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“I am a Doctor of Philosophy holder, unlike a secondary school certificate holder or diploma certificate holder. I do not ‘bedwet’, nor am I a spare tyre,” he stated.

They don't seem to understand how their candidate has been rejected severely from every part of the country except southwest.

vengertime:
There's no doubt Peter Obi will win.

11 states in SS and SE, comfortable half of Lagos State, sure 25% in SW states.

Then the decider states, Plateau, Benue State, you see FCT even Buhari can't come close talkless of PDP with their empty rally they did in Eagle square few weeks ago., Taraba and southern Kaduna are also Obi strong holds.

You now have 3 candidate fighting dirty to share Buhari votes among themselves. 12m ÷ 3 = 4m each.

God have a way of putting your enemies against themselves until it's too late.

In a post shared on Twitter, Doyin Okupe seemed delighted over the appointment of Akin Osuntokun as the new DG.

Doyin stated that Oshuntokun has been a committed as well as a foundation member of the Peter Obi presidential ambition.

He wrote: “I received the news of the appointment of my brother bossom friend, strong ally & confidant,Prof Akin Oshuntokun,as the new DG of the LP Obi-Baba Ahmed campaign organisation. Oshuntokun has been a committed& foundation member of this great movement frm d start.I wish him well.”

Zikojukwu:
We've been receiving very horrendous reports of Dave Umahi growing torture chambers in Ebonyi State. I followed AIT's reports and they're worrisome. Who knows more about this? APC is becoming a bigger monster by the day. Let's save lives, we can't create one.

IgOga:
Sowore nor get mobilisation money now.....

People who show up in rallies have been mobilised.....only the jobless show up in rallies without incentive....


If the youths want real change they will vote Sowore or any of the few ones that are different to the old guard.....Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, Kwankwanso are all in thesame whatsapp group

Yesterday, December 25, Christians worldwide celebrated Christmas to mark the birth of Jesus Christ. In every country with a predominant or substantial Christian population, the president or vice-president, the head of state or prime minister, is a Christian.

However, in Nigeria, this year’s Christmas may be the last, probably for the next eight years, that Christianity would be represented politically at the seat of Nigeria’s sovereignty, the Presidency; that someone professing the Christian faith would be president or vice-president!

Surely, if Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, wins next year’s election, then, Nigeria would have a Muslim president and a Muslim vice-president, Alhaji Kashim Shettima; probably for the next eight years if they win a second term! In storytelling, the plot is what happens; the theme is what it means. A successful story must answer both questions: “what happens?” and “what does it mean?

But answering the question “what does Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket mean?” is beclouded by partisanship and deception. Hence, some mendaciously dismiss concerns about the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket by saying that a) the vice-president is “powerless”, and b) a Christian vice-president can’t protect Christians. So, what’s all the fuss about?

I tackled those specious arguments in a column titled “Muslim-Muslim ticket: Christianity would suffer at the seat of Nigeria’s sovereignty” (BusinessDay, September 5, 2022). My aim here is different: to admonish Christians and Christian leaders to beware of Tinubu’s attempts to schmooze and beguile them with utter falsity about the real intention and implications of his Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Tinubu says he won’t Islamise Nigeria. But what more insidious way to Islamise Nigeria than having a Muslim president continuously for 24 years? So, what? Well, Christians must vote massively, joined by patriotic non-Christians, to stop a Tinubu presidency

Karl Marx famously said: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” Similarly, my Christmas message is: Christians of Nigeria, unite! You have nothing to lose but the political affront on your faith, the denigration of your religion!

For the truth is, Tinubu and his party, APC, have, for political expediency, set out to belittle the Christian faith. They have set out to deny Christianity equality of status with Islam in the Nigerian political firmament. Instead, they’re condemning Christianity to a second-class status, suggesting it lacks parity of political influence with Islam.

Provocatively, Tinubu continues to double down on his Muslim-Muslim ticket, insulting the collective intelligence of Christians. Recently, he told leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in Abuja, that he picked Shettima as his running mate because he’s an “exceptionally gifted human being” with “superior intellectual capacity”. Clearly, Tinubu was saying he searched far and wide but found no Northern Christian in APC with those attributes. Of course, he’s dissembling!

But while Tinubu continues to lie to Nigerians about the real intention behind his choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket, leaders of his party are more forthright with the truth.

In an interview with BBC Hausa in August, the APC national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, put it this way: “In our understanding of the politics in Nigeria at the moment, the Muslim-Muslim ticket is the best decision for us because we want to win the election,” adding: “Everyone has his own strategy for winning elections.”

Dr. Kayode Fayemi, then Ekiti State governor, put it even more bluntly.

Speaking to the new executives of CAN, Ekiti State chapter, in July, he said: “The decision (Muslim-Muslim ticket) was not on grounds of competence because we have competent Christians all over Nigeria, but on grounds of strategic political moves.” He added: “We have to look at scenarios and calculate where the votes would come from; it’s a game of numbers!”

Of course, anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows that Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket wasn’t based on “competence” but pure electoral calculations. But it’s the self-interested calculations that make the decision unbearably disturbing because it shows Tinubu’s willingness to put his self-interest, his “lifelong ambition”, above the national interest – internal cohesion and religious harmony. He assumes he can take Christians for granted, ride roughshod over their sensitivities, and still become president.

Why is Tinubu that confident? Well, his calculation rests on two myths. One is that the South-West or the Yorubas put ethnicity above religion; so, despite the Muslim-Muslim ticket, Yoruba Christians would vote for him simply because he’s Yoruba. The other myth is that Northern Muslims put religion above ethnicity; so, they would vote for Tinubu, a Yoruba, provided his running mate is a Northern Muslim, not a Northern Christian. Thus, Tinubu sees his Muslim-Muslim ticket as a winning formula based on ethnicity in the South-West and religion in the North!

But if both myths hold true, the long-term consequences for Christians are dire. First, no Northern Christian would ever become vice-president, let alone president. Why? Because Northern Muslims simply won’t vote for one. Second, Christians in the South, particularly in the South-West, would lose political potency as ethnicity would always trump their faith!

In such circumstances, Christianity in Nigeria would face a perpetual political disadvantage because a) Christians in the North seemingly lack electoral value and b) Christians in the South won’t defend their faith in the political space. Indeed, those assumptions were what emboldened Tinubu to call the bluff of Christians and opt for a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Tinubu adds insult to injury by telling critics of his Muslim-Muslim ticket to remember that his wife is a pastor. Really? What an utter hogwash! Imagine a governor or a president who doesn’t have a woman in his cabinet or in any senior position but, when challenged, said: “I don’t hate women; after all, my mother, my wife and my daughters are women.” Is that the point? Similarly, so what if Tinubu’s wife is a pastor? Does having a pastor-wife vitiate the need for a balanced presidential ticket? Certainly not!

Of course, even though she’s a pastor, Tinubu’s wife, Oluremi, a senator, is 100 percent behind her husband’s Muslim-Muslim ticket. She disagrees with the public position of CAN on her husband’s choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket. She disagrees with prominent Christian leaders, such as Pastor Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), her church, who said he aligned himself with the CAN position, and Bishop Matthew Kukah, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, who said in one interview: “As a Christian, the Muslim-Muslim ticket is totally reprehensible and unacceptable to me.” But, alas, for family and political reasons, it’s not “reprehensible and unacceptable” to Pastor Tinubu!

Indeed, recently, at a public event in Lagos, Mrs. Tinubu defended the Muslim-Muslim ticket wholeheartedly. She said: “Muslim-Muslim ticket will set the tone for the future “, adding that “sometime in the future, we will have a Christian-Christian ticket.” Of course, she’s utterly disingenuous. She knows that Northern Muslims, who wouldn’t even support a Northern Christian running mate now, would never ever support a Christian-Christian ticket. Like her husband, she’s insulting the intelligence of Christians!

Southern politicians have argued that a Northerner should not succeed a Northerner. I agree. But with Tinubu, a Muslim would succeed a Muslim and have a Muslim vice-president. What’s more, a President Tinubu would entrench a long-running Muslim presidency in Nigeria. Assuming he does eight years, the next president in 2031 would be a Northern Muslim. If that president does eight years, then counting from 2015 (Buhari’s first-term) to 2039, Nigeria would have a Muslim president for 24 years consecutively.

Tinubu says he won’t Islamise Nigeria. But what a more insidious way to Islamise Nigeria than having a Muslim president continuously for 24 years? So, what? Well, Christians must vote massively, joined by patriotic non-Christians, to stop a Tinubu presidency. Leaving aside nagging questions about his character, his presidency would destabilise Nigeria! Merry Christmas!

3nity7:
u no get sense.

CoronaVirusRelo:
When it comes to productivity, I don’t use age, religion or ethnicity to judge. I use well laid out verifiable profile!

Definitely! I will employ a BAT before Peter!

KillSars:
U listen to gaffes because that's the only thing u want to hear...

I can't help u bro

CoronaVirusRelo:
I am a patriot! My country deserves the best, and I will do anything to get that done!

Investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, on Sunday criticised supporters of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 election, over their reaction to a skit made by popular Nigerian comedian, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Ejekwu, commonly called Sabinus.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that many supporters of Tinubu have started unfollowing Sabinus on the social networking platform, Twitter, following the latter’s skit which seemed to mock the former Lagos State governor.

Soyombo stated that the fact that comedians provide anecdotes and stories that elicit laughter in a tough clime like Nigeria, “if you decide to unfollow happiness, na you sabi”.

“If you unfollowed Sabinus because you find his latest comedy offensive to your political god, you’re only punishing yourself and that’s your own personal problem.

“This Naija is hard already; na people like Sabinus we take dey console ourselves from time to time.

“If you decide to unfollow happiness, na you sabi,” Soyombo wrote on his verified Twitter handle.

CoronaVirusRelo:
Pained you said?

Don’t make me laugh please!

I personally will defeat Peter in a National election if it were just two of us.

CoronaVirusRelo:
Gibberish!

Your own incompetent evil is good, but mine is evil

You need food. You not having balanced diet. You have been doing too much carbohydrates

CoronaVirusRelo:
Grow up!

It’s 2022 and almost a new year!

CoronaVirusRelo:
I hope you know your own future? Cos that’s what is most important.

19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!” 20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. 21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.…

stuffs2002:
Rest...

CoronaVirusRelo:
How much was the man paid to say such!

Obidients should stop capitalizing on people’s poverty or illiteracy!

The other day, they were teaching people English in a village square, and now they paying people to criticize.

Anyways, Asiwaju remains undeterred or shaken by the propagandas of unscrupulous elements!

We forsake and planned for it, and not a surprise.

KillSars:
I just love tinubu tactics, he knows how to be in their news...

I guess diz dumbos no even know sey electric roasters dey sef, will u blame them? na smoke and charcoal full their head...

If electricity dey 247, many Nigerians would have try out diz home appliances...

Na because sey we never generate enough electricity, na why diz numbskull no even know sey electricity can be used to roast corn and boli....

Well, na small small tinubu go dey open una eye....

ojun50:
Una go chop boli tire, since na light we won dey use. He no go better for people wey dey push this man.

See has UK people dey laugh una

Validated:
As seen in the Spiritual realms, Tinubu will seek cancellation of 2023 elections as he came a distant 3rd, losing to Peter Obi and Atiku.

APC will declare over voting in 17 states that they could not meet 25% as rigged. APC will demand cancellation of results in all SE, SS, 3 NC and 3 Northern states will be challenged by Tinubu and APC

Just like Oyetola, Tinubu will lose at the Tribunal

Kukah also berated Buhari for failing to persuade the All Progressives Congress (APC) against fielding the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket.

He added: “Am I to believe that you knew and could do nothing about the Muslim-Muslim ticket within your Party? Still, we pray for a free, fair and credible election.”

We need a new strategy to confront those who sit on the throne of power in arrogance and are determined to reduce our country to a jungle.

Ogbuefi2020:
So only SW will make Tinubu president? Do you know that SW has never delivered block votes?

(9) if you are a negative thinker that bellieved nothing will change or better