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@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.

https://gazettengr.com/exclusive-aso-rock-memo-shows-how-gbajabiamila-used-fake-law-to-corner-n54-billion-oil-revenue-from-nuprc/

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

Hmmmm you may be right lol

SeeWahala:
The lady too fine

Data b0iz no know if to attack or toast am

Hmm no comments from the usual APC suspects and their south west Tinubu praise singers?

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Are you guys suddenly tired of defending Tinubu? I would like to read your take on this video, defending the bare faced lies made by your traditional ruler about Tinubu’s failed government policies…. Interesting to observe all of you go into hiding on this thread.…. Lol

Lol you are funny.... What is the Hebrew translation for circle and sphere...?

MaxInDHouse:
Isaiah 40:22 has answered you o!🥱

Stop dancing around the issue, provide a Bible verse to butress your point

MaxInDHouse:
Funny enough God's word has given us an idea on the shape of the earth when nobody during Isaiah's time (3,500 years ago) thought of such.
So you can continue arguing if that's what pleases you!🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffU5nx4_ogo

Well said Lisa... In my opinion, based on all endorsements made so far by notable traditional yoruba groups and their Obas, it is safe to say that Tinubu's presidency did nothing but exposed the true nature of many Yoruba people to all Nigerians, their deep rooted hypocrisy, tribalism and ethnic bigotry have been laid bear for all to see. What has over the years been hidden, suppressed and shielded in secrecy is now out in the open, everyone can see who many of them truly are and what they stand for.... If Ooni of Ife, who is one of the most referred traditional ruler in Yorubaland can be so brazen, hypocritical and shamelessly economical with the truth about Tinubu disastrous government because of tribalism, imagine what the commoners, his subjects and many other yoruba traditional rulers will do or say to show their support for Tinubu's administration..... I am not surprised because I know all that's happening is as a direct consequence of preserving a cosmetic union built on lies and a fraudulent foundation. Anyone sensible should know by now that Nigeria is not a real country but a contraption filled with many hopelessly tribalistic sectional fake unity pretenders..... This is why the divisive propaganda, just like the 2023 presidential election, will guarantee Tinubu a massive victory in the upcoming 2027 presidential election, the south westerners will get their wish of having Tinubu as president for another 4 years but in return, will lose all iota of trust and integrity they may have enjoyed as a people from other tribes.... In return for their treacherous duplicity, they (including the good ones) will have to live with the national stigmatization and shame of being the tribe that defended and supported one of the worst if not the worst government in Nigeria's history......

As South Westerners take the fall and the people of other regions are forced to bear another 4 years of a horrible government, once all is said and done, it is Nigeria as an entity that will remain as the true villain, a deadly systemic weapon, carefully crafted to always bring out the worse divisive vices in all indigenous people within it so as to destroy them. Unless, all indigenous people come together to break free by demanding for a referendum that will dissolve Nigeria or restructure it towards a total devolution of political/economic powers, nothing will change, the situation will get worse.... The masses will continue to suffer as no one will be spared from Nigeria....

I created this thread to discuss the shape of the earth as described in the Bible and not gravity or water circle.... My question to you which I guess you are trying to deflect still stands, show me one verse that states clearly the earth is a ball, a sphere or globe.....

MaxInDHouse:
If you are not just arguing address the other verses that talks about gravity and water circle!🙂

There is no need arguing, we are online, open any language translation website and enter the words in Hebrew.... As I said earlier you can have a circle on a flat plane....

MaxInDHouse:
ChatGPT!🙂

Now you feel the Bible should tell you it's a sphere and not circle simply because ancient Hebrews have different rendering for the two words but what about your own mother tongue?
If your own language doesn't have such how do you expect readers of Isaiah in ancient times to fully understand what he penned down when CIRCLE and SPHERE are similar?😟

It is not ambiguous, check my last comment.... I already unravel the falsehood in your last comment.... The hebrew language does not use the same word for both circle and sphere... Just admit it, you misquoted the verse in your defense of a globe earth.....

MaxInDHouse:
Ambiguous because you're determined to criticize God's word.

For your information God's word told us thousands of years before scientists discover gravity that God hanged this planet upon nothing when nobody back then could believe that something as heavy as a rock mass could float without anything supporting it.


He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. ‭Job 26:7 NIV‬

And when nobody believes in the water circle God's word said:


“He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind." ‭Job 36:27-28 NIV‬

Please are these verses also ambiguous?😟

Checked, you are wrong the Hebrew word for circle is "ma'agal" while Hebrew word for sphere is "khadur".... what this means is that you do not even understand what you quoted.... That verse is another pointer in defense of the earth being a flat plane and not a sphere....

MaxInDHouse:
Do you have a different word for circle and sphere in your own mother tongue?
Because the Hebrew word translated CIRCLE can also be rendered SPHERE!😟

Hmm the verse is ambiguous (Although am yet to confirm what you said regarding the Hebrew word circle) that's why am asking you to show another verse where earth is clearly stated as a ball....

MaxInDHouse:
Isaiah 40:22 has answered you!🙂

I made a simple request, show me one verse where earth is clearly described as a ball or globe.....

MaxInDHouse:
I told you from the beginning that the Bible is not a science textbook so how do you expect God's word to start teaching what He has told you to go out and discover?


God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and discover it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” ‭Genesis 1:28 NIV‬

Even looking at the verse you shared below

"There is One who dwells above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He is stretching out the heavens like a fine gauze, And he spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22"

The word used is "circle" not "sphere"..... you can have a circle on a flat plane.....

You are the "Bible Scholar" here and not me.... I challenged you to provide 10 verses in defense of your globe earth but you could only muster one verse that isn't even clear to support your argument.....

MaxInDHouse:
For your information i am Maximus one of the Witnesses of the true God so if you have further questions don't hesitate to ask but please do so with an open mind not presumptuously relying on what critics told you!😟

Check Isaiah 66:1 and note the word used "footstool"....

Read it down to verse 7

MaxInDHouse:
People like you just follow social media you don't read God's word yet you want to argue based on what someone else told you.


The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. ‭Psalms 19:1 NIV‬

Please what exactly contradicts earth's spherical shape in this verse?

Go and do a proper Bible research..... Read Psalm 19:1 and other notable verses quoted in the video..... Then come here when you are able generate your own verses to debunk it as a globe defender....

MaxInDHouse:
Thanks for reading.
What makes you think the person in your video fully understands what he or she quoted?
I don't believe in social media fallacies so if all you want is for everyone to watch a video i think it's not necessary responding to your question!

Did you watch the video? I guess you didn't.... You only quoted one verse to support your fallacious claim when the video presenter quoted more than 10 verses..... Go and do a proper Bible research and come back when you are done..... The earth is not a globe or ball....

MaxInDHouse:
The Bible is not a science textbook so it is funny how most people expect God's word to teach anything that's not the core subject matter of the Bible.
However the Bible actually gave us some ideas about the shape of our planet home. According to God's word the earth is spherical:

There is One who dwells above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He is stretching out the heavens like a fine gauze, And he spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22

So let's pick the points one after the other picking the highlighted in red.
1. The Hebrew word translated CIRCLE is closer to SPHERE.

2. Inhabitants of planet earth are glued to it like ants because the force of gravity is involved.

3. The space keeps expanding as God is stretching it.

I have an advice for you!

I've noticed that you are overwhelmed with what is happening in the politics of this world so try not to allow it infect you because that is the only religion that's making people hate, fight and kill people!😟

Let the lawless country deny him justice again in the upcoming appeal case and see what becomes of Nigeria..... Igbos are patiently monitoring the process, they will respond in defense of Nnamdi Kanu at the appropriate time.....Is lawless Nigeria prepared for the consequences?

TopBanter:
He can appeal all he wants. His criminal conviction is sound even you and him do not wish to accept that.

Nnamdi Kanu is going to appeal the judgement soon so it is not yet over....

TopBanter:
Whatever. A competent Court of law convicted Kanu on with solid evidence of his criminal al conduct. Accept that and move on.

IPOB and Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE) are 2 different groups, while Kanu is the leader of IPOB, Simon Ekpa is the leader of BRGIE..... It is glaring that you are the hypocrite here because Nnamdi Kanu did not supervise any killing or own up to any killing but Simon Ekpa did and boasted about the killings done by his autopilot men through his social media posts. Even though Kanu use to urge IPOB members to defend themselves against security agencies killing them, Kanu on several occasions made it clear that he was not in support of violence against his own people., that's why he disassociated himself and IPOB from Simon Ekpa's BRGIE violent campaigns in the south east region....

Also, what does the law say about extraordinary rendition? You are free to continue to argue with your keyboard in defense of injustice and state sponsored lawlessness.....

TopBanter:
Is it not hypocritical they are not lobbying Finland to release "innocent" Ekpa who is merely a minion of Kanu who is the head of the Snake?

Fact is that all Nigerians say the want a better nation but their actions show many are lawless, unscrupulous and comfortable with how things are.

How can anyone who respects the rule of law and the decision of a competent Court of law be campaigning for Kanu's release after his recent criminal conviction?

Why has not even a single one of them done same for Ekpa in Finland? I.e appeal he be freed ?

It is because they know that is a nation where things work as they should.