₦airaland Forum

Paraman:
Look at the hypocrites, if it's in Lagos, they will all ask the governor to show evidence he truly paid off the money

They only love accountability in Lagos state

Image123:
Obviously, i can't be asking if you are okay again because you are not. i said that Buhari was better than GEJ and Tinubu better than Obi, as choices in the previous elections. Those were the names being compared. Then you brought up some skewed data/picture about GEJ, GMB and Tinubu which i debunked. Instead of you to learn, you attempt to shift the goalpost to OBJ. i don't need any analysis from OBJ but since you insist that it is necessary for your survival, why not? The Excess Crude Account (ECA) in Nigeria was established in 2004 during the administration of OBJ. The account was created to manage excess oil revenues. It was $5.1 billion in 2005. In 2006, it was $33.74 billion in inflows, with $25.65 billion spent. In 2007, $20 billion was the balance left by OBJ. From there, GEJ and his thieving friends did all the mago mago until it was left with about $2billion in 2015.
As for foreign reserves, OBJ started with about $5 billion and it went up to over US$62 billion in July 2008.
Perhaps, i should help you add crude oil prices but you don't need it, you are past learning.

Image123:
For the umpteenth time, you have displayed that you are just clever by half. Here's some Excess Crude data, not the joke you posted or are being deliberately deceived by.
Here are the ECA balances for some years:
2007: $9.43 billion
2009: $20 billion
2012: $8.65 billion
2013: $4.3 billion
2014: $2.45 billion
2015: $2.07 billion
2018: $631 million
2019: $324 million
2021: $60 million
2023: $473,734,57
2024: $473,734,57

It's called EXCESS for a purpose, you can research why. But the main point here is obvious. Goodluck Jonathan drained ECA from $20 billion to $2.45 billion. In other words, he blew away about $17billion dollars of Excess Crude account money. That was one of the cause of him and the governors fight in 2013/2014 that led to break away of N-PDP which joined other parties to form APC. Of course, you were not born then it seems. But you can please do your research and stop this fooling around immediately.
This is aside from plunging our foreign reserves from about $63.1 billion in 2008 to $28 billion in 2015 when he left. If you read your history, his CBN governor (SLS) was screaming about missing $40billion. These two do not account for the generated revenue, these are monies that he met and blew away. NOTE that crude oil sold at the highest values during his time, so Nigeria was supposed to have made very huge money at that time. The man still left us with debt that was about $6billion more than what he met. Now, you dare to come insult and gaslight me with a brainless attached picture. Do you have a conscience at all or are you really daft like i have suspected?
Buhari was paying through his nose and huge debts to keep dollar rates artificial and subsidise petrol for you ingrates and despite that, can you do the math and compare the loss to that of Jonathan the most prodigal leader ever? Yet Buhari still managed to build stuff. Where exactly and what exactly did GEJ do with all that money? What did you expect after Jonathan? For Nigeria to turn to Dubai or Paris? Do you have an education? Anyway, if i wrote pages breaking it down in continued bits, your sentiments would still overrun reason so what exactly is the point?

Image123:
i have said it several times on this platform.
Buhari was better than the spineless, wasteful and clueless GEJ. BTW, everyone supported GEJ during his acting term and first term.
Tinubu was, is and will be better than fraudulent Obi.

Image123:
i don't even support candidates in the sense. But on a discussion forum like NL, i can discuss who will win and who may be the better candidate among the options. Politics is more than emotions or feel, it was clear that the election was between PDP and APC in 2023. Of the four known candidates, Tinubu was and is the obvious best, in terms of past reports, preparation and audacity. If a better candidate comes up, maybe i will talk about it also. Again, that's different from maybe such person will win or not.

Just for example, if some credible pastor said he wanted to vie for 2027 presidency on some new party or platform, i would likely support him as the best candidate but i would clearly tell you for free that he's not going to win. It's politics, it's about numbers.

Image123:
No, no serious person expected him to win. He was just a spoiler for PDP and a social media influencer.

Image123:
Please be reasonable. 1999 elections was virtually between two parties, PDP and AD-APP. Falae pulled over 11million votes and was second.
2003, Buhari was second with over 12million votes so yes, he was the only major contender. Ojukwu was an expected distant 3rd with about 1million votes. i assume you were either not born or a kid then, this one you're asking if GMB was a major contender in elections. Like in the US elections, there are two major parties/contenders. There are others you might not know, nobody really expects them to win but they also have their hundreds of thousands of votes and support. However they are not MAJOR contenders.
In 2007, Buhari again came 2nd while Atiku who broke away from PDP and joined AD/ACN was 3rd.
In 2011, GMB was again 2nd and ACN 3rd. If you remember or read, GMB contested all these results to supreme court for rigging and irregularities.
For 2015 however, 2nd, 3rd and 4th came together as APC to defeat PDP. i don't expect that i have to be teaching you all these but well.

Image123:
You seem not to understand the meaning of the adjective "major". Ojukwu was not a major contender, he lost to Olusegun Obasanjo, who had significant support in the southeast region in 2003. Nobody knew APGA, how many states did APGA control out of 36 even till date? We've only had two or three major parties in Nigeria, PDP, the evolutions of APC(ANPP and AD) and the rest. It's laughable that you put up Okadigbo that contested as RUNNING MATE to Buhari in the same year 2003. If anything at all, there's likely a split of votes between Ojukwu, Okadigbo and was it Nwobodo or so. All in all, they were not major contenders when you talk about OBJ and GMB at that time. It's like in football, saying some Nigerian player was a major contender for footballer of the year during the Messi-Ronaldo years/era. There was none; maybe today we may have some. Obi is a mediocre fraud, i cannot support him. He only gullibly worked for Tinubu in the last elections.

Image123:
There's never been any major igbo contender since 1999 and i don't support candidates based on tribe, i simply pick the best (IMHO) among the main options.

Image123:
They are not people like me, meditate on that. i don't think like you, they are evidently people like you, thinking about tribe and religion. You are fixated and obviously paralyzed on a particular tribe and religion being in power, look in the mirror. i have shown support for different tribes and religions, you cannot.

Image123:
Are you okay at all? Are there no muslims from these places you decided to get stuck on? Are there no christians from other places? Why is your mind so wired on inanities like religion and tribe in politics and you miraculously accuse me of it? i have never thought this way and still find it ridiculous with you pointing it out. You are the one thinking tribe and religion, not me. Look in the mirror and stop being unfortunate.

Image123:
Please use your brain, it's insulting when you refuse to use it. i don't have any person in your post and your post doesn't say anything about Christians or christianity, neither can you force your attachments on me. waspaping or whatever his name is is a popular PDP and Atiku supporter on social media. Deal with issues and not inanities.
You can't gaslight a person who supported and still supports a Fulani man (Buhari) and who never supported and doesn't support a Fulani man (Atiku) with tribalism. The same person now takes another person, from another tribe and supports a Yoruba man (Tinubu) and you still accuse him of tribe. If you are so foolish, don't force your foolishness on me, it will not rub on.

Image123:
Atiku and the vice president are both from the North East. Atiku is not from Plateau or Kaduna the last i checked. Obilamba on the other hand is a failed divisive fraud. Open your skull and let it sink in that people are not necessarily like you who wallow in self and tribal pity and gaslighting.

Image123:
Sorry to burst your bubble, i have still not read something reasonable from you.
BTW, i will still support a Buhari ahead of Atiku and Obi combo tomorrow. Doesn't mean that i will not say if he does well or not. i don't support him as a god but as a public servant. You fail to get the simple point that one does not have to be a sycophant or tribal wailer to make a political choice.

Image123:
Sorry to burst your bubble, i have not read something reasonable from you.

Image123:
i have read a lot of nonsense in life brother.

Image123:
Facts are deception but i should read your post instead, what a comic relief.

twosquare:
Well, that's on Nigerians to fall for it. Jonathan too was not a saint. All of them together stink because they had the opportunity to do the needful so that we won't feel the heat today, but were spending lavishly.

It's a mess-up country anyway...I don't put my mind into Nigeria stuff like that...

I wonder why you choose to effortlessly lie... https://t.co/u47OSf1WwW pic.twitter.com/HcFMd0942S

— Senior Pastor Okezie James Atañi (@Onsogbu) November 4, 2024

Image123:
Only showing me your selective amnesia or deliberate ignorance and hypocrisy. Do you expect me to be responding to this folly directly?

Image123:
Still more trolling and irrelevancies, i'm guessing you are one of the Igbo mourners who are brainwashed to cry wolf about Igbos. Took me a bit longer than usual to figure that out.

Image123:
Now this is trolling, people change their minds every day. It's on every side of the divide, you should be old enough to know that.

Image123:
Quite funny, what does this and the other picture have to do with anything?Why not keep them hanged in your living room and personal gallery?

Image123:
Keep munching, you might just get full.

Image123:
If you think so, good luck.

No boko haram attack recorded since Tinubu appointed Ribadu. That's a bait, let's see if you take it or shift the goal again.

Image123:
Lolz, you took the bait that i clearly mentioned was a bait. Shows vividly that you are not a sincere critic. You dismissed two undisputed truths when you asked for what Tinubu has done or improved on in 2 years. But you hungrily latched onto the bait because that's all you want to hear. Good luck in the remaining 6years.

Kewtt:
If only you are intelligent enough to know that your wellbeing is more dependent on the local government and State governments than the president.

Kewtt:


Followers are worse than the leaders.....

Image123:
Another goal scored, another goalpost shift. Your question was (what has Tinubu improved on?) i gave you two, let me add one more for love sake. No boko haram attack recorded since Tinubu appointed Ribadu. That's a bait, let's see if you take it or shift the goal again.

Image123:
Good, we've moved the goal post. Try not to move back, it's an exercise in futility doing that. Tinubu has improved on IGR and FAAC, he's also improved foreign reserves. Make i stop there.