₦airaland Forum

fergie001:
Says who?
She is at the WTO today because of politics. No matter how brilliant she is, she can't be DG without the support of her home country. If Buhari said No, she won't be DG of any International Organisation.

Again, Atiku was instrumental in bringing her to Nigeria from the World Bank and then introduced her to OBJ. So, it's listen to them and politely say NO.

The truth is that an Atiku presidency will assemble the best minds to administer this country. Under the Obasanjo presidency, he and Obasanjo had a young and formidable team comprising of Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Nasir El-Rufai, Oby Ezekwesili and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the engine room of their presidency. Even Nuhu Ribadu was later scouted and brought in to run the newly created EFCC. Many of us thought a Tinubu presidency will replicate that given the team he put together in Lagos but it ended up being an all-Lagos affair with politics and cronyism taking the place of competence and capacity.

Cars for APC women leaders and other chieftains. Akara, Kuli kuli and roasted corn grants for the serfs. Politics over impactful governance.

LegendHero:
If North don’t vote Tinubu in 2027, they still ow SW a debt and that shows that are betrayals.

Tinubu did them favor two times and the north only paid back one part of the debt. Even so, they still snitched because Tinubu only won few states in the NW/NE in 2023 elections which shows North no too do well in paying back debt.

It’s simple, in 2027, the North MUST vote Bola Tinubu. They have no choice, that is the only way they can take power back in 2031 because with or without some of them, Tinubu will still be re-elected president.

Why not start with the "betrayals" in his own backyard in Lagos and Osun that rejected him in 2023? Can any Northerner love him more than Lagosians that he governed for 8 years and the indigenes of Osun where he came from?

Fiscus105:
If If Rufai is to be power minister today, the same Rufai would be going up and down, attacking anybody going against Tinubu, telling Nigerians and international community that,bTinubu is best thing to happen to naija.

Meanwhile, for the comments first lady made, she is supposed to know better, that, urchins and rats would take advantage of it and used it for political gains and to trend, vast majority of Nigerians are hypocritic populists.

No president will come, in which every citizen will work in banks or in oil companies. Even in America, significant of residents are lower level people, who are surviving on small scale businesses.

Then you know nothing about Elrufai. Even as Minister of FCT under Obasanjo, he was known to challenge Obasanjo on some of his policies and that was one of the qualities Obasanjo loved about him. He also publicly disagreed with Obasanjo on his quest for third term.

Under Buhari, Elrufai wrote several memos and letters to Buhari disagreeing with him on some of his direction and policies (check the dates). Some are public. As a matter of fact, it is on record that Shehu Sani, then a Senator under APC, asked the party to discipline Elrufai for challenging Buhari.

There's no evidence that Elrufai would have kept quiet even as a minister under Tinubu. In hindsight, it is that fear of being challenged that made Tinubu drop him as a minister. This is because he knows Elrufai would never have held back in disagreeing with him no matter the consequences and Tinubu hates being challenged. He dropped Wale Edun as Minister for countering him on revenue target. Elrufai kept saying towards the end of his tenure that he wanted to take a rest, it was Tinubu who publicly begged him and made him promise in public to stay behind and work with him and the videos are publicly available. Elrufai is not your regular.

Newsmills:
El-rufai collected tens of millions of dollars blood money,followed him to Chatham house in London to do explanation on how power sector will be run,and he is in Chatham house of Yoruba ICPC,northern delegates collected bribes in dollars to vote during APC's party presidential primaries,thanks for unifying the Forex market no more round tripping by the Abokis,everybody is enjoying what the wicked first family is doing.
Long live feudal republic of Nigeria
Long live wicked first family of the hegemonic republic of Nigeria
Long live for Abokis for delegate bribes they collected in dollars.

False. El-Rufai received no dime from Tinubu and that is why he was bold enough to openly go against Tinubu, having seen the direction he was heading. The reason the North voted for Tinubu is well documented. Northerners always pay their debts. Tinubu would have been a hero and somewhat of a false god today had the North not voted for him after supporting Buhari against Jonathan in 2015. Some things are beyond money but not everyone understands that. It's a good thing he is allowed to demystify himself. Nigeria will always be here and history will outlast us all.

MAJOR THROWBACK!

Yet some ingrates say…………… 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Y2KrfifaUp

— Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI (@IU_Wakilii) April 17, 2026

seunmsg:
Can a judge withdraw or set aside his own judgment? Can someone provide a precedent to this?




Well, if the judge can withdrew its judgement based on the grounds you’ve stated, then I think the judge acted legally. Again, withdrawing the judgement simply means there is going to be a retrial. So technically, there is no judgement to even appeal not to talk of stay of execution. It will be very very inappropriate for the appeal court to even hear the appeal not to talk of staying the decision. At best, an accelerated retrial should be ordered.

We are witnessing a lot of dangerous precedents under your tin-god. That's what happens when you have a paranoid man in power who out of fear and desperation, has threatened, cajoled and coerced all governors and senators to decamp to his party and is now armtwisting the judiciary via proxies to procure favourable judgements that will ensure he has no opposition come 2027. I know that deep down, some of you with a mustard seed of conscience are getting concerned and will genuinely like to see a competitive election and not just a coronation by an aspiring dictator.

TopBanter:
It is the core North that is "bleeding" and this is because the people of the region and the leaders (religious, political, military, cultural etc) are allies of bandits and terrorists when they should be their nemesis.

Meaning banditry and terrorism has now become a way of life in the NE and NW.

What the core North don't understand is that they can never achieve a takeover of the South which is what I believe they want.

Simply impossible because the South has far more value and important people. Nigeria is heading for separation for sure. Like Sudan.

Kindly specify where the core North is and which of the South? Tinubu has Matawalle whom as governor, pioneered negotiations with bandits as his Minister of Defence but you're still fixated on North and South. The joke is on you.

vanitybutiwanti:
Nothing will happen if Tinubu runs unopposed, is it Tinubu’s fault that some insiders in the party agreed to work with him to balkanize the party for financial aggrandisement? Has today come out to tell you that he is an Imam or a pope? You guys should rest and stop making empty noise on social media. Politics is a game and Tinubu is playing his game with novel and wonderful strategies. In any case AAC, PRP, PDP, APM and other parties I can't remember will be on the ballot, you are free to vote for them.

Time and tide has proven that you cannot govern a people against their will unless you're prepared to do so via brute force. That's what democracy guarantees. He is too unpopular for the games he's playing but time shall tell.

Unless Tinubu will end up using court orders to declare himself re-elected, he has no pathway to re-election via the ballots. All I see is fear and carwardice.

vanitybutiwanti:
Nothing will happen Oga, people should stop making noise on social media. This is politics and not a religious or moral affair, you see a flaw in your opponents strategy, you go ahead to destroy your opponents. Its a game and you guys should stop overheating the polity with violent and empty rhetoric.

The only person overheating the polity are the ones hell-bent on running unopposed by basterdizing our hard-fought democracy. By your warped logic, the PDP, LP, NNPP, ADC, SDP and now NDC all have flaws that has resulted into them being unable to field candidates against Tinubu and these flaws emanated barely 3 years after Tinubu became president. Continue to play the "game".

Macphenson:
Agbada don hang for barb wire. Obviously Mexico rejected this clown, he is cooking up propaganda for his redeployment. The World cup excuse he gave will soon cast.

Yeye dey smell.

You get it. They are lobbying for him and hawking him around across 4 countries like an expired product just to see the one that will finally agree to have him as an ambassador.

seunmsg:
NDC was registered by court order. INEC made it very clear on their website. Now that another court has ruled otherwise, it is for INEC to obey and NDC to comply. It has nothing to do with Tinubu.

It has nothing to do with Tinubu indeed. I just wish you all can be bold to own up to what you do with your full chest instead of attempting to hide behind a finger. It smacks of carwardice. It happened to LP, PDP, NNPP, SDP, ADC and now NDC but it has nothing to do with Tinubu. These were all viable opposition parties that produced candidates barely 3 years ago, some with millions of votes. INEC just declared today that they are yet to get funding for the elections. Maybe Tinubu should just save us the stress and declare himself re-elected since he's too afraid to face his opponents at the polls.

LibertyRep:
Nooooo! That's too risky.

Even though everyone knows the party has a case before they moved there but still emotion will fly high.

The supreme court would settle the matter and allow NDC partake in the election.

We don't want a coronation in 2027, we want a contest.
A proper contest, even if it's like the Ekiti election.

Nooo. Tinubu should disqualify the NDC and the ADC and declare himself re-elected. We warned you all that the signs of a Paul Biya in the making are visible but tribal sentiments are stronger. Tinubu is setting a very dangerous precedence that has never been seen in any democracy but he should continue.

fergie001:
Isa Dashen used to be a Judge at the FHC in Yenagoa.

"By Court Order was clear anything could happen" ... Wish them all well.

This was visible to the blind and audible to the deaf. Peter Obi displayed unprecedented level of naivety in deciding to join the NDC. How can a man who expended so much resources in destroying the PDP and attempting to do the same to the ADC suddenly have a convenient option in the NDC, allowed to exist out of thin air without any rancour?

seunmsg:
The NDC should appeal the judgement.

When we said Tinubu has no pathway and will lose the 2027 election, we didn't envisage that he will decide to destroy all opposition parties out of fear. He can't lose if he is the only candidate on the ballot, can he? The state of democracy under a NADECO activist.

fergie001:
Not true.
INEC will respect it asap

Aminda talk am ooooo.. I told Penguin2 months ago, that NDC own is coming!

This explains the silence from the APC since Obi left the coalition. We advised Obi to stay put in the coalition that the stakes are too high and that Tinubu is hell-bent on having no viable opposition in 2027 but he chose to leave for what was obviously a trap. With Obi remaining in the coalition, Tinubu would have been too afraid to destroy a united coalition as it will invariably mean that he has declared himself a dictator.

Meanwhile, Tinubu should keep testing the patience of Nigerians with his undemocratic moves against opposition parties. The patience Nigerians are exercising is only being sustained with the hope that they can make their votes count in 2027.

happney65:
He is not going anywhere. Even though I'm not a fan but he isn't going anywhere

This endorsement of oyinlola sef na sakamanje. It is an indirect endorsement of still adeleke

But wait,what is this by fire by force violence the APC is doing in Osun? Why? Wetin dey Osun state that you wanted to grab it by fire by fire leading to killings and the rest

Eyin shey ya apayan bayi?

Haba

Because Lagos is cosmopolitan and votes will always get split any which way. With Seyi Makinde refusing to play ball in Oyo, they cannot afford to lose Osun too. That will be 3 out 6 SW states where votes will be balkanized, which Tinubu cannot afford. This explains why despite openly pledging support for Tinubu, Adeleke is still being pressured while Igboho has been unleashed on Makinde to destabilise him as a pressure tactic but Seyi is fully on ground!

Kalashnikov49:
Tinubu used Igboho as a bargaining chip and the North fell for it. Threatening you with dissolution after seeing how the north was against Nnamdi kanu and his Biafra agitation.

Now...

The Yoruba in him has started again, and he is using the same Sunday igboho template of dissolution of Nigeria to whip the North into line.

Who do you think protected Igboho during the Buhari regime, when burutai was even made an Ambassador to Benin Republic, just to repatriate igboho?

Anyway..the SW, true to nature has done it again.

Nufff Said

It was clear to the North that Igboho was being sponsored but the North voted for Tinubu because a debt is a debt and Northerners ALWAYS pay their debts, whether good or bad. That's the concept of "Amana" (trust) and Elrufai did a lot in reminding Northerners of this code when it looked like many wouldn't bother voting for Tinubu. It worked. He didn't do it because he was friends with Tinubu, he did it for posterity as history will outlive us all. Which is why Tinubu has shot himself in the foot by incarcerating Elrufai without bail as he has only succeeded in breaking that "trust". Now, the North will be obligated to return the favour because a debt is a debt. Elrufai clearly set himself as a bait and Tinubu took it.

P.S: Northerners are not afraid of a breakup and any Northerner telling you the North is afraid of a breakup is either being naïve or mischievous. It will be in Tinubu's best interest to do the breakup now because any agitation by the likes of Igboho after he is voted out will not fly, and it wouldn't be because the North is afraid.

Watch the video of Elrufai's speech when he brought Tinubu to Arewa House. Just like Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa, Elrufai is just one man but in politics, symbolism is everything.

MAJOR THROWBACK!

Yet some ingrates say…………… 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Y2KrfifaUp

— Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI (@IU_Wakilii) April 17, 2026

flokii:
@OP I think you should mind your business and the region you originated from.

How many Fulanis condemned their people engaging in banditary and kidnapping in South West forests?.. or you think Yorubas will allow Fulani turn our South West States to likes of Zamfara, Katsina, Borno etc.?

Go and check Yoruba history, our people never shy away from conflict.. if you choose peace, we give peace but jf you claim you're a bastar.rd that likes violence, you'll get excess violence in return.

All ye paid writers criticizing Igboho but keeping mum on the killings and kidnapping going on around the country will meet your waterloo soon.. no matter how long, you'll all reap your reward.

The approach Northern leaders have chosen shows they don't intend to continue in One Nigeria despite the fact that revenue generated from South West is what is feeding them due to their low economic productivity.

Lastly, kudos to Mr. President for the State Police Bill passed, now State Governors can champion security in their terrain without casting blame on the FG. They should ensure it's indigenes only that get recruited into State Police if not, the purpose of the entire framework would be defeated. It's only an indigene of a place that will be passionate about the security of his/,her home State.

In other words, Igboho will become the Nnamdi Kanu of the Southwest. Why then did Tinubu send one to prison while the other continues to parade himself with guns while namedropping the president at every twist and turn, amid total silence from the presidency? He is already threatening to unalive any Yoruba that connives with Fulani without saying what the nature of that connivance will be and who would be the judge. It's clear that he's being backed from the top to create carnage in Oyo since Makinde has refused to sing the mandate song this time.

press9jatv:
Adeleke's defeat is imminent. He's a goner

According to you, Omisore endorsing Adeleke is irrelevant but Oyinlola endorsing APM is a threat to Adeleke's ambition.

Matawalle who pioneered negotiations with bandits as governor of Zamfara State is currently Tinubu's minister of defence. Tells you all you need to know.

Houseofglam7:
The onus is on the governors now

State police is not another avenue to just scream "hold your governors accountable" just like it became after subsidy removal and tax bill. Unfortunately, it's already looking like that's what it will become under this government. An opportunity to pass the buck while they focus on embezzlement and maladministration. As usual, some are already celebrating it like it's a silver bullet.

You mean like what Seyi Makinde is doing to Tinubu in Oyo? You applaud the purported Soludo-Obi rivalry in glee but call Seyi Makinde a betrayer for not supporting Tinubu, even though they are in different parties. In your warped logic, all Yorubas should support Tinubu but not all Igbos should support Obi.

dragunov:
Their cases are in court.. It's an ongoing trial. Besides, the didn't compound their theft with politicizing insecurity like Seyi has done. And stop putting your mouth in affairs of the SW because you have not solved the problems from where you are from.

Indeed. The president is in charge of security not Seyi Makinde. Are the givernors of those APC states mentioned above also politicising insecurity because women and children are still under captivity in those states. According to the logic of Tinubu lackeys, Makinde will cease to politicise insecurity today if he decamps to the APC or pledge support for Tinubu like he did in 2023 against his own party. As to your last request, the answer is NO.

dragunov:
Seyi will end up in a serious mess and everlasting disgrace. Politically, he is finished. Might even end up in jail.

Yes, but Okowa and Yahaya Bello are walking free and running for senate. Jail time is only reserved for anyone who does not support or bow to Tinubu in his quest to capture Nigeria for himself and cronies.

Houseofglam7:
Omg! Several weeks later!
I’m speechless!

Kidnapped women and children are still in captivity in Kwara, Kogi, Niger and several other states. Have their APC governors declared curfew to attempt a rescue? Your focus is only on Makinde and your faux outrage is only because he's no longer in support of Tinubu.

CharlesCNG:
This “El-Rufai and the North made Tinubu president” line is sweet politically, but weak arithmetically.

Let us start with Kaduna. In 2023, Atiku defeated Tinubu in Kaduna presidential election. So if El-Rufai “made” Tinubu president, why did he fail to deliver his own state? Even the Kaduna governorship election was a narrow APC survival: Uba Sani scored **730,002** against PDP’s **719,196**.

Now compare that with today. APC has since won Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency by-election with **34,580** votes against PDP’s **11,491**, plus victories in Zaria Kewaye and Basawa state constituencies. That is not the picture of a dead APC in Kaduna.

The bigger point is this: governors matter. Structures matter. Local chairmen, senators, reps, assembly members and ward machinery matter. Politics is not nostalgia.

The northern politicians who truly worked with Tinubu are still largely with him. Today, APC controls more northern governorship structures, including strategic states across the North-West and North-East.

As for Obi, many of his 2023 northern votes were protest and identity votes in Christian/minority belts. Those votes are not guaranteed to remain intact in 2027.

So bookmark this: Tinubu does not need to win every northern state by landslide. He needs spread, structure and competitive margins.

Atiku may have sentiment.

Obi may have noise.

But Tinubu has governors.

And in Nigerian politics, governors are not decoration. They are engines.

Warped logic. Tinubu did not win Kaduna in the same way he didn't win Lagos nor Kano. I guess Sanwo-olu and the likes of Ganduje contributed nothing to his victory. Tinubu didn't win Kaduna but he got his second highest votes in the Northwest from Kaduna, only next to Kano. It was the margins in the North that made him president, not the number of states won. Obi floored him in the South as he was only able to win 4 Yoruba states out of 17 Southern states. If it were merely about governors, APC had governors in Ebonyi, Imo and Cross Rivers. Pray tell, how many votes did Tinubu get from those states? In 2023, was your vote influenced by your state governor and would you change your mind if your governor decamps today?

Some Northerners were sceptical about Tinubu in 2023 but the likes of Elrufai gave them reassurances. His betrayal and treachery have only succeeded in removing all doubts as time will prove. Tinubu's treachery also disincentivices anyone who would want to go all out in the North for him like Elrufai did. He had better win the South in a landslide this time.

Dogalmighty17:
And there you have it. News of this incident has been supressed. That's the handwork of the APC led government. They can't provide security but will suppress any reports of it.

Say no more. "It it doesn't get reported, then it never happened". That's APC logic.

Credit needs to be given to Otti for having changed the Aba narrative in just 3 years. I daresay that Abia no longer holds the position of the dirtiest place in Nigeria. That spot is fast getting claimed by Lagos under Sanwo-olu and Tokunbo Wahab. This is not a tribalistic comment but watch Tinubu lackeys come for me because that's the only weapon in their arsenal. Truth is bitter.

franchasng:
I remember after Tinubu was announced winner of 2023 Presidential election and Funny Femi Kayode aka FFK took to national media to celebrate and prayed that this political alliance between Yorubas and Hausa-Fulanis led by Tinubu will live forever, that Igbos should forget about Presidency forever. They all celebrated it, you guys from the North also celebrated with them for helping them to cheat Peter Obi but what you guys don't know about life is, as man proposes in his evil heart against the innocent, God dismisses.


May God of justice continue to fight and vindicate the just and the innocent in this wicked Nigeria and may God continue to put a big sword of war between the enemies of peace and progress in Nigeria who intentionally cheat other regions in the name of politics, AMEN!

Quit this desperate attempts to throw Obi into every conversation. How did Obi win the election when you just admitted that the Yorubas aligned with the North in 2023? That was simply the North paying back a debt for the Southwest having aligned with the North in 2015. Northerners ALWAYS pay their debts in multiple folds, whether good or bad. Politics is give and take. The Southeast had the golden opportunity to align with the North in 2027 but you all chose to go solo. How does Obi intend to win the elections without Northern votes? You all should learn how this politics is played. It's not a game of morality or clichés of "we are the only ones that can spot good candidates for Nigerians".

Ofunaofu:
According to APC Obidient

Op didn't state it correctly

The validation-seeking, low self-esteem and desperate scavenging for a co-sign by Tinubu's lackeys would have been funny if it wasn't so pathetic.

Lanretoye:
No one single jihadist or almajiri or Fulani is sleeping outside the prison gate since his arrest,for al those thinking someone is untouchable and all that…

No worries. Elrufai is simply undergoing penance for bringing Tinubu into power. He is happy to go through this purgatory and will come out renewed and refreshed. I hope you will be sleeping outside Tinubu's own prison gate when the tables turn in a very short while. Afterall, where was all this noise barely three years ago? You all were too scared to even campaign for Tinubu and were being intimated and bullied by Obidients.