₦airaland Forum

Fair and objective response like this is missing in our political space these days. Many people suspend objectivity and argue blindly in favour of their politician, tribe and religion.

dgr8truth:
The Anambra State Government has every right to respond to Peter Obi's claims, and the public deserves clarity on the state's finances. But a government statement this detailed should be held to the same standard of accuracy and evidence that it demands from the former governor.

There are several issues with this response.

First, the statement says Peter Obi "contracted US$123.77 Billion" in external debt. Yet the government's own table puts the total at US$123,771,179.30 — about US$123.77 million, not US$123.77 billion. That is a thousand-fold difference in a statement specifically intended to establish financial facts.

Second, the government needs to distinguish between a loan being contracted, a loan being disbursed, and money actually being spent. The fact that eight loans were signed during Obi's tenure does not, by itself, establish that the entire face value of those loans was drawn down or spent by his administration. The government should publish the disbursement records and expenditure records if it wants to make that case.

Third, nobody is arguing that a government cannot have debt. In fact, the government's own table shows that the loans were for malaria control, healthcare, education, erosion control, community development and agricultural development. The relevant questions are: How much was actually drawn? What was it spent on? What was the repayment structure? What remained outstanding at handover? And what assets or projects resulted from the borrowing?

Those are questions that can be answered with documents, not rhetoric.

The most interesting issue is the ₦2.13 billion ecological fund.

The government says it obtained a certified statement for First Bank account 2018779464 and that the account was an IGR Consolidated Revenue Account which never contained ₦2.13 billion. Peter Obi, on the other hand, says the account held more than ₦2.13 billion in ecological funds when he left office.

This is precisely where politics should end and accounting should begin.

If the government has the certified bank statement, publish the relevant pages.

Show the transactions around March 2014.

Show whether there was an inflow from the Federal Government.

Show the balance on March 17, 2014.

Show the subsequent transactions.

Show the handover documents.

Then Nigerians can independently determine what happened.

Simply saying, "the account never contained the money," while Peter Obi says it did, leaves the public with two competing assertions. The documentary evidence should settle the matter.

There is another important logical problem. Even if the government establishes that the ₦2.13 billion was not in that particular account, that does not automatically prove that the money was "missing" or that Peter Obi misappropriated it. It establishes a discrepancy that requires further investigation: where was the money received, into which account was it paid, when was it transferred, and who authorised the transaction?

Likewise, on salaries, pensions and gratuities, the government should publish a proper reconciliation. Tell us exactly what was owed as at March 17, 2014, when each liability originated, what Obi's administration verified, what it paid, and what remained outstanding.

The same principle applies to the alleged ₦75 billion savings. Rather than dismissing it as "creative accounting," publish the bank balances, investment certificates, treasury instruments and other financial assets that constituted the claimed savings at handover, together with the liabilities against them.

And yes, it is campaign season. We will inevitably see people defending their preferred political parties and candidates. Already, you will see APC supporters coming here to repeat whatever narrative suits their political allegiance, just as supporters of other parties do. But we should be careful not to allow partisan loyalty to replace critical thinking.

This politics of hatred, character assassination and deliberate image-tarnishing will not help our democracy. We should do better.

Governor Soludo is entitled to support whoever he chooses politically. It is already clear from his political alignment that he supports President Tinubu, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Every politician has the constitutional and democratic right to make political choices.

But government should not be turned into a vehicle for settling political scores or damaging the reputation of a former governor simply because he has become a political opponent.

Peter Obi is a former governor of Anambra State. His record should be examined objectively—just as the records of every other administration should be examined. If there are financial discrepancies, investigate them. If there are debts, publish the figures. If there is evidence of wrongdoing, present it. If there are claims that are false, disprove them with documents.

But let us move away from the politics of my party must be right and your person must be wrong."

Politics should be about accountability, evidence and ideas—not hatred.

The debate should not be:

"Peter Obi said this, Soludo's government said that."

It should be:

"Here are the audited accounts. Here are the bank statements. Here are the loan agreements. Here are the disbursement records. Here are the handover documents. Here is the reconciliation. Now let Nigerians examine the evidence."

That is the standard every government, every politician and every political supporter should be willing to meet.

Political arguments will come and go, but public money belongs to the people. The citizens of Anambra deserve the documents, the numbers and a transparent reconciliation—not competing political narratives.

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Life opens people's eyes.
Life teaches those who want to learn.
Time makes us see life differently.
Time makes you appreciate your "poor", "unenterprising" parents.
Time makes you realize that life brought true love your way but you chased it away thinking you have time.
Life works with time, time is life.
Lucky are those who learn early about life from those who have spent more time in life.

The reasons for their endorsement are too pedestrian. Capable because she attended young lawyers' events and party?
Good that NBA election is not free for all tribes at a time, but zoned to blocks. It would have been another APC, ADC, NDC campaign wahala.

And where in the video did the judges sing?
The band played the tune to usher the president to the podium. The people standing in the video did not sing.

The more you embrace violence, the more you give the oil companies the excuse to not put all their assets and personnel in the region.

Eeyaaaa. How did he kill the keke man. That's small relief for the keke man's family. Sure he will explore his right of appeal.

Congratulations to the two. They come with bags of relevant experience. Jobs like theirs under government owned entity get easy when your oga is doing well.

Amazing. Reality of biological life. But then, men cannot just mate with every curve and shape without restraint.

That's good. Great efforts from the team. Can imagine how people would have blamed the government if they had lost.

This is not clear. Has he started testifying or how is he able to say these while prosecution witness is still being cross examined? That's either an interruption of proceedings or a clear case of false reporting of what happened in court. It is only when matter enters defence stage that the accused person/defendant has chance to tell his own side of the story in the manner reported.

What happened? What is the motive? Was the program promoting financial crime or shielding a financial criminal? Did EFCC invite the station management and they refused? Or was a yahoo-boy on the live show? Government agencies' mode of operations should get better, not the other way round.

Please state the Address,
Rate per night,
Few pictures of the rooms.

His wife likely asked for it. Things we do for love.

Good one. It will make plenty sense when other proposed upgrades get done.

seunmsg:
I watched the video twice and didn’t see any 40 years old Greeffidich whiskey on the table. All I saw was peak milk, tea jug and cup. What’s the point lying that the Honorable Minister took whiskey without any evidence to support the claim.

The minister singer whatever song after a hard day’s work in his office or the office of a friend should not be a problem to anybody other than those filled with hatred and bad belle. Singer and dancing is human behavior and nothing else. Anyone that is pained by this should go and die! Oga Wike, na man you be.

Same here. Could not see any bottle. Misleading headline.

prince22607:
I am currently at lagos, Nigeria. My kids are 7 and 3 years old.

Okay. As earlier mentioned, the court considers different factors in granting custody, age is just one of them. A man can get custody of a 2 or 10 year old daughter depending on the circumstances and factors surrounding the case. Even divorce itself needs to meet some requirements before it is granted. The facts you present is what one can use to advise. We can talk more in the dm if that's fine by you.

Where is your location?
What kind of marriage did you contract with your spouse? If in Nigeria and depending on the type of marriage, you need to get a lawyer who will help file at a fee. The part of the country you are or where the case is filed determines the length of the process. Could be 6 months and it could be up to years. Chances of getting custody of the children depends on different factors including their current ages, their gender.
Get in touch and let's talk when you're ready.

Wow. Thank you so much.
Took delivery of the laptop through waybill on Thursday. Very clean and durable with charger. I think I got lucky with your discount offer.
By the way, good you didn't delete the Black Panther movie; seeing it for the first time since it's release.

True love stays through the storms.
Good memories are not forgotten despite the odds.
This generation meeds to learn that there's more to marital love than Instagram and twitter trends.

They live large while in office and continue after retirement while their people wallow in poverty. The various State Houses of Assembly share the blame for passing such laws that give governors more wealth even after living office.

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It is terrible. I've dropped their SIM and kept in Nokia Torch for receiving calls. Airtel gives YouTube night bonus but still deduct from my normal data for using YouTube at midnight. I bought data, put off the data for later use. I put on the data and immediately got balance of 50mb remaining. How? The data I switched off? Airtel is doing like agbero that has been given target to make returns.

Do you still have one of the same price range?

His opinion makes sense.

Hello people, how can a fresher with no capital enter car selling business;
What options can one explore?

Please I want to know:

1. Is it safe to buy existing twitter, instagram, Facebook accounts (including Facebook group), considering the prevalence of stolen/hacked accounts?

2. How does one spot a genuine account owner/seller?

ubcandid:
We're done on this. Miscommunication problem. Sorted.

Good you declared it sorted.

The driver took the laptop I ordered to Calabar instead of Uyo. It took longer days for the company to return the laptop and other people's goods to Uyo. I do not think a person you entrusted with some thousands would turn round to thief your N500. The funny guy at Uyo office still demanded for pure water money despite the company's obvious error.

Innobarca is one of the few who boost one's confidence in online transactions.

We should appreciate the fact that he may not always pick calls or reply immediately (though I wish he does each time). I assume he has to source for, work on the laptops and still take it down to the park or logistics office for sending.

Greetings to all,

Please where can one get affordable and reliable foreign used laptop/s in Portharcourt and Akwa Ibom?

1. Is the VC on twitter or any other social media, so as to take the plea to him directly? I think he's a listening VC.

2. Retweet this post on twitter and tag some influencers, it may gain traction.

https://twitter.com/nairaland/
status/1186694085404348416?s=20


The world is moving fast, opportunities now have shorter expiry dates. It just doesn't sound good to hold down lives of graduates by avoidable snags.

You may register it as business name (cheaper option) or limited liability ("Ltd" which is a bit more costly).
You need to come up with two names for the business to be submitted to the Corporate Affairs Commission for availability check. One name will be approved if it is not in existence already. After which you can then proceeded with registration proper. It usually takes few days to get your certificate, all things being equal.

Now where is the pushing or the video has part two? Is it not the same Kayode that called out Davido for supporting his own uncle? APC money can make an intellectual go so low.

My Compaq Presario laptop doesn't come on again until I remove and replace the battery several times before pressing the power button. At times it won't even respond no matter how many times I remove and replace battery. Please what could be wrong, what's the remedy?