₦airaland Forum

DeLaRue:
Few months before the end of Mr Jonathan's era, the federal government in which she was coordinating minister for the economy started borrowing to pay salaries despite the government having consistently received the largest crude oil revenues in the history of Nigeria.

Under her watch the money was all squandered or stolen by the likes of Deziani and other GEJ/PDP larkies.

Her excuse was that she advised the government to save but that it didn't. Absolute tosh. Why didn't she resign? People should stop trying to re-write history.

Also, she never faced an economic situation as tough and complex as we have today so we simply don't know if she would have been any better than those performing similar role now.

It's easy to be a finance minister when the government is making record revenues from oil revenues and bandits are not disrupting farming on such scale as we have presently.

The truth is, she was never really tested in the sort of economic conditions and circumstances as we have now. Any suggestion that she would have handled the current situation better is pure speculation. We simply don't know.

Landowner101:
I didn't say you lied, I was just hailing you based on your epic response.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Lol. Easterners money indeed.

The SW was the richest region in the country both pre and post-independence. That's a fact.

chiagozien:
Through policy of stealing Easterners money to settle his people?

ejike714:
Obafemi Awolowo and Okonjo Iweala are the two best finance ministers in the history of this country.Awolowo leads, Okonjo Iweala follows.Obafemi Awolowo and Okonjo Iweala are the two best finance ministers in the history of this country.Awolowo leads, Okonjo Iweala follows....

budaatum:
I wish she'd considered in '23 and hope she might in '27.

Nigerians though don't seem ready to be ruled by a mother, it seems.

https://www.nairaland.com/6652782/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-president-2023

G00dharddick:
Yoruba people will come and tell you no igbo man or woman will ever rule Nigeria even though Okonjo iweala is from Delta.

They'll rather die than to allow her or a sane mind to rule. They prefer the drug criminal to anyone else

budaatum:
I am a "Yoruba People" from Osun State.

Ngozi Okonjo Iweala for President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

G00dharddick:
Sadly Yoruba Muslims will rather gnash their teeth to death than to allow Okonjo iweala to rule. They deceived the rest Yorubas into hating everyone and other tribes. They deceived Yorubas to bring in the drug lord everyone is suffering from today

budaatum:
Wish I could claim a religion with my Yorubaness to prove you wrong again.

Pity is, most Nigerians would not vote a woman as President of Nigeria. And the beauty is it is we who will reap the dividends of our own misvoting.

DeLaRue:
Few months before the end of Mr Jonathan's era, the federal government in which she was coordinating minister for the economy started borrowing to pay salaries despite the government having consistently received the largest crude oil revenues in the history of Nigeria.

Under her watch the money was all squandered or stolen by the likes of Deziani and other GEJ/PDP larkies.

Her excuse was that she advised the government to save but that it didn't. Absolute tosh. Why didn't she resign? People should stop trying to re-write history.

Also, she never faced an economic situation as tough and complex as we have today so we simply don't know if she would have been any better than those performing similar role now.

It's easy to be a finance minister when the government is making record revenues from oil revenues and bandits are not disrupting farming on such scale as we have presently.

The truth is, she was never really tested in the sort of economic conditions and circumstances as we have now. Any suggestion that she would have handled the current situation better is pure speculation. We simply don't know.

G00dharddick:
Millions of Nigerians will vote massively for a woman to rule. The problem is Yorubas and Yoruba Muslims.

budaatum:
The link in my last was from a Christian who thinks women are evil, so I don't think the problem here is Yorubas or Muslims.

Nigerians on the whole are not ready for a female president yet, considering how few female governors we have had so far. And to be honest, the bigotry in your responses makes me think you would not vote for a competent Yoruba woman neither, but I'm hopefully wrong about you.

budaatum:
The link in my last was from a Christian who thinks women are evil, so I don't think the problem here is Yorubas or Muslims.

Nigerians on the whole are not ready for a female president yet, considering how few female governors we have had so far. And to be honest, the bigotry in your responses makes me think you would not vote for a competent Yoruba woman neither, but I'm hopefully wrong about you.

Hogwarthtrades:
from H.E obasanjo regime to Goodluck Jonathan, you don't have to be a doctorate to see through NOI. SHe may be learned but not equal to the task. Ministry of finance civil service was a joke (not hearsay!). Same with Oby ezekwesili.

Omobude244:
An hausa man will never allow a woman to rule them

G00dharddick:
2027 is around the corner. Let Okonjo iweala declare her interest to run for president. I'll remind you this post!

Celestialsword:
What reasources does the south west has and have contributed towards nigeria development

Agbegbaorogboye:
Cocoa, Palm oil, rubber
South West was the richest region.
It was not a mistake it had the first secondary school, first university, first skyscraper, first TV station, first radio station etc

G00dharddick:
Millions of Nigerians will vote massively for a woman to rule. The problem is Yorubas and Yoruba Muslims

Your brother Seunmsg is now hiding in shame because of the monumental failure of the drug lord. The guy is a 🤡