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COASTAL ROAD WITHOUT COAST:
APC AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF POLICY SOMERSAULT 🛣️🤡

Welcome to Nigeria 🇳🇬, where a *COASTAL* road no longer goes through the coast! 🌊❌

For *more than two years* 💭 they sold us a dream: 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, 10 lanes, from Victoria Island through Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom to Cross River. N15 TRILLION 💰. Tinubu's legacy project.

They demolished homes 🏚️ in Lagos, demolished Landmark Beach 🏖️💔, demolished businesses worth billions, told us "no going back, this is development." 🚧

Today, after *31 months* (March 2024 - Oct 2026) what do we have? Only *47.47km* fully completed out of 700km = 6.7% 📉. At this rate, 700km will take 38 years (2062)!

And now the bombshell 💣 - Minister Umahi:

> "Mr President has made a wonderful engineering decision. 🎓 After Ondo, the road will detour inland through Edo to join the old East-West Road." 🤦🏾‍♂️

So after Lagos and Ogun, there is no more coastal road. The coastal communities of Ondo - Ugbonla, Awoye, Ilepete, Ilowo, 60% of Ilaje LGA - bypassed 🚫.

You call it COASTAL ROAD, but you route it inland. Like selling a man a canoe 🛶 and giving him a wheelbarrow 🛒.

#LagosCalabarCoastalRoad #FuelPriceHike #NigeriaEconomy #RenewedShege #NaijaPolitics #Tinubunomics #DavidUmahi

OPINION: WHEN ACHIEVEMENT IS EMPTY, BEGGING BECOMES CAMPAIGN

So this is where we are? The APC Presidential Campaign Council is no longer campaigning, it is now *begging.*

Senator Abdulaziz Yari goes to Kano — to the Government House of an NNPP Governor — not to commission a road, not to showcase a power plant, not to show how insecurity has ended, but to plead: _"Please allow Tinubu to complete 8 years. Be gentlemanly."_

What happened to achievements? If 10 years of APC — 8 of Buhari + 3 of Tinubu — had worked, would you need to beg? When achievement is empty, begging becomes campaign.

*1. YOU WANT TO TELL THE NORTH SECURITY IS BETTER?*

Tell that to the 15 farmers slaughtered on October 1, 2026 in Marte LGA, Borno. Farmers and firewood gatherers ambushed on their farmlands around Ala and Musune wards, tied, and executed at close range by suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP. 15 buried, 3 still missing. Police PPRO ASP Nahum Daso confirmed: "15 people were killed while others are still missing." Amnesty called it horrific.

And what is government's response to anger in Borno? On September 25, 2026, five youths — Baba Aji Gremami 44, Mustapha Abba Yemen 28, Abbacha Mohammed Ali 32, Adam Umar Gubio 21, Abdulhamid Mohammed 21 — were arrested at West End Roundabout, Maiduguri for wearing "Tinubu Must Go" T-shirts. Remanded for criminal conspiracy and thuggery. Since when did a T-shirt become a weapon? As Atiku said, "Tinubu Must Go is a demand for political change. It is not a weapon, a threat or a crime." If you have achievements, why arrest shirts instead of bandits?

*2. WHERE IS THE COMPASSION? WHERE IS THE ECONOMY?*

When over 200 were killed in Yelewata, Benue in June 2025, the President did not go to Yelewata. The visit was turned into a political rally at Government House. When about 30 were massacred on Palm Sunday in Angwan Rukuba, Jos North, Tinubu landed at Yakubu Gowon Airport, Heipang — 40 minutes from the blood — held a stakeholders' meeting inside the airport, and flew off. He never left the airport. Victims were bussed to him. Residents asked: "Are the injured victims being transported here for your viewing?"

Is this leadership or airport tourism? "This is not leadership; it is indifference dressed as protocol."

And you beg the same North where hunger is weaponized?

A bag of rice that was N35,000 in May 2023 is now N88,000 in Mile 12. Garri, the poor man's last hope, N2,200 per Congo. Petrol N1,400 in Lagos, N1,500 in the North. Food inflation 19.57% because farmers in Zamfara, Niger, Benue still pay levies to bandits to farm.

CBN will announce $55.25bn foreign reserve — highest in 18 years — Naira at N1,330, but Mama in Kano market cannot buy tomatoes. Have you stabilized the Excel sheet or the stomach? As economist Muda Yusuf said, "Revenues, reserves and exchange rate stability have improved markedly but they are yet to translate sufficiently into relief for households."

What concerns Nigerians today is food, food and food, not propaganda. So why should they vote for reserves they cannot eat?

*3. WHY AN AVALANCHE OF IDP CAMPS IN A COUNTRY NOT AT WAR — AND WHY BLOCK THOSE WHO BRING COMPASSION?*

This is the question Yari must answer in Kano.

Nigeria today: 3.726 million IDPs across about 3,900 camps — a population bigger than Jamaica. 5.9 million in severe humanitarian need in Northeast, 1.4 million displaced in Northwest, 464,000 in Benue alone. Benue has 15 IDP camps. Borno has over 103 camps where only 308,000 got sanitation help.

Why are Nigerians refugees in their own country? Because you failed to secure life, because you build IDP camps instead of farms.

And when a popular Presidential candidate tries to do what government won't — visit those IDPs — what happens?

In April 2025, Peter Obi was stopped from entering Benue to visit IDP camps. Governor Alia's government issued a statement saying it could not guarantee his safety without clearance, that anyone visiting IDP camps must obtain written permission from BSEMA. A Nigerian citizen needs permission to visit displaced Nigerians in his own country?

Then on September 8, 2026, same Benue, same candidate — on a purely humanitarian mission to Yelwata where over 200 were massacred, Obi's convoy was blocked on Gboko Road near Air Force Base, Makurdi, by thugs wielding sticks and stones chanting "Peter Obi, go back." Police confirmed obstruction, arrested 46. Is this how you treat empathy? You block compassion, but you cannot block bandits?

How many IDP camps has Tinubu himself visited before asking for 8 more years? Name one. You block those who bring food to IDPs, yet you will soon bring rice and spaghetti yourself to buy votes. What irony!

*4. AND NOW THE NEXT SCRIPT — VOTE BUYING AND SPAGHETTI POLITICS?*

We know the sequence. When begging fails and achievements cannot be cited, what follows? Very soon the same government and campaign bodies that cannot secure farms or reduce rice will flood villages with rice, spaghetti, wrappers and N5,000 notes.

Will Northerners trade 8 years of their future for a plate of rice and a pack of spaghetti that won't last till morning? Will they sell their children's security for indomie shared at the polling unit?

You cannot starve a people for three years, then feed them for three days and call it governance. Nigerians are wiser.

*CONCLUSION: BEGGING IS AN ADMISSION OF FAILURE*

You don't beg people you have fed. You don't plead with people you have protected. You don't arrest T-shirts when you cannot arrest terrorists. You don't block humanitarians from IDP camps you created. And you cannot bribe people you have pauperized with their own money.

If after 10 years your best pitch to the North — the region bleeding most from massacres, IDPs, and hunger — is "be gentlemanly and allow 8 years," then where are the achievements?

2027 will not be decided by who begs best in Kano. It will be decided in Marte where farmers were slaughtered, in Yelewata where genocide was called a clash, in Jos where victims were ferried to an airport, in 3,900 IDP camps where 3.7 million ask why they are refugees, in Makurdi where compassion was blocked, and in every market where rice is N88,000.

Will Nigerians vote for begging or for bread? For airport meetings or for a President who will walk into the bloodied farm? For reserves on paper or for food on the table? For spaghetti today or for security forever?

#NigerianPolitics #ProtectNigerianJobs #TinubuMustGo #BornoMassacre #BenueGenocide #PlateauKillings #IDPCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2453916531799147/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

They can play word games with semantics, but they can't erase the suffering of everyday Nigerians. 🧵📉
When Peter Obi exposed the reality that over 140 million Nigerians are trapped in poverty, media outlets like Daily Trust rushed to water it down. They labeled the claim "partly true with qualifications," hiding behind academic distinctions between monetary and multidimensional indicators simply because Nigeria hasn't run a household headcount since 2022.
Let’s look at the actual, verified data:

* The World Bank’s 2026 Nigeria Development Update estimated 140 million Nigerians living below the poverty line by 2025.
* PwC’s 2026 West Africa Economic Outlook projected that figure hitting 141 million this year.

When 140+ million citizens cannot afford basic survival, parsing definitions isn't journalism—it’s an attempt to sanitize a national crisis. The hardship is real. Stop policing the language of those exposing the truth and start fixing the country. 🇳🇬
Go and verify.
#PeterObi #Nigeria #FactCheck #EconomicCrisis #WorldBank #GoAndVerify #KeepItReal

Watch how Daily Trust Newspaper trying to water down the facts reeled out by Peter Obi
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2453916531799147/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Professor don scam Anambra people with 20 years guarantee road project
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19KRvvnWk7/

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PlasmaTV:
Why are you always the first to comment on Obi's posts?

Why are you so obsessed?

I thought am the only person that observed this. Never seen this type of hatred and monitoring spirit. I hope that account is not AI? This is not obsession but supernatural hatred. This guy doesn't have work but on Nairaland 24/7 preceding every replies about Peter Obi..

Watch the the moment the New Chancellor of Chulkwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University arrives Anambra Airport...

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1JBcA3DH9t/

This is called objective opposition by Mr. Peter Obi..
A serious matter Nigerians are taking for granted.

Who send ... Trumpphobians

This is matured and objective opposition. Woto woto

Good move Presidooo! May God replenish your purse..

ifeco4:
Highly sophisticated fraudsters.

Monarch - fraudster

Pastors - fraudsters and pulpit bandits.

President - drug baron/certificate forger/criminal of international dimension.

Indigens - skull miners.

Region - World headquarters of ritual killing.

hahaha!!! 😂 😂

Racoon:
People like Helinues are only obsessed with shouting Peter Obi and Onitsha drug market opening. Meanwhile, from brazen criminality from overt fraud, drug baronism to gruesome crimes like skull mining are still ravaging the region. Every region have its share of criminality but the OCD with Igboland is their primary schizophrenia.

Truth is bitter. Make it louder

Ndi Igbo too great!!

wickedclown:
Developers of Nigeria....
Money na water gang
Most intelligent tribe in Nigeria
The only people who develop others but themselves
The richest tribe in Nigeria.

Baby factories busted
Cannibalism capital of Nigeria
Unknown gunmen safe haven
Expansionists
Identity thieves
Always dragging people to be part of them
They can live in every other place on earth but their own space
Druggies

The most confused tribe in Nigeria....
This is now they make their money they always boast about....

Your only problem on earth is Ndi Igbo. Quite palpable with your venomous expressions...


With the level of that unfathomable fury of yours, if given the power, you can wipe this great ethnic group from the surface of the earth

Take am easy omonile!

If the current president makes this statement, many parents will automatically withdraw their children asap😅😅😅

This supposed to be in the front page by now.

TruthU87:
Israel is Over-rated, Seems more and more are getting through all the Iron Dome protection methods and this will def embolden them to continue.

The same way you overrated Hamas and Hezbollah before now.. Just because of one successful target...

Dapromzy333:
https://news360ng.com/nigerian-pastor-tobi-adegboyega-loses-deportation-fight-amid-1-87m-fraud-allegations/

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Waiting for name checkers from Ronu to do justice to...

IGBOPROMISE1:
It’s possible the bigot you just quoted is a employee of one of the security bodies…..most likely the DSS or army! Either that, or he’s close in one way or another to the corridors of hegemonic power (2015-date)! He’s been on this forum for quite some time now, trying to fool the unsuspecting into believing he’s actually Igbo from Ebonyi state! All he does is try to set the cat amongst the pigeons and cause division and bickering amongst gullible and emotional Igbo on this forum…some of who take his bait!

I thought as much. And the so called Nairaland l
moderatirs looking indfferent to these incitements..

Fiscus105:
Oga, use that energy and technological-know how, to track IPOB and whoever enforcing sit at home

They are tracking both virtual and physical

Ebubu8:
Anambra is plaqued with insurgency

God bless Ebonyi state the safest state in South East 🙏 Ebonyi does not observe sit at home. I even went to the bank today and the kids are at school.

Development only comes to peaceful places that's why development has been coming to Ebonyi state and they are angry towards the airport among others.

be rest assured that Anambra Security system are monitoring your handle and moniker.... Your statements here are beyond mere Social media ridicules.. You are a suspect to the above attack on innocent citizens in Anambra State. Very soon you will be tracked. It must be ascertained wether you are a bot or really from Ebonyi, a fellow Igbo state, whose indigenous memebers are equally living in quantity in Anambra State.!

Svoboda:
Ozigbo, running Anambra is different from running a catering services company or a night club. It is far deeper and more diverse than serving highball tumblers filled with champagne in ball rooms. There's no vacancy in agu awka, unless you want to waste your money.

Ok nah! " noted

The way Reno and his ronu boys strategically left this thread beạts every imaginations ... 😂😂😂😂😂 Ndi most civilized tribe!!! 😂😂😂

[quote author=Ebubu2 post=132648291][/quote]Inferiority complex detected... When you give a child what is more than him, he will ask the giver;whom shall I give...


At least, the too much Anambra did Ebonyi this, did Ebonyi that will subside.. 🙄 🙄 I have not seen any onye Anambra complaining.. I don't know the intent for this mockery as if the person in question is not from South East region.. But It is high time we begin see things from merit. Congratulations to Ndi Abakiliki all the way

[quote author=Ebubu2 post=132648291][/quote]Inferiority complex detected... When you give a child what is more than him, he will ask the giver;whom shall I give...


At least, the too much Anambra did Ebonyi this, did Ebonyi that will subside.. 🙄 🙄 I have not seen any onye Anambra complaining.. I don't know the intent for this mockery as if the person in question is not from South East region.. But It is high time we begin see things from merit. Congratulations to Ndi Abakiliki all the way

Babangidapikin:
She is only trying to correct you...I don' t know who is correct sef

The correct phrase is "prices and taxes go up." This is because "go" is the base form of the verb used with plural subjects like "prices and taxes." You would say "the price goes up" if referring to a single price, but with multiple items, you use "go."

so Madam Hadiza 1: Oga Sani 0

Correcting a person on his page you unfollowed and who equally unfollowed is quite telling... It is cheer stalking... Somebody's wife.. Thats is online witch hunter

iampeterben:
https://guardian.ng/news/fg-to-replace-foreign-cartoons-with-nigerian-content-that-promotes-values/

The problem lies in the alternative not in the restrictions... Do Nigeria have better and more entertaining contents.....? 🙄 🙄

Noted... But must always be grateful to Christianity for the Western educational platform... That narrative can not be changed...

God1000:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/10/why-i-prefer-orisa-worship-to-christianity-islam-wole-soyinka/amp/

Noted.. But must not forget to always give credit to Christianity for your western educational platform... what Orisa couldn't do.

jmoore:
5 days is nothing.

How many kilometers was covered should be the point.

Fault finding mentality will not help Nigeria grow

You are right but at least, celebrate the fact that Nigeria has gotten the feat to Electrict car manufacturing.. Then you come in with your constructive Critiscm and review ... For me, using '5 days' targeted the lay audience more than using mileage.. It is equally a strategy in its capacity.

This is propaganda to wipe sentiments... Those in hiding should come out and face prosecution..