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orikoku:
Nigeria is a crime scene. Someone who’s convicted by British court, now the president wants him back home for political cheap score.

Shut up... If he's your father won't you be happy Cho Cho Cho without reading. Person dig boreholes, it is politics, person build road, it is politics... Is not better to be playing politics and doing something? Are they not politicians? You that is not doing your own for politics, go and bring him back home.
Simple diplomacy you don't know but likes to chooke mouth for matters like illiterates.
This is how you form narration and some gullible people will take it, swallow it and spread the ignorance.
Even if you don't like the government, it does not mean you should criticize everything they do. Think before you criticize.
Imagine say you get senator for your family and this kind thing happened to him. Because he's convicted of trying to do organ trafficking, they should not help him.

A father’s love may be strong, but ending another man’s son’s life for the survival of one’s daughter is an act of grave injustice and evil.

timibare:
All because ekweremadu loves his daughter...... fatherly love is strong too

Win12345:
They should let the man, all of them were there when the small boy was manipulating his stories to rope Ekweremadu and did nothing,.

Rope the man how?

Some of you are unbelievable and I am very sure you didnt read the court proceedings so as to educate yourself more or are you not aware that there were allegations that he oversee a project that has to do with building an kidney centre but he embezzled it.

orikoku:
Nigeria is a crime scene. Someone who’s convicted by British court, now the president wants him back home for political cheap score.

it happened in every country,it called diplomatic discussion

Tinubu’s sudden intervention in Ekweremadu’s case looks less like compassion and more like calculated politics it is as simple as it is, because the Nigeria–UK prisoner transfer agreement has been dormant for over a decade, no Nigerian prisoner has ever been repatriated under it, and the government only revived interest after Ekweremadu’s conviction created political noise. Buhari had eight years, strong ties with the UK, and a track record of intervening in sensitive cases, yet he never touched this one — which shows the UK’s position has always been firm and that Tinubu’s timing, coming ahead of political realignments and the need to court the South-East, is far from accidental. The overcrowded-prison argument rings hollow, because if prisoner transfer truly mattered, the system would have been implemented long before now and not suddenly activated for a political heavyweight alone. Humanitarian action becomes political when it is selective, and when a government awakens a decade-old treaty for the sake of one elite politician, it is clear that strategy — not justice — is driving the move.

Fekumzi123:
Shut up... If he's your father won't you be happy Cho Cho Cho without reading. Person dig boreholes, it is politics, person build road, it is politics... Is not better to be playing politics and doing something? Are they not politicians? You that is not doing your own for politics, go and bring him back home.
Simple diplomacy you don't know but likes to chooke mouth for matters like illiterates.
This is how you form narration and some gullible people will take it, swallow it and spread the ignorance.
Even if you don't like the government, it does not mean you should criticize everything they do. Think before you criticize.

You’re talking about diplomacy, yet everything you wrote shows you don’t actually understand how diplomacy, treaties, or prisoner-transfer protocols work. Nobody said Ekweremadu shouldn’t be helped — the point is that governments don’t wake up after ten silent years to activate an agreement only when a political heavyweight is involved, and pretending that this sudden urgency is normal is exactly how citizens get manipulated. Helping him is not the issue; the selective timing is the red flag, and you don’t need to “hate government” to recognise a political calculation when it’s this obvious. Road building and boreholes are politics, yes — but even you should know that a treaty ignored for a decade only being revived for one elite politician is not “normal governance,” it’s strategic optics.

If you actually read before typing insults, you’d understand that pointing out political motive is not the same as opposing assistance; it’s simply refusing to be naïve. Thinking before criticizing is good advice — I believe you should try it too.

Laple0541:
Those people are very difficult to please. No matter what the president does, they will never think good of him. Baba should just do his own for God.

I am confused by the article. I don't get it.

Is it bad for Bola to consider it, especially as the person in question was a serving senator? Much more, he is Ibo, your tribesman.

Yet they complain.

I have a feeling that if Kanu is released, they will still complain that Tinubu only did it for political purposes and he should have left him in prison.

#Fighting, just for fighting sake#

Why is it that it is only him that they want to transfer. Is it because he is influential.
It’s obvious Tinubu want to give him presidential pardon

Keep that criminal in uk. That Ekperima must serve his sentence to the max

Nigeria has a sinister motive asking for Ekweremmadu transfer. It's better and safer for him to serve in UK than to be transferred to Nigeria which Tinubu wishes to use as political vendetta if he could not be manipulated.

No , not every father will hurt another man's child to make his own happy

Win12345:
He did what every responsible father would do for his daughter, he is not a criminal but overzealous father.

WriterX:
You’re talking about diplomacy, yet everything you wrote shows you don’t actually understand how diplomacy, treaties, or prisoner-transfer protocols work. Nobody said Ekweremadu shouldn’t be helped — the point is that governments don’t wake up after ten silent years to activate an agreement only when a political heavyweight is involved, and pretending that this sudden urgency is normal is exactly how citizens get manipulated. Helping him is not the issue; the selective timing is the red flag, and you don’t need to “hate government” to recognise a political calculation when it’s this obvious. Road building and boreholes are politics, yes — but even you should know that a treaty ignored for a decade only being revived for one elite politician is not “normal governance,” it’s strategic optics.

If you actually read before typing insults, you’d understand that pointing out political motive is not the same as opposing assistance; it’s simply refusing to be naïve. Thinking before criticizing is good advice — I believe you should try it too.

Forget timing, if they can help him let them help him. Like I said if he's your family member or you're Ekweremadu, you won't be saying it is politics.
Even if the timing is after 2027, someone will still say it is politics.

And I wasn't even talking to you or is that your account too.

Somebody cursed these people.

and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,

Nigerian Judiciary is compromised.
There will never be fair elections and justice in Nigeria.

timibare:
All because ekweremadu loves his daughter...... fatherly love is strong too

Of course, but to detriment of other people's children survival. No love here but wickedness. Just go and study court judgement that nailed him.

timibare:
All because ekweremadu loves his daughter...... fatherly love is strong too

Don’t Sacrifice others children for yours

Even monkey love him pikin

By plotting to illegally bring a poor and vulnerable young man from Nigeria to London to harvest his kidney for a transplant for his daughter, by deceiving him and promising him a financial reward.

Modern Slavery

If this is your definition of responsible father then you shouldn't be allowed near any child

Win12345:
He did what every responsible father would do for his daughter, he is not a criminal but overzealous father.

timibare:
All because ekweremadu loves his daughter...... fatherly love is strong too

At the detriment of someone else's child and you called that love

Would he had been tried in a Nigerian court when actually d crime was committed in d UK?
I believe that PBAT is trying to bring him back to Nigeria prisons and then grant him presidential pardon.
However, I still ask: what about that his daughter (Sonia) that was having kidney failure? Has d kidney suddenly got well?

Ebenezer2021:
He will be more better over here
See Nnamdi Kanu that is incarcerated in Nigerian prison, see how he's well fed, adding up weight, well taken good care of by the FG and looking more better than when he was walking free and disturbing the peace of the country.
IPOB no suppose to dey complain.

Kanu is not in prison but in custody in DSS facility. Simple facts.

Win12345:
He did what every responsible father would do for his daughter, he is not a criminal but overzealous father.

Ekweremadu: Fatherhood Beyond Ambition.

https://www.nairaland.com/7263719/ekweremadu-fatherhood-ambition-sunkanmi-vaughan

If he prioritized his job as a father,he will not land in that trouble.

Sincerely, God is a merciful God. Ekweremadu has a reason to still change and be grateful to God for sparing the life of his daughter he almost abandoned for his political ambition.

I trust Pablo , he will grant him pardon.

TheBizGenius:
I am confused by the article. I don't get it.

Is it bad for Bola to consider it, especially as the person in question was a serving senator? Much more, he is Ibo, your tribesman.

Yet they complain.

I have a feeling that if Kanu is released, they will still complain that Tinubu only did it for political purposes and he should have left him in prison.

#Fighting, just for fighting sake#

The tribe are their own worst enemy. They love to hat£ and £nvy other tribes that are successful than themselves.

Even among themselves there are intense competition to outdo each others.

Here is a president making efforts to rescue their elite and high profile brother from prison through influence and diplomacy, and here are they throwing different impediments on the way against the project.

What political influence do they think the president seeks to gain through Ekweremadu in their region that Tinubu has not already gained without him? At least 3 of their governors are staunch allies of Tinubu and his party. To really consider it, how much is their total votes that Tinubu will go all out to win it? He won without it in his first term, and this time it is almost a shoo-in for him to win.

When Igboho was thrown into prison in Benin Republic, the whole Y0ruba race use every available influence to rescue him from it, even though he serves no viable purpose to their aspirations, except publicity.

MNK would have been out of prison if they are determined to help him, but no, they are only interested in public spite against the government.

The only thing I got from this piece is just how confused the Igbo socio-economic arrangements are.

How many social organisations can one people have ?

In their respective communities they have the Igwes are the top and then in equal power they have the President -General who in most cases wield more power.

Then they have Umumna prrsients and kich hen chairmen. Then up again they have another group of leaders in a larger family lineage and then youth chairmen and Amu Ada.

At the national level they have Oha Neze, Ala Igbo and several others.

What a confused demographic.

Fekumzi123:
Shut up... If he's your father won't you be happy Cho Cho Cho without reading. Person dig boreholes, it is politics, person build road, it is politics... Is not better to be playing politics and doing something? Are they not politicians? You that is not doing your own for politics, go and bring him back home.
Simple diplomacy you don't know but likes to chooke mouth for matters like illiterates.
This is how you form narration and some gullible people will take it, swallow it and spread the ignorance.
Even if you don't like the government, it does not mean you should criticize everything they do. Think before you criticize.
Imagine say you get senator for your family and this kind thing happened to him. Because he's convicted of trying to do organ trafficking, they should not help him.

Decisions have consequences. The criminal has been tried and convicted in a just court. What this government is doing is wrong. Any Nigerian citizen has the civic duty of criticising the government. Tinubu exercised this right as a common man and other Nigerians can.

Win12345:
He did what every responsible father would do for his daughter, he is not a criminal but overzealous father.

He is a criminal

yns4real:
https://punchng.com/ekweremadu-seast-leaders-divided-over-planned-transfer-to-nigerian-prison/

Of what use is ekweremadu politically he is inactive being in senate for over 25 years and a deputy senate president yet nothing done for Enugu not to talk of south east ordinary Enugu Onitsha Express way contract he couldn't fix it , man is a shame to Enugu state and south east.

orikoku:
Nigeria is a crime scene. Someone who’s convicted by British court, now the president wants him back home for political cheap score.

Criminals are in Occultisme du Camaraderie ... Stuff like the Yoruba dictum; "Awo nii b'awo ni'gbowo".

Only if you grasp the connotation...

Fekumzi123:
Forget timing, if they can help him let them help him. Like I said if he's your family member or you're Ekweremadu, you won't be saying it is politics.
Even if the timing is after 2027, someone will still say it is politics.

And I wasn't even talking to you or is that your account too.

You keep repeating the “if it were your family member” line because you don’t have a real argument. Nobody is against helping him — the point is that government actions can be both helpful and politically motivated at the same time. Mature people can hold two truths together; it’s not my fault nuance confuses you.

And no, everything isn’t “politics” just because you say so. A treaty ignored for 10+ years suddenly being revived for one elite politician is not normal governance — it’s selective intervention, and pretending not to see that doesn’t make you loyal, it just makes you gullible.

You weren’t “talking to me,” but you posted it publicly, so expect public responses. If you don’t want your logic checked, don’t bring it outside your diary.

You wanted emotion; I’m giving you facts. And the fact is simple:
Helping him is fine. Acting like the government suddenly grew a conscience after a decade of silence is what exposes you — not me — as the one who didn’t think before typing.

They want to transfer the criminal to a mansion in Nigeria where he will have access to luxury again, Nigerian politicians don't take crime seriously because they all criminals