₦airaland Forum

Aufbauh:
She's a true Christian who upholds the tenent of the Christian faith which is love and forgiveness, unlike those crying about heresay injustice done to them from ages they were not even born. These same set of people are the first to attend morning mass, go for confession, conduct serial home worship cell and beat band around inviting us to come for crusade,they will even named their business outfit after God, yet they harbours within them deep hatred and unforgiving spirit.
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies"- Nelson Mandela

Lucasbalo:
I have always said that critiquing your leadership is the highest form of Patriotism. I am a big critic of our Mayor here in Chicago and it's for a just reason. I was a big supporter of Jonathan but turned against him whenever I visit Nigeria and see the way the country was being run. I was arrested with bunch of other guys protesting in front on the Nigeria's consulate in New York in the dying days of YarAdua when the Northern cabals were trying to frustrate Jonathan from becoming the President. He lost me when the country went down the drain. I will give Buhari a chance of at least 2 years and if things don't improve, I will take my gloves off like most fair minded Nigerians will. I just want the country to step up the plate and become viable economically. An Eldorado doesn't need to be looked at as a Junk.

EazyMoh:
when we were busy collecting our PVC you were busy plotting how to postpone the election. BTW my state has the highest PVC collection.
The South was fond of withholding the election result until every state from the North result is released, then they would inflate theirs to double ours. But in 2015 everyone knows the total number of registered users, an icing on the cake, we also know how many collected the PVC. Therefore inflation is impossible!
NB Era of rigging is over, better start thinking how you can sensitize your people on registration, PVC collection, and the voting itself. If not, t height be educationally backward, but we are very conscious, politically.

obailala:
For all those calling out Rochas for not fixing a major federal road, is this a case of sheer ignorance or is it a case of willful mumuism?

The contract for this road was awarded since the time of Yaradua, no work was ever done on it until the then governor of Rivers State, the Lion of Ubima decided to take it upon himself to fix the Rivers state axis of the road to a marvelous state.

This road was one of my biggest problems with my Igbo brothers in the last administration; during the elections, some dubious Igbo miscreants were deceiving fellow unsuspecting Igbos and the world at large that GEJ had fixed this road and my people were jumping around that GEJ was a messiah to the SE. As a matter of fact, this road was dubiously mentioned twice in the list of GEJ's achievements in the south east zone;
- PH to owerri road (fixed)
- Elele to owerri road (fixed)

But it was a lie.... Man's inhumanity to man. As a matter of fact, GEJ's five year regime never completed a single major project in the entire SE zone, except for appointing a generous number of self-serving men/women to go enrich themselves. I am still yet to understand the kind of love portion that GEJ injected in the waters in the SE.

baby124:
Jonathan is not a saint. He purposely surrounded himself with bad people so that he can steal and get away with it. At least if all hands are soiled, no one will expose him. At the detriment to all of us. Greed, selfishness and complete stupidity. Only to go and lock himself in underdeveloped Bayelsa. Thinking he is living life. Living like a caged animal in a swamp. Jonathan knew what he was doing

OnReflection:
I agree with you here. The unrestrained triumphalism of commentators who ought to know better, is just as bad as the initial acts of provocation.

omenka:
Oga, this is absolutely unnecessary. Those who were directly affected are trying to make peace- don't you think that is worthy of commendation instead of mocking them

Rich4god:
Why is it that Nigerian churches prefer to convert one another than to go out, looking for non believers to convert to Christ. I still don't understand how changing from one church to another will help us grow.
Most of our preaching thee days is mainly based on material things rather than ways to grow in our faith.

I honoured a friends invite to his Church sometime last month, and since then, the church workers unit don't want to give me a break. They keep calling me telling to come worship with them on Sundays. If to say them dey preach for me to improve my Christian life, it would have been better. All they are after is just to make me a me.

I don't want to start talking about the numerous flows in their preaching, cos I know that every church have its own flows when judged from another's perspective.

theunusualmoon:
Hitler probably threw the original copy of that letter in a furnace.

sandraokosun:
na to write stupid epistle abati know, when he was called to serve he failed. Maybe thats why noi said she regretted working with gej. Its either they are good and gej was the fool. Or they were both failures together

angiography:
As much as I derided 'political jobberism', I can't but say E.K.Clark, who is well 80yrs, has come to the realization that Buhari is the best thing that could happen to our dear country after the carnage presided over by the last administration. Abati, tho as a paid writer, has definitely been deluded by ethnocentrism. The only reason he propounded as to why E.K Clark should support Jonathan was because of ETHNIC AND EMOTIONAL attachment.... Same thing that has turned our resource rich country to a redundant poor one.


Abati shld wonder...why did we vote in for Jonathan in 2011 ( well I did) and we turned our back against him in 2015??. Even Ondo, being governed by PDP, voted massively for the PMB. this is what we call democracy...and a government of the people.


Abati may be right, from his myopic point of view; but E.K. Clark is not wrong from the common and national interest point of view.

sandraokosun:
thats a different case, the story here is what the man at the helm of affairs choose to do, politicians and people would always sing ur praise. Pmb knows that, he still isnt carried away as he knows the level he confides with these guys even elrufai. He is a wise man that has seen coup and knw the level u trust people as a head of state. But gej was a clown, choosed the wrong people as long as u praise him. Nollywood,can,nass ripped frm his stupidity. And to think that the clowns like clark,noi,dieani,akpabio where people he trusted and gave so much power and sidelined others while fighting men like ameachi who are lions that can be for u till death. I tell u their are many that would despise gej who got alot but just want to pretend

HungerBAD:
Bayelsa use to top it? Wow.

The state with the largest deposit of crude? Meanwhile, all the Warlords have private refineries.

Bayelsa is a small picture, of everything wrong with Nigeria As A County.

And to think the Clueless one is from there, even makes it more annoying.

MaziOmenuko:
Many more people died as a result of Alam's loot-o-cracy, those are the ones who should really rest in peace: not a thief who karma caught up with.

They should bury him with one if his Dubai houses, a bigger grave will contain them comfortably.

#thieves!

theshield:
Ran away from Dubai cos of fear of arrest.

OUR PAST LEADERS, GOVERNORS INCLUDING HIMSELF AND PRESIDENTS INCLUDING GEJ ARE TO BLAME. THE SO CALLED GIANT OF AFRICA, SO CALLED BIGGEST ECONOMY IN AFRICA, SO CALLED 170 MILLION POPULATED COUNTRY HAS NO SINGLE WORLD CLASS HOSPITAL.

what a shame. But if he DSP or GEJ build hospital in Bayelsa he wont go to Dubai. BAYELSA HAS 8 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, LESS ROAD TO CONSTRUCT, NO GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE STATE, NO RUNNING WATER OR LIGHT EVEN IN OTUOKE.

1. What is Bayelsa govt. doing with Allocations?
2. Is a shame that a president of Nigeria for 6 years can not build hospital or infrastructure in his own town.
3. Is a shame that people still worship GEJ and DSP in Bayelsa irrespective of their failure.

realborn:
Two key acknowledgements deduced from the article:

1. She affirmed that once the leader takes decisive actions in deference to one sector, the message is felt across others - "body language"

2. She hinted that her returning to the government the second time may have been 'unwisely'. Somehow smirked of innate regrets with how she has been associated with an alleged overtly corrupt government of the time.


My thoughts:

I think it is only those who have decided to remain completely obdurate and adamant with their views that will not give an iota of support for the ongoing efforts of this government to abate corruption.

I strongly believe that in 4 years, the questions our friends of other nationalities will be asking us will change from "how come a feckless hat wearing leader is governing over intelligent Nigerians" to "wow, you guys are so lucky with the President you have. We wish we are as lucky as you"

Bevista:
I sense a woman who regrets being identified with Jonathan. This is a subtle but clear indictment of the inept & corrupt GEJ administration.

While I do appreciate her candor in admitting her failure and speaking glowingly about PMB, I'm curious to know why politicians & public officials suddenly become Patriotic when they lose the patronage & glamour of office - case in point, Edwin Clarke & NOI.

All friends now deserting the Cluless one, even madam gele who was leader of the Musketeers. Failure is an orphan indeed!

As for the obdurate ones still clinging on to the shadow of their "Hero", this is a wakeup call - your role models are deserting you in droves. Even those who swam like Olympic champions in the corruption-ridden government of Jonathan are now towing the path of honour and praising President Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda. Soon you lot will left clutching at nothing - even GEJ will leave you people soon to join the CHANGE train.

dvee2:
OP, In your attempt to justify the incompetence of the clueless one, you made him look even more stupid. Look in the 21ST century, any commander in chief who allows opposition to destabilize his government (using boko haram) with all the resources at his disposal is not fit to be the commander in chief in the first place.
Any commander in chief who allows the opposition to rig him out (election /Jega) having control all the instrument of power as you want to claim ,does not qualify to be the commander in chief.
Even his closest allies, the Edwin Clark and Buccanister have accepted that GEJ is a weak leader. Or you want us to start talking about the rape of the nation through corruption by GEJ and his gang of looters?

So what are we saying? we are saying nobody sponsors boko haram, they are a group of insurgents whom GEJ treated with kids glove and allow to fester into a terrorist group.
- GEJ lost the election blue black, in fact he saw the hand writing on the wall leading to the election forcing him to postpone the election, that did not save him.
- We have given GEJ up to six years to crush Boko haram, we will give Buhari at most a year to assess his progress after which we will call him a failure too.

obailala:
Empty vessels make the loudest noise... Please and please again, do not heap the entire Igbos into this generalisation as a people who have no morals or common sense. It is mainly the empty vessels that you see online making all these noise with some cringe inducing embarrassing posts. The real hardworking and well meaning Igbos are in their places of business and work getting themselves busy; Igbos generally dont bother themselves with politics and I can assure you that there is a larger population of Igbos who do not support the filth which Jonathan's government represented. But unfortunately, since these well meaning ones never bother about politics, their opinions can easily be overshadowed by the empty vessels for obvious reasons.

Do not judge/define an entire tribe based on the opinions of a few cretins you meet online.

philips70:
Where is Tonyebarcanista??

Meanwhile Bode George is same time being accused of squandering N4.9b of Sure-P money by the workers. They will soon also open the chapter of Anenih, yet all these people went rogue to campaign this same Jonathan should be reelected. God forbids bad thing.

No wonder even some said even if Buhari presents bread label as certificate they will still vote for him. Nigeria wouldn't have survived another term of Jonathan.

Pa Clark, rest well, your sins are forgiven for telling Nigerians this simple truth.

modath:
Planned to mock him but all I feel for him is pity, the man has lost all hope.

Even if he is lying the texts in bold got me..




Go in peace old man.. God will forgive you for knowing the truth, that Jona was a terrible leader, & still instigating people against the present government.

Remember the yeye letter you wrote to the north on the eve of elections

GudluckIBB:
I particularly like that place were he said,Jonathan lacked the will power to fight corrouption yet some people will still insist that it was Boko haram that distracted GEJ from fighting corruption.

He even said drivers under jonathan now owns palatial mansions

Wailers will come now and say;

Make edwin clark dey go jare! Buhari don give am oyel well that's why he dey talk like this

Ovamboland:
It is well known that Buhari is not gifted in oratory skill but his integrity and discipline is still intact, we can still leverage on that.

It is a disaster to be saddled with a leader who can't articulate himself and to the booth lacks discipline and integrity.

The writer really missed road by placing our woes only on leadership, forgetting that the leaders emerge from amidst the followers and only the reflect the sum total of the aggregate leadership qualities inherent in all of us. Change from the top is difficult if it is not marched with deliberate effort at the micro-family unit level. For example many youngsters today have been taught it is alright to lie and call it wisdom or smartness. A 66 year old parent was recently caught writing WAEC or so exams for his child. Other parents are known to gleefully purchase answers, procure mercenaries or pay for miracle centers for their kids. What can you expect such kids to do when they are finally unleashed on society? The evidence is all over Nairaland where many posters are not incensed by the mid boggling revelation of looting of public funds.

For some mundane considerations like religion, ethnic origin, or political party affiliations they are willing to trade the violent acts of stealing on societal fabric on the alter of being champions of their small enclave. Nothing can shock them anymore as their minds has been pummeled first by their parents, then their community that celebrates reprobates and the government run by even more common criminals.

The majority who are feeble minded and remain on the fence and are usually unwilling partakers'in malfeasance can be redeemed to do right in the face of a firm leader, but we need to make it more than skin deep by being blessed by such leaders for at least the next 40 years. To make the new national direction meaningful it cannot stop at the top man only howling probity, it must permeate to the family unit and educational system. The curriculum right from the elementary level must reflect teaching of values, virtues and morals and what it means. The current cash and carry educational system needs to be overhauled, and offenders must be punished and seen to be punished not by public lynching but by the instruments of law to promote a orderly society. At the family level their might be need to employ and train social workers to take the message in the local languages to all the nooks and crannies of the country

In a nutshell, institutional reforms is much more enduring than simply having a firm leader. And the follower must support and work for the success of such reforms not with the current howling when the current weak institutions even attempts to perform its statutory fucntions

Ovamboland:
Yet just in March 2015 you people clamored and stake your shredded integrity on the continuation of this shenanigan for another 4 years.

I must say you all got no iota of shame and self dignity.

Bevista:
You want to overwhelm the president so you can break him down and have something to WAIL about? Even if the president were to investigate all the cases you raised above, you will still come out with a long list of others.

The fight against corruption has to start somewhere, so no matter where it starts, I expect Wailing. Even if the president were to start with Tinubu, you lot will still wail "Use and Dump".

In all this, you've not said anything about the incompetence and complicity of your "hero" in allowing corruption to fester & flourish with Impunity under his watch.

Get a life bro and quit defending the indefensible. Most of you lot are the worst victims of corruption and yet you come online to castigate those who want to liberate you. The Nigerian project is much bigger than what you or the PDP think. The collective WILL of Nigerians to move the country forward can consume anybody standing in its path. Be advised!