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Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by erico2k2(m): 11:41am On Feb 01, 2019
BluntBoy:


I have caught you grin

For your information, extortion is a form of corruption.

It is also a popular form of police corruption in Nigeria.

Your charge sheet won't read corruption rather it would read extortion. This is why the EFCC lose thier case due to technicalities. The EFCC had been losing the vast majority of thier cases.I was in a session with officers from Nigeria last week somewhere in the UK.
Example u kill a person they ate dead what is the essen9of saying lawfull and unlawfull killing??
There are loads and types of corruption which is the end product but the procedural function of these action is what is dealt with by the law is behavioral pattern..
Things like being criminal minded and morally bankrupt.
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by erico2k2(m): 11:42am On Feb 01, 2019
We will continue this later I got to go bck to work.
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by dominusgai(m): 12:05pm On Feb 01, 2019
Babacele:
PDP that could no longer pay Salary and told us to go prepare for mass sack in 2014 @ $67/ barrel would have been fantastic at $30 ? You are wonderful!

With less volume of daily oil sales ,recession, a crashed price of crude internationally, insecurity aided by PDP, poor infrastructure, a comatose economy Buhari took over a messed country from a useless and clueless team.

Why couldn't PDP finish the rail project for more than 10 years? TSA ,BVN nko, what about electricity after stealing $16b? Because the useless party was busy stealing and eventually plunged the country into a recession. Maybe you don't even understand what a recession is sef and I'm here wasting my time with you. Do you know the effect of hiding $45m in a toilet in Ikoyi on the economy of a local government in a recession?

In a recession Kayode Fayemi made a 300% increase investment in the mining sector alone; are the investors from the moon?

Name PMB economic policies that in your phantom mind is giving driving away investors?
Sir, at no time in 2014 did PDP tell people to prepare for mass sack, please can you reference any link to that claim? You guys should have a little fear and reduce your lies.
It was in Buhari's time that companies had to mass sack. It is his cluelessness that led to it not pdps. Besides, which regime do you blame more, the one that warned of mass sacking or the one that actually led to the mass sacking. Or you want to tell me companies didn't mass sack when Buhari came in due to inability to assess raw materials needed for operation?
I repeat, the recession was brought about by Buharis cluelessness not PDPs fault. You just came, and you freezes forex, stopped importation of required raw materials needed for manufacturing, made unstable policies.

TSA and BVN that was introduced by Jonathan has been destroyed by your clueless PMB. The agencies no longer put money in the TSA, and the obvious increase in fraud means they are not using the bvn to track criminals. Then let us talk about the need to borrow. You started taking #50 for every business transaction as nipost fee, you claim Jamb, customs and every agency revenue increased 2 fold, yet we are not seeing the reflection and you want to borrow over 30% of our 2019 budget. It is only in APC that 1 + 1 will never reflect 2.

Hello, did they find out who has the money in the toilet? For all I know it was all an EFCC stunt to make believe they are working.

Hello, you just asked a question, are the investors from the moon? I can easily find out the name of investors that invested in the mining sector of Ghana, yet I cannot find out a single name of one foreign investor that brought about this 300% increase in investment in the mining sector. Maybe you think everyone are dunces like you guys that do not do a detailed inquiry on information they get and just take every info at face value.
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by BluntBoy(m): 12:09pm On Feb 01, 2019
erico2k2:

Your charge sheet won't read corruption rather it would read extortion. This is why the EFCC lose thier case due to technicalities. The EFCC had been losing the vast majority of thier cases.I was in a session with officers from Nigeria last week somewhere in the UK.
Example u kill a person they ate dead what is the essen9of saying lawfull and unlawfull killing??
There are loads and types of corruption which is the end product but the procedural function of these action is what is dealt with by the law is behavioral pattern..
Things like being criminal minded and morally bankrupt.

Which charge sheet reads corruption? Is corruption a singular crime?

So, if a policeman is charged with taking a bribe, his charge sheet must read corruption rather than bribery in order to establish a case of corruption against him?
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by erico2k2(m): 1:51pm On Feb 01, 2019
BluntBoy:


Which charge sheet reads corruption? Is corruption a singular crime?

So, if a policeman is charged with taking a bribe, his charge sheet must read corruption rather than bribery in order to establish a case of corruption against him?
Oh yes and the person who offered as well. There are loads of chrges upon people whoe's charge has read corruption.Especialy people in government in the west.These kind of crimes are very dificult to prove, it involved huge ammount of manpower to do,the prosicution cases are built on the behavioural pattern rather than the outcome.
If you go back and listen to waht Atiku said corruption was, That is the world standard definition of corruption!
This link might show you how hard corruption is to prove
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/nyregion/corruption-convictions-supreme-court-ruling-mcdonnell.html
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by erico2k2(m): 1:54pm On Feb 01, 2019
dominusgai:

Sir, at no time in 2014 did PDP tell people to prepare for mass sack, please can you reference any link to that claim? You guys should have a little fear and reduce your lies.
It was in Buhari's time that companies had to mass sack. It is his cluelessness that led to it not pdps. Besides, which regime do you blame more, the one that warned of mass sacking or the one that actually led to the mass sacking. Or you want to tell me companies didn't mass sack when Buhari came in due to inability to assess raw materials needed for operation?
I repeat, the recession was brought about by Buharis cluelessness not PDPs fault. You just came, and you freezes forex, stopped importation of required raw materials needed for manufacturing, made unstable policies.

TSA and BVN that was introduced by Jonathan has been destroyed by your clueless PMB. The agencies no longer put money in the TSA, and the obvious increase in fraud means they are not using the bvn to track criminals. Then let us talk about the need to borrow. You started taking #50 for every business transaction as nipost fee, you claim Jamb, customs and every agency revenue increased 2 fold, yet we are not seeing the reflection and you want to borrow over 30% of our 2019 budget. It is only in APC that 1 + 1 will never reflect 2.

Hello, did they find out who has the money in the toilet? For all I know it was all an EFCC stunt to make believe they are working.

Hello, you just asked a question, are the investors from the moon? I can easily find out the name of investors that invested in the mining sector of Ghana, yet I cannot find out a single name of one foreign investor that brought about this 300% increase in investment in the mining sector. Maybe you think everyone are dunces like you guys that do not do a detailed inquiry on information they get and just take every info at face value.
The just stopped discovering monies now cos the realise we are adding up the figures.
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by Babacele: 4:01pm On Feb 01, 2019
dominusgai:

Sir, at no time in 2014 did PDP tell people to prepare for mass sack, please can you reference any link to that claim? You guys should have a little fear and reduce your lies.
It was in Buhari's time that companies had to mass sack. It is his cluelessness that led to it not pdps. Besides, which regime do you blame more, the one that warned of mass sacking or the one that actually led to the mass sacking. Or you want to tell me companies didn't mass sack when Buhari came in due to inability to assess raw materials needed for operation?
I repeat, the recession was brought about by Buharis cluelessness not PDPs fault. You just came, and you freezes forex, stopped importation of required raw materials needed for manufacturing, made unstable policies.

TSA and BVN that was introduced by Jonathan has been destroyed by your clueless PMB. The agencies no longer put money in the TSA, and the obvious increase in fraud means they are not using the bvn to track criminals. Then let us talk about the need to borrow. You started taking #50 for every business transaction as nipost fee, you claim Jamb, customs and every agency revenue increased 2 fold, yet we are not seeing the reflection and you want to borrow over 30% of our 2019 budget. It is only in APC that 1 + 1 will never reflect 2.

Hello, did they find out who has the money in the toilet? For all I know it was all an EFCC stunt to make believe they are working.

Hello, you just asked a question, are the investors from the moon? I can easily find out the name of investors that invested in the mining sector of Ghana, yet I cannot find out a single name of one foreign investor that brought about this 300% increase in investment in the mining sector. Maybe you think everyone are dunces like you guys that do not do a detailed inquiry on information they get and just take every info at face value.



By August 2014,so helpless was PDP at $70 barrel that the effect of their reckless profligacy forced them to say:


FG May Sack Workers, Says
Okonjo-Iweala ...
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com
fg-ma...
Brace for tougher times ahead,
Okonjo-Iweala ...
https://www.premiumtimesng.com........



So bad was the odious smell of the impending Goodluck Jonathan's recession that Soludo had to shout out in 2015 before the elections:

........if the
prices of crude oil in the
international market failed to
rebound, Nigeria would face an
unprecedented level of economic
crisis with horrible attendant
hardships for the citizenry.
“Our public finance is
haemorrhaging to the point that
estimated over N30tn is missing,
or stolen, or unaccounted for, or
simply mismanaged,”... further
In the piece entitled, ‘Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala and the missing
trillions’, Soludo said the sharp
decline in the naira-dollar
exchange rate from 158 a few
months ago to 215 currently
showed that trouble was already
at the doorstep.......

He added that “unless oil price
recovers, this is just the
beginning,” adding, “For the sake
of Nigeria, I won’t keep quiet
anymore!”
“Part of my frustration is that five
years after, everything I warned
about has come to happen and we
are conducting our campaigns as
if we are not in a crisis. As a
concerned Nigerian, I have a duty
to speak out again,” he said.
The former CBN governor x-raying, how N30tn
allegedly stolen under Okonjo-
Iweala’s watch, said, “Under you
as the Minister of Finance and
coordinator of the economy, the
basket of our national treasury is
leaking profusely from all sides.
Just a few illustrations! First, you
admit that ‘oil theft’ has reduced
oil output from the average 2.3 –
2.4 million barrels per day to 1.95
mpd (meaning that at least
350,000 to 450,000 barrels per
day are being ‘stolen’). On the
average of 400,000 per day and
the oil prices over the past four
years, it comes to about $60bn
‘stolen’ in just four years.
“In today’s exchange rate, that is
about N12.6tn. This is at a time of
cessation of crisis in the Niger
Delta and the amnesty
programme. Can you tell Nigerians
how much the amnesty
programme costs, and also the
annual cost for ‘protecting’ the
pipelines and security of oil wells?
And the ‘thieves’ are spirits?
“Secondly, ...... the minimum forex reserves
should have been at least $90bn
by now and you did not challenge
it. Rather, it is about $30bn,
meaning that gross
mismanagement has denied the
country some $60bn or another
N12.6tn. ......

At the twilight of GEJ's administration ,workers were already crying all over the country as their salary was no longer coming ....
Nigerian govt borrowing billions to
pay salaries ...
https://www.premiumtimesng.com
› 182...
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by Friend01(m): 8:30pm On Feb 01, 2019
dominusgai:

First of all, I am not a pastor.
Secondly, you guys started the Moses stuff. How is it when someone counters your perception with fact you try to make it seem as if the person is the one showing off?


I only made a simple analogy as regards oratory and the will to do what is right yet, you stretched the argument and you want me to pat you on the back?

You said it all though -it was some smacks of show off if you ask me.
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by dominusgai(m): 5:00pm On Feb 02, 2019
Friend01:



I only made a simple analogy as regards oratory and the will to do what is right yet, you stretched the argument and you want me to pat you on the back?

You said it all though -it was some smacks of show off if you ask me.
Apologies for the perception, it wasn't my intention
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by dominusgai(m): 5:04pm On Feb 02, 2019
Babacele:



By August 2014,so helpless was PDP at $70 barrel that the effect of their reckless profligacy forced them to say:


FG May Sack Workers, Says
Okonjo-Iweala ...
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com
fg-ma...
Brace for tougher times ahead,
Okonjo-Iweala ...
https://www.premiumtimesng.com........



So bad was the odious smell of the impending Goodluck Jonathan's recession that Soludo had to shout out in 2015 before the elections:

........if the
prices of crude oil in the
international market failed to
rebound, Nigeria would face an
unprecedented level of economic
crisis with horrible attendant
hardships for the citizenry.
“Our public finance is
haemorrhaging to the point that
estimated over N30tn is missing,
or stolen, or unaccounted for, or
simply mismanaged,”... further
In the piece entitled, ‘Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala and the missing
trillions’, Soludo said the sharp
decline in the naira-dollar
exchange rate from 158 a few
months ago to 215 currently
showed that trouble was already
at the doorstep.......

He added that “unless oil price
recovers, this is just the
beginning,” adding, “For the sake
of Nigeria, I won’t keep quiet
anymore!”
“Part of my frustration is that five
years after, everything I warned
about has come to happen and we
are conducting our campaigns as
if we are not in a crisis. As a
concerned Nigerian, I have a duty
to speak out again,” he said.
The former CBN governor x-raying, how N30tn
allegedly stolen under Okonjo-
Iweala’s watch, said, “Under you
as the Minister of Finance and
coordinator of the economy, the
basket of our national treasury is
leaking profusely from all sides.
Just a few illustrations! First, you
admit that ‘oil theft’ has reduced
oil output from the average 2.3 –
2.4 million barrels per day to 1.95
mpd (meaning that at least
350,000 to 450,000 barrels per
day are being ‘stolen’). On the
average of 400,000 per day and
the oil prices over the past four
years, it comes to about $60bn
‘stolen’ in just four years.
“In today’s exchange rate, that is
about N12.6tn. This is at a time of
cessation of crisis in the Niger
Delta and the amnesty
programme. Can you tell Nigerians
how much the amnesty
programme costs, and also the
annual cost for ‘protecting’ the
pipelines and security of oil wells?
And the ‘thieves’ are spirits?
“Secondly, ...... the minimum forex reserves
should have been at least $90bn
by now and you did not challenge
it. Rather, it is about $30bn,
meaning that gross
mismanagement has denied the
country some $60bn or another
N12.6tn. ......

At the twilight of GEJ's administration ,workers were already crying all over the country as their salary was no longer coming ....
Nigerian govt borrowing billions to
pay salaries ...
https://www.premiumtimesng.com
› 182...
OK. I am not seeing the post but I won't argue that. But you do know these two people you cited has also cried strange warnings for this administration. Hope when we reference them you won't call them unimportant?
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by Babacele: 10:53pm On Feb 02, 2019
dominusgai:

OK. I am not seeing the post but I won't argue that. But you do know these two people you cited has also cried strange warnings for this administration. Hope when we reference them you won't call them unimportant?
you are not seeing which post?
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by Babacele: 10:59pm On Feb 02, 2019
dominusgai:

OK. I am not seeing the post but I won't argue that. But you do know these two people you cited has also cried strange warnings for this administration. Hope when we reference them you won't call them unimportant?
you are not seeing which post? it is most uncharitable of PDP who put us in a recession to shamelessly wants to come back when Pmb has cleaned their mess. NPN did same thing by bringing IBB in 1985 who is presently surreptitiously leading modern day NPN apologists, PDP, to steal power again through Atiku. It will never happen again! Never!
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by Friend01(m): 11:19pm On Feb 02, 2019
dominusgai:
Apologies for the perception, it wasn't my intention
Bro, no hard feelings. just being cautious though.
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by dominusgai(m): 8:35am On Feb 03, 2019
Babacele:
you are not seeing which post? it is most uncharitable of PDP who put us in a recession to shamelessly wants to come back when Pmb has cleaned their mess. NPN did same thing by bringing IBB in 1985 who is presently surreptitiously leading modern day NPN apologists, PDP, to steal power again through Atiku. It will never happen again! Never!
APC, APC. I repeat, we were put into recession because of the unintelligent policies made by Buhari. He did not clean any mess, he created it. He adruptly banned the importation of needed raw materials that led to company distress that led to job loss. He froze all forex transaction, forgetting that most importers had foreign investors that invested foreign currency in them. While dollars was not going out, it was also not coming in.

Have you asked yourself why we where the only country having dollar shortage when all the countries around us had surplus supply of that same dollars? Ask any banker you know. Dollars was very available, it was only not being released due to his unintelligent policies.

He failed, the first time, and failed again. It was nobody's fault but his.
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by Babacele: 1:07pm On Feb 03, 2019
dominusgai:

APC, APC. I repeat, we were put into recession because of the unintelligent policies made by Buhari. He did not clean any mess, he created it. He adruptly banned the importation of needed raw materials that led to company distress that led to job loss. He froze all forex transaction, forgetting that most importers had foreign investors that invested foreign currency in them. While dollars was not going out, it was also not coming in.

Have you asked yourself why we where the only country having dollar shortage when all the countries around us had surplus supply of that same dollars? Ask any banker you know. Dollars was very available, it was only not being released due to his unintelligent policies.

He failed, the first time, and failed again. It was nobody's fault but his.
It is obvious you are trying too hard unsuccessfully discussing Nigerian economy dynamics far above your intelligence . This is one of the long term effects of PDP's misrule: poor educational system that is producing nitwits that are ironically always available to lick PDP rotten aaaaas-! I just bursted all your lies above but you are obstinately doomed to auto ignorance.

Can you tell me why Okonjo Iweala , while being jittery of the consequences of that administration humbug, announced to the whole wide world in 2014 that we should prepare for Recession @ $67-70/ barrel from oil sales; and in 2015 that they were going to retrench workers if the global oil prices slips further down as they were borrowing money to pay workers ,and states were finding it difficult until Buhari who inherited a mono economy @ $30/barrel started bailing states out? Why?

I'm sure you don't know what a recession is. Then how would you, for the love of Christ, fathom how GEJ depleted foreign reserve can affect imports or the effects of the combustively toxic mix of unprecedented looting, excessive borrowing to be pilfered , unemployment rate of 24% , poverty rated at71% , insecurity, infrastructural decay, heavy stealing and henpecked leadership during an oil boom- symptomatic of the shagari's journey to austerity- on an economy?

Maybe, if GEJ under whose nose the dollar rose from $1 - N119 to N240 during an oil boom , had continued and you are pleading to buy a mudu of rice at N2000 amidst boko haram bombings and , hungry canabals waiting for you on the streets ,with PDP unbridled pilferings being flaunted at your poor face after being fed that NOI artificial statistical fraud called rebasing or biggest economy in Africa bullsh..t while all your family members are being laid off jobs ,then you would have understood and appreciated how Buhari had battled PDP's recession.
Re: Atiku/Obi On The Candidate: Moderator Accused Of Bias As Nigerians React by dominusgai(m): 2:02pm On Feb 03, 2019
Babacele:
It is obvious you are trying too hard unsuccessfully discussing Nigerian economy dynamics far above your intelligence . This is one of the long term effects of PDP's misrule: poor educational system that is producing nitwits that are ironically always available to lick PDP rotten aaaaas-! I just bursted all your lies above but you are obstinately doomed to auto ignorance.

Can you tell me why Okonjo Iweala , while being jittery of the consequences of that administration humbug, announced to the whole wide world in 2014 that we should prepare for Recession @ $67-70/ barrel from oil sales; and in 2015 that they were going to retrench workers if the global oil prices slips further down as they were borrowing money to pay workers ,and states were finding it difficult until Buhari who inherited a mono economy @ $30/barrel started bailing states out? Why?

I'm sure you don't know what a recession is. Then how would you, for the love of Christ, fathom how GEJ depleted foreign reserve can affect imports or the effects of the combustively toxic mix of unprecedented looting, excessive borrowing to be pilfered , unemployment rate of 24% , poverty rated at71% , insecurity, infrastructural decay, heavy stealing and henpecked leadership during an oil boom- symptomatic of the shagari's journey to austerity- on an economy?

Maybe, if GEJ under whose nose the dollar rose from $1 - N119 to N240 during an oil boom , had continued and you are pleading to buy a mudu of rice at N2000 amidst boko haram bombings and , hungry canabals waiting for you on the streets ,with PDP unbridled pilferings being flaunted at your poor face after being fed that NOI artificial statistical fraud called rebasing or biggest economy in Africa bullsh..t while all your family members are being laid off jobs ,then you would have understood and appreciated how Buhari had battled PDP's recession.
Since they are your reference points, Here is link of Soludo confirming that buhari made the economy worse.
https://punchng.com/buhari-inherited-a-bad-economy-made-it-worse-soludo/amp/

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ICYMI: Buhari inherited a bad economy, made it worse – Soludo
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March 3, 2017
• ‘President working hard to fix economy’

Ihuoma Chiedozie and Olalekan Adetayo

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari had worsened the “very bad” economic situation he inherited when he assumed power in 2015.

Soludo spoke at the ‘Big Ideas Podium’, a public policy debate organised by the Afri Heritage Institution in Enugu, where he canvassed what he termed a “citizens united” campaign by Nigerians to demand change and accountability from government at all levels.


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Besides Soludo, other speakers at the inaugural edition of the Big Ideas Podium were a former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke; a former Chief Economic Adviser to the President, Prof. Osita Ogbu; and a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Board, Prof. Akpan Ekpo.

Speaking on the theme of the debate, ‘Prognosis of the Nigerian Economy 2017’, Soludo said Nigeria was fast approaching the status of a failed state.


The former apex bank chief noted that it would take nothing short of a miracle for the Federal Government to return the naira to its exchange rate to the dollar as of the time Buhari took over on May 29, 2015.

He said, “Buhari met a very bad situation when he assumed power, but he has made the situation worse. Nigeria today is a fragile state with a failing economy. Some say failing state; some say failed state.


“The economy is not just in recession; we are suffering from massive economic compression. Saying it is recession trivialises the issue.

“It will be a miracle if after eight years, by the time it leaves office in 2023, the current administration is able to return the economy in dollar terms to the exchange rate it met when it took over.


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“The truth is this government inherited a very bad situation, but it has made it very much worse.”

He criticised what he described as the “official policy of waiting for the oil price to rise.”

According to the former CBN governor, the government cannot be relied upon to provide the change that Nigerians desire.


The solution to the quest for change, according to him, is a citizens’ united campaign that will put government on its toes.

He called on Nigerians to agitate for the implementation of campaign promises by government at all levels, noting that the country would make progress if political parties kept at least 25 per cent of the promises they made before coming to power.

Soludo said, “Only citizens united can rescue Nigeria, not just the government alone. It is a big luxury for anybody to say I am minding my business, because what others do will come to mind your own business for you sooner than later.

“We can’t get the leadership that we desire but we can get the leadership that we demand and work for. If only each party or government implements 25 per cent of their promises, Nigeria will be a great country.”

He added, “If you see the governments run by APC, PDP and APGA, they are all the same, because Nigerians don’t hold them accountable. We must resolve as citizens not to let government off again; peaceful agitation must be encouraged and tolerated in this country. Everybody must be allowed to have a voice.

“For example, the APC promised us that they were going to restructure Nigeria; before the elections, they said the current structure was not working, they said that Nigeria was becoming a failed state; but now, they are in power and they are not getting it done.

“Unless we citizens rise up and tell the government ‘deliver on what you promised’, they will not get it done.”

Soludo added that issues such as the continuing agitation for the Presidency along tribal and religious lines were distractions that arose from the fact that Nigeria was not working.

He said, “Nigeria is not working in anybody’s interest except that of the privileged few and because of this, there is an obsession with unnecessary distractions, like which part of the country produces the President. You can have the President, the Vice President and all the ministers from one village and the life of the ordinary people from that village will not move from point A to point B.

“The North has ruled the country for several years, but poverty, to a very large extent, is a northern problem.

“In the last dispensation, we had Jonathan as President, the Finance ministry and almost all the financial institutions of government were headed by Igbos then, but we still don’t have any motorable federal road in Igboland.”

Soludo noted that the government could not provide the type of change Nigerians desired.

He added, “Change is a struggle; change is never given by a benevolent elite; no change is given by the government, the people always had to ask for change. Nigeria has been waiting for a benevolent leader since 1960 but he has not come. You will get the type of leader that the people demand.

“The change we think we need will never be given to us; we have to demand it; we have to agitate for it, and it is the sustained agitation that will bring about the change. Citizens should get involved and stop complaining.”

While reacting to Soludo’s assertions, the Presidency said Buhari was working diligently to fix the bad economy he inherited from the last administration with positive results now emerging.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, said while Soludo was entitled to his own opinion, Nigerians were entitled to the facts.

According to him, while the opinion expressed by Soludo is understandable in a democratic system, the facts are that the challenges of today are direct results of wrong decisions of the past and mind-boggling actions of those who were entrusted with leadership.

Akande stated, “Nigerians have demonstrated that they know that the Buhari administration inherited a sorry state of the economy but is working diligently to fix it with positive results now emerging.

“What even the former CBN Governor, Soludo, cannot deny is the fact that the Buhari administration has ended the bleeding of the nation and is implementing reforms.

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“The Buhari administration is spending more on infrastructure at a time when resources are lean. When we had abundant revenues, what happened was profligate and plunder.

“What no one can deny is that the Buhari administration is now implementing on behalf of ordinary Nigerians a Social Investment Programme that is unprecedented in Nigeria’s history; paying poorest Nigerians N5,000 monthly; feeding school children and engaging hundreds of thousands of unemployed graduates. And there is more to come.

“The Buhari administration is plugging loopholes in several ways, including through the Treasury Single Account, raking in resources that otherwise were hidden and misappropriated, and the proper auditing of the federal payroll discovering about 30,000 ghost workers and saving billions per month.”

He added, “Another step in the right direction is the fact that Nigeria no longer has to shell out billions of dollars for the JVC cash call, bringing relief from a burden that has slowed down investment in the oil industry.

“It is certainly quite curious that very few among us will choose to ignore the new direction but make story of the burdens of the past without proper attributions. This appears to me to be selective amnesia to which they are certainly entitled.

“What would have been more patriotic is that people of goodwill will join several others working with us in this administration and offer progressive ideas and join hands with a government and administration that everyone knows is led by a President and Vice President who are trustworthy and are people of unabashed honesty and integrity.”

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And this is of Okonji criticizing Buhari
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And seeing that you are not as wise as Homer Simpson, I will remind you once again. It was not under Jonathan that the module of rice went to #2000, it was under Buhari. Under Jonathan my family members and friends started successful businesses, but it was by the grace of God they did not close down under Buhari. And it was not under Jonathan my friends lost their jobs, it was under Buhari. Way before Jonathan, my mum was OK feeding over 10 friends of the family that were not related to us. But under Buhari she shouted at you sometimes before your friend if you bring one home to eat with you. On the dollar matter, it rose to over #500 to one dollar, before coming back down to #360. Fuel scarcity that turned fuel to #145 per liter nko, abi is it herdsmen killing. So how on earth can I understand and appreciate Buhari when the country suffered all you listed above.

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