₦airaland Forum

GavelSlam:
It's because they don't have Twitter accounts.

Hahahaha shebi na there em own impact dey!

Nasir El-Rufai: I remember he was locked up at Golphin Suites, Awka years back when he went there to be with Chris Ngige of the then ACN on an election day.

Peter Obi kept asking what El-Rufai had come to do in Awka on such a day.
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franchasng:
Sholaye is known for wanting to be seen with daughter of the rich, older successful women and the likes.

He will drive his rolls Royce around town whenever he needs to prove a point. Yet he lives in a rented apartment in parkview ikoyi. Sholaye the love-vendor and house boy of Femi Otedola, Dangote, Musa Danjuma, Terry Wayas and more has no plans of marrying Aunty Linda.

Linda thought she had found Prince charming. she left her brain in her banana island mansion which was bought by an Oil Magnate BP (if you know, You know ) and jumped into the hands of a man who is the typical definition of a cheap pie, so greasy and smooth at the top with all kinds of rubbish inside.

Take it slowly.

biggiesmallz15:
Is it just me or babaginda got a sneakers on

Its orthopedic shoes. You will notice he cannot sit on the same kind of chair as others. He is battling with some health challenges affecting his nerves and the bones of his legs.

Nekwa afo!

It mustn't be North West because there is a Buhari to fear. NW is a region and Buhari himself would need a majority of vote over the country and 25% from at least four regions (24 states) to win.

A strong northern candidate, backed by this other candidates from the said NW can make inroad in the NW. They just needed to negotiate properly.

The race is crowded and that is untidy. How can Baffarawa be running for President?

How can David Mark who sat out his last four years in the Senate as a benchwarmer be running? He just woke up and queued up to populate the arena and cause confusion?

I dey vex!

Indeed, I presented that certificate at the 2011 Ogun State House of Assembly and in 2015 for Directorate of State Services (DSS) Clearance as well as to the National Assembly for screening.

Our culture of not being so good at doing right has surfaced yet again. That certificate went through our own FBI and scaled through.

Balet:
I thought Doyin has left PDP b4. When did he rejoin the league of looters?
It is only in Nigeria that looters will be regrouping to loot the common treasury and the stu.pid youth will be clapping for them.
Never again shall we allow our collective resources be looted by the Poverty Developm.ent Party

I surprise ooo! I too thought he was now in Accord Party or so.

SolutionMee:

Osama Binladen - The man that singlehandedly dealt with America. If not for Obama, the Whitehouse would have gone down as well. If what happened on 9/11 happen during the regime of Trump (an American albino), Olympus would have fallen. Osama almost destroyed the good reputation of Islam in the world. I'm a Christian and my best friend is a Muslim. His name is Khan and he's not a terrorist.

Obama was not the President of the United States at the time(2001). It was George W. Bush.

Obama became President in 2008.

Nigeria is better of with plain monarchical oligarchy than this thing we call democracy. Its just funny how one man has the list in his breast pocket ready without a primaries.

Mrjo:
chai! so village people follow him go London to disgrace him? make I begin dey go airport to welcome them is already past 5am, small pikin like him Na village people dey rush him, sotte they confused the op he don't know whether to use he or she for him. in fact I am in pains

Hahaha no be small "he or she" ooo. Infact for me, I am in severe pains.

I am NOT in painsssss! Ayam NOT in severe painsssss anymore!

Maria Ude Nwachi; her guts bewild me.

Why not proudly say that yourself instead of ascribing a supposed twitter post to Chief Obasanjo who almost everyone knows has said he is not on twitter.

WomenTrainer:
Hmmm... You have really made a lot of revelations sir.

How do we correct this moneytization of Nigeria's politics?

For me, I think the Not Too Young To Run law is a step 1 in the right direction.
Step 2. Not Too Poor To Run law.
This is to make nomination forms and the campaign process more affordable and within the reach of the legally responsible average Nigerian.
Step 3. Reduction of the allowances of politicians.
This will reduce the perception of Nigerian politics as a business venture. Similarly, I agree with nex who argues for constituency project fund which is allocated to the members of the National Assembly to be scrapped. Legislators should face their constitutional duty of making laws. That constituency project fund should instead be given to local governments who are nearer to the people.
Step 4?

*passing the microphone*
Over to you sir, ladies and gentlemen. Please let's brainstorm.

When our people are better sensitized to understand the purpose of government, they may demand better than they do now.

Four years ago, a full grown adult male person proudly told me he took two bottles of beer for free and that was enough to vote for the present Governor of Ekiti State.

Grinders and wheel barrows are still dividends of democracy.

Step 1 for me is getting people to know what people should demand from government.

Beers and cups of rice are for a meal only.

I know full grown men who use to go to the house of an Ibadan politician to eat amala and ewedu daily, meanwhile the upkeep of their many children were in their wives' care.

They had no good hospitals, no schools, no electricity. Chief was godfather. He installed governments in Oyo State until he died. He collected as much as he wanted as takeback from government purse and cooked amala and ewedu for the people.

Instead of asking for good and accountable government, they took his stew and remained his slave.

I know a House of Reps member from Plateau State who said he cant enter Jos without at least 6 Million Naira. People are asking for financial assistance to conduct burials and build kiosks, instead of asking for good governance and accountability.

Where is he getting the money he shares? Monies that are meant for the provision of critical infrastructures are being stolen and used to impress the unwary people so he would remain popular, win more elections and steal more money.

The people remains poor and do not know why they are still poor after much.

First things first, the people must be tutored to reason differently and ask for tangible dividends of democracy from government and not peanuts.

Then the law reforms could come second as stew on the rice.

WomenTrainer:
Exactly!!! That is the tragedy of Nigerian politics.

Immediately I saw the cost of buying nomination forms, I said, "No wonder!"

No wonder Nigerian politicians are as corrupt, selfish and greedy as they are. It gets worse when the electorates demand bribes (cash, bags of rice etc) before they vote for an aspirant.

That is the reason I'm determined not to bribe anybody to vote me into power. I will convince them with my ONE AGENDA and they will vote for me out of the conviction of their conscience and belief in my cause.

It is quite pathetic. I have a senior associate who is vying for a House of Representative seat under the PDP in Imo State. His people have drained him and the primaries aren't yet due until mid September.

He is begrudging them. Now he tells me he understands why every politician who wins consider such position as an avenue to make wealth and to recoupe his expenditure.

As far back as when Peter Obi ran for the first time in 2003 for the Anambra governorship position, he came in with N200 Million for a start.

I was surprised to hear from no less a person than Chief Bode George himself that in 2015, an aspirant in PDP Lagos paid 200,000 Naira to each party delegate for their votes at the Guber primaries.

According to Tunde Bakare, Nasir El-Rufai borrowed over N170Million from him in 2015 to fund his campaigns in Kaduna. He paid back 2 years after taking office as Governor.

When Pat Utomi went to University of Lagos some years back and asked students to contribute to his campaign, they were all looking at him strangely. To them it was weird. He was supposed to give them rather, they thought.

In the US democracy we copied,people donate to the campaigns of the candidate of their choice and there is a limit to the amount that can be spent by any politician.

There is also a limit anyone can donate to a candidate to eliminate the godfather syndrome. But here, its the opposite.

One of Rabiu Kwankwaso's grouse with President Buhari, according to Adams Oshiomhole is that
Rabiu Kwankwaso brought a lot of money to fund Buhari's campaign in 2015 but was not given juicy positions and contracts by Buhari to enable him recoupe his investment.

How then can we expect service if we rob those who want to serve and put them in huge debt.

Having grown up in Obosi, hearing such news about a large family I relatively knew closely to some extent is devastating.

Without any particular reason other than my personal perception from the past, I doubt if this suicide is simply about banana and unemployment. It could on the surface be about banana and all that but indepthly though, some patterns are too coincidental.

Morestill, I have heard much about taking all shades of mental stress serious, even when it doesnt look like a "brazenly-mad-person -in-the -market" scenario.

In all, I pray it doesnt have to happen again.

vanbonattel:
Ike the iron man.
Akpati nsiegbe
Okpokuru ozopia
oke nkita ji isi anya oku
Anikirija
Anu ana achu ama okwa
odogwu aburo guy name

This guy is the best senator in Africa.

Hahaha@ Akpati nsiegbe.

Agu nwayoo kwa!!

Quite a pity. Electoneering is such an expensive venture for those seeking serve, little wonder they end up serving themselves only when they succeed.

romenna:
We need to start documenting criminal offences in this country.
A crime news blog will not sweat to source for contents to publish because dis is Nigeria, everybody be criminal!
I am giving dis idea free to u all as my work will not allow me time to explore dis opportunity.
But it's worth a try.

You are dead right. I find the idea weighty and worthy.

Event is starting on the 3rd and the President is leaving pn the 31st of the month before? That is 2-3 days ahead? Hmmm a bit unlike the usual diplomatic protocol.

destinychildolu:
I am disappointed

Me too.

Bolognese:
He's a former governor, so he's automatically a member of the NEC

Yea, I understand. My upset is with that provision really.

I know the constitution of one of the parties actually limits it to those "elected on the platform of the party"
But in the end everyone who is "big" ends up at the NEC.

It eventually does not end up well with institution building when men who are "merely passing by" are expressly permitted to be part of decision making process.

One of the parties restricts anyone who has not been in the party for a period of time from contesting election on its platform except granted waiver. In the end everyone is granted waiver including those who ends up returning to where they came from.

He joins just today and he is already at the NEC meeting?

What about those who have been in the party all these years?

People like ... and ....!

DEXTROVERT:
TRIBALISM
IN
NAIRALAND
MUST
STOP

LETS
LEARN
TO
APPRECIATE
ONE
ANOTHER

It has got to a sickening level.

afroniger:
Politics is so funny. The same Udoedehe wey Akpabio show pepper for ACN back then? These politicians are not worth fighting over.

You no lie. I pity anyone thinking any politician is serious about anything other than his own interest.

Musiliu Obanikoro after much much has gone back to suck up with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, meanwhile everyone in Lagos politics knew how much these two has wrestled each other.

All dem poor followers wey kill themselves for Mushin and Alimosho go dey under soil for Atan cemetry dey watch Obanikoro dey eat amala and ewedu for Tinubu house.

Number 4: I disliked Mathematics so much that I wished Mr. Chiemego suffered memory loss and never remembered our class again.

And he will always come at the wrong time; immediately after breaktime.

It is a moment of quiet sadness of the heart.

The tenacious Senator from Arizona.

A great war veteran.

Senator John McCain shall surely be missed.

I thought Ayefele earlier said his wife begged Ajimobi for 5 hours the night before the demolition.

Oceannaagent:
Who else knows Nnobi in Idemili South? Another town where it is forbidden to kill a python

Actually almost the whole of Idemili; Obosi, Alor, Ogidi, Ojoto, Uke, Ideani, Nnokwa, Awka etiti etc forbids harm upon any python.