₦airaland Forum

frosbel:
@Beaf

I have known since eons that Buhari has a Sharia agenda for the country.

Remember operation discipline for all about a decade ago ?  My reasoning is that anyone who intends to rule by force is a great danger to society at large.

My guess is he will never win.

You are 100% right. His operation discipline was a way to pushing an Islamic agenda - now why would someone vote for such? tell me

@safari SA  

I await your response and how you intend to twist this . . . this is NL my friend.

safari SA:
yeswecan

I am sure the same Buhari has brought Sharia to your state, abi? and the SSS and other security agencies have seen Buhari sponsoring terrorism, throwing bombs, cutting people's limbs. Or he wears beards like Osama Bin Laden, shouts Allah in public and burn the isreali flag. I don't seem to get you, am sorry. and i agree i am talking rubbish, because it is coming from a sentimental, illogical contributor.

So where is the Sharia today? I guess it is there in your house!

Leaders have to watch what they say especially to impressionable islamist - more so because the Koran justifies terrorism. Going by your logic, Osama Bin Laden has never been directly involved in a suicide attack - his words however cause thousands to be willing to die for the Islamic course. So is Buhari and other northern fundamentalist making foolish statement that stair religious conflict.

Given the context of Nigeria been a mixed state, Buhari is worst for making such statements.

safari SA:
Buhari, the coupist, yes, what about sankara, muritala mohammed, jerry rawlings, the coupists? being tagged a coupist is not bad, it is the intention for planning the coup that determines the position to place the coup plotters. And Buhari belongs to the people with the right intentions. which 2nd republic? is it that same one that a politician in government said we are not yet poor because he has not seen anybody eaten from the gutter?

Keep displaying your ignorance - Buhari's coup was against a democratically elected government. IBB and Abacha were the aftermath of the coup you justified. I can only imagine where Nigeria would be today if that democracy was sustained to this moment.

safari SA:
@yeswecan

Comparing Hamas with Buhari? nothing more to show you are far worse an ethnic bigot than any of them.

@safari SA

Arrant nonsence - Hamas as a group is more moderate than Muhammadu Buhari can ever be. This is a group in a predominantly Islamic settlement where one would think it normal for Sharia to prevail yet common-sense regnant was applied. Your friend Buhari invokes sharia in a mixed country where religious tension have always been an issue even before independence and you are here talking rubbish.

A vote for Buhari is a vote for an Islamic terrorist. Even the government led by Hamas - which can be considered a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement -did not go as far as introducing Sharia law . Most Islamic countries today do not have this crazy Sharia authority, some are discussing the barn of burqa - yet in a religious diverse country like ours, -where it could be argued that Christians are more than Muslims- Buhari is calling for Sharia to be forced down the throat of non Muslim and at the same time seeking vote. It was the same guy that called on Muslims not to vote Christians. funny dude

And what does it matter if the statement was made 10 years ago - he was an adult then, right? more than 50 years of age when he made that statement. The guy is obviously a fanatic.

cynics ! There is no evidence of ballot stealing here.

I know its gonna be ok

Weak Chicken

babytoun:
PDP thugs? they must either be wearing pdp badges or chanting PDP, PDP while snatching the boxes. This kind of reporting is very unprofessional.

You displayed an attribute of sound practical judgment but am afraid this is not applicable in Nigeria. These so called thugs are ordinary people, natives, deltalites, possibly the once whose future are been ballot-ed, everyone in the locality knows them and can tell who hired them. So i think it is quite safe to say they are PDP thugs given the source.

Yes Goodluck is definitely a house negro, the worst we have ever seen so i wasn't surprised when he was quoted telling the American ambassador that he lacked experience. who does that?

On the issue with Ivory Coast, i think we should leave them to sort this out themselves.

Who is this shame?

JeSoul:
just the racist/ignorant thing I think did you a major disservice.

I do not think the racist racist/ignorant remarks inevitably does Katsumoto any disservice. Much of Obama's aspersion has been from tea part movement which is mostly embroiled in pure colour- racism - i do not think anyone with brain-s will deny that.

Beaf:
Please edit your title, it is billions, not millions.

I am in deep shock. What would he want to do with such an amount?

serious question -

@ Tayo-D

You are acting like America was all bliss until Obama came into the picture - when the reverse was actually the case. Obama inherited a collapse economy, two wars, budget deficit and everything was to the negative.  don't forget that Clinton left with 200 billion budget surplus in 2000.

Well, it is not my intention to go into details as you have clearly displayed your hatred for the great one.  What you see depends on where you stand and you have clearly explained your stand point - plus your inability to see things from a different angle. Engaging in a debate with you will be a waste of time - given the realities on ground before Obama's assumption into office - i believe and still maintain he was the best option.

And i can sense your tacit support for Bush. Funny dude

GEJ has to please so many people, now that's a real problem.

Nice one. keep em comming

This is an Idiotic move by the assembly . A state house of assembly passing a  resolution rejecting a candidate for vying for seat of presidency. It is plain laughable - whats Nigeria politics turning into?  This is a legislative body with the responsibility of state-law creation now creating a resolution agreed to by a vote that a political candidate should not be voted for . .  Come on guys, it doesn't matter who your candidate is come 2011 - This is arrant folderol at the highest level.

byrron:
U can now c dat president GEJ is nt d messiah we ve bin waiting for. Our reserve is gone snc he came on board 6months ago, nw we are borrowing here and thier. GJE,Atiku, IBB, OBJ, PDP all of them represents nothing but retrogression. Tk a look at d budget he presented 4yr 2011, more is still going in2 recurrent expenditure and capital/infrastructural expenditure gets little meaning all d noise we nigerians are making does nt move dis guys even with d holier than thou posture of this systematic and subtle theiving president called humble GEJ. Its really a pity, dis guys jst dnt care.

Goodluck Jonathan is not necessarily a bad or wicked politician as i would address Lucky Igbinedion - he (Goodluck Jonathan) just don't get it. I think this is what you get when someones who is not prepared to be emerges - then a sense and need to please so many in his vie for the seat of presidency emerged - that seems to be the problem.

So they have to attack oil facilities to get government's attention - John Togo is a pinhead. What if youth from every region attack government facilities to sought attention?

Federal government have to do something about this before it become a pattern - when it does form a pattern and spring to every corner of Nigeria it would appear like the case of kidnapping which was started by these goons by the way.

anyone who replies alj harem is as foolish as him - or even more stupid.

There is no such thing as a failed state neither is there a third world region

There is no such thing as a failed state neither is there a third world.

marcdunu:
Right now you want to invent your own democracy abi? w[b]here you not the one telling me how our democracy must conform with the rest of Europe and america yesterday?[/b] What changed? talk about making it up as they go along.

Jonathan Goodluck is not party leader of the PDP but singlehandedly bullied Vincent Ogbulafor to resign.
Obasanjo was not Party leader when he was President but singlehandedly got Audu Ogbeh to resign.

You people need to grow up, lets have clear rules and obey them. If you loose you go and regroup and try another time. Thats how politics works everywhere; lets stop making up the rules as we go along.

Now the bolded part is defamatory - taken off the discourse that surrounds my use of the language that will helps to determine its interpretation. I cannot be so dumb to call for conformity with European system of rule. I'm a strong advocate of the African-system rooted in African discourse, values and background  both politically and economically. Now i suggest you go back to yesterday and read my write up again.

Jonathan Goodluck (As you named him) is not the leader of PDP, and has never been, Vincent Ogbulafor has a call from the EFCC he needed to answer that made him resign -

Now i do not see whats holding your friend from decamp-ing PDP like he did 4 yrs back.

In many representative democracies, party leaders compete directly for high political office. For example, leaders of parties in presidential and semi-presidential republics will often run for President. In parliamentary systems of government, party leaders typically seek to become prime minister. It is thus typical in such states (e.g., in the Westminster system) for the party leader to seek election to the legislature, and, if elected, to simultaneously serve as the party's parliamentary leader.

Your specific example was Westminster system so i touched on that. I think you do not understand your argument - how can you refer to Gej as PDP chairman ?

In many representative democracies, party leaders compete directly for high political office. For example, leaders of parties in presidential and semi-presidential republics will often run for President

I hope you ponder on the bolded and realize its not all representative democracies - i do not know where you got the quote from but lets work with it. You do not need someone to tell that GEJ is not the head of PDP, do you?

Here you are told the leader often run for president - now you should know that doesn't apply to Nigeria.

marcdunu:
Yeswecan

Do you have Presidents in Parliamentary system of Government? for the record the bit I highlighted contains the following:

So I really don't know why something as simple as this is so difficult for you guys to understand.

And this behaviour is characteristics of most GEJ supporters, you don't know whether they simply have half-baked knowledge of everything or whether they are simply very selective in reasoning. Eitherway they are useless because most of their political arguments don't add up.

Well, i am not a Gej supporter - all you need do is read my signature to understand that. Keep away sentiment from this argument and be constructive please.

I realize this guy -marcdunu- knows very little about politics on-paper

I think Atiku should be charged immediately for treason - there is no need to deliberate on this, you cannot have one man making anserine statements about violence and expect the system to keep mute. Yes he should be charged - would love to see that one.

marcdunu:
Chyz

Is this a face saving move or are you just taking your selective too far? What happened to the rest of the definition in the link I gave you? Ok let me help you.

What happened to the bit in bold? why did you ignore it?
Anybody who know Nigerian Politics will tell you that the President also doubles as the party leader.

Please read up Parliamentary system of government - this is a situation in which the ministers of the executive branch are drawn from the legislature and are accountable to that body. There is no direct voting of the executive arm- which comes from the l- so the party Leader who is also an MP becomes a PM because he has more backing from the Parliament.

Gej is not the leader of PDP - if you say he influences who become the leader then we can talk - don't call him the leader. Comeon man