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Parachoko:
Is Adeboye the only pastor in Nigeria?

Or Redeem Church is the only Church we have in Nigeria?

.. He is not but she said something important.

She alleged, without providing evidence, that the decision was tied to the church’s relationship with Nigeria’s First Lady, who is reportedly an RCCG pastor.

" It was alleged that Remi Tinubu cancelled the planned protest by RCCG and Pastor EA Adeboye as regards the state of Nigeria." pic.twitter.com/TQC2LBytTe

— ÓMÒÉLÉRÍNJÁRÉ (@omoelerinjare) May 30, 2026

She has a VIP there, a very important point. She is saying that the Redeem Church cannot condemn bad governance as they should because there is one of them in government even though there is no office of first lady. This is the same to any Muslim, Igbo, Hausa Or Yoruba or however you zone it that says because my brother de there, let me take it easy. It will be difficult to condemn your own is what she is saying and once again, to both Muslims and Christians, I hope APC has humbled you. First, it was Osinbajo that was a Christian and their member, now Tinubu's wife is a member too. How does that benefit you? How has that helped you? Muslim Muslim ticket, what difference has it made to Muslims? How has it improved the lives of Muslims that from Buhari to Tinubu our lives are better? Una moomoo never do, all of you they keep using tribe and religion to divide and deceive 🤡

Ojude oba is a reminder of why Africans should not trash all their customs and traditions in the name of woke modernity. When you travel out of Nigeria, you'll know how this is very important. People there are not interested in those buildings, they want to know who you are and your story. If you start telling them story of Abraham or Mohammed or Trump or something they already know about themsleves, dem go just de look you one kain say dis one no sabi himself.

To my comments above, the next stage we are going to because we trashed the marriage institution is the stage the Black Americans are. You see how she called men people that don't have sense but she has a baby in the background? These are women who will give birth to the next dysfunctional children of tomorrow. These women who don't want to be under the leadership of their husbands in a marriage so they think they can do everything by themselves until that child starts to grow and s/he is out of hands. If she cannot respect a man while unmarried, think about how she would trash her man if she was a wife. That's why they tell women that marriage is a school and whether you like it or not, life is not fair. The mistakes of a woman cannot be easily erased but men can claim their own was a scar despite being a bad boy.

These women who don't want to humble themselves to marriage, their roles as mothers, and wives will end up learning when it's too late and too much damage has been done. Because their bitterness will be given to their children like bitter kola, which will give us bitter girls who hate men (the other side of feminists) and useless men who are baby fathers and cannot handle the responsibility of being a man, a provider, a protector and a leader. Women will pay for it. This is not about gender. I will stop writing because I have captured some of these thoughts in past posts and you will see them below.

I pity this generation. Una think say u wise. I say marriage has been practised for hundred of years Una no ask why. You just think say because e get bad side then it's all bad. That institution Don sabi as man go take be, as woman go take be, as pikin go take be. No worry, You gonna learn!

SixSeven:
.. Thank you, I repost my previous comment.

The bad rap single women have on this forum is for me a disgrace to men because that baby mama and baby daddy nonsense is a sign of failed family upbringing. While people can lose their loved ones or divorce due to irreconcilable differences, men who leave their wives or did not consult the elders before marrying into a family are a big disgrace to men. Give me a man that has 3 wives above useless sissies who are comfortable with their women mothering their kids alone abandoned.

You people copied the thing the government used against the Blacks in US and left your culture. Now you are telling us about single moms 🤡 Nonsense

In some cultures, the brother married off his late bro's wife because women were never treated like Street Vendors and abandoned. I blame women too because western influence has deceived them with one yeye independence and fake patriarchy that we are having more kids without dads because of some strong head women.

Where is the honor our women once had?

Who are the men getting them pregnant and leaving them?

Who are the families allowing their daughters wore about?

You can't just blame the women. Men are the biggest culprits because let's assume women are moomoo as many of you claim, who are the moomoo men planting their seeds in her 🤡 Weak men. Clowns.... It was a ticking time bomb, Nigerians copied street lifestyle of America and the 'independent' life of Europe, then abandoned their own traditions and culture about marriage, family and childbirth, here is the result....


For women, at what age will you wake up

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7553103102446931231?

Another one

SixSeven:
Death is the only constant thing in life that equals all human beings.

Tradition that feeds on fear will one day starve on truth because a home that threatens death cannot teach loyalty but fear. As much as I want to be ethical and tell you it's wrong for anyone to cheat, the reality is that life is not fair and we know who is affected the most. Some of these laws were written for inheritance, not for fairness. It's just like someone who says a man should live in his in-laws house when there are proverbs that warn against it. So if that his wife dies, what does her family do the man (widower)? Send him back? Customs and traditions protect the future first, even when the present bleeds. We all want order, that's why they had many of these things as deterrent to prevent people from the disruption of social order.

When a child is born, the mother is known but the father must be proven. Our people were not ready for confusion, no DNA so they came up with another proverb that only a mother knows the father! This is still true today if you watch paternity cases, despite DNA and advancement in tech. The elders punished where they were certain, not where guessing began because lineage fears confusion. Some of the judgment they served then is now called jungle justice. Bear in mind that we have a lot of traditional families and they didn't want a bastaaard to inherit the throne.

There is a popular case on Justice Funmi's show. You now understand why they say only a mother knows the father. If you listened to the woman alone, you would have made your own wrong conclusions and convicted the guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfy9hr-zf_I

But when the guy came to give his story, you now understand the wisdom of our fathers that it's only an old foooool who judges by listening to one side alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPjKmVkw-jU

I am just trying to remind women that the reality of their promiscuity is more dangerous than the reality for men. Call it unfair but that's the reality.

Have we thought of why parents focus on the girl child more than the boys? The womb is the doorway of ancestry, so it bears the heaviest lock. The best way mothers knew then was fear that's why they said if you slept with a boy you will die

What enters the house through the woman stays for generations. A man’s mistake shames him but a woman’s mistake reshapes the clan. That's why even if a man did OS, by the time he repents, he will find a virgin to marry. Same cannot be said of a woman. Call it double standards but its the reality of life. That's why I said there's ethics, there's reality of the morality and there's understanding of why we do things because....

A man’s doubt sleeps in his mind but a woman’s doubt sleeps in the child.
Everything is just to protect women from giving us children we are not sure who the father is or causing confusion by breaking social order

LordIsaac:
Why would they require a man for such? They've always reiterated that they don't need men...

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Kobojunkie:
1. Wrong! The reason a particular set of women in your age group doesn't want to date you is that you are not what they want. They are not the problem. Rather, you are since you seem to be chasing after the particular women who don't want you. You should look for other women in that same age group who prefer men like you or don't mind you.

2. It seems you are late in gaining knowledge that was released this year. Men's biological clock starts ticking downwards and in a bad way from about age 30, while women.... women's clock continues running until the last egg that they were born from their mother's womb runs out. (The recent spate of women in their late 50s and even up to age 60 having babies is a result of some having egg stores that remain intact that long in some cases.) Menopause can happen as late as the 50s and right about 60 for some women.

3. There is no such thing as a biological instinct as far as women and reproduction are concerned. That whole spiel was a made-up lie. That's why more and more women are simply choosing not to have kids at all.

But I counter it with a post. This generation will suffer for trashing the marriage institution because of its bad sides. That institution was there to take care of a lot of things despite its imperfections. Those who practised it for hundreds of years knew what they were doing. Repost 👇

I posted a video in my last comment. One of the reasons I don't bother arguing with women and don't give a damn about whether they think my comment is pandering or not is because with time, women eventually find out the truth. Time is a beautiful patient bride for men but an ugly tortuous truth for women. I need to copyright that. Women also don't like being told the truth, so keep telling them beautiful lies if you want to make them happy.

What happens to these women is that they have to settle. It was never a competition but the system does not favor men initially, it beats them but once you clock 30, things start to change. Men who learned from the beatings will start to look good while women who didn't know time changes yesterday will wake up to the reality of a new dawn. This is why the world always tried to raise the girl child more than the boy child because men can make many mistakes and still recover. A woman's recovery is usually hard if she makes mistakes, so man overtime knew this and wanted to raise her because they knew the future isn't nice, it can be harsh.

It's often too late before women realize in their 40s that the select few men they want are either married or not interested in them because of their age. They are then susceptible to fork boys/men and younger men who are still discovering themselves and not emotionally/financially mature for them. Women know themselves, that's why it's usually difficult for mothers to accept their sons marrying an old woman say 25 yo man vs 40 yo woman. The women know themselves. Women wake up one day later in life to see they are not as beautiful as they thought and newer editions have come out. Attention has gone to the beautyful ones who are born and trending.

A man is never ugly... Buchi Emecheta

Sonnobax15:

The funniest thing is that I usually find it funny when I see ladies who are already in their 30's still doing shakara for men . They'll still be setting standards that must be met by men . Someone who should be hustling to get herself a man of her own cuz she's already close to signing MoU with menopause

Don't say that. Be warned👇

Kobojunkie:
Since when did scientific studies become about the internet?

Recently published research indicates that a man's biological clock starts ticking from age 30. https://www.nairaland.com/8541960/men-actually-biological-clock-silent. The study also suggests that a 50-year-old pre-menopausal woman, for instance, has a greater chance of having a smooth pregnancy and birthing a healthy baby if she were to have intercourse with a young man(below age 30) than with a man older than age 30.

2. We are not even talking IVF here, but of women dating younger men if they wish to have smoother pregnancies and healthier babies.

3. Sure, the eggs every woman is born with eventually run out; that is where we get the talk of menopause setting in. However, it does not change the fact that the risks of having children with birth defects increase when trying to procreate with men aged 30 and over for men.

Omokri should face the world cup that's coming up in Mexico and leave domestic cup.

Gambling is a spirit. An evil spirit. It will control you and you will keep losing because greed is insatiable

BigYash:
Most Nigerians are political slaves,take it or leave it. They don't get what they vote, because Inec is always there to put fertilizer on figures after voting. The machines they spent billions to get during the last election, suddenly had technical issues when it was time to transmit results.. That man they call Yahooboo is the main reason for what is happening in the country today

I think we love our ow illusions than reality. Illusions will be tested at the poll, only one winner can see the reality. Maybe call us bad sportsmen. And women.

Gotocourt:
Wike is behind the scene, Atiku should forget it🤷🏿.

Wike has no option than to back Tinubu is what it sounds like. Atiku is Tinubu's opponent, Wike also became Atiku's opponent. Tinubu found that my enemy's enemy could be my friend, this is why he can't let him go. He is very useful for his type of politics. Buying houses for judges and trying to wet ground 🤡 Corruption 26

Repost

He learned it from the so-called democratic or progressive man 🤡, his boss, Concensus. For Bola to stake his head in Rivers and declare a state of emergency but he never did in Plateau, Niger and everywhere else there has been mass killing is proof that politics is his favorite subject, not governance. Wike is proof that Bola is not a true democrat and the power he has today is for his selfish reasons. This further confirms that Tinubu did not win Rivers state so he has to use force in the state.

Tinubu's path to victory is

1. Voter apathy

2. Divided opposition

3. Force/threat (he has been using this in Lagos for long but with federal resources, he now has governors like Okpebolo, Wike, SP Akpabio who's always assuring that he will win and others to threaten people to vote him or else)

4. Money (what's your price? This is why he and Atiku are two sides of a coin. In a poor corrupt country with little morals, many are willing to sell their convictions for the highest bidder)

5. Propaganda (gaslighting, see how they celebrate the uncompleted coastal road, they will accept no responsibility but blame everyone else using religion, tribe and other distraction from the main issue). The way they counted fake millions of vote is gaslight in. Gaslighting is the manipulation by psychological means of a person (or group) which causes them to doubt themselves, their capabilities or their sense of reality.

SixSeven:
Didn't they say he is a democrat? A builder of men? A visionary? That man is just a greedy old man. Who was it that said if you let Tinubu in, he will grab more than he can take? Think about being a landlord of Lagos and Rivers 🤡

The greedy can never be satisfied. What they condemned when they were in opposition, now they are doing it.

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

Those who wanted to rewrite his story just made me chuckle. Guy didn't want Fashola serve a second term simply because he wanted to be President. He didn't want anyone to have a record to be compared to him or outshine him. They are just lucky Fashola did not show craze like Ambode did, someone they eventually sent away under the guise of GAC. They now claimed that he made Fashola, he built Lagos, Ambode did not follow master plan. You see how their stories are not consistent. They then called Osinbajo a betrayer. These ones are lords and serfs. Those who refuse to learn history are doomed to repeat it

Amaechi's Defection To APC Is Root Of Rivers State Crisis -- Wike Pt.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaYorTOuZc?si=KB-Qbb9SJ5X5AYK-

Can you now see the big picture on why Bola holds on to Wike? Lagos, Kano and Rivers are important states. The NNPP governor that went to APC and they thought they had it in the bag, the Lagos government they have been holding for years and now Rivers will still not give them the rigging they desire.

abbey621:
Yes that's why I gave you credit but overall your message was not concise, it is always up to the writer to be concise(clear) rather than fault the reader, this is what I've learned from working with very talented writers and speakers in corporate America.

You have a point there. But it's a public forum, an unlimited canvas. We usually don't want posts to distract us from the main topic. Normally, a quote would do it but I chose to repost. Now when I reposted, I put in bold the relevant part, the rest is just connected one way or the other to the topic eg primaries and fighting for your position. While the original post was from a topic related to Elliot, most of the thoughts are relevant to this current topic.

hakeemhakeem:
Point of correction Bucknor is a woman

Yes, she is.

Greatex90:
What Wike did last elections was to use APC members as LP agents.
He provided fake LP agent cards for them

When the real LP agents came , they told them that there was already an LP agent.
All lies and fake

These actions made it easy for him to falsify results in favor of Tinubu.
I laugh when people call Wike strong man . A criminal like him

He couldn't still perfect it well. That's why people could easily see results that were tampered with. See now👇 Tinubu stole the Rivers election through Wike and alteration and that's why I can never respect such a person but this is why I said he will stake his head for Wike because he did the dishonourable job he needed to 'win'.

Mrexcell:
It won't still stop inec from rigging they hold the knife and the bread they can easily dispute ndc tabulated figures.

I don't think so. I don't think so only if the people are ready to defend their votes this time around.

It's looking like the change APC campaigned with will be what will change them silently.

abbey621:
All that is inconsequential if the writer fails to be concise. Your write up while expressing valid points reads more like AI generated output than something a human wrote with precision. Words can be interpreted many ways if the writer does not intentionally provide context and clues to aide the reader!

That's so funny. I like it when people say my write up is like AI. It makes me thank my teachers more.

Back to the topic, did you notice some subtle hints in each message?

AMINDA:
The jokes write themselves. Abuja has never been dirtier in all its years of existence. It is practically becoming Lagos in terms of filth. All green areas have been sold out to cronies making the city prone to heat and unprecedented flooding. Still no public transportation system while the substandard bus parks built with billions in the middle of nowhere remains under lock and key. Wike is very far from being the best FCT Minister and your opinion that he is will be conditional as long as he remains "loyal" to your tin-god. You will abruptly make an about-turn if he were to fallout with the president today. Professional shape-shifting is one hell of a drug.

The bolded is a reminder of his principal's time as governor. Commercialization of public facilities.

ijayalolo:
You are just everywhere without actually arriving at your point. So what exactly are you suggestng? we should try NDC's style?


Thank you for your attention to this matter

Reading involves both deduction and interpretation. It is not simply the process of recognizing words on a page, but also understanding their meaning and drawing conclusions from the information provided. Through deduction, readers use clues in the text to infer ideas that are not directly stated. Interpretation allows readers to analyze the author's message, themes, and intentions, giving deeper meaning to what they read. Therefore, effective reading requires readers to think critically, make inferences, and interpret the text beyond its literal meaning.

You are very welcome.

jamafa:
How would that work??

Can they upload or update the outcome or results to favour themselves??

It can work against them but if at every PU they tell their agent to snap the picture of the final results, you don't need any collation centre. Let's even assume that at the collation centres, the REC cancels some PUs, LGAs, we can still go and verify the figures. You won't have to wait for INEC to say there was server delay, glitches and all that nonsense. Like I said, what happened last election taught Nigerians a lesson and this time around, the people are the VAR. Do you know INEC has still not uploaded some result sheets till date? That's why we knew Rivers was rigged.

Ati Davido, ati Seyi Tinubu, none of them have anything to do with us. You didn't vote for any of them. If their parents cannot listen to the people who voted for them, then stop wasting your time. You didn't vote legislators for nothing, cry all you want to but it doesn't change anything.

onuman:
Arewa people don't travel too much to settle outside Nigeria. So Arewa oppose Diaspora Nigerians vote.
The so-called southern political leaders sit akimbo and watch millions of their people disenfranchised.

But they go to Niger, Chad and neighboring countries. Didn't one of our politicians boast that they know when to bring people from outside Nigeria to vote but they don't like census? That's why we had the PVC.

bluejay05:
Why are you complaining about what happened to Desmond "idiot" , sorry Elliot, was that not the same way he got the position he held for 12 years? I don't pity anyone of them or listen to their cry of being intimidated because people were beating and dehumanised during state house of rep. election in surulere . The election the returned Desmond to the house for the third time was full of irregularities throat were known to Desmond himself, but because he had backing of his godfathers, he pretended as if all is well but now that his godfathers have left him to support another candidate, he's now crying foul. He should shut his mouth and lick his wound quietly or he gets into a big trouble with power that can submerge him in pool of affliction he would not be about to get out of forever. I stay in surulere ( ogunlana drive to be precise) although I don't have a voter's card and I don't intend to have anytime in future because I don't trust any of the politicians or their parties, I follow surulere politics very well.

It was a repost

Lagos APC: What Desmond Elliot Should Learn From Hakeem Masha’s Political Fate by mohbadliveson(op): 4:30am On May 22

jaxxy:
Look at ALL the people who so called fought and won under labour party in the last elections who did they represnt apart from the bellies? Many candidates are hand picked or given support during the primaries to boost their chances and that doesnt make it bad, what is most important is the character and competence of the person u are presenting or backing.

All Labour fighting for u candidate have fought for their bellies and joined apc.

If a Godfather hand picks a credible candidate i will support it fully. Thats how we got fashola who is still the best governor of lagos sofar.

I am analyzing this as a political observer. Godfathers will only do what they think helps them, not the people. We've seen this happening before. You talk about labor, many people left PDP for APC in 2015 because of the Buhari effect. Our democracy is transitioning. There was a time the Governors were so strong that without them, we couldn't have a president. Obasanjo had to give PDP two governors in 2006 because of their demands. The governors were so strong that the nPDP governors and the Governors forum made it hell for Jonathan. But in 2023, what our democracy showed was that governors are not so powerful anymore that's why some of them failed to get to Senate despite controlling the system. Many of them have tried to be godfathers and it still fails. Tinubu's own will still fail, it's not a curse. Why? Humans cannot be tied for too long like that. Trust me. The Obasa impeachment happened while he was President, guess what will happen in a few years. It's living its final years. I will come back to this later but read some of my posts here

SixSeven:
That guy may be buying time to strike at the right time where it will hit them the most. Godfatherism is not new, we have seen it happen everytime. In Enugu, Nnamani; in Rivers, Odili/Amaechi; in Borno, Ali Modu Sherrif/Shettima; in Kaduna, El-Rufai; in Edo, Igbinedion; in Oyo, Adedibu, IN Kwara, Saraki. If Saraki's own child could sack him, there is no loyalty you are looking for. Every man in power wants to be his own man.
Fubara has nothing to lose so he can keep behaving like mumu to them. That's why they are afraid of betrayal. Imagine this weakling then having might like Ambode developed might towards the election and challenged his master. That is why they also want to impeach him because they need to be sure who's on their side. Look how they accused Sanwoolu of working with Atiku because Obi defeated his Godfather and he had to prove loyalty.

Another one

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

ibedun:
Anonimi fronting as SixSeven……. 🤔

It's because NL has been so poor you can think this. I want 1000 Anonimi like monikers so we can drown the less intellectual comments on our politics. Anonimi shows facts and figures, education is not that expensive, ignorance is. I don't want this databoys low level thinking that only know propaganda and abuse. NL politics used to be very interesting 20 years ago...

akpumping7720:
You are entitled to your opinion. Baba sope will never end in Nigeiria politics. Just as Obi dragged Ojukwu to come and campaign for him for his second tenure because he knew then that people will not vote for him because of his abysmal performance. Politicians need influential and old players to win primaries.

You guys never cease to amaze me. What makes me sad is that the Yoruba allowes Tinubu to plant this kind of concept all in the name of politics. Truly, they say

b'ile ba n toro, omo ale be o ti dagba ni. It means, a peaceful home is a function of the inability of the bastard to act owing to age.

How you guys assume everyone who comments on what your principals do must mean they are from the SE needs to be studied. Just because you lost an election. Smh. I understand that's the mission they gave you guys to spread online but don't worry, one day, they will leave power. Nothing lasts forever.

SuperEagles:
Who asked you for your foolish comment. Why not share this your foolish essay with Alex Otti.

It wasn't meant for your misunderstanding sir. I'm sorry 🤡

onuman:
Millions of Nigeria Diaspora votes would have been more transparent than votes cast in Nigeria.

Why would some section of Nigeria continue to refuse Diaspora Nigerians to vote while the Akpabios in the Senate watch?

Benín Republic next door, their citizens here in Nigeria voted in the last Presidential election.

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You see what happens when you let some select people choose and install people on your behalf? They WILL NEVER represent you. That's what this Desmond Elliot story shows us once again. The Barakat lady replacing him too will only work as a stooge.

This is what happens when parents do everything for their children, they never learn how to withstand the world challenges or fight for things, their parents did everything for them. They don't know their worth.

After Bucknor and Pedro showed Tinubu shege, they started going for female deputy governors. The ones who will not fight them. This is not to put the women down but we all know how it went with those deputies who were female. That's what is going on in Lagos. You will never get your true representative because these people did not fight for the seats. Even if they tried to fight, the party they came in through only annointed them for guaranteed victory at the polls. Until you have someone who did all the work, earned it in the primary and elections, you will only have representatives of babasopecracy consensus. Fake democracy.

"There is nothing democratic in what is referred to as consensus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Ztoev8VNs&

Let me correct the writer who said
Former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is today a member of the influential Governance Advisory Council (GAC), the highest decision-making body in Lagos APC, largely because he accepted defeat gracefully after losing the governorship primary to the party’s preferred candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Rather than defect or head to court, Ambode congratulated Sanwo-Olu and pledged loyalty to the party. Desmond Elliot should take a cue from that example.

Big fat lie. Ambode that called Sanwoolu mad and did worse than Elliot. Abeg talk another thing. They have arranged themsleves. Even Pedro is now an Ambassador but you see that WOMAN, Bucknor. She no gree for Bola. Again, know your worth and what you are fighting for.

Ambode gave a live broadcast after the defeat but don't forget that he didn't attend the handover ceremony, instead, he handed one day before May 29 at a private event. Also Ambode lost through the primaries, at least they allowed that to happen. Did you hear what Desmond said? "Even if I will lose, let me lose gallantly". He complained about intimidation of delegates so there is a difference in losing through indirect babasopecracy and direct vote. At least they pretended to vote for Ambode's own. The truth is that some people are at the background rigging the system. They don't want true votes. If it was consensus of the delegates, it is different but here there is compulsion, intimidation and threats to select one candidate. What a shame.

Gotocourt:
ward collation centre 😭

Ward collation centre 😩

Wike has no option than to back Tinubu is what it sounds like.

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He learned it from the so-called democratic or progressive man 🤡, his boss, Concensus. For Bola to stake his head in Rivers and declare a state of emergency but he never did in Plateau, Niger and everywhere else there has been mass killing is proof that politics is his favorite subject, not governance. Wike is proof that Bola is not a true democrat and the power he has today is for his selfish reasons. This further confirms that Tinubu did not win Rivers state so he has to use force in the state.

Tinubu's path to victory is

1. Voter apathy

2. Divided opposition

3. Force/threat (he has been using this in Lagos for long but with federal resources, he now has governors like Okpebolo, Wike, SP Akpabio who's always assuring that he will win and others to threaten people to vote him or else)

4. Money (what's your price? This is why he and Atiku are two sides of a coin. In a poor corrupt country with little morals, many are willing to sell their convictions for the highest bidder)

5. Propaganda (gaslighting, see how they celebrate the uncompleted coastal road, they will accept no responsibility but blame everyone else using religion, tribe and other distraction from the main issue). The way they counted fake millions of vote is gaslight in. Gaslighting is the manipulation by psychological means of a person (or group) which causes them to doubt themselves, their capabilities or their sense of reality.

SixSeven:
Didn't they say he is a democrat? A builder of men? A visionary? That man is just a greedy old man. Who was it that said if you let Tinubu in, he will grab more than he can take? Think about being a landlord of Lagos and Rivers 🤡

The greedy can never be satisfied. What they condemned when they were in opposition, now they are doing it.

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

Those who wanted to rewrite his story just made me chuckle. Guy didn't want Fashola serve a second term simply because he wanted to be President. He didn't want anyone to have a record to be compared to him or outshine him. They are just lucky Fashola did not show craze like Ambode did, someone they eventually sent away under the guise of GAC. They now claimed that he made Fashola, he built Lagos, Ambode did not follow master plan. You see how their stories are not consistent. They then called Osinbajo a betrayer. These ones are lords and serfs. Those who refuse to learn history are doomed to repeat it

Amaechi's Defection To APC Is Root Of Rivers State Crisis -- Wike Pt.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaYorTOuZc?si=KB-Qbb9SJ5X5AYK-

Can you now see the big picture on why Bola holds on to Wike? Lagos, Kano and Rivers are important states. The NNPP governor that went to APC and they thought they had it in the bag, the Lagos government they have been holding for years and now Rivers will still not give them the rigging they desire.

I'll have you know OP too that parents are now homeschooling their kids if/where they can because the education system is failing them. I mean parents who are interested in their children, not anyhow parents.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7626475452571356446

1. For Access Bank, that's ironic because their name is ACCESS. Why do they need the state of origin?

2. From Ekiti to University, those are different issues. As a parent, you will want your children to be engaged because the younger they are, they have more time on their hands. For university teachers, that's just corruption too and it's a symptom of the Nigerian I better pass my neighbour issue. Because you suffered as a student, your own students must suffer too. Education is not suffering.

3. About children using computers at an early age, I disagree with you. You look like someone who can do research. We now have enough data to show that it does not help young children and countries are now legislating against computers in the classroom for young students. It will damage their brain.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7581686120136674590

Tech in the classroom is a no no for young students and the best way to know this is to realize that the tech CEOs don't use the devices for their own children. Their househelps are also banned from using these tech gadgets while looking after their children. Education is not just technology, it is also about socialization and tech removes that at an early age. Screen time destroys the brain before they become an adult and grow into brain rot.

Do you know that the tablet you are using and your laptop, your phone is the modern slate? I know that doesn't make sense? Historically, we have always learned using slates. You see those almajiri children using that thing they write on? That's how we have learned for a long time. After some time, it changed to notebooks, and now it has transformed to tech devices. I tell you, man needs to read and write. Not on a device, but on a slate, on a book. Retention is better off when you write and read your own thing. So it is not punishment when teachers tell you to write, because those who wrote will have no problem knowing how to write properly on the internet, in IELTS or application form. The technology is just a digital form of what to learn manually.

I am an advocate of tech but you need to look at the bigger picture of the neurological implications too.

Edit: I like the Chinese model. I was trying to remember it when I read about your complaint of parents In Ekiti. The Chinese believe that the earlier you load children with work and relax it while they are older the better for their future? Their Gaokao exam is notorious for being so tough that some of them take their lives due to the expectations. I'm not advocating for that extreme but China takes education seriously and they get only the best of the very best in their civil service. The average Chinese abroad is competing with the Chinese at home because they know while the West relaxed, they accelerated their own raised to power of 100.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA0nabfvxpA

It's good to apply your education to real world scenarios but I will point to you some things to take note.

Your LASUTH experience is only one thing, CORRUPTION. I am sure those who have japa and work in healthcare can tell us that. Corruption is a golden star boy that loves dysfunction. That's it. What you are describing is a tally system and when it's your turn, you get a beep or announcement that it is your time. Restaurants already do this for food, some of them even give you a device that vibrates when it's your turn...

This is Mr Bean 1995. I didn't want to use an example that is older but it's something as simple as this

Bean visits the hospital for a very peculiar reason! #mrbean pic.twitter.com/J7giWeQ5Ow

— Mr Bean (@MrBean) January 12, 2024

Mr Bean was trying to get ahead of others by swapping places but that's it. The government won't do it so this one is not about technology. Some people make money from that manual system so that they can manipulate it if you give them something. Some people could have suggested your idea to them but until it is a contract that goes through party loyalists or one man know man, forget it. I'm sorry.