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A whole party is afraid of one individual? A Mr Nafiu. It does not speak well of them

mrvitalis:
If Obi gets 40% of core North Tinubu is gone

I just dey laugh APC and their supporters... If e sure you come down South as ad hoc staff... After election don't upload the results and see if you won't see God instantly

This guys don't know the anger in the land

If it is ethnic voting or open fight between Obi and core North then Obi will not see five percent of the core North and in a two way between Obi and Tinubu, Tinubu may win because of that. I don't think anybody can win a Presidential election in Nigeria without any of the NW and the SW voting for the person. If you lose massively in the two zones you will most probably lose the election.

Scorpio99:
I don't think any of this has to do with orderliness or majority. It's about challenging legality which I think is fair.

What have they got to lose by removing the chair man who is not up to two years in the party and putting Mr Nafiu who can then be removed at any time using means that align with the party constitution?

helinues:
Your opinion which you are entitled to

Those who lost their relatives during Akwuzu Sars still voted for the governor of the then state enmass in 2023

Time heals

The governor was probably doing his best to protect them. Doing your best makes all the difference

I think it is quite obvious that the supreme court ruling applies only to parties whose leadership is not disputed and not to a party where the person claiming to be the chairman does not qualify according to the party's constitution.

If ADC wants to present candidates in the next elections then they should make hay while the sun shines

Scorpio99:
It isn't every matter that is settled by a court. Leadership tussle in a party is the number one thing courts have no jurisdiction over in a party's internal dispute. It is for the NEC of the party

They are not orderly. If they are in a majority they have nothing to fear from any leadership.

franchasng:
Which is completely illegal according to Nigeria's Supreme Court and the newly revised section 83(5) of the Electoral Act of 2026.


The ADC leadership need to hurry and remind the Federal High Court that welcomed Bala Gombe's case that they are acting on illegality and overstepping their jurisdiction as stated above

If your people are in a majority what have they to fear from any leadership?
Then if leadership is disputed who should any aggrieved party go to if not the court? If leadership is not disputed then you sort out your differences in house, if disputed you have to go to court. Any leadership that is a breach of the party constitution will obviously be disputed. That the new members didn't see this coming is a minus for them.

What I see here is people afraid of a free and fair primary but if you rig the primaries can you also rig the elections? President Jonathan as a sitting President was not able to do that

franchasng:
Supreme Court already ruled that courts should not meddle into political party's internal affairs and this issue in ADC is an internal party affair, so therefore no other court ought to entertain his case, they were supposed to throw it out with fine pointing Supreme Court ruling for him and his corrupt SANs!


I have been in similar court hearings where the Judge slammed the appellant with fine and also fined the legal counsel, that is what they ought to have done to Bala Gombe's case and not entertain it for hearing to start with.


It's clear that the Judiciary is acting on the interest of Nigeria's President and not being fair and just or following legality and constitution.

Empathy will help. If you are deputy chairman and the chairman resigned and handed over to a group of strangers without consulting you and is saying you have also resigned without being able to prove it and the strangers are not even up to two years in the party as they are supposed to be, how will you feel if the court throws out your litigation?

As ADC members advise your people to allow back the old members as they can not single handedly determine anything in the party since they are a minority

The way I understand this thing is that the person disturbing the ADC is Alhaji Kwankwanso. If the Sen Mark exco is removed, there will be no consensus candidates and there will have to be a primary which Alhaji Kwankwanso will stand a good chance of winning. Aside this I don't see how who is chairman matters. The chairman alone can never be able to determine who will get the ticket if there are primaries. The Mr Nafiu is working for none other than Alhaji Kwankwanso and not President Tinubu.

Facts about the 2027 Presidency in Nigeria

Nobody whose friend or family was killed by bandits or who paid ransom to bandits will campaign or vote for President Tinubu knowing fully well that his NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is sending unknown gunmen as vigilantes to communities under the heavy attack of unknown gunmen

No Northern Muslim can win this particular election without the support of the Yoruba electorate.

Former Governor Peter Obi can win if the core North (the twelve sharia states) vote massively for him and southern minorities and Northern Christians also join in.

The war in the middle east. What is the way forward?

The USA ought not to be the only country trying to prevent the proliferation of nukes on Earth. It should be all UN member nations that signed the treaty and if not all UN member nations that signed the treaty, it should be at least all the members of the United Nations security council UNSC. The action against Iran should not have involved Israel at all not to talk of Israel attacking first. Israel is not a signatory to the nuclear non proliferation treaty and their excuse that Iran will use nukes on them once they have it does not hold water. It is not enough excuse to initiate war. We are all on Earth together and we all know Iran can never attack Israel with nukes to kill the very Palestinians that they are in support of. Many Palestinians will certainly be collateral damage in any attack on Israel. Iran also can not nuke any country because they know they will be nuked back without remorse. No matter what Hamas did, their supporters and financiers including Iran can not be blamed for it. The Hamas own their own battles. The nations that supported the ANC during their struggle in South Africa can not be blamed for any extent that the ANC went to .

It was therefore not worth it nor was it justified for Israel to plunge the region into crisis as they did. It has been the same pattern. Violence is not always the answer. You assassinate Iranian scientists and the Iranian government will hunt down your own scientists no matter how long it takes them and they can do it right there in Israel. Even street gang members or confraternity members know this and the assassination of any number of scientists can not stop a national project that the government is determined to continue because Iranian scientists publish in journals probably including secret journals, so how can killing a few individuals affect or change the equation?

Israel should have left everything to be sorted out among those nations that signed the nuclear non proliferation treaty. This is the point the other UNSC members are obviously stranding on.

The attack on Iran has now culminated into a three front war for Israel and the only tangible results are destruction upon destruction.

The only nations that should be involved in enforcing the nuclear non proliferation treaty are those that signed that treaty which does not include Israel. Israel has no excuse to have initiated violence against Iran and then drag the US into it.

What is now the way forward? Those who can negotiate peace should step in and negotiate peace. Israel should submit itself to the nuclear non proliferation treaty and put itself under monitoring just like others while the UN should support or sponsor the occupation of Palestine by a US led force which will be there permanently to maintain peace and full independence for Palestine.

Those who can negotiate peace is the missing factor and they should step in.

If ADC can not resolve this simple matter then they should disband. There are other parties for anybody to join. Move to another party en bloc. A political party is not a cult group

Tinubu is in bed with those killing Nigerians. Why should anybody vote for him? The NSA is sending unknown gunmen to Nigerian communities as vigilantes when those communities are under the attack of unknown gunnen

gidgiddy:
If Nigeria was actually looking to change this country for the better after many decades of bad governance, perfect corruption and decay, the only person worth voting for would be Sowore

But Nigerians are still busy fighting over ethnicity, religion and ideology, which allows political criminals to keep coming in

So fighting corruption is your solution to Nigeria's problem? It shows you don't understand what nation building is about. Frugality and discipline are not the way forward for a man on minimum wage with twenty children

Ofodirinwa:
If igbo were their own country the HDI would be higher than ghana and CIV. Ghana's hdi is only 'higher' than Nigeria because of northern nigeria.

Is there any Igbo city like Abidjan or Accra? Before HDI can be high, government spending must be high and there is no way around that. That is why Lagos and Ogun HDI are the highest.
It is of course true that sections of the country have different HDIs and it is to do with the capacity of the governments.

They are government vigilantes sent there by the NSA Nuhu Ribadu and the fact is known to the President. The killers are on government payroll

ottersberger:
So, this is obviously no longer a factual discourse; therefore, it is no longer worth the time invested in its pursuit.

Point out what is not factual in the post.

The future of electrical power

If battery technology and solar inverters are well developed and the resources needed to produce them are not scarce, then the whole world will run on solar energy easily and battery technology is improving. Inverters are also being improved. They are not where they were a few years ago.

If battery technology is not well developed the whole world can still run on solar if there is a way to generate solar power in desert areas and send it via satellite to any part of the world

The question Aba people need to ask is why is their electricity so expensive? RCCG is 25MW and not supplied by a pipeline and it was ridiculously cheap when I lived there. I am not sure of now. Why is power generated by Geometric so expensive? It should be cheaper because of scale and because it is supplied gas by a pipeline

jahbenedict:
For a country that does not have natural gas, definitely wind energy might be cheaper. But for Nigeria with the vast natural gas reserves,
gas will always be cheaper than wind or solar especially for large scale power supply (national or regional grid). We even flare it to show you how cheap it is.
With the kind of cloud cover we get during the rainy season in Nigeria, solar energy is not reliable. How many areas in Nigeria except in the north, experience the kind of wind speeds required for wind energy?

I agree with you on the need for Nigeria to have a mix of gas, solar, hydro and wind, but gas should have the higher percentage because it is reliable and we have it in abundance.

I have no doubt that gas can be cheap because it is cheap in RCCG camp, Winners camp and etc but they don't use high tension transmission in those places. They get to consume a higher percentage of what they generate but on the overall solar hydro and wind will always be vastly cheaper than gas. Read up on how wind power led to Denmark paying next to zero for power. The only or main advantage of gas is there will be no downtime so far gas is available.

jahbenedict:
None of the european countries that rely more on wind energy such as Denmark and Germany, have anything close to the amount of natural gas Nigeria does. Their reliance on wind, is deliberate because they don't want to depend on countries like Russia for their energy source. Also, they want to transition to renewable sources of energy. Their use of wind energy has even made electricity more expensive for them because of the huge upfront cost and need for back up and storage in periods of low wind flow or sunshine.

Even when wind costs ten percent of what gas costs?

ottersberger:
Your argument is fundamentally flawed on both facts and context.

First, equating the Efik/Ibibio with the Igbo is inaccurate. The Efik/Ibibio are a minority group and cannot be meaningfully compared to the Igbo in population size, historical reach, or national impact. That comparison distorts the discussion rather than clarifying it.

Second, dismissing Olusegun Obasanjo as a “forced” leader to deny the Igbo a place in Nigeria’s democratic leadership is disingenuous. President Obasanjo was voted for by a majority of Nigerians according to our constitution of 1999. He was a Nigerian president of Yoruba extraction who governed in a civilian dispensation; whether or not he aligned with your tribal expectations is irrelevant to that fact.

It is also worth recalling why he lacked strong Yoruba backing in his time. His administration withheld portions of Lagos State’s federal allocations because the state government, under Bola Tinubu, created additional local councils in violation of constitutional provisions. That decision was rooted in legality and fiscal discipline, not ethnic bias, particularly given concerns that the arrangement was designed to expand revenue channels prone to abuse.

The central issue you are avoiding is structural imbalance. The question is not whether every group has “achievements”; that is trivial and universally true. The issue is access to national power. On that front, the Igbo have been consistently marginalized since the end of the civil war, with no sustained presence at the highest level of leadership. The status quo pre-Civil War is well established and not worth further introspection.

This makes your generalization misleading. The Igbo case is not about a lack of progress but about a premeditated disproportionate exclusion from central political authority. Suffice it to say they have managed to thrive fairly well in the presence of these hostilities such that one wonders what they would have achieved in an equitable arrangement.

Finally, even on broader developmental metrics, the Igbo stand out. By some comparative assessments, they still ranked approximately fourth on an African human development scale when evaluated as a distinct socio-economic bloc, far ahead of any other Nigerian group. This underscores capacity and resilience despite systemic constraints, not because of equal opportunity.

Reducing this reality to “all groups are progressing” ignores both historical context and present-day disparities and realities.

No Obasanjo was voted for by the Yoruba for his second term so they didn't necessarily vote against him because of Tinubu.

If you say Efik Ibibio is a minority group then SE too is a minority group compared to the SW and the NW. Compared to the SS the SE is a minority group. I am not against zoning if it is equitable ie giving three slots to the SW for every one slot given to the SE because revenue and population have also to be considered. If not done like that then zoning would be unfair to every zone except the SE zone. That is the reality.

There are more than 200 ethnic groups in Nigeria and I believe there are some even in the middle belt doing better than the Yoruba in some respects. Some have more Generals per capita and as many Profs per Capita but their overall population is small is the disadvantage they have. What groups like the Yoruba Igbo and Hausa have working for them is mainly their population and not much else though I am not saying they don't have other things working for them. It must be noted that each of Yoruba and Hausa have a much higher population than Igbo. At least double and not realizing this fact is the main cause of Igbos thinking they are marginalized. Why do you think Yoruba churches are big, Yoruba musicians are big, Yoruba movie producers are big? It is not because of anything than their population though I am not saying the movie producers and musicians are not talented

Presently on a per capita basis the Igbo have the highest representation in government by far of the three biggest groups

ottersberger:
It is a well-known and documented fact that Nigeria has been actively hindering Igbo advancement since the civil war ended, and the Igbo have yet to govern at the national level. Furthermore, a brief examination of various indexes consistently places Igbo and Igbo-dominant states among the top 10.

I don't really agree. What about Efik/Ibibio advancement? They are almost half of Igbo population and Igbo have had two leaders on the national stage Zik and Ironsi. It does not matter that it was before the civil war. Efik/Ibibio have had none at all. Obj was forced on all Nigerians by the military and 2015 was the first time Yoruba got to the center in a democracy. Igbo were there 1960 to 1966 and 1979 to 1983.

Then all groups are prospering according to their population or is there any group without their towns, cities and thriving economy? They also have professionals that have excelled in their field according to their population. If you ask any group to list their achievements it will be a long list.

What about Ghanaians and Ivoiriens? There are many countries in west Africa with higher HDI than Nigeria and the ethnic groups there should perform better than Nigerian average. Akan for instance will perform better than Yoruba. Then Boer in South Africa despite being white are an African ethnic group and the black groups in South Africa presently have the highest HDI on the continent. South Africa has universal healthcare and Nigeria does not. So how is it possible for a Nigerian group to beat any SA group in HDI?

People don't know what Ghana is. Ghana made ten billion dollars from Agric export last year and Ghana is about 30 million people. They still have other exports

duro4chang:
You have written something but have said nothing. If democracy is not the best then give us the best. Is it military, monarchy, authoritarian or whoever?

I think my post is clear enough. A government run with the people's money via a high tax to GDP ratio with checks and balances will be successful without having universal adult suffrage ie democracy

Gerrard59:
Lol

Use solar to industrialise a country and provide constant electricity to millions regardless of the weather conditions.

Solar is not static. It is now considerably developed. It is powering Aso Rock, powering 10 room hotels with running AC as advertised, powering small factories, it can certainly power the whole country. Something powering Aso rock can power the whole country

What you need is not democracy but a real government

There is no country that succeeded because of democracy ie universal adult suffrage. That concept does not change a thing. It certainly does not guarantee that the lot of the people under it will be better.

You need a real government that depends on the industry of the people to even survive or stay afloat. You get this only via a high tax to GDP ratio.

You need a peer reviewed governance system where a national assembly of elders, not youth can overrule the government on anything. The problem now is that such an assembly is better elected but even if not elected the system will still work so far the first requirement of a high tax to GDP ratio is fulfilled. The assembly can just be representatives of trade unions elected by their members and not in a general election. Trade unions like the NBA, ICAN, ASUU, NUT, NSE and etc

Democracy has never been and will never be what will save any country or people.

OAFMods:
The next killing in nigeria i can tell you will never be him because he does not reside where elder n indigenes celebrate banditry only to start wailing at the givt each time they strike their villages.

Still that is no reason for him or anyone to support a President who is clearly aiding and abetting the killing of those he is President over. What do you think should happen to a President who doesn't care what happens to the citizens?

IJAYA001:
Thank God you get integrity in your father's compound .
Continue competing with someone you can not match in your life time.

Who is competing with Tinubu? Is Tinubu a good man? No and this is the second definite proof I have and the first happened in 2012. Tinubu is not a good man.

Gerrard59:
The bold is entirely untrue as gas is the most efficient, carbon friendly compared to coal and a stable form of power generation. Abia is abut to Imo which has a huge gas reserve.

Hydroelectric power only works well when there is a large water body producing a consistent flow of water every month of the year. Abia does not have such. Solar is not realistic as Abia is in the tropical rainforest, not arid northern Nigeria.

Gas can never be better than solar or wind. You still have to buy gas no matter how cheap and you have to evacuate it to the point of use. You can't get mediocre power costs with gas ever. However it can be a support because it has no downtime

jahbenedict:
In terms of energy source, gas is one of the most efficient to produce. From the little I know, gas is the most viable energy source for Nigeria. We have some much gas reserves that using it as an energy source makes the most sense. There is no state in the South-South, and South East that doesn't have gas reserves, Lagos and Ondo as well. We flare so much gas, that it is ridiculous. What is missing is the pipeline network to evacuate the gas to end users, and the political will to ensure that this is achieved.

Can gas do what wind did in some European countries? Impossible. No matter how cheap you still have to buy gas and you have to evacuate it by pipeline or by truck