₦airaland Forum

Dalohad:
Nigerians must protest that amendment and legalization of certificate forgery.

All Akpabio's certificates should be scrutinized. That man must have forged one or two certificates along the line..

MarketDispatch:
It is very easy to destroy but difficult to build.

Even a lawyer finds it difficult to demonstrate integrity ( that one that is changing name on X to deny allegations.

aydought:
Time for Atiku to shift, enough is enough.
If he’s desperately interested in power and love Nigeria so much to die for her as a President, he should wait for the pendulum to swing to Northern Nigeria in 2031, then he’ll be massively voted into power.
For now, the focus is on the key players from Southern Nigeria in all the existing parties. This I have seen!

SixSeven:
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.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
After 3 years una still dey promise Renewed Hope?

HacheNoire:
The only thing real nowadays is only the one you planted, harvested or made by yourself!

Nothing is real again! It is even still better in our great country. In places like the US and Canada, real food does not even exist again!

GMO, preservatives and mad hormones are the today’s norms of food production.

"If you control the food, you control the people. That's ultimately the end goal."
~Alex Newman

"The WEF & UN are waging war against farmers, in an attempt to seize control of the global food supply, under the banner of UN Agenda 2030." pic.twitter.com/GXonFhW5Oz

— Valerie Anne Smith (@ValerieAnne1970) April 11, 2026

She admitted receiving it, but instead of refunding, she warned the owner never to make such "stupid mistake" again, imposed conditions, blocked him, and kept the money.

wonder233:
Oh wow.
The last born of the classic "the switch" crew. Comprising Chiko, and Sholz.

franvincoop:
Now, when you listen to arguments from Atikulates, they are saying the calculations are not correct. That Jonathan used 2 years of Yar'Adua and that rotation does not matter. They are forgetting something. After 8 years of Buhari, it's not a popular opinion in Southern Nigeria that power should return to the North now. If ADC is not careful and they make a mistake, power will remain with Tinubu and they will make a critical mistake PDP made, part of which Atiku and Amaechi were part of in 2014-15.


The bolded is the fundamental flaw in your own arguments.

It is not atikulators that said Jonathan used 2 years of Yaradua, open your eyes and read the room well, after 8 years of Buhari, can you tell me why your almighty APC refused to zone its Presidential primaries to the South?
Have you forgotten Buhari's Ahmed Lawan odour?
Another Northerner after 8 years of Northern rule?
What about the 2 PDP zoning committees?

There is nothing like zoning in the constitution, neither is there any rotation there.
5 years ago could be believe that a Mumu ticket could exist and win elections in Nigeria?
Even Buhari who was a Muslim fanatic never envisaged a Mumu ticket in all the times he has run as President, go and verify.
But a Mumu ticket appeared and won.
Was there also not a "supposed "zoning/rotation agreement that the ticket must be a Christian/Muslim?
What happened to it?

Bros, wake up and smell the coffee, there is no rotation or zoning, they are just fairytales meant to hold your mind down, when push gets to shove and the situation arises for the capture of power, all those non-existent agreements will be butchered on the altar of politics, just as you watched Tinubu rent fake bishops and won with a Mumu ticket.

Now, let me tell you something.
The day any political party NWC/NEC whether APC, PDP, LP or ADC ever zone their Presidential candidate to a particular zone of the country, that Party will have no candidate at the Presidential elections because that decision will be challenged in court and the constitution of Nigeria will prevail.
APC,PDP,LP or ADC can even have zoning or rotation in it's internal rules and regulations but it's internal rules and regulations are contrary to the constitution of the Federal Republic.
This is why no party has ever zoned it's Presidential candidate officially cuz it's morally correct but it's illegal.

My opinion for the strongest ticket to oust Tinubu is an Atiku-Kwankwaso ticket with Peter Obi as campaign manager bringing all the South East and Obidient family votes to the coalition.

Atiku NE votes
Kwankwaso NW votes
El Rufai / Tambuwal and co NW votes
Atiku/Obi NC votes
Atiku/Obi SW votes
Obi SE votes
Obi/Atiku SS votes


With a Mumu Atiku-Kwankwaso ticket, Tinupoo will lose before election day as he will not get majority votes anywhere in Northern Nigeria except Kogi, Borno and Zamfara and in Southern Nigeria nowhere except Ekiti, Ogun and maybe Ondo.

So.

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Let's just say; they didn't break the bank for the whiskey they gave me. pic.twitter.com/QjAR426JWM

— Temisan Okomi (@temiokomi) January 13, 2026

Christmyhope:
Oga, someone should be disappointed in state like Delta state, River state and maybe bayelsa despite their huge faac should be replicating dis kind phenomenal infrastructure in their respective states...... Lagos state government kudus to you jo.......

commoditiesnig:
Welcome development.. Kudos to Gov Sanwo Olu and the LASG

You got a point but let me correct you/clarify.

Fashola rightly stated the blueprint and development in the last years of his tenure

As govt is a continuum, Ambode was meant to continue the project.. Guess what? He didn’t touch it. So the project delayed until Sanwo Olu got in and continued it to this level

Summary:
Rail project construction started during Fashola
Stalled during Ambode (this was where the delay came from)
Completed/further completion during Sanwo Olu.

lawani:
Alhaji Shagari got a lower percentage than Tinubu in his first term yet won the second term. The percentage one person can get depends on incumbency factor and the number and weight of contestants

Chidibe212:
Where Buhari dey with his bloc votes couple with the South West's own?

No heavy weight political Northerner that is in the North Now Other than Atiku since the death of Buhari.

We want to save Nigeria from Tinubu and my brother Peter Obi can't take it from this Tinubu.

However, you have good points over there.

Let me ask, do you think the NORTH will rally behind Kwankwaso being deputy to Peter Obi?

Mind you, Kwankwaso's popularity is in Kano alone, following by the last 2023 election.

Show me how the NORTH voted for Atiku in 2023 after Buhari's Tenure as well.

SuperEagles:
You are disappointed about Lagos whose electric rail is now working but not disappointed in your failure Peter Obi n Anambra that we have not seen your NoNorail. Why are you so shameless.

Christmyhope:
Oga, someone should be disappointed in state like Delta state, River state and maybe bayelsa despite their huge faac should be replicating dis kind phenomenal infrastructure in their respective states...... Lagos state government kudus to you jo.......

Mariangeles:
Yes, he is.
The autistic young man whose adoptive father married a wife for, mainly because he had come of age, and had "needs".

SixSeven:


Seems Atiku wants consensus with his northern backing

Obi wants open play

Amaechi wants open play

If we are to be honest with how we have practised democracy since 1999, it should rotate not to the SW, not to the SS but the SE. You can say all you want, that's just the truth. I would have loved stiff competition from the SE but it's obvious who has the people's currency at the moment.

Now, when you listen to arguments from Atikulates, they are saying the calculations are not correct. That Jonathan used 2 years of Yar'Adua and that rotation does not matter. They are forgetting something. After 8 years of Buhari, it's not a popular opinion in Southern Nigeria that power should return to the North now. If ADC is not careful and they make a mistake, power will remain with Tinubu and they will make a critical mistake PDP made, part of which Atiku and Amaechi were part of in 2014-15.

Atiku is still living the trauma of never winning the Presidency. Old people have the baggage of what they could not do during their youth and we have seen this with Buhari, Obasanjo and now Tinubu. Tinubu went one step further to change our national anthem to the old. Buhari entered and first thing on his mind was Dasuki. Atiku will most likely delegate the work to others and will not be hands-on like Tinubu because of his age. But someone also has to tell Atiku that the world has moved on...

They are well spent in politics of the past while these young people are not interested in these old faces. That's one message Atiku is not getting. Those who voted for him in 2019 are now 7 years older. Since that time, children who were 11 years old are now 18. Since Atiku started contesting in 1993, a child of that age is now 33. Since he was a Vice President in 2007, a child then now is 19.

Approximately 39.65% (roughly 37 million) of registered voters are between the ages of 18 and 34. 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.

Read the room.

SixSeven:
You'd be surprised by how crafty they are. Don't forget what Atiku said yesterday about PDP and how they formed it. He was the VP but the real President, they deliberately chose Obasanjo who just came out of prison and had lost touch. He just confirmed what people had said all along yesterday when he said he recruited cabinet members among others. He was the de facto president who latched on to the sentiment of repaying Abiola and the country wanted a Yoruba man as compensation. That's why

1. The South West voted Falaye instead of Obasanjo

2. After the first term when Obasanjo's eyes opened, he tried to grab the SW in 2003 election and he tried to settle with Atiku. He had now become his own man. Search for Obasanjo begs Atiku in 2003.

Payback came when Atiku thought he would succeed Obasanjo and that man decided to publicly speak against him and publish books that wrote his image in red ink. Politics is a game of interests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93szyjbrFvs

He is still a selfish man and is the kind of person Tinubu fears. Why? They know themselves. Tinubu has publicly admitted that the deal with Atiku saved him from the South West tsunami in 2003. They worked together in 2011, 2015 to play and remove Jonathan respectively. I can see Atiku's perspective. He feels that only the South East and South South was what was left to be captured in the last election and the North is already in the bag for him while Obi feels that with a Northern support, he will defeat Tinubu since he is quite popular in the South. Now I will advise Atiku to do a poll and find out whether people really want him or they just want his money.

He admitted yesterday that he had made some mistakes and I hope he doesn't make the same mistake like his brother Tinubu by running for President. Tinubu has been demystified now that he is President, he could have supported Osinbajo or any other candidate that the people willingly accepted back then. Atiku should read the room and endorse someone. If Tinubu did that in 2023, that candidate would have won smoothly but the man wanted to grab it, snatch it and run away with it and he's been falling and embrassing himself ever since. Presidency is not a small job, they both need to rest. Anyhow, I love the energy of Atiku who is older than Tinubu. It makes me question things.

Chidibe212:
Nawa o. Have we not been patient enough?

Why is Tinubu begging us to be more patient and sacrifice?

Have we not been patient since Buhari?

Have we not been patient since 4 years of Tinubu?

Bringing it to a total of 12 years..

No no no....this is too much

waledeji:
Unlike Anambra own that was complete a century ago

iwaeda:
I known it has been running, the fare is N1500. One kid ask you not to mind me. Please ask him if blue line has reached Okokomaiko.

olajide8:
Just thinking of this innovation, and welcome development, that is going on in lagos, and the possibility of, if we can ever have the same kind of train network as the metro-lines/tubes of the UK fashola said he would soon commission/open the badagary axis calling it the blue metro-line, and the other the axis Red metro-line, I would love to see the map though, though I am wondering how much demolition would have to go into it for it to be successful I know it would never be possible to have under ground tubes though I wish it was possible but the only reason I can see are because of our poor maintenance culture and the possibility that some armed robbers may decide to form road or train blocks with an intent of accousting a moving train just my thought what of you


www.vanguardngr.com/2012/03/fashola-woos-british-others-on-lagos-light-rail-project/

SixSeven:


Seems Atiku wants consensus with his northern backing

Obi wants open play

Amaechi wants open play

If we are to be honest with how we have practised democracy since 1999, it should rotate not to the SW, not to the SS but the SE. You can say all you want, that's just the truth. I would have loved stiff competition from the SE but it's obvious who has the people's currency at the moment.

Now, when you listen to arguments from Atikulates, they are saying the calculations are not correct. That Jonathan used 2 years of Yar'Adua and that rotation does not matter. They are forgetting something. After 8 years of Buhari, it's not a popular opinion in Southern Nigeria that power should return to the North now. If ADC is not careful and they make a mistake, power will remain with Tinubu and they will make a critical mistake PDP made, part of which Atiku and Amaechi were part of in 2014-15.

Atiku is still living the trauma of never winning the Presidency. Old people have the baggage of what they could not do during their youth and we have seen this with Buhari, Obasanjo and now Tinubu. Tinubu went one step further to change our national anthem to the old. Buhari entered and first thing on his mind was Dasuki. Atiku will most likely delegate the work to others and will not be hands-on like Tinubu because of his age. But someone also has to tell Atiku that the world has moved on...

They are well spent in politics of the past while these young people are not interested in these old faces. That's one message Atiku is not getting. Those who voted for him in 2019 are now 7 years older. Since that time, children who were 11 years old are now 18. Since Atiku started contesting in 1993, a child of that age is now 33. Since he was a Vice President in 2007, a child then now is 19.

Approximately 39.65% (roughly 37 million) of registered voters are between the ages of 18 and 34. 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.

Read the room.

In his most recent statements as of mid-April 2026, President Tinubu acknowledged that "the fuel price is biting hard". He attributed the recent spike in domestic costs to the escalating Middle East crisis, which he warned would continue to "spike inflation and affect our purchasing power". He is claiming that the country is still "better off than those in Kenya and other African countries" facing similar global shocks. He emphasized that his administration is "exiting the darkness to enter a new and glorious dawn" as long-term reforms take hold.