₦airaland Forum

Rayjay45:
Speak about your circle of people o.

In my domain, there is none I can tell you that is a Tinubu fan. Heck! These ones around here loath the guy pass even those in the East wey don suffer alot from eim hands.

The next question I would ask you is what is tribal and religious background of those around you. Forget the social media for a moment. This reasoning factor largely after the last elections when some people claim Tinubu lost. Nigeria is a plural and ethnically diverse society with diverse political views.

Emeka from Imo is likely not to have the same political preferences as Usman from Sokoto or Sola from Oyo. You need to factor this. If you are live in Anambra or even some places in Lagos, most people around you might be Obidients. The same cannot be said of Abdullahi from Katsina.

AMINDA:
These ones are still fishing for endorsements from all and every angle. A little too late, if you ask me. Religion will not offer Tinubu a single political advantage in 2027 from the Muslim North. He would have been better-off picking a Christian VP. Now, he may lose out on both sides.

I am especially waiting for you on the morning of 17th January. It would be interesting to see you complain about rigging, voter intimidation, and votes buying, just to save face. Even Atiku Abubakar does not appear half as confident as you try to project here.

I kind of believe that your posts are meant to troll the APC and Tinubu supporters. I genuinely don't think you believe yourself.

slivertongue:
Tinubu sef may not see 25% votes in kd

Some of you are funny.

The fact is that Tinubu still has many supporters, contrary to what many of you in the opposition convinced yourself to believe.

You see all his supporters around you but you call them names. If he is a Yoruba man, you call him a tribalist. If he is an Igbo man, you call him efulefu. If he is an Ijaw man, you would remind him about how Nigeria has been using the Niger Delta oil money to build Lagos. If he is a Northerner, you call him a religious bigot. If he is a faceless person on Nairaland, you call him a data boy.

After the elections, you will claim that elections were rigged. You all need to wake up.

That you loathe Tinubu does not mean everyone does.

LordLicifer:
This doesn't look the same as the SAn one, this is just roundabout as you said

The SAn one is also a roundabout. Check the image and the description again.

LordLicifer:
Abeg! Show us the Abeokuta own make we check something. No vex!

This is the one built 35 years ago. A bigger and taller one was added right next to it 15 years ago. By the way, it is a roundabout.

RandDigital:
Work on constructing South Africa's first-ever freestanding elevated traffic circle, known as the Sky Circle, is well under way.

It will see the conversion of the existing four-way intersection between two major roads into a raised circular structure approximately 6.2m above ground.

The elevated circle will be exclusively dedicated to MyCiTi buses (BRT buses) and will accommodate vehicular traffic to and from Nyanga, Strandfontein, Wynberg and Athlone.

By elevating the bus route, the design intends to reduce congestion at the ground-level intersection, ensuring more reliable and efficient public transport services.

In addition to the elevated circle, the project includes reconfiguring the existing intersection, adding dedicated turning lanes, upgrading traffic signals, and providing dedicated lanes for pedestrians and cyclists. These enhancements aim to improve overall traffic flow and safety for all road users.

Sky Circle represents a pioneering effort in South African civil engineering, reflecting Cape Town's commitment to innovative infrastructure solutions to improve urban mobility.

"We are so proud to see this happening right here, in Cape Town," said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Mobility, Councillor Rob Quintas.

"The metro-south east MyCiTi expansion is the biggest financial investment in public transport by any metro to date. The Sky Circle will be constructed on the traffic circle, meaning, every time road users and residents go around the traffic circle they will witness the progress of this engineering achievement."

South Africa is trailing Nigeria in this regard. Abeokuta, a relatively unknown city in Nigeria, built its own 35 years ago.

I hope they visit GRV and Funsho Doherty too.

This is almost an acknowledgement that Hamzat is running unopposed.

Baba-Ahmad is a very intelligent and eloquent individual.

However, I don't like him as a person. Baba-Ahmad is an extreme Fulani/Northern supremacist. He belongs to that segment of the Northern intellectuals who believe that the North is fast losing its political advantage and leverage over the rest of the country. This segment of Northerners believe that the current administration is gradually but speedily dismantling those bricks that make the North the North.

I don't care what he thinks. He is a PRP chairman during the day, but an Atiku mobilizer at night. It is exactly because of people like him that I want power to be retained in the South till 2031.

AMINDA:
No matter how nervous you think I am, I am still not as nervous as Tinubu. He is even scared to face the electorates and will rather have others do so on his behalf. Edo State today. These are the reasons why he is afraid to campaign in person. He is waiting to claim the crowd Okpebolo will pull for his own campaign.

We pursue APC comot for Edo state, they think say nah play pic.twitter.com/KIB9BwfzEQ

— voice of gods (@OladejiEmm12648) October 15, 2026

You and I know that he is not nervous to face anyone. In fact, you are the first person to see it from that angle. Most people attribute it to his old age. Wait until Atiku tour Nigeria before you throw shade at Tinubu.

Yes, they can influence it.

A popular governor might not entirely swing a state to his preferred candidate. However, a pretty popular governor, with a solid political machinery, grassroot support, and street credibility can be impactful. If you have ever been close to a politician with a strong grassroot support, you would understand. Their political machinery alone, without direct vote-buying or rigging, could deliver 25% votes to an unpopular presidential candidate. The machinery has thousands of people benefitting one thing or the other from such politician. While Kwakwanso is not a serving governor, he is an example of such a politician. He is popular and he has grassroot support. Wike could also be that type of politician, but he can be too garrulous, unlikeable, and unpleasant sometimes.

AMINDA:
This same Adamawa or another one?

APC: BAMUYI! 🤣
This is Fintiri’s own backyard. I fail to see how he intends to deliver Adamawa to APC, as you claimed, when his own people are openly rejecting the party. 🤣 https://t.co/SOHnJWkZYJ pic.twitter.com/UHrcXoRhPV

— A T T A H I R U (@MuqaddasJR) October 14, 2026

Nothing shows you as nervous about the elections as these X posts and screenshots you post on any Tinubu-related thread on NL. Yours is a classical case of a timid person projecting confidence. Even the most ardent but influential Northern backers of Atiku are more measured in their projections.

I can percieve the nervousness. Keep it going! 92 days to go!!!

Kukutente23:
What is the relationship between Tinapa and a road not fesaible

Are you saying he should allow the highway of fraud to become another Tinapa so that you'll not be angry with him?

Anyways, he has been proven right. The highway of fraud is no longer going through Bayelsa. It's now stopping at Edo

The road will still be more valuable to the people than the failed Tinapa project.

DarkJeddi:
Oga we must mention you o.
Na Una claim say the US is winning with jubilations and expositions all over the place and yet we are all suffering the effect of the war they claim to be winning.

Lol...My brother, I don't think I have ever commented on Iran/US war here. I was only responding to the person making it seem as if inflation has killed Americans. I live in America, and I can confidently tell you that life is moving on like any other time. Although, gas prices are higher due to the war, but it is not close to the worst I have seen in the years I have been here.

That said, let's all pray for peace everywhere.

anonimi:
High gas prices are not indicative of a war going on

You have comprehension problem. You just like jumping all over nairaland quoting other just to make snide comments on their posts. You rarely post any original comment, most are based on quoting others in order to denigrate their opinions.

The mentioning of gas prices is an acknowledgement of the war. I also emphasized at the beginning of my response that every country is feeling it. The whole essence of my comment is that Iran is feeling it more, and life is going on relatively fine in the US.

Having been here for 10 years, I can confidently say that the gas price hike is not close to the worst I have experienced. Could the same be said by Iranians?

Please, I would appreciate it if you avoiding mentioning me here. I am blocking you right away. You are too toxic.

motymop:
forget that propaganda...Actually Iran is winning the war

look at this....U.S. inflation for the year to September 2026 is 3.7% (up from 3.4% the previous month), driven largely by higher energy and petrol prices following Middle East supply disruptions

investors are worried that higher inflation will force the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates higher for longer, increasing borrowing costs for businesses and slowing economic growth

Which country is not feeling the inflation? Is Nigeria not feeling it and blaming Tinubu for it.

I live in America, and life here is moving on like nothing is happening. Yes, the gas prices are up, but if you don't tune into any news channel, you would not know that the US is at war with any country. Can an average Iranian living in Iran say the same?

Understandable! Obi's campaign style is unconventional, but it is admirable. The fact is that there are a lot of votes out there that the traditional campaign approach of APC and ADC might not really attract.

1 million votes loading

I have never doubted the popularity of the Adelekes in Osun. However, I have been consistent in expressing my suspicion about how they arrive at their votes.

In 2023, I believed Adeleke rigged out Tinubu in Osun to favor Atiku, who was very close to him then. I expressed it here and I was insulted.

Just immediately after the governorship election results in Osun was announced, I expressed my reservations about the total votes, where Accord and APC both totaled 1 million votes. I was also insulted by the Obidients and Atikulates, who were still basking in the euphoria of Adeleke's win, thinking it was a win for the opposition. The figures from Ede were too insane for me to believe.


I would be really surprised if Accord and APC working together in Osun, do not deliver at least 800,000 votes for Tinubu. In any presidential election, it is a massive figure. For context, only one candidate got more than this figure in a state in 2023, and it was Kwakwanso in Kano. Even Lagos did not deliver 650,000 to Obi or Tinubu.


Tinubu, being a political strategist, noticed this and saw an opportunity for collaboration. I hope those who cheered Adeleke a few months ago don't come to insult him in January. Many of you are able to look away when irregularities favour you or the cause you support, but turn around to play the victim when it favours the people you oppose.

Shamo007:
Tiluobu win what and which state? In the midst of extreme poverty and hardship how much did u buy fuel last and cooking gas or u think the Citizenry are mannequins use ur brains

I have made my analysis. You can make yours!!!

Asking me which state Tinubu would win shows me your understanding of politics and numbers. If Tinubu could get 2 million votes from just four states he lost in 2023, then that should tell you that question about the states he would win or not is really relevant. Tinubu could lose all the state and still win. You have to blame the opposition for failing to unite.

Regardless of what you think about Tinubu, there are people who still genuinely believe in him. You might be surrounding yourself with too many people who dislike him like you do for you to notice that. It happens everywhere. Even in America, there are many Americans who cannot understand why some people would vote for Trump, a convicted felon. People voted for him anyway and in fact, some love him. It is called democracy!!! You might not see why people might want to vote for Tinubu, but that is just your view.

As for the economy, I agree that it is a hard time in Nigeria. However, most of you hammering on the economy never liked or voted Tinubu to start with. The talk about the economy is just more convenient for you now.

helinues:
Atiku won the Katsina state in 2023 with less than 8,000 votes above president Tinubu. The factors which made the winning at all to happen are no longer there.

Some northerners thought North will retain power after Buhari, now they are preparing for 2031 election because someone you can't defeat as ordinary citizen, against all odds won, now that he's the president seeking reelection, it will be hard to defeat him

We shall see.

tonesky:
He can only win my state - Rivers through rigging just like the 2023 election that W*ke rigged massively.

Rivers contributed only 231K votes to Tinubu in 2023. If you give Tinubu zero votes in Rivers and add the 231k votes to Obi's, it would not change the outcome of the election. Besides, when the election results were recomputed in Rivers by the BBC, it showed that Tinubu got around 150k votes, but Obi won.

helinues:
Who will then win Katsina state if the major political gladiators in the state don't share same political ideology with Atiku

Atiku will win. Tinubu didn't win Katsina in 2023 when Buhari was alive. Atiku won. Now that it seems Tinubu is getting more unpopular in the North, I see Atiku winning Katsina by a bigger margin. It still does not change my believe that Tinubu will get enough votes to retain his seat.

illicit:
Why will APC lose Katsina...?

APC cannot win Katsina, let's be realistic. In fact, APC will lose the NW and the NE. The margin of the defeat will determine the outcome of the election.

That said, I still believe Tinubu will win. Outrightly winning a state will not matter too much in the forthcoming presidential election. In 2023, Tinubu lost Lagos, Kano, Katsina, and Osun. Yet, across these four states, he got around 2 million votes, representing 33% of Obi's votes or 30% of Atiku's votes. At the moment, Tinubu will come at least second in almost every state in Nigeria. That should seal the deal for him, except the NW break massively (the Buhari way) in favour of Atiku.

Atiku really upset the cart by announcing that he would return subsidy. Whether you agree or not, the dynamics of the 2027 elections changed after that announcement. Atiku currently even has more momentum than Peter Obi.

DoTheNeedful:
While I believe Adeleke won, I think his foot soldiers helped him to inflate his numbers in his strongholds like Ede.

I honestly find it hard to believe that 1 million people voted in Osun state governorship election. That figure almost rival the ones you get from Lagos, Kaduna and Kano. Nobody cares as long as APC lost.

Anyway, BAT needs to mend fences with him and even facilitate his defection to APC. With the figure I am seeing today, Osun needs to be added to the Lagos and the KKK states.

This was my post just immediately after the Osun governorship results were announced and the supporters of ADC and NDC were jubilating. The amount of insults that I received from Obidients and Atikulates for making this post were uncountable.

Now that Tinubu will benefit from this, I hope they can keep celebrating.

DSS1335:
Old man wey no wan get sense, you want to promise what you could not have? How many votes did this clown secured inhis 2nd term election?
God will disappoint all this enemies of people who takes the mandate of electorate for granted. Yeye de smell

The total votes in the last governorship election is slightly above 1 million. Accord and APC alone accounted for 1 million.

While some of you were jubilating that APC lost in Osun, I openly expressed my reservations here about the total votes but I was mocked by Obidients. The fact is that the amount of votes Adeleke got in Osun was suspicious, especially the high figures coming from Ede.

If APC and Accord team up in 2027, I see Tinubu getting at least 800,000 votes. The only state in Nigeria that delivered more than this for a single candidate in 2023 was Kano, and it was to Kwakwanso. Even Lagos didn't deliver 650,000 to Obi or Tinubu. In fact, no top ten state, apart from Kano, delivered 700,000 votes to any candidate in 2023.

Penguin2:
This is a wrong depiction of the guy. He’s not anything like what you described here.

Maybe I am wrong, but I have watched a lot of Symfoni TV videos before arriving at the conclusion. As a matter of fact, immediately I saw your thread, before opening it, I knew it was going to be Olufade. I am telling you the plain truth. His interviews are not totally fair to Obi either, although he is not as harsh to him as he is to Tinubu. I believe he is firmly an Atiku guy.

Olufade is an Atiku boy whose dislike for Tinubu is agelong. He disliked Buhari too.

Symfoni TV is a platform for pushing Atiku's presidency. They used to be the mouthpiece for the PDP before Wike hijacked the party.

Olufade would interrupt and counter you if you say anything positive about Tinubu. He also would interrupt and counter you if you say anything negative about Atiku.

RandDigital:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV0dTdupxw?si=njHWf_KZX4cD5lqw

Queen Arusha arrived at a cattle auction in Limpopo province and left with a 6.4 million rands ($385K) price tag, reportedly the highest ever paid for a female animal of any cattle breed in South Africa. She is an in-calf Ankole heifer from Ntaba Nyoni, the cattle operation owned by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The sale happened on 3 October at the Ntaba Nyoni & Friends auction at Phala Phala in Limpopo. Farmer’s Weekly reported that Queen Arusha, registered as NANK23 001 and offered as Lot 20, went to an anonymous buyer.

JP Smith, chief operating officer of auction company Veilingswinkel, told the farming publication that the sale set the national record. The auction turned over R22.5 million in total, which means one heifer accounted for more than 28% of every rand spent on the day.

The price rests on Queen Arusha’s genetics. Smith described her as a full sister to Optimus Prime, an Ankole bull with horns measuring 1.73 metres (68 inches).

Two straws of sexed semen from Optimus Prime sold for R250,000 each at the same auction, another reported South African record across cattle breeds. Queen Arusha’s buyer was paying for the chance to produce and sell calves, embryos and other genetic material from the same bloodline.

“The buyer is buying access to future genetic production,” Smith told Farmer’s Weekly.

The auction results show just how enormous the premium was. Four pregnant heifers fetched R7.48 million between them. Remove Queen Arusha and the remaining three averaged R360,000 each, making her nearly 18 times more expensive than her pen-mates.

That is pedigree doing some fairly violent arithmetic.

The wider sale included 19 embryos for R1.445 million and 37 semen straws for R1.235 million. Ten bulls brought in R2.75 million, with the most expensive selling for R650,000.

Ankole cattle entered South Africa through a complicated route. The Ankole Society of South Africa says disease restrictions prevented direct imports from Uganda, so embryos produced in Kenya were brought into the country instead. The breed was formally approved in South Africa in May 2019 after performance testing under the Animal Improvement Act.

Ntaba Nyoni says Ramaphosa first became interested in Ankole cattle during a 2004 visit to Uganda. The operation now lists Ankole, Bonsmara, Boran, Nguni and Wagyu among the breeds it farms.

The R6.4 million is an auction price paid to the cattle operation, not proof that the same amount landed in Ramaphosa’s personal account. Costs, commissions and tax still have to come out of the sale proceeds.

For Queen Arusha’s anonymous buyer, the expensive part is over. Turning one record-breaking heifer into R6.4 million worth of future genetics is the longer job.

This is obviously a bribe disguised as a sale.

A cow owned by the president is sold for $385k.

ryloy:
Kwankwanso with Chairman APC Presidential Campaign Council Senator Yari

https://x.com/HighChiefOkoro/status/2109030715752903002

It is an old picture. It was taken in 2023 when Yari was contesting to be Senate President.

Emmabyte:
What makes you think tinubu will come second in both Northern and Southern part of Nigeria

If you think Tinubu will come third in the South and Atiku will come second, then there is no need to debate you. For Tinubu to come third in the South, The South West must vote massively for Atiku. Tinubu is also not coming third in the South South and South East to Atiku.

Tinubu is not coming third in the North. The Muslim-Muslim ticket is deliberate.

helinues:
How can Tinubu come third in North when in 2023 election ,Peter Obi got only 5,000 votes in Sokoto state out of the 500k other candidates shared.

I think it is a waste of time responding to him/her/it. His post is driven by hatred and not by informed analysis.

Igbophobia:
Tinubu comes third in the north and third in the south. The vote manipulation of 2023 won't work this time because no Nigerian is trusting INEC.

If Tinubu comes third in the North, then Nigeria must have experienced a total historical change. If you didn't know, tribe and religion have historically played the major role in electoral outcomes for more than 70 years in Nigeria. Forget about all the noise about inflation and subsidy. The Northerners that are rooting for Atiku today would have reelected Atiku under the current economic situation, if Atiku was seeking reelection against a Southerner.

That said, there is no universe Obi would come second and Tinubu would come third in the North. Similarly, there is no way Tinubu would come third in the South, while Atiku come second. As it stands today, Atiku would struggle to get 25% in any Southern state.

Lastly, there is no evidence that vote manipulation influenced the outcome of 2023 election.

From what you have typed so far, it is obvious you know nothing about politics or you are just too emotional. There is no need to banter with you on politics.

Igbophobia:
What is Tinubu left with except another magic?

I keep saying that some of you didn't properly analyze the 2023 election results.

It is very possible for Atiku to win the North, Obi winning South, and Tinubu winning the presidential election.

This is a contest among three strong candidates. Winning the most number of states does not automatically guarantee a candidate a win. The advantage Tinubu has over Obi and Atiku is that he is coming first or second in almost every states in Nigeria. In the Northern states Atiku will win, Tinubu will come second. In the Southern states Obi will win, Tinubu will also come second. There are states Tinubu will win as well.

In 2023, Tinubu lost Lagos, but he scored more votes in Lagos than every other state he won. Also, he lost Katsina and Kano, but he got a combined votes of 1 million in those two states despite coming second. Tinubu got over 2 million votes in Lagos, Kano, Katsina, and Osun. These are four states he lost. In those four states he lost, he got 33% of the entire Obi's votes and 30% of Atiku's total votes.