Reference: Exactly. Nigerians are not fighting for the right causes no matter the psychological stimulus of high inflation and general economic malaise. I like the last couple of sentences of the actor on question. That is the right attitude and determination. Without that determination there is no end to this wow we are facing. The government is adamant that it has no blueprint to boost the economy, to stablish industry to create value and jobs. America is saying to Canada and Bombadier. No more planes unless you make them here. India is saying we will only buy BMW's assembled here. China is the master of economic blackmail and coercion. We here have no plans whatsoever to grow anything.
This is why Atiku said he will sell crude at a reduced price to refineries here, instead of Tinubu paying subsidy illegally under a new name to import fuel from their Malta blending plants in his further efforts to sabotage Dangote refinery.
This is the same template that grew our economy for 16 years to the biggest in Africa before Tinubu made Buhari president in 2015, promising positive change when we have only seen extreme poverty and insecurity shege.
"Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
anonimi: NNPCL’s subsidy payment jump by 47.9% to N7.1trn in 2024
November 26, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) paid a total of N7.1 trillion as subsidy for premium motor spirit (PMS) in 2024, this sum represents a 47.9 percent increase from N4.8 trillion recorded in 2023.
This is despite the government’s announcement of subsidy removal in 2023.
The company explained that the amount, which it termed ‘energy security expense’ arises when there is differential between the exchange rate used to freeze the premium motor spirit ex-coastal price and the prevailing rate at the point of import settlement.
According to the report, government had instructed that NNPC Limited cannot sell its PMS above a certain regulated price. It added that the cost of petrol import is usually much higher that the regulated price.
Thiefobi1: And more than 32 are with him now. I pity Atiku and his boy obi. The shame they will encounter this time around will be too massive for them to withstand. Tinubu till 2031.
Is there any shame worse than this one from the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics
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.
AustineE1: When these corrupt thieving politicians talk about structures and their ability to deliver,it simply means that they can corruptly influence INEC and Judiciary. On a good day Wike can not get upto 10% of Rivers vote but this is Nigeria,anything goes.
Not just that.
It means they will occupy the vacuum left by people who are too sophisticated to engage in various aspects of politics and advocacy?
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.”
― Bertolt Brecht
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Is it more difficult or less difficult to rig when people don't turn out to vote
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.
Dogalmighty17: What happened in rivers state is disgraceful
Is there anything that is not disgraceful about the overwise drunkard
What is that thing?
anonimi: No room for Wike, Fayose in PDP again —Sheriff
Also reacting to the judgment, its apparent beneficiary, Senator Sheriff, vowed to put in place a machinery that would not give room to people like Governors Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose of Rivers and Ekiti states, respectively in any future arrangement in the party.
“I will engineer a restructuring of PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose cannot find a way through to attain any position of prominence in our party in the future. They have brought shame and agony through the application of their crude and godless politics which is at variance with the principles upon which our founding fathers built our great party.
“We must find a way to sieve things so that only men of character and integrity can come through for positions of responsibility at all levels of our political engagement in the country.
“We must urgently steer the ship of PDP clear of the path of infamy which Wike and Fayose has brought our party, making Nigerians to mistaken PDP as a training ground for thugs. That is the urgent task we have. We cannot continue to advertise thug brand and expect Nigerians to take us seriously,” he said.
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.”
duro4chang: When it comes to primary, no one can defeat Atiku. He has dollar to settle every delegates. Obi even picked race. He japa shortly before the primary.
Atiku was not only defeated in the APC primaries for 2015, he was beaten to 3rd place. Kwankwaso beat him to 2nd place with 974 votes compared to his 954 votes.
Qadaffi2idiamin: You may be correct. But Atiku's timing seems very unfortunate, given it's a Southern turn and Atiku should've sat out this election and prepared after 2027. Obi will truncate not just Atiku's vote but that of the druqqie. The issues on ground is that Tinubu seems to be preparing his rigging machineries because there's nothing to campaign for. Atiku outsmarted him this time but a hurdle lays ahead.
What is the basis of this southern turn next year when the south would have been president for 17 years as opposed to only 11 years for the north?
The gap is due to Atiku's generosity and loyalty to ingrate Obasanjo in 2003, when the northerners who made Baba Iyabo president reminded him of his promise to do one term like Mandela.
Was 2003 not Buhari's first attempt to get employed by Nigerians for the job of president but he was rejected, even though he locked down northern bloc votes from then until Tinubu made him president in 2015?
By the way, have you seen a politician rig where/ when he is not popular like the numbers Obi got in the 5 SE states in 2023 compared to other candidates in their own regions?
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.
madridguy: Stop deceiving yourself bro. Let Atiku and Obi come together as a candidate, Jagaban will win them.
That is very possible if Atiku fails to run a very displined campaign and allows Tinubu continue worsening APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege of the past 11 years. Very possible.
anonimi: 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.
OLABAMIJI99: Let some Tinubu supporters keep deceiving themselves.. I opened a thread here and warned you that Obi’s candidacy in 2023 made Atiku to loose, and the same Obi’s candidacy will make Tinubu to loose in 2027 to Atiku. Peter Obi will perform good again in the Christian communities in the middle belt and in South South region , but he won’t win. Obi is these people’s first choice while Tinubu is their second choice. Remove Obi and watch them stand behind Tinubu.. Unfortunately for Tinubu Obi is not backing down anytime soon. As long as Buhari and Elrufai are no more here, Tinubu winning north would be a miracle.. Atiku only needs little votes from the south and he’s good to go. God bless the incoming President Atiku ABUBAKAR God bless Nigeria.
Why would middle belt and south south as well as even south east people stand behind Tinubu's Muslim-Muslim ticket if Obi removed?
Apart from their religion bias, does their hardship and insecurity under Tinubu's clueless reform not matter to them?
FoolaniHellman: Bro stop saying thrash all in the name of politics! Buhari was neutral but never fully supported Tinubu, We were all here how you Igbo’s were mocking Tinubu after the election, saying Buhari sidelined him! Tinubu has been prepared for this shit more than 20 years ago and he conquered you and your Agulu fraud and he will do it again.
Indeed the balablu bulaba incompetent clown has been prepared for this SHIT more than 20 years as we see in his reckless looting that makes roads worse than when PDP gave us cheap petrol and less debt burden.
Video: The current state of Ikare–Ogbagi–Irun–Imesi Road a vital federal corridor connecting communities across Akoko land in Ondo State to Ekiti State and other parts of South West Nigeria. pic.twitter.com/MkR54FuYgC
What Tinubu and APC can’t destroy does not exist. 11 years of change and 3 years of reform with subsidy removal TWICE along with huge debt cum tax burden on people, why should we have roads worse than when PDP gave us cheap petrol and cheap dollars without piling up debt?
“This is how the Benin–Asaba Expressway looks yesterday, Thursday, August 20, 2026. Look at how cars and trailers are stuck because of the bad road. Mr Peter Obi advised the APC to start fixing existing roads, but instead, they are att@cking him. Instead of Dave Umahi focusing on… pic.twitter.com/k3V0eCNOo8
Bobloco: Across our country, families are being stretched by the rising cost of food, transport, education, healthcare and other basic necessities. Nigerians deserve an economy that rewards hard work, restores opportunity and allows every family to live with dignity and hope. That is the Nigeria we must build together, a country that works for its people again.
We must ease the burden, restore hope and Make Nigeria Affordable Again. -AA
How many people here are against making our country affordable again, like it used to be when PDP deregulation and privatisation politicians gave us cheap petrol, low debt & tax burden with prosperity, peace and security?
Why are you against making Nigeria affordable again? Why do you want to continue with the man who promised 50 million jobs but failed to deliver, then asked his wife to mock us with akara empowerment?
Moroccoguy: And you should know that Lagos is taking bullets for the remaining 35 state, the Interest you have in Lagos should be channel to your state.
How do you know that Lagos is not my state, unlike the atohunrinwa who has held the state hostage for 27 years
franchasng: APC supporters and their Soludo smear campaign team are only entertaining themselves with their fabricated stories, well meaning Nigerians don't even care about them and are waiting to vote Peter Obi again while Tinubu, INEC Chairman and Wike have escaped abroad to go replan their next rigging tactics to snatch Peter Obi's mandate again in 2027 while they use these gimmicks to keep ignorant Nigerians busy, no be today my brother, we know their end game
What well meaning Nigerians want to have another 419er balablu bulaba scammer ruin our country?
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.
aduboy: Anambra distributes 177 vehicles to traditional rulers
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, on Monday in Awka, distributed one SUV each to the traditional rulers of the 177 communities in the state.
Obi handed over one of the vehicles’ key to the state Chairman of the Traditional Rulers’ Council, Igwe Alfred Achebe, Obi of Onitsha.
He said that the gesture was aimed at helping them run and build better communities, adding that the vehicles would also help the traditional rulers to function effectively.
“If you have better communities, you will have a better Anambra, Anambra today is changing for better and I want this sustained,” the governor said.
“In doing that, the state government and the local government will do what it can to support the building of a better Anambra.”
Achebe said that he was overjoyed because the governor cared about the well-being and welfare of the traditional rulers.
“It is completely unprecedented in Anambra and probably elsewhere in Nigeria,” he said.
“It is a mighty gesture from the governor and for the government of the state to make a distinct impact on the well-being of the traditional rulers in the state.”
According to him, it was one of the several measures the present administration in the state had taken to improve the wellbeing of the traditional rulers.
“We pray that God will give us a successor that will continue from where Obi has left and lift Anambra to the next level.”
Thiefobi1: Peter obi must be a very wicked man to do these to his anambra people Imagine what he will do to people who are not his brothers. Nigeria beware of obi.
Obi is wicked for sure but only to a small, very small extent compared to Tinubu's wickedness.
Do you mean that Chicago and other American cities have people drinking water from shitty boreholes like in Lagos after 27 years of Tinubu's lootocracy master plan
Didi2d: No be so brother. Na obi dey always dare people to fact check am. Even when he's lying. That man really take Nigerians to fool o
Just as Obi is trying to take Nigerians for fools, so also the master strategist in Aso Rock is taking him for a fool again, like he did in 2023.
Kwankwaso is obviously not interested in 2027, he has renewed hope that Tinubu will fail to get a 3rd term in 2031 like Obasanjo failed in 2007.
Kwankwaso is the new Utomi. Go and verify.
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.
Willy2025: They should run a DNA test for Peter Obi. A state that produces literary giant like Chinua Achebe, Dora Akunyili, Charles Soludo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Alex Ekwueme, the great Emeka Anyaoku, Arthur Eze, Cosmas etc. can never produce a super dullard like PO. Something is wrong somewhere
Any idea how Yorubas ended up with Tinubu as our Asiwaju despite having eminent personalities like Awolowo, Jakande etc who excelled in governance without crushing people with tax & debt burden
Splashme: The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.
Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.
The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.
Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”
The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.
Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.
He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”
eluquenson: REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
Where will both of them find the money, when they are not stealing subsidy savings that should fix roads but have not?
Is this ayekootọ another balablu bulaba clueless APC town hall clown?
Video: The current state of Ikare–Ogbagi–Irun–Imesi Road a vital federal corridor connecting communities across Akoko land in Ondo State to Ekiti State and other parts of South West Nigeria. pic.twitter.com/MkR54FuYgC
What Tinubu and APC can’t destroy does not exist. 11 years of change and 3 years of reform with subsidy removal TWICE along with huge debt cum tax burden on people, why should we have roads worse than when PDP gave us cheap petrol and cheap dollars without piling up debt?
“This is how the Benin–Asaba Expressway looks yesterday, Thursday, August 20, 2026. Look at how cars and trailers are stuck because of the bad road. Mr Peter Obi advised the APC to start fixing existing roads, but instead, they are att@cking him. Instead of Dave Umahi focusing on… pic.twitter.com/k3V0eCNOo8
geoworldedu: Your question is not relevant. The question up there is valid. After ascertaining whether 500k is comfortable or not, then we can then draw up the conclusion to either say that Nigerians are enjoying or suffering so much.
How can you conclude on the basis of 500k earning, without knowing if less than 1% are in that category?
What kind of balablu bulaba clueless reasoning is this?
seunmsg: They are desperately trying to wiggle out if the truth by picking on a single typographical error in the publication. Peter Obi borrowed N123billion and not $123billion. The figures are there in the publication with actual dates. Tell your Obi to stop campaigning immediately if he has any honor left in him. When you are in a hole, you stop digging.
What honour does his opponent have? The one who dug a big hole of debt for Lagosians despite using his master plan to raise budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion, without delivering commensurate government services and utilities for 27 years.
The balablu bulaba town hall clueless clown is borrowing more than PDP presidents who gave us cheap petrol and prosperity.
Penguin2: In trying to embarrass Peter Obi, Charles Soludo continues to embarrass himself.
Anambra Finance Commissioner said audit showed Obi borrowed $123 billion in 2013. However, since 1999 till date, Nigeria’s total external debt stands at about $117 billion.
Where is the link to where the commissioner made this claim
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.
usmanpogo: The funny thing is they might fall for it, I heard some of them are already praising him for saying he'll reverse fuel subsidy 😂
Has fuel subsidy been stopped? Or is it being paid illegally under a different name by the master strategist of balablu bulaba a-looter propaganda politics? Paying subsidy to importers of fuel from their Malta blending plants to destroy Dangote’s private refinery that was licensed by PDP prosperity politicians!
Iyobaba: The Chinese are investors and should be allowed to invest their money in whatever business or group of companies they choose as long as they are not breaking any trade laws.
Looking at the history of Lagos, before the encounter with the Portuguese, the Aworis (the Aboriginies of Lagos from Ile-Ife) traded with the Ilajes, the Ijebus and the Egbas for centuries.
The History of Lagos itself shows it has always been a capitalist society, a place where like-minded capitalist converge. A learned person would know one of the core tenets of capitalism or a capitalist society is the open and free market structure.
Was this how Chinese people grew their country to have widespread prosperity and become powerful- by opening up to TRADERS who miscreants call investors?
How can people who came from Ile-Ife be described as aborigines instead of settlers or migrants?
Is Lagos being ruined by capitalists or progressives since 1999? Is that why Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu have been increasing tax burden on people to grow the state budget 100 times over the past 27 years to N4.2 trillion without employing enough teachers and other workers to make education free for all children and water available to all households?
QuinQ: Tinubu has been good for the rich and politicians but a disaster for the common man
He has not been good to ALL rich people and politicians, according to his own testimony below. Tinubu is the worst sadistic person and so self centred.
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.
That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
laiperi: The different opinions have also been informative. The same way oil, cement and rice were/are smuggled out, to cause price increase, is why Nigerians pay more. Nigerian traders and dealers hoard goods to create scarcity and increase prices. Then sold them at outrageous prices. We have been here before. We stopped importing expensive foreign rice so that local rice could sell. Then the price of local rice went above the price of foreign rice. When the price of cement was 2000 and more, people cried out and blamed Dangote. He reduced the price of cement to dealers so that they could sell at lower retail price. A dealer that did in Akure had to close his shop when fellow dealers threatened to burn it. Nigerians, when are we going to blame instant profits and greed instead of blaming Government for everything!
Why would someone hoard something that is not just in plenty supply now, but will be in plenty supply in the future?
Why do we pay taxes to government and allow them collect taxes from companies on our behalf, if they can't secure our borders and prevent smuggling? In the past, was security not the primary responsibility of kings who did not earn as much wage gap as we now have with politicians and the people they SERVE
MIKOLOWISKA: the same reason you will complain about the next president being worse than tinubu
Why am I not complaining that Yar'Adua is worse than Jonathan? The president who revived Obasanjo projects and policies that the Iwuruwuru INEC president cancelled.
Reference: Like I said earlier. The genesis is feudalism, hardwired into the African. A section of the people will have elevated him to god like status and literally bowed down to worship him. His government will have been characterized by his will alone, his ways alone and excuses will have been made for him all through, no questions asked and no objections tolerated by him and his 'loyalists' no matter the shortcomings. And certainly he will have divided his country along primordial lines into haves and have nots because feudal rule cannot accommodate equality and universal prosperity. Peons must be created to 'serve' the masters. And you will soon see counter protests by 'his people' which as usual will push the country to anarchy and civil strife. It is the way of Africa, the dark, dark, dark continent of never do wells, who never learn what is right and proper and can never, ever build sustainable, prosperous societies.
What did European Cavemen do to evolve beyond their own feudalistic phase?
pyyxxaro: A brand new set of thieves fully prepared to come and eat our Yam😏
Should we not be ashamed that we allow them eat our yam, thereby leaving us in extreme poverty of jobless paupers deprived of government services and utilities
Kwankwaso is not interested next year. He has been convinced by the master strategist of Nigerian a-looter propaganda politics to wait for 2031. Should we pray for his renewed hope to not be dashed if Tinubu gets a 3rd term that Obasanjo failed to get in 2007.
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.
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