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Humanity Deserves Better !

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

The late MajorGeneral Rabe Abubakar was once the army spokesperson. He once went on TV to say the military was winning.

Few weeks ago, he was himself kidnapped by the terrorists and he has now died in captivity in the hands of the same terrorists.

RIP to him. We are in a mess.

[Mauro Hernández ⚡ @MauroSports24]

Me firmé una hipoteca de 180.000€.
30 años.
Tipo fijo: 3% anual.
Cuota: 759€ al mes.
Me senté esa noche a hacer los números.
759€ × 12 meses × 30 años.
Total que pagaré al banco: 273.240€.
Vale. 93.240€ de intereses en 30 años.
El banco me lo explicó así.
El banco me lo vendió así.
Firmé sin hacer más preguntas.
Tres años después un amigo contable me pregunta:
— ¿Sabes cuánto capital has amortizado ya?
— Calculo que unos 12.000€ ¿no?
Se para.
— Menos de lo que crees. ¿Tienes el cuadro de amortización?
Me enseña algo que el banco nunca me puso delante. 👇

[UPDATEBOYZ  @Updateboyx]

Footage of Adelabu’s sister and her kids being rescued.

[Abu Amir @SadiqMaunde]

This is the APC chairman in Kebbi state campaigning & saying that Nigeria has gotten better under Tinubu, only for him to be kidnapped later.

[Elorm Daniel @elormkdaniel]

Interviewer:

You use a VPN.
Why do some websites still detect your real country?

[LEADERSHIP NEWS @LeadershipNGA]

VIDEO: “Government officials came to sympathise with us bearing rice and cash donations, but the parents declined the gifts, insisting that the safe return of their children remains their only priority,” says the Baale of Yawota Community in Oriire Local Government Area.

Credit: News Central

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

178,457 firearms, 88,078 AK-47 rifles, and 3,900 assorted rifles are reported ALL MISSING under IG of Police Egbetokun.

In a country where police and the army are under-armed, you have “missing ammunition” and terrorists who are overarmed.

Do the maths.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

He himself was put in power by the Americans twice, so he knows on what side his bread is buttered.

It's now known that Henry Kissinger personally ordered Murtala Mohammed's assassination, and it doesn't take a genius to work out that the direct beneficiary of that assassination was working for the State Department.

20 years later when the Americans murdered another Nigerian head of state they didn't like, Obasanjo was the beneficiary AGAIN, this time going from prison directly to presidency.

Anyway, whenever Nigerians decide to be free us when the files of all these "elder statesmen" will be opened. From Gowon and his MI6 handler, to Babangida and his role in the CIA's global drug trafficking network at the time, to the "NADECO" people who received arms training from CIA paramilitary trainers in preparation for an armed insurgency against Abacha's government, and have since gone on to be governor of Ekiti State and other things.

One day, when Nigerians decide that their lives have value, all these records will be revisited in a very violent and decisive fashion.

[Dr Dípò Awójídé @OgbeniDipo]

Again, I extend my heartfelt sympathy to families of the 39 students and 7 teachers kidnapped from Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State.

This is a throwback video of when President Obasanjo ordered a shoot at sight on OPC members.

Fulani terrorists have done enough damage across Nigeria in the last 10 years. They have killed thousands of innocent people across Benue, Plateau, Kaduna and other states. This is a fact.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (@officialABAT) should order a shoot at sight order against these terrorists who have been going from state to state causing havoc.

South West leaders, wake up. Do something drastic to push back against these evil terrorists! Do something!

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

French police arrest 780 people over violent clashes after Paris Saint-Germain win Champions League
https://t.co/yzDCALxkUp

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

🇫🇷 Paris currently looks like a war zone. Again.

North African gangs are blocking the streets and destroying everything in sight following PSG winning the Champions League.

Total chaos.

[fal @solar0129]

Sare wa gba 😂

[FightFists @FightFists]

He is the real definition of one punch man 🥹

[fal @solar0129]

This is disheartening

[Osasu Obayiuwana @osasuo]

This breaks me. 💔 🥲

This teacher, amongst 7 of her colleagues and the 39 children kidnapped in Oyo State, #Nigeria is begging @officialABAT and @NigeriaGov to rescue them.
How can we accept this useless @OfficialAPCNg government to remain in power? 😡 They have failed #Nigerians. FAILED TOTALLY!

[fal @solar0129]

This is a thought provoking piece. That said, we can't overlook the significant role your principal played in the challenges Nigeria is facing today. Just think about it: here’s an accomplished man, an esteemed politician and philanthropist who served as the deputy to OBJ back in 1999. Together, OBJ and Atiku laid the foundation for Nigeria's progress, steering the country in a positive direction.

But it raises some questions. Why is AA aiming for the presidency in 2002/2003, especially when he had such a good relationship with his boss? Why did he decide to take over the entire structure of the (PDP) to the point where Obasanjo has to plead with him for a ticket? What’s driving this desperation?

To me, it seems that Atiku’s ambition might be taking precedence over Nigeria’s needs, and that's something we all need to pay attention to.

['Demola Olarewaju @DemolaRewaju]

Seeing reactions to the NDC candidacy processes, I have thoughts but I must first confess regrets on Aisha Yesufu failing to clinch the FCT ticket.

Politics aside, I saw secondhand her devotion when she served as Deputy Chair of the ADC membership process. Chairman Kashim Imam had only good things to say about her work.

I salute her because I believe political activists must recognise and cross the thin line between political activism and political participation. The line is thin, but the work to be done in that crossing is huge. She made the cross, and it is rueful that NDC did not select her or give her a chance to contest. May the future be kind to her.

Her experience should provoke a look into the political journey of Mr. Peter Obi who rode an unbelievable wave in 2023 and came third in the presidential election, but consequently failed to harness that wave by doing the work to build LP into a viable political platform of Obidients, by Obidients and for Obidients. It is this political laziness that led to the sojourn from LP to the ADC coalition and then to NDC when it became obvious he wasn’t going to win the coalition ticket, despite insisting he wouldn’t join ADC officially until the party took a position on zoning. ADC instead chose to focus on removing Bola Tinubu’s failed APC Govt rather than dwell on rotation politics as an opposition party not in power. Obi joined ADC anyway, but his continued mantra was “I will be on the ballot”.

And so the NDC…

A party which acronym reminds one of the Niger Delta Congress led by Harold Dappa-Biriye in 1956. This time, Sen. Henry Seriake Dickson had snubbed the coalition and instead chose to do the political work to push NDC into viability. Obi found the platform as home but this is not a house he built, he is yet again a tenant. Dickson did the political work and Obi looks quite grateful to just have a platform to run his ambition on.

But what about his followers? Start first with a Dr. Mo who obviously knew Obi’s next step and positioned to pick an LGA ticket in FCT on the platform of ADC, while Obi was yet insisting to followers that he wouldn’t join a coalition just to vote out Bola Tinubu’s misgovernance. Dr. Mo enjoyed campaign funding and support from Atiku, Amaechi and other ADC bigwigs. I know of at least one Atiku supporter who had convened some of us friends in a meeting over one year ago and declared to run for the same office. Obi had his way in ADC with Dr. Mo, and ADC rallied around him. Obi’s top followers were well integrated in ADC.

Then a follower like GRV in Lagos - his trajectory started from the KOWA party awakening of 2015 and he ran for Ikeja LGA Chairman, coming second behind the ruling party and then for Senate in Lagos with PDP in 2019, garnering 243,516 votes.

His 2023 gubernatorial run with Peter Obi added less than 100k to his Senate votes from 2019, giving him 313,329 in total this time.

GRV after 2023 started mobilising members for Labour Party in Lagos, Akintollgate was also calling for the same. And so many others too. Everyone was mobilising for LP except Obi who was by then meeting with other leaders to form a coalition.

When I hinted GRV that AA, Obi and CPC were in talks, he had no idea. Yet when time came, he followed Obi into ADC. Another round of work and contact-building gone into ADC but Obi suddenly defected again to NDC, no consultations.

Aisha Yesufu’s matter is therefore not entirely her fault, she perhaps believed Obi would protect her interest but leaders cannot always do that especially when a larger interest is at play. Dickson knows Obi cannot now defect anywhere and that as long as he is guaranteed to be on the ballot, easier for Obi to appease Aisha than lose the platform. Dickson built NDC right from his sitting-room.

The real problem then is Obi’s seeming comfortability with political nomadism. This refusal to do the work of building a party platform, brick by brick.

Well, who cares about “structure” anyway?

[Aisha Yesufu @AishaYesufu]

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.

[fal @solar0129]

God is in control !

[TheCable @thecableng]

ADC presidential primary results

1. Kebbi
Amaechi — 5,931
Atiku — 65,523
Hayatu-Deen — 454

2. Anambra
Amaechi — 17,085
Atiku — 58,566
Hayatu-Deen — 7,861

3. Abia
Amaechi — 18,339
Atiku — 25,153
Hayatu-Deen — 2,264

4. Ekiti
Amaechi — 1,574
Atiku — 18,395
Hayatu-Deen — 149

#ADCPresidentialPrimaries

[cuitan @cuitandadakan]

To much gak sih kalo bawa sapi segede gini buat kurban besok?