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Arise TV has shown Kano, Anambra, and currently showing Adamawa where the top presidential candidates will be voting.

Na me and Arise TV today

reccy:
Bro, even someone with fish brain knows this excuse is not adding up. For the fact thatt this Is happening on the eve of elections make it more suspicious.

That idiot knows what he is doing. He knows Okehi and adavi are the strongholds of Natasha and he knows his candidate on a free and fair election can not defeat Natasha made him think like a fish to dig and disrupt the inec from reaching the LGs on time and by implication, mar the election's process.

See the excuse the hippopotamus Governor brought out.
God bless Natasha for exposing and keep exposing the ineptitude of that clown.

We will get a better senator this time around.

#teamnatasha#

You have my respect for saying things the way they are

I spent most of yesterday indoors cos I worked remotely yesterday. I drove out in the evening to even have a feel what's happening on the streets in the eve of the election.

Most of the grocery stores in the estate were packed to the brim. People just full grocery stores dey do late hour purchases. Those selling frozen foods like chicken, fish etc had people on long queues sef. It looked as f people were planning for any eventuality cos of the uncertainty that surrounds the election.

Lastly I saw people checking the voters register posted at two different polling units trying to check their names appear on the list. I think irrespective of who wins the election, one thing is certain ; the majority will definitely have their way and everybody just has to accept the result and move on with their lives.

Afz9095:
If Na youth Una want truly and no b tribal politics
Una Dey play then Sowore is the go to man ..if Na new Nigeria Una want something different from old establishments Na Swore b the man someone who has fought for democracy and as always been a critic of the current political establishment if you really want change then vote for a young and new blood. someone who as never dinned with the old and current establishment.Sowore should be the face of new Nigeria, most of y'all won't vote for him today and it will only confirm that we are still playing and not ready for a new Nigeria because today election will be business as usual as tribalism will be in full display…

Which Sowore are u referring to here now? The same Sowore that was suspended by his own Party after the 2019 elections for alleged corruption?

So people should queue behind him again and vote for him so u can claim he's no different from Tinubu, Atiku and the rest who have had one corruption allegation or the other against them in the past?

Below is Tinubu's paper quickly latching on the news Immediately Sowore was suspended. Imagine what they will write if the youth had queued up again behind Sowore this election

https://thenationonlineng.net/sowore-and-corruption-question

Just dey play

Amoto94:
Like I still maintained the roads that were cut off don't in any way affect the distribution of electoral materials to her hometown but it's election season anything done will be used against opponents. Out of the roads cut off only 1 or 2 are slightly pliable and good luck to your shocks.
Once insecurity is mentioned I defer to those in authority they know better and the woman in question is an alarmist she has mastered the art of propaganda.

So how do people get in and out of the community prior to the excavation since u claim the roads have always been non-pliable?

I have Read most of the comments on different platforms the news was posted and I've not seen one person talk about the roads not being pliable. I have friends on Facebook who are even from that axis and they've all called Yahaya Bello out for the same excavation u are saying is for anti-terrorism measures.

How is the woman an alarmist if the government that has been inactive for almost 3 months suddenly wakes up to start digging tranches round the woman's village a day or two to an election she is a major contender?

Ibime:
Bello can easily send killers to that road they filled in, thus circling back their argument that they dug the road to prevent a terror attack

Fear Governors, but of all of them, Bello and Wike are the most black-hearted

We know this things. I'm only pointing it out that the nonsense press release cannot stand any proper logical scrutiny. How can anybody believe he excavated the all routes that lead to the place just to avert further terrorist attacks?

Ife Bello claims they already have the masterminds of the terrorist attack in custody, then why excavate the road?

The most annoying thing is to even think Yahaya Bello actually contested the presidential primary elections with the intention of becoming Nigeria's president. Imagine having either of him or Wike as Nigeria's president.

Eh God!

@amoto94 Do u still think Natasha is playing politics with her people's lives?

So I came across this video below and she alleged Yahaya Bello actually excavated 5 different roads that leads to her home town just to cut them off from the rest of Kogi state.

As it stands she and her people have been able to fill 2 out of the 5 roads in order to make it pliable.

Omo! The kind politics una dey play for that side no be here o.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpDZmrxADVM/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Ellexy:
They didn't remember to cut off the road since just a day to the election they suddenly realized they must dig trenches.

As in, if person even wan lie at least make the lie dey relatable small.

This one no even make sense one bit

Amoto94:
Baba Blue two explosions happened one happened in December and the other happened recently as stated in the release, you missed the point. The roads that was dug were already in bad state though one of the roads lead to an LG secretariat which was attacked recently.

Okay, I agree I missed the part cos they didn't put a date to it like they did to that of December 2022( For whatever reasons best known to them sha. Cos it's even the most recent ones they should remember the date instead of writing "couple of days" like something they made up)

However I still disagree with the fact that digging access road is the only way for them to avert future occurrence. This is the first time I will be hearing government digging access roads to avert future bomb blast incidents. I've not read of such anti-terrorism measures until today. It just has political coloration written all over it.

Nostradamus1:
You see Okezie Ikpeazu, Yahaya Bello and Ortom, they should join Peter Obi in that plane. I don't know if Obi deserves to be in that plane as no be me talk am but these 3 governors suppose dey front seat.

How does this gibberish u posted relate to my post u quoted?

Amoto94:
KOGI STATE GOVERNMENT

PRESS STATEMENT

CUTTING OFF SOME ROADS IN KOGI CENTRAL IS A DELIBERATE SECURITY MEASURE

1. The Government of Kogi State wishes to inform members of the public that the excavation of some roads in Kogi Central was to cut off traffic on those roads as a security measure to restrict the use of those roads by criminals who have been breaching the peace of the area.

2. It would be recalled that a couple of days ago, the Secretariat Complex of Okehi Local Government suffered from the effect of an explosive devise. The security agencies ensured no life was lost as a result of the explosion, but the State Government convened an emergency Security Council Meeting to address the security challenges in the area with a view to devising strategies of averting possible future occurrence, especially as we witnessed similar explosion on December 29, 2022 at Okene.

[b]3[b]. One of the measures arrived at was to restrict the number of routes to the flashpoints to enable security agents properly mount effective surveillance on the other access roads for the safety of the people, especially as they go to the polls on Saturday February 25,2023. We thank the State Ministry of Works and Urban Development for their proactive efforts on the road.

4. The cry of one Mrs Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan over the measure to ensure security is therefore not a surprise. As an indigene of Okehi Local Government Area, she has not considered it expedient till now to sympathize with her people over the explosion that affected Okehi Local Government Area Secretariat Complex. To her, their lives do not matter. But she was quick to characteristically blackmail the State Government when measures were taken to protect her people. Does she benefit anything from insecurity in Kogi Central? How does the streamlining of routes into the flash point affect her?

5. Some of the masterminds of the Okene blast of December 29, 2022 have been arrested and they are giving useful statements to security agents. With the current measures in Okehi Local Government, we are confident that the cowards who attacked the symbol of unity of the Okehi people will not escape from justice. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan should recognise the fact that the administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello will never slaughter security on the slab of politics and will ruthlessly deal with criminal elements and their sponsors whose hearts are not immersed in the culture of peace of the Ebira Nation.[/b]

6. As a Government, our responsibility is to protect the Kogi people and sometimes, we have to take drastic and even temporarily discomforting steps to achieve that. INEC and security agents have not complained about accessing every part of Okehi Local Government Area in particular and Kogi Central in general. Why is Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan crying on behalf of INEC when as an institution, INEC has communication structures and platforms?

7. We also wish to call on Kogites to disregard allegations of trying to use local militias to harass voters. The protagonists of such fiction are elements who want to create panic in the state because of desperation to provoke chaos to cover up for their political feebleness. We assure the people of Kogi Central and Kogi State in general to come out enmasse to cast their votes as adequate security arrangements are in place to protect them before, during and after the polls. Those who need to worry and criminals who will never be spared in the state.

Kingsley Femi Fanwo

Hon. Commissioner for Information and Communications



23/02/2023

This explanation/press release doesn’t make any sense one bit!

I mean make it make sense na ! A bomb blast happened in December 2022 , u claim u have arrested suspects/alleged masterminds who are assisting u with useful information then U suddenly decide to excavate roads leading into the communities in a bid to protect the people in February 2023 . 🤦‍♂️

If they want to lie, at least make the lie make sense na. When did cutting off roads suddenly become a way of preventing terrorist activities? Even people that are very very slow in the head will not be convinced by this shallow piece.

The fact that the press release kept mentioning the Natasha Akpoti person shows the government is definitely out to deal with the person and not necessarily preventing any future terrorist attacks.

GloriousGbola:
Even port harcourt, they snapped the rep live and direct beside the dollars.

This is just clout chasing.

The thing dey somehow sha. Dem no even write any name, more like dem just call head office say dem don catch person for Lagos o and they just ask their social media handling to hurriedly post it without even bothering to get the name of the suspects .

As regards the port harcourt own, I think it’s police that arrested that one. Nothing concern police with being discrete about anything ; especially if the commissioner is in good terms with the governor(which I think is the case , so the police go quickly post to avoid incurring Wike’s wrath for not doing damage to Atiku’s chances when he played right into their hands )

Tataffo:
Guess the party

Why is EFCC not releasing pictures of the suspected vote buyers and their names ? If na Yahoo boy they would’ve flooded all their social media handles with the names and pictures of the suspect immediately after the arrest .

larryyy:
Good morning and a good day to remind everyone to Vote APC from top to bottom tomorrow.

Can u please itemize at least 10 things u enjoyed under the current APC government ?

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/7583219/explosions-shatter-homes-businesses-atikus


All hail wicked wike

Who could have predicted this from 2016 to 2021,when it was APC chieftains getting killed in their homes?

Be careful what you celebrate.

This is why I said if by chance Atiku wins, Wike should just go and hide inside creek or cross go Equatorial Guinea cos most of these guys will certainly come for Wike’s flesh and blood .

They will just need Atiku to look away so they can exert their vengeance on him. Mehn!

Theflint1:

The matter sef funny u Abi?

afrodoc2:
The problems are corruption, an ignorant and impoverished electorate, and electoral fraud.

If you like, compulsorily change reps every 4 years you won’t get different results until you tackle the underlying problems.

I don’t think we are saying the same thing . Here’s what I’m saying :

1. We focus so much on the president/governor who has maximum of 8 years to rule as the head of the executive at the federal/state level respectively .

2. The senator/house of reps/state of assembly member has an unlimited number of years he can spend in the respective houses of which he’s expected to sponsor bills that will affect his or her constituents and the general populace at large .

3. The legislators spend years getting fat pay checks and allowances , yet their constituents do not feel the impact of their presence in the house ( NB : I’m talking about their major constitutional duty of enacting laws and not them pouring coal tar on roads and constructing street lights o)

4. Like these guys have failed woefully at this , but most of us focus on the president/exacutive arm of the government as the cause of all levels of failure in governance .

5. That’s why u see governors after using 8 years as CEO of the state where they failed will voluntarily retire at the house of assembly cos they know nobody is shining torchlight at their activities in the house .

afrodoc2:
The major fight is the fight against corruption not limiting parliamentary terms. Churning out a new set of reps every few years won’t make any difference as it has been shown that new brooms in Nigeria quickly inculcate old broom tendencies.

On the other hand you lose the benefit of the experience of seasoned parliamentarians who are less likely to be bamboozled by the executive arm of government. Quick turnover of reps will only lead to inexperienced and incompetent reps who are as corrupt as their predecessors.

I get ur point, but the experienced reps have not done us any good if we are being real with ourselves. For example Nigerian legislators for the past 24 years have note even been able to agree 18years as the legal age for a child to be declared adult. The child right has suffered alot and we see this failure of the reps come to the fore anytime issue of child marriage/rape takes center stage in the national discourse. We still see some of these legislators marrying underaged children

Itsrm:
Of course. I saw one building in UK belonging to Wike estimated at 500,000 pounds. There will be many more scattered across Europe and the World.

Na wa o. Those guys worse pass federal government sef wey everybody dey focus on.

iamoyindamola:
What if it's a set up from wike
Anything can happen

I doubt it’s a set-up sha. Atiku is desperate and almost everyone knows that. His silence has also been ominous; more like he already has an underground plan in place.

If u ask me ehn, it’s just like the whole PDP primary all over again when Atiku believe his stashed dollars will always make him triumph over dem Wike. But then with politicians , one cannot be 100% sure of anything

Itsrm:
These guys have stolen us dry, Just look at the naira equivalent

https://www.nairaland.com/7583165/rivers-rep-member-chinyere-igwe

Just wait till an opposition takes over Rivers state, u will be amazed how much Odili, Amaechi and Wike have stolen from Rivers state.

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick there's a documentary on the super eagles 96 on prime Amazon
Omo abacha show people shege

Gloriousgbola I watched that badamasi, the man was portrayed as a good guy even though he led some coups.. IMO he only took out his own revenge by nullifying the election abiola won

Maybe later today I will download and watch it.

afrodoc2:
Not having term limits has not truncated Western countries. It is actually good to have a fair bit of experience in the house so that we won’t have people learning on the job all the time.

If their electorate does not like them they will vote them out. We should be focussing on free and fair elections and fighting corruption rather than term limits for reps.

Robert Byrd was a U.S senator for 51 yrs (from before Naija independence to Yar’Adua presidency) and there was no problem with the democracy.

I'm actually not a fan of comparing Nigerian democracy with America's. Nigeria democracy no dey run like like America's at all.

If we look at the US senator u mentioned we will probably see tons of positive bills he was able to sponsor and see thru that has impacted on the lives of his constituents and the American people at large. If we look at someone like David mark who spent 20 years in Senate and 8 of those years as Senate president, I doubt we will have much positives to talk about his impact.

Anyways u have a point, the constituents have a duty to vote out any representative that doesn't serve their interest in the national assembly but with poverty so much in Nigeria I doubt if they won't take mini bags of rice, indomie, Okada, etc and continue to vote them in

I think Falz is making some serious sense here.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpAiTq_oUKo/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

The fact that there's no cap on the number of times a person can be elected into the house of assembly (unlike the presidential seat which has a cap of two terms) is definitely one of the reasons things might not be getting better anytime soon in this country.

A member of house of assembly who has spent 5 terms of 4 years each is definitely a greater problem than a president who just uses 8 years . Such house of assembly members will always insist on horse-trading to assent to bills, pass budgets, and make impactul legislations. I guess we need to take house of assembly elections more serious going forward sha

FBS:
This is what I said
[i][/i]

I wanted to understand where this is coming from. This is different from "there is an aggression".
Then someone replied with a very fair, impersonal statement and reason which I accepted.

How you understood it is completely up to you.

It is well.

FBS:
I think you deliberately decided to be unfair in your understanding of the post as that was not the intention.

But u said there's an aggression against "anyone" who appears not to support Obi and I think it's unafair. That's a blanket statement u are making there.

Myself for example I support Obi and my MO is definitely not aggression against anyone,who doesn't support Obi. I would rather people are educated to see the damage APC government has done to this country for the past 8 years and advise they not reward same APC with another 4 years. You certainly won't call that aggression would u?

FBS:
My take is this, I don't understand the aggression against anyone who appears not to support Obi. Like, is everyone supposed to support only 1 candidate? This is not China or is it?


As for betting, you should be able to find some on this very thread.

I think u are delibrately being unfair with this particular post. If u go on twitter, nairaland and other social media handle u will see there are Obi supporters who attack Tinubu supporters unprovoked and there are also Tinubu supporters who attack Obi supporters unprovoked. None of both supporters have monopoly of attacking the other party.

But here u are making it seem like only Obi supporters are guilty of that. You can even see it on this thread that both parties fire each other from time to time.

The truth is there are toxic supporters in both camps and nobody can deny that. Projecting behaviour of some supporters on the totality of all supporters is unfair.

Donjazet2:
As in? I'm trying to understand the hype around the jarus guy. Is he better than professional polling companies that employ statistical models and data to predict voting pattern and favorobility of a candidate?

I have always maintained that this election will be vastly different from what we've seen before.
Infact the candidacy and rapid growth of obi's campaign is already testament to that.

Almost every neutral observer 6 months ago genuinely believed that Obi was going nowhere but look at it today, you can't talk about the nigerian election in any part of the country today without talking about Obi.

The man is now a household name. More than 90 percent of all nigerian household has an obi supporter, whether voting or non voting.

The campaign has rapidly altered the method of campaigning in Nigeria.

All within the space of 6 months!!
I can't wait to see the shock on people's faces when they start seeing the results of nasarawa state, Abuja, plateau, benue and taraba state.

Mark these 4 state's I just mentioned. They will be shocked.

The truth is there's actually nothing special about Jarus' projections. Yes it's true he's a numbers person cos he's currently a Tax manager with PWC and has worked as accountant/Tax manager in the oil and gas industry in the past, but just like Ogbeni Dipo he has his biases.

Personally I don't believe in any of the polls be it stears, Jarus, ANAP. I don't believe in them because most of them are always based on Ceteris paribus (All things being equal). Nigeria is not a society where things remain same based on projections. A lot of factors can change the tide of things.

As at yesterday morning several armoured personnel carriers were seen at the entrance point of Lagos in ojodu berger. That same yesterday MC Oluomo was all over Lagos Island causing serious traffic impediment all in the name of final campaign. As of now nobody knows the game Buhari is playing. INEC has omitted the LP party logo on the HOR and Senate ballot papers inspected by the party officials. All of these and many more factors will have a bearing on the eventual results which may not even align with any projection on ground.

FBS:
How is that a problem? Is it against the law to contest for public office?

Alaye, person wey I mention in my post know reason why I mention am. E get reason why I directed my post at him and not at anyone else.

Elder0001:
Where in the constitution is it stated that children of political office holders should not vhy for elective positions?

Of course, there's no section of the constitution that forbids children of political office holders from running for elective positions.

I just needed to let u know Peter Obi is not Ur headache especially considering Ur obsession with his candidacy even when u've already stated the only reason u are interested in the election and voting for Atiku is cos of what u stand to gain personally from Atiku's presidency. Na Obi wey no do u anything be Ur problem, Ur governor wey don rule 8 years and still bring his daughter to legislate over u no.be Ur problem/immediate concern

Elder0001:
. You're just capping anyhow. I have people I benefit from that are very close to okowa. An Atiku/okowa presidency would favour me like Gej's favoured me.

I don't know about you obi supporters and the rest, but as for me I don't put my mouth where I won't benefit from. Assuming Atiku and okowa weren't contesting I'd be neutral.

Elder0001:
Who should rule it then? Tinubu or Obi?

Atiku must enter there. As long as the corruption favour me, no wahala.

Ellexy:
Na their way be that. It's actually impossible to defend Bat's past especially on international TV so the best he could do is try to rope in Peter Obi. Liked how he was cleared in the end about making unsubstantiated accusations.

If na Arise or Channels dey clear him now, dem go talk say na unprofessional journalism and that dem no allow am talk having already have their preconceived agenda against their candidate.

nihilistjnr:
At least she no inherit her papa teeth.

Na her mum Gene neutralize the teeth