₦airaland Forum

Ofunaofu:
Your claim that the U.S. lobbyist is engaged by IPOB is your subtle way of stirring ethnic hatred, tribal bigotry, and needless vitriol.

And since you also claim he's engaged by Atiku, does that automatically make Atiku an Obidient? Is Atiku now an Obidient?

More importantly, none of that answers the actual issue. Does anything you've written change the fact that the so-called Trump letter to Tinubu was fabricated? Instead of addressing that, you've resorted to deflection

The letter is genuine, you know this deep down

louqas:
Of course you have a right to your opinion just like I have to mine

Yes but one must always bow to superior opinion. Mine is clearly superior. You saying ladoja has no influence on Ibadan votes shows your political knowledge is scanty. I can agree that makinde can win Oyo narrowly for presidential with one senate and some reps seats just like Tambuwal did in sokoto but for that Guber, forget it. Even Adeleke from osun will work against him

onuman:
Five votes for PBAT, that's basically what Hope Uzodinma said.

Tinubu will get 20% of SE

bentenny:
Uzodinma said the same thing in 2022 and yet Obi won in his PU.
Data boys should keep allowing hope uzodinma to keep deceiving them and their paymaster😁

You lie, he delivered his LGA and ward for tinubu

louqas:
Yes
Abi you will say Sarafa popular pass Adelabu?
And thats the only candidate that can win PDP/APM
If course APC can rig but it won't be easy for them
Forget that Oba is backing Sarafa, Obas politics has always been divisive , we know am tay tay

For me, Alli is more popular than Adelabu. If Adelabu is that strong and popular, why did Makinde rubbish him twice? Why didn't he get the APC ticket? In all the SW states, APC gave their tickets to the best. I can concede that Sen Buhari and Hon Oseni are better candidates but they are minorities. Even Makinde by his actions is afraid of Alli. Don't forget, no governor has ever imposed a successor in Oyo or osun and makinde won't beat that record. More importantly, all the political stakeholders in Oyo including the ones that supported makinde emergence are backing Alli and that is key. Makinde cannot survive it. Oriyomi hazmat will even eat into Adekanbi votes. It won't be easy fighting an incumbent but lose makinde will

louqas:
Senate Elections different from Governorship, no write Makinde off, I'm not his fan but APC have the wrong candidate

It is not. Oyo id complex. If you aren't popular you cannot win elections in Oyo. Tell us, who is the right candidate for APC, Adelabu?

AndroBlaze:
My favourite writer connected to them as a kid was his one time boss, Cyprian Ekwensi, the truest of Nigerians with a wonderful imagination.

His tales would make great visual Hollywoodlike series if it could be pulled off....a simply fantastic storyteller and quite under appreciated.

Yes sir. For me, the greatest Nigerian writer is Cyprian Ekwensi

louqas:
Yes
But who is Sarafa Ali too
Nobody know am except Oba Ladoja
Ladoja owns his houses and palace only , he no own Ibadan
And all of Una rooting for him can you point out to just one thing he has done for Ibadan or Oyo state
All he did was steal and steal every assignment given to him, As SGF he embezzled 200millions and was an embarrassment to them Governor Ladoja, he stole Odua blind too that that organisation nearly went down
So I wait mention just one thing he done he has done for the state that made him the best candidate

At least he is known unlike Adekanbi. Ladoja is the most popular man in Ibadan. If Alli is notorious, how did he win senate? You have nothing to say. Seyi will be retired next year

louqas:
They will lose Oyo state
Nobody sends Sarafa Ali
Na only Oba Ladoja and Zach dey push am
Seyi Makinde candidates will win state level elections
Na only Federal APC fit manage get some Senate or HOR

Nobody will vote Adekanbi. People in the governor core group like Speaker Ogundoyin are aggrieved as the governor even picked an outsider, Adekanbi is Ajimobi boy. Ladoja owns ibadan

Eriokanmi:
Tsunami waves of defection imminent, starting from the north. Argue later

The waves has started from your mushroom. NDC right in Kano as Kabiru gaya and rufai hanga rightly dumped your sorry party

Svoboda:
Haha
Did Atiku snatch your babe from you?

Lol, I prefer Atiku to obi. I supported Atiku from 2007-2011 . I just found out he's not worth it

Unigrad:
Products of selfish interests.

Obi will lose woefully

seunmsg:
He has realized that the NDC vehicle is useless and can’t convey him to his political destination. The sensible decision is to go back to the rugged, tested and trusted APC vehicle.

Please, we must reject him

Svoboda:
Fayose that doesn't have class or carriage. Coming on TV to sing Wikes praise as if he's Wikes houseboy, when in actual fact, he has nothing in common with him. When Fayose was rubbing shoulders with Obj as President, Wike was still bathing mbatas cars as houseboy and running errands for them odili. It is just like Gbenga Daniel or Rasheed Ladoja coming to do dobale for Wike today. These were people who were governors during Fayoses tenure.

Here he is now descending to do personal fight with gov. Makinde. Who was Makinde when Fayose was gov. The context of this appointment is that Tinubu doesn't place much importance on Fayose as a person because he's classless and has refused to grow up.

At least he remembers his followers unlike Atiku. Atiku is a bad leader, better stop following him before it's too late.

Svoboda:
Adc is non existent, yet nrm has since ported. Even the governor is groaning that Abuja changed his candidates list. You think bago will kill himself for Tinubu.

Bago doesnt need to do anything, the Apc structure is enough to deliver Tinubu. You cannot compare all these featherweight to Nafada. You have more division in Katsina, Jigawa ADC

Svoboda:
Unknown people and the gov was crying and threatening to prove gov Bello?

That's an issue between them. It has nothing to do with Tinubu. Ofcourse you don't seem to remember that the governor was never his choice. ADC is non existent in Niger

Svoboda:
Lol! Worry more about Niger APC that has already imploded.

Imploded because a few unknown people joined ADC? ADC is the one really imploding if we go by the real definition

Svoboda:
You're still dwelling on past delusions. The main factor that worked for Tinubus victory was strong northern support built on Buharis popularity and vigorous grassroots mobilization by northern govs. Recall that a week before the election president Buhari released a video message in Hausa, urging his brethren to vote Tinubu. Also, on the election morning, Buhari did something unusual by displaying his thumbprinted ballot in front of the camera. In fact, northerners defied the naira and fuel scarcity to queue behind Tinubu. But what have Nigerians gotten in return?

A mighty man like Senator Bayero nafada left Atiku faction and you still think Atiku is getting stronger

Peruez01:
This man Neva knw Wetin de come walahi...
Gaskiya he hasn't visited Adamawa state
PO get street love no be small

Atiku will still win adamawa

Dshocker:
These guys are just giving Tinubu hope, because i don't think there is any other region that hates Tinubu more, than the North.

And it is impossible for the North to pick Tinubu over Atiku.

They will share North

toba1909:
Lol
Oke-Ogun ko
Isale-Osun ni
Fatai Buhari is an Ogbomoso man.

Na still minority. Only an Ibadan person can snatch power from makinde

happney65:
Senator Billboard?
Man who's only achievement is billboard?
Lmao
You people will be beaten blue black next year you go think na film.

Not with Adekanbi

louqas:
Lols
Oya tell us his antecedents now that made him the best candidate

He has done well as a senator and was also in private service like your Omituntun. Fatai buhari would have been good but he's from oke Ogun who are minorities. Who is Adekanbi

shoskid:
This is exactly what's going on in Oyo APC, Sarafaa has no good records. Other candidates rejected Zach brother but Sarafaa accepted him. APC will not use Sarafaa and Bayo.

Alli is your next governor

louqas:
Pbat has tried to resolve it but the main people causing Problems are
Oba Ladoja who wants to impose his Godson and the president don't want to disappoint him and Zach the FIRS BOSS who has ambition after his National assignment but wants his junior brother to deputise Sarafa and be monitoring him, he has been the one spending money on Sarafa candidacy
If APC insists on Sarafa , na Omituntun 3.0 sure be that cos Sarafa no get any levels apart from Oba Ladoja and in Ibadan, even the Oba can be looked In the face cos every male born child is a potential Olubadan

Oga stop that. Alli is the best person APC has. It seems you are supporting that nonsense Adelabu. Adekanbi no get levels

fergie001:
My dear bro, try to read through thoroughly...

First elected .... the first woman to hold that post wasn't elected.

Dame Priscilla Kuye was the first woman to hold that post but she wasn't elected President.


She was elected First Vice President, however, the then President, Akpamgbo resigned after he accepted IBB's offer for Attorney-General of the Federation, then mama Kuye stepped in.

Is any of her relatives in the federal cabinet

mrvitalis:
If anything they would get far less

They will get more actually

A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise and publish the names of the Kabiru Turaki-led interim National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Delivering judgment, Justice Salim Ibrahim held that the plaintiffs, led by PDP Board of Trustees Chairman Adolphus Wabara, lacked the legal standing to institute the suit. He consequently struck it out for want of jurisdiction.

The court upheld the preliminary objection filed by INEC and sustained similar objections raised by parties seeking to be joined in the matter. It ruled that the plaintiffs failed to establish that INEC had recognised the purported interim NWC or that they possessed the authority to sue on behalf of the PDP.

Members of the Wabara-led Board of Trustees had approached the court to compel INEC to update its records and recognise the factional interim NWC headed by Kabiru Turaki (SAN). They also sought an order directing the electoral commission to publish the names of the interim executives on its official website.

The plaintiffs argued that the names of members of the Turaki-led executive were forwarded to INEC through letters dated May 4. They further contended that, based on constitutional provisions and the PDP Constitution, the electoral body was obligated to recognise and act on correspondence from the interim leadership.

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Aside from Wabara, the plaintiffs included former Niger State Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, Prof. Jerry Gana, Chief Olabode George, Hajiya Maryam Ciroma, Hajiya Zainab Maina, Dame Esther Uduehi and the PDP.

INEC was listed as the sole defendant in the suit, which was filed on June 4 through a legal team led by Chris Uche (SAN).

However, a faction of the party aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, challenged the court’s jurisdiction and sought to be joined in the case. The group, led by its National Chairman, Abdulrahman Mohammed, maintained that it represented the authentic leadership of the PDP and argued that the plaintiffs lacked the locus standi to institute the action.

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In a ruling delivered before the substantive judgment, Justice Ibrahim granted the joinder applications, holding that the interests of the applicants would be affected by the outcome of the suit.

The court subsequently upheld all preliminary objections and struck out the case, describing it as an abuse of court process. Justice Ibrahim held that the plaintiffs were attempting to relitigate issues that had already been determined by various courts.

The court also struck out the PDP’s name from the suit, holding that the plaintiffs lacked the party’s authorisation to institute the action in its name.

According to the judge, the suit invited the court to make orders that would undermine existing judgments. He further held that the matter had become academic, noting that evidence before the court showed that the PDP convention that produced the Mohammed-led executives was duly monitored by INEC.

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“The court does not decide hypothetical or academic questions,” Justice Ibrahim held.

The judge also ruled that the suit was incompetent because it was commenced by Originating Summons despite the contentious nature of the dispute.

In addition, the court took cognisance of existing judgments that nullified the PDP convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State, on November 15 and 16, which produced the Turaki-led executives.

Justice Ibrahim upheld the arguments of the respondents and dismissed the suit.

The court invoked the provisions of Section 83(6)(b) of the Electoral Act 2026 and imposed a cost of N70 million against the plaintiffs, in favour of the 1st to 7th defendants.

It also ordered the plaintiffs’ counsel to personally pay a cost of N10 million.

The court said the essence of the cost award was to discourage the filing of frivolous pre-election suits
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tishbite41:
Tinubu will win TY Danjuma in Taraba State?
You guys are....

Danjuma is pro Tinubu sir

Eriokanmi:
You guys have started again. Are you from Taraba ?

Do I need to be from there to analyse their demographic

Authoreety:
Seems the deputy knows more than the governor .... Just like...

The deputy is incapacitated

helinues:
Link from probably from above in negotiating for something

Tinubu will win Taraba this time