lucianohase:
Though I support Gej and will vote for him,but I still wish that he reads this article and digest it,with a mind free of sentiment, for the good of nigeria and for his own good as a leader who wants to be re-elected. I don't care about the Prof's motives of writing this but I care about the veracity of some of the contents of this piece. Its only a wise man that reads through his documented plans severally to know whether there are errors or vague plans,with the intention of making corrections or making it clearer. And most times to do this,the wise man samples oppinions and listens to constructive critiscisms which usually are bitter and annoying.

Chigold101:
Soluda has once again proven that he is a weak man. A man i so much loved but his unforgiven spirit is second to none.

Soludo is writing like this against GEJ because GEJ is the reason why he lost Anambra election in 2010(I worked as member of his campaign team).

In 2013 he joined APGA and was talked about how to continue with Obi‘s good work as governor of Anambra state but Obi who already had Obiano in mind used style to push Soludo aside...

He joined Atiku‘s camp in 2011 thinking that GEJ will lose at the PDP primaries, but their camp was disgraced. Now he has come here to cause confusion in the polity because all he wants is to see GEJ disgraced, but it will not work for him in Jesus name.

This is how his unforgiven spirit made him to make sure that Dora Akunyiri (his wife‘s aunty. Dora is the younger sister to the wife‘s mother) never win Anambra central senatoral sit. He took it upon himself to make sure that Ngige is decleard the winner even when there was a little confusion in few constituencie. All because Dora through GEJ & Abuja PDP helped Peter Obi defeat him in 2010.

As an insider who knows the fight going on between Soludo, GEJ & Obi am not suprised at all with the this piece. It has some elements of truth but it is coated with many sweet lies.

He took sabatical after Peter Obi messed him up in 2013 prior to Anambra state guber election. Which sabatical? He went in to leak his wounds...

He thinks he has seen where to nail GEJ.

CCsurplus007:
Now this is what I have been telling my friends, tell us what you want to do and how you intend doing it not some public charade of lies and deception. When we have thousands of intellectuals to choose from, I wonder what we should still be doing with someone still arguing about his secondary school certificate. May God deliver Nigeria

But prof, someone reading this piece would imagine we were living in El-Dorado during obj's tenure. One would have assumed OBJ was pope john paul or the messiah.why was the railway not working during your tenure? despite the huge sums injected into the power sector yet phcn failed. Why wasnt any of our university among the best 200 then? rather Obj built personal libraries and universities to his name. All federal Government projects in the east was stopped or frustrated.what of the monopolistic approach of Obj when only Dangote was allowed to import anything and frustrated other peoples businesses that were opposed to him.since the agricultural sector was better during obj's tenure why dint it add to our foreign reserves and massive corruption in that sector was still rife. what about the haliburton and other numerous scandals. Soludo did not tell us that increasing workers salary then affected our recurrent expenditure now.

The thing is anybody can come and reel out figures as if it were paradise during thier own era. This is a nice presentation but not without some personal bias I still think both parties can learn a lot from this if they objectively look at the salient points raised.

zoomzoom:



GBAM..I couldn't have captured it better myself.."TRUTH AS TOLD BY A BITTER MAN".
He wants NGOZI's job,angry with OBI and believes GEJ hasn't treated him fairly.
Overall,there are some truths in his write-up..but definitely not the part about OBJ & IBB.
I still recommend a read by GEJ.
#GEJTILL2019.

zoomzoom:



GBAM..I couldn't have captured it better myself.."TRUTH AS TOLD BY A BITTER MAN".
He wants NGOZI's job,angry with OBI and believes GEJ hasn't treated him fairly.
Overall,there are some truths in his write-up..but definitely not the part about OBJ & IBB.
I still recommend a read by GEJ.
#GEJTILL2019.

Immune1:
Not claiming to be an economist;but what i know for sure is that PLENTY MONEY IN THE BANK DOESN'T TRANSLATE TO BEING WEALTHY!!!

The pace of infrastructural development in Nigeria during GEJ'S tenure is highly remarkable and naturally it will take time for one to quantify the gains or start seeing the ripple effect of investing in infrastructure.

SOLUDO A DISSAPOINTMENT......JUST TOLD ONE SIDE OF THE STORY TO VALIDATE THE 'ASSUMED SUCCESS' OF HIS TENURE. I wont be surprised if this is a grand pitch for a position in Buhari's cabinet should in case he wins......Nigerians have grown wiser.....go and lick your wounds and leave GEJ alone!!!!

Oduduwaboy:

After reading that piece , you can still make this conclusion? Na wa o!
Let Buhari try his hands for 4 years ...if he fumbles then we can replace him .But GEJ is hopeless & must go!

Luchitec:
No doubt, Prof. Soludo raised some valid points about the state of affairs in the country. However, Soludo's denigration of Peter Obi for leaving funds in Anambra State coffers while at the same time praising OBJ's regime for accumulating a huge external reserve highlights his doublespeak and pettiness. Moreover, if stuffs that transpired in the banking sector during Sanusi's tenure at CBN are put into consideration, then Soludo is actually overrating himself as an economic guru.

EmoBoy:
Did I just read Mr Soludo praising Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida for their so called economic achievements and solid foundation? The same OBJ and IBB that Nigerians were tired of and chased out of office? Anybody who call's Obasanjo's eight year rule something worthy of praise is an ídiot! I didn't witness IBB's rule but judging from what Nigerians think of IBB, then I can same of him.

Obasanjo was president for good eight years; the only positive thing he can boast of was paying our debts and saving money for us. Our transportation network was in shambles, education was a mess, and everything was a big mess during Obasanjo's regime.

Obasanjo never laid any foundation for anything worthwhile. Obasanjo wasted critical years of our national life! Compare us with other countries from 1999 to 2007 with similar resources with ours and you'll see my point.
Statistics never paint the true picture of events and situations some countries like Nigeria face. Every president has good statistics to back-up their bullshit. Goodluck and his team of economists will reel out positive statistics their administration can boast of. Even IBB and Abacha can do the same.

Honestly, what I find disturbing is our inability to make valid judgment and opinions from our collective history.
I'm not a GEJ or PDP supporter. Buhari or APC is not what we need, neither is the PDP. None of the current political parties have what it takes to change this country for the better.

I was telling a friend that Nigeria does not have a "well performing" governor; we have not had one for the past 16 years - None that I'm aware of. He tried to mention Fashola, Akpabio and the rest we normally call "performing".
We tend to call these people performing because we're like slaves. We've had so much suffering that we'll accept street lights and traffic lights as tremendous positive change.

In a country like Nigeria that needs rapid investment in critical social infrastructure and strong sustainable institutions, the crop of leaders we've had at all levels are useless. From the presidency to the local government chairmen - all of them from a - z!
Simple things that will facilitate the growth of businesses and the economy that other smaller nations can boast of, we don’t have.
No proper steel manufacturing companies – its 28 years now since Ajaokuta was developed and destroyed by successive military dictators (Buhari inclusive). Please Nairalanders tell me, how do expect to drive manufacturing without having reliable steel producers?
No electricity – How will businesses survive without constant power?
No good proper identity management system – Nigerians underestimate the lack of a proper identity management system on the economy. It basically means there’s no trust in the financial system, you can’t borrow money without collateral. We don’t know our citizens, anybody can sign an affidavit for 200 naira in a local Nigerian and claim to be Nigerian, collect a passport and national ID card and also a voter’s card.
No proper addressing system; Businesses can’t deliver or ship customer orders without efficiently.
No proper education: In a country where a vast majority of the youths are ignorant of critical knowledge necessary for growth and development, how will businesses survive?

I can go on and on but the fact remains that we don’t a single good leader who understands what this country needs and it’s painful. It pains me every single day.

Nigeria is a perfect example of a disorganized country!

ogene007:

What is Buhari's economic blueprint or is it a case of 'when we get there, we will know what to do'. Please, provide us with what policy direction APC intends to pursue, other than to come and reverse all the privitization that has been done and return us to status quo. Where will APC get the funding for all the bogus promises they are making all over the place. Let us not forget the Tinubu and Amaechi were two key individuals who vehemently kicked against any form of savings from the oil boom era, first, Tinubu went to court over the excess crude account set up by OBJ, and go the supreme court to declare it illegal, secondly, Amaechi under the governors forum, opposed the sovereign wealth fund that GEJ set up, they wanted GEJ to bring all the monies and share between the FG and state governments. Coming to the budget, how many times has the national assembly increased the crude oil benchmark for the yearly budgets? They always increase it to ensure that less is available for savings. That there hasn't been meaningful savings throughout the period of the oil boom, has not been for want of trying by GEJ and his economic team, rather, it has happened due to the collective greed of the likes of Tinubu, Amaechi and other key members of the opposition, who today have become the self appointed apostles of 'change', who is deceiving who? Where we fault Soludo in his analysis is that he failed to state clearly that the oil boom money was shared by the three levels of government.

Boss13:


An even bigger problem. It will be worst with Jonathan and bad with Buhari. They all have to build shields from public outcry.

Bad for Buhari because he probably might reduce corruption and unnecessary government expenditure, both he might have no clue on how to kick start an economic revolution to will put more people back to work. Plus he probably might end boko haram and this economically will cost more money.

Worst for Jonathan because - we have to expect the same thing over all again and even worst because 2nd term is to saving for future retirement (him and his cabinet). Plus boko haram might spread to the south.

Tosman12:

can i give u 1million likes? sometimes i wonder were some youth drawl reasoning from. don't take side just reason with what he is saying...weigh it and say whether its true or false.
i know soludo is brilliant but i never imagine he is this insightful. [b]some of us working class understand how strenuous [/b]it is to survive, some of this kids that say GEJ 2019 dont understand the damage his administration is doing or will do even if the opposition wins and could not present a master plan to get us out of this mess.

First Corruption needs to be battle to save guard whats left which this administration will never or not ready to tackle. thereafter a real plan need to be in place to get us back on track but seriously this country needs change but not with Jonathan cos he aint ready to change that Game even if he wins

Eluwilussit:


Do you really believe this trash you wrote? Will Buhari comprehend any of the issues Soludo raised? We all know that Jonathan didn't meet out expectations, but that doesn't mean that Buhari is the man for the job. Where will Buhari get the know-how to manage our economy? What has Buhari achieved without quota system to suggest that he's the man for the job?

Hypocrites. If all Soludo said is true, why are we not clamouring for people like that, instead of a 72 year old egg-head? What did Buhari achieve in the past 29 years to suggest that he understands the Nigerian economy? You think governance is only anti-corruption?

People with the ability to perform abound in Nigeria, no doubt but will they get the chance? Some idiots are here shouting "sai Buhari" all over the net. Why can't APC give us something different from what PDP has to offer? All we hear is change everywhere. As long as I am concerned, it is only change from PDP to APC. Not change in government policies. That's not change.

We need some people who understand the signs of the time. Please, stop insulting Nigerians by mentioning Buhari when serious issues are being discussed. It is obvious that Nigerians are not ready to move forward, with the type of choices we make.

Sai Nobody!

deletrue:
Soludo, the degree of your madness in your brain regions is such that no one can described. Was it not in your presnce when Thief Ibori and his click including yourself took total and complete control of the Central bank of Nigeria such that Nigerian were made to suffer when worker's salaries including the most popular oil companies were not paid? When Ibori and your click abi your likes took over the control of monies in circular so much so that at the end of every month, we were made to wait for not less than five to a week to earn a quarter salary? When where I was working could not pay salary not because the company was broke but because the Iboris withheld and keep to themselve and their business entities the salaries across the country. Because Thief Ibori, your best friend is jailed today, you are here talikng like a barbarian and like those professors in the west whose brain regions are faulty. Stupid like you:If GEJ is not been pulled down because he is from monority, is there any leader who is damn better than him.
Look at Buhari who picked his VP from the west, thus openly telling the other regions, especially the south south that their oil can be taking away and nothing will happen. Is not as if GEJ worth nothing, it did not occur to you that the region of GEJ should be allowed the two terms. Since GEJ took over, the man has not known peace, there is boko haram, four governors decamped from his party, threats like formation of parallel government so and so forth. Is there any oppression that is worst than that? Even if Okorocha is considered, it would have been better.
The frank truth is that we are waiting, let Buhari take over, then hell must fall because this is a clear oppression. Silly you

kmariko:
A classic tale of economists measuring who have/ had a bigger manhood on their handling of there respective assignments.
In these economic tales, the greatest football match is the one they captained though neither came home with the crown.

If Obasanjo government was so good why are we still in this economic mess...non existence manufacturing index,low productivity, non existent technological index, infrastructure deficit etc. You cannot get something from nothing. Relying on crude oil as the only source of economic analysis belies the paucity of our collective intellect.

Soludo thanks for exposing our "intellectual elite" for what they truly are outside the confines of appointment

Obi won and Obiano got "appointed" is the reality. Deal with it and move on. Let it go

jpphilips:


The bold part of your post makes all the difference, most of the PDP trolls here are jobless students who know next to nothing how their school fees come around.
I don't even have answers yet to the increment my workers union is proposing due to this m@ss and this kids will be talking nonsense here everyday. I think that when mass retrenchment will ensue, most parents who bred these online charlatans will send them a strong message.

BlackTechnology:


To believe that a man who can't use an annual pension of 300million naira to transform Daura can bring about national change is the height of economic illiteracy


Buhari has nothing to offer.

hermesprogidy:
If there is anything this election has exposed, its the high level of ignorance and the total failure of our educational system. Even after someone presents hard facts, people will still ignore the facts and attack the person. Sometimes I wonder if it's lack of comprehension, or just simple annoyance at your effrontery to task their chicken brains.

Caseless:
show us the evidence that gej actually shared the money to the governors. Is there no difference between ECA and foreign reserve? What was in our foreign reserve b4 gej came on board and what do we have in there right now despite the oil boom? The point the governors made on ECA then was that; since the money was being saved for d rainy days, but the money kept depleting at every meeting ; i.e each time there was a govnor forum's meeting, for example, if they left the meeting with the knowledge of a certain amount in ECA, say $10billion, they come back to the next meeting realising that d money had dropped to say $10billion and, the trend continued. So this was why they decided that since the money is dropping and no one was telling them where the money was going to, it was better they shared the money and this(sharing) never happened. And what gej did to weaken their agitation was to decimate the NGF. Let's face facts, gej has destroyed our economy.

XKZ:


Is a private firm/importer a government monopoly, Yes or No?
When a private firm has a monopoly on the importation of a particular good, it does not place any restriction on the volume/value of imports it brings in as long as it believes there is adequate demand since it's main aim is to make profit.

jpphilips:


How do governments create monopolies?

(A) By going to china themselves to purchase and have a bill of laden tagged Consignee: "The Nigerian Govt"

OR

(B) Limit the number of Govt approved importers, which is the right answer?

A or B?

XKZ:


NEPA was a monopoly, Nitel was a monopoly, NNPC is a monopoly. Which option do these firms fall under?
Until a few years NNPC was the sole importer of petroleum products.
When you have "Govt approved importers" that is not a monopoly seeing that importers is plural.

jpphilips:


what has NEPA got to do with FOREX?
Is NEPA and NNPC now imported into the country?
The answer to the question lies only with A or B since you are scared of Yes or No?
Even simplifying to Objectives you are still confused, I know someone who may be in the same Academic league with you, He equally attended a roofless class, I will oblige you a referral. Nothing personal just have sleep to attend to.

DrDre1:
Sentiments aside, this is a nice piece from Prof. Soludo. Whatever issues he has with Jonathan, Obi and the rest of them shouldn't be used to wave off the important points he raised. When Nigerians start to get a glimpse of the dark economic days the reign of Jonathan has plunged us into, then they will begin to see the havoc he has wrecked. He had everything in his possession to turn around the fortunes of Nigeria but he squandered it. I pointed out to anyone who cared to listen back then not to vote for him cos if he couldn't prove himself in the first two years, he surely won't ever. The same thing is happening all over again now after putting the country in deeper mess than he met it...and nobody should tell me he brought trains back from wherever.

SmartChoices:


Unused brain