Restructuring: Again Atiku blows hot tackles back Osinbajo

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/restructuring-again-atiku-blows-hot-tackles-back-osinbajo/


In a statement disclosed to PremiumTimes, Atiku queried Osinbajo to choose if he is ‘for restructuring or against it’ and noted that because Osinbajo was faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is understandable that the Vice President, has written to Premium Times to douse the tension his comments created. Recall that Osinbajo had said that Atiku’s concept and stance on restructuring was ambiguous, unclear and failed to include ‘the elephant in the room-Corruption’. Osinbajo equally accused Atiku of using the word ‘restructuring’ which he is not conversant with to score cheap political points. His words, “I do not believe that geographical restructuring is an answer to Nigeria’s socio economic circumstances. That would only result in greater administrative costs. But there can be no doubt that we need deeper fiscal Federalism and good governance “Alhaji Atiku leaves out the elephant in the room – corruption. And how grand corruption, fueled by a rentier economic structure that benefits those who can use political positions or access to either loot the treasury or get favorable concessions to enrich themselves. This was a main part of my presentations the Minnesota Town Hall meeting,” part of his statement read. However, reacting barely 7 hours that the vice president reveled his stance, Atiku argued below: Restructuring Is a Necessity, Not an Option By Atiku Abubakar My attention has been drawn to a letter written to Premium Times in response to an essay on restructuring authored by me. Faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is understandable that the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has written to Premium Times to douse the tension his comments created. However, in doing so, the Vice President should not attempt to revise history by saying that he spoke against ‘geographic restructuring’. I have been in the forefront of the discourse on restructuring since the 1995 Abacha Constitutional Conference and to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any term like ‘geographic restructuring’. It is a strange concept, not only because it is not what the restructuring debate is all about, but also because the words of the Vice President, which prompted my response where clear, unambiguous and unequivocal. Mr. Osinbajo said, “the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring”. That I disagree with and so do many other Nigerians. If the Vice President has changed his stance, I welcome it, but we should not use one finger to hide behind semantics. For the Vice President to say “Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition”, is most unfortunate. I have been very clear, detailed, and unambiguous about my ideas for restructuring. At several occasions, including, but not limited to my speeches at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (made in April this year and July 2017, respectively), I gave very clear and concise ideas about restructuring including: Devolution of powers and resources to the states. Matching grants from the federal government to the states to help them grow their internally generated revenue position. The privatisation of unviable federal Government-owned assets. A truly free market economy driven by the laws of demand and supply. Replacing state of origin with state of residence, and Passing the PIGD so that our oil and gas sector will run as a business with minimal governmental interference. I am hard pressed to see how these clear and specific ideas can be described as ‘vague’. One would have thought that if anything is vague, it would be the idea of ‘geographic restructuring’ whose meaning is hanging in the air. Be that as it may, in his letter, Vice President Osinbajo then jumps from the topic of restructuring and goes on to say: “Good governance involves, inter alia, transparency and prudence in public finance. It involves social justice, investing in the poor, and jobs for young people; which explains our School Feeding Programme, providing a meal a day to over 9 million public school children in 25 States as of today. Our NPower is now employing 500,000 graduates; our TraderMoni that will be giving microcredit to 2 million petty traders; our Conditional Cash Transfers giving monthly grants to over 400,000 of the poorest in Nigeria. The plan is to cover a million households.” While what Professor Osinbajo says may be true or false, I must say that his dovetailing into the area of the economy does not explain certain facts such as the fact that the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics reported in December 2017 that Nigeria lost 7.9 million jobs in the 21 month period under review. If the Vice President cannot see that losing 7.9 million jobs in 21 months while creating 500,000 jobs is a deficit, then I do not know what to say to the honourable professor. Professor Osinbajo also harps on “prudence in public finance”, but he fails to show the wisdom in sharing out $322 million of Abacha funds to the poor only to take a loan of $328 million from the Chinese the very next month. Many Nigerians, myself included, see this as imprudence. Finally, while the Vice President is not exactly correct when he says “In four years from 2010 to 2014 the PDP government earned the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, USD381.9billion. By contrast the Buhari Administration has earned USD121 billion from May 2015 to June 2018”, let us for the sake of argument say that he is right. My response to Vice President Osinbajo is that while I was Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2006, Nigeria’s Economic Management Team, of which I was a prominent member, paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt of $30 billion, at a time when we were earning one third of what the Buhari administration is currently earning from oil. So such arguments are puerile at best. My advice to the Vice President is that he should choose whether he is for restructuring or whether he is against it and stick to his choice. This continuous prevarication, this approbation and reprobation, helps no one, least of all true progressives who know that Nigeria needs to be restructured and restructured soon. Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 is a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/restructuring-again-atiku-blows-hot-tackles-back-osinbajo/

God give us Atiku

Osinbajo is gradually becoming a traitor. However, Buhari is not lifeless but merely a good man with bad intentions.

Atiku please I and my girl friend, my son will vote for you. After reading osibanjo response to you today I just discovered the man is really empty in the head

ATIKU/PETER OBI 2019

CROWNWEALTH019:
God give us Atiku

You and who??

chicogentil:

You and who??

Us for human beings not zombies

The same baggage that is used to disqualify Atiku is the same baggage that Mr integrity had before he became president.

I believe Atiku will be a better President than even GEJ if given the chance.

Osinbajo has just belittled himself and that prof tag he carries. Stay in one lane, are you for restructure or not?

Devolution of powers and resources control are the 2 major pillars of the restructuring we need n this country.

Whether we are going to achieve it is another thing because we know all politicians are liars including Mr integrity.

But for where we are now, I will take my chances with Atiku.

Good response from atiku ,APC always hiding behind corruption to deceive gullible zombies.

The truth remains that Nigeria cannot continue the way she is.

APC that preached restructuring are trying effortlessly to kill the spirit . they will end up campaigning for atiku since they have nothing to offer.

chicogentil:
You and who??

ALL OF US

Prof Osinbajo is not being sincere at all. He now regard NPower volunteers job which will last just for two years as a greater achievement... Forgetting that over 7.9 million Nigerians have lost their job under Buhari's administration. By November this year the first batch of
volunteers (200,000 people) under the so hipped Npower work will become unemployed as their 2 years volunteer work will come to an end. Npower work is just a two years volunteer work and not a permanent job. Your administration should create a permanent job for Nigerians.

See all of una.. Atiku don oil una toto well well finish una don wet.. Don't worry, Buhari will dash him two states plus wherever he believes is his stronghold come 2019..

CROWNWEALTH019:

Us for human beings not zombies

No disrespect but you're the biggest and slowest and most imbecilitic zombie right now.. Cuz you're hooked by all you just read.. Sorry. I only hope you snap out of it in time.

How is wish that Atiku will soon wake up from this sleep that he is currently rolling in or if he is actually awake, he should atleast rekove political sentiments and say the truth about these statements of his. The Vice President has already addressed Atiku's comments earlier today in his letter to Premium Times addressing the headline by Atiku saying that he - The Vice President - has gotten it wrong. Read the link below: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/282431-restructuring-osinbajo-replies-atiku-explains-stance.html

With this speech alone. I will give this man my vote. He actually just the solution to almost all our problems we are facing today.

Osinbanjo definately can't reply this. Please this should be on front page. And OP please arrange it properly. Good spacing where necessary.

Professor Osinbajo should tell us what aspect of restructuring he categorize CATTLE COLONY.

Is it geographic restructuring or the "elephant in the room"?

HotMata:
How is wish that Atiku will soon wake up from this sleep that he is currently rolling in or if he is actually awake, he should atleast rekove political sentiments and say the truth about these statements of his. The Vice President has already addressed Atiku's comments earlier today in his letter to Premium Times addressing the headline by Atiku saying that he - The Vice President - has gotten it wrong. Read the link below: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/282431-restructuring-osinbajo-replies-atiku-explains-stance.html

Read before you post.

This is a fresh response to your link.

The preamble says it's a reply less than 7 hours.

LOM1:
Prof Osinbajo is not being sincere at all. He now regard NPower volunteers job which will last just for two years as a greater achievement... Forgetting that over 7.9 million Nigerians have lost their job under Buhari's administration. By November this year the first batch of
volunteers (200,000 people) under the so hipped Npower work will become unemployed as their 2 years volunteer work will come to an end. Npower work is just a two years volunteer work and not a permanent job. Your administration should create a permanent job for Nigerians.

Don't mind them.

They impoverished Nigerians and started giving ALMS.

A government that celebrates giving ALMS to its people.

ichiexy01:
Restructuring: Again Atiku blows hot tackles back Osinbajo

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/restructuring-again-atiku-blows-hot-tackles-back-osinbajo/


In a statement disclosed to PremiumTimes, Atiku queried Osinbajo to choose if he is ‘for restructuring or against it’ and noted that because Osinbajo was faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is understandable that the Vice President, has written to Premium Times to douse the tension his comments created. Recall that Osinbajo had said that Atiku’s concept and stance on restructuring was ambiguous, unclear and failed to include ‘the elephant in the room-Corruption’. Osinbajo equally accused Atiku of using the word ‘restructuring’ which he is not conversant with to score cheap political points. His words, “I do not believe that geographical restructuring is an answer to Nigeria’s socio economic circumstances. That would only result in greater administrative costs. But there can be no doubt that we need deeper fiscal Federalism and good governance “Alhaji Atiku leaves out the elephant in the room – corruption. And how grand corruption, fueled by a rentier economic structure that benefits those who can use political positions or access to either loot the treasury or get favorable concessions to enrich themselves. This was a main part of my presentations the Minnesota Town Hall meeting,” part of his statement read. However, reacting barely 7 hours that the vice president reveled his stance, Atiku argued below: Restructuring Is a Necessity, Not an Option By Atiku Abubakar My attention has been drawn to a letter written to Premium Times in response to an essay on restructuring authored by me. Faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is understandable that the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has written to Premium Times to douse the tension his comments created. However, in doing so, the Vice President should not attempt to revise history by saying that he spoke against ‘geographic restructuring’. I have been in the forefront of the discourse on restructuring since the 1995 Abacha Constitutional Conference and to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any term like ‘geographic restructuring’. It is a strange concept, not only because it is not what the restructuring debate is all about, but also because the words of the Vice President, which prompted my response where clear, unambiguous and unequivocal. Mr. Osinbajo said, “the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring”. That I disagree with and so do many other Nigerians. If the Vice President has changed his stance, I welcome it, but we should not use one finger to hide behind semantics. For the Vice President to say “Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition”, is most unfortunate. I have been very clear, detailed, and unambiguous about my ideas for restructuring. At several occasions, including, but not limited to my speeches at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (made in April this year and July 2017, respectively), I gave very clear and concise ideas about restructuring including: Devolution of powers and resources to the states. Matching grants from the federal government to the states to help them grow their internally generated revenue position. The privatisation of unviable federal Government-owned assets. A truly free market economy driven by the laws of demand and supply. Replacing state of origin with state of residence, and Passing the PIGD so that our oil and gas sector will run as a business with minimal governmental interference. I am hard pressed to see how these clear and specific ideas can be described as ‘vague’. One would have thought that if anything is vague, it would be the idea of ‘geographic restructuring’ whose meaning is hanging in the air. Be that as it may, in his letter, Vice President Osinbajo then jumps from the topic of restructuring and goes on to say: “Good governance involves, inter alia, transparency and prudence in public finance. It involves social justice, investing in the poor, and jobs for young people; which explains our School Feeding Programme, providing a meal a day to over 9 million public school children in 25 States as of today. Our NPower is now employing 500,000 graduates; our TraderMoni that will be giving microcredit to 2 million petty traders; our Conditional Cash Transfers giving monthly grants to over 400,000 of the poorest in Nigeria. The plan is to cover a million households.” While what Professor Osinbajo says may be true or false, I must say that his dovetailing into the area of the economy does not explain certain facts such as the fact that the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics reported in December 2017 that Nigeria lost 7.9 million jobs in the 21 month period under review. If the Vice President cannot see that losing 7.9 million jobs in 21 months while creating 500,000 jobs is a deficit, then I do not know what to say to the honourable professor. Professor Osinbajo also harps on “prudence in public finance”, but he fails to show the wisdom in sharing out $322 million of Abacha funds to the poor only to take a loan of $328 million from the Chinese the very next month. Many Nigerians, myself included, see this as imprudence. Finally, while the Vice President is not exactly correct when he says “In four years from 2010 to 2014 the PDP government earned the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, USD381.9billion. By contrast the Buhari Administration has earned USD121 billion from May 2015 to June 2018”, let us for the sake of argument say that he is right. My response to Vice President Osinbajo is that while I was Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2006, Nigeria’s Economic Management Team, of which I was a prominent member, paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt of $30 billion, at a time when we were earning one third of what the Buhari administration is currently earning from oil. So such arguments are puerile at best. My advice to the Vice President is that he should choose whether he is for restructuring or whether he is against it and stick to his choice. This continuous prevarication, this approbation and reprobation, helps no one, least of all true progressives who know that Nigeria needs to be restructured and restructured soon. Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 is a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/restructuring-again-atiku-blows-hot-tackles-back-osinbajo/

This is a high caliber ballistic missile. 'Commissioner', oya over to you.

Amumaigwe:


This is a high caliber ballistic missile. 'Commissioner', oya over to you.

When a prof is under a dullard his senses also gets dull.

Let's wait and see how he will reply this. They will start to concoct one rubbish that no one will understand and mention corruption to further confuse the army of zombies that have sold their brains for cow dung.

The story too long

Because he is jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pig of bia-fra terrorist, he will always react instantly.

Shot fired---> but he fails to show the wisdom in sharing out $322 million of Abacha funds to the poor only to take a loan of $328 million from the Chinese the very next month.[i][/i]

Atiku is very much informed unlike the illiterate cow-herder in Aso Rock.

MXrap:
Atiku is very much informed unlike the illiterate cow-herder in Aso Rock.

Ten12:
Atiku please I and my girl friend, my son will vote for you. After reading osibanjo response to you today I just discovered the man is really empty in the head

i urge osibanjo not to reply these dullard again, he don't even know what is restructure

urboy1:
Shot fired---> but he fails to show the wisdom in sharing out $322 million of Abacha funds to the poor only to take a loan of $328 million from the Chinese the very next month.[i][/i]

thief atiku was wrong.
The conditional Cash transfer started two years ago and the $322m return by Swiss government is to be use for the program (conditional cash transfer) as the precondition before returning our money.
And if even if the money was returned, fg government would have still fund the conditional Cash transfer which was caption in the budget.
You can see thief atiku were talking out of point, he wanted to score polical point, and he was wrong .

Naychuzzy:
See all of una.. Atiku don oil una toto well well finish una don wet.. Don't worry, Buhari will dash him two states plus wherever he believes is his stronghold come 2019..

From the angle of Hard Drugs speak a fool...

SHOT FIRED! TARGET MET! Somebody call 911 for osinbade pls

Epic response to a coward!

“Good governance involves, inter alia, transparency and prudence in public finance. It involves social justice, investing in the poor, and jobs for young people; which explains our School Feeding Programme, providing a meal a day to over 9 million public school children in 25 States as of today. Our NPower is now employing 500,000 graduates; our TraderMoni that will be giving microcredit to 2 million petty traders; our Conditional Cash Transfers giving monthly grants to over 400,000 of the poorest in Nigeria. The plan is to cover a million households.” - Pastor (Professor Osinbajo)

What a shameful content from Osinbajo, too empty a sentence and political view on serious issue.

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From the angle of Hard Drugs speak a fool...[/quote

And is that one of the wise sayings of your father to you ??.. I am betting so. ]

Working extra time ba.. please while you at it... please ask Oga in China what happened to the 2016 deal before he goes on to collect more loan... thanks

Nigerians were advised that Nigeria and China had signed deals worth $billions, to refresh, i list the projects..

1. $478.657.941.28 for the construction of 300MW Solar Power in Shiriro in Niger State;

2. $55m agreement between Granite and Marble Nigeria Limited and Shanghai Shibang to construct and equip granite mining plant in Nigeria.

3. $1 billion for the development of a greenfield expressway Abuja-Ibadan-Lagos;

4. $250m in housing to develop a 27-storey complex;

5. $2.5bn Lagos Metro-Rail Transit Red Line Project.

6. $1bn industrial park (Ogun-Guangdong) Free Trade Zone in Igbesa Ogun State;

7. $200m Ogun-Guangdong free trade zone for construction of two 500MT/day float gas facilities;

8. $363m for the establishment of comprehensive farm and downstream industrial park in Kogi State.

9. $525 million for the Mojec International LTD & Microstar Company LTD for television broadcast equipment and production of pre-paid smart meters for electricity consumers.
@Kalu

buharitill2023:
thief atiku was wrong.
The conditional Cash transfer started two years ago and the $322m return by Swiss government is to be use for the program (conditional cash transfer) as the precondition before returning our money.
And if even if the money was returned, fg government would have still fund the conditional Cash transfer which was caption in the budget.
You can see thief atiku were talking out of point, he wanted to score polical point, and he was wrong .