₦airaland Forum

SonofLagos:
🤣🤣Mugu you are in pains….it’s a known fact that your cursed criminal tribe are drug traffickers🤣🤣🤣 cheap criminal.

Insult Abike all you want, but it still doesn’t change the fact that your tribe are shameless ndi drug traffickers and baby factory products 🤣

SonofLagos:
🤣🤣🤣 because she is giving us statistics of your ndi criminal tribes exploit🤣🤣🤣 cursed Osu pig

The master of bigotry are you cursed pigs from sad yeast, everyone knows that…you can continue living in denial, that’s why no one lives in sad yeast except ibos🤣🤣

Image123:
Not sure Bwala hates the South East or Peter Obi. Peter Obi is incompetent, only few million Nigerians think he's not. Have the remaining majority million Nigerians been appointed for knowing Obi is an incompetent fraud? Tinubu has made scores of appointments, can you objectively name 10 people that fit this your criteria or you are just lying?

ABUJA: Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to Federal Capital Territory FCT Minister, Lere Olayinka, has told former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to jettison his ambition to govern the country in 2027, saying the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party PDP presidential candidate was not destined to rule the country.


Olayinka in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said “The PDP presidential ticket will no longer be available to be wasted by serial betrayals of the party, who are obviously suffering the consequences of their past sins against the party and its members”.



Insisting that Atiku should perish the thought of contesting the 2027 presidential election as candidate of the PDP, Olayinka said “Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and those egging him on for their benefits should let the PDP breathe.”

FCT Minister, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike had said during a live media parley in his office in Abuja on Wednesday that there would be no chance for Atiku, who was the 2023 Presidential candidate of the PDP to secure the party’s ticket in 2027.

Reacting through his Media Aide, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku had alluded to his defeat of Wike to pick the 2023 PDP presidential ticket as well as the former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, to emerge as the candidate in 2019.

However, in a statement yesterday, Olayinka, said Atiku’s “celebration of his narrow and fraudulent defeat of Wike in the 2022 PDP primary was funny and childish”, adding that “it is like Arsenal fans jumping to the rooftops to celebrate the club’s narrow defeat of Super Falcons.”

He said: “That Atiku is venerating himself for contesting PDP ticket with Wike and Tambuwal, people who were just a little above 25 as of 1993, when he contested the Social Democratic Party SDP presidential primary and came third, is the more reason he needs to go home and rest and stop acting like the proverbial cock that failed to realize that it is now elderly.”

Describing Atiku as someone not destined to be president of Nigeria, Olayinka said; “It is obvious that he (Atiku) is paying the price of betraying the PDP in 2003, 2007 and 2014. If not, the same presidency he has contested twice and lost, could have been his to just pick if he had avoided being inordinately ambitious while he was Vice President.”

“It was this desperation that made him to contest for president as candidate of Action Congress in 2007, while still serving as Vice President, elected under the platform of the PDP. A serving Vice President joining others to form another party and contesting as candidate of the new party against his own party.


That’s Alhaji Atiku Abubakar!

“Most importantly, Atiku’s conscience will continue to prick him on his roles in Lagos in 2023, and I am sure that even his apology to PDP members in 2018 can never remove from his body, that garment of betrayal.
“Therefore, it is again being sounded to his ears and those of the people lying to him that he is the only one who can win the presidency for the PDP that the ticket of the party will not be for someone like him, who will lose election and run to Dubai, only to come back two years to another election”, Olayinka added

Otamendi99:
U are really stupid, even in my family, if you are doing occasion and I'm not properly invited, u won't even see my shadow. He is a ranking member of the party, you don't give him same invitation like any floor member. Dat is y u pple go to occasions uninvited and get insulted.

ALL eyes are on the electorate, the umpire, and the security agencies as the off-cycle governorship election occurs throughout Ondo State on Saturday. Not surprisingly, the air is pregnant with tension and expectations of a new beginning among the voters and the candidates approved by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The onus is on INEC to deliver a credible, transparent, and fair election in collaboration with the security agencies, especially the police.

The election must be peaceful. The security agencies must superintend this, giving a resemblance of elections elsewhere.

Eighteen candidates are vying for the top office in the state, which has a four-year tenure. The incumbent, Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress, and a former deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi of the Peoples Democratic Party, are considered the frontrunners. Aiyedatiwa assumed office on December 7 following the death of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.

Ajayi was the deputy during Akeredolu’s first term (2016-2020) before their bitter row separated them. Other notable candidates are Abbas Mimiko of the Zenith Labour Party, Nehemiah Ebiseni of the Labour Party and Bamidele Akingboye of the Social Democratic Party.



This is a contest for Ondo’s soul. Like other states, it is crying out for development. Rich in resources like bitumen, oil and gas and cash crops, Ondo is a field of dreams for a good leader. It has been governed by the Alliance for Democracy, PDP, LP and APC.

It etched itself into political history during the 1983 general elections when the ruling National Party of Nigeria rigged the polls to displace the Unity Party of Nigeria in the governorship polls. After the bloodshed, the courts returned the UPN as the winner. INEC should learn from this violent reaction to rigging.

INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, has a massive task, considering that elections in Nigeria mimic war and usually end in divisive litigation. Indeed, Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard said, “It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.” For INEC, this rings true. In Nigeria, elections are especially compromised at the collation centres.


In fairness, the umpire has introduced measures to counter degenerate politicians and the judiciary. Recent pronouncements from the APC officials are reckless and ominous. The avowed intention of APC apparatchiks is to ‘capture’ the remaining states in Nigeria from the opposition. This is not democracy.

INEC introduced the permanent voter card and the bimodal voter accreditation system to accredit voters to deter the desperate political class. Its INEC Result Viewing portal, where transmitted results are to be viewed in real-time, is another innovation worthy of note.

Yet, these innovations are questioned after each election. In Ondo, a political tinderbox, INEC should banish these problems once and for all. The state comprises 18 local government areas; the state capital is in Akure.

Its officials should be courageous on the field and at the collation centres. It should overcome the perennial logistics issues and delays in distributing voting materials and ensure the BVAS works seamlessly. INEC should focus more on getting the voting materials to the riverine areas of the state early.

To secure the polls, the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, deployed 22,239 officers to the state. Egbetokun banned the Amotekun and approved only federal security agents. The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps is supplying 6,000 officers. The military, the self-styled Department of State Services and other paramilitary agencies will be on the ground. Experience shows that deploying police and other security agents does not guarantee credible or peaceful elections in Nigeria.

In Nigeria, elections are militarised as the IG also restricted vehicular movement in the state on Saturday. This is a crude part of elections in Nigeria. There was free movement in the November 6 elections in the United States. Nigeria needs to attain this ideal in its elections.

In Nigeria, democracy is fast losing its appeal, primarily because it works only for the political class while the rest of society is wallowing in misery. One of the pointers is voter apathy. Faced with acute hardship, most voters are turning their back on elections at the federal and state levels.


While 27 per cent of registered voters elected Bola Tinubu as President in 2023, voter turnout in the 2020 presidential election in the US hit 67 per cent. In the November 5 election won by Donald Trump, turnout was projected at 65 per cent.

In Ondo, this dispiriting reality is obvious. In the 2012 governorship election, voter turnout was 38 per cent. This crashed to 35 per cent four years later. Voter turnout dropped to 31.6 per cent in 2020. This could be traced in part to the climate of violence and the COVID-19 pandemic. In neighbouring Edo State, voter turnout in the 2020 off-cycle poll was 27.5 per cent. So, the challenge in Ondo is to revive voter participation because participation in elections is integral in measuring the health of a democracy.

In the run-up to the polls, the ugly trend of vote-buying became topical again. In the last election in October 2020, vote-buying was rife. Party agents made a brazen mockery of democracy by openly inducing voters with as little as N4,000 or as high as N7,000. A week before D-Day, Ondo residents complained that politicians had mopped up cash from the bank vaults in anticipation of inducing voters.

The implications are dire. Politicians enter office with the background knowledge that they bought their way in and as such, they are not accountable to the electorate. Thus, performance suffers.

According to INEC, 2.05 million were registered for the ballot. However, only 1.75 million or 85.6 per cent collected their PVCs. Only those who have PVCs are eligible to vote in Nigeria. This is a high collection rate.

For it to count, the voters should not turn their back on polling. It is their abounding right to vote. They should take this civic responsibility with enthusiasm, no matter the impediments. Voters should appropriate the words of Abraham Lincoln, who said, “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

Ultimately, the election process will work when politicians go into elections with a mind to serve, not to capture public resources.


INEC should collaborate with security agencies to prosecute electoral offenders. The results should be available on iReV to enhance credibility.

SonofLagos:
mugu, I wasn’t expecting anything sensible from you anyways

Na faulty brain all of Una for that ipob region carry come you cant have a sensible and mature convo with them, they will always try and bring you down to their gutter level….even the drug trafficking business na your ndi criminal tribe be number one…shameless pig🤣🤣

phemray:
Government is continuing. Remember the progressive is now in charge and the contractor were already on ground. So that's a good move. Unlike other party that will start using Thier own contractors even if they are not qualified.

SonofLagos:
cry cry baby, bwala has always been a staunch Tinubu supporter, he fell out with Tinubu because of the Muslim/Muslim ticket.

Just like every humans with emotions, he let his emotion get the best of him, now he has retraced his step and Tinubu with his big heart forgave him and that’s what make him different from the Agulu fraud

He his a mentor and he invest in people and that’s what great leaders do mention one of bitter obi the agulu fraud, old political association he helped through the political ladder and still speaks glowingly well about him?

highchief1:
so that u belong to a family means when they have family meeting u shouldn’t be informed?or is it that u just hate wike.Why does the party have pro.Or is it that u smoke a lot.U expect him to run to a campaign he was not invited.u have not seen how they name seats in functions?olodo

AntiZikist:
Haters will be on this thread in 1,2,3...

JagabanBorgu:
The average obident is so politically wired to see everything as defense and àttàck, so ur statement about Edo governor is an àttàck abi?

Activist and social media influencer Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, remains defiant amid ongoing legal action from renowned human rights lawyer Femi Falana and his son, popular musician and activist Falz, following accusations of defamation.

In a recent Instagram post, Verydarkman shared that he had arrived in Lagos with his legal representative, Deji Adeyanju, ahead of the court hearing.

The hearing, set to commence at 9:00 a.m. at Ikeja High Court, follows claims that Verydarkman defamed the Falana family by sharing unverified audio alleging misconduct.

The controversy began when Verydarkman posted a recording in which crossdresser Bobrisky allegedly claimed that Falana and Falz had contacted her during her six-month sentence for naira abuse, reportedly offering to secure her a presidential pardon for ₦10 million.

Bobrisky, however, has since denied the recording’s authenticity and threatened legal action against Otse, accusing him of defamation.

The Falana family also demanded an apology and retraction, warning of legal consequences.

Despite this, Verydarkman has refused to apologise, maintaining that his actions were aimed at “exposing corruption” rather than defaming the Falana family.

“They (Falana and Falz) said I defamed them, but for me, it’s corruption I exposed,” Verydarkman stated in a video post.

“I see things that don’t make sense, like someone going to prison and not serving their jail term or the EFCC, which is supposed to catch people involved in corruption, collecting money.”

“That’s what I exposed. But sadly, some people (Falana and Falz) whose names were mentioned said I should have informed them before posting such things about them.

“They (Falana and Falz) asked me to apologise. I don’t see anything wrong with what I did, so I’m not apologising to anybody. If someone’s name is mentioned, they should clear their name.”

JagabanBorgu:
The good thing is that obidents think everyone is paid Iike them to Iick the àss of a faiIed governor.

DomPerignon:
That's why LP under Abure is now wooing Atiku to join Labour Party with automatic ticket.

Obi must find his square root

senatordave1:
It is not,stop being hateful. Obaseki was so awful in road construction

JagabanBorgu:
I'm not from Edo, I don't like talking about state politics, do u have any slightest idea if all what u said have been done before?
U all like analyzing things based on ur sentiments alot and u think u are wise.

simpleseyi:
How does this relate to Betty relapsing after being treated for chronic mental disorders? Or do you need psychiatric evaluation yourself?

promami:
After money don change hands.
Atiku utilized Ayu to achieve that. That's why he refused to sack him when the ovation was much.

helinues:
Source: gutter media