Borrow2222: The Nigerian judiciary has totally collapsed.
Every single institution in present-day Nigeria is in a sorry state.
If you complain that the direction Nigeria is going is very scary, they will call you unpatriotic.
The Chicago drug lord was not joking when he said he will fight, grab and run with power. His demonic state capture is unprecedented.
He has APC Twitter sympathiser Amupitan in INEC and Wike in charge of the courts to achieve his aim of being forever president of Nigeria.
iwaeda: Wike Boasts Of Helping APC Use Judiciary To Kill Osun LG Funds Case, Warns Party Leaders Against Ingratitude
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has openly boasted that he assisted certain elements within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in deploying the judiciary to frustrate the Osun State local government allocation lawsuit.
In a video now circulating widely on social media and obtained by SaharaReporters, Wike made the claim while addressing a crowd in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The former Rivers governor accused the APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, of benefitting from judicial actions against the Osun State Government without knowing those who did the work behind the scenes.
The suit in question led to the withholding of local government funds in Osun State, a development widely seen as targeting the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke as opposition in the state.
Wike, who spoke angrily, suggested that the court action supporting the APC’s position against the Osun government did not happen by chance, boasting that powerful political forces worked quietly to ensure the outcome.
“Don’t take our support for Mr President for granted,” Wike warned, in an apparent message to APC leaders defending Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara. “You have to be careful about the statements you make. You have to be very careful.”
He accused Basiru of political ingratitude, claiming the APC was enjoying in Osun State without understanding who engineered their advantage.
“Today, you are enjoying in Osun. You don’t know those who did the work,” Wike said. “You are opening your mouth to talk about Rivers State.”
Most tertiary institutions in the country have hiked their fees by over 150 %, putting serious strains on the finances of parents and guardians who also have to contend with the poor state of the economy which has reduced purchasing power and savings.
Checks by Vanguard Learning in public universities across the country show that the increment in obligatory fees, which started late last year is continuing, as a new session starts in some schools this January.
Only on January 6, this year, for instance, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Ondo State came out with a proposal to hike fees by over 100%.
anonimi: Nigeria: Tinubu imposed Fees on LASU - another major attack on Education
06 June 2006
Back in February two Lagos students were killed by police as they protested against the recent hike in school fees. In some cases fees have been increased a hundred times over. This is making it practically impossible for poor and working class Nigerian children to get an education. "The Lagos State university students' union in conjunction with the NANS zone D and NANS JCC Lagos Axis berate the satanic increment in LASU school fees and the killing of some students of LASU during the peaceful protest against the increment in school fees. And call for the immediate reversal of these exploitative fees as a prerequisite to let the less privilege have access to Education".
These was the first paragraph in the leaflet issued by the students' union alongside with NANS zone D and JCC Lagos in February after the students' protest against the fees, which led to the killing of two students by the police on the command of the Lagos State Government.
It will be recalled that immediately after the appointment of a new vice chancellor last year, December 2005, the Tinubu regime of Lagos State announced to Lagos residents that the government could not afford to subsidize education and that in line with the ‘reforms' in the education sector, there cannot be any free education. The university authorities were directed to increase the fees from 250 Naira for old students to 25,000 Naira, while the freshmen's old fee of 1, 000 Naira was increased to N35, 000. This increment exclude the acceptance fees N10,000 introduced earlier to the fresh students two years ago.
It is very important to note that even while the official school fees were placed at N250 earlier, an average student still pays as much as N25,000 to the university or its agents. This takes the form of handouts, registration fees, etc.
Not excluding the current attempt to deny the children of the working class education by the newly imposed post-JAMB test, according to ruling elites, it is to checkmate examination malpractice experienced during jamb exams but from reality, it has been confirmed as another conduit pipe through which money is generated and siphoned without question. This post jamb fee in LASU is N2,000. All these fees stated above do not include various expenses to be incurred while going through the registration processes.
The Tinubu administration carrying out these attacks on students is a master of deception. Towards the end of his first four years, he became one of the most hated governors in Nigeria as he committed enormous atrocities against workers, students and rendered many people homeless. The sacking of over 10,000 workers in 2001/2002 over the N7,500 minimum wage protests is still fresh in the memory of the working class despite the treachery of the labour leadership.
Okay. Not exactly what he said. But that is exactly what he implied. How much is the minimum wage of Lagos state civil servants? He seems to be out of touch and his statements are highly irresponsible!
Governor Babatunde Fashola battled hard weekend, to justify the astronomical hike in tuition fees recently introduced in Lagos State University, LASU, by the state government. Recall that the state government had increased tuition fees paid in the university from N25,000 to N250,000 per session.
Fashola, who spoke at Government College, Ughelli’s, annual luncheon party in Lagos, said Nigerians were unconsciously making the country one where there would be separate schools for the rich and poor.
According to him, critics of the increment are indirectly calling for a Nigerian society which will be divided into poor university for the poor and rich university for rich people.
He said: “Countries that do not prioritise education are always at the mercy of those who place a high premium on education.
“Where in the world have we seen tuition fee of university of N25,000? You cannot find this anywhere. Even the nations that are developed and wealthy do not give education for N25,000.
“LASU started very well and over the years, the population grew and beyond the available facilities and the school began to deteriorate. We are determined to rescue LASU and we will not make it a school for the poor.
“We are unconsciously making Nigeria a society where there will be a school for the rich and one for the poor. “Several people in this country pay so much for education abroad while the schools here continue to deteriorate. It is only in the university that the children of the rich and children of the poor can sit in the same classroom.”
renderme: This sounds incoherent. The man has been a governor and stated the statistics. At least we all now know the answer to the question’what happened to the money saved from subsidy?’
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun made this known at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. Mr. Edun said that the benefit of the subsidy removal will be plough back into various sectors to improve business environment for local and foreign investment. He added that with the increased revenue from subsidy removal, various palliatives have been made available to cushion its effect on a short, medium and long-term basis.
Ofunaofu: Report: Current Govt Added More Debt in Two Years Than Nigeria Accumulated in 55 Years
• Decries Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio
•Urges FG to declare fiscal emergency
A new policy brief has warned that Nigeria’s worsening debt profile and weak revenue generation have pushed the country into a dangerous fiscal position, with the current administration accumulating more debt in two years than Nigeria recorded during its first 55 years after independence.
The report, released by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, a Nigerian policy think tank, argued that the country’s debt crisis has evolved into a governance and revenue emergency, as debt servicing obligations now exceed the federal government’s retained earnings. > > According to the think tank, Nigeria’s public debt rose sharply from N87.38 trillion in June 2023 to N159.28 trillion by the end of 2025, with President Bola Tinubu’s administration accounting for about N65.9 trillion of the increase within its first two years in office.
The organisation in the brief titled: “Nigeria Is Borrowing to Breathe—and the Clock Is Ticking”, noted that Nigeria accumulated only about N12.06 trillion in debt from independence in 1960 up to 2015, meaning the current administration added more than five times that amount in just 24 months.
The report stated that while previous governments also contributed significantly to the country’s rising debt burden, the speed of accumulation under the current administration had intensified concerns over fiscal sustainability.
“President Bola Tinubu’s administration has added a further N65.9 trillion in just two years. To put that in perspective: it took Nigeria’s first 55 years of independence to accumulate N12 trillion in debt. The current administration has added more than five times that amount in 24 months,” it argued.
It recalled that Nigeria briefly became almost debt-free externally after the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo secured an $18 billion Paris Club debt relief package in 2005 and paid $12 billion to extinguish about $30 billion in external obligations.
hush15: Chat GPT and Gemini would answer that for you. You don't believe what we say as a fellow human. So maybe you will believe in AI. Atleast, computer intelligence don't lie
And just incase you lazy to do that, open the link below:
You obviouly don't know about Garbage In, garbage Out (GIGO) since computers only collate information that is entered into them.
Meanwhile, you have failed to say how many teachers Obi employed and how many schools, classrooms, libraries, labs, playgrounds he built to improve ratio of public to private schools and the enrolment in public schools during his eight years.
Reference: With good planning and execution these are 'commercial' ventures that will repay themselves and can even generate revenue down the line so the overall impact on the economy can only be positive.
Social services on the other hand ate long term, open ended, continuous commitments that have no immediate impact. They are not the same.
Yes, social services are part and parcel of any political social contract but to make these investments easier the government should try and invest in money making ventures as well.
Just like Lagos Metro. It has the potential of a steady income for the LASG in the future if managed properly.
How can commercial ventures repay themselves in an economy that is shrinking and weighed down by burgeoning debts, while there is no investment in basic education and healthcare for a skilled and healthy workforce to create/add value for the repayment
Sectional reports to tantalise shallow victims of balablu bulaba propaganda?
Is that because the road has not made much progress, despite the billions of dollars saved from subsidy removal, higher revenues and huge loans
By the way, how many pictures of these sections can be used to buy akara in the absence of 50 million jobs promised by master strategist Tinubu?
DONOCSO: The number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty calls for some serious reflection.
For the year 2026, Nigeria is ranked as the number one country with the highest number of people living in extreme poverty globally.
Here is the breakdown of the top 4 from the chart:
Nigeria: 94,725,734 people
DR Congo: 81,896,433 people
India: 75,243,301 people
Pakistan: 58,226,238 people
Think about this critically: India has a population of over 1.4 billion people, yet we have almost 20 million more people living in extreme poverty than they do.
As a nation, we need to ask ourselves what is truly driving these numbers upward and how we can innovate our way out of it.
Is it a fundamental failure in our economic policies and a lack of robust activity in our investment and corporate sectors?
Is it a lack of grassroots financial inclusion and education around decentralized wealth-building systems?
Or do you think these statistics are flawed and do not reflect the reality on the ground?
Let’s discuss. What is the way forward for the average Nigerian?
Reference: You need a master plan if you want synergy across borders. You need to synergize routes, standards and specifications as regarding equipment, control, etc. You need a railway type commission.
If not you will have issues like the historical, almost comical ones between Spain and France where the trains from one of these countries cannot run on the tracks of the other making passengers switch trains at the borders and cargo traffic almost impossible.
You say Lagos state. Those are commuter trains operating there not intercity trains. They are not the same thing.
How can any of these things happen in a country with the highest number of children out of school and the highest number of extreme poverty paupers? People who are too lazy to focus and work on fundamentals, preferring wishful thinking on complex things
OgbeniOja1: Sounds good. A regional rail system would be more functional
If you said this when the DAWN commission announced something similar two years ago, should you not be cautious about being deceived again by another announcement from propaganda politicians
PigTormentor: Na you dey watch me? I live in Nigeria and the US. I just left Lagos not even a week yet. I'll be back in another couple of weeks. And yes, I'm enjoying the renewed hope agenda. I'm always crusing down the coastal Road, I'm also glad that the days of fighting at filling station just to buy fuel are over. Thr naira is stable, businesses are booming and the best days are ahead for Nigeria thanks to the courageous President for removing subsidy and floating the Naira.
How many pictures of the coastal road are you using to buy expensive petrol since Tinubu failed to crash petrol price below N185
How is making the Naira stable at almost N1,500 the fulfilment of master strategist Tinubu's promise to achieve N300/$1 in the short term before hitting N200/$1 by May 2027?
hush15: First, we tired of "he did nothing in Anambra" rhetorics you guys always pushing because everybody knows that is not true. We all know what Anambra was before Obi and after Obi and we all know he did amazingly well. The state is still benefitting from that till date. Secondly, that he did all that and is able to still save is highly remarkable. Even the Bible acknowledges and rewards a man that leaves inheritance for his family or children and as a governor then, he was father to all. Not only did he do well, he also left inheritance. That inheritance is what Obiano leveraged on and enjoyed, unfortunately Obiano could not continue with the legacy. Obi invested in critical sectors of the State. Education, Health, Security and Economy. Today, Obi is walking with peace of mind round Nigeria. Where is Obiano? He ran away to avoid persecution from government. Take it to the bank, if Anambra or the Nigerian constitution allowed people to contest governorship beyond two terms, Obi will always win. To those you prefer, spending and squandering, all they give you is road and bridges, yet they loot you dry and thats for those that want to pretend they offering something. The rest just milk the state dry and nothing to show for it. Since this reckless government came to power, they have been spending and spending but how has it benefited the average Nigerians
In all this long epistle, why have you failed to answer the two simple question in the post you quoted to reply
Why did Obi fail to employ teachers and build schools for every child’s free education?
Why did he fail to employ workers to make water flow into Anambra homes?
Irony1: Has the current governor achieved that, even BAT's Lagos has not even achieved that. Make una leave PO abeg, you people are too obsessed with the man.
Why is your Obi obsessed with hugging our public space if he wants to be left alone?
JimohMomoh: What Enugu State need is stable water supply and mass low cost housing scheme
.............like what Jakande did in Lagos in just four years without squeezing tax out of akara sellers to grow the budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion like master strategist Tinubu has done since 1999.
If Buhari jailed jakande for corruption in 1984, despite these achievements, is it not ironical that he handed over to worst rogue Tinubu 39 years later
eluquenson: REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
Dozman88: He said he built smart schools!!! Where are the picture of it. At least governor otti gave us the picture of the classrooms with the equipments all working and the environment!!. But for MBA where are the prove pls!!!.. doing capital intensive project!!! All at once!! .. funny
Do you also have pictures of Otti handling employment letters to as many as 19,500 teachers
Abi the school buildings will teach the pupils all by themselves?
anonimi: NUT commends Oyo over recruitment of 19,500 teachers
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Oyo State, has commended Governor Seyi Makinde-led government for recruiting 19,500 teachers in five years.
The union, in a statement signed by the NUT Chairman, Oladimeji Raji and the Secretary, Salami Olukayode, noted that the appointment of 5,000 teachers in his first term and 14,500 since the inception of his second term into the state primary and secondary schools was noteworthy.
The union said the ripple effects of the recruitment were that it would address the problems of inadequate manpower in the education sector and promote teaching and learning.
The statement read, “Your disposition towards turning the tide of the education system of Oyo State remains unprecedented and unmatched not only in the annals of recruitment history of our dear state in recent times but also across the entire 36 states of the Federation including the Federal Capital Territory.
“Your Excellency Sir, your achievements in the education sector since assumption of office particularly, on the successful recruitment of over 14,000 qualified teaching professionals and about 3,500 non- teaching personnel, aside from an appreciative number of caregivers is a clear cut and a perfect reflection of your results-oriented style of leadership aimed at providing free, qualitative and quantitative education to the amiable citizens of Oyo State. This gesture shall, without doubt, have a significant touch in our classroom and as well enhance educational service delivery to our school children.”
magoo10: Only for the students to Japa after graduation dey dem swear for una .
Is that the result of applauding governors, presidents and even LGA chairmen for MISPLACED priorities like this announcement of what is to be done in the FUTURE?
Why won't the graduates japa if there are no jobs in water corporations that make pipe borne water available to houses
The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.
500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.
But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.
The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”
While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.
He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’
Masterstroke4: That’s a big move 👏 3 new state universities will help with access, jobs, and skill development in Enugu.
How is this MISPLACED priority a big move?
Do you ANNOUNCE the roofing of a house that you have not even done the foundation?
Does Enugu have free education for all children, in public schools with adequate number of well paid professional teachers? Are there enough classrooms, libraries, labs, playgrounds etc in Enugu state governments primary, vocational and secondary schools, using Obasanjo/ Atiku established UBEC matching federal funds to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education?
Abi Enugu state has less than 5% schools owned by the state just like Tinubu's progressive Lagos state after 27 years of his a-looter tax master plan?
Has Mbah employed up to 19,500 teachers like Makinde did
hush15: Leaving money in state treasury is a sin jare. I agree with you. Any money that goes to states should be spent. Afterall, more will still come, it is never ending.
Who saving help...
What is the wisdom of saving money when you can spend it to generate better returns in the future?
Why did Obi fail to employ teachers and build schools for every child’s free education?
Why did he fail to employ workers to make water flow into Anambra homes?
Cyberterror: Rufai knows that Peter Obi is empty but keeps supporting him because of religious consideration like majority of Obi Pandora supporters. Lately however, he has been finding it hard to bear the lack of depth and sometimes absolute ignorance that Peter Obi exudes whenever he opens his mouth
Tinubu is not just an empty balablu bulaba clueless clown, he’s also the worst rogue in Nigeria.
Who do you think is a worse rogue than the master strategist in Aso Rock?
brain54: ::: Reasons I've always preferred atiku to any of the front liners.
He is the most mature and capable. I'm not saying he is the Messiah but amongst the major contenders he would have performed best.
If he was politically smart he would have been president by now. :::
Indeed, if Atiku was politically smart and brutal in fighting for power, to grab and run with it then he would have been president in 2003.
Instead of yielding to northern pressure for Obasanjo to honour his one term promise like Mandela, he stood by the Ebola Owu ingrate. 2003 was the first time that Buhari asked for the job of President and he was refused.
aieromon: According to sources available to us that time, Obasanjo said he will do a single term but after that, he decided to go for second term. I was physically present at Rivers state Governor’s Lodge when the heat became too much and Obasanjo in the presence of all of us knelt down in front of Atiku begging him to allow him do a second term. I think that was how Atiku missed the opportunity by agreeing to Obasanjo’s plea. His thought was that at least, if Obasanjo completes his second term, he will hand over to him but you all know the story of Third Term Agenda and that was how they fell apart. Atiku had the best opportunity to become president in 2003 and lost it. He had the support of PDP governors then.
Around November 2002, 15 of the 21 Governors from the PDP including me, had an ad hoc meeting at my lodge in Abuja to decide who should be nominated by the Governors Committee for election by PDP as the presidential nominee for the 2003 Election.
The Governors Committee decided almost unanimously to get a new candidate instead of President Obasanjo as the Committee was of the view that because of his military background, he was intolerant of dissent and had displayed very dictatorial and vindictive tendencies against those he perceived to be independent-minded and disloyal to him.
Immediately after the Governors meeting, I led the delegation of Governors to meet the then PDP Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, at his residence around 2 am.
As the leader of the delegation, I spoke and communicated the views of the Governors to the Chairman, which was that the Governors had decided not to support President Obasanjo as PDPs nominee for the 2003 General Election.
The party chairman tried to persuade us to review our decision but when he saw our resolve, he told us that he would inform the President. I was later informed by Chief Audu Ogbeh that after we left his house he put an urgent call to the President and informed him of our decision.
What then followed were intense consultations before the PDP annual convention which took place in January 2003. Two days before the party convention, the Governors had a breakfast meeting with President Obasanjo.
I recall that at that meeting, the then Vice President Alhaji Abubakar Atiku told the President in the presence of the Governors that he was known to be very dictatorial, vindictive and unforgiving. The President appealed to the Governors to support him and assured both the Governors and the party leadership that if he was allowed to continue for the second term, he would adopt a more democratic approach.
On the basis of the President's assurance, given at that breakfast meeting, I led the move for the Governors to support his presidential nomination for the second term. However, notwithstanding my support for President Obasanjo's nomination for a second term, the President after the nomination, acted very shabbily towards me.
When I met him soon after the convention, he told me that he had learned that I had put forward the view that he was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable. He then vowed that he was going to make sure that I was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable.
Atiku Camp - Visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DID VP ATIKU OUTFOX BABANGIDA AND OBASANJO DURING THE PDP CONVENTION?
According to Adesanya, Atiku met the governors the first day of the convention; they urged him to leave Obasanjo and seek the nomination himself. Atiku demurred; he also deflected the suggestion that he join Ekwueme. Finally, Atiku arranged a meeting between Obasanjo and the now irate governors. The governors railed that Obasanjo was hypocritically pursuing them for corruption, while turning a blind eye to corrupt politicians within his own Administration. Atiku supported the governor's position, telling Obasanjo that significant corruption was not the exclusive ambit of the governors and that serious transgressions occurred in the executive branch: he said it would be unjust to focus exclusively on gubernatorial excesses. Assuming the role of mediator, Atiku then asked both sides to affirm their mutual support and cease the antagonism being fueled by elements that wanted to destroy the PDP. The governors agreed to bury the hatchet, if Obasanjo would shelve the dossiers. Having demonstrated his influence with the governors, Atiku continued to play coy with Obasanjo.
In the end, Atiku extracted an extraordinary concession from the President. Obasanjo agreed to relinquish the entire domestic agenda to Atiku, including the appointment of key economic policy-makers. Since Obasanjo focused on the world arena during his first term and aspired for recognition as an international statesman, Atiku said that is where he would like Obasanjo's attentions to remain. Obasanjo would serve the role of a "super Foreign Minister" and ceremonial Head of State. As Adesanya understood the agreement, Atiku would be allowed to direct domestic economic policy while Obasanjo busied himself with debt relief, NEPAD, conflict resolution and other measures to shore up Nigeria's image abroad.
OBJ camp - visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DIFFERENT INSIDER VIEWS ON THE PDP CONVENTION
The President was dazed, Abayomi recalled. Jarred by the unexpected possibility of defeat, the usually know-it-all Obasanjo eagerly solicited counsel on how to escape the closing vise. Early that day, the dominant theme was to seek a court injunction postponing the convention. Proponents suggested the delay to afford Obasanjo time to marshal support and undermine Ekwueme's momentum. However, this idea was ultimately discarded, partially because of apprehension over the public's reaction. More importantly, the push for an injunction became less urgent when the President's advisors began to sense their man was regaining ground by the hour.
The President owed much of his recovery to his own tenacity and, at times, shamelessness. He pulled out virtually all the stops to clinch the nomination, according to Abayomi. For most of that day, the President's diet consisted of liberal portions of humble pie. The President pleaded and cajoled; on at least two occasions his eyes welled with emotion as he pursued fence-sitting delegates and governors. However, Obasanjo saved his best to keep Vice President Atiku from defecting.
With rumor swirling that Atiku would opt to run with Ekwueme, Obasanjo wasted no time visiting the Vice President's residence. Obasanjo begged, declaring he would not leave Atiku's home unless the Vice President accompanied him to win back the delegates and governors. The performance had the desired effect. Atiku joined Obasanjo in publicly lobbying the conventioneers. While it might not have been Obasanjo's finest hour it was the defining moment of the convention. What had been a suspenseful contest would now turn into a rout.
otipoju: The mistake you make is that you think that if am a fan of Tinubu in any way shape or form.
Nevertheless, in that amoral world that they live and operate in, he is a grandmaster in the game...and Buhari was and is the greatest hypocrite of all time...and an unintelligent one at that.
A grandmaster in the game of stealing money from the people to bribe politicians and buy votes from deliberately impoverished, poorly educated and jobless citizens
"I know of States that have received over 500 billion Naira from the Federal Government as palliative, but I have never received anything.
I think the reason I don't get it is because I'm not in APC.
NaijaRoyalty: …Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money
However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”
Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.
He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.
Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.
REDshouse: Lol ...this should be thrash .... ATIKU that squandered 16b naira power sector money said he had a blue print ...he should have actualise the blue print when he was in power ....
A failure will always seek to clinge on nothing
What is the source of your N16 billion claim
Krankhead: The same.Atikj that stole $16bn . Thunder fire u
Why don’t you share the link to this conviction for $16 billion
SalamRushdie: Then your power sector blueprint is very useless because electricity supply has even become worse
Tinubu’s power minister said that 75% of Nigerians have adequate power since his boss went to Kaduna and begged Buhari to come and take over from one term president Jonathan.
yorosstores: Nigerians elected President Tinubu to govern, not to satisfy the opposition's preferred media schedule. Leadership is judged by decisions and results, not the frequency of public appearances.
Don’t mind the opposition politicians jare. Can’t they see the 50 million jobs that Tinubu has created, in addition to his wife’s akara empowerment?
Is that not enough for Nigerians to have a good life and pay taxes for Tinubu family luxury lifestyle
Mariangeles: Call him whatever you will, but Hope Uzodimma appears to be shrewd in his political dealings.
Should his shrewdness in politics matter more than his performance in government services and public utilities provision, from the commonwealth temporarily entrusted to him?
AcadaWriter0: Absolutely! It's a straightforward, predictable victory for Uzodimma. Nothing to debate. It's all set for a smooth, decisive election.
Smooth, decisively rigged elections to end this democracy like the one of Ondo State ended the 2nd Republic in 1983 December, with Buhari’s only successful coup against local, state and federal government institutions
How APC won Osun election through ‘remote-control’ – Buhari
January 27, 2019
According to Buhari: “I know how much trouble we had in the last election here.
“I know by remote control through so many sources how we managed to maintain the party (APC) in power in this state.”
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