It's either you are politically naive or you jobless and in urgent need of social security
[qupote author=enlightenedmind post=45044001]I have been thinking for a long time. Any well thinking Nigerian knows that our real problem in this country is the absence of leaders. I mean visionaries and patriots like Fashola. People who have a vision for their people. I saw this combination on Naira land. And i think i liked it.

RIBADU/IWEALA

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Obanikoro for CBN governor chai.

Power to Deceive people

The two are POLITICALLY inexperienced to succeed in our country presently. They may have great ideas on how to make our country work better but they need political COVERAGE to make the ideas work.
They are better off as VP, ministers, advisers whose opinions and input are LISTENED to by whoever has political experience and is the president.
To some extent this is what IBB referred to in saying that Jonathan was COMPETENT in running the country but he was not experienced (politically)

Asari for speaker

longayink:
@Administer,

You are most amateurish for not understanding that APC is more or less PDP by membership.

Methinks, no other Nigerian may be qualified enough to be your choice of Nigerian president unless a Hausa/Fulani.


@ By the way, OP, why Ribadu/Iwealla and not Iwealla/Ribadu?

Is Ribadu in any way more qualified than Iwealla?

Or you have swallowed the bitter pill that mediocrity must come before merit in choice of Nigeria's leaders? The same way you chose Buhari before others?

Or that you have swallowed the bitter pill that Hausa/Fulani is more of a Nigerian citizen than any person from the rest of Nigeria?

Yar'Adua ruled, then Buhari. How many times must a northerner govern you before another person from the south of Nigeria?

Funny. Last time I checked, of the 17 years of democracy we have had since 1999, Southerners have ruled for 13 years (OBJ-8, GEJ-5) while Northerners have only had 4 years (Yar Adua-3, PMB-1).

Sir Your List Is Incomplete And Biased. For Fairness Sake, Add The Underlisted:
Saraki For CBN Governor

Bode George For Petroleum Minister

M. Obanikoro For NSA

LRNZH:
Fayose for Senate President
Tompolo for Chief of Staff
Boyloaf for Minister of Defence
Nnamdi Kanu for Minister of Interior
Dasuki for Minister of Finance

P ower to D e P eople

mrvitalis:
NOI is a world Bank and IMF mole
I fact who ever has worked in the world Bank or IMF should not be allowed near power in Nigeria

Can you please state your reason?

@Op if this is a political kite, bring it down and burn it. This combination will never work. Not in the North or in the SW. El Rufai will wipe the floor with Ribadu in the North. OIL has too much baggage and has made too many enemies in her tenure with both OBJ and GEJ

Note: I voted Ribadu/Adeola several election moons ago.

Back to the drawing board.

I actually think PDP will lose again in 2019. I think they should be looking beyond 2019.

No.

The woman lacks the knowledge how a developing country can be a developed country.

What A Myopic combination, no offence, but this pairing is dead on arrival. Even the PDP power brokers, who are known for making wrong choices and candidate imposition, will laugh at this shallow political move.

Dream on.

M4gunners:
Can you please state your reason?

Simply put, Conflict of interests

it will be nice my dear

I stopped reading when I got to the part where you said Fashola is a visionary leader.

He is not...we will all find out soon enough, cause no visionary leader has policies that are all elitist.

I think pdp should look beyond 2019 honestly.... . Unless maybe PMB decides not to contest in 2019...he's popular in the north and they have the numbers... 2023 appears more feasible but the planning has to begin now.. .

2 failures! Good luck with that!

I will support them with all my heart.

Dis will be d biggest failure of all time

Lolz, dreams do come through, they're nice match to transform the country, if they are given the opportunity to prove themselves.

dabossman:


Funny. Last time I checked, of the 17 years of democracy we have had since 1999, Southerners have ruled for 13 years (OBJ-8, GEJ-5) while Northerners have only had 4 years (Yar Adua-3, PMB-1).

Southerners, we are a set of greedy pple... Imagine after ruling for 17yrz, we r still saying y is d North always ruling, d problem we have down south is we think we r smart, but we are not..... If d Northerners want power, they would have, they have more population than the SS n SE combined ND u know d SW is always divided bw d North n the other parts of d south, buh they tend to slightly favour the North more.. In 2011, d northerners vote massively for GEJ, n he won, buh in 2015, because they decided to shift tent due to Jonathans failure, the south begins to insult the North, they dnt want to support a northern president... We down south are d problem of this country, imagine us blowing up pipelines, destroying govt installations and bragging abt it, claiming ur fighting for the right of their pple, buh wen they blow up d pipelines, who suffers it??, is it not still their pple.... Abeg southerners need to get ourselves checked

Jonathan/Sheriff.

wondaful combination. maybe Ateke 4 Rivers state governor

Very disappointing Combo

Why not el-Rufai/Fashola 2019?

enlightenedmind:


Actually u dismiss d idea but the truth is it is people like tompolo, nnamdi kanu that will actually make good representation in politics.

Brainwashed man asking for a looter of our common wealth to be his leader!

saintmark88:


Southerners, we are a set of greedy pple... Imagine after ruling for 17yrz, we r still saying y is d North always ruling, d problem we have down south is we think we r smart, but we are not..... If d Northerners want power, they would have, they have more population than the SS n SE combined ND u know d SW is always divided bw d North n the other parts of d south, buh they tend to slightly favour the North more.. In 2011, d northerners vote massively for GEJ, n he won, buh in 2015, because they decided to shift tent due to Jonathans failure, the south begins to insult the North, they dnt want to support a northern president... We down south are d problem of this country, imagine us blowing up pipelines, destroying govt installations and bragging abt it, claiming ur fighting for the right of their pple, buh wen they blow up d pipelines, who suffers it??, is it not still their pple.... Abeg southerners need to get ourselves checked

The real problem is SS/SE regions who vote base on sentiment.

next

wristbangle:
The real problem is SS/SE regions who vote base on sentiment.

Did the north also not vote based on sentiment in 2015?

By Ugoji Egbujo Okonjo Iweala, the famed technocrat , has returned to the pulpit. The gospel of good governance, like that of Christ, is easily preached. Technocrats come into public service in Nigeria brandishing reputations and clutching unto self righteousness. Okonjo-Iweala But they often prove too sterile to affect the filth, and always leave as ineffectual as ordinary politicians. Okonjo Iweala came richly credentialed. Iweala was hardworking. She was one of our best ministers. But she is perhaps oblivious of the concept of collective responsibility. And she was gutless. She tamely supervised the squandering of national resources. She has sauntered out of the wreckage with the gaiety of a bride. She is now preaching her way to redemption. Grace abounds in Nigeria. The masses are too forgetful. Glory is milked for little achievements and hypocrisy is let loose to deflect blames for woeful failures. When Nigeria paid her debts and swelled her foreign reserves under Obasanjo, Iweala was exceptionally savvy. That was the impression. She concedes obliquely that Jonathan’s was an era of gross mismanagement but she won’t take any blames. She, the coordinator of the economy. They didn’t listen to her admonitions. And she stayed on coordinating! There was “zero political will to save”. She says it oozing the righteous indignation of a jilted seer proven right by disaster. It is supposed to be an exculpatory revelation. Obasanjo had managed to conjure some ‘political will’ . But with Jonathan? No, it wasn’t him, it wasn’t Okonjo Iweala either. It must have been the special breed of greedy governors that unlucky Jonathan inherited. They drained all the “political will”. But you would think Okonjo Iweala’s insights won’t be that simplistic. That she must be too stricken , too sober, to tell trite tales. Because the federal government got almost 50% of oil boom revenues and Okonjo Iweala was coordinating minister. That arm of government later resorted to borrowing to pay salaries. The bane of African politics isn’t academic insufficiency. No, good theories abound everywhere, even in Zimbabwe. Often it’s authoritarianism and gross inefficiency. But more often it is moral bankruptcy. It is immoral to be silent in the face of conspicuous evil. The political will to enthrone rectitude is where the snare lies. So when technocrats come with abundance of academic talk and sermons about global best practices they are no more than soulless mercenaries. They get the perks of office, the privileges of power and do not bother about practical freedom and concrete empowerment of the poor. They mouth capitalist ideas but treat democratic ethics with contempt. They will not stand against election rigging, they stay aloof, ready to serve whoever wins, however he wins. They will not fight corruption frontally, they pay lip service. “We are doing their best in the circumstance”. Their characters are tested when their principals begin to subjugate national interests to private considerations. Corruption and theft of public resources will be clothed with the garments of lofty policies provided by technocrats. Nepotism, they cannot resist. The poor will be harangued about the virtue of sacrifice in nation building while monies meant to fight insurgency walk into private pockets. Flimsy poverty alleviation programmes that fatten only politicians will be trumpeted. A multitude of workshops and seminars to pretend to intellectualism will be thrown around. Spurious data would be spawn to deny the grim reality of life on the streets. They will close their eyes to absurdities like Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) and join in mouthing gibberish like Transformation Agenda. They will wring their hands like Pilate. Yes, a finance minister will sign a memo that opens up the vault of the Central bank to the carting away of stacks of dollars to private homes, without compunction. Or was there? She sneaked in a dubious “my hand no dey inside” clause by reminding them of the need to render accounts. She retained her sainthood, lapped up international awards. They never get fed up, technocrats, never get angry. They always play along. Corrupt regimes love them. They lend them legitimacy. When in such governments they lose scrupulousness. Who would have thought that after the financial commonsense exhibited during the Obasanjo regime that prodigality would return with vengeance with Iweala on the saddle? Okonjo Iweala attributes our present woes to recalcitrant governors. Iweala’s second stint was a chronicle of wastefulness. Impunity institutionalized corruption and theft in public service. 350 million dollars Abacha stole came back to the country and was reported re-stolen under Iweala’s nose. Iweala had been in government long enough to know what happens during elections. Yet she crafted a memo seeking approval to ‘lend’ 350 million dollars to the NSA three weeks to the original date for national elections ostensibly for the procurement of arms. Since politicians disregarded her, why didn’t Okonjo Iweala resign? When the then CBN governor spoke about widespread looting , she was irritated. As irritated as she was when foreign journalists pestered her about Chibok girls. If Iweala had put the interest of the nation above the benefits of remaining a minister she would have easily resigned. She knew the country was clearly headed in the wrong direction . Her cowardice was even more baffling because she, apparently, did not need the job. Why are these technocrats never really patriotic beyond mouthing? “I have come to contribute my quota to national development?” And having failed pitiably as finance minister to do that which was most important , why is Okonjo Iweala not mourning? Why is truthful sober reflection , an ingredient of intellectualism , so lacking amongst our political technocrats? Why can’t Okonjo Iweala keep quiet if she isn’t ready to tell the whole truth yet? Okonjo Iweala, international civil servant, substantially immune to the troubles and potential fallouts of outspokenness at the highest levels. She was in Aba campaigning for the return of Jonathan and the same set of circumstances she now cleverly refers to as ‘zero political will’. She has been one of our best ministers. And that is why our politics has remained a study in sycophancy. Let the technocrats in Buhari’s government know that a president is not a deity. Their ultimate loyalty is to the nation. And sometimes the nation is best served by a principled noisy resignation.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-sin-cowardice/

Adminisher:


LOL
I am so very sorry for the amateurish thinking of young PDP supporters. They talk about vision yet don't have any because the mediocre Nigerian sysstem brought then up. Except for those in diaspora, I don't even like reading anything they write. The greatest weakness is that all they know about leadership is all that the sick system shoves in their faces as leadership qualities. This is why even these sick match ups will probably meet their approval. For the more k owledeagble and experienced, Ribadu does not have the intellect to be Nigerian president. He is young and he did a good job in EFCC and is name was in the newspapers a lot but that is it. Okonjo is experienced working in international financial institutions but that woman lacks ideological orientation to be an effective political keader. International civil service at the behest of global financial manipulators is not a qualification for political leadership. The US will never make the Head of the World Bank or Federal Reserve system it's president. We vote political leaders out of ideological orientation.

Is for both PDP/APC, supporters. We thought you could have added your list of great minds to lead Nigeria effectively.