Just seven days to to the 2015 general elections. so many nairalanders kept saying if you dont vote, you wont have a moral right to criticise the govt. Not true! Abstinence on its own is a form of voting. if you are not convinced about the options you have and you go ahead to vote out of compulsion, you are helping to instal a govt you may regret. your vote may be what is needed by the wrong candidate to win...if you keep it to yourself, you are still performing your civic responsibilities because you are indirectly denying the wrong candidate the chance of winning.
i have seven days to change my mind. i want the supporters of the two candidates to tell me why i should vote their candidates without just shouting CHangE without substance or FREsh air without electricity.
APC
the campaign of APC so far lacks substance. they are just shouting change without telling us how.
The whole campaign is built around one man .....BUHARI rather than around credible programme and policy. if you ask them how do you intend to fight corruption when tinubu, amaechi, el rufai(that was once banned by the senate from holding public office), atiku are the main financier of the party and none of them was a dangote before coming to power they kept saying they are not voting for them but only BuharI. so, should anything happen to Buhari(God forbid) then the whole programme of APC will automatically crumble. corruption is not fought by a single man but by institutioins. the fact that each time you criticise buhari, they say you are afraid of prison makes me think wether Apc guys believe once buhari emerges, he will run a CALIPHATE like SHEKAU where his word is law and can imprison opposition candiates anyhow. Moreso, why should i believe APC as a govt will fight corruption if they get to national level? i am yet to hear of any APC governor that petition the EFCC about any of their workers in their state not to talk of prosecuting anybody. does that mean all the commisiioners and perm sec in all APC states are saints? for eight years, fashola is yet to prosecute a single person in his state for corruption. same with all APC GOVERNORS, IS IT JONATHAN THAT WILL COME AND HELP FASHOLA TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN LAGOS STATE? before you say there is no corruption in lagos, just yesterday, i went to pay the balance of my tax for 2014, the lowest cadre tax officials were telling me what i wanted to p[ay is too much . they want me to just give them like 20k and they will remove almost 50percent from the normal money i was suppossed to pay. corruption evrywhere.
before you say fashola performed, kindly tell me A SINGLE GOVERNOR THAT HAS RULED LAGOS STATE IN THE PAST AND DIDNT OUTSHINE ALL HIS PEERS IN HIS TIME. EVEN IN THE WICKED DAYS OF ABACHA, MARWA WAS STILL LIKE A SHINNING STAR. TINUBU, JAKANDE ALL PERFORMED BECAUSE LAGOS STATE IS RICH. PUT A MEDIOCRE AS GOVERNOR IN LAGOS STATE, HE WILL STILL OUTSHINE HIS PEERS....TO BE CONTINUED

GEJ is still the best considering whats on offer. Bruhari or bruhaha is not an option.

helpee:
Just seven days to to the 2015 general elections. so many nairalanders kept saying if you dont vote, you wont have a moral right to criticise the govt. Not true! Abstinence on its own is a form of voting. if you are not convinced about the options you have and you go ahead to vote out of compulsion, you are helping to instal a govt you may regret. your vote may be what is needed by the wrong candidate to win...if you keep it to yourself, you are still performing your civic responsibilities because you are indirectly denying the wrong candidate the chance of winning.
i have seven days to change my mind. i want the supporters of the two candidates to tell me why i should vote their candidates without just shouting CHangE without substance or FREsh air without electricity.
APC
the campaign of APC so far lacks substance. they are just shouting change without telling us how.
The whole campaign is built around one man .....BUHARI rather than around credible programme and policy. if you ask them how do you intend to fight corruption when tinubu, amaechi, el rufai(that was once banned by the senate from holding public office), atiku are the main financier of the party and none of them was a dangote before coming to power they kept saying they are not voting for them but only BuharI. so, should anything happen to Buhari(God forbid) then the whole programme of APC will automatically crumble. corruption is not fought by a single man but by institutioins. the fact that each time you criticise buhari, they say you are afraid of prison makes me think wether Apc guys believe once buhari emerges, he will run a CALIPHATE like SHEKAU where his word is law and can imprison opposition candiates anyhow. Moreso, why should i believe APC as a govt will fight corruption if they get to national level? i am yet to hear of any APC governor that petition the EFCC about any of their workers in their state not to talk of prosecuting anybody. does that mean all the commisiioners and perm sec in all APC states are saints? for eight years, fashola is yet to prosecute a single person in his state for corruption. same with all APC GOVERNORS, IS IT JONATHAN THAT WILL COME AND HELP FASHOLA TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN LAGOS STATE? before you say there is no corruption in lagos, just yesterday, i went to pay the balance of my tax for 2014, the lowest cadre tax officials were telling me what i wanted to p[ay is too much . they want me to just give them like 20k and they will remove almost 50percent from the normal money i was suppossed to pay. corruption evrywhere.
before you say fashola performed, kindly tell me A SINGLE GOVERNOR THAT HAS RULED LAGOS STATE IN THE PAST AND DIDNT OUTSHINE ALL HIS PEERS IN HIS TIME. EVEN IN THE WICKED DAYS OF ABACHA, MARWA WAS STILL LIKE A SHINNING STAR. TINUBU, JAKANDE ALL PERFORMED BECAUSE LAGOS STATE IS RICH. PUT A MEDIOCRE AS GOVERNOR IN LAGOS STATE, HE WILL STILL OUTSHINE HIS PEERS....TO BE CONTINUED

You've just made my day.

so the bottomline is that APC has not shown enough conviction to rule NIGERIA for the sake of good governance but for the sake of their pocket and political survival.
And what APC GUYS DONT WANT TO HEAR....how can you run a transparent govt when you dont even run a transparent campaign? Buhari...where is your certificate? APC GUYS WILL TURN IT TO FIGHT. Buhari...are you sick? they will arrange interview for him at sheraton and say it is london? buhari is eminently qualified to contest for that office with or without SSCE certificate. WHY IS HE NOW LYING THAT HE HAS CERTIFICATE WHEN HE KNOWS HE HAS NONE YET THIS MAN WANT TO FIGHT CORRUPTION? APC HAS ALWAYS BELIEVE IN A SINGLE MAN AND NO COUNTRY MOVES FORWARD LOOKING FOR MESSIAH. if you sack SALAMI, Appeal court will collapse. if you sack JEGA, HEAVEN WILL FALL. IF YOU SACK SANUSI, WE WILL GO TO HAGUE. GOSH. these are individuals heading institutions....if jega slumps and dies today, INEC dont have to postpone elections except jega himself is a failure. same with central bank and other institutions so we should move beyond individuals and start institutionalising things. that is the change we are talking but the change of APC will die today should buhari becomes incapacitated in any form. Even the northerners will start demonising yorubas should buhari slump and die today and osinbajo takes over. they rejoiced when obasanjo chose yaardua who didnt even campaign against odili but when yaardua died, they started accusing obasanjo of foisting a sick man on them to cut short their term so its not about good governance, it is about the unrealistic hope APC and especially northerners have on one man. and with the unrealistic hope being placed on BUHARII he will soon fail if he emerges on saturday. the expectation they are placing on him is unrealistic and he cant do half of what is expected of him. thus, the programme of buhari is not sellable to me. infact, APC is not selling any programme they are only selling a personality and i cant put my bet on a 75yr old man for nothing other than the unsubtantiated believe he will fight corruption when his campaign is being funded from proceed of corruptions

PDP
i actually feel like slapping jonathan. Apart from the fact that he wasted a lot of chances to redeem some things, he left the opposition to dictate the tune of his government. He left the APC to do the propaganda alone and subsequently boxed himself to a corner.
SECURITY
the greatest problem we have with security in this country is not boko haram...it is our elite and jonathan has allowed them to operate unhindered thereby emboldening others including boko haram to gain more confidence. you are the president for christ sake and somebody said he will make the country ungovernable and you kept quiet. that is a treasonable statement. send the security agencies after him and get him arrested. opposition will make noise...but you wont be less popular than you are today but you would have made a statement....I WONT ALLOW ANYBODY TO MAKE UNGUARDED STATEMENTS THAT WILL BREACH SECURITY IN MY TIME AND SOON PEOPLE WILL ADJUST. that is not to say there must be no freedom of speech...but freedom of speech is different from freedom to use your speech to cause violence. amaechi said he will form parallel govt, buhari said boko haram were freedom fighters...why were this people not questioned at that time? jonathan is afraid of opposition and such a president cant be effective. if you work they talk, if you dont work, they will talk. why not work and let them talk.
so, our elite careless talk emboldened militants and terrorist alike including asari dokubo and to me, as long as jonathan cant hold people accountable for the inciting speech they make, we will always have security challenge.
CORRUPTION
the fight against corruption simmer down since the days of RIBADU for obvious reasons....corruption was being fought by ribadu not be efcc. Ribadu was obasanjo boy and he used him well but that is what we are saying.....no individual can fight corruption but institutions. infact, we are not supposed to know the chairman of efcc like a pop star that ribadu was. everybody cant be like ribadu but every institution can be strengthened such that even if a dummy is heading it, work will still go on unhindered. so jonathan succeded in making the chairman of efcc less conspicous but at the same time made efcc useless. EFCC should be empowered with a financial court in every state with the same status as the high court for speedy determination of cases. so, what has the legislature done to empower the efcc and even take efcc completely outside the coNTROL of the executive. why dont we have efcc chairman in every state to decentralise its operations? EFCC should be empowered to send auditors to any ministry or parastatals to monitor their account even when theRE is no complaint against them. jonathan could have done all this but he failed and played into the hands of opposition by making the infamous statement....STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION.