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Hahahaha.... I don't think so. Even me disagree with you Prof.

Beosten:
Loser. Cry me a river

not a loser just a troll

Cool

That's a good thing right?

Fake news. U think Oshiomole will win against governors. Even Buhari can't go against three governors

Monjerk:
The issue is not about breaking up, restructuring or true federalism is the key, empower the regions and weaken the centre so that the will be competition among the region on development. In this way you will see very fast development in Nigeria because no region will depend on the central government.

But some region won't agree to this.

I'm from the North and I fully support Nigeria to break up

iammo:
Did any SE,NC contest in 1993, 1999, 2003, 2007,2011,2015,and 2019? either as Vice President or President either Party Primaries contest or General election , either Main rulling Party or opposition parties.. if answer to all this are Yes , Yes and Yes... then a Yoruba man would also contest like. Silvester Ugoh 1993, Alex Ekueme did in the Jos 1999 PDP primaries, like Rochas did in PDP primaries in 2003,Like Okadigbo did in 2007, and Obi 2019

Its the right of every Southerner to get the Nomination form and head to the Primaries like a real man and let the whole Nigeria decide who they want, let Osinbajo and Rochas battle for the ticket APC, and let Obi and Seyi Makinde battle it for PDP.. let the real man win


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thank you

ImmaculateJOE:
s/n. Tenure. President/Vice P

1. 1999-2003: SW/NE
2. 2003-2007: SW/NE
3a. 2007-2009: NW/SS
3b. 2009-2011: SS/NW
4. 2011-2015: SS/NW
5. 2015-2019: NW/SW
6. 2019-now: NW/SW


Southwest 8yrs President & 5yrs VP
Northwest 7yrs President & 6 yrs VP
Southsouth 6yrs President & 2yrs VP
Northeast 8yrs VP
Southeast nill
North central nil


For Equity and fairness the President and Vice President should left for SE & NC to contest.

They have competent candidates...

wake up

iammo:
The failure to remove Oshiomhole really troubled some Northerners hahaha the Witcher sorry oo since Oshiomhole remains the Chairman till 2022 you can as well know which zone would get the ticket of APC.. During the Military rule Abacha enjoyed Northeast terms, Gowon and IBB enjoyed that of Middlebelt/NorthCentral.. and Buhari and Yaradua enjoyed the terms of NorthWest.. so since the zoning is clearly between North and South as the constituition doesn't recognize regionalism or North East Southwest, every Southerner is free to vie for the ticket

Lol.

reyscrub:
Game to soon begin.

hmm

Afospecialk:
Feel free to cry me a river biiitchhh

Corrupt politician who has never manage any national office except of being an ex governor of Lagos state

Kindly tell me how being x govnr of Lagos affect yanminri inconsequential 5% Igbos from the yeeeast

Jagaban of Afrikaa is the main reason why all ur politician from d yeast past nd present are not competent enough to become president?

I'm not Igbo.... And pray well before u sleep.... It might get little weird for u. Believe u me

ACN meeting not APC. APC is death.. we will took back our CPC and APP the South West should go and look for another party to scam.

Cool we will. Thanks ISIS

Not going to happen

Hahahahahahahaha

ubongokon:
Your hatred for him has no bound. But him pass you. Who is Atiku wen it comes to strategic politics.?

which strategy? The guy av nothing Nadah!! when it's comes to political strategy. just because he control Lagos politics and u people over hyped him doesn't mean everyone is blind.. we in the North see right thru this Jagaban b#llsh!t

Ohh. Is that a bad thing

Covid19 is fake

He will do the meeting with ghost in his house... Not in APC Secretariat.

He is nothing, but a corrupt politician with zero relevance, he can't deliver Lagos to APC. APC almost lost the South West. Atiku is the most powerful

Is this latest episode the end-game, the opening act of the collapse of Africa's most populous nation-state -- and the largest supplier of African oil? It may be, but it's not too late for Nigerians and world leaders to bring about an overdue solution for this long-troubled country, and break it up. Originally three separate regions that British colonialists united into one untenable country, Nigeria's best solution for its past and present crises might be to split back up.

The killings, in a city that for centuries has anchored the Christian commercial community in southern Nigerian, are only latest sign of severe crisis. Nearly every week brings fresh instances of the failure of Nigeria as a nation-state. The deadly explosion in Lagos, which killed at least 37 people, was again in the news this week because the government admitted that it failed. ignited new complaints about the incompetence of Nigeria's government-- as well as fears that Boko Haram or other opponents of the government had infiltrated the police leadership.

Buhari was re-elected last year over the opposition of much of the country's Christian community, which comprises an estimated half of Nigeria's population and felt it was the "turn" of a Christian to hold the presidency. It is possible that some of Nigeria's deterioration reflects defiance by Muslims who do not favor extremism but feel the grand bargain of Nigerian history -- the trading back and forth between Muslim and Christian presidents -- has been broken.

Buhari has also hurt himself, especially by agreeing to raise prices on everything, which ignited nationwide anger. Only days after the government reversed its decision came the violence in Kaduna, and another crisis. That the Christian extremist group, iPod immediately claimed responsibility for the hate speech heightened the sense of impending doom in Nigeria.

The current U.S. policy posture of non-involvement seems less and less credible. Nigeria is too large, and too economically important to the U.S., for the Trump administration to essentially play the innocent bystander. The U.S. must act.

The question is how? The Trump administration's repeated insistence -- made rhetorically by Secretary of State pompeo and U.S. ambassador - is that Nigerian government must address socio-economic deprivation and the severe wealth inequality among its people. This is surely fair advice but ignores the urgent need for an international plan to hold Nigeria together against the forces of disorder. The question of Nigeria's future is no academic parlor game. The potential violence to the people of Nigeria is now unacceptably high. Worse, the entire West African sub-region, the most densely populated area south of the Sahara, could be dragged down by any implosion of Nigeria.

The need for a new approach to Nigeria is long in coming. As long ago as July 2011, when I met the astute Nigeria-watcher, Karl Maier, in London, I was struck by the imagery of Nigeria on the brink, poised to collapse into unimaginable disorder. In July, Maier published his consequential snapshot of Nigeria, This House Has Fallen, which chronicled the disorder, the corruption, the rising religious and ethnic tensions and the squandered wealthy that continues to bedeveil this country of 250 million people. Without intervention -- without sanity -- Maier foresaw a doomed Nigeria, a wounded giant in inexorable collapse.

No, 12 years later, Nigeria's condition looks unchanged or worse. Outside observers, even of Nigerian descent, will tell you from the safety of London or Toronto or San Francisco that their country of origin has been on the brink before. Perhaps as a result, there's a distinct sense of complacency among them. My friend, who hails from the oil-center of Port Harcourt, has seen Nigeria muddle through before. She and others say that Nigeria is forever on the brink; it's a kind of regular, normal reality. To these diaspora Nigerians, the country is perpetually running out of time, but the country's elite seem to do little beyond planning for the short term when the long term could bring disaster.

And because morning still comes, some of the most respected Nigerians in the diaspora counsel patience. Possibly the greatest living Nigerian artist, the eminent Chinua Achebe, author of the best-selling novel of all time by an African, Things Fall Apart, is so imbued with a sense of Nigeria's manifest destiny that, writing one year ago in The New York Times, he envisioned a "Nigerian solution" emerging over decades through a slow fitful movement towards stronger democratic institutions. In the end of this lengthy process, he predicts, corruption will retreat and a new kind of African democrat, "humbled by the trust placed on him by the people, will emerge, wiling to use the power given to him for the good of the people."


Achebe is a great story-teller; his predictions from January 2011 amount to a fairytale, sadly. Nigeria, as we now know it, is nearly out of time. The scenario Achebe so eloquently presents was the same scenario presented 50 years ago by the Nigerian independence leaders and British bureaucrats who created the country. All agreed to what seemed like a convenient fiction -- that Nigerians needed to nurture and strengthen democratic processes. Now a half-century cannot be replayed and, besides, the game was a con. The deep underlying differences between different ethnic groups, religious groups, and geographic groups within the country are not subject to being "democratized" away by formal processes conceived by the British and delivered by a Nigerian elite that was birthed, bought, and sold by the colonial process.

Today, the two-minute football drill is the only way of playing game that Nigeria's elite has ever known. The U.S. must call time-out and bring a diverse array of Nigeria's leaders -- including the marginalized Muslim northerners and the militant evangelical Christians of the oil-rich south -- to a meeting room. Bring them to an international conference, chaired by the U.S., and ask them to think in a new way. Not to settle differences in a hurry, but to explore, document, and address underlying divisions that cannot be argued away by soaring rhetoric but instead reflect enduring, undeniable, and legitimate conflicts of interest among parties to Nigeria's many conflicts.

While Achebe insists that 250 million Nigerians only need more time to embrace "a new patriotic consciousness," the international conference to take Nigeria's future must entertain a more credible scenario: that the British engineering of the Nigerian state - stitching the country together 50 years ago out of three distinct regions, never administered collectively even by the British, was a failure. Rather than try to renovate the broken vessel of Nigeria, the friends of the people of Nigeria must ask whether the very structure and organization of Nigeria must be re-conceived and, in the process, serious consideration should be given to breaking Nigeria into three or more "organic" territories.

The task of re-designing Nigeria, however necessary, is no substitute for halting the country's slide into a condition of daily disorder. The fiction that is called the Nigerian government needs assistance, even if the ultimate price for this assistance is the dissolution of the state as the world currently knows it.

There is room for optimism. The real question is not how many Nigerians are dying each week from political violence, but rather why more Nigerians are not dying? There is ample headroom for a constructive creative outcome for a people who, if nothing else, know how to endure hardship and remain hopeful. All of the most troubling aspects of African contemporary life come crashing together in the case of Nigeria: overpopulation, idle youth, religious intolerance, raw sexism, squandered wealth, lethally dysfunctional political arrangements, and the ignorance of the misguided do-gooders from around the world.

And yet, despite these structural handicaps, Nigerian society, deformed as it is, remains in some rough kind of workable condition. But for how much longer?

IduNaOba:
Lol
Divide the country in 2022. Problem solved

breaking up Nigeria is the only solution

Eagleboney:
the bomb should better explode now

hallelujah

Many Nigerians wanted a change but have resigned themselves to the fact that it will be business as usual for the next three years. They will be no major changes such as restructuring of Nigerian federation, establishment of state and local police forces which will effectively address the acute security situation facing the country and implementation of bold economic policies that can change the fortune of the country. These changes will have to wait for another leader. Insecurity in Nigeria today has reached alarming rate. It was a Southern phenomenon few years ago, but that monster has now reached the northern parts of the country with more brutality. Current administration’s answer to the security problem is to continue with the centralized federal police force instead of decentralized state and local police force. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different result.

Why is the 2023 presidential primaries and general election a ticking time bomb that could end up causing enormous chaos and another push for independence by regions that feel they have been marginalized for too long. When the military government restored democracy in 1999, Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo from the Southwest geopolitical zone became Nigerian president and was Nigerian president for 8 years. He was once Nigerian president during military regime. After president Obasanjo’s tenure, the northern part of Nigeria insisted that it is their turn and power subsequently shifted to the north and President Yar’Adua from the north west political zone won the presidency. Yar’Adua died in office and his vice president, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan from South South geopolitical zone finished his term and won a full 4- years term. Power moved back to the north and current President, Mr. Buhari from the Northwest geopolitical zone won 4-year term in 2015 and just won re-election for another 4-year term. His vice president Mr. Osinbanjo is from the Southwest geo-political zone who will complete another 4-year term as vice president.

The coming political flashpoint is that the Southwest political zone led by Mr. Bola Tinubu not only want the presidency to move to the south which is fine but they want the presidency to be zoned to Southwest that has held presidential office for 8 years, vice president for four years and will hold vice president for another 4 years. Meanwhile, Southeast, North East and North Central political zone have not held the presidential office at all since the restoration of civilian rule in 1999. The South South do not believe that 6 years of Jonathan tenure is enough. Will these zones that never held the presidency agree to be bystanders and obediently watch the North west and South West region trade the presidency. I do not think so. The two zones will argue that it is democracy in action. They will infer that other zones should go and form the necessary alliance required to produce the president. While that is true, human beings can react in a very negative manner when they feel that the principle of equity and fairness has been sacrificed. When people do not feel like they have a stake in something, they are likely to cause mischief since they will feel like they have nothing to lose. It will be dangerous for Nigeria to play games or marginalize any part of the six geo-political zones. The end result will not benefit Nigeria going by what happened to Yugoslavia, Sudan etc.

Some prominent Northerners are already saying that power must stay in the north. It is more than likely that power will not return to the south and very unlikely that APC will zone their presidential candidate to the South west. The northerners will even use South west quest for another presidential term to justify not zoning the presidency to the South. They will say that a zone that has held the presidency and Vice president for 8 years each cannot occupy that office for the time being. They will likely prefer that the presidency go to the north central. It is likely that the unwritten power rotation between the north and south will die a natural dead in 2023.The northern part of Nigeria will discard it as a relic that is no longer needed.

When the north and south power rotation dies, the north will likely start playing southeast against southwest for the vice-presidential position. Successive northern candidate will either pick a South western or South eastern as vice presidential candidate to boast their ticket.

It should be noted that President Buhari never believed in zoning. He ran for president when other parties were busy zoning presidential primaries to various zones. Anybody who is serious about power rotation should make it legal by amending the constitution. Nigerian federation as we know it will be tested in 2023 and may not survive the aftermath.

Chairman of ACN.. APC is death

That's awesome

Good