ON THE ANAMBRA DEBT QUESTION
I have remained silent over the past few days because I have been grieving the loss of my very dear elder brother and friend, Chief Okey Ezeibe. However, the time has come for me to address some of the matters that have occupied public discussion in recent days.
I respectfully urge everyone to concentrate on the existential challenges confronting Nigeria and the hardships endured by its citizens, rather than on the needless distractions that have become widespread in our politics.
I wish to assure the public that I have no disagreement with my dear elder brother, Governor Soludo, or with any governor in Nigeria. I am not seeking the office of governor in any state, and I will not seek that position again, even if the Constitution is amended.
Accordingly, I appeal to governors to support whichever presidential candidate they choose while also permitting and assisting other presidential candidates and contenders for other offices to campaign freely and without interruption in their states. Ultimately, voters should be allowed to determine whom they wish to serve them.
Regarding the multilateral funding inaccurately described as “debt owed by Peter Obi” in Anambra State, I wish to state unequivocally:
As Governor of Anambra State, I did not approach any financial institution to borrow funds or issue a bond on behalf of the state. Indeed, at his farewell ceremony, the then Director-General of the DMO, Abraham Nwankwo, appointed me chairman and declared that, during his 10 years in office, I was the only state governor who had not approached him for a loan facility.
When I left office, the Anambra State Government owed no unpaid salaries, gratuities, or pensions. Neither did it owe any contractor or supplier who had completed work that the government had verified and certified.
Regarding development financing from the World Bank, these are concessionary development-support funds secured by the Federal Government for states selected by it to address specific needs. Repayment is spread over 25 to 30 years.
The Anambra State Government must therefore differentiate among three separate figures: the total amount approved for the multiyear development program; the amount Anambra State actually drew during my tenure; and the funding balance outstanding when I handed over on 17 March 2014.
The government has combined these distinct categories, added them together, and described the resulting US$123.77 million as “loans left by Peter Obi.” That is an incorrect application of public-sector accounting.
The eight facilities identified were primarily World Bank and IFAD development programs negotiated by the Federal Government, with participating states receiving access to the funds through subsidiary arrangements. They were not conventional commercial loans that I personally secured during my tenure.
This does not suggest that Anambra had no repayment responsibilities; rather, each facility must be examined in light of its approval, effectiveness, drawdown, and repayment record.
The clearest contradiction appears in the government’s own figures. It states that the original facilities amounted to approximately US$123.77 million and that US$92.35 million remained outstanding in June 2026. However, the DMO’s published records showed Anambra’s total external debt at approximately US$18 million when I began my tenure in March 2006, about US$30 million in March 2014, when I left office, and approximately US$45.15 million as of 31 December 2014, nine months after my departure.
The Anambra State Government must therefore clarify how a state whose recorded external debt was about US$30 million in March 2014 and US$45.15 million in December 2014 could supposedly have inherited US$123.77 million from Peter Obi, who left office in March of that same year.
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Nigeria belongs to all of us, and democracy MUST be dictated by the people's choice, not a drunkard’s!
We need to know who all the 37 States INEC Returning Officers are and their family members.
These people are often Professors who kept rigging elections and putting the nation in jeopardy just to feed their greed.
We need to know them and begin to warn them against rigging 2027 elections.
37 greedy people cannot continue to ruin our nation! Not anymore!
Ire o✌🏾
My annoyance with all of these is, if Army overthrows this rubbish democracy, UN, ECOWAS, AU, EU et al will crying upadan. Nobody is talking against this undemocratic actions we see & hear everyday.
Who has actually received PVC from the last INEC exercise. I hope this is not a plan from INEC to neutralize the entire young voting bloc who favour a particular candidate.
INEC has refused to issue Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to newly registered voters.
Every move appears calculated to frustrate voters and make it harder for Nigerians to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
We cannot remain silent. INEC must be held accountable, and Nigerians must demand transparency and the release of voters’ cards.
A peaceful, lawful demonstration at INEC offices may be necessary to make our voices heard.
Good morning to the entire universe.
I just want to tell you all that about 37 teenagers died in the custody of the NSCDC (Nigeria Security and “Civil Defence” Corps) in Niger State.
37 children!!!!!!!!!!! 37!!!!!!!!!! They’re literally babies!!!!!!
There’s an entire epistle called the Kissinger Report, published in 1974 on the importance of keeping Nigeria poor.
52 years later, an idiot with a twitter handle, who has not read any of the publications,
who has not gone to the EU’s website to see why terrorist are being reintegrated into Nigerian Society
Who does not even understand the vast amount of resources in terms of hard minerals and human capital that Nigeria sits on
Comes online to make a post about Nigerians overestimating themselves.
You’re an adult. Do research before you speak.
You can’t keep walking around with the intellectual capacity of an earthworm
A drunk cop opened fire at a checkpoint in 2011.
The bullet ripped through my car. Then through my right hand.
That night ended my career as an animator. It cracked my marriage. It left a wound in my mind that still hasn’t closed.
The twist? I sued the Nigeria Police. I won in 2015. The judge ordered them to pay my medical bills.
Ten years later: zero naira.
I live with permanent disability. No help. No justice. Yet, they are shouting “No To Impunity”
@PoliceNG_CRU@TunjiDisu1@SPNigeria #NigeriaPoliceNotYourFriend