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Putindbutt:
Hoebi/Kwankwaso 2027 🤡🤡

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If true, Both Kwankwaso, the governor and all the supreme court justices involved should be in jail...

BlakKluKluxKlan:
The euphoria generated by the passing of the electoral bill should be viewed from different angles.
It is a dagger with two sharp edges that can be employed for both good and sinister purposes.
Therefore, it must never be made mandatory.

For one thing, there are over 90,000 or more polling units in rural and riverine areas where there are no internet / networks.
Even in urban centres, there are times when network availability is nill.
Very often, banks suffer network glitches for days
Therefore making it mandatory can lead to chaotic situations that will render the whole exercise not only hopeless but fruitless.

On the other hand, the system can also be used to sabotage the electoral process by those bent on digitally rigging the election by falsifying the results.

The govt and INEC need to be rather circumspect on the election

I recall an attempt made by a political party in 2023 to hack INEC server by some IT outfit and input their own results for the candidate of those that employed them.

Again after the 2023 elections, there was a viral video of a presidential candidate who was invited by a group of IT experts from his ethnic stuck who assured him that they possessed the knowhow to hack any server and do whatever they liked with the results.

We should never be taken in by those who vehemently cry against rigging to make people erroneously believe that only the govt can or attempt to rig elections.
That is a fallacy.
Many political parties plan some sort of rigging or manipulations if given the chance.

Matter of fact, it is usually those why cry hoarse the most like the obidients that are most guilty.
The strategy is - make the most hullabaloo against rigging - to veer peoples' suspicion away from them, i.e, the most guilty.

You are giving all these excuses for adults who are given a longer time frame to work when you subject children all over the country writing jamb in various centres to use the same network to write their exams and pass with a shorter time frame to gain admission...

Are you not ashamed of yourself and the people you are supporting...

avalancheMedia:
There's a moment in every political drama where you have to stop and admire the sheer audacity of it all even when you know you're watching something morally questionable unfold. February 2025 delivered one of those moments at the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C.

Nigeria had just been designated a "Country of Particular Concern" for religious freedom violations. The opposition was sharpening their knives, waiting for Donald Trump to publicly dress down President Bola Tinubu's government. Think pieces were being drafted. "We told you so" speeches were being rehearsed.

Then Trump opened his mouth.

"We are honored to be joined by the First Lady of Nigeria, who happens to be a Christian pastor at the largest church and is a very respected woman."

Just like that, the script flipped. Remi Tinubu wife of the man whose government had just been internationally censured—sat in that room and received presidential praise. Not criticism. Not condemnation. **Praise.**

Let's call this what it is: political jujitsu of the highest order. And it probably cost exactly $9 million.

Money Talks, Opposition Walks

Reports circulated that the Tinubu government paid $9 million for PR services in the United States. In a country where doctors strike over unpaid salaries, where universities shut down for months because lecturers can't get paid, where ordinary Nigerians are choosing between food and medicine someone found $9 million for image management in Washington.

And you know what makes it even more galling?
It worked.

Trump doesn't know Remi Tinubu. He couldn't tell you three facts about Nigeria if his life depended on it. But someone briefed him. Someone coached him. Someone made sure that when he stood at that podium, the right words came out of his mouth.

That's the power of strategic spending. That's what $9 million buys: access, messaging, and the temporary suspension of inconvenient truths like religious freedom violations and economic collapse.

This wasn't diplomacy. This was a transaction. And Tinubu got his money's worth.

The Godfather's Playbook

If you've paid any attention to Nigerian politics over the past two decades, none of this should surprise you. Bola Tinubu didn't become Lagos's political godfather through charm and good policy alone. He built a machine that has controlled Nigeria's richest state for over twenty years through one primary tool: money.

Strategic, ruthless, relentless deployment of resources.

It's the same playbook he's using nationally now, just with bigger numbers and higher stakes. The judiciary? Compromised. The legislature? Bought. The military? Suspiciously quiet even when whispers of coups floated through the air. Nothing materialized because nothing does when everyone who matters is on the payroll.

Think about it. In a country facing unprecedented economic hardship, separatist agitation, religious tension, and staggering insecurity, there hasn't been a single successful institutional challenge to Tinubu's authority. Not one. The opposition parties are shadows , fragmented, toothless, ineffective. Peter Obi's Labour Party has been reduced to Twitter noise. Atiku's PDP is cannibalizing itself.

This isn't luck. This is strategy. Cold, calculated, and brutally effective.

The 2027 Setup

Here's what everyone needs to understand: we're barely a year out from the 2027 general elections, and Tinubu is already three moves ahead.

Getting his wife praised by Trump getting any kind of presidential validation from Washington is an approval rating boost that transcends normal political capital. Imagine the campaign ads: "President Tinubu: Respected at home, praised abroad." Footage of Remi at the prayer breakfast. Trump's words echoing over images of Nigeria's flag waving proudly.

It doesn't matter that Nigeria was just designated for religious violations. It doesn't matter that the economy is in free fall. What matters is the narrative. The optics. The story you can sell to voters who want to believe their president is respected internationally.

If Remi Tinubu can glide into that room and emerge with Trump's endorsement, what stops Tinubu himself from getting the same? What stops him from turning every international criticism into a photo opportunity, every challenge into a chess move toward 2027?

This is what consolidation looks like in the modern era. Not tanks in streets or midnight arrests though those happen too but strategic manipulation of institutions, careful management of narratives, and ruthless application of money to neutralize threats before they materialize.

The Price of Political Genius

Here's the uncomfortable part. Tinubu is genuinely brilliant at politics. He understands power dynamics better than almost anyone in Nigeria's recent history. He knows how to build coalitions, eliminate opposition, and consolidate control with surgical precision.

But politics isn't governance.

While Tinubu spends $9 million to shake hands in Washington, Nigerians are starving. While he's buying off judges and legislators, hospitals have no medicine. While he's consolidating power, the naira has collapsed and families are making impossible choices between food and school fees.

The fuel subsidy removal his signature policy has devastated ordinary Nigerians while enriching those close to power. The promised palliatives never came, or when they did, they went to party loyalists and connected cronies, not the suffering masses.

This is the brutal truth about Tinubu's brand of politics: it prioritizes power over people, consolidation over competence, image over substance. It's expensive, elaborate theater while the country burns.

The Tragic Irony

There's a particular heartbreak in watching someone be exceptional at the wrong thing. With his political acumen, strategic mind, and ability to navigate complex power dynamics, Tinubu could have been transformational. He could have actually changed Nigeria for the better.

That $9 million could have fixed hospitals, paid teachers, built roads, provided electricity to communities that have been in darkness for years. But that's not how the game is played. That's not how power consolidates.

Instead, we get spectacle. International photo ops while domestic reality crumbles. Political genius without governance. Strategy without substance. Power without purpose.

What Comes Next

The pattern is crystal clear now. Money buys access. Access creates legitimacy. Legitimacy builds power. Power consolidates control. Control ensures victory.

It's brilliant. It's ruthless. And it's absolutely gutting Nigeria in the process.

The most terrifying part? He's winning. Not in the sense that Nigeria is better off by every metric, things have gotten worse. But winning in the sense that he's securing his grip, eliminating opposition, and building a machine that might be unstoppable come 2027.

The judiciary won't challenge him too compromised. The legislature won't check him , too bought. The military won't move, too complicit. The opposition won't unite , too fractured. And now, international pressure can be managed with enough money and the right PR firm.

When the champagne stops flowing in Washington and the PR firms cash their checks, Nigerians will still be here. Still struggling. Still suffering. Still hoping someone remembers that governance is supposed to be about them.

But Tinubu isn't playing that game. He's playing politics. And in politics, the house always wins.

The only question is: what will be left of the house when he's done?

Source .
https://avalanchemediablog.com/article.html?slug=the-9-million-handshake-how-tinubu-bought-trump-s-praise-while-nigeria-burns

Quite detailed and on point.

pigmania:
Life imprisonment would be difficult to pass, lecturers, politicians, influential people, and even law enforcement agents have active cult members. They'll rather take you down instead.

Then they should start denouncing it quickly and fast because that is the only thing that will help them....

You don't know how far one can go in eradicating something, they only have 3 options, either the cult groups are as silent as dead or they denounce it or they go in for it...

Which ever one they feel is best for them.

Justabdul1:
Receiving the news of the mass killings of innocent people in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State left many Nigerians in shock, from which they may not recover soon. The killing was systematic and deliberate, perpetrated by wicked emissaries of Satan who enjoy sucking the blood of the living and relish sending the living to their early graves.
Different figures of those killed were reported, but not ascertained. The number of souls lost could be in the hundreds. What was the offense of the town dwellers? Why were they killed? Why have human lives become cheaper in Nigeria than those of mosquitoes? Do we even kill mosquitoes in our homes in hundreds when the need to kill them arises? Why are these sanguinary agents so intent on wiping out an entire Muslim population in Kiama Local Government, given that the majority of the victims (if not all of them) are Muslims?

Let me make myself clear here. I am not a religious bigot who believes or pretends to believe that Muslims are the only victims of the senseless bloodshed going on in Nigeria. My reference to Muslim Genocide in the title above is just to set the record straight. It is to parallel the Christian genocidal claim; not to counter it. If we continue to use the word 'genocide' to describe baseless and senseless killings in Nigeria, we can use it more appropriately to mean Nigerian Genocide because Nigerians are the victims, irrespective of their faith and ethnicity.

The attacks, we were told, targeted the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kaiama LGA. It started on Tuesday evening around 5:00 p.m. and continued into the early hours of Wednesday. Gunmen allegedly rounded up residents, bound their hands, indiscriminately opened fire on them, set houses ablaze, including palace of the district head, and abducted an unspecified number of women and children.

To ease abduction, the district head's jeep was allegedly used to convey some of the kidnapped victims into the forest. The district head himself is missing. Has he been killed, abducted, or is he hiding somewhere in the bush? The best answer is: only God knows.
Many residents took refuge in nearby bushes as of Wednesday, according to Premium Times. Unlike other attacks that are enterprising in nature, in which people were kidnapped for ransom, this is a systematic killing and pecuniary gain isn't obviously the objective. Though women and children were abducted, the real mission was to kill as many people as possible, as they did. For who will pay ransom for the release of the abducted when their breadwinners have already been sent to the graveyard?

We later learnt that the terrorists were 'provoked'. But the question is: who provokes terrorists in a country where terrorists do not pretend to be more powerful than the government and citizens are begining to realize it? Premium Times reported, quoting residents and local leaders, that the assault came about five months after the group sent a letter to the district head of Woro, Salihu Umar, notifying him of their intention to visit the community for radical preaching.

After receiving the letter, the district head did the needful. No responsible leader should be willing to listen to the preaching of, or be admonished by, Satan's emissaries clad in religious attire. The district head forwarded the letter to the Kwara State Emirate Council in Ilorin. Subsequently, a team of soldiers was deployed to Woro. However, having spent some weeks on guard with no attack occurring, the soldiers withdrew.

The action of the district head was the cause of provocation. After the soldiers' withdrawal, the agents of death struck. Not too long after the several-hour attack, the Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, visited the community to commiserate with them, as usual.

Who then should be blamed? I don't think the military should be blamed. We cannot expect them to be stationed in Woro indefinitely. The district head also acted responsibly by informing higher authority. We should rather blame Nigeria's security architecture, which seems incapable of preventing attacks before they occur. It appears that reactiveness to terroristic attacks, rather than aggressiveness against terrorists, currently guides Nigerian military operational philosophy.

What if it is said that military bombardments of bandits in the epicenter of banditry (northwest) are the reason why bandits are moving to the north central and southwards? I would respond by asking: what then is the outcome of the bombardments? If military bombardments of bandits only result in bandits transferring their operational base from the northwest to found other enclaves in the north central, do we call that progress?
It means bandits in the northwest are not neutralized as claimed. Perhaps military bombardments of bandits' enclaves have successfully neutralized deep forests that provide cover for bandits, but not bandits themselves. Neutralization of bandits in one part of the country should not lead to serious insecurity in other parts, as witnessed in Kwara State and other north-central states. Bandits are gradually spreading their operational tentacles to the southwest (especially Osun State), despite military bombardments. This is not to discredit the efforts of our gallant soldiers, but certain things are not adding up.

The government must be vigilant and act decisively to avoid total chaos. I still do not believe our military can not defeat these criminals. The government should channel its resources towards eliminating these marauding bandits and give our men in uniform all the needed supports to take the fight to the bandits with unrelenting aggressiveness.

There is a question I have not addressed. Why does genocide against Muslims continue in Nigeria, and why are there no strong voices speaking out against it? It is because Nigerian Muslims are so fatalistic and thus become so lethargic that they are willing to accept calamities, no matter how destructive, as fate. They do not bother to understand what the underlying causes of calamities are. And even when they do understand them, they are not ready to address them. This is not Islam. But this is what their clerics, who should be at the forefront of speaking truth to power to address insecurity, taught them and continue to teach them.

But because Nigerian Christians cannot tolerate the incessant and senseless killings of their brethren, they openly laid their complaints to Donald Trump, the de facto President of the world. And can anyone really blame them for that? Trump wasted no time launching Christmas Day attacks on Nigerian bandits. Though I am yet to see evidence that a single bandit was killed, it effectively drew the world's attention to the fact that Christians are killed in Nigeria. This is despite the fact that Muslims are the majority of the victims.
No one prevents the ulama in Nigeria or any Muslim organization from taking their cries to Donald Trump. Or could it be that Nigerian Muslims are not Trump's 'cherished Muslims'? Why can't they take their cries to the United Nations or to any regional organization? Why can't they, for instance, seek Saudi Arabia's intervention to help stop the genocide against their Muslim brethren?

The killing of Muslims like flies, as happened in Kaiama, should disturb any reasonable Nigerian. Yet, our clerics would rather seek Saudi assistance to build more mosques while worshippers are continuously being killed. If it is not mosque construction, it is tons of dates (dabino) to feed 'hungry' Muslims. What is even more ridiculous is the ulama's attempts to make peace with bandits. Though not all ulama reason like this, those who reason well do not have a powerful voice. I hope we wake up before it is too late.

I am using this medium to send my condolences to the people of Kaiama. Even though all Nigerians are bereaved by the killings, the people of Kaiama are more bereaved than other Nigerians. May the Almighty strengthen those who lost their loved ones, may the departed souls rest in peace, and may the rest of us live in peace.

Abdulkadir Salaudeen
salahuddeenabdulkadir@gmail.com
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How many prominent Muslims have come out to speak against Muslim killing Muslims because of the same Islam?

Which Muslim country has shown concern like America is doing?

Yet the same Muslims were protesting against America coming to help them...

Christians are not the ones doing massacre to Muslims, it is Muslims killing fellow Muslims...

Then in one paragraph you wrote the military should not be blamed then now blamed again in another paragraph, till you Muslims start telling yourselves the truth and start acting on the truth then you people may just be going round in circles, If Saudi Arabia could arrest and deport Gumi, if UAE could pull out their students doing scholarship in Britain because of exposure to the Muslim brotherhood and other terrorists groups to their students.

Then you should know why those 2 countries are largely peaceful even though they are Islamic nations, the brand of Islam you people are practicing in Nigeria is the major problem.

pigmania:
Who told you cultists thug for free? What happens to the loot from calculated robberies? Peace talk ain't word of mouth only, they settle cases involving money and get payments, assassinations, kidnappings e.t.c Rugged, intelligent, and active cultists get paid, some have become millionaires from cultism.

Ok, they can choose going to life imprisonment or working for free for 4 years...

pigmania:
I wasn't against you drafting cultists into the army according to your imagination, but you should at least pay them. It is wicked leaders that fail to pay workers and no, I am not a bloody cultist.

But the same cultist are working for their cult groups for free killing each other for free,so you mean it is ok for them to work for their cult groups for free and it is wickedness to do it for their own country?

At least I even said after 4 years I will start paying them, their cult groups don't even have such good offer for them...

What exactly did Tinubu become president for?

What exactly did Tinubu become president for?

pigmania:
You can never be the president of this country to make such decision, stop dreaming.

To tell you the truth, presently I am not aspiring to be president of Nigeria, I don't really even want to be president except I need to, but it is not something I want to, because I see it as sacrifice and I don't know if I am really ready to place that sacrifice yet, it is mostly people who don't know what leadership entails that run after leadership positions or who are going there for what they will eat which is not my style...

In the case of Nigeria, even if I need to be president of Nigeria, it is to go there and divide it...

Are you a cultist?

pigmania:
You can never hold such power to make that decision, stop dreaming. You want to recruit soldiers without pay, see wickedness.

It is very possible, it might not even be me to hold the power or make the decision but it is very possible, Or do they want life imprisonment instead?

Are you a cultist?

realsoftouch:
So you will someone gun to work for you without paying him salary... I hope u won't blamed them when they start a side hustle "Like kidnapping"?

People that will be in war front for 4 years straight?

UkoAnnang:


Illiterates

Their mates how there are doing exploits

Them dirty here doing cultism

Sometimes we cannot just blame Tunibu for everything even though he is a disaster

I still blame the government especially this Tinubu's own, how can you tell me that over 170 people were killed in Kwara by terrorists some few days ago, similar killings are taking place in Nigeria from Benue to Plateau to Borno to Southern-Kaduna to Katsina , Sokoto and so on almost everyday by terrorists in troubled areas then some young able bodied men are wasting their lives, time and resources in peaceful areas, I blame the government both state and federal, why?


If I were president today, I would have passed a law stating if you are found to be a cultist, straight we will draft into the army, we will give you training and you will work for free for the country, since your cult is not paying you anything( I even hear some of them pay levy to the cult), we will feed you for free and give you all the weapons you need to fight for free, and you also have license to kpai as many terrorists as possible, if that is now a hubby to them and as a government we will even honor you if you do it very well.

Since you feel you have the talent to fight in peaceful areas, we the government want to channel it properly and utilize it well for you in the troubled areas of the country, you must be useful to yourself, to your family and to the country, how can you arrest cult boys and send them to prison and be using tax payers money to feed them then release them back to continue, Nooooo...

The army keeps crying for lack of men and here are young able boys wasting their strength and lives for nothing, Me personally I hate wastage, as a government we will help you manage your time, strength and your skill in fighting.

If after 4 years you are still alive, we will now put you on salary, and if there is no war in the country, we will donate you to countries that are fighting war who are allies to Nigeria, we will tell them it is our support to help them win their war, I will now see how someone will stay and be bragging to be a cultist in Nigeria by the time we use some for example, just to add that for the 4 years they will be working for free, they will all be on the snipers watch list of the military in case they try to run away and will be at the battle front throughout the period.

Lithiumite:
Go ask Google,i am sure you are one of those that would believe it's going to tinubu pocket

Your problem if that's what you feel...

89green:
What's the reason why they went to Afghanistan?

Whatever reason, they lost the war...

Tochitee:
Baba are you not aware that some factions are bribing external influences to promote propagandas to disrepute and soil the image of the country, all his fair in war!

With atrocities APC has committed alone in Lagos which are similar to this, then every eyes will suspect APC

Tochitee:
Tell your self the truth and stop deceiving yourself, is there any reasonable entities in Adc, that have genuine interest of the country at heart, no governor with concience will tolerate Adc in his state!

So the best thing is to be attacking them? Did APC have Nigerians at heart as opposition? where they getting attacked like this?

frankson1:
It'd have stopped you from writing this epistle if you had just said that he should listen to ipob

So you are saying IPOB supports Trump and Israel?

omenka:
No I don't, but I don't kiss his arrrse, neither do I give him a bj whenever he calls for it. Oh, and I don't take advice from mad people.

Why do you feel triggered tho? You do these?

Show me just one past post of yours with at least a mention(to show you didn't edit it) supporting Trump and Israel then I might take some of your words seriously, because one thing I know you guys are quite good at is telling lies with so much ease...

omenka:
Yes, he needs to listen to those who believed Buhari was a body double from Sudan and people who receive advice to run state affairs from mad men. Jokes on all of you.

Why is your conscience pricking you?

So you hate Trump and Israel?

Anyone still in PDP should just leave, there is no need fighting over PDP anymore, where PDP failed was when Wike said he was going to support Tinubu for president in 2023 against their own presidential candidate, he was supposed to be expelled immediately.

Even after the election, they were still tolerating all the nonsense from him, any person fighting him in PDP may just be wasting his time, it is sometimes harder to fight someone in a house that you care about and your opponent doesn't care about, why?

While your opponent sees all the properties in the house as a weapon to use against you, you are seeing the same properties as assets and would not want to destroy them, sometimes you just need to leave the house so the person can come outside, then you take on the person proper.

Imagine a goal keeper telling his team that he is supporting the other team to win because he wasn't made the captain and the coach left him to play 90 mins while allowing the other team score goals as they like(One of the biggest mistakes the PDP ever made in recent time)

Trump, you are fighting an ideology not just a war, it is the same reason the U.S failed in Afghanistan, if you really want to win the war against terrorism in Nigeria, you need to listen to those who support you and Israel here in Nigeria, you are fighting an ideology or a combination of evil ideologies( Islamic and tribal ideologies) which is destroying Nigeria today.

wellmax:
Go in into the hands of those doing business and making production happen.

Those making noise in social media are still here making noise.

You seem not to understand the question I asked Sir...

LegalWolf:
Hahahaha agulu fraudster supporter

Hahahaha forgery fraudster supporter