₦airaland Forum

2special:
Either in a Legit or crook way, Tinubu is winning the Election... That's just the truth, We should be talking about 2031, it's only God that can stop Tinubu from winning next year election.

favor914:
Frustrated Obidients.

chiiraq802:
Atiku think say all Nigerians na obidients

aswani:
Every single thing you wrote from "A U.S. judge subsequently ordered" is a figment of yours, Hundeyin, Van Ikeamafuna Bottle, Bigkoko and other sundry Obidients imagination.

Never happened, the so called docket, not sealed or signed.

Think about it, and put that D Obidient hat aside for a minute, a case that started in 2023, why would President Tinubu's own lawyers join 3 years later?

Nothinh wrong with speculation but at least let some form of sensible logic be part of it please.

And as for you accusing others of misinformation, oh dearie me! The other 4 fingers are pointing at you in case you haven't noticed.

Oh by the way, FBI and CIA haven't confirmed anything, they just sent a standard glomar response ages ago. I know they are on Nairaland, especially CIA, I bet they are chuckling in their offices everytime this comes up.

aswani:
Have you got any proof of this?

There was an FOIA request, FBI and CIA gave glomar responses, same as they will do for FOIA requests on you or me.

It ended there.

All the additional stuff is fake, no one is fighting anything as what can be released has.

Parachoko:
The Joke is On you bro

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Is The President Of Nigeria


The Agulu Bastard Will Never Become The President Of Nigeria

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration of hypocrisy over its handling of petroleum-sector interventions, arguing that the government cannot claim to have abolished subsidy while simultaneously granting tax credits, concessions and other fiscal incentives to major operators in the oil and gas industry.

Atiku, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said the administration’s celebration of subsidy removal was misleading because Nigerians had continued to bear the cost of government interventions in the petroleum sector through various forms of under-recovery and energy-security expenditure.

He said the controversy had become more pronounced following the unveiling of his Atiku Economic Recovery Plan (AERP), which proposes a targeted, capped and transparently administered intervention to cushion the effect of high energy costs on Nigerian households while accelerating domestic refining and reducing dependence on imported petroleum products.

According to Atiku, Tinubu’s administration appears to oppose government intervention only when the intended beneficiaries are ordinary Nigerians.

“Tinubu stood at Eagle Square and declared that subsidy was gone. Petrol prices exploded, transportation costs soared, food prices followed, businesses buckled and household purchasing power collapsed. Nigerians were told there was no alternative and that enduring this pain was the necessary price of economic reform.

“But when major oil investors knock on Tinubu’s door, the sermon changes. Suddenly, government intervention is good economics; tax credits are necessary; fiscal concessions are strategic; and private investment must be de-risked.

“Apparently, intervention is only unacceptable when poor Nigerians are the beneficiaries,” the statement said.

Atiku cited the government’s incentives for deep offshore oil and gas projects as an example of what he described as selective economic intervention.

He noted that qualifying petroleum developments can benefit from production tax credits and supplementary incentives under the government’s fiscal framework, arguing that such measures demonstrate that intervention is not inherently incompatible with market economics.

“So, what exactly is Tinubu’s objection: government intervention itself, or government intervention for Nigerians?” he asked.

The former Vice President also questioned the government’s description of petroleum-sector expenditure following the removal of petrol subsidy, pointing to figures contained in NNPC’s audited accounts.

He said NNPC’s 2023 accounts recorded approximately ₦4.84 trillion in energy-security expenses and related shortfalls, while its 2024 audited financial statements recorded approximately ₦7.13 trillion under energy-security expenses.

Atiku said NNPC had explained that part of the expenditure arose from the difference between the exchange rate used in determining the regulated PMS ex-coastal price and the prevailing exchange rate when import obligations were settled.

“In plain English, government was still absorbing a price differential after Tinubu had triumphantly announced that subsidy was gone,” he said.

He challenged the administration to explain the distinction between subsidy, under-recovery, shortfall and energy-security expenditure where public funds were used to bridge a gap between the economic cost of petroleum products and the price at which they were sold.

Atiku said: “Nigerians do not eat semantics. Whether government calls it subsidy, under-recovery, shortfall or energy security, public resources were being used to bridge a gap between economic cost and the price at which petrol was sold.

“You cannot abolish subsidy at the podium and resurrect it in the accounts under an alias.”

Atiku argued that the central issue was not whether government should intervene in the economy, but whether such intervention should be designed primarily to protect corporate investment or to shield ordinary Nigerians from severe economic hardship.

He said the Tinubu administration could not, on the one hand, provide fiscal incentives designed to reduce investment risks in the petroleum sector and, on the other, dismiss targeted measures aimed at reducing the burden of high energy costs on households as economically irresponsible.

“Tinubu cannot operate two economies in one country — savage capitalism for poor Nigerian families and compassionate capitalism for big oil operators.

“It is one rule for them and another rule for the rest of us,” he said.

According to him, the government’s economic policies have placed an excessive burden on workers, traders, farmers and families while offering various incentives to investors.

“The government can protect a multibillion-dollar oil investment from risk, yet it says protecting the Nigerian worker from crushing hardship is bad economics.

“It can provide fiscal cushions for petroleum investors while telling workers, traders, farmers and families to absorb every shock in the name of reform.

“That is not reform; it is an upside-down economy,” the former Vice President said.

Atiku stressed that his proposed intervention under the AERP should not be confused with the former subsidy regime, which he described as opaque and vulnerable to abuse.

He said his proposal was for a targeted, capped, transparently budgeted and independently audited intervention, with a clearly defined exit mechanism and measures to expand domestic refining, increase competition, improve mass transportation and restore household purchasing power.

“If government can legitimately de-risk investment, why is it economic heresy to de-risk survival?” he asked.

The former Vice President also called on the Federal Government to disclose the beneficiaries and financial implications of major petroleum-sector tax credits, concessions, remissions and other incentives.

“Nigerians deserve to know the beneficiaries of major petroleum tax credits, remissions and incentives, the value of revenue surrendered, the investments delivered in return and whether Nigerian investors have equal and transparent access to comparable incentives.

“These concessions belong to the Nigerian people and must never become instruments of patronage dispensed behind closed doors,” he said.

Atiku said he supports domestic and foreign investment and recognises the role of transparent, performance-based incentives in attracting capital.

Atiku said: “What we reject is the intellectual dishonesty of pretending that government intervention becomes sound economics when corporations benefit and economic ignorance when Nigerian citizens benefit.

“You cannot subsidise capital and criminalise relief for citizens. You cannot offer cushions upstairs and call suffering downstairs reform.”

He said the ultimate test of economic reform should not be how loudly a government announces the removal of subsidy, but whether Nigerians are better off, businesses are productive, jobs are being created and household incomes can meet basic living costs.

“The Atiku Economic Recovery Plan is founded on a fundamentally different philosophy: markets must work, investment must earn a fair return and public finances must be protected, but the Nigerian citizen must remain the ultimate beneficiary of economic policy.

“A government cannot preach unrestrained market forces to the poor while practising interventionist economics for powerful corporate interests. It cannot demand sacrifice from Nigerian families while extending concessions to investors and then call the resulting hardship reform.

“That is not economic reform. It is economic apartheid,” Atiku said.

Parachoko:
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Is The President Of Nigeria

The Agulu Bastard Will Never Become The President Of Nigeria

Burob:
Dude u sound very frustrated .

seunmsg:
Just give Peter Obi the Mic and he will campaign against himself. Never seen a candidate that self destruct more than this lying dude.

Parachoko:
The Agulu Fraud Will Never Become The President Of Nigeria

yarimo:
after begging to be invited to that event you guys no get shame ne ?

Charito1:
. Who the hell is jagabandit?

seunmsg:
Peter Obi is the biggest joker to ever contest for president.

lailo:
How many people know that Tinubu has had such case if not Atiku and Obi who raised from the dead already concluded case 35 years ago. Is it Tinubu or the people who are trying to use that foreclosed issue to score political point and unknowingly expose Nigeria to ridicule is to be blamed?. Tinubu issue at his youth age in America has no effect on the present Nigeria, Atiku and Obi political rascality to exhumed a dead issue is the main killer of our collective image. Besides the man was not even tried let alone convicted or sentenced. America never declare him a criminal but people here started calling him all sorts of name. Today Tinubu is more useful to Nigeria than the 35 years ago Tinubu. Atiku and Obi are the fuuuullls and despiradosss killing Nigeria reputation, not Tinubu.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Babafemi Ojudu, has criticised the recently released list of members of the party’s presidential campaign council.

DAILY POST reports that the APC on Saturday unveiled a 108-member campaign council ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

However, the list has generated controversy, with some Nigerians questioning the inclusion of certain individuals.

In a statement posted on his official Facebook page on Sunday, Ojudu also joined those raising concerns over some of the names contained in the council list, pointing out that some former sinners are also in the list.

According to Ojudu, in the list, there are “saints and former sinners, the tried and the tired, reformers and those still awaiting reform. There are people whose names inspire confidence and others whose names inspire a quick check on one’s wallet.”

Ojudu suggested that a “campaign seeking the confidence of Nigerians should not appear to be offering political sanctuary to every controversial figure who can command a convoy, finance a rally or mobilise a forest.”

Senator Kawu Sumaila has thrown a note of caution to the newly constituted All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, warning its members that the road to the 2027 election could be threatened if the party fails to confront the economic pains ravaging millions of Nigerians.

Kawu, representing Kano South, urged the Senator Abdul’Aziz Yari-led campaign council to acknowledge the hardship confronting families and make the promise of tangible relief a central plank of the campaign for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election.

His warning came barely 24 hours after the inauguration of the over 200-member campaign structure mandated to drive the APC’s 2027 presidential campaign.

In a personally signed goodwill message to Yari and members of the council, Kawu described the assignment as critical, insisting that victory would require more than political mobilisation.

According to him, the campaign must first reconnect with Nigerians by listening to their grievances and demonstrating genuine understanding of the economic and social pressures confronting households.

“We must approach our citizens with deep empathy, active listening, and genuine sensitivity to the economic hardships and socio-economic challenges currently affecting everyday families,” he said.

Kawu warned that any attempt by the campaign to ignore the suffering of Nigerians could widen the gulf between the government and electorate and ultimately damage the electoral prospects of both the President and the APC.

“Our campaign must demonstrate that we truly feel their pain, understand their daily struggles, and are sincerely committed to delivering meaningful reliefs,” he added.

The senator also charged the Yari-led council to return the campaign to the grassroots, insisting that party members, stakeholders and ordinary constituents must not be treated as spectators in the 2027 contest.

He urged the council to build its campaign around the achievements and policy direction of the Tinubu administration, while clearly explaining how existing reforms are expected to translate into improved living conditions.

“A disconnect between leadership and the electorate creates misperceptions and misunderstandings that ultimately undermine both the President and the party,” Kawu warned.

He further demanded strict compliance with the Electoral Act and the Constitution, arguing that the campaign must protect its credibility by avoiding actions capable of undermining public confidence.

“Our campaign activities must strictly adhere to the provisions of the Electoral Act and the Constitution, ensuring our efforts are rooted in legitimacy and public trust,” he said.

Kawu also tasked the campaign council with deploying its political experience to communicate the President’s programmes and strategic vision more effectively to the electorate.

“We must leverage our collective expertise to clearly convey the President’s key policies, programs, and strategic vision so the public fully recognises his commitment to national progress,” he said.

He, however, identified internal unity as another critical battlefield, urging APC leaders and stakeholders to bury their differences and close ranks ahead of the 2027 contest.

“Victory depends on complete solidarity. We must heal internal rifts, set aside differences, and ensure that all key stakeholders, party leaders, and members at every level are fully carried along as equal partners in this mission,” he said.

Kawu congratulated Yari and other members of the campaign council, offering prayers and best wishes for what he described as a critical assignment for the ruling APC.

Kdon2:
All of you supporting return of fuel subsidy are all liars. Fuel subsidy will worsen Nigeria situation. Infact it shows how reckless and desperate you are to fleece Nigeria.