How is your attachment an answer to the questions asked
anonimi: Where is the credible source for your claim of highest oil boom between 1999-2015?
If Tinubu and Buhari are borrowing more despite removing subsidy TWICE in 2016 and 2023 but owing workers, owing pensioners and even contractors with worse roads, then what are they doing with all the money apart from stealing it?
Fashionista01: They are using our forces against the opposition party. This is how the APC treats the strong opposition party because of fear. Already, they are afraid; that is why they resort to this method to stop the opposition party.
Was communist LP labourers party a strong opposition party when Obi denied them use of Anambra facilities, a decade before he followed unreliable, unprincipled Utomi there, to help Tinubu get SE votes indirectly
Obi is obviously a clone of wicked dictator Tinubu, with their anti-people policies to suffocate the masses.
anidan: All because of 2027 election . Just begging for South east vote
Does he have to beg for the votes, when Obi will simply hand them over to him like he did in 2023?
Kwankwaso is the new Utomi.
As a VP to Peter Obi, he will lose and I will lose because No northerner will ever vote an ibo man as president — Kwankwaso 😳🔥👇 pic.twitter.com/YRBzWRbzvs
aswani: Prof Utomi, yes that President Tinubu's Pat Utomi, is in NDC with him still making sure that he is doing enough to ensure that Peter Obí is not a threat to President Tinubu.
To use a footballing parlance, he has close marked Peter Obí out of making important decisions that might threaten President Tinubu in the elections.
Peter Obi should have stayed in ADC and accepted the VP slot. He is now in a much smaller party and his Obidients are being taken for granted in NDC. Prof Utomi did his job well in 2023 and has now exceeded that already.
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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.
victorazyvictor: Pipline for what benefits to ndi Igbo? Your laying pipe through, crossing south east and ur calling it a favour? And out of $100m you remitted just $3m, no be 419 project be that? Why cant you revamp the Rail system to be moving goods from north to east and return. What Enugu need is water pipe line not gas pipe line.
Well said about water pipes for Enugu and other states.
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.’
Wizardslayer: Apart from Eastern region, every other region are parasites. When you hear them say south east is landlocked and has nothing to offer. Bunch of jokers.
What is the VAT generated by the region versus what it receives
malali: It is time for the National Assembly to initiate impeachment proceedings and subject this administration to the full scrutiny of the Constitution. Nigerians cannot continue to bear the crushing cost of economic hardship, insecurity, and fiscal mismanagement without meaningful accountability. If the evidence meets the constitutional threshold, the Senate and House of Representatives must act. Tinubu where is the money from petrol subsidy/ Forex subsidy removal ? Where is the money from selling a barrel of crude oil at over $100. Where is the money from the massive loans borrowed ? Buhari paid petrol subsidy, Buhari paid forex subsidy, Buhari's regime only got $30 for a barrel of crude oil. Buhari's regime did not put Nigerians in as much hardship, as we have today. No president is above the Constitution, and no public office is a license for impunity.
Does the National Assembly include your own senator and representative? Abi those ones are excluded from the National Assembly
dahmie2013: The guy was just counting his chickens before they hatched. I mean, the electricity is terrible now. So bad to say the least.
How is telling blatant propaganda lies equal to counting your chickens before they are hatched?
Tinubu and APC are master strategists in propaganda lies to mesmerize Nigerians who are sweating profusely under their hardship deforms masquerading as reforms.
Bobloco: ‘Nigerians tell me to slow down, freezers are freezing’ — Power Minister
The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, on Wednesday said some Nigerians had asked him to “slow down” the improvement in electricity supply because, according to him, their freezers were now working continuously.
Tegbe made the statement in Abuja while speaking at the commissioning of the 3-megawatt solar hybrid power project at Yakubu Gowon University, formerly the University of Abuja.
The minister said he had been receiving feedback from electricity consumers following improvements in power supply in some parts of the country.
“Places that didn’t have light at all for three months are now having 18 hours light. Some areas called me to say, look, I should slow down, that everything in their freezer is freezing.
“That is what freezer is meant to do. Let it freeze the food that needs to be frozen,” Tegbe said.
Tegbe said he had promised during his Senate screening that Nigerians would begin to see noticeable improvements in electricity supply within three to six months.
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun made this known at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. Mr. Edun said that the benefit of the subsidy removal will be plough back into various sectors to improve business environment for local and foreign investment. He added that with the increased revenue from subsidy removal, various palliatives have been made available to cushion its effect on a short, medium and long-term basis.
Ofunaofu: Report: Current Govt Added More Debt in Two Years Than Nigeria Accumulated in 55 Years
• Decries Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio
•Urges FG to declare fiscal emergency
A new policy brief has warned that Nigeria’s worsening debt profile and weak revenue generation have pushed the country into a dangerous fiscal position, with the current administration accumulating more debt in two years than Nigeria recorded during its first 55 years after independence.
The report, released by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, a Nigerian policy think tank, argued that the country’s debt crisis has evolved into a governance and revenue emergency, as debt servicing obligations now exceed the federal government’s retained earnings. > > According to the think tank, Nigeria’s public debt rose sharply from N87.38 trillion in June 2023 to N159.28 trillion by the end of 2025, with President Bola Tinubu’s administration accounting for about N65.9 trillion of the increase within its first two years in office.
The organisation in the brief titled: “Nigeria Is Borrowing to Breathe—and the Clock Is Ticking”, noted that Nigeria accumulated only about N12.06 trillion in debt from independence in 1960 up to 2015, meaning the current administration added more than five times that amount in just 24 months.
The report stated that while previous governments also contributed significantly to the country’s rising debt burden, the speed of accumulation under the current administration had intensified concerns over fiscal sustainability.
“President Bola Tinubu’s administration has added a further N65.9 trillion in just two years. To put that in perspective: it took Nigeria’s first 55 years of independence to accumulate N12 trillion in debt. The current administration has added more than five times that amount in 24 months,” it argued.
It recalled that Nigeria briefly became almost debt-free externally after the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo secured an $18 billion Paris Club debt relief package in 2005 and paid $12 billion to extinguish about $30 billion in external obligations.
It’s nice to see that this road axis is still good, unlike other roads that are worse now than when PDP gave us cheap petrol and prosperity with less debt and tax burden.
How do we work together to restore our long lost better life under PDP deregulation and privatisation policy experts?
Bobloco: ‘Nigerians tell me to slow down, freezers are freezing’ — Power Minister
The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, on Wednesday said some Nigerians had asked him to “slow down” the improvement in electricity supply because, according to him, their freezers were now working continuously.
Tegbe made the statement in Abuja while speaking at the commissioning of the 3-megawatt solar hybrid power project at Yakubu Gowon University, formerly the University of Abuja.
The minister said he had been receiving feedback from electricity consumers following improvements in power supply in some parts of the country.
“Places that didn’t have light at all for three months are now having 18 hours light. Some areas called me to say, look, I should slow down, that everything in their freezer is freezing.
“That is what freezer is meant to do. Let it freeze the food that needs to be frozen,” Tegbe said.
Tegbe said he had promised during his Senate screening that Nigerians would begin to see noticeable improvements in electricity supply within three to six months.
Bobloco: ‘Nigerians tell me to slow down, freezers are freezing’ — Power Minister
The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, on Wednesday said some Nigerians had asked him to “slow down” the improvement in electricity supply because, according to him, their freezers were now working continuously.
Tegbe made the statement in Abuja while speaking at the commissioning of the 3-megawatt solar hybrid power project at Yakubu Gowon University, formerly the University of Abuja.
The minister said he had been receiving feedback from electricity consumers following improvements in power supply in some parts of the country.
“Places that didn’t have light at all for three months are now having 18 hours light. Some areas called me to say, look, I should slow down, that everything in their freezer is freezing.
“That is what freezer is meant to do. Let it freeze the food that needs to be frozen,” Tegbe said.
Tegbe said he had promised during his Senate screening that Nigerians would begin to see noticeable improvements in electricity supply within three to six months.
Should we vote for him then, even though he has failed to:
- create 50 million jobs promised? - crash petrol price below N185 as he said in January 2023 - deliver N300/$1 in the short term before achieving N200/$1 in May 2027 - stop borrowing after saving billions of dollars from subsidy removal, and hitting his higher revenue targets in August
TheChameleon: Atiku is so unlucky. Had 2023 almost wrapped until Obi was fooled into working for Tinubu.
That one is so dull that he will repeat the same for BAT in 2027.
KwankwaSUYA knows he's working for BAT but I doubt Obi knows. 3rdy for a good reason
While you are very correct about 2023, Atiku’s best chance to take charge of our country for better governance, was two decades earlier, in 2003.
His foolish loyalty and generosity to ingrate alaimore Obasanjo is what denied Nigerians of that opportunity, to benefit from his consistent deregulation and privatisation policies for unrivalled, shared prosperity and peace of everyone.
OUK speaks out on PDP’s 2003 presidential primaries and how Atiku resisted pressure to be president instead of Obasanjo who wanted to betray northerners after they made him president on the promise of doing one term like Mandela.
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aieromon: According to sources available to us that time, Obasanjo said he will do a single term but after that, he decided to go for second term. I was physically present at Rivers state Governor’s Lodge when the heat became too much and Obasanjo in the presence of all of us knelt down in front of Atiku begging him to allow him do a second term. I think that was how Atiku missed the opportunity by agreeing to Obasanjo’s plea. His thought was that at least, if Obasanjo completes his second term, he will hand over to him but you all know the story of Third Term Agenda and that was how they fell apart. Atiku had the best opportunity to become president in 2003 and lost it. He had the support of PDP governors then.
Around November 2002, 15 of the 21 Governors from the PDP including me, had an ad hoc meeting at my lodge in Abuja to decide who should be nominated by the Governors Committee for election by PDP as the presidential nominee for the 2003 Election.
The Governors Committee decided almost unanimously to get a new candidate instead of President Obasanjo as the Committee was of the view that because of his military background, he was intolerant of dissent and had displayed very dictatorial and vindictive tendencies against those he perceived to be independent-minded and disloyal to him.
Immediately after the Governors meeting, I led the delegation of Governors to meet the then PDP Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, at his residence around 2 am.
As the leader of the delegation, I spoke and communicated the views of the Governors to the Chairman, which was that the Governors had decided not to support President Obasanjo as PDPs nominee for the 2003 General Election.
The party chairman tried to persuade us to review our decision but when he saw our resolve, he told us that he would inform the President. I was later informed by Chief Audu Ogbeh that after we left his house he put an urgent call to the President and informed him of our decision.
What then followed were intense consultations before the PDP annual convention which took place in January 2003. Two days before the party convention, the Governors had a breakfast meeting with President Obasanjo.
I recall that at that meeting, the then Vice President Alhaji Abubakar Atiku told the President in the presence of the Governors that he was known to be very dictatorial, vindictive and unforgiving. The President appealed to the Governors to support him and assured both the Governors and the party leadership that if he was allowed to continue for the second term, he would adopt a more democratic approach.
On the basis of the President's assurance, given at that breakfast meeting, I led the move for the Governors to support his presidential nomination for the second term. However, notwithstanding my support for President Obasanjo's nomination for a second term, the President after the nomination, acted very shabbily towards me.
When I met him soon after the convention, he told me that he had learned that I had put forward the view that he was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable. He then vowed that he was going to make sure that I was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable.
Atiku Camp - Visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DID VP ATIKU OUTFOX BABANGIDA AND OBASANJO DURING THE PDP CONVENTION?
According to Adesanya, Atiku met the governors the first day of the convention; they urged him to leave Obasanjo and seek the nomination himself. Atiku demurred; he also deflected the suggestion that he join Ekwueme. Finally, Atiku arranged a meeting between Obasanjo and the now irate governors. The governors railed that Obasanjo was hypocritically pursuing them for corruption, while turning a blind eye to corrupt politicians within his own Administration. Atiku supported the governor's position, telling Obasanjo that significant corruption was not the exclusive ambit of the governors and that serious transgressions occurred in the executive branch: he said it would be unjust to focus exclusively on gubernatorial excesses. Assuming the role of mediator, Atiku then asked both sides to affirm their mutual support and cease the antagonism being fueled by elements that wanted to destroy the PDP. The governors agreed to bury the hatchet, if Obasanjo would shelve the dossiers. Having demonstrated his influence with the governors, Atiku continued to play coy with Obasanjo.
In the end, Atiku extracted an extraordinary concession from the President. Obasanjo agreed to relinquish the entire domestic agenda to Atiku, including the appointment of key economic policy-makers. Since Obasanjo focused on the world arena during his first term and aspired for recognition as an international statesman, Atiku said that is where he would like Obasanjo's attentions to remain. Obasanjo would serve the role of a "super Foreign Minister" and ceremonial Head of State. As Adesanya understood the agreement, Atiku would be allowed to direct domestic economic policy while Obasanjo busied himself with debt relief, NEPAD, conflict resolution and other measures to shore up Nigeria's image abroad.
OBJ camp - visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DIFFERENT INSIDER VIEWS ON THE PDP CONVENTION
The President was dazed, Abayomi recalled. Jarred by the unexpected possibility of defeat, the usually know-it-all Obasanjo eagerly solicited counsel on how to escape the closing vise. Early that day, the dominant theme was to seek a court injunction postponing the convention. Proponents suggested the delay to afford Obasanjo time to marshal support and undermine Ekwueme's momentum. However, this idea was ultimately discarded, partially because of apprehension over the public's reaction. More importantly, the push for an injunction became less urgent when the President's advisors began to sense their man was regaining ground by the hour.
The President owed much of his recovery to his own tenacity and, at times, shamelessness. He pulled out virtually all the stops to clinch the nomination, according to Abayomi. For most of that day, the President's diet consisted of liberal portions of humble pie. The President pleaded and cajoled; on at least two occasions his eyes welled with emotion as he pursued fence-sitting delegates and governors. However, Obasanjo saved his best to keep Vice President Atiku from defecting.
With rumor swirling that Atiku would opt to run with Ekwueme, Obasanjo wasted no time visiting the Vice President's residence. Obasanjo begged, declaring he would not leave Atiku's home unless the Vice President accompanied him to win back the delegates and governors. The performance had the desired effect. Atiku joined Obasanjo in publicly lobbying the conventioneers. While it might not have been Obasanjo's finest hour it was the defining moment of the convention. What had been a suspenseful contest would now turn into a rout.
HacheNoire: That is guaranteed! Atiku is in same shoes with Obasanjo when it comes to political influence. They never served their people and influence nothing in their respective states.
Is that how it is also guaranteed that 200 million Nigerians will continue to lose their lives and livelihoods to Tinubu and APC balablu bulaba deformed policies that are fraudulently packaged as reforms?
Meanwhile, patriotic Nigerians are working to make sure Tinubu calamity ends in May 2027, so we can restore the better life of prosperity, peace and security with cheap petrol, cheap dollars as well as less debt and tax burden of PDP era.
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
Nigeria loses 47% of dollar millionaires, retains 4th position in Africa
Nigeria has lost nearly half of its dollar millionaires over the past decade, with the population of high-net-worth individuals falling by 47 per cent between 2015 and 2025, according to the 2025 Africa Wealth Report by Henley & Partners in collaboration with New World Wealth.
Despite the sharp erosion in private wealth, Nigeria retained its position as Africa’s fourth-largest hub for dollar millionaires, with 7,200 millionaires, 20 centi-millionaires (individuals with investable wealth of at least $100 million) and three billionaires, trailing only South Africa, Egypt and Morocco.
The report showed that South Africa remained the continent’s wealthiest country by number of dollar millionaires, with 41,100 millionaires, 112 centi-millionaires and eight billionaires. Egypt followed with 14,800 millionaires, 49 centi-millionaires and seven billionaires.
Guestmale: Cheap petrol or subsidize petrol. The mess created by corruption laden 16 locust years of PDP rule is what this government trying to clear. Our common patrimony was sold out to their cronies under the guise of privatization supervised by the same AA today where are those companies and infrastructures The insecurities which Nigeria is passing through now started during PDP regime and over $2 billion meant to purchase of weapons, fighter jets, helicopters, and ammunition to fight the Boko Haram insurgency was instead diverted into fraudulent defense contracts and political patronage. Nigeria during PDP rule experience highest oil boom ever yet fg later resulted to borrow money to pay workers salary
Where is the credible source for your claim of highest oil boom between 1999-2015?
If Tinubu and Buhari are borrowing more despite removing subsidy TWICE in 2016 and 2023 but owing workers, owing pensioners and even contractors with worse roads, then what are they doing with all the money apart from stealing it?
Itiswell234: Shut up Atiku. Tinubu made more noise than you. He fought the then president, Nigerians thought he was right. Fell into that Demonic party's hand. Again I said, Atiku Shut up!!!! Let the South also waste their own 8 yrs. Besides non can actually solve Nigeria's problems . Besides you were part of the people who brought this calamity of a party to Nigerians.
Was Atiku part of the administration that laid the deregulation and privatisation agenda for PDP’s 16 years of cheap petrol, cheap dollars, prosperity and high employment productivity to be the biggest African economy? Or was he not?
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
dre11: Atiku's “If public service workers receive ₦70,000 monthly for transport from November, what happens to private sector workers, traders, small businesses, transport operators and millions without formal jobs? The public workforce is only a fraction of Nigeria’s population. A temporary allowance for some cannot solve a national crisis.]
How will Bayo Onanuga defend this one now?
Maybe he will delegate the defence to someone else, just like his balablu bulaba empty barrel boss delegated insecurity questions to El Rufai in London
Misterone: Oga my belly full! Obi is a criminal! Governance is not about investing public funds but about caring for the welfare of the people. Obi that wants tó invest public funds in banks, wants to bring back subsidy! Does it make sense to you?
Obi does not want to bring back subsidy.
He opposed Atiku’s proposal to do it, which would grow the economy in multiple directions, just like the telecom sector deregulation of a quarter century ago.
slivertongue: Instead of stealing public funds invest it in financial instruments, instead of wasting and mismanaging public funds because of lack of ideas save it in banks against the rainy day. Saving part of Nigeria's earnings will reduce if not eliminate unnecessary borrowings to fund the budget.
Peter for President
Is this why Peter (like other governors since 1999) failed to employ enough well paid teachers to make education free for all children in his tenure, despite Obasanjo and Atiku establishing UBEC to provide matching federal funds for nine years free education of all children?
How will Nigeria develop without an educated workforce
TheChameleon: Obi is working for Tinubu Ibos with their ego refused to listen that Obi help crown Tinubu by sabotaging Atiku. 2027 will just be a repeat. Solution if you truly want Tinubu out is to ignore Obi and vote for Atiku. But... Prevalence of MirakuruCenter no dey help critical thinking skills
Indeed, Kwankwaso has put Obi in a quarantine lockdown for next year, since he has renewed hope for 2031, if the master strategist of betrayals does not grab a 3rd term to be a life president like they have in Paul Biya of Cameroon. Something that Obasanjo failed to achieve in 2007, thanks to Atiku's loyalty to the constitution and leadership of other democracy heroes.
Kwankwaso is the new Utomi.
As a VP to Peter Obi, he will lose and I will lose because No northerner will ever vote an ibo man as president — Kwankwaso 😳🔥👇 pic.twitter.com/YRBzWRbzvs
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.
aswani: Prof Utomi, yes that President Tinubu's Pat Utomi, is in NDC with him still making sure that he is doing enough to ensure that Peter Obí is not a threat to President Tinubu.
To use a footballing parlance, he has close marked Peter Obí out of making important decisions that might threaten President Tinubu in the elections.
Peter Obi should have stayed in ADC and accepted the VP slot. He is now in a much smaller party and his Obidients are being taken for granted in NDC. Prof Utomi did his job well in 2023 and has now exceeded that already.
AustineE1: The 2027 elections may be the easiest for Obi,with the kind of hate,disaffection,bitterness and anger Nigerians have for Tinubu and his APC goons,I don't see Tinubu posing any threat,its just Peter Obi vs Atiku. Before 12noon on the elections day,Tinubu's fate would have been decided,elections done and dusted. Tinubu can then go on holidays in Paris,while we will have a breath of fresh air with Obi's presidency. I guess Chinua Achebe envisaged Peter Obi when he wrote the novel 'man of the people'!
Are these the things that make Obi, man of the people Obi is nothing but a clone of wicked Tinubu, who he helped unwittingly to grab power from Buhari 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.
HacheNoire: Any nation that has a leader like Vladimir Putin or The Demigod- His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR), is bound for greatness and will be taking rigid steps that will have footprints in the books of history. Those two are rare kinds! No way same God created those two and Trump.
Is this how Tinubu is leading our country to greatness
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun made this known at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. Mr. Edun said that the benefit of the subsidy removal will be plough back into various sectors to improve business environment for local and foreign investment. He added that with the increased revenue from subsidy removal, various palliatives have been made available to cushion its effect on a short, medium and long-term basis.
Ofunaofu: Report: Current Govt Added More Debt in Two Years Than Nigeria Accumulated in 55 Years
• Decries Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio
•Urges FG to declare fiscal emergency
A new policy brief has warned that Nigeria’s worsening debt profile and weak revenue generation have pushed the country into a dangerous fiscal position, with the current administration accumulating more debt in two years than Nigeria recorded during its first 55 years after independence.
The report, released by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, a Nigerian policy think tank, argued that the country’s debt crisis has evolved into a governance and revenue emergency, as debt servicing obligations now exceed the federal government’s retained earnings. > > According to the think tank, Nigeria’s public debt rose sharply from N87.38 trillion in June 2023 to N159.28 trillion by the end of 2025, with President Bola Tinubu’s administration accounting for about N65.9 trillion of the increase within its first two years in office.
The organisation in the brief titled: “Nigeria Is Borrowing to Breathe—and the Clock Is Ticking”, noted that Nigeria accumulated only about N12.06 trillion in debt from independence in 1960 up to 2015, meaning the current administration added more than five times that amount in just 24 months.
The report stated that while previous governments also contributed significantly to the country’s rising debt burden, the speed of accumulation under the current administration had intensified concerns over fiscal sustainability.
“President Bola Tinubu’s administration has added a further N65.9 trillion in just two years. To put that in perspective: it took Nigeria’s first 55 years of independence to accumulate N12 trillion in debt. The current administration has added more than five times that amount in 24 months,” it argued.
It recalled that Nigeria briefly became almost debt-free externally after the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo secured an $18 billion Paris Club debt relief package in 2005 and paid $12 billion to extinguish about $30 billion in external obligations.
PlasmaTV: Siri, play me Fela - me I no be gentleman at all. 2027 election will either make or break Nigeria. This country is at the breaking point. Tinubu and his lackeys want to stamp a law that will prevent any incoming leader (H.E Peter Obi) to reverse their brainless and senseless policies but God pass them.
Obi is on the same page with Tinubu on his brainless and senseless policies, but God indeed pass both wicked leaders looters.
Is it not karma that the same communist LP labourers' party he bullied was where Utomi dragged him to in 2023, so that the rigged SE votes can indirectly help Tinubu grab power from Buhari
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.
ezenna191: Terrible people destroying the country. Government should scale up security in this country.
This Muslim-Muslim APC government that invited terrorists to destroy Nigeria before Tinubu begged Buhari to make Jonathan a one term president? Abi another government
Chucks13: Obi, atiku and aregbe are the best to ask such question cus they are the 3 masters bitchs in.owing salary and still feel proud about it..
Tinubu and APC are the worst debtors for salaries, pensions and even contracts, despite saving billions of dollars from subsidy removal and borrowing away our future nevertheless.
Moreover, the person responsible for Osun unpaid salaries is Tinubu's minister and relative.
anonimi: Nigeria: Pensioners Urge Tinubu to Pay Arrears
26 March 2003 This Day (Lagos)
Lagos — Pension teachers in Lagos State under the aegis of Teacher Pensioners of Nigeria (TEPAN) have urged Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to review his stance on paying the harmonised three year old outstanding pension allowance or risk losing their votes.
In a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of TEPAN, Mr. Ayodabo 'Lade, accused Tinubu of failing to pay the arrears to teachers on their correct pension grade since the year 2000, contrary to what was obtainable in other five States of the South-west controlled by the Alliance for Democracy (AD).
DenreleDave: But not everyone will steal... I have never stole from my employer but I know that some staffs are really stealing and that's why they are not complaining... As a accountant, it is a stain against my professional ethics...... I just want them to pay us regularly so I don't have to borrow
It's obvious you are not like that olodo who claims to be a Chicago trained accountant, since he borrows like crazy despite saving billions of dollars from subsidy removal that hiked petrol price instead of crashing it below N185. Congrats boss.
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