Abdulazeez Rafindadi

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[Abdulazeez Rafindadi @AURafindadi]

A Bad System Doesn't Appear Wrong To Those Who Benefit From It. They Do Everything To Defend It To The Detriment Of Larger Society.

[Imran Muhammad @Imranmuhdz]

Bae u: I know I feed you, I clothed you, I house you, but if you want to deny it on camera, because when the camera was off, you just tell me thank you.

Obasanjo: me, I go thank you? you see your yourself, one no know whether you be man or a woman, from the village where I came from na women they make here like you make your hair

[Abdulazeez Rafindadi @AURafindadi]

@benmurraybruce Thank God we now have a selfless mad man on the throne who's out to transform our country, he surely knows those who can support him to achieve his goals
May President Tinubu succeed.

[Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce]

Mr President,

I write this as a supporter of your administration and as a Nigerian who wants you to succeed. But support must never become sycophancy. Sometimes, the greatest service a supporter can render is to tell the President what others around him may be too comfortable—or too frightened—to say.

Mr President, Nigeria needs more mad men in your government.

And before anybody deliberately misunderstands me, let me explain what I mean by mad men.

I mean men and women who are crazy enough to confront a broken system, step on powerful toes, offend entrenched interests and refuse to accept mediocrity simply because mediocrity has become normal.

We need people who wake up every morning obsessed with results.

We need people who are prepared to become unpopular in Abuja if that is the price of becoming useful to Nigeria.

Look at the Central Bank under Olayemi Cardoso. Whatever disagreements anybody may have with individual policies, there is no question that the institution has undergone a serious reset. Discipline and credibility have returned to monetary policymaking.

That is one mad man.

Look at Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. Nigeria still has serious security challenges, and nobody should pretend otherwise. But there is a seriousness, coordination and strategic direction in the national security architecture that deserves recognition. Ribadu is prepared to work, confront problems and take responsibility.

That is another mad man.

Mr President, two mad men are not enough for a country of more than 200 million people.

We need another one in petroleum.

In fact, give us two more.

Nigeria cannot continue to behave like a poor country sitting on the assets of a rich country.

We produce crude oil. We possess enormous reserves. We have decades of petroleum expertise. We have spent fortunes on refineries. Yet for years we became accustomed to exporting crude and importing the products refined from it.

That is economic madness of the wrong kind.

Now we need madness of the right kind.

Mr President, make the rehabilitation and commercially viable operation of the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries a national obsession.

And please, no more excuses.

Nigerians have heard enough explanations about turnaround maintenance, contractors, technical reviews, committees, timelines and billions spent.

We want products coming out of those refineries.

If government cannot operate them efficiently, find the structure that can. Bring in world-class technical partners. Introduce private capital where necessary. Restructure them. Concession them if that produces the best outcome. But whatever model is chosen, the objective must be brutally simple:

MAKE THE REFINERIES WORK.

Dangote has shown what is possible on Nigerian soil. Its refinery was designed for 650,000 barrels per day and has reportedly demonstrated even higher throughput during performance testing.

So let us establish an audacious benchmark.

Mr President, let the three government-owned refining complexes target, at minimum, the equivalent of 50% of Dangote’s nameplate refining capacity—about 325,000 barrels per day of reliable, commercially viable throughput. Then push beyond it.

Nigeria should not merely aspire to satisfy its domestic demand. Our ambition should be much bigger.

We should become a refining powerhouse for Africa and a major exporter of refined petroleum products.

And upstream, the instruction should be equally uncompromising.

Your administration already has a stated ambition of taking Nigeria towards 4 million barrels of oil per day by 2030.

Mr President, find the mad man who will deliver it.

Find somebody who considers 1.5 million barrels unacceptable when the national ambition is 4 million.

[Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce]

Find somebody who will fight oil theft, confront bureaucratic paralysis, reduce production costs, unlock dormant assets, accelerate approvals, attract billions of dollars of investment and sit on the neck of every agency standing between Nigeria and increased production.

I don’t want another committee chairman.

I want a mad man.

I don’t want somebody who will spend four years explaining why something cannot be done.

I want somebody crazy enough to do it.

We have had enough clowns.

Nigeria is too important, our problems are too serious and the President’s remaining time is too precious for passengers in government.

Every minister, regulator, agency head and presidential appointee controlling a critical part of this economy should understand one thing:

This is not a retirement home.

If you cannot deliver, leave.

If you are afraid of stepping on toes, leave.

If protecting friendships is more important than protecting Nigeria’s interests, leave.

If bureaucracy frightens you, leave.

If vested interests can intimidate you, leave.

And if you are not crazy enough to attempt what everybody else says is impossible, we don’t want you.

Mr President, you have demonstrated that you can take politically difficult decisions.

Now take another one:

Recruit more mad men.

Give Nigeria a mad man for petroleum production.

Give us another mad man whose only obsession is refining.

Give them measurable targets, presidential backing and deadlines, and then get out of their way while they step on every toe that needs stepping on.

Cardoso is doing his job.

Ribadu is doing his job.

Now find us two more.

Four million barrels per day.

Working refineries.

A Nigeria that refines its own crude and exports petroleum products to the world.

No excuses.

No clowns.

No passengers.

Only results.

Mr President, this is a request.

And it is not negotiable.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce.

[Abdulazeez Rafindadi @AURafindadi]

@AndrewBolis AI

[Bolaji Fesomade @MasterBolaji]

Just today, an Indian company is ready to invest $1 billion in Nigeria’s steel industry.

Also, China has signed an MoU with Nigerian NNPC to restart Warri and Port Harcourt refineries.

What more can we ask?

$1 trillion economy by 2030 is possible.

Thank you BAT.

[Edward @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 here's the timeline nobody is connecting..

February 28.. US and Israeli strikes kill Iran's Supreme Leader.. wound his son Mojtaba.. who takes over wounded, disfigured, unseen in public..

April 8.. Pakistan brokers a ceasefire.. both sides call it a pause..

May 4.. Trump launches Project Freedom.. a convoy to force ships through the Strait of Hormuz..

Iran responds with missiles and drones on UAE oil infrastructure at Fujairah..

the US sinks 7 Iranian boats.. 2 ships get through..

and here's the part nobody's connecting..

that wasn't a reopening.. that was a battle.. to move 2 ships.. at the cost of 7 boats sunk and a missile exchange on a neutral country's oil ports..

the new Supreme Leader is hiding.. injured.. and still declaring no nuclear concessions.. no free passage.. no US presence in the region..

the rial is at 1.8 million per dollar.. inflation at 68%.. the IRGC's top commanders are dead.. its air defenses destroyed..

and Trump is telling you the war is already won..

neither side has an accurate read on what the other can actually do..

in 1914 every major power thought the war would be over by Christmas..

it took 4 years and 20 million dead to find out they were wrong..

in 2026 a war born of hubris.. still being managed with hubris.. is one miscalculation away from reigniting.

[Taegun Lee @TGLetter]

🚨 Iran's president just found out his own military struck the UAE by watching the news..

President Pezeshkian is reportedly furious.. calling the IRGC's missile and drone strikes on the UAE "completely irresponsible" and "madness"..

the IRGC launched without telling the president.. without telling the foreign minister.. without telling anyone in the civilian government..

and here's the part nobody's connecting..

Iran now has two foreign policies running at the same time..

Araghchi is in Pakistan negotiating a diplomatic off-ramp.. while the IRGC is seizing ships in Hormuz and threatening to sink US vessels..

Pezeshkian is publicly calling Gulf neighbors "brothers".. while his own military is launching drones at them without his knowledge..

this isn't a coordination failure.. this is the most explicit confirmation yet that the IRGC answers to nobody in the elected government..

Pezeshkian isn't criticizing tactics.. he's calling the entire IRGC strategic posture "madness" and warning consequences could be "irreversible"..

the man elected to run Iran just confirmed.. in public.. that he doesn't.

If you still haven't followed me, you'll regret it.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Events in Hormuz make clear that there's no military solution to a political crisis.

As talks are making progress with Pakistan's gracious effort, the U.S. should be wary of being dragged back into quagmire by ill-wishers. So should the UAE.

Project Freedom is Project Deadlock.

[Federal Ministry of Education @NigEducation]

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[Imran Muhammad @Imranmuhdz]

President Tinubu mocked Atiku on privatization:

No one among them (coalition leaders) is without history, the head (Atiku) was the chairman of the privatization council of Nigeria at one time. They privatized the steel industry in Delta, is it working today? They privatized Ajaokuta, is it working today? They privatized another man’s political party; that one says no.

[ARISE NEWS @ARISEtv]

I Took Over Leadership from Myself; Late Buhari Is Me, He Was My Partner – Tinubu

If they don’t want to see the hope in the roads we have built, in the children we have raised, or in the economy we are growing, we will give them eyeglasses.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

[Middle East Conflict Tracker @MEC_Tracker]

🚨 The aircraft carrier USS George Bush is on its way to the Arabian Sea and will join the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been operating there since the start of the operation. The USNI Navy news website reports that the carrier is passing through the Cape of Good Hope rather than the Mediterranean Sea so as not to enter Houthi attack range. According to reports, its last known location was off the coast of Namibia in southwest Africa.

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[Abdulazeez Rafindadi @AURafindadi]

I can understand that there are too many moles in the APC, they are helping the opposition to destabilize the INEC through its chairman Amupitan, they will all surely fail in this plot.

[Abdulazeez Rafindadi @AURafindadi]

It's highly unpatriotic to call or expect the INEC chair to resign at this juncture of our national political journey. Amupitan will definitely conduct 2027 general elections, nothing will stop him.

[Marquis Of Infamy 🪶🪶🪶 @Unabombaar]

NNPC wanted to do maintenance on an oil well in Okrika Rivers state. They awarded the contract to Builders Resources Limited.

While working on the well, They caused a fire that has been burning on the river since 25th Feb 2024, polluting the environment and killing all fishes in the river, leaving the community with no way to fish or farm.

To this day, nothing has been done about it. The funny thing is that some people from the community will still vote for this incompetent APC government in 2027 because they worship wike.

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

This is wickedness! Satellite footage has revealed a massive illegal crude oil storage site allegedly owned by a single individual, reportedly about five times the size of an Olympic swimming pool in Niger Delta.

Thousands of holes were dug and filled with crude oil, with visible oil wells across the site. Reports warn that the environmental damage is so severe that vegetation may not grow there for up to 100 years.

[Abdulazeez Rafindadi @AURafindadi]

@PureMinD__ Is this man feeding his workers well?
There is need for government to thoroughly check on the activities of Dangote Sugar Company in Numan as seems the personnel are hungry.

[Abdulazeez Rafindadi @AURafindadi]

Imagine the so called national leaders protesting against obeying court ordering INEC to not recognize a party leadership till the dispute within the party is resolved.
Shame on Atiku and other leaders.

[TheCable @thecableng]

.@atiku, @PeterObi, David Mark, Amaechi lead ADC's ‘Occupy INEC’ protest in Abuja

Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president; David Mark, national chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC); and Rotimi Amaechi, ex-minister of transportation, on Wednesday led a protest tagged ‘Occupy INEC’ .

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 poll; Rauf Aregbesola, a former governor of Osun state; Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano; and ex-senator Dino Melaye, were also among the protesters.

The demonstration was organised by leaders of the ADC to protest what they described as the “partisanship” of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

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