Slaves reporting their country to their masters in the United States. The Chinese, Singaporean, Indian deal with their mess . But Nigerians seeking for help from their crooked masters in the United States, who their hands are not even clean . The same country that plunged the world into the mess we are today .
Is this why Tinubu made a big deal of giving a speech in Chatham House, where he showed his balablu bulaba cluelessness during the Q&A session?
Thankfully, El Rufai was there to help him out of his misery.
Is he the one who has the Lagos master plan to increase the state budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion in 27 years but failed to employ enough workers to make water available to all households?
Desperate progreThieves labouring in vain to avoid the inevitable downfall of their master strategist in a-looter propaganda politics
5 mind-boggling revelations from Obasanjo’s ‘My Watch’
5. Tinubu was one of the most corrupt, of the 36 governors
Obasanjo never got along too well with former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu, and unsurprisingly, Tinubu got a mention in the former’s book. Obasanjo revealed that then EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu tried to investigate almost all the state governors during his tenure but that of the 28 confirmed to be manifestly corrupt or tainted one way or the other, Tinubu’s case was one of the worst.
Lagos — ABIA State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and his Lagos State counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not escape justice but would be made to face the full wrath of the law following their recent indictment for alleged corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Chairman of the commission Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who made the vow yesterday said the duo must account for their stewardship and may be thrown out of office.
Jayhome24: Tell them the truth Mr Gatti. 2 failures thinking they can do anything better than Tinubu its just too funny. Our foreign reserve grew up to over $54billion first in over 18 years Our GDP grew sharply. Inflation droped. Exchange rate stabled. Economy recovering. No state owed salary. Federal staff paid up to date. No ASUU strike for 3 years first time since 1999. Thousands of kidnapped victim were freed first of such since Gej era till date. The list is endless so what eise does atiku or that yeye obi has to offer again? Nothing, than lies and drag the nation backward. Hello cry cry babies the reform will be fully completed and you can't do nada about it than quiting Nigeria and we wish you a safe journey, go and neva come back here forever.
Please take your ofege propaganda elsewhere.
How much debt has Tinubu accumulated in his destructive tenure of voodoo economics?
anonimi: March 8, 2013 Nigeria operating voodoo economy – Tinubu
FORMER Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, dissected Nigeria’s economy and declared that the country was operating a voodoo economic policy that is pauperising the citizenry and urged urgent economic surgery to save the polity.
For instance, Tinubu wondered why the Federal Government is maintaining a foreign reserve of $46 billion with one or two per cent interest and shouldering a load of $42 billion domestic debt, which it services with 16 per cent interest.
“This is voodoo economy,” he said, adding, “they are operating it because they don’t know what to do. It is choking the private sector.
“We must in this country do away with the idea of ‘it is better save the money and spend the people.’ Rather I will say we should adopt the policy of ‘it is better to save the people and spend the fund.’
Have you ever had an encounter with a rejected girlfriend? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A rejected girlfriend like why Obasanjo has been so mad about Atiku working with other democratic heroes in 2007 to kill his 3rd term agenda for life president
Mandem05: Some of the government's reforms are for the benefit of Nigeria but wetin nor make the reforms dey see road na the wanton corruption and wasteful spending that is going on in government. Imagine say everyday you dey see Papa dey flex and him children dey suffer in abject poverty?? This is the situation we are in.
Since you failed to mention any of the reforms, should we assume that hiking petrol price instead of crashing it as promised, is one of them?
Why is petrol so expensive despite the higher amount of subsidy that Tinubu is paying illegally?
anonimi: NNPCL’s subsidy payment jump by 47.9% to N7.1trn in 2024
November 26, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) paid a total of N7.1 trillion as subsidy for premium motor spirit (PMS) in 2024, this sum represents a 47.9 percent increase from N4.8 trillion recorded in 2023.
This is despite the government’s announcement of subsidy removal in 2023.
The company explained that the amount, which it termed ‘energy security expense’ arises when there is differential between the exchange rate used to freeze the premium motor spirit ex-coastal price and the prevailing rate at the point of import settlement.
According to the report, government had instructed that NNPC Limited cannot sell its PMS above a certain regulated price. It added that the cost of petrol import is usually much higher that the regulated price.
Melezenawii: None of the people running against President Tinubu can change the country, including Peter Obi.”
— Datti Baba Ahmed
Atiku did not say that he is changing Nigeria. His promise is clear- a return to the prosperity years of PDP, with peace, security, cheap petrol and less debt.
Why is Obi’s 2023 running mate unable to understand something so simple?
"Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
Benwallt: But why APC nor dey blame ADC or NDC for this kind thing but if it happened to ADC or NDC they will blæme APC.
APC should start playing dirty to
APC is the wicked party that has been playing dirty since before 2015 when they imported terrorists to destroy Nigeria, so that Tinubu can get Buhari out of retirement and make Jonathan a one term president.
agulion: Pls don't campaign openly for Tinubu, a lot of people are angry with Tinubu,
Those who eat Remi TINUBU akara to campaign for her failed husband, are advised to wear protective helmets.
Can you imagine how she mocks us for being jobless with her akara empowerment, instead of making her husband deliver the 50 million jobs that he promised.
Funx26: You guys are just unbelievable! A church does something good, you drag them, they refuse, you curse them out...God bless Baba Adeboye and every kind human that do a bit to make life easier to fellow human regardless of religion. God bless RCCG and other silent donors who helped out with the SA crisis.
Where is the lie in the post you replied
Abi you have see Adeboye’s petition against Tinubu that is doing worse than Jonathan in government?
Sleekfingers: The odds was against him in 2023 , when chose a Muslim VP , and other things . He won . Of course, currently the odds is against him , because he has failed to meet up with what was expected of him. The bolded , that's a serious allegation without no concrete evidence. The court of law don't deal with speculation and emotions, they deal with evidence. Anybody with concrete evidence show posting on social media and let the whole world know. Lastly, the North will rather allow Tinubu to finish his tenure , so that power can go back to the South. Among many Northern leaders, Atiku is a big No no. Forget about all the media trash . The only way Atiku might win , that's if Peter Obi drop outta the race . Peter Obi is not going anywhere.....
Indeed Peter Obi is going nowhere, since Kwankwaso has him on lockdown in Dickson’s NDC, as they both have renewed hope for Tinubu to fail in his 3rd term agenda of 2031, just like Obasanjo failed in 2007.
Kwankwaso is the new Utomi, making himself available for the game of the master strategist in Nigeria politics.
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
aswani: Prof Utomi, yes that President Tinubu's Pat Utomi, is in NDC with him still making sure that he is doing enough to ensure that Peter Obí is not a threat to President Tinubu.
To use a footballing parlance, he has close marked Peter Obí out of making important decisions that might threaten President Tinubu in the elections.
Peter Obi should have stayed in 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.
TallNigerian: but he's saying the truth here. Amaechi doesn't deserve the vote of the South South electorate.
Is it Tinubu or Shettima that deserve the tribalistic vote of the south South, since they have made all the 50 million jobs created as promised, available to only South southerners
The master strategist who begged Buhari to make Jonathan a one term president, after their party invited terrorists to destroy our country. This was four years after he called the same Buhari expired in his failed attempt to deny Jonathan the opportunity to continue PDP’s prosperity, peace and security with cheap petrol and less taxes cum debt burden.
Basic123: Speak to an economist so they can lecture you on public finance ,borrowing and nation debt.
Nigerian still has one of the word lowest debt to gdp ratio
Which economists told you that increased debt with subsidy savings and higher tax burden makes roads worse than when PDP gave us cheap petrol?
“Three years into Tinubu government, no budget has never been implemented. We have borrowed more than expected. All the revenue agencies in this country told us they have exceeded their targets.. where is the money going?” ~ Sen. Garba pic.twitter.com/x3DQjRQK1y
“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
Gbogboski: Dangote is overwhelmed with debt, local and foreign debts. This is just an attempt to shift his debt burden on innocent Nigerians to carry.
Tinubu has overwhelmed us with local and foreign debt.
Unlike Dangote who is producing fuel to repay his debt, what is Tinubu doing with our debt burden apart from stealing it to do stomach infrastructure palliative to buy votes from deliberately impoverished people?
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun made this known at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. Mr. Edun said that the benefit of the subsidy removal will be plough back into various sectors to improve business environment for local and foreign investment. He added that with the increased revenue from subsidy removal, various palliatives have been made available to cushion its effect on a short, medium and long-term basis.
Ofunaofu: Report: Current Govt Added More Debt in Two Years Than Nigeria Accumulated in 55 Years
• Decries Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio
•Urges FG to declare fiscal emergency
A new policy brief has warned that Nigeria’s worsening debt profile and weak revenue generation have pushed the country into a dangerous fiscal position, with the current administration accumulating more debt in two years than Nigeria recorded during its first 55 years after independence.
The report, released by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, a Nigerian policy think tank, argued that the country’s debt crisis has evolved into a governance and revenue emergency, as debt servicing obligations now exceed the federal government’s retained earnings. > > According to the think tank, Nigeria’s public debt rose sharply from N87.38 trillion in June 2023 to N159.28 trillion by the end of 2025, with President Bola Tinubu’s administration accounting for about N65.9 trillion of the increase within its first two years in office.
The organisation in the brief titled: “Nigeria Is Borrowing to Breathe—and the Clock Is Ticking”, noted that Nigeria accumulated only about N12.06 trillion in debt from independence in 1960 up to 2015, meaning the current administration added more than five times that amount in just 24 months.
The report stated that while previous governments also contributed significantly to the country’s rising debt burden, the speed of accumulation under the current administration had intensified concerns over fiscal sustainability.
“President Bola Tinubu’s administration has added a further N65.9 trillion in just two years. To put that in perspective: it took Nigeria’s first 55 years of independence to accumulate N12 trillion in debt. The current administration has added more than five times that amount in 24 months,” it argued.
It recalled that Nigeria briefly became almost debt-free externally after the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo secured an $18 billion Paris Club debt relief package in 2005 and paid $12 billion to extinguish about $30 billion in external obligations.
Why does this sound like when APC played politics with our wellbeing in 2012 over fuel market deregulation and subsidy removal by PDP’s Jonathan?
Is there any group of politicians that is worse than APC progreThieves?
Omooba77: A former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday, said the protest that trailed the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was due to political interests.
Fayemi said this in his keynote address delivered at a national dialogue organised to celebrate the 60th birthday celebration of the founding National Secretary of Alliance for Democracy and Fellow, Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Professor Udenta Udenta in Abuja.
The programme was attended by Jonathan, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili; former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, among others.
The PUNCH reports that on January 1, 2012, President Goodluck announced the removal of fuel subsidy and adjusted the pump price of petrol from N65 per litre to N141.
The decision sparked mass protests, tagged ‘Occupy Nigeria’ across major cities of the country.
The price was later re-adjusted to N97, after more than a week of protests.
Petrol price was later reduced to N87 in 2015.
Jonathan faced serious backlash for the fuel price adjustment, especially from leaders of the All Progressives Congress, who were then in different opposition parties, including the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressives Congress, All Nigeria Peoples Party, and All Progressive Grand Alliance.
Is that the next step in Tinubu’s plan to destroy Dangote’s PDP licensed private refinery, after his NMDPRA attacks failed and his illegal subsidy to fuel importers is failing?
How do patriotic Nigerians work together to prevent this disaster from happening?
anonimi: NNPCL’s subsidy payment jump by 47.9% to N7.1trn in 2024
November 26, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) paid a total of N7.1 trillion as subsidy for premium motor spirit (PMS) in 2024, this sum represents a 47.9 percent increase from N4.8 trillion recorded in 2023.
This is despite the government’s announcement of subsidy removal in 2023.
The company explained that the amount, which it termed ‘energy security expense’ arises when there is differential between the exchange rate used to freeze the premium motor spirit ex-coastal price and the prevailing rate at the point of import settlement.
According to the report, government had instructed that NNPC Limited cannot sell its PMS above a certain regulated price. It added that the cost of petrol import is usually much higher that the regulated price.
Tinubu is doing amalanomics, which is a worse version of the voodoo economy that he wailed about 11 years ago when he begged Buhari to make Jonathan a one term president.
Fake statistics and false claims with fabricated data are not replacement for real numbers that is felt by the people, as we did for 16 years under PDP deregulation and privatisation policies.
anonimi: March 8, 2013 Nigeria operating voodoo economy – Tinubu
FORMER Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, dissected Nigeria’s economy and declared that the country was operating a voodoo economic policy that is pauperising the citizenry and urged urgent economic surgery to save the polity.
For instance, Tinubu wondered why the Federal Government is maintaining a foreign reserve of $46 billion with one or two per cent interest and shouldering a load of $42 billion domestic debt, which it services with 16 per cent interest.
“This is voodoo economy,” he said, adding, “they are operating it because they don’t know what to do. It is choking the private sector.
“We must in this country do away with the idea of ‘it is better save the money and spend the people.’ Rather I will say we should adopt the policy of ‘it is better to save the people and spend the fund.’
Endinjustice: The same petrol the disaster strategist and his clueless team met at #180.
Tinubu is a curse to Nigerians.
The saddest part is he promised to crash the price but hiked it instead.
What is wrong with these All Promises Cancelled, APC leaders looters? Can you imagine how much subsidy the rogues have FORCED us to pay them since 2015 because of the massive corruption in their oil industry.
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
eazzzy1: The same shallow argument. You are comparing countries that have never subsidized in their hundred of years of existence with the one that removed subsidy two minutes ago. To correct your ignorance, nobody hands over money to unemployed people in these countries. The money they give you when you lose your job is the money you contributed while working.
If Tinubu introduces such policy, you will cry about him being a tax master.
Tinubu is already a tax master but unfortunately he steals the tax instead of providing benefits to the taxpayers.
Why is he selling petrol so expensive when he is paying subsidy illegally under a different name, just to destroy the PDP licensed private refinery of Dangote?
anonimi: NNPCL’s subsidy payment jump by 47.9% to N7.1trn in 2024
November 26, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) paid a total of N7.1 trillion as subsidy for premium motor spirit (PMS) in 2024, this sum represents a 47.9 percent increase from N4.8 trillion recorded in 2023.
This is despite the government’s announcement of subsidy removal in 2023.
The company explained that the amount, which it termed ‘energy security expense’ arises when there is differential between the exchange rate used to freeze the premium motor spirit ex-coastal price and the prevailing rate at the point of import settlement.
According to the report, government had instructed that NNPC Limited cannot sell its PMS above a certain regulated price. It added that the cost of petrol import is usually much higher that the regulated price.
Edoreborn: The people in power are just plain wicked...The fact still remains that they derives joy seeing people suffering and begging for crumps..
They prefer seeing people wearing rags while they clothes themselves with designer wears and still flaunt..The wrath of God is coming soon.. Wicked people everywhere
Tinubu is the master strategist of this Stockholm Syndrome wickedness that you just described.
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.
Nobody should cry if Peter Obi gets there and decides to work with his tribe alone, as Buhari and Tinubu have both done
Because the most important law to life is the Golden Rule
Why should Obi get anywhere, just to be same same uselessness
In any case, Kwankwaso and Dickson are not interested in the 2027 elections. They have their renewed hope for 2031 in case Tinubu fails to get a 3rd term as Obasanjo failed in 2007!
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
aduboy: Anambra distributes 177 vehicles to traditional rulers
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, on Monday in Awka, distributed one SUV each to the traditional rulers of the 177 communities in the state.
Obi handed over one of the vehicles’ key to the state Chairman of the Traditional Rulers’ Council, Igwe Alfred Achebe, Obi of Onitsha.
He said that the gesture was aimed at helping them run and build better communities, adding that the vehicles would also help the traditional rulers to function effectively.
“If you have better communities, you will have a better Anambra, Anambra today is changing for better and I want this sustained,” the governor said.
“In doing that, the state government and the local government will do what it can to support the building of a better Anambra.”
Achebe said that he was overjoyed because the governor cared about the well-being and welfare of the traditional rulers.
“It is completely unprecedented in Anambra and probably elsewhere in Nigeria,” he said.
“It is a mighty gesture from the governor and for the government of the state to make a distinct impact on the well-being of the traditional rulers in the state.”
According to him, it was one of the several measures the present administration in the state had taken to improve the wellbeing of the traditional rulers.
“We pray that God will give us a successor that will continue from where Obi has left and lift Anambra to the next level.”
zoedew: Smart way to respond is for Makinde to say nothing about the matter and just use his red biro as appropriate. After all how any days he remain make him comot for Governor. Hin wife and children will later receive and live with what remains of him in the USA.
Sacking the needlessly partisan Oba is not as good as other ways of dealing with his nuisance.
IamPatriotic: When a politician starts talking this way, just know he’s uneasy. The signs are already showing, he’s beginning to see spirits where there are none.
vastolord4: Stupid people playing politics with people's lives
Is there anyone more stupid than the master strategist of Nigeria politics who begged Buhari to make Jonathan a one term president after their party invited terrorists to destroy our country?
Who is more stupid than the balablu bulaba Lagos landlord in this regard?
anonimi: What group of politicians is more wicked than A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC
Chucks13: Insult as much as you can but I'm assuring you Makinde we will jail you after 2027 election we have collated your case files ready to be open you go weep like small pikin by the time we finish with you.
Will Makinde weep more than the victims of Tinubu and APC’s incompetence in keeping us safe and our properties protected?
iwaeda: Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Friday said the abduction of pupils and teachers from Oriire Local Government Area occurred just hours after he declared his intention to contest the 2027 presidential election.
Makinde made the remark while addressing a meeting with Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed and leaders of the Allied Peoples Movement in Bauchi, recalling that Oyo had not recorded a similar incident during his seven years in office before the May 15 attack.
“For seven years, we didn’t witness anything like this in Oyo State. I declared to run for the presidency of Nigeria at four o’clock, and by 9 a.m. the following morning, the children were abducted,” Makinde said.
Hours after Makinde’s remarks in Bauchi, the Presidency announced that all the victims had been rescued after spending 56 days in captivity.
The Presidency said the victims were freed during a joint operation involving the military, the Department of State Services and the police, with eight suspected kidnappers arrested and others neutralised.
DaddyRochie1642: Just see how Atiku is looking so Young at t his age.... Just look at Atiku's wife aged likes a BAT. Atiku abeg what is the secret beside this your youthful look at your age . POVERTY is a very dangerous Bastard.
Indeed, poverty is a serious problem. Thankfully, Atiku was there to rescue bankrupt , ex-convict Obasanjo was released from Abacha’s prison to be made president by northerners in compensation for Abiola’s loss.
The ingrate who Atiku remained loyal to in 2003 when those who made him president asked him to honour his one term agreement, to be like Mandela. This foolish favour by Atiku is why we have southern president for 17 years, against just 11 years of northern presidency by next year.
anonimi: ‘How Atiku saved Obasanjo from near bankruptcy before he emerged president’‘
A new book has revealed how former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, saved ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo from near bankruptcy before he emerged president in 1999.
According to the new book, entitled ‘’Too Good to Die: Third Term and the Myth of the Indispensable Man in Africa,’ Atiku made all his resources available for Obasanjo’s presidential campaign.
The book, written by former chairman of National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Chidi Odinkalu, and Ayisha Osori, author of ‘’Love Does Not Win Elections,” also revealed how Obasanjo beat late Alex Ekwueme to the presidential ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 1999 election.
Quoting an account from Atiku, the authors said the trio of Ibrahim Babangida, Theophilus Danjuma and Abdulsalami Abubakar wanted PDP to adopt Obasanjo as their presidential candidate “because they considered him the best person for the job.”
“Implicit in their position was their belief that they knew how to manipulate Obasanjo and the fact that Obasanjo did their bidding in 1979. They felt secure that he could be managed again,” the authors wrote.
Atiku was reportedly asked to join a team to Ogun to inform Obasanjo that he was going to run for the highest office in the land.
“When Atiku and Obasanjo discussed the call to serve as president, Obasanjo said he could not be president because he was a nearly bankrupt ex-convict. Atiku, through General (Aliyu) Gusau, paid money into Obasanjo’s account to begin his financial rehabilitation.
“Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar helped out by granting him an unconditional pardon. Atiku put everything he had at his disposal to support Obasanjo’s emergence as the PDP presidential candidate and, when he joined the ticket as the vice-presidential nominee, continued to make his assets available to Obasanjo and the campaign.
JealousCobra: Greedy Atiku whom will still abandon Amaechi after 2027 failure
How is Atiku more greedy than the master strategist of Nigerian a-looter propaganda politics? How is he more greedy than beggarly Wike, the unstable character who Rivers people allow to hold their blọkọs, just like Tinubu is doing to Lagosians since 1999
anonimi: Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT
Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.
Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.
The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.
The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.
The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.
Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.
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.
ddippset: Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.
Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku. He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party.. Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.
This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.
He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
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