Obasanjo’s Issue With Tinubu Has Nothing To Do With Planning And Everything To Do With Envy – Afenifere

Like many Nigerians, we of the CONSCIENCE OF YORUBA NATION GROUP an affiliate group of Afenifere woke up to watch the interview of former President Olusegun Obasanjo granted to News-Central Television, of which he made several fallacious claims, chief of which is that the President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, entered office without a plan, and makes pronouncements on issues he has not studied.

Nothing could be further from the truth: President Tinubu had a plan and shared that plan with Nigerians before Nigerians convincingly elected him as their President, and rejected the candidate sponsored by General Obasanjo.

And the Tinubu strategy was so well disseminated during the 2023 election campaign season that even right now, we can repeat them by rote, and they were as follows:

End subsidy
Float the Naira
Devolve power from the Federal to the State and Local Governments, and
Expand education via student loans.

*Others can be found in his manifesto, Renewed Hope, which was widely circulated during the campaigns*

Unlike any other President in this republic, including General Olusegun Obasanjo, President Tinubu hit the ground running with his plan of which he implemented subsidy removal on Day One, and floated the Naira within weeks while achieving Local Government autonomy via a judicial victory at the Supreme Court on Thursday, July 11, 2024, even as he introduced student loans five days later on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

It is not that the President had the gumption and courage to implement his plans where others, most notably the Third Term-seeking Obasanjo, failed, the more noteworthy thing is that his reforms are working.

For example, Nigeria’s fuel imports have crashed, and we are now consuming less than 50% of what we allegedly consumed before President Tinubu implemented fuel subsidy removal. Why? Because due to price equalisation with neighbouring countries, the smuggling of cheap Nigerian fuel to other countries in the West African subregion has ended.

Furthermore, due to the floating of the Naira, we are now exporting more than we are importing. Specifically, Nigeria set a record of $4.58 billion in non-oil exports in 2023, which was not just a record but a 28.04% increase on the previous year.

We are set to break that record in 2024, as the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics revealed that by the half-year 2024, Nigeria had made $2.7 Billion in non-oil exports. This is already an H1 record.

Nigeria is now at the point where Vietnam was, where devaluation has made exports more attractive and cost-effective, leading to the record ₦14.07 trillion trade surplus we achieved by half of 2024.

To give some perspective, in 2016, Nigeria’s total non-oil exports totalled $1.4 billion. Now, we are making that in just one quarter.

Nigeria also had a trade deficit in the first year of Buhari (2016), with total imports at ₦8.527 trillion and total exports at ₦8.817 trillion, leaving a deficit of ₦290.1 billion.

But in the first and second years of the Tinubu administration, we are witnessing record-breaking trade surpluses.

Additionally, on Thursday, March 28, 2024, the Nigerian Stock Exchange crossed 104,562.06 All Shares Index, a 39.84% increase year-to-date, making it the second-best performing exchange in Africa.

And only yesterday, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria revealed that our reserves are now above $40 billion. This is an administration that inherited a foreign reserve that was so bad that JP Morgan said it was actually $3.7 billion.

Yet, somebody who could not achieve these, because he was distracted with how to perpetuate himself in power and engaging in a Rofo-Rofo fight with his deputy has the gall to condemn a performer?

Nigerians need to understand where General Olusegun Obasanjo is coming from.

This is a man with the mother of all egos. He wants to be the only successful President from Southern Nigeria. That is what he wants as his legacy. And to achieve that, he must undermine every other Southerner who emerges, despite his best efforts to stop them, as President of Nigeria.

It is for that reason that he undermined former President Goodluck Jonathan by lying that that good man was maintaining a killer squad of former Abacha hitmen to target political enemies.

Today, his poisonous darts have been aimed at President Tinubu, who he feels has already outshined and out-achieved him in just one year. Nigerians should see it for what it is. Sour grapes and envy!

Kole Omololu
Convener Conscience of Yoruba Nation Group
Spokesman of Afenifere

https://newsdirect.ng/obasanjos-issue-with-tinubu-has-nothing-to-do-with-planning-and-everything-to-do-with-envy-afenifere/

That's correct.

Liars! So, Tinubu's renewed hope was to cause hunger and hopelessness.
Destroy the biggest economy in sub-Saharan Africa to be comparable with Venezuelans, Yemenis and Myanmar.
Fools deceiving themselves, yet think they are following others.

Emilokan Tinubu Jagaban has humiliated Obasanjo from 1999 till date. Nothing, absolutely nothing can Obasanjo do

Nothing concern me with trade surplus and all those figure you are quoting.
My own problem is that the economy is biting so hard ordinary man cannot survive.

All those quoting me to start business, thunder fire all of ona, do u understand the meaning of inflation? Even businesses are affected

In just 18 months, Mr Tinubu has brought in more far reaching reforms than Mr Obasanjo did in 8 years.

The only thing I remember of the Obasanjo era is debt forgiveness and banking reforms.

Most of the endemic problems Nigeria faces today, including wanton corruption by the political class, election malpractices, political assassinations started under Mr Obasanjo's watch.

Everybody don become Afenifere for Yoruba land. There are more than 30 groups today in Yorubaland answering Afenifere so which one is the correct one?

Baba Iyabo is a desperate jealous old fool always trying to stay relevant.

He would like to be the only person from the SW to be called President. We don't take him seriously with all his useless rubbish rants.

As usual they will leave the message and attack the messenger just to make the message look stupid.

Tinubu is a disaster, Obasanjo is not a saint but he is God compared to tinubu
Two time old president is envying a drug rotten teeth thief

aariwa:
Everybody don become Afenifere for Yoruba land. There are more than 30 groups today in Yorubaland answering Afenifere so which one is the correct one?

This is the real group that we Yorubas respect.

Envy of what exactly? An army general that went to prison for standing on his toes and was choosen to be the president by all the major tribes is envious of someone with no trace, this is a very stupid statement.
Hate him or love him,obj is a man with balls and iam beginning to believe that his father is not from his tribe because his character and doings belies his purpoted tribe. I dont expect old men to make this kind of statement, i can forgive the indomie generation if they cap carelessly and not adults.

Hunger never. Reset una brain 🧠 Well oloshi.
Tinubu made afenifere useless. They now talk like rats.

DeLaRue:
In just 18 months, Mr Tinubu has brought in more far reaching reforms than Mr Obasanjo did in 8 years.

The only thing I remember of the Obasanjo era is debt forgiveness and banking reforms.

Most of the endemic problems Nigeria faces today, including wanton corruption by the political class, election malpractices, political assassinations started under Mr Obasanjo's watch.

Is it a joke you are typing here or are you actually serious? If you are serious then you need to stop whatever you are smoking before it runs you mad

Which faction of Afenifere made this statement?

Eke: Yoruba word that translates as hypocrisy, also pejoratively used as a noun to describe a person considered hypocritical, unprincipled, pretentious, and shorn of integrity.

Eke ni Tinubu: Tinubu is an eke😏🙄

Obasanjo is an Icon, beloved by all. An architect of a past prosperous nation.

AnonPoet:
Obasanjo’s Issue With Tinubu Has Nothing To Do With Planning And Everything To Do With Envy – Afenifere


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Which fraction of Afenifere is saying this? On what basis can Obasanjo envy Tinubu? Obasanjo was both a military head of state and a civilian president, a genuine engineer with a PhD and a verifiable biography.

Corporate2020:
Emilokan Tinubu Jagaban has humiliated Obasanjo from 1999 till date. Nothing, absolutely nothing can Obasanjo do

Your poverty-stricken economy will continue dealing with your senselessness. And there's nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can do about it.

DeLaRue:
In just 18 months, Mr Tinubu has brought in more far reaching reforms than Mr Obasanjo did in 8 years.

The only thing I remember of the Obasanjo era is debt forgiveness and banking reforms.

Most of the endemic problems Nigeria faces today, including wanton corruption by the political class, election malpractices, political assassinations started under Mr Obasanjo's watch.

Why are you people this wicked?

AnonPoet:
Obasanjo’s Issue With Tinubu Has Nothing To Do With Planning And Everything To Do With Envy – Afenifere


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who go pay baba another PENSION to RETIRE from POLITICS now, he no dey ADD up fa

person tell una truth
una say na envy
tufiakwa to Nigerians

This one na Fakefenifere just like Isiguzoro the fake Ohaneze spokesman always featured on Nairaland

AnonPoet:
Obasanjo’s Issue With Tinubu Has Nothing To Do With Planning And Everything To Do With Envy – Afenifere

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Spot on.

Opportunist tinubu. He took advantage of obj retirement from politics, same as Tony anenih, Sam ogbemudia, and the pdp division to propel himself. When obj dey government, who know tinubu? local champion

Lol....speak for yourself. No sane yoruba respects some expired elders who are overstaying their relevance

CommonSense1967:


This is the real group that we Yorubas respect.

That day one subsidy removal is a whacked job on already impoverished Country.
Its a wrong policy.

Are some Nigerians still defending the drug master and certificate forger?

I'd have been shocked if they didn't respond with this 😂😂😂

Dont tell me timubu is the smartest president. Please!

Good point from Afenifere.

Which manifesto did Tinubu declare ?
The man that was avoiding interview like a plague , he was only shouting grab it ,take it by force and run away with it , Emilokan up and down ....

Don't expect much from the man that have promised you nothing .......