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a4turitoroman:
See result lol Even with the miracle centre him use
Government E8, Religion D7

Person wey fail government dey govern a state.

Nigeria is an unreal place.

Spy360:
So first of all you're agreeing and establishing the fact that Tinubu is sub par.

Secondly, you cannot say as a fact that Obi will be like Tinubu.

Thirdly, it's obvious that you know the facts about the EL Rufai issue but hatred for Obi makes you renovate.

I don't give a flying fhuck about Peter obi the stammer, I have always known that Nigerians are daft and st0pid but the height of it was the obedient movement.

Imagine grown adult who thinks a Nigerian politician who Haa been a governor in Nigeria and did absolutely nothing as governor will become president and all the countries problem will be solved overnight. Is it delusion or just because the obi is from a particular section of the country that yet to produce a president in this democratic dispensation? If you're supporting obi because he's a business man then fine, don't come here to gaslight us that a failure like obi is different from Tinubu and others.

OasisX:
Total gross revenue available for June stood at ₦4.232 trillion.

₦162.786 billion deducted as cost of collection...

₦2.251 trillion earmarked for transfers, interventions, refunds and savings.

FG get ₦645 billion.

States get ₦607 billion.

LGAs: ₦444.853 billion

13% extra to Oil producing States: ₦120.759 billion.

So my cousin wey be Chairman dey chow nearly 600milla a month? No wonder e no wan pick anybody call again

KingTom:
So my cousin wey be Chairman dey chow nearly 600milla a month? No wonder e no wan pick anybody call again

LOL one of my mum’s cousins moved that way.

His party entered and he started restricting calls. When his party was booted out he started sending my mum monthly inspirational messages like he used to do before.

His party is back in power now and his number is unreachable again. 😀

vanitybutiwanti:
you're even going too far. Obidieients are hypocrites, some weeks back Duoye Diri threatened wike and instructed him not to come to his state and a lot of these headless hypocritical obidients cheered him on.

Chances of obi winning the 2027 election is very slim because politicians at the top know that the average Nigerian is a hypocrite, they don't hate corruption or maladministration, they just hate the fact that the person they like or support is not at the helm of affairs. This same obi will do nothing different from what Tinubu is doing today if he accidentally becomes president, he will elevate people around him and make them rich, do one or two shiny sub par project and visit hospitals and university. He's nothing special, he's just another guy man looking to cash out from Nigerias common patrimony.

His chances of winning haven't been affected, not even slightly, the 'headless' ones may be on a strong renovation spree but Tinubu's poor performance will be his greatest undoing. It is left for the Association of Displaced Criminals (ADC) to deploy their machinery (I.e structures of Criminality ) and match Tinubu on election day. If all goes well, it'll be a walkover

afrodoc:
LOL one of my mum’s cousins moved that way.

His party entered and he started restricting calls. When his party was booted out he started sending my mum monthly inspirational messages like he used to do before.

His party is back in power now and his number is unreachable again. 😀

😀 😀 😀

afrodoc:
LOL one of my mum’s cousins moved that way.

His party entered and he started restricting calls. When his party was booted out he started sending my mum monthly inspirational messages like he used to do before.

His party is back in power now and his number is unreachable again. 😀

That's exactly how they move, he was a councilor a decade ago, na so baba say e no wan entertain calls again, him wife wan born him papa say make he call me he tell the man point blank say e don pass that level say he go fly am out to London, the man come dey beg me to talk to my brother, say e don go astray , Years after he was relegated to the conference league, baba wan kill me with 'I fit see 300k for your hand, I have investments coming up' the only reason I tolerate him is that his father has always been my favorite uncle and confidant, as for him well I wish hin the best. Even to pick him papa call now na WAEC

OasisX:


......hol'am for neck, press am wella, so he can be accountable. Its only in Lagos that LGs and LCDAs are functioning.

DSS go arrest me beat me wetin no good before my hand reach him neck o and as my name no be Hell if I sue them, I no go win

Peter Obi is starting to realize he's a prisoner of the Obidient movement.
In Politics you make certain concessions to win, even if teaming up with those your base might not like.

Trump teamed up with certain elements to become POTUS47, including his V.P. who was his most vocal critic. Tulsi Gabbard was a Trump critic too.


The ADC would have been an easier ride of Obi and all he has to do is make concessions, including to those the Obidients don't like.

Peter Obi is being propped up as a purist by his base. The man himself has admitted to being fallible but his supporters insist he most keep that halo of piousness over his head.

It means he has to shake hands with the Devîl. At least make a showing of being bend of exorcism.

With Buhari gone, people like El Rufai are sét to take over his cûlt following; or at least a large chunk. Peter Obi is only going to win by making an alliance. Trump realized MAGA alone wasn't going to do it for him.

Do I like El Rufai? No. I remember posting on and on on this thread showing he's treacherous pre-Election in 2022. He's still the same El Rufai. But like Trump, Obi will have to give that frog a dance. Or the chance to get even at Tinubu which will benefit him.

I'm sure Obi knows this. I'm sure he's pragmatic enough to do this given the symbolic picture of him holding El Rufai's hands. He had to dissociate from the ADC after the Obidient Movement thréatened.

But the Obidient Movement aren't willing to look past their emotions. I should post this on Facebook or X, but I don't want to dabble into controversies.

Worse even, we all agree the movement has morphed into a mob. They'd deface my social media wall for stating the truth, or even falsely accuse me.

I guess it's increasingly why some of us who support Obi and still like the man. But we completely abhor the Obidient tag.

Interestingly, it was the same sentiment reverberating at the event I referenced yesterday.

The Obi Movement catapulted Obi to the very zenith of national politics, but unfortunately, it might be the very reason he wouldn't attain a position he otherwise should given such a strong massive following.

Would the mob listen and stop turning on the man they came together to promote? Your guess is as good as mine.

Disstroy only hopes for the best.

Yet again, another masterpiece, written by Segun Ayobolu. Enjoy:

The Nation Newspaper Backpage Columnist

Segun Ayobolu

July 19, 2025

PMB: Simplicity in life, dignity in death

It would have been surprising if his death last Sunday, July 13, in a private hospital in London, had been received with universal approbation and adulation of a virtuous, unblemished life in a polity as complex and fraught as Nigeria. First, there are no human beings without fault. With the possible exception of the immaculately spotless Peter Obi, according to the holy gospel of the ‘Obidients’, mortal leaders are no angels. Again, an inevitable and unavoidable price of greatness is the intense controversy evoked by those who make a significant impact on history across time and space. Those who love them do so fanatically, and those who detest them are implacable in their hatred. And so it was with President Muhammadu Buhari, unassuming military Head of State for about 20 months between December 1983 and August 1985, and two-term elected President of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023. It was no different with Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ladoke Akintola, Murtala Mohammed, Odumegwu Ojukwu and several others who had played prime roles in Nigeria’s political evolution.

When he died in 1987, the great sage, unrivalled administrative genius and first Premier of the Western Region in Nigeria’s First Republic, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was passionately mourned by his teeming followers and remorselessly reviled by those who could not differentiate him from Satan. The great novelist and thinker, Professor Chinua Achebe, had issued a public statement after Awolowo’s death, accusing him of supporting genocide during the Nigerian civil war, and vigorously canvassing against according the great politician a state burial. He did not believe that the dead deserved some respect, and he was no doubt entitled to his view in a free and open society. It is instructive in this regard that Awolowo’s arch political opponent, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who defeated him in the 1979 and 1983 presidential elections, awarded him the National Honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR), even though Awo was never President.

A near-unanimous refrain in the outpouring of emotions following President Buhari’s transition to eternity from both his friends and foes alike, however, was the unrivalled ethical pedestal he bestrode and the impeccable moral integrity that characterised his over five decades in public life. His aversion to material accumulation earned him the lifelong adulation, adoration and reflexive loyalty of millions of ordinary Nigerians, particularly in Northern Nigeria, where mass poverty is particularly pronounced, largely as a result of leadership lack of vision and elite venality. Indeed, in his slim but powerful classic, ‘The Trouble with Nigeria’, Achebe had traced the excessive materialism that is the bane of contemporary Nigeria partly to what he described as the deficiency in the political thought of some of our key founding fathers.

As Achebe put it, “A perceptive student of Nigerian politics, James Booth, has drawn attention to the poverty of thought exhibited in the biographies of Dr Azikiwe and Chief Awolowo in contrast to the expressions of ideology to be found even in the more informal works of Mboya, Nyerere and Nkrumah! In a solemn vow made by Azikiwe in 1937, he pledged: ‘that henceforth I shall utilise my earned income to secure my enjoyment of a high standard of living and also to give a helping hand to the needy’. Obafemi Awolowo was even more forthright about his ambitions: ‘I was going to make myself formidable intellectually, morally invulnerable, to make all the money that is possible for a man with my brains and brawn to make’. Thoughts such as these are more likely to produce aggressive millionaires than selfless leaders of their people. An absence of objective and intellectual rigour at the critical moment of a nation’s formation is more than an academic matter. It inclines the fledgling state to disorderly growth and mental deficiency”.

Though controversial, Achebe ‘s contention here in my view contains some grains of truth. Buhari was no intellectual and did not pretend to be one. He was a simple soldier who defended his country’s territorial integrity first on the battlefield, next in a war against indiscipline and corruption through ‘redemptive’ military statecraft between 1984 and 1985 and then on the partisan political terrain as a politician and emergent statesman between 2003 and 2023. Yet, he had a strong moral orientation to life undoubtedly influenced by his deep commitment to Islamic spirituality. It is amazing that a man who was military governor of the former North Eastern State comprising about five states today did not seize the opportunity to amass stupendous wealth. He was a former Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and military Head of State but never allocated any oil bloc to himself. He never acquired any property in Lagos. It almost sounds like fiction. It was after he left office in 2023 that the succeeding Tinubu administration upgraded his house in Kaduna.

When he assumed office as military Head of State in 1984, following the martial overthrow of a thoroughly corrupt and decadent Second Republic, the military still had the image of being a redemptive, messianic institution with the requisite reservoir of patriotism and professional integrity to rescue Nigeria from the havoc of predatory politicians. There is no doubt that Buhari and his deputy, Brigadier General Tunde Idiagbon, pursued their War Against Indiscipline and Corruption in essentially purist and uncompromising, Messianic terms. Thus, they set up anti-corruption tribunals that tried and jailed corrupt politicians of the Second Republic for terms that amounted to life sentences. They publicly executed drug couriers and jailed foreign exchange speculators. They drafted draconian punitive laws against a media they perceived as veering beyond the bounds of liberty into licentiousness.

Even before his emergence as military Head of State, Buhari ‘s patriotic commitment to Nigeria was indisputable. In his thrilling and authoritative book, ‘Soldiers of Fortune’, the lawyer, writer and historian reputed for his extensive knowledge of Nigerian military history, Max Siollun, wrote, “Buhari was in charge of troops sent to Nigeria’s north-eastern border region in 1983 to prevent infiltration by armed rebels from the neighbouring Republic of Chad. After his troops successfully cleared the rebels from the border area, the troops advanced several kilometres into Chadian territory. The political hierarchy ordered Buhari to withdraw his troops, but he refused, arguing that the Chadian rebels would return to the area as soon as his troops departed… Buhari was finally persuaded to withdraw after President Shagari enlisted Buhari ‘s superior officers, Lt-Generals Jalo and Wushishi, to order him to pull back.”

As expected and as Max Siollun writes, the incident created a tense relationship between top members of the Shagari administration and Buhari and that “It also caused enough concern in the government for the Transport Minister, Umaru Dikko, to place Buhari under surveillance. Dikko also pressured the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Wushishi, to block Buhari ‘s posting to Lagos…The strong-willed Buhari complained to President Shagari that Dikko had asked his movement to be monitored. When Shagari raised the issue with Dikko, Dikko did not deny the accusation, but simply warned Shagari that Buhari could not be trusted and should be retired. Dikko had woken a sleeping tiger.”
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Widely reviled by Nigerians, Umaru Dikko had a reputation for corruption, arrogance and contempt for suffering Nigerians. When asked on national television about the economic hardships being experienced by Nigerians under the Shagari administration, he responded by asking if any Nigerians had been seen eating from dust bins! The audacious attempt by the Buhari regime to abduct Dikko from Britain, where he had escaped to after the 1983 coup, an effort coordinated with the support of the dreaded Israeli intelligence outfit, Mossad, made global news at the time. Dikko had been successfully kidnapped outside his residence when he was taking a walk, anaesthetised into unconsciousness, bundled into a waiting van and driven away by Nigerian and Israeli security officers. He was later offloaded into a crate labelled “diplomatic baggage”, addressed to the Nigerian Ministry of External Affairs in Lagos and transported in a lorry to Stansted Airport, where a Nigeria Airways plane was waiting to depart for Lagos with its “diplomatic baggage” at 3 pm.

Unfortunately, there had been a last-minute lapse in the operation and British security and immigration agents in and around the airport had been put on high alert. Attempts by the British authorities to inspect the diplomatic crate were vigorously protested by a Nigerian officer, Major Ahmed Jarfa Yesufu (rtd) and one Okon Edet, a member of the Nigerian High Commission in London. According to Max Siollun, “The vehement protests were dismissed and the police opened the crates with a crowbar. What they found inside was shocking. In the first crate was a bound and unconscious Dikko with his torso bare. Dikko ‘s captors had shoved an endotracheal tube into his throat to prevent him from choking on his own vomit when he was unconscious. His captors wanted him brought back to Nigeria alive. Besides him was Shapiro, brandishing syringes and a supply of additional anaesthetics to administer to Dikko if need be. Shapiro asked the customs officers, “Well, gentlemen, what do we do now?”

Those were momentous episodes in Nigeria’s foreign policy at the time, resulting in a prolonged diplomatic face-off between Nigeria and Britain. Buhari’s transition from a feared military dictator to a democratically elected two-term President who governed with utmost respect for democratic ethos is unprecedented in Nigeria’s history. Obasanjo also governed as a two-term elected President after previously serving as a military Head of State who voluntarily handed over to a democratically elected President in 1979. But on his second coming as elected President, his attempt to secure a tenure extension for a third term in 2007 had to be thwarted by a concerted resistance of critical political stakeholders. Obasanjo sings his anti-corruption credentials from the rooftops and labels everybody else as corrupt. But the monstrous Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta and the expansive Obasanjo Presidential Library complex, as well as numerous multi-billion Naira private investments, give the lie to his rhetoric. Buhari has no such baggage.

This column does not intend to join the debate on the achievements or otherwise of the Buhari administration for his eight years as elected President. His accomplishments are there for all to see, and his failings too, like any leader. One of these is that he was too trusting of some of his key aides who hid behind the cover of his unstinting integrity and credibility to amass humongous wealth without the slightest iota of compassion for the teeming talakawa that Buhari loved and who reciprocated his affection fervently. Yet, some of such unscrupulous persons see his consistently over 12 million votes over several electoral cycles as an asset they can inherit and trade with, even as the honest one leaves us in a blaze of glory. They should not underestimate the intelligence of Buhari’s masses.

Flashback to October 1, 1974. In his address to the nation, Nigeria’s military Head of State at the time, General Yakubu Gowon, told his stunned countrymen and women that his earlier pledge to return the country to democratic governance by 1976 was no longer feasible. Aba Saheed, pen name of Akogun Tola Adeniyi, fiery and unsparing columnist with the then trail-blazing Daily Times, responded with a pungent and incisive piece titled ‘Death, I salute you!’. He warned about the transience of human existence, the ubiquity of death and the ultimate vanity of power. Buhari needed no such admonitions. According to his media adviser, as President, Femi Adesina, towards the end of Buhari’s tenure, he asked the former President, “after here, what next?” And he responded, “I’m looking forward to leaving. And from there, I go to my grave at the appointed time”. No wonder he was so indifferent to the obsessive accumulation of wealth and the arrogant utilisation of power. May the honest one rest in deserved peace.

Sharia police bans DJs and Gala events for weddings in Bauchi state .

Shari'a police bans DJs, gala events, others for weddings in Bauchi State henceforth pic.twitter.com/KLxjZWhSz9

— UNCLE DEJI™️ (@DejiAdesogan) July 18, 2025

This is one of the reasons any freedom loving south west person will oppose introduction of sharia in the southwest

KingTom:
That's exactly how they move, he was a councilor a decade ago, na so baba say e no wan entertain calls again, him wife wan born him papa say make he call me he tell the man point blank say e don pass that level say he go fly am out to London, the man come dey beg me to talk to my brother, say e don go astray , Years after he was relegated to the conference league, baba wan kill me with 'I fit see 300k for your hand, I have investments coming up' the only reason I tolerate him is that his father has always been my favorite uncle and confidant, as for him well I wish hin the best. Even to pick him papa call now na WAEC

Carbon copy. He is a much younger cousin to my mum.

When my mum gists me his moves she is always laughing and there is no beef. It is not because of him but because of the high regard she had for his parents.

vanitybutiwanti:
There is no difference between this man and the scammer Peter obi

😀 😀 😀

Bimmarlykay:
3MB won't be more than 40-50m high above water...professionals can do the jump(Feet first), non-pro might not survive.

I don’t think you know how high 40m is; that’s at least 4 electric poles. You need to jump from a tall tree into a river to realize how hard the water becomes. It might even feel like concrete floor.

vanitybutiwanti:
wrong, all governors and party leaders have their cut in LGA allocations. Fubara was deducting 50m for himself from each LGA, wike 30m for himself, the sole administrator is allegedly deducting 200m since they started getting not less than 800m monthly un Rivers.

So if the sole administrator is deducting 200m from 800m how much is left? Ibas my nigga the man who loves the 3 Ws

afrodoc:
Carbon copy. He is a much younger cousin to my mum.

When my mum gists me his moves she is always laughing and there is no beef. It is not because of him but because of the high regard she had for his parents.

It's a tale as old as time

nihilistjnr:
In the whole of Africa BTW not just Lagos.

Property prices in Ikoyi are on par with Luxury properties in Miami.

And that’s exactly why I said it’s overpriced. There’s absolutely no justification for a house in Nigeria to go for $14,000 per year in rent. Just like there’s no reason land should be selling for $3 million anywhere in this country, it’s ridiculous.

As you said, these prices are on par with luxury properties in Miami. But let’s be honest, who in their right mind would compare Ikoyi or Banana Island to Miami?
It’s pure madness.

rabazamba:
His chances of winning haven't been affected, not even slightly, the 'headless' ones may be on a strong renovation spree but Tinubu's poor performance will be his greatest undoing. It is left for the Association of Displaced Criminals (ADC) to deploy their machinery (I.e structures of Criminality ) and match Tinubu on election day. If all goes well, it'll be a walkover

How has Tinubus performance been poor and what will obi do different? Will obi turn poor Nigerians to millionaires over night by sharing money if he becomes president? Governance is not about parroting buzz phrases like ' from consumption to production' governance is not about boasting that a company you set up in the state is paying a measly 23m in taxes monthly? Come to Rivers, some politicians busineses employ and pay ×10 in tax than what the brewery in Anambra pays monthly and they dont make noise about it.

Tinubu is not joking with obi and so called ADC, Do you know what is at stake, you mean Tinubu will allow ADC and other crimiinal Nigerians who commit all sorts of atrocities in real life and come on the Internet to act pious and sanctimonious displace him because of Obi? You must be joking. Edo governor just threatened obi and instructed him not to come to his state without his permission and nothing has happened. As usual the criminals supporting obi can only huff and puff on the Internet, they can't do shiit.

TemporaryHansel:
And that’s exactly why I said it’s overpriced. There’s absolutely no justification for a house in Nigeria to go for $14,000 per year in rent. Just like there’s no reason land should be selling for $3 million anywhere in this country, it’s ridiculous.

As you said, these prices are on par with luxury properties in Miami. But let’s be honest, who in their right mind would compare Ikoyi or Banana Island to Miami?
It’s pure madness.

One of the biggest problems in Nigeria’s real estate sector is that people don’t know how to differentiate between something that’s expensive and something that’s just blatantly overpriced. This doesn't apply to only real estate though, but let me focus on that

Even if you can afford it, you shouldn’t be making reckless transactions because you're helping to destroy the market for everyone else. I know people earning over $10k monthly here, and just because they can pay $14k for rent per annum doesn’t mean it makes any sense. It’s still overpriced, and normalizing that behavior is dangerous.

And this madness isn’t limited to just Ikoyi anymore, it’s spreading. I genuinely feel sorry for the poor and middle class in this country. The gap keeps getting wider every year, and no one’s doing anything about it.

Scott Iguna is doing a great job calling out these firms selling outrageously priced homes. More people need to speak up.

vanitybutiwanti:
Ibas can't do road construction and other capital projects. The easiest way for him to loot is through allocations to LGAs and mind you that money is not for ibas alone, there are people that set the tone for him to come and eat, he has to settle them too.

God I don't want to be a Doctor anymore I want to be a Sole Administrator

TemporaryHansel:
And that’s exactly why I said it’s overpriced. There’s absolutely no justification for a house in Nigeria to go for $14,000 per year in rent. Just like there’s no reason land should be selling for $3 million anywhere in this country, it’s ridiculous.

As you said, these prices are on par with luxury properties in Miami. But let’s be honest, who in their right mind would compare Ikoyi or Banana Island to Miami?
It’s pure madness.

The prices are nowhere close to being on par with luxury properties in Miami...14K USD is just over 1K per month, that's like the cost for a one bed in most mid-sized American cities.

Bimmarlykay:
Lol...they just search speed-figures and metrics and do direct maths.

3mb ain't even as high as we assume...looking at it ,i have watched videos of people jump from bridges higher than 3mb.

Peeps jump from aircraft into ocean floor...i believe its more of technique and experience.

We can both jump from a palm tree and land differently... which will determine the level of injures sustained or death.

Evidence of someone jumping from the highest point of 3MB?

Evidence na movie wey dem dey use stuntman jump the lowest point of 3MB, something I will jump twice that height

This is the bridge in my hometown where boys jump from daily and is much higher than that nonsense Tobi Bakre stuntman jumped in that movie at the entrance to 3MB which cannot have been more than 6m

It's like the bar to be called stuntman in Nollywood is extremely low