This is not where we ought to be, says Ladoja

Besides, I don’t even think people in the North are also even enjoying, I don’t pray to be in the North at this time when children are not safe in schools.

If I feel I have no chance of being a president, if I want to be because my people don’t have the population and there is going to be a North versus South contest, then let the North be taking care of itself and the South also taking care of itself.

What is your take about zoning that has divided politicians from south and north?Many people don’t know zoning was introduced by political parties as a means of winning elections.

People were not talking like this in the days of Umar Yar’Adua who was also from the same state as President Muhammadu Buhari.

Who is going to invest in the country when you can bring $1m today and get N500m and in a month’s time, you will need N600m to buy $1m? We can’t say this of today’s Nigeria and this is not giving us respect as citizens.

I saw a video of the Akwa Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel talking about how 18 people in military uniforms were arrested with 18 AK-47 and were handed over to the police, only for the people to release the suspects because of orders from above.

But we still need to cultivate the land and if you don’t, you won’t eat.

But I don’t think the Hausa man in the North is better than the Yoruba man in the North.

It is not just a question of ‘I am in power.’ The federal character principles are in the Constitution, but is the government of the day observing them? All the social unrests in the forms of ASUU strike, doctors’ strike and more are all related to the declining value of the naira.

Benue State governor, I think, said people should arm themselves because he has been shouting for years now and nobody is listening to him.

Of recent, they said part of the $4b they want to borrow is to fund the construction of railway lines from Kano to Niger Republic and people put forward an economic argument.

Some concerned Nigerians have launched a ‘Third Force’ tagged, Rescue Nigeria Project (RNP), do you see the initiative displacing PDP and APC?You know that when I left PDP, I did not go to join ACN.

We have some people from the South who are also going to be saying they want the presidency.

As far as I am concerned, with due respect to him, they call him Doctor something, if he is an academic doctor, he won’t be talking that way.

I am not even sure whether it is the President that is doing these things because I am sure he can’t be doing them.

I don’t think he knows what he is saying and should not be dignified with any response.

I don’t think we should be spending so much on governance.

A few days ago, the Governor of Katsina State, which is the state of the President, said they were going to employ vigilantes for security.

I don’t believe Buhari will sit down and allow the country to drift as it is doing at the moment.

I don’t think they are bandits; they are terrorists.

It is a question of ‘is it fair?’ What is happening now is not fair.

You remember he was in APC and was not in support of how the Federal Government was handling the security of his people and joined another party.

Of course, I don’t see any difference between the two parties anyway.

There are hordes of people migrating southwards, particularly from the minority ethnic groups in the North because they feel insured here.

So, when people are saying food is expensive, of course, it will be expensive because too much money is chasing too few goods.

There is nobody who will campaign that he will do X, Y, Z and he gets there and won’t be able to do anything and he will be happy.

So, I don’t know whether that Rescue Nigeria Project is enough to salvage Nigeria.

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) spokesperson, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, said the North would not play the second fiddle in the 2023 presidential election, arguing that north has the numbers to determine who becomes the next president of the country.

I went to look for Accord because I did not and still don’t see the difference between APC and PDP.

It is for reasons best known to the authorities today, they say they want to build a pipeline from the Niger oil field to Daura where they want to put another refinery, forgetting that there is a refinery in Kaduna that is not working.

If the farmers can’t go to their farms, will the crops grow themselves? Will these people want power? So, some people are trying to belong because they think they have protection there.

There is fear in everybody’s mind.

Shouldn’t charity begin at home? They can’t even live in their own communities because of fear of being attacked.

It should not be where the person who is going to be president comes from, but a question of whether the person is competent.

It is sad and I don’t even see light at the end of the tunnel.

It is not a situation now that people say all the development must be concentrated in the North because the North is backward.

There is so much distrust between various ethnic groups, particularly between the people of the South and Northerners.

Or, maybe, it was because Yar’Adua was not a soldier.

My belief is that some people might be printing the naira.

As I said elsewhere, the Southern leaders are talking and are just talking about leaving the country.

How can we spend much money to fund people that are not up to 500? Maybe this is why people are even suspecting that the population of the North has been inflated.

This is one of the reasons people are asking for the break-up of the country.

People say it is south versus north.

It is a known fact that Nigeria is heading towards famine, Benue used to be our food basket, but they are no longer going to farms because of the herders who are occupying their farmlands.

Even here in the South, people are afraid to go to their farms because they can be murdered or kidnapped.

By the time the cost of printing N1,000 is higher than the value, maybe they will stop the printing of naira.

Instead of us facing the problems we have together, they are telling us about 2023, that they want to continue to stay in power.

In fact, politicians in Nigeria are very funny people..

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