Hezzyluv: This man no dey seriously serious. Just imagine what's coming out from the mouth of the man wey no allow Jonathan drink water keep cup.
The same insecurity caused by Tinubu, Buhari and sundry just to rubbish PDP couldn't be stopped by APC now.
"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"
SixSeven: You have a good observation but don't forget that India has the largest population on earth. It's like someone saying don't take financial advice from Nigerians because....
Now, to the point in the passage. You know our marriages in the past were not based on love? Marriage was based on sustenance and it needed a man and woman to help us manage it and they give birth to go on and on like that. I believe there should be affection but the love nwatiti thing is not entirely ours. We believe that selecting a good family for you itself is love and you grow into it. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that system is perfect but look at what we have today. It's why they are now saying love is blind, marriage is the eye opener.
Maybe the couple should be blind first and then open their eyes to love later
SixSeven: Marriage Is Not an Achievement But Responsibility Is Many young people now reject marriage as a measure of success, and they are not wrong. Marriage by itself is not an achievement but it is a social structure. Now let me educate them a bit, what deserves closer attention is not your rejection of the idea of marriage, but the growing discomfort with responsibility that often accompanies it.
In African philosophy, a human being is measured largely by character. Achievement lies in the ability to act with restraint, care, and accountability. Marriage without these qualities is empty and freedom without them is destructive.
Sex has never been treated as morally neutral in any serious society. This is not because desire is evil and we are not biological people but because sex carries consequences. It creates emotional bonds, social expectations, and the possibility of children. A culture that treats sex as casual while demanding stable outcomes is not enlightened. It is inconsistent with social order and you can see the results today. One guy is always writing on his posts here on NL that the only advice he has for men is to conduct DNA.
For women, sexual fidelity was historically preserved to protect clear lines of responsibility but the ones who think they have opened eyes said it was for control. In a world without DNA testing, fidelity ensured that motherhood, paternity, and inheritance were socially legible. It allowed men to be held accountable and children to know where they belonged. Sexual norms were less about purity and more about responsibility. This did not mean women alone bore moral burden. Female sexual discipline made sense only in societies that demanded male duty in return. When restraint was expected of women but responsibility was optional for men, the moral logic broke.
Motherhood, like fatherhood, is more than biology. To bring life into the world is to accept obligation. The woman who nurtures, guides, and forms character performs one of the most demanding social roles that exists. A society that dismisses this labor while celebrating autonomy misunderstands freedom. The family unit matters not just because it is traditional, but because it works. It is the foundation to society. It is the first place where limits are learned, where care becomes habitual, and where responsibility becomes personal. When family structures weaken, the cost of this weakness does not go away as people think it will fizzle out. It reappears in institutions asked to do what homes once did. There was a reason we said a community raises a child and why our proverbs talk about family and lineage. For so many years, the West tried to break our hegemony, they wanted us to leave our values and ethics and be like them while secretly admiring our foundation and structure. Thank God many people have japa now, they can now see the difference between oyinbo life and our society where each child is everyone's child but unfortunately when they go back home, alas even the people back home want to be like the oyinbo man without knowing it's a sad life disconnected from our roots as a people.
Young people are not wrong to question marriage. They are right to question hollow traditions. What must be reconsidered is not marriage as a trophy, but responsibility as a value.
Sexual freedom without accountability is not progress. Fidelity without mutual obligation is not justice.
I am happy this generation is sleeping anyhow and anywhere with anyone they like. When the chicken comes home to roost, you will then appreciate the wisdom of your forefathers and mothers in preserving the institution called marriage and why society needs order, accountability and responsibility. It is what we call you go see for yourself. When you are young you question many things but with age you start to understand many things too. Your parents got married because it was a sign of responsibility. Some people asked why the opinion of a married person was more important than that of an unmarried person. Those who maintained this tradition knew that it takes a special person to live with another wo/man as husband/wife and still be normal. That's why in the past, for politicians, they used to yab themselves if anyone of them had family issues that "you that cannot take care of your home wants to take care of our country".
Marriage is a school. Freedom is a mirage. Marriage is not an achievement. Becoming a responsible adult is.
The best protection for men is to love themselves first. It sounds selfish but let me tell you, you are a worker. Don't let anyone manipulate you. You are a worker. Don't put too much into love because it's all emotions. Emotions are fickle. I'm not saying you should not have feelings for the woman you choose but she's human.
Take some time and study how women choose their mates, including the women who work for their money. When you find out what they want and pick, you have your answer on how to protect yourself as a provider.
I watched the interview yesterday. He has a reservation about ADC. He even hinted he had suggested to Obi if he wants to go with El Rufai or Kwankwaso, he has his blessings but for him, he likes to plan ahead. He believes they should have contested the 2023 result which he claims Labour won.
He said he is a man who plans dadadada but fear politicians, they have sweet mouth. Thank God he spoke about his bro too. Life is not like that Datti Ahmed. Even Kwankwaso that was sounding arrogant in 2022 has mellowed. No be by gra gra. Na so your brother shout, joined and left the government, and now he is fighting from the outside, which you call principle.
Based on the little Ahmed said in the interview, it reminds me...was El Rufai actually locked up to prevent him from being a VP candidate 🤔
youneedjesus: The man is very sincere. I admire his sincerity. Are there sincere politicians in Nigeria today.
No. They are full of stomach infrastructure. Fake visionaries who want slaves to worship them instead of an educated people who can think for themselves.
Seun tell your mods not to push certain things to the FP. I saw this thread yesterday and ignored it, you can do better. You are an animal, cooked it and so what?
I just held up a mirror for you to see yourself better.
Okay. Keep me posted on your next colloquium. You don't need to have different monikers to show who you are. Only cowards do that but keep going. It's the internet, you are 'smart'.
MartinCorridon: Tinubu is one of the most sought after people.
But trust me, he didn't put up any fake lists.
That's the prerogative of power
Even if he has a favourite as Lagos Governor... He's so experienced he will make sure his followers don't know till it's time.
He holds many cards. ONLY God holds all the cards
Tinubu knows the Power of Silence. People will fatigue themselves with endless speculation. Then he will speak occasionally and those words will carry a lot of weight.
A1+++ in Politics. F9 in Security & Economics.
Not prerogative of power, it's the result of cowardice because for any democracy, it's not the executive's place to choose, help or suggest what the Senate will do but since these ones have decided to behave like men without spine, he can have his way. Saraki and Co did not allow him do this in 2015 when he had chosen Mulikat etc for them. They acted like men but what did we hear? Saraki was the enemy, he did not allow Buhari do his work etc but hindsight is beneficial to us all now.
I agree with you. The people have decided to be weak, thereby creating an illusion of power.
You cannot be a party's candidate at an election without going through its primaries. You young folks should use the phone you are using to tweet to do some research. I said research, not just asking Grok for answers.
That's how another one said Atiku has never won an election and I had to remind him that Atiku was winner of the 1999 Governorship election and later picked by Obasanjo as running mate to win the general election.
CorperKola: So the north will vote for a fresh southerner over tinubu that has 4 years left
What planet are you living on
And not only that but it has never hapoenwd in the history of the whole country for a south easterner to win the majority votes in a presidential election
You have to be objective for once, you wont die
You can choose which hill you want to die on. Nigeria's fault lines have always been this way North-South. If you're in doubt, refer to the 79 elections Shagari won and why Westerners have not forgiven Obasanjo for what some call betrayal.
anonimi: It’s quite sad that Obasanjo decided to ruin Atiku despite his generosity and loyalty towards him, especially in 2003 when Atiku rejected northern pressure to make him a one term president, like Tinubu did to Jonathan in 2015.
2003 was the first time Buhari asked for the job of president and failed.
Such is life. Atiku has made mistakes but he has miscalculated. What he was always afraid of kept happening to him and each time, he keeps thinking he had a chance. How Atiku thought after Buhari, the South will vote him remains a dream. Until he dies, he won't leave the ambition to rest.
How long was he a governor since the governorship election was some months before the presidential election
Atiku was elected Governor on the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in January 1999. After the Obasanjo-Atiku ticket won the February 27, 1999, presidential election, Atiku became the Vice President of Nigeria.
I'm the same person who wrote this below and you will see how I feel Atiku's chances are low but to say he has never won and never governed, that's not correct 😐 👇
Aside Obi and Kwankwanso, no other politician has been able to prove themselves ALONE outside the establishment.
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Obi has the brightest chance going by the last election result followed by Kwankwanso. I choose these two because they left PDP and did not have the structure of the regular party, which Atiku benefitted from using the PDP platform. You also have to look at the time they had to test themselves between the election primaries and election.
If you want to know what that means, Ribadu ran the Presidential election in 2011 under AC and failed with that party structure. Obi and Kwankwanso have been able to test their popularity as candidates outside the regular establishments and done well. Both had no Governors in their party before contesting and pulled a good number in the last election. Buhari used his CPC to bargain with AC to get the Presidential slot in APC. Buhari could say whether he used ANPP or CPC, he could gather votes. I'm not so sure Atiku can do that. He was a presidential candidate of the Action Congress in the 2007 presidential election coming in third to Umaru Yar'Adua of the PDP and Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP. Atiku came a distant third in that election with less than 10% of the votes.
Obi and Saraki/Kwankwanso
A Saraki will be a difficult campaign for APC that has defaulted to using tribes against themselves. Saraki ticks two boxes of Yoruba/North Central who have been looking for relevance since Gowon.
Here is the stats of the declared winners since 1999. Mr Bola Ahmed tinubu was not a popular president elect
Here is the brief, factual list of Nigeria’s presidential election winners since 1999, including each winner’s name and the percentage of valid votes they received.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo: about 62.78% of valid votes.
2003 – Olusegun Obasanjo: about 61.94% of valid votes.
2007 – Umaru Musa Yar’Adua: about 69.60% of valid votes.
2011 – Goodluck Jonathan: about 58.87% of valid votes.
2015 – Muhammadu Buhari: about 53.96% of valid votes.
2019 – Muhammadu Buhari: about 55.60% of valid votes.
2023 – Bola Ahmed tinubu: about 36.6–37% of valid votes.
A United opposition will defeat tinubu before the election begins. With a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiide margin. There is no need to argue about that.
Fact: Tinubu remains the most unpopular president to have won the Presidential elections. He is the easiest to kick out. Back then, PDP told AC, CPC and opposition parties when they were reigning that to kick us out, you need to unite as opposition. That's what they learned in 2015.
SixSeven: You overestimate the North. You are assuming that Buhari's bloc vote will automatically go to Atiku but not Tinubu? Or you forget that the ADC is made up of that bloc, who after 2023 didn't want to work with Tinubu? Let ADC choose Atiku and I will congratulate Tinubu today. You don't ask yourself why APC worries about Obi that was supposedly third than Atiku that was second? They know the game!
I put the map here for your reference. Obi won Lagos, Abuja and Rivers State. Add a share of Kwankwanso votes to his or Atiku's votes and you can tell Tinubu wouldn't have won. When APC won in 2015, the KKK states helped them. When analysing numbers, guage sentiments. Tinubu will not get the same numbers as before because now, he's not a virgin, you are choosing to continue the pain in the renewed hope or choose an alternative. Atiku does not appeal to the youth and going by stats, they are the major voting bloc and will be the only ones to want to come out because whether you like it or not, Tinubu is planning on swimming through voter apathy in 2027. Many of these candidates need to retire, including Obi himself. A child born in 1999 is now 27 and would have gone through his adult life hearing about Tinubu and Atiku. A child born in 1993 when Atiku first contested is now telling his own child that Atiku is the future. How? Let me remind you again
In the lead-up to the 2023 elections, 84% of the 10 million newly registered voters fell into this age category. Those aged 35–49 (Middle-Aged Voters) make up roughly 35.75% of the electorate.
Atiku performance has been poor. Atiku does not appeal to the youth and going by stats, they are the major voting bloc and will be the only ones to want to come out because whether you like it or not, Tinubu is planning on swimming through voter apathy in 2027. Many of these candidates need to retire, including Obi himself. A child born in 1999 is now 27 and would have gone through his adult life hearing about Tinubu and Atiku. A child born in 1993 when Atiku first contested is now telling his own child that Atiku is the future. How? Let me remind you again
Now that Buhari is dead, he thinks the North will vote for him and all he needs is someone who will help him get Southern votes.
In the three times he appeared on the general ballot for the presidency, Atiku Abubakar received
- 2,637,848 votes (7.47%) in 2007 to finish third,
- 11,262,978 votes (41.22%) in 2019 to finish second, and
- 6,984,520 votes (29.07%) in 2023 to finish second once again.
In the first time the candidate he contested with in 2019 (that gave Atiku his highest vote ever) went to test his popularity in 2023, tell me what was the numbers that candidate got. Obi gave him his best result in 2019 and Obidients today will not be behind Obi himself as Vice. Atiku is repeating the same mistake of the last election, it's not the time of the North. If he forces his way, the likes of Momodu and Okonkwo will happily help him spend his money on a fool's paradise.
How long was he a governor since the governorship election was some months before the presidential election
Atiku was elected Governor on the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in January 1999. After the Obasanjo-Atiku ticket won the February 27, 1999, presidential election, Atiku became the Vice President of Nigeria.
Beautifulday: Which election has Atiku won before in his life?
Has Atiku govern anyone before in his life except his family?
Which governance experience do Atiku has?
Obi has all the above
For the records. Atiku Abubakar won the governorship election in Adamawa State in January 1999. However, he did not assume the office of Governor because he was selected by Olusegun Obasanjo as his running mate for the 1999 presidential election.
Arkmanbuddy: Are you invariably saying that baba is paving the way for his son?
Never say never. They will keep pushing the bar as long as you allow them to. Remember some people said it will be disastrous for son and daddy to be both Governor and President so why not let daddy finish his 2 term then son will enter?
DJperdurabo: Please don't justify this. It's all shades of wrong, contextually wrong!
Form someone vying for public office in a secular state, you don't do things like this. Nevermind his intentions, he risks just stirring up unnecessary drama in an environment highly sensitive to religious questions what with all the terrorism, bandits and stuff. Of course, you can see the "uproar" already.
C'mon he should have known better!
He's lost already. With just this singular unthoughtful act, he's put paid to his campaign.
What are we afraid of? That he is speaking Arabic language? Common! What's the difference between him speaking Arabic and the president going to Saudi where they speak Arabic?
I'm not bothered by him but people in the south are hypocrites. In the North, they freely speak their language without any apologies. We hear Arabic and go crazy. I'm not one for that. Anyway, this guy had been sent away by the elders of the PDP, which some people think worked for APC but pretended to be opposition. You people allow these guys deceive you with tribe and religion. I don't care. If he speaks mandarin and gets the job done, I wouldn't care less. It's the people's mumu button they press everytime. And you people are responding to it.
integrity16: What you are defending does not make sense, Politics is a game of numbers. What is the population of English speaking yorubas and Arabic speaking Yorubas?
You want to govern a yoruba state, you are speaking Arabic? How does this make sense? He had just scored an own goal.
What you think I am defending is not what I am defending.
cyberbro: Definitely not from a Nigerian restaurant. A lot of "African restaurants" abroad are not owned by Nigerians, but they wanna make as much money as possible so they list Nigerian food on their menu, whereas they don't have chefs who can cook them.
I will be careful eating these things there. That poundo yam people are eating that doesn't have any yam in it. They gonna learn!
The foreigners are cashing in on our laziness and greed. Because we chase the money, they will cook for us. Every man must eat but authentic Nigerian food is not easy to make because it's 100% natural but the Chinese are already stepping up. Finding ways to use machines to mass produce our food. Who did this to us Our governments have not made things easy so the cost of quality African food is more expensive and our food comes in variety not menu type you have in Mc Donald or Arab shawarma stores that give fish, meat or chicken kebab. It's tough but the worst thing to happen to you over there too is bad health so spend money on good food. Food is your first medicine.
Arkmanbuddy: It won't be a surprise to me if this happens to be true. Sanwo has proven to be a weak and irredeemably liberal Governor to the detriment of the indigents of Lagos.
Don't forget the President refused to physically commission his projects and sent the Senate President to represent him, while he commissioned projects in Bayelsa State. Security was the excuse given.
I already knew this would happen. By the way, Sanwoolu and Hamzat are not really best of friends, but the deputy has just been matured not to be dramatic.
Do you remember how Tinubu finished his first and second term? Do you remember how many deputies he had and why some of them had to be impeached instead of resignation (for pension)? I will not be surprised. Just yesterday, the Achimugu woman or what's her name went to Channels for an interview to say she had nothing to do with Sanwoolu.
If Sanwoolu resigns, it means Hamzat can only do one term. For Baba Sope it has nothing to do with performance, it's all about calculations. Let this one do one term so that ________ can enter in 2031.
SixSeven: Not true. When he wanted to make that yeye move for Fashola second term, he shifted. And we can see it was all for Fashola not to take shine off him as Lagos Governor because there was no sensible reason to give other than someone who loves to be worshipped. You can't please such people. They always want to play God.
It's people who suck up to him that give him power but make no mistake, Tinubu changed his deputy governors at least 3x when they challenged him. Only that woman who knows him inside out, Kofoworola Bucknor has not gone to him. He made his former deputy an Ambassador to Australia. That one was removed because he wanted to be Governor without his consent. Ambode too came back but these politicians, they don't have principles so don't waste time with them.
Meanwhile in a country called Nigeria, what was the headline for this weekend? Obasanjo says NNPC refineries cannot be fixed 🤡
Iran never said let's wait for this war to end. They never said maybe US will attack it again so let's not repair it. They never complained about the sanctions. They never complained about world economy and all those nonsense those people smart by half come to preach to you online or on TV. They went straight to business.
This is the same government people abuse here meanwhile their own government in Nigeria doesn't give a damn about their welfare. The failure of a power minister says we should appoint a coordinating minister of energy after failing to restore power in 2 weeks he gave himself. President disconnected his own residence from national grid and went solar. Eeeeeeddddddoooots
cyril10: This guy has really lost it, i don't think he knows what he says this time. This hypocrite is systematically supporting Tinubu, he doesn't want to come out open.
Read this post and you'll slap anyone who prays for our politician. The latest I read last week was that Iran has promised to fix the refineries that were attacked within 2 months. In all of these, Iran has not used the US sanctions or the war as an excuse to slack. I mean these people have all the excuses in the world to tell you why they don't have light and why their refineries will not work. God, why? 😢 If you think our politicians are not working with the devil himself, think again. 👇
SixSeven: When Trump posted that he would bomb Iran to ancient civilization by targeting their bridges and energy infrastructure, the only thing that came to my mind was energy infrastructure. I've given up on bridges because in Nigeria, mediocrity is celebrated. 4th Mainland bridge is still on their mega plan while the Lagos-Calabar highway is completed since Obidients, Wailers and enemies of the State are already selling gala on its highway, hide your face!!!🙈
In this ongoing war, Iranian officials announced last week that they have restored electricity to their people despite attacks from Israel/US. 👇
Iran restores power to most parts of Tehran and Karaj after suspected attacks on infrastructure
It makes me ask the question, are we living in any civilization if we can't have light
A country at war cares so much to restore power to its people, they even provided updates on the power situation in their country, they didn't use the war as an excuse but in my own country, these wicked people use all manner of man-made excuses to put us in darkness, pain and suffering. Every Nigerian becomes an analyst, analyzing waterfalls from Kainji Dam to river sediments of Bakassi peninsular. May woe betide una 👐 It's not a curse. It is what you need because what you have shown us is that you are ungrateful. We are ungrateful people in this country and we should stop insulting God. Nigerians are the most ungrateful people on earth because God blessed us with abundance of resources and wealth but we insult the creator by giving weak excuses and ensuring that people suffer while we take care of our own immediate family and friends. We don't like ourselves, we just pretend we do.
In other countries, they make sure people are okay first. Here, we want to steal everything for ourselves and family, most people don't care about the state. They send their kids abroad, no excuses. They holiday abroad. They show off abroad. What kind of people are these? I can't just speak for God because if I were the one who created this kind of people, I would be so irritated because I see how you take pride in making your own people suffer but stash the money abroad. The president is in power, the supporters are more interested in peppering Obidients. If the president does well, isn't it to everyone's enjoyment and benefit? What sort of tomfoolery makes you bothered about opposition when you have the opportunity to use the goddamn power to fix things? I see in the war threads how people support either side but they don't reason. That country is a terrorist country as they claim here on NL but they have light. They have freaking light. No excuses. They are under sanctions. Here, they give all manner of excuses, sabotage the country, cache out our money, only for it to be used by their oppressors. Clowns 🤡
Nigerian incompetence thrives on world chaos so they can have something to justify their dirty bottoms. It's such a shame and a disgrace that Libya and Iran can have light but in Nigeria, we are ready to blame the world economy. Hisses
AdolfHitlerxXx: Check very carefully the image. There's a message within. Tailored for you
This is the clown that quoted message of Osifo thinking they were igbos. You are likely a young man figuring out what to do with life. Enjoy in your bliss of ignorance.
Buhari described them perfectly with percentages&shapes
Buhari described the people of Edo State with percentages and shapes? Please show me where he did that. I smh with Oshiomole's teeth.
Edit: this is the guy that quoted me on the other thread. I don't need your response, please just stay in your silence. It's most honorable. You can't give what you don't have. 🤡
The videos are doing what the uploaders want it to do but you have to take a backseat and ask some questions 1° Do you think the government is not aware of these things? These guys are bold enough to record their crime and share it online. Think about the effrontery. Most criminals want to hide their crime, that's why they hate CCTV, daylight and any secret recording.
2° Who is sponsoring these people?
There is no way you can convince me some people don't know what is going on and they know the games they want to play.