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The same Peter obi they are trying to defend never even informed them before joining the coalition. It appeared that he joined secretly because he only came out suddenly to say that he had always been with the coalition right from the start and that he attended all meetings. The meetings that even his own supporters were not aware of. His supporters have no minds of their own, unfortunately. Especially the obidients.

DeLaRue:
So what on earth will happen if Mr Obi comes 3rd in the primaries behind Mr Amaechi.

That will be disastrous for Mr Obi's political career.

If Mr Atiku comes first, he will not be able to ignore the man that comes 2nd and pick 3rd place Mr Obi as Vice Presidential candidate.

How did Mr Obi walk himself into this ADC cul de sac when he had many other options.

Which other option did he has? Was it remaining in Elupee where he could not bring together and intervene within the warring parties that was tearing the leadership apart at the time
or
APC that would never have considered admitting him knowing his inability to control his followers effectively
or
the PDP where he almost contested the primaries at the last election but backed out on the excuse that the entire process had been monitized while he was a 'we no dey give shishi politician '
or
APGA where he had vowed never to leave but left them at the slightest chance?

IMO, the only viable option he got at the time was to register his own party (that is late now anyways) after he got that sympathy followers. Even by now, he would still be relevant if he had done that.

Although, they claimed he needed no structure to win elections. This fact have never been proven anywhere in the world but let's see how it goes.

Meanwhile, I can only wish him good luck in his political journey.

SisterAnn:
I understand the truth hurts you. I can't help you.

You need to first complete your mansion castle in the air before you think of helping someone else.

So, go and help yourself

samogo1:
Because the country is not any better than it was when PDP carefully handed a functional democratic country to is party. Naira is not yet $1, Electricity is worse. All politicians now in APC are now Saint. He do not allow any form of protest whereas PDP gave him that liberty. And by the way, celebrating roads in 2026? SMH.

Fact check me if anything I said is incorrect.

I guess you were multimillionaire when they PDP was a Power. But now the situation is not the same. Sorry I can understand.

SisterAnn:
Why not the governors wife?

They will still fail yakata like a pack of cards. LoL 😅

Your air castle is nearing completion. Continue!

Kenobsky:
City is the root of all evil.
I belongs to the village.
Na only criminals full this city Bois of a gang.

When anything have to do with Chicago may be all about sniffing.

City is the root of all evil but stay in your village, you say 'no'! It's in Lagos you want to live! No be juju be that?

Does Lagos look like a village to you?

garykoeman:
Tinubu APC is more stronger and formidable than the APC buhari left.

You can say that again bro

Burob:
Nawa for the so called opposition, the ADC no even get one single state.

But they're the one with the loudest noise

People are just funny in this country. I will be ye last person to pass a judgement on Umahi without hearing his own side of the story.

The fact that Dave has a name, and a sitting, performing minister makes him more endangered and that is why I will find it difficult to believe this woman.

To add to this, the female folks most times are interested in pulling down men with names and means and what they hope to gain at the end of it all, I don't really know.

I'm never a one sided man. Because when Umahi decides to talk, you will discover that she has avoided touching some parts that indicts her but only saying the parts that implicates Umahi to gain public sympathy.

Even if he made advances, so far it's consentious, it is still within limits. Forget all the tantrums. Women are good at that.

obembet:
Popular Nigerian actress Eniola Badmus has responded strongly on X following allegations linked to a nurse controversy.

An X user identified as Femzy accused her of being involved in inappropriate activities within the Nigerian movie industry, alleging that she connects young women with top directors, executives, and politicians.

The user further claimed that she gained access to the political scene through such networks and that some young women were exploited through those connections.

Reacting to the claims, Eniola Badmus dismissed the allegations as false and warned that legal authorities would intervene. She wrote:

Although the X user has now apologized to actress Eniola Badmus, he admitted that his earlier claims were false.

Femzy wrote on his official page:
“I sincerely apologize to Ms. Eniola Badmus, her family, friends, fans, and everyone affected by my recent tweet. The post accusing her of exploitation, linking young girls to movie and political figures, and pimping was wrong, irresponsible, and made without evidence. I deeply regret spreading such damaging and false information.”

Source

Nlfpmod Seun mynd44 Lalasticlala

This is a good one. I've always told you people, you don't make a dirty/false allegation against someone just because you hate the person.

Hate speech was included in the criminal code for a reason. Let him face the legal consequences of his unguarded utterances.

It's good he's getting to know that misbehaving behind your keyboard from the comfort of your home doesn't make you unreachable/intrackable.

Good luck

aswani:
To be fair to him, all he does is carry his Obidients with him and those ones are the ones that cause the katakata.

He has no control over them, as he fears them turning on him, so he will just carry on smiling while they are setting everywhere on fire.

He simply lacks the capacity to lead. He failed to lead a group of people and call them to order when necessary, how then does he lead a country of about 250 million people consisting of different Nations, tribes, classes and categories.

Every sane eligible voter will have a rethink before making such a bad decision of voting him into power.

Estello:
Hon. Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, on ground inspecting the ongoing rehabilitation of the Lagos–Ota–Abeokuta Road.This is what real leadership, hands-on commitment, strict supervision, and visible results look like. No excuses, no delays—just delivery.Massive kudos to President @officialABAT
for prioritizing game-changing infrastructure nationwide and to Engr. @realdaveumahi
for leading from the front, ensuring quality and speed on every project.Nigeria is not just talking progress—we're building it. Forward ever!

Video: The Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, inspects the ongoing rehabilitation of the Lagos–Ota–Abeokuta Road. pic.twitter.com/58tEsF01oH

— Babangida Jarmari🇳🇬 (@jarmari01) February 25, 2026

Sen. Dave.Umahi, one of the performing star ministers in Tinubu's cabinet.

Come 2027, he will be reappointed as the Minister for works.

LabStores:
Otti definitely top on the list.
He has proven to us that good governance is about individual being good, disciplined and not federal allocation.

Over many years, Abia state was cursed by very irresponsible and corrupt people being incharge.
It was a really backward state with one of the worst infrastructures.
One was even given women was just delivered #500 naira gift...

I agree 💯. I'm not his fan but I don't even care. He's a performer.The man redefined governance in Abia and I just wish the other Eastern states governors can follow in his footsteps. He's the only one, amongst those seeking reelection, I know that will win a second term effortlessly

Prince16:
Like him or love him, he's a man who values loyalty more than anything else.
That was why I chuckled when some ppl said he would throw wike Under the bus simply because fubara decamped to apc.

Jagaban na the perfect definition of 'ride or die' partner!

You can say that again bro. And I always told people, loyalty remains the currency of growth in politics. If you can't be loyal don't go there because you will never grow. If you also know how to cut corners or betray your benefactor, you will never be trusted and you will never grow. You can take that to the bank

femi4:
What's the visit for? They should all go back

They could not explain satisfactorily where they were going and their mission.

Glimpsetv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv43Ern0nZs?si=DGWiMknafTuymGfD

I'm very sure they will still blame Tinubu for this one 🤣🤣🤣🤣

YeyeGbami:
You go invest stolen funds for yankee…..

Wey you for go build the biggest mechanized farm for your village.

It's not his fault, his sense is as short as a cover of a pen.

And I'm sure he'll be one of those demarketing his country as a corrupt country.

Mad people everywhere! Receiving bribe to invest in American home.

Home forfeited and sold, balance in account restituted. Serves him right!

On completion of his 87 months in the American prison, did you send him to Nigeria to do a repeat sentence in kuje or sokoto.

ultraviolet27:
Isn't the judgement too harsh? it wasn't as if the victim was killed if he had died now, it's another thing what sentence will now be given to bandits and terrorists who kills thousands of people?

You can say this just because you're not privy to the mental torture the victims are subjected to during their ordeal and you're also oblivious of the weight of the crime of kidnapping and the punishment applicable.

notobiafrababe:
Curious to know

With the way these guys love Gbadebo Chukwu Road, why can't he contest for Anambra election. He will win by landslide. My opinion though

Bros, your very correct but it's Lagos that's in their eyes.

FaAbData:
This your analogy is a useless one.
Tinubu can gather all the structures he likes but Obi or even Atiku would still win him in a free and fair election.

Structure only comes in when you want to manipulate the outcome, I understand this is the reality you're talking about and I agree

Don't worry, just keep building castles in the air.

Truthissupreme:
Sick mob

Do we need evidence when they keep saying here that it's either obi or nothing

Yet they are in a supposed coalition but not really.

Even obi has been hijacked cos I see no reason why he can't curtail these mob

He tried doing it the last time in a weak way by saying no true obident insults Dem atiku

The mon mentality has always been there and Obi looking the other way while these mob rodents misbehave is seriously demarketing and counting against him.

SixSeven:
Let retirement come na. You should learn to move on with the next level. Even in Nigeria, people are cutting ties, lest talk of japa. As you move on in life, your environment will start to shape you and if there's nothing that can keep that relationship, it's best to cut it but association is not by force. One thing about Nigerians is that they like to behave like sheeps, they want to do what everyone else is doing, they can't be themselves. That's why they are always looking for a shepherd to save them when they can use their head. The person who has japa is facing a new reality of life, don't add your own to theirs except you have anything useful to give back. Relationships must not be forced.

You people just find a way to guilt trip people for your insecurities. Grow up.

I agree 💯.

That is why you need a sellable skill that some people would always demand. Trust me, it can make them keep in touch because they know they can always get it cheaper from their own friends back home. So, when there's nothing to give back, it looks very difficult.

FaAbData:
You don't need structure if an election is free and fair. Thus you're talking nonsense..


Someone with 6M votes without a structure will win if it's free and fair

Oga, we always know that truth is bitter!

I will give you a different analogy (if you lack the intellectual capability to understand what the guy is saying).

In politics, structure is key!

It's like when two people are asked to get to Aso Rock, Abuja, to participate in a competition, probably a presentation of something, and they both live in Lagos. The both got the information on Sunday @ 12 noon. The one with the best brain/performance choose to take a bike/car to Abuja and the other one takes a flight.

The one with the best brain arrive Aso Rock at 12noon on Monday for a program scheduled for between 8am - 10am but the other one (who took flight) arrived on Sunday night, prepared and made himself available at 8am as scheduled.

Whom do you think would win?

But you people would claim that after all, you need not get there before time, you only need to be the best brain 🤣🤣🤣.

Structure is everything in politics! If you like, believe, if you like, don't.

This is absolutely correct 💯.

I love your analysis. One cold bottle for you.

EponObi:
This will be long. Please don't mind.

This FCT council election revealed NINE things:

1. The opposition, esp Obi's camp, didn't learn anything in the 2023 election. They didn't evolve. They followed and used the same 2023 pattern. They were predictable. Most notable is focusing on urban centers and neglecting the rural centers - you would think the election was only happening in AMAC. The election result showed this. Another is not having adequate number of agents to cover polling units - bro, this is 2026 fgs; this issue of agents shouldn't have happened in 2023, talk more of today. Another is still relying heavily on social media hype - it's like they are addicted to it.

2. The opposition don't know how to prepare for an election, still. Like I said above, they didn't learn anything in 2023. Atiku has ran for the presidency like three times; Amaechi was a governor and minister in the last administration; Obi was a two-term governor, he worked with GEJ, ran major bye-election campaigns in Edo and Anambra; Aregbesola is veteran in this arena, yet they all prepared for this FCT council election like amateurs. What a shame!

3. The opposition is too lazy for their ambition. Their quality of invested effort and ambition are not aligning. This is a council election fgs in a small city of Abuja. You all have residences in the FCT; you spend a lot time living there; that's your base. How hard can it be organizing properly and going all in to show your force? Kai! How tf is planning, logistics, campaign, public awareness too hard for you in your base - your backyard?

4. Obi is spent force. Forget the media hype. Obi won over 62% of votes in Abuja in 2023. He won over 90% in Anambra. All the elections he backed in these places and others since after the 2023 election has been a shocking disaster. Since 2023, this council election is the one he put the most effort and he even begged people to vote for his candidate because "it will help me" - literally in his own words. There's no excuse for this defeat. And his followers are beginning to see this reality, judging by the meltdown they are experiencing on many X Spaces today.

5. Obi currently doesn't have any appeal except among his Igbo brothers.

6. Obi performance outside of the SE in 2023 was driven majorly by religious rhetoric and the fear of the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket. That effect is gone. It's only Obidents that have refused to see this.

7. Obi and his supporters should leave the easy way to 2027, which is social media noise and Obi's childish theatrics and focus on the heavy, tedious, and boring path which is grassroots mobilization.

This is what Obi should have implemented with LP the past 3 years - restructure state and ward chapters. Get personally involved and enter the rural zones to kickstart grassroots mobilization. Reenergize urban voters. What did he do instead? He wasted time on Twitter and was delivering lectures all over the world. Eventually, he abandoned LP, with the little structure and grassroots support they have to start afresh in a new party with ONLY one year left to election and he wants to contest the presidential election. It's really funny. It's even more funny he believes his entire 2023 voters base are still with him and are following him no matter the party he joins. Person wey use 20 years prepare for presidential election na mumu abi? Obi and obidents behave and think as if the presidential election is SUG election, because if they treat it like a council election at least, they would have performed better today. They first claimed they don't need any structure in 2023 until they joined the structure of criminality in 2026. Maybe by 2030, they will accept that grassroots mobilization is the way.

8. Ireti kingibe is gone.

9. Wike deserves his flowers, even though I hate his excesses. You are dreaming if you think Tinubu will dump him - he's too much of an asset. In the South, he's the second most powerful politician besides Tinubu. Arguably the second most powerful in Nigeria too.

buzmanjohn:
https://punchng.com/fct-poll-pdp-drags-apc-to-court-after-five-council-sweep/

What a great time to be an election lawyer. You see this 2026-2027, it's for the lawyers, and the media houses. Them go chop tire.

As for the lawsuits, cases no go ever finish for court 🏃🏃

buygala:
My uncle did this sometimes in the 2000s

I, his wife, his kids, their nanny and him went to church on one normal Sunday in the car he just bought after practicing law for 10 years..

Next thing we knew, while the Pastor was preaching, he went to the church alter and dropped the car papers and key...

We were all in disbelief even when we took a bus home that day ...All through this, his wife never said a word...Obviously he did not discuss with her whether or not he should pull such stunt before he did

Next day, we see the Pastor's kid driving some girls in the car at Tantalizers at Allen avenue..

Long story short, his wife divorced him less than 2 months later and he has no car till now..

All this was as far back as 2002..

Na why till now once I hear a Pastor say "If God had laid it in your heart to give"...., I immediately hold my belongings tightly to avoid being spiritually pick-pocketed

He was led 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Just like some people commented above. For crying out loud, you don't have a car but you bought for your pastor! On top wetin? No be juju be that? You don't have, it simply means you can't afford it.so, buying for your pastor means you went out of your way to do that and it's a crime against yourself and your conscience!

Well, whosoever does that, it's his choice, his money, his foolishness.

But tomorrow, they will blame it on the government while their foolishness never told them that the money used in buying the car could be channeled towards investment for the family and that will in turn help the family in a way.

Wetin concern me sef🏃🏃🏃

Chidisaint19:
It was like this in the days of PDP so I am not bothered. They can announce whoever they wish to announce. Posterity will judge everyone at the appointed time simple. Those who play politics with the lives of the people will get their rewards soon.

but if your party candidate was announced as the winner, posterity would not judge..... you're just a comedian.

Congratulations to the winners. Whoever is not satisfied can either go to court or relocate.

yarimo:
where are the online noise makers to vote for him na 🤣

they couldn't come out to vote because 95% of them have no voter's card. So, they're on their phones and laptops causing chaos and shouting Obi or nothing.

Jorussia:
But Joking aside,Peter Obi, Amaechi,Atiku and other ADC Stalwarts who campaigned vigorously for the ADC candidate are a complete waste of political space.The problem with ADC is Peter Obi has refused to bring out the money he stole as governor of Anambra to fund the party.

Peter Obi supporters should realize that this is not 2023.Peter Obi grossly overestimate his popularity and influence.Peter Obi 2023 was a product of d division in APC and a president buhari who didn't support his Party's candidate.

Obi no dey give shishi😂😂😂😂😂

Abbeytoy:
It's a thing to restrict movement when there's an election, so what makes Wike wrong on this?

Why are you surprised? Is it today you know they must criticize everything wether good or bad?

They are never satisfied. If there was no restriction, they must still come and say that they lost because the government failed to restrict movement for their members to view for their party