obaaderemi: So blaming the citizens for poor government policies and corruption is a good excuse for government failure. Continue. Even in the Niger Delta where state governors take 13% and do nothing, the people are to blame. It might interest you to know that in all big oil producing countries low tax is the order of the day. Check Iran's tax rate and see how low it is and yet government subsidizes even food for the people. Do you know how much the EU takes agricultural subsidies seriously? Right now due to inflation in America households are getting paid by government, in the UK government is slashing energy cost for the people. So you better open your eyes and know that your government has raped you to death.
There's chapter 11 and chapter 7 in America, they have student loans, etc. Tell me what your own government does other than providing rubbish public education and you are here clapping for them like many other benighted Africans do. Why am I even arguing with someone who says citizens are to blame for government's inability to fight terrorism. Only APC arselickers think this way. Pardon my French, Mate.
Total rubbish
Tell me the population of Iran compare with Nigeria and their oil out put to total amount they acquire from oil sale before trying use them as example and don't compare Nigeria to EU or USA compare Apple to Apple not Pineapple.
I never said the government are saint but the citizens themselves are also culprits. You should answer this questions before trying to see fault in what I said.
1. Are the same citizens who claims the government is borrowing to build infrastructure ready to pay high tax without complaining?
2. Are the same citizens who claims Nigeria oil output is low ready to pay high fuel price without subsidizing it.
3. Are the same citizens who always complain of the colapse of national grid ready to pay high price for light like other countries?
The same citizens who want good leadership will always support their tribes men even if they are totally wrong.
obaaderemi: I just hope you are doing this for money. Otherwise it is pathetic. Governments across subsahara Africa have failed woefully to better the lot of citizens as the whole world acknowledges. I am yet to meet a truly educated individual who would blame the citizens for Africa's woes. It's plainly a failure of leadership. That fact is as tangible as the nose on your face, brother. The only thing the citizens can be blamed for is voting for idiots such as Buhari.
If minimum wage was little before Buhari got there, how has he improved it? By taking naira from #200 to #450 within 6 years. Will that make the purchasing power of the minimum wage bigger or smaller? I don't get you.
People want cheap things. What's the quality of the governance your leaders provide? A useless president that runs abroad for ear problems or the former governor of Lagos that has his doctors abroad?
Or is it Nigerians that made government unable to fix refineries? About$500bn oil wealth has been stolen over the years by your leaders, you blame that on poor Nigerians too because they want cheap things?
Did your Tinubu not claim there was nothing like subsidy?
Nonsense! He's even absolving the government of its inability to do anything meaningful against terrorism. Na wa o.
Lol so anyone that sees things different from you guyz must be doing it for money that mentality only exit with IPOB.
Yes let blame the government while the citizens are angels that must be taking served without working, they gave room for the loot through subsidizing of many things in this country so stop trying to act like the citizen are innocent of this problem. You said what quality of government has the leaders provide my question how many of this citizens are ready to pay for fuel in real price? how many will pay for power when it no longer subsidized? how many are ready to pay tax without screaming this government hate us?
I am not trying to coverup the past or present failure of our government but fact still remains that the citizens themselves are also culprits to this failures. Just imagine the ban on okadas in Lagos, everyone start shouting this government is trying to frustrate the poor while they are still same people who will say ohh Lagos can't be a mega city with okadas allover. Rubbish
SUFFERInSMILIIN: illiterate person this are not vigilantes they are police officers. Keep on deceiving yourself. I am not the one which recorded the YouTube videos but it is all over the news abroad property and hunger taking place
You are dumb dude. This happened in Kwara and not south south they are not police so go treat your mental disorder clown.
obaaderemi: How will people not want cheap things when your minimum wage is $50 per month. Meanwhile your stupid politicians including the president ensures nothing happens to their large incomes and perks of office.
Only if you know how costly terrorism is to Nigeria and it's economy you wouldn't be asking me: What terrorism.
Nonsense.
Rubbish.....
What was the minimum wages in 2007 or even 2014? stop using that shit to justify laziness Nigerians who wants everything to be cheap or free. They don't want to pay task but always want free quality healthcare, subsidy is among what killed our currency also leads to the so called low wages.
Terrorism did affect our economy because we fail to do the right thing at the right time. Both politicians and the citizens are responsible for the nation down fall so kiss the ugly truth about we are the problem not just the government.
obaaderemi: The only major impediments to Nigeria's growth when all these projects come on stream are the hydraheaded duo of corruption and Islamic terrorism. Terrorism will continue to reduce the impact of your last point unless we bring in a regime that can take terrorism seriously.
What do you mean by terrorism
Islamic or corruption is not our problem, but we the citizens are our own problem, everyone wants cheap thing in this country.
1. Let remove fuel subsidy they will scream government is wicked and they want to eradicated fuel scarcity.
2. Let expand our tax net they will wail this government want to frustrate the poor and they want the government to build infrastructure and not borrow.
3. Let increase light bill they will say it too much the government hate the poor and they want 24 hrs on interrupted power.
Japan has a demographic crisis, so does Nigeria but in reverse, why can't both governments get together and have some kind of way of sending young adults there?
obaaderemi: Can you post a link which shows that the$100bn relief money stolen in America was the handiwork of any government official like your own accountant general?
It was just a case of fraudsters taking advantage of a loophole. But in Nigeria investigations would expose a highranking official and the president would still keep quiet. Maina, Lawal, Accountant general, etc. No sane country can allow that. And on the American case many have been arrested. Stop saying a country will continue to grow no matter how much people steal. No, it will not.
I am not trying to justify stealing, but a president can't fight corruption is just not possible, the best is to minimize it to a certain lent. Buhari failed in those area but what I'm trying to say is let stop looking for someone who can fight corruption because that person does not exit.
obaaderemi: But not to the point of looking the other way when people are caught pants down stealing public money blatantly. Like the ones that said termites ate invoices on how they spent #17billion. Or the accountant general.
Within the government just how USA government officials siphon 100billion for pandemic relieve yet no one was persecuted
That is why I said a corruption model that works, if the country is working and hardship is reduced to the minimum trust me no one would care how much government officials steals.
obaaderemi: Buhari messed up his own legacy by allowing the Fulani herdsmen to have free run of their nonsense up north and spreading it across the nation thereby hampering agricultural production, and institutionalizing terrorism. Apart from that he turned a blind eye to corruption in his regime. Look at the case of the accountant general for example. Then the mismanagement of forex. The list is endless.
I agree with the part of Fulani herdsmen's, but let stop with the illusion of a president fighting corruption infact anyone campaigning with it shouldn't be taken serious because you can't fight corruption, even in countries where they claim to be corruption free are very corrupt, but the difference is they run a model of corruption that works and that is what we need in Nigeria not the illusion of fighting corruption.
ProblemChild1: And you think the drug baron will win Obi has SE and SS vote, with NC and some votes from SW. Tinubu no even get hope for North at all at all. useless man who went and rent fake Pope and bishops Una go get sense by force
ProblemChild1: Peter Obi is far better than that clown, that drug lord, that agbado eater, that popoo, that bloody liar called Tinubu Tinubu convinced Nigerians to vote that illiterate animal called buhari. Now look at where we’re today. Nigeria is now the anus shithole today
Shay the northerners are now rejecting apc. Una never see anything. Tinubu will never smell Aso Rock till the world end
Northerners rejecting APC only exits in Obidiiots puny brains 2023 will be interesting, Obi the Pandora theif and lair will only become president on Twitter
GeneralDae2: The next president should actually continue from where Buhari stopped in some areas.
Definitely not Obi, someone who says infrastructure does not matter someone who claims Nigeria dept is 500billion dollars while all Nigeria dept from 1960 is not even upto 100 billion dollars abegi!!!
ProblemChild1: Do you still remember this lies from your drug lord
He is not the president is he
And again compare to your online clown Obi he performed better, while your deluded Obi couldn't make Anambra better than Kaduna or Ogun Tinubu magic wand in Lagos can't be matched by any state in the federation.
Obi the linus can't even get statistics right, a failute com onlime president
GeneralDae2: That sentence is also contrary to my philosophy as well. Also, I wonder to myself sometimes, if Obi is really that focused on production, do we have majority of locally produced goods in his business called NEXT or are they majorly imported? Question for another day.
However, in terms of not going on a borrowing spree, Obi looks the more likely candidate to adhere to that philosophy.
I am one who finds both strengths and weaknesses in all 3 candidates. I have cases against all candidates and just hope that whoever wins, their strengths would shine through way more.
No country can escape borrowing, Obi so called achievement in not borrowing when he was governing Anambra is the fact that he receives allocation from federal government despite that he couldn't outperform any governor and did nothing extraordinary in his term.