NDC reportedly getting 487 votes against APC’s 43,000 in a senatorial district election in Enugu is not just an election result. It is a political embarrassment with national lessons.
This is Enugu.
Not Zamfara.
Not Kano.
Not Borno.
Enugu, where Peter Obi and Labour Party enjoyed massive goodwill in the last presidential election. Enugu, where Labour Party won during the presidential election and almost captured the governorship. Enugu, where Obidients once told Nigerians that Obi had turned the South-East into a permanent political fortress.
Now NDC enters the same terrain and records 487 votes?
Distinguished, even family meeting attendance can pass that number.
This is why noise is not structure. Online excitement is not party strength. A presidential candidate’s personal sympathy is not the same as transferable political capital. Obidients will now tell you Obi’s votes are not transferable, but that is exactly the problem.
If your votes cannot follow your party, your candidates or your coalition, then what exactly are you building?
A movement?
Or a fan club?
Peter Obi’s 2023 performance was built heavily on emotion, protest votes, anger against the old order and personal branding. But politics beyond presidential election requires structure. It requires ward officers. It requires local candidates. It requires agents. It requires grassroots trust. It requires people who can deliver when Obi’s face is not on the ballot.
That is where the illusion collapses.
And Kwankwaso too should learn from this. You cannot package NDC as a national rescue platform when it cannot breathe outside personality politics. Kwankwaso has Kano sentiment. Obi has online emotion. But Nigeria is bigger than red caps and hashtags.
A serious party must compete everywhere.
A serious coalition must transfer votes.
A serious national movement must show evidence beyond interviews, podcasts, rallies and social media noise.
If NDC can collapse this badly in Enugu, what happens in the North-West where Obi has no organic base? What happens in the North-East? What happens in the South-South? What happens in the Middle Belt when real structures start counting?
This result is a warning.
Obi’s popularity is not party structure.
Kwankwaso’s name is not national spread.
NDC noise is not electoral strength.
In Nigerian politics, vibes may trend, but structure wins elections.
Data is brutal.
I taught they say Edo state people are outspoken set of people. I wonder how someone like the D7 Governor Monday Okpobolo take emerge as the state governor of Edo state.
An anchor of one of the TV houses and his female colleague were venting fire and brimstone about the private jet that illegally landed near Asaba. Now that the owner of the jet is linked to a church founded by a @PeterObi supporter, It will be interesting to hear how they would swallow their vomit or spin it.
Because i watched how they were cursing Kenneth Okwuonkwo for calling out their Peter Obi on a very similar issue they were praising Babachir for bravity.
Hypocrisy pro-max
This is the man that Kenneth Okonkwo claims is asking for bribe of ordinary N10M🤔
A man that rejected an oil well. A man that was impeached for refusing to inflate his state budget as a governor.
A man that refused to sign pension law that had been passed by the state legislators that would have him entitled to numerous benefits.
All of a sudden in 2026, some people now claim that such a man is now scamming people for as low as N10M.
If Nigerian politicians are intelligent, they will know that the worst thing they will do is trying to frame Peter Obi as being corrupt.
Obi has proven himself to Nigerians. So, anything you throw at him concerning integrity will backfire on you.
Peter Obi is the standard. Go and verify.
Alleged N2b Nigeria Air Fraud: How Sirika Allegedly Used Ethiopian Airlines as Fake Nigeria Air-Witness
The 12th Prosecution Witness, PW12, Christopher Odofin, in the trial of the former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Abubakar Sirika, on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, told Justice S.C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court Abuja, how Sirika allegedly passed off an aircraft belonging to Ethiopian Airline as that of the promised Nigeria Air by the government of the late President Muhammadu Buhari.
The decoy aircraft, adorned with the livery of the promised Nigeria Air, found its way on the tarmac of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on May 27, 2023, being three days to the expiration of the tenure of the Buhari government and was flown back to Addis Ababa in the morning of May 29, 2023, being the handover date to the successor government.
Hadi Sirika is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on amended six-count, bordering on alleged abuse of office and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of over N2 billion, alongside his daughter, Fatima Hadi Sirika, son-in-law, Hamma Jalal Sule, and Al Buraq Global Investment Limited.
The contract for the setting up of Nigeria Air was awarded to Tianaero Nigeria Limited, belonging to Gabriel Tilmann, a close associate and friend of the former minister.
Reading from a portion of contract agreement with Ethiopian Airline, the witness, an investigator with Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said “The aircraft will depart from Addis Ababa (ADD) late evening of May 26, 2023 for it to be positioned early morning of May 27, 2023 at the Abuja (ABV) airport. The aircraft will stay in ABV airport for static display of Nigeria Air livery until May 28, 2023. The aircraft will leave ABV airport early morning on May, 29, 2023. The chartered flight will be operated by the Ethiopian Airline crew in Ethiopian Airline uniform. The Federal Government of Nigeria and Nigeria Air may put together local models who will be in Nigeria Air uniforms to pose for ceremonial pictures. The models may come to Addis Ababa so they may fly with the chartered flight to ABV.”
The witness told the court that the display of the aircraft in Abuja International Airport was deliberately planned to coincide with the end of the first defendant’s tenure as Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development on May 29, 2023 and to pass the aircraft off as the actualization of his promise of the return of Nigeria Air. After the less than 72 hours display of the aircraft, he stated that the Nigeria Air logo was removed from the aircraft and flown back to Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa.
The witness further disclosed that the investigating team was also able to ascertain that Ethiopian Airlines entered into a charter arrangement for the static display of the Nigeria Air livery for a duration of just three days, beginning from May 27 to May 29, 2023 based on information and documents received from the airline following a letter from it, dated June 12, 2023, in response to the EFCC’s request for information regarding Nigeria Air. And that though the purpose of the contract was for the establishment of Nigeria Air, the charter agreement with Ethiopian Airlines was entered on May 24, 2023, five days to the expiration of the defendant’s tenure for just a static display of the Nigeria Air logo on an aircraft.
All the documents tendered in evidence by the prosecution were shown to have been duly signed, authorized, and accompanied by certificates of identification and were not objected to by any of the counsels to the four defendants.
Among the exhibits is a compact disk containing a voice note from the first defendant, Hadi Sirika, marked Exhibit 37, which the prosecution counsel applied to be played in the court at the next adjourned date.
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“Nigerians, I’m Heartbroken Right Now. My Brother, Who Has Served In The Nigerian Army Since He Was 20 Years Old, Has Died. Now, The Army Told Us They Cannot Bring His Body Home For Us Unless We Pay ₦2 Million. They Said If We Don’t Send The Money, They Won’t Bring Him Back For Burial. My Father Was Also a Soldier Before He Died, And This Situation Is Very Painful For Our Family. I Never Imagined The Nigerian Army Would Deteriorate To This Point.” ~ Lady Reacts 💔🇳🇬