₦airaland Forum

IGBOPROMISE1:
Voting for Tinubu is a crime alright…especially in light of us having three+ years to assess the fella and see how useless, materialistic, nepotistic and Yorubacentric he actually is! However, for some, owing to parapo reasons, voting Tinubu yet again come 2027 would be the sweetest taboo (apologies to Sade)! They no send anybody!

Ogbeni, we are in a democracy. You guys can use whatever desperate antics, to promote your fake messiah, you want in search of Tinubu's ousting.

Demonize PBAT all you want. Wont work and you are not getting Igbo Presidenxy via Obi.

Take that to the bank. Go and focus on developing your region because regional autonomy is the inevitable future of Nigeria.

@Mynd44.

Why can't you ban this OP and his ilk for good? Propaganda, outright fake news, misinformation and shameless lies daily because they are desperate for Igbo Presidency or Tinubu's ousting.

This is a form of extremism and you are all supporting it tacitly by not severely sanctioning these characters or riding this forum of them.

Bloody liars and shameless propagandists. Don't you people have even an iota of shame? Where is the image of Peter Obi in the image below?

CharlesCNG:
I agree with you completely.

VDM's pattern is not difficult to read. It is activism as spectacle: loud outrage, public drama, moral posturing and constant self-positioning at the centre of every issue.

What he practices is what political scientists and social commentators increasingly describe as performative activism — activism that derives its energy less from outcomes and more from visibility, applause and monetised outrage.

Real activism focuses on victims, solutions and pressure applied with discipline and strategic thinking.

Performative activism focuses on cameras, followers, emotional manipulation and the cultivation of a personal brand.

And yes, i agree with you again: many Nigerians are easily moved by noise because anger often masquerades as courage to the undiscerning.

That is why some mistake virality for virtue and emotional theatre for leadership.

The danger is that serious national tragedies become raw material for personal branding and political score-settling.

Which brings me to another disturbing aspect of this whole episode. There are people using the plight of these children as a form of political payback for Chibok and other tragedies of years gone by.

That is blood politics.

Children should not become instruments for settling partisan scores.

Their suffering should not be exploited to avenge yesterday's arguments.

That is why we must keep repeating the obvious:

The children need rescue, not reels.

They need safety, not spectacle.

They need compassion, not content.

And they certainly do not deserve to become props in a political revenge drama.

Another brilliant post. Really enjoying reading your posts as they are brilliantly and incisively analytical which is uncommon here.

The kidnapping was politically motivated in my opinion. I personally suspect it is the handiwork of those who Presidential power is oxygen to because it feeds their unprogressive and indolent life choices.

The tragedy, as you identified, is that focus must be on rescuing the children yet that is not the case.

Every individual, working an angle, has hijacked this tragedy for personal profit. Be it political, financial or even social media followership.

Nigeria is really in trouble because the sincerity required, from leaders, for solutions to arrive is lacking.

Additionally, the critical-thinking capacity ordinary Nigerians should ideally possess, so they can make the right demands to leaders uncompromisingly and unitedly, is virtually non-existent.

We are today self-defeatist and self-destructive. Heading for disaster IMO. I just hope it won't be Rwanda-style genocide meltdown because something will give certainly.

When I insist the core North must be taken to task, before they take Nigeria down, because their followers and leaders (religious, military, political,cultural, business etc) are in bed with bandits and terrorists, some here will say I am paid defender of Tinubu.

How can adults not have the thinking faculty to see what is obvious and what must be done to ensure others who love being mad don't infect us with their madness?

Amotolongbo:
The worst of Tinubu is better than the best of Obi.

None of them is my candidate anyway

Obi is completely empty as a leader. He is a product of how the wrong people end up in leadership in Nigeria because the system for leadership emergence is not organic and therefore incapable of facilitating the emergence of our best solutions providers as Nigerian leaders.

For example, Adeleke, bar famous family name, is best to Govern Osun how? What, in his history and CV, distinctly shows his capacity to manage the fortunes of a State and millions of people?

It was Ojukwu's Godfatherism intervention that literally installed Obi Governor of Anambra.

GEJ too became President not by intention or capacity. Rather, through Godfatherrism.

OBJ, wanting to control his successor by proxy, handpicked Jonathan because he wanted an unambitious and simple VP for Yar Adua who would not trouble the President as Atiku did to him.

This is why I support Tinubu. I.e one of the few leaders to emerge meritoriously and deservedly because of genuine leadership talent and capacity.

We can see how Tinubu has built so much and so many, confirming he is bonafied leader, while Obi has built nothing and no one.

CharlesCNG:
Hmm... hopefully.

But unfortunately, the whole thing is beginning to look like a political gig, and that is deeply troubling.

This is precisely what some of us fear VDM is turning it into — content creation, grandstanding and performative activism.

There is a difference between demanding accountability and making yourself the centre of the story.

The kidnapped children should be the focus, not the influencer.

Families need results, not reels.

They need rescue, not rhetoric.

Activism is not a movie set, and national tragedies are not opportunities for personal branding.

Makinde too should resist the temptation of dramatic sound bites and concentrate on delivering results.

This is not the time for political theatre.

Children are in captivity.

The cameras can wait.

Absolutely. You have said it all. There are simple and consistent rules to life.

I won't go into details but even a cursory look into VDM's life, activities and controversies confirms what is obvious that folks who think critically can discern immediately.

Simply brilliant you mention performative activism. That is what VDM is about. Essentially glorified virtue signalling for financial and attention-seeking profit.

As sad as it is to admit, a lot of Nigerians, for want of a better word, are very 'simple' and easy to con. Many know this and cynically take advantage of that reality.

expert234:
I asked first. Answer, then I'll answer.

All those deceptive tactics won't work here

Yes of course I can swear Tinubu was not involved in the plot to kidnap the Chibok girls.

Amotolongbo:
There is nothing one can not say if one is desperate to get something.

Two of the requests tendered by the bandits is having saharia in all the states in Nigeria and Islam should be the religion of everyone. How are you going to negotiate that?
Does Obi want to give the bandits part of the southern land in exchange for peace.
This guy obviously think with one of the body parts below his neck region.

Lol. The bolded is accurate.

expert234:
Can you swear with your destiny and those of your entire family that Tinubu wasn't in the know of how the Chibok girls kidnaping occured?!

Can you swear with your life he was in the know about it?

mrvitalis:
Really no banikoro ? Not jimi abaje ? Lmao bro stop lying Abeg

Whatever. You've never being an honest nor upright Nairalander anyway.

mrvitalis:
We don’t have a single problem
There is nothing Yorubas can do to igbos that they haven’t done before absolutely nothing

What have Yorubas ever done to you other than good? Aren't you the one's, because of primordial envy, always demonizing us falsely everywhere and every time? This thread, for example, is for what purpose exactly?

Christistruth03:
It is such a big shame and they were doing so well in Lagos
All they needed was humility, contentment with a Pinch of Wisdom.

Now they will force us to teach them how to behave in Civilised Society

I feel sorry for the decent ones among them

Unfortunately, 2023 election was a turning point. Their antics over GRV was insane and opened the eyes of many leading to sharp rise in Yoruba conservatism where there was mass liberalism previously.

I distinctly remember Obasa fuming after the election was over and vowing Lagos will begin making laws to protect the interest of indigenes. A clear statement of how some had overstepped their boundaries and has gone too far.

DomPerignon:
They are so tone deaf and can't read the room.

They belief so much in their own hubris.

Indeed and that has always been their undoing from time immemorial in Nigeria.

yemmight:
The guy dey make his money and some people are following him on the streets without getting anything.

Don't mind them. Social media visibility, whether it is for being an 'influencer' or so-called good Governance advocate, is one of the quickest ways for jobless and cynically exploitative people to get rich at the expensive of the gullible and naive.

Did we not see how David Hundeyin was exposed as a glorified "omo Elebi" cashing out from Atiku etal after all his good governance activism and noise? Shebi DJ Switch , of #EndSAR fame sef don collect USA asylum Japa claiming Nigerian government was after her life. We hear from am again? Rinu Oduala nko? Na today.

The worst place to be naive in is Nigeria because scammers dey ground well well lol 😂

DomPerignon:
Your Kanu was calling on Hausa people to evict the Fulani claiming they are not indigenous to northern Nigeria and yiu all cheered him on.

So why should there be a different rule to dealing with a similar attempt to declare another man's land as open for grabs by labelling it no man's land and going further to drag ownership of it?

Your hypocrisy stinks

Indeed.

chopnaira:
Everyday Lagos, every day Yoruba. Heck, the Yorubas don't even share a border with your people.

If you all put 1/5th of this effort into developing your own SE region, maybe it would not be the most unproductive region in Nigeria that your own people are fleeing from.

Thank you !! The matter is so disheartening. Na wetin Yorubas do them?

expert234:
Then you are saying Tinubu is not innocent regarding the Chibok girls kidnaping, right?!

What does Tinubu have to do with it? Being a member of the APC makes him complicit in the Chibok girls kidnapping?

Was Tinubu also the one who told El Rufai to pay Fulanis to stop killing in Kaduna?

Was it Tinubu, rather than Kawu Baraje, who confessed they imported Fulanis to win 2015 election. Stop trying to implicate Tinubu in what he is not associated with.

We all remember the 2015 elections..Yorubas like Fashola, Amosun, Osinbajo and even Tinubu were busy being the eloquent interface with the world trying to make Buhari APC President.

They were meeting David Cameron, Tony Blair, John Kerry etc. Whatever others did in the APC is on them not on Tinubu because him and the Yorubas played politics as it should be done i.e raising funds, meeting global leaders to explain the plans of the APC, leading public campaigns etc, etc.

lawani:
There is no point in saying you have weight in a place you can't win one percent of the electoral posts available. Before you can say you have weight, you must be winning a substantial portion of positions available already or don't you think so?. Yorubas will not take Igbos seriously unless they can win five percent of Lagos posts or why should they? Responding to posts online isn't the same as taking people seriously.

Then anybody can make any claim. I can say the Yorubas are more successful than Igbos in Enugu, Abs, Onitsha or PH. Once you are not required to prove what you say you can say anything. Your mouth is your bond servant.

Igbos don't have any dollar billionaire in Lagos
They also don't have anybody worth up to 900 million dollars. If you go to 800 million dollars it is also the same thing but you will say it is the territory where there is no census that Igbos dominate? Nobody is obliged to believe you but you are free to talk. I don't believe Igbos who are worth even 500k are up to the half of the Yoruba who are worth 500k because the population of the Yoruba is much more than double the Igbo population and everybody is working

This is why I accused him of being 'high' when he created the post. The problem with them is delusions of grandeur and gross overestimation of their own worth and capacity.

We have done this issue to death many times to establish factually that the wealth of Lagos is largely and firmly in the hands of Yorubas.

Yet they will keep creating silly threads like this. Their behaviour defies explanation.

@OP

Lol. Had to check the time stamp to confirm when you created the post. 11.40am, meaning you practically began the day 'high'? Na wa.

expert234:
Then you are saying the Chibok girls kidnaping was designed to spoil Jonathan's government by the opposition

Yes I believe it was done to damage the credibility of the GEJ Government home and abroad.

Lol
Peter Obi, always fleeing confrontation with any and everybody, wants to die for Nigeria? Joke of the year 😂😅🤣

chidi2003:
And Chibok mass adoptions under Goodluck was done - to promote his government rating; right? The same APC that capitalized on security challenges in three North Eastern states to grab power; has finally distributed insecurity to the whole Federation - as dividends of Democracy! The worst governments we have witnessed in the history of Nigeria are the: governments of Buhari and Tinubu! Kiss the truth.

Tinubu's Government is the best since 1999. As Reno Omokri stated "Nigerians are only concerned with Rice and Eba". Yorubas tag it "elebi". If it does not concern food, most Nigerians are not interested.

The critically required policy initiatives and reforms that would have made Nigeria a developed nation today, had it begun say in the eighties rather than that Presidents after Presidents avoiding them, are what Tinubu is bravely implementing today.

Fuel subsidy was a scam bankrupting Nigerian while massively enriching a few. Subsidizing of the Naira , to shore up it's value artificially was scamming also.

That is because it was designed to create huge disparity between black market and official rate of Naira to benefit the bureau de change profiteering the North was addicted to yet will keep Nigeria never better than Afghanistan if it endured. .

Check the images below to note you need to improve your knowledge.

Nigeria's CBN became world central bank of the year for the first time ever under Tinubu because of multiple measure to deliver fiscal discipline that will move us away from rogue nation status, previous Presidents has created, towards a Country the world will be confident investing in because she is approaching best global practices/standard.

I believe it is the poor grasp of the deeply structural nature of Nigeria's problem, by most Nigerians, that prevents the adults in our nation appreciating solutions required to then note Tinubu is apply those exact solutions.

expert234:
Are you also saying Chibok girls kidnaping was designed by APC to damage the political standing of Jonathan?!

Of course. I don't have time for lies or political correctness. I say it as it is.

AMINDA:
"They played politics against Jonathan and got him out. Get over it !!!" Just imagine. Including the insecurity right? Why is he then complaining and pathetically seeking for sympathy when he has used similar means to assume power?

Since Tinubu is so tough on the oil cabal, why isn't he tough in the terrorists? He's only concerned about revenue right?

Stop being annoyingly obtuse. Was Tinubu part of the insecurity used against GEJ? Did he organise the Chibok Girls kidnapping? No.

Say what you will but Tinubu is a decent and humane person. His instinct is always to do the right things and protect. Ask even Ngige that Obi and his fellow bigots ganged up against yet Tinubu bravely came to his aid with ACN.

Does he play politics? Absolutely. All politicians do. Kemi Badenoch is giving UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wotowoto currently trying to get him thrown out so she profits.

It is Northern leaders, that you worship and support, who engage in politics of terrorism and murder of innocent Nigerians out of desperation to control the commonwealth of Nigeria.

Did El Rufai not confess he paid Fulani marauders to prevent them killing Kaduna folks? What kind of madness is that? Would Tinubu ever do that rather than organise a tactical team to wipe out murderous elements who are a menace to society even if they are his fellow Yorubas?

You guys should stop coming online talking rubbish because of your traditional and indoctrinated prejudice against Yorubas. We all know what and who are the real problems of Nigeria.

Lastly, insecurity is complex and very layered. You can fool yourself believing Tinubu is failing at it, because you want your candidate Atiku to be President, rather than admit the real reason insecurity has become difficult to tame today is because of what we have failed to do to address fundamental problems of Nigeria for decades.

Problem that have worsened significantly to now leave our mono-economy and many sectors, like crime-fighting and power supply, on life support needing long-term solution.

Lee Kuan Yew had 31 years in power to make Singapore a developed nation while you are shouting Tinubu, dealing with more structural decay than Singapore had, should achieve miracles in every sector in 3 years.

MrPOTUS:
Is it the citizens that will buy and install CCTV for the govt?

Incase you don't know, The president is the CSO of Nigeria, he controls the arm forces, the police etc.

If he had played his own part, no one will blame him.

But the man obviously doesn't care, all he's after is securing 2027 at the expense of anything.

Why do you people read what is lucidly clear to then make illogical comments? My point is that what we have not done for decades has severely damaged and compromised our capacity to fight crime.

Did you know the number of Nigerian policemen we have is lower than the UN-recommended average globally?

UN is even talking based on the assumption Nigerian policemen are engaged in normal function because they don't know our reality whereby 4 policeman each is being attached to every legislator !!!!

Did Tinubu cause the problem and does Nigeria have the money to employ 310,000 more police officers as the UN recommended as optimal?

Furthermore, and just like the power sector with an archaic and moribund national grid due to under-investment over several decades, The Nigerian FG is now too broke to fund the required significant upgrade to our security architecture that will address the shortfall between what our security capacity is today and what it should be to even resemble best global standard.

Tactically and practically, every Nigerian State should have at least 5 to 10 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion rapid-response military helicopters capable of carrying 20 to over 30 fully equipped police officers or tactical personnel. They cost around $100 million dollars each.

Clearly we cannot afford that today because we did not diversify our economy adequately to make it capable of funding her major needs .

If we had done the right things over decades, and those helicopters were in place in every State and aided by CCTV tech with rapid response centre capacity for alerting well-trained tactical teams, then bandits, kidnappers and terrorist would be out of business because they would understand their trade is a sure death sentence.

How are these point not clear if not for your bias against Tinubu and your obsession with unreasonably blaming him for structural problems, that have accumulated over decades, and needs holistic, fundamentally reformative and restructuring solutions to resolve?

Are some of you blind to the fact that, since 1999, only Tinubu has shown the bravery to tackle our gravest problems with fundamental reforms all global analysts and national economist have cited for decades that Nigeria cannot avoid if she wishes to become a developed nation?

The man is seriously trying but the leadership misrule of over 50 years cannot magically be resolved by a President in 4 years however talented he is.

AMINDA:
Was he aware of everything you said above when Jonathan was president?

Lol. Hallmarks of someone obsessed with living in the past. Jonathan this, Jonathan that.

They played politics against Jonathan and got him out. Get over it !!!

They are doing same against PBAT but won't succeed. Why? Because only one is a meritoriously proper leader between Jonathan and PBAT by Nigerian standard and given the very severe challenges of our nation and the many serious monsters needing taming for Nigeria to make progress.

See the prophetic words of Frank Kokori, RIP, that have come to pass. Only Tinubu has made moves no other President dared. Not even two former military generals in OBJ and Buhari.

Tinubu has already defeated the Northern currency cabal who hijack our CBN, turn it into a joke and brokerage house for their black market scamming of Nigeria your beloved Atiku will probably reinstate God forbid he ever gets to the Presidency.

Use your own mouth and confess if GEJ moved against currency arbitrage damaging Nigeria seriously, but creating Northern billionaires daily, as Tinubu did to be one of the contributory factor for the Nigerian central bank being voted the best global central bank of the year 2026.

Quit playing around mentioning Jonathan. Nice and decent man but he was never the leader that can deal with the monsters determined to never allow Nigeria becomes developed. Tinubu is.

https://punchng.com/only-tinubu-can-break-cabal-holding-nigeria-down-ex-nupeng-scribe-kokori/

AMINDA:
Yet, Tinubu continues to campaign while Seyi Makinde is being blackmailed if he attempts to do so.

"I will put fire in their states" comes to mind. We wonder the nature of the fire he was referring to.

Too early for your mumbo jumbo.

Obi is so dull. Nothing more than a glorified petty trader done good. Intellectual capacity, very poor.

fernandez1:
Hmm hopefully oo.....the thing is now looking like a political gig

It is 💯%. Designed to damage the political standing of Tinubu approaching the January election.