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Re: Projections into the 2015 presidential election (I)The paragraph “After six years in the saddle there is obviously not much to sell to a discerning electorate. His luck is that the majority of the electorate are not discerning, they are pre-occupied with the ethno-religious leanings of the aspirants over and above service and progress.” This […]
Re: Projections into the 2015 presidential election (I)
The paragraph “After six years in the saddle there is obviously not much to sell to a discerning electorate. His luck is that the majority of the electorate are not discerning, they are pre-occupied with the ethno-religious leanings of the aspirants over and above service and progress.” This is a brilliant description of the state of politics in the country, the situation into which the political elites have pushed the people. The electorate have been programmed to look at everything from the prism of ethnicity and religion; as such the country has been on the boil since 1999. No appreciable progress can be expected in Nigeria with this mind-set. Looking forward to the rest of the article. Thanks.
M T Usman, [email protected]
Uncle T, l like reading your opinions in the Daily Trust. The last one about where religion is taking us in this country was inspiring and illuminating. It seems you’ve changed from your usual style of writing or is this just to educate us in Queen’s English?
DUROTIMI John<[email protected]>;
Re: Sorry Lai Mohammed, I’m coming home
I totally agree with your write up. But my issue with you is comparing our self-centered politicians to nationalists in Canada. As you may know, the present autocratic-like leadership in Nigeria does not listen to advice even from close associates. The leadership and its party have at various times accused the opposition of being behind the insurgency going as far as to tag them as terrorists. How can the likes of Lai Mohammed advice be taken seriously? Do you remember how a governor in one of the states faced with this terror was almost eaten raw for saying our military were ill-equipped? I believe we need real nationalists and not self-minded clueless thieves parading themselves as politicians. I hail your courage.
Comrade MAKERI Kuta, Abuja<[email protected]>;
Hi Tunde,
This morning, I was browsing on my phone, totally out of boredom and frustration, then I came across your write-up with the above title. I was attracted by the caption, curious to know who wants to come home to our “politricians” when we at home are trying to hit the track and race out! Then laughter suddenly spread over my face as I continued reading.
I couldn’t stop laughing… so ironic, so truthful, yet painful to know that it is real here! Words fail me to describe the madness displayed by our so-called leaders every day, costing us beautiful and promising lives. The menace of Boko Haram, the pathetic state of our public sector and the athletic nose-dive of our currency, yet our leaders and the supposed opposition are dancing to Wasiu
Ayinde’s Fuji and hip hop music at rallies as if “Na only them waka come” but according to President Jona’s “Mummy”, “There is God o”!!! Thank you for that wonderful piece. It brightened my day. Good job! Regards,
Oluwalayomi <[email protected]>;
Re: Jones 3:16
You just cracked my ribs with these lines – “The ruling party has returned with its Bible. I have been leafing through an advanced copy and found that Jones 3:16 says – The people so love Jonah that they paid for him to pick the only form; that whosoever competes with him, has no merit but entered the book of treacherous men” And, “David Mark 11:35 and it says ‘… and David wept after his constituents picked the form and came on their knees asking him to run’ funny you! Seriously, who is fooling who? The electorate accuse the politicians of non-performance while the politicians say- the people are begging them to run.
LOLO Barango <[email protected]>;
Re: What do Northerners want?
Dear Tunde Asaju,
The truth is Northerners want more than ministerial nomination and political appointments. Appointing these so called big northerners is only a political device used to enslave the north…to make them “better slaves”….Just like in America where black people were recruited into the police to humiliate other blacks; you could not complain because it was someone from your hood that does it.
Northerners want a loyal servant, in actions not in words. Someone who would not sleep if his people cannot sleep, just like Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa. I’m not saying this on the behalf of the north but all Nigerians. Our leaders have sold us out. They only enrich their families and relatives leaving behind every other person. But this is all as a result of illiteracy, the root cause of all the ills in the north.
Left to me, I don’t care who becomes the president or minister, as long as he discharges his duty fairly. I am a de-tribalised Nigerian from the north who lived most of his life in the west
HABIB Mustapha Batancha, Law student, University of Maiduguri
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