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Soludo is now blaming Peter Obi, who left office more than fourteen years ago, for his failures as Governor of Anambra State. It’s a pity.

What makes it even more ironic is that Peter Obi didn’t even hand over power directly to Soludo. Obi handed over to Willie Obiano, who spent eight years in office before handing over to Soludo.

So, after all these years, the excuse is still Peter Obi?

There will surely be an outpouring and an outburst of pain and bitterness on this thread over Peter Obi’s visit to the Sheikh Muhammad Sambo Memorial Islamic Institute in Rigachikun, Kaduna State.

They are all thieves, looters, fraudsters, forgers, identity thieves and drug báróns

rossipki:
THIS LOOKS STAGED.

WHO DREW THOSE PICTURES ON THE WALL?

FOR WHAT REASON?

WHO GATHERED EVERYONE THERE?

FOR WHAT PURPOSE?

TO STONE THE WALL?
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ABEG GO AWAY WITH THIS YOUR PROPAGANDA.

MAYBE ATIKU'S TEAM PAID SOME GUY THERE TO ARRANGE THAT.

Tinubu should come out of his Aso Rock bunker and walk the streets of Nigeria. I assure you, he will be stoned.

Media Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Paul Ibe, has questioned reports that President Bola Tinubu will not attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Ibe raised the questions in a post on his X handle on Saturday.

According to him, the reported decision is becoming harder to dismiss as an ordinary change of travel plans, given recent diplomatic efforts by the administration.

He said for months, the Tinubu administration has invested political and financial capital to improve its standing in Washington, including a reported $9 million lobbying arrangement aimed at countering narratives about Nigeria, and engagements by senior officials including National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu with the American establishment.


Ibe also cited a proposed Nigeria-US mining agreement which government sources had indicated would be advanced around UNGA.

“Then came the retreat,” he said, adding that there is also unresolved litigation in the United States under the Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, seeking the release of US law-enforcement records concerning President Tinubu.

Ibe claimed that President Tinubu has filed litigation to block the release of those documents, and linked it to the current US administration’s focus on drug trafficking and transnational cartels.

He referenced the White House’s 2026 National Drug Control Strategy which he said speaks about dismantling cartels and pursuing foreign narcotics networks.

Ibe asked why the President would reportedly stay away from UNGA after the lobbying and diplomatic engagements and the reported deals.

“After the millions spent on lobbying, the diplomatic ground-softening and the public boasting about deals supposedly ready for signature, why is President Tinubu reportedly staying away from UNGA? What happened between the celebration and the cancellation? Were the meetings the Presidency expected in New York and Washington actually secured? Is the much-advertised mining arrangement proceeding as announced?” he queried.

He further asked whether controversy surrounding the FOIA litigation has become an obstacle to high-level engagements with Washington.

Ibe said the Presidency should provide disclosure on the reasons for the reported change of plans.

“Instead of propaganda, Nigerians deserve disclosure. Instead of expensive image laundering, let the records speak. And instead of telling Nigerians that everything is normal, the Presidency should explain why, after all the lobbying, all the diplomatic exertions and all the advance celebration of American deals, the President is reportedly no longer going where all that groundwork was supposed to matter most,” he said


https://tribuneonlineng.com/atikus-aide-questions-tinubus-reported-absence-at-unga/amp/

If peaceful change is impossible, violent change becomes inevitable.

seunmsg:
They said we should go and verify, now we are verifying and the stench is unbelievable.

You have been “verifying” Obi since before 2023 and up till now.

Have you verified the primary and secondary schools Tinubu attended? Have you verified the Government College Lagos that Tinubu claimed to have attended in 1970, whereas the school came into existence in 1974? Have you verified all the monies Tinubu siphoned from the Lagos State Treasury over two decades and counting through the opaque Alpha Beta arrangement?

As president, have you verified all the money borrowed under Tinubu’s administration, what it has been spent on, and what has happened to the money saved from subsidy removal?

Have you verified all the Chagoury contracts and deals that doesn't pass through official channels

Until you verify these issues and present your findings, you have no moral justification for demanding that others be subjected to the same level of scrutiny.

omenka:
The only truth in this statement can be seen when the word NIGERIA is replaced with SOUTH EAST.

Even gringori has admitted he's an Igbo Project in his letter to the Obi of Onitsha.

Wait...you actually took that fake Oluwole letter from the APC seriously?

Honestly, the picture below couldn’t describe you any better.

The real town hall meeting different from......

zoedew:
Folks reading us here know who the dull fellow is as between you and I. My point is made though!! A political party fielding a contestant in the Nigerian Presidential elections in January 2028 which is just four months away and insisting it is making progress while still so thinly spread across the country is indeed a locomotive train on imaginary rail tracks!!! Post 2027elections will conclusively show that it arrived nowhere!!!!

I used “moving train” as a metaphor, and you responded by constructing an entire imaginary railway system, tracks, locomotive, destination and even a timetable. At this point, the only thing running on imaginary tracks is your argument.

And I still insist you’re delusional and dull, not because you disagree with me, but because your own dates are arguing with each other. You say the presidential election is in January 2028, then say it is just four months away, and in the same breath predict what will happen after the 2027 general elections. January 2028 cannot simultaneously be four months away from September 2026 and be the period immediately following an election you keep calling the 2027 general election.

So before declaring that someone else is dull, perhaps get the calendar, the metaphor and the argument onto the same set of tracks.

My point remains: it was a metaphor. You turned it into a railway feasibility report, got lost in your own timetable, and somehow concluded that the train was imaginary. That’s not a rebuttal, it’s a spectacular demonstration of missing the point.

Tata boys will obviously attack him, but that doesn’t erase the facts on the ground.

Makinde simply stated the obvious truth. You can attack the messenger all you want, but the facts remain the facts.

Obi is a trader, he has said so severally, and he’s proud of it.

Op, you’re a Tinubu supporter, so what exactly was Tinubu’s job before politics?

A notorious drug baron, a thief, a forger, Someone who forfeited over $460,000 in alleged drug proceeds to the U.S. government?

And now that a U.S. court has been asked to make the drug proceeds forfeiture records public, he is telling the court that releasing them would cause further irreparable damage to his already damaged image.

So, if being a trader is your biggest problem with Obi, perhaps tell us what your preferred candidate was doing before politics.

Tinubu is obviously lost on what to campaign with, hence the apparent need to borrow other people’s campaign slogans. When you no get message of your own, na another person slogan you go dey shop for.

zoedew:
Classic case of delusion is the sight of a locomotive train making smooth and fast progress and reaching a destination without rail tracks in sight! Delusion indeed is a fatal condition!

The real delusion is you taking my words literally and then building an entire railway around the joke. You’re obviously dull.

It was a metaphor, not a railway feasibility report. If you need tracks physically laid out before you can understand 'moving train', then clearly the destination isn’t the problem, comprehension is.

benuejosh:
I had to look at the source first. The moment i saw Facebook, i didn't read because i know it will be rubbish.

If it further exposed Peter Obi as a liar and thief, you wouldn’t bother checking the source; you would have simply run with it. But because it exposes the lies, falsehoods, and misinformation being peddled by Soludo, you suddenly care about the source.

Soludo has spent almost six years as governor blaming Peter Obi for his failures, when, in reality, Peter Obi did not hand over directly to him. Obiano handed over to Soludo after spending eight years as governor.

At some point, we need to separate facts from political narratives.

istina:
Obidients will build one

Absolutely 💯

Xxxxxxxxxx

NDC is a moving train destination Aso Rock villa

Everyone knew, including the TATA boys that Tinubu will not step his foot in the US

Absolutely nothing more.

They can't campaign on Tinubu's achievements because there's none, other than hardships, high fuel costs, worsening insecurity, and deaths. That's why they've now resorted to “Peter Obi this, Peter Obi that.

FSBoperator:
Is that what this thread is discussing ?

You are deflecting from your crook Obi to Tinubu .

Defend your crook and stop the whataboutism.

Or will Tinubu's handover note which is not and has never been an issue helping in exonerating your crooked thief Obi from being exposed as a liar and a thief ?

The irony of a Tinubu supporter calling Peter Obi a crook and thief is almost too rich

You all have been working so hard to drag Obi into the same crook/corrupt/thief/ drug bárón/fórgér bracket as Tinubu,

FSBoperator:
Typical whataboutism

Typical whataboutism is actually you dodging my question. I’m asking for Tinubu's handover figures: the debt and the cash left in the coffers. If you or the OP have the records, let’s see them. Otherwise, calling it whataboutism doesn’t answer the question

The All Progressives Congress (APC) was, in retrospect, the first to fire the starting gun by announcing the composition of a Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) list a few weeks after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) legally lifted a ban on political campaign for next year’s presidential election.

After some deft scheming by certain forces and political blocs over who heads the campaign council, the ruling party, in collaboration with the presidency, had constituted what many described as a crack campaign squad, comprising high-calibre party chieftains, leaders and very important members, ready to facilitate and actualise the re-election of President Bola Tinubu for another four years in office.

Included in the crack team are former and incumbent State governors, past and present elective and appointive government officials, renowned politicians, elder statesmen, and some members of the party’s national leadership, among others across the country, under the headships of former governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari, and the chairman of APC Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Hope Uzodimma.

As the ruling party, many political watchers had heightened their expectations that with the composition of the campaign council, it would hit the ground running, moving a step further to set the pace for the opposition parties to trail behind and emulate.

However, after backlash against the campaign council list, which resulted in its withdrawal a few weeks later, the APC national leadership, the presidency, and many other major stakeholders seem to be enmeshed in controversy over the amendment and review of the PCC list.

To underscore the gravity of the apprehension, confirming that the initially released PCC list was perhaps horridly done in error, the concerned authorities that withdrew the list had continued to appeal for calm and understanding of stakeholders to enable them to amend the list.

Surprisingly, the delay in releasing the amended campaign list, perhaps withdrawn to accommodate various sheds of interests still smarting from the inconsequential positions and status given to them or their outright exclusion from the list, has come to the stakeholders with heightened apprehension and anxiety.







It is understandable, because ever since the initial release of the campaign list, what was meant to project strength, unity and readiness, has instead triggered a storm of criticism and controversy bordering on the size of the council, the choice of members, and curiously the inclusion of serving government officials into an explicitly partisan campaign structure.

Expectedly, tongues have equally continued to wag, particularly over the decision to include certain party members still undergoing integrity trials at various law courts, the unnecessary delay in releasing the amended campaign list, and the controversies the withdrawal has generated.

Among the names holding strategic positions in the campaign council structure that are generating serious concerns include: Dr. Zacch Adedeji, chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS); Engr. (Dr.) Abisoye Coker-Odusote, the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC); and Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.

Agitating and provoking the minds of many politically exposed Nigerians is the pertinent question regarding the moral justification of involving those heading critical public institutions responsible for revenue collection, national identity management, and the federal workforce in partisan campaigns.

Going by the decision to draft them into the list, the ruling party may have perhaps failed to understand that it has, inadvertently, confirmed that the thin line between the ruling party and the machinery of government has narrowed dangerously.

Again, the ruling party seems to have exposed the deeper problem of sacrificing institutional boundaries and credibility with their inclusion in the list. They equally paid less attention to the implications of drafting institutions expected to serve Nigerians, regardless of political affiliation, for such responsibility, and to public confidence ahead of another fierce electoral contest.

Escalating the controversy further was the raising of the question of why those individuals who have faced such serious allegations of public trust should be included in the list, which has prompted claims that the APC is rewarding loyalty rather than patronising or prioritising accountability and credibility.

The unrelenting critics had described the campaign council list as a product of the evidence that the government is more concerned about political survival than public confidence, going by the ruthless arithmetic of electoral politics, win desperately assembling every possible political asset and arsenal behind the incumbent.

Curiously, whether or not the national leadership of the APC and the presidency are bothered about the delay in releasing and inaugurating the updated PCC list is inconsequential to them, because they have activated every other campaign machinery to ensure that the ruling party desperately secures victory at both national and subnational stages of the elections.

And dismissing the concerns of many Nigerians, particularly the opposition parties, over the delay in reissuing the amended campaign council list, both the presidency and the party’s leadership have gone the extra mile to disabuse the minds of Nigerians, insisting that the list is an internal affair of the party, not a cabinet list to trigger or generate such interest.

PCC spokesperson, and the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dele Alake, who made the dismissal recently, argued that what should concern the public is the campaign messages, not the messengers.

“It is an internal mechanism of the party, for crying out loud. Unfortunately, it has been projected, even with the help of the media, as if it is a cabinet list. It is not. It is just an internal mechanism of the party. So, whether the list is adjusted, tinkered with, or not, is an internal business of the party.

“What the public requires is the messaging of the campaign, the manifesto, the policies, the projections and all that, not the internal constitution of the campaign council, which bears no relevance to the aspirations of the public. It is a non-issue as far as I am concerned,” he said, fuming.

While attributing the complaints to indolence, Alake said: “The party can bring out a campaign list today and bring out another one tomorrow if they so think that they need to adjust it. It is an internal thing. It is not for the public to chew on. Maybe there is so much indolence around that we now elevate issues that shouldn’t be elevated, make them national issues, and then allow it to dominate the media space.”

“For God’s sake, let us be more serious and elevated than that. There are more salient issues in the society we can chew on. What was my business with the NDC, ADC campaign council? Whatever and however they do it don’t concern me,” he dismissed.


Equally, APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, explained that: “When every committee of the party, whether the PCC or Primary Election Committee, is announced, it is subject to periodic review and revisions.”

“That is normal. There is hardly any list of committees that we have released that didn’t go through a process of revision. So, we publish updated lists of committees, and this PCC is no exception, no different. There is nothing unusual about any prospect for the review of this list,” he defended the delay.

Morka, in defending the inclusion of non-partisan individuals on the campaign council list, retorted: “Are these people we are referring to Nigerians? The answer is yes. Are they persons whose rights to freedom of association, freedom to participate in politics and in governance of a country, are guaranteed by the constitution? The answer is obviously yes. Are some of these individuals referring to partisan people who belonged to political parties, including the APC? The answer may be yes for many of them.

“Does it suggest that when they are given appointments or appointed by the President to serve their country, then they must first renounce all affiliations with the party to which they belonged before the appointment, or that they are therefore stripped of their constitutional rights and freedoms they enjoyed prior, because they have accepted to serve in some capacity or the other? I don’t think so.

“If that was a serious question, the Constitution of Nigeria will peremptorily exclude them, insisting that once they accept to serve, they are barred from any sort of partisanship or political association, affiliation, or participation. That is not the case. The constitution doesn’t say that. Some of this specter we were spewing are not supported by the law, by the constitution, the ground norm of our country. The drafters of our constitution are very smart people. They understand that there is interconnectedness of all of these elements of freedom, which you cannot take away.

“You cannot do good by sacrificing another good. The consequence doesn’t add to anything. The Constitution is clear. A citizen has a right to vote. Dr. Zacch Adedeji, for example, has the right to vote just like other Nigerians when the elections come, and he is entitled to take some political opinions and freedom to participate,” Morka defended.

And perhaps, flowing from their defenses that the messages matter more than the messengers, it did not come as a surprise to many Nigerians how many of the ruling party chieftains and leaders have, by their words and actions, keyed into the message from President Tinubu, particularly his disingenuous comment that all is fair in politics.

Sending what many called negative signals and/or hate campaign speeches to the party members, President Tinubu recently said: “Those who will take this job from me will try. They will try. All is fair in politics, and it is equal opportunity. INEC is neutral. They have never, never intimidated anybody.”

“If political opponents are crying wolves, maybe they are afraid of their own shadows and the uncertainty in the companies they keep, not me. I am ready, but I won’t give them a red carpet. I won’t offer them the leash to tie me and rope me. No, we wrestle each other to the finishing point,” Tinubu warned.

But, in what looked like joining him in the battle ahead, political elite, elective and appointive officials from Osun to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Borno, Kebbi and Ebonyi States, comprising serving senators, commissioners, council chairmen and state governors, have, in recent weeks, openly threatened voters, opponents and residents with violence, eviction and physical harm ahead of next year’s general elections.

Recent developments suggest that the ruling party may be planning to deploy every warfare other than an issue-based campaign, despite the landmark achievements the President Tinubu-led administration has recorded in the over three years it has been in office.

As the campaign kicks off on a subtle note, all that have dominated the engagement between the ruling party and the Nigerian electorate is not the display of President Tinubu’s scorecard, but surprisingly the discrediting of the opposition candidates and, more worryingly, the brazen threats to unleash mayhem and the issuance of outright quit notices to non-APC members.

The threats that have come from low and high places, and even from high-profile individuals, were accompanied by serious consequences and negative signals to any uncompromising person.

Ahead of the election, many APC chieftains have been caught on camera or quoted directly threatening citizens who refuse to align with the ruling party, with physical harm or forceful evictions, which has triggered wide condemnations from civil society, rights groups, and opposition politicians, warning that the trend could plunge the country into another round of election-related bloodletting.

The threats from the Kuje Area Council chairman, Samuel Danjuma Shekwolo, his counterpart in Ohaukwu Local Government Area (LGA) of Ebonyi State, Eze Paul Ituma, the governors of Edo, Ebonyi and Benue States, Monday Okpebholo, Francis Nwifuru and Hyacinth Alia, respectively, among others, have not only continued to resonate across the country but have also painted a picture of the kind of campaign the ruling party might adopt.

The ugly development, according to many concerned political watchers, should be of more concern to Nigerians than releasing the amended campaign council list and inaugurating the committee.

Confirming that the campaign and the election itself will be anything but peaceful, Shekwolo, the Kuje Council boss, had, while threatening non-APC residents in Kuje, warned: “I have said in my area council that it’s either you are for the APC, or you leave the area council. I am not arguing about it at all.”

“You know why? I cannot have the Minister and the President doing what they are doing, then on the day of the election, you will now say you want to match me. I will not agree. It is either you are with us, or you are against us,” Shekwolo threatened.

On his part, Ituma, the Ohaukwu Ebonyi Council chairman, was even more ferocious in his threat when he warned in a viral video that: “Anyone who dares to operate against my political interests will be declared persona non grata. This is the time for politics. I don’t have a shop at the International Market; politics is my business. Anyone who wants to put sand in my garri should not come close to Ohaukwu.”

Ituma’s comments came after the governor, Nwifuru, had warned that any local government chairman who failed to secure victory for the APC in his council in the 2027 elections would be removed from office.

Issuing the warning in Abakaliki, the state capital, during the inauguration of the newly elected chairmen and vice-chairmen in the state, Nwifuru had emphasised that: “Any chairman who fails to win his council will be removed from office and replaced with a Councilor. I want this information to be on the headlines of newspapers because, as politicians, we would not speak in secret. The chairmen know we would win in the state, and if they choose to sleep and allow others to take their areas, they would be removed.”

The situation was even worse and more bizarre in Yobe State, where the instigating comments credited to the state chairman of the APC, Alhaji Mohammed Gadaka, equally triggered widespread condemnation, with the directive to married women in the state to divorce their husbands, if they stopped them from voting APC.

Although the chairman of Gwandu LGA in Kebbi State, Atiku Ahmed Mandiya, has denied ordering the “beating up or killing” of anyone who refused to support Governor Nasir Idris at the polling unit in Kauran Gwandu, the clip has, however, gone viral like similar others despite describing it as a doctored video.

Perhaps, if the political office holders had stopped at the mere threats, the recent incident in Benue State, where youths, in their hundreds, barricaded the roads to stop the passage of the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, after similar alleged threat from the State governor, Hyacinth Alia, was a practical demonstration of what to expect from the ruling party across the country ahead and during the presidential poll.

From all indications, the APC seems to have started on the wrong foot with the faulty composition of the campaign council list and apparent elevation of threats to a political campaign tool in its build-up to next year’s general election


https://thesun.ng/2027-apcs-wobbling-presidential-campaign-take-off/

CharlesCNG:
PETER OBI'S ANAMBRA BOOKS: ONE HANDOVER, TWO SUCCESSORS AND A 12-YEAR ARGUMENT THAT REFUSES TO DIE

There is something increasingly curious about Peter Obi's famous Anambra financial record.

The argument Nigerians are watching between Obi and the Soludo administration did not begin with Charles Soludo. We have been here before. Almost line for line. With Willie Obiano.

And when a financial dispute survives two successor administrations and twelve years, perhaps it is time to stop listening to political speeches and reconstruct the paper trail.

DECEMBER 2013: THREE MONTHS BEFORE PETER OBI'S HANDOVER
Nigeria's Debt Management Office recorded Anambra as having approximately ₦3.026 billion domestic debt and $30.324 million external debt as of December 31, 2013. Peter Obi was still governor. Keep those numbers somewhere. We will return to them.

MARCH 2014: OBI'S FAMOUS ₦75 BILLION

As Obi prepared to leave office, he publicly announced that his administration was leaving approximately ₦75 billion in savings and investments. Note handover summary released this by tanko broadly corroborates the financial structure he described.

Here is the breakdown : Local investments — ₦27bn. Foreign-currency investments — ₦26.5bn. Certified State/MDA balances — ₦28.166bn. FGN-approved refund — ₦10bn. Total — approximately ₦91.666bn.

Impressive. But then comes a line that deserves considerably more attention: ESTIMATED LIABILITIES — ₦5 BILLION.

After deducting that, Obi's document arrives at a net position of approximately ₦86.666bn. In other words, even Obi's own document does not literally say: ZERO LIABILITIES. Also note the word ESTIMATED before the word LIABILITIES.

2015 : ENTER WILLIE OBIANO .Barely a year later, the story exploded. Obiano's government said Obi's presentation was a “half-truth.”

Why? Because, it argued, Obi was talking loudly about the ASSET side of the balance sheet while Nigerians weren't hearing enough about the LIABILITY side.

The Obiano administration put total[b] inherited project commitments[/b] at approximately ₦185.1 billion.

Obi rejected this. And he had an important argument. If I award a ₦10 billion road and the contractor has executed ₦4 billion worth of work and has been fully paid for that work, you cannot simply call the unexecuted ₦6 billion “debt.”

A CONTRACT VALUE IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY A PAYABLE DEBT. I disagree, but for the purpose of argument let's even conceed.

But notice what had happened. The governor - Obi's own hand picked succesor- who actually received Obi's handover was disputing Obi's characterization of what he handed over.

2017: SAME ARGUMENT, LOUDER VOLUME. By the 2017 Anambra election, the disagreement had become political warfare.

Victor Umeh- YES- you read right- the same , now Senator Victor umeh in 2017, again accused Obi of leaving massive obligations.

Obi fought back with bank statements. He identified balances across Fidelity, Diamond, First Bank, Access, UBA, Zenith and other banks. He challenged his biggest contractors and suppliers to identify one properly executed and certified job for which he owed them money.

Again, notice Obi's language. Not: ANAMBRA HAD NO FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS WHATSOEVER. Rather, increasingly: I DID NOT OWE CONTRACTORS FOR WORK DULY EXECUTED AND CERTIFIED.

Here, Obi appears to be clever by half. The contracts had already been awarded, creating contractual commitments, while completed and certified work could create accounts payable and therefore liabilities.

The real question is not merely what had been certified for immediate payment, but what obligations Anambra had already incurred and which of them accounting standards required to be recognised or disclosed.

Those obligations cannot simply disappear from the liability conversation because the next certificate had not yet arrived.

And throughout this argument sat the inconvenient federal record: DMO had already recorded formal domestic and external Anambra debt while Obi was governor.

2026: ENTER CHARLES SOLUDO

Twelve years after Obi left office, another successor administration is challenging his financial legacy.

Soludo's government says eight external facilities contracted during Obi's tenure originally totalled $123.77 million and that balances from those facilities remain under repayment.

It also alleges inherited salary, gratuity and pension obligations. And suddenly the old argument has returned:

OBI: I LEFT ASSETS AND NO UNPAID DUE OBLIGATIONS. SUCCESSOR GOVERNMENT: YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ASSETS WITHOUT TELLING THE COMPLETE LIABILITY STORY.

Does that sound familiar? It should. Obiano was making essentially that complaint eleven years ago.

TWO SUCCESSORS. SAME PREDECESSOR. SAME ARGUMENT. If one successor disputes your financial inheritance, politics is a plausible explanation.

When the governor who directly succeeded you disputes it, and twelve years later another administration raises related questions, while independent DMO records confirm that formal debt existed THREE MONTHS near your exit, the reasonable conclusion is almost obvious.
And herein lies CharlesCNG main grouse with peter Obi and the obidient's movement. The same Pattern repeats with almost everyone and every thing: Abuse and accuse instead of addressing issues.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Peter Obi's celebrated Anambra financial record is that, twelve years later, Nigerians still need political interpreters to explain what should be ordinary arithmetic.

Honestly , this obi matter don tire me!! The matter don tire calculator sef!!!

Next :DOES PETER OBI UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THE WORD “DEBT”? Stay tuned with CharlesCNG.

Noted. Can we also see Tinubu’s handover note, specifically, the debt he left behind and the money left in the coffers when he handed over to Fashola?

Don’t mistake Nigerians’ patience for acceptance of hardship — Northern Christian Elders tell Tinubu

Don’t mistake Nigerians’ patience for acceptance of hardship — Northern Christian Elders tell Tinubu


ABUJA — The Northern States Christian Elders Forum, NOSCEF, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reverse the latest increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, warning that Nigerians’ patience with worsening economic hardship should not be mistaken for acceptance.

For households already struggling to keep up with food prices, transport fares and other basic expenses, the elders said another petrol-price increase would only tighten the squeeze, further weaken purchasing power and deepen the uncertainty confronting millions of Nigerians.


In a statement by its Chairman, Elder Sunday Oibe, the forum urged Tinubu to use the remaining period of his administration to tackle the immediate pressures on citizens, including the rising cost of living, unemployment, insecurity and the decay of critical infrastructure.

“The patience of Nigerians should not be mistaken for acceptance of perpetual hardship,” NOSCEF warned.

The elders said government should look beyond repeated increases in the cost of petroleum products if it needs additional revenue to fund its programmes and obligations, arguing that alternative and sustainable sources should be explored instead of continually transferring the burden to citizens.

They said the welfare of Nigerians should also take precedence over political calculations about future elections, insisting that government must respond to the economic realities confronting ordinary families.

“NOSCEF believes that the welfare of Nigerians must come before political calculations about future elections. The government should listen to the cries of citizens and respond with policies that provide meaningful relief,” the forum said.

While acknowledging that the administration had made efforts in some areas, Oibe said the continuing hardship across the country showed that much more needed to be done.

The forum particularly cautioned the President against relying solely on officials or supporters who might give him a rosier picture of the economy than the one being experienced by citizens.

“We therefore appeal to President Tinubu not to be insulated from the realities confronting ordinary Nigerians by praise-singers or officials who may present a more favourable picture of the economy,” NOSCEF said.

The elders said their position was grounded in their contact with communities where the economic crisis is being felt directly.

“Our members live among the people, worship with them, work with them, and experience their struggles. We cannot pretend not to see what is happening around us,” the forum said.

According to NOSCEF, the combination of hunger, insecurity, unemployment, infrastructural decay and declining purchasing power had left many Nigerians facing a profound sense of uncertainty and hopelessness.

It therefore called for measures to reduce the cost of living and restore household purchasing power, create productive economic opportunities for young Nigerians, strengthen the fight against insecurity and accelerate the provision and rehabilitation of critical infrastructure.

The forum also urged the Federal Government to make citizens’ welfare a central consideration in major economic decisions.

“Government must respond with empathy, urgency and practical solutions,” NOSCEF said.

The elders warned that continued public patience should not be interpreted as an unlimited willingness to endure worsening living conditions.

“This is the time for government to demonstrate empathy, listen to the people and take decisive action to prevent further deterioration in the living conditions of citizens.

“Nigeria belongs to all of us, and the suffering of one Nigerian should concern every responsible leader,” the forum said

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/dont-mistake-nigerians-patience-for-acceptance-of-hardship-northern-christian-elders-tell-tinubu/amp/

Are nigerians happy with Tinubu?


Thunder ⚡🔥⚡🔥 all of una there

The rate at which the APC churns out incompetence is unrivalled.

An individual gets appointed, only to perform far worse than the previous occupant.

Mr. Tegbe cannot even tell Nigerians how many megawatts he has added since he became Minister of Power.

Oyedele is a mad man.

Have they been seeking Nigerians’ input when they were dishing out wicked and draconian policies masquerading as economic reforms?

FSBoperator:
You go explain tire.

This is way beyond your mental capacity

I have taken some time to research on the loan descriptions as released by the Anambra State Government which they claim PO as Governor signed off and my findings are as follows:

1. The Nigeria Malaria Control Booster Project (MCBP) 2007:

This was financed through a US$180 million IDA credit from the World Bank to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, not a loan independently taken by the Anambra State Government. The World Bank records say the original IDA credit was approved in December 2006 and became effective on May 15, 2007.

Anambra was one of the seven participating states, along with Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano and Rivers.

VERDICT: FG was the borrower not Anambra State Government.

2. Fadama III:

This project was a World Bank/IDA-financed project for Nigeria. The World Bank's project documentation identifies the Federal Republic of Nigeria as the borrower, not Anambra State.

The original Fadama III project was approved in 2008. The World Bank records the project period as 2008–2013 and the original IDA financing as US$250 million.

Anambra was one of the states participating in the project. World Bank records specifically identify an Anambra State Fadama III Project, financed through IDA Credit No. 45960.

Therefore, describing the Anambra Fadama III programme simply as "a loan taken by Anambra State Government in 2007" would be misleading. The underlying World Bank borrowing was at the Federal Government level.

VERDICT: FG was the borrower not Anambra State Government

3. Health Systems Development ll (ADD FIN.)

The financial document listing Nigeria's state-level IDA obligations records “Health Systems Development” Anambra State, with a signing date of August 22, 2003, an amount of XDR 4,831,046, and a 0.75% service charge.

The same document separately lists Health System Development Project II (Additional Financing) for Anambra, so the 2009 reference may relate to the additional financing/HSDP II, rather than the original HSDP.

Anambra-specific records confirm that Health System Development Project II was World Bank-assisted, with activities being implemented in the state.

VERDICT: It was an FG project benefiting Anambra State. The Original document was signed in 2003 and 2009 was just an additional financing of the 2003 signed document.

4. The State Education Program Investment Project (SEPIP):

It started in 2013 and included Anambra State. However, the World Bank documents identify the Federal Government of Nigeria as the borrower, not Anambra State Government. The original financing was a US$150 million IDA credit to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with funds disbursed to Anambra, Bauchi and Ekiti through subsidiary financing agreements.

The World Bank's financing agreement for the original SEPIP is Credit No. 5220-NG, dated April 16, 2013.

VERDICT: FG was the borrower not Anambra State.

5.The Community and Social Development Project (P090644):

This project became effective in February 2009.
The World Bank's project completion report identifies the Federal Government of Nigeria as the borrower of the original IDA financing. The original commitment was SDR 121.5 million (US$200 million equivalent).
Anambra was just one of the participating states.

6:The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP):

This project was approved by the World Bank in May 2012 and became effective in September 2013.

The original financing agreement was between the International Development Association (IDA) and the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for US$600 million.

Anambra was one of the participating states and had its own State Project Management Unit (SPMU) implementing the project.

Anambra's project documents explicitly refer to the funds as part of the Federal Government's IDA credit. A 2014 procurement notice says the Federal Government had received the credit.

VERDICT: FG was the borrower not Anambra State Government.

7. The Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP):

Records shows VCDP was approved by IFAD in April 2012, not 2013.
The financing agreement was between the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) and IFAD, signed in August 2012.
The programme became effective in October 2013.

The original programme covered Anambra, Benue, Ebonyi, Niger, Ogun and Taraba.
The original financing included an IFAD loan of US$74.4 million, an IFAD grant of US$0.5 million, plus counterpart contributions from the Federal Government, participating states, LGAs and beneficiaries.

IFAD's documentation specifically describes the loan agreement as being between FGN and IFAD.

VERDICT: FG was the borrower not Anambra State Government.

OVERALL VERDICT:

All the project listed by the Soludo led Anambra State claiming that it was financed by loan independently taken by Anambra State Government under Mr. Peter Obi are 100% false and misleading. Verifiable World Bank records shows FG was indeed the borrower while Anambra State under Obi participated and benefited just like some other states.

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