Senator Akpabio did not see this coming when he jokenly m0cked Senator Seriake Dickson on the floor of the Nigerian Senate for floating a new political party.
As at today, HE, Senator Seriake Dickson is the most popular lawmaker in Nigeria. All politicians are now trooping to his residence to l0bby for positions in his newly formed Nigeria Democratic Congress, #NDC.
Congratulations to him!
May NDC succeed!!
May Nigeria be OK!!!
Before I sign off talking about Gov. Fubara, let me state that he’s not a weak man.
I had a deep thought before arriving at this conclusion.
Honestly, only Fubara knows what he has seen and suffered under the power in charge.
If you take your mind back to how the issue started, it started like a simple quarrel over disagreement with his political godfather, Wike, on how Rivers State IGR is being controlled and uniting those Wike sees as enemies, like Uche Secondus, Celestine Omehia, Peter Odili, etc., close to the state government. Boom! It became a serious offence to Wike that he was nearly impeached by the majority of the state house members. He was sabotaged by all federal forces including police. 80% of the Assembly members turned against him and couldn’t be won back.
Fubara was denied access to presenting a state budget. The Assembly members stopped receiving correspondence from him. He was cancelled and discommunicated terribly to a length that he couldn’t perform the legitimate democratic functions of his office.
Many governors even in the Southeast have had similar disagreement with their political bosses, yet it wasn’t escalated into such extreme cancellation. I’m aware of a serving governor who united bigwigs of former this and that in the state whom his boss (the former) sees as enemies, yet no fight was taken to him. The former governor never cried of him destroying his political structure.
Fubara saw hell, and democratic institutions under his watch were abruptly and cruelly suspended for 6 months.
He joined APC, yet APC as a ruling party and the governors' forum could not save him from the same man who is not even a registered member of the same APC. Over 90 aspirants, both NASS members and state assembly members who never joined in cancelling him, were all screened out from contesting an election.
Is that not cruel?
Guess what? He would’ve been impeached if he had not joined the APC.
Fubara wasn’t weak but met a situation above him and above anyone who sincerely wants to govern a state.
APC is exploding easily. Take a look at the numbers of current political and elective officeholders under APC who are crying—going to 100 if not above. The party is reaching its breaking point easily. Soonest, it will explode worse than the PDP.
Fubara is not a weak man.
When the National Assembly was hurriedly passing the 2026 Electoral Act into law, they didn’t know some of the provisions where highly undemocratic.
But the members of the National Assembly were so carried away by the promise of automatic tickets from the President that they were almost ready to turn a man into a woman as long as it pleased the Presidency.
It all started when the National Assembly inserted Section 77 into the Electoral Act, making it compulsory for political parties to maintain a digital register of all their members and submit it to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at least 21 days before their primary elections.
What that indirectly means is that only individuals whose names appear on that pre-submitted digital register are legally permitted to vote or contest as aspirants during primaries.
In practical terms, if a politician loses a primary election in “Party A,” they cannot immediately jump to “Party B” to contest for another ticket. Why? Because Party B’s register would have already been legally locked weeks earlier, meaning the defector’s name would be missing from the register, thereby rendering any nomination he will get in "Party B" null and void.
But the National Assembly did not stop there.
They knew some politicians are extremely stubborn and can go to any length to get what they want, so they went further to criminalize the process by stating that an individual cannot hold concurrent membership in more than one political party. They also made it a criminal offence for anyone to knowingly register or maintain dual membership in two political parties before the primary season, with a punishment of one year imprisonment or option of fine.
As contrary to the spirit of freedom of association and as undemocratic as those provisions were, the 109 Senators and 360 House of Representatives members still accepted and passed them into law because they believed they had secured automatic tickets for themselves.
Unfortunately for them, APC beat them at their own game.
The same law they celebrated has now become the perfect weapon to stylishly retire some greedy politicians who saw the dangers ahead but chose to keep quiet because of personal interest.
Today, with APC primaries taking unexpected turns, many politicians are heading into permanent political retirement after 2027 because they were either not cleared or failed to secure tickets through the primaries.
And the funniest part of it all is this: they cannot even complain.
Because this is the same law they made with their own hands, and today, that same law has returned to hunt them mercilessly.
At the end of the day, a man cannot sow beans and reap rice, what a man sows he will certainly reap.
Thank you, Mr. Daniel Bwala, SA to President Tinubu, for helping Nigerians understand exactly why Tinubu should not be voted for in 2027.
If you come across this video please repost🔄 let's appreciate Mr Bwala for speaking.
INEC Is Beginning to Look Like It Is Partisan – Sambo
Since the ADC judgement on the motion by the court of appeal on March 12, why did INEC wait till now, when the ADC looks like it’s gathering strength, to decide not to attend the ADC’s convention?
Sumner Sambo, Director of News, Arise News
The ADC is not my cup of tea, but there is now reasonable basis to infer existence of a well orchestrated sinister conspiracy to truncate contested and credible elections in 2027.
From what is publicly available, all the Executives of the ADC resigned to allow David Mark and Aregbesola to emerge as the National Chairman and the National Secretary respectively.
The man who took the case to the court, Nafiu Gombe, claims that he did not resign as Deputy National Chairman, and that he ought to have automatically assumed the position of National Chairman “in line with the Party’s Constitution”.
Interestingly, the ADC held a National Executive Committee where the party ratified its new leadership led by Mark.
So, what’s the controversy here?
Is dispute over the leadership of a political party no longer the internal affairs of the political party?
It used to be the law that issues of political party leadership is non justiciable, or forum domesticum.
A Party’s NEC has the authority to decide who should lead the party.
If the ADC says they want another person to assume that role instead of the Deputy National Chairman, can the Court compel the same Party to submit to its Deputy?
Is this dispute justiciable?
Also, the Court of Appeal said the parties should maintain status quo ante bellum.
This means the state of affairs before the suit before the Federal High Court was filed by the Claimant.
Before the suit, who was the Chairman of the Party?
Was it not David Mark?
Is this INEC saying that the Order of the Court of Appeal implies that there should be leadership vacuum in the ADC until the case is determined by the Federal High Court?
Whose script is this INEC playing?
It seems that the ruling party, which prides itself as having over thirty governors in its fold, is so scared of a fair contestation.
If it is the desire of INEC for Bola Tinubu to contest as a sole candidate - unopposed, in 2027, let the Commission say so publicly.
It will save the country the billions of Naira budgeted for the ‘presidential election’.
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🗣️🇸🇳DIOMAYE FAYE, President of Senegal:
"I don't really want my photographs in your offices, because I'm not a God or an icon, but a servant of the nation. Hang pictures of your children instead and look at them every time you want to make a decision, and whenever the spirit of theft visits you, take a good look at your family's picture and ask yourself if they deserve to be the family of a thief who has destroyed the nation."
@ADCVanguard_ The Senate cannot confidently claim that elections in Nigeria are transparent, free, and fair. If electronic transmission of results cannot be made mandatory, then what is the justification for urging citizens to come out and vote? Democracy in Nigeria has been abused & hijacked.
“Most of classism you see in Nigeria has absolutely nothing to do with class. It is simply poverty with a microphone”
Everything said in this video is 100% spot on.
Listen to the member of the House of Assembly who represents the Asari Toru constituency.
A stake illiterate ought to have attended school.
He pushes them around because he purchased forms for them and was aware of their mental capacity.
Angry APC Supporters Storm Party Headquarters, calling on the National Assembly to take over the duties of Rivers State House of Assembly, as they say the house of assembly has lost credibility and confidence of the Rivers People
BREAKING!!! DANIEL BWALLA KNOCKED WIKE!!! He said Wike's achievements as the minister of FCT is bcos the president compensated him by removing the FCT from TSA.. According to Bwalla, those before Wike would have performed better if given the same preferential treatment. This is an indication that the love for Wike has expired.
According to Babajide, a journalist from TVC, the Rivers House of Assembly wants to impeach Fubara’s deputy, even when they can’t really point out the offence she has committed. That’s why people think this is just a game meant to get the governor and deputy out of the way so that the speaker can become acting governor.
Just look at the level of arrogance of the man who was the governor from 2015 to 2023; he showed Rivers youths pepper. Stopped their scholarship from studying abroad without remorse. But all his children studied abroad and now he prepares them to hold elective position in the state.
After supporting Wike, you still go to church to dance and pray. God is indeed a merciful father.