₦airaland Forum

zoghys:
I agree with you, I think there is something divine about that man.

Indeed. He has bided his time patiently also. Was fit and competent enough to be Governor after Fashola even. Meanwhile Ambode and Sanwo-Olu went after him.

Ye he never rebelled after others would have felt sidelined enough to become disloyal and disruptive. A gentleman, team player and fine technocrat.

onuman:
Rotation of the presidency is not meant for north and the SW.
It's the turn of the SE Igbo in 2023 and 2027.
Tinubu usurped the turn of the Igbo in 2023.
Obasanjo used the turn of the SW between 1999-2007.

YOUR THREAT OF YORUBA SECESSION.
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Tinubu sponsored the Yoruba Nation (Oduduwa Republic) agitators before the last presidential election. It was his Plan B in case outgoing Buhari refused to hand Nigeria over to Tinubu.

Oduduwa Republic agitators waved the flags of Oduduwa Republic supporting Tinubu on the grounds of London's Chatham House while Tinubu was speaking inside the house during the last presidential election campaign.

Sunday Igboho publicly said that Tinubu is his mentor, of course Tinubu has demonstrated that.

The bolded is bunkum and shows the self-inflicted damage SE has done, and will always do, against herself playing toxic, hateful and food-is-ready politics.

Power rotates between North and South. Simple. Turn of the South, players in the region negotiate and settle within themselves.

Ditto when it is the turn of the North. This is why Fulanis alone have produced Yar Adua and Buhari since 1999 with Atiku , also Fulani, the Northern front runner in 2023 and now 2027.

Do you hear others in the North, like Hausas and Kanuris etal, making micro-zoning and entitlement noise , as if others owe them anything, as you Igbos do with your "emilokan" noise particularly targeted against Yorubas as if we owe you anything?

Why can't Edo's, Urhobos, Itsekiris etc insist it is their turn as you people always do when it it the turn of the South? Are they not Southerners also? Or you are better than them?

Do you then not see the central point which is that zoning favours the biggest, most successfully powerful and best entrenched ethnic groups which is the Fulanis in the North and Yorubas in the South?

If you choose to fight, insult and malign us, making everything toxic and hate-filled, what assistance or concession should you expect from us?

You go around insisting it is your automatic turn when Presidency is zoned to the South, specifically and arrogantly making threats against Yorubas you should be courting , when there is no micro-zoning as North proves with Fulani dominance of Northern Presidency.

Rather than partner with Yorubas and other Southerners, you always prefer to fight, attack and curse everyone, especially the Yorubas, only to play victim when sidelined.

Look, Yorubas will swing behind the SS in 2031 by the grace of God. Keep playing your politics of hate, toxicity and entitlement to be expecting a different outcome. Continue burning your bridges with the Yorubas. Good luck to you.

Per your talk about Yoruba "secession" you are misguided. I did not tell you it is a desire of Yorubas. My specific point is that Yorubas have worked out clearly how they wish to live while recognising the North wishes to live a different way.

Like parallel lines that will never meet. This is why it is crucial we , or a Southerner we see as progressive from the SS, get's to be in power for 8 years slot of the South.

No way will we accept a situation where the North, backwards in thinking and lifestyle ( the statistics are there) will be sole rulers of Nigeria for ages which truncation of the rotation arrangement may cause.

It would be like the Taliban leading Britain indefinitely. We won't accept that and will do something about it. We aren't going back to Egypt.

That is not a threat. Just what Yorubas, a progressive people, have always done and will always do. Atiku promising a return to fuel subsidy, just to be President, is proof the most prominent leaders from his region are not progressive overall and unlikely to ever deliver leadership.to move Nigeria forward.

DeltaBachelor:
Is that not the same thing most of the South-West are doing presently too ? Until the day we stop tribalism in Nigeria, we will never achieve anything

Not true at all. If you are ready, I can take you or anyone else on anytime and anyday to show Tinubu, given the huge challenge he met on ground is a big success, in comparison to all other Presidents since 1999.

Yorubas like me are not backing him blindly. We simply see and fully understand what he is doing differently to others, in terms of initiating brave and unavoidable reforms that are the only solutions if we wish to become a developed nation like Singapore.


See, I don't understand why a well-adjusted, progressive and reasonable adult will read what is shown below about fuel subsidy removal Tinubu carried out, along with gradual subsidy removal in the power sector plus removal of Naira subsidy etc, and still continue to declare Tinubu has failed.

Do you guys want to be be like the nations Nigerian have been japa-ing to since the days of Andrew in the eighties, long before Tinubu became a politician, or do you wish to back a President and his reforms that will transform Nigeria into a developed nation no Nigerian will wish to live and other abroad will return to ?

Go to the section, below, titled "What Nigeria needs for developed status" and tell me which of the recommendation Tinubu is not doing whereas previous Presidents ignored virtually all of them

If I will be critical of the PBAT Government it will be to advise it to work hardest delivering palliatives to cushion the blows of reforms. Otherwise, to those who know the problems and understand solutions required, it is obvious PBAT is Nigeria's best President by far since 1999.

Bizibi:
which 15 top performing ministers? Only few of them are working,well many won't come back

Look, it isn't by your judgement alone. The output of Ministers is quantified by Key Performance Indicators (KPI) framework and performance bonds managed through the Central Delivery Coordination Unit (CDCU) in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

They all have specific performance goals and targets.You don't have 24/7 power does not mean the Minister for power is failing.

This is what we kept telling many of you about Adelabu, former Minister of power, who actually improved power supply plus introduced gradual removal of government subsidy in the power sector, with banding, which is critical to Nigerians paying cost-reflective tariffs that is crucially required to rescue our fully deregulated power sector.

We will never get constant power if we cannot attract investors to spend their capital on investing in our power sector if they cannot make profit on their investment, because government subsidy, meant Nigerians previously did not pay the real cost of generation, transmission and distribution of power.

A situation which cannot work or be part of a fully deregulated power sector crying for private investor funds yet they are not coming despite. Nigeria having by far the largest population in Africa and , on paper, an attractive investment destination.

These are the evil of subsidies, weaponised poverty and tools of underdevelopement in reality, some of us warn about and why they must go if Nigeria is to become developed.


To someone well-informed about the power sector, obvious Adelabu is a success for identifying the key problem and putting in place an action plan that will deliver over time.

To the average Nigerian, who is often ignorant of the scale of the problem and solutions required then Adelabu is a failure for not giving him power 24/7.

Even if you sit Nigerians down to explain the challenges and how solutions will be gradual, since Nigeria does not have even a fraction of the money required to transform the power sector overnight as many ignorantly demand, many will still insist Adelabu has failed.

AMINDA:
I decided not to focus on the hilarity of claiming they are performers and rather focused on their region. You randomly selected 15 ministers, 8 are from the Southwest. That summarises the Tinubu cabinet in a nutshell. Thanks for proving my point.

You guys and bigotry against Yorubas are 5 and 6. I put the question to AI and it supplied an answer. Everyone can see that. Yet your conclusions is that I "randomly selected 15 ministers, 8 are from the Southwest".

Na wa for you lot. Not even worth engaging you.

AMINDA:
Appointments under Tinubu are a matter of political considerations and hardly about competence. If the defence minister was that competent, why did Tinubu sack him as CDS only to go scrambling for him when the US gave him matching orders to balance his security architecture by including a Christian, as part of the ways of dousing the Christian genocide narrative? Tinubu has the largest cabinet ever in the history of this country with over 40 ministers. At least 10 are from the Southwest and you can barely name 5 ministers out of the over 40 that are performing. A spotter of talent has the likes of Reno Omokri and FFK as ambassadors. "Competence" indeed.

Stop with the lies. There are at least 15 top performing Ministers in Tinubu's cabinet while others are putting in solid to good and adequate performance also.

Only God understands how you guys are wired. Once you dislike someone then you are never willing to see any good in them.

You then deliberately fail to acknowledging their positive work to routinely and always deploy lies and falsehood against them in attempt to demonize and demarket them as you do above.

Completely disappointing and condemnable behaviour.

Racoon:
What insolence and crass display of insensitive to the sanctity of lives wasted by abysmal governance.

Must we always justify mediocrity and incompetency because of political survival ? Shehu Sani have remained a disappointment.

Virtually every comment of Sani is correct. You just don't have the unbiased mind to inspect anything that concerns Tinubu objectively.

Interesting read. Shehu Sani is a highly intelligent chap always reasonable, progressive and focused on what is best for his nation and Nigerians.

His talk about rotation of power is spot on and he makes the same point I make always which is that truncating it, by a Northerner winning during what is the slot of the South, is a development taking us into uncharted waters.

Of course, predictably the South, especially the SW, will be disgruntled with Nigeria and likely to agitate and become restive creating a difficult tenure for whoever is President and likely setting Nigeria on the part of break-up.

Yorubas are capable of achieving it as they are never ready to be second class to anyone which the end of rotation will signify since the North can keep power perpetually.

We saw Yorubas move over the Abiola Saga and Against Abacha with actions ultimately culminating in Yoruba 1999 Presidency and the creation of rotation itself for future and lasting peace and equity between North and South.

We cannot forget only Yoruba leaders had the ball to demand regional autonomy under Buhari in 2021 when 5 APC Governors, from Buhari's own Party, and one Non-APC Governor demanded Six autonomous regions for Nigeria.

The North and the world already knows what Yorubas are thinking. Atiku and those behind him are just selfish, inconsiderate and unreasonable people who do not care what is best for Nigeria. Many of those people, as Sani hinted, host personal vendetta against Tinubu,

Ironically on NL , with the likes of Aminda and Odin13 plus Anonimi etal, and in Nigeria it is not surprising it is people from one region of the South , who have traditionally hostwd deep feelings of vendetta against PBAT and the Yorubas, supporting Atiku.

Thhey simply have never cared for equity and fairness plus whatever secures peace and progress for Nigeria. As Sani warns, we should be careful.

Some might be happy with always playing second fiddle and being second class, Yorubas won't accept it. Especially having being honourable always and doing everything to keep the peace and unity of Nigeria while others, I.e North and SE, have historically, and till today, always threatened that very same peace and unity.with their actions.

But hypothetically, if there is a disruption of power, there will be agitation in the Southwestern part of Nigeria. There will be agitation in the Southeastern part. And there will be agitation in the South-South part. And I don’t know how a Nigerian President would live peacefully with other parts of the country.

https://punchng.com/swest-govs-propose-six-regions-demand-lg-autonomy-resource-control/?amp

Typing:
Which yeye heart beat? If not for the North wey dey protect una. Igbo people for don drive una comot from una region.
Una go come online dey make mouth. Typical South West people

Lol SE where teenage cultists are cowering professors? We ain't your mates bro.

Typing:
Amen
In 2027 Atiku will become President and Tinubu will be sent to jail for corruption. He MUST be made to vomit all the funds that were looted in his administration.

After Atiku's 8 years, power will be shifted to South South. From there back to the North. Before power comes to the West again. It will be after probably 70 years from now

Lol. If you know how far the SW has gone to become the heartbeat of Nigeria no one can neglect or ignore them you will not say the rubbish in bold.

Only SS and SW are optimally and indispensably viable to Nigeria economically. Both pull out and the rest of you are finished. Especially SE that is all mouth and no economic muscle.

Even next year, you will see Northerners perform miracles for Tinubu to win easily because they know the danger of allowing the Yorubas become seriously disenchanted with Nigeria as happened with Abiola's stolen mandate.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19Zk2vF4Ew/

helinues:
The issue is ADC are not on ground at all in South West

Neither are NDC. Yorubas are distinctly disappointed with how Obi has unravelled.
Atiku may do better than him in the SW by default per how disenchanted Yorubas are with Obi.

We saw over the years , since 2023, many Yorubas very active in the Obidient movement, at home and in the diaspora, resigned publicly citing how they have discovered the true nature of the whole Obidient facade which was never about good Governance.

One Diasporan lady, the thread was featured on Nairaland, even stated how disorganised, dictatorial and domineeringly bullying the Obidients movement was when she penned a public statement after leaving the Obidients movement.

Even as she stopped short of confessing non-Igbo Obidients had been conned and that the Obidient movement was actually a force for the actualisation of Igbo Presidency, she implied it.

Yorubas are some of the most sophisticated voters in Nigeria. They will show Obi that quality next year.

helinues:
As in, may be those people think others reason like them.

Take a look at the guy above me who has been unable to dispute all what I wrote about Obi yet he keeps on shouting sane Nigerians will support Obi..As how now.

How can they be sane and still support someone who doesn't know his left from right

Lol. Obi, since 2023, has unravelled as an empty barrel no different to other worthless politicians that ruined Nigeria.

Whereas he was seen as change before 2023 since most Nigerians are ignorant and never read to note he has a distinctly below average stint as Governor far behind the likes of Kwankwaso and Asiwaju.

Because of that pervasive ignorance in Nigeria, especially amongst the youths hence leading to Buhari labelling them "lazy", most believed Obi to be 'change' and a departure from the old boys (Tinubu, Atiku etal) they think ruined Nigeria.


With Obi it was always a case of anonymity and lack of visibility making him appear a saint compared to the likes of Tinubu and Atiku who are political titans always present in Nigerian top-level politics.

Nigerians are simple and unsophisticated politically. Their basic rule is "being around too long, get rid of him and try someone else". They don't look at achievements and quantifiable records of leadership efficacy.

This was what blighted Tinubu in 2023, despite being one of the most spectacularly transformational political leader in Nigeria since 1999, and conversely favoured Obi who is probably worst Governor of Anambra since 1999.

Today, 3 years on from 2023, Obi has virtually no SW Obidients in his camp and negligible numbers from the NC and non-SE region.

This is because Nigerians, over three years since 2023, have seen how he lies, flip-flops, procrastinates, hypocritically and bigotedly attacks a pin dropping on the ground outside the SE yet remains silent over atrocities recorded in his region , etc, etc.

At political Party level. They have noted how he failed to unite and take charge of Labour Party, through crisis resolution and authoritative leadership, to the extent the likes of Kenneth Okonkwo left him and publicly declared him unfit to lead Nigeria.

You go from ADC to NDC in a matter of weeks because you cannot enter a primary contest against Atiku same as he fled PDP in 2022 against the same Atiku.

Obi is finished in the eyes of any Nigerian who thinks critically and wants progress for our nation. He will remain popular with his people as we know how they vote but he will be shocked by the scale of rejection he will register outside the next year.

helinues:
President Tinubu, Atiku and Obi's strength in each region

President Tinubu will win SW
Win SS or come Second
Come Second in South East
Win NC or come second
Win NW or come Second
Come Second in North East

Atiku will win NE
Win or come second in NW
Win or come second in NC
Come 3rd in South West, South East and South South

Peter Obi will win SE
Win or come second in SS
Come Second in SW
Come third in all the Northern regions

You can do the rest of the calculation on who should win based on the analysis above

Pretty much accurate in my opinion. Give or take. I will add that Obi will have a much poorer showing in the SW next year than he did in 2023 so I cannot say he will do better than Atiku there.

helinues:
Do your own analysis about the presidential candidates strength in each region

Show us how the competition is between Atiku and Obi

Btw, is this thread about winning states? Winning 2 states in the entire Nigeria, you must be a comedian

Lol. My thoughts precisely. Anyone who says Tinubu, an incumbent, will win only 2 States is not worth responding to since such an insane statement means they may even be typing from an Asylum.

AMINDA:
Bola and his lackeys are the only ones who gloat over "ratings" from IMF-aligned agencies. 17.9 million more Nigerians just got thrown into multidimensional poverty but the comman man on the street should be celebrating a credit rating. IMF will rate you very very high if you implement all their policies to the letter "t". Being a house negro is not something to be proud of.

Dude, give it a rest. See my response to Racoon above, your co-traveller in misery and biased negativity, to note intelligent folks see through you guys and what is driving your constant enemies-of-progress posture.

Well, we should be mature enough to build separate lives,as we desire it, in our different regions while being able to work together progressively, when needed, to make Nigeria great and developed.

Everyone should shape their region, with their kinsmen, as they wish. If you wish to live in the land of others, away from your own land and culture etal, then abide by Their rules and ways of life same as Japa Nigerians have to do globally.

When people are fundamentally different, trying to force unity upon them, as the Brits did with Nigeria, could be a grave mistake with horrendous consequences for centuries even.

Lol. Thread delivered at 2:52pm. Virtually 8:00 pm now. Graveyard. Isn't it obvious Nigerians are warped and used to misery, pessimism and negativity?

If the thread is about anything negative for Nigeria, under the PBAT Government, then at least ten pages and loading.

For me, what is shown below is sweet. Had Fitch condemned TInubu, the Ikemefuna Von Batten lot would have crashed Nairaland with unusually high traffic.

For President Tinubu, the message from one of the world’s most closely watched rating agencies is unambiguous: the reforms are working.

helinues:
Fake data. How can the billionaires still top the poverty chart in southern region

Lol. All audio innit. That's all they've ever been about. "We built this, we own that, this and that will crash if we take our investment out" etc, etc.

Nothing better in life than being quiet, classy and assured achievers whose achievements speaks louder than any empty braggart noise.

@OP.

Surely you don't care about Tinubu. Mind your own business and stop projecting negatives, in your wild imagination, you wish to happen to him on social media,

helinues:
Bro you see this particular guy, if to say he get shame, he won't be operating this moniker again on this forum considering so many lies he has told for years.

During Buhari regime, the guy posted CBN internal memo about something controversial. Internal memo, logo, sealed, signed.

It was a pure fake and fabricated. Till today, he's yet to tell us where he got it from

They are like that in the majority. Shamelessly extremist. No honour at all. Anything to attack your person, once they hate you, they will use.

Imagine the ludicrous fabrication Buhari died and was replaced by Jubrin from Sudan. Who has roped that crazy lie so far in our history?

FarahAideed:
In just 3 years Tinubu govt has thrown 52 million Nigerians into unprecedented poverty

You guys and barefaced lies you tell comfortably and with a straight face. Do you know what 52% is?

According to the world bank, and unless you can prove you know more than them, it is roughly 6% of Nigerians who have slid into poverty under Tinubu.

Expectedly so given it was Nigerians were warned of the unavoidable short term side effects of reforms that will offer in a new age of prosperity and progress for Nigeria and Nigerians in the near future.

@OP.

Ogbeni, go and find another job because clearly, from what Helinues pointed above about you, music is not your calling.

Lastly "a bad workman always blames his tools". Imagine blaming PBAT for a music career that long predates Jababan becoming President.

Kukutente23:
I asked you a simple question and you started throwing tantrums in the form of an epistle

Let's recoup. Did Singapore become a developed nation by removing subsidy on fuel and devaluing their currency?

You mentioned Rwanda twice. You should have checked first. Rwanda has fuel subsidies

As to the need for a benevolent dictator as you put it. Why did we kick out Abacha? He was doing well on the macroeconomic side never mention the looting. If we had left him, we would have hit the 30 year Singaporean calendar you put up as sacrosanct 2 years ago.

This simply means all those who worked to derail Abacha's govt are fools and should be rounded up and shot.

This means Abacha was right to shoot dead those he shot when they opposed him. If he had shot more, we'll be a fledgling Singapore by now.

I know this will elicit another rant from you that will be totally opposite to the logic of this one but that's what you are.

Mentioning Rwanda has fuel subsidy shows you know nothing and should not be indulged. Even Saudi Arabia, a major producer of crude, has fuel subsidy.

The important caveat is that Nigeria has an undiversified economy largely reliant on crude. Subsidy was literally bankrupting us and we would continue to be economically stagnant, without the chance of ever developing as a nation, if we do not remove it

You are an economic illiterate merely argue for and against the position of politicians you support or hate. There are many of you like that here

Dalohad:
Good, so why are you SW trying to encroach and go with Kwara and Kogi state, but you believe that the Igbos should abandon their blood Kiths, kins and cousins in Delta, Rivers and other SS states because Gowon said so in 1966..

Have the Fulanis, Nupes and Gambaris is Kwara and Kogi told you that they will love to join the SW?

Who gave you the temerity to point fingers to the East, while you are trying to usurp Kwara and Kogi, against their will?

Did you conduct any plebiscite to determine if they are comfortable with joining you, with the way you have treated the Egun, Illajes and Saros (descendants of Yoruba slave returnees) in your politics?

Stop telling lies even as I know you are fond of doing so. You think we are covetous like you lot who wish to own, dominate and control everything and everyone?

We never demanded those States join us.

It is their Yoruba speaking parts who are demanding to go with us see the section "The demand from local groups" from image below.

Whereas, to the best of my knowledge, others are spurning your covetous advances to insist they will not join you even as you draw maps and make annexation announcement over those who have rejected you publicly.

Kalvan50:
You’ve said all that needs to be said. Hate or love Tinubu, you have to give him his props for having the balls to give the Nigerian economy the painful but necessary medicine it needs. The problem with this country is that too many leaders and citizens have passed the buck for years, leaving problems for future generations to confront, in other words embracing short term thinking. I can’t blame them too much because this is the only life we have, and having years of it truncated due to the effects of bad governance must be debilitating, but something has to change and the road to lasting change is rarely painless. Especially after years of poor decisions.

God bless you Sir. The bolded is especially important. Leaders fail and pass the buck because of two main consistent issues.

Corruption. There is hardly any leader that becomes President who is not advised over what Nigeria must uncompromisingly do to begin the march towards becoming a developed nation.

I.e fuel subsidy removal, floating of Naira to kill currency arbitrage plus make Naira a more convertible and intrinsically valuable currency, rebuild the power sector around the concept of full deregulation and Nigerians paying cost-reflective tariffs that can fund the real cost of power generation, transmission and distribution to then boost industrialisation , manufacturing, SME proliferation, etc, etc, etc.


Yet once Presidents come on board and are given these sets of solutions they will fail to implement them because:

(1) the sheer volume of money available to them to control, in a slack system with no strict accountability checks and balance system, is too tempting and intoxicating.

Many Presidents then begin a regime of monumental corruption and sleaze , to the detriment of Nigeria where the likes of Emefiele can be building Estates with over 700 housing units and Malami , erstwhile a glorified charge and bail lawyer, can become a multi-billionaire overnight.


(2) The other issue is how Presidents always have eyes on second term In a Country that has fallen behind badly and needs unavoidably fundamental reforms to become a developed developed.

Yet all, till now, cannot implement those reforms because President are afraid to introduce them as the reforms required decades to have required effects and cannot come without pain and sacrifice.

Meaning an ignorant and unsophisticated electorate will frown on any leader willing to introduce those reforms even as such is ultimately best for them and the future of their generations unborn.

The result? Presidents after Presidents endure with damaging policies (fuel, power, Naira, education subsidies etal) that should be repealed because they are eyeing a second term in office.

Whereas Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, in charge for 30 years, transformed the country from a basket case and near worthless dead zone to a developed nation with the strongest passport in the world and a nation constantly voted one of the best to live in to the extent Britons, Singapore's former colonial masters, are migrating to the nation for better lives.

Yew achieved this because he had time. 30 years in power with many of those years involving Singaporeans having to suffer and sacrifice considerably to get where they are today.

3 plus years of Tinubu and required reforms he has delivered, that informed folks know are correct and must be entertained to gain designed results, some are complaining and opting for the populist garbage of Atiku and Obi that got us nowhere over decades now.

It is instructive, even as many Nigerian cannot see it, the main stumbling block facing us. I.e the ability for a leader to be able to plan long term. Crucial but Nigerian Presidents don't have that luxury and they compromise , even though they know doing such is bad, yet they believe that will help them to remain in office. Tinubu has not followed that path.

See bolded below to note Tinubu is the truth because he is the only President, since 1999, brave enough to implement reforms, literally from day one, that will ultimately lead to the development of Nigeria even as doing such threatens his second term in office.

Whereas other Presidents, even as they knew what they must do, could never do the needful because they love money, power and privileges of office more than they value the development of Nigerians and Nigeria.

May God help our nation or assist her split peacefully as I don't see a way out as things are with Nigerians not willing to bear with crucially required reforms and regions wanting different things.

Proposed Advantages

• Speed and Efficiency:
Bypasses partisan gridlock and lengthy bureaucratic debates to enact reforms quickly.

• Long-Term Planning:
Allows leaders to execute multi-decade economic or infrastructure strategies without worrying about short-term electoral cycles.


• Stability:
Can suppress ethnic, regional, or political friction to create a predictable environment that attracts foreign

chiiraq802:
D[b]id he condemn or raise alarm when his fulani brothers were causing mayhem to Nigerians. [/b]

bia!!! dis Dubai landlord becareful.

Exactly the thought that came into my head instantly and we all know the answer to that. He was in Dubai pretending not to see or hear anything going on in Nigeria under Buhari, Malami etal.

Ofunaofu:
You are a huge clown

Lol. Superior argument and analytical delivery will always leave mischief-makers and enemies of Nigeria's progress speechless. I understand.

ElSudani:
God bless you jare. These folks want the best of everything but not a single one is willing to work for it.
If Tinubu wants to be wicked he will flood the country with cheap imported food, borrow more money to subsidize fuel.
They will be happy and hail him as the best president in the whole universe. But once again in the near future their children will one day have to confront the reality that it was all a lie.

Absolutely. We will simply continue keeping Nigeria a nation her folks want to Japa from because we do not wish to do things as Singapore did.

Bruv was it not in the Nineteen eighties Andrew wanted to Japa? What has changed when Japa is even more severe and desperately sought after today for us to believe we should endure with fuel, Naira, power subsidies etal that got us where we are today?

No light, no water no jobs etc Andrew complained in the eighties? Was Tinubu in charge then and till today and what has changed exactly?

Is our current sordid position today, though improving under PBAT ,not proof we were doing things the wrong way, for decades, through different leaders who aren't the truth, as Tinubu is?

Yet we wish to keep abiding with Presidents and heads of State merely interested in power and disinterested in reform Nigeria cannot avoid as Lee Kuan Yew and Kagame implemented uncompromisingly in Singapore and Rwanda respectively to get the nations developed (Singapore) and on track to becoming developed I.e Rwanda.

Imagine if we had begun the required reforms in the eighties, when Andrew wanted to Japa, and stuck with it? Where would we be today? Is it not how Singapore did it, under one man over 30 years, while we kept organising coups, depriving Abiola of his mandate etc?

Plus doing all manners of madness because having power, as Atiku is seeking it pledging economically insane return to fuel subsidy payment, is more important to our leaders than the determination to deliver our nation by knowing the precise solutions required and having the bravery to apply them in hope Nigerians will support and abide with you as we have in Tinubu. God help us in Nigeria sha..

Kukutente23:
Wait
You mean Singapore became developed by making Lee Kuan Yew their lord and saviour?

Did Singapore also remove subsidy and devalue their currency to become a developed country

Always childishly irritating. Indulge me Google "can Nigeria ever become a developed nation hosting fuel Subsidy payment". See the result every single AI search engine will turn out and how they are a consistent match.

While floating of the Naira is more complex, the arguments in it's favour are vastly.superior and one of the reasons Nigerian central bank was voted best world central bank of the year 2026.

The fact is that, in life, the populace don't always know what is best for.them medium and long term. They think short term. I'e today , tomorrow this weekend sort of thing.

Nations never develop that way as it takes years, decades and sacrifice plus gradual and incremental growth and development the deepest and most gifted thinkers work out as solutions.

Sometimes someone with vision, others simply cannot discern, and leadership clarity of purpose, must be given the time to deliver without interference from those who are ignorant, into short-termism and thus a self-destructive danger to themselves and their generations unborn.

You want fuel subsidy back because desperate Atiku has pledged to return it? Fine, just know you will never be like Rwanda let alone Singapore, Iceland,UK, Canada etc.

Drink your cheap fuel but you will still always want to Japa because life will always suck in Nigeria as failure to sacrifice and transform will always only leave us with a Country where people merely survive but never truly live as is the case in nations we wish to Japa to.

Unfortunately for Nigeria, and unlike Singapore and even Rwanda you all come here to praise daily, Nigeria cannot host a benevolent dictator like lee Kuan Yew or Kagame because we have several big ethnic groups who are adversaries and want different things. Good and bad.

No one can have utopia. Don't sacrifice then forever face stagnation, disease, pain, underdevelopment and a nation citizens, for decades now and not starting with Tinubu, want to permanently 'japa' from.


Sacrifice and bear pain for decades, instead of naively believing one leader can fix it all and make us Singapore in 2 years, when it took Lee Kuan Yew decades to achieve the feat, then we emerge at the other end of the tunnel a developed nation better than any in Africa.

We will simply keep dragging ourselves back voting out someone who has the ultimate development road map, because said map demand we sacrifice, for snake oil salesmen like Atiku ready to con ignorant folks and regress Nigeria just for the privilege of occupying Aso Rock.

Return to subsidy is madness. Even as ignorance will not allow the average Nigerian realise that.