Politics
Nigeria is bleeding daily, our leaders have normalised failure
Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, says Nigeria is “bleeding daily” under a leadership that has normalised failure and indifference to public suffering.
Obi said this in a statement on his Facebook page after he revealed some group of young Nigerians at the Abuja airport.
He said the youths expressed concern that he had not commented on recent developments in the country, including ambassadorial nominations, security failures and governance controversies.
The former Anambra governor said the concerns reflect the growing pain among citizens who feel abandoned by those in authority.
“There is a pain one carries silently when watching a nation you love bleed daily,” Obi said.
He said the situation in Nigeria has become so dire that the country is increasingly mocked on the global stage.
He criticised recent ambassadorial nominations, saying they reflect a system that elevates mediocrity over competence.
“With a leadership that has allowed mediocrity, corruption and impunity to rise to the top, who else did you expect them to choose?” he asked.
Obi faulted public officials for hosting celebrations while killings, abductions and hunger persist across the country.
“When our people are being killed, our leaders are busy hosting dinners. When children are being snatched from their schools, the political class is celebrating and dancing. This is certainly not the Nigeria we deserve,” he said.
He urged Nigerian youths to remain hopeful and continue demanding accountability and reform, adding that the dream of a “New Nigeria” remains alive and achievable despite current challenges.
“It will happen because people like you refuse to accept failure as our destiny,” he said.
He vowed to continue speaking out, insisting that Nigeria “can and must be better”.
Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has playfully called out Senate President Godswill Akpabio for breaching truce over ‘massaging women’s legs’ comment.
At plenary on Thursday, Oshiomhole said he signed a truce of no more hostilities, stating that Akpabio breached the agreement by reverting to previous matters.
DAILY POST reports that Akpabio had mocked Oshiomhole over the viral video allegedly showing him massaging a woman’s leg aboard a private jet.
The Senate President stated that the Senate initially ignored the footage because it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence, AI.
Recall that a video which surfaced on X on February 3, 2026, sparked widespread reactions after it allegedly showed the former Edo State governor massaging a woman’s leg inside a private jet, days later the lawmaker debunked the video stating that it was AI.
Joking over it at the plenary, Oshiomhole said, “I want to report to this house that the senate president and I we signed a truce of no more hostilities and senate president breach the truce by reverting to previous matter, the truce stands, you should not violate, I will not violate.”
Responding, Akpabio said, “Let me first of all apologize to Oshiomhole if whatever I said could in any way injure him or feel offended.”
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Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have taken over the secretariat of the party in Oyo State.
The secretariat, located in the Molete area of Ibadan, was in the custody of the faction loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of the state until Thursday when the members loyal to Wike took over the premises.
DAILY POST gathered that the PDP members stormed the secretariat on Thursday and occupied the premises with hundreds of members of the party in attendance.
PDP chairman in the state, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso, confirmed the development to DAILY POST.
Akinoso in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Thursday, insisted that the real owners have taken over the premises.
He said, “It is true. It is not faction. It is PDP. We have taken over the premises. It was in the morning. We were there in the morning. We just left the premises. We are now in control. We have taken over the premises.” .…For more, Complete your reading.
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