Massiveglory:
A Tinubu presidency is a risk to Nigeria as a country.
A Tinubu presidency is a risk to democracy in Nigeria.
A tinubu presidency is a risk to the security of Nigeria.
A tinubu presidency will bring about militas of all kinds with legal reasons to cause trouble all over the country.

Ensuring the authentic winner of the presidential election get their mandate is one that every hand and Institution must be alive to.

woginid967:


Have a side chick and have peace.

Not all women love sex especially if the man doesn't know how to really put her in the mood.

Enjoy yourself with tinder, SFS, coddedruns.

But pls use condomzzz

GreatSuccess:
The number of votes, the useless APC will get in this election, will determine the number of mad/mentally deranged people in this country !!!!!

gidgiddy:


Nigeria has long gone past the point of no return and cannot be saved

BeardedmeatR:
There's hope. A new Nigeria is POssible!

Get your PVC on February 25th to vote Obidatti, then you have begun the first steps to a new Nigeria.

Great2017:
What is there about Tinubu to be envied by Obasanjo? Is it the forfeiture of $460,000 drug related money to the US or his insatiable greed for stealing from the common people? This Garba of a man is really a comedian to be comparing a common identity thief among real and great yoruba leaders dead or alive. There is actually nothing to envy about someone who has cornered the common wealth of his people to himself, family members and cronies.

sotall:
Yea APC took Nigerians to 40 years of backwardness.

In 8 years most Nigerians are now in extreme poverty.

Over 40m Nigerians are jobless

The Naira is now one piece of worthless tissue paper.

Bad leadership and failed economic policies has forced Nigeria's brightest brains and youths out of the country. Even the rich and wealthy are leaving in droves.

Nigeria is now in massive debt that government is now financing debt with almost 100% of its earnings. The APC only has shabby infrastructure and white elephant project to show for this massive debt.

Insecurity has grown and spread nationwide that there is no region that is virtually safe to live or travel to now. The federal governments roads are now offices and business places for kidnapping Nigerians. Even Nigerians who could barely feed are now victims.

The APC government of Buhari made sure that Nigerians are now divided either ethnically or religiously. Separatists groups are now everywhere as a result of his nepotism and bigotry.

Under APC, only the Northern Muslim gets the best federal government appointments while other tribes and religion get nothing or crumbs.

Adblg0610:
It’s even their ignorance that will kill them. When something is RENEWED, it means that it has either EXPIRED or it’s nearing its EXPIRY date. When something is LOST , it can only be FOUND, not RENEWED.
Buhari’s tenure is nearing EXPIRY date ,hence Tinubu’s victory is meant to RENEW it.

headboyprince:
Bubu has spoken, his legacy of

B - boko haram
U - Unemployment
H - hunger
A - armed robbers
R - recession
I - insecurity

needs to be continued....

nkemoma:
This werey de whine us o... Nigga thinks we dumbo

But honestly it baffles me that some folks still consider the broom party or the old, weak pee poo, thieving leprous hand, yellow teeth from irajijbijibbiiii who lives in Bourdilion.

Anybody from Southern Kaduna, middle belt and Borno that votes for Amoda and APC is cursed beyond redemption...


Buharrrri... Broom brooooom brooooom... Go back to sipping your cow milk and chewing your gworo in Daura.. But if things go as e suppose, you and Buratai suppose be cellmates for the HAGUE PRISONS

Brendaniel:
There is nothing sophisticated with Tinubu's strategy, the only thing sophisticated about him is high level of desperation, something his previous opponents underestimated him with.

He works like a drug lord:

1. If his lies can't get him to win, he switches to money(bribery)

2. If his money cannot bribe his way through, he takes out his opponent using thugs.

3. If he sees it is impossible to take out his opponent, he uses every propaganda to ridicule his opponent.

And his supporters hail this dirty style of politics as strategy, that is why the country is where it is today because he applied the same strategy to bring in Buhari(lies and propaganda)

Tinubu is like a boxer who comes to the ring with a gun instead of gloves to fight his opponent - he comes for a kill when it should be a fight at equal level grounds - too desperate to win at any cost to his opponents

CaptainAyub:
Pastor Mrs Bridget Agbahime simply told her neighbour in her shop in Kano not to pour water/perform ablution in front of her shop.
The idiot started shouting "Allah Akbar" and "blasphemy".
The crowd that gathered never bothered to ask what she allegedly did.
They immediately killed her.
The idiot neighbour was initially arrested plus few other ring leaders of the mob.
After a few months, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF KANO STATE SIMPLY ENTERED A 'NO CASE SUBMISSION' FOR ALL THE ACCUSED.
ALL OF THEM WERE FREED.
THE NEIGHBOUR WENT BACK AND CONTINUED THREATENING THE VICTIM'S HUSBAND,THAT HE WILL FINISH HIM OFF.
The man had to abandon every and relocate to his village,after more than 35yrs in Kano.
So,Deborah's case is not a strange thing,that is how abokkis roll.
Gimme Biafra joor,tired of living with animals who will kill their fellow countrymen for a cartoon drawn by a white man in faraway Denmark!

A former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Sam Amadi, has lamented the lack of justice concerning the murder of Deborah Samuel, a student who was lynched for alleged blasphemy.

Deborah, a Christian 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, was killed by fellow students in May for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.

On his Instagram page on Monday, Amadi lamented that nobody had been prosecuted for the student’s murder because Nigeria had continued to appease “religious fundamentalists”.

He wrote, “Nobody has been arrested and prosecuted for the murder of Deborah. Nobody will. This is because Nigeria is managed as a theocratic neo-feudal state. Nigeria’s path to development passes through dismantling the religious construction of the foundation of the Nigerian state. All through, Nigeria has continued to appease religious fundamentalists.”

The rights activist alleged that the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, and the Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, did nothing to prosecute the killers so they would not annoy “some crazy religious fundamentalists”.

Amadi added, “Neither the IGP nor Governor Tambuwal has done anything to arrest and prosecute those who killed Deborah because if we do so, we annoy some crazy religious fundamentalists, who may be crazy fellows. The backlash of such annoyance will be politically costly.

“Nigeria is trapped in backwardness of undue intermingling with religion. As long as it continues on this part, it cannot be a coherent modern democratic state.”

Amadi’s post comes shortly after the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, revealed why he deleted his tweet condemning Deborah’s murder.

TRUTHaDDICTED:
Mugu! In the long run indeed, you won't have to acquire land first before erecting a structure?

Political parties have kicked against the new cash withdrawal limits introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, stating that it could choke the political process.

Parties including the Peoples Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party, Africa Democratic Congress and African Democratic Party contended that the policy would affect the fundraising required by the candidates to sustain their campaigns ahead of the 2023 elections.

Also, speaking in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Sunday, the African Action Alliance, Zenith Labour Party, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance declared that it would impact the poor rural dwellers.

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State had accused the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, of targeting the political class with the new cash withdrawal limit which restricts over-the-counter cash withdrawal by individuals and companies to N100,000 and N500,000, respectively, per week.

It also limited point-of-sale machines and automated teller machine withdrawals to N20,000 daily.

According to a memo signed Tuesday by the CBN’s Director of Banking Supervision, Haruna Mustafa, withdrawals above the thresholds would attract processing fees of five per cent and 10 per cent, respectively, for individuals and corporate entities going forward.

In addition, third-party cheques above N50,000 shall not be eligible for OTC payment while extant limits of N10m on clearing cheques still remain.

The circular also directed banks to load only N200 and lower denominations into their ATMs and restricted withdrawal to N20, 000 per day from ATMs.

The policy, which will become effective on January 9, 2023, has generated criticisms but the CBN clarified on Wednesday that PoS operators could apply for waivers.

PDP campaign kicks

Commenting on the circular, the Director, Strategic Communications, National Election Management Committee of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Dele Momodu, said the recent cash withdrawal policy announced would affect the parties’ funding activities, adding that “if enforced, the policy will strangulate the political process, not the PDP alone.”

He said, “In 2014/2015, I am sure if (President) Buhari had no access to funding, he would never have been the President of Nigeria. There are people who are making contributions to the political parties and some parties have set up structures to receive support from people. How then will they be able to access the fund if they are saying you cannot withdraw more than N100, 000 a week?’’ he asked

“I read somewhere that the CBN said the policy would not be rigid but why make the policy in the first place if it is not going to be rigid?” he queried.

On how the policy implementation may affect the PDP, Momodu said, “the Finance Committee is better placed to say the extent this will affect us as we prepare for a series of activities leading to the general elections. Maybe, the Finance Committee, if it thinks the party will be negatively affected, will consider writing to the CBN but like I said earlier, this is more of a problem for the ordinary man on the street than it is for a political party.”

He also spoke on how the new CBN policy would affect the poor.

He added, “Why make a policy that will largely affect the poor more than the rich? My worry is that most of our policies always target the poor. The PDP is worried about the poor market woman, the ordinary man on the street because we still run a cash-and-carry economy.

The National Chairman of the Africa Democratic Congress, Chief Ralph Nwosu, observed that the policy might pose a challenge to the parties, noting that the CBN did not carry out adequate sensitisation campaigns on it, stressing that it was politically motivated.

Nwosu noted that the policy would affect the party’s campaign, explaining that paying the ADC agents in the rural areas might be a challenge.

He added, ‘’How do you expect the ADC candidate to have the cash to do the things he wants to do and how do you think that this is the best time for such an undertaking?

‘’We have almost 200,000 agents that we must pay and 80 per cent of them live in rural areas. Is it that N2,000 or N5,000 that you pay them that you would transfer to each of them? How many of them have such a facility? So it’s completely inconsiderate of them.”

He added that the cash withdrawal policy would affect Nigerians negatively.

He said “What is the literacy level (of Nigerians), what kind of campaign have they done so far on the policy? You know, you can’t continue dealing with Nigerians as if we are still in the military, especially when that dictatorship is meted out by people who are not even in the military. It’s most irresponsible.

‘’We want to believe that the intention this time is also political. It is not only affecting the election but will affect the general way of living in Nigeria.

‘’This is part of the challenge we have as a country in that people in government occasionally just take actions on their own without caring how it will affect the masses. So, generally it’s not about how it affects the elections but about how it affects the society.

“There are people selling rice, beans and every day, people come to them to buy things and pay with naira and kobo, so before the CBN should do anything they should think about the society.’’

SDP angry

Also speaking, the factional National Publicity Secretary of the Social Democratic Party, Alpha Muhammed stated, ’’You cannot overnight bring a policy that will seriously affect a project as big as the general elections.

‘’Definitely, cash has to move, people have to pay for logistics; you have to give cash to agents, you have to give cash to those who will transport people to rallies. It will definitely affect the success of the election and the campaign itself.’’

On his part, National Chairman and Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Party, Sani Yabagi, told The PUNCH that though the Federal Government might have been targeted at curbing the flow of money during the 2023 elections, political parties, he noted, might have logistical challenges if the policy implementation eventually takes off.

He argued, “I think the government is trying to control the flow of money in circulation. We have all agreed that vote buying and selling is a cankerworm to our democracy. So, if the intention of the government is to curb the use of cash for vote buying, this will be good news for everyone.

“But will this not amount to killing an ant with a sledgehammer? Again, which is better: the medicine or the sickness? Government must think about this again particularly as it would affect the logistics of all the political parties.”

Speaking with The PUNCH on Sunday, the ZLP boss said, “The only negative aspect of this is the fact that the policy will affect the rural and urban poor. These are people who are out every day in search of their daily bread. How many of them have access to electronic platforms to transact business? Even the Point of Sales; are they evenly distributed everywhere? This is the worry of the Zenith Labour Party.

“As far as the parties are concerned, we are okay. Let those who stashed billions of naira in tanks bring them out. They should have the courage to bring them out. It is good to note that over N500bn have been returned in the past two weeks. Maybe before the elections, trillions will be returned to the banks.’’

According to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Oye, poor Nigerians would likely suffer from the policy if it eventually takes off, assuring however that such pain would not last.

He said, “The poor will be affected no doubt but this is just a temporary measure. It is not going to last. It is part of the process to make the transition to the new currency seamless. The pain and difficulty will ease out very soon.

“Of course, it will take time for poor Nigerians to get used to this but they will eventually embrace it. Let me also add here that this is a process in the journey to a cashless economy. There will be a question or two about the timing, particularly with elections around the corner. Still, the rich and the poor should support it.’’

Spokesman of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, explained that the Labour Party would support any policy that would bring a positive change and oppose anti-people programmes.

Noting that the naira has appreciated since the new policy was announced, Tanko said his party would not support waivers for parties, adding that this may be a ploy to stash money that could be used to buy votes during the polls.

However, the spokesman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Ladipo Johnson, differed, arguing that the CBN policy was aimed at taming inflation in the country.

While admitting that the policy could cause some inconveniences, he contended that it would not affect fundraising by parties, noting that donors could utilise online platforms to send cash to the parties of their choice.

Presidential candidate of the African Action Alliance, Omoyele Sowore said his party is not in any way worried by the cash limit withdrawal policy, stressing that it was targeted at poor citizens.

‘’The policy targets the poor, not powerful political figures and parties anyway,’’ he contended.

The Spokesman of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, declined to comment on the matter.

“For now, I decline to give any comment on that. We have not met formally to take a position on the issue,” he said.

But the South-South Agenda for Tinubu/Shettima Support Groups condemned the CBN policy in strong terms, describing it as a plot to pitch the poor masses against the President.

The National Coordinator of the group, Mr. Bitrus Oliver, in a statement said, “This policy will clearly undermine the efforts of the Federal Government in sustaining micro and small scale enterprises across the country as it will limit the fund in circulation due to the non-availability of cash and may totally asphyxiate small and struggling businesses before the policy is stabilised.’’

Oliver argued that in almost all the rural markets across the country, 90 per cent of transactions are done by cash and not by mobile transfer, noting that pegging ATM withdrawal to N20,000 would stall many transactions and may even trigger chaos in the commercial sector.

Election bodies react

Reacting to the complaints by the parties, the Chairman of the Transition Monitoring Group, Musa Rafsanjani, observed that the policy would not affect politicians and their parties.

He added that though the policy sought to curb vote trading, politicians would still go round it and buy votes during the election.

“We all know that for the big politicians, this policy is not going to affect them because the bank, the same Central Bank will provide money for them to do their own campaigns.

‘’The big politicians, who are into vote trading, have ways in which they can blow (bypass) this policy because they can hide under so many identities to get money from the CBN.

‘’This policy will not affect them. The only people who will be affected are the rural people who don’t have access to the Internet, who don’t have access to android phones, and who do not know how to even transfer,’’ said Rafsanjani, who is also the Chairman, Transparency International Nigeria.

On her part, the Executive Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, Idayat Hassan, also disagreed that the policy would affect parties’ fundraising, adding that it might help to at least level the playing field for all parties involved.

She stated, “Maybe it will even be better because while people are supposed to pay into bank accounts, any physical transfer of cash that is moved will allow for monitoring and will disadvantage one party against the other.

‘’So, maybe proportionally, as it comes to the parties, it might create a level playing field, since we can see where the money is going to, and who is giving them.

‘’It will now have to pass through the banking system, somehow reducing the role of money in politics. But the real casualties are the ordinary Nigerians who are largely unbanked and live in rural areas.”

MeaslesMumpsRub:


Statistics are important that is why Jagaban was able to raise IGR by 500percent in lagos.

It is not by knowing, It is by doing. Plenty talk no dey full basket. Follow who know road.

You can agree with whatever you wish to agree with Jagabans train of a Prosperous Nigeria is Unstopable.

Fact is, No be statistics we go chop.

LegendHero:
Nice one to these men of God.

CAN think they can gag sensible Christians with their political propaganda.

Asiwaju Jagaban is a friend of the Christians and with him the Christian right will be protected.

This CAN chairman wife might even be for Jagaban.

A serious tension on Thursday engulfed the Christian Association of Nigeria with the surprise appearance of about eight members opposed to the Muslim-Muslim ticket on the list of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress.

Among them are Assistant General Secretary of CAN, Apostle Biodun Sanyaolu, who was recruited as Assistant Coordinator; its controversial Lagos State chairman, Stephen Adegbite (member); Director of Legal and Public Affairs, Comfort Chigbue (member); and Testimony Onifade, former Personal Assistant to immediate past CAN President, Samson Ayokunle (member).

Others are Victor Ivoke, Personal Assistant to Rev. Daniel Okoh, current President of CAN (member); CAN former Director of Legal and Public Affairs, Kwamkur Samuel (member), and Prof. Para-Mallam (member).

Although the tenure of the CAN officials would elapse in ten days time, The PUNCH learnt that Samuel has applied for reappointment.

Since the names were made public, the issue had remained the topic of discussion in several churches and WhatsApp groups of CAN leaders.

But Okoh in a statement issued on Thursday night distanced himself from the APC Presidential Campaign Council list.

Sources said he was disappointed when he learnt that his trusted PA was among beneficiaries of the APC list, despite their opposition.

Okoh said, “My attention as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria has been drawn to the revised list of members of the Tinubu/Shettima 2023 President Campaign Council wherein the names of some outgoing officials of the body were featured.

“Such a development is worrisome because it counters the well-known stance of CAN on partisanship. I want to categorically exonerate my humble self from this development and any of such that may occur in the future.

“I want to use this medium to assure all Christians in Nigeria and the general public that since I received the news, I have commenced full investigation into how the officials got involved into overt partisanship.

“At the end of the probe, CAN will take fair, but decisive and appropriate action with a view to defending the ideals of the umbrella Christian body I lead by the grace of the Almighty God.

“On a final note, I urge the general public to be calm while we collectively work to entrench a culture of inclusion and respect for our religious diversities in our political leadership.”

benuejosh:
Former President and Incoming President.

Memphitz357:
Tinubu's media and image strategists are lazy. Yes, very lazy!!!

They all are just after his money and you all know how the saying goes.... *A Fool and his money are soon departed*
Tinubu is a desperate old fool and I will tell you why.

Even a two-year old boy would know the reason why they brought "unknown clergymen" to the unveiling of Kasshim Shettima.

It was to score cheap political goal.

And now, they didn't go through CAN and the PFN.

None of those who attended were known by anyone.

EVEN THE MOST LOYAL OF TINUBU'S SUPPORTERS WOULD TELL YOU THAT THOSE GUYS WERE PAID TO ATTEND THAT OCCASION.

It is Tinubu's political trademark. He believes so much in financial inducement.

His political strategy is hinged on that.

You don't force endorsement.

You earn it.

You didn't have to do that.

No point bringing those hungry-looking clerics to the occasion.

In a country where many could see through the fake optics of politicians, it would NEVER achieve any result.

The furore over Muslim-Muslim ticket can be doused.

Yes, it can.

And it can only be done via POWERFUL MESSAGING.

Unfortunately, there is so much mistrust.

Buhari has seriously deepened our fault lines.

If not, Muslim-Muslim ticket should never have been an issue.

Never...