The Crisis Started When I Refused His N12.5bn Demand" - DG Adeniyi
— DG Adeniyi says the Chief of Staff asked him for N12.5 billion and the problem began when he refused to pay.
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Grand Corruption: Nigeria’s Greatest Threat.
The recent report from the IMF consultation further raises concerns about the scale of grand corruption under the Tinubu government. The IMF now reveals that about N8.83 trillion in expenditure undertaken in 2025 is not reflected in the budget. This expenditure is not budgeted and is therefore not under legislative oversight or administrative scrutiny. This is horrible.
N8.83 trillion is as follows:
1.About 2% of our GDP.
2.Over 35% of Nigeria’s 2025 N23.96 trillion capital project budget. In fact, the amount is more than the actual released capital funding for 2025.
https://t.co/Hta3LViCB8 is more than the entire combined budget for education (N3.52 trillion) and health (N2.38 trillion).
If such an amount is properly used and accounted for, it could transform Nigeria’s public health and education sectors. It could create hundreds of cottage industries that can provide jobs for thousands of graduates and build a solid foundation for economic development. But we cannot account for it. This is not an isolated incident.
This is a pattern of grand corruption that has become part of this administration.
We have a lot to worry about regarding the state of corruption under President Tinubu. The sort of corruption that is ingrained in total disregard of elementary rules of public finance management poses a grave danger to national security and the stability of the Nigerian state. The capture of the Nigerian state and the plunder of its resources are actions that undermine the basis of state stability and deepen poverty and state failure.
This recent revelation proves that the APC government is grossly corrupt, incompetent, and insensitive. With the growing poverty and the urgent need for significant upgrades to social and physical infrastructure, a responsible and responsive government would ensure that N8.83 trillion is prudently utilised to address these gaps. But not the Tinubu administration.
A few days ago, I called on President Tinubu to resign from office for incompetence, lack of capacity, lack of compassion, and failure to improve on his campaign promises. Some people thought perhaps the call was excessive. But with the daily revelations of pervasive corruption in this administration and its total lack of commitment to the welfare and security of Nigerian citizens, the only reasonable action is for President Tinubu to resign from office. The collapse of elementary forms of due process under Tinubu and the increased evidence of rampant looting of Nigerian public finances reinforce the need for greater accountability. It is now time for Nigerian citizens to rise within the law and hold this administration to account.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
@Uptownoflagos Olodo uprising . Dude, are u aware that HE PO got over 90% of votes in Anambra for the last Presidential election . Facts are brutal . Take am play first.
Bayo Onanuga wants Nigerians to believe that this same Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi ran a “fictitious” Presidential Economic Advisory Council right under their noses? Does Femi Gbajamiabila think we were born yesterday?
You want us to believe that Prince Adeniyi metaphysically misled the Presidency, the Central Bank of Nigeria, & the accountant-general of the federation to open an account domiciled in CBN in his Agency’s name?
He equally misled the presidency to budget a whopping ₦1.3 billion for a nonexistent agency in a budget prepared by your government?
THIS IS BEYOND SCANDALOUS!
Prince Adeniyi must not be silenced!
Every developed nation first became an education superpower before becoming an economic superpower.
Education is not another sector.
Education is the operating system of a nation.
Everything else runs on it.
This administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a pattern that works well for them.
Whenever there is a scandal of high magnitude, their first reaction is always the same.
They come out to deny it outright. Then, when the masses present stronger evidence that becomes difficult to dismiss, they suddenly go quiet, hoping the issue will fade away after a few days.
And, fortunately for them, it often works because we are a people who forget so easily.
We ask questions, demand accountability for a while, receive no answers, and then move on as if nothing ever happened.
When Joash Amupitan was accused of having partisan affiliation with APC, this was the same pattern that was used.
Recently when people suspected to be band!ts appeared in a viral video carrying sophisticated weapons, this was the same pattern that was used.
Sadly, this particular case appears to be heading in the same direction.
Why?
Because they understand one painful reality:
We, the masses, may raise our voices, express our anger, and flood social media with outrage, but in the end, we rarely sustain the pressure long enough to demand answers or consequences.
That is why silence has become their safest strategy.
They know that if they can outlast the public's attention, the controversy will eventually disappear, just like many others before it.
I am Ekene Aninze Esq.
Hey everyone, Bayo Onanuga told you the Tinubu government didn't know about that agency.
But way back in 2015, they were already using it to funnel money through fake projects, overseas training, and events worldwide.
It was a total free-for-all for them. Just imagine something, write a memo, and the money's approved and split among them. This isn't the only agency like this; there are tons more.
The Chief of Staff, SGF, CBN, NASS Leadership, and others all have their own agencies that give them monthly kickbacks.
This is just the beginning... I hope your notification bell is ON.
You've got to help make sure corruption is totally wiped out in Nigeria, and you can do your part by sharing this post so 500k Nigerians see it.
Let's go...
The Nigerian Government in the bid to protect and shield one of its own high-ranking criminal officials would have you believe certain absolutely impossible claims. This satanic corrupt compromised animals in government want you to believe that
1. That a random man “created” a fake government agency,
2. This fake government agency was called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council,
3. This same man then appointed himself as the director general, he got office at the government’s owned Federal Secretariat complex,
4. This same man opened a bank account with the government’s owned central bank of Nigeria,
5. This same man got the agency into the national budget of 2026 which was signed by the president,
6. This same man got 1.3billion naira allocated to this so-called ‘fake’ agency,
7. This same man was able to organise meeting with government appointed ambassadors, hold important sessions with federal ministers, and he even represented Nigeria at goobal conferences.
But most importantly,
The Nigerian government wants you to believe that everything I just wrote here from 1-7 was done and accomplished by this random man without the government being aware, being complicit or being involved.
Do you know what it takes to open an account with CBN? Do you know what it means to have an agency inside the country’s national budget? Do you know what it implies that this budget was signed by the president?
Now go back and read those points from 1-7 again and ask yourself how possible it is that a random man will be able to do all of this without heavy compromise from top government officials. Yet this kind of improbable lunatic proposition is what this demonic APC wants you to believe.
This is a government of blatant thieves, godless charlatans, heartless criminals and lying scoundrels.
Your citizenship really determines so much for you. As a Nigerian, your matter long ooo.
I had a Saudi classmate when I was fling my Masters. He explained to me that all Saudis in the UK were fully sponsored by the government. I asked what his plan was after school, he said he was going back home to take up a job. He didn't even like the UK. I don't blame him, he struggled with the language and culture.
I had Korean classmates (those ones are always rich and clean). No one was staying back or had plan to.
I saw Chinese classmate 2 years later. He had started a business with his babe. He told me the government encourages them to take loan to invest abroad. I thought we were just having a discussion. I didn't know he had his plan mapped out.
My Spanish friend (the only one I still talk to), I asked him when he was going to pick up his British passport since he was eligible for it having been in UK for many years, he said he didnt need it that his passport takes him where he needs to go. I spoke to him recently and he said he is looking to leave the UK soon. He wants to return home to Barcelona. That reminds me, he has been inviting me to Barcelona 🤦♂️
At the start of Covid, my Canadain flatmate packed his bag and left. He told me he would finish his program from there. I once asked how he was paying for his program (Law Undergraduate), he said he took a loan from the bank in Canada.
Then you look at Nigerians- we are always looking for how to stay back at all cost because home offers nothing. Conversation always centred around sponsorship jobs - even if it is care job. This is after working 12 hours shift through out your Masters to pay for your fees and cover for your living expenses. People are even so desperate, they are paying 10k to 12k for sponsorship job just to stay back.
You are a staunch Tinubu supporter. He won the election in 2023. You were clapping then.
After 12 months in office, you sold your car. You changed your children’s school to one with smaller fees, thinking you were being smart 🤓😞
After 2 years, your landlord increased rent. You couldn’t pay. So you moved your family to a smaller apartment, believing things would get better.
Today, you are struggling to feed. Struggling to pay NEPA bill. Struggling to buy cooking gas, so you’ve resorted to buying only 2kg. Struggling to even refresh yourself.
You have borrowed from almost all online loan apps, yet it’s getting worse every month.
When will you realize that Tinubu is a disaster fashioned against you? Or do you prefer to kpai on his mandates???