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Neurotika:Gay sighted |
niaralandtopuser:BMC |
Kendumazy:E go soon be ur wahala when you turn blind eye for another person wahala |
niaralandtopuser:Be dreaming |
abu12:But EFCC will go after Kalu & Fayose. Stop shifting goal post. People like you are the reason why Naija is yet to progress and will not progress. |
niaralandtopuser:They are in Biafra land |
abu12:Has ICPC & EFCC lost its relevance. Why not go after him since you are against corruption. Truth be told, you are also corrupt and going after him will expose that aspect of you cos you all ate the money together. |
The Govt don't want to develop our already dead refineries cos they are in the Biafra land, instead, they will be pushing money to Dangote to build a new one. If a Govt say she don't hv money to retouch our dead refineries, wat makes you think an individual does? Don't U dare say he took a loan, why didn't the Govt use the loan it took from China to rebuild them refineries in the South? |
Brunicekid:Don't be this naive my dear. Hu told you those refineries are built with his money? |
bluebay:Nothing will be done about it cos most of em are in the East. They are scared of Biafra ! |
Tentatively my dear... Tentatively. ComputerOperato: |
Finally. |
Getting married to a feminist who want the man to be the wife. |
So what happens to Goodluck who was not allowed to complete his Eighth years rule. The North have heard their faire share of 8 tenure, just like the West. Now is the turn of South East or South South unless you are saying we have only North and South Geo Political Zone ! |
Officialgarri:You might not make heaven ooo ![]() |
Try do small minus, you will get the recognition you deserve... |
This is a set up ooo Run for your life ��� ![]() |
Woodward should sign players he said no. Man U should continue struggling, so that stingy Chief executive can bring out fund and buy players in January. |
NgeneUkwenu:You need to see a psychologist. |
I don't believe the story...
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Next is Man U chief executive "Wood* ![]() |
purples25:When this dudes make money, they look for younger girls, cos U ar old already and must have been dealt with by dudes who have money when you are young!!! The circle continues... |
purples25:They run to young girls because the older a pretty girls get, the wilder her p**sy. How many dudes have you personally turn down because he has no money?? |
What happen to the other lecturers he discussed in the video? Suspending him and leaving hoa colleagues to prey on the innocent student will only make him escape goat which to my understanding is not the aim of the journalist. All should be brought to book. |
purples25:Your wife material should start showing when you are young, not when you know time is running out haunty. Make use of your time when you are young ooo. No be every body slay queen dey favour |
Joke of the year. If you like, be forming slay Queen in your 20s & be f**king around. Then when you get to your 30s you will start looking for serious relationship. Ma Ogun go marry you. Its better to marry young girl who body is still intact, advising us to marry older ladies will encourage the young ones to keep f**king around.
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![]() CreepyBlackpool:Who is this slowpoke?? Next is your mum |
Sirpaul:You forgot what happened to PDP in 2015? Dame will happen to APC this year |
rusher14:Cross River and Rivers na same thing as long as their is River there, just like Edo and Ondo ![]() |
Here is the picture of Rivers State residents, washing the street after PMB visited the state for his presidential campaign rally.
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By Abimbola Adelakun January 10, 2019 At some point, future historians of the present will give Donald Trump some credit for aptly summarising the dynamics of political following of our time. During his presidential campaigns, he bragged that he was so loved by his followers that he could shoot someone in public and not lose any voter. He has been right so far. There is virtually nothing he does wrong that has cost him in the way other politicians have paid for lesser sins. His supporters bend over to ameliorate the impact of his misdemeanours. The things they criticised President Barack Obama for are now justifiable; the Obama achievements they once downplayed as inconsequential now matter because Trump achieved similar feats. Trump supporters, with their fervent devotion to him, mirror President Muhammadu Buhari’s supporters. By now, we can bet that Buhari can dagger someone in Wuse market at noon and they will claim it was necessary to fight corruption. I have come to understand about Buhari’s supporters by watching Trump’s, and I see that Trump supporters’ actions can predict Buhari supporters’ too. No matter how vastly different the two countries and their democracies may be, there is a fundamental strain in the following of both men that has transcended space and time. They are hyper-partisan, and there is no misdemeanour by the president, no matter its projected impact on democratic institutions, that is abominable enough to alarm them. Part of this uncritical devotion has to do with the manner the electoral victory was won. It was a hard-won contest, one for which people had to summon their most primal instinct and tribal identity as a mobilising factor. In the US, it was racism, subtended by sexism and social anxieties induced by history. In Nigeria, it was a tribal victory underlined by the All Progressives Congress propaganda about fighting corruption. Now, with their win in the bag, these voters find themselves tasked with protecting the electoral success at the expense of democracy itself. What is at stake for them is no longer the end goal of democracy – social flourishing – but holding up their President’s banner as a middle finger to the other side that was defeated. They have adjusted their social expectations to match whatever the leader manages to achieve, and actual dividends of democracy are now considered a by-product. Since Buhari was inaugurated as President, everything that has gone wrong has been the fault of everyone and everything but himself. What do his followers say to this? Sai Baba! When the economy under him tanked, it was not because Buhari failed to apprehend the complexity of building an economy but because corruption money was no longer flowing freely. From Boko Haram to herdsmen and civil conflicts, security under Buhari has degenerated badly, but his followers will rather live with the hazards to their own lives than admit he is not getting it right. Buhari promised to fight corruption, but his government itself has become a monument to corruption. From party members to the blatant and incoherent lies this government tells about the progress of their administration, the entire structure of the APC reeks of rotting flesh but what does it matter to his followers? They work hard to convince themselves that what they have is the best it could get. Buharism has become a form of pietism, a ritual of religious devotion that demands a sacrifice of logic and reason in order to realise itself. In the past one week, I have watched Buhari’s followers argue that it does not matter if Buhari’s niece, Amina Zakari, does not recuse herself from the election in which Buhari has a stake. To them, there is no conflict of interests even when the interests involved in the election include that of Buhari. These crusaders stridently argue that the woman is not central to the electoral process. Yet, they cannot connect the logic that if she is not indispensable to the election, it is the more reason she can easily recuse herself. If the woman herself has a sense of ethics, why is she so insistent on being a part of the election, letting her recalcitrance cast aspersions on the process? Again, the invasion of the Daily Trust by the military alone should have led to a mass outrage, but we have been so busy fending off the illogic of Buharists there is not enough energy left to challenge the arrangement that allows soldiers to invade the media in broad daylight. They claimed they wanted to invite the pressmen over to talk about their publication, but why the Abacha-era invasion style? We should all be worried what these people will do if they win a second term. They will not only abandon governance; they will pillage the media and turn other arms of government into dust. Nigeria approaches the polls, and the future after February is pretty gloomy. Any honest person who watched the Buhari interview with Arise TV would be concerned too. Given Buhari’s poorly thought-out responses on most issues, we should be bothered if such a mind can steer the ship of this nation for another four years without us hitting the rocks. Many people are concerned, most are not just saying it out. As the Chibuike Amaechi’s “secret” tapes have shown us, even in private, the APC members know that corruption is still rife in Nigeria, that social and economic conditions have declined, and that despite all the cheap propaganda, Lagos is not working. They know the truth, but it cannot set them free because they are their own jailers. The only people who cannot admit the truth to themselves are Buhari’s followers. I have seen them argue that Buhari’s best efforts are hampered by due process and he should, therefore, suspend the constitution. They say it does not matter if the election was rigged in his favour, and they care less if he uses public funds to run his campaign. Their ethical thermostat is regulated by purely partisan sentiments and by now it should be evident that no rhyme or reason can ever sway them. They have reposed an identity complex in Buhari and relinquished every desire of theirs into their single agenda of a Buhari triumph. This form of tribalism is not new. Since forever, humans have always tended to descend into tribal formations, but we now live in an age where the new media has amplified this penchant. Leaders, aware of this divisiveness in the polity, further muddle the pool. Their strategy for getting away with their sins is to continuously appeal to the lowest common denominator that binds their followers’ instincts. From America to Nigeria, tribalism reigns and it brings out the beast in people. The major difference is that the US is lucky to have a strong civil society to rein in the president’s recklessness. Nigeria’s civil society activists who made a lot of noise during the 16 years of the PDP are now mostly mute, severely compromised by their entanglements with the APC. Five weeks to the election, I no longer think that only Buhari is the problem that needs to be overcome. We also need to defeat his voters and the negative energy they pour into the public sphere to shortchange everyone our due democratic dividends. Because this tribe of supporters is driven by a primal vigour, they are untiring, and they exhaust the rest of us who want a debate of issues that have to do with how democracy will guarantee a better life for all of us. They let the President get away with a ruinous attack on institutions, manipulate the representative nature of democracy to keep the worst of us in power and infect everywhere with their toxicity. The President, aware of the animosity in the polity, keeps sowing seeds of discord so that no one will have time to focus on his failings. Those of us who are interested in a Nigeria beyond Buhari will have to remain focused and find a way to argue above – not with – these rabid followers who drag down everyone with their extreme partisanship support. https://punchng.com/buhari-no-longer-the-only-problem/amp/ |
No one is as clueless as the present government
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