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The political landscape in Kano just took a dramatic turn and it may cost Abba Kabir Yusuf dearly.

In a surprising chain of events, the governor’s earlier move to align with Bola Ahmed Tinubu and defect to the APC now appears to have backfired. What looked like a strategic alignment may turn out to be a costly miscalculation.
While he moved, the real structure didn’t follow.
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso the man widely regarded as the political backbone of Kano has now reportedly defected to the ADC, and as expected, key loyalists are moving with him. More telling is the resignation of the deputy governor, who has chosen to align with Kwankwaso, further isolating the governor.
This is where many outsiders misunderstand northern politics.

It is not primarily party-driven it is loyalty-driven. The average political follower is less concerned about CPC, APC, NNPP, or ADC, and more concerned about who they are following. And in Kano, that “who” has consistently been Kwankwaso.

We’ve seen this pattern before from CPC to APC, and now shifting again. The platform changes, but the movement remains tied to the individual.
Now, with lawmakers reportedly boycotting official meetings and forming alternative alignments, the signs are becoming clearer: power is shifting, and the governor may be standing alone sooner than expected.
The lesson here is simple but brutal
In northern Nigeria, you don’t defect alone. If your structure doesn’t move with you, then you didn’t really move anything at all.


I trust Tinubu will start calculating alternative moves. It's really a game of chess.

So now pastors and imams should lead protests?
Interesting.
The same people who suddenly remember “nation-building” only when their own market was dry. Back when things were relatively stable and church attendance wasn’t driven by desperation, they all carried placard against Jonathan as they weren't fighting for the masses but for the low patronage of their services. You see some of them carrying placards, standing shoulder to shoulder with politicians, speaking like activists.
Even big names like Enoch Adeboye, Bakare and the likes had moments where they stepped into that space.

But now?
Now the economy is in shambles, insecurity is everywhere, and fear is at an all-time high… yet the pulpits are louder than the streets. Why? Because this is peak season. When people are confused, broke, and scared, the “spiritual solution” market booms.
Why would anyone abandon a thriving business model to go and start protesting?
We’re now seeing pastors pull up in Cybertrucks, living proof that Silicon Valley has fully merged with Mount Zion. The gospel is no longer just being preached it’s being monetized at premium rates.
You expect them to leave that and start organizing protests? When their turnovers are in billions (Tax free).

Let’s be honest when patronage was low, activism was convenient. Now that the returns are high, silence is strategic.
So no, don’t hold your breath waiting for mass protests led from the pulpit or the minbar. Right now, the system is working perfectly for those at the top.
Pain below, profit above.

We said they left PDP for Wike, una say Na lie.

PDP is not even considered a party again by other politicians. After Tinubus regime, I know Wike won't be accepted to APC and he will become powerless as the federal might will be taken away. I genuinely wonder what becomes of him politically.

Yarimo

Helinues

Richtaiwo

Salewa97

Muyico

Burop

Freestuffng

Trutharena

Plant it at your backyard.


Na so helinues and yarimo go talk.

brain54:
I love this man wike...


Hate him or love him but you can't fault his truth most times.


The man is f-kn consistent!

Consistent? Let’s not play with words. By the fact that and you know this he had federal might to toy with the party however he liked, and even judicial backing to turn the party into a laughingstock, then comes out to call it ‘consistency’? That’s wild.

You don’t hold a whole party hostage, bend structures to your personal will, flirt with the opposition, and then expect applause for being ‘consistent.’ That’s not loyalty, that’s power abuse wrapped in political packaging.
People didn’t leave because they weren’t consistent they left because they refused to be part of a system being manipulated in broad daylight. Call it what it is: not consistency, but political fraud with influence.

Kingozymandias:
Man you need a job ,like seriously.

What sense does this make..... Mr CEO.


I hope you're working in Aso rock.

Ballmer:
Yet Azzazi NSA National Security Advicer to Ebele Jonathan declared on national TV that PDP is boko haram n boko haram is PDP.

Beer parlour gist.

Show workings.

ryloy:
I’m surprised to see a lot of young people at the APC convention yesterday, I thought only old people supports APC according to the tl noisemakers. Good to see that young people are optimistic about the future and will do everything to make it work. And kudos to the APC for a well coordinated and successful convention yesterday. We move 👌


https://x.com/_Abenyy/status/2037792170317410755

Bello Turji is young, he's an APC member.
Shekau used to be
Yarimo is young, he's one
You're young, you're one.
That dude openly talking about killing lots of folks is one, and he's pretty young.
Sunday igboho is young, he's one.



So you're correct. All the young members have a similarity.

Jakarta:
Na pastor them dey guide like president, what happened to "he who guides me never sleeps nor slumber"? Any way Mugu fall guy man wack.

As In.... I had to check my sister last month. She put a sticker in her car that reads God of so so so (won't mention) is my protector. I told her even your pastor dey use police escort.

Ride on pastor. Truly, this is your season.

The pastoral market in Nigeria is booming like never before and let’s be honest, it’s not slowing down anytime soon. The tougher the economy gets, the more people run to churches for “succour,” and somehow, everything still ends up being labeled spiritual.

Fuel price goes up.....spiritual.

Job loss.....forces from your mother's family

Trailer misses brake on those deadly hills in Aramoko Ekiti..... spiritual attack.

Meanwhile, if you actually know that road, you’ll understand that physics and bad infrastructure are working overtime there. Sharp bends, steep hills, tired drivers… but no, let’s bind and cast.

And in the middle of all this, some pastors are cashing out like it’s peak season.
Now we even have pastors pulling up in Cybertrucks to Uniport. Innovation meets revelation. Silicon Valley meets Mount Zion. At this point, the gospel is not just being preached it’s being test-driven.

Dear pastors in that category, ride on. Nigerians’ prosperity now seems directly tied to how bad the economy gets. The worse things become, the more people give hoping for a miracle bailout. And you? Just keep flexing atleast the bible said a fool will be pathed from is money.

Truly, it’s a well-structured system. Pain below, profit above.
Ride on pastor… it’s your time.

I never for once believed her. Those real life depressed folks will do anything to stay relevant even unthinkable stuffs.

Abeg give the lady rice.

Starhearts:
Bitter Agulu Obi

Is everything well at home? I wonder how y'all soul looks if stuffs like this protrude from y'all.

symbianDON:
are you suggesting that the minor was in a consensual sexual relationship with the deceased 47yr old man? By the way, I don't support the killing.

No, that’s not what I’m suggesting at all.
My point is simple: none of us were there, and situations like this are often driven by hearsay rather than verified facts. That’s something we see a lot. people are quick to conclude based on what they’ve heard, not what’s been properly established.

And once a narrative starts spreading, it takes on a life of its own. Everyone repeats it, but very few people actually know the full truth. Emotions take over, and before you know it, irreversible actions are taken.
A recent example comes to mind: a man was accused of raping his two daughters somewhere in the East I believe the story made it to nairaland FrontPage. He was publicly disgraced, paraded online, and locked up. People spoke as if they had firsthand knowledge. But later, the story changed the children reportedly admitted they were told to say that by their mother.

At that point, the damage had already been done. His name, reputation, and dignity were already dragged through the mud.
That’s the danger of rushing to judgment based on what we hear instead of what is proven.
I’m not defending rape in any form it’s wrong and should be punished. But mob justice is just as dangerous because it removes the opportunity for proper investigation and due process.
We’ve seen cases where facts come out differently from what was initially believed. That’s why it’s important to be cautious, to question narratives, and not act purely on circulating stories.
Justice should be based on truth, not assumptions.

Diamond098454:
He's 50 and should marry a 40 to 35 years old lady

Says who?

brain54:
What is there to defend...?


People or countries do what it takes to survive. Even if it involves 12 year olds willing to join the army to defend and protect their country.


Iran isn't the first country to do it and won't be the last.


Countries like the US have constricted people against their will to join the army because they were short on military personnel. Old and overaged people have been constricted to join the forces even in more recent wars like in Ukraine.


Nothing new here. It is what it is.


Do what you can for self preservation. What is there to defend when it is what it is?

To think you took your time to type all this is really alarming. I wish you quick recovery bro

Those first few people rushing to comment are clearly lacking wisdom. It’s always easy to judge and even find humor in situations when you’re not the one involved.

During one of my prison visits last year, I met a man who had been standing trial for rape. He had already spent over five years behind bars. This year, the supposed victim came forward and admitted it wasn’t rape that they had been in a consensual relationship for years.
Just like that, five years of this man’s life were gone.
Life has different sides, and until you’ve seen it from multiple angles, you’ll understand why it’s important to stay humble and not be quick to accuse or pass judgment. Meanwhile the supposed man is yet to be discharge and acquainted

90 percent of the negative comments are from the female gender. A society that judges a man without money as no reason to tell him how to react when he's got it. Apart, most of the ladies saying all sorts are just pained they're no longer in the market

Predictor3:
ASSU strikes too are now 100 times what tilumbu met it? 🤣

Hike in school fees for even federal University isn't a pass. As education will soon become so expensive crime will be cheap. Federal University used to pay 10-30k before, now whooping sum of 150+ at the barest minimum, I know you're human, you're just trying hard to support what you know deep down is a failure. If I'm wrong with my assertion, can you tell God to brace your life journey the way Tinubu as made Nigeria in the past 3years?

ThePlugg:
Typical example of a true nairalander....thinking with his ass and not applying even 0.5% of his brains for understanding

Muyico is an ardent Tinubu fan and supporter, hence forgive the fact he can't think on his own.

Predictor3:
No more ASSU strikes
No more fuel queues

No more fuel queues but fuel is now 100 times what Tinubu met it. No more fuel queues as an average Nigerian can't afford it again. It's called impoverishment

Two clowns beloved my other clowns. The average youth mind is a circus

madridguy:
Why you dey pity the Emir of Abuja? Why not pity your crying Obi-lie

You run from intelligent conversations, but convos like this involving name callings and non intelligent is where you gyrate. Natural of a Tinubu sycophant

APC is fast becoming a house divided against itself. You welcomed a flood of decampees without any real structure to manage competing ambitions, and now the cracks are showing. This isn’t opposition strength it’s internal chaos.
Too many interests, too many “anointed” candidates, too many power struggles. That kind of environment creates tension and breeds instability. And with your convention just around the corner, it’s only going to get messier.
At this rate, it won’t take ADC or PDP to weaken APC. APC is already doing a fine job of tearing itself apart from within.

HacheNoire:
The opposition needs to tone down the warfare they waging with human life’s.

Not having the political structure and dominance is not an excuse to sabotage the government and the administration of His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

Intelligence units should be on high alert. Political oppositions are waging war against our Great country.

Imagine folks I share the same space with. Your countrymen are abducted and your post is to bring opposition and politics into it you guys have lost all sense of humanity and reasoning for political sake. You didn't even commemorate with the kidnapped victim. Mehnnnn APC really do this one on our supposed youth.

panafrican:
The people clutching their pearls about "both sides" being to blame for the chaos in the Middle East are peddling a lazy, ahistorical cop-out that whitewashes Israel's decades-long record of aggression, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes while pretending Iran's actions exist in a vacuum.

Palestinians didn't start this in 1948, they were the ones forcibly expelled from their homes in the Nakba, with hundreds of thousands driven out through massacres, village destructions, and terror.

Since then, they've been on the defensive against ongoing occupation, settlement expansion, blockades, and systematic dispossession. Iran didn't invent that resistance; it exploited and amplified existing grievances.

And let's talk Sabra and Shatila in 1982: Israeli forces surrounded the camps, lit flares at night to guide the Phalange militias in, and stood by as those militias raped, mutilated, and slaughtered thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians over three days.

Israel's own Kahan Commission found Ariel Sharon personally responsible for ignoring the foreseeable bloodshed and failing to prevent it—yet he faced no real punishment, later becoming prime minister.
That's not "complexity"; that's enabling massacre.

Fast-forward to today: Netanyahu literally pulls out a punch-card "hit list" of Iranian officials in front of the US ambassador, bragging about "erasing" names after assassinations (like recent strikes killing senior figures), laughing it off as proof he's alive amid rumors.

He boasts Israel is "wiping them out" to stop nuclear threats. If Iran's president did the exact same (parading a list of Israeli leaders marked for death next to a foreign envoy) the Western media, governments, and "both-sides" commentators would scream "state terrorism" and "existential threat" from every rooftop, demanding sanctions, strikes, regime change.
But when Netanyahu does it? Crickets, or at best mild tut-tutting about "tone."

The double standard is glaring: Israel's open boasts about targeted killings, extraterritorial assassinations, and collective punishment get framed as "self-defense" or "complex security needs," while any Iranian response is proof of an irredeemable "terror axis.

Let's be crystal clear here : pretending that "Iran's backing of Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and others" creates a "complex situation " or is morally equivalent to Israel's foundational role in Palestinian dispossession and repeated invasions/occupations/ genocide is deliberate obfuscation

"Both sides are bad" or "no one is clean" is the language of those who want to dilute accountability for the stronger, occupying power and keep the status quo intact.
Call it what it is: Israel's crimes aren't excused by Iran's support to the those who are being invaded.
Refusing to name Israel's primary role in the oppression and violence at the heart of this mess is just complicity dressed up as nuance.

There’s real history in what you’ve written, but you’re still turning a complex situation into a one-sided narrative.
Yes, the Nakba in 1948 led to mass Palestinian displacement. That’s a documented and painful part of history.
Yes, the Sabra and Shatila massacre happened, and Israel’s own Kahan Commission found leadership especially Ariel Sharon indirectly responsible for failing to prevent it.
Those are serious facts, and they shouldn’t be minimized.

But acknowledging that doesn’t mean everything else becomes simple.
Iran’s role in the region isn’t just “amplifying grievances.” It has actively funded and armed groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, which have carried out attacks on civilians. That’s part of the cycle of violence too.
Israel, on the other hand, has carried out military operations that have caused civilian harm and drawn global criticism. That also can’t be ignored or excused.
The problem is this: once you frame one side as the sole aggressor and the other as purely reactive, you stop describing reality, you start defending a position.

History here isn’t clean. Power imbalances exist, yes but so do multiple actors making decisions that escalate conflict.
Saying “both sides have responsibility” isn’t always a cop-out. Sometimes it’s an attempt to avoid replacing one oversimplification with another.
If we actually care about truth, then we have to be consistent: call out wrongdoing wherever it happens, not just where it fits a narrative.

olaBanks:
The 2027 election will be a game changer. Let’s see how the opposition will pull up stunt. To be honest, the opposition are not looking serious at this time. No real strategy at all.

Ah yes… “opposition not serious” because they’re not making noise every week online.
Meanwhile, the biggest headline the ruling All Progressives Congress can boast of after years of consolidated power is photo-ops and political visits like Kashim Shettima receiving Dauda Lawal and many more political alignment.
No major structural reforms, no clear economic turnaround, no significant shift in insecurity metrics just optics and defections being packaged as “progress.”
If that’s the benchmark, then yes… the opposition is “not serious” for not competing in press releases.
Politics isn’t about who trends early; it’s about who delivers results people can actually feel. Nigerians aren’t blind to inflation, cost of living, or the daily realities on ground.
The real “stunt” in 2027 won’t be noise it will be accountability.

Only acheivements APC folks can relate with.

panafrican:
Let the historical record be crystal clear and shouted from the rooftops: Israel did NOT just support ISIS , it HELPED BIRTH and nurture that monstrous creation. Iran had ZERO role in founding ISIS.

Israel has systematically bled Syria dry through relentless airstrikes, proxy chaos, and calculated destabilization.
Now it's doing the exact same thing to Lebanon , turning it into a bleeding wound, bombing civilian areas, assassinating leaders, and shattering lives without mercy.

And let's not forget the even bigger picture:
The United States literally midwifed Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. They poured billions in weapons, training, and cash into the mujahideen to bleed the Soviet Union ( all while a communist leader like Najibullah held power).

That Frankenstein monster they helped create turned on the world. It was NEVER Iran that founded Al-Qaeda. So before you rush to pick a side in this blood-soaked war , before you swallow the propaganda and point fingers at the wrong villains, THINK AGAIN.
Look at who actually plants these terrorist seeds, who waters them, and who then pretends to fight the harvest. The real architects of terror aren't always the ones being demonized in the headlines. The truth doesn't care about narratives. It demands you open your eyes.

We can’t rewrite history just to fit a narrative.
Groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda didn’t just appear because of one country. They came out of a mix of war, power struggles, extremist ideology, and failed states. Reducing it to “Israel created ISIS” or “the U.S. created Al-Qaeda” is an oversimplification at best.
Yes, the United States supported Afghan fighters during the Soviet war but that’s not the same as directly creating Al-Qaeda. The situation evolved far beyond that.
Same with Israel. You can criticize its actions in Syria or Lebanon, but claiming it “birthed ISIS” without solid evidence is a serious accusation, not a fact.
And saying Iran had ZERO role in regional instability ignores its involvement in proxy conflicts across the Middle East.
If we’re going to talk about truth, then let’s actually respect how complex these issues are. No one is completely clean here but also, no one should be blamed with claims that aren’t backed by clear evidence.
Strong opinions are fine. But accuracy matters more.