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The Village Boys Invaded The City Boys Movement In Owerri - #2027NigerianElection · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to the episode of The Banks with
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  Lorencia. How are you all doing if you're
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  doing great For today's episode, I want to talk about the city
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  boy movement and the rival village boy movement.
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  Now, for some of you who don't know, the city boy movement
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  started in 2022. I think it was founded by Shea
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  Tunubu, the son of the president, President Bonnar
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  Ahmed Tunubu. He founded the movement which
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  helped to re to elect his father.
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  And since the election is next year, Shaytunupu is working
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  hard. He's working overtime, he's
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  working day and night to reelect his father using the city boy
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  movement. Now in 2022, he wasn't really
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  that of a big deal because obedient movement was, you know,
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  dominated the social media space.
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  But the city boy movement who were heavily funded by, you
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  know, who decided to get IBO influencers to make sure that
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  they capture the Southeast, they go to be Cubana and Cubana chief
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  priests. They call them.
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  According to social media users, they said these are hungry
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  billionaires. Now, honestly, I don't even see,
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  in my opinion, I don't see OB Cubana or Cubana chief priests,
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  billionaires. They are glorified influencers.
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  They make money. Yes, they do.
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  You can say it's a businessman. You can say he's this is that or
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  these are glorified influencers. Now they joined the city boy
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  movement. They decided to go to IMO states
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  to, you know, empower people. So before then the city boy, the
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  the village boy movement started.
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  Their website was registered and all that.
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  Anyway, for some of you who don't know what is actually
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  going on, let me just play a video from Arise News.
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  As as the pre election campaign activities begin to gather
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  momentum, obedience have come together to form a group called
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  the Village Boys Movement which has surfaced online.
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  This appears to be a counter group for the public attention
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  garnered by the pro Tinobu City Boys Movement.
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  The movement which has allegedly which has already established
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  its own website, describes itself as a movement created to
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  empower the grassroots 1 village at a time.
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  This comes as backlash has trailed the induction of such
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  figures as Obi Iebu better known as Obi Cubana and Cubana Chief
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  Priest into the city boy movement.
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  A move that made Obedience feel that some Igbo businessmen are
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  taking sides with the political elites and are abandoning the
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  common man now. A lot of Igbo youths said that
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  Obi Cubana and Cubana Chief priest joining the city boy
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  movement means that they are abandoning the Igbo youths and
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  also the common man. Now Obi Cubana decided to
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  address that because he said listen, he's not, he's only
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  educating the ignorant evil people.
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  Now let me play that for you to hear from Obi Cubana's mouth.
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  On your Monday, Bola, on your Monday, Bola, on your Monday
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  there. Is.
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  A movement called the City Boy Movement.
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  It's not a political party, but it's actually designed primarily
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  for the re election bid of Mr. President.
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  The unique thing about this whole thing is about young
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  people, mostly businessmen, not mostly politicians, but people
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  who want the betterment of a neighbour.
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  Our people lack knowledge and what our work is is mostly to
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  educate, to give orientation, to give your orientation to our
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  people to know that they will have money in A1 basket going
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  forward. Today we believe in the
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  government of Asawaju Bola Ahmed Tinobu and then we as young
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  professionals and successful businessmen have come out to
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  tell our people that we are solidly behind Mr. President, we
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  are solidly behind his relation beat and then Alibo has to be
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  taken to the centre. We have to be connected to the
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  centre. We can't actually always be
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  doing the divisive politics that we do over here.
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  There must be a balance and then there will be that recognition
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  of anyone because there's a lot of things to be done down here.
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  We have to be connected to the gas or they connected to the
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  rail. A lot of things we actually
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  expect from the centre and then we feel that if we are all in
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  opposition to this government, our adventure, we won't be
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  remembered. Now that is a big Cubana
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  literally in a very five star hotel or event centre,
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  addressing the 1% of the 1%, talking about how, you know, the
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  Ibos need to be educated and you know, reorientated into the
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  society or the Nigerian society that got a lot of people angry
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  because they said listen, educated.
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  Like when Anam Dekhan was going through everything he was going
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  through, you never said anything.
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  When he was finally gaoled, you never said anything.
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  Now you have the opportunity as the mouthpiece of the City Boys
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  SE movement to negotiate, to say listen, this is our problem,
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  this is one of our problems. If you can give us Namticano,
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  then they we can rally the Ibos around you.
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  He did not do it. Instead he was busy.
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  He didn't even go out to the people.
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  He sat in a very cosy event centre to to deliver the speech.
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  Now as this was going on, Sure decided to have a 1,000,000 man
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  match for Namdikano for the release of Namdikano Let.
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  Me introduce myself to you once again.
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  My name is Mazi, my title is all your justice and only for
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  justice. I don't care whether you are
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  evil Yoruba house or you never get tribe at all.
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  Nigeria cannot thrive when world tribe is treated different from
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  the others, where some people can practise terrorism openly
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  getting government patronage, why some people are not asked
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  for their own freedom without getting killed.
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  The number of soldiers today, if they put it in, there will be no
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  terrorism. They have continued to fight the
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  Civil War as a Cold War. I am not here to sugarcoat
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  anything or anybody now. The gun must be free whether
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  they like it or not, we must assure you.
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  This is what's Ube Cubana and Cubana chief priests should have
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  done before signing any agreement with City Boy movement
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  to say let's negotiate, let's negotiate now.
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  The country has done the worst thing that has, you know, come
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  that came out of Nigeria in terms of terrorism because that
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  was all he was charged with. We have a whole lot of bandits
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  who are being released and given jobs, rehabilitated.
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  So why is he in gaol? These are the things that they
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  should have addressed or they should have kind of spoken about
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  before coming to say, oh, you know, the Ibos they need, they
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  need education. They lack they lack information
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  or education anyway. Obi Cubana, Cubana Chief
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  Princess side, even aside from the city boy movement, APC party
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  as a whole is now a one man party.
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  Chenubo is the mandate and on your mandate, every governor,
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  everybody is standing. There's no position.
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  PDP is currently decapitated, Labour Party has been dead and
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  buried. ADC right now is on oxygen.
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  There's nothing, there's nobody, and one lady actually
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  highlighted the dangers of a single party in a country.
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  In light of this, it means that APC non governs more than 85% of
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  Nigerian states. This is the largest political
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  dominance in the Fourth Republic and it is dangerous.
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  It is dangerous, It is a threat to democracy because weak
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  opposition, or in this Case No opposition, equals weak
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  democracy. Democracy thrives on cheques and
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  balances. It thrives of being held
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  accountable. If this happens, what we all see
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  happening, if it happens, it means that policies will go
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  unchecked. Corruption, if we think is bad.
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  Now, this is going to mean more than history repeating itself,
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  but let's take a deep dive. Let's rewind back to the Second
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  Republic when we had adopted that new constitution, a key
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  feature in it was aside from establishing the presidential
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  system of government, the key feature is a multi party
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  democracy that is going to operate elections at the federal
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  and the state level. Let's set the scene, it's 1979,
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  NPN is dominating Nigeria, it's dominating States and UPN is the
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  opposition and it's not very strong.
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  It had its influence in the South but it wasn't very strong.
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  What ended up happening because NPN was so dominant till today,
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  we're actually facing the effects of that of that
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  Republic. The debt, the corruption, the
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  leaders being so self-serving all started then, and this was
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  what led to the cool, justified it because weak opposition
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  contributed to that instability that we had in our political
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  landscape because there was so much concentration of power.
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  I feel like I'm literally in government class right now, but
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  you guys all know how power corrupts and absolute power
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  corrupts absolutely. Imagine having control over that
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  many states. Corruption, electoral
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  malpractice, economic mismanagement led to the coup,
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  and rightfully so. It was completely justified.
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  All this Dolan suit to all I'm trying to say is what APC is
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  doing is dangerous, it is detrimental to Nigeria, to our
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  constitution, to everybody and most people don't realise it.
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  They're just celebrating IS ID count, IS my governor is now
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  part of APC. You know, it's not right.
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  That's not right. These people are out for blood
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  and they really do not care. They really, really don't.
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  They just want to take what they believe is theirs.
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  You know, it's their turn. As they say, let's stay
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  informed. Let's stay informed because
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  they're going to start dropping dead anytime soon.
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  I mean, they're in their 80s, nineties, even though they lie
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  about it, they're going to start dying.
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  And then it slept for us to pick up the pieces.
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  As long as I'm there, if you don't know, today, the Federal
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  government of Nigeria does not want me, Peter or me, the
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  capital of any party. Let me know what you think.
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  Do you think that APC dominating Nigeria or dominating other
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  political party is a big challenge, is a big problem, is
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  an issue, is democratically illegal or do you think that
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  every politician have a right to join or rejoin any party or to
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  decamp from one party to the other?
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  It does not matter. If APC happens to be the party
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  that everybody is jumping to, then there's no problem.
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  Are you happy for there not to be an opposition to a party?
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  Are you happy for Tunubu to draw, to win or to be reelected
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  in 2027? Let me know what you think.
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  Thank you very much for watching today's episode.
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  watching. Bye bye.