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seunmsg:
In 2023, they accused Tinubu of trying to Islamize the country with the Muslim/Muslim ticket. In 2025, the new scaremongering tactics they are deploying is “president for life”. They failed in 2023, they will fail again in 2027.

For proper context, no president since 1999 has done so well in devolving power to the sub-nationals more than president Bola Tinubu. Mr. President has passionately pushed for local government autonomy even when almost all governors are against him. As part of that push, there is no single local government in Nigeria today that is being administered by appointed caretakers.


This same president has devolved power to the states to allow them generate and distribute electricity. Today, serious state governors can now generate and distribute electricity within their states without the need to first send the power to the national grid for national distribution. Abia state for example now generates power in Aba and power is distributed strictly within Aba environs.

State Police is another issue Mr. President has pushed for relentlessly since 2023. Despite the opposition from Fulani people like El-Rufai for obvious reasons, the president has not relented in pushing for revolution of policing powers to the state.

Finally, we all know the president that has done so well in pushing huge allocations to state governments. No president in history has supported states and local governments in terms of funding like the Tinubu administration. So, what’s all the lie all about Mr. Nasir El-Rufai?

Well-said. We know those who want Nigeria to remain backwards. Dogara puts it eloquently below, as a Progressive Northerner seeking the best for Nigeria, addressing issues precisely and factually. He cites precise figure and historically correct event as a leader respectful of the intelligence of Nigeria.

El Rufai and co should take example from Dogara's conduct and talk yet I believe that is impossible because the case is that him and his ilk think they are addressing a moronic, illiterate and unsophisticated populace in totality.

https://punchng.com/tinubu-will-end-up-as-nigerias-economic-reformer-dogara/

Yakubu Dogara speaks below in contrast to the scaremongering, doom and gloom rants of the born-to-rule Northern supremacists and hegemonists like Atiku, El Rufai, Ndume, Malami Tambuwal, Sule Lamido etal.

Knowledge-seeking folks should read the thoughts of one of the Most progressive Northerner in Nigerian politics, i.e Yakubu Dogara's, on Tinubu leadership and Reforms so far.

We should bear in mind that while the entire North ranted against tax reforms ignorantly, Dogoara was first prominent Northern leader to demand a copy of the bills, read them exhaustively and then swung behind them to the extent of even being an eloquent advocate of their great benefits.

We know those, enemies of Nigeria's progress, who will listen to El Rufai and co to automatically agree with anything and everything they allege against Tinubu.

Same as we know the Nigerians, i.e those genuinely seeking progress for Nigeria, who will inspect Dogara's talk to note the factual and logical conclusions he delivers. The man is so well-read per the current tax reforms, he now delivers lectures on them. Amazing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/tinubu-will-end-up-as-nigerias-economic-reformer-dogara/%3famp

Tinubu will end up as Nigeria’s economic reformer – Dogara
17th September 2025

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has hailed President Bola Tinubu’s sweeping tax reforms as the most ambitious overhaul of Nigeria’s fiscal framework in decades, predicting that the President will be remembered as the country’s foremost economic reformer.

Dogara made the remarks on Tuesday while delivering the maiden Distinguished Parliamentarian Lecture organised by the House of Representatives Press Corps at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.

His lecture, titled “Navigating Tax Reform in Nigeria: Insights on President Tinubu’s Policies”, examined the origins, scope, and expected impact of the reforms encapsulated in the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 and related legislation.

He noted that Tinubu inherited a troubled economy riddled with “economic debris,” including excessive deficit financing through Ways and Means, dual exchange rates that enriched a few at the expense of many, and crude oil forward sales tied to foreign loans.

When they start scaremongering to this ludicrous extent, then you know the born-to-rule Northern supremacists and hegemonists, the very same people keeping their people in illiteracy and hideous backwardness, are desperate to see the back of Jagaban.

Meaning he is leading well for Nigeria and Nigerians and not those who want Nigeria's wealth for themselves, their family and affiliates alone to then throw crumbs at almajiris.

All the scaremongering rhetoric is in vain and has failed already. The Northern-hegemonists are only frustrated and agitated because an independent-minded Southerner is in power and not a Northerner or Southern stooge they can use as boy boy like GEJ or Obi.

richiemcgold:
Is this not the same lamido that recently lambasted Tinubu, accusing him of betraying Abiola and June 12 struggle? I know of many members of this forum that almost exchanged blows because of that particular Tinubu - Lamido saga.

Don't mind them. That is why most of them are losers in life others use always as pawns. Politics remains a game of permanent interest for the players themselves.

Followers, like maniacal Obidients, who want to kill themselves following a politicians can go ahead.

Life goes on and political leaders, who will never know an anonymous follower died fighting for them, will keep living well.

Their children will intermarry, they will wine and dine privately despite cursing each other in public. Most importantly , per the owners of Nigeria club they have joined, they will keep creating wealth and success that ensures poverty is defeated in their lineage forever.

LagosOrigin:
Desperate man

Northerners don't really care about you sir, stop doing too much.

You're damn right they don't care about desperado Obi who is clearly doing too much indeed and needs to stop.

From Gumi, to Pantami and Malami etal, Obi has gone to prostrate for them all in their abode. Only Bello Turji and his affiliates remaining on Obi's visitation list.

Desperation is real.

Pootle:
school unionism is not same as managing a country someone should tell mr sowore to calm down

No need because even Sowore himself knows he is condemned market as far as political position in Nigeria is concerned.

Even resident association chairman for his Estate, he will not get a single vote.

He might as well keep making noise to continue enjoying the attention he obviously cannot live with out.

Lol. What a time to be extradited to the USA. Trump and his crew blood dey boil over foreign criminals and their criminal antics against the USA.

7 years minimum for this dude. Make your bed, lay in it.

oyatz:
Too many ignorant people in Nigeria!!!

Indeed. Worse is that it is really tragic watching them strutting their stuff and shamelessly basking in ignorance publicly.

If well-educated and well-exposed, observing how a lot of Nigerians think and talk will make you realise they have been brainwashed by weaponized poverty, from decades of misrule, they no longer know how to want or seek development, let alone sacrifice for such, because what they have they desperately wish to hold on to as they don't know better exist they should aspire to.

dollyjoy:
But there is nothing wrong with that. Nowhere does the law forbid it!

Indeed and this thread is even because OP, like a lot of Nigerians, has no respect for the position of the law.

What is allowed and legal, plus the choice of the adult concerned alone, i.e the child of MC Oluomo, he pounces on in hope he can use such to demarket and demonize Tinubu.

This OP, does not even care it is the free-will choice of an adult to serve his nation that his father, whoever he is, cannot/should not forcibly influence. He does not care about that so long as he successfully blackmails MC Oluomo and his main target by extension. I.e Tinubu.

That is why many who experience the reality of Nigeria, and are mentally emancipated enough to be pragmatically circumspect, will tell you followers are even worse than leaders and would do far worse if leaders swap places with them.

erad:
Because he said a thread is funny means he's partisan? Besides if he is, it's within his rights, how's it any business of yours? He's not here to impress you or anyone else.

Stop trying to gaslight people, it never ends well. Gaslighting is a tool used by mentally and emotionally inadequate people.

💯% correct. Sincere, progressive and balanced people keep matters issue-based always because what they want, good governance for example, is what they focus on.

Not targeting the kids of Obi or Tinubu and MC Oluomo etal.

Brenbentondiaz:
When did Oluomo become a Nigerian government official? Are you obtuse, or pretending to be so you'd sound funny or something?

iyatrustee:
The key word is "goverment official" which Oluomo clearly isn't.

He is popular yes, he is close to Tinubu yes. But these doesn't make him a goverment official.

You guys are only indulging the OP by providing reply that shows you are arguing according to his flawed premises.

The point , for the absences of doubt, is that even President Tinubu's child can be a member of the US Army because it is perfectly legal and acceptable when certain conditions allow it such as said child holding dual nationality and having freedom to choose as an adult.

Talk less of MC Oluomo, regardless of whether he is a public official or not. The premises of OP's argument was flawed and in the mud from the beginning.

Sibrah:
Obi is less of an office holder but gets his sons analysed always.

Which is wrong. Nigerians who are decent and understand what politics is meant to achieve will always work with the humane and unspoken rule of staying away from the family of political leaders.

Those attacking Obi's kids are same as those attempting to use Mc Oluomo's children as political collateral damage.

Me? Nothing concerns me with Obi's family as I have my own wonderful children I would not want targeted because of what I do.

I just don't want Obi , a certified failure, anywhere near the Presidency of Nigeria. Nothing personal. Nigeria and her progress is bigger than all of us.

naptu2:
Funny thread.

Beyond funny. Asinine more like it.

Shawarmagirl:
That's why I keep advocating for people to Japa for their sake and family. Politicians will keep their children here abroad, why they themselves will remain in Nigeria stealing. Name one politician that their children school in Nigeria and remain in Nigeria.

Those APC laptops guys shame on y'all. You and your family, are you guys allergic to abroad for good life?

Folks like you, obsessed with seeing things from the perspective of APC, PDP, ADC etal are clearly not in tune with Nigeria's reality.

Obi has no kids abroad? Soludo in APGA nko? Keep shouting APC. When you are 90 it may eventually dawn on you political Parties, in Nigeria, are merely platforms leaders use to seek office.

Meaning smart and pragmatic folks, seeking good leadership, should simply look at the record of the candidate, and not Political Party platform, when casting their vote.

3ice9ce:
Is Oluomo a government official?

You need to flash your brain.

Even if he is, and so? Adult children are legally allowed to do as they please. This applies to Children of public officials as well.

It may not be good for optic for children of public officials of a nation not to represent the Army of a separate nation, leading desperate OP to pounce, but such is not illegal or wrong.

Except to autocratic nation like North Korea where adult free will and choice is curtailed.

Baronthecelebri:
Can any Chinese government officials children serve in another man country as an army officer.

Stop doubling down on idiocy. If China, North Korea, Iran, or any autocratic Country do as pleases them, must that be guiding example for Nigeria?

Think how ludicrous your talk is. I.e forcing adult, with different nationality to their parents (perfectly normal and allowed) to represent the nation of their father.

If Nigeria copies what is clearly wrong, as you and OP are suggesting, you guys will be first to shout "human rights abuse" and "agbero Oluomo forcing his child to reject USA to work for Tinubu Boko Haram Army in the zoo".

You all should be more intelligent in your desperation to demarket PBAT. Try and keep it issue-based and sensible.

iyatrustee:
Head of the transport union is not an elected goverment official.

He has sworn no oath to declare his allegiance or protect Nigeria so I don't see what your grudge against his daughter's choice of career is.

Asides that, his adult children can have different nationality to their father and serve any nation they want. As simple as that.

These guys, like OP, just get desperate, as soon as they wake up, seeking anything at all to use gaslighting Tinubu and those affiliated with him.

sreamsense:
There is nothing wrong except you. If they don't show evidence or pictures, you can go to police station too to buy him bread and take picture with him, how is that a difficult thing for you to do? When you come back and you are not detained for being a member, then share pictures with us online. You don't see your gentle in two days, and you can't go and see him. How are you not a bad supporter of gentle if you don't go to police station to search for him and buy him bread?

Lol. Nice response. Epic 😅👌🏾 the strange OP, to say the least, is talking like a fan boy of the illiterate and deranged serial killer. Unaliving people on camera, to then share evidence with the world, sealed his fate.

jpphilips:
The problem with most of you is a lack of basic comprehension skills. If you had any comprehension ability, you would notice that tribalism is the crux of the matter. Do you have tribalism in the UK? So why on earth would you read my post and respond with the UK? Every police formation in the UK reports to a police chief constable in London, whether it's the Metropolitan Police Service (London), Greater Manchester Police, or West Midlands Police. All of them report to London, the same way your state commands report to Abuja.
Its not just about counting vehicles in London after leaving your sense in Nigeria, UK practice a type of centralized police structure, like Nigeria.

Accusing others of "lack of comprehension when you cannot appreciate how intellectually deficient and pedestrian your argument is.

The very reason the NPF is near useless is actually tribalism and lack of homogenous connection that prevents many doing their job well.

Regional autonomy would effectively make regional forces a congregation of people with homogeneity of ideas about crime, it's prevention and punishment.

No, the UK police force is not centralised like Nigeria. It is arranged regionally and by Counties as I stated already.

See image below to note each force, arranged into Counties and regions, is independent so I don't know where you get your ignorant claim from because it seems you are the one counting red buses in the UK assuming you have visited let alone lived there.

Yes Britain does have racism. Difference is that it is a nation with an overarching homogeneity all who live there either conform with or be taken down by it.

Unlike Nigeria where the South does not agree with peace talk and amnesty for serial killers and rapist bandits whereas it is standard practice in the North.

Only recently, Gumi was warning our armed forces not to "provoke" bandits after peace talk. Where do you see that dystopian lunacy in the Southern part of Nigeria? I talk about the UK etal as examples we should emulate if we ever want to get it right.

Those who will be recruited into the NPF need to be 100% committed to the Nigerian standard provision for fighting crime in any region as is the case worldwide.


Yet we know the reality only you head-in-the-ground crew are ignorant of to the extent you will never understand it is under regional police forces Nigeria can have the bolded. Keep fooling yourself.

SeraphicWind:
Many are missing the point of the thread. Obudu Cattle ranch died because of lack of patronage and no maintenance.

People rather go to Dubai and Paris than go to Obudu cattle ranch!

Why do they do it? They are emulating your Banza leaders!

Your addendum, a clear attempt to save face over your insincere gaslighting of PBAT, still makes no sense.

Lack of patronage is on Nigerians and not leaders. Lack of maintenance is obviously on Nigerians too because profit from guest should pay for wages of workers and maintenance. Unless the State want to be paying upkeep for a resort Nigerians will not patronise.

As I said to your co-travellers above, it is not on leaders to lead grown men and women ,by example, per the need for them to utilise leisure spots in a nation to improve their health and mental well-being. That is on every sensible adult who is supposed to value such of their own free will.

Adults should themselves understand the need for relaxation, of various types ,as part of a healthy work/play balance. It is not something Tinubu is obligated to teach any adult.

Nigerian's totally lack interest in leisure and relaxation as the rest of the world knows it. It was in the days of our parents, up to the year 2000 at most, that individuals and families made effort to visit Nigerian leisure spots.

Such now holds no interest for the average adult, especially this aged 18 to 50, and this is not something even Jesus can inculcate in adult Nigerians let alone Tinubu. You that is even talking, have you visited Obudu, Olumo Rock, Osogbo grove, Badagry slave castle etc, etc, etc?

What most Nigerians consider relaxation today is visit overcrowded beach to smoke, drink and 'pull'. Or nightclubs and bars. Even cheap hotels with cheap olosho na " nice relaxation" lol. Open a Museum or centre of culture and watch it die while your investment will vanish overnight.


Only your sort and that misguide Mbanda chap will be blaming Tinubu for what Nigerians, to include families, lack as natural and innate culture today. Shows how dishonest you are.

Mbanda:
It's obvious that people like you will never understand the message because,You were programmed to see any suggestion for good governance as evil and insult to your god tilumbu.

Look in the mirror to see everything you accuse others of. Tinubu does not have to holiday anywhere in Nigeria to provide example to anyone.

It is you and OP who want to use anything , however senseless, to attack Tinubu.

Ask those who know the UK here whether MPs, let alone the Prime Minister, take their holiday breaks at British resorts like Butlins.

No they do not. They go to the South of France, Italy, Greece, USA etal.

The central point all sophisticated, exposed and hardworking people would understand is that people do not wish to go on holiday where they live and work.

They want to see other culture and have other experiences that will not remind them of home or their work for the length of their holiday.

Yet I would not expect bitter and frustrated folks like the OP to appreciate this crucial concept that is the independent right of every adult including leaders of nations.


Next , perhaps you will demand Tinubu go and drink beer at Peter Obi's beer factory to encourage Nigerians to drink more beer.

bixton:
Really!!!
Freedom of association and yet when a Muslim converts to Christian, that individual is persecuted by those whom that individual no longer shares beliefs with anymore.....

What kind of comparison is this? The guy is talking about workers freedom to associate with NUPENG or not, which is correct, and you are talking about religion that is a matter of faith and a totally different thing.

Fundamental issue here is that NUPENG is a gang of self-serving blackmailers and mercenaries with hidden agenda. This is not about the welfare of Dangote Refinery Drivers/workers.

They are acting in a dictatorial and lawless manner simply because they wish to be able to blackmail Dangote at will, for 'egunje', once his workers are in their union and compelled to obey their strike order.

JAWBONE:
And your own intellect comes from Chat-GPT. We can see how intellectual you are.

The same Tinubu that said "na statistics we go chop" wants to argue economics with Obi?

I wonder what a man who has no regard for Statistics will know about Economics

Lol. You only make a fool of yourself with the distractive ad hominem antics because you can easily fact check what I submit.

Easy to do if you have the sound economic knowledge required, as Omokri does all the time with ease, instead of trying to knock the source which is one of many I can supply with ease, including submission of reknowned analysts, to confirm what is one of many deemed a viable solution to tackle civil 19 lockdown and indeed utilised by nations of the world.

In fact the USA, as one example, printed money during the Covid 19 pandemic lockdown so I really cannot understand the purpose of your post.

The Obudu Mountain resort is a state-owned asset of Cross Rivers State. What has it's rundown condition fo
got to do with Tinubu or where he chooses to holiday?

You'll soon be here shouting Tinubu when you get Malaria.

Zionmdde:
All the while they were saying buhari and emefiele finished our economy with new naira notes, why didn't you say this?

I did. Don't make assumptions. In fact from watching how Buhari and his cabal were moving, I stated on this same forum, in 2022, it was the fear of monumental and never-before-seen level of corruption that would be exposed after Buhari left office that was the main reason the Buhari cabal were desperate PBAT did not become President.

They wanted a stooge who would cover their monumental looting of Nigeria. No one they did not consider from Jonathan to Lawan, our former SP, to the extent Emefiele, aware of the desperation of the Buhari cabal, even nursed plans to run for the Presidency. Unfortunately for them, PBAT was too well-liked and well-supported by many folks of influence to fail.

After Tinubu became President, we have indeed seen the monumental level of corruption typified by how Emefiele owned an Abuja Estate with over 700 Units, plus many, many other assets and with the money he stole reputed to be in billions of dollars.

We can imagine what other 'inner crew' members of the gang looted.

To then attempt linking PBAT to the direct and economically damaging action Buhari and his cabal took, as many Nairalanders try to do here daily, is the heights of lacking principles, uprightness and fundamental sense of fairness.

Especially as we were all alive to witness how Tinubu was ostracise and frozen out of the Buhari Government to then be treated as an enemy of the regime,

Speaking and admitting truth always is a Godly and endearing human quality. No one truthful or sincerely Godly can deny the above because disliking Tinubu cannot atone for denying what we were all living witnesses to.

Eriokanmi:
My proble with you guys, despite the obvious is your display of sheer ignorance to defend the indefensible. See how far you've gone defending this madness.

Dii tinubu encourage buhari to print more notes or not? Yes , he did.

Did buhari yield to the advice or not? Yes he did.
So, what are you drooling about here? Some posts don't really deserve any response. Try and be intelligent when you post and stop derailing next time, but I doubt

One thing amusing about a lot of Nigerians, explaining why they fail, is that they can never admit they made a mistake or got it wrong.

Admitting to getting it wrong, ironically, is what almost all successful people attribute for their ability to then get it right in future to resounding success.

The most successful people admit that remaining open to acknowledging and accepting they can get things wrong makes engagement with others a productive two-way process, always, that can be a powerful facilitator of personal and business success.

We all grows better at solutions provision, for ourselves and others, hosting the capacity to admit we are wrong so that we learn right from others.

Below is the response I gave to a poster who made same point you did. You can see that doubling down obdurately on your ignorance has exposed that you do not understand that recommendation to print money was only a finite stimulus for a period economic, human and social activity was dead globally. I.e lock down.

Does it make sense to you such remains in place long after the lifting of lock down as Buhari and his crew deliberately and wilfully continued to do knowing the economic damage such was doing?

Amazing you people, because of nothing but hateful ignorance s, are now trying to insist Tinubu told Buhari to print 22 billion up to 2023 when he left power. Simply amazing.

Oya, reply with another ignorant retort.

Genius101:
Una go lament tire...since it was the best thing to do at the time, why still blaming buhari and still insisting was what destroyed the economy

Bro, you have any formal educational at all? It was only a n economic policy to be deployed because of COVID 19 and not beyond it all the way to literally before Buhari handing over in 2023.

Where do you think Emwfiele got money to be build Abuja Estate of more than 700 duplexa and much more with Tunde Sabiu, Buhari's nephew, reputed to be a recharge card seller, becoming a multi-billionaire overnight?

Is it not obvious Tinubu's recommendation was an emergency policy designed to immediately arrest serious risk to human lives and economic existence of nations, courtesy of a global disease epidemic, that should be removed , to allow human productivity begin growing economies again, once lock down is lifted and people go back to productive work and society can function normally?

Once lock down was over, a vaccine found and economies (i.e public/private sector) opened up again for normal activities why should the policy of printing money, appropriately and validly deployed in a period of emergency and as shown in the image below, be continued?

Do you need to be told the above when you are not a six years old who has the valid excuse of lacking formal education?

I really pity some of you with how you cannot see what you have allowed to compromise the core goodness a human being should have and be about. Your own is to just give a dog a bad name to hang it and you don't even know why you are doing so and how being that way is repellent.

givedemwotowoto:
You’re being too emotional. Use logic and answer this: Is it safe to say Tinubu destroyed Nigeria’s economy under Buhari’s Presidency, and has continued from where he stopped?

Kai see dishonesty and shamelessness. Dogara stated Buhari printed 22 trillion Naira that damaged the Nigerian economy horrendously.

You rush ignorantly to attach Tinubu to what you assume will be a 'bullseye' hit against PBAT you can serve up for your fanatical and illiterate enemies-of-progress army here who lack the capacity to read or research.

Lo and behold, in haste, you did not realize the recommendation of Tinubu was valid and made during COVID 19 when nations were indeed deploying the strategy in effort to facilitate human and economic survival.

Shown your ignorance, rather than retrace steps, you double down in shameless and distractive change of your own topic to now make issues about Tinubu destroyed Nigeria's Presidency under Buhari.

You are shameless. Aside disgracing yourself not acknowledging you erred and owe PBAT an apology, you show you are an incorrigible hater with the claim above in bold because we were all alive then to note Tinubu was not someone Buhari included in his Government let alone took advice from.
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In fact Tinubu was totally ostracized from the Buhari Presidency literally from day one. We all saw this live and in HD despite the desperate lies you all wish to spread now seeking to link Tinubu with the failure of Buhari[ and his cabal./b]

Buhari, as informed Nigerians know, throughout his Presidency, operated and made decisions with an inner and-all powerful cabal consisting of Abba Kyari, Mamman Daura, Issa Pantami, Malami, Ismaila Isa Funtua, Hameed Ali, Babagana Kingibe, Abdulrahman Dambazau, Lawal Daura etal. They had their Southern boy boy and hatchet man Emefiele always available to use CNN as their unlimited ATM


The sad thing is that you people, because of all the malevolent thoughts and emotions driving your behaviour, you will always be amenable to be used by the real enemies of Nigeria Obi is now visiting up and down to prostrate before.