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Block or bloc voting refers to a class of electoral systems where multiple candidates are elected simultaneously. They do not guarantee minority representation and allow a group of voters to ensure that only their preferred candidates are elected.

I just read the story where 👇

politicoNG:

the Edo APC Chairman, Jarrett Tenebe, was heard threatening to use AK47 if anyone stands on the way of giving Tinubu the imaginary 3.5m votes..@OfficialDSSNG @PoliceNG @PoliceNG_CRU

NO ONE PERSON OWNS MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE…
I KNOW NOTHING WILL BE DONE TO HIM..

NIGERIANS… pic.twitter.com/D6acPfvdJJ

— BLESSED 🥷 (@Dee_9889) October 2, 2026

Meanwhile the total votes cast in the 2024 elections tell a different story.

Racoon:
2M votes in Edo state? Seems these imps still think rigging is the key thing. See the kinds of criminals the APC have bred in this country. Meanwhile the police or DSS will never arrest or prosecute this mad man.

DONMOSCOLEE:
what is the total number of registered voters in Edo state?

it's like trying to bring out an elephant from a pig's belly.

The question to ask is what is the number of total voters registered in Edo state? How did the Governor himself win? The joke is in the illiteracy but it is a dangerous one because logic and stats are not playbooks of thugs.

I don't like this idea of sponsored political posts but what do I know sef Seun?

On February 20, 1978, the legendary Afrobeat pioneer [Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti] shocked the world by marrying 27 women simultaneously in a single traditional ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria.
While it is widely remembered as a highly controversial and unconventional event, Fela's choice to marry his backup singers and dancers (collectively known as the "Kalakuta Queens" ) was deeply tied to political protection, social redemption, and his anti-colonial philosophy. In February 1977, the Nigerian military launched a brutal raid on Fela’s compound, the Kalakuta Republic. The commune was burned down, many band members were physically assaulted, and Fela’s mother suffered fatal injuries. The raid left his female band members completely homeless. Worse, the conservative Nigerian society and the authorities heavily stigmatized these women, frequently raiding their quarters, arresting them, and labeling them as prostitutes or runaway girls simply for living and working with Fela. By legally marrying them, Fela gave them a respectable social status and legal protection as his official wives, making it much harder for the police to harass or falsely accuse them of crimes like vagrancy.



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

Fela viewed the mass marriage as a form of compensation and solidarity for the hardships the women endured alongside him. Rather than forcing the arrangement, Fela reportedly passed around a piece of paper asking the women in his band to write down their names if they wanted to marry him for their collective safety, all 27 volunteered. The wedding was blessed by 12 Ifa priests.

Fela was fiercely anti-colonial and explicitly rejected Western concepts of monogamy, religion, and governance. He viewed polygamy as a valid, traditional African family structure that had been unfairly demonized by Western colonial and Christian influences. To him, the marriage was a radical statement of cultural reclamation.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7474894796197268758

To manage his large household, Fela implemented a rotation system where 12 wives would live with him at any given time. In 1986, shortly after being released from a 20-month prison sentence, Fela divorced all of his wives simultaneously. He stated that marriage brings jealousy and selfishness and that no human being had the right to own another. Despite the official divorce, Fela did not kick the women out. Many of them willingly chose to live, work, and perform with him until his death in 1997.



https://www.tiktok.com/video/7503236783438630149

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was a philosopher. To be a creative like that, you must be able to observe and study your people, then talk about it. That's why his words are still relevant today. Even his marriage to 27 women was not for sex as many people think. It was being responsible and making a statement. I will write about it on my next post. One day I watched Fela perform, do you know that just because one of his band members did not get the notes well, he had to stop the practice? That's professionalism 💯


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqDnRq68a4s
I need to let us know that they focused more on his lifestyle than what he said. Hypocrites.

Gotocourt:
Rigging: Setting the agenda, pushing the narrative .

Don't mind The Economist. While they are trying to set the agenda to a 2-horse race, we all know what a free and fair election can do. We just want to pretend that it must be the way APC kicked PDP out that APC must be sent away from the Presidency, thereby repeating the same mistake of a merger of stranger bedfellows with only one mission, TO WIN.

We all know how Tinubu sought validation for the first few months after his 'win'. Asiwaju! He opens doors for you know what

How do you choose what you don't like?

Isn't that cancerous

Amotolongbo:
You made sense talking about learning skill after secondary and going for part time tertiary institution learning.
Many of the British citizens don’t bother furthering after high school, they go to college to learn skills and modern apprenticeship

One, because it is too expensive and gets them into debt.

Two, because there is dignity in labor. If you go and learn a trade that will use to eat, no one will look down on you.

Three, because they respect institutions and what they stand for.

They are not perfect but just saying.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7529927031614655766

ppogba:
Oga, you are either trying to compare Apples with Bananas or trying to show your knowledge of " a bit of Nigerian history". Why bring MILADs into the conversation.? Those are military appointments for goodness sake.

You cannot compare that in a democracy especially for people to elect their leader amongst themselves.

We know even more than the names you are even mentioning.

At to educate you further, some MILADs ruled their states of origin.

Oladipo Diya ruled Ogun.
Shehu Dangiwa ruled Kaduna.

My focus is on language here my friend or sir. I know Makinde himself had this challenge to speaking well in Yoruba. It is not an attempt to justify not speaking the language. I let the person know that some people have governed the states without speaking the language.

Charmingrascal:
If not mental illness how can he want to govern a Yoruba state without knowing how to speak the language of the people he wants to govern.
Mumu say ke pa labalaba, labalaba ko, tata ni.
He has a whole 4 years to learn Yoruba, one of the most simple languages to understand in Nigeria but he is not serious with his life.
He can speak Igbo he should go and be governor in Anambra.

Godwin Obaseki, Donald Duke and Ambrose Alli are a few to mention. They all became governors. Maybe you forget that Marwa was once MILAD of Lagos, so was it in other places of Nigeria.

Group Captain Ike Nwosu was deployed as the MILAD of Oyo State (the heart of the old Western Region) and later Osun State between 1993 and 1996. He did not speak a word of Yoruba, ruling entirely via military commands and civil service structures.

Colonel Ahmed Usman from Kog was posted to govern Oyo State and Ondo State during the height of the pro-democracy NADECO crises in the 1990s. He spoke no Yoruba.

Abacha deployed Navy Captain Joseph Adeusi (Posted to Akwa Ibom, then Akwa Ibom to Imo State – 1996–1998), a Yoruba officer from Ondo State to rule Imo State.

Colonel Anthony Oyearugbulem (Posted to Ondo, then Katsina State - 1998-1999) was an Igbo man from Imo State that governed a Yoruba state (Ondo). The military junta transferred him to Katsina State (deep Northern Hausa/ Fulani territory) and he spoke absolutely no Hausa and had to manage a strict traditional Islamic society entirely in English during the transition period to democracy.

Samuels90:
I was surprised why he would use that. Whoever wrote that speech should have looked for something different. The analogy dosent just sit well

Indirectly talking down on Buhari’s Govt. And the same APC. Nigerian politicians are just dumb heads!

Let me humour you with some historical references.

On November 29, 2021, the then National Chairman-elect of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Iyorchia Ayu, described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration as the biggest cancer afflicting Nigeria.

emkz:
The cancer analogy was unnecessary.

I concur. Absolutely unnecessary and demeaning. It's even funny that those who want to cure the cancer seek medical help abroad. What a country

Wike who once called APC a cancer is currently helping to cure it

Wike, Playing With Cancer - Watch To See When Wike Said He Prefers Malaria To Stage 4 Cancer

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

They once told us to fry akara, it's time to look into our vegetables, maybe it will cure the cancer 🌿 😌

Hahaha this sounds like a joke

Lastmankc:
This man is still sounding like an opposition leader

I don't like to read AI articles. They are too dramatic and boring.

[quote author=anonimi post=140802624]Who did the nameless master strategist grow up with in primary and secondary school?

FLASHBACK: Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola narrating the life of Tinubu years ago. #Ayederu (Counterfeit)pic.twitter.com/xr40gXe9Qx

— ayemojubar 🫆 (@ayemojubar) June 26, 2022

I was searching for my old post on this topic, I came across naptu2's posts and anyone can make of it what they wish to because I could see the difference in the two but let's keep at it
https://www.nairaland.com/822196/it-begins-me/1188#140272113

Daguccizgreat:
A certain Nigerian president doesn't have a single class mate.

He graduated with a first class degree but his classmates don't remember him? 🤡🎓

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tf65EGOAgo

Old solider Buhari showed us his classmates, these ones want to pull a wool over our eyes. Yeye

Here's what the lackeys say and you can see them repeating it here 👇

Richtaiwo:
Tinubu graduated from Chicago State University. If you want to see his classmates, go to US and stop typing bulshit on social media. Besides, jaundiced opinion is inconsequential. Don't quote me again because you won't see my response. I don't have time for stupid argument.

Am I surprised? Anyone who can steal Donald Duke's photo as a child for their bio tells you a lot about the extent they can go to paint black as white.

SixSeven:
🔼 If you think what I wrote above is not true, look at what I found recently 👇

Look at the first two photos of Obi on PM news.

AMINDA burst the fake news and showed them the original.

You can say it is politics and let's ignore it but it's more than that. If people are willing to lie against someone and put another person's picture in the name of politics, think about how Donald Duke's picture was used in this man's documentary.


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


That's why his lawyer said go and ask him where he schooled yourself.

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

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

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

— Channels Television (@channelstv) August 6, 2026

This is the same country where Salisu Buhari's lawyer, the legendary Chief Rotimi Williams (san), advised him to drop his 500 million libel suit and confess to his crime. In 1999, the newly elected Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, Salisu Buhari, was exposed by The News magazine for forging his age (claiming to be 36 when he was 29) and his academic credentials, including a fake degree from the University of Toronto. This was a country where lawyers will tell you what the right thing was.


This people are showing you who they are so I cannot blame them. If you continue to select them, then your children will learn from you and what you tolerate as standards.


Someone is talking about his biography but doesn't have his own childhood picture. You think these things don't matter? On this thread, I asked them what does he do for a living?
https://www.nairaland.com/8588390/throwback-seyi-tinubu-during-nysc#137924675

They said I will wail tire. To them, everything in this life is money. They are so poor, money is the only thought of life to them. Hmmmmm

If we crush the seed of integrity just to celebrate the chaff, what will our children eat when the famine of character arrives?

NINpegrimage:
Remove my OBJ from these drug dealers

Yes we grew together but light and darkness can never mix

Prince Bola Ajibola was a Nigerian judge, prince, and diplomat who became one of the most powerful legal minds in the world.
He was appointed as a Judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, deciding global legal disputes. He served as Nigeria's Attorney General and Minister of Justice from 1985 to 1991, he represented Nigeria in London as the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He used his own money to build Crescent University in Abeokuta to give Nigerian youth a top-tier education based on strong morals.

He passed away in April 2023 at the age of 89.

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4frMaJoNdQ

Stephen0mozzy:
Abeg talk another thing e.

If she didn't feel the need to hawk her market by claiming Queen Chastity, I'd have believed this.

The things we normalize now sha eh... Sex used to be one secret sacred thing. Soon, for the sake of content them go dey talk about the act of sex, size of their partner's Dike, and all details for a few kliks.

The mods keep promoting bloggers for content, one of the many problems we have.

Oh? It's the National Theatre that's Wole Soyinka Center? I was struggling to understand thinking it was in Ogun State or somewhere. That's going to take some time to get used to.

RightToReject:
Before you enthocentrics and little people in general pit Dangote against other highly respect traditional rulers in Nigeria, take note that the statement "Ooni Is Our Most Highly Respected Traditional Ruler From Nigeria.” isn't the same thing as "Ooni Is Our Most Highly Respected Traditional Ruler In Nigeria.”

Based on the phrasing, Ooni is considered the most respected specifically among the Traditional Rulers who come from Nigeria for the event in Kenya.

So, the phrasing doesn't mean that Ooni is the Most Traditional Ruler In Nigeria.

I totally agree with you, thanks for having the time to explain it. You know they taught us Comprehension in English language but na now we go know who get D7 for WAEC.




Comprehension is the mental act or capacity of grasping meaning, understanding information, or integrating new ideas with existing knowledge.
Core Definitions and Contexts
• General Meaning: The ability to understand completely, perceive by reason, or make sense of a situation, text, or spoken language.

• Reading & Education: Known as reading comprehension, it is the process of extracting and reflecting on meaning from written text rather than just pronouncing words.

• Logic: The total set of properties or qualities that define a concept, which stands in contrast to its extension (the objects the concept applies to).

• Computer Science: Refers to a compact syntax used to generate collections or lists (such as list comprehension in Python).

• Synonyms: Understanding, intellect, perception, insight, and discernment.

MrSly:
Stop already. I don't feed from his money. The last I check he eats from mine. I patronise him, he doesn't patronise me. So right now I am more important to him than he is to me.

When money is everything to some people, they can't think of self esteem. It's sold already.

AdegbemiroX:
One of...he wanted to say.

Na slip of tongue.

In the context he said it, he does not need to say ONE OF. Context matters. He is in Kenya, you Nigerians can be arguing about that, to the public there in Kenya, what Dangote said needs no further adjustment.

DickenClarq:
What is even the use for such unnecessary parade?

None of the previous parades have ever scared the terrorist ravaging our country. In facts they are even planning to attack and steal those beautiful parade uniforms the soldiers are wearing.

We are in democracy and civilian government. Let us leave parade for military regime.

The soldiers should go and do their parades on Bandits and Terrorist in the North.


May God help us

Yeah we know how you guys are trying to change the script. Surprise my fellas, he's the C in C for a reason, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, not Commander in Theif.

Show me a man who got rich through politics and I can show you a theif

Don't worry, the Jagaban is against all these waste.

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

Imalwayshorny:
Wetin your papa get 😂.

You and fake life na siblings abi no be your pictures be this 😂

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPq6xEBo0O8

When Peter Obi presents himself as Angel, it de-markets the rest of us (politicians).



Accountability is hard. An Osinbajo or Fashola could have done what PO is doing and they are also no saints like Obi but there is standard in governance, that's what these folks lack. Our politicians in the 60s had high standards and public conduct as people in charge of our affairs. These ones today have gone rogue, that's why Obi's attitude looks like he's a saint. If they go back to the way our founding fathers conducted themselves, Obi will make you look like nothing special. After all, this same Obi and Osinbajo were both vice to their partners in 2019. You can't give what you don't have.

I wrote it here and there that the so-called new sheriff in town perfume Lai Muhammed was making noise for, it was Osinbajo who wore that perfume when he was acting and the difference was clear. I've watched Obi's interviews, the decorum and respect he shows his host is enough to know that you can't fake it. Otherwise, e go don cast since when dem vex am. He has been put in several scenarios and events to know that he is consistent but I only watched Daily Trust interview and NBA conference for instance and Amaechi did not prove me wrong. There is a reason why the President does not talk to us. We all know why. He would have done plenty damage to his image because out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth. All is fair in politics Dave

It's funny when they insist on this. The joke is in French. you went to France but your host, your peer, their president left you at home. If that doesn't tell you anything, you can never respect yourself.

AbosedeFalade:
You're a tribalist. You and your type, who have made tribalism a thing, are the problem Nigeria has. The person who spread false news about Adekunle Gold and Simi's daughter is Samuel Adeboye Adeyeye.

The person who spread false news about Paul Okoye (Rudeboy) is Victoria Ayomide Agboola.

My verdict, the defamer (troll) of Tony Elumelu's wife should be dealt with. In fact, death to all defamers and tribalists.

Reposting as your response came with clean receipts.

Thank you. Tribalists are terrible.