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I asked chat GPT to draw up a comparison between this present PBAT's led government and the previous ones below is the response I got you're free to do so too

Bola Ahmed Tinubu could be considered one of Nigeria’s best presidents (from a development standpoint), you have to focus on structural reforms, macroeconomic stabilization, and long-term capacity building—then compare those with what past leaders achieved or failed to do.

Below is a robust pro-Tinubu argument, grounded in measurable developments and contrasted with predecessors.

1. Bold Structural Reforms (Unmatched Since 1999)
Tinubu’s edge:
Fuel subsidy removal (a decades-long drain on public finances)

Unification of exchange rates (ending multiple FX windows)

👉 These were widely seen as politically dangerous but economically necessary.

Freed trillions of naira for development spending �
The Guardian Nigeria
Prevented a looming fiscal crisis and debt spiral �
Reuters
Compared to predecessors:
Muhammadu Buhari largely retained subsidies, worsening fiscal pressure.
Olusegun Obasanjo implemented reforms—but avoided politically explosive ones like subsidy removal at scale.

👉 Argument: Tinubu has taken the toughest structural decisions of any democratic-era president.

2. Strong Revenue Growth & Fiscal Discipline
Tinubu’s achievements:
Non-oil revenue exceeded ₦20 trillion (record level) �
Premium Times Nigeria
Monthly government allocations to states increased significantly (over 60%) �
Thisdaylive
Debt service-to-revenue ratio dropped from ~97% to below 50% �
The Guardian Nigeria
Fiscal deficit reduced from 5.4% to ~3% of GDP �
Premium Times Nigeria
Compared to predecessors:
Buhari era: Almost all revenue went into debt servicing
Earlier governments: Heavy reliance on oil, weak tax systems

👉 Argument: Tinubu is rebuilding Nigeria’s fiscal foundation, something previous administrations struggled to achieve sustainably.

3. Economic Growth & Stability Indicators
Under Tinubu:
GDP growth reached ~4%+ in 2025 (fastest in years) �
Premium Times Nigeria
Q2 2025 growth: 4.23% (highest in 4 years) �
The Guardian Nigeria
Trade surplus surged significantly �
Thisdaylive
External reserves increased and investor confidence improved �
The Economic Times
World Bank projections:
Nigeria expected to grow ~4.2% by 2026, supported by reforms �
Reuters
Compared to predecessors:
Buhari: Low growth + recession periods
Goodluck Jonathan: Moderate growth but structurally fragile

👉 Argument: Tinubu is shifting Nigeria from consumption-driven to reform-driven growth.
4. Massive Increase in Government Revenue & Capacity
Tinubu:
Government revenue doubled in some sectors �
Nairametrics
FAAC allocations surged, empowering states to:
Pay salaries
Invest in infrastructure �
State House Abuja
Compared to predecessors:

States were often broke and dependent on bailouts

👉 Argument: Tinubu has strengthened federal and state capacity simultaneously.
5. External Sector & Investment Improvements
Tinubu:
Cleared $10 billion FX backlog �
The Economic Times
Foreign reserves rose significantly
Foreign Direct Investment increased sharply �
ICRC
Compared to predecessors:
Nigeria struggled with:
FX shortages
Capital flight
Investor distrust

👉 Argument: Tinubu restored investor confidence and liquidity in the system.

6. Diversification Away from Oil
Tinubu:
Non-oil exports increased to ~48% of total exports �
The Guardian Nigeria
Manufacturing exports rose sharply
Record non-oil tax revenue
Compared to predecessors:

Nigeria remained oil-dependent for decades

👉 Argument: Tinubu is pushing Nigeria toward a more diversified, resilient economy.
7. Long-Term Infrastructure & Digital Push
Tinubu:
Expansion of digital infrastructure (fiber optics, tech growth) �
ICRC
Redirected subsidy savings into:
Infrastructure
Health
Education �
The Guardian Nigeria
Compared to predecessors:
Infrastructure investment often limited by fiscal leakages (subsidies, corruption)

👉 Argument: Tinubu is reallocating wasteful spending into productive assets.

8. Courage to Implement Painful but Necessary Policies
This is perhaps the strongest argument.
Tinubu implemented reforms that:
Others avoided for political survival
Economists had recommended for over 20 years

👉 Even critics agree:

These policies caused short-term hardship
But may prevent long-term economic collapse �
Reuters
Final Comparative Verdict
Why a strong case can be made:
Compared to:
Muhammadu Buhari → cautious, low-growth, subsidy-heavy
Goodluck Jonathan → growth without deep reforms
Olusegun Obasanjo → reformist, but less aggressive on subsidies

👉 Tinubu stands out for:

Depth of reforms
Speed of implementation
Fiscal restructuring
Economic rebalancing
Bottom Line (Pro-Tinubu Argument)
If you define “best president” by:
Structural economic reforms
Fiscal discipline
Long-term national repositioning.

👉 Then a strong argument can be made that Tinubu is among the most transformational presidents Nigeria has had—even if the short-term pain is significant.

*Courtesy: Olaitan A Okedeji.*

OredoPikin:
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Nothing concern me with ADC primaries
I am not their member
I will support whoever emerged.
Even if na goat
I will vote a goat instead of the failed President NADECO fraudster.
But we are not discussing ADC primaries na. Why do u want to change topic?😂
Let's stick to
Obi did nothing for 8yrs. We must sing it daily so it sticks 😅

See as WIKE be that time🤣
Over 35 thousand computers to schools.
Over 600 school buses
Power generating plants to schools
Guess what, as at then, he has already cleared the huge debt he met and he made Anambra the least indebted state in Nigeria then
Haa
Even tinubu nation newspaper carried it🤣

Anyways
He did nothing as governor for 8yrs😂

Thats why we prefer him to be the candidate against PBAT on more time. Let the agalu failure be the vice 😁

Their defenders will soon come online to start protesting too.....afterall they are brothers......

Put this on ice, after una primary, we will continue from there. I am not used to dissipating energy unnecessarily.

All I know is pro-max tears loading.....

In one month's time, everybody's score card will be on Google 😁

OredoPikin:
Omo
Illiteracy bad o🤣🤣
How u take pass comprehension for school?
Tinubu really exposed una well
Most educated region in the mud again😂

Anyways, while Obi was building the biggest industrial layout in the whole of South East that attracted over 40 multinational companies that legally employed hundreds of thousands of Anambra indigenes, tinubu was creating thugs, smokers and agberos to be disturbing market women and bus drivers and the peace of Lagos 🤣

U say Obi nor build single road 🤣
It's on record
When Obi was governor, Anambra has the best road network in the whole of Nigeria according to the federal ministry of work as at then.
He constructed over 800km of roads linking villages to city centre

U said no school😂
Let me not mention the numbers of schools he renovated sha, u can easily make use of your google, pictures and images full online incase you can't travel to Anambra.

Anambra state university igbariam campus from scratch
He built and licenced over 15 nursing schools.

U say he no built hospital 🤣
Ojukwu university teaching hospital was built by him from scratch.
the first heart transplant in the whole of South East was done in the hospital he built and equipped

Yes, he built a power plants also.
He bought over 600 schools buses for schools in Anambra and they are all on record
Even Wike(then minister of education) commissioned some of the buses them🤣

If these are not infrastructures, I wondered what infrastructure means to you 😏😏

I didn't say u should not support Tinubu o
Support tinubu but stop lying to yourselves or better keep the lies to yourselves and stop displaying illiteracy in a public space

Anyways, Obi did nothing for 8yrs😁
Let's maintain that energy and hope it stick🤗🤗

Reno reno😂😂
He said Obi overperformed🤣🤣
Nor be me talk am o. Na una ambassador to Mexico talk am🤗
As for me and you, he did nothing for 8yrs and we must repeat it till it stick😂

I am surprised the online warriors have not started blaming Tinubu for this hiccup 😁.....

Wail as una like, the agalu man has failed again!

I am not a keyboard warrior or online voter. So I no get that much time to be yarning epistle. Google the $16 billion withdrawal for power project under OBJ. You will get the real story and be better educated.

Tell us a little bit about your candidates track record in Anambra for 8 years aside from hero brewery.....😁

anonimi:
Obasanjo did not seize Lagos state's allocation for 4 years. He only seized the LGA portion due to Tinubu and his AG Osinbajo's attempt to smuggle additional local government areas into the 1999 constitution, which other states reversed.

What has Tinubu done with the 100 times increase in revenue to N4.2 trillion since 1999 if Lagos has less than 5% schools owned by government and people are drinking shitty water

Meanwhile there is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of $16 billion spent by Obasanjo on power. If there was, he would have been probed, prosecuted and convicted by subsequent administrations, especially corruption fighting APC since 2015.

Would you know how much APC has spent for the past 11 years to procure darkness, since they are borrowing more than PDP despite removing subsidy, thereby making petrol expensive, to save trillions of Naira and billions of dollars respectively in 2016 and 2023?

Alhaji Atiku answer a very simple question......
1. Did you privatise Ajaokuta Steel Mill or not?
2. Did you privatise Delta Steel Mill or not
3. Did you privatise Intel through Nigerian
Ports Authority to yourself or not?
4. Did you attempt to privatise ADC for yourself or not? 😁

Are you ready to step down for Obi to take your place or not

At least you tried to patch up an abysmal performance in 8 yrs.......🤣🤣
1. No road, no school, no hospital, zero infrastructure.
2. Oriental Petroleum in Anambra is doing what really....petrol or gas station.
3. Orange Drugs, a private company, imports drugs from India which the Onitsha boys copies to make fake medicines 💊
4. Banks or bank branches in Anambra na Obi's achievement.

Una no get shame.

I no get time for your time. Vote your candidate make i vote mine. If you are not happy with the outcome, go to court. 😁

NB, wait for ADC primary, another round of wailings will ensue.....

OredoPikin:
I tot we all agreed he did nothing 🤣
So where is the brewery coming From?😂
Well
He didn't even build the brewery
He only created an environment that attracted the brewery to the state.
Yes
Same way the brewery came,
Innoson vehicle manufacturing plant also came under him.
Others like;
Orient petroleum
Orange drugs limited
Krisoral group
Juhel pharmaceutical
Chisoral group
Echolon group.
Many banks.
Just to name a few.
Also came same way the brewery came under him.

Like I said, he didn't build any of them. He just built the biggest industrial layout in the whole of South East till date (harbor industrial layout in Onitsha)
That was what attracted those companies including SABMILLER, maker of the Hero beer, trophy, grand lager, grand castle stout, beta and grand malt etc.

But we have already agreed he did nothing
So let's keep it at that 😂😂
Ozuor
search on Google. Harbor industrial layout in Onitsha or simply ask Google, the biggest industrial layout in the whole of South East.
Even with this information i just passed to you now, I know u will still jump on another topic to push this same lies. Lies is you guys trademark and Nigerians have already know.
Nobody takes u guys serious again 😂
Like in 2026, you think u will push lies and everyone will just accept it as if we are still in the 60s or 80s or era of limited information.
you guys are still living in the past sha and it's okay. We will help u live in the past😁
I repeat
Obi did nothing as governor for 8yrs. let's keep it that way and hope it stick 😏😏

They are coalition of confused failures!

Na the online keyboard warriors i dey pity. Tears go full ground......

Basic123:
This ADC is an artificial party

NO COHESION.

They talk against each other like they are in different party

Compare like with like....

what are the resources available to Jakande during a time of true Federalism and what are the resources available to Tinubu during OBJ's PDP. Amongst the 36 governors of his time 1999 to 2007, who did better? You will recall, OBJ and PDP used $16 billion to buy power equipment in 2005, today where is the power.....

In addition, OBJ held the states allocation for 4 years! I know horrible MMIA road was, he offered to rebuild it PDP FG refused until Buhari came and gave Ambode the approval to do the road.

anonimi:
Why should I be interested in Anambra when I am not from there?

I am interested in how Tinubu's 27 years master plan compares with 4 years of Jakande.

Same no dey some people body.....politicians are building legacies, someone built brewery in 8 yeard of stewardship and you are jubilating. Then it is finished. End of discussion. 😄😄😄

OredoPikin:
I tot u guys said he did nothing for 8yrs🤣🤣

Lolz
Dem nor go pay u for this week for this o
How dare u admit that he even built a hero brewery.
Let me go and share this to your whatsap group
Omojuwa must see this🤣🤣🤣🤣

Maybe you have never been to Lagos, I live here, Tinubu and his successive Governors under his watch have done wonders within the merger resources they have got since 1999. And he has carried the same mantra to Federal.

Tell us what Obi your candidate did in Anambra for 8 years. What did Jonathan your 2nd preference do for almost 6 years. Pls don't mention Hero Brewery and Abuja to Kaduna Rail line....

anonimi:
What was Lagos budget and population when Jakande did goodu goodu meje ati yeah yeah mefa before Buhari locked him up for corruption? The military dictator who led the only successful coup against democratic institutions at the local, state and federal levels since 1960.

How does Tinubu's performance compare with this in 27 years of raising budget 100 times, based on forever increasing tax burden on Lagosians?


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Are these bandits nor sponsored by ADC. Malami was found with large catch of sophisticated weapons in his house which they guve out to these bandits. Obi says he is innocent, he should be released to continue to arm killer herdsmen.

We go see how the story will end.

Na so una dey decieved unaself......on what budget now.....

Lagos State Annual Budget $2 billion, population 25 million!

New York Annual Budget $240 billion, population 20 million.

But we get it, you prefer the man that ruled a state for 8 years and only built Hero Brewery. Thst is your definition of success.

OredoPikin:
Performing?
Omo Nigerians can easily be deceived.
Lagos is the smallest state in NIGERIA in terms of landmass and same lagos has the resources of almost 30states combined.
Lagos should be contesting with new York and Dubai. Not jigawa or Ebonyi or Osun or cross rivers

Good governance is POssible! See school, see road, see train, see seaport, see flyover......

And somebody built only Hero Brewery and some people want to make the collosial failure the president of a nation, how now?

The sad part is that Atiku or Obi has no solution at all. They are perennial failures that
Will be way worse off. Atiku is a no no. Obi will be overwhelmed.

Tinubu is the man for the job!

Putinofrussia:
It is all over the world not only in Nigeria but Tinubu should find a way of mitigating the suffering of the masses.

I guess the video and pictures are fake, video and photos hopped.

But if na brewery them post, you go jump up and down......shouting the best politician in Africa has done it. Obi dense well well 😁

DEXTROVERT:
Such a deceit

The Ibadan ikire axis is not
Concrete pavement
I have plied
That axis severally
The feel the old one and laid asphalt
This is not durable as always and will not last at all. Same has the state of the road before now

Jagaban Borgu! 😍😍😍😍😍

They ain't seen nothing.

They will wail till 2039!

Baami Agbalagba Oye!

InfoGuru118:
https://verynigerian.com/2027-i-am-jagaban-no-one-can-intimidate-me-says-tinubu/

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Thats a new one, they want privatise ADC.....who go buy?

How come Obi did not privatise his brewery........😁

Do I need to check who this is......no. The 3rd news item today. Wetin happen now.....my people.....wetin.....

Haba......this is 3 much now

Delusional set of people! See well wey be like village water pond......and some people want this failure bestowed on a nation......

I laugh in Spanish.....

Is there a way I can comment here without chopping immediate ban 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Better to just ignore the guy. His excitement will soon turn to tears. Just give him a little time. Then he will start beating his chest online that heveans abd earth will soon fall. Then hand go touch am and he will be sent to sokoto. Then his eyes go con clear😁

Let him enjoy his temporary gust of good publicity 😊

Lithiumite:
But you are free to attack apc supporters and call them names whike they aren't allowed to touch your saint lord and saviour......you jerk off at every sense of slight on the part of apc but continually choose to ignore your nebudcanezar statue with feet of clay.

A failure is POssible to be VP. That is what he is begging for.....

Obidense are only hallucinating.....

LegendHero:
Tinubu is older. Tinubu is like 108 years old because his daughter is like 90 years.

So what happens to Obi now that Atiku will be the ADC flagbearer?

Is Obi still coming?

If this information gives you consolations to your wailing, i beg hold am tight.

Racoon:
This is a sign of goodwill from these nations towards the person of Peter Obi. Femi Fani-Kayode is longing for even a meeting with the German envoy but to no avail.

The attack lapdogs of the useless APC government will start barking more vociferous.

Another chest beating......

This wont happen, that cant happen, mark his word.....story story story....cho cho cho cho cho. Na so somebody take land for Sokoto....chopping regular beans 😄😄😄

esnbrutality:
Convention that has been held..or which Convention again..

Just know this..and go and bank it.

Tinubu will NEVER get Second term...and its NOT the NORTH that will do it sef.

Shameless APC losers. Who claim to have all the Governors, senators, house of reps but are still unsettled because they know that they have failed as a Government.

Shame.

If this is a consolation prize for you, I beg hold am tight 😁😁😁😁

MEGAWATCH:
Your people who will vote Tinubu are already at the Bandits camp in Kwara eating beans and receiving beatings.

Including an Oba self......


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Only a mad man do the same thing over and over again but expect a different outcome.

So what next for the coalition of failures.....

Let us sow confusion in their camp......

If you are not happy, please go to court 😄😄😄

LagosOrigin:
That's a lie, it's fake news.

El rufai isn't interested in taking a shot at the presidency.
Tinubu and his Lagos ibadan express way media should rest abeg.

They have started selling them the lamba
......

ADC notable leaders like Malami the looter, Dino the car dealer, Babchair the grasscutter. Atiku the Dubai landlord! Obi the brewery builder. Kwakwanso the Kano landlord!

What a coalition of failures!

You wont hear pim from the children of perdition.

Buhari was President for 8 years, Julius Berger was running him around cashing out on the road without much progress. More interested in the railway from Kano to Niger Republic. Malami and El Rufai that were part of Buhari's government are now the darling of their oppressed.

Tinubu did the Abuja Kano road in record time. Even Enugu to Onitsha expressway is progressing fast. Building great projects all over the country. Not breweries 😁