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Noblechykk:
Your statement is funny coming from someone who supports a man that rented fake Bishop

Penguin2:
Isn’t it pathetic that despite all his asslicking, Umahi was an afterthought in Tinubu’s campaign council?

Maybe soon Umahi will realize that the Igbo man will get nothing out of Nigeria by asslicking these people.

Azikiwe got nothing from it.

Orji Uzor Kalu got nothing from it.

Okorocha got nothing from it.

The list is endless.

But he can continue to fool himself.

axglide:
Please and please respect the dead.

Atlantis585:
Ned, abeg allow that your preek rest small na.

Every time you listen to them, you see the bitterness in their hearts. Bitter anger, as if somebody has taken their property... venom. And I said look, you cannot give what you don't have. If you don't have a peaceful heart, a friendly heart, you cannot bring peace to people... You set this country ablaze.

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.

SixSeven:
Democracy is a scam if one country can decide how crazy another's democracy is crazy. Demonstration of craze...

This is why it will not work in Africa because it's crazy how the demo works here. The rulers have figured out how to manipulate the system to benefit them without direct responsibility.

In 1999 - 2003, the Executive did not like the Legislature and orchestrated the removal of the Senate and Reps different times. However you must be aware that the leaders of those houses were not 100% clean. Do you remember Salisu and Toronto Certificate? Within four years, the Senate alone had three presidents. Salisu Buhari’s removal over the Toronto certificate scandal was justified on ethical grounds, but the speed and coordination of the process revealed something deeper, the executive influence was never far away. Evan Enwerem and later Chuba Okadigbo fell amid allegations of misconduct, yet the pattern suggested that leadership crises were being managed politically, not institutionally. Accountability was selective, reactive, and often convenient for the power brokers. Nigeria began its democratic process on a faulty foundation. The Governors will learn after the 2003 tsunami by the PDP how to grab it in the next paragraph.


In 2003–07, the major issue of this tenure was the attempt tamper with constitutional limits through political pressure. Even though Obasanjo denies it today, there is enough documentation on how the third-term agenda was not just about tenure elongation but it was a stress test of whether constitutional rules could withstand executive might. The Legislature was flooded with inducements and intimidation. That the amendment failed remains significant, but equally significant is how close it came to succeeding. Democracy survived this phase by a narrow margin, not by institutional strength but thank God it survived. Credit to Sen Ken Nnamani.


In 2007–11, this tenure combined electoral legitimacy collapse, legislative scandal, and executive weakness. The 2007 elections severely damaged democratic credibility, yet governance proceeded without correction. Yar Adua's attempt to correct the anomaly of an election succeeded a bit when he set up an electoral panel to review our electoral system. Inside the Legislature, the Patricia Etteh crisis and later the Dimeji Bankole era exposed how leadership of the House became entangled with patronage and post-tenure criminalisation. The defining rupture, however, was Yar’Adua’s illness and death. The secrecy surrounding presidential incapacity paralysed governance and exposed a constitutional vacuum. The “Doctrine of Necessity” that elevated the Vice President was a timely fix but it also confirmed that Nigeria’s democracy often survives by improvisation rather than adherence to clear rules. Thank you Dora Akunyili and we can't forget the role of Mr Aondoaka and those who claimed that the President could rule from anywhere in the world. A pattern that will be repeated later under Buhari and now, Tinubu. This period was where the Governors started learning to cut their teeth. They became more influential in Nigerian politics. The Governors' Forum was influencing national politics. This was the period of one party state by PDP that made Ogbulafor boast that PDP will rule for 60 years. Obasanjo had taught the Governors lessons but Yar Adua and Jonathan's scholarly approach to democracy may have cost us a lesson on tight fisted executive.

DORA AKUNYILI'S EXPLOSIVE MESSAGE TO YAR'ADUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47UulCINeuo

In 2011–15, the main issue of this period was oversight without enforcement. The National Assembly appeared assertive, especially during the fuel subsidy probe, which revealed massive corruption. Yet the failure to secure decisive prosecutions weakened public trust. You must remember that Farouk Lawan was recently forgiven in the Tinubu's presidential pardon list but what he did at that time was a symbol of the corruption at the top. At the same time, electoral reforms under Attahiru Jega restored some credibility to elections, creating a contrast between improving electoral process and stagnant governance accountability. Democracy looked better at the ballot box than in outcomes. Change became possible but the Governors played a major role in redesigning how party politics was. The party was no longer the class captain, each Governor was now taking hold of the party structure at each state.

AUDIO: The $3 million conversation between Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola - Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnWDgEMDa8

$3million bribery: Farouk Lawan request removal of Otedola's company from fuel subsidy report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gzT5vd0vE


In 2015–19, this tenure was dominated by open institutional confrontation. Bukola Saraki’s emergence as Senate President against party and executive preference triggered years of conflict. His trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal placed the Judiciary squarely within political struggle. Simultaneously, the Executive openly disobeyed court orders in security-related cases, signalling impatience with judicial restraint. This was not just an executive–legislative problem, it was a systemic breakdown of respect among arms of government because APC was in power, so yih can't blame the opposition. Power was increasingly exercised as moral authority rather than constitutional obligation.
The first attack on the judicial system began here with the Onnoghen trial by the Buhari government. The death of the media also started during this time. APC, which had oiled the machinery of the media to their advantage could not let the same machine take them out. They came out hard on critical thinking and through the Minister of Information, the Press review started here.


In 2019–23, the tenure was defined by the open surrender of legislative independence. Unlike earlier Assemblies that at least struggled with the Executive, this one publicly embraced alignment as a governing principle. Legislative leaders openly described the National Assembly as a “partner” rather than a check. Oversight weakened noticeably. Budgets were passed with little resistance, confirmations sailed through, and major policy questions rarely produced institutional pushback. The loss of teeth was not accidental. Senate President Ahmed Lawan repeatedly framed the National Assembly as a “partner” of the Executive rather than a check on it. In public statements, he emphasized working “in harmony” with the presidency to pass legislation and implement national policies, warning against “unnecessary grandstanding” that could delay governance. Oversight weakened - bills, budgets, and ministerial confirmations proceeded with minimal scrutiny. A prominent example was Godswill Akpabio’s smooth confirmation as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, which drew little interrogation despite prior controversies. Please off your mic. Committees that would normally probe ministers or government contracts rarely escalated findings, signaling a tacit decision that cooperation, not confrontation, was the guiding principle. The loss of teeth was not accidental, it was openly acknowledged, marking a clear departure from Assemblies that had previously struggled even contentiously to assert themselves.
Democracy during this period functioned procedurally but hollowly, with elections and legislative processes intact but scrutiny and accountability diminished.

From 2023–present, the current 10th National Assembly has intensified this pattern. It had easily won the worst National Assembly even before concluding its tenure. Senate and House leaders, including Akpabio, have publicly reinforced the idea that lawmakers are not elected “to fight the Executive” but to collaborate on national priorities. Akpabio stressed that legislators should support executive-led bills that serve the nation, even if critics label this a “rubber-stamp” legislature. Committees continue to exist, but oversight has become largely symbolic. Critical national issues, security challenges, rising inflation, and controversial economic policies see limited legislative pushback. What stands out is not conflict but its absence, making it clear that the Legislature now prioritizes alignment and on a mandate they wish to stand on with the executive over independent scrutiny. In practical terms, the National Assembly functions, but as a facilitator of executive priorities rather than a co-equal branch ensuring accountability. This Assembly has trashed any respect whatsoever you may have for the Legislature. Publicly singing on your mandate they shall stand, trying to praise the President's work and laughing over serious issues that affect Nigerians or completely ignoring them have made them weaker than the whisker of a cat.

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Looking at Nigeria’s National Assembly from 1999 to today, a clear pattern stands out. Each four-year tenure faced big challenges, but the Legislature often let itself be shaped by politicians and party leaders instead of standing up to protect the people’s interests. The 10th Assembly shows this clearly. Leaders openly put the President’s wishes above their constitutional duty. They approve bills and budgets without asking tough questions. Committees that should investigate government programs barely do their work. By choosing to cooperate instead of check power, the Legislature has weakened democracy from within. At the same time, the Judiciary has often compromised, bending under pressure or choosing caution, which has limited its ability to fully check government power. Go to court!!!


This problem is not unique to Nigeria. In countries like Venezuela, democracy exists on paper but is erased by politicians who manipulate institutions for their own gain. We can see the same pattern here. But pointing out these failures does not give outsiders the right to lecture Venuezela. Even strong democracies like the United States struggle with their own political crises and institutional problems. True democracy only works when the people and their own institutions hold power accountable. No one else can do it for us.

©️ SixSeven


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6QgwDREmo

Ofunaofu:
Tinubu made Nigeria' so so expensive

Evaress:
the day someone offered me a job in a hotel. I said ''''God for bid". Because i know horn*y men that is their favorite spot. As i'm serving them drinks, na my boobies and ikebe dem go dey look.. Anyways some ladies are comfortable been shameless, others still have bit of shame inside of them.

Treasure17:
Peradventure he does, Obi movement does not revolve around flagboy. The movement match on

SixSeven:
Obi and his supporters should be ready for APC's attack on them. Propaganda won't give up easily. Just know they will try to weaken you by their stories. They did that in 2022-23. They want your morale low. No surprises here. Whatever you do and don't do will be used against you. They ought to be campaigning by their own achievements but look at where we are? Don't worry, APC and PDP used to do it too so it's not new. By the way, is Mama P Obi or Kwankwaso? 🤡

badoh:
When people say a single politician can swing elections I laugh. The fact remains that in a free and fair elections, the power is in the hand of the electorate. The incumbent can only have advantage if he performed excellently and will just be an easy ride for him. Omisore has only one vote, how many people can he talk to in Ife to cast their vote for a particular candidate. Is it the students you want to cajole or the elites. Adeleke's performance is what actually determined that election and there's nothing Omisore can do about it, infact he never worked for Accord.

1vandragon:
What is bat so scared of about his past?

Since the US security agencies are reluctant to release the records, why bother joining the matter if there is truly nothing to hide?

Nigerians deserve to know 'who' their president 'was'...

goodlyfa:
Tinubu is actulally smart. He knew he already has Osun APC on his side. Forcing APC win in Osun does not make any change. So, he decided to let Adeleke win so as to add him to his side, plus the existing Osun APC. Tinubu is actually smart but his smartness is not beneficial to the common man. Life is becoming tougher than before. People's purchasing powers keep dropping. We need a better person to handle Nigeria and only Peter Obi or Donald Duke is the best option so far. But Donald duke is not having the edge Obi has, so let's just support Peter Obi for the future of our unborn children. As it is going like this, no hope for common man.

SixSeven:
This was my donation to this topic when it first came out a few weeks ago 👇

I have no problem with Tinubu anymore. The joke is not on him, the joke is on Nigeria as a society. A society that lacks integrity and explains away questionable things is making itself look like a clownish society. Tinubu is not the problem, it is the society that made it acceptable to lack integrity that is. In a normal society, it is APC as a party that would have screened out Tinubu, not the court. APC would have looked at who had better qualifications and moral compass as a party. It's not everything that is court or has to be written in the constitution. Some things are moral but what do I know? A whole SAN reminded us that the law is not moral and that's one of the first lessons I learned in law. Education is not enough, you can be educated but not learned, you can go to school but not schooled, you can come from a home but not raised properly and you can claim a lot of things but never be able to tell truth. Integrity is very expensive, all the money in the world cannot buy it.

Seun: Does the President have evidence that he went to school, or did he homeschool for primary and secondary school?

Babatunde Ogala: The president will answer your questions when you ask him.

[Babatunde Ogala, SAN and former APC National Legal Adviser speaking on President… pic.twitter.com/ln9Ydj8bVJ

— Channels Television (@channelstv) August 6, 2026

When you say the truth in this country, you will begin to sound like a moralist, like a virgin, like a saint because we know what is true but it pains us when someone else is saying it and is not willing to participate in our lies. You don't look like you are normal anymore. Look at the Jemima Osunde video the other day, the comments to her outrage were not commending her, they were trying to normalize the madness they have created. Look at the drug smuggler Mawra and his NDLEA team caught, they were not even worried by the crime. They just wanted to replace him. Thieves. Idiotic thieves. They are so poor that the only thing they have is money.

IamPatriotic:
Wetin Adeleke do obidients no good ooo. They were celebrating his victory, boom 💥! The man broke their hearts by announcing his support for Asiwaju. He didn't even allow them to celebrate the "defeat of APC properly 😒

Beautifulday:
No one is talking about good governance here

SixSeven:
Fact: in the 2023 presidential election alone, 20 sitting governors lost their states to opposing presidential candidates because the electorate chose to ignore their governors' preferences

They have no regard for the electorate, including the winner, Jackson, who should have thanked Osun people for their support and leave it at that but kept on mentioning the President, man who only cares about what he can get. They say it's politics, they say it's strategy but they think people are dumb. Let's see how 2027 will go and if his mandate shall stand. He thinks he can command Osun people like that. He never see anything



A. Aliyu
As a highly influential Northern governor and chairman of the Northern Governors' Forum, Aliyu pledged that Niger State's political machinery would deliver the state to PDP's incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. He openly campaigned under the assumption that his executive dominance would dictate the people's votes. The electorate did not follow his direction, resulting in one of the most lopsided defeats for an incumbent establishment in Nigerian history. Goodluck Jonathan was decisively rejected in Niger State, pulling only 149,222 votes. The opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari (APC), swept the state with a staggering 657,678 votes. Governor Aliyu also lost his own personal bid to transition to the Senate, losing the Niger East Senatorial district election to APC's David Umaru.


B. Elrufai
As an incredibly powerful founding member of the APC and a fierce loyalist, Governor El-Rufai went all out to campaign for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Because the APC held full executive power and machinery in Kaduna, it was considered a guaranteed win for the party. Despite El-Rufai's tight control over the state, the electorate did not follow his direction. The state rejected Tinubu, and the PDP's Atiku Abubakar swept Kaduna State with 554,360 votes. Where is Elrufai today?

C. What happened to Sanwoolu or Ganduje or even Okowa who was actually on the ballot as the Vice- Presidential candidate for the PDP. He and his party structures confidently expected Delta State to vote entirely for the PDP ticket. Even with the sitting governor being on the national ticket, Delta State voters ignored his candidacy. The Labour Party swept Delta State with 341,866 votes, entirely rejecting the sitting governor's regional influence.

Or should we talk about Isa Yuguda and Bauchi and how Buhari beat PDP like pulp. These people are foolish to realize that Governors do not own the thumbs of their voters. Even Wike is being tolerated but let him try what he did again and see if the people will do like mumu again by changing their votes.


I will teach you politics gang. Just watch for a series of betrayals next year.

Buccalcavity2:
I just like Atiku. He has to prove to coalition that he is the most preffered. Since coalition is considering a single candidate, he don dey churn out different lines just to be conspicuous and he don dey silent Obi, Duke,.....
Unknown to him, it is late in the day, 2027 election is already won.

SixSeven:
Look at the ages of Bola Tinubu's 1999 cabinet members when they were appointed in 1999 (when Tinubu was 47 years old):

Lai Mohammed (Chief of Staff) - Born 1951 (48 years old)

Wale Edun (Finance) - Born 1956 (43 years old)

Dele Alake (Information and Strategy) - Born 1956 (43 years old)

Yemi Osinbajo (Justice & Attorney General) - Born 1957 (42 years old)

Rauf Aregbesola (Works) - Born 1957 (42 years old)

Olayemi Cardoso (Economic Planning & Budget) Born 1957 (42 years old)

Ben Akabueze (Budget and Economic Planning) - Born 1959 (40 years old)

Babatunde Fashola (Succeeded as Chief of Staff) - Born 1963 (36 years old)

Muiz Banire (Special Duties / Transportation) - Born 1966 (33 years old)

Lanre Towry-Coker (Commissioner for Housing) Born 1944. 55 years old at inauguration.

Kaoli Olusanya (Commissioner for Agriculture) - Born 1952. 47 years old at inauguration.

Olateju (Teju) Phillips (Commissioner for Commerce and Industry) - Born 1953. 46 years old at inauguration.

Kayode Anibaba (Commissioner for Environment and Physical Planning) - Born 1954. 45 years old at inauguration.

Kemi Nelson (Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation) - Born February 9, 1956. 43 years old at inauguration.

Leke Pitan (Commissioner for Health) - Born 1956. 42 or 43 years old at inauguration depending on his exact birth month.

Even Gilbert Chagoury (Business Associate) was born January 8, 1946 and was 53 years old in 1999.

ozo13:
no wonder he is already using this age tactics

Dogalmighty17:
He is no average politician. I'll give him that. Indeed there has never been a politician like Tinubu in the history of Nigeria and I say this as someone who is not his supporter.

It is a most remarkable feat for a man to start a political party from the scratch, form alliances to put another man who has ran multiple times for president and failed, in office, then run for that same office himself and win.

He had a keen eye for political talent and through his influence has made several men governors. If Tinubu was younger, Nigeria would have enjoyed him. I have listened to his speeches when he was governor of Lagos and it could not be denied that he was quite cerebral and knowledgeable with a good command of the English language.

If Tinubu was the one who first entered office instead of Buhari, this country would have been better off. Unfortunately though, we have Tinubu in his later years and very much diminished. But as far as politics in Nigeria is concerned, there has never been anyone like him. He is a collosus.

Levels1:
I disagree with you on this,he can't be 47 in 1999. So it means he's just a little older than me then ,? From the previous video shown above,he should be around 56 year old then unless I don't know my Real Ahr in the year 1999

Adugbocrier:
Our people are quick to forget that under the past regimes with defence of Naira, there was a thriving black market that made the rich and connected to get richer while the industries that needed FX didn’t get access. There was product ( gasoline and jet fuel) scarcity every quarter, NNPC is still owing importers since 2022/2023 for the under recovery and product imports. ASUU strikes could almost be predicted and likely guaranteed. Do with it what you may, this country is waxing strong, a little patience and constructive criticism of this current government will do us all a world of good.

Seun: Does the President have evidence that he went to school, or did he homeschool for primary and secondary school?

Babatunde Ogala: The president will answer your questions when you ask him.

[Babatunde Ogala, SAN and former APC National Legal Adviser speaking on President… pic.twitter.com/ln9Ydj8bVJ

— Channels Television (@channelstv) August 6, 2026

SixSeven:
Our problem is that we like to celebrate nonsense. And by nonsense I mean, we celebrate material things, things that don't have value, no worth but only craving validation because it is not authentic.

The elders used to say that a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot know where he dried his body. Today, we no longer look at a man’s character, we only look at the size of his harvest, even if he stole the yams. We have turned our backs on the quiet truth of our ancestors to dance to the loud drums of foolish men. Of course, when a society begins to crown jesters and mock the honest farmer, the roof is already falling on the house. That's why they once said when a thief tells you to gotocourt, his brother is the judge. It means the system is fixed, and a dishonest person is only acting bold because they control or have an unfair advantage in the system meant to judge them. They control the system, they are the king of boys

If we crush the seed of integrity just to celebrate the chaff, what will our children eat when the famine of character arrives? Na there we de so. Ajekun iya ti e je ehn, Davido and SDM never got sing am well yet.

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

This message is not about the music or the musician 😕