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abc115:
By Farooq Kperogi



https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2026/05/now-i-know-tinubus-policies-arent.html

For you farooq to be claimig to have just discovered this shows how hypocritical you have been with your intellectual capacity.
None of Tinubu opponents have ever stated an alternative better policy yet you write to defend them.

Do they plan to return fuel subsidy?

Do they plan to return the defence of naira?

Do they plan reverse the tax law?

Last last, everyone will align to Tinubu's second term ambition by fire by force.

They would tolerate, rationalize, perhaps even loudly defend the very policies they now condemn if those policies came wrapped in the colors of their own candidate.

They would tolerate, rationalize, perhaps even loudly defend the very policies they now condemn if those policies came wrapped in the colors of their own candidate.

This has been a long time open fact.
Before 2023 all candidates said they would remove subsidy, Tinubu did. All that happened afterwards is a fallout from that action.

They are only sad their candidate lost the election

MrSly:
Dear Farooq kpogri, your article has an undertone of a political jobber. Even someone who is conversant with Nigeria's retrogression would easily see through you. Is nigeria well led, No!!!! However, you can't be shouting about a problem without offering solution. PO is the solution due to his track record. So on point it is the turn of the South. So if you want a nigeria that is fair to everybody then we must start from the foundation. So Atiku starting to fix 9ja by rubbing the South of their turn as if they are second class citizens just for his greed is wrong and I and all well meaning Nigerians will resist it. So it is about wrong policies of tinubu and his criminal tendencies and endictments. However, the right antidote must be used and the right process followed. You can't say you want to treat malaria by by inviting the tse flies into your house to eat up mosquito.

You do not want Atiku because he is from the North you also do not want Tinbubu because he is from the West, then the rest of us Nigerians do not want Obi from your region too. Do with that intel whatever you like.

#As copied above.

GODISGREAT123:
Who is the South??

What do you gain from the so-called South?

Instead of thinking of how to take power from the APC, you are talking about the South?

I think that's a childish talk

This is where I stand.

"....not really with Tinubu’s governance, ideology or policies. It is with the fact that their favorite politician is not the one presiding over them."

Farook Kperogi continues to lie to himself.

You have said it all and this is one fact that alot of people are missing about the Nigerian politics space. Gain is the word.

AMINDA:
All Northern governors are in APC with the exception of Bala Mohammed. A Northerner is currently VP, Deputy Senate President and Speaker. Power is set to head back to the North worse case scenario in 2031. Do you think there aren't Northern politicians interested in waiting it out? I know you're a Tinubu supporter disguising but assuming you are not, why should the North support another Southerner other than Tinubu to power in 2027? What is the incentive to do so? It's a simple question. "Let Tinubu continue" is not a threat to the North that you lot think it is. The North made him President with 5.6m votes. Northerners are the biggest stakeholders in his government. It was the South that didn't vote for him. Like I said, in national politics, the only question that matters is "what's in it for my region?". It's not an emotional affair.

AMINDA:
You can continue to quarrel with the numbers but facts are stubborn. Tinubu won only 4 Yoruba states out of 17 Southern states. Was it his votes from those 4 states that made him president? Buhari won his region in a landslide but needed that push from the Southwest to meet the constitutional spread. Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and had over two times more votes in the North than he did in the South. The North did that because the North remembers. He won and immediately betrayed his helpers like Elrufai, locking him up and posturing like he's out to teach the North a lesson. Well, good or bad, Northerners always pay their debts.

Asgard, Northerners didn't make Asiwaju the President Of Nigeria.

If it's possible for Northern votes to make someone the President, Buhari would have ruled Nigeria in 2011

Nigerians made him the President and Nigerians will make him the President Of Nigeria again in 2027.

AMINDA:
You can continue to quarrel with the numbers but facts are stubborn. Tinubu won only 4 Yoruba states out of 17 Southern states. Was it his votes from those 4 states that made him president? Buhari won his region in a landslide but needed that push from the Southwest to meet the constitutional spread. Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and had over two times more votes in the North than he did in the South. The North did that because the North remembers. He won and immediately betrayed his helpers like Elrufai, locking him up and posturing like he's out to teach the North a lesson. Well, good or bad, Northerners always pay their debts.

Talking about Yoruba states, Tinubu won Kwara and Kogi. Kwara is a majority Yoruba state while an entire senatorial district in Kogi state is Yoruba. And talking about the south, Tinubu won Rivers state in addition to the four south west states. Overall, he won 12 states. 9 out of the 12 were from the south and middle belt. He only won 3 states in the north. So, stop misrepresenting facts about the 2023.

The core north is North West and east. Stop muddling votes from the middle belt with that of the core north. Again, the entire country is the constituency of Mr president, that's why he got a good spread in all the states. Atiku doesn't even have the popularity of Buhari. Yet, Buhari could not become president till Tinubu from the south helped him out. So, stop the empty arrogance and threat to the south east. Atiku will never become president with votes from North East and west only.

Every ethnic group in Nigeria is big enough to stand in its own and if they need to align with any other it should be their decision. They should control their own security. Imagine handing over the security of Europe to a government controlled by only one nation that see others as competition?

If we want Africa to rise then Nigeria must disband. Let the Hausa pursue unity with their people to the North and the Yoruba with their people to the west and etc.

I am Yoruba and Yoruba is one of the major groups on Earth by population. The ones in west Africa alone form around one percent of Earth's population and many more claim descent in the Americas. They need to be able to thrive in their own space without any other group breathing down on them and the same applies to other groups. Any group that joins the Yoruba will be totally free to leave at anytime and they will control their own security and army divisions. Use your language and learn Yoruba for the center as well as English. Enough of the merry go rounding and time marking. Let's join the rest of the world to build civilization rather than just be marking time.

Nigeria is shortchanging and has shortchanged the Yoruba. They are not less than thirty percent of the population spread across the southwest, north central and south south and they sure pay up to forty percent if not more of the taxes. Why then are they given less than thirty percent of the states when the states are used to calculate what is due to each group? If there are thirty six states, the Yoruba should control at least eleven because states are deemed equal in the Senate and when determining the winner of a Presidential election.

The present government has freed the nation from dependence on oil as non oil revenue is now seventy five percent of total revenue and rising. During Buhari, oil revenue was ninety percent. Nigeria can now survive without oil as it was during the first republic. Nigeria is reset and has been rescued from the abyss of dependence on oil that it was thrown down by the military and everyone that wants the progress of humanity should now support the move to break up Nigeria so that we can all breathe. Possibly sovereign debt will be cancelled or become bad debt and this means more money for the emergent nations.
Trying to make Nigeria work is more like flogging a dead horse. We are not one nation. No basis for nation building and we will never be one nation but we can be good neighbors

I’m not a fan of Tinubu or the APC, but since Buhari was tolerated for eight years, we should also tolerate Tinubu so that Nigerians can learn a lesson.

seunmsg:
Talking about Yoruba states, Tinubu won Kwara and Kogi. Kwara is a majority Yoruba state while an entire senatorial district in Kogi state is Yoruba. And talking about the south, Tinubu won Rivers state in addition to the four south west states. Overall, he won 12 states. 9 out of the 12 were from the south and middle belt. He only won 3 states in the north. So, stop misrepresenting facts about the 2023.

The core is North West and east. Stop muddling votes from the middle belt with that of the core north. Again, the entire country is the constituency of Mr president, that's why he got a good spread in all the states. Atiku doesn't even have the popularity of Buhari. Yet, Buhari could not become president till Tinubu from the south helped him out. So, stop the empty arrogance and threat to the south east. Atiku will never become president with votes from North East and west only.

Lol. Kogi and Kwara are now Yoruba states? No wonder Tinubu has channelled every appointment meant for the Northcentral to Yorubas in those states. Yet he wonders why he's been accused of tribalism. Even the other regions of the South are marginalised, hence why Tinubu's quest to build a "Southern conscensus" is failing. There's no "middlebelt" as a geographic region. There's only Northcentral. In 2023, the Northern Christians who mostly identify as middlebelt voted Obi. No matter how you turn facts on it's head, Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and never won Rivers. The North made him President.

AMINDA:
Tinubu also supported Ribadu and Atiku but he didn't say Emi Lokan until he supported Buhari and won. This level of politics is not taught in class. Go figure.

You sef don see am

AMINDA:
Lol. Kogi and Kwara are now Yoruba states? No wonder Tinubu has channelled every appointment meant for the Northcentral to Yorubas in those states. Yet he wonders why he's been accused of tribalism. Even the other regions of the South are marginalised, hence why Tinubu's quest to build a "Southern conscensus" is failing. There's no "middlebelt" as a geographic region. There's only Northcentral. In 2023, the Northern Christians who mostly identify as middlebelt voted Obi. No matter how you turn facts on it's head, Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and never won Rivers. The North made him President.

What is now Kwara and Kogi west? What are Porto Novo and etc? The Yoruba are the second largest group in the North after Hausa with three to four senators. Hausa have at least eighteen. Why would you ask if Kwara is Yoruba?

abc115:
By Farooq Kperogi



https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2026/05/now-i-know-tinubus-policies-arent.html

So this one is just finding out that the sudden love for Nigeria is borne out of the desire to have their man as number one, not necessarily because they want progress for the country?

AMINDA:
Lol. Kogi and Kwara are now Yoruba states? No wonder Tinubu has channelled every appointment meant for the Northcentral to Yorubas in those states. Yet he wonders why he's been accused of tribalism. Even the other regions of the South are marginalised, hence why Tinubu's quest to build a "Southern conscensus" is failing. There's no "middlebelt" as a geographic region. There's only Northcentral. In 2023, the Northern Christians who mostly identify as middlebelt voted Obi. No matter how you turn facts on it's head, Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and never won Rivers. The North made him President.

You are as confused as Atiku's Presidential ambition. You don't even know if you want to argue that Kwara and Kogi are not Yoruba states or the Yorubas in those states are being favored. Whether you call it north central or middle belt, it is a fact that Tinubu won four states in the region and Obi won two. Atiku did not win a single state in the region. In 2027, Tinubu will win at least five states in the region in a three horse race.

As for Rivers, the result is there for everyone to see. Tinubu cleared Rivers states and the same thing will be repeated with a bigger margin in 2027. As for Akwa Ibom and Osun, Atiku will not get 5%. If fact, the result of the ADC registration in all southern states should be a pointer to the acceptability of the party in the south. Even in Peter Obi's Anambra state, they can't even get up to 10,000 people to register🤣🤣

AMINDA:
What is the incentive for the North, that's currently VP, to support Obi to remove another Southerner from power that has already done four years? If Tinubu is doing a fantastic job as a Southerner, then he deserves a second term. Let him continue. The Southeast should actually be more desperate to get Tinubu out of power. In 2015, Tinubu had to travel from Lagos to Daura to convince Buhari out of retirement to come get his fellow Southerner out of power. Even then, he didn't ask for the ticket. He was willing to deputise Buhari. That's how he moved from opposition to incumbent. Clinical, strategic, long-term vision. When he said "Emi Lokan" in 2023, the North understood and returned the favour. Northerners always pay their debts, but nothing goes for nothing. Any region playing politics with emotions is already set to lose. Nigeria was a nation of diverse regions amalgamated into one. The only question that matters when you play national politics is "What's in it for my region?" And leverage is the only currency that players transact in. Not pity, not emotions, not insults and certainly not threats. Only leverage.

Farook, is that you?

AMINDA:
What is the incentive for the North, that's currently VP, to support Obi to remove another Southerner from power that has already done four years? If Tinubu is doing a fantastic job as a Southerner, then he deserves a second term. Let him continue. The Southeast should actually be more desperate to get Tinubu out of power. In 2015, Tinubu had to travel from Lagos to Daura to convince Buhari out of retirement to come get his fellow Southerner out of power. Even then, he didn't ask for the ticket. He was willing to deputise Buhari. That's how he moved from opposition to incumbent. Clinical, strategic, long-term vision. When he said "Emi Lokan" in 2023, the North understood and returned the favour. Northerners always pay their debts, but nothing goes for nothing. Any region playing politics with emotions is already set to lose. Nigeria was a nation of diverse regions amalgamated into one. The only question that matters when you play national politics is "What's in it for my region?" And leverage is the only currency that players transact in. Not pity, not emotions, not insults and certainly not threats. Only leverage.

You're fast becoming a nuisance
Atiku can contest without Obi

seunmsg:
You are as confused as Atiku's Presidential ambition. You don't even know if you want to argue that Kwara and Kogi are not Yoruba states or the Yorubas in those states are being favored. Whether you call it north central or middle belt, it is a fact that Tinubu won four states in the region and Obi won two. Atiku did not win a single state in the region. In 2027, Tinubu will win at least five states in the region in a three horse race.

As far Rivers, the result is there for everyone to see. Tinubu cleared Rivers states and the same thing will be repeated with a bigger margin in 2027. As for Akwa Ibom and Osun, Atiku will not get 5%. If fact, the result of the ADC registration in all southern states should be a pointer to the acceptability of the party in the south. Even in Peter Obi's Anambra state, they can't even get up to 10,000 people to register🤣🤣

What is this "the region" that you keep talking about? Do you mean NORTHcentral? How many states did Tinubu win in the SOUTH as a Southern candidate that he now claims to be, aside from the 4 Yoruba states? Don't deflect. Why then are you hyperventilating when I say the North made Tinubu president. Obi mopped the floor with him in the South.

dequir:
You do not want Atiku because he is from the North you also do not want Tinbubu because he is from the West, then the rest of us Nigerians do not want Obi from your region too. Do with that intel whatever you like.

#As copied above.

Your nilly Willy comment is baseless. In fact they Sound unitelligent, however, I saw clearly that you intentionally made those comment to whip up sentiments.

A simple reply
Obasanjo was from southwest, we voted him against Ojukwu.
Yaradua from North we voted him instead of Ojukwu.
Goodluck Jonathan From South South.
We voted this same Atiku against Buhari after Buhari killed the economy unsurprisingly.
We waited to vote Osinbajo from Southwest only for tinubu to chase him away like a foul in 2023.
Luckily PO came to the picture.

We vote credibility not some ethnic sentiment.
Atiku is not credible, tour brother OBJ called him a thieve not me but I know OBJ is right. PO is the most credible candidate and only him we shall vote. No amount of emotional blackmail can stop us.

Please counter me with facts. I have no time for trash.

PROPHETmichael:
I’m not a fan of Tinubu or the APC, but since Buhari was tolerated for eight years, we should also tolerate Tinubu so that Nigerians can learn a lesson.

Eggxactly... The national policy of Nigeria should be moving from one bad and incompetent government to another. I think it's a good idea because it's just a matter of time before the British contraptionj crumbles. Then everyone would start looking after themselves.

AMINDA:
Lol. Kogi and Kwara are now Yoruba states? No wonder Tinubu has channelled every appointment meant for the Northcentral to Yorubas in those states. Yet he wonders why he's been accused of tribalism. Even the other regions of the South are marginalised, hence why Tinubu's quest to build a "Southern conscensus" is failing. There's no "middlebelt" as a geographic region. There's only Northcentral. In 2023, the Northern Christians who mostly identify as middlebelt voted Obi. No matter how you turn facts on it's head, Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and never won Rivers. The North made him President.

I wonder how some of you reason. Did you complain when Buhari did exactly the same tribalism? This is actually what the dumb professor wrote in the OP.

By the way, I wonder why Nairaland keeps promoting the dumb professor from the north. A man who supported Buhari's candidacy cannot rightly be said to have a good sense of judgment. I'm sure even you, AMINDA, who is now trying to lecture us supported Buhari because of tribe and religion and region as you've been hyping. It simply means that you're not different fro Kperogi or whatever he is called - your sense of judgment is skewed. Know this and stop disturbing us southerners with your nonsense northern propaganda.

Only a southerner who lacks sense of judgment would vote Atiku. For starters, he's not better than Tinubu. So the only sensible thing you have written is "If you guys won't back Obi by prevailing on Atiku to stand down, Tinubu should continue". Period.

And what do you mean that Tinubu Never Won Rivers? I thought you guys said Atiku came second and Tinubu , first? So you now agree that Obi won Rivers even though you guys actively rigged for Tinubu in the north? The truth will continue coming out and one day we all would admit who actually won the 2023 election as Nigerians already know.

Igbophobia:
I wonder how some of you reason. Did you complain when Buhari did exactly the same tribalism? This is actually what the dumb professor wrote in the OP.

By the way, I wonder why Nairaland keeps promoting the dumb professor from the north. A man who supported Buhari's candidacy cannot rightly be said to have a good sense of judgment. I'm sure even you, AMINDA, who is now trying to lecture us supported Buhari because of tribe and religion and region as you've been hyping. It simply means that you're not different fro Kperogi or whatever he is called - your sense of judgment is skewed. Know this and stop disturbing us southerners with your nonsense northern propaganda.

Only a southerner who lacks sense of judgment would vote Atiku. For starters, he's not better than Tinubu. So the only sensible thing you have written is "If you guys won't back Obi by prevailing on Atiku to stand down, Tinubu should continue". Period.

Buhari was accused of nepotism in favour of the North, not tribalism. Buhari’s appointments cut across from Borno to Niger and from Kogi to Adamawa. In return, the entire North voted for him again in his second term. Can other non-Yoruba speaking tribes in the South say the same about Tinubu? Will he now win more states in the other South aside from his Yoruba states?

AMINDA:
Lol. Kogi and Kwara are now Yoruba states? No wonder Tinubu has channelled every appointment meant for the Northcentral to Yorubas in those states. Yet he wonders why he's been accused of tribalism. Even the other regions of the South are marginalised, hence why Tinubu's quest to build a "Southern conscensus" is failing. There's no "middlebelt" as a geographic region. There's only Northcentral. In 2023, the Northern Christians who mostly identify as middlebelt voted Obi. No matter how you turn facts on it's head, Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and never won Rivers. The North made him President.

Don't you think the person you replied has valid points?
Regardless who Atiku picks as his Vice in 2027, he can't defeat Tinubu in Plateau, Benue and Kwara State. Also in Southern Taraba, and Southern Kaduna... the odds in is favour of Tinubu.

Kperogi, it's what it's.

Nigerians are like open book, you can read most of them so nothing surprising about the kind of leaders they keep clamoring for.

AMINDA:
Lol. Kogi and Kwara are now Yoruba states? No wonder Tinubu has channelled every appointment meant for the Northcentral to Yorubas in those states. Yet he wonders why he's been accused of tribalism. Even the other regions of the South are marginalised, hence why Tinubu's quest to build a "Southern conscensus" is failing. There's no "middlebelt" as a geographic region. There's only Northcentral. In 2023, the Northern Christians who mostly identify as middlebelt voted Obi. No matter how you turn facts on it's head, Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and never won Rivers. The North made him President.

I'm Yoruba from Kwara State. We can safely say Kwara State is majorly a Yoruba State because we constitute at least 65% of the total population. Kogi West is entirely inhabited by Yoruba people. You can not lump the North Central together with the shari'a North because it suits your political narrative. That's how you guys shout Northerners upandan, but in your inner minds, you're not including the North Central in that category, only do so when you need their votes. Sir, northern unity is dead. Let everyone carry their cross. So the Yorubas in the North Central are not good enough for appointments into offices because they're Yorubas? Why don't you support their agitation for merging into the south west then?
And let me tell you something, a Yoruba from the North Central is equally qualified and deserving to take over from Tinubu in 2031. Let that sink in.

AMINDA:
What is this "the region" that you keep talking about? Do you mean NORTHcentral? How many states did Tinubu win in the SOUTH as a Southern candidate that he now claims to be, aside from the 4 Yoruba states? Don't deflect. Why then are you hyperventilating when I say the North made Tinubu president. Obi mopped the floor with him in the South.

The entire country is the constituency of the president. Rivers State is in southern Nigeria. Kwara and kogi are Yoruba states. Atiku did not win a single state in the middle belt or north central (call it whatever you like). Atiku will not just lose in 2027, he won't win a single state in south and North central. Whatever delusional and divisive narrative you want to spin is your business. I'm done with you on this thread.

AMINDA:
Buhari was accused of nepotism in favour of the North, not tribalism. Buhari’s appointments cut across from Borno to Niger and from Kogi to Adamawa. In return, the entire North voted for him again in his second term. Can other non-Yoruba speaking tribes in the South say the same about Tinubu? Will he now win more states in the other South aside from his Yoruba states?

You don't get it: nepotism is nepotism whether Buhari was appointing his Muslim friends in the north or Tinubu appointing his Yoruba croonies in the SW. The fact is that Nigeria was three regions at Independence. Tinubu, a Yoruba man is nepotistically aligned to the SW, while Buhari is nepotistically aligned to the north. At independence, there were the north, the southwest and the eastern regions. And bigoted leaders like Buhari and Tinubu would naturally alienate others they feel are not theirs. That's why the PDP era was Nigeria's golden democratic era when at least, there were no bigots piloting the affairs of the country.

By the way, wasn't Atiku you're now parroting among those that brought in Buhari, and consequently, Tinubu, the two ethnic bigots who have brought the country this low? Why would any sane person support Atiku? He simply has a poor sense of judgment just like you and Kperogi, and any other person blinded by ethnic and religious considerations in choosing a leader.

Nigeria is going down the drain because there are more people like you chaps than there are people with balanced sense of reasoning in the country.

IamPatriotic:
Don't you think the person you replied has valid points?
Regardless who Atiku picks as his Vice in 2027, he can't defeat Tinubu in Plateau, Benue and Kwara State. Also in Southern Taraba, and Southern Kaduna... the odds in is favour of Tinubu.

Yet, I wonder why Tinubu seems afraid of an election. His Attorney General just instituted a case in court to deregister the ADC, after all the attempts to destroy other parties and disenfranchise major opposition candidates. Why can't he be bold enough and test this theory of yours on the ballot?