People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.
I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.
Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.
Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.
Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.
So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.
PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.
Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.
Debunking the Phantom Debts and Ecological Loan Fallacy
My attention has been drawn to trending claims by the Anambra State Government that my administration left behind inherited debts, including a ₦2 billion ecological loan, contractor liabilities, and unpaid salaries, gratuities, and pensions. This is completely false.
We systematically liquidated historical gratuities and arrears dating back several years, amounting to over ₦35 billion. At the point of handover, the state owed nothing in salaries, gratuities, or pensions, nor did we owe anything to any contractor for projects duly executed and certified.
The ₦2 billion ecological fund in question was released barely three months before the end of my tenure for the Oko/Umuchiana erosion crisis. Despite pressure to spend the money, I refused, insisting that it should be left for my successor because government is a continuum and the funds were tied to a specific project.
The money was therefore left 100 per cent intact in First Bank, in Account No. 2018779464, with a balance of over ₦2.13 billion.
It is important to stress that funds tied to specific projects or set aside for particular purposes were not even included in the over ₦75 billion in savings we left behind.
If anybody can establish anything to the contrary, I will stop campaigning. -PO
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Because Iyin @iaboyeji responded to me and then cowardly blocked me before I could respond properly to him in return, here is my robust response. I hope this gets shared until he sees it.
With all due respect Iyin, you are daft.
And I mean this not as an insult in any way, but as a brother i previously considered to be smart, I have to say this: you are unusually astoundingly daft for a man of your class.
And the more you talk, the more stupid you sound. And your stupidity over the last few months on an almost daily basis is incredibly consistent that it is no longer a mistake but a clear display of your suboptimal intellectual dysfunction.
On this particular subject matter:
You are still missing the point.
The point remains that you can NOT criminalise and demonise helpless citizens who are victims of a systemic failure to protect them from fake/scam products being sold to them at licensed outlets.
You can NOT be pushing that the government should attack the helpless Nigerian who goes to a licensed pharmacy to get a painkiller but is sold a counterfeit medicine.
The point is very simple and I will state it again. Your seeming suggestion that the helpless Nigerian who is a victim of scam products should be attacked and harassed by the Nigerian government is a totally lunatic idea and ludicrously deranged suggestion- to put it quite mildly.
What you are doing is to ignore the actual root problem- which is the failure of government to go after the rogue manufacturers, their distributors and the sellers who all connive to deceive the Nigerian people and destroy their health on a national scale;
You are choosing to focus on the helpless Nigerian consumers who unfortunately have no choice but to buy the unfortunate fake products they are given in the stores.
Again, without mincing any words;
This is exactly why I said in my very first rebuttal to you that you are very thoughtless. You are very daft. You are very wicked.
And this is simply because you actually know better but you have chosen this path of wilful stupidity just to please your slavemasters.
And on a final note;
it is a total shame that when they talk about thought leaders among young people in Nigeria, some people will still mention a proven idiot like you who doesn’t even bother to put any thought into any of the incredibly consistent nonsense you spew on important national matters.
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LIES HAVE SHORT LEGS, THEY DO NOT RUN FAR
In direct response to the published FAKE NEWS and personal attacks from Messrs Dele Alake and Bayo Onanuga of the APC PCC Media Communication Directorate - (many APC PCC members have called to disassociate themselves).
Zambian president tells leaders to buy their own Land Cruiser VX because the 200,000 US dollars one car costs can build toilets in all markets in an entire constituency. He tells them tht they know they can't afford them but because it's taxpayers money they pretend. We need him
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