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Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Porpulace: 12:11pm On Jan 30, 2023
jmoore:
Idiot!!

Mumu Adesina!!! You are paid to lie. Don't expect reasonable Nigerians to believe your lies. We all can't be gullible.

Buhari is the minister of petroleum. I am buying fuel at 350 naira per litre. Thunder fire you!!


Last week, Nigerian airforce targeted over 100 civilians in Nasarawa-Benue border, killing not less than 47 innocent people. Is that how to provide security?

You are still in heaven Sir. We bought #400 per liter from filling station two days ago.
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Almiron: 12:14pm On Jan 30, 2023
newnigerdelta00:







Brimstone fire you too
Ogun kee you
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by 2023NaijaVoter: 12:16pm On Jan 30, 2023
marlow1962:
Someone should pls summarize

Eight years of progress from north to south and east to west has been more (tangible, substantial, discernible, obvious, & conspicuous) than 16 years of abject looting the national cake.

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Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by desiredhome: 12:19pm On Jan 30, 2023
kingsways:
Image laundering

I understand the man must write to justify his salary, no problem


Why did thousands of Nigeria youths flee the country and thousands of others aspiring to flee since you turn Nigeria to El dorado>


Buhari saw it all and call them LAZY YOUTHS,.. nothing comes eazy in life, unfortunately a lot of Nigerians especially the youths are not ready to work or use their brains.......they want to become rich overnight,. awon miracles seekers/yahoo boys etc
Those countries you are running to have their own challenges, they did not just seat down and expect things to work out for them or start complaining.....
There were a lot of opportunities in this present government for people to build on but they wasted it and are complaining.........
The PDP government was only after money sharing and looting, .......
The whole society investment package where money were given to individual Nigerians.......will never had happened in the PDP government........mmmmmm
It's only the ignorant Nigerians that keeps complaining and blaming Buhari for their frustrations.....
God bless Muhammadu Buhari, God bless Nigeria......
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Nobody: 12:24pm On Jan 30, 2023
2023NaijaVoter:


Eight years of progress from north to south and east to west has been more (tangible, substantial, discernible, obvious, & conspicuous) than 16 years of abject looting the national cake.
looting that made us buy bag of rice for 6k;
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by desiredhome: 12:27pm On Jan 30, 2023
Icumsa45:
looting that made us buy bag of rice for 6k;
And if not for the rice revolution of the present government, maybe you should have been buying rice for 100k/bag or more after the effects of COVID-19 and the world sabotage......
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Enemyofpeace: 12:27pm On Jan 30, 2023
Modafoka your days in that useless office are numbered
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by bigdammyj: 12:38pm On Jan 30, 2023
Presidency.
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by AbujaCitiBlog: 12:38pm On Jan 30, 2023
presidency:
THEY HAVE EYES BUT CANNOT SEE. PITY!

By FEMI ADESINA

It has been a hectic week. Frenetic. We set forth at dawn on Monday from Abuja to Bauchi, to attend the Presidential and gubernatorial campaign of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates. It was only Muhammadu Buhari, the Mai Gaskiya (honest man), that could have commanded the number of people that turned out. Without inducement. Endless sea of heads. He remains the greatest political crowd puller we have ever seen in the country since the beginning of time.

From Bauchi, same Monday, we flew into Lagos. To commission the $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Sea Port, then West Africa’s largest rice mill at Imota, and a lubricant plant at Tin Can, Apapa, owned by MRS Petroleum Company.

Tuesday saw the President commissioning two more projects, including the Blue Line Rail. And from there, we flew to Dakar, Senegal, to attend a summit on food security in Africa, billed for Wednesday. Our President delivered a Keynote Address, and we left for Nigeria in the evening. We didn’t reach Katsina, and Daura till about 1 am Thursday.

Now as I write this Thursday morning, we are in Katsina, commissioning legacy projects, including; Kofar Kaura Underpass, Kofar Kaura Waterworks, Revenue House, Meteorological Institute, Darma Rice Mills, Kofar Kwaya Underpass, Katsina General Hospital, among others. The spree continues Friday, then same at Kano on Monday, and Jigawa on Tuesday.

Our President is 80 years old, don’t forget. And he does all these at a sprint. We that are far younger struggle to catch up with him. On Thursday, after going to bed around 3 am, on return from Senegal, I refused to get out of bed till my colleagues came to evacuate me, saying the President was ready and raring to go. I sprang up. President Buhari is a blessed man, despite a debilitating health challenge he had in 2017. God has been truly merciful.

Now, all these projects being commissioned in States are because the Federal Government created an enabling environment, and enunciated the right policies.. There are even counterpart relationships in some of them. I tell you, this President has done great things for our country, including fighting insecurity to a standstill, and on the verge of winning the war.

Some cynics claim they’ve not seen anything Buhari has done. Yes, the Second Niger Bridge is so small, so they need a magnifying glass to see it. The Lagos/Ibadan Expressway is so minuscule, and they need to wear their medicated glasses. Rail line like catacombs in certain parts of the country? Bring my microscope, let me check. Same for Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressway, Bodo/Bonny road and bridges, Loko-Oweto road and bridge, brand new airport terminals in Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Port Harcourt, rice mills everywhere. “We can’t see.” Purblind people.

What of Abuja-Zaria-Kano expressway in the works? AKK pipelines. And many other projects. No, they can’t see, because Buhari has done nothing. Fickle minds. Caviling. Carping. Flippant. Unserious.

Those who know and are honest testify to what President Buhari has achieved for the country. And because there’s no need reinventing the wheel, let me adopt the chronicle of Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a recent press briefing. I then challenge anyone who wants to countermand the achievements to openly come out and say so.

Let’s go:

“Let me use this opportunity to comment on the increasing tendency by some opposition presidential candidates to downplay the achievements of this Administration, in their desperation for power, ahead of the 2023 elections. The worst offender in this regard has been the presidential candidate of the PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. During his recent campaign in Akure, the former VP was quoted as saying the APC had not done anything for Nigeria in eight years. What a preposterous statement from somebody who should know. I guess we can excuse His Excellency the former Vice President who, until recently, had fully relocated to Dubai, thus losing touch with Nigeria.

“And if anyone would accuse the APC-led Federal Government of doing nothing, it should not be Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Why? Because for the 16 years of the PDP rule, eight of which Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was Vice President, there was no motorable road to the former VP's hometown and indeed to key local governments in the Southern Senatorial zone that served as Adamawa's food basket and economic nerve centre until the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari
assumed office. Today, gentlemen, the Mayo Belwa- Jada- Ganye- Toungo road has been constructed fully and it’s the road that Alhaji Atiku uses to get to his hometown of Jada.

“What about security? Before this Administration came into office, all the five local government areas in Adamawa's Northern Senatorial District were effectively under the control of the Boko Haram terrorists. All state institutions, the local government administration, the police, the judiciary, schools, hospitals and markets had been sacked. Traditional rulers, including Emirs and
Chiefs, had been displaced with their palaces taken over by the terrorists as their headquarters.
The affected 5 local governments in the Northern Senatorial zone are:
1. Madagali
2. Michika
3. Mubi North
4. Mubi South and
5. Little Gombi

“In the Central Senatorial zone, two local governments were effectively under the control of the Boko Haram terrorists: These two local governments in the Central Senatorial zone are:
1. Maiha Local Government
2. Hong Local government.

“Today, not an inch of these local governments in Adamawa, the home state of the former Vice President, is under the control of terrorists. All institutions of state have relocated back and are operational. All Emirs and chiefs have returned to their palaces. Schools and markets have opened. Please note, gentlemen, that
throughout that period, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar could not even go home. As a matter of fact, when one of his right hand men, Mr. Adila, was killed by the terrorists, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar could not even go to condole with the family of the deceased. It was that bad.
Now that he can travel home freely, thanks to the Buhari
Administration, it is not sweet in his mouth to accuse the same Administration of doing nothing. As they say, the bedwetter should not join those who are insulting the washerman.

“In the area of Social Investment Programmes, there have been 29,641 beneficiaries, from Adamawa alone, of the N-POWER Programme of the Buhari Administration. Under the Home Grown School Feeding
Programme, some 162,782 pupils from Adamawa are benefitting from one meal a day. That programme employs 2,259 cooks in Adamawa and has
covered 1,236 schools in the state. How many school children did the PDP feed in Adamawa or anywhere in the eight years that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar held sway as Vice President in Abuja!

“We are not done. Under the Conditional Cash Transfer, some 64,607 vulnerable people have benefitted in Adamawa alone, while Trader Moni and Market Moni have reached a total of 38,000 people in the state.

“In the area of infrastructure, some 8 roads projects totalling 714 kilometres are currently being rehabilitated or constructed in the state. That's out of 43 road projects in the North East alone. These are not phantom projects. We have the full list of the roads and can
make it available to anyone who so wishes.

“Similarly, the North East Development Commission (NEDC) has either completed or is currently working on 140 projects, including construction of classrooms, healthcare facilities and ICT training centres, in Adamawa alone. Overall, NEDC has a total of 593 projects in the entire North East. Again, we have a full list of the projects.

“Gentlemen, you can now see that we didn't even need to go far to disprove the former VP's soap box statement.
You can also see the irony of someone who held the number two position in the country for all of eight years but could not positively impact on his own hometown, state or region now condemning an Administration
that has made it possible for him to even access his hometown, anytime he flies in from his new hometown of Dubai! The Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has had a positive impact on all parts of this federation. No amount of fallacious soap box rhetorics can change this fact.”

True. Projects abound in all zones of the country, done by the Buhari Administration, and you will get to have a compendium soon. But let those who have eyes, and deliberately refuse to see, continue. They will fall into a ditch, and great will be that fall.

In the words of Jimmy Scott, a Nigerian drummer, made popular by the Beatles, “O-bladi, O-blada , life goes on bra, la-la-la-la life goes on.”

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity
I never knew you are this useless.
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Enyimbamercedes: 12:40pm On Jan 30, 2023
Ode!

Question: why is BAT not campaigning with these " achievements "?

Answer: The destruction to the economy and the effect of his poor performance in the 8 years far outweighs all these "audio achievements ".

The candidate of the ruling party would rather use his perceived achievements when he was governor that that of a confirmed failure!

Femi....REST!!!
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Chetas81(m): 12:41pm On Jan 30, 2023
IF THE NIGERIA CITIZENS ARE NOT SICK APC GOVERNMENT NEED TO RECEIVED STONE EVERYWHERE THEY GO FOR CAMPAIGN
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by johnpalmer774(m): 12:42pm On Jan 30, 2023
Pwettylinda:
Thiefnubuu is critically sick, I mean very very ill if you have been observing all his moves and campaigns you will see clearly that he is physically sick and sick in the Brian - compromised CNS.

So if you plan to vote for a man who can not make sense of any sentence he makes, someone who's incoherent, demented, weak and sleepy to be president then you are very wicked.

If you have a company can you employ a man like Tinubu to manage it for you

To Thief Femi I wish you and your family APC, Buhari and Tinubu Amen undecided

It Obvious you're more sick than Tinubu himself.

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Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by EMPEROROFDONBAS(m): 12:45pm On Jan 30, 2023
wch Enugu Port Harcourt express way, is this man talking about?? 😂 😂 😂
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Dharey2377: 12:49pm On Jan 30, 2023
goldtube:
sad
its tinubu now not that buhari is changed, he is one man from niger not the real buhari, the real buhari is dead, you have shift ur lie lie from buhari to tinubu, now he is sick, he has dementia, a drug baron, fake identity... igno and their propaganda, they refuse to amuse me...instead of you to approach him to teach u how politics is been played u re there acqusing him and calling him names his parent did not give him.... whether u like it or not, tinubu is the incoming president of federal republic of nigeria comes may 29 2023 in jesus name...amen
make una fellow who sabi road to nation building.not someone who ask u to go and verify what is not..they has no legacy... its either they sell or render what is working useless...
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Bankowner: 12:53pm On Jan 30, 2023
My question is simple.

Is it an achievement for a president to be going about the country commissioning projects that his ministers are capable of doing?

We have pressing issues bedeviling our nation like the lingering fuel queues, rising cost, and inflation, yet one man sings the praise of another who has failed to superintend over these issues.

Na wa o!
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Babastrong(m): 12:53pm On Jan 30, 2023
[quote author=marlow1962 post=120495331]Someone should pls summarize [ He said Ipobians have eyes but cannot see. Yeeeh, who stoned me?]
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Qtrpst4: 12:53pm On Jan 30, 2023
It's a pity
joefelin2345:
Which face others ike him who had worked in similar position in the past have been carrying after leaving that office if I may ask? They know that we Nigerians have very very short memory na u. I remember engaging one of his town mate & incidentally a supposedly Pastor in the same Denomination. See how he was defending him blindly & foolishly for that matter. That's the problem o my brother/sister.
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Venom11(m): 12:57pm On Jan 30, 2023
atobs4real:
Yes ooo let them know Oga Femi
Br rea.. I hate, and disliked Buhari administration for the shi they put people thru earliest in his administration, the chaos was so much I thought it will swallow up the the country, it was a total blalubalu I practically told my political aligned friends to path with with apc.. And all that.. But coming to d end of his administration, I started having admiration for the man,/adm. Rea seem distractions left him, he showed integrity, remained liberal, his infrastructures are there too, insecurity has actually bn shown the tip of the sword.. Tho not a fan of apc and Buhari. But for keeping the country together this far he has my respect..

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Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by onuman: 12:57pm On Jan 30, 2023
Pwettylinda:
Thiefnubuu is critically sick, I mean very very ill if you have been observing all his moves and campaigns you will see clearly that he is physically sick and sick in the Brian - compromised CNS.

So if you plan to vote for a man who can not make sense of any sentence he makes, someone who's incoherent, demented, weak and sleepy to be president then you are very wicked.

If you have a company can you employ a man like Tinubu to manage it for you

To Thief Femi I wish you and your family APC, Buhari and Tinubu Amen undecided

Adesina reminds us that president Buhari is 80 and therefore too old to expect Buhari move from one point to the other as he does.

But APC is angling to give us Tinubu who may be up to 90 as president, if he spends 8 years in office.
Apart from affidavit age, Tinubu is not less than 82 years.
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Babastrong(m): 12:59pm On Jan 30, 2023
[quote author=Theunbothered post=120495382]Another pointless rant from Femi Adesina before he finally packs out of Aso Rock.

I will not miss the incessant wailing, moaning and brown nosing of a fool who's articles of big words and no substance gave him the false impression that he was an intellectual. [ If you hate him, fine. But don't hate the fact that he's intellectual. Produce 2 of his like in your family and appreciate the values of greatness. E no go better for all of you who are supporting ATIKU, PETER OBI]
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by michoim(m): 1:00pm On Jan 30, 2023
Wow! What an avalanche of achievements though
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Babastrong(m): 1:03pm On Jan 30, 2023
[quote author=PheelzAlmighty post=120495419]Condom 100 would have prevented this calamity from befalling Nigeria and Nigerians [ i pray you have one in your family to know and appreciate the values of greatness. E no go better for all of you who are supporting PETER OBI AND ATIKU.]
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Theunbothered: 1:10pm On Jan 30, 2023
[quote author=Babastrong post=120497610][/quote]

My family is doing fine and they didn't have to spit on the suffering and efforts of 200 million Nigerians to get there.

When Femi is done wasting what's left of Nigeria's treasury you will have more opportunities to massage his bloated ego.
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Babastrong(m): 1:12pm On Jan 30, 2023
[quote author=Theunbothered post=120497925]

My family is doing fine and they didn't have to spit on the suffering and efforts of 200 million Nigerians to get there.

When Femi is done wasting what's left of Nigeria's treasury you will have more opportunities to massage his bloated ego. [ Toor, let your family continue to be fine.]
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Nobody: 1:33pm On Jan 30, 2023
desiredhome:

And if not for the rice revolution of the present government, maybe you should have been buying rice for 100k/bag or more after the effects of COVID-19 and the world sabotage......

How much did you meet it on ground? This government failed before COVID19. When oil prices skyrocketed to an all time high? What did they do with it? I am sure you have travelled abroad and see how system works but out of bigotry you prefer to defend mediocre and failure. Very sad!
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by marlow1962(m): 1:36pm On Jan 30, 2023
2023NaijaVoter:


Eight years of progress from north to south and east to west has been more (tangible, substantial, discernible, obvious, & conspicuous) than 16 years of abject looting the national cake.
Oh yeah thanks
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by damkin24(m): 1:52pm On Jan 30, 2023
Pwettylinda:
Thiefnubuu is critically sick, I mean very very ill if you have been observing all his moves and campaigns you will see clearly that he is physically sick and sick in the Brian - compromised CNS.

So if you plan to vote for a man who can not make sense of any sentence he makes, someone who's incoherent, demented, weak and sleepy to be president then you are very wicked.

If you have a company can you employ a man like Tinubu to manage it for you

To Thief Femi I wish you and your family APC, Buhari and Tinubu Amen undecided
Accepted you are not voting the man but leave those that are ready to vote him to do that in peace because you are not feeding them. You don't have to get frustrated over nothing.

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Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by desiredhome: 2:06pm On Jan 30, 2023
Icumsa45:


How much did you meet it on ground? This government failed before COVID19. When oil prices skyrocketed to an all time high? What did they do with it? I am sure you have travelled abroad and see how system works but out of bigotry you prefer to defend mediocre and failure. Very sad!
It wasn't easy for the present government to stand because the losers of the 2015 election were determine to frustrate the incoming government out of pain and disbelief that they lost the election......
The difficulties Nigerians are passing through today is nothing but sabotage from the same people who are still in the government......

Oil is the only source of income for Nigeria and was selling for over $100/barrel in the previous government yet they were borrowing to Eat......
The oil came down to less than $40 when Buhari came in so what do you expect from him?

Nigerians are their own problem and they have refused to take responsibilities rather they keep blaming, blaming and blaming. .....
Buhari has done his best,........
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Guidedee(m): 2:09pm On Jan 30, 2023
But you read it before you commented with this foolish post.
safarigirl:


It is only a brainless nitwit that will read that trash

We are seeing the fuel queues, we are seeing the destruction of farmlands, we are seeing the wiping out of whole communities.

We are seeing brazen theft and disregard for democratic tenets.

If APC likes, they can build 500 flyovers and commission 300 railway lines, none of that will make up for the hundreds of thousands of lives lost under this regime, none of that will make up for the massive immigrations that their bad policies have caused in recent years, leading to separation of families and abandoning of livelihoods. They can continue deceiving the likes of you, who prefer propaganda for your selfish reasons, but millions of Nigerians have eyes and have seen what this cursed party has done to this country in 8 years.


You must be a blind bat to think Femi Adesina's rubbish that stems from an overfed belly, more than his own convictions, deserves to be read by sane Nigerians
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Twoclans(f): 2:21pm On Jan 30, 2023
Who takes Femi Adesina serious angry Anywhere belle face somebody angry
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by Amumaigwe: 2:22pm On Jan 30, 2023
presidency:
THEY HAVE EYES BUT CANNOT SEE. PITY!

By FEMI ADESINA

It has been a hectic week. Frenetic. We set forth at dawn on Monday from Abuja to Bauchi, to attend the Presidential and gubernatorial campaign of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates. It was only Muhammadu Buhari, the Mai Gaskiya (honest man), that could have commanded the number of people that turned out. Without inducement. Endless sea of heads. He remains the greatest political crowd puller we have ever seen in the country since the beginning of time.

From Bauchi, same Monday, we flew into Lagos. To commission the $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Sea Port, then West Africa’s largest rice mill at Imota, and a lubricant plant at Tin Can, Apapa, owned by MRS Petroleum Company.

Tuesday saw the President commissioning two more projects, including the Blue Line Rail. And from there, we flew to Dakar, Senegal, to attend a summit on food security in Africa, billed for Wednesday. Our President delivered a Keynote Address, and we left for Nigeria in the evening. We didn’t reach Katsina, and Daura till about 1 am Thursday.

Now as I write this Thursday morning, we are in Katsina, commissioning legacy projects, including; Kofar Kaura Underpass, Kofar Kaura Waterworks, Revenue House, Meteorological Institute, Darma Rice Mills, Kofar Kwaya Underpass, Katsina General Hospital, among others. The spree continues Friday, then same at Kano on Monday, and Jigawa on Tuesday.

Our President is 80 years old, don’t forget. And he does all these at a sprint. We that are far younger struggle to catch up with him. On Thursday, after going to bed around 3 am, on return from Senegal, I refused to get out of bed till my colleagues came to evacuate me, saying the President was ready and raring to go. I sprang up. President Buhari is a blessed man, despite a debilitating health challenge he had in 2017. God has been truly merciful.

Now, all these projects being commissioned in States are because the Federal Government created an enabling environment, and enunciated the right policies.. There are even counterpart relationships in some of them. I tell you, this President has done great things for our country, including fighting insecurity to a standstill, and on the verge of winning the war.

Some cynics claim they’ve not seen anything Buhari has done. Yes, the Second Niger Bridge is so small, so they need a magnifying glass to see it. The Lagos/Ibadan Expressway is so minuscule, and they need to wear their medicated glasses. Rail line like catacombs in certain parts of the country? Bring my microscope, let me check. Same for Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressway, Bodo/Bonny road and bridges, Loko-Oweto road and bridge, brand new airport terminals in Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Port Harcourt, rice mills everywhere. “We can’t see.” Purblind people.

What of Abuja-Zaria-Kano expressway in the works? AKK pipelines. And many other projects. No, they can’t see, because Buhari has done nothing. Fickle minds. Caviling. Carping. Flippant. Unserious.

Those who know and are honest testify to what President Buhari has achieved for the country. And because there’s no need reinventing the wheel, let me adopt the chronicle of Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a recent press briefing. I then challenge anyone who wants to countermand the achievements to openly come out and say so.

Let’s go:

“Let me use this opportunity to comment on the increasing tendency by some opposition presidential candidates to downplay the achievements of this Administration, in their desperation for power, ahead of the 2023 elections. The worst offender in this regard has been the presidential candidate of the PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. During his recent campaign in Akure, the former VP was quoted as saying the APC had not done anything for Nigeria in eight years. What a preposterous statement from somebody who should know. I guess we can excuse His Excellency the former Vice President who, until recently, had fully relocated to Dubai, thus losing touch with Nigeria.

“And if anyone would accuse the APC-led Federal Government of doing nothing, it should not be Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Why? Because for the 16 years of the PDP rule, eight of which Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was Vice President, there was no motorable road to the former VP's hometown and indeed to key local governments in the Southern Senatorial zone that served as Adamawa's food basket and economic nerve centre until the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari
assumed office. Today, gentlemen, the Mayo Belwa- Jada- Ganye- Toungo road has been constructed fully and it’s the road that Alhaji Atiku uses to get to his hometown of Jada.

“What about security? Before this Administration came into office, all the five local government areas in Adamawa's Northern Senatorial District were effectively under the control of the Boko Haram terrorists. All state institutions, the local government administration, the police, the judiciary, schools, hospitals and markets had been sacked. Traditional rulers, including Emirs and
Chiefs, had been displaced with their palaces taken over by the terrorists as their headquarters.
The affected 5 local governments in the Northern Senatorial zone are:
1. Madagali
2. Michika
3. Mubi North
4. Mubi South and
5. Little Gombi

“In the Central Senatorial zone, two local governments were effectively under the control of the Boko Haram terrorists: These two local governments in the Central Senatorial zone are:
1. Maiha Local Government
2. Hong Local government.

“Today, not an inch of these local governments in Adamawa, the home state of the former Vice President, is under the control of terrorists. All institutions of state have relocated back and are operational. All Emirs and chiefs have returned to their palaces. Schools and markets have opened. Please note, gentlemen, that
throughout that period, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar could not even go home. As a matter of fact, when one of his right hand men, Mr. Adila, was killed by the terrorists, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar could not even go to condole with the family of the deceased. It was that bad.
Now that he can travel home freely, thanks to the Buhari
Administration, it is not sweet in his mouth to accuse the same Administration of doing nothing. As they say, the bedwetter should not join those who are insulting the washerman.

“In the area of Social Investment Programmes, there have been 29,641 beneficiaries, from Adamawa alone, of the N-POWER Programme of the Buhari Administration. Under the Home Grown School Feeding
Programme, some 162,782 pupils from Adamawa are benefitting from one meal a day. That programme employs 2,259 cooks in Adamawa and has
covered 1,236 schools in the state. How many school children did the PDP feed in Adamawa or anywhere in the eight years that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar held sway as Vice President in Abuja!

“We are not done. Under the Conditional Cash Transfer, some 64,607 vulnerable people have benefitted in Adamawa alone, while Trader Moni and Market Moni have reached a total of 38,000 people in the state.

“In the area of infrastructure, some 8 roads projects totalling 714 kilometres are currently being rehabilitated or constructed in the state. That's out of 43 road projects in the North East alone. These are not phantom projects. We have the full list of the roads and can
make it available to anyone who so wishes.

“Similarly, the North East Development Commission (NEDC) has either completed or is currently working on 140 projects, including construction of classrooms, healthcare facilities and ICT training centres, in Adamawa alone. Overall, NEDC has a total of 593 projects in the entire North East. Again, we have a full list of the projects.

“Gentlemen, you can now see that we didn't even need to go far to disprove the former VP's soap box statement.
You can also see the irony of someone who held the number two position in the country for all of eight years but could not positively impact on his own hometown, state or region now condemning an Administration
that has made it possible for him to even access his hometown, anytime he flies in from his new hometown of Dubai! The Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has had a positive impact on all parts of this federation. No amount of fallacious soap box rhetorics can change this fact.”

True. Projects abound in all zones of the country, done by the Buhari Administration, and you will get to have a compendium soon. But let those who have eyes, and deliberately refuse to see, continue. They will fall into a ditch, and great will be that fall.

In the words of Jimmy Scott, a Nigerian drummer, made popular by the Beatles, “O-bladi, O-blada , life goes on bra, la-la-la-la life goes on.”

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

Because either your eyes are lying to you or you have optical illusion.
Re: They Have Eyes But Cannot See. Pity! by debetmx(m): 2:28pm On Jan 30, 2023
"Honest" man indeed.

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