Gagare1: I am well aware that Shettima is Kanuri. But his presence there is better for the Hausawa than a Fulani man. At least we know that we won't be betrayed by him.
Ok, I don't think BAT will change him .but let's see how 2026 plays out.
Gagare1: With Kwankwaso moving to APC in a move that signals a Fulani replacement for Shettima, Tinubu can forget about Hausa votes, because we will not vote any Fulani man to power, we are not stupid. Any Nigerian that vote for a Fulani Vice President is voting in favour of soft landing for killers.
I know what I speak of. Tinubu will loose seriously.
Shettima is kanuri, not hausa sir , hausas will vote who they feel comfortable with.
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DeLaRue: Some of the Governors must see something in the President.
2027 will be the most expensive election in the history of Nigeria.
I suspect that election will witness an unprecedented buying of votes on election day. That is where the Governors standing with Mr Tinubu will come in.
There is no part of Nigeria today where majority of people will not vote for you in return for N25,000 cash. Nowhere. 'Angry' voters will put their anger aside if they see N25k.
If the APC needs to spend trillions they will find it.
There may also be a massive show of force through the Police and civil defence so that any person that wants to cause any trouble at any election centre will be wisked away and dealt with.
The opposition will simply not be able to match the APC.
I can assure you that Apc will start vote buying rate at 50k per person in 2027, many people will collect it.
AMINDA: They are all pens-for-hire, Reno, Sowunmi and Olisa Metuh. You can bet Reno, the self-proclaimed "meticulous record keeper", is also keeping records about his new sponsors in the APC. We would be here when he comes to spew it all. It will be in Ribadu's best interest to be wary of Reno.
Exactly!! Same way you are a pen for hire and doing the job of your masters on nairaland .
These folks have never protested banditry in their state , it's Iran dem carry for head for gala , any southerner who tries to criticise the FG for not wasting scarce resources on terrorism in the north is actually a FOOL !!!.
It's time to stop wasting resources on the north .
AMINDA: Uba Sani cannot deliver his polling unit to Tinubu. This is a fact that is well established.
Tinubu is relying upon his likes to deliver northern votes but here's a video of uba sani being booed at his own polling unit during the sham of a local government elections months ago. uba sani is not on ground.
Maxymilliano: Going by the current reality, re-electimg Tinubu should be an impossibility but never say never, this is Nigeria.
And as they say, never underestimate the power of stvpid people in large groups ...
He will win Nigerians are fickle , just watch ,from next year prices of food will reduce, dollar may sell for 1000 naira , govt will pump money into the system , Muslim clerics in the north will be taken care of and reminded the south will have just 4 years left if the vote BAT , only a delusional person will think the north will jump ship .
aribisala0: I agree and I do not normally say this
Tinubu has a poor grasp of security issues and it is a mistake and even weakness to place the positions of Minister of Defence and NSA in the North
Buhari did what he wanted and did not listen to anyone
Nuhu Ribadu is not the right person for the job
Same opinion I have he needs to give the NSA position to someone from the north Central or south- south , he can dash minister of defence to the north as that position is more ceremonial than effective.
SmartPolician: The only region where Tinubu is guaranteed to win votes is in the South West. Outside the South West, only rigging and vote-buying can save him! His handlers should tell him to loot and save enough money ahead of 2027 polls.
Keep deceiving yourselves oh ! 2027 is not far , the opposition is busy on social media while the ruling party are putting their house together, if you think pulling down of billboards will stop him from winning then you don't understand naira politics ,the 2 most important regions in an election is the south West and north Central, whoever wins both regions or has a strong percentage there will most likely carry the day .
pocohantas: I am not the lady and even if I am, I am entitled to my opinion. If a man typed that, you won't call it hypergamy.
The reasoning of men women are to submit to.
You may not like it , you can defend your gender all you want ,but the honest truth is there is a reason thousands of ladies above 30 are single and it has nothing to do with a man trying to dominate the woman or seeking validation through her submission. This particular lady in this Op is a valid candidate for shiloh , When I was young I had a parish pastor in rccg who always declined praying for single ladies , instead he will ask them to leave their sentiments aside and give the young men around them an opportunity to prove themselves without any terms and conditions, I saw his strategy work several times , he had the least number of single ladies in that parish during his tenure .
Lithiumite: Pls remind them that their VP from 2011 to 2015 has just joined the APC.......all their past presidents have left them and several of their govs,even their chairmen but they are still here dreaming about waking a dead horse.
Namadi has joined APC? Are you sure ? When did it happen?
ogaemma: The solution is to stop open grazing. There is no where in the world where cow roam the streets openly from place to place and from farm to farm destroying innocent farmers crops. This is 2025 for crying out loud. Why can't the Federal Government take the bold step and stop Open Grazing once and for all? Is obvious the Fulanis are more Nigerian than other tribes.
That is EXACTLY what the CDS is saying. You can't solve this issue if cows are still moving into territory that doesn't belong to them .
wellmax: There is a reason for CDS, minister of defence and all other military heads.
You want the president to carry gun and chase criminals?
Please help me ask them Gej that visited every disaster scene back then how did it turn out ? Did it end terrorism? Nigerians just love feel good factors and don't like to face reality . It is not by visiting disaster scenes it's by getting an effective structure so it doesn't repeat itself that is what Nigerians should be lobbying for.
Lanretoye: Before opening the thread I knew the person was a former this or that,it is either them don sack him or they refuse to employ him.
He is working for Tinubu, the opposition will be very stupid to fall for all these guys who have worked with Tinubu and suddenly turn around to claim they are no longer with him, since his days in Lagos BAT has used this tactic successfully.
AMINDA: At least, we now know why governors are decamping to the APC. Tinubu is using our common patrimony and the due entitlements of the states to play partisan politics. Buhari never did that. He's hoping to benefit from the goodwill of other politicians because he knows his own reputation and popularity is in shambles. He would be disappointed in 2027.
Has any governor been owed their dues or allocations since Tinubu became president?
naptu2: Morris Monye is the Interim Director of Mobilisation for the Obidient Movement.
Morris Monye @Morris_Monye
https://x.com/Morris_Monye/status/1934224504135340099?t=L2SzrY716tlaGj0PMnKEvw&s=19[/quote]Isreal has been fighting hezbollah for the past 20 months around the Gaza strip, Gaza is not as big as Lagos state, and this dude is trying to trap Obi with this wishful thinking, do you know how big borno state alone is and the amount of weapons and personnel you need to pour into north east alone to try and wipe out terrorists? Obidients have not learned anything from APC mistakes when they campaigned about making dollar equal to 1 naira.
mrrandomguy: Attempt to sell NITEL 4: UNICOM In 2010, a consortium that included Dubai’s Minerva and China’s second-biggest carrier, China Unicom (0762.HK) made a bid of $2.5 billion for NITEL, more than five times its value.
China Unicom (Europe) Operations Ltd. “would be interested in exploring the possibility of equity investment in NITEL,” according to a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange. The subsidiary also “indicated its interest in the provision of technical and managerial support,” the statement said.
But Unicom could not raise the cash to pay.
Meanwhile, Unicom denied any part in a bid that telecoms analysts said was very high for a telecom company the federal government had struggled to sell since 2001. One consultant estimated NITEL’s value at the time to be not more than $500 million.
“There’s no involvement of this project from the parent company, the listed company or any subsidiary of the company,” said Unicom spokeswoman Sophia Tso in a statement.
However, Usman Gumi, managing director of GiCell Wireless, the Nigerian operator fronting the bid consortium for NITEL, and the BPE, said Unicom’s European office had sent a letter offering technical support should the bid succeed and also the possibility of taking a 20% equity stake.
“We didn’t pull all this out of the air,” Gumi said, according to Reuters.
A guided liquidation option Then, in July 2013, Nigeria’s federal government announced plans, through the NCP, to restart the sale of NITEL via a “guided liquidation” process, beginning with the appointment of a liquidator.
By this time, Nigeria had been trying to sell NITEL for more than a decade, a company that was struggling because of the deplorable state of its fixed-line infrastructure and high levels of debt.
Joseph Chigbo Anichebe, then spokesman for the BPE, said that the council had appointed Olutola Senbore (current Chairman of the Board at FCMB) as liquidator and gave him six months to set up the process.
“The reason we choose to go through the liquidation option is that the expected proceeds from the (NITEL) sale are likely going to be less than its (debts’) value,” Anichebe said.
He added that NITEL owed creditors – mostly suppliers – around ₦400 billion ($2.5 billion in 2013), and the liquidation process is aimed at protecting the government from future claims and liabilities.
NITEL’s fixed lines had fallen to fewer than 100,000 (five times lower from 555,056 lines in 2001) and the number of subscribers to its MTel mobile unit had dropped to a few thousand from over one million.
The players and denials In the hearing, earlier mentioned, by the House of Representatives Communications Committee, neither the BPE nor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) took responsibility for the obvious bad NITEL deal.
When the PwC MD, Ken Igbokwe and Nick Allan, who appeared for PwC took the microphone, he insisted that they checked all the bidders and scored Pentascope highest because they considered them the best suited for the job.
Also, under oath at the public hearing, Igbokwe said services of the consulting firm to the BPE were restricted to financial advisory.
But Nasir el-Rufai, former Director-General of the BPE, and incumbent Minister of the Federal Capital Territory at that time clarified that the PwC was involved in the entire selection process.
So, PwC assisted the BPE in evaluating and short-listing the initial 14 companies that applied to 9. The two bodies subsequently invited the 9 companies to submit managerial, technical, and financial bids.
Of the nine, four were disqualified.
PwC narrowed the list down to three – African Access/Lucent, which demanded $230 million to turn NITEL around and was awarded 56.8 points; BNSL/TCIL, which charged $35 million to do the job for three years and scored 71.5 points; and Pentascope, which charged $45 million to execute the contract over the same period and was given 75.5 points.
Pentascope, PwC, and BPE lied to the NITEL board and the NCP, when the company claimed that it “had provided evidence of KPN’s (a Netherlands leading telecoms company it claimed to have a working relationship with) commitment to continue to provide them with support and technical assistance as required.”
The Minister of Communications, Cornelius Adebayo painted a picture of the severe losses NITEL incurred on the Pentascope contract and said all avenues within the law were being explored to bring all parties in the fraudulent transaction to book.
Enlightened about Pentascope’s gross incompetence, NITEL staff confronted the Obasanjo-Rufai group and demanded that the deal should not be concluded. Under Pentascope, there were no new installations, no system upgrades in a digital era and NITEL acquired lots of technical problems.
Pentascope cleaned NITEL investments in treasury bills with the CBN and liquidated its credits with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and INTELSAT. As it abandoned NITEL and left NITEL with a liability of ₦19 billion.
There’s no report that Pentascope was held accountable.
Nasir el-Rufai would later – in 2013 – insist that former vice President, and PDP’s 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, approved the management contract with Pentascope for NITEL.
In a statement signed by his Media Advisor, Muyiwa Adekeye, el-Rufai said: ‘’It is understandable that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would be enduring some unease at the disclosures made in The Accidental Public Servant, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai’s recent book. A quote from the book reads: ‘’Now that Atiku himself has spoken on the controversial NITEL GSM contract involving Ericsson and Motorola, it is obvious that the attempt at confusing issues persists. It is untrue that the NITEL GSM contract in question was split. Rather it was awarded to Ericsson, but at the lower price submitted by Motorola, because of Atiku’s intense lobby deployed to advance Ericsson’s bid. Atiku and Abdullahi Yari, his then ADC, at different times spoke to el-Rufai to favour Ericsson.
It is Atiku’s responsibility to explain why he became an Ericsson salesman.
On Pentascope, we see the same pattern of muddying the waters with falsehood. As chairman of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), Atiku gave his approval on February 21, 2003, for the management contract with Pentascope to be signed.
The memo on which Atiku minuted his approval, BPE/I&N/NT/MC/DG/280, is dated February 20, 2003, and was initiated by the director of BPE covering the DG’s duties at the time. By virtue of the high office, he then held, Atiku knows that Pentascope was not foisted on NITEL but emerged from a properly advertised and competitive selection process." But, long before then, the House of Representatives were looking at barring him – el-Rufai – from public office for 50 years because of his role in the NITEL/Pentascope chaos.
Then, el-Rufai was accused of perjury and forgery. Others indicted were Legal consultants, Udo Udoma & Bello Osagie; PricewaterhouseCooper (a financial consultancy company), who were indicted and told to refund the contractual fees for dereliction of duties; Vincent Maduka, former Director-general of NITEL.
Comment on the NITEL deals Former Managing Director of MTel, the GSM arm of NITEL, Kunle Bello, in 2013 said that he foresaw the collapse of NITEL/MTel because of the insincere and inconsistent implementation of policies by the el-Rufai-led BPE.
He described Pentascope management as an “irredeemable misfortune” in the telecommunications industry and a disaster for NITEL/MTel workers “who have been dying one after another” following the non-payment of their pensions.
Was there a final sale? The NCP on Thursday, December 18, 2014, approved the sale of the liquidated NITEL and its subsidiary, MTel, to NATCOM Consortium for $252 million.
The Chairman of NCP’s Technical Committee, Atedo Peterside, told journalists that the approval was one of the decisions taken at a council meeting presided over by Vice-President Namadi Sambo. “What happened today was that the NCP approved the transaction, which is like the final phase of the approval because only the NCP has the powers to pronounce a winner,” Peterside said. “So, the NCP today confirmed the process, so the transaction from the point of view of approval and emergence of a preferred bidder is now confirmed. We now have a preferred bidder that has been fully ratified by the NCP. So, that brings us to the end of the bidding process. So, that is the highlight of the decision on NITEL/MTel.” In her address, then Minister of Communications Technology, Omobola Johnson, said that the consortium beat 14 other bidders at the primary stage and one other bidder at the secondary stage to emerge the winner of the bidding process.
She described privatisation as the last segment in a well-thought-out reform of the Nigerian telecoms sector, which commenced in the year 2000. However, a Development Economist, Odilim Enweagbara, said, according to The Guardian, that the $252 million price for which NITEL and its subsidiary, MTel was sold, was grossly below its value, considering the entity’s generous assets across the country. At inception, MTEL had the widest reach of all the GSM companies in the country. “The $250 million sale of NITEL/MTel is a fraud that the Buhari Administration should reverse immediately because the real value of its landed assets in cities like Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt alone is more than $1 billion,” Enweagbara said.
At this time, NITEL/MTel had fierce competition in MTN, Globacom, Etisalat (now 9mobile), and Airtel. The question is: The NATCOM sale had ended more than a decade of trickery, but where is NITEL/MTel in the market today?
Also, why were the former staff of Nigeria’s one-time darling left in the cold? They had protested the final sale, but the government was not interested. It is an unending conversation about irresponsible leadership and gross mismanagement of public enterprises and assets.
PRESIDENT TINUBU HIMSELF TOLD US WHY WE SHOULD NOT RE-ELECT HIM FOR SECOND TERM! - My legitimate beef with SOME hate filled Obidients aside (and that won’t end anytime soon🤷🏿♂️) … we all must still ask Mr President why should we be reelecting him when he has not kept his words,… pic.twitter.com/deGlh38AFT
be fair light has improved in several locations across the country, ever since I came to ibadan I have seen an average of 16 hours a day consistently for 2 months counting. And it's not even Band A .
Yankiss: Well, the opposition is weakened. Let's see what happens between now and 2027. All might not be soft selling yet. The president should not be lured to sleep by the gale of defections. The masses are not defecting with them. He should concentrate on the masses. GEJ had 22 governors in his kitty in 2014 but still lost.
Tinubu is not Gej, secondly the cases are different, finally I am always amused when I see folks online , offline underrate BAT , even after the stunt he pulled off in 2023 , opposition need to take him veeeeery seriously if they have any hope of winning any seats in 2027.
Exousiang01: I have always said that Nigerians are the greatest problem of Nigeria. We are just too wicked as a people
You can't have human capital development without infrastructure. Obi is not a very smart person. No country can develop human capital with infrastructure. I hope that young man never becomes president, he will wreck this country
God will bless you my brother, Obi lacks capacity , unfortunately Nigerians are too sentimental and carried away with irrelevant things such as ' he's not corrupt , he has one house , he saved money ,etc. Same exact thing they did with buhari and he came in and couldn't perform, I have sworn never to support such leaders again ,show me tangible evidence of growth and impact and I will support you .
Even AI knows you can't have human development without infrastructure.
Politics › Re: Tinubu Can Now Be Sure Of Loosing Hausa Votes by benardtotti(m): 5:11pm On Jun 30, 2025
