Nigerian Security Agents Draw Weapons as Protesters Stone Convoy Leaving Abuja Mosque, Tinubu’s Presence Unconfirmed.
Security agents draw their weapons as protesters chanting “Bamaiyi Tinubu!” (We do not want Tinubu!) pelt a convoy with stones as it exits a mosque in Abuja. It remains unclear whether President Bola Tinubu was among those in the convoy.
Renewed Lies: 12 Simple Questions Tinubu Must Answer in Kaduna Tomorrow
by Mohammed Bello Doka
23 October, 2026.
Tomorrow, the All Progressives Congress will officially launch its 2027 presidential campaign in Kaduna, not Lagos. It will be another rally. Another sea of rented crowds. Another round of thunderous promises that were never meant to be kept. It is akin to a lying competition in which the speaker knows he is lying, the listeners know the speaker is lying, and both pretend otherwise — a ritual that repeats every four years with the precision of a broken clock.
But this time, the questions must follow the convoy. And they must be asked not only to the man on the podium, but to everyone who climbs that stage, and to every Nigerian regardless of party — because the deception is not the property of one party. It is a national affliction.
Here are twelve simple questions.
1. Who removed fuel subsidy — and where are the savings?
Your spokespersons, including the Director General of your campaign council, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, now claim there was no subsidy provision in the 2023 appropriation when you took over as president, while in direct contrast your supporters trumpet subsidy removal as your greatest achievement. On May 29, 2023, you declared: "Subsidy can no longer justify its ever-increasing costs in the wake of drying resources. We shall instead re-channel the funds into better investment in public infrastructure, education, health care and jobs that will materially improve the lives of millions." The question here is who removed subsidy and where is the benefit. After removing a benefit enjoyed by over 200 million Nigerians, what verifiable benefits have the savings delivered — and can you publish the subsidy savings ledger? The government claimed removal would save over ₦10 trillion in two years; Nigerians are still waiting for the hospitals, schools and jobs that money was meant to build.
2. Insecurity: "the only repentant bandit is a dead bandit" — so why negotiate with bandits in the North and not the South-West?
In Kaduna, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai said the only repentant bandit is a dead one. Yet your administration continues to explore negotiation and amnesty frameworks with bandits in the North while refusing any such approach in Yorubaland. Why the double standard — and what have you actually done to curtail insecurity since May 2023? Between 2023 and 2025, Nigeria recorded thousands of kidnappings and killings, with the North-West accounting for the largest share.
3. "Where is the light?" — your own second-term test
On the 2023 campaign trail you promised that if you could not fix Nigeria's electricity, Nigerians should not vote for you in 2027. Where is the light? Has grid supply, generation capacity, or tariff relief improved enough for you to stand by your own test? Nigerians still endure collapsing grids and darkness while paying more for power than ever — Nigerians now pay ₦209 per kilowatt-hour after the April 2024 tariff hike. Where is the money?
4. Poverty: your own spokesmen admit multidimensional poverty has risen — and over 75% of the poor are in the North. Are you here to hold our governors to account?
Bayo Onanuga and other spokespersons have acknowledged a considerable increase in multidimensional poverty. NBS data puts over 75% of Nigeria's multidimensional poor in the North. You have asked citizens to hold their governors to account — so what is the Federal Government's accountability for the North, and what specific federal interventions have reversed these numbers since May 2023? The NBS Multidimensional Poverty Index reported 133 million Nigerians — about 63% of the population — as multidimensionally poor, with the North-West alone accounting for over 45 million.
5. Agriculture: the Kaduna promise and the food crisis
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Tinubu, Akintola, El-Rufai: Why the North Cannot Trust Southwest in 2027
By Mohammed Bello Doka
When Nasir El-Rufai stood before the world in June 2022 and declared that 12 out of 14 northern APC governors had agreed to cede presidential power to the South, he was hailed as a statesman, a unifier, a northern leader with the courage to put national interest above regional ambition. He told reporters that day that a super majority of northern governors had taken a decision and that everyone, including the defiant Yahaya Bello, was bound by it . It was a moment of rare political sacrifice from a region that had grown accustomed to holding the reins of power.
Today, as El-Rufai languishes in the detention facilities of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the question that every thinking northerner must ask is this: What did the South do with that sacrifice? The answer is as devastating as it is simple. Silence. Complicity. Continued support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from southern political elites who have paid their media houses, their data boys, and their influencers not only to denigrate El-Rufai but to paint the entire North as a region of power-hungry traitors.
And now, these same southern voices expect the North to trust zoning again in 2027. They expect northerners who can see, who can think, who have not been blinded by tribal sentiment, to once again hand over power to a region that has demonstrated exactly what it thinks of northern loyalty.
Let us rewind to the beginning. Professor Ishaq Akintola, the founder of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has been remarkably candid about his role in this saga. In a press release dated March 23, 2026, Akintola confessed that MURIC was the first to demand a Yoruba Muslim president as far back as February 2021 . He and the Concerned Yoruba Muslim Scholars met and persuaded Tinubu to run. But they quickly realized that Yoruba Muslims alone could not deliver the presidency. They needed a handshake across the Niger. So they networked with northern Muslims and specifically sought out El-Rufai, whom they described as the only northern politician with the necessary political acumen to bring the North together behind Tinubu .
The meeting between Akintola, other southwest leaders, and El-Rufai was not a casual affair. It was a strategic intervention. And here is the detail the southern establishment does not want you to remember: When Akintola and his delegation came to El-Rufai, the former governor was not on good terms with Tinubu. They were, by El-Rufai’s own admission, political adversaries. Akintola pleaded with El-Rufai to reconcile with Tinubu and to support the Yoruba Muslim project. And El-Rufai, against the wishes of many in the North, agreed .
But where were the other southwest leaders? Who else from the region spoke out in that critical moment? The truth is, aside from Akintola and his small team of Islamic scholars, the southern political establishment was conspicuously quiet. They were happy to receive the North’s gift. They were ecstatic to watch El-Rufai publicly champion power shift, to watch him rebuff the naira redesign shenanigans that threatened Tinubu‘s election, to watch him accompany the candidate to Chatham House and defend the Muslim-Muslim ticket before an international audience . They were silent then because they were winning. They are silent now because silencing El-Rufai serves their purpose.
MURIC warned of this betrayal as early as August 13, 2023, when the Senate first withheld El-Rufai’s ministerial nomination. In an emergency statement after its Central Think Tank meeting, MURIC declared that the non-confirmation was a major threat to future alliance between the North and the South-West. The group issued a chilling prophecy: "The North may not hobnob with the South-West again if the champion of the North-South alliance is shabbily treated" . Today, that prophecy is being fulfilled before our very
What is he coming to promise again? Will he promise to rebuild Tudun Biri, a resettlement scheme that was already completed and commissioned in January 2026, months before his campaign flag-off? Will he promise to complete the Abuja-Kaduna road that his administration revoked, re-awarded at 752 billion naira, and now claims will be finished by November 2026, just in time for the election? Will he promise the Kaduna Light Rail, a project still in the mobilisation phase, with contractors yet to fully break ground? Will he promise the Mando-Birnin Gwari road, flagged off in August 2026 with a 24-month completion window, meaning it will not be finished until after the votes are counted? What exactly is new? What exactly is sincere? What exactly is not a campaign prop?
The Northwest is the de facto capital of poverty in Nigeria. The National Bureau of Statistics reports a multidimensional poverty rate of 75.8 percent in the region, second only to the Northeast. The Cadre Harmonisé report shows 4.2 million people in the Northwest facing crisis-level food insecurity, with projections rising to 5 million in the 2026 lean season. UNICEF data shows primary school net attendance in the Northwest at just 47.3 percent, meaning more than half of school-age children are out of the classroom. Human Rights Watch, citing SBM Intelligence, recorded 2,938 kidnappings in the Northwest between July 2024 and June 2025, over 60 percent of the national total, with Kaduna alone recording 629 cases. Nigeria Watch recorded 3,974 deaths from rural banditry in 2025, more than double the figure for 2024. These are not political talking points. These are institutional figures. And yet, in the face of this avalanche of suffering, the president has been absent.
What will he tell the mother in Tudun Biri who lost her children to a Nigerian drone? What will he tell the father in Kachia whose family was abducted and never returned? What will he tell the farmer in Kajuru who buried his brothers after bandits attacked? What will he tell the flood victim in Zaria who lost everything? What will he tell the millions of out-of-school children roaming the streets of Kaduna while he commissions rail lines in Lagos? What will he tell the hungry, the poor, the abandoned, the forgotten? What will he promise again?
He will promise roads. He will promise rail. He will promise security. He will promise jobs. He will promise a better future. He will promise everything he promised in 2023 and failed to deliver. He will stand on a stage in Kaduna, surrounded by governors and senators and party chieftains, and he will tell the people that he cares. He will tell them that he has not forgotten them. He will tell them that the best is yet to come. And then he will fly back to Lagos, where the projects are real, where the money flows, where his people live.
Kaduna is not a campaign stop. Kaduna is a crime scene. And the man who is coming to campaign there is the same man who ignored the bodies, ignored the abductions, ignored the floods, ignored the hunger, ignored the children, ignored the pain. He ignored it all for three and a half years. Now he wants their votes. What will he promise again? What will he say that has not already been said? What will he do that has not already been abandoned? The people of Kaduna are waiting. But they are not waiting for promises. They are waiting for justice. They are waiting for a president who shows up when it matters, not when it is convenient. They are waiting for a leader who sees their suffering, not one who sees their votes. Will Tinubu be that leader? Or will he come, wave, promise, and disappear again?
Mohammed Bello Doka can be reached via [email protected]
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Projects in Lagos, Campaign in Kaduna Amid Insecurity: What Will Tinubu Promise Now?
By Mohammed Bello Doka
11 October, 2026.
On December 3, 2023, a Nigerian Army drone struck Tudun Biri in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing at least 85 civilians who had gathered for a religious celebration. Among the dead were women, children, and the elderly. President Bola Tinubu did not visit. On September 2024, another military airstrike hit Giwa Local Government Area, killing at least 24 more civilians in what the military called a mistaken targeting of bandits. President Tinubu did not visit. In September 2025, bandits descended on Kachia Local Government Area and abducted 152 people in a single operation. President Tinubu did not visit. In July 2025, windstorms and heavy rainfall devastated five local government areas, displacing 6,172 people and killing six. President Tinubu did not visit. In August 2024, bandits attacked communities in Kajuru Local Government Area, killing four, injuring three, and abducting thirty-seven. President Tinubu did not visit. In September 2025, floods submerged parts of Zaria Local Government Area, affecting 476 people. President Tinubu did not visit.
Now, after three and a half years of blood, tears, and silence, the APC has chosen Kaduna as the launchpad for its 2027 presidential campaign. The same Kaduna where 85 people were buried in a mass grave after a Nigerian drone bombed them. The same Kaduna where 152 people were carted away into forests by bandits while the president was in Lagos commissioning buses. The same Kaduna where communities have been orphaned by airstrikes, emptied by kidnappings, and drowned by floods. What exactly is Tinubu coming to tell the people of Kaduna? What is he coming to promise again?
Since May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has visited Kaduna exactly twice. The first was a one-day working visit in June 2025 to commission a vocational training institute, a 300-bed specialist hospital, and 100 CNG buses, most of which were state government projects. The second was a private visit in September 2025 to attend a wedding and condole with the widow of a former president. Two visits in three and a half years. Not one of those visits was to console the victims of Tudun Biri. Not one was to visit the families of the 152 abducted in Kachia. Not one was to assess the damage in Giwa after another military misfire. Not one was to stand with the flood victims in Zaria. Not one was to confront the bandits in Kajuru. Instead, he flew to Kaduna for a wedding, shook hands, took photographs, and flew back to Abuja.
Compare that to his attention to Lagos. In Lagos, Tinubu has commissioned the first 30 kilometres of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a project estimated at over one trillion naira. In Lagos, he has rehabilitated the Third Mainland Bridge at a cost of 43 billion naira and built a 2.5 billion naira CCTV monitoring centre. In Lagos, he inaugurated the Red Line Rail, a 37-kilometre project costing over 135 million dollars. In Lagos, he commissioned CNG infrastructure in Ojota, part of a 100 billion naira national rollout, with four major projects in a single day. In Lagos, the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road, a project inherited from Buhari, was revoked and re-awarded at a higher cost, while the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway received 43 billion naira for phase two. Lagos is where the president's heart beats. Kaduna is where his promises go to die.
The House of Saud is hated more than it is understood.
Here’s a reminder of what Saudi Arabia has done for the Muslim world.
They claim “Saudi only serves America.”
Yet this is the same country that wiped out Shirk, Bid’ah, magic and fortune-telling from its land.
The same country that has provided $145.79 billion in assistance worldwide.
The same country that expanded the Haramain so millions can perform Hajj and Umrah safely.
The same country that rejected an Israeli proposal for military intervention in Yemen.
The same country that teaches its children to memorise the Qur’an and study pure Tawheed.
The same country that has built over 1,500 mosques, hundreds of Islamic centres, schools and hospitals across the globe.
The same country that offers free Islamic education and runs Da’wah centres converting thousands every year.
The same country that has spent more than $8.5 billion through KSRelief on thousands of projects in 113 countries.
The same country whose King Fahd Complex has freely distributed over 360 million Qurans, Hadith, Aqeedah, Tafsir and Fiqh books.
The same country that hosts millions of refugees, trains tens of thousands of students from 170+ nations at the Islamic University of Medina, and sends them home as callers to Tawheed.
The same country that stands as the main backer of the Yemeni government and protects the Haramain from the Houthis.
The same country that was established on the word of Tawheed, not by democracy.
The same country that delivers food, medical care, clean water, shelter, education and protection to vulnerable communities worldwide.
The same country that pours billions into rebuilding Palestine and Syria, fights the RSF in Sudan, and repeatedly rescues Pakistan’s economy.
The same country that grew its sovereign wealth fund from $150 billion to a trillion and doubled its GDP.
The same country that still refuses to recognise Israel and remains firm on the 1967 borders.
The same country that pushes back against both Iranian and Israeli expansion.
The same country that trains and employs millions of Muslim expatriates who support families back home.
The same country that sent its forces to defend Bahrain when a Shia uprising tried to overthrow the government.
The same country that stood with Kuwait and helped drive out Saddam.
The same country that crushed the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups.
The same country that supported Egypt during the Suez Crisis with political, financial and volunteer forces.
The same country that eliminated the Kharijites who seized Masjid al-Haram in 1979.
The same country that sent its soldiers to fight for Palestine in 1948, 1967, and 1973.
The same country that neutralised threats and Shia uprisings in Qatif and Najran.
The same country that implemented the oil embargo and brought the West to its knees.
The same country that actively lobbied for the recognition of Palestinian statehood.
The same country that holds the power to block any Shiite expansion plan in the Gulf.
The same country that united the prayer under one Imam in Masjid al-Haram and abolished the four musallas.
The same country that elevates scholars, enforces Shariah, and openly calls to Salafiyyah.
The same country that dearly loves its people and the Muslims worldwide.
Saudi Arabia is not weak. It is playing the long game.
Real, quiet service that does not create viral clips… but keeps the Ummah alive.
They’re not infallible. We all make mistakes.
Muslims around the globe should thank Allah for granting us strong leaders who protect the Muslims and unite the Ummah.
May Allah forgive them for their shortcomings and bless them abundantly for their services.
What a heart touching story yesterday, 13th October, 2026, during the Senate plenary session. Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi narrated to his colleagues how his neighbour and close friend, former Senator Bello Mandiya, passed away and his body was not discovered until 74 hours later.
Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi sent his condolence message to his family and the nation at large. Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi told his colleagues that life itself is nothing, nobody knows how or when he will die. Listen to the visual carefully for more information.
VIDEO: Ahmed Zakka, who was abducted in Millennium City, Kaduna, is appealing for help in a heartbreaking video. He is being held alongside his wife and their baby by bandits.
A whole family in captivity, including an innocent baby😭
We hope the authorities and everyone who can help will do everything possible to secure their safe release.