LCling: APC lately displayed video of celebration.saying it's people crying against NDC. Im now wondering how frustrating things Ara currently for APC. The can't hold on anything again?
franchasofficia: Someone on the other thread said "Fulanis are giving Oyo state schoolchildren a grand tour of the forests", my brother, won't you like to join them on that amazing grand tour of the Naija forests?
This talk will never see Kano people vote Giringori.
Svoboda: You see my point? If they were that much an unserious bunch, why did the authorities seal off the venue, deploy trucks of policemen, and even went as far as issuing threats of title revocation against hotel owners in the FCT? You think Wike was doing that for fun?
Jonathan has kept them guessing. Now, they've to redraw their plan. Jonathan himself and his handlers have been afforded a free threat assessment test against Tinubu. You now see the more brawns than brains part?
This is an internal party dispute between Wike faction and Turaki.
jmoore: See cultist. Na because how mafia run Nigeria that made a druglord to hire a cultist to destroy a political party.
Wiked is national leader of PDP, ask him how many votes that PDP will get in the presidential election and watch him urinate in his pants.
The tyrant in waiting is your obi who can not stand competition in a regular democratic process and demands free ticket and all intending aspirants to stand down for him.
What will then be the fate of those in the opposition if he gets to power?
Wil he even allow others to contest against him when seeking a second term?
These are words you should ponder on and see why people like me don't merely see Obi running away from internal party democracy as cowardice but as a sure sign of an anti democratic autocrat in the making.
AMINDA: Is the LG chairman not one of those who decamped with Abba Kabir? Well, Atiku is in pole position to win Kano.
Someone came to campaign on behalf of Obi/Kwankwaso and you are saying he decamped with the governor.
Your attempt at trying to spin this rejection by Kano people of anything NDC and Obi and to paint it as being rejection of the governor and APC has failed
Svoboda: Further more, the way he was played over the weekend by the Turaki PDP tells you that a lot of these politicians are more of brawns than brains.
The Turaki faction are the most unserious bunch ever.
You anoint a candidate without consulting him or getting his consent under a faction that is facing serious legal issues .
Why you think GEJ has not even bothered to make a speech accepting their nomination?
AMINDA: Because Tinubu orchestrated everything from the get-go to humiliate and scheme Elrufai out despite publicly begging Elrufai in Kaduna and forcing him to promise to stay behind and work with him. In order to perpetrate what he's currently doing, he needed strong Northerners with a voice to be out of the equation. We now understand the game that is being played. There's nothing Tinubu has ever asked for that has not been approved by this senate without any scrutiny or delay.
Tinubu sent his name to the senate and the senate acted independently based on the security dossier that the DSS had accumulated on El Rufai since his days as minister of the FCT.
What more can Tinubu do?
Is it ambassadorial appointment that will see even el Rufai reject or the country he is to represent Nigeria reject him on same security dossier?
Or where you expecting Tinubu to appoint him as one of his Presidency staff?
Even Buhari distanced himself from El Rufai forcing same El Rufai to leak a scathing letter he wrote to Buhari .
Guy rest.
Or how do you explain why his immediate successor in Kaduna is also against El Rufai and the one prosecuting the corruption case in the Kaduna state high court.
AMINDA: Like I said, you will be here to provide justification for Tinubu's impending betrayal of his current "sensible Northerners" if we ever get there. You will say Tinubu "intended" to do XYZ but for ABC. We are over that. Northerners ALWAYS pay their debts no matter how long it tarries.
Why did the Senate hold a closed door screening session for El Rufai alone ?
Svoboda: The same Wike that Atiku and Tambuwal smoothly played a different on two occasions, while he was garrulously boozing. Oga, you know, but for Tinubu as president, Fubara would have shaved Wickes head in public.
Getting betrayed by people you genuinely trusted is not a sign of weakness
What you should remind yourself is how Wike revenged their betrayal .
Last I checked Atiku is contesting for the nth time the same office Wike ensured he will not occupy in 2023.
Nah do you, I do you politics Wike dey play.
You remain loyal and he rewards you with his own loyalty .
You betray him, and he will pour sand sand for your garri.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RUyl_NVUPU?si=ZSM6kgdBxPuIdzqP See a man introducing people he has lifted in politics and has not extracted an arm and a leg from them!! He keeps saying money is not politics and he is correct!!! Loyalty to a political cause and structure is far superior. All that Wike has asked Sim Fubara to do is ensure that the political structure that was deployed to bring him to power is maintained. Sim Fubara the ingrate heard the wrong call and foolishly went off course and is today politically naked in the marketplace with his bald head shining under the hot sun!!! I hope Sim Fubara is not too far gone in the oddity that he is to sit down and learn! Love him or hate him Wike is a political strategist of no mean repute!!!!
Fubara forgot those who helped him become governor which he thought meant king of Rivers state and began aligning with people not from Rivers who wanted to avenge Wike over chasing their terrorists from Rivers state.
AMINDA: You meant if not for Elrufai and the rest of the Northern governors. Where is Elrufai today? Exactly. That's a fate Tinubu has prepared for the rest and you all will be right there to rewrite history and justify the treachery.
Did Tinubu not intend to compensate El Rufai with a ministerial slot only for the security dossier on him that was sent to the Senate automatically disqualifying him?
Same El Rufai the senate once barred from holding public office until he got a court case to remove that ban.
Whatever El Rufai is facing is definitely karma for all his past transgressions and has nothing to do with Tinubu.
His spazzing out on Tinubu for not forcing his appointment through the Senate is why he began using his own mouth to implicate himself further
If same Tinubu had forced El Rufai's appointment through the senate and the security dossier on him got leaked, won't you guys call for Tinubu's head?
richmond500: most of u think once someone doesn't go with the tyrant Wike or Tinubu, he is automatically obedient.
Maybe, somehow I have judge Obi wrongly, he is actually a good man cos whenever a topic is centred around those that oppresses, you feel that person is Obi.
I could be Donald Duke supporter or GET supporter, but alas u felt I was obedient.
How is Wike a tyrant?
The real tyrant was Fubara who saw himself as a monarch and refused to work with the legislative branch in Rivers.
Fubara remains the luckiest person on earth because if not for Wike, the level 14 Rivers state staff would never had dreamt of being a local government chairman talk more of governor
And when they placed him there , he began thinking he was above the law
He is lucky that Tinubu saved his ass from being rightly impeached for bypassing legislative oversights.
AMINDA: Time is a gentleman. Do not be under the illusion that Northerners are fooled into thinking Tinubu will handover power to the North come 2027. You all already showed your hands after being supported by the North in 2023.
What are you spewing?
Tinubu that got their Buhari into power and despite all the humiliation and relegation he faced throughout those 8ys , he never openly criticized Buhari's govt and swallowed the insults.
The breaking point was when they wanted to instal another northerner which roused Tinubu to go to war with them and won.
If not for Tinubu , one of Buhari's cabal members would have been ruling you by now and the insecurity you cry about would have been ten times worse.
Imagine what Seunmsg has turned into, convulsing over Peter Obi while the mandate of hardship and death he stands on is unleashing even more hardships and deaths around him.
The obsession is unfortunate
And frankly, pathetic.
They are dragging an NDC vice chairman on the streets of Kano who is wearing a Kwankwassai signature hat and you can't see the writing on the wall that the people are not pleased not amused by NDC.
WizardOfNG: Sharp dude. Kwankwaso has lost a lot of support agreeing to deputise Obi. Meanwhile, NDC is another Labour Party or perhaps even worse.
So many crisis will arise and we all know Obi go just dey look like mumu incapable of being authoritative to organise the Party and whip people in line.
Same Obi said he is in labour Party to become President and not to solve the internal issues of the Party. How some Nigerians are behind this guy passionately needs to be studied. Totally empty and unfit as a leader.
Kwankwaso left the Kwankwassai movement in Kano dumbfounded when he decamped to ADC and later NDC.
Kwankwaso was supposed to have met the President in Aso Rock to formally decamp to APC in what was a peace patching attempt by Tinubu to reunite kwankwaso and the governor .
But kwankwaso never showed up in the villa and said he was scheduled to travel out of the country on a pressing engagement only for Kwankwaso to suddenly join ADC.
The US Congress false declaration on Kwankwasso being one of the politicians suppressing religious freedom in Nigeria was what I believe was used to coerce him to align with Obi .
The man is being blackmailed by AIPAC to run alongside Giringori.
kedeojo: That is what the Igbo obidients fails to understand. I am not against them be president but they are not calculative. obi should have run with Atiku and let Atiku sign a one term peace pact among critical stakeholders across the nation. kwankwanso just want to have a southern base ahead of 2031.
Not possible because Atiku had already ruled out Obi as his running mate citing how Obi refused to drop a dime in their 2019 campaign but most important because Atiku knows Obi is not sellable in the Muslim north.