₦airaland Forum

Based on results declared in all the states plus FCT, Buhari of APC has polled 15,191, 903 while Atiku scored a total of 11,263,987. This implies that Buhari defeated the main opposition contender with a total of 3,927,916.

In securing these votes, President Buhari has polled more than 25% of the total valid votes in 33 states plus FCT. He failed to secure up to 25% votes in Rivers, Anambra and Enugu states.

Having met the requirements of the Constitution as described above, President Muhammad Buhari has been given the mandate by Nigerians to lead them for the next 4 years. Welcome to the era of NextLevel for the next 4 years.

I got to go sleep.

Based on results declared in all the states plus FCT, Buhari of APC has polled 15,191, 903 while Atiku scored a total of 11,253,987. This implies that Buhari defeated the main opposition contender with a total of 3,937,916.

In securing these votes, President Buhari has polled more than 25% of the total valid votes in 33 states plus FCT. He failed to secure up to 25% votes in Rivers, Anambra and Enugu states.

Having met the requirements of the Constitution as described above, President Muhammad Buhari has been given the mandate by Nigerians to lead them for the next 4 years. Welcome to the era of NextLevel for the next 4 years.

I got to go sleep.

Kingsley10000:
wike effect

i trust hjm to deliver

Wike could not do the magic he performed in 2015 now because no federal might to rig the election.

Slaveman343:
Rivers State Presidential Result:

APC:175,000

PDP:1,225,276

not verified

This is not 2015 when PDP wrote result in SE Rivers and entire SS except Edo.

PDP needs to send FFK to Abuja Collation Center to do an Orubebe there. That is the only time I will take FFK serious about the advice he gave PDP to form a parallel govt.

somalianprince:
It was only insane few and almajiris that voted Buhari. No one conscious of the economy and polity voted Buhari. That's why people even in Abuja the seat of power voted against Buhari. The same thing made Osibanjo to lose his area in Lagos.

SE, SS, SW, NC all voted massively for Atiku, except few mad people and millions of almajiris in the core north that doesn't know what is decent living and state of the economy.

GOD help Nigeria

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THEY ARE STILL NIGERIANS

aremso:
At least his boss confirmed it and that alone is enough to me

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I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE CONVENIENTLY IGNORE WHAT OBJ HAS SIAD (AND EVEN REITRATED IT FEW DAYS TO ELECTTION) THAT ATIKU IS A THIEF AND FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT. YET WE WANT SUCH CHARACTER TO MANAGE OUR COMMON PURSUE. GOD FORBID.

[quote author=aremso post=76105796]pls lets ask mr. atiku what he has done wrong against his people, the margin is crazy.[/quot

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His people are not stupid. They know ATIKU is fantastically corrupt and have chosen to stay with Mr. Integrity

aremso:
u better face the reality on ground and fasten your seat belt for the next 4yrs cos no more free monies and alot of millionaire would be produced this time around cos guys will engage their brain and this will result in more monies to them but no more free monies for the next 4 yrs

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GOD BLESS YOU FOR THE TRUE ADVICE. THIS GOVT SUPPORTS TRUE BUSINESS PEOPLE AND NOT THOSE THAT WERE HAVING FREE MONIES TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

contigiency:
Shut up my friend. apc rigged atiku's polling unit, galadima, obasanjo, bode judge etc. And nobody heard about all these your rigging complaint until now the results are coming out. I am from south East, if I tell you the level of rigging pdp did here, you won't believe it. so both parties rig. That one party outsmarted the other doesn't mean that the party is of a greater evil.

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We all know all parties rig. What INEC and this Administration have prevented is Result Writing that used to be the in-thing consistently in SS and SE.

Levant:
With the widespread hunger and poverty affecting Nigerians under bubu, what is still fuelling the courage of many Nigerians to use their hands to vote for him again?

I can understand illiteracy, poverty and religion used as weapons in the north, where bubu is from.

I can also understand the 2023 factor, tinubu thuggery and osinbanjo in the south west. Even at that, the votes are shared in the southwest.

But what of places like akwa ibom, delta and Imo?

Even with all the excuses, one can still wonder at the north and southwest. Isn't hunger disturbing them?

Next any Yoruba or northerner come to me begging for food, I will send him to bubu. The one they're voting for should feed them.

Or is this not daylight robbery and bold rigging we are witnessing?

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Because true hardworking and enlightened Nigerians know that God used PMB to save Nigeria from what Venezuela is experiencing now as a result of wanton corruption experienced during PDP era (especially GEJ admin). Secondly, everyone knows ATIKU is a rogue of international repute and would not want him near the treasury. He will take the country back into the dark ages. Despite PMB deficiencies, he is a better choice any day than Atiku. If PDP had chosen Tambuwal, perhaps the votes in the North could have split.

merahki:
You mean doctored numbers?
Trust me, and God is my witness, not up to a smattering (a handful) of people voted for Buhari
Muoghalu got more votes than Buhari in every polling station in the SE (I exaggerate only a little here)
Buhari is not popular here. Only Satan is hated more/sometimes people cannot tell the two apart even, you get the drift?
4years ago some people supported him (they wanted the country to work better and needed a savior to believe in-that’s why you got that result that year)
4 years later, after he has shown us how much he hates the Igbo people (“what do THOSE people want?”-his words that killed us, his calls to foreign countries to deport Igbos (and other Southerners), his tacit support of Fulani herdsmen as they maimed and killed, not appointing Igbo people because he could not see a single nonthief among all of us for his jobs and assignments”, etc)
After showing us all that and more, it became mutual for us the emotional Ndigbo
Has nothing to do with our Obi, we say and said a collective NO to Buhari. Atiku at least agreed that the Igbo needs to be treated better. It is something big for us.
My convoluted point? The numbers for Buhari should be far less this year. Anywhere he gets up to 3percent of the votes is pure rigging. 5percent maybe in Imo State cos of The Roach. Okay 2 percent in the 4 other states (you may add Delta and Rivers and give them 5-10percent cos they are not homogenously Igbo) would be from the Hausa -Fulani populations here (although every gateman here that I see Atikulated too). But anything up to 3 percent? I call mega rigging
Cheers

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You have expressed what you wanted to happen but you have been disappointed. The Abokis you talked to acted smart because there was no point trying to convince you or foolishly exposed themselves (especially in an area they know are PDP apologists). Nobody expected nothing less from the result in the East because we all know Igbos would naturally vote PDP and now more importantly vote their own, OBI. But It is not only IGBOS that stay in SE. Also, the era of writing results like it happened in 2015 is gone. That is why Rivers or Akwa Ibom would not be able to churn 1 million votes for PDP this time around. SE and SS should vote normally like in SW and the North.

Mimirabelle4:
Someone should please help me out with airtime. I'm unable to follow the result due to light issue around here. Can someone please spread the love... 09058567367 GLO
#BuhariLeadingAlready
#NigeriaDecide

I just sent you N500. I am Buharist from Lagos Next Level

cutesmilez:
Bro if APC can't have atlist 25% in Abuja den it's over.... They must have 25% in Abuja. Abuja is first den others..... Even if they have the overall highest number of votes without 25% in ABJ, highest dy can get is a re-run btw Buhari and Atiku

NO. YOU GOT IT WRONG. IS THAT WHY PDP APPENDAGE, CUPP CAME OUT TO SPEW THEIR TALES BY MOONLIGHT

WORDWORLD:
How far with the second lion. Dino Melaye, I hope him the roar for Kogi o.

Dino lost to Sam Adeyemi

This is the result of the election at my polling unit 017 Ikota Villa Estate Lekki. PDP carried the day.
House
ANN - 3
ADC - 7
APC - 11
DPP - 1
PDP - 40
MDP -36

Senate
PDP - 67
ADC - 5
APC - 22
ANP -1
MPM - 1

President
PDP - 70
APC - 14
YPP - 3
ANN -7
PPA - 1
APP -1

The End of Obasanjo’s Catalogue below:

Dr @fimiletoks takes Obasanjo to the cleaners, says "teacher don't teach me nonsense":

1. Last kick of a dying horse. A toad doesn't run in the afternoon..You are afraid, fear has overwhelmed you.
You should have written this letter to yourself in 2003 and 2006 when we witnessed the worst elections in our history.
��Teacher don't teach me nonsense��

https://twitter.com/fimiletoks/status/1087113177446391811?s=19

2. I am old enough to know who you are..
2003 / 2007 was massively rigged, you were planning to turn Nigeria into a one-party state with Iwu. Let me remind you that you removed 3 sitting senate presidents, chased away 2 PDP chairmen, state of emergency in Plateau and Ekiti state.

3. Through your cohorts you removed Ngige, Rasheed Ladoja, Fayose, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha..

You forcefully withheld Lagos state funds just because you couldn't break Tinubu.

Murder of political opponents including a sitting Attorney General, Bola Ige, Harry Marshal, Chief Dikibo

4. Chief Dikibo, Chief Ogbonaya Uche all of ANPP. The great Chuba Okadigbo, was attacked with teargasses, he died from the attack.

Should we talk about Zaki Biam? You wiped out 300 families, deployed amoured tanks with helicopter gunship against harmless civilians..

5. You refused to apologise or acknowledge the evil perpetrated against the community, ignored the federal high court ruling to pay compensation to the victims of Zaki Biam..

Should we talk about Odi in Bayelsa? You made the place a ghost town till today they are yet to recover.

6. Should we talk a out Massob? Peter Obi ordered a shoot at sight on Massob, it was your order..5000 of them went missing.

https:///VzE97I8uxs

7. You left Odi with just two buildings, a church and a bank..women, men and children.

https:///tQwqDnVUhR

8. Why are you afraid? Your transcorp shares? Your Bells University which you miraculously acquired after leaving prison with less than 2000 naira in your pocket or the National library which was fraudulently acquired. Your farms was dead when you came out of prison..

9. How did you revive it? What are your stakes in the oil and gas sector? Why are you crying so badly..

Letters upon letters to what effect? Would you have tolerated Saraki and Dogara in the National Assembly? You were despotic, you haunted your party members..

10. Today INEC just confirmed that APC will not be on the ballot paper for Rivers and Zamfara state elections.
Who born monkey? Would this happen with you as president?
Why are you after Buhari? Are you afraid that his success will make you irrelevant after 8 years?

11. PMB has achieved what you could achieve in your backyard..
He has awarded the reconstruction of the road to your ota base. Are you not happy that a rail line will pass through Ogun state? Are you not happy that Lagos - Ibadan expressway will be completed by a Fulani man?

12. Are you not happy that the Nigerian Airways workers you disengaged and the Biafran police officers you abandoned have now received their entitlement after several years? What is your grouse baba?

You are not happy that rice farmers are smiling to the bank in kebbi and ebonyi?

13. You gave us GSM and killed Nitel...oh we have thanked you enough..

What else do you want? You want to disrupt and heat up the system..you want electoral violence by discrediting INEC because you are afraid of Buhari.

14. Your letters are inconsequential because you cannot win in your local government. You formed a political party, you formed CUPP a coalition to destabilize PMB yet he is getting more popular.

You made your daughter a senator and a commisioner for Health..we did not complain..

15. Who killed Bola Ige your Attorney General? Who killed Harry Marshall? How much did you spend on power? Are you afraid of a probe?

You cannot distort history, you are actually on the same page with Abacha..

Rest well in Ota and feed your chickens, Nigeria has moved past you..

16. You complained about Boko haram but what happened when you visited the family of the leader? He was killed..by who and why?

https:///Xoatuv3iLh

17. In 2015 you canvassed for a dialogue with sect, now you are singing a new tune. When you visited in 2011, you gave them money and gifts..you believed Boko haram was legitimate..

https:///EEa3Xf4YGP

18. During your tenure we had religious wars in the north, Bakassi and Egbesu boys running riot in the south east, beheading people in broad daylight. We had militancy in the south south..we had OPC in the south west..you jailed the Late Fasheun, ordered shoot at sight on OPC members

19. What exactly is on your score card? Debt forgiveness and GSM..

Teacher don't teach me nonsense..

20. Someone just reminded me of the Ife/Modakeke war, Tiv / Jukun clash..
Tales of horror all over the country during your reign..

Let me stop here..I hope this will be your last letter..

Documented Views Of Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo About Alhaji Atiku Abubaka

2003 "I regret picking Atiku Abubakar as my vice".

2004 " I can no longer work with Atiku, his integrity is in question ".

2005 " Atiku cannot be trusted ".

2006 " Atiku cannot escape justice over corruption cases "

2007 "Do not vote Atiku he is corrupt".

2008 " Atiku is a corrupt leader".

2009 "Nigerians can never forgive Atiku".

2010 " Atiku is not an option to leadership in Nigeria ".

2011 " I have never seen a leader as greedy as Atiku ".

2012 " Nigerians should pray for leaders imbued with integrity not Atiku ".

2013 "Atiku should apologize to Nigerians over his political sins".

2014 No political party with the aspiration to assume leadership should think of Atiku".

2015 "Nigeria has grown beyond a corrupt leader like Atiku".

2016 " I will never reconcile with Atiku ".

2017 " I never knew Atiku was this corrupt " "I can never be on the same page with Atiku. God forbid!".

2018 January to August " God will not forgive me if I support Atiku ".

2018 August " Atiku has the capacity to save Nigeria's economy from collapse".

What do you think about Chief Olusegun Obasanjo?

Biafrawillcome:
Asari Dokubor has warned that we IPOB should never allow anything happen to Dino Malaye. He is a PDP man and our great supporter. Watch Asari below let us stand with Dino Malaye

#IPOBSTANDSWITHDINO



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcmt_ZZQpHw

IPOBains over to you. Your Lord and brother in the struggle, Asari, has spoken. DINO MUST NOT DIE. Make sure you mobilize all your members and do 1 million people march on Abuja until DINO IS RELEASED. Asari is ready to support financially.

All, there is a fantastic opportunity for investors to acquire swamp rigs as per the attached advert on Nov 7 2018

I am not greedy. Madam please gift me N100k to start this program and I will return to you N300k after I have done 5 trips

Why people call on Buhari to do anything beats me. We run a federal system and each state is autonomous. It is only the state house of assembly that can remove him even with his immunity. EFCC or all other anti-corruption agents can do nothing because of immunity just like Fayose was allowed to finish as Governor before EFCC moves in.

Ndkings1:
Hello my people...
I just received a letter from my boss notifying me that my service will no longer be needed effective November ending.

I teach in a private school here in Lagos.

His reason was the school is trying to cut down cost by laying off degree holders and going for nce, diploma and SSCE holders.


Even though the name pay is meager, I'm not yet ready to resign.
Please i need tips on how to reply him...

Just as you have the right to resign your employer has the right to terminate your employment anytime even for no cause.

Kaycee9242:
Wen will our ppl stop seeing politics as do or die affair

. The moment politics becomes less lucrative and people go there for service and not for self enrichment

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LETTER TO ATIKU...WHY HE CAN'T BE PRESIDENT

BY A DISSATISFIED NIGERIAN...

CHURCHILL OKONKWO

You are a symbol of the past failures and the politically corrupt in Nigeria. With all due respect, therefore, I, on behalf of millions of Nigerians want to remind you that you should shut up when we are discussing anti-corruption challenges and the way forward.

I laughed cynically when I heard you brag that you would “shock everyone because you will fight corruption …if given the opportunity to preside over the affairs of the country.” You challenged Nigerians to either “come forward with a single shred of evidence of [your] misconduct while in office or keep quiet.” Crude arrogance! You subsequently bragged that your stupendous wealth was a result of your “resourcefulness and successful investments.”

What a lie! To use your own words, that display of arrogance was “morally offensive” to millions of Nigerians. Please, sir, accept my apologies, but the issue is not about your “entrepreneurial spirit” but whether you can corroborate the SOURCE of your investments and wealth. Sir, you are not more resourceful than millions of Nigerians, and thousands of investors with hard-earned and traceable source of wealth. So, sir, take your sermon of rooting out corruption in Nigeria to the sedimentary rocks in the valley of Adamawa Highlands. Tell us what happened to the N7.5 B failed Chochi Dam project which u brought the contractor and supervised the project. What happened to the Jada Federal Government communication project awarded by Obasanjo under ur supervision which N4.5 Billion went into a failed project. Tell Nigerians how u took a loan from Bank PHB in 1998 of N300M to run for Governorship of Adamawa, when u were controversially declared the winner and after becoming the VP the bank cancelled the loan. We have documented evidence of this loan, when you took this loan Bamanga Tukur was one of the richest people in the North East with two shipping vessels on the high seas, but just after 8 years as VP u not only became the richest in Adamawa and one of the richest in Nigeria but u built 158 mansions in the country and 42 mosques in Christian dominated areas of Adamawa State the sitting and construction of some of these mosques created several crisis killing thousands of people and dethroning a First Class king.

As a show of good faith, sir, can you please explain to Nigerians how a retired Customs officer and VP, you, got the millions of Dollars, without a bank loan, you paid to the American University in Washington DC for a direct license to use the franchise of the university? We know that your estimated $25 million worth of University (ABTI American University) in Yola was not just because you were resourceful.

What is the source of the inexplicable reason for your increased wealth after 8 years as VP? Accept my apologies sir, but can you explain to Nigerians the source of hundreds of multi-million Naira mansions, mostly built on what Nigerians believe to be proceeds of corruption? What of the $125m you diverted from the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF)? Can you please, sir; explain to Nigerians how you managed to command controlling shares in Bank PHB, controlling shares in Intel, and oil services companies operating in many African countries?

If you are as smart and intelligent as you want Nigerians to believe, then it will not be difficult to break down the source of your wealth. Believe me, there are millions of Nigerians out there that are more resourceful than you that will be turned into billionaires overnight if only you can show us your magic wand. So, without explaining the source of your wealth, it is an insult to ask us to provide evidence that you are chronically corrupt. The burden of proof is on you, sir.

How can Nigeria move forward, when we are hamstrung by symbols of past failures, like you Atiku? Let me remind those still living in the graveyards of yesteryears of what you sir, represents. Your mere presence in Nigerian politics reminds us of the era of fire-breathing monsters that plundered the national wealth. Sir, your administration with Obasanjo represents a government of the ugly and predators. Under you, and Obasanjo, corruption was so sweet and so exquisite that the political class fell over themselves to worship the mini gods in Aso Rock.

Accept my apologies, sir, but Nigerians have not forgotten that under you and Obasanjo, our yesteryears were locust-infested. When you fought corruption with Obasanjo, we had wretched criminals that grew the size of their stomachs and pockets from “Turn Around Maintenance” of our refineries and under-selling of government entities to cronies. Under you, and Obasanjo, we had ministers and thieves that were busy acquiring properties worth billions while our infrastructures decayed.

Sir, you are a woodpecker that feed on the pantry of the poor, but found a way to avoid having boils in your mouth. The same mouth you are now using to insult us and bragging about how clean you are in amassing wealth in the midst of poverty in your backyard.

Atiku, sir, your ambition, therefore, deserves to be killed now. It is time for you to retire from public life, disappear from Twitter, political screens, and sight somewhere far away. Sir, when you drive around the hills and valleys of Adamawa Highland, are you not worried about the difference between your fortunes and that of the poor masses you represented?

Nigerians believe that corruption is a bigger threat than insecurity in your backyard in Northeastern Nigeria. Fighting corruption in good faith will heal the wounds of millions of Nigerians adversely affected over many decades. Unfortunately, sir, until you explain to us how you amassed your wealth, you are not the right man to lead Nigeria.

The stories surrounding the cancellation, the legality or illegality of the contract between Intels and its subsidiaries with Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) is an indication that your greed is finally catching up with you. For me, that deal is like the rest of the dubious investments you are now flaunting, all of which is a textbook example of how crooked bureaucrats like you amass wealth through cronyism and graft.

So, accept my apologies. You, like your boy the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, represent the dangerously corrupt political elites in Nigeria. As you make an attempt at the Nigerian Presidency for the umpteenth time, know it that your reckless shame has expired. The period from 1999 to 2017 is gone, even though the mess you and Obasanjo left behind is still hunting Nigerians.

Sir, I love you, but, until we begin to challenge serving and former civil servants and public office holders like you that cannot explain how they acquired so much wealth, we cannot really claim to be fighting corruption. Shed some light on the source of every Kobo of your shadowed investments and businesses and shame the people you refer to as “political enemies”.

While I wait for your explanation, know it that I will be the first to raise my hand and campaign for you if you will satisfactorily demonstrate the source of your wealth the way you explain to a 3-year old that 1 + 1 = 2. I say this with as a much respect as I can muster, hoping that you will disgrace me with verifiable proof.

Until you do that, sir, you should shut up and bow your head in shame, if there is still any left, when Nigerians are talking about the serious business of fighting corruption.

LETTER TO ATIKU...WHY HE CAN'T BE PRESIDENT

BY A DISSATISFIED NIGERIAN...

CHURCHILL OKONKWO

You are a symbol of the past failures and the politically corrupt in Nigeria. With all due respect, therefore, I, on behalf of millions of Nigerians want to remind you that you should shut up when we are discussing anti-corruption challenges and the way forward.

I laughed cynically when I heard you brag that you would “shock everyone because you will fight corruption …if given the opportunity to preside over the affairs of the country.” You challenged Nigerians to either “come forward with a single shred of evidence of [your] misconduct while in office or keep quiet.” Crude arrogance! You subsequently bragged that your stupendous wealth was a result of your “resourcefulness and successful investments.”

What a lie! To use your own words, that display of arrogance was “morally offensive” to millions of Nigerians. Please, sir, accept my apologies, but the issue is not about your “entrepreneurial spirit” but whether you can corroborate the SOURCE of your investments and wealth. Sir, you are not more resourceful than millions of Nigerians, and thousands of investors with hard-earned and traceable source of wealth. So, sir, take your sermon of rooting out corruption in Nigeria to the sedimentary rocks in the valley of Adamawa Highlands. Tell us what happened to the N7.5 B failed Chochi Dam project which u brought the contractor and supervised the project. What happened to the Jada Federal Government communication project awarded by Obasanjo under ur supervision which N4.5 Billion went into a failed project. Tell Nigerians how u took a loan from Bank PHB in 1998 of N300M to run for Governorship of Adamawa, when u were controversially declared the winner and after becoming the VP the bank cancelled the loan. We have documented evidence of this loan, when you took this loan Bamanga Tukur was one of the richest people in the North East with two shipping vessels on the high seas, but just after 8 years as VP u not only became the richest in Adamawa and one of the richest in Nigeria but u built 158 mansions in the country and 42 mosques in Christian dominated areas of Adamawa State the sitting and construction of some of these mosques created several crisis killing thousands of people and dethroning a First Class king.

As a show of good faith, sir, can you please explain to Nigerians how a retired Customs officer and VP, you, got the millions of Dollars, without a bank loan, you paid to the American University in Washington DC for a direct license to use the franchise of the university? We know that your estimated $25 million worth of University (ABTI American University) in Yola was not just because you were resourceful.

What is the source of the inexplicable reason for your increased wealth after 8 years as VP? Accept my apologies sir, but can you explain to Nigerians the source of hundreds of multi-million Naira mansions, mostly built on what Nigerians believe to be proceeds of corruption? What of the $125m you diverted from the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF)? Can you please, sir; explain to Nigerians how you managed to command controlling shares in Bank PHB, controlling shares in Intel, and oil services companies operating in many African countries?

If you are as smart and intelligent as you want Nigerians to believe, then it will not be difficult to break down the source of your wealth. Believe me, there are millions of Nigerians out there that are more resourceful than you that will be turned into billionaires overnight if only you can show us your magic wand. So, without explaining the source of your wealth, it is an insult to ask us to provide evidence that you are chronically corrupt. The burden of proof is on you, sir.

How can Nigeria move forward, when we are hamstrung by symbols of past failures, like you Atiku? Let me remind those still living in the graveyards of yesteryears of what you sir, represents. Your mere presence in Nigerian politics reminds us of the era of fire-breathing monsters that plundered the national wealth. Sir, your administration with Obasanjo represents a government of the ugly and predators. Under you, and Obasanjo, corruption was so sweet and so exquisite that the political class fell over themselves to worship the mini gods in Aso Rock.

Accept my apologies, sir, but Nigerians have not forgotten that under you and Obasanjo, our yesteryears were locust-infested. When you fought corruption with Obasanjo, we had wretched criminals that grew the size of their stomachs and pockets from “Turn Around Maintenance” of our refineries and under-selling of government entities to cronies. Under you, and Obasanjo, we had ministers and thieves that were busy acquiring properties worth billions while our infrastructures decayed.

Sir, you are a woodpecker that feed on the pantry of the poor, but found a way to avoid having boils in your mouth. The same mouth you are now using to insult us and bragging about how clean you are in amassing wealth in the midst of poverty in your backyard.

Atiku, sir, your ambition, therefore, deserves to be killed now. It is time for you to retire from public life, disappear from Twitter, political screens, and sight somewhere far away. Sir, when you drive around the hills and valleys of Adamawa Highland, are you not worried about the difference between your fortunes and that of the poor masses you represented?

Nigerians believe that corruption is a bigger threat than insecurity in your backyard in Northeastern Nigeria. Fighting corruption in good faith will heal the wounds of millions of Nigerians adversely affected over many decades. Unfortunately, sir, until you explain to us how you amassed your wealth, you are not the right man to lead Nigeria.

The stories surrounding the cancellation, the legality or illegality of the contract between Intels and its subsidiaries with Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) is an indication that your greed is finally catching up with you. For me, that deal is like the rest of the dubious investments you are now flaunting, all of which is a textbook example of how crooked bureaucrats like you amass wealth through cronyism and graft.

So, accept my apologies. You, like your boy the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, represent the dangerously corrupt political elites in Nigeria. As you make an attempt at the Nigerian Presidency for the umpteenth time, know it that your reckless shame has expired. The period from 1999 to 2017 is gone, even though the mess you and Obasanjo left behind is still hunting Nigerians.

Sir, I love you, but, until we begin to challenge serving and former civil servants and public office holders like you that cannot explain how they acquired so much wealth, we cannot really claim to be fighting corruption. Shed some light on the source of every Kobo of your shadowed investments and businesses and shame the people you refer to as “political enemies”.

While I wait for your explanation, know it that I will be the first to raise my hand and campaign for you if you will satisfactorily demonstrate the source of your wealth the way you explain to a 3-year old that 1 + 1 = 2. I say this with as a much respect as I can muster, hoping that you will disgrace me with verifiable proof.

Until you do that, sir, you should shut up and bow your head in shame, if there is still any left, when Nigerians are talking about the serious business of fighting corruption.

LETTER TO ATIKU...WHY HE CAN'T BE PRESIDEN

BY A DISSATISFIED NIGERIAN...

CHURCHILL OKONKWO

You are a symbol of the past failures and the politically corrupt in Nigeria. With all due respect, therefore, I, on behalf of millions of Nigerians want to remind you that you should shut up when we are discussing anti-corruption challenges and the way forward.

I laughed cynically when I heard you brag that you would “shock everyone because you will fight corruption …if given the opportunity to preside over the affairs of the country.” You challenged Nigerians to either “come forward with a single shred of evidence of [your] misconduct while in office or keep quiet.” Crude arrogance! You subsequently bragged that your stupendous wealth was a result of your “resourcefulness and successful investments.”

What a lie! To use your own words, that display of arrogance was “morally offensive” to millions of Nigerians. Please, sir, accept my apologies, but the issue is not about your “entrepreneurial spirit” but whether you can corroborate the SOURCE of your investments and wealth. Sir, you are not more resourceful than millions of Nigerians, and thousands of investors with hard-earned and traceable source of wealth. So, sir, take your sermon of rooting out corruption in Nigeria to the sedimentary rocks in the valley of Adamawa Highlands. Tell us what happened to the N7.5 B failed Chochi Dam project which u brought the contractor and supervised the project. What happened to the Jada Federal Government communication project awarded by Obasanjo under ur supervision which N4.5 Billion went into a failed project. Tell Nigerians how u took a loan from Bank PHB in 1998 of N300M to run for Governorship of Adamawa, when u were controversially declared the winner and after becoming the VP the bank cancelled the loan. We have documented evidence of this loan, when you took this loan Bamanga Tukur was one of the richest people in the North East with two shipping vessels on the high seas, but just after 8 years as VP u not only became the richest in Adamawa and one of the richest in Nigeria but u built 158 mansions in the country and 42 mosques in Christian dominated areas of Adamawa State the sitting and construction of some of these mosques created several crisis killing thousands of people and dethroning a First Class king.

As a show of good faith, sir, can you please explain to Nigerians how a retired Customs officer and VP, you, got the millions of Dollars, without a bank loan, you paid to the American University in Washington DC for a direct license to use the franchise of the university? We know that your estimated $25 million worth of University (ABTI American University) in Yola was not just because you were resourceful.

What is the source of the inexplicable reason for your increased wealth after 8 years as VP? Accept my apologies sir, but can you explain to Nigerians the source of hundreds of multi-million Naira mansions, mostly built on what Nigerians believe to be proceeds of corruption? What of the $125m you diverted from the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF)? Can you please, sir; explain to Nigerians how you managed to command controlling shares in Bank PHB, controlling shares in Intel, and oil services companies operating in many African countries?

If you are as smart and intelligent as you want Nigerians to believe, then it will not be difficult to break down the source of your wealth. Believe me, there are millions of Nigerians out there that are more resourceful than you that will be turned into billionaires overnight if only you can show us your magic wand. So, without explaining the source of your wealth, it is an insult to ask us to provide evidence that you are chronically corrupt. The burden of proof is on you, sir.

How can Nigeria move forward, when we are hamstrung by symbols of past failures, like you Atiku? Let me remind those still living in the graveyards of yesteryears of what you sir, represents. Your mere presence in Nigerian politics reminds us of the era of fire-breathing monsters that plundered the national wealth. Sir, your administration with Obasanjo represents a government of the ugly and predators. Under you, and Obasanjo, corruption was so sweet and so exquisite that the political class fell over themselves to worship the mini gods in Aso Rock.

Accept my apologies, sir, but Nigerians have not forgotten that under you and Obasanjo, our yesteryears were locust-infested. When you fought corruption with Obasanjo, we had wretched criminals that grew the size of their stomachs and pockets from “Turn Around Maintenance” of our refineries and under-selling of government entities to cronies. Under you, and Obasanjo, we had ministers and thieves that were busy acquiring properties worth billions while our infrastructures decayed.

Sir, you are a woodpecker that feed on the pantry of the poor, but found a way to avoid having boils in your mouth. The same mouth you are now using to insult us and bragging about how clean you are in amassing wealth in the midst of poverty in your backyard.

Atiku, sir, your ambition, therefore, deserves to be killed now. It is time for you to retire from public life, disappear from Twitter, political screens, and sight somewhere far away. Sir, when you drive around the hills and valleys of Adamawa Highland, are you not worried about the difference between your fortunes and that of the poor masses you represented?

Nigerians believe that corruption is a bigger threat than insecurity in your backyard in Northeastern Nigeria. Fighting corruption in good faith will heal the wounds of millions of Nigerians adversely affected over many decades. Unfortunately, sir, until you explain to us how you amassed your wealth, you are not the right man to lead Nigeria.

The stories surrounding the cancellation, the legality or illegality of the contract between Intels and its subsidiaries with Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) is an indication that your greed is finally catching up with you. For me, that deal is like the rest of the dubious investments you are now flaunting, all of which is a textbook example of how crooked bureaucrats like you amass wealth through cronyism and graft.

So, accept my apologies. You, like your boy the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, represent the dangerously corrupt political elites in Nigeria. As you make an attempt at the Nigerian Presidency for the umpteenth time, know it that your reckless shame has expired. The period from 1999 to 2017 is gone, even though the mess you and Obasanjo left behind is still hunting Nigerians.

Sir, I love you, but, until we begin to challenge serving and former civil servants and public office holders like you that cannot explain how they acquired so much wealth, we cannot really claim to be fighting corruption. Shed some light on the source of every Kobo of your shadowed investments and businesses and shame the people you refer to as “political enemies”.

While I wait for your explanation, know it that I will be the first to raise my hand and campaign for you if you will satisfactorily demonstrate the source of your wealth the way you explain to a 3-year old that 1 + 1 = 2. I say this with as a much respect as I can muster, hoping that you will disgrace me with verifiable proof.

Until you do that, sir, you should shut up and bow your head in shame, if there is still any left, when Nigerians are talking about the serious business of fighting corruption.

[quote author=Anslemchiboy post=72372537][/quote]That Nigeria's exchange rate was N190/N200 when GEJ left in May 2015 was a saving grace for him. There was nothing he would be able to do to shore up the exchange rate and prevent a free fall had it been he stayed till end of 2015. Oil dependent countries like Nigeria, Egpyt, Russia, Angola, Venezuela, etc., took the hit in form of currency devaluation. Google the facts in that time period.

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Even you will take Tony Elumelu's words over your spit! Yes 2016 was hell and it wasn't unexpected, the signs were brewing as far back as 2011 (according to Sanusi the former CBN governor) and even Okonjo Iweala reckoned that BUFFERS needed to be put in place BEFORE the heat came! No wonder Soludo said he pities the govt that was taking over cause he knew the damage had been done already and it will take a miracle to avoid a recession!

Fast forward to 2017, we are out of recession sooner than expected, South Africa is my experiencing its second and Venezuela an exact replica of Nigeria in that its economy is oil dependent is still STUCK there!

Could it have been better than this? Of course
Were there certain wrong approaches this govt at its inception? Yes
But ultimately are we where we were? Not at all!

What I tell folks like you is imagine a deadly combo of a fast spreading insurgency and an economy in recession then you will need to appreciate how far this govt has come!

Elumelu is right!

Bros true talk. Venezuela is even in a worse condition than Nigeria because of same issue of corruption and dependence on oil. Though they have the largest oil reserves in the world and produce more than Nigeria the citizens are living in hell. Nigeria's living condition is far better. I had a first hand information from a colleague Venezuelan when I went to work for Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia. He had to relocate to Spain. There was food and drugs shortage. Everything had gone haywire with hyperinflation. Same would have happened to us if GEJ had continued. Though Ngozi Okonji-Iweala cried out too late in Feb/Mar 2015 when she said they had to borrow money to pay civil servants and that govt failed to heed experts warning since 2013. GEJ govt (albeit PDP) had created serious economic problems that God so loved us to put Buhari there to stabilize.

As a player in the oil and gas industry, Tony Elumelu is saying the truth. This govt has restored confidence in the oil and gas sector such that the international oil companies have started injecting funds for the JV projects which were slowed down because GEJ was not paying the cashcall (the govt counterpart funding). Buhari has cleaned that up. What is not available again is "free" funds that people using their positions in power (termed business people) that were cornering. That is why you see the likes of Emeka Offor, Ifeanyi Ubah, Stella Oduah, etc closing shops. But the real investors are ramping up investments. For instance, Conoil, belonging to Adenuga, have 2 rigs working In Nigeria now.