₦airaland Forum

fergie001:
Peter Gregory Onwuabasi Obi

We are used to this Obi's story line. Can he give concrete alternatives? He condemned the elites and thank God that he is part of the elites. What measure of comfort has he downsized for the good of the ordinary man?

He believed and used the statistics because it's negative how many of the positives has he accepted and used to commend the government?

Brendaniel:
That's Tinubu's style of politics, destroy opposition, if Tinubu was the first president of Nigeria, he might still be president till date, the only reason he left as governor was because he could not challenge the federal constitution, so he decided to be de-facto governor till date, now he wants to replicate the same as president, when you wonder how people like Paul Biya have held on to power for long,

This was how they started, check any long sit tight president in the world, they have one thing in common, they ensure opposition is in comatose.

Tinubu has never been a democrat.

Be serious for once. Tinubu this Tinubu that. You hijacked a party and paid off a few and you claim that you own the party. What happened to people that laboured and nurtured the party? Chase them away and allow you to take over. The same thing happened in LP and it's happening now in ADC but you refused to learn. Your solution is to lazily call Tinubu's name.

swimmer:
What are you even saying. We should be looking for how to support them to save us from the current demons.

So assuming they just sit in their house and doing nothing... Who loses more? We won't have any hope. Rather than lamenting,... Decide how to support them. The guy is in court being frustrated by the judiciary and APC. You think it's easy

Advise them to do the right thing from the beginning. APC that they are trying to copy didn't start like this. ADC is not serious. No authentic membership register. No ward, local government and state congresses. No national convention. Every position is interim. The law doesn't recognize this in choosing electable leaders. Rather than sit down and put their house in order they are busy criticizing every action of the government without providing alternatives. They don't even have the spread. How many of their offices have you seen? If PDP can resolve their leadership problems they are better prepared than the coalition of confusion. After the election they will start shouting rigging. How can you pass exam without adequate preparation? Only noise everywhere.

Kukutente23:
I believe security for a party convention should be the business of the police so I wonder what the minister of defence means by ensuring security when he's neither a police officer nor a minister for police affairs
This is how APC keeps ridiculing serious govt institutions and politicising sensitive institutions and issues yet they expect positive results from an institution they've tainted with their dirty political fingers

He is a political office holder in a government. The party appointed him the chairman of security subcommittee of their convention. What is wrong with what he is saying? Is he the chief of army staff, air staff or naval staff? Is he the chief of defence staff? Can't you distinguish between political office holder and a military office holder?

Racoon:
IMPORTANT SNIPPETS;
“-1). A nation cannot rise above the integrity of its leaders. If we truly want a better Nigeria, our laws must defend truth, character, competence, and accountability. We cannot continue to tolerate criminal behavior,” the politician stated.

-2). Deceiving people to gain power was a gravest criminal offence in a serious democracy. In any serious democracy, the gravest offence in public life is deceiving the people to gain power.

Submitting false documents, falsifying one’s age, forging certificates, and making dishonest declarations to electoral authorities are among the most serious offenses in any democracy. Such actions should not only lead to automatic disqualification, but also warrant criminal prosecution.

-3). There is no justification for prioritising punishment for party alignment over punishing false certificates, forgery, and other forms of deception in the pursuit of public office.”

Obi thinks that constant noise will give him success in the election. People that are serious have gone quiet, mobilizing and strategizing.

Was certificate forgery explicitly in the former electoral act? Answer is no. Forgery is a crime in our criminal law.

Was Obi and his gang not in the country when the electoral act was being debated? Why did he not pressure the parliament to include it if that is his only problem?

We can now see that Obi is as unstable as water 🌊. So he had his eyes on jumping out to another party if and when he loses the ADC primary. How can people be following an unstable man like this.

ADC you have been put on notice that Obi is one leg in and one leg out.

TEYA:
So instead of Obj, Awo should have won. Did Awolowo contest in 1999? How did the north use Obj if I may ask?

Sorry....there was a mixed up.

Guyman02:
Voter aparthy is now so bad that only 7% of registered voters came out to vote in the last offseason elections in FCT, Rivers and Kano states.
This is why most Igbos preferred Abacha to the Taqiyya sold to Nigerians by Tinubu led NADECO democracy activists who are currently ruling the country and messed up the democracy they claim to have fought for.

This was different. After so many years of military rule Nigerians were enthusiastic to witness civilian rule. Many hadn't witnessed election from birth. That's the reason for the large turnout.

Image123:
That year when we all had hope of OBJ prison to palace. Turned out as the sanctimonious leopard that couldn't change his spots. God gave him the biggest opportunity on all sides and he failed Nigeria.
We were on same level with UAE at this point if not ahead.

Very correct my brother. They looked for unwilling president and gave it to him. Primary school headmaster. His ministers just like Jonathan had a field day. Nigeria would have been another nation now if they had allowed Awo to win. Nigeria's problem started te te and OBJ had hand in them. The north used him.

gidgiddy:
Thats because there were only two people running for President, and both were Yoruba

Do you think Yoruba's would have voted Tinubu if Tinubu and Osibanjo were the only two people running for President?

OBJ was a political reject from his people because he rigged the 1979 election in favour of Shagari. He was constantly mocked that he had no political base. In 2003 he went on overdrive using federal might to muscle the entire West. Only Tinubu in Lagos resisted him.

SlavaUkraini:
Those were the days of Free and Fair elections...

Just like the June 12 Presidential election...

What we have today is a sham and electoral somersault often called elections...

Where you see results from Imo appearing in Jigawa....

Where Wike and his foot soldiers will rewrite and manipulate election results and boldly tell you to go to court if you don't like what you see...

Free and fair ke? Ask people with direct knowledge. Rigging started from PDP primary in Jos.

The military and north had decided that the presidency should go to the West to pacify them for all that happened with June 12 1993. The main figures were OBJ and Falea. Falae was a technocrat and a typical awoist. The north and military saw OBJ as a lesser evil and everything was done to make him president. They rigged Ekwueme out in the Jos convention.

qtx:
It's characters like you that are keeping this country down on its knees. Listen to yourself, Tinubu did what in Lagos? am sure you dont even live in Lagos. We that lived in Lagos long before Tinubu became Lagos governor and up until now know those governors that truly developed Lagos. Tinubu did not come 30% near Fashola for instance. But all these your Baba sope mentality will not allow people like you to think straight.
With all these claims of his experience, where has he led Nigeria to now? When you finish arguing, you go behind and start lamenting the state of insecurity, the economy, poor electricity, corruption etc in the country, right?. It's not your fault, because the internet has made it possible for even those who know nothing to have the opportunity to spew all that is in them.

You are a baby 🐥🍼. I have lived all my life in Lagos. Since 1977 up till now I still live in Lagos. When you come to a public forum be a little humble because you don't know who is who. I will not reveal anything about myself because that will dignify you.

Who dreamt and planned for greater Lagos?
Have you ever known what VI and old Maroko used to look like when the lagoon overflow?
Who discovered and gave Fashola the opportunity?
Who made Fashola governor?
Who insisted that his Lagos plan must be followed and turned out disciples that continually took over to ensure continuity?
Under who did Lagos start to offer full free education in public schools from primary to secondary - free tuition, uniform, books, waec fees etc.

Mind you I'm from Owerri so I'm not talking out tribal sentiment. Mind how you talk and behave in a faceless forum. It shows who you are.

truthera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59-pzXlZWPk

Sowore speaks on Aba mass protest demanding justice for Nnamdi Kanu


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zop1prXKSQ

Sowore's business don mature. Kanu's case has become his money making venture.

qtx:
must you have a presidential experience to context presidential election? How na? When Tinubu contested in 2023 did he have the experience aside from the one he got as a governor and briefly as a senator? You are speaking with biased mindset.

Being governor of Lagos successfully is like ruling mini-nigeria. Tinubu's clout before he became president was immense. Obi and Amechi don't have such. They can't carry the weight of Nigeria. Forget chochocho. Atiku even with his short comings and northern domination entitlement is far ahead of Obi and Amechi in terms of capacity. The weight of managing Nigeria is immense - economy, tribal, religion, security, corruption, foreign interests, class interests etc.

Some of the above are not common in many countries. For example many countries don't have tribal and religious issues. These are two major ropes holding Nigeria.

Brendaniel:
What good examples has Tinubu shown to Nigerians in general?

I switch off. We are not aligning.

Racoon:
63% Poverty is huge. These economic indices are really alarming. APC actually came to steal, kill and destroy.

We have gone beyond this. ADC should start telling us what they can do differently. The election is too close. No time for retoiricts. They have not shown us that they have alternatives.

Godfullsam:
Looks like na only Yoruba people remain for Nigeria if you observe this Tinubu's appointment pattern.

I am proudly a Yoruba man but I am not proud of Tinubu's style of appointment.

Other tribes should be considered too.

Nigerians should change from where an appointee is to what an appointee can do. This is the only way to grow this country.

Engrduke:
God bless Nigeria.
May our country overcome this difficult time.

Hope he's as brilliant as the man in charge of tax reform, Taiwo Oyedele.

Fola Adeola is first grade ask around.

Eriokanmi:
You see. Those supporting this man won't stop amazing me. He appoints only those who had been working with him since he was governor of lagos.

If you want to perform would you appoint those that you are certain of their track record or those that you just want to test to find out their capabilities?

saintopus:
So what will happen to the PIA, a legislative document that took several years and eventually was passed into Law.
Some financial obligations as well as contract may have been carried out.
I am concerned about the fate of the many inconsistencies in the oil sector.
If the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu want to do away with the PIA he should send a Bill to NA so a proper reform can be carried out.

The PIA is a law. Ideas are required to unlock the benefits of the law. Without the ideas the law will become lame.

Brendaniel:
So Tinubu who is the leader of the leaders should not lead them by example?

Which example? Who is closer to the people? Tinubu essentially should be dealing with macroeconomy while the subnationals should be dealing with microeconomy. Everyone agrees that our macro indicators are looking good but our micros are not so good. You should know where the problem is.

How did the old politicians of NPN, PRP, UPN,GNPP achieve their policies and ideologies getting down Bring one bottle of good non alcoholic wine

Wizardslayer:
Look at what Peter obi is doing in Abia State through governor Alex Otti and he can't be trusted to be a Nigerian president.

Igbophobia is the active ingredient holding Nigeria together.

Read what you wrote here: "look at what Peter Obi is doing in Abia state through Alex Oti" So Peter Obi is the governor and Alex Oti is his errand boy or proxy? Our people eeh.

Brendaniel:
Who is the entire federation ?

You?

Listen to yourself

Can any person make such a decision without the approval of Tinubu?

Who is the head of the government?

Is Mr Taiwo talking to you?

Is he not the minister for finance?

why didn't he take the decision all by himself?

Then who is he talking to?

The way you people reason eh!

You guys made me give me give up on the unity of Nigeria...

Funny 🤣..... there's constitutional provision of sharing of federation account every month. Not by any president. It's enshrined in the constitution. You are the one that don't understand how the system works.

Brendaniel:

It is you who does not understand what he even said, if Tinubu was actually doing what he said, he wouldn't need to tell the government to start doing it...

Do you people reason at all?

You that understood.....was he talking to Tinubu alone or the entire federation? Now take lecture: subsidy is paid from federation money. So the three tiers of government are paying for it. As subsidy has been withdrawal the same three tiers withdrew it and shared it amongst themselves. Taiwo is saying that if these three tiers spend the money in areas that will benefit the people hardship will be mitigated.

FutureFocus:
No, you guys should maintain multiple taxation with lack of power supply, Instead of you to reach out to Abia state to teach you how they achieve 24/7 power supply , your priority is to tax our capital in the bank, tax every transaction, tax our goods on the bad roads , we keep fooling ourselves, which money are the commercial drivers paying on the road within our cities called security money? Which money is local government collecting on the same bad road when transporting our goods ? How many times do you want to tax us? Why do we need to pay when we take a matter to police station? Everything is already privatized, we run our own generator, our own water, you are not qualified to collect tax

Which Abia state 24/7 uninterrupted power. I dey Aba as I dey type. Where is the 24/7 light. Meanwhile what you are referring to is Prof Bart Nnaji's company goemetric that he started some years ago that had ownership issues that was resolved recently through federal intervention. There is no Abia state shishi in the company. Our people too dey beat chest jare.

Debroslink:
It's a shame that the revenue gotten from subsidy removal is being used to lure governors, senators and reps to APC.

Lies. All the subnationals share. Ask your LG chairman and state governor what they did with theirs.

EmmyMaestro:
I was wondering the same thing ooo

Too much discharge that is still there.

RebirthPhoenix:
Dey whine yourself,, una go later cry,,

The same country that Kanu is (was) a citizen but they abandoned him. Sorry 😔 Kanu. Next time behave well.

According to Peter Obi followers Tinubu is offering billions to people to defect. All these people that defected including those to ADC must have collected billions from Tinubu to defect to ADC.

Pastorsarynzay:
Go to supreme court bala, the pdp must have an end to this evil, pdp is still intact only just that the leadership is failing. Pdp should remember the die minute can be in their favour. Press on bala

If PDP attempts to go to supreme Court before judgement will be given INEC process of filing papers for 2027 elections would have been over. No one will contest under PDP.