₦airaland Forum

Fear and trepidation just gripped Aso Rock!

Disgusting. APC are doing too much.

DomPerignon:
You are banking on their hate and bigotry towards the tribe and person of the incumbent but fail to see that without their unifying bigot-n-chief, they will be a headless mob and do as they please and vote any one and anything other than Tinubu.

Atiku will even do worse than Tinubu in the SE as they will see him as the one who denied them their most coveted Ibo presidency.

If it's against your tribesman, it's hate and bigotry but if you do the same to others, it's master strategy. Was it hate and bigotry that made Tinubu travel all the way to Daura to convince a retired Buhari to come use his popularity to send his Southern brother, Jonathan packing? He even refused the Speaker position and other ministerial positions heading to the Southwest just so he can sell the marginalisation story across the Southwest.

DomPerignon:
So why are the likes of Atiku not honoring that agreement?

Is this not the same reason that saw PDP implode and instead of blaming Atiku you all shifted your blames on Wike who was only demanding for equity.

Did Atiku sign any pact with Tinubu? You are funny. So all Nigerians in all opposition parties should step down and support Tinubu right?

DomPerignon:
It is up to the substantive winner of the primaries to decide who he will pick as his VP candidate. The VP nominee has no say in the matter other than to accept or refuse.

I know you know that your Atiku has since ruled out picking Obi as his running mate and this statement you made is just to massage Obi's mob supporters.

All these permutations on power shifts remain permutations.

Atiku will be doing two terms if he wins the elections and he will have little or no say on who will replace him.

And why should the north continue with the rotation when Atiku has discarded it?

What stops a northerner from replacing Atiku?

Same reason that made Northerners keep their word to vote Tinubu in 2023, thereby making him president. This speech by Elrufai at Arewa House in 2023 resonated with a lot of Northerners and inspired 5.6m Northerners to queue up to vote Tinubu, against their son, Atiku. How did Tinubu repay the favour? Where is Elrufai today? Good or bad, the North remembers and they ALWAYS pay their debts.

MAJOR THROWBACK!

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

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

DomPerignon:
If Wike faction wins, the PDP will endorse Tinubu.

You should be more worried about what the deranged mob will do to scuttle Atiku at the polls.

I see them doing a massive boycott or voting massively for an obscure candidate .

There will be massive protest votes by the Obidients.

You're wrong. At least half of the Southeast will vote ADC no matter the outcome of the primaries. That will be enough. The North will take care of the rest. Tinubu should rather be worried that majority of Southerners will rather observe voter apathy than vote him. Wike's faction of PDP supporting Tinubu adds nothing to the equation.

DomPerignon:
Be rest assured that PDP will be fielding a candidate.

You should be more worried on the fallout when your principal, Atiku gets the ticket and does not pick Obi as his running mate.

The massive blowback from this will be interesting to watch as Obidients will go full rampage.

If Wike's PDP wins at Supreme court and fields a candidate, that's a minus for Tinubu as the candidate will definitely be a Southerner. On the other hand, fielding a Northerner will kill every talking point about "turn of the South". The ball is in your court. If Atiku wins the ticket, Obi will have the right of first refusal. His supporters will rather prefer he doesn't accept the VP slot, even if he supports the ticket. This will pave the way for Makinde to Vice Atiku with power heading to the Southeast next.

opes:
Makinde worked for Tinubu in 2023, likewise APC supported his re-election.

https://independent.ng/folarins-camp-in-disarray-as-tinubu-support-groups-back-makindes-re-election-bid/



https://www.google.com/amp/s/thewhistler.ng/oyo-i-never-blamed-tinubu-for-my-defeat-says-apc-candidate-folarin/amp/

Oga, Makinde would have won his re-election with or without Tinubu. Infact, supporting Tinubu costed him as his supporters ended up voting APC candidates as Senators due to lack of clarity. Tinubu couldn't even return the favour. He asked Makinde to nominate a ministerial candidate only to neglect his choice to appoint his political rival. Same thing he did to Elrufai.

DomPerignon:
Which opposition parties?

You will be surprised that APGA, LP, SDP and a host of others will adopt Tinubu as their candidate.

That is their prerogative, isn't it? That's the beauty of democracy as long as they can get their supporters to key into the Tinubu project. But Tinubu is rather interested in using might to run unopposed.

I urge all Obidients to manage their expectations and be open to all possible scenarios. To choose a Vice, you first have to secure the ticket first. Kwankwaso is interested in contesting for Senate and is positioning to become Senate President. Things are moving very fast. No time for complacency and baby politics. Get in or vote Tinubu in peace! The ADC and authentic PDP have committed to fielding only one presidential ticket in 2027.

opes:
In 2019, the now king Ladoja convinced 5 political parties to collapsed their structures for Makinde and their candidates dropped their ambitions to support him. Sharafadeen Alli was among them, as seen in the picture next to Makinde.
In 2023, APC supported him based on the alliance he had with Tinubu to win re-election.

False. In 2023, he supported Tinubu through the G5 but Tinubu and Wike ended up betraying and humiliating him as is typical. He was the one who did Tinubu a favour in 2023, otherwise, Tinubu would have lost Oyo like he lost Lagos and Osun. Seyi Makinde is fully incharge of Oyo and the people love him. His anointed candidate will defeat Adelabu and Sharafudeen any day and any time. Tinubu is not that popular in the Southwest as you lot like to pretend. Plus, Tinubu never supported Obasanjo, his fellow Yoruba brother, simply because he was in the opposition. Why expect Makinde and other Southwestern opposition figures to now support Tinubu? Makinde has scores to settle.

Svoboda:
Sometimes I feel Atiku should team up with Makinde as his running mate, while Obi contests under a different platform. This will get Tinubu effectively stranded, because he can only win the SW outright. The SE will be a no go area, while struggling in the SS, as Obi will eat up valuable votes in that region. The north would Atikus play ground of course.

You are right. Obi/Kwankwaso contesting as a third force will do serious damage to Tinubu's chances, unlike in 2023. Obi will still defeat him overall across the rest of the South but this time, there will be no 5.6m Northern votes for Tinubu. Those votes will largely go to an Atiku/Makinde combination, adding to his 7m margins in 2023. This is why Tinubu is desperate to deny Obi a platform because that's the only way they can attempt to sell the "Southern unity" card. The sitting arrangement at the summit is already speaking volumes. Overall, an Atiku/Obi combination is still the best combo but not the only one.

hegelian:
this does nothing but buttress the point he was trying to make..elevating people like this to highest offices is an insult tp the teeming people of intelligence, exposure and education sagacity of the region and the country at large.. we should not be defending mediocrity all in the name of defending tribe or religion...

Unlike Hon. Adigun Abass who is on his second stint as a federal Legislator, Northerners have never voted Nafiu Bala for any position. Along with 7 others, he was the regional Vice Chairman of a third rate political party that was the ADC before it was adopted by the coalition. Who elevated him?

Every critiscism he ever made against Sani Abacha and Goodluck Jonathan, was actually him telling on himself.

Bottomline is that the opposition is spoilt for choice come 2027. Any combination will give Tinubu a run for his money. With Seyi Makinde now onboard, even the Southwest will be up for grabs. Tinubu will not win the region in a landslide as his lackeys like to pretend.

The implosion of APC is inevitable. Governors have the powers to handselect their preferred candidates for other positions except for Rivers and Lagos. No be juju be that?

What a disgrace. Where are the "Tinubu will clear the Southsouth" gang? We will all learn politics together.

Tinubu removed subsidy to reduce borrowing, but now borrows to reduce the effect of subsidy removal. No be juju be that?

But the whole excuse given for removal of subsidy was to stop borrowing. How come Tinubu has outborrowed Buhari in just under 3 years while still not paying subsidies? Plus, Buhari had more infrastructure to show for all his borrowings. If contractors are unpaid and budgets of MDAs unfunded, it begs the question; where is the money?

oz4real83:
can you hear yourself? You aren't even bothered that the appointees made by either Buhari or Tinubu were failures, you are only worried about their ethnicities💔💔💔. I don't care where an appointee comes from as long as the person performs well, that is the difference between both of us.

If this were true, you also wouldn't care from which part of the country the president comes from. You will only be concerned with competence but here you are, advocating for power to remain in the South. The jokes write themselves. Since all the appointees thus far appear to be incompetent, let it at least reflect federal character or a truly Southern agenda.

oz4real83:
your hypocrisy isn't surprising. Since the country gained independence, how many years have your people the northerners been in power? How was their being in power beneficial to Nigeria, and even their fellow northerners? It is the turn of the south, but is there any difference between the failure Buhari and this failure Tinubu? Why didn't you cry out when Buhari was in power? APC, PDP and any person that has ever been affiliated with them are the worst evil that ever befell this country😡

If you are going to call it government of the South, then let it truly reflect the South, not just a single Tribe. Under Buhari, the entire North was classified as one and he shared appointments across different tribes in the 19 Northern states. Can the same be said of Tinubu? This is the reason why he has failed to build a true Southern conscensus. Besides, the South didn't vote Tinubu. They largely voted Peter Obi. Northerners made Tinubu president.

So Tinubu was going to consider him as Minister of Finance? From Wale Edun, to Taiwo Oyedele to Adelabu. Meanwhile, Dorris was quickly redeployed out of the ministry. "Turn of the South" indeed.

Talk is cheap. This was Edo yesterday at the City Boy Southsouth convention. Okpebholo promised Tinubu 2.5m votes from here.

“Another gathering to show capacity that President Tinubu followers get capacity”—- Dumb APC Supporter😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/Nie8aJBahx pic.twitter.com/TGi6g9K1Lf

— JezebelReborn🧙‍♀️ (@JezebelReborn) April 24, 2026

Sad. APC is only concerned about election matters for now but the reception they are receiving from the populace tells all the story. This was how the people of Edo state boycotted the City Boys movement event earlier today. Like we keep saying, Tinubu can be the only candidate on the ballot and still end up losing.

“Another gathering to show capacity that President Tinubu followers get capacity”—- Dumb APC Supporter😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/Nie8aJBahx pic.twitter.com/TGi6g9K1Lf

— JezebelReborn🧙‍♀️ (@JezebelReborn) April 24, 2026

"Hold my beer!"

Parachoko:
Wetin concern Buhari with Lekki deep seaport?

And by the way, I won't be having this kind of unnecessary argument with you because Buhari nah APC man.

He tried his best and Asiwaju is continuing from where he stopped.

Typical. As expected. Bottomline is that Tinubu has outborrowed Buhari despite not paying subsidies but he has no commensurate projects to show.

Parachoko:
Tinubu is miles ahead of Buhari

Under Buhari, the economy got so bad nobody was willing to give us loans again

Tinubu has done more in Infrastructure in less than 4 years.

Tell me more about it. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Lagos-Ibadan Railway, Kaduna-Abuja Railway, Kaduna-Kano Expressway, Warri-Itakpe Railway, Lekki Deep Seaport, Baro Port, Second Niger Bridge, 700MW Zungeru Hydropower plant, AKK gas pipeline, Loko Toko Bridge, several dry ports, etc. Kindly list out Tinubu's projects in similar manner.

Parachoko:
Nigeria was borrowing to pay for subsidy before Asiwaju became the President

Under Jonathan, we were borrowing to pay Salaries, borrowing to pay for subsidy, Pension, and also borrowing to build projects

Under Buhari, we were borrowing to pay subsidy on fuel, and also borrowing to pay salaries, pensions and also borrowing to build projects


Under Asiwaju, we're not borrowing to pay pensions or salaries, we're not borrowing to pay for subsidy, we're only borrowing to spend on Capital Projects.

I expect Sanusi to know there's no problem borrowing to build capital projects

Buhari paid fuel, education and electricity subsidies and still had more "visible" infrastructure projects to show for his borrowings. Tinubu, despite not paying subsidies, has outborrowed Buhari. Kindly list out the infrastructure projects he has delivered.

Another blockbuster from the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway propaganda media machinery. It turned out to be another praise-singing article for Tinubu. How has the president come out looking good from this as seen on the last paragraph after admitting all through the article that things are not okay? He now takes credit for sacking Edun without any responsibility for appointing him in the first place? TheCable's angle on Chargoury seem more plausible now considering the fact that a request for a new foreign loan was made barely 48 hours after the ouster of Edun.

Tinubu has no sense of diplomacy, tact or international relations. This is why he ran Nigeria for over 3 years without a single ambassador. His careless and unprovoked mention of Donald Trump was what made Trump become interested in Nigeria. Now, he has done the same with Kenya. Throwing a fellow country under the bus and potentially laying the groundwork for an uprising or dissent from their citizens at a time of global economic pressure.

The governors will select their preferred senators while he selects the governors. Under the so-called NADECO "democracy fighters", democracy have been overturned in favour of Baba sopé at both the federal and state levels. What a disgrace!

garykoeman:
All these jobless nnamdi kanu followers and Peter obi supporters

Your attached image is only indicting Tinubu further. Nigerians are now killing themselves over food all under his regime.