Aworawo challenges Tinubu's borrowing plans: where will the money go?

Arise News's panel connects the debt debate to a more immediate question: whether government spending is improving Nigerians' lives.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 44,125 views a day, 20 times a normal first day on this channel (2,225).

Atiku, Obi, Obasanjo Vs Tinubu On Borrowing – Aworawo | Ologun | Adamolekun

"We are vehemently opposed to any further borrowing," Professor David Aworawo says on Arise News's ThisDay Live. His objection is not simply to the size of Nigeria's loan requests. He wants the government to explain what the money will pay for and how it will create prosperity.

The discussion has drawn more than 21,000 views in eight hours, an unusually fast start for the broadcaster's longer uploads. Its title foregrounds criticism of President Bola Tinubu's borrowing plans from Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Olusegun Obasanjo, but the panel's argument reaches beyond those political names.

Aworawo, a professor of international relations and strategic studies at the University of Lagos, questions the transparency and accountability surrounding further debt. Legal practitioner Jide Ologun adds a pointed question of his own: why have savings from subsidy removal not reduced the government's appetite for borrowing?

Opeyemi Adamolekun brings the discussion down to specific spending choices. She criticises the Lagos-Calabar infrastructure project over environmental assessments and displacement, then questions whether temporary cash transfers can offer lasting relief.

That distinction between relief and a durable improvement in living standards becomes the programme's connecting thread. Ologun argues that transport allowances cannot fix underlying inflation. Aworawo welcomes pension backlog payments, but presses for wealth creation rather than recurring handouts: an economy in which fewer people need emergency help in the first place.

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The numbers

The borrowing discussion has already exceeded Arise News's usual full-day audience for a regular video, with only eight hours online.

the video's first day

usual first day here

2,225

this video

44,125

subscribers

1,260,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

809,783,276

views per day

425,657

typical day: 695,807

the video

views

21,080

likes

90

comments

43

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Times Radio

1,320,000

Times Now World

1,300,000

Arise News

1,260,000

7 News Spotlight

1,210,000

CNN 10

1,200,000

TLDR News Global

1,190,000

As of November 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.