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Poll: Who is better prepared to tackle insecurity in Nigeria ?

Bola Ahmed Tinubu 41% (29 votes)
Atiku Abubakar 58% (41 votes)
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Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by SlavaUkraini(op): 6:42pm On Apr 06
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on President Bola Tinubu to take decisive action over the rising wave of attacks across the country, urging the President to match his words with concrete steps to protect citizens.

Atiku made the call in a statement on Monday via his official X handle, while reacting to recent attacks in Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa and Kaduna States.

He reminded the President of his earlier assurance that the attack in Angwan Rukuba in Plateau State would not happen again, expressing concern that another deadly incident occurred shortly after the statement.

“I wish to remind President Bola Tinubu to keep to his words that ‘this (Angwan Rukuba attack) will not repeat itself.’ It does appear that those words are hollow because barely 72 hours later, another attack in Benue State claimed over a dozen lives,” Atiku said.

The former Vice president also raised alarm over reports that families in a Nasarawa community were forced to flee their homes on foot amid threats of attack.

He further lamented a fresh incident in Kaduna State at the weekend, describing the development as troubling.

According to Atiku, the primary responsibility of any government is the protection of lives and property as well as the welfare of its citizens.

“The Commander-in-Chief should brace up to the challenges of governance. Enough of these hollow rhetoric, Mr. President. It is time to fold your sleeves and get to work,” he stated.

Atiku also extended his sympathies to families who lost loved ones in the attacks.

“Meanwhile, my thoughts and prayers are with the families who may have lost dear ones in these attacks,” he added.
https://dailypost.ng/2026/04/06/enough-of-hollow-rhetoric-get-to-work-now-atiku-tells-tinubu/

Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by CodeTemplar:
Not just in security aspect.
Hollow rhetorics like posting Lagos or Calabar section photos of a 700km road. How many KM have you done?
If you need 36% of the available 8 years to complete 10% of the job, you might as well need 6 or 7 terms (28 years) to reach Delta state.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Gotocourt: 11:39pm On Apr 06
It's official, one party state 🤷🏿
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by ColdHunter(f):
Pablo should just do the honorable thing and resign.

His incompetence and lack of empathy is startling.

While I personally didn't expect much from him, his lack of preparedness is an eyesore
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Jossyman0007(m): 11:56pm On Apr 06
It seems everyone else in the country knows about the killings going on in Nigeria, except Mr president and his supporters.
Bunch of never do well.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by AcadaWriter0: 11:59pm On Apr 06
These ones are competing for who can troll the president most. The definition of "opposition" in Nigeria.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by yarimo(m): 12:00am On Apr 07
Baba Dubai speaking as if he know what he is saying
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Memphis357(m): 12:12am On Apr 07
AcadaWriter0:
These ones are competing for who can troll the president most. The definition of "opposition" in Nigeria.
Oga shut up, abeg!
Bola Tinubu should get working
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by IbnB: 12:37am On Apr 07
SlavaUkraini:
https://dailypost.ng/2026/04/06/enough-of-hollow-rhetoric-get-to-work-now-atiku-tells-tinubu/
Shey na Rhetoric we go shop?!!!

Tinubu is feeding Nigerians what they understand as politics, he knows they will look for their food elsewhere cheesy
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by SixSeven: 12:45am On Apr 07
ColdHunter:
Pablo should just do the honorable thing and resign.

His incompetence and lack of empathy is startling.

While I personally didn't expect much from him, his lack of preparedness is an eyesore
Resign? I don't think they know the meaning of that anymore. One thing a one party state helps with incompetence is the absence of critiques. So you can be your worst and you will always have praise singers who will make you look like you are doing well. After selling the he built Lagos lies to us, they realize that it can't sell anymore, now they need to distract us.

Look at this beautiful speech by Mr Tinubu


June 12, 2013 by The Nation

PDP, Jonathan have failed Nigerians, says Tinubu

ACN leader lashes govt on economy, security
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is confused about how to tackle Nigeria’s challenges, especially poverty and insecurity, a leader of the newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said.

He said the Federal Government promised peace and security, but under its “unwatchful eye” insecurity has grown and Boko Haram “has turned large tracts of northern Nigeria into no man’s land”.


But, a bright future, he said, is on the horizon as the APC, which he called “the government in-waiting”, would rescue Nigeria from its confused state.


“As leaders of the new party and government in-waiting, we intend to pursue dynamic, time-tested and bold policies that will liberate our people by making sure our wealth works for us,” Tinubu said.

Nigerians, said Tinubu, have become increasingly divided as a people because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government continues to take faulty steps in addressing poverty and injustice.

“They have ignored the cause and gone after the symptoms,” the former Lagos State Governor told a packed audience inside the Grand Committee Ballroom, Westminster Hall, House of Parliament, London on Monday. He identified failed policies on power, employment, economy and security as evidence of bad leadership.


Tinubu, the keynote speaker at the British African Diaspora Conference, spoke on “Leadership, national development and the people”.

He urged the Federal Government to apply a consistent policy of targeted law enforcement operations along with an active programme of economic development, negotiations and potential amnesty for penitent Boko Haram members.

He said rather than take this step, the nation has been treated to series of government inaction and indiscriminate use of force, which culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency in three states.


“The Jonathan government set up a special Committee on Boko Haram and Security matters, but sadly before they could perform, he declared State of Emergency in three Northern states: Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.

“This is symptomatic of a confused leadership. If there is security in this jumbled policy, neither I nor the majority of Nigerians can find it!”

To the fomer Lagos governor, if Nigeria is to mature as a democracy, its electoral system must be improved. He decried the fact that those who control the system manipulate elections with such impunity that they now see misconduct without sanction as a normal way of life.


Said he: “Look at the recent controversy surrounding election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) chairman… A group comprising all the nations’ governors could not even conduct a simple 35-person election without a disputed outcome.

“With this recent experience, I fear the length those in power would go and the means they would employ to manipulate results when the battleground is the entire nation and the stakes are the general elections in 2015.

“The NGF debacle symbolises a disdain for democracy and the popular will. If we are to save Nigeria, we must rescue the electoral process from its abusers,” Tinubu said.

In his view, a great philosophical gulf separates the government from the progressives. “This current Nigerian government is a retrogressive one. Much of what they claim as growth is but the harsh redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The bottom gets squeezed while the top expands. They are serving us the salad of corruption.

“They consume our today and squander the nation’s tomorrow. For 14 years, the PDP-led government cannot turn anything around. A new leadership is required to put a stop to this.”

Tinubu criticised Nigeria’s economic policies, saying the economy is being reconstructed “as an oasis for a small few and a stark desert for the many” while the government pretends to endorse the same budget-cutting austerity policies as much of Europe.

“We are not Europe; we are a Third World economy. That these policies have failed in European nations with higher standards of living than Nigeria gives our leaders no concern.”

Tinubu said the people live in dire straits, yet the government would rather waste the money than spend it on public benefit because they do not believe the people deserve it.

He said the progressives would bring pragmatic solution to the country’s woes because in their approach to the political economy, they do not rely on textbook answers as they do not “live in textbooks.

He said: “We live in the real world and thus seek answers from real world experiences. Here is a real world fact: No large nation has ever attained sustained growth without government running budget deficits to build the required infrastructure and without other government policies promoting development of the key industries that would become the spine of national development.

“Here is another such fact: No populous nation ever attains prosperity solely by extracting its raw material to exchange them for the finished goods of other large nations. We must industrialise and diversify our economy

“It is for this reason – to save the nation from the stranglehold of permanent poverty and poor governance – that the members of the progressive opposition political parties have decided to put aside personal ambition (including my own ambition) to form a new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). We do this because Nigeria has entered a critical state of economic depression.”

According to Tinubu, because of the unfair nature of the electoral processes and the gross imbalance of its political economy, the people have been props in a drama for which they should have been the main characters. “We must change this,” he said.

He said the progressives must move Nigeria away from a place where the whims and narrow wishes of self-centered reactionary elite dictate the fate of over 150 million people.

“On our side, we will take our chances with a free and fair election, for we shall offer the people an innovative programme consisting of a national industrial policy that includes radical infrastructural development and employment targets,” he said.

The former Lagos governor spoke of “the Glorious Nigerian Revolution”, which he said has nothing to do with force of arms.

His words: “The Revolution of which I speak has two major parts. First, is the peaceful conversion of our quasi-democracy into a full-fledged one. Second, is the implementation of policies turning the political economy away from its retrogressive, elitist bearings.

“We seek policies pointing in a progressive direction affording the average person a chance at a dignified life. This will be through the provision of gainful employment, quality education and essential social services for those who need the helping hand of government to survive.

“I see no shame in believing progressive government can improve the political economy and the lives of the people.”

Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by shortgun(m): 12:58am On Apr 07
Tinubu has not been able to solve any problem since he became president. He's a complete failure.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by onatisi(m): 1:05am On Apr 07
he has no solution to the killings , you dont seem to understand the man thinks ,
as far he is concerned it is a northern proble
as far as he is concerned the northern governors should handle it
as far he is concerned , he only needs a fractions of the votes there , he believes the south will give him the majority this time
if the assumptions assumption are wrong , let me ask you a question .
why will he travel to jos to visit a tragedy site and yet turn back at the airport ? that is the first time in the history of this nation that a sitting president will do that , he didnt even get to the site , that action alone has revealed his opinion about the north and how he sees the issues concerning the north .
do you think he would have done that if the same had happened in lagos or anywhere in the south west ? that he will turn back at the airport . definitely no .
but unfortunately we have a bunch of clout chasers parading themselves as opposition figures and who dont even know where or how to start their political opposition game
ColdHunter:
Pablo should just do the honorable thing and resign.

His incompetence and lack of empathy is startling.

While I personally didn't expect much from him, his lack of preparedness is an eyesore
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by helinues: 1:07am On Apr 07
For Atiku's mind, it's time to start caring . Where has he been all this while?

hahaha, I forgot, election is just around the corner, typical format from the politicians
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Triangles1(m): 1:38am On Apr 07
Coming from genesis problem of Nigeria.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Krankhead: 1:51am On Apr 07
ColdHunter:
Pablo should just do the honorable thing and resign.

His incompetence and lack of empathy is startling.

While I personally didn't expect much from him, his lack of preparedness is an eyesore
Your lamentation continues
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by yemmywesey(m): 1:51am On Apr 07
CodeTemplar:
Not just in security aspect.
Hollow rhetorics like posting Lagos or Calabar section photos of a 700km road. How many KM have you done?
If you need 36% of the available time(8 years) to complete 10% of the job, you might as well need 6 or 7 terms (28 years) to reach Delta state.
As a city boy I am, if you live in Lagos, on the lekki ajah expressway corridor, you can testify how the coastal road from ahmadu bello section up to effiran lekki free trade zone axis has minimized the traffic in lekki epe expressway both at peak period or off peak period by 95%.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by illicit(m): 2:24am On Apr 07
So Atiku hear English like this, Can he speak french fluently?

I heard he is from french Cameroon but Nigeria adopted him and sent him to school

He would have been herding goats on a mountain like his grandfather Monsieur Monsuru
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by BreakingNews21: 2:41am On Apr 07
Poor guy, Mr. Man is stuck in Naija and can't return to his adopted home because of the global situation. wink

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Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by anonimi: 3:36am On Apr 07
CodeTemplar:
Not just in security aspect.
Hollow rhetorics like posting Lagos or Calabar section photos of a 700km road. How many KM have you done?
If you need 36% of the available time(8 years) to complete 10% of the job, you might as well need 6 or 7 terms (28 years) to reach Delta state.
Don’t mind the city boy propaganda expert.

Are we supposed to use pictures of the uncompleted road to get expensive petrol and other things that have become unaffordable, because JagaBandeet failed to crash petrol price and dollar rate, as he promised before he was allowed to hit the ground running 35 months agohuh
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by HacheNoire: 3:41am On Apr 07
Just like Atiku got to work during his 8 year term as vice president!

Atiku’s friends should tell him the truth. He has no patriotism, dignity, transparency or ethics to sell!

He shouldn’t be campaigning if he had performed as a vice president. Spent 8 years looting the treasury and still has the audacity to tell His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) to get to work.

This is the height of hypocrisy! The lowest the most incompetent can go.

Atiku should realize that, Portable has more right to address the president in such manner than he does.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by anonimi: 3:42am On Apr 07
ColdHunter:
Pablo should just do the honorable thing and resign.

His incompetence and lack of empathy is startling.

While I personally didn't expect much from him, his lack of preparedness is an eyesore
His lack of empathy has always been there, but masked by balablu soundbites. The lack of empathy demonstrated during his 10 minutes Jos airport visit in darkness.

The lack of empathy is also demonstrated in crazy looting of not just taxes but even loans, including the $3.3 billion SPV Afreximbank loan that was supposed to help him get to N300/$1 in the short term before reaching N200/$1 by May 2027.

anonimi:
The eyesore on Bourdillon Road
2nd January 2025

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.

If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.

That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by anonimi: 3:54am On Apr 07
HacheNoire:
Just like Atiku got to work during his 8 year term as vice president!

Atiku’s friends should tell him the truth. He has no patriotism, dignity, transparency or ethics to sell!

He shouldn’t be campaigning if he had performed as a vice president. Spent 8 years looting the treasury and still has the audacity to tell His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) to get to work.

This is the height of hypocrisy! The lowest the most incompetent can go.

Atiku should realize that, Portable has more right to address the president in such manner than he does.
If Atiku looted anything, why did Obasanjo not prosecute him during his second term when he dealt with Fayose, Alams, Ladoja etc despite their immunity?

If your allegation is true, then why did Yar’Adua and Jonathan of PDP fail to prosecute him? Since 2015, why have APC corruption fighting saints Buhari and Tinubu failed to prosecute him?

In any case, Atiku can’t be anywhere nearly as corrupt as the city boy who steals trillions Lagos budget yearly instead of employing workers to make education free for all children and water available for all residents.

Atiku is definitely not as corrupt as this president who is borrowing more than Obasanjo/Atiku borrowed, even though he has saved billions of dollars from removing subsidy and lies about stopped borrowing since he hit his higher revenue target in August.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by HacheNoire: 3:57am On Apr 07
anonimi:
If Atiku looted anything, why did Obasanjo not prosecute him during his second term when he dealt with Fayose, Alams, Ladoja etc despite their immunity?

If your allegation is true, then why did Yar’Adua and Jonathan of PDP fail to prosecute him? Since 2015, why have APC corruption fighting saints Buhari and Tinubu failed to prosecute him?

In any case, Atiku can’t be anywhere nearly as corrupt as the city boy who steals trillions Lagos budget yearly instead of employing workers to make education free for all children and water available for all residents.

Atiku is definitely not as corrupt as this president who is borrowing more than Obasanjo/Atiku borrowed, even though he has saved billions of dollars from removing subsidy and lies about stopped borrowing since he hit his higher revenue target in August.
From your OWN rhetoric, why as His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) not also prosecuted if he was guilty?

You said His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) did not create jobs as Governor? Do you reside in Lagos? You couldn’t even attribute the simplest to him?

Hot Google please! His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) created MASSIVE employment opportunities in Lagos.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by anonimi: 4:12am On Apr 07
HacheNoire:
From your OWN rhetoric, why as His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) not also prosecuted if he was guilty?

You said His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) did not create jobs as Governor? Do you reside in Lagos? You couldn’t even attribute the simplest to him?

Hot Google please! His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) created MASSIVE employment opportunities in Lagos.
Tinubu was prosecuted by CCT in 2011 and freed in error.

How has he created massive employment opportunities in Lagos for the past 27 years, if he has less than 5% schools run by government huh

Maybe you are confusing palliative daily bread sharing with massive employment?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYltMapDyIo?si=0-hO0Vt5C9uBxVd1



Are you also getting your own daily bread palliative in the absence of jobs promised by JagaBandeet huh

Tinubu sets 3-year economic revival, 50million jobs target

August 29, 2023

President Bola Tinubu who reiterated his commitment to economic revatalisation said he will not permit indolence or any act capable of derailing his ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ by any of his ministers.

He gave a marching order to the 45-member of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to perform or be ready to be fired for incompetence.
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Edun said the Tinubu administration inherited a bad economy with an *unacceptable high rate of unemployment, and with inflation standing at 24%.*

He said:“Per capital has fallen steadily, inflation is at 24 percent, unemployment is high, you know m are rebasing the way in which it’s calculated. Either way, it is high and youth unemployment is even unacceptably high, these are the key metrics that we have met.”
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Edun said: “Clearly, *the Federal Government is not in a position to borrow at this time*. Rather, the emphasis has to be on creating a stable, macroeconomic environment. Stable inflation, stable exchange rate, an environment within which people can come and invest and thereby increase production and further grow the economy; Improve and create jobs and reduce poverty.
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Anite said President Tinubu was planning to create 50 million jobs.

She stressed: “In Mr. President’s manifesto during his campaigns, he promised 50 million jobs and that’s our target. We will take it in phases; we are looking at different sectors of the economy that will contribute to this job creation chief among them is the creative industry and the digital economy, and then the agric sector, agro-processing zones, and mining, oil and gas. So we’re very confident that we will achieve this.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/tinubu-sets-3-year-economic-revival-50million-jobs-target/
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by fredoooooo: 4:29am On Apr 07
Alhaji Atiku mikano .. now Alhaji obitiku grin cheesy grin
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Proudlyngwa(m): 4:38am On Apr 07
Atiku should shut up

Let him condemn his kinsmen who perpetuate this acts
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by AntiChristian: 5:07am On Apr 07
How can Atiku be better prepared to do anything for Nigeria?
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Reference(m): 5:09am On Apr 07
And the IG of police was in another state commissioning trucks and motorbikes instead of being on ground in those areas personally directing operations to track down the brigands responsible.

We play around too much and grandstand in this country. If this has happened in the US, where else will the Director of the FBI and Homeland Security be.

Whether we like it or not, we have to admit that the quality of governance is going down by the day. When government becomes blind, deaf and numb to serious incidents like these, the people are in very serious trouble because those who commit these grievous acts will be one emboldened to take yet another step forward.

Once again I say to government. If you cannot secure the people, yield them the rights to secure themselves through state and council police.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Klington: 5:49am On Apr 07
Tinubu cannot give what he did not have. The man is a colossal failure who has absolutely nothing to offer.
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by Menclothing1: 7:18am On Apr 07
shortgun:
Tinubu has not been able to solve any problem since he became president. He's a complete failure.
Which problem did ur hero solve
Re: Enough Of Hollow Rhetoric, Get To Work Now – Atiku Tells Tinubu by ubimagos: 7:27am On Apr 07
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