*APC Socialism vs PDP Socialism*

Nigeria is a socialist state with two variant of it competing in the political space.


Many Nigerians ignorantly confuse Elite/Political class welfare socialist state practiced in Nigeria as capitalism. That is one of the greatest deceit in the country. Even though both masses/elite socialism exist in both APC and PDP system, APC model is relatively more skewed towards the masses

What do I mean by Elite/Political class Socialism?

Nigeria is a mono product economy with almost all the foreign currency earnings outside diaspora remittance coming from oil. It is this single resources everyone compete for with little added value.

PDP ran a rent seeking economy of the elite. Which in my definition is a welfare system. A system were state resources is shared among a few elite to consume and enjoy with less than commensurate value addition. We have observed these with many business AMCON have taken over.

These elite collect money from Bank, start up convenient business mostly in the consumption/service sector and live in luxury. They hardly go into the production sector the country really need to grow. They then end up not paying back the loan with clear demarcation between company debt and personal income. While alot of the money of the business have been diverted to their personal account to maintain thier lifestyle, the company is declared bankrupt and AMCON take over the debt by Taxpayers money. When this happen, the personal wealth aquired by these elites through this means remain with them. And they continue to live large in Luxury. Example of this is Silverbird ran by Maurice Bruce. Other examples are Arik Air, Skye bank etc. The CEOs of these bankrupt businesses at the time of bankruptcy are still living in luxury while all their debt is transferred to ordinary Nigerians through AMCON.

Another Elite/Political class welfare system is grand corruption through awarded contract paid for but never implemented. Under PDP, the politicians distribute Nigeria resources among themselves in the form of contract award without any intention of actual implementation of the contract. They collect the money for the contract and share it among themselves as their social welfare or food stamps to maintain thier luxury life style. Inflated contract still exist even under this APC government. But grand corruption in the form of collecting money of an already inflated contract without using it for the project is very minimal now atleast at federal level. At state level APC and PDP are the same. No difference. Those who defend this system defend it by saying it was a fair system by geopolitical zones since the sharing was going round among the elites of all ethnic and religious group. As a result it was just.


Buhari masses base socialism can be fully seen in the amount being invested in social investment programs like School feeding, N power, Trader Money, Market money etc. We can see the elite complain it is a waste of money. You see them shout that it is unsustainable and that the money could have be used to solve power, build road etc. When you ask them why the $16billion invested in power shared by the elite didn't bring the 24hours power they become dumbfounded. When you ask them why was the road not build in the past when the poor masses were not getting crumbs directly from government? They remain speechless. The truth is that we can grow power and other sector while still giving the masses some form of lifeline or support.

Another aspect of Buhari masses base socialism is the aspect of attention being given to rail transportation and ensuring a good portion of money release for infrastructure is actually utilised instead of the common practice in the past of outright stealing most part of the money. Rail transportation is targeted at the masses and farmers. The elite tend not to show so much appreciation to rail way system because it is not thier preferred choice of transportation. They will rather prefer a system where a few are able to buy private Jet while the majority of the country languish in poverty.

The hypocrisy of the elite who believe Nigeria resources belong to only them. They complain of tradermoni which is just 10,000 naira to 2million traders. That is just a total of 20bn naira. The same people defend Dasuki who shared $2.1billion (Over 720bn naira) to political jobbers among the elite. The money Dasuki squandered will take care of trader money for 35years!. The same people who complain of 20bn naira for petty trader don't complain with the same passion when National assembly of less than 500 persons budget 150bn for themselves. The truth is that, the money used for social intervention is relatively small when we consider the amount being looted and diverted by political elite of both APC and PDP in this country.

*THE WAY FORWARD. MY VIEW*

I believe production target capitalism as done in South Korea is the best for Nigeria as long as every region feel well carried along. I don't believe there is good future for Nigeria with either elite base socialism by PDP or masses base socialism by APC because we are too poor to practice resource sharing instead of resource accumulation. But I consider masses base socialism as a lesser evil to elite base socialism.

Among the social investment programs the one I will recommend that it should be sustained and improved upon is school feeding because it will help improve school enrolment and interest of the poorest of the poor to study. Almajiri system in the North should be scraped. It should be replaced with western education in addition to Koranic and Arabic study. With School feeding, the street begging of Almajiris should reduce drastically.

Nigeria is a country with huge population of the poor and extreme poor. For this country to grow, we must target the economic growth of this demography. The secret of the progress of this country is in elavating these class of people through productive means. If well harness, these are source of cheap labour that can be tapped into to grow this country into an industrial hub. The easiest solution to rapid economic growth in Nigeria is to target agriculture in full scale from crop farming to processing. This we can do by giving interest free loan to agriculture processing start up with agric processing machineries and equipment enjoying zero tariffs.

In addition put a very high Tariff on all luxury goods and goods with local alternative while putting low or zero tariffs on necessities we can't produce locally. For example put zero or low tariffs on Trucks/trailers/tankers while putting high Tariffs on brand new SUV and imported cars less than 5 years old. Low end fairly used cars can attract little tariffs.

life2017:
Nigeria is a socialist state with two variant of it competing on Feb 16th.

APC/Buhari/Osibanjo masses welfare socialist state

VS

PDP/Atiku/Obi Elite/Political class welfare socialist state.

Many Nigerians ignorantly confuse Elite/Political class welfare socialist state practiced in Nigeria as capitalism. That is one of the greatest deceit in the country.

What do I mean by PDP Elite/Political class Socialism?

A Nigeria is a mono product economy with almost all the foreign currency earnings outside diaspora remittance coming from oil. It is this single resources everyone compete for with little added value.

PDP run a rent seeking economy of the elite. Which in my definition is a welfare system. A system were state resources is shared among a few elite to consume and enjoy with less than commensurate value addition. We have observed these with many business AMCON have taken over. These elite collect money from Bank, start up convenient business mostly in the consumption/service sector and live in luxury. They then end up not paying back the loan with clear demarcation between company debt and personal debt. While alot of the money of the business have been diverted to their personal account to maintain thier lifestyle, the company is declared bankrupt and AMCON take over debt by Taxpayers money. When this happen, the personal wealth aquired by these elites through this means remain with them. And they continue to live large. Example of this is Silverbird ran by Maurice Bruce.

Not healthy to debate with zombies all I just néed to do is send thunder to them. Useless post

mankand:


Not healthy to debate with zombies all I just néed to do is send thunder to them. Useless post

You should come with a counter argument instead of this tantrum

Dead mugu like you. Like I said it's unhealthy to debate with zombies. You don't even understand what socialism means else you won't come up with this trash.

I wonder since when Nigeria became a socialist state both under Pdp and Apc.

No difference under Pdp and Apc regime the only slight difference is that Nigerians are now more aware they are on a collision course in auto-pilot.

We still produce nothing and import virtually everything including the rice your god claimed we produce.

Have you forgot how Funtua Buhari friend navigated Amcon controlled by his son-in-law to acquire a bank and a telecommunications company?

Like I said this regime isn't different from Pdp, they are only handling the national resources to their new friends.

There is nothing that the masses enjoy starting from infrastructure which are luxury and they have to pay hard to get it, health care is zero, education is zero

So I'm still wondering how stupid someone will be to write up this trash for some people you don't benefit from except for peanuts.

Why not let the people you are fighting for have their kids defend their fathers?

mankand:
Dead mugu like you. Like I said it's unhealthy to debate with zombies. You don't even understand what socialism means else you won't come up with this trash.

I wonder since when Nigeria became a socialist state both under Pdp and Apc.

No difference under Pdp and Apc regime the only slight difference is that Nigerians are now more aware they are on a collision course in auto-pilot.

We still produce nothing and import virtually everything including the rice your god claimed we produce.

Have you forgot how Funtua Buhari friend navigated Amcon controlled by his son-in-law to acquire a bank and a telecommunications company?

Like I said this regime isn't different from Pdp, they are only handling the national resources to their new friends.

There is nothing that the masses enjoy starting from infrastructure which are luxury and they have to pay hard to get it, health care is zero, education is zero

So I'm still wondering how stupid someone will be to write up this trash for some people you don't benefit from except for peanuts.

Why not let the people you are fighting for have their kids defend their fathers?

There is a difference.
There is some effort to direct some of the resources directly to the masses in the form of school feeding, conditional cash transfer, N power, trader money etc instead of the usual political class base trickle down policy of PDP

life2017:


There is a difference.
There is some effort to direct some of the resources directly to the masses in the form of school feeding, conditional cash transfer, N power, trader money etc instead of the usual political class base trickle down policy of PDP

What nonsense school feeding are you talking about? I see you don't live in Nigeria, N power project isn't different from the sure p project Jonathan regime initiated and I say that with fact cuz I employed 2 sure p project candidates at my place of work. As for the trader moni what is 10,000 which you see as an empowerment to petty traders? What can they do with 10000?

It is clear you have no consciousness left in you cuz you are a Zombie

Last night, fueled my car with 2,000, bought pork meat 2, 000 joined my friends at the bar and we spent like 8k.

All we spent under 3 hours was 12k and you are rejoicing that someone is giving out 10k as an empowerment? Less than $30

What a shame

mankand:


What nonsense school feeding are you talking about? I see you don't live in Nigeria, N power project isn't different from the sure p project Jonathan regime initiated and I say that with fact cuz I employed 2 sure p project candidates at my place of work. As for the trader moni what is 10,000 which you see as an empowerment to petty traders? What can they do with 10000?

It is clear you have no consciousness left in you cuz you are a Zombie

You cant compare N Power which is transparent to sure P which selection process was not transparent.

How many people benefitted in sure P? Can u give the number?

On school feeding, an elite like you cannot understand the importance.

Public school today is dominated by the poorest of the poor. Many poor people still have cheap private school they attend.it is the poorest of the poor that attend public school who benefit from the school feeding. This class of people can't guarantee one meal a day from their parents. They are the one who can appreciate the school feeding irrespective of the quality of food today which can be improved upon with time. The school feeding is helping to increase school enrolment among the poorest of the poor.

life2017:


You cant compare N Power which is transparent to sure P which selection process was not transparent.

How many people benefitted in sure P? Can u give the number?

On school feeding, an elite like you cannot understand the importance.

Public school today is dominated by the poorest of the poor. Many poor people still have cheap private school they attend.it is the poorest of the poor that attend public school who benefit from the school feeding. This class of people can't guarantee one meal a day from their parents. They are the one who can appreciate the school feeding irrespective of the quality of food today which can be improved upon with time. The school feeding is helping to increase school enrolment among the poorest of the poor.

Chai it will never be well with someone who turned you to a Zombie. Sure p project was transparent, I am a beneficiary because I recruited 2 sure p candidates in my firm

As for the schoolffeeding programme, can you tell me about the quality of the food been fed to the poor innocent souls

mankand:


Chai it will never be well with someone who turned you to a Zombie. Sure p project was transparent, I am a beneficiary because I recruited 2 sure p candidates in my firm

As for the schoolffeeding programme, can you tell me about the quality of the food been fed to the poor innocent souls

I just said that in my post. The quality of the food don't need to meet the standard of an elite like u for it to be useful to the poorest of the poor.

The quality can only improve with time. What is important is the idea behind the programme.

life2017:


I just said that in my post. The quality of the food don't need to meet the standard of an elite like u for it to be useful to the poorest of the poor.

The quality can only improve with time. What is important is the idea behind the programme.

Which is better, to feed the school children or invest more in the educational system to produce future leaders?

That is my main question about the school feeding program

Left to me I still prefer APC masses socialist group to the PDP elite group which Atikulooter the Cameroonian is ready to go back. No going back to the evil days!!!

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mankand:


Which is better, to feed the school children or invest more in the educational system to produce future leaders?

That is my main question about the school feeding program

You have started with the same argument that has been proven to be invalid. Before school feeding, what has improved in our educational sector since 1999? Trash this elitist argument.

You can do school feeding and develop education.

life2017:


You have started with the same argument that has been proven to be invalid. Before school feeding, what has improved in our educational sector since 1999? Trash this elitist argument.

You can do school feeding and develop education.

What those children need is conducive environment for learning, improving the standard of living of their teachers and not N35 daily food

What PDP Prefers

This is complex and only for smart minds to digest.

More ink to your pen @ op

A huge trash of a senseless write up.
a buhari that took a bag of rice from 8500 naira to 17 000 naira and a derica of beans from 130 naira to 260 naira,a litre of fuel from 97 naira to 145 naira is practising masses socialism right?
is like your brain is paining you or u read corridor technology in school.
but wait ooo do u think the rest of us are stupid,ignorant and agberolike brains like those miscreants in mushin,alimosho,oshodi,isale eko and bariga who form ur ignorant followers?