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torqque7:
Not at all,I was just wondering why someone would loot that much and think they won't come after him if he remains in Nigeria..

Unfortunately we don't have strong systems in place to discourage this looting and corruption and that is why when the average Nigerian finds himself in such tempting positions he ends up falling because look at how people like Yahaya bello and his likes are living freely and are even trying to sabotage a dully elected senator so as to take her position and escape trail..

That is why the average Nigerian would rather still massively when given the opportunity because those who are supposed to be leaders to show examples are worse,from the Number 1citizen down to the Judiciary and police all rotten to the core.

Real sad and as long as Nigerians are NOT ready to change and start electing the right people to power,Nigerians will continue to steal when they get the chance to do so. It is what it is sadly.

Thank you for correcting yourself.

Integrity is a serious problem in our nation. We are at the level where stealing, looting and all forms of corrupt practices no longer matter to the people. Bring home the money, no matter the source and get the praise and support.

We need strong, honest leaders, who can help us get out of the mess.

Cheers.

TechBaron:
So you belive that an official stole 35 billion from First Bank?

“ In the affidavit, Nadabo told the court that Tijani worked at the settlement office of the bank and that he had the capacity to carry out some inalienable access available only to the office by virtue of his office.

He stated further in the affidavit that “He, therefore, carried out illegal, unauthorised and fraudulent activities against First Bank Nigeria Plc.

“Investigation has thus far revealed and traced the sum of N35billion (Thirty Five Billion Naira) benefitted by Muiz Tijani Adeyinka and his cronies”.


Did you read the above part of the story? If you did, were the words difficult for you to understand?

torqque7:
What type of bank official will have such access to this kinds of amount of not managers or really high ranking officials at managerial levels? With access to this kind of money why will I be in Nigeria instead of investing and living abroad to enjoy the loot?

So if given such an opportunity, your preferred action would be to loot the company that you were employed to be part of its success story. How can you expect to invest any money that you stole and have peace? Remember the words “no peace for the wicked”?

What a shame.

35b? A bank staff? Wetin come remain for the bank? He should kuku have carried the carcass of the bank away.

Penguin2:
We can’t fold our hands and think Abure, Apapa and Arabambi will just disappear.

We have to fight them off; especially now we are on the right side of the law.

That’s it bro.
I expect them to battle to the end.
Do not forget Apapa. After the attack on his person, I thought he had taken the back seat. Suddenly he’s up again. They are all waiting to get illegal court injunction to stop the party. Hopefully NLC and other unions can push them away from all party offices nationwide.

No Kano governor’s delegate to visit Delta state to see the state of affairs with herdsmen there. No NEF asking for compensation for the evil done by these northerners in the entire south. No where is safe in the south anymore. Even riverine areas have been completely invaded, while the people of the land have been disarmed and handcuffed. They are at the mercy of their wicked invaders.

No Southerner can ever dare go to the North to kidnap or harm anyone either in the farms or the streets.

When will a state of emergency be declared on this act of wickedness by these so called herdsmen? What’s the business of herdsmen with leaving their cows to kidnap people for ransom and kill at will? Is it not time to allow citizens to arm themselves to defend their families and communities?

Is it not time for people to take up arms and wage war against these evil fellows? Whole communities, families and generations have been wiped away by these vampires, while people only get promises of @government is dealing with it”.

Bar1941:
Where is Peter Obi? Ordinary Anambra State Labour Party he can’t put in order yet he wants to put Nigeria in order!

Scam alert ‼️

Peter Obi lives rent free in your head.

Not only house to put the house in order. It is to put your one room in order for you.

openmine:
The matter of Abure was gone the moment supreme court stated that the lower courts that pronounced him as the authentic national chairman of LP had no jurisdiction to interfere in party matters!

In other words,it validates the initial stance of INEC who had refused to recognize Julius Abure as the national chairman of LP because they were not present at the national convention held by Abure at Nnewi,Onitsha!

INEC refusal to recognize the leadership of Abure not only invalidates the national convention on 27 March,2025 but also renders any NWC created by him as a nullity!

The initial position taken by INEC can be likened to an EPL game between Manchester united vs Manchester city with no referee sent to officiate the game!
No matter the outcome of the game,it stands invalidate and inconsequential without the umpire!
The only way such game can be made authentic is for the game to be replayed with a referee officiating!
Hence,The only way for INEC to recognize the LP leadership is for a national convention to be held again with the right things done which is participating and performing their over site functions as an umpire in LP's ward to LGA to state congress to national convention!

That’s exactly the situation.

Abure is simply trying to spoil the chances of his own party. He simply would have allowed the party elect the new officers last year, and try to contest again.

gr8ofnnetwork:
This is the problem that people talked about. You, Obi, Otti and others came from nowhere to join LP. They supported you guys to elective positions. Suddenly now, you all push them out, replace their positions and turn around to debate them. You see why our political parties is intolerant to changes because of sabours

Shoooking mouth in what you know nothing about is embarrassing. Worse still is not giving yourself the opportunity to read, learn and understand issues before shoooking your mouth.

If you do not know anything about the events in LP, it is not disgraceful to ask and get informed.

Penguin2:
Come and do what?

Be a mole?

Someone we know his house in Nsukka?

That would be suicide mission.

His only reason for leaving LP was the same Abure. That was his complain. Hopefully Abure, Apapa and Arabambi, can receive some sense and let the party have peace again.

DaGC:
You forgot that she's a woman?🙄

That’s why I think that she will let her children inherit her wealth.

DaGC:
He has been saying this for years🙄

He has given all of them the good life, best education, best everything, even more than he ever got growing up, so he doesn't want them to feel entitled or lazy.

He has always been charitable. The bulk of his wealth is going to charity, to the people that really needs it.

Funny enough, the $1B is enough for the 3 of them to live a well to do life till they die.🙂

That was the plan that he had with his ex wife, now fellow billionaire.

Probably his wife will now allow the three children to inherit her over 5B in US dollars.

APC supporter.

Tell us how well APC governors have done in their respective states. Tell us how Ned can ever out perform Okowa.

OP, this was clearly one sided please.

Akinpresident:
The Supreme Court ruled that party leadership is an internal affair. Meaning, parties decides who's their leader and not.
Party leadership is setup through national conventions which LP has conducted and Abure won.
Obi and Otti are ingrates and hellbent on destroying LP before moving to SDP.
If I'm Abure, I'll suspend them indefinitely for such aberration so they can finally go and set up their own party with anyone they like as national chairman.
See rubbish a first time governor is doing. See nonsense a presidential candidate who's supposed to be fortifying his party is doing.
There's been some exodus from LP and Obi is not worried. Otti used ZLP for LG elections and Obi isn't worried.
Two old bunch of idiotic and lunatic politicians.

Read the below and get better understanding. Your comment about is without proper reasoning.


The supreme court has set aside the judgment of the court of appeal in Abuja which recognised Julius Abure as the national chairman of the Labour Party (LP).

In a verdict delivered on Friday, a five-member panel of the apex court unanimously held that the appellate court lacked the jurisdiction to have affirmed Abure as chairman of the LP, since the substance of the case was about the party’s leadership.

It held that the issue of leadership is an internal affair of a party over which courts lack jurisdiction.

The court allowed the appeal filed by Nenadi Usman, a former senator representing Kaduna south, and one other — and held that there were meritorious.

It then proceeded to dismiss the cross-appeal filed by the Abure faction of the LP for lacking in merit.

BACKGROUND

In February, Oluchi Oparah, the party’s national treasurer, accused Abure of misappropriating N3.5 billion, a claim the LP chairman denied while threatening legal action.

The allegation led to calls from party members for Abure’s removal.

In April 2023, the FCT high court issued an order restraining Abure from parading himself as the national chairman of the LP.

Ruling on an ex parte application, Hamza Muazu, the presiding judge, also restrained Farouk Ibrahim, national secretary; Clement Ojukwu, national organising secretary; and Opara; from parading themselves as national officers of the party.

On September 4, Usman was appointed to chair a 29-member caretaker committee after Alex Otti, governor of Abia state, convened a stakeholders meeting of the party in Umuahia.

Peter Obi, LP presidential candidate in 2023, and Datti Baba-Ahmed, his running mate, were among the top party members who attended the meeting.

INEC had also invalidated Abure’s leadership, saying the national convention violated the constitution and Electoral Act.

The electoral body said the party failed to meet legal requirements for holding the convention, insisting that Abure’s tenure as LP national chair expired in June 2024.

But in a judgment on October 8, the federal high court affirmed the Abure-led leadership and the March 2024 Nnewi convention that produced the party executives.

Emeka Nwite, presiding judge, ordered INEC to recognise Abure as the legitimate chairman of the party.

APPEAL COURT

In a judgment delivered on January 17, the court of appeal ruled that its earlier decision in November 2024, recognising Abure as the party’s chairman, remains valid and has not been overturned by any court.

He said anything that is done outside jurisdiction amounts to a nullity.

Consequently, the court voided a judgment of the federal high court delivered on October 8, 2024, on the grounds that the lower court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the suit.

Your so called Abure’s election in 2024 in Nnewi was it accepted by party members, not to talk of INEC.

What’s Obi’s business with the exodus from LP? How can he stop them from exiting the party, if they are no longer convinced about the party? Which party have people not been decamping from, or all the parties?

Always read and have information before making such myopic and disgraceful comments on social media spaces.

aswani:
We all know the score, he has overstayed on his student visa and the only work he can do is selling drugs. He will be back in the Goa police net by the end of August, this time, he go collect wotowoto.

I pray he comes back home and shuns the drug dealing lifestyle road to nowhere in front of him over there.

And you did not read that he had a valid visa? And common sense did not tell you that while the case lasted, he would be given the necessary paper to keep him there and face the charge?

oceanblazer:
I like this submission. Although I love the adoption of hausa as their national language. They should just go the whole mile and make it their lingua franca.

Exactly!

French and English as the working languages?

What does that mean?

If you do not want the languages anymore, then have an outright ban. It’s like saying “I do not like beans, yet I eat akara and moimoi”. That’s hypocrisy please.

BlessedGift:
Leaders of the opposition Labour Party on Wednesday marched to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Led by the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, the members were received by INEC National Commissioner, Sam Olumekun.

They asked the electoral body to recognise Nenadi Usman as the LP chairman, days after the Supreme Court set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja recognising Abure as the National Chairman of the LP.

In a unanimous judgment last week, a five-member panel of the apex court held that the Court of Appeal lacked the jurisdiction to have pronounced Abure National Chairman of the LP, having earlier found that the substance of the case was about the party’s leadership.

The court allowed the appeal filed by Senator Ester Usman, and one other and held that it was meritorious before subsequently proceeding to dismiss the cross-appeal filed by the Abure faction of the LP for being unmeritorious.

Otti read out the Certified True Copy of the Supreme Court judgement as delivered by Justice Inyang Okoro.

“Consequent upon the foregoing, the decisions of both higher court and the court below recognize Barrister Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the first respondent and hereby set aside and suit number FXC is hereby struck out for want of jurisdiction,” Otti said.

“In the same vein, the first respondent, that is labour party under Abure, being an offshoot of the same judgement of the court is hereby dismissed. Before I am done, may I admonish political parties and their members to endeavour to always abide by their constitutions, rules, regulations and guidelines to guide them in choosing their officers as well as candidates?

“That way, incessant internal risks which always find their way to court should be reduced. If the constitution of a political party has prescribed duration for tenure of office of an officer such as this one, such officer should be humble enough to leave at the expiration of the tenure.

“In the final analysis, I find this appeal to be meritorious and is hereby allowed. The party shall bear their respective cost, appeal allowed. This is signed by Honorable Justice John Inyang Okoro, Justice of the Supreme Court.”

https://www.channelstv.com/2025/04/09/obi-otti-lead-lp-members-to-inec-hq-want-usman-recognised-as-chair/

Very clear. Very straight forward.
The Supreme Court clearly nullified the judgement of the lower courts recognizing Abure as the national chairman. By that Abure should simply go home and sleep. The Supreme Court effectively removed him.

What is he waiting for there? He should not even get close to the secretariat, not to talk of the chairman’s office.

chicfarmer:

It's like they hired the seats. The nylon cover is still on it.

That’s a dining table!

Maybe after chopping ogunfe and eba, he called the press. I remember that he shut his mouth after the last action against him.

Anyway, as the acting national chairman, why not get into the party secretariat to declare that and seat on the chairman’s seat?

As for Julius Abure, NLC already gave the notice of taking over the party’s offices nationwide. I’ve is already out of it completely. He can officially join APC.

That’s the right way to go.
This has taken many years to be challenged. Let’s hear the interpretation of the supreme court.

This will help not just the affected governor(s), but the whole governors in the country. Today it is APC in power at the federal level, if another party holds federal power tomorrow, the Supreme Court interpretation will sort it out, if it repeats itself.

MadamExcellency:
Apapa was a better man than Abure. Obidients should apologize to Apapa for seeing what they couldn't see. The only problem with Apapa was his anti-party activities.

If Apapa had anti-party activities, how then was he better than Abure? They both plotted to foist themselves on the party and systematically destroy that party from inside. If the party had won the Presidency, what would they be doing by now? Working against your own party at elections is one of the most dishonorable things to do as a politician.

Waoh.
So there are citizens of different nations fighting for both sides.

seguntijan:
Saraki is a season politician, he's talking from experience. He has been in the ruling party, opposition party and coalition party before now, so when he's talking, he's talking from experience.
Look at what comes of El-Rufai also after all the SDP coalition noise.
The common enemy is BOLA AHMED TINUBU, unfortunately that enemy has also taste it all like saraki just that in his case he's always the rally point (the brain behind the opposition movement, coalition movement and presently ruling movement), how he wants to be defeated requires a upper thinker and as far as today Nigeria politics is concern, none comes to mind.

Being a seasoned politician is not the same as being a visionary politician. Saraki appears to fall into the second category for me and I already gave the example with how he destroyed his own father’s political empire, while thinking that he had come of age. The rest became history when otoge gained momentum and swept him away from his Kwara base.

I also gave my second reason with the way he joined the coalition with BAT, Atiku, Buhari, etc to sweep his own political party out of power. He handed that power over to BAT and now there he is, lost and bereft of ideas on getting better power from the same APC/BAT that he assisted to bring to power.

It was the late Chuba Okadigbo, at a time an ally of BAT, who once used the words “reading the political barometer and doing the arithmetics”. He meant to let everyone know that politics is all about calculations and permutations. BAT is the type who plans the opportunity, sees it, takes advantage of it. With people like him in politics, you must be wide awake. An error can be very costly. That’s what the likes of Saraki, Atiku, Amaechi, Kwankwanso, Ngige, etc, did and now the pay the price.

So for me his point does not make sense. When LP was accused of not having structures, Obi clearly stated several times that the structure was the people, and not the physical offices nationwide, as thought. We saw the result when LP in that instance secured 35 seats in the house of reps.

The economy is the issue. Infrastructures are the issues. Hardship and pervasive poverty are the issues. Get a good and trusted leader, who knows what to say to the people. Back him up and get the people to follow him. Tinubu did the same in 2014 and 2019. Certainly BAT will get a run for his money.

Putindbutt:
Does this make sense to you?

Yes, it does.

If it does not make sense to you, then you can simply discuss.

Saraki remains far behind his father as a very tactful politician.

His impatience led to his coalition to form APC. The space was no longer wide enough and he left. His political error cost his Kwara state, a state that his father carefully groomed and preserved since 1979. When he pushed his father away, he thought that Kwara state was in the palm of his hands. He did not reckon that by his attempt to destroy PDP, he was pushing himself down the political ladder in the matter of a little time.

He has again forgotten that if Tinubu can block the formation of a new party, a coalition can proceed with an existing party. How is he so sure that in the last moments, some PDP governors would not be willing to fund a coalition. If it will serve their interest and they made the right political arithmetics or permutations, they may go ahead to fund the party.

What Saraki needs to do now is to get Atiku off the attempt to secure the PDP Presidential ticket in 2027. S the reality is that by their unwritten agreement, power will remain in the South until 2031. A solid southern candidate should be supported contest a against Tinubu. Again, the reality is the Trinity has the necessary state and personal resources to contest in 2027. However a formidable candidate must be supported, otherwise PDP as a party will become a forgotten party after 2031.

xana101:
From ikotun all the way to egbeda I wonder why no street light working. This government is so so wicked. Once u come down around Alake bus stop u will see the place is so dark. Some guys rub along that road coz the place is so dark. What will it cost the government to put solar street light. Governor please we need solar street light along idimu ikotun road. We are human.

I think you should send this to the state governor via his X account.

PressMyButton:
But I thought Natasha said Akpabio was angry that FG was locating NLG projects in Kogi, so they relocated the projects from the North to SS. And that was why she was removed as Chairman, Local Content Committee. I knew she was lying the moment she opened her mouth. I want to be very careful about anything Natasha, I want to know her daughters so that my sons will not make the mistakes of jamming them. Because I see her planting evil seeds into her kids heart.

And common sense did not tell you that she could have been one hundred percent correct?
Common sense did not tell you that each Senator is there to represent his/her constituency and would everything within their means to stop others from benefiting or having such projects?
Common sense did not tell you that Senator Natasha, as a sitting Senator knows all that happens in the house, or that they all are open and have ways discussing such matters.

When you have your own children, if you like, you can plant igbo seeds into their hearts.

DNAPro:
I doubt that a Senator has such immunity. Are you for real?

He is for real!
Completely uneducated.

Ebubu:
Akpabio will simply tell the APC judge to throw the suit away.
You are dragging a sitting senator protected from immunity to court.
Waste of money.

Do you see why you are an ebuubuu? And you claim to be educated? It does not take much to reason properly before making such uneducated comments as you made.

“…a sitting senator protected from immunity…”. So Senators have immunities too? And your understanding of their immunity includes outside their chambers? Truly you be mumu. Olodo. When I say you be baba alagbo, you can now see the reason. In all the years of our democracy, where did you ever read that Senators have immunity?

Now you can see that your Senator’s mouth has landed him in trouble.

seunmsg:
Supreme Court did not recognize Nenadi Usman’s caretaker committee. The court simply told all of them to go and settle in house. Abure has every right to claim the chairmanship as he’s still the only one in my opinion that can convene a NEC meeting of the party.

Peter Obi holds no position in Labour Party that gives him the power to call for a NEC meeting. So, this is not the time to point fingers at all. Everyone should unite together for a NEC meeting and settle the issue in house.

Did Tinubu hold any position in the party all the years that he was called the national leader? Was he the chairman of the party all that time?

Where were you when it was clearly stated that Abure’s tenure has ended. What your sponsored Abure still holding on to?

Supreme Court stated that it was a party matter. The horse long bolted away. While your Abure was clutching to straws, the party had moved forward with the caretaker committee. It is recognized and used by all parties, pending when fresh elections to positions are held. He is no longer party chairman. Tell that to him, to Ifoh and your APC sponsored agents in the party.

Tell your Abure that the distance that they went in 2023 and up till today, were by the name Peter Obi.

lawani:
Abuja is however Gwari land and not Hausa land or Hausa Fulani land

Yeye people.

When did Abuja become Hausa/Fulani land? What happened to the natives of the place? By the way, how did it become Hausa/Fulani when we know that the relationship is one sided?

By the way, it is longer a secret that the Fulanis are the biggest land grabbers in the country. Are they not the people who lay claim of the entire nation for the north to the Atlantic? Are they not the people who arrive in trailers day and night from every part of the country, making vast forests their abodes? Are they not the people pushing citizens away from their farmlands and seizing the farms to feed their cows?

That fellow who posted that rubbish should stop deceiving himself and some gullible citizens, who will never know their left from their right.

And now everyone is paying the price for that bad choice, including Atiku and Tinubu himself.