Politics is a dirty game.

[Pressurizedem]

Because politics is a dirty game, it is the reason why most persons stop giving their votes to politicians. They lure us into accepting them into political offices and end up using everybody to fulfill their dreams. Nigerian politics is indeed a mess because whether you vote or you do not, they have made us know that our votes no longer count, and it is the reason so many persons have decided to stay in their houses during election because the person they want to choose will definitely emerge regardless of people's votes or not.

[iBaba]

I keep saying politics in Nigeria is a dirty game, but in general it's a smart game for political actors. And it's very hard to convince a Nigerian to believe that politics is a Smart game and not dirty. Because of his environment, people learn within their surrounding.  The case Rivers State, it's another fact that Nigeria politics is a dirty game. State of emergency was declared illegally to protect Wike the minister of FCT interest in the state against all odds. Before then the Governor wanted to conduct LGA election but he was suspended.

I just hope that one day our young ones will realize that politics is not a dirty game but a game of chess. A game that's strongly built on deep strategic thinking, patience and acceptance of consequences. It is a game that gives its players a mental gymnasium, a critical  thought process that can be used to understand complex concepts oftentimes used to understand creative but also convoluted logic. Politics is a game ofhat involves people dealing with people and having the deepest understanding of their thought process. It has to do with you as an individual understanding what the interest of your opponents are, their thought process, their targets and their next line of action, after understanding that, then building of your own strategy to defeat the interest of the opponents. The more we dey run from this politics come dey give am different bad names, the more we will be distancing ourselves from it and the more the impacts will hit us the more, negatively.

The president installed a military head to pilot the affairs of the state for six months, as I type the military head is about to conduct LGA election under his administration. How can a military head conduct a election, omo it's killing the baby democracy of Nigeria, he has no right to conduct LGA election. But Mr president wants to make wike happy, so he allows it. This is why the Nigeria politics is dirty. Politicians only cares about themselves nothing else matters not even the development of the country.

Still at this, I won't call it dirty, I Will go with your first definition which says it is a smart game of interest. Mr. President is doing all of these for a reason, to further spite the hunger of the opposition and pay loyalty with another loyalty and testifying to Wike that he can be trusted as an individual while also knowing fully well that at this point, Wike is indispensable ahead of the 2027 elections. The power Wike still wielding in his state and the environ is huge, therefore it is better to add more strength to the strength he already has and unfortunately for Fubara, he allowed himself to be used as the litmus test due to his own ambitions which were shown too early to the rogue lions

[Mr Reporter]

Because politics is a dirty game, it is the reason why most persons stop giving their votes to politicians. They lure us into accepting them into political offices and end up using everybody to fulfill their dreams. Nigerian politics is indeed a mess because whether you vote or you do not, they have made us know that our votes no longer count, and it is the reason so many persons have decided to stay in their houses during election because the person they want to choose will definitely emerge regardless of people's votes or not.

I tink say I gree with you for dis one, because dis don make plenty Nigerians stop to vote and e dey make dem believe say politicians dey make fake promises wey dem fit no intend to keep. I go talk say dis fit lead to loss of trust for di system. Well, di feeling say our votes no dey count na because dis most powerful politicians dey prioritize their own interest pass di people needs, wey don lead to discrimination, disengagement, and apathy.

Di belief say election outcomes don already dey decided fit make people stay for house during elections, dey feel say their votes no go make any difference.

Dis kind sentiment dey show bigger concern about di health of democracy and di need for reform or change to bring back faith for di political process.

[AYOBA]

The coalition of different parties formed by Atiku and Peter Obi seems like a correction of their mistakes to me, because had this been done before the last election, I doubt if APC would have won the last election, because the last 2023 election's analysis for these three parties isn't far away from each other: APC was at 37%, PDP 29%, and LP 25%. Imagine if PDP and LP had merged then?

That’s why I keep saying that in 2023 the APC party just had a lucky narrow victory; if not, they couldn’t have won the election in 2023, and with the way this coming election is, it will be tougher than previous ones. A lot are regretting voting for the wrong person. Because I’m sure only a few are going to vote for the APC party in this coming presidential election.

My questions now are:

*What has President Bola Tinubu done so far for the masses that will guarantee him to be reelected in the 2027 election?

*Would the coalition of these parties help the masses in terms of insecurity: armed robbery, banditry, and kidnappers?

These that still have an interest in re-electing Tinubu in the 2027 election have stated that he has done a lot for Nigerians, but if that is the truth, I think it is only people that are very close to him that he has done good for since the time he was elected. People are crying and complaining every day about the situation of the country; the fact is that the government has been in power for years now, but he has done anything to change the situation in the country, and his expected return to power for a second time, I don’t think it will be possible.

[Spaceman1000$]

The way the politics is being played, Tinubu doesn't need to do anything for the economy to be reelected, after all he got into office without the help of the masses, it was the machinery of state headed by Muhammad Buhari of blessed memories that helps and assisted him to become the president, and trust me, he will win the second term even on a landslide. We Nigerians see the blatant truth and we choose to be blind towards it, if we are running a true democracy, we wouldn't have a shaky shaky daddy as our president today.

[Anayochukwu]

The dirty game of Nigeria politicians is alarming.

I don't know if this topic has been discussed here before, but let's view it from a different perspective.

The coalition of different parties formed by Atiku and Peter Obi seems like a correction of their mistakes to me, because had this been done before the last election, I doubt if APC would have won the last election, because the last 2023 election's analysis for these three parties isn't far away from each other: APC was at 37%, PDP 29%, and LP 25%. Imagine if PDP and LP had merged then?

So the coalition of these parties will definitely put APC into a panic zone, but Tinubu is a very smart politician, because he will know where to come out for them; moreover, he owns the power now.

My questions now are:

*What has President Bola Tinubu done so far for the masses that will guarantee him to be reelected in the 2027 election?

*Would the coalition of these parties help the masses in terms of insecurity: armed robbery, banditry, and kidnappers?

Because we are not sure if the new ADC party will really help Nigeria to move forward, since the power is being recycled within themselves and is not tangible, so to say.

We pray for a better Nigeria.

I disagree with you OP for saying that politics is a dirty because I know it isn't a dirty game, is it those corrupt people involved in politics that are dirty and making it look like it isn't a genuine game. Nigeria have a long list of corrupt leaders and it will be very difficult to reset the system for good, and creating new parties isn't going to make the situation in the country better and it will continue to get worse until they decide to concentrate on pdp because PDP is recorded a lot of good leaders in the past and I believe they still have the potential to do so now. I thought it that tinubu will make it in his second half because he has done more bad than good and everyone in the country has seen that APC is a weapon fashioned against the country.