I have the opinion that IBB/Soludo ticket would be massive, and a true game changer. No other ticket can rival the two.
In fact, it will be a marriage made in heaven!

We need things done, things that are important for this country to move forward. Things that are thorny but are crucial for the survival of this country. https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-431329.0.html

A pragmatic duo is needed at this point in time.

IBB/Soludo 2011

^^^^

Hmmm . . . . . O kwa okwu ka i n'acho ndi ofenmanu !!

Anyway, the arrangement won't be a bad idea . Even if the arrangement is IBB/IBB 2011, I will still go for Maradona.

metal-gong:

Anyway, the arrangement won't be a bad idea . Even if the arrangement is IBB/IBB 2011, I will still go for Maradona.

Who cares? They've had 8 years without delivering a good census nor national ID card that would have right so many wrongs.

We need pragmatic people that will deliver fiscal federalism and state police, and this 2 can do that.

@ Knowall, he lost because of Ojukwu factor. Simple as that.

@ Knowall, he lost because of Ojukwu factor. Simple as that.


When he knows he cannot win against Ojukwu, why contest, his reputation is in the doldrums not with his sham stint at the CBN. The man has noting to offer Nigerians anymore. If he had stayed out of Anambra Politics who knows he might have gotten the Finance Minister's job. But now any politician worth his salt would not want to associate with this double failure of a man.

Losing an election does not mean the end of a man. Prestige still remains. There are lots of greater elections to be won as demonstrated by Lincoln.

Soludo is still massive and would deliver votes.

_{Large fonts do not make your contribution more relevant, it's irritating!}

@poster,
pls that name soludo sounds familiar, is he into movies or is he a footballer?

Losing an election does not mean the end of a man. Prestige still remains. There are lots of greater elections to be won as demonstrated by Lincoln.

Soludo is still massive and would deliver votes.



In Nigerian democracy if you have a failed an election once, it is easy for INEC in any other election to apportion failure towards you even if u did well next time. That is why people go all the way to the supreme court to fight election result. Soludo did not only loose to Ojukwu he lost to AC,  a party that never had a foot hold in the East, how about that.  

changes what game na the same game jare
Why in the world would PDP choose a vp who lost in his home state - what good is Soludo?

How did OBJ fare in his home state in 1999?

lol you compare Obj to Soludo- Obj was basically handpicked by Ooni of ife
you make no sense because Obasanjo didnt contest to be govenor nor did he lose any election and - he ran for president

No one will field a vp who lost a state election.

How did OBJ fare in his home state in 1999?


Soludo is a double failure, not a single failure, so u expect any reasonable politicians to give him the 3rd chance when 149 million, 999,999 Nigerians have not be giving a second chance, in fact 99.95% of these people have not have had a first chance. Sanusi dosen't even help matters heaping blame on his predesessor's  stewardship.

IBB/GOODLUCK the real game in town :https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-432265.0.html

Look, here's the simple version:

Babangida is a very very bad and unrepentant man.
If you vote for him, after all he's put us through in the past, you're a fool.
If he wins in 2011, Collectively Nigerians are fools.

Simple as that.

@texxazpete if nigerians arent foolish then what are they doing with tribal wars , ethnic wars, religous wars and still insist on staying together , why havent they being able to get electricity , steel making right

Dont be suprised if babangida or just any other sick gov or senator makes it in 2010

chidichris:

@poster,
pls that name soludo sounds familiar, is he into movies or is he a footballer?

He's a DJ. Haven't u heard of DJ Solly?

It could be Soludo, Sosokusi, Sosongali or Solando, it doesn't matter; IBB ticket will never be matched by anybody.

FYI: folks are already begging and throwing muscle to run with IBB.

It is absolutely for sure that IBB's running partner is set for the next 12 yrs.

Let's see who he picks.
May be Big B1 will be picked

it would EPIC, Nigeria would get massive development and positive international influence in a matter of rapidity . . .
I never believed Nigeria would get true Democracy and Federalism so soon . . .

@Topic, Interesting.

Jonathan will probably not object to running as VP under IBB. If their ticket wins, it could ensure GJ the presidency in 2015.

IBB is monopolizing media coverage and getting a real head start. Where are the other candidates? They need to start presenting us with their visions for Nigeria - IBB is running away with this thing.

Everybody wants a piece of the south south!! Haba can someone please leave us south southerners alone??

BigB1

Kasim Afegbua was asked yesterday of IBB's achievements during his 8years in office. He equivocated and spent his time telling us how IBB is being percieved wrongly.

BigB1 and Kosovo, please help me out and tell the house, what was IBB's achievements in real terms while he was in office?

(please keep in mind that keeping Nigeria together is no achievement because the civil war ended in 1970 and IBB came to office in 1985.)

Thank you.

I weep for a people!!!

The Babangida years

By Tolu Ogunlesi
April 17, 2010 10:36PM

In his first New Year Day’s speech as military president, months after deposing the Buhari-Idiagbon government in a bloodless coup enthusiastically welcomed by Nigerians, Ibrahim Babangida declared: “I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria.” Babangida’s bonhomie (its trademark an endearing gap-toothed smile) - in stark contrast to the stern, unsmiling façade of Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor - made it easy for him to be believed.
The distinction between the two regimes in fact ran much deeper than personality quirks. Babangida, in action, proved to be the complete antithesis of his predecessor. He threw open prison doors, setting free hundreds of 3rd republic politicians convicted and jailed by Buhari. He repealed the obnoxious Decree No. 4 of 1984 with which the Buhari regime had shackled the media. He promised to run “an open administration that is responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of all the people” - a departure from the high-handedness of the Buhari/Idiagbon era.
One of his first actions as military president was to allow Nigerians to decide, through public debates, whether to accept the $2.5 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan the Buhari government had been negotiating for.
After the terror of the Buhari years, Nigerians appeared to have found a statesman in military uniform.

Tough times that lasted
By 1985, Nigeria’s foreign debt had ballooned to $18 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 1980 (it would rise beyond $30 billion by the end of the 80s), and external reserves had dwindled to less than $2 billion. Oil prices had been in freefall for 3 years running, and in January 1986 they finally fell to less than $20 per barrel, a record low since the start of the decade.
To his credit Babangida made all the right noises about revamping the economy. In his Independence Day 1985 speech, barely two months old in office, he declared “a state of economic emergency for the next 15 months.” That speech went on to lay down a comprehensive plan for “economic reconstruction”.
This plan included a moratorium on new foreign debt, promotion of agriculture and industrial development, restriction of importation to “essential commodities”, financial sector reform and privatisation.

Populist leanings
IBB was a master of the populist move - ambitious government programs targeted at tackling poverty, and empowering rural dwellers. His government churned out program after program, in a bid to actualize his promises to run an inclusive, people-facing government. In 1986, Babangida launched the Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance, Social Justice, and Economic Recovery (MAMSER).
In 1987, the Directorate of Food and Rural Infrastructure (DFFRI) was launched to promote agriculture and transform Nigeria’s rural landscape by providing modern infrastructure. Other Babangida creations include the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND), Peoples Bank of Nigeria (PBN), National Board for Community Banks (NBCB), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), National Planning Commission (NPC), and the Urban Development Bank.
No other Nigerian government presided over such substantial expansion of government bureaucracy as the Babangida administration. In time, the fiscal prudence that Babangida espoused vanished: billions of naira were sunk into an endless transition programme, and in the early ‘90s, 12 billion dollars worth of windfall crude oil revenue (courtesy of the rise in the oil prices due to the Gulf War) could not be accounted for.
Mr. Babangida also came to perfect the art of dispensing patronage through political appointments (mostly targeted at leading members of the opposition) and a far-from-transparent allocation of lucrative oil blocks.

“A man whose words mean nothing”
Mr. Babangida’s contradictions eventually overwhelmed his reputation so that when, in May 1993, the activist and lawyer Gani Fawehinmi described him as “a man whose words mean nothing to him”, evidence of this littered his eight years in power.
Only months after vowing to run a “government by consultation with the people”, Mr. Babangida in 1986 surreptitiously - and unilaterally - took Nigeria, an avowed secular state, into full membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a body which describes itself as “the collective voice of the Muslim world.”
Mr. Babangida lamented the “large role played by the public sector in economic activity with hardly any concrete results to justify such a role.”Ironically, over the course of the next five years, he would go ahead to supervise an unprecedented expansion of government. And despite his deference to the wish of Nigerians to reject the IMF loan, Mr. Babangida went ahead to implement some of the Fund’s most drastic requirements - a devaluation of the naira, and removal of subsidies, chief of which were the petroleum subsidies.
Mr. Babangida promised Nigerians that the “belt-tightening” was sorely needed: the painful injection that would usher in vibrant economic health; the mandatory dark lining before a cloud of prosperity. Those reforms, which he christened “Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)”, came into effect in 1986, with a far-from-pleasant impact on Nigerians. Purchasing powers dwindled, inflation rose, and the obliteration of the middle class began. In 1989, SAP riots rocked the country, as Nigerians had finally had enough of economic reforms which silver lining they waited in vain for.

Greatest failings
Mr. Babangida’s greatest failings were however in two key areas: his human rights record, and his political transition programme. In December 1985, a group of soldiers, which included his close friend, Mamman Vatsa, were arrested on allegations of plotting to topple the 4-month old Babangida government. After Vatsa was convicted and sentenced to death, Mr. Babangida assured a delegation of distinguished writers (Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark), which had come pleading for mercy, that he was “determined to do everything in my power to save (Vatsa).”
Hours later, Vatsa and the other alleged plotters were executed.
As opposition to Mr. Babangida’s rule grew, so did his intolerance for dissent, so that he routinely shut down or proscribed media houses; and harassed journalists, civil society and labour groups using the instruments of state (the State Security Service, Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Police).
In 1986, five students of the Ahmadu Bello University were murdered when mobile policemen invaded the campus to quell anti-IMF protests. He also promulgated a series of draconian decrees targeted at quelling all opposition, and on occasion did not hesitate to deport foreign critics (University lecturer Patrick Wilmot and journalist William Keeling).
In October 1986, frontline journalist Dele Giwa was murdered by a letter bomb in Lagos. Preliminary police investigations stated that senior officers of Mr. Babangida’s intelligence services, who had hounded Giwa in his final days, had questions to answer regarding Giwa’s death. The mystery of the Giwa assassination remains unsolved till date.

An interminable journey
A maddeningly convoluted transition programme, whose terminal date soon became a mirage - first 1990, then 1992, and then 1993 - is one of the most significant things Babangida will be remembered for.
Early on in his administration, Mr. Babangida inaugurated a “Political Bureau” to “kick off, as it were, the national debate on a viable future political ethos and structure for our dear country.”
The political bureau was soon followed by a Constituent Assembly, which in 1989 fashioned a new constitution for the country.
Also, in 1989, he created, by presidential fiat, two political parties, the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention. Then in 1991, he released a controversial list of prominent politicians whom he said were banned from participating in the transition programme.
In October 1992, he cancelled the results of the parties’ presidential primaries, causing new primaries to be held in March 1993. And then in June 1993 he annulled the results of the presidential elections, presumed to have been won by billionaire businessman MKO Abiola.

This was the final straw.
By this time, Nigerians had finally had enough of his shenanigans, and violent protests forced him to “step aside” on August 27, 1993,“My colleagues and I are determined to change the course of history,” Mr. Babangida told Nigerians in his maiden speech as Head of State, on August 27, 1985.
By the time he reluctantly relinquished power exactly eight years later, he had achieved that goal, far more successfully than he, or anyone else, could ever have imagined.

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kosovo:

it would be EPIC, Nigeria would get massive development and positive international influence in a matter of rapidity . . .
I never believed Nigeria would get true Democracy and Federalism so soon . . .

Yeah, that's why I chose the IBB and Soludo ticket. The 2 are not afraid to do things that are massive, that can change the dynamics, whether positive or negative.

They are the only ones that'll be courageous enough to handle delicate, controversial but very important issues as true federalism, state police, resource control, and even restructure Nigeria back to regions which many observers have agreed is a way forward for Nigeria.

We need to put the right framework down in this country and IBB/Soludo ticket will do that.
We need pragmatic duo, energetic duo, outspoken duo, that will mobilize Nigerians to achieve big things.

IBB/Soludo 2011.

Not a fan of IBB but will choose him over Jonathan

If one gives Soludo the VP, then the following individuals have a chance of been the VP too, Eratus Akingbola and Madame Ibru, birds of the same feather flock together. As a Yoruba man I would go for Eratus Akingbola and our brothers and sisters from the SS would support madame Ibru's candidacy.  :-\

Nobody chooses their VP before primaries, if you do that you simply narrow your support base.

Most times what politicians do is to promise like 10 power brokers that they could be potential VP. With that you have all these 10guys working for you. When you get the party ticket you choose.

So this thread makes no sense at all.

However IBB should go and chill in his mansion.

I have never been a fan of IBB but he's the only one that's courageous enough to talk about those thorny issues like fiscal federalism and state police before an election. At least, he's letting is views on those issues known to us as early as possible and we will judge him by that.

Those issues are important to me and that's why and drifting to his side. No need for politicians to sidestep essential issues anymore

Here's my earlier post of what I want done by our next President.


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-431329.0.html

006:

I have never been a fan of IBB but he's the only one that's courageous enough to talk about those thorny issues like fiscal federalism and state police before an election. At least, he's letting is views on those issues known to us as early as possible and we will judge him by that.

Those issues are important to me and that's why and drifting to his side. No need for politicians to sidestep essential issues anymore

Here's my earlier post of what I want done by our next President.


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-431329.0.html

That is true, he seems to be the only one courageous enough to talk about the issues, it is for his open mindedness that I prefer him to Buhari.

I hope more politicains will come out for a lively debate on the issues.

But the problem with IBB is that the man promises one thing and does the direct opposite.

So he could be saying these things just to get elected, but will fail to do them when in power.

In his coup speech in 1985 he criticised Buhari for their narrow minded attitudes in a multicultural Nigeria. But yet he thinks it is ok to enrol Nigeria in the OIC when it is clear that Nigeria is a secular country where Muslims are in the minority relative to Christains.