SmartPolician: All odds are against Atiku at this time because Nigeria's north enjoyed power for 8 years without key candidates from the South contesting against them.
It was not as though Buhari knew what he was doing in that office. Atiku won't win; it's as simple as ABC!
If Buhari did not know what he was doing in office why was he made president by Tinubu after he assessed him as expired in 2011?
Globad: So, based on this video, you have chosen to believe the man and started lambasting the government
Have you wondered if the man in the video was planted or paid to say what he said?
Why would a paid protester easily, readily and shamelessly grant such an interview that would also stain him?
What if he was a double agent?
This is the age of media. Be cautious before jumping to conclusions
Who was Fayemi doing double agent for in 2012 when he and other APC leaders looters played politics with our socioeconomic wellbeing in the Ojota protests to demonise PDP and bring in APC's expired Buhari as saviour?
Kastonkastroll: PDP is also a "party of particular concern"
In what way is the Prosperity and Development Party, PDP of particular concern after giving us 16 years of high productivity and employment for low insecurity
thisweekng: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.” Private sector to drive the economy
What you have said is nothing but the truth about the Almajiri Poverty Congress, APC.
The biggest wonder is how and why we allowed ourselves to be scammed into allowing them replace PDP's 16 years of low inflation low insecurity and high prosperity
Former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari has faulted the federal government’s clampdown on Boko Haram Islamic insurgents. He accused the government of killing and destroying their houses while the Niger Delta militants were given special treatment by the government.
Buhari who first spoke in Hausa before the English version accused politicians from the Niger Delta region of starting the current in security in the country by recruiting and arming youths of the region in their desperate attempt to retain power as governors. The former Nigerian leader said that unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants by the federal government, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished by government.
While accusing President Jonathan of failing from the beginning to address the security situation in the country, Buhari said he has never been in support of the state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa state.
“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf started his militant and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.
“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today. You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua sent an aeroplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty. “They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north were being killed and their houses were being demolished. They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice”.
Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC is the worst thing to happen to our country since independence.
How did we allow APC leaders looters replace 16 years of PDP prosperity with high employment and low insecurity 10 years ago
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
yarimo: The only thing in Alex otti mind is how to syphon everything in Abia state.
abians are tired of his poor leadership
Any idea why 20 million Lagosians are not tired of Tinubu’s TAX master plan since 1999, despite siphoning trillions yearly from their IGR?
[quote author=Lanrelagboi post=133655707]Lagos has now crossed the 3 Trillion Naira annual budget mark. Crossed 2 Trillion in 2024.
Memory Lane: the first full-year Lagos State budget (Year 2000) in the 4th Republic was in the region of 40-something billion Naira. And it was described as “unprecedented” back then.
Truths9ja: Really private investors really makes Lagos State to be great State in Africa.
No doubt, Lagos is now dubai of Africa.
Any idea what Tinubu’s placeholder is doing with the trillions of revenue squeezed out of 20 million Lagosians yearly if private investors are the ones making the state great?
Do you think that the money is just being stolen to buy votes and remain in power forever, to the detriment of deprived citizens
[quote author=Lanrelagboi post=133655707]Lagos has now crossed the 3 Trillion Naira annual budget mark. Crossed 2 Trillion in 2024.
Memory Lane: the first full-year Lagos State budget (Year 2000) in the 4th Republic was in the region of 40-something billion Naira. And it was described as “unprecedented” back then.
Image123: Let's go there. State police that we've been calling for don come. You all happy?
We will be happy when Tinubu and APC show workings, rather than have premature happiness that is aborted due to non fulfilment, like every promise that they made since 2023, and even since 2015.
ebukal67x: National security emergency? Never heard of that one before.
If you have not also heard of a government negotiating with kidnappers to release a few children out of the many kidnapped, then you should know that Tinubu and APC are just playing politics with our security crisis, just as they did in 2012 with fuel sector deregulation, on their way to packaging their expired Buhari as messiah.
Why are we allowing them to get away with this nonsense
Before you smile about this news story, should you not ask yourself why Tinubu negotiated with kidnappers to release a few of the kidnapped children instead of killing and arresting them
Stephen0mozzy: Nature 🙌🏾🙌🏾 We don't experience things like this. How blessed and amazing Nigeria would have been sha - if the human disaster was not our kurse.
Seems it only erupted ash? No lava
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themanderon: The only disaster we have are those that have ruled and ruined this nation.
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If the human disaster leaders looters emerge from among us then how can we be different from them
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
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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.
BlackViper: Ethiopia has 50 known volcanoes, according to the Smithsonian, several of which have been dormant for thousands of years.
Is the Smithsonian an Ethiopian organisation, or maybe the organisation of some other African country like rich Nigeria?
Or it is an American organisation that we rely on because we are poor overwhelmingly, even in our minds because we want everything without doing what is needed to have what we want, especially on the community and collective country level
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)[1][2] 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.
themanderon: The poverty, illiteracy and hopelessness the northern elites championed for decades is now biting them in the butt.
They petted this monster now it has become a hydra headed behemoth. Soon none of them would be able to leave Abuja less they be consumed by their creation.
How long do you think it will take southern Nigeria to have our own monster of deliberately promoting illiteracy, poverty and hopelessness become a hydra headed behemoth
Abi how many of the 16 states of southern Nigeria have consistently recruited teachers ANNUALLY, and paid them well to educate all children in free schools with adequate quality classrooms, libraries, laboratories, playgrounds etc?
A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
Former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari has faulted the federal government’s clampdown on Boko Haram Islamic insurgents. He accused the government of killing and destroying their houses while the Niger Delta militants were given special treatment by the government.
Buhari who first spoke in Hausa before the English version accused politicians from the Niger Delta region of starting the current in security in the country by recruiting and arming youths of the region in their desperate attempt to retain power as governors. The former Nigerian leader said that unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants by the federal government, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished by government.
While accusing President Jonathan of failing from the beginning to address the security situation in the country, Buhari said he has never been in support of the state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa state.
“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf started his militant and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.
“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today. You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua sent an aeroplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty. “They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north were being killed and their houses were being demolished. They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice”.
When you sow wind, why won't you harvest whirlwind?
The wickedness of A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC in replacing PDP's 16 years of prosperity with their extreme poverty change and worse insecurity has caught up with them.
Former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari has faulted the federal government’s clampdown on Boko Haram Islamic insurgents. He accused the government of killing and destroying their houses while the Niger Delta militants were given special treatment by the government.
Buhari who first spoke in Hausa before the English version accused politicians from the Niger Delta region of starting the current in security in the country by recruiting and arming youths of the region in their desperate attempt to retain power as governors. The former Nigerian leader said that unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants by the federal government, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished by government.
While accusing President Jonathan of failing from the beginning to address the security situation in the country, Buhari said he has never been in support of the state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa state.
“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf started his militant and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.
“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today. You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua sent an aeroplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty. “They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north were being killed and their houses were being demolished. They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice”.
Klington: Tinubu is a disaster that has absolutely no knowledge about governance.
For Tinubu, governance is about raising the tax burden on us, so he can steal the increased IGR to bribe politicians into decamping to APC and buy votes to keep himself in power perpetually as he is doing in Lagos since 1999.
Tinubu is the TAX master planner hell bent on his 2027 reelection, getting a 3rd term and life president thereafter like Biya in Cameroon.
He wants to succeed where Obasanjo failed with Ghana must go bags bribe to NASS members.
NaijaRoyalty: …Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money
However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”
Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.
He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.
Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.
Chidibe212: It's very shameful. Kidnapping a legalize and lucrative business under Tinubu
This is what we get for allowing a cluelessly incompetent leader looter to be our president.
Maxymilliano: The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.
Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.
At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.
yarimo: ATIKU was not happy with the rescuering of some kidnapp victims by the FG, and the same ATIKU is claiming he likes Nigerians
Comprehension is obviously a challenge for Bwala APC followers.
When and where did he say he was not happy with the rescue, as opposed to the manner of the rescue, which can only encourage more criminals to want ransoms
qtx: needless post entirely. Kai! Wasting people's data
Very needless.
We don't have posts on how Brits, Japanes and other countries ensure their governments prioritise their taxes for employing well paid teachers and workers for free education of all children and water supply to all houses.
No!!!
We are more interested in meaningless but exciting posts like this one.
Kobicove: Go and do no trousers day in Nigeria let me see if your relatives will not bundle you to a mental institution
The same relatives in Nigeria who rely on handouts of diaspora remittances from their families and friends that have japa'd to London and other European cities
Afre they not the ones who actually need to bundle themselves to a mental institution for being too lazy to build a society that functions for everyone?
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
Rebelutionary: I guess you missed the part where oil revenue is mentioned in my writeup! Read slowly anonimi...it doesn't hurt!
Bayelsa as well as any oil producing state has no business having such dilapidated structures in the first place but obviously you want to engage in the "worse of the pack dick-measuring" so you can sleep well at night and for that I will let you enjoy your ignominy!
Why are you sudeenly forgetting how you started this trail of worse of the dick measuring below?
Why conveniently forget that once you are reminded of how Katsina is obviously worse than Bayelsa that you have picked out.
I am not interested in any other state's problems since I know that it is a ploy to distract from addressing the failures in my own state.
Rebelutionary: Bayelsa is the worse of the worst! The day we all wake up to holding our governors accountable the sooner we see developments! Bayelsa with only 8 local governments, with a former president that also was governor of the state is to borrow from Donald Trump-"the shithole state of Nigeria". When last did anything of note happen there?
mrkings84: Leave mattes that concern the North, if u reason their matters, I swear u go have serious headache....
The north can never be okay
Are you sure you know what you’re talking about?
What then made southerners like Tinubu and his ACN party look north to make HoR Speaker instead of their own Yoruba sister
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.
Has anyone seen the video and pictures of the kidnappers who killed their teachers and are still holding more of their fellow schoolgirls hostage?
If the criminals are not arrested, prosecuted and convicted then what are we breeding apart from lawlessness and worsening violence by APC leaders looters, who promised better change than the 16 years of PDP prosperity and low insecurity
How many times have you used pictures of infrastructure as legal tender money to pay for things because you have been made a jobless, extreme poverty pauper by APC palliative sharing schemes that claims to be progreThief
thisweekng: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.” Private sector to drive the economy
Politics › Re: 6 Parties, 3 Decades, One Dream: Will Atiku Get It Right In 2027? by anonimi: 10:30am On Nov 27, 2025
Something to smile about.