Bliss62:


young man listen to yourself as well

Indians , Ethiopian, Egypt, Philippines all have Government backed migrant programs

so what is Our of line in what he said if not hate and more hate without reasoning

Bliss62:



as long as you can stop hiding behind your phone and go to DSS headquarters to say this about Tinubu with your evidence

EtinosaDLaw:
The level of hatred yorubas Tinubu's surpporters have for the Igbos. They don't mind denying their own brother justice, just to make the Igbos look bad.

Bliss62:


Mr President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Jagaban GCFR

Former Senator, Governor and now President

ganisucks:
I hope that by next week this whole debacle is done and dusted. We've danced naked in the market square for way too long. We need to get rid of all these distractions so that the new CBN team can get down to the work of arresting the out of control hydra headed monster of inflation freefall and skyrocketing prices.

Bliss62:

Typical Philosopher like Aristotle

We voted a capable Administrator and an accountant.

IconicR:
😂

I only supported his presidential ambition due to some reasons that has nothing to do with tribe or anything.

The 2023 Nigerian elections have come and gone yet many of the sayings from foremost candidate, Peter Obi before/during the elections continue to be referenced.

1. “If you must be referred to as your excellency, then the process through which you arrived in the office must be excellent.”

2. “I’m not promising Nigerians happiness. It’s the entertainment business that promises happiness. I promise change and progress,”

3. “Leadership is about accountability because people don’t do what is expected. They do what’s inspected.”

4. “We will use merit to employ, dramatically reduce poverty and return Nigeria to a place of strategic relevance with high value”.

5. “Insecurity is a result of ineffective security strategy, address this by projecting strong leadership, state security and pursue a robust reform of security sector”

6. “Borrowing must be for productive purposes, not consumption… enhance human capital development in our youths through investment in education, research and quality health”

7. “I will conduct an Afro-centric policy that will protect the rights of Nigerians abroad, advance the rights of Nigerians businesses abroad”

8. “The problem of Nigeria is based on complex leadership… lead Nigeria for an inclusive and sustaining Nigeria that works for all”

9. “To you, young people, take Back your Country…it is your future they are toying with”.

10. “Those who steal, if they come to church they will give them front seats, so, why would they not steal? They are the ones who are given chieftaincy tittles, they are the ones who get tittles in the world. So, we need to change all that.”

“I reduced my convoy to 5 vehicles and you cannot buy fuel unless I am in the car”.

“If I sleep in a hotel and have to pay N250k a night, I will be awake all night…feeling like I was robbed”.

“It is just that we have a government that has criminalised the society and people celebrate criminality. So, nobody could say to them, stop.”

“You know there are many big men in Anambra state, so when they want to see me, I say to them I will come to you instead”.

“We handed schools back to Churches and by 2013, we were number one in WAEC.”

“I beg you to participate more in politics, the society we help them abuse today will take its revenge tomorrow.”

“What I found in Nigerians and your parents here, including me, I am a victim of that, I was governor for eight years, you can hardly see anybody who tells you something is wrong."

“The only way out of recession is to spend for growth. You can only spend for growth either from savings or from borrowing.
The question is: what are you borrowing for?
Are you borrowing for consumption or for production? When you borrow for consumption, you are heading for disaster.”

”I had to stop the Presidential lodge in Anambra… A project awarded at 400million. I had to close down state house in Lagos and Abuja… Because I felt we dont need it…. Even when other states had.”

“I am going to celebrate and invest in Tech. We’re going to use tech everywhere. We were the first state govt to put internet in all the secondary schools”

“When you have a candidate that has global exposure, it would be difficult to be a tribal bigot.”

“You don’t just open shop and start begging for money. People need to see your efforts and the extent your strength could take you before your start making demands for support”

“I will make Nigeria a Giant, not just in name but in existence, we will be able to stand up to every Nation on Earth as a true Giant”

“I will make Nigeria a giant in name and in existence. We will stand up to any nation on earth. Otherwise, they should just call us any name they like.”

“There must be some people who don’t like me. If everyone likes me, I would stop campaigning. Because I would know something is wrong.”

“I told the Canadian Ambassador that I don’t want Nigeria to be invited to the G20 or G40 or whatever as an observer but as an active member.”

“People will say my plans are lofty. But country after country has done it. So it’s doable”

“I am the only governor in Nigerian history who finished eight years, left money, built infrastructure, owed no contractor, salary or pension”

“Do not vote for anybody because he is from your area or tribe, or because of religion, please. Nobody, no religion buys bread cheaper, no tribe buys bread cheaper; that is what politicians are using to manipulate us. And do not vote for anybody because it is his turn. It is the turn of Nigerians to take back their county”

“No Nation can survive without saving for tomorrow”.

“Government does not create job, it only facilitate job creation”.

“Government borrowing to do flyover bridges when the main road is not good”.
“In Nigeria, nobody tells you the truth when you are in power”

“We want government that will make people to earn a living, government that will give the youth job, we want a country where a son of nobody, a daughter of nobody will be somebody, and it will happen in this country. So I urge you, please, remain prayerful, ask questions about those you want to vote for, ask for their background.”

“Everybody calls you his excellency, that since you came, things have changed, even, when you know that nothing has changed.
“I requested Obasanjo to spend the nights in my lodge Since they said he must sleep over… I asked my wife to pack out of my bedroom… We went opposite to lodge in a hotel (name mentioned) for the week, we paid N30,000 instead of N100,000.”

“I used the 150million for 2 bullet proof cars to buy almost 50 Peugeot cars at 3 million each.. gave 17 to judges and 18 to permanent Secretaries (because I discovered they did not have cars) and kept 10 for govt house… which I used as Governor… I did not use bullet proof cars as Governor.”

richie240:


"I be yoruba'' kee u dia.
You forgot to switch monikers, okwea?

All deez biaflets sef!
Pfttt!

franchasofficia:
They said Tinubu is the political god in Yoruba land

STARGREEN:


I'm yet to read of something of excellent about Tinubu.

franchasofficia:
You think say Yoruba people that founded Oluwole and put the headquarters in Lagos are fools?

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the first runner-up in the February 25 presidential poll, says it is impossible for Elnora Daniel and Niva Lubin to have signed Bola Tinubu’s 1979 Chicago State University (CSU) certificate given that they began working in the institution in 1998 and 1996, respectively.

As the battle for the release of Mr Tinubu’s CSU records rages, Mr Abubakar on Wednesday told the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois that he does not understand how Mr Tinubu’s certificate submitted to Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, bore the signatures of two CSU staff who joined the institution nearly two decades after the president graduated.

Mr Abubakar, the applicant for an order directing discovery of Mr Tinubu’s records, said there were glaring inconsistencies between the certificate Mr Tinubu tendered to INEC dated June 22, 1979, and the one CSU gave Nigerian lawyer Mike Enahoro-Ebah in response to a previous subpoena, dated June 27, 1979.

“The June 22 diploma has a different font and seal and does not have the grammatical error in the June 27 diploma. Instead of three signatures, it has only two. It also purports to be signed by Dr. Daniel as President of CSU—who did not begin working at CSU until 1998.

“The second signature purports to be that of Dr Niva Lubin as Chair of the Board. But like Dr Daniel, Dr Lubin did not begin working at CSU until the late 1990s,” Angela Liu, counsel for Mr Abubakar, wrote to the court on Wednesday.

The former CSU board chair’s legal name is Niva Lubin-Johnson, which is how it is written on all her public records. How her name was spelt as Niva Lubin alone on the certificate purportedly issued to Mr Tinubu could not be understood, further fuelling the suspicions of forgery.

Peoples Gazette’s checks showed that Ms Lubin-Johnson joined the CSU board in 1996 and left after serving two terms in 2002.

Both women (Mses Daniel and Lubin) whose names appeared on Mr Tinubu’s diploma joined CSU long after Mr Tinubu graduated and long before CSU said the incumbent president and board chair usually signed the certificates at the time of request, Mr Abubakar’s lawyer noted.

“The June 22 diploma has indicia of forgery,” asserted Ms Liu. “Although it appears to be signed by three CSU officials, two of the signatures are illegible, and the third purports to be that of Dr. Elnora D. Daniel as President of CSU—even though she did not join CSU until 1998. ECF 5, Ex. F. It also contains a clear grammatical error. ECF 5, Ex. C.”

“Although intervenor submitted an affidavit to this Court from Westberg asserting that ‘all diplomas are signed by the current President/Board Chair’, ECF 21-1 at ¶ 4, both Dr Daniel and Dr Lubin had left CSU by, 2008 and 2001, respectively,” Ms Liu pointed out.

Mr Tinubu successfully begged Judge Nancy Maldonado to delay the release of his school records to his main challenger in the presidential polls as previously ordered by Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the U.S. federal court, pleading severe and irreparable damage to his life, in a last-ditch effort to stop the order from being enforced.

Mr Abubakar wants to use the document at the Supreme Court of Nigeria in his quest to prove Mr Tinubu committed perjury and is therefore ineligible to serve as the nation’s president.

dawnomike:
There's something Atiku knows that makes he keep knocking the doors of CSU.

The die is cast as the litigations at the courts occasioned by INEC’s seemingly contrived ‘glitch’ as well as its ineptitude have commenced. Remarkably, the elections which ordinarily would have been free and fair through the use of technological innovations [BVAS, IReV and real-time e-transmission of results] were botched. Currently, the country is on edge and the brouhaha that has enveloped the country would have been avoided; SANs are having a field day.

Incidentally, Nigeria has trodden the same path in the past when senior lawyers held contrasting opinions with regard to 12 2/3 of 19 States. Why did the courts not deem it necessary to invite as amicus curiae, revered Prof Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate of English Literature and/or Very Rev Fr [Prof] Nicholas Akwanya, Prof of English and Literary Studies/former Dean of Postgraduate Studies at UNN [first class graduate of National University of Ireland] for elucidation of the coordinating conjunction ‘and’ of 25% of FCT, Abuja as was done with late Prof Ayodele Awojobi [first class graduate of Imperial College London], the Engineering genius at UNILAG that addressed the court during the contentious 12 2/3 conundrum of 19 States in Awolowo v Shagari suit of 1979?

The erudite Professors [Soyinka and/or Akwanya], if invited, would have availed the court the exactitude of the conjunction ‘and’ concerning 36 States of the Federation and FCT, Abuja which decidedly would have been unassailable rather than the disparate interpretations of the senior members of the bar, inclusive of SANs – the Agbakobas, Falanas, Osopitans, Maliks, Ozekhomes, Ajulos [not yet a SAN but in this year’s list], etc – please see This Day newspaper publication of 7th March, 2023 or in the alternative, browse the net, www.thisdaylive.com on the topic; “Is 25% of FCT Votes Required To Win a Presidential Election?

Besides, it is expedient to read Dr. Olukayode Ajulo’s treatise on 25% of FCT in Sahara Reporters of 26th March, 2023 or browse the net, saharareporters.com on the same topic. In a similar vein and for a balanced view, it would be necessary to read the interesting/intellectual exposition and rejoinder by Prof Mike Ozokhome, SAN in the NigeriaLawyer of 29th March, 2023 or browse thenigerialawyer.com – ‘Finding The Bodmax X in Mathematics of 25% Of The FCT, Abuja.’

However, it may or may not represent the intendment of the framers of the 1999 Constitution but would be the correct position which subsequently may necessitate a bill by the National Assembly for an amendment of the word ‘and’. There is no gainsaying the fact that lawyers are ‘stewed’ in jurisprudence but Prof Awojobi was considered an expert in the mathematical conundrum of 1979 while Profs Soyinka and Akwanya are numero uno with regard to coordinating conjunction of ‘and’.

It is germane to mention that equity and fairness have flown out of the window with regard to rulerships of the national and subnational governments. Is it not considered necessary to enshrine in the Constitution ROTATIONAL PRESIDENCY between North and South and also, by extension zonal rotation to prevent a repetition of South West doing an encore as Tinubu has done by ascending the throne despite Obasanjo’s Presidency thus denying other Southern zones, particularly South East zone of taste of the pudding?

What is the guarantee that North West zone will not usurp the Presidential slot considering its number of States/numerical strength when it rotates to the North at the detriment of North Central or North East zone if the Rotational Presidency is not legislated by the National Assembly with the concurrence of States’ Assemblies? If other zones are continually muscled out by South West and North West in occupation of Aso Rock what are the implications for the politically oppressed/suppressed zones vis a vis the avowed claim of inclusivity/sense of belonging? It follows therefore that the oppressed zones can only occupy Aso Rock when pigs fly or until the cows come home. What are the possible remedies?

If 2 terms each for a zone are considered too long given the envisaged rotation should the National Assembly not set in motion machinery for amendment of the Constitution for a term of only 5 years to enable every zone swim in Aso Rock waters? Proverbs 16:12 admonished: ‘We must practise justice as it is what makes a nation strong.’ Should Nigeria not embrace JUSTICE, EQUITY and FAIRNESS to avoid the avoidable road travelled by Yugoslavia before its disintegration into many countries?

As what obtains at the Federal seat of power is routinely replicated in States should the same rotation not be enshrined in the Constitution to enable other Senatorial zones also luxuriate in State Governors’ houses rather than successors from the same zones being foisted at the whims and caprices of some imperial Governors? However, it must be acknowledged that some of the States are already practising rotation but other Senatorial zones in some States have used their superior numbers to ensure oppression/marginalisation and retention of the prized diadem.

World history has shown that INJUSTICE, MARGINALISATION and INSTITUTIONALISED OPPRESSION do not last forever and almost always have expiry dates. Regrettably, nepotism, cronyism and prebendal politics became recurring decimals and were elevated during Buhari’s regime and such fatuous actions do not augur well for the fabric of our country. Nigerian needs obviation of Buhari’s shenanigans and should not be sustained by Tinubu and his acolytes. Martin Luther King stated: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny, whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” The time to act is NOW.

Taylor92:


Are you saying Tinubu can’t do that?


You know how many times I don escape from security officials because of my comments on Nairaland till I commot Nigeria.

Acronyms have always fascinated me.

Not least because they convey a long name in the shortest possible way, but also because some of them are witty and sometimes even downright humorous.

A recent acronym added to the Nigerian word-space is, in addition to these two attributes, also apt.

It is apt because it captures our general national mood today.

And the word is SAD, an acronym for Special Advisor to a political office holder.

But it’s just perfect, because majority of Nigerians today are sad. The situation around the country leaves us with little choice not to be.

We are sad, not just because our brand-new president issued us a divorce letter, the very day our traditional honeymoon with him was supposed to commence, but because the steps he has taken since that infamous Freudian slip, in his inaugural address, have done nothing to alleviate the pain of that divorce.

Yet he keeps acquiring more advisers. What are these advisers for, if they can’t make one feel the pulse of the people?

I mean after the harrowing eight years of the last administration, Nigerians were hopeful that a new government would mean more kind consideration and sensitivity to their daily needs.

And having elected someone who was with us all through, and had seen the disappointment and despair we had endure, because the Buhari government had failed to fulfill numerous campaign promises, the least we hoped for was that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be more responsive to our needs and yearnings.

It was more than a kick below-the-belt when the new president started with a move that was guaranteed to affect every living Nigerian; except for political office holders.

We all know that everyone feels the pain of petrol price increase, including people in our remotest villages, because even they have to transport their farm produce to nearby markets.

Though Nigerians had questioned late Umaru ‘Yar’adua’s electoral victory in 2007, not least because he was former president Obasanjo’s hand-picked and annointed successor, he was able to turn that negative perception around, when he quickly brought down the cost of petrol from N75 to N65 naira per litre, in the early days of his administration.

It wasn’t even part of his campaign promise but as someone who pledged to be a servant-leader, both in words and in deeds, President ‘Yar’adua felt the pulse of the nation; and acted accordingly.

Former President Buhari and his team were a different breed though. They promised much and delivered little. In fact so little that before the government expired, a common joke on social media, is that of Nigerians begging Buhari to return them to where he met them in 2015.

The joke says ‘We no longer want your change. Take us back to 2015 when a bag of rice was N8500, a litre of petrol was 87 naira, when our naira was 120 to the dollar, when bandits were criminals hiding in Zamfara and Birnin Gwari forests, not armed gangs raiding whole towns and villages, while killing and abducting people at will….’

This obviously sums up the disappointment of Nigerians with the Buhari government.

In fact among the topmost indices of failed campaign promises was that they promised to end corruption by naming, shaming, prosecuting and jailing corrupt public officials. Not only did the government fail to do much in this regard, but it also bred its own high-level corrupt officials, who made the previous corruption cases pale in comparison.

It is with this obvious pain and expectation that we welcomed the Tinubu administration. But so far we haven’t seen much to celebrate.

Poverty and hunger have exacerbated. Though we were supposed to have created rice pyramids, rice has become a rare sight for the common man.

Yet, in the face of all this, the new administration seems more keen on creating the needless offices of special advisers and special assistants than in tackling the nation’s woes head-on.

Of what use is this retinue of aides when the rest of our compatriots are wallowing in hunger and pain?

Even the Vice-President has no less than twenty aides. This is one office whose occupant is, like his state counterpart, only a spare tyre.

He cannot be the front wheel unless his principal is unavoidably absent.

So why does the VP need over a dozen aides when two or three will do?

Unless our leaders learn to prioritise what their compatriots’ need, they will never achieve the success they claim they want to achieve.

These SADs and SAs must be reduced to the barest minimum because they are just a huge addition to the nations wage-bill with little to add in terms of real value to governance.

Some may say that this is the practice in most parts of the world, especailly where the presidential system is in practice; and maybe it is true, but who said we can’t change it to suit our present peculiar circumstances?

The late John Magufuli of Tanzania went as far as to cancel his country’s national day celebrations, in his first year in office, because the money budgetted was needed for something else. He diverted the amount to rehabilitation and equipping of government-owned hospitals around the country.

In our present state now, we need such radical measures to ease the situation of suffering all over Nigeria.

Presidential platitudes and doubtful palliatives cannot end the hardship being encountered by ordinary Nigerians, since before the removal of fuel subsidy and after it.

But decisive actions like immediately returning the subsidy, securing our borders so seriously that the fuel doesn’t end up smuggled, and cutting down the cost of a litre to no more than 200 naira will certainly do the magic, in the short term.

In the long term, we must embark on an immediate repair and maintenance of our refineries, so that fuel importation will no longer be necessary in Nigeria.

The other day I saw a list of petroleum exporting countries and Nigeria is the ONLY ONE without a functioning refinery.

Needless to say, this is a great shame indeed. But President Bola Tinubu is in a position to do things differently.

He can achieve this by mustering the will to do what is right and promptly too. This will not be attainable by appointing more SADs, who will only be additional drain on our national resources.

The reality of our sad situation is that we need a sensitive, responsive and caring government that will put the people’s needs first, then any political expediency second or third.

newnigerdelta00:






Now I know you are a bloody liar,where you not the one that travel to aboard during the campaign to seek for investors fake HOEBEE

NORSYK:
This is laughable

emmanuelbrown26:

Comr, una go dey cause person to dey laugh like something else

raumdeuter:


Nigeria and 3rd world countries have a lot of comparative advantages.
1 labour is very cheap,
[s]2. There are less govt bottlenecks and regulations[/s]
3. You are likely closer to raw materials

raumdeuter:
So Obi wey dey go from China to India to Egypt was wasting his time

During campaign Obi cannot mention 2 sentences before mentioning When I went to China Egypt Malaysia with fake stats

Suddenly going abroad to seek investors the same ones you are quoting is a waste of time

Abi no be this Nigeria you dey find those investors for that time

chloedogie:
Egbon is still crying upadan.

jrusky:
Really? So have you ever seen any sane country with no foreign investors?

That is why I called you a Marxist motherfucker.

Mr. Peter Obi, has said efforts of the Federal Government in seeking foreign investors abroad is waste of time if environment for businesses to thrive is not put in place.

This is coming on the heels of President Bola Tinubu’s statement on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, United States, where he told American entrepreneurs to feel free and safe to invest in Nigeria.

At the Nigeria-U.S. Executive Business Round table, the president, listed measures he said he had taken to boost confidence of the global investment community in Nigeria, which included forming the fiscal, monetary and tax policy environment.

According to him: “Nigeria is an opportunity that is impossible to replicate or find elsewhere in any part of the world. We have brilliant young people who both innovate and consume at a large scale. Our entrepreneurial spirit is a major part of what makes our market totally unique, aside from demography.

“Nigerians build businesses and Nigerian businesses partner with other businesses to conduct larger business. There is enough value to spread around. Be careful of what you hear about Nigeria. You may be dissuaded out of a major opportunity that others will take up. We are here for you. We will give you all the support you need to succeed and succeed abundantly.”

But speaking at an event in Enugu, Obi said foreign investors were like bees and honey and a government that does not know where the country is going is wasting time going abroad to seek investors.

“I came back here and told someone that you don’t go looking for foreign investors. Anyone going around looking for foreign investors is wasting everyone’s time. Foreign investors are like bees and honey. If you put honey here, how the bees will converge, no one will tell you. After the G20 meeting, Emmanuel Macron, French president flew to Bangladesh because the country had just ordered 10 Airbus 350s, so he had to go and see them. If you look at all the economic analysis, go and look at where Bangladesh would be in 2030 and up to 2050. But no one knows where we are going to be.

“A deputy governor was asked why he didn’t go to school and he said it doesn’t matter. But he filled it. He was the one who said, ‘I went to this school’, no one forced you. If you know that schools don’t matter, you would have said, ‘I didn’t go to school’, so that we would imagine your ingenuity as someone who didn’t go to school and was able to get to that level.

“We are now in a country where people say one thing and do something else. I asked a woman to stand on the queue and she told me that whenever she stands in a queue, she doesn’t get anything. This happened to me last year. After the tribunal decided our case, I called the woman and apologised to her. We had someone going round the world and saying that the election would be the best. It was from INEC that I heard what is called ‘real time’. Suddenly, he says he can do the election anyhow. Why didn’t you tell us this before the election, so that when we are voting, we can also behave anyhow?” Obi queried.

* Let behold on to the icing on the cake: Someone was jailed twice in the US for fraud (bank fraud) and later rebranded into Bola A Tinubu. No be talk, but some documents viewed from FBI archives!