₦airaland Forum

LordIsaac:
Honestly...they're all the same!

anonimi:
How is Atiku the same as Tinubu who did not say anything about Deborah Samuel’s killing? The man who got his turn to worsen APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege, on a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

What kind of equivalence is that?

Jagaban of Borgu cares about nothing and cares about nobody else but his own selfish interests for greedy acquisition to ruin the country after fighting for power and grabbing it.

The serial betrayer of Yorubas, southerners and the entire country is only for himself!!!

AMINDA:
Let us see Tinubu's comments when Olu Falae's daughter was killed. Didn't he declare that "where are the cows?" Are you now affirming that he did that because he wanted the Fulani votes?

jchioma:
They have directed attention to Atiku now for his relentless criticism of Tinubu. How I wish all these energies were spent to address the myriad of problems you are being criticized for!

They have come for Peter Obi, Archbishop Onaiyekan and the Catholic bishops. They will soon come for Bishop Oyedepo and Pastor Tunde Bakare. How insensitive can you be?


https://x.com/MacDanielsBlog/status/2084223817841262606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2084223817841262606%7Ctwgr%5Ea672cb8de9926b58c006224595c4913ed6f86cf9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nairaland.com%2F8721201%2Fbishop-oyedepo-knocks-tinubu-over[/quote]This is another attempt to turn ordinary political scrutiny into persecution.

What exactly are the “myriad problems”? The two biggest are obvious: insecurity and economic hardship.

Nobody serious denies them. Nigerians are still being killed and kidnapped, while food prices, poverty and the cost of living remain painfully high. But saying government has done “nothing” is simply false.

On security, Tinubu declared a nationwide security emergency, authorised additional military recruitment, approved 50,000 police recruits, ordered the deployment and expansion of forest guards, and committed ₦5.41 trillion to defence and security in the 2026 budget.

The government has also launched new military operations and repeatedly condemned major attacks. Whether these measures are sufficient is open to debate; pretending they do not exist is not.

On the economy, the hardship is real, but so are the interventions: subsidy and foreign-exchange reforms, expanded cash transfers, student loans, MSME support, higher allocations to states and local governments, and new World Bank-backed programmes for farmers, displaced people, healthcare and education.

The World Bank says the reforms have improved macroeconomic stability and growth, while also warning that poverty remains severe and the gains have not reached enough households. That is the honest picture—not the childish claim that nothing is being done.

As for the attached Oyedepo video, the bishop said he had not heard any government statement against the killings.
With respect, he probably had not been listening.
Tinubu has repeatedly condemned attacks, ordered investigations, deployments and new recruitment. One may fairly argue that statements and deployments have not yet produced enough safety—but “I have not heard” is not evidence that government never spoke.

And criticism of Atiku, Obi or any cleric is not “coming for them.”
They spoke publicly; others answered publicly.
Criticism is not persecution, rebuttal is not intimidation, and a cassock does not convert a political opinion into unquestionable scripture.

CharlesCNG:
That comparison actually exposes Atiku more than it protects him.

On Deborah Samuel, the accurate distinction is this: I found no clear public statement from Tinubu personally condemning the killing at the time. That silence was legitimately criticised.
But Atiku did something politically more revealing—he publicly condemned the killing, then deleted the condemnation after backlash. Reuters documented the deletion, while Atiku later admitted ordering it removed, claiming the post had not received his approval.

So it is silence versus comment-and-retreat. Neither deserves applause, but deleting a principled statement when it becomes electorally inconvenient is hardly evidence of superior courage.

The rest of your response is mostly emotional abuse and senseless rantings presented as analysis.
Yes, Tinubu ran on a Muslim-Muslim ticket; that is a fact. But a ticket’s religious composition does not, by itself, prove that the president “cares about nobody” or deliberately wants to ruin Nigeria.

On poverty, criticism is justified: the World Bank says household welfare remains severely strained and poverty increased despite improving macroeconomic indicators. But the same institution also reports easing inflation, stronger fiscal and external positions, and continuing economic growth.
The honest conclusion is that stabilisation gains have not yet translated sufficiently into household relief—not that every policy was designed to “worsen poverty.”

“Serial betrayer,” “greedy acquisition” and “cares about nobody” are opinions, not established facts.

You cannot defend Atiku’s deleted Deborah statement by shouting insults at Tinubu.
Atiku spoke, faced pressure and withdrew the statement. That remains the uncomfortable fact.

anonimi:
My dad, victim of complex conspiracy – Kola Abiola

What role did Bola Tinubu play in all of these?

At the very beginning, he was part of the Yar’Adua PF group from Jos. He was a senator then, and as far as the group went, we related. The crisis started post-election. When Abacha came, one of the things he wanted to do was to be the administrator for Lagos.

That is Tinubu?

Yes. I am sure you have seen pictures of him and my dad. He was hoping that there would be civilian administrators like we had under IBB but Abacha said no, that he was going to have military administrators. So he (Tinubu) said okay, in that case, can I be a deputy administrator? But Abacha said that there wouldn’t be deputies. Then he wanted the post of a commissioner.

He wanted to be a commissioner?

Yes. Then it was a choice between him and someone very close to Jakande who has passed on now. I can’t remember his name, but because Babagana was already in the government, that guy was picked as commissioner. But really, Senator Tinubu had lost out already.

Was Tinubu very close to MKO?

Yes, he was close enough. He and Adeniyi Adele, a very good guy, were close to my father. In fact, Adeniyi was closer to my father and more dedicated to the process than anyone of them. When my documentary comes out, you will see Tinubu’s take on issues. So once he lost out, automatically, he became a NADECO member and Adeniyi was incarcerated.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/06/12/my-dad-victim-of-complex-conspiracy-kola-abiola/

anonimi:
Ẹniti o gbà odò gbà mark, yàtọ̀ sí àwọn tí wọ́n kó yọjú rárá.

Tinubu said nothing about the death unlike Atiku who did.

If Tinubu’s policies are not designed to worsen APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege then why has he failed to crash petrol price below N185 and why has he failed to deliver his N300/$1 short term goal despite borrowing $3.3 billion SPV Afreximbank loans, secured by future oil sales to specifically defend the Naira? Any idea why his wife advised people to fry akara because her husband is clueless about creating 50 million jobs promised?

Tinubu’s serial betrayal of everyone is established fact. He may have been Abacha’s double agent inside NADECO. That’s how wicked the balablu bulaba master strategist of propaganda politics is.

anonimi:
Ẹniti o gbà odò gbà mark, yàtọ̀ sí àwọn tí wọ́n kó yọjú rárá.

Tinubu said nothing about the death unlike Atiku who did.

If Tinubu’s policies are not designed to worsen APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege then why has he failed to crash petrol price below N185 and why has he failed to deliver his N300/$1 short term goal despite borrowing $3.3 billion SPV Afreximbank loans, secured by future oil sales to specifically defend the Naira? Any idea why his wife advised people to fry akara because her husband is clueless about creating 50 million jobs promised?

Tinubu’s serial betrayal of everyone is established fact. He may have been Abacha’s double agent inside NADECO. That’s how wicked the balablu bulaba master strategist of propaganda politics is.

CharlesCNG:
Atiku Abubakar’s defence of Cardinal John Onaiyekan is another exhibition of political opportunism dressed as moral courage.

Atiku’s sudden courage is particularly amusing. When Deborah Samuel was murdered over an alleged blasphemy accusation, he posted a condemnation—then deleted it after political backlash. Now he lectures others that nobody needs permission to speak truth.

Apparently, truth requires no permission only when it carries no electoral risk.

Where was this fearless defender of independent voices when a murdered young woman needed an unequivocal voice?.

Atiku wants religious leaders to speak freely but apparently expects the government to receive every clerical pronouncement like holy writ.

That is not democracy.

It is political opportunism wearing a cassock.

Thedon22:
Deborah Samuels was killed in the North which was Atikuss base and under his current best friend, Tambuwal. Till today, nobody has explained what happened to the killers of that young girl, yet they both are promoting a party for all Nigerians.

anonimi:
How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals

AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.

Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.

The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.

In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.

He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-we-foiled-jonathans-effort-to-make-mulika-adeola-speaker-akande-reveals/

CharlesCNG:
This is economic illiteracy dressed as outrage.

Petrol cannot simply be “crashed” to[b] ₦185 per litre[/b] by presidential command in a deregulated market.
Dangote buys crude at prices linked to the international market, incurs refining, financing, storage and distribution costs, and cannot order Brent crude or the exchange rate to obey Nigerian social media. In July 2026, Dangote’s quoted ex-depot petrol price was $0.779 per litre. At the CBN rate of about ₦1,368/$, that alone converts to roughly ₦1,066 per litre before transport and retail margins.

Forcing that product down to ₦185 means government must pay the difference as subsidy. Using April consumption of about 51.1 million litres daily, the subsidy gap would approach ₦45 billion every day—roughly ₦1.35 trillion monthly. That is not “crashing the price”; it is hiding the price inside public debt and diverting money from roads, security, education and healthcare.

The $3.3 billion Afreximbank facility was a crude-backed prepayment loan meant to provide dollar liquidity, meet obligations and support exchange-rate stability—not a magical cheque capable of permanently fixing the naira at ₦300.

Total disbursement eventually reached about $3.175 billion, a tiny amount compared with Nigeria’s continuing demand for dollars for imports, debt service, fuel, machinery and profit repatriation.

And the First Lady’s akara remark was made in the context of grants and small-business self-reliance. Encouraging microenterprise does not replace the government’s wider employment responsibility, but twisting it into proof that the President has no job policy is merely social-media comedy.

You cannot demand market-determined exchange rates and petrol prices, then complain that the President has not imposed fantasy prices by decree. That is not economics; it is subsidy nostalgia with a calculator missing.

Deltafirstson:
Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.

In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.

Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.

Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.

At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.

However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.

“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.


https://dailytrust.com/breaking-video-of-tinubu-campaigning-to-crash-fuel-price-goes-viral-amid-hike/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JH8CC_JdUA

AMINDA:
Let us see Tinubu's comments when Olu Falae's daughter was killed. Didn't he declare that "where are the cows?" Are you now affirming that he did that because he wanted the Fulani votes?

Parachoko:
We Christians will Answer Atiku with our Votes in 2027

Atiku Abubakar Will Never Become The President Of Nigeria

anonimi:
Deborah Samuel was killed for blasphemy by Muslims.

Till today, the master strategist Jagaban of Borgu who made his fellow northerner Tambuwal HoR Speaker instead of a Yoruba has never spoken against the murder, yet he is promoting a party for all Nigerians with his Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Who is he foooling?
Who is fooled by his balablu bulaba antics? The Don should know who?, right

CharlesCNG:
Atiku Abubakar’s defence of Cardinal John Onaiyekan is another exhibition of political opportunism dressed as moral courage.

Nobody said the Presidency is a secret cult. Nobody said Catholic bishops require permission to criticise government. President Tinubu invited the bishops, listened to them and disagreed with their assessment. Since when did disagreement become censorship?

The bishops are entitled to speak.

The President is equally entitled to answer.

Moral authority does not confer immunity from scrutiny.

More importantly, this controversy is not an attack on the Catholic Church. It concerns Cardinal Onaiyekan’s decision to publicly characterise a private engagement and present his interpretation of Tinubu’s response as the definitive truth.
The wider Church should not be conscripted into defending every political intervention made by one cleric.

Atiku’s sudden courage is particularly amusing. When Deborah Samuel was murdered over an alleged blasphemy accusation, he posted a condemnation—then deleted it after political backlash. Now he lectures others that nobody needs permission to speak truth.

Apparently, truth requires no permission only when it carries no electoral risk.

Where was this fearless defender of independent voices when a murdered young woman needed an unequivocal voice?

Tinubu disagreed with Onaiyekan; he did not imprison him, silence him or prevent his television appearance.

Criticism is democratic.

So is rebuttal.

Atiku wants religious leaders to speak freely but apparently expects the government to receive every clerical pronouncement like holy writ.

That is not democracy.

It is political opportunism wearing a cassock.

CrownedPhoenix:
His conduct in that Deborah's issue is the sole reason Atiku can never have my vote.

It tells a whole lot about him as a leader leading a nation of diverse cultures, tribes and religions.

CharlesCNG:
Atiku Abubakar’s defence of Cardinal John Onaiyekan is another exhibition of political opportunism dressed as moral courage.

Nobody said the Presidency is a secret cult. Nobody said Catholic bishops require permission to criticise government. President Tinubu invited the bishops, listened to them and disagreed with their assessment. Since when did disagreement become censorship?

The bishops are entitled to speak.

The President is equally entitled to answer.

Moral authority does not confer immunity from scrutiny.

More importantly, this controversy is not an attack on the Catholic Church. It concerns Cardinal Onaiyekan’s decision to publicly characterise a private engagement and present his interpretation of Tinubu’s response as the definitive truth.
The wider Church should not be conscripted into defending every political intervention made by one cleric.

Atiku’s sudden courage is particularly amusing. When Deborah Samuel was murdered over an alleged blasphemy accusation, he posted a condemnation—then deleted it after political backlash. Now he lectures others that nobody needs permission to speak truth.

Apparently, truth requires no permission only when it carries no electoral risk.

Where was this fearless defender of independent voices when a murdered young woman needed an unequivocal voice?

Tinubu disagreed with Onaiyekan; he did not imprison him, silence him or prevent his television appearance.

Criticism is democratic.

So is rebuttal.

Atiku wants religious leaders to speak freely but apparently expects the government to receive every clerical pronouncement like holy writ.

That is not democracy.

It is political opportunism wearing a cassock.

Streetinvestor2:
Why don't you tell us the drug baron own reaction or action when Deborah was killed. Is he not a Muslim like Atiku. Did he travel to another planet when it happened. Abi he was not a member of APC then
Atleast Atiku commented
The drug baron is a total failure in all sector. The bishops looked his straight in the face and told him.You all data boys can continue to cry over it till 2027 election. He will hear more when campaign starts officially with stones in some regions