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Osun 2026 Election: The Demystification of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola

Osun 2026 Election: The Demystification of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola

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Ogbeni Aregbesola 

Former Governor. Former Minister. Former Commissioner. Former best friend & confidant of President BAT GCFR. And now, a full-time opposition member of the ADC, a staunch political opponent of the APC  & everything it represents & also Governor Adeleke too.


But politics, ultimately, is not about titles, history, proximity or mythology. Politics is about numbers. And when the numbers come, they have a rather unforgiving way of stripping away the mystique.


If there is one thing the recent governorship election in Osun State has exposed, it is the uncomfortable truth about the supposed political weight of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the former Commissioner for Works in Lagos, 2-term Governor of Osun State & former Minister of Interior under the APC-led administration of PMB.


For years, Aregbesola has been spoken of, & has spoken of himself, as one of the formidable political forces in Osun &, by extension, one of the major political players in the Southwest. But the ballot box has now had its say.


And from what the ballot box has told us, Ogbeni Rauf may have been a political heavyweight in the imagination of many, but the evidence before us suggests something considerably less imposing: a paperweight or in fact, a no weight at all! Chai!!! 


That is not an insult. It is an electoral diagnosis. And the numbers are there for everyone to interrogate. So, how did the great political machine perform? Consider this.


Aregbesola is not some newcomer to Osun politics. He governed the state for 8 years. He was once regarded as one of the strongest political figures in the state. He was a major political ally of President Tinubu. He has a reputation for having a formidable support base, particularly within the Ijesa axis of the state, where he hails from.


He has now thrown his considerable political reputation behind the African Democratic Congress, ADC.


And for this election, the party’s candidate was no political lightweight either. Rt. Hon. Najeem Folasayo Salaam, former Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly & a former member of the House of Representatives, was the ADC candidate.


If Aregbesola's much-advertised political weight is as substantial as it has been projected, this should have been the moment to demonstrate it.


Instead, Salaam finished a distant third with a paltry 17,180 votes.


The Accord Party's Senator Ademola Adeleke (incumbent Governor, won with 511,067 votes, while the APC's Bola Oyebamiji came 2nd with 444,815 votes. The winning margin was therefore a staggering 66,252 votes.


That is not a minor electoral gap. That is an electoral canyon. And it becomes even more revealing when one begins to dissect where these votes actually came from.


The Ijesa question


Aregbesola is an Ijesa man. The Ijesa bloc is therefore one of the natural places where one would expect his political influence to be most visible. But what happened?


In the 6 local government areas that make up the major Ijesa concentration, Ilesa East, Ilesa West, Obokun, Oriade, Atakunmosa East & Atakunmosa West, the numbers tell a story that is difficult to explain away. Accord Party: 77,193 votes. APC: 79,920 votes. ADC: 2,351 votes.


Let that sink in.


In the very political territory from which one of the supposed Southwest's most prominent ADC figures hails, the ADC could only muster 2,351 votes across 6 local governments hmmmmm... 


Two thousand, three hundred & fifty-one.


For a political structure that has been portrayed as formidable, that number is not merely disappointing. It is devastatingly revealing. And it gets even more interesting.


Even Aregbesola's own Ilesa political territory did not exactly rise to the occasion for the ADC.


At his own polling unit in Ilesa, the reported figures were APC 256, Accord 43 and ADC 13. Thirteen.


Sometimes, politics does not need a long speech to make its point. A ballot paper can say it in three numbers.


And then came Ejigbo


The ADC candidate, Najeem Salaam, is from Ejigbo LG. Surely, if anywhere was going to be an ADC fortress, this should have been it. Yet Ejigbo Local Government gave Salaam only 5,053 votes.


Accord Party received 18,458.

APC received 16,195.


In other words, both of the 2 leading parties comfortably defeated the ADC in the very local government from which its candidate hails.


The supposed fortress was breached from within. And that is precisely why the result becomes bigger than Najeem Salaam.


It raises a much more fundamental question about the political structure supposedly standing behind him.


Because candidates do not manufacture 17,180 votes out of thin air. They are the product of structures, personalities, mobilisation, loyalty & political influence.


And when all of those are put to the test, the ballot box tells us what actually exists, not what has been said to exist.


Adeleke's Ede fortress


Now look at the other side of the equation.


Governor Ademola Adeleke did not merely win Osun. He demonstrated the power of his own political base.


In Ede North which is his paternal base, the Governor polled 35,427 votes. In Ede South, he polled another 26,188.


That gives him a combined 61,615 votes from the 2 Ede local governments alone.


The APC managed 10,283 in Ede North & 6,219 in Ede South, a combined 16,502. That's a margin of 46,113. It's so obvious where the votes which propelled him to victory came from then. 


ADC? Just 697. The contrast is almost brutal.


Adeleke's Ede delivered. Aregbesola's ADC did not.


And perhaps this is one of the most important lessons of this election: Political mythology may create headlines, but political structures produce votes.


Then came Ife


The APC's reconciliation with Senator Iyiola Omisore was another major political calculation in this election. But did it produce the expected electoral dividend?


The results suggest otherwise.


In the 4 Ife local governments, Accord won 3.


Ife North: Accord 13,879; APC 9,613.


Ife Central: Accord 21,171; APC 15,913.


Ife East: Accord 27,201; APC 18,600.


In Ife South, APC narrowly prevailed with 14,678, against Accord's 13,507. By just an inconsequential 1,171 votes which didn't count for much in the overall.


Overall, Accord polled 75,758 votes across the 4 Ife local governments, while APC managed 58,804.


ADC? A mere 2,305 votes. Again, the numbers refuse to cooperate with the mythology.


Then came Irewole


Bola Oyebamiji, the APC candidate, demonstrated that political candidates can also have formidable local structures.


In his Irewole Local Government, he polled 29,972 votes, against Accord's 10,934.


ADC?v275 votes.


Two hundred & seventy-five. The numbers keep speaking. And they are becoming increasingly difficult to silence.


The Senatorial Districts tell an even bigger story


Perhaps the most compelling way to examine this election is not merely through individual local governments but through the 3 senatorial districts in the state.


Osun has 3 senatorial districts, each comprising 10 local governments.


And Accord Party won all 3 senatorial districts. In Osun Central, Accord polled 169,164 votes, against APC's 162,094 and ADC's 4,472.


In Osun East, Accord polled 152,951, against APC's 138,724 & ADC's 4,656.


In Osun West, Accord polled a remarkable 188,952, against APC's 143,997 & ADC's 8,052.


Again, look closely at that last figure.


The biggest margin of victory came from Osun West, the same senatorial district from which the 3 major contestants emerged. And Adeleke did not merely win there. He danced home. He actually breakdanced! Chai!!! 


The aggregate numbers across the 3 senatorial districts tell the story even more forcefully:


Accord: 511,067

APC: 444,815

ADC: 17,180


There is almost something poetic about the disparity.


The ADC, with all the political noise & pedigree surrounding it in Osun, could not even get to twenty thousand votes in an election where the 2 leading parties were battling in the hundreds of thousands.


So, what exactly has Osun 2026 demystified? It has not demystified Rauf Aregbesola as a man. It has not erased his history.


It has not taken away the fact that he was a 2-term Governor. It has not erased his years as a major political figure in Lagos or his tenure as Minister of Interior.


And certainly, it does not erase his former proximity to President Tinubu.


But it has done something more important. It has subjected the mythology of his current political influence to the coldest & most objective test available in politics: the ballot box. And the ballot box has returned a rather humbling verdict.


Perhaps Ogbeni Rauf is not the political heavyweight many imagined him to be.


Perhaps his political influence today is considerably smaller than his reputation.


Perhaps he has mistaken historical relevance for contemporary electoral strength.


Or perhaps, more simply, he has overestimated the number of people who are still willing to follow him politically.


Whatever the explanation, Osun 2026 has provided the 1st hard empirical evidence with which the question can be seriously examined.


And the evidence is not flattering. But there is an even bigger question. What does all of this mean for 2027?


That is where this becomes considerably more interesting.


Can the ADC, under Aregbesola's leadership, suddenly transform 17,180 votes in Osun into a meaningful presidential-election structure across the Southwest?


Can a party that could only manage 2,351 votes across the 6 major Ijesa LGAs suddenly become a serious electoral force?


Can a former Speaker from his own political camp poll only 5,053 votes in his own Ejigbo, while Accord polled 18,458 & APC 16,195, & still claim a formidable grassroots machine?


These are not questions of sentiment. They are questions of arithmetic. And politics, especially electoral politics, has a brutal relationship with arithmetic.


But there is another intriguing dimension.


Governor Ademola Adeleke has publicly demonstrated support & cordiality towards President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.


Yet in Osun, he has now defeated the APC candidate by a whopping 66,252 votes.


That tells us something important about Nigerian politics.


Local political allegiance & presidential political allegiance do not always travel together.


A politician can oppose the APC at the state level & still maintain a working relationship with the President at the federal level.


Adeleke's Osun victory therefore should not automatically be interpreted as a presidential referendum on Tinubu.


Neither should it be dismissed as irrelevant to 2027.


Rather, it raises a much more fascinating question: If Ademola Adeleke can command 511,067 votes in Osun while maintaining a publicly cordial relationship with President Tinubu, what happens when the presidential contest arrives?


And perhaps even more importantly: Where will the political energy that currently belongs to Adeleke's formidable Osun structure ultimately flow?


That is the question the political class should be asking.


Not merely who won Osun. Not merely who lost.


But what the numbers have revealed about who actually commands people, structures & loyalty when the rubber meets the road.


Because Nigerian politics has always had its legends. Its godfathers. Its kingmakers. Its strongmen. Its political juggernauts.


And, sometimes, its carefully cultivated myths.


But every 4 years, the ballot box comes along to ask one brutally simple question:


“Show me your followers.” In Osun 2026, the ballot box asked Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola that question.


And, at least from the numbers before us, the answer was surprisingly small.


Very, very small. That may well be the real story of Osun 2026.


Not simply the victory of Ademola Adeleke. Not simply the defeat of Bola Oyebamiji aka AMBO.


Not simply the spectacular underperformance of Najeem Salaam.


But the demystification of Ogbeni Rauf. The legend has met the numbers. And the numbers, as they say, do not lie.




Abiola Olatunde Aloba,

Ijesa by paternal blood. 

Ijebu Ode blue blood by maternal connection. 



Ogbeni Aregbesola 

Former Governor. Former Minister. Former Commissioner. Former best friend & confidant of President BAT GCFR. And now, a full-time opposition member of the ADC, a staunch political opponent of the APC  & everything it represents & also Governor Adeleke too.


But politics, ultimately, is not about titles, history, proximity or mythology. Politics is about numbers. And when the numbers come, they have a rather unforgiving way of stripping away the mystique.


If there is one thing the recent governorship election in Osun State has exposed, it is the uncomfortable truth about the supposed political weight of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the former Commissioner for Works in Lagos, 2-term Governor of Osun State & former Minister of Interior under the APC-led administration of PMB.


For years, Aregbesola has been spoken of, & has spoken of himself, as one of the formidable political forces in Osun &, by extension, one of the major political players in the Southwest. But the ballot box has now had its say.


And from what the ballot box has told us, Ogbeni Rauf may have been a political heavyweight in the imagination of many, but the evidence before us suggests something considerably less imposing: a paperweight or in fact, a no weight at all! Chai!!! 


That is not an insult. It is an electoral diagnosis. And the numbers are there for everyone to interrogate. So, how did the great political machine perform? Consider this.


Aregbesola is not some newcomer to Osun politics. He governed the state for 8 years. He was once regarded as one of the strongest political figures in the state. He was a major political ally of President Tinubu. He has a reputation for having a formidable support base, particularly within the Ijesa axis of the state, where he hails from.


He has now thrown his considerable political reputation behind the African Democratic Congress, ADC.


And for this election, the party’s candidate was no political lightweight either. Rt. Hon. Najeem Folasayo Salaam, former Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly & a former member of the House of Representatives, was the ADC candidate.


If Aregbesola's much-advertised political weight is as substantial as it has been projected, this should have been the moment to demonstrate it.


Instead, Salaam finished a distant third with a paltry 17,180 votes.


The Accord Party's Senator Ademola Adeleke (incumbent Governor, won with 511,067 votes, while the APC's Bola Oyebamiji came 2nd with 444,815 votes. The winning margin was therefore a staggering 66,252 votes.


That is not a minor electoral gap. That is an electoral canyon. And it becomes even more revealing when one begins to dissect where these votes actually came from.


The Ijesa question


Aregbesola is an Ijesa man. The Ijesa bloc is therefore one of the natural places where one would expect his political influence to be most visible. But what happened?


In the 6 local government areas that make up the major Ijesa concentration, Ilesa East, Ilesa West, Obokun, Oriade, Atakunmosa East & Atakunmosa West, the numbers tell a story that is difficult to explain away. Accord Party: 77,193 votes. APC: 79,920 votes. ADC: 2,351 votes.


Let that sink in.


In the very political territory from which one of the supposed Southwest's most prominent ADC figures hails, the ADC could only muster 2,351 votes across 6 local governments hmmmmm... 


Two thousand, three hundred & fifty-one.


For a political structure that has been portrayed as formidable, that number is not merely disappointing. It is devastatingly revealing. And it gets even more interesting.


Even Aregbesola's own Ilesa political territory did not exactly rise to the occasion for the ADC.


At his own polling unit in Ilesa, the reported figures were APC 256, Accord 43 and ADC 13. Thirteen.


Sometimes, politics does not need a long speech to make its point. A ballot paper can say it in three numbers.


And then came Ejigbo


The ADC candidate, Najeem Salaam, is from Ejigbo LG. Surely, if anywhere was going to be an ADC fortress, this should have been it. Yet Ejigbo Local Government gave Salaam only 5,053 votes.


Accord Party received 18,458.

APC received 16,195.


In other words, both of the 2 leading parties comfortably defeated the ADC in the very local government from which its candidate hails.


The supposed fortress was breached from within. And that is precisely why the result becomes bigger than Najeem Salaam.


It raises a much more fundamental question about the political structure supposedly standing behind him.


Because candidates do not manufacture 17,180 votes out of thin air. They are the product of structures, personalities, mobilisation, loyalty & political influence.


And when all of those are put to the test, the ballot box tells us what actually exists, not what has been said to exist.


Adeleke's Ede fortress


Now look at the other side of the equation.


Governor Ademola Adeleke did not merely win Osun. He demonstrated the power of his own political base.


In Ede North which is his paternal base, the Governor polled 35,427 votes. In Ede South, he polled another 26,188.


That gives him a combined 61,615 votes from the 2 Ede local governments alone.


The APC managed 10,283 in Ede North & 6,219 in Ede South, a combined 16,502. That's a margin of 46,113. It's so obvious where the votes which propelled him to victory came from then. 


ADC? Just 697. The contrast is almost brutal.


Adeleke's Ede delivered. Aregbesola's ADC did not.


And perhaps this is one of the most important lessons of this election: Political mythology may create headlines, but political structures produce votes.


Then came Ife


The APC's reconciliation with Senator Iyiola Omisore was another major political calculation in this election. But did it produce the expected electoral dividend?


The results suggest otherwise.


In the 4 Ife local governments, Accord won 3.


Ife North: Accord 13,879; APC 9,613.


Ife Central: Accord 21,171; APC 15,913.


Ife East: Accord 27,201; APC 18,600.


In Ife South, APC narrowly prevailed with 14,678, against Accord's 13,507. By just an inconsequential 1,171 votes which didn't count for much in the overall.


Overall, Accord polled 75,758 votes across the 4 Ife local governments, while APC managed 58,804.


ADC? A mere 2,305 votes. Again, the numbers refuse to cooperate with the mythology.


Then came Irewole


Bola Oyebamiji, the APC candidate, demonstrated that political candidates can also have formidable local structures.


In his Irewole Local Government, he polled 29,972 votes, against Accord's 10,934.


ADC?v275 votes.


Two hundred & seventy-five. The numbers keep speaking. And they are becoming increasingly difficult to silence.


The Senatorial Districts tell an even bigger story


Perhaps the most compelling way to examine this election is not merely through individual local governments but through the 3 senatorial districts in the state.


Osun has 3 senatorial districts, each comprising 10 local governments.


And Accord Party won all 3 senatorial districts. In Osun Central, Accord polled 169,164 votes, against APC's 162,094 and ADC's 4,472.


In Osun East, Accord polled 152,951, against APC's 138,724 & ADC's 4,656.


In Osun West, Accord polled a remarkable 188,952, against APC's 143,997 & ADC's 8,052.


Again, look closely at that last figure.


The biggest margin of victory came from Osun West, the same senatorial district from which the 3 major contestants emerged. And Adeleke did not merely win there. He danced home. He actually breakdanced! Chai!!! 


The aggregate numbers across the 3 senatorial districts tell the story even more forcefully:


Accord: 511,067

APC: 444,815

ADC: 17,180


There is almost something poetic about the disparity.


The ADC, with all the political noise & pedigree surrounding it in Osun, could not even get to twenty thousand votes in an election where the 2 leading parties were battling in the hundreds of thousands.


So, what exactly has Osun 2026 demystified? It has not demystified Rauf Aregbesola as a man. It has not erased his history.


It has not taken away the fact that he was a 2-term Governor. It has not erased his years as a major political figure in Lagos or his tenure as Minister of Interior.


And certainly, it does not erase his former proximity to President Tinubu.


But it has done something more important. It has subjected the mythology of his current political influence to the coldest & most objective test available in politics: the ballot box. And the ballot box has returned a rather humbling verdict.


Perhaps Ogbeni Rauf is not the political heavyweight many imagined him to be.


Perhaps his political influence today is considerably smaller than his reputation.


Perhaps he has mistaken historical relevance for contemporary electoral strength.


Or perhaps, more simply, he has overestimated the number of people who are still willing to follow him politically.


Whatever the explanation, Osun 2026 has provided the 1st hard empirical evidence with which the question can be seriously examined.


And the evidence is not flattering. But there is an even bigger question. What does all of this mean for 2027?


That is where this becomes considerably more interesting.


Can the ADC, under Aregbesola's leadership, suddenly transform 17,180 votes in Osun into a meaningful presidential-election structure across the Southwest?


Can a party that could only manage 2,351 votes across the 6 major Ijesa LGAs suddenly become a serious electoral force?


Can a former Speaker from his own political camp poll only 5,053 votes in his own Ejigbo, while Accord polled 18,458 & APC 16,195, & still claim a formidable grassroots machine?


These are not questions of sentiment. They are questions of arithmetic. And politics, especially electoral politics, has a brutal relationship with arithmetic.


But there is another intriguing dimension.


Governor Ademola Adeleke has publicly demonstrated support & cordiality towards President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.


Yet in Osun, he has now defeated the APC candidate by a whopping 66,252 votes.


That tells us something important about Nigerian politics.


Local political allegiance & presidential political allegiance do not always travel together.


A politician can oppose the APC at the state level & still maintain a working relationship with the President at the federal level.


Adeleke's Osun victory therefore should not automatically be interpreted as a presidential referendum on Tinubu.


Neither should it be dismissed as irrelevant to 2027.


Rather, it raises a much more fascinating question: If Ademola Adeleke can command 511,067 votes in Osun while maintaining a publicly cordial relationship with President Tinubu, what happens when the presidential contest arrives?


And perhaps even more importantly: Where will the political energy that currently belongs to Adeleke's formidable Osun structure ultimately flow?


That is the question the political class should be asking.


Not merely who won Osun. Not merely who lost.


But what the numbers have revealed about who actually commands people, structures & loyalty when the rubber meets the road.


Because Nigerian politics has always had its legends. Its godfathers. Its kingmakers. Its strongmen. Its political juggernauts.


And, sometimes, its carefully cultivated myths.


But every 4 years, the ballot box comes along to ask one brutally simple question:


“Show me your followers.” In Osun 2026, the ballot box asked Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola that question.


And, at least from the numbers before us, the answer was surprisingly small.


Very, very small. That may well be the real story of Osun 2026.


Not simply the victory of Ademola Adeleke. Not simply the defeat of Bola Oyebamiji aka AMBO.


Not simply the spectacular underperformance of Najeem Salaam.


But the demystification of Ogbeni Rauf. The legend has met the numbers. And the numbers, as they say, do not lie.




Abiola Olatunde Aloba,

Ijesa by paternal blood. 

Ijebu Ode blue blood by maternal connection. 



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2027 General Elections: AN OPEN LETTER TO NIGERIA'S OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP

2027 General Elections: AN OPEN LETTER TO NIGERIA'S OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP

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By Prince Tony Akeni, Sunday May 17, 2026



ATTENTION:


🔺His Excellency Sen. Seriake Dickson, National Leader NDC


🔺His Excellency Peter Obi, His Excellency Engr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, Presidential Ticket Aspirants NDC


🔺Distinguished Patriot Prof. Pat Utomi, Global Leader The Big Tent


🔺National Executive Councils, NDC, Labour Party and all stakeholders to whom it may concern



The 2027 General Elections, especially the Presidential Ballot, shall be akin to a penalty own goal for both the ruling APC and the consolidated opposition, now led by the NDC. One fatal misstep by APC in the last mile of the race will make the ruling party lose the presidential race to the opposition. In the same vein, one last-mile error in the opposition's roadmap shall cost it the presidential victory, paving way for the second term return of APC to summit power.


This is an urgent call for the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Labour Party of Nigeria (LP) to, amongst other matters arising, waive now or drastically reduce to near zero "Party Development" Fees, Expression of Interest Forms for financially disadvantaged aspirants, extend deadlines for obtaining/submission of forms, and subsequently to stagger aspirants screening across new dates.


This is why:


1.  The NDC's triple-step aspirant fees involving Expression of Interest Form, #3million;

Nomination Form  #5million; and what the NDC christens "Development Levy," #20million, totalling #28million for senatorial ticket, are prohibitive and unaffordable to many genuine aspirants and good governance enthusiasts who recently joined the party. To make matters worse, even though the fees are lower for House of Rep and State House of Assembly aspirants, these fees are to be paid within a short blood pumping notice of 14 days. The shortness of the notice to raise these amounts by aspirants affects the majority of them who thronged into the party from when Mr. Peter Obi joined the NDC on Sunday May 2, 2026 up to the high pressure closing date which officially ended at 6pm today Sunday May 17. Labour Party's ended two days ago on Saturday May 15, 2016.


2.  The above condition has constrained numerous potent, ballot winning popular aspirants who could not afford the fees to pull out in frustration. The wailing despair of these aspirants is audible and pandemic across the country and at both the NDC and LP national quarters in Abuja which were visited by monitors.


3.  Owing to the above reason, as aspirants pulled the breaks and some entirely cancelled out their vying interest, the NDC and Labour Party may not have active, viable and effectual candidates in many constituencies across the country unless they timely put in place measures to revisit the exercise and remedy the voids. 


4.  Flowing from Labour Party's experience in the 2023 elections, the far-reaching consequence of these overlooked aspirants vacuum is that the now frontline NDC opposition may win massive votes in many constituencies of the country but the absence of substantive candidates to lead ballot day trenches and to ensure that the party's votes are counted will leave room for sweeping rigging, ballot poaching, projection and announcement of false results by the ruling APC and its conniving institutions. 


5.  Furthermore, aggrieved opposition aspirants who were prevented from participating in the election because of their inability to meet the NDC's "unaffordable" Expression of Interest/Nomination Forms and "Development Levy" will be unenthusiastic to defend the votes of their constituencies for the NDC or NDC-LP coalition, if such alliance or similar fraternal ballot coalition came to play. 


6.  The frustration of being disallowed from being candidates will also make some previously pro-opposition actors become willing tools and easy converts to sellout the opposition's ballot harvests in their constituencies to the ruling party.


7.  Also from the experience of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, you will recall that the initial low affordability of LP aspirant forms and outright waivers in some cases enabled okada riders and candidates of similar low economic class to win elections on the party's platform. NDC, LP or any visionary opposition coalition will do itself a whale of good to replicate this template. This is because where a political party has active candidates, in the process of working hard to sell their candidacy to the electorates, they stamp the presence, strength and ballot teeth of their party in their constituency by installing effective party agents for victory. This will help the NDC and LP to have polling unit troops and vote protection loyalists in every constituency across Nigeria to checkmate rigging or announcement of false results, vices the ruling party is unprecedentedly noted for.


8.  Subsequent to the above, the NDC and LP should, as additional stratagem, make room for place-holding aspirants to fill every elective slot throughout the country, ensuring that such place-holders would seamlessly withdraw for substantive candidates before the expiration of INEC's candidates submission deadline. 


9.  Finally, to accommodate the initiatives propounded above, one will strongly urge that both the NDC, LP or any other partnership in the new post-ADC coalition should, as a matter of necessity, extend the deadline for collection and submission of forms, and their screening dates staggered accordingly as long as such extensions fall within INEC's political party activities timetable.


Conclusion


The 2027 General Elections, especially the Presidential Ballot, shall be akin to a penalty own goal for both the ruling APC and the consolidated opposition now led by the NDC. One fatal misstep by APC in the last mile of the race will make the ruling party lose the presidential race to the opposition. In the same vein, one last mile error in opposition's roadmap shall cost it the presidential victory, paving way for the second term return of APC to summit power. The high aspirant fees and levies currently governing the NDC and LP workbooks, the parties' respective deadlines for submission of forms and NDC's subsequent choke-notice screening are one misstep a wit too early, and should be revisited.


In the letter and spirit of the common commitment to save democracy in our fatherland, 


I am

Comrade Prince Tony Akeni Le Moin

National Convener,

Nigeria Cannot Continue Like This (NCC-LIT),

Save Democracy Mega Alliance (SDMA).

By Prince Tony Akeni, Sunday May 17, 2026



ATTENTION:


🔺His Excellency Sen. Seriake Dickson, National Leader NDC


🔺His Excellency Peter Obi, His Excellency Engr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, Presidential Ticket Aspirants NDC


🔺Distinguished Patriot Prof. Pat Utomi, Global Leader The Big Tent


🔺National Executive Councils, NDC, Labour Party and all stakeholders to whom it may concern



The 2027 General Elections, especially the Presidential Ballot, shall be akin to a penalty own goal for both the ruling APC and the consolidated opposition, now led by the NDC. One fatal misstep by APC in the last mile of the race will make the ruling party lose the presidential race to the opposition. In the same vein, one last-mile error in the opposition's roadmap shall cost it the presidential victory, paving way for the second term return of APC to summit power.


This is an urgent call for the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Labour Party of Nigeria (LP) to, amongst other matters arising, waive now or drastically reduce to near zero "Party Development" Fees, Expression of Interest Forms for financially disadvantaged aspirants, extend deadlines for obtaining/submission of forms, and subsequently to stagger aspirants screening across new dates.


This is why:


1.  The NDC's triple-step aspirant fees involving Expression of Interest Form, #3million;

Nomination Form  #5million; and what the NDC christens "Development Levy," #20million, totalling #28million for senatorial ticket, are prohibitive and unaffordable to many genuine aspirants and good governance enthusiasts who recently joined the party. To make matters worse, even though the fees are lower for House of Rep and State House of Assembly aspirants, these fees are to be paid within a short blood pumping notice of 14 days. The shortness of the notice to raise these amounts by aspirants affects the majority of them who thronged into the party from when Mr. Peter Obi joined the NDC on Sunday May 2, 2026 up to the high pressure closing date which officially ended at 6pm today Sunday May 17. Labour Party's ended two days ago on Saturday May 15, 2016.


2.  The above condition has constrained numerous potent, ballot winning popular aspirants who could not afford the fees to pull out in frustration. The wailing despair of these aspirants is audible and pandemic across the country and at both the NDC and LP national quarters in Abuja which were visited by monitors.


3.  Owing to the above reason, as aspirants pulled the breaks and some entirely cancelled out their vying interest, the NDC and Labour Party may not have active, viable and effectual candidates in many constituencies across the country unless they timely put in place measures to revisit the exercise and remedy the voids. 


4.  Flowing from Labour Party's experience in the 2023 elections, the far-reaching consequence of these overlooked aspirants vacuum is that the now frontline NDC opposition may win massive votes in many constituencies of the country but the absence of substantive candidates to lead ballot day trenches and to ensure that the party's votes are counted will leave room for sweeping rigging, ballot poaching, projection and announcement of false results by the ruling APC and its conniving institutions. 


5.  Furthermore, aggrieved opposition aspirants who were prevented from participating in the election because of their inability to meet the NDC's "unaffordable" Expression of Interest/Nomination Forms and "Development Levy" will be unenthusiastic to defend the votes of their constituencies for the NDC or NDC-LP coalition, if such alliance or similar fraternal ballot coalition came to play. 


6.  The frustration of being disallowed from being candidates will also make some previously pro-opposition actors become willing tools and easy converts to sellout the opposition's ballot harvests in their constituencies to the ruling party.


7.  Also from the experience of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, you will recall that the initial low affordability of LP aspirant forms and outright waivers in some cases enabled okada riders and candidates of similar low economic class to win elections on the party's platform. NDC, LP or any visionary opposition coalition will do itself a whale of good to replicate this template. This is because where a political party has active candidates, in the process of working hard to sell their candidacy to the electorates, they stamp the presence, strength and ballot teeth of their party in their constituency by installing effective party agents for victory. This will help the NDC and LP to have polling unit troops and vote protection loyalists in every constituency across Nigeria to checkmate rigging or announcement of false results, vices the ruling party is unprecedentedly noted for.


8.  Subsequent to the above, the NDC and LP should, as additional stratagem, make room for place-holding aspirants to fill every elective slot throughout the country, ensuring that such place-holders would seamlessly withdraw for substantive candidates before the expiration of INEC's candidates submission deadline. 


9.  Finally, to accommodate the initiatives propounded above, one will strongly urge that both the NDC, LP or any other partnership in the new post-ADC coalition should, as a matter of necessity, extend the deadline for collection and submission of forms, and their screening dates staggered accordingly as long as such extensions fall within INEC's political party activities timetable.


Conclusion


The 2027 General Elections, especially the Presidential Ballot, shall be akin to a penalty own goal for both the ruling APC and the consolidated opposition now led by the NDC. One fatal misstep by APC in the last mile of the race will make the ruling party lose the presidential race to the opposition. In the same vein, one last mile error in opposition's roadmap shall cost it the presidential victory, paving way for the second term return of APC to summit power. The high aspirant fees and levies currently governing the NDC and LP workbooks, the parties' respective deadlines for submission of forms and NDC's subsequent choke-notice screening are one misstep a wit too early, and should be revisited.


In the letter and spirit of the common commitment to save democracy in our fatherland, 


I am

Comrade Prince Tony Akeni Le Moin

National Convener,

Nigeria Cannot Continue Like This (NCC-LIT),

Save Democracy Mega Alliance (SDMA).

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Bandits Ravage Summit University In Kwara state, kill 34 Students, Abduct 15 Others Including Lecturers

Bandits Ravage Summit University In Kwara state, kill 34 Students, Abduct 15 Others Including Lecturers

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The reports from Kwara State has it that the terrorist bandits have entered the Summit University, Offa Kwara state.

They killed 34 innocent students Abduct 11 student 4 Lecturers.


Source confirmed that the incident happened today 27th March, 2026. Insecurity in Nigeria since the emergence of APC in 2015 have become saturating complicated national conspiracy through which many are been killed, kidnapped and displaced.


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The reports from Kwara State has it that the terrorist bandits have entered the Summit University, Offa Kwara state.

They killed 34 innocent students Abduct 11 student 4 Lecturers.


Source confirmed that the incident happened today 27th March, 2026. Insecurity in Nigeria since the emergence of APC in 2015 have become saturating complicated national conspiracy through which many are been killed, kidnapped and displaced.


This is a developing story...

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ELECTIONS RESULTS TRANSMISSION: Nigeria's Senate should get accurate information from the telcom regulator, the NCC, rather than dishing out information that would not hold water in today’s telecom development

ELECTIONS RESULTS TRANSMISSION: Nigeria's Senate should get accurate information from the telcom regulator, the NCC, rather than dishing out information that would not hold water in today’s telecom development

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A Profile Picture: Senator Nenadi Esther Usman
 in charge of the Labour Party's National Secretariat 

The telcos, including MTN Nigeria, Airtel, Globacom and T2 Mobile, have dismissed the excuses by the Nigerian lawmakers on election results transmission as half-truth.

They challenged the Nigeria's Senate to obtain an accurate information from the telcom regulator, the NCC, rather than dishing out information that would not hold water in today’s telecom development.


The Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have given series of reasons to sabotage the Electronic transmission of election results in real time opting for manual transfer of election results instead but at last adopted both the electronic transmission and manual transfer of election results. Nigerians are not happy for this anti people decisions.


Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators in Nigeria, ALTON, the umbrella body of the telcos, Engr Gbenga Adebayo, told reporters that any information about the telecom infrastructure and country coverage not emanating from the NCC could not be relied upon.


In his words Adebayo said:  “Upon which survey or statistics is the Senate coming up with its position of inadequate telecom infrastructure? As we speak today, over 70% of the country is covered with 3G and 4G, and 5G have about 11% coverage and the rest is 2G.


“Even in reality, 2G is strong enough to transmit results electronically. I do not know where the Senate is getting its information but we can’t take that blanket ban on electronic transmission based on a half-truth about our infrastructure and investments.


“We agree that there are just maybe about two states that, due to insurgency, that our members cannot risk going to maintain facilities. But that is what all stakeholders can sit together and decide how to cover those places. It’s not enough to say the country is not ready for electronic transmission.’’


Adebayo‘s position tallies with that INEC, which in 2022 dismissed the fears, saying where there were network challenges, results uploaded to iREV would transmit once the machines were within areas with network coverage.


The pro Terrorists ruling All Progressive Party APC is busy making grounds for their determined electoral malpractices in 2027.

 

A Profile Picture: Senator Nenadi Esther Usman
 in charge of the Labour Party's National Secretariat 

The telcos, including MTN Nigeria, Airtel, Globacom and T2 Mobile, have dismissed the excuses by the Nigerian lawmakers on election results transmission as half-truth.

They challenged the Nigeria's Senate to obtain an accurate information from the telcom regulator, the NCC, rather than dishing out information that would not hold water in today’s telecom development.


The Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have given series of reasons to sabotage the Electronic transmission of election results in real time opting for manual transfer of election results instead but at last adopted both the electronic transmission and manual transfer of election results. Nigerians are not happy for this anti people decisions.


Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators in Nigeria, ALTON, the umbrella body of the telcos, Engr Gbenga Adebayo, told reporters that any information about the telecom infrastructure and country coverage not emanating from the NCC could not be relied upon.


In his words Adebayo said:  “Upon which survey or statistics is the Senate coming up with its position of inadequate telecom infrastructure? As we speak today, over 70% of the country is covered with 3G and 4G, and 5G have about 11% coverage and the rest is 2G.


“Even in reality, 2G is strong enough to transmit results electronically. I do not know where the Senate is getting its information but we can’t take that blanket ban on electronic transmission based on a half-truth about our infrastructure and investments.


“We agree that there are just maybe about two states that, due to insurgency, that our members cannot risk going to maintain facilities. But that is what all stakeholders can sit together and decide how to cover those places. It’s not enough to say the country is not ready for electronic transmission.’’


Adebayo‘s position tallies with that INEC, which in 2022 dismissed the fears, saying where there were network challenges, results uploaded to iREV would transmit once the machines were within areas with network coverage.


The pro Terrorists ruling All Progressive Party APC is busy making grounds for their determined electoral malpractices in 2027.

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Donald Trump's Effect: Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency, Orders 50000 Recruitment Into The Army and Police

Donald Trump's Effect: Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency, Orders 50000 Recruitment Into The Army and Police

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Tinubu 

Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has on Wednesday declared a nationwide security emergency in response to the worsening security situation across several states, orders the Army and Police to recruit 20,000 officers in addition to the earlier 30,000 approved (total now 50,000 officers).


This recent proactive steps cannot be unconnected to the stance of the American President, Donald Trump against the ongoing Christian genocide and ethnic cleansing in Nigeria. 

APC government that came on board since 2015 on the campaign promises to end the insurgency and hunger has been the enablers of Terrorism, banditry and Fulani herdsmen causing unrest in different parts of the country.


The military and other paramilitary have been infiltrated as their so called repentant Terrorists were reportedly enlisted and absorb by the APC led federal government.  As a result, more evils have been perpetrated against the helpless citizens of the country.

Tinubu also directed that NYSC camps across the country be used as police training depots, while VIP police guards withdrawn are to be trained for redeployment to high-risk areas.


With the nationwide security emergency, Tinubu has also directed the DSS to deploy forest guards immediately and recruit more to flush out terrorists and bandits. He also promised to support states creating security outfits and calls on the National Assembly to begin work on state police.

He called on herders to end open grazing, embrace ranching, and surrender illegal weapons, while paying tribute to victims of recent attacks and fallen soldiers, including Brig-Gen Musa Uba.


The emergency of APC leadership in the country since 2015 till date has been a monumental mistake that made all and sundry to suffer in the past ten years of maladministration.



The Boko Haram/ISWAP, bandits and Fulani herdsmen terrorising the country from the North to South are all foot soldiers of the criminals All Progressive Party.. Thousands have been killed. Several thousands displaced.

Tinubu 

Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has on Wednesday declared a nationwide security emergency in response to the worsening security situation across several states, orders the Army and Police to recruit 20,000 officers in addition to the earlier 30,000 approved (total now 50,000 officers).


This recent proactive steps cannot be unconnected to the stance of the American President, Donald Trump against the ongoing Christian genocide and ethnic cleansing in Nigeria. 

APC government that came on board since 2015 on the campaign promises to end the insurgency and hunger has been the enablers of Terrorism, banditry and Fulani herdsmen causing unrest in different parts of the country.


The military and other paramilitary have been infiltrated as their so called repentant Terrorists were reportedly enlisted and absorb by the APC led federal government.  As a result, more evils have been perpetrated against the helpless citizens of the country.

Tinubu also directed that NYSC camps across the country be used as police training depots, while VIP police guards withdrawn are to be trained for redeployment to high-risk areas.


With the nationwide security emergency, Tinubu has also directed the DSS to deploy forest guards immediately and recruit more to flush out terrorists and bandits. He also promised to support states creating security outfits and calls on the National Assembly to begin work on state police.

He called on herders to end open grazing, embrace ranching, and surrender illegal weapons, while paying tribute to victims of recent attacks and fallen soldiers, including Brig-Gen Musa Uba.


The emergency of APC leadership in the country since 2015 till date has been a monumental mistake that made all and sundry to suffer in the past ten years of maladministration.



The Boko Haram/ISWAP, bandits and Fulani herdsmen terrorising the country from the North to South are all foot soldiers of the criminals All Progressive Party.. Thousands have been killed. Several thousands displaced.

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APC Government of Propaganda Seeks fresh Domestic And Foreign Loans For 2025 Budget After Tinubu's Claims That Nigeria Has Met Revenue Target

APC Government of Propaganda Seeks fresh Domestic And Foreign Loans For 2025 Budget After Tinubu's Claims That Nigeria Has Met Revenue Target

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The head of Nigeria's propaganda government of APC Bola Ahmed Tinubu claimed that Nigeria has met its revenue target since August 2025.




This is nothing short of an insult to the intelligence of Nigerians as the same government has tendered before the National Assembly requesting for fresh Domestic and International Loans to bridge the 2025 budget.

How can a government boasting of “record revenues” still rush to the Senate, cap in hand, seeking fresh loans both locally and internationally?




Tinubu led APC anti people government formally requested an approval from the National Assembly to borrow N1.15 trillion from the domestic debt market to plug the funding gap in the 2025 budget.

The said proposal was presented in a letter that was read on the floor of the Senate during Tuesday’s plenary session by Senate President Godswill Akpabio

This contradiction exposes not fiscal success but hypocrisy and economic mismanagement of the APC led pro Terrorists Regime.




An administration that truly meets its revenue targets should be reducing debt, stabilizing the economy, and improving citizens’ welfare — not piling up more loans while the people drown in inflation, unemployment, and hardship.




Tinubu’s government has mastered the art of propaganda while abandoning the principles of accountability. Behind the glossy speeches and inflated figures lies a harsh reality: Nigeria’s coffers are empty, trust is broken, and leadership has become addicted to debt and deception.




Meeting revenue targets should bring relief and stability, not more suffering. Until transparency replaces rhetoric, every such claim remains a mockery of the struggling Nigerians.

According to the available information about the new loan application, he borrowing is intended to “bridge the funding gap and ensure full implementation of government programmes and projects under the 2025 fiscal plan.”




Following the reading, Senate President Akpabio referred the request to the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt (chaired by Senator Aliyu Wammako) for detailed scrutiny.

The committee has been directed to submit its report within one week.

This domestic borrowing request comes amid parallel efforts by the Tinubu administration to obtain external financing.

In late October, the House of Representatives approved a $2.35 billion external borrowing plan, which includes refinancing maturing Eurobonds and issuing Nigeria’s first sovereign Sukuk.

Meanwhile, National Assembly has also approved a broader external debt package of over $2.8 billion to part-fund the 2025 deficit.




Observers note that Nigeria’s public debt burden has been rising rapidly.




In July, the Senate approved a sweeping external borrowing framework exceeding $21 billion to cover infrastructure, health, security, and other needs.



The head of Nigeria's propaganda government of APC Bola Ahmed Tinubu claimed that Nigeria has met its revenue target since August 2025.




This is nothing short of an insult to the intelligence of Nigerians as the same government has tendered before the National Assembly requesting for fresh Domestic and International Loans to bridge the 2025 budget.

How can a government boasting of “record revenues” still rush to the Senate, cap in hand, seeking fresh loans both locally and internationally?




Tinubu led APC anti people government formally requested an approval from the National Assembly to borrow N1.15 trillion from the domestic debt market to plug the funding gap in the 2025 budget.

The said proposal was presented in a letter that was read on the floor of the Senate during Tuesday’s plenary session by Senate President Godswill Akpabio

This contradiction exposes not fiscal success but hypocrisy and economic mismanagement of the APC led pro Terrorists Regime.




An administration that truly meets its revenue targets should be reducing debt, stabilizing the economy, and improving citizens’ welfare — not piling up more loans while the people drown in inflation, unemployment, and hardship.




Tinubu’s government has mastered the art of propaganda while abandoning the principles of accountability. Behind the glossy speeches and inflated figures lies a harsh reality: Nigeria’s coffers are empty, trust is broken, and leadership has become addicted to debt and deception.




Meeting revenue targets should bring relief and stability, not more suffering. Until transparency replaces rhetoric, every such claim remains a mockery of the struggling Nigerians.

According to the available information about the new loan application, he borrowing is intended to “bridge the funding gap and ensure full implementation of government programmes and projects under the 2025 fiscal plan.”




Following the reading, Senate President Akpabio referred the request to the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt (chaired by Senator Aliyu Wammako) for detailed scrutiny.

The committee has been directed to submit its report within one week.

This domestic borrowing request comes amid parallel efforts by the Tinubu administration to obtain external financing.

In late October, the House of Representatives approved a $2.35 billion external borrowing plan, which includes refinancing maturing Eurobonds and issuing Nigeria’s first sovereign Sukuk.

Meanwhile, National Assembly has also approved a broader external debt package of over $2.8 billion to part-fund the 2025 deficit.




Observers note that Nigeria’s public debt burden has been rising rapidly.




In July, the Senate approved a sweeping external borrowing framework exceeding $21 billion to cover infrastructure, health, security, and other needs.

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FACT CHECK: Newly INEC Chair, Prof Joash Amupitan was a member of the legal team of Bola Tinubu & the APC in the presidential election petition of 2023

FACT CHECK: Newly INEC Chair, Prof Joash Amupitan was a member of the legal team of Bola Tinubu & the APC in the presidential election petition of 2023

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 FACT CHECK : Was Prof. Joash Amupitan a member of the legal team of Bola Tinubu and the APC in the presidential election petition of 2023?


Yes, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN—a distinguished Nigerian legal scholar, professor of law at the University of Jos, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria—was part of the legal team representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election petition tribunal. The tribunal, presided over by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), heard challenges to Tinubu’s victory in the February 2023 general elections, primarily from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party (LP) led by Peter Obi.

Key Details of His Role

 

Amupitan 

• Position on the Team: Amupitan served as lead counsel for the APC and Tinubu during the proceedings. This role involved defending the election’s integrity against allegations of irregularities, non-compliance with electoral laws (e.g., the Electronic Transmission of Results or IReV system), voter suppression, and Tinubu’s eligibility under Section 137 of the 1999 Constitution.

 • Context of the Case: The APC’s defense, coordinated under lead counsel Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, argued that the petitioners failed to substantiate claims of widespread malpractice. Amupitan contributed to this strategy, focusing on legal precedents in electoral law, evidence admissibility, and procedural dismissals. The tribunal ultimately dismissed the petitions on September 6, 2023, upholding Tinubu’s victory in a unanimous 4-0 decision (with one justice recusing).

 • Team Composition: The APC assembled a formidable team of over 50 Senior Advocates, including Olanipekun, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN, now Attorney-General), and others like Gordy Uche (SAN) and Adeniyi Akintola (SAN). Amupitan’s expertise in corporate governance, evidence law, and electoral reforms aligned with the defense’s emphasis on dismissing petitions for lack of merit.

Evidence and Sources

This involvement has been corroborated in multiple reports, particularly amid recent scrutiny following Tinubu’s nomination of Amupitan as INEC Chairman in October 2025. Civil society groups, such as the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria (COCSON), highlighted his prior role as a potential conflict of interest, urging rejection of the nomination to preserve INEC’s neutrality. For instance:

 • COCSON explicitly noted Amupitan’s service as “lead counsel to the APC and President Tinubu during the 2023 Presidential Election Petition Tribunal,” arguing it could erode public trust in electoral impartiality.

Broader Implications

Amupitan’s participation underscores his deep engagement in high-stakes electoral litigation, drawing from his over 30 years of legal practice since being called to the Bar in 1988. However, his 2025 INEC nomination—approved by the Council of State on October 9, 2025, and pending Senate confirmation—has reignited debates on partisanship in public appointments. Tinubu described him as “apolitical and a man of integrity,” but critics point to this history as evidence of alignment with the APC.

This confirmation is based on contemporaneous 2023 reports and recent 2025 analyses of his career trajectory.

 FACT CHECK : Was Prof. Joash Amupitan a member of the legal team of Bola Tinubu and the APC in the presidential election petition of 2023?


Yes, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN—a distinguished Nigerian legal scholar, professor of law at the University of Jos, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria—was part of the legal team representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election petition tribunal. The tribunal, presided over by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), heard challenges to Tinubu’s victory in the February 2023 general elections, primarily from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party (LP) led by Peter Obi.

Key Details of His Role

 

Amupitan 

• Position on the Team: Amupitan served as lead counsel for the APC and Tinubu during the proceedings. This role involved defending the election’s integrity against allegations of irregularities, non-compliance with electoral laws (e.g., the Electronic Transmission of Results or IReV system), voter suppression, and Tinubu’s eligibility under Section 137 of the 1999 Constitution.

 • Context of the Case: The APC’s defense, coordinated under lead counsel Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, argued that the petitioners failed to substantiate claims of widespread malpractice. Amupitan contributed to this strategy, focusing on legal precedents in electoral law, evidence admissibility, and procedural dismissals. The tribunal ultimately dismissed the petitions on September 6, 2023, upholding Tinubu’s victory in a unanimous 4-0 decision (with one justice recusing).

 • Team Composition: The APC assembled a formidable team of over 50 Senior Advocates, including Olanipekun, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN, now Attorney-General), and others like Gordy Uche (SAN) and Adeniyi Akintola (SAN). Amupitan’s expertise in corporate governance, evidence law, and electoral reforms aligned with the defense’s emphasis on dismissing petitions for lack of merit.

Evidence and Sources

This involvement has been corroborated in multiple reports, particularly amid recent scrutiny following Tinubu’s nomination of Amupitan as INEC Chairman in October 2025. Civil society groups, such as the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria (COCSON), highlighted his prior role as a potential conflict of interest, urging rejection of the nomination to preserve INEC’s neutrality. For instance:

 • COCSON explicitly noted Amupitan’s service as “lead counsel to the APC and President Tinubu during the 2023 Presidential Election Petition Tribunal,” arguing it could erode public trust in electoral impartiality.

Broader Implications

Amupitan’s participation underscores his deep engagement in high-stakes electoral litigation, drawing from his over 30 years of legal practice since being called to the Bar in 1988. However, his 2025 INEC nomination—approved by the Council of State on October 9, 2025, and pending Senate confirmation—has reignited debates on partisanship in public appointments. Tinubu described him as “apolitical and a man of integrity,” but critics point to this history as evidence of alignment with the APC.

This confirmation is based on contemporaneous 2023 reports and recent 2025 analyses of his career trajectory.

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Video: Peter Obi Replies ADC over Ultimatum, Demands Zoning

Video: Peter Obi Replies ADC over Ultimatum, Demands Zoning

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Peter Obi 


 


Peter Obi 


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Ondo APC group petitions national secretariat over Olubunmi Ojo's alleged grassroot neglect, violent attack on party members

Ondo APC group petitions national secretariat over Olubunmi Ojo's alleged grassroot neglect, violent attack on party members

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Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo 

A group named Ondo APC Mandate Group has petitioned the All Progressive Congress national secretariat over what it described as the minister of interior's neglect of the grassroot and violence against party members. 


In a petition dated 17th of Sept, 2025, signed by the convener of the group Alhaji Ariwoola Abdukareem, comrade Gbenga Bojuwomi the secretary and four other exco members, submitted to the party's headquarters in Abuja, the group alleged the Minister of Interior of masterminding violent attack on party members during the last local government election in the state.

  

In the petition titled: "Call for Accountability and Reflection on the Conduct of Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo", addressed to the national chairman of the party, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, the group called on the leadership of the party to call the minister to order for violent attack, neglect and total disregard for his grassroot supporters who were instrumental to his emergence and rising political profile.


The petition reads in part; "We, the undersigned stakeholders and concerned citizens of Akoko Land in Ondo State, wish to express our deep concern regarding the conduct and political disposition of Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Minister of Interior and former Member of the House of Representatives.


"Hon. Tunji-Ojo, appears to attribute his political success solely to personal merit, disregarding the collective efforts and sacrifices of many political actors from Akoko Land and Ondo State, the APC mandate group in particular."



The group further alleged that Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has paid their selfless gesture with attack, arrogance and dismissiveness, as he portray his political rise and victory as a personal triumph rather than a collective achievement.


"Similar trait was displayed during the recent local government elections in Ondo State, when the minister allegedly orchestrated acts of violence against party members solely on the ground that his preferred aspirant did not emerge at the primaries. 


Notably, Hon. Oluwatoye Ajiboye, the APC councillorship candidate in Ward 5 of Akoko northwest, was reportedly assaulted by the men of Nigeria Civil Defense Corps and another party leader detained for days by the Police under the ministers' instruction", the petition read.


The APC group maintained that the minister's actions raise serious questions about his commitment to democratic values and party unity as his behavior suggests a troubling disconnect from the people he claims to represent. 


”We therefore, call on the APC leadership under Prof. Yelwata, the Presidency and the concerned security agencies to take a closer look at the minister’s activities and their implications on security, party’s image and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second-term aspirations".

Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo 

A group named Ondo APC Mandate Group has petitioned the All Progressive Congress national secretariat over what it described as the minister of interior's neglect of the grassroot and violence against party members. 


In a petition dated 17th of Sept, 2025, signed by the convener of the group Alhaji Ariwoola Abdukareem, comrade Gbenga Bojuwomi the secretary and four other exco members, submitted to the party's headquarters in Abuja, the group alleged the Minister of Interior of masterminding violent attack on party members during the last local government election in the state.

  

In the petition titled: "Call for Accountability and Reflection on the Conduct of Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo", addressed to the national chairman of the party, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, the group called on the leadership of the party to call the minister to order for violent attack, neglect and total disregard for his grassroot supporters who were instrumental to his emergence and rising political profile.


The petition reads in part; "We, the undersigned stakeholders and concerned citizens of Akoko Land in Ondo State, wish to express our deep concern regarding the conduct and political disposition of Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Minister of Interior and former Member of the House of Representatives.


"Hon. Tunji-Ojo, appears to attribute his political success solely to personal merit, disregarding the collective efforts and sacrifices of many political actors from Akoko Land and Ondo State, the APC mandate group in particular."



The group further alleged that Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has paid their selfless gesture with attack, arrogance and dismissiveness, as he portray his political rise and victory as a personal triumph rather than a collective achievement.


"Similar trait was displayed during the recent local government elections in Ondo State, when the minister allegedly orchestrated acts of violence against party members solely on the ground that his preferred aspirant did not emerge at the primaries. 


Notably, Hon. Oluwatoye Ajiboye, the APC councillorship candidate in Ward 5 of Akoko northwest, was reportedly assaulted by the men of Nigeria Civil Defense Corps and another party leader detained for days by the Police under the ministers' instruction", the petition read.


The APC group maintained that the minister's actions raise serious questions about his commitment to democratic values and party unity as his behavior suggests a troubling disconnect from the people he claims to represent. 


”We therefore, call on the APC leadership under Prof. Yelwata, the Presidency and the concerned security agencies to take a closer look at the minister’s activities and their implications on security, party’s image and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second-term aspirations".

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LP Spokesperson — APC In a Fresh Plot to Infiltrate, Hijack Our Congress Structures

LP Spokesperson — APC In a Fresh Plot to Infiltrate, Hijack Our Congress Structures

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Tony Akeni 

The Interim Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party in Nigeria, Prince Tony Akeni has confirmed that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) is currently in a fresh and desperate plots to infiltrate and hijack the party again.


The Labour Party is just coming out of a very long leadership crisis believed to have been politically motivated and sponsored by the ruling party. The  Apapa—Abure leadership imbroglio and later INEC insistence on tenure expiration of the Abure led leadership crippled the party's progress and momentum since 2023 general election.


With 2027 general election already in Sight, the Senator Nenadi Usman-led Labour Party (LP) has cried out over what it described as a desperate plot by the Bola Ahmed led federal government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to hijack its structures by infiltrating its ranks.


The party's leadership has consistently maintained it's opposition against Tinubu’s  unending love for foreign travels amidst Nigeria’s growing security and economic challenges. 


According to Akeni the information reaching the party’s headquarters from various states of the federation showed that the ruling party was positioning its moles to infiltrate the party structures through the scheduled party congresses at the ward, local government, state, zonal, and ultimately, the national level.


“We have been made aware of the heinous plot by the ruling APC to infiltrate our ranks at all levels to derail our forthcoming congresses."


“If they fail, they plan to get a seat on our party’s table to continue from where they stopped after failing to use former National Chairman, Julius Abure, to distract us from our goal of rebuilding our party.


“Nigerians are also aware of what the current administration has turned our institutions, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), into."


“We are all witnesses to what transpired during the by-elections, which were held in 16 out of the 36 states recently, and the manipulation of the ongoing voter registration exercise."


“Our nation cannot afford to have a repeat of the era where the American boxer, Mike Tyson, the late pop star, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie appear on our voters’ register.'


“As a party, we will continue to urge Nigerian voters to be vigilant. Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price we all must pay to protect our democracy."


“The body language of INEC as presently constituted gives it away as an institution which is only ready to pander to the whims and caprices of the ruling party."


“We can only pray that whosoever is coming into office after the tenure of the current INEC boss expires in November or December is not going to throw the confidence of Nigerians down the drain", he explained.


In a statement earlier issued by Akeni on behalf of the party, he criticised Tinubu’s seemingly unending love for foreign travels amidst Nigeria’s growing security and economic challenges.


He said the president’s trip this time around indicated that he was increasingly becoming allergic to staying at home to tackle the nation’s problems.


President Tinubu left Nigeria for a 10-day working vacation in France and the United Kingdom as part of his 2025 annual leave on Thursday.


Akeni noted that available records show that 135 million Nigerians fell into poverty within the first 18 months of Tinubu’s administration due to difficult economic policies.


He equally pointed out that galloping inflation, weakening of Nigeria’s currency, the naira, and insecurity have been the hallmark of Tinubu’s rule since he took power in 2023.


Akeni said, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departed Nigeria for yet another of his many overseas trips. “This time, the trip is officially explained as a 10-day vacation and part of his 2025 annual leave, which he will spend in France and the United Kingdom.


“As President Tinubu takes to the sky, he leaves behind a country ravaged by economic hardship where 135 million citizens fell into poverty in the first 18 months of his administration, caused by his difficult economic policies.


“Tinubu also leaves behind an insecurity of historic proportions, where 57 Nigerians die every day from various forms of violent death.


“This amounts to seven deaths more than Ukraine’s war casualties, which lose 50 citizens per day in its full-scale war with Russia, according to research by Mediazona and The Book of Memory Group, corroborated by a similar BBC study.


“The Nigerian casualty figures exclude deaths from daily traffic accidents, Nigeria’s frequent boat mishaps, and other civil hazards.


“You will recall that President Tinubu had only sat in office for four months after his swearing in on May 29, 2023, when he flew overseas on his first annual vacation. This was on October 2, 2023.


“This means that under the APC governance manual, four months made up one year for the Nigerian president to go on an annual vacation. This is historic for a post-inaugural president because it doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world.


“Since assuming office on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has travelled and virtually ‘lived’ outside Nigeria for nearly 160 days. This is almost half of an entire year in only two years of office.


“Tracing this unproductive trend backwards to Buhari’s days, records show that APC produces dinner and toothpick presidents who eat breakfast in Abuja, have lunch in Paris, and belch in London.


“They enjoy costly vacations abroad like children enjoy excursions to amusement parks. From Buhari’s administration to Tinubu’s current rule, that is the only reason why billions of naira they vote every year for the Aso Villa presidential clinic perpetually empty into unknown pockets, and the clinic’s medicine shelves do not have drugs for even cramps.


“From late Buhari to Tinubu, APC has continued to produce nomadic presidents whose medical and social tourism cost our country billions of Naira in taxpayers’ money.”


The Labour Party’s interim spokesman said the party will do things differently should Nigerians vote it into power come 2027.


According to him, it is the government’s responsibility to put in place a standard healthcare system that would cater to...


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The Interim Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party in Nigeria, Prince Tony Akeni has confirmed that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) is currently in a fresh and desperate plots to infiltrate and hijack the party again.


The Labour Party is just coming out of a very long leadership crisis believed to have been politically motivated and sponsored by the ruling party. The  Apapa—Abure leadership imbroglio and later INEC insistence on tenure expiration of the Abure led leadership crippled the party's progress and momentum since 2023 general election.


With 2027 general election already in Sight, the Senator Nenadi Usman-led Labour Party (LP) has cried out over what it described as a desperate plot by the Bola Ahmed led federal government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to hijack its structures by infiltrating its ranks.


The party's leadership has consistently maintained it's opposition against Tinubu’s  unending love for foreign travels amidst Nigeria’s growing security and economic challenges. 


According to Akeni the information reaching the party’s headquarters from various states of the federation showed that the ruling party was positioning its moles to infiltrate the party structures through the scheduled party congresses at the ward, local government, state, zonal, and ultimately, the national level.


“We have been made aware of the heinous plot by the ruling APC to infiltrate our ranks at all levels to derail our forthcoming congresses."


“If they fail, they plan to get a seat on our party’s table to continue from where they stopped after failing to use former National Chairman, Julius Abure, to distract us from our goal of rebuilding our party.


“Nigerians are also aware of what the current administration has turned our institutions, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), into."


“We are all witnesses to what transpired during the by-elections, which were held in 16 out of the 36 states recently, and the manipulation of the ongoing voter registration exercise."


“Our nation cannot afford to have a repeat of the era where the American boxer, Mike Tyson, the late pop star, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie appear on our voters’ register.'


“As a party, we will continue to urge Nigerian voters to be vigilant. Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price we all must pay to protect our democracy."


“The body language of INEC as presently constituted gives it away as an institution which is only ready to pander to the whims and caprices of the ruling party."


“We can only pray that whosoever is coming into office after the tenure of the current INEC boss expires in November or December is not going to throw the confidence of Nigerians down the drain", he explained.


In a statement earlier issued by Akeni on behalf of the party, he criticised Tinubu’s seemingly unending love for foreign travels amidst Nigeria’s growing security and economic challenges.


He said the president’s trip this time around indicated that he was increasingly becoming allergic to staying at home to tackle the nation’s problems.


President Tinubu left Nigeria for a 10-day working vacation in France and the United Kingdom as part of his 2025 annual leave on Thursday.


Akeni noted that available records show that 135 million Nigerians fell into poverty within the first 18 months of Tinubu’s administration due to difficult economic policies.


He equally pointed out that galloping inflation, weakening of Nigeria’s currency, the naira, and insecurity have been the hallmark of Tinubu’s rule since he took power in 2023.


Akeni said, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departed Nigeria for yet another of his many overseas trips. “This time, the trip is officially explained as a 10-day vacation and part of his 2025 annual leave, which he will spend in France and the United Kingdom.


“As President Tinubu takes to the sky, he leaves behind a country ravaged by economic hardship where 135 million citizens fell into poverty in the first 18 months of his administration, caused by his difficult economic policies.


“Tinubu also leaves behind an insecurity of historic proportions, where 57 Nigerians die every day from various forms of violent death.


“This amounts to seven deaths more than Ukraine’s war casualties, which lose 50 citizens per day in its full-scale war with Russia, according to research by Mediazona and The Book of Memory Group, corroborated by a similar BBC study.


“The Nigerian casualty figures exclude deaths from daily traffic accidents, Nigeria’s frequent boat mishaps, and other civil hazards.


“You will recall that President Tinubu had only sat in office for four months after his swearing in on May 29, 2023, when he flew overseas on his first annual vacation. This was on October 2, 2023.


“This means that under the APC governance manual, four months made up one year for the Nigerian president to go on an annual vacation. This is historic for a post-inaugural president because it doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world.


“Since assuming office on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has travelled and virtually ‘lived’ outside Nigeria for nearly 160 days. This is almost half of an entire year in only two years of office.


“Tracing this unproductive trend backwards to Buhari’s days, records show that APC produces dinner and toothpick presidents who eat breakfast in Abuja, have lunch in Paris, and belch in London.


“They enjoy costly vacations abroad like children enjoy excursions to amusement parks. From Buhari’s administration to Tinubu’s current rule, that is the only reason why billions of naira they vote every year for the Aso Villa presidential clinic perpetually empty into unknown pockets, and the clinic’s medicine shelves do not have drugs for even cramps.


“From late Buhari to Tinubu, APC has continued to produce nomadic presidents whose medical and social tourism cost our country billions of Naira in taxpayers’ money.”


The Labour Party’s interim spokesman said the party will do things differently should Nigerians vote it into power come 2027.


According to him, it is the government’s responsibility to put in place a standard healthcare system that would cater to...


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

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

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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)

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)

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Ganduje’s Timely Challenge to Leaders: Nigeria can no longer afford leadership defined by medical tourism — Peter Obi

Ganduje’s Timely Challenge to Leaders: Nigeria can no longer afford leadership defined by medical tourism — Peter Obi

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Abdullahi Umar Ganduje 

The Symbol of the Obidient Movement in Nigeria H. E Peter Obi has reacted to the resignation from his chairmanship position of the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress APC Alhaj Abdullahi Umar Ganduje stating his health concerns.

Peter Obi who commended Dr. Ganduje for prioritising his health above all else said by his exemplary action, Dr. Ganduje has thrown a challenge to other leaders who, due to health-related issues, are no longer able to deliver optimally should take a cue from him.

According to Obi, the challenges confronting our nation today require leaders who are not only competent but also physically and mentally fit, leaders with the capacity and agility to respond decisively and promptly to pressing issues.

He said at this critical point and difficult time, Nigeria can no longer afford leadership defined by medical tourism, long holidays, or absenteeism caused by age-related ailments. These things are taking a serious toll on our development.



With his health reportedly in decline, it is both wise and honourable to step aside, knowing that he may no longer be able to render the level of service required by the party, the people, and the nation. I have just read a news report that the National Chairman of the ruling party, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has resigned from his position with immediate effect, citing health challenges as the reason. I must commend Dr. Ganduje for prioritising his health above all else. With his health reportedly in decline, it is both wise and honourable to step aside, knowing that he may no longer be able to render the level of service required by the party, the people, and the nation. By this exemplary action, Dr. Ganduje has thrown a challenge to other leaders who, due to health-related issues, are no longer able to deliver optimally. I sincerely hope they take a cue from him. The challenges confronting our nation today require leaders who are not only competent but also physically and mentally fit, leaders with the capacity and agility to respond decisively and promptly to pressing issues. At this critical point and difficult time, we can no longer afford leadership defined by medical tourism, long holidays, or absenteeism caused by age-related ailments. These things are taking a serious toll on our development. May God Almighty grant Dr. Ganduje a peaceful and fulfilling retirement. Indeed, a new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje 

The Symbol of the Obidient Movement in Nigeria H. E Peter Obi has reacted to the resignation from his chairmanship position of the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress APC Alhaj Abdullahi Umar Ganduje stating his health concerns.

Peter Obi who commended Dr. Ganduje for prioritising his health above all else said by his exemplary action, Dr. Ganduje has thrown a challenge to other leaders who, due to health-related issues, are no longer able to deliver optimally should take a cue from him.

According to Obi, the challenges confronting our nation today require leaders who are not only competent but also physically and mentally fit, leaders with the capacity and agility to respond decisively and promptly to pressing issues.

He said at this critical point and difficult time, Nigeria can no longer afford leadership defined by medical tourism, long holidays, or absenteeism caused by age-related ailments. These things are taking a serious toll on our development.



With his health reportedly in decline, it is both wise and honourable to step aside, knowing that he may no longer be able to render the level of service required by the party, the people, and the nation. I have just read a news report that the National Chairman of the ruling party, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has resigned from his position with immediate effect, citing health challenges as the reason. I must commend Dr. Ganduje for prioritising his health above all else. With his health reportedly in decline, it is both wise and honourable to step aside, knowing that he may no longer be able to render the level of service required by the party, the people, and the nation. By this exemplary action, Dr. Ganduje has thrown a challenge to other leaders who, due to health-related issues, are no longer able to deliver optimally. I sincerely hope they take a cue from him. The challenges confronting our nation today require leaders who are not only competent but also physically and mentally fit, leaders with the capacity and agility to respond decisively and promptly to pressing issues. At this critical point and difficult time, we can no longer afford leadership defined by medical tourism, long holidays, or absenteeism caused by age-related ailments. These things are taking a serious toll on our development. May God Almighty grant Dr. Ganduje a peaceful and fulfilling retirement. Indeed, a new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
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VIDEO: APC North-East meeting ends in chaos over Tinubu-Shettima endorsement

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

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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.



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.

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RENEWED HOPELESSNESS: Federal Ministry of Agriculture made a U-turn, suspending its planned prayer & fasting sessions aimed at seeking divine intervention to end hunger in Nigeria

RENEWED HOPELESSNESS: Federal Ministry of Agriculture made a U-turn, suspending its planned prayer & fasting sessions aimed at seeking divine intervention to end hunger in Nigeria

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The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has made a U-turn by suspending its planned prayer and fasting sessions aimed at seeking divine intervention to end hunger in the country.


This comes just days after a leaked internal circular, dated June 11, 2025, directed all staff—including directors, deputy directors, assistant directors, and value chain desk officers—to gather for weekly spiritual sessions at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja.


Signed by the Director of Human Resource Management, Mrs. Adedayo Modupe O., the circular urged staff to fast and participate in a prayer initiative tagged “Divine Intervention for Protection and National Development,” slated for June 16, 23, and 30.


However, in a follow-up memo, the same director announced a postponement of the exercise “until further notice,” without providing any reasons.


Tinubu led APC government policies are all renewed pain for the majority of the citizens . The rouges government has no single solution to any of the challenges facing the country in if the sectors.


Having no solution to hunger in the land , they resulted to prayers and fasting for divine intervention. The Tinubu led APC failures only imposed themselves on the good people of the country. No tangible government directives in terms of policy to address hunger in the country..


This is the government that removed subsidies, increase VAT , devalued Naira and reduced the purchasing power of the citizens, yet cant massively invest in Agriculture but thought prayer is the key to food security..


The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has made a U-turn by suspending its planned prayer and fasting sessions aimed at seeking divine intervention to end hunger in the country.


This comes just days after a leaked internal circular, dated June 11, 2025, directed all staff—including directors, deputy directors, assistant directors, and value chain desk officers—to gather for weekly spiritual sessions at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja.


Signed by the Director of Human Resource Management, Mrs. Adedayo Modupe O., the circular urged staff to fast and participate in a prayer initiative tagged “Divine Intervention for Protection and National Development,” slated for June 16, 23, and 30.


However, in a follow-up memo, the same director announced a postponement of the exercise “until further notice,” without providing any reasons.


Tinubu led APC government policies are all renewed pain for the majority of the citizens . The rouges government has no single solution to any of the challenges facing the country in if the sectors.


Having no solution to hunger in the land , they resulted to prayers and fasting for divine intervention. The Tinubu led APC failures only imposed themselves on the good people of the country. No tangible government directives in terms of policy to address hunger in the country..


This is the government that removed subsidies, increase VAT , devalued Naira and reduced the purchasing power of the citizens, yet cant massively invest in Agriculture but thought prayer is the key to food security..

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Spoke's person of Terrorists And Bandits in Nigeria Sheikh Gumi Barred from performing Hajj, deports him back to Nigeria by Saudi Authorities

Spoke's person of Terrorists And Bandits in Nigeria Sheikh Gumi Barred from performing Hajj, deports him back to Nigeria by Saudi Authorities

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Authorities in Saudi Arabia have stopped Nigerian Sheikh Gumi from performing Hajj, deports him back to Nigeria


Gumi 

Saudi Arabia has stopped Kaduna-based Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi from performing the 2025 Hajj and deported him back to Nigeria.


Sheikh Gumi confirmed this in a post made on Monday, May 26, 2025, via his Facebook page.


He said the Saudi government had granted him a visa to enter the country for Hajj, but he was not allowed to enter Medina to begin his religious duties.


According to him, “Due to some reasons related to my views on world politics, the authorities in Saudi Arabia do not want me to be present at Hajj even though they have granted me a visa,” Sheikh Gumi said in a post on his Facebook page.


He added, “I am grateful to the authorities in Nigeria who have pledged to engage with the Saudi authorities on this matter.”

 

Sheikh Gumi is part of a delegation of scholars sponsored by the Nigerian Hajj Commission (NAHCON) to travel to Saudi Arabia for religious services.


Gumi arrived in Medina with other clerics last Saturday at around 10:30pm on an Umza Air flight, but upon arrival at the city’s airport, Saudi immigration officials prevented the cleric from entering the country.


Reports revealed that Sheikh Gumi has now returned to Nigeria to continue his daily activities, especially teaching.


It is note worthy to state that the Islamic Scholar has be the mouth piece of the terrorists, Bandits and kidnappers who have caused a lot of havock to the people of Southern Kaduna and beyond.


The APC led Federal government of Nigeria usually give him police security to move around as the spokeman of the bandits. The government through the Nigerian Army rehabilitates terrorists while they abandon their victims. 


There were claims of terrorists been absorbed into the Nigerian Army. Many of the Nigerian youths especially of the southern origins are jettisoning joining the army currently.


No serious country will tolerate terrorists and their sympathizers but under the APC governed Nigeria since 2015 till date, like fiction, the level of insecurities have been aggravated and compounded, lives of the law abiding citizens have become miserable and short due to reasons of insecurities.


Order countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE have arrested Nigerian terrorists and sponsors of terrorism in their country who worked freely here.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have stopped Nigerian Sheikh Gumi from performing Hajj, deports him back to Nigeria


Gumi 

Saudi Arabia has stopped Kaduna-based Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi from performing the 2025 Hajj and deported him back to Nigeria.


Sheikh Gumi confirmed this in a post made on Monday, May 26, 2025, via his Facebook page.


He said the Saudi government had granted him a visa to enter the country for Hajj, but he was not allowed to enter Medina to begin his religious duties.


According to him, “Due to some reasons related to my views on world politics, the authorities in Saudi Arabia do not want me to be present at Hajj even though they have granted me a visa,” Sheikh Gumi said in a post on his Facebook page.


He added, “I am grateful to the authorities in Nigeria who have pledged to engage with the Saudi authorities on this matter.”

 

Sheikh Gumi is part of a delegation of scholars sponsored by the Nigerian Hajj Commission (NAHCON) to travel to Saudi Arabia for religious services.


Gumi arrived in Medina with other clerics last Saturday at around 10:30pm on an Umza Air flight, but upon arrival at the city’s airport, Saudi immigration officials prevented the cleric from entering the country.


Reports revealed that Sheikh Gumi has now returned to Nigeria to continue his daily activities, especially teaching.


It is note worthy to state that the Islamic Scholar has be the mouth piece of the terrorists, Bandits and kidnappers who have caused a lot of havock to the people of Southern Kaduna and beyond.


The APC led Federal government of Nigeria usually give him police security to move around as the spokeman of the bandits. The government through the Nigerian Army rehabilitates terrorists while they abandon their victims. 


There were claims of terrorists been absorbed into the Nigerian Army. Many of the Nigerian youths especially of the southern origins are jettisoning joining the army currently.


No serious country will tolerate terrorists and their sympathizers but under the APC governed Nigeria since 2015 till date, like fiction, the level of insecurities have been aggravated and compounded, lives of the law abiding citizens have become miserable and short due to reasons of insecurities.


Order countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE have arrested Nigerian terrorists and sponsors of terrorism in their country who worked freely here.

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Tinubu's INEC: The prospects and challenges of a free, fair and credible elections in 2027

Tinubu's INEC: The prospects and challenges of a free, fair and credible elections in 2027

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 Bola Tinubu and
His INEC Chairman 

Elections are a central feature of representatives democracies. For elections to express the will of the electorate, they must be ‘free, fair’ and 'credible'.


Free, fair and credible elections are largely determined by the electoral body. Nigeria's independent National Electoral Commission INEC under Professor Mahmood Yakub or anyone as may be later appointed and their subordinates are the major bane and barriers to credible and acceptable elections in Nigeria. While the INEC neutrality is questionable, judiciary has long seized to be the last hope of anybody but a place of judicial trades for the very few with highest influence and highest bidders. The Nigeria's Judicial Service Commission has sanctioned in the past judges handling Election Petition Tribunals but not now any longer with the level of unhindered immunities in the temples of justice. So an unbiased electoral system and body for a free, fair and credible elections are non negotiable.

‘Free’ means that all those entitled to vote have the right to be registered and to vote and must be free to make their choice. According to our constitution, every citizen over the age of 18 is entitled to vote.

Also an election will be considered ‘free’ if you are allowed to decide whether or not to vote and vote freely for the candidate or party of your choice without fear or intimidation and or harassment. A ‘free’ election can also be regarded as where you are confident that who you vote for remains your secret.

By ‘Fair’, it means that all registered political parties have an equal right to contest the elections on the same level ground, campaign for voters support and hold meetings and rallies. This gives them a fair chance to convince voters to vote for them.

A fair election also denote an election in which all voters have an equal opportunity to register, where all votes are counted, and where the final results reflect the actual vote totals.

"Credible" implies an open and transparent process especially by the electoral umpire which will make the actual outcome capable of being believed by the more than simple majority of the citizens.

By credible, it also means the outcome of the the whole process is worthy of the citizens' confidence. The results are reliable and not manipulated. The level of genuine neutrality of the electoral commission dictates the credibility of any election.

Therefore, It's one thing for the election to be free and fair on the filed on election day across polling units, it's another thing entirely for the electoral umpire to admit and allow votes of the people to actually be the final outcome or results. The credibility of an election will make it even more acceptable to the losers and runner up without unnecessary litigations that usually accompany every election in Nigeria.


With the exception of the 1959 and the annulled June 12 1993 general elections, elections in Nigeria have always been marred by irregularities and lack of transparency from electoral body, collusion with either ruling or opposition party for manipulation of the election's outcome, implementing an electoral process with procedures that encourages violence and anarchy . The 1964/65 Western Regional and National elections, the 1979 and 1983 federal election, the 2003 and 2007 presidential and governorship elections were elections that encouraged anarchy as they were generally adjudged far below free, fair and lacked in any measure for credibility test, basically because of INEC collisions with either any of the contending major parties leading to endless litigations in each cases.


Meanwhile, aside the 2015 general elections which can simply be categorised and termed as a mob elections, the 2019 and 2023 general elections overtly revealed that those who voted had done nothing but those who counted and determined the votes are the ones that occupied the Central Processing Unit of the electoral and democratic system as it were very glaring for all to see in those elections.

Despite improved electoral laws and introductions of e-voting machine , B-Vas, there were overt indications of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) been bias, non transparent most especially with uses of even B-Vas, alterations of the election results both on B-Vas and on form EC8, inconclusive elections as a result of materials not timely taken to the polling units on election day.
Collusions with rejected APC national leader Tinubu to upturned the people's will, as Tinubu who paid their pipers dictated their tune in a supposedly general election meant for majority of the citizens to decide on who governs us for a period of four years. Remarks by incumbent president himself that he bought his way to the presidency also confirmed all these.

Coming to term with the individuals occupying various positions within the electoral umpire such as INEC chairman, INEC commissioner among others, the appointments to these positions are political appointments. This is exactly where and reason the credibility of the electoral outcomes are been compromised and sacrificed in Nigeria. Funny enough is that all those that have been appointed and served as INEC chairman are all university professors who have pleasures in subverting the will of the majority for their personal aggrandizements.


The appointment of the incumbent INEC chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu was said to have been influenced back the in 2018 by Bola Ahmed Tinubu and as a result, against all odds INEC chairman decided the outcome of 2019 presidential election in favour of Major General Muhammadu Buhari who had lost all credibilities to win the Said election considering the level of hungers, compounding existing Boko Haram with bandit and Fulani herdsmen menace amidst human rights violations, lack of respect for rule of law, etc. To simply put it, 'the CIA agent Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been in charged, remotiing and controlling INEC before ever becoming the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


The prospects of any free, fair and credible elections under him as the sitting president looks very invincible.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu ensured Buhari was re-elected through his puppet INEC chairman Mahmood Yakub in a grand calculation for his 2023 presidential ambition which saw him and his gangs unleashing all forms of deceits, manipulations and impersonation at the highest order including impersonating the clergymen.

The prospects and chances of having a free, fair and credible elections comes 2027 under the Tinubu led APC anti- people government and an INEC that takes orders directly from him will be absolutely impossible.


On the state of the political parties in Nigeria currently, just like the late military Totalitarian dictator General Sani Abacha was to emerged the sole presidential candidate of the all political parties formedy perior his sudden death in 1998, Tinubu and his Mafia camp have been earnestly working to undermine and subvert the democratic processes, moving the country towards a one party system.

The Tinubu and his Mafias who are in APC and in his government are also directly and indirectly dictating the fates of other political parties as PDP is in their hands too, while the same INEC has been the weapon of distabilisation in Tinubu's hands holding Labour Party (LP) down ineffectively immediately after the 2023 general elections just as was the case with Omoyele Sowore led African Action AAC after 2019 general elections. For the LP, INEC that refused to accept the kangaroo National Convention that returned Barrister Julius Abure as the National Chairman has also refused to upload the names of the Senator Nenadi Esther Usman led National Caretaker Committee of the party even after a Supreme Court judgement sacked else while Chairman Abure. For months now, INEC is still studying the court judgement.


Suffix to this is the fact that this same INEC has made the registration of new party nearly impossible. Even the Social Democratic Party SDP that some aggrieved politicians and citizens seemly running to can't be adjudged clear of Tinubu's influence. He was to contest the 2023 presidential election in the SDP platform if APC had denied him the presidential ticket.


Off season elections conducted so far in Edo, Ondo are another testaments of systemic disruption of oppositions in favour of the ruling party. These are the litmus tests if what to expect in 2027.


Removing the bias, unfair and non neutral Professor Mahmood Yakub by Mr President, to nominate another of his stoogees for the National Assembly to rubber stamped again may not help going forward to 2027 as the entire citizens of voting ages are on the verge of been manipulated and shortchanged again.

An electoral reform by the National Assembly that ensure that the sitting president does not nominate top INEC officers may go a long way to reduce underground and unconstitutional interference in the activities of the umpire.

Conclusively, as our forefathers at independence opted for a democratic and egalitarian society, it's the duties of all of us to mobilize, sensitize citizens on the needs for a credible, free and fair elections. We must continue to speak and stand against Intimidations and brazen harassment of voters as openly seen in 2023 presidential and national assembly elections and most especially the governorship elections in some states and Lagos, Rivers, Kogi in particular.

The essential of governance is to serve the people. Maximum pleasure for greater numbers of people but in the case of Nigeria and her citizens, it has been maximum pains for an absolute majority while the very few and less than minority including the incumbent President are living large in frivolous and lavish spending as seen in their budgetary allocations to themselves. Students loans already cornered. Hunger ruling without mercy, no end in sight to criminalities, terrorism , banditary, Fulani herdsmen menace and kidnapping for ransoms

Nigerians should know that they want to contend and contest not only against brutal Tinubu led APC that believed in antidemocratic highjacking and run with it principles but also against the Tinubu's INEC that will be ready to hand him a certificate of return even if he failed to contest in the forth coming 2027 general elections.


Infact, as far as 2027 is approaching, factor that can ensure free, fair and credible elections will be an unwavering determinations by Nigerians to enforce it at the polling units level against the ruling party, INEC and institutions and agencies of state or the readiness to go the Malian way or Burkina way in another hand if the need be for a democratic reset.

Nigerians should rather win the 2027 elections at the polling units or loss it forever.




Sir Dele Abiola
oluabiola81@gmail.com
 Bola Tinubu and
His INEC Chairman 

Elections are a central feature of representatives democracies. For elections to express the will of the electorate, they must be ‘free, fair’ and 'credible'.


Free, fair and credible elections are largely determined by the electoral body. Nigeria's independent National Electoral Commission INEC under Professor Mahmood Yakub or anyone as may be later appointed and their subordinates are the major bane and barriers to credible and acceptable elections in Nigeria. While the INEC neutrality is questionable, judiciary has long seized to be the last hope of anybody but a place of judicial trades for the very few with highest influence and highest bidders. The Nigeria's Judicial Service Commission has sanctioned in the past judges handling Election Petition Tribunals but not now any longer with the level of unhindered immunities in the temples of justice. So an unbiased electoral system and body for a free, fair and credible elections are non negotiable.

‘Free’ means that all those entitled to vote have the right to be registered and to vote and must be free to make their choice. According to our constitution, every citizen over the age of 18 is entitled to vote.

Also an election will be considered ‘free’ if you are allowed to decide whether or not to vote and vote freely for the candidate or party of your choice without fear or intimidation and or harassment. A ‘free’ election can also be regarded as where you are confident that who you vote for remains your secret.

By ‘Fair’, it means that all registered political parties have an equal right to contest the elections on the same level ground, campaign for voters support and hold meetings and rallies. This gives them a fair chance to convince voters to vote for them.

A fair election also denote an election in which all voters have an equal opportunity to register, where all votes are counted, and where the final results reflect the actual vote totals.

"Credible" implies an open and transparent process especially by the electoral umpire which will make the actual outcome capable of being believed by the more than simple majority of the citizens.

By credible, it also means the outcome of the the whole process is worthy of the citizens' confidence. The results are reliable and not manipulated. The level of genuine neutrality of the electoral commission dictates the credibility of any election.

Therefore, It's one thing for the election to be free and fair on the filed on election day across polling units, it's another thing entirely for the electoral umpire to admit and allow votes of the people to actually be the final outcome or results. The credibility of an election will make it even more acceptable to the losers and runner up without unnecessary litigations that usually accompany every election in Nigeria.


With the exception of the 1959 and the annulled June 12 1993 general elections, elections in Nigeria have always been marred by irregularities and lack of transparency from electoral body, collusion with either ruling or opposition party for manipulation of the election's outcome, implementing an electoral process with procedures that encourages violence and anarchy . The 1964/65 Western Regional and National elections, the 1979 and 1983 federal election, the 2003 and 2007 presidential and governorship elections were elections that encouraged anarchy as they were generally adjudged far below free, fair and lacked in any measure for credibility test, basically because of INEC collisions with either any of the contending major parties leading to endless litigations in each cases.


Meanwhile, aside the 2015 general elections which can simply be categorised and termed as a mob elections, the 2019 and 2023 general elections overtly revealed that those who voted had done nothing but those who counted and determined the votes are the ones that occupied the Central Processing Unit of the electoral and democratic system as it were very glaring for all to see in those elections.

Despite improved electoral laws and introductions of e-voting machine , B-Vas, there were overt indications of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) been bias, non transparent most especially with uses of even B-Vas, alterations of the election results both on B-Vas and on form EC8, inconclusive elections as a result of materials not timely taken to the polling units on election day.
Collusions with rejected APC national leader Tinubu to upturned the people's will, as Tinubu who paid their pipers dictated their tune in a supposedly general election meant for majority of the citizens to decide on who governs us for a period of four years. Remarks by incumbent president himself that he bought his way to the presidency also confirmed all these.

Coming to term with the individuals occupying various positions within the electoral umpire such as INEC chairman, INEC commissioner among others, the appointments to these positions are political appointments. This is exactly where and reason the credibility of the electoral outcomes are been compromised and sacrificed in Nigeria. Funny enough is that all those that have been appointed and served as INEC chairman are all university professors who have pleasures in subverting the will of the majority for their personal aggrandizements.


The appointment of the incumbent INEC chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu was said to have been influenced back the in 2018 by Bola Ahmed Tinubu and as a result, against all odds INEC chairman decided the outcome of 2019 presidential election in favour of Major General Muhammadu Buhari who had lost all credibilities to win the Said election considering the level of hungers, compounding existing Boko Haram with bandit and Fulani herdsmen menace amidst human rights violations, lack of respect for rule of law, etc. To simply put it, 'the CIA agent Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been in charged, remotiing and controlling INEC before ever becoming the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


The prospects of any free, fair and credible elections under him as the sitting president looks very invincible.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu ensured Buhari was re-elected through his puppet INEC chairman Mahmood Yakub in a grand calculation for his 2023 presidential ambition which saw him and his gangs unleashing all forms of deceits, manipulations and impersonation at the highest order including impersonating the clergymen.

The prospects and chances of having a free, fair and credible elections comes 2027 under the Tinubu led APC anti- people government and an INEC that takes orders directly from him will be absolutely impossible.


On the state of the political parties in Nigeria currently, just like the late military Totalitarian dictator General Sani Abacha was to emerged the sole presidential candidate of the all political parties formedy perior his sudden death in 1998, Tinubu and his Mafia camp have been earnestly working to undermine and subvert the democratic processes, moving the country towards a one party system.

The Tinubu and his Mafias who are in APC and in his government are also directly and indirectly dictating the fates of other political parties as PDP is in their hands too, while the same INEC has been the weapon of distabilisation in Tinubu's hands holding Labour Party (LP) down ineffectively immediately after the 2023 general elections just as was the case with Omoyele Sowore led African Action AAC after 2019 general elections. For the LP, INEC that refused to accept the kangaroo National Convention that returned Barrister Julius Abure as the National Chairman has also refused to upload the names of the Senator Nenadi Esther Usman led National Caretaker Committee of the party even after a Supreme Court judgement sacked else while Chairman Abure. For months now, INEC is still studying the court judgement.


Suffix to this is the fact that this same INEC has made the registration of new party nearly impossible. Even the Social Democratic Party SDP that some aggrieved politicians and citizens seemly running to can't be adjudged clear of Tinubu's influence. He was to contest the 2023 presidential election in the SDP platform if APC had denied him the presidential ticket.


Off season elections conducted so far in Edo, Ondo are another testaments of systemic disruption of oppositions in favour of the ruling party. These are the litmus tests if what to expect in 2027.


Removing the bias, unfair and non neutral Professor Mahmood Yakub by Mr President, to nominate another of his stoogees for the National Assembly to rubber stamped again may not help going forward to 2027 as the entire citizens of voting ages are on the verge of been manipulated and shortchanged again.

An electoral reform by the National Assembly that ensure that the sitting president does not nominate top INEC officers may go a long way to reduce underground and unconstitutional interference in the activities of the umpire.

Conclusively, as our forefathers at independence opted for a democratic and egalitarian society, it's the duties of all of us to mobilize, sensitize citizens on the needs for a credible, free and fair elections. We must continue to speak and stand against Intimidations and brazen harassment of voters as openly seen in 2023 presidential and national assembly elections and most especially the governorship elections in some states and Lagos, Rivers, Kogi in particular.

The essential of governance is to serve the people. Maximum pleasure for greater numbers of people but in the case of Nigeria and her citizens, it has been maximum pains for an absolute majority while the very few and less than minority including the incumbent President are living large in frivolous and lavish spending as seen in their budgetary allocations to themselves. Students loans already cornered. Hunger ruling without mercy, no end in sight to criminalities, terrorism , banditary, Fulani herdsmen menace and kidnapping for ransoms

Nigerians should know that they want to contend and contest not only against brutal Tinubu led APC that believed in antidemocratic highjacking and run with it principles but also against the Tinubu's INEC that will be ready to hand him a certificate of return even if he failed to contest in the forth coming 2027 general elections.


Infact, as far as 2027 is approaching, factor that can ensure free, fair and credible elections will be an unwavering determinations by Nigerians to enforce it at the polling units level against the ruling party, INEC and institutions and agencies of state or the readiness to go the Malian way or Burkina way in another hand if the need be for a democratic reset.

Nigerians should rather win the 2027 elections at the polling units or loss it forever.




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NIGERIA'S POLITICS: Tinubu's Silent and Strategic Manoeuvering For 2027

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 TINUBU vs FUBARA LONDON SECRETS, PDP POLITICAL DEFECTIONS & BETRAYAL: HOW TINUBU’S SILENT EARTHQUAKE IN RIVERS STATE IS REDRAWING NIGERIA’S 2027 MAP 

 


  BEHIND THE SMOKE OF RIVERS, A POLITICAL FIRE IS BURNING


 


While Nigerians were distracted by surface noise, the real political tremor was taking place behind closed doors—in hotel suites in London, in secret calls to Supreme Court chambers, and in the quietly defecting hearts of PDP governors.


 Rivers State is now the pilot scheme of Tinubu’s 2027 game plan, and the betrayal of Wike and El-Rufai is no coincidence—it’s a blueprint.

 

 “This is Clement’s prophetic Intelligence Seal Broken. As it was written, so it is decoded — Nigeria’s destiny is being rewritten in shadows.”


BREAKING INTEL SNAPSHOT:


 _✓ President Bola Tinubu reportedly held a closed-door meeting with suspended Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, in London during his working visit.


 The meeting appears to have placed pressure on Fubara, who may now soften his stance and consider key concessions—sparking speculation of an impending political compromise aimed at de-escalating the ongoing crisis in Rivers State.


 _✓ Delta State Governor Oborevwori and his predecessor Ifeanyi Okowa have officially defected from the PDP to the APC, signaling a major political shift in the South-South region._ 


 _✓ Dele Momodu cautions political leaders against the ongoing wave of defections, warning that Nigeria risks sliding into a dictatorship if democratic opposition is silenced or dismantled._ 


 

 LONDON DEAL: FUBARA'S TRANSFORMATION FROM PAWN TO PRESIDENTIAL PROJECT


Governor Fubara’s London rendezvous with President Tinubu wasn’t a handshake—it was a baptism of fire and reprogramming of purpose. He entered that room a political orphan, bruised from legislative ambushes and executive sabotage. But he walked out reborn—not as Wike’s rebel—but as Tinubu’s prototype.


London wasn’t a peace talk. It was a software installation. Tinubu didn’t fly Fubara out for tea and sympathy. He flew him out for firmware updates—to rewrite the South-South operating system and install a federalist version of Lagos-style command governance in the oil heartland.


 “When the monkey refuses to dance for the owner, the drummer must find a new performer.”


Wike was the old performer. Tinubu is auditioning a new dance.


 Let’s be clear: Tinubu deliberately excluded Wike from the London table—not because he forgot, but because he had outgrown his usefulness. 


 The “Lion of Port Harcourt” was no longer roaring—he was growling at the wrong end of the food chain.


 Tinubu simply cut out the noise and adopted the underdog.


Fubara is now the test-run for Nigeria’s newest political software update:


 “Subnational Loyalty 3.0.” No more godfathers. No more regional emperors. Just governors with direct presidential plug-ins, coded to run Abuja’s agenda from local desktops.

 

 Strategic Fallout:


Soft Capture:


 Tinubu is building an APC-compliant Rivers without flying party flags or raising electoral dust. It's not a campaign—it’s a quiet colonization.


Silent Purge:


 Over time, Tinubu will replace PDP-encoded loyalists with federal-aligned technocrats—clean, sharp, loyal to Abuja’s firmware. They may still wave PDP banners, but their hearts will beat APC frequencies.


 “A snake that sheds its skin is not dead—it’s upgrading.”


 And that’s what Fubara has become: an upgraded vessel for a federal command.

 

 Clement Final Inside decode:


 “What do you call a man who defeats his master, but never lifts a sword?”


 Answer : _A governor with a presidential SIM card.

 

 Fubara has become the political equivalent of an electric car—looks quiet, moves silently, but packed with shockwave voltage. He now runs not on Wike’s diesel, but on Tinubu’s invisible battery.


 In a few months, Rivers will wear PDP clothes, but speak APC grammar. Contracts, budgets, appointments—coded in the dialect of the Villa.


 What happened in London was not alignment—it was conversion.


 “The hunter who sees two elephants fighting does not shoot until he knows which one the king sent.”


 Fubara now wears the king’s signal.

  

  BETRAYAL AS A POLITICAL TOOL: TINUBU DUMPS WIKE LIKE EL-RUFAI 


This is not politics. This is chess with human souls.


Wike is only the latest victim of a very ancient presidential doctrine—one that begins with— "use," passes through "praise," and ends in "purge."


The moment you stop being useful, the music stops. Ask El-Rufai, the original warning sign.


 "When the lion builds his palace, he lets the hyenas clear the bush—but he never invites them to the throne room."


Wike, like El-Rufai, was instrumental in cracking 2023’s complex electoral code. But once the door was open, they were both too loud, too proud, and too strategic for comfort. Tinubu’s model is not built for co-kings—it runs on “solitary supremacy.”


The louder you are near Tinubu, the closer you are to the exit. That’s not advice—it’s prophecy.

 

 Strategic Analysis:


Tinubu's Silent Doctrine:


Loyalty must be silent, strategic, and sacrificial. Once it becomes vocal, visionary, or viral, it gets downgraded.


Wike and El-Rufai forgot the rule:


 “Power doesn’t like witnesses. It prefers blind loyalty or permanent silence.”


Pre-2027 Purge Protocol:


Tinubu is activating his pre-election firewall. Independent thinkers are threats, not allies. If you're dreaming beyond your assigned lane, you will be neutralized with or without noise.


Wike’s “ control freak tendencies” made him an open tab in Tinubu’s security system.


 El-Rufai’s intellectual swagger was a bug in the matrix. Both had to go.

 

 Clement decode:


Wike thought Abuja politics was like Port Harcourt wrestling—just shout louder and win.


 But Tinubu’s Abuja is a soundproof chamber—you shout, but no one hears you. You protest, but your SIM card is already blocked.


 “He who builds his relevance on volume will lose it in silence.”

 

 Clement insider decode of the Day:


 “What do you call a man who opens the gate for a king, then is locked outside the palace?”


 Answer: An ex-kingmaker who didn't read the fine print.

 

 Implication:


 Wike has now joined the El-Rufai Club of Decommissioned Allies—former firebrands turned political orphans.


 And there are more names in Tinubu’s political execution queue. Loyalty is not a shield. It’s a leash.


 If you tug too hard, you disappear.


“In the kingdom of Tinubu, survival is not about merit—it’s about muteness.”



 DEFECTING GOVERNORS: THE DOMINOES FALL WHILE PDP WATCHES.


Okowa and Sheriff are no longer whispering—they’ve crossed the Rubicon.


This isn’t rumor. This is realignment warfare. And like all power shifts in Nigeria, it wears agbada in the daytime but holds a dagger at night. What we are witnessing is not politics— *it is controlled bleeding of the opposition. One by one. Calmly. Efficiently. Like a butcher slicing meat for soup.


 “When the elephant begins to dance, the grass must prepare to die quietly.” 

 

 Strategic Analysis:

 

*Presidency’s Long Game:* 


Tinubu doesn’t need to win elections in opposition strongholds. He only needs to neutralize resistance by absorption, not aggression. Why fight PDP in oil states when you can slowly buy out their captains?

Offer them: 


 ✓ Safety from EFCC.


 ✓ Federal cash flow for states._ 


 ✓ Political future inside the “next national equation.”


“You don’t destroy the house by fire—you remove the nails one by one.”


The Niger Delta Squeeze:


 Okowa was Atiku’s running mate, now flipping to APC silently.

Oborevwori is following. This is a tactical power shift of the oil belt—designed to choke PDP’s funding arteries before 2027.


Tinubu is cutting off the oil but smiling while doing it.

 

 Clement Sarcasm Mode:


PDP is watching its governors leave like a husband watching his wife pack bags for another man—and still asking if she’s just going to the market.


They’re not defecting.

They’re defecting with their eyes wide open and a resignation letter in their hearts.


 “A man who sees thunderclouds and still spreads his clothes outside is not praying—he’s pretending.”

 

 Implication:

By Q3 2025, expect the following:


Bayelsa,  and even Akwa Ibom to lean closer to federal structure.


PDP will remain a name without territory, a lion without teeth—just old symbols and empty stadiums.


Tinubu will own the oil map, not through ballots—but through defection diplomacy.


“When your generals dine in the enemy’s camp, your fortress is already conquered.”

 

 Clement insider decode:


 “What do you call a party that still calls itself an opposition but has no territory, no treasury, and no team?”


 Answer: A memory with a logo._ 

 


 CONCLUSION: THE GAME IS NO LONGER STATE VS STATE – IT'S SYSTEM VS SYSTEM.


 This is no longer about Rivers alone. Tinubu is reprogramming Nigeria’s power logic. Through a mix of betrayal, legal trickery, economic control, and strategic silence, he’s building a nationwide pro-presidency network outside formal APC channels._* 


 If successful, this model will crack PDP’s structure, weaken Atiku’s 2027 chances, and replace political alliances with personal pacts.

 


Written by: 

PASTOR CLEMENT CAJETAN OKEREKE


Political Scientist, Strategic Analyst & Research Fellow

 Institute of Political Science and Strategic Studies (IPSS)


 _Founder of Clement Institute of Political Intelligence Network (CIPIN) – Think Tank Academy



Source: SM

 TINUBU vs FUBARA LONDON SECRETS, PDP POLITICAL DEFECTIONS & BETRAYAL: HOW TINUBU’S SILENT EARTHQUAKE IN RIVERS STATE IS REDRAWING NIGERIA’S 2027 MAP 

 


  BEHIND THE SMOKE OF RIVERS, A POLITICAL FIRE IS BURNING


 


While Nigerians were distracted by surface noise, the real political tremor was taking place behind closed doors—in hotel suites in London, in secret calls to Supreme Court chambers, and in the quietly defecting hearts of PDP governors.


 Rivers State is now the pilot scheme of Tinubu’s 2027 game plan, and the betrayal of Wike and El-Rufai is no coincidence—it’s a blueprint.

 

 “This is Clement’s prophetic Intelligence Seal Broken. As it was written, so it is decoded — Nigeria’s destiny is being rewritten in shadows.”


BREAKING INTEL SNAPSHOT:


 _✓ President Bola Tinubu reportedly held a closed-door meeting with suspended Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, in London during his working visit.


 The meeting appears to have placed pressure on Fubara, who may now soften his stance and consider key concessions—sparking speculation of an impending political compromise aimed at de-escalating the ongoing crisis in Rivers State.


 _✓ Delta State Governor Oborevwori and his predecessor Ifeanyi Okowa have officially defected from the PDP to the APC, signaling a major political shift in the South-South region._ 


 _✓ Dele Momodu cautions political leaders against the ongoing wave of defections, warning that Nigeria risks sliding into a dictatorship if democratic opposition is silenced or dismantled._ 


 

 LONDON DEAL: FUBARA'S TRANSFORMATION FROM PAWN TO PRESIDENTIAL PROJECT


Governor Fubara’s London rendezvous with President Tinubu wasn’t a handshake—it was a baptism of fire and reprogramming of purpose. He entered that room a political orphan, bruised from legislative ambushes and executive sabotage. But he walked out reborn—not as Wike’s rebel—but as Tinubu’s prototype.


London wasn’t a peace talk. It was a software installation. Tinubu didn’t fly Fubara out for tea and sympathy. He flew him out for firmware updates—to rewrite the South-South operating system and install a federalist version of Lagos-style command governance in the oil heartland.


 “When the monkey refuses to dance for the owner, the drummer must find a new performer.”


Wike was the old performer. Tinubu is auditioning a new dance.


 Let’s be clear: Tinubu deliberately excluded Wike from the London table—not because he forgot, but because he had outgrown his usefulness. 


 The “Lion of Port Harcourt” was no longer roaring—he was growling at the wrong end of the food chain.


 Tinubu simply cut out the noise and adopted the underdog.


Fubara is now the test-run for Nigeria’s newest political software update:


 “Subnational Loyalty 3.0.” No more godfathers. No more regional emperors. Just governors with direct presidential plug-ins, coded to run Abuja’s agenda from local desktops.

 

 Strategic Fallout:


Soft Capture:


 Tinubu is building an APC-compliant Rivers without flying party flags or raising electoral dust. It's not a campaign—it’s a quiet colonization.


Silent Purge:


 Over time, Tinubu will replace PDP-encoded loyalists with federal-aligned technocrats—clean, sharp, loyal to Abuja’s firmware. They may still wave PDP banners, but their hearts will beat APC frequencies.


 “A snake that sheds its skin is not dead—it’s upgrading.”


 And that’s what Fubara has become: an upgraded vessel for a federal command.

 

 Clement Final Inside decode:


 “What do you call a man who defeats his master, but never lifts a sword?”


 Answer : _A governor with a presidential SIM card.

 

 Fubara has become the political equivalent of an electric car—looks quiet, moves silently, but packed with shockwave voltage. He now runs not on Wike’s diesel, but on Tinubu’s invisible battery.


 In a few months, Rivers will wear PDP clothes, but speak APC grammar. Contracts, budgets, appointments—coded in the dialect of the Villa.


 What happened in London was not alignment—it was conversion.


 “The hunter who sees two elephants fighting does not shoot until he knows which one the king sent.”


 Fubara now wears the king’s signal.

  

  BETRAYAL AS A POLITICAL TOOL: TINUBU DUMPS WIKE LIKE EL-RUFAI 


This is not politics. This is chess with human souls.


Wike is only the latest victim of a very ancient presidential doctrine—one that begins with— "use," passes through "praise," and ends in "purge."


The moment you stop being useful, the music stops. Ask El-Rufai, the original warning sign.


 "When the lion builds his palace, he lets the hyenas clear the bush—but he never invites them to the throne room."


Wike, like El-Rufai, was instrumental in cracking 2023’s complex electoral code. But once the door was open, they were both too loud, too proud, and too strategic for comfort. Tinubu’s model is not built for co-kings—it runs on “solitary supremacy.”


The louder you are near Tinubu, the closer you are to the exit. That’s not advice—it’s prophecy.

 

 Strategic Analysis:


Tinubu's Silent Doctrine:


Loyalty must be silent, strategic, and sacrificial. Once it becomes vocal, visionary, or viral, it gets downgraded.


Wike and El-Rufai forgot the rule:


 “Power doesn’t like witnesses. It prefers blind loyalty or permanent silence.”


Pre-2027 Purge Protocol:


Tinubu is activating his pre-election firewall. Independent thinkers are threats, not allies. If you're dreaming beyond your assigned lane, you will be neutralized with or without noise.


Wike’s “ control freak tendencies” made him an open tab in Tinubu’s security system.


 El-Rufai’s intellectual swagger was a bug in the matrix. Both had to go.

 

 Clement decode:


Wike thought Abuja politics was like Port Harcourt wrestling—just shout louder and win.


 But Tinubu’s Abuja is a soundproof chamber—you shout, but no one hears you. You protest, but your SIM card is already blocked.


 “He who builds his relevance on volume will lose it in silence.”

 

 Clement insider decode of the Day:


 “What do you call a man who opens the gate for a king, then is locked outside the palace?”


 Answer: An ex-kingmaker who didn't read the fine print.

 

 Implication:


 Wike has now joined the El-Rufai Club of Decommissioned Allies—former firebrands turned political orphans.


 And there are more names in Tinubu’s political execution queue. Loyalty is not a shield. It’s a leash.


 If you tug too hard, you disappear.


“In the kingdom of Tinubu, survival is not about merit—it’s about muteness.”



 DEFECTING GOVERNORS: THE DOMINOES FALL WHILE PDP WATCHES.


Okowa and Sheriff are no longer whispering—they’ve crossed the Rubicon.


This isn’t rumor. This is realignment warfare. And like all power shifts in Nigeria, it wears agbada in the daytime but holds a dagger at night. What we are witnessing is not politics— *it is controlled bleeding of the opposition. One by one. Calmly. Efficiently. Like a butcher slicing meat for soup.


 “When the elephant begins to dance, the grass must prepare to die quietly.” 

 

 Strategic Analysis:

 

*Presidency’s Long Game:* 


Tinubu doesn’t need to win elections in opposition strongholds. He only needs to neutralize resistance by absorption, not aggression. Why fight PDP in oil states when you can slowly buy out their captains?

Offer them: 


 ✓ Safety from EFCC.


 ✓ Federal cash flow for states._ 


 ✓ Political future inside the “next national equation.”


“You don’t destroy the house by fire—you remove the nails one by one.”


The Niger Delta Squeeze:


 Okowa was Atiku’s running mate, now flipping to APC silently.

Oborevwori is following. This is a tactical power shift of the oil belt—designed to choke PDP’s funding arteries before 2027.


Tinubu is cutting off the oil but smiling while doing it.

 

 Clement Sarcasm Mode:


PDP is watching its governors leave like a husband watching his wife pack bags for another man—and still asking if she’s just going to the market.


They’re not defecting.

They’re defecting with their eyes wide open and a resignation letter in their hearts.


 “A man who sees thunderclouds and still spreads his clothes outside is not praying—he’s pretending.”

 

 Implication:

By Q3 2025, expect the following:


Bayelsa,  and even Akwa Ibom to lean closer to federal structure.


PDP will remain a name without territory, a lion without teeth—just old symbols and empty stadiums.


Tinubu will own the oil map, not through ballots—but through defection diplomacy.


“When your generals dine in the enemy’s camp, your fortress is already conquered.”

 

 Clement insider decode:


 “What do you call a party that still calls itself an opposition but has no territory, no treasury, and no team?”


 Answer: A memory with a logo._ 

 


 CONCLUSION: THE GAME IS NO LONGER STATE VS STATE – IT'S SYSTEM VS SYSTEM.


 This is no longer about Rivers alone. Tinubu is reprogramming Nigeria’s power logic. Through a mix of betrayal, legal trickery, economic control, and strategic silence, he’s building a nationwide pro-presidency network outside formal APC channels._* 


 If successful, this model will crack PDP’s structure, weaken Atiku’s 2027 chances, and replace political alliances with personal pacts.

 


Written by: 

PASTOR CLEMENT CAJETAN OKEREKE


Political Scientist, Strategic Analyst & Research Fellow

 Institute of Political Science and Strategic Studies (IPSS)


 _Founder of Clement Institute of Political Intelligence Network (CIPIN) – Think Tank Academy



Source: SM

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