In what appears to be Nigeria’s most dramatic “return on investment” complaint yet, a man on Thursday stormed the All Progressives Congress (APC) national secretariat in Abuja with a message as blunt as it was unsettling: reward me or kill me. The protest, captured in a now-viral video, shows the visibly distressed man holding a placard and demanding recognition for what he described as his personal sacrifices during the party’s 2023 campaign. According to him, loyalty was not just emotional, it was financial, physical, and, ultimately, total. In a country where political support often comes with expectations, some spoken, many implied the man’s outcry reads like a tragic audit of misplaced trust. His claim that he sold his house to fund campaign efforts has not been independently verified, but the symbolism is hard to ignore: a citizen liquidating stability in exchange for promised political dividends. Observers at the scene watched as the protester oscillated between anger and ...
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement yesterday and disqualified from running for public office for five years.
The verdict could lead to new political turmoil. It effectively knocked Le Pen — France’s most popular politician, according to the polls — out of the 2027 presidential election.
The decision infuriated Le Pen, an anti-immigrant, nationalist politician who has mounted three failed presidential bids. She called the ruling a “political” attempt to thwart her and vowed to fight back, though her chances of legal success are slim. “I’m not going to submit to a democratic denial so easily,” she said angrily.
The court ruled that Le Pen had played a “central role” in an illegal scheme to use millions of euros in European Parliament funds for party expenses from 2004 to 2016. Le Pen was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2017.
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