₦airaland Forum

Corridon:
Paying for visits doesn't win election.

E pain Obidense

APC VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & DG PCC RECIEVE EU AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the APC Senator Kashim Shettima and Director General of the PCC and Governor of Plateau State, Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong on Thursday 6th October, met with the European Union Ambassador to Nigeria Ms. Samuela Isopi at the Tinubu Campaign Headquarters in Abuja.

Ambassador Isopi said she was at the Headquarters of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Office as part of her routine engagement with various stakeholders including political parties ahead of the 2023 general elections.

She said although the EU Mission to Nigeria has no role to play in terms of supporting any candidate or party, it has been working closely with those involved to ensure that the general elections go smoothly and the citizens exercise their franchise freely.

Both the APC Vice Presidential Candidate Senator Kashim Shettima and Director General of PCC Governor Simon Bako Lalong assured her that the APC as the ruling party is doing all possible to work within the guidelines of INEC especially with the commencement of campaigns.

They welcomed the Ambassador to the Headquarters of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign and expressed the readiness of the APC Presidential Campaign Council to support any initiative that will ensure that the elections go without any challenges.

The meeting which continued behind closed doors was also attended by the Deputy DG Operations Adams Oshiomole, Deputy DG Administration Hadiza Bala Usman, Secretary of the PCC Hon. James Faleke, and Chief of Staff to the DG PCC Hon. Yakubu Dati, Mr Wale Edun, Director of Finance, Mr. Christopher Tarka, Deputy Secretary.

Dr. Makut Simon Macham
Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Governor of Plateau and DG, APC Presidential Campaign Council.
7th October 2022.

BlazinGlory40:
Do you even understand the subject? See a daft calling someone else a daft

BadRadio:
Did U see the viral video of telephone card distribution in Nigeria? Let me explain this from the IT perspective: When U load the credit, the network captures the telephone number upon which the data is loaded. Since most numbers in Nigeria are registered, they now know who U are & what Ur biometric data are. They can then go on to clone Ur identity & even vote for U in absentia. Pls advice Ur loved ones in Nigeria to avoid using this card. SHARE

gonkin:
Local production made it worse. Before importation was banned commodities were cheap.

seunmsg:
OP, let’s discuss this “groundbreaking” idea of Peter Obi that will finally rescue the economy of Nigeria.

The items on the import prohibition list includes rice (through land borders), bagged cement, canned drinks, live and dead poultry products, vegetable oil, noodles, spaghetti, soap, footwear etc. These are items we are now producing substantially in Nigeria and as such, we don’t need to waste scarce forex on their importation.

Now that you guys are saying we should remove the restriction on the importation of these items, where exactly are we going to get forex to pay for these imports considering we are currently struggling to meet our import bills even with the restriction?

The higher taxes that will be imposed on these items will definitely be in Naira and as such, will add nothing to our forex. Even at that, the high taxes will be passed to the consumers thereby increasing the level of inflation. Again, Nigerians have a very high taste for foreign products as it depicts class and affluence. How will local producers of these items compete? When rice farmers and poultry owners start losing their market to imported products, what do you think will happen to the jobs in these sectors?

Godoverevery:
It so funny how anyone will support obi statements on removing import restrictions

bestdudes:
he didn't say he will remove import restriction... he said the forex restrictions.... where we have up to 3 exchange rates, he will make it a single exchange rate, which was what we had before now. stop the lies.

Kennydoc:
Corruption is the reason why Nigeria is still importing petroleum products and has no functional refinery after nearly 24 years of return to democracy.

Importation of refined petroleum products is the biggest consumer of our Forex. Fix that problem and Nigeria's economy will improve.

How then do you say importation ranks higher than corruption as a cause of Nigeria's terrible exchange rate?

AllDModsAreMaad:
At least you responded politely...

Do you think the import restrictions on cement is well thought out?
What is the benefit to ordinary Nigerians?
Don't you think it favors just the companies owners and not the masses because it would have made the prices of those goods cheaper compared to the exploitation people are currently facing.

You are talking about indomie, compare the prices of noodles when the sector had no restrictions to this period.

Just tell yourself the truth, what is the benefit to ordinary Nigerians OR are the prices after better than the prices prior to the restrictions?

What Nigeria needs is selective restrictions and open market.

Sectors with high prices(big players, big industries etc) should be make unrestricted to give room to competition which may give rise to lowering of prices, and sectors that are majorly occupied by start-ups, SMEs should be restricted to allow them grow, just as other reasonable leaders are doing in other countries.

This is not a rocket science, remove the hatred and political differences and you will understand what Peter Obi said very well.

emmanuelike:
Importation is not out problem.

We are not importing the right things.

People buy our crude. Refine and sell to us for higher price.

People buy our cocoa, refine and sell chocolate to us.

People buy our palm refine and sell back to us.

DO u get where I'm going with this?

We are importing finished products and exporting raw material currently.

That's a recipe for failure. You can't block importation to help local consumption. Demand and supply doesn't care about your feeling.

Shift us from consumption of finished product to exporters of finished product.

Currently we import fuel when we have crude. Why not refine here in Nigeria.

Corruption.

So. U see. We need to get a president ready to work. And I'm sorry we don't need a sick president.

broadman20:
What Of A presidential candidate that wants to employ 50 million youths into the military to fight insurgents?

Have you ever heard that before?

How will they be paid?

Which country in the world has a military of 20 million men?

Even China and India with the world's largest population doesn't have that kind of military.

And still people are still believing that he knows what he is doing.


In the wake of Corona virus pandemic and world economic downturn where countries were cutting down cost to support their affected public, he asked the federal government to start printing money.

For what?

This man prefer printing new notes than cutting down the cost of governance in a challenging period.

What a man!

I really pity the youths of Nigeria.

AllDModsAreMaad:
You are du mb bro.

Does the purported restrictions affect people like dangote, BUA etc?

The statement included both export and import, and forex, but in your dishonesty you decided to twist it to suit your ev il(dishonesty) purpose.

Eriokanmi:
Go and read a good book of economics. I recommend New System Econimics by Ewa Udu to you. Good luck

Ttalk:
This is not clear at all. Can someone who know the detail explain further?

Buckeyemedia1:
Please don’t mind that Mumu Peter Obi, you spoke well, it is business as usual, IMF & World Bank are solidly behind Tinubu’s candidacy, that is all that matters.

They prefer a capitalist thinker, not a Marxist pro like Peter Obi.

Okoroawusa:
As a Tinubu supporter this news gladdens my heart. Delta has always been PDP stronghold but we are scattering that with Obi on the ballot.

Nightwolf1:
What is Thîefnubu doing in London since he built Lagos to world standard