Biodun556: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he was in a hurry to see Nigeria attain its potential for greatness, stressing that he is now “getting close” to his departure lounge.
Was he in a hurry to see our country attain greatness when he helped ebilokan end PDP’s 16 years of deregulation and privatisation capitalist prosperity through high employment productivity.
How could he abandon the party that made him president from Abacha’s prison in favour of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC to unleash shege extreme poverty on 200 million unsuspecting Nigerians?
citizenisb: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari may not do well in economy and foreign affairs, except in military matters.
“Buhari is not a very hot person on the economy and foreign affairs,” Obasanjo said.
The former President stated this on Monday at the third International Conference on African Development Issues — themed, “Driving inclusive and sustainable development in Africa: Models, methods and policies” — organised by Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State.
While reacting to a question posed to him by a member of the audience: “Is there any hope for Nigeria under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari?”, Obasanjo replied, “Is there any hope for Nigeria under this administration? I came back from Geneva, Switzerland a few days ago to attend a conference titled, ‘Are elections giving democracy a bad name?’ We had an election, we elected a leader and the good thing about democracy is that the power you have to elect a leader is also the power you have to remove him. I am saying this because I said earlier that if you don’t see any leader that has done well in the 56 years of Nigeria’s independence, then let us forget about Nigeria.
“I will tell you what I know and I will tell you what I don’t know. I know Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. He served under me in the military. His characteristics that I know, his behaviour that I know, he has not deviated from them. He was never a perfect man, he is not a perfect man and no leader can ever be a perfect man because they are human beings. But if you read my book, what I said about him is correct. He is not a hot person when it comes to economy. He is not a very hot person when it comes to foreign affairs. But he will do well in matters of military and he will do well in fighting Boko Haram.”
How many teachers, healthcare workers, water supply workers etc has he employed for the strategic purpose of making education free for all children, basic healthcare free for all residents, water available for all households etc?
I hope that he is not using ebilokan’s lootocracy master plan for Abia State
The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.
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.’
Softmirror: He should have told Peter Obi this when he was campaigning for Peter Obi in his church to become President of a country not created by 'god' not after Peter Obi lost and is now hopeless.
The hopeless situation created by ebilokan and his clueless, corrupt and incompetent administration
May Day: Hunger, unemployment, insecurity real— Tinubu
According to him: “The theme demands our collective attention and serves as a stark reminder of the need to create an environment where every worker feels safe, valued, and empowered to contribute to the growth and prosperity of our nation. As your President, I assure you that this administration is committed to creating such an environment for the common good.”
On the economic hardship, he noted that while it is a global phenomenon, its effects on Nigerians are particularly severe.
Tinubu said: “I am aware of the peculiarities of the economic hardship Nigerians face—rising living costs, hunger, insecurity, unemployment, and the loss of livelihoods. These challenges are real and demand definitive solutions, which I am poised to address as your President.
What works is he doing to UNcreate the British amalgamation, as the Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have done? Same thing happened with Malaysia and Singapore as well as Sudan and South Sudan.
Does he think that- Faith without work is dead- is not applicable to public issues and community matters
Smartcitizen: And you claim to stop it if APC come onboard?
The same thing you were claiming about the Port Harcourt refinery working within one year and after all these propaganda where is our REFINERY?
I hate you people for this propaganda please.
It simply means that Oshiomhole’s Association of Past Criminals, APC has been running an unreasonable government since 2015.
Firefire: Buhari said: “If you elect me as the President of Nigeria on February 14 (now March 28), I am assuring you that our government will chase Boko Haram out of Nigeria within two months because it is the responsibility of any reasonable government to secure the lives and property of its citizens.”
Enice: Oga! We're in a democracy! All moneys accruing to the federation account must be shared in a certain percentage. Therefore, stop asking what Tinubu did with money that belongs to everyone.
That question is very silly. Also, stop banding figures you know nothing about together. Debts are not calculated from write-ups in newspapers. Go to the DMO website for figures.
Since your own question is not very silly, why don’t you post what you saw on DMO website and the link
Enice: Oga! Debts owed by the FG in Naira is no debt because the FG has the powers to print more money to pay back. Most of this debts are dollar debts.
It's you guys playing hanky panky with dollar rates that's making noise about this.
How am I the president who is playing hanky panky with dollar rate despite $84 billion subsidy savings and reduced fuel imports and N5.1 trillion trade surplus?
Any idea what ebilokan is doing with all these billions of dollars and trillions of Naira apart from stealing it to bribe politicians for his reelection, since most of us don’t vote, talk less about participating in other aspects of politics and governance?
Racoon: The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa. Nigeria’s low voter turnout
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections. With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million..The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.
Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.
Britishpea: I don’t think it’s greediness. It is within his right and the purview of of the constitution that he can contest as long as he wants.
There is no reason to attack any man with vision and dreams. People do business for decades yet continue the business even after they have made a lot of money in the same business.
It’s a great thing for everyone to have dreams.
BUT his arrogance has been the reason he has never been the president and I believe his time has passed. He is a rude politician who believes that after money nothing else is needed to achieve his dreams. He had his best chance in 2023 having lost the can he in 2019.
His arrogance was the only reason Tinubu won him. He was ordinarily meant to win that election.
I agree with you on his arrogance being the obstacle to his presidential ambition.
However, his best chance was in 2003, when he graciously refused to make Obasanjo a one term president, in the way that ebilokan made Jonathan in 2015.
It was Atiku’s refusal that must have made Buhari contest and lose in 2003.
Skeyskey: Atiku the greedy. Imagine contesting for presidential election since 1993?
Children born then are now grandpa and grandma.
Since 1993, how much improvement has the country witnessed outside the deregulation and privatisation era of PDP capitalists, of which Atiku is an integral part?
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
Softmirror: This administration dey really, really favour me make I talk true.
May Almighty God continue to bless President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I pray e go favor all of una wey dey complain too o.
How can hyperinflation, unemployment, extreme poverty and insecurity favour anyone with a conscience?
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.
World Bank offers Nigeria forex rate advice, as Tinubu eyes N200/Dollar rate
April 23, 2023
The President-elect said he would work with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to *bring down the exchange rate to N200 in his first term.*
“My administration will collaborate with the Central Bank to harmonize the fiscal and monetary policy to achieve immediate stabilization of the value of the naira against the US dollars and other currencies and in the short term, strengthen the naira by boosting the supply of foreign currency and moderating demand.
“The short-term goal is to achieve a naira/dollar rate of 300 naira/US$ and gradually achieve a less than 200 naira rate over the next four years, Tinubu stated.
May Day: Hunger, unemployment, insecurity real— Tinubu
According to him: “The theme demands our collective attention and serves as a stark reminder of the need to create an environment where every worker feels safe, valued, and empowered to contribute to the growth and prosperity of our nation. As your President, I assure you that this administration is committed to creating such an environment for the common good.”
On the economic hardship, he noted that while it is a global phenomenon, its effects on Nigerians are particularly severe.
Tinubu said: “I am aware of the peculiarities of the economic hardship Nigerians face—rising living costs, hunger, insecurity, unemployment, and the loss of livelihoods. These challenges are real and demand definitive solutions, which I am poised to address as your President.
NinjaMetahuman: school no be scam. It's debt serviced not debt accrued.
It means Tinubu has paid or cleared more Nigeria's debt in 2 years than any other president in the history of Nigeria bar buhari.
It's positive stat for him.
How do you increase debt despite paying more for debt servicing, and call it positive stat?
Truly school na scam for the laptop people.
Nigeria’s public debt rose to N149.39tn in Q1 2025 – DMO 28th June 2025
Nigeria’s total public debt rose to N149.39tn as of March 31, 2025, marking a year-on-year increase of N27.72tn or 22.8 per cent compared to the N121.67tn recorded in the corresponding period of 2024.
The figure, released by the Debt Management Office on Friday, also reflects a quarter-on-quarter increase of N4.72tn or 3.3 per cent from N144.67tn as at December 31, 2024.
The persistent rise in debt stock is attributed to new borrowings by the Federal Government and the depreciation of the naira, which inflated the local currency value of external loans.
This surge comes against a backdrop of persistent fiscal pressures and continued reliance on both domestic and foreign borrowing to fund public expenditure.
Eniitankorede: Nigeria’s debt is $2 billion less than he met it.
What are you talking about?
I am talking about something that you should know but you are feigning ignorance.
NinjaMetahuman: the debt is about him paying off our debt,
You can create your own thread to talk about debt accrued, which I'm not is not even up up half of previous presidents..
How do you pay down debt and it is still increasing
Nigeria’s Debt Crisis: How did we get here?
Following the 2023 general elections, Nigeria’s debt deteriorated significantly, increasing from N49.85 trillion to over N134.30 trillion within a short period.
As of September 2024, Nigeria’s public debt totalled N142.3 trillion, equivalent to approximately N624,527 per person.
socialmediaman: The 2018 Rating by Transparency International placed Nigeria at 148th position out of 180 countries. Nigeria was improving over the years under the previous government, until Buhari got elected as president, things became worse.
There is a difference between fact and fiction. We need to face facts, Buhari is worse than GEJ when it comes to fighting corruption, at least that’s what the facts prove.
Most of us believed there was corruption under Goodluck Jonathan’s Government. I agree with those who did, there was corruption, but not as bad as it is today under Mohammadu Buhari.
In 2012, Nigeria was placed at 139th position, In 2014, Nigeria gained 3 steps and was placed at 136th position. Under Buhari, Nigeria has lost many positions down to 148th.
There’s no further proof needed that corruption has worsened under Buhari’s government compared to previous years.
Osebanjo: Omo. Why was GEJ so clueless though. Last time I saw the reserve thread. He literally shredded everything. It got worse under him that his own minister had to cry out how they were borrowing to pay debt.
GEJ had the biggest oil boom era, services little debt but somehow still mismanage the economy. What happen? Could it be the subsidies or what exactly?
Yar’Adua had the biggest oil boom.
Jonathan spent marginally higher on debt servicing than Yar’Adua even though he achieved far more in socioeconomic conditions and infrastructure.
Jonathan spent far less than ebilokan’s expired northerner Buhari who was used to end 16 years of PDP privatisation and deregulation prosperity for all.
JASONjnr: It's been just two years and Tinubu is making serious efforts on our external debt.
My problem is with someone who walk around listening to m♧d people to advice his followers....
How is 75% in less than two years of what his expired northerner spent in eight years, equal to serious efforts?
What arithmetic formula does that?
Meanwhile, any logical explanation for why ebilokan is borrowing more money than previous presidents after his $84 billion subsidy savings that has made petrol and everything else very expensive and choking people
The Federal Government says it has no intention to borrow from any local or foreign organisation with its removal of subsidy on petrol and exchange rate harmonisation.
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Chief Wale Edun, revealed this at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting on Monday in Abuja.
He said that the benefit of the subsidy removal would be ploughed back into various sectors aimed at boosting government revenue and improving the business environment for local and foreign investment.
Edun said 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.
He reiterated the President Bola Tinubu-led administration’s desire to bring back the economy from the wood it has found itself over time.
During GEJJonathan, oil boom average of $110 per barrel, average of 2.2 mbpd yet left huge debt. No infrastructures projects, and borrowed to pay salaries.
You should stop spreading misinformation and propaganda about the best president.
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
FG, States, LGs Share N568.4 Billion for Oct 15 NOVEMBER 2013
Also, $1billion was proposed for distribution to complement shortfall in expected revenue." The $1billion is a compromise by the FG over its words in September not to augment shortfalls anymore.
Responding to the presentation, the chairman of the States Commissioners of Finance and Ebonyi State Commissioner of Finance, Mr Timothy Odaah, lamented that the statutory allocation was getting smaller and smaller. "It appears this is the worst in terms of returns. This is the least in allocations as far as this year is concerned. We are mourning the dearth of funds and this is a wakeup call for states and local governments to buoy up their internally generated revenue."
While appreciating the "magnanimity" of President Goodluck Jonathan to approve the $1billion from the excess crude account and to be shared among the federal, state and local governments, Odaah expressed disappointment with the returns made by the NNPC.
He said that the states had requested for $2bn to complement for the shortfall in revenue but got only $1billion. In September, Odaah and fellow commissioners had walked out of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) when the federal government said that the framework of the 2013 budget was no longer realistic and it won't augment shortfall in revenue. Odaah raised issues with the statutory allocations of previous months.
Nico360: The problem is the system of Government we are presently practicing. It’s designed to fail.
Regionalism with Autonomy will produce a better yield but many don't want it.
So what enlightenment works are you doing to make more people like regionalism and autonomy, which you know will produce a better system of government?
What did your own senator and representative in Abuja say about your proposal? Are they going to lobby other senators and representatives to include the amendments in the 6th Amendment to the 1999 constitution currently being debated?
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.”
Eriokanmi: Dey play. This one belongs to the league of chop make i chop politicians..all of you will be humbled,come 2027. I thought they said obi didn't have structures ahead of 2023 elections and he can't win a LGA .
Come 2027, they'd see the largest political structure in Nigeria's history. I pray atiku eats his humble pie and allows Obi run cos he can't win
When Atiku ate your humble pie in 2023, why did Wike chase Obi out of PDP to make ebilokan's path to Aso Rock easier with 100% indirect SE votes for APC?
jameshankss: Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
How would an ojulowo Yoruba deny us the no. 4 position in 2011 and then turn around to say that Jonathan and PDP marginalised us as a pretext to make his expired northerner Buhari president? Why did we allow him replace PDP deregulation and privatisation driven prosperity with APC palliative-sharing progreThief shege
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.
EKONGKING: ok and you wonder why others nationality’s look down on us.
Hmmm, you have spoken with deep thought, to reflect upon our self centred existence that shortchanges us.
I guess we don't understand that just as a good mind exists in a good body, so also it's easier for evrry individual to succeeed and flourish in a good environment where everyone does everything with Enlightened Self Interest (ESI) consciousness.
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)[1][2] 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.
muyico: She catching cruise, online, I wonders where her cruise will take her to
I hope that it brings her back to join 200 million of us here, struggling to find locations to act on Akpabio's mocking advice in this ebilokan continuity of APC shege, unleashed on unsuspecting Nigerians 10 years ago as change.
Omicronvaccine: Wherever You See Free Food, Eat It - Nigerian Senate President, Senator Akpabio Advises Nigerians
BayoBilisi: Enugwu-Otu Aguleri hinterland gets its first-ever General Hospital, reducing the over two-hour boat journey to the nearest mainland hospital for sick individuals and pregnant women. Thank you, Soludo!
Why is this not stated? Can it be that he is building hospitals without employing workers, so that they will be abandoned after the press has left
That is what the Kaduna APC governor did below.
[quote author=FuglyGurl post=136557347]Kaduna Millennium City Hospital Newly Commissioned By Tinubu Now Abandoned, All Vehicles Removed After Presidential Visit
WATCH: Kaduna Millenium City Hospital Newly Commissioned By Tinubu Now Abandoned, All Vehicles Removed After Presidential Visit pic.twitter.com/OFrdbiSzCS
Jennyoral: Information reaching me is that Atiku has decided to step down and support Obi on one condition
He was ready to do so in 2023, after recruiting Obi four years earlier to be his running mate, from the obscurity of Obiano’s rejection in 2014.
Wike had other things in mind.
anonimi: 2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
RichBoy247: People who are very crafty and fraudulent will never lead Nigeria.
Tinubu left his former party which had structure all over Nigeria, he formed his own party and started from Lagos. He did not hide behind anybody. In 2022, Tinubu came out despite all gang up against him. Even when the then Presidency and its cabinet including Judas Osinbajo, Rauf Judas Aregbe, Emefielelele Godwin and others were against him, he came out to tell them all to go to hell. When he was to appoint VP, he picked Muslim to make it Muslim-Muslim ticket, he came out boldly to support his action and did not defend it for anybody.
Can anyone be more fraudulent than ebilokan who made his expired northerner president for change, when they have only been doing us shege since 2015?
May Day: Hunger, unemployment, insecurity real— Tinubu
According to him: “The theme demands our collective attention and serves as a stark reminder of the need to create an environment where every worker feels safe, valued, and empowered to contribute to the growth and prosperity of our nation. As your President, I assure you that this administration is committed to creating such an environment for the common good.”
On the economic hardship, he noted that while it is a global phenomenon, its effects on Nigerians are particularly severe.
Tinubu said: “I am aware of the peculiarities of the economic hardship Nigerians face—rising living costs, hunger, insecurity, unemployment, and the loss of livelihoods. These challenges are real and demand definitive solutions, which I am poised to address as your President.
Iyabo Obasanjo writes father, says: ‘Dear Daddy, you don’t own Nigeria
December 18, 2013
In what is turning out to be a season of open letters, daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Iyabo, has ruled out further communication with her father till death, describing him as a liar, manipulator, two-faced hypocrite determined to foist on President Goodluck Jonathan what no one would contemplate with him as president.
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo in a letter to her father accused him of having an egoistic craving for power and living a life where only men of low esteem and intellect thrive.
In the 11-page letter dated December 16, 2013 exclusively obtained by Vanguard, Iyabo accused her father of orchestrating a third term for himself as president, cruelty to family members, abandonment of children and grandchildren, and also, a legendary reputation of maltreatment of women.
Iyabo who forswore further political engagements in Nigeria denied any political motive for her missive, and described Nigeria as a country where her father and his ilk have helped to create a situation where smart, capable people bend down to imbeciles to survive. She particularly noted her experience as chairman of the Senate Committee on Health when she led the committee on a retreat appropriated for in the budget only for her to be prosecuted for it.
Iyabo, first child of the former president, started the letter titled, Open Letter to my Father with a 4th century Chinese proverb by Mencius which states: “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.”
Her letter:
“It brings me no joy to have to write this but since you started this trend of open letters I thought I would follow suit since you don’t listen to anyone anyway. The only way to reach you may be to make the public aware of some things. As a child well brought up by my long-suffering mother in Yoruba tradition, I have been reluctant to tell the truth about you but as it seems you still continue to delude yourself about the kind of person you are and I think for posterity’s sake it is time to set the records straight.
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anonimi: The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience
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Most of the victims of this trade are from West Africa. Many of them leave home with expectations of getting to Europe and other destinations perceived to have better economic prospects for them, but they end up in the slave merchant nets in North Africa. The victims are put in camps and sold in open markets in Libya, while the international community watches in silence. The geographical location of Libya renders it a transit route for migrants journeying to Italy and many other parts of Europe.
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