Find the nearest T-Pain rice and bread palliative centre since he is not creating jobs promised. You should however make sure you are not killed in a stampede while fighting for your own share of the distributed food.
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
ogododo: Civil society is an important stakeholder in ensuring accountability and transparency. Recently, @BudgIT uncovered 2.4 billion Naira in payments for 15 federal projects across 9 states - yet no contractor has started work on these sites. Learn more 👇
Over N2.4 Billion Disbursed for 2023 FG Projects, Yet No Contractor on Site!
@TrackaNG, BudgIT’s service delivery promotion platform, has uncovered payments worth N2.4 billion to seventeen contractors for fifteen projects across nine states—yet no contractor has commenced work on these sites.
Press Statement #AskQuestions Thread
https://x.com/USinNigeria/status/1886676801558102450?[/quote]Ariwo ko ni music just as propaganda is different from proper agenda governance. T-Pain, Buhari and APC are far worse corrupt entities than PDP as shown in the high amount of loans and debts, unpaid minimum wage etc that have not impacted the higher inflation and unemployment plus extreme poverty of the clueless olodos in the broom party.
How could anyone believe Buhari, and Abacha PTF comrade saying that he would kill corruption before it kills us. Such a pretentious rogue. Imagine saying he lives off the rent on his Kaduna house despite receiving billions in pension? Why are we so easy to fool
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.
Excerpt from the page:
Nigeria's latest placement indicates that the country has not made progress in its fight against graft, despite claims by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency that it is making a headway.
Almost certainly the most ineffectual leader since 1999.
During his time, Nigeria earned the most revenue from oil in its history, yet a few months to the end of his administration, Mrs Okonjoeweala declared all the money was gone and she resorted to borrowing to pay the salaries of federal civil servants.
All the record revenue was stolen or frittered away.
Mrs Deziani even helped herself with over 2 billion dollars.
Yet, it is the man under which all these happened that you want to bring back
Are you deluded.
I am as deluded as T-Pain’s finance minister and CNN on the economy, as well as Transparency International on how APC corruption is worse.
Now find a wet transformer to hug, after ensuring that APC’s promised stable and uninterrupted power is available.
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.”
arsenal33: Will they promise to bring back fuel subsidy? Since they all promised to remove it.
Why promise return of fuel subsidy instead of deregulation of the energy sector and privatisation of NNPC with its refineries, which is what was done by PDP to the petrochemicals division of the corporation in 2006?
Do you want big government to control businesses or do you prefer private companies
T-Pain has also shown that we don’t have economic sense in the south. He has shown that we are clueless about managing the economy, thereby reversing the economic records of Jonathan and his team as well as those of Obasanjo and Awolowo.
I thought it was wicked ologogoro Wike’s greediness that ended it
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.
ibechris: At this point,it is only a fool that would vote Tinubu.
Your salary for one month is spent on transportation and food...the little energy left u will now use it to support APC.
Then,everyone would know that nothing is right with u...
Unfortunately there are many ebiNpawa fools who are tribal Stockholm Syndrome patients, thankful for ebilokan palliative food instead of jobs.
How do we reduce their numbers to the barest minimum? What enlightenment works are needed and how do we go about it?
fuckJones: (A case study of Nigeria citizens & their elected oppressors).
During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph stalin. He was a brutal dictator with mind of his own. On one fateful day, stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one. The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely Unclad. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground. The Unclad chicken was staggering in pain. stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor & hapless creature. The poor chicken in pain started eating and stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor & the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet.
Joseph stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership. He said, "This chicken represents the people". "You must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them". "If you do this, go into your pocket & give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life, worshiping you". "They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place." Breath taking, isn't it ?
Now! Take a look at all the people some Nigerians are busy defending on social media. Take a look at those they call their heroes. They are the same people who plunged Nigeria into the situation she is. They are the same people who are responsible for their predicaments. Did you see the numbers of people that throng to Saraki's House during this Sallah period to go collect peanuts? People trooping to Bola Ahmed Tinubu Foundation offices to collect branded One kilo bag of Rice & Noddles. Did you see the number of people of all ages who troop out to welcome Ex- convict James Ibori to South South! Do you see the number of handle mop following obi as if he is a seat? what of the one following dino malaye?
Your guess is as good as mine. Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! Pass to all your contacts & let your Political & Religion Leaders read, understand & digest.
kettykin: Do you mean someone blamed the igbos for this?
Yes, that’s exactly what T-Pain did to asslick Fulanis in his desperate effort to get his ebilokan turn for continuing APC shege unleashed on Nigerians a decade ago instead of their promised change.
It is noteworthy that the Asiwaju Yorubas never spoke out against any Fulani atrocities on us Yorubas. Not even when Obasanjo ordered shoot at sight of OPC members who stood their ground against Fulani attackers in Mile 12 Ikorodu despite being the governor in 1999.
T-Pain is a very selfish and dangerously self serving man.
Emzedz: Terrorist sympathisers n supporters.. May allah punished all Islamic terrorists
The only terrorists and kidnappers are Igbo people.
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
Security that has been taken care of by Buhari already
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
Shalom35: Where are those who are supposed to be protecting them?
They are busy blaming Igbo people for terrorism and kidnapping.
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
Celplas1010: What is the essence of having a president in a country when he/she has nothing to offer? Since this man( Tinubu) assumed office, it's one problem to another. The only functioning department we have in his administration is, CORRUPTION.
No surprise there for the Lagos magician with the master plan for making money disappear has elevated his game to the federal level with ebilokan continuity of APC shege,
60 times increase in Lagos budget since 1999 yet nothing remotely like what Jakande achieved in four years. Nothing!!!
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.
Is that how you agreed with T-Pain change promise 10 years ago?
What aspect of life in our country is better since then
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
Kemetian: Typical dumb, ignorant, air head reasoning.
What research have you conducted into African manufacturing and innovation?
Don’t bother responding.
BIG FAT ZERO.
You know nothing, because you study and research nothing, so SHUT UP.
One simple visit to ChatGPT I made revealed 100s of African inventions and innovations over the last decade, in fields spanning medical technology to AI.
You think because you are lazy and useless, all Africans are like you?
Kemetian: I took a look and 12 of the 20 fastest growing economies on Earth are in Africa.
That Africa is a developing region doesn’t mean you are an inferior being, so stop being stupid.
Fastest growing on raw materials sales to Asian countries, as we were doing to Europe and America in the sixties. No research, no worthwhile manufacturing, nothing hence why we are doing japa and voting with our feet unlike in the past when we forced those we captured into slavery with Arabs and whites for alcohol, mirrors, umbrellas, fabrics, tobacco etc.
anonimi: The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience
The drive for survival and for greener pastures has continued to force millions of West African young men and women to gamble with death in attempts to cross over to Europe and other parts of the world. This quest to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment and insecurity, among other reasons, caused a major segment of Nigeria’s population to seek alternatives for better livelihood prospects for themselves and their families.
Those seeking economic survival see irregular migration as the best alternative, given the difficulty and resources involved in migrating through regular and legitimate routes. In many instances, very few of the original number who set out on these dangerous journeys live to tell their stories. While many regularly drown in the Mediterranean Sea, many also die in the deserts, and others are sold as slaves in a modern slave market.
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.
anonimi: The often cited biography titled Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker, authored by Nigerian historian Oladipo Yemitan, paints her views regarding slave trading.
On one occasion, during her final sojourn in Abeokuta, she was alleged to have sold a young boy into slavery and was accused of it. When arraigned before Ogundipe Alatise over the matter, she reportedly explained: 'I have a large house-hold and I must feed them well. I need money to do that, that's why'.
— Oladipo. Yemitan, 'Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker'
Another section of Yemitan's Tinubu biography, referred to as the Amadie-Ojo Affair, captures a slave trading deal gone sour in 1853 (notably after the 1852 Treaty abolishing slavery in Lagos) wherein Tinubu tells another slave trader (Domingo Martinez) that "she would rather drown the slaves [20 in number] than sell them at a discount".
History555: Zimbabwe did the right thing. The whites did not buy the land, they took it from the indigenous people and left them with little land. Are whites indigenous to South Africa or colonizers
You are so ignorant of history.
Where you claim as your place of origin, is it where your tribal God created man or is it the Garden of Eden for Abrahamic religions?
When you conquer weak people you take over their land and other properties including humans as slaves. That is history!
The three oil refineries in the country, Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt are currently producing 6.7 millionths litres of petrol daily.Nigeria’s 3 refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna have attained a combined daily production of 6.76m litres, NNPC says in a statement.
FOLYKAZE: Buhari will always be the best thing that has ever happen to Nigeria. 16yrs of PDP rule saw our refinery completely grounded. This soar story is been changed by PMB within the course of eight months.
If I happen to be a christian, the point of my prayer would be centred on Buhari. Oh God, send down the Buhari of my life who will aid the restoration of every lost glory.
How far, nine years later? Is Buhari still the point of your prayer? Or you have moved rapidly to his ebilokan T-Pain successor who is continuing APC clueless shege in governance
That is very true as he has no rival for incompetence in governance. Who else can compete with him for galloping inflation, factory shutdowns, higher unemployment, poverty, insecurity etc? Anyone you know
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
Is there a greater lunatic in our country than the Fulani asslicker who sought power just to be an incompetent olodo of worsening living conditions? Who do you think is such a greater lunatic than him
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
tellwisdom: He has done his worst in 2023, APC lost Osun & Lagos but still RIGGED presidency so what exactly did he need baba Kabiru for again?
T-Pain did not need to rig the election as it was rigged in his favour by politically clueless Pandora Bitter Obi and his tribal headless mob in the five south yeastern states where he got almost 100%.
Whenever anyone thinks of APC continuing hardship under ebilokan, they should think of lynching the agulu fraudster.
jameshankss: Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.
The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”
Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.
But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.
The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.
Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.
“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.
“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”
Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.
Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.
He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.
“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.
“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”
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.
madridguy: So Biden was also disdained everywhere for rigging Trump out using postal votes?
Same Democrat tried killing Trump last year during his campaign. No one will give you power cheaply or freely Late Sanni Abacha registered his name in the list of Nigeria presidents and his family will forever be enjoying the benefits.
Tinubu is Nigeria President either you like it or not
The ebiNpawa wailers queuing up for extreme poverty crumbs at Bourdillon regularly like their Yorubalokan president as he is . Their Stockholm syndrome situation won't let them expect government jobs to provide what progressives do- free education for all children, free basic healthcare for all residents, water supply to all houses etc.
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.
Thedon12: Stop associating yoruba with cowardice, yoruba has history of victories in battles from 500 years up to the recent Fulani war of " Jalumi" and to help the federal force to defeat the Biafra. If there is any native tribe that has any history of conquest in Nigeria, is yoruba.
T-Pain's slavish asslicking of Fulanis has erased all memories of Jalumi war around Osogbo.
Can it be that T-Pain is not Yoruba but an impostor from Borgu
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
No dignity. Well, na Yoruba man . What do you expect. Cowardice runs in their blood . Prostration that don’t solve Nigerians problems
God. In my next life. If you make me a Nigerian. I will kill myself as soon as I regain consciousness and you will make me again. Na u go tired
Here we go again with tribal impotent men competing for the biggest tool.
Was Ojukwu not a coward for running away to Abidjan after leading millions of Igbos to a senseless slaughter? Did he not continue his cowardice by returning home after Shagari's pardon to join NPN for the frustration of the southern alliance between Zik and Awolowo?
BizBooks: Soon after Ojukwu returned from exile in 1982, he joined the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), a pre-dominantly Hausa/Fulani political party. To say that Ojukwu’s decision then was a shocker will simply be an understatement. But looking back at that decision 30 years later, it now seems logical if not popular.
Back in 1982, Nigeria had 5 major political parties namely: The People’s Redemption Party (PRP), a marginal northern party headed by Mallam Aminu Kano with strongholds in Kano State. The Great Nigeria People’s Party (GNPP), another marginal northern party headed by Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri with strongholds in the former Gongola State. Ojukwu couldn’t have joined the PRP or GNPP for obvious reasons – they were not really viable political parties.
Then there was the Nigeria People’s Party (NPP) headed by Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. Although Dr Azikiwe tried very hard to expand the reach of the NPP, it was for all intents and purposes a semi-marginal party with strongholds in the former Anambra and Imo States with limited successes in Plateau. Now, most people expected Ojukwu to join the NPP on his return from exile. But considering the events of the civil war, it was naive expecting Ojukwu to join the NPP. If you remember, Dr Azikiwe vehemently refused to support Biafra during the war rather opting to promote the concept of “One Nigeria”. Ojukwu never forgave him for that singular action. Even when he came back, he met with most prominent Igbo leaders but never met with Zik (at least during the 1982/83 period, but I could be wrong).
The fourth political party was the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) headed by Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The UPN was a pre-dominantly Yoruba party with strongholds in the old western states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo and Bendel. Again considering the events of the civil war, one would not expect Ojukwu to join a party headed by Chief Awolowo.
That leaves the fifth and final party – the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) headed by Alhaji Shehu Shagari. The NPN was a powerful northern party with strongholds in several states in the north. It was the equivalent of today’s PDP in scope and size. The inclusion of the two other northern parties (PRP and GNPP) did not dilute their influence in local and federal elections. They won the presidency in 1979 and 1983. Soon after Ojukwu joined the NPN, there was widespread speculation that joining was one of the conditions of his pardon.
If you remember, the negotiations for Ojukwu’s return from exile went on between him and high-ranking members of the NPN - the ruling party. So it will not be hard to imagine them telling him “we will allow you to return from exile on the condition that you join our party”. To sweeten the deal, it was believed they also promised to return to him, his father’s landed properties which were several. As you may remember, Ojukwu’s father was among Nigeria’s first millionaires. His properties were ceased after the war.
Sadly Ojukwu’s membership of the NPN cost him a lot of goodwill in the east at least in the short term. People stopped showering him with the greeting “Onye ije nno (which translates to “Welcome, Traveller”) and started calling him “Ogboso 1” (which translates to “The Runaway”). He even suffered the humiliation of losing a senatorial election in 1983 to Dr Edwin Onwudiwe, a little known politician. However, Ojukwu’s involvement with the NPN ended abruptly with the overthrow of the Shagari regime in 1983. His image was gradually rehabilitated over the years reaching it’s climax at the time of his death.
P.S: I have great interest in Nigerian history from independence to the fall of Buhari/Idiagbon (1985). That interest is purely academic. Unfortunately, it is difficult to engage in an academic discussion of Nigerian history on NL without having it derailed by persons with questionable motives.
helinues: Aregbe should swallow the humble pie. The prostrating na just taunting but he still need to come down from his high horse.
Imagine how he was relegated to the oblivion
Thankfullly Fashola avoided that relegation unlike Ambode.
Hardtalk: There’s No Stopping Fashola’s Probe —Keyamo April 16, 2010 15:02, 1,040 views By Kazeem Ugbodaga
Lagos lawyer and counsel to the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Festus Keyamo says nothing would stop the House from probing allegations of financial misappropriation against Governor Babatunde Fashola.
He called on the governor to submit himself to probe in order to clear himself, saying there was no hiding through court injunction to dodge the probe against him.
The State House of Assembly had yesterday set up a fresh 7-member committee to probe allegations against the governor by the True Face of Lagos, which staged a protest to the House recently to demand probe of the governor.
Speaking with P.M.NEWS this morning, Keyamo said that the governor should be probed, adding that the accolades the governor received in the media should not divert attention from the real thing.
“Every public officer has a duty to give account of stewardship no matter the height of praise singing he receives from the press. The office you are occupying is not your father’s property but the public.
“Probe is not the same thing as verdict of guilt, but an opportunity for one to clear himself. If Fashola believes his hands are clean, now is the opportunity for him to shine,” he stated.
According to him, “Fashola should take the path of honour and clear himself of the allegations. He can’t continue to hide under court injunction.
“If you say you plant grass and flower, come and tell the people how much you spent in planting them, tell them how you spent their money because it is not your father’s money.
“The House must go ahead with the probe because it is their constitutional and moral duty to do what they want to do. They have now properly published the allegations in their official journal.”
Comrade Bamidele Aturu, who was counsel to Mr. Richard Akinola, the man who first went to court to stop the House from probing the governor, said “we will assess our legal option and deal with the issue.”
Aturu stated that if the House erred in setting up the new committee, it would be challenged in the court, saying that “we are for democracy and probity.”
Also, Majority Leader, Lagos Assembly, Hon. Kolawole Taiwo said the House had already published the allegations in the Assembly’s journal, saying that the House would go ahead with the probe.
Was that how Fashola prostrated to have his 2nd term ticket in 2011 to continue the wrecking job of Lagos social services and utilities that commenced with higher IGR in 1999?
TylerDurden: Fashola Risks Impeachment, as he digs into Bola Tinubu`s N2.1bn Monthly Commission
It is no longer news that Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has denied several times the report of a feud between him and his predecessor, Senator Bola Tinubu and alleged impeachment threat by the State House of Assembly under the leadership of Adeyemi Ikuforiji, but the sheer realities are vigorously playing out by the day which obviously show that the centre could no longer hold, but the smart Governor and his predecessor has often blamed it all on the works of the fifth columnist.
Huhuonline.com understands that the cause of the sharp disagreement between the political God-son and God-father was not unconnected with N2.1 billion naira commission that Alpha Beta receives on a monthly basis; Fashola huhuonline.com learnt is unhappy and has complained about the N2.1billion commission accrued to the former Governor (Bola Tinubu) through his company, Alpha Beta, a Tax consultancy firm which collects tax on behalf of the state government. One now understands why the clamour for compliance over tax payment in Lagos now becomes a big issue. The State Government spends billions of naira in putting jingles, TV commercial, postal, handbills, billboards, adverts and advertorials in all the available mass media using all the major languages in the country to conveying the message to the public. The State even went as far as running TV commercial on the CNN, just to drive home the message of prompt and regular tax payments in the state all in the interest of Bola Tinubu.
Other reasons purportedly cooked up on Fashola is not just disloyal to Tinubu, but the party at large (AC), giving that he has been involved in several anti-party activities in the state and also revealing all the State classified information and the party's to the press and the opposition, particularly the online media (huhuonline.com). The Tinubu loyalist also claim that the Governor and his agents have been giving out some details of secret affairs of some of the serving Commissioners and other principal officers in his cabinet, who are in advisory capacities, believed to be loyal to Tinubu, with the attempt to malign their image, expose them of their atrocities and even to frustrate them out of the system. They also frivolously alleged financial indiscretion, and administrative incapability on the part of the Governor.
Huhuonline.com reliably has it that Tinubu was not favourably disposed to the Fashola's re-election in 2011 poll because of alleged “growing wings.” He was said to be rooting for the candidacy of the incumbent Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire, in 2011. Our findings have it that Banire and Fashola often engage self in some verbal attacks in full public glare and that Banire has equally make it a usual habit to always come late to their weekly executive sessions. Not just Banire also the controversial Tokunbo Afikuyomi equally treat the Governor with disdain with the belief that he is a traitor to his God father Senator Bola Tinubu. Huhuonline.com can conveniently say that Tinubu's preference has polarized AC in Lagos State, especially the State House of Assembly and the entire kitchen cabinet in the state.
Just recently, a meeting was held and well attended by some high profiled power brokers of Action Congress, in the outcome of the meeting; State House of Assembly denied reports alleging that it's plotting to impeach the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola. Reacting to this, Fashola who has often maintained a diplomatic stance on this issue, said the meeting they had was primarily centred on the review of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, dismissing the report of impeachment threat. According to him, the meeting includes Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, Honorable Femi Gbajabiamila, elder statesman, Alhaji Femi Okunu, Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Olasupo Shasore (SAN) and Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire among others. The Governor explained that the deliberations between Tinubu and other participants were based on the ongoing Constitution Review Committee, for which Lagos State had been billed to host the South-West zone. He said: "We just finished a meeting on Constitution Review. Lagos will be hosting the South-West zone. It is imperative for us to put things together before the committee arrives Lagos. You will recall that Tinubu, in his eight years as governor, had championed the course for Constitution Review.
"There is no rift between Tinubu and I. There are certain things that must be respected and should be discussed in politics. The relationship between Tinubu and I goes beyond being a governor and I will do all I can to sustain it. Some people are dreaming and if they remain in their dreams the development of Lagos will go on and leave them behind. There is no reason for us to fight. Speaking on the alleged impeachment threat, Fashola said: "Tinubu is my leader and the leader of my party, the Action Congress. The state remains solidly united and I will urge all to stop peddling rumours." Meanwhile, Tinubu was all anger, when he walked out from the parley held at Lagos House, Marina, but Gov. Fashola denied any rift when asked to comment on the parley.
Just like the God-son too, the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, also debunked insinuations of a cold war between him and Governor Babatunde Fashola.
He said the tie between them is "unbreakable and unshakable". Tinubu described the insinuation as "pepper soup and beer parlour talk". His words: "Tell Lagosians that this unity is with a common vision, a common transition, a common goal , belief and a strict focus for the good of the people of Lagos State and Nigeria." You've seen me here today; is there any sign of discord? Once in a while, I visit to really talk or review. I don't like coming often to disturb him or distract him. But whatever stories you've heard about us having issues are lies; it's a fabrication coming from the PDP and enemies of progress." He said Fashola is doing a marvelous job. Tinubu went on: "You can see the transformation, radical development of Lagos State, and he is very effective and focused.
"We have a division of responsibility here. I am a politician and you have a serious, focused governor who a technocrat is doing his job. There is no doubt there would be friction, but we have developed that relationship over the years in the cabinet. We didn't establish a cabinet of robots; no master-servant relationship. Rather, we have been a progressive government. I tell you the unity, solidarity and sense of brotherhood would be a threat to our party's opponents, what they cannot achieve through the front door they would achieve through the back door." To Tinubu, "What the detractors are enviable of is a demonstration of how a great model of political relationship and governance should be."
For the followers of Lagos politics it would be recalled that late Engineer Funsho Williams won Lagos Gubernatorial Primary under the platform Alliance for Democracy in 1998/1999 but it was resolved by some party elders that since Tinubu has been in exile for many years as a consequence of Abacha's threat to his life, he should be allowed to run as the party flag bearer as 'compensation' to the troubles he went through during those locust years of Abacha rule. And also Funsho Williams who served under the Military (Col. Buba Marwa) as Commissioner for Works was asked to wait for 4 years; at the expiration of Tinubu's tenure of 4 years term, out of greediness and power-drunk syndrome, Tinubu refused to allow Funsho to contest. Funsho however left AD angrily and contested against Tinubu in PDP, but he eventually lost to AD. In preparation for 2007 guber election again, Funsho who has got a lot of sympathy from Lagosians rolled out drums for support again, and the momentum he gathered showed that he would defeat the Tinubu's party (from Alliance for Democracy, AD to Action Congress, AC) some weeks to PDP primaries Funsho Williams was murdered in cold blood and the killers are yet to be apprehended . This perpetually made his dream of becoming Governor of Lagos State a mirage.
This development however, doused tension for AC in Lagos and more so, most of the PDP big wigs then decamped to AC with their hundreds of thousands of supporters, some of them are Enoch Ajibosho, Commissioner for Agriculture, Adenrele Adeniran-Ogunsanya, SSG, Prince Adeniji Adele Commissioner for Youth and Sports etc. They all left PDP as a result of the candidacy of Ambassador Musiliu Obanikoro, whose emergence as party flag bearer did not go down well with them. Also Tinubu who has wield to himself power of 'God-fatherism' handpicked very undemocratically the serving Governor Babatunde Fashola, who was his Chief of Staff as the flag bearer, this also caused a major crack in Action Congress leaving all the 11 aspirants who had been parading themselves initially for the position to leave AC over the alleged imposition of Fashola. Prominent among the aggrieved aspirants then was Jimi Abaje and the then Deputy Governor to Tinubu, Mr. Femi Pedro. Femi eventually got a ticket under Labour Party and Jimi also in DPA. In all of this Lagosians will have to keep their fingers crossed till 2011 and see what the event will unfold in the fiasco between God-Father and God-Son, as well as other political parties and candidates who are desperately ambitious for the same seat in the same year, indeed time will definitely tell.
Originalsly: I'm a civilian ... I bear no arms nor have scores of trained arm bearers to support me in executing a coup.
I'm really disappointed with your response ... would've been better to not respond.
I am disappointed that you don't recognise your inability to work for what you want by any and every means necessary.
There are revolutionaries who were never in the national army. Find out and be inspired by them if you are not just atalkative who wants others to work for your desires and dash you the proceeds of their sweat as well as the risk of being tried and executed for treason.
DrDoc: Come to Abeokuta and ogun state in geberal and see how terrible the roads have become from extortion shops operated by sexurity agents and ordinary civilians.
Ogun is another state ruined by corruption of progreThieves pretending to be Awolowo’s progressive heirs.
Don’t they all deserve to be lynched and given the necklace roasting like petty thieves
Babasessy: The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
Instead of turning the metropolis into a truly global city of repute, the Lagos magician who makes taxes and IGR disappear has turned it into a glorified ghetto of school na scam agberos in different uniforms.
A shame that T-Pain has failed woefully in 25 years plus to provide the basics of modern society.
A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.
The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.
“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.
A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.
Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.
The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.
'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.
"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.
"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.
He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.
''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.
''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.
''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.
The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.
Politics › Re: US Mission: Over N2.4 Billion Disbursed For 2023 FG Projects, Yet No Contractor by anonimi: 10:39am On Feb 04, 2025
