{"id":234949,"date":"2025-08-24T21:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/tinubu-coalition-wants-to-take-over-to-continue-looting-we-know-them-since-we-were-kids-shaibu\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:15:25","slug":"tinubu-coalition-wants-to-take-over-to-continue-looting-we-know-them-since-we-were-kids-shaibu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu-coalition-wants-to-take-over-to-continue-looting-we-know-them-since-we-were-kids-shaibu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu: Coalition Wants To Take Over To Continue Looting, We Know Them Since We Were Kids \u2013 Shaibu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>Former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has declared that the only coalition Nigerians should support ahead of the 2027 presidential election is one that rallies behind President Bola Ahmed <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>for a second term.<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking at the weekend during his visit to the headquarters of the <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>Support Group (TSG) in Abuja, the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Sports dismissed the recently formed opposition coalition, describing it as a gathering of \u201cpeople who looted the economy,\u201d and seeking to return to power to continue looting.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe foundation of our nation was already broken, one man came and said we must strengthen the foundation. Have you wondered why they are fighting Tinubu? It is because of the foundation,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-track\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSXNhYWMiLCIiLDRd\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd3GiRw0g6bOS3kAtHb1Yhc5Jic6iTkM9pA5DhIB13uZgDpGQ\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=102633326415294296882\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1026109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naijanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-09-at-16.23.48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Shaibu urged members of the TSG to begin grassroots mobilisation for Tinubu\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have seen it today that those characters that led to the situation the President is fixing now are now gathering in the name of a <strong>coalition.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo the message now is that the TSG should go and form a coalition for the President\u2019s re-election in 2027 because we have all seen that just in two years, the foundation of the country is solidified again. The only person that can build on the solid foundation that he has laid is the President himself,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged supporters to return to their states, wards, and units to educate both rural and urban dwellers on the \u201crenewed hope\u201d policies of the <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>administration.<\/p>\n<p>The former deputy governor took a swipe at opposition figures, accusing them of poor performance despite holding key positions in the past.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne of them said he is hungry; he didn\u2019t know when he voiced it out. Someone that was a minister in a good ministry and governor for eight years,\u201d<\/em> Shaibu said.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that Tinubu\u2019s first four years should be seen as a rebuilding phase.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEvery sector you enter, the man is building renewed hope. Asiwaju is helping us build the future. These characters know it\u2019s not business as usual. The first four years is building the foundation. You can\u2019t build a skyscraper on a faulty foundation,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<h2>Nigeria\u2019s Economy Bouncing Back \u2013 Says Shaibu<\/h2>\n<p>Shaibu also cited recent positive assessments from international institutions as proof that Tinubu\u2019s reforms are working.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cLook<em> at our foreign reserve that was depleted, the economy is bouncing back. The WTO Director-General, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has made her own comment, the World Bank and others are making their own statements on the stability of the country. President Bola Ahmed <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>has stabilised the country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He concluded by insisting: <em>\u201cThe only coalition we must agree to is Asiwaju for 2027.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On his part, the Director-General of the <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>Support Group, <strong>Umar Tanko Yakassai,<\/strong> described the opposition alliance as a collection of desperate politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Coalition is a pack of bags. It\u2019s the coalition of people who want to take over and continue looting. We know most of them since we were kids; all of them have been in government,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yakassai insisted that none of the opposition leaders could match Tinubu\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSomeone spent eight years in Aso Rock and has not done what <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>has done in two years,<\/em>\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>Yakassai also called for TSG members to be accommodated through political appointments and empowerment programmes to motivate them ahead of the 2027 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"copyright\"><strong>\u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Polance Media Inc. 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Speaking at the weekend during his visit to the headquarters of the Tinubu Support Group (TSG) in Abuja, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":234950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[482,186,187,1739],"class_list":["post-234949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2027-coalition","tag-2027-election","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-philip-shaibu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Shaibu-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}