Ttipsy: Igbo votes are for intelligent candidates who they feel will deliver and not for jokers that I have noticed
How does this one resemble an intelligent candidate, for him to have won SE states 100% rigged votes, which were indirectly for Tinubu in 2023
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
Pdp that introduced them would have managed them better.
Apc, especially bat, are all about praise worship. Bvn was introduced by bat, he would probably call it Bola verification number so that he can use it as an ego boosting 'reform'...
You sabi the balablu bulaba master strategy for fleecing our money.
Based on what happened in the telecom sector after Glo entered with per second billing etc, can you imagine how much we would be buying petrol now if PDP had deregulated the sector 14 years ago, instead of APC demons playing politics with Ojota protests led by Tunde Bakare who was Buhari's running mate less than a year earlier
Buhari’ll reduce petrol to N40/L —David-West
FORMER Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Prof. Tamunoemi David-West, said that Nigerians should expect sharp drop in petrol price from the current N87 to about N40 per litre, saying, “the president-elect, Gen. Mohammed Buhari, will reduce the fuel pump price to N40 per litre.”
GravityDefier: These items would be EFFECTIVELY used for tax
You understand the SOLE interest of the master strategist who only knows to tax people, then steal the money to bribe politicians to join Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC and buy votes from deliberately impoverished, poorly educated and jobless citizens to keep his stranglehold on power as he has done in Lagos since 1999.
How do we get out of this quagmire
"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.
Fuckyoumod: Don't mind the coward, UK has a much higher threat from the arabs terrorists. 15 years from now, they will all be Muslims.
In 15 years, master strategist Jagaban of Borgu with his Mu_Mu Arewa People's Congress, APC ticket and negotiations with terrorists and kidnappers while locking up Igbo freedom fighter Kanu, would have turned all of us into Arab terrorists.
Should you be more concerned about that rather than what is happening in the UK
madridguy: I believe the western countries allow freedom of everything?
Western countries also ensure that pipe borne water is supplied to all households unlike our country where people are drinking water from shitty boreholes to develop kwashiorkor potbellies.
Do you think that this is one of the fundamental reasons why Nigerians are praying and fasting for japa visas to help oyinbos and Asians develop their countries better than ours
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.’
madridguy: This is barbaric and callous of the PM. He must be trying to turn the UK to Afghanistan How come he's trying to deny people of their fundamental rights.
United nations must step in.
Is your sarcasm based on your school na scam illiteracy due to Tinubu's Lagos master plan leadership of governors in other states to steal money that should employ teachers to make education free for all children?
How are under 16 equal to people in this context
anonimi: Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner September 4, 2022
The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.
Sonofgod1990: Las Las we tell you people to go to court after the election. Tinubu will complete his 8 years in peace. The man is trying his best.
Results are what matters, compared with the performance goals promised before fighting for power and grabbing to run with it.
Abi Jonathan did not try his best before Tinubu begged his 2011 expired Fulani soldier to replace him, thereby ending 16 years of PDP peace, stability, prosperity and cheap petrol with less debt burden
EkoIle1: It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.
Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.
Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.
It has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.
Indeed, no part of the country is immune from the virulent but easy attacks, veritable indices of a failing state. Unfortunately, the tenuous and uncoordinated approach adopted by this government betrays a grossly incompetent disposition which stands at variance with current realities in the country, nay the international community where acts of terrorism are engaged and contained. No Governor of a state in Nigeria is the Chief Security Officer. Putting the blame on the Governors, who have been effectively emasculated, for the abysmal performance of the government at the centre which controls all these security agencies, smacks of ignorance and mischief.
insidelife22: If you hate progress or you love crime and corruption, don't vote for Obi, he will deal with you.
Was this how Obi dealt with crime and corruption
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
ddippset: And what doe this ugly soul mean by "the forces of Wike"?
This is one thing about Oshiomole I hate so much.
He goes to the Senate house forming hollier than thou,,, he then goes to Edo to rig elections,, then he then goes around glorifying impunity and corruption as long as they are done by his friends!
There is a reason why he christened APC as the Assembly of Past Criminals.
Can somebody be the president without first winning the primaries?
Is Oshiomole really intelligent, or just another APC chochocho empty barrel balablu bulaba noisemaker?
Would Buhari have won the primaries without the dollars to delegates paid by Amaechi
scribble: The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.
One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.
He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”
One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.
Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, A[b]maechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.[/b]
It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.
Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.
According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.
Racoon: Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.
Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.
His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.
The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993
It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.
Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.
He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.
“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’
ratcock: LAGOS — The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, paraded three suspected members of a notorious kidnap gang that killed former Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chudi Nwike.
They were picked up in their den last year.
Nwike was kidnapped on March 19, 2013 and a N30 million ransom was demanded by his abductors who reportedly murdered him after taking N5 million as ransom.
Parading the suspects alongside four others, among whom were three Ibadan‑based alleged hired assassins, who confessed to have been given N140,000 as advance payment to eliminate a businessman in Lagos, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, said the arrest of the kidnap suspects followed the arrest of one Monday Odieto in Benin, Edo State, by the Divisional Police Officer in‑charge of Ikoyi, Aisha Haruna.
Ibadan based suspects how?
I thought it was only Buhari’s Fulani and JagaBandiot of Borgu’s northern brothers who are involved with kidnapping
hegelian: i actually love the way obi is being scrutinized, it is how every body asking for a vote should be scrutinized cos that way only real people will have the mind to come out for elecetion..the only sad thing is that its only obi that that kind of yardstick is being used for,
it would have been lovely if the same thing is used for people like tinubu, atiku and others and the need for them to clear themselves the way obi get cleared of all scrutiny..God just dey save obi say he no get any skeleton for cupboard
How can your idol get any skeleton for cupboard when you are blindingly poor in seeing the scrutiny of other presidential candidates?
How much scrutiny do you give candidates who want to serve you as LGA councillors and chairmen, state lawmakers and governors, senators and representatives? Abi you are only focusing on presidential candidates since all the other government officials are inconsequential
jmoore: I just read a false information from Oshiomole from APC that Peter Obi didn't do anything about insecurity when he was governor of Anambra State.
I am sharing this info so every sane person can know that Oshiomole is lying.
If Obi did anything worthwhile to kidnappers, then why did his anointed successor talk about the problem again in 2014, before he kicked out the naive politician out of their regional APGA party
anonimi: Kidnapping will be history in Anambra under my watch – Obiano ByPremium Times March 4, 2014
Anambra Governor elect, Willie Obiano, said on Tuesday in Abuja that his administration would ensure that crime, kidnapping in particular, was a thing of the past.
Mr. Obiano spoke to State House correspondents after a delegation from the state met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa.
“Kidnapping is very critical for us and under my watch kidnapping will be a thing of the past.
“First, as soon as I am sworn-in, there is going to be a security conference where all the stakeholders in Anambra will come from near and beyond.
“We are going to do a lot of things that the present administration has started,” he said.
Mr. Obiano said he would deploy vigilante groups, equip and train them appropriately to tackle kidnapping.
“We will also place emphasis on youth employment because where most of the youths are employed then the rascal few will be easily policeable,” he said.
Are they worse losers than 200 million Nigerians suffering from the balablu bulaba of the incompetent olodo who calls himself as a master strategist in looting
insidelife22: Some people's nightmare Abeg give them wotowoto seasoning make them dey OK
Kwankwaso is not OK as you can see him wearing his Kwankwasiya cap. He is focused on 2031 with Dickson as running mate, in the hope that Tinubu will fail to get a 3rd term, just like Obasanjo failed to get it in 2007.
Atiku led other democratic heroes to kill Obasanjo’s 3rd term bill in the NASS. Since then, Baba Iyabo has been doing everything to deny Nigeria of Atiku’s brilliance in governance, even writing lies about the man who gave up his governorship seat to be a spare tyre vice president.
BeardedMeat: Peteru Gregory Obi stamped out insecurity in Anambra during his tenure, go and verify.
If this is true then why did his anointed successor promise to stop kidnapping and insecurity in 2014
anonimi: Kidnapping will be history in Anambra under my watch – Obiano ByPremium Times March 4, 2014
Anambra Governor elect, Willie Obiano, said on Tuesday in Abuja that his administration would ensure that crime, kidnapping in particular, was a thing of the past.
Mr. Obiano spoke to State House correspondents after a delegation from the state met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa.
“Kidnapping is very critical for us and under my watch kidnapping will be a thing of the past.
“First, as soon as I am sworn-in, there is going to be a security conference where all the stakeholders in Anambra will come from near and beyond.
“We are going to do a lot of things that the present administration has started,” he said.
Mr. Obiano said he would deploy vigilante groups, equip and train them appropriately to tackle kidnapping.
“We will also place emphasis on youth employment because where most of the youths are employed then the rascal few will be easily policeable,” he said.
kingthreat: The military is supposed too come in immediately. Every commnity in Nigeria should consider arming the youths in situation like these.
Will Tinubu, as CinC license youths to bear arms when they are not in the military or police force
Have you discussed this with your own senator and representative, for inclusion in the ongoing 6th Amendment to the 1999 Constitution? What was the response
Borrow2222: The 20% of Nigerians who said otherwise did so due to tribal sentiments.
The correct figure is that 100% of Nigerians voted that the country is heading in a very dangerous direction.
The relevant information is that only 10% of our population votes, and those who vote are easily manipulated by stomach infrastructure and tribal sentiments. If he has mastered the strategy of fighting for power, grabbing and running with it forever ♾️♾️ in Lagos, then why won’t he be able to do the same thing in the entire country
This means that Tinubu will be reelected easily and may even get a 3rd term, which Obasanjo failed to achieve in 2007 because Atiku led other democratic heroes to kill the bill in the NASS despite Ghana must go bribes.
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.
When will enough Nigerians protest that we want PDP back to give us prosperity, peace and stability with cheap petrol and low debt burden?
What are we waiting for, to end this All Promises Cancelled, APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege that Tinubu fraudulently sold as positive change 11 years ago? That was when he went to Kaduna and begged Buhari out of retirement, to make Jonathan a one term president.
anonimi: How Indorama sustains manufacturers, boosts Nigeria’s FX earnings
Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL) has emerged as a major value creator in the Nigerian economy. It is responsible for the survival, growth and sustenance of many manufacturing companies in Nigeria today. A large number of plastic and allied firms depend on the Eleme-based company for petrochemical resins (or polymer resins) which serve as their raw materials.
The petrochemical company is just one of the several subsidiaries of Indorama-Nigeria Group, which also comprises Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (IEFCL), Indorama PET Nigeria Limited, and Indorama Port Operations.
Since Indorama Corporation of Indonesia became core investor in the old Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) in 2006 through privatisation programme of the Federal Government, the group has become a game changer in the Nigerian economy.
The petrochemical company has solved the major challenge facing a number of manufacturers— poor access to raw materials. Rather than scramble for foreign exchange to import inputs, the company ensures that manufacturers have access to their critical raw materials, enabling them to save costs and improve margins.
The major resins used by plastic and allied companies are polyethylene and polypropylene. Indorama produces about 45 grades of these products for various industries. About 600 of such companies in Nigeria depend on IEPL for their survival. They are estimated to have over 90,000 workers.
DTaj: I suggested earlier that someone should commission a study on the man’s political leadership.
One does not necessarily have to like him, but the following is true about him:
1.He effectively transited from being a Board room professional (he was Treasurer at Mobil Nigeria for almost 10 years, having worked earlier in accounting firms in the US, after obtaining CPA qualification and a Bachelor’s degree Business Administration from Chicago State University, Illinois in 1979, to a street-wise politician on the backdrop of his election as a Lagos Senator, his position as the powerful Chairman of Senate Committee on Banking, Finance, Appropriation and Currency, and one of the arrow-heads and founders of the main party to beat at the time -SDP, the other being NRC; his role in the June 12 struggle, closeness to MKO, and one of the main financiers of NADECO, the powerful movement of patriotic Nigerians that effectively led to the democracy we’ve had since 1999.
2.He knows how to attract, and obtain near absolute loyalty of brilliant professionals; the list is endless:
Dele Alake (Ekiti indigene, brilliant journalist of the Concord fame who became his Commissioner of Information & Strategy)
Opeyemi Bamidele (Ekiti indigene, a former US-based lawyer, now House of Rep. member who was his Commissioner of Information & Strategy too)
Yemi Cardoso (Lagos indigene, Tinubu’s former Commissioner for Economic Planning & Budget, sound professional, Bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from Aston University UK, Masters degree in Public Administration from Harvard University; ex top Executive at Chase and Citibank, and now Chairman of Citibank)
Wale Edun (Lagos indigene, Tinubu’s former Commissioner of Finance, sound professional, co-founder of a top-rated investment and advisory firm in Lagos, and well sought speaker at company events)
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (Ogun indigene, SAN, author, Tinubu’s Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice)
Prof. Kunle Lawal (Lagos indigene, author, researcher, renowned History scholar, Tinubu’s Commissioner for Education)
Mr. Fola Arthur–Worrey (Lagos indigene, Solicitor General of Lagos under Tinubu, and later Tinubu’s Commissioner for Lands, respected legal practitioner)
Senator Oloruninmbe Mamora (former Speaker of Lagos House of Assembly, brilliant member of the past Senate, owner of a popular hospital)
Dr. Leke Pitan (Lagos indigene, Tinubu’s Commissioner for Health and later Education, well regarded Doctor in the medical circle)
Dr. Ismail Adebayo Adewusi (Oyo indigene, PhD holder in International Monetary Economics, ex Ife lecturer, ex banker, cerebral consultant, Tinubu’s Commissioner for Finnace)
Otunba Akin Doherty (Lagos indigene, pioneer Commissioner for Science and Technology and later Commissioner of Finance under Tinubu, is a forensic auditor)
Dr. Muiz Banire (Lagos indigene, Unilag Law lecturer, PhD holder, Tinubu’s Commissioner for Transport, now CAN National Legal Adviser)
Dr. Lanre Towry-Coker (Lagos indigene, Tinubu’s Commissioner for Housing, PhD holder, an Associate of the UK Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, well-respected, nationally acclaimed architecture guru)
Mr. Tunji Bello (Lagos indigene, Tinubu’s Commissioner for Environment, respected journalist, was the Chairman of the Editorial Board of ThisDay newspapers)
Prof. Idowu Sobowale (Lagos indigene, Tinubu’s Commissioner for Education, pioneer Dean of Communications Faculty at LASU, well-regarded in the academia)
The 6 ACN Governors:
Fashola, SAN (nothing to be added about him, he is well known!)
Ajimobi (former MD/CEO of foremost oil company, National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company, a subsidiary of Shell, having spent 26 years in the oil sector, with multiple degrees from US universities- B.Sc. and MBA)
Fayemi (former Director of the Centre for Democracy & Development, Visiting Professor in the African Studies Programme at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, University of London Ph.D. holder and well-known activist, brilliant public speaker)
Amosun (Chartered Accountant, FCA since 1996, co-owner of an accountancy firm, Ibikunle Amosun & Co. which he co-founded in 1990, MA International Finance, University of Westminster, Senator)
Aregbesola (Chartered Engineer, Tinubu’s former Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, one of his most impactful Commissioners, known activist)
Oshiomhole (nothing to be said about him too, he is well known!)
3.His success at defeating OBJ to his own devious game before, during, and after the 2003 election was a master-stroke so much that his fellow AD Governors of the 1999-2003 era are the ones following him all about now and he acts as their Leader!
4.He seems to have a way of making and keeping friends across all parties…I read the statements from Kashim Imam (OBJ boy and current PDP Board of Trustees member) during Tinubu’s recent 61st birthday. He praised Tinubu to high heavens (even to the detriment of his own party, PDP!). Despite his spat with Atiku after the failed Presidential bid, they remain friends; even President Jonathan issued a congratulatory message to him during his birthday last week.
Fashola’s current Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr. Wale Ahmed, a medical Doctor turned politician, was the immediate past Lagos PDP Publicity Secretary and he was a very loud and extreme critic of Tinubu at the time. When Tinubu attracted Demola Seriki, pioneer PDP member, former Vice Chairman of PDP Lagos, former Minister of State Interior, former Minister of State for Agriculture and Water Resources, former Minister of State for Defence, under a PDP Government of Yar’Adua, shortly before the 2011 elections to ACN, he gave him a Commissioner slot and Seriki’s well-known acolyte in Lagos PDP, Dr. Wale Ahmed is Commissioner today under the ACN.
5.He is the typical Nigerian politician, he hammers PDP and other opposing parties during the day, using his foot soldiers, but he remains friends with the same people, who will protect his interest now or in the future!
6.He knows how to distribute patronage across party lines, throughout Nigeria. It showed clearly when the son of Senator Gbenga Ashafa, Tinubu’s ally (who was the Secretary of Lands in Lagos until he became a Senator) got married. Virtually every politician with any clout worth the name was present at the wedding, including PDP, ANPP, APGA bigwigs! And this happened before Ashafa became a Senator…
7.Again, he scored so many firsts as Governor of Lagos that other states in Nigeria have copied and/or copying. The list is endless: LASTMA, LASEMA, LASEPA, LAWMA, street sweeping, LASAA, State Government initiated IPP, e-TCC (electronic tax clearance certificate), expansion of the tax net, etc, etc… At the last count, some of the states that had copied these institutions and practices include Rivers, Cross-River, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Kwara, Plateau, Delta, Kano, Kaduna. Recently, Plateau State officials, a PDP state, spent some months in Lagos State Internal Revenue Service to study the comprehensive tax system.
8.He is at home with the constituencies that actually vote and not necessarily ‘elites’ and people with access to good ICT like you and I who will run from the polling booth on account of rainfall or biting sun! That was why he is well regarded by the transport unions NURTW, RTEAN, market leaders, artisans, etc, and they take their internal misgivings to him to solve. And for someone coming from the professional background he has, that is telling…
9.He has succeeded in shielding his immediate family (except the wife who is a Senator) from public scrutiny and media harassment.
10.Aside from South-West and Edo state, his party, ACN, actually has elected members in all the other five Zones of Nigeria, as councilors, Local government Chairmen, House of Reps members, Senators, Houses of Assembly members, etc. In fact, it is second only to PDP, the ruling party, in having elected members in every Zone in Nigeria. Some of these people include: House of Reps- Ekpeyong Etim (Akwa-Ibom), Ananiya Francis (Adamawa), Ganama Kurage (Adamawa), Charles Chukwendu Odedo (Anambra), Benjamin Aboko (Benue), John Dyegh (Benue), Matthew Omegara (Imo), Sunday Steve Karimu (Kogi), Idris Ahmed (Plateau).
Senate: George Akume (Benue), Chris Ngige (Anambra).
11.His party’s (ACN’s) National Officers actually reflect the entire country! Check the list:
Chief Bisi Akande National Chairman Osun Mr. Boss Mustapha Dep. National Chairman Adamawa Senator Lawal Shuaibu National Secretary Zamfara Alh. Kalli Al-Gazali Nat. Vice Chairman - North East Borno Capt. Joseph Din Nat. Vice Chairman – North Central Plateau Rabia H.A. Eshak Nat. Vice Chairman – North West Jigawa Dr. Chudi Nwike Nat. Vice Chairman- South East Anambra Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu Nat. Vice Chairman – South South Edo Sen. Kolawole James Olagunju Nat. Vice Chairman – South West Ekiti Barr. Amba Unanaowo Dep. National Secretary Akwa Ibom Alhaji Lai Mohammed Nat. Publicity Secretary Kwara Hauwa Shu’aibu Galma Dep. Nat. Publicity Secretary Kaduna Abubakar Inuwa Kari Nat. Organizing Secretary Gombe Barr. Tonia Adol-Awan Dep. Nat. Organizing Secretary Ebonyi Mr. Kenneth K. Kobani National Treasurer Rivers Samuel Durojaiye Dep. National Treasurer Ogun Mrs Helen Bendega National Auditor Benue Hon. Ngozika E. Ogbolu Dep. Nat. Auditor Delta Hajia Hafsat Moh’d Baba Nat. Woman Leader Kaduna Miriki O.V. Ebikibina Nat. Youth Leader Bayelsa Barr. Ndionyenma Nwankwo Nat. Financial Secretary Abia Umar Yusuf Garba Dep. Nat. Financial Secretary Kano Hon. Uche Onyeagocha Nat. Welfare Officer Imo Antibass El-Nathan Dep. Nat. Welfare Officer Taraba Dr. Muiz Banire Nat. Legal Adviser Lagos Barr. Abdullahi Haruna Dep. Nat. Legal Adviser Kogi
12.There is a legion of politicians and individuals who today, might have not reached the dizzy heights but for Tinubu (and God first, of course!). Such persons include Hon. Abike Dabiri (from NTA Network service straight to House of Reps), Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the Muri Okunola brothers- Hakeem and Rasheed, Sen. Tokunbo Afikuyomi, Dr. Muiz Banire, etc. These guys, and many more, are very loyal to Tinubu!!!
Even Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, Lagos PDP chieftain, former Minister of Works under OBJ, who fought Tinubu so fiercely and mercilessly during Tinubu’s second term as Lagos Governor, using FERMA and thugs, said this about the man on February 2, 2013, in an interview with Punch newspaper, in a response to the question: “Now that you and Tinubu are out of government, have you come back as friends?”:
“We have never been enemies. We only disagreed on issues but we must give it to him, Tinubu is a good strategist and it is working for him even if you don’t like him. His strategy is worthy of studying. How was he able to discover a Fashola? He could have pushed for a normal politician and they were many in his cabinet then, about 12 of them, but he didn’t; he must be a cerebral person. If you don’t like him, it’s your business but me, I watch him.
Would you also consider a study of his leadership in using public resources to employ enough well paid civil servants to make government services and utilities available for everyone?
Sweetlemon: I just watched a documentry on western politics now and couldn't help marveling and wondering how Tinubu became so powerful in Lagos, nay western Nigeria. Even OBJ would think twice before talking to him anyhow. EFCC dares not call his name anyhow.
The almighty PDP has been having a tough time penetrating Lagos which they have been eyeing because of Tinubu. AD died a miserable death as soon as Tinubu left. And we all know what will happen to ACN if Tinubu leaves. I don't know of any other politician with so much individual influence in any of the big political parties. Please how did he do this? Tinubu is kind of like a legend in Nigerian politics today because whether you like him or not, you just gotta respect (or fear him)
P.S: I'm not a Tinubu loyalist o! I'm just curious
13 years later, how has the powerfulness of the master strategist changed Lagos State and the entire Nigeria for better.
Lagos has become a worse stinking slum and glorified ghetto without water supply to households.
Nigeria has become worse in extreme poverty and insecurity shege with expensive petrol and more debt burden than when Obasanjo and Atiku were in office.
That Ribadu was ACN 2011 presidential candidate and is now Tinubu’s NSA says a lot about the IntegriThief of us all.
Lagos — ABIA State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and his Lagos State counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not escape justice but would be made to face the full wrath of the law following their recent indictment for alleged corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Chairman of the commission Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who made the vow yesterday said the duo must account for their stewardship and may be thrown out of office.
Robertgreene1: Atiku should just continue wasting all the money he stole from us. The kind of money this man looted when Obasanjo made him the chairman of the National Privatization Committee back in the early 2000s is maddening!!! He basically used his cronies to buy up all the juicy national assets that the government was privatizing back then for ridiculous prices.
Infact Obasanjo himself once said that the money Atiku stole from Nigeria will take a very large family 600 years to finish!!! Even the US authorities were shocked when they found $600 million sitting comfortably in the account of that his favorite Ogbanje wife from Onitsha, Jennifer Atiku, back in 2005 when money still get value oo. $600 million just in the account of his favorite wife? Just one of her account oo? So just imagine the ones in her other accounts, plus the ones in Atiku's dozens of other wives and mistresses's accounts plus the ones in Atiku's own personal accounts plus his physical assets both home and abroad plus the ones he's hiding in the accounts of his cronies plus the ones his cronies are hiding in the accounts of their own cronies
Chai!!! All Naija politicians deserve a VIP place in Hell!!! All of them, no exceptions at all!!!
What would make a sensible person reference Obasanjo who was pained by Atiku’s leadership of other democratic heroes in killing his 3rd term agenda 19 years ago?
If what Obasanjo said about his perpetual benefactor was true, then why did he endorse him & Obi in 2019 to replace Buhari? Have you ever thought about that?
Any idea why corruption fighting Buhari and Tinubu his presidential maker have failed to prosecute Atiku since 2015, if any of your privatisation allegations are true
anonimi: How Indorama sustains manufacturers, boosts Nigeria’s FX earnings
Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL) has emerged as a major value creator in the Nigerian economy. It is responsible for the survival, growth and sustenance of many manufacturing companies in Nigeria today. A large number of plastic and allied firms depend on the Eleme-based company for petrochemical resins (or polymer resins) which serve as their raw materials.
The petrochemical company is just one of the several subsidiaries of Indorama-Nigeria Group, which also comprises Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (IEFCL), Indorama PET Nigeria Limited, and Indorama Port Operations.
Since Indorama Corporation of Indonesia became core investor in the old Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) in 2006 through privatisation programme of the Federal Government, the group has become a game changer in the Nigerian economy.
The petrochemical company has solved the major challenge facing a number of manufacturers— poor access to raw materials. Rather than scramble for foreign exchange to import inputs, the company ensures that manufacturers have access to their critical raw materials, enabling them to save costs and improve margins.
The major resins used by plastic and allied companies are polyethylene and polypropylene. Indorama produces about 45 grades of these products for various industries. About 600 of such companies in Nigeria depend on IEPL for their survival. They are estimated to have over 90,000 workers.
You see the incompetent people at that elms of affair but they could extradite Nnamdi Kanu and arrest Igboho in his place of abode…it actually tells a lot that someone somewhere is in this government is actually gaining from this kidnapping and banditry who doesn’t want it to stop.
Tinubu and APC know what they are doing since before 2015 when he begged Buhari to come out of retirement and make Jonathan a one term president, thereby ending PDP’s 16 years of prosperity, peace and stability with cheap petrol, low debt burden etc.
EkoIle1: It is now abundantly clear that President[b] Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States.[/b] We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.
Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.
Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.
It has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.
Indeed, no part of the country is immune from the virulent but easy attacks, veritable indices of a failing state. Unfortunately, the tenuous and uncoordinated approach adopted by this government betrays a grossly incompetent disposition which stands at variance with current realities in the country, nay the international community where acts of terrorism are engaged and contained. No Governor of a state in Nigeria is the Chief Security Officer. Putting the blame on the Governors, who have been effectively emasculated, for the abysmal performance of the government at the centre which controls all these security agencies, smacks of ignorance and mischief.
coolcharm: Minister of Defense? Nigerians… these people are as clueless as the most clueless of us o
Are they more clueless than the disunited opposition?
Are they more clueless than 200 million Stockholm Syndrome sufferers who use tribalistic clannishness to zone and rotate positions in local, state and federal governments both in the legislative and executive branches
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