₦airaland Forum

There is a limit to opposition politics. He overstepped his boundary.

LadyExcellency:
I make bold to say that the highly rated professor is emphatically wrong in this one.

Does it mean that NDDC is illegal since it was totally opposed by the Executive and made to exist by the courageous NASS that overturned Obasanjo's veto?

Democracy is a representative government and moreover, Buhari wasn't an independent candidate.

My 10 years old son has a better brain

Lemon12:
so why are yorubas calling out the SE ? When it connects to only 2 SE states while 3 states in SW ..

A yoruba man(Senator Ashafa) worked with Amechi to have this project included in the budget.

God bless you. It is always good to know when to leave partisan politics aside and fight for our common good.

chukwudi44:
long overdue!!! Well done senators!!! No one has a monopoly over abuse of powers

Before it becomes law, buhari must sign?

TonyeBarcanista:
When did Amaechi add the Lagos-Calabar rail project? I still find it hard to believe.

I am saddened this is coming from you.

There is a big fight going on in this country between darkness and light. Who will prevail at last I don't know.
May God help this country.

modath:
That 4bn extra that was removed from health's budget that NASS is "dashing" to CCT, dem gatz to explain why!

Maybe part of the agenda to free Saraki.

Some people are wicked. They are just there for there pockets and we are here hailing them.

asorocker:
Why yorubas are so hell bent on having this project included in the budget is really surprising why are they crying more than the South South and south east.

Even the South East and Niger delta who are supposed to benefit from the project are not batting an eyelid.

Could this project be the Savior of south west or east bikonu.

We are our worst enemy.

Let us think with our brain and not our anus. Something is fishy here when he said they added 39 billion naira on top of what was allocated to kano-Lagos rail line.

[quote author=Newbiee post=44577705]A fierce battle is going on in Nigeria today between the Agents of Change and the Agents for the maintenance of status quo. It is one of the worst battles I have witnessed ever in Nigeria in recent times. It is a fierce battle for the soul of Nigeria between those who want their original country back and those who want to keep Nigeria as the conquered territory to be pillaged and milked with reckless abandon. It is a war between truth and falsehood, a war between darkness and light, the war between reason and unreason, and war between the brains and the brainless.

I saw this dangerous war coming even before last year’s Presidential elections when it became obvious that PDP is gone. I alerted APC leaders to be prepared for it. I did not know then whether they took notice of my warnings. It took the bizarre, the most outrageous, and the most treacherous betrayal inside the hallowed chamber of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by Senator Saraki and his gang for APC leaders to pay attention. Today the resultant effect of this betrayal is telling a big story in all nooks and crannies of Nigeria, laying ambush on this government’s monumental fight against corruption. PDP leaders, Senators, Lawyers, Judges, Petroleum Product Marketers, Civil Servants, Electricity workers, etc. are hitting from all corners to circumvent government efforts to take back Nigeria.

In far away Panama, a consortium of lawyers using their law firm Mossack Fonseca founded Ramon Fonseca, have been able to generate 11.5 million papers that linked government officials and looters across the world who siphoned money to Tax Haven in Virgin Island.

This leak, the biggest ever in recent history has led to the resignation of the Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Davio Gunnlaugsson. In Nigeria, one of the persons mentioned in the criminal deal is the present President of the Senate of Nigeria, Senator Bukola Saraki.

While the Mossack Fonseca lawyers worked tirelessly for years to do this great work for humanity, Nigerian lawyers, 90 of them are following the same Saraki to Code of Conduct Tribunal to render court process nugatory. Their professional colleagues in other climes are helping their countries to stop corruption but not these Charge and Bail lawyers here. They are neck deep into corruption and proceeds of corruption. They are worse than infidels.

The lawyers have been very busy searching for their birds of identical plumage in judges whether in High Court, Appeal Courts or Supreme Court to help truncate Saraki’s case. The corrupt Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are not left out in this show of shame. From 81 right from the onset, the number of Senators following Saraki to CCT has reduced to 12 as at yesterday. Even with the heavy and weighty evidence before CCT, these woeful and useless Senators are still chasing shadows, making a mockery of themselves and people they represent. But the bigger they come, the harder they fall.

In the oil industry, the marketers and subsidy fraudsters are holding sway, gripping Nigeria by the throat and ready to squeeze without caring a hoot. In the power sector, the looters and their agents are working round the clock to reduce power generation to zero megawatts. If they are not pulling down transmission towers, they are busy blowing up gas supply to the power stations. I see this as an attack on the corporate existence of Nigeria as a political entity. I see this as a threat to national unity and cohesion. I see these attacks from all corners as acts of treason.

Now I do not think President Buhari and his cabinet need to offer any more excuses. I do not think it is necessary now. What is needed is a concrete and practical solution. President Buhari needs to use the enormous power of the presidency to do the needful. The economic saboteurs are so powerful so rich, well connected and potentially dangerous to set the people against the President if President Buhari still treats them with kid gloves. These people must be identified, crushed and defeated.
Nigerians voted for President Buhari to fight corruption, stop the drift in Nigeria, restore hope and build a new Nigeria. I know that the President is doing his best, and I also know he can do more. President Buhari must not fail. If he fails, Nigeria may not recover again. We must kill corruption or corruption will kill Nigeria.

APC leaders must move now to help their President to succeed. This is not the time for blame games, this is not the time to point accusing fingers, this is not the time to look the other way. This is the time for collective responsibility and concrete action. Let us fire on all cylinders now that we have a budget. Let Nigeria become a huge construction site. Let the power sector work. Let petrol flow endlessly for now. Let us secure Nigeria. I know that the change but let it start now to manifest. No further, no excuses again.[/quote
Thank you my brother. Buhari alos played into there hands by allowing PDP elect Saraki. He would have used his enormous power to ensure that this did not happen. Anyway, he has learnt his mistake.
The forces of darkness fighting for the sould of Nigeria will soon fade away. I see light at the end of the tunnel.

Umunnem ndigbo ogini na eme. Emere anyi eme.

I think the woman is trying to avoid the situation her family members coming to lay claim on the properties.

You don't rehabilitate terrorists.

Ikengawo:
When I see muhammed, akindele, 1 Nuru and any variation of Ola I stop listening. The last time Nigeria listened to the coalition we got a 72 year old illiterate bigot as president of Africa's largest economy.

believe it or not, those that know politics in Nigeria know Saraki is stronger than Buhari in Nigeria.

You are an igbo or south south man and you just mentioned saraki's brothers and sisters.

You are talking about the entire North and just a zone(south west). What do you gain with this type of headline. You guys are the reason Nigeria will never develope.

Bamibor:
I think it's worth noting that the news reads "...following intensified pressure from the people calling for him to resign..." (paraphrased)
One major problem in Nigeria is that the masses prefer to observe with mirth, the pitiable irresponsibility and melodrama that characterizes leadership in this country, rather than vociferously stand up with "one voice" (the voice of justice and equity that is) and demand that each sin gets its just due. But no, we're blinded by religious and ethnic prejudice, short-sighted by partisan bigotry.

How on earth do we move forward if we would not "shine our eyes"(in the right I mean, certainly not the common interpretation) and hold ourselves accountable for our actions and inactions. After all the leaders and the led are all part of us.

Our problem here in Nigeria is ethnicity and religion. You will see a youth and a graduate of ten years ago and without a job clapping and hailing somebody who stole for himself, children and generation not yet born probable because he is a christian, moslem, igbo, yoruba or hausa. And also because he is in PDP or APC. We have a long way to go unless we change our orientation.

ileogbenfidel:
Saraki and David Mark caused fuel scarcity or are they the ministers of Petroleum?

My friend our subject of discussion here is Panama scandal and not fuel scarcity. David Mark and Saraki were mentioned in the scandal. Dunce.

ileogbenfidel:
I wish ibe kachukwu can emulate these civilized people and resign as he as failed Nigerians on the persistent fuel scarcity.

Tell Saraki and David Mark involved in this scandal to resign first.

And here in Nigeria some jobless youths due to religion and ethnicity will be supporting Nigerians involved in this scandal.

I seee Saraki doing Usain Bolt out of the country before the end of this trial.

What a response. But they are in the name of your wife?

What a response

One man said the first niger bridge was built by Nnamdi Azikiwe and the second niger bridge will be built by another Nnamdi Azikiwe. That was in 2011. That man left power last year without doing according to his promise.

One man said the first niger bridge was built by Nnamdi Azikiwe and the second niger bridge will be built by another Nnamdi Azikiwe. That was in 2011.

If Buhari can just finish this project, I will wait to see comments from my brothers and sisters

Another issue that is worrying is the issue of fulani herdsmen. If you dig the past this problem has been in this country from time Nigeria was created. But the way they are highliting now, you will think it is just a recent phenomenon in Nigeria. I am not sure what PDP intends to gain from this. Do they want to make this party a regional party for just south east and south south?

The problem with PDP is that they lack enough intelligence to play this opposition. There are enough evidence on ground to attack this Government but they are not utlizing it.
Instead they are still using there 2015 campign strategy that cost them the election. Abusing the north and southwest and creating false accusations left and right, using religious and ethnic divides.
I don't actually understand there strategy. Do they think igbo votes and that of south south alone will ever win them the presidency. What do you call it when Fayose openly said that Chibok girls are not missing. What an insult to the parents and relations of these girls and the entire north as well. They will offcourse pay PDP back in election time.

repogirl:
what exactly did he achieve, pray tell. Mind you I schooled in Anambra state during the time he was governor, so I know what I'm talking about.

Compared to Peter Obi, what exactly did Ngige do?

Your ignorance is legendary

mosalab:
Right step.... we must change the changer come 2019

With votes from south south and south east. Day dreaming

repogirl:
Duh? You don't need to tell us.....with people like Amaechi and Ngige who achieved no reasonable thing as governors, now appointed as ministers, we know that Booooharis selection process was far from credible.
It was a joke, in short, just like every other thing the dullard does.

You said Ngige achieved nothing as a Governor? How old are you?