🚨 Mal says he doesn’t consider 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ a classic album
“When you go back and listen to it… I wouldn’t say that’s a classic album.”
Via Rory & Mal
It’s actually a betrayal to the South for any major Southern politician to accept to be VP to Atiku when it’s the turn of the South.
The only people who will accept to be VP are those who will risk nothing.
GEJ in 2011 polled 1m votes from Plateau; 1.1m each from Anambra, Akwa-Ibom, Abia, Kaduna; 1.2m from Lagos; 1.3m each from Delta and Imo in an election conducted by Jega who also conducted 2015.
I doubt any ‘southern’ candidate can ever match those numbers again, including GEJ.
I am compelled to believe the rumors that Babachir David Lawal actually worked for the APC.
There is no explanation to his actions.
He caused Nafi’u Bala situation
He caused the Binani and Abbo situation
And he has left just like that citing Atiku’s emergence as his reason. Who actually joined ADC thinking Atiku will not get the ticket?
Welcome home, BDL😆🤓
“Nigerians in Diaspora are planning on setting up Polling Unit Marshals across all Polling Units in 2027. There's a huge incentive being prepared for them.”
-Prof Pat Utomi on Arise TV.✍️
My very dear Aisha Yesufu,
Now that you have permitted me to speak about your journey into politics and the recent non-primary process, I shall.
First, hearty congratulations, Aisha, on your exceptional, standard‑setting run for the FCT Senate seat.
In just a few weeks, you showed what becomes possible when a selfless, sensible, competent, and courageous citizen steps into politics for the right reasons. You embodied everything Nigeria desperately needs more of in public office.
You should be immensely proud. You played by the rules, fought with integrity, and stayed the course until the entrenched barriers that routinely shut out citizens like you reared their familiar head. No reasonable observer is in doubt: what happened to your aspiration is the very disease that continues to cripple governance in Nigeria and across Africa.
Your experience is yet another reminder that until citizens collectively dismantle these systemic barriers, good governance will remain elusive.
I have often spoken publicly about your rare character, your courage, competence, and unwavering commitment to accountability and justice. Long before electoral politics, you earned national relevance through sacrifice and fearless citizenship. You spoke when silence was safer. You stood firm when retreat would have been easier. You have consistently shown that active citizenship matters, which is why I call you one of the greatest occupants of #TheOfficeOfTheCitizen.
At a time when many seek office for privilege, you stepped forward to serve, to legislate, and to institutionalize the values you have long demanded from outside government. Your aspiration symbolized the possibility that principled citizens can transform advocacy into governance.
No honest observer can deny your consistency, patriotism, and resilience. You are one of the most selfless and courageous minds your party- the National Democratic Coalition (NDC)- could have offered in 2027. Yet you asked only for a level playing field and were denied even that basic fairness.
It is therefore baffling that the NDC leadership failed to guarantee a transparent and credible internal process. Political parties are the gatekeepers of democracy. When they fail to practice democracy internally, that becomes a red flag and I hope your party NDC takes the right turns necessary to reclaim that ground. Nigerians yearning for a new political culture are watching, and parties that claim to champion democratic renewal must embody the values they proclaim.
The lesson here is bigger than you, Aisha. It is about whether Nigeria is ready to open political pathways for ethical, competent and capable citizens. Until that answer becomes “yes,” our democracy will continue to recycle mediocrity while excluding excellence.
Aisha, I know you will always hold your head high. You may not have secured the ticket, but you have earned something far more enduring. You have earned the confidence and admiration of countless Nigerians who now better understand the cost of our broken political culture.
Nigeria will yet be grateful that you chose not only to speak as a citizen, but to step forward and offer yourself for public service by running for the Senate.
Your journey has only just begun. We are many that are cheering you on!
Blessings and hugs always. 💜🫂✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾
On the Record: NDC Primaries... A Better Abuja Is Inevitable | #AishaforSenate2031
As the dust settles on the NDC Primaries, I want to set the record straight: I did not quit, I did not drop out of the race. I stayed to the end. I also do not intend to litigate a process that was never truly allowed to happen, I share my truth because the people of Abuja deserve the truth.
Why I Ran
I came into politics from a deep conviction: that to drive the transformation we hope to see, it is not enough to complain from the outside. You must step into the ring with your convictions and fight to get into the positions where decisions are made with the weight of the law.
I understood what I was getting into. I knew that the quality of our politics has not yet risen to the occasion, that values-based candidates do not easily emerge by merit in a system built to resist them. But I made a decision going in: I would not compromise my values. I would stand for what is right. I did not leave advocacy to go into politics. I took advocacy into politics.
The Campaign We Built
I ran a campaign I am truly proud of. Our ground game was on point. We had grassroots credibility, the kind you don't manufacture in a backroom. The SAY-Nation volunteer network was formidable, so formidable that the process had to be taken out of the open and resolved through a clandestine affirmation behind closed doors.
Street by street, ward by ward, conversation by conversation, we built something real. To every volunteer who knocked on doors, every supporter who argued our case in market squares and motor parks, every young person who believed that this time could be different: I see you, and I am deeply grateful. You showed Abuja what a people-powered campaign looks like.
The Process That Wasn't
What was billed as a primary was, in truth, a predetermined outcome dressed in procedural formalities. The primaries were repeatedly postponed. Venues were changed at the last minute. Guidelines of the party were not followed. Delegate based process was introduced to be conducted at a central location instead of the direct primaries to be conducted at Local Government headquarters. When the moment came, the contest was not decided by delegates in the open; it was affirmed in a closed room, away from the people whose voices it was supposed to reflect. The party will indeed go on to release statements upon statements about the free and fair nature of the Abuja FCT primaries. They are entitled to their voice, but the facts that transpired when litigated by conscience and the guidelines of the electoral act do not reflect justice and fairness.
Why I Didn't Escalate
I ran to win. But when the process was subverted, I made a choice: I would not exhaust myself in a grievance process designed to wear people down. I chose instead to extract every lesson this experience had to offer.
I now understand the architecture of the system in ways no textbook, no punditry, no amount of outside observation could ever teach. That knowledge is worth more than any petition I could have filed. I leave this process with something far more valuable than a ticket; I leave with clarity.
It is important to note that this account reflects my experience in the Abuja FCT Senatorial race. It does not speak to what transpired in other states, nor do I claim to understand the specifics of those contests. Every state had its own dynamics, and I will not generalise from my experience.
On the NDC
For now, despite its shortcomings, the NDC remains the only party that has given the better Presidential candidate in the 2027 electoral cycle a platform to run. To everyone within the party working to make this possible, I am grateful. Transformation does not come from outside alone. It must also be fought for within.
A Better Abuja Is Inevitable
This is not the end. What we built, the network, the credibility, the grassroots trust, cannot be taken away in a backroom.
The problem with you all is that you joke too much,NDC will only win one state in 2027 guber like LP did in 2023 with Abia,they will get Delta this time however they will fail woefully at the center even more than LP failed in 2023 far 3rd or 4th.
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road project made me understand what political will truly means.Normally, a project like this could take 4–5 years to even commence because of endless bottlenecks and “settlements.” But this started immediately & hasn’t stopped for a day. Political will.
I think Dr. Abati needs to leave that stage. It's becoming obvious that he's outgrown whatever script they are playing every morning.
Rufai brings in the revenue with this m@dness, and so the owner will surely back him over Doc; a reason Rufai has become more emboldened to talk back at him with recklessness
Whatever pans out, rational thinking Nigerians will be happy with what's happening to the programme