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LG polls in Nigeria nothing but electoral coronations – YIAGA Africa

A non-profit Civil Society Organization, YIAGA Africa, has described local governments’ elections in Nigeria as electoral coronations. The Executive Director of the organization, Samson Itodo, made this statement on Monday, while responding to questions during an interview on ‘Sunrise Daily’, a programme on Channels Television. “Let me reiterate a point that YIAGA Africa has made
LG polls in Nigeria nothing but electoral coronations – YIAGA Africa

A non-profit Civil Society Organization, YIAGA Africa, has described local governments’ elections in Nigeria as electoral coronations.

The Executive Director of the organization, Samson Itodo, made this statement on Monday, while responding to questions during an interview on ‘Sunrise Daily’, a programme on Channels Television.

“Let me reiterate a point that YIAGA Africa has made consistently. All the local government elections that held before the Supreme Court’s judgment and after the Supreme Court’s judgment were nothing but a travesty of electoral democracy.

“Those elections, virtually all of them, ran foul of provisions of the law. In other words, they violated provisions of the Electoral Act, and if you challenge the legality of those elections in court, I doubt if all of them will meet the test.

“The second point is the local government elections and what happens at the local government level is nothing but electoral coronation. They are not elections because the state electoral commissions are not given the independence to function. The operational independence is subject to the approval of the governor,” he said.

LG polls in Nigeria nothing but electoral coronations – YIAGA Africa

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Northern Nigeria has been defeated physically, tactically – Mahdi Shehu

A social commentator, Mahdi Shehu, has described Northern Nigeria as defeated physically and tactically. He blamed greed, shortsightedness, and societal weaknesses for the region’s current crises. In a post on X on Sunday, Shehu argued that some Northerners mortgaged the North on selfish grounds just for them to remain comfortable, contributing to what he described
Northern Nigeria has been defeated physically, tactically – Mahdi Shehu

A social commentator, Mahdi Shehu, has described Northern Nigeria as defeated physically and tactically.

He blamed greed, shortsightedness, and societal weaknesses for the region’s current crises.

In a post on X on Sunday, Shehu argued that some Northerners mortgaged the North on selfish grounds just for them to remain comfortable, contributing to what he described as an inevitable defeat.

“The defeat became inevitable on account of the avoidable stupidity and shortsightedness of most Northerners,” he wrote, 

“A society whose elders are largely selfish, cowardly, or overly focused on survival is destined for defeat. Such is the case with Northern society. When a society spends its mornings, afternoons, and nights in a state of sleep or inaction, it drifts into a coma from which it may never awaken. This too describes the North.

“With the level of hunger In the North, increasing death tolls from wanton, killings, arson, deliberate murder, hunger, starvation, all forms of diseases, malnutrition, total collapse of infrastructure, compromised culture and values, total confusion, disarray, frustration, which are all signs of a conquered society, what remains is for the North to surrender and become prisoners of war.  

According to him, some Northerners may end up as war slaves in Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Ogun, or Ondo, where over time they could lose their origin and identity and merge into a single community with only one tribe.

“The North became conquered and decimated under democracy with both bullets, economics and its democratic stupidity and docility,” he wrote 

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I pleaded with Tinubu to extend her tenure – Wike confirms death of FCT Head of Service, Adayilo

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has confirmed the death of the pioneer Head of the FCT Civil Service, Mrs Grace Adayilo. DAILY POST reports that Adayilo passed away in the early hours of Monday. The circumstances surrounding her death were not revealed immediately. Wike confirmed the ugly development during the ongoing
I pleaded with Tinubu to extend her tenure – Wike confirms death of FCT Head of Service, Adayilo

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has confirmed the death of the pioneer Head of the FCT Civil Service, Mrs Grace Adayilo.

DAILY POST reports that Adayilo passed away in the early hours of Monday. The circumstances surrounding her death were not revealed immediately.

Wike confirmed the ugly development during the ongoing media chat with selected journalists in Abuja.

He described the deceased as a hardworking woman, stating that he had pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to extend her tenure due to her hard work.

“The late FCT Head of Service was very hardworking, I pleaded with President Tinubu to extend her tenure due to her hard work.

“If I had gotten the information on the demise of the FCT Head of Service, I would have put off this media chat,” he said.

I pleaded with Tinubu to extend her tenure – Wike confirms death of FCT Head of Service, Adayilo