
Johnson Owoicho
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“If We Misbehave And Allow Tinubu To Return Again As President, No One Will Be Spared If Tinubu Wins In 2027. Those Who Will Not Be Able To Escape Into Exile Will Be Sent To Prison.” ~ Solomon Dalung Sounds Strong Warning To Peter Obi And Opposition Leaders























Bandits confessing government paid them millions to buy guns? Terrorists released back to streets under Tinubu? APC turned Nigeria to criminal headquarters! Insecurity on steroids while families bury their own. Blood on their hands! 2027 we no vote this evil! #TinubuMustGo


Public Memo To: Nigerian Senate, Senators, and the Political Class at Large Know When to Stop Playing with Fire The wisest and free advice that the Nigerian Senate @NGRSenate as well as the House of Representatives @HouseNGR , can receive from all well-meaning citizens of our country now is to know when to stop playing with fire. Nigerians mostly see the Senate as an ignoble and withering institution that delights in deliberate betrayal of public trust. Our lawmakers at large are well known for consistently prioritizing personal and partisan interests over constituent welfare: blocking or watering down reform legislation (electoral reform, anti-corruption measures, constitutional amendments for devolution of power); their selfish custom of inflated budgetary allocations for the legislature while public services collapse; a pattern of confirming clearly unfit nominees for executive positions in exchange for political favors; and several other perfidious actions at the public expense. The Senate yesterday voted against a proposed amendment to make electronic transmission of election results mandatory in the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill and then proceeded to try to deceive Nigerians by claiming that it “did not reject electronic transmission.” What the Senate did yesterday is worse, and their denial is disingenuous. Let us dispense with euphemisms and doublespeak. What the Senators did in that opaque Closed Plenary Session yesterday was retain the critical clause- Section 60 of the Electoral Act 2022, specifically subsection (5) with the current wording: “the presiding officer shall transfer the results, including the total number of accredited voters and the results of the ballot, in a manner as prescribed by the Commission.” By deliberately retaining the vague language that leaves the method and timing of transmitting election results to the discretion of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), rather than requiring real-time uploads from polling units, the Senate has once again weaponized ambiguity in our electoral law. The brazen actions of the Senators were neither an innocent choice nor some sort of technical oversight. It was also not a neutral legislative compromise of “letting sleeping dogs lie,” because there must surely be a few of them who know better, as they are daily in touch with our public reality and the extremely angry mood of the majority of impoverished citizens who are exhausted by corruption and bad governance. Calling a spade a spade, as I am wont to do, the Senators took a calculated decision despite their full knowledge of recent history. No reasonable Nigerian is fooled by the shenanigans of the Senate. Every Nigerian who paid attention to the 2023 general elections knows that the exact clause the Senate deliberately reaffirmed yesterday is the same discretionary loophole that was at the center of the crisis that terribly eroded public trust and fatally damaged the integrity of our democracy. Real-time electronic transmission from polling units was promised in practice but not enforced in law. When it failed, Nigerians were told to accept “procedural explanations” instead of verifiable outcomes. It was that same clause retained by the Nigerian Senate at their sitting yesterday that created a gap between what Nigerians were repeatedly reassured would happen in the 2023 elections and the fiasco that the law permitted INEC to actually carry out in betrayal of public trust. It was that clause that offered a badly compromised judiciary the opportunity to pronounce a judgment which created confusion, distrust, national tension, and delegitimized the government that was sworn into office. That gap nearly pushed the country into turmoil. …../1














