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Mr. Bayo Onanuga is a huge joke, I wonder who still takes him seriously except of course, his fellow clowns in the circus show. This man, by this statement or rebuttal, has single-handedly confirmed that the Presidential Comms Team eat, sleep, dream & think Peter Obi every second. I mean, how do you manage to issue an official statement in the name of the Presidency then still go ahead to chip in a leading opposition figure's name in something that has clearly nothing to do with him. That was petty & unnecessary in my opinion.

The point could still be made without mentioning names thereby focusing the debate on the real issues but with this here, the focus has shifted from issues to personalities & that's a low from Mr. Onanuga, who keeps speaking like a political party spox than a presidential spox; there's a huge difference between the two!

Unfortunately, the lady is back on X under the same guy’s tweets less than 24hrs after her akant was freakied with N6m, still begging for giveaways.
Guess some people are just insatiable like that!

Anyone calling for or supporting a revolution in Nigeria must be ready to lead the revolt from the forefront alongside members of their immediate families. If they also have properties, they should be ready to first set their properties ablaze then take their immediate families to the frontlines of the revolution then the rest of Nigeria should queue behind them.
Anything short of this is an attempt to destroy lives & livelihoods of perceived foes, hardworking & legitimate Nigerians etc.

Lol. He was blindfolded so he won’t know where they’re taking him but you somehow know that it’s EFCC headquarters they took him to?
Issokay.

Well, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi owns his experiences & knows what he passed through under the Jonathan administration but he obviously was economical with the truth in some instances.

For e.g. the reason for the "technical" closure of the Akure Airport wasn't because a "non-civil authority" ordered it shut down, it's simply because it's a sunset airport & had nothing to do with his squabbles with the administration at the time.

Secondly, if the Jonathan administration truly wanted him killed, what better way to do it than orchestrate a fatal accident or ambush his vehicle along the stretch from Kano-Zaria-Kaduna-Abuja? Even a newborn kid knows that a State Director of DSS can be overruled by his bosses if he provides security for a HVT that's wanted by the administration i.e assuming his claims are valid that he was marked for elimination.

Thirdly, speaking about his support for fuel subsidy removal but against how the current administration went about it and then going on to explain how he would've done things differently: please, isn't he aware of the number of FG houses being built? The NELFUND? CreditCorp (where Nigerians can access low interest loans to purchase brand new made-in-Nigeria vehicles)? Several road projects that are ongoing & employing thousands of Nigerians? Etc. I'm not saying the economic situation of Nigerians are better but in relation to the alternatives he provided as solutions, the current administration is doing the things he mentioned and then some more.

Rt. Hon. Amaechi has paid his dues as a prominent Nigerian politician but sometimes he just speaks half-truths.

Lol. I love how the North is threatening fire and brimstones over 2027; you would think after a northerner spent 8 uninterrupted years as President of Nigeria (they took virtually all the positions available and controlled all the major security apparatus) and only just left office about two years ago, you would think that their economic and security situation would've been the envy of the rest of Nigeria that watched while Northerners held sway.

While I've no sympathy for Tinubu and how he has also divided Nigeria along ethnic lines with his obviously skewed political appointments, I find it troubling that Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed may be insinuating that the North has a penchant for instigating insecurity just to get a President (especially those from the South) they don't like out of office.

They tried it with Obasanjo (Shari'ah, religious crises etc) but he was able to out-maneuvre them; they tried it with GEJ & succeeded largely due to his political naivety and desire to uphold the rule of law over personal ambitions. They're trying it now with Tinubu (another Southerner) & the verdict is yet to be out on if they'll succeed this time or fail.

Finally, the threat by Dr. Baba-Ahmed that "Nigeria will end" if the 2027 elections is rigged (against the North) is just the ramblings of another disgruntled politician: the worse that will happen is they'll instigate their blind & brainwashed followers to protest, destroy lives and property in mostly Kano (this may not even be really effective if plans to woo Kwankwaso to APC succeed), Bauchi (again, their plans may not succeed in Christian-dominated parts of the state due to the Yakubu Dogara-factor) & Kaduna (mostly parts of northern & central Kaduna) while other northern states like Katsina, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Yobe, Taraba, Gombe, Adamawa, Sokoto, Borno, Plateau, Niger, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kogi & Benue may just remain indifferent to how those other 3 states up there may react to the outcome of the polls. Well, as for the South-south and South-west, it'll be business as usual while the South-east may or may not participate in any unrest that will further jeopardize the volatile security situation in the region.

The question will now be, which Nigeria will end? Perhaps Dr. Baba-Ahmed needs to be reminded that Nigeria doesn't start and end in the North and what the North wants!

On so many points in this video, I stand solidly with VDM; man made so many valid points, you could hardly fault them.
However, it was disconcerting to see that while VDM is very good at issuing ultimatums to others & having hot takes on some issues he obviously doesn't have adequate information on, he is also very intolerant of dissenting views, doesn't like to be issued ultimatums & loves to "oppress" those he believes he can oppress ("I for slap you", "I for march you", "drag your face for ground", "you fit stand for my front" etc) & get away with it.
If Kizz Daniel's bodyguard had made a video giving VDM an ultimatum, he wouldn't in his wildest dreams dare to threaten to go physical with him; he'd have just ranted & made his points because he knows physique-for-physique, strength-for-strength, violence-for-violence, he's not a match for Kelvin Atobiloye aka Kelvin Power.

Lol. Who else saw AY Makun mouth the acronyms "EFCC" to whoever was spraying the Naira notes.

Indeed, wisdom is profitable to direct. Happy birthday in arrears Chief Obi Cubana.

Lol. Nothing is imPOssible with the 2nd runner up including capitalizing on people's woes and misfortune to score cheap political points

While the security architecture of the country is over stretched, you can't downplay the possibility of evil politicians behind these new wave of attacks particularly in the middle-belt (Benue and Plateau specifically).

The northern political elite have begun their games of bloodletting and unfortunately, it won't stop; it'll rather intensify.

The security forces too must intensify their efforts of intelligence gathering, sharing and prevention of attacks.

May the souls of the murdered rest in peace.

The Nigerian President is one very very powerful individual and isn't one to be toyed with especially if they're one with a penchant for wielding and deploying the absolute power under their control; that's the part of being President Gov. Fubara overlooked or should I say ignored.

Here's a man who as governor famously said to the admiration and hype of his supporters that "the house of assembly members also exist because I say so..." And on one other occasion said "... This is my property (referring to the RSHA complex) blah blah blah" and the President was just watching like a bat (no pun intended, apologies to Fayose). When the President used a fraction of his powers, nobody told Fubara that in Nigerian politics, you can't be more powerful or strong-headed than the President.

Under GEJ, it was an ordinary Commissioner of Police (Joseph Mbu) that was used to put Rotimi Amaechi in check; and that was child's play compared to what the then President could've done had he wanted to "finish" Amaechi then. People tend to forget these things.

Anyways, I hope lessons have been learnt by all the parties involved in this unfortunate saga and from indications, the President isn't going to end this state of emergency after the first 6 months, he'll most likely extend it.

Finally, aside Rivers people, the next biggest loser in this imbroglio is Gov. Fubara.

This is the problem with the typical Nigerian politician; when outcomes are in their favour, the institution involved (in this case, INEC) is "truly independent" or unbiased.
Had the outcome been against her expectations, we wouldn't have heard the last of how INEC was bribed or even threatened to see through her recall process and how she has lost faith in the commission.
Again, let this be a lesson to the political class and their supporters - outcomes shouldn't be acceptable to you only when they're in your favour.

Well, only Nigerians who love to live in self-denial are the ones refusing to see that this is the end-game ultimately of all these coalitions.
The merger of AC/ANPP/CPC/a bloc of APGA and bloc of PDP to form APC pre-2015 was successful because they all coalesced into one single platform and presented one presidential candidate after a keenly fought primaries which if memory serves me right, Buhari came 1st, Kwankwaso (2nd) & Atiku placed 3rd; the significance of these positions by the respective politicians is also another political masterstroke that gives credence to the political acumen of Bola Tinubu (see how they placed Obi 3rd in the 2023 polls? Aha! There's a message there too but I digress).
As long as these coalition talks don't result in a single presidential candidate especially from the South, it'll fall like a pack of cards.
A coalition with Peter Obi as the presidential candidate & Atiku or Kwankwaso as running mate will sack Tinubu/APC from Aso Villa before 4p.m election day.
A coalition with Atiku as the presidential candidate & Obi as running mate but Kwankwaso is also on the ballots, will present a stronger fight but it won't be enough to cause a shift in the political landscape of Nigeria.
However, all these are just my own thoughts that I desire for the coalition but from all indications, it appears the 3 opponents to BAT in 2023 will seek a repeat of their individual expeditions come 2027 and once again, Nigerians will be the greatest losers.

Lol. I see so many commentators berating Tinubu, Wike & the RSHA members mostly; some have even insisted that Fubara cannot be impeached. Well, we'll see how all this plays out.

When this political crisis between Wike & the puppet - who almost immediately he was sworn in as governor became his own man - he installed as successor began, the President in his wisdom (whether it made sense or not at the time is immaterial now but with what's playing out currently, Fubara would wish he stuck to whatever terms & conditions PBAT brokered for "peace" to reign) mediated & for the first time, brought the dissenting parties to the negotiation table for a political solution because that's what was required.

The ink was yet to dry on the "peace" accord the dissenting parties entered into than Gov. Fubara literally describing the President as a meddlesome interloper who cajoled him into signing an unfavorable agreement; he, more or less gave the President a stinking middle finger and since then, Tinubu has maintained an uninvolved stance in what goes on politically between the political godfather and his godson.

What appears to be the nail on the coffin would be the supreme court judgment; now, the lawmakers have a valid pronouncement that more less gives them the license to hold Gov. Fubara and the entire state to ransom (that's what they're doing now) and it's unfortunate that in all of this, the well-being, welfare and interests of the people of Rivers State isn't put into consideration by the political gladiators.

Wike and his loyalists shouldn’t over stretch their luck because the fire they’re currently stoking at a time they should be magnanimous in “victory” could end up consuming them as well.

Lol. How people cannot see the handwriting on the wall that clearly says Mal. Nasir El-rufai is working towards a PBAT re-election, is amusing to me.
These guys are acting out a script but as usual, Nigerians are too much carried away by the drama that they can’t see what’s staring ‘em in the face.

How can this one be comparing Rosa Parks civil disobedience over a bus seat to this debacle between politicians over sitting placements?

Tbh, I fail to see the correlation here.

I really want to believe Senator Natasha but all these allegations coming up now make the timing and agenda suspicious.
First of all, you can’t put it beyond the Senate President to have actually made those sexual demands, I mean, how many Nigerian politicians don’t have skeletons in their closets?
However, with her knowledge, experience, exposure and susceptibility to be misconstrued as someone who sleeps around (most beautiful women especially those who have risen in politics are unwilling victims of these wrong presumptions), I would’ve expected someone in her position to have audio recordings of some, if not all of the intimate late night calls she accused Akpabio of putting across to her; having her husband as witness to those calls alone isn’t enough evidence.
Likewise, what type of a man, not to mention a husband, who knows his pretty wife’s being sexually harangued (allegedly) by her political colleague who he also happens to have unrestricted access to, but didn’t do anything about it? Why has he being strangely quiet on this matter especially if he has been a witness to some of the allegations by his wife against Akpabio?
This is the moment to speak up on her behalf and stand in defense of his wife yet he has chosen to be silent?
For the avoidance of all doubts, Senator Natasha either provides hard evidence for her allegations (she can through the courts, subpoena transcripts of Akpabio’s calls to her phone number) or be added to the number of bitter, angry, vengeful and scornful women who always resort to allegations of sexual victimization every time they’re called to account for their wrongdoings.

PDP never laid a solid foundation for our democracy that's why all this nonsense is happening and APC, which claims (those claims have since turned out to be hogwash) to be better, has sunk us lower down the rungs of democratic ideals.

If PDP from the time they controlled both chambers of the NASS had allowed members from other parties who wanted to defect to their party to defect but direct the Speaker/Senate President to still declare such a defector's seat vacant, all these politicans would've learned their lessons by now and stopped using political parties as a SPV to win elections only.

Lol. It's not for nothing that IBB is nicknamed "Maradona" & "the evil genius". Even in old age, he's still dribbling around the truth & conveniently laying all the blame for the June 12, 1993 debacle at the doorsteps of dramatis personae who are no longer fortunate to be alive.

As an evil genius, IBB has lived longer enough and understood that in Nigerian political history, you don't have to be correct or factual 100 per cent, just ensure you've the last say especially when your "last say" cannot be controverted by any other living witness.

LOL. So, this man, who happens to be a two-term governor, one-time VP candidate, one-time Presidential candidate and educated, expected a situation where owners of fake drugs and other medical consumables would show up to "collaboratively" inspect their warehouses of death with NAFDAC officials?

Anyways, why am I even surprised?

phineas:
It's called morale, and the CDS has shown interest in the games way before now

I'm not clear on what you all are insinuating,is it that the CDS cannot travel on his own without the toga of the games?

I'm sure you all are clear that is not the case

His efforts at attending was a laudable one..the shame here is on the Canadians,their feedback is noted.

Well, the denial of visa has so many lessons therein & I'm glad the CDS himself alluded to that!

Anyways, next time, they won't apply for visas to other countries for events their presence or absence won't add or take away any significant shine to/off it.

Doesn't matter if they were just 10 meant to go to Canada for the Invictus Games, my own is, what's the CDS going there to do?

As CDS, Gen. C.G Musa didn't respect himself, office & personality therefore, he brought the "disgrace" upon himself and the Nigerian Armed Forces in general; if I may ask, how many other CDS or equivalent from other countries are attending the Invictus Games?

givedemwotowoto:
Since my argument and not yours is flawed, why didn’t APC win governorship elections in Kano, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Delta, Rivers, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba, Zamfara, since they won the presidential election?

“A bit” was the keyword and I didn’t mean to disparage your opinion or elevate mine above yours!

Meanwhile, also note that my position was based on voting patterns from 1999 which shows that most states governorship elections’ outcomes often go the way of the party that was declared winner of the presidential polls; for instance, for the 10 states you listed that didn’t go the way of the ruling party, almost 2x the number of those states went the way of the party that was declared winner in 2023 e.g Lagos, Ogun, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Yobe, Gombe, Jigawa, Niger, Kwara, Nasarawa, Benue, Cross River, Sokoto, and Borno.

And for the off-cycle governorship polls, the voters went the way of the ruling party (Ondo, Kogi, Imo and Edo).

Erm, your Lagos comparison is a bit flawed. First of all, it has been a pattern that the outcome of presidential polls in Nigeria largely dictate the outcome of state governorship polls; had another party aside the APC been declared winner of the 2023 presidential polls, it would’ve gone a long way to alter the equations for the governorship in Lagos especially.

Also, you can’t rule out the “Yoruba ronu” sentiment that came into play during the Lagos governorship polls.

Overall, you see that Bulaba and Agbadorians you don’t want to see celebrate victory come 2027 (God spare our lives), it’ll take a huge miracle for the gang up against them to work!

But then, that’s just my own opinion!

givedemwotowoto:
People don’t have a big problem with APC at the state and LG levels but you see that presidential election? It’s a big no no for Bulaba and his Agbadorians.

If you disagree, then why did Sanwo Olu win his governorship election bid while Bulaba lost in the same state even after much violence and intimidation?

PDP,NNPP and LP didn’t participate in the polls though; maybe that’s why APC had a clean sweep across all the LGAs but that shouldn’t fool the ruling party into believing a similar feat will be replicated in the same state at the next general elections.

“...we shouldn’t joke with the Quaran...” yet some of the most fantastically corrupt, inefficient, morally and financially bankrupt politicians are Muslims and from the North; when it’s time for good governance, they’ll be nowhere to be found but mention religion and you’ll find them in the forefront pontificating like some pious religious person.
Nonsense!

TimeManager:
https://dailytrust.com/unanswered-questions-over-quran-convention/

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Security as well as those appointees that speak for the President in one capacity or the other are a bunch of clowns.
Instead of waiting for at least 3 - 4 months to observe the direction of inflation in prices of foodstuffs (those in the know say the current drop in prices of some essential food commodities - no matter how little the drop - is largely due to harvest season not because of any special policy of the FG in that regards), they started blowing their own trumpets all over as if it’s now Uhuru.
Now, even Daily Trust that that didn’t know the meaning of “fact-check” under PMB Admin is now the one exposing their barefaced lies and propaganda with hard facts.

You see that his closing statement "Lagos leads, always"? That's a statement of finality only a governor with unmatched resources at their disposal, vision and balls can make!

Kudos to Gov. Sanwo for working like someone who is seeking re-election.

It's not good optics that the number two citizen is captured on camera hobnobbing with a man standing trial for corruption to the tune of tens (abi na hundreds, sef) of billions of Naira.

However, for political expediency and capitalization, it's not a crime; even more importantly is the position of the law that presumes innocence on the accused party until otherwise proved by the court of law (until all legal options are exhausted).

So, it depends on which part of the fence you're seated: if you're for moral considerations, this photo is all shades of wrong but if you're for political and legal considerations, it's just another one of those moments between political acquaintances (of the same party if I may add) and possibly, even friends.

Jesus!! Na human beings dem tie like that for inside sack like say na cow parts?

May God have mercy on Nigeria and deliver us from these evil calamities happening left, right and centre.

Meanwhile, those unfortunate kids deserve to be treated with dignity’s in death instead of being packaged like some animal for burial.