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SmartPolician:
Please take this money to rural communities for naira swap. I can imagine the kind of hardship those people who don't have access to banks and internet would be going through now. To make matters worse, their voices are not heard. BTW, the Druggie is a curse to this country.

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princeemma69:
This is a win-or-die election for Wike. If Atiku or Obi wins, his career is over. So he is trying his best to deliver Rivers for Tinubu

Doing it in a violence way like this?
There will be life after election.

Why can security chief call wike to order.
This is getting just too much

This is bad

Good news for pdp

Interesting

Hmm

Tinubu and apc is a gunner

Wike boy

Hmm
Fear north

Exactly

Atiku win or lose, please wike let this nonsense end on Saturday.

I'm interested too
But I'm looking at 7 sitter car.
Because I'll used it to hustle after office work.

D

It's well with apc and their lies.

Dr. Josef Onoh, the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council in the south east, has revealed that Senator Bola Tinubu’s raised hands during the national anthem at the party’s presidential rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, was a deliberate act of protest against the suffering of Nigerians due to fuel and currency scarcities.
Onoh noted that Tinubu’s gesture was a symbolic statement of his belief in education and freedom fighting, as represented by his cap of broken shackles.
However, Onoh criticized Dino Melaye for mocking Tinubu’s gesture and betraying the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the process due to what he termed as Melaye’s “hubris syndrome mental illness.”
In Onoh’s statement, which was made available to The Guardian on Sunday, he said: “Once again in defiance to some elements who have been working tediously to place innocent Nigerians in shackles at this critical period Nigerians are looking forward to renew hope in our great country Nigeria. Tinubu once again stood against these forces unlike some who will go for the extremely dramatic tantrums without understanding the purpose of what they are fighting for because through their lives they have never fought for anything that wasn’t beneficial to their existence.
“Some rural local champions commonly emerge to rub wings with the city boys and after basking in the temporal euphoria of their upgraded day pass in the city they get confused by the city lights, bustling lifestyle and hurriedly rush back to Ayetoro Gbede in Ijumu Local Government Area of kogi state to showcase to his fellow local champions that he is now rolling with the better class. Such is, has, and will always be the genetic characteristics of Dino Melaye.
“Unfortunately in his attempt to ridicule Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by raising his hands up, not holding a walking stick neither was he intelligent enough to make a fist during his self embarrassment brings us back to my earlier statement on a rebel without a cause.
“I understand the deteriorating effects of Hubris syndrome which I earlier diagnosed Dino Melaye of suffering from, especially when he self inflicted himself with the pain of collapsing multiple times on the floor during one of their campaign rallies, which clearly his Johnny Bravo body frame took a lot of impact resulting currently in his protest posture without understanding the reason for the act.
“Tinubu’s act of defiance during the National anthem in Port Harcourt rally may seem funny to those who have no idea of the reasons behind it, I’m glad I’m privileged to know his reasons and this simple act has preserved a moment, a still shot of a time and place. We, the future, look at it and think we know not just that one moment, but everything that lives along the edges, outside the frame.
“It’s wishful thinking, of course. One snapshot, one item, can hardly tell us everything we need to know about all of the names, faces, sounds that make up history. But there are some personal acts of defiance that try to, actions that try to give their time a shape, make it three-dimensional, and make it easier for the future to understand it.
“Most especially, Comrade Adams Oshiomole was already calming nerves down prior to the rally still tried to contain Asiwaju’s act of defiance during the National anthem to ensure the rally will end peacefully.
“I’m glad I didn’t join him in the podium as I would have joined in same act of silent protest but I’m proud Jagaban did it for all of us.
“Fela Anikulapo-Kuti remained a conscious rebel. The themes of his rebellion never changed, and the anarchy which often seemed to surround his life and music was always tempered by the fundamental truths which he sought to elucidate with regard to both African society and the ongoing exploitation of Nigerians, his protests focused on specific instances of what he considered to be government hypocrisy and the betrayal of national potential.
“The strategic show of defiance as was exhibited by Asiwaju is part of a continued long global tradition of silent protest, in which activists register their discontent with wordless marches and long hunger strikes, by kneeling down or taping their mouths shut, or—in certain punitive societies—fighting propaganda and lies with blank pieces of paper as was done when Protesters marched in support of Black rights during the Silent Parade in New York City on July 28, 1917.
“Other protests have employed more obvious symbols of repression, including handcuffs, blindfolds and gags. The last of these became widespread as a political prop following the trial of the Chicago Seven (originally eight), antiwar protesters who were charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. During the 1969 trial, the judge ordered defendant Bobby Seale to be gagged and chained to his chair.
“Decades before football player Colin Kaepernick created a stir by kneeling during the national anthem, Black athletes silently used their status to fight oppression. At the awards ceremony for the 200-meter dash at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a clenched gloved fist in a call for global human rights.
“Tinubu during the Port Harcourt rally decided to raise his hands up holding his walking stick with his palms open, intentionally refused to make a fistful grip because that will defeat the purpose of the message he was sending across of his unshackled insignia which now is his political national symbol. His message was simple, that the actions of some disgruntled elements especially some who lost in the presidential primaries turned around to inflict hardship on innocent Nigerians.
“Tinubu’s silent protest during the National anthem was directed towards the hardship Nigerians are facing, the supposed fuel scarcity, the naira redesign and policy which has pitched the people against the government, Asiwaju is against anything or policy that will bring hardship to Nigerians whereas Dino Melaye who by his ignorance and by the positive accidental benefits of the side effects of his hubris syndrome raised his hands in silent protest to the same hardship the fuel and naira redesign policy is inflicting on Nigerians while delusionaly thinking he was mocking Tinubu.
“The PDP presidential candidate has thrown his support on the ongoing harsh policies Nigerians are facing at this time when even governors of states controlled by the All-Progressives Congress including Our presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu are joining the public outcry against the pains and confusion caused by the CBN’s cashless policy, PDP, supposedly the main opposition party, is totally and openly in support of the policy.
“The PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar was the first to declare support for the policy and other PDP big names including state governors have now joined him. The PDP support for the anti-people policy that is wreaking families and communities across the country and potentially leading to greater unrest was busted with the application by the Governors of Bayelsa and Edo, all PDP states, to be joined as defendants against the suit filed by mainly APC governors, challenging it at the Supreme Court.
“I urge Nigerians to vote out the PDP presidential candidate come 25th of February, we cannot be placed in shackles, we must ensure these shackles remain broken by casting your votes for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and together we will renew hope, renew the new Naira to be spent side by side with the old, renew our commitment for a better Nigeria and most especially renew hope and commitment in our educational and health sectors as I shall personally plead with our incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to ensure extensive research is carried out and more knowledge gained on how patients suffering from hubris syndrome can be managed better in Nigeria when their guardian flees to Dubia abandoning the patient with us. Clearly a Tinubu’s victory is an assured cure for Dino Melaye.
“Despite all obstacles thrown at him, Tinubu is a tennis ball that no Psunami can sink and will comfortably make it to the shore after the storm, until the right thing is done, the naira redesign and vindictive policy including the fuel scarcity crisis is resolved, not only will we continue our silent protests during the National anthem but our hands with our walking sticks will remain in the air in defiance because our country and economy cannot continue to be supported with the aid of a walking stick rather it’s time to renew hope and that day is 25th February 2023, and that time is Jagaban time.”
 

https://guardian.ng/news/tinubus-raised-hands-at-rally-an-act-of-protest-says-onoh-slams-melaye-for-mocking-symbolic-gesture/

Is good for our democracy

Everyone know that already

A group of men traditionally, and perhaps inevitably, forms around every administration at national and sub-national levels to influence government decisions and bend the arc of important government decisions towards their defined primary objectives–be they ethnic, political, economic, or religious.
Such a group is usually but not always made up of technocrats and intellectuals who parley their knowledge for the privilege of being faceless influencers. They are shadowy and have no name. Usually, when people suspect their presence and influence in government, they invent names that may or may not accurately describe them and what they do but nevertheless serve as their identification – mafia, cabal, etc. No government can truthfully deny the existence of such groups of men who influence its decisions and actions. None can do without them. But they have earned an unflattering reputation as sinister, selfish, and exploitative men, always with evil intentions towards the government they unofficially serve.

The best known of such groups in the country in the sixties through the eighties was the Kaduna Mafia, said to be made up of northern technocrats, intellectuals and retired senior military and police officers. Swings in government decisions were routinely and perhaps unfairly attributed to their sinister influence. When a government decision arrived at in the day suddenly summersaulted at night resulting in a reversal the next day, the mafia was said to have interfered with it and forced a change in the course and the cause of the decision. Every administration is an amalgam of known and unknown groups that together, moves the wheels of governance along the tracks of vested interests.
It is not strange to find such a group, named the cabal, in the Buhari administration. It would be rather strange if such a group did not exist. Every president needs someone to take the rap when things go wrong. The cabal are powerful, but they are also the fall guys. When you blame Buhari’s poor decisions on the cabal, you free him from all blame and all responsibilities. With my tongue in my cheek, I suggest that a cabal serves useful purposes in government.
One man who does not think so is Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State. He is leading a public outcry against them because he believes they have pushed President Buhari off the track of good decision-making process and good governance down the path of, to borrow from the Supreme Court spokesman, ‘convoluted’ decisions that serve the interests of the cabal more and those of the country much less. It worries him and he believes it should worry the rest of us too because he believes Buhari has surrendered his government to them. And they are making a mess of it to the shame of his party and indeed, that of the president who came into office in 2015 awash in an avalanche of goodwill and well wishes and who has quite remarkably, thanks to the cabal, squandered the promise of change the people believed in.
It is easy to understand why the governor feels frustrated with Buhari in the twilight zone of his administration. This is the time the president and his party should be celebrating their golden time and laying open before the public promises made and promises fulfilled; change promised, and change delivered. Instead, things are falling into pieces with Buhari watching the steady erosion of his own legacies by himself. There is such a thing as a president leaving ashes in the mouths of the people, no matter what the spin doctors may spin. This is a good instance. Blame the cabal.
Part of the governor’s frustration with the cabal is that he was one of the architects of the Buhari administration that designed the road map for it consistent with the promises of both the president and their political party, APC.  But about two years into the administration, the governor needed no one to tell him that things were not going according to that well-laid plan for fundamental changes and governance focus that would positively set the APC government apart from all the governments before it.
Keeping quiet and letting things go from bad to worse was not an option for him. The governor fired a series of letters and a memo to the president, pointing out that he was losing control and some unelected men had stepped into the vacuum created by his absence from his own administration. In one such letter he wrote sometime in 2017, El-Rufai told Buhari:
“In very blunt terms, Mr President, our APC administration has not only failed to manage expectations of a populace that expected overnight ‘change’ but has failed to deliver even mundane matters of governance outside of our successes in fighting BH insurgency and corruption.
“This situation is compounded by the fact that some officials around you seem to believe and may have persuaded you that current APC state governors must have no say and must be totally excluded from political consultations, key appointments, and decision-making at the federal level.
“Overall, the feeling even among our supporters today is that the APC government is not doing well. I am distressed that our government is seen not to be succeeding mostly due to the failures, lack of focus and selfishness of some you have entrusted to carry on and implement your vision.”
The cabal had fenced out the state governors and robbed the president of the advice of experienced politicians in the party and the government who should have ensured that he maintained his focus consistent with the road map for the promised change. By fencing out the state governors, the cabal held the president prisoner more or less to their own plots and plans.
For instance, APC promised restructuring the country to rid it of its federal system in name but a unitary system in fact. To discharge this fundamental promise, the party set up a committee headed by El-Rufai to provide the road map towards restructuring. His committee submitted its report and recommendations to Buhari and the party leaders in 2018. Neither the president nor the party did anything about the report. Apparently, the cabal advised the president to do nothing – and he did nothing – about the report and the recommendations contained therein.
It may not have been the fault of the cabal but that of the president who does not believe in restructuring. One of the fundamental articles of restructuring is second tier policing system or state police to empower the state governors to be truly the chief security officers of their various states. The president looked on as several state governors set up their own security outfits that are state police in fact but not in name. He could care less. But blame the cabal anyway.


https://dailytrust.com/the-cabal-and-the-blame-game/

Nwaetche:
No, Ikwerre is not handing over to Ikwerre.

Wike is supporting Siminalayi Fubara rumoured to be his cousin but from Opobo/Nkoro LGA.

Wike took over from Rotimi Amaechi both are ikwerre .
Hence, the reason for their disagreement.

Beautiful letter

Wike your time has passed.

GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, sent millions of tongues wagging with his decision to purchase the N100 million presidential nomination form of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) in the build-up to the party’s primary election in June last year. It later emerged that the CBN governor had not only acquired the party’s nomination forms but had also bought a fleet of vehicles for his campaign. 

As things turned out, however, Emefiele had to give up on the idea of contesting the presidential election due mainly to the public outrage against the idea. The fact remains, however, that the dust raised by that move is yet to settle with the deluge of questions that are left unanswered.

Where are the vehicles now? Who supplied them? How true is the claim that some of the vehicles are now with the campaign organization of a presidential candidate through a governor that is very close to the CBN governor? What does that suggest? A chummy relationship between the said presidential candidate and Emefiele? How neutral is the CBN governor?

Since his foray into politics exemplified by his failed presidential bid, how much time does he have for monetary matters which constitute the core mandate of the CBN? How has he fared on this assignment? What was the rate of inflation before he assumed office and what is it now? What was the exchange rate before he assumed office and now? What was the country’s foreign reserve then and now? What has become of his rice pyramids?

Earlier in the week, he compounded failure with insensitivity, describing the millions of Nigerians on queues at ATM points around the country as miscreants who had no need for cash but were only there to sell their turns for some others in dire need of cash. Really?

Has Buhari’s soldier spirit rubbed off on Emefiele?

There is an adage to the effect that when a leaf stays too long on a bar of soap, the leaf itself would turn into soap. That seemed to be the case with the relationship between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele. The latter appears to have rubbed mind so much with the former that he has caught the spirit of a soldier.

Since the scarcity of notes and consequent agitation provoked by the naira redesigning policy, Emefiele, a finance man, has elected to speak like a soldier and issue threats on a daily basis rather than speak with facts and figures. Because he takes orders from a soldier, he now thinks and acts as one; no longer as a sober, shrewd, reflective and analytical financial expert.
Consequent on the foregoing, everything about naira redesigning, a poorly implemented policy that has shaken the nation to its foundation in recent weeks, has been opaque. In his broadcast to the nation on Thursday, Buhari had admitted that he approved the policy. But from every indication, it was a unilateral decision on the part of the President, and that much came to light when the Minister of Finance declared on national television that she had no knowledge of it.

Was the policy debated by the Federal Executive Council? No. So who did the President discuss the idea with apart from Emefiele? We may never know. Like President Buhari, Emefiele is keeping everything to himself. He would not disclose how much of the new notes have been printed or the breakdown of the total N2.1 trillion that has been returned to the banks. Buhari directed that the N200 notes already collected from the public should be re-circulated. But what is the value? Emefiele does not think we should know.

Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai, says the amount in question will not solve the problem of naira scarcity, noting that over N2 trillion was withdrawn while only N400 billion had been printed as at February. But rather than debunk the governor’s claims with facts and figures, Emefiele is asking security agents to go after POS operators. He forgot his elementary economics that this is what you get in times of scarcity. 

Aides shock governor over support base for Atiku
A GOVERNOR of one of the South-South states has received the shock of his life after he was told by two of his aides that his preferred presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has no chance of winning the state in the forthcoming presidential election.
The state in question is one that pundits have penciled down as a must-win for Atiku. The governor himself had nursed no doubt in his mind that his preferred candidate would win massively in the state considering that the state has consistently voted for PDP since 1999.
At a meeting with some people he sees as his trusted allies, he had said that he was so sure Atiku would have over 70 per cent of the votes in the state, leaving the remaining 30 per cent for other candidates to share. Not so fast, an aide reportedly shot back, leaving the governor shocked that his aide could fault him on the matter.
Turning to the aide, he asked, “What are you saying?” The aide then shed light on his claim, saying, “Our people are for power shift, your Excellency. That is what the grassroots are saying.” And before the governor could speak, another aide said, “The two leading southern candidates (Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Peter Obi) should not be brushed aside sir. The grassroots are with them. “
Shocked by what he heard, the governor ended the meeting abruptly.
Fashola’s devastating blow on Jandor
In an instance of the instability of human relationships, two former political associates, namely the Minister of Works, Power and Housing and former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola and the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran a.k.a. Jandor, are at daggers drawn in the build-up to the forthcoming general election.
Until he defected to the PDP in December 2021, the popular belief was that Jandor was being used as Fashola’s foot soldier to unsettle the APC government in Lagos State, following speculations that Fashola was in disagreement with some members of the party’s hierarchy in the state.
All that however changed with a devastating blow the former governor of Lagos State delivered on Jandor at the formal launch of the Eko o ni baje 10,000 Foot Soldiers on Thursday last week. Speaking at the occasion, Fashola said Jandor should not see himself as a governorship material simply because he functioned as his (Fashola’s) cameraman when he was governor.
He said: “Some people say they will take the land from us. That is too much. I did the job of governor for eight years, and part of what helped me was that I was chief of staff to the governor. Even that was not enough.
“So, just following a governor being a cameraman and then watching me for eight years, then you think you will now be a governor, you are not ready. Come to our leadership school; you are not yet ready.”


https://thenationonlineng.net/emefieles-campaign-vehicles-provoke-questions/

This is seriously serious

Please whether Yoruba, Igbo, hausa Fulani do not vote this man.

FarahAideed:
We told you Buhari will end up killing the banking industry..I pity those supporting this nonsense policy ..Bankers are withdrawing their services 5 days to election ..okay ooooo

It was Tinubu boys attacking banks in South West states.