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I have seen that ADC is full of hypocrites, heading to appeal court is the most stupid moment in Nigeria's political history.Instead of passing instructions to the President if he feels only Him will be on the ballot is better for him to disintegrate the country but stealing programming of top members is the priority.Atiku's plan is to buy NNPC so he is now behaving as if he's so law-abiding.Cunning people in a scorners' country.

Faber:
NDC will do well in some states and will flip some governorship and Paliametary seats..but cannot unseat Tinubu. Obi and all of us knows this but one or two persons need to contest against Tinubu, and Obi have volunteered to do so😂😂

I saw a video of one of the few elites from their side asking a very valid question. Are they influential or just lousy ? No wonder the late President called these people “Small dot in a circle” 😂😂😂😂

Openyamind111:
I saw a video of one of the few elites from their side asking a very valid question. Are they influential or just lousy ? No wonder the late President called these people “Small dot in a circle” 😂😂😂😂

I am Igbo bro, so am not here to mock Igbos with you, and I will never mock ur tribe and careless about your tribe. If you check the stats the least abducted and endangered tribe in Nigeria is Igbos...no one kills them like other tribes. So what are other tribes enjoying specially. I discuss here as a regular Nigerian, who is not biased...Tinubu will win the election, that's factual. But no one is spared or free from the what's coming in tht next 4 yrs

oakfruit:
INEC should have used its discretion to deregister the concerned political parties before now and not wait till now but Tinubu see his downfall coming already, hence the action. I see Thienubu failing already with this step

Many of you just like deceiving yourselves. Anything that happens in your political world must be attributed to Tinubu. If your party leadership fails in their assignment, you must still drag Tinubu to it. You don't believe in Nigeria judges because they have been bought by Tinubu according to likes of you, but here you are; you still go to appeal court and probably supreme court that you believe their judges are compromised by Tinubu.

Why not just surrender and tell your candidates not to run for 2027 against Tinubu since you believe election will be marred with electoral malpractices and that the judiciary has been bastardized to favour only Tinubu? Is it not better to just tell your political candidate not to waste their money for 2027 but instead spend such money for less privileged in the society?

Stop wasting time invoking Tinubu at any of your political failure to do the needful

simpleseyi:
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Gullible masses will vote wrongly. Socrates said the number of iddiots on earth widely surpasses the wise ones and if you give them the opportunity to elect, they (the majority iddiots) will always vote one of them. This is why an iddiot like Donald Trump is leading America today

Donald is no iddiot. He has more neural activity in his left testicle than the orangutan ruling your country. If anything, your statement is the exact proof why Nigeria is the way it is. Democracy is the problem of Nigeria, as the iddiots form the majority, and democracy is infact the govt of the majority of people, for the majority of people, and by the majority of people. It will take a no-nonsense form of govt the likes of China or Rwanda for this shithole to make any meaningful progress.

Why appealing ? I thought you guys will depend on social media

Faber:
I am Igbo bro, so am not here to mock Igbos with you, and I will never mock ur tribe and careless about your tribe. If you check the stats the least abducted and endangered tribe in Nigeria is Igbos...no one kills them like other tribes. So what are other tribes enjoying specially. I discuss here as a regular Nigerian, who is not biased...Tinubu will win the election, that's factual. But no one is spared or free from the what's coming in tht next 4 yrs

If we have people coming from your region who will express their opinions in an intellectual manners like this they are welcome. Just few days ago. Someone from that region posted something very awful on social media and some from people the same region were celebrating him on this forum forgetting that there’s no monopoly of craziness.. we are used to having people from your region insulting us on a daily basis even though we understand that their survival depends on us. God bless you for sharing your takes without insults. As for the ill-informed or ill-mannered ones. We dey here for una..

AMINDA:
They ran on the false pretence of being fighters of democracy but time and tide has proven them to be worse than Abacha. Tinubu lives in morbid fear of subjecting himself to the electoral process because he knows that as long as a competitive election will hold, he will lose.

Time and tide....
"Everyone claims to be democratic but not everyone is faithful to his or her word. We have governments that are democracies on paper, but not in function. They are democracies in form but not in substance. We have governments that only know democracy primarily through breaching it"

~ words on marble by Jagaban Asiwaju BAT on June 10, 2013

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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.”

Faber:
NDC will do well in some states and will flip some governorship and Paliametary seats..but cannot unseat Tinubu. Obi and all of us knows this but one or two persons need to contest against Tinubu, and Obi have volunteered to do so😂😂

Apart from Kano and se, which states

Empty ranting. With your political capacity you didn't see this coming? So what else can you handle rightly.

Ofunaofu:
One of the reasons I want a new government to take over in 2027 is the hope that it will sanitize the judiciary. Rogue judges like Justice Lifu would be summarily retired and disgraced out of the judicial system.

The level of impunity and judicial rascality witnessed under the Tinubu regime is unprecedented and would be difficult to find a parallel for anywhere in the world.

To you, every judgement against your wish is fraudulent and the judge must be removed. What is the essence of the court and cases in the first place if everything must favor your side. This case is going to Appeal court and the outcome will decide the fate of all.

I want to know why Tulumbu is afraid of free and fair election.. yes he has done well in his first tenure as claimed, he should allow Nigerians to be the judge ...

Akpakomiza2:
Apart from Kano and se, which states

Bro North Central always flips, they don't belong anywhere.

Faber:
Bro North Central always flips, they don't belong anywhere.

They have always voted APC

Akpakomiza2:
They have always voted APC

Labour Party won Plateau, Nassarawa, FCT and lost Benue by just 2k votes they nearly won Benue...so these are the facts and not the noise. North Central always flips. Today they vote PDP, tomorrow they vote APC, last elections they were voting Labour Party. They don't belong to anyone. It is neutral ground. NDC will flip states there again. Even in the US some states are like that, they don't belong to Anyone. American's call them Swing states. Labour would have won Benue, only the Catholic priest who was APC governorship Candidate made them vote APC with extra 2k votes.

Faber:
Labour Party won Plateau, Nassarawa, FCT and lost Benue by just 2k votes they nearly won Benue...so these are the facts and not the noise. North Central always flips. Today they vote PDP, next elections they vote APC last elections they were voting Labour Party. They don't belong to anyone. It is neutral ground

Overall, they have voted APC in totality since 2015 when they flipped. From 1999, they voted PDP thats all the states and FCT except Niger which goes to buhari. From 2015, Niger, kogi, kwara went heavily to APC and benue narrowly. In 2019, nasarawa went to APC narrowly while benue went PDP marginally. 2023, Tinubu won there. He will still win there, all their governors are Apc.

Akpakomiza2:
Overall, they have voted APC in totality since 2015 when they flipped. From 1999, they voted PDP thats all the states and FCT except Niger which goes to buhari. From 2015, Niger, kogi, kwara went heavily to APC and benue narrowly. In 2019, nasarawa went to APC narrowly while benue went PDP marginally. 2023, Tinubu won there. He will still win there, all their governors are Apc.

There's no overall behavior of states in Nigerian elections, South East have been voting PDP since 1999, Atiku banked on that and lost. His running mate lost his state too, Lagos have been voting APC/ACN for long Tinubu banked on that and lost in 2023 so if you count that you make mistakes , aslo Governors don't win you states. APC was Governors in Plateau, Nassarawa and PDP was Governor in Benue but opposition won those states. He is our governor doesn't count in North Central and many parts of Nigeria.

APC knows this, many politicians knows this. The key zone that swing to any side is largely the North Central, that's my point. They don't belong to anyone, campaign well or rig well you win there.

Faber:
There's no overall behavior of states in Nigerian elections, South East have been voting PDP since 1999, Atiku banked on that and lost. His running mate lost his state too, Lagos have been voting APC/ACN for long Tinubu banked on that and lost in 2023 so if you count that you make mistakes , aslo Governors don't win you states. APC was Governors in Plateau, Nassarawa and PDP was Governor in Benue but opposition won those states. He is our governor doesn't count in North Central and many parts of Nigeria.

APC knows this, many politicians knows this. The key zone that swing to any side is largely the North Central, that's my point. They don't belong to anyone, campaign well or rig well you win there.

I never said that governors win states automatically. Governors get you more votes automatically and some actually win you votes if they have the. Capacity and popularity. Since APC came to power, north central have been voting APC steadily. From the electoral analysis, it is clear that they will still vote APC/ Tinubu. I mentioned that all their governors are Apc to show you how dominant the party is and how much the people of NC like APC. Rigging is difficult in NC in my own opinion

Akpakomiza2:
I never said that governors win states automatically. Governors get you more votes automatically and some actually win you votes if they have the. Capacity and popularity. Since APC came to power, north central have been voting APC steadily. From the electoral analysis, it is clear that they will still vote APC/ Tinubu. I mentioned that all their governors are Apc to show you how dominant the party is and how much the people of NC like APC. Rigging is difficult in NC in my own opinion

Responding to the bolded, there's no presidential elections since the history of APC, where they won all the states in North Central. They always loose minimum of two or three states. Show me let me see. But PDP keep winning South East and South South 💯 untill recently...North Central is never an APC stronghold and will never be. Your strong hold is where your party win all the states 💯 especially in Presidential elections regardless of who is running against you.

Appeal court responds sharp-sharpedly.🍷

Faber:
Responding to the bolded, there's no presidential elections since the history of APC, where they won all the states in North Central. They always loose minimum of two or three states. Show me let me see. But PDP keep winning South East and South South 💯 untill recently...North Central is never an APC stronghold and will never be. Your strong hold is where your party win all the states 💯 especially in Presidential elections regardless of who is running against you.

I never said APC win all the states in the north central, I said overall meaning they can lose majority of the states but still win on total votes. A party stronghold is where they win consistently not where they win everything. Even in that se, obi doesn't win all the wards and units...SW is regarded as APC biggest stronghold yet they have never won all the states

Akpakomiza2:
I never said APC win all the states in the north central, I said overall meaning they can lose majority of the states but still win on total votes. A party stronghold is where they win consistently not where they win everything. Even in that se, obi doesn't win all the wards and units...SW is regarded as APC biggest stronghold yet they have never won all the states

At the bolded,
A political party stronghold (or "bastion" is a specific geographic region, city, or district where a single political party consistently commands overwhelming and enduring support from the voters.In these areas, the party reliably wins elections by wide margins for decades.

Which year did APC start winning in the North Central. PDP have controlled South East for decades. APC controls Lagos for decades. Obi is now the New PDP and will continue to win as long as he is on ballot.