₦airaland Forum

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
Obi was the best candidate among the three leading parties.

Igbos would have given Osinbajo the same number of votes instead of Obi, if he were in the race.

Even if Peter Obi doesn't contest in 2027, pick out the best candidate from the three leading parties, that is who Igbos will vote irrespective of his tribe.

Igbos can give block votes to Hausa or Fulani or Igbo or Yoruba, depending on the character of the flagbearer the main parties fielded.

That's why Igbos are always accused of not knowing how to play politics.
They don't vote for alignment, projections and political correctness; they vote the best candidate.

Then why are igbos voting bad governor, senators, house of rep and local govt chairman in their region.

But a tribe in Nigeria have at least 1 family members for cocaine trafficking in prison allover the world. . Yeye people, case of pot calling kettle black.

Naira20:
Junta?
Na Mali FG una dey call Junta?
What about Tinubu who got to power by coup d'etat?
If Mali,Niger and Burkina Faso government is Junta then the apposite description for Tinubu's illegitimate government is Junta too.

U people should stop being childish online, it getting ridiculous each passing day.

What the Op said is 100% true.

PressMyButton:
You ipob are damn too funny. The emergency lover of Niger, whereas if Government decided to link a project to Niger, like railway, gas pipeline etc, you still the same people that would start crying. I advise you guys to stay somewhere so that thunder will know the location to go.

; emergency lovers of North, Niger, El -rufai and gummi

The juice is gone.

specialmati:
what is this

Truth is bitter.

Forkthiefnubu:
You reinforced the vacuity of your arid mind and to sweeten it I made u angry , provincial belly crawling bug , scurry off and go into tribal abyss where u belong

ipob rest nobody send una papa.

Point of correction donated Anambra state fund.

Tinubu will end up as the greatest Nigeria president ever.

Dangote is a greedy business man.

Usmanovic95:
What exactly did obi steal from you?if you are privy to information we are not aware of,why not report him to EFCC or ICPC for probing instead of calling him thief online as if he stole your money.

If the people at the helms of affairs have done the right thing by providing these simple basic amenities, obi won't have conceive this idea as their will be nothing for him to do.But he is still trying his best as a private citizens to solve problem of a community but it's online haters like you who are whinging and not the community members who are the direct beneficiaries.

Stop defending a known thief because he is ur tribeman.

Can u stake ur life that peter obi did not steal as governor.

Ibo man analysis.

BATified23:
No be say we no get videos and evidence, we just dey leave una. But not anymore.

They are not interested in good governance.

All they want is Igbo president.

U get time listening to a delusional person.

He sounds like a confused mind.

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Slytiger:
he is no different. there are tons of obidient cursing him out orior to his emergence as presidential candidate. To summarize. these guys afd ibos. peter obi is an ibo project.

You may have noticed that 99.9% of his supporters here on Nairaland are ibos.

They should just tell us they want an Ibo president, instead of using style
Some examples below:

They don't want a better Nigeria all they want is an Igbo president.

If peter obi were to be the gov of Lagos, there wouldn't have been any blue or red rail. He would have insisted that all people travel by road and bicycle.

Forkthiefnubu:
Think before u post, it is better to keep quite and we make assumptions that u have some measure of intelligence rather than open ur mouth and squelch all doubts about the Idiot in you

Most igbos hypocrisy stink to high heaven

U ended up sounding like a tribalist and a bigot like the desperate Pandora criminal.

Did Northerners ask him for borehole.

If peter obi were to be the gov of Lagos, there wouldn't have been any blue or red rail. He would have insisted that all people travel by road and bicycle.

Obi will end 2027 heart broken with the shocker he will receive.

With all peter obi stolen funds this rubbish is what he believes northerners deserve as Ramadan gift.

He must be a fool to portray northerners as beggars, such a tribalistic bigot.

What makes him different from an average desperate politician.

So this nonsense is the new Nigeria obi is promising.

He should stop portraying Northerners as beggars.

Obi should stop treating Northerners as beggars

Everything about Obi, is substandard e.g his administration, his project, his dress-mode even his Voice.

enemyofprogress:
PRESS RELEASE

Tinubu and Chagoury’s Dubious Lagos-Calabar Highway Project

The Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has again inadvertently revealed its penchant for dubious and shady deals in the face of this 700km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway.

This project returned to public discourse at the twilight of the Goodluck Jonathan administration in November 2014 wherein it was announced President Jonathan had signed the 10-state, 22-station project with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) at a cost of $11.97bn.

However, former President Jonathan could not begin the project before he lost the election. But his successor, former President Muhammadu Buhari expressed his intention to begin it and announced in 2016 that the project had been renegotiated downward by $800m to $11.1bn and that it would be ready within three years. But it continued to stall.

In August 2021, while Buhari was on vacation, it was announced by then Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, that the FEC had “approved the memo for the ratification of the president’s approval for the award” of the $11.1 billion project, and that it would be completed in six years. But nothing was done.

In September 2023, barely weeks after being appointed by Tinubu, Works Minister, Engr. Dave Umahi announced that the project had been awarded to Gilbert Chagoury’s Hitech Construction Company Limited (Hitech) without any record of a competitive bidding or a decision by FEC.

Umahi refused to reveal how much the project would cost. He only explained that it would run through nine states and would have a rail road running through the middle. Most importantly, the works minister said the project would come at zero cost to Nigeria, which is currently facing an all-time high level of debt.

The works minister even stated, “Let me announce that it is under public-private partnership. The Hitech group are going to look for the money. They have already found the money, and that is the good news because we don’t waste our time talking and holding meetings and wasting resources.”

The concept of the project was build, operate and transfer, meaning that Hitech would construct the road, operate it for some years and then recoup its money through tollgates before handing it back to the Nigerian government.

Because the project did not require public funds, it did not go through approval from the National Assembly, which holds the power of appropriation. Also, the project only went through the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) with no record of a competitive bidding since Chagoury’s firm was to fund the project 100%.

However, to the shock of many Nigerians, Umahi returned to FEC with a memo in March 2024 seeking the approval of N1.06 trillion that would be paid to Chagoury’s firm for the first phase of the project which is wholly in Lagos.

This pilot phase was to begin from the edge of Chagoury’s Eko Atlantic City on Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, and terminate at the Lekki Deep Sea Port, Ibeju-Lekki, a distance of 47.47km. Till date, the Tinubu administration has refused to reveal how much the project will cost in total. Umahi, who even came on Channels Television recently, evaded questions as to the total cost of the project.

But if 47.47km costs about N1.06tn, it means each kilometre is being built at N22.5 billion or $18 million. For a project that is going to be 700km, it means the total cost could be N15.7 trillion or $12.56 billion, which is higher than previous estimates.

It is curious that the terms of such an audacious project continues to be shrouded in secrecy. Worse still, it is expected to lead to job losses like the demolition of Landmark Beach Resort in Oniru which will lead to the loss of over 12,000 direct and indirect jobs and over $200m in investments according to its management.

More curious is the fact that the entire pilot phase of this project begins and ends in Lagos, especially within the axis of Bola Tinubu’s business interests. It is no secret that both Tinubu and Chagoury are business partners.

This same Hitech, owned by Chagoury, was unable to complete the 50km Lekki-Epe Expressway. Despite installing two tollgates along the axis, Hitech which was part of the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) consortium was only able to construct about 20km, forcing the Lagos State Government to buy it back at the cost of N7.5 billion ($50 million at the time) in 2013 which came at a loss to the people of Lagos.

Tinubu has once again put his personal business interest ahead of that of the Nigerian people in violation of his oath of office where he swore that “I will not allow my personal interest to influence my official conduct or my official decisions”.

The so-called pilot phase from Eko Atlantic to Lekki Deep Sea Port was initially conceived as a Lagos State Government project but because of its huge cost coupled with the fact that Lagos State has a huge debt burden no thanks to Tinubu, the Federal Government is now implementing it under the guise of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. This perhaps explains why there are fears that the project will never get to Calabar, and this is the same reason the project is beginning from Lagos and not Calabar.

Despite not revealing the cost of this entire project, the Tinubu administration is now on the verge of setting up a so-called Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund, a fund targeted at constructing capital projects without the usual budgeting process.

With a target of N20 trillion or $14.5 billion as seed capital, the fund targets the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway and other projects. The initiative targets Pension Funds, Concessionary Loans, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, private sector arms of multilateral development institutions, and bilateral private sector investors, among others, to secure $35bn annually. The Diaspora funding and equity and endowment funds are also expected to play their part in the plan.

But this renewed hope fund, which will be spent at the discretion of Tinubu and without transparency, will likely become another means of siphoning public funds through shady projects. With the current Lagos-Calabar highway already being handled in secrecy, it remains to be seen how such a fund will be managed.

Signed:
Paul Ibe
Coordinator
Atiku Media Office
Abuja
7th April, 2024.

Lies

2023 ELECTION BEST EVER IN NIGERIA.

mrvitalis:
A man that can use 300 million to provide water for over 500,000 people should be applauded as a good manager of funds

But I guess we see what we want to see

300million stolen money from Anambra

aribisala0:
That is what their ancestors did on January 15th 1966
They have not changed this attitude of
If we cannot have it let everything scatter.
When the backlash comes they start to feign ignorance and play victim

The will not escape it, everyone young or old will be dealth with this time around.

Enemies of the country.

Any good thing they are sad, Any bad thing they are happy.

May thunder fire all of u and that ur useless bigoted and religious fantastic messiah.

Wisdomclass1:
useless animal

Useless fool. E no go better for that ur useless obi

Wisdomclass1:
it seems you have comprehension problem.

We will join the North to protest... we are coming. Tinubu must go.

Thunder go faya u and ur people if u no join ur Fulani master to protest.