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Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Ogbuu101: 7:15am On Nov 12, 2024
Trimjos:
After 2027 and if nigeria remains one nation, a law needs to be passed in order to bar Yoruba people from becoming president anytime again in this country. Those guys are not good economic / security managers. It is very apparent that they re not just good in it
Obasanjo is Yoruba.
Maybe Yoruba Muslims
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by BluntCrazeMan: 7:21am On Nov 12, 2024
Atiku should end it..

He didn't intensify his fight when he had to..

Now that he wants to go dirty.??
It's no more necessary.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by chidiokay: 7:21am On Nov 12, 2024
Trimjos:
After 2027 and if nigeria remains one nation, a law needs to be passed in order to bar Yoruba people from becoming president anytime again in this country. Those guys are not good economic / security managers. It is very apparent that they re not just good in it
That can never happened, the best leadership in the history of Nigeria remains the yoruba,
Google Awolowo policy contribution in western region.
As your sensible uncles about Tunde idiagbon

And as a matter of Fact Obasanjo assembled economic team remain the best we'had ... go and do your research

Every tribe have a bastard, its unfortunate we elected a man even his parent did not want. 2027 Nigerians must make it a duty call we vote out APC/Tinubu..

Any thug or hoodlum that want to chase away other tribe from voting we have yorubas youths to contend with ... Tinubu must never happen again
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by membranus: 7:21am On Nov 12, 2024
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
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by sweetkev(m): 7:22am On Nov 12, 2024
DeLaRue:
I have not for once been impressed by Mr Onanuga.

Why does he feel the need to respond to every comment from the Atiku side on a rolling basis.

Back and forth, back and forth, like school children.

He may have served the President well in Lagos in the past, but he is just not cut out for the job of a modern Presidential media aide.

Beside endless needless responses, the responses are often laboured, too long, drifting, and offering no central focus.

The President needs to look beyond loyalty and let the man go.
How old were you when he was Lagos state governor ? He did nothing in Lagos as a two term governor.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Nobody: 7:24am On Nov 12, 2024
jmoore:
https://saharareporters.com/2024/11/11/atiku-blasts-tinubu-im-not-bigot-you-didnt-refund-money-drug-trafficking-wickedness-your
"Rather than sack his economic advisers, he continues to live in a fool’s paradise"
Coolio, I feel you..

A stiff-necked dictator who just wanted to be presido..came in unprepared with messianic delusions but can't even save himself..

Worst government in existence. Wasteful. Incompetent. Retrogressive. Modern day Pharoah. Zero economic management.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Tochi3(m): 7:26am On Nov 12, 2024
blacknp:
The scripture says answer a fool according to his folly, Atiku like his boy Gringory Obi are foolish men with their lack of constructive criticism of Bola Tinubu.

They just rant & rant over & about a government that hasn’t been in power for 2 years.
grin grin grin

..another round of senselessness & daftness from a BATist.. grin grin grin

grin grin grin grin
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by SisterAnn(f): 7:30am On Nov 12, 2024
blacknp:
The scripture says answer a fool according to his folly, Atiku like his boy Gringory Obi are foolish men with their lack of constructive criticism of Bola Tinubu.

They just rant & rant over & about a government that hasn’t been in power for 2 years.
Only NL zombies think a microphone licking urinating machine who is also braindead has anything to offer.
That's how you decieved yourself on buhari for eight years, in same vein you plan to enforce failure again, claiming he's just two days old in office.

In less than 2yrs, Tpain spent 19b on presidential fleet, he would spend 200b obviously if allowed to continue. Hiss.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by SisterAnn(f): 7:30am On Nov 12, 2024
Tochi3:
grin grin grin

..another round of senselessness & daftness from a BATist.. grin grin grin

grin grin grin grin
Aswearugad!
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Inosky: 7:32am On Nov 12, 2024
Atiku is a also a big0t, during 2023, he told the Northern Muslim to vote for him because he's one of them, just that he's not as big0t as Tinubu.
T-pain is everything no sane person wished, especially on issue of who heads the affairs of the country.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by SonofLagos: 7:43am On Nov 12, 2024
Trimjos:
After 2027 and if nigeria remains one nation, a law needs to be passed in order to bar Yoruba people from becoming president anytime again in this country. Those guys are not good economic / security managers. It is very apparent that they re not just good in it
grin pained ipob loser, they are not economic managers, yet they have Lagos grin the most progressive state and region in Nigeria.

Tell us your state if you not ashamed and let see how far you have been able to manage it….pained loser grin
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by FireUpNow(m): 7:44am On Nov 12, 2024
History has a way of not forgetting our actions and deeds.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by verdade00: 7:47am On Nov 12, 2024
Pot calling kettle black. Two foolish criminals .
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by VitalSocialNEWS(m): 7:48am On Nov 12, 2024
Atiku And His Aides Should Know Better That They Should Focus On Promoting Societal Solutions For A Better Nigeria Instead of Always Trying To Blackmail And Undermine The Efforts of The Presidency.


However, Common Sense Is Not Common.

Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by whippersnapper(m): 7:51am On Nov 12, 2024
Trimjos:
After 2027 and if nigeria remains one nation, a law needs to be passed in order to bar Yoruba people from becoming president anytime again in this country. Those guys are not good economic / security managers. It is very apparent that they re not just good in it
I second to this motion. Let's try Igbo and the minority tribes
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Macphenson: 7:52am On Nov 12, 2024
JAMO84:
A first class thief like Atiku is calling someone a bigot.

It seems Tinubu is the only so called drug baron that forfeit money to evade justice in the history of the US. Thieves like Atiku and Onyeama are not allowed to forfeit money, which is why they can't go to the US without a diplomatic passport. So Tinubu is Smarter than all of them put together.
Onyeama that was cleared by a US court is whom you are mentioning. The courst cleared him of any financial malpractice. I know the success of Airpeace is purging you people but all of una no reach. Whom God has blessed, no man can curse.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by whippersnapper(m): 7:54am On Nov 12, 2024
UltraSolid:
Atiku and fake opposition politics he could not play against his own Kinsman Buhari, who set Nigeria backwards 50 years, calling Asiwaju a bigot. Perjaps Atiku does not understand the meaning of "bigot".
at least during buhari we could afford to eat but now

Ebin pawa cry
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Azazyel: 7:54am On Nov 12, 2024
As if Atiku himself even cares about Nigeria. We know as e dey go.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Flangelo12: 7:58am On Nov 12, 2024
Forkthiefnubu:
I always knew they are incompetent, I worked with them in Nigeria , studied with them and currently worked with them abroad , once I see them I stand at guard , these ppl are shitty ppl , pernicious and evil
You still work in the same place.

grin
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Ykc2(m): 7:58am On Nov 12, 2024
Ofemannnu:
But Yorubas are the only economic geniuses because of their antecedents and recent realities.
They sre the only people who have businesses older than 100 years and still surviving.
They have the highest number of industries and businesses both in Nigeria and abroad.
They dominate almost everything financially in Nigeria and as Nigerians abroad.
Even during regionalism,they borrowed your ancestors money twice in order for them not to sink.
Read the history of the Yorubas and you will know that they are the best administrators ever.
before you say yorubas are good in management? start with ordinary football club,where is shooting stars where is stationary store where is abiola babes? Barcelona fc was founded in 1899 is here and you talking about your tribe's people management?,I wonder how you guys would have compete if calabar is capital of Nigeria till date with wharf and everything in calabar to chop go hard una
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by coleon(m): 7:58am On Nov 12, 2024
jmoore:
https://saharareporters.com/2024/11/11/atiku-blasts-tinubu-im-not-bigot-you-didnt-refund-money-drug-trafficking-wickedness-your
Thank you very much Atiku for the so many punchlines thrown, infact this is the best I've seen an opposition throwing to APC so far not that docile Obi always talking like a woman and behaving like a coward when called out.
APC is really taking Nigerians for granted and thinks they can get away with it, there has to be a Shark in the tank to put them on their toes.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Ramski: 8:00am On Nov 12, 2024
Nonsense talk
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Exceed15: 8:03am On Nov 12, 2024
Atiku hit him hard. If Tinubu administration was kind to people, he would have shut up the opponent mouth but he deserves the criticism he gets. Useless president who came unprepared shouting "Emi lokan up and down.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by coleon(m): 8:05am On Nov 12, 2024
Flangelo12:
We need USA to explain the extraordinary rendition of our leader in Ogbaru.
Not all your a leaders pls, Obasanjo performed very well as president, inflation was single digits in his time,he brought in mobile phones and he was detribalised by appointing technocrats all over Nigeria into his cabinets. The likes of elrufai, soludo, Adeshina, frank nweke and okonjo were all Obasanjo's products and not yorubaman.
This one we have there now is a yorubaman from Guinea so he's a lost cause.
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Lionnation: 8:07am On Nov 12, 2024
Trimjos:
After 2027 and if nigeria remains one nation, a law needs to be passed in order to bar Yoruba people from becoming president anytime again in this country. Those guys are not good economic / security managers. It is very apparent that they re not just good in it
when can't was in finance she was big disaster and digrace, there have never been a successful Yoruba man or woman in therms of anything that has to do with economy, bunch of owamberians
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Chukwudi4naija(m): 8:10am On Nov 12, 2024
membranus:
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
Who are you fooling with that election analysis? Election that was blatantly rigged by INEC?
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by belzabull(f): 8:16am On Nov 12, 2024
Forkthiefnubu:
I always knew they are incompetent, I worked with them in Nigeria , studied with them and currently worked with them abroad , once I see them I stand at guard , these ppl are shitty ppl , pernicious and evil
brother, please be very careful, cautious, alert And awake when working or dealing with a yaroba man. They're very cunny, mischievous, unreliable, double-speak a lot and can't be trusted...green snakes 🐍 under green grass

I know them like the palm of my hand

Always be on guard bro ✌️
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by illuminutty: 8:16am On Nov 12, 2024
Jostoman:
Yes, Atiku no talk they say opposition too is too weak, Atiku gave advice to president on how to move Nigeria forward they said Atiku is jealous so the only option left is Vavulence
Exactly!
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by GardenOfGod(m): 8:17am On Nov 12, 2024
"Unlike Tinubu, Atiku is not a bigot. He has also not refunded money to the United States for alleged drugs trafficking. " Druglord as president... Only in Nigeria
grin grin
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by Donchieli: 8:22am On Nov 12, 2024
I suppose the northerners are better position? this country was brought to its knees by northerners(from all 3 regions) who have steered the affairs of the country for years

All the security challenges been faced in the country besides arm robbery have been pioneered by northern elite(leaders)

They only care about wearing azurfa and big big shedda with no brains and empathy to the plight of its subjects

The only exception was Umaru Musa Yar'adua

God bless his soul

Trimjos:
After 2027 and if nigeria remains one nation, a law needs to be passed in order to bar Yoruba people from becoming president anytime again in this country. Those guys are not good economic / security managers. It is very apparent that they re not just good in it
Re: Atiku Replies Tinubu: I'm Not A Bigot Like You, Didn't Refund Drug Money by coleon(m): 8:24am On Nov 12, 2024
membranus:
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
I was reading on until I got to the part where he said "Inflation has been tamed in Nigeria" . Both you that posted this rubbish and Reno Omokri deserves a PhD in lying. You fools would be taught a lesson soon for all these rubbish lies.
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