kokoA: The only thing I like about Atiku is his appearance, at almost 80 years the man is still fit, takes a lot of discipline. That's aside, he should allow the South have their8 years.
Is that how Tinubu allowed the south have their eight years in 2015 when he made Jonathan a one term president in favour of his expired Buhari of four years earlier
yesloaded: Borrow to carry olosho and be rubbing her leg inside private jet
It's not too late for all Nigerians to join hnd together and say enough is enough
The last 3yrs is not funny although am yet to see formidable opposition with a clear manifesto
Which other manifesto would you like besides a return to the 16 years of PDP widespread prosperity and cheap petrol with less debt burden, less insecurity, less taxes, less corruption, less unemployment and other things for better life?
Was all that brought about by PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies
obonujoker: Abeg do your one and only cursed term, and leave the seat back to irabiji.
How is he going to do just one term when Amupitan’s INEC and Wike’s courts have ended any credible opposition to his reelection and 3rd term agenda for life president?
How do you expect him to do just one term in the circumstances
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.”
YoungBlackRico: Lol, this Dangote na one kind anyhow human being sha...
Please how is Dangote more anyhow human being than the leaders looters of All Promises Cancelled, APC?
How much do you estimate that you have been forced to pay since 2015, for the massive corruption in APC’s oil sector? Abi when did they ever sell petrol less than N70
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
Richtaiwo: Go learn how to respond to topics. These nonsense you are typing are completely different from the topic of this thread. If you want to discuss Tinubu, create the topic or check any thread about him and type whatever you want to type there.
Right now, the topic is about Dangote increasing pms pump prices of his refinery. So spare me this nonsense you are pushing into my mention.
Go learn how to respond to comments.
Was the initial comment not about how Tinubu has failed to crash PMS pump price as he promised
Richtaiwo: This one will just enter any topic and typing off track.
Was that how Tinubu entered north-south zoning and went off track in 2015 by making Jonathan a one term president in favour of Buhari, thereby ending 16 years of PDP widespread prosperity built on deregulation and privatisation policies
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.”
dona4real: She's heavy loaded in funds na she and her generations no go ever suffer.
Do you mean that none of them will live with us in Nigeria, and drink water from shitty boreholes, since we don’t expect governors to prioritise our money for the employment of well paid workers to make pipe borne water available to all households
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.’
Richtaiwo: Dangote is a business man. Don't expect him to please you and displease himself
What is Tinubu’s business since he is pleasing himself with failure to do what he promised and displeasing Nigerians with high petrol price
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
Did you see cows on the scene or you know what part of Nigeria he is from ni
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
DEROX: am not a politician but if they like let everyone keep forming boss, the main aim to to kick tinubu out but if they dont come together votes will be splitted and tinubu will win me I dey quick accept reality
Since you are not a politician, are you not affected by the decisions made by public servants in local, state and federal governments?
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
Obi can go to where Tinubu has set up someone to step down for him so he can be the unanimous candidate without primaries.
Was that not how he made himself available to help Tinubu have his own turn at continuing APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege in 2023?
Interestingly, unprincipled, unreliable, pretentious party-hopping Utomi was the first presidential candidate of ADC in 2007.
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.
casualobserver: America is on the brink of bankruptcy. what diplomacy? Diplomacy assumes you believe this is about Nuclear weapons..it's not! Let me tell you something about Nuclear weapons...nobody is ever going to use them because it assures your own destruction. Its about the US economy and US debt. do nothing they collapse, they had to try something. what they are trying to do is to secure as much of the worlds Oil producers as possible not because they need the Oil but to control the currency the oil is sold.
The petrodollar keeps the world awash with dollars, those dollars you earn when you sell oil end up in the US financial system as Oil producing countries with excess dollars buy US debt and equities. Demand for US debt keeps interest rates low. The US economy is predicated on low interest rates. Both the ability of the Americans to finance a lifestyle beyond their means and for the govt to continue to borrow. The US economy is a ponzi scheme. Everu ponzi scheme requires frsh money to keep the payments to the early investors, when new money stops coming in, the pyramid collapses....thats also why they are called pyramid schemes.
We would have been next...or will be next. Trump hasnt been showing interest in Nigeria because he likes Christians. its not about minerals or Oil but the dollar.
do you know what it means to be $40T in debt? what it means to have $9T of debt due this year? what it means to face refinancing $9T you borrowed at 1% at today's rate of 4%? Now do you know what it means to try to execute that in an environment where people are selling oil in other currencies other than the dollar?
i am not a fan of the US and I dont like Trump. i am trying to explain to you that there is actually rationality behind the madness. It was their only option to save the US economy. If anything, the madness and lack of composure in the behaviour of the US tells you how bad a shape the US economy is in.
How many Nigerians have you casually observed doing japada from America, to our country that is not on the brink of bankruptcy, because we don’t have anything like America’s madness and lack of composure
TheBedWench: The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).
This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]
The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.
frankson1: Time has already exposed those behind it but you're too blind to see them.
With Amupitan in INEC and Wike holding the judiciary, what are the realistic options for a credible opposition to this aspiring dictator in Aso Rock
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.”
adekolaelect: Na only you political jobbers that believed in your emotional fire 🔥 will only be consumed with it. All your assumption only exist in your imaginary sense. You can't force your interest or take your emotional sentimental feelings, bully and intimidations as a tools to get what you want.
Was it only political jobbers that were consumed in 1983 when NPN made peaceful change impossible and opened the door for Buhari to execute the only successful coup against democratic institutions at local, state and federal levels both in the legislative and executive branches
As Bola Ige said after FEDECO declared Olunloyo winner:
History has shown that men don’t learn from history.
Franking: Atiku being a Fulani man isn't going down with me. I just don't think another Fulani should be president any time soon. A minority group holding the country by the balls.
Murtala Mohammed, Shagari, Buhari, Yaradua, Buhari again....and Atiku wants to be president...... it's the turn of the South otherwise it might be time to really say to your tent O Israel.
Why did the Jagaban of Borgu make Jonathan a one term president in favour of a northerner who he described as expired in 2011
kingbee90: Yes! From a once NADECO activist to an "Adolf Hitler of democracy" in Nigeria.
I have never seen a man so fake like Mr.Yekini Ogunlere.
He was apparently a reluctant NADECO member, only because he failed to get a job from Abacha.
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.
SixSeven: For the records. Atiku Abubakar won the governorship election in Adamawa State in January 1999. However, he did not assume the office of Governor because he was selected by Olusegun Obasanjo as his running mate for the 1999 presidential election.
It’s quite sad that Obasanjo decided to ruin Atiku despite his generosity and loyalty towards him, especially in 2003 when Atiku rejected northern pressure to make him a one term president, like Tinubu did to Jonathan in 2015.
2003 was the first time Buhari asked for the job of president and failed.
anonimi: ‘How Atiku saved Obasanjo from near bankruptcy before he emerged president’‘
A new book has revealed how former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, saved ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo from near bankruptcy before he emerged president in 1999.
According to the new book, entitled ‘’Too Good to Die: Third Term and the Myth of the Indispensable Man in Africa,’ Atiku made all his resources available for Obasanjo’s presidential campaign.
The book, written by former chairman of National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Chidi Odinkalu, and Ayisha Osori, author of ‘’Love Does Not Win Elections,” also revealed how Obasanjo beat late Alex Ekwueme to the presidential ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 1999 election.
Quoting an account from Atiku, the authors said the trio of Ibrahim Babangida, Theophilus Danjuma and Abdulsalami Abubakar wanted PDP to adopt Obasanjo as their presidential candidate “because they considered him the best person for the job.”
“Implicit in their position was their belief that they knew how to manipulate Obasanjo and the fact that Obasanjo did their bidding in 1979. They felt secure that he could be managed again,” the authors wrote.
Atiku was reportedly asked to join a team to Ogun to inform Obasanjo that he was going to run for the highest office in the land.
“When Atiku and Obasanjo discussed the call to serve as president, Obasanjo said he could not be president because he was a nearly bankrupt ex-convict. Atiku, through General (Aliyu) Gusau, paid money into Obasanjo’s account to begin his financial rehabilitation.
“Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar helped out by granting him an unconditional pardon. Atiku put everything he had at his disposal to support Obasanjo’s emergence as the PDP presidential candidate and, when he joined the ticket as the vice-presidential nominee, continued to make his assets available to Obasanjo and the campaign.
SmartPolician: E reach to bully him. That man should respect himself. How can he be contesting every 4 years? He has no regards for the unsigned North-South presidential agreement
In 2019, only two northerners contested the election. But every time it's the turn of the South, northerners will come out in their numbers to contest.
Did Jagaban of Borgu have respect for the unsigned north-south agreement in 2015, when he made Jonathan a one term president in favour of his fellow northerner Buhari?
The same old soldier who he described as expired four years earlier o.
OAFMods: This response reels of extreme foolishness n stupidity rolled up in one. PDP deregulation to Atiku cronies , Nitel, NEPA, Nigeria Airways Nicon etc
16 years of endless queue of valuable manhole wastage,subsidy fraud with supplied empty vessels, trillions wasted to produce even more darkness. Try stop being silly now abi u think say na genz u de follow drag.
Make we no talk boko haram banditry kidnapping n militancy same PDP introduced during it years of ingnominy.
When was the last time you reviewed your primary school lesson on comparatives
thisweekng: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.” Private sector to drive the economy
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.’
danvon: Sane climate you mean USA where ordinary ICE agents executed a man?
Baileyz101: So you think USA is the most moral or saner country in the world.
Do we expect to see anything like this American response to the extrajudicial killing in the video
Immigration Arrests In US Down By Nearly 12% After Minneapolis Killings
"Turn and burn," top Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino called the strategy, with relentless displays of force and teams of agents descending on restaurant kitchens, bus stops and Home Depot parking lots.
In December, arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents peaked at nearly 40,000 nationwide and were nearly as high the next month, according to data provided to UC Berkeley's Deportation Data Project and analyzed by The Associated Press.
In late January, the killings in Minneapolis of two American citizens by immigration officers and growing concerns over the government's heavy-handed tactics led to a shake-up of top immigration officials. In the weeks that followed, ICE arrests across the country dropped on average by nearly 12%.
Polling has found the general public felt the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota went too far, a factor that may have contributed to the abrupt firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in early March.
Bovino, who swaggered through raid scenes in tactical gear and was the public face of the Trump administration crackdown, was pushed aside following the killings in Minneapolis of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Border czar Tom Homan was then sent to the Twin Cities to chart a new course for immigration enforcement, and he announced the drawdown of immigration agents in the state on February 4.