Voice of Reason

We are a group of professionals passionate about seeing Nigeria work, and we are totally sold on H.E. Peter Obi's bid to be Nigeria's President.

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@PeterObi, please take note of these 3 things APC-INEC have done in the past & will still do or enable in 2027 to undermine the opposition:

Emergency
1. Oro festival (Lagos in 2023).
2. Curfew (Abuja 2026).
3. Postponement (2019 targeted at diaspora + traveling voters).

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

....After all these years, my brother @realkenokonkwo, has now gone back to truly #LivingInBondage?!

https://t.co/n7Tw185MP8

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

Classic Titanic - those on the top deck continue to dance while the ship wreckage continues.

[Daddy D.O🇳🇬 @DOlusegun]

Seems Mr. @PeterObi has now abandoned the trouble he’s facing within the NDC and the horrible update from his beloved Indonesia about their dwindling economy to quickly distract us with misinformation again but we will not watch while this goes uncorrected.

For the umpteenth time, Nigeria’s obvious debt portfolio increase over the past three years under the administration of President Tinubu is not a function of new borrowings rather; vast majority of them are mathematical impacts of currency devaluation which you also promised to implement during your campaigns.

In addition, this administration inherited a whopping ways and means debt of around 20trillion which was securitized to ensure swift repayment by the nation. This makes up a significant portion of the debts Mr Obi is claiming the administration has accumulated within three years.

Also, Nigeria’s public debt includes loans taken by subnationals over the years.

Since Mr Peter Obi has chosen to play the pedestrian game with our economy, let me break it down for him at that level; If tomorrow, President Tinubu decides to fix the Naira against the dollar at N500/$ and the value of our debts in Naira drops drastically, will Mr @peterobi unequivocally agree that the President has repaid all of our debts?

Yes, governments at all levels across the world take loans to accelerate their development and Nigeria is not an exemption in this case.

However, a presidential candidate believing that an administration with less than trillion N100trillion total budget in the last two budget cycles have borrowed almost N200 trillion is absolutely ridiculous.

Lastly, Nigeria’s debt in dollar value has remained relatively stable ranging from $108bn in 2023 to $109bn in 2026. This tells the true story of the country’s debt levels.

In contrast, Nigeria’s net external reserves has grown from $3bn in 2023 to around $40bn in 2026. I hope Mr Obi will do well to convert these to Naira same way he has done with our debts to show his audience how much we have grown in just three years.

We will continue to set the records straight at every given opportunity while allowing Mr President to focus on delivering his mandate to the good people of Nigeria.

[Anambra 1st son @UchePOkoye]

Without Peter Obi, nobody would have known who you’re.

You have over 100k followers thanks to Peter Obi. Amechi did not add anything to your social capital.

The only reason why Amechi looked your way is because of Peter Obi.

You do not understand the importance of social capital that’s why you have been denigrating the foundation of your political system in Nigeria.

Guess what, nobody in his right sense will entrust you with anything meaningful.
If you can say these things to Peter Obi, you can say that to anyone.

You have zero sense of responsibility and loyalty.

A useful tool in the hands of detractors. You will learn this lesson very late.

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

You see those 2 Up-north and Down-south guys, we have always referred to them as loose cannons.

They think that being courageous is all that is required to become a leader.

Both of them will soon find out that no serious leader will give them the kind of access PO gave them.

[Chigozie I. Alex @Chigozieialex]

When I said he was a very selfish politician here 2yrs ago, they called for my head.

Today, it’s interesting to see Obidients finally having the courage to speak up.

Many already know the truth, but they’re afraid of being labeled or dragged by the mob.

Emancipate yourselves!

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@Morris_Monye Which Omo-Agege? He should take back seat joor. When did we start entertaining agberos?

NDC can't be that daftly simplistic!!!

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@novieverest It's that US Congress part weakened everything. Are you relying on them? It's simply rig and die approach that we must adopt 100%.

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@ADFmagazine Unrelenting in wanting Africa to remain part of your corporations...

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@trigottista See how uncomfortable the two guys wearing native Yoruba (brown and green) caps behind him are?

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@YarKafanchan Politically, GEJ hasn't quite impressed us that much the way he carries himself. Perhaps, it's his survival strategy.

Only him or time will reveal why he is allowing his name to be used in a way that diminishes his person.

Don't contemplate helping a party that denigrated you!

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

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[Bayo Onanuga, OON, CON @aonanuga1956]

Bola Tinubu:  the man who took the bullet for Nigeria to survive

By Bayo Onanuga

With politicking intensifying ahead of the January 2027 election, opposition politicians have escalated their campaign of misinformation and calumny to diminish the impact and achievements of this administration over the last three years.

Two years ago, when the administration was struggling to deal with the unintended consequences of its historic reforms, the campaign would have made sense. But not anymore, as the administration can rightly claim bragging rights for what it has achieved against all odds and why the international community is applauding it for putting Nigeria irrevocably on the path of growth and development.

The impact of the three-year-old government is best felt at the subnational level - state and local levels. States that hitherto were unable to pay salaries by May 2023, with months of unpaid obligations to their workers and pensioners, are now doing so with ease and dreaming big about infrastructure. In every state I have visited, I have seen this development. Ogun, my state, Oyo, Nasarawa, Enugu, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Kano, Kebbi, Katsina, and others have witnessed development projects spring up, thanks to President Tinubu's re-engineering of the federation's finances and increased allocation to the states. When local councils begin to receive their allocations directly from the Federation Account, the Tinubu effect will ensure that more governance cascades down to the 774 local councils.

State governors who have benefited from this policy have openly admitted that increased allocations have enabled them to bring social and infrastructural development to their states. Many opposition PDP governors who joined the APC did so for this reason—not for the baseless claim that President Tinubu bribed them. Governor Abdulrazak said in December 2024 that his administration embarked on more projects in the first 18 months of Tinubu’s presidency than in his first four years. The Governor of Ebonyi, Nwifuru, who is building iconic underpasses and overpasses in Abakaliki, credited his ambition to President Tinubu. Governor Peter Mbah similarly attested to this, crediting the Naira rain from the centre for his programmes. And Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule, who understands how Tinubu’s financial re-engineering and the end of the subsidy regime have increased the states’ fortunes, said President Tinubu “has taken the bullets for all of them.”

In May 2023, President Tinubu inherited acute petrol scarcity, an unsustainable petrol subsidy regime due to expire in June 2023, multiple exchange rates, arbitrage, and low revenue, with at least 30 states unable to pay workers, let alone fund infrastructure and social projects. Debt servicing consumed 97 per cent of Federal revenue. Additionally, food scarcity and inflation plagued the country as farmers abandoned their fields, recording massive losses amid the currency squeeze introduced by former CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele.

President Tinubu, guided by the Renewed Hope Agenda, wasted no time. He threw the ruinous subsidy out of the window from Day One. Days later, he floated the Naira and ended the artificial fixing of the Naira-to-dollar exchange rate, a system that had enabled well-connected individuals to profit effortlessly. Tinubu declared a food emergency and announced the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms to examine our outdated tax laws, some of which date back to the colonial era. Immediate gains included encouraging dry-season farming, with subsidies and inputs provided for farmlands abutting dams and irrigation sites in at least 14 states.

Even by President Tinubu’s admission, the early months and the first year were tough as the government implemented its programme. The cost of living went up, and businesses claimed the harmonised exchange rate had put them in the red. A few companies even closed shop and left our shores. On the streets, some Nigerians claimed that the policies have left them hungry, a sentiment the opposition still parrots to this day, without any empirical proof. If not sure of the salience of his reforms, President Tinubu would have taken a reverse gear in fright and abandoned all the new reform policies amid the avalanche of attacks from critics and opposition elements in the media. Instead, he persisted.

Two years after the first challenging year, the story has changed for good. However, some opposition elements are stuck in the sentiment of 2023/24, unyielding and adamant about acknowledging the many gains and milestones achieved by the Tinubu administration.  But only the blind will fail to admit that this government has taken the country miles away from the state it inherited in 2023.

The stock market is clear proof of the administration’s economic success. In May 2023, Tinubu met the All-Share Index at 53,000 points and the market capitalisation at N30 Trillion. Today, the ASI has risen five times, to a record 250,000 and a market capitalisation of N160 Trillion.  Blue-chip companies, including those initially negatively impacted by government policies, are declaring record profits and dividends. Equally, foreign portfolio investors are flocking in to partake in the Nigerian boom. This is not a bubble. It shows that a fundamental paradigm shift has occurred in the economy, all thanks to the Tinubu administration's policy direction. 

In recent weeks, I revisited the manifesto and policy ambitions that won us the election. The Tinubu administration has faithfully implemented its Renewed Hope Agenda, striving to resolve in three years the cumulative problems of decades.

Roads that will outlast this generation are being built nationwide. I recently went home to Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, and was amazed that the highway to my town from the Shagamu intersection now has a concrete pavement, thick enough to withstand the traffic of trailers from the West to the East. The most audacious road projects ever undertaken by any administration since independence are the Illela-Sokoto-Badagry and the Lagos-Calabar coastal superhighways. President Shehu Shagari conceived the Sokoto-Badagry highway in the early 80s. Succeeding administrations, afraid of the huge cost, abandoned the road. The Lagos-Calabar has also been on the map for decades, but no leader has ever dared to turn the idea into reality. President Tinubu has proven to be a transformative leader who has decided to turn the roads into reality, adding new roads to our road network for the first time, beyond those we inherited from the colonialists. Myopic critics of the two roads have assailed the Tinubu administration for taking loans to accomplish them. How else could the roads have been built if we rely only on FG’s share from FAAC? Relying solely on federal allocations would mean waiting 50 years or more, with costs ballooning out of reach, as in the metro-rail to nowhere started by presidential aspirant Rotimi Chibuke Amaechi in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In the states, governors are building roads of similar standards. I saw some of these in Ogun,  Kaduna, Ebonyi and  Enugu.

As with roads, the Tinubu administration is also investing heavily in rail transportation, with the Kaduna-Kano-Gusau-Maraadi rail network scheduled for completion next year. City rail networks in Kaduna, Lagos, Kano and Enugu have been approved for construction, along with the Lekki-Ibadan rail.

When historians write about the Tinubu administration in 2031, they will not remember it only for audacious road and rail networks, but also for historic reforms. The oil and gas sector is one area in which the administration has impacted the country. Apart from ending the regime of wasteful subsidies, the government has instituted reforms that have made the sector attractive to fresh investment. International Oil Companies(IOCs) that once shunned our country are returning with billions of dollars in investment. Domestic refining and the innovative Naira-for-crude policy are ensuring energy security, thereby avoiding acute scarcity arising from the disruptive war against Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. More recently, the administration enacted a policy requiring the NNPC to remit oil sales proceeds to the Federation account.

Confronted by the administration’s stellar performance, the opposition and media propagandists dredged up a campaign video of the President promising a 24/7 power supply. They distorted his words. What he actually said was: “Whichever way, by all means necessary, you will have electricity, and you will not pay for an estimated bill anymore. A promise made will be a promise kept. If I don’t keep the promise and I come for a second term, don’t vote for me, unless I give you adequate reasons why I couldn’t deliver.”

What the distorters failed to admit was that the Discos, privatised since 2013 by President Goodluck Jonathan, are responsible for delivering power to the end consumers, not the Federal Government. What this government has done in the last three years has been to address the problems hindering the capacity of Discos to deliver, such as bringing Siemens to strengthen the grid, activating idle GENCOs,  and planning to clear the N4 trillion legacy debts owed to GENCOs and GASCos, which will encourage new investments in the sector. The government has also massively implemented its metering policy, providing over 2.5 million meters to homes. Recently, the Tinubu administration announced the establishment of GAMCO, the Grid Asset Management Company, which will optimise power supply and activate idle facilities. 

One of the administration’s impactful programmes, apart from issuing passports in less than a week, is the introduction of NELFUND and CREDICORP in 2024. While Credicorp is making loans available to civil servants to buy Made-In-Nigeria products, NELFUND, with N282 billion committed so far, has made tertiary education more accessible for our children.  About 1.6 million Nigerian students have benefited. Payment of school fees and stipends is assured for the children, and the government has also renegotiated the 2009 ASUU-FG agreement, such that in the last three years, our universities, along with the Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, have been spared the disruptive academic strikes. Let’s give the Tinubu government some slack: a four-year programme is now a four-year programme.  He promised it during the campaign and has delivered. The government has also invested in technical schools, offering students pursuing vocational education allowances. In the universities, TETFUND is once again funding research grants for dons willing to pursue ideas that will be useful to our society. 

Among impactful programmes, apart from issuing passports in less than a week, are NELFUND and CREDICORP, introduced in 2024. Credicorp makes loans available to civil servants for Made-In-Nigeria products, while NELFUND, with N282 billion committed, has made tertiary education more accessible. About 1.6 million students have benefited. School fees and stipends are assured, and the government has renegotiated the 2009 ASUU-FG agreement, sparing universities from disruptive strikes. Today, a four-year programme in the universities, polytechnics and colleges of education is completed in four years. Technical schools offer allowances to vocational students, and TETFUND is funding research grants to academics.

It has not been all rosy the past three years, especially in the area of making our people safe from the band of bandits and terrorists. While the armed forces have been locked in an asymmetrical war against these heartless elements, neutralising their leaders and foot soldiers in several theatres of conflict, the displaced terrorists are attacking vulnerable areas in some of the states, killing and kidnapping. The government is unrelenting in providing the armed forces, intelligence agencies, and police with the tools they need to wage the war. With support from friendly governments like the US, France, and the UK, there is hope that the menace of kidnappers and their political sponsors will become history. The man who has taken the bullets to make Nigeria survive a fiscal disaster is even more willing to take additional bullets to make all Nigerians safe.

-Onanuga is Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@Big_Sinudo Mtcheeeew!!!!

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@AbdulMahmud01 Are they really ready to discuss that matter?
In APC, does river flow down or up the hill?

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@ChuksEricE Let's not push this beautiful woman to becoming a mannequin for makeup artists' practice.

All these too much over reliance on makeup should not be a rave, especially for decent women.

The simple and clean always wins!

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

A Nation Losing Its HUMANITY.

Some events shatter a society so deeply that words are no longer enough to express the shock; the brutal killing of a teacher and the horrific rape and murder of an elderly woman are among such tragedies. These are not isolated incidents but signs of deeper moral and social decay.

How did we get here? How did we reach a point where teachers are hunted and killed, and the elderly—custodians of memory and wisdom—suffer such dehumanising violence?

This is more than a security crisis; it is a failure of collective humanity. We have become desensitised, consuming tragedy briefly and moving on, allowing indifference to normalise the unacceptable.

To the families affected, I share in your grief. But grief alone is not enough.

We must demand accountability and urgent systemic change. If such atrocities no longer move us to action, then we risk losing our shared humanity. -PO

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@NewsCentralTV Perhaps, one day we would have a factional owner or MD of @NewsCentralTV?

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@NewsCentralTV Is it that no news channel can actually be trusted to be different - how is Abure still being addressed as national chairman by your media platform?

Selling controversy or noise? What is you are selling?

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

There will always be people who have contrarian disposition in every spere; they have their value.

What is not clear is how many top leaders would want to bring into their innermost circle "contrarians".

Up-north or down-south, time always speaks!!

[JACK The Builder™ @Jack_ng01]

This may just be the candidate we have been looking for

I like his experience and the fact he is a break from the faces we see every election cycle

HE has been speaking to the issues too instead of Attacking anyone

That's the kind of man in want to support in 2027 ☺️

ADC please give Mohammed Hayatu-Deen ticket 🤲🤲

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@NewsCentralTV Just image this fellow, @AbureJulius. There are far too many jokers/wicked people in Nigeria living in peace.

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

@TENIBEGILOJU202 Who produced or voiced this song - it's lovely!

[Voice of Reason @NGvoiceofreason]

Is Andy still living in bondage?

Why have they not still explained things properly to him?

[Channels Television @channelstv]

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