Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions & bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office

Fantastic review of an epochal event!

2027: Keyamo to lead APC presidential campaign air operations vanguardngr.com/2026/10/2027…

President Tinubu Appoints Keyamo To Head APC’a Directorate Of Air Mobilisation For 2027 Re-Election Campaign  ….NAMA, FAAN MDs, Named Deputy Directors firstweeklymagazine.com/pres… via @First Weekly Magazine

Fantastic speech delivered with grace and panache!

Kaduna was a good take-off from the campaign runway! We are already cruising at a good altitude!!

Kaduna Presidential Rally: Atiku is butterfly thinking itself a bird – Keyamo vanguardngr.com/2026/10/kadu…

WHY ATIKU ABUBAKAR IS PARTICULARLY JITTERY ABOUT THE KADUNA FLAG-OFF By Festus Keyamo, SAN, CON In the last few days, ahead of the flag-off of the APC Presidential Campaign Rally in Kaduna State, the ADC Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has launched a blistering online attack against the APC, particularly in the North. The common but cheap tactic is to position cameras in certain places, procure individuals to tear down the posters of the President, and then post the videos online. The other tactic is to disseminate disinformation claiming that any support the President is seen to receive in the North is procured only through the massive deployment of financial resources. Hence the fake letter alleging a N2.3 trillion deployment for the Kaduna rally. The intention is to generate a hoopla that will create a groundswell of public opinion that President Tinubu has been "massively rejected" in the North. The reason for this is simple: Atiku Abubakar was seriously banking on the bulk of Northern votes to see him through in 2027, knowing full well that he has no inroads at all into the South, given the mood of the country that the South deserves to complete eight years of the Presidency. In 2023, he lost across the Middle Belt (all North-Central States) and in ALL Southern States (except Osun State). His original projection was that President Tinubu would not compete for votes in the North and would be restricted to parts of the South. This is the same reason he single-handedly sponsored some unserious presidential candidates from the South, with the aim of dividing southern votes and leaving the North alone for him to raid. However, with the solid APC structures in the North backing the President, Atiku Abubakar has seen that his demographic calculation for the 2027 elections regarding northern votes is dissolving like Andrews Liver Salts in water. Hence the resort to these desperate tactics. He knows that even if he wins in some parts of the North and the President comes a close second, the election is as good as over, because those differences would be wiped out by his heavy defeat in the Middle Belt and the South. Atiku Abubakar thinks he is the Buhari of 2015, who swept the Northern votes. He thinks that was a display of ethnic support. He fails to realise that his corruption-laden past puts him poles apart from a Muhammadu Buhari, and that Northerners do not tolerate such persons with the putrid smell of corruption. Atiku Abubakar is a butterfly that thinks it is a bird.

PRESS STATEMENT ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL FAKE NEWS ALERT: ATIKU ABUBAKAR AND ADC'S PLOT TO DISCREDIT APC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FLAG-OFF IN KADUNA We have uncovered a well-orchestrated, devious plan by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his party to discredit the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna today, Saturday, October 24th, 2026. Through subterfuge and mindless propaganda, the former Vice President and the African Democratic Congress have perfected their plans to misinform and disinform the public, manipulate public opinion through fake news operations and planting of false news in mainstream news platforms and social media with the use of Artificial Intelligence, deepfake videos, and counterfeit documents, all in a bid to discredit the APC rally in Kaduna, President Bola Tinubu, Governor Uba Sani, and leaders of our party. In the last 24 hours, we have seen these tactics deployed to mislead the unsuspecting public. It began with the mischievous release of a picture of a security vehicle on a routine patrol, innocuously stationed at a junction near one of APC's numerous campaign billboards in Kaduna metropolis. Atiku and the ADC propaganda machinery twisted the narrative, claiming the security agents were there to protect the APC billboards in Kaduna. They then planted the story in a national newspaper known for its anti-government and anti-APC editorial stance. Immediately after the newspaper published the fake, distorted story, Atiku Abubakar, in a coordinated manner, latched onto it and shared it on his official social media handles to generate traffic and trends. Not too long after the first episode of the well-choreographed plot, Atiku Abubakar and ADC agents of disinformation released another fake letter online purportedly written by Governor Uba Sani and addressed to the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, on the release of N2.3 trillion by the Kaduna State Government to host the APC rally. We are still at a loss as to how anyone can imagine and concoct this senseless and utterly baseless lie that defies logic and basic common sense. How much is the entire annual revenue of Kaduna State, or any state, for that matter, that a state would spend N2.3 trillion to host a rally? The N2.3 trillion that Atiku and his hirelings are circulating online is more than Kaduna State's annual budget for three years. For context, the combined Kaduna State budgets for 2024 (N458.271 billion), 2025 (N790.439 billion), and 2026 (N985.9 billion) are still less than N2.3 trillion. We know these two scenarios are only a part of the grand plan. The ADC and Atiku’s hirelings have also perfected plans to circulate old, doctored, and deepfake videos as the rally gets underway later today to show purported resentment by the people. We hereby use this opportunity to alert the general public about this malicious and ignoble plan. It is a fact that Atiku Abubakar and the ADC, his special-purpose vehicle, are incapable of winning any election. They will pull any strings, no matter how despicable and atrocious, to stay afloat in their desperate bid to grab power at all costs. We urge Nigerians to be vigilant and reject their machinations. Dele Alake Spokesperson APC Presidential Campaign Council October 24, 2026

Yesterday, I attended the ceremony of the inauguration of the APC Campaign Council for Delta State by the Governor, his Excellency, Rt. Hon. Elder Sheriff Oborevwori in Asaba. It was an occasion full of pomp and pageantry

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Yesterday, I, alongside the Governor of Ekiti State, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO), attended the 14th Graduation Ceremony of AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY where the Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo was conferred with a honorary doctorate degree. I also met the revered Aare Afe Babalola who turned 97 years old two days earlier.

ON THE EBOLA SCOURGE This evening, I held a virtual meeting with the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate over the Ebola scourge. He shared with me a list of 44 persons with whom the affected person came in contact at the hospital when she had developed the symptoms and an additional two persons who are her domestic staff. Whilst efforts are ongoing to isolate them for now until there is certainty they had not been infected with the virus, the Aviation authorities are required to put them on a no-fly list for at least 21 days (which is the period that the symptoms are normally expected to manifest). I have therefore directed the NCAA to immediately inform all local and international airlines of this development. I have also directed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to heighten Ebola response and surveillance protocols across all international airports. Measures already being implemented by FAAN include enhanced health screenings, temperature checks, travel history tracking, digital health declarations, and strict inter-agency coordination with the NCDC following regional outbreak alerts earlier.

Excerpts of my speech at the signing of the settlement agreements over MM2 (domestic terminal) with Bi-Courtney Ltd.

Today, I was pleased to formally sign the settlement agreements between the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Bi-Courtney Limited and Stabilini Visinoni Limited over the nearly 20-year disputes involving MM2 domestic airport and the uncompleted hotel and conference centre opposite the airport. I was joined by the Directors of the Ministry of Aviation, the MD of FAAN, the DG of the ICRC and other Ministry officials. Bi-Courtney Ltd was represented by its alter ego, Dr. Wale Babalakin and his team. Under President Tinubu’s directive, some two years ago, I initiated and pursued a negotiated settlement with Dr. Wale Babalakin. As members of the Inner Bar, we both brought all our legal knowledge to bear on so many of the complicated and seemingly intractable issues. We also carried along all members of our teams on both sides. Finally, we found a way out of the logjam. The signing of the agreements today followed the approval granted by the Federal Executive Council on April 30th this year for the negotiated settlement to take place. It put an end to several claims and counterclaims that travelled all the way from the courts of first instance to the Supreme Court. Among several immediate benefits is that the Federal Government, will for the first time in nearly 2 decades, begin to earn its own share of the revenue from MM2 and the facility can expand its operations to include regional flights (flights within Africa).

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