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If reports that Kwankwaso’s camp is worried about Peter Obi’s promise to unconditionally release Nnamdi Kanu are true, then the concern is not only valid, it is politically inevitable.
This is the danger of building a presidential ticket on emotion instead of national calculation.
Peter Obi may think he is speaking to his base, but a presidential candidate is not a regional activist. Every statement he makes is heard in Sokoto, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Borno, Zamfara, Niger, Plateau, Nasarawa and every other part of the country. A man seeking to govern Nigeria cannot speak on a sensitive national security matter as if he is addressing only one section of the country.
That is where the problem begins.
The issue of Nnamdi Kanu is not ordinary politics. It is tied to separatist agitation, national security, the South East crisis, the fear of violence, the trauma of families affected by insecurity, and the constitutional authority of the Nigerian state. Any serious politician must approach it with balance, empathy, legality and national sensitivity.
But to say someone will be released unconditionally is politically reckless.
It sends the wrong signal to millions of voters who want justice, peace, security and respect for the rule of law. It also places Kwankwaso in a very difficult position, especially in Kano and the wider North where security language matters deeply.
Kwankwaso’s political value is his northern base. Kwankwasiyya is not just a red cap movement. It is a political identity built over years in Kano, rooted in local loyalty, street structure, youth mobilization, education politics, welfare memory and emotional connection with ordinary people. If Kwankwaso is seen as deputizing or standing with a candidate whose position on Kanu is interpreted as soft on separatist violence, the political damage may not stop at the presidential ticket. It can spill into Kano.
That is why this reported anxiety makes sense.
Kano politics is unforgiving. The same voters who love Kwankwaso can also question him if they feel he has entered an alliance that threatens their wider security sentiment. In northern politics, perception can become reality very quickly. A single careless statement from the top of the ticket can become a campaign weapon in wards, mosques, markets, radio discussions, family gatherings and polling units.
That is the danger Obi has created.
Tinubu’s camp will use it. APC will use it. ADC will use it. Every opponent of the Obi-Kwankwaso ticket will use it. They will ask one simple question: if Peter Obi can promise unconditional release on such a sensitive matter before even entering office, what else will he do when power is in his hands?
That question alone can poison the ticket in places where Obi is already struggling for trust.
This is why presidential politics is not social media activism. It is not about saying what your loudest supporters want to hear. It is about holding together a complicated country with many fears, many wounds and many political realities.
Peter Obi’s statement may excite some people, but it can frighten others. And in a presidential election, frightened voters do not reward you. They move away.
If Kwankwaso’s people are worried, they are not being dramatic. They are reading the map. They know that Kano cannot be treated like an annex of Obi’s online movement. They know that Kwankwasiyya candidates cannot afford to carry the burden of a statement that can be framed as dangerous across the North.
This is the real problem with the Obi project. It often mistakes passion for strategy. It mistakes applause for national acceptance. It mistakes moral posturing for electoral wisdom.
A serious presidential candidate must know when to speak, how to speak, and how every word will land across the federation.
Obi failed that test.
And if this issue is not managed carefully, it may not only weaken his presidential ambition.
Data is brutal.
Mallam El-Rufai @elrufai stood firmly and gave his full support to bring President Tinubu into power, yet today the same Tinubu and Uba Sani seem to have turned against him. Politics really teaches you to be careful who you sacrifice and fight for in life.
This Nigerian lady who teaches at a school in Japan broke down the Japanese style of learning that makes them very intelligent and productive.
I think this is smart learning. It will be helpful to Nigerian students, if it is adopted in our educational system.✍️
"If you collect Bola Tinubu's money with the hope of bringing votes for him from the North, it's not too late to return the money.
We are coming out massively to vote out this Government in 2027"
Young Nigerians are not stupid. We are on fire!
Why should anyone pay over ₦600K for a substandard education in a public university? Leave everything & listen to our Gen Zs speak. Tag them. They deserve a massive shout out.
Nigeria must be OK in our lifetime!! 😭👏👏
VIDEO: Listen to this video. From the very beginning of this regime, i have said the cabinet is the most useless, most inept, most corrupt in our recent history, and the Attorney General is on top.
The Electoral Act was a fraud, and he supervised that fraud. He couldn't advise the president on the right thing to do. Or maybe they were in agreement since they were so much in a hurry in trying to stop every other party from contesting the elections. But it has now backfired.
The opposition must do more. The @ADCNig should be at the forefront in fighting things like these. In my opinion, they didn't do enough to tackle the regime over the Electoral Act. I hope they do better going forward.
That decamping they were trying to because of it manipulate everything in their favor will now happen.
I hope @SimFubaraKSC is watching?
#unmutedthepodcast #tegatalks
Fayemi narrates how he made Peter Obi to greet President Tinubu in Rome, Okwute even called Asiwaju OUR LEADER 😌🤦🏾
Obidents won’t like this revelation sha
Please, those close to HE @atiku should take note and pass this message to him directly. Wallahi, this is coming from almost all localities. Please do not take it personally.
“You should understand the political problem Atiku Abubakar is facing, which his close associates are not telling him the truth about,” said Alhaji Shehu Yusuf Kura, a political figure in the North.
POLITICAL STRATEGY IS NOT ABOUT NOISE!!
They were happy when:
OBI moved to NDC.
MAKINDE moved to APM.
That’s the strategy.
ATIKU stays in ADC
to mobilize Northern votes for his presidency.
OBI closes the door on Eastern votes from Tinubu.
MAKINDE divides the West.
ATIKU picks a South-South VP.
The Political Mathematics Teacher keeps smiling.
It wasn’t clear when MAKINDE said:
"Opposition parties will produce one presidential candidate for Nigeria."
That single candidate is what’s confusing them daily.
Now they’re trying to stop El-Rufai’s wife and doctor from seeing him…
because they believe the man is still sending strategies from detention.
I REPEAT!
You can detain the Mathematician,
but you cannot detain the Mathematical Formula!!
One Term President (OTP)!!!
#Shared
"The cabal led by Funtua forced Buhari to give Emefiele another term. Unknown to Buhari, they had a deal with Emefiele which made Funtua the defacto CBN Governor. Funtua also had access to unlimited amount of FOREX"-Charles Omole, Author of Buhari's biography and close friend.
Chei! They just took advantage of baba's health issues. They finished Naija but want Asiwaju to carry the blame?