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Pbatmedia:
ON THE CNG INCIDENT AT NIPCO, BENIN CITY.

#CNGisSafe

Is Tinubu's All black Armored Cadillac escalade SUV CNG powered?

Vintage Bigkoko

The national assembly should, as a matter of urgency, initiate the impeachment process against President Tinubu for violating the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Nigeria is not rich but Tinubu bought a new aircraft, bought an All black Armored Cadillac escalade SUV discarding the Mercedes Benz Maybach S class Buhari used, bought a presidential yacht, engage in frivolous travels outside the country

Thunder 🔥 Tinubu

By now, you have probably seen Seyi, the president’s son, at presidential meetings and functions where he, ideally, has no business. Remember, his father had to ban him from attending the weekly meetings of the Federal Executive Council, saying his access was “undue.” Undeterred, Seyi still showed up at the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. While his meddlesomeness has spurred some people to wonder if he has any other job besides being “daddy’s boy,” I have also wondered if he is just another self-unaware member of the Nigerian political class or is intentionally shaming his father.

Since his father got into office last year, Seyi has been doing public charity and ensuring he is seen doing so. Through his associates, he has given out relief items to people involved in a fire disaster in Nasarawa, gifted “palliatives” in Abuja, and sponsored some medical outreaches. In September, he donated N500m to victims of the Maiduguri flood. Seyi flew to Borno with a team of associate-sympathizers and was received by the state governor, Babagana Zulum. If Nigeria were not a place where even governors have been thoroughly emasculated into subservience, why would the governor set aside his official duties to host the president’s son? The president’s son is unrecognized by the constitution, and Seyi has no business interloping in official affairs.

Anyway, one of the striking parts about Seyi’s visit was not just the money he donated but the speech he gave. It was more thoughtful than the perfunctory one his father had delivered a week earlier when he too visited. Seyi also assured the victims of the flood that he—or his foundation―would be further intervening until they were back on their feet. But in what capacity would he be making this “further” intervention when, as the son of the president, he is neither a private individual nor possesses an official designation? He cannot claim to be a neutral observer who is merely concerned about people’s welfare because the basis on which he does what he does is his filial connection to the president. If he were not the president’s son, Zulum would not have rolled out the carpet to receive him in Borno. Yet, it was not his place to intervene in the Borno crisis. He has no business doing any of these things.

Just last week, Seyi announced that he would once again be saving Nigerians from a bad fate. A foundation he had founded said they would be alleviating the financial hardship Nigerians face while procuring prescribed medication by creating a drug bank that would serve over 10,000 indigent people in 60 hospitals around the country. Just like in Borno, Seyi’s speech, read by a representative, as the scheme launched was compassionate, better than the yawnfest his father reads on national television on the few days in a year he deigns to talk to people. Seyi’s speechwriter managed to throw in all the right phrases about the burden people face accessing life-saving medications. This drug bank, they say, is more than medicine but a “commitment to dignity, to equality, and to the fundamental human right to healthcare.”

Now, that is where the problem lies. It is not enough that the president’s son is taking up initiatives that should be carried out by designated government officials—and in the process spending a humongous amount of money no one knows where he gets it from—but he also subtly disrespects his father in the process. Because there is no way Seyi is talking about the necessity of his drug bank initiative and the “added weight of crushing financial hardship” people confront without indicting his father whose poorly wrought policies have so impoverished the populace that they now need the son’s charity.

A couple of days ago, Seyi also shared bags of rice branded with his visage to some poor women who were then pressed to pray for him for his generosity. You know that it was not those women’s prayers he needed; he just wanted to be seen as a benefactor. Look, if Seyi truly cared about those women, he would not give them rice. He would face his father and tell him to take his paws off their destiny.


One can, of course, argue that Seyi has a prior record of charity, but still doing it especially while his father’s administration is falling apart gives the impression that Seyi is trying too hard to be seen as the successful son of a failing man.

Seyi’s adult life has been tied to his father; everything he has ever achieved professionally was muscled for him through daddy’s totalitarian politics. Given how that same father is diminishing in value and therefore unlikely to hand over valuable political capital to his children as their inheritance, the hope of a dynasty on which politicians’ scions calibrate their future political ambitions is tanking. The son seems to have read the handwriting scribbled everywhere and wants to cut loose to build something apart from daddy. That is why he jumps from Maiduguri to Ibadan, trying to prove he has the compassion—even if not the capacity—his father sorely lacks.

Seyi’s struggle to win the hearts of the folk even as his father is losing them is not exactly a political patricide—it is doubtable if he is even gutsy enough to even dream of attempting that—but impressioneering a better image for himself and generating some social capital, that while can be related to Tinubu, is still not Tinubu. While the savviness is consistent with the character of high-stakes politics, Seyi is not doing anything excitingly different from the jeun sókè jeun sápò political calculations that made his father. One would think a man that young would depart from his father’s politics of orifice that swings back and forth between mouths and agbada pockets, to try something refreshingly new, but Seyi seems wedded to the old and, frankly, boring methods of giving people a mere 0.000000001 percent of what has been stolen from them.

His aspirations might be legitimate enough, but there are challenges ahead. There is a good reason dynasties hardly hold up in this part of the world. First is the issue of the competitors. Far too many people want what Seyi’s father has, but since they know they will not get it, they have settled for subordinate positions. While they may have submitted to Tinubu’s powerful grip after serially losing in the power game against him, they are somewhere seething, raging, and biding their time. When the time comes to bid for the throne, they will easily oust daddy’s boy. They are far more desperate and more practiced in the Game of Thrones, and he is no match for them. Besides, our people too get tired of serving successive generations. When that time comes, they will remind him that they cannot serve his father and still serve him. Whatever they owe their family patriarch must be considered paid off at some point.

Second is that money, the basis on which the public relates to the Tinubus is the flimsiest of all the grounds on which one can build a lasting relationship. Love that flows with the tide of money will ebb when it ebbs. The Tinubu family is one that nobody will love if not for their money. That, of course, includes Mrs Tinubu who needed to hand out huge sums of money just to stimulate interest in her farming and fabric projects. Even now that she has had a Nebuchadnezzar-sized statue carved for her, nobody who has not been pre-paid will bow before her graven image. So, yes, Seyi too can try his desperate best but the love he will get will come with a receipt.

https://punchng.com/seyi-tinubu-and-the-love-that-money-buys/

Salewa97:
Kanu is not the Messiah of the Igbo people.

Let them be looking up to him while the rest of the Nigeria move forward

Nigeria moving forward, you are a clown

gidgiddy:
So how does this reduce the price of Rice?

Not just Rice,

OP, so how does this reduce the pump price of petrol

UltraSolid:
And you are definitely ignorant. Plus too dullardly to understand pertinent issues.

You are actually a comedian

UltraSolid:
Yes I can because, unlike you, I understand the severity of the problem to know the depth of solutions required.

Nigeria was in serious trouble mainly because of an economy Obasanjo, Yar Adua and GEJ myopic ally a d indolently failed to diversify away from reliance on crude earnings. We effectively had a mono economy reliant on crude, and not even its profitable refined derivatives like PMS, for the sustenance of 230 million people.

Buhari then came and delivered the death blow that knocked Nigeria into a coma. Nigeria was completely broke when Buhari handed over with even a substantial amount of our crude sold in advance.

Meaning the Buhari government had collected cash for crude sales the Tinubu government had a contractual obligation to supply yet would not receive money for such it can use towards solving Nigeria's problem. That is one off literally thousands of serious problems Tinubu met on ground most Nigerians, now expecting a miracle, are not aware of.

The current reforms, though painful, cannot be avoided. This is the truth knowledgeable folks accept. Yet they also know, with time, these reforms will transform Nigeria for the better and reverse the damage of the past five decades.

Yes I am very confident Tinubu will succeed if given time.

You must be a comedian

UltraSolid:
Dullard making illogical and senseless statements. Obi failed over two terms of 8 year. I.e maximum tenure for Governors. Sanwo Olu has shown, in 5 years and 5 months as governor, he is far, far, far above the level of the failed Agula fraud.

With Tinubu, he has been President for 17 months. If you Igbos can be claiming grossly failed Obi, who had the allowed maximum 8 years as Governor, is President material then it is obvious only bigoted hatred of Tinubu, a superb former Governor, leads to your rush to proclaim him a failure after 1 year and 5 months in charge out of a possible 8 years.

Judging from this one year and five, can you beat your chest and say he will turn out successfully

Tinubu is failure personified

ALTERNATEID:
If Obi is a presidential material based on his performance as Anambra State Governor, Sanwo Olu is by same standard a far better presidential material.

SanwoOlu has delivered the Blue and Red lines in Lagos. Where is the Onitsha monorail that Peter Obi signed in 2010?

This is how you lots elevated this disaster of a president. Claiming that he built lagos from scratch, today the country others built, it took him only a  year to destroy it.

9jatriot:
Please in the name of whoever you serve, Obi can only be compared the former abia governor (can't remember his name), Yahaya Bello and ortom.

It is an insult to compare Ambode not to talk of Sanwo Olu with Obi, which kind nonsense insult be that?

Peter Obi is currently the biggest political figure in Nigeria

Freshtruth:
Chai wike pls look ur self in the mirror pls

He is inflicted with terminal cancer.

Some years ago, He did said he can't leave malaria (PDP) to go join the APC, a party inflicted with terminal cancer.

"The sufferings, the baby steps of pain your constituents are going through are reforms" -Tinubu to National Assembly

Ikaeniyan0:
I'm so disappointed Tinubu has not done any tangible thing to make the price of foodstuff fall

Balderdash

You never see anything

ALTERNATEID:
There is a reason the world bank guy said we should stay true to the ongoing reform for at least 15 years.

You guys simplify our economic challenges by thinking just two weeks of decline in PMS import will automatically result in Naira stability. It’s not that quick and easy. We need to remain consistent for at least a year before we can start counting the impact of the forex savings on our local currency. There is no shortcut to any of these things. It takes time and consistency for result to start showing.

Point of corrections

These are not reforms

These are inhumane policies set out to improverish Nigerians

You don't jerk up the pump price of petrol from #185 per liter to over #1200 per liter and describe it as reforms

Nigeria is in a precarious situation with its neighbours. Arms and ammunition slip in through the western border with the Benin Republic. From Cameroon in the east, militants launch intermittent attacks. But the biggest security threat is from the north where Nigeria shares a notoriously porous 1,698km border with two Lake Chad Basin countries: Niger and Chad, with Burkina Faso and Mali not far away to the northwest.

For decades, weapons have been flowing freely through the Sahel, a region of 12 countries weakened by insurgency, banditry, extremist groups, and organised crime. Nigeria’s internal security rests on water-tight borders, the authorities should, therefore, prioritise the security of its international boundaries.

Reports that there are over 320 unmanned illegal routes through which illicit drugs, other contraband, and weapons are smuggled into Nigeria are a clear challenge to national security and a danger to public safety. Closing these illicit gateways or deploying armed border operatives there would go a long way to restrict the inflow of dangerous weapons into the country.

By 2012, barely a year after the fall of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, the fluid movement of arms peaked with more weapons from the country’s fighting groups finding their way southwards down to Nigeria, and ending up in the hands of non-state actors. The result is predictable: instability, killings, human displacement, lack of development, and poverty, not just in the upper reaches of the Sahel but also in Nigeria.



Between 2009 and 2020, more than 35,000 people were killed by Boko Haram, according to the United Nations Development Programme. Between 2010 and 2023, approximately 13,485 deaths were attributed to banditry. Add to that the wounded, the internally displaced and hungry, the kidnapped, schools razed, farms seized, children forced out of school, and people in poor health, and you get a clear picture of the enormity of the disaster.

That is why Nigeria, Niger, and Chad rank high on the Fragile States Index. The FSI scores countries according to their level of weakness and vulnerability. The higher the score, the weaker and more vulnerable the country is. In 2024, Nigeria scored 96.6, higher than Niger at 95.2, and Cameroon at 94.3. Somalia took the top prize at 111.3. This is an unflattering company.

Nigerian troops have been battling the insurgents and terror groups over the years with mixed results. In his October 1 speech, President Bola Tinubu said gains had been made against the non-state actors with many of their commanders taken out but he did not declare victory. And rightly so. The situation is dire. Boko Haram and the Islamic State’s West Africa Province have spawned one of the worst humanitarian crises in Nigeria. It is projected that if things remain the way they are, some 1.1 million people may die by 2030, a mere seven years away. This must not be allowed to happen.


Tinubu’s Information Minister, Mohammed Idris, blames the security situation on the porous borders, saying Nigeria had become vulnerable to the spillover effects of the conflicts in the Sahel. He spoke at a conference organised to examine the Sahelian violence and its impact on Nigeria’s security challenges. Idris lamented that the violence in the Sahel “threatens our security [and] also challenges our capacity to maintain effective control over our borders.” He missed the point. The porous borders do not need a lament; they demand action. The borders should be fixed, and fast.

Apart from the illegal paths through which weapons and contraband are ferried, some borders are also short on personnel. The Nigerian Immigration Service should recruit more hands. And the officials should be adequately equipped to effectively check the influx of illegal immigrants, many of whom currently live on the borders.

The NIS should also massively deploy technology at the borders, providing personnel with helicopters and surveillance equipment such as scanners, night vision cameras, and drones, among others. A country with uncontrolled borders puts itself and its citizens in great danger. The 13-year-long counterinsurgency proves that.

The Federal Government should empower the NIS to respond to the dire situation at the borders. There should also be inter-agency synergy to keep the borders safe. Porous borders have serious implications for the economy.

Non-state actors who slipped into the country have been kidnapping and killing farmers, and preventing them from planting or harvesting. They have forced businesses in the formal and informal sectors to close. Schools have shut and pupils have been left to roam the streets, becoming potential recruits for the informal army that forced them out of school. The government should develop the political will to fix the gaping borders. Everything depends on it.

https://punchng.com/fix-the-porous-borders/

CoronaVirusPro:
Peter should save his money and venture into cat-fish farming.

Somethings are in possible in certain realms, and he has to accept that.

Those deceiving him will not make heaven.

Will you make heaven?

The president and vice president of Nigeria elected to govern this country have both abandoned it and run away.

The president proceeded on leave, travelling to France without handing over to the vice president, and now the vice president is jetting out to Sweden. Soon, we will be told that they can govern from anywhere.

One wonders why the country is directionless.

helinues:
So na NL threads he has been reacting to before?

Why do you Obidients are not even interested in discussing any questionable character about Peter Obi?

Such attitude would never make him to learn from his mistakes, and more more to be followed before political oblivion

Have you finished discussing the questionable character of a notorious narcotics drug trafficker, certificate forger, buccaneering power grabber engaging in criminal state capture who's calamitous economic policies have inflicted premium pains and anguish on Nigerians

helinues:
Stick to the topic

You guys should stop this derailing when the topic is about your subject

Which topic?

What is the topic all about

helinues:
Toh

Peter Obi's nuclear reacting to issue can never react to this. Never

People, party mastering hypocrisy with no remorse

Peter Obi should react to this thread,


helinus, stop making senseless comments

helinues:
Lol.

Their major problem is correcting each other even when it's obviously glaring.. They just can't. Obi can never be corrected by his supporters as to them, he can never make any mistake.

Are you the Tinubu APC paid agent "British diplomat"

Shadomaan7:
Wike is on fire as usual. Abuja is indeed open for business.

Was there a time it was closed for business?

Was Abuja close for business before now... asking for a friend

Wike is a mad man

Two most incompetence buffoons parading themselves as president and vice president of Nigeria absconded from the mess they have created in this country.

muykem:
Peter Obi statement confirmed federal government stand that IPOB is a terrorist organisation and also clear the doubt of the west concerning the group. Non state actors are group of people with different political agenda and since IPOB is the only group in that category in South east, then they are responsible for the killing of the crew according to Peter Obi. Interestingly igbo want federal government to release the man behind the deadly group.

Are you the Tinubu/APC paid agent "British diplomat"