₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
Even then, I don't expect any state to be able to fund a properly working state police.

What they would fund is a police force worse than the Nigeria police which is in a bad state
Forget politics. Forget party. This isn't even an attack on Tinubu or Obi, Na statement of reality.
Even if your atte volunteers, you won't get the good service you want.

i don't get, don't you have humans in your state to make things work? Lagos has neighborhood watch working fine. Lagos has LIRS doing fine alongside FIRS/NRS. Lagos has LASTMA working great with FRSC. Lagos has LASAA, LAMATA, etc. Some of these state agencies work better than some federal. Are they lower humans in the states you assume can't function? Or is the Nigeria you presume in a different planet? What's the meaning of this total negativity?

They really don't need an explanation.
"To give truth to him who loves it not is to only give him more multiplied reasons for misinterpretation."

commoditiesnig:
Exactly! Why join a party that was registered by COURT ORDER.. that alone was a RED FLAG for any intelligent politician

https://www.inecnigeria.org/political-parties/nigeria-democratic-congress/

It's been there clearly on inec website before Obi. Everything in the party is under contention in court. But who'll they blame when court gives a ruling? Tinubu and Federal government.

helinues:
Not deregistering the party wouldn't have made any difference as they don't even have structures across Nigeria

Exactly. Though it'll be nice for them to lose at the polls, but it'll also be dishonorable for the courts not to do their job.

helinues:
This judgement is just like giving them some excuses to make. Peter Obi or NDC is jot a threat to president Tinubu's reelection.

The court should have considered the sensitivity of the case

What should happen to all the aspirants contesting under NDC now?

They don't deserve to be on the ballot for making these poor decisions. They are banking on impunity, nothing will happen, Obi is here, Nigeria will burn if we're not allowed, and similar vibes.

We warned several times about things like this but Obi refused to look before leaping. NDC had numerous court cases before Obi. Everything about them was by court order. Na still Tinubu dem go blame, SMH.

nairalanda1:
It's not a matter of blaming the center, it is a matter of being honest and admitting that no state can fund state police, especially in a situation where the federal government cannot even fund federal police better.

FYI, the law doesn't make state police compulsory. It only allows room for states that feel they can do an extra or better job about their security instead of waiting forever for handouts from the federal government.
You can't irresponsibly say that no state can cater for its own security. So they can fund their governor, fund their state legislature assembly, fund their state civil service, collect security votes from FG, collect about times 2 or 3 their previous allocation, but cannot fund securing their own lives. Yet, some of you are lobbying for creation of extra state and even country. Why not stop this hypocrisy?
If you allow that for your state governor, i don't. So allow me this opportunity, your state can continue waiting for handouts and political drama.

mindtricks:
You sound like you are talking about Tinubu. That's him, right?

Evidently, you don't know the Word, that's why you are deceived into thinking your fellow man is the devil.

joseph032:
Same woman that give out Cars to Women political leaders fir free and Amaka and Abado for the poor masses.

Exactly. She said many other things. The point she made is that nothing is too small if you really put in work.

“To start Akara business doesn't take a lot of money. To start roasting corn and kuli-kuli doesn't take much. We didn't give them a loan, we gave them a grant. We have encouraged Nigerians as best as we could.”

- First Lady Remi Tinubu pic.twitter.com/tnDNJavTH8

— Oyindamola🙄 (@dammiedammie35) June 25, 2026

Endinjustice:
Tinubu will go down in history as the mostly incompetent destroyer of Nigeria

A pained soul in need of a hug. Send your location, we can send someone to hug you deeply for 5mins. After you cry out this frustration, we'd transfer you to the national orientation agency for further healing.

DomPerignon:
Even Obi has condemned the State Police bill for no other reason beyond opposition sake.

Although we must remember that Obi made a pledge to northern elders in Arewa in the iconic Arewa House in Kaduna in 2022 not to tamper with the Nigerian constitution especially in the area of resource control for states.

These people just want to milk from others while hypocritically pointing to northerners as parasites.

Wow, just wow.

mindtricks:
I like that. You can try doing it with your PVC. Kick that devil out of seat.

i actually referred to the devil living inside you. So, i should carry my pvc to vote for one devilish fellow that has thief in his nickname, just like the devil/thief that comes to steal. Or i should vote the famous son of the devil, who's lambarino for a living. The devil is the father of liars, i won't waste time voting for his confirmed sons. Get thee behind me.

DomPerignon:
That's the issue here because they don't want it at all not only in their region or states but every other place because they are well aware that it will boost security and promote law enforcement which they are against.

It is well, may God Himself deliver us from these people. Make Jagaban continue, no gree for anybody.

OredoPikin:
If I am Mr president
I will direct the IGP to redeploy all police officers to their state of origin.
That's the best way to start.
Don't hand over police to start governors.
Mbah has no business been the commissioner of police in Oyo.
Oyetola has no business been the commissioner of police in Enugu
Osazuwa has no business been the commissioner of police in delta

Lolz, not everyone wants to work or relocate to their state of origin. Take responsibility as a state. Your state governor is a human and a man like the president also. Ask him to use his brains, he's paid to.

Eba50:
if u know how power hungry these governors are eh. the downside of it is that all governors must win next tenure elections, but there will be serious oppression

Okay, so now there's no oppression or rigging? People like you will say planes should never be allowed because of plane crash, or cars and roads should not be because of accident and overspeeding.

Hehehe. If Tinubu didn't make it work, they'd have complained to death about how he's holding power and how he's in charge of everything not making it work.
Now, responsibility don land, dem don dey open thread. State police is not by force. Those who know its value will use it. People wey no get vision except parasitic coveteousness of what is not theirs.

nairalanda1:
I'm not Igbo, and I am opposed to state police, because if federal government is struggling to fund state police, how would the states be able to fund state police.?

And knowing NIgerians, they are going to oppose taxes to do the funding job.

The opposition will remain for me, even if na Obi or atiku or sowore doing it.

I'm even looking at states like Zamfara. What they need for succesful state police, the money is probably even more than all their annual budget for the year.

Nigerians should stop builidng castles in the air.

In other words, you don't want to be responsible. Just let's keep blaming the center.
FYI, the law doesn't make state police compulsory. It only allows room for states that feel they can do an extra or better job about their security instead of waiting forever for handouts from the federal government.
There's currently rigging, so it's not something that state police wants to come and introduce.
If you don't want, no problem. But allow those who want it the chance.

franchasofficia:
I was one of those that supported state Police but after putting so many things into consideration, I realized that State Police will end up becoming a tool of oppression, intimidation and for election rigging for Governors.


I know Tinubu's main goal is to empower Lagos state which is more like his family's personal business center.


If truly Tinubu wants to do an overhaul of our security architecture to reduce insecurity and improve local policing and security in Nigeria, then he ought to do the below



1.) Make it compulsory that every Federal Commissioner of Police and all heads of tactical teams and formations under Police command must be indigenes of that state.


2.) Every Commanding Officer of every military cantonment in any state in Nigeria must be an indigene of that state.

3.) Every Director of DSS in every state in Nigeria must be indigene of that state.

4.) Every Civil Defense Corps Boss in any Nigeria state must be an indigene of that state.

Do this alone and watch insecurity and terrorism die a natural death in Nigeria with time.


Then with time, we can start the process of recognizing regional governments using the six geopolitical zones as template, from there, we can have Regional Prime Ministers for each of the 6 geopolitical zones, then we can have Regional Police. Gradually we can phase out Presidency and move to Regional government with a less powerful Prime Minister whose role will be more focused on foreign policies, border control and defense against external threats.



This is the only way to make a meaningful impact in Nigeria.


State Police even though it sounds nice on paper could fragment Nigeria and turn to another chaos. We ought to have a sincere electoral law that reduces rigging and election results manipulation to say 85% first before empowering our corrupt, rascal state Governors with a State Police to avoid abuse and using the state Police to rig election and perpetuate themselves and their corrupt cronies into office perpetually while the people remain helpless to change or remove them

Gosh, your idea and view have to be the ONLY way. There's something very wrong with this way of thinking. You are not God and God in His wisdom made us different.

WhiteIverson:
Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims

Unfortunately, that narrative is fast changing with the rise of Obi followers.

Activists don't usually make good leaders, prison C.V doesn't translate to successful governance. As a matter of fact, they are useful tools for upsetting governments without them usually knowing. Nothing beats vision.

mindtricks:
The mansion, that's the Aso Rock in Abuja, it has the devil inside it. YOU NEED TO REPENT if you really want to follow Christ, not attaching his name to your signature yet dragging his name in the mud. That's the life of a hypocrite.

Get thee behind me satan.

Nefort:
Why didn't Tinubu use the money for this project to improve power supply at least? Nigerians never complained of lack of access roads connecting Calabar and Lagos and he decided to sink billions into this unimportant project. Tinubu left the problems that Nigerians complain about to solve the one that Nigerians didn't complain about. Tinubu hasn't even solved at least one major problem facing Nigeria.

How are they both financed?Any idea?

anonimi:
The cows are in Bourdillon.
Do you think that they are inside the master strategists bullion vans or he has a big enough ranch for them in Ikoyi

Evidence please, not bot behavior.

mindtricks:
You don't sound like you believe in Jesus, do you or its just a camouflage? How can claim Christ but promote the devil?

You act like the devil has a mansion inside you.

How person go dey Lagos, dey fund terrorists for another region or country? You'd now engage in some long winding court case, then after spend money to rehabilitate and integrate them with ceremony. It doesn't add up. You can't keep rewarding them with kid's gloves.

Are the sponsors and the bandits not Nigerians? Where are the cows? Person wey no get plan and wey no fit talk against him kinsmen bandits and herdsmen dey talk to person wey get plans. Nigeria na viewing center oh.

As far back as Jan 2020, our mummy Senator Oluremi Tinubu was already advocating for State Police to tackle Nigeria's insecurity.

Today, that vision is turning into reality as the constitutional amendment gains momentumpic.twitter.com/uXIUER6gjX

— Senior Pst Okezie James Atañi. (@Onsogbu) June 25, 2026

mindtricks:
Just like when your signature preaches Christ but in actual fact you support the devil. No be so?

The devil seems to live in you, must be why you're seeing devils.

PORK have better send this man trumpets to seek clarification. If they don't want embarrassment, then add a few saxophones. What are friends for, don't mention.

The person who doesn't want to believe will not believe.

Send him a few trumpets and one saxophone.

Ofunaofu:
Tinubu should simply heed his own advice and resign over insecurity.

It's that simple.

You told Goodluck Jonathan to resign because of insecurity. Today, under your administration, insecurity is arguably worse.

By your own standard, shouldn't you heed your own advice and resign?

He also said it's his turn. Did you agree? Did GEJ agree? Find something productive to do.

Wait for your election defeat in January.