₦airaland Forum

DonaldYusuf:
Have you read the Constitution

CROWNWEALTH019:
How APC converted this noble man is still a mystery to thee, by the way WHOS THE PRESIDENCY?

PapaBrowne:
I would recommend an executive President in Abuja to manage the country.
I would recommend six regional heads to serve as executives for the regions.
The state governors should be retained but state houses of assembly should be eradicated and replaced with regional houses.

roolnaado:
The circumstances are similar to the Yar’Adua/Goodluck succession and highlight the absurdity of our apparent recognition of a zonal presidential system de facto, but not de jure. Perhaps it is time to write zoning into the constitution. Not for the benefits that it will bring to us ordinary people, for there are virtually are none whatsoever, but for the stability that avoiding these recurring crises will bring. Ordinary Nigerians thrive in spite of their public officials, not because of them and life is challenging enough already. When politicians stoke tensions, dither on policy and “heat up the polity” (to borrow their cliché), they create even larger obstacles for us to scale and cause us more hardship.


Our developmental issues are too severe for 2 years to be frittered away in this manner, so let us write zoning into the constitution. Let us have a rotational presidency across the 6 geopolitical zones and agree on the order of rotation. Our ruling class has not risen above primordial sentiments and neither have we. There is no point pretending that we have - we are unlikely to do so for a long time to come. So, let us remove these distractions from focus, so that the politicians have less to waste everyone’s time arguing about, and they can focus on giving us electricity, schools, infrastructure (not wheelbarrows or plastic kegs) and healthcare. Or at least get out of our way and not destroy the individual gains we make with their perennial bickering over whose turn it is to preside over the sharing of the proceeds of oil from the Niger Delta.

ashjay001:
Fact kini?! U gather a lot of rumours in one spot n claim fact check?

Jaideyone:
and you ended up giving yourself away as a PDP agent. pls go to Lagos state government website and bring out where money was allocated for it in the budget last year. Advanced Engineering Consult around Town planning in Lagos did the consultancy work on that bridge and not a kobo has been paid to them since last year. stop saying what you don't know. stop exhibiting your ignorance

Vorpal:
If you see the 3d drawing of that bridge, you will understand why it will cost so much. Plus I think it will be the longer than 3rd mainland.
Let's not forget the value of the naira in the scheme of things. That amount is roughly a little over 2billion dollars. Yet we had a case of unremitted 10 billion dollar oil money or more.

jusRadical:
You cost a project by mere visuals, it shows a deafening endermic ignorance.
Google similar project around the world and check their costs.
Let us stop defending corruption: we will NEVER progress if we continue doing so.