vigasimple:

First and foremost, The judiciary was freed by OBJ. He didn't try to stiffle them like all the people before him.

He may not obey some of the decision or on time but he allow them to rule even when it is against him. Rememebr all those proceddings by ATIKU etc.

Also OBJ should be given credit for 'selecting' YAR ADUA because he is by far the better of all the other candidates including Bhuari, Atiku and all the Governors. He is a safe pair of hands in most peoples opinion and less corrupt. So OBJ definitely have good intentuions for Nigerians, even if you think he is trying to cover his back. He could have as well 'select' either IBORI or ODILLI and still cover his back.

Whether or not he prosecute OBJ, IBB etc is another matter for reasons that may only be well know to him.

The other problem is that it is the PDP that put Yar Adua in office and I am afraid he is unlikely to prosecute all the Governors that ' gave way' for him. IBORI , ODILLI etc

I for one don't think that Yar ADua has the 'toughness' required to govern Nigerians.

However, if he is able to appoint people who can do that for him because of his health and the type of person he is (his personality and demeanour) and just apply intellectual approach to the challenges then he stand a chance.

But seeing from his appointments and pronoucements so far I think he is many miles away from making any serious impact. (Maybe he needed OBJ- as if you will remember OBJ single handely campaign for him on campaign rounds and 'annointing him' among his fellow governors)

I hope he can sleep one night and God to visit him and explain how to run the country properly.

As far as I am concern, it is all soundbite- where is the War (state of emergency) on Energy/Power and all the other 7 progamm agenda.

I will pray for new things and beginings because it appears that it is just business as usual. Remember OBJ promised Electricity in 1999 and 8 years later, it even got worse. NIGERIANS WE NEED SERIOUSE PRAYERS FOR GOD TO TAKE CONTROL AND BY HIS SPECIAL GRACE HE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF MINDS OF OUR LEADERS TO START TO RUN THE COUNTRY PROPERLY.

davidylan:

We too dey pray.

davidylan:

You are very right. Black people indeed are the only ones who are clueless enough to assume that when you query your "elected" officials you are "judging" them. Black Africa is the only continent where we forever make excuses for the ineptitude of our government officials (the latest one being . . . he is only 5 months on the job), black people are the only people i know who elect officials who have no specific goals for office besides the cliched "we will continue with nebulous reforms".

Black people are indeed engineered to be genetically stupid.

You don't need to bother responding to certain "contributions". You shld know by now that not all of us are comfortable with opposing oppinions.

He was a "good" governor based on what? What really are the yardstick with which we measure "good governance" in Nigeria? That he didnt loot the treasury blind? Why then did he take the first emergency flight to Germany if he had put in adequate health facilities in Katsina despite having 8 years to do so?

Until we start asking critical questions, until we put our so-called political office holders under the lens of public scrutiny we will continue to be the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
Do we even have any benchmarks for evaluating the Yar Asleep administration? All we here of is reforms.

folahann:

don't yo believe in prayers.
Please pray for Yar'Adua and Nigeria

vigasimple:

First and foremost, The judiciary was freed by OBJ. He didn't try to stiffle them like all the people before him.

He may not obey some of the decision or on time but he allow them to rule even when it is against him. Rememebr all those proceddings by ATIKU etc.

Also OBJ should be given credit for 'selecting' YAR ADUA because he is by far the better of all the other candidates including Bhuari, Atiku and all the Governors. He is a safe pair of hands in most peoples opinion and less corrupt. So OBJ definitely have good intentuions for Nigerians, even if you think he is trying to cover his back. He could have as well 'select' either IBORI or ODILLI and still cover his back.

Whether or not he prosecute OBJ, IBB etc is another matter for reasons that may only be well know to him.

The other problem is that it is the PDP that put Yar Adua in office and I am afraid he is unlikely to prosecute all the Governors that ' gave way' for him. IBORI , ODILLI etc

I for one don't think that Yar ADua has the 'toughness' required to govern Nigerians.

However, if he is able to appoint people who can do that for him because of his health and the type of person he is (his personality and demeanour) and just apply intellectual approach to the challenges then he stand a chance.

But seeing from his appointments and pronoucements so far I think he is many miles away from making any serious impact. (Maybe he needed OBJ- as if you will remember OBJ single handely campaign for him on campaign rounds and 'annointing him' among his fellow governors)

I hope he can sleep one night and God to visit him and explain how to run the country properly.

As far as I am concern, it is all soundbite- where is the War (state of emergency) on Energy/Power and all the other 7 progamm agenda.

I will pray for new things and beginings because it appears that it is just business as usual. Remember OBJ promised Electricity in 1999 and 8 years later, it even got worse. NIGERIANS WE NEED SERIOUSE PRAYERS FOR GOD TO TAKE CONTROL AND BY HIS SPECIAL GRACE HE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF MINDS OF OUR LEADERS TO START TO RUN THE COUNTRY PROPERLY.

davidylan:

Teriba i agree with you. Indeed even the US is not immune from electoral fraud but the beauty of their form of democracy is the built in system of checks and balances. While the Americans can trust their Senate to remove a bad president if they so wish, can we rely on the band of brigands we have iin the house of reps?

While being "realistic" we should also not fall into the trap of rationalising failure on the altar of "afterall this is Nigeria".

folahann:

Is nigeria really going to change and be better one day

folahann:

How could somebody hold Yar'Adua accountable, is that not out of our hands

folahann:

Remember we are in Africa

de·moc·ra·cy (d-mkr-s)
n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. A political or social unit that has such a government.
3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.

folahann:

@ Kobojunkie
Could you start please

We as a people have the skills and the resources if we wanted to but DO WE REALLY WANT CHANGE?? or ARE WE JUST BETTER AT PLAYING THE BLAME GAME than ANYTHING ELSE

Dis Guy:

I think this thread alone answers the question.

I think yaradua should stop respecting the 'rule of law' too much,
to get things done in a country like that, you have to be (a bit) autocratic!
Obasanjo (and a lot of leaders) actually got things done this way
the people including the governors still want to be held by the hands
they don't have their own mind

Already judging a man that is only 5 months in government - something is fundamentally wrong with Nigerians.

the same lousy questions and the same lousy contributions - I pray one of you becomes the PResident one day - but with these comments - I doubt if you can rule your homes succesfully.

davidylan:

I don't think Yar Adua's problem is his consistent and boring harping on the "rule of law". He strikes me as a man who is at sea, he doesnt know what to do. He had no specific goals of how to run government; this was a man who was too sick to bother with a televised national debate and YET still won the elections - only in Nigeria.

What were his pre-election promises? For a man who obviously knew he would be (s)elected into office in April, why did it take him 2 months to set up a cabinet?

Dis Guy:

There are no specific ways to run Nigeria in my opinion.

Dis Guy:

Kudos to the person that blew the whistle on the renovation scam