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If other Obidients will have one second sense like you just had now without bitterness, Nigeria will move forward

LagosOrigin:
You local rice farmers are bunch of criminals and wicked souls . When buhari gave you people the opportunity to survive by closing borders to support local rice to thrive, you people made life difficult for Nigerians instead by increasing price of local rice to a staggering N120,000 per bag instead of N20,000 atleast thereby causing hunger and anger all around the country.

I commend president bola ahmed tinubu for opening the borders to give way for importation of foreign Rice into the country which has reduced the price to atleast N60,000 a bag. . But the president must do more to take back the price of rice to the N30,000 a bag that the APC government met it .


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Seunmsg
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A better Nigeria is all we want. Show workings to achieve that and we will whole heartedly support you.

God bless Nigeria .

NGIGE and OBIANO all did well as governors of Anambra state, now SOLUDO is doing great as governor

While ADC are still making noise online as if INEC has polling unit on social media

alanto:
You want your unknown Igwe to sit where the president, vice president, chief of staff, Ooni, Olubadan, Emirs etc were seated?

Look far behind. They are the ones on red, very far away behind.

80% slots should be given to south east

NGIGE and OBIANO all did well as governors of Anambra state, now SOLUDO is doing great as governor

Socal media political party will soon find a way to blame president TINUBU and WIKE for this. Meanwhile senator ireti kingibi remain suspended

Basket mouth don open mouth again ooo

You are calling on someone who's only mission as governor of abia state is to defraud the state completely

The social media governor of abia state will soon find a way to claim FG projects as one of his achievement.

Ibehchizzy:
what can you afford?

robbery alert nairalanders chaii

Validated:
These clowns should just go and join their kits and kins in APC and stop disturbing the internet.

kids everywhere in nairaland very unfortunate

But how can you turned where everyone is either a millionaire or billionaire to a begger those that makes sense to you?

avalancheMedia:
There is a video going around and if you have seen it, you understand why many people are angry, embarrassed and heartbroken at the same time. In the video, young Igbo men and women in Imo State are scrambling and pushing each other over relief packages dropped by the City Boy Movement. The items being shared were electronics. Not rice. Not beans. Electronics. And yet these young people were fighting for them like they had not eaten in days.

It is a sorry sight. It is one of the most embarrassing things many Nigerians have watched in recent times. And the painful part is that nobody is laughing because deep down, everyone knows this video is telling a bigger story about what Nigeria has become under Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Nobody Can Laugh At Anyone Anymore

For a long time, there was an unspoken competition between Nigerian ethnic groups about who was more hardworking and who was more desperate. Many Igbo people took pride in the fact that their youths hustle. They build businesses. They travel. They create from nothing. So when videos would surface of people from other regions rushing after politicians for rice and ankara, there would be jokes and quiet superiority from some corners.

That era is over.

The Imo State video has ended it completely. Now everyone is scrambling. Now everyone is hungry. Tinubu has successfully brought Nigerians to the same level and that level is the bottom. The Hausa man was collecting rice. The Yoruba man was running after buses sharing wrappers. Now the Igbo youth is fighting over a Bluetooth speaker at a palliative event. Nobody has the moral ground to laugh at anyone anymore because everyone has been captured by the same poverty.

What Tinubu Did to the Nigerian Economy

To understand why young people in Imo State were scrambling the way they did, you need to understand what has happened to the Nigerian economy since Tinubu became president in 2023. The first thing he did after taking the oath of office was remove the fuel subsidy. That single decision set off a chain reaction that destroyed the purchasing power of ordinary Nigerians.

Before Tinubu, the naira was exchanging at around 460 to one dollar. After his policies, it crashed past 1500 and kept going. A bag of rice that cost 28,000 naira before his government came in was selling for over 80,000 naira. Transport fares doubled and tripled. Cooking gas became a luxury. School fees became impossible for many families. Hospital visits became something people avoided because they could not afford it.

The middle class was wiped out quietly. People who were comfortable before suddenly found themselves struggling. People who were already struggling found themselves in a place they never imagined. Wages did not go up to match any of this. Salaries stayed the same while everything else flew out of reach. That is the economy Tinubu built. And that economy is exactly what produced that video in Imo State.

The Role of Obi Cubana and the City Boy Movement

Obi Cubana is one of the most prominent Igbo businessmen in Nigeria today. He is known for his wealth, his influence and his connections to power. The City Boy Movement that brought those relief packages to Imo State is connected to that world of influence and proximity to government.

When powerful men connected to the presidency start showing up in the Southeast with electronics and palliatives, it is not random generosity. It is a message. It is an attempt to soften the ground, to make people feel seen, to make people feel grateful. And when people are hungry enough, they will feel grateful for anything. That is the whole point. Obi Cubana and figures like him are being used as bridges between Tinubu's political machinery and the Igbo population that has largely been hostile to this government. The electronics are not gifts. They are investments in a political project.

This Is All About 2027

Let us be honest about what is really happening here. Tinubu is running for re-election in 2027. Everything that is happening right now, all the distributions, all the empowerment programmes, all the palliatives dropping across the country, is connected to that one goal. He needs votes. He needs goodwill. And after years of policies that have made life unbearable for most Nigerians, he needs something to show people before they enter that voting booth.

This is not a new strategy in Nigerian politics. The pattern is always the same. A government comes in and implements policies that make things harder. The people suffer. Then one year before the election, the handouts begin. Rice here. Electronics there. Empowerment programmes everywhere. The cameras come out. The photos are shared. And the message to the suffering population is simple. We see you. We are here. Vote for us.

Tinubu did not invent this. But he has taken it to a level that feels particularly painful because the suffering that came before the palliatives was so severe. He first suffocated Nigerians and now he wants to be thanked for giving them air.

The Igbo Identity Takes a Hit

The Igbo people have always been known for their drive and their refusal to wait for anyone to save them. That reputation was built over generations by traders, mechanics, teachers and entrepreneurs who built something out of nothing in every corner of Nigeria and beyond. That identity is part of what makes the Imo State video so painful to watch.

Those young people in that video are not lazy. They are not weak. They are desperate. And their desperation was manufactured by years of economic policies that destroyed any chance of a normal life. The shame of that video does not belong to them. It belongs to the government that created the conditions that put them there.

Nigeria is not a poor country. It has oil. It has land. It has some of the most talented and hardworking young people in the world. What it has been given is a government that makes the people poor and then shows up with crumbs and expects to be celebrated for it. That is the palliative economy. Make them hungry. Feed them scraps. Collect their votes. Repeat.

2027 is coming. The question is whether Nigerians will remember who made them hungry in the first place.

Source
https://avalanchemediablog.com/article.html?slug=how-tinubu-used-2027-election-ambition-to-turn-proud-igbos-into-beggars

If the attack was on APC the News could have been cross rivers resident, but since it was on ADC it's thugs or APC supporters. Hypocrites everywhere

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Suspected political thugs disrupted the planned opening of an African Democratic Congress secretariat on Saturday in Bakassi Local Government Area, Cross Rivers State.

According to reports, the attackers stormed the venue, dispersing party supporters and destroying canopies, loudspeakers, chairs, and other equipment arranged for the ceremony.

A video circulating on social media showed a group of youths forcefully dismantling the setup while shouting that the ADC would not be allowed to operate in the council area.

In the footage, a man believed to be leading the group was heard ordering others to scatter everything as they (ADC) were nowhere to be found when they (APC) were busy fixing the council area.

Confirming the incident, the Cross River State Police Command described the perpetrators as hoodlums and said officers were deployed to restore order.

The command’s spokesman, ASP Sunday Eitokpah, said in a statement released on Sunday that the event was about to commence when “the hoodlums from nowhere came and scattered the canopies, chairs and sound systems.”

He, however, said the situation had been brought under control to prevent snowballing into a full-blown crisis.

“Officers and tactical team are at the scene. The event couldn’t continue again. In such a chaotic situation, and considering the volatile nature of the area, for now, no arrests have been made,” he stated.

It would be recalled that similar situations played out on Tuesday when the party’s activity was disrupted in Calabar.

The disruption led the ADC to raise the alarm over what it described as an attempt to hijack the structure of the party in the state.

https://verynigerian.com/tension-as-thugs-disrupt-adc-secretariat-opening-in-cross-river-video/

seunmsg:
Fergie001 and other PDP supporters, this is the only reasonable option available for PDP’s survival at this point in time. Emotions don’t cut it in politics. It’s a game if pragmatism. Rally round the Wike faction so that other candidates down the ballot can survive.

Fergie001 the PDP nairaland legal adviser will soon invade this thread with his version of the law

madridguy:
What if the hospital is under the state governor?

don't mind the guy must of them always comment in the name of I have commented, that is one of Niger state general hospitals located in suleja. The state governor hardly even stay in the state for 48 hours always good at traveling. When the people living in minna the state capital protested against poor power supply. The unfortunate governor was telling them to go and install solar as if everyone can afford solar .

Since the attack is on APC the news is now imo residents, but if the attack was on other parties the News could have been APC supporters attacks not imo residents. Hypocrites everywhere

This is victory for democracy, how can you just appoint yourself in various offices in a party that you are not a member in the first place. Nafiu bala Muhammed is ADC authentic national chairman. David mark, rauf, bolaji Abdullahi and other hijackers beware and keep off

It shall never be well with bala Muhammed after killing PDP you want to run to another party abi ? Bala must not run away from PDP

If this Time table is from David mark it's clearly waste of time and resources.

Bitter ones will soon invade this thread with insults and hateful comment against the patriotic woman, as if the woman don't have constitutional rights of choice

Bitter ones will soon invade this thread with insults and hateful comment against the patriotic woman

That's really big in there

Mr cubana chief priest thank God you realized in time. the eze finishing of agulu village must not run away from ADC because of primaries election

This is very commendable from the FCT minister

This is victory for democracy, you can't just hijacked and appoint yourself in various offices in a party you are not a member in the first place. Nafiu bala is ADC authentic national chairman. David mark, rauf , bolaji Abdullahi and other hijackers beware and keep off

Very good you realized your mistake in time, this is very commendable from cubana chiefpriest

Turaki who is a SAN someone that know the law allowed himself to be fooled by makinde i pass my neighbor generator engineer.

This is very unfortunate, meanwhile

80% slots should be given to south east states

Apkabio should declare senator Abaribe seat vacant immediately