LABOUR PARTY PRESS STATEMENT: OPEN NOTE TO DEJI ADEYANJU — AMBITION WITHOUT PRINCIPLE IS WORSE THAN SUBSTANCE ABUSE

By Prince Tony Akeni, 

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

Deji Adeyanju & Prince Tony 

Substance abuse go far beyond narcotics intake, meth, _colos,_ heroin or other cerebrum invading and dementing hard drugs. 

Ambition without principle is worse than substance abuse. Any mental activity conceived in the labyrinths of ambition-damaged mind which distorts rational thinking and actions, either at a cost to the individual or to society at large, is as dangerous or more dangerous than substance abuse. 

These include uncontrollable drive for material acquisitions instead of society serving legacy, typical of officials of the ruling administration. It accounts for the pathologically obsessive attack rabies Deji Adeyanju harbours in his blood streams against His Excellency Peter Obi.

When ambition is unbridled and abused, blackmail becomes a strategy. The French social philosopher Oscar Wilde captured this when he wrote: "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." George MacDonald was even closer home on Deji Adeyanju about greed driven hatred in his defining words: "Ambition is the evil shadow of aspiration."

Learning from mentors, Daniel Bwala and Reno Omokri

With the advent of the emilokan Presidency in 2023, Deji has learned crucial financial lessons. He learnt from his new mentors, the once merciless scorners and critics of President Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, the president's Special Adviser on Media & Public Communications, and Reno Omokri, the lynch pin of Nigeria's stomach infrastructure pseudo-critics. 

Deji learned that the shortest route to Tinubu's lake of federal treasury, bloated by the removal of subsidy, is to volunteer bootlicking services in either Tinubu's sycophancy orchestra or enlist in his infantry of attack dogs trained for the jugulars of APC's opposition leaders, chief of whom is Mr. Peter Obi. 

It is therefore not difficult to understand why, over the last several months, Deji Adeyanju frequently digs into Omokri's and Bwala's bags of heathen lies and blackmail manuals in pursuit of Tinubu's pockets and Tinubu's support for Deji's 2027 ambitions. 

One will, however, advise that Deji should not let the lures of corrupt administration politicians acquiring estates, plazas and mansions all over the capital and countryside make him succumb to unbridled ambitions for same.

Appointment or wealth by blackmail of the Labour Party's presidential phenom, Mr. Peter Obi, should not blind him to the true depths of the multi-dimensional sufferings of the Nigerian people on whose behalf he once claimed to be an activist for good governance, neither the excruciating urgency for the rescue of the Nigerian nation from second colonization by the ruling APC.

A good Nigerian 

Fortunately, there are still good Nigerians contrary to the view that holds otherwise. Fair-minded and upright citizens who do not need inducement, personal benefit or bribe to stand up for the truth.

One such Nigerian, Mr. Ike Abonyi, a reputable journalist and author, was present in July 2022 when the Labour Party's presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, His Excellency Peter Obi, in his uncommon humility, simplicity and amity, met Deji Adeyanju for a mutual conversation about their political interests in the 2023 elections. This involved Obi running for Nigeria's Presidency on the platform of the Labour Party, and Deji for the Abuja Municipal Federal Constituency seat in the National Assembly potentially also on the platform of the Labour Party. 

It was Mr. Abonyi, a common friend of both Obi and Deji, who brokered and witnessed the meeting from its first minute to the end. With a rational, psychologically stable individual, it was the kind of privileged private conversation between two citizens that ought to have been treasured and kept that way eternally. But not so with Deji. Instead Deji turned it into a feedstock of garbage fiction for his imaginary social media empire. 

On his part Abonyi has since publicly attested that not one moment in the entire meeting which he moderated was Obi involved in any act or confession of corruption involving investing Anambra state's money in his private family business while he was governor of the state. Deji has not countered or contradicted him.

Traditional "welcome" kola, logistics goodwill

In most parts of Nigeria and many African societies, it is age-old tradition to offer a guest the traditional kola nut fruit, complemented with supporting physical cash called "wedge" down south. Where the kola nut is not available, the custom is these days commonly monetized.

In modern times, this tradition has expanded into logistics goodwill, and sometimes affinity empathy where a host extends money support to a visitor that may have travelled some distance or denied himself other activities of the day to visit a host, especially a financially well-off host.

It is not called bribe but custom because it is not given to cover up, solicit or co-opt the visitor into an act of corruption, crime investigation or scandal. 

Thus, even if, without conceding, Peter Obi had offered Deji Adeyanju a physical kola nut or the monetized version of the custom, it is not an act of corruption but a courtesy of custom.

It therefore amounts to an extremely malevolent, duplicitous and despicable misrepresentation of an African tradition for Deji to convert the gesture to an arsenal of political blackmail as Deji has notoriously set out to do against Peter Obi before the world. 

To garnish his fairy tale with a facade of credulity in his double-down on a Channels TV interview, Deji added that during the conversation with Peter Obi, Obi confessed to him that he invested Anambra state funds in his private family business, the bases upon which Deji accuses and defames Peter Obi as "corrupt." An illogical, infantile, apparent concoction.

However, from all over Nigeria and far beyond our borders, the Labour Party is delighted with and thankful for the feedback we are receiving from millions of Nigerians on Deji's self-immolating tinder of lies.

Nigerians are asking: what did His Excellency Peter Obi give Deji a "bribe" envelope for, two months after winning his own Presidential ticket of the Labour Party at Asaba? Was it to help Deji bribe his way through party primaries over which Obi had no control and did not assert one? 

What, in Deji's poorly woven imagination, led Obi to confess to him that as governor he dipped his hands into Anambra state treasury? Was it for forgiveness of sins because at that time Deji was the in-house catechist of Anambra Government House Chapel and Treasury?

Deji knows this.

In every election of Nigeria since 2023 to date, Tinubu sets the tone for violent brigandage, killings and mayhem against opposition voters and citizens throughout Nigeria. 

The traumatic memory of countless pro-Obi voters lynched, bloodied and some gunned to death, including pregnant victims and housewives during the 2023 elections are still fresh. This anomaly has been emphatically entrenched as the norm in Nigeria's elections especially following Tinubu's political philosophy of "snatch, grab and run" away with ballot results and power. Deji Adeyanju knows this.

On the contrary, all over the country, rightfully loud and strident against bad governance, members of Peter Obi's Obidient movement peacefully type their views on public governance, protests and dissenting opinions from keyboards and digital space from the quiet of their homes. They do not bear guns, hurt a soul or kill. Deji  knows this.

On the other hand, Tinubu's APC youths and zealots run wild committing mayhem, murder, myriad havoc and life threatening violence against dissenting voices all over the country, especially during election activities. Deji Adeyanju knows this. 

On November 24, 2024, over mere NURTW drivers union election conflict, a conflict over which the Appeal Court of Nigeria had already delivered judgment against President Tinubu supported faction of MC Oluomo, thugs of the President's violence and mayhem generalissimo, Oluomo, audaciously stormed in broad day the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) headquarters in Utako. 

Armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, MC Oluomo's thugs broke into the NUJ headquarter conference hall where the Appeal Court victorious drivers faction were holding a press meeting. 

The thugs seized and beat up everyone within their grip, violently chased out the participants and in the process destroyed the cameras and equipment of several journalists who were covering the event. A felony committed with impunity before the eyes and right in the hive of the Nigerian press. Adeyanju knows this.

Yet Deji obsessively and frequently but wrongly label the peaceful Obidient movement of Peter Obi as an unruly, abusive and intolerant body, as he disingenuously depicted in his recent Channels TV interview. Only sheer hypocrisy and his vaulting narcotics-like ambition to join Reno Omokri and Daniel Bwala for Tinubu's employment, contract or consultancy showers can be responsible for that.

Otherwise, how could Deji switch his once copiously confessed preference for the benevolent dove personality, sterling economic intelligence and towering character content of Peter Obi whom Deji has hailed numerous times as the best presidential choice in the entire country, suddenly switch preference and campaign for President Tinubu whose violent supporters massacre voters and send some to early graves in virtually every election since 2023? 

Doesn't Deji know this?

Tony Akeni Le Moin

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

Tuesday September 2, 2025

PRESS STATEMENT: DON'T TRY IT! LABOUR PARTY WARNING TO RMAFC ON PROPOSED SALARY INCREASE FOR POLITICIANS

Prince Tony

By Prince Tony Akeni, National Publicity Secretary (Interim), Labour Party, Thursday August 21, 2025

This press briefing is to serve the sternest warning to the chairman of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu. 

Every Tinubu minister and head of agency wants to leave government in 2027 richer than Dangote, but not necessarily through hard work and industry. The chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu, for his personal benefits, appears to have joined the list as the latest addition to Nigeria's unfortunate story of the insensitivity of government and its agencies to the hydra-headed plights of Nigeria's citizens. 

On Monday August 18, 2025 Mohammed Shehu woke up on the wrong side of his bed and decided to take his own pound of flesh from the long suffering but pliant Nigerian people by adding his own dimension of nightmares to the treasury bunkering of the ruling APC government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 

You will recall that in a press conference he held in Abuja on the aforementioned date, the fiscal allocation commission's chairman served Nigerians a menu of fallacies to insult the intelligence of Nigerians by claiming that all Mr. President receives for his office in an entire year is a paltry #18million at a salary of #1.5million per month, while his ministers receive #1million per month or #12million per annum. This mischievous and obnoxious lie of figure juggling was corroborated by the CBN Governor, Mr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso, who, according to unrefuted information in the public domain, enjoys unheard-of Eldorado luxury living which, beside his monumental monthly salary, includes a #1b (one billion naira) annual housing allowance and $15million or #24billion global flight tickets and single-handedly appointed a bevy of lady consultants who receive #35million and #50million per month, (not per year). For avoidance of doubts, two of the bevy who receive these Olympian and outrageous salaries in the office of the Nigerian CBN Governor, according to the unchallenged reports, are Ms. Daphne Dafinone and Ms. Nkiru Balonwu who is facing EFCC investigations for alleged egregious financial conduct. 

The above infantile Disneyland story of the RMAFC's chairman, Mr. Shehu Mohammed, is further starkly contradicted by the fact that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's wife has suddenly, after 2023 swearing-in of Tinubu, found fortune which enables her to donate to events as much as #1billion in a single occasion when her husband receives a miserable paltry sum of #18million per annum as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

When we say every actor of fortune under the Tinubu-APC maladministration is out to out-Dangote Dangote by the time the Labour Party and the good people of Nigeria boot them out of office in 2027, it is both a moral and institutional duty that we supply background to prove our assertion. I urge all Nigerians to join our party follow the trail of this locust swarm called APC by reading this to the end and rising to act.

We shall forerun our engagement of the chairman of the revenue allocation commission and his campaign for salary increase for politicians with the facts and figures of epic public finance abuses we present below to help Nigerians reflect, evaluate afresh and to stand up against the dangers posed to their lives by the current APC administration. The chronicle of government promoted corruption among heads of agencies which the Labour Party delivers below are for just 2025, and the year is still running.

1. In the 2025 Federal Government budget figure of #54.99trillion signed into law on February 8, 2025, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, needed to buy a nuclear station that produces electricity for the common good of Nigerians. So, he inserted an amount that will cost Nigerians #266million per street light; an unseen type of streetlight that would probably come with a Maikano power plant and a piece of the sun each. The APC rubber-stamp Senate of Mr. Godswill Akpabio approved it. When yam falls into a palm oil bowl, what do you expect? The above budget for mere streetlights was in addition to Minister Bagudu tucking into the 2025 budget what BudgIT, the public finance tracking agency, called "ghost projects" amounting to #6.93 trillion.

2. On June 10, 2025, the APC's FCT sheriff, Minister Nyesom Wike re-commissioned the now re-named Abuja International Conference Centre after a solo renovation cost submission of #39billion. The renovation went through contract award without competitive biddings required by Nigeria's Due Process laws. This is an amount of money that would have built for Nigerians a minimum of nine modern equiped health centres in each state of the federation or approximately three health centres in every senatorial district of Nigeria, including Abuja FCT. To comfort Nigerians for their pains and complaints, Nyesom Wike has been singing the lullaby to the public against critics' umbrage that the conference centre, which is actually a ghosts' haven 90% of the year, is now churning mountainous revenues into the coffers of the government after its renovation, and that it is fully booked up to 2027. Of course, it is fully booked by ghosts for ghost activities. 

Meanwhile, in contrast to Minister Wike's #39billion windfall for a conference hall renovation, only #10billion was budgeted for Nigeria's entire land border security covering 4,047 kilometers, a whopping #150billion was set on fire to purchase a used presidential jet for President Tinubu and another #5billion for an idle presidential yacht. 

3. On June 11, 2025, the Minister of Agriculture, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, approved a portion of the ministry's 2025 budget of #636billion for a fasting and prayer programme for all its staff to boost agriculture and vanquish hunger in Nigeria. The circular to all staff on this epic event summoned staff to come to work fasting for "a solemn session for God's guidance and success in supporting the (Tinubu) government's efforts to achieve food security." Nigerians, where on earth except APC's Nigeria is modern mechanized farming and food security attained through budget financed prayers and fasting? Is this also the model for governance of nations which China, Japan, Singapore, The Netherlands, Israel, even war-torn Ukraine and other successful Agric pillared economies used to achieve food security?

4. On August 5, 2025, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, dutifully molested Nigerians' ear drums with the news of renovating Lagos Airport at a cost of #712billion or $447million. Again, this airport could be renovated fit and proper to world standard with a much smaller fraction of that cost with ample room to build a maternity annex in the peri-urban communities of every of Nigeria's 774 local government council areas.   

5. On August 14, 2025, the APC Works Minister, Engr. David Umahi, ruthlessly shocked Nigerians by announcing that his ministry needed #3.6trillion to demolish and build, brand new from scratch, the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos or, ironically, a higher amount of #3.8trillion to repair the existing one. What Minister David Umahi is audaciously asking to renovate the Lagos 3rd Mainland Bridge is 1.97% or nearly 2% of Nigeria's entire 2025 federal government budget. Let us take stock.

i. The Lagos 3rd Mainland Bridge is 11.8km long, and has insignificant physical obstacles by marine engineering standards, which involve mere water depths ranging from two to ten meters, the deepest point, it is said, being at the entrance of the Commodore Channel. 

ii. The longest bridge in the world, the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge (DKG Bridge) is 168.8km. Considerable engineering obstacles to its construction involved about 150 river channels. Additionally, it had to be designed with ferro-concrete bastions to support the famous Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway which intercepts it.

iii. The cost of constructing the DKG Bridge of 168.8km was $8.5b or #13trillion. This brought the average cost of one kilometer to #79billion. Nigeria's Minister David Umahi's cost of $2.35b for mere 11.8km brings the average cost of one kilometer of his 3rd Mainland Bridge to $198.8m or #305b. This is 3.8 times or nearly 400% higher than China's DKG Bridge. It is ok to aspire to be as rich or to out-rich Dangote, but Labour Party insists that it should not be at the death of Nigerians through phantom budgets and corruption facilitated mass burials.

6. Before the above, Nigeria's PDP and APC governments from 1999 to 2023 had burnt $18b in refurbishing and rehabilitation claims of the country's three refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna. In less than 15 months of being sworn into office, Tinubu and his APC cabinet set another $2.8 on fire on a failed wild goose rehabilitation scheme which was sold to the Nigerian public in barefaced deceit and ended in a catastrophic flop. Shockingly, without formal admission of failure and expenditure audit, the Tinubu Administration is quietly out to put the decorated skeletons of the refineries for sale to cronies. In a recent fatalistic undertaker's verdict by Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the private owner of Nigeria's only working and largest refinery in Africa, the Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna refinery ghosts of Nigeria can never work again. 

7. Also before now, rewind to May 26, 2023, three days to late President Muhammadu Buhari's hand-over of power to the Tinubu Administration. Nigerians will recall that Buhari and his then Aviation Minister, Mr. Hadi Sirika, chartered an Ethiopian Boeing 737 commercial jet in Addis Ababa, painted it into a sham Nigeria Air courier colours and logo and flew it into Nigeria. On the said May 26, 2025, the static plane was decorated in ribbons at the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport in Abuja and displayed to the press as a ceremony commissioning the new Nigeria Air courier, with other jets to follow soon after. After the unveiling it was flown back to Ethiopia, the Nigerian colours and logo washed away and its Ethiopian colours restored. It immediately resumed operations with the Ethiopian fleet after its one-day scam ceremony by the APC government in Nigeria. In Buhari's eight years of annual budgets for the aviation sector and the phantom "Nigeria Air" swindle, his APC administration swindled from the Nigeria treasury #85.42billion. No trial to conviction has been recorded till date on this massive, flagrant, in-your-face public fraud.

8. In the light of the above, the Labour Party hereby emphatically declares that the unsolicited, self appointed campaign by the chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu, for salary increase for politicians, who are already clearly over-indulged in the eyes of civilize democracies of the world, is suspect. We are compelled to agree with millions of Nigerians that Mr. Mohammed Shehu has hidden unpatriotic motives in flying this audacious, unconscionable and insensitive scheme, especially at this time when countless Nigerians are passing through untold economic hardship and its accompanying privations, vagaries and indignities. 

9. Our party's advice to the chairman of the RMAFC and his unseen collaborators, in and outside the commission, who are behind this misadventure is that they should immediately retrace their steps in their best interest. This is so that the commission will not confirm the suspicion and incur the wrath of outraged Nigerians across the country and beyond who believe that given the unscrupulous, unprosecuted and regime pampered corruption of APC administrations in general, officials of the are aiming their hands for the jar of the Tinubu Administration's unchecked APC corruption orgy at the expense of suffering Nigerians, expected to come through picking kudos commission from thousands of grateful Nigeria politicians nationwide who he may be in conspiracy with them to pay commission's chairman and his team financial homage for a job well-done, as well as other goodwill exchange within the corridors of power.

Furthermore, it will be callous remiss for the revenue allocation commission not to realize that rewarding politicians with more public funds from Nigeria's public treasury, which is already bleeding profusely from corruption, will keep Tinubu in his present mode of marathon borrowings and future short-changing foreign debts.

If anything, the campaign RMAFC should consider urgent, pressing and patriotic to join is to increase Nigeria's workers minimum wage from its present miserable paltry sum of #70,000 per month. In case the RMAFC's chairman is not aware, the United States of America just empathically issued a statement from across the Atlantic to appraise and advocate for improvement of Nigeria's pathetic miniuwage. If a foreign nation could should demonstrate such empathy towards our suffering citizens, the RMAFC's chairman and his administrative directors have no valid excuse not to do more.

Given the above corrosive corruption, grinding penury and retarded development potentials of Nigeria, it is painfully curious, an excruciating irony, that in her recent visit to Nigeria and the Presidency, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Nweala, the Nigerian born Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), should compliment the non-accounting administration of Bola Tinubu as doing well. Labour Party joins Nigeria in asking: will the WTO Director-General find the same benchmarks of corruption, pandemic official fraud, non-compliance with due process laws, flagrant inflation of infrastructure funds and sweeping insecurity plaguing Nigeria under the APC administration of Tinubu in any European, American, Asian countries or other regions of the world and honestly acclaim that they were doing well? Certainly not.

*Conclusion*

Fellow Nigerians, those who burn down a country and those who watch them do so in silence, complacency from privileged insulation and inaction are equal culprits.

The fight to dismantle the structure, superstructure and architecture of corruption is not Peter Obi's fight alone. It is not Labour Party's fight alone. It is the fight of all of us 200million Nigerians. It is a fight for our children, their own children and generations unborn.

APC is burning down our country with never before seen monstrosity of corruption in virtually every sector of our economy, national life and the daily petrifying insecurity of lives and properties that now hold our country's citizens hostage, wether in the cities or rural countrysides and farms where majority of our food and sustenance come from.

It takes a village to tie down a mad relative to give him medicine or put him in stocks for the safety of others. In 2027, let us rise together in communal unison as one people, irrespective of tribe, religion and region to see out of our land the wolf packs ravaging our flock, values and destiny as a great country.

SIGNED:

Prince Tony Akeni

National Publicity Secretary, Labour Party (Interim)

Why Dexter Akin Alamu lost woefully despite the strong presence of Obidients in Ibadan

Oyo State Obident
Leadership@ the South
 West Conference, Lagos.

256 votes for Dexter Akin Alamu was embarrassing despite spending 77m naira for campaign. He didn't get votes because he failed to identify with the organic foot soldiers. Dexter by now should have known what characters the political actors in the parallel structures in Oyo state had:

1. Quick gains/cash and carry group (Ayo Akinyemi Group).

2. The organic foot soldiers (100% Obidient) ( the other group).

Our 2023 experience shaped our thoughts and decisions to work as parallel structures, despite being without sponsorship, while the other group had your support (Dexter) and the state party chairman Alhaji Sodiq Atayese who never believed Peter Obi could win. We were even begging for materials to work with (sensitisation materials)while some were privileged to get materials in excess but did not deploy effectively 

The Obidient movement was Birthed after Dr Tanko Yunusa was Appointed last year, and some of us met him since last year. Before his appointment we were operating under coalition of support groups which seize to be After Dr Tanko was appointed and the Obidient movement structure Globally was setup and all previous structures was Collapsed into the movement 

The national leadership earlier identified with us way before the southwest conference, after the southwest coordinator and National director of Mobilization visited us in Ibadan prior to the south west conference.

We aligned with the national from "peace and reconciliation comitee" to 

"Obidient harmonization movement" down to "Obidient harmonization forum" and it was when we published the south west conference e-fliers that the other group got to meet the global coordinator Dr. Tanko Yunusa, the director of Mobilization Morris Monye, the southwest coordinator Hon. Seyi Sowunmi, and some members of the coordinating council. It's worrisome to note that some people are still standing on a stale structure from 2023

We organised the Obidient birthday rally which was a national programme that held in the 36 states and the Federal capital territory 

You (Dr Dexter)saw the adverts of the programme in your constituency which started from Mokola roundabout and ended at Oluyole Cheshire home of the disabled we did it without receiving a dime from the national and you failed to identify with us because Ayo Akinyemi made a press statement that he wasn't part of it, while he was busy politicking to hijack the structure earlier set by the national coordinator, He claimed to be in charge of the obidient movement in Oyo which operated 2 parallel structures and you know. You saw our adverts which you ought to key into if you are Truly obidient

 If Ayo Akinyemi was Truly Obidient, why did he not align with the appointed state coordinating council?

 Why did he flaunt national orders on the birthday rally? 

Ayo Akinyemi used you (Dexter) to deceive the national coordinator to endorse him, claiming he had a structure present at the 33 LG in Oyo, while using your own people and real Obidients that didn't identify that it was to validate his structure.

If you spend 200m campaigning with the same group you will get same result. Ayo Akinyemi is very good at snatching power and running with it. But this time, because they couldn't get what they want, they came out early to expose themselves with 10m naira donation from His Excellency Mr. Peter Obi.

 2027 is around the corner. If care is not taken, 2023 will repeat itself in Oyo state 

This writeup is for the benefits of those who care to know the real Obidients to align with.

Babawale Oluwaferanmi 

The True Cost of Selling and Buying Votes — PO

Peter Obi

Vote-buying is one of the greatest dangers confronting our democracy. It is never an act of kindness; it is a calculated investment in corruption. Those who buy votes do so with only one intention—to gain access to public funds. By bribing voters today, they are purchasing a licence to plunder tomorrow. And when they get into office, the money meant for schools, hospitals, roads, and jobs is diverted into private pockets. Such people are not leaders—they are looters. Their actions rob our society of dignity, development, and even life itself.

But those who sell their votes are not innocent either. When you exchange your ballot for money or material gain, you are not just selling a vote—you are selling your future. You are selling away the schools your children should attend, the hospitals that should save lives, and the jobs that should lift families out of poverty. In truth, you mortgage your tomorrow for a token that can not sustain you today.

The reality is simple: looters can only loot when we hand them the key. If your vote had no value, nobody would be desperate to buy it. The fact that millions are spent on vote-buying shows that your ballot is priceless. The real power does not lie in their money. It lies in your conscience, your courage, and your vote.

The choice is ours. We either keep selling our votes and remain trapped in poverty and bad governance, or we rise above temporary gain and reclaim the future of our nation. Every Nigerian must take responsibility. Let us reject the politics of bribery and embrace the politics of service. Let us elect leaders who will build, not loot.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

OUTRAGEOUS: ADC Candidate in Ibadan North Bye-Election, Dexter Akin-Alamu Spends Over N77M, Got 88 Votes

The candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the last Saturday Bye-Election organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ibadan North of the Oyo state, Dr Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu has put his total expenditure at an over N77M. 

This disclosure by the candidate is considered outrageous especially by the Pharrell faction of the Obident associated to him and many other reasonable thinkers.

Also, the issues of non disclosure of the fund received from Mr. Peter Obi for the election and abysmal outing has been a concerned among many in the state who have become weary of the so called Obident group and their candidate who are known as cash and carry transactional politicians in the state.

The fund was said to have been facilitated by Dr. Yunusa Tanko and Aisah Yesufu.

Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu scored around eighty eight votes in the said election.

Bellow is the breakdown and acknowledgment of donations and expenditure as made public by the candidate:

Dexter 

*Campaign Financial Disclosure – Ibadan North, 2024/2025 Bye-Election*

In line with my earlier promise of transparency and full accountability, I am making a public disclosure of all funds received and expenses incurred during our campaign.

*Funds Received*

We received *₦11,400,000* in cash donations. We also received donations of campaign materials. Contributors include:

Dr. Michael Omuruyi

Dr. Kazeem Abidikugu

Dr. Kingsley Okundaye

Architect Folu Bademosi

Pastor Muyiwa Bamgbose

Mrs. Temitayo Ogunsanya

Hon. Casimir Biriyok

Dr. Kashim Imam

Hon. Bolanle Amina Sarumi (BASA)

Mrs Fadekemi Oni

*For the avoidance of doubt and to counter false rumours, I want to clearly state that I have never received a dime from His Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi — not during this election, nor during the 2023 general elections.*

*Campaign Expenditure*

Total campaign expenditure stood at *₦77,358,000*. Below is the breakdown:

Payment of Agents – ₦4,732,500

Payment of Canvassers – ₦962,800

Ward Exco Mobilization – ₦901,200

Political Groups Mobilization – ₦3,452,750

Individual Mobilization – ₦2,971,300

Transportation & Logistics – ₦1,894,600

Security – ₦1,862,400

Media (Radio, Online, Print) – ₦5,788,250

Rallies & Townhall Meetings – ₦6,934,800

Community Engagement & Welfare (foodstuffs, health outreaches, support packages) – ₦21,647,950

Printing (handbills, banners, fliers) – ₦2,182,400

Campaign Materials (caps, souvenirs) – ₦4,926,150

Staff Allowances & Operations – ₦14,771,900

Communication (calls, bulk SMS, data) – ₦3,299,500

Miscellaneous – ₦919,500

*Grand Total: ₦77,358,000

This is a full account of our campaign financing. Despite the outcome, our integrity remains intact. We will continue to stand for transparency, accountability, and the people.

Yours in the service of our nation,

Dr. Femi Dexter Akin-Alamu

BYE-ELECTION: DEXTER KNEW HE WOULD TRADE ADC, OBIDIENT, AND IBADAN NORTH VOTERS, HE WAS NOT A SERIOUS CANDIDATE FROM DAY ONE

Dexter 

I have seen a lot comments since Saturday, and Yesterday . Some congratulating and praying and all that for Hon. Dexter Akin Alamu.

But the truth is this, Dr. Dexter Akin Alamu traded us all for his own selfish and personal gain. 

The man traded the entire structure of ADC, the entire work force of the Oyo state Obidient Movement and the unsuspecting innocent voters of Ibadan North.

With evidences well available to us now. Akin Alamu despite collecting a huge amount of #10m from His Excellency, Peter Obi on Thursday/Friday of the just concluded election of Ibadan North he failed to mobilised or pay for agents and canvassers who could have helped him and ADC probably won that election. Instead he pocketed the money and the results was that that there were no agents nor fund to mobilised credible ADC supporter and the Obideints structures to the field of votes on Saturday.

Mind you, it wasthe Obideint Movement in Oyo state through their leadership Ayo Akinyemi that facilitated how Peter Obi released pooping sum of #10m to Dr. Dexter through the National President of the Obidient Movement in Nigeria, Dr. Yinusa Tanko on Friday and the Dr. Tanko Yinusa immediately called Com. Ayo Akinyemi to inform him that the Oyo state Obideint wish and solicitation for fund for Dexter's has been approved and that a sum of #10m has been sent into Dexter's account for his elections.

Ladies and Gent, up until yesterday , Dr. Dexter Akin Alamu did not disclose to the leadership of ADC, Obidients or his campaign team that he received #10m from Peter Obi.

So because he was playing too smart on his part, the ADC was stranded, canvassers , agents of ADC and Obidents were helpless and stranded in that elections and so we all got that shameful, abysmal result ADC /Dexter got.

The truth is that Dexter Akin Alamu used ADC /Oyo Obidents to cash out #10m from Peter Obi and probably sold out to PDP also in that election.

The evidences are with us for anyone who may be doubting or thinking it is a fabricated story. 

ADC/Obidents in Oyo State must be weary and at alert of these opportunists, hungry politicians coming innthe name of Peter Obi into their midst.

Hon Dexter Akin Alamu was tagged a traitor in Lp and again he has shown same in the election of Saturday.

The truth is that he may not have lost if he had channeled the money given to him on the election and not pocketed it. It is a big shame that the first major election of ADC in Oyo state went in this way because of the greediness of a man whose ambition is not to savage the masses really but to psyphone the collective money gathered for him to win election. 

Se ri oju aiye bayi oo.

Some of us are worse than these PDP /APC guys that we abuse everyday.

Ire o.

Jeje Ibukun.

Media/PRO Oyo State Obideints Movement 

18th Aug.,2025

VIDEO: APC North-East meeting ends in chaos over Tinubu-Shettima endorsement

Since 2015 till date, APC Government in Nigeria has only successfully compounded the Nigerians' problems in all fronts, turning the country into the world poverty capital.

#JUNE12: Together, We Can Revive Democracy In Nigeria, National Assembly must live up to expectations

The June 12, 1993 election, widely regarded as been free,  fair and credible, set a precedent for Nigeria's democratic aspirations. However, over the years, our democracy has faced significant challenges, and the ruling class's grip on power has stifled opportunities for the youths.

*The Obidient Movement's Call for Change*

In Oyo State, the Obidient Movement is advocating for electoral reform to create a more inclusive and merit-based system. By pushing for reforms, we aim to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, ensuring that everyone has a chance to participate and succeed in shaping Nigeria's future. As it's today under APC led government of grab and run with it, the future of democracy and good governance spell dooms under the watch of a so called NADECO leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

*A New Path Forward*

Through collective action and advocacy, Nigerians can work towards a more representative and responsive democracy, where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive.

Nigerians collectively must rise to the occasion too in ensuring party system did not collapse totally under Tinubu led APC government who is hell bent in distablising opposition political parties. A robust party system is the bedrock of any popular democracy.

The essences of governance is service deliverablities to the people but what the citizens have been passing through under the APC maximum anti-masses rule has been maximum pain. Hungers in the land knows no bound. Insecurities, inflation that has reduced the purchasing power of the majority and heavy burdens of taxes are among the merciless wipes in the hands of the ruling class against the citizens.

Rescuing the country from APC misrule is a must tasks before us all. Ensuring an electoral reform that guarantee free, fair and credible elections should be the major assignment that must be attended to urgently.

The national assembly must live to the public expectations in this regard, ensuring an electoral reform that guarantee free fair and credible future elections.

Babafemi Oluwaferanmi

Oyo State Obedient Movement 

Nigeria: INEC sworn in six new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to fill existing vacancies across the country

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has formally sworn in six new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to fill existing vacancies across the country, marking what Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu described as a “critical step toward strengthening Nigeria’s electoral process.” The ceremony took place today at the INEC Conference Room in Abuja and was attended by key officials, including National Commissioners, Hon. Secretary to the Commission,Directors, and family members of the appointees.

In his remarks, Prof. Yakubu welcomed the new appointees, noting that their deployment completes the Commission’s staffing in all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. He emphasized the significance of their roles, describing the conduct of elections as not only a major responsibility but a “sacred duty.”

“Your appointment is a full-time and not part-time responsibility. You must provide leadership and exercise effective supervision,” the INEC Chairman stated. He reminded the new RECs of the need to operate within the confines of the law, uphold their oaths, and engage constructively with stakeholders while maintaining transparency and professionalism.

The newly sworn-in RECs include two returning appointees—Dr. Johnson Alalibo Sinikiem and Mukhtar Umar Gajiram—who are beginning a second term, and four new REcs: Dr. Sa’ad Umar Idris and Mrs. Feyijimi Saseyi Ibiyemi, both former INEC staff; Chukwuemeka Christopher Ibeziako, a legal practitioner; and Umar Yusuf Garba, an experienced private sector administrator.

Prof. Yakubu further announced the deployment of the new RECs within their respective geopolitical zones—excluding their states of origin—as part of INEC’s policy to enhance neutrality and reduce conflicts of interest. A consequential redeployment of some serving RECs will also follow.

The occasion also saw the announcement of the timetable for the upcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States. The Ekiti election is scheduled for June 20, 2026, with party primaries running from October 20 to November 10, 2025. The Osun election will follow on August 8, 2026, with primaries between November 24 and December 15, 2025. Full details have been made available on INEC’s official platforms.

Responding on behalf of the newly sworn-in RECs, Dr. Sa’ad Umar Idris delivered a heartfelt vote of thanks, expressing deep gratitude for the trust placed in them.

“This noble call to serve our great nation is one we do not take lightly,” he said. “We are fully aware that the credibility of elections rests not only on systems and structures but also on the character and commitment of those entrusted to manage them.”

Dr. Idris pledged unwavering loyalty to INEC’s guiding principles and the Nigerian Constitution. He assured stakeholders of their collective commitment to conducting elections with “utmost integrity, impartiality, and professionalism.”

He also expressed special appreciation to INEC Chairman Prof. Yakubu, calling him a visionary leader whose commitment to inclusivity and innovation continues to inspire confidence in Nigeria’s electoral process.

The event also served as a solemn moment of reflection as Prof. Yakubu led attendees in observing a minute of silent prayer in memory of late retired Major General Abubakar Modibbo Alkali, a former Commissioner who passed away in April.

As Nigeria prepares for several key elections in the coming months—including bye-elections and the anticipated resumption of Continuous Voter Registration (CVR)—today’s event signals a continued drive by INEC to fortify the electoral framework and foster public trust in democratic processes.

Who are these Characters sworn in as RECs, do you know any of them?

Is free, fair and credible elections visible under the current INEC Chairman prof Yakubu ?

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Source: INEC 

Is there any hope for a credible elections in Nigeria as INEC Inaugurates 2027 Election Project Plan Committee

As part of its early preparations for the #NigeriaDecides2027 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has inaugurated the Election Project Plan Committee (EPPC) to oversee the strategic framework for the conduct of the polls.  

The inaugural meeting of the committee took place on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at the INEC Conference Hall in Abuja.  

Chaired by Prof. Rhoda H. Gumus, the committee is tasked with developing a comprehensive roadmap to ensure a seamless electoral process. Its mandate includes reviewing the Terms of Reference, developing a Work-Plan, establishing sub-committees, designing an Elections Project Plan (EPP) Template, and setting submission timelines for planning documents.  

Other National Commissioners present at the inauguration included:  

1) Mr. Kenneth Ukeagu – Chair, Tenders Board (Member)  

2) Dr. Baba Bila – Chair, EOLC (Member)  

3) Mr. Sam Olumekun – Chair, EPMC (Member)  

4) Prof. Abdullahi Abdu Zuru – Chair, BEI (Member)  

Prof. Rhoda H. Gumus, emphasized the importance of early planning in strengthening Nigeria’s electoral process. She urged the committee members to discharge their responsibilities diligently to uphold electoral integrity and transparency.

Can there be any hope for a free, fair and a credible elections in Nigeria come 2027 under a questionable, partisan and pro Bola Hamed Tinubu led APC's INEC ?

What must Nigerians do to ensure their votes count in 2027 elections?

Source: INEC 

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