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anonimi:
Nobody said anyone is a saint.

What is however clear is that Tinubu is the worst rogue of the lot.

The Facts President Tinubu’s Critics Won’t Discuss


From the very first day President Tinubu took office, certain groups decided that nothing good could ever come out of his government. Political rivalry, primordial sentiments, deep-seated bitterness, and envy shaped their judgment from the start. There was no patience. No balance. No fairness. Just noise, anger, and daily abuse. For these professional haters of President Tinubu, Nigeria began on May 29. Everything before that date was conveniently erased, and every broken system suddenly became his personal creation.

That is the dishonest game being played, and sadly, many people are buying into it. What they deliberately refuse to mention is the Nigeria we all lived in before now. A Nigeria where suffering was systemic. A country where failure was normalized and recycled as policy, and where citizens succumbed to endure instead of demand.

If you are 50 years old or younger, you know this truth. Fuel scarcity was routine. Fuel queues were part of your childhood and adulthood. People slept at filling stations like displaced persons in their own country. Cars became bedrooms. Productive hours were wasted chasing petrol. When fuel eventually came, it was either hoarded or sold at black market prices that insulted common sense. This went on for decades, yet today, this same set of haters acts as if it never existed.

They will not tell you how fuel importation became a cartel business. How an oil-producing country had no functional refineries (public or private), yet spent billions importing fuel. They will not tell you how subsidy became a criminal enterprise that fed a few while bleeding the nation dry. They will not tell you how scarcity was engineered and recycled because some people made fortunes from it. Instead, they shout “hardship” today, as if hardship is new to Nigerians.

They will also not tell you about education. Endless ASUU strikes were our normal. A five-year course became seven or eight years, not because students failed, but because the system kept collapsing. Lives were paused. Dreams were delayed. Many never returned to complete their university education. Before NELFUND, students dropped out quietly because they could not afford school. Nobody protested for them. Nobody cared. It was just another Nigerian tragedy we accepted and moved on from.

Now, those who were silent then suddenly remember students, but only as a weapon against the current government. They refuse to admit that, for the first time in years, there is a structured attempt to address student funding at scale. Is it perfect? No. But pretending nothing has changed is either ignorance or deliberate dishonesty.

Then there is the economy, which they discuss with selective memory. Naira crunch, forex scarcity, and wild exchange-rate fluctuations did not start under Tinubu. Businesses planned blindly for years. Importers woke up to new rates every morning. Governors cornered subsidised dollars and flipped them for profit. Ordinary Nigerians paid the price. This broken system was managed and defended by the same people who were in government then and are now in opposition shouting the loudest, yet they speak as if the rot began yesterday.

They also refuse to mention the era of the Aso Rock cabal. A small, unelected group that decided national policies behind closed doors—printing currency at will, borrowing to stabilize exchange rate, and manipulating the foreign exchange system. Presidents became symbols while faceless men ran the country. Nigerians complained. Analysts warned. Insiders leaked. Nothing changed. Accountability vanished into private rooms. Today, those who benefited from that arrangement now parade themselves as champions of democracy.

At the state level, the story was even worse. Governors borrowed recklessly, not to build industries or infrastructure, but simply to pay salaries, and even then, many paid half salaries. The national Secretary of the leading opposition party governed his state when the minimum wage was ₦18,000 and was paying half salary. Later, ₦30,000 or ₦35,000 looked good on paper, but several states could not pay it. Workers survived on hope and side hustles. Failure was normalized. The nation laughed because crying had become exhausting. Imagine the level of insult Nigerians endured, and imagine people now pretending that era was better than today.

Let us talk about debt, because this is where hypocrisy becomes loud. Nigeria was using almost all its internally generated revenue to service debt. Over 90 percent of our crude oil was stolen. We sold future oil to pay today’s bills. Tomorrow was sacrificed so that today could look calm. That was the economic model—push the problem forward and let the next generation suffer. The opposition knows this truth very well, which is why they avoid discussing it completely.

Even basic government services were traumatic. Getting an international passport took months or years unless you “knew someone.” Files disappeared. Applicants aged while waiting. Travel plans died quietly. This inefficiency was defended as normal bureaucracy. Today, improvements are happening gradually, but the haters will not mention it. Silence is safer than honesty.

Another truth they refuse to acknowledge is the quiet but steady progress on insecurity. When banditry, kidnapping, and insurgency overwhelmed the nation, every shout was “Tinubu.” Every attack was amplified, even by those who were architects of the country's insecurity problem. Every failure was placed at Tinubu’s feet, as if he personally carried the guns. No one asked how deep and long-standing the security rot was. Now that insurgency is being curtailed gradually, highways are becoming safer, communities are returning home, and coordinated security operations are yielding results, there is sudden silence. No applause. Even those who understand security dynamics refuse to give credit. Instead, they quickly shift focus to another problem, because once you name a dog a bad name, it becomes easier to hang it.

The same dishonesty plays out with the economy. Petrol and food prices became painfully high, and the outrage was loud and nonstop. But now that prices of foodstuffs are gradually coming down, supply is improving, and markets are adjusting, nobody wants to talk about it. A rubber of garri that sold for ₦1,500 now sells for about ₦250. Beans that sold for ₦4,000 now sell for about ₦900. Rice that sold for ₦4,000 now sells for about ₦2,000. Good news does not trend for those committed to outrage.

Acknowledging progress would weaken their narrative, so they pretend it is not happening. What we are witnessing is not healthy opposition; it is a campaign of calumny. The goal is not to offer solutions but to poison public perception. Pain is amplified without context. Hardship is weaponized without history. Tinubu is blamed without mentioning what he met on ground.

Reform is painful, yes, but decay was also painful, just slower and more familiar. Nobody is saying this government is perfect. No serious person should. But pretending Nigeria was a paradise before now is an insult to our collective memory. You cannot fix decades of damage without discomfort. You cannot dismantle entrenched interests without resistance. Those screaming the loudest today are often the same people who benefited from the old broken order.

The opposition refuses to tell Nigerians what exactly they would have done differently. They offer vague promises without details. They do not explain how they would remove subsidy without pain or keep it without bankruptcy. They do not explain how they would manage forex, fund education, stabilize the economy, pay workers, service debt, manage insecurity across geopolitical zones, and still attract investors. They just shout.

Nigerians deserve better than noise. We deserve honesty. We deserve issue-based campaigns that respect our intelligence. We deserve a clear account of where we were before now, where we are now, what has changed, and what has not. We deserve to hear what you will do better and exactly how you will do it. That is the minimum respect the electorate deserves. Anything less is not opposition; it is deception.

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anonimi:
It's a deliberate impoverishment strategy by Tinubu and All Promises Cancelled, APC to perpetuate themselves in Stockholm syndrome stylee.

I guess this is how Tinubu wants to be life president with a 3rd term agenda that Obasanjo failed to achieve, thanks to Atiku marshalling other democratic forces to kill the bill in the NASS despite Ghana must go bags of bribe.

Master Stockholm Syndrome Stylee. No more English inside dictionary again.

anonimi:
That is so true in this Emilokan regime of Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Crooks, APC where sins are forgiven for their redeemed saints who remain loyal to the Ogas at the top.

While your own master, Atikulooter, formerly of PDP, now the master strategist of another gang of looters in ADC, is a saint, abi?

WYZAD:
Make dem bring 1billion out come share for everyone of us na.
We are 250 million people.
Make dem give all of us 2million each na.
That will be empowerment.

Divide 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) by 250,000,000 (250 million), you go get 4.

Will N4 be enough to empower you?

Go school, you refuse, you said na shop you wan open for Alaba Rago. See yourself now.

zinaunreal:
It's really funny how so little their population and over 40 percent is poor. That's very disgusting. We shouldn't even be exchanging words with a desert

Thanks for given it back to them with real facts.

I enjoy your comeuppance to kaczynski.

Kaczynski:
Poor as how?? The population is rising into being bourgeoisie and massively urbanized. Finance and tech sectors are rapidly growing in the country. There's literally a version of wall street there .

Dream on.

No only Wall Street. Why not say Wolf Street, since wolves are the natural inhabitants of their desert region.

nairalanda1:
From the Nigerian perspective, it's not just money, they are also asking for better facilites. But more often than not, the media focuses on the money issue.


UK doctors go on strike for well, salaries, and also for conditions of service. Which can get stressful at times.




While it is true that the USA does charge exorbitantly

1.Medical doctors in the USA take out very huge loans to pay for their studies. Remember that in the USA, a medical degree is a postgraduate degree. So, to become a doctor there..its 4 years of university, then 4 years of medical school. Debts from the loans can be as high as 150000 dollars . If they are not paid very well, they would be broke and unable to afford even basic costs of living.

2. Also, the US Is the world leader in medical research and treatments. Cutting edge costs a lot of money. Cutting edge medications and protocols cost a lot of money

3.USA also has very high standards for its hospitals...this is not your average nigerian hospital, this is a hospital where a common ward can look like a high grade ICU ward in Nigeria. All that costs a lot of money.

4.Malpractice. Because doctors can be sued for anything in the USA...they carry something called malpractice insurace...which costs a lot of money. (While some of the doctors are sued justly, some are sued for frivolous reasons..eg Ben carson being sued for a surgery that literally saved the patient's life)





Doctors have gone on strike in china , also on protests as well.

The problem with China is that doctors are not allowed to unionize. That makes going on strike very difficult. (Here in Nigeria, doctors that work for private hospitals can't go on strike for the same reason).





1.North Korea is the kind of country that any meeting to even express dissatisfaction with the government can get you sent to jail for life...in a remote prision camp, with your family members, including extended family members

Imagine trying to organise a strike, any strike in that country.

2. North Korean medical practice is really really godawful. It's so bad.

How bad is it? A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the border, and was shot by his colleagues as he did so. When he was operated upon by a South Korean doctor, who was 58 years old at the time (it's important)...the doctor found tapeworms and other worms in the intestine of the soldier. The last time he saw such things was in a medical textbook as a medical student over three decades previous.




Russian doctors have organised protests and even strikes. Putin is not that autocratic as you think he is.

You will always find excuses to justify your oppressors. From tax to medical to governance, your oppressors are always excusable.

Is that a good mindset not to place blames where they actually belong to the detriment of the masses?

Angelfrost:
Not saying the hospital is lying... FMC still has good services.

But, this just goes to show that our Emergency Services remain less than zero across the nation, especially in remote places.

Remember the Anthony Joshua accident case!

Many lives would have been saved if our emergency services existed for medical and security incidents.

In the Anthony Joshua's case the two victims were already dead at impact. No amount of emergency rescue services could save them.

And as for Anthony Joshua, he was also immediately attended to, but not at the speed of the Western rescue system. But expecting that to happen in Nigeria for any foreseeable future is an hallucination.

zinaunreal:
I wonder what south west do with their money because that place is so village and disgustingly under developed. No jokes. People still live in mud houses there no different from the north

From a man who has never left his own mud tarred village.

Moreover your people continue to rush there to make fortune.

Is that not wonderful.

LadyLegalEagle:
No one gets deported for simply disciplining their child but people get arrested for child cruelty.

Child Cruelty: It covers willfully inflicting "cruel or inhuman" corporal punishment or injury on a child under 18, causing a traumatic condition.

Says a buyer of the Western Woke culture.

Cane no dey kill pikin: that's the African belief, and it is serving us well.

dustmalik:
This is why it is not good to have 90% of the referees from a particular region. 90% of referees in the PL are from the Greater Manchester area. What should have been a corner was initially ruled for a penalty, then VAR overturned it to a free kick just outside the 18 yards box. It's ridiculous.

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And it was eventually scored by MU. What a good ending.

Martartins:
Please show us Benin-ore, Enough-awka road and a host of others

You no get leg?

Waka go there go check yourself. Who be ur checker?

Free for all fight at end match.

dequir:
Remains a goal for Chelsea.

As predicted, the Chelsea goal is finally in..
3:2.

Remains a goal for Chelsea.

2:2.
By Cucurela

ExudeLoveToAll:
You are giving a wrong view,is he chasing legal migrants or illegals? Legal migrants don't run away.

But legal migrants, and even white citizens are being killed daily by his ICE agents. Or which planet are you from.

Most of it will be stolen by the polithiefcians and the civil servants.

thomas2024:
Come and pick me up now olori gbeske🥳

Aja to ma sonu ki ngbo fere olode.

Lekan si, sora e.

thomas2024:
More coups on the way. Anything that will dislodge Amọda and APC is welcome by me. All I care about is may this cup of suffering and calamity known as Amọda and APC should pass over Nigerians.

And you think you are hiding under anonymity to write this treasonous nonsense?

Are you under any illusion that no one can trace you because you believe that Nairaland is an anonymous media platform in this Internet age?

Do you know how many once famous monikers who wrote like you on this Nairaland that we heard no more from?

Be careful.

Na madness we dey use cure madness.

Soludo the Solution, weldone jawe.

Softmen:
Ologunfe badashile, so mc waka for air down to airport abi wetin him dey find for airport ?

This people una mental health dey messed up walahi 😂

Which one be Ologunfe Badieshile again? Wetin Badieshile do you🤣😂

Una go just write anything wey pop into your mind on SM.

Remi Tinubu can never be my daughter's role model, because she and her callous husband are huge and wasteful thieves of Nigeria common wealth.

Dzzzz:
Why can’t you answer a simple question?

Why are you asking a question that has nothing to do with his initial discourse?

anonimi:
What better synonym do you suggest to describe the same phenomenon

Google has made life easy for us, please consult it.

anonimi:
Is this not a great way to deal with tyrants- effective boycotts and excommunication, instead of the tribalistic, self-limiting, shortsighted Stockholm syndrome worship of leaders looters here

You and your "Stockholm Syndrome". You are so in love with the cliche.

When will you stop using it? Pls, I beg you, find a better synonym.

Eagleways:
and they said that your current president was who, please?

That Tinubu, after just only two years, was the greatest president that ever rule Nigeria.

Abi no be so?

Jakumo:
Kidnapping is rampant in Ondo State, but if you choose to overlook this fact, more power to you.

Give one instance where someone you know have been kidnapped in Ondo State?

Just one good news, among many, from Ondo State, instantly your envy and jealousy reared up their ugly heads.

You need deliverance.

Alfred200825:
Give this place 2 years and it will be an eyesore. Nigerians are filthy pigs

Hope you are including yourself among those Nigerians that are filthy pigs?

LagosOrigin:
So are they the reason why tinubu fell in turkey yesterday or they are the reason Boko haram are gradually moving to south west?

And that's why you no fit open shop today for market, because Soludo the Solution dey give IPOB, your local terrorists, the upper cut.

phorget:
And so what?

That means we can all as well call Tilumbu any name we choose to call him and hopefully one day we would get nominated for an ambassadorship position.

Try it and enjoy Sowore's current predicament.

Unfortunately you no get money, so you go tey for police cell.

ZombieTAMER:
APc is a tribalistic party

no doubt

Yet you have 3 of your governors joining and campaigning for the party.

Is that not wonderful.