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

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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2027: Timi Frank warns Northern, Southern leaders not to fall for Tinubu’s tricks

2027: Timi Frank warns Northern, Southern leaders not to fall for Tinubu’s tricks

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A Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has on Wednesday warned Nigerians not to be fooled by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tricks to again “grab power and run with it” in 2027. 


Frank who made this call in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, specifically urged Northern and Southern leaders including opposition parties to resist Tinubu’s desperate 2027 presidential bid.


He revealed that while Tinubu is on one hand blackmailing Southerners, especially opposition Governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) by playing the ethnic card to gain support, he is on the other hand threatening to deal with them if they fail to support him by declaring a state of emergency in their States over spurious charges of violence and corruption. 


"He has increased the intensity now by blackmailing, intimidating and putting at least five PDP Governors from the South under duress to defect along with their Members in the National Assembly to the APC. 


"To Tinubu, the 2027 election is about him versus the North and that is why he is trying desperately to enlist the support of the South through manipulation and subterfuge. 

He has forgotten so soon that the North helped him to get to power in 2023,” he said.


According to the Bayelsa-born political activist, 2027 should not be about North or South but who would  fix the myriads of challenges confronting the country, including the incessant killings, kidnappings and banditry as well as the harsh economic conditions foisted on the masses by Tinubu through fuel subsidy removal, increased electricity tariff and high cost of food and other essential services. 


He said: “Nigerians are in need of a President who will help Nigeria become better, not 'Northern candidate or Southern candidate' or 'Northern President or Southern President'.


“The country is overcharged already with divisions along ethnic lines. We therefore can't afford to have a President who is setting one region against another for the sake of his own personal ambition.


"For me, Timi Frank, as a Southerner, I don't believe in a tribalistic and divisive President. I believe in a leader that will come and unite rather than divide Nigeria. 


“I advise every Northerner still supporting Tinubu to have a rethink. They should know that the North that apparently ‘assisted’ Tinubu to gain power in 2023 is suffering the most today.


"It is a fact that the North has been grossly sidelined in appointments and other infrastructure development programmes by Tinubu who has prioritised his personal and tribal life-interests over everything else. 


"This is why the North should wake up. They should know this route Tinubu is going in terms of 2027 politics, is not the best for Nigeria. They should rise and speak with one voice in 2027.


"I want the Northern leaders to know that should Tinubu find his way back to power in 2027, the North will suffer untold neglect as Tinubu and the APC don’t have their genuine interest at heart.


"As we speak, at least five opposition Governors are set to defect to APC not because they like Tinubu but due to intense political pressure, intimidation and blackmail, while those who will remain have been made to sign undertakings to deliver their States to Tinubu, otherwise they will be made to lose their second term elections.


"Tinubu does not believe in the power of the people. Tinubu is working to steal the election results, to grab it (power) and run away with it like he did in 2023.


"If the North can't see the omen of imminent regional stagnation and destruction, they will regret it if they do nothing to stop Tinubu in 2027.


“Tinubu does not believe in democracy and that is why he has succeeded in ensuring that PDP, Labour Party and any other opposition parties are enmeshed in intractable internal crisis in order to deny capable and qualified aspirants platforms to challenge him in 2027. 


“His singular aim is to retain power in 2027 by hook or crook. He is doing all he can at the detriment of Nigerians, a complete negation of the oath of office he swore to on assumption of office as President.”


Timi Frank lamented that at the moment, Nigeria is on auto-pilot under Tinubu's watch, yet he (Tinubu) wants to force himself on Nigerians again in 2027. 


Timi Frank added: “Nigerians must on their part, prepare to reject Tinubu. It is the only patriotic thing to do as citizens. As citizens, we have a duty to reject a bad, clueless and rudderless leader and do all that is legally necessary to prevent him from returning to power.”


He urged the opposition leaders in the country to ensure that their coalition succeeds in defeating Tinubu in 2027.


"The coalition is in the best interest of Nigeria and Nigerians. I therefore appeal to the leaders of the coalition to put Nigeria and Nigerians first as their decision would help reshape the country and its future going forward,” he said.



Comrade Timi Frank is currently the ULMWP Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East


A Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has on Wednesday warned Nigerians not to be fooled by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tricks to again “grab power and run with it” in 2027. 


Frank who made this call in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, specifically urged Northern and Southern leaders including opposition parties to resist Tinubu’s desperate 2027 presidential bid.


He revealed that while Tinubu is on one hand blackmailing Southerners, especially opposition Governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) by playing the ethnic card to gain support, he is on the other hand threatening to deal with them if they fail to support him by declaring a state of emergency in their States over spurious charges of violence and corruption. 


"He has increased the intensity now by blackmailing, intimidating and putting at least five PDP Governors from the South under duress to defect along with their Members in the National Assembly to the APC. 


"To Tinubu, the 2027 election is about him versus the North and that is why he is trying desperately to enlist the support of the South through manipulation and subterfuge. 

He has forgotten so soon that the North helped him to get to power in 2023,” he said.


According to the Bayelsa-born political activist, 2027 should not be about North or South but who would  fix the myriads of challenges confronting the country, including the incessant killings, kidnappings and banditry as well as the harsh economic conditions foisted on the masses by Tinubu through fuel subsidy removal, increased electricity tariff and high cost of food and other essential services. 


He said: “Nigerians are in need of a President who will help Nigeria become better, not 'Northern candidate or Southern candidate' or 'Northern President or Southern President'.


“The country is overcharged already with divisions along ethnic lines. We therefore can't afford to have a President who is setting one region against another for the sake of his own personal ambition.


"For me, Timi Frank, as a Southerner, I don't believe in a tribalistic and divisive President. I believe in a leader that will come and unite rather than divide Nigeria. 


“I advise every Northerner still supporting Tinubu to have a rethink. They should know that the North that apparently ‘assisted’ Tinubu to gain power in 2023 is suffering the most today.


"It is a fact that the North has been grossly sidelined in appointments and other infrastructure development programmes by Tinubu who has prioritised his personal and tribal life-interests over everything else. 


"This is why the North should wake up. They should know this route Tinubu is going in terms of 2027 politics, is not the best for Nigeria. They should rise and speak with one voice in 2027.


"I want the Northern leaders to know that should Tinubu find his way back to power in 2027, the North will suffer untold neglect as Tinubu and the APC don’t have their genuine interest at heart.


"As we speak, at least five opposition Governors are set to defect to APC not because they like Tinubu but due to intense political pressure, intimidation and blackmail, while those who will remain have been made to sign undertakings to deliver their States to Tinubu, otherwise they will be made to lose their second term elections.


"Tinubu does not believe in the power of the people. Tinubu is working to steal the election results, to grab it (power) and run away with it like he did in 2023.


"If the North can't see the omen of imminent regional stagnation and destruction, they will regret it if they do nothing to stop Tinubu in 2027.


“Tinubu does not believe in democracy and that is why he has succeeded in ensuring that PDP, Labour Party and any other opposition parties are enmeshed in intractable internal crisis in order to deny capable and qualified aspirants platforms to challenge him in 2027. 


“His singular aim is to retain power in 2027 by hook or crook. He is doing all he can at the detriment of Nigerians, a complete negation of the oath of office he swore to on assumption of office as President.”


Timi Frank lamented that at the moment, Nigeria is on auto-pilot under Tinubu's watch, yet he (Tinubu) wants to force himself on Nigerians again in 2027. 


Timi Frank added: “Nigerians must on their part, prepare to reject Tinubu. It is the only patriotic thing to do as citizens. As citizens, we have a duty to reject a bad, clueless and rudderless leader and do all that is legally necessary to prevent him from returning to power.”


He urged the opposition leaders in the country to ensure that their coalition succeeds in defeating Tinubu in 2027.


"The coalition is in the best interest of Nigeria and Nigerians. I therefore appeal to the leaders of the coalition to put Nigeria and Nigerians first as their decision would help reshape the country and its future going forward,” he said.



Comrade Timi Frank is currently the ULMWP Ambassador to East Africa and Middle East

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Why Labour Party (LP ) May not be the Platform for 2027 General Election — Veteran Che

Why Labour Party (LP ) May not be the Platform for 2027 General Election — Veteran Che

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Mega movement will emerge to unseat APC in 2027 – NCF DG, Okunniyi (Veteran Che)


Already, the current situation for both Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party is that they are under a firm remote control of the Bola Tinubu led APC government. 


Nigerians surely need alternative political platform to rescue the country from misgovernance of Failed hope and total hopelessness of the APC.


Okunniyi

In this interview with WALE AKINSELURE, the Director-General of the National Consultative Front, Wale Okunniyi, discusses plans to form an “ultra-mega” coalition to challenge the All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2027 general election


Will the Labour Party remain the third force or will a new mega coalition emerge as an alternative to the APC in the 2027 election?


Cuts in… The Labour Party was the first force, if not for the rigging. It became the first force at the election after we created the Labour Party as the third force, and we won. Regarding 2027, we are not banking on a third force. We are going back to what we did in 2011 and 2015. In 2011, we started the mega summit movement to check the one-party rule of the Peoples Democratic Party, because the then-PDP National Chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor, said the party would rule for 60 years. At that time, we came together under the leadership of Chief Anthony Enahoro of blessed memory. I was the Secretary-General at that time too. Chief Olu Falae, and Odumegwu Ojukwu all had parties; Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and Dr Tunji Braithwaite came together to check the one-party rule of the PDP back then. We started that process in 2008. I was coordinating the secretariat at the time. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and General Muhammadu Buhari joined us. Atiku came in from the PDP. The PDP was in power, but he had issues with its leadership. So that was what we did at the time to check the one-party rule.


Subsequently, the APC gained ascendancy into power and the PDP was in opposition. We created the APC. We were in the Congress for Progressive Change then, with General Muhammadu Buhari. I insisted to General Buhari that the only way to go is to create something formidable and to bring all the parties together, including the Action Congress of Nigeria and we did that. We created the APC through a merger of CPC, ACN, part of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, All Nigeria Peoples Party and forces in the ruling PDP then, including the likes of Rotimi Amaechi, and Bukola Saraki. Some of us always compare notes for things like that, because that’s our speciality and we were able to create APC. But in 2017, we began to talk of a third force because the APC in power was not doing well. The PDP, as the opposition, was not doing well. So we decided that there must be a third force. We started with what you call the Nigeria Intervention Movement, with Olisa Agbakoba, Pat Utomi, Tafawa Balewa, and all of us. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo latched onto that and also supported us. It didn’t materialise because, at elections, the movement broke into various parties. And then you have 15 of us contesting as presidential candidates against the others. So there was no way we could have won that election. Some even worked with the PDP. In 2019, after that election, we decided that we were going to consolidate on the third force initiative. On June 12, 2019, at MKO Abiola’s house, we had a resolution that we would have a third force. The third force, which was meant to be a major movement, will sponsor only one party, and we will not allow our members to contest under different parties. Everybody who joined must work towards a party and that was what we did by talking to the people. And so we started the National Consultative Front to consult and to bring all the other forces into a third force. Obadiah Mailafia, Attahiru Jega, Prof Pat Utomi, even Nigeria Labour Congress Ayuba Wabba, Oby Ezekwesili, Olisa Agbakoba, Femi Falana and so on. All of us decided we needed a third force of a fresh breed of youths.


When did Mr Peter Obi become the candidate of the third force in the last general election?


At one point, we couldn’t get a party of our own to register. So we started looking for political parties to use. Despite all the disappointment we experienced with existing parties, we were able to, last minute, very late in 2022, when the electioneering had started, we decided on the Labour Party, and we emptied all our force into the Labour Party to create a third force. It boomed almost immediately. That was how Peter Obi came in to join us in that third force of the Labour Party. Nigerians took it from us as theirs, and the Obidient movement. That was a formidable movement and we won that election, if not for what happened. This was because we had done serious work leading to the adoption of the Labour Party. On October 1, 2021, we held a major advocacy conference and rally to talk about the electronic transmission of results. And all forces are gathered through that in readiness to work together in a political party.


Variously, we have had different forms of engagement of government or the ruling power, either as a third force or as a strong opposition. But what is emerging now is that there are strategies and consultations ongoing, silently, with even stakeholders in the APC and the forces of the youth movement, forces of the PDP, Labour Party, NNPP and so on to come together to save democracy.


Considering the failings of the past, how do you intend to have a successful third-force campaign this time?


We are doing this not for ourselves but for productive democracy so that it won’t be a one-party rule or one-party dictatorship. That is what we are trying to do. The consultation is ongoing, and we will get an existing political party – it might be the Labour Party, it might be the PDP, it might be NNPP – it might even be any other existing party that we can move into, rebrand and restructure for a negotiated democratic leadership to emerge. Then, we will create a real mega movement, an ultra-mega movement within that existing party. This is because we know, quite well, that INEC may not be disposed to registering a new party. We are trying to see whether we can register but, if INEC doesn’t register us, we can use any of the existing parties. I speak as the Director-General of the National Consultative Front, which is guiding this, with Prof Pat Utomi as the chairman. We started the process on February 6 last year, during the birthday ceremony of Prof Utomi. We have consultations ongoing among gladiators within APC, PDP, and LP. All this will coalesce into a major, formidable coalition party that will engage governance and the ruling party. This aims to sustain democracy, rescue Nigeria, and ensure Nigerians experience the benefits of democracy.


Is the target simply to contest in 2027?


Well, that is part of it because if you don’t contest power, how will you be able to carry out your ideological programmes? How do you execute your ideas? What we intend to do is to build something formidable that Nigerians can take as their own, through our messaging and ideological presentation. It is not because we are saints. This is what we want to do and we will stand by it. We will be true to it and be principled enough to make sure it happens. That is not a problem for us because we have done this thing over and over again.


What will be different this time?


This time, we will learn from our various mistakes from 2007. I remember Atiku Abubakar and Muhammadu Buhari were supposed to work together, to engage (Umaru) Yar’Adua, which didn’t materialise. I remember some of us were arrested at Onikan Stadium. We will learn from our various mistakes. Although we had it in 2015 as the APC, what happened later? Some people seized power and locked up the Villa. Buhari was held captive. He didn’t even remember some of us who were the brainbox of his emergence. He was locked up in the Villa and didn’t remember all we promised Nigerians we would do, starting from Pro-National Conference Organisation days. He even vowed to Chief Enahoro that he would do them if we made him the President, but he didn’t remember to do them.


What did Buhari promise Chief Enahoro?


In 2003/2004, he joined PRONACO. He sat before Chief Enahoro to say that if he emerges, he will implement the PRONACO resolution. He didn’t touch anything. So, we have come a long way and we will go full hog this time in consultation. Our forces are strategising on the best way to save the country, to rescue democracy, and to make sure that the people take ownership of their governance. It’s not for us; it is for the people. We are going to a major national summit soon, where all opposition politicians and progressives will have their say on the kind of party that should be created. That will happen in the year.


When is it likely for the plans to take shape this year?


We are looking at June/July after the national summit of political stakeholders. In May, there will be a major national summit of political stakeholders and the people will be invited to shape the future of the new, ultra-mega opposition political movement that will emerge. Something will emerge by July. The process is going on. Just watch out


Are Atiku, Peter Obi and their men involved?


At their levels, they are talking; they are consulting. So everybody is involved and every talking point will connect. Every talking point for a virile and formidable opposition will have to connect at some point. All the forces will connect at the national summit likely to be held in May. We can use any of the parties. It may even be the PDP. Be sure that any chosen party would have its leadership rebranded and restructured. If you take an existing party, like the PDP or Labour Party, for instance, you have to discuss with their leadership to allow you to rebrand and restructure. You may have to get the consent of the incumbent leadership of such parties. You have to first know that they are amenable to rebranding and restructuring.


Is the North buying into the agenda?


The consultation is nationwide. The North is involved. The North is more involved now and I don’t know the reason for that. I only know the North is more involved than the South. Probably, it is because the President is from the South and, maybe, they are feeling the heat more. Even the consultation is generic. People were on their own and saw the El-Rufai forces moving. So many stakeholders in the APC are even more driven by consultations than some of us in the progressive movement. This is not geared at a person; It is geared at saving democracy. The aim is to rescue Nigeria so that the people can be taken out of impoverishment and hardship foisted on them by some of the policies of the government. And the people can then give a mandate. The government in the last 30 years has refused to consult the people. The consultative process has died. The last time that some gimmick of consultation happened was under the administration of Ibrahim Babangida, when you had to debate the collection of the Structural Adjustment Programme loan; debate the constitution and all kinds of things. People know what the government wants to do. But in a democracy, unfortunately, government policies and programmes are shrouded in secrecy. Before you know it, the National Assembly has passed it and the constitution of Nigeria is such that the people don’t even have a role in their governance. If you look at Nigeria’s 1999 military constitution, there is no role for the citizens to play. A referendum or plebiscite is taken off the Nigerian Constitution. In Britain, you see consultations on issues of the presidency. In America, the parliament is quick to throw issues at the people. So we want to change all of that; we want to empower the people more, to give direction to the new government that will emerge in Nigeria.



Atiku recently alleged that the APC bribed the opposition with N50m. How will your movement navigate such tactics, if the allegation is true?


It is for the consultation itself to be quite open, transparent and genuine. If the consultation is genuine, transparent, and democratic enough, it will navigate all attempts to stifle opposition parties with funds or other tactics. So, it’s for us to be thorough; I’m not going to tell you strategies on the pages of the newspaper. We have not done that in the past. But we can tell you that consultations are ongoing. We are aware of all the moves and that is natural. It is a political game. So, we are aware and we are doing everything to overcome that.


You have links with various groups and political parties. Is The Patriots, a group led by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, among those being consulted?


The Patriots group is not part of the movement. It is the National Consultative Front that is driving this. The Patriots group is involved in the national question, issues of federalism, restructuring, cohesion, national unity, national stability, and national integration. That may involve reforming the polity, having a major constitutional restructuring of the country, and having national conferences, and constituent assemblies. Members of The Patriots are not involved in partisan politics. These are eminent Nigerians who are above partisan politics


Are you suggesting that Nigerians should place their hope in the coalition you’re building to offer a truly fresh hope?


Well, You can’t build something on anything. The policy direction of the government is so discouraging, and it has not helped the economy. So it is most disheartening and demoralising. Nigerians should be hopeful because the emerging coalition will be owned by them. We will take the ownership straight to them. Nigerians are going to be represented in the party. That is a ray of hope which I think they can latch on. You know, the government can call a national conference and nothing happens. I thought they said they were going to do a youth summit sometime. They didn’t do it. What manner of governance is that? You are taking the youth, the citizens for a ride?




Source: Punch 


Mega movement will emerge to unseat APC in 2027 – NCF DG, Okunniyi (Veteran Che)


Already, the current situation for both Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party is that they are under a firm remote control of the Bola Tinubu led APC government. 


Nigerians surely need alternative political platform to rescue the country from misgovernance of Failed hope and total hopelessness of the APC.


Okunniyi

In this interview with WALE AKINSELURE, the Director-General of the National Consultative Front, Wale Okunniyi, discusses plans to form an “ultra-mega” coalition to challenge the All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2027 general election


Will the Labour Party remain the third force or will a new mega coalition emerge as an alternative to the APC in the 2027 election?


Cuts in… The Labour Party was the first force, if not for the rigging. It became the first force at the election after we created the Labour Party as the third force, and we won. Regarding 2027, we are not banking on a third force. We are going back to what we did in 2011 and 2015. In 2011, we started the mega summit movement to check the one-party rule of the Peoples Democratic Party, because the then-PDP National Chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor, said the party would rule for 60 years. At that time, we came together under the leadership of Chief Anthony Enahoro of blessed memory. I was the Secretary-General at that time too. Chief Olu Falae, and Odumegwu Ojukwu all had parties; Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and Dr Tunji Braithwaite came together to check the one-party rule of the PDP back then. We started that process in 2008. I was coordinating the secretariat at the time. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and General Muhammadu Buhari joined us. Atiku came in from the PDP. The PDP was in power, but he had issues with its leadership. So that was what we did at the time to check the one-party rule.


Subsequently, the APC gained ascendancy into power and the PDP was in opposition. We created the APC. We were in the Congress for Progressive Change then, with General Muhammadu Buhari. I insisted to General Buhari that the only way to go is to create something formidable and to bring all the parties together, including the Action Congress of Nigeria and we did that. We created the APC through a merger of CPC, ACN, part of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, All Nigeria Peoples Party and forces in the ruling PDP then, including the likes of Rotimi Amaechi, and Bukola Saraki. Some of us always compare notes for things like that, because that’s our speciality and we were able to create APC. But in 2017, we began to talk of a third force because the APC in power was not doing well. The PDP, as the opposition, was not doing well. So we decided that there must be a third force. We started with what you call the Nigeria Intervention Movement, with Olisa Agbakoba, Pat Utomi, Tafawa Balewa, and all of us. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo latched onto that and also supported us. It didn’t materialise because, at elections, the movement broke into various parties. And then you have 15 of us contesting as presidential candidates against the others. So there was no way we could have won that election. Some even worked with the PDP. In 2019, after that election, we decided that we were going to consolidate on the third force initiative. On June 12, 2019, at MKO Abiola’s house, we had a resolution that we would have a third force. The third force, which was meant to be a major movement, will sponsor only one party, and we will not allow our members to contest under different parties. Everybody who joined must work towards a party and that was what we did by talking to the people. And so we started the National Consultative Front to consult and to bring all the other forces into a third force. Obadiah Mailafia, Attahiru Jega, Prof Pat Utomi, even Nigeria Labour Congress Ayuba Wabba, Oby Ezekwesili, Olisa Agbakoba, Femi Falana and so on. All of us decided we needed a third force of a fresh breed of youths.


When did Mr Peter Obi become the candidate of the third force in the last general election?


At one point, we couldn’t get a party of our own to register. So we started looking for political parties to use. Despite all the disappointment we experienced with existing parties, we were able to, last minute, very late in 2022, when the electioneering had started, we decided on the Labour Party, and we emptied all our force into the Labour Party to create a third force. It boomed almost immediately. That was how Peter Obi came in to join us in that third force of the Labour Party. Nigerians took it from us as theirs, and the Obidient movement. That was a formidable movement and we won that election, if not for what happened. This was because we had done serious work leading to the adoption of the Labour Party. On October 1, 2021, we held a major advocacy conference and rally to talk about the electronic transmission of results. And all forces are gathered through that in readiness to work together in a political party.


Variously, we have had different forms of engagement of government or the ruling power, either as a third force or as a strong opposition. But what is emerging now is that there are strategies and consultations ongoing, silently, with even stakeholders in the APC and the forces of the youth movement, forces of the PDP, Labour Party, NNPP and so on to come together to save democracy.


Considering the failings of the past, how do you intend to have a successful third-force campaign this time?


We are doing this not for ourselves but for productive democracy so that it won’t be a one-party rule or one-party dictatorship. That is what we are trying to do. The consultation is ongoing, and we will get an existing political party – it might be the Labour Party, it might be the PDP, it might be NNPP – it might even be any other existing party that we can move into, rebrand and restructure for a negotiated democratic leadership to emerge. Then, we will create a real mega movement, an ultra-mega movement within that existing party. This is because we know, quite well, that INEC may not be disposed to registering a new party. We are trying to see whether we can register but, if INEC doesn’t register us, we can use any of the existing parties. I speak as the Director-General of the National Consultative Front, which is guiding this, with Prof Pat Utomi as the chairman. We started the process on February 6 last year, during the birthday ceremony of Prof Utomi. We have consultations ongoing among gladiators within APC, PDP, and LP. All this will coalesce into a major, formidable coalition party that will engage governance and the ruling party. This aims to sustain democracy, rescue Nigeria, and ensure Nigerians experience the benefits of democracy.


Is the target simply to contest in 2027?


Well, that is part of it because if you don’t contest power, how will you be able to carry out your ideological programmes? How do you execute your ideas? What we intend to do is to build something formidable that Nigerians can take as their own, through our messaging and ideological presentation. It is not because we are saints. This is what we want to do and we will stand by it. We will be true to it and be principled enough to make sure it happens. That is not a problem for us because we have done this thing over and over again.


What will be different this time?


This time, we will learn from our various mistakes from 2007. I remember Atiku Abubakar and Muhammadu Buhari were supposed to work together, to engage (Umaru) Yar’Adua, which didn’t materialise. I remember some of us were arrested at Onikan Stadium. We will learn from our various mistakes. Although we had it in 2015 as the APC, what happened later? Some people seized power and locked up the Villa. Buhari was held captive. He didn’t even remember some of us who were the brainbox of his emergence. He was locked up in the Villa and didn’t remember all we promised Nigerians we would do, starting from Pro-National Conference Organisation days. He even vowed to Chief Enahoro that he would do them if we made him the President, but he didn’t remember to do them.


What did Buhari promise Chief Enahoro?


In 2003/2004, he joined PRONACO. He sat before Chief Enahoro to say that if he emerges, he will implement the PRONACO resolution. He didn’t touch anything. So, we have come a long way and we will go full hog this time in consultation. Our forces are strategising on the best way to save the country, to rescue democracy, and to make sure that the people take ownership of their governance. It’s not for us; it is for the people. We are going to a major national summit soon, where all opposition politicians and progressives will have their say on the kind of party that should be created. That will happen in the year.


When is it likely for the plans to take shape this year?


We are looking at June/July after the national summit of political stakeholders. In May, there will be a major national summit of political stakeholders and the people will be invited to shape the future of the new, ultra-mega opposition political movement that will emerge. Something will emerge by July. The process is going on. Just watch out


Are Atiku, Peter Obi and their men involved?


At their levels, they are talking; they are consulting. So everybody is involved and every talking point will connect. Every talking point for a virile and formidable opposition will have to connect at some point. All the forces will connect at the national summit likely to be held in May. We can use any of the parties. It may even be the PDP. Be sure that any chosen party would have its leadership rebranded and restructured. If you take an existing party, like the PDP or Labour Party, for instance, you have to discuss with their leadership to allow you to rebrand and restructure. You may have to get the consent of the incumbent leadership of such parties. You have to first know that they are amenable to rebranding and restructuring.


Is the North buying into the agenda?


The consultation is nationwide. The North is involved. The North is more involved now and I don’t know the reason for that. I only know the North is more involved than the South. Probably, it is because the President is from the South and, maybe, they are feeling the heat more. Even the consultation is generic. People were on their own and saw the El-Rufai forces moving. So many stakeholders in the APC are even more driven by consultations than some of us in the progressive movement. This is not geared at a person; It is geared at saving democracy. The aim is to rescue Nigeria so that the people can be taken out of impoverishment and hardship foisted on them by some of the policies of the government. And the people can then give a mandate. The government in the last 30 years has refused to consult the people. The consultative process has died. The last time that some gimmick of consultation happened was under the administration of Ibrahim Babangida, when you had to debate the collection of the Structural Adjustment Programme loan; debate the constitution and all kinds of things. People know what the government wants to do. But in a democracy, unfortunately, government policies and programmes are shrouded in secrecy. Before you know it, the National Assembly has passed it and the constitution of Nigeria is such that the people don’t even have a role in their governance. If you look at Nigeria’s 1999 military constitution, there is no role for the citizens to play. A referendum or plebiscite is taken off the Nigerian Constitution. In Britain, you see consultations on issues of the presidency. In America, the parliament is quick to throw issues at the people. So we want to change all of that; we want to empower the people more, to give direction to the new government that will emerge in Nigeria.



Atiku recently alleged that the APC bribed the opposition with N50m. How will your movement navigate such tactics, if the allegation is true?


It is for the consultation itself to be quite open, transparent and genuine. If the consultation is genuine, transparent, and democratic enough, it will navigate all attempts to stifle opposition parties with funds or other tactics. So, it’s for us to be thorough; I’m not going to tell you strategies on the pages of the newspaper. We have not done that in the past. But we can tell you that consultations are ongoing. We are aware of all the moves and that is natural. It is a political game. So, we are aware and we are doing everything to overcome that.


You have links with various groups and political parties. Is The Patriots, a group led by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, among those being consulted?


The Patriots group is not part of the movement. It is the National Consultative Front that is driving this. The Patriots group is involved in the national question, issues of federalism, restructuring, cohesion, national unity, national stability, and national integration. That may involve reforming the polity, having a major constitutional restructuring of the country, and having national conferences, and constituent assemblies. Members of The Patriots are not involved in partisan politics. These are eminent Nigerians who are above partisan politics


Are you suggesting that Nigerians should place their hope in the coalition you’re building to offer a truly fresh hope?


Well, You can’t build something on anything. The policy direction of the government is so discouraging, and it has not helped the economy. So it is most disheartening and demoralising. Nigerians should be hopeful because the emerging coalition will be owned by them. We will take the ownership straight to them. Nigerians are going to be represented in the party. That is a ray of hope which I think they can latch on. You know, the government can call a national conference and nothing happens. I thought they said they were going to do a youth summit sometime. They didn’t do it. What manner of governance is that? You are taking the youth, the citizens for a ride?




Source: Punch 


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Corruption & 2027: Do Nigerians really have a choice in APC & PDP? – Uzoma Ahamefule

Corruption & 2027: Do Nigerians really have a choice in APC & PDP? – Uzoma Ahamefule

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The choice Nigerians have to make between PDP and APC unfortunately is like an option given to a captive by abductors to choose how to be killed, whether by a slow means of being thrown into a cold room till the person’s last breath, or a fast one of being locked up in a room that is ignited to flame till the person burns to ashes. Whichever choice it is, it is tantamount to the same cruelty and excruciating death. That is the exact picture PDP and APC depict in the lives of Nigerians. In a nutshell, for the Nigerian masses APC and PDP represent corruption, failure, sorrow and agony. 

 

The high level of corruption experienced under APC and PDP in Nigeria is unimaginable and it has crippled every business and activity and killed the economy. Members of these two parties have not only supervised corruption to its optimal level but have also engraved it into Nigeria’s system and imbibed it as a culture. The way they are still stealing the collective wealth of the country without any consequence makes the Nigerian youths believe that fraud and ill-gotten wealth pay. This mentality has killed moral value, encouraged fraud (419) and destroyed the future of the young generation. A group of heartless people siphoning public funds meant for maintaining roads, building schools and equipping hospitals etc. – the most common things every government should dutifully provide for her citizens – are wickedly wicked, and such groups ought not to be in the corridor of power. 

 

The only business that is still flourishing optimally, very attractive and rewarding in Nigeria is corruption and Nigerian youths see it very viable and are joining en masse. The menace is so rooted in the country that every government sector has its own ugly style. The deep corrupt practices and indiscipline instilled into Nigerians by these politicians portray the country as one that may never function as a normal society. The whole system has been overwhelmingly messy in bribery and corruption. And if at all we will ever have the opportunity of reversing the vice and the ills, it will definitely not be under these two cancerous parties called PDP and APC as currently constituted.

 

A Nigerian politician will proudly tell Nigerians during election campaigns that he/she will deliver his/her polling booth, constituency or state for his/her political party. Such a rascal and arrogant proclamation is an intimidation to electorates, a threat to a free and fair election and anti-democratic. But the erroneous statement that invokes fear has been unfortunately made to look normal in Nigeria. Truth be told, anyone who makes such a statement should be closely watched, because the person will desperately do everything including falsification of election results in achieving that delivery. How can someone deliver a whole state or LGA to a candidate who is contesting an election if not through the instrumentality of fraud, thuggery and brutality – even killing? No individual has the capacity to singlehandedly deliver any candidate anywhere. Is that person the electorates that will vote? Definitely, if a man has got a good name, has integrity and is respected, he will surely influence people to vote anyone he supports. But to say that he will deliver a state for a candidate is an indirect threat and a warning that he will compromise the election. It is a place like Nigeria that a man will boldly tell people that he delivered his state to a candidate and he is hailed. Contestant’s records should do the delivery and not one criminal and his/her gangs who are good at moving around with armored vehicles and bullet proof cars from ward to ward on election days rewriting results, intimidating and snatching ballot boxes.

 

At this juncture it has become imperative to remind Nigerians that if we must get it right in 2027, we must demand the sack or resignation of the INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. The last election he conducted was a total failure and the worst in the history of Nigeria. Like Obasanjo once said, “We cannot reinforce failure”. If we want a functional society, the votes of citizens must count. Any year that starts to happen will begin our genuine walk to a total political freedom from the cobwebs of some criminal politicians called “godfathers”. It will throw up ample of good candidates with the required capacities and integrity that will patriotically lead for the interests of the people. A Nigerian politician who is evil knows that the day electorates’ votes count, will be the end of his/her reign of brutality and terror in Nigeria's treasury. But these groups of political vultures are shameless and will never give up, at least not willingly. It is either Nigerians accept the status quo or forcefully reject it. The choice is open.

 

APC and PDP members have made politics in Nigeria to be seen as a profession where the more one is horrible, brutal and manipulative, the more the person is recognized, highly respected and encouragingly rewarded with money, political positions or contracts. Additionally, the person could also be forcefully imposed on the people as their elected representative through shabby and manipulated elections. How unscrupulous and deeply corrupt a person is seems to be the standard of measurement set by these people that determine how successful a person will be in Nigerian politics. They reward evil and made corruption so attractive by establishing it as a well-paid flourishing enterprise. This has in return damaged the psyche of Nigerian youths and destroyed patriotism. 


APC and PDP always go for each other’s throat during elections, but do not be deceived for after every election, whichever party that manipulatively overpowers another, the majority of the members of the subdued party switch allegiance immediately on flimsy excuses and continue the same game of fraud and corruption etc. How many Nigerian politicians have been punished for budget padding? Who was arrested and prosecuted for the scandalous huge amount of monies reported to have been found in a house somewhere in Ikoyi, Lagos State? How many times have they constituted committees to look into allegation of corruption against some of them and how many of their reports saw the light at the end of the day? So, make no mistake of an absolute established fact that there is no difference between PDP and APC. Many of them are stinkingly rotten in corruption. They are the same bitter contents of agony and calamity every patriotic Nigerian is tired of and craves to get rid of. Results of affluence some of them display within short periods of going into politics are testimonies that make many believe the narrative that politics in Nigeria is a dirty that ought to be reserved solely for those without integrity and honor.

 

Typical Nigerian politicians are greedy and politically fraudulent. The moment they become victims of gang ups and evil they incubated, hatched and once enjoyed they ignite sentiments and religion, and gullible Nigerians will jump out like table tennis to defend the thieves. These groups of people are using us. We even sometimes quarrel and have problems with our relatives and friends in their defense. Some people are permanent enemies with some of their family members because of a politician. When are we the ordinary citizens going to stop defending them? The less privileged in the north are suffering like the ones in the south, east and west. Therefore, the problem is not we the ordinary citizens but these politicians who are in authority. When it comes to thieving and sharing our common wealth, their political zones, parties and religious backgrounds become irrelevant. When are we the ordinary Nigerians also going to learn and unite against these small groups of political Buccaneers and parasites for our liberation? How much stolen money have these shameless people who do not care about us invested in our various communities for the benefit of all? Is it not because of their greed and criminality that we do not have constant electricity, standard hospitals/schools and good roads? They have compromised and made kidnapping a lucrative business that forced many to flee their villages for the fear of their lives. Even those who do not have the resources to relocate have been forcefully sacked from their ancestral homes by internationally recognized terrorists but named bandits locally by the Federal Government. Can one justify the silence and inactions of defending us from aggressors by this group of unpatriotic bunch? The effects of the evil perpetrated by APC and PDP against Nigeria and Nigerians are so terrible. They have corrupted every institution even including the judiciary.

 

Since 1999 APC and PDP have been the two cancerous parties holding Nigeria down. It has always been reported that NNPC is one of the most corrupt sectors in Nigeria. Why do we lack the zeal and the patriotism to ask Nigerian past presidents who made themselves ministers of petroleum to give account of the oil Nigeria produced daily under their ministry and where the money went to? How can Nigeria’s soil be said to have uranium and the allegations of mining and theft of the resources by foreigners in collaboration with some indigenous criminals becomes the order of the day and yet we claim to have patriotic leaders?

 

For us to have a prosperous country that functions like a normal society and to be respected internationally APC or PDP is not a choice for Nigeria in 2027.

 

Succinctly, corruption has been embarrassingly institutionalized in Nigeria, stealing and dishonesty shamelessly made trendy and attractive. In a nutshell, Nigeria is a hijacked project and its steering wheels have been been firmly gripped by some sadistic assemblies of criminals in APC and PDP. The majority of these people who are supposed to be chained in different prisons for various offences against Nigerians are sadly in leadership positions dictating what happens in Nigeria’s affairs. It is a tragedy no one – high or low – will escape from.

 

Unless something drastic happens and urgently too, and Nigerians stand up in unity against this bunch of criminal conglomerates, we will continue to gnash our teeth in lamentation in the midst of abundance. My consolation has always been that karma is a bitch, for whatsoever one sows one reaps.

 

My heart bleeds for Nigeria!

 

Uzoma Ahamefule, a concerned patriotic citizen and a refined African traditionalist, writes from Vienna, Austria.

uzomaah@yahoo.com

+436607369050 (Please SMS messages only)


The choice Nigerians have to make between PDP and APC unfortunately is like an option given to a captive by abductors to choose how to be killed, whether by a slow means of being thrown into a cold room till the person’s last breath, or a fast one of being locked up in a room that is ignited to flame till the person burns to ashes. Whichever choice it is, it is tantamount to the same cruelty and excruciating death. That is the exact picture PDP and APC depict in the lives of Nigerians. In a nutshell, for the Nigerian masses APC and PDP represent corruption, failure, sorrow and agony. 

 

The high level of corruption experienced under APC and PDP in Nigeria is unimaginable and it has crippled every business and activity and killed the economy. Members of these two parties have not only supervised corruption to its optimal level but have also engraved it into Nigeria’s system and imbibed it as a culture. The way they are still stealing the collective wealth of the country without any consequence makes the Nigerian youths believe that fraud and ill-gotten wealth pay. This mentality has killed moral value, encouraged fraud (419) and destroyed the future of the young generation. A group of heartless people siphoning public funds meant for maintaining roads, building schools and equipping hospitals etc. – the most common things every government should dutifully provide for her citizens – are wickedly wicked, and such groups ought not to be in the corridor of power. 

 

The only business that is still flourishing optimally, very attractive and rewarding in Nigeria is corruption and Nigerian youths see it very viable and are joining en masse. The menace is so rooted in the country that every government sector has its own ugly style. The deep corrupt practices and indiscipline instilled into Nigerians by these politicians portray the country as one that may never function as a normal society. The whole system has been overwhelmingly messy in bribery and corruption. And if at all we will ever have the opportunity of reversing the vice and the ills, it will definitely not be under these two cancerous parties called PDP and APC as currently constituted.

 

A Nigerian politician will proudly tell Nigerians during election campaigns that he/she will deliver his/her polling booth, constituency or state for his/her political party. Such a rascal and arrogant proclamation is an intimidation to electorates, a threat to a free and fair election and anti-democratic. But the erroneous statement that invokes fear has been unfortunately made to look normal in Nigeria. Truth be told, anyone who makes such a statement should be closely watched, because the person will desperately do everything including falsification of election results in achieving that delivery. How can someone deliver a whole state or LGA to a candidate who is contesting an election if not through the instrumentality of fraud, thuggery and brutality – even killing? No individual has the capacity to singlehandedly deliver any candidate anywhere. Is that person the electorates that will vote? Definitely, if a man has got a good name, has integrity and is respected, he will surely influence people to vote anyone he supports. But to say that he will deliver a state for a candidate is an indirect threat and a warning that he will compromise the election. It is a place like Nigeria that a man will boldly tell people that he delivered his state to a candidate and he is hailed. Contestant’s records should do the delivery and not one criminal and his/her gangs who are good at moving around with armored vehicles and bullet proof cars from ward to ward on election days rewriting results, intimidating and snatching ballot boxes.

 

At this juncture it has become imperative to remind Nigerians that if we must get it right in 2027, we must demand the sack or resignation of the INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. The last election he conducted was a total failure and the worst in the history of Nigeria. Like Obasanjo once said, “We cannot reinforce failure”. If we want a functional society, the votes of citizens must count. Any year that starts to happen will begin our genuine walk to a total political freedom from the cobwebs of some criminal politicians called “godfathers”. It will throw up ample of good candidates with the required capacities and integrity that will patriotically lead for the interests of the people. A Nigerian politician who is evil knows that the day electorates’ votes count, will be the end of his/her reign of brutality and terror in Nigeria's treasury. But these groups of political vultures are shameless and will never give up, at least not willingly. It is either Nigerians accept the status quo or forcefully reject it. The choice is open.

 

APC and PDP members have made politics in Nigeria to be seen as a profession where the more one is horrible, brutal and manipulative, the more the person is recognized, highly respected and encouragingly rewarded with money, political positions or contracts. Additionally, the person could also be forcefully imposed on the people as their elected representative through shabby and manipulated elections. How unscrupulous and deeply corrupt a person is seems to be the standard of measurement set by these people that determine how successful a person will be in Nigerian politics. They reward evil and made corruption so attractive by establishing it as a well-paid flourishing enterprise. This has in return damaged the psyche of Nigerian youths and destroyed patriotism. 


APC and PDP always go for each other’s throat during elections, but do not be deceived for after every election, whichever party that manipulatively overpowers another, the majority of the members of the subdued party switch allegiance immediately on flimsy excuses and continue the same game of fraud and corruption etc. How many Nigerian politicians have been punished for budget padding? Who was arrested and prosecuted for the scandalous huge amount of monies reported to have been found in a house somewhere in Ikoyi, Lagos State? How many times have they constituted committees to look into allegation of corruption against some of them and how many of their reports saw the light at the end of the day? So, make no mistake of an absolute established fact that there is no difference between PDP and APC. Many of them are stinkingly rotten in corruption. They are the same bitter contents of agony and calamity every patriotic Nigerian is tired of and craves to get rid of. Results of affluence some of them display within short periods of going into politics are testimonies that make many believe the narrative that politics in Nigeria is a dirty that ought to be reserved solely for those without integrity and honor.

 

Typical Nigerian politicians are greedy and politically fraudulent. The moment they become victims of gang ups and evil they incubated, hatched and once enjoyed they ignite sentiments and religion, and gullible Nigerians will jump out like table tennis to defend the thieves. These groups of people are using us. We even sometimes quarrel and have problems with our relatives and friends in their defense. Some people are permanent enemies with some of their family members because of a politician. When are we the ordinary citizens going to stop defending them? The less privileged in the north are suffering like the ones in the south, east and west. Therefore, the problem is not we the ordinary citizens but these politicians who are in authority. When it comes to thieving and sharing our common wealth, their political zones, parties and religious backgrounds become irrelevant. When are we the ordinary Nigerians also going to learn and unite against these small groups of political Buccaneers and parasites for our liberation? How much stolen money have these shameless people who do not care about us invested in our various communities for the benefit of all? Is it not because of their greed and criminality that we do not have constant electricity, standard hospitals/schools and good roads? They have compromised and made kidnapping a lucrative business that forced many to flee their villages for the fear of their lives. Even those who do not have the resources to relocate have been forcefully sacked from their ancestral homes by internationally recognized terrorists but named bandits locally by the Federal Government. Can one justify the silence and inactions of defending us from aggressors by this group of unpatriotic bunch? The effects of the evil perpetrated by APC and PDP against Nigeria and Nigerians are so terrible. They have corrupted every institution even including the judiciary.

 

Since 1999 APC and PDP have been the two cancerous parties holding Nigeria down. It has always been reported that NNPC is one of the most corrupt sectors in Nigeria. Why do we lack the zeal and the patriotism to ask Nigerian past presidents who made themselves ministers of petroleum to give account of the oil Nigeria produced daily under their ministry and where the money went to? How can Nigeria’s soil be said to have uranium and the allegations of mining and theft of the resources by foreigners in collaboration with some indigenous criminals becomes the order of the day and yet we claim to have patriotic leaders?

 

For us to have a prosperous country that functions like a normal society and to be respected internationally APC or PDP is not a choice for Nigeria in 2027.

 

Succinctly, corruption has been embarrassingly institutionalized in Nigeria, stealing and dishonesty shamelessly made trendy and attractive. In a nutshell, Nigeria is a hijacked project and its steering wheels have been been firmly gripped by some sadistic assemblies of criminals in APC and PDP. The majority of these people who are supposed to be chained in different prisons for various offences against Nigerians are sadly in leadership positions dictating what happens in Nigeria’s affairs. It is a tragedy no one – high or low – will escape from.

 

Unless something drastic happens and urgently too, and Nigerians stand up in unity against this bunch of criminal conglomerates, we will continue to gnash our teeth in lamentation in the midst of abundance. My consolation has always been that karma is a bitch, for whatsoever one sows one reaps.

 

My heart bleeds for Nigeria!

 

Uzoma Ahamefule, a concerned patriotic citizen and a refined African traditionalist, writes from Vienna, Austria.

uzomaah@yahoo.com

+436607369050 (Please SMS messages only)

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(VIDEO) PDP, APC Renew Animosity in Osun State

(VIDEO) PDP, APC Renew Animosity in Osun State

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The narration in the video is by and for APC

The PDP point of view;

Those are APC members. 


Currently, they are on the trail.

Two days ago the Former commissioner brought a grader to grade a road having done it successfully in his Irewole Local government, Isokan LG repelled and asked them to leave with immediate effect. 

A few hours later, the chairman received information that they had started the grading with the support of Kabiesi of Apomu.

The chairman later sent the LG party chairman and one person to verify the rumor, on getting there they met multiple APCs with the motive that no one could stop them from grading. 

The part chairman was asking them about the rights they have to continue the grading after the Chairman's order, and that's how they started throwing stones.

They reported the case to the chairman on the phone and police were sent to halt the situation. From there the grader was taken back.





Today Saturday 25th May, 2025, the leaders of the PDP in Isokan Local Government, Apomu, Osun State paid a courtesy visit to the scene of the event where there was crisis between our party and the opposition party in the grading of Oke Alfa roads in Apomu.

At the meeting, we listened to the elders, youths, women and the generality of the people at the affected areas. They narrated how the event unfolded and decried the way by which the opposition party was trying to use the advantage to soil the image of the party in power.

The people appealed to our party to continue the grading of the affected roads if the normalcy will be restored. They raised concerns on the dilapidated roads and other social amenities catering for the needs of the people.

In the party's response, the party Chairman, Hon Akeem Yusuff appreciated the community leaders present and their tenacity in the face of tyrant government that PDP sacked. He highlighted the party's achievements in the little time we have spent in office as a party.

I, on behalf of the leaders of the party, the local government Chairman, Alhaji Azeez Lateef MAO appreciate the community leaders present and assured them that the grader which will be facilitated by the PDP will be provided on Wednesday to finish the grading of the affected roads. I seized the opportunity to itemize what we have done ranging from grading of rural roads from Ayepe to Egbeda village, Apomu - Awala - Egbeda road, the current taring of Lagbaja to Ikoyi road, Abiri to Total market, St Barnabas to Agbowo road which will be constructed in no distant time in Isokan Local Government.

The party noted the ordeals of the people affected by the crisis and assured them of more dividends of democracy without further delay.

Similarly, I paid a visit to the road which was recently approved by the state government in Apomu under the leadership of Sen Ademola Adeleke, the Executive Governor of Osun State. I lauded the Governor for this dividend of democracy provided for the good people of our local government and assured him of full support of the people towards his administration.

Lagbaja junction to Magistrate Court in Ikoyi is a very sensitive road in Isokan Local Government which when completed would improve the lives of the people and the economic development of the communities that the road links together. I join the myriad of leaders in Isokan Local Government to appreciate the Governor for a job well done and his love for our local government for this great gestures extended with the aim of improving the welfare of the people.

*Signed:*
*Hon Lanre Oladebo MHR,*
*Ayedaade/Irewole/Isokan Federal Constituency,*
*Osun State.*


 


The narration in the video is by and for APC

The PDP point of view;

Those are APC members. 


Currently, they are on the trail.

Two days ago the Former commissioner brought a grader to grade a road having done it successfully in his Irewole Local government, Isokan LG repelled and asked them to leave with immediate effect. 

A few hours later, the chairman received information that they had started the grading with the support of Kabiesi of Apomu.

The chairman later sent the LG party chairman and one person to verify the rumor, on getting there they met multiple APCs with the motive that no one could stop them from grading. 

The part chairman was asking them about the rights they have to continue the grading after the Chairman's order, and that's how they started throwing stones.

They reported the case to the chairman on the phone and police were sent to halt the situation. From there the grader was taken back.





Today Saturday 25th May, 2025, the leaders of the PDP in Isokan Local Government, Apomu, Osun State paid a courtesy visit to the scene of the event where there was crisis between our party and the opposition party in the grading of Oke Alfa roads in Apomu.

At the meeting, we listened to the elders, youths, women and the generality of the people at the affected areas. They narrated how the event unfolded and decried the way by which the opposition party was trying to use the advantage to soil the image of the party in power.

The people appealed to our party to continue the grading of the affected roads if the normalcy will be restored. They raised concerns on the dilapidated roads and other social amenities catering for the needs of the people.

In the party's response, the party Chairman, Hon Akeem Yusuff appreciated the community leaders present and their tenacity in the face of tyrant government that PDP sacked. He highlighted the party's achievements in the little time we have spent in office as a party.

I, on behalf of the leaders of the party, the local government Chairman, Alhaji Azeez Lateef MAO appreciate the community leaders present and assured them that the grader which will be facilitated by the PDP will be provided on Wednesday to finish the grading of the affected roads. I seized the opportunity to itemize what we have done ranging from grading of rural roads from Ayepe to Egbeda village, Apomu - Awala - Egbeda road, the current taring of Lagbaja to Ikoyi road, Abiri to Total market, St Barnabas to Agbowo road which will be constructed in no distant time in Isokan Local Government.

The party noted the ordeals of the people affected by the crisis and assured them of more dividends of democracy without further delay.

Similarly, I paid a visit to the road which was recently approved by the state government in Apomu under the leadership of Sen Ademola Adeleke, the Executive Governor of Osun State. I lauded the Governor for this dividend of democracy provided for the good people of our local government and assured him of full support of the people towards his administration.

Lagbaja junction to Magistrate Court in Ikoyi is a very sensitive road in Isokan Local Government which when completed would improve the lives of the people and the economic development of the communities that the road links together. I join the myriad of leaders in Isokan Local Government to appreciate the Governor for a job well done and his love for our local government for this great gestures extended with the aim of improving the welfare of the people.

*Signed:*
*Hon Lanre Oladebo MHR,*
*Ayedaade/Irewole/Isokan Federal Constituency,*
*Osun State.*


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Obi, Atiku United in the Cause

Obi, Atiku United in the Cause

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POEM Deepens...
If you had time to study the HE Peter Obi and Labour Party final address on one hand and the HE Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party's own on the other, one would notice a path of unity in almost all arguments. Both addresses were in response to HE Bola Ahmed Tinubu and HE Kashim Shettima's own final address in defence of the heist called the February 25 presidential election conducted by the Prof Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Both petitioners' sets of legal teams brushed aside the arrogance, provocation and threats from the rabble-rousing team led by Wole Olanipekun, SAN to dwell on issues of their respective petitions. Drawing from both the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the 2022 Electoral Act, both teams cleanly pushed the dagger through the arteries of the Respondents by providing proofs evidently beyond every reasonable doubt in matters relating to non-compliance, Tinubu's drug-related forfeiture business, forgery of certificates, Shettima's double nomination and the matter of 25% votes in the Federal Capital Territory.

Most interesting of the arguments can be enjoyed from digesting the submissions both ventilated while supplying proofs upon proofs, including citations, of the intentions of the drafters of the constitution by the use of *AND* in reference to 25% of the votes cast in at least ⅔ of the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT, Abuja.

Though choosing their different sets of words, both teams arrived at exactly the same conclusion - any president of Nigeria *MUST* obtain at least 25% of the total number of the votes cast at the FCT in addition to other constitutional requirements, to be declared president-elect. Tinubu did not, and both parties are crying foul. 

It is significant to note here that even when Atiku and the PDP did not get up to the required 25% votes in FCT, they stoutly defended the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Kudos to Atiku, the PDP and their legal team for insisting on the right thing even when they would not benefit directly from the move. A new Nigeria is indeed POssible!

The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-man Tribunal is on the spotlight. Expectations are quite high that they should rise to the occasion and deliver equitable justice. The nation is all eyes as much as the international communities, especially the European Union, who sunk a whopping €38 million into the exercise, having been convinced by Prof Yakubu and his INEC that the election was going to be free, fair and credible.

Tsammani has the yearning chance to clean up the mess of Yakubu and let the country enjoy the confidence of the EU and the watching world. No country lives in isolation from the rest of the world, and a country of over 200 million should not be an exception.

#ANewNigeriaIsPOssible

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POEM Deepens...
If you had time to study the HE Peter Obi and Labour Party final address on one hand and the HE Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party's own on the other, one would notice a path of unity in almost all arguments. Both addresses were in response to HE Bola Ahmed Tinubu and HE Kashim Shettima's own final address in defence of the heist called the February 25 presidential election conducted by the Prof Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Both petitioners' sets of legal teams brushed aside the arrogance, provocation and threats from the rabble-rousing team led by Wole Olanipekun, SAN to dwell on issues of their respective petitions. Drawing from both the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the 2022 Electoral Act, both teams cleanly pushed the dagger through the arteries of the Respondents by providing proofs evidently beyond every reasonable doubt in matters relating to non-compliance, Tinubu's drug-related forfeiture business, forgery of certificates, Shettima's double nomination and the matter of 25% votes in the Federal Capital Territory.

Most interesting of the arguments can be enjoyed from digesting the submissions both ventilated while supplying proofs upon proofs, including citations, of the intentions of the drafters of the constitution by the use of *AND* in reference to 25% of the votes cast in at least ⅔ of the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT, Abuja.

Though choosing their different sets of words, both teams arrived at exactly the same conclusion - any president of Nigeria *MUST* obtain at least 25% of the total number of the votes cast at the FCT in addition to other constitutional requirements, to be declared president-elect. Tinubu did not, and both parties are crying foul. 

It is significant to note here that even when Atiku and the PDP did not get up to the required 25% votes in FCT, they stoutly defended the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Kudos to Atiku, the PDP and their legal team for insisting on the right thing even when they would not benefit directly from the move. A new Nigeria is indeed POssible!

The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-man Tribunal is on the spotlight. Expectations are quite high that they should rise to the occasion and deliver equitable justice. The nation is all eyes as much as the international communities, especially the European Union, who sunk a whopping €38 million into the exercise, having been convinced by Prof Yakubu and his INEC that the election was going to be free, fair and credible.

Tsammani has the yearning chance to clean up the mess of Yakubu and let the country enjoy the confidence of the EU and the watching world. No country lives in isolation from the rest of the world, and a country of over 200 million should not be an exception.

#ANewNigeriaIsPOssible

This is POEM
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10TH Senate Leadership: My Appeal To PDP Senators

10TH Senate Leadership: My Appeal To PDP Senators

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By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. 



Since the beginning of this Republic in 1999, the preference for People's Democratic Party by the people of South Eastern Nigeria has been proven time and time again!


 Their rejection of APC's Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 was almost total which invented the 95% 5% political formula. It denied the Region of Senate Presidency because the region practically had no representation in 8th Senate. If not for bigandry of power, 2019 would have followed the pattern of 2015!


Opposition is the grace that beautifies democracy. Its dynamism saw APC to power. No one can take it away from APC. They provided the most informed opposition laced with media propaganda to push PDP out of power!


 Reflecting on the Attempt by PDP led administration of President Goodluck Jonathan to remove petroleum subsidies and how the then National Leader of ACN and Now President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu provided inspirational leadership to tackle PDP on its betrayal of people's contract from which PDP never recovered, is of essence to all PDP Senators to guarantee the survival of Nigeria as one, united country and at finding the way forward for their party to come back to power in the future!


Successful removal of subsidy practically on the first day of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in office shows the impotence of opposition politics in Nigeria presently. 


The docility of PDP as the leading opposition party since the advent of APC to power in 2015 is very disturbing! In fact, some political pundits are of the opinion that the PDP is too elitist to play the role of opposition while some APC top brass believe the most opposition recently have come from the so called Obidients. 


 Some other individuals have provided better opposition to APC administration than PDP as a political party! 


 This doesn't augur well for the development of democracy and its institutions. PDP therefore owe it a duty to democracy; having the leading number of opposition Senators, a trust the electorate has conferred on them to hold sacred this responsibility. Will they let it slip to LP or get on the game to provide opposition; galvanise LP, APGA, NNPP and others in the Senate for the sake of protecting Democracy!


Inevitably, positioning for proactive and pragmatic opposition is more importantly for all PDP Senators now and they should make that their primary responsibility! 


PDP Senators should put in context the solo effort of BAT in the regionalized pump price of PMS against what is available in OPEC nations. 


Making a case for this administration as far as subsidy is concerned is double speaking and no man of conscience should have a part in that.


This subsidy removal is a remote assurance of a successful tenure. To hail any successful outcome of this Government at the end of 4 years with the luxury of subsidy removal allowed her which was denied others will be unfair. Let this be on record.


The future of PDP as a party hangs in the balance, the side to which this will tilt is entirely up to PDP Members in the National Assembly, they either trade their personal aggrandizement for the future of their party, or eat up their political careers through blind pursuit of avarice.


My interpretation of the body language of the judiciary through the ongoing election petition suggests a judiciary system functioning from a bat right side pocket.


 Letting BAT have his way at putting the NASS in his left pocket through interfering in the politics of who and who emerges as their leaders will prove to be a costly mistake if ever allowed to happen!


Sentiments are snares in politics, but could be an effective ace at pushing odds through, in any political engagement if employed by strategy.


I stand to be corrected, it appears to me that the new Government is already showing signs of authoritarianism which if not checked will end our democratic experience in a one party system or end it finally.


It will be a disservice to Nigerians and to democracy if the Government is allowed to successfully edge us towards the path of a failed democracy.


The choice of Akpabio by BAT is hinged on the contract that saw him step down for BAT. 


While it is okay for BAT to reward Akpabio, should it be with a decision that is exclusively the right of 108 members of the Senate to make?


It is quite considerate for APC to zone the Senate Presidency to the South East or South South, but micro Zoning it Akpabio is nothing other than exhibiting impunity of power over the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and taking every single Senator elected by the people for granted!


My trip to Umuahia to witness the inauguration of Dr Alex Otti as the Executive Governor of Abia state brought me face to face with the reality of the need to immediately and deliberately integrate the region into national structure of Government in the interest of giving the people of South East the opportunity to see prospects in one, big and united Nigeria. 


I cared less where goes the Senate Presidency provided it's not tied to the apron of BAT led presidency, but not after my historical trip to Umuahia. The vortex of political conflagration in the region is capable of destroying our dream of one united Nigeria. 


I will write of my experience in an article to be titled, "Biafra; a Republic within Republic", but for now, let me present to the PDP Senators the urgent need to reassure that region and suck them in. The military occupation of the South East is embarrassing to the spirit of democracy, which abhors a police state, not to speak about militarization of social and public space.


The event of Otti's inauguration was a flicker of hope to democracy. My road trip from Lagos to Umuahia was like travelling through a region at war to see the enthronment of democracy. The crowd at the stadium was unprecedented. All gates to the stadium were shut few hours into the programme to prevent the sea of heads on all the streets leading to the stadium, from gaining access, which of course could cause a stampede.


 The crowd were however content with being around the venue and remained on the streets till the event was over! A big endorsement for the people's Government and their Governor. No doubt, Otti is who they voted for. And what they ordered, Democracy delivered!


Amazing however was waking up to the intimidation of the celebration of Biafra Day on Tuesday 30th of May. I was to leave Umuahia that day with my wife but couldn't because banks were closed and we were advised not to leave Umuahia for Owerri as we have to pass through Mbaise which is among pockets of communities in the South East hosting the minority IPOB sympathizers against the wishes of the majority for democratic participation in a one big and greater nation proven by what we witnessed at Otti's inauguration!


May I appeal to Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the 10th Assembly to put their country Nigeria first, and consider South East for Senate Presidency. This may be needed activation of a suck in process of the Republic within a Republic.

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. 



Since the beginning of this Republic in 1999, the preference for People's Democratic Party by the people of South Eastern Nigeria has been proven time and time again!


 Their rejection of APC's Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 was almost total which invented the 95% 5% political formula. It denied the Region of Senate Presidency because the region practically had no representation in 8th Senate. If not for bigandry of power, 2019 would have followed the pattern of 2015!


Opposition is the grace that beautifies democracy. Its dynamism saw APC to power. No one can take it away from APC. They provided the most informed opposition laced with media propaganda to push PDP out of power!


 Reflecting on the Attempt by PDP led administration of President Goodluck Jonathan to remove petroleum subsidies and how the then National Leader of ACN and Now President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu provided inspirational leadership to tackle PDP on its betrayal of people's contract from which PDP never recovered, is of essence to all PDP Senators to guarantee the survival of Nigeria as one, united country and at finding the way forward for their party to come back to power in the future!


Successful removal of subsidy practically on the first day of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in office shows the impotence of opposition politics in Nigeria presently. 


The docility of PDP as the leading opposition party since the advent of APC to power in 2015 is very disturbing! In fact, some political pundits are of the opinion that the PDP is too elitist to play the role of opposition while some APC top brass believe the most opposition recently have come from the so called Obidients. 


 Some other individuals have provided better opposition to APC administration than PDP as a political party! 


 This doesn't augur well for the development of democracy and its institutions. PDP therefore owe it a duty to democracy; having the leading number of opposition Senators, a trust the electorate has conferred on them to hold sacred this responsibility. Will they let it slip to LP or get on the game to provide opposition; galvanise LP, APGA, NNPP and others in the Senate for the sake of protecting Democracy!


Inevitably, positioning for proactive and pragmatic opposition is more importantly for all PDP Senators now and they should make that their primary responsibility! 


PDP Senators should put in context the solo effort of BAT in the regionalized pump price of PMS against what is available in OPEC nations. 


Making a case for this administration as far as subsidy is concerned is double speaking and no man of conscience should have a part in that.


This subsidy removal is a remote assurance of a successful tenure. To hail any successful outcome of this Government at the end of 4 years with the luxury of subsidy removal allowed her which was denied others will be unfair. Let this be on record.


The future of PDP as a party hangs in the balance, the side to which this will tilt is entirely up to PDP Members in the National Assembly, they either trade their personal aggrandizement for the future of their party, or eat up their political careers through blind pursuit of avarice.


My interpretation of the body language of the judiciary through the ongoing election petition suggests a judiciary system functioning from a bat right side pocket.


 Letting BAT have his way at putting the NASS in his left pocket through interfering in the politics of who and who emerges as their leaders will prove to be a costly mistake if ever allowed to happen!


Sentiments are snares in politics, but could be an effective ace at pushing odds through, in any political engagement if employed by strategy.


I stand to be corrected, it appears to me that the new Government is already showing signs of authoritarianism which if not checked will end our democratic experience in a one party system or end it finally.


It will be a disservice to Nigerians and to democracy if the Government is allowed to successfully edge us towards the path of a failed democracy.


The choice of Akpabio by BAT is hinged on the contract that saw him step down for BAT. 


While it is okay for BAT to reward Akpabio, should it be with a decision that is exclusively the right of 108 members of the Senate to make?


It is quite considerate for APC to zone the Senate Presidency to the South East or South South, but micro Zoning it Akpabio is nothing other than exhibiting impunity of power over the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and taking every single Senator elected by the people for granted!


My trip to Umuahia to witness the inauguration of Dr Alex Otti as the Executive Governor of Abia state brought me face to face with the reality of the need to immediately and deliberately integrate the region into national structure of Government in the interest of giving the people of South East the opportunity to see prospects in one, big and united Nigeria. 


I cared less where goes the Senate Presidency provided it's not tied to the apron of BAT led presidency, but not after my historical trip to Umuahia. The vortex of political conflagration in the region is capable of destroying our dream of one united Nigeria. 


I will write of my experience in an article to be titled, "Biafra; a Republic within Republic", but for now, let me present to the PDP Senators the urgent need to reassure that region and suck them in. The military occupation of the South East is embarrassing to the spirit of democracy, which abhors a police state, not to speak about militarization of social and public space.


The event of Otti's inauguration was a flicker of hope to democracy. My road trip from Lagos to Umuahia was like travelling through a region at war to see the enthronment of democracy. The crowd at the stadium was unprecedented. All gates to the stadium were shut few hours into the programme to prevent the sea of heads on all the streets leading to the stadium, from gaining access, which of course could cause a stampede.


 The crowd were however content with being around the venue and remained on the streets till the event was over! A big endorsement for the people's Government and their Governor. No doubt, Otti is who they voted for. And what they ordered, Democracy delivered!


Amazing however was waking up to the intimidation of the celebration of Biafra Day on Tuesday 30th of May. I was to leave Umuahia that day with my wife but couldn't because banks were closed and we were advised not to leave Umuahia for Owerri as we have to pass through Mbaise which is among pockets of communities in the South East hosting the minority IPOB sympathizers against the wishes of the majority for democratic participation in a one big and greater nation proven by what we witnessed at Otti's inauguration!


May I appeal to Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the 10th Assembly to put their country Nigeria first, and consider South East for Senate Presidency. This may be needed activation of a suck in process of the Republic within a Republic.

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Labour Party: Lamidi Apapa's missing cap

Labour Party: Lamidi Apapa's missing cap

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Festus Adedayo


Turbulent anger of Obidients landed on Lamidi Apapa last week. By the time their anger petered out, Apapa had lost his cap to a God-knows-who. Esu Elegbara, the trickster deity of the Yoruba people, it will seem, lives in caps. Though most of the exploits of Esu exist in myths, Yoruba constructed a pantheon of beliefs that implicate the Esu as divisive and full of tricks. One of such, sauced in mythology, was translated into a very sobering track by ace Yoruba Awurebe musician, Alhaji Dauda Akanmu Adeeyo, popularly known as Dauda Epo Akara. Famous for his anecdotal offerings affixed to virtually all his songs, Adeeyo got this sobriquet, for which he was more known by than his actual name, while he was a pupil in primary school. His uniforms were always soaked in bean cake oil called Epo Akara.



The Ibadan maestro entitled the track under reference Itan Ore Meji – the tale of two friends – in a parent album he called My Mother. Like Epo Akara, in 1987, Donald Cosentino, a lecturer in the Folklore and Mythology Programme of the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote an article for The Journal of American Folklore which he entitled Who Is That Fellow in the Many-Colored Cap? Transformations of Eshu in Old and New World Mythologies (Vol. 100, No. 397. Jul. - Sep., 1987). In it, he also situated the Esu as author of dissent, “an exponent of ceaseless rearrangements” and a dissembler. Esu, said Cosentino, is a counterpart to Ifa, who the Yoruba see as the Lord of Divination and through whom sacrifices and propitiations are made to God for peace in the world.


Epo Akara and Cosentino’s narratives are not dissimilar. The two of them began this folklore thus: There existed two friends who were so fond of each other and inseparable. They were objects of discussions by the whole village. In fact, sang Epo Akara, won ki ja, won kii ta – they never had a word of disagreement since they began their friendship from their infancy. So, one day, Esu swore to cause irreparable discord between them. The object he cast for that dissention was a cap. So the Esu sowed a multicolored cap, something in the mould of Dolly Parton’s coat of many colours. The colours, says Cosentino, have been “variously described as red and white; red, white and blue; or red, white, green, and black.”


Epo Akara, however, put the colours of the cap as white and black. So the Esu transformed himself into an irresistibly dressed, handsome young man in dainty Aso Oke and Sanyan cap. As the two friends sat in a foyer chattering, Esu walked between them and in the words of Cosentino, “put his pipe at the nape of his neck and hung his staff over his back.” As Esu walked past the two friends, in the rendering of the Awurebe musician, the first friend called the attention of his pal to the cap, which he said was black. Once he had money, the friend remarked, it would be his delight to buy it – bi mo ri’ru e, ma ra’kan, Balarabi, Wali Muhanmonda. The friend fired back, insisting that the cap was white and insulted the other friend by asking if he was blind – ab’oju re o ri’ran? Then, a very deadly brawl ensued between the duo as they came to blows.


While Epo Akara insisted that, having achieved his dissembling aim, Esu transformed himself into who he was and settled the quarrel, Consentino argued that the tiff came to a halt when the disputants were brought to court. In court, the scholar said, Esu confessed to his trick, boasting that "sowing dissension is my great delight." In the rendering of the Folklore and Mythology scholar, Esu then fled. As he fled, Esu lit fire along the way, mixing up all the possessions of fleeing townsfolk. He also tested and exposed friendships along the way, thereby creating and destroying wealth. He then laughed at the ignorance of the people about his innate destructive nature.


Nigeria’s Labour Party, (LP) it will seem, is where Esu Elegbara has made his temporary home now. Last week, the party’s internal tiff reached a cancerous level at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. In the glare of the whole world, the timely intervention of police officers prevented miffed supporters of Peter Obi from skewering the flesh of the party’s Acting National Chairman, Apapa. Apapa and Julius Abure, hitherto suspended national chairman of the party, were embroiled in a leadership tussle. This led to blood-baiting hounds, suspected to be sympathetic to the Abure faction of the party, pouncing on Apapa. The wolves had prevented Apapa from addressing the press and shoved him dangerously off television cameras. In the process, one of them took off Apapa’s cap. He later took possession of it.


Speaking at a press conference after the attack, the 73-year old Apapa rained curses on the person who removed his cap. He had said: "My cap is here as you can see it. It was not burnt, and the boy who removed my cap will suffer it in his life. I saw him, he's a young chap. He'll never grow old by God's grace. He deserves it, you know why? I didn't use cutlass on him."


Were Apapa’s curses of Janus colour and texture as that of Adedara Arunralojaoba, Ijesaland’s – domiciled in Osun State – most evocative musician who sang Adamo music during his lifetime? Janus, you know, is the Egyptian binary god with two faces.  Some installments away, I narrated this Adamo musician’s encounter with another musician, Ayinla Omowura, in Ilesa in the 1970s. Omowura’s drums began to get torn in subsequence as he set out to sing at a live gig where he and Adedara had been invited. In the words of Arunralojaoba, on arriving the bandstand to take over the evening belt of entertainment of invited audience, Omowura had been drunk to stupor with his assumed musical superiority. Speaking to Dele Adeyanju, a renowned broadcaster, in an interview, the Adamo musician had attributed the torn drums to God fighting his battle for him and not any traditional African spiritual attack. Adedara was known to have at one time been a member of the Ogboni fraternity. So, were the torn drums God’s own way of fighting for Adedara against his adversary, or the scenario was a product of metaphysical invocation?


The removal of Apapa’s cap reminds me of the same violence and indignity suffered by Chief Bola Ige, ex-governor of old Oyo State, in the hands of sponsored miscreants like those hooligans in the LP. It was at the height of the intra-party sabre-rattling of the Alliance for Democracy (AD). At a ceremony held on Saturday December 15, 2001 where Olusegun Obasanjo’s late wife, Stella, was conferred with a chieftaincy title by the Ooni of Ife, wolves suspected to be in the herd of Iyiola Omisore, erstwhile Deputy Governor of Osun State, pounced on Ige in similar cavalier but blood-baiting manner Apapa was to witness almost 22 years after. They seized the cap of the man, known as Arole Awolowo – Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s heir – caps which, unlike Apapa’s, he was never to set eyes upon again.


Five days before this, an attempt to impeach Omisore was held at the Osun State House of Assembly. Odunayo Olagbaju, believed to be one of Omisore’s Rottweilers, was at the forefront of the disruption of the impeachment proceedings. Allegations were rife that Olagbaju was also the coordinator of the violent seizure of Ige’s cap. Four days after the attack on Ige, Olagbaju was mysteriously assassinated in Ile-Ife. Exactly four days after Olagbaju’s assassination, Ige was also taken out in what appeared like cult-like revenge killings. Today, Omisore is Southwest progressives’ highest-ranking national official, representing the Yorubaland which venerated Ige as an avatar.


Beyond their ethno-cultural implications as significant aspect of dressing and fashion, caps also have mythic qualities among the Yoruba especially. Aside caps’ aesthetic and symbolic elaboration of the body, they are also seen as weapon in the hands of Esu. The cap perhaps gained that relevance due to the renowned place that the head has in African epistemology. The head receives special aesthetic attention as a result of its spiritual and biological importance. Among the Yoruba, the head, called Ori, is a site of spiritual intuition and destiny. It is as well a harbinger of a man’s reflective spark of human consciousness. It is an Orisa, or god, of its own and is not only venerated but worshipped. To acquire a balanced character – iwa-pele – the Yoruba believe that the individual, working in tandem with this Orisa, can achieve this desirable personality. When he does, the individual then receives an alignment with his Ori, the divine self. People whose destinies are skewed are advised to worship their Ori whose variant among the Igbo is chi. So, when a cap, the decorative ornament of the head, is rudely removed as was done to Ige and Apapa, Yoruba see it as bad omen, symbolizing a rude yank-off of the human person.


Immediately after the seizure of Ige’s cap, some knowledgeable elders in sorcery and witchcraft opined that there existed causality between the cap’s removal and his eventual killing. For a people who use metaphysics as human agency to explain what the common eyes cannot penetrate, when Ige eventually died, the narrative of the connect between the removed cap and his death took front burner. So, in the seizure of Apapa’s cap, was Esu Elegbara on the usual roller-coaster of his famous trickster prowess, or does the act just symbolize a fatality to either Apapa, the Labour Party or the boy who bit the bullet by removing the cap?


The chief accusation against Apapa is that he is the Esu Elegbara in the Labour Party who this destructive god lent his heart for a fee. As Epo Akara and Cosentino narrated in their works, could Apapa be the modern or Nigeria’s political party version of the trickster deity, who is sowing dissention in the party? Ask those who are ranged against him to explain why, they will tell you that Apapa has received humongous bribe from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to act as the Judas within the party. On an Arise television interview last week, Apapa asked those who leveled such allegations to provide evidence. Again, in his insular trickery, I saw Esu Elegbara laughing rambunctiously. Do those who give bribes leave traces? Should those who also leveled such allegation against this old man sincerely do this without providing evidence? Are they themselves the Esu, being on the payroll of Abure, to ensure that Apapa is fought to a standstill?


Precedent is however on the side of those who accuse Apapa of acting the script of the APC. Nigerian politics is so enmeshed in indignity and amorality that virtually all those who engage in it possess scarred souls like the devil’s. They even tell you that politics and morality are in perpetual enmity. If you observe, the highest fusillade of attacks, both judicial and verbal, from the APC to any party, is towards the Labour Party. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its commissars receive scant attention of that party. It must believe that that party is already mortally wounded. APC, peopled by a commune of scavengers, vultures and deadly hit-men, will logically rent an Apapa for a dissembling assignment. It is because the If I must hanker a guess, it must be because the LP poses the greatest social threat to the legitimacy that APC needs, not necessarily during the current judicial process but after it. Thus, employing an Esu Elegbara within the fold of the LP for this dirty job is a politically wise decision for a party whose men, in the name of politics, will kill their mother and rope their father for the murder without batting an eyelid.


Esu Elegbara seems to be on the trail of the Labour Party and is not relenting yet. At the tail end of last week, until the clarification given by the court, the Federal High Court in Kano was reported to have declared the votes polled by the Abia State governor-elect, Alex Otti, Labour Party’s only state governor in the last general election, as wasted. It however reportedly refrained from nullifying the certificate of return issued by INEC to the governor-elect. A newspaper later on published the clarification of the court, stating that it denied annulling the election of the governor-elect.


If you think it is only in LP that Esu Elegbara wrecks its havocs, you are mistaken. In the PDP, he began his life-sworn disruption and destruction, as they say, as a pre-election cancer. By the time Atiku Abubakar and his party realized that Esu was in cahoots with the party, Elegbara had destroyed all the cells within the body of the party, finally and permanently retiring the Adamawa-born politician from his serial quest for the Nigerian presidency.


Elegbara, it will seem, is on his way to the APC as we speak. From reports, the party is on its way to a political liaison with Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, New Nigerian People’s Party (NPP’s) presidential candidate. President-elect, Bola Tinubu, was reported to have met the NPP boss for political talks in Paris last Monday. There is the need for enough senators to complete the circus of a pliable National Assembly. I imagine the mind of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Kano State governor, at the moment. The Nigerian politician, in pursuing his persuasion that politics and morality are not friends, devised what is labeled a “no permanent friends, no permanent foes” lexicographic feature of politics. But, must politicians be indistinguishable from serial adulterers? Esu Elegbara must be somewhere now, devising his next trickery. Will he wear Ganduje like an apparel?

Festus Adedayo


Turbulent anger of Obidients landed on Lamidi Apapa last week. By the time their anger petered out, Apapa had lost his cap to a God-knows-who. Esu Elegbara, the trickster deity of the Yoruba people, it will seem, lives in caps. Though most of the exploits of Esu exist in myths, Yoruba constructed a pantheon of beliefs that implicate the Esu as divisive and full of tricks. One of such, sauced in mythology, was translated into a very sobering track by ace Yoruba Awurebe musician, Alhaji Dauda Akanmu Adeeyo, popularly known as Dauda Epo Akara. Famous for his anecdotal offerings affixed to virtually all his songs, Adeeyo got this sobriquet, for which he was more known by than his actual name, while he was a pupil in primary school. His uniforms were always soaked in bean cake oil called Epo Akara.



The Ibadan maestro entitled the track under reference Itan Ore Meji – the tale of two friends – in a parent album he called My Mother. Like Epo Akara, in 1987, Donald Cosentino, a lecturer in the Folklore and Mythology Programme of the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote an article for The Journal of American Folklore which he entitled Who Is That Fellow in the Many-Colored Cap? Transformations of Eshu in Old and New World Mythologies (Vol. 100, No. 397. Jul. - Sep., 1987). In it, he also situated the Esu as author of dissent, “an exponent of ceaseless rearrangements” and a dissembler. Esu, said Cosentino, is a counterpart to Ifa, who the Yoruba see as the Lord of Divination and through whom sacrifices and propitiations are made to God for peace in the world.


Epo Akara and Cosentino’s narratives are not dissimilar. The two of them began this folklore thus: There existed two friends who were so fond of each other and inseparable. They were objects of discussions by the whole village. In fact, sang Epo Akara, won ki ja, won kii ta – they never had a word of disagreement since they began their friendship from their infancy. So, one day, Esu swore to cause irreparable discord between them. The object he cast for that dissention was a cap. So the Esu sowed a multicolored cap, something in the mould of Dolly Parton’s coat of many colours. The colours, says Cosentino, have been “variously described as red and white; red, white and blue; or red, white, green, and black.”


Epo Akara, however, put the colours of the cap as white and black. So the Esu transformed himself into an irresistibly dressed, handsome young man in dainty Aso Oke and Sanyan cap. As the two friends sat in a foyer chattering, Esu walked between them and in the words of Cosentino, “put his pipe at the nape of his neck and hung his staff over his back.” As Esu walked past the two friends, in the rendering of the Awurebe musician, the first friend called the attention of his pal to the cap, which he said was black. Once he had money, the friend remarked, it would be his delight to buy it – bi mo ri’ru e, ma ra’kan, Balarabi, Wali Muhanmonda. The friend fired back, insisting that the cap was white and insulted the other friend by asking if he was blind – ab’oju re o ri’ran? Then, a very deadly brawl ensued between the duo as they came to blows.


While Epo Akara insisted that, having achieved his dissembling aim, Esu transformed himself into who he was and settled the quarrel, Consentino argued that the tiff came to a halt when the disputants were brought to court. In court, the scholar said, Esu confessed to his trick, boasting that "sowing dissension is my great delight." In the rendering of the Folklore and Mythology scholar, Esu then fled. As he fled, Esu lit fire along the way, mixing up all the possessions of fleeing townsfolk. He also tested and exposed friendships along the way, thereby creating and destroying wealth. He then laughed at the ignorance of the people about his innate destructive nature.


Nigeria’s Labour Party, (LP) it will seem, is where Esu Elegbara has made his temporary home now. Last week, the party’s internal tiff reached a cancerous level at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. In the glare of the whole world, the timely intervention of police officers prevented miffed supporters of Peter Obi from skewering the flesh of the party’s Acting National Chairman, Apapa. Apapa and Julius Abure, hitherto suspended national chairman of the party, were embroiled in a leadership tussle. This led to blood-baiting hounds, suspected to be sympathetic to the Abure faction of the party, pouncing on Apapa. The wolves had prevented Apapa from addressing the press and shoved him dangerously off television cameras. In the process, one of them took off Apapa’s cap. He later took possession of it.


Speaking at a press conference after the attack, the 73-year old Apapa rained curses on the person who removed his cap. He had said: "My cap is here as you can see it. It was not burnt, and the boy who removed my cap will suffer it in his life. I saw him, he's a young chap. He'll never grow old by God's grace. He deserves it, you know why? I didn't use cutlass on him."


Were Apapa’s curses of Janus colour and texture as that of Adedara Arunralojaoba, Ijesaland’s – domiciled in Osun State – most evocative musician who sang Adamo music during his lifetime? Janus, you know, is the Egyptian binary god with two faces.  Some installments away, I narrated this Adamo musician’s encounter with another musician, Ayinla Omowura, in Ilesa in the 1970s. Omowura’s drums began to get torn in subsequence as he set out to sing at a live gig where he and Adedara had been invited. In the words of Arunralojaoba, on arriving the bandstand to take over the evening belt of entertainment of invited audience, Omowura had been drunk to stupor with his assumed musical superiority. Speaking to Dele Adeyanju, a renowned broadcaster, in an interview, the Adamo musician had attributed the torn drums to God fighting his battle for him and not any traditional African spiritual attack. Adedara was known to have at one time been a member of the Ogboni fraternity. So, were the torn drums God’s own way of fighting for Adedara against his adversary, or the scenario was a product of metaphysical invocation?


The removal of Apapa’s cap reminds me of the same violence and indignity suffered by Chief Bola Ige, ex-governor of old Oyo State, in the hands of sponsored miscreants like those hooligans in the LP. It was at the height of the intra-party sabre-rattling of the Alliance for Democracy (AD). At a ceremony held on Saturday December 15, 2001 where Olusegun Obasanjo’s late wife, Stella, was conferred with a chieftaincy title by the Ooni of Ife, wolves suspected to be in the herd of Iyiola Omisore, erstwhile Deputy Governor of Osun State, pounced on Ige in similar cavalier but blood-baiting manner Apapa was to witness almost 22 years after. They seized the cap of the man, known as Arole Awolowo – Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s heir – caps which, unlike Apapa’s, he was never to set eyes upon again.


Five days before this, an attempt to impeach Omisore was held at the Osun State House of Assembly. Odunayo Olagbaju, believed to be one of Omisore’s Rottweilers, was at the forefront of the disruption of the impeachment proceedings. Allegations were rife that Olagbaju was also the coordinator of the violent seizure of Ige’s cap. Four days after the attack on Ige, Olagbaju was mysteriously assassinated in Ile-Ife. Exactly four days after Olagbaju’s assassination, Ige was also taken out in what appeared like cult-like revenge killings. Today, Omisore is Southwest progressives’ highest-ranking national official, representing the Yorubaland which venerated Ige as an avatar.


Beyond their ethno-cultural implications as significant aspect of dressing and fashion, caps also have mythic qualities among the Yoruba especially. Aside caps’ aesthetic and symbolic elaboration of the body, they are also seen as weapon in the hands of Esu. The cap perhaps gained that relevance due to the renowned place that the head has in African epistemology. The head receives special aesthetic attention as a result of its spiritual and biological importance. Among the Yoruba, the head, called Ori, is a site of spiritual intuition and destiny. It is as well a harbinger of a man’s reflective spark of human consciousness. It is an Orisa, or god, of its own and is not only venerated but worshipped. To acquire a balanced character – iwa-pele – the Yoruba believe that the individual, working in tandem with this Orisa, can achieve this desirable personality. When he does, the individual then receives an alignment with his Ori, the divine self. People whose destinies are skewed are advised to worship their Ori whose variant among the Igbo is chi. So, when a cap, the decorative ornament of the head, is rudely removed as was done to Ige and Apapa, Yoruba see it as bad omen, symbolizing a rude yank-off of the human person.


Immediately after the seizure of Ige’s cap, some knowledgeable elders in sorcery and witchcraft opined that there existed causality between the cap’s removal and his eventual killing. For a people who use metaphysics as human agency to explain what the common eyes cannot penetrate, when Ige eventually died, the narrative of the connect between the removed cap and his death took front burner. So, in the seizure of Apapa’s cap, was Esu Elegbara on the usual roller-coaster of his famous trickster prowess, or does the act just symbolize a fatality to either Apapa, the Labour Party or the boy who bit the bullet by removing the cap?


The chief accusation against Apapa is that he is the Esu Elegbara in the Labour Party who this destructive god lent his heart for a fee. As Epo Akara and Cosentino narrated in their works, could Apapa be the modern or Nigeria’s political party version of the trickster deity, who is sowing dissention in the party? Ask those who are ranged against him to explain why, they will tell you that Apapa has received humongous bribe from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to act as the Judas within the party. On an Arise television interview last week, Apapa asked those who leveled such allegations to provide evidence. Again, in his insular trickery, I saw Esu Elegbara laughing rambunctiously. Do those who give bribes leave traces? Should those who also leveled such allegation against this old man sincerely do this without providing evidence? Are they themselves the Esu, being on the payroll of Abure, to ensure that Apapa is fought to a standstill?


Precedent is however on the side of those who accuse Apapa of acting the script of the APC. Nigerian politics is so enmeshed in indignity and amorality that virtually all those who engage in it possess scarred souls like the devil’s. They even tell you that politics and morality are in perpetual enmity. If you observe, the highest fusillade of attacks, both judicial and verbal, from the APC to any party, is towards the Labour Party. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its commissars receive scant attention of that party. It must believe that that party is already mortally wounded. APC, peopled by a commune of scavengers, vultures and deadly hit-men, will logically rent an Apapa for a dissembling assignment. It is because the If I must hanker a guess, it must be because the LP poses the greatest social threat to the legitimacy that APC needs, not necessarily during the current judicial process but after it. Thus, employing an Esu Elegbara within the fold of the LP for this dirty job is a politically wise decision for a party whose men, in the name of politics, will kill their mother and rope their father for the murder without batting an eyelid.


Esu Elegbara seems to be on the trail of the Labour Party and is not relenting yet. At the tail end of last week, until the clarification given by the court, the Federal High Court in Kano was reported to have declared the votes polled by the Abia State governor-elect, Alex Otti, Labour Party’s only state governor in the last general election, as wasted. It however reportedly refrained from nullifying the certificate of return issued by INEC to the governor-elect. A newspaper later on published the clarification of the court, stating that it denied annulling the election of the governor-elect.


If you think it is only in LP that Esu Elegbara wrecks its havocs, you are mistaken. In the PDP, he began his life-sworn disruption and destruction, as they say, as a pre-election cancer. By the time Atiku Abubakar and his party realized that Esu was in cahoots with the party, Elegbara had destroyed all the cells within the body of the party, finally and permanently retiring the Adamawa-born politician from his serial quest for the Nigerian presidency.


Elegbara, it will seem, is on his way to the APC as we speak. From reports, the party is on its way to a political liaison with Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, New Nigerian People’s Party (NPP’s) presidential candidate. President-elect, Bola Tinubu, was reported to have met the NPP boss for political talks in Paris last Monday. There is the need for enough senators to complete the circus of a pliable National Assembly. I imagine the mind of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Kano State governor, at the moment. The Nigerian politician, in pursuing his persuasion that politics and morality are not friends, devised what is labeled a “no permanent friends, no permanent foes” lexicographic feature of politics. But, must politicians be indistinguishable from serial adulterers? Esu Elegbara must be somewhere now, devising his next trickery. Will he wear Ganduje like an apparel?

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TINUBU'S PRESIDENCY: WIKE AND WHAT SOUTH EAST APC LEADERS SHOULDN'T WAIT TO BE TOLD

TINUBU'S PRESIDENCY: WIKE AND WHAT SOUTH EAST APC LEADERS SHOULDN'T WAIT TO BE TOLD

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By Sam Onwuemeodo


I have chosen to begin with  Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor. And for obvious reasons.  


The previous week, the President-elect,  Senator Bola Tinubu was in Portharcourt,   Rivers State. He was there on the invitation of  Wike. He was invited  to commission projects. And he did.


 ln  doing that,  he was quoted to have said that,  he owed Wike  nothing.  And some people  began to celebrate that. Some people  believed that. They took Tinubu's comment to the bank. They went home with it. And l hasten  to say this.


 lf  there's one Nigerian Tinubu owes a lot, that's Wike.  Nyesom Wike.  Aside keeping his Party, PDP, and it's candidate,  Atiku Abubakar on their toes all through,  he delivered Rivers State to Tinubu and his APC.  I am talking about the INEC declared  results for Rivers . INEC's own results.  


Wike,  a pdp governor,  ensured that  APC or Tinubu  was declared winner  in his State. ln Wike's Rivers, Tinubu got 231, 591 votes. His own party,  PDP,  got 88, 468 votes and the Labour Party,  175, 071 votes. lf there's  one man who has a lot of claims to make in Tinubu's presidency,  that man is Wike. There is nothing he wants in BAT's government that he would not  get. Don't believe me.  But mark my words.  He destroyed PDP for Tinubu to navigate. So, paying Wike's Rivers,  the money spent on federal projects in the State would be one of the easiest things Tinubu would do as President. 


Unlike Wike , those who should be worried about the direction  Tinubu's  presidency will be going are the leaders of the APC in the South East. Already,  Tinubu's body language isn't encouraging.  I am not writing that they should believe me , but letting them know the fate that awaits them in BAT's Presidency. Like l said,  they should not wait to be told that Tinubu and his Presidency won't  have anything tangible  in store for them.


For Tinubu,  his Presidency  and his close associates , all the leaders of APC in the South East are OBIDIENTS. This is the mindset of Tinubu and his own emerging  cabal. lt's written all over them. And there seems to be  nothing anybody can do to help the situation. 


The only prayer point left for APC leaders in the South East is that , the election of Tinubu should be annulled or be  nullified by the Tribunal. But  if the Tribunal confirms or authenticates his election,  then, there is every reason to worry by APC leaders in the South East. Some of them, going to the Defence House and taking photographs with him, won't change anything. 


Tinubu didn't hide his disdain for the  South East. He began early enough to show that.  He first settled for a fellow Muslim as Vice- Presidential candidate, believing that Heaven wouldn't fall. And he was right. Heaven didn't fall. And he  did it,  knowing that the South East could be adjudged  the " soul" of Christianity in Nigeria. l am painting a picture. But see the major issues.


 At a time,  the discussion or the  debate in the APC was that, the South should produce  the Presidential candidate of the Party  and by extension , Muhammadu Buhari's successor,  Ahmed Lawan came on board with a bang. And who were in the forefront of the Lawan's project?. Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and His Excellency, Governor Hope Uzodinma. And they were overtly  serious about it. They bought Lawan's nomination forms and displayed them for all and sundry to see, on the screens of  national televisions.  l do not know who drafted each other into the Lawan venture. Whether Kalu drafted the lmo Governor or vice versa. 


lf there was a major threat to Tinubu's aspiration for the Presidential ticket of the APC,  it was that Ahmed  Lawan's entry. That man's case.  And our own people were the pilots. The architects. On the TV screens, the  Yobe State Governor,  Mala Buni,  Lawan's own governor was behind. At the back of Kalu and governor Uzodinma. l am still painting a picture. They didn't support Tinubu. They didn't support Rochas Okorocha or Ogbonnaya Onu or Emeka Nwajiuba or David Umahi. But Lawan from the North. Continue reading my lips correctly. 


Then,  the Concensus issue. Lawan was announced the consensus Presidential  candidate of the party by the Abdullahi Adamu led NWC . lf that had worked out  as planned,  Tinubu's ambition would have been submerged or destroyed at that point. His group fought back. l want you to grab something here. Something "ominous". Something not palatable  at all. Something "imirimious". Do you understand?


Then,  the Presidential  primary proper. The South East delegates voted for Lawan, from all indications.  And not Tinubu. Not Okorocha. Not Nwajiuba. Not Onu or Umahi. They went for the Yobe man, Lawan. After Yobe, you get Borno State. l had been there. That was in 2004. l had gone   for the Turbanning of Emir of Damaturu,  Alhaji Shehu Hashimi 11 lbn Umar El-kanemi. The rest became history. 


Ahmed  Lawan for presidency project was the biggest threat  Tinubu's ambition had, before the INEC conducted election. Buhari's cabal also led Nwajiuba  to go to  court , asking that Tinubu should be disqualified and announce him APC candidate. Buhari's deceitful cabal. 


For the February 25, 2023 Presidential election, the leaders of APC in the South East were helpless. Nigerians,  including the South East people,  opted or settled for Peter Obi of the Labour Party. But Tinubu and his  already existing  cabal won't look at it from  that perspective.  They seem to have made up their minds. For them, APC leaders in the zone were all Obidients or  "lPOB".


 ln Anambra, for instance,  APC ( Tinubu), had 5, 111 votes. PDP (Atiku), 9,036 votes. Labour party ( Obi), 584, 621 votes.  ln Ebonyi, APC, 42, 402 votes.  PDP,  13, 503 votes. Labour party, 259, 738 votes. ln Enugu State,  APC, 4, 772 votes.  PDP,  15, 749 votes. Labour Party, 428,640 votes.  ln Abia, APC,  8, 914, PDP,  22, 676 and Labour Party,  327, 095. ln lmo , APC,  66, 406 votes,  PDP,  30, 234 votes and the Labour party,  360, 495 votes. Don't forget. These're Mahmood Yakubu's INEC  declared results. 


Looking  at these figures, one would be forced to agree or believe that the issue is not what anybody thinks should be Tinubu's right actions,  but what will be the case with regard to South East APC leaders in Tinubu's presidency. 


That is the problem with Orji Uzor Kalu and Osita lzunaso's aspirations for the position of  Senate president. Otherwise,  having denied the South East the position of President most patriotic Nigerians had believed should be their turn , and having also denied them  the office of Vice president, the most appropriate thing to do now is to concede the office of  Senate  president to them. But for the reasons l had earlier mentioned,  that has become a tall dream. They would never live to see that happen.


They have gone to South South. Akwa lbom State in Particular. And their choice is Godswill Akpabio. At the primary,  he withdrew for Tinubu. ln the election,  APC had 160, 620 votes.  More than what Tinubu got in the whole of South East. That's the politics behind their choice of Akpabio. They won't tell you this. 


For the South East and APC leaders in the zone in Particular, they should not expect much from Tinubu and his Presidency. No great expectations. Like I had intoned , the politics has begun.  And only those with foresight or " four-sights" would understand better . Would be able to read the handwriting on the wall and interpret it.  MENE,  MENE,  TEKEL,  URPHARSIN. 


There is already a gang up. While the lmo Governor was at "war" with Joe Ajaero of the Nigeria Labour Congress,  NLC, in lmo , the kano State Governor of APC extraction, Alhaji  Ganduje, was rolling out red carpets in kano for the same Ajaero. The same period. And he  gave him the Chieftaincy Title of Sarkin Yakin, meaning,  Workers' warrior. 



Even when Tinubu might  not remember some of these incidents,  those who have his ears would always remind  him of all these. And there is no  difference between him and Buhari in terms of being easy prey in the hands of wicked cabal. Even,  Tinubu's  own cabal  may be worst than Buhari's own cabal.  The signs are everywhere.  l hope you're reading  between the lines. There is " fire in the Soweto". 



This whole thing is also a wake-up call for Governor Uzodinma,  especially in his bid for second tenure . Yes, APC governor.  The  worst opposition to his second term  bid may not come from within,  but from  "without". Outside.  Don't say l told you. Do not quote me. Do not quote Sam. Onwuemeodo. Caveat emptor.  Disclaimer.  l am only guessing. lmagining things.  Which can't be located or situated.  . On your "marks". Ready....go!!!. The expected heat may be imported. External heat. Perhaps,  from the barbeach or zuma rock. Do you understand? 


The Lagos State Government had, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023,   arraigned Eze Ndigbo in Ajao Estate Lagos, Fredrick Nwajagu, on terrorism charges.  And he has been remanded in prison custody. The man was quoted to have said that, if the attacks on the lgbos and their properties in Lagos continue,  he might invite IPOB. That was a conditional statement. He didn't invite IPOB.  But he's  already in prison. And  those who attacked,  killed and maimed lgbos during the elections in Lagos  walked away free and still walking freely . l am still painting a picture. What to expect from BAT's Presidency. 


The Chief of Army Staff , Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya on Friday ,  May 5,  2023, had had reason or reasons to threaten to crack down on  potential threats to Tinubu's inauguration on May 29.


ln doing that,  Gen. Yahaya warned the  "lndigenous People of Biafra , IPOB,  Eastern Security Network, ESN  and other fringe groups not to test the will of the military ". He specifically mentioned IPOB and ESN and described similar groups in other parts of the country as " fringe groups". Are you following?. What to expect. 


Even when  l have never read where IPOB had threatened to frustrate or prevent the inauguration of Tinubu as President on May 29. The man singled out IPOB and ESN, and  left other related groups in other parts of the country. 


That's the nature of the on-going blackmail against the South East and the people of the area. There is nothing to show or believe that Tinubu's presidency would be different from that of " Bubu", with regard to the fate of the South East. 


With the prevailing circumstances and  for Tinubu's presidency,  APC leaders in the South East or the South East people in general,   are all Obidients. Or,  IPOB. Depending on which of the words they would prefer to use at any given time. That's their mindset. That's their belief. Nobody should wait to be told all these. 


Orji Uzor Kalu had thought that,  talking against Obi's Presidential bid  or the corporate aspiration of the South East people to produce the President of the Country this time, would make them to bring him in or take him into confidence or forget his role in the Lawan for President venture.  But he has seen that, that's not the case. They are also  holding him in contempt. He has seen that the sound of bitter kola in the mouth does not reflect the taste. At all. At all, at all.


The only consolation is that,  if the South East people survived Buhari's eight years of negligence and gross disregard,  they would also survive Tinubu and whatever he comes up with. Necessity has always  remained the mother of invention. The earlier this situation is understood,  the better. 


Nevertheless,  we shall continue to clap for Jesus. And there is nothing anybody can do about it.


By Sam Onwuemeodo


I have chosen to begin with  Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor. And for obvious reasons.  


The previous week, the President-elect,  Senator Bola Tinubu was in Portharcourt,   Rivers State. He was there on the invitation of  Wike. He was invited  to commission projects. And he did.


 ln  doing that,  he was quoted to have said that,  he owed Wike  nothing.  And some people  began to celebrate that. Some people  believed that. They took Tinubu's comment to the bank. They went home with it. And l hasten  to say this.


 lf  there's one Nigerian Tinubu owes a lot, that's Wike.  Nyesom Wike.  Aside keeping his Party, PDP, and it's candidate,  Atiku Abubakar on their toes all through,  he delivered Rivers State to Tinubu and his APC.  I am talking about the INEC declared  results for Rivers . INEC's own results.  


Wike,  a pdp governor,  ensured that  APC or Tinubu  was declared winner  in his State. ln Wike's Rivers, Tinubu got 231, 591 votes. His own party,  PDP,  got 88, 468 votes and the Labour Party,  175, 071 votes. lf there's  one man who has a lot of claims to make in Tinubu's presidency,  that man is Wike. There is nothing he wants in BAT's government that he would not  get. Don't believe me.  But mark my words.  He destroyed PDP for Tinubu to navigate. So, paying Wike's Rivers,  the money spent on federal projects in the State would be one of the easiest things Tinubu would do as President. 


Unlike Wike , those who should be worried about the direction  Tinubu's  presidency will be going are the leaders of the APC in the South East. Already,  Tinubu's body language isn't encouraging.  I am not writing that they should believe me , but letting them know the fate that awaits them in BAT's Presidency. Like l said,  they should not wait to be told that Tinubu and his Presidency won't  have anything tangible  in store for them.


For Tinubu,  his Presidency  and his close associates , all the leaders of APC in the South East are OBIDIENTS. This is the mindset of Tinubu and his own emerging  cabal. lt's written all over them. And there seems to be  nothing anybody can do to help the situation. 


The only prayer point left for APC leaders in the South East is that , the election of Tinubu should be annulled or be  nullified by the Tribunal. But  if the Tribunal confirms or authenticates his election,  then, there is every reason to worry by APC leaders in the South East. Some of them, going to the Defence House and taking photographs with him, won't change anything. 


Tinubu didn't hide his disdain for the  South East. He began early enough to show that.  He first settled for a fellow Muslim as Vice- Presidential candidate, believing that Heaven wouldn't fall. And he was right. Heaven didn't fall. And he  did it,  knowing that the South East could be adjudged  the " soul" of Christianity in Nigeria. l am painting a picture. But see the major issues.


 At a time,  the discussion or the  debate in the APC was that, the South should produce  the Presidential candidate of the Party  and by extension , Muhammadu Buhari's successor,  Ahmed Lawan came on board with a bang. And who were in the forefront of the Lawan's project?. Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and His Excellency, Governor Hope Uzodinma. And they were overtly  serious about it. They bought Lawan's nomination forms and displayed them for all and sundry to see, on the screens of  national televisions.  l do not know who drafted each other into the Lawan venture. Whether Kalu drafted the lmo Governor or vice versa. 


lf there was a major threat to Tinubu's aspiration for the Presidential ticket of the APC,  it was that Ahmed  Lawan's entry. That man's case.  And our own people were the pilots. The architects. On the TV screens, the  Yobe State Governor,  Mala Buni,  Lawan's own governor was behind. At the back of Kalu and governor Uzodinma. l am still painting a picture. They didn't support Tinubu. They didn't support Rochas Okorocha or Ogbonnaya Onu or Emeka Nwajiuba or David Umahi. But Lawan from the North. Continue reading my lips correctly. 


Then,  the Concensus issue. Lawan was announced the consensus Presidential  candidate of the party by the Abdullahi Adamu led NWC . lf that had worked out  as planned,  Tinubu's ambition would have been submerged or destroyed at that point. His group fought back. l want you to grab something here. Something "ominous". Something not palatable  at all. Something "imirimious". Do you understand?


Then,  the Presidential  primary proper. The South East delegates voted for Lawan, from all indications.  And not Tinubu. Not Okorocha. Not Nwajiuba. Not Onu or Umahi. They went for the Yobe man, Lawan. After Yobe, you get Borno State. l had been there. That was in 2004. l had gone   for the Turbanning of Emir of Damaturu,  Alhaji Shehu Hashimi 11 lbn Umar El-kanemi. The rest became history. 


Ahmed  Lawan for presidency project was the biggest threat  Tinubu's ambition had, before the INEC conducted election. Buhari's cabal also led Nwajiuba  to go to  court , asking that Tinubu should be disqualified and announce him APC candidate. Buhari's deceitful cabal. 


For the February 25, 2023 Presidential election, the leaders of APC in the South East were helpless. Nigerians,  including the South East people,  opted or settled for Peter Obi of the Labour Party. But Tinubu and his  already existing  cabal won't look at it from  that perspective.  They seem to have made up their minds. For them, APC leaders in the zone were all Obidients or  "lPOB".


 ln Anambra, for instance,  APC ( Tinubu), had 5, 111 votes. PDP (Atiku), 9,036 votes. Labour party ( Obi), 584, 621 votes.  ln Ebonyi, APC, 42, 402 votes.  PDP,  13, 503 votes. Labour party, 259, 738 votes. ln Enugu State,  APC, 4, 772 votes.  PDP,  15, 749 votes. Labour Party, 428,640 votes.  ln Abia, APC,  8, 914, PDP,  22, 676 and Labour Party,  327, 095. ln lmo , APC,  66, 406 votes,  PDP,  30, 234 votes and the Labour party,  360, 495 votes. Don't forget. These're Mahmood Yakubu's INEC  declared results. 


Looking  at these figures, one would be forced to agree or believe that the issue is not what anybody thinks should be Tinubu's right actions,  but what will be the case with regard to South East APC leaders in Tinubu's presidency. 


That is the problem with Orji Uzor Kalu and Osita lzunaso's aspirations for the position of  Senate president. Otherwise,  having denied the South East the position of President most patriotic Nigerians had believed should be their turn , and having also denied them  the office of Vice president, the most appropriate thing to do now is to concede the office of  Senate  president to them. But for the reasons l had earlier mentioned,  that has become a tall dream. They would never live to see that happen.


They have gone to South South. Akwa lbom State in Particular. And their choice is Godswill Akpabio. At the primary,  he withdrew for Tinubu. ln the election,  APC had 160, 620 votes.  More than what Tinubu got in the whole of South East. That's the politics behind their choice of Akpabio. They won't tell you this. 


For the South East and APC leaders in the zone in Particular, they should not expect much from Tinubu and his Presidency. No great expectations. Like I had intoned , the politics has begun.  And only those with foresight or " four-sights" would understand better . Would be able to read the handwriting on the wall and interpret it.  MENE,  MENE,  TEKEL,  URPHARSIN. 


There is already a gang up. While the lmo Governor was at "war" with Joe Ajaero of the Nigeria Labour Congress,  NLC, in lmo , the kano State Governor of APC extraction, Alhaji  Ganduje, was rolling out red carpets in kano for the same Ajaero. The same period. And he  gave him the Chieftaincy Title of Sarkin Yakin, meaning,  Workers' warrior. 



Even when Tinubu might  not remember some of these incidents,  those who have his ears would always remind  him of all these. And there is no  difference between him and Buhari in terms of being easy prey in the hands of wicked cabal. Even,  Tinubu's  own cabal  may be worst than Buhari's own cabal.  The signs are everywhere.  l hope you're reading  between the lines. There is " fire in the Soweto". 



This whole thing is also a wake-up call for Governor Uzodinma,  especially in his bid for second tenure . Yes, APC governor.  The  worst opposition to his second term  bid may not come from within,  but from  "without". Outside.  Don't say l told you. Do not quote me. Do not quote Sam. Onwuemeodo. Caveat emptor.  Disclaimer.  l am only guessing. lmagining things.  Which can't be located or situated.  . On your "marks". Ready....go!!!. The expected heat may be imported. External heat. Perhaps,  from the barbeach or zuma rock. Do you understand? 


The Lagos State Government had, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023,   arraigned Eze Ndigbo in Ajao Estate Lagos, Fredrick Nwajagu, on terrorism charges.  And he has been remanded in prison custody. The man was quoted to have said that, if the attacks on the lgbos and their properties in Lagos continue,  he might invite IPOB. That was a conditional statement. He didn't invite IPOB.  But he's  already in prison. And  those who attacked,  killed and maimed lgbos during the elections in Lagos  walked away free and still walking freely . l am still painting a picture. What to expect from BAT's Presidency. 


The Chief of Army Staff , Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya on Friday ,  May 5,  2023, had had reason or reasons to threaten to crack down on  potential threats to Tinubu's inauguration on May 29.


ln doing that,  Gen. Yahaya warned the  "lndigenous People of Biafra , IPOB,  Eastern Security Network, ESN  and other fringe groups not to test the will of the military ". He specifically mentioned IPOB and ESN and described similar groups in other parts of the country as " fringe groups". Are you following?. What to expect. 


Even when  l have never read where IPOB had threatened to frustrate or prevent the inauguration of Tinubu as President on May 29. The man singled out IPOB and ESN, and  left other related groups in other parts of the country. 


That's the nature of the on-going blackmail against the South East and the people of the area. There is nothing to show or believe that Tinubu's presidency would be different from that of " Bubu", with regard to the fate of the South East. 


With the prevailing circumstances and  for Tinubu's presidency,  APC leaders in the South East or the South East people in general,   are all Obidients. Or,  IPOB. Depending on which of the words they would prefer to use at any given time. That's their mindset. That's their belief. Nobody should wait to be told all these. 


Orji Uzor Kalu had thought that,  talking against Obi's Presidential bid  or the corporate aspiration of the South East people to produce the President of the Country this time, would make them to bring him in or take him into confidence or forget his role in the Lawan for President venture.  But he has seen that, that's not the case. They are also  holding him in contempt. He has seen that the sound of bitter kola in the mouth does not reflect the taste. At all. At all, at all.


The only consolation is that,  if the South East people survived Buhari's eight years of negligence and gross disregard,  they would also survive Tinubu and whatever he comes up with. Necessity has always  remained the mother of invention. The earlier this situation is understood,  the better. 


Nevertheless,  we shall continue to clap for Jesus. And there is nothing anybody can do about it.

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STATEMENT : Sadiq Atayese led Oyo Labour Party defrauds 3000 PDP back up polling agents

STATEMENT : Sadiq Atayese led Oyo Labour Party defrauds 3000 PDP back up polling agents

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*FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES OF OYO LABOUR PARTY CHIEFTAINS* 

We wish to bring to the notice of activities of the so- called chieftains of Labour party in Oyo state who have identified themselves as new bride of Omituntun 2.0 project despite making a zero input.
 
It is exactly a month today, when on 18th March we tropped out to partake in the elections of Gov. Seyi Makinde and the Honourables.

A week to these elections , a call was made state wide by these _hungry_ Labour party chieftains that Seyi will be needing 3000 backup polling agents in addition to those provided by his party, the PDP. Consequently, a training programme was scheduled at University of Ibadan in three batches. 
At the end of the training, we were told that transport fares have been provided in respect of the training but unfortunately no cash was readily available so we should all drop our bank account details for payment of these transport and stipends for acting as agents of the Saturday elections.

Till date no kobo has been received by any of us, we mean none was paid ostensibly the total amount scammed was pocketed.

That was a fraud and cheat too many. Seyi Makinde and all of all have been scammed!


Oyo state ICPC over to you. 

Some scapegoats have been identified here for timely action .

These are the people who are already jostling for positions in the next cabinet of 2.0 despite defrauding him. The governor should be careful of these hungry wolves as no part of any MDA is worth being entrusted to these opportunists.

The governor should beware of these unknown strangers and opportunists. 

There is no credibility or honour in them, if they can't be entrusted with this little.

It's all illgotten wealth amassed so much that by His grace, it will be used on ill health by those people and their posterity.

These are the leaders of today. *Shame* !

We used our time and money in attendance at the seminar on one hand, and acting as adhoc PDP party agents, on the other.


Thank you.


Opoola Ridwan 
 *Coordinator* 07056978915


1
Rafiu Mutiu
08140298750
 _Signatory_ 

2
Olalekan Shakirat
08058613441
 _Signatory_ 



 *CC* :

Governor Seyi Makinde

Senator Hosea Agboola, Chairman Advisory council 


Hon Bayo Lawal campaign DG

Prof Nureni Adeniran

Chief Dotun Oyelade
Chairman publicly committe of campaign 

 Honourable Babs Oduyoye 
Special Adviser political 

Chief Seye Famojuro

Alhaji Akeem Azeez, PA to the governor 

 Mr Taiwo Adisa Press secretary to the governor




Atayese

Before publishing the above statement, LP chairman in Oyo State honourable Sadiq Atayese was contacted on WhatsApp on his Verified numbers 07088956726 / 08033001036.

Other members of the state working committee who responded said the statement should be ignored or be be brought to the exco at the state.


However, the statement can not be far from the truth as it was too obvious and glaring that the Oyo State working committee of the Labour Party worked against the interest of the party under Atayese leadership. A total show of antiparty outing in the last elections.
*FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES OF OYO LABOUR PARTY CHIEFTAINS* 

We wish to bring to the notice of activities of the so- called chieftains of Labour party in Oyo state who have identified themselves as new bride of Omituntun 2.0 project despite making a zero input.
 
It is exactly a month today, when on 18th March we tropped out to partake in the elections of Gov. Seyi Makinde and the Honourables.

A week to these elections , a call was made state wide by these _hungry_ Labour party chieftains that Seyi will be needing 3000 backup polling agents in addition to those provided by his party, the PDP. Consequently, a training programme was scheduled at University of Ibadan in three batches. 
At the end of the training, we were told that transport fares have been provided in respect of the training but unfortunately no cash was readily available so we should all drop our bank account details for payment of these transport and stipends for acting as agents of the Saturday elections.

Till date no kobo has been received by any of us, we mean none was paid ostensibly the total amount scammed was pocketed.

That was a fraud and cheat too many. Seyi Makinde and all of all have been scammed!


Oyo state ICPC over to you. 

Some scapegoats have been identified here for timely action .

These are the people who are already jostling for positions in the next cabinet of 2.0 despite defrauding him. The governor should be careful of these hungry wolves as no part of any MDA is worth being entrusted to these opportunists.

The governor should beware of these unknown strangers and opportunists. 

There is no credibility or honour in them, if they can't be entrusted with this little.

It's all illgotten wealth amassed so much that by His grace, it will be used on ill health by those people and their posterity.

These are the leaders of today. *Shame* !

We used our time and money in attendance at the seminar on one hand, and acting as adhoc PDP party agents, on the other.


Thank you.


Opoola Ridwan 
 *Coordinator* 07056978915


1
Rafiu Mutiu
08140298750
 _Signatory_ 

2
Olalekan Shakirat
08058613441
 _Signatory_ 



 *CC* :

Governor Seyi Makinde

Senator Hosea Agboola, Chairman Advisory council 


Hon Bayo Lawal campaign DG

Prof Nureni Adeniran

Chief Dotun Oyelade
Chairman publicly committe of campaign 

 Honourable Babs Oduyoye 
Special Adviser political 

Chief Seye Famojuro

Alhaji Akeem Azeez, PA to the governor 

 Mr Taiwo Adisa Press secretary to the governor




Atayese

Before publishing the above statement, LP chairman in Oyo State honourable Sadiq Atayese was contacted on WhatsApp on his Verified numbers 07088956726 / 08033001036.

Other members of the state working committee who responded said the statement should be ignored or be be brought to the exco at the state.


However, the statement can not be far from the truth as it was too obvious and glaring that the Oyo State working committee of the Labour Party worked against the interest of the party under Atayese leadership. A total show of antiparty outing in the last elections.
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Presidential Election : This was done against LP in Kogi State (Video)

Presidential Election : This was done against LP in Kogi State (Video)

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This is Mr Joseph Salami, Chairman Adavi LGA Kogi State publicly destroying election results.

 


This is Mr Joseph Salami, Chairman Adavi LGA Kogi State publicly destroying election results.

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