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Gaslighting

Tinubu has almost doubled our debt. He is robbing Peter to pay Paul for optics and propaganda

seunmsg:
Floating doesn’t mean CBN will not intervene occasionally to help provide liquidity for the market.

Trump recently introduced a wide range of tariffs that has affected trade globally. In fact, global trade has shrieked by about $10trillion in barely three days. All countries are affected so Nigeria cannot be an exception.

So in exceptional situations like this, CBN can intervene to ensure there is liquidity in the market. The aim is to make sure the exchange rate remains stable despite global shocks. The good thing is we are now in a very good position for such interventions with a net foreign reserve of over $23billion compared to the $3.9billion Tinubu met in 2023.

So, injecting $198million is nothing. It doesn’t even scratch our foreign reserve. We are building the reserve for a day like this when such intervention will be inevitable.

Omenka is just ashamed for his terrible political choices and campaigns since 2015

Heavens1stson:
I came across several threads by a user named MAR2012, where he repeatedly appealed to the forum owner, Mr. Seun Osewa, to delete his account. Prior to that, another user, Omenka, published a post on January 7, 2024, also requesting account deletion and even issuing threats. Yet, over a year later, his account remains active.

Reading through the comments on these threads, one theme is consistent: users mocking the requesters and telling them to simply quit the platform rather than "disturbing" Seun with deletion demands. However, this response is legally and ethically problematic. Mocking data subjects and dismissing their right to be forgotten undermines their fundamental human rights. Users have the right to request account deletion, and the platform owner is legally obligated to comply, unless specific, valid exceptions apply.


Legitimate Reasons Users May Request Account Deletion


There are several valid and legally protected reasons a user may wish to delete their account:

1. Privacy Concerns

• Loss of trust in the platform’s data handling practices

• Fear of data breaches, leaks, or misuse

• Uncertainty about where data is stored and who has access


2. Withdrawal of Consent

• The user no longer consents to the platform processing or using their data

• Exercising their right to withdraw consent under data protection laws such as the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA)


3. Security or Safety Reasons

• The account was hacked or compromised

• The user feels unsafe due to harassment, stalking, or threats

Security concerns are particularly pressing. I recall a colleague who quit Facebook but left his account standing. It was later hacked, and the hacker used it to post pornographic and offensive content. This went on for weeks before his family and friends alerted him. The reputational damage was severe.



Why Omenka and MAR2012 Are Within Their Rights to Request Account Deletion

The right "to be forgotten" is explicitly provided in Section 34 of the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA), signed into law on June 12, 2023, by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This section, built on the foundation of Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution, the EU's GDPR, and Nigeria's earlier NDPR, grants data subjects the right to request the erasure of their personal data from a controller or processor (in this case, Nairaland/Seun) under specific conditions:

• The data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected

• Consent has been withdrawn

• The data was unlawfully processed

• The data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation

• The user objects to the processing and there is no overriding legitimate reason to retain it

Controllers are required to erase the data without undue delay when these legal grounds are met.

Importantly, a forum user’s data may include usernames, email addresses, profile information, and posts that can be linked to their identity.


However, instead of full deletion, forum operators like Seun Osewa may opt for anonymization, such as changing the author name to “nobody” or “deleted user.”



Exceptions

There are valid exceptions to full deletion:

If the data must be retained for legal compliance, moderation history, or pending law enforcement actions.

However, the platform should clearly state the specific legal basis and provide documentation if required (e.g., court orders, police requests).


Vague justifications such as "we might need it later" are not sufficient. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has the authority to audit retention practices and demand evidence of legal necessity. Mere speculative concerns are not grounds for denying erasure.


Remedy

If the data controller (Nairaland/Seun) fails to comply with a valid deletion request, the user (data subject) can:

• File a complaint with the NDPC, or

• Pursue legal redress in court

Why are you obsessed with Obi?

SmartEnergyng:
In politics, as in life, consistency is not convenience—it’s character. And when a man switches homes every election cycle, you have to wonder:
What exactly does he stand for?

Peter Obi has become the poster child of political wandering in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. [/i]

From[b] PDP[/b], to APGA, back to PDP, then on to[b] Labour Party in 2023[/b]—and if whispers in the corridors are right, he’s warming up to return to PDP by 2027.

This isn’t evolution. It’s evasion.
It’s not strategic repositioning—it’s a lack of ideological spine.

The Politics of Renting vs. Building

There’s a difference between a man who builds a house and one who rents rooms every four years.

Peter Obi has never built a party structure. He has never developed an enduring platform.
He simply[b] borrows space[/b], borrows momentum, and moves on when the music stops.

Contrast that with a man like[b] Bola Ahmed Tinubu[/b], who took[b] AD[/b], morphed it into ACN, merged it into APC, and transformed that platform into a ruling party with nationwide reach.

That’s what builders do.
They don’t move with the wind—they plant trees, even when the ground is hard.

Obi's Politics Is Movement Without Mission

Every political season, Obi rebrands.
But what he doesn’t do is stay, build, or sustain.
He thrives on disruption, not development.
He inspires movements, but abandons them when it’s time for structure.

The Labour Party gave him a ticket, a following, a historic wave.
But what did he give back?
Nothing lasting.
No rooted organization.
No institutional framework.
No foundation for continuity.

It’s the Aba Trader model of politics—shiny today, gone tomorrow.
A Golden Pot Full of Holes

As we say in our part of the world:
“The man who carries a golden pot full of holes will still come home thirsty.”[i]

Obi has been handed golden moments in Nigerian politics—mass youth support, media attention, moral high ground.
But with no staying power and no long-term plan, those moments leak away, just like water from a cracked pot.

You don’t win nation-building with campaign tours and soundbites.
You win it with patience, structure, and consistency.
You don’t lead by jumping ships—you lead by anchoring one and growing it.

Peter Obi is always on the move.
But Nigeria needs people who build where they stand, not those who vanish when the dust settles.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

A rolling politician gathers no legacy.

Sending his aides to run around. Never addressing the public himself

You can't run the country with propaganda

helinues:
How much debt have we serviced within that period?

There have been balanced between debt repayment and borrowing under this government

If you're not tainted, you can't be in Tinubu's govt.

Structures of criminality

Pretending to care.

Obi will not join APC!

helinues:
How would you react to the news of Peter Obi joining Apc?

Whatever coalition the opposition might be collating, they can never give Peter Obi their presidential ticket while Peter Obi can't win the presidency on its own.

Peter Obi has nothing to loose should be join Apc.

Btw, this is just for fun not something to take personal

APC, a satanic party of criminality!

Imagine this abysmal performance by Tinubu is being performed by Obi, by now the whole country will be calling for improvement

Last time Igbos returned home enmasse,they returned to Biafra.

If it happens again, Igbos will return to Biafra for good

LegendHero:
Source: https://saharareporters.com/2025/04/05/edo-killings-ipob-urges-igbo-northern-states-return-home-amid-threats-reprisals

The leadership of political parties are internal affairs of the parties.

These lower courts nor dey hear word?

Kosiso12:
Court Bars PDP from Interfering with Dan Orbih’s South-South Leadership | #Politicsnigeria


The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from interfering in the leadership of Dan Orbih and his team in the South-South region.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the ruling, said the PDP must not interfere in the work or leadership of the South-South Zonal Working Committee led by Orbih.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the committee, backed by FCT Minister Wike was elected on February 22, 2025, in Calabar, Cross River State.

The court’s order will be valid until a final decision is made in the ongoing case, labelled FHC/ABJ/CS/505/2025, filed by Chief Dan Orbih and members of his committee.

Justice Ekwo also stopped another group led by Chief Emmanuel Ogidi, which was appointed by the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC), from acting as leaders of the zone or parading as zonal committee.

The case was adjourned to Friday, April 11, 2025.

Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/court-bars-pdp-from-interfering-with-dan-orbihs-south-south-leadership/

Kwankwaso see himself as too big to be vp so count him out.

El Rufai is not sellable to Christians yet Shettima the bokoharam sponsor was not able to reduce Tinubu's northern votes

NaijaCowFarm:
Elrufai is a no-no in the South, especially with Christians. The coalition needs a sellable structure both in the South where Obi has a strong hold and in the North, Kwankwaso is still a good option or Tambulwa.

Tinubu is a terrible illegitimate president.

He has failed woefully.

Check the handles defending Tinubu on Twitter, only Yorubas!

Be bold and say it: Tinubu is a monumental failure

KnowAll:
Uromi, Plateau State, Benue State killings every where. Do we still have a government in Nigeria??. Abeg if that livestock ministry is this useless and cannot stop the menace of the marauding herds men they should just scrap it and revert back to ministry of agriculture.

A failed ministry.

The coalition should throw Obi/Tambuwal or Obi/Bala Mohammed or Obi/El Rufai.

Anything other than this is dead on arrival

When Buhari was there, Fulani herdsmen were on k1lling spree.

Tinubu is ther, Fulani herdsmen are still on killing spree.

Only an Igbo man will stop this madness and reset Nigeria and the Northerners know it. It will happen!

flokii:
It's disheartening.. several hundreds of people are getting killed in Platiea, Benue and likes but no public outcry.
Nigeria is gone.

The middle beltans are not 'Northerners'

They must be liberated to Middle Belt Republic eventually

helinues:
Are the northerners not tired of killing themselves?

We are tired of typing RIP

It's on this forum that one northerner told us that the insecurity in north is exaggerated

Are you not ambitious? Nobody in your family ambitious enough to be president?

AntiMarxist:
And no matter how much you curse Tinubu it will never make your Agulu fraud and Onitsha minted fake Messiah President.

Giringory will never ever be President of Nigeria.

Let that sink

Thats the topic of the thread. You're in the wrong thread then

zero8zero:
And what's my business with the two of them

If you like insult Obi perpetually, it won't change the fact that Tinubu is a monumental failure. Within 1 week, 100 persons have been killed and both Tinubu and Shettima are having vacations.

You guys are not ripe enough for democracy

AntiMarxist:
your Agulu fraud no dey game

Obi will not be deputy to Atiku, deal with it

zero8zero:
In the north and mosques too?

South Sudan left Sudan and people were using them as example of how Biafra will fail if they leave Nigeria.

Look at South Sudan today, fastest growing economy by far!

Tinubu is by far the worst illegitimate president Nigeria ever had

Yes. He has been doing philanthropy for ages

zero8zero:
Lol, he's only digging boreholes in the north and breaking iftar with them because he loves them

Obi is not desperate to be president

AntiMarxist:
Giringory has been dealt a bad hand at the Blackjack table .

He is holding a 16 and can't risk a Hit for he may go Bust . Holding on 16 but the dealer holds a two aces

He lost and will continue to lose. If anything , the house is ever happy to see him walk into their casino

Why should Atiku become president after 8yrs of Buhari?

SalamRushdie:
Something they should have done in 2023 but they missed it , feels to too late already

Tinubu has borrowed more than any other president before him

DeLaRue:
Why would I want to swap Mr Tinubu for Mr Atiku

The current administration has made very strident progress in several aspects of the economy that previous administrations had shied away from for over 30 years.

Even the earliest critiques of the government are now admiting that those difficult changes, including the removal of oil and currency subsidies had to be made. You want us to go back to borrowing heavily to pay for subsidies that a few corrupt people got fantastically rich from?

You now want us to abandon the economic stability that is now becoming a reality, and jump to a new President, before the current changes are consolidated.

Please can you mention 3 or 4 policies of Mr Atiku or Mr Obi that are superior to the trajectory that we are currently on.

Is it Mr Obi's pie in the sky 'From consumption to production'

Please list the policies so we can understand why we should elect a new President, particularly one that will be above 80 years old by 2027.

Why can't Obi run as president and El Rufai or Tambuwal or Bala Mohammed as vice?

Stricker321:
Politics is about strategy and reality, not by emotions and sentiments. The sure way to remove Tinubu in 2027 is for Peter Obi to run as VP to Atiku. They cannot rig the outcome of this combination.

What most Obidients don't know is that Tinubu rode on Peter Obi to become president in 2023. Anything apart from Atiku/Obi will likely fail and return Tinubu for a second term as president.

Either use your brain or continue to rant out of emotions but I can assure you that if Atiku decides to run separately, and Obi also decides to run, Tinubu will remain in office.

You can see that Tinubu is already paving the way for Obi to run that is why the Supreme Court sacked Abure just to play on the emotions of Obidients and give them a false sense of hope. They know what they are doing. Ordinarily, the Nigerian judiciary we know would have upheld Abure as LP chairman but they sacked him to make it easy for Obi to run again in 2027 and seriously tear apart Atiku's votes just like 2023.

While Peter Obi may have good intentions, he must be told that he is covertly working for Tinubu if he decides to run solo in 2027 again.

You guys that know how to do politics,
why are you suffering same things other Nigerians are suffering?

helinues:
Those are kidnappers.

People are using herdsmen/bandits from North to be perpetrating evil in Southern part of the country

And to those who might want to insist that it's still bandits/herdsmen, how can illiterate them in their few number be disturbing how many people in the southern part of Nigeria

What precisely is the uselessness of being educated always claimed by the Southerners

Is Nigeria senate and Nigerians not hounding Senator Natasha Akpoti?

God1000:
Congratulations to her and the people of Namibia

And nigeria is yet to have a female governor, not to talk of president

our women should get involved in politics and leave social media

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Virginia Etiaba was made the governor in Anambra state for three months when peter obi was impeached, she remains the only female governor in Nigeria