₦airaland Forum

SlyFoxxEternal:
My personal view is that Nigerians do not have any political ideology. They vote along ethnic and religious lines or anywhere belle face.

They do. It's just that their ideology is not personal but tribal. The north is a feudal society and feudalism is ultra-conservatism. It is socially, culturally and religiously conservative. Literalism has no place in the north.
Aminu Kanu tried to introduced socialist policies to northern nigeria in the second republic, but his party The Peoples Redemption Party failed woefully at the presidential elections.

Enugurangers:
Same here. Honestly, I see myself of more conservative leaning than liberal. Most Nigerians would fall on the right due to our strong cultural and often religious upbringing, but MAGA Republicans gave conservative a whole new meaning. But I like to think I am not the only right leaning Nigerian that has been tagged a lefty on this thread. Ibime has been tagged a lefty, and Salford even though votes conservative in Canada has been tagged a lefty too on this thread.

Perhaps, you need to be MAGA/far-right (and support most of the garbage that comes with it), else you are a Liberal on this thread. Lol

Nigeria's political leanings depends on the region and tribe.
Northern Nigeria is about 99.9% conservative, in terms of economic, social and cultural consevatism. That's why they also vote conservative parties and individuals.

South West Nigeria is about 50% conservative and 50% liberal. They use to vote parties with socialists programs, well until this current alliance with the north.

The South East is liberal socially, moderately conservative culturally and highly conservative economically. They tend to vote with the north until the emergence of Buhari.

The South South are liberal socially, economically and culturally. Except maybe the Binis who are very tied to their culture, other tribes imbibe other people's cultures easily .

These are my personal views. You might disagree with them.

Enugurangers:
And both McDougall and Daniel said Trump preferred to not use condoms in the sexual encounters they had with him in 2006.

Daniel even complained that his J.T was similar to a mushroom. That's the conservative poster boy.

I had wrongly believed conservatism means religious piety, traditional family values, strict moral values and allowing law of demand and supply dictate business. But the new generation of conservatives led by Trump have proved me wrong.

CoolUsername:
Uhhh, I actually support LGBT people.

Me as a liberal don't support them. I have nothing against them, but I don't support them. They should keep their sex lives and preference to themselves and don't need to advertise it in our faces.

Enugurangers:


Zip up!

Against nature.

Even hard core conservatives, reverend fathers (including popes), Pastors/G.Os/evangelists find in impossible to zip up. They just hide and cover it until they are exposed. Some conservatives don't even bother to their zips anymore as it is always open ready for action, e.g. Elon musk. Even conservative God, Donald Trump boasts of "grabbing dem by the pussy" and pay prostitutes to keep quiet.

Enugurangers:
With almost 4 decades of living in Nigeria, I have never seen a drag queen aside those celebrities James Brown and Brobisky that we see on social media.

E surprise me o. That some Nigerians are so obsessed with drag queens, LGBTQ or whatever they call them, as if that is one of our problems as Africans. James Brown and Bobrisky are into it for business purposes. Others do it for japa purposes. Still others do it for ritual purposes (for wealth or for political power). There are very very few actual gays in Nigeria.

Our concerns should be the unfair trade practices whereby they force us to open our ports to their goods, while they close their to our own. They subsidize their agriculture so that food is cheap in their country, and tell us any type of subsidy for us is a taboo. They force us to produce agricultural food we don't eat to drive their industries at dirt cheap prices and sell us finished and processed foods at exorbitant prices.

CoolUsername:
"Oh no, he doesn't follow the new flavour-of-the-month left wing opinion. Must be the effects of colonialism. Now let me tell you why you should bring your kids to see drag queens."

You guys are so invested in right wing extremist concerns and ambitions that you completely forget your own. I mean issues that concerns you directly as a blackman. What concerns you with drag queen? Is drag queen even an issue in Nigeria?
Yes colonialism is eaten deep into your soul and that of most Nigerians - European colonialism and Arab slavism.
My kids don't even know what drag queen means before you even talk about seeing one.

I don't know what miracle can happen to raise black consciousness in black africans instead of thinking we are Europeans and Arabs.

Enugurangers:
MAGA supporters = Trump Cult (Trump can't be wrong).

Trump brings out the worst impulses in people. They lie without remorse.

At the heat of the treasonable statement by Trump that he trusts Putin more that the whole US intelligence establishment, his excuse then was that it was a slip of tongue and what he meant was to say was "I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia" instead of what he actually said "I don't see any reason why it would be Russia", when asked about U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow interfered in his 2016 election. Now they have forgotten that lie and switched to "Iraq's weapon of mass destruction" and Hunter Biden's laptop as the reason Trump trusts putin more that the whole US intelligence agencies.

Now ask them, are they now admitting that the slip of tongue excuse was a balantant lie?

Trump supporters are more likely to be rapist, multiple divorced, closet gay, liar, immoral, anarchist, and every despicable human trait you can imagine, but they would claim to represent the reverse like family, morality, God, truth, etc.

biosilicon:
Nothing unethical in what i did. I wanted 450k, read the chats. i got it and sold and refunded his money, i was so honest and open-minded i told him the truth. I could have gave some other excuse and returned his money.

If you had not wanted N450k why did you accept the N400k when he transfer it to you? What would have happened if he came to collect the TV immidiately he paid? Would you have requested he returned the TV because you found someone else ready to pay N450k?

GAZZUZZ:
I have known and transacted with biosilicon more than 10 times.

He is not a stranger.

The examples you have above are for total strangers, not your uncle selling your father's land in the village

Meanwhile which of you defending biosilicon will do business with him?

If selling what is not your is not fraud no problem.
New standards on this platform I guess.

I never defended biosilicon's actions. I am only pointing out the reality of business, particularly in Nigeria.

Some people adhere to ethics and morals in business, some don't. Biosilicon business philosophy certainly doesn't include ethics. What many people have pointed out is that though Biosilicon's action were unethical, it was not illegal, and it's certainly not fraud as you wrote in the heading of the thread. Our courts are full of people just trying to get their money back from transactions they already paid for but the seller failed to deliver and failed to refund their money.

Please move on, and if you are still upset by the failed transaction with Biosilicon, don't deal with him again and don't recommended him. This thread is already a sort of negative feedback and it will have some negative feedback on his business.

nymphomaniac:
it may not be tagged fraud but it is CERTAINLY BREACH OF CONTRACT.

Sorry to say, but it seems most people here have not been in business or have not been doing business for very long. Those of us with over 20 years experience see these issues everyday, and few people make a fuss about it. Paying for an item in an actual shop and coming back the next day to find it sold is very common. The worse is in land sale.

If you buy a land in lagos and don't assert possession by building on it. If you leave the land fallow for 1 years, there is a 90% possibility that the land would have been sold to someone else. Not minding the receipt and all other purchase documents.

House rent nko? Pay for house rent and don't collect the keys and move in immediately, 90% chances that the room would be rented to another tenant if you wait even just one month. In all these cases the first land buyer or tenant would be struggling to get his or her money back. Theses cases full court.

francotunsco:
Great judgement!
But, on the other hand, what if she appeals and claim that the man's spending on her didnt go for free as she was paying back in the other room! I am not just being funny, i need legal reaction to this.

Heyy, dont run away, we can manage your reactions too...

Is prostitution now legal in Uganda?

advanceDNA:
U cant force one to do anything that is not in the constitution e.g tax payment

, no one owes anyine marriage...... like i said...the man isnt directly sueing her for not marrying him per se....he's sueing for deception when she could have walked away when she knew she's not interested...

The loop hole to exploit for sueing is the damages incurred because of the person's promise.....in fact if there is no proof of damage as a result of the promise or no eay to prove her motive was greed he wont even get anything.....

In this case the man got compensation for damages becos its easy to show proof of damages which is financial because women with their greediness will collect money from a man....


If u read the case well....she said she ddnt want the man from the start....it was her parents arrangement..but shes as adult so she could have walked away or told the guy.....so greed eas involved from the start

If she had a genuine reason for not marrying him, e.g..he beats her or he's violent, or his salary changed or lost his job....the man wont get a dime

This is fraud, 419. And many women engage in this type of fraud and gets away with it. I know a very good example. It happened to a room mate of mine in the university. My roommate comes from a fairly wealthy family. So when my roommate found a girl he fell in love with, even though she was from a poor family, they embraced the relationship. The family took it upon themselves to sponsor the girl through university. Throughout the guy's stay at the University, he never looked at any other girl. The lady was admired into LASU, all through the efforts of my guy.
After the girl graduated, my guy decided to do his masters degree, so the family decided that the lady should go to London and await their son, who would complete his master's in less than two years. Omo the whole family was shocked when after less than a year of living in my friends uncle's house in London, she moved out. When they were able to reach her and ask her why she moved out, she said she cannot marry their son again because her pastor in her church said their son is not her husband, and that God has chosen another husband for her. See begging and pleading, my friends cousin in the same university travelled to London to beg this girl, she remained adamant. At the end of the day, everyone gave up. My friend never remained the same again. He left school and refused to leave his mother's house for a full year. At the end of the day, the mother sent him to America to try and rehabilitate him.

There are numerous other cases I have been oppotuned to be close to of ladies using marriage as a bait for guys sponsoring them to university and then dumping them immidiately they finish. One guy i met through a Hausa friend was looking for an assassin to kill the girl he sponsored to university and then ran away to marry another person. Me and my friend had to talk him out of it.

It poetic justice when courts make ladies pay for using marriage for defrauding guys.

Edopesin:
Since when did a marriage proposal become law binding? It wasn't even written and signed or anything, just verbal something

If she pay make I hear, unless it's a banana Republic over there

It could be. If sponsoring her education was tied to the marriage from the beginning. That is if the guys was paying for her university education with an agreement that she will marry him at the end of the studies. If she then changed her mind, then she should refund the money the guy spend for her her schooling.

Britishpea:
Videos of what you saw or you are just a whining baby

Abi oo. He wrote so eloquently and with beautiful pictures, but no video. Why? Would a video not prove those naysayers wrong and put them to shame once and for all?

As the day a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a thousand pictures.

valarinz:
Lmao, marriage is not business. No one is selling or buying anyone in marriage, you goofed with this example as well.

Let me give you as clear an answer as I can give as regards your first paragraph. The business is in two phases, first phase which is the purchase of item is concluded, second phase is the storage and delivery, in this case they both didn't make any clear agreement or arrangement on that. If the item catches fire whilst in possession of the seller then the buyer will take it up so long as he was paying for the item to be kept safely for him, but In the case the seller was just doing him a favour, the it's his loss(the buyer's)

It gets interesting if buyer starts to claim the item was burnt before his money was collected(in this case he paid without inspection). When most structured businesses sells you an item, they give some grace time for pickup after which they start to charge for storage.

One thing you're agreeing to is this: whichever direction it takes, both buyer and seller must come to an understanding and agreement. Whether anything catch fire, or break or seller just opt to sell or buyer say him no do again, both of them will reach an agreement on how to proceed. In this case the seller acted unanimously.

Have you also thought of this: he informs buyer there's someone offering a higher price (knowing very well the buyer was intent on reselling, he wasn't hiding it), and it could go two ways....buyer could say, ok sell it and let's share the profit or he might decide not to sell at all, and perhaps due to their cozy relationship opt to up his bid a bid to seller

Too many ways it could go Sir, but for the seller to just sell the item without consulting the owner and you say he's within his rights, thats a bad business practice. Cheers 😄

I honestly don't understand why we are in disagreement over this issue.
We both acknowledge that there was not agreement pertaining to the storage and shipping of the item, but you still insist that the sale is concluded. All sales have shipping arrangements attached unless it's a cash and carry transaction. What then happens if a seller unknowingly collects money from the buyer before realising he is out of stock? If there was a storage and/or shipping arrangement and the buyer had competed his own side of the agreement by paying the agreed fees, then the seller would not have any justification for selling the item. But as it is, the buyer has no legal leg to stand on, as long as the seller refunded the item in full.

When I was still in construction, I went to this big tile company to buy floor times, valued at over N1million. I paid fully, with a promise to return the next day to collect the tiles. On getting to the company next day, I was informed that the tiles was no longer available, it's either I pick a different design or they refund me my money, or wait for the next container to come in. What should I have done? Sue the company?

valarinz:
OK, so for the 20yrs you've been doing the business, let me assume you were selling. People pay for items you're selling and the items still belonged to you so long as they've not taken physical possession?

Just help me understand Sir, so payment no longer means anything so long as item is not shipped out yet, ehn ma Oga.

You know the items you went and got a refund for, the seller didn't just up and sold it and gave you a refund, you opted for it. In all those cases where you're mentioning upandan about refund, was there an agreement between buyer and seller before the refund took place or the seller just woke up and took a unanimous decision to sell to a higher bidder after all the item still belongs to him even after collecting full payment?

So what happens if the seller's store catches fire and the item already paid for was destroyed? Won't the buy ask for it to be replaced or a refund?

As I said the deal is not concluded until the buyer takes possession.


A good example is marriage. A marriage is not deemed consummated until the bride and groom have sex. If you pay the bride price to marry a woman,the marriage is valid only after you two gave sex. That's why in the olden days, the whole family will wait outside the door of the newly wedded couple to make sure they consummated the marriage. The Marriage can be annulled if it is proven in court that you two have never have sex.

valarinz:
I don't have time for back and forth on all the other stuffs you wrote, but you see the area I made bold?

I'll tell you with my full chest that you're misguided. You definitely are not a business man. Even at half payment, business is concluded and ownership is transferred.

If the buyer wants to opt out, he won't get a refund until the item is sold to another buyer, else he must see it through. You guys keep peddling all manners of falsehood based on your ajegunle and omonile crude biz tactics, lol. Do you know why Elon Musk was taken to court last year? He started a transaction to buy twitter and tried to run opt out midway, seller insisted he must pay up and take his load 😂😂

Why I used that example is, I'm not sure you'll tell me you're more of a businessman than those involved. Or, egbon na you Sabi business pass Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey?

I have been in business for over 20 years and I have experienced such scenarios many times. I have paid for items numerous times and then found out its the wrong specifications, when I go back to the seller, they usually change it or refund my money. Sometimes even after taking possession. And I am talking about reputable companies.

The Elon Musk example you gave is not correct. Elon Musk could have opted out of the deal. He would only have to pay a $1bulliion dollar fine. That was what was in the contract.

erad:
Omo... People dey this life.

The worst the seller could have done was at least share the 50k profit into 2 and hold on to 25k while sending the other 425k to gazzuz.

I don't know any of you, but if this is how the seller thinks business is done? O boy... It's only a matter of time.

You are both in it for the profit.
You agreed to the 400k sale price. Though you pleaded for additional 30k but he made it clear he only had 400k and you both reached an AGREEMENT.

The fact that the product is still in your care doesn't mean you have any right over it, it has been paid for. You can't eat your cake and still have it. You should have never collected his money if you knew you were not happy with his offer.

Business is never done this way.

And rather than trying to reach a form of settlement, you feel you are within your right. That's the most disgusting part of it.

Just accepting you messed up and will help him add small change on what he paid you would have gone a long way to pacify him, have a clean record, and still keep the relationship with your customer.

Sometimes, it's not all about money.

False premise leading to false conclusion. The seller did nothing wrong business wise. Ethically yes. Now why should the seller share the 50k on top with the buyer? Did they have any sort of drop shipping arrangement?

A transaction was done, but not concluded. In business transactions, the transaction is not completed until the buyer takes possession. In lots of cases either the buyer or seller can still change their minds, since the buyer has not taken possession. The buyer can say he has changed his mind and demand a refund. As long as the buyer refuses to take possession, the seller has to refund his money.

Now let me ask you, what happens if the TV was stolen or got damaged while the TV was still in possession of the seller? Won't the buyer demand his money back?

benalvino3:
Blacks kill themselves up and down instead of you to call them out for killing fellow brothers you make excuses for them that they are trying to put the violence done on them over 400years ago behind them. Violence non of them witness.

Only professional victims make such statement. Ones that blames everything on something else and they are never responsible.

If white man puts blacks down how do you fight? Bond together and support each other. Killing each other is not how you put bad history behind you.

Also, how far back do they want to go? Will they reach the black people who enslave them and sold them to white men?

I know the long term effect of abuse is beyond the understanding of you guys. Only few people like Fela Kuti, Marcus Garvey, Mandela, Nkrumah, Patrice Lulumba, and a few others recognised the past and continuous abuse of Black Africans.

Psychologists recognised the effects of early childhood trauma and dysfunctional family background on the future success of individuals and societies. African Americans watched their parents and grand parents suffer the discrimination/lunching/ racism that occured up to the 60s. Their own fathers and grandfather's experienced slavery. Even those that did not experience the racial crimes against blacks were told graphic stories by their parents and grand parents. This helps infect the next generation with the trauma and becomes a generational curse.
Igbo youths who never experienced the Nigerian civil war still feel traumatised by the civil war and are more radicalised than their fathers who actually experienced the war.

Another good example of this generational trauma/ curse is the black Arab relationship. Arabs having enslaved blacks for thousands of years will never accept black africans as equal. If you see the way they treat our brothers and sisters in Arab countries, you will weep for the black man.

Africans (both at home and in diaspora) cannot Bond together and support each other, because the brotherhood bond was broken by slavery and colonalisation. The white man recuited other blacks (tribes, Kings, chiefs) to do his dirty work for material gains. This is why most neighbouring tribes/clans don't trust each other till today. Egbas don't trust ijebus, Ijaws don't trust Itsekiris, Arochukwu and Ibibio don't trust each other, and we are not even talking about tribes in Northern Nigeria yet.

Please watch this video to have a glimpse of how we are still being exploited by the west and now China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaqgQvLn5sQ&feature=shares

basilico:
Plaing with words. That makes the black cops racist. Is there a reason blacks are more likely to be stopped?

I said institutional racism and not individual racism. Learn to read and decipher.

benalvino3:
it is sad. these media who make excuses for blacks killing themselves every day and their violent lifestyle want to deflect evil black cops in an act of police brutality to race war.

What do you mean by "their violent lifestyles"? Are you saying we blacks are more violent that you (white guys in black skin)? Are you insinuating black guys are more violent than Arabs, Caucasians, Chinese, Mongols, etc? If you are a student of history, you will know that blacks are the least violent of all the races. In fact before slavery/colonialisation, there were no record of any violence in black Africa. The only know warring tribe was the Zulu.

Blacks in America are still trying to put the violence done on them for over 400 years behind them. I visited harlem, New York in 1986 and I almost cried for the blacks in that neighbourhood. I hear its much better now. That you don't have any sympathy for what blacks had gone through and are still going through in the US shows you really hate blacks.

basilico:
Of a racial group. That implies a black cop is racist if he stops a black driver? Because black drivers are more likely to be stopped and that is institutional racism.

Playing with words. Will not buy that.

That's a classic definition of institutional racism. Even black cops are more likely to stop and search black drivers than white drivers.

See the research by Stanford University here - https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/may/black-drivers-more-likely-to-be-stopped-by-police.html

basilico:
Listen to yourself. Racist Black on black.
You can mention other reasons like wealth disparity jealousy but race... you sank too low on this one . Stop trying to justify CNN by making ridiculous arguments,

An AI response I recieved from openAI

define racism. Is there institutional racism and is it different from individual racism

Racism is defined as the belief that one race is superior to another. Institutional racism is the systematic discrimination of a racial group by a society or institution, such as a government or any other organization. It is different from individual racism, which is prejudice or hatred expressed by an individual toward a racial group.

Your definition of institutional racism agrees with what I said.

Below is the answer by OpenAi when I prompted "discuss institutional racism in US police departments";

Institutional Racism in Police

Institutional racism within US police departments refers to the systematic discrimination and mistreatment of people of color, particularly Black individuals, by law enforcement. This can manifest in a number of ways, including discriminatory policing practices, such as racial profiling, and a lack of diversity and accountability within police departments.

Racial profiling is the practice of using race as a factor in determining whether a person is engaged in criminal activity. This often results in Black drivers being disproportionately targeted and stopped by police on the roads. Studies have shown that Black drivers are more likely to be pulled over, searched, and arrested than white drivers, even though they are no more likely to be carrying drugs or weapons.

These practices have been shown to have a detrimental effect on Black communities, leading to increased mistrust of law enforcement, and a sense of alienation from the criminal justice system. There have been efforts to address institutional racism in police departments, such as through community policing and implicit bias training, but more work is needed to address the systemic issues that lead to racial profiling and discrimination in policing.

benalvino3:
This is what is wrong with your country.

Police brutality is a problem in the state but these people wants you to believe it is racism.

Some blacks and whites and almost everyone on this thread have been made to believe only white people can be racists... So opinion like what you saw on CNN magically points fingers on whites.

Those idiots are crazy and should rot in jail.

I was expecting you to defend the murder of Tyre Nicholas police officers and you did not disappoint. You have brought your usual "both sides are guilty (or fine people)" argument. Next is the victim was a drug addicted criminal who resisted attest argument.

The fact that the police officers were black does not exonerate them from racism. Black Lives Matter is fighting against institutional racism and not individual racism. They accuse the US police of being racist against blacks. Those black police officers cannot try that shit with a white man or woman. Lots of blacks hate fellow blacks and process the same mindset as a white nationalist/KKK/far right extremist. Even on nairaland lots of Nigerians hate anything black and always promote the white narrative and agenda - culturally, politically or socially. I think these are vestiges of slavery and colonalisation, in which few blacks were given white privilege in exchange for helping the enslavers/colonialists oppress his people.

As an example of how someone can hate his own people, I have a childhood friend when went to the US after this secondary education. He became very successful working in Telecoms in the US. He married a black American. He came to Nigeria when his dad died. I went for the burial as I was very close to the family. I asked him how he relates to Nigerians in the US, he told me he never relates to Nigerians because he believes all Nigerians are scammers. In effect he hates Nigerians. I was shocked. After his dad's death this guy abandoned his siblings who are struggling to survive. I never saw or heard from him again.

Jennyclay:
They are being treated this way because they are Nigerians. Asuming they were white, they wouldn't have arrested them.
Prostitution has been happening even in the days of the Bible. These Cyprus people should rest abeg! Mtcheeeww!

Quit using racism excuse to justify criminality. They were not arrested for prostitution but for human trafficking and sexual abuse. If you read the report, you would see they were using the ladies as sex slaves.
They were arrested for;

forced detention with the intent of prostitution, encouragement of prostitution, prostitution, and intentional sexual detention.

Eastlink:
The story isn’t correct. The tribalist who brought it from LindaIkeji had to tribalize and bold the names all thanks to Nairaland tribal support. All I see here is one Igbo name as the accused a 19 years old Chinedu Emmanuel Ibekwe who might even be a student. The rest two Promise Ben David(27), and Esther Montse(29) are from other tribes. The only female Montse sound’s Itshekiri.

How are we even sure it’s a trafficking issue? The alleged victim is nearly twice as old as the alleged traffickers. The story does not add up.

Stop that assumption. You don see itsekiri arrested with drugs before? Even Yahoo Yahoo sef.

We Itsekiris are very proud people, we hate to soil our family name.

Montse is not an Itsekiri name. Itse means amen in English. Montse has no meaning.

MrMcJay:
Doesn't matter. The matter in court is civil, we will use criminal angle to teach them a bitter lesson.

LaIabobo:
They don't have a case at all.
Just get a lawyer to respond to them and counter sue. You can even file for damages too. There's no way a Lebanese firm didn't break at least 5 Nigerian labour laws. Pension, NHF, PAYE, etc. They'll land in big soup.
They are mad.

Gbam.

Your own case is a civil matter. Take them to a criminal court. As they say, attack is the best gorm of defense. Since you are a pioneering staff of the company, I am sure you know all their secrets. From immigration to tax violations. Do they deduct and pay VAT on all their transactions? Do the Lebanese and his family members have valid work permit? Are they complaint with environmental, health, safety, fire, etc regulations and laws? I am sure you will find something to nail them.

00FFT00:
Which party did Tinubu build?. You see why nobody takes your brood of liars serious.
And, don't mention me. Unlike you jobless urchin, I am a very busy person.

I even thought he open the thread to engage in an honest debate, but alas, he is just trying to ram the same propaganda by Tinubu's media team up our throat.
He says Tinubu is meeting with Nigerians. How many Nigerians is he meeting up with? We say he would answer questions directly from ordinary Nigerian on live TV being watched by millions of Nigerians, but instead you guys prefer jamborees in the name of political campaigns where he reads out prepared speeches for 10 - 20 mins, or in well choreographed town hall meetings.

I want to see how you guys hope to win an election without your candidiate facing Nigerians in a public debate.

lapo:
A WORD FOR THE BATIFIED by Femi Fani-Kayode

The biggest challenge that we face is complacency.

We must take nothing for granted, we must fight for every inch of space and we must struggle for every vote.

We must close ranks and not allow anyone or anything to divide us.

We must not underestimate our enemies or the level they are prepared to descend to.

The struggle is hard and the sacrifices are many.

We have been subjected to all sorts of insults, lies, betrayals and persecution by those that hate us, hate our principal and that do not wish either well.

Such is their hate that it borders on insanity: they even target our children, spouses and family members.

These are the sort of things that have NEVER happened before in the history of our country and in the history of our politics but they are happy to cross that line.

Yet regardless of their desperation, malice, mendacities, deceit and intrigues remember this: the wind blows in our favour.

PDP and Atiku cannot stop us.

Labour and Obi cannot stop us.

NNPP and Kwankwaso cannot stop us.

Only WE can stop us and that must NEVER be allowed to happen.

Like Iago said in Shakespeare's classic play 'Othello', "it is in ourselves that we are thus or thus".


The victory lies in our hands and we must be clear-thinking and focused to achieve it.

We must never allow our ranks to be divided.

We must keep our eye on the ball.

We must win votes.

We must bring in and welcome as many of the undecided and converts into our swelling ranks as possible regardless of who they are or what they have said or done in the past.

We must be kind, grateful, charitable, generous and magnamonious to those who choose to align with our noble cause, whether big or small.

We must stand with and support our leader regardless of the vicious taunting and relentless aggression that he has been subjected to by his detractors and in spite of the heat of the battle.

We must clarify issues and respond to every attempt to misrepresent, malign and discredit him.

We must expose the falsehood and evil intentions of his adversaries in the knowledge that he is the only one out of all the contenders that can bring peace, prosperity and unity to our country.

We must take nothing for granted.

No matter what price we are paying or suffering we have been subjected to as a consequence of our choice of candidate we must not be deterred, we must count it all as joy and we must keep moving forward because our cause is noble, just and righteous.

The lines have fallen for us in pleasant places and we have a goodly heritage.

The victory is ours.


It is within sight and together we shall enter the Promise Land.

None of us shall fall before we enter it and we shall all live to see and enjoy it.

BAT will be the next President of Nigeria.

God wills it and the zeal of the Lord shall cause it to come to pass.

Our nation shall rise up to where she belongs and we shall build on the foundation that has been established over the last 62 years.

It is for this noble cause that, despite the challenges, threats, insults and constraints from within and without, we continue to stand and fight.

The labour of our heroes past shall NEVER be in vain.

For the future of our beautiful children and our beloved country we will do and take anything to see to it that Asiwaju wins.

We will work hard and pray hard.

We will climb every mountain and level every valley.

We will travel to every nook and cranny of this country carrying BAT's message.

We will stand firm till the end, we will run the course, we will hold the line and we will keep the flag flying.

We shall not be denied and we shall continue the struggle until we prevail.

May God guide and be with us and may He bring our endeavours to an expected end.

(FFK)

This was Tinubu's views of FFK in 2015;

That FFK(Femi Fani-Kayode) is the best a ruling party can do as a spokesman speaks volumes about the PDP. They are bereft of talent and character. They are filled with lies and chicanery. FFK is simply the worst and most outspoken of a bad lot. - https://www.premiumtimesng.com/politics/177765-angry-tinubu-attacks-fani-kayode-says-his-hallucinations-now-uncontrollable.html

lapo:
Let's reason together:

PRESIDENCY COMING TO TO THE SOUTH IS THE BEGINNING OF RESTRUCTURING WE ARE ALL CLAMOURING FOR: BAT STANDS THE BEST CHANCE OF THE SOUTHERN CANDIDATES.

Restructuring has little do with who becomes president. Restructuring more of less refers to the devolution of powers between the 3 tiers of government, the structural division of the federation units and the control of resources between them.

lapo:
Ms Naja’atu Muhammad was a mole in APC. Her behaviour is so shameful. He abandoned APC claiming all the parties had no ideological differences and she was done with them all but the next day she was seeing hobnobbing with another party , PDP. Should anyone take whatever she says seriously again. People should stop name calling. Asiwaju is fit and able.

That the problem I have with you guys. Rather that attack the message, you always attack the messenger. You are either attack any who ask questions of Tinubu's competence to govern Nigeria or attack his/her integrity without bothering to attack the question raised.

Is Tinubu physically and mentally unfit as asserted by Naja’atu Muhammad? Can you guys prove it?
The best way to prove it is to sit Tinubu live on TV. The station doesn't matter, it could be NTA, TVC or BBC, and let Nigerians ask Tinubu directly any question. No teleprompter, no pre arranged questions, no "teamship". It should be 100% Tinubu. Then you can put Ms Naja’atu Muhammad to shame.

In addition, we would like also to see tinubu hold a microphone for 10 minutes, just 10 minutes. All our doubts will be wiped out.