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u better go rest


Your hate can't hold Tinubu down


He will rule Nigeria for good 8 years

The revelation by the World Bank that the Federal Government’s conditional cash transfer programme did not reach millions of Nigerians in need of urgent economic relief further confirmed public sentiment on the desirability of the programme.

In response to the deepening hardship being faced by Nigerians after the abrupt removal of the petrol subsidy and unification of the foreign exchange market in 2023, President Bola Tinubu ignored critics and launched the Conditional Cash Transfer programme, a controversial programme pioneered by Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor. It was purportedly targeted at 15 million vulnerable households, with each meant to receive N75,000 within three months.


However, the World Bank, which had approved the $800 million for the programme, recently revealed that it reached only 5.6 million households and that only about 37 per cent received at least one tranche of direct transfers.

Since former President Buhari’s tenure, we, along with other well-meaning citizens, have always argued against this so-called conditional cash transfer schemes adopted by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, governments. The “social register” is largely fictional.

Countries like Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa and others, have developed sound social registers and use them to channel routine cash transfers to vulnerable citizens to promote financial inclusion. On its own merit, it is a commendable strategy to give the lowliest members of society access to government-administered palliation.


Buhari set up the National Social Investment Policy Agency, NSIPA, and created the Humanitarian Affairs Ministry. Between 2016 and 2020, he had sunk a whopping sum of N619b (according to FG’s own admission, though the National Assembly put the figure at about N2 trillion).

The scheme was bedevilled by reports of large-scale stealing. In January 2024, former Humanitarian Minister, Sadiya Umar Farouk and former NSIPA boss, Halima Shehu, were quizzed by the anti-corruption agencies over the whereabouts of N37.1bn.

It was based on these nasty experiences that we once again cautioned the Tinubu administration against sinking the $800m IMF loan into the basket of the conditional transfer scheme. These cash transfers have come to be seen as a means by which the APC administration funnels public monies to party stalwarts.

It is a sour irony that IMF knew about the corrupt cash transfer system in Nigeria and still went on to offer the facility. Yet, it came back to complain about poor implementation as if it really cared.


The $800 million would have gone a long way to cushion the effects of Tinubu’s economic policies if it were invested as a rescue package for small and medium businesses, manufacturers and farmers. It is always better to teach the people how to fish rather than give them fish. This is our argument against these cash transfers which only fuel corruption and government dependency.


The cash transfers must stop.

AntiChristian:


How many of us here dey pay tax?

I'm sure bobloco, racoon, and co won't be paying or maybe be short-changing FIRS and LIRS respectively!



Na play o!

Putindbutt:
There was no where Army said it was terrorist, it was the media reporting it. The media has exaggerated and misrepresented facts so many times.

Burob:
sorry is all I can say.

obonujoker:
Where's Helinues?? Madridguy? coronavirus? Yarimo?

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike has dismissed reports of suicide bombing in respect of Monday’s explosion around the Nyanya axis.

Speaking during a project inspection on Wednesday in Abuja, Wike said the victim had ignorantly carried an explosive material from a quarry site which exploded on him.

He said: “What happened there was that somebody went to a quarry site, where rocks are blasted, and took an explosive, putting it in his pocket.

Of course, some people may not even understand the implications of that. And so, it exploded on him.

“That does not mean it was a suicide bombing. So we should be careful with the stories we spread, and not send the wrong message to residents. You’ve noted that residents are also aware there has been an improvement in security.


“That alone is enough. We are doing what we are supposed to do to allay the fears of residents and assure them that Abuja is still secure. In fact, it remains one of the most secure areas in the country.

“We are doing everything possible. So, I did not receive any report that the person was a suicide bomber. That is not correct.”

Peterobiisathie:
Owobokiri Bobloco
Is India economy also bad to warrant this behavior from certain people?

muyico:
Go abj?

JagabanBorgu:
In an attempt to defend Pandora lord, you have to pretend #250m cash in his vehicle as at 2009 didn't exist, you also have to pretend he didn't keep state funds in his own banks.
He didn't loot state Treasury, that's why Anambra is more prosperous than Dubai

TemplarLandry:

Cool your jets.
We're rolling out EVs pretty soon.

JagabanBorgu:
The irony of you reply is that Peter Obi don't have any of the qualities you just listed.

kpankpangolo:
Life waits for no one. Since his soccer dream is gone, time to enter street.

A group known as PDP Frontiers for Change and Progress, has hit back at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, arguing that contrary to Wike’s claims, he is rather the “real betrayer and architect of the crisis” rocking the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

This is as the group advised the former Rivers’ Governor to “honourably take his exit from PDP instead of staying behind to cause confusion”.

The PDP support group which was reacting to Wike’s allegation that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, and his Enugu State counterpart, Peter Mbah, were betrayers and the architects of the party’s protracted crisis, accused Wike of “standing truth in the head and playing to the gallery”.

Recall that Wike had in a strong-worded statement on Sunday, announced his pullout from all gentleman agreement on how to resolve the party’s leadership tussles, vowing to fight to finish.

Wike had in the statement claimed that Makinde and Mbah made reconciliation of the party’s crisis impossible , accusing the duo of reneging in a purported agreement earlier reached by key stakeholders.

According to Wike, the stakeholders had earlier agreed that Senator Samuel Anyanwu be retained as the PDP’s National Secretary, and that all suits against the Rivers’ Emergency Rule be withdrawn, conditions he accused Makinde and Mbah of violating.

“To my chagrin, Seyi Makinde had connived with Peter Mba of Enugu State to orchestrate the summoning of the meeting of so-called South-East leaders to recommend that if Ude Okoye was not adopted as Secretary, they would pull out of the PDP”, Wike claimed in his Sunday statement.

”I have now firmly decided to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached; I have decided to fight on until justice is attained”, Wike added.

But the PDP support group, in a swift reaction, accused Wike of “being smart by half”, and “mounting smear campaign to blackmail Mbah and Makinde.”

National Coordinator of the group, Emeka Yellow Ikpegbu, expressed bewilderment that Wike who he alleged, had “been the APC mole in PDP, could accuse genuine and committed stakeholders of what himself is guilty of”.

Ikpegbu said that contrary to claims by the former Rivers’ Governor, “Wike and his boot -lickers dragging the leadership of PDP in some of the states are the destabilising forces on a mission to sink the party”.

” Instead of masquerading as a peace maker while he is the one igniting the fire, Wike should better leave PDP”, Ikpegbu said.

“Wike should stop pretending. We know his spirit has since left PDP after sabotaging the party in 2023. Now is the time to completely pull out of the party, and not just pulling out of the so-called gentleman agreement. We want him to also pull out of the PDP He has given us enough discomfort.

” We know Wike and his antics. Can he swear that he is not on a mission to destroy PDP? What anti-party is worse than a so-called PDP stakeholder openly working for the ruling APC against his own party? Who is causing the crisis in Rivers State? Is it to his credit as a good party man that less than two years he left office as Governor of Rivers State, the PDP which made him collapsed in the state, and the state enmeshed in chaos?”

The group further claimed that “Wike’s latest antics is to blackmail committed PDP members who are not willing to surrender the soul of the party to him and his APC allies”.

” Before now he was after the BoT Chairman of our great party, Senator Adolphus Wabara for refusing to be cowed and bought over. Now he has shifted his attacks to His Excellencies, Governors Mbah and Makinde. Is it still in doubt that he is frustrated and on a mission to blackmail those committed to rebuilding the PDP?

” Can he deny that APC is using him to destabilise PDP so that his principal, President Bola Tinubu will have a smooth sail in 2027? But they will be disappointed! We, and Nigerians already know them for whom they are, and they are frustrated because of the emerging signals.”

The group advised President Tinubu and the APC to “properly weigh the implications of trusting Wike,” arguing that “if he could come out in the open to attack Makinde who was his backbone in the G5 few months ago, then he can do same to his current lovers”.

” Can a man who can’t keep his friends ever be trusted? Can Wike tell Nigerians why he suddenly sees Makinde as a foe?

Was it because Makinde won his re-election unlike other G5 members Wike betrayed who woefully lost their elections and their respective states?

“Why is Wike fighting Siminalayi Fubara? Is he the only former Governor PDP has produced? We pity Tinubu and APC for trusting a man who has a history of betraying those on whose back he rode. Political polygamists can never be dependable allies.

” Why is Wike always having frosty relationship with his benefactors? Tinubu should better ask Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Peter Odili, Chibuike Amaechi and others, the true identity of his new-found lover before trusting him with his political destiny. A leopard cannot change his colour”.

The group urged Governors Mbah and Makinde as well as all those genuinely committed to PDP’s renaissance, to ignor Wike and his foot soldiers.

“We repose confidence in the on-going efforts of the Gov. Bala Mohammed -led PDP Governors Forum, the Senator Wabara-led BoT, and the National Working Committee, of our great party to reposition PDP for victories ahead of 2027

2mch:
Na the people when sponsor Obi be that. They unleash their bots and agents in bitterness against Tinubu. They must recoup their investment. Obi don promise them plenty. Why do you think there is so much desperation? Better tell Obi to go and settle his sponsors. They will soon start tearing each other shirt.

mecuries:
How does France have the biggest gold vault in the world whilst not having any in their soil/ground?.... Your guess is as good as mine

thesicilian:
Lol.
The amount of time the Obidients spend running helter skelter looking for ways to disqualify Tinubu since 2022 could have better be channeled into building the Labour Party into a formidable party to win the election

yarimo:
The bitter ones will soon invade this thread with insults and hateful comment against senator shehu sani