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 Politics › Re: Gbenga Hashim Building 4 Continent Lobby To Secure 2027 Elections by naptu2: 8:39am On Oct 16 |
Has INEC recognised him?
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| Politics › Re: I Paid For Tinubu & Shettima's Pictures On Niger Bridge - Umahi by naptu2(op): 6:14am On Oct 16 |
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| Politics › Re: I Paid For Tinubu & Shettima's Pictures On Niger Bridge - Umahi by naptu2(op): 6:11am On Oct 16 |
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| Politics › Re: I Paid For Tinubu & Shettima's Pictures On Niger Bridge - Umahi by naptu2(op): 6:10am On Oct 16 |
"Insult me all you can! Insult me all you can! But just know that I must appreciate a good thing! I must appreciate a good job"! "As you can see! As you can see! As you can see"! De-Peters drives down the newly rehabilitated Niger Bridge at night https://www.tiktok.com/video/7697031633320398102? |
| Politics › Re: I Paid For Tinubu & Shettima's Pictures On Niger Bridge - Umahi by naptu2(op): 6:09am On Oct 16*. Modified: 6:48am On Oct 16 |
De-Peters is an Obidient content creator. He makes videos in support of Mr Peter Obi and he often attacks people (like the South-East governors) who do not support Obi (he said that there were few Obi-Kwankwaso billboards in the South-East and he blamed South-East governors for this). He discovered that the Niger Bridge had been vandalised and he made a video about it. The minister of works visited the bridge shortly afterwards and rehabilitation of the bridge commenced immediately. De-Peters kept making videos of the bridge as the works progressed. He documented the installation of CCTV cameras, the installation of solar streetlights, the erection of the demarcation barriers, the road markings, etc. He also told us that there was a woman living on the bridge, just directly below the roadway. It is believed that she has mental health challenges. Residents of the area said that she once gave birth but that the baby fell into the river. Obidients have been insulting him all the while. They said that he has been paid by Umahi and that he was promoting ordinary rehabilitation. Yesterday he said that the controller of works called him and said that the bridge would be reopened yesterday and that the minister wanted to see him. He explained that he made videos of the bridge because he thought that the work might be abandoned if he did not put pressure on government. He said that his videos were not political. He made this video below after the ceremony. It shows him with Dave Umahi at the reopening of the bridge and then he followed the minister to the airport and saw his departure back to Abuja. You can see reactions in the screenshots below. https://www.tiktok.com/video/7697031677146598678?
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| Politics › I Paid For Tinubu & Shettima's Pictures On Niger Bridge - Umahi by naptu2(op): 6:07am On Oct 16 |
Advertisements on federal roads and bridges must be approved by the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Works.
The minister of works, Engineer Dave Umahi, inspected the Niger Bridge, which had been vandalised and saw MTN and other adverts on the bridge. He ordered that the adverts should be removed and replaced with photos of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima.
However he later discovered that a previous government had given the advertising rights on the bridge to a private company. It was the company that allowed MTN to advertise on the bridge.
Engineer Umahi said that he paid the private company with his own money in order to erect photos of President Tinubu, Vice President Shettima and all the governors of South-East and South-South states on the bridge.
He said that Obidients, who had been complaining about the photos of Tinubu on the bridge, can also pay the company to place their photos on the bridge.
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| Politics › Tolu Ogunlesi's Account Has Been Hacked And Used To Create Anti-Tinubu Posts by naptu2(op): 4:49am On Oct 16*. Modified: 5:13am On Oct 16 |
I noticed that Tolu Ogunlesi's account was making strange posts about cryptocurrency and shortly afterwards Bashir Ahmad tweeted that Tolu's account had been hacked. Yesterday the posts about crypto was deleted and an anti-Tinubu post was created instead. Tolu Ogunlesi: My X account hacked, now used to attack Tinubu’s government
by Promise Eze
October 15, 2026
Tolu Ogunlesi, former aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, says his X account has been hacked and is being used to post political messages attacking the President Bola Tinubu government.
He noted that the hackers are also posting fraudulent cryptocurrency content.
In a statement, Ogunlesi said X notified him on October 3 that the password and phone number linked to his account, @toluogunlesi, had been changed despite two-factor authentication being enabled.
“Every post, reply and direct message from @toluogunlesi since 3 October has been made by the hacker, not by me. I do not promote, endorse or solicit investment in any cryptocurrency scheme,” the statement reads.
“The account has also been used to post political content, including attacks on the current government. These posts were not written by me and do not reflect my views. Nor do they reflect the way I have engaged in public debate over many years.
“I would ask that they not be attributed to me or treated as my position on any issue.”
Ogunlesi urged the public not to click links shared through the account, send money or digital assets in response to its posts or messages, or share personal or financial information.
He also asked anyone approached through the account to report same to X and alert others.
“I hope X will act promptly to help me recover the account,” he said.
“I will confirm publicly once it is back under my control. I am grateful to everyone who has flagged the fraudulent posts.” https://www.thecable.ng/tolu-ogunlesi-my-x-account-hacked-now-used-to-attack-tinubus-government/Photo 2) Screenshot of an anti-Tinubu post that was made by the hacker 
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| Politics › Projects In Lagos, Campaign In Kaduna: What Will Tinubu Promise Now?- Bello Doka by naptu2(op): 4:25am On Oct 16 |
Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai @elrufai Projects in Lagos, Campaign in Kaduna Amid Insecurity: What Will Tinubu Promise Now?
By Mohammed Bello Doka
11 October, 2026.
On December 3, 2023, a Nigerian Army drone struck Tudun Biri in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing at least 85 civilians who had gathered for a religious celebration. Among the dead were women, children, and the elderly. President Bola Tinubu did not visit. On September 2024, another military airstrike hit Giwa Local Government Area, killing at least 24 more civilians in what the military called a mistaken targeting of bandits. President Tinubu did not visit. In September 2025, bandits descended on Kachia Local Government Area and abducted 152 people in a single operation. President Tinubu did not visit. In July 2025, windstorms and heavy rainfall devastated five local government areas, displacing 6,172 people and killing six. President Tinubu did not visit. In August 2024, bandits attacked communities in Kajuru Local Government Area, killing four, injuring three, and abducting thirty-seven. President Tinubu did not visit. In September 2025, floods submerged parts of Zaria Local Government Area, affecting 476 people. President Tinubu did not visit.
Now, after three and a half years of blood, tears, and silence, the APC has chosen Kaduna as the launchpad for its 2027 presidential campaign. The same Kaduna where 85 people were buried in a mass grave after a Nigerian drone bombed them. The same Kaduna where 152 people were carted away into forests by bandits while the president was in Lagos commissioning buses. The same Kaduna where communities have been orphaned by airstrikes, emptied by kidnappings, and drowned by floods. What exactly is Tinubu coming to tell the people of Kaduna? What is he coming to promise again?
Since May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has visited Kaduna exactly twice. The first was a one-day working visit in June 2025 to commission a vocational training institute, a 300-bed specialist hospital, and 100 CNG buses, most of which were state government projects. The second was a private visit in September 2025 to attend a wedding and condole with the widow of a former president. Two visits in three and a half years. Not one of those visits was to console the victims of Tudun Biri. Not one was to visit the families of the 152 abducted in Kachia. Not one was to assess the damage in Giwa after another military misfire. Not one was to stand with the flood victims in Zaria. Not one was to confront the bandits in Kajuru. Instead, he flew to Kaduna for a wedding, shook hands, took photographs, and flew back to Abuja.
Compare that to his attention to Lagos. In Lagos, Tinubu has commissioned the first 30 kilometres of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a project estimated at over one trillion naira. In Lagos, he has rehabilitated the Third Mainland Bridge at a cost of 43 billion naira and built a 2.5 billion naira CCTV monitoring centre. In Lagos, he inaugurated the Red Line Rail, a 37-kilometre project costing over 135 million dollars. In Lagos, he commissioned CNG infrastructure in Ojota, part of a 100 billion naira national rollout, with four major projects in a single day. In Lagos, the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road, a project inherited from Buhari, was revoked and re-awarded at a higher cost, while the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway received 43 billion naira for phase two. Lagos is where the president's heart beats. Kaduna is where his promises go to die.
What is he coming to promise again? Will he promise to rebuild Tudun Biri, a resettlement scheme that was already completed and commissioned in January 2026, months before his campaign flag-off? Will he promise to complete the Abuja-Kaduna road that his administration revoked, re-awarded at 752 billion naira, and now claims will be finished by November 2026, just in time for the election? Will he promise the Kaduna Light Rail, a project still in the mobilisation phase, with contractors yet to fully break ground? Will he promise the Mando-Birnin Gwari road, flagged off in August 2026 with a 24-month completion window, meaning it will not be finished until after the votes are counted? What exactly is new? What exactly is sincere? What exactly is not a campaign prop?
The Northwest is the de facto capital of poverty in Nigeria. The National Bureau of Statistics reports a multidimensional poverty rate of 75.8 percent in the region, second only to the Northeast. The Cadre Harmonisé report shows 4.2 million people in the Northwest facing crisis-level food insecurity, with projections rising to 5 million in the 2026 lean season. UNICEF data shows primary school net attendance in the Northwest at just 47.3 percent, meaning more than half of school-age children are out of the classroom. Human Rights Watch, citing SBM Intelligence, recorded 2,938 kidnappings in the Northwest between July 2024 and June 2025, over 60 percent of the national total, with Kaduna alone recording 629 cases. Nigeria Watch recorded 3,974 deaths from rural banditry in 2025, more than double the figure for 2024. These are not political talking points. These are institutional figures. And yet, in the face of this avalanche of suffering, the president has been absent.
What will he tell the mother in Tudun Biri who lost her children to a Nigerian drone? What will he tell the father in Kachia whose family was abducted and never returned? What will he tell the farmer in Kajuru who buried his brothers after bandits attacked? What will he tell the flood victim in Zaria who lost everything? What will he tell the millions of out-of-school children roaming the streets of Kaduna while he commissions rail lines in Lagos? What will he tell the hungry, the poor, the abandoned, the forgotten? What will he promise again?
He will promise roads. He will promise rail. He will promise security. He will promise jobs. He will promise a better future. He will promise everything he promised in 2023 and failed to deliver. He will stand on a stage in Kaduna, surrounded by governors and senators and party chieftains, and he will tell the people that he cares. He will tell them that he has not forgotten them. He will tell them that the best is yet to come. And then he will fly back to Lagos, where the projects are real, where the money flows, where his people live.
Kaduna is not a campaign stop. Kaduna is a crime scene. And the man who is coming to campaign there is the same man who ignored the bodies, ignored the abductions, ignored the floods, ignored the hunger, ignored the children, ignored the pain. He ignored it all for three and a half years. Now he wants their votes. What will he promise again? What will he say that has not already been said? What will he do that has not already been abandoned? The people of Kaduna are waiting. But they are not waiting for promises. They are waiting for justice. They are waiting for a president who shows up when it matters, not when it is convenient. They are waiting for a leader who sees their suffering, not one who sees their votes. Will Tinubu be that leader? Or will he come, wave, promise, and disappear again?
Mohammed Bello Doka can be reached via bellodoka82@gmail.com
Abuja Network News Source
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| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 7:26pm On Oct 15 |
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| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 7:15pm On Oct 15 |
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| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 7:06pm On Oct 15 |
ceejay80s:
So this bridge no get walk way, why the noise Of course it has walkways. |
| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 6:43pm On Oct 15 |
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| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 6:36pm On Oct 15 |
deji17:
Buhari constructed the 2nd Niger Bridge , while Tinubu repairs the 1st. Exactly! New roads and bridges are being built and old roads and bridges are being repaired. |
| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 6:30pm On Oct 15 |
First Niger Bridge and
Muhammadu Buhari Second Niger Bridge.
New roads and bridges are being built and old roads and bridges are being repaired. |
| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 6:16pm On Oct 15*. Modified: 7:15pm On Oct 15 |
11 @ThMoonNyte Photo: The First Niger Bridge linking Anambra and Delta states has been decorated with pictures of President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima ahead of its reopening after weeks of rehabilitation works. https://x.com/ThMoonNyte/status/2110761617860292948
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| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 6:14pm On Oct 15 |
Chikezie @kezmag_ First Niger Bridge Set For Official Commissioning As Umahi Arrives To Commission Reconstructed Bridge
All is now set for the official opening and commissioning of the reconstructed First Niger Bridge by the Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi. https://x.com/Kezmag_/status/2110740550051659783
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| Politics › Re: Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 6:13pm On Oct 15 |
De-Peters is a content creator that makes videos in support of Peter Obi. He noticed that the bridge had been vandalised so he made a video about it. The minister of works, Dave Umahi, visited the bridge a few days later and rehabilitation works began. De-Peters was excited that his video had such an impact and he visited the site regularly to make videos about the progress of work and to speak to the workers. However his fellow Obidients began to insult him and to insinuate that he was paid to make those videos. In this video below he says that the controller of works called him and told him that the bridge will be opened today and that the minister wants to meet him. He said that he didn't make the videos for any political reason, rather he believed that the work might be abandoned if he didn't make videos to hold the government accountable. https://www.tiktok.com/video/7696832719258504470? |
| Politics › Umahi Reopens First Niger Bridge Adorned With Tinubu’s Pictures by naptu2(op): 6:12pm On Oct 15 |
Umahi reopens First Niger Bridge adorned with Tinubu’s pictures
By Chimaobi Nwaiwu
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, on Thursday reopened the First Niger Bridge linking Onitsha, Anambra State, with Asaba, Delta State, following rehabilitation works, with photographs of President Bola Tinubu and other political figures displayed on the bridge.
The bridge, built in 1965, was closed to traffic on September 7, 2026, for emergency rehabilitation and maintenance initially scheduled to end on September 21.
The closure was extended beyond the original deadline following persistent rainfall and other unforeseen circumstances that delayed the work.
The rehabilitation followed the discovery of vandalised structural components, including steelwork around the bridge’s expansion joints.
At the reopening, Umahi praised Tinubu’s administration for what he described as its commitment to infrastructure development in the South-East and South-South regions.
He said the attention being given to the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos was similar to the rehabilitation and maintenance work being carried out on the Second Niger Bridge and other major bridges across the country.
According to the minister, the South-East and South-South would also benefit from the administration’s infrastructure projects.
Umahi, who intermittently sang “On Your Mandate We Shall Stand” during his address, also criticised Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the Obidient Movement, while expressing confidence in the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2027 elections.
“I am not into regional politics; I am following who is performing. Can anybody give us the alternative to Tinubu, President Tinubu, who has salvaged the country from a catastrophic situation? Can Peter Obi do what Tinubu is doing?” he asked.
He said the projects being executed by the Federal Government would soon be extended to other parts of Anambra State.
“The President has approved the dualisation of Oba-Okigwe Expressway. Why are people not seeing all these? Democracy is about development and infrastructure. We are here to demonstrate that the South-East is for President Tinubu,” Umahi said.
The minister acknowledged that the South-East had not voted massively for Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election, attributing the outcome to what he described as the poor treatment of the region under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
He, however, expressed confidence that the region would support Tinubu in 2027.
Umahi also said no individual or group had the right to erect billboards on federal highways without the necessary authorisation.
“No one has the right to put billboards on the federal highways. Tell Peter Obi and the Obidient Movement that if they pay, they will be allowed to put their billboards on the highways,” he said.
The bridge reopening was marked by the display of photographs of Tinubu, Vice-President Kashim Shettima and Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo, alongside APC banners placed on the bridge railings.
Some sections of the railings had been repainted, while painters were still carrying out finishing touches. The road markings had also been repainted, and closed-circuit television cameras installed at various sections of the bridge, alongside other infrastructure components.
Umahi had, during an earlier inspection, directed that illegal advertisements be removed from the bridge and that Tinubu’s photographs be displayed following completion of the rehabilitation.
He had said the display was intended to recognise what he described as the President’s contributions to infrastructure development in the South-East. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/10/umahi-reopens-first-niger-bridge-adorned-with-tinubus-pictures/
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