₦airaland Forum

Kukutenla:
Hmmm. Well, another opposition has to take his place. That's how democracy works

The opposition is waiting for Tinubu to oppose his own government just as they waited for him to oppose the government of Buhari from his own party.

Nigerians have come to see Tinubu as the only reliable opposition that ever fought for the people.

Kukutenla:
That means no opposition is ready to take power

The opposition that was ready to take power already did in 2015 by Tinubu's efforts and he is now the President himself.

Even Aisha Yesufu knew that Tinubu was an effective opposition that would eventually take power.

ezechi242:
is tinubu from lagos?

Tinubu is from Lagos.

He is a Lagos Politician.

He was Senator from Lagos. He was Governor of Lagos.

He led the opposition to PDP from Lagos.

He staged his protests in Lagos.

It is not an increase, it is market forces at play as advocated by Oby Ezekwesili.

Dozie32:
Na now una want begin do something. Until we go begin burn burn government houses.

Did Tinubu leading the opposition in 2012, burn government houses?

Better start your anarchy protest in Anambra State that is home to the opposition Peter Obi, just as Tinubu did is own protest in his own Lagos State.

Tinubu and his team lost the opportunity to be seen as a serious government as defined by none other than 2 of his closest advisers and aides.

Dele Alake and Bayo Onanuga.

What Tinubu has reinforced by sending this list so late but just in time to beat the 60days deadline set by the chief latecomer Buhari, is that if Buhari had afforded those coming behind him the same 6months luxury he had to nominate Ministers, Tinubu would have waited till 4months to nominate his Ministers.

Whether Tinubu or his advisers like it or not, we were promised renewed hope, and renewed hope we must get, whether they have it or not.

We wait to see if the list required 50plus days to assemble what could have been done in 2weeks by an exceptional government.

Rayban25:
Obidients are not doing any protest just forget it. We sit back and enjoy the show.

Even if you must protest, it must start in Peter Obi's Anambra state, just as Tinubu did his own in 2012 in his Lagos State while Anambra led by Obi remained opposed to the protest.

You want Obi to protest against something he has always advocated for when he was Governor of Anambra state and even recently as a failed presidential candidate?

What will be his excuse?

That he is not the one implementing it?

seiyefajohn:
This 19th of July 2023 , In the ancient City of Kano.. A huge billboard speaks for the entire Nation.. Happy Birthday, Mr Peter Obi... A New Nigeria is POssible ✊


I have seen the photo of this said billboard. I am glad that even in the North, the people know our (collective) peoples President.

You mean the Igbo voters in Kano who could not stop Kwankwaso from winning almost a million votes, or Tinubu that came 2nd with over 500K votes or Atiku that came 3rd with 100k votes?

Igbo peoples president came a shameful 4th with 28K votes in Kano.

When he needed his banner to adorn all of Kano, his 28k supporters were nowhere to be found to compete against Kwankwaso that is now fully batified.

What a shame and foolish delusion by losers.

Dubetex96:
I have been conditioned to be washing dishes because say dem they feed me morning and night coupled with provocative talks here and there but God dey shaa

What is your own experience like ?

They are teaching you that there is dignity in Labour.

Tinubu as an opposition figure to the PDP was bold to lead protest against subsidy removal in 2012, using his own Lagos State as the center of the protest.

Let Peter Obi as an opposition figure to the APC, be bold to lead the protest from his Anambra state, and explain to his people why he is now against the subsidy removal he supported in 2012 and that he also supported as an unsuccessful presidential candidate in this same year.

And both do not even pay their staff well.

They overwork them to achieve such enormous profits.

Mumu headline.

Adebayo is also calling out the obidient zombies and Atikulators who supported candidates that advocated for subsidy removal, but are now lamenting that the Tinubu regime is wicked.

He criticized both Tinubu and the other candidates whose hypocritical supporters are now lamenting.

Unlike him who has never supported the removal of subsidy.

“There are two types of people who criticize the policy. Some of them are hypocrites, some of them are consistent. Those who are opposed to subsidy removal like me and other people have grounds to criticize the programme”.

“But those who supported any one, party or platform that said they will remove subsidy from day one, they are hypocritical. Once you agree to throw a five-year old child from the 10th floor of a building, you cannot say you are surprised that the child broke the limbs”.

Very valid question by the OP that help put the spotlight on their hypocritical lamentations.

wittywriter:
Resigning for a better looting proceed...lolz


Wittyness

He no resign, una lament say na conflict of interest.

He resign, una say na for better looting.

There is a reason the masses remain at the bottom.

Mindset.

Paulson2020:
Hope as a YORUBA man and a tinubu strong supporter you are buying your petrol at #145, just dey play

I am buying it at the price that has no subsidy that all the top presidential candidates promised to remove.

The East is gone.

I commend Tinubu for this.

We must never get used to the careless loss of lives inflicted by our security and paramilitary agencies.

The family must also be well compensated in a commensurate value for human life that is priceless.

obiekunie01:
why is it so hard for some idi0tic fools to understand that the igbos gives no fuk about anybody.

The igboman has moved on while you are still the one crying despite stealing the presidency.

You moved on to Biafra or death?

Bro, your people cannot move on even if put inside a rocket launcher.

Whatever done similarly to the current Tinubu administration would have ben termed as a necessary sacrifice for a new Nigeria.

Are you not aware that many zombies were OK with the Naira scarcity as a means to get a new Nigeria that would be headed by Peter Obi the old political prostitute and unscrupulous ticket hunter who is a pathological liar?

They played themselves by not challenging Obi or Atiku for supporting subsidy removal as presidential candidates. Now they have no leader to help them organize protest.

While I do not support subsidy removal, all APC, PDP, and LP supporters should shut their mouths and bear the burden of subsidy removal that their presidential candidates honestly did not hide from them.

shortgun:
Jonathan is a statesman, he will always carry the olive branch but we will never forget the betrayal and backstabbing by Tinubu and his cohorts against the government of Jonathan....never!

You not forgetting did it stop Tinubu from being President?

Better devote that memory space to something more rewarding.

Let us wait for Dele Alake and Bayo Onanuga to redefine what a "serious government" would have done by naming the cabinet within 1 month.

I repeat this hoping any of their staffers and close assistants would read it and advice them to avoid the folly of hasty assurances and failure to keep to simple promises.

Tinubu and Jonathan is a story of politics without bitterness.

Someone should help me translate it to Igbo so the message can get to the dwellers of the hinterland.

You confirmed but refused to give any confirmation at all.

If an Igbo does not hate, he has not lived at all.

Blaze14k:
At this point dragging obi to this issue is the lowest of the lows. It simply shows u guys don't know how to criticize tinubu cos u will end up looking stupid. I listened to interview of some yoruba people most of them are very disappointed

How did Obi enter the discussion to begin with?

See the initial post I quoted and how he wanted to get cheap popularity for Obi as though what is happening now isn't the same that would happen regardless of who removed the subsidy among the top presidential candidates who all promised to remove it.

Kylekent59:
Imagine Peter Obi was the president and petrol was sold for #600

In that timeline, hell will let lose.

LegendHero:
Lol that’s 11 years ago. Why do you chose to live in the past?

Opposition party will always make move. how the president handle it is what makes the difference.

Labour union wanted to strike too but Tinubu negotiated with them at a speed of light time. Jonathan should have probably negotiated his way out too and silence the opposition.

Also, I think in 2023, it has gotten to a stage where even the masses themselves know that subsidy must go. So this is the first time that even NLC lost their mandate to effectively mobilize people genuinely to protest.

Within 3 month, if things don’t get better, people will come out to protest with or without NLC. Things getting better mean the neccessary burden alleviation, minimum wage increase, clear cut policy with realistic deadline and impact, and etc.

I would rather say people are too tired of fighting a leadership that keeps changing but has never changed its wickedness.

That is why Tinubu will get away with it.

Buhari also played his part in psychologically incapacitating the citizenry by informing of the removal but post dating it.

There was no challenge from the opposition. In fact, the leading opposition presidential candidates all agreed that they would remove subsidy immediately.

The masses are on their own.

The Nigerian government has taken the easier route as always, with the expectation that the masses will bear the brunt.

It was a foolish decision.

Any decision that removes fuel subsidy then tries to provide some phantom palliative in its stead would always be a foolish decision.

Step1. Why not just keep the fuel subsidy instead and prevent diversion of subsidised fuel to neighbouring countries, while also ensuring the veracity of subsidy claims made to the government purse by ensuring it tallies with the actual volume of imported fuel.

Step2. Over a few years, ensure the local refining capacity meets up with local demand, and begin subsidising the crude oil provided to the local refineries to eliminate any money/dollar payment as subsidy, while still preventing the diversion of subsidised Nigerian fuel to neighbouring countries.

In 2 steps, the problem is solved, the people are happy, we conserve our petrodollars earning by not spending it on subsidy cash payment, we are still selling our OPEC quota crude oil externally at the prevailing International price, while locally determining for our own benefit how much petroleum products will cost as long as we are able to produce the natural resource.

But government is too lazy to do the hard and right thing for the benefit of the masses. And Nigerians are too selfish to be patriotic and not cut corners with already subsidised products.

All the leading candidates prior to the presidential election faced the easy direction of just removing subsidy immediately, and promising some phoney palliative that is not better than keeping the subsidy.

In the immortal words of John Kennedy, "we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard".

But in Nigeria, successive governments have always attempted to do their things because it is easy while avoiding the hard path that is better.

SemperFid:
Haha 😄 🤣 do u have e a choice?

Lol fool

Oga you have no choice, so stop lamenting and stomach it like you would have if it was Obi in power as he also promised.

You survived the cash scarcity that Obi favoured, you must survive this subsidy removal also favoured by Obi during his unsuccessful campaign.

SemperFid:
Peter obi will not sell fuel.at 600 but approve 70bn to renovate NASS, release 35bn to legislators as palliative and discharge 40 bn to buy cars for lawmakers all withing 49 days.

Stop being very stupid. It is not helping u.

Yes whoever won the election would have done the same things.

Both the statutory things you mentioned and the promised subsidy removal that all the top candidates supported.

Do I support it, certainly not. I have never supported subsidy removal without a prior local refining capacity.

Do I understand the need to remove it even without waiting for the condition I posited? Yes.

I would never suffer whatever the price of fuel, but I know many Nigerians would suffer the pain, hence my opposition to subsidy removal.

Stop being a hypocrite and stomach it like you would have done for Obi.

Kylekent59:
Imagine Peter Obi was the president and petrol was sold for #600

In that timeline, hell will let lose.

I can imagine it.

Many of the hypocrites lamenting now would have told us that it is a bitter pill we have to swallow for the good of a new Nigeria.

The same way we were told to suffer for the Naira cash scarcity for the good of Nigeria.

ruggedtimi:
bt buhari and adamu are from the same north

That was in preparation for the general elections, knowing that the party was going to zone the Presidential ticket to the South.

Same happened in PDP with Iyorchia Ayu, with the plan to zone the party ticket to the South, but a greedy politician like Atiku still had his way.

ZUKKYY:
Thank God is channel TV this time not arise tv.

Is it not clearly stated as Abuja result?

Or you are too deluded yo always believe the propaganda that sits well with your prejudice?

No wonder obidients are termed as zombiedients.

johannu:
Don't mind them. They want to stand logic on its head.
If you use PROgramming LOGic (PROLOG) to analyse the statement, what it will translate to is 25% in 2/3 of the states AND 25% in the FCT.

What has programming logic got ot do with a geographical description of Nigeria as being 36states and FCT?

Does the and before the FCT mean it is set apart from Nigeria, besides the fact that it is not a state?

Is Nigeria not comprising 36 states and FCT?

So if you need to refer to 2/3 of Nigeria, is it not 2/3 of 36States and FCT?

The law states 25% in 2/3 of all states and FCT.

Is that not the totality of Nigeria as the sample area?