Emmanuel Abi Couson

Journalist

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

Can APC please, settle them and return them back from where they brought them .

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

FLASHBACK: We Brought In Fulani Terrorists From Mali, Sierra Leone, Others For 2015 Election After We Won They Refused To Go Back — Pioneer APC Secretary Baraje https://t.co/3Dm4cFaEzn

[ADC Vanguard @ADCVanguard_]

Tinubu and Obi benefited from strong religious bloc voting in 2023, but Atiku’s support came from patriotic Nigerians who believe in unity, competence, and national rescue.

In 2027, those relying only on mosque and church politics will face the harsh reality of national electoral arithmetic.

Atiku is coming.

Data is brutal.

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

Breaking: CADAFA, rejects INEC proposed delineation of Warri Federal Constituency https://t.co/UriTBcHWyc

[Lauretta Onochie @Laurestar]

"THE NORTH NEEDS PRAYERS, NOT SECURITY, AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION, ETC. - Mohammed Bello Doka
- May 31, 2026
Let us begin with agriculture. Or rather, let us pretend to begin with agriculture, because that is what the 2026 budget does best. The federal government has allocated record sums to farming, irrigation, and livestock development across all tiers of government. Northern states alone are throwing hundreds of billions at the problem — Jigawa earmarked N75 billion for agriculture, Kaduna dedicated 11.65 percent of its nearly N1 trillion budget to food security, and Kano set aside N26 billion plus another N64 billion for water supply to support irrigation . On paper, this looks like a government that cares about hunger. On paper, a lot of things look good. On paper, I look like someone who has their life together.

Click for more: https://t.co/lrxRc7K2HS

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

Comedians how many million votes did he get in 2023 general elections ..and here you are saying close to 10 million votes...shame on you

[Sunday Dare,CON @SundayDareSD]

With almost 11 million votes, the coast is clear

[Lauretta Onochie @Laurestar]

WE MOVE.....:
The ADC chapter in Kebbi State has officially endorsed H.E. @atiku Abubakar as their preferred Presidential Candidate for 2027.

God bless Nigeria

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

This comment was made by Senate Smart Adeyemi during the 10th Senate

[MaziTundeEdnutfan @originalproflle]

“tinubu should know that it has gotten to a time that we that are supporters of theAPC can no longer keep quiet.

Our security system has collapsed…every part of this country is threatened.

We should shut down the National Assembly if we cannot save this country,…there’s no food, people are in poverty…”

The moment APC Senator Smart confronted the senate with the truth and was almost moved to tears.

[ADC Vanguard @ADCVanguard_]

May 22, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ADC DEMANDS ACCESS TO EL-RUFAI, WARNS ICPC AGAINST FURTHER INTIMIDATION

3 TRUCKLOADS OF POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVE AT ICPC AS AREGBESOLA, ABDULLAHI, LUKMAN ATTEMPT TO VISIT EL-RUFAI

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) wishes to express its concern over the refusal of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to grant senior leaders of our party access to Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna State and a prominent leader of our party, who remains in the custody of the Commission.

Earlier today, alongside the National Secretary of our party, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, and the Secretary of the ADC Policy and Manifesto Committee, Mallam Salihu Lukman, we visited the headquarters of the ICPC in Abuja to see Mallam El-Rufai. Despite prior communication and formal requests, we were denied access without any reasonable explanation.

While we were at the premises awaiting a response to our request, the atmosphere suddenly became noticeably tense after no fewer than three truckloads of armed police officers arrived at the facility. The heavy deployment, which appeared entirely unnecessary and disproportionate to the peaceful presence of unarmed political leaders, created the unmistakable impression that the authorities feared that the mere presence of opposition leaders at the Commission could trigger public outrage.

It is deeply troubling that a simple request by senior party officials to visit a detained colleague was met, not with professionalism, but with a show of force more suited to the suppression of civil unrest. At no point did members of our delegation threaten disorder, incite confrontation, or mobilise supporters to the premises. Yet the response of the state suggested panic, fear, and an attempt to intimidate not only our party leaders, but also any Nigerian who may dare to question the treatment being meted out to opposition figures.

Such actions only reinforce growing public concern that state institutions are increasingly being used, not merely for law enforcement, but as instruments of political pressure and psychological intimidation against dissenting voices.

It is important to state that the National Secretary of the ADC had previously written officially to the Chairman of the ICPC, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, requesting visitation rights to Mallam El-Rufai, especially in light of growing public concerns regarding his wellbeing and reports that he has faced repeated restrictions on access to family members and medical personnel.

Let it be clear: Mallam Nasir El-Rufai is not a fugitive. He voluntarily submitted himself to the authorities. Under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he is entitled to dignity, medical care, family access, and fair treatment under the law. What we are witnessing increasingly appears to be punishment by process, intimidation through isolation, and an attempt to break the spirit of a leading opposition figure.

The ADC will not stand by and watch one of its leaders subjected to this pattern of harassment and calculated humiliation. Nigeria is watching. The international community is watching. The world is watching.

We therefore demand that the ICPC immediately grant unrestricted access to Mallam El-Rufai by his family, doctors, lawyers, and leaders of his political party. Anything short of this will only reinforce public perception that state institutions are being weaponised against opposition voices.

Signed:

Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi
National Publicity Secretary
African Democratic Congress

[Lauretta Onochie @Laurestar]

Whatever @officialABAT Touches....
He destroys. APC is gone.

Tinubu has no pathway to 2027. He is gone. Tinubu is Gone.

God bless Nigeria.
Lauretta Onochie
@Laurestar

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

And those he introduced
PMS increase
Naira to Dollar increase
Transportation increase
Increase in cost of commodities
Increase in house rent
Multiple budget implementation
Massive corruption in NNPCL
State capture
Increase in insecurity
Govt negotiating Terrorists/Bandits

[Bolaji Fesomade @MasterBolaji]

Things this administration eliminated in 3 years:

ASUU strikes
fuel queues
fuel subsidy
dollar subsidy
student dropouts over fees
cash collections in federal agencies
stealing of public funds
local fuel import reduced

Good job, BAT.

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

All corpers that will take part in 2027 should be insured

[INEC Nigeria @inecnigeria]

INEC to Deploy 1.4 Million Corps Members for 2027 Polls

The Hon. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan, led a high-powered delegation of National Commissioners, the Secretary to the Commission, directors, and senior aides on a strategic courtesy visit to the headquarters of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Abuja.

The delegation was received by the Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle Oluseye Nafiu, and members of the scheme’s senior management team at the Yakubu Gowon House.

During the visit, Prof. Amupitan reaffirmed the critical role of corps members in Nigeria’s democratic process, revealing that INEC would mobilise over 1.4 million ad hoc staff — largely drawn from the NYSC — for the 2027 general elections.

Describing the meeting as more than a formal courtesy call, the INEC chairman said the visit was “a mission of profound gratitude” to an institution he described as indispensable to the success of elections in Nigeria.

He noted that corps members have consistently formed the backbone of INEC’s election operations since 1999, particularly as presiding officers and registration area officers across polling units nationwide.

According to him, the 2023 general election saw INEC deploy about 1.2 million ad hoc staff, with over 70 per cent — nearly 850,000 personnel — made up of corps members and student volunteers.

Providing insights into preparations for the 2027 polls, Prof. Amupitan disclosed that INEC would require 707,384 corps members for the Presidential and National Assembly election scheduled for January 16, 2027, and another 707,384 for the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections fixed for February 6, 2027.

He added that thousands more would be needed for off-cycle governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states, as well as bye-elections in Nasarawa, Enugu, Rivers, Ondo, Kebbi, and Kano states.
The INEC chairman praised corps members for their patriotism, discipline, neutrality, and digital competence, particularly in operating the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).

“In many states, corps members accounted for nearly 90 per cent of Registration Area Officers and Presiding Officers. They protected the sanctity of the ballot across 176,846 polling units nationwide,” he said.
Amupitan also acknowledged the risks associated with election duties and assured the NYSC leadership that INEC was committed to strengthening insurance, welfare, and security arrangements for corps members deployed during elections.

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

Real Madrid untouchable

[Diəgo @Diego_Leon_hq]

🚨 Fede Valverde scores the type of goals you replay for weeks long-range rockets, volleys and clutch screamers in big games.

Energy, versatility, work rate and elite ball striking… he would be a perfect fit for Manchester United.

Valverde can play CM, RW, DM and even RB if needed — the type of versatility Manchester United badly need right now.

If Real Madrid fans truly want him sold,Manchester United should be first in line. 👀

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

They say police is your friend

[GRV Stan @CrownprinceCom2]

I think something is wrong with some Nigerian police officers. They have always forgotten that the world is watching them. Can you repost this until the IGP sees this video 🙆🙆

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

Fake news purveyors..

[Peter Obi Grassroots Mobilization. @PO_GrassRootM]

BREAKING: Key members of the ADC have reportedly declined participation in an emergency leadership meeting scheduled for tonight, insisting that Atiku Abubakar should not be present due to his recent role in deepening divisions and creating unrest within the party.

[Paul Ibe @omonlakiki]

This is fake news. H.E @atiku is on board the @ADCNig train. His destination remains the last stop of the train.

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

It is in the coffers of Renewed Hope Agenda account

[ADC Vanguard @ADCVanguard_]

Dear President Tinubu, Where Did the Money Go?

What happened to Nigeria’s 2024, 2025 and 2026 budgets? What happened to the loans, subsidy savings, extra revenues and all the sacrifice Nigerians were told to endure?

In 2024, your government signed a ₦28.7 trillion budget, with ₦8.2 trillion for debt service, ₦10 trillion for capital expenditure and promises of security, jobs, poverty reduction and macroeconomic stability. Nigerians were told the budget would be “efficiently pursued and vigorously monitored.”

In 2025, the budget jumped from ₦49.7 trillion to ₦54.2 trillion, with claims of extra revenue from FIRS, Customs and other agencies. In 2026, it has exploded again to ₦68.32 trillion, including ₦15.8 trillion for debt service and ₦32.2 trillion for capital expenditure.

Yet ordinary Nigerians are still asking the same painful questions: where are the results? Where is the security? Where is the food relief? Where are the jobs? Where is the electricity? Where is the visible impact of subsidy removal?

The DMO’s own data shows Nigeria’s total public debt reached about ₦159.28 trillion by December 31, 2025. So Nigerians are carrying bigger budgets, bigger loans, bigger taxes, higher fuel prices and deeper hunger, yet the quality of life keeps falling.

This is not competence. This is a government that keeps collecting sacrifice from citizens without delivering comfort, safety or accountability.

Mr President, Nigerians deserve answers. What happened to the budgets? What happened to the loans? What happened to the subsidy savings? Where is the renewed hope?

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

OTP

[Ayo FBI @PureMinD__]

10 Triggering Points of Tinubu's Woeful Administration (2023–2026) - Why He must not return as President in 2027.

1. Fuel Subsidy Removal without planning.
Tinubu’s inauguration speech came with immediate removal of fuel subsidy which resulted in fuel prices exponentially increasing from ₦190 → ₦1,300+/litre (650%+ rise) without proper plan to cushion the irreparable damage that one statement would do to the pockets of ordinary Nigerians

2. Naira Collapse - ₦460 → ₦1,490/$
Tinubu's unification of exchange rates; another Day-One policy sent the naira into a historic tailspin. The naira collapsed from roughly ₦460/$ to ₦1,358 (official) and ₦1,490 (parallel market) by April 2026. This near tripling of the exchange rate wiped out savings, drove up import costs, devastated businesses, and made the cost of living unbearable for millions. The new ₦70,000 minimum wage approved in 2024 was worth only *m$42 in real terms, less than half the purchasing power of the old ₦30,000 wage in 2019.

3. Explosive Inflation - A Nation That Can No Longer Eat
Inflation under Tinubu hit a generational high of 34.19% in mid-2024, with food inflation peaking at a record 40.87% in June 2024.
While headline inflation eased to 15.06% by February 2026, the cumulative price damage especially on food had already devastated household budgets across the country. Nigeria went from a middle-income aspiration to a nation where eating three meals a day became a luxury for tens of millions.

4. Famine & Mass Hunger — More than 35 million Nigerians Facing Starvation
Under Tinubu's watch, Nigeria's food crisis reached catastrophic proportions. The World Food Programme (WFP) projected that 35 million Nigerians would face acute hunger during the 2026 lean season. In Borno State, 15,000 people were classified at IPC Phase 5 Catastrophic/Famine level - the worst tier on the global hunger scale. The poverty rate surged from 46% in 2023 to 63% in 2025, meaning approximately 140 million Nigerians now live in abject poverty according to the World Bank.

5. Electricity Grid Collapse - Darkness as Governance
Despite promises of an energy revolution, Nigeria's national grid collapsed 9 times in 2024 alone. Major grid collapses occurred in December 2025 and January 2026, with electricity supply plummeting to as low as 1.5 megawatts, practically zero for a country of over 220 million people. Businesses dependent on grid power were crippled, manufacturing stalled, and ordinary Nigerians were left in perpetual darkness, running generators at enormous personal expense.

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

Okay ooh

[SoL @SoL_TFD]

URGENT & PRIVATE
To: Professor Joash Amupitan (SAN),

Office of the Chairman,
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),
Abuja, Nigeria.

Subject: NOTICE OF LEGAL IMPLICATIONS REGARDING DENIAL OF DIGITAL ASSETS AND THE RISKS OF PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE.

Sir,
This correspondence serves as a formal observation and a strategic warning regarding your office’s recent public denials concerning the ownership of specific social media accounts and linked financial identifiers.

While the use of defensive offenses such as threatening the arrest of citizens who point out digital footprints may offer a temporary shield in the media, it is creating a catastrophic legal liability for you as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and a public servant.

1. The Forensic Trap.
Why Denial is Not a Defense.
In the digital age, a denial of ownership is an invitation for forensic discovery. The public space has already identified links between the account in question and your personal email, phone number, and an OPay account.

A. KYC Integrity
Banking institutions like OPay operate under strict Know Your Customer (KYC) mandates. If a subpoena is issued, the disclosure of the BVN and NIN used to verify that account will provide irrefutable proof of ownership.

B. Subpoena to Tech Giants.
Should this matter reach a court of competent jurisdiction, a request for your IMEI log-in history from X (formerly Twitter) will reveal whether the account was accessed from your personal or official mobile devices.

2. Legal Consequences.
Perjury and Misleading the State.
By claiming the account is a cyber attack and prompting your office to threaten arrests, you are moving from a PR crisis into a criminal territory.

A. Giving False Information.
Under Nigerian law, using the machinery of the State (the Police) to investigate a crime you know to be a fabrication is a punishable offense.

B. Perjury.
If these denials are eventually sworn to in an affidavit or presented as testimony in any election tribunal or civil suit, the resulting conviction for perjury would mean the automatic loss of your license as a SAN and your permanent disqualification from public office.

3. International Litigation & The ECOWAS Court.
While you may feel shielded by local judicial dynamics, international courts operate beyond the reach of executive interference.

A. The ECOWAS Court.
This body has consistently ruled against the use of state power to harass citizens over digital expressions. A suit filed here would not just target you, but would expose the Nigerian State to international embarrassment and hefty fines, for which you would be held personally and professionally responsible.

B. International Reputational Blacklisting.
As a law professor, you are aware that global legal bodies and monitoring groups track such controversies. This saga threatens to turn a storied academic career into a textbook example of digital-era integrity failure.

4. Recommendation for Damage Control.
By continuing this path of aggressive denial, you are destroying the very integrity you seek to protect. The threat to arrest citizens is perceived globally as an admission of guilt through intimidation.

We strongly advise a pivot toward transparency. The digital footprints are already in the public domain; no amount of local police interference can erase the data held on servers in San Francisco or the cloud-based ledgers of OPay.

The path you are on leads to removal from office, criminal conviction, and a permanent stain on your legal legacy. Be so guided.

Your best option is to resign now.

Comrade, IG Wala.
12/04/26

Cc:
The Nigerian Bar Association (Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee).
The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).
International Bar Association (Human Rights Institute).

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

Heaven will fall in Nigeria...when it is falling I hope you and your children will come and prevent it

[Peoples Gazette @GazetteNGR]

Heaven won't fall if INEC bars ADC from participating in 2027 elections, derecognition of leaders self-inflicted: APC
https://t.co/ooc6Cyj1u1

[Emmanuel Abi Couson @ecouson1]

Apt

[Bolaji Abdullahi @BolajiADC]

BREAKING

ADC is taking its fight for democracy global.

As part of our efforts to strengthen international engagement, we are establishing a Special Representatives Network across key global capitals to engage foreign governments, amplify credible information about Nigeria’s political environment, and counter one-sided government narratives.

This comes amid growing attacks on our members, attempts to undermine our leadership, and efforts to restrict political participation ahead of the 2027 General Elections.

Our representatives will engage foreign governments, international media, democracy institutions, and the Nigerian diaspora, providing regular briefings on political developments, human rights concerns, and electoral integrity.

We are also launching a National Documentation Initiative to systematically track and report incidents affecting political participation across Nigeria.

From Washington DC to London, Brussels to Addis Ababa, ADC is building a global platform for accountability.

Nigeria’s democracy must be seen, heard, and defended everywhere.