obataokenwa:
Also be reminded that the difference of votes in south west between GEJ and PMB was about 300k. Just to let you know that it makes no meaning and was not part of the winning

yea yea ... It's You who forgot what it meant to defeat an incumbent in nigerian politics. #unprecedented

obaaderemi:
What of chairman Mao?His political life was a success to the end.

...hmm i am actually reading mao authobiography authored by his personal doctor, though i am yet to finish it as it is a huge hard cover, yet i can authoritatively assure you that even mao's political succed must eventually end and that end is the failure. it is the fate of every political life.

There is an ongoing conspiracy here. No be this Frenchman say they will never support creation of Biafra? Chineke me!

IamaNigerianGuy:




Thats an interesting theory you have.

I confess I haven't heard it before.

Did these SE governors you refer to deliver votes to PMB?

All the results from south east came out earlier same day paving the way for up north to rig theirs with high votes as no way to save GEJ again... 2011 election, same governors all delivered about a million plus votes in each state. total SE votes were all less than two two million in the last election. Just think deeply why no single governor or senator has been invited by EFCC? even TA Orji. Why the effort to hijack Rivers and Akwa ibom by all means and the Continuous harassment of Wike and Akpabio. Bro we have devils as politicians. Tinubu was among the plan but the praise goes more to SE governors. Ask Borno Governor why he said we should be grateful to south east for not raising the numbers unlike previously. Tinubu don't have single influence after Ore. Read for yourself.


https://www.nairaland.com/2232419/how-igbos-worked-buharis-victory


http://dailypost.ng/2015/04/01/how-igbos-worked-for-buharis-victory-governor-shettima/

jollymizzle:
yea yea ... It's You who forgot what it meant to defeat an incumbent in nigerian politics. #unprecedented

Stop worshipping Tinubu and learn how politics is played. Every election carries calculation. Read for yourself.


https://www.nairaland.com/2232419/how-igbos-worked-buharis-victory


http://dailypost.ng/2015/04/01/how-igbos-worked-for-buharis-victory-governor-shettima/

obaaderemi:
No pain no gain.Look at china today.when it sneezes,the world catches a cold.Can you have success without sacrifices?well,ask africans:it's the reason they are where they are.wetin pesin no go read for nairaland.

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! The reason China is where it is today is because of Deng Xiaoping. The man who came into power shortly after Chairman Mao's death. Mao Zedong's policies were an epic disaster.

Tinubu visit

omenkaLives:
Jagaban!!

I feel the only people who could compare to this sage when it comes to political chess game are the Russians.

Dude is just too smart.

You might hate him, but you just gotta respect him regardless.

I just hope he's writing a book about his life so he doesn't leave the world with all that wisdom locked up inside him when the time comes.

Much respect sir.

If u can say Tinibu is smart, then i think your understanding of Nigeria politics is still at a C level. No disrespect 2 u please.

davidif:


Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! The reason China is where it is today is because of Deng Xiaoping. The man who came into power shortly after Chairman Mao's death. Mao Zedong's policies were an epic disaster.

Okay,let's look at it this way:what Mao set out to achieve was a progressive united and powerful china.Yes,his 'Great Leap'and 'Cultural Revolution' were disasters,but we shouldn't look at those in isolation.did he fail in his quest?No.china today practises the one china policy:taiwan,macao and hong kong remain under china.That was his aim all along and he achieved it in his lifetime.That,s why today,that once peasant boy is celebrated as the father of modern china and not deng xiaping.remember kaisheng was a lackey of the west and if he had won that war,china today would not be much different from africa.his success was tinged with linings of failure,sure.But he made it

informant001:
APC National Stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, welcoming the French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Denys Gauer, during a courtesy call on him at his Ikoyi, Lagos residence...

http://www.nationalhelm.net/2017/03/bola-tinubu-welcomes-french-ambassador.html

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why doesn't he use his index finger during handshakes?

lazsnaira:
...hmm i am actually reading mao authobiography authored by his personal doctor, though i am yet to finish it as it is a huge hard cover, yet i can authoritatively assure you that even mao's political succed must eventually end and that end is the failure. it is the fate of every political life.

Like all success stories,mao's also had pockets of failure.but did he fail in his overall quest of building a united powerful china?he made sure the rapacious europeans and americans were kept at bay unlike what we have in africa.Imagine the results if kaisheng had defeated the communist.kai would have handed china up to the americans.

As long as Afonja keeps bowing to his masters his political life and legacies will be preserved. The day he does otherwise will be his last. Abiola did more powerful things than this present afonja but that didn't save him when he rebelled against his masters

HungerBAD:
They said he is irrelevant.

And I laugh. The wise ones know better. The Representative of a foreign Country,especially a powerful Country like France,do not pay casual visits.

2019 loading,and foreign interests whispering to the most powerful man in Nigeria,the kind of person they want to rule Nigeria.

This is how Politics is done. No Foreign dignitary has paid any visit to Atiku,Obasanjo,Babangida or any Nigerian Politician not holding any position in Nigeria.

2019 loading and the enemies of Nigeria, have started crumbling one by one.

Dino Maleye has just been exposed as the dumbest Nigeria graduate ever. The noise maker is so intellectually bankrupt,ABU is having trouble locating his "PASS DEGREE" certificate among the debris they had thrown away with annoyance.

Same DSS that refused to clear Magu will be disbanded,and merged with the Police if they dare clear Saraki to contest for the Presidency in 2019,if he is somehow not jailed for his current court case.

Tuale Tinubu.

Master Technician.

Baba Niyen.

They cam for intelligence gathering about your country and typical black man is getting all excited.
Interesting.
I doubt if the French people will be excited about the Nigerian ambassador visiting the equivalent Asiwaju Asiwere of touts and thugs in one section of their country. Assuming the Nigerian ambassador even has enough clout to do that in the first instance.

liljboy:
It’s okay to marry a woman old enough to be your mother, you can still explain that as love, but someone old enough to be your grandmother?



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todaynewsreview:
The bodies of at least 74 migrants have been washed ashore in western Libya, in the latest tragedy along the dangerous trafficking route to Europe. The Libyan Red Crescent posted photos of dozens of bodies in black and white bags lined up along the shore near the western city of Zawiya.
A spokesman for the aid organisation said there were still bodies floating out at sea as the agency had no way of retrieving them. He said the migrants were all adults, mostly from sub-Saharan African countries, and all but three were men.
The UN migration agency, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), said the dinghy had set off on Saturday with 110 people on board. The agency said traffickers deliberately took the engines from the boat and then abandoned it to drift.

http://www.todaynewsreview.com/p/3051/tragedy-bodies-of-migrants-wash-ashore-en-route-europe-photo



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omenkaLives:
Jagaban!!

I feel the only people who could compare to this sage when it comes to political chess game are the Russians.

Dude is just too smart.

You might hate him, but you just gotta respect him regardless.

I just hope he's writing a book about his life so he doesn't leave the world with all that wisdom locked up inside him when the time comes.

Much respect sir.

let me help you further.
Your JagaBandit is even more than Putin, the leader looter of the Russians.
Abi Putin installed his family members in political office ni



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Day11:
Jagaban nii baba!

Olori-Oko Kafaaata
One man ARMY!
Ekun Oko Oluremi
Oracle Of Yoruba Nation
Ijaya Gbogbo Politician
The Destroyer of PDP
Batman of the whole Africa
Asiwaju of Nigeria

Long may you Reign Baba Agbalagba!

Anything for your boi Baba?

Any Omoluabi Yoruba who is not a fine bara beggar for anything will surely be ashamed to have a drug peddler as the leader of our sophisticated ethnic nation that had Awolowo as our leader a few decades ago, followed by the five UPN goveronrs of the LOOBO states.
Omo ales will definitely identify with a fellow omo ale jatijati.



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Babasessy:

Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)







The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

moufan:
jagaban.

no other nigerian politician comes close to this man

the most influential nigerian politician

Given that a fraudulent crook is "the most influential Nigerian politician", should anyone be surprised that we are the rotten nation that we are after 57 years of independence
Compare with Singapore that became independent in 1965!
Ordinary tap water coverage of Lagos state is WORSE of today than in 1999 when your "most influential politician in Nigeria" became governor i.e. 18 years ago!
Talk less of education!


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HungerBAD:
They said he is irrelevant.

And I laugh. The wise ones know better. The Representative of a foreign Country,especially a powerful Country like France,do not pay casual visits.

2019 loading,and foreign interests whispering to the most powerful man in Nigeria,the kind of person they want to rule Nigeria.

This is how Politics is done. No Foreign dignitary has paid any visit to Atiku,Obasanjo,Babangida or any Nigerian Politician not holding any position in Nigeria.

2019 loading and the enemies of Nigeria, have started crumbling one by one.

Dino Maleye has just been exposed as the dumbest Nigeria graduate ever. The noise maker is so intellectually bankrupt,ABU is having trouble locating his "PASS DEGREE" certificate among the debris they had thrown away with annoyance.

Same DSS that refused to clear Magu will be disbanded,and merged with the Police if they dare clear Saraki to contest for the Presidency in 2019,if he is somehow not jailed for his current court case.

Tuale Tinubu.

Master Technician.

Baba Niyen.

Two chambers bordllon or Aso rock

HungerBAD:
They said he is irrelevant.

And I laugh. The wise ones know better. The Representative of a foreign Country,especially a powerful Country like France,do not pay casual visits.

2019 loading,and foreign interests whispering to the most powerful man in Nigeria,the kind of person they want to rule Nigeria.

This is how Politics is done. No Foreign dignitary has paid any visit to Atiku,Obasanjo,Babangida or any Nigerian Politician not holding any position in Nigeria.

Hunger is bad.
Telling LIES is worse!!!

Harbdulrasaq:
Jun 14, 2016
French Ambassador to Nigeria, H.E. Denys Gauer on a courtesy visit to Atiku Abubakar.




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http://www.newshelm.com/2016/06/photos-french-ambassador-to-nigeria.html

obaaderemi:
Like all success stories,mao's also had pockets of failure.but did he fail in his overall quest of building a united powerful china?he made sure the rapacious europeans and americans were kept at bay unlike what we have in africa.Imagine the results if kaisheng had defeated the communist.kai would have handed china up to the americans.

...of course mao succeeded in achieving a lot of his political goals which the chinese are still enjoying today...keeping europeans away and keeping china one...just like other succeessful politicians whos legacies and achievements cannot be forgotten in such a hurry...like churchil who though not as powerful as hitler but was able to kill the german dream of over-running the world...or that of the singaporean leader who built his country almost from scratch... YET notwitstanding the succeesses of these men their political life came to an end one way or the other, the transiency of political life is why it must end in failure.

omenkaLives:
Jagaban!!

I feel the only people who could compare to this sage when it comes to political chess game are the Russians.

Dude is just too smart.

You might hate him, but you just gotta respect him regardless.

I just hope he's writing a book about his life so he doesn't leave the world with all that wisdom locked up inside him when the time comes.

Much respect sir.

Omenka, by mentioning the emboldened - you have successfully ignited a fire in my spine.

I just hope our unfriendly-friends in Washington won't unleash a team of CIA on you for acknowledging the “Russian's wit” over the spoilt brats in Babylon .

Zoharariel:


Omenka, by mentioning the emboldened - you have successfully ignited a fire in my spine.

I just hope our unfriendly-friends in Washington won't unleash a team of CIA on you for acknowledging the “Russian's wit” over the spoilt brats in Babylon .

Baba, those Russians are something else. I fear them when it comes to politics and espionage more than anyone else. How a single country wey no be superpower go dry bully the entire Europe anyhow? That Crimea saga is just unbelievable.

Putin is bully while Trump is just a spoilt brat.

obaaderemi:
Okay,let's look at it this way:what Mao set out to achieve was a progressive united and powerful china.Yes,his 'Great Leap'and 'Cultural Revolution' were disasters,but we shouldn't look at those in isolation.did he fail in his quest?No.china today practises the one china policy:taiwan,macao and hong kong remain under china.That was his aim all along and he achieved it in his lifetime.That,s why today,that once peasant boy is celebrated as the father of modern china and not deng xiaping.remember kaisheng was a lackey of the west and if he had won that war,china today would not be much different from africa.his success was tinged with linings of failure,sure.But he made it

Dude What are you talking about? Hong Kong was rented to the British for a 100 years and after there lease was over they handed it back to the Chinese in 1997 decades after Mao had passed. So I don't know what that has to do with Mao Zedong. As for Taiwan, well after the communists defeated the nationalists in the late 40's, the nationalists fled to Taiwan and lived there so i also don't know where you are getting at cos if anything Taiwan's didn't really start agitating for independence till the 90's when they embraced democracy for the most part.

Day11:


Gulder ke?

You nor get Goldberg?

Goldberg dey, where u dey, I guess lagos? If yes pm me make we see bro

SalamRushdie:

Even Tinubu sef no get cert

does Ur father have a cert