Governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have reiterated their readiness to provide the necessary support for a smooth power transition and the success of the incoming administration of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This was as they paid a congratulatory visit to the incoming president, led by their Chairman Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State. At the meeting, the governors pledged to work with the party’s leadership to ensure the orderly management of key government formation processes, including the election of the principal officers of the National Assembly. They said they were ready…
Author: Albus Dauda
The reality of the Tinubu presidency is starting to dawn on Obi-dients, the extreme and violence-prone supporters of Peter Obi, following the movement of the President-Elect to the Defence House in Maitama, FCT Abuja, where he is receiving briefings and generally preparing to assume power on the 29th of May. Since the announcement of Tinubu’s victory by the electoral body INEC back in February, Obi-dients have sought reprieve from the demoralization of their defeat in an alternate universe where the triumph of the APC will be unexplainably overturned and their candidate handed the win, despite finishing in third position. They have…
Ousmane Yara, a Guinean present serving in the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063 as an ambassador, has offered clarifications on the friendly ties between Nigeria’s President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and ex-president of Guinea, Alpha Conde, as well as the circumstances surrounding the helicopter trip that has been the subject of conspiracy theories spun primarily by a disgraced self-described investigative journalist. Yara told journalists in Abuja on Sunday that the video was recorded back in 2016 when Tinubu visited Guinea as a guest of then-President Conde to celebrate the country’s independence anniversary. Similar to other high-profile guests that attended the event,…
Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the last election, has continued his public relations blitz aimed at members of the Muslim faith of the country following the damaging fall-out of his leaked conversation with Bishop David Oyedepo during which he branded himself the Christian candidate and called for a religious war ostensibly against Muslims. Obi who made it a habit in the last presidential elections to campaign in churches and had urged Christians to “take back their country” is seizing the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations to reach out to Nigeria’s Muslim community with a series of staged PR events and…
Peter Obi, the political upstart who sought the presidency on the platform of the Labour Party, is convinced that northern Nigeria can only be associated with one feature: poverty. In at least two of his most recent statements, including the one in which he admitted to “unknowingly breaking the law” in the United Kingdom, the former Anambra governor used the word ‘poverty’ as a synonym for northern Nigeria, thus revealing what many have since described as a bigoted mindset quick to belittle and castigate those he considers as outsiders, notably Muslims and non-Igbos. “Beyond regaining our mandate, I am committed…
Sources within the Guinean government have dismissed claims that Nigeria’s President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, is a citizen of the country following unverified reports making the rounds about his alleged ties to the country after the release of a bio-data page of what appeared to be a Guinean passport belonging to him. Several disreputable Nigerian bloggers, one of whom was recently suspended by Twitter for violating its content rules and for his involvement in multiple disinformation campaigns targeted at high-placed individuals, had manufactured controversy over the issue, claiming that Tinubu’s purported dual citizenship amount to a violation of Nigeria’s constitution and should…
Nigeria’s President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has congratulated Muslims on the successful completion of this year’s Ramadan following the traditional sighting of the moon which marks the end of the fasting period. In his Sallah message released earlier today, he urged self-renewal, love, and patriotism as the country prepares to usher in an era of renewed hope with his swearing-in on the 29th of May, 2023. He said, “We thank Munificent Allah for the grace to witness this year’s Eid-el-fitri celebration after the Holy Month of Ramadan.” “For Muslims in our country and all over the world, Ramadan is a sacred…
Senior members of the infamous ‘Villa Cabal’ are in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to plot a last-ditch attempt to block the scheduled democratic handing over of power to the winner of the presidential election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the 29th of May. These figures, many of whom are reported to have spearheaded several controversial deals and government actions that could result in a criminal conviction if investigated, are reportedly turning to legal subterfuge after failing to install their puppet through a series of overtures made to influence the outcome of the APC presidential primaries and the main election itself. According…
Chimamanda Adichie used her prodigious talents to the wrong end in her open letter to President Biden. Those who subsequently attacked her with strong invectives yet little logic or substance also performed a disservice. The issues on the table are too important to be treated by well-written but uninformed analysis or by long-winded castigation. Had Adichie simply written that she preferred Peter Obi she would have been on more honest, if not firmer, ground. However, she detoured from honesty by basically asserting that the election was tainted because her favored candidate lost. In her letter she cites “the polls” leading…
Inibehe Effiong, a controversial lawyer known for online petitions and activism, has struggled to explain his ties to Mr Clement Jimbo, the victorious APC candidate for Abak/Etim Ekpo/Ika Federal Constituency in Akwa Ibom state following his repeated calls for the death of Nigeria’s two major political parties, the APC and the PDP, on the account that they are responsible for all the country’s woes. Inibehe was placed on the hot seat by dismayed followers on Saturday night when he published a congratulatory message to the candidate in a Twitter thread where he described the APC faithful as “my friend, brother,…