SSJ

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[SSJ @ssJ4all]

@RenewedHopeUK Why take a screenshot from a video, subject it to an AI edit, and then publish it, especially in a politically sensitive season like this? It gives the opposing sides an unnecessary opportunity to chase clout, question the authenticity of the image, and your good bevomes bad.

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[SSJ @ssJ4all]

@AbiemMercy If only you can transfer the dance in your head to the dance you display you’d actually be fire 🔥. But you keep holding back and disconnecting the two, because you carrying too many caution of image to your dance steps. Let it flow

[Joyskid🦅❤ @kehindejoy34]

Tiger nut is ok

[Dumo Lulu-Briggs @DumoLuluBriggs]

Rivers State belongs to the people.

What does that mean?

It means government must serve the people by creating opportunity, protecting dignity, strengthening communities and using public resources for a clear public purpose.

Political power must return to public purpose.

RESET RIVERS STATE.

[SSJ @ssJ4all]

THE POLITICS OF A AND B

Perhaps one of the most interesting developments in our political space today is the emergence of what has been described as a “Rainbow Coalition”—a political arrangement that seeks to mobilise support across party lines for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu while allowing the participating politicians to maintain their separate party identities and pursue different interests in state and legislative elections. Nyesom Wike has openly defended this distinction, insisting that his support for the President does not amount to support for the APC or its candidates at every level.

And therein lies the political question.

Can one genuinely be A and B at the same time when the interests of A and B eventually collide?

If you support the President because you believe his presidency should continue, but simultaneously support candidates whose victory could weaken the political structure through which that President is seeking to govern, where exactly does that loyalty begin and where does it end?

This is not necessarily a question of whether politicians may cross party lines. Nigerian politics has always produced alliances that cut across formal party boundaries. Wike himself points to the 2023 experience of the G5 governors and argues that voters can support candidates from different parties in elections held on the same day.

The deeper question is one of political identity and competing interests.

The APC Governors’ Forum has now drawn its own line, declaring that its members will support APC candidates at all levels and will not participate in arrangements they believe could weaken the party or its candidates.

Wike’s position is different: support the President at the presidential level, but allow other parties—including the PDP—to compete for governorship and legislative seats. He has specifically said he never promised that the PDP would refrain from fielding candidates against APC candidates.

So the issue is no longer simply about Wike.

It is about what happens when presidential interest and gubernatorial interest occupy the same political space but point in different directions.

A President needs governors.

Governors need a party structure.

A party needs candidates.

Candidates need the support of the political machinery.

And the same voters are ultimately being asked to make choices across these different levels of government.

That is where the apparent contradiction becomes politically significant.

If a political actor says, “I support the President,” but is simultaneously involved in a coalition that may support candidates challenging the President’s party in governorship or legislative contests, the natural question from the governors is:

In what capacity are you supporting us—and in what capacity are you opposing us?

And if the answer is that these are two separate elections and therefore two separate political calculations, then perhaps the real lesson is that Nigerian politics is moving towards a model where personal political alliances can exist independently of formal party structures.

That may be politically permissible.

But it does not mean it is politically uncomplicated.

The APC governors have already expressed concern that such an arrangement could create divided loyalty and weaken the party’s candidates, while Wike rejects the premise that supporting Tinubu requires him to support APC candidates everywhere.

This is where the old lesson of politics becomes relevant.

Politics has always been about interests.

But interests must eventually answer to identity, structure and purpose.

You cannot indefinitely ask a political structure to carry you to victory while simultaneously building another structure capable of defeating its candidates.

You cannot tell the governors, “I am with the President,” while they ask, “But are you with us?”

And you cannot dismiss their concern entirely when their political survival is tied to the same electoral architecture.

Whose side are you on?

[Dumo Lulu-Briggs @DumoLuluBriggs]

WHY I AM RUNNING

Good Morning, Rivers State,

I address you today with humility, gratitude and a clear sense of duty. We are children of the same soil. Whether we come from the riverine communities or the upland communities, whether we were born here or have built our lives here, we share the benefits when Rivers State succeeds and the consequences when it fails. I am asking for your trust because I believe political power must return to public purpose.

For too long, political conflict has consumed attention that should have gone into jobs, schools, healthcare, safer communities, working infrastructure and stronger businesses. The cost of this crisis is not only found in economic estimates. It is found in postponed government decisions, weakened citizens' confidence, projects delayed or abandoned, businesses that did not expand, young people who waited too long for opportunity, and communities that watched politics become louder than governance.

I do not believe that our people are condemned to fear, factionalisation or permanent quarrel. We can disagree without making enemies of one another. We can compete without violence. We can protect the dignity of every community without turning government into the property of any godfather, faction or private political estate. **Rivers State belongs to the people.**

Rivers State possesses much of what it needs to succeed: human resources, energy and gas, ports and waterways, industrial experience, including enormous potential in tourism, blue economy, agriculture, culture and creativity, and the commercial strength of Port Harcourt. Our challenge is conversion, turning these assets into reliable power, productive firms, safer movement, skilled work, stronger local businesses, better public services and more secure household incomes.

That is why I am running: to move Rivers State from politics without purpose to disciplined and committed public work; from sharing poverty to creating prosperity; and from a State known mainly for oil and gas to a State respected for what its people built, produced and became.

**Rivers State belongs to the people. It needs a Reset.**

We must return to the proper rules and habits of good government, from fear to purpose; from conflict to competence; from noise to work; from political connection to fair opportunity; and from public wealth that is difficult to see in people's lives to a government that can be judged by clear results.

Reset is not revenge.

For me, Reset Rivers State has six clear implications:
- We must reset politics so that it becomes peaceful, civil and purposeful;
- We must reset government so that institutions are honest, predictable and competent;
- We must reset the economy so that production, services, logistics, enterprise and exports matter more than dependence on monthly allocation;
- We must reset opportunity so that work, finance, markets and advancement do not depend on political connection;
- We must reset trust through fairness, truth, continuity and respect for the rule of law;
- We must reset our commitment to the environment so that clean water, monitoring, emergency response, remediation and resilience are treated as public safety and economic justice.

Our vision is long term but remains honest about what one administration can do. We will lay the foundation for moving Rivers State from the current approximation of a US$20bn economy to one that will become a US$200bn economy in fifteen years.

We will lay the essential foundations for safer politics, honest public finance, more reliable power supply, better logistics, serviced industrial land, thriving tourism sector, employer-linked skills, stronger farms and fisheries, cleaner and safer communities, and projects prepared well enough to attract serious finance and reach operationalisation.

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[IGBOSTARS MUST SHINE @Igbostars39986]

Just saw this video in my FYP this morning 😂

Omo e enter oo 😂😂

[KAA @KAA_Truths]

Oh, how I love Apostle Selman. Thank you pastor for telling the Church the bitter truth. When we preach it here, we are called antichrists.

[SSJ @ssJ4all]

@often20000 @grok what movie is this

[SSJ @ssJ4all]

@SqSehrish His name is. “ WHAT”

[SSJ @ssJ4all]

@honfaleke @_akeusola The man who lifts the room with his presence because he carries the aura, the bears the weight of the people on his shoulder

[SSJ @ssJ4all]

@Row_Haastrup Have they met Tony Elumelu, Dumo Lulu Briggs, Hebert wigwe, Nduka ogbiagbon, etc

[SSJ @ssJ4all]

@Officially_Kriz When many of us talk we pay no attention to economic facts, insecurity, population, awareness, global changes, America withdrawing from purchasing crude from us and the bastardizing of the first two post democratic leadership,

[ASCHOR BABALOLA @EkitiOracle]

Drone display in Lagos to celebrate Nigeria’s Democracy Day, June 12. 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
Absolutely stunning 😍

[SSJ @ssJ4all]

Your reflection appears to challenge selective interpretations of party loyalty and consistency in applying party standards. I refined it slightly for clarity, flow, and stronger argumentation while retaining your position:

There comes a point where party loyalty begins to shape the direction of a discussion, yet the validity of the arguments presented may still lack merit when weighed against reason and existing realities.

Agreeing with a statement does not automatically mean conceding that all points advanced are driven by truth, consistency, or the practical situation on ground.

The same party permitted a non-member, regarded as an observer, to chair a committee during the convention that produced the party’s leadership.

Again, the party allowed this observer and non-member to run on its platform and obtain forms for elective office.

Again, this same individual presided as electoral officer over the presidential primaries held yesterday in Rivers State.

Would it then also be false pretence to acknowledge the reception organised by zonal officials of the party in welcoming the governor? Was that action in tandem with party standing, or contrary to it?

Likewise, the meeting of progressive governors where he was accommodated as an observer should perhaps be clearly described as a personal endorsement or promotion, rather than presented as the absolute position of the entire party.

I say this because your voice carries weight, and many regard you as an integral internal party figure whose opinions often shape perception beyond personal commentary.

Happy feast of Pentecost .

[SSJ @ssJ4all]

“It is not always the entirety of what a man says that agrees with the fullness of what his heart truly feels. Sometimes, words are shaped by duty, restraint, or the burden of circumstance. The situation in Rivers State seems clothed in this reality — where many align, not necessarily from comfort or conviction, but from loyalty to a context, a people, or a history too heavy to ignore.

Rivers… oh Rivers. A land of strength, pride, and sacrifice. Yet, in moments like these, one wonders whether silence is wisdom, pain, or merely the struggle of a people trying to remember who they are before deciding where they stand.”

@woye1 @Imranmuhdz @IU_Wakilii

[POPstarr📸 @99Starrpop]

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