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DeLaRue:
The government waited to secure Governors support for the tax bills before announcing this policy.

Brilliant politicking by the Government.

Tinubu is really a grandmaster of strategy. Igbos should learn and not the usual nzogbu nzogbu ways. Look at how he systematically knock down governors who will want to order chairmen to operate joint account. The chairmen are to open a dedicated account with the CBN and swiftly monitored by ICPC and EFFC. No chairman will release his LG fund to his governor cause the penalty will be severe. They don't have immunity. Nigeria shall be great again. Igbos forget shame and learn.

kettykin:
The business rules were bent for Glo to become a national career and compete with NITEL, overnight OANDO became an NNPC subsidiary or was it NNPC that became OANDO subsidiary without open bidding or transparent transaction only for the whole world to realize that Seplat was being frustrated by someone from a particular part of the country despite approval from Buhari.

it shows you are really foolish, Obasanjo frustrated Adenuga, glo owner. Nobody from the east had suffered what Adenuga went through and he accepted and strategize but if it were to be an igbo man, he will be crying up till now.

zero8zero:
Erisco & Chioma are both igbos.. You see how silly you sound. This is the victim mentality your kids will inherit from all of una?.. shame!

He is a fool, so igbos are so cheap to bribe to tarnish the image of his or her brother. Most of this people reason through anus.

zero8zero:
The businesses igbos are involved, how less are the prices of their products?. The transport companies owned by Igbo men, for instance, how cheaper is their prices?..dey play

Dont mind the fool. They like monopoly for themselves but hate monopoly from other region. Ask him again. Why is their transport companies costly than others. At Ajah, God is good buses is like iyare motors but a journey from Ajah to Benin is costlier with GIGM.

Forumites:
They don start!! They go soon invite zenco. Our government is discouraging

If they trace any shady deal to him, even arrest is welcome. You igbos should stop supporting crime. Hope you people are feeling the result of supporting kanu and his Ipob who now disguises as unknown gun men.

Promise47:
oga James ibori the looter is only relaven in ogarah is home town that was how he supported Omo agege come 2027 PDP go still win Delta state and Delta North them never see anything ABI no be Delta state again no worries 2027 no far again

You this boy, you are just ranting, typical Igbo nature. Anything can happen in 2027 in delta governorship.

Validated:
THE CRUX OF WIKE FUBARA FEUD:
Wike is only telling half the truth about their feud. As a political analyst, I am of the position that Wike remains the problem. The earlier he realizes that Tinubu's template in Lagos CANNOT work in Rivers, the better for him and everyone.

TINUBU'S TEMPLATE IN RIVERS?
Tinubu groomed Ambode as Accountant General of Lagos State. A humble, respected and un-ambititios civil servant. Used him to achieve all sorts of financial deals. In return, made him governor. He single-handedly made Ambode governor for ONE-TERM. Tinubu denied Ambode a second term simply because he was not sure a second-term governor would support his presidential ambition. So, Ambode's crime was because Tinubu desired to contest 2023 elections, and with a second-term Ambode, baba was not sure Lagos would open her treasury for his campaign. Then what did he do, he checkmate Ambode and brought in a Sanwuolu, who because he would seek a second term would have no option than to do Tinubu's wish.

WIKE'S ATTEMPT
Having studied Tinubu's template and also based on their several meetings abroad, Wike decided to replicate Tinubu's template in Rivers.
Wike groomed Fubara, a humble and unambitiou Accountant (just like Ambode). Used him to amass wealth and SINGLE-HANDEDLY made him governor. His intent, just like Tinubu was to kick Fubara out in 2027, get a new governor, who would be a willing tool to bankroll his 2031 presidential ambition.

FUBARA VS AMBODE
A good accountant is an analyst. We use past trendss to forecast future events. What was successfully executed on Ambode would not be possible with a sound Accountant, that was where Wike failed. Hence, knowing how Ambide was used, Fubara became wiser and hence drew the first blood.

THE WAY FORWARD
Wike should just acknowledge that his attempt failed, retace his steps and unite Rivers PDP with Fubara as leader. I recommend that he pick a copy of "Who Moved My Cheese" and focus on his FCT ministerial role. What happened in Lagos cannot be replicated in Niger-Delta. He should ask Okowa about Agbele, his firmer Accountant General. Accountants may not be politicians, but they are VERY SMART. My advice to all those hanging around Wike is simple. Move on, the train has left Wike's station.

you derailed about Wike contesting in 2031. How is it possible when Tinubu a southerner like Wike may probably finish his second term and power return to the north.

MASTAkiLLAh:
shame suppose dey catch you but I guess I rated you too highly besides, who cares about your filthy power ? Is it a power one should be envious about knowing fully well you'll cry to high heavens if you were a victim of it's abuse ? I hate some things in this life but I'm sure I hate wickedness the most. Have a great day

So you supported the useless chief to bring the terrorist ipob to Lagos and that is not wickedness but when jailed for that, it became wickedness. Go back to bed, sleep dey your eyes.

Gustavowhite:
Yoruba people no dey go prison for Lagos
So the way you can prove you own a land is when others go to prison?
And una dey claim yorba na educated tribe?

those who went to prison break the law just like the so called Eze ndigbo of Lagos. Have you seen a Yoruba chief in prison. A chief who was senseless, he will dare not talk anyhow again. Anybody who spoke like him will be the next replacement. You people must learn to respect your host. Nobody dictate to you people in your zone, so the Yorubas will not accept too. The Northerners saw all this for long and that was why they place you people to were you belong for years now. They didn't tolerate nonsense. All the treat and insult you people throw to the Yorubas in Lagos, why didnt you people do that in Kano. With your numbers in Kano, Obi scored less than 50k.

chosen6:
Truly, Persecution is NOT Prosecution.

APC, Again, Fails Too Woefully.

Nnamdi KANU case will definitely end in similar fashion. Because both are based in evil spirit of persecution and no proof.

How did they fail, they just decided to free him now after he had suffer enough. Their aim has been gotten. Same apply to kanu, even with the court, he still not in detention. So after the begging and crying by most important figures in igboland and Tinubu pity him and released him after so much suffering he has gone through, you will then say all this nonsense. Una brain really dey una anus oh. The so called chief has spent Christmas and news year in prison. So why the foolish bragging. I taught you people would have destroyed Lagos after his arrest but no single noise from any quarters.

mrvitalis:
Says someone who have been mentioning South all through this topic?

He has the right to called south cos Tinubu is representing southern slot. You people lack political foresight and that is the bane of your struggles to presidency. Soludo has warned most of you several times to desist from nzogbu nzogbu politics but you people instead insulted him. The northerns who you people have called names and called the Yoruba as slaves to them and in turn gain presidency, is the same north you people want to become second fiddle and you people don't mind Obi becoming vice to Atiku again, hope after successful slavery, you people will get president.

ehikwe22:
SS and SE always vote for competence every year

Must you people mention south south. To show we don't have anything in common, Biafra movement were stopped in portharcourt and Asaba been close to east not more of other state capital. Only you people are not good to the north and south west and want to be president of the country.

helinues:
Stand alone and stop The attachee by force

I tire for omo igbos oh. Must you mention south south, how many times have you seen a south south person on this platform, add south east to his or her conversation. Let them stand alone joor. We are not hateful, emotionally and unintelligent zone. We are too different. Let them fight their battle by themselves cos we fought ours and today south south can't be looked down in national politics. Where need to form alliances we do. After Jonathan, we produced deputy Senate president and now Senate president. In 2031 if you people don't play sensible politics in 2027, we will get the vice presidential slot. Make una continue nzogbu nzogbu politics, it will only ends in tears and shame.

Bullet4thiefnub:
No southern anything please, you are Yorubas and u are aligned with the Fulanis , the south south and south east are the only south we know

south south has been aligning with the president. When Obi was demanding the stoppage of the coaster road, all the south south governors endorsed the road construction. The only pain, Igbo have about the coaster road, is that it won't pass through any of their places. Important stakeholders from south south have also supported it. That is why I always say, we south south don't really have anything in common with you people. We are reasonable people and appreciate what others do, when our own failed. Go to Benin and hear how many Benin's are praising Okpeboho for embarking on the first flyover and other important roads. Even when Buhari built the second niger bridge, many foolish of yours still try to twist the fact. Hatred has eaten deep in you people body and soul.

Ojiofor:
The North is about to turn SW into a worthless 5% electoral value

South west will always remained relevant. They can easily form alliances but be consign about your region that keep crying to produce a president. South west in not south east mate politically and otherwise. It will only take a decision by Tinubu to promise the north central of handing over power to them in 2031, if the support his reelection. What is south east going to offer any zone now or just to be a slave to the north. Worse you people can do, his for Obi to deputize Atiku and Tinubu will still win. The religion sentiment Obi used will not work again in the south. Knows that. If the refineries keep working and the Calabar section of coaster road reach a good level, then Obi will sweat to get votes in south south.

Bendeco02:
@ Op, which population?

Hope they are not including NC for the population because those ones won't vote alongside with them

If I am Tinubu, I will handover to a Christian north central and let me see how north west and north east candidate will win. Look for a popular and credible north central Christian and pair him with a south south cos south east will still not support Apc, is party and there is no need of given them a vice president in 2031. With that, south south, south west and north central will be a locked down. Encourage underage voting in this zone too by sending his trusted allies. Who dey be. Jagaban don't fear anybody. First time of having a southern president with audacity. He has already penetrated southern kaduna with the proposed university and federal medical center. They are praising him now.

Abufo:
What did you Nigerians do with the apostle of truth Nnamdi Kanu?........As Pastor Suleiman said, Nigerians deserve every drop of hardship we face! We do not like The Truth!

Apostle of truth that has killed many of his people than natural sickness.

[quote author=Softmirror post=133769453][/quote]If Obi was the president, will you and your people clamour for disintegration and just like how Aguyi Ironsi never allowed for seceding by Isaac Boro to form Niger delta republic. One thing about you igbos, when things favour you people you don't complain but when turn against, you people with start crying like a kid.

LagosOrigin:
We the Igbos will support Seyi tinubu governorship ambition in Lagos because of our daughter and next first lady of Lagos ,Chinwe Layal holmes Tinubu.

Even if she became first lady in Lagos, he will never have the reasoning of that ugly bamboo in Ondo state. She don't even have any symptom of igboish in her. What I see, she is an half cast. She can't do nzogbu nzogbu ways of life.

Bookhub:
This man is a legend but his reputation at the moment is in the gutters for his actions In the election i am pretty sure a lot of them will be regretting their actions in 2023 elections it was a total waste of time

Rip to his mom though

Everything is attached to election, even when that has been closed. Losers tribe are never hard to identify. Another tears wait for Una in 2027. Mama is fulfilled before death, he gave Nigerian a superstar musician. The president personally call his son. Be worried if your mum gets old and join her ancestors, if your local government chairman will call you.

G0Oodharddick:
Tinubu self is pretending to be deaf concerning Kanu's case!

The werey should release kanu for peace to reign. After all man was only fighting for what he believes in.

So after what kanu said against Tinubu during endsars, you south east supported kanu and never saw it coming that Tinubu will be president in 2023. Non of you people condemned kanu for his live threaten video about Tinubu and family.

Gerhards:
Which tribe staged the protest in Ojota against Jonathan? you are the real coward

Is it against your tribe. The igbos don't want to accept that the Yorubas are superior politically. The manner alot of igbos behaves during and after the presidential election, jerked the online bantering. Igbos were not strategic but result to open insult and even treating those who were not in support of Obi. Yorubas are foresight when it comes to politics. Igbo created enemies for themselves. You call Northerners and westerners names and you want them to support you for presidency.

Hankim:
This is what happens when a particular tribe decided to backstab everybody in Nigeria

You mean the tribe that knows how to play politics very well not nzogbu nzogbu ones.

treesun:
Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II on Wednesday became an involuntary, if narcissistic and self-important, humorist who embodied the age-old wisecrack that says when you put a crown on a clown, he turns the palace into a circus and reduces royalty to a comedy show.


At the 21st Memorial Lecture of Chief Gani Fawehinmi in Lagos, he provoked a burst of hearty laughter in me when he said although he endorses the soul-crushing economic reforms of his “friends” in the Tinubu administration, he wouldn’t defend those “reforms” because the people in the administration have failed to requite his friendship. You can’t make this stuff up!

“I have chosen not to speak on the economy, or reforms or to explain anything because if I explain it, it will help this government,” he said. “But I don’t want to help this government. They are my friends, but if they don’t behave like friends, I won’t behave like a friend.”


That is the literal characterization of what’s called quid pro quo, which is Latin for “this for that,” “something for something,” or a “favor for a favor.” In colloquial English, it’s called "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."

When an adult of Sanusi’s learning, symbolic stature, and social status publicly, even if slyly, solicits a quid pro quo of you-scratch-my-back, I'll-scratch-yours with a government whose suffocating policies he approves, the act inspires laughter because it is uncharacteristically juvenile and desperate.


Nonetheless, we need to unpack the fallacies and underlying assumptions in Sanusi’s absurdly self-conceited egotism.

He said, “I can give a few points here about what we are going through and how it was predictable and avoidable. But I am not going to do that.”

Well, he has actually done that multiple times in the past. In fact, he did it during the very speech where he claimed he wouldn’t.

By saying, “What we are going through today is at least, in part, a necessary consequence of decades of irresponsible management. People were warning that if we continued the way that we were going, this is how we would end up, but they refused to listen,” he effectively did what exactly he said he wouldn’t do.

I can predict with almost mathematical precision what Sanusi will say tomorrow in defense of Tinubu’s brutally punishing “reforms” because Sanusi has a limited, predictable repertoire of apologetics for the neoliberal theology he has been a zealous evangelist for since at least 2011.

Shortly after Tinubu took over power, for instance, he visited the Presidential Villa and was ecstatic, even giddy, in his extolments for Tinubu’s unilateral, precipitous, and ill-advised removal of subsidies, which inaugurated the ongoing unbearable torment in the land.

His response to State House correspondents’ questions about the visit is worth reproducing at length:

“We’ve been friends since his first term as governor of Lagos State when I was a banker. And I have not seen him since the elections…. So, the first reason [for my visit] was to come and congratulate him formally.

“But also, I wear many caps. I wear the cap of an economist, so I came to thank him for the steps he has taken to put this economy on course. As you know, many of the issues that we have been talking about—eh, the subsidy that has caused a hemorrhage on the fiscus, the multiple exchange rate regimes, and so on.

“These are issues that I have personally been talking about for a long time, and I am happy that on his very first day, he has addressed these issues and the markets are happy. And it is important [that] when the government does the right thing for us to give them feedback. [It’s] not always when they do the wrong thing that you complain.”


By the end of 2023 when the injurious consequences of the double whammy of subsidy removal and currency devaluation began to take shape and there were fears that mass hunger and disillusionment could spark social and communal convulsions, Sanusi came to the defense of the Tinubu administration with all he had.

“It’s injustice for anyone to blame the Tinubu administration for the current economic hardship because there is no other alternative than the removal of the fuel subsidy,” Sanusi said in a widely shared article he reportedly wrote in a WhatsApp group. “After all, Nigeria cannot even afford to pay the subsidy.”

He said the downward spiral in the economy was the direct consequence of Muhammadu Buhari’s stubborn refusal to heed his counsel to “firmly and unequivocally eliminate fuel subsidies,” not Tinubu’s removal of subsidies. It’s counterfactual logic, but Sanusi isn’t known to deploy the resources of logic, evidence, or even basic common sense when he evangelizes the false gospel of neoliberal salvation.

His solution to the ruthless decimation of the poor and the hollowing out of the middle class was for people to learn to live within their means and for economically well-off people who feel so inclined to help people who are less fortunate than they are. He freed the government of any obligation to cut waste and to tend to the needs of a badly hurting country.

“I can only plead with the people to endure the hardship, and those who have the means to help the downtrodden should do so,” he said. “I am also pleading with commoners to live according to their earnings; we must not peg our lives above our earnings in this difficult situation where people are looking for what to eat.”

Never mind that the poor are writhing in pain not because they are living above their earnings but because their little earnings have lost their worth because of the policies he advocated.

So, what more could Sanusi possibly say in defense of the cruel policies of his “friends” who have turned to his “fiends” than he has already said?

That’s why his sneaky quid-pro-quo proposition to the Tinubu administration is so irresistibly hilarious in its sterile juvenility. He has by now exhausted his entire armory of neoliberal apologetics.


He already said the “markets are happy” with Tinubu’s reforms and that the people whose happiness has been stolen to make the markets happy should learn to “endure the hardship.” He’s no longer useful to his friends.

The second assumption that needs to be unpacked stems from the first. And it is that Sanusi imagines himself to be some nonpareil persuasive genius whose unrivaled communicative aptitude can magically cause suffering Nigerians to forget their sorrows and mollify their anger.

He wants his friends in government to believe that he is withholding these astonishingly unparalleled swaying powers because his show of friendship to them hasn’t been reciprocated.

“They don’t even have people with pedigree that can come and explain to the people what they are doing,” he said. “I am not going to help. I started by helping, but I am not going to help. Let them come and explain to Nigerians why they are pursuing the policies that they are pursuing.”


Had I not watched the video of these remarks, I would have said these rants were the vapors of someone’s febrile and depressed imagination, falsely attributed to Sanusi.

Sanusi, by these statements, is passing himself off as someone “with pedigree” who, if his friendship were requited, can “come and explain to the people” why they are starving and dying because of economic “reforms,” and the people would be calm, understanding, and accept their deaths by instalment with equanimity and even gratitude. Such delusion of grandeur! Such entertainingly comical megalomania!

But what is Sanusi’s record in this business of telling people who are dying that their death is inevitable, that the happiness of the markets is more important than the wellbeing of the people?

In 2012, he was one of the major architects and defenders of the removal of petrol and other subsidies. He clashed with human rights activists like Femi Falana (whose concerns about the cost of subsidy removal on the poor Sanusi infamously dismissed as “not an economic argument.”)

He also clashed with scholars such as the late Pius Adesanmi who worried about the implication of high petrol price on generators, which is the main source of electricity for the poor. Sanusi dismissed this concern with the false claim that generators run on diesel, not petrol.


Yet, with all his “pedigree” and unmatched persuasive powers (the kind he is supposedly withholding from his “friends”), he failed to dissuade the masses of the people from flooding the streets in the #OccupyNigeria protests.

The truth about Sanusi, as I have repeatedly pointed out, is that he is a self-loving sadist who actually derives delight from the misery of the masses. His only grouse with the Tinubu administration is that it is undermining the emirship he invested princely sums to recapture through massive financial contributions to Governor Abba Kabiru Yusuf’s election.

So, the “quo” in his wily, unstated, but nonetheless evident quid-pro-quo suggestion was for the Tinubu administration to withdraw its seeming support for former Emir Aminu Ado Bayero. Then he will transform into a propagandist to defend and justify your suffering. But what Nigerians want is a relief from their hardship, not a callous justification for why they must endure it.

https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2025/01/emir-sanusis-quid-pro-quo-for-his

I don't think he understand royalty. If you want to be a politician then he should be. Let him come to Benin kingdom and study what royalty entails. This are the reason governors in Kano state will keep tossing him around. I am proud of Benin kingdom when it comes to tradition even when I am from the north part of the state. We Edolite regardless of your tribe, hold the Benin palace in high esteem. Even when we have our own kings but still reference the great Oba. I honestly loved sanusi for his accomplishments and his deep knowledge. I have followed him, since his days at first bank and he was the reason I became a consumer and first bank is still my major bank even when I have other bank accounts. Traditionally he don't poses it. He was made the emir of Kano because of the humiliation Jonathan gave him and wanted to even jail him for exposing the corruption that took place in NNPC then. Anyday and anytime, I still have huge regard for him. Very brilliant man. Him or Soludo should have be made minister of finance. Different calling took them. Soludo still have the chance but sanusi is already a king.

Pocca:
Elections in Nigeria is rigged not free and fair. If is intelligence , content and the ability to convince and influence voters. Give to Igbos. Example is Peter Obi. They know the solution to Nigeria problem. But Igbophobia is the problem.

as governor he couldn't transform Onitsha is base to be beffitting unlike Soludo who has developed Onitsha, awka and other towns. Obi was just an average governor. Why the causes from anambarians on Twitter and Facebook when he was governor. Abi who do well na curse dem dey receive for igboland.

Streetinvestor2:
No person from your region dead or alive can stop them.The way I hate that your so called lagos.For free I don't want anything to do with it.It is just the port that is keeping many igbos thr.If for someone like me no igbo will be living thr.When abj never finish.

There is a port in rivers. Enough of the excuses. We will see if anyone from Lagos will travel down to east to transact any business. Other tribes will surely take the advantage. Is it not just buying and selling. Nothing special about it.

MasterJayJay:
Every sane person knows that Reno Omonkey is a fool.

The fugitive doesn't live in Nigeria so whatever riot he's trying to cause won't harm him.

He has been making posts to incite northerners against Southeast.

He deliberately lied to northerners that Peter Obi is responsible for the shutdown of Dangote tomato plant. He posted the lie on his social media accounts and posted an Hausa version of it. That's how evil that fool is. Whenever he wants to incite the north, he posts it in Hausa language.

On the 1966 coup, it is important to note that 1945 and 1953 came before 1966. So anyone that is neutral must also mention the events of 1945 and 1953 where Igbo people were massacred in the north.

The massacre of Igbo people in the north in 1953: Akintola, a Yoruba man was targeted but it was Igbo people that paid the price. Inuwa Wada of NPC organized northern youths that will attack Akintola. Akintola cancelled the visit to northern Nigeria and Wada unleashed his thugs on Igbo community in the north.

So you and your people knew he was evil and you all supported him when he was attacking the Northerners and Tinubu back then. You people are really a huge hypocrite.

Streetinvestor2:
The noise is waste of time.The igbos will vote who ever the North brings out both in lagos. The igbos will always be better aligning with north. T pan is never southern president because they never voted him.This is just a new political game.They are already afraid that the igbos are going to align with north.
Frog eye must be finished in 2027..That is the only task.They have not seen anything. By 2026 we will be having meetings in all our kindred to be driving the massage home.The igbos knows who the true enemy has always been.The enemy within is always the worst. The voting powers they have is lagos. All the igbos need is to reduce it by half. The vote from kano and kaduna will neutralizer the remaining

You want to be the slave you accused the Yorubas for to the Northerns. Nzogbu nzogbu ways has destroyed you people. Tinubu will be reelected. The implications of supporting a northern and failed, will be that a south south man will deputize a northern in 2031.

Ojiofor:
I do not know why Igbo leaders and social commentators are keeping quiet and watch the snake Reno who is the most dangerous activist in Nigeria to set ndi Igbo up for another civil war.Btw whatever happened in 15 Jan 66 northern soldiers revenged in July same year and killed more than necessary.What does the snake want?
And those from Delta state I mean the we are not Igbo we are Bini descendants crew should come and claim their brother Nzeogwu.

If they are to claim nzoegwu, they will also claim okonjo iweala.

italkdlonly:
Can Fubara fire a CP?

When kid talk or badly educated person speak, is not hard to identify.

JoeyNaza:
Ndume has indirectly raised another issue that requires debate. Why should oil-producing states who bear the brunt of environmental degradation be awarded a measly 13%, they deserve more than 20%.

Enough is enough. But will they rise up to demand more. Tinubu is using this tax reform to bring more of what 'his Lagos" earns back to Lagos, when will South - South people rise up to bring more of what they earn back to the people.

Everything no be gra gra. Na to fight who no fight you dey mind, meanwhile dem dey chop you finish.

was he not a lawmaker then, when the issue became an hoted debate. Some south south lawmakers urged that during the groundnut pyramid, states in the north producing groundnut were receiving 50 Percent of derivation and that should also translate to the oil derivation. That bill was almost killed by the northern lawmakers and Obasanjo then, have to settle for the current 13 percent. Ndume just want to be clever.

PussyMiners:
Everyone can easily hide behind an unprogressive law to draw the country back.
How come saint OBJ didn’t remember the rule of law when he was leveling Odi and Zaki Biam. What about the extra constitutional methods he devised in removing some governors and senate presidents ??
Oh! I almost forgot how the paragon of rule of Law, Obasanjo, almost dribbled his way into getting a 3rd term that was clearly alien to our constitution.

It’s funny how defenders of inequities like yourself parrot rule of law only when it is convenient.

Like I always say, the Nigerian politicians hate anything that can benefit the common man .
It is akin to pushing KCl directly into their vein .

Leave those who are busy defending him. Obasanjo had the chance for putting the country in good footing but greed never allowed him. He only did very few things rightly but destroyed plenty. Did he not attempt to amend the constitution for third term possibility. Why did he not follow the law. We have many mad people on this platform. Did he follow the law, when he impeached some governors with five members against the needed numbers. He institutionalized election rigging.