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Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by TyroneP(m): 9:15am On Oct 10, 2025
Putindbutt:
This fake news blog, the way he confidently sits in the corner of his room fabricating stuffs in his head to sell to the gullible is out of this world.
There are some elements of truth in the news, though may not be entirely hundred percent true. If you're a good political analyst that understands contemporary political theories not just beer parlour discussions, you can connect the events. Besides, Sahara whispered the emergence of Amupitan days before any media outlet in the country.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Putindbutt(m): 9:16am On Oct 10, 2025
freeborn02:
But when Sahara Reporter reported that Jonathan was a drunkard, it wasn't fake news then?!

Fake news can be defined as News that doesn't fit your preferred narrative or doesn't make you happy.
Ijaw man dey drink ogogoro steady, that's not even a news. I don't need Sowore to tell me that.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by yorosstores: 9:17am On Oct 10, 2025
Sahara reporters and their yeye reporting.

Only waiting for Wike to respond so they could continue spinning the story.

Wike doesn't have your time.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by IamANigerianMan:
Af0nja2:
Is Wike (as Minister of the FTC) a member of the Council of State? No

Only AG and Minister of Justice is the only minister that is a member of the council. Wike, though administers FCT, is not a governor of a state, so is not a member.

Members of CoS are as follows:
Why was he represented by the minister of state for FCT? Don't just googled and type anything you want... FCT is a state and the minister is a member of council of state
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by BondRiv: 9:18am On Oct 10, 2025
Lol, as if Tinubu is a saint. Ridiculous. What does Sowore have to do with anything? Tinubu and his Yoruba government. In a free and fair election, Tinubu will lose. He should sideline Wike at his own peril. Let us have a free and fair election and see the outcome.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by caleboxylic: 9:20am On Oct 10, 2025
yns4real:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/10/09/wike-boycotts-council-state-meeting-amid-rift-tinubu-snubs-his-candidate-appoints
Wike going, going, gone. Fubara will decamp to APC and takeover the entire structure of the part as seen with Peter Mbah of enugu state
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Antoeni(m): 9:20am On Oct 10, 2025
Evil Man
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by anonimi: 9:20am On Oct 10, 2025
Putindbutt:
This fake news blog, the way he confidently sits in the corner of his room fabricating stuffs in his head to sell to the gullible is out of this world.
Whatever he fabricates pales in comparison to the fake propaganda promises fabricated by Tinubu and his fellow leaders looters in Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC.

Deltafirstson:
Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.

In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.

However, pump price of fuel hit N537 per litre days after Tinubu ended subsidy.

On Tuesday, the price climbed further to N617, a development that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) attributed to “market forces”.

Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.

Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.

At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.

However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.

“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.

King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, a Fuji musician who performed at the rally, interrupted the president’s speech with chants as the crowd cheered.

On the campaign podium with the president were Vice-President Kashim Shettima; Pa Bisi Akande, interim National Chairman of the APC; Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President; Senator Gbenga Daniel; among other bigwigs of the ruling party.

Tinubu went further to say Nigerians would defy the acute fuel scarcity at the time and trek to cast their votes.

“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200/N500 per litre. Go and relax, we will crash the prices,” he had said.

https://dailytrust.com/breaking-video-of-tinubu-campaigning-to-crash-fuel-

he had said in the 7th minute of the video.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JH8CC_JdUA
>>>
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Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC

January 19, 2015

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.

On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.

But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.

It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.

https://www.thecable.ng/petrol-never-cost-n70-per-litre-says-apc/



Buhari’ll reduce petrol to N40/L —David-West

FORMER Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Prof. Tamunoemi David-West, said that Nigerians should expect sharp drop in petrol price from the current N87 to about N40 per litre, saying, “the president-elect, Gen. Mohammed Buhari, will reduce the fuel pump price to N40 per litre.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/buharill-reduce-petrol-to-n40l-david-west/
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Fiscus105(m): 9:21am On Oct 10, 2025
Validated:
I am an ardent critic of Tinubu's presidency. But you see this appointment, I give Tinubu thumbs 👆
Ok o, how will you feel if you are not Yoruba and?
1. INEC CHAIR is Yoruba.
2. Police that will monitor election. Yoruba.
The head of Judges that would give final verdict is Yoruba.
The head of government is Yoruba.


If you criticized Buhari but suddenly gone silent or even happy now, I fear who no fear you.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Putindbutt(m): 9:23am On Oct 10, 2025
TyroneP:
There are some elements of truth in the news, though may not be entirely hundred percent true. If you're a good political analyst that understands contemporary political theories not just beer parlour discussions, you can connect the events. Besides, Sahara whispered the emergence of Amupitan days before any media outlet in the country.
There's no element of truth in fake news. Fake news blog that said Wike was on emergency to UK hospital for heart failure grin. 99% of his news are conjectures
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by anonimi: 9:24am On Oct 10, 2025
yorosstores:
Sahara reporters and their yeye reporting.

Only waiting for Wike to respond so they could continue spinning the story.

Wike doesn't have your time.
The only time that Wike has is to beg Atiku again for vice president position. grin

anonimi:
Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT

Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.

Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.

The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.

The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.

The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.

Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.

https://dailytrust.com/wike-lobbied-pdp-committee-to-be-atikus-running-mate-ex-govship-aspirant/
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury

Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.

One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.

Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.

https://www.thecable.ng/2023-pdp-and-politics-of-healing-wikes-self-inflicted-injury/amp

ddippset:
Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.

Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku.
He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
grin grin

He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party..
Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.

This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.

He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by freeborn02: 9:24am On Oct 10, 2025
Putindbutt:
Ijaw man dey drink ogogoro steady, that's not even a news. I don't need Sowore to tell me that.
But it is impossible for politicians to disagree, go against one another and have a fallout, right?!
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Putindbutt(m): 9:25am On Oct 10, 2025
Fiscus105:
Ok o, how will you feel if you are not Yoruba and?
1. INEC CHAIR is Yoruba.
2. Police that will monitor election. Yoruba.
The head of Judges that would give final verdict is Yoruba l.
The head of government is Yoruba.
Go to court, if you get in there, you can appoint your enemies.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by parags(m): 9:25am On Oct 10, 2025
Putindbutt:
This fake news blog, the way he confidently sits in the corner of his room fabricating stuffs in his head to sell to the gullible is out of this world.
How ? Sahara reporters first put Amupitan's name as the successor immediately the former ince chairman left . I wish i could meet Tinubu . He knows how to use people. Wike will always be an unstable pawn on Tinubu's chess board. Time will tell how they plan to use him .

I will not be surprised if Tinubu caucus gave Sahara reporters the Intel on Wike . They already have the bullet to bring down Wike @ undeclared US properties . Will they ever load the gun or when is now the question
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by duro4chang(m): 9:25am On Oct 10, 2025
Those who make up the Council of State in Nigeria:

President
Vice President
All former Presidents/Heads of State
All former Chief Justices of Nigeria
President of the Senate
Speaker of the House of Representatives
All serving Governors and
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation.

The permanent youth, Sowore and his Asara Reporters are not only irresponsible but very shameless.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Putindbutt(m): 9:25am On Oct 10, 2025
freeborn02:
But it is impossible for politicians to disagree, go against one another and have a fallout, right?!
What's your points?
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by richmond500: 9:26am On Oct 10, 2025
seunmsg:
I am aware of the National Council of state. Which section of the Constitution sets up this your Federal council of state and what is the composition?
my federal, Oga it's in the constitution
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by duro4chang(m): 9:27am On Oct 10, 2025
ZombieDredd:
This is good

This is verryy gooooddd.

Anything to scatter the enemies of the masses is welcome
Those who make up the Council of State in Nigeria:

President
Vice President
All former Presidents/Heads of State
All former Chief Justices of Nigeria
President of the Senate
Speaker of the House of Representatives
All serving Governors and
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation.

The permanent youth, Sowore and his Asara Reporters are not only irresponsible but very shameless.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by aylipple: 9:28am On Oct 10, 2025
Sometimes Sahara Reporters behaves as if they're a media organization run by confused kindergartens.

The same organization some few days ago correctly broke the news that barring any last minute surprises, the President would present Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Prof. Joash O. Amupitan's name to the National Council of State as nominee for INEC Chairman. Now, this report is saying nominating an INEC Chair wasn't on the council's agenda at all; flip flop reporting?

Sahara Reporters wants badly a spat between PBAT & Wike, and in its desperation to present a false perception of trouble between the duo, it forgot that FCT Minister isn't a member of the Council of State so all this allegation of "boycott" because one purported favoured candidate expected to be nominated for INEC Chair was jettisoned for another, is hogwash.

For avoidance of doubt, the Composition of Council of State (Nigeria) is as follows:

1. President, who is the Chairman
2. Vice-President, who is the Deputy Chairman
3. All former Presidents of the Federation and all former Heads of the Government of the Federation
4. All former Chief Justices of Nigeria
5. Current President of the Senate
6. Current Speaker of the House of Representatives
7. All the Governors of the states of the Federation
8. Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by anonimi: 9:30am On Oct 10, 2025
Fiscus105:
Ok o, how will you feel if you are not Yoruba and?

1. INEC CHAIR is Yoruba.
2. Police that will monitor election. Yoruba.
The head of Judges that would give final verdict is Yoruba l.
The head of government is Yoruba.
By God’s grace, bi Tinubu ba di adágún omi, gbigbọn ni a má gbọn dànù.

Ní agbára Ọlọ́run 2027 ni òpin radarada àwọn jẹgudujẹra agbalọwọmeri amunisin in Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC.

He can appoint his own son, Seyi as INEC chairman, but it won’t stop God’s will to liberate Nigerians from this APC extreme poverty shege and insecurity.

anonimi:
May 1, 2025

May Day: Hunger, unemployment, insecurity real— Tinubu

According to him: “The theme demands our collective attention and serves as a stark reminder of the need to create an environment where every worker feels safe, valued, and empowered to contribute to the growth and prosperity of our nation. As your President, I assure you that this administration is committed to creating such an environment for the common good.”

On the economic hardship, he noted that while it is a global phenomenon, its effects on Nigerians are particularly severe.

Tinubu said: “I am aware of the peculiarities of the economic hardship Nigerians face—rising living costs, hunger, insecurity, unemployment, and the loss of livelihoods. These challenges are real and demand definitive solutions, which I am poised to address as your President.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/may-day-hunger-unemployment-insecurity-real-tinubu/
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Putindbutt(m): 9:31am On Oct 10, 2025
parags:
How ? Sahara reporters first put Amupitan's name as the successor immediately the former ince chairman left . I wish i could meet Tinubu . He knows how to use people. Wike will always be an unstable pawn on Tinubu's chess board. Time will tell how they plan to use him .

I will not be surprised if Tinubu caucus gave Sahara reporters the Intel on Wike . They already have the bullet to bring down Wike @ undeclared US properties . Will they ever load the gun or when is now the question
SR did not do anything new, two days to the announcement , the name was already out there in the presidency. Someone giving SR a hint two days ahead is not new. We knew about most names of his appointees before official announcements.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by freeborn02: 9:31am On Oct 10, 2025
Putindbutt:
What's your points?
It's "normal" for ijaw men to drink, according to you, but it is not normal for politicians like tinubu and Wike to fall out, right?!
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by seunmsg(m): 9:33am On Oct 10, 2025
richmond500:
my federal, Oga it's in the constitution
Take correction and stop capping. It is National Council of State and not Federal Council of State.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by richmond500: 9:35am On Oct 10, 2025
seunmsg:
Take correction and stop capping. It is National Council of State and not Federal Council of State.
I don't recall calling it federal council of state.

So I have no correction to take
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by olyrayy(m): 9:35am On Oct 10, 2025
Validated:
I am an ardent critic of Tinubu's presidency. But you see this appointment, I give Tinubu thumbs 👆
Why?
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by OfficialP: 9:35am On Oct 10, 2025
Putindbutt:
This fake news blog, the way he confidently sits in the corner of his room fabricating stuffs in his head to sell to the gullible is out of this world.
.the same SR mentioned it first that pbat will appoint the new inec chair
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Kdon2: 9:36am On Oct 10, 2025
yns4real:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/10/09/wike-boycotts-council-state-meeting-amid-rift-ptinubu-snubs-his-candidate-appoints
There is no uneasy relationship between tinubu and wike. They will resolve their differences. it's only a matter of time. Stop creating a storm in a tea pot.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by kennethesan(m): 9:38am On Oct 10, 2025
Wike is getting to the end of the road in his "the boy is good" Relationship with the Presidency.... 😂
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by KillahPriest: 9:38am On Oct 10, 2025
Believe this then, I've got flying horses to sell to you cool
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by phemray(m): 9:38am On Oct 10, 2025
Putindbutt:
This fake news blog, the way he confidently sits in the corner of his room fabricating stuffs in his head to sell to the gullible is out of this world.
I was so surprised when Sowore said in the interview that Sahara reporters is just a laptop on his table. Meaning only him. How he gets leaked memo and info everywhere is what is more surprising
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by IgOga(m): 9:40am On Oct 10, 2025
osuofia2:
The Truth is Tinubu needs Wike more than Wike needs him, Sahara reporter and fake news
lol. Do you know what it means to be GCFR and current President of Nigeria.

EFCC alone is enough to return Wike to his beginning. Somebody said "after God na government"

Take this scenario as example:

1. EFCC, DSS arrest Wike on corruption charges (FCT minister has no immunity)

2. Tinubu sacks Wike as FCT chairman appoints XYZ

3. Fubara decamps to APC

4. EFCC assisting FBI in investigating Wike's money laundering

5. Wike absent at PDP's convention


Wike's power is subject to having political goodwill and support of the presidency. PDP does not like him, ADC does not like him, Rivers State governor does not like him. If he looses favour with the president he is toast.
Re: INEC Chair: Wike Shuns Council Of State Meeting As Tinubu Snubs His Candidate-SR by Putindbutt(m): 9:41am On Oct 10, 2025
freeborn02:
It's "normal" for ijaw men to drink, according to you, but it is not normal for politicians like tinubu and Wike to fall out, right?!
It is easier for an elephant to pass through the hole of a needle than Wike & Tinubu falling out.
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