₦airaland Forum

Okay can you expatiate on how one can achieve this using an organized minority?

I guess several groups like IPOB, MASSOB, OPC followed the path of "organized minority", they tried but didn't go far....

Cromagnon:
You cannot unify by force
And oil money will not allow us to go separate so what now

And this is your problem
Thinking you need a majority to do anything




Which court
Who wants to list access to easy oil money


forget majority
All you need is an organized minority

@FSBoperator I do believe that Tinubu's government would've detained Peter Obi if he had any criminal record as a former governor of Anambra state. Obi is not a saint but he kept a cleaner record when compared to others I guess that's why he is a threat to the ruling party.....

I do not want to dominate anyone neither are all igbos interested in dominating anyone in Nigeria.... You are wrong in your submission because igbos are the only tribe that fought a civil war and still fighting till this day to leave Nigeria...... It is your government in connivance with some greedy selfish igbo politicians and governors that are holding the igbos hostage under "One Nigeria". When any agitation is made by the igbos to leave, Nigerian government always reacts violently by killing them instead of listening to them. Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB, MASSOB etc were all crushed brutally by your government. There is no true freedom or genuine justice for the igbo race as long as Nigeria exists in it's current form.

FSBoperator:
You have started today with your usual hypocritical rants.

You accuse others of tribalism for rejecting your purely tribalistic ambition to dominate others and when Nigerians reject you, you begin to cry tribalism is why you are not allowed to push your own tribal ambitions on the polity.


If you are tired of being in Nigeria, just know Nigerians are tired of you complaining on Social media about it.

Start a political movement to get people from your side who will push for your exit out of Nigeria and stop disturbing us with your rants.

How does attacking Peter Obi's supporters in defense of Tinubu help your cause? By doing so, are you not part of those fanning the flames of divisive political conflicts and historical grievances....? Why not use this energy to push for a national referendum that will allow Peter Obi and his igbos people to leave Nigeria.

Mankind2024:
Nigeria is a complex political union of diverse nationalities with deeply different historical experiences and aspirations. To many, it remains a forced contraption of peoples who, in hindsight, may never have been naturally suited to exist within the same political arrangement. In that sense, some argue it resembles more than a difficult marriage, it resembles a union imposed without genuine consent.

I believe the distrust between many Igbo and Yoruba communities, as well as disagreements over the Nigerian state itself, has been shaped by generations of political conflict and historical grievances. These tensions continue to influence public discourse today.

As for the Toxicus Delusionalis breed owned by Mr. Gringory, we are prepared to respond firmly to their propaganda and verbal attacks with equal force in the battle of ideas and words.

What is the benefit of Tinubu being more corrupt to average Lagos citizen....?

Benwallt:
Mtchew. What's the benefit of his being less corrupt to average Anambra citizen. Rubbish

Yes, that's why I specifically used the word "root" in describing Nigeria's problem because all you listed as problems (Weak institutions, corruption, compromised elections) exist mainly due to the root problem which is lack of unity and genuine "buy-in" to the "One Nigeria" project. All indigenous people within the geographical landmass we call Nigeria, did not come together to agree to create Nigeria, neither was their consent entertained by the British colonialists that own it. People will need to give their consent before a nation can thrive and referendum remains the best constitutional process towards obtaining their consent..... Any organization or constitutional arrangement that is based on a forced union is nothing but a prison for all parties. Nigeria's unity must be negotiable, it must be based on the consent of all indigenous people for truth, justice, fairness and equity to prevail....

1Alex:
Your post correctly identifies Nigeria's deep divisions, but I think it oversimplifies the problem by making unity the sole issue. The crisis is broader: weak institutions, corruption, compromised elections, and even a judiciary that many Nigerians no longer trust to uphold the rule of law. When justice itself is perceived as negotiable, national unity naturally suffers.

South Africa avoided civil war after apartheid by negotiating a new constitutional order that protected all groups.

Rwanda, after the 1994 genocide, rebuilt by strengthening state institutions, enforcing accountability, and deliberately discouraging ethnic politics.

Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia because both sides broadly agreed to separate.

The lesson is that neither forced unity nor separation is a magic solution. What matters is whether there is a credible, inclusive process that commands public trust.

If Nigerians believe the current constitutional arrangement no longer reflects justice, equity, and fairness, then an honest national conversation, including constitutional reforms and even discussing a referendum, becomes inevitable.

But whatever path is chosen must be driven by the genuine will of the people, not by political elites or ethnic passions.

Building institutions and an agreement that Nigerian people voluntarily believe in and are willing to stand by, remains critical.

Why nothing will change or make Nigeria better is simply because many Nigerians love and cherish lies over truth. In their quest to bury truth, they create a fantasy feel good box of reality were they hope that one day, they will wake up and everything wrong will suddenly fix itself. Many are so lost to this fantasy reality of lies that any thought of effecting positive national change that involves their physical presence are vigorously resisted.

I open this website daily to read the vitriolic tribal induced hateful attacks that Nigerians launch against each other in their quest to superimpose their tribal induced political agenda. You do not need a soothsayer or travel physically to live in Nigeria to understand the root problem of the country, simply coming to this platform for a few days will tell you all you need to know. The sad reality is that majority of Nigerians who should know this problem appear incapable and stupid that everyday they wake up to reinforce it. You may ask, what problem am I referring, it’s simple “Unity”. Any sensible person who can reason very well knows that one cannot make any genuine sustainable progress in an atmosphere were there is no unity, were sectional, tribalistic, divisive impulses and ideals reign supreme. It is common sense but in Nigeria, sadly this is not common. Nigerians wake up daily to this problem, participate in making it worse than go to bed with the hope that tomorrow morning somehow the problem will disappear. They know that they can’t work together as one people under one country, that remaining in it will only harm them but they choose to do nothing about it. Everyday, they are killed, starved, kidnapped, raped and robbed because of this one problem they have refused over their stupidity to address. A self-imposed hopeless vicious cycle that is based on lies and self-deceit.

Keeping “One Nigeria” going has cost the people so much pain but due to their penchant to embrace lies, they have refused to accept this truth or do any thing to address the underlying issue that has to do with unity of their country….. I am not sure whether if majority of Nigerians will ever break free from this lie but it is certain that the only way genuine progress can begin that will benefit them is if majority can accept the truth and stand by the truth which is, “WE ARE NOT ONE PEOPLE, WE DON’T WANT THE SAME THING OR SHARE THE SAME VALUES”.…

When this truth is established nationally, you may ask what is next? Well, it is simple, when a marital relationship fails the natural thing to do is to go to court to part amicably or remain together under new terms, so for Nigerians, the next line of action will be a national referendum on Nigeria’s unity, conducted by a sovereign national conference. This must be conducted to allow each region and all indigenous people to choose, all parties must be given a fair opportunity, equal representation to negotiate their future without sentiment, resentment, fear or prejudice. Just like a court in the process of resolving a couple’s marital dispute, the freedom to leave or stay in Nigeria must be a mandatory option for all regions, all indigenous people as part of this referendum. If at the end of this constitutional exercise, all parties agree to dissolve Nigeria, so be it, everyone go their separate ways with a clear conscience. But if all or some regions make the choice to remain or be bound by one country, then it is certain that at the end of the exercise, the people will get a country and a new constitution that they will be happy with, a new union that will be based on truth, justice and equity.

As long as majority of Nigerians continue to pretend, dwell in self-deceit and lies over the illusion of national unity, they will continue to suffer the dire consequences of remaining in a contraption they imposed on themselves….

I do not pity you or any one still mocking Nnamdi Kanu after witnessing all he said about Nigeria coming to pass…. As long as “One Nigeria” exists and you are in it, you are only laughing at your destruction. Those still doubting Kanu’s warning now, will overtime understand and come agree with him….

Wickedfacts:
1st Christmas. 19 remaining.
Omotosho, you don't know law.

What makes Peter Obi to stand out is his track record as a former governor for being the least corrupt (No court case after leaving office) and most financially frugal among other popular presidential candidates (Atiku and Tinubu). There are many Nigerians that genuinely believe in him but I do not share in that sentiment. Why? because It’s glaring that his presidency and leadership will be as problematic and chaotic as his predecessors under “One Nigeria”. Many APC supporters in this platform are obsessed with Peter Obi that they throw up his name to derail threads that are critical of the government just like you are doing now….

Benwallt:
What is special about Obi a regular content creator. NDC is a party of rogues

Why are you appalled? Are you not aware that Nigeria's government are the enablers and sponsors of terrorism according to the president of Niger republic, he said that your government benefits from terrorism.....

Jerchance:
Cowards! This is the reason why terrorism can't be eradicated, as they keep giving them soft-landing after taking other people's lives. No one knows tomorrow - they could be a victim of their own policies

Nnamdi Kanu has said all these years ago.... Nigeria's government is a terrorist enabler and didn’t start today but as far back as Buhari's regime.... Why is this thread not featured in home page?

In all honesty, Nigeria needs to be dissolved.

You are asking for evidence under a deeply corrupt government with a president bent on subjugating all independent public institutions including the National Assembly to submit to his will…. This will be the second or third time that I will be reminding you to focus on the obvious, which is the complicity of the National Assembly and the body language of the president by not suspending Gbaja to allow for a transparent independent investigation…. When you are ready to be objective then maybe we can have a serious discussion…. Nigeria’s public institutions including the judiciary, anti-graft and security agencies are no longer independent but answerable to Tinubu, Gbaja and other key actors within the presidency. Nigeria is under a one-party system masquerading as democracy, it is simply state capture that’s going on. You will be naive to expect any kind of transparency or justice under these circumstances especially when the key party to the crime is a top member of the president’s inner circles…. Femi Gbajabiamila has a criminal history that dates back to his years as a lawyer in the USA. In a sane society, people like Gbaja and Tinubu should’ve no business in governance…. I hope you will stop the self-deceit that’s if you are not a covert APC avenger (data guy)….

CharlesCNG:
GET GBAJA, GET TINUBU: THE OBIDIENT PLAYBOOK OF ALLEGATION LAUNDERING. by CharlesCNG.

The latest attack on Femi Gbajabiamila perfectly illustrates what I call "allegation laundering."

The formula is always the same.

First, an allegation or legal dispute is introduced. Then sympathetic media platforms amplify it with sensational headlines.

Next, YouTube commentators, Nairaland obidient / opposition propagandists and social-media influencers repeat the story until an allegation begins to sound like an established fact. Finally, the target quietly shifts from Gbajabiamila to President Tinubu.

That is the real objective.

Take the latest claim that Gbajabiamila used a "fake law" to "corner ₦54 billion."

Read beyond the headline and the certainty begins to disappear. The Petroleum Industry Act being referenced actually exists. The real legal question is whether the presidential directive was properly grounded in law and whether the expenditure complied with appropriation and procurement requirements—not whether Gbajabiamila personally stole ₦54 billion.

So where is the evidence that the money entered Gbajabiamila's account? Where is the contract awarded to his company? Where is the money trail linking him personally to the alleged diversion?

None has been publicly produced.

Yet, before investigators have concluded their work, the headlines have already convicted Femi Gbajabiamila, while the Obidient media ecosystem has moved to the next stage: attach President Tinubu’s name to the allegation and declare the entire administration corrupt.

That is not accountability. It is political messaging. More precisely, it is a campaign strategy for a coming election in which their principals appear increasingly threatened by the prospect of an ignominious defeat.

It is shameless politicking dressed up as public morality.

Once this allegation loses momentum, another one will be manufactured, amplified and recycled through the same network of partisan commentators, sympathetic media platforms and social-media outrage merchants. The pattern is always the same: selective outrage, sensational headlines, instant conviction and no patience for evidence.

If there are genuine legal questions, they should be investigated thoroughly. If public funds were misused, everyone responsible should be prosecuted. But Nigerians must reject a political culture in which headlines become evidence, repetition becomes conviction and partisan propaganda is presented as investigative journalism.

The pattern is now unmistakable:

Get Gbaja, then get Tinubu.

That is the emerging Obidient campaign strategy for 2027.

Gbajabiamila is merely the immediate target. Tinubu is the ultimate destination.

But in a constitutional democracy, governments must be judged by verified evidence, lawful investigation and established facts—not by a coordinated cycle of allegation, amplification, selective outrage and political propaganda.

Am glad you are keeping note of time stamps as you witness Nnamdi Kanu’s prophetic messages over the zoo come to pass… Enjoy the ride…

Wickedfacts:
Today makes it 5 months, 1 week and 4 days to Christmas.

Love Nigeria? Hmmmm no love exists for the contraption I just want justice and freedom for the oppressed within it… Nnamdi Kanu remains one of the few honorable truthful people left in Nigeria. Everything he said years ago about Nigeria is happening right before you….

Burob:
Nnamdi Kanu’s advocate, why do u love Nigeria so much?

Why drag Obi into this…. I guess the usual way to deflect attention from the atrocities of your APC masters….

Benwallt:
When microphones are down and broken, Peter Obi is gone for life.

The main issue here is that Nigerians are not ready yet to do the needful…. Tinubu and his gang will only get more emboldened in their looting agenda as the situation gets worse…. Nigeria as a country is not sustainable.

AMINDA:
Someone at the top is definitely getting a cut from all these graft. This is the only plausible explanation why Gbaja is still Tchief of Staff.

Well, don't take it personal as I didn't intend to insult in my previous comment. You can start by accepting that I am not an obedient then I may reconsider removing you from APC avengers list....

On a serious note, if you are sincere to yourself, I do not see how you can defend Gbaja with a straight face, knowing his antecedents. You know that Femi Gbaja has a criminal history, that's why he can work comfortably with shady characters like Tinubu. I hope you will open the link I shared earlier and read, the thread is not another obidient noise but contains serious allegations of criminal conduct, financial embezzlement, constitutional illegality and government sponsored corruption.

CharlesCNG:
Did you just use the word premium?

Thank you for the compliment.

In this economy, even insults now need upgrade. If I must be accused, at least let it be premium accusation.

But let us be honest: I cannot help using the word Obidient because Obidients cannot help coming to my mentions. They enter every thread, derail every discussion, insult everybody, shout “paid APC agent,” then act surprised when they are identified by their feathers.

You say I am scared to bite my master’s fingers.

My brother, I bite arguments, not fingers.

If Tinubu is wrong, I will say so. If APC is wrong, I will say so. But I will not pretend that Obidient noise is wisdom simply because it is loud.

But if all you have is “premium APC avenger,” then I accept the premium and reject the poverty of thought behind it.

As for Obidients, I will continue to mention them because they have become a political case study: always angry, always abusive, always allergic to opposing views, and always pretending that their intolerance is activism.

So yes, call me premium if you like.

I would rather be premium in argument than basic in deflection.

Ah CharlesCNG I think we can safely conclude that you are indeed a premium APC avenger.... You can't help it, repeating the word "obidient" over and over again hmmmmm

Well, since you are scared to bite your master's fingers, I will let you be for now

CharlesCNG:
Maybe you haven't observed my pattern.

I don't respond to every thread Obidients create on Nairaland because the whole strategy is to set the agenda and drag everyone into defending their preferred narrative.

Thankfully, Nairaland doesn't work that way.

Everybody is free to create their own thread, frame their own arguments and present their own evidence.

The real judges are the independent readers, not the loudest partisans.

As I've repeatedly said, my primary audience is not Obidients or the opposition. I don't write to convert those who have already reached their conclusions.

I write to ensure there is another well-argued point of view available for Nigerians who are willing to examine issues critically.

If I find your thread raises facts that deserve engagement, I'll engage them on my own terms, with my own framing.

I don't outsource my editorial judgment to partisan invitations.

That's the difference between setting an agenda and being captured by someone else's agenda.

@CharlesCNG there is a fresh Gbaja scandal you are reluctant to address ....Here is the link - https://www.nairaland.com/8708994/exposed-how-femi-gbajabiamila-used

Both Tinubu and Gbajabiamila are criminal minded people.... you will be lying to yourself if you choose not to accept this fact..... I await your comment in that thread....

CharlesCNG:
My Friend, are you still on night shift supervising paid APC agents? At this rate, you deserve overtime allowance from Obidient Monitoring Department.

Now to your “real issue.”

Yes, the agency being captured in the budget is a real issue. Nobody is denying that. It raises serious questions about the Presidency budget process, the Budget Office, SGF channels, National Assembly scrutiny, civil service vetting, and whoever inserted or processed that line.

But that still does not automatically prove Gbajabiamila’s personal guilt.

You keep jumping from “fake agency entered budget” to “Gbaja must be guilty.” That is not investigation. That is conclusion looking for evidence.

If the budget capture is the issue, then investigate the full chain: who submitted the proposal, who prepared the memo, who cleared it, who inserted it, who defended it, who approved it, and who benefited.

That is the real issue.

But your own fixation is Gbaja. Why?

You accuse me of trying to absolve him, but you are trying to convict him before investigation. I am saying investigate everybody. You are saying start from guilty and work backwards.

Even if Gbajabiamila has had past controversies, past controversy is not automatic proof of present guilt. A serious allegation still needs direct evidence: documents, payment trail, instructions, call records, witnesses, bank movement, signatures proved authentic, or official communication linking him directly.

Until then, “captured in the budget” proves institutional failure and possible conspiracy.

It does not prove Gbaja collected ₦400 million.

So let us stop pretending that political dislike is forensic evidence.

Lol 😆 for making the comment below, you are a premium APC avenger, all masks are off now!

My Friend, are you still on night shift supervising paid APC agents? At this rate, you deserve overtime allowance from Obidient Monitoring Department.

You are guilty what you are trying to accuse me of doing because only "APC avengers" call anyone critical of Tinubu's government an "obedient"... That's why I tagged you an APC avenger and rightly so... If you did your due diligence, you would've known that am not an obident... Funny, I don't even support igbo presidency....

CharlesCNG:
My friend, first of all, it is half-baked, not “half backed.” If you want to insult analysis, at least bake the insult properly.

Now to your point.

Nobody said the National Assembly should not investigate how a so-called fake agency entered the budget. In fact, that is exactly what serious people should demand: who inserted it, who defended it, who processed it, who signed off, and what institutional loophole allowed it?

But that is a different question from the original obidient emotional jump that Gbajabiamila personally collected ₦400 million.

You people always do this thing I call Verdict-First Activism .

You start with: “APC is corrupt.”
Then you conclude: “Gbaja must be guilty.”
Then when VDM asks basic questions — did Adeyemi meet Gbaja, did he speak to him directly, where is the payment trail, how did ₦400 million move — you suddenly escape to “institutional decay.”

Yes, institutional decay should be investigated.

But institutional decay is not automatic proof that Gbajabiamila collected money.

Two things can be true at once: the budget process may be rotten, and the specific allegation against Gbaja may still be weak if it rests on a dead intermediary, unverified phone calls, and no clear payment trail.

As for “APC masters,” that is the usual Obidient Payroll Paranoia Syndrome. Once someone refuses to swallow your preferred scandal whole, he must have a master.
You people cannot imagine independent thought because your own politics runs on group panic and forwarded outrage.

And you are asking why APC avengers have gone to bed early. My brother, why are you still awake monitoring us? If we are paid boys, are you the unpaid night-shift supervisor?

Answer the real questions.

How did ₦400 million move?

Who received it?

Where is the bank trail?

Where is the direct link to Gbaja?

Who inserted the agency into the budget?

Who approved it?

Those are the questions serious people are asking.

Not this Obidient habit of shouting “Tinubu has finished Nigeria” anytime evidence starts asking for ID card.

@CharlesCNG It is not an insult but the truth.... The fact that I misspelled bake doesn't mean I do not know the correct spelling, I am not comfortable typing on mobile devices hence the typo errors you are seeing.... I do try to edit as many as I can....

The point I am trying to make still stands you can't cherry pick soft spots while ignoring the real issue. Mr. Adeyemi's agency was captured in the budget.... I do not know why you are fixated on trying to absolve Gbaja when he already has a criminal history in the past....

CharlesCNG:
My friend, first of all, it is half-baked, not “half backed.” If you want to insult analysis, at least bake the insult properly.

Now to your point.

Nobody said the National Assembly should not investigate how a so-called fake agency entered the budget. In fact, that is exactly what serious people should demand: who inserted it, who defended it, who processed it, who signed off, and what institutional loophole allowed it?

But that is a different question from the original obidient emotional jump that Gbajabiamila personally collected ₦400 million.

You people always do this thing I call Verdict-First Activism .

You start with: “APC is corrupt.”
Then you conclude: “Gbaja must be guilty.”
Then when VDM asks basic questions — did Adeyemi meet Gbaja, did he speak to him directly, where is the payment trail, how did ₦400 million move — you suddenly escape to “institutional decay.”

Yes, institutional decay should be investigated.

But institutional decay is not automatic proof that Gbajabiamila collected money.

Two things can be true at once: the budget process may be rotten, and the specific allegation against Gbaja may still be weak if it rests on a dead intermediary, unverified phone calls, and no clear payment trail.

As for “APC masters,” that is the usual Obidient Payroll Paranoia Syndrome. Once someone refuses to swallow your preferred scandal whole, he must have a master.
You people cannot imagine independent thought because your own politics runs on group panic and forwarded outrage.

And you are asking why APC avengers have gone to bed early. My brother, why are you still awake monitoring us? If we are paid boys, are you the unpaid night-shift supervisor?

Answer the real questions.

How did ₦400 million move?

Who received it?

Where is the bank trail?

Where is the direct link to Gbaja?

Who inserted the agency into the budget?

Who approved it?

Those are the questions serious people are asking.

Not this Obidient habit of shouting “Tinubu has finished Nigeria” anytime evidence starts asking for ID card.

@CharlesCNG Are you done with your half baked analysis?

Okay now ask yourself why has the national assembly being a key party to this scandal not speaking out and conducting its own independent investigation within its chambers to unravel how Mr.Adeyemi's "fake" agency got captured in the budget....? The fact that Mr. Adeyemi's agency got budgetary allocation should be your number one concern towards unraveling the deep-rooted institutional decay over this scandal.... Not everyone is naive or too dumb not to see that Mr. Adeyemi didn't act alone over his purported fake agency but had backing from powerful people within the government. You will be doing yourself a disservice by your half baked analysis in your futile attempt to exonerate your horrible APC government. Self-deceit won't help you or change the fact that Tinubu made Nigeria's situation worse. Nigeria's problem didn't start with Tinubu or will it end with him as the failures of his government is only a symptom of a bigger problem which is a foundational problem that has to do with the country's unity. This is why nothing will get better in Nigeria until it is addressed by the people. Since you appear to be the only APC avenger that is active at this time as your fellow APC avengers including helinus appear to have strangely gone to bed early, can you open the link below, your APC masters need your services in that thread as well....

https://www.nairaland.com/8708994/exposed-how-femi-gbajabiamila-used

CharlesCNG:
This is exactly the problem with Obidient-style mindset: they first manufacture a conclusion, then start building emotions around it as if assumption is evidence.

Look at the usual sequence of the arrant nonsense you have written.

First, you proceed from the false declaration that Tinubu has “finished Nigerians.”
Then you assume every institution is captured.
Then you conclude elections can no longer remove government.
Then they jump to revolution, referendum, IPOB, dissolution and doom.

The usual deranged obidient's panic doing political choreography.

This is what I call Conclusion-First Politics — decide the verdict first, then force every event to fit it.

The same people who say elections are useless are already campaigning for 2027. The same people who say institutions are totally captured still quote courts when it favours them. The same people who say Nigeria is finished still want Peter Obi to become president of the same Nigeria they claim cannot work.

Which one exactly do you people believe?

And what has this emotional sermon got to do with the VDM/Gbajabiamila issue? VDM asked basic questions: did the accuser meet Gbaja? Did he speak to him directly? Where is the payment trail? How did ₦400 million move? Instead of answering, they escaped into “Tinubu has finished Nigeria.”

That is deflection.

Obidients must learn that anger is not proof, suspicion is not investigation, and shouting “captured institutions” does not automatically validate every allegation against APC.

Nigeria needs reform, accountability and strong institutions — not people who lose every argument and immediately start calling for the country to burn.

Hmmmmm where are the APC avengers lol It appears Tinubu's avengers (data guys) have lost their voice lately in this forum.....

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Your food is ready.... come and defend your messiah.... It's amazing to witness a day like this when all those behind the handles above especially helinus go into hiding over the atrocities of their APC masters.... Hahahahahaha

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

Femi Gbajabiamila is 100% innocent, I have confirmed it.. VDM defends Gbaja the Yahoo yahoo man....

Well said! Tinubu and his gang in government have finished Nigerians.... There is no coming back from all the looting that will be stolen by this government once Tinubu is done with Nigeria by 2031. For those who are still naive thinking that they can vote out Tinubu next year, I will use to medium to reiterate, except a people backed revolution happens, no election can remove this horrible government now because all public institutions have been totally compromised and captured..... All well meaning Nigerians who still value their future must rise and join the revolutionary movement that Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB started to demand for an end to 1999 fraudulent constitution through a referendum that will dissolve or totally decentralize Nigeria in order to avert the impending doom.... If Nigerians choose to do nothing then they will be finished as a people by the time this APC government is done with them......

President Bola Tinubu’s chief of staff, Femi Gbajamila, illegally cornered tens of billions of naira in oil and gas royalty from Nigeria’s thriving oil regulatory commission after citing a fake law for the president’s approval, documents seen by Peoples Gazette showed.

Weeks after Mr Tinubu took the oath of office in 2023, his chief of staff began canvassing for money, knocking on the doors of highly lucrative agencies like the Nigeria Revenue Service (formerly Federal Inland Revenue Service), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (the agency in charge of the nation’s maritime operations) and Nigeria Customs Service, sources acquainted with the matter told The Gazette.

The Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission was not left out of the financial push as Mr Gbajabiamila drafted a memo requesting that four per cent of the cost of collection (annual revenue generated from the NUPRC) be split into two parts: 2.5 per cent for its operations and routine capital expenditure, and 1.5 per cent for capital expenditure.

The language ringfencing the 1.5 per cent, equal to N54 billion, was vague, as Mr Gbajabiamila said it was for “upgrading of crude oil and gas metering and transparency systems”. What he meant by transparency systems for such a humongous amount was not immediately clear.

“Mr President has directed that the Budget Office and the Accountant General of the Federation implement the approval in paragraph 2.a. above and ring fence the 1.5 per cent which may only be utilised for upgrading crude oil and gas metering and transparency systems upon obtaining relevant approvals,” Mr Gbajabiamila stated in a memo dated July 4, 2023.

Mr Gbajabiamila justified his request by citing a section of the Petroleum Industry Act 2023 to support his directive.

“The authority to collect these fees is vested in statute—Section 24(2)(c) of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) (2023). However, the specific percentage collectable is subject to presidential approval,” Mr Gbajabiamila said in the July 2023 memo.

Checks by The Gazette revealed the section contains language that does not in any way correlate with the authorisation to claim tens of billions of naira from the nation’s coffers.

“The source of the commission Fund shall be as follows–( c) cost of collection by the commission,” stated PIA 2023 Section 24 (2c) that Mr Gbajabiamila cited in a letter to the Ministry of Finance and Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to lay claim to N54 billion.

When asked for comments, the presidency defended Mr Gbajabiamila, saying he only carried out the president’s instructions, which he claimed were within the ambit of the law.

The presidency avoided commenting on the falseness of the cited law, instead insisting that the N54 billion illegally received was with the president’s say-so and that there was no “smoking gun” on the matter.

“Gbajabiamila did not commandeer any money,” Bayo Onanuga told The Gazette on Monday. “The presidential order given to the NUPRC is within the right of the Mr President as president and C-in-C.”

Further checks by The Gazette showed that even the president lacked such powers to direct NUPRC’s revenue accrual and capital expenditure appropriation.

That responsibility was assigned to the National Assembly under Section 24(1) of the PIA 2023, stating, “The commission shall maintain a fund into which money accruing to the commission shall be paid, and all expenditures of the commission shall be subject to appropriation by the National Assembly.”

The president, according to the cited law, has no business with directing how the cost of collection is shared, let alone laying claim to its 1.5 per cent.

The cost of collection, which was N98 billion in 2022, increased significantly to N145 billion following Mr Tinubu’s unification of the official and black market exchange rates.

Whether Mr Tinubu’s action constitutes an overreach of his constitutional powers remains to be seen and can only be determined by a competent court.

Mr Gbajabiamila has been implicated in corruption scandals across borders, including in the U.S., where he was disbarred by the State Bar of Georgia after allegedly stealing money from a client.

For months, Mr Gbajabiamila ignored summonses from the State Bar to answer questions regarding the theft. He subsequently stopped paying his membership fee after his client reported him to the Bar.

His actions led to a five-year suspension from the Bar in 2015 and ultimately led to outright termination in 2020 after the Bar determined it could no longer condone Mr Gbajamila’s ethical lapses.

In 2022, Mr Gbajabiamila was accused of accepting $2 million in cash bribes (as the speaker of the House of Representatives) to secure passage of the new Petroleum Industry Bill, despite protests from host communities.

In his latest financial scandal, the president’s chief of staff is battling fraud allegations and fighting to survive a N400 million bribery scandal that has engulfed his political career.

Adeniyi Adeyemi, director-general of a controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), accused Mr Gbajabiamila of collecting N400 million through a proxy and demanding an additional N200 million to secure his appointment as director.

The allegation arose after Mr Gbajabiamila released a statement on June 11 denying that the PFIPC (which appeared on pages 50 and 51 of the appropriation budget) existed and that the president was unaware of Mr Adeyemi’s appointment.

Mr Adeyemi said Mr Gbajabiamila was stung by his refusal to give him 48 per cent commission of PFIPC ‘s N27.7 billion grant and hence, sought to discredit the council and humiliate his person.

“The major rationale behind the disagreement between myself and the chief of staff is because he allegedly requested 48 per cent of the take-off grant (N27,395,510,136) from the same agency, which he denies, to which I rejected after he collected a total sum of 400 million by proxy, with a remaining balance of 200 million to secure the said appointment,” Mr Adeyemi said in a statement last month.

Mr Adeyemi said it was impossible for an agency that did not officially exist to be issued such a grant at the president and chief of staff’s directive.

He said, “If the agency does not exist, yet found its way into the Nigerian national budget, what that means is that the entire 2026 appropriation budget is a fraud and should be discarded.”

The president has ordered that the allegations be thoroughly investigated and concluded within 30 days. He said persons found culpable in the corruption would be prosecuted.

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These video broadcasts made by Nnamdi Kanu years ago will continue to haunt Nigerians until the undeniable truth that “One Nigeria” is unsustainable prevail….

The fact that 90% voted Peter Obi only shows that many Igbo people wanted the least corrupt and most financially frugal candidate among the popular candidates that were presented in the last presidential election….

ILoveNG:
If 90% of south east voting for just one person is not tribalism. How then do your people convince themselves that south west where people voted differently are tribalistic ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmW9c8nBqTg

…. What astonishes me is why is it that black people have this mentality, you sit down there, you sit down there and you do nothing, absolutely nothing! until it is too late, until you are conquered, until you are taken now you start running all over the place asking for help from all over the world….

….they brought in fulani from across the sahel to rig elections, all of you were watching and did nothing, they brought in little little kids from Niger during the election, they brought in their cousins from Niger republic to come into the so-called one Nigeria to come and campaign for them, they brought them from Chad from Niger, everywhere from northern Cameroon to come and vote, all of you were just there watching, as they were eating you up, you were shouting one Nigeria. They were eating you alive, you never knew the idiotic mess you were in, you were busy shouting one Nigeria, shouting one Nigeria like a demented idiot, look at where you are today….

I can’t answer your question but I can tell you one thing… Nigeria as a country is a crime scene…. Don’t be surprised if it turns out in the future that it was Tinubu’s handlers that staged the Oyo kidnapping for political gains…. It may also be that the kidnappers sponsored by opposition politicians were heavily paid billions of Naira as ransom to free the hostages…. Anything is possible in Nigeria as long as politics is involved…

MemphitzDgreat1:
Okay. They say that the kidnappers allowed the victims to keep their phones in order to keep communication open for ransom negotiations.

Okay. Let me assume that was the case. But there are questions.

If there was constant communication between the hostages and their families and with authorities, why did it take 56 days to pinpoint where the phones were pinging from? Any Telcom will give you the coordinates, if they have a mast in the area.
Secondly, how were they charging their phones for 56 days in the thick forest?

I am not doubting the kidnap and rescue story, but please can someone explain to me, like I was a five year old, my old brain cannot process this.

Are you still in self-denial mode? If Tinubu was doing well you don’t need to defend him online because it will be self evident…. Do not let bigotry to consume you, the lady is brilliant and insightful in her analysis….

TopBanter:
@OP.

What is this illiterate and bigoted lady saying compared to what I showed on the thread below you enemies of Nigeria's progress will never appreciate Nigeria is bigger than your capacity for hating.

https://www.nairaland.com/8707861/tinubu-truth

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18zZESvV7y/

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1PUcDfjhsu/

Many of those from the south east that voted for Peter Obi did so because he was the best option when compared to the other candidates…. The igbos did the same for Jonathan so it is not about tribalism….

ILoveNG:
Talking about tribalism