It does matter, just as history and background matter in general, so that issues can be resolved in a meaningful and fundamental manner.
Do you think that is why Tinubu, Buhari and APC have failed to address the problem despite their promises since 2015? This was the year that Tinubu begged Buhari to come out of retirement to be president. 11 years ago when Tinubu made Jonathan a one term president, thereby ending 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace, stability, cheap petrol, low debt burden etc.
cr7lomo: But it was never this bad ... fulani kidnappers are the worst ...even Evans never killed any of his captives...Evans never kidnapped the poor , Evans never kidnapped women and children
What part of Nigeria are the kidnappers of Adelabu Pẹnkẹlẹmẹs’ family from
CyynthiaKiss: Being born and grow in Nigeria is not easy if you’re not from a rich home..
Funny that people are quick to adjust to suffering , while some even see basic amenities of life as luxury..
Nigerian leaders have destroyed the way Nigerians reason.. Eg, if an average Nigerian sees 12 hours uninterrupted power supply, he becomes anxious and afraid of the consequences of having such long hours of supply..
Some of them will think that after this supply, they might not see light again for weeks..
This is how Nigerian politicians have damaged the psyche of an average Nigerian who doesn’t know that to have 24 hours power supply is his right..
You and Kemi have to update yourself on the change made by APC since 2015, when Fashola and Buhari said they will give us electricity.
msmon: The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday unfolded its power agenda should it presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, be elected.
The party plans to generate at least 20,000 megawatts (mw) of electricity in four years to surpass Nigeria’s consumption level of around 15, 000mw.
In a statement, the party’s Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) expressed dismay that the Federal Government under President Goodluck Jonathan had only added 1.400mw to the national grid in four years.
The statement by Mallam Garba Shehu, the spokesman of the campaign, quoted Gen. Buhari as saying that while he will not run a witch hunt government, he will not hesitate to deal decisively with cases of impunity and corruption. No probe of any government official, he added.
The statement also quoted Gen. Buhari as saying he is passionately concerned about the sorry conditions of our armed forces today who, despite huge budgetary allocations, have failed to effectively deal with manifest security threats, including the Boko Haram terrorism.
“What he said at every given opportunity is that he is keenly interested in knowing what has gone wrong, if any, with the army that he knew. When he has access to them as Commander-in-Chief, he will like to hear from his commanders what problems they are dealing with so that they can be solved,” Shehu said.
“In a democracy such as ours, all institutions of government, including the armed forces, are accountable. No country can achieve results in its counter-terrorism efforts when there is no transparency in the management of huge resources for the purpose. He (Gen. Buhari) will reinvigorate the armed forces and restore their rapidly evaporating morale,” he said.
The APC Campaign Organisation accused the PDP of wasting billions of naira on non existent power, managing to add a yearly average of 87 megawatts of electricity, showing a massive failure to substantially raise generation and distribution of electric power despite promises and cash infusion of between $16 billion and $20 billion.
Shehu said “nearly 16 years of PDP administration gave this country a miserly addition of 1,400 Mega Watts against the expenditure of more than $16 billion. That translates to 18.5 MW per annum”.
Lekby25: Even the governors are not doing enough too. What are they doing with their huge security votes How is Enugu governor is able to secure his state, other governors should and have the capacity to do the same.
Why did Tinubu forget about governors and security votes when he was begging Buhari to come out of retirement and be president, so he can have his own turn at the treasury eight years later?
When he made Jonathan a one term president and ended 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and stability.
Ttipsy: FG is always interested in religion and ethnic politics
Nigeria was designed by British to fail
How is the federal, state and local governments different from the people who have sovereignty and give them the power to exercise it on their behalf temporarily?
How was Nigeria designed by the British to fail? How is exporting our miserably meagre resources and ourselves to Britain a sign of our rejection of their designing Nigeria to fail? Exporting even our emotions to support their league and teams.
By the way, how did Britain design Qatar, UAE, India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, Singapore/Malaysia and even America to succeed but they designed us to fail despite leaving us 66 years ago to our own devices?
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
ibedun: Na only rights una sabi? What about citizen’s responsibilities? I’m sure that one is new to you. Nigeria is a poverty stricken country and the politicians and citizens made it so.
For example, the citizens love “imported” stuff. As long as it is foreign, it must be good. They rejected anything made in Nigeria in the market but they expect factories to spring up everywhere around the country 🤷🏾♀️ How deluded?
And the billionaire na water people have practically destroyed the country with “importation” and their “seaport, seaport, seaport” syndrome. Abegi…..
Citizens pay taxes and allow those who ask to serve them, emerge into public office and deliver their promises of making the country/ community better. Is that not how it works?
Why should people offer to serve in public office and fail to do what they promised to make the country/ communities better, but continue to receive taxes from people and from companies on their behalf?
What examples are the leaders looters setting
chisomkachy: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
thewinning101: PANDORA PAPERS: Buhari visited Tinubu in corruption-tainted London villa acquired by Oyetola
Governor Oyetola, a relative of Mr Tinubu, may have sabotaged his own country by buying the exotic property as Nigeria made to seize it.
ByNicholas IbekweandTaiwo-Hassan Adebayo October 7, 2021 in Headline Stories, Pandora Papers Reading Time: 8 mins read
It was a meeting of two of Nigeria’s most influential politicians in London – President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting political kingmaker and senior member of his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
In July, the presidency announced that Mr Buhari was heading to London for an education summit. The office also added that the president would also see his doctors for “medical check-up”.
Coincidentally, Mr Tinubu, who had travelled to London earlier, was also receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment in the British capital. So, a perfect setting for both men to meet was created.
Is this what Keyamo told you was Tinubu’s motivation for the prisoner swap
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.’’
Btruth: It's becoming glaring that our security agency knows more than what the nation knows about this daily re-occurencies of kidnapping cases in Nigeria. God help us in Jesus 🙏
Is it also very clear that Ayédèrú JagaBandiot of Borgu is a northerner whose betrayal of Yorubas and southerners is a reoccurrence since before he begged Abacha to make him Lagos state administrator?
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
omoredia: Lesson to those who see evil and will be political about it.
You are certainly talking about Tinubu and other APC leaders looters who saw evil and were political about it, in order to beg Buhari out of retirement and make him president, thereby ending 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and stability.
This was how JagaBandiot of Borgu made Jonathan a one term president, in favour of his fellow northerner, the old soldier who was expired to him in 2011.
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.
chatinent: Who killed Dele Giwa? Who killed Funsho Williams?
The 1993 election was supposed to be our moment of true national unity. Look at those numbers. Abiola did not just win; he built a coalition that bridged the divide between the North Central and the South West. For a brief, intoxicating moment, it felt as though we had finally outgrown the regionalism that keeps us fragmented. But in this country, such optimism is often a dangerous provocation to the powers that prefer the status quo.
Looking at the numbers, it’s clear why Babangida cancelled the election.
HenryThegreat1: Aliko Dangote, the president of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) has strongly refuted allegations by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Agency (NMDPRA), insisting its diesel is 80percent superior to those currently imported into Nigeria.
The richest man in Africa said this Saturday while showing members of the House of Reps the company’s facilities.
“Until late last year, diesel imports into Nigeria were up to 7,000 parts per million (ppm) of Sulphur which has been going on for many years. Our diesel is produced currently at significantly lower levels of Sulphur; as such, we find baseless the allegation that the reason for the reduction is linked to quality. What we are producing is 80 percent of what is being imported into the country,” Anthony Chiejine, the company’s spokesperson Dangote Industries Limited said.
Read also: Explainer: Separating fact from fiction in NMDPRA’s claims against Dangote refinery
“Another inaccurate assertion is that Medium Level Sulphur diesel is meant for off-road use. This is a completely false statement as this would have invariably meant that all the imports for the last 20 years have been damaging equipment.
“Thirdly, diesel imports for the high Sulphur grade have been at significantly higher prices until we started operation. If indeed high Sulphur diesel is sold at lower prices how come we never saw the lower prices until now?” the spokesperson said.
Read also: Dangote refinery not yet licensed to operate in Nigeria-NMDPRA
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Dangote proved through a laboratory test before members of the House of Reps, led by Tajudeen Abbas how the sulphur content of its diesel is within acceptable range in Africa and better than some of diesel currently available in the country.
Dangote diesel currently contains 87.6 ppm
For instance, Dangote’s laboratory officials tested diesel products from two major retail outlets in Nigeria – TotalEnergies and Matrix – against the sample produced by Dangote Refinery.
The test was carried out using a ED-XRF Spectro Photometer, using the ASTM D4294 method.
The sample from TotalEnergies’s diesel showed 1,829ppm sulphur concentration. The sample from Matrix retail showed 2,2752.8682ppm sulphur concentration while the diesel sample from Dangote Refinery showed 87.6ppm sulphur concentration.
Targets 10ppm sulphur content August
“By the end of next week, we should be on 50ppm and by August, it should be down to 10ppm,” Dangote said.
BusinessDay’s findings showed the minimum global standard is 50ppm, while 200ppm is still acceptable in Africa till the end of the year.
On Thursday, July 18, Farouk Ahmed, chief executive officer of NMDPRA alleged Dangote refinery as well as some major refineries like Waltersmith refinery, produce between 650 to 1200 ppm.
PDP did well to license this private refinery, as part of the 2012 deregulation of the oil industry, which included subsidy removal.
Thankfully, one term president Jonathan did not cancel Dangote refinery licence when he reversed his policy of subsidy removal, following Ojota protests by wicked APC leaders looters led by Tunde Bakare, a few months after he and Buhari lost the 2011 election.
Thankfully, Buhari also did not cancel the refinery construction like he did to the Lagos metro project in 1984, after he executed the only successful coup against democratic institutions at local, state and federal levels in the legislative and executive branches.
Thankfully, Dangote was smart enough to counter Tinubu’s efforts to strangle the refinery after he fought for power, grabbed and ran with it cluelessly to worsen APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege since 2015.
Otherwise, APC would be feeding us propaganda lies about NNPC refineries producing and even exporting fuel while stealing way more than PDP stole on turn around maintenance schemes, and importing fuel from their Malta blending plants.
HenryThegreat1: Aliko Dangote, the president of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) has strongly refuted allegations by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Agency (NMDPRA), insisting its diesel is 80percent superior to those currently imported into Nigeria.
The richest man in Africa said this Saturday while showing members of the House of Reps the company’s facilities.
“Until late last year, diesel imports into Nigeria were up to 7,000 parts per million (ppm) of Sulphur which has been going on for many years. Our diesel is produced currently at significantly lower levels of Sulphur; as such, we find baseless the allegation that the reason for the reduction is linked to quality. What we are producing is 80 percent of what is being imported into the country,” Anthony Chiejine, the company’s spokesperson Dangote Industries Limited said.
Read also: Explainer: Separating fact from fiction in NMDPRA’s claims against Dangote refinery
“Another inaccurate assertion is that Medium Level Sulphur diesel is meant for off-road use. This is a completely false statement as this would have invariably meant that all the imports for the last 20 years have been damaging equipment.
“Thirdly, diesel imports for the high Sulphur grade have been at significantly higher prices until we started operation. If indeed high Sulphur diesel is sold at lower prices how come we never saw the lower prices until now?” the spokesperson said.
Read also: Dangote refinery not yet licensed to operate in Nigeria-NMDPRA
Related NewsInsecurity, oil theft: Nigerians demand results not endless rhetoricWrong diagnosis killing many patients in Nigerian hospitalsHigh electricity tariff crushing Nigerian public varsities
Dangote proved through a laboratory test before members of the House of Reps, led by Tajudeen Abbas how the sulphur content of its diesel is within acceptable range in Africa and better than some of diesel currently available in the country.
Dangote diesel currently contains 87.6 ppm
For instance, Dangote’s laboratory officials tested diesel products from two major retail outlets in Nigeria – TotalEnergies and Matrix – against the sample produced by Dangote Refinery.
The test was carried out using a ED-XRF Spectro Photometer, using the ASTM D4294 method.
The sample from TotalEnergies’s diesel showed 1,829ppm sulphur concentration. The sample from Matrix retail showed 2,2752.8682ppm sulphur concentration while the diesel sample from Dangote Refinery showed 87.6ppm sulphur concentration.
Targets 10ppm sulphur content August
“By the end of next week, we should be on 50ppm and by August, it should be down to 10ppm,” Dangote said.
BusinessDay’s findings showed the minimum global standard is 50ppm, while 200ppm is still acceptable in Africa till the end of the year.
On Thursday, July 18, Farouk Ahmed, chief executive officer of NMDPRA alleged Dangote refinery as well as some major refineries like Waltersmith refinery, produce between 650 to 1200 ppm.
LagosOrigin: That's a good president material if you ask me
Going to the people who elected you to know what they really want you to do for them and doing it the right way .
A good leader will be closer to the people
Peter Obi is spot-on on this one.
Tinubu went to Jos and instead of meeting the people, he stopped at Jos airport and ran away like a thief in the night ..
Tinubu and Obi are not just similar scamming criminals, their supporters are also similar Stockholm Syndrome sufferers who defend each and every cluelessly dumb thing they say and do.
Siamese twins can’t be more together than Tinubu and Obi in their 419 political scam enterprise.
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.
fergie001: Peter Obi addresses Nigerians in Washington DC
He must have been addressing Igbo voters who rigged 100% for him in the 5 SE states, which ultimately helped Tinubu have his own chance to continue APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege that began 11 years ago, as predicted by Soludo below ⬇️
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
AMINDA: True. This is another massive achievement by the Tinubu government. But have you noticed that Tinubu has not named anything after MKO Abiola despite running on his June 12 sentiments? His first June 12th as president, he seized the opportunity to unveil the world's largest portrait, which was a portrait of himself. He didn't even mention Abiola all through and is still yet to do so. He has rather made it about NADECO.
Tinubu has always been all about himself and his ambitions, giving whatever is needed to secure the support of whoever is needed for the next step in his greedy fight for power, to grab and run with it cluelessly in governance.
He did so with Abacha in 1993 before shifting to NADECO after rejection.
He also did that with Awolowo’s name and cap in 1999 to get the support of Afenifere elders in replacing Engineer Funsho Williams with himself as Lagos governor. Thereafter he reverted to his forever ♾️♾️ cap and tried to rubbish the same Awolowo name in 2011, when he felt he had consolidated his position as Yoruba political leader.
In 2015, he knew how to massage Obasanjo’s oversized head by calling him APC navigator to increase the chance for Buhari’s acceptance among Yoruba people.
Did he not do it with El Rufai in 2023 to make himself president with Buhari’s northern votes
Tinubu is a master strategist in Use and Dump.
anonimi: My dad, victim of complex conspiracy – Kola Abiola
What role did Bola Tinubu play in all of these?
At the very beginning, he was part of the Yar’Adua PF group from Jos. He was a senator then, and as far as the group went, we related. The crisis started post-election. When Abacha came, one of the things he wanted to do was to be the administrator for Lagos.
That is Tinubu?
Yes. I am sure you have seen pictures of him and my dad. He was hoping that there would be civilian administrators like we had under IBB but Abacha said no, that he was going to have military administrators. So he (Tinubu) said okay, in that case, can I be a deputy administrator? But Abacha said that there wouldn’t be deputies. Then he wanted the post of a commissioner.
He wanted to be a commissioner?
Yes. Then it was a choice between him and someone very close to Jakande who has passed on now. I can’t remember his name, but because Babagana was already in the government, that guy was picked as commissioner. But really, Senator Tinubu had lost out already.
Was Tinubu very close to MKO?
Yes, he was close enough. He and Adeniyi Adele, a very good guy, were close to my father. In fact, Adeniyi was closer to my father and more dedicated to the process than anyone of them. When my documentary comes out, you will see Tinubu’s take on issues. So once he lost out, automatically, he became a NADECO member and Adeniyi was incarcerated.
And thank you for clarifying that the obidient movement is simply about installing a tribal candidate and has nothing to do with competence
What is the difference between Obi’s supporters and those who support Tinubu as a tribal candidate with nothing to offer on competence
Is Tinubu not even worse for making Buhari president in 2015, four years after calling him expired, thereby making Jonathan a one term president and ending 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and stability?
What of PDP deregulation and privatisation politicians who gave us 16 years of prosperity, peace and stability by opening up the economy to investors like Dangote and licensing his refinery as part of the 2012 fuel sector reforms? Should God bless them even more
Thankfully, the uselessly wicked APC leaders looters did not succeed in their plans to play politics with the entire fuel sector reform. Thankfully so. Otherwise, we would be importing fuel from their Malta blending plants while giving us renewed hopelessness balablu bulaba stories of NNPC refineries resuming production.
anonimi: P/H, Warri Refineries Begin Daily Production of 8.5 Million Litres of Petrol
July 29, 2015
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs.
This is contained in a statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of NNPC, Ohi Alegbe, in Abuja on Wednesday.
The statement explained that this followed successful re-streaming after a nine-month phased rehabilitation by in-house engineers and technicians.
It stated that PHRC was ramping up its operation to about 60 per cent of its 210,000 barrels per day name plate capacity.
According to the statement, WRPC production is projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed 125,000 bpd capacity.
It stated that the PHRC was projected to boost the nation’s local refining capacity with a product yield of five million litres of petrol per day.
It added that Warri Refinery would contribute 3.5 million litres of petrol to local refining capacity.
The statement explained that NNPC adopted the phased rehabilitation after the Original Refinery Builders (ORB), who were initially contacted for the project, came up with unfavorable terms.
He explained that a decision was taken in 2011 to rehabilitate all the refineries using the ORB of each of the refineries.
“We were impelled to switch strategy after the ORBs declined participation and nominated some partners in their stead who came up with outrageously unfavorable terms’’, Alegbe stated.
It stressed that the nominated partners, as sole-bidders, came up with humongous price offers after two years of thorough and exhaustive scope of work definition and price negotiations.
It explained that the proxies were also unwilling to provide post rehabilitation performance guarantees.
“The phased rehabilitation strategy entailed phased and simultaneous rehabilitation of all refineries using in-house and locally available resources in line with the spirit and letter of the Nigerian Content Law.
“It also involved the use of Original Equipment Manufacturer representatives to effect major equipment overhaul and rehabilitation.’’
It stated that the phased rehabilitation, which started in October 2014 after the required funding stream was established, created a 70-per cent reduction in costs.
It said this had helped largely in mitigating the financing challenge of refinery rehabilitation.
It stated that with the successful re-streaming of the PHRC and WRPC, attention had moved to the 110,000 barrels per day Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company (KRPC).
According to the statement, the KRPC is billed to come on stream soon. (NAN)
Peterobiisathie: we should be more concerned about these emergency lovers of Nigeria being locked up abroad everyday
Is there any greater emergency of Nigeria than Tinubu
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.’’
geoworldedu: But how many people in this real world are ready to vote for Tinubu? Like where can Tinubu get the bulk of his votes from in this time?
Bar massive rigging, Tinubu will not even win any single region or come second, even in the South West.
Tinubu does not need massive rigging to win next year. He has massive money stolen from us, instead of providing government services and utilities. Plenty of money to bribe the Stockholm syndrome, tribalistic Nigerians who vote on rotation and zoning basis for turn by turn looting and corruption.
If the master strategy of Nigerian politics works for him in Lagos for 27 years plus, then why won't it work for him in the entire country? What is the logic for such expectation?
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.
Curious345: Lovely combination.. but another Fulani man as president is very unsettling
It should unsettle the man who went to Kaduna to make a Fulani president, so as to have his own turn at worsening APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege eight years later.
The master strategist made Buhari president, straight out of retirement in Kaduna, thereby ending 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and stability that Obasanjo and Atiku laid down the foundations in 1999.
Why was Tinubu so selfish, greedy and wicked to the point of making Jonathan a one term president and making 200 million Nigerians endure APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege, which he fraudulently promoted as positive change 11 years ago
Sheuns: Peter Obi shot himself in the legs when he left ADC for NDC just because some people started trending OK movement. ADC you joined since last year and majority of the party stakeholders were tilting towards party primaries but he wanted it zoned to the South.
Had he stayed back and contested the primaries he would have given others a run for their money. He may not win it but he would perform decently due to his Obidient base.
Man isn’t good at calculations at all. Kwankwaso that said he couldn’t deputize you in 2023 suddenly accepted to deputize you now and you didn’t put calculations together to understand what could be Kwankwaso’s motive and projections. ADC is still the best option for him and he should have remained there. Nigerians were ready to vote that party regardless of what INEC does. It’s good to be very calculating and project into the future and also learn from what worked for others. Tinubu stooped to conquer by putting Buhari forward in 2015 and waited 8 years to use that “I helped you” to force Buhari hands in 2023. Obi should have just agreed to deputize Atiku and become the VP. The VP still handles economy according to the constitution and I’m positive Obi will do well in that sector and that will motivate people to want him to be president after Atiku. He just threw it all away and I’m pained. APC are seeing themselves winning this election now as it stands.
How many delegates would he have in ADC primaries, from the 36 states
omenka: All of these and the drama in the ndc are meant just for our entertainment tbh. I see no one amongst these clowns who can upstage Tinubu at this point.
The biggest clown in the room is the one who calls himself master strategist, because he steals money that should provide services and utilities, for the purpose of bribing politicians for his eternal grip on power, as he has done in ruining Lagos for 27 years and counting.
Antlisiam: Boya Sunday Igboho go help free Ilorin from the hand of Fulanis
Sunday Igboho's boss, master strategist jagaban of Borgu won't allow that happen to his fellow northerners / Fulanis. He loves them too much to let that happen to them.
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
FuglyGurl: Dear @GRVlagos , you made a great choice staying back in ADC. I told you so privately, and I am saying it again publicly, you made a great choice. I am solidly behind you.
Unfortunately the Igbo man can't win Lagos as governor, not even a Yoruba person that is outside APC, since Tinubu has tight control on the political space.
He is better off contesting for state lawmaker in a non-Yoruba dominated part of the state.
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