A rigged APC primary with nearly 11 million party votes and a minister threatening to seize hotel land titles for hosting the wrong politicians , this is not governance. This is desperation.
President Bola Tinubu was officially declared the winner of the APC presidential primary on May 24, 2026, conducted across all 8,809 wards in Nigeria’s 774 local government areas. He polled 10,999,162 votes against his sole challenger Stanley Osifo, who managed a mere 16,503. In several states, Osifo received zero votes. Not one. In a country of over 200 million people, a man running against a sitting president in his own party received zero votes in entire states. And we are meant to take this seriously.
Let me be direct: this is not a primary. This is a rehearsal for theft. If this fraudulent exercise is any indication of what Tinubu and his machine intend to do in 2027, they should think again — and think hard. The Nigerian people are not the compliant, exhausted, intimidated population of previous cycles. Something has shifted. The anger has moved beyond protest and petition into a cold, determined resolve. Tinubu is hated not disliked, not criticised, hated from north to south, east to west, across every ethnic line, every religious divide, every generation. His every attempt to weaponise tribal sentiment has backfired spectacularly. Nigerians have found unity in their unanimous rejection of him. In trying to divide us, he has united us against him.
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The man is senile, corrupt, and breathtakingly incompetent. He genuinely believes he is a gangster. Well. Gangster, go and meet gangster in 2027. There will be no second term. His thugs will be met not by a frightened few but by millions who are past caring about the consequences. The back-room manoeuvring, the killings, the beatings, none of it will survive the fury of a people who have nothing left to lose. And the world is watching.
Then there is Wike. The FCT Minister must be on something stronger than palm wine. The Federal Capital Territory Administration issued a directive ordering owners of event centres and hotels in Abuja to refuse access to any political party faction not recognised by INEC, threatening to revoke the title documents of non-compliant properties. Read that again. A minister is threatening to seize private property, businesses that pay taxes, employ Nigerians, and answer to no political master because they might host the wrong politicians.
Wike has no jurisdiction over the commercial decisions of private businesses in Abuja. These hotels and event centres are not government properties. They do not belong to him or his family, whatever he may imagine. The statement did not even clearly define what would qualify as an “illegal organisation,” raising concerns over possible arbitrary interpretation and enforcement. Of course it did not. Because the vagueness is the point. The vagueness is the weapon.
This is another nail in Wike’s coffin. And when he faces justice, and he will face justice ,these documented abuses of ministerial power will be Exhibit A. The madness is out of control. But madness has a shelf life. And in 2027, the bill comes due.
Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden
