{"id":175026,"date":"2025-08-19T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:56:27","slug":"speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Truth in Nigerian Politics Has Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Buba Galadima, a senior chieftain of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP), has highlighted the risks of being outspoken in Nigeria\u2019s political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, Galadima reflected on his decades-long involvement in politics, saying that honesty often comes at a personal and political cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Nigerian context, I\u2019m the worst man, not bad, because Nigeria doesn\u2019t like my type,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that leaders who speak truth to power are often deliberately excluded from positions of influence.<\/p>\n<p>He recounted how even his daughter, who won a councilor seat, was denied her entitlements because of her association with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shows how vindictive politics can be in Nigeria, where people are punished not for what they do but for their affiliations,\u201d Galadima noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Buba Galadima, a senior chieftain of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP), has highlighted the risks of being outspoken in Nigeria\u2019s political landscape. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, Galadima reflected on his decades-long involvement in politics, saying that honesty often comes at a personal and political cost. \u201cIn the Nigerian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[3544,254,177],"class_list":["post-175026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buba-galadima","tag-nigeria","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Speaking Truth in Nigerian Politics Has Consequences - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Buba Galadima, a senior chieftain of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP), has highlighted the risks of being outspoken ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Speaking Truth in Nigerian Politics Has Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Buba Galadima, a senior chieftain of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP), has highlighted the risks of being outspoken ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-19T07:52:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-19T08:56:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755581343.77541.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"779\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Speaking Truth in Nigerian Politics Has Consequences\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-19T07:52:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-19T08:56:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755581343.77541.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buba Galadima\",\"Nigeria\",\"Politics\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/speaking-truth-in-nigerian-politics-has-consequences\",\"name\":\"Speaking Truth in Nigerian Politics Has Consequences - 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