Seriake Dickson: Only successful aspirants in NDC primaries will pay nomination fees
Seriake Dickson, national leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), says only aspirants who win the party’s primaries will proceed to pay nomination fees and complete documentation exercise.
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Inibehe Effiong is a lawyer from Akwa Ibom.
He doesn't make pop music. He doesn't appear on reality TV.
He goes to court. For Nigerians who can't afford to go to court themselves.
Human rights. Civil liberties. Press freedom. Accountability.
He's been jailed for his advocacy. He's had threats. He's kept going.
This is the kind of Akwa Ibom person who rarely trends, but whose work matters in ways that outlast any hit song or viral moment.
The Land of Promise produces artists and athletes.
It also produces people who fight for the rights of others when fighting costs something.
@Waspapping_@UC_Emeliem Madam. The number of hausas killed in the northern Nigeria is greater than the number of hausas killed all over the world. So what are you saying
Popular ex footballer, Tijani Babangida who played for Nigeria and wore the shirt of the Nigerian Super Eagles for 10years.
He had a tragic accident where he lost his only son, and his brother. His son was only 1year old when he died.
The accident, which occurred along the Kaduna-Zaria expressway in May2024, claimed the lives of Babangida's younger brother and his one-year-old son. His wife was also seriously injured, losing an eye and now needs face reconstruction surgery.
Tijani himself almost lost his legs; his wife is still battling for her life.
What did Nigeria do to help him?
What did the NFF do to help him?
What did our Ministry of Sports do to help him? Apart from go to the hospital for pictures when Tijani was in Nigeria, what exactly did the nigerian government do for Tijani after losing his son, his brother, and almost losing his own life and his wife?
Tijani had to pick up his Dutch passport and go back to the Netherlands where his former team Ajax have now received him and started raising money of about 170,000 Euros to help with his recovery.
How can you treat a man who gave ten years of his life representing this country in such a manner? That he now needs to go back to a football club to seek help.
As I said in another post,
This is a country that strangulates its brightest, suffocates its youths, disregards its veterans, asphyxiates its aged and empowers the very worst in our society to rule over the rest.
There is a deranged lunatic in Abuja right now running wild grabbing land and destroying people’s lives all because today he is a minister.
The first ever military cadet in Nigeria is about to have his house demolished and his land stolen by this lunatic. A military veteran who wore our gallant uniform and received bullet wounds fighting for Nigeria. This is how Nigeria repays those who give their lives for it.
There are retired civil servants who are owed their pensions across this country. Someone will work for 35years in the service of the public and retire yet a governor will decide to owe them their rightful pensions. Some of this old aged pensioners end up being sick, being hungry, being homeless and many end up dead from the many travails and suffering they face.
Yet in the same country,
A governor will be in office for only 4years and be entitled to cars, salaries, allowances and benefits for life. Read that again: for life! They are never owed a penny even when they are out of office.
But a person who worked as a teacher, or nurse or a civil servant for 35years will never be paid their gratuity for decades after retiring; and many of them will be owed pensions until they one day die in a road accident on one of their many trips to the government office to demand their entitlements.
And this is the same country that some delusional idiotic people want to blackmail others into patriotism. A country that will watch its own people rot in suffering - even the very people who have served the country with their blood, their toil, their sweat and their lives.
Before an American president asked the people not just to think what the country can do for them, America was already a country that gave its own people the best opportunities in the entire world.
People have pain and trauma that Nigeria has inflicted on them, and unfortunately they have a right to never wish to associate themselves with this mess called Nigeria.
You can’t blackmail people into patriotism. If a country has failed its own people and the government continues to fail its own people, it is demonic and delusional to be demanding patriotism.
The countries that demand patriotism of its citizens are countries that first ensure that its citizens are treated like human beings and have a life that is worth living.
So while I personally want more Nigerians abroad to speak well of Nigeria, I am very much aware this is a country that kills its best, strangulates its brightest, and empowers its very worst to rule over the rest.