₦airaland Forum

DaddyFreeze2020:
No wonder the Presidential candidate of Labour Party went to see things in Egypt for himself in other to replicate such in Nigeria.
I believe he wishes to see Nigeria perform better than Egypt economically and in infrastructural development.

Infrastructures doesn't drive an economy so he said.

Egypt has been in existence since the bible times and yet in 2022, they still have slums. Nigeria started in 1960 (if you like, 1914) and we are progressing little by little.

Cut us some slack joor. We will surely get there

I dare any Igbo man to change his name to Musa or Bolaji go to Imo or Enugu to buy land and see if they'll sell it to him.

Ekiti, the State of academicians.

Omor. So this is the man that they are comparing to Tinubu..

This post was since 2008, the only achievement his supporters could give was construction of pits toilet that are ventilated.

OBIdients, behold your god.

In 20 years time, if this girl wants to become Governor or President, Nigerians will ask for her WAEC certificate.

End subsidy to save Nigeria

Joey4321:
What do you think his true intentions are?

To be President.

He's building his ambition on lies.

This man just dey talk wetin people wan here. The attribute of a scammer

franchasofficia:
Did Tinubu also made mistake on their meal plan of agbado for breakfast, Garri for lunch and Cassava for dinner?

And did PO made a mistake when he said his 20 milla alcohol investment is now worth 100 milla?

IgOga:
For a nation that has crude oil in abundance.....build more refineries, invite investment in refineries, encourage state governments especially oil producing states to build their own refineries and the issue of subsidy will die a natural death.

Build refineries with which money? Go on your internet and check how much it takes to build a 200k bpd refinery.. How many State have the money to build a refinery?

And which investor will invest in a refinery where the Government fixes fuel price?

Brendaniel:
You guys just come out with hatred to discredit someone without listening to what someone is saying, he said he will not remove subsidy without making an alternative for subsidy removal.

Don't destroy an old bridge till a new one is complete for use....

If the old bridge is gulping too much money, where will the money for the new bridge come from?

I support subsidy removal. No buts. No ifs. Just remove the damn thing

Jennifer663:
No one is above mistake.
Stop deceiving and molesting yourself in the front of the next president.

Didn't Tinubu said he made a mistake of 50 million youths instead of saying 50 thousand months?

He wasn't above mistake then abi?

Feggie3:
As expected I know this where your argument will. You people can never be realistic in this country. How many of your past leaders have ever been 100 percent ready? He has simply told you these are the places he plans investing it, and that he will need to assemble an innovative team for that. He is extremely hopeful it will work out, but if he faces hitches he will soft pedal. He has the ideas, but why are you behaving like you are so sure of the future!

I am 90% sure that things won't get better in the next few years of the next President. Basically all countries are facing hard times and inflation. Even the best economies are seeing shege let alone developing countries.

One thing you don't know is that I'm very patient for leadership position cos I've held a post before. I understand how impatient people are how would expect you to perform magic as a leader. I would be able yo understand why we won't feel the good impact of the next president (no matter who he is) throughout almost half of his first tenure. But how many Nigerians would be that patient?

And the problem with PO, is that he's making the solution look easy. That when you do this, this and this will just happen. That when he gets there, he will invite siemens to Nigeria and in 4 years, there will be power. He doesn't even know if that plan in Egypt started over 15 years ago, he's just talking about how many power siemens have provided in Egypt in 4-5 years ago.
Tinubu wooed and persuaded Chinese investors to invest in Lekki seaport since 2006. And it wasn't till 1st of July 2022 (16 years after) that the first vessel landed in Lagos. That's after Lagos had 3 Governors with the 3rd completing his first term. So why does PO thinks that when he invites siemens they'll come to Nigeria the next day and build power station? That might not be what's he saying but that's what he's making people to believe and if in one year, they don't see any improvement, they'll start insulting him.
Most of his fans are very unrealistic. They already feel all Nigerian problems can be solved in his first 4 years. And this too much hope is dangerous.

jelel6:
Nice perspective and the simple reality for anyone who's in the hot seat.

I actually don't envy any would-be president of this country. Because in a country full of selfish, self-centred, and shortsighted groups of people, good luck trying to preach a common cause.

Yeah. I wouldn't advise anybody I'm close to to contest for Nigerian Presidency.

Acidosis:
The money Nigeria and Nigerians have paid bandits and kidnappers in the past 4 years can fund 100,000 gallant officers for 8 years.

This is own you guys always talk with emotions and not facts.

A salary of 70k for 100k police officers for a year is N84 billion. How much do they pay kidnappers in one year?

Tochj:
You are very right but
It's better we endure pains for sometime
Lay a foundation for better days for our children
We can't continue with artificial borrow borrow.

But majority of Nigerians are impatient. Will they hear word?

Feggie3:
You are not okay upstairs!!! He said he will remove it once he has 100 percent, prepared other benefits to cushion the effects of subsidy removal for Nigerians, but that if does cushioning effects are not achievable that he won't remove the subsidy.

And when will that 100% come? In one year? 2 years? Or even 8 year?
And how will he be able to get the 100% in the first place when there's still subsidy going on.?
Oil subsidy is the biggest wasteage or our money and if he doesn't remove it in his first year, he's wasting his time.

VirileNelly2420:
Stop talking nonsense. Sorry to sound da way.
What is the population of Lagos to start with?
... barely 15million as of 2022.
While Saudi Arabia has over 34million as of 2020.

Go and verify.

If Nigeria should manage it's resources well... We should b somewhere close to these top OPEC countries. I mean, nothing to show Nigeria is actually an OPEC nation. Gosh!

OK. Maybe I over exaggerated in the population of those countries. But you should do the addition yourself and tell us the population of those countries combined and how much only one of them produce in one day.

Nigeria is poor

jelel6:
This comment made my day.

I'll question the intelligence of anyone who thinks there's a messier out there capable of wishing our problems away by accident they become president.

After this Buhari administration, I'll think every Nigerian should have accepted that the problems of this country are too deep-rooted and multifaceted for any would be president to fix alone. Talk is cheap and even a fool can promise to make another a millionaire.

By their antecedents, none of the major presidential aspirant is exceptional in my opinion. They are all just different sides to the same coin.

True.

Even in normal FIFA game that we play at home, when you're not the one playing the game, you will see all the moves that who's with the game pad should have made. You see all the passes he should have made but didn't. How he should have used a up through pass instead of a normal pass, how he should have scored the goal instead of doing pass and score.
But when you hold the controller you'll still make the same mistake, and the person you collected the controller from will start his own round of corrections.

Now this is just ordinary PS 4 game o. Imagine ruling over 200 million people with over 250 tribes. It is when you get there that your eyes will clear.

casualobserver:
you insulted me because I said peter obi never gives a straight answer and now i am asking you to tell me what his responses were to 4 things 3 of which are simple yes or no answers and you too are waffling. is it only subsidy they asked him. you too are behaving like Obi. what did he say about state police and restructuring....these are simple yes or no questions.

I hope at least in your private moments even if you dont admit it publicly that there are real concerns with Peter Obi and what he says... he is too vague.

yes or no are you removing subsidy, are you introducing state police, are you restructuring, these things dont require story. Tinubu has already stated he will introduce state police, he has stated he will restructure and I am sure he will remove subsidy because the truth is no Nigerian aspiring for office can acheive anything if we do not remove subsidy. Subsidy in 2023 for example is more than our entire budget for education health and roads combined. Our subsidy in 2023 will build lagos to Ibadan rail 5 times, These are not issues on which a presidential candidate can be vague.


pepter Obi claims he wants to invest in the people, you cannot invest in the people without health and education, where will he get the money, in 8 years he didnt raise the IGR of Anambra, is it this same person that will raise the IGR of Nigeria? so if he has no track record of generating revenue, the only other option is to look at areas of waste, therefore subsidy is a key area especially as I said we spend More money on subsidy than we spend on Education, health, roads combined!!!

That is why Buhari should just remove fuel subsidy before he leaves. He's already hated by almost everyone. There's nothing he'll do that will make those who hate him to hate him less. So let he just remove the fuel subsidy and go. Cos people will hate the next President that removes it. I won't tho

agabaI23:
Nobody is expecting any miracle under one year. But someone can plug some loopholes by his own leadership. So much money is stolen at Nnpc. Nigeria doesn't know how much crude it produces per day.

Boko haram is a franchise. People are living big off it. Have you heard of the journalist that exposed why a certain Major committed suicide? Have you heard why he had to leave the country with nothing?

Bro, a lil leadership with the right person at the top will change a lot.

Listen, there is nothing like we don't know if.... these people have antecedents. Go and read my watch on Atiku. He is just interested in being the president. He is the one that started the bribery at the NASS.

Mr Tinubu cannot lead. He just wants to be a president. It is his turn. Somebody told you his plan for the youths and insecurity and you are still in doubt. He blacks sometimes. How do you expect him to function? Like Buhari?

The crowd following Obi will be less of Osinbajo was on the ballot.

OK o

Subsidywise20:
You are sounding like PO here...yes and no. Subsidy has to go, whether cost of transport or power cost. If I was government and you were a business selling books at N1000 per book, and I told you to sell at N30 instead to help the poor, how would you make a profit that would enable you to pay for restocking, transport costs, etc?



And if subsidy goes, all the fradulence would end. Since there is no more free government money...people will bring in fuel and sell and make a profit without having to lie that they are bringing in 10 million when it is really 2 million.

I mean, no subsidy, so no one can make subsidy claims, and people will just simply bring in and sell what they really bring in. And since they are making a profit, no need to lie or to smuggle fuel out of the country.

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My problem with PO and Buhari and company on this subsidy issue is their lack of decisiveness. Subsidy has to go. No buts. It is fuelling the corruption in the system, it is causing inflation of fuel import figures, so that people can make fradulent claims, and it is losing us billions via smuggling to the whole west africa .

Subsidy has to go, and go now. No buts.

I would have offered you cold gulder for this truthful post but I don't know if you're a Muslim.

Truly subsidy has to go. No buts. No ifs. E gats go.

Indecision is worse than no decision.

poweredcom:
Nigeria is rich bro , to have 1 million police men and maintain them , curruption won't let us see road

Nigeria is not rich. And please don't compare it to countries like UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. If you sum all their population together it won't still reach Lagos. That's why they are rich cos they have less people to enjoy such plenty crude oil. Nigeria has similar amount of crude oil but with over 200 million people.

agabaI23:
If you put the right thing in place, from consumption to Production, there will be funding

And you think all those changes will come to fruition in a year or two?

Most people supporting PO, do not know that if he actually do what he says he'll do, there will be better hunger (even worse than Buhari's hunger) in the land for at least 2 years before the positive side of his policies will start showing. But his supporter don't know this. They think he'll solve all the problem in one year. They think he will just replicate what he saw in Egypt in 1 year, and things will just get better.
And this kind of too much hope will cause them utter disappointment when they don't see what they want in a short time.

They don't know that insecurity will remain the same or rise for quite sometime before anything meaningful will be done. Even if he changes security chiefs every month, how many would he change. He won't be able to do anything meaningful in 3 months securitywise. In those 3 months, can he stand the heat? When on his first day in office, he hear they bomb one village in Borno and tomorrow they've bombed a city in Kaduna and next tomorrow they've kidnapped school children in Sokoto, can he stand the heat. Or would he resort to blaming the previous government?

The fact he's making all the problem in the country easy to solve will be his greatest nemesis if he gets there.

Do you actually think Fashola didn't think truly with his heart that electricity was a problem that could be solved within 6 months? And here we are after 7 years we're still in darkness.
Buhari could swear with his life that fuel subsidy was a scam when he wasn't President, but when he got there his eyes clear.
Even the most illiterate tout in the motor park knows the problem of this country and solution but take him to power and he'll flop. Everyone thinks the world works the way it works in their head.

The fact that we all think one politician alone is going there to work while the others are going there to worsen the problem should stop.
You never can tell if Nigeria will get better under PO and get worse under Tinubu or Atiku, or Nigeria will get better under Tinubu but worse under PO or Atiku, or get better under Atiku but get worse under Tinubu or PO.
We don't know and we'll never know for sure because it is only one that will be President.

Adexchelsea19:
He has always been like that… lol

Interviewer: why didn’t you hold local government election
Obi: we put money into good use, we use it to pay pensions

Se this one get sense abeg?

I just tire for the guy.

Even Tinubu that had his LG allocation seized by OBJ, did all these and never owed a dime. Doctors were never on strike for a second and LASU didn't go on strike.
From these alone, he's far better than PO.

Salihuabre:
Kai it not business as usual.
you didn't hear yes I f ....
and
No .... IF?

this one is not a usual toy fa .haba how many years with 30,000 naira peanut money do you agents .

May the good works of buhari and all PDP good doing be upon you and like-minded . Amen

If he's not ready to take the bull by the horn then he's not ready

Subsidywise20:
So, do you support fuel subsdiy removal ? Yes or no.

(My answer is, yes, and immediately)

My answer is a resounding yes. And that would have been PO's answer. Which one come be yes and no?
That's a sign of indecisiveness.

And most times, indecision is worse than no decision.

Subsidywise20:
But of course, most of my posts support subsidy removal and increase of prices because it makes sense economically speaking.

I have always talk about total removal of fuel subsidy. The only politician I will support is the one that say it with his full chest that he will remove fuel subsidy. Which one is yes and no? Yes how, no how?

If anybody like, let him cut off unnecessary spending, if he doesn't totally remove fuel subsidy, he's wasting his time.

Peter Obi should say it with his full chest that he will remove subsidy and he'll get my support.

Subsidywise20:
Okay, on the other hand, thanks to the rise in crude oil prices, cost of subsidy has risen from 1 trillion per annum 4 years ago to 5 trillion now.

Money that should have been spent on educaiton and health, as Obi said in his interview.....

Instead we are dashing a few corrupt individuals money in return for cheap fuel that isn't cheap.

Let me never hear you speak against increase of fuel price sha

Penguin2:
Taaaaaah

Kwankwaso was captured on camera saying Northerners will not vote for an Igbo man which is what some Tinubu urchins have latched on to give themselves some hope.

But what is there is that right now, Kwankwaso can go to hell with his arrogance.

In 2003, Northwest and Northeast voted for Buhari butt Obasanjo still won.

In 2011, Northwest and Northeast voted Buhari again but Jonathan still won.

Peter Obi can still win without votes from Northwest and Northeast.

Besides if things remain as they are right now, Atiku will win Some part of Northeast with Tinubu winning the rest. While Obi is likely to win Christian votes from that region.

Kwankwaso will win Kano. Some people have also said he will win Jigawa.

Tinubu is likely to take other Northwest states while Obi will win Christian votes in that region again.

That leaves us with North Central where Obi will win Benue, Plateau and Abuja; he will do well in Nasarawa too, which should ultimately culminate to him winning North Central.

Obi will also win Southeast and Southsouth scandalously.

Then garner considerable votes in Southwest especially if Tinubu finally floats a Muslim/Muslim ticket.

Do the math and you Peter Obi’s victory without Kwankwaso.

The world does not work the way it works in your head.

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