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| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by grandstar(m): 2:21am On Jul 20, 2025 |
rinzaugustine:And you forgot to add that Tinubu should bring down fire from heaven. How will he bring exchange rate down to 200? When he took office, the CBN had only $3bn, and it was owing buyers $7bn. At $1 -440, the CBN could not supply enough dollars, if the price is reduced to N200 as you suggested and the demand is $20bn, where will you get the dollars from? Whatever exchange rate you have, you must be able to defend it. Defend means that you have SUFFICIENT forex to supply at that exchang rate. The ultimate determinant of an exchange rate is the market or market forces. Neither the government nor CBN is the ultimate decider. Let me give an example. Imagine the price of oil is $100 per barrel, and the country is selling 1mbpd, that is $100m daily. That is $100m flowing in daily. Then oil prices drops to $50 per barrel. That means $50m is coming in daily. With the reduced inflow, will you pay more for dollars or less? You will have to pay more As for oil subsidy, how will Tinubu reduce the price of petrol to N100/litre. A litre of crude oil is at least N500 per litre! The fuel s7bsidy isn't free. It is very costly. Let me explain how the fuel subsidy works. Let's say the country produces 20bn litres of crude oil yearly. Let's assume crude oil is N500 per litre. To sell the petrol to you at N100, the government's sets aside 6bn litres of crude oil to sell at N80. So, from 6bn litres of crude oil, the government will earn 6bn x N80 = 480bn. The remain 14bn litres, it sells at N500 which is 7trillion. So total income from crude oil is 7tr + 480bn wh8ch is 7.48trillion If the government had sold the entire 20bn at N500, it would have earned 10trillion. Now, let's say the budget for that year is 9trillion. Because of the fuel subsidy the revenue is only 7.48tr. There will be a budget deficit of the 1.52tr. governmenr will have to borrow 1.52trillion. Without the fuel subsidy, there would have been a budget surplus of 10tr-9tr = 1tr The fuel subsidy has been forcing the government to borrow heavily for years. The borrowing has become too much and it's killing the economy. The fuel subsidy was a major reason for borrowing under Buharis government. In 2015, 26% of government revenue was used for servicing debt. By May 2023, it was 97% of gocernment revenue. Imagine receiving your salary of 500k and being left with 15k after you settle debt? Must anyone hear it? |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Namigotalktru: 2:30am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Thunderfayamods:If the north wanted Atiku he would have been president the last 3 times he tried for the seat. What you simpletons refuse to acknowledge is that northerners are the only people that vote to give others a chance even if they’re not their tribes men. But when you get in seat your arrogance and ignorance brings you to a point you are reminded that this Nigeria belongs to those that put their blood on the line over and over again- and that is the north. You all claim to believe in something. Get up and show us the country you want. It’s not with mouth or sycophancy. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Namigotalktru: 2:34am On Jul 20, 2025 |
frog12:Where is the lie? Which part of the country welcomes everyone? Feeds you? Votes for you? But every time you get on seat you ignore our issues, abuse us and leave our poor to die like animals? When we talk you call us names. When we are on seat you work against us, promote the morally corrupt to enable them wreck our region? When we show you those that can work you ignore them and keep pushing those that destroy? It is well. The countdown has begun. Shebi we’re doing democracy? Let’s go there. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Thunderfayamods: 2:41am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Namigotalktru:Coming from a novice that doesn't understand politics, to you politics na mathematics. To start with I didn't say Atiku will be president go back and read to comprehend. Regardless political equations changes if they don't want him then they can want him now. You need to upgrade your political knowledge and your unrelated comments. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Thunderfayamods: 2:45am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Namigotalktru:Just using English that is not applicable, it seems you just learn those words. Am I more simpleton than you? |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by grandstar(m): 2:57am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Validated:Tinubu offered Osibanjo. Buhari wasn't the one that found him. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by anonimi: 2:58am On Jul 20, 2025 |
stuffs2002:You are recycling ACN propaganda lines from the past. Apart from Okonjo-Iweala, the other key members of his economic team were Yorubas like Aganga, Adesina (outgoing ADB president), and Omobola Johnson as well as the Foreign Affairs Minister, Ashiru. In addition, the Yoruba party of ACN teamed up with PDP rebels to fight against Jonathan and PDP’s choice of a Yoruba candidate (Mulikat-Akande) for the No. 4 position of HoR Speaker. jara: |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by anonimi: 3:10am On Jul 20, 2025 |
frog12:What EFCC case all these people have since 2015, which was not because they fell out of favour with the[b] Ogas at the top of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC?[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg_1mly5Gm8?si=6-xX-tX6XyaYlBmq What happened to the cases of those who are aligned with the party hierarchy, like Akpabio, Ganduje, Omisore, Goje etc? chisomkachy: |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by anonimi: 3:16am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Princejydo:He was so weak yet he governed the country much better than the pretentious crooks who replaced him. How could that be? What has APC changed for better as promised 10 years ago? https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/01/flashback-how-bola-tinubu-spoke-highly-of-buhari-in-2015-named-pdp-poverty-development-party/ thisweekng: |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by anonimi: 3:22am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Eriokanmi:How can the north have ruled for 50 out of 65 years when the south was president for the six years of the first republic? Did we vote for the military dictators in tribal zoning arrangements? Do they vote in tribal zoning agreements for the heads of state in the countries that we pray and fast to japa to? edet19892015: |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by anonimi: 3:31am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Thunderfayamods:If ebilokan has not stolen the most wealth among our politicians, then what is he doing with his Lagos master plan trillions annual budgets squeezed out of the masses but failing to employ well paid civil servants to do a tiny fraction of the goodu goodu méje pẹ̀lú yeah yeah mẹ́fà Jakande did in just four years with far less money? Can you imagine the irony that Buhari jailed Jakande for corruption but handed over to ebilokan, the most corrupt politician ever Splashme: eluquenson: |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by rinzaugustine: 3:36am On Jul 20, 2025 |
grandstar:Jonathan had the exact same scenario you mentioned but never hamped on it as excuse for failure and no Nigerian should excuse failure in this 2025 based on tribal sentiments otherwise it’s dead on arrival |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by grandstar(m): 4:35am On Jul 20, 2025 |
rinzaugustine:Your response is lazy uneducated. Jonathan met over $20bn in the Excess Crude Accounr. There was over $50bn in the foreign reserves. OBJ had reduced the external debt from $35bn to $5bn. You did no research. What yeye tribalism? Were the two economists who performed beautifully during OBJ's rule not Igbo speaking, Soludo and Okonjo Iweala? The same woman served under Jonathan but couldn't perform as much because GEJ was not as supportive. She urged him to save money with crude oil at $100/barrel, he did not support her. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Thunderfayamods: 5:10am On Jul 20, 2025 |
anonimi:The kain drink wey una dey drink for the forum needs to be studied. Someone will just wake up early in the morning and start writing irrelevant things. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by emmanuelbrown26: 5:13am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Celestialsword:Mehnnnn, best quote so far |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Nobody: 5:28am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Funflipper:Oga go find Malaria medicine drink. Where did you find ADC mentioned in my reply? |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by presido11: 5:33am On Jul 20, 2025 |
frog12:Is that what you people made them to be? When you keep on repeating that the vote from east in inconsequential. Not they have taken it as birth right that without them nobody will win the presidency. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by presido11: 5:34am On Jul 20, 2025 |
NewHe:Just Luke APC when they started. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Layi4real(m): 7:16am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Namigotalktru:you are dealing with a different breed this time around. This is not Obasanjo or Jonathan. This is Jagaban the master planner. u think if he believes so much in north winning him the second time he wouldn't have been doing everything to pleases them instead of offending them just to get reelected. there are 1001 ways to get reelected nd he is gonna shock you guys. just make sure una get enough lawyer by 2027 bcus na courts go be ADC PDP LP base while Jagaban continue rulling. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by NewHe: 7:16am On Jul 20, 2025 |
presido11:I think it was a general consensus by Nigerians then and never meant to push GEJ out but PDP but now it is Tinubu by coalition of discarded politicians! |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Duplex90: 9:14am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Omenlon:u have no idea how angry the people are with tinubu, or because they can’t even afford data to come online and rant. Just wait till 2027 u will be shocked!!! |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Duplex90: 9:21am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Samogloby:thats what apc ia doing. Using tribalism to destract people from actual statistics. Just imagine thr increament not to mention food inflation yet apc think they can play the tribal card. Whoever is running tinubu campaign is failing already |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by stuffs2002: 9:51am On Jul 20, 2025 |
anonimi:You people always try to change history. Jonathan single handedly worked against Mulikat and replaced her with Tambuwal. I remember the case very very well because Mulikat went to secondary school in Queen Amina college, Kaduna same school my elder sister went. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by anonimi: 10:10am On Jul 20, 2025 |
stuffs2002:Please why are you mixing me up with ebilokan who said what he and his fellow Yoruba ACN did to their own sister ![]() jara: |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by koladata(m): 10:19am On Jul 20, 2025 |
I wish i can give you 100 likes Leonardo4: |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by rinzaugustine: 11:20am On Jul 20, 2025 |
grandstar:Look at the trash you are typing that Jonathan that had dollar at less than 200 naira did not perform beautifully but Emilokan that ruined same to almost 2000 is doing well …tribalism don do una brain smack down . Please stop stop quoting me with this rubbish as my 7 year old child reasons better than this but I won’t blame you but shame on British racists and lord lugard that put all of us in same country |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by olaide68(m): 11:25am On Jul 20, 2025 |
ADC , Association of Democratic Conspiracy. They will soon scatter their table themselves because of individual ambition. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by stuffs2002: 11:58am On Jul 20, 2025 |
anonimi:You are being emotional. I have absolutely nothing to gain if Mulikat or Tambuwal was Speaker. But the truth remains what it is. I cannot blame the Yorubas for kicking out Jonathan because he declared a political war on them and would have put them in political oblivion if they had not fought back. Jonathan allowed himself to be poisoned by the south east to hate the south west and he got what he got. I am not one of your emotional southerners who don't view issues with logic. I am a northern Muslim born and bred in the north but I didn't support Buhari's political ambition in 2015 because Jonathan was my preferred candidate and I know how a lot of fellow northerners came at me for my position. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Namigotalktru: 4:22am On Jul 23, 2025 |
Layi4real:Wait now. You plan, he plans, we all plan, but God is the greatest of all planners. Some of you will understand that you cannot cheat God no matter how clever you think you are. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Layi4real(m): 9:19am On Jul 23, 2025 |
Namigotalktru:If God doesn't want him in that position he wouldn't have gotten there on the first place. So God want him there |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Namigotalktru: 8:17pm On Jul 23, 2025 |
Layi4real:God also wanted Yar Adua and Jonathan. When your time to perform is up it is up. He has another one year to show us why he should remain on seat. It is not a given or his right and if it is by performance then his time is up. So far appointing mediocres in the name of politics and using the country and positions for promotion by his “inner caucus” while people are starving and being unsafe is not the way. Not supporting Nigerian businesses while going to go and bring crooked foreigners that our neighbours have the sense to chase out is not the way. Like I said, you all plan, but God is the Greatest of Planners. |
| Re: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by Layi4real(m): 9:29am On Jul 24, 2025 |
Namigotalktru:It’s not up to anyone to say he won’t be reelected — let God decide his fate. And let Baba remain optimistic about himself. Every government will be viewed differently depending on perspective. As you're claiming he’s the worst, others are seeing things from completely different angles. To me, he’s the best thing that has ever happened to this country. And before you assume I’m benefiting from his government, I’m not. Even as a student, I didn’t apply for NELFUND, and neither I nor my parents are involved in politics or enjoying any personal benefit from his administration. But if you are intelligent enough and remove sentiment from your judgment, you’ll realize he’s actually doing his best and making bold moves. Aside from hunger and inflation which I admit are serious issues — he’s genuinely trying. And let’s be honest: these two problems were bound to come sooner or later. You can’t remove fuel subsidy and expect the economy to remain untouched. Even a country as strong as the USA would feel the impact not to talk of Nigeria. With time, these reforms will begin to yield positive results if we’re patient enough. But if we can’t wait, and we keep changing governments every time a reform doesn’t favor us immediately, then we’ll keep repeating the same cycle. At the end of the day, we may come to realize that we the people are the real problem of this nation, especially because of our impatience. Reformation takes time to yield results. |
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