iamoyindamola:

All these childish antics won't take you anywhere
You don't decapitate head to cure headache, improve yourself so that the society won't fully affect you

bro, have you seen me rant like this since you ever know me on nairaland..

I blame myself and I'll continue blaming myself for giving myself hope that this election would be different..

I have never for one day, given any shiit about politics, politicians nor election in my life.. even me like this, I don't even blame politicians nor gorvenment for my own misfortunes.. I believe I am 💯 in charge or my life and myself..

You don't understand what this election did to first timers like me..

This is just like someone who gave his all in a relationship but still suffers heart break 💔..

I have never put my interest in any election or gorvenment or anything prior to this last event..

It's just like when you put your eggs 🥚 in one basket 🧺.. or when you use your last card to bet a game and the game cut..

This is what I just did... I used all my hope and put it in this election.. that's why this heartbreak is still paining me to the bone 🦴 marrow up to this moment..

What this does is to make people like me is to make us more tougher and more wicked..

Amoto94:
People keep shouting 300bn was budgeted for the selection sorry election but what they dont know is budget is just an estimate, how much was released to INEC and how did they utilised the release funds should be,at the forefront of the debate.

So how much do you think was released since the amount budgeted should not be used

Amoto94:
People keep shouting 300bn was budgeted for the selection sorry election but what they dont know is budget is just an estimate, how much was released to INEC and how did they utilised the release funds should be,at the forefront of the debate.

If u have the exact figures released to him, please share with us.

iamoyindamola:

Who dash am professor

Na professor o. He even studied in Cambridge and Oxford sef. Chai! smh

ToyinDipo:

Don't tell me to shut up ignoramus.

In 2021, the quota was 8%, and often ranged between 9 and 5%. You can cry all you want, lie all you want, but that is fact.

Cocoa or no cocoa, we take handouts from no one, and I pray you don't self destruct when left on your own.

Clown! We are already doing better than most states developmentally.

Still in this same shambled Nigeria, Akwa Ibom has its own airline we built which the FGN can't dream of with the best services and quality.
International stadium.
World-class digital library.
World-class road.
World-class drainage system.
More secured than Nigeria as a whole.
More peaceful than Nigeria as a whole.

I could go on and on.

Akwa Ibom is thriving at a faster rate than Nigeria.

BlueRayDick:


The bold is totally untrue! My uncle ( my father's younger brother) has been living in Port Harcourt, Rivers state since I can remember. He married an indigene in 1998 and myself and the rest of our family were there live in Port Harcourt in 1998. I watched most of the France 1998 world cup in port Harcourt.

Need I tell u that my family is a typical Yoruba family that has both Christians and Muslims in the family line. My grandma is a core Muslim but never objected to him marrying a south southerner who is a christain and even didn't have issues with my uncle when he converted to Christianity. My grandma loved her daughter-in-law like her own daughter despite not speaking same language.

Make Una stop these myopic narrative una dey drop ; it does nothing but wants to make those of us who are reasonable to want to join in the tribal rofo rofo fight una dey mong around.

FYI: My uncle still live In Rivers State till date and he owns properties there just like Igbo's, Hausas, Ibibios, Efiks etc own properties In Lagos.

Itsrm is even a Yoruba man and he lives in Rivers state as well.

There are exceptions, but generally Yoruba's hardly settle in other Southern states like that, at least from the little I know.

BlueRayDick:


The bold is totally untrue! My uncle ( my father's younger brother) has been living in Port Harcourt, Rivers state since I can remember. He married an indigene in 1998 and myself and the rest of our family were there live in Port Harcourt in 1998. I watched most of the France 1998 world cup in port Harcourt.

Need I tell u that my family is a typical Yoruba family that has both Christians and Muslims in the family line. My grandma is a core Muslim but never objected to him marrying a south southerner who is a christain and even didn't have issues with my uncle when he converted to Christianity. My grandma loved her daughter-in-law like her own daughter despite not speaking same language.

Make Una stop these myopic narrative una dey drop ; it does nothing but wants to make those of us who are reasonable to want to join in the tribal rofo rofo fight una dey mong around.

FYI: My uncle still live In Rivers State till date and he owns properties there just like Igbo's, Hausas, Ibibios, Efiks etc own properties In Lagos.

Itsrm is even a Yoruba man and he lives in Rivers state as well.

To be fair to him, when I was transferred out of Lagos to Warri in 2015, I was really angry and almost resigned. I didn't want to go. Lagos was heaven and earth to me.

My brother, one month in warri when I was now waking up by 7:30 in the morning, I never wanted to return to Lagos.

Even till now, I will never return to Lagos except I get a job that pays in foreign currency

So if I wasn't transferred out of Lagos, I probably will still be one of you guys today.

For those asking how much was released to INEC to conduct the election the answer is, I don't know let the public demand answers from the agency.

emmaodet:


The problem i have with my Yoruba brothers is that they hardly travel to other parts of Southern Nigeria.
To them, Lagos is the all and all of Nigeria. They believe Nigeria starts and ends in Lagos.
Aside Lagos, the next place the typical yoruba man thinks of relocating to is abroad. To him, no other place is better than Lagos so why should he go the other way round when those people are coming to his side.
For some of us who are not homeboys (i usually use it as a name for the typical yorubas who never travelled out of South-west), we have travelled and seen other places and are marveled about what is going on over there.
I schooled in Oron, so i know how developed Uyo and environment is. Have been to Calabar and environment, been to many south-south states and south-east and i can categorically tell you, the south-wet is the most backward out of the 3 souths.
My brothers don't like hearing this. Some will call me omo-ale (a bastard) which is typical of them. I guess the truth hurts.
I do not say this to bring them down or denigrate them rather for us to sit-up and improve. There is no point living in self-denial.
Reason why i do tell them that Lagos/Tinubu/and other Lagos governors have all failed. They are serial failures.

You can't be generating this huge amount of money and your city still looks like a shit-hole.
If AKpabio can turn Akwa-ibom around in 8 years with the money he got which is not up to what Lagos is generating, tarred roads, built stadium, Standard hospital, now ibom-air yet lagos can float Lagos-air and many more and they think their governors are working, then something is wrong somewhere.
Tbh, i only have pity for them.

When I was asking what Tinubu and Sanwo-Oli use the annual #760 billion IGR and almost #170 billion FAAC for to warrant the kind of borrowinh in trillions Lagos has in debt this January, they glossed over it.


With remote work and economic diversification in my own state happening, how many arguments in favour of residing full-time in Lagos are valid?



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3 days ago, the the guy who claims to have a certain GloriousGbola was stating I moved to Akwa Ibom from Lagos for reasons he assunes.

I moved to Akwa Ibom for my sanity!

I moved for my security! I have never been harassed by the police here that's why EndSARS was like a party here. Please confirm this. EndSARS rallies in Akwa Ibom were like carnivals because most couldn't relate to police brutality, including me (and I hope I never do), but I have empathy for those who have so it was a solidarity protest/carnival for youths in other parts of Nigeria for those who organised it.
I was busy at the office so didn't protest but I empathise with them.

It was even the police protecting protesters while drinking and dancing with them. Doubt me, we place a bet and I post pictures and videos and proof.

Lagos where every young man with a laptop is tagged a yahoo boy by extorting agberos and government officials, but here I want to even pitch to senior policemen 'cause I'm not worried about harassment. [/b]




- Why should I live in Lagos where I have to buy water from 'olomi' like Jerrycan Boy, Gbola, mentions here daily??
Bragging about buying water from dirty rickety trucks they barely wash and untreated water most likely? Ah!

- Why should I live in Lagos where I'd get stuck in traffic for 5 hours?

- Where I can't see my kids leave for school by 7;00AM because I am on the road by 5AM? Where when I am back, they are already asleep?
And I'm gone before they wake?

Live in Lagos where there is no light or plans to improve it actively when my state government in Akwa Ibom built a state power company which is even transmitting to some communities and is pressuring the federal government to give autonomy because it is ready to transmit to the whole state?

Damn it! As far back as 2005, my LGA was having 24/7 electricity and there were no LPG stations or kerosene depots because its useless with 24/7 electricity. Please confirm this.
While we were battling electricity issues in Lagos all that while.


In Lagos, where I am worried if I am on the go by 2:00AM, the best thing to expect is being robbed? Best because anything less than best would end up with you getting dismembered.


Where I am scared of Ember months kidnappers of my kids?

Have you been hearing of ritual killings in Akwa Ibom? Rampant stories of missing body parts? No! Security is the culture in Akwa Ibom.

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In Lagos where I am taxed to death by Tinubu's agberos and his daughter?

Lagos which has constantly been top 2 of the world' most unlivable cities? Largest slum? Massive slums all over without planning?

These people who haven't seen what a decently functional government which is accountable to some extent think their hard life and societal struggles in Lagos make them cooler than others.


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They should move to come see us live their holidays as our everyday life - easy-going, safe, relaxed, fun, beautiful scenery and friendly people.

When you experience Ibeno Beach in Akwa Ibom or the one in my LGA which is open to the public and neatly kept from being desecrated, you'd understand the Kuramo Beach and Bar Beach of Lagos don't come close.

Do they want me to mention the beaches at Itu and Ukanafun where the waters are literally blue like in the Caribbeans and you can see the floor, they'd realize what they are missing out of. ]

By the way, if you didn't explore these places, you didn't even explore Akwa Ibom.

I could go on and on naming natural tourist spots that'd blow your mind in Akwa Ibom.


See how I didn't mention Ekiti, Osun, Ondo and the likes? It's insulting to mention those backward states to Akwa Ibom on all indices, yet those are the states of all of them claiming Lagos which is even underperforming.
They are ashamed to even mention their States of Origin and Akwa Ibom beats all of them combined.

Are those the kind of people anyone should take seriously? Even one from Kogi, the most backward state in Nigeria, thought he had an opinion on Akwa Ibom which is centuries ahead of Kogi.

Amoto94:
For those asking how much was released to INEC to conduct the election the answer is, I don't know let the public demand answers from the agency.

But you made a claim that it is an estimated amount and yet you are still saying you don't know the real amount.

So we should leave the actual verified figures and chase your "ghost" amount?

BlueRayDick:


It's just annoying when people make it seem like they have a bird's eye view of what is happening in every part of Nigeria and start making points based on that.

There are Yorubas who own filling stations, bakeries, eateries in the north. The cost of living in that part of the country is cheaper and nobody taxes them to death or rent properties to them at exorbitant prices cos they are non indigenes. People will always travel and live in areas where they feel they are more welcome. Igbos are in Lagos cos they feel they are much welcome here.

Cubana has two clubs/lounge in Lagos; one on the island and the other in Ikeja. He pays tax to Lagos state government like every other persons nd nobody goes to disturb his business. That's why I say make all these people wey dey parrot these tribal narratives hustle and make money like their brothers and enjoy life instead of having a defeatist mentality that anybody is after them.

Igbo's are everywhere

Itsrm:


To be fair to him, when I was transferred out of Lagos to Warri in 2015, I was really angry and almost resigned. I didn't want to go. Lagos was heaven and earth to me.

My brother, one month in warri when I was now waking up by 7:30 in the morning, I never wanted to return to Lagos.

Even till now, I will never return to Lagos except I get a job that pays in foreign currency

So if I wasn't transferred out of Lagos, I probably will still be one of you guys today.

Thank you🙏

I just checked my PU results that was uploaded, it was accurate, LP won with over 150 votes margin.
I think someone else should do the collation of all the uploaded results for inec

Elder0001:


If tinubu doesn't jail emefiele after he assumes office I won't forgive him

Why impose suffering on people? I wonder what peter obi supporters will say about this cashless policy now, considering they supported it initially because they thought it'll make obi win.

I'm in pH right now, the cash scarcity is very serious in my area. To make matters worse transfers are hanging.

I guess we now have one thing making us look forward to Tinubus government.

You are right about the scarcity. It has gotten really bad.

You can get up to 10k at banks like globus, standard, titan and premium but the crowd na die. You have to sacrifice the whole day.

DissTroy:


Clown! We are already doing better than most states developmentally.

Still in this same shambled Nigeria, Akwa Ibom has its own airline we built which the FGN can't dream of with the best services and quality.
International stadium.
World-class digital library.
World-class road.
World-class dranlinage system.
More secured than Nigeria as a whole.
More peaceful than Nigeria as a whole.

I could go on and on.

Akwa Ibom is thriving at a fsater rate than Nigeria.

All underutilized, we call it waste of money.

Realmrsean:
bro, have you seen me rant like this since you ever know me on nairaland..

I blame myself and I'll continue blaming myself for giving myself hope that this election would be different..

I have never for one day, given any shiit about politics, politicians nor election in my life.. even me like this, I don't even blame politicians nor gorvenment for my own misfortunes.. I believe I am 💯 in charge or my life and myself..

You don't understand what this election did to first timers like me..

This is just like someone who gave his all in a relationship but still suffers heart break 💔..

I have never put my interest in any election or gorvenment or anything prior to this last event..

It's just like when you put your eggs 🥚 in one basket 🧺.. or when you use your last card to bet a game and the game cut..

This is what I just did... I used all my hope and put it in this election.. that's why this heartbreak is still paining me to the bone 🦴 marrow up to this moment..

What this does is to make people like me is to make us more tougher and more wicked..

Nigeria dan touch all of us

Amoto94:
For those asking how much was released to INEC to conduct the election the answer is, I don't know let the public demand answers from the agency.

The government said they released #300billion to INEC already and INEC didn't deny receiving the money, wetin we wan con dey find out again?

ToyinDipo:

All underutilized, we call it waste of money.

Build yours first. Stop getting jealous. As it stands, if there's a secession, we are good. Heck! My own clan (not just LGA) has corked oil heads. We'd thrive. We have relatively better leadership already.
Have you heard of snake or monkey swallowing monies in Akwa Ibom?

You should be thankful we aren't as violent as some of our neighbouring relatives in clamouring for total resource control. But keep being tribalistic, we'd answer you when you push us long enough.

I already mentioned your brothers are in the NDDX, and Oil and Gas Free Zone Commissions created for us where they have no business without us complaining. Keep going with the tribal tirade and see what happens. I'm taking notes.

Theflint1:
There are exceptions, but generally Yoruba's hardly settle in other Southern states like that, at least from the little I know.

I like u; u've done well by putting a caveat that "at least from what u know". Now that's a good way of putting one's opinion out without necessarily generalizing.

DissTroy:

And, no, we'd never be tribalistic enough to ask you to leave our land over an argument or because of your voting pattern.

Lagos traditional rulers & Dayo Israel dey dis table wey u dey shake

Itsrm:


To be fair to him, when I was transferred out of Lagos to Warri in 2015, I was really angry and almost resigned. I didn't want to go. Lagos was heaven and earth to me.

My brother, one month in warri when I was now waking up by 7:30 in the morning, I never wanted to return to Lagos.

Even till now, I will never return to Lagos except I get a job that pays in foreign currency

So if I wasn't transferred out of Lagos, I probably will still be one of you guys today.

Most people who grow up in Lagos usually do not want to leave. Myself , each time I leave Lagos I always look forward to getting back to the city as soon as possible

Theflint1:
Igbo's are everywhere

Nowehere did I dispute this in my post

DissTroy:


When I was asking what Tinubu and Sanwo-Oli use the annual #760 billion IGR and almost #170 billion FAAC for to warrant the kind of borrowinh in trillions Lagos has in debt this January, they glossed over it.


With remote work and economic diversification in my own state happening, how many arguments in favour of residing full-time in Lagos are valid?

Are those the kind of people anyone should take seriously? Even one from Kogi, the most backward state in Nigeria, thought he had an opinion on Akwa Ibom which is centuries head of Kogi. [/b]

Bro, I understand you very very very well.
Like I said before, I schooled in Oron and have been to many places in akwa/cross - Oron, Eket, Ikot ekpene, okobo, Calabar etc and I know the basic language for greetings.
If I hadn’t married my wife, there is a 70% chance I would have ended up marrying from there.
The women are neat, homely, caring, knows how to cool - fisher man soup, afang, edikaiko etc
And tbh, aside Lagos, no South west city/town can measure with Uyo or Calabar… I mean NONE and I hate to say it.
I really hope our leaders can find a solution to it.
If I am to pick 3 cities to go and represent nigeria in City Exhibition in Africa or the world, I will never pick Lagos.
I will pick Uyo, Calabar and Abuja to go and represent us there abeg.
It won’t be funny when the inspectors come for inspection and start seeing shanties, unplanned city up and down and they will start shaking their heads that is this the best we can offer or show case?

Realmrsean:
bro, have you seen me rant like this since you ever know me on nairaland..

I blame myself and I'll continue blaming myself for giving myself hope that this election would be different..

I have never for one day, given any shiit about politics, politicians nor election in my life.. even me like this, I don't even blame politicians nor gorvenment for my own misfortunes.. I believe I am 💯 in charge or my life and myself..

You don't understand what this election did to first timers like me..

This is just like someone who gave his all in a relationship but still suffers heart break 💔..

I have never put my interest in any election or gorvenment or anything prior to this last event..

It's just like when you put your eggs 🥚 in one basket 🧺.. or when you use your last card to bet a game and the game cut..

This is what I just did... I used all my hope and put it in this election.. that's why this heartbreak is still paining me to the bone 🦴 marrow up to this moment..

What this does is to make people like me is to make us more tougher and more wicked..

You put all your hope in this election by voting for your candidate. Others put all their hope too by voting for their candidate.

Did you think everyone voted for your candidate?

Accept that Obi lost and move on instead of saying you will be wicked and all. Obi lost shouldn't be the reason why you should be wicked and all.

DissTroy:


Build yours first. Stop getting jealous. As it stands, if there's a secession, we are good. Heck! My own clan (not just LGA) has coked oil heads. We'd thrive. We have relatively better leadership already.
Have you heard of snake or monkey swallowing monies in Akwa Ibom?

You should be thankful we aren't as violent as some of our neighbouring relatives in clamouring for total resource control. But keep being tribalistic, we'd answer you when you push us long enough.

I already mentioned your brothers are in the NDDX, and Oil and Gas Free Zone Commissions created for us where they have no business without us complaining. Keep going with the tribal tirade and see what happens. I'm taking notes.

If you invest in what you don't need, you will sell it in the end.
In some years time, I won't be surprised to see you auctioning your stadium and airport.

I am not been tribal here believe me, if I was, I would have hammered on why it's difficult to invest on what develops human capital in your state, rather than investing in what will only benefit your politicians for their utilisation.

When you are ready to auction some of those your infrastructures, call Lagos state.

ToyinDipo:

If you invest in what you don't need, you will sell it in the end.
In some years time, I won't be surprised to see you auctioning your stadium and airport.

Clown. Ibom Air is a PPP and has overtaken Air Peace.

Ranks higher than Azman Air, Air Peace and a few other for quality of service 2022.

Our international stadium in Uyo has a 10-year maintenance plan paid in 2014 by Akpabio managed by Juilus Berger. Home to our NPFL-winning football team, Akwa United and Ibom Angels.
Home turf chosen by CAF for matches for our teams and clubs from other states. On lease for events.

Screw it! We built another one in Eket which is filled on match days with fans paying tickets (Vandresser FC) and events.

All our facilities are managed. Keep being jealous
What has your Oyo done? Just take and squander federal money with bad leaders.

When you are ready to auction some of those your infrastructures, call Lagos state.

Why not call Oyo where you are from? Lagos should first pay up its trillions in debts caused by Tinubu.

monerozi5590:


You put all your hope in this election by voting for your candidate. Others put all their hope too by voting for their candidate.

Did you think everyone voted for your candidate?

Accept that Obi lost and move on instead of saying you will be wicked and all. Obi lost shouldn't be the reason why you should be wicked and all.

you don't understand where my plights is eminating from.. and I don't beg you to understand

iamoyindamola:

Nigeria dan touch all of us

you guys own is even better, at least the damage Is less severe than first timers like me..

Mumu me..

I spent not less than 50k to travel home for this election..if I had died via accident, what would I tell myself in the grave 🪦?

That I went home to vote for election that would be thrown inside bush?

Never again in my life will I make this mistake again..

DissTroy:

Clown. Ibom Air is a PPP and has overtaken Air Peace.

Ranks higher than Azman Air, Air Peace and a few other for quality of service 2022.

Our intentional stadium has 10-year maintenance plan paid in 2014 by Akpabio managed by Juilus Berger. Home to our NPFL-winning football team, Akwa United and Ibom Angels.
Home turf chosen by CAF for matches for our teams and clubs from other states. On lease for events.

Screw it! We built another one in Eket which is filled on match days with fans paying tickets (Vandresser FC) and events.

All our facilities are managed. Keep being jealous
What has your Oyo done?


Why not call Oyo where you are from? Lagos should first pay up its trillions in debts caused by Tinubu.

What have you achieved with all you built.
With all those and your oil, our IGR dwarfs yours, lol.
We may be buying the stadium from you.

You are spending on what isn't remitting.

So GRV's family members sef no dey support am. Those ones know him better than us, outsiders? Why then should outsiders support him especially when he can't speak Yoruba fluently?

LP should have got a better candidate for that post.

Look at falz saying he didn't know one day Nigerians will focus on politics

Just look at what we got .. so shameful

https://twitter.com/instablog9ja/status/1631515789248327687?t=D296UCbm3pZ6Kr7gT_lz1A&s=19

ToyinDipo:

What have you achieved with all you built.
With all those and your oil, our IGR dwarfs yours, lol.
We may be buying the stadium from you.

You are spending on what isn't remitting.

Shut up! You are from Oyo. Defend your Oyo. You confessed so when you stated so when you called your brother in a 2019 argumenr.

Maybe because I have been claim and refused to bully you guys, you ran wild being tribalistic all over.

Our FAAC still acrues to us. Steady ~260 billion coming in and it shows. Better roads, better standards of living, better drainage, better bridges, better lightening, better power supply, only airline, only state-built international stadia. More.

Even my own LGA has more tarred unblemished roads than your state capital.

Let me catch any of you being tribalistic here again. I have refused doing this for years. You are an economic liability to Nigeria. You take and keep taking but add nothing to the federal purse.

Nothing!