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President-Elect Tinubu  “Whether you are Batified, Atikulated, Obidient, Kwankwasiyya, or have any other political affiliation, you voted for a better, more hopeful nation and I thank you for your participation and dedication to our democracy.” President-elect who polled  8,794,726 votes to win the just concluded 2023 presidential election has issued a statement accepting his victory in an election that was marred by violence and irregularities. Here’s is full speech: “THE ERA OF RENEWED HOPE“ By The President-Elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. My fellow Nigerians, I am profoundly humbled that you have elected me to serve as the 16th president of our beloved republic. This is a shining moment in the life of any man and affirmation of our democratic existence. From my heart, I say thank you. Whether you are Batified, Atikulated, Obidient, Kwankwasiyya, or have any other political affiliation, you voted for a better, more hopeful nation and I thank you f

  Former Head of State, Dr Olusegun Obasanjo has written an open letter to the outgoing Nigerian President, Major General Mohammadu Buhari Rtd. on the precarious state of the nation where the results of the just-concluded presidential election are said to be breeding anarchy especially in the Southern part of the country. The election was fraught with irregularities and marred by violence where voters were apprehensive of their safety. In Lagos State alone, many areas were overtaken by hoodlums and street urchins who were on the prowl to disenfranchise innocent voters from voting for the candidates of their choice. Most stakeholders in the country are not happy with the situation on ground as foreign observers and election monitors have also expressed their displeasure with the chaotic situation that is so prevalent at this time. It speaks volume of bad omen for the country that has been ravaged by banditry, insecurity, hunger and inflation. ♻️ The stunning cascade of mistakes that vot

Olu Fasan AS a Nigerian, I would be extremely concerned and embarrassed if Bola Tinubu became Nigeria’s next president. As a Yoruba, I would be deeply disappointed and ashamed. Why? Well, as a Nigerian, I would be concerned and embarrassed because a Tinubu presidency would devastate Nigeria internally and demean it externally. As a Yoruba, I would be disappointed and ashamed because Tinubu’s politics and behaviour are antithetical to the values Yorubas claim define them; the core values of integrity, character and honesty, encapsulated in the honour-signalling Yoruba word: Omoluabi! First, for Nigeria, a Tinubu presidency would destroy the fabric of presidential politics. It would legitimise a self-serving behaviour where someone entrusted with public office amasses inexplicable wealth and uses the stupendous wealth to manoeuvre his way to Nigeria’s presidency. If that were to happen, the presidency of Nigeria would be for sale, going to the highest bidder. No one has ever become Niger

  Peter Obi With few days to the presidential elections, Nigerians have finally come to the very decisive stage for the last push to save their traumatized country from the current pain, bondage and chaos. Yes, the country is in total mess. As I write, there is an acute scarcity of fuel and currency, worsening insecurity and even scarcity of hope that things will get any better soon.  And if we miss this opportunity to get it right at the poll, then prepare for the generational consequences. I mean, this is that time to mobilize everybody around you to vote for the Moses that has been sent to deliver Nigeria. Our country is presently like a woman in the final moments of labour. We just need a little push to give birth to that baby – a new Nigeria. Do you still wonder why all the forces of hell and retrogression are at high alert, enraged and are making their last desperate efforts to, scuttle the process and keep us in pain? Now, how did you feel watching that JS 2 teenager Alabi Yusuf

Kola Ola Olaniran .  What we have today is HausaFulani Republic masquerading as the Federal Republic of Nigeria where other regions are run like conquered colonies. Years ago, a self-acclaimed custodian of the Hausa Fulani hegemonic agenda stormed the Agodi Government House Ibadan uninvited. This unruly and not so composed Mohammadu Buhari was livid with anger as he unleashed his brazen effrontery to ask Governor Lam Adesina, “why are your people killing my people?” instead of, “why are Nigerians killing their fellow Nigerians? It took a well-composed Governor Adesina diplomatic wisdom to calm Buhari’s frayed nerves down over his crude way of addressing the clash between herdsmen and farmers in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State at that time. Can Bola Tinubu, a self-acclaimed asiwaju of Yoruba$land invoke the same audacity to ask Mohammadu Buhari, “Are we running a Banana Republic, “why are all key federal appointments given to only your people?” “What is this rubbish going on especially with

Kperogi  Three unanticipated, barely perceptible, but nonetheless significant and potentially seismic shifts are happening in the presidential race, which are confounding attempts to predict the outcome of the presidential election. The shifts are in the changing patterning of the fortunes and political coalitions of the presidential front-runners. *APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu is suffering a deep, organic, almost irrecoverable depletion of his political goodwill in the Muslim North among everyday voters as a direct consequence of his failed, politically ill-advised attempts to recite the fatiha on three different occasions. The North’s Tinubu-supporting APC governors will have a hard time reversing this.* *In the aftermath of Tinubu’s fatiha misadventures, videos of which have gone viral and have become grist for the mill of preachers, there is a growing consensus among ordinary voters in the region that Tinubu isn’t the Muslim he said he is, that he is either a munafiq or a Christian. In

Bola Tinubu  There are two insects in Yoruba cosmology that are similar. But they are very distinct. One is oyin (bee). The other is agbon (wasp). Both equally sting in their unique ways. Oyin, for instance, is less aggressive and stings only when it is threatened. On the other hand, agbon is very aggressive, territorial, domineering and controls its space. While oyin and agbon live in almost similar nests (with oyin’s own a bit concealed), agbon openly displays its abode, daring anyone to come near it. Now, when these two insects set out to fight, oyin stings and leaves marks of the attack on its victims. That is not the way of agbon. Agbon deposits its poison in its nest and when it wants to use it, it goes back to the nest, uses its buttock to collect the poison and deposits the toxic material into the bloodstream of its victims.  Victims of agbon stings live in pain for days! Again, Yoruba describes such a fighting strategy in a proverb: “Ile ni Agbon ma nko idi si ko to ta – the w