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Politics › Bola Tinubu: 100 Days Of Presidential Iniquity — Dr. Adetokunbo Pearse by AntiTerrorist(op): 1:57pm On Sep 19, 2023
If these first one hundred days of Tinubu’s Presidency are anything to go by, one can say without equivocation that Nigerians are in for a long time of pain and anguish.

Virtually all of Tinubu’s decisions so far have been egregious, whether nationally or on the international front. At home on 29th May 2023, the day of his inauguration as President, Tinubu brazenly announced an end to petrol subsidy in Nigeria.

Within hours of that hasty announcement, the price of petrol at the petrol filling stations jumped by 300% from 185 naira per liter to 500 naira. The price keeps on going up, and today,100 days later, the price of a liter of petrol has risen to 617 naira.

Virtually all aspects of life have been impacted negatively by the petrol price increase. Cost of transportation is the first to be impacted, followed by everything else: food, housing, medication, clothing, household items such as soap and cooking gas.

The destructive consequence of the oil price increase is also evident on a macro level. Nigeria’s economy is in grave danger of collapse.

Companies are folding up, unable to bear the cost of production. They are laying off staff in the thousands. Unemployment is therefore increasing exponentially. Even where they are not laid off, workers can’t go to work because they are unable to pay for transportation. Productivity is drastically reduced nationwide.

The situation is so dire that some state government offices and agencies have resigned themselves to operating a three day, instead of the normal five day work week.

The reduction in productivity implies a reduction in the county’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Tinubu’s failure to understand that oil in the service of transportation is the lifeline of any economy, is creating unbearable hardship for citizens, and threatening to destroy the economy.

Unfortunately for the country, Tinubu’s missteps since taking office are not limited to the removal of fuel subsidies. Consider the other corrosive policies and pronouncements:

Anti Education Policies:

Conventional thinking worldwide is that education is the antidote to poverty. It is by embracing this philosophy that India, South Korea, and Malaysia for example were able to pull their countries out of poverty, making them models of economic and social emancipation.

In the last three months, Tinubu’s attitude toward education has totally disregarded the role of education in human capacity building.

By increasing fees in federal schools and Universities, he has undermined the ability of parents to send their children to school, and consequently reduced the number of the nation’s productive work force.

His Foreign currency policy which has depreciated the value of naira from 1/ 700 to the dollar to 1/880 has had a chilling effect also on education. Form A through which foreign education costs are paid at bank rate is no longer available since the bank rate of 1/450 has been eliminated.

Online education has also been adversely affected because payment at bank rate for online courses is no longer an option. Under Tinubu’s watch, the bank rate and black market rate are virtually the same.

Another aspect of education which has been undermined by the Foreign Exchange policy is travel.

The legendary Chinese philosopher, Confucius long ago appropriately identified travel as the greatest source of education.

By voiding bank rate Personal Travel Allowance (PTA) the Tinubu administration is inadvertently placing limitations on citizens’ exposure and education. Discouraging travel also reduces potential revenue from tourism

Immoral And Reckless Proposals:

Under Tinubu, every day is another day of one outlandish proposal or the other. Not minding the constitutional separation of state and religious powers, Tinubu’s government is debating the idea of collecting license fees from Christian priests before they are allowed to mount the pulpit. Perhaps Muslim clerics will also be required to pay a fee before qualifying to say the Fathia!

Another mean spirited idea being considered is that car owners must register ownership of their vehicle annually with a 1,000 naira levy, even though all vehicles sale or purchase is accompanied by strict identification processes.

The idea of imposing tax on the informal economic sector is rather pointless. Government will be expending far more paying the salary of tax collectors than the taxes collected from petty traders, most of whom make less than 3,000 naira profit per day.

As in everything else, Tinubu will put the cart before the horse. He fails to realise that it is imperative for the government to provide an enabling environment for marketers before demanding taxes from them. Otherwise, operators of the informal economic sector will continue to be harassed and abused by local government touts as they are presently in the society.

A proposal to increase electricity tariff by 40% is another one of Tinubu’s ill-conceived ideas. Such an increase is hostile to citizens and detrimental to business. For the people, already suffering from the recent astronomical increase in cost of petrol, and the overall high cost of living, triggered by removal of petrol subsidy, an increase in cost of electricity will be another crushing blow.

Reacting to what it termed punitive economic policies, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), called on all unions in the critical sectors of the economy and its 52 other affiliates to shut the government down on 5th and 6th September 2023. NLC was determined to dramatize its opposition to Tinubu’s draconian economic measures.

Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, ( NUPENG), National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), Telecommunications and Communications Union, and National Union of Bankers, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE) have all come together to express their displeasure with the Tinubu led administration with this September strike action. Nigeria Labour Congress called it a warning, which could lead to an indefinite strike action if Tinubu does not bring down the price of petrol, and reverse his other anti-people policies

Shortsighted Economic Policies:

All the revenue needed to develop the Nation’s economy can be obtained without elimination of petroleum pump price if in the short run government tackles corruption, waste and inefficiency in major government agencies like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). In the long term, the President must take the bold step of championing a review of the 1999 Constitution to the effect of enabling state control of minerals within their jurisdiction.

If the Nigerian economy is to achieve its full potential, the constitution must be reset to allow states determine ways to develop their mineral resources, instead of depending on Federal Government approval as is the case currently.

With such a review, Ondo State which is sitting on the third largest deposit of bitumen in the world, Enugu State with the ninth highest reserve of natural gas in the world, and other states with abundance of gold, uranium, bauxite, led and lithium can add trillions of dollars to the country’s existing oil revenue.

Under these circumstances, Nigeria has the potential of becoming one of the wealthiest counties in the world.

This country has no reason to remove oil subsidies. In fact, in addition to subsidizing petrol price, a responsible government is obliged to provide subsidies in transportation, health, food, education, housing, and electricity. Tinubu should realise that it is the extent to which he is able to do this which will determine the success or failure of his administration.

A Perilous Foreign Policy:

Within 60 days of his administration, Tinubu’s foreign policy aptitude came under scrutiny, and sad to say, he failed miserably.

On July 26, 2023, a military junta in the country of Niger Republic announced that it had ousted its democratically elected president, President Mohamed Bozoum.

Three days later, with little or no consultation, and without waiting to dialogue with the coup d’etat plotters in Niger, Bola Tinubu, newly elected President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), approached Nigeria’s National Assembly with a request to prepare to go to war against Niger.

Just as he had done with the removal of petrol subsidy, Tinubu approached the Niger question without proper introspection, without considering the implications of his action; with what gives the impression of childish bravado, and youthful exuberance.

Nigeria has nothing to gain, but all to lose in a war with the Republic of Niger. Consider the potential for destruction; The Nigerian led forces will be confronting the combined military of Mali, Guinea, Bokina Faso in addition to that of Niger. The Russian Wagner Forces will join them. Nigerian led ECOWAS forces will be dissipated.

Not only does Niger share a common border with seven Nigerian States; Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina,Yobe, Jigawa, and Borno States, the land space of Niger actually forms an arc over Northern Nigeria. It is easy to see how the war will close in Nigeria and leave it helpless.

Niger Republic can quite feasibly lay siege on Nigeria from up the North. It will cut off economic activities, such as supply of the much needed agricultural produce from the North.

Then there is the thorny question of troop loyalty. Does Tinubu know the percentage of Nigerian soldiers that are actually Nigeriens?

A war against Niger will be the greatest misadventure in Nigeria’s history. It will exacerbate the fragile North – South divide. It will sever the North from the South. It will lead to enumerable loss of lives, and most likely destroy the Nigerian economy.

To summarize, in his first 100 days in office, Tinubu has demonstrated that he is a man who is quick to act without considering the consequences of his actions.

The key responsibilities of any government to its citizens are the provision of a secured environment, the promotion of positive economic policies, and the establishment of fairness and equity in governance. So far Tinubu’s administration is flawed in all three areas.

He has been oblivious of the suffering of citizens. He was quick to remove oil subsidy claiming it to be an economic burden on the country. Meanwhile, his bloated administration of 48 Ministers and hundreds of support staff; the most expensive in the nation’s history may actually prove to be financially damaging to the nation.

Insecurity has gone unchecked. In parts of the north, farmers are unable to go to farms because of fear of bandits. Whole communities are held hostage by terrorist gangs who extort taxes from defenceless citizens.

Travelling from one state to another state is perilous as citizens are abducted from public transportation vehicles, and those traveling in private vehicles fall prey to armed robbers.

Insecurity in the South – South and South -East geopolitical zones is getting worse because this administration has failed to address the issue of the growing influence of warlords and secessionist groups in the area.

And in the area of governance, Tinubu’s choice of ministers has been criticized by many as a demonstration of his poor sense of judgment. It is a recycling of ‘ deadwood ‘ failed, former governors and misfits.

Pastor Bakare, the influential Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC) believes that most of these ministers have been brought on board simply as beneficiaries of government patronage.

It is unfortunate, but all that one is able to decipher in the first 100 days of Tinubu’s Presidency is a dysfunctional administration, led by a megalomaniac, and the unveiling of an apocalyptic social and political order.
https://independent.ng/bola-tinubu-100-days-of-presidential-iniquity-dr-adetokunbo-pearse/
Politics › Re: PEPC Judgement: The Perverse Ruling Endangers Nigeria’s Democratic Future by AntiTerrorist(op): 7:25pm On Sep 18, 2023
duro4chang:
The judgement is perverse. Unless reversed by the Supreme Court, it will entrench rigged presidential elections in Nigeria and make presidential election petitions unwinnable, as ever. That will endanger Nigeria’s democratic future!
Politics › Re: PEPC Judgement: The Perverse Ruling Endangers Nigeria’s Democratic Future by AntiTerrorist(op): 7:18pm On Sep 18, 2023
spiritedtete:
Shut up and move on...
Be reasonable. If a thief steal your car, would you move on and forgot it when you have channel to recover it back.
Politics › PEPC Judgement: The Perverse Ruling Endangers Nigeria’s Democratic Future by AntiTerrorist(op): 7:10pm On Sep 18, 2023
I put everything aside to watch the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, from start to finish, on September 6! With rapt attention, I absorbed the minutiae of the very detailed verdict. But after the 13-hour-long ruling, I was utterly despondent. For, instead of safeguarding Nigeria’s democracy, protecting the integrity of future presidential elections and establishing boundaries for integrity politics in Nigeria, the court did the contrary!

Let me start with two general observations. First, the judges worked to a predetermined answer. Because they couldn’t bring themselves to annul the election of a sitting president, unprecedented in Nigeria, they found every reason to affirm Bola Tinubu’s election. Courts of first instance are fact-finding courts that seek to get to the bottom of a matter to do justice. But the PEPC used every conceivable procedural technicality to reject virtually all the facts and witnesses presented by Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar.

At one point, a cynical thought ran through my mind: Did INEC’s and Tinubu’s lawyers write the verdict for the judges? I quickly dismissed the thought but was struck by how the judges treated Obi’s and Atiku’s lawyers, most of them Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, like morons, who were utterly incompetent and ignorant of the law, but treated INEC’s and Tinubu’s lawyers with total deference, regurgitating their arguments.

The second observation is that the judges’ interventions and tone betrayed their biases. For instance, one judge read out the results of the presidential election in the five South-East states and said that “INEC must be an abysmally poor manipulator, if not even an imbecilic one”, to have allowed Obi, instead of Tinubu, to win massively in those states. In other words, if INEC really manipulated the election, Tinubu should have won in the South-East.

Really? The learned judge failed to realise that it’s almost impossible to rig an election where one party is extremely strong, and another is extremely weak; that elections are usually rigged where two parties are fairly equally strong such that it’s easier to manipulate votes and tip the balance in favour of one and against the other. Yet, the erudite judge made hay of the argument that Obi won massively in the South-East, his core base, to “prove” that the presidential election was free and fair, making INEC’s and Tinubu’s case for them!

Leaving aside those general observations, what about the substantive issues? These were FCT’s status; Tinubu’s drug-related forfeiture; pleadings and evidence; and the role of INEC. In my view, the PEPC’s decisions were skewed in favour of Tinubu and INEC. There were perfectly legitimate and reasonable positions the court could have taken, if so inclined.

Let’s start with the FCT issue. The PEPC rejected a literal interpretation of section 134(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution on whether a winning candidate must score at least one-quarter of the votes cast in Abuja. It said that only a broader interpretation would align with the intention of the framers of the Constitution regarding “equality of citizens” and “equality of rights”, set out in the Preamble. Thus, the court said FCT’s votes couldn’t be decisive, stating: “Equality of rights in every citizen cannot exclude equality of the weight and value of their votes. No, it includes it.”

But if the principle of “equality of the weight and value of votes” is constitutional and sacrosanct, why did the votes of 8.8million (37 percent) who voted for Tinubu carry more weight and value than those of 15.2million (63 percent) who rejected him? Why should 37 percent of voters have a veto over 63 percent? The court ruled that Tinubu scored “the majority of lawful votes cast at the election”. The total lawful votes cast at the presidential election was 24 million. Is 8.8million the majority of 24 million? Certainly not!

Strangely, while the PEPC adopted a broader interpretation on FCT’s status to give Tinubu an escape route, it adopted a narrower one on the issue of dishonesty to give him another lifeline

According to INEC, Tinubu scored the “highest” votes among the presidential candidates, but not “the majority of the lawful votes cast at the election.” Surely, if votes were to have equal weight and value, a winning presidential candidate should have the majority of all the votes cast, not just the highest among the candidates. Since that’s not the constitutional position, it’s wrong to decide the FCT issue on the basis of “equality of the weight and value of votes”.

Similarly flawed is the recourse to section 299 of the Constitution, which says FCT should be treated “as if it were” a state. The phrase “as if” is figurative. Abuja is not literally a state. There are many provisions of the Constitution that apply to states but not to Abuja. For instance, Abuja doesn’t have an elected governor or assembly; and the FCT Minister doesn’t attend meetings that state governors attend, such as the National Council of State and National Economic Council. Indeed, section 299 says that provisions of the Constitution should be read with “necessary modifications and adaptations” with respect to Abuja. The presidential election is sui generis, different from day-to-day issues of governance to which section 299 arguably refers. So, it’s wrong to use section 299 to defeat the reasonable construction of section 134(2)(b) regarding the presidential election.

Strangely, while the PEPC adopted a broader interpretation on FCT’s status to give Tinubu an escape route, it adopted a narrower one on the issue of dishonesty to give him another lifeline. Section 137(1)(d) of the Constitution disqualifies from running for president anyone who was subject to a “fine for any offence involving dishonesty or fraud by whatever name called.” Although the phrase “by whatever name called” is very broad, the PEPC held that the “fine” and “offence” referred to in section 137(1)(d) only related to criminal conviction. Thus, being a “non-conviction-based forfeiture”, the $460,000 that Tinubu forfeited to the US Government didn’t disqualify him from becoming president, even though it was linked to proceeds of “narcotic trafficking and money laundering”.

That ruling would destroy the basis of integrity politics in Nigeria. If, as the PEPC held, the framers of the Constitution intended that a person who, though not convicted, forfeited assets on account of criminal conduct can become president, then it means that integrity and honesty are constitutionally and judicially excluded from Nigerian leadership!

Now, let’s turn to pleadings and evidence. Here’s the utter injustice. The petitioner carries a heavy evidential burden, yet the court and the law put insurmountable obstacles in his way. He must file his petition with detailed pleadings and relevant documents within 21 days of the declaration of election results. Anything not filed or “frontloaded” within 21 days would be rejected. With 176,846 polling units across Nigeria, how can a candidate challenging a presidential election assemble all facts and witnesses within 21 days? Yet, the PEPC struck out most of Obi’s and Atiku’s pleadings and evidence, based on non-filing within 21 days and other procedural technicalities. Truth is, the cards are so stacked, both legally and judicially, against a petitioner in a presidential election that the taunt “Go to court” gains potency.

Finally, INEC’s role. The PEPC ruled that despite stating in its Regulations and Guidelines that it “shall” transmit election results “electronically” and “upload” them “to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV)”, INEC is not obligated to honour those commitments. The ruling defies the preponderance of English case law discouraging public bodies from frustrating legitimate expectations resulting from their undertakings or representations. If INEC cannot keep its own words, how can Nigerians trust it to conduct credible presidential elections?

Truth is, the PEPC judgement is perverse. Unless reversed by the Supreme Court, it will entrench rigged presidential elections in Nigeria and make presidential election petitions unwinnable, as ever. That will endanger Nigeria’s democratic future!
https://businessday.ng/columnist/article/pepc-judgement-the-perverse-ruling-endangers-nigerias-democratic-future/?amp=1
Foreign Affairs › Re: Reports Of Coup Emerge In Congo by AntiTerrorist: 6:53pm On Sep 17, 2023
Nigeria is next!
Politics › Re: Tinubu Should Beat America To His Chicago Records by AntiTerrorist: 6:50pm On Sep 17, 2023
duro4chang:
President Bola Tinubu likely has something in his Chicago State University records he isn’t proud of, for which he is stonewalling legal efforts by his one-time ally Atiku Abubakar, to have detail of his sojourn in the institution, in public space.
True, that's why he is fighting tooth and nail to prevent his academic records from being released to the public. Tinubu is a certified criminal.
Politics › Re: Why Mr Tinubu Should Not Give Peter Obi Funsho Williams' Treatment by AntiTerrorist(op): 6:47pm On Sep 17, 2023
yarimo:
so freedom of expression gives you rights to call another religion terrorists? And freedom of expression gives you rights to post rubbish on social media? Illiterate kids with free bonus data everywhere
Sorry for your frustration
Politics › Re: CJN Rushing To Preempt U.S. Court’s Ruling On Tinubu’s CSU's Records by AntiTerrorist: 5:54pm On Sep 17, 2023
Jostoman:
then Nigeria should be cancel. This is what is happening in the case of mohbad, police dont want to act because those that are accuse are close to the people ruling us.
Nigeria is currently a dangerous jungle under APC. Only the most verocious animals can rule here. It takes grace for sane people to survive in this country.
Politics › Re: Why Mr Tinubu Should Not Give Peter Obi Funsho Williams' Treatment by AntiTerrorist(op): 5:51pm On Sep 17, 2023
yarimo:
From your thread it shows you are illiterate
Do you know the meaning of illiterate?
Politics › Re: Why Mr Tinubu Should Not Give Peter Obi Funsho Williams' Treatment by AntiTerrorist(op): 5:44pm On Sep 17, 2023
Pierocash:
Obi is not a coward to give Tinubu such power.

If he could do it, he would have done it before election. Obi is not weak like funsho
I pray as you wish.
Politics › Re: Why Mr Tinubu Should Not Give Peter Obi Funsho Williams' Treatment by AntiTerrorist(op): 5:43pm On Sep 17, 2023
DiscoverID:
Sai Jagaban!! The destroyer of biafra cool
So you are proud to have a destroyer as your president?
Politics › Re: CJN Rushing To Preempt U.S. Court’s Ruling On Tinubu’s CSU's Records by AntiTerrorist: 5:40pm On Sep 17, 2023
Jorussia:
This Jackson of a guy has been consistent in giving out fake and ridiculous news.
When he said Fashola wrote the tribunal judgement, didn't it turns out to be true? The guy has facts.
Politics › Re: CJN Rushing To Preempt U.S. Court’s Ruling On Tinubu’s CSU's Records by AntiTerrorist: 5:37pm On Sep 17, 2023
seunmsg:
So, the CJN should not constitute a panel to hear the appeal filed by Atiku and Peter Obi or what? Will Atiku and Peter Obi wait till the US court rule on the matter before filing their appeal? Will the CJN constitute a panel when there is no appeal? Can any of the parties even introduce new evidence at this stage? Why are these losers so senseless like this?

Hopefully, Nairaland moderators will be smart enough not to move this fake news and unwarranted attack on the CJN to front page. Jackson Ude is a liar, fake news merchant and a wanted man in Nigeria. Dude lies for a living. This is another fake news from him.
At the bolded, is certificate forgery not among the petitions Atiku raised against Tinubu in the first place? The drama going on in the US is not outside the case before the court.

And what concerns you about any topic that should hit front page? Leave that for the mods.
Politics › Why Mr Tinubu Should Not Give Peter Obi Funsho Williams' Treatment by AntiTerrorist(op): 5:30pm On Sep 17, 2023
Opposition is one of the beauty of democracy and Critics should be respected like Advisers in the interest of the country. In true democracy, freedom of expression is a right to all citizens. Any attempt to give Obi Funsho Williams' treatment will throw this country into another civil war. Naija no bi Lagos.

I'm saying this because drug lords can be brutal. They are as brutal as muslim terrorists. May peace reign in Nigeria forever.
Politics › Re: CJN Rushing To Preempt U.S. Court’s Ruling On Tinubu’s CSU's Records by AntiTerrorist: 5:20pm On Sep 17, 2023
Kingosytex:
Because the law of the land is only effective when a common man is involved not when the biggest gun in the country is involved.
Then we are not practicing democracy. In true democracy, everyone is equal before the law.
Politics › Re: Why Is Peter Obi Tormenting Tinubu Endlessly? by AntiTerrorist(op): 4:01pm On Sep 16, 2023
TemplarLandry:
🤣🤣 Tormenting who??
Gbajuę Geng.
As if you can sleep without dreaming about Peter Obi. Dey play 🤣
Politics › Re: Nigeria Swinging Dangerously Away From True Democracy, Obi Releases New Message by AntiTerrorist: 3:59pm On Sep 16, 2023
Supreme court is like a coin in the pocket of Tinubu.
Politics › Why Is Peter Obi Tormenting Tinubu Endlessly? by AntiTerrorist(op): 3:55pm On Sep 16, 2023
Why is Tinubu feeling tormented by Peter Obi instead of Atiku or why did Tinubu thinks it is Obi that is holding his blokos? To Tinubu and his supporters, it's as if Atiku was never in the race. I think this is a proof that Obi actually came first in the last presidential election.
Politics › Peter Obi Will Reclaim His Stolen Mandate - LP Chieftain by AntiTerrorist(op): 10:49pm On Sep 15, 2023
By Richard Ogunsile

A chieftain of the Labour Party (LP) in Edo State, Stephen Osemwegie, said stated that the candidate of the party in the last presidential election, Peter Obi, will reclaim his mandate.


Naija News reports that Obi is challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25th presidential election.

The former governor of Anambra State had approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to reclaim his allegedly stolen mandate. However, the tribunal, last week, struck out Obi and Labour Party’s various petitions and upheld Tinubu’s victory as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Speaking, however, on the controversial judgement by the Tribunal, Osemwegie, said the legal tussle between Obi and Tinubu is not over.

The governorship aspirant, under the platform of the Labour Party (LP) in the Edo 2024 election said though the judgement of the tribunal had dashed the hope of Nigerians, the verdict did not reflect the position of the constitution of the country.

“I’m dismayed by the PEPT’s judgment as it amounts to a total abdication of power to the executive arm of government in a manner indicative of state capture, and does not reflect the independence of the judiciary as envisaged by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is a slap on us as a nation that prides itself as the “Giant of Africa”.


“This aberration should be strongly condemned in its entirety. I believe it is an attempt to legitimize the imposed presidency of Bola Tinubu; dash the hope of the ordinary and long-suffering Nigerians for a new nation anchored on the principles of justice, equity and fairness; and grossly undermine the moral and ethical standards of the larger society,”
Vanguard quoted the governorship aspirant as saying in a publication on Wednesday.

Speaking, however, on his aspiration, Osemwegie, promised to make Edo an industrial hub of Nigeria when elected next year. The politician, while speaking on sources of funding for his proposed initiatives for the State, drew a comparison between Edo and New Jersey, Naija News understands.

He said: “Edo approximately covers an area of 19,000 sq km, same as New Jersey USA. Edo population is approximately 4.5 million, while New Jersey is approximately 9 million people (double the population of Edo State). The current annual budget of Edo is 360 billion naira (approximately 0.4 billion US dollars) while New Jersey’s annual budget is at a whopping 54 billion US dollars.”


“There is no money to develop and industrialise Edo based on its paltry resources, therefore new funding must come from the diaspora in the form of investment bonds which will be sold to Edo indigenes in Diaspora”.
https://www./2023/09/13/peter-obi-will-reclaim-his-mandate-lp-chieftain-speaks-on-tinubus-tribunal-victory/?amp=1
Politics › Re: 'Tinubu's Transcript Has Implicated Him' - David Hundeyin by AntiTerrorist: 10:35pm On Sep 15, 2023
Chizaam2008:
Oh yes! CSU has a history of fraud.
They should be indicted!
Too many shady deals with ZERO credibility!

Small wonder after over 40 years CSU still has no national or state ranking . ONLY “regional’?

That is what you call A ROGUE SCHOOL only the likes of TIEFNUBU can arm-twist with money to fabricate ANYTHING.

We know!

Meanwhile check out my school mates.😝

Wey im own? cheesy
Tinubu actually bought his way at Chicago State University. He never attend class.
Politics › Re: Peter Obi Addresses Bangladesh At Commonwealth Economic Council’s Invitation by AntiTerrorist(op): 7:43pm On Sep 15, 2023
[s]
Acekidc4:
To Obidient and Ipob Miscreants, this is a very huge Achievement 🤭🤗 Make Pitoobi keep Whining Una Destiny!!
[/s] I see no reason why you must be bitter.
Politics › Peter Obi Addresses Bangladesh At Commonwealth Economic Council’s Invitation by AntiTerrorist(op): 7:07pm On Sep 15, 2023
“Peter Obi Addresses Bangladesh as Keynote Speaker on SME Formalization, Invited by Commonwealth Economic and Investment Council”

Peter Obi is currently in Bangladesh as the invited Keynote Speaker on SME Formalization by the Commonwealth Economic and Investment Council. This event took place on September 14, 2023.
https://g9ija.com/2023/09/15/peter-obi-addresses-bangladesh-at-commonwealth-economic-councils-invitation/?amp=1
Politics › Osun APC And The Gabby -garrulous Verbose Of A Sooko by AntiTerrorist(op): 4:34pm On Sep 15, 2023
In the last couple of weeks, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressive Congress, intermittently angering in their incredulous gaze at the weight of catastrophe, which ruptured on them through the July 16 2022 verdict of the indomitable people of Osun State, has engaged in collapsable epistles exposing the party's political sodomy.

Recently, the band-aid chairman of the beheaded APC, one Sooko Taju Lawal, has attempted to clap with one hand, laboring endlessly to denigrate and insult the people's Governor, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen, albeit with overdose of unintelligibility.

Yes, it is pardonable to be arrogant but being arrogant in crass error of criminality is unintelligent and destructible for a fizzling opposition like the Osun APC.

Or how do one decipher that the caricature of a chairman condemning Governor Adeleke for completing projects heartlessly abandoned by the deposed Oyetola administration with the former getting accolades for it from different quarters including the former president and elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Just how?

The chairman was recently quoted soliloquizing that, the Osogbo-Ikirun road for instance, was at 75% completion and so, Governor Adeleke should not be commended for completing it? Chai, what a Sooko!

One tends to ask Mr Sooko, while assuming without conceding that, the road project, which has gulped several billions of naira of Osun State resources, mostly borrowed funds in the notorious days of APC in the state, was at 75% completion, why did Oyetola fail to complete it in the whole of his 4years as governor? Why did he refuse to be responsible in office by completing such a strategically important project he jointly sat on the table to use Osun people as collateral to secure loans for it's execution?

I hold vehemently that such 'say something anyhow' because of hazardous idleness, through another concurrent idle hand, was dumb, insane and utterly inept. In fact, such criticism by the acrimonious Aide-de-camp of the fastly receding APC refugee assemblage, lacks any cultural aroma of a political ball boy erroneously donning garment of a Sooko.

Sooko Taju in a sane clime, should have impressed it on Mr Oyetola, under whom he was arranged as a makeshift chairman, to prevent another governor from expending financial calories of the state on such project by completing it and leaving no percentage of completion, for anyone to take accolades. A true Sooko should not be a delusionist in my view.

It also belittles Sooko Taju when he descended into the arena of political toads, jumping around aimlessly and into the coal of fire that Governor Adeleke's initiative of providing boreholes for the use of the people was insufficient. Again, Osun people should ask Sooko Taju, what happened to the 332 boreholes that supposed to have been provided for the good people of Osun State by the government of his leader, Gboyega Oyetola, as part of 20 million dollar primary health revitalization grant provided by world bank during the infamous tenure of the better forgotten former governor?

Had those number of boreholes been executed as contained in the papers prior to accessing the 20 million dollar world bank grant then, Governor Ademola Adeleke would not have had to bother himself engaging in sinking another round of boreholes for the people. Financial commitments on such project again, should have been devoted for other essential areas of needs of the people. Or maybe Sooko Taju is bereft of this in the hollow enclave of his thoughtless gabby-garrulous verbose.

Mr Taju, I make bold to demand, should recuse himself as bearer of a traditional title of Sooko if he wouldn't venipuncture the shamelessness contaminating his veins, unless he only mimicks the title as mere political chant.

The unending pains of APC's coordinator in the state is however not abating anytime soon, as Governor Ademola Adeleke is already inches away from completing another abandoned project, this time Osogbo East bypass road. The road will be completed, commissioned and opened for road users very soon in order to serve it primary purpose for the people. So Mr Sooko Taju should get more bowls for more tears as the custodian of the mandate of the people of Osun State won't back down, not now, not in foreseeable future.

Not only that, Governor Ademola Adeleke just saw through a noiseless summit to revitalize education sector in the state. This will ensure that most of the basic and secondary schools in the state especially, are made habitable for both tutors and the tutored. The schools will be transformed from mere cosmetic buildings for optical deceit to schools with standard education.

Sooko Taju can derive pleasure in his master's prodigality. He can dance naked in the market over proliferation of the state's resources owing to orchestrated bickerings in his troubled party. He should however check with the good people of Osun State or his economic sensory organs if any, before he burns himself further because the PDP government of Governor Ademola Adeleke will not stop bringing home for the people, the deliverables they deserved as human shield used for humongous liquid liabilities inflicted on the state by his warlord, who took wicked greed and ego laden bickerings high and above his duties he ought to discharge while in office.
Oladele Bamiji is the Senior Special Assistant To Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State
Politics › Re: What You Need To Know About Atiku's Case Against Tinubu Academic Qualifications. by AntiTerrorist: 5:42am On Sep 14, 2023
Tinubu is a multi-dimensional criminal.
Politics › Re: What You Need To Know About Atiku's Case Against Tinubu Academic Qualifications. by AntiTerrorist: 5:38am On Sep 14, 2023
jconsulting:
Kill yourself on Tinubu case
This is not about having blind support for anyone.

It is a matter of choosing between the need to be reasonable or to be plain foooolish.
Politics › Re: Leave Obidients, Igbos Out Of Tinubu Fake CSU Certificates, Call Angelina Liu by AntiTerrorist: 5:29am On Sep 14, 2023
sanusi4truth:
I'm shocked that Tinubu's supporters are attacking Obidients, Peter Obi and Igbos in general, leaving out Atiku and her white lawyer, Angelina Liu who is on top of her game. What do you call this type of supporters? Foolish or dumb? Anyone like me who takes a different view like Atiku supporter becomes Obidient. Are you saying Atiku has no supporters again? What type of drug do they take that they all see Igbos in their failures? This obsession about Igbos is getting out of hand.
It is guilty conscience that is worrying them. They know Obi won the election. They know their druglord is riding on stolen mandate.

Another reason is that Tinubu's surpporters are Yoruba muslims and we all know it is a sin for any Yoruba muslim to look at a northern muslim eyeball to eyeball. Druggie's surpporters are majorly inferior Muslims.
Politics › Why Are All Tinubu's Surpporters Anti-japa? by AntiTerrorist(op): 5:08am On Sep 14, 2023
Who noticed APC/Tinubu's surpporters in recent times have been on aggressive campaign to discourage Nigerians from leaving this country. If anyone makes anti-japa post on social media, just go and check their social media history, you will realize such a person is a chronic supporter of APC or Tinubu. But it's funny some of them are even discouraging from the same abroad they don't want people to go. Why can't they relocate back to Nigeria first before writing their unsolicited epistles?

Why do they behave this way? You can't bring calamity upon people and still force them to enjoy it. This will be tantamount to extreme wickedness. Even your political gods and favourite celebrities, most of their children and grandchildren are living outside Nigeria. Abroad is their home and Nigeria is just like a village to them where make money. Buhari prefers staying in London to Nigeria while Atiku prefers staying in Dubai to Nigeria. Their wives and children stays abroad more than in Nigeria.

APC government is making Japa difficult for citizens. If you want to apply for international passport, it will take up to six months and you will have to pay times two or three of the official price before you can get it. Cost of flight ticket in Nigeria is times three or four of same ticket in neighbouring countries. Why Tinubu's government anti-japa and why is he sponsoring anti-japa campaign after running Nigeria aground? You can't beat the child and ask him not to cry.
Nairaland General › Re: Why? by AntiTerrorist: 4:39am On Sep 14, 2023
Curse777:
cool.



Ordinarily they are helping your life but you love making terrible decision like picking third class Philosophy graduate of Nssuka over Business Administration and Accounting honors Chicago State University graduate

You sell your father's house land and property to Europe, to work menial job and pay bills and rent saving little, till you are fustrated to join Drug and Fruad... Sooner than later you get arrested


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if you are abroad
do your scholarship
pursue your PR
do what took you there
and STOP advising people about anything. just keep shut.

the hundreds of thousands of people crossing the sahara, crossing the seas, illegally (because they dont know any better) aren't stupid!

you are African in Europe/Americas, it means you relocated or someone in your lineage left Africa. SOMEONE LEFT!!!
Travel › Re: Nigerians Abroad Should Stop Advising Nigerians NOT To Japa by AntiTerrorist: 4:36am On Sep 14, 2023
Gerrard59:
In most cases, the bond that binds them is their unwavering love for APC. In almost all cases, they campaigned and voted for Buhari win 2015, who destroyed the Nigerian economy with his stoopid and feudalistic policies. In some cases, they emigrated during their youthful age, obtained an education, got working experience and became naturalised citizens in their newfound land. Today, they vomit the gospel that other young Nigerians should not become "economic migrants". Others, na frustration wan kill them as they languished in prisons due to drug trafficking and yahoo yahoo. So, seeing younger ones excelling in the same countries, they misused the opportunities dey pain them for heart.

In summary, we will judge by 2030 - 2033 whether the decision to japa was a good one. Hopefully, everyone will be here to drop nuggets as usual.

https://www.nairaland.com/7778685/why-apc-supporters-against-relocation
I'm happy am not the only one who observe this about APC supporters. They are despicable people.
Travel › Re: Nigerians Abroad Should Stop Advising Nigerians NOT To Japa by AntiTerrorist: 4:33am On Sep 14, 2023
sulaak:
The number of new Nigerian immigrants complaining about hardship and difficulties has increased exponentially, One of the reasons is that Western economies are encountering severe economic hardship and new immigrants are finding it difficult to sustain affordable housing and income when working in professions such as care workers, nurses and junior doctors.
You are still doing the same thing the OP is talking about. You are a stubborn 🐐.

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