Racoon: “For instance, Peter Obi ought not be allowed to contest the 2023 presidential election. In this sense, by the time he lost the PDP primary, LP had submitted its list of members to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
There is no record that Obi contested in PDP’s primaries.
He bought the nomination form but he was lured to LP after Wike frustrated him out of PDP into the waiting hand of Tinubu’s secret agent, who incidentally was ADC’s first presidential candidate 19 years ago.
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
olabrad: Yes, they were, but they had desire to lead right.
Nigeria also has common men who are willing to make positive impact, but the existing system overseen by wicked leaders won't allow them to rise
Did Netherlands and other European countries ever have wicked leaders overseeing a ABSOLUTE monarchy system before ordinary people with a desire to lead right worked to change it
Who do you expect to work on changing the system here in Nigeria? Ordinary Dutch people?
There is one guy like that on my street always driving recklessly with SUG bus... Most of these guys are cultists who eventually join politics and mess up the nation
Are they more in number than the people who are allowed to emerge from among them into positions in SUG or in politics
Putindbutt: But Bitter people will tell you Tinubu abandoned old roads and is only focused on building new ones. They will even tell you Tinubu is not doing anything in the SE, that all federal roads being built are done free of charge by Julius Berger.
God I beg o, these losers must never happen to Nigeria.
The losers who gave Nigeria 16 years of widespread prosperity and peace with security, through deregulation and privatisation policies?
Any idea how to use pictures of these incomplete roads to pay for the subsidy forced on Nigerians due to APC’s massive corruption in the oil sector, since petrol has been more than N70 for over a decade now
saintopus: Education today is facing lots of different challenges. Uniforms are the smallest amongst those challenges. Parents are gradually shifting from the normal Education to skills acquisition. This trend I think will continue.
The biggest challenge is that we do NOT expect our LGA chairmen and governors to employ teachers for the free education of all children as it was in the 1st and 2nd republics, and despite PDP's Obasanjo and Atiku establishing UBEC 27 years ago to help states with matching federal funds to ensure nine years of free and compulsory education for Nigerian children.
How many governors have employed as many as 19,500 teachers in five years like PDP's Makinde did? Not even Tinubu and his successors in his 27 years old Lagos master plan have done that.
greatseed: I wonder why obi hardly helps his kinsmen, he prefers to go up north & dig a social media paparazzi borehole & share money to the northerners than at least donating his earlier loots to the easterners.
That is Hypocritical & obviously he feels northerners will give him votes. Very desperate personality
How is he a greater looter, a more hypocritical and desperate than this city boy serial betrayer of southerners
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
LegendHero: Pellar has done more for the South East than Obi.
See how those people are so happy to receive their N1000 naira with joy.
David Umahi as governor and Tinubu as president as well as their evil APC party, have destroyed the Ebonyi and Nigeria into a cesspit of extreme poverty paupers, deprived of the most basic of government services and utilities.
dalass: Yeah. It imposes tested and trusted hands like Fashola, Anbode, Pastor Yemi Osinbajo, even Sanwoolu.
I prefer that to moneybag politics where a billionaire will come out, buy votes and steal the states resources blind while doing nothing to better the lives of the masses
If Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode, pastor Osinbajo and even Sanwo Olu are not the worst rogues who have stolen Lagos state's resources blind, then why have they failed to achieve a tiny fraction of what Jakande did in just four years?
APC progressives have governed Lagos for 27 years, not so? They have raised budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion, not so?
Do you know where all the money has gone to all these years
kullozone: Just see what Nigerian politicians are doing.. And you expect me to vote for one of these parasites when there's absolutely no benefit for me
With or without your vote, you will be affected by the decisions made by politicians who are allowed into public service from the parties.
So na who lose pass
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
Onegai: Hamzat has been wanting that Governorship for a while and apparently the only reason he took Deputy Governor was because he was promised a shot if he didn't challenge Sanwo-Olu (who wasn't popular at the time in Alausa). Plus he being from Epw will mollify Epe indigenes, rather than being back Ambode
They really want to punish Ambode to ensure nobody tries them again. Baba Sope politics must continue by fire by force. I wish true Lagosians will back ADC or PDP and go after these guys.
Do true Lagosians who bear the burdens of city boy's ever increasing taxes, levies, fees etc have the numbers to go after Agbero Poverty Congress, APC through ADC, since PDP has been hijacked?
What works can ordinary Lagosians do, to increase the possibility of reversing this ugly trend that has been in Lagos for 27 years
infohenry: Poverty of the mind has destroyed the psych of people like you, humility is impossible where wealth exists.
Are you saying that he is humble because he is an extreme poverty pauper, like most Nigerians?
Are you also saying that Dutch people are humble because they are all paupers deprived of basic government services and utilities like water, because they use tribalistic logic to rationalise their zoning and rotation arrangements for condoning corruption
Meanwhile some other loyal members of Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC are forming saints in their public office positions.
chisomkachy: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.
Naija News understands that the anti-graft did not give any particular reason for its application for withdrawal.
Following the application to withdraw, Justice Nicholas Oweibo discharged the ‘lien/Post No Debit’ placed on Obasa’s three accounts in Standard Chartered Bank.
The accounts are (US Dollars) 0001852063; (Current) 0001852056 and (Saving) 5002309624.
The judge also set aside the ex-parte orders he made on September 15, 2020, which led to the freezing of the accounts.
Recall that the court on September 15, 2020, granted an interim order freezing Obasa’s accounts following the EFCC’s application in a suit marked FHC/LCS/1064/2020.
The agency had said it was investigating the Speaker for the alleged offences of conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.
But Justice Oweibo, on August 16, 2023, heard the application to unfreeze the accounts in his chamber.
During the hearing, the EFCC was represented by Mr. Sulaiman I. Sulaiman, while Obasa was represented by Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN).
The EFCC lawyer told the court that the application to unfreeze the accounts was pursuant to Section 44(2)(K) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Sections 26, 29 and 34 (1) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction.
Section 44 of the Constitution concerns constitutional rights to property.
Justice Oweibo held: “It is hereby ordered that an order is hereby granted to the respondent/applicant setting aside the ex-parte orders of this court made on the 15th day of September 2020 upon the ex-parte motion of the Applicant/ Respondent in relation the funds of the Respondent/Applicant domiciled in the accounts stated in the following schedule:
“ACCOUNT NAME, FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INSTITUTIONS, TYPE OF ACCOUNT, 1. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered, (US Dollars) 0001852063 2. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Current) 0001852056 3. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Saving) 5002309624.
“Issued at Lagos, under the seal of this Honourable Court and by the hands of the Presiding Judge this 16th day of August 2023.”
Sonnobax15: A religion that sees people of the same faith as less and inferior simply because of their skin complexion .
That ain't no religion, but ,a cult of the highest order.
How is it different from whites and their own version of the two Abrahamic religions that we have adopted to replace how we relate traditionally with the Unknown God, preached by Apostle Paul to Athenians
TheBedWench: The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).
This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]
The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.
Precious201010: How is he wicked? Children with free data will open mouth and be insulting elders.... If not for Dangote and his refinery buy now fuel would have been sold for around 4k per litter
If not for PDP's deregulation and privatisation policies, would we have Dangote refinery licensed as part of the 2012 fuel subsidy plan, whci wicked APC politicians played politics with?
Can you imagine that they used Buhari's 2011 running mate to lead the protests.
Image123: An article about the middle east, oil, Dangote and refinery.
An helpless loser in need of help starts ranting about APC. You both need urgent help.
Before the war started last month, why did Tinubu and APC fail to do what they promised
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
From the same minister who is owing teachers salary and making children stay out of school. What kain priority be that
anonimi: FCT Teacher’s Strike: The unfolding crisis that has kept Abuja’s children out of school for months
The industrial action is the third in a series since late 2024.
ByQosim SuleimanandZainab Adewale July 2, 2025 Reading Time: 4 mins read For over three months, public primary school pupils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been out of the classroom due to a teachers’ strike.
The industrial action has seen multiple suspensions and resumptions and is the third since late 2024.
dam2000: The mighty pDP has turn to kindergarten children see life
Na so oh.
Do you think that is the effect of Sheriff's curse on Wike, for undermining the party that made him from LGA chairman to what he is today
anonimi: No room for Wike, Fayose in PDP again —Sheriff
Also reacting to the judgment, its apparent beneficiary, Senator Sheriff, vowed to put in place a machinery that would not give room to people like Governors Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose of Rivers and Ekiti states, respectively in any future arrangement in the party.
“I will engineer a restructuring of PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose cannot find a way through to attain any position of prominence in our party in the future. They have brought shame and agony through the application of their crude and godless politics which is at variance with the principles upon which our founding fathers built our great party.
“We must find a way to sieve things so that only men of character and integrity can come through for positions of responsibility at all levels of our political engagement in the country.
“We must urgently steer the ship of PDP clear of the path of infamy which Wike and Fayose has brought our party, making Nigerians to mistaken PDP as a training ground for thugs. That is the urgent task we have. We cannot continue to advertise thug brand and expect Nigerians to take us seriously,” he said.
TimiofAbuja: comparing failures..... our politicians are failure
Can you please explain how successful people like you, allow only failures to emerge from among them into public office, through politics
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht
Racoon: The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa. Nigeria’s low voter turnout
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections. With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million..The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.
Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.
Politics › Re: "2023 Election: Obi Shouldn’t Have Been Allowed To Contest" – Justice Ayo Salam by anonimi: 3:35am On Mar 25
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