₦airaland Forum

33 people killed from your place but you'll never hold Tinubu accountable. You hate for Obi is greater than the desire to live

benuejosh:
2027 will be interesting.

If he doesn't continue the ajala behavior after 2027 failure again at the poll by coming 3rd then it will be an embarrassment to him completely.

Whete is the money saved?

TimeManager:
A very intelligent man, he's taking the forgetful ones back in memory lane, as far back as when his boss was in office when billions of dollars was used to pegged the value of naira.
No wonder, Mr Bayo Onanuga said, some Nigerians have a short memory while some are deliberately distorting facts for cheap political narratives.
God bless Nigeria.


-Kiss the truth!

Rubbish statistics!

Watch the video , he said clearly that Tinubu is making Nigeria poorer at high speed and he said if nothing improves, the coalition has work to do

zero8zero:
Na wa o, you people & Gazette. Meanwhile Punch is reporting something different. Until we see another credible source because Gazette is a fake blog.

Propaganda. If you stay in Lagos during 1999-2007, mention where you stay.

commoditiesnig:
Lol.. all these kids online sef.

No gov since '99 ever beat Tinubu admin as Lagos gov.

Fashola simply continue on what Tinubu built

Many Lagos state agencies was created by him. Hospitals, roads, schools, Lekki development, etc. Tinubu modernised Lagos state civil service .

I saw Tinubu with Obj in tinubu's Mercedes jeep in early period of his tenure when he invited OBJ to come commission several projects in Surulere and Lagos. The vehicle drove past us waiting on the road to greet them. Can't forget that day.

Adeboye is a fraudster in God's name

2special:
The influence of this church can only be the hand of God.

Let's start with budget padding

Reign of Mockery is a distraction

When Marwa was Lagos Administrator, they said he was the best. When Jakande was there, tbey say he was it best. Fasola, they say he was the best.

This leaves me to conclude that Lagos wealth makes performance easy and that why when they come to national, they fumble.

If Umahi was Lagos governor, he'd perform better

kabillion:
Somebody that opened up a forest scary to everybody and the person that later planted corn on it. History will remembered who opened up the forest more than who planted corn

Why is Tinubu fumbling now?

Among all the governors since 1999, Tinubu performed less than Fasola and Ambode

kabillion:
I Grew Up in Lagos Under Tinubu. That’s Why I Have ZERO Respect for Obasanjo.

Let’s set the record straight.

I grew up in Lagos — the Lagos that Tinubu rebuilt from scratch while Obasanjo was busy flying presidential jets and settling personal beefs in Abuja.

One built a future.

The other clung to the past like a rotary phone in the age of iPhones. (I wasn't too young to remember, stuff from the era of plane crashes; and OPC drama of which still links to OBJ)

When Tinubu came in 1999, Lagos was a glorified ghetto with sea breeze.

No IGR.
No proper sanitation.
Public services were a myth.

OBJ gave him NOTHING — not allocations, not support, not praise.

Instead?
Federal oppression.

What did Jagaban do?

He built an economy within a hostile economy.
He multiplied IGR from ₦600 million to over ₦8 billion/month.

He restructured governance, digitized services, created LASTMA, LAWMA, and laid the groundwork for Eko Atlantic, BRT, and Lagos as a smart city. (Quod erat demonstrandum)

Meanwhile, Obasanjo?

He spent 8 years chasing third term like a toxic ex stalking a restraining order.

Power sector? FAILED.!
Education? STRIKES.!
Police? Used as private goons.!

(Hi Tafa Balogun, any update from Satan?)
Economy? Privatized to friends with long spoons.

Tell me, what exactly did OBJ do that positively impacted the average Nigerian like me growing up in a rented flat in Ikotun?

Nada. Nothing. Zilch.

But Tinubu? I saw the difference.

Cleaner streets.

Traffic regulation.

Schools being renovated.

A vision for tomorrow.

He made Lagos work, and mentored a generation of leaders — Fashola, Osinbajo, Sanwo-Olu, and others.
OBJ left behind excuses, letters, and goats.

Let’s be clear: Obasanjo didn’t build Nigeria.
He built Obasanjo Incorporated.
Everything was about his ego and revenge.
And now he parades himself as an elder statesman? Abeg.!

I was there.
I lived it.
I’m not tweeting from memory lane.
I’m testifying from experience.!

So when I say:

"I grew up in Lagos under Tinubu — and that’s why I have zero respect for Obasanjo."

It’s not hype.
It’s not fanboyism.
It’s not propaganda.

It’s called gratitude with working memory.

Because while OBJ was playing tribal politics and writing shady memos, Tinubu was building a Lagos that gave me — and millions — a chance to dream.

Let that sink in.

©Oreoluwa O. Olaleye
(I grew up on facts, not fairytales.)
@abdullayofel on twitter
A. Ayofe

2yrs and Tinubu's incompetent and corrupt administration is still saying we wil..

Ikaeniyan0:
https://punchng.com/fg-plans-seven-million-meter-rollout-to-end-estimated-billing/?amp

All these minor activities has not moved the needle. Tinubu is by far the worst president Nigeria ever had

emkz:
1. The coastal highway is active. You vociferously opposed it here. Slowly, it is coming up.

2. Tinubu started the student loans to reduce the burden on indigent parents.

3. The fraudulent oil subsidy was canceled. This allowed increased allocations to states. States are now solvent.

4. Tinubu accomplished local government autonomy.

5. We have not heard much complaints from ASUU. Judicial workers are also happy.

6. The salaries of judges were increased.

7. There are now development commissions for the geopolitical zones.

8. Southern Kaduna has felt federal interventions in terms of a hospital and tertiary institutions.

9. Insecurity is being tackled.

10. Nigeria is united.

11. Your master, Peter Obi, lost the elections.

Thanks to Tinubu, Nigeria now has, for the first time in history, an association of senior political refugees desperately searching for relevance and power.

Fault my submissions with sensible arguments.

What is Timubu currently doing with power?

emkz:
The coalition cannot take off because the motivation is power. Not what to do with it.

They have not explained to Nigerians what they intend to do and why they couldn't do it when they had their chances.

The coalition seems to be a congregation of political refugees without a plan.

In 2014, the newly formed APC supported the person with the strongest clout to unseat the PDP. Let the coalition ask themselves which of them can defeat APC and where does national sentiment bend?

Davido has more hits than wizkid. Davido has more money than wizkid. Davido is more generous than wizkid

Davido is far better than wizkid

I'm Igbo from Delta.

DomPerignon:
I don't care about your Biafra and even welcome it fully.

I am only opposed to you including SS into your land grabbing heist.

Why are you fighting this? We shouldn't be in one country. You cant force unity

DomPerignon:
Referendum that your IBO politicians led by Zik expunged from the constitution ?

Even at that, how many of your politicians that are warming their seats in the NASS has ever dared to raise a motion for an amendment of the constitution to allow for secession through a plebescite?

Your ipob senator and longest serving senator in Nigeria's history ,Abaribe has never even made any attempt on the Biafra cause on the floor of the senate which he uses every election cycle to get re-elected.

The truth be told , Biafra is a ruse and only used in a lame attempt by your politicians to drive their demands but the irony is Biafra agitation is a joke because you don't even have the majority of support for it from your own people when it is presented as a landlocked shithole .

No through referendum

DomPerignon:
You still want Biafra restored .


You still want to land grab and genocide SS people just as your Jewish slave masters are doing in Palestine.

They still do remembrance day for the world wars but the countries that fought are not at loggerheads now.

We will remember Biafra especially because we still want Biafra restored

DomPerignon:
60ys you say but just yesterday your people were marking Biafra day?


The only one bringing up the past is you guys and when you do so you twist it with lies that need to be set straight.

Also, it is agreed by all that peace, civility and mutual respect of each tribal boundaries was destroyed by the coup of Jan 15 all in a bid to usher in Zik's Afro-Marxist ambition to enthrone IBO hegemony over the polity.

The evil that men do, lives on longer than they did.

Are you giving excuse why Tinubu that has been shouting restructuring for 25yrs is unable to do anything? I thought you guys were gaslighting yourselves that local govt autonomy and the development commissions were restructuring?

Only a president that's not power hungry will restructure Nigeria and devolve power. Even state police that everybody agreed to, Tinubu is avoiding it. What a terrible illegitimate president!

helinues:
The rate of governance neglection in North heh, only a Northern president would be the best to restructure Nigeria.

No way a southern president would restructure Nigeria without affecting North biggerly. It would look like deliberate marginalization

Only northern president who must have considered the way forward in making north to catch up with others and perhaps the rest of the world can restructure Nigeria. North is vast but just few areas are developed.

Any serious candidate from north contesting in 2031 should make that his campaign slogan, he would receive reasonable votes from.the south

Says a Yoruba man trying to defend Tinubu. What was Nigeria producing during PDP era?

Tunde835:
A lot of Nigerians are weeping, crying and complaining about the exchange rate with the Dollar. They don't know that a country's currency value is directly correlated to the amount of goods they produce and export. The reason a dollar is #1,600 compared to Naira is because America has a lot of companies. They have a lot to things to offer the world America created the iPhone you all use. They created whatsapp, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Twitter or X. From Nike sneakers to Marvel studios to Boeing airplanes. They're American. While Nigeria only exports oil and maybe afro beats. I don't think music brings that much to us in revenue because we're still streaming it on American platforms. Apple music oh, maybe not Spotify cause they're Swedish, YouTube music they're American. So until Nigerians become creative and start building innovative companies the dollar is going to keep getting worse. Nobody is going to give value to a currency that doesn't give anything. The US was built on capitalism. Instead of blaming Tinubu for everything you can solve some of the problems yourself.

Is this the reason why Tinubu is performing woefully in 2025?

DomPerignon:
According to Nigeria’s former President Alhaji Shehu Shagari in his famous book Beckoned to serve, said when the Head of Government Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was abducted and later killed,the Nigerian constitution provides that the Deputy Prime Minister,who was then Alhaji Zanna Bukar Diprachima was supposed to takeover as the New leader of Nigeria.

But when Shagari and Co learnt that the First indigenous General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Armed Forces ,Major General Aguiyi Ironsi has escaped and was able to hijack the coup,Shagari in company of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa’s aides went to him to discuss the transfer of power to the Deputy Prime Minister Alhaji Zanna Bukar Diprachima.

As they enter where Ironsi is hiding , probably Nigeria’s Police Headquarters ,they met Nigeria’s Senate President Dr Nwafor Orizu with General JTU Aguiyi Ironsi.

According to the rules, Dr Nwafor Orizu was empowered by Nigerian laws to invite the Deputy Prime Minister to form and Head the new Government.

Murtala Coup: 45 years after(Nigeria’s first bloodless)

But surprisingly ,the senate President Dr Nwafor Orizu told Alhaji Shehu Shagari and some survivors of the coup that they should go back home and when any issue came up with regards to the formation of New Government they will ask them to come back.

Former President Shehu Shagari and the rest went out,after a while they heard Dr Nwafor Orizu over Radio Nigeria making some remarks about the mutiny where he finally invited the General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Armed Forces ,Major General Johnson Thomas Umunakwe Aguiyi Ironsi to make some remarks ,in which he later announced himself as the New Head of State of Nigeria.

Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Attorney General and Justic Minister confirned Shagari's narratives of events in his own book as well. Akinjide narrated that The G.O.C , General Aguiyi Ironsi, said he wanted to see all the cabinet ministers.

According to Akinjide: “And so we assembled at the cabinet office. Well, I have read in many books saying that we handed over to the military. We did not hand- over. Ironsi told us that ‘you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force’. These were his words. Is that voluntary handover?

So we did not handover. We wanted the Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word force advisedly, to handover to him. He was controlling the soldiers.


The Acting President, Nwafor Orizu, “who did not co-operate with us cooperated with the GOC. Dr Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast, handing over the government of the country to the army. I hereby state categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not handover voluntarily. It was a coup.”

Below is from the speech delivered Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN, at the public presentation of the first edition of the book “Fellow Countrymen – the story of Coup D’etats in Nigeria,” by Richard Akinnola on June 12, 2000):

[i]Talking of the first coup, when Balewa got missing, we knew Okotie-Eboh had been killed, we knew Samuel Akintola had been killed. We the members of the Balewa cabinet started meeting. But how can we have a cabinet meeting without the Prime Minister acting or the Prime Minister presiding. So, unanimously, we nominated acting Prime Minister amongst us and we continued holding our meetings.


Then we got a message that we should all assemble at the Cabinet office. All the Ministers were requested by the G.O.C. of the Nigerian Army, General Aguiyi Ironsi to assemble. What was amazing at that time was that Ironsi was going all over Lagos unarmed.

We assembled there, having nominated Zana Diphcharima as our acting prime minister in the absence of the Prime Minister, whose where about we didn’t know. We approached the acting President, Nwafor Orizu to swear him in because he could not legitimately act as the Prime Minister except he was sworn in. Nwafor Orizu refused. He said he needed to contact Zik who was then in West Indies.


Under the Law, that is, the interpretation Act, as acting President, Nwafor Orizu had all the powers of the President.

The G.O.C said he wanted to see all the cabinet ministers. And so we assembled at the cabinet office. Well, I have read in many books saying that we handed over to the military. We did not hand- over. Ironsi told us that “you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force”. These were his words. Is that voluntary handover? So we did not handover. We wanted the Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word force advisedly, to handover to him. He was controlling the soldiers.


The acting President, Nwafor Orizu, who did not co-operate with us cooperated with the GOC. Dr Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast, handing over the government of the country to the army. I hereby state categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not handover voluntarily. It was a coup.[/I]


From both Shehu Shagari and Chief Akinjide's account we can easily conclude that no effort was made to locate the then missing PM and that both Ironsi and Orizu had first hand knowledge that the PM was dead.

Orizu who was acting as President of Parliament in Zik's absence and who was of the NCNC - a junior party in the coalition government led by the NPC bluntly refused to accede to the demands by NPC MPs to swear in the deputy PM but instead without any consultation and consensus with their senior partners in the NPC went on air to introduce Ironsi as the new defacto HoS.

Orizu not only gave full tacit support to Ironsi seizing power but went as far as bringing an abrupt end to our democracy.

As I have said here severally, the Jan 15 coup was an Ibo coup orchestrated by Ibo politicians led by Zik for the sole purpose to halt the inevitable secccesion of the ethnic minorities in the old Eastern region.


As for Zik, when he was interviewed in far away Haiti by the BBC on what his reaction to a military take over , Zik was in full support.

Zik , in that interview , stated with full confidence that in the absence of the PM the military should take over. Zik spoke like somome who knew already that the PM was dead . At that time of Zik granting that interview and Ironsi declaring himself HoS after Orizu "handed over " to him, the PM was presumed missing.

You're not making sense

helinues:
Why do the opposition always keep mute whenever we paid out debt but always found their voice when it's borrowing?

Let the dead bury the dead

Tinubu has failed and should be impeached because 2027 is too far

helinues:
Okay. What's your proffer solution to the insecurity in Nigeria?

Speaking from both sides of your mouth.

helinues:
The beginning of finding the solution is to first admit there is insecurity across Nigeria

I have been reading some intensifying attack by the NAF. Kudos more still need to be done

Is that your way of downplaying the event? You think Biafra is about Kanu?

Levesor:
How come only few of them are holding Nnamdi Kanu poster

So where is the money?

AdesegunSanni89:
God bless President Tinubu for stopping forex subsidies that made some people billionaires overnight .

I did not say Wike has lost but I said he will eventually. Thats the meaning of last last

chiiraq802:
..... I don gree.....Wike hv lost.

Save his arse from who? Wike and his assembly members and yet you don't see that Wike will lose last last?

chiiraq802:
Lols.... So because they're quiet, it means something negative.
Mehn!!!... you guys are Polithiefcally naive and finished.

FUNbara came out to thank thief.nubu for saving his arse, you dey busy dey whine urself.

If na wetin go mk you slip well @ nite no wahala.

There's a reason I put last last. I'm not a two face. I know you don't take cognizance of words

DenreleDave:
You are a two face