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madridguy:
Congratulations to the incoming Oyo state governor Insha Allah.

You’re rooting for a confirmed, cataclysmic failure as minister to lead Oyo State? They deserve far better than that.

Sacked or resigned...the bottom line is, he no longer holds the position.

Parachoko:
So nah Governors, Senators, Reps, etc help him pull the votes he pulled in 2023?

I pity Obidients like you. It was Obidients like you that couldn't take the 2023 result and started asking for coup and war

Apart from Oyo state, mention any other state not govern by APC that Tinubu won in 2023

Wale edun is just the fall guy

Tinubu looted the money.
The scale of looted and siphoned funds that would be uncovered after his tenure in 2027 could be so staggering that it will shake the very foundation of this country.

Nigerians will curse him for removing the subsidy, subjecting them to untold hardship, and asking them to endure it while their patrimony is looted.

Didijiji:
You are very dubious and lack integrity just like the candidate you support

is anyone suprised how damaged Nigeria is at the moment?

Are you not the person that wrote this below?

Bursted 💥

Let them wait, Tinubu , Gbajabiamila and the APC will send their hoardes of supporters to invade the venue

AntiChristian:
Let Peter Obi and his online police commend all these from Lagos state.

Lagos no be any state's mate!

I know Peter Obi will also do all these and more in his dream for Nigeria when he becomes president in year 3031.

People like you never allow a thoughtful thread like this to flow, you derail it with bitterness and ethnic bigotry

Op, What do you mean Nigerians aren’t paying the full cost of electricity?

Are you saying we’re not aying the full cost of electricity blackout? Because that seems to be the only thing supplied consistently.

Even the government you’re defending has already admitted it failed woefully in the power sector. The Minister of Power just apologized in March 2026 over widespread outages and poor supply.

So why drag Peter Obi into this when the government itself has openly acknowledged its spectacular failure?

INEC under Amupitan can continue to fool itself

DomPerignon minister of Peter Obi and Obidients affairs

You are having serious nightmares

DomPerignon:


Now that it is clear that Obi will not get to be Atiku's running mate which was his main reason for joining ADC which was why defected to ADC from LP he left in shambles or a free automatic ticket he was hoping for, I see Obi out of shame of coming a distant last among the heavy weight contenders, moving to join the Gombe faction.

Obidients will follow him to join Gombe faction and will cheer when the Supreme court affirms Gombe as the authentic National Chairman.

This I have seen not out of any extraordinary inteligence or soothsaying but for the sole reason that it is easy to predict the next folly of Obi and his obidient m0b.

DomPerignon minister of Peter Obi and Obidients affairs

You are having serious nightmares

Lithiumite:
The way buhari made life easier for Nigerians, the way the hausa fulani have ceased marauding and stopped their penchant for wiping out other tribes in nigeria.......your atiku was part of the govt that squandered $16b on failed electricity project still causing the blackouts you are currently crying about and expect tinubuvto solve it in 3 yrs when your hausa fulani couldn't in 8.
You have been told to go and bring forward your hausa fulani,we dey wait.

This cherry-picking is futile, it only feeds your jaundiced, myopic narrative. Olusegun Obasanjo oversaw $16 billion wasted on failed power projects. How much has Tinubu spent so far? Let’s wait till his tenure ends.

Nothing in that video is new to Nigerians.

Biodun1929:
Wasn't Atiku on the ballot in 2023? Abi what exactly are you talking about?

Times have changed, bro. If you don’t get it, Tinubu clearly does, that’s why this whole campaign of calumny is in motion.

Lithiumite:
Go ahead and put the atiku nah,wetin you dey wait.......you will then come to the south and tell them to vote another hausa fulani because nah only them get Nigeria and southerners are fools abi.....if its obidients you are banking on to be your night soil men,you are mistaken,obidients don't like atiku anymore than they do tinubu.

The Hausa-Fulani you try to malign is 100% far better than Tinubu.

The South is more concerned with who actually makes life easier, whose thoughtless policies, masquerading as economic reforms, won’t inflict untold hardship, hunger, worsening insecurity, and electricity blackouts.

That’s what the South is looking for, and right now, Tinubu isn’t an option.

The only statement INEC is expected to issue at this point in time is nothing but the resignation of it's Chairman

There’s nothing in that video Nigerians haven’t already heard.

The smear campaign is old and tired

Atiku Abubakar is Tinubu’s nightmare.

At least He’s no drug baron, certificate forger, or identity thief..

Nigerians know his age, his lineage, where he worked etc there's no controversy

They’re jittery because they know that with Atiku on the ballot, Tinubu won’t see the five million votes he got from the north last time. And the south is not buying the 'it's the turn of the south narrative'

They also know Atiku is the only candidate who can match Tinubu, money for money, madness for madness.

With Atiku on the ballot, no body will rig and tell him to go to court. It won't happen

Tinubu should drop the campaign of calumny and prepare for a real contest

Look at the NADECO wannabes whom their hoardes of supporters claimed will develop this country and make it work

Reading this reminds me of that famous FFK statement

socialmediaman:
WhatsApp group of APC members fooling themselves. Next, the same group will be named “WhatsApp group of northerners”

Absolutely 💯

Cunha247:
Tinubu should resign honourably

This is the honorable thing to do

Anybody today can defeat Tinubu.

On his own, he can’t even pull 500,000 votes nationwide.

He relies on governors, senators, reps, LGA chairmen, agberos, and thugs to intimidate voters and snatch ballot boxes.

No real mass appeal, just criminal machinery to snatch it, grab it and run away with it

MICHEALADEX:
Answer the question and face the reality

If you say I should face reality, isn’t this, under Tinubu’s regime...the reality we’re living in: the most wicked and draconian regime in this country’s history?

Movement Boku

A breath of fresh air

It’s now obvious that the Tinubu administration has the worst budget funding record in this country’s history.
Even with all the money at their disposal, claiming to have surpassed it's revenue target in 2025 and despite removing the subsidy they claimed was blocking progress, budgets remain underfunded and infrastructure neglected.

Nigerians should be asking: where did the money saved from subsidy removal go?

Tinubu is borrowing from the dead.


No subsidy, no real investment in rail or power, yet more borrowing than any government in our history.

So what is he doing with all that money?
Siphoning it into private pockets, his, his allies’, and his business partners’

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday criticised the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu, saying recent findings by the International Monetary Fund merely confirmed the biting hardship being experienced by Nigerians.

Reacting to the Fund’s latest assessment of Nigeria’s economy, Atiku described the current situation as organised hardship “dressed up as reform,” blaming what he called policy inconsistencies, weak leadership, and a disconnect from the realities facing ordinary citizens.

In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the former presidential candidate said the IMF report only echoed what Nigerians have long been enduring.

He said, “At a time when Nigerians were promised renewed hope, what they have received is renewed hardship—raw, relentless, and unforgiving. The IMF is not breaking news; it is confirming a national emergency that this administration refuses to acknowledge.”



Atiku argued that while government officials highlight macroeconomic indicators, citizens are grappling with shrinking purchasing power and rising living costs.

He noted that while government officials speak in polished economic jargon, Nigerians are living a different reality—one where wages have become worthless paper, markets have turned into museums of unaffordable goods, and survival has become a daily gamble.

The former vice president lamented that despite rising global oil prices, many Nigerians are slipping deeper into poverty, weighed down by soaring food prices, high transportation costs, exchange rate instability and a rapidly depreciating currency.

“At the grassroots, the story is even more brutal,” he continued. “Parents are pulling children out of school because education is now a luxury. Farmers are abandoning their lands out of fear of violence.

“Young people roam the streets, degrees in hand, but hope in short supply. Small businesses are folding up like a pack of cards under the weight of electricity tariffs, taxes, and a suffocating business climate.”

Atiku warned that the country is facing more than a routine economic downturn, describing it instead as a crisis eroding citizens’ dignity.

“This administration has turned sacrifice into a one-way street where the people bleed and the government lectures,” Atiku said. “You cannot ask a hungry people to be patient while policies choke the life out of them. That is not reform—that is punishment.”

He also raised concerns over Nigeria’s rising debt profile, warning of long-term consequences.

“We are borrowing like there is no tomorrow, yet there is nothing to show today. No jobs, no relief, no visible improvement in the lives of the people—only mounting debt and mounting pain.

“Governance is not a classroom exercise. It is about whether a pot boils in the kitchen, whether transport fare can be afforded, whether a small trader can restock, and whether a nation’s youth can dream again. Today, those simple things have become distant luxuries,” he stated.


The criticism follows a recent report by the International Monetary Fund, which downgraded Nigeria’s 2026 growth forecast to 4.1 per cent in its April 2026 Global Financial Stability Report.

The Chief of the IMF Research Department’s World Economic Studies Division, Denz Igan, said the downgrade reflects competing pressures on the economy.

“War-related higher fuel and fertiliser prices and higher shipping costs are going to weigh on non-oil activity in Nigeria.

“There’s some offset coming from higher oil prices, but the net balance is weaker growth in 2026, with some recovery built in for 2027,” Igan said.

The IMF also projected rising inflation across Sub-Saharan Africa and emphasised the need for tight monetary policies in Nigeria to stabilise prices, even as declining bilateral aid continues to strain fiscal buffers across the region.

Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has alleged a fresh plot to implicate him in criminal activities, warning of what he described as coordinated efforts to tarnish his image and keep him in prolonged detention.

Naija News reports that the allegation was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by his Media Adviser, Muyiwa Adekeye.

El-Rufai claimed that recent developments point to “malicious orchestrations” targeted at damaging his reputation.

According to the statement, the former governor cited an incident on February 12, 2026, when he was allegedly marked for arrest upon arrival at the Abuja airport from Cairo.

He further disclosed that he honoured an invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on February 16, after which he was detained.

El-Rufai said he was subsequently transferred to the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on February 18.

The former governor’s latest concern stems from a report alleging that gunmen invaded the residence of a principal witness in an ongoing trial at the Kaduna State High Court.

The report quoted one Mohammed Umar Karage as suggesting the attack could be linked to his role in the case and might be an attempt to silence him.

El-Rufai’s camp, however, rejected any connection to the incident, accusing the publication of making “false imputations” against him.

“Any objective reader would recognise the clear intent behind these statements: to tarnish his reputation and justify his continued detention,” the statement said.

The camp argued that the report was deliberately crafted to smear his image and undermine his pending bail application.

Maintaining his innocence, El-Rufai described himself as a law-abiding citizen with no link to the alleged attack.

He revealed that his legal team had been instructed to initiate defamation proceedings against the newspaper involved.

The statement further alleged that the former governor has been subjected to a sustained campaign of “innuendos and vilification” since 2023.

It warned against the misuse of legal processes, stressing the need to uphold the rule of law.

“El-Rufai should be accorded full due process guaranteed by law to every citizen, and the persistent disregard for his rights must cease immediately,” the statement added.

https://www./2026/04/19/el-rufai-raises-alarm-over-alleged-plot-to-implicate-him/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

WorldRichest:
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Since he has run away from the state he giverned and looted for 8 years, then we will be kind enough to let him live in our medulla

At this rate, he’s not just in your medulla, he’s furnishing it. Hope you’ve budgeted for therapy

The classic deflection .

We’re nearly three years into what majority of nigerians consider the most draconian regime in this country’s history, and someone is asking to be ‘bullied' with Peter Obi’s record as governor?

Meanwhile, people are already being battered left, right, and center by unprecedented hunger, economic hardship, worsening insecurity, and persistent blackouts under the Tinubu administration.

seunmsg:
The Shekarau led Kano PDP delivered over 180k votes to Atiku in 2023. I’m not sure Peter Obi got up to 10k votes in the state. So, yes, we will happily welcome whatever number of votes Shekarau can add to APC in Kano. No vote is a waste. The more the merrier. Thanks.

Peter Obi is really really living rent free in your medulla oblongata

Governor Ademola Adeleke is facing growing criticism over what insiders now describe as a high-stakes political bargain with Nyesom Wike, following a closed-door meeting in Abuja that reportedly lasted nearly three hours and exposed the depth of his re-election anxieties.

Multiple sources confirmed that the Osun governor met with Wike alongside key political figures, including the Osun State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sunday Bisi, and other top government officials, in what observers say was less a courtesy visit and more a strategic plea for political rescue.

At the heart of the meeting, insiders revealed, was Adeleke’s direct request for Wike’s backing as he grapples with the growing realisation that his current platform, the Accord Party, may lack the capacity to secure his re-election in 2026.


A source familiar with the discussions disclosed that Wike did not hesitate to signal support, assuring the governor of his readiness to deploy his political machinery.

“Wike promised to support him to win the election and made it clear he would use everything within his disposal to ensure Adeleke succeeds,” the source said.


The FCT minister was also said to have offered strategic guidance, drawing from his own political battles during his tenure as governor of Rivers State.

“He advised Adeleke on how to go about it and even referenced similar challenges he faced when he was governor. He told him to be firm, aggressive, and to fight through the opposition pressure,” the insider added

Perhaps most revealing, however, was Wike’s reported long-term expectation from the alliance. According to sources, he openly expressed a desire to see Adeleke return to the PDP fold after securing victory.

“He told him clearly that he would be happy to have him back as a PDP governor after the election, especially now that he sees himself as a national leader within the party,” the source disclosed.

The development has further fuelled concerns about Adeleke’s shifting political loyalties, with reports indicating that the governor may be simultaneously keeping lines open across multiple parties.

Even more controversial was Adeleke’s alleged request during the meeting that Wike should block potential internal threats by refusing to sell PDP nomination forms to aggrieved politicians who might defect from the Accord Party after failing to secure tickets.

“The governor specifically requested that no PDP nomination form should be sold to any aggrieved member who could not get the Accord Party ticket. Wike reportedly agreed to this,” the source revealed.

Critics say the request underscores the level of insecurity within Adeleke’s camp and raises questions about fairness and internal democracy.

“You leave a major party, join a weaker one, then return quietly to control the same structure you abandoned—this is not strategy, it is desperation,” a political analyst said.

The meeting, which insiders say lasted about three hours, is now being interpreted as a turning point in Adeleke’s re-election calculations—and a clear indication that the Accord Party may no longer be viewed as a viable vehicle for his political survival.


Governor Adeleke rode to power in 2022 on the strength of the PDP’s structure and national backing. However, his subsequent defection to the Accord Party disrupted that alignment and left his political base uncertain.

Since then, the Accord Party has struggled to demonstrate the organisational strength required to win a high-stakes governorship contest, with internal cracks and limited grassroots reach becoming increasingly evident.

Meanwhile, Wike has continued to consolidate his influence within Nigeria’s political space, positioning himself as a central power broker with eyes on broader national ambitions, including a potential role in shaping the 2031 political landscape.


A senior stakeholder summarised the situation bluntly: “This is a convergence of desperation and ambition. Adeleke needs survival, Wike is building influence. But alliances built on convenience rarely endure.”

As the 2026 election approaches, the emerging Adeleke-Wike alignment is likely to intensify political tensions in Osun, while raising broader questions about loyalty, ideology, and the future of party politics in Nigeria.

https://naijanewsdirect.com/osun-2026-power-play-adeleke-meets-wike-behind-closed-doors-naijanewsdirect/?amp=1