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adadike:
Who else is tired of this country? This country needs to die a natural death.
Queen of England, pls do one last good thing before u die: DIVIDE THIS COUNTRY! we are never meant to be one. pls break this country, let us all go our separate ways.

Your wish might just be granted in 2019! Buhari will want to resist his defeat and that may just be the D-day of reckoning! What happened?

TheKingdom:
and what is this doing for you and your community? Just the illusion of inclusion abi?

God bless you my brother for asking him that brilliant question, many youths are just too dumb upstairs.

It took a foreigner to fly down here to tell Nigerians here the truth I have to pray for those "Sai Babarians Chanters" at this juncture that if Buhari bad omen could affect even unborn babies then Father in Heaven let your wrath fall on those saying Buhari till 2023 in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

EL-Rufai the short man devil at his game of wits as usual!

doctokwus:
I want to believe you and hope you mean it.
For me anyway and whatever method used,let Buhari just leave that seat latest 2019 May.
Earlier would even be preferable.

I will celebrate with you my brother by May 29th, 2019 by the Special Grace of God!

Which kain comedy be dis

Anything to send this disaster back to his Daura farm will be appreciated. Nigeria and Nigerians can't survive another term of Buhari!

doctokwus:
Maybe in the South,but I doubt same in the super figure producing up northern states.
I sincerely have my fears,of that of who some of us have helped to foister,letting go of power.
You have some monstrous governors that account to no one,like the Bellos,Gandujes,Maisaris etc,ready to do anything,like arming thugs and militias and emptying their state treasuries to officially get votes for him,by rigging,bribing,intimidation or outright violence.We have a clear and upcoming danger steering us as we head towards 2019 and fair voting alone in the South and middle belt may not see the country liberated.

My brother calm down and you can bookmark this Post for reference sake that Buhari is history that I can assure you. Atiku is ok don't ask me how. Wait for it....

doctokwus:
If an incompetent minister in a ministry such as communications can acquire all these within just a space of 2years under the brain challenged president who can't even remember who he gives a directive, where his appointed IGP is,imagine what the likes of ministers in ministries like defence,works,ibternal affairs,transport,finance,NDDC,etc,under such a grossly incompetent president are making.
I repeat,anyone that imagines Buhari will let go come 2019,is living in the fabled Utopia.
The 2019 elections would witness one of the greatest assaults on the national treasury,one of the most rigged in the North,and probably one of the most violent due to the uproar it would generate.
Buhari with ministers under him,for which Shittu is just the least powerful,and parastatal/agency heads,will do anything it takes to keep him in power because they know that if he loses,the revelations of the kinds of malfeasance that took place under him,would make the likes of Dasuki, Diezanni,Patience Jonathan etc,look like amateurs in the act of grand scale looting.

My lost and found brother you are right on the only option for APC to use in 2019 - Rigging! Trust me, they will be vehemently and violently resisted this I can assure you. Buhari is already a settled deal, back to Daura by force.

Zachxolan:
Hello fam, I think I saw this on twitter today and I decided to share it here... If the 2019 presidential elections were held tomorrow...@gidi traffic
Who would you vote for? Kindly fill out a 5 sec form here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfI2sUl77uB7e641qExlKjFyTu4LXhupvMVrZR_9v67FJ4EDw/viewform

Atiku Abubakar

Funbabaty:
After reading the main story and comments above, I've come to a conclusion that we're a country in perpetual darkness. Is Buhari the INEC that will ensure transparency of elections? What should be Buhari's role in the next election in Ekiti or should have been his role in the past one in Anabra? He shouldn't have any more role than i do- at best vote if he is a registerd voter in that state or follow the election process. We're a country that believe so much in individuals rather than institutions.

That court jester is only telling you in reverse that, "Buhari will ensure the poll is rigged which will lead to disaster for the Nation. APC is dead and buried in Ekiti State. Oyegun is not fit to be a village headmaster, imagine that loose talks from a National Chairman of a National Party.

oyatz:
The ethnic sentiment card being played by largely the youth factions of the movement against Buhari will deprive the movement of the necessary Pan-Nigerian support required to chase Buhari from Aso-Rock and it's inadvertently introducing a 'We Vs them' factor into the political equation which will make it very easy for Buhari to appeal to same ethno religious sentiments of millions of voters in his own side of the country.

My brother this will not help Buhari in 2019, you can bookmark this post for reference sake

oyatz:
Bros, I don't have anything against Atiku and I personally feel he will be a better president than Buhari but will be very difficult to market Atiku for president in 2019 for complex reasons.

Who are the Atiku foot soldiers in Kano, Lagos,Rivers, Kaduna or Delta States?

It is quite interesting you asked this question which I will oblige you. Atiku has no problem getting well grounded foot soldiers in those Statesyou mentioned except for Kano that I can assure you already some underground works are going on in many states which include all the ones you stated above and many others except for Kano and this is strategically done for a reason. If Buhari eventually declares under APC then the plans will be rolled out in Kano. I appreciate your maturity.

oyatz:
You just confirmed the emotional hatred I referred to by going unnecessarily personal.

Who told you I am a fan of Buhari let alone planning to rig for him or anybody?

About 12 months before the presidential election, the opposition hasn't rallied round a formidable nationally accepted candidate with track record of achievements and verifiable requisite experience ,so how do you exepect to defeat Buhari?
Name the candidate that's fully on ground in at least 24 States.

Alhaji Abubakar Atiku!

Atiku In His Own Words;

Below are what Atiku said with his own mouth and you have the right to query or question or probe him on this, you have your conscience intact, so you be the judge yourself;

 “People say I became rich in government. It’s a lie. I had hundreds of millions of dollars in assets declared in 1999. I was able to personally bankroll the Peoples Democratic Party back then, so surely, I was not poor.” (Atiku responding to the allegations that he enriched himself while in office as Vice President)

“I Go Dye, I’m not a messiah. I do not promise Eldorado or $1 = N1, but I always ask that we should look at the economic progress we made under my leadership and what I am doing in private business and judge me by those.”  (Atiku's response to "I Go Dye", a Nigerian popular Comedian, on why he is qualified and a better candidate to become President of Nigeria)

“As VP, I assembled what is arguably the best economic team ever in Nigeria. It was made up of young, world-class professionals, who came home to work. Some of those professionals are now political leaders, governors and world leaders in their own right." (Atiku's influence on the economic development of Nigeria as the Head of the National Economic Council revealed here)

 “I remember the only corruption indictment against me was a white paper which was cooked up by our own administration overnight to including the very EFCC that I helped found and other cabinet ministers, which I challenged in court. The court rightly dismissed all those indictments as being mere political, and till today nobody has ever indicted me of corruption.” (This was his defense against the indictment cooked up against him by Obasanjo and EFCC which is yet to be proved by EFCC till date in any Court of law)

“For example, between 1999 and 2003, oil prices then were hovering between $16 and $28 yet we managed to pay up salary arrears from decades back, clear up our national debts and build up foreign reserves. Our Gross Domestic Product grew at the fastest rate we’ve seen since the return to democracy.” (Despite decades of military  rule, the Obasanjo/Atiku era brought Nigeria out of the woods based on "working economic policies" Atiku helped set up)

 “I regret that I had that disagreement with my boss. Some say I was disloyal, but I looked at the events in Zimbabwe recently, and it gives me confidence that I did the right thing fighting the attempts to elongate the presidential tenure beyond eight years. If I did not win that fight, do you think we would be having a discussion on young people getting into leadership today?” (His stand on why he had to fight the illegal Third Term ambition of his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, which would have set a bad precedence for future administrations)

“I went to the World Bank and met a bright lady, convinced her to come back home, and she became a star in our government. To show you we had effective leadership, the same lady could not replicate her exploits under a different government,”  (On his discovery of the one and only Madam Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former, Minister of Finance)

 “In my home state of Adamawa, for example, I’ve created over 50,000 direct jobs and 250,000 indirect ones. We are the largest private employers of labour in the state, only second to the state government. It’s not a lot, but it does help reduce unemployment. Who do you think are holding those jobs? Yes, young people.” (This is Alhaji Atiku's direct and indirect impacts on employments as an individual)

"What is happening in Nigeria is that as a nation, we are caught up in a modern-day Malthusian Trap. For years, our population has been growing faster than our Gross Domestic Product, bringing us to a point where we have an ever-increasing population competing for resources that are not keeping pace with population growth." (Alhaji Atiku's submission on the state of the Nation under Buhari while making his keynote address at the  Silverbird Man of the year 2017 Awards Night)

"It may sound simplistic, but if Nigeria can assemble a leadership focused on getting us out of this Malthusian Trap by gradually reversing the trend where population growth exceeds GDP growth, many of these challenges we are currently facing will slowly but surely fade away." (Atiku's blueprint for the way out of our current surging populations versus our depleting Gross Domestic Products as a Country)

"This month of February 2018, according to the World Poverty Clock, Nigeria has just overtaken India as the world’s capital of extreme poverty. There are more extremely poor people in Nigeria than there are in India, a country that has six times Nigeria’s population." (Alhaji Atiku affirming the grim situation Nigerians found themselves in under the Buhari-led administration)

"After contracting for five consecutive quarters, Nigeria came out of recession in the second quarter of 2017 with a GDP growth rate of 0.55%. In the third quarter, we fared better with 1.40%. While this looks somewhat like we exited the recession, the reality is that when you factor in our population growth rate of 2.3%, which is one of the highest in the world, have we really exited a recession? Technically, yes, but in reality, it is doubtful." (Atiku's humble but concise statistical analysis of the true picture of our economic status as a Country)

“When people do not have jobs and the means to start a business are beyond their reach, they are incrementally much more likely to engage in criminal behaviours like terrorism, kidnapping, militancy and armed robbery." (Atiku bringing to the open a simple reason why violences have taken over Nigeria landscape)

“According to the African Development Bank, in 2017, 18 African countries grew their Gross Domestic Product above 5%. Nigeria, which was number one in 2014, was not amongst these nations. We must figure out what has happened in the intervening years between 2014 and 2018 and fix what went wrong." (This is the height of gross ineptitude on leadership as His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku, gave an expository revelation on how Nigeria fell from the top just within 3 years of APC's leadership)

“What happened to brilliant initiatives like the YouWIN programme which gave Nigerian youths the training and funding to start their own businesses?” (The One Million Dollar Question His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku is asking this rudderless APC's government)

“Let me say this: The Restructuring that I, Atiku Abubakar, envisions, will see no state receive less money from the federation account than it currently does. I hope that will ease the anxieties of some who oppose restructuring. Restructuring will not cheat you. It will free you." (Alhaji Atiku's stance on restructuring)

“When I was in government, we reduced recurrent expenditure by introducing the monetisation policy and by privatising many government enterprises, especially those that were consuming resources without generating revenue. Those policies have been bastardized today and we have seen a ballooning of our recurrent expenditure and shrinkage of our capital expenditure. We must return to the basics.” (Atiku showing the wrong approach of this APC's government in the area of fiscal policies)

“We have to enact laws to prevent leaders from diverting public funds from the public health sector to the treatment of the elite in the best hospitals abroad. If you can afford it from your own private resources, then pay for it. But do not make the tax payer pay for it." (This is Alhaji Atiku demanding that laws should be made to ensure that our leaders are made to pay for their health related issues anytime they seek medical attention abroad and not from public funds)

“We are in critical times, and as I conclude, I want to urge a paradigm shift in Nigeria. Our elite are treated in Europe. Big Brother Naija is being broadcast from South Africa and Nike is unveiling our FIFA World Cup Jersey in London. Is this the extent to which we have outsourced Nigeria? As far as I am concerned, if it concerns Nigeria, it must be done in Nigeria, not abroad. Not abroad.” (Atiku promoting "Made in Nigeria for Nigerians" ideology)

All What Atiku Is Saying Is, "Judge Me On My Track Records In Political And Business Careers And Not On Innuendoes"

Joemetry:
The youths must not swim in the same rivers as those who failed us.

Nigerian youths should make the best leaders if humans naturally learn better from their past mistakes.., I mean, we as youths really have a lot of work to do..!

Unfortunately the youths are already doing the exact opposite of what you are proposing. Who will deliver the youths now when the politics of divide and rule has taken a huge toll on the youths power of reasoning. Indeed, hunger is bad.

This is how to roll it! Atiku is on course no doubt.

A Youth As Nigerian President? Wait A Minute!

A President engage his intellectual gifts to run a Country since he will be surrounded by "lieutenants" to carry out specific instructions given them by the President for the good of the land. Forget that he is "too old" tag, Trump became President at 71 and he is doing fine Ronald Reagan became President at 69 and he spent 8 years in power going down as one of America's finest and best so my friend, it is not about age but what you have upstairs! Here in Nigeria we have been ruled by youths as President in case you don't know and their inexperienced actions cost us a lot. Gowon was 31 when he became head of state in 1967 yet led Nigeria to a wasteful war with Biafra, this same youthful Gowon carelessly said, " the problem with Nigeria is not money but how to spend it". This same youthful Gowon against wise advice went ahead to pay outstanding salaries of a carribean Country's (Grenada) civil servants to the tune of then Nigerian N1.5 million free of charge in 1975 which was a lump sum. This same youthful Gowon abandoned midway a Marshal Plan of 3Rs to Rehabilitate, Reconstruct and Reintegrate Biafrans after the war in 1970.

A youthful Murtala Mohammed was 36 years old when he became head of state in 1975 yet he sacked over 10,000 Southern populated civil servants and schemed for more Northern Civil Servants recruitments using more of quota system against the established merit-based system of employment (against professional advice offered him then by those elderly super permanent secretaries in the civil service) which gave birth to ghost workers in the civil service commission that had cost the Nation wasteful expenses on "workers that don't exist", this same youthful Murtala Mohammed hurriedly map out a certain portion of expansive land (now Abuja) as Federal Capital Territory in 1975 at a time huge funds were being spent on Lagos as the then Federal Capital Territory. What would I say about a youthful, chubby cheeked Obasanjo who messed Nigeria up as a youthful 38 year old head of state in 1976 when he helped engage in a wasteful celebrations of black arts festival in 1977, this same youthful obj began the hikes in tertiary institutions and destroyed the scholarships scheme Nigerian students enjoyed abroad, his youthful cabinet scripted the 1979 Constitution that is still plaguing us till date as it has now metamorphosed into the erroneous and one sided 1999 constitution. This same Obasanjo perfected the art of rigging for FEDECO (the regulator of elections then) that rigged for NPN and Shagsri to emerge as President. I can go on but let me stop here but bear it in mind that I am not rubbishing the entire youths but just telling you that to govern Nigeria requires deep understanding of politics and great experience and not for greenhorns.

This piece is all about our future as a Nation that whether youth or old, we need a President who can stand in the gap and bridge it for a peaceful coexistence of all the tribes in the land. A President who can turn our potentials in our resources that cut across populations, renewable and non renewable natural resources, expertise and the never-dying spirits of Nigerians into a worthwhile venture that can project the image of Nigeria into a Nation that works for the benefits of all and not just for a particular tribe. I wish Nigeria well!

A Youth As Nigerian President? Wait A Minute!

A President engage his intellectual gifts to run a Country since he will be surrounded by "lieutenants" to carry out specific instructions given them by the President for the good of the land. Forget that he is "too old" tag, Trump became President at 71 and he is doing fine Ronald Reagan became President at 69 and he spent 8 years in power going down as one of America's finest and best so my friend, it is not about age but what you have upstairs! Here in Nigeria we have been ruled by youths as President in case you don't know and their inexperienced actions cost us a lot. Gowon was 31 when he became head of state in 1967 yet led Nigeria to a wasteful war with Biafra, this same youthful Gowon carelessly said, " the problem with Nigeria is not money but how to spend it". This same youthful Gowon against wise advice went ahead to pay outstanding salaries of a carribean Country's (Grenada) civil servants to the tune of then Nigerian N1.5 million free of charge in 1975 which was a lump sum. This same youthful Gowon abandoned midway a Marshal Plan of 3Rs to Rehabilitate, Reconstruct and Reintegrate Biafrans after the war in 1970.

A youthful Murtala Mohammed was 36 years old when he became head of state in 1975 yet he sacked over 10,000 Southern populated civil servants and schemed for more Northern Civil Servants recruitments using more of quota system against the established merit-based system of employment (against professional advice offered him then by those elderly super permanent secretaries in the civil service) which gave birth to ghost workers in the civil service commission that had cost the Nation wasteful expenses on "workers that don't exist", this same youthful Murtala Mohammed hurriedly map out a certain portion of expansive land (now Abuja) as Federal Capital Territory in 1975 at a time huge funds were being spent on Lagos as the then Federal Capital Territory. What would I say about a youthful, chubby cheeked Obasanjo who messed Nigeria up as a youthful 38 year old head of state in 1976 when he helped engage in a wasteful celebrations of black arts festival in 1977, this same youthful obj began the hikes in tertiary institutions and destroyed the scholarships scheme Nigerian students enjoyed abroad, his youthful cabinet scripted the 1979 Constitution that is still plaguing us till date as it has now metamorphosed into the erroneous and one sided 1999 constitution. This same Obasanjo perfected the art of rigging for FEDECO (the regulator of elections then) that rigged for NPN and Shagsri to emerge as President. I can go on but let me stop here but bear it in mind that I am not rubbishing the entire youths but just telling you that to govern Nigeria requires deep understanding of politics and great experience and not for greenhorns.

This piece is all about our future as a Nation that whether youth or old, we need a President who can stand in the gap and bridge it for a peaceful coexistence of all the tribes in the land. A President who can turn our potentials in our resources that cut across populations, renewable and non renewable natural resources, expertise and the never-dying spirits of Nigerians into a worthwhile venture that can project the image of Nigeria into a Nation that works for the benefits of all and not just for a particular tribe. I wish Nigeria well!

Author: Tomakint

oyatz:
President Buhari has failed abysmally to take Nigeria out of the woods but majority of the people that are opposing his re-election are doing so out of emotional hatred for the president( mainly because the president is not from their ethnic background or practice their religion) rather than genuine altruistic reasons to see a better Nigeria.
This will make it very difficult to defeat him in 2019.

Very empty and shallow analysis. Who hates Buhari? Buhari hates himself by surrounding himself with fellow dullards which made him to repeat the mistakes of Jonathan 10times and you are here forming one miserable analyst with empty posts. 2019 beckons don't get caught rigging for Buhari or that may be your last. Be a lover of good things for once in your life, nothing good is in Buhari for the past 3 years.

raumdeuter:
Do people still take this OP serious

You went this low just to keep sniffing on my butt all these years it really shows the Yoruba seeds of bile in you. *Spits on his forehead*

raumdeuter:
This useless guy calls himself a Yoruba too

May you forever remain useless for the rest of your miserable life you this Ogbomosho Goat

God bless the writer of this fantastic thread he said the whole truth about the Yorubas and it is just too pathetic of a tribe, race that feign sophistication.

tonyzaks:
And when Dasuki spoke there nko?

Which Dasuki?

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List of INEC Registration Centres in Lagos Ahead of the 2019 General Election


Ahead of the 2019 general elections , Nigerian citizens of voting age are advised to register and get a voter’s card, to enable them exercise their rights to vote.

To ensure the convenience of voter’s registration, INEC has released registration centres for Lagos residents.

https://happenings.com.ng/list-inec-registration-centres-lagos-ahead-2019-general-election/
See Below:

I keep wondering why cheering news like this is not on the front page, Lalasticlala, OAM4J oya to the rescue.

From 1992 with his Peoples Front of Nigeria with the late Shehu Yaradua, to 1993 Social Democratic Party and from there People Democratic Party in 1999 to APC in 2014 and now back to PDP I think Atiku had seen it all and paid his dues to become President. I am sure he will perform better than the rest. President-in-waiting, Atiku Abubakar.

Former Vice President of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar, will give a major economic speech at London’s Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) at 10 am on April 25, 2018. The keynote speech entitled ‘The Importance of Strengthening State Economic Management Systems’ will unveil innovative and tangible solutions that once implemented will help Nigerian states come out from their current economic challenges and help get Nigeria working again.

During the trip to the UK, Atiku will also give another major keynote speech at the Invest Africa and British Council for Africa ‘Annual Debate’. He will be speaking alongside Dr Liam Fox, International Trade Secretary, UK Government, on the subject of “Building new trade partnerships in Africa”

These speaking engagements are a follow-up to Atiku’s meeting in June of 2017 with Liam Fox and Prime Minister Theresa May where they discussed the UK’s plan to increase trade with Nigeria post Brexit.


During this trip, the former Vice-President will also be the guest of honour at a lunch on Nigerian inward investment hosted by Lord Anthony St John (former UK Minister for Africa) and be a guest speaker at Round Table of key UK business leaders interested in investing in Nigeria at the Institute of Directors, Pall Mall.

The three-day trip will be capped off by giving the keynote speech to UK Diaspora in the City of London on the subject of “Maximizing the benefit to our economy of all our talents, wherever they may be”

https://m.guardian.ng/news/atiku-to-speak-at-chatham-house/

Firefire:
Greetings. Time for palmwine...

You mean with that sigidi of a woman no be me and you