₦airaland Forum

Obudupikin:
This man is one reason I sometime wonder the quality of professors we have in Nigeria.

True. The man is so shamelessly partisan, he could even be a Nairalander. Professor my nyash.

Obasanjo is actually evil but his message in the letter is true and appropriate.

NgeneUkwenu:
Only a political idiotu doesn't know, Obasanjo is angry because he has been sidelined...

3rd Force Ko, IPOB Yoot Ni!

Sai Baba Till 2019.....After which Osinbajo and Elrufai takes over in 2023....

And only a total fool will dispute what OBj has written.

Very idiotic post. When did APC southeast equate to Igbos? Too many fools on the internet. Tufiakwa

OP, if you feel so bad about it why don't you join him in the grave. He might give answers to your questions

OP, I wonder how much you are paid to support this disaster of a government on social media. You have sold your soul. Retrace your steps before it is too late.

Axis313:
Engaging in intercourse with sex dolls is like sleeping with dead people,so disgusting.

Not for this one that can carry on a conversation. Dead people don't talk.

mightyhaze:
jonathan worked more in the north, in spite of the profuse hatred they haboured for him there.. and ur here making noise abt 4 ministers that is supposed to be based on federal character

That’s why many call him a dullard, as if it's not constitutional.

SBG04:
Same Sule Lamido that is in court for embezzling Jigawa state resources. His sons are also in court for diverting billions of naira from the states coffers. If you put this criminal sule on one side and put the old and seemingly fragile Buhari on the other, i will pick Buhari any day. These criminals that have looted our commonwealth are really angry that Buhari has refused to give them any soft landing. They must refund all the money they stole or go to jail. Stupid sule!

And you think your Buhari is not looting at the moment.

xreal:
Ask the community leaders/elders, they will rather receive cash gifts from the owners of the well and enrich themselves.

Gbam! Most times the community "strong men" (youth leaders, chiefs etc) do not allow any meaningful development in their communities. They rather you give them the cash to share.

Nonaira1:
Ironically, this was written by a fool that goes around calling himself patriotic.

WTF does SE has to do with this?
There is obviously something severely wromg with you.

Seriously what mental illness are you diagnosed with and when last did you take your medication?

The animal should be put to sleep

Why is the ethnicity required? What has it got to do with the job? Seems it's impossible for Nigeria to become a real nation in the near future.

Raiyell:
This one has exposed you, bigoted slime.

How can someone be indebted to a bank and yet the bank cannot provide statements of account to prove their accusations after more than two years?

I know you can read between the lines but you choose not to.

Honestly, that thing you quoted is a sick animal. Always jumping to senseless conclusions.

cc sarrki

Very intriguing essay and exposition by Abraham Ogbodo.
Mynd 44, OAM4J. Please move this to FP. We all need to read and learn.

Buhari’s Presidency: Facts and fiction
By Abraham Ogbodo
14 January 2018 | 5:04 am

The Editor of the Guardian, Mr. Abraham Ogbodo

I am worried about the ongoing narrative that Nigerians desired a change from the PDP misrule and agreed in 2015 to kick out Goodluck Jonathan and vote in Muhammadu Buhari as President.
Nothing sounds more fraudulent. Was there a consensus at anytime on that? The answer is no. Rather, the Buhari presidency was a risk specifically undertaken by a tiny but powerful clique solely for its benefit and not the benefit of Nigerians.

Now that the risk has failed and woefully too, the same clique is trying to change the narrative and make the mistake look like everybody’s mistake. It will not happen. I know the truth is always a casualty when history is being hurriedly written from many perspectives. But not this time please because I am going to tell the truth to shame the devil and stop it from escaping with vain glory .

Penultimate Saturday, my Oga, Dele Mommodu, did a lamentation on the back page of Thisday Newspaper in which he admitted being part of the cabal (that actually was the original cabal before this gratuitous cabal in Aso Rock Villa that everybody is talking about) that promoted Buhari to high heavens and made him the one to defeat in the 2015 electoral calculations. Another of my Oga, Sam Omatseye of The Nation Newspaper, has been lamenting too. He also was part of the original cabal.

Yet another of my Oga, Femi Adesina, who was part of the original cabal is not lamenting. At the end of it all, fortune smiled on him and became a marginal stakeholder in the new cabal in Aso Rock. He is a marginal stakeholder because the main stakeholders are well known and he is not one. But as he was in the beginning singing Buhari praises, so he is now, and maybe, ever shall he be till Buhari’s tenancy in Aso Rock expires one way or the other.

Other members of the pro-Buhari orchestra who also benefited when the deed was done are maintaining good table manners. They are eating and have decided to remain quiet to avoid being choked. One is the monumental Mohammed Haruna who is a national commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Another is Modibo Kawu who is the director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Yet another is Bayo Onanuga who enjoys a double portion as Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) with his wife as deputy governor of Ogun State. The list of mercenary writers is longer.

I cannot say for sure, but it follows that the lamentations of those lamenting now could have turned to exhortations if fortune had also smiled on them as others. In Nigeria, the transition from a prophet of hope to a prophet of doom is so flexible and is often determined by the warmth of the stomach. The only good thing is that the subject matter has not changed and the voices that hailed Buhari less than three years ago as a blessing unto the nation are today saying he is an affliction.

The media was recruited as partner in the drive to enthrone Buhari. And it did a good job of the script handed to it. Reason did not stand a chance as emotions became too compelling to resist in the media narration of falsehood to completely obliterate Buhari’s past. In the aftermath, the choice between Buhari and Jonathan became like the choice between Angel Michael and Lucifer.

Even the indefatigable defender of the national conscience, Professor Wole Soyinka, also got overwhelmed. He believed, albeit without clear proof, that by some cosmic interventions, Buhari had been reconditioned into a manageable democrat in the years between 1985 when he (Buhari) was overthrown as a military head of state and 2015 when he sought election as a democratic president. Lately, the Prof has also been seeing affliction in place of blessing. But Professors Itse Sagay and Tam David West are faithful disciples that will not deny the saviour of Nigeria and even seem ready to propagate the gospel to the world long after the master must have gone.

Mind you, the purpose today is to say that it is not all Nigerians, as it is being peddled, that agreed to return Buhari to the presidency in 2015. Some people did and what I am trying to do here is to name some of them. The political wing of the original cabal was far more determined to witness the second crowning of Buhari as president. But today, there is also huge frustration and disappointment in that camp.

Apart from Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who has managed to break loose at great personal cost, others are largely suffering in silence, and like Boxer in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, they do not know what better thing to say than to agree that Comrade Napoleon is right always. Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State is also in this camp and in fact the camp’s leader. He, it was, who mobilised the Southwest to strike a successful formal political deal with the Hausa/Fulani power elite for the first time since the birth of Nigeria. And he did so in spite of warnings from elders of the region.

For this purpose, Tinubu had willingly renounced his essence. Suddenly, the man who was in the trenches under the NADECO umbrella to fight dictatorship and Fulani domination of the Nigerian political space was all too ready to go to dinner with the devil even without a long spoon.

For instance, in the public debates for the desirability or otherwise of the 2014 political reform conference, Tinubu had said openly that a conference to restructure Nigeria was diversionary and that what Nigerians needed at that material time was a Buhari presidency after which other things including restructuring would be added unto them.
To make it look real, he got the APC to include restructuring of the polity in its manifesto. But that was where it ended. Nobody in the APC including its chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, is talking about restructuring.

In his New Year speech to Nigerians, President Buhari said the myriad of national problems had more to do with processes than they had to do with the structure of the federation. He more or less put paid to agitations for the restructuring of the country to reflect true federalism.

And so, in the end, after the huge and unprecedented political investment that he made, what have been the returns, in concrete terms, for Tinubu and the Southwest outside a lame duck Vice President who is more seen than heard and who became Acting President by default for a couple of months? Let me also add that only charitable commentators like me would put the entire blame on the head of the Ashiwaju alone. Others who are less charitable will hold the entire Southwest responsible for the Buhari misfortune. Here are a people known for their sophistication in engaging the Nigerian system and they have hardly faltered right from the days of the late sage, Pa Obafemi Awolowo.

Permit me to digress a little. Usually, when planners of a revolution fail to agree or decide to project too much of personal interest over the collective goal, they lose the initiative to control things to complete strangers. That was what happened in the French Revolution when the planners degenerated into self-cancellation and allow the rise of that military upstart called Napoleon Bonaparte to derail the goal of the revolution in pursuit of his personal glory.

The Yoruba elders and the entire progressive clan in Nigeria also went into self-cancellation in pursuit of personal glory and left the vision unprotected.

In the process, the man with the most power, not the best ideas, became the king. Tinubu overwhelmed the Southwest with his power and led the region into the current quagmire. Two considerations mainly defined the politics of 2015. First was the pure desire to cultivate democracy beyond incessant attacks by undemocratic forces personified by the likes of Olusegun Obasanjo.

The other was personal lust for power which was vigorously promoted through a complacent media as quest for good governance.
Let’s us even agree for once that Buhari represented good governance in the context of the issues that defined the last presidential election.

In that case, what Nigeria chose in electing Buhari was good governance, which in any case was a mere aspiration and not a description of a perfect state of things, over democracy which Goodluck Jonathan in all honesty, approximated based on facts.

I will add here that in a country that has suffered decades of military and despotic abuse, what should come first is democracy. An entrenched democratic culture comes with many benefits including good and accountable governance. It is as the Christians would say: choose ye first the Kingdom of God and other things will be added unto you. Choosing democracy is like choosing the kingdom of God that attracts other good things.

But Tinubu and others chose other things first and sacrificed the kingdom of God—democracy. They, a kind of, put the cart before the horse. In fact, as it has turned out, it wasn’t a horse that they paired anyhow with the cart. It was a lion which only devours and can hardly plough and prepare the soil for the cultivation of democracy.

And so, there is trepidation as the country moves closer to 2019. If for a cocktail of reasons, the lion king refuses to be tamed by the same processes that enthroned him in 2015, we shall all be awarded a BA (Begin Again). The great battles of June 12 to gain democracy would have been fought in vain as democracy takes flight for the umpteenth time in Nigeria. The prayer is for things to happen differently.

But then, prayer is not a strategy. The call will still return to Tinubu, one of the greatest political strategists of our time to re-enter his political laboratory to cook up a containment strategy for the conflagration ahead. He created the virus in the first place and I do not see this as another HIV that has no cure. That clear vision which hit Tinubu and made him to accept a man who truncated democracy and could not be associated with personal and public development in 30 years as the saviour of Nigeria shall, by the special grace of God, return to lead him to work out the antidote.

If he fails, I can pretty well do an epitaph here and now on his political demise. It will read: ‘Here lies the Jagaban who fought so hard to lose everything.’ Lesson: Statesmen should avoid short-term tactical gains that could lead to irrecoverable strategic collapse.

I return to my starting point. Some people and not all Nigerians are responsible for the change that has become chain. The fraudulent narrative by the likes of Dele Momodu must end forthwith. Those who caused the rain should be asked to invite the rain doctor. I rest my case.

https://t.guardian.ng/opinion/buharis-presidency-facts-and-fiction/

MrsNwaAmaikpe:



never knew this social media parrot can be a corporate beggar.


Only you malaria, typhoid fever, swollen gums, back ache, bruised feet, depression ..........who did the diagnosis?

why not add kidney stones, heart failure, brain tumor , cancer etc?

stop begging....you have punnani....pls use it.....your mates are raking in millions everyday from social media slaying and nude photos display.

Mtcttcheeewwwww!

Not funny or witty. Get a life!

Organs:
Uzezzi,

You are full of BS, there is no crime committed here, yes the gateman overstepped his boundaries, he can sue the policman for all the slaps and sue your retarded jealous lacking sex arse for intruding on his privacy. Maybe omo boy has a nice looking cucumber and you are just angry cos its either bigger than your boyfriends or you have no boyfriend. Just sack the guy period, instead of all the unnecessary drama.

You are just wrote some nonsense. Didn't you read he stole 16 glasses valued at N80000?

Eggcelent:
This Doesn't Make Sense

Has Anyone Seen The Charge Sheet To Know For Certain What He Was Arrested For?

Was Anyone There When He Was Being Questioned To Know What His Possible Offences Are?

Please, Let Us Stop Fanning Embers Of Hatred. Rather, We Should Ask Critical Questions About Any Piece Of Information Coming Our Way

Journalists (Bloggers) Create Sensational Falsehood To Sell (Attract Readers). We Shouldn't Allow Ourselves To Be Misled & Used

Thanks

Why don't you go and read the charge sheet and tell us.

Zionista:
Oh please!! Africans should just pause superstition and medieval mindset for a while and seek for rational and empirical knowledge. One of the assumptions of science is that nature is knowable.

Pen.is captivus is a rare occurrence in intercourse when the muscles in the vagina clamp down on the penis much more firmly than usual (a form of vaginismus), making it impossible for the penis to withdraw from the vagina.

Nothing voodoo there. A little suction pressure in there and charged vaginal muscles can play some trick on you guys.

Does your magic produce invisible Araldite?

You might be correct, but I don't understand why there has not been any reported case between married couples. Or is it triggered by fear or anxiety? In which case teenage couples should be more prone to it.

[quote author=Fukafuka post=64188874][/quote]There are generals and their are Generals, if not for the retrogressive quota system, Buhari would not go beyond Lance corporal.

crankey:
The enemies of Benue state are the herdsmen killing innocent, unarmed civilians and the educated elites how are struggling to be politically correct hence keeping mute on the atrocities of the killer herdsmen........ not concern citizens from other part of the country that choose to speak up for Benue people.
They speak so that we can avoid genocide, displacement and oppression.... Since Nigerians has focused on Benue state and raised their voice against the injustice from the federal government, the IG has been banished to Benue, Fulani herdsman has been reported arrested with firearm in Adamawa state..... and there has been no report of any killing for the past four days.......
So, Omenka those who speak up against the killings are not the enemies of Benue......

Don't mind the disgusting idiot.

SLIDEwaxie:
You no go Italy go learn shoemaking, na China you come go.

U sha wan improve on the overall fakeness.

What kind double-wahala be this sef?

If you were a little exposed, you would have learnt that most items in American shops were made in China and other Asian countries. China is not synonymous with inferior products

NaoSlay:

The special or whatever he is called looks very ugly.

I wonder how the son would be, hairy, ugly, fat.

The son would be the face of the modern ugly cover.

Epitome of ugliness.

Special whatever should be in church now praying that his son doesn't have a small dick like him.

if I were him, I would regular MFM churches.

Envy too much!

IYANGBALI:
Just because he wan become Buhari VP in 2019, dis Ibo people sef

His statement has nothing to do with being Igbo, you also have useless and selfish politicians from your tribe.

clevvermind:
Another Buhari's asslicker defending his master. zombies everywhere.

Very shameless. Fighting to save his neck from EFCC. Even if they are Nigeriens, they are still Fulani. Besides the miyetti Allah group has not denied them.

Any evidence that he single handedly built this church?

merit455:
Stupid statement from a failed Governorship aspirant

I completely agree with you. One wonders why Amaechi fielded him the last time. He is struggling too hard in opposition. Obviously nothing for him to do at nimasa

hardywaltz:
WikeD the liar
A state broadcast listing cultists without the mention of Solomon Ndigbara alias Osama Bin Laden and even some of those in the Rivers State House of Assembly including Evans Bipi is a mere fluke.

What about the criminal you made a 'royal highness ' in Okrika?

Yeye dey smell for una heads

All the people you mentioned have always been there even during the reign of your hero,Amaechi. Why didn't he move against them? Bipi was a member of the House of assembly during Amaechi s regime, Ateke even tried to contest for the gubernatorial seat then.
The governor is being proactive yet you criticize him. If he does nothing, you still ask him to resign over the insecurity in the state. What do you guys want? APC supporters are too irrational.

BushWickBill:
These Wike loyalists are the biggest ostriches in the world.
They look away from his real fatal flaws.

He has scored a big zero on security. Every one knows that these cultists, Wanny inclusive, were somehow empowered by this government in the lead off to the 2015 election. The carnage from that election is being stylishly swept under the rug

Nobody is talking about how many lives are being lost on a daily basis along the East-West road axis of the state. But the governor had earlier on declared that the state was safe, only for 32 killers to re-appear as troublers of the state. Tell me, doesn't this look like a publicity stunt by the governor to appear as though something is being done about the state's security?

Trust me, a good number of those cultists have had one kind of association with his election. And nothing will happen to those cultists till election time nears.

My friend you are not making any point. You blame him for the insecurity in the state, now he is proactive to arrest the gangsters before they wreck further havoc. Yet you criticize him. What exactly do you want him to do? Criticize constructively.

The APC rivers is the lousiest opposition group in the country today. Why play politics with crime? If the governor omitted some names, why don't they help make it up for him. If any of their members are listed then they should advice him to submit himself for interrogation and help him with a good lawyer. Honestly these APC men are just too childish

Deo1986:
The journalist is only jesting, he had nothing to fear from Don in the first place. Don waney cannot operate outside his LGA and home town Omoku.

Reading the article can't you deduce that the reporter is also an Omoku son?