₦airaland Forum

Let everyone live by the dictate of their conscience in so far as the right of others is not infringed,


Let God be the judge

Stockholm syndrome

This can't be the same Garba Sheu who falsely alleged that security operatives were after his life during the presidential campaign. So it's true that those who behead others with sword do not take kindly to even toddlers playing with toy knives close to their necks

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
In parliamentary system of government as it relates to tribes in Nigeria, what matters are Hausas, Igbos and Yorubas, every other tribe can build alliance and fall behind them thereby narrowing our diverse differences to only three groups hence parliamentary system of government is advisable.

With the manipulated census figure as we have it now, you can be sure that the North would forever produce the prime minister or determine who emerges as one and without the constitutional impediment of states 2/3. It was easier to practice in the first republic because we had regions instead of states and an alliance between two regions was needed to form the govt at the centre. With Zik and Awo forming an alliance in the 60s , wresting the power from the North was a very bright prospect until NPC sourced an over ambitious Akintola and rigged the election in the western region. That was what led to the collapse of the first republic. The North will never accept an arrangement that gives the other major/minor tribes equal opportunity/access to power

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Since the establishment of State of Israel, only one government was able to complete its tenure.

Remember, Israel became a country in 1948 and has fought many wars.

Today, she's a developed country notwithstanding her Arab, Settlers, Jewish and Bedoiun populations.

The population of Arabs settlers and Bedoiun in Israel are quite negligible and totally dissimilar to the tribal and religious mix in Nigeria. Israel , to a large extent is a homogeneous society and the issues that drives their politics are not as divisive as we have in Nigeria. There is nothing like power shift/rotation due to fear of political/economic domination by any region. There has never been any military incursion so the democratic culture has been nurtured since they became a nation state

Every single politician, party stalwarts, journalist and religious leaders should be on their list

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Even Japan had 5 Prime ministers in 6 years.

That's not a problem, competence will prevail in the long run.

Japan has strong institutions that can sustain the incessant transitions and they do not contend with the fault-lines of tribal and religious sentiments that has kept us in doldrums since amalgamation

Firefire:
I tend to agree with you on the parliamentary system to be re-introduced back in Nigeria.

Nigeria practiced parliamentary system of government in the First Republic between 1960 and 1966.

While in a parliamentary system, the executive and the legislature are fused, with an executive Prime Minister chosen from within the legislature usually the head of the ruling political party or the heads the ruling coalition.

However, for the currently running Presidential system of government and the current challenges, what do you feel could be the approach to get-out of this situation ?

Hahahahahaha with parliamentary system, Nigeria would have a new prime Minister every other week

The political space needs serious fulmigation and most political actors addicted to belligerence needs detoxification. The preceding year and months leading to the last election were made volatile by political actors and their supporters, what we are witnessing now is a natural spill over of the intolerance of that period. Like in war situation, most retiring combatants are debriefed and re orientate from their state of mental warfare to that of peaceful co-existence. APC politicians need to urgently switch back from that mental state of guerrilla warfare now that the "war" is won, otherwise the sharing of the spoils of war will remain acrimonious and the attainment of the objectives that sent them to the trenches will remain elusive. Unless the spoil is the main objective

One can't help but notice the slavish mentality of Nigerians, majority making bondage look so cool. Reading through this thread, you come away with the mental image of slaves in different camps trashing and tearing at each other to determine which of their slave masters is more obnoxiously exploitative.

The question is, does it really matter which of these despicable characters is more influential in trading the people's interest for personal aggrandizement?

Will only believe this story when I see his scarred skin in the next set of pictures that I am sure would soon be released by the presidential Photographer, Omoboriowo.

It's inconceivable that the No1 British diplomat in Nigeria would use anything but diplomacy in assessing Nigeria's newly elected president.

Like the author, I pray we never have an Opposition like APC again, the damage they've done to this great country is truly incalculable. A national re-orientation would be fitting at this time of our nation's democratic journey and no better time to start the healing of our damaged psyche than now

Liars are not suppose to believe their own lies, but like sociopaths, APC promoters, their bought journalists, civil society groups, social media goons and many impressionable youths fabricated so much lies, repeated it so often that they started believing their own fabrication . If the late armed robber Lawrence Anini, the late tyrant Abacha and many other notable criminals who had plundered and tormented this nation were to be alive and decided to join the dubious change bandwagon, I am sure they all would have been called saints and hailed as heroes of our democracy.

Mercie97:
celestine omehia that emerged as governor via pdp sham substitution of names and was prompty sacked by the courts and had his tenure declared illegal is the same person wike is climbing a stool to erect his picture..wike is a shame to rivers people

All your former military presidents/governors including Buhari were not more than usurpers who turned the guns and ammunitions bought with tax payers money against the people and imposed themselves on us against our wish, yet they keep enjoying the privileges entitled to by former presidents/governors with no eyebrows raised.

omenka:
This guy is the most petty politician in Nigeria honestly. His only goal as a governor is to do things to spite Amaechi as though that is what the people of Rivers State voted him into office to do.

Well, what's my business, let them enjoy the sunshine. I don't see how his actions affect me.

How does according a former gov honour duly deserved amounts to spiting Amaechi?

As at the time of electioneering campaign, Wike was a private citizen with no power to commandeer vehicles from any govt parastatal. Whoever released the vehicle to him should be the one to be held accountable.

I see this as one stupid allegation that won't stand the test of scrutiny, Amaechi and his cohorts should be more ingenious and try come up with more believable allegation

NgeneUkwenu:
Eze, You Don't Prevent Sinners From Coming To Church But You Don't Allow Them Inside The Pulpit Until They Are Sanctified!

Your allegory is hypocritical, so it's alright to collect offering from a thief, make him one of the trustees of the church and turn round to say he is not morally fit to come near the pulpit. If you consider him intellectually and morally adequate to make laws for Nigerians, then he should be eligible to occupy any position of leadership in the national Assembly. If you can sleep with a prostitute, you have no moral right to say she is not fit to be your wife

All these endless squabbling and moaning about positions is an unnecessary distraction from the needful. But for the added perks, the position of the senate president is like that of every other senators, he is first among equals and his influence and tenure depends on his ability to carry other senators along in making and passing laws for the betterment of Nigerians. If the purpose of their aspirations is to serve, I see no reason why they are all engaged in this unhealthy jostling for position.

As for APC, the party should realise that majority of those who voted for these legislators are not card carrying members of any political party and most did not vote because they believe in the ideology of the party. The loyalty of the senators should first be to Nigerians and their various constituencies before thinking of party affiliations. Real politicking entails some degree of flexibility, the party's rigid insistence on having its way as to who becomes officers in the hallowed chambers is not more than stupid arrogance by a few self serving party executives and their god fathers.

Amalgamation of disparate entities lacking cohesive political ideology. The only common attraction/agenda was power and the concomitant spoils

vedaxcool:
You seem pained, how can we help you relieve your pain?

Yea, maybe you are right, empathy can be a source of pain sometimes. Empathy for the young, misguided, naïve folks like you

Apart from his stint as the ceremonial/nominal head of PTF , in more than 30yrs, he was never involved in any other venture apart from tending to his cows . Expecting so much from a brain that has been dormant for that long is akin to digging a well in the desert and expecting to see water after a few feet

If we have strong, apolitical institutions, the threat and public demand for probe by every successive govt would become irrelevant. Only strong institutional reforms can save us from the recklessness and impunity of political office holders.

That the case was filed in Bayelsa before an industrial court speaks volume about the diabolical intent of the litigants. The courts in porthacourt are open and the judges are sitting, why take a case involving local issues in the state to a court outside the jurisdiction of the state. The industrial court judge is obviously one of the bad eggs in the judiciary as he must be aware that his court lacks the jurisdiction to handle the case and that the issues involved are not industrial in nature.

Amaechi and his desperate supporters tried this kind of rubbish in the days and weeks leading to the inauguration, shopping for injunctions round the country, from owerri to Lagos and later Kano, fortunately they could not find a corrupt judge to do their evil bidding. I have no doubt that this latest judicial shenanigans would also come to nought

An eye witness just called in at channels TV about 5minutes ago about an on going armed robbery attack at ogolonto area of ikorudu. Viewers could hear massive gunshots at the background, so if you live in that area,pls take precaution and warn your friends and loved ones to avoid zenith bank for now

blym4real:
Go and read what okonjo Iwela said again.

She clearly stated the amount that was borrowed to fund salary payments.

I do not need to read Okonjo to know that funds were borrowed to finance capital and recurrent expenditures due to massive shortfall in the projected revenue for the year. If you base your yearly budget on a projected revenue of say 1bn and in the course of the year there is a massive and unforeseen disruption to your source(s) of revenue bringing down the realised revenue to N600b, it's only logical that the shortfall has to be sourced through borrowing

blym4real:
Did America borrow to pay salaries?

A country can borrow to erect infastructures and other projects but not to pay salaries.

Can you name any country that has billions in reserve and is still borrowing to pay salaries.

Not just to pay salaries but to also fund a lot of other items in their budget, that's what they call deficit budgeting and as far as I know, America has never balanced her budget in the last 50yrs. It only means the short fall in revenue needed to finance a yearly budget is borrowed either internally or from creditors abroad

US and other western nations should not need our prompting to seize and repatriate stolen money irrespective of the govt in power. It's hypocritical to turn blind eyes to illegal wired transfers into their banks and later pretend to be helping us recover what should ordinarily not have been allowed into their economies

In between his endless junkets and paying regular visits to his 150 cows he remembers his obligation to the nation and because there is no blueprint in place, we are constantly reminded of what's wrong with the system not the thought out solutions

Symptoms of senility, I am sure he won't even remember giving such an order in the first place

It's high time the goatee bearded , almajiri looking clown with pretensions to populist ideals and Godly disposition is held accountable for the mismanagement of the funds that had accrued to the state in the last 8yrs. He is obviously clueless as to the way forward but the privileges and paraphernalia of the exalted office is too alluring for him to bow out honourably . If you are employed to do a job beyond your ken, it amounts to Total lack of honor and a fraudulent disposition to keep your earning wages as a burden to your employers. Aregbe should be shown the way out dishonorably

Amaechi must be made to account for every single naira he frittered away as governor of Rivers state. His case is peculiar because I don't think there is any governor more reckless with people's money as Amaechi since the new democratic dispensation.