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Can we have aerial shots please because I can only count 26 people! Lol

Na only you see 95% in any state or region, meanwhile na others rig?

This guy has always been a liability. He is representative of the negative side of many of the foot soldiers in the Tinubu political family. Entitled, arrogant, insensitive, tone deaf, celebrate mediocrity, living of the glory of Tinubu and offer no value to governance.

Dem full Lagos state govt.

ElevationD:
Uncle, if and since you know that they have said basically the same thing, what was wrong with someone amplifying it, so that those who did not understand it would have a better grasp of it all.

The only people who have complained, if you noticed, were BAT’s supporters, who think that disorderliness in the electoral process should be legalized. Elections should not face present threatening situations perpetually for the electorate.

Every peace and decent Nigerian wants a process in place, just like in civilized democracies, where citizens can select their preferred choices in free and fair elections, irrespective of political affiliation, with no method in place of compromising the integrity of the elections.

His intent was to ridicule and discredit Amupitan. Read the headline and his post again.

But Yele, everybody knows you are a comedian and content creator.

That comment that “void” got more votes than Sowore was wicked sha.

ElevationD:
Basically, but Mike Igini in his usual very honest and explicit self, simply educated citizens that they can be part of the electoral process from the beginning, ensuring fairness, until INEC announces the results.

Getting pictures and videos of EC8a allows citizens to effectively monitor Presiding officers and what they upload on the IREV. Do not forget that rumpled and poorly filmed forms are uploaded on the server and INEC treat them as correct. So if the Presiding officer has a phone with a bad camera, there should be a possibility that citizens with clear cameras can take images, transfer to his phone for onward transmission by the officer to IREV.

Having your own situation room helps you to know your situation in real time. You should know if you are losing or winning and the progress report. Also that should help in monitoring the activities of irresponsible party agents who collect bribes from their opponents, to facilitate victory for their opponents at the polling booths.

Oga this whole thread is just an attempt by an Obidient to make a mountain out of a mole hill and discredit anything associated with the present government, create anarchy…..as they do. The only other explanation is that the Op is not properly educated and lacks proper English comprehension. Even Olisa Agbokogba was on Arise recently and said basically the same thing when that yeye Ayo from Arise asked if they can use AI to monitor results. He said you cannot announce any result that did not come from INEC (come from INEC meaning it has to emanate from the EC8) And they cannot declare a winner they can only project a winner. He gave the example of CNN that CNN not not “declare” but “projects”. The difference is we think he will win and he has won. Only INEC has the power by law to say “he has won”

Nobody said people cannot monitor results or have situation rooms. There is nothing Ogini or agnakogba said that is different from what Amupitan said.

Nothing IgIni said is at variance with what Amupitan said.

Summary.

Amupitan: the man is short
Igini: the man is vertically challenged
OP: igIni has discredited Amupitan.

Bigkoko:
Contrary to Tinubu appointed INEC Chairman, Prof Josiah Amupitan’s declaration, it is now clear beyond reasonable doubt that the Nigerian ELECTORAL LAW GIVES CANDIDATES & party agents THE RIGHT TO RECORD, MAKE A VIDEO OF FORM EC8A AND HAVE THEIR OWN SITUATION ROOM. For avoidance of doubt, form EC8A is that form the INEC presiding officer at the polling unit records the valid results cast in the polling unit.

Hear Mike Igini:

“We have eighteen candidates. They are free under the law to have their IReV,….situation room. They are free under the law to publicize, to report what INEC had officially under section twenty-five, because section twenty-five is a creation of an office, a distinction to be made between declaration of a winner and announcement of result.

Who now says that result that have been legally, officially announced by the presiding officer, that the party agent that are entitled to have that result cannot send it to their situation room? Who says that?”

— Mike Igini schools Joash Amupitan on electoral act.

Contrary to Joash Amupitan’s declaration; ELECTORAL LAW GIVES CANDIDATES THE RIGHT TO RECORD, MAKE A VIDEO OF FORM EC8A AND HAVE THEIR OWN SITUATION ROOM.

“We have eighteen candidates. They are free under the law to have their IReV,….situation room. They are free under the law… pic.twitter.com/LAZCPbhgSL

— MaziTundeEdnutfan (@originalproflle) October 21, 2026

Nigerians must stand strong and make sure Tinubu and his hand picked kinsmen now running INEC doesn't get away with rigging the 2027 election.

You have heard it clearly...... the electoral law gives you rights to collate and independently know if your candidate won or lost.

Mike Igini is a former INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC ) for Akwa Ibom state, Returning Officer & National Commissioner. Such a strict, lawful and well learned Nigerian should be the INEC Chairman, not those who sneak out to meetings in London or France.

Amupitan never said you have no right to have a situation room, collate your own results etc. what he said was the only person or body by law that can announce a winner is INEC.

What igIni is saying despite all his noise is no different from what Amupitan said.

What Amupitan said is

1: you are free to operate and collate results so long as it is based on what has been declared by INEC or what is on irev.
2: only INEC can declare a winner.
3: any PU or collated result must be based on official results by INEC

Some people have a problem with English. There is a difference between projecting a winner and declaring a winner.

BioData45:
13 kilometres and so? How is this an achievement? This is regular government work.

When was the last time the almighty Lagos state government built a 13km road?

Was it Nigeria that was doing sit at home in the SE? When you were celebrating Nnamdi Kanu and sit at home, you didn’t have the foresight to know it would have negative economic repercussions on your region and make it uninvestable?

When other governors were attracting investment to their states, what were your governors doing? (Ogun state port, lekki deep sea port are all state govt projects)

When you were busy interfering in the politics of other states and transfering your voters to other states, you didn’t think to focus on who is governing your states.

As you lay your bed……..

chopnaira:
Excellent news. Tinubu reforms and policies are really yielding positive results.

More importantly, it means they have done their due dilligence and believe Atiku and Obi have no chance of winning or they wouldn’t be doing this so close to the elections.

…or at best they believe if they win they wouldn’t bring back subsidies. Removal of subsidies is the anchor on which Nigeria has become atttactive to foreign investors once again.

That’s the problem with people like Sowore. They are the ones who become the worst examples of leaders if they taste power.

Their activism is not for the genuine interest of the people but about their ego and rebellious nature as individuals. Many hide their unruly and narcissistic nature behind activism.

Thank God he has no chance of ever tasting elected office.

95% of Ibos voted for this man. The professors, the lawyers, the architects, the professionals, the teachers, the doctors, the accountants, the bankers, the mechanics, the drivers, the farmers, the businessmen, market women, the agberos………all strata of the Ibo society, rich and poor educated and uneducated, the travelled and the untravelled, the exposed and the unexposed, the washed and the great unwashed……… they all searched their consciences, reached into the depths of their mental faculties and decided that of all possible Ibo sons or daughters they could put forward, this was the man they desired….the man who represents them!

Issokay!

I have been saying it for the last 3 years that rather than being the messiah of the Ibos, obi is the biggest single hinderance to an Ibo presidency in the 3rd republic. The damage he and his brand of politics has done to the perception of the Ibos in the eyes of the rest of Nigeria is unquantifiable and will hamper them politically in future.

2039 is locked in for the SS and 2055 is not a given! Whereas many people rightly believed the Ibos are due the presidency after 66 years, thanks to Obi, many are now of the view that Heaven will not fall if an Ibo man doesn’t become president and that Ibos are not the only tribe that have not been president.

Peter Obi is the political albatross of the SE.

People like this Baba-Ahmed are the real enemies of Nigeria.

tunapawizzy:
Excatly my thought. The easiest thing in life for anyone to do is to explicity endorse his deputy. Very logical, very easy to defend, so straight-forward. But they gave Osinbajo multi-coloured remarks of support and he ran with it.

At a certain age, people who can tell you the truth are very rare. Not because they mean you harm but because people value peace first and expect you at a certain age to know what is right and what is wrong without them having to burst your bubble. Osinbajo should have known that Buhari did not endorse him but the intoxication with power that led him to contest against his benefactor is the same intoxication that led him to read signals from Buhari where there were none.

If you heard the allegations of the type of prayers that were going on by a certain christian religious group in Aso rock when Buhari was sick, which if true would have come to his notice, you would laugh at any suggestion that Buhari endorsed him. In fact if true and if I were Buhari, I would actually enjoy sending him on a fool’s errand!

I have a friend who does certain things I don’t approve and sometimes he comes to me for advice I give him diplomatic/ cryptic responses which he may construe as encouragement……..they are not. He knows me to be a blunt person, so if I am diplomatic or cryptic, that is a signal I don’t endorse your action.

1. They are things you don’t need to tell a man of his age with a brain the right thing to do, he should know.
2: experience has shown that he doesn’t react well to counsel that is not what he wants to hear.
3: I want peace in my life and don’t need friction in a relationship I can’t avoid.

If your president doesn’t explicitly endorsed you his vice president, then a man with sense will realize he isn’t endorsing you no matter what he says to you. If the brains you claimed to have that made you a professor and the morality of the Bible that you profer as a pastor cannot guide you, go and meet your fate of disgrace in the streets.

Laolu Akande is as foolish as his boss and continues to exhibit his foolishness, now that he has a platform!

plessis:
Awo took proceeds of their resources to build ibadan and left the people of delta and edo with absolutely nothing. Lies and propaganda from those people did not start today.

You cannot point to a block of classroom built by Awo in delta or edo state. But there are several projects of opara outside igboland such as Obudu Cattle Ranch (Calabar Province), Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt Province), Trans-Amadi Industrial Layout, Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt Province), Calabar Cement Factory (Calabar Province), ibom oil palm plantation.

Infact, the reason we starved during the war was because opara built the agricultural projects outside igboland.

I asked google AI to list specifically the number of educational institutions built by Awolowo in present delta and Edo states. These include schools built from scratch, existing missions schools which grants were given, primary schoools, modern schools, secondary teacher training etc.

See below

“By scaling the official Western Region education records from 1952–1960 down to the specific Benin and Delta provinces (which historically made up 2 out of the region's 8 administrative units, or roughly 25% of the territory), the numbers for present-day Edo and Delta states are calculated as follows:
• Schools Built Directly: Approximately 900 schools
• Primary Schools: ~780 new schools (Calculated from the 3,120 newly built region-wide).
• Secondary Modern Schools: ~130 new schools (Calculated from the 524 established region-wide).
• Teacher Training Colleges: 5 new campuses (Abudu, Evboneka, Eku, Asaba, and Agbor divisions).
• Existing Schools Given Financial Grants: 15 to 20 schools
• This covers the premium, pre-existing missionary and colonial grammar schools in operation at the time (such as Edo College, Benin and Government College, Ughelli), which received the Western Region's capital Grants-in-Aid to eliminate tuition fees and build new facilities.”

Since you asked for examples, I also asked google to list a few examples:


The primary educational institutions established or fully funded in present-day Edo State and Delta State during the 1950s under Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Universal Free Primary Education (UPE) regional framework include:

🏢 Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs)

These campuses were built from scratch or transformed into large regional hubs by Awolowo’s government to train an army of educators for the newly launched UPE scheme:
• Abudu Teacher Training College – Abudu, Orhionmwon LGA, Edo State (The Western Region government famously appointed its first administrative staff here in 1953; it has recently been integrated into the Edo State College of Education system).
• Evboneka Teacher Training College – Evboneka, Edo State (Later known as St. David's Teachers College).
• Baptist Teacher Training College – Eku, Delta State
• Government Teacher Training College – Asaba, Delta State

🏫 Local District Council / Secondary Modern Schools

Awolowo's administration introduced this entirely new tier of lower secondary/vocational schools across local government councils in the late 1950s to absorb mass primary school graduates:
• Asaba District Council Secondary Modern School – Asaba, Delta State
• Benin District Council Modern School – Benin City, Edo State
• Aniocha District Council Modern School – Issele-Uku / Kwale axis, Delta State
• Secondary Modern School, Okpara Inland – Okpara, Delta State

✏️ Local Authority (L.A.) & UPE Primary Schools

These modular, multi-classroom public primary blocks were built simultaneously across rural and urban divisions in the Benin and Delta provinces:
• L.A. Primary School, Bomadi – Bomadi, Delta State (A historically symbolic campus established directly after Awolowo physically toured riverine Ijaw communities in 1952 to recruit pupils for the upcoming free education scheme).
• L.A. Primary School, Uselu – Benin City, Edo State
• L.A. Primary School, Ogida – Benin City, Edo State
• L.A. Primary School, Otolokpo – Ika North-East LGA, Delta State
• U.P.E. Primary School – Agbor, Delta State
• U.P.E. Primary School – Sapele, Delta State

Apart from the reasons we all know, personal ambition, ego etc, this idea is dead on arrival.

Since Atiku can’t be a VP again, the only person who can step down is Obi and since his name is not on the party register as at the deadline, it means he won’t be contesting as a VP.

Good luck selling that idea to Obi, Obidients and the Ibos.

whitebeard:
Wow, so this isn't common sense.

It is common sense for people who understand what it means to be a citizen of a country and what allegiance to your country means.

When a people who aren’t dual citizens openly de-market their country, constantly run to other countries to report their internal affairs and grievances, willingly ridicule their country, calling for military action against their country by other countries, what does it matter if a contestant is a dual citizen?

Let those who aren’t dual citizens show they understand what it means to be a citizen of a country before they start pontificating.

I agree, that once you willingly take an oath of allegiance to another country, you should not be able to contest for any office in Nigeria but when Nigerians without dual nationality themselves act against the interests of their country, they make the whole issue a waste of time and energy.

Ohyoudidnt:
Sure. I was just reminding the OP of the false euphoria they held to encourage the US intervention.

I know. I was buttressing your point.

nairalanda1:
You also promote economic polices that create an economy that is less dependent on sharing revenues at the center and more dependent on industries and taxes...which your government has not done

You also punish anyone caught....which has not been done

And you also stop defending or appointing corrupt people to office,...which has not been done.





Yea, it is politics, and it shows that your politicans are not sincere, yet you believe your man is sincere.

Like I said this is clearly an emotional debate not an intellectual one. One sure sign of emotional debates is not sticking to the subject. I only quoted you to show that optics and effectiveness are 2 different things. You can fight corruption by removing the pot from which they steal or you can “fight corruption” by arresting people and nothing happens. For every corrupt Nigerian you arrest and parade, there is a long line of equally corrupt Nigerians waiting to take their place to partake in their own corruption……unless to stop access to the corruption.


Fuel and forex subsidy probably accounted for at least $20b theft every year. If I give you $1 at the official rate of N400 and you sell it on the black market for N800, you have stolen N400 or 50ents from Nigerian citizens. I don’t have to explain fuel subsidy fraud to you.

Not all noise ends in results and not all effective results need to be noisy. The choice is yours. Whether you like the man or not, whether he was forced to or not by circumstances, have the intellectual sincerity to accept that the biggest fraud in Nigeria prior to 2023 was fuel and forex subsidies and they have been removed. Have a good day!

nairalanda1:
No , day to day petty corruption , plus things like inflation of contracts and nepotism are the two main powers of corruption

(Plus why didn';t tinubu support fuel subsidy removal in 2012 since removing it has eliminated corruption? ).

1: In that respect you need to eliminate all Nigerians. The average Nigerian complaining of those types of corruption is equally guilty. I hope you understand what is meant by the system is corrupt. It means the actors are corrupt. You stop those types of corruption by removing the avenues for corruption. As an example you make government payments digitally….no cash etc. are you going to sack most civil servants, police, investigators, judges, prosecutors, bankers and the citizens to enable or engage in the corruption? Sometimes we need to let our supposed education reflect in our commentary.

2: ask and answer why are obi and Atiku supporting the restoration of subsidy and you have your answer.

I suspect this is leaning towards an emotional debate not an intellectual one, so I’ll take my leave here.

nairalanda1:
I never was a tinubu supporter, you assumed I was one because i backed subsidy removal.

I tend to have a very cynical view of most governments in nigeria, if not all. Many of them, if not all, are more slogans, less sacrifical hard work and making sane decisions for the improvement of the country long term.

Tinubu removing subsidy was more of 'he had no choice'...because Nigeria was at ground zero financially speaking by 2022. Not because he was some courageous leader taking a hard decsion (or he would have removed subsidy on electricity by now too, and actually fought corruption).

What’s your definition of fighting corruption? Arresting people and locking them up? That’s for simpletons! In a country where everybody is corrupt, the system is corrupt, you won’t get far. You will just make noise and nothing will happen.

The most effective victory against corruption is removing the avenues for corruption in the first place. In that respect the biggest sources of corruption in Nigeria have been fuel and forex subsidies………both have been eliminated.

Ohyoudidnt:
Did the US just not conclude operations in July and pull out? Seems it was a wasted 7-8 months then so they need come back. This is comedy at its' peak

Anyone who thinks the U plans to eradicate terrorism in Nigeria is very naive. Terrorism is their leverage over Nigeria. It’s the excuse they have to get us to do what they want us to do. Anyone who actually thinks they want the terrorism to end probably thinks the war in Iran is about nuclear weapons too.

They will create and fund the terrorists, then they will come and threaten you with sanctions and pressure your country to accept certain things in exchange for “military cooperation”

That is their modus operandi.

Our next southern president after Tinubu, possibly the VP in 2031. He is showing workings now, so don’t act surprised when it manifests.

The man is about to deliver 2 states….some people want to be president and can’t deliver 25% in their state.

Your relevance in politics is proportional to your ability to deliver votes!

Arise are in the habit of bringing on quacks as experts. So also the so called “petroleum industry expert” that later turned out to be a hustler with a dodgy past.

Samuels90:
Sometimes he speaks well, other times he just comes out defensively, it is better to not respond sometimes than coming to defend somethings. The guy talks great, but he is not capable to handle his job, because Lagos under his watch dosent look great. Mayb he is not well funded or the job is overwhelming.

If you search my post history, you will see I on a few occasions touted him as a possible future governor. To be honest with you, the guy is becoming a nuisance right now. He really should learn to just shut up if he has nothing to offer. Always reacting to events instead of being pro active and then following it with petty Twitter beer parlor battles with people he should ignore.

Gerrard59:
To be fair, the article never explained what "referred visa category" means. It wants the reader to either be a Tanzanian or search on Google what it means.

I didn’t know what it meant either and with all sense of humility, the difference between myself and the average Nigerian youth today is they have the tools at their disposal to check but they prefer to give it the interpretation they want.

Again this is why I referenced the poor education. You cannot pass through a quality educational system and not fact check before you post. It is ingrained in you. It’s second nature.

treesun:
Tanzania remove Nigeria from Referred Visa Category
The decline continues... Even Tanzania.
As a young independent country, Nigeria and a few other countries sponsored Tanzania's application as 104th UN member.
In 1964, Nigeria sent its soldiers to quell military mutiny in Dar es Salaam, replacing British troops.




Source

When they say go to good schools you won’t hear, when the govt says they want to increase fees to improve the quality of education you will protest……now see your life?

Removal of referred visa status is an upgrade not a downgrade. It means no further checks or scrutiny required.

Wahab started well but his incompetency (or that of the system he operates under) is increasingly glaring!

These days all he does is make excuses and deflect. You are not a commissioner to makes excuses but to find solutions.