₦airaland Forum

shortgun:
Men in relationship and marriage have a lot of work to do on the psychology of their women.
Men who assume their women will always act like responsible adults and make wise decisions often end up learning difficult lessons.

I dey tell you. A man has to know how to 'groom' and 'control' his woman. If you don't do that, other vile external actors will control her for you, whether you like it or not.

You need to own her mind at least 95% and shape her psyche continuously. Otherwise, it is only a matter of time before outside forces influence her to make a mess of herself and of you too.

This one wants to waste his money. Going to PDP for what exactly?

But he has left the ADC for the self important Amaechi now. Let Amaechi win the primaries and contest the election anyhow he pleases.

kedeojo:
itOnly a fool will still using 2023 election to determine 2027. religious sentiment obi and most of his people explored will not work again. northern Muslim are even agree that Tinubu has favoured Christian most. obi will not get up to 50% of north central votes in 2027 he got before.

Because Northern Muslims and North Central voters are now very happy with Tinubu for making the price of fuel N1400 per litre and ensuring that they are now poorer than they have ever been their entire lives. You can clearly see who the real fool is now.


Because only a fool would think that Peter Obi would lose votes while Tinubu will gain votes. Gain votes from who or from where and for what reason exactly? Continue deceiving yourself.

Wickedtruths:
This is why I tell people that Obi is an Igbo candidate and Igbos supporting him are doing so for their own interest.

You don't need to quote me to advertise your inanity. Allow Nigerians to decide that by telling your tinibu to allow a free and fair election. Not that he has any choice anyway. Because if he tries otherwise this time, the dogs and baboons will be soaked in red oil.

One man revolution.

What this man is singlehandedly doing for Igbos is unprecedented. If he hadn't taken the bold step, activated himself, and thrown himself into the ring uninvited, the Igbos would have been completely sidelined from the competitive heights of Nigeria's unfair power politics.

A lone wolf carrying the weight of an entire nation.

We thank him for his self agency. He is one of a kind, and will never be forgotten.

It's always funny when I see all these Mc Oluomo, and 'sego' motor park touts dancing around with their kwam 1 noisemaker and declaring for their tinibu in Lagos every other day as if tinibu is still running for governor of Lagos or if the presidential election will only be conducted in Lagos or the South West.

The insular, parochial and closeted arrogance of these people and their social media representatives (as seen on Nairaland) needs to be studied. It will be a wonderful sight to see how their doubts would be cleared.

Sometimes I wonder who Yar'Adua would have handed over to as the next president if he hadn't died and had served out two terms. Most likely might not have been GEJ.

Who is this self-important fool who wants to ride on the back of Peter Obi to the National Assembly, but can't be humble about it. Even a roadside 'Obioma' tailor on the NDC ticket in Anambra stands a big chance to win a National Assembly election, so why is this mumu feeling like something special?

This Deji guy is just an annoying irritant, not much different from the Reno Omonkey fellow.

Everyone knows that without rigging, Tinubu can only win 7 states in Nigeria: Ogun State, Oyo State, Osun State, Ekiti State, Ondo State, Kwara State, and Kogi State. No more. No less.

Kingosytex:
He is calm, calculated, and doesn't make noise. People like that are silent killers
Someone is shouting Wike, Wike, Wike but I told him that before Wike, Uzodimma was already running things with men that matter.
Most people don't really know who Uzodimma is, someone that became a governor from fourth position

Man is extremely dangerous. I'm not a fan of his or anything APC, but I know enough to know how dangerous this Hopeless man is.

Someone like Wike has more money to throw around, but in the real scheme of things, in the entire Southern Nigeria, Hopeless has no match - apart from the Satan-in-Chief himself currently occupying Aso Rock - as far as this demonic kind of power politics is concerned.

Only God will deliver Nigeria from these people.

Exactly how it should be. However, I'm still not happy with this Kwankwaso dude. He is too big for his britches, and carries himself with an exaggerated importance that he has not earned with his Kano votes. Considering that Obi defeated him in his so-called North. He needs to be humble and beggarly, in appearance and indeed.

If he refuses to eat the humble pie then we will have to force feed him. We are doing him a favour by potentially giving him the presidency on a platter, not the other way round.

Solsix:
Unfortunately they will be giving tickets. NDC is a new party and needs people like them to win.

Did Labour Party with Peter Obi need them to win in the first place? Who were they and where were they before Peter Obi's breeze blew these nobodies into office?

The kind of illogic some of you spew is quite nauseating.

Fully supported. They shouldn't even have been allowed to register with the NDC. They should all be denied the NDC ticket.

Bunch of shameless, disgusting idiots. How would you nonentities win elections on Peter Obi's Labour Party wave and shamelessly decamp to the APC? They should all be taught a lesson. Without exceptions.

Jayjayconcept:
This guys Made stupid billions with cbn governor Emefiele

Giving Buhari useless reports 🤣 with
Fake usd exchange rates, choiiii

Exactly. Their wealth got to stratospheric levels during Buhari's regime, with the forex round-tripping. And then governors and other thieves were also throwing money at them to help them move it abroad and launder.

They should look closely at his partner AIG. That guy controls everything now and is dangerously rich/liquid.

I've never seen such an ego driven, unstrategic politician.

I guess he just loves contesting for contesting sake, not to win.

Do these ones look like people controlling hundreds of billions of naira drug schemes?

Story. These are just red herrings to disguise the real kingpins. Nigeria is a funny country.

The Nigerian Military is the most useless institution in Nigeria. Even more useless than the police.

So you can waste scarce resources and channel misplaced aggression to make a harmless civilian activist "disappear', but you have no answer to the ragtag terrorists slaughtering your generals like chicken every other week. How pathetic is that?

I can't understand how an institution can be so adept at majoring in minors and misplacing priorities.

All these fools who overrate themselves. You think you're doing anyone a favour?

I'm not a fan of Kwankwaso. He's one of those people whose egos are bigger than their real standing. Even in the so-called North, Peter Obi defeated him by a wide margin. Considering this, he should get off his high horse and stop carrying himself all over the place like he is more important that he really is.

I gave up on Atiku after his Arise Interview, where he proudly declared that "the North is my political base", and then irritatingly tried to draw Obi into his sectional idiocy by going on to claim "just like the South East is Peter Obi's political base and the South South is Amaechi's political base".

It was at that moment that I realized that this man was not wise.

k2money:
Don't underestimate Amaechi, he came second ahead of osinbanjo the VP then. That guy have delegates oh

We're saying the same thing. The ability to bribe delegates does not confer electoral value in the general elections, especially when there is no 'federal might' or 'structures' to rig him in. The guy is annoying.

Nigeria is a very useless country. What concerns a corporate institution like UBA with the personal life of someone who just so happens to be its non executive chairman?

That irritating lizard they call Amaechi can now have the ADC to himself. Very rubbish character.

You know you stand no chance and have no base, yet you are rearing your ugly head.

adams123:
What has this man done while he was a governor for good 8years?

Those of you who keep asking this stupid question need to have your brains checked. Very annoying set of people.

From what I can sense, Atiku is not a very wily and goal oriented politician.

He suffers an outsized ego and is prone to make poor judgments.

I have noticed the arrogant disposition of Atiku and some of his supporters in the way they address or discuss Peter Obi. Reading between the lines and sniffing the body language is not difficult.

For someone as important as Peter Obi is now, and knowing that he is essentially the missing cog that Atiku needs to achieve his lifelong dream, the condescending attitude is distasteful to Obidients, truth be told.

A particularly obnoxious thing we hear Atiku and some of his supporters insinuate is that Peter Obi's electoral value is limited to the South East. For someone that won Lagos with a landslide (actual figures), Rivers with a landslide (actual figures), Abuja, Delta State, Plateau, Nasarawa and Benue (actual votes), it is an insult to say that "the South East is his political base".

Obidients are rightly worried that even if Peter Obi accepts to be running mate and later Vice President, Atiku and his group would undermine him with a condescending and toxic environment that would make it impossible for him to function effectively in that office. Which defeats the purpose.

As things stand, Atiku may end up on another ego driven wild goose chase again and end his political career with an anticlimax.

A word is enough for the wise. It is not too late to receive sense.

wolesmile:
Still trying to wrap my head around his response
🤣🤣🤣🤣

When will tinibu start granting his own live interviews, so that you would have enough to wrap your gaunt neck around?

As alluded to by the extinct Buhari, the monkeys and baboons would be soaked in sticky red liquid. And this includes the chief baboon of uncertain heritage, uncertain education, uncertain age, uncertain source of wealth, and certain, disgraceful END.

madridguy:
Go and read why APC lost Zamfara State and Beyelsa state respectfully after winning elections in both state with a wide margin.

I'm not sure you have read anything reasonable lately, beyond the blurry text of your amala and gbegiri meal price bill, which you argued bitterly with before paying.

"There are no genuine parallels between the ADC situation and either Zamfara or Bayelsa. INEC's invocation of those precedents is legally inapplicable, and the distinction is not marginal — it is structural and categorical. Here is the breakdown.

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**What Actually Happened in Zamfara**

The APC in Zamfara became divided after the incumbent governor moved to conduct indirect primaries and install his preferred candidate. The party's National Working Committee subsequently dissolved the state executives and barred the governor from participating in the primaries. After weeks of political turmoil, INEC eventually banned the party from submitting candidate names because it failed to meet the commission's deadline. [Premium Times](https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/331517-why-supreme-court-ruled-against-apc-in-zamfara.html)

The Supreme Court, affirming the Court of Appeal, held that the APC conducted no valid primary election in Zamfara and therefore had no legally recognized candidates for any of the elections. The apex court ruled that "a party that had no candidate cannot be said to have won an election," and declared the votes polled by the APC as wasted. [Premium Times](https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/331517-why-supreme-court-ruled-against-apc-in-zamfara.html)

The operative legal category here is **candidate nomination** — a statutory obligation governed by the Electoral Act. The failure was concrete, procedural, and had direct bearing on whether valid candidates existed on the ballot.

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**What Actually Happened in Bayelsa**

The Supreme Court voided the election of governor-elect David Lyon on the grounds that his running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, presented forged certificates with multiple different names to INEC to secure clearance for the deputy governorship ticket. [247ureports](https://247ureports.com/2020/02/why-supreme-court-voided-lyons-election-as-bayelsa-governor/)

The Supreme Court ruled that Degi-Eremienyo's disqualification had infected the joint ticket on which he and Lyon ran, and that on that basis, both candidates and their party ought to have abstained from participating in the election entirely. [Channels Television](https://www.channelstv.com/2020/02/13/breaking-supreme-court-sacks-bayelsa-governor-elect-lyon/amp/)

The operative legal category here is **candidate qualification** — a constitutional requirement under Section 182(1)(j) of the 1999 Constitution, which bars anyone who presented forged certificates to INEC from contesting for the governorship. Again, the defect was concrete, established, and went to the root of candidate validity.

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**What Is Actually Happening in the ADC**

The ADC situation involves none of these elements. There is no allegation that:
- The ADC failed to conduct primaries for any election
- Any candidate submitted forged or fraudulent documents to INEC
- Any electoral law governing candidate nomination was violated

What exists is a **leadership succession dispute** between factions — whether David Mark's emergence as National Chairman following Ralph Nwosu's resignation was procedurally valid under the ADC's internal constitution, and whether Nafiu Bala Gombe, as former deputy chairman, should have assumed the role instead.

This is a governance dispute internal to the party. It has no electoral consequence in the Zamfara or Bayelsa sense because no primaries, no candidacies, and no elections are at stake — yet.

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**The Three Decisive Distinctions**

**First: Subject matter.** Zamfara and Bayelsa both turned on provisions of the Electoral Act and the 1999 Constitution governing the *conduct of elections* — primaries, candidate eligibility, certificate submission to INEC. The ADC dispute turns on the party's internal constitution and succession rules. The Supreme Court in *ANYANWU v. EMMANUEL & ORS* (2025) confirmed that leadership and membership disputes of a political party are domestic affairs of the party and courts lack jurisdiction to entertain them. [Freedom Online](https://freedomonline.com.ng/adc-inecs-interpretation-of-appeal-court-order-misconceived-patently-mischievous-festus-ogun-constitutional-lawyer/) No such jurisdictional bar existed in Zamfara or Bayelsa.

**Second: INEC's role.** In Zamfara, INEC's action flowed from a Supreme Court judgment delivered at the conclusion of properly constituted election petition proceedings. In Bayelsa, the same applies — the apex court ordered INEC to withdraw certificates of return and reissue them. INEC was executing a final judgment. In the ADC matter, INEC is acting on its own unilateral interpretation of an interlocutory preservatory order — one that, as the ADC correctly noted, does not give INEC the power to arbitrate leadership disputes or freeze party activities. [Punch](https://punchng.com/adc-faults-inec-says-status-quo-order-misinterpreted/) There is no Supreme Court judgment ordering INEC to do anything here. INEC is self-directing, not court-directed.

**Third: Stage of proceedings.** Even commentators sympathetic to INEC's caution acknowledged that the Zamfara comparison is misplaced, because those cases involved established, proven failures to comply with mandatory electoral law requirements for primaries. The ADC has not been found to have violated any electoral law. [New Dawn Nigeria](https://www.newdawnngr.com/2026/04/09/inec-adc-and-the-latin-phrase/) In Zamfara and Bayelsa, the findings were final judicial determinations. In the ADC matter, the underlying suit has not even been heard on its merits, and the court order being relied upon is merely a preservatory interim directive — the legal equivalent of a holding position, not a verdict.

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**Conclusion**

The Zamfara and Bayelsa precedents dealt with violations of statutory and constitutional provisions directly governing elections — failed primaries and forged qualification documents. INEC's role in those cases was to execute final judgments of the Supreme Court. The ADC matter involves a leadership succession question that the Supreme Court itself has said courts have no jurisdiction over, arising from an interlocutory order whose correct interpretation — per binding Supreme Court authority in *Ayorinde* — actually preserves the Mark leadership rather than displaces it. The precedents not only fail to support INEC's position; they expose it as a category error.". Claude Opus 4.7.