Chidi's bigotry is unraveling. It is so disappointing that nothing, not even sound education and exposure, can cover ethnicity and religious bias, when our elites' preferences are involved!

What offence has the CJN committed if his nephew was appointed as a Court of Appeal judge IF he is qualified and approved by NJC? So, by Chidi Odinkalu's idiotic reasoning, once one becomes CJN, NONE of his qualified family members could be appointed into the upper echelon of the judiciary? In the same manner, if my nephew has had a solid career, and was qualified; I should deny him promotion?

When did being a member of an extended family the basis for denying professionals their rights?

Chidi also wrote about someone's son-in-law being a judge. Haba! How more daft can daftness be shown If I became a Vice Chancellor of a University, and my son-in-law, who was already a well-regarded lecturer before marrying my daughter, was recommended for promotion to Professor cadre, I should not appoint him?

This stupid analogy is coming from a so-called Professor! Damn!!! I over-rated Chidi Odinkalu. He is obviously not different from the entitled elites! Shame.

They start a career in TV and radio analysis, pontificating, human rights advocacy, etc, etc AFTER they are no longer in Government!

The other day, Dalung, the useless Minister of Sports under Buhari, who destroyed Nigerian sports, suddenly became an analyst some people began to praise!

Nigerians are damn too gullible! It is sickening!

The same Obasanjo, under whose watch we had Nigeria's WORST-EVER ELECTION, IN 2007, when INEC's Prof. Maurice Iwu declared PDP winner almost everywhere, even when BALLOT PAPERS WERE STILL BEING PRINTED IN FAR-AWAY SOUTH AFRICA!!!

The same Obasanjo, who used minority number of House of Assembly members to illegally impeach Governors he didn't like!!!

The same Obasanjo, who worked for third-term and/or life-time Presidency!!!

Do these idiotic politicians think we forget so easily ?

Too many hypocrites!!!

PDP Plateau State did not learn from the same mistake ZAMFARA STATE APC MADE IN 2019!

Why do politicians fail to learn and allow history to repeat itself?

PDP in Plateau State should blame their selves alone! This was a self-inflicted problem!

THIS IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE JUDICIARY!!!

casualobserver:


The idea is dead on arrival. The merger won’t work for the same reason they split up in the 1st place. A re-emerged PDP (which is what a merger between LP,PDP and Kwakwanso is) will never give the ticket to Obi.

The difference between APC and PDP (and it’s splinter groups) is very clear. I urge you to watch the video by Yomi Awoniyi former deputy governor of Kogi state under PDP on YouTube. After 25 years in PDP (his father was a founding member). He defected to APC a few months ago. He said he was shocked at the level of strategic planning in APC. That is what separates APC and PDP. PDP are a party who were gifted power in 1999, and have maintained power by rigging. As soon as it started becoming difficult to rig starting with the reforms under Jonathan, they started to lose their grip on power. The problem with PDP members ( the like of Atiku, Obi, Kwakwanso). Is that they still have that mentality of impunity and rigging that characterized the Obasanjo PDP era. They don’t know how to be strategic. They don’t know how to compromise, they are not fundamentally democrats.

Whatever your views on APC respect them for their ability to compromise, align settle rifts, pacify members, give and take and act strategically . That is why they win elections. You rarely ever hear of rancour in APC. APC will find a way to pacify you and keep you sweet of you are politically relevant. APC rarely do fight to end amongst members and when rifts occur, they will settle. When PDP have internal problems it is fight to finish. PDP is a party of egos and a merger will not succeed for the same reason they split up.

GOD BLESS YOU FOR THIS FACT-BASED ANALYSIS!

A lot of our young people, Gen Z, were probably not born, or were too young to know, how Nigeria's worst-ever "election" was conducted by an INEC led by Prof. Maurice Iwu in 2007, under a PDP FG of President Obasanjo!

The 2007 elections had been postponed and majority of the ballot papers were still being printed in South Africa, but INEC started announcing results! Imagine that!!! No election, NO BALLOT PAPERS, YET PDP WAS ANNOUNCED WINNER ALMOST EVERYWHERE. PDP killed the two main opposition parties, AD and ANPP, via that infamous 2007 "election"!!! LOL.

Please, I ask NR people to use Google to obtain information about THAT 2007 ELECTION! IT WAS MORE THAN MAGIC, IT WAS EVIL!!!

No INEC has matched the evil machination that the 2007 election was! LOL.

Meanwhile, online and offline, many Obi supporters wrote that Atiku's selfishness handed over the Presidency to Tinubu on a platter!

The same people who said that INEC rigged for Tinubu?

Why are these morons so confused, inconsistent and hypocritical?

Should any merger happen (which is very doubtful) their 'wahala' would begin, and their party would 'scatter' after their Presidential primaries in 2026!

They have three overtly ambitious gladiators- Obi, Atiku and Kwankwaso- who would never bury their individual ambitions.

People who have compared this proposed merger to APC's merger in 2013, do not understand that the dynamics were completely different; and that none of these three persons has the political temperament to wait for 8 years like Tinubu did for Buhari...

LOL!

I laughed so loud! Labour Party, the party that says ALL OTHER PARTIES ARE EVIL, the 'party of saints' (but who shamelessly refused to reject SUV for their federal legislators), is now welcoming the suggestion of serial failure, Atiku, of PDP, for a merger of opposition parties

HYPOCRITES at Labour Party- from top (Peter Obi, Abure and others) to bottom!

WONDERS SHALLE NEVER END!!!

LOL!!!

Bayelsa State has been governed by wicked, corrupt, and short-sighted Governors since 1999!

How could Nigeria's smallest state, with only eight-8- local governments, and with huge allocations (FAAC, 13% derivation, NDDC, Amnesty Programme, Special Indigene Scholarships, etc, etc) still be so abysmally poor?

Driving through Yenagoa and other towns, in Bayelsa State, one could evidently see that politicians have embezzled most of these funds for 24 unbroken years.

It is a pity!!!

SIXTEENTH:
Hmmmmmmmmmm Anambra State will shake with massive groove when burying the septuagenarian.

He died a proud father
Journey well Daddy.

He died a proud man.

He birthed a son, a world-renowned Economist, professor, former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Governor of Anambra State, a well-recognized name!

Fare thee well, old one!

Hendrixky:
If not for tribalism and religion that is killing the masses in Nigeria

Tinubu and atiku are both not supposed to get up to 100 thousands vote

Especially that tinubu knowing fully well he was part of Buhari administration and he brought upon on us Buhari's administration
What we complained about and regretted in Buhari's tenure was exactly what we knew tinubu will repeat in his administration if he wins like parkinson disease, old age and sickness
But because Nigerians are too tribalistic the people of South west gave him their vote again.
Sane people are plenty in lagos, abuja and south south who are exposed and not tribalistic reason he didn't win those states

Most Nigerians don’t hate bad government they just feel mad at the government when he’s not from their religion or tribe
That is the reality of Nigeria

We are doomed

ONLY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE DOOMED! Take your own personal curses, stop using "we"!!!

LAGOS!!! THIS STATE IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF ALL OTHER STATES IN NIGERIA, ON ALL THINGS!

It is not a surprise that officials of many states, across Nigeria, since 1999, have continued to visit Lagos State to learn "how to do it".

Note: I am not an indigene of Lagos, but I have lived there for 24+ years and I have also visited at least 28 states, across all the 6 geo-political regions of Nigeria...NONE comes close to Lagos, including my home state.

Kudos to their leaders and positive continuity in governance!

When the CBN wasted the lives of Nigerians (pregnant women died and lost their babies, adults were forced to go naked in banking halls, etc, etc) during the so-called Naira re-designation policy, and when bank workers were beaten by frustrated customers who could not access their own money from the banks, this clown called Ajaero, NLC President, did not say anything!

NLC kept quite, because they, like Atiku's PDP and Peter Obi's Labour Party, used it as a negative matter against APC in the Presidential election!

Ajaero deserved the beating he got. He took his daft Labour Party partisanship to his home state, Imo, to embarrass Governor Hope Uzodinma, and prop up the failure who is the Labpur Party candidate for next Saturday's governorship election.

Ajaero would go down in history as the most politically biased NLC President- the same NLC of illustrious past Presidents- Hassan Sunmonu, Paschal Bafyau, Adams Oshiomhole!

Shame on Ajaero!

When the CBN wasted the lives of Nigerians (pregnant women died and lost their babies, adults were forced to go naked in banking halls, etc, etc) during the so-called Naira re-designation policy, and when bank workers were beaten by frustrated customers who could not access their own money from the banks, this clown called Ajaero, NLC President, did not say anything!

NLC kept quite, because they, like Atiku's PDP and Peter Obi's Labour Party, used it as a negative matter against APC in the Presidential election!

Ajaero deserved the beating he got. He took his daft Labour Party partisanship to his home state, Imo, to embarrass Governor Hope Uzodinma, and prop up the failure who is the Labpur Party candidate for next Saturday's governorship election.

Ajaero would go down in history as the most politically biased NLC President- the same NLC of illustrious past Presidents- Hassan Sunmonu, Paschal Bafyau, Adams Oshiomhole!

Shame on Ajaero!

This daft clown, called Amaechi, enjoyed public funding for 24 unbroken years from 1999 to 2023 (8 years as Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, 8 years as Governor of Rivers State, and 8 years as the Minister of the "juicy" Ministry of Transportation), yet, he couldn't change anything! Now that he had been outplayed by Wike (a smart PDP chieftain who is influential in APC), the idiot is shouting and people are really listening to him and sharing his nonsensical rants?

When this same Amaechi established so many higher institutions in Daura, and even got turbaned as a Daura title holder, because the small boy at Aso Rock, Sabiu, had promised him the Presidency, wasn't he stupid?

Amaechi of all people? Amazing hypocrisy.

Talking about this idiot, Babachir Lawal, who stole a whopping N564 million, during his shameful grass-cutting scandal as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) under Buhari, for which he was subsequently sacked, was he a CHRISTIAN when he committed this malfeasance?

The fool is still bitter for having missed out on being picked as Tinubu's running mate, despite his loud lobby!

A daft, corrupt politician, who should have been in jail, is talking...

Cantonese:
The board he is carrying shows 1966. How come then that he is 67 rather than 57 Mr. OP?

Your eyesight is so poor. It was clearly written as 1956! The man is truly 67! Na wa...

GeneralPula:
Mehn..

State like Bayelsa, what exactly are they doing with their money?

The 13 percent derivation fund differs from the three percent provided for host communities in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), from the oil companies operating expenses (OPEX).

These people are receiving money no be small!

God bless you, bro/sis! Bayelsa State has the lowest number of Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria- only 8- and nothing in that state reflects this huge allocations they receive from regular FAAC, 13% derivation, NDDC, Amnesty Programme, etc, etc. They keep voting rogues...

Even if these politicians, who are former and current Governors of Bayelsa State (like Delta State) steal, shouldn't we even see some minimum use of their resources?

blowjohn:
Omo psv vs sevilla was a classic.

Those 2 teams for beat werey comot arsenal or man u.

Are you an IDIOT? This was the same PSV that Arsenal humiliated 4-0 in the first group game, only two weeks ago!!!

Akwa-Ibom State Governor appointed 372 PAs. The story was posted since 6:56 pm, on October 1 2023, but it had only generated two pages of responses as at the early hours of the following day, October 2 2023.

I could imagine if it was a Governor from another part of Nigeria who made this outlandish appointments, the pages would have reached 100, with insults and vitriol.

HYPOCRITES YOU ALL!!!

The APC members in Rivers State who made this complaint are idiots! Their boss, the arrogant megalomaniac called Rotimi AMAECHI, KILLED APC, since 2014 by his stubborn attitude to Magnus Abe and many others! He divided Rivers APC to an irredeemable level! What has Tinubu got to do with your downfall?

Did you mean that Tinubu should not compensate Wike, who mobilized votes for APC in the 2023 Presidential elections when your boss, Amaechi, mobilized for PDP's Atiku?

Tinubu, after the APC primaries, with humility and consensus-building mindset, visited Amaechi's home, seeking his support, BUT what did Amaechi do? Amaechi backstabbed Tinubu, ignored him and asked his supporters to vote Atiku!

The most stupid thing Amaechi did to Tinubu was when he said, on live TV, AFTER TINUBU HAD BEEN DECLARED PRESIDENT-ELECT, that the INEC Chairman was nominated from Tinubu's camp? How? An INEC Chairman who was appointed by Buhari? How daft could Amaechi have been to have insulted a President-elect he did not even support and his members are expecting patronage from the same Tinubu?

I NEVER KNEW THAT ROTIMI AMAECHI WAS THIS DAFT! I THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A SMART POLITICIAN!

Amaechi's boys in Rivers APC should cry me a river! Nonsense!

I have pity for both Tonye Cole and Dakuku Peterside- two fine gentlemen who followed the wrong and selfish leader- Rotimi Amaechi!

It was shocking to have seen Amaechi, on live TV, running his mouth and throwing jibes at Tinubu, the President-elect at the time, about his loss at Rivers State elections.

For a very experienced politician to have made that fatal blunder was shocking. Knowing how powerful the Nigerian Constitution had made any President of Nigeria, I expected Amaechi to have been careful with his utterances against someone who had already been declared President! That singular indiscretion has caused these two- Cole and Dakuku- any form of patronage from the President.

This visit is a nullity. Even if Tinubu wanted to appoint them, people around him may prevent him, because they are Amaechi's boys and Tinubu camp will never trust them!

The pain of blind loyalty to a selfish leader, who killed APC in Rivers State- Amaechi!

Nyesom Wike is the FCT Minister and President Tinubu's personal adviser, one million visits by Amaechi's boys to Ganduje would NOT change any of those!

Zxcvbnmghtr:


Sincerely Obasanjo had a very efficient cabinet.

Please qualify it! It was his 2nd term cabinet that was good; the first term cabinet was absolute rubbish (because he wanted to pay "political IOUs" to people who dusted him up from Abacha's prison to Aso Rock)!

Go and check the records. Only his 2nd term cabinet was good. El-Rufai even emphasised it too: "SECOND TERM CABINET."

Now, they are insulting Prof. Wole Soyinka, who is one of the godfathers of their demi-god, Peter Obi, only because he told them the BITTER TRUTH!!!

How, on earth, did Peter Obi think he was going to win the Presidency of Nigeria without any inroad into the North-West and South-West? He could NOT have won, sentiments aside! Atiku and Peter Obi, with their greed and lack of discernment, gifted the Presidency to Tinubu. QED!

Hypocrisy and supporters of Peter Obi are synonyms. LOL.

Mrs. Margaret Obi, Mr. Peter Obi's wife, is 49. Mr. Peter Obi is 62. He married her when she was 18 years old, and he was 31 years old.

Where are Nairalanders who insulted Buhari so brutally for marrying Aisha Buhari, when she was also 18?

HYPOCRITES!

Gossiphub:
2023 election is the worst election in the history of this country.

All the states in Nigeria are getting sack here and there.

INEC really did a poor job.

From screening of candidates to conduct of the polls.

What a wasted 500bn

Did you live in Nigeria in 2007?

The 2007 elections was the worst in the history of Nigeria.

Balot papers were still being printed in South Africa, when Prof. Maurice Iwu of INEC began to declare PDP candidates, including President Umaru Yar'Adua, as winners, everywhere.

Till today, 2007 Presidential election result is the only one without any state-by-state breakdown. It was that bad!!!

No election could be worse than that in any part of the world!

2007 ELECTIONS WERE THE WORST ELECTIONS EVER CONDUCTED IN NIGERIA. No elections have come near!

GOD BLESS YOU, for this well-researched, factual piece!!! I have written, for the umpteenth time, that a smart PhD. student (of Public Policy, Public Administration, Political Science, Sociology, Mass Communication, etc, etc) should write a dissertation on Bola Tinubu's political sagacity.

Tulsaguy:
Laolu obviously is still pained that Tinubu won his Boss at the primary. Akanbi is like water, 💦 which has no permanent enemy and will always find its way no matter what is on the way including Ellu P Peter, the rock. Water penetrates the rock & can even cuts metal into pieces. Check YouTube, water can cut iron-FACT!


Somehow, somewhere, something is working for Jagaban that no man can explain. He knew what he wanted since 1999. If you find any of his class of 1999 Governors that is still relevant politically today, such must have kept close affinity with Akanbi.

He understands the principle of delay gratification by offering his Senatorial ticket to Ganiyu in 2007, he knew that if he goes to Abuja, he will no longer be relevant in Lagos politics. He stayed put to guide his protege and consolidated his reign on Lagos politics.

When Atiku came running and wanted to become President at all cost against OBJ's wish, he found a reliable ally in Tinubu who offered his platform, the ACN for Adamawa political prostitute, Akanbi stayed underground. Atiku lost, but Tinubu's party was making inroads into the national consciousness from being a local party. Here is where parties like APGA & Kwankwoso party has failed.

When all hell broke lose against Muslim Muslim ticket in 2014, of course he wanted to be Buhari's vice, having studied Nigerian religious biases and fragility, he offered his post to an unknown Yemi Osinbajo, a pastor of one of the biggest denominations in Nigeria to deputise Buhari, whom the southern Christians as always seen as a terrorist apologists with Muslim/Northern agenda.

Prior to 2014, Buhari has contested severally and even vowed never to contest again, but Tinubu told him, ma worry, wa je President, a ma dibo, o ma wole.

Almost all of Tinubu's boys who worked with him politically are either Governors, Senators, Ministers, DG of one ministry or another today. Governor Badaru won't forget him in a hurry. He has no hatred for even all his former allies who went awol, cursed & abused to his face. He knows everyone is important, including Obanikoro & FFK.

But for Atiku, he has moved from PDP to ACN, ACN to PDP, PDP to APC & back to PDP. If you have a wife whose promiscuity rivals Atiku political prostitution, you go soon go meet your ancestor.


If you want to know the science of how Obi left PDP on the eve of PDP primary, call Pat Utomi, 080........he will tell you something about Tinubu. Had Obi remain in PDP, nothing could have stopped Atiku from becoming the President because Buhari destroyed APC's reputation and left nothing on his trail. Wike was to be, but couldn't rival Turaki financial muscle & connection.



If you want to know why the G5 blatantly refused to work for PDP, ask Seyi Makinde, Fayose, and Fayemi for the specs of hammer 🛠 used to ensure that the center never hold for PDP. You wonder why the 19 northern Governors stood for him and against their own Buhari during APC PRIMARY? Tinubu is a political juggernaut. Not even Jonathan's probe of his foreign accounts could stop him. He won everywhere.

No living politician in Nigeria dead or alive could have survived the onslaughts of Naira redesign, fuel scarcity, Adamu's choice of Lawan, Buhari's pandering towards Osinbajo as his successor, allegation of corruption, US drug case on the eve of a very important presidential election. Instead of all these to sink Jagaban, he has remained afloat and is enjoying the ride. All the negative publicity meant to derail and distract him, have all worked to accelerate his destiny. All the balablu pre-election has suddenly disappeared. Study Jagaban please.


He knew Buhari didn't want him to be President. Learning from Abiola's case, he played mumu card to the point of even bending sometimes to greet Buhari during public occasions. He understands the theory of stooping to conquer.

Akanbi's boys are in every arm of government from the Legislature to the executive to the judiciary. He has mentored so many great men. At least, 50% of these men will come good for him in times of need.

He is no saint however. What Nigerians should pray for is for him to use that brain for the betterment of 200m people.

Karma. Man United were awarded a fake 3 points, last weekend, at Old Trafford, in that dodgy 1-0 win against Wolves, after the referee and VAR conspired to deny Wolves a clear penalty during extra time, which would have meant a 1-1 score line.

The Man United squad that had played these two matches wouldn't make Top 4 unless something fundamentally changes!

I have read some very simplistic analyses of the Kogi election, largely by people who do not have any knowledge about the undercurrents, beyond whatever they read in the newspapers!

APC's Ododo WILL LIKELY WIN THE ELECTION, on the following bases:

1. Yahaya Bello, the smart politician that he is, picked an Igala man, who is also the current Chairman of Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) as Ododo's running mate. The man he chose is well loved by teachers and civil servants and anyone who knows Kogi State well enough would know that the decision was a political master-stroke!

2. APC also deliberately picked someone from the Central Senatorial District, Ododo, as candidate, with a view to guaranteeing an uninterrupted 16-year tenure for that District, because should it go to Kogi East in November 2023, other two Senatorial Districts might not get near Lugard House in the next 50 years!

3. Leke Abejide, the House of Representative member representing a large chunk of Okun (Yoruba-speaking) part of Kogi State, has won his elections back-to-back on the ticket of a small party called ADC. His philanthropic gestures, including purchase of SUVs for almost ALL graded traditional rulers in his Federal Constituency, scholarships, free school buses, etc, etc had endeared him to many Kogites, especially in the Yoruba-speaking areas. He will take significant votes from Dino's so-called vote bank!

4. Every other major party picked an Igala man or woman (in Dino's case) as running mate. This would mean that this disunity among the Igala would lead to needless share of votes among the major parties, which favours APC.

5. Muritala Ajaka of SDP, an Igala man, would, ordinarily have been a formidable opponent of Ododo's APC. However, feelers out there suggest that his Igala peeple have NOT queued behind him because of the many running mates across other parties. The consensus meeting that was convened by Igala elites failed to endorse Ajaka; hence every candidate was told to go and test their popularity at the polls. This is a disadvantage to Ajaka.

6. I read the very simplistic opinion, where one Nairalander, simply allocated votes to each candidate on the basis of their local governments; hence awarding Ajaka victory!

Politicis do not go that way! In Kwara State's 2023 Governorship election, PDP's candidate, Yaman Abdullahi, LOST ALL HIS ENTIRE SENATORIAL DISTRICT, INCLUDING HIS HOME TOWN AND HOME LOCAL GOVERNMENT! His own people- from Kwara North- voted an Ilorin man, the current Governor. Politics is about negotiation and deal-making; it is not necessarily clear-cut for tribal games.

7. Yahaya Bello's decision to build a magnificent church in Government House (Lugard House) has been a game-changer regarding his hold on Kogi politics.

Only yesterday, the CAN Chairman of Kogi State, publicly held a press conference, with ALL members of Kogi CAN Executive Committee, and said that they will vote APC's Ododo, because they preferred continuity and because Yahaya Bello was not only the first Governor to build a church in Government House, a thing he accused ALL former Governors, who were Igalals, of refusing to do; he also said that it was under Yahaya Bello that Christians have had the highest number of Jerusalem pilgrims sponsored by Kogi State Government. Owing to the fact that political choices are NOT ALWAYS RATIONAL, religion takes a major place in Nigerian elections.

8. Being an off-season election, the odds favour APC's Ododo, who would ride on the back of a very tough politician, Yahaya Bello. in terms of logistics, funding, mobilization, etc. Only yesterday, ALL Zonal and Local Government chairmen of Ajaka's SDP defected to APC.

Didi2d:


I think our law disqualifies anyone with dual citizenship

You are IGNORANT!!! No such thing exists. Bukola Saraki and many other politicians, including Chimaroke Nnamani, Chris Ngige, with dual citizenship, once declared, won such cases in court.

The obviously ignorant witness even showed her crass naivety when cross-examined by Hamzat's counsel.

This is dead on arrival. It's a senseless case.
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samonak:

How is it balanced when there's little or no representation from the South - South and South East?

There is...Please check again. One is from Enugu, Enugu State; and the other is from Obudu, Cross River State.

successfulaboki:
We are in serious trouble in this country.

You and your family are in serious trouble, not my own country, Nigeria!

You vain lot are always cursing and wishing your country bad!

Are you so evil and daft?

Almost 6 hours after this thread was opened, it had extended to only 4 pages, ONLY because the Governor of Taraba State, who committed this obvious fraud is a PDP Governor!

If it was an APC Governor that did this, children of hate, dunderheads, clowns with 'sawdust brains', supporters of PDP (and their side chicks, Labour Party supporters) would have shouted consistently and the thread would have reached 20!

And to those who wrote that the incoming Governor would probe this fraud or take up the outgoing Governor, have you forgotten that the outgoing thief (Governor Darius Ishaku) imposed the incoming thief (incoming Governor Kefas Kigbu) on Taraba State! It's like asking Fubara to probe Wike in Rivers State, or Eno Umo to probe Udom Emmanuel in Akwa-Ibom, or Sen. Otu to probe Ayade in Cross River, or Bago to probe Bello of Niger State, etc, etc.

Hypocrites!