zoedew: While am not a Tinubu fan i cannot but marvel at how he checkmated Atiku on the academic qualification matter. Tinubu went into dark mode and Atiku is still looking around for him in the dark!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅. I guess Tinubu was homeschooled! By the way, what is the minimum educational qualification to contest the Presidency 😅😅
Validated: INEC should stop abusing our collective sensibilities and request Tinubu to provide his complete bio-data or be disqualified. This is not 1999 a d 2023, as a sitting president, Bola Tinubu should be exemplary both in action, conduct and personality.
If any of the opposition candidates like Atiku Abubakar and or Peter Obi had presented incomplete data, the INEC would have rejected such submission. So we ask INEC to stop disrespecting educated Nigerians and stop promoting Olodo Uprising of a president.
If Tinubu did not attend Primary and Secondary schools, how did he jump to obtaining a university degree? It id very disheartening to know that the INEC chairman, himself a professor of Law woukd stoop this low to be publishing such an incomplete report.
If Bola Tinubu did not attend basic education, he should be disqualified until such a time he can provide verifiable evidence of his early education.
Joblessness, an idle mind is the devil’s workshop.
gidgiddy: In other words, nobody knows anything about Tinubu before he went to study in Chicago? It is really strange that someone who is President of the most populous black country on earth has absolutely no history until he went to study in America
U have forgotten about your Oga Nnamdi Kanu languishing in a Sokoto prison, & have now involved yourself in Nigerian politics?
Ofunaofu: And Tinubu's obligation is what exactly, to answer Mr. President, siphon and loot our common wealth, roll out wicked and draconian policies masquerading as economic reforms, inflict untold hardship, insecurity, and hunger on Nigerians, and then shift the responsibility to churches to feed their hungry congregations?
Smh!
Your relentless uncoordinated wailing, kind of reminds me of Bobloco & racoon pre 2023 general election.
Ofunaofu: Churches don’t collect taxes– Ladipo Johnson slams Tinubu over hunger comment
A former National Publicity Secretary of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, now a chieftain of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Ladipo Johnson, has slammed President Bola Tinubu over a recent statement credited to the President during his meeting with the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria.
Ladipo Johnson described the statement as shocking low point in the history of presidential communication in Nigeria.
Johnson wonders how a President could tell citizens facing unprecedented food insecurity that “hunger existed before I was born” and that they should look to their churches for sustenance is a profound abdication of the primary purpose of governance.
“Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria explicitly states that ‘the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government’.” Johnson said in a statement on Saturday.
“By shifting the fundamental burden of social welfare from the state to religious bodies, the President is declaring his own policies bankrupt! Faith-based organizations provide charity; they do not collect taxes, manage national resources, or dictate macroeconomic policy.”
He noted that the tone of the President’s response reveals a worrying disdain for public accountability and the concerns of voters and reflects the posture of an administration that believes it is unaccountable to the people who hold the power of the ballot.
He added, “Dismissing severe systemic hardship as a mere historical inheritance or an unmanageable consequence of population growth shows a complete lack of empathy and statesmanship.
“Leaders are elected to solve complex, inherited problems, not to lament their existence. Claiming an inability to steer Nigeria’s economic and population trajectories is a public confession of administrative failure. It proves that this administration lacks the analytical capacity, data-driven approach, and strategic vision necessary to stabilize food inflation and secure the lives of everyday Nigerians.
“Nigeria requires executive leadership that embraces the buck stopping at the President’s desk. We call on the administration to pivot away from dismissive rhetoric and immediately present actionable, structural solutions to the acute food crisis ravaging our communities. Government must feed its policies with competence, rather than asking starving citizens to rely purely on hope.”
Svoboda: We won't stoop to that desperate level of fielding same faith ticket just because we want northern votes. The north has seen thru the facade already. Now, he's turning to an orphan. He doesn't have southern support. Northern support is ba bu.
No honor amongst thieves, Politics is not for children.
AMINDA: Atiku has challenged anyone who has any evidence of corruption against him to step forward. Neither yourself, Tinubu, or Obasanjo have done so. Obasanjo is only mad that Atiku stopped him from getting a third term. If Tinubu attempts the same (God forbid he wins re-election), Shettima will also oppose him. Northerners are not cowards, and they don't go through corners. When will Obasanjo write one of those famous letters he's known for to Tinubu? Where is Wole Soyinka?
Svoboda: You want the church not to be involved, but we can turn a blind eye to Muslim Muslim ticket?
It is democrazy, that is the beauty, field your Christian Christian candidate, & vote for them, it is your prerogative, instead of empty barrel cho cho cho rhetoric.
seunjungle1: Were their votes among the votes that brought Tinubu into power 2023? No! Our votes will still count once more...we are popular and populated than them all
MajorOvakporaye: In 2027 Nigerian Catholics across the country in their huge population won't vote for Bola Tinubu. Tinubu has failed in security. He has also failed woefully on the issue of economy. Inflation everywhere. The Nigerian economy is on comotose. The man who claimed to be a master strategist is now obviously a master holder in cluelessness. Nothing concrete to show apart from borrowing and stealing.
Keep deceiving yourself.
After the general election, u would wail rigging, but u had already been notified prior, that u were deceiving yourself.
njokuuche77: We are rooting for Obi and will vote for him. Obi is the only candidate that has convinced me that he is not there to loot, steal and destroy. Okwute for a reason.
AMINDA: Don't bet on that. Northerners will largely vote Atiku this time. Unlike in 2023, where 5.6m Northerners voted Tinubu largely due to the workrate of respected Northern figures like Elrufai, whom Tinubu has now betrayed.
Northerners will vote for Atiku that has promised the electorate to do only 1 term .
Ofunaofu: So Tinubu is saying that the churches should now feed Nigerians?
While he continues mismanaging our common wealth, siphoning and looting, and while dishing out wicked and draconian policies masquerading as economic reforms, policies that have succeeded in inflicting untold hardship, hunger, starvation, and worsening insecurity on Nigerians.
Chai!
How did we get to this very point in our national life?
It shall never be well with those who worked, encouraged, and supported the Tinubu regime that brought us to this painful reality.
Very funny pikin, waiting for Tinubu to come & feed u .
anonimi: Why would the man who resisted northern pressure to make Obasanjo a one term president like Mandela in 2003 be disgruntled? Was that not the year Buhari first asked for the job of president and failed but locked down northern votes nonetheless?
Do you think that he is disgruntled because Obasanjo has been witch-hunting him for standing with the constitution in 2007 against his 3rd term agenda?
Around November 2002, 15 of the 21 Governors from the PDP including me, had an ad hoc meeting at my lodge in Abuja to decide who should be nominated by the Governors Committee for election by PDP as the presidential nominee for the 2003 Election.
The Governors Committee decided almost unanimously to get a new candidate instead of President Obasanjo as the Committee was of the view that because of his military background, he was intolerant of dissent and had displayed very dictatorial and vindictive tendencies against those he perceived to be independent-minded and disloyal to him.
Immediately after the Governors meeting, I led the delegation of Governors to meet the then PDP Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, at his residence around 2 am.
As the leader of the delegation, I spoke and communicated the views of the Governors to the Chairman, which was that the Governors had decided not to support President Obasanjo as PDPs nominee for the 2003 General Election.
The party chairman tried to persuade us to review our decision but when he saw our resolve, he told us that he would inform the President. I was later informed by Chief Audu Ogbeh that after we left his house he put an urgent call to the President and informed him of our decision.
What then followed were intense consultations before the PDP annual convention which took place in January 2003. Two days before the party convention, the Governors had a breakfast meeting with President Obasanjo.
I recall that at that meeting, the then Vice President Alhaji Abubakar Atiku told the President in the presence of the Governors that he was known to be very dictatorial, vindictive and unforgiving. The President appealed to the Governors to support him and assured both the Governors and the party leadership that if he was allowed to continue for the second term, he would adopt a more democratic approach.
On the basis of the President's assurance, given at that breakfast meeting, I led the move for the Governors to support his presidential nomination for the second term. However, notwithstanding my support for President Obasanjo's nomination for a second term, the President after the nomination, acted very shabbily towards me.
When I met him soon after the convention, he told me that he had learned that I had put forward the view that he was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable. He then vowed that he was going to make sure that I was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable.
Atiku Camp - Visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DID VP ATIKU OUTFOX BABANGIDA AND OBASANJO DURING THE PDP CONVENTION?
According to Adesanya, Atiku met the governors the first day of the convention; they urged him to leave Obasanjo and seek the nomination himself. Atiku demurred; he also deflected the suggestion that he join Ekwueme. Finally, Atiku arranged a meeting between Obasanjo and the now irate governors. The governors railed that Obasanjo was hypocritically pursuing them for corruption, while turning a blind eye to corrupt politicians within his own Administration. Atiku supported the governor's position, telling Obasanjo that significant corruption was not the exclusive ambit of the governors and that serious transgressions occurred in the executive branch: he said it would be unjust to focus exclusively on gubernatorial excesses. Assuming the role of mediator, Atiku then asked both sides to affirm their mutual support and cease the antagonism being fueled by elements that wanted to destroy the PDP. The governors agreed to bury the hatchet, if Obasanjo would shelve the dossiers. Having demonstrated his influence with the governors, Atiku continued to play coy with Obasanjo.
In the end, Atiku extracted an extraordinary concession from the President. Obasanjo agreed to relinquish the entire domestic agenda to Atiku, including the appointment of key economic policy-makers. Since Obasanjo focused on the world arena during his first term and aspired for recognition as an international statesman, Atiku said that is where he would like Obasanjo's attentions to remain. Obasanjo would serve the role of a "super Foreign Minister" and ceremonial Head of State. As Adesanya understood the agreement, Atiku would be allowed to direct domestic economic policy while Obasanjo busied himself with debt relief, NEPAD, conflict resolution and other measures to shore up Nigeria's image abroad.
OBJ camp - visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DIFFERENT INSIDER VIEWS ON THE PDP CONVENTION
The President was dazed, Abayomi recalled. Jarred by the unexpected possibility of defeat, the usually know-it-all Obasanjo eagerly solicited counsel on how to escape the closing vise. Early that day, the dominant theme was to seek a court injunction postponing the convention. Proponents suggested the delay to afford Obasanjo time to marshal support and undermine Ekwueme's momentum. However, this idea was ultimately discarded, partially because of apprehension over the public's reaction. More importantly, the push for an injunction became less urgent when the President's advisors began to sense their man was regaining ground by the hour.
The President owed much of his recovery to his own tenacity and, at times, shamelessness. He pulled out virtually all the stops to clinch the nomination, according to Abayomi. For most of that day, the President's diet consisted of liberal portions of humble pie. The President pleaded and cajoled; on at least two occasions his eyes welled with emotion as he pursued fence-sitting delegates and governors. However, Obasanjo saved his best to keep Vice President Atiku from defecting.
With rumor swirling that Atiku would opt to run with Ekwueme, Obasanjo wasted no time visiting the Vice President's residence. Obasanjo begged, declaring he would not leave Atiku's home unless the Vice President accompanied him to win back the delegates and governors. The performance had the desired effect. Atiku joined Obasanjo in publicly lobbying the conventioneers. While it might not have been Obasanjo's finest hour it was the defining moment of the convention. What had been a suspenseful contest would now turn into a rout.
ebuk4real: Tinubu's APC and those around him are criminally dishonest people. How can you preach austerity and stealing and squandering such monies.
No wonder Obi's interviews are always beaming and keeping the spotlight on then to expose their ineptitudes and criminal and come 2027, they must leave. Imagine bragging you removed subsidy and went back to buy a jet and a yacht. Thieves !!! Simple
Okoyeeboz: The true test of sanity is objectivity. How will an objective non-influenced person assess issues.
As at when Peter Obi was Anambra Governor, Igbos here on Nairaland compared him to TA Orji. If you want to argue and deny, I will post a link to the thread. It was so damning that someone like Kobojunkie had to go back to delete her past posts on the thread when she started supporting Obi.
Obi's must honest assessment lies in that thread. That's also his albatross.
Ofunaofu: Out of every issue raised in this thread about the police's illegal raid on Accord Party members, the only thing that caught your attention was an opportunity to spread bile, ethnic hatred, and tribal bigotry.
Hypocrisy in motion, isn’t it ironic that it was the only thing that caught your misconstrued imagination .
Politics › Re: Tinubu’s Academic Record Is Still Questionable - Atiku by Burob: 11:14pm On Aug 03
, very funny indeed.
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