@Mrczar_ 3. They listen to you and start poaching your officials to work for them - you can only get here after achieving significant prosperity by ignoring them in 2
@Mrczar_ I've seen these cycles before:
1. They totally ignore you - you are dead economy, you only matter in their poverty report
2. They give unsolicited input to all policy shift plans- you are making good decisions that may lead to grand reforms and prosperity - time to ignore them.
**Tobi22446688** "Omo PAU" is sharp Yoruba Twitter wordplay.
"Omo pau bi ibon" = old slang for wild/prodigal kids or "sons of guns" (pau = gunshot sound + ibon = gun).
The poster flipped it to **"Omo PAU"** — meaning the child/graduate of **Pan-Atlantic University (PAU)**.
It's a clever pun celebrating the graduation while sounding exactly like the idiom. Pure Naija banter! 🎓😂
I like the way he articulated this and it is a very plausible take. But in all of the actors involved who do you think wields enough power and influence to make this happen?
Short answer: almost certainly not through forgery alone.
Here is what actually happened.
There is a real Presidential Economic Advisory Council. It is a legitimate body that Tinubu reconstituted in 2023 with proper appointments. It already had a budget line. What appears to have happened is that Adeyemi's invented agency name, the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, was grafted onto that existing legitimate budget line during the National Assembly phase of the 2026 appropriation process.
The actual published 2026 Appropriation Act lists the entry as: "PRESIDENTIAL ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL / PRESIDENTIALL FOREIGN INTERVENTION PROMOTION COUNCIL" under a single budget code, with N1.3 billion in combined allocation. Two agencies, one real and one fictitious, sharing one budget code. And the word "PRESIDENTIAL" in the second name is spelled "PRESIDENTIALL" with a double L, in a signed national budget document, which tells you how carefully that entry was reviewed before the President put pen to paper.
This is not unusual in how Nigeria's budget process works. The President submitted a N58.18 trillion bill in December 2025. By the time NASS finished with it, it had grown to N68.3 trillion, over N9 trillion added during legislative deliberations. Analysis of the final document showed at least 82 MDAs had new lines inserted that were not in the President's original submission, totalling N3.5 trillion in additions, in direct contradiction of a Budget Office circular warning against new projects. This happens every budget cycle. BudgIT has flagged it for years. Agencies and individuals lobby appropriations committee members during the legislative phase and lines get inserted or amended.
So to directly answer the question: the budget entry most likely happened through that legislative insertion gap, not through a forged document submitted to the Budget Office. Someone, whether Adeyemi himself through contacts, a legislator acting on bad information, or a staff member who had been deceived by his paperwork, added the PFIPC name to the PEAC's existing budget code during NASS deliberations. The Budget Office saw a code that already existed for a legitimate body and processed it without flagging the second name.
The Presidency's July 1 statement calls him a fraudster and an impostor. That may be entirely correct and the court will settle it. But that same statement does not address the budget entry with a single sentence. The investigation needs to identify who specifically touched that appropriation line and at what stage. If it stops at Adeyemi's eight-count charge without tracing the budget insertion, the most important question in this entire saga goes unanswered.
This is one reason why Nigeria's public policies are always flawed.
With no disrespect to Dr. Joe himself, but policies shouldn't be based on individual ideas or what a group of elites considered progressive or "the brightest way of doing things".
It should be based on collected data, survey, democratic inputs and feedback from the populace. People sitting in an air conditioner filled room can't just assume what is best for the mass population in the country.
It's a monopolisation of abstract and pedestrian knowledge that no single human being or a group of politically privileged human beings can know.
On NYSC reforms, what's the data that show that the current system isn't working? And if any, where's the data that indicate that the new system will solve the identified problem? What research was carried? Where's the democratic input from the people who are currently in the system (the corp members)? Where's the feedback mechanism that made this new approach justifiable?
Without any of this, we just propose ideas that sound and look good on paper only for it to become adversely inapplicable to those who the ideas directly affected.
The same way I asked Mr. Oyedele then what data was driving his tax reform bill, and the proposed increment in VAT and CGT in the bill, only to have the host and the co-host kick me out of the space.
Our intellectual and political elites must be humble enough to know that not all ideas in their head are made of gold.
Else, we continue to fix what necessarily isn't broken.