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ddippset:
If he doesn't want to bribe delegates with dollars in a primary but his opponents are doing it , why should he be castigated for that?

Oh, my bad , I forgot this is Nigeria...

The one who refuses to take part in a dollarized primary is the villain while the one who uses stolen dollars to buy delegates are the heroes, the political gurus, the political "on grounds "

You people don't read. The new electoral law has banned delegates. EVERY person in the party can vote for their representative.
Tinubu passed that to level the playing field so that an obi (with plenty people) can topple an Atiku (with few influential delegates you can bribe).

Why didn't you all focus your energy on registering in ADC and surpassing Atikus votes? Atiku cant bribe the whole party.
You focus your energy on social media irrelevancies.

MemoriesAndMe:
Thats how APC started- merged many dieing parties to form one against PDP.

Lie. ACN and CPC had an agreement to merge and become one. Then they went to register a new political party called APC.

Nobody went to hijack another mans party and cause disagreement and rancour. Neither did one person move into another persons party.

Streetinvestor2:
Has SW president ever participated in any free and fair primaries

Tinubu contested in APC primaries in 2022. We watched the vigil live at Eagle square.
He came 1st
Amaechi came 2nd
Osinbajo came a distant 3rd.
Okorocha got zero votes.

yarimo:
And yet some unfortunate losers are comparing him with kwankwaso

At least Kwankwaso competes and believes in the democratic process.

bigpicture001:
Obi's principles cannot help him win primary.h doesn't believe in bribery ND primary participators in Nigerian political parties are all whales mouth looking for huge pay day...

If Obi even decides to change nd do like others, he will lose his shine, the people love him cuz he is is clean

The same Obi that paid millions to get LP ticket on his lap.

ddippset:
But what has contesting in primaries got to do with anything?

At this rate should not there be age restriction or Parental Guidance on this nairaland?

Of course it matters. It’s the reason him and his followers are bullying Atiku to step down. In a democracy.

All that energy should’ve been focused on signing thousands of members into his new party ADC. He could have easily gotten the numbers. Now he’s going from house to house looking for someone to drop it on his lap 1 month to primaries.

Misplaced priorities. Poor decision making skills.

This might be the reason he keeps leaving parties at the mention of primary.

If you cannot lead a few people in your party to believe in your vision, you cannot win a general election.

This is simple democracy. You compete for a party ticket.
Even Tinubu as president is going to get primaried. And people in his party are buying presidential nomination form against him. GEJ only allowed 1 presidential form to be printed in PDP in 2015, and we saw the exodus that happened with nPDP.

Nlfpmod mynd44 naptu dominique

The growth has been massive since 2023.

Reality3080:
so u people are now realizing what we have been telling u

Personally I pray ADC should give the ticket to obi n see how tinubu will b d happiest man on earth


Even tinubu is praying n financing people to support obi in ADC

Tinubu already has a last checkmate for Atiku.
It’s currently at the Supreme Court. Atiku better listen to Amupitan about ADC. INEC won’t fight for him when Tinubu brings the last card.
Atiku is not a good manager and doesn’t seem to surround himself with good lawyers.

Yes. According to the APC timetable, all forms go on sale for the next few days for all positions.

Other parties do not even have an organised timetable like this.
May is coming o. And INEC wants their candidates. And every party must have a primary ( thats the new law).

We don’t want to hear wailing later by crybabies. Do the right things at the right time according to the law.

Helinuss:
This life no balance sha. Why some men dey suffer sex from wife hands. Bro leave your wife. Some men will catch am quick. It is well

She has already remarried.
That’s what caused the ‘cry’. She posted photos of her wedding to another man abroad, on social media and people were surprised cos they thought she was still married to Roby Ekpo.
It’s why he gave the interview that they’re no longer together. She moved abroad, divorced him and is now remarried to another Nigerian.

What a disgrace!
Brainless people.
NOBODY saw the typo
How much will it cost to re type and print this within a few hours before the event nstead of this disgrace.
It’s these incompetent people you people want to vote?

Mhmm, we are enjoying this drama.

#taloniticket has turned to #taloniparty.

Sahara says the US firm Atiku and co are using is crap.

Also the original ADC members (Bala Gombes faction) already wrote a letter to the US embassy about Atiku and co since March. Seems they beat them to it. Imagine the oppressors now claiming victim. SMH.

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Well for a party that put up that crap registeration website, I’m not surprised by their gross incompetence.

Everybody is a big man. Nobody is actually working.

Mightym:
What is Wike's business with ADC matter? This man wants to be everywhere. Lawyer and judge.

He holds a monthly press conference. Has been doing it since rivers.
The press asked him about the ADC situation and as a lawyer, he answered.

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Those that are parti-less are encouraged to join another party before the 1-month window closes.

Adeleke probably listened to his lawyers thats why he went to accord and not ADC.

Never before seen.

This is too funny.



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Obi’s transition from serious contender to Mascot, by Azu Ishiekwene

Friends, admirers, and the “Obidient” fanbase of the former Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, love to call him by the sobriquet “Okwute,” which in Igbo, Nigeria’s third-largest socio-linguistic group, means rock, boulder, or stone. Quite a nice alias – especially if you associate some doctrinal nuances of Obi’s faith with his first name, Peter.

The symbolism of the name Okwute, borne by males, signifies one who is strong, dependable and unyielding in Igbo cosmology. But a nice alias is not necessarily a fitting one.

The fluidity with which Obi moves around the political circuits has little, if any, resemblance to a rock, boulder or even a stone. Except, of course, if he’s a rolling stone, lacking in constancy, bereft of moss. A rock or a boulder is solid, come rain, come shine; it is constant in and out of season.

I’m not suggesting that Okwute should have remained in Onitsha or Aba. That would be absolutely ludicrous! After all, life is a journey.

Peter the Clay
I’m saying that this Obi is a Peter of Clay – malleable, confused, and lacking in staying power. He’s drifting, mistaking a jungle for a zoo. This should be a great source of worry for his troops, especially the social media-based avatars (without voter cards), who deify Obi and whose political signature tune is “the Obi-way or the highway.” His political history needs no retelling other than to record what a missed opportunity it represents.


After the tale of him winning the 2023 presidential poll – an election in which he punched above his political weight and won in 12 states – even if only with narrow margins outside his South-Eastern enclave, Okwute fragmented like sedimentary rock thereafter. It would have been sufficient for him to build on his good showing at the poll, but claiming he won an election in which his party had no agents in about 54 percent of the polling centres was a stretch.

A Yiaga Africa Report on the 2023 elections said that while the APC deployed agents in 96 percent of polling units, the Labour Party deployed agents in only 46 per cent. Agent deployment is a critical factor in election performance.

Failed romance
The man who became the de facto and adopted candidate of the Nigeria Labour Congress and sundry trade unions – a substantial voting bloc, failed to seize the initiative after the poll. He went on throwing tantrums, wasting energy and resources in litigation, and missed the opportunity to consolidate and build the structure of the Labour Party – a convenient vehicle he had appropriated overnight, barely three days before the presidential primaries of his previous Peoples Democratic Party in May 2022.

Justice Ayo Isa Salami, a retired president of the Appeal Court and an eminent jurist, has criticised Obi’s midnight migration to LP as an illegality that would have excluded him from the presidential contest. Salami said Obi’s participation was the result of poor judicial diligence and perhaps a lack of experience on the bench.

Okwute’s jump also stirred speculations and gave credence to the claim that he was deliberately avoiding primaries in the PDP.

Missed opportunity
Yet his near-spontaneous entry into the LP created a political wave that came at high tide. Not only was it dynamic, but it was the stuff of legend. Sustaining it beyond the elections would have made a great difference because LP very much needed nurturing, growth and strategy. But Obi was not paying attention, focusing instead on the next election rather than rebuilding the party.

LP adapted to Obi rather than the other way around. It even accommodated Okwute’s capitalist credentials into its semi-socialist fold. Nothing really mattered so long as LP had a presidential candidate – an ‘Okwute’ in the race.

Without as basic a requirement as agents to represent it at the polling units, LP went into the general elections and performed barely short of a miracle, winning one governorship, six senatorial and 34 House of Reps seats in one go. It was a foundation on which any serious politician would have built an inspiring career.

But the momentum was left to waste, casting him in the light in which his former adversary-turned-friend, Governor Nasir el-Rufai, described: a Nollywood actor. Okwute watched the slow but sure unravelling of the LP, as it collapsed from factional crisis.

Rather than being the elder in the house and leading the LP to consolidate on its initial achievements, he bolted. He has now pitched his tent with the African Democratic Congress, ADC, an assortment of mostly aggrieved power-mongers.

The game in town
Yet, even in this temporary shelter, the only game is who takes the presidential ticket. While the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is preparing as if elections were tomorrow, collecting defectors, aggressively registering new members, and even testing its election situation room (all this despite its poor record in office), the opposition is missing in action. The opposition’s strategy appears to be to sufficiently discredit the process before elections to hide its own catastrophic incompetence.

Whether Okwute sees it or not, he has expended his store of political goodwill without reinvesting or making good capital of it. The man who won Lagos, the impregnable home of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Federal Capital, catchment area for the government in power, has by word and deed, proved that it was a fluke – an emotional response from the young and aggrieved and a bloc of Christian voters thirsty for change.

That Kano visit
On Sunday, Okwute visited Kano on a Sallah homage to Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP. In 2023, an expected alliance between Okwute and Kwankwaso failed because Kwankwaso, with a wider political footprint but no less ambitious, would not be Obi’s vice presidential candidate.

Kwankwaso had said offering Obi the vice presidential slot under him was a “golden opportunity,” implying that Obi would be lucky to join his ticket rather than the other way around. For good measure, Kwankwaso said age, experience, and performance disqualified Obi from the presidency, hinting that the NNPP would collapse if he accepted a subordinate role to Obi.

With Obi now in ADC and Kwankwaso still nursing the remnants of his NNPP, it is a good time to ask who is gravitating toward whom. The ambitions of both men are well known, and the ADC’s presidential ticket is nearly foreclosed.

Obidients won’t accept anything less than an Okwute presidential ticket. Kwankwaso’s impressive crowd, more on the streets with their red caps than behind touchscreens, is no less vociferous. They won’t hesitate to tell Obidients that RMK is bigger politically, older, and a PhD holder with far superior performance as governor.

And the Kano crowd – especially at Sallah – was, as usual, huge and dramatic. They received the guest as they would a mascot. In Kano, every player thinks they have the crowd until they see a bigger one.

Obi has paid the price for a ticket to the zoo, but he’ll soon find that he’s in a jungle.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/03/obis-transition-from-serious-contender-to-mascot-by-azu-ishiekwene/

I remember when oshiomole was removed in edo state, and lost the party chairmanship. It was Tinubu that calmed him down not to leave the party. He kept making statements of anger, and even said he was only keeping quiet because his leaders wanted him quiet so as not to destroy the party.
Today they are both in government.

In the video he said,

He is bitter, just like a serial loser that he is. You can see bitterness all over him. He was putting his posters everywhere as if he is a candidate in this election. I saw him begging his community people not to let him down. And because of that we in APGA left his polling unit for him and concentrated on the four wards in his community, we won all the four wards in his own community. Unfortunately for him, the polling unit we left for him, he still couldn't win it, APC defeated him in his own polling unit......"

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Professor Charles Soludo destroys Peter Obi

"He is bitter, just like a serial loser that he is. You can see bitterness all over him. He was putting his posters everywhere as if he is a candidate in this election. I saw him begging his community people… pic.twitter.com/RT9UEsa4tF

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MIKOLOWISKA:
does president resign or governors

Those are politicians contesting.
If you’re a government appointee or worker and want to contest an election you must leave the position and go contest. It’s a conflict of interest.

Some people have done state congresses and started campaigning, this guy and his followers still don’t know what they’re doing.

What a ‘LEADER’ u people are following. Blind leading the dull.

Lazy, incompetent dude with zero character.
Always running from building, always looking for ready made party - zero principle. Not even 1 single legacy in his state.

How anyone wants him as president is beyond me. He is dragging ‘worst governor ever’ of all time list in Nigeria. The Wike, Oshiomole and Akpabio they diss him for built many things in their states & made their peoples lives better.
Even the worst northern governor at least built a school, obi zero. Propaganda is a mf.

It’s the law.
You must resign any government position if you want to contest elections.

obataokenwa:
No money there.

Ambassadorship is not about money.
It’s not business. You guys brains are something else.

Reno is Ambassador Reno Omokri for life now. No be for mouth again.

Reno now has the Ambassador title for life. No be ambassador for mouth again.

I sincerely thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, for my ambassadorial posting. This is a man with a heart of gold, and as I have previously said, the President is a most Christlike individual, with the capacity to forgive and forbear. Nigeria could not have had a better leader for the present time and for the next five years, by the grace of God.

I accept this appointment and posting to the glory of God and for the betterment of Nigeria, even as I pledge my unalloyed loyalty to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the custodian of the Constitution and the Head of State of Nigeria.

I once again thank my foster parents, Esijolomi and Omerewumi, who moulded me, as a piece of clay they received from God, into what I am today.

Other than God, NO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS have been more responsible for making me into what I am today than these two angels, who in my mother tongue are referred to as my Olayemi.

I thank my biological parents, both of whom are now deceased, Bemigho and Ochuko, through whom I came into this world. Even in death, I love you both.

I thank my wife, Hana, who has filled me with such peace of mind since I met her, and has been an encourager and nurturer.

May God bless my friend who sticks closer than a brother, Malam Nuhu Ribadu. Although I have said this publicly before, let me repeat it today. This is not hyperbole to me. If it were possible for all the goodness on Earth to be domiciled in a single human being, that person would be Malam.

He is blind to religion, region, communion and ethnicity—a credit to Nigeria and humanity. Through him, God made it possible for me to be a Presidential spokesman. And today, without saying much, what I have left unsaid says it all.

It is most fitting that this posting to the United Mexican States comes as I begin the six-day climb to Mount Kilimanjaro to hoist Nigeria's flag on the summit of Africa's highest mountain.

As I take each step, I am reminded of how God, in His infinite mercies, has used President Bola Tinubu to reposition Nigeria for greatness, such that in 2025, as recently revealed by both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Nigeria, a country with just 2% of the world's population, was the sixth greatest contributor to global GDP.

Nigeria is rising under the present administration, as demonstrated by the hosting of the largest single tourist event in Africa in 2025, Detty December, which attracted 1.2 million tourists to Nigeria in December 2025 alone, without a single death, robbery, or domestic incident.

A sign that, though we may have localised challenges, Nigeria is a safe and secure destination for your holiday and investments, as well as a politically stable nation, and the only country in Africa where five former Presidents and Heads of State dwell in peace within the country with the incumbent President.

I devote my life again and afresh to Nigeria to be faithful, loyal, and honest and to serve and market Nigeria to the best of my ability, so help me God.

Ambassador Reno Omokri

Source: https://x.com/renoomokri/status/2029932679139844299

Nlfpmod Lalasticlala Dominique mynd44

honour8:
After registration you still have to do physical verification before been given a membership card, so there is no issue here.

But you can already print out the membership cards, you are only asked to come authenticate it. Isnt the online register what will be presented to INEC? It seems like theyre trying to fulfil all righteousness and not trying to do a real registration.

The way APC did theirs all new members had to go join at ward level physically, with their documents and even voters card and then they register them online and issue a membership card.
Only old members were able to do it online with their already issued membership cards and then they are added to the online register too.

This ADC method will have a lot of numbers and not much real people since there was no screening. What’s the point? Just to look good online? I just see it as fake life.

Shame.
And they’ve been so sanctimonious about real time voting that is live.
They can’t even handle a website that matches a name to a real NIN number.

Freshandfitpod:
How did they get his account number? Tinubu will destroy this country with corruption

Tinubu just fired him. Rest.
Tunji Disu is IG now.