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(3) The third worst State Governor in Nigeria is Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada. Since becoming governor no one can pin point what he has done in the area of human or infrastructural development. Reckless, his convoy had an accident twice within a short while, one killing his ADC and the other killing the former ASUU boss. Wada like his predeccessor Ibrahim have not been able to do what Prince Abubakar Audu did in Kogi State. Wada is the third worst governor in Nigeria.


(2) The second worst governor in Nigeria is Murtala Nyako. The old man hasn’t done much in his State. One would think as an old man, Murtala Nyako should do something different for posterity to remember him. Murtala Nyako is busy with the whole PDP and APC politics, has been so absolve in it, you will think he did something in his state. The man is a total failure as far as governance is concern.



(1) THE WORST GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA FOR 2013 ARE Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu and Governor Tanko Al Makura of Nassarawa State.

Babangida Aliyu, nick name the Billboard governor is known for displaying his billboard all over Minna, the Niger State capital. The governor had the billboard of him and his daughters made when his daughters got married some couple of months ago. We don’t know if the billboard were with his personal money or State Government’s money. The road to Minna from Abuja and the roads around Minna are some of the most terrible roads in Nigeria. Babangida Aliyu is one of the most noise making and unpopular governor today in Nigeria. Nobody takes him serious anymore in Niger State. With his education and eloquence a lot of people expect transformation.

Tanko Al Makura, Nassarawa State governor, on the other hand was the only governor under CPC before the merger. Winning under the CPC ticket one expected him to work. One expect him to do something with the opportunity and to promote Muhammadu Buhari’s ideals. Al Makura hasn’t done much. People all over Nassarawa State are already complaining bitterly about his government. He has divided the people rather than bring them together, for instance, the Imbatse issues. The Nassarawa Youth Congress leader, Ajen Bako, when talking to NEWISSUES said “Nassarawa State is still toddling.” He described Al Makura as a failure already even before his tenure elapse.

http://www.newissuesmagazine.com/worst-governors-2013-first-three/

Just 54 points. Well I cant complain too much, at least I won my h-2-h opponent by 10 points.

Yesterday, I wanted to replace Remy with Lukaku, but Orunmila said "no", and Esu said "do it", I Obeyed orunmila. Then I thought of giving the captain band to Rooney, Esu screamed "Dont do it" and Orunmila said "that is a wise decision", but I obeyed Esu. - win some and you lose some, story of my life.

4 Play: I find the disingenuous posturing here laughable. The simple truth is that cutting recurrent expenditure will require huge cuts in the public sector headcount/pay and in fuel subsidies none of which is popular with those bemoaning the high recurrent spending ratio. Remember that the fuel subsidy spending is not even reflected in the ratio so our recurrent spending is even higher than is acknowledged.

There is a lot of mealy mouthed talk of cutting corruption and waste. Of course, these objectives are inherently good, however, in the context of the debate make little sense to me. Remember we are talking of ratios and proportions. Why would cutting corruption affect ratios? Is corruption more endemic via recurrent expenses than capital expenses? Some of the greatest heists in this country have been perpetrated through capital spending: Ajaokuta Steel, OBJ's power projects, Oduah's airport refurbishments, Abacha's railway projects, e.t.c. I would say that it's easier to steal money through capital projects than through ghost workers.

This debate is a phantom debate because no one actually wants to cut the ratio of recurrent expenditure.

Of course corruption affects everything including the capital, recurrent expenditures and the ratios. Downplaying the effect of corruption has been one of the major wrongs of this current government.

If as a result of corruption we cannot account or remit all our income, it definitely affects the overall ratio of our budjet. Take for instance, just assuming, we are only able to account for 4tr of our earnings instead of the actual 6tr due to corruption and we must spend 3tr on recurrent expenditures, that means we are having ratio 25:75 (Capital:Recurrent) instead of 50:50 if corruption had not eaten 2tr from the source.

Goddex: The bolded refers, truth is, no govt makes such bold reforms in its first term. Opposition will use propaganda to bring you down eventhough noble and no President wants that. That is why a few of the reforms during OBJ were all done in his second term.

Take the issue of fuel subsidy removal last year when a crowd of Lagosians trooped out to occupy Ojota due largely to inciting propaganda from opposition. No govt will plunge itself into labour crisis and mass revolt barely a year to the next election. Have you asked yourself why Fashola did not ban Okada in his first term?

This is unacceptable to me. What makes a 2nd-term a guarantee? What happens if GEJ doesn't get a 2nd-term like Obj? Why cant a meaningful leader plan and work with a mandate of 4years? IMO, even if people complain in the 1st and 2nd year because the new government policies are hard and they couldn't understand or appreciate them, I believe majority will change their mind and start appreciating the leader by the time the results start coming in the 3rd year. That is if the leader knows what he is doing anyway.

Besides, has the government exhausted other means of addressing the imbalance apart from subsidy removal?

Sincere 9gerian: Nobody is giving excuses. Everyone, including the minister of finance wants the capital component of the federal budget to increase and even surpase the recurrent. That is the ideal. But the reality on ground is that it is very difficult to achieve this at the federal level based on the current structure of the federation and constitution.

We all know it is not an easy job, but someone has to do the hard job. Ignoring it is postponing the evil days. Government have to be be decisive in addressing this imbalance. Either way you look at it is not in favour of FG to ignore it. If they do something about it people will complain of the immediate hardship but will appreciate the results later, but if they ignore it and keep spending less on capital developments, people will complain both now and in the future of lack of performance. You have to accept it, there is very little development Government can achieve with the current budget.

Going forward, the solution lies in re-structuring the country so that we can, as a nation, generate more revenue. We are simply not generating enough revenue at the moment. If we boost the revenue base of the country, the capital component of the budget will automatically go up. N4 or 5 trillion budget (or N10 trillion for the 3 tiers of govt) is just to small for a country of 170 million. Ghana with a population of about 20 million people has a budget of over N1 trillion. South Africa with population far lesser than ours has a budget of over N60 trillion. US with about 200 million people has a budget of over N600 trillion.

So bottomline, we need to grow our revenue. You cannot sack people with the high unemployment rate in the country. And the resource control and true federalism is the starting point of boosting the revenue base of the country. Until we do that, we have not even started.

This I agree with, but even before looking for ways of generating more income, FG needs to deal with the corruption and leakages with our present income. How much of our earnings are being accounted for? Even those accounted for, how much of them is being remitted into the government's coffer? For example, rather than politicize Sanusi's letter and claiming what was not remitted is less than what Sunusi claimed, government should have dealt with all the officers who failed to remit the fund even it is only $1. We cant keep politicizing everything and playing lip service to things and expect a meaningful change.

Pukkah: These are mere excuses. Someone could also reverse the argument and ask if Kano earns as much as the FG?

The question is: are we stuck with an unhealthy 72% in favour of recurrent expenditure? Are you defending this? Is the government helpless?

The truth is that no government (whether or not Jonathan is the one there; or whether it is PDP or APC) can develop the country with this kind of budget. There's no magic wand.

If this kind of budget continues, millions of Nigeria will continue to rightly blame the government for non-performance.

Nigerians are suffering and poverty and unemployment levels are unacceptable and scandalous.

Something has to give! What's the transformational government of Jonathan doing to change the status quo and shake up the system?

Well done! You have made brilliant contributions to this topic. And I cannot agree with you less that this subject is not about parties in power both at Federal level or State level. There is definitely no way any Government (PDP or APC) can perform with just just about 28% of its budget for capital expenditure. Three things need to be urgently addressed:

1. From the income perspective, Government needs to deal with the corruption, the rot and all the leakages with our sources of income. I believe we are not getting halve of what we are truly earning.

2. The cost of running Nigeria government is far too expensive. Rather than government cutting down its cost what I see are increments here and there, or they cut it in the left and increase it on the right. We can do away with many of the government luxuries and unneeded political advisers for a start.

3. Even if the Government doesn't want to sack staff, merging many of the agencies doing exactly the same or similar jobs will still save us a lot of money.

^You and the person that insults you will be banned if you follow through your decision and we find out. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I will advise you keep reporting.

Good one cramjones!

I appreciate the your civility so far and will love to see it continue. Any insult or off topic comment on this thread should be ignored and reported.

I also welcome similar thread from the likes of Reno Omokri or any PDP official, if well organised, we might just stick the two threads as 2015-Elections Q&A threads.

Seasons of letters. About time I write mine.

Please how many pages is this letter?