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Akpakomiza you hear am so. We cannot continue with the illegality.

The rascality by Akpabio should not be tolerated. Not knowing your rights as a citizen, opens the door to oppression and trampling on your rights.

Now Natasha’s benefits, including remunerations and staff remunerations must be paid in full.

A total wasted venture by Akpabio. Also a lesson taught to Senators. Hopefully she finds her way to ADC and retains her seat.

Akpakomiza2:
Gej was politically naive and he paid for it, he was making all the wrong moves(appointing jega wasn't a wrong move) Tinubu does not make wrong moves so how will you win him? Did Tinubu force the pdp governors and atiku cartel to join APC? They defected on their own will. Gej pushed them to even defect by alienating them, Tinubu will never push out a formidable fellow or group...

You saying tinubu showed concern shows your political naivety. Is he not human? You are very funny. Only a foolish politician will not show concern when opposition are making moves. Tinubu started planning for 2027 right from when he won 2027. He is the greatest politician in Nigerian history whether you accept it or not. Forget about 2027 except Gej contests or Tinubu northern supporters abandon him..
By the way, what happened in 2013 wasn't a coalition but a merger. An example of a coalition was in 1999 when AD and ANPP supported Falae

See how you contradicted yourself? GEJ made all the wrong moves, yet appointing Jega was the right move because it favored APC? What would have happened if GEJ chose a close ally as INEC Chairman then? Will you call that naivety, strength or foolishness?

So to you, Tinubu just sat there and those who were not happy with GEJ just walked to him. So with all your so called calculations, you do not know that a lot of those in the PDP were his previous associates? So you do not know that in discussing with them, he seized the tempo of the moment to ask them to form a coalition? When you hear the words “political coup”, what do you think it means? Do you call it child’s play?

If you do not know that the word “coalition” means the same as “merger”, then you must take basic English classes. Then you do not know that to merge and to coalesce mean to team up. If I did not mention earlier that Tinubu teamed up with APP in 1999, you would not have known, not to talk of referencing it.

Oga, GEJ’s intention to contest for a second term was the matter. Nothing more and nothing less. The North felt that since Yaradua did not serve out his four years and GEJ had done close to six years, he had eaten into their time. They wanted him to leave. The other abracadabra about destroying the economy was conjured to throw him out.

Tell us if the hardship inflicted by your APC led government has not touched you so far, just as Tinubu and these same people in the coalition against him, insisted that Nigerians were suffering before 2015, in their false narratives.

We are talking about how to make life worthy of living for Nigerians and you are talking about Tinubu being the greatest politician. How has it made life better for citizens? How do those things corelate?

Akpakomiza2:
Gej was politically naive and he paid for it, he was making all the wrong moves(appointing jega wasn't a wrong move) Tinubu does not make wrong moves so how will you win him? Did Tinubu force the pdp governors and atiku cartel to join APC? They defected on their own will. Gej pushed them to even defect by alienating them, Tinubu will never push out a formidable fellow or group...

You saying tinubu showed concern shows your political naivety. Is he not human? You are very funny. Only a foolish politician will not show concern when opposition are making moves. Tinubu started planning for 2027 right from when he won 2027. He is the greatest politician in Nigerian history whether you accept it or not. Forget about 2027 except Gej contests or Tinubu northern supporters abandon him..
By the way, what happened in 2013 wasn't a coalition but a merger. An example of a coalition was in 1999 when AD and ANPP supported Falae

See how you contradicted yourself? GEJ made all the wrong moves, yet appointing Jega was the right move because it favored APC? What would have happened if GEJ chose a close ally as

CorperKola:
Exactly !!!
What atiku lacks is organizational and inspirational skills not any non existent political ideology

If he lacks such skills as you say, how was he able to set up the best economic council so far, as the then Vice President? Or you do not know that he brought up the likes of El Rufai, etc?

What about his companies? Are they not all successful? Do you not know that he is one of the biggest employers of labour in the country?

Yxxx:
You praised the bicycle like it has the capacity of a power bike such that it's speed can be compared to that of a power bike. I still ask how did he achieve Benue to Benin Republic in 3 days with a bicycle that is not a power bike?

I am surprised that you do not know that bicycles come in different capacities. Even at that, how do you expect bicycles to have the same capacity as power bikes?
How he made it in three days is his business. You do not know his energy. I do not know his energy. None of us knows his routes. Ours is to watch him and wish him success in his effort.

Akpakomiza2:
Tinubu is not a political weakling like Gej. Tinubu didn't gangup against Gej after all they were never in the same party. Same Tinubu supported Gej in 2011.

Edo politics is very difficult to predict so if you get it right, you can get Nigeria. After Tinubu wins again, you will still come and debate erroneously about 2031 elections so what's the point

GEJ was never a political weakling as you termed him. He was an honest man, who totally separated politics from national cohesion. If he wanted, he would not have had Jega as the INEC chairman. If he intended to keep himself in power, he would have rejected the results. He stayed the course and handed over peacefully. Your baba go slow publicly admitted that he was surprised that GEJ called him and congratulated him.

Tinubu did not gang up and yet he supported GEJ in 2011 against his own party’s candidate, Ribadu? Were you not there then? He did not gang up, but he formed a coalition, using PDP’s highest ranking officers? What do you call that, snuggling together?

If he wins, that’s fine. If he loses, that still alright. But that should mean that he also got paid back in his own coin.

Anyway, did you notice that he already showed concern?

Yxxx:
So the bicycle is power bike?

So you do not know the difference between bicycles and power bikes? If you do not know that bicycles have different capacities, then why are you a young man?

Akpakomiza2:
You lie, Tinubu is better. In any case, we rather magar Tinubu than allow Atiku in

That’s your opinion though. But as you already know, Nigerians are passing through the worst form of hardship ever known, since ten years. Do you want to hide and pretend?

Akpakomiza2:
Tinubu will still defeat Atiku again starting from the North

Akpakomiza again. Well this one no be Edo politics.

Like already mentioned, all those who coalesced against GEJ are getting the reward in kind. Nobody ever thought this coalition would come or. Here we are today, with many previously silent political bigwigs waking up to join.

Others long got their rewards with their losses. Next is the baba himself. Why not go and appease GEJ first? Maybe there something deeper about him that we need to know.

Boyewu:
Bisi Onabanjo as governor in 2003?

Tinubu never agreed with AD to vote for Obasanjo and that's was the reason only him survived then.

I was referring to Osoba and not Onabanjo. Yes, all AD governors were in agreement to vote for OBJ. The simple betrayal of OBJ cost them their positions. Only BAT who moved speedily as election started in as spared. While others were at home monitoring, BAT had as on the streets moving.

kedeojo:
Keep lieing to yourself. Tinubu political forseight made him to be were he is today. He saw AD as not a national party but regional and he needed to be national, so naturally he moved with some faction and formed AC. Tinubu was the only AD governor in south west who rejected to support Obasanjo's reelection and others who did lost their reelection when Obj rigged them out. Tinubu remains in that trajection by expanding AC to accommodate other zones and formation of ACN birthed and the likes of Oshiomohole became a governor on the platform. Ogboru in delta would have been a governor if not for his pride. He had his delta central(Urhobo) the largest zone to his side but didn't agree to join ACN to expand his reach to other zone. When you talk of decamping don't ever mention Tinubu to the like of Atiku, obi and co. Am sure you know how APC formed. Abi Tinubu decamped to it. Know the difference between political metamorphosis and political decamping. Tinubu was so patient to build. Even Aisha yesuf posted it on her Twitter account some years ago. Go and search it.

Such bundle of contradictions.

Maybe you were not knowledgeable enough to know that there was an agreement by AD/Afenifere to support OBJ’s second term bid, as the Yoruba hope then.

It was the collective decision of the Afenifere/AD hierarchy. BAT you as part of it, inspite of their disagreement over Lagos LG funds. Please without wasting either your time or mine, you can go and read Olusegun Osoba’s account of how they were betrayed by OBJ, after the same AD Governors saved him from the attempt by Ghali N’abba led House of Representatives to impeach him in 2002. They all agreed to rub each other’s back, securing their seats as Governors and then support him to be there as President in 2003. If you were not there between 1999 and 2003, please read from those who are knowledge of the events of those periods in Nigeria’s political history. Maybe you were not in Lagos when Tinubu defied odds to move around ward to ward speedily on election day to “service” the leaders. Maybe you did were not then when news carried it that Atiku had distributed 20m to each ward for the election. Maybe you did not read when Atiku clearly stated that if not for friendship, he would have ensured Tinubu’s defeat, just like others.

The disagreement between Tinubu and AD/Afenifere, led to the formation of AC by Tinubu. He left AD to form AC. What do you call that? Stepping aside or “moved with some faction”. If Tinubu decamps, it becomes “move”. If others decamp, you apply the word decamp to the letter.

What do you then call abandoning his party’s candidate in 2011 - Ribadu - to support Jonathan? Not betrayal, but move, according to you?

When you talk about Delta state politics, please read first and understand. How on earth would you say Ogboru would have become the Governor of Delta state? Can you tell us how you calculated that he would defeat Ibori, an Urhobo man, in Delta central, not to talk of Delta North and South, which were total PDP strongholds until 2023? Tell us your permutations and let any Delta on this forum respond to you. No be only Delta Central, na Niger Delta central. If not for Omo Agege, who also was in PDP and now the same Ibori, with anti party, tell us how APC would have beaten PDP in Delta Central in 2003. And for your information, with a very low margin.

How is your oga better than others when it comes to decamping? By the way, according to you, he was on a trajectory? Does common sense not tell you that moving on a trajectory required sacrifices here and there? Does it not tell you that to achieve results, coalitions must be formed? Did you oga not enter into coalitions? How did he get Buhari, the same Atiku, El Rufai, Amaechi, etc to found APC. Do you have another word aside from coalition? How’s he better than Atiku and Obi? The only difference is that his years long efforts paid off. If Buhari allowed the Muslim/Muslim ticket, would he be President today?

Make una dey fear God and talk true.

Yxxx:
No documentary on the states he rode passed in Nigeria in 3days. Is it not stressful bicycle he used?

Did you see his bicycle? Do you know that some bicycles run into several thousands of dollars?

Amotolongbo:
There is no land link to Europe.

Don’t try it or else you end up disappearing inside the Mediterranean or strait of Gibraltar.

Bros, please we are not talking not Sambisa forest here. Why are you embarrassing yourself? Which kind person be this? While you cannot go, as you do not know it, others have gone successfully and will keep going.

There’s truly no land link to Europe. But you go by land to Libya to get a boat across the MEDITERRANEAN SEA. That’s what it is called. You either go through Kano, Agadez, traversing the desert areas to arrive at Libya. From Libya you make the journey to Italy, to the destination of the boat’s captain. You hear these things daily, even if you have never experienced it.

Next you can go through Benin Republic, traversing West Africa until you connect Morroco in North Africa. The journey this time across the STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR is 14 kilometers to Spain.

As for the man going to America, he can board his ship from the coast of any West African country, to the USA, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, packing his bicycle aboard the vessel with himself. If you have your visa, you can chose to travel by ship legitimately, if you pay your fare.

Bros, no form I sabi when you know absolutely nothing. Do not add your voice. Simply watch and learn. Gra gra does not pay. I have just showed you the way!

Amotolongbo:
@the bolded parts,
Ignorance and antonyms of wisdom must be very proud of your display

Yes, because ignorance chose to learn and not remain in darkness. Remember the law “ignorance is no excuse”. Stop living in ignorance friend.

madridguy:
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar lacks political ideology. To me, Alhaji is with this ideology that believes too much in his money. Imagine someone who have been contesting election for over 30 years if I am not mistaken couldn't boost of a movement of his own.

No organic Pro Atiku senate group, no Rep not to talk of governors, all he does is throwing morning around during election. Alhaji didn't plan his political journey very well and this is the reason he is always running around like a ball.

What do you understand by the words “political ideology”. By the way, what has political ideology got with running a country? What has it got to do with slcitizen’s welfare? What has it got with tackling insecurity? Has political ideology set Nigerians free from this untold hardship? In two years, your man with political ideology has driven more Nigerians into poverty than ever imagined!

markidoo:
If ATIKU should one day win Election,, he'll be the worst president Nigeria has ever seen

As worse as you choose to describe him, he cannot be as horrible as APC/PMB/BAT.

What about Tinubu himself? Is he not the master of making coalitions and switching parties?

If you do not have information, why continue the Atiku story as if others are saints? While they remain in one party, they sponsor candidates from other parties. Where did the word “placeholder” originate from?

Tinubu was in the AD party when he joined forces with the then APP to support Olu Falae in 1999.
In 2003, the odds were heavy against AD’s control in the SW. PDP was like a tsunami that swept AD away. Tinubu agreed with Obasanjo’s second term to secure his own seat as the state governor. He joined the coalition with Obasanjo for his own survival. His party -AD- agreed to support Obasanjo, a fellow Yoruba man to remain in power. He was very lucky, as it backfired against AD in the SW. They did not reckon that OBJ and Atiku had targeted to sweep AD out of power in the entire SW. I remember vividly how on election day, BAT was on the streets moving to secure polling booths. He was the only AD governor who escaped the political tsunami. Bisi Onabanjo, Niyi Adebayo, etc were naive and swept out of power. I recall Atiku saying the he simply allowed Tinubu to remain as governor in 2003, out of friendship. He nearly removed Tinubu!

Crisis between BAT and others in AD on one hand and Tinubu and Afenifere on the other hand, caused Tinubu to move on from AD to form AC, another party. It meant that Tinubu decamped from AD. Those of you who say he never decamped from a party live in illusion. Atiku was having issues with OBJ over his ambition. Tinubu teamed up with the same Atiku in 2006 to give Atiku the Presidential ticket. BAT needed a platform to project himself on the national level, as AD was known as a regional party. Atiku contested in 2007 on the platform of AC and lost to Yaradua. AC transformed to ACN. The next elections came up in 2011. ACN brought up Nuhu Ribadu as the candidate. While Ribadu was the candidate of his own party, the same BAT supported GEJ against his own party’s candidate. Recently, Jonathan’s wife told us how BAT supported her husband in 2011 against Ribadu and Buhari. The same master planner finally teamed up against GEJ in 2014. He formed a coalition with elements of PDP, chief among them was the same Rotimi Amaechi, El Rufai, etc. They all including Atiku were members of PDP at some points. He brought others from APGA, ANPP and baba go slow. They all formed the coalition to remove the then sitting GEJ.

Can we not see that everyone who joined forces against GEJ are getting the same measure of issues that they set up. BAT set up a coalition to remove him. Now a coalition has been set up to remove BAT himself. Just as GEJ was not allowed to serve out his second term, the coalition now is set up to stop BAT from having his second term.

What goes around, comes around everyone!

Let them be. That’s what they said when Tinubu joined the same Atiku, El Rufai and Buhari to unseat Jonathan. This ADC matter too pain them. The team no be here.

Even BAT knows that there’s a different force arrayed against his 2027 ambition.

Amotolongbo:
Imagine absolute ignorance in daylight display 😂😂😂

Someone wants to travel to US from Benue State, transversed to the southern part of Nigeria to Lagos, Seme border to Cotonou in Benin Republic. A sound and intelligent mind would know that the traveller is trying to avoid the Sahara Desert and possibly go through the coastal countries of west Africa to the US.

Moreover, may I know the exclave where you are?

Just see how a young man like you contradicted yourself with such words. Chai. I laugh at you. On one hand you just said “avoid sahara desert”. On the other hand you said “through the coastal countrues”. While you pretend now to know it, you further displayed complete ignorance.

When you heard “coastal countries”, I told everyone here the coastal countries. Nigeria and Benin Republic are coastal countries. Oga bushman, you can go by ship in any West African coastal country to America. The young man knows that he will not ride his bicycle across the Atlantic Ocean. He will make the cross by ship. Short and simple. Or do you want to go and carry him across?

What’s he going to the Sahara desert for? Oga that is North Africa and he has no business there. His business s with West Africa and that’s his route.

Please stop making me laugh with this level of ignorance. Ask young men like you who are tired of this country and want to voyage by road. They will tell you what you do not know.

Talismann:
you seem to know alot.
So After getting to the USA, what happens next? Does that end the woes in Benue state? What's in it for the average joe in the state?

Anymore bright ideas professor??

Yes, I know a lot. I know far more than you know. If you are in a forum like this and cannot learn little things like this, then what else can you ever learn.

A young man like you is making an effort to help out IDPs and with your shishiless state, you make mockery of it. If you cannot contribute meaningfully, then leave him alone.

MilestoneMillet:
He is prepared to go via land to USA and you are saying he will make it or being sarcastic?

Please stop embarrassing yourself. It is not possible to get to the USA by land. The Atlantic divides us with the Americans. When people go by land from Nigeria to Europe, the cross the Mediterranean by boats. They go by road either to Morroco or Libya, to enable them cross. That’s why you hear the people die in the water. The same goes for the USA. He will go by his bike and then cross the Atlantic. If you never travel before, ask people wey dey travel to explain am for you.

When he says by bike, it means as far as he can go by his bicycle until he gets to the Atlantic area. He will board a ship legitimately, as he already has his American visa, to finally take him across. He may get to America and continue his ride across some cities and then find his way back by the same route.

Where is the sacarsicm?

You can get such size and more. All he needs to do is to continue in the name of not paying ground rent to confiscate people’s lands. That way he can find such amount of lands.

Flexymarketing:
Well explained. If this is so,then,he is not trecking or biking from Nigeria to US but he is rather shipping.

I dunno why people think they can deceive the masses.

Not trekking. He is biking, but he needs to cross the Atlantic Ocean. When you go to America, you cross the Atlantic. That’s what separates us from them. So he will make the cross by any good sea going vessel. Next he will pick up his bike on arrival there and move on.

MilestoneMillet:
Technically, yes — you could ride a bike from Nigeria to the USA by land. But practically? That’s a Netflix documentary waiting to go wrong.

The journey would take our brave (or slightly unhinged) cyclist from Nigeria → Egypt → Middle East → Central Asia → Russia → Eastern Russia → Bering Strait — and if the stars align and the sea is frozen like an action movie set — he might skate into Alaska, then cycle into mainland USA.

All he has to do is:

Survive the Sahara Desert without turning into grilled suya,

Dodge visa rejection stamps like dodgeballs,

Avoid conflict zones, potholes the size of bathtubs, and possibly a few bored border patrols,

Outpedal hungry bears, cross ice-cold oceans, and still keep his tyres inflated.

Let’s be honest — unless he’s got the survival skills of Bear Grylls, the stamina of a Tour de France champion, and diplomatic immunity, this trip is less “adventure” and more “you dey craze?”

Moral of the story: If someone says they’re biking to America from Nigeria, kindly stage an intervention.

Hello, hello, hello, you are absolutely incorrect. He can and he will make it. Read my previous comment on the journey. There’s no moral story as you stated please. That’s disinformation. If he could not do it, he would not have tried it. There was a man called Ajala. Go and read about him.

Flexymarketing:
Is there a road from Nigeria to US? Like,I don’t get it. How many days will it take one to get there ?

Since he’s passing Cotonou, it shows that he’s using the coastal route. That’s the area of the Atlantic Ocean. He cannot ride his bicycle across the ocean. However he already has visas and logistics well planned. Passing through the West African coastal route can take him as far as possible, before making his cross by ship. That is: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, as far as Mauritania, Morroco, Cape Verde. He may choose to board the ship from Ghana or even nearer Togo. countries along the Atlantic coast.

It will take him quite some time, but especially as the ship should take between 14 and 20 days, depending on the destination in America. Add that to the amount of days spent to get to the particular country that he intends to board the ship from. All you need to do is to watch and pray for his safety. I expect that he should mostly be traveling in the day for maximum safety.

Amotolongbo:
Ride from Nigeria to US? 🧐

How does he want to cross the North Atlantic Ocean?

Werey wan use style japa.
Baba Trump go bounce you japada.

When youths like you engage in such unique activities, encourage them. If you took your time, you would have understood the purpose.

Because you have never ventured out from your enclave, you do not know how he can make it across the Atlantic? You probably think that he will ride the bicycle across.

As a young man, his effort will see him pass through many countries, cities and states. He will be welcome by Nigerians and foreigners alike and commended for his efforts. Funds raised would be for IDPs by God’s grace.

Join Nigerians and well wishers as they pray for the success of his journey. He already has his visas that will take him across the countries that he will traverse through. He also has his American visa.

We wish him safety because he will pass through very dangerous terrain in the Sahara and North Africa, especially Morroco. God be with him and bring him back safely from America.

guobe:
Are you sure Baba will survive up to a year in her hand as she is vexing lol

You can try to locate him and do with him as you like. Some of you young men do not know how the life goes. You have not wondered if he lost his first wife. You have not wondered how men marry young women at that age. Why have you not looked at the north where men much older than that marry young women of their age.

Never mind, very soon you will be in your sixties and begin to realize how life happens to people.

E don pain Bayo Onanuga. If e pain spokesman, that means e dey pain Oga. Seeing their people in the opposition no be joke.

The pain no be here. They must remember how in 2014, high ranking members of PDP became nPDP and teamed up with them to form their party and destroy PDP.

Now same method that they used is applied against them and they are lamenting. They ruined PDP thinking that it was the end of opposition. Now a major opposition faces them.

Chai. E too pain them o.

benuejosh:
Who is Peter Obi? The man who came distant third and wanted INEC to announce him the winner? Even Atiku who came second has been quiet.

Just reminder to those who call themselves Obi.dients, please be informed that there's no polling unit on he Internet.

For those political IDPs coming together to form coalition, i just realized that they are just people who hate Tinubu and have no political weight in their state.

The coalition started too early. The confusion that will come in that party, Labour Party will be be shamed that they thought they were the most confused party.

Who is Peter Obi keh? His profile is displayed everywhere for you to see.
But to save you that your small data. Note:

1. He was born with a silver spoon
2. He went to school and graduated
3. He entered into trade and became extremely successful
4. He became the chairman of a bank
5. He became a Governor for two terms.
6. He became a Presidential candidate, securing 6.7m votes.
7. His name won seats at the state and federal level for several Labour Party candidates nationwide. Even Okada riders and completely unknown people, including Imasuen rode on his name to positions.
8. He is the leader of a serious, faithful, massive and enlightened group called The Obidients.
9. They thought that he would be swept aside in 2023.
10. He overwhelmingly defeated Tinubu in Lagos is 2023.
11. If the Presidential and Governorship elections were held the same day, he would have swept away Sanwo Olu, Okowa and Mbah. LP would have secured victory in those two states, including your Benue state.

Obidients know that there’s no polling unit on the internet. Obidients were called “no structure”. Remember that actions speak louder than words. They swept you aside with their “no structure” in 2023. You failed to learn one lesson, i.e, that the people are the structure and it was clear during the last elections.

Tinubu, Buhari and co were political IDPs before 2014. They formed a coalition called APC to beat Jonathan. Tinubu himself is a master of cross carpeting and coalitions. His first coalition was in 1999, when he joined forces with APP to support Olu Falae. His next coalition was in 2003, to team up with OBJ for OBJ’s victory and allow him remain as the governor of Lagos state. Infact Atiku said that if not for friendship, he would have swept Tinubu away in 2003. BAT decamped from AD to AC and subsequently ACN, after his problems with Afenifere and battles within the then AD, known as a regional party. He joined forces with Atiku of the then PDP, to get Atiku the failed presidential bid in 2007. He moved on with ACN in 2011, positioning Nuhu Ribadu as the ACN candidate. Rather than support Ribadu his party’s candidate, he played anti party by supporting GEJ. Next he brought a tired baba go slow back in 2014. He again moved from ACN to form APC with your other then political IDPs. They formed a coalition to defeat GEJ and commence the ten years of afflicting Nigerians with hard labour.

If you do not know these things, go and learn them and stop calling such huge politicians political IDPs.

Very correct.

Obi is a block on his own. Aisha Yesufu absolutely described it. Even Adeyanju was very excited yesterday. He was begging Obi three days ago to fall into line and let the ball roll.

The coalition’s Presidential ticket to Obi or nothing. Now APC/BAT/Wike face a very formidable group.