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Reno Omokri, former media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday endorsed President Bola Tinubu for a second term in office.

His endorsement comes hours after the leadership of the National Assembly and 22 state governors at an APC summit declared Tinubu as the party’s sole candidate for the 2027 presidential election.



Mr Omokri charged all Nigerians to support Tinubu, noting that in two years, he reduced the country’s national debt by $14 billion from the $108.2 billion inherited from the Buhari administration to $94.2 billion.

“On behalf of #RenosNuggeteers locally and globally, on this day of our Lord, Friday, May 23, 2025, I wholeheartedly endorse the President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for a second term in office, God sparing his life,” he wrote on X.

“I urge all my supporters to line up behind the president’s Renewed Hope Agenda so we can unite as one nation under God to make Nigeria great again.


“President Tinubu has reduced our total national debt by $14 billion from the $108.2 billion he inherited from the Buhari administration on May 29, 2023, to $94.2 billion today.

“Nigeria, under President Bola Tinubu, has completely, entirely, and totally paid off its debt to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF itself has struck us off the list of IMF debtor nations, which confirmed this in an official release on its website.”

Omokri praised Tinubu for ensuring that academic calendars in Nigerian universities have been uninterrupted by industrial action since he came into power.

The former presidential media aide highlighted the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, the Sokoto-Badagry Express Way, East-West Road and the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway as some ongoing projects that the Tinubu administration should be commended for.

Omokri said Tinubu had outperformed ex-President Muhammadu Buhari in security, claiming that “throughout the eighth year of General Buhari, not a single bandit leader was arrested, killed or convicted. But under the Tinubu administration, more than fourteen notoriously murderous bandit leaders have been killed.”

He said that during Buhari’s eight years, parts of Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and other states were occupied by bandits and that Nigerians living in Abuja could hardly travel to Kaduna.


“All that is history, as Nigeria is now more secure and has moved up in the Global Terror Index from the third most insecure country under Buhari to six. Therefore, I urge all Nigerians to join me and others in supporting President Bola Tinubu for a second term in office by 2027,” he added.

Omokri met Tinubu in October 2024 for the first time since the latter’s election in 2023.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/2027-reno-omokri-endorses-tinubu-says-nigeria-now-more-secure/

Similarly, Nigerians have found little reason to follow the news since your administration began, as there has been a consistent absence of uplifting or positive developments.

Putindbutt:
Don't mind them, let Obi attack Tinubu or demarket Nigeria, you will see them having a wankfest but they feel others do not have the right to reply. Clowns.

Tinubu is Nigeria’s de-marketer-in-chief.

What serious foreign investor would commit capital to a country led by an individual whose early life remains shrouded in mystery where the first twenty years of his life are undocumented, his biological parents are unknown, and there is no verifiable record of his primary or secondary education?

Which investor would trust a nation led by a man once implicated in narcotics trafficking, who forfeited over $460,000 to the United States government in connection with drug-related proceeds, and who remains visibly unsettled whenever legal decisions from the U.S. threaten to unearth further details?

Who would risk investing in a country where the president routinely travels to Europe for holidays while the nation grapples with deepening insecurity, widespread hunger, and increasing poverty?

What confidence can investors have in a government where the president’s son, holding no constitutional office, can allegedly order violent attacks on citizens, threaten lives, and boast of impunity, simply because of his father’s position?

Why would anyone invest in a country where the president openly disregards the rule of law, violates constitutional provisions, and acts as the chief lawbreaker in a system that demands his protection of democratic norms?

And finally, who would invest in a country where the president can unilaterally declare a state of emergency, remove a duly elected governor, deputy governor and members of a state house of assembly without any constitutional backing, while the National Assembly watches in silence?

This is the image Nigeria currently presents to the world under Tinubu's leadership, one of uncertainty, lawlessness, and institutional decay.

What we have today is a National Assembly tied to Tinubu's apron strings, a rubber stamp, presided over by Senator Akpabio and Honourable Abass.

Senator Akpabio, in his attempt to defend the current National Assembly, said that senators were not elected by their constituents to fight the executive. Yet, one begins to wonder whether they are truly performing the task for which they were elected in the first place

A centuries-old warning from Marcus Aurelius echoes loudly as political attacks on Peter Obi continues to intensify

Lithiumite:
"Did you say, 'I am being paid'? Paid to do what, exactly?" For crying!!

Are you being paid to monitor those who are paid for crying?

SarkinYarki:
He has been working for Tinubu since 1999

Absolutely

aswani:
Ikemba did what he had to do based on what was happening when he did it.

What he did then has zero bearing on what the future portends for Bianca.

Honestly, I am both amazed and surprised by your comment, and I hope you continue to maintain this same stance.

But you can sabotage the country, your state, and the future of the people of Kano by stealing, siphoning, and stuffing your babariga with dollars, money that belongs to the people of Kano State.

aswani:
The first female president of Nigeria, thank you.

I hope you all won't come back with how her husband declared war on Nigeria.

Lithiumite:
Mention the policies and juxtapose them with the reality on ground today.... People have long moved on and making their living but here you are crying over spilled milk.....hope u are being paid enough for it?

But you haven't moved on either, and you're also crying. If you had moved on and were making a living, you wouldn't be here, you'd certainly be wherever you're making that living.

Did you say, 'I am being paid'? Paid to do what, exactly?

SadiqBabaSani:
In real life this man opening useless topic is busy lamenting due to the hardship inflicted by Teelumbu

Fact

Obviously, you're no biblical Moses.

While Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, you are now leading a gale of defections back to Pharaoh, the very man you once declared would bring nothing but failure, even if he ruled for 30 years.

Those were your words, potent, unequivocal and, ironically, they have now come to pass.

IJAYA001:
Who your 5% help, continue marginalise yourselves. IRE O

Nigeria and Nigerians are being marginalized. Have the people from the regions of those who have been president fared better, economically, socially, and otherwise?

yarimo:
Please post what your Lord peter OBI said about defecting from APGA

What did he say about defecting from APGA

blacknp:
Yes o, make they Keep their weak votes, he won without the Losers in 2023, he will win again in 2027 without those Inconsequential people.

Fact

festacman:
As political contestants, one expects peter Obi and Sowore to verbally tackle each other, from time to time, based on issues.

Again, as an opposition politician, one also expects Sowore to always beam lights on the policies of the current FG but he is rather focused on another opposition politician Peter Obi.

His recent incessant and obsessive attacks on the person of Peter Obi looks suspicious as though he is incentivized to particularly defame him out of the other politicians at all cost.

Something doesn't add up here. There is something fishy.

He has tasted the proceeds of drug money.

Whiteshield:
The SE actually voted a stone last election.
Okwute Obi

Absolutely

PDPdestroyer:
Does Tinubu really expect or need any votes from that area to win in 2027?
Their 90% votes couldn’t give victory to their own son, so what would their 5% votes do to Tinubu?

The votes from the South East are relatively insignificant, and this is well understood; therefore, one would not expect such marginal votes to be cast in favour of an individual whose tenure has been marked by consistent failure, resulting in widespread hardship, starvation, hunger, and heightened insecurity.

A promised land reduced to suffering by wicked and draconian policies masquerading as economic reforms.

Actually, Nigerians will lead you back to Iragbiji, where you rightfully belong, as your tenure has brought nothing but hardship, starvation, strife, and heightened insecurity.

The chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has revealed that the federal government makes 52 kobo from every N1 generated from the production and sale of Dangote Cement.

Dangote disclosed this on Wednesday at the 2025 Taraba International Investment Summit, with the theme: ‘Unlocking Taraba’s Investment Potentials, Advancing Agriculture, Energy, Mining, and Industrialisation for Sustainable Growth and Development’.


According to the entrepreneur, the summit’s focus was apt, given the need to diversify the state’s economy and attract investors.


He said governments benefit from investments, whether private or public, when they create conducive environments for businesses to operate and pay taxes.



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The billionaire businessman said: “I’m sure it might be shocking to you to know that the federal government of Nigeria, not even the state, makes more money from, for example, our cement business. For every N1 we turn around, 52 kobo goes to the federal government of Nigeria.


“We always say that the government has no business in business. If it’s true, they don’t have business in business. Though, how are they going to make money, educate people, you know, do the hospital, road, infrastructure? It’s through what? Taxes.

“Have you ever heard of the American government owning an oil block? No, the American government doesn’t own an oil block. And they are the biggest producers of oil today in the world. But they make their money through taxes.


https://dailytrust.com/fg-earns-52-kobo-from-every-n1-generated-from-sale-of-my-cement-dangote/

Umahi needs to be told in clear terms that he does not have the capacity to deliver the South East.

In fact, no one does.

The South East would rather cast their votes for a stone than vote for Tinubu. Tinubu does not need the votes of the South East and they know it. The South East is unapologetic about that.

At worst, he'll rule for just four years and leave. After all, even Buhari who once described the South East as 'a dot in a circle' finished his tenure and left. As for this current drug lord, he too will eventually leave

PDP governor in Rivers state Nyesom Wike has denied that he plans to defect to the ruling APC - Governor Wike alleged that the APC is so rotten at its very core like a stage four cancer that is too advanced to be cured - The lawyer-turned-politician said he would rather stay in the PDP with its problems than defect to the APC with its bigger challenges.


Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike has no intention of leaving his current political platform, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Governor Wike told BBC Pidgin in an interview that the rot in the APC is worse than the problems the PDP is currently facing. While he compared the problems his party is currently facing to Malaria, he described the internal problems of the APC as advanced cancer.

https://www.legit.ng/1408126-apc-has-stage-four-cancer-i-will-defect-party-wike-declares.html