bloc because they were auctioning them then. Peter Obi said no that he is not interested, that he is a trader and not an oil business expert, that he doesn't like dabbling into things he is not familiar with.


In Nigeria, i dont think there are up to 1,000 Nigerians that would turn down an opportunity to own an oil bloc.


Meanwhile, Obi is a big investor in Agriculture. His focus has always been on the supply chain side of business because that has been his business model from start.



He must not be the one to initiate the consumption to production policies as the President, all he needs to do is assemble the right team without tribalism or religious sentiments, which I can guarantee you he would do if elected unlike Buhari that sidelined some sections of Nigeria out of his small mindedness and bigotry.


What matters most in leadership is having the integrity, and impeccable character to reject stealing (directly or indirectly using political fronts and stooges).


Once a leader is not stealing, his wife, his family members are not stealing from public coffers, corruption has been reduced to over 50%.



The problem Nigeria has been facing for decades now is not about lack of good policies and ideas to make Nigeria a paradise nation, the issue has been about the leadership corruption due to lack of integrity, honesty and sincerity to serve Nigerians selflessly.



That impeccable character and integrity is what makes Peter Obi stand out.


Its not just about ideas, yes Tinubu can have people around him with wonderful ideas just as previous Presidents, but the integrity and selflessness to act on those good ideas without trying to first enrich himself, his family, associates, party members that brought the political structures that installed him, is the major problem here.



We have already seen this happen blatantly in Lagos where Tinubu after serving as Governor in 2007 refused to let go of Lagos, instead he held Lagos under his palms and now claiming ownership of Lagos and taking all the glories of past Lagos leaders from Jakande down to Sanwo-Olu today, this is a huge red flag on Tinubu's candidacy to become President.



If he can be this ruthless in just a state like Lagos and some Southwest states, imagine if he becomes the President the CinC in Nigeria? These are the fears.


Nigeria is not a Monarchy state that one man and his family will personalize a whole state for 23 years running now.


Tinubu lacks the integrity, selflessness, empathy and sincerity of purpose needed to drive Nigeria as a nation.


Like other of your kind, instead of lying to yourself and twisting truth, come out clean and say it with your chest that the reason you hate Peter Obi and don't want to vote for him is because he is Igbo because you yourself know that you have no other genuine reason against Peter Obi's candidacy other than his Igbo tribe

So unfortunate. Even though I disagree with your points, I was reading along and trying to digest and react constructively until you ultimately proved yourself to be unreasonable at the end.

If you were capable of logical debate without resorting to cheap emotional blackmail and a pitiful everybody hates me tribalistic complex, this could have been a productive debate.

Too bad.

franchasng:
If you are truly honest, you would agree with me that if someone entrust huge some of money with you, and you decide to invest it for the person, you will invest it in a business or company you are very sure have a secured future where you too can invest your own personal money if you truly cherish that person that gave you the money to keep.



Another thing most of you don't know about this whole issue which the real Nigerian top politicians have investigated and found out and reason they remained silent on it is this;


When Obi was inviting all these industries to come to Anambra to invest, they gave conditions, and to further assure them that Anambra is truly committed to partner with them on a long term, Peter Obi made a pledge to invest Anambra money with them via shares and this helped facilitate their decision to come to Anambra.


I didn't want to let this out but had to at this point as an insider.



International Breweries was founded by a Yoruba man in the 1970s not even an Igbo man and their headquarters is in Ilesa Osun state, yet they call it IPOB/Biafra Brewery, a Brewery founded by a Yoruba man even before IPOB came into existence.


Obi invited Sabmiller to Anambra state as a reputable South African Brewery company, and they gave some conditions, and to assure them 100% of Anambra people support, Obi invested part of Anambra money there instead of squandering it on white elephant projects like other Nigerian Governors. That the current value of the share is down doesn't make Peter Obi's decision a bad one cos even Microsoft share was once down despite being one of the top companies in the world.




Peter Obi no be una mate.



Did you expect Obi to invest Anambra peoples money in a company outside Anambra that cant employ Anambra people?


If Obi had dubious intentions, he would have invested it directly with his NEXT business na, but he did not.



Instead he helped Anambra acquire shares in a company he trusted and believed had a secured future, and also a company that was ready to come into Anambra to.invest and employ Anambra people, thats using one stone to kill 5 birds

So how has this changed Anambra in anyway? Is it not on record that Peter Obi's Anambra had poverty at an all-time high?

No one says he didnt try to do good. But he simpky cannot be compared with others who have done better.

In terms of articulated policies, Atiku is the best.

In terms of historical performance, Tinubu is by far the leader.

In terms of good performance and being scandal freee, Kwankwaso is the man.

Why should I vote Obi other than for ethnical equity?

ExudeLoveToAll:
Did you read the write up? If you did you won't write this.

He is saying vote Obi, he removed Tinubu by saying yorubas had president and vice in this fourth republic and that inclusiveness should be a thing to consider. Tinubu was never an option for him and

He is clearly saying Obi is his choice buy he is also acknowledging that Obi is not the choice for many others. To avoid losing completely, he is willing to partially endorse Tinubu. Simple.

baralatie:
So the real question how do you determine a legit primary conduct of elections when the same party is been alleged to have conducted it

By reference to the constitition of the party.

baralatie:
Which judgement was that?

A plethora. This is the googleable one:

Salawu Ajide v Kadiri Kelani (1985) 1 NWLR 248 AT 269, Oputa J.S.C, on the need for truth to prevail in order to ensure justice is done poignantly cautioned that “justice is much more than a game of hide and seek. It is an attempt to discover the truth, on human imperfections, notwithstanding. Justice will never decree anything in favour of so slipperyj a customer as the present defendant/appellant” on this note, our courts have admitted that justice and truth are on the same ticket and that in doing justice the courts and all ministers in her temple, that is lawyers and all other stakeholders, must strive at discovering the truth regardless of legal technicalities”.

However i will update this post when i have time to find the appropriate leading authority.

Lifestone:
But technicality is part of law! Machina Lawyers goofed. After reading through this judgement, you can not blame the Supreme Court but Machina Lawyers

It is well-settled, even by this same Supreme Court, that technicalities ought not to stand in the way of justice.

Justice Agim, I know and know to be a justice of the highest calibre and integrity.

While I will consider the text of the judgment myself, the mere fact that he dissented to the majority judgment gives me reason to doubt its correctness.

BigBrother9ja:
Not all these daughters of Jezebel of this generation...

One has to very careful...
An angry, jealous or scorned woman is UNPREDICTABLE...

Eat her food, eat poison and DIE!
Few months after, she'll be riding another man while you rot underground.

STAY WOKE!

Meanwhile,
To whom it may concern, as you go about doing your valentine, DON'T LOSE GUARD OF YOURSELF!

Don't lose your dignity and virtue to nonsense, worthless and valueless things...

I know some fools that have lost their virginity to Indomie and fanta, pizza, ice-cream and all sorts of nonsense.

Your virginity is the most valuable and most precious thing you have to give any man.
Any man who tells you that your virginity or past doesn't matter is ONLY DECEIVING YOU!
That man is definitely not a responsible man or he only wants you for fun and something casual...

No high value man want to make a SLÚT or WHORÈ a wife or the mother of his children.
No one likes leftover...
No one like a used product...
No man likes a girl that has been ran through and passed around like football by various men...
Most importantly, NO CHILD WANTS TO BE BORN BY A WHORÈ OR A RETIRED SLÚT...


YOU CAN GIVE A LOT OF MEN

LOVE
MARRIAGES
CHILDREN etc
BUT YOU CAN ONLY GIVE ONE MAN YOUR VIRGINITY!
IS SUCH VALUABLE GIFT NOT WORTH GIVING SOMEONE SPECIAL THAT YOU WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WITH?

Does your username tally with your message?

Farooq should exercise some wisdom. As it is he in contempt of court.

But just practically speaking how is he sure that he wont have a matter that will require the aid of this same Court?

ChybuzzDD:
How on earth did you reach the conclusion that both the High and Appeal Courts that gave prior accurate judgements in this same case didn't have these "facts" you talked about

One of the reasons corruption keep thriving in Nigeria is you guys' willingness to promptly defend/rationalise/justify them whenever they occur, especially if the perpetrator shares similar ethnicity, religion or political party with you.

No country will move forward with this attitude.

And where did i state that the High and Appeals Courts did not have these facts??

Its obvious that different courrs may attach diffeeent interpretations or importance to the same set of facts.

ChybuzzDD:
So, in your mind, a Supreme court justice that awarded victory to a politician who didn't partake in his party's election is showing a sense of patriotism

It's amazing how you guys reason from your spinal cords instead of your brains, and see things with your occiputs rather than your eyes because of tribalism.

Tufiakwa!

The judgment is based on the fact that there were two primaries and Lawan indeed participated in the second one, while the first was said to be invalid.

Get the facts right.

The statement "the court is not a father christmas" simply means that partiws must be specific in stating what relief they seek from the court, and where they fail to do so, are not to expect fhe court to grant reliefs even if they are due.

MrDetermined:
Where did I say that government aren't patronising innoson? I only said he started his business from the scratch with his hard earned money unlike so many Nigerian billionaires who got funds from the government to be able to stand. Wasn't that what I said?

You said he ddin't receive support without specifying what support.

So which Nigerian billionaire received funds from the government to start anyway?

MrDetermined:
It brings tears to my eyes knowing that these men independently started their businesses from the scratch and now going International even without getting benefits and supports from the government like many bilionaires in Nigeria do.

The blessings of God are with you my people.

Innoson does not receive support from the federal government??

I recently visited the east. Guess how many Innoson vehicles I saw on the road? Not one.

If not for the federal government would Innoson have customers? Now you can clearly see the foreign minister facilitating a foreign government's patronage.

Why are you people like this??

fortunateme:
Urchins another good news to celebrate 🥂 👍 but since it is not 🌽 you guys will be sad.

Have you noticed that you didn't celebrate either?

You are more concerned with throwing names. Doesn't that show sadistic and wicked you are?

Penny wise pound foolish

omonnakoda:
Your mother is silly

Boring, senseless clown!

omonnakoda:
Go back and read what you quoted slowly
Comprehend it and then apologise
You are living up to your name

You are not very bright
There is no limit to the Number of transactions assuming your misplaced assertion is right
There can only be a limit PER TRANSACTION
There is no limit to the number of people a politician can send to market with cash
Or the number of times in one day or the number of markets
Wike in Rivers state has thousands of Assistants

You are quite silly.

So a politician will gather thousands of people to collect money to go and buy rice and oil from the same person or persons without exposing himself to the authorities?

Do you reason at all?

And to you a governor hiring people is the same thing? Is it not obvious that Wike used the machinery of the state - which is not available to the preside tial candidates?

Moreover did I say there is no way to circumvent the regulations at all? Or i pointed out that the assertion that one can convert massive amou ts of cash into goods legally is false?

Don't be a silly attention seeker all the time.

omonnakoda:
The current crisis will HELP not hinder so called vote buying
People don't have cash but need food
Politicians can buy a million bags of rice,garri ,Vegetable oIl, noodles,CASHLESSLY AND LEGALLY
and share to voters
It will even make them look good like saviours

You don't know the law. Do you know there is a legal limit to what you can buy with physical cash?

Biodun556:
Whoever believes that naira swap will curb vote buying is myopic.

Because it is not only money that can be used to buy vote

Naira is not the only currency that politicians can use to buy vote. They use dollar also.

So can they rally enouvh dollars to buy votes at the same rate as they would have with naira?

The people they sre buying dollars from, what will they do with the old notes?

Are you certain you are not the myopic one?