TabletMan:
Frank my brother.... You guys are not helping Peter Obi.
Other candidates from the two big party are working day and night with some decision makers in the states across Nigeria but Peter Obi is hoping on Nigerian social media hypers that amount less than 3 million votes to win.

How is LP going to mobilize and pay agents that will man the million polling units across Nigeria on election Day?
How will LP get up to 25k votes in states like Kano, Kaduna Kebbi Niger Nasarrawa Sokoto and Bauchi?

We seriously needs to start telling ourselves the plain truth because self deceit will always come back to hurt us with harsh circumstances of realities.
I am yet to see National mobilization that will make Peter Obi the president so for now....

I am with BAT till something remarkable change.

Smh....as far as I would have loved Igbo presidency even despite the utterances by some Igbos, only a fool will think Obi will win the next election. For those who want to wail they should start wailing now, your president is either Atiku or Tinubu and should Tinubu get the kind of support he got in the primary from the northern governors, forget it Tinubu will be the next president.

So to the wailers you cry has just started. Even in sane clime you don't win such election with a platform that has no structure. Despite how popular Donald Trump is in the US he wouldn't have won if he contested under the Green party.

You fools should keep quiet and tell your elders to go and strategize politically. Emotions don't win election strategy does.

Authoreety:


He cldnt hav won if not for vote buying and selling to idi.ots

Didn't Atiku buy vote?

Mikelarteta:
This guy never know anything, Buhari can still bring u down if he chooses get that into your dumb skull no be presidential election u win o. Atiku is not Osinbajo or Amaechi. Na real context you wan enter so. Watch out for anti party especially from your Northern folks. A word is enough for the wise. Both Atiku and Shakespeare Tinubu are not what we need in Nigeria now. Nigeria should be Obidiently Obidient.

You guys said more than this yet he won.

Just listen to the fool it is my turn blah blah. Is the presidency your property

alsudan:
This man has all the answers to the problems., unlike the others who don’t even understand the problems.

Obi will do far better for Nigeria than Lee Kuan Yew did for Singapore.

You guys should keep deceiving yourselves. No one I repeat no one can fix the useless country as it is right now. None of the fools that want s to be president has address the fundamental issue facing the country yet you want a solution from fools. None of them has the political or civil will to tackle the fundamental problems facing Nigeria. You guys only support Obi because he is Ibo and there is nothing wrong with that . So stop painting him as a Saint that has the solution.

Even though some of us want to see Igbo presidency the way some Igbos have made Obi case so tribal is concerning. There is nothing special about Obi who couldn't turn little Anambra to what they all want us to believe he will turn Nigeria into. There is no country structure like Nigeria in the world - it is a system that can never work no matter who is there. This is first reality Nigerians must accept about their country.

So all of you shouting Obi as if he will do anything spectacular needs to check your brains. He is not talking about the most important problem facing the country which restructuring that will pave the way for real development. He has no political and civil will to confront the fundamental problems facing the country, how can he then be successful as president

I will pick Fashola or El-Rufai any time any day over the hype disaster called Obi. So if it is performance there are many better than him.Now some Igbos have been making it look like their vote alone can make him president, either they are daft or don't understand politics. No section of the country can be president without the support of others the Igbos have to understand this. Maybe he is best Igbo can offer Nigeria but that does not make him the best for Nigeria.

I repeat again it would be nice to see Igbo presidency but with the way things are going it won't be 2023 unless the Igbos change their campaign strategy.

AldrichAmes:


It's just laughable and it shows those who have no clue about the military and warfare. Logistics problem is part and parcel of warfare and no military can avoid it during war hence no army goes through war unscath. The Nazis who were the greatest military force in human history with technology more advanced that their time lost WW2 due to logistics problems. Allied Forces during the highly overhyped and excessively celebrated Normandy landings in western history took disastrous losses due to logistics problems. So, having logistics problem during military maneuvers is as normal as being in the military itself - it's about how you regroup and mitigate against it, which the Russians have done during the 2nd phase of the war.

US also had a lot of logistics problems in Iraq and Afghanistan hence a lot of their regular forces and special forces were killed in ambushes. It's also the reason why insurgency was very effective against them in both countries. And these countries aren't on Ukraine's level. Iraq is half the size of Ukraine and it was already demilitarised with arms embargo for a decade since most of Iraqi weapons were of US origin (the US propped-up Sadam to fight Iran and turned on him after that). Almost all of Iraqi lethal weapons were grounded because they couldn't get parts due to US emgargo. So the US attacked when Iraq couldn't even fight and all of Sadam's generals and their troops didn't fight because they thought the US would give them power once they get rid of Saddam. And once that didn't happen - they started the insurgency that broke the US' back, hence people tend to call the Iraqi insurgency the real US-Iraq war. As for Afghanistan: the country had no military and they're basically tribal goat herding militias with AK47 and RPGs. Evidently, none of these two countries had any army, if we're being honest. Ukraine (the 2nd biggest country in Europe) on the other hand had the largest army in Europe (only 2nd to Russia before the war) that was trained for 8yrs by NATO and was supplied the most sophisticated weapons.

The logistics problems Russian forces faced during the initial phase of this campaign were actually exaggarated due to this being arguably the first global war that happened during the social media era where you can see everything in real time and a lot of it is also propaganda. Most of these logistics problems weren't even because the Russians were incompetent - it was mostly because they didn't go in with an intention to fight a war of attrition. They went in thinking Ukrainians wouldn't put up a fight and would try to save their cities. Then both can get to the negotiating table. Hence they invade with a smal number of combatants and kept matching without guarding their rear. And that's basically why those ambushes were successfully. However, since they moved on to phase 2 and put their feet down to fight - how come the exaggerated logistics problems disappeared?

LMAO @ CSG and MQ-9B like China and Russia don't have advanced EW that would jam those overrated interfaces. Small Iran captured a much more advanced US drone that's superior to MQ-9B, with EW, without breaking a sweat. Ever wondered why even American F-35 stopped going anywhere near Iran? Well, it's because Russia gave Iran radars that can detect them from far away and knock them out of the sky. Now, imagine what Russia and China would do to them. Some of you just throw out names without any understanding of what the other side has.

BTW, China just launched semi-submersible surface ships. Russia on the other hand has stealth Corvettes that are fully submersible - so they can go under water or act as surface ships. NATO countries including the US don't have those capabilities. And when it comes to EW - there's no match for Russia right now in the world. Something to ponder on apart from all the other advantages they have.

Great and well written analysis...many are just allowing the western media to think for them.

Ebubu3:



Edwin Clark fails to understand reason on what influenced Kalu’s decision to withdraw from the primaries, in order to support Ahmed Lawan’s ambition.


Kalu argued that a particular region can’t argue the Presidency to come South on the alter of equity and justice, only for that same region to deny the true region in the South which deserves equity and justice.


The SW can’t have Presidency, VP, and Presidency again whereas the North East hasn’t had Presidency.


I think Kalu is being a Statesman for supporting the North East instead of 1 zone to have Presidency twice and VP like they own Nigeria.

Oga,
He is just a coward simple as ABC. Most Nigerian president comes mainly from the north west and no one cry about that. Sheu Shagari, Muritala, Yaradua and now Buhari. You guys expect APC to give you ticket despite the hatred you have shown towards anything APC. Where is that done anywhere in the world?? Did Rocha not contest against Buhari in the primary in 2015 despite the fact that it was zone to the north? You guys cry about almost everything and play the victim cards all the time. If you understand politics you will see politicians are only crying for their own selfish interest and do not care about any fucking zones. Saraki and Atiku were happy for zoning in 2019 and suddenly they do not care anymore what has changed? Nothing but interest. You guys should go struggle the ticket out in your beloved PDP and stop crying about everything. You can't blackmail people into power wailing and all those bullshit will not help. Tinubu was once for restructuring and now the idiot kept mute and never talk about it again because the people he believe will vote for him do not want it. What does that tell you he cares about nothing but his foolish ambition and so all other fools parading as politicians.

Okwyjesus:


Some persons shouting IGBOS are not good politicians, they are proud, they don't know how to synergy etc will definitely not be happy with this move.

l see them as real enemies of the nation because they enjoy the marginalization of the lgbos and the prevailing injustice. They enjoy the unrest in the South East hence they want to eat two meat out of three in the southern Nigerian plate of soup. If not how can rule for 8 yrs, be VP for 8yrs and is still bitter bcs lgbos are working hard to get the president's seat.


Good move from Ohaneze

Power is not giving to anyone on the platter of gold you fight for it. Yaradua, Sambo and Buhari are all from North west. Politics is all about building bridges and compromising not by threatening others that they must votes for you.

hakeemhakeem:


So a retreat to you is just invites anybody without intellectual and articulates. He choose a model that is good so that his cabinets would know a governance should be.According to sanwolu as a commissioner you can't come to the weekly meeting with fashola and give false information to him because he has young guys across the state that gave him primary data on a daily basis

I am really disappointed in Fashola as a minister but I ultimately believe he fails as a minister largely due to the way Nigeria is structure. That is why I laugh at any fool who think they can make Nigeria a better place with the current structure. Though a failed minister but an excellent governor and I am yet to see any Nigeria with his public administrative skills.Fashola was an excellent governor by all metrics.

jrusky:


Story!!! They have come with their thrash religion sentiment. Fasting is never a tickect to heaven Mr man or you show me in the qoran where it was stated fasting is your ticket to heaven.

God don't care about your fasting God only has interest on your deed as a human on Earth. So fasting in the day and you are in the witchcraft, wizard, occultic coven by night bro its useless fasting.

Papa rest on, you really enjoy yourself when alive.

Your religion is your religion his religion is his, why can't you just believe what you instead of starting an unnecessary argument. What makes you think you are right and he is wrong?

AldrichAmes:




Where will Nigeria and Ghana get the natural gas to replace Russia?

Nigeria currently export almost 50% of its natural gas to Europe and it’s not even up to 10% of European gas import.

Some you just overvalue Nigeria’s oil and gas reserves/resources. Nigeria doesn’t really have much compared to the big players like Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Qatar and UAE. Russia alone owns 25% of global gas reserve. Nigeria can’t replace Russia. And Ghana is irrelevant when it comes to fossil fuel.

This is the reason why smart people know Nigeria is a poor country due to its excessive reliance on oil and gas and overvalued sense of importance when it comes to fossil fuel. It doesn’t even make $60 billion annually from oil and gas export (80% of that money gets stolen by kleptocrats). But countries like Russia and Iran are making over $300billion and over $200billion annually from oil/gas export alone despite sanctions. And they don’t have Nigeria’s huge population.

Let me add that the claim of Nigeria being oil/gas rich is overstated in context of the huge population and oil/gas reserves. The only thing keeping Nigeria afloat is remittance from Nigerian diaspora. Nigeria is basically the African version of Pakistan.

Great analysis!!!

skoskosko:

Before now, gas was paid for in dollars or euros by paying at gazprombank company accounts for gas in European banks. Now, the new mechanism requires them to open a ruble account in gazprom bank itself, a Russian owned financial institution and pay in their currency which would then be converted to ruble with the bank acting as the sourcing agent. What this means is that, it shields the accounts and funds from being frozen in the case of sanctions, since gazprom is a Russian bank, and it places the ruble in demand thereby cushioning the effects of their now worthless sanctions. Was this not what was proposed from the beginning and they refused? Why did they now agree?

Ignore the guy he is just being emotional with no facts. Even no matter the grammar they are trying to use at the end they are paying in rubble simple as ABC.

Igbofam:


Ironically they are not out of sanctions. They are just holding back from placing the worst sanctions.

By the way Germany, UK and USA are currently putting together more sanctions.

Hey haven't even started yet with Russia

Food prices just jumped by 45% in Russia and so did car prices

Who told you food prices have not jumped in the USA and Europe as well?

mfm04622:


One thing pro Russian people have not commented on is the fact that Ukrainians have not said they didn't support their government choosing to fight Russia.
Ukrainians know the scores. They know what to expect from Russia if they don't fight. They chose to fight and die than just die. As all die na die, they chose to die fighting.

Keeping deceiving yourself even the ones that fled choose to die. You know how many people want to flee that the government is stopping and forcefully conscripting men age 16 to 60.

Walkee:
lmao usd and gold in the same sentence. No need sef. You have no idea what you are talking about that's why you are always here talking things that make zero sense. Go on Google and search petrodollar 1974

Don't mind the dullard and he is proud to he very ignorant

Igbofam:


Lmao the US dollar is actually backed by Gold so Oil does not even bother it. The only reason US amasses oil is for one thing only ....CONTROL and not for their currency

Some of you actually know nothing

The bolded show you are the one that knows nothing and still proud to show your ignorance. The USD is no longer backed by gold since the 70s, go and read about Quantitative Easing.

Walkee:
they defaulted when they stole back the money they paid before. Almost like buying things with fake money the other party can't use. Eu will secretly buy ruble while releasing propaganda videos on twitter to deceive their own citizens. USA used their own hands to lift their fertiliser sanctions

I just read that too ooooo so the almighty USA lifted sanctions on fertilizers. Wonderful.

gotnel:


I know that Russia is not a small fry in the political world.
However, Putin is just one man who is opportune to be the leader of Russia federation
No matter how strong Putin looks like, his people are more likely to be the ones that will do him inn.
It's not going to be easy for Americans or any one to effect regime change in Russia and i don't think Biden is going towards that line.
Butcher,, remove Putin from power,, all these came from Biden mouth with feelings for life of the war victims
As a human being with blood running in his vain, Biden was carried away by humanity feeling than diplomatic sentiments.
Putin is a madman who does not understand diplomatic languages.
It is not doing him any good the war going on in Ukraine.
Waste of human and material resources on both sides.

Oh really...but he wouldn't say the same thing when Bush and Obama did worse in Iraq and Libya respectively.

Let's forget political correctness and face fact, the US would have wanted a regime change in Russia since they believe Russia is under a dictatorship. How many times have they called Putin a dictator how many times have they denounced Russia democracy?? Their policy is always to topple a person they considered a dictator the only problem here is that they all lack the capacity to topple a government in Russia. KGB is of the most sophisticated intelligence agency so there is no way that would be possible for them. Imagine Biden directed this to North Korea they wouldn't have clarified or apologized but see how they are all peeing in their pant.

Quiny32323:


Do your research and come back to me.

You are the one that needs research oga, Russia that has been helping other nations built all kind of plants and nuclear reactors since God knows is the country you assume do not possess the technology to build oil refinery. Are you aware that Russia built the Ajaokuta Steel plant in your backyard here. Some of you just swallow whatever you hear from the western propaganda. A country that is even first in some field of technologies is the same country you believe cannot refine oil something people that do not even pass through school are doing in the Niger Delta. I am done having this conversation with you. Smh.

Parachoko:
I hope there will be no cries when the Russia Military retaliate

Thank you. They only want Russia to be hard on them people can see the way Russia is treating their own soldiers when they surrender.

Quiny32323:


Zelensky it's a baby in politics and this is why both Russia and the west is playing chess with his brain but Russia economy is going to be affected in the long for so many reason. Apart from oil which the west is already looking for alternative, their is not much Russia can offer to the world. They still need critical equipment to drill their oil which the west supplies to them also so it's not as easy as you think for Russia even in the long run.

Are you kidding me? So you mean Russia does not have capacity to build refinery or drilling equipment. The same Russia that exports nuclear technology worldwide.Some of you actually think Russia is one third world country.

Ask yourself same question can a Chinese or Russian become president in Nigeria? We blame people for not giving us opportunities in their country how many foreigners have we given any political opportunity as well? We have a sense of entitlement as people always what others can do for us and not the other way round.This is the reason we have a very useless country with many useless people litter all over the place.

Johnrake69:


Do you know what brought about the arms struggle in the first place? The west backed the right sector with Nazis ideology to oust a democratically elected President because he was Pro Russian through protest. He rejected trade deals with the west and went with mother Russia.

There's no world power that will watch his people being persecuted. And Yes if Oduduwa is a world power there's no way as a nation it won't intervene in Benin over it's people in port Novo. Same way as an American or Chinese you get easy passage anywhere in the world.

And I disagree with the notion that Russians are occupier's. It has no basis in history. Over the last 500 years Russia has been invaded by the French, Swedes, Poles and German's twice. The problem Europeans have with Russia is because they have managed to secure their resources against them.

And Russians know who their enemies are. Unlike we Africans.

At the bolded Putin put stop to the west raping Russia of her resources. He destroyed those corrupt elites who help the west in looting Russia resources this is while they all ran to Europe with their money. This is why Russia worship him as well if the west can't control you then you are evil.

Johnrake69:


One way or another they will have to be recognised to end the current crisis. The Minsk Agreement tried to address that.

Kiev's persecution of indigenous Russians has divided the country. Banning Russian language and culture is a war crime and Nazis move. I wonder why the world is blind to that. Ukraine is a horrible country and even after this war I don't see Ukraine surviving it's internal civil wars as the west continue arming and training the right sector with Nazis ideology.

Great point. The country is gone it will never be the same again.

Lol. This shows that Russia really hit them hard this time no one believe Russia could come up with such. Here the fool saying the contract states the currency of payment. But the contract also states the method of payment(SWIFT) which you have foolishly blocked. Don't pay in rubble na cold go kill you all.

DoctorOlasDesk:
lol. E don red for Putin. I believe an uprising will erupt in Russia anything from this weekend that will go on to become uncontrolled and lead to the death of Putin. Wait out for it. I repeat, this weekend

Russia at the moment is still heaven compare to Nigeria and even poor people there eat three square meals can the same be said for Nigeria? If no, then why do think there would be an uprising there when there is none in Nigeria despite poverty and hunger in Nigeria? Just think about that for a second.

AroleOduduwa2:


How do they intend to get the gas to Germany through the sea or they will build pipelines within a week, think before posting propaganda news.

Bro it is true actually but they couldn't even declared the volume or value of the contract. The truth is that no one can replace Russia for them at the moment the best they can do is to lower the volume from Russia. Not being open with the contract shows they just want Russia to believe they can get elsewhere. And again the Russia can cause disruption as well should country like Saudi act anyhow, all Russia needs to do is to support the Houthi militant in Yemen and provide them with missiles to destroy Saudi oil wells and that would be bad for the global market.

AroleOduduwa2:
The Democrat will ruin this beautiful country. Americans have no clue what that means.
They have gotten a free ride since Bretton Woods.
Just wait till they can't use paper to buy real things.
And the rest of the world will not fund their budget deficits and military adventures.
The US$ falls, so does the empire

Thank you. I was discussing this a friend yesterday and the problem is the US will not go down alone. Look at the number of countries/institutions that owns their bonds to funds their budget deficit. The earlier the world stops this over dependency on dollars the better.

nomenclature:
A none entity like you saying the most powerful man in the world no get sense.
Ordinary whatsapp group u no fit be admin.
People dey contest for your local goverment council, you no go even fit get one vote .
Nairaland is full of disrespectful idiots like you.
Black monkey for that matter oh wey be say his own language Don almost go extinct ...e dey use English dey communicate when him no be English man.

Lol. This guy you wicked ooooooo abeg next take am easy on people. There are elements of truth of in what you said but you are too harsh ���