ogododo: The arithmetic is brutal. In 2019, FAAC distribution was approximately ₦7.85 trillion, worth about $25.6 billion at the prevailing exchange rate. By 2025, FAAC had risen on paper to approximately ₦21.9 trillion, yet its dollar value had fallen to roughly $14.6 billion. So while government parades almost three times as many naira, the underlying dollar value is more than 40 per cent lower.
“That is not an economic miracle. That is money illusion. You cannot batter the currency, allow inflation to ravage purchasing power and then wave bigger naira figures before Nigerians as evidence that the country has become richer. Bigger numbers do not cancel smaller value.”
Atiku said the deception becomes even clearer when translated into the everyday experience of the Nigerian worker, where salaries may have increased nominally while their real value and purchasing power have deteriorated.
"Take the minimum wage as the simplest example. In 2019, ₦30,000 was worth roughly $83. By May 2023, that same ₦30,000 was worth about $65. Today, government boasts that the minimum wage has more than doubled to ₦70,000, yet at an exchange rate of around ₦1,320 to the dollar, that ₦70,000 is worth only about $53. Think about that: the number written on the worker’s payslip has risen from ₦30,000 to ₦70,000, but its dollar value has fallen from about $83 to about $53.
This an excellent expose of the fraudulent claim of Tinubu that FAAC has increased, of which he has 53% to himself while 36 states have only 27% to share.
Atiku and Phrank should de-emphasise the dollar benchmark and use petrol price and other prices impacted by hyperinflation to make it more relatable for many Nigerians who don't operate in dollar terms.
This election should be a referendum on Tinubu's failures. Nothing else. This is the best way to get the balablu bulaba man out of Aso Rock.
"Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
PlasmaTV: Politicians can play politics but suck at actual governance. It's ridiculously ridiculous. Same man can stop Obi from entering the state but terrorists ransack villages every eke market day.
Why were politicians of the 1st and 2nd republics much better at governance than the ones WE allow now to emerge from our midst? What has changed about the people?
Ezeama400: Glad the man has been suspended long time ago from the Church.. The Church saw tomorrow.. Stoping Obi wasn’t a surprise, he has once said he would not allow Obi in Benue few months ago.. This Excommunicated Priest should be ashamed of himself..
Was Obi ashamed of himself for doing worse to the same LP he ran to in 2023, after Utomi lured him away with Tinubu money? Why are Obi's fans not ashamed of themselves for the hypocrite?
anonimi: Soludo: Obi didn’t allow LP to campaign freely in Anambra when he was governor
“It is on record and everybody knows that I have twice granted the presidential candidate of the Labour Party to use government properties — government house — for his campaign without charging him a penny.
“Nobody has done that. He did not do that when he was in government. He did not even allow Labour Party, where he is now, to freely campaign in Anambra. He denied them even the venue that they paid for.
Imalwayshorny: Even Dickson no support Peter obi Shey person way betray ojukwu who made him governor not go betray person way wan make ham president
Why are you supporting Jagaban of Borgu who has betrayed Yoruba people specifically and southerners generally several times
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
Atiku believes in ranching, deserves our votes – Ortom
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has disclosed that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is a sincere advocate of ranching as solution to the lingering herders crisis in the country.
The Governor who spoke Thursday at his reelection campaign rally in Katsina/Ala also stated that the former Vice President was not a religious fundamentalist.
He reiterated his appeal to the electorate in the state to vote massively for Atiku who was on the same page with the people of the state and all PDP candidates in the forthcoming election.
He observed that while President Muhammadu Buhari was canvassing for the opening up of cattle routes which would impact negatively on the land of the people of the state if implemented, Alhaji Atiku had been establishing ranches for his cattle and even proceeded to build feed-mills.
He said, “ranching is critical to the survival of our state because it remains the best solution to the incessant crises between farmers and herders with monumental loss of human lives and property over the years hence we must vote against those who opposed it.
Chucks13: N need to tell they knew Tinubu is the man till 2031. Obi is a paid opposition candidate and the most unseriousss politician in Nigeria history, so sane Igbos knows he is just wasting his time and that is why no serious igbo politician even talking about him. For atiku himself knew he is going nowhere, he has nothing else to offer than to return to dubai in peace or lost all in dubai and still enter jail here cus he is owing Nigeria $Billions he hasn't explain where it all gone. Tinubu till 2031 and nobody can do anything about it.
You are very right about Peter Obi being a paid opposition, even though he may be unaware of the steup.
Kwankwaso is the new Utomi, with his eyes set on 2031, in renewed hope that the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics will fail to get a 3rd term just as Obasanjo failed in 2007.
aswani: Prof Utomi, yes that President Tinubu's Pat Utomi, is in NDC with him still making sure that he is doing enough to ensure that Peter Obí is not a threat to President Tinubu.
To use a footballing parlance, he has close marked Peter Obí out of making important decisions that might threaten President Tinubu in the elections.
Peter Obi should have stayed in NDC and accepted the VP slot. He is now in a much smaller party and his Obidients are being taken for granted in NDC. Prof Utomi did his job well in 2023 and has now exceeded that already.
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lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
Dalohad: You husband was governor for two-terms since 1999, he later became godfather and have been installing governors since 2003. You were Senator for many terms, now you are First lady, still eating from public purse. That's a total of 27 years since 1999, having your mouth super glued to public funds, yet e no do you. Nobody even knows what you did for a living before 1999.
Keyamo and Reno what she was doing with her husband in Chicago before 1999.
Racoon: Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.
Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.
His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.
The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993
It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.
Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.
He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.
“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’
LordIsaac: She shouldn't be misquoted. All she's trying to say is they want to enjoy the "good" they've set in progress. God bless our darling mummy.
Is this the good set by the wicked mummy who mocked us with akara empowerment after her husband failed to create 50 million jobs promised three years ago?
BeeBeeOoh: The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu, has urged Nigerian youths to be hard-working, saying, “There is no food for lazy man.”
Mrs Tinubu said this during a courtesy visit to the palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, in Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Thursday.
She noted that while the Tinubu-led administration is working hard to provide sustainable solutions to the current challenges facing the country, Nigerians should also work hard to provide for themselves.
The first lady maintained that the government will do all it takes to ensure that Nigerians are not disappointed and called for patience with Tinubu’s administration.
Mrs Tinubu said: “There is no food for the lazy man; even God worked for six days and rested on the seventh day.
“Nigeria is a land that’s flowing with milk and honey, but we need to sustain it for generations to come.
“God has richly blessed my family before getting to the presidency and we are content with what we have.
“What is happening in the country, we are just two years into our administration, we are not the cause of the current situation. We are trying to fix and secure the future.
“I have embarked on several journeys but it seems that people are not seeing what God is doing in the land. Nations across the globe want to do business with us, legally, on the table. There is a government in power now that they know it is accountable.
“We are trying all our efforts to ensure that the economy is stabilised and the masses are living meaningful lives since the removal of fuel subsidy.”
We should work hard frying akara to pay excessive taxes for her luxury life?
chisomkachy: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
k2money: Am sure you take Cana before typing this. Tinubu that said it in public that Buhari beg him . And mind you PDP is the part that destroy Nigeria.
The person who takes cana is obvious here.
I hope that cana does not affect hearing capacity o.
How many teachers have been unveiled by this new born progreThief? As many as 19,500 employed by makinde?
How do we know that the 7,000 classrooms are not typical APC balablu bulaba announcements, like when Tinubu said he stopped borrowing due to high revenue targets in August? Did he get matching federal funds from UBEC to do the classrooms? UBEC that was established in 1999 by the Obasanjo/ Atiku administration to help states achieve nine years free and compulsory education for all children.
PREMIUM TIMES visited schools that the state government claimed to have rehabilitated and found decrepit and inadequate facilities.
Governor Dapo Abiodun said last year that over 400 primary and secondary schools have been renovated in Ogun State under his administration.
However, when PREMIUM TIMES late in 2022 toured the three senatorial districts of the state, our reporter found facilities in many public schools still in deplorable conditions.
The renovation project was executed with a N10.2 billion fund jointly contributed, equally, by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the state government.
UBEC released its share of the fund to the state government in 2019 to address infrastructural decay and inadequate facilities in 236 public schools across the state.
UrVillageChief: 😂 With this, it’s clear you know nothing about how international laws work. So is Nigeria poorer than Ghana and Burkina Faso? Why is the US not there? Ohh, so how was this very particular “poor” country able to face the US and prevented the extradition of Abba Kyari in 2022? We suddenly became powerful and not poor when it was a Muslim northerner that was being asked to be extradited but if it was one Adeshina or Okeke, Nigeria would have sent him to the US the very next morning. Make Una continue Are you for real?😂 Can you now see why I made that earlier statement about the Nigerian youths? With that statement you just made, I can no longer go any further with you. Nah. You are being ignored now, my friend.
International laws established by Nigerians and other extreme poverty African countries?
Why are SOME international laws ignored by US and Israel, as well as Russia?
Abba Kyari's case as a Muslim northerner in Nigeria buttresses the point made, especially with Jagaban of Borgu, the Guinean kachalla as president after Buhari.
What do you think I benefit or lose by you engaging with me or not going any further with me? Will that add or take away from my bank balance
clarocuzioo: Anti Atiku protest down which South? Oga abeg answer your papa name. These guys are protesting against poverty, insecurity, hunger, inflation, poor medical services. Is Atiku responsible for any of these?
Me sef dey wonder oh
"Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
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.”
UrVillageChief: Sure, the DSS can make that request but how many of such requests have they made in the past and how many US citizens (fraudsters) have been brought into Nigeria for prosecution? That’s the bone of contention here sir. Why do we waste no time giving our own youths to them but they never replicate same? Have you ever heard or seen where a Chinese citizen is extradited to the US to face criminal charges? Lastly, why didn’t the Nigerian government hand over Abba Kyari to the US for prosecution that year? Because he wasn’t a southern youth? When it got to Abba's turn to enjoy free flight to the US, Nigeria suddenly remembered that it was a sovereign nation😂 The supporters of this arrant nonsense are even worse than the nonsense itself. It’s sad that the supposedly educated youths are even the ones applauding this silly move. Nigeria is not even among the top 5 countries with the highest number of fraudsters (I mean advanced cyber fraudsters) in the world but in our Government’s silly bid to satisfy the West, they keep soiling our reputation. Did you even know that countries like China, India, Russia, the NK and the US have more advanced cyber criminals than Nigeria? No, you didn’t and this is because their governments are sane and will rather deal with their criminals internally.
What can a country of extreme poverty paupers with the highest number of children out of school do to rich and powerful countries like America?
What do poor people in your village do when rich people are talking
UrVillageChief: Nigerians🤦🏼♂️ Isn’t it sad that even an Agbero has more sense than you? Why on earth should the Nigerian government allow this? Can our own EFCC or DSS fly into the US and ask the US government to hand over an erring American citizen to us for prosecution? Even the EFCC boss himself mentioned in an interview that once a crypto address used by scammers is opened in places like Eastern Europe (places like Russia, Poland and Belarus), it is extremely difficult to recover. Why have we suddenly forgotten that Nigeria is a sovereign state but when it was time to extradite Abba Kyari that year, we remembered that Nigeria was a sovereign nation?. Our government waste no time pushing its youths under the bus to impress the white foreigners. Nigeria is the only country in the world that arrests and hands over its citizens to foreign countries for prosecution. Despite having one of the largest communities of cyber fraudsters in the world, China will never send its citizens to a foreign land for prosecution. Just recently, over 4 trillion naira was stolen from our people using various Ponzi schemes and the criminals traced to India, so why haven’t our EFCC, ICPC and DSS marched into India to demand that they are sent to Nigeria to face our laws? There are way too many educated illiterates in this country.
The most uneducated literate sits in Aso Rock destroying Nigeria with his balablu bulaba cluelessness.
The one who delegated Chatham House questions to El Rufai and others before he was allowed to SERVE us as president. The master strategist of a-looter propaganda who invited Trump to violate our sovereignty, kill innocent northerners as collateral damage in their search for Muslim terrorists accused of Christian genocide.
Hammylawali: Give them money, they will give you that taste. If they borrow money you will start shouting Nigeria’s debt is growing now.
What have the progreThieves done with all the money given them in the past 27 years apart from steal it, instead of employing well paid workers to make water available to all households, and make education free for all children?
Kukutente23: Praising Tinubu for the economy is like praising a boy who in a class of 50 used to take 25th position. Then he dropped to 50th position before improving to 35th position then he starts reminding everyone that he was an average student before and now he's below average after being a complete failure!!
You have brilliantly summarised the scam by master strategist of a-looter progreThieves.
"Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
anonimi: Nigeria remains fourth largest economy in Africa despite rebasing
July 21, 2025
Nigeria has retained its status as the fourth largest economy in Africa despite a rebasing exercise that expanded the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the economy expanded to N372.8 trillion ($243 billion) in 2024, down from N314.02 trillion in the prior year as more sectors in the informal economy were considered in its calculations.
The statistics bureau adopted 2019 as its base year away from 2010 that’s previously reported.
The rebasing exercise covers the period from 2019 to 2023 and reflects changes in the economy’s structure, sectoral contributions, and data sources.
Despite the overhaul, Nigeria fails to reclaim its erstwhile status as the largest economy in Africa.
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), South Africa remains the continent’s biggest economy with a GDP of $410.34 billion for a country with little over a quarter of Nigeria’s population.
Following the Southern African nation is Egypt with a GDP of $347 billion while Algeria maintains its third position having $268.9 billion as the size of its economy.
Although Nigeria’s economy grew 30 percent above the projected $188 billion estimate by the IMF this year, the rebasing was poised to place the economy as the biggest in Africa.
samwash: Maybe he wan try tell us say he nor sleep for road like the ones we have in Benin to Onitsha road or South -East road, which is in a deplorable state where people sleep on the road for days to for a journey of less than 3 hrs.
So what happened to the billions of dollars Tinubu saved from subsidy removal, his higher revenue targets of August and borrowing more than PDP presidents who gave us cheap petrol and better life?
Did the master strategy of a-looter propaganda politics steal everything
"Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
Gadaffi9ja: Safe trip chairman, you need a refresh
And you need a few balls of Remi Tinubu akara in place of the 50 million jobs that her husband failed to deliver? Is this what you refresh yourself with?
michae1004: Who takes this double faced clawn serious.
Do you take double faced Peter Obi & his emergency tribalistic followers seriously?
anonimi: Soludo: Obi didn’t allow LP to campaign freely in Anambra when he was governor
“It is on record and everybody knows that I have twice granted the presidential candidate of the Labour Party to use government properties — government house — for his campaign without charging him a penny.
“Nobody has done that. He did not do that when he was in government. He did not even allow Labour Party, where he is now, to freely campaign in Anambra. He denied them even the venue that they paid for.
Chachalogo: I refuse to believe you sir. No scammer is so stupid enough to splash forged govt certificates all over it website. All the 4 - 5 govt approved certs are on PXes website for everyone to see. The point still remains that the Nigerian govt is complicit as regard stamping out corruption.
How come everything, including corruption and debt burden is worse under A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC since 2015
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.
Lithiumite: I heard makinde didn't employ registered doctors in the state.
Are you able to answer the question asked, or do you want to delegate it to someone, like that balablu bulaba cluelss clown delegated Chatham House questions to El Rufai and others before Nigerians gave him the chance to grab power and hit the ground running to SERVE us?
Do you have any record of the four progreThief Lagos governors employing as many as 19,500 teachers in the past 27 years of Tinubu's lootocracy master plan
This is a more meaningful statement by Phrank than the dumb one about Trump endorsing Atiku's subsidy plan. I hope he was scolded for the Trump statement.
Omooba77: The association, in a statement on Sunday by the NAS Capn, Dr. Joseph Oteri, said these needless deaths, a grim reflection of the desperation gripping many Nigerians, underscore the rising hunger and economic hardship that has engulfed the nation.
The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) says it is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of over 60 lives in Oyo, Anambra, and Abuja during recent palliative distribution stampedes.
The association, in a statement on Sunday by the NAS Capn, Dr. Joseph Oteri, said these needless deaths, a grim reflection of the desperation gripping many Nigerians, underscore the rising hunger and economic hardship that has engulfed the nation.
“While we commend the government's effort to alleviate the plight of vulnerable citizens through palliatives, it is evident that these measures have been marred by inadequate planning, poor coordination, and lack of accountability,” it said.
According to the group, the chaotic scenes that led to the fatal incidents are an “indictment of the systemic failure to address the root causes of hunger and poverty”.
The group noted that rising hunger in Nigeria is a national emergency that demands urgent action.
“Failure to act decisively will deepen the crisis, with devastating social, economic, and political consequences,” it said.
“We mourn with the families of the deceased and demand that the government ensures accountability for this avoidable tragedy. Hunger should never be a death sentence in a country blessed with abundant resources.”
“It is time to rise to the challenge of ensuring that every Nigerian can live with dignity, free from the scourge of poverty and hunger,” it added.
Therefore, the association called on all levels of government to urgently prioritize sustainable solutions to the hunger crisis.
It said, “Palliatives must reach the intended beneficiaries without endangering lives. Transparent and well-organised systems, with the involvement of community leaders and credible NGOs, should be put in place to avoid chaotic distributions.
“Beyond temporary relief measures, the government must develop long-term strategies to enhance food production, support local farmers, and stabilize food prices.
“Programmes aimed at addressing the needs of the most vulnerable must be scaled up. Access to affordable healthcare, education, and social safety nets is critical to lifting millions out of poverty.
“Policies that create jobs and enhance income-generating opportunities should be fast-tracked to reduce dependency on palliatives.”
The association noted that two of its chapters in Edo State (Area 3) recently had successful palliative programmes, during which over 2,000 underprivileged persons were fed.
It added that one of the key components of the programme was orderliness.
rossipki: Atiku is wrong, and displays great economic illiteracy for a supposed presidential candidate. Does he even know what Nigeria's annual budget is? It's about $40 billion for its 250 million population. Contrast that with South Africa's annual budget of $140 billion for its 60 million people. Or the USA's $8 TRILLION for its 320 million people. Or the UK's $2 TRILLION for its 65 million people. How in the hell will Nigeria develop without borrowing, Mr Atiku? You don't know it costs money to develop a country?
Instead of these meaningless dogo turenchi, you could just have shown us the roads fixed by Tinubu with the subsidy savings and higher debt burden than when PDP gave us cheap petrol and cheap dollars with prosperity.
Since you don't know how to answer, let me delegate the question to myself, like that clueless balablu bulaba clown delegated Chatham House questions to El Rufai and others in 2023.
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
Thiefobi1: President dey hungry dis Dubai landlord and he worked against Jonathan and PDP his party to support buhari. Dey should tell this grandfather, buhari has used your turn.
It was actually Obasanjo that used his turn in 2003. Atiku's loyalty and generosity to ingrate Baba Iyabo is why southerners would have ruled for 17 years, compared to just 11 years of northerners by next year.
Why can't you remember something that is not so long ago
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.
Gadaffi9ja: Like I said interest changes, be it Jagaban, Atiku, Obi or any of them. They don't care about you, is all just about their self.
Do you and other Nigerians care about ourselves? Or are we just being tribalistic zoning and rotation mumus in sharing the national cake of corruption? People who care very little about government services and utilities provision as long as it is the turn of their own personal persons to chop.
Thankfully, oyinbos and Asians care enough about themselves to make their countries attractive to extreme poverty paupers from Nigeria.
adams123: How do you know he is far better than tinubu?
Who is not better than the worst rogue in Nigeria? The one who saved billions from subsidy removal but owes everyone and is rolling over budgets since 2024
Was that how Jagaban of Borgu's interest changed in 2015 when he begged Buhari to make Jonathan a one term president, following APC's invitation of terrorists to destroy Nigeria
GloriousGbola: Wike did his maths is all. Nothing to be gained in backing a dead horse. If he had backed obi he would be in political oblivion today.
Was that how the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics did his maths in 2011 when he threw Yorubas under the bus for his fellow northerner as HoR Speaker?
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
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