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Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
In Alaska, a judge has ruled that "No one, no matter how powerful, can toss out free and fair elections just because they don't like the result."
In Abuja, judges routinely rule that they have the power to do just that; to declare the votes of citizens as #WastedVotes & to shoo in, instead as victors, crooks whom the people have roundly rejected at the polls.
Call this what you will but please do not mistake it for a democracy.
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BULL SHIT!! 🚶🏾♂️
Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
Political surrogates are not supposed to be found presiding over courts of law as judges. #Nigeria’s constitution prohibits that.
It requires in section 36 (1) that courts should be “constituted in such manner as to secure its independence and impartiality.”
A court presided over by a political surrogate would surely be devoid of the constitutive standards of independence and impartiality.
Put differently, a judge who acts as a surrogate for a political party or politician is an unlawful judge.
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Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
In @FederalHigh, for instance, the assignment of political cases now follows a predictable pattern. Political cases routinely end up before a settled slate of judges.
With astonishing insouciance, two young judges from the class of October 2023 appointments to the Federal High Court, have now established themselves as ambitious members of this gang of judicial surrogates of known political interests.
One is in Lagos. Another is in Abuja. The political cases go to them thick and fast. Their decisions almost routinely read like judicial scandals on Steroids.
Obviously, the only reason these cases keep being assigned in this way is because the Chief Judge who does the case assignment is himself unperturbed that his conduct makes him a judicial surrogate of known political interests.
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RELIGIOUS DRESS, PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE AND THE HYPOCRISY OF SELECTIVE OBEDIENCE.
The legal profession demands discipline, dignity and respect for rules. Those who voluntarily enter it, whether male or female, must accept obligations that extend beyond their personal preferences. A lawyer cannot credibly demand obedience to the law from others while treating lawful professional requirements as optional whenever they become personally inconvenient. But in Nigeria, some persons have chosen to de-sacralize the professional ethical obligations and want to be seen as religious by their mode of dressing, even as law students.
But Rule 36(a) and (b) of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2023 require lawyers appearing in court to dress properly and with dignity, avoid apparel calculated to attract attention, and observe the court’s customs and professional standards concerning appearance, dress, manners and courtesy. These obligations serve the dignity of judicial proceedings and the orderly administration of justice. They deserve consistent observance and enforcement. There is hypocrisy where anyone invokes religion to excuse deliberate disobedience of a valid professional requirement while demanding strict compliance from others.
Faith should encourage honesty, humility, responsibility and respect for lawful authority. Religious appearance cannot compensate for dishonesty, intimidation, disrespect for the court or the betrayal of a client’s trust. The moral credibility of a lawyer rests substantially on conduct. The same standard must apply to men and women. Neither sex, seniority, religious affiliation nor professional influence should confer immunity from lawful regulation. Where a dress requirement validly applies, every person subject to it should comply. Anyone seeking to alter it should pursue the appropriate institutional or judicial process. Personal conviction alone does not give an individual power to rewrite professional rules.
However, legal accuracy requires an equally clear qualification: religious dressing is not, merely because it is religious, professional misconduct. Section 38 of the Constitution protects freedom of religion, including its manifestation in practice and observance. Section 42 protects against specified forms of discrimination, including religious discrimination. Restrictions must therefore have a constitutionally defensible basis; section 45 does not give institutions unrestricted authority to suppress religious expression. Entry into the profession does not extinguish constitutional rights.
The proper question is whether a particular form of dressing breaches an applicable, lawful professional requirement, taking account of any authorised accommodation. Where religious attire is permitted and compatible with professional standards, wearing it supplies no proper basis for condemnation. Conversely, where a lawyer deliberately persists in violating a valid dress requirement, invoking religion does not automatically excuse the breach. Such conduct may constitute professional misconduct, subject to the applicable rules, proof and fair disciplinary proceedings.
The profession must therefore reject selective obedience and selective enforcement alike. Regulators should state dress requirements clearly, apply them consistently and respect constitutional protections. Practitioners should honour the lawful obligations of their calling without turning every disagreement into a religious confrontation. No lawyer should use religion as a licence to disregard lawful professional discipline; no professional authority should use discipline as a licence to disregard the Constitution. The integrity of the Bar requires fidelity to both.
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IMO STATE: OUR CONVERSATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PEOPLE CONTINUE
Our conversations and engagement with the people continued yesterday, 31st October 2026, as we journeyed from Yenagoa to Owerri, Imo State, for another edition of our ongoing town hall meeting series.
Upon arrival, I began with a visit to one of the markets in Owerri, where I interacted with traders, buyers and other residents. Their stories and experiences offered yet another sobering reminder of how difficult life has become for ordinary Nigerians under the harsh economic policies of this administration.
In my remarks at the town hall meeting, I reminded the good people of Imo State that, after more than three years in office, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not considered it necessary to spend even one night in Imo State, despite spending over 260 days abroad.
Meanwhile, his administration has accumulated enormous debts without delivering commensurate improvements in the lives of Nigerians. Our country is now ranked among the hungriest nations in the world, with over 140 million people living in multidimensional poverty. To compound this crisis, Nigeria remains one of the most terrorised countries in the world, while approximately 18 million children are out of school.
I reassured the people of Imo State that all hope is not lost. Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and I are committed to securing and uniting our country, making massive investments in critical sectors such as health and education, and lifting millions of Nigerians out of poverty.
Among the leading contenders, we believe we possess the experience, competence, capacity, commitment and readiness required to undertake the difficult but necessary task of turning Nigeria around.
During the interactive session, questions were also raised about the protection of our votes. I encouraged our people to come out in their numbers, exercise their democratic rights and, more importantly, remain vigilant and stay with their votes until the final results are declared.
I sincerely thank our teeming supporters, party candidates, party members, organisers and, most importantly, the good people of Imo State for their warmth, enthusiasm and overwhelming support.
The journey to a new Nigeria is a collective responsibility. Together, we can build a country that works for everyone.
A New Nigeria is POssible, and Nigeria will be OK! -PO
Omo!! This guy! 🚶🏾♂️
“This 21.7 billion investment would more than double in a few years down the line. Many countries should envy Nigeria. And to have a president who understands these issues and thinks big for our country...I think we should all be very excited."
Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele has defended Nigeria’s proposed $21.7 billion borrowing plan.
Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
ENUGU STATE: LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE AND BUILDING A UNITED NIGERIA
Following yesterday’s (29th October) town hall meeting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, I proceeded to Enugu State, where we held another town hall meeting as part of our ongoing nationwide engagement.
I was joined by my brother and Vice Presidential Candidate of our party, the NDC, His Excellency, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
In Enugu, we met with our teeming supporters and enthusiastic citizens who lined the streets and besieged the venue in their numbers.
In our conversations, including the contributions from our Vice Presidential Candidate and me, we reiterated our commitment to uniting and securing the country, tackling corruption, massively investing in critical areas of development, particularly health and education, and pulling our people out of poverty.
Shortly before the town hall event, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and I met with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Enugu Chapter, where we reaffirmed our commitment to national unity, religious harmony and peaceful coexistence.
Leadership must be about listening to the people. Those seeking to lead must understand what Nigerians need and be willing to receive feedback on the impact of government policies and decisions.
I thank our teeming supporters, party members and organisers for their dedication and commitment. I also thank the good people of Enugu State for their warm reception.
A New Nigeria is POssible, and Nigeria will be OK! -PO
Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
There is no public utility the Nigerian political elite can competently deliver;
1. Public water and sanitation - we forgot that a long time ago. We dug our own boreholes, installed cheap Chinese water pumps, built our soakaway systems.
2. Public education - just visit a typical Government-run primary school. Ditto for Public healthcare.
3. Public PSTN and Broadband - not possible.
These people cannot delivery reliable 24 hours mains electricity - even if you were to point a gun their heads 24/7.
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EBONYI STATE: SECURITY, CORRUPTION, NATIONAL UNITY AND THE DIGNITY OF EVERY NIGERIAN
My grassroots sensitisation tour brought me to Ebonyi, the Salt State, today, 29th October 2026, following yesterday’s visit to Akwanga, Nasarawa State, as our nationwide Town Hall Series continues.
In Ebonyi, I made a stop at Nkalagu and Ezillo to greet and acknowledge our supporters and briefly visited the market in Ezillo, where I interacted with our hardworking women who trade and bring farm produce to market.
In Abakaliki, I joined our party supporters on a road walk to the venue of our town hall meeting.
At the town hall, participants raised concerns about insecurity, particularly kidnapping and banditry; corruption; government borrowing; and the deteriorating condition of our hospitals, schools, and other essential amenities.
The most touching contribution came from a participant representing persons living with disabilities, who spoke about the challenges they face and the apparent lack of adequate support from government and society.
I assured the participants that, upon election, our foremost priorities will be to unite the country, decisively tackle insecurity and confront corruption, while pulling our people out of poverty.
To our brothers and sisters living with disabilities, I reiterated that the compassion of a nation is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens. We will work with state governments to ensure their inclusion, proper care and dignity.
We will also invest massively in education and healthcare, including at least one fully functional primary healthcare centre in every political ward across Nigeria, while working to reduce the cost of living and expand opportunities for all.
I sincerely thank the participants, our party members, the organisers and the good people of Ebonyi State for their warm reception, enthusiasm and active participation.
A New Nigeria is POssible, and Nigeria will be OK! -PO
Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
Today, with our team of lawyers at the Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja. These brilliant lawyers appeared free of any charges for the case against MTN Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Glo World, FCCPC, and DStv.
They were led by Ogbaga Ogba Immanuel. Before 8 AM this morning we were at the court to officially begin the case. Unfortunately, the court adjourned until 15th of November.
On the 18th, we will be there and we will continue to talk about what these telecoms are doing to Nigerians and also continue the legal challenges, until the relevant authorities put an end to the open fraud these big corporations are committing against Nigerians.
Our case is simple:
If I buy a 30-day data plan and use it heavily, the network tells me my data has been exhausted after just a few days. Their justification is simple: you’ve consumed everything you paid for.
Fair enough.
But if I use the same data sparingly and still have a balance on the 30th day, the remaining data suddenly expires. The justification now changes: your subscription has reached its validity period.
So which principle is actually governing the transaction?
If the argument is that I am being charged based on usage, then why should unused data expire at all? I haven’t consumed what I paid for.
If the argument is that I paid for 30 days of access, then why is the data allowed to run out before those 30 days are over? Shouldn’t I continue to have access until the agreed expiration date?
The industry appears to switch between two contradictory principles, depending on which one benefits the company at that particular moment.
-When heavy usage favors the network, they say: “You used it all.”
-When light usage favors the customer, they say: “Time is up.”
The customer loses under both systems.
This inconsistency becomes even more obvious when you compare it with airtime.
Your airtime does not disappear simply because 30 days have passed. It remains yours until you actually spend it. The network does not wake up one morning and confiscate your remaining airtime because a calendar date has arrived.
Why then should paid data be treated differently?
The principle should be consistent.
If a data bundle has a fixed expiration date, then the purchased volume should remain available until that date, regardless of how quickly or slowly it is used.
Conversely, if the network insists that data can be completely exhausted at any time based solely on consumption, then there is no logical basis for imposing an expiry date on any unused balance. Once I have paid for it, what I have not consumed should remain mine until I consume it.
You cannot simultaneously tell customers:
“Your data can finish before the validity period because usage matters,”
and then turn around and say,
“Your remaining data has expired because the validity period matters.”
Those are two different charging philosophies. Switching between them depending on which one increases company revenue is not a coherent billing principle — it is a contradiction.
The question is simple:
When consumers pay for data, are they buying a quantity of data, or are they buying time?
If the answer is data, then unused data should never expire.
If the answer is time, then the purchased data should remain available throughout that entire period, regardless of consumption patterns.
The current system attempts to have it both ways, and in every scenario, the consumer bears the loss.
And this is why we have gone to court.
In South Africa right now, the regulator ICASA has ordered MTN and Vodacom to stop letting data expire.
New rules say unused data, voice and SMS must roll over automatically, at no extra cost, once the bundle's time is up.
MTN and Vodacom did not comply quietly. They took ICASA to court to try to block it. They are facing fines of about R5 million each for non compliance. That's about N410 Million.
That is the real story. A regulator with teeth forcing
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Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
This @inecnigeria register is a scandal. It has a Liberian feel to it. For those interested in the comparative history of #ElectionRigging, Liberia's record setting 1927 presidential election will be 100 yrs in 2027. That anniversary will be marked in #NigeriaDecides2027.
In 2024, Governor Okpebholo's polling unit had 397 voters on the register. In 2026, it has 4,783.
That's 4,386 new voters, a 1,105% increase.
A Guinness World Record?
@inecnigeria, please explain. 👀
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BREAKING: Kalu Rejects Motion to Summon INEC Chairman, Says Briefing Is Sufficient
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has opposed a motion seeking to invite INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, to brief lawmakers on preparations for the 2027 general elections.
Kalu argued during Wednesday’s plenary that INEC’s periodic public briefings are sufficient to address concerns about the elections, adding that summoning the chairman before the full House could distract the commission from its preparations.
The motion was moved by Minority Whip Mansur Soro and Deputy Minority Leader Abdulsamad Dasuki.
Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
Nigerians need to ensure that the pains they are subjected to by overrated and sometimes empty arrongant display of primitive powers by some public officials are checkmated, hencefort. Virtually everyone in positions of power in Nigeria abuse it. The citizens are nobody to these empty, arrongant public servants who, in most cases, are not serving the public.These arrongant displays of emptiness are everywhere.
For instance, there are there in the three departments of government. In Nigeria, most people in power boast of their ominipower to do anything and get away with it. They can kill, and nothing will happen.They know that in Nigeria, there are no remedies for victims of wrongs. Those who are close to those in power or corridors of power are as worse as useless. When you see how these uncultured public officers or public servants behave on the roads with their convoys and how in most cases they horsewhiped or allowed their aids to horsewhiped Nigerians out of the roads for them to pass you weep for poor and poverty stricken Nigerians.
These people recruited and put their kinds in charge of our systems of justice, and they use the systems and institutions meant to give remedies to those injured to pervert the most heinous crimes and oppression against Nigerians.They boast of their evil connections and have no respect for the sanctity of the lives of Nigerians. Nigerians are at the mercies of those who should ordinarily be the servants of Nigerians.The level of wickedness in our law has reached high heavens. These sets of people are ready to destroy Nigeria for their self-serving interests. They have no respect for law and order.
As a matter of fact, these crooked and wicked generations of public servants are laws unto themselves and they breach both the constitution and disrespect the institution of justice with impunity and audacity of arrogance and still run to the same institution they disrespected and desecrated for orders. In most cases, the desecrated and disrespected institution of justice will still grant them remedies while in iniquities of the very institution and the constitution they sworn to protect and uphold. I think we have a lot on our hands.
Nigerians must wake up to make Nigeria state work and be led by responsible people who have values and place values on the sanctity of the lives of Nigerians. We must now insist and ensure that any public office holders that abused his or her positions in any of the three departments of government must resign and then face the music. We must insist and demand that our institutions be headed by the very best of the best of Nigerians and not by the worse eleven in the field of governance whose only question is capacity to do evil.
Nigerians have suffered enough in the hands of heartless public officers who, in most cases, are not serving the interest of the Nigerian masses. Nigerians can not be in the mist of plenty resources and continue to suffer in poverty and penury. Nigerians must agree and insist that those who thwarted our democratic processes to impose them on us are not allowed henceforth. We must ensure and insist as a people that those who breached the law and stole ballots in electoral contests are not worshipped anymore. Enough of nonsense in Nigeria. We must ensure that uncultured and uncivilised behaviours of public servants are not allowed to continue in our land. We have a duty to insist on the right governance in Nigeria, and this we must do to enjoy a good life as a people and Nigerians.
Very unserious people! 🚶🏾♂️
Over N600bn Disbursed to 10m Households, 15m Targeted - Oyedele
The Federal Government is not complacent, but has its work cut out, the Minister of Finance Taiwo Oyedele said, at the Federal Executive Council meeting, noting that ongoing reforms are targeted at everyday Nigerians.
He disclosed that more than 10 million households have so far received cash transfers worth over N600 billion, with a target to reach at least 15 million households. The Federal Executive Council also endorsed the National Economic Council's 90-day action plan.
Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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NASARAWA STATE: SECURITY, EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE AND LIFTING OUR PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY
Following yesterday’s visit to Kogi State, I proceeded to Akwanga, Nasarawa State, today, 28 October 2026, to continue our series of town hall meetings across Nigeria. These engagements provide an opportunity to interact directly with our people, listen to their concerns, and understand their expectations for a better Nigeria.
In Akwanga, I granted an interview to a local radio station, where we discussed critical national issues, particularly insecurity, the economy, and the urgent need to lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty.
I was subsequently joined by my dear elder brother and the NDC Vice Presidential Candidate, His Excellency, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, for the town hall meeting.
Participants raised important questions and shared their concerns about insecurity, particularly the challenges women face in accessing their farms; support for persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups; fuel subsidy; corruption; the present government’s excessive borrowing; the deteriorating state of our schools; and other challenges affecting their daily lives.
In my response, I assured the participants that our first priority, upon election, would be to unite the country, decisively tackle corruption, and confront the insecurity ravaging communities across Nigeria.
I also reaffirmed our shared commitment to massive investment in education and healthcare, including the provision of at least one fully functional primary healthcare centre in every political ward across the country. Our goal is to reduce the cost of living, expand opportunities, and lift Nigerians out of poverty.
I sincerely thank all participants, our party members, the organisers, and the good people of Nasarawa State for their warm reception, thoughtful contributions, and active participation.
A New Nigeria is POssible, and Nigeria will be OK! -PO
Ẹfosa Ikpons retweeted
APC uses poverty as a tool of control. When people are struggling to afford food, pay their bills, and meet their most basic needs, survival becomes their priority, leaving little room to challenge the system responsible for their suffering. A population trapped in economic hardship is easier to manipulate with temporary handouts and empty promises than one empowered by education, economic security, and opportunity. Poverty should never be a political instrument, yet the question remains: how can Nigerians demand accountability when millions are too busy fighting to survive?
