₦airaland Forum

Mariangeles:
Na by talk?
As they say, talk is cheap.

Tinubu is a known manipulator, a liar, and a deceiver.

Most politicians have these three attributes. Atiku and Obi have them all. Try other attributes.

Gotocourt:
Anything aside Tinubu yup

Makinde is a current governor. He knows how much petroleum subsidy removal helped him to govern. He can't say anything contrary.

ColdHunter:
To think that the leading presidential candidate in a presidential election of a country with nearly 300million people is a known drug cartel accountant is the most shameful and nerve tingling thing ever.

It's even more embarrassing that there are morally bankrupt and retrograde people singing his praises.

Shame.

Keep quiet. It shows low capacity and lack of strategy for person to take up a positive or negative issue concerning a person that happened some 30 years ago in a foreign land as a basis to determine the decision to elect a person in his own country.

It's more worrisome if the person has worked to a senior level in a multinational company, won election as senator, was a two terms successful governor of major state and is currently the president of the same country.

So the day that you appear for interview for a general manager position in a company I can bring up the issue of how you pregnanted one girl 30 years ago or how you stole bread in one Mama's shop as a basis to stop from getting the job.

Nigerian politicians should get serious. The front line ones don't know what to do. They just play on the psyche of the people.

This is true na. Amaechi's electoral value in Rivers State has since expired. Atiku is carrying a liability.

Free money made easily in government can be spent anyhow.

saddler:
Nigerians have been starving for decades. When will they start seeing the benefits?

But you are making it look like starving started with PBAT.

Tenses:
This external reserve will continue to make the rounds because that's obviously the only achievement they can point at.

More external reserve more loans

Atiku and the opposition is targeting the reserves. They want to burn it on consumption in order to look good after which we relapse to old days of forex scarcity. We will not allow it.

hatchy:
Over 58 Billion yet many businesses are closing down. Uber just exited Nigeria few days ago. How come the increased external research doesn't translate to more jobs creation from FDI

The desperation of Ahmed Tinubu is way out of this world. Man can lie, surrounded himself with crooked personalities just like himself, so they're doing everything tto cling on to power, unfortunately it's over before it even started.

How many businesses are closing down? Give us figures. The contrary is that major companies that scaled down or left are coming back.

saddler:
External reserves increasing and the poverty in the land is increasing. The purchasing power of the people is decreasing.

No job, no security, currency is worth shiit.

Tinubu economics

Ask anyone that built a house or an enterprise through genuine income. He starved, made sacrifices and denied himself of so many things to achieve it. You can refuse to do any of the above, enjoy your life but tomorrow becomes bleak.

lezz:
PDP is a mockery of itself. I wish they have the courage to sue.

Your party leader, that inglorious Wike is has openly endorsed another candidate and openly pitched tent against his own party

And you want the press to be mute as the PDP leaders are mute?

The primary mandate of the press is to hold the government to account on behalf of the people and Rufai is within his duties to call out Wike and the entire PDP leadership as they owe Nigerians an explanation why their leadership is walking with its head down.

Reuben Abati is a people please, and age is getting the better part of his mandate as a pressman.

He should retire. His tactless and blunt attack was more unprofessional than he would really care to admit.

What a coward.

You are comparing top professional journalist like Abati and neophyte journalist like Rufai. When did we start to hear about Rufai? What he's doing now was what destroyed AIT. Excessive bias.

dgr8truth:
Thanks to Rufai, I never knew the PDP had a presidential candidate. But that’s by the way.

I believe one of the reasons we, as a country, continue to suffer is because we are repulsive to the truth. We are often more comfortable accommodating and living happily with lies, propaganda, and make-believe than confronting uncomfortable realities.

We have also created a society where the system revolves around “big men” and “big women.” Institutions can no longer punish defaulters because the “big man” syndrome has weakened accountability and allowed people with influence to operate above the rules.

Look at Wike, for example—blatantly engaging in what many would describe as anti-party activities. Someone called him out for it, and instead of the PDP listening to the criticism, investigating the allegations, and perhaps even applauding Rufai for drawing attention to a genuine concern, the party is threatening a defamation lawsuit.

This is the problem.

We have reached a point where telling the truth is treated as an offence, while wrongdoing is protected when the person involved has the right connections.

Truly, we have lost both the war and the battle—not because solutions are unavailable, but because we have become too comfortable defending the very things destroying us.

What are you defending? Even if this Rufai wants to make a point must he be rude particularly when on air.

iwaeda:
Tinubu knows what he has done, God has been good to him. He could have opened up, Nigerians have forgiven hearts. FBI doesn't keep civil record.

Does our own SCID or DSS keep civil files?

MEGAWATCH:
APC propagandist, answer the first question first before you ask your own.

Does FBI keep civil Records?



😎😎

Yes

Sheuns:
From the movies I’ve watched. FBI comes into any case that has to do with national security.

When FBI arrives a scene, the local police department usually knows the top dog has arrived.

The case of Tinubu is not between the local police of Chicago but between him and the FBI. That makes it a big case.

Everyone with his own. Hear him..... from the movies that I have watched.......and he goes ahead to conclude that they are the same as real life.

AMINDA:
Keep laughing but their message is getting to the grassroots where it matters. Tinubu and the APC rode into power on the wave of populism. Afterall, your tin-god said all is fair in politics. The greatest motivator for the people in 2027 will be their current economic status and their lived realities. Not tribe, not region, not religion.

Was Atiku not the one that privatized the power sector? What is the results? Alscon that was built with $3.5 billion was sold for $120 million by Atiku. Atiku is shamelessly talking about becoming president.

AMINDA:
I am sure you are not slow. Does Tinubu have a new set of constitution that he is now using to govern the country? We have heard people openly threaten to kill people, and they continue to walk free. Umahi continues to walk free even with a body discovered in his house. Even if Elrufai said he tapped the phone, which he didn't, by the way, it still needs to be proven in a court. When attempts were made to arrest Elrufai at the airport upon his voluntary return to Nigeria, was it because he tapped the NSA's phone? He tapped the NSA's phone but the NSA didn't know about it until he was told. Such a competent NSA he is! Why is Elrufai in custody of the ICPC? Is tapping of phones part of their mandate? Do not disguise fear of a man as accountability. Anyways, time is a gentleman.

Well done defender of Atiku and the north only. We have noted you. So if dead body is found in someone's house then the person should be locked up forever. You didn't hear the corona request? You didn't hear the wish of the parents? You didn't hear how he assisted the lady? Mtchee

chicfarmer:
Don't be silly. How can nations without limestone be buying cement at cheaper prices than the one that has this resource?

You must be silly to think that mere depository of raw material will give you cheap products.

buharibanjo:
Thought as much
Atiku is really giving BAT sleepless nights
This is how oppositions operate

You don't mean it? When Mobil announced their mega investment Atiku didn't talk but mere Uber exit even when we have other ride hailing companies then we should celebrate. Are we serious.

Sheuns:
I was actually reading to get the name of the analyst.

You can get any information that you want by searching for 2023 presidential election tribunal records. It is not hard.

Ezeama400:
When the government keeps attacking journalists up and down just know that something is wrong with such government.

So halfbaked journalists should vomit 🤮 trash against people anyhow? Rufai's boss warned him on the implications of what he is doing.

MrEar:
I like him like that Daniel

At least he is a ''Narcissist'' with integrity and principle, rather than a double tongued, sell out like you and all other APC riff-raffs

By the way, Oseni Rufai has responded to Daniel Bwala

Source:

pic.twitter.com/yS7bdAbkDr

— oseni rufai (@ruffydfire) September 3, 2026

Rufai Oseni is not a journalist. He has never practiced journalism beyond sitting in the studios claiming all knowing. Abati has seen it all. From the days that newspaper houses were raided, the confiscation of newspaper editions, arrest and jailing of journalists. When he warns he warned based on experience.

Tinubu is a liberal Democrat. Let him try what he is doing under OBJ or even Atiku as president then he will receive multiplicity of suits.

chicfarmer:
How on earth should a country with an abundance of limestone be buying a bag of cement for #15,000? Is your head paining you?

So if you bring out limestone then it automatically turns to cement.

discusant:
Election on 16th of January when most people in the southeast and southsouth are still in festival mood.
Even a northern Muslim president would not be so disrespectful to Christians.

Their business. So Nigeria should wait for people that traveled for merriment in their village? Nothing we no go hear 🙉

NaijaSumi:
He should advise Tinubu to accept defeat gallantly. APC cannot rig this election.

And the opposition should equally accept defeat gallantly. Your reasoning is flawed if it's only true when Tinubu loses.

Validated:
What is Tinubu hiding by hiring lawyers and sending emissaries to bribe with $3m?

Who received the bribe? That lamba lobbyist must justify his pay. Did you read properly up there? The neither the lobbyist nor Atiku are part of the FOIA request but they have made more noise than the litigant.

madridguy:
UBER Exit or not, the reality is that many of us don't longer have disposable income to move around with Uber or bolt.

Even my friend doing the business can do a week without seeing a order. Majority are now moving around inside yellow bus.

President Tinubu took our comfort and handover to the state governors under the pretense of subsidy removal.

Yeah.... consumption subsidy was removed and replaced with production subsidy. That's the goal of the reform. The future belongs to investing in capital formation items. You can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We have been investigating in consumption subsidy for decades and that's why most of the nations that where behind us have overtaken us. Most present day Asian tigers were behind us before. We were comfortable with padded life. Now it's either we unpad or we die.

AMINDA:
The undeniable fact about Tinubu is that he seem to be struggling for legitimacy internationally. His friends are few and he continually relies on this Massad Boulos guy all the time, who himself, is closely linked to Gilbert Chargoury (GCON). Tinubu is neither Obasanjo nor Buhari as far as international reputation and respect go and this FBI saga is only aggravating it. Tell us, will he still be attending the UN General Assembly? Jimoh Ibrahim told us he would and would be sitting "very, very close to Trump". Ikemefuna Von Batten said that won't happen. We will see who's right between them.

I hope you and your like understand what you are doing to Nigeria and Nigerians including you. Elections are fought for in the country of election but Atiku's brand has been to fight outside the country because he understands that he stands no chance locally. His stand is: hence I can't have it let me destroy all.

The negative propaganda that is being spread outside the country whether rightly or wrongly will build up perception in the minds of the public against Nigeria and Nigerians. Even if Tinubu is guilty or not it will not change the perception against Nigeria. Soon this will affect Nigerians and Nigerian businesses. Tinubu would have left the seat.

Mention one country that their electoral battle has been taken to foreign lands the way Atiku has done since 2023? The same Tinubu that was his political friend. Just because he became president instead of him. You have been on overdrive here thinking that you are serving Atiku. You will come back to suffer it when your visa application is cancelled and important business deals are withheld.

Atiku hasn't constituted his campaign council. He hasn't started mobilization for election. He hasn't shown us his expected policy direction. The only obsession is to look at the present regime's program and tell us that he will do the opposite without details. No originality. Of course the everyday feeding from his paid foreign lobbyist.

WENGERNOMICS:
IF he acqually had any of those qualifications, why not just present it and end the matter once and for all. IF he has nothing to hide about his past in the US, why is he spending millions of dollars to stop a US court from exposing his identity and his past dealings. The fellow is a rouge and its quite possible in Nigeria to have a criminal become a senator and governor and with enough Leverage, a president. Politics in Nigeria is about how dirty you can be. So this ttack by the opposition on his skeletons is the best way to kick off the campaign.

He who alleged should prove. Short and simple. We are waiting for their proof.

Validated:
Tinubu and his 34 thieves are uneducated, piece of sh.t, international drug barons, certificate forgers, document forgers, age falsified,election riggers, etc..

This private lobbyist should go and sit down. They have nothing concrete to present. Their efforts can only be spread of empty propaganda. The real deal is USA government. So far the reactions showed no shaking.

anonimi:
It’s obvious that the balablu bulaba master strategist of propaganda politics is on overdrive to cover up his governance failures with fake statistics and false data.

Let me tell you one thing: key economic drivers in this country and external investors that have interest in Nigeria will do everything to ensure that PBAT is returned in 2027. They want continuity and the indicators show so far that since the return democracy this is the man with the right tools. All that Atiku has been dishing out recently demarkets him in the eyes of economic drivers both locally and globally.

nairalanda1:
It is growth , but it is not sustainable without increased domestic industrial productivity to the point where we are exporting manufactured goods and services by the ton

I agree but you must lay this foundation first. The manufacturing sector from this report is gradually picking up but we are far from being there.