₦airaland Forum

Mbanda:
Are you saying that people no longer leave in SE?

helinues:
Kanu shouldn't have been picked had he clamoured for his Biafra in a peaceful manner.

ESN/ UGM all scattered everything for him and the group.

The released criminals during the End sars protest took opportunity to continue with their crimes all in the name of forcing sit at home.

What's not making news about those UGM guys ( Mostly released prisoners), is, they have been kidnapping, they have been robbing people and in all Contracted for hired killings. That don't make it to the news, those around are aware of it. Abi, have they gotten a new job at Shell, Zenith bank, Dangote group after being forced released from prison

helinues:
I don't know if Peter Obi is not even consciously aware about some dirty questions which some journalists always throw at him. It's the same journalists that will twist whatever you say.

The more you talk, the more you will be dragged.

He has been so reckless lately.

helinues:
Spade spading. You are from South East. How about other regions. Or you think the way you guys will take it is the same others will take it?

helinues:
I do not think you bother to read what this thread is all about

I will reserve the rest of my comments, let NL's be the talker

MetaMatrix:
Why Waziri Atiku Abubakar Should Cut President Bola Tinubu Some Slack

Yesterday, Waziri Atiku Abubakar, in a critique of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's leadership, made several statements that perhaps were not an accurate reflection of the situation we now find ourselves in as a country.

Firstly, I supported, campaigned for and believed in the candidacy of Waziri Atiku Abubakar. However, the election was not stolen from him or the Nigerian public by either the Independent National Electoral Commission or the All Progressives Congress.

It would have been hard for us in the Peoples Democratic Party to win the 2023 Presidential election.

And the reasons for my assertion are logical.

If, as a united political party, the PDP could not defeat the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 despite our best efforts, how could we have vanquished them in 2023 when we were disunited?

We had 11,262,978 votes in 2019. By 2022, Peter Obi had left us with the 1,693,485 votes we got in the Southeast. Then the G-5 Governors, namely, Nyesom Wike (Rivers state), Seyi Makinde (Oyo state), Samuel Ortom (Benue state), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia state) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu State), departed and ended whatever hopes we had of getting at least 25% of the votes cast in their states.

Then we lost the other strongman of Kano politics (Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso) with his two million votes. And the second strongman, then Governor Ganduje, was with Tinubu.

So, while Tinubu was adding, we were subtracting.

If you minus the Southeast votes, Kano votes, and Oyo, Benue and Rivers, you will see that it roughly equals the 6,984,520 votes polled by Waziri Atiku Abubakar in 2023.

We in the PDP were not rigged out, nor was the election stolen from us. Rather, we were defeated by the disunity in our party.

It was for the same reason we lost the 2015 election when the PDP split into PDP and n-PDP, with the n-PDP and its four Governors eventually merging with the APC along with Kwankwaso.

2023 was just a replay of 2015. History did not repeat itself. We rather repeated history.

On the economic front, I supported Waziri Atiku Abubakar because he promised to do three cardinal things to redirect Nigeria's economy in the right direction. These are:

Fuel subsidy removal
Floating the Naira, and
Devolution of power

President Bola Tinubu is now doing all three of these. We in the PDP should be pleased.

Let me address some alternative policies that Waziri Atiku Abubakar proposed.

Waziri Abubakar said he would have taken a gradual approach and would not have been as drastic as President Tinubu had been.

Given the reality of what the Tinubu administration inherited from the Buhari regime, I do not know if that would have been possible.

Have we forgotten so soon that the Buhari administration illegally borrowed ₦50 trillion through ways and means and depleted our foreign reserves, leaving behind more debt than all past governments combined?

The Buhari regime claimed they left a foreign reserve of $37.08 billion, only for JP Morgan, our reserve bankers, to publish a letter stating that they lied and our reserves were actually just $3.7 billion. The fallout of this is that Buhari's Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria panicked and was arrested as he tried to flee Nigeria.

Faced with these realities, how would any responsible government have carried on spending $1 billion monthly on fuel subsidy and another $1.5 billion monthly defending the Naira and a further $300 million monthly subsidising electricity while servicing a total debt of almost $100 billion racked up by the previous administration with 92% of our revenue as at the end of Buhari's tenure? Please fact-check me.

This is even as the Buhari government had sold future contracts for Nigeria's crude oil, meaning that almost nothing was coming into the treasury for the first six months of the Tinubu administration.

Let us be realistic.

On February 26, 2024, Waziri Atiku Abubakar said President Bola Tinubu should learn from the Argentine President, Javier Milei, and implement his reforms like Milei handled his.

Waziri had said:

"Both leaders inherited a disoriented economy, but both applied different measures for recovery. President Javier Milei of Argentina was sworn into office on 10 December 2023. He inherited a worse condition than Nigeria’s. But what he did to return his country to a place where investors are ‘starting to believe’ should serve as a lesson to Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu.”

Interestingly, on Friday, September 27, 2024, the world's preeminent financial and economic medium, The Financial Times, in a headline 'Argentina’s poverty rate soars above 50% under Javier Milei' revealed that rather than praise, the Argentine leader is receiving knocks, as his reforms are not achieving the desired results.

Poverty in Argentina is at its worst rate ever at 57%, and, according to FT, "136,000 jobs have been wiped out since Milei took office."

Additionally, according to the International Monetary Fund, Argentina is now officially in recession as its economy has contracted by 3.5% in the last quarter and inflation hit a world record of 236.7%.

In contrast, Nigeria under Tinubu has experienced two quarters of unprecedented trade surpluses, and at the end of August 2024 had a record breaking ₦14.6 trillion trade surplus and a GDP growth of almost 3%, as Nigeria now exports more than she imports. Inflation had been tamed and minimum wage has been increased.

Next month, for the first time since Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi abrogated true federalism with his Unification of Assets Decree Number 34 on May 24, 1966, Local Governments will receive their funding directly due to the Tinubu administration's judicial victory at the Supreme Court on Thursday, July 11, 2024, granting autonomy to local governments.

Our foreign reserves hit a record of $40.2 billion because we no longer indulge in the politically popular but economically unreasonable act of defending the Naira with $1.5 billion each month.

Now, imagine if President Tinubu had taken that February 26, 2024 advice from Waziri Atiku Abubakar to copy what Milei did, where would Nigeria be?

That alone shows that President Tinubu's judgment is much better than Waziri Atiku Abubakar is giving him credit for, and it should be Javier Milei who ought to learn from Nigeria's Tinubu, not vice versa!

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.

helinues:
I don't know if Peter Obi is not even consciously aware about some dirty questions which some journalists always throw at him. It's the same journalists that will twist whatever you say.

The more you talk, the more you will be dragged.

He has been so reckless lately.

helinues:
No oo, I guess na the wrong advise Peter Obi got from the mad man before the election he's, still following which is now obsolete.

He should keep mute for some times

casualobserver:
The reason he should stop granting interviews is that everytime he speaks he exposes his emptiness.

helinues:
I don't know if Peter Obi is not even consciously aware about some dirty questions which some journalists always throw at him. It's the same journalists that will twist whatever you say.

The more you talk, the more you will be dragged.

He has been so reckless lately.

Tanoriydl:
No, it won't.
He NEVER insulted the church. He's a Christian himself, so that's not a problem.
The message is to encourage people to put in more hours in been productive and not praying for manna from heaven.

I'm a Christian too and I didn't see the message as offensive. Many pastors have preached similar messages.

helinues:
I don't know if Peter Obi is not even consciously aware about some dirty questions which some journalists always throw at him. It's the same journalists that will twist whatever you say.

The more you talk, the more you will be dragged.

He has been so reckless lately.

helinues:
Spade spading. You are from South East. How about other regions. Or you think the way you guys will take it is the same others will take it?

helinues:
I don't know if Peter Obi is not even consciously aware about some dirty questions which some journalists always throw at him. It's the same journalists that will twist whatever you say.

The more you talk, the more you will be dragged.

He has been so reckless lately.

helinues:
I don't know if Peter Obi is not even consciously aware about some dirty questions which some journalists always throw at him. It's the same journalists that will twist whatever you say.

The more you talk, the more you will be dragged.

He has been so reckless lately.

GetSenseNow:
Please how did you know this guy you quoted is from the SE?

lexy2014:
tinubu that is not empty, apart from hardship, what has he offered nigerians so far?

Thrasher2024:
Look at them! Foolish cretins, stupid things. All because Donald Trump has won the US elections and Obidients supported Trump. They're now trying to divert attention to Peter Obi.

OP you guys made Peter Obi popular by your foolish assertions. You guys likened Donald Trump to Peter Obi. Yet he won.. get a life.

OkoAmarashy:
They are busy hiding under the bed every Monday.

helinues:
The real issue is, they don't know how to correct each other. I am not trying to be disrespectful to my Igbo people but this is just something I have been observing for quite some time.

This mentality of everyone is a king hence can't be corrected is not working. It's the same mentality that allowed Nnamdi Kanu to have brought trouble to the region all in the name of Ipob. They should have also corrected him when he was going out of the Biafra agenda

madridguy:
Sincerely I'm surprised no one from his region can talk to him to stop embarrassing himself.