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Tibor Nagy is a Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, US Ambassador to Guinea and Ethiopia, long-term US diplomat, Professor Emeritus - Texas Tech University

If famed Nigerian human rights lawyer Femi Falana accuses Nigeria's ruling APC Party of manipulating the judiciary to try and bring about a one-party state by destroying the opposition, then the world should pay attention. Elections coming in months.

https://www.theafricareport.com/413910/nigeria-2027-tension-between-tinubu-and-opposition-awakens-the-ghost-of-abacha

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Tibor Nagy is a Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, US Ambassador to Guinea and Ethiopia, long-term US diplomat, Professor Emeritus - Texas Tech University

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That thing that Tinubu is looking for, e go find am shaa

givedemwotowoto:
That thing that Tinubu is looking for, e go find am shaa

It is a must. He and his people must learn a bitter lesson, since they do not want to learn from history.

Tinubu is a democrat, a true man of his words. 😅👇

June 12, 2013 by The Nation

PDP, Jonathan have failed Nigerians, says Tinubu

ACN leader lashes govt on economy, security
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is confused about how to tackle Nigeria’s challenges, especially poverty and insecurity, a leader of the newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said.

He said the Federal Government promised peace and security, but under its “unwatchful eye” insecurity has grown and Boko Haram “has turned large tracts of northern Nigeria into no man’s land”.


But, a bright future, he said, is on the horizon as the APC, which he called “the government in-waiting”, would rescue Nigeria from its confused state.


“As leaders of the new party and government in-waiting, we intend to pursue dynamic, time-tested and bold policies that will liberate our people by making sure our wealth works for us,” Tinubu said.

Nigerians, said Tinubu, have become increasingly divided as a people because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government continues to take faulty steps in addressing poverty and injustice.

“They have ignored the cause and gone after the symptoms,” the former Lagos State Governor told a packed audience inside the Grand Committee Ballroom, Westminster Hall, House of Parliament, London on Monday. He identified failed policies on power, employment, economy and security as evidence of bad leadership.


Tinubu, the keynote speaker at the British African Diaspora Conference, spoke on “Leadership, national development and the people”.

He urged the Federal Government to apply a consistent policy of targeted law enforcement operations along with an active programme of economic development, negotiations and potential amnesty for penitent Boko Haram members.

He said rather than take this step, the nation has been treated to series of government inaction and indiscriminate use of force, which culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency in three states.


“The Jonathan government set up a special Committee on Boko Haram and Security matters, but sadly before they could perform, he declared State of Emergency in three Northern states: Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.

“This is symptomatic of a confused leadership. If there is security in this jumbled policy, neither I nor the majority of Nigerians can find it!”

To the fomer Lagos governor, if Nigeria is to mature as a democracy, its electoral system must be improved. He decried the fact that those who control the system manipulate elections with such impunity that they now see misconduct without sanction as a normal way of life.


Said he: “Look at the recent controversy surrounding election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) chairman… A group comprising all the nations’ governors could not even conduct a simple 35-person election without a disputed outcome.

“With this recent experience, I fear the length those in power would go and the means they would employ to manipulate results when the battleground is the entire nation and the stakes are the general elections in 2015.

“The NGF debacle symbolises a disdain for democracy and the popular will. If we are to save Nigeria, we must rescue the electoral process from its abusers,” Tinubu said.

In his view, a great philosophical gulf separates the government from the progressives. “This current Nigerian government is a retrogressive one. Much of what they claim as growth is but the harsh redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The bottom gets squeezed while the top expands. They are serving us the salad of corruption.

“They consume our today and squander the nation’s tomorrow. For 14 years, the PDP-led government cannot turn anything around. A new leadership is required to put a stop to this.”

Tinubu criticised Nigeria’s economic policies, saying the economy is being reconstructed “as an oasis for a small few and a stark desert for the many” while the government pretends to endorse the same budget-cutting austerity policies as much of Europe.

“We are not Europe; we are a Third World economy. That these policies have failed in European nations with higher standards of living than Nigeria gives our leaders no concern.”

Tinubu said the people live in dire straits, yet the government would rather waste the money than spend it on public benefit because they do not believe the people deserve it.

He said the progressives would bring pragmatic solution to the country’s woes because in their approach to the political economy, they do not rely on textbook answers as they do not “live in textbooks.

He said: “We live in the real world and thus seek answers from real world experiences. Here is a real world fact: No large nation has ever attained sustained growth without government running budget deficits to build the required infrastructure and without other government policies promoting development of the key industries that would become the spine of national development.

“Here is another such fact: No populous nation ever attains prosperity solely by extracting its raw material to exchange them for the finished goods of other large nations. We must industrialise and diversify our economy

“It is for this reason – to save the nation from the stranglehold of permanent poverty and poor governance – that the members of the progressive opposition political parties have decided to put aside personal ambition (including my own ambition) to form a new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). We do this because Nigeria has entered a critical state of economic depression.”

According to Tinubu, because of the unfair nature of the electoral processes and the gross imbalance of its political economy, the people have been props in a drama for which they should have been the main characters. “We must change this,” he said.

He said the progressives must move Nigeria away from a place where the whims and narrow wishes of self-centered reactionary elite dictate the fate of over 150 million people.

“On our side, we will take our chances with a free and fair election, for we shall offer the people an innovative programme consisting of a national industrial policy that includes radical infrastructural development and employment targets,” he said.

The former Lagos governor spoke of “the Glorious Nigerian Revolution”, which he said has nothing to do with force of arms.

His words: “The Revolution of which I speak has two major parts. First, is the peaceful conversion of our quasi-democracy into a full-fledged one. Second, is the implementation of policies turning the political economy away from its retrogressive, elitist bearings.

“We seek policies pointing in a progressive direction affording the average person a chance at a dignified life. This will be through the provision of gainful employment, quality education and essential social services for those who need the helping hand of government to survive.

“I see no shame in believing progressive government can improve the political economy and the lives of the people.”

El Yekini Amoda must suffer for all the crimes committed against honest and hardworking citizens.

This I have seen!

They are not busy body and moreover, is anyone still taking Falana seriously?

Cry well well. China is a one party state, yet it has become world’s economic powerhouse

Nigerians should wake up. Man made crisis has been created in virtually any major opposition political party that has the capability to wrestle political power with the ruling party. Most of these crisis are deliberately sponsored in order to ensure they are weakened. Nigerians should pay attention to the dangers of one party state. The enormous disadvantages of one party state which are always against the masses of the country where they exist. Those Nigerians who are only interested in today's palliative should know that the palliative they are collecting to sell their conscience might not be available tomorrow.

givedemwotowoto:
Tibor Nagy is a Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, US Ambassador to Guinea and Ethiopia, long-term US diplomat, Professor Emeritus - Texas Tech University

Atiku should pay attention to Bala’s claims of broken agreement and do the needful to avoid the 2023 PDP northern chairman excuse used by Wike to destroy PDP.

Agreement is agreement.

Ẹ jẹ ki a pé were ni buọda kí ó lè jẹ ki a rí ọnà gbà kọjá.

iwaeda:
Wike Boasts Of Helping APC Use Judiciary To Kill Osun LG Funds Case, Warns Party Leaders Against Ingratitude

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has openly boasted that he assisted certain elements within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in deploying the judiciary to frustrate the Osun State local government allocation lawsuit.

In a video now circulating widely on social media and obtained by SaharaReporters, Wike made the claim while addressing a crowd in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The former Rivers governor accused the APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, of benefitting from judicial actions against the Osun State Government without knowing those who did the work behind the scenes.

The suit in question led to the withholding of local government funds in Osun State, a development widely seen as targeting the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke as opposition in the state.

Wike, who spoke angrily, suggested that the court action supporting the APC’s position against the Osun government did not happen by chance, boasting that powerful political forces worked quietly to ensure the outcome.

“Don’t take our support for Mr President for granted,” Wike warned, in an apparent message to APC leaders defending Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara. “You have to be careful about the statements you make. You have to be very careful.”

He accused Basiru of political ingratitude, claiming the APC was enjoying in Osun State without understanding who engineered their advantage.

“Today, you are enjoying in Osun. You don’t know those who did the work,” Wike said. “You are opening your mouth to talk about Rivers State.”

https://saharareporters.com/2026/01/08/wike-boasts-helping-apc-use-judiciary-kill-osun-lg-funds-case-warns-party-leaders

Minister Wike has warned the National Secretary of the APC, Ajibola Basiru to stay clear of Rivers State.
Lol 😆 https://t.co/sNKjJfb8qn pic.twitter.com/E9SgSwASil

— Emma ik Umeh (Tcee )🇳🇬 (@emmaikumeh) January 5, 2026

Obi could have been our last hope to change this government, but he is dead politically. He should be studied in university political science as what not to do 101.

How can you have over six million votes in your first major attempt, and you left the party with the hope of winning primaries in a party of atiku and amechi.

To be honest obi is not intelligent

simpleseyi:
Cry well well. China is a one party state, yet it has become world’s economic powerhouse

Do Chinese people drink water from shitty boreholes after increasing budget 100 times in 27 years of the government’s master plan




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

When PDP was in power, they respected the rule of law, and gave every other political party the opportunity to operate freely, without interference.

APC is busy destroying political party opposition, through the help of Inec and the judiciary, while fueling chaos through funding to cause internal crisis in another party.

How do you reason? Anyway I don't expect much from APC data Boyz you have to protect your monthly 30k. But in case you forget China politicians don't steal to campaign for election like your APC pple are doing.

koladata:
Obi could have been our last hope to change this government, but he is dead politically. He should be studied in university political science as what not to do 101.

How can you have over six million votes in your first major attempt, and you left the party with the hope of winning primaries in a party of atiku and amechi.

To be honest obi is not intelligent

Are you more intelligent than him? Mr. Intelligent, what Obi has achieved has anyone achieved it in your generation? If you don't have anything to say just zip it.

givedemwotowoto:
That thing that Tinubu is looking for, e go find am shaa

The thing that we all are saying now - something similar to what you are saying, I am just imagining that that might be what the Cameroonians started saying now the man done rule for so many years and him no free comot.

True china is the world economic power, same way you want Nigeria to become world terrorism powerhouse as a one party state
Make una swave🤡

simpleseyi:
Cry well well. China is a one party state, yet it has become world’s economic powerhouse

simpleseyi:
Cry well well. China is a one party state, yet it has become world’s economic powerhouse

this comment is shameful

Falana is taken more seriously than the failure in aso rock, stop talking down on him, he's more upright and loved than a thousand tinubu

helinues:
They are not busy body and moreover, is anyone still taking Falana seriously?

Gunayo:
Are you more intelligent than him? Mr. Intelligent, what Obi has achieved has anyone achieved it in your generation? If you don't have anything to say just zip it.

Whatever Obi has achieved doesn’t mean he is intelligent politically! Obi might be business savvy but we must agree he is not intelligent politically! Honestly, all he needed was a very strong northern Alliance where he’ll control the party structure like Tinubu did!

koladata:
Obi could have been our last hope to change this government, but he is dead politically. He should be studied in university political science as what not to do 101.

How can you have over six million votes in your first major attempt, and you left the party with the hope of winning primaries in a party of atiku and amechi.

To be honest obi is not intelligent

I hope you've not assume you are intelligent ... Have you checked labour party and you did not see leadership crisis

peter obi has 6million, buh remember he is 3rd cos someone was 2nd, lets assume labour party no get leadership crisis Peter Obi stay wont still getting him to win ..apparently he needs a coalition, he needs to build bridges and work with others if he wan to raise his votes

Sticking to the obedient base is not enough, if you were intelligent you would have learn from Buhari road to presidency ..he failed how many times until coalition, intelligent people will know that one tree cant make a forest

Bosman17:
Whatever Obi has achieved doesn’t mean he is intelligent politically! Obi might be business savvy but we must agree he is not intelligent politically! Honestly, all he needed was a very strong northern Alliance where he’ll control the party structure like Tinubu did!

The northern alliance that's what he is doing now. He will pair up with kwankwaso to beat Tinubu. Let mr tell you something, Atiku will endorse Obi/kwankwaso for next year election.

Bosman17:
Whatever Obi has achieved doesn’t mean he is intelligent politically! Obi might be business savvy but we must agree he is not intelligent politically! Honestly, all he needed was a very strong northern Alliance where he’ll control the party structure like Tinubu did!

You're even more sensible and intelligent than the one that quoted you. Emotions have beclouded their sense of reasoning and when you're telling them the truth, they believe you hate their candidate. Someone claim he won 2023 presidential elections but could not substantiate or give evidence to back up his claim only to be shouting that one candidate should be disqualified and his vote discarded because of certificate controversy which the court has ruled on.

simpleseyi:
Cry well well. China is a one party state, yet it has become world’s economic powerhouse

We aren't China...if u think Nigerians will allow one region to dictate and control the rest of the country...then u are on a very long non stop trance .. well, una know say this na the last una go smell aso rock ever again, even as vice

They are just paying all these clowns to blab nonsense. Shey na APC tell Una to de jump from one party to another. Politicians are the ones self-destroying their parties. Simply out of greed

Gunayo:
The northern alliance that's what he is doing now. He will pair up with kwankwaso to beat Tinubu. Let mr tell you something, Atiku will endorse Obi/kwankwaso for next year election.

All of them will fail. Tinubu will definitely complete his second tenure.

Let me educate you, Apc didn't fall from heaven fully formed, presidency and party takes time to build and with the power and momentum obi had in labor, he could win lots of state government elections and start forming big structure like APC did till they won the first presidency in 2015 from the Almighty pdp.

Fine they are having issues in labor party, if you can't settle party issue as the most respected in the party then how will you settle a complex Nigeria issue

What obi lack is patience, tinubu paid his dues by waiting that long, if it could take another 12 years, that's fine and that's the reality we've found ourselves in, but wait if you have to wait... Better late than never

You are talking about coalition... with who?.... Obi won't even come close to second in the primaries of adc because he doesn't give shi shi , which is fine but to what end has the coalition helped his political career. Pdp obviously won't give him ticket because the wicked Wike has one goal in Pdp and it's to ensure the party doesn't produce a credible candidate to compete with Tinubu, ofcourse APC won't, ADC also won't give him ticket because Atiku gives more than shi shi , he gives dollar...., so why won't any intelligent person stay where he is valued and build it.

I know you will reply me with abusing my family like you nairaland guys always do, but you can't change the fact just because you want to be happy

reddingtonblack:
I hope you've not assume you are intelligent ... Have you checked labour party and you did not see leadership crisis

peter obi has 6million, buh remember he is 3rd cos someone was 2nd, lets assume labour party no get leadership crisis Peter Obi stay wont still getting him to win ..apparently he needs a coalition, he needs to build bridges and work with others if he wan to raise his votes

Sticking to the obedient base is not enough, if you were intelligent you would have learn from Buhari road to presidency ..he failed how many times until coalition, intelligent people will know that one tree cant make a forest

koladata:
Obi could have been our last hope to change this government, but he is dead politically. He should be studied in university political science as what not to do 101.

How can you have over six million votes in your first major attempt, and you left the party with the hope of winning primaries in a party of atiku and amechi.

To be honest obi is not intelligent

Keep pretending not to know what's actually going on when u have a biased refree in a football game what can a good player do to win?

givedemwotowoto:
That thing that Tinubu is looking for, e go find am shaa

And it will shock him to the marrow

koladata:
Let me educate you, Apc didn't fall from heaven fully formed, presidency and party takes time to build and with the power and momentum obi had in labor, he could win lots of state government elections and start forming big structure like APC did till they won the first presidency in 2015 from the Almighty pdp.

Fine they are having issues in labor party, if you can't settle party issue as the most respected in the party then how will you settle a complex Nigeria issue

What obi lack is patience, tinubu paid his dues by waiting that long, if it could take another 12 years, that's fine and that's the reality we've found ourselves in, but wait if you have to wait... Better late than never

You are talking about coalition... with who?.... Obi won't even come close to second in the primaries of adc because he doesn't give shi shi , which is fine but to what end has the coalition helped his political career. Pdp obviously won't give him ticket because the wicked Wike has one goal in Pdp and it's to ensure the party doesn't produce a credible candidate to compete with Tinubu, ofcourse APC won't, ADC also won't give him ticket because Atiku gives more than shi shi , he gives dollar...., so why won't any intelligent person stay where he is valued and build it.

I know you will reply me with abusing my family like you nairaland guys always do, but you can't change the fact just because you want to be happy

From your comment, you lack understanding.

Do u know Julius Abure?

Answer me

Too much of everything is bad . Tinubu will be disgraced.