St Vincent De Paul

Nigeria➡️Igbo➡️ Imo➡️ Mechanical Engineer➡️ @Fcbarcelona➡️ Politics➡️Social Critic

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@EziomaKalu Congrats

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My biggest wish today: God, I don't want to remain where I am currently on my next voyage. God, as I am putting in all the effort to achieve something even better, I pray You make it come through for me. I commit my appointment tomorrow into Your able hands. Happy birthday to me.

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🎉 Happy Birthday to me! 🎂🥳

Today, I celebrate the gift of life, the lessons that shaped me, the battles I overcame, and the grace that kept me standing. 🙏

I’m grateful to God for another year, another opportunity to grow, dream, love, and become a better version of myself.

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Atiku Abubakar has brought the issue of fuel subsidy back to the discussion. It is time for the APC and President Tinubu to start highlighting the gains of subsidy removal; otherwise, it will play a major role in his loss by January.

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@ChisomAgbafor You wan blind my eye?

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Who’s the NEXT President of Nigeria?

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@HRH_Ujuaku Atiku Abubakar

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@Gviev Atikulate are very civil and engage in intellectual discussions unlike the Obidient who end up gaslighting others. I regret supporting Obi in 2023. It was a regrettable mistake.

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@HoneyOjukwu Every where full

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APM Presidential Candidate, Makinde, Appoints Ehilebo as Special Adviser on Media and Digital Communication.

The Presidential Candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Governor of Oyo State, ‘Seyi Makinde, has appointed Barrister Anthony Ehilebo as his Special Adviser on Media and Digital Communication.

This appointment takes immediate effect, with further campaign team announcements to follow.

Makinde declared that Barrister Ehilebo’s unmatched expertise as a communication strategist and lawyer will be a powerful asset in driving the APM’s message of resetting Nigeria, and victory in the 2027 presidential election.

Please type congratulations @AnthonyEhilebo in the comments

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@MyksonDosSantos @HRH_Ujuaku Congratulations.

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@uduakba10128525 But you know Obi stand no chance.

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Majority of Nigerians whose life President Tinubu has tormented for the past 3 years will vote Atiku Abubakar as the alternative.

[IKECHUKWU @iykimo]

AA media team is sleeping

Flood everywhere with videos

Go markets and start asking people benefits of fuel subsidy removal

I don't know what they are doing

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@EngrChibuikem12 @iykimo Igbo people and hate for Atiku. It is not Atiku that denied you Biafra. He didn't imprison your leader Nnamdi Kanu. He brought Obi to the limelight.

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Atiku rattled the house

[Bayo Onanuga, OON, CON @aonanuga1956]

STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE

Atiku confused on petrol subsidy; third U-turn in one week shows he is simply playing politics

The latest comments by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on petrol subsidy raise a fundamental question: is he seriously proposing an economic policy, or is he simply playing politics with the temporary discomfort Nigerians face?

Within a week, Nigerians have heard three different explanations of what an Atiku administration would do about petrol subsidy. The confusion has now become impossible to ignore.

First, Atiku’s spokesperson, Paul Ibe, said Atiku would restore petrol subsidy if elected president and later phase it out. Ibe described it as a temporary intervention intended to give Nigerians and businesses room to recover.

Then came a clarification from another senior aide, Phrank Shaibu, who said Ibe’s statement was an “unauthorised and misleading characterisation” of Atiku’s position. According to Shaibu, Atiku would not set a predetermined date for ending the subsidy. Instead, it would remain until domestic refining expands, supply stabilises, competition deepens, and the market can deliver affordable prices without government support.

But just hours later, Atiku himself intervened and effectively overruled that clarification. He insisted that his position “has not changed” and that he would restore what he called a “targeted subsidy” if elected president. He also said, “I will restore targeted subsidy and put purchasing power back in the hands of Nigerians.”

This is not merely a matter of semantics. It is a serious policy contradiction.

If Atiku's position has not changed, why did one of his principal aides say the subsidy would be temporary and phased out? Why did another senior aide have to publicly disown that explanation and introduce a completely different framework based on market conditions? And why did Atiku then step in to reaffirm the original position?

Nigerians deserve clarity, not policy by trial and error.

More fundamentally, Atiku’s argument appears to misunderstand the dynamics of the petroleum market. Petrol does not become cheap simply because government orders a subsidy or because competition is expected to emerge. Several factors, including international crude oil prices, exchange rates, refining costs, transportation, distribution, and other market costs, influence pump prices.

Competition can improve efficiency and margins, but it cannot magically insulate Nigeria from global crude oil prices or other input costs.

There is also a troubling oversimplification in Atiku’s argument that “when fuel rises, transport rises. When transport rises, food rises. When food rises, families suffer.” Of course, energy and transportation costs affect food prices. But petrol prices alone have never caused food inflation. Nigerians experienced rising food prices even during the years when petrol subsidy was in place.

Agricultural productivity, insecurity, exchange rates, logistics, storage, flooding, input costs, money supply and supply constraints also matter. A serious economic programme must address these factors, as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been doing for the past three years, rather than reduce the entire cost-of-living crisis to petrol prices.

We therefore urge Atiku to stop shifting positions and explain precisely what he means by “targeted subsidy”: how much will it cost, who will benefit, how will beneficiaries be identified, how will it be funded, and what objective economic conditions will determine its eventual termination?

Nigerians cannot afford another opaque and potentially costly subsidy regime dressed up in new language.

The former vice-president should be honest with Nigerians: either he has a coherent, costed, and workable petroleum policy, or he is simply playing politics with a policy that has significantly restored fiscal health to the three tiers of government and stabilised the macroeconomic environment.

The economy is too serious for policy somersaults, incoherence, destructive populism and election gimmicks.

Atiku says his subsidy will follow the barrel of crude. Is he aware that refined petrol only constitutes 45 per cent of the by-products of a refined barrel of crude? A barrel yields other products, such as aviation fuel, kerosene, and diesel, which were deregulated many years ago.

Diesel, which the Obasanjo-Atiku administration deregulated in 2004, accounts for roughly 25% of the barrel. Jet Fuel and Kerosene make up about 9% of the barrel. Kerosene and jet fuel were deregulated in 2009, and subsidies removed in 2016.

About 10% to 15% of the barrel creates base ingredients for synthetic rubber, nylon, polyester, and plastics used in everyday goods like toothbrushes, cups, and packaging.

Asphalt makes up about 2% to 4% of the barrel. Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids (HGL), like propane and butane, make up about 4%. Lubricants and Waxes constitute about 1% to 2%. Petroleum coke and sulfur form the solid residue left from refining.

Will Atiku subsidise all these by-products of the barrel as well, since kerosene is used by the underprivileged to cook, and many homes and factories use diesel to power generators and delivery trucks? And will he allow the refineries he will supply discounted crude oil to profit from 55 per cent of the by-products, while focusing subsidy only on petrol, his obsession?

The former Vice President is definitely suffering from a lack of basic understanding of his newfound policy prescription.

Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President
(Information and Strategy)

August 26, 2026

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@AdaAnambra2023 Happy birthday

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@_Nsznn Sign of Thyphoid, you need some drugs.

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@SeanRealJohn1 I will vote for him.

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@iphyuche @Jack_ng01 How many Anambrians did their public funds worked for when Obi was governor?

You people act like Obi hasn't held public office before.