₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
Tinubu doesn't have what it takes to end poverty. He's more interested in taking from ordinary Nigerians with taxes, taxes and taxes. If taxation is the only value accountants bring to the leadership circus, Nigerians should stop electing them. As far as Nigeria is concerned at the moment, lawyers make the best leaders.

How is it possible for a d.rug lord to end poverty?

omoredia:
Is El-rufai claiming to be better than a Tinubu that he supported. But since he didn't get what we wanted he is now cry blue murder. El-rufai cannot claim to be better than a Tinubu in any respect. Is it not the same El-rufai that brought bandits and terrorists to take over Kaduna state? Pls let's be wise. Buhari said more than El rufai is saying and when he became president what happened?

Is El RUFAI vying to be president where did he say he is better than Tinubu ?? and to what end is the comparison

Stop spewing gibberish all in the excuse of Opinion, the man is simply saying whats in the mind of Nigerians or can you stake your family lives if they give Nigerians Mic they wont say worst than El rufai is saying .

Tinubu himself from 93 criticized and played opposition to every government till 2015, Tinubu made Us feel OBJ was bad for Us but today We see who is more evil.

What is the use of Wise, Is EL RUFAI asking us to Vote him as president or you think you are talking to dundees

Well he is right. Poverty rate in Nigeria as at 1960 was 15% . Today it is 41% (urban) , 75% (rural).

As at 2014 it was 43.3%
As at 2004 it was 54.7%
As at 1994 it was 46.78%

Not a one day thing.

At the end of the day, we need to leave oil dependency and become industrial

EponObi:

Lol... El-Rufai has no motion against Atiku talk more of Tinubu. You guys are funny and it's amusing you can't see the writing on the wall. As Obi is featherweight in National politics, so is El-Rufai in the North. El-Isakaba doesn't even have motion is Kaduna; mentioning North is joke taken too far.

El RUFAI is feather weight in the North, But that same EL RUFAI is the only Northern that stoodup face off to Buhari in 2022

El RUFAI is feather weight. in the North, But he is the Northerner Tinubu Begged publicly not to leave ...

Do you beg a nobody? Can you beg someone you are feeding ? who begs a featherweight

El Rufai was one of Tinubu's generals at Chatham House... please beat that

SmartPolician:
Tinubu doesn't have what it takes to end poverty. He's more interested in taking from ordinary Nigerians with taxes, taxes and taxes. If taxation is the only value accountants bring to the leadership circus, Nigerians should stop electing them. As far as Nigeria is concerned at the moment, lawyers make the best leaders.

On the tax issue, the fact is, oil has been below what we need it to be

This year's budget was made based on the assumption oil would be 75 dollars per barrel, and even then we had to borrow 13 tr to keep things up. Oil has been below 70 dollars per barrel since January ending. In June it even went below 60 dollars per barrel.

Result...taxes and more loans.

And that's not all....to have a budget without borrowing, we have to have oil between 103-150 dollars per barrel. Scary.

SmartPolician:
Don't focus on the messenger; focus on the message. This mentality of yours has kept Nigeria a shit-hole country. I don't understand what's wrong with the black man! If those who invented everything we use today had your kind of mentality, the world would've still been in the stone age.

I don't blame you though; you have seen some of the worst of us without ideas take turns to ruin this country. That's why you think it cannot be done. Nigeria needs innovative compatriots to get in the driving seat and change our lachrymose economic situation.

If the messenger is a genocidal maniac like El-Rufai, then the messenger is more important than the Message.

Nigeria has no right to be rich. What does the country produce? Only 6 states are economically viable, with the remaining states offering nothing beyond poverty, insecurity, internal migration, and population.

I swear.me that used to see millions. I'm now seeing hundreds of thousands and no be evey month. I can't even risk to buy jeans of 50k.i no wan cry.bills dey dia like data,business,immediate needs.300k can't meet my needs again.inflation na baztad.

Exousiang01:
He was governor for 8 years, he couldn't end poverty in Kaduna state. As a matter of fact he had sons in the National Assembly while he was a sitting Governor and the both of them couldn't end poverty in even their local government.

I would even like to hear what people from Southern Kaduna have to say about this

The people of southern Kaduna say they agree with eb1lokan’s self assessment of failure in extreme poverty and all other aspects of governance.

Is this the focus of the thread

anonimi:
May 1, 2025

May Day: Hunger, unemployment, insecurity real— Tinubu

According to him: “The theme demands our collective attention and serves as a stark reminder of the need to create an environment where every worker feels safe, valued, and empowered to contribute to the growth and prosperity of our nation. As your President, I assure you that this administration is committed to creating such an environment for the common good.”

On the economic hardship, he noted that while it is a global phenomenon, its effects on Nigerians are particularly severe.

Tinubu said: “I am aware of the peculiarities of the economic hardship Nigerians face—rising living costs, hunger, insecurity, unemployment, and the loss of livelihoods. These challenges are real and demand definitive solutions, which I am poised to address as your President.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/may-day-hunger-unemployment-insecurity-real-tinubu/

It's so convenient and easy to criticize others but then with just a moment of proper personal scrutiny a person could be delivered from stark hypocrisy. Our politicians suddenly develop brainwaves of solutions to myriad problems bedeviling us but unfortunately this happens only when they are out of office

Honestly, I keep wondering what basis or criteria El- Rufai choose to use to assume himself as a spoke person for Nigerians.
El- Rufai is a shameless politician who lost ground as per political Indexterity to Tinubus smartness & now wants the same Nigerians living in Southern Kaduna that experienced inhumane, lopsided, wicked & insensitive lordship over them when he was Governor.

Monday Lines

On El-Rufai, Aláròká and terrorists

By Lasisi Olagunju

(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 08 September, 2025).

Why did Bola Tinubu offend Nasir El-Rufai? He should have kept him. There are three principalities the Yoruba dread to offend: The first is Osó (wizard), the second is Àjé (witch); the third is the most dreaded, their name is Aláròká. How do I translate that into English? I cannot, but you will get to know what it means when you hear the Yoruba say: Eni gbé adìẹ òtòsì, ó gbé ti aláròká (Whoever steals a poor man’s chicken has stolen from the one who will shout about it from street to street). The proverb is a warning against having as enemies those who have legs, and have mouths and who thrive on noise.

On Sunday last week, El-Rufai was his oppositional best on Channels Television, levelling allegations, issuing threats and giving assurances. The state breeds and feeds terrorists and bandits for political gain, he claimed. That was on Sunday. On Friday, he went one step further. If he had been told two years ago that he would be in a church against his Muslim brother, the president, El-Rufai would have said “A‘ūdhu billāhi mina sh-shayṭāni r-rajīm (I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil).” But he was in a church in the South-East last Friday doing just that, suited up like a pastor, preaching sermons of democracy and deliverance and promising to lower the flag of today's lord in the Villa. That is the problem with all aláròká; once they start, they don't stop unless and until they are done. This one will not stop. Where he will be today, and tomorrow and what message he will carry depends on what the Nigeria police do with him. He has been asked to submit himself to the law allegedly for being rude to the law.

The government will soon learn that neither police invitation nor detention can sew up the honker's lips. In my part of the country, we say there is no armour against the bullets of aláròká. Never fight or underestimate the aláròká; he is the one whose voice multiplies and complicates a quarrel until the whole village hears. Huffing and puffing, and talking and threatening are El-Rufai's strongest weapon against his victims. His present noise and the threats his cries contain are the consequences for Tinubu’s ditching of Nasir, his friend and ally. When you offend someone who looks small, you may in fact have provoked the person who has the loudest voice.

The police inviting him won't shut him up. That was exactly the undertone when Nasir said on that TV programme: “I am not afraid of anybody. I say my mind and I don’t look back.” In those words, he defined himself as the quintessential aláròká, the one whose voice ensures that an injury does not die in silence.

So, President Tinubu and his minders would be mistaken if they thought a cheap police invitation would defeat 'small-body-big-engine' Nasir. Whoever has crossed El-Rufai has not just taken a poor man’s chicken; the person has, knowingly or unknowingly stirred up the town-crier who will not stop shouting until everyone knows the story of the soup that burnt down the whole house.

Now, jilted El-Rufai is determined to undo what he did for Tinubu in 2023. That is the role he has chosen for himself. He does this street to street, city to city dismantling the myth of Tinubu’s invincibility. He now waxes prophetic: “In the 2027 elections, the worst-case scenario is a runoff, and Bola Tinubu will not be on that ballot. At best, he will place third. He has no viable pathway to victory. I’ve done the maths, I’ve done the analysis; it’s simply not there.” He said that and then added the dagger: “He can continue deceiving himself, thinking, ‘I have money, I have INEC, I have the police, I have the army.’ Well, President Tinubu, go and invite ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for a chat. Ask him if he didn’t also have all these in 2015, and yet we removed him. Is the situation similar today? It’s worse.”

But, I am worried. And you should be, too. How innocent is El-Rufai in the rottenness of the system he is complaining about? He could be genuinely clean; he could be genuinely filthy. But if his hands are not clean, shouldn't he first confess and seek forgiveness before wearing the tunic of the messiah? The Bible's St. Luke (18:10-14) tells of “Two men (who) went up into the temple to pray: One said, 'God I thank thee that I am not as other men'; and the other smote upon his breast, saying, 'God be merciful to me a sinner.'” What was God's response to the two sinners? Reading it is so instructive as we navigate the dangerous waters of Nigeria with its feuding political elite.

These days, the jilted are rebelling with daring moves and statements. The government is reacting, it is blocking rallies, north and south, and issuing summons. For now, we hear charges of betrayal; tomorrow it may be treason. These things are not new. People in government have historically seen opposition to them as either an act of betrayal or treason or both. They can be both right and wrong; most times wrong. We learnt from 'Tyranny of The Minority' authored in 2023 by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard professors of government, that in the early years of the United States' democracy, “the very existence of partisan opposition was regarded as illegitimate. Politicians, including many of the founders (of America) equated it with sedition and even treason.” Indeed, in 1798, the US Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts “which were used to jail opposition elements and newspaper editors.” The jailed were labeled betrayers. But the repression did not last. It, in fact, blew up in the face of its makers in 1800, just two years after that law was enacted. You ask how? The government lost the 1800 election; the disgusted American voter, for the first time, elected the opposition Democratic-Republicans. You can try, like me, to read that book, particularly Chapter One; its title is: 'Fear of Losing'. If you are from my country, you will appreciate the details, especially if you also know that those authors also wrote 'How Democracies Die.'

Betrayal is despicable; treason is evil. American Associate professor of history, Sally Shockro, in her ' Blessed Betrayal' warns that “in a culture centred on honour, a betrayal diminishes the status of the perpetrator, and often the victim as well, destroying the personal fortunes of those involved along with the trust of the community.” Now, can I quickly add this: “if the institutions of power are corrupt, is resistance an act of betrayal or an act of loyalty to the greater good?” This question forms part of the reasoning in Larissa Tracy's 'The Shameful Business of Betrayal and Treason.' The author who asks that question is a professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University, United States. You can answer the question based on where you stand and on what you stand on. I wish we could pose it to the feuding lords of our manor and know where we and the state stand in their estimation.

They are fighting over the spoils and loot of the last war. The shut-out feel betrayed, genuinely so; now they are all out to crash the temple of power. In Crystal Parikh's 'An Ethics of Betrayal', we are reminded that 'betrayal' as a "crime provides its own punishment" and that "where traitor feeds upon traitors, betrayal exacts its own self-consuming vindication." If Tinubu had not offended El Rufai, we would not have been hearing the secrets we hear these days; very dark secrets couched as bad, wicked allegations. First, El-Rufai on national TV accused the ruling APC and its government of financing bandits and terrorists as weapons of politics. Nasir said this and provoked his kinsman from Kaduna, Datti Baba-Ahmed, into making a counter appearance on the same TV platform. From Datti Baba-Ahmed, we heard what the forest heard that deafened it. The man told Channels TV's Seun Okinbaloye on Tuesday last week that insecurity in Nigeria is “orchestrated and is political.” He said Nasir El-Rufai shouldn't be the one crying wolf; he said the man belongs in the pack of the implicated wolves.

Hear him: “Do we understand the gravity of his statement?...What I am about to say is that insecurity is part of APC; insecurity has been APC's way of getting power. Insecurity has been APC's way of staying in power.” He then went into accounts which I pray must not be true. He said, without mentioning names, that a former Nigerian president met with and collected huge sums of money from the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, to sponsor extremists in Nigeria's North-East. Hear him: “Go back in time. Do you remember that a former Nigerian president was attacked by terrorists? It was unprecedented; never in the history of Nigeria did that happen. Why did some young men in the forest in the North-East...what business did they have (with him)? When Nigerian leaders leave power, they are liked, they are loved, they are forgiven all their errors and everything. But, this one, they followed and tried to kill him. Why did that happen?” He asked, paused and feigned crying. Then he continued: “What happened to all the donations leading up to 2015? Why did he decide to run in 2015 after crying and telling the whole world that he was no longer running? What was his link with North Africa? What was his link with Muammar Gaddafi? He is not alive, but others are alive to say it.

“I told you about 2015...you see... going after a former president and trying to kill him, what does that tell you? Before that, what had happened? After Jonathan won at the Supreme Court in 2011, the government called for dialogue (with the terrorists) and those young men nominated (the) former Nigerian president. It took three days to repudiate (that nomination). After those three days, go and plot the graph, you will see that between 2012 and 2014, the number of attacks in the North-East skyrocketed.” Datti Baba-Ahmed blamed the escalated terrorist attacks of that period on what he called “hunger, (and) lack of medicine (for the terrorists).” Why? “Because somebody had stopped sending the recurrent expenses of those people who used to come to Kaduna, collect (money) and go back.” He alleged (or claimed) that the funding was stopped as a punitive measure for the young men's indiscretion of publicly naming their covert funder as their negotiator with the government. “That's how the cycle went, in protest against 'why did you call out that name (as your negotiator).' They (terrorists) couldn't bear it (hunger) anymore, so they felt the best thing was to go and attack (him). It failed; we are lucky... Jonathan provided him (the former president) with additional cars and money. And it was all about money; all about collecting money.

“The truth is that someone had gone to North Africa and negotiated with Gaddafi; Gaddafi who was an international terrorist said 'I will help you as I have been doing... I will retire to your country if you become president... He wanted to create a buffer in Nigeria. They gave crazy amount of money to that gentleman (the former president) to go and help these people with the intention of bringing them to fight in Libya. When Gaddafi died, 'they' sat on the money. They kept on (giving) the recurrent until (the terrorists) mentioned the name and then they stopped sending the money. Now, all these things are linked. They wanted Nigeria to burn if Buhari did not become the president in 2015. They brought people from neighbouring countries in readiness, to remove Jonathan by all means. The desperation to get Jonathan out of power built up and added to what we call insecurity in Nigeria today.” That is Datti Baba-Ahmed saying all those things after the man who was allegedly involved has died. I heard people asking why he did not say those things when the man was here. I wonder too.

Why did he have to wait till El-Rufai said his own before saying his own? And immediately he left the TV studio, someone in their party, Hon Farouk Adamu Aliyu, came in, sat where Datti sat and pointed fingers at Datti too as a disciple of the ex-president he had just accused of financing terrorism.

The you-be-terrorist-I-no-be-terrorist diatribe should lead us to ask who really these people who have been leading us are. Could it be that people who are supposed to be in the dock have all along been the court? Nigeria has faced unremitting violent insurgencies for decades. It ranks 6th on the 2025 Global Terrorism Index and accounts for 6% of global terrorism deaths in 2023. That is according to the Global Community Engagement & Resilience Fund (GCERF). Hundreds of people have been killed and millions more displaced, and the end is not yet. Now, we hear claims, accusations and confessions from these gentlemen that the cause of everything was politics and quest for power.

Whatever is the worth of the long English of the three political leaders from northern Nigeria, it should get us thinking as a nation in dire need of peace and security. Can the agencies in charge of our security and safety 'collaborate' with these gentlemen (Datti Baba-Ahmed and Nasir El-Rufai) to draw up an action plan for us to defeat the enemy? Those two guys sounded like they knew too much. It becomes real when you hear Datti declaring that what he said was just about 10 percent of what he had in his belly, begging to be released. How and when will he be released of the remaining 90 percent? It took Tinubu’s non-accommodation of El-Rufai to make the man angry and say what he shouldn't say; it took a provocative statement by El-Rufai to draw out Datti Baba-Ahmed. Then Adamu Aliyu. They've all been in government, yet it appears we do not know them. Who really are they?

Warts and all, each of them still seeks to sleep with us. We are a nation of helpless landlords who must open their door at midnight to bloody invaders. “They say in Yoruba, Ìjàmbá ṣ'olè bí onílé bájí (The thief is in danger if the landlord awakes). But today, the landlord is in danger if he does not open the door for the thief.” That is classic helplessness – or surrender; an inversion or transposition of order and orderliness. University of Michigan art history professor, David T. Doris, has the above quote in his 'Vigilant Things' (2011). He goes on to sum up our situation in words of exasperation: The world has turned upside down (Ayé ti d'orí k'odò).

sulaak:
If the messenger is a genocidal maniac like El-Rufai, then the messenger is more important than the Message.

If eb1lokan is not a worse genocidal maniac, then why did he delegate Chatham House questions to El Rufai?

Maxymilliano:
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him.
According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.

Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.

At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.

https://thenationonlineng.net/why-i-delegated-el-rufai-ayade-others-to-answer-questions-at-chatham-house-tinubu/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1670262252

Nigeria has no right to be rich. What does the country produce? Only 6 states are economically viable, with the remaining states offering nothing beyond poverty, insecurity, internal migration, and population.

Our country is not just very rich but we are super rich to provide the most luxurious perks for our president.

chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.

The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.

Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-02/nigeria-budgets-for-suvs-and-yachts-amid-economic-hardship

The same way you ended poverty in Kaduna shey?

ObasaHF:
Honestly, I keep wondering what basis or criteria El- Rufai choose to use to assume himself as a spoke person for Nigerians.

El- Rufai is a shameless politician who lost ground as per political Indexterity to Tinubus smartness & now wants the same Nigerians living in Southern Kaduna that experienced inhumane, lopsided, wicked & insensitive lordship over them when he was Governor.

Did you also wonder what basis or criteria you choose to use to assume yourself as a spokesperson for southern Kaduna people

Ogah because of tribal considerations you,Tinubu,Buhari,Atiku,Ameachi et al ganged up to remove Jonathan and yet did worsened the whole thing.

All this politician are just selfish

SmartPolician:
Tinubu doesn't have what it takes to end poverty. He's more interested in taking from ordinary Nigerians with taxes, taxes and taxes. If taxation is the only value accountants bring to the leadership circus, Nigerians should stop electing them. As far as Nigeria is concerned at the moment, lawyers make the best leaders.

Tinubu was a Governor in Lagos,he didn't end poverty.Rather he ended turning his people into beggers in from of his house.
Lagos is the richest state in Nigeria yet his performance is nothing to write home about but ofcourse he smuggled himself into the presidency to kill Nigerians kpatakpata

AMINDA:
Maybe he didn't end poverty in 8 years as governor but he took Kaduna from an average of 9 billion naira per year IGR to over 60 billion naira when he left office. Kaduna became the Northern State with the highest IGR during his tenure. Kaduna was consistently top 5 state that attracted the highest FDI while he was governor. He embarked on the iconic and ambitious KadunaUrbanRenewal drive that transformed the city of Kaduna into a very modern city. You can either visit Kaduna to see for yourself or do your research online. There's no Nigerian alive that can doubt the capacity of Elrufai to deliver in any task he's assigned. He delivered as DG BPE, delivered as FCT Minister (still the best till date) and delivered as governor of Kaduna state.

This guy hasbeen in government since he was in his 20s yet he couldn't do a thing. i hate hypocrite, he worked with PTF, became Dg BPE, Minister FCT, Governor for 8years, what did he achieved.
He left Kaduna State with the worst state debts in history of the state and Northern Nigerian yet he couldn't provide safety of lives and properties, couldn't end almajirin, couldn't end out of school problems, couldn't end food poverty. He brought more religion division to an already polarized State, He abused citizens human right, locked up journalists for almost 36 Months. I cant finish the evil of El-Rufai. Animal want to teach us human rights.
This message should be put in the mouth another person certainly not El-Rufai, his involvement is making things difficult for the opposition.

El-Rufai was part of the politicians that made Nigerians poor ,he is just ranting because he was not confirmed a minister. He has always been in government for over a decade. This is the first time he will find himself politically ideal for two years.

anonimi:
If eb1lokan is not a worse genocidal maniac, then why did he delegate Chatham House questions to El Rufai?

Our country is not just very rich but we are super rich to provide the most luxurious perks for our president.

and in your mind, El-Rufai is most appropriate to lead the opposition campaign? He's not a credible person to do that. He will make the job more difficult, so long he represents the face of the opposition

Lifestone:
and in your mind, El-Rufai is most appropriate to lead the opposition campaign? He's not a credible person to do that. He will make the job more difficult, so long he represents the face of the opposition

Who do you suggest to be the face of the opposition instead

anonimi:
Who do you suggest to be the face of the opposition instead

A fresh face with no baggage will be better, El-Rufai face will cause more distractions and it stinks in his mouth to complain about what he's part of the Chief actor (a Professor Pat Utomi would have been better)

Where are the statistics to back this? 1960 vs 2025.

Ofunaofu:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/09/07/nigerians-poorer-now-than-1960-el-rufai-tells-tinubu-govt-how-to-end-poverty/

El Rufai seems to know it all now but I begin to wonder how come he never showed up this intelligence when he was Kaduna State Governor!!!

How much was he paying as minimum wage when he was governor?
What economic indicators did he put in place while as State governor to improve lives of people in the place he governed?

Exousiang01:
He was governor for 8 years, he couldn't end poverty in Kaduna state. As a matter of fact he had sons in the National Assembly while he was a sitting Governor and the both of them couldn't end poverty in even their local government.
I would even like to hear what people from Southern Kaduna have to say about this

No state governor can end poverty!

Mass poverty is fought at a national level, or else if a state should effectively fight poverty, people from poorer state will throng it, and it will become poor. That's why centres of wealth such as Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt have massive populations.

The effective way poverty has always been fought is rapid economic growth sustained over the long term. China for instance grew by 8% per year over 40 years. This is compared to less than 2% yearly average during Buhari's 8 years.

From 1999-2013, economic griowth averaged 6%. If you noticed, there was no JAPA syndrome like we have today. It was not that there was no japa, but it was not the explosion we have today.

Economic growth should hit 6% in 2028. Tinubu is targeting 10% yearly. To achieve this, I feel the economy would need to slash company taxes to nothing more than 15% to encourage massive foreign investment would drive economic growth over the top.

Exousiang01:
He was governor for 8 years, he couldn't end poverty in Kaduna state. As a matter of fact he had sons in the National Assembly while he was a sitting Governor and the both of them couldn't end poverty in even their local government.
I would even like to hear what people from Southern Kaduna have to say about this

So poverty eradication is suddenly the sacred duty of state governments? What a joke. Show us one governor past or present who has pulled off that miracle. You can’t, and you know it. Yet some dodoyo will still read your comment, clap like seals, and call it wisdom. That’s the real tragedy.

adekolaelect:
Stop giving yourselves fake hope . No Government can take Nigerians poeples out of poverty but themselves. Rufai was a governor for 8 years , he was a minister for 12 years if not more . What poverty has he eradicated from his poeple before he start speaking like motivational speakers only when power no dey with him in the just 2 years ago?

. There is porverty every where in the world. Tinubu came in and worsened the situation he met on ground. If he couldn't make it better,why make it worse?

SmartPolician:
Tinubu doesn't have what it takes to end poverty. He's more interested in taking from ordinary Nigerians with taxes, taxes and taxes. If taxation is the only value accountants bring to the leadership circus, Nigerians should stop electing them. As far as Nigeria is concerned at the moment, lawyers make the best leaders.

Is the problem of Nigeria the profession or qualifications of the leader or lack of vision, sincerity of purpose & incompetent leadership. The basic problem is the politico-economic structure of the federation with ethno-religious sentiments. The leadership selection processes is flawed with electoral malpractices & money politics. There is bad governance, corruption, nepotism & empowerment of political allies.
El-Rufai is just a bad loser. After 8 years as a governor, he couldn't improve the quality of life of his people, promoted ethno-religious tensions & even empowered illegal aliens. Even though his analysis of the economic situation is correction, he doesn't have much to offer to reverse the situation.

AMINDA:
Maybe he didn't end poverty in 8 years as governor but he took Kaduna from an average of 9 billion naira per year IGR to over 60 billion naira when he left office. Kaduna became the Northern State with the highest IGR during his tenure. Kaduna was consistently top 5 state that attracted the highest FDI while he was governor. He embarked on the iconic and ambitious KadunaUrbanRenewal drive that transformed the city of Kaduna into a very modern city. You can either visit Kaduna to see for yourself or do your research online. There's no Nigerian alive that can doubt the capacity of Elrufai to deliver in any task he's assigned. He delivered as DG BPE, delivered as FCT Minister (still the best till date) and delivered as governor of Kaduna state.

That is not a good example
What has happened to non oil revenue under Tinubu'?

You cannot pick and choose when to use that argument

There are many good arguments against Tinubu but the opposition is incompetent
They have nothing to offer

helinues:
Tell something new Elrufai . These ones are stale

You all will be shouting that they should give alternative advice from what government is doing. They have done now and you are still complaining