₦airaland Forum

Eriokanmi:
Indeed. Where were you in August when dangote said he'd sell direct to the public and cheaper, before NNPCL rushed in to stop him and said they'd be the one to dictate the selling price and take over the downstream aspect? Before they did, they first rubbished the quality of his products in order to frustrate him, after which he invited government officials to his lab to see results of the one imported by the nnpc and his own. Google is your friend. Same FG frustrated him on local crude supply before he headed for the US. Later after they saw that dangote had outsmarted them on that, they now said ok, they'd supply crude to him locally and kept him waiting endlessly.

Amid the government's continued frustration, dangote had to voice out that a top government official owned a blending facility in Malta and the pressure mellowed after he had said this cos they knew he'd expose them all. Kaka keku ma ǰę sese, a fi shawadanu ni. It's a wise adage and they now brought up a decision of taking over the downstream aspect and sold to Nigerians at a ridiculously high price which angered dangote. The nnpc in order to keep frustrating him, said dangote can't meet local demand and they'd apppont 3 importers...true or false? Dangote now showed them proofs that he even had more than enough to supply to the market

Again, where's the port harcourt refineries they lied to you 3 times would soon commence operations after which they said the TAM had failed recently? Suffice is to say, I'm also relevant in the sector as a service provider . Illiteracy of the mind is the worst of all diseases, which only the affected can cure . Political chap points you said, hun? We're in it together.

I love this post.

Honestly we’ve always known NNPC and their shenanigans so I’m not surprised at the way they are acting. Initially, I was annoyed with Dangote for being opaque about their pricing and what not. But I believe that they have revealed their pricing and they also claim that Nigeria’s
premium crude which they have to buy is one reason for the high rate.

The elephant in the room in my opinion is NNPC that initially claimed that Dangote PMS was substandard and other funny things they were doing to ensure they didn’t lose a grip on their “business.” Not only them but the government that turns a blind eye and pretends that nothing is happening.

tutudesz:
Pro-Tinubu When and were I attack any politicians or party.
How can we solve the leadership problem, when Nigeria constitution says we are voting for the party and not the candidate We are program to vote PDP or APC. look at LG elections, were the ruling parties always win.

At the end of the day, we vote individuals who are members of the political parties. I know the societal value system is very low as a result of failed and failing systems of justice, law and order. But if we choose leaders for our country the way we choose investments or the way we make business decisions, we will get it right sooner than later.

The constitution is not impossible to change but we must seek leaders who are willing to push for policy and constitutional changes that give the people more power because the power balance between leaders and the citizenry is skewed towards the leaders. This is why they are not accountable and they get away with gross impunity.

Are Nigerians all bad? No we are not all bad but the system that gets people into power sieves out the good guys. This is the system that prioritizes manual voting over technology in which case contestants use the nations law enforcement agents to intimidate opponents and falsified records replace the correct ones. They get away with these things because the system of law and order is faulty.

Once we the people realize that we have one common enemy (bad governance) and we work together irrespective of tribe, religion and political leaning, then we can fight the common monster because any people movement that lacks unity, solidarity and cohesion, is dead on arrival.

The issue I have is people that defend their oppressors. Ask yourself this question - why am I defending an administration when I have no clue on how they intend to turn the situation around?

If I ask you, how does this administration intend to turn the situation around, you won’t be able to answer and yet you are still supporting. No be juju be that?

tutudesz:
I can't support any politicians in Nigeria again and I can never campaigned for any again. I left politics because I couldn't stomach their rubbish.
If you feel they are not the same, that good and I wish you well. But I have worked with both Obi during Jonathan and Atiku campaign, so I have a better understanding of both candidate.
Personal interest is well move politicians, remove that and they move to the next party. Tinubu, Atiku and Obi are the same.
Tinubu= AD to ACN to APC
Atiku= PDP to ACN to PDP to APC to PDP
Obi=APGA to PDP to LP to ?

You can’t support any politician in Nigeria yet you are always Pro-Tinubu/APC and anti-anything Tinubu. Continue deceiving yourself. If it was possible for a people to govern themselves properly without leaders, there would be no need to select leaders. If you think Nigeria will ever become a land our dreams without solving the leadership puzzle, you need to wake up from your sleep.

Fair enough however the source if the source of the data reeled out by Statisense is referenced, that would give the report a lot more credence. Also the institution that reels out any stat needs to be known in order to quench every suspicion of bias. Apart from these, good work by Statisense.

iwaeda:
https://nairametrics.com/2024/11/11/presidency-directs-n5-4-trillion-subsidy-savings-toward-nationwide-development-initiatives/

Anybody that knows this APC that have been at the helm for 9-10 years now, know that they are big on propaganda and lacking in terms of actual results.

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/Tinubu-will-win-2027-election-APC

Anybody that is shouting political calculation upandan, if e sure them, they should push to make electronic transmission compulsory. Oju won ma clear.

casualobserver:
. I indulged you enough. If you think you can rig an election without leaving evidence you are daft and clearly do not understand the electoral process in Nigeria.

I have wasted enough time on you

You are a typical brain dead Nigerian who could have googled the Chidoka video and you are telling me to get it for you and you want me to believe you have read the electoral laws. You probably do t even know where to go to look for it.


Below is the Chidoka video. You probably won’t watch it because your sort are not interested in facts just narratives and propaganda. I post it because others may learn.

I am done with you and will not engage you any further. You are free to believe what you wish. Like I said the more opposition supporters believe your narrative, the more Obi and Atiku will do the same thing in 2027. O have nothing to gain by trying to enlighten the unenlighteneable or supporters of numbskulls on how they can defeat my preferred candidate. If you kept your 14m votes intact and did not split it there is no way Tinubu could be president especially with a presidency that was against him. So why am I wasting my time trying to convince you of the only way you can defeat him?

Election is a numbers game you had 14m, APC as an incumbent got 8.7m and in your stupidity it is irev that is your concern? Something somewhere in your brain did not tell you “I am sounding foolish o”. Carry all the votes from Rivers and give Obi what does it do for him? You are not ready to win elections.

Good night!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD7VhxgKTbs?si=4DZwdsvG9GASssW_

It’s naive to suggest that rigging cannot be gotten away with using manual collation and yet you know what happened in Rivers. At least your comment that “Carry all the votes from Rivers and give Obi what does it do for him” tells me that you acknowledge that it was clearly rigged and they got away with it.

I’m quite ashamed that you reference the police having a copy of the results as one of your points. The same POLICE we know Guy try and be real for once na or you are not in this Nigeria? So are you telling me that you don’t know about all the miracles that happen at collation centers?

Since you are naive, unaware or willfully oblivious, I’ll mention a few. They use intimidation of opposers as they would have already cornered the security operatives to their side using financial inducements in order to force their will. They do mass thump-printing to replace the valid ones. They settle the people that need to be settled and many other shenanigans (which you know about). At the end of the day they tell you, “go to court!”

Yet you are here telling me that manual collation is full-proof whilst undermining the use of technology. Technology uses cold data that has no respect for APC, LP or PDP. Instead of you to recommend these kinds of improvements which will further entrench democratic practice in Nigeria you are here defending stupid elections. You cannot come and be selling a smelly product. Manual collation will never trump the use of technology but because you are inherently fraudulent, you’d rather have the former.

You keep yapping about split votes of the opposition, but if your political calculations are correct or if you know that APC is correct, let them push to amend the electoral law to ensure that electronic transmission is made compulsory. When they do that, you can come back and tell me about foolish political calculations. If you are not ready for technology, you can as well ditch your political calculations in the bin.

casualobserver:
you havent read it, If you did you wont be talking about IREV. it is as simple as that.

IrEv has no legal relevance, consequence or input to the collation of results.

I stopped reading the moment you said you have read the law because anyone who knows the law would not talk about IREV.


EDIT: I later read your post to the end and let me answer your question.


I have said it many times on this platform that it is IMPOSSIBLE to rig in Nigeria without leaving evidence of the rigging. I am not saying rigging doesnt happen but most times the rigging is not contested because it made no difference to the result and in cases where it did, The loser will have the results overturned if he goes to court because unlike the image being portrayed by the opposition we actually have one of the most fool proof systems in the world.

back to your question, Nigerians try to rig because it is in their system but you cant get away with rigging. Every result you alter on IREV has the original copies with INEC, Party agents, the police. So when you alter the result and post on IREV, you are only fooling yourself. Nigerians are educated ignoramuses. Nigerians rig because we have a low IQ. Changing the result on IREV or snatching ballot boxes etc is a futile exercise. If you snatch a ballot box and the result are that close that that PU is the difference, the election will be rerun under tighter security. So thiose who disrupt elections only get away with it because the result of the election they disrupted did not affect the overall result.

Nigerians rig because we are Nigerians are educated ignoramuses. Nigerians attempt to rig for the same reason a candidate forges a degree certificate he did not need to contest. because we are very ignorant. Some attempt to rig thinking they are pleasing their principals not knowing they are hurting him.

Like I said you CANNOT rig an election in Nigeria and not leave evidence. if the opponet did not contest your rigging it is because he knows he would have lost even without the rigging not because you got away with it or did not leave evidence. A good example is IMo state. APC rigged heavily but even when ALL the rigged results (including those in favour of APC) were cancelled, HOpe still won...highlighting the futility of rigging. A thorough analysis was done on this by OSita Chidoka

You Think LP did not rig with their 99% votes in the SE? it wasnt contested by APC or PDP because they lost, they came 3rd. You challenge the man who won not the man who lost. If APC had lost By 300K votes to LP, what went on in the SE would have been exposed....did we not see the videos? Like I said you only get away with rigging because you would have won without the rigging or your rigging did not help you win.

I have read it. The ruling was that INEC had the choice to determine how they wanted to determine votes. Effectively they were saying that failure to do electronic transmission was justified.

In all of the things you stated, I’m still waiting for your input on the attempt to tamper with technology. Note that when this was done, there was no ruling about electronic transmission as yet. If your political calculation ignores that, then it leaves much to be desired.

You are actually saying that people that write their own results and sign for the presiding officer, threaten opposition at collation center, testimony of corpers that get threatened, incumbent governors or presidents that ensure that their candidates win, Wike magic, etc etc cont exist in Nigeria or it’s not significant enough to overturn election results. Sorry but that’s a naive take.

They rig especially when they have solid backing because they know that the courts will just pronounce a generic wording “that the irregularity wasn’t sufficient.” Not sufficient? By what metric please? This is why many have called for revision of the provision because the current one makes it difficult for the claimant to have a successful plea at the tribunal. Because the court assumes that the umpire did the right thing abinitio.

Party agents, police etc are humans and can be bought over. Nothing beats technology in terms of election matters. Don’t tell me “Chidoka said” if you can’t explain it.

APC makes people think Nigerian system is one of the best in the world. Tell me what makes it so.

casualobserver:
Eeediots like you have never read the electoral law. Irev is a viewing portal, it has no consequence on the collation or actual results.


It shows the kind of ignorance that pervades supporters of Obi.

If you have read the electoral law you won’t be talking about IREV. You haven’t read it, you know you haven’t read it, Obi and Atiku know you haven’t read it that’s is why they tell you IREV, IREV!

Irev is a photocopy of your results. When they are counting they use the original, every party agent has a copy of the original. That is why when your principals went to court they didn’t try to prove they won despite having copies of the originals, they instead went on a fishing expedition trying to disqualify based on certificates etc.

Don’t you ask yourself, if the result on IREV was the one used to declare the winner why didn’t Obi tender the real results in court?

They tell you IREV because they know you are too daft to read. They know you are ignorant and stooooopid.

Lol you don’t get it but I’ll try again. Yes I have read the electoral law and it’s interpretation thereof by the PEPC. But that’s not my grouse. I’m asking you (supporter of indignity) and your candidate, if you were sure that split votes of your major opposition was enough to secure victory, why attempt tamper with technology (whether or not it was going to be relevant eventually in the scheme of things)?
Meanwhile, any idea that the “glitch” was coincidental is either naive or self-deceiving.

In summary, any political calculation that emphasizes split votes of contenders but leaves out the fact that the supposed winner of the polls needed to rely on manual collation and did his best to undermine the relevance of technology, is a dustbin political calculation.

casualobserver:
Your comment shows you are ignorant and uneducated. Irev has nothing to do with the authentic results. It is not part of the collation process.

I am very happy for you to continue to blame INEC, IREV, rigging , snake, rat, Kim Jung in, Trump, Putin, Biden and any other person you may want to add to the list of the reasons you lost elections. So long as you don’t engage your brains Tinubu will win in 2027 and I am happy. I couldn’t care less who you blame and clearly neither does the world!

Insult me all you want but you still need to answer the question of: what’s the purpose of a viewing portal created by law to undo the incidences of election malpractice prevalent with manual collation?

casualobserver:
Keep engaging in self delusion and intellectual laziness. That’s what APC and those of us who do not want to see Atiku and Obi in Aso rock are counting on…….your inability to engage your brains as followers and the inability of your leaders to swallow their egos and come together.

You mean APC won because Obi and Atiku were apart and yet they still needed to shut down the IREV server before they could have a free sail?

You are the one engaging in self delusion if you are willfully ignoring the immense impact of having the umpire (INEC), the police and the judiciary firmly in your corner.

casualobserver:
It’s not rigging. Obi will insist on running because he knows the window of opportunity for a southern president is shutting. Atiku will insist on running because he knows age is not on his side and this is his last opportunity.

They will split the opposition votes like they did in 2023 and their supporters will insist like they did in 2023 that it was rigging, INEC and judiciary conspiracy.

If APC can change vote counts from 18 to 68, nothing stops them from changing 18 to 98. Whether or not the opposition comes together, if the referee is firmly in their grasp and the system of justice is in their pocket, political calculations are pointless.

In fact, if elections are done today and are largely free and fair, APC wouldn’t be able to beat either of Atiku or Obi.

Racoon:
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2024/11/what-trumps-comeback-may-mean-for-africa.html?m=1

If I’m being honest, I would vote for Trump if I was American. The democrats like Biden, Kamala and Obama are more about eloquence, having populist views and political correctness. If there is something I know about Trump, he puts his money where his mouth is. Not perfect by any stretch but far more action oriented than the democrats that like to sway with nice words and an appearance of goodness.

When Trump says he will deal economy, immigration and tax laws and global security you can be rest assured that he’d do those things. If he doesn’t fulfill all, he’ll show a lot of positive effort. Unfortunately I can’t say the same about the Democrats.

On the religious or idealistic front, Trump may be the opposite of what he preaches but I disagree with Farooq that by being vocal about Christianity, he’s just trying to get votes. If anything, pandering to Christian ideals in a multi-cultural society is the direct opposite of one trying to secure majority votes. Kamala on the other hand preaches “freedom for all” - a message that is likely to resonate to a greater majority. Trump is not trying to buy votes by being overly religious, he’s just being Trump. That is, he is one that says his mind unapologetically and unashamedly. He’s not always right with his assertions but he is very vocal about his beliefs even if it would cost him popularity.

Finally the gender agenda of the democrats is quite scary. If I had a child in the US, I’d be most concerned about Democrats’ gender plans. Even if Trump isn’t the man he claims to be, the fact that he vocally opposes this, is better than one that endorses it and is willing to take it to unimaginable levels.

nairalanda1:
It is incorrect to suggest that low prices is responsible for bad refineries.....you said?

Damm,no wonder .

I give up.

Even organizations that price according to market forces fail when corporate governance is inadequate and management is lacking. All over the world, states own oil facilities and they interfere with prices based on certain state objectives.

If you like increase fuel prices to heaven, you would still be left with the reality of dealing with pipeline vandalization, oil theft (which is organized crime and is being enjoyed by friends of government). You will still need to deal with the reality of spending trillions of naira in turn around maintenance and payment of staff with zero result to show for it.

Yes you will need to answer the question around why there have been no prosecutions and nobody brought to book to dissuade wrong behavior when government has all the instruments of coercion. These are the issues and it’s beyond pricing.

nairalanda1:
Saudi Aramco is a joint venture, plus it is funded by the Saudis, who have oil money to burn, and it is run by expats. So, hardly NNPC.

Petrobras is state owned. But unlike NNPC , they haven't been forced to sell their products for decades under cost price.


Priviatization works if the government lets the privatized entity set its prices, not the one where government sets the prices for them below production costs, and then acts surprised when the inevitable losses and inefficencies happen.

GSM has been in private hands, no price setting, result...it grows and grows.

Privatization can be done wrongly. Where there are vested interests in a sector, any solution that is reached - call it commercialization or unbundling or privatization - it will always lead to nothing. This is the fundamental issues that you seem to evade.

Thank goodness that GSM technology was a novel area in Nigeria where the private actors needed to take risk and invest. State ownership of Saudi Aramco is over 80%. Is it Wasiu the truck driver that would force government to make necessary alliances for the most profitable outcomes? You need to check the pricing policy of Petrobras. It is currently flexible with the motive of ensuring that the populace aren’t adversely affected. Beyond pricing, they have entrenched a system of corporate governance to ensure that corruption is dealt with rather than playing lip service the way we do here. This is the major problem here.

It’s incorrect to suggest that low prices is responsible for non-functional refineries. Are you saying that, if prices are closer to the market, the local refineries would be working? You’d have to explain that. Is it people with vested interest that will make them work?

The actual reason why they are not working is because importation is very profitable - whether subsidized importation or non-subsidized importation. If importation of PMS is not subsidized, the government simply transfers that burden to the final consumers but the incentive to end importation is not there since some of these guys refine from outside and sell to us. Even the current Dangote fiasco shows that these guys are not willing to give up importation.

In summary, if you don’t deal the issue of vested interests, quote all the economic theories you want, it would be a waste of time.

nairalanda1:
So, how do you think the refineries and the power sector depreciated over the years?

It was because at the end of the day, all of us were not paying market price for both the petrol we consumed and the power we consumed.

(Oga, I am going to have to ask you to forget politics, forget APC vs PDP. I am not here to defend tinubu, atiku, or anyone here. I am not here to defend evil or inefficency. This is the result of ten years of reading around the thing).

Right now power costs N160-70 to make one kwh. Except for Band A consumers who pay at least N200 and above, most consumers pay below N100. Add the fact that about 40% of Nigerians are not paying for the power they use...whether they get it for 24 hours a day, or 6 hours a day.

And add the fact that the problem has been going on for decades. Add the fact that since 1980, in the name of electrifiying Nigeria, hundereds of rural communites who cannot afford to pay for power, even at discounted rate, have been connected to the grid...overloading it and causing issues.


IN 2004-6, i was a student living off campus in a residence where there were 30 students from university and a poly. Of the 30 of us, only 6 were paying electricity bills regularly. SIX. Me inclusive. It was not like I had the money.

And with attitudes like this youe xpect there to be light? You expect there to be enough money for discos and gencos to buy poles , transformers, wires? Or na by magic dem go find the money?


I have been shouting this on this site, and all people can do is get abusive, because I am insensntive?


WOULD YOU WORK HARD IF YOUR BOSS PAID YOU ONE QUARTER YOUR SALARY FROM NEXT MONTH, AND KEPT DOING IT.?


And all the corruption you yap about is as a result of the massive underpaying we do to our power sector. LIke estimated billing...it is done by discos to rip off their consumers because if they don't do it, they would collapse financailly.

Infact shoot, 3 of them have already collapsed. Debts. One even declared force maejure.

Meanwhiile there is light 24/7 in other countries...because they pay market price for power. Yes even in Ivory coast which has all the problems NIgeria has...corruption , looting leaders, tribal divisions, etc. But because they properly privatised....they have light.



Yet pointing all this out means I must be agbado.


NIgerians keep on living in denial.

It’s a lie to suggest that the government cannot run refineries. Saudi’s Aramco is said to be the most profitable company in the world and run by the Saudi government. Brazil’s Petrobras is state owned.

Privatization is supposed to ensure efficiency but in the Nigerian situation, you’d have the process done in a shoddy manner such that the people who are delivering the service have no expertise but they are close to the power brokers. How will that sector work? We are not talking text book privatization here but the Nigerian situation. Again I say, leadership have state power and instruments of coercion to ensure that right behaviors and outcomes are derived not Wasiu the carpenter.

nairalanda1:
And you think the same problems are not in ivory coast?

You want cheap power, so enjoy what you paid for. When you are ready to pay for 24/7 power, you and all your countrymen irrespective of party, religion, belief, etc.....then you will get it.

And calling me agbado and insensitive does not change the fact...

Again just like we see with PMS, the issues are deeper than cost. PMS cost has been revised many times this year and Nigerians adjusted. However they know too well that the secrecy and selfish interest in that sector will ensure that the problems remain. That’s the major problem. If you haven’t dealt with that, other things you are doing is like dancing round the problem.

nairalanda1:
The problem is, you and they all know the answer, but they don't like the answer.

So, let's play APC vs PDP....

While the answer remains in Abidjan.

What I know Ivory Coast did was to privatize parts of its electricity sector but the problem here is that when we do the same thing, the process will be corrupted such that the envisaged gains would go to a few rather than all. It’s not about PDP Vs APC because I am not on either side of the divide.

It’s about holding your government responsible for not doing what you claim they know they are supposed to do. Keeping quiet doesn’t make it any better. It is not the responsibility of a mechanic or farmer or teacher to resolve national energy crisis. In every organization, system or institution, leadership is the key factor to success. Nigeria is no different. Government wields state powers and instruments of coercion - this is not for fun. It is to ensure that the right behaviors and outcomes are derived. It’s not Wasiu the mechanic that will wield this unique power on behalf of the leaders.

Also, there is a trust deficit. Just like we are seeing with PMS, Nigerians will pay a premium if they know that their payment of the premium will solve the issue. But when you pay a premium today and it’s all stories, how do you convince me to pay another premium tomorrow.

nairalanda1:
The day you stop trusting any NIgerian leader, past or present, is the day you shall be free.

Free from what if I may ask?

I’d rather advice the average Nigerian to strive to develop himself or herself in such a manner that one’s financial landscape can weather Nigeria’s political and economic storms. But if we don’t call out bad governance or if we defend bad governance (I’m not saying you do) or if we are disunited by tribe, religion and political party towards bad governance, we would have done ourselves disservice.

Even if we are doing well for ourselves, we have family members who still depend on good governance to live a proper life. It’s our responsibility to hold current governments accountable. The previous administrations had to make way, many times, because they couldn’t deliver. We cannot continue to look back at them when there is someone at the helm who promised to deliver. If we keep quiet, we are making things easier for them. If we fight ourselves on the basis of religion, tribe and political affiliation, the rogues are emboldened to continue in impunity because they can see that they have support.

If he knows what to do but doesn’t do it, will keeping quiet solve it? No. No matter how ineffective people think critiquing and seeking answers is, Buhari was tired and had to shut down twitter. These things give them concern hence the conversations around regulating the media. I’d rather do my best to keep them on their toes no matter how little the result because doing nothing will give them free rein to do their evils.

nairalanda1:
Can the court restore the good judge's name that was sacrificed by others in the name of politics?

Apc is just as evil as pdp

PDP Dey learn for where APC Dey.

APC is smashing our institutions big time.

We ain’t seen the last of this yet.

BluntCrazeMan:
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NNPC is a now a PRIVATE COMPANY for crying out Loud.!!


What are these people not telling us.??

Exactly!

It’s not clear. How can a private company still be behaving as a govt agency? How does a company alternate between private and public depending on the situation. If it’s convenient for them to be private in this context, they become private and when it’s convenient for them to bear public, they metamorphose to a govt company.

That’s why I don’t buy the idea that govt is powerless in the hands of the so-called cabal? How would you know they are powerless if you don’t know if there is a fight between the govt and the cabal in the first place?

The govt officials are themselves the cabal.

Winneygirl:
In the words of Dangote...
"Oil industry mafia is far stronger than the drug cartel"
NNPC has metamorphosed into something that even the FG cannot contain. The FG has lost control of the oil sector.
The minister is just an office holder. He has no power.

I’m not having that honestly. Dangote is clearly pained because this affects him directly so he can make these kinds of exaggerations. Who are these mafia? Does Dangote claim to know the drug mafia that he can now make comparisons between both?
Has FG lost control of the sector because incompetence or they are beneficiaries of the fraud or because they are sincerely incapable of standing up against rent seekers? I don’t think the problem is the last one. If it is, at least let us know who the people that make up this cabal or are they ghosts?

Golan007:
We are saying the same thing.

One man would come and change Nigerians.

I’m saying that we the people should make the decision about leaders a business decision. If we do, the right people will come on board. Even if we don’t get it right in the first attempt, sooner than later we would. But we prefer to lie to ourselves that we are all evil and Nigeria cannot change whilst defending people that are eating the commonwealth unashamedly which gives them morale to do more wrong with impunity. I’m saying leadership is very key to any organization to effect the right behaviors.

delpee:
Their payment was made to NNPC according to them, not Dangote Refinery. That's why DR needs an approval/commitment from NNPC.

Why is DR playing the victim card and crying allover social media and yet they are happy to be silent about this potential transaction until IPMAN cried out? Aren’t they eager for marketers to lift PMS anymore? It doesn’t just add up.

If NNPC is the elephant in the room here, why is there nobody calling them out yet DR have called them out for preferring importation?

Golan007:
Don't worry, Nigerians would change.

Sounds like “don’t worry, the wedding event will run smoothly with no chaos even without having someone to order the event.”

Kolewerk sir!

Golan007:
I love that.

We are getting there.

I think we are already there. It is government that has state powers and instruments of coercion. Leadership is the key to ensuring right behaviors. Asking over 200 million people with different backgrounds, exposure, education, culture, outlook to life, etc to behave in a specific way without a deliberate guide or leadership is like expecting a social event to be orderly without someone directing the affairs. It would never work!

Golan007:
The police should have been the ones to make the entrance?

Face it, Nigerians really don't want change.

You want angels when clearly, you aren't.

Call me a devil all you want, it doesn’t make illegality worthy of a pass. If you think the constitutional provision is too weak to achieve a just cause, why not push for a review. The implication of extra-constitutional actions no matter how noble they seem is that if they get away with it, they are able to go beyond the constitution at will in achieving their goals - including the selfish ones.

Golan007:
You are sort of lost in timeliness.

Several federal judges had the DSS storm their homes, trying to obtain evidence of sleaze.

I know many of you prefer to switch it to a tribal issue, rather than a foundational issue.

Enjoy.

Enjoy

Enjoy.

No I’m not lost in timelines. If you had provided this particular context from the onset, I wouldn’t need to ask you to provide clarity on the particular incident. This incident was the one that Nigerians were saying why take laws into your hands and have DSS storm into their houses without due process? I don’t think that’s an unfair ask.

DSS is not the police. If they are suspected for untoward behavior, ask the NJC to sieve them out and then the police would carry out investigation and if found wanting, prosecution follows. You cannot do something right the wrong way.

Golan007:
Hey, enough of that.

He cannot pass laws.

The public wasn't interested .

Bear in mind, this was in the early days of his presidency.

What you see is what you get.

There's no 2nd chance at this.

Thy cannot pass laws but they can push for laws to be passed. I ask again what was the public uninterested in? That he wanted to remove Onnoghen and put his brother Tanko close to election period? Permit me to be uninterested in that unless you tell me the specific reform he was trying to bring.

Golan007:
I keep bringing up the issue of Buhari and the judiciary.

When he tried to handle.the judiciary, the public cried out in their defence, asking Buhari to back off.

I always wonder, if Nigerians live in lala land.

Question is what exactly did he try to do to to sanitize the judiciary. If it was the Onnoghen case you’re referring to, my question is how did it all end? Who replaced Onnoghen as Chief Justice? Was it not the Tanko man. After the Tanko man we had Ariwoola. Now more than ever, we have a most politicized judiciary.

Don’t expect me to laud a move by a politician to replace a Chief Justice. What I’m more concerned about is, have you pushed for laws to ensure that they are independent of the influence of the executive? Have you pushed for laws to ensure that they are powerful enough to curtail the excesses of the executive arm?

Golan007:
How many people could you send 1k dollars through in your circle?

I'm sure you'll tell me 90%.

I don’t have a big circle purely because I’m not someone that has too many friends by nature but I guess 50%. This is not even the matter in my opinion.

The matter is that if you expect people to be good and upright but you care little about the administration of justice and the administration of law and order in the society, then the good people will get punished by an unjust and unfair system and there will be no respite for them causing resentment in them to do right next time.

In other words, if we don’t fix just administration of law and order, the efforts of individuals would amount to nothing. The administration of law and order and ensuring that right behaviors are rewarded and unethical behaviors are punished equitably, is not the job of a mechanic or teacher. It’s a leadership role. Leadership is so key in any system including governance.