₦airaland Forum

Jagaban2012:
See this idiot HELL—Rufai calling someone a lapdog... What has been his impact in the country? His impact has always been for bad and evil and not for good....

Since he has been edged out of the Tinubu government, he has been talking down about his policy...and some gullible people like him will think that whatever he says is out of his patriotic act; unfortunately, most of what he is saying is out of his hateful heart towards this Tinubu government, and this is because he was denied any political position in this government...

Elrufai's impact in the country? Well, he remains the best head of BPE till date. Best Minister of FCT till date. Best governor of Kaduna till date. You only need to visit these places to confirm. Above all, he made Tinubu president by galvanising the North to support power shift because until betrayed, a Northerner will always keep his word. You may celebrate his betrayal by Tinubu but it's on record that Tinubu publicly begged him to serve in his government and went everywhere with him during the campaigns, including to Chatham house. You may hate his guts and bluntness but you can never accuse Elrufai of being incompetent. Which one of Tinubu's ministers today can lace Elrufai's shoes? Absolutely none!

That's all he does, political meetings for 2027 while the country burns. If Tinubu is meeting Fubara with Wike at Aso Rock, then he's attempting to get Wike to soft pedal on Fubara while giving him a face to save by saying that Fubara begged Wike. What Tinubu fails to understand is that Wike needs to reclaim Rivers state for himself even more than he wants to be FCT Minister. He knows that anything less will mean he will continue to be at Tinubu's mercy. He also knows Tinubu will be dropping him as FCT Minister if he manages to win, regardless of the promises he makes to him now. If Tinubu insists on Fubara, Wike will silently sponsor another candidate via NDP or any other vehicle while still pretending to support Tinubu.

So what is now the job of your husband, Tinubu, since we are now outsourcing our internal security to America? To be junketing around the world and vacationing in France at taxpayer's expense?

Once you hear AFRICOM, just know it's about siting of a military base. Tinubu has bowed to Trump's pressure and is about to give the U.S go ahead to set up a military base in Nigeria. He's saving his own head while throwing that of our neighbours under the bus. So much for Pan-Africanism.

Agbadorians are really milking this visit that is set to happen in March. Is this for want of better things to talk about? Well, let's just pray he does not fall flat on his face again this time.

WizardOfNG:
Dull dude. In 2022-2023 Tinubu enjoyed the support of honourable, grateful and visionary Fulanis who believed the rotation agreement had to be maintained.

Especially in favour of Jagaban who gave everything for the North to emerge in 2015 and then enjoy two terms under Buhari because not all Fulanis are as dishonorable, self-servinf and treacherous as your hero and messiah Atiku.

Buhari's inner crew did their best to frustrate Tinubu (currency redesign, APC chairman adoption of Lawan as Party consensus candidate etc) but you remain too dull to see that honourable Fulanis and Northerners who had to support Tinubu from the background against the power powerful Fulani supremacist cabal of Buhari now no longer have to hide.

Tinubu had to leverage on his good relation with those guys, and the political support he had offered them for years, to literally run his own Northern campaign with Buhari and his crew lifting a finger to help.

Those honourable Fulanis and Northerners, who belive their must be life beyond the treacherous and polarising ambition of one man, i.e Atiku your messiah, can now mobilise bigger and better for Tinubu today than they could in 2022-2023 when the gestapo-like crew of Malami, Tunde Sabiu etal were monitoring them.

Fact is that Tinubu has the support of the moderate Northerners who believe agreements must be respected.

Those Northerners want a future of political cordiality with other Nigerians, especially Yorubas, they will not truncate for Atiku to open a gate leading to the unknown once rotation is rescinded.

Difference is that those honourable Northerners are now in charge today under PBAT, and can work for Tinubu without prohibition, unlike under Buhari where they were being coerced by Malami etal to ensure PBAT failed.

You have no capacity for seeing the obvious because you are emotional and bigoted

Phewww! So much hyperventilation. The question asked was rather simple. Did Tinubu become president with hausa/fulani votes or not? Did the South vote Tinubu in 2023? Why now try to posture as the "Southern candidate" when he will still fail woefully in the South come 2027? Disenfranchising Obi from LP has still not won him Southern love.

WizardOfNG:
Rubbish. In 2023 Tinubu was working against a Fulani (Buhari) and his considerable gang of Fulani supremacist (Malami and literally a thousand others) and their Southern minions (Emefiele etal) determined to prevent the independent-minded Jagaban becoming President.

2027 will be very different with Tinubu in total and complete control of APC. Continue fooling yourself though. Losers do that till they lose everything.

I never knew the Fulani were against Tinubu in 2023. Take away the 5.6m hausa/fulani votes he got in the North, how many votes did he get in the South? Last time we checked, he only won 4 SW states in the entire South, but go on. If the Fulanis don't vote Tinubu in 2027, then he's toast because despite all the coerced and money-induced defections, he's still not loved in the South.

If Elrufai is the architect of insecurity and religious crisis that has persisted in Kaduna since the 80s, who's the architect of the insecurity in Plateau state? How about Katsina, Zamfara, Benue, and very recently Kwara and even Ekiti, going by today's news? Why are there still killings and kidnappings in these states despite conscious efforts to deny and underreport them? All these vocal "activists" needed were just appointments and to be called to the eating table, just like Father Kukah and his co-travellers. Nothing more.

WizardOfNG:
Call it what you will. Governor have real influence, cash and grassroot mobilisation strength. The more Governors APC has the easier it will be for election to be wrapped up by 1.00pm election day. 😎

Okay. Just a gentle reminder that APC had 21 governors in 2023 but Tinubu only won 12 states. Just over half of those 12 were APC-governed states. Tinubu was more popular in 2023 as an untested candidate than he is now.

It would be foolish of him not to cash out and collect his own 250 billion. He has nothing to lose. We expect all the governors, including Otti, to eventually decamp to APC. Changes nothing in the grand scheme of things as far as presidential elections are concerned.

yemmit90:
This kind of mentality is the reason Tinubu is far ahead of his opponents. You can't have these set of dumb oppositions and the followers and wrestle power from a powerful politician like Tinubu. If you keep assuming he wanted to rig, how will you work hard to convince others to vote for you? What if those that wanted to vote for you decide to stay home with the believe that Tinunu will rig it, and their votes are useless?

A smart politician go for key players and stake holders who control the masses while the stupid or inexperienced ones relied on average masses who are controlling by the key players.

Do you guy even know the millions of people benefiting directly or indirectly from the governors alone, not to talk of senators, Reps, elite politicans at both federal and state level. Did you expect these millions of people to dish out their benevolence channels and vote for the people they won't benefit from? Life is give and take, and no one can genuinely follow or honour you without benefiting anything (material or immaterial) from you. The earlier you guys understand this fact, the better for you all.

It is also very wrong of oppositions party to think every commoner is against the ruling party, that is a first step of losing an election. I can boldly tell you that while majority of us are crying for help, some people are immensely benefiting fom the system, and can sacrifice anything to vote for APC again.

To vote out APC in 2027, opposition leaders and concerned masses must stop the nonsense accusation they are doing and channel their energies towards objective campaigns.

Leave plenty talk, why did Sanwo-olu win his own re-election convincingly but failed to deliver Tinubu? APC had 21 governors in 2023 but Tinubu only won in 12 states. Just over half of those states were APC-governed states. Why didn't the governors make all their supporters vote Tinubu? Why did they win their own re-election comfortably? We await your answer. Not every givernor will be willing to spill their people's blood like in Rivers just to deliver Tinubu come 2027. It is this ridiculous expectation that makes you accuse the governors of working against Tinubu whereas, they only respected their people's wishes.

Lol. All planned. Plausible deniability for Tinubu to absolve himself from eventually not posting them. I wonder why he always goes through corners instead of doing what he does with his full chest. Ambassadors to Nowhere FFK and Reno Omokri will not like this. The suspense alone must be killing them more than anything.

Indeed. Snake oil merchants!

One bitter truth Agbadorians will fail to admit is that it was Dangote's refinery that saved the Nigerian economy from total collapse, despite constant attempts to sabotage it in favour of their Malta interests. Buhari and Emefiele were on course to phase out the fuel subsidy without the attendant pain with the coming onstream of the refinery but the garrulous know-it-all came and removed it from day one without a single plan and without even looking at the handover notes.

He only cares about his re-election but this still won't give him Kebbi votes.

Lithiumite:
It's understandable for that godfather to win his home state but with what margin did he do that against tinubu.....kana votes were one of the Most decisive that got tinubu to aso rock......tinubu trounced same atiku a northerner in same kanowith with very wide margin.......need i say that the dynamics for 27 are totally different from 23 and the stakes alot higher........the Ganduje camp is still very intact and you now have a sitting gov to add to that if you don't call that massive and a huge strength to tinubu then your optimism is rather too compulsive even for your own good.

It was not just Kano. In 2023, a lot of Northerners, inspired by Elrufai, actually felt it was unfair for power to be retained in the North after Buhari. And this showed in the voting patterns from the North and the "Buhari’s party" factor. Only for Tinubu to win and then proceed to betray all and sundry while performing woefully at that. Even his supporters from his region now claim the North worked against his election when the data clearly shows otherwise. You are very correct when you say the dynamics of 2023 and 2027 will not be the same. Time will forever be a gentleman. Tinubu had better work hard in making his Southern alliance work. Asides from poaching all governors, there's been nothing to show that he has gotten more popular among the voting electorates in the South than he was in 2023.

Now, let's see that of the Nigerian naira 3 years ago vs now. Is it any different? I'm struggling to understand what is being celebrated here.

Lithiumite:
And the giv of the largest vote base in the north just openly decamped to the apc defying his godfather......you guys will always seek any narrative to keep consoling yourselves no matter how ridiculous......27 in already in motion and some people have all ready set the ball rolling while coalition of disgruntled politicians aren't even sure if they will hold primaries or not.......wike has just made a statement and challenged anyone to come out and declare your stand.

But the governor of that largest voting base in the North was in APC when that same godfather snatched the state from his hands. Tinubu only won 12 states in 2023, barely half of those states were APC states. Why couldn't the 21 APC governors, including that of Lagos, deliver their state to Tinubu? We will all learn politics together!

The purpose of the visit as can be seen, was clearly business. Never forget, Epstein was also a billionaire businessman with connections to a lot of potential investors. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Where is General Sarham and Lt. Yerima when you need them?! Na Fubara I blame.

Just as expected. He's only being security conscious in a country where police stations close by 7p.m due to security reasons. Afterall, why should he kill himself when Tinubu might be replacing him soon anyway? Same way he went to Minna after the flood and never set foot in Mokwa. Who will tell him that it's not the governor who needs condolences, it's the victims! Still better than Tinubu who would rather attend Matawalle's wedding, though.

NgeneUkwenu:
Wike the husband of Obidients and IPOB

I will say Amen to your lovely prayers!

Iseee!

May God continue to Bless Wike, May His enemies continue to cry!

Are you mocking your fellows? As far as this Wike and Fubara matter is concerned, the Agbadorian camp is split.

Lol. Wike is trying to put Tinubu in a tight spot. Now, Tinubu doesn't know how to handle Fubara without upsetting the rest of the newly defected governors.

"On your mandate we shall stand"

Nteogwuija:
I don't see APC losing the election, though. Nigerians mumu no look like say eh don do.

As long as you don't sit at home on election day eating Ofe Nsala, they will have no pathway to victory. Take this to the bank and deposit it.

Well, to be fair to FFK, he says he has withdrawn his comments just like Reno Omokri because they've bagged appointments as Ambassadors to Nowhere.

Shots fired at Tinubu, Uba Sani and Abba Kabir.

Nteogwuija:
Why are they paying people to register? I don't get it.

APC did a data survey and simulation that showed that they are heading for defeat. They are trying to rile up their base and project an air of confidence but it's an exercise in futility. 36 governors or not, there's simply no pathway to victory.

Indeed. 30 more million to go then.

Source: Agbado Bureau of Statistics (ABOS)

Another marvellous achievement of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Mynd44:
Knao votes are not about the votes Kwankwaso gets. It is the votes the main opposition doesn't get.


Kwankwaso Got 997k votes
Tinubu got 517k
Atiku got 131k

Only Tinubu and Atiku were competing to win and it is clear with a 380k difference, Kano did well and the APC were happy with the number.

Come 2027, no one knows Kwankwaso's move yet. Is he going to contest for presidency under NNPP or decamp to either PDP or Labor.

If he contests again, it will be another major blow to Atiku and Obi as he will be splitting their votes and causing then headaches like 2023.

But if he support wither candidates, can he deliver such numbers when he isn't on the ballot?

Another question is if Obi emerges the candidate of ADC will he use Kwankwaso as VP and leave the NE open to easy picking for APC?

Tinubu gained nothing from going behind Kwankwaso's back to poach his governor in the middle of negotiations. Maintaining the status quo would have served him better. Abba comes with no real structure of his own. He will now be relying on an already divided APC bloc of Barau and Ganduje while creating additional resentments. Expect silent revolt and protest votes. The opposition will get good votes from Kano this time irrespective of what Kwankwaso does. Tinubu has been tried and the verdict is out there, especially in the North.

APC still have bigger hurdles to climb, the talks about replacing Shettima for a Northern Christian are not just mere rumours. It is still in play and complicates all your permutations further.

fineboynl:
The north should better prepare for a break up. If only they know what is cooking in America and diplomatic talks

The North is ready whenever you are. You don’t even need America. You could have had it sooner if you wanted. That's what your legislators at the National Assembly are for. All the North is saying is that talks about break-up or so-called restructuring must take place now that Tinubu is in power. You cannot jail Nnamdi Kanu and pardon Igboho because he now sings the mandate song only to start shouting restructuring/breakup after Tinubu is voted out. It will be quelled with decisive force.