₦airaland Forum

There is a party called BP?

Fantastic.

Mr Tinubu. Best Nigerian President / Head of State since independence (65 years!)

Their currency will become like Zimbabwe's within a year.

And then the resulting hyper inflation will make them poorer than before the government doled out the money.

They'll beg their government to stop paying them that amount and return prices of goods to how they were before, but it would be too late.

Did these people sleep through economics class in secondary school or what

It's the same with Nigeria's NLC that wants a minimum wage of N700,000 per month. I laugh.

Oh dear, but we were told NDC was a holier-than-thou party that would usher in a new Nigeria.

So this is their version of a new Nigeria.

Mr Obi's supporters will see nothing wrong in this.

But imagine if Mr Tinubu's son is named as deputy Governor candidate of Lagos State. Mr Obi would lecture us about 'State capture', and his followers would go into a morbid mental combustion crying to the United Nations, FIFA, UNESCO etc

It is the middle of the night. You are comfortably in your house.

Yet, many army and other defence personnel are in in camps in forests having finished today's fighting waiting to be commanded to start again in the morning.

Many of them have died in this fight, and many more will sadly still die in standing up terrorists to protect us all.

All you have in your heart for them is to call them weak?

The Op lamented why Nigeria is not using its resource wealth to develop the numerous sectors he mentioned.

Where is this massive resource wealth?

From producing only 1.5 million barrels of oil per day? Nigeria should have 24hr electricity, pipe borne water for over 200 million people, world class research institutions and sports facilities, excellent roads all over the country, world class medical centres for 200 million people etc

Op is unrealistic. He's one of millions of Nigerians who erroneously go around believing Nigeria is a rich country.

For context, Nigeria's effective budget is no more than $30 billion per annum. South Africa's bugdet is more than $130 billion for a population that's less than half of Nigeria.

And in those countries citizens and enterprises pay tax.

In Nigeria, the overwhelming majority don't pay any tax, and are up in arms at the mere mention of it. Yet they wonder why the country can't build the infrastructure they see in some countries.

Delusion.

jahsharon:
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If they don’t, Tinubu will pass it without their input. He did it with LG Autonomy

That is not possible.

A President cannot sign into law, a bill that has not been passed by both the House of Rep and the Senate.

When it is a Constitutional amendment, as in this case, then in addition to the bill passing in the 2 houses, it must be passed by not less than two-thirds of State Houses of Assembly before it goes to the President for signing.

There are no short cuts. The above processes are sacrosanct.

And the President has not signed any local government bill that bypassed any of those processes.

Being enveloped by that for more than a minute must be very dangerous for a human.

The power of nature.

Another country the opposition loved back then was Argentina. Mr Atiku lambasted Mr Tinubu for not following Argentina's example.

Since then, Nigeria's economy has stabilised and growing.

Argentina's economy on the other hand became so bad, Mr Trump had to find an emergency $20 billion to lend Argentina to save the economy from collapsing patapata. Argentina is still not stable.

For almost 2 years now,Mr Atiku has gone quiet on Argentina. He doesn't mentiion it anymore

I was surprised yesterday when my ardent (pre - Wike) PDP supporter who has always disliked APC and Mr Tinubu turned to me and said 'these people think they can use insecurity to destabilise us and make us vote out Tinubu, they're joking'. Oops

Up until a few weeks ago, this guy was so anti Tinubu, he would walk away if you mentioned that name. Now, he has changed because he believes there is a motive behind the sudden rise of insecurity in the SW. People here initially blamed the government (they still do to some extent), but they now see the bigger picture.

Most Yoruba people have woken up to the insidious plan of certain elements in this country. They know the game plan is about the 2027 elections.

Yoruba people are unlikely to queue up in the sun to vote Mr Atiku particularly as they many of them now believe certain elements are trying to armtwist and blackmail them with insecurity. Unfortunately for Mr Atiku, he will bear the brunt of the pushback by SW people come 2027. ADC will be lucky to get up to 5% of the votes in any SW state.

NDC will naturally get some votes in Lagos, but will not get up to 5% in any other SW state.

Gtb charged me over N7200 as account management fee last month.

That's more than N85,000 per year

My other accounts too.

Banking in Nigeria is highway robbery.

The CBN needs to cancel all these pilfering by banks.

These things matter.

All the signs are already there that Mr Kwankwaso feels he's superior.

And this is not the first time. On a previous occasion, he literally grabbed something from Mr Obi's hand, almost aggressively.

The man clearly thinks he is above the law.

Sweeping generalisation.

Many women are very happy with their husband, and vice versa.

He deserves re-election.

Without his bold reforms,the economy would have collapsed.

The level of major transformative road constructions going on in the country is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.

We don't want Mr Obi or Mr Atiku to come and stop them.

Absolute nonsense.

'If you dare!' 'If you dare!'

The President has sent his goodwill message.

What are going to do about it.

So basically it will be a Soviet union-type selection by a few self-slected rich, old men siting in someone's living room handing out positions like confetti.

It will go like: you, you're presidential candidate, you take vice president, you take this, you take that.

No primary.

And this is supposed to be democracy?

NDC - another SPV.

Naijahero1:
TInubu knows he never won 2023 and will never win 2027. Nigerians are just too weak to defend their country and fight criminals who called themselves politicians.

He 'will never win 2027'.

Stop pontificating.

The primary that seemed unnecessary initially has turned out to be a blessing for APC.

'Nobody will vote Tinubu' crew. How far.

All the people all over the country who live close to or use the massive and unprecedented road projects going on will vote for candidates who may stop those projects abi?

Delusion.

Well done Enugu State.

Many aspects of government work can be made more transparent by moving services online but self centred vested interests who are benefiting from the present achaic methods will not allow it.

I have been waiting for a trademark search report for nearly 2 weeks The ipo website is unworkable. It says you can create an account but you can't.

You hear about land allocation in Lagos State, but the process is not transparent. Taking it online and allowing allocation to be done openly can be done in 2 months for less than N10 milliin but the government will not do it.

CAC is one of the few exceptions.

Public servants and politicians are killing the Nigerian economy with their selfishness.

BarrElChapo:
Nepotism Nepotism Nepotism

I thought you people said you were tired of old people heading things in Nigeria.

As soon as a brilliant young professor with all the right credentials is appointed, you no longer care that the appointee is young and has the rare technical pedigree.

If the man is a 60 year old non Yoruba with a background in Biology and doesn'tknow his right from left when it comes to technology, you would prefer him along as he is non-Yoruba

Mr Tinubu should employ the best hands available to fill jobs of national importance, wherever they come from.

If Mr Amaechi believes the Presidency should remain in the South, then if he loses the ADC primary, I don't believe he wiill agree to be Mr Atiku's VP candidate.

If that plays out, then there will be zero chance of the ADC winning 25% of votes in any Southern state.

That means, in the Presidential election, even if Mr Atiku wins in the majority of Northern states, he cannot not be declared winner.

The departure of Mr Obi dealt a massive blow to the ADC in the South.

If Mr Amaechi refuses to be Mr Atiku's vp candidate, ADC's prospects for 2027 will be further diminished.

Can we have an independent private auditing firm to audit this claim.

The President should engage PWC, EY, or Delloitte to investigate and tell which country the people they pay to live in, as I am not sure anyone who knows anyone that knows anyone that receives this money.

Mr Tinubu will get at least 25% of the votes in Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Bornu, Adamawa, and a few other NW, and NE states.

He will get not less than 25% of the votes in each North Central, South West, South South states, in at least 2 SE states.

That will take him past the 24 states that a candidate must win (in addition to overall largest number of votes) to be declared a President.

ADC on the other hand is unlikely to get 25% of votes caste in any Southern States. If that happens, then Mr Atiku can't be declared winner.

This is actually a true form of local democracy, even though things look a bit rough, the organisation will get better in the future.

In a funny way, conducting a primary may actually help to galvanise voters to turn out for a party during the actual election.

Compared to areas where consensus is adopted, voters who vote in direct primaries will feel a true sense of being part of the process.

See Mr Obasa. When was the last time anyone witness a 'big man' subjecting his political fate to the hands of ordinary people.

Politicians who go through this process will know ordinary citizens can terminate their political career if they perform poorly and come back to contect another primary in the future.

Good for democracy.

renderme:
Tinubu wrote an article about Africa creating its own rating agencies in the global economic magazine, Financial Times last month.

Yesterday, he spoke in Kigali about how the international credit rating agencies were not fit for purpose for Africa.

Today S&P has done the needful. A bold and audacious president.

The message from Kigali yesterday from the 2 presidents was Africa need to start taking charge and leading its future and stop thinking small. Produce & add value to our raw materials ourselves or force investors to add value here, trade with each other by starting product exchanges and then have our own credit rating system for investors on the continent. Build infrastructure linking countries. Tinubu thinks like a CEO, not just an administrator.

The man is the best President / Head of State Nigeria has had in 65 years of independence. Full stop.

Anyone that disputes this should mention any previous leader that has done so much in just over 3 years.

I travelled to Ilesa recently. I was shocked by the scale of the road construction going from Ilesa to Ibadan. Apparently, the road is also going to be redeveloped in the opposite direction to Akure, then to Benin. This project is not even mentioned in the media, which means there are probably even bigger road projects going on in other parts of the country.

What an Audacious President.

We left Ilesha to Akure. On our way back, we decided to go through Ore as it would be faster to Lagos that the Ilesha/Ibadan road.

Guess what? To our shock, there is massive reconstruction of the road between Ore and Akure. This is not a joke road o. You are looking at another very lengthy road that had remained more or less the same for decades. Now, the entire road is being expanded with concrete, all the way to Akure. Shocking! This is a once in 50 years road project that no other President would have even started.

But the average Nigerian just doesn't appreciate anything.

The way they lampoon this man every minute of the day, you just watch and shake your head.

Yet deceptive opposition politicians have misled many Nigerians into believing the government is over borrowing.

A country's ratings do not go up if it is overborrowing!

Egypt borrows $10 billion or above at a single time from the World Bank, and at times up to $15 billion from Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.

Nigeria, with a bigger economy, borrows smaller amounts - $1.5 billion here, $500m etc from the same World Bank, yet many ill informed social media youths start shouting, too much debt, too much debt as if Nigeria is on the verge of collapse. Nigeria's economy is big and strong!

USA is the biggest borrower in the world, but you are desperate to move there. Japan is the 2nd biggest borrower in the world - you accuse the Nigerian government of not developing Nigeria to Japanese level but you also don't want the government to borrow. No be juju be that?

Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya are borrowing heavily to develop their countries, but somehow, Nigeria should sits on its hands and not borrow to develop itself.

Even leaving aside the coastal road, this government is completely rebuilding and expanding the road from Iwo Road in Ibadan all the way to Oluku junction in Benin, Edo State and work is going on massively. This is an incredible project, cutting across 4 states. No government in the history of Nigeria has undertaken the scale of road projects going on presently in Nigeria. But the black man can't see beyond his nose. He doesn't appreciate most positive things done in his country.

And by the way, the World Bank is no mugu. It doesn't lend you money unless it knows you have the capacity to pay back. And Nigeria is rated as capable to repay its loan than Ghana, Kenya etc

Every country in the world is borrowing, but Nigerian opposition politicians pretend that Nigeria can develop without borrowing.

Lagos State is the most indebted state in Nigeria because it is borrowing to develop faster. That's long term strategy for success. Ekiti, Ondo, Anambra, Edo and many other states that are not borrowing like Lagos, what do they have to show for not borrowing?

Don't be deceived. Nigeria cannot develop without borrowing.

Two4seven:
Will results of students below 16years be released?

Exactly.

15 years, 9 months old student who scored 285 last year was denied a university place.

Yet, a 16 year old (whose only 3 months older), who scored 180 was able to get admission


This year, they have not even released the results of students who will be under 16 by September.

Waste of time, and misplaced priority.

Do this people know how much it costs to build and maintain rail lines.

Also, inter-state rail should not be a priority for the SW right now.

There simply is not enough traffic between Ondo, Osun, Ekiti to and from Lagos or Ibadan on a daily basis to justify spending hundreds of billions or over a trillion building expensive and grossly underused railway.

If the major interstate roads are good and safe, more than 80% of SW population will be within 5hrs drive of Lagos and Ibadan. That's good enough for now. And for those who want to fly, Ondo State which is SW's furthest state to the East - Akure to Lagos is 30 mins by flight. So where is the huge number of travelers from Osun, Ondo, and Ekiti that are desperately clamouring for travel by rail?

Instead of wasting peoples's time and money on white elephant projects that are bound to fail, they should focus on low cost housing, substantially improving primary and secondary school education across the region, fund primary health centres in rural and semi-urban centres, help farmers with reduced-price farm inputs, create and institutionalise credit finance cooperatives for low income earners across the region etc

Real projects that will impact ordinary people.

The only interstate rail line that may be viable in the SW is Lagos-Ibadan. Even the present line is not profitable and is subsidised by the federal government.

So, is it Akure to Osogbo rail line that will have less than 30 people on it per trip that will be viable?

A Presidential candidate must secure a minimum of 25% of votes in at least 24 states to have a chance of being declared a winner.

The chances of Mr Atiku scoring 25% in 24 states is very slim, if not zero, as I can't think of a single Southern state where ADC will secure 25% of the votes, now that Mr Obi has left the party.

As for NDC, in 2023, Mr Obi and Mr Kwankwaso only secured 25% of the votes in a combined total of 17 states. That means they need an additional 7 states. NDC may secure 25% in Lagos, but it will not anywhere else in the South West, and the North East where ADC will likely dominate. The party may also secure 25% of votes in 2 or 3 NW States. That will still leave them short of 24 states.

APC will gain 25% in more Southern States than it did last time, and will secure 25% in almost all North Central states, and in 2 or 3 North East, and North West states, so APC is unlikely to have a problem reaching 24.

APC is still in poll position for the coming elections. All each Southern APC Governor needs to do is ensure that ADC's doesn't win 25% of the votes in their state. Even if Mr Atiku wins all 19 Northern States, he will still need to gain 25% of votes in at least 5 Southern states to have a chance of being declared a winner. I don't know about other Southern regions, but in the SW, ADC will struggle to get 5% in any SW State. I could be wrong, but I don't see ADC getting 25% in any SS or SE State. If this scenario plays out, then Mr Atiku cannot be declared President even if he gets 500 million votes in the North.

Mr Obi's withdrawal from ADC has killed the party in the South. ADC leaders know it. That is why they are presently very bitter and demoralised. When they appear on TV these days, they wear long faces and appear deflated. Without Mr Obi, there is no Southern political heavyweight in ADC that can deliver 25% in any Southern state.

Ilorin used to be in the top 3 almost every year.

Now, one of its key advantages - no 'ASUU strike - a 4 year course is a 4 year course ' has ebbed away.

OAU that had a reputation for incessant strikes and used to struggle to be in the top 10, has now shut up to no.3.

This is all thanks to the fact that Mr Tinubu has kept his promise to bring an end to ASUU strikes.

LASG should also enact a new Power Theft and Anti-Tamper Law.

1) You steal, or illegally tamper with or use electricity supply so as to deprive a power company of the economic value associated with power supply - minimum of 4 years imprisonment.

Even if you are not the actual thief, or tamperer, as long as you are part of those using stolen power in a property, you too must go to jail. Whether you're a housewife o, tenant o, landlord, doctor, lawyer, pastor, imam, civil servant etc. as long as you are 18 years or over, you are off to jail.

2) You steal, wilfully tamper with or damage power supply infrastructure such as power cables, electricity poles etc - minimum of 7 years.

And more.