₦airaland Forum

Lol it shows Atiku is surrounded by betrayers....


2027 again he will be surrounded again...

JobAndVacancies:
Which sin?
The son you supported when he used the state coffers to support Atiku's presidential ambition

Don't mind that empty vessel. He's always posting rubbish trash to console himself.

d fear of EFCC & political witch hunt is d beginning of wisdom for dis nigg*

bury me alive, I'll neva vote for dis demonic govt!

This guy man.. 😂😂😂😂

ogaemma:
See someone who is supposed to be in Prison, is addressing innocent people that did not loot state money.

Where is SP Akpabio supposed to be?

siraj1402:
EFCC Arrests Ex-Governor Akpabio Over Alleged Multi-billion Naira Fraud

A former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and incumbent Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, was on Friday arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
PREMIUM TIMES investigation shows that Mr. Akpabio was taken in by EFCC operatives at about 5.20 pm.

He was said to have been accompanied a few aides and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Ricky Tarfa.

An aide to the former governor, who cannot be named because he is not authorised to speak on the matter told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Akpabio is currently being interrogated by top officials of the EFCC.

An EFCC source confirmed the development.

“He was brought in at about 5.20 pm accompanied by a few aides and Mr. Rickey Tarfa,” the source said.

“It is not yet known whether he will be allowed to go this night. It depends on how the interrogation goes.”

http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/16/efcc-arrests-ex-governor-akpabio-over-alleged-multi-billion-naira-fraud

OEPHIUS:
It is no longer news that Nigeria’s Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio is set to decamp to the APC; what started has a rumour after his notable absence from the PDP NEC meeting has gathered so much momentum as the former Governor yesterday paid a visit to President Buhari in London.

The defection which seems very likely as Senator Akpabio has failed to release a statement against the rumors, comes as a shock to even the most assuming political analysts and journalists especially at a time when the main opposition party, the PDP has put its house in order and is set to welcome even more decampees from the disintegrating APC.

THE FACTS.

A closer look at the Akwa Ibom politician reveals a weak grasp in his home state of Akwa Ibom where he has been continuously hounded and blackmailed by President Buhari led APC administration over several allegations of corruption.

In 2015, The EFCC ran investigations on Akpabio which led to his subsequent arrest over a misappropriation of N101.8 billion state funds which plunged Akwa Ibom state into debt. The former Governor was not charged to court and resumed his duties in the floor of the senate.

In another report, the former Governor was probed again for gifting an unnamed commercial bank the sum of N1.4billion. Another case that was recorded but not taken to court.

The APC led Federal Government hounding of Senator Akpabio was so severe that the Akwa Ibom Government House was invaded by DSS agents in a plot to steal state secrets in an attempt to acquire more evidence against former Governor Akpabio.

In 2016, Senator Akpabio was arrested for a 3rd time by the EFCC when the Anti-graft commission alleged the illegal withdrawal of N18bn to the acquisition of a multi billion naira mansion at Plot 5, Okogosi Spring Close, off Katsina-Ala Crescent, Maitama-Abuja, a multi-billion naira mansionette at Plot 28 Colorado Close, Maitama, Abuja and another multi-billion naira mansion at 22 Probyn Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. For the 3rd time Senator Akpabio was released and no legal charges were filed.

JOINING THE APC

Since 2015, the once vibrant politician lost his voice and failed woefully to provide proper leadership as minority leader in the senate due to the subsequent media backlash against his person and the corruption allegations being thrown around his name.

While other Senators like Bukola Saraki faced all allegations and politically motivated persecution head on, Akpabio may have opted to quietly plead and “settle” with his blackmailers at the expense of the senate, his party, his political career and now ultimately, the people of Akwa Ibom State.

The Anti Corruption War

A move largely perceived as desperate, Akpabio’s defection to APC puts the final coffin to President Buhari’s anti corruption war. It further confirms the long assumed ideology that the APC is a party of protected corruption, where the members and high rollers of corruption in Nigeria are immune from persecution. Senator Akpabio’s rich history of corruption and corrupt allegations is set to be magically swept under the rug.

The same Government that hounded Akpabio, arrested him several times and invaded his former office with DSS agents to get evidence against him have thrown their arms wide open to receive him in their fold. Whether Akpabio was threatened to join the APC or not, it will go down in history that he was a subdued man.

Buhari’s infamous integrity has failed the litmus test with Akpabio. The Nigerian President who prides himself as incorruptible has thrown caution to the wind and made Senator Akpabio, one of the most corrupt persons in Nigeria according to President Buhari’s EFCC to be the Apple of the APC’s eye.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Senator Godswill Akpabio’s corruption allegations have long been in the wind perhaps as hard evidence which has been used recently to blackmail the former Governor. Perhaps enough evidence to get a conviction at the court which would see Akpabio off to prison. However; with the new turn of events, Akpabio who has been alleged to have his eyes on the prized seat of Senate President, may begin to enjoy the peace of mind that comes as he is no longer a perceived threat to the President Buhari administration, perhaps at the expense of his own political goodwill.

http://thepunditng.com/akpabios-defection-the-hypocrisy-of-president-buharis-anti-corruption-war/

mohbadliveson:
Na so you wan dump Atiku?

Atiku just dumped him for another person. He has done his plus and minuse, he realized that Atiku will definitely go for someone else as vice. The best thing for him is to join the train of Tinubu, so that he will not go to oblivion

Rilwayne001:
Tinubu is turning this country to a one party system, just like he did in Lagos

The point is not about turning the country to a one party state, it's his work that is speaking for him. Even in Lagos, did he compel anyone to join APC? NO! He laid a solid foundation that others are building on today which has placed Lagos in the global map.

By the time he is done putting structures and checks in place, all the systems oif governance will run their natural course.
That is what majority of the people don' understand about PBAT.

inoki247:
Lol it shows Atiku is surrounded by betrayers....

2027 again he will be surrounded again...

PDP has been lousy at playing politics since Obasanjo tore the card of the party that made him president from Abacha prison.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1vAQKWGkVs?si=_Bb4uAxUytYkIRKL

IPIGSRSHALLOW:
Yeah right, Trump has 34 felony convictions and still won an election.
Stop this trash about "only in Nigeria talk".

Trump is highly unpopular and hated even by some that voted him in.

But, is he CORRUPT?!!

Did he or could he touch a dime of the nation's funds?!!

Where have you heard of corrupt criminals being popular and holding courts in these nations?!! Name just one!


See ehn... It doesn't hurt to say the TRUTH!

It doesn't make you less patriotic... Matter of fact, that's true Patriotism.


Nigeria has a ruling class sharing power among themselves who are shockingly corrupt and incompetent!

That's the core foundation of this nation's negative trajectory, especially in the last 15 years.


If you can't intelligently disprove or counter this position, then kindly don't disrespect it.

kolente:
Tinubu is playing one of the sharpest machiavellian, stoic and mafia manager rules here.

"Capture the south and leave the free fall for the North"

Shocked to hear Fubara & Okowa decamping also heard baba is releasing Nnamdi Kanu.

Hmmm....Ayèwadà.

The 2027 reelection move started immediately after the inauguration but not in elaborate. The southern region will fall in line. NC will fall in line

The VP is from NE, 40-50% there. North West, 3 candidates can emerge there and spoil the vote

Victor468:
The point is not about turning the country to a one party state, it's his work that is speaking for him. Even in Lagos, did he compel anyone to join APC? NO! He laid a solid foundation that others are building on today which has placed Lagos in the global map.

Lagos on global map as one of the worst cities without basics of 21st century living and where the people have been taxed into extreme poverty beggars?

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anonimi:
The eyesore on Bourdillon Road
2nd January 2025

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.

If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.

That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/

Is he moving to APC or SDP?

South South is fully APC

Mrexcell:
Nigeria is heading to a one party state and it's going to be very dangerous for everyone we might be seeing the end of democracy in nigeria at this rate

Indeed.

See the person Atku picked over wike as VP after the NWC voted wike as VP Atiku refused wike for okowa....now okowa is leaving PDP....Atiku surround himself with those without any political value... lightweight politicians

… best for our people

Who are these people? Deltans that s..uffered under you for 8 years and are still śûffèring under your boy or your loyalists?

They sweet-talk gülliblè ones and go away with it. Now mûmū Deltans will follow the whèrrhëy go enter another šlävèry while he is enjoying the goodies.

The earlier Nigerians voted out all these old politicians and their parties, the better.

Make we try other people like Showore and see whether na mouth he dey make or not.

Nigerian politicians are used to spending ill gotten money to the point that they start getting nervous when their tanks begin to run low.

That’s what these defections are all about.

If you see the way I have been laughing because of your comment eehhnnn. Politician past politician. Instead of politician joining Atiku they are all joining Tinubu. It is well

Rilwayne001:
Tinubu is turning this country to a one party system, just like he did in Lagos.

He seem to be the one that is organizing the coalition because rather for politicians to be joining the coalition, it’s him they are joining

Maxymilliano:
Well, I'll be damned if he joins APC

Lol, you must be new to Nigerian politics.

Racoon:
Moving over to the coven so that his sins with EFCC will be forgiven.

Too much of Nollywood movies

Angelfrost:
Trump is highly unpopular and hated even by some that voted him in.

But, is he CORRUPT?!!

Did he or could he touch a dime of the nation's funds?!!

Where have you heard of corrupt criminals being popular and holding courts in these nations?!! Name just one!


See ehn... It doesn't hurt to say the TRUTH!

It doesn't make you less patriotic... Matter of fact, that's true Patriotism.


Nigeria has a ruling class sharing power among themselves who are shockingly corrupt and incompetent!

That's the core foundation of this nation's negative trajectory, especially in the last 15 years.


If you can't intelligently disprove or counter this position, then kindly don't disrespect it.

Are there saints in Politics? Trump and corruption, did you know what transpired during the Covid relief fund during Trump first term?

You better be preparing for another pandemic. Before the end of this years trump might do another round of Relief fund to Americans which some tragedy need to happen to back it up.

helinues:


2027 issa goal for president Tinubu

I am just imagining the kind of tsunami from next year.

Follow those who sabi road

Absolutely. I am looking forward to Tinubu showing some born-to-rule elements in the North, once and for all, that they do not own Nigeria.

Two years of the Presidency of a strong and independent-minded southerner, unlike GEJ , the North is up in arms.

Conversely, what did the entire Nigeria not endure under 8 years of Buhari, to include our people being butchered in their land, while the North kept silent tacitly backing Buhari?

Tinubu ma pa won nah.

JAGABAN! The god of Politics. But Shey even Atiku’s BP in the last election too go cross to be Tinubu’s boy ni? Abi Tinubu dey use Juju ni!

TopBanter:
Absolutely. I am looking forward to Tinubu showing some born-to-rule elements in the North, once and for all, that they do not own Nigeria.

Two years of the Presidency of a strong and independent-minded southerner, unlike GEJ , the North is up in arms.

Conversely, what did the entire Nigeria not endure under 8 years of Buhari, to include our people being butchered in their land, while the North kept silent tacitly backing Buhari?

Lately, people only have issue with APC as a party not with Tinubu as the president. Everyone is falling in line

fergie001:
It is unclear if the former Delta Governor was speaking about his rumoured defection to the APC or the Coalition


- Former Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has communicated with his constituents, stating that he is embarking on a new path, the details of which he will reveal soon.

Ashawe

Rivers. Edo, delta, cross river, akwa ibom...Nigerian politicians no fit make heaven aswear. I pity young people following them

Rilwayne001:
Tinubu is turning this country to a one party system, just like he did in Lagos.

He seem to be the one that is organizing the coalition because rather for politicians to be joining the coalition, it’s him they are joining

No cry, no cry, no cry

BeginsAtHome:
2027, there'd be no ELECTIONS...

The opposition should protest that instead of spending money to do elections, Tinubu should just give them the money to share so that their families will not die of hunger

Maxymilliano:
Well, I'll be damned if he joins APC

dey play o...just dey play

Maxymilliano:
Well, I'll be damned if he joins APC

Who you be?

IPIGSRSHALLOW:
Yeah right, Trump has 34 felony convictions and still won an election.
Stop this trash about "only in Nigeria talk".

He was convicted for taking a pornster. Imagine taping a public toilet. Such a useless animal

Rilwayne001:
Tinubu is turning this country to a one party system, just like he did in Lagos.

He seem to be the one that is organizing the coalition because rather for politicians to be joining the coalition, it’s him they are joining

Lagos State will be recaptured by Bode George....

I know you'll be happy if this happens....