Tbh I respect this (apart from your last sentence lol) simply because there are still some buharists today doing incredible olympic level gymnastics to claim the most bigoted and incompetent president in our country's history was anything other than a complete and total failure.
In some ways it's good that PBAT ripped the bandaid off as soon as he walked in by instantly removing subsidy etc. If he had tried to be more measured then the collapse and suffering would have likely come slower and deeper into his presidency, given the remaining Buharists lunatics more apparatus for their silly gaslighting stunts. But now everything is laid bare and he has the rest of his term to fix the destruction of his pathetic predecessor.
The next time the north say "it's our turn", we must demand better than the disgraceful PMB
Alore: Really, I was very disappointed - terribly disappointed!
I had high hopes that Buhari would come with a no-nonsense attitude to deal squarely with the corruption in the country and bring some sense of progress to our nation. I did not vote for Buhari's 2nd term. He ruined Nigeria right from the first term because he was clueless. No Nigerian President had performed so woefully as Buhari at the end of his 8 years of disaster!
My sentiment is this: citizens are to use the power of their votes to kick out a poor-performing government. Now, the definition of "poor performance" for some people can be skewed by tribal, religious, or political coloration. That is left for individuals to settle in their own consciences. I am a Christian from the South and voted for a Muslim from the North against a Christian Southern President in 2015. It was based on my personal judgement that we could have a better country than what Jonathan was giving us, even though I was rooting for, voted for, and had high hopes for Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 election. I was right to be optimistic in both elections and those were my personal decisions born out of my value systems and expectations. I have no regrets!
In a June 23, 2020, article titled "Sabiu Yusuf's Fat Bank Accounts that Shocked CBN Governor” where I revealed that Muhammadu Buhari’s relative Sabiu “Tunde” Yusuf had salted away so much money in banks that even former CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was so alarmed that he advised him to divvy up the money into different accounts, I said, “The stench bomb of fetid corruption that will explode after Buhari leaves office would be so unprecedentedly malodorous it would deaden Nigeria's collective nasal sensibility for a long time.”
At the time, some people thought I was merely being hyperbolic for literary effect. But isn’t that what is happening now? Every day, we are regaled with stories of mindless, freewheeling theft of our public wealth by officials and relatives of Muhammadu Buhari. And what we’ve learned so far is just a tip of the iceberg.
All that happened during Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-year reign was unstrained, stratospheric, eyewatering corruption the scale of which Nigeria had never experienced. It was a raucous, brazen, cheerfully irresponsible kleptocratic bazaar. While it happened, governance took the backseat, leading me to characterize Buhari’s reign as the era of “ungovernance.”
The Central Bank of Nigeria under Emefiele and the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development under Sadiya Umar Farouq are competing for frontrunner status as outposts of the most decadent kleptocratic predation.
Emefiele, whom I described in a May 14, 2022, column as an “infernally incompetent, exceptionally corrupt, mind-blowingly self-serving, incomprehensibly clueless, overweeningly ambitious, and cruelly insensitive” clown, became the conduit for unmentionable financial crimes against Nigeria involving Buhari’s relatives, close friends, and associates. While feathering his own nest, he was a dutiful poodle of the consciencelessly thieving, ill-famed Aso Rock cabal, which humored him by telling him he would succeed Buhari in 2023.
“If someone wrote a tragicomic drama script about Godwin Emefiele’s scandal-ridden reign as a central bank governor and his ludicrously insane attempts to run for president using the financial and symbolic resources of the central bank while still a central bank governor who hurls consequence-free insults and wishes death upon critics for calling attention to the manifest conflict of interest that his presidential run represents, literary critics would pillory the script for its implausible plot,” I wrote about Emefiele in my May 14, 2022 column titled “Emefiele: A Corrupt, Inept, Heart-Attack-Loving Presidential Wannabe.”
Sadiya Umar Farouq’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has also turned out to be one of the most putrid morasses of venality and fraud during the Buhari years. Sadiya is now predictably dodging the EFCC using the favorite tactic of Nigerian elites entwined in the web of accounting for their corruption: pretense of ill health.
When I read that the EFCC was inviting her to account for more than N37 billion that she allegedly laundered, I was shocked by the “smallness” of the amount in light of what I know about the magnitude of pillaging she perpetrated at the ministry. I was relieved when I read a January 4th EFCC statement saying, “We are still tracing all the transactions, hence we cannot put a figure to everything now as the investigation is still ongoing.”
We are talking here of a woman who spent more than N500 million to feed non-existent schoolkids in their homes in Lagos, Ogun, and the FCT while schools were closed in 2020, a woman whom a 2017 Daily Nigerian report said stole dabinos worth millions of naira donated to IDPs by Saudi Arabia during Ramadan (which she hasn’t denied) while she was Federal Commissioner in charge of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons.
In a June 15, 2023, appearance on the Brekete Family radio show in Abuja, Muhammed Kazaure Gudaji, a member of the House of Representatives representing the Kazaure, Roni, Gwiwa, Yankwashi Constituency of Jigawa State who is famous for his brutal forthrightness, verbal directness, and less than perfect English articulation, said what most of us know.
A rock-ribbed Muhammadu Buhari partisan, Gudaji nonetheless pointed out that enormous theft of public resources took place during the Buhari regime, and that if the government of Bola Ahmed Tinubu wanted to be taken seriously, it must arrest and investigate 12 high-profile personages of the Buhari regime.
He gave their names as former Godwin Emefiele; former EFCC chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa (and Magu, too); Group Managing Director of NNPC Mele Kolo Kyari; Former Justice Minister and Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami; former FIRS chairman Muhammad Mamman Nami; Sabiu “Tunde” Yusuf; DG of NIMSA Bashir Jamoh; Mohammed Bello-Koko of the Nigerian Ports Authority; Hadiza Bala Usman also formerly of NPA; all CBN deputy governors who served with Emefiele; and the “entire leaders of the National Inter-Bank Settlement System.”
I have no knowledge of the corrupt dealings of everyone on Gudaji’s list— or whether, in fact, he has a basis to accuse them of colossal corruption—but I have learned not to dismiss the man with a wave of the hand because of his rhetorical unsophistication. And the fact that Emefiele, Bawa, Sadiya, and some CBN deputy governors are under probe months after his plea to Tinubu should tell us that he isn’t a flippant blabbermouth.
Of course, Buhari is aware of the massive corruption that took place in his government. I know for a fact, for example, that he was aware of Sabiu “Tunde” Yusuf’s ill-gotten wealth. I have also been reliably informed that he helped cover the corruption of family members who were caught abroad with unusually large amounts of cash.
Two weeks ago, for instance, someone close to the Buhari family shared with me a disturbing story of the last-minute monkey business that the Buhari family perpetrated with Buhari’s own active connivance.
He wrote: “The son of a very prominent Nigerian (he held no official role, but was the most powerful Nigerian after PMB) in the previous government was arrested and detained for 2 days in England for bringing into the country cash worth millions of dollars/pounds.
“The Nigerian government, with direct intervention of the former president Buhari, intervened and used the Nigerian embassy in London to rescue the son who is in his 30s and related to PMB. This happened when PMB was in Saudi Arabia for the lesser hajj so you can guess the period it happened.
“The money was seized by the UK government initially, but the Nigerian high commission in London insisted that the money was meant for ‘security’. They got the money back and handed it over to the young man who stashed it away in London in preparation for them leaving power.”
Although I have not independently verified the authenticity of this disturbing story, I have chosen to share it publicly because it is consistent with a pattern I am deeply familiar with. The coming days will reveal the financial crimes Buhari, his family, and associates have committed against Nigeria.
Unfortunately, some of the crimes Buhari’s people committed in his eight-year reign are reappearing now. It has now come to light, for example, that Betta Chimaobim Edu, the successor to Sadiya Umar Farouq has started the same pattern of theft by her predecessor.
In a leaked December 20, 2023, memo to the Accountant-General of the Federation, Edu instructed that money designated for “Vulnerable Groups in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ogun and Lagos,” which amounted to more than N500 million, should be paid into the private UBA account of a Bridget Mojisola Oniyelu in violation of Nigeria’s public sector financial regulation law.
The regulation says public money should not, under any circumstance, be paid into private bank accounts. “Any officer who pays public money into a private bank account is deemed to have done so with fraudulent intentions,” section 713 of the act says.
This is a momentous moment for Tinubu. If he does not fire Edu forthwith and bring her to justice, he has already lost the moral high ground to try Buhari’s corrupt honchos.
seunmsg: Matawalle and Douye Diri were both rejected by the people of Zamfara and Bayelsa in 2019. The court made both of them governor in similar manner. So, what’s your point again? We should be asking PDP why they refused to comply with the judgement of the court of appeal regarding Plateau state chapter.
Biodun556: Even CNN and BBC are objective about the report of Israel shell on Gaza baptist hospital.
Nairaland can not be pro Israel more than BBC and CNN but these channels are still fare at least on this one. Why nairaland? Is it that the handlers are not exposed?
There should be a little bit of professionalism in the way nairaland, and it's MODs behave
It is only Seun and his nairaland that have access to Israel military blaming Hamas rocket for the massacre of over 500 people talking shelter in the Baptist hospital.
This has been debunked. The rocket came from within Gaza. All these news organisations will correct their report today if they have any balls
People need to stop hating Jews for no reason. It’s pathetic. The Arabs have been starting wars with Israel since 1948 but keep crying over the consequence of their consistent defeat
The only way to peace is if the Arabs there decide to stop hating Jews and stop teaching the hatred of Jews in schools
garfield1: Zamfara: the zamfara tribunal is delivering judgment tomorrow.on face value,the case of apc looks watery but a deeper look shows that the ex gov matawalle has a strong case.he claims that apc scored 98,000 in maradun lga whiile pdp polled 11000 but inec jettisoned this result and rather collated irev results.this was corroborated by the lga collation officer who said he was ordered by inec from the headquarters to collate the result from irev.inec regulations 93 states that recourse to irev results will be made only if manual results are unavailable and that inec can review a result within one week.no review was done on the maradun results like it was done in Enugu and abia.apc again claimed some results from other units were excluded.it is dicey. Verdict: the governor has a 65% chance of winning.
Kaduna: with the supreme court upholding the striking out of Apc petition in Enugu by the tribunal guber for not being filed within time and also for filing prehearing case prematurely,the Kaduna pdp petition which suffered same injury is dead as it was filed outside 21 days and pre hearing notice was done before time.again,pdp submitted 3 different addresses(written) and exceeded 10 pages reply which is a fatal error Even looking at the merit,the star witness of pdp the inec head of it kaduna testified against pdp... Verdict: petition is dead as dodo
Nasarawa: pdp alleged overvoting and rigging in toto lga,sabon Geri ward,gayam and chiroma wards of Lafia lga and exclusion of ashige ward results.exclusuon of these areas or cancellation will still put apc in the lead. Verdict: gov sule wins 60% rerun in the above disputed areas 40%
Ogun:rigging, overvoting in several units in Ogun east and supplementary elections in 99 units.with the spate of rerun elections ordered in the nass cases,I foresee a rerun here. Verdict:gov dapo victory 30%.supplementary polls 70%
Plateau: apc is alleging that there was overvoting in mangu lga and over 20 other wards spanning Jos north,south and east,riyom,shendam,wase,bokkos,bassa,barakin Ladi,kanke etc. Again,they alleged unlawful exclusion of naraguta ward b result from 14 units.
Verdict: victory affirmed 30% rerun 70%
Kano: the apc case here looks weak but with the recent threats and grandstanding from nnpp,it seems the petition is strong. Verdict: Nnpp victory 80% rerun or cancellation 20%
Taraba:prof yahaya Sani and nnpp alleged massive non accreditation,overvoting, alterations of votes and inec in it's report admitted massive violence and also agreed that documentary evidence favours nnpp.nnpp also claimed that the results were declared under duress as the returning officer wanted a review. Verdict: 35% victory for pdp 65% sacking of the governor,outright cancellations,deductions and supplementary polls
Enugu: with the nysc admitting that the gov Mbah nysc cert is forged,his fate is sealed.he will likely be sacked.but the supreme court has once held in apm vs apc 2019 and useni vs lalong 2019 supra that forgery must be related to a constitutionally qualifying document.that is without that document,would the incumbent still be qualified?
Verdict: 90% sack of governor Mbah
Akwaibom: waec also confirmed that the cert of governor enoh was forged plus uniuyo admitted to this. Verdict: 70% sack of gov enoh
No pick from me but still strongly suspect that a Northern heavyweight will try to rehash 2015 in 2027 to regain power.
Kwankwaso and El Rufai seem well positioned given their current statuses but Tinubu is not as weak as Jonathan and I'm not sure any of the northern heavyweights have quite a cult-like following as PMB, the Failure in Chief, did.
Nevertheless, the south remains naively divided so there is fertile ground if either of those two are feeling opportunistic
LordAdam16: Nothing in your synopsis warrants sticking him in a group with Ganduje and el Rufai.
The ish with Northern politicians is that you don't rise to the top without being slightly sympathetic or at least tolerating some degree of ethnosupremacism.
Doubly so for the industrious, capable few who have to avoid the Atiku treatment. Technocrats in the North are viewed with undeserving suspicion.
Something to the effect of not being be too PC or liberal that you'd unwittingly kneecap the North's primacy.
On some level, that's understandable. That's textbook self-preservation.
Ribadu is the only top-level Northern heavyweight in the Tinubu camp who backed GEJ in 2015. If he hadn't, he'd have completed his 8 years as Governor of Adamawa and likely be the current VP. That kind of setback irrevocably destroys political careers. Yet, he has bounced back and is now in the running for the GCFR, even though I think it is a long shot for him.
His political value is not up to snuff, but he is the beau ideal Northern politico who should be in Aso Rock whenever it is the turn of the North. Otherwise sustained progress will eternally evade Nigeria. Southern Presidents do their best and the Northern Presidents who take the baton stomp all over the minute erstwhile gains.
Yar'Adua wrecked the foundation established by OBJ, primarily when he reversed the refinery sale. We're still reeling from that howler. Buhari is fresh in our minds. Not even his most ardent supporter can gloss over his incompetence. A Shettima, or heaven forbids, a Ganduje administration will make Tinubu seem like Deng Xiaoping.
I can't overstate how low my expectations are for Northern Presidents.
Unfortunately, we may very well get a Northerner from the parochial, orthodox, ultra-conservative bloc in 2031.
OkayDaddy: Tinubu won in Rivers, Tinubu is President.
Today, this little boy with no knowledge of politics is crying that Wike is made the FCT Minister.
You sound like you’re trolling me because your favourite football team beat mine lmao. Be enjoying yourself sir
You’re right sha I knew very little about politics but slowly learning everyday now thanks to Peter Obi candidacy. And so many like me are doing the same
I wish Tinubu well. And I’ve said many times here; if he performs, I’ll be obidiently batified. But if he goes the path of his failed and incompetent predecessor, then I will keep opposing. I had hope but it’s slowly diminishing lol
I hope you’re directly benefiting from the last and current APC government. If you are then I truly respect that. No hard feelings for real. Even some so called Obidients are doing the same, you will be surprised. But if you’re suffering like the average man on the street then one can only laugh because politics no be football match my bro lol
You want them to change constitution due to your hatred for Wike.
Remember this one too
Yeah, FCT people are for anyone but APC. That's why Tinubu gave you Wike of PDP.
It seems curses are following you. Anyone you oppose must do well.
Curses? lmao. Be serious my friend lol
Wike is a corrupt thug and FCT deserves far better. He rigged the election without any shame or caution and some of us find behaviour like that off putting.
You can stay in your cuckoo land fantasising about “curses” and “ghost” punishing your online enemies just because they disagree with you politically lol. I wish you well in your plight.
And yes it’s unfair that FCT is the only state-like place that doesn’t get to elect its own governor. The constitution should change. Even the US, who we copied the constitution from, now allow the people of Washington DC to vote for their Mayor. Some are even fighting for equal representation in congress today.
I know all this is beyond your peculiar worldview of “curses” and “magic” but thought to reply just in case it helps ❤️
From number 1 to 9 on this list are considered the "juciest" ministries in the Nigerian government. Notice how Tinubu carefully handpicked core loyalists for those ministerial roles..😂. You Nigerians are in for a world of looting.
Bellow Matawalle who failed to secure Zamfara state in his 8years as a Governor, is your Minister of State, Defence..😂. Nigerians, you better go and buy guns for yourselves.
Tinubu is already planning for 2027 elections. He doesn't want to hear that one nonsense FCT refused to give him 25% of votes again (this current experience is still stuck in his neck like a fish bone), so he has promoted Nyesom Wike from "Election Rigging Juggernaut" of Rivers state to the Federal level..😂. Dear Abuja residents, our special status dey end on or before 2027 o! Wike no dey take rubbish for elections, so either we change format and show Tinubu whose boss of the FCT, or we simply stay in our homes come the 2027 elections.
“Vying for presidency is a full time job in Nigeria.”
El Rufai wants to be president. As does Kwankwaso
Depending on how things go they might not even wait till 2027 to try
cc garfield1
wegevv: He is positioning for presidency in 2031. Tinubu didn't officially hold any office from 2007 and now he's president. Buhari didn't officially hold any office from 1985 until he won in 2015. Vying for presidency is a full time job in Nigeria.
El Rufai must be worried about Kwankwaso which is why I believe he made those controversial comments about MM ticket in Kaduna and nationally. He is battling Kwankwaso for Buhari-style popularity in the core north with the sort of messaging that is popular there (it is what it is). He will put forward his competency to the south when the time is right (looks like the southern population tend to care more about that than religious sentiment).
It would be interesting to see if Kwankwaso declines any ministerial position PBAT offers him too. Kwankwaso would be well positioned to lead a united opposition in 2027 depending on how PBAT's administration goes. It would be easier for him than any southern candidate against Tinubu. It's probably why Tinubu is trying to bring him closer.
“Vying for presidency is a full time job in Nigeria.”
El Rufai wants to be president. As does Kwankwaso
wegevv: He is positioning for presidency in 2031. Tinubu didn't officially hold any office from 2007 and now he's president. Buhari didn't officially hold any office from 1985 until he won in 2015. Vying for presidency is a full time job in Nigeria.
El Rufai must be worried about Kwankwaso which is why I believe he made those controversial comments about MM ticket in Kaduna and nationally. He is battling Kwankwaso for Buhari-style popularity in the core north with the sort of messaging that is popular there (it is what it is). He will put forward his competency to the south when the time is right (looks like the southern population tend to care more about that than religious sentiment).
It would be interesting to see if Kwankwaso declines any ministerial position PBAT offers him too. Kwankwaso would be well positioned to lead a united opposition in 2027 depending on how PBAT's administration goes. It would be easier for him than any southern candidate against Tinubu. It's probably why Tinubu is trying to bring him closer.
We’re literally meant to be that friend going dark for a few months to focus on our own issues rather than getting involved in other people’s shenanigan
grandstar: Were they to touch a hair of this man, talk less of murdering him, they kill all forms of mediation goodbye and expose them as opportunistic dictators.
Isn’t ECOWAS already viewing them that way with the stance it is taking
LegendHero: I don’t think I inserted SS in the quote you mentioned.
I clearly differentiate NC into Muslim and Christians. Obi will win the Christians vote and Atiku will win the Muslim votes. That’s almost 50/50 cancelling each other out.
In the SW, it’ll also be split.
If Atiku wins the core north with anything more than 85%, no amount of vote in the SS+SE can offset that. The North have the numbers.
See Kano for example, over 1m+ votes possible. That is more than 2-3 states in the SE.
Right so you accept it will be competitive at the very least. That is my point. And even if everyone votes by religion we still don't know who will win. But many Nigerians are not that simple either.
Buhari didn't become president until he got support from Tinubu. And he had more Northern numbers than Atiku will ever get
Politics › Re: Why Is Lagos Superior Too Abuja by wegevv: 2:15pm On Jan 11, 2024
At least his own propagated imagination runs wider than yours