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What a reckless remark. The impunity in this country is too much.

uniquetechng:
Defence budget has nothing to do with national fiscal transparency, Nigerians need to know how much money we are earning and where the money are going to.

He is allowed to call out hypocrisy. The Pentagon can't fully account for trillions and have failed audits. See how dismissive you were by saying defence budget has nothing to do with national fiscal transparency. It absolutely counts. That is the type of nonsense U.S. politicians would tell Americans in order to evade accountability.
Citizens of a country have every right to see where all the government money comes from and goes to. Let the standard apply fairly to all.

HacheNoire:
Same mistakes don’t yield different results.

Make the state and federal universities autonomous and FG should only be granting funding to dedicated courses.

In 2026, it is glaring the FG cannot fund education IF it wants to compete in Africa and the world.

Continuous spending on a collapsed tertiary education will not yield any positive result and strikes will always be a subject on the table.

Let university fund themselves. Education should be expensive and not for all.

If the FG cannot fund education, who can? Why do you think they cannot? Is the money not there? It has to do with priority and willpower. There is a lot the FG can do. Education is not an impossibility. If we keep reducing the responsibilities of the government, we might as well do away with the government.

nairalanda1:
A president';s tax assesment forms are different from a nation's fiscal records.

We already have issues with not earning enough revenue, and the lack of fiscal responsiblity makes our matter worse. Forget trump, Nigeria still got issues.

There is an element of hypocrisy there though. Same way they have a convicted felon as president. The U.S. is very hypocritical. Anyway, transparency is important to us Nigerians and we should demand for it, not because of the U.S. or any foreign government.

jmoore:
Canadian court declared APC a terrorist organization.

That is not true. No Canadian Court said that. When some of us challenge falsehoods like this we are branded APC supporters.

I am against what that senator said and also calling for his prosecution, but stop peddling this falsehood.

What a funny country.

A lot of things have gone wrong here which would have been mitigated or prevented if you had a lawyer. No employer can force you to continue to work by signing an undertaking at a police station. That is practically slavery. Contracts of employment are civil matters which the police have no jurisdiction. Even the DPO of that station can get into trouble for that.

I have spent sometime giving legal advice to the police at some point in my career. They know they can't meddle in civil matters, hence why they couldn't assist you in recovering your money.

Yes, you can stop working whenever you want. That undertaking has no legal effect whatsoever and was also gotten through duress and intimidation. You maintained you didn't assault him, so if you do go to the station without a lawyer, insist for one before making any statement. You are guaranteed the right to legal representation.

Do not be afraid of it being taken to court. They have no case. You only need a lawyer to represent you. It is a simple matter. Your boss is only intimidating you because you lack legal representation.

Brendaniel:
I know our constitution does not make provision for that, I only pointed out that it has happened before in Nigeria and it did not cause chaos when you or one the people supporting you said it will cause chaos having the president and governor at the same time in the FCT especially as an opposition...

I never said it will cause chaos. I looked at the law and our system as they currently are. Not conjectures.

Things that are of no benefit to Nigeria.

JuanDeDios:
So where are the escapees (B and his kids) now?

😂 Escapees indeed. Deception everywhere. Some people still believe space is real and humans can go to the moon. The whole NASA crap.

Imagine if there was a state police. Nigeria is in for a lot in the future.

Brendaniel:
2. You claimed that having a governor from a different party will cause chaos, well, Lagos state when it was federal capital, had a sitting governor and also its own house of assembly and the governor was from a different party from the president, till date Jakande remains the most performing governor of Lagos by record.

I never said that. I said our current system doesn't allow for that but the appointment of a Minister by the president. That such a Minister, even if from the opposition party like we currently have, will not be a proper opposition, but be loyal to the president. We have state governors from different parties in Nigeria. That is not the concern.

Colonialists. They have really caused havoc across the world.

Keyamo has left his job and is busy chasing shadows.

You must be joking. It is a private affair. No one is owed any explanation.

Unserious set of people, even with their massive budget.

This country has a way of resetting people's brains. The politics is still very crude.

In other news, water is wet.

Very funny character. If only our country wasn't at stake.

tesseract:
The lecturer is very wrong, the student can sue.

Yes, civil action. But this is also criminal. In a country that works that lecturer will be arraigned in court by the police. He committed a crime by assaulting that student. Impunity reigns here.

People like you have been tried in The Hague. Continue.

"All is fair in politics."

We can see the implications now.

If this President is not careful, after leaving office he might be the first Nigerian President to be arrested depending on the level of damage he causes. He won't be in that seat forever.

That Senator who called for the killing of Accord members should be arrested. Enough of this nonsense. This government is only concerned with politics, while the country is collapsing around them. Must the APC win in Osun State? If so, do it the right way, not through persecutions and bloodshed.

Kukutente23:
Where did you get the funny idea that having an opposition gov in Abuja will lead to chaos? Are you aware that Washington, the seat of the US govt has a governor who is a Democrat?
This is why I don't rate BATists. They are usually not very well read neither have they taken time to understand the nuances of the presidential system of government. They are all about support for a candidate and they unfortunately accuse Obidients of the exact thing they are primarily guilty of.
Neither you nor Bondriv have considered the full ramification of the supreme court judgement. What it does in effect is to make FCT the 37th state of the Federation while FCT is at same time denied all the functionalities that should make it part of a federating unit. More importantly, the prevailing belief of 25% votes from 2/3 of the 36 states its out the window. This means that the threshold has shifted from 24 states as we used to know it to 25 states. While Tinubu got 27 states and is thus not encumbered, imagine a situation where a candidate gets 25% in 23 states with the FCT making the 24th state. Will such candidate be declared winner or will a rerun emerge? Don't forget, since 1999, the threshold has always been 24 states. The status of the FCT has never been considered because the winners before Tinubu have always had 25% in FCT. Another important aspect is the status of the FCT residents whom it seems they ultimately have no say in who governs them. A President can afford to lose FCT and still end up presiding over the affairs of the people there. This is an anomaly in a democracy

Brendaniel:
That's what I have been trying to explain to them that the judgment was a wrong one and it totally deprived the people of FCT a say on who governs them, I know in the future it will be revealed that the judgment was wrong.

I'm not forcing anyone of them to believe me or even agree with me but I know time will reveal it...

Even though we modelled our Presidential System after the U.S., there are differences. They have state police, county police, Capitol Police, state supreme courts, etc., which we don't have. Their capital, Washington D.C., has an elected Mayor, not a governor as you wrongly stated. Yes, the Mayor is a member of the Democratic Party. However, D.C. is not a state, despite its ongoing aspiration to become one. We must deal with our system as it is, and not as we wish it to be. The same applies to our laws.

Given our system, you can't have the opposition in charge of the FCT because the President appoints the FCT Minister who runs its affairs. So there won't be proper opposition control, even if they are of different parties, like the current FCT Minister. However, opposition parties can hold offices, like the current Senator of the FCT, and may win seats in the Area Councils.

S.299 of the Constitution says the provisions of the Constitution shall apply to the FCT as if it were a state. It further provides that legislative and executive powers shall vest in the National Assembly and the President, respectively. So the National Assembly makes laws for the FCT, while the President exercises executive powers. It also constituted the FCT, Abuja, into one senatorial district. Then you have S.302, which provides for the President's appointment of a Minister of the FCT in line with S.147. That Minister shall exercise the powers and functions as may be delegated to him by the President from time to time. That is settled.

The courts rightly interpreted the law, from the PEPC to the Supreme Court. There are no ramifications. They did not make the FCT anything it wasn't already, because S.299 of the Constitution says its provisions shall apply to the FCT as if it were a state. We have never been in this position before where the court had to interpret this, because, like you rightly stated, winners before Tinubu have always had 25% in the FCT. Now we have a precedent should we be in this position again. That is how judicial precedents develop.

Brendaniel:
My sincere apologies to anyone here if at any point in time I used any derogatory words on you during the conversation, I could have still passed my message without using any derogatory word. my sincere apologies once again...

However it doesn't change my stand that the judgment was a wrong one, and sincerely speaking, you don't need to believe me, time will reveal it...

No problem. We can all try to keep things civil and respectful, even as we state our opinions.

Kemical23:
I believe you see thieves dancing day by day but you haven't heard any of them commit suicide, but they have every right to do but because they have saw the saddest part of life unlike this ajebos...

The comparison is irrelevant and unnecessary. It shows you totally missed the point. It is not a competition. Unfortunately, that mindset is what prevents people from opening up to others. This is what creates stigma.

I hope they can take care of the children that will result from these marriages. There are already high levels of poverty and insecurity in the country, especially in the Northern region.

Kemical23:
I have face depression more than twice and I will tell you.
Mostly weak people that commit suicide....

It has nothing to do with weakness. It is a mental health issue. You are not stronger than those who commit suicide. I do, however, want to encourage you to keep living and not to minimize your previous struggles with it, even though you seem to be doing that here with the weakness narrative.

There are different factors that can cause a person to make such a decision, and it can happen even to those with immense success and strength. What might be considered "little" can push someone over the edge: depression, hopelessness, feeling like there's no way out.

What is needed is empathy and more awareness. People are going through a lot alone. This is not the time for apportioning blame.

The demystification of the U.S. in real time. Apt for a president nicknamed TACO.

Georgry:
This is the most stupid thing you will read on Nairaland this year, the supreme court of Nigeria should base their argument on data provided by you and Peter Obi as against Inec?

You know you lost this debate already and there is no way in this world that the supreme court will base their judgment on a ficticious data provided by Peter Obi that was never proven in the tribunal.

😂 The guy is beyond redemption. The fact that his argument is based on Obi's data ends this whole debate. I told him earlier that he was using words he didn't understand.

25% in the FCT is not a mandatory requirement to become President. A candidate mustn't get that to win. His whole argument was hinged on that with his Peter Obi data. The Constitution requires the highest votes, in addition to 1/4 in at least 2/3 of the States in the Federation and the FCT.

By virtue of S.299 of the constitution, the FCT is treated as a State for this purpose. To insist otherwise would lead to the absurdity that a candidate like Tinubu who had: highest votes and 25% in 29 States would have lost the election. No way that was intended by the framers of the constitution.

Brendaniel:
So you don't support Tinubu's interest and re-election again abi?

Read and understand. You have a comprehension problem. I can state the obvious or call out hypocrisy without supporting a particular side. Which was what I did. It is obviously something a person driven by emotion like you can't fathom. You have displayed it here.

Brendaniel:
Are you for real?

Why I don't take you people's comments seriously is because you people hate the truth, just look at Bonriv's comments about Tinubu as at January of this year and look at his comments about Tinubu in August


The truth will always prevail, so you guys can keep supporting lies, deceit and nonsense, the truth will still prevail...

You don't need to believe me....

The picture you posted did not contradict my position. I didn't have to support the president to make those political analyses. That is the problem with people like you who are driven by emotion. I was right by the way in all I said then. What is Fubara's situation now? If you don't understand politics, leave this section.

Brendaniel:
If only you tried to read my comment with an unbiased mind, you will know that my point was that the supreme court gave a wrong judgment...

I mean, how can you come from a supposed state and you don't determine who 99% of your lawmakers are, the 36 states does, and then the person who double as your governor, you then don't even have 1% stake to determine who becomes that governor, while the 36 states does ? Does it sound rational to you?

What legal qualifications do you have to make that claim? You can't even make a proper legal analysis. I have clearly outlined the reason for the decision with constitutional provisions. There was no intendment to confer any special status on the FCT with regard to presidential elections. I won't go back and forth with you on this. I have already analysed why.

Again with your allegations, how did I support Tinubu into office? Do you have evidence that I voted for him? My interest is Nigeria. If he does something good for the country, I will acknowledge it. I'm not interested in your bitter politics.