₦airaland Forum

Well done, governor

Lord, have mercy.

Hmm

Ok

Mariangeles:
Maybe he's staying put just so he can gather enough materials for when he writes his memoir on what really went down in this administration in about 10-15 years time when the coast would be clear...Baba would probably not be around by then who knows ??

The office is far more important than that.

In my opinion Osinbajo is part of the problem, politics aside. Why? He chairs the national economic council. The ERGP he's always thumping appears not to b working. Why is he not rejigging it? How come under his chairmanship reputable papers like FT say we don't have direction, and FDIs are leaving in droves, and he's neither saying nor apparently doing anything.

In OBJ time, there were reforms, with results. We saw transformation in telecoms, and little infrastructure (though they stole too much). In Yar'adua there were reforms, and we saw purpose and direction. We need to see some action from this VP. Aside politics. Aside sharing 10k. We need to see institutional reforms oozing from his office, and a cry out if at all someone somewhere is trying to stiffle him.

The time is now!

IvarTheBoneless:
Vice Presidents worldwide have very little power. Even in the White House with the exception of Dick Cheney.

This is something we have been trying to drum into the daft heads of piglets.

You guys just can't stop making a mountain out of a molehill because of your low level of literacy

Peter Obi endured running errands, was hidden in the North, suffered all these humiliations and still returned empty-handed.

I know that's what pained you the most. Sacrificed Biafura to be a houseboy to an Aboki

Bros, please try and make an intelligent conversation without spewing hate or casting aspersions.

Yes VPs have little executive power, but they can wield a lot of influence in the executive if they choose to because its a dual ticket.

This particular VP is strikingly quiet in the face of obvious decay. Or is everything OK for you? Do you like how the country is? Why are you colouring the issue with political mudslinging?

Osinbajo knows his place in Aso Rock. He knows he can't do much. And uncle Dele, don't think he's not "aware" of what's going on. He's not a dullard, he's fully aware of this administration's ineptitude.

What I find buggling is his apparent indifference, and sometimes outright collaboration as seen in his shameful errand running and annoying defense of this nonsense. I ask myself: What kind of a man is Yemi Osinbajo? What will he be remembered for?

My conclusion is he's choosing to sit put in that seat for certain strategic reasons which I perceive to be highly ethno-political. Apparently, to him the end may justify these means. I doubt he's correct.

"He that hath ears to hear..." Thank you Dele for this admonition.

Before you vilify me, just hear me out.

Exactly four years ago we were in this same position, trying to move our country (or what was left of it) forward from the trenches of leadership ineptitude that had mired it chaos and crass instability. Boko Haram was in firm control of territory, schoolgirls were taken, psychedelic lipstick women were running government, looting was rife, though there was a bit of more general prosperity. And so the mood in the street was more of anger than hunger. Anger at what we couldn't do when we were earning so much.

Until a certain NSA effectively postponed the vote, marched into the Boko territory and cleared the terrorists and I'm like "WHAT!" People were euphoric and praise-singing but I was not the least impressed. So these Generals knew what to do all along but simply ignored it. So winning elections was more important than the thousands that died, and the millions displaced by the violence. Even animals in the jungle would not treat themselves like this.

Then came this former General, who appeared to have the magic wand. A lot of people were nostalgic about him because of his antecedents. But I don't judge a man by his past. I accepted him as a genuine alternative. To me the inept president and his clueless deputy needed to leave office and I still stand by that decision. Unfortunately, this alternative was going to be just as bad (maybe worse), and we're back to square one. Four precious years wasted!

APC
This administration is a MONUMENTAL DISASTER, the like of which I have never seen since I became a Nigerian. First, I'm convinced they came in with a sinister agenda of self perpetuation.

On security, the former NSA had done the job for them. They merely sustained his success (I'm not sure they made significant progress of their own). Though they rescued some of the girls, but there's something off about how they pulled it off. I believe we've not heard all the story of the Chibok girls yet. And this position is confirmed by the charade of the Dapchi girls. Elsewhere, however, insecurity festered and the general was annoyingly aloof.

He said he's undoing the corrupt mess of his predecessor. From the objective point of view, this assertion is mangled in controversy at best. First, a lot of the people around him were part of that mess. His party has said that if you come over from the mess, your sins will be forgiven, not dealt with. Apart from recovering assets, I don't see real punitive measures on the ground. I don't see swift delivery of justice. I don't see strong unbiased institutions prosecuting this fight. And to crown it, the whole thing appears to be skewed against opposition camps, turning the country into one gigantic melodrama. Pathetic!

Clearly, our president knows little on how to run a 21st century economy. I won't dwell much here because unless you're living on the moon, or you're a beneficiary (and am not taking of the stupid 10k handout), you'd see the clear trouble in the horizon. Yes the Reserves have grown, yes GDP is ticking up, yes looting may have reduced (this is unverified), maybe because the lipstick women have gone. But Nigeria is now the world's poverty capital! Job losses are at historic highs, capital flight is supersonic, debts are soaring without control, I don't know what the Naira is really worth. These are hard facts!
And for what? The railways? Mambilla? Ajaokuta? Why are they excruciatingly slow in coming on stream?
Now, the same people want to continue.

PDP
To me, the PDP should never get their hands on this country's resources again. I am convinced that the old PDP has not changed. The same corrupt, inept and wicked politicians who would rather have people die than lose elections still populate the party and call the shots.

When people say "Atikulate" I just chuckle within me. Is it that some curse of forgetfulness is laid on Africans? Or that they just have this genetic lousy memory? Before you call that insult, let me remind you of some facts. The man in question is not some new face. He was vice president for 8 years, and before that a prominent figure in Nigeria's political and economic firmaments. His antecedents show a slimy "wheeler-dealer" who always has personal interests, and (to me) a tendency to enrich himself and his cronies. The man has been spending hundreds of millions just for this election (without any major crowd funding). Except there's a bigger motive here, this doesn't make any business sense to me. How's he going to recover these expenses?

It is one thing to be rich, and another for the channels of such riches to be clearly seen. The PDP man has resources that are uncomfortably too hard for me to justify, and that casts further shadow over his true intentions. He clearly has cases to answer in at least two major FRAUD issues. He has a penchant for disloyalty (which he may show Nigerians). And he isn't that young. Though age is not a solid negative point, we've seen how in Nigeria, older or ailing presidents tend to be held by some form of cabals. #hardfacts.

Again, it is one thing to be rich, and another thing to make others rich. And yet another thing to make a whole country rich. He has a better policy document, but we've seen this sweet-talking before. Implementation has been the serial bane of development on the Continent.

VERDICT: NEUTRAL
Unfortunately this leaves the ordinary citizen nowhere because one of this two people will win the next elections. Like Prof. Soyinka, however, my vote is NOT for either of them. I reject the seeming generic intellectual dullness of the average African. I reject mediocrity, ineptitude and empty self-glorification. I reject the notion that we have no choice but to continue groping in this helplessness, in the midst of plenty resources.

Beyond the APC and PDP, until Africans learn to open their hearts and minds to the true Light, and virtues that make the difference, this unfortunate cycle is bound to continue.

This one is going nowhere. The votes are mainly in Enugu North and South, which are solidly PDP.

Why do I always feel this VP success has a lot to do with his wife

T

How old are you

Ok

Still...

Ok

Unfortunately

If their bigotry will allow them

Hmm

UCH main gate, last week.

Here

And tell us why the whole country has to fly to uch for cancer treatment

Amen

Unfortunately for you, majority of your electorate don't understand the meaning of the phrase. Their IQ can't yet comprehend the term nationhood. But go and try sha. Maybe there'll be a miracle.

Ok

If I talk now....
So gov is now d one "penciling" down successor, abi

yarimo:
join the winning team before it is too late for you.
BUHARI / OSIBANJO till 2023 by the grace of God

APC till 9094 beware

All these trouble makers sef

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Hmm

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