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Why is ADC complaining? What do they want to be doing at night before elections on the streets?

How will a curfew suppress voters turnout?

On the eve of election, let voters stay in their houses, relax and be refreshed for the next day. If ADC thinks the curfew is wrong, it should work for their advantage as voters would vote against APC in protest. I think ADC is jittery because council elections are a major litmus test of their relevance, and they are afraid they might lose it. So complain of being cheated before the election.

Finally, El Rufai had said Peter Obi imposed a daytime curfew on him and had him detained in his hotel Anambra in 2013 during an election he wanted to monitor. Was it okay then?

Rufai Oseni blows hot. Is he an oven?

Rufai Oseni is someone who hardly ever finds any thing good with government and progress. When Tinubu was declared winner, Arise News studio cut a forlorn and sad look as the anchors could not hide their pains. They had to go through the pain of announcing Tinubu's victory and celebration. They brought different people to undermine Tinubu's victory, and when their plans failed, their management announced Tinubu their man of the year award winner. I am not sure anyone collected that award on Tinubu's behalf.

See, the electoral act has been amended. Let parties find ways to work around it. It is practically impossible to transmit election results live due to poor internet connectivity in some rural communities. You can't talk about live transmission when the facilities simply do not exist. It is like asking a pilot to fly a plane when there is none. Some communities have no base stations and even electricity. The law says electronic transmission is allowed, and if it is not possible, they should use manual transmission.

What exactly is the problem with that?

Rufai blows hot. Rufai can explode and it won't change anything because Rufai is as important as the letter k in the world kchewwww.

AMINDA:
What's wrong with that. He had his candidate before the primaries and simply supported the winner of his party's primaries in the general elections. Peter Obi, Atiku and Amaechi all have their supporters and they have promised to support whoever wins the primaries in the general election. Isn't that what democracy and freedom of choice is about? Should the winner of the election now embark on vendetta on those who didn't support him before the primaries after winning? Must everyone be subservient to your tin-god from ab-initio and be prepared to sing the mandate song at all times?

If Sanwo-olu and Gbaja supported Tinubu, how comes Tinubu lost Lagos, including his polling unit at Bourdillon to Obi? Can the people of Kaduna state love Tinubu more than Lagosians whom he governed? Tinubu got 400k votes in Kaduna. Name any other Southwestern state aside Lagos where he pulled higher number of votes. Anyways, Time is a gentleman. We are only setting the records straight so that history will not be rewritten.

You are now contradicting yourself. You said earlier that his intelligence made Tinubu president. You are now saying he had a different candidate.

Let's set the record not straight, but correctly, because straight can be biased to favour Nasir.

You asked me to name a state outside the southwest Tinubu got more than 399,293 votes he got in Kaduna. Tinubu got more than 421,000 votes in Jigawa, more than 517,000 votes in Kano, 482,000 votes in Katsina. Tinubu's victory in the northwest is attributed to Buhari and mounted men like Badaru, Bagudu, Wamakko, and many northerners who are for project Nigeria.

AMINDA:
His intelligence and unbridled tongue also made Tinubu president. Never forget that part when you speak about Elrufai.

His intelligence is why he admitted he never supported Tinubu and only did so when the party picked, or rather, when Tinubu defeated the others to clinch the presidential ticket.

El Rufai went to ask Buhari who they should support during the primaries and Buhari told him to support whoever they please.

If El Rufai supported Tinubu, how come Tinubu lost Kaduna State in the presidential election?

If El Rufai is that popular and his intelligence made Tinubu president, how come APC almost lost Kaduna during the governorship election? If El Rufai is that popular, how come his own son refused to follow him to ADC? If El Rufai is so popular and intelligent, how come ADC is not existing in Kaduna State?

If El Rufai can make anyone president, why can he not make himself one?

El Rufai did not make Tinubu president. Those who voted for Tinubu and those who divided the opposition stronghold made Tinubu president.

Peter Obi contributed more to make Tinubu president.

El Rufai's intelligence brought him fame.

El Rufai's intelligence brought him infamy.

His unbridled tongue is why no international agency would engage him to bring his expertise. He is too volatile in a functional space.

How would Amaechi be so sure?

El Rufai said he listened to the calls of those in government and that Ribadu gave the order for his arrest. When Charles Aniagolu told him it was illegal, El Rufai said someone tapped the phone.

1. Charles never asked El Rufai, El Rufai volunteered information freely. When he was corrected, he claimed someone did it.

2. El Rufai has not denied his utterances. It is shoddy for Amaechi to deny on El Rufai's behalf.

3. If Amaechi is saying El Rufai lied, Amaechi is saying their opposition is built on lies, considering Amaechi himself had said Tinubu was delaying implementation of tax laws and said anyone who bought building materials would pay heavy taxes.

4. There was no attempt to arrest El Rufai. El Rufai started a narrative that he was to be arrested before he arrived Nigeria. El Rufai told us ICPC asked DSS to arrest him. When did he have problem with ICPC? Was his case not with EFCC? If any security agency wanted to arrest him, they'd inform the pilot not to open the doors until they enter the aircraft, arrest the subject and whisk him away. There were no plans to arrest him.

5. The opposition has stopped saying Nigerians are hungry. Food prices have crashed. Like we advised Tinubu, improve security and retire these people who have nothing to campaign on.

So all the protests were for nothing?

Does the new husband have more money than the previous one?

She supported his law school journey and after he completed law school, he announced his desire for a new wife. Why didn't he announce it when he depended on the woman?

Finally, a man can have multiple wives. Why can't a woman have multiple husbands? In cases reported abroad where women have two husbands, it is weird. Why is polygamy not weird?

Anyway, most men who engaged in polygamy admitted they wouldn't have if they had known better. If a man cannot treat his spouse the same way he expects to be treated, he should leave her alone. The woman here had something forced upon her and she had no choice in the matter. By marrying a man who had multiple wives, she made her own decision and knew what she was entering.

There is no doubt that ADC has lost momentum. Infact, ADC never had momentum.

By now, ADC should be on the lips of everyone. ADC has no theme, no slogan, no identity, just a bandwagon of attention seekers making statements. From what Ayo Fayose insinuated, Wike has moles within ADC and the sabotage would come from within.

ADC spends time issuing statements that do them no good. ADC is also quick to abandon their own. If not, when last did ADC remember Malami?

I do not think anyone needs to be warned not to share details of PVC with any political group.

ADC of 2025 is not APC of 2014.

ADC henchmen all want power. No one wants to bow to the other. After 2014 primaries, everyone worked together for the winner. Although Atiku did not campaign vigorously for Buhari, he did not scuttle Buhari's chances.

Atiku deserves his flowers. No one should ask him to step down. If Atiku wins the ADC ticket, let them work for him. If Nigerians prefer him, he'd get votes. If they do not, he'd retire.

I don't agree.

The biggest issue I see in marriages are:

1. Lack of communication
2. Emotional detachment
3. Lack of friendship
4. Financial irresponsibility
5. Wrong association
6. Secrets
7. Immaturity.

A question many should answer: why exactly do you want to get married? Is it because others are getting married? Is it because of abundance of intimacy? Is it because of economic pressures? Is it because of needing a house maid? Forget about the reasons others have given. What is your own reason?

Political survival is the currency of a wise man.

Uba Sani controls Kaduna APC. ADC is unpopular in KD. No sensible politician may want to risk his political future.

What did APC forget exactly?

Atiku called APC a party of forgers and riggers.

In 2003, results were written in favour of the ruling party. Where was Atiku then?

In 2007, the same format that favored Atiku in 2003 was used against Atiku. Atiku came third.

In 2011, Atiku allowed himself to be presented as the northern concensus candidate. He lost the primaries to Jonathan. He lost the primaries to Buhari in APC in 2015. Anyone who says Atiku never lost primaries should be aware he lost twice in two parties.

In 2023, PDP had several factions: Wike's, Kwankwaso's, Obi's, Atiku's and Siddon Looks (Saraki, Murray Bruce, et al). The factionalization led to divided votes and all of them won if they united and lost divided.

Atiku has failed to take responsibility for his 2023 defeat and is blaming APC for his 2027 impending defeat. Let Atiku have ADC agents who should provide results from votes and stop crying rigging and forgery.

Can you buy it for your daughter?

If your answer is no, you have no business parenting.

There is nothing wrong buying it for your wife or friend. It is a normal cycle. Just do what a responsible person does and have sense.

True. But when there was a summit by northern leaders to discuss this problem, Atiku was absent and did not send a representative.

Atiku's fixation is on the presidency.

He is using issues to promote his ambition.

The president needs to tackle the problem so that those who are desperate for his job would have nothing to campaign on. Food prices crashed. The new tax bill has led to people saying they are receiving more money in their accounts. All the false tales of taxing poverty failed to materialize. The foreign reserves is being grown. Tinubu needs to get security right and permanently retire Atiku's 34-year ambition.

Sundaymessi:
He is referring to "electronic transmission of results" and not just transmission of results.
Get the difference and stop eating soured ewedu soup.

I corrected it.

I think anyone with a scintillating dose of a functioning brain knows what I was referring to.

Obi, when there was e-transmission of results, did you win?

You claimed you won the election and would prove it. You went to court and was asking for the winner to be disqualified based on your claim of drug forfeiture, double nomination of a running mate and certificate. You failed to prove any and was more fixated on entertaining yourself and those you lied to. You failed to produce figures of how and where you won. You said you won and expected people to agree. Your party had no situation room. One of your followers decided to do a social-media collation based on uploaded results on IREV. He stopped when his own collation showed you were losing again.

You wanted to be president using wuruwuru method.

Even if there is to be no e-transmission to INEC in 2027, it doesn't mean your agents cannot take pictures of published results at polling units and send to your social media situation room for collation.

I think you are crying because you are aware that your 2027 journey will not end in the presidency, that is if ADC trusts you with the ticket. You are trading blames as an insurance for defeat.

Apologies, my earlier comment was duplicated.

And now with a serial polygamist.

We have heard her own side. Let the philanderer and the other one also say their own.

What she ended up communicating is that she had poor judgement.

The problem of saying this type of thing is that it sends a strong message to religious fanatics to find an area they can settle as they are being chased away from other places they have inflicted pain and death.

The shrines can be destroyed if they were erected without permits. However, some people have private shrines in their homes and have built palaces of shrines in their hearts. How will those shrines be destroyed?

My point is that physical structures can be destroyed, but not ideological ones.

Those destroying should also be aware that there is freedom of religious worship and association in Nigeria. The constitution guarantees it. No one can impose a state religion or force others from practicing their own religion.

Those who want to practice their religion should also respect the rights of others. You can't go into a church and build a mosque and you can't go into a mosque and build a church. Similarly, the area is not the exclusive preserve of any religious group. Therefore, no one can go to a land meant for everyone to build a religious settlement without permission of everyone who can use the land.

That is the common sense thing to do.

Choice!

The problem from 2023 which will repeat itself in 2027 is that people spent time talking about the choices made by APC instead of selling themselves. At the end, the one who positioned himself as the chief project lost in areas with majority Muslims, while the one who took a Muslim running mate won in zones with majority Muslims and won Benue and Rivers, dominated by Christians, in addition to his south-west zone.

The 2023 elections reflected a voting pattern. There were votes along ethnic lines, and along religious lines. The person who won was the person able to break into certain voting areas and also benefitted from crisis in other parties.

This will not change in 2027.

Anyone who thinks the northern voter will vote for a different southern candidate on the promise of doing a single term does not know how the average northern voter thinks.

Atiku lost the northwest to a southerner despite Atiku being a Muslim and Fulani.

Atiku would lose in 2027 if he doesnt change his approach.

His team and ADC build opposition on attacking Tinubu and fabricating tales of 100 billion naira withdrawal without proof of their claims.

Atiku and his team should answer the following:

1. Will Atiku cancel the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway?
2. Will Atiku return fuel subsidy and allow dual forex market?
3. Will he cancel student loan?
4. Will he cancel credit corp to support our civil servants?

Let Atiku forget about Tinubu and tell us what he intends to do. Paul Ibe asks Tinubu to respond to El Rufai's accusation. Shouldn't EL Rufai supply proof of his accusation before asking Tinubu to defend himself?

Are they saying they are not wise?

ADC ought to know that once Obidients entered, they'd control the narrative. What they ought to have done is ensure everyone signed an undertaking to respect the outcome of the primaries.

My suggestion to ADC is to do their primaries after all parties, probably two days to submitting names to INEC. That way, those who'd decamp after losing in the primaries can no longer do so, or they'd decamp before then.

The Obidients are fanatical about their ignorance that Obi cannot defeat Atiku to secure ADC ticket. The best way to manage them is to declare open primaries to test the popularity.

In his speech, he said that the president did not allow them have inputs in the tax bill.

When Taiwo Oyedele said a meeting was set up between him and the governors, why were the governors absent?

We need some clarifications from Governor Seyi Makinde:

1. Why was money meant for Bodija in a bank account instead of being paid out?

2. Why did he not disclose that the money was given to him?

3. Why did he absent himself from listening to Taiwo Oyedele?

One bad habit Nigerians abroad must drop is their mutual jealousy.

Some abroadians see themselves as competitors. Look at Chinese and Indians, see how they band together, and make money. See how Indians live in Nigeria: they always move in groups, live in the same place, and work in the same location. Is it a coincidence that when they go to a place, they start dominating? You hear of China town in most major cities; why is there no Nigerian town? If they are not engaged in cult activities, they'd be engaging in drug business or fighting over romantic issues and killing themselves.

As Nigerians, let us build communities and friendships. No one has any claim to a woman, the woman decides who she wants and must be respected. The best thing I did for myself in Nigeria was filtering those who bring gossip and backbite others from my space. The discussion we should have is how do we make money and better ourselves and create a stable and sustainable inheritance for our children? Not who is sleeping with who.

There is too much politics and very little governance.

If you want to decamp, decamp. What is the need to make noise about it? Same applies to the ruling party and opposition.

Let APC stop organizing events to welcome decampees. Since decamping is now a shameless culture, organize zonal rallies every 4 months and welcome decampees. Politicking will start around May/June.

If noise is made about solving societal problems as is made during decamping, the country would be better off.

Anyone who attempts to topple a government is a national security risk. A court order should be obtained for him to face trial or he should be punished according the rules of the military.

It is foolhardy for anyone to expect Atiku to step down for Peter Obi.

Why exactly should Atiku do that?

Between Atiku and Obi, who has more experience to run a country?

They say a third-placed candidate should be elevated over a second-placed candidate.

See, Obi rode on the church wave in 2022-2023. After the elections, when has he attended church events?

Those saying Obi can defeat Tinubu before 9am are demonstrating the same way they underrated him in 2023 and handed him the presidency.

Let Obi deputize Atiku and come to an agreement to run in 2031, for El Rufai to deputize him. A Peter Obi would be a hard sell in the north for now.

HacheNoire:
You watch too much American movies!

Go back and read what you bolded. Read it very SLOWLY.

Atiku excited that the person who helped him lose is now with him.

What Obi doesn't realize is that they convinced him to join ADC to reduce his capacity to cause divided votes.

Some are saying Atiku would hand over the ticket to Obi. So Atiku slaved to form coalition to hand over ticket to Obi? Let's assume Atiku does so. Would El Rufai support Obi? Would Amaechi support Obi?

If Obi is given ADC ticket, Obi will defeat Tinubu before 8am on election day online.

After 8 years of Obi in Anambra, what are they producing?

Has Obi even read the tax bill? Does he know what it entails?

Can he articulate his own road map to development?

There is no country that developed without tax systems. The countries with no taxes are countries with low population and huge wealth. In countries that run social systems, tax contributions support such social nets.

In Nigeria, we have had too many social nets that cannot be sustained in future. For example, many of us paid very low fees for university education. Who paid taxes for such? Many of us had affordable healthcare in public hospitals, who paid the taxes? Some years ago, UK officials came to Nigeria to get some of our doctors trained by Nigeria because the UK cost of training medical doctors had sky-rocketed. In many countries, young graduates have years of students debts to settle, something that never happened in Nigeria.

If we actually have to pay the costs of the things we enjoy in Nigeria as are paid elsewhere in the world, that is when many would realize we have lived in paradise for years.

How does taxation work in practice? The more you earn, the more your contributions towards a common pool to support those who earn less.