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No smoke without fire. Tinubu's body language and posture already suggests that he intends to replace Shettima. At this point, even if he ends up not doing so, he has already dampened morale and created a trust deficit in the minds of the APC Northeast caucus and they still won't wholeheartedly campaign for him.

APC's implosion is inevitable. Listen to the Borno Speaker.

The Borno State Speaker of the House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, says during the APC conference that not featuring the Vice President of Nigeria undermines recognition of current leadership, and he urges organisers to address this in future events before 2027. pic.twitter.com/Ss2AfKL31n

— Emma ik Umeh (Tcee )🇳🇬 (@emmaikumeh) January 22, 2026

Where are Agbadorians domiciled in Ogun state? Come and collect your sub o!

Fergie001, nlfpmod. Food don done o. I hope it's not too early for breakfast?

Wahala don tie gele o! How can Tinubu now navigate through this when Trump has allegedly given him the marching order on muslim-muslim ticket? Meanwhile, Governor Abba of Kano is still dragging feet after seeing what is in front of him. Tinubu is still begging Kwankwaso but what else can he offer to him if he can't offer the V.P slot? Lessons will be learnt!

livinbygrace:
You mean someone aspiring to be in such position should not be checked and investigated by the authorities ?No wonder we have many rogues in power

Can the checks and investigations only be carried out when they physically present themselves at the DSS office after being summoned like schoolboys? Do other aspiring monarchs from other regions undergo these physical checks and investigations? It's a form of conquest but you can't even see it for what it is.

Where is SOKAPU? They have been eerily quiet. Goes to show that all they ever needed during the last administration was to be offered appointments and placed on payroll. Now they are too busy observing table manners.

Very reckless statement to be coming from the APC Chairman. Tinubu's cabinet is already populated with a lot of misfits and square pegs in round holes even for sensitive ministries and agencies whose only qualification is being party members. It is disappointing to know that they intend to double down on this if they manage to win re-election. He also appears to be jumping the gun and throwing a veiled shot at Wike who is not currently in the APC. He is not the president and that is not his prerogative to make.

Nawao. Aspiring Kings being summoned to the DSS office like common serfs?

Wike and his co-travellers may just end up becoming the biggest losers at the end of the day. He destroyed PDP, his only leverage, to please Tinubu and now APC is unappreciative and don't even want him in their party. Samuel Anyanwu is also now in limbo as he has no platform to pursue his governorship interest after plans by Wike to prop him as the APC candidate in Imo state was checkmated by Uzodinma.

The 2025 budget was unfunded. Wale Edun got sidelined for coming out clean. Local contractors are literally protesting every day and demanding for their payments at the ministry of finance headquarters. Tinubu has already outborrowed all previous presidents in just over two years. They sold subsidy removal as the silver bullet. Now tax is the new snake oil being sold.

Richtaiwo:
Whoever fed you that tale was either manufacturing fiction at an industrial scale, or you simply were not paying attention halfway through the briefing.

According to my very reliable sources, the road is not being built by Tinubu, nor was it inherited from Buhari. In fact, construction is being personally supervised by Oseloka himself, the gay son of the agulu miracle worker.

Truth is bitter and facts are stubborn. Legacy is achieved, not claimed.

https://www.nairaland.com/4683474/picture-ilorin-jebba-mokwa-road-completed-pmb

Flangelo12:
Tinubu's been delivering 👏.

The Tax Credit scheme is a legacy of late President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu has since put a stop to the scheme. This road is being done with funds already earmarked for it under the scheme. Legacy is achieved, not claimed.

Good. Jonathan can now come into the race. Obasanjo is allegedly working on a Jonathan/Kwankwaso ticket as a Plan B. Not only will that revive the PDP, it will prove to be a very formidable ticket both in the North and South. It's the possibility of that ticket materialising that made Tinubu panic and forcefully demand Ganduje's resignation as APC chairman which was one of Kwankwaso's demands. Tinubu has no much option left than to grant all of Kwankwaso’s demands.

Are they trying to mock defectors? So why has Tinubu been courting all 36 state governors while relentlessly chasing after Kwankwaso now for weeks? How does he expect them to feel?

"Peace deal" is just a pseudonym for negotiations with bandits where money exchanges hands for "promise" of cessation of attacks. So-called peace deals where bandits come fully armed to the teeth are not peace deals, it's a show of force by the bandits and a capitulation of the state to superior firepower. It's nothing to celebrate. Genuine peace can't be procured with just money.

Lol. Ambassador Reno with the ethnic baiting again. Governor Mbah should rather be commended for trusting a Yoruba contractor who ended up defrauding the state. What Nigerians are saying is that none of the former ministers of Buhari from the Southwest are currently being persecuted. Also all other politicians with EFCC cases who subsequently defected to the APC have more or less being pardoned and some have even bagged appointments.

Penguin2:
My own is that whatever or whoever their target is, I’m good and Obidients are good.

If the Labour Party structure is eventually handed to Usman, we have two possible outcomes.

The first is that should Obi lose the ADC ticket, he can easily fall back to LP and grab its ticket and contest the election (to waste votes [I know]).

Second, if Obi gets the ADC ticket with Usman in charge of LP, that means the LP structure will easily be deployed for Obi as well.

So, head or tail, we are good.

Game on!

Lol. Go read the electoral act carefully again. You cannot contest a party primaries twice in two separate parties. If you have Obi's number, better call him now to decamp back to the LP. The ADC will select its presidential candidate through a transparent party primary and no one will step aside for anyone except by their own will. Anyone unwilling to put in work and build the party is at liberty to leave while there is still time. There will be no free ticket handed to anyone and Obi was not cajoled to join the ADC. He came in of his own freewill and he's been part of the idea from scratch.

Gotocourt:
The Nigeria's journalist communities is presently under siege by the government 📌💯.
Government won't patronize you if you publish anything against its interest and go as detaining the publisher/writers.

You're correct. If you observe carefully, only SaharaReporters currently report some of the news on insecurity. All other media has been suppressed or induced with money.

Gotocourt:
There are many communities/Hamlets/villages that Governor Sani Uba said the inhabitants have gone back which TruthNigeria confirmed to be false. Infact, there are military checkpoint leading to those locations which don't allow anybody to access those areas, it's that sad .
I don't just understand why Governor Sani Uba is trying so hard to defend President Tinubu when security power is not in his hands.
APC under Tinubu is something else

He was initially posturing to be considered as Tinubu's Vice in 2027 when talks about Tinubu replacing Shettima with someone from the Northwest gained traction. He's a green snake under the green grass.

Racoon:
Not when Peter Obi has long left the party for Abure and his slave masters. Let them continue.

Highly suspicious when you consider that the judgement is coming from Judge Lifu who has been widely linked with Wike. It's either Wike is undoing all he previously did to get back at Tinubu or this is another trap to continue what he started.

Racoon:
The irresistible urge of the govt to look good by attempting to suppress or denying criminal activities of their jihadists brothers is nauseating.The lies that Christian Persecution and genocide does not exist. Now they think they can deny for life?

See as the thread is dry as the regular deadbeat zombies defenders of this useless failed government are nowhere to be found.

I also wonder what the Mods are doing. From the news about the kidnap to the denials and then the rebuttals and final admittance. None of the threads have graced frontpage.

Hoelujohn:
I said this long time ago that all this destruction of opposition will backfire and that Wike should be held responsible if Tinubu is defeated.
I don’t know what the ruling party is thinking, you won the election because the opposition parties were all thriving. If it was only PDP that existed when Tinubu contested, would he have won?

That's what happens when you believe your own hype and begin to think you are the only smart politician in the country. He thought opposition will be scattered and that Obi will move to another mushroom party. They never envisaged that Atiku, Obi, the Buhari CPC bloc, a bloc of the PDP and likely Kwankwaso (if things go South with Tinubu) will be willing and able to come together under one party. The plan could have succeeded but for the foresight of David Mark and other deft politicians who predicted the move and salvaged the ADC.

Lol. Tinubu is paranoid. First PDP yesterday, now LP today. Tinubu wants Obi to go back to LP. They have seen that their plans to destroy opposition parties have backfired with the unification of major opposition figures, they are now frantically running round the clock to undo the damage. No wonder Tinubu is codedly mad at Wike and has refused to grant him audience. What seemed like a job well done has now become a liability and a major threat. Lessons!

Delat521:
This not a sign of being afraid but pragmatic with political sagacity. It's form of rare political strategy uncommon to many Nigeria politicians.

This where Atiku failed seriously and cost him the last election. Atiku would have do everything humanly possible to persuade Peter Obi not to leave PDP in last election because they would have win fair and square before noon on election day. But because of hubris or lack of political acumen a missed the chance which is going to be difficult for him now.

This is what Tinubu wouldn't like to let happen to him. He will ensure every major actors be with him to just make general election be like walk in a park for him. It's not easy to be able to do that because it require high level political negotiation skills which many Nigerian politicians are seriously lacking.

Lol. Why are you bothered about Obi? Tinubu is paranoid. He should have left the PDP and LP alone instead of seeking to destroy them. Now he's frantically trying to salvage the party in order to prevent the alliance between the coalition members. PDP got a favourable judgement yesterday while Nenadi's faction of the LP just got recognised as the legitimate faction by the courts today. He now wants Obi to go back to LP but Tinubu will still lose if that happens. He is clearly desperate!

Tareq1105:
Hope you still remember the results of last election in Kano and you remember that Tinubu performed well and better than Atiku.

Don't forget again that kwakwaso need Tinubu more than Tinubu needs him. Kwakwaso cannot achieve anything under his NNPP platform and that's why he's shopping for where he would be VP now and president in 2031. These demands cannot be gotten in APC tinubu and not even in ADC coalifusion. So, I don't see kwakwaso achieving his desire under APC bcoz there are better materials from the north than kwakwaso. However, I see the Gov defecting without kwakwaso.

If all what you said is correct why has the governor still not decamped? Today is Wednesday. Why is Tinubu still making frantic efforts to meet with Kwankwaso? Kwankwaso has publicly said that his only reservations about joining the APC is deficit of trust. He does not believe that Tinubu will keep his words and honour his demands as we have seen time after time. And he's right. Tinubu will make several promises to Kwankwaso but will eventually renege. Case studies, Elrufai, Wike, Ganduje, Shettima (soon), etc. His words are not worth the paper they are written on, but your likes call it master strategy.

mechanics:
And today is wednesday but no news about his defection.

Lol. Tinubu is still begging Kwankwaso. He has seen the handwriting on the wall.

Disgraceful. Uba Sani is just all about media imagery, PR and propaganda. Sprinkled with a little bandit negotiations here and there that are tagged as "peace deals". Any peace procured with money is not sustainable.

SaharaReporters has the exclusive. Uba Sani is just all about media imagery, PR and propaganda. Sprinkled with a little bandit negotiations here and there that are tagged as "peace deals". Any peace procured with money is not sustainable.

https://saharareporters.com/2026/01/21/kaduna-govt-denied-kidnapping-over-100-worshippers-avoid-us-scrutiny-sources-reveal

Christmyhope:
And you think people of kaduna south will vote Atiku because that peter obi is just deceiving himself in Adc . If 2027 election is going to be between Tinubu and Atiku then Christians in North Central will Tinubu over Atiku. If you think otherwise, you are free to continuing basking in your delusions.

Why not? Southern Kaduna have a history of voting Atiku until in 2023 when they voted Obi due to Tinubu's muslim-muslim ticket. They have no history of voting Tinubu nor the APC.

BigDick70inch:
Useless man!!!

Not even enuff time time to mourn yo dead child.........

Taking bout his possession already.......

R there good parent from Ogun sef??

Mohbad parent to portable's dad now to destiny kid parents......

I think it's time for moral self introspection for parents in the Southwest. The level of moral decadence from young children in the region is a cause for concern. These children are clearly under pressure from their parents and even enjoy their support to engage in such habits. From internet fraud, to prostitution, to thuggery and other moral vices.

How is that a bad thing? The goal of every father is to have a son bigger and more successful than himself.

Gotocourt:
Very disturbing, watch the videos on Al Jazeera. Reuters and DW have picked it up. This is the second time Governor Sani Uba is suppressing and denying criminal activities.
The annoying thing is the commissioner of police putting himself in the mess.

That man only cares about PR and propaganda. The reality on ground is very different. To him, if it doesn't get reported, then it never happened. It's very sad to see.