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Condolence Visit To The Family of Late President Buhari

The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday, July 16, led some Senators to pay a condolence visit to the family of the late President, Muhammadu Buhari, in Daura, Katsina State.

The deceased's son, Yusuf, Buhari's nephew, Alhaji Mamman Daura and other family members were on hand to receive the visitors.

The National Assembly members also paid similar condolence visit to the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruk Umar Faruk where prayers were offered for the peaceful repose of the soul of the deceased.

Finally the delegation visited the Governor of Katsina State, His Excellency, Dr Dikko Radda in Government House, Katsina, Katsina State.

May the soul of our dear late President, Muhammadu Buhari rest in peace.

BREAKING NEWS: NEW STATES TO BE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED BY THE SENATE!

The Nigerian Senate has passed the final reading for the creation of new states after a nationwide tour across the six geo-political zones. The proposed new states are:

South West
- Ijebu State (from Ogun State)
- Ibadan State (from Oyo State)

South East
- Anim State (from parts of Anambra and Imo States)
- Adada State (from Enugu State)

South South
- Toru-Ibe State (from parts of Ondo, Edo, and Delta States)
- Obolo State (from Akwa Ibom State)

North East
- Savanna State (from Borno State)
- Amana State (from Adamawa State)

North West
- Tiga State (from Kano State)
- Gurara State (from Southern Kaduna)

North Central
- Okura State (from Kogi State)
- Apa State (from Benue State) in

Official announcements are expected soon! Good development indeed! #Senate #StateCreation #Nigeriap

In 2017, a conspiracy theory that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had died in a London hospital and was replaced with a body double called ‘Jubril’ from Sudan surfaced in popular discourse. This occurred after Buhari had spent three months undergoing medical treatment in London for an undisclosed illness. The President’s location outside of Nigeria, in the country that was its former colonizer, gave shape to different versions of the conspiracy theory, with suggestions that British Nigerian political elites were behind the replacement of the President and were hiding his alleged death.
Anxieties around the President were initially provoked by a tweet on 19 May 2017, in which Eric Joyce, a British politician, tweeted that the President was dead. President Buhari had last been seen in public two weeks earlier. Eric Joyce’s tweet triggered Nigerians who were looking to escape a repeat of the power vacuum that had been experienced in the country after the death of a previous sitting president, Umaru Yar’Adua, who died in similar and somewhat mysterious circumstances in 2010.
Narratives that the president was a clone emerged in public discourse following President Buhari's public reappearance and return to Nigeria from the UK in August 2017. The first identified online appearance of the clone conspiracy theory was a YouTube video created by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a secessionist group in southeastern Nigeria, in September 2017. The group had been seizing opportunities during election windows to insert itself into broader political debates by whipping up regional sentiments of marginalization and political apathy. It had used a range of mainstream and social media channels to call the attention of the international community to its agitations and the illegal detention/trial of its leader. The body double conspiracy theory was picked up in the Nigerian media and widely spread through different forms of popular communication in Nigeria, resulting in Buhari publicly acknowledging and confronting the conspiracy theory. On 2 December 2018, Buhari insisted during an event in Poland, ‘It’s [the] real me, I assure you.’ The IPOB leader responded, tweeting:
If Buhari is not dead and replaced by Jubril from Sudan, why won't the Nigerian government sue Eric Joyce, a former British lawmaker, for peddling lies? They can’t because they know I am speaking the truth. @AsoRock @ericjoyce @NGRPresident @UKParliament @NGRSenate @WhiteHouse t.co/qqrKHPmtNy
In this article, this conspiracy theory that President Buhari was a clone is addressed as an opportunity to question the superficial confidence with which conspiracy theories have been dismissed as aberrations and negative externalities of digital ecosystems and their supporters as threats to an ostensibly deliberative public sphere. While not pitched in defense of conspiracy theories, it seeks to examine them without the comfortable protection of post-enlightenment normativity and to remind us how injunctions to ‘speak civilly’ or ‘think rationally’ tend to reproduce tropes from a colonial past, dismissing or erasing other forms of knowledge/reasoning used to make sense of the world to speak to power.

The arguments and analyses we advance here are closely related to those we presented in a previous article (Gagliardone et al.,
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2021), where we empirically illustrated how this explorative, rather than normative, approach allows us to grasp how individuals do not simply fall for, embrace, or support a conspiracy theory but can ‘do’ specific and distinct things with/through them. In that article, we comparatively analyzed how conspiracy theories circulating at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic were seized by some Nigerian users and politicians as opportunities to criticize the ruling party, while in South Africa the same conspiracy theories became a vehicle to voice deep-rooted resentment towards the West and corporate interests.

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has approached the Court of Appeal to challenge the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which ordered the recall of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to the Senate following her suspension.

*Senate probes N1.3tn CBEX collapse, declares national emergency*

10th July 2025
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Me: As the government continues losing revenue, only crypto approval or partial permission for licensing cannot curb the problem, but proper regulations with Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-money laundering (AML), and all necessary measures with a level playing ground for those who have something good to bring to the table of the government and the masses are the only way to stop Ponzi schemes.

Check my research report in the comments section.

BREAKING: Akpabio Appeals Court Order To Reinstate Senator Natasha

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has filed a notice of appeal challenging the judgment of Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which ordered the recall of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to the Senate following her controversial suspension.

Profiles of new breed politicians that want to bring change to Nigeria:

1. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
Atiku was vice president for eight years between 1999 and 2007. He was the head of Obasanjo privatisation programme where he sold a national asset ALSCON built for $3.3bn for a paltry $250m to a Russian friend.

He is 78 years old.

2. Senator David Mark
He retired as a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army. He stood firmly against the restoration of June 12 mandate to the winner, Bashorun Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola. He was military governor of Nige state from 1984 to 1986. He was senator for twenty years between 1999 and 2019. He was the longest serving Senate President. He was Senate President for eight years between 2007 and 2015.

He is 77 years old.

3. Alhaji Sule Lamido
Sule Lamido was a member of House of Representatives in the second republic. He wss the national secretary of the original Social Democratic Party who betrayed the June 12 struggle. He was governor for Jigawa state for eight years between 2007 and 2015. He was not only found wanting in the fund of the state but with his son.

This new breed politician is 76 years old.

4. Arc Tom Ikimi
Ikimi was Nigerian foreign affairs minister from 1995 and 1998 after he betrayed the June 12 struggle. He was the national chairman of the National Republican Congress before his appointment as minister after Abacha put a nail to the coffin of the aborted third republic.

The new breed Edo born politician is three years older than Atiku who is 78.

5. Mr Rotimi Amaechi
Amaechi was the Speaker, Rivers state house of assembly from 1999 to 2007. He was governor of Rivers state from 2007 to 2015. He was minister of transport (which included today's blue marine ministry) between 2015 and 2022 when he reluctantly resigned to contest for APC presidential ticket which he lost despite running around a stadium in what was supposed to be a thanksgiving service.

He celebrated his 60th birthday anniversary in hunger in a hall rented with millions of naira.

6. Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola
Aregbesola was commissioner of works Lagos state for eight years between 1999 and 2007. He was governor of Osun state from 2010 to 2018. He was minister of public holiday and prison break between 2019 and 2023 but he was originally appointed minister of interior.

He is 68 years old.

7. Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
Member House of Representatives for twelve years from 2003 to 2015. He was Speaker between 2011 and 2015 and Governor of Sokoto state from 2015 to 2023. He is a senator from 2023 till date.

He is 59 years old.

8. Mallam Nasir El-Rufai
El-Rufai was appointed Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprise in 1999. In 2003, he was appointed minister of the federal capital territory. He was elected governor of Kaduna state in 2015 and got re-elected in 2019.

This new breed politician is just 65 years old.

As we can see, they have never played any role in the destiny of our country and this is why they want to bring a change in 2027.

#SWA

The Senate has insisted that the court gave no binding order mandating Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s reinstatement, and her suspension remains in effect.

Akpabio's spokesperson has opened up on why the senate cannot reinstate Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan now. Reasons below.

Photo credit - Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Godswill Akpabio (Facebook)

By the constitution, I had to inaugurate or prorogue the National Assembly on June 4 1999. The most important officer in the National Assembly is the Senate President and that office had been zoned to the South East. And here was where Atiku Abubakar, my Vice President, first showed his hand and his character.

Without seeking my view or approval, he started planning the installation of Chuba Okadigbo as the Senate President. I did a background check on Chuba including his past as a student and made enquiries about hin in the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) under Shagari and no one would recommend him for the post of Senate President.

I left Atiku to go on his chase while I carried out a meticulous and detailed investigation and background check on each Senator from the South East. The one that appeared most appointable was Evan Enwerem.

I canvassed the Senate across the board for his election and he was elected. Atiku did not expect it and he felt sore. He bagan to strategise for Enwerem to be removed and Chuba Okadigbo to be installed.

His strategy worked because I was at Abuja airport to receive a visiting Head of State when news reached me that the Senate had mpeached Enwerem and elected Okadigbo.

I was not perturbed. I came to understand from some Senators including Florence Ita Giwa, who later became my Special Adviser/Liaison Officer to the National Assembly, that Atiku distributed US$5,000 each to some Senators to carry out the "coup".

That was the beginning of bribing the legislature to carry out a particular line of action to suit or satisfy the purpose or desire of an individual or group. The National Assembly had tasted blood and they would continue to want more.

From the day I nominated Atiku to be my Vice; he set his mind not for any good, benefit or service of the country, but on furiously planning to upstage, supplant or remove me at all costs and to take my place. That was what I brought him for, but he was impatient and over ambitious. He was not ready to learn and to wait. Pity!

His marabout, who predicted that despite being elected as Governor, he would not be sworn in as a Governor, which happened, also assured him that he would take over from me in a matter of months rather than years.

All his plans, appointments of people and his actions were towards actualusation of his marabout's prediction. Once, I realised his intention and programme, I watched him like a hawk without giving any indication of what I knew and letting down my guard.

I could not succumb to the distraction, diversion and malevolence of an ambitious but unwise deputy.

SOURCE : MY WATCH, VOLUME 2 BY EX PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO

B. R. E A. K. I. N. G. N.E.W.S

SENATOR SERIAKE DICKSON THROWS HIS WEIGHT BEHIND SENATOR NATASHA AKPOTI-UDUAGHAN'S REINSTATEMENT.

The Senator representing Bayelsa West, Senator Seriake Dickson, has thrown his weight behind the return of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi Central) to the Senate following a court judgment that nullified her six-month suspension.

Dickson gave his position while addressing journalists in Abuja on Saturday.

The former Bayelsa State governor said he had never supported prolonged suspensions of lawmakers, stressing that such actions run contrary to constitutional principles and legislative ethics.

Dickson said, “I sympathize with Natasha. I have never been in support of any parliamentary body suspending members for long periods.

“The Senate leadership and my colleagues know my position on this, anchored on the law, the constitution, and my conviction.

“Senators are here to agree and disagree in the national interest. So, we have to tolerate and respect one another, even when we differ in opinion.”

Dickson emphasized the need for Akpoti-Uduaghan to resume her duties without further delay, insisting that her voice and representation are vital to the legislative process.

“I was not present when her suspension was announced, but that is not my concern. My interest is that she resumes her seat and continues to perform her constitutional responsibilities.

“I understand the court has already made a decision on the matter,” he added.

Two weeks ago, the Federal High Court in Abuja declared Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension by the Senate as unconstitutional, excessive, and a violation of the rights of her constituents.

Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, ordered her immediate reinstatement and awarded a ₦5m fine against her for contempt, relating to a satirical Facebook post that breached a court order issued on March 4, 2025.

The post, which appeared to mock Senate President Godswill Akpabio, was ruled to have violated an interim injunction.

Nonetheless, the court ruled that the Senate’s action in suspending her for six months was beyond its constitutional powers.

COPIED FROM: THE PUNCH NEWSPAPERS.
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Senator Dickson is a truthful leader. Other leaders should as a matter of fact emulate him. More power to your elbow sir.

#bendelgistsblog.

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