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CharlesCNG:
The irony is that some people have been shouting “restructuring” for years without restructuring anything. Tinubu came in and started touching the real pressure points: local government funds, policing powers, tax administration and federation revenues.
That is why this secret should not have been exposed too early.

This was supposed to be a stealth operation, but some people cannot keep quiet.

Tinubu was restructuring Nigeria quietly without calling it restructuring. No national conference drama. No hotel allowance jamboree. No committee grammar. Just silent institutional surgery.

Local government autonomy — touched.

State police — moving.

Tax reform — signed.

Federation revenue remittance — tightened.

These are the real pressure points of restructuring.

But trust some authors now — they have gone to open the cupboard and shout, “See what Tinubu is doing!”

Can they not allow the man finish the operation before announcing the surgery?

This is why no secret is safe in Nigeria. The man was quietly rearranging the furniture of the federation, and somebody has already gone to ring bell in the market square.
Op.Am very angry with you!

Kemetian:
It's too late....

Relax.

Nobody can reverse what he's doing.

He is entrenching these things so much that incoming administrations will find it too expensive, impracticable, and politically indefensible to reverse.

Same thing he did in Lagos state. He left 20 years ago, but they are following his blueprint till tomorrow.

Tinubu thinks more about tomorrow than today. He believes that's the only way to move this country forward.

If peradventure we see a fast-rising, fast-industrialising Nigeria over the next 10 to 20 yrs and beyond, it will be due to these changes Tinubu is making now.

And he will be remembered for it.

The rejected stone who became the nation's reverred transformer.

edogu:
Indeed, he's restructuring the economy too with massive debt despite the removal of fuel subsidy.

bigwig071:
How Would You Justify The Following Extravagant Spendings Under Tinubu's Government:

1. 21 Billion Naira To Renovate The Vice President House. No like they bought new kidneys or anything...for a house already functional. Done with public funds.

2. 70 Billion Naira To The National Assembly Members To Buy SUVs At The Cost 160 Million Naira Per One For Senators And House Of Representatives Members Specifically. To buy silence is every expensive.

3. 4 Billion Naira To Renovate Dodan Barrack Lagos Another 3 Billion Naira To Renovate Aguda House

4. 5 Billion Naira Was Given To Presidential Tax Reforms Committee Of Less Than Twenty People Headed By Taiwo Oyedele With Nothing To Show For It

6. 1.5 Billion Naira To Purchase Cars For Your Wife Senator Oluremi Tinubu Despite The Fact That First Lady Office Is Not Recognised By Our Constitution. Public funds they will later come around and claim they donated.

7. 300% Salary Increase For The Judges Which Was Speedily Passed By The Insensitive And Irresponsible Senators. The law has been bought.

8. 5 Billion Naira Was Budgeted For Presidential Fleet Of Cars For President Bola Ahmad Tinubu. I mean for someone who already has over 40 cars following him already.

9. 5 Billion equally budgeted for Presidential Yatch. The commonwealth is now a personal wealth.

10. 225 Billion naira spent on so-called Presidential Jet Festus Keyamo compensated.

11. 90 Billion naira spent on 2024 Hajj pilgrimage . Religion is a personal business. This is extravagant and irrelevant.

12. Billions of Naira Was Budgeted For Trips Including The Vice President Kashim Shettima To The Detriment Of The Citizens

13. Every Senator Is Paid 21 Million Naira Monthly

14. House Of Representatives Are Earning 13.5 Million Monthly All The Increment Was Done By Tinubu's Government

15. 15 Trillion Naira Lagos Calabar Coastal Road Was Awarded Illegally To Tinubu's Friend A Lebanese Gilbert Chagoury Who Was Repatriated Back To His Country By The Former President Obasanjo. I mean "awarded." No bids.

16. Billions lavished to lobbyist to romance against the Christian genocide.

17. How about the crazy number of ministers doing nothing?

18. N36Billion used shamelessly to Repaint the International Conference Centre...

Nigeria is a rich country. But ruled by the worst.

Argue with yourself.

CharlesCNG:
My brother, the problem with your submission is that you have already written the judgment, sentenced the accused, closed the court, and then ended with “argue with yourself.”

That is not debate. That is self-administered propaganda.

Let me be clear: I will not defend every spending decision of this government. Some optics are bad. Some priorities can be questioned. Some items deserve scrutiny. In a period of hardship, government must show restraint, sensitivity and accountability.

But serious people do not throw 18 items into one basket, mix confirmed facts with exaggerations, add insults, sprinkle conspiracy, and then declare themselves winner.

For example, the ₦21 billion Vice President’s residence was not a brand-new Tinubu fantasy project. It was a long-abandoned official residence project reportedly awarded years earlier and later reviewed upward before commissioning. You can criticise the timing and optics, but tell the full story.

The presidential yacht matter was also controversial, but reports said the House removed the ₦5 billion yacht item and reallocated it to student loans. So why continue presenting it as if Tinubu is cruising on a new yacht in the Atlantic?

The 300% salary increase for judicial officers is real, but it was also a reform affecting judicial officers whose salaries had reportedly remained stagnant for about 16 years. You may oppose it, but calling it simply “buying the law” is lazy. Better-paid judges are not automatically honest, but a badly paid judiciary is also not a reform model.

On Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, yes, there are legitimate questions about cost, procurement transparency and Hitech’s link to Gilbert Chagoury. Even ICIR and Premium Times reported concerns around the ₦15 trillion estimate and award process. That is a valid accountability issue. But reducing a 700km strategic coastal infrastructure corridor to “Tinubu’s friend” alone is also dishonest.

This is where both sides must play their democratic roles properly.

The opposition’s role is to question spending, expose waste, demand procurement transparency, challenge abuse and protect public interest.

The government’s role is to explain, justify, publish details, deliver projects, reduce waste and prove value for money.

But your own style is not accountability. It is rage compilation.

And to be honest, the target of my response is not people whose minds are already padlocked. It is not those who say “argue with yourself” after dumping half-truths. It is the undecided Nigerian reading silently, who wants facts, balance and perspective.

That Nigerian deserves to know that two things can be true at once:

Tinubu inherited a damaged economy that required painful reforms.

And Tinubu’s government must still be held accountable for spending choices, optics and value for money.

Supporting reform does not mean supporting waste.

Defending subsidy removal does not mean defending every budget line.

Believing Tinubu is on the right macroeconomic path does not mean government should behave as if Nigerians are not suffering.

So yes, let us scrutinise the spending. Let us ask for contract details. Let us demand open bidding. Let us question luxury optics. Let us demand publication of costs, beneficiaries and timelines.

But let us also stop pretending that every road is theft, every salary adjustment is bribery, every official residence is kidney transplant, every reform committee is useless, and every Tinubu policy is criminal by default.

That is not analysis.

That is bitterness wearing calculator.

2027 should not be decided by who can shout “criminal” the loudest. It should be decided by who can explain the economy honestly, account for public money transparently, and show Nigerians a credible path from pain to recovery.

So no, I will not “argue with myself.”

I will speak to serious Nigerians.

The ones who know that reform must continue, waste must be questioned, and propaganda must not replace thinking.

A closed mind says ‘argue with yourself’; a serious citizen says ‘show me the facts, the context, the cost and the value.

CharlesCNG:
What fascinates me most about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not just politics. It is his audacity.

Tinubu is the kind of politician who looks at a problem other leaders have been managing, dodging, pampering and postponing for decades, and decides to confront it head-on. That boldness is rare in Nigerian politics.

Some years ago, even before Tinubu declared his presidential ambition, a friend told me that no Nigerian politician would ever have the courage to remove fuel subsidy. He said it was politically impossible. He said any president who tried it would be consumed by the backlash.

I remember telling him clearly: there is only one politician in Nigeria who can attempt it.

That man is Tinubu.

Not because it would be easy. Not because Nigerians would clap immediately. Not because the pain would be small. But because Tinubu has always had the political temperament of a long-distance reformer. He is not obsessed only with today’s applause. He is willing to endure today’s anger if he believes tomorrow’s structure will justify the pain.

That is exactly what we are seeing.

Fuel subsidy removal. Exchange-rate reform. Tax reform. Revenue reset. Infrastructure expansion. Local government autonomy. Student loans. Consumer credit. CNG transition. Coastal highway. Lagos-style long-term thinking slowly being transferred to the national stage.

Many people are still analysing Tinubu like a man trying to win one news cycle. That is the mistake.

Tinubu is not merely governing for headline comfort. He is trying to entrench a new operating system. He is carrying out, in practical governance form, something close to a national economic conference — not by gathering people in Abuja to talk for months, but by forcing Nigeria to finally answer the hard questions it has avoided for years.

Can we continue subsidising consumption with borrowed money?

Can we continue defending an artificial exchange rate?

Can we continue running a federation where states wait helplessly for Abuja?

Can we build without painful revenue reform?

Can we industrialise without roads, ports, energy transition and logistics corridors?

These are the questions Tinubu is forcing Nigeria to confront.

And yes, the pain is real. Nobody should pretend otherwise. Ordinary Nigerians are feeling the heat. Food prices, transport costs and inflation have punished families. Government must urgently do more to soften the hardship and ensure the gains of reform reach the streets, not just economic reports.

But leadership is not only about distributing painkillers. Sometimes leadership is about accepting the political cost of surgery.

That is why the reforms may become very difficult for future administrations to reverse. Once a bad system is dismantled and a new structure begins to take root, returning to the old deception becomes too expensive, too impractical and too politically indefensible.

That was also the Lagos lesson.

Tinubu left office as governor many years ago, but the governance architecture he helped build continued to shape the state long after him. Love him or hate him, Lagos did not become what it is today by accident. It became a model of internally generated revenue, institutional continuity and long-term political planning.

Now, he is attempting something similar nationally.

If Nigeria eventually becomes a fast-rising, investment-attracting, infrastructure-driven and industrialising economy over the next 10 to 20 years, many of the seeds will be traced to these difficult reforms.

The rejected stone may yet become the nation’s remembered transformer.

Because sometimes, the leader who is abused today is the one history later credits for refusing to postpone tomorrow.

Ttalk:
This is reason why I support this government as they have done what past government only pay lip services to.

Tinubu will forever be remembered as a president with the blood reforns that transform Nigeria.

With no sentiments, no emotion, a rational person will see and appreciate the president

ogolemati:
a failure will always write epistle to tell you he is working. Let the work show make people see it .story teller .see you here in 2027

bigwig071:
and you're not even ashamed of what you're trying to defend?

AhmedPeacemaker:
President Tinubu is Silently Restructuring Nigeria Without a National Conference

For 25 years after Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, calls for “restructuring” were tied to one demand: a national conference.

Tinubu Is Restructuring Nigeria Without a National Conference”, argues that the changes amount to the most extensive devolution of power in a generation.

Here are 8 key areas highlighted in the report:

1. State Police: A New Security Architecture
On June 24, 2026, the Senate passed a constitutional amendment bill to establish state police. The bill proposes a dual policing system: states can set up their own police services with defined safeguards, while the Nigeria Police Force retains responsibility for national security.
Proponents have called it the most significant security restructuring since 1999. Previous governments discussed the idea, but critics warned of possible misuse by state executives. The new bill, according to Maximillian, includes “safeguards against political abuse.”

2. Local Government Financial Autonomy
For decades, many local government councils relied on the Joint Account system, which gave state governors significant control over council funds.
Under Tinubu, the Federal Government supported legal efforts that strengthened direct remittance to LGAs.
The shift is aimed at allowing funds to reach councils without passing first through state accounts a move described as empowering grassroots governance.

3. A Comprehensive Tax Overhaul
In 2025, four major tax laws were signed:
The Nigeria Tax Act, Nigeria Tax Administration Act, Nigeria Revenue Service Act, and Joint Revenue Board Act.
The reforms seek to simplify tax collection, reduce overlapping levies, and improve ease of doing business. Under the new framework, small businesses with annual turnover up to ₦100 million now have broader tax exemptions.

4. Oil Revenue Remittance Changes
In 2026, the administration directed that all government oil and gas revenues be remitted directly into the Federation Account. The directive reduces retention arrangements that previously allowed deductions before remittance, a practice critics said limited transparency in oil income distribution.

5. Fuel Subsidy Removal
Fuel subsidy was removed on the first day of the Tinubu administration, ending a policy successive governments had debated for years.
The government said the move would free trillions of naira for infrastructure and state allocations, though it also led to immediate economic pressure on households and businesses.

6. Electricity Decentralisation
The Electricity Act now allows states to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity within their territories. Previously, power was largely centralized under federal control. States can now create independent electricity markets and attract private investment into the sector.

7. Regional Development Commissions
Six new regional development commissions covering North West, North East, North Central, South East, South, and South West have been established.
The commissions are designed to coordinate region-specific development planning alongside federal ministries.

8. Higher FAAC Allocations to States
Following subsidy removal and exchange-rate reforms, Federal Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, distributions to states rose significantly compared to previous years.
The increase has reduced a long-standing argument that the federal government starves states of resources.

‘Reforms Many Had Demanded’
Maximillian notes that many of these issues have been central to Nigeria’s governance debate for years. “If we’re honest, we would know that these issues he’s handling have been the major issues limiting Nigeria,” he wrote, adding that some critics of the administration had previously called for similar reforms.
The administration has not described its approach as “restructuring.” Officials say the changes are targeted constitutional amendments and policy reforms to improve efficiency, security, and fiscal management.
Whether described as restructuring or reform, the cumulative effect is a shift in how power, money, and responsibility are distributed across Nigeria’s federal system and without convening a national conference.

AhmedPeacemaker:
President Tinubu is Silently Restructuring Nigeria Without a National Conference

For 25 years after Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, calls for “restructuring” were tied to one demand: a national conference.

Tinubu Is Restructuring Nigeria Without a National Conference”, argues that the changes amount to the most extensive devolution of power in a generation.

Here are 8 key areas highlighted in the report:

1. State Police: A New Security Architecture
On June 24, 2026, the Senate passed a constitutional amendment bill to establish state police. The bill proposes a dual policing system: states can set up their own police services with defined safeguards, while the Nigeria Police Force retains responsibility for national security.
Proponents have called it the most significant security restructuring since 1999. Previous governments discussed the idea, but critics warned of possible misuse by state executives. The new bill, according to Maximillian, includes “safeguards against political abuse.”

2. Local Government Financial Autonomy
For decades, many local government councils relied on the Joint Account system, which gave state governors significant control over council funds.
Under Tinubu, the Federal Government supported legal efforts that strengthened direct remittance to LGAs.
The shift is aimed at allowing funds to reach councils without passing first through state accounts a move described as empowering grassroots governance.

3. A Comprehensive Tax Overhaul
In 2025, four major tax laws were signed:
The Nigeria Tax Act, Nigeria Tax Administration Act, Nigeria Revenue Service Act, and Joint Revenue Board Act.
The reforms seek to simplify tax collection, reduce overlapping levies, and improve ease of doing business. Under the new framework, small businesses with annual turnover up to ₦100 million now have broader tax exemptions.

4. Oil Revenue Remittance Changes
In 2026, the administration directed that all government oil and gas revenues be remitted directly into the Federation Account. The directive reduces retention arrangements that previously allowed deductions before remittance, a practice critics said limited transparency in oil income distribution.

5. Fuel Subsidy Removal
Fuel subsidy was removed on the first day of the Tinubu administration, ending a policy successive governments had debated for years.
The government said the move would free trillions of naira for infrastructure and state allocations, though it also led to immediate economic pressure on households and businesses.

6. Electricity Decentralisation
The Electricity Act now allows states to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity within their territories. Previously, power was largely centralized under federal control. States can now create independent electricity markets and attract private investment into the sector.

7. Regional Development Commissions
Six new regional development commissions covering North West, North East, North Central, South East, South, and South West have been established.
The commissions are designed to coordinate region-specific development planning alongside federal ministries.

8. Higher FAAC Allocations to States
Following subsidy removal and exchange-rate reforms, Federal Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, distributions to states rose significantly compared to previous years.
The increase has reduced a long-standing argument that the federal government starves states of resources.

‘Reforms Many Had Demanded’
Maximillian notes that many of these issues have been central to Nigeria’s governance debate for years. “If we’re honest, we would know that these issues he’s handling have been the major issues limiting Nigeria,” he wrote, adding that some critics of the administration had previously called for similar reforms.
The administration has not described its approach as “restructuring.” Officials say the changes are targeted constitutional amendments and policy reforms to improve efficiency, security, and fiscal management.
Whether described as restructuring or reform, the cumulative effect is a shift in how power, money, and responsibility are distributed across Nigeria’s federal system and without convening a national conference.

AhmedPeacemaker:
President Tinubu is Silently Restructuring Nigeria Without a National Conference

For 25 estructuring or reform, the cumulative effect is a shift in how power, money, and responsibility are distributed across Nigeria’s federal system and without convening a national conference.

lexylaw09:
The president needs our support to keep up the good 👍 work

CharlesCNG:
How To Spot An Obidient On Nairaland: A User Guide.

Not everyone who criticises Tinubu is an Obidient. Not everyone who disagrees with Pastor Adeboye is an Obidient. Not everyone who supports opposition politics is an Obidient.

But there is a pattern.

If it quacks like an Obidient, insults like an Obidient, dodges facts like an Obidient, and shouts “data boy” like an Obidient, forgive me for recognising the duck.

You can usually spot them by the familiar feathers.

First, they rarely answer the issue. If you raise facts, they attack your motive. If you ask for evidence, they say you are paid. If you question Peter Obi, they say you are working for APC. If you defend a point they dislike, they call you “data boy.”

Second, they confuse abuse with intelligence. Instead of argument, you get insults. Instead of data, you get slogans. Instead of reasoning, you get “fake certificate,” “snatch and grab,” “criminal,” and other recycled chants.

Third, they practice selective outrage. When a pastor, activist or elder appears to support Obi, he is a voice of conscience. But if the same type of public figure says something that does not serve their political anger, he becomes tribal, fake, compromised or useless.

Fourth, they dodge facts like rain. Present figures, they change topic. Present history, they shout propaganda. Present voting patterns, they reply with emotion.

So no, I do not call people Obidient simply because they disagree with me. I notice the uniform: abuse first, evidence last.

If it walks like selective outrage, quacks like political intolerance, and swims comfortably in insult, I do not need DNA test to know the species.

You can deny being Obidient, but if your argument came from the usual insult factory, do not blame me for identifying the manufacturer.

CharlesCNG:
Ashamed of what exactly?

Ashamed of saying waste should be questioned but propaganda should not replace facts?

Ashamed of saying government must explain spending but critics must stop mixing half-truths with hysteria?

Ashamed of saying two things can be true at once: reforms may be necessary, and spending must still be scrutinised?

Shame belongs to the person who cannot answer an argument, so he runs to emotional blackmail.

You brought 18 allegations, I separated facts from exaggeration, acknowledged the questionable ones, challenged the false framing, and asked for balance. Your response is “aren’t you ashamed?”

That is like a student who failed mathematics accusing the calculator of bad character.

No, I am not ashamed of thinking.

You should be ashamed of calling rage analysis and expecting serious people to clap.

bigwig071:
nothing to argue with an evil person like you.. I also know you're monthly paid to defend the evil tinubu's government..

ogolemati:
you will be healed soon

CharlesCNG:
We do not think “Obidients” alone are the problem. The problem is the confusion of people like you and your emergency analyst, Rufai Oseni, who mistake noise for economics.

Peter Obi is a presidential candidate who talks carelessly on the economy, throws figures around loosely, and then depends on media bodyguards to clap for him instead of interrogating him.

The simple question remains unanswered:

If Tinubu has “failed” on the economy, what exactly will your Rufai lord and saviour’s preferred candidate do differently?

Will he reverse fuel subsidy removal?

Will he restore the old artificial exchange rate?

Will he borrow to defend the naira?

Will he continue paying trillions to subsidise consumption?

Will he cut government revenue and magically increase spending at the same time?

On the economy, Tinubu has taken painful but necessary steps: subsidy removal, exchange-rate reform, improved revenue mobilisation, stronger investor confidence, and a reform path even the World Bank and IMF have acknowledged as important, while still admitting that Nigerians are feeling serious hardship. Nigeria’s economy also grew 3.89% year-on-year in Q1 2026.

That is the honest argument: there is pain, but there is also movement.

Reform is like treating a deep wound. The medicine may sting, but the sting is not proof that the doctor is killing the patient. Sometimes progress first looks like pain because the damage being corrected was buried for years.

But Obidient economics is simple: shout “suffering,” dodge the alternative, attack the questioner, and wait for Rufai to package confusion as analysis.

My friend, slogans are not economic policy. If Obi has a better plan, bring it out. If Rufai has a superior model, let him explain it. But this endless emotional commentary without a workable alternative is just opposition theatre wearing an economist’s tie.

ogolemati:
let even consult var to evaluate your thoughts since we are in the season of world cup.bye you win