Maisuya1:
No it's not.
Take for instance d scarcity in d downstream, this is corruption fighting back. For a fact I know some powerful independent marketers who lift from government depots through the majors and sell at black market rate or move it across boarder. If government insist they sell at official rate they shut operations and create artificial scarcity. I am not talking of those Mickey Mouse marketers with one or two stations buying 5 to 9 trucks on Tarmacs, am talking of the major independents with station spreads as large as the majors (total, Mobil) lifting millions of litters from government depots as independents and through the majors as cash and carry. These guys have the resources to create ripples in d system.

plaetton:


Very very silly, very very dishonest, and very very poor attempt to defend the indefensible.

Business 101.
Fuel marketers are business people who make a profit when they sell their products.
Common sense( which appears to be not so common after all) dictates that the more they stay open to sell their products freely and smoothly, the more money and profit they make.
Not so ?

It be moronic for major fuel marketers to cause disruptions in their businesses because they want to ......
Marketers don't make money, no predictable revenues when they lock up their stations and pretend not to have what they should be selling to make money.

Call a spade a spade.
The government has goofed big time.

Stations are charging higher for the product simply because the demand outstrips what is available by a ratio of 100 to 1.

There is real scarcity, not artificial scarcity.

eyeview:
The man contested against Obj(2003), Yaradua(2007) and GEJ(2011) and lost all. Why are people trying to compre him to GEJ alone?
People who voted him in 2015 did so on various sentimental reasons. No rational thinking adult with knowledge of history voted a man who in less than one year of toppling a democratic govt in 1983 ruined the nation to a point where nigerians had to queue to receive cups of salt,sugar,garri,rice and other 'essential commodities'. The man has that uncanny ability to turn any thriving economy to a failed economy in the very shortest period.
I can bet you that most people who voted him had no knowledge of history. Most elders avoided and warned them but they preferred to be blinded by tribal and religious sentiments.
Op,Buhari lost in 03,07,011 and won in 2015 because those who knew his history had gotten older,weaker or late over these years and some kids who didn't know their left from their right came of voting age. Check it

eyeview:
The man contested against Obj(2003), Yaradua(2007) and GEJ(2011) and lost all. Why are people trying to compre him to GEJ alone?
People who voted him in 2015 did so on various sentimental reasons. No rational thinking adult with knowledge of history voted a man who in less than one year of toppling a democratic govt in 1983 ruined the nation to a point where nigerians had to queue to receive cups of salt,sugar,garri,rice and other 'essential commodities'. The man has that uncanny ability to turn any thriving economy to a failed economy in the very shortest period.
I can bet you that most people who voted him had no knowledge of history. Most elders avoided and warned them but they preferred to be blinded by tribal and religious sentiments.
Op,Buhari lost in 03,07,011 and won in 2015 because those who knew his history had gotten older,weaker or late over these years and some kids who didn't know their left from their right came of voting age. Check it

plaetton:

Lol.
I guess you're not mature enough to understand that politics and elections are about PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT more than anything else.
Voters are like the plebeians. They are unthinking in facts. They prefer short chewable soundbytes, the type that Tinubu and the Western Axis media fed them.

With regards to politicking and PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT, GEJ was monumentally clueless.

Without Tinubu, the Western Axis media, and their socially engineering( a fancy word for brainwashing) Western Axis voters, Nigerians would have overwhelmingly rejected Buhari for the 4th time.

That's history now.

Let's go out and see what the plebeians are saying now.

2sexycom:
Well, it only happened because GEJ allowed it to happen by surrounding himself with nonentities. One of his greatest undoing was recruiting FFK as his media aid.

In a battle field, you attack strategically or die.

One crime GEJ committed against me was recruiting the likes of Tompolo and Asari, making them billionaires overnight,where in certain people spent years going to school and we're still jobless.

plaetton:

Lol.
I guess you're not mature enough to understand that politics and elections are about PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT more than anything else.
Voters are like the plebeians. They are unthinking in facts. They prefer short chewable soundbytes, the type that Tinubu and the Western Axis media fed them.

With regards to politicking and PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT, GEJ was monumentally clueless.

Without Tinubu, the Western Axis media, and their socially engineering( a fancy word for brainwashing) Western Axis voters, Nigerians would have overwhelmingly rejected Buhari for the 4th time.

That's history now.

Let's go out and see what the plebeians are saying now.

ashjay001:


Seriously, u think Tinubu sold PMB? If it comes to a vote, do u really think all zombies will vote for Tinubu? I personally, though I respect his achievements, grudgingly, don't, won't and can't vote Tinubu! Infact, I'm still wondering how PMB was convinced to partner with him!

What so hard about understanding that GEJ lost, inspite of a six years head-start, to a 3 time loser?

Obj was bad, we didn't vote PMB.
Yar'Adua was unknown, yet we didn't vote PMB
Jonathan was seen as a messiah, so we didn't vote PMB
What happened within 4yrs, to make pple jubilate on d streets at GEJ's loss?

U seem to have closed ur ears to the news of absolute corruption he allowed. The culprits are not denying, infact some are returning funds voluntarily, what they are complaining about is a witchhunt! And, u're hear beating ur chest, defending him n them, without any iota of shame?

Don't worry, relax, in 3yrs time, if PMB continues on this path, we'll probably vote in Wike! QED!

What has perception got to do with supporting a criminal, who owns up to his crime?! Praying ardously for him to come and continue from where he left off! Are u matured urself?

ZombieNation:


I was just 6 back in 1984 when Buhari toppled Shagari and I can tell you our (my family) lives changed drastically for the worse!

Our neighbours in the next house were all arrested after it was discovered that their landlord used one of four flats to stock and horde elephant detergent.

Then there were the public executions broadcast live from bar beach and general dread of prison I developed at just 6yrs after hearing of prison sentences left and right. This was because I knew Nigeria was a police state. The barb wires on ikorodu Rd were part of Buhari's legacy and the compulsory lock down every last Saturday in the name of environmental sanitation showed the ineptitude of those at the helms who thought running a country like Nigeria is no different than heading a barrack command.


But what bugged me most last year was all the young people who myopicly campaigned and voted for Buhari .

I could not conclude that they were all bastards with no fatherly or elderly figure to guide them making a grave mistake in voting Buhari but as I found out all the young plebs who agitated for Buhari where guided by their fathers and elders.

These same old men who Buhari flogged into queues and arrested for wandering where at the forefront in poisoning the brains of their not too smart children.

The young generation who voted for Buhari can be excused but as for their fathers, who witnessed first hand Buhari's despotism what can we say of these foolish men?

SUPERPACK:

do you knw that $3 billion dollars in 1999 is bigger than $30 billion dollars in 2015. because the xchange rate in 1999 is $1=22naira, while in 2015 $1=199 naira. it means that inflation rate is 10% per year meaning Obj got same money with buhari, but the difference is 16years. When Obj became president in 1999 our economy dependence on oil was only 50%, bt he personally took it up to 75% meaning any slump in oil price will affect the country, to show u an example how much did u buy the following in 1991 compare it to 2015 price.
1. Bread
2. pure water
3. cabin biscuit
4. fuel
.
did Obj have terrorist to spend on,?
Did he meet any global oil price slump??

plaetton:


You must be a stark economic illiterate if you say that $3 billion in 1999 is more than $30b today.

Where did you go to school, if at all ?

With $30 billion today and very little international debt to service, the government has almost 100 times more spending power than OBJ could have dreamt of.

With $3 b , OBJ still had to service debt with $4 b annually.

Call a buffoon a buffoon, and stop shaming your self.

coolscott:


[size=13pt]For $3bn in 1999 to be worth more than $30bn in 2015, the U.S dollar has to have suffered an depreciation Appreciation of more than 1,000% over that period.

The die-hard Buhari supporters are not trying at all. They are making it look as if only the less developed intellectually, are within their ranks.

Just see what this one has put up here now.[/size]

plaetton:


I concede that he did little to curb it.
That's the only crime we can hold him accountable for.

SUPERPACK:

dollar exchange rate 1999 =21.89 naira
dollar exchange rate 2015 =199.9 naira.
=199.9 ÷ 21.89= 9.13
Appreciation =9.13 * 100 = 913%
.
so is it nt close to 1000%. U fail to mention that he also sold oil during oil price growth, meaning he also got revenue frm oil sell, buhari on the other hand is now selling oil at almost the production cost, without profit.

SUPERPACK:

The Us dollar is appreciating, while the Naira is depreciating.
.
dollar exchange rate 1999 =21.89 naira
dollar exchange rate 2015 =199.9 naira.
=199.9 ÷ 21.89= 9.13
Appreciation =9.13 * 100 = 913%
.
so is it nt close to 1000%. U fail to mention that he also sold oil during oil price growth, meaning he also got revenue frm oil sell, buhari on the other hand is now selling oil at almost the production cost, without profit.

coolscott:

[size=13pt]Please we are talking about the depreciation of the U.S dollar. A depreciation in the value of the naira relative to the dollar does not equate to a corresponding depreciation in the dollar. In fact, if both of them were depreciating together at the same rate, the naira would still be =N=21.89 to $1.

But you have actually nailed yourself here because it means that for every USD in the foreign reserves Buhari has close to 10 times more naira with which to work in the country.

In 1999, $3bn was equal to (1billion x 21.89 x 3) =N=65,670,000,000 65billion naira
1n 2015, $3bn is equal to (1billion x 150 x 3) =N=570,000,000,000 570billion naira

But he has $30bn so let's multiply =N=570bn by 10

That gives us 5.7 trillion naira.

plaetton is right. He should sit down and get to work if OBJ sat down and got to work with only 65bn in reserves to work with[/size]

SUPERPACK:

The Us dollar is appreciating, while the Naira is depreciating.
.
dollar exchange rate 1999 =21.89 naira
dollar exchange rate 2015 =199.9 naira.
=199.9 ÷ 21.89= 9.13
Appreciation =9.13 * 100 = 913%
.
so is it nt close to 1000%. U fail to mention that he also sold oil during oil price growth, meaning he also got revenue frm oil sell, buhari on the other hand is now selling oil at almost the production cost, without profit.

plaetton:


I laugh when people mention GEJ and corruption.

I don't know how old you are, but Nigeria's first republic was terminated on accusations of widespread corruption.

Gowon's regime was overthrown on accusations of widespread corruption.

Shagari's regime was overthrown by Buhari junta on accusations of widespread corruption.

Babangida's regime was ousted, forced to abdicate on allegations of widespread institutionalized corruption.

Abacha, well, you know the story.

Abdusalami' s one year tenure is said have been characterized by widespread corruption.

OBJ, despite his many achievements , had his name and regime characterized by widespread corruption.

Yaradua, especially during his illness before he died, his family and associates are alleged to have massively looted the Treasury.

So what is particularly so unique about corruption during Jonathan's tenure ?
Nothing.
Corruption is a NIGERIAN thing.
It wasn't something that GEJ invented or even expanded.
I concede that he did little to curb it.
That's the only crime we can hold him accountable for.

Now, given that looters also financed Buhari's Ascension to power, and no one is asking questions, I am shocked at the selective amnesia and hypocrisy on display here.

Brainwashing of the voters, especially the southwest voters, did GEJ in .
That's the simple truth.

plaetton:


Dear friend,
I don't how to tell you politely that you score F in simple arithmetic, talkless of maths.

Please stop this .


Now listen carefully.

If the dollar has appreciated 913% since 1999, according to you calculations, then it means that the purchasing power of $dollar has also increased by 913% today.

Listen carefully again.
This would mean that the $30b Buhari inherited today, has 913 x of the purchasing power of what OBJ inherited.

Let me make it even simpler.

1. In 1999, OBJ inherited $3b @ N22 = N66b and much lower oil prices than what we have today.

2. In 2016, Buhari inherited $30b @N200 = N6 trillion and much higher oil prices than OBJ met.


So sir, your math is upside down.

Now, if OBJ can do so much with so much less, then Buhari is an incompetent buffoon for wailing with what he has.

ashjay001:


What u don't seem to understand is; GEJ was supposed to be different! He was supposed to be one of us, fighting battles on our behalf. I remember very well, all my social media rantings on his behalf during d Yar'Adua health saga; I remember the jubilations on the streets, from lagos to calabar to plateau to kaduna, when he won against PMB! He became one of them, incubating corruption, standing up for thieves, protecting them, shielding them, even removed a cbn guv for them! He lost our trust and as such PMB became attractive.

Tinubu couldn't sell PMB, infact with Tinubu as his VP, PMB would av lost gallantly! PMB came into power because GEJ betrayed our trust! That we've had thieves as our former leaders gave GEJ the wherewithal to breed thieves? Hear urself

Compare d 2011 results to the 2015 results, d SW want progress, to hell with sentiments!

Hunger:

are u saying that if N5 can buy only one exercise book in 1999, the same N5 can buy 10 execise book now since the purchasing power of $dollar has also increased by 913% today?.

Hunger:

are u saying that if N5 can buy only one exercise book in 1999, the same N5 can buy 10 execise book now since the purchasing power of $dollar has also increased by 913% today?.

valboy20:


Hey dude ..quit being an asshole. The cbn guv'nor was dancig around figuees so it serves him right.

It's so silly to think PMB won without Tinubu's effort. what the f.uck do you mean by GEJ betraying your trust?

At this point i can say with every alacrity you were one of the brainwashed yellowbar..if not tinubu's APC propaganda how else could Nigerians vote for just APC and not hope or kowa party. and FTR buhari will lose if he was the flagbearer for kowa party


Don't be a dullard like your boss. errybody knows Tinubu was the brain behind PMB victory at the last polls

ashjay001:


Read ur reasoning: u called me an ass-hole earlier, then towards d end u try being polite and tell me not to end up a dullard?

Who do u tink is d ass-hole? Since u've got half-baked reasoning like other wailers, PMB was already winning 12 core north states b4 Tinubu! Oyo, Kwara, Ondo, Kogi, Benue and even Ekiti will never vote Tinubu! During elections in those states, Tinubu is always lowkey. So, Tinubu might be taking d glory, but deep down everybody realised d Buffoon fuc-ked up big time! Everybody, except tribalistic buffoons like u! The whole democratic world, turned against him and insulted him to his face! Was that propaganda too?


Did u know when soldiers where deployed to welcome Yar'Adua's body into d country, without GEJ, as a acting presido, knowing anything about it? I almost bursted a vein on fb. Do u even know anything about d 'doctrine of necessity'? I jubilated for over a week, when it was applied. I registered to vote because of d bloody buffoon!

What broke my delusions of GEJ's messianic abilities, was when he appointed achike udenwa, a minister; I served as a corper during udenwa's tenure, it was terrible! Imagine my saviour president appointing such a deadbeat as his minister?

I'm gonna shut my trap and allow u enjoy ur tomfoolery, while I bid my time and pray PMB doesn't fu-ck up, but if he does, the kicking out circle begins again!

No more will mediocrity be allowed to get 2 terms! We need true change

plaetton:


Yeah, indeed.

Mr clueless established 12 federal universities in 4 years.

Mr clueless made great strides in agriculture ( as attested by the current agriculture minister).

Mr clueless did more for road infrastructure than any previous administration) as attested to by the current works minister).

Mr clueless sustained the double digit economic growth begin by OBJ and briefly derailed by Yaradua.

Mr clueless Shepherded the continued expansion of the Nigerian middle class, the first in nearly half a century.

Middle class expansion is the benchmark for economic progress.

Mr clueless Shepherded fair and free elections ( by internationally accepted standards) year after year, state after state.

Mr clueless demonstrated his patriotism by vowing that no Nigerian life is worth his ambitions. Compare that to those who vowed Bloodshed if they did not win, after trice rejected by the Nigerian people.

Mr clueless never ever interfered or compromised our growing and maturing democratic values and aspirations.
Compare that today with all the Democratic and rule of law violations in just the past 10 months.

Mr clueless delegated RESPONSIBILITIES to ministers, read and understood his budget, let the ministers shine, promoted inclusion, national unity and cohesion.

Compare that to the one who says that he nothing to those that didn't vote for him, and the unabashed NEPOTISM currently rife at the corridors of power.

Yes, indeed.
I think the Oxford dictionary needs to redefine cluelessness in the light (or darkness) of what we are witnessing in Nigeria today, 10 months after the supposed clueless one left office.

ZombieNation:


I was just 6 back in 1984 when Buhari toppled Shagari and I can tell you our (my family) lives changed drastically for the worse!

Our neighbours in the next house were all arrested after it was discovered that their landlord used one of four flats to stock and horde elephant detergent.

Then there were the public executions broadcast live from bar beach and general dread of prison I developed at just 6yrs after hearing of prison sentences left and right. This was because I knew Nigeria was a police state. The barb wires on ikorodu Rd were part of Buhari's legacy and the compulsory lock down every last Saturday in the name of environmental sanitation showed the ineptitude of those at the helms who thought running a country like Nigeria is no different than heading a barrack command.


But what bugged me most last year was all the young people who myopicly campaigned and voted for Buhari .

I could not conclude that they were all bastards with no fatherly or elderly figure to guide them making a grave mistake in voting Buhari but as I found out all the young plebs who agitated for Buhari where guided by their fathers and elders.

These same old men who Buhari flogged into queues and arrested for wandering where at the forefront in poisoning the brains of their not too smart children.

The young generation who voted for Buhari can be excused but as for their fathers, who witnessed first hand Buhari's despotism what can we say of these foolish men?

plaetton:

Lol.
I guess you're not mature enough to understand that politics and elections are about PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT more than anything else.
Voters are like the plebeians. They are unthinking in facts. They prefer short chewable soundbytes, the type that Tinubu and the Western Axis media fed them.

With regards to politicking and PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT, GEJ was monumentally clueless.

Without Tinubu, the Western Axis media, and their socially engineering( a fancy word for brainwashing) Western Axis voters, Nigerians would have overwhelmingly rejected Buhari for the 4th time.

That's history now.

Let's go out and see what the plebeians are saying now.

LordAdam:


Your types are the problem in Nigeria. Thinking because you voted him in 2011, you somehow are of a higher morality to justify voting a senile trash in 2015.

Your illusion is your undoing. There are no messiahs. Just people with better abilities than others. And as far as history and reality goes, GEJ has better abilities than PMB. That was the singular reason why I supported GEJ in 2015. I will not choose a goat or a nepa bill certificate holder over the president who had made the best performance since Nigeria's independence.

That you did proves that you need adult supervision around sharp objects.

-Lord

2sexycom:
Well, it only happened because GEJ allowed it to happen by surrounding himself with nonentities. One of his greatest undoing was recruiting FFK as his media aid.

In a battle field, you attack strategically or die.

One crime GEJ committed against me was recruiting the likes of Tompolo and Asari, making them billionaires overnight,where in certain people spent years going to school and we're still jobless.

ZombieNation:


I was just 6 back in 1984 when Buhari toppled Shagari and I can tell you our (my family) lives changed drastically for the worse!

Our neighbours in the next house were all arrested after it was discovered that their landlord used one of four flats to stock and horde elephant detergent.

Then there were the public executions broadcast live from bar beach and general dread of prison I developed at just 6yrs after hearing of prison sentences left and right. This was because I knew Nigeria was a police state. The barb wires on ikorodu Rd were part of Buhari's legacy and the compulsory lock down every last Saturday in the name of environmental sanitation showed the ineptitude of those at the helms who thought running a country like Nigeria is no different than heading a barrack command.


But what bugged me most last year was all the young people who myopicly campaigned and voted for Buhari .

I could not conclude that they were all bastards with no fatherly or elderly figure to guide them making a grave mistake in voting Buhari but as I found out all the young plebs who agitated for Buhari where guided by their fathers and elders.

These same old men who Buhari flogged into queues and arrested for wandering where at the forefront in poisoning the brains of their not too smart children.

The young generation who voted for Buhari can be excused but as for their fathers, who witnessed first hand Buhari's despotism what can we say of these foolish men?

CHIJIOKE1314:
I am telling you that Rauf would have been a better choice to rule Nigeria.. .

At least he has school uniform..