₦airaland Forum

YorubaNiBaba:
No be 1500, nah 500 dem give each of them... Sowore's sahara and fake news are inseparable

So, this is Sowore here in the picture revealing it was 1500?

ogododo:
The Minister said, “We also discussed the issue of the country generally and Mr President has asked me to again inform Nigerians that he listens to them, especially the young people that are trying to protest.
“Mr President said he listens to them and takes what they say seriously; and he is working assiduously to ensure that this country is good not just for today but also for the future. The issue of the planned protest, Mr President does not see any need for that, he asked them to shelve that plan and he has asked them to await government’s response to all their pleas, he has listened to them.”
The Minister said a lot is happening already, saying “Only today the NASS has expeditiously passed the bill on National minimum wage. You can see how the President is working. The bill was transmitted only yesterday and today it has been passed. A lot of other interventions that the President has put in place are also going to be looked at expeditiously in the interest of Nigerians, so there is no need for strike {protest}.
“The young people out there should listen to the President and allow the President more time to see to the realization of all the goodies he has for them.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEvSnqGNcEI?si=80K3IxpQCRK7v8aK
Tinubu Calling on NIgerians to come out during JOnathans Regime

Amwitty:
Clueless people in government, it's just so heartbreaking that the masses get to suffer for this lack of direction.

The masses are ever distracted in this Nigeria.

onuman:
■ Owerri will not spare the selfish senator. I know. Highest, he will get APC personal perquisites, that's all. Next election, he leaves like he never came.

Why wait until the next election when he can be recalled before then?

Ezmans:
this is the same way uche ogbuagu kill his political career in IMO state

How can we go about getting the man to step down according to the Law? That one na my concern. How una dey contact una courts or speakers in Imo state?

senatordave1:
■ Only the party has the locus standi to sue

Where in the constitution is this ridiculousness stated?

senatordave1:
■ There is a division in Lp national sir.the apex court has settled this

Stop lying! This defection was not caused by any such. If we are talking of Ndume, then section 68 subsection g would be considered, but this isn't about Ndume who is currently being targetted by members of his own party, a party he remains a part of as we speak.

Ferrous:
■ Then, read section 2.

What part of section 2 nullifies section 68?

senatordave1:
■ A court of law must remove him.besides he has cause to defect as there's a division in Lp with two factions

Is that what is written in your Constitution? Where in Section 68 does it say that a court is to do the removing?

spencekat:
Let his party legally challenge the defection.

Let his party? Did his party elect him or the people elect him into office? Something is seriously wrong with the way Nigerian people think.

yarimo:
but why tambuwal the then speaker house of representatives didn't lose his seat after defecting from PDP to APC? Just simple question

Read your law for yourself so you can be educated on what it says! Don't expect your corrupt politicians to follow the law. You elected them so you have to assert it in case they ignore it. That is why you have a brain in that container up there.

MasterTeeUSA:
But he will lose his seat by defecting...only Govs and Deputy Govs have immunity

He should lose his seat. However, it seems the culture of violating the Constitution is allowed by the electorates who do absolutely nothing even when their very mandate is violated in such a manner. The Nigerian people are indeed the problem in the system.

onuman:
Mugu. Politician of no ideological leaning. He sells the mandate given to him by voters opposed to APC manifesto. Just for his own selfish interest. Ask Rochas Okorocha and others how far.

The man needs to be made to vacate the seat. People need to start asserting their Constitutional Law and take back the power of their mandate from these touts in office.

Emeskhalifa:
■ If you can't give proofs that he was the only one who got dollar at that rate , then you have nothing to say. Beside every sane patriotic individual would give their support so his or her country can have a refinery of her own but then this is Nigeria , country filled with jealous , petty individuals

Dangote is not a patriot but a businessman, simple and short! He is not in business to sell you his products at cheap prices. His history in other industries is there anyone with a brain to see this. He is not in business to save Nigeria either. He is in business because Nigeria provides him with the right environment for his ideas and kind to thrive. Simple!

As for the proof you ask for, this issue is not hidden at all. Sanusi acknowledged this in the OP that he got treated specially, only Sanusi argues that it was because Dangote came up with an idea for a refinery. So, stop mindfucking yourself for the sake of a man who does not care or know you.

Amujale:
■ Although, one shouldn't be lost to the fact that these new age "fundamental concepts", that you've correctly highlighted here are a part of the 'gulag' in obstacles created by these ill-fitting ideologies that mask themselves as 'fundamental concepts', yet you seem to have missed the irony here.
There's no serious minded person living in the world today that either believes or assumes that the current political stock operating in our continent today show any interest in investing in the general public. Therefore, your talk of having our political leaders to does anything for the general public is completely misplaced. Therefore, i take this opportunity to you to feed into the ideas that are being presented here, my thing is, rather than complaining about the difficulties of making our world a better place, let's just make it a reality.
There are people such as Dangote who could afford to invest in the general public, furthermore, kindly quit thinking that is ok for Capitalism to constantly be introduced into the African pysche, stop it.

HUH?

Look, again, The man is a businessman dedicated to his pocket and shareholders alone, and rightly so. He has been benefitting from the politicians for at least the last 40 years and in all that time has firmly established himself as one who is primarily concerned for his bottom line and not the Nigerian people. The ones who ought to invest in these things are those you elected into government. .... but the truth is he does not owe Nigerians anything and should not be expected to do more than focus on his business an his shareholders.

xjiggy:
■ Fact is all banks got. Millions of Nigerians got BTA, PTA and paid for business transactions and foreign school fees at that rate. Even some individuals were using their Dom acc to collect dollars at CBN rate and sell to aboki. Like he said, Dangote is not the problem. If NNPC fix the four refineries, Dangote will not be a monopoly. How will local businesses grow if Govt agencies are stifling them? Nobody stopped other people from building refineries. All of them that President Jonathan gave license to build, only Dangote made serious effort to establish a refinery. Most of them are still importing fuel.

All this one no concern me. The thing we I know be say Sanusi is wrong in asserting that anyone in Nigeria can approach the CBN in this case. Dangote's case was specially handled during the last administration and probably even this one.

adabaraabdul:
■ the last time I checked u guys said the refinery is still at pre commissioning stage and isn't licenced yet, so I am a certified quality control officer and I have worked in a refinery for 5 solid years and i know that if a refinery is till @ pre commission stage then it means work is still been carried out and one cannot expect the products to be 100% desired standards. But even at this dangote is saying come and check my products they are up to standards. We will see how this pans out.
■ The NMDPRA is colluding with IOCs and corrupt government officials in the NNPCL and other oil and gas MDAs to orchestrate evil against the Nigerian state and people.

1. You are right! If the standard is not at 100%, the product shouldn't even be on the market but it apparently has been out there even with the refinery at 45%, according to NMDPRA.

2. That one na assumption you dey make, which I cannot answer to.

ejieddy:
■ At a time when we are scrambling with forex, when we need every dollar we earn, do we need to spend that same dollar on importation of fuel when we can refine all we need? What kind of stupid response is that?
■ All we want is to stop importation of all kinds of fuel completely and it helps us to earn more forex when we become a net exporter of refined fuel. How stupid can we be as a nation to destroy what can give us respite? Even a baby knows that importation of fuel and subsidy is the bane of our existence as a country and what has recked our economy with the wanton corruption involved, but no. Some stupid corrupt man, trying to protect corrupt independent marketers and an oil cabal is insisting on importation. Are we mad in this country?

1. That you are scrambling for forex, does not mean Dangote is scrambling for forex, mind you.
https://www.nairaland.com/8162318/nigeria-acts-defend-naira-after#131096478

2. All you want is stewpid! Even the United States which refines its own crude still imports fuel. This desire to see banned that which has always sustained your economy only because of Dangote is beyond me!

Yes, the United States imports petroleum, which includes crude oil, refined products like gasoline and diesel fuel, and other products, in various quantities depending on demand and cost. In 2023, the US imported about 8.51 million barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum from 86 countries, accounting for about 18% of total annual US energy imports. Crude oil imports accounted for about 76% of the total, with the top five source countries being Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Brazil.

I really don't understand how many of you are so easily fiddled with. How can a grown individual think and make statements that you have here.

yarimo:
how about lawmakers that defected to labour party in Abia state 🤣🤣

Visit your Constitution and stop arguing stewpidity. Any lawmaker or elected officials who violates the mandate handed by the people in this manner, for no cause, is supposed to vacate his seat immediately.

That you missed this in the past is no reason why you should miss this now.

Zonefree:
Ezenwa the Opportunist!
From PDP to LP to APC.
You'll only see him in Owerri during campaign... he'll just share transformers without mounting them. Useless man!

You seem to know him. Well, the Constitution says that anyone in office who switches parties without a cause should automatically vacate his seat. He was elected by the people as a PDP candidate so his sitting now as an APC candidate is against the mandate that was given to him by the people. He should loose his seat..

yarimo:
is he losing his seat? Just asking for a nairalander 🤣🤣

He has to loose his seat. Someone should raise the issuein Imo State if it has not happened yet. The man has to step down immediately.

Krankhead:
Is he going to lose his seat automatically?

He must but you see, the thing is someone needs to know that he should and raise the issue if he doesn't vacate. The system does not automatically trigger in the case a law is broken in Nigeria.

opamoses1:
You can support a government and still critisize or call out the policy of that government that you may not agree with. You need brain nutrients so as to be able to think critically. No offence.

Wetin this one dey talk. We dey talk of protesting bad governance, e dey talk something else entirely.

strangest:
∆ Shame no dey catch you

Why should i be ashamed?

laurel03:
Go and takeover monopoly in steel production he sha don leave the sector for unna... No Dangote biz that is monopoly he might just be major player in some that is the fact

I hope Dangote in fact means it when he said he would not enter Steel at all. That sector cannot afford these nonsense tactics of his. Nigeria needs at least 30 steel mills before 2050 if it has hopes of becoming industrialized by 2080.

bigpicture001:
■ See this one ooo....why do u think he chanfed the location of the refinery project from.Edo state to lagos shoreline...? Its because he realized his big picture of export worldwide....he is also export focus....naija alone can't buy off half his produce.....
He started the test run nd first export shipments with crude from the US ,then believing the excuse given by the NNPC official as temporary set back....but when its obvious the excuse will not die out nd it was a delibrate ploy to exempt him from crude purchase, then he cried out
Remember in buying from the US,there is export payment to the US customs nd import payment to the FG, nd den export payment again to his final destination after refining.....

If, according to you, he had always been intending to export products— it has always been a part of his business plan—, why make a big deal of it now?