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Politics › Re: President Tinubu Addresses The Nation On Democracy Day 2026 (Video & Full Text) by SixSeven: 10:40am On Jun 12

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.”

Politics › Re: What Is Wrong With Obidients? by SixSeven: 12:07am On Jun 12*

ABBkelvin:
Then Obidients must get to work if they really want to change the course of Nigeria future starting from now, by doing the right thing and putting everything together from the beginning.

They can start now as they are still young and make sure to remove the concept of tribe, ethnicity and religion totally from their movement.

To shape a country ideology is not easy as it requires immense amount of work and effort overtime. If Obidients movement can dedicate their time and energy to restructure Nigeria political Landscspe, I think by year 2060, we should be getting some groundbreaking result as rebuilding a rotten system is hard and it take time to flush most of the bad egg out of the system and institution inside it.

This is not going to be an easy task but I will be on the side to be checking tru on the movement to see how it is progressing. I believe in progressive change and if it will come from Obidients movement I will gladly switch side.

So they have to show they are ready to work their ass off to wrestle Nigeria out of current quagmire or else I will keep looking from the side and keep voting the existing party in power as one thing I agree with current party in power is their organization of everything they get involved in, no matter how much they are performing woefully in some certain areas in governance, I respect their deep organizational structure.

Fair enough. But here's something I want us to acknowledge. The world is changing. Millennials and Gen X are caught up with the structure they were used to, that's why these guys look different. This is their time, don't you know a child born in 1999 is now 27? That child is almost 30. Most of the sentiments of the 70s-90s don't really bother them. One of the things that has changed is the internet. To make matters worse is their sense of history. Sometimes I smh when I see them praise a politician who is making sense but they don't know his history. Eg Aondoaka. They may have not known the role he played in Yar Adua's government but one thing I will give to them is that once they see that you have a funny past, they will call you out. Now, are they integrated into the regular structure of our parties? No. Do we have ideal parties? No. This era is showing us that party loyalty is dead and if there is anything Obi showed in the last election, in fact, Obi and Kwankwaso, it is the power of a movement. This is something the parties, if they know what they are doing will take in and find how to manage them. Why? The large population of our voters are youth. They have the energy, time and hope to go and vote. You can't joke with that. These guys may not be active on ward level the typical Naija style but things are changing too. They grew up in a digital era so don't expect them to be doing meetings in person. They know how to coordinate themsleves in their own way and show up in person when it is the right time. Time changes yesterday but the world is evolving. The set of Tinubu, Obasanjo and co will leave in 10 years and this structure will be a thing of the past.

There was a time the Sarakis, Adedibus, Nnamani and so many had a style of being godfathers, the internet has kind of leveled things for these guys and that's the gut people don't like. If it is a transparent process, they will make their numbers count. When we think that the BBN was a waste of their time, we were teaching them how to be fan boys and girls to who they loved and were fanatic about. They have translated that language to politics. They are also not going to repeat the mistakes of their parents who accepted white lies. Let's see how things change.

SixSeven:
Young people aged 18 to 34 represent more than one-third (roughly 37%) of the total registered voters. In the lead-up to the 2023 elections, 84% of the 10 million newly registered voters fell into this age bracket.

What will ginger these young people to vote will definitely not be an old face again. It's not just in Nigeria. Youth usually want to have a say in politics by bringing change. It worked for Buhari's 2015 campaign, I think the internet will not help Atiku/Tinubu this time around. There are more records online than in the archive of newspapers where some people would have forgotten. If anything should give you that indication, it was what they did to verify Amupitan's phone number recently. The old people are digitally naive, these young folks are digitally native. The 2023 elections and how it was conducted also opened their eyes to the game of politics, something they were hitherto uninterested in.

They may not win but they certainly make their voices and opinions known and I actually want that in a time when everyone has been compromised and is comfortable pretending to see things as normal when indeed they are not.

Politics › Re: Lagos APC Chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi Physically Attacked By Protesters (Video) by SixSeven: 9:21pm On Jun 11

This is the handiwork of the opposition angry

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Politics › Re: What Is Wrong With Obidients? by SixSeven: 9:19pm On Jun 11

richmond500:
The party was not formed to win presidential election, it was formed to help Dickson secure his senatorial seat.
They don't need national spread, they only need Bayelsa spread

Yes, they were formed for Dickson's safety or you have forgotten the story of AC after Obasanjo's demolition of AD?

Politics › Re: What Is Wrong With Obidients? by SixSeven: 9:07pm On Jun 11

richmond500:
This is not about old order.
NDC was well positioned, Obidients just came in and want to decide.

The reason Obi choose the party is because it was the most reliable at that time, so why change something that was working, when you couldn't make ur own LP work?

LP, PDP and ADC took everything from u and gave u nothing, u cried and NDC welcomed u, gave u the highest seat and u still want to collect everything.
What sort of selfish and ungrateful people are they?

You and I know that NDC was not well positioned nationally until both Obi and Kwankwaso moved there. Let's be honest at least with that. It's one of the reasons Akpabio could mock the party.

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Politics › Re: What Is Wrong With Obidients? by SixSeven: 9:01pm On Jun 11

ABBkelvin:
The thing is Obidients will never have their way with the politics they practice in Nigeria. They will always turn up high in any election outcome, but it will be difficult for them to win presidential election for one major reason, they fail to factor in the type of people Nigerians are in general which is Nigerians love respect for the elderly and hierarchical structure, Obidients want to erase this and they will have to sweat blood before this can come to reality unless they are ready for revolution.

Senator Dickson is a product of a political system we run in Nigeria, why you guys will expect him to be different from his peers is what baffle me the most. The existing political parties, politician and ideology won't change for you guys unless you start from scratch and work your way up to the top after several years of continuous effort in your new method of solution to Nigeria problem, if you persist to keep merging with the old order I can assure you that you will not win any major election simply because kerosene and water will never mix.

In summary, stop working with old order if you want to change Nigeria political landscape or else they will keep telling you that you met them there.

I hear you and I think this is why they are different. The same type of politics we have done for years and has gotten us nowhere better, if they are consistent with their standards I will respect them for that. At least they are known for something. The EFF in South Africa, I don't like every of their style but I know them for something. The one I don't like is the ones who will pretend to be something else and when the situation changes, they look the other way.

There is no generation that did not go aluta including the ones we have in power today when they were young so when people criticise the young ones, I smh because the hypocrisy stinks. Moreover ever since APC came to power, organized labour has died. From student unions to labour unions to civil society, they have all been infiltrated.

Politics › Re: What Is Wrong With Obidients? by SixSeven: 8:19pm On Jun 11

givedemwotowoto:
Why can’t Obidients respect the party? How do you choose someone from nowhere who is not liked by over 6 million people, to represent them? How can that person represent 6 million voices that he doesn’t agree with?

Or you think the NDC is still that small party that Akpabio was laughing at when he announced on the senate floor?

You see, you can run your small business and do whatever you like and remain small, but once you agree to go public and put it on the stock market, you’re now answerable to the shareholders, you don’t get the exclusive privilege of doing whatever you want

That’s why some CEOs get fired or replaced from the companies they founded

I'm just observing because the way NDC will handle this will show whether they learned from LP or not. Our people gave been psyoped to crude politics they think it makes sense and they call it "we will teach you politics". That's not politics, that's slavery and compliance. Obama wasn't the choice of the Democrats but once the party saw the direction his youth campaign was going, they closed ranks and made it a success for their own party. I was explaining to another person that you can't just bully your base into silence and expect them to love you. If Jesutega was alive, he would have told us how the APC fold were not happy with Bwala, Reno and Wike appointments. But they want to brand this in a way that fits their script. It will take the momentum from their party if they let a distraction like this take centre stage. Their opponents will use it to mock them and that's what they want, they want cruise and distraction rather than focusing on administration and governance, something the ruling party should be saying to justify why they want a second term

SixSeven:
Jesutega made us know that they were not happy with those appointments. They felt that Bwala and Omokri who abused the president got rewarded while they were supposed to look the other way. It's no politics, people are just pretending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugmxy2CnUd0

Tinubu may do it for politics but it doesn't mean they like it. For Wike they were even more vocal about it, especially the Lagos chapter. Even with the President's obvious support for Wike, they still warned him during their primaries that he is not welcome to APC. Why do you think the APC Chairman said no more appointments for non APC members this January?

This is like how Budweiser went to use a Trans influencer for their campaign and the loyal fans decided to boycott it. No one told them to change it when sales dropped

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7225956679840468267

Your base is showing you receipts of the person you appointed to galvanize them and you are saying you want to show them politics. Okay, show them, Na who go lose. Even Bwala knows he is facing heat because core loyalists of the President don't want him there and they make it clear that he is on his own. The Medhi interview showed us that.

Celebrities › Re: Chike, Frank Edoho And Nancy Isime Steal Spotlight At Alex Ekubo Service Of Song by SixSeven: 7:39pm On Jun 11*

eepeepook:
Somebody should not dress how he/she wants again, because of what? Person wey die don go. Let her sell her market.

Love Is In The Air. Do Not Breathe. grin

Many men, die for women. Even if they don't want to admit it, they still die for women. Her market can take some men to the grave yet she still sells it at the remembrance of the other side? What is man living for? To die for the very place he came from. What a pussycart world!

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.

H.L. Mencken

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Celebrities › Re: Chike, Frank Edoho And Nancy Isime Steal Spotlight At Alex Ekubo Service Of Song by SixSeven: 7:31pm On Jun 11

What are people expecting? That they will fight? What's the worst thing that would happen? Another man will die. For a woman. Do you remember that this is for a dead person? Is there any lessons for he living to learn? Alex died for cancer, you'll now die for a woman who will choose which one of you is onalive undecided

Politics › Re: Democracy Day: FG Declares June 12, Public Holiday by SixSeven: 6:29pm On Jun 11

I think that June 12 will soon be pushed back one APC leaves. Ask why? Because they used it more for propaganda than the actual cause and people can now see what it is for.

Opposition figures, such as those in the People's Democratic Party (PDP), argue that the APC acts hypocritically by celebrating the "freest and fairest" election of June 12, 1993, while simultaneously engaging in modern electoral manipulation, suppression, and voting irregularities. They have also accused current APC leadership of distorting June 12 history to paint themselves as progressives, masking what they view as a descent into institutional impunity and a corrupted system.

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Politics › Re: Senate Orders Arrest Of Bandits Flaunting Cash On Tiktok by SixSeven: 6:22pm On Jun 11

It didn't take Senate to order the arrest of Justice Crack but we need them to order the arrest of Tiktok bandits. Kontinuu

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Politics › Re: Tinubu Seeks Improved Tax Compliance To Fund Infrastructure by SixSeven: 6:18pm On Jun 11*

The nerve to keep taxing without accountability

SixSeven:
They don't give you anything in return but courageous of them to tax you.

Repost👇

Nigerians have normalized living with generators that people don't know how clownish they are when they explain it away.

We built Lagos indeed.

One of the things that never impressed me about Tinubu and I choose Tinubu because he had the chance to change this back then in the 99 - 07, was the failure to make Lagos Water Corporation supply the state. That was a monumental failure if you recognize how much Jakande did in 4 years for a Lagos of our dreams. Pure water made its debut in Lagos around the early 2000s. Government watched on. If you were a child who took water from the tap on the public, raise your hands up 🙌 If a government, whether it's Tinubu or not cannot provide the basic infrastructure such as water, light and good roads, F9 ❌ Yesterday, someone said luxurious is the most abused word used in Nigeria today. And the person said they use the term luxury because most Nigerians have not been given the basics or experienced it before so anyone can say their solar is luxury 😔 The defenders of the government never experienced anything better, so they think defending the government is better and constructive criticism is bitter!

Now, the IPP Tinubu fought Obasanjo for, Lagos has the golden chance to generate its electricity and do far better than what Abia's Orji is currently bragging about, but instead of them to ask questions, they prefer all of you to be fighting ethnic and religious fights so they can never be held accountable. Who loses? You the foolish people who let politicians play their cards on you. Lagos is trying to keep the environment clean when Fashola did his home work. Sanwoolu is still struggling with administering a clean city. Ambode came and visionscaped everything away. Yet, they say they had a masterplan. Fashola also blamed the FG for the electricity independence and they finally got to power in 2015. They've been there for years, no opposition but light up Lagos is what Sanwo-Olu is celebrating in 2026 after Ambode made that his first 100 days project in 2015. Make it make sense. Your leaders are evil. Instead of serving you, they corner your resources and always want to settle contractors so the money can come back to them. No light, no water. Bad environment, bad water. Bad waste, dirty water. Chai.

You all are comfortable with sleeping with your oppressors.

You provide your own electricity (generator)
You provide your own water (bore hole)
You provide your own road (patch)
You provide your own housing (build your own)
You provide your own drinking water (pure water)
You provide your own waste management system
And they tax you upon all of these. You must be so in love with yourself that you will allow a government abuse you this much. They tax you for not doing their jobs. Oyo State wanted to tax those who dug boreholes but they were quiet about the negligence of the state to provide water to the people. And they had an engineer as Governor. Your politicians are very very very very wicked people.

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Celebrities › Re: David Oyelowo Pretended Not To Understand Yoruba In School, Dated Twin Sisters by SixSeven: 4:55pm On Jun 11

Make this a movie although we've seen this story line before grin

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7398594283009281285

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Politics › Re: Tinubu Made Campaign Promises Based On Assumption - APC Chieftain Farouk Aliyu by SixSeven: 4:48pm On Jun 11

Racoon:
See how senseless and unintelligent he sounds. This is how all of them are. Meanwhile, the see finish continues;

"Give APC Opportunity To Do Better, Party Chieftain, Adamu Aliyu, Begs Nigerians"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDhqgJ6LNw?si=JPgAwS1dGtu5jhiH

Oshiomole said something like this in 2023 or was it 2019

When they are done, they will ask for forgiveness if they have it in their heart undecided

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYE_Yx1TSn0&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQa6KEbSyD0

Politics › Re: Tinubu Made Campaign Promises Based On Assumption - APC Chieftain Farouk Aliyu by SixSeven: 4:46pm On Jun 11

[quote author=WorkTheTalk post=139685452]If they can sacrifice human beings to get power, is it to deceive people to take over political offices that would be hard for them?

How to become a Nigerian politician pic.twitter.com/T7VJz2ZvB0
— Mgbadike (@MaziGomez_) June 9, 2026

funny video

Sports › Re: FIFA President Defends Ticket Prices, Dismisses Referee US Entry Denial by SixSeven: 4:33pm On Jun 11

Nwaikpe:
And to you, because they don't sing it in World Cup stadiums, they therefore don't mean it.

Well, Israel is necessarily dealing with them.

Can you provide the lyrics of their national anthem please? Maybe there is one I don't know about that you know and the world does not. Your claim was what I quoted. You said their national anthem is death to America

Nwaikpe:
So you think it is not fair to make rules that make players inconvenient,
But you think it is fair for the same country to allow in people who chant "d***th to America" as a national anthem and make posts on social media with respect to that, and also have links with terrorist organizations like Al-Shabaab, ISIS, etc., just as the referee did?

BTW, this is the first time a World Cup co-host, the United States, is actively engaged in an ongoing military conflict against a qualified participating nation, Iran.

Celebrities › Re: Davido Wears Jacket With Names Of Kidnapped Oyo Students & Teachers by SixSeven: 4:29pm On Jun 11

Do you remember Michael Jackson's wear in Brazil? That's what Davido imitated. Olodum(are)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJL6nfu__Q

The significance of Olodum to Michael Jackson lies in their monumental 1996 collaboration on "They Don't Care About Us," which transformed the track from a standard pop song into a global anthem of political resistance and anti-racism.

Phones › Re: Xenophobia: MTN Gives Repatriated Nigerians ₦100,000 Cash & ₦50,000 Airtime by SixSeven: 4:24pm On Jun 11

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7541463470231915798

Sports › Re: FIFA President Defends Ticket Prices, Dismisses Referee US Entry Denial by SixSeven: 4:20pm On Jun 11

Nwaikpe:
So you think it is not fair to make rules that make players inconvenient,
But you think it is fair for the same country to allow in people who chant "d***th to America" as a national anthem and make posts on social media with respect to that, and also have links with terrorist organizations like Al-Shabaab, ISIS, etc., just as the referee did?

Is that what is fair to you?

If you are hosting an Association party at your house and a member wants the worst for you, will you allow the member to attend?

You know they will be singing the national anthem for every country at the world cup. It's not too hard to google the national anthem of that country to check if what you are sharing is fake news. These two countries have met in the world cup in the past. They shared flowers.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7171388309086670085

Sports › Re: Mexico Vs South Africa: World Cup (2 - 0) On 11th June 2026 by SixSeven: 4:02pm On Jun 11

This is a repeat of 2010 world cup where South Africa played Mexico in the first game.
Expects some dance moves from South Africa win or lose as long as they score.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7650091358941728022
Africa brings culture to the world cup

If you cannot dance, forget it

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7618986699611245846

There will be half time super bowl songs, if the South Africans are playing rubbish, just remind them of their rugby team and why they need to shout. I see a draw in the game.

I love South Africa's national anthem by the way. One of the best in the continent.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7527363968621415685

Travel › Re: Massive Sandstorm Engulfs Birnin Kebbi by SixSeven: 3:49pm On Jun 11

Inspirer1:
Are they used to seeing such? Such carefree attitude from the people in the attached pictures...

If its here, people would have been scampering on seeing such. Japa here n there....

Yes. Those who live there see it and expect it. I want to see more videos, the videos we had last of this was taken around 2015 but I think Nigerians should document them more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxFNy9KsqAI

If you live in some parts of the north during harmattan, you will understand why they wear turban and cover their nose. The dusty weather also causes Apollo to the eyes

Christianity Etc › Re: Since I Moved To America, I No Longer Pray For 20 Minutes – Oyindamola by SixSeven: 3:42pm On Jun 11*

tym92:
How do I get this book please?

It's available online since it's an old book published around 1960

IntelLord:
Please, what book is this excerpt from? What's the title of the book that contains these pages? I'd like to read it.

TheStoriesOfMan:
Please what is the name of this book? I highly need it

Christboy01:
Please which book you take make me laugh with like this? What's the title of the book from which these pages you paste? You made my day.

It is How To Be A Nigerian by Peter (Pan) Enahoro

He is late now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UkZ-7d3hQ4

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Politics › Re: Tinubu Made Campaign Promises Based On Assumption - APC Chieftain Farouk Aliyu by SixSeven: 2:56pm On Jun 11

"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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Politics › Re: NDC: Agada Reacts To Appointment As Media Director, despite Obidients opposition by SixSeven: 2:34pm On Jun 11

If you choose someone that your base is not comfortable with, you are setting the stage for disaster.

Your campaign will be distracted by the Agada guy instead of what your party wants to achieve. The APC, PDP and ADC will mock you for being like them

Someone was asking yesterday that you have to give way for them to understand that Nigerian Politics is different and I said, what if these folks are also telling you how they want to be different? After all, we've been doing this for years, what has been special about it? What is the "we will teach you politics about?"

I think these parties are taking the support for granted thinking they are naive because once you don't have that organic support, forget it. They obviously did not learn from the Labour Party experience.

SixSeven:
Jesutega made us know that they were not happy with those appointments. They felt that Bwala and Omokri who abused the president got rewarded while they were supposed to look the other way. It's no politics, people are just pretending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugmxy2CnUd0

Tinubu may do it for politics but it doesn't mean they like it. For Wike they were even more vocal about it, especially the Lagos chapter. Even with the President's obvious support for Wike, they still warned him during their primaries that he is not welcome to APC. Why do you think the APC Chairman said no more appointments for non APC members this January?

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Politics › Re: Looks Like You're Insecure About Peter Obi — Aisha Yesuf Fires Back At Dickson by SixSeven: 1:29pm On Jun 11

PDPdestroyer:
Where did all these kindergarten diaper-wearing nairalanders emerge from? Even ordinary harmless and inconsequential online poll dey pain una? Damn!

Politics › Re: Looks Like You're Insecure About Peter Obi — Aisha Yesuf Fires Back At Dickson by SixSeven: 1:15pm On Jun 11

Seun the poll questions don't make sense. Even if I don't like Buhari, a good pollster will not put options that skew in the favor of one answer. That's what I've been seeing on Nairaland polls. They are making a mockery of what polls are.

The OP's poll here is already skewed towards an answer they want. Makes no sense.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Since I Moved To America, I No Longer Pray For 20 Minutes – Oyindamola by SixSeven: 12:47pm On Jun 11

It's obvious that the people you pray for in Nigeria are the demons themselves that's why you need prayer for them.

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Politics › Re: Godswill Akpabio Given Two Choices: "Impeach Tinubu Or Be Removed As Senate Pres by SixSeven: 12:28pm On Jun 11*

manmade:
Yes, you are totally right. President Tinubu can fight insecurity. It is one thing to expose and arrest the sponsors of insecurity, and another thing entirely to get rid of the ragtag armed bandits being used as foot soldiers.
President Tinubu has started going after the sponsors one by one, although it requires wisdom in dealing with them. They are not just ordinary people; they include highly placed members of society such as former and serving legislators, retired military officers, wealthy individuals, religious leaders, and emirs.
While the foot soldiers are being decimated daily, the pressure is mounting on them, and they are now facing a shortage of trained fighters because many of their commanders have either been arrested or killed. That is why they are increasingly kidnapping soft targets to bargain for or exchange with their members in custody.
This kind of kinetic approach requires time to achieve lasting results, hence the need to give President Tinubu the opportunity of a second term in office to deal with the problem once and for all.

My questions are:
1. Where is the transparency regarding the sponsors?

If the administration is truly going after highly placed individuals like legislators and emirs, why hasn't the Federal Ministry of Justice publicly unmasked, prosecuted, and secured convictions for these individuals to act as a public deterrent? El-Rufai was picked up immediately because the government said it is such a breach of security to wiretap the NSA. I like how swift they were in that case, what about our security?

2. If the administration has started going after highly placed sponsors, what are the formal suit numbers, charge sheets, or case files currently active in the Federal High Court?

Please provide or cite a single active court case involving a serving legislator or Emir or any sponsor. Show me newspaper reports on this, maybe I missed it

3. Why should Nigerians believe a second term will fix this when the exact same military strategy failed over an eight-year period under a former general?

We heard the same we need more time argument during the Buhari administration. If a decade of airstrikes and ground offensives hasn't stopped banditry, what makes Tinubu's approach any different? What justifies giving him four more years? I remember his popular campaign then of recruiting more soldiers and today it is forest guards. What has he done before he took office and now that is in office that is different that will make him different in the next 4 years?

Politics › Re: Godswill Akpabio Given Two Choices: "Impeach Tinubu Or Be Removed As Senate Pres by SixSeven: 12:26pm On Jun 11

manmade:
Yes, you are totally right. President Tinubu can fight insecurity. It is one thing to expose and arrest the sponsors of insecurity, and another thing entirely to get rid of the ragtag armed bandits being used as foot soldiers.
President Tinubu has started going after the sponsors one by one, although it requires wisdom in dealing with them. They are not just ordinary people; they include highly placed members of society such as former and serving legislators, retired military officers, wealthy individuals, religious leaders, and emirs.
While the foot soldiers are being decimated daily, the pressure is mounting on them, and they are now facing a shortage of trained fighters because many of their commanders have either been arrested or killed. That is why they are increasingly kidnapping soft targets to bargain for or exchange with their members in custody.
This kind of kinetic approach requires time to achieve lasting results, hence the need to give President Tinubu the opportunity of a second term in office to deal with the problem once and for all.

Thank you for your response. Now, I want to address three areas. I am someone who has followed various analysis for a long time so some of what you have written are not new to me but I like that you at least gave a response.

1. Sponsors are being arrested

This is mostly false. High-level political and traditional sponsors are rarely named or prosecuted openly. The last time we heard about this was when UAE gave us the list of sponsors and Lai said he will announce it. Till now, no one knows anything. We all just keep speculating today and tomorrow because the government has refused to name them. There was a time they said it was one of the Southern senators sponsoring them, another time, because of his claims, people said Sheikh Gumi. Another time, Oshiomole said it's the army generals and ex soldiers. Recently, one guy has been going on air saying it's Ndume. We are just speculating and it is not helping. People even say it's Fulani and this is causing ethnic profiling for innocent people who have no business. Then another time they give impression it is Igbos like we saw in the VDM. So whatever you are saying, it has not helped at all. We don't know the real sponsors of terrorism.

To be fair and factual, the FG released a sanctions list containing 48 individuals and 12 entities identified as alleged terrorism financiers, many of whom we don't know!

2. Kidnapping for prisoner exchange

This is partially true. Recent high-profile cases show bandits demanding swaps, but ransom money is still their primary driver.
The Oyo case is a recent example. The Katsina State Governor who went to forgive them and did this later regretted getting into a deal with them. Putting them in the army has really demoralized our soldiers because we don't know who is on our side. The man who killed a police officer and wore his uniform to a reconciliation has dared the government with what he did. How do you think our security forces are motivated when there is obvious compromise and government is not using a hard stick on them?

In June 2026 ambush in Zamfara State, bandits lured dozens of local villagers under the guise of peace talks, only to kidnap them and demand a 125 million naira cash ransom. Mass kidnapping of soft targets (schools, worshippers, rural villagers) has been the primary financial model for bandits for years, predating this current administration. While some kidnappings are used for prisoner swaps, data from local security trackers show that the vast majority of abductions continue to be driven strictly by financial ransom demands rather than desperation you claim.

3. Kinetic approach needs a second term
This is merely a political opinion. Relying solely on military force without economic reform has historically failed to deliver lasting security in Nigeria. Insecurity is not what is new to APC, they campaigned using it as one of the things they will solve over 10 years ago. The President is known for saying that the buck stops at the President's table and if the person there cannot solve it, he should resign so how is he in need of a second term? I could use this same logic to give Jonathan a second term because he used mercenaries to flush the terrorists out after he postponed the 2015 elections.

This is my opinion, I will ask you my questions below 👇

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Politics › Re: Godswill Akpabio Given Two Choices: "Impeach Tinubu Or Be Removed As Senate Pres by SixSeven: 11:51pm On Jun 10

manmade:
it's obvious that the same pattern of engineering insecurity to discredit the president that some Fulani political leaders used against Jonathan administration is what they're trying to repeat against tinubu administration but red my lips 👄 it won't work this time around.

Okay.

Don't you think it makes more sense for him to expose these Fulani political leaders since he knows about it?

Is the FG that incapable to catch this insecurity engineers? I mean, they are not stronger than our military or intelligence so if the idea is to embarrass our president, I believe he knows what to do to put them into shame, don't you think?

Do you think his embarrassment is more important than the embarrassment to the country? Even if those people are doing what you are saying, what you wrote here, if you were a relative to the beheaded teacher, will it make sense to you? Genuinely interested in your robust response.

Politics › Re: Obidient Movement Rejects The Appointment Of Theo Abu by SixSeven: 10:21pm On Jun 10

frankson1:
Wike's case is different because he's not a member of the APC.

There's always one person who's going to look left when everyone is looking to the right .

They won't change him because Obidients said so or because they don't like him.

Jesutega made us know that they were not happy with those appointments. They felt that Bwala and Omokri who abused the president got rewarded while they were supposed to look the other way. It's no politics, people are just pretending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugmxy2CnUd0

Tinubu may do it for politics but it doesn't mean they like it. For Wike they were even more vocal about it, especially the Lagos chapter. Even with the President's obvious support for Wike, they still warned him during their primaries that he is not welcome to APC. Why do you think the APC Chairman said no more appointments for non APC members this January?

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