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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?

chubinwa:
It's a pity BATists can't differenciate between AND. If the statement had said including the fct, that would have been different. But AND is an additional word to a content

Nigeria is defined as 36 states and FCT, not 36 states including FCT.

That section of the law is not just a statement but defining all of Nigeria, hence, all states and FCT.

a4cube:
How can and follow comma? Which kind of English is that? Ok what is 2/3 of 37?

2/3 of all of Nigeria is currently 2/3 of 36 states and FCT, that is 2/3 of 37.

Minimum of 25 states goes above it already.
24 states is still short.

LOVEALAIGBO:
Quit being clever by half!

2 and 3 repeat what 1 has already said, but with a bit more turenchi!

You are an illiterate.

1 is different from 2 and 3.

Nigeria is known to be comprised of 36 states and FCT, so if a statistic is required from the sample population that is all of Nigeria, it would read that all the states and FCT because the FCT is part of Nigeria.

So 25% in 2/3 of Nigeria is 25% in all the states and FCT.

That is 36 states and FCT, totalling to 37 units from which 25% is required from 2/3.

If there was a comma before AND as written below,

25% in 2/3 of all states, and FCT

That would be the same as number 3 written by Tesppidd.

President and Party Chairman cannot come from the same South.

Kukutenla:
Where's the sense in this post
When will the ministerial list be released
Seems you've accepted things as they are

Yes!

All Nigerians must keep asking their President to keep to the promises set by his close advisers to release the already overdue Ministers list as ae have entered the 8th week, while a serious government would have done so within 1month a la Dele Alake's and Bayo Onanuga's assertion.

However, APC internal matter is a matter for its members and supporters.

The sense you missed is that there is always reward for loyalty and support, as such, Niger State is more deserving to represent North Central within APC's power structure.

Kukutenla:
You guys are shamelessly turning politics and political positions to booty hunting.
This is how corruption festers and the country suffers for it

Is it your party that you want to dictate how loyalty and support should be rewarded?

If PDP rewarded the loyalty and support of Igbos with presidential ticket for the 2023, Obi will not be lost in the evil forest looking for mandate to steal.

Zupay:
Building castles in the air...........Napoleon was once invincible, time flattens man.

But what Tinubu began building slowly, sacked an incumbent PDP federal government and eventually put Tinubu himself in power.

This is good news for Nigerian motorists.

Nobody should stop when signalled to do so by those doing illegal job on state roads.

In fact, we should start effecting a citizen's arrest whenever we find them on state roads doing illegal work.

Tainted by voter intimidation in the SouthEast and rigging by Cynthia Okeke.

Despite all their shenanigans, Tinubu still beat them silly.

He got his votes from where he won.

Or are you too mentally handicapped to understand that as Obi and Atiku won some states, so did Tinubu win some states?

You Igbos should give it a rest.

Stop applying your IPOB logic to everything that is not within your power alone.

LOVEALAIGBO:
You, Olanipekun, Tinubu and the rest of the mob are twisting and giving your own deceptive meaning to what the constitution clearly states in black and white!

Two things:

*The constitution states that 'a candidate must score 25% in 2/3 of the states of Nigeria AND the FCT'!.....Couldn't have been stated any more clearly in plain english! If for the purposes of this particular rule, the framers of the constitution had intended Abuja to be treated same as the 36 states of Nigeria they could have stated '25% in 2/3 of the component units of Nigeria' as you're now editorialising to suit your own narrative! Or they could have stated '25% in 2/3 of the states of the federation INCLUDING Abuja', and this would have definitively shown that, for the purposes of this rule, Abuja was to be taken as a 37th state to be INCLUDED in the rule!

*More importantly, the President is de-jure and de-facto Governor of the FCT....in law and in fact, so it stands to reason that a Governor gets at least 25% in the state he wants to govern! It wouldn't be fair on the inhabitants of Abuja if this wasn't the case!

Yes!

2/3 of all the states and FCT is describing the whole of Nigeria that is the sample population where 25% is required.

All the States and FCT is the totality of Nigeria.

Nigeria is made of all (36) states and FCT.

There is no comma before the AND (and), as such the rules apply at once to what has been described.

If there was a comma before the AND (, and), the rules will apply individually firstly to all the states, and individually secondly to the FCT.

The comma being absent means the (all states and FCT is together as one description of Nigeria).

Omisore is a Tinubu man.

He is very well aware of whatever plans that Tinubu has planned for the APC leadership.

Validated:
Sorry, you are the deluded one. Peter Obi submitted 18000 mutilated and blurred results. The estimated votes recorded for Tinubu on those mutilated results were over 1.8m. Once the results from the mutilated and blurred results are deducted, and the supressed votes from Lagos, Rivers, Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, etc are retallied,Tinubu will go home with less than 6m

And the votes of Obi and Atiku on those same mutilated sheets will remain?

Ignoramus!

udeh3:
Oga, Nigeria is made up of 36 States simple! The FCT was defined as the second component of the Constitution. It also went on to discuss the formulation. It was clear on it definition of Abuja as an Area Council which is headed by the president

Nigeria is made up of 36states and FCT.

That is the geographical components within Nigeria.

2/3 of Nigeria is 2/3 of 36states and FCT.

The rule is for 2/3 of all states and FCT.

The rule is not for 2/3 of all states, and FCT.

The comma is not for fun, hence its absence in that rule.

delpee:
There's nothing special about Abuja. It's considered as the 37th State with regards to elections. Besides, the sentence in the constitution states so when read from the English grammar perspective. Commas have their inferences. Same when there's an absence of it.

I have harped on the comma issue, but it seems many are too dull to understand that since (, and FCT) is different from ( and FCT), Tinubu nor any candidate do not need specific votes from FCT.

LOVEALAIGBO:
Abuja is not a state dude!

It is part of the 37 geographical units that make up Nigeria.

The purpose of that rule of 25% in 2/3 of Nigeria is to ensure national spread, and not to make any particular unit more important than the rest of the 37.

Did Tinubu get the required national spread in the 37 geographical units?

Yes he did.

29 units out of 37 units is already more than 2/3.