Today’s Headlines: ADC Will Defeat Tinubu in 13 Northern States — Amaechi; A Reply to Obasanjo

Rotimi Amaechi, the vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has expressed confidence that the party will defeat President Bola Tinubu in all 13 states of the North-East and North-West in the 2027 general election.

Amaechi also predicted that the ADC would make significant inroads into the South-South and North-Central regions, specifically naming Niger, Kogi and Nasarawa states as territories the party expects to win.

He spoke on Saturday at the ADC presidential campaign rally in Bauchi, where he warned that the party would not accept what he alleged was a repeat of the electoral events of the 2023 general election.

“Because these people will do what they did in 2023. This time, we shall not agree. Do you understand? We will not do what?” he said.

The tragedy of our times is that there is so much ignorance in the age of information; so much illiteracy in a time when people are educated. The challenge for all is to speak up and keep repeating facts in the hope that somehow facts begin to sink in where they now seem bereft. The times present new challenges. Economies are not what they used to be. And we cannot solve the problems of today by using the same thinking that created them. These are my initial thoughts as I attempt a necessary riposte to the vehement political statements of former President Obasanjo. I call it political even though it is meant to be an economic subject – Nigeria’s debt. But the reasoning and delivery are so well-timed to do damage that the field of economics has to reject what was stated as fact and dump it in the trashcan of chicanery.

𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗮 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗹𝘀 1,557 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

A total of 1,557 West Africans arrested and convicted for illegal gold mining in Guinea have been expelled from the country, judicial and security sources told AFP on Sunday.

The sources said a convoy of 44 vehicles transporting the foreign nationals arrived on Saturday at Kouremale, on the border with Mali, after setting off from the capital, Conakry, on Friday.

Most were from Burkina Faso and Mali and had been detained at several sites as part of an official operation against illegal mining.

They were released and expelled after being sentenced to terms ranging from 18 months to two years in prison.

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the United Kingdom, Tunde Doherty, has finally broken his silence over claims that he held a secret meeting with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Joash Amupitan, in London.

The claim started after a photograph taken outside Chatham House went viral, with some social media users alleging that Doherty was seen with Amupitan.

But speaking in a statement on Sunday, Doherty said there was no meeting and no secret deal, describing the story as pure fabrication.

According to him, he went to Chatham House on his own as the leader of the APC in the UK to attend a public event, and not as part of INEC’s delegation.

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