@adulawoglory@OpeBee Even at the last election, he lost Lagos and was supported in other SW states. With the hunger in the land, he will learn big lessons
So all that macroeconomic stability in the OBJ-GEJ years that provided huge reserves, attracted investments, preserved value and expanded middle class was just rounded up as “fake life”. The Saudis and Qataris are also living fake life.
Instead of us to be honest in our decline of quality visionary leadership, lack of accountability and dearth of technocratic capabilities.
Nigerians are inside “one chance”.
While it is arguable that with the President and Vice President absent from the Villa , there is no vacancy in the Presidency, in a situation where both the President and Vice President are out of the country, as reported in the media yesterday, it's concerning for a country with such myriads of domestic problems.
The President had told us he would only be gone for 14 days. The 14 days have passed now, and we are waiting to see him in the country.
One would have expected him to return earlier than expected, considering the volume of work that needs to be done in a troubled nation like ours.
The untold hardship that has been unleashed on our people as a result of some of his administration's policies is unimaginable and we need his urgent attention to pilot the nation out of this present situation.
Again, since the President is reportedly in Paris, France, which is just about 833 nautical miles from Stockholm, Sweden, one wonders why he did not just attend the 2-day working visit to Sweden. He could simply have done it on his way back from France with his new powerful jet, which would have taken him a little over 2 hours.
This would have saved time and the very scarce national resources we need critically at this time. Instead, he delegated the Vice President, who needed to travel 3055 nautical miles, over nine hours, and (about 4 times the travel time from Paris) Abuja, Nigeria, to Stockholm, Sweden, to represent him at the event. It would take about 4 times the time and distance it takes to travel from Paris to Stockholm to travel from Abuja to Stockholm.
This does not represent the kind of fiscal responsibility and common sense that is expected of leaders whose people are facing severe hunger and poverty.
This is the time to show true and committed leadership to the people by making decisions that prioritize the well-being of the people and effective management of the nation's scarce resources in alleviating the sufferings of the people.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
@ibirogba2000 @Mario9jaa Hope against hope. Please wake up. Even the high echelons in power know Nigerian is in a really bad place economically. The president has failed Nigerians
In 2027, we will rider ten times harder for Obi than we did in 2023, and it will be our collective responsibility to ensure Tinubu is voted out of office.
It’ll be near impossible and very hard, but we will do it because we cannot allow this man destroy this country for 8 years
I won’t stop saying it but by the end of either 4 or 8 years of BAT, you would’ve wasted 12 or 16 years of your prime to atrocious leadership under APC.
The idea that there are ongoing “reforms” & you’ve to suffer before the dividends show at some later stage is a lie.
I listened yesterday as James Robinson spoke on CNN about human prosperity after he and two others were announced winners of the 2024 Nobel prize for Economics. He cited Nigeria as a country that knows what to do to prosper but cannot do it. All he said was stingingly painfully true. My book Why Nations are Poor appeared 10 years before he and Acemoglu published Why Nations Fail on the same premise of Institutions and performance. He also made the correct point that economic growth is an intensely political process. You can see why I have been angry with Nigerian politicians for 30 years. But what struck me the most was what he did not say. How the judiciary is central to why Nigeria is poor