₦airaland Forum

Linzo:
It is disturbing to hear people describe Tinubu as a leader who “takes hard decisions.” That claim is deeply misguided. What kind of hard decisions are we talking about?

Decisions that force people to live in pain? Removing fuel subsidy and plunging millions into hunger and hardship? Introducing tax policies that further impoverish citizens who already have no jobs, no safety nets, and no meaningful government support?

Those are not hard decisions; they are easy decisions made at the expense of the poor.

Real hard decisions look very different.

A hard decision is enacting laws that make elections free, fair, and transparent.

A hard decision is passing and enforcing tough laws that decisively stop government looting and corruption.

A hard decision is making education free and accessible at all levels.

A hard decision is empowering youths and the unemployed to become self-employed, supporting productivity, and creating sustainable jobs.

No leader has ever liberated a people by impoverishing them. True leadership improves the lives of citizens through sound, people-centered policies.

Tinubu is not taking hard decisions; he is playing politics, and ordinary Nigerians are paying the price.

Your last statement said it all, it is the ordinary Nigerians that are paying the price of his reckless actions masquerading as policies or reform while he and his goons are living large
He wants the nation to tighten there belt and make sacrifice but he is buy expensive suv for his legislators renovating houses for 21b,buying brand new plane,yacht, limousine for his use and that of his family, that is not good fate

Predictor3:
He has decided to run as VP to Atiku. That's why Atiku welcomed him with open arms to ADC. He's a desperate politician like the rest of them. It's all good sha

is he more desperate than a man whose mantra is grab it ,snatch it and run away with it,that's a desperado right there incase you are looking for one

Tinubu has reached the pick that evil can carry any man to the natural cause of event is a decline, Tinubu will loose,and he will not have an option than to leave despite his control of state power
This will serve as a lesson to deluded people like himself

saintopus:
My mind tells me Tinubu, if he continues in his reform, Nigeria may experience an unprecedented boom 💥 that we have never seen in Nigeria in a long time.

We can do it.

na local boys like you go fit believe such things, with all that is on ground it will take a miracle, Tinubu has enter Bush too far in his arrogance

SeeWahala:
Hehehe 🤭 tilumbu's e-thugs camp are in overdrive this week 🤗

Peter Obi has put fire 🔥 in their nyasch and tilumbu's own too 😏

e be like when trump tomahawk misile hit terrorist camps

alanto:
Obi the èkúté
Man of deluluu.

He is better than your Tinubu in physical appearance, in character and in competence, and emotional intelligence
Your Tinubu wowoh no be small, na so him character wowoh too,somebody that is addicted to crooked ways is whom you want to compare to obi
Make una dey use una sense now
A man whom forgery has become an integral part of him
I am ashamed on your behalf since you have no shame

PheelzAlmighty:
Na my mugu dey trust or take all these politicians seriously..

especially those that takes Tinubu serious, I remembered his famous word e lo fokan bale,meanwhile he has plans to make their life more miserable and that's exactly what he has been doing, with the promise to do more in 2026,going by the ill advice policies he intends to implement
Thats why his supporters are regarded as the dumbest ,no do good people, the dregs of the society

peleson1:
Which plan?
Are you a terrorist?


Nawao

majority of them are terrorist in inclination

goslowgoslow:
Abeg make una go rest with this nonsense tribalism talk. Shooooo someone will not hav#e his choice again without being called a tribalist. You that is supporting Obi or Atiku are you not a tribalist? Why are you supporting someone from your place?

you think everybody is like you,who refuse the wise counselling of his Yoruba tribe, which says falana go tie, tara Eni langbo, meaning face your life, thats your primary assignment
Good governance ,that will affect your life and that of your children positively should be your utmost desire or concern not who is delivering it, hausa o,fulani o,igbira o,etc e no concern me, na person wey go make Nigeria better be my own, my brain is intact, nobody can manipulate me

He has underperformed, he doesn't deserve re election
The presidency is a job ,you apply for based on competence, while on the job, there are KPI that is used to measure performance to know if the holder is performing and deserving of another term, unfortunately Tinubu did not measure up on all the criteria, so he is retiring to bourdilon in 2027,enough of playing kite with people 's life

IbrahimSola:
But Can Obi accept to be VP to Atiku in 2027 when it shd be the turn of the South to complete 8 years? No nau

He shd have rather been his running mate in 2023 if he has been able to extract a signed agreement that Atiku will be President for just one term. Unfortunately no Nigerian wants to do one term, everyone wants to die in power as long as they do 2nd term.

In conclusion, as much as I detest this APC government, I can't support a Northern candidate at this time. Let Tilumbu do his own and go in 2031. But my instinct tells me that if Tilumbu wins in 2027 (which I know he will win), Nigeria might be restructured. And the North won't do pim. I can sense it. So if Obi is not standing as President, let him forget it, rather being VP to people that will see him as a threat of he wins. Besides, these old generations have nothing to offer this country again.

you are not saying anything, we should endure a wicked, incompetent, uncaring rudderless government with the attendant suffering because of tribalism, only a fool will fall for these your manipulation, abeg shift ,who tribe help

NaijaNaWaa:
Not that you deserve a response but neither me nor me any Igbo I know sees Yoruba as enemy but if Tinubu and his tiny gang of incompetent, bumbling nepotistic power grabbers equate to Yoruba, so be it.

you gave a very intelligent answer, they want to provoke a senseless tribal fight to pave way for them to continue their useless, rudderless regime, they are afraid, this is the only weapon they have tribalism, as if it is not all the tribe that is collecting wotowoto from their incompetent government

Racoon:
VP or not, that person must be your worst nightmare and worst obsession for you to be paranoid about him.

They know the combination will put an end to their wicked regime, and the end to the pepper soup they are licking

digitaccountant:
Tinubu is the only Nigerian president in recent time who has taken insecurity seriousness and doing something tangible about it.

how by paying them, leaving their notable sympathiser untouchable, by taking advice from terrorist sympathiser on who can help in the fight and actually following the advice of a terrorist sympathiser
Even the us could have been mislead with wrong intelligence because we can't see any damage or casualty

Ofunaofu:
If Tinubu were still in opposition, he’d already be on the streets calling for impeachment of the president over Nigeria’s surrendered sovereignty.

exactly this opposition is too weak, by now lai Mohammed would issued his 100th press release

This gumi guy is officially mad, he needs to be taken to asylum asap
He is not OK at all

Odin13:
Tinubu will have to fight and rig in Yoruba land if they permit him..
Outside Yoruba land .. he will be struggling to fight and breath .. since he didn’t let the citizens breath .. we will suffocate him brutally..
here in northern Nigeria , you will have to be breathing thunder before you can intimidate the people to vote for tinubu, his governors will bring dollars and we and the emirs will chop and with it in our mouth .. not cleaning still vote him out and block any rigging process

Tinubu will have to battle with Obi and his goons down south .. east is on lockdown already .. mba and his colleagues can try .. he will understand that he has taxed ulcer on his citizens

Next na afenifere .. na time .. the odua , even the online bingos go deny am.. they did it to buhari

what about the middle belt that he is encircling like, Niger, kogi,Benue,Kwara, he seems to have those ones in the pocket because of patronage of their elites

motymop:
tax law they have sign into law by the president.

when they were making the law...the nlc didnt complain
when the bill went into 1st reading in the house of rep, the nlc didn't complain
when it went into seconding reading in the house of rep nlc didnt complain
when it went to the senate house, the nlc didnt complain
the president signed the bill, the nlc didn't complain

now that the bill is now a law...they are complaning

He said fake,distorted law don't twist things ,by the way you guys are working for the same master, don't by too harsh on him

Labour we don't need your opinion, since you guys decided to be unfortunate we've decided to take our matters into our own hands
No thanks

LagosOrigin:
You're not serious

Islamic terrorists Iswap are already in Lagos . Two were caught 2 days ago in apapa.

Yeye president.

lazy president, not interested in the work but the perks

okomile:
Womb watchers una go rest now


Asokale anfani Simi

she go don born before she released this one ,the baby is already here na so she dey do

DomPerignon:
Taxation may seem.exploitative for a population that has been used to paternalistic military regimes that hinged their illegality on getting the population to consent to their rule and one which depends largely on mineral resources as a major source of wealth.

In all truths and honesty , taxation is the only true sustainable way to maintain a society and a functioning and accountable govt.

All these years since aftee the civil war, the Nigerian economy has been sustained by exploiting the oil wealth of the Niger Delta.

It has been more of a curse than a blessing as all tiers of the executive branch just sit down and collect royalties from the oil being exploited.

This has made governance very lazy and inept and the people used to crumbs since the money isn't coming out of their pockets.

Before oil, how was Nigeria at independence able to get it right up.until the civil war?

Nigerians paid taxes and they were more involved in seeing how their tax money is spent.

Also, government on all tiers of the executive branch will focus on human development since the future funding will come from.human resources so governments will invest in education (just as Awo did) to ensure a vibrant and highly skilled and educated workforce that will be employable.

I don't know why some people from a particular section are against this tax money reform as most of them are engaged in small petty business that will be exempt from paying corporate tax.

Also, as I stated earlier in this thread, those small businesses that exploit labour will have to deduct taxes on their workforce and remit to the FIRS. This will then expose them paying exploitative low wages and they will be forced to pay minimum wage .

These small businesses will have to ensure their staff are enrolled into the National Health insurance scheme and pay monthly premiums for each staff. They are also expected to ensure their staff are captured under the Pension scheme.

All these will lead to better working conditions, improved pay for the staff, guarranted pension savings that will be invested to grow the economy and more people enrolled in the health insurance scheme that will go back to improving health care.

Anyone opposed to this tax reform is ignorant of the benefits to the common man. Money can now be set aside for unemployment benefits for those who were paying taxes but lost their jobs.

oga you don't know shit ,it's not every situation you apply taxation, go and read your economic text book
There some situation you give incentive just like now
You guys have started again that was how you people were all over the place selling fuel subsidy removal and floating of foreign exchange as the only solution if we don't want the country to collapse, its been 3 years since then ,the country has gone from bad to worse, now the next fall guy now is taxation, by the time you exhaust all this option through copy and paste every body will see you guys for what you guys are, incompetent voodoo copy and paste economist
Trial and error government

nairalanda1:
I agree with what you have said. Thanks for responding to me in a civilized way

My problem is

1. Even if we judiciously used the money, 55 trillion naira is not enough for a nation of 230 million people. I don't support tinubu, think he is corrupt, but if we raised the tax to gdp properly we might see some more money than that

2. And even then, much of that 54 trillion is borrowed . Oil, which forms most of our revenue is dropping in price well well. Revenues will fall as a result. Tax unfortunately is the only option we have for now until government does some actual.doversoficarion.

There is a reason why I don't like apc or any of the other parties. It's called oil dependency.

look at this way buhari was paying subsidy, all the subsidies, and was borrowing but not as much as Tinubu corruption was very high too during his tenure but people were better off than this Tinubu time, inflation was less ,I am a pensioner, buhari will pay from 25th and before month end of every month, pays arrears regularly, same with workers but since Tinubu enters nothing ,this Christmas he has not paid anything, maybe till next year that is what he has been doing, workers too ,many arrears he has not paid, while governors are paying 13th month and some like ebonyi governor is adding 150k to each worker,Tinubu is paying late with no extra kobold,Tinubu do not need extra money, he lacks managerial skills, he has been promoted beyond his level of competence, it is not only workers and pensioners, even contractors are in dilemma, you ask what is he doing with the money, bribe national assembly, pay terrorist, bribe judges and defectors etc
My bother I am yoruba let's tell ourselves the truth, this guy can't deliver he has disgraced us

nairalanda1:
The only other option is to borrow even more then.

Simple and short.

Oil is going to keep falling in the foreseeable future. Oil also forms 80% of our revenue and we need it at 150 dollars per barrel to earn a revenue that makes sense.

Anyone quoting me should tell me how we can raise more money without tax and borrowing.

Don't mention fighting corruption because while it is very necessary, it still does not raise our overall income.

it is not about getting more ,it's about judicious use, Tinubu is a frivolous spender, the ones he is been earning what has he been spending it on frivolities
This shows Tinubu is not as sound as they want us to believe, in some climes with this kind of economic situation such a country will lower taxes to grow the economy not tax them to futher improvish them
That's how he heard that removal of fuel subsidy will be the panacea for the problem of the country without deep thought, he went beyond fuel, enter,education, enter electricity, enter forex,infact increased borrowing to unprecedented hight,same will be this tax issue, they are telling Nigerians are not paying enough taxes. Without evaluating the Nigerian circumstances, if he goes ahead with the tax just as subsidy, he would have succeeded in futher punishing Nigerians without achieving anything, infact this is the time for tax incentives

Streetinvestor2:
We are already doing that in SE.Infact we tell them if u vote SW president that Kanu blood is in your hands too

He has commissioned your governors ,Senators and opinion moulders to tune your brains to his channel or at worst riggg it, he has promised enough incentives, how are you going to surmount that

flexyrule:
Unrelated to this topic.

If you visit Benin Republic here... Pipe borne water runs through their rural area 24/7. I don't want to talk about electricity.

Can't we be commissioning such projects in Nigeria?

Everytime it's either Rice, keke, sewing machine, or sponsoring indigenes to Meccca or for circumcision.

This is 2025. Other countries are talking about space travel, climate change, and how to find the cure for cancer.


Our own is Rice! Rice! Rice!

Because the people did not demand more,you can try out the experiment yourself try and promise the people those things you mentioned and asked another person to promise thesame people 5k let them vote the man that promise 5k will defeat you by a wide margin

slivertongue:
Tinubu is a disaster that should be kicked out of power. Tinubu has further destroyed the weak economy because of incompetence and greed.

You should because tinubu is a packaged fraud with inflated ability

anybody with as little as a little conscience will know, that,

helinues:
Bro all those you mentioned are not from Ogun state. Ogun state politics is different

And if you want to talk about Amosun, OGD, DA being brought, they never served outside the state before.

It's disrespectful for Yayi to have represented Lagos state for almost 2 decades and now be saying he wants to govern Ogun state. What is he taking the people from the state for?

you don't have any arguments the same yayi is a sitting senator in this your same ogun presently who voted for him, same way he became senator, same method will put him as governor, you have no say my brother

freemanq:
What a wicked business man to his people

why is he opening up now ,saying all these,I remember the first time this issue came up, he denied it ,the guy is the weapon fashioned against Nigerians

yemmit90:
Government should also allow importation of cheap cement, so that he an concentrate on selling outside the country.

honestly government is our problem, they are anti people, I wonder why phones from China is not more expensive in China than Nigeria using same logic,or Toyota more expensive in Japan than in Nigeria using same logic, the Nigerian government sees the people as cash cow and are not concerned about their welfare but what they can amass from the people
Even look at the fuel apart from saving from subsidy, the government is making additional 44.34% on every litre of petrol sold by dangote, that is an additional burden on the people, unnecessary burden

HgAkpobomeEr:
Showunmi is just playing politics. The man will never leave PDP.

Because he is working for APC destroying pdp from the inside, very disgusting unprincipled, indiscipline man
Hear him, there is someone I need to consult first ,that s Tinubu, that is imbecilic statement, you are in pdp you want to go and take permission from someone in APC, is it not clear whom he is working for, very dull ,alatenuje