Golan007:


Sometimes I don't get you.

What does the fate of the country have to do with a politician not having his way within his party?

What does it have to do with elections in which your candidate lost?

Is this a threat of some sort?

Must your candidate win?

What I meant was that many people will cry because of this coming election and if the situation isn’t handled properly the country will experience something it’s never done before

Sefini

Nemere2020:

https://punchng.com/abaribe-dumps-pdp-resigns-as-senate-minority-leader/?amp

Fantastick


Only Tinubu cannot dump his party

lookingfly:
how different is APC from PDP?

Both are almost the same but PDP is the architect of the problem/challenges the country is facing now.

APGA should give him express ticket to win it for them. Abaribe is loved throughout Igboland and beyond.

adioolayi:
PDP getting hit left right and centre....I was thinking APC will be the one to suffer this kind of heavyweight exodus ....

What's happening

that is because Igbos have always be deluded with false believes and false projections they role out with confidence

No igbo in pdp. Pdp is finally dead nationally

Ttalk:
Why are this people always run away from contest, they just want to be placate and fed like a baby. Politics is not for the lillyliver who are even afraid to contest against his own people in the same region. Is that the type of people that would compete with other Nigerians?

No wonder they stayed put in a ready made PDP and are so blind to see the party is already in extinct mode

Mumu the contest is not on your 20k phone. It's in Igboland so who is running away from?

Foreigna2:


What did Obi achieve in Anambra? Just tell us 5 things he did.
Obi is a mediocre leader without character, grit integrity and balls. He is a selfish fellow who didn't build men. He has never helped anyone become anything politically.
Even APGA won't give him ticket.

*PETER OBI RELEASES HIS FULL PROFILE AS MORE NIGERIANS PREVAIL ON HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENCY*

NAME : Mr. Peter Gregory OBI, (CON).

CONTACT DETAILS

*22 Niger Drive, GRA, Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria
*Tel: 08034051000
*E-mail: poanambra@gmail.com

DATE OF BIRTH : 19th July 1961,

PLACE OF BIRTH: Onitsha, Nigeria

NATIONALITY: Nigerian

MARITAL STATUS: Married with two children

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED

· Christ the King College, Onitsha (W.A.S.C.)

. University of Nigeria, Nsukka (B.A. Philosophy)

· Lagos Business School, Nigeria (Chief Executive Program)

· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Mid to Mid Marketing)

· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Changing the Game)

· London School of Economics (Financial Mgmt/Business Policy)

· Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.A. (Marketing Mgmt )

· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Senior Executive Program)

· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Break-Through Program for CEOs)

· Kellogg Graduate School of Management, U.S.A. (Advanced Executive Program)

· Kellogg School of Management U.S.A. (Global Advanced Mgmt Program)

. Oxford University: Said Business School, (Advanced Mgmt& Leadership Program)

. Cambridge University: George Business School (Advanced Leadership Program)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

· Governor, Anambra State of Nigeria (2006-2014)

· Honorary Special Adviser to the President on Finance (till May, 2015)

· Member, Presidential Economic Management Team (till May, 2015)

· Vice-Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (2008-2014)

· Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum (2006-2014)

. Former Chairman: Board of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

· Former Chairman: Fidelity Bank Plc.

· Former Chairman: Guardian Express Mortgage Bank, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Future Views Securities, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Paymaster Nigeria Plc.

· Former Chairman: Next International (Nigeria) Ltd

· Former Director: Guardian Express Bank Plc.

· Former Director: Chams Nigeria Plc.

· Former Director: Emerging Capital Ltd

· Former Director: Card Centre Plc

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS

· Member, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)

· Member, Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers

· Member, British Institute of Directors (IOD)

MEMBERSHIP OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEES

In my capacity as the Governor of Anambra State, I served as a member of:

*Federal Government Committee on Minimum Wage

*Federal Government Committee on Negotiation with Labour on Subsidy

*Federal Government Committee on Mass Transit

*Federal Government Committee on Natural Resource

*National Economic Council Committee on Power Sector Reform

*National Economic Council Committee on Sharing of MDGs Funds

*National Economic Council Committee on Accurate Data on Nigeria’s Oil Import and Export

*Agricultural Transformation Implementation Council

*Sub-Committee on Needs Analysis of Public Universities in Nigeria

*National Economic Council Review Committee on the Power Sector

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

2015: Golden Jubilee Award from Catholic Diocese of Onitsha for outstanding contribution to quality healthcare delivery in St. Charles Borromeo Hospital in particular and Anambra State in general, on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the hospital.

*2014: Nigerian Library Association Golden Merit Award for remarkable improvement of libraries in Anambra State, exemplified by our Government's construction of the Kenneth Dike Digital State Library, remarkable upgrade of the Onitsha Divisional Library, and provision of library facilities in secondary schools across the State.

*2014: Champion Newspaper Most Outstanding Igbo Man of the Decade.

* 2014 The Voice Newspaper (Holand) Achievers Award for Outstanding Example in Leadership and Governance.

*2013: Silver Bird Man of the Year (with Governor BabatundeFashola of Lagos State).

*2012: Business Hallmark Newspaper Man of the Year.

*2012: The Golden Award on Prudence – by the Methodist Church of Nigeria as the Most
Financially Prudent Governor in Nigeria.

* 2012: Leadership and Good Governance Award by The Ezeife Leadership Foundation Award for restoring peace and harmony to Anambra State.

* 2012: Best Performing Governor on Immunization in South-East Nigeria – by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

* 2012: Outstanding Financial Planner and Manager – by the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion for my resourcefulness and creativity in governance.

*2011: Zik Leadership Prize.

*2010: ICT Governor of the Year – by the West Africa ICT Development Award.

*2009: Champion Newspaper Nigeria’s Most Trustworthy Governor Award.

*2009: Thisday Newspaper Most Prudent Governor in Nigeria.

*2007: The Sun Newspaper Man of the Year Award.

**The Nigerian MDGs Office/UNDP Best Governor in the Implementation of the MDGs in Nigeria

INTRODUCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER MAJOR CHANGES IN NIGERIAN POLITICS

*He was the first gubernatorial candidate in Nigeria to legally challenge to its logical conclusion, his governorship electoral victory that was denied him. He won in the Courts and reclaimed his mandate.

*He was the first Governor in Nigeria to legally challenge his wrongful impeachment and was reinstated by the Courts.

*He was the first Governor in Nigeria to seek the interpretation of tenures of Governors when INEC allowed elections to take place in Anambra State when his tenure had not expired; the election already concluded was cancelled and he was allowed to complete his tenure.

*He was the first Governor to serve a 2nd term in both the new and old Anambra State, that is, almost 40 years after creation of the State.

*He was the first Governor, whilst still in Office, to be appointed a Special Adviser to the President.

*He was the first serving Governor to be appointed into the Presidential Economic Management Team.

*He was among the first Governors to be honoured with a National Award in 2011, while still in office.

*Though the only Governor whose political party was in government in only one State, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum twice.

*Though the only non-PDP Governor in the South-East (made up of 5 States), he was elected by the other 4 PDP Governors as their Chairman for 8 years rather than the usual one year.

FUNDAMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA STATE (PARTIAL LISTING)

1. Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.

2. For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as United Stated, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, among others, visited the State. Before my tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.

3. Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.

4. He was recognised as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.

5. The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.

6. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.

7. The State's ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners - Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.

8. The State also entered into strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 million Dollars in various types of support.

10. Through partnership with the Church in the Health sector, his Government funded the transformation of -:

a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;
b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;
c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;
d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and
e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

11. His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunisation in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.

12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.

18 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built their first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

19. A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged under our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which our government bought more than 1,000 vehicles.

20. Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.

21. To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.

22. His Administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu teaching Hospital, Awka.

23. His Government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).

24. His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion - National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) - to Anambra State.

25. His Government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of our poverty-alleviation strategies.

26 His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha and Nnewi.

27. During his tenure and with his Government's support, Anambra State became an oil producing State.

28. He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.

29. His government commenced the development of the 'Three Arms Zone' comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.

30. By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when we took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.

31. Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinised State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID.

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Do you want to see Peter Obi run for the office of the President?

Correct... Go join your people in the forest

The D in PDP stands for Death.

They are already a dead party

Obidirimipon:
Okay

Tampering with a US security/identity document is fraud

Maybe you're not aware

Losing how are they loosing is they weren't sacked and left of their own free will

triple996:
Y are diz people always losing??

Foreigna2:
Pachukwudi44

Pachukwudi has deactivated his account

Afamed:

Pachukwudi has deactivated his account

The fool is now cktheluckyman. Unimaginable bad luck follows him everywhere.

You people said Igbos should join other parties and not put all their eggs in one basket, they're doing thats. Why are you pained?

Joezinho:
Is it now Alaigbo wants to wake up? .

From 1999 till date, what has PDP done for their region to deserve this bonding loyalty? or it is just to satisfy their hatred against APC,,Buhari or Tinubu?

You people allege the country hasn't been fair to you. How about PDP showed the way by rewarding your years of hard work for it?

This is politics, no one gives a flying fvck your sob stories. Your son doesn't own a car, you wear one watch all your life,same clothes all the time, blah blah, blehh. GTFO clown.

You people want to hold us ransom abi. We can't vote for igbo under duress. They should contest against other tribe to emerge..

2023 e get as go be. SE is withdrawing from PDP. Yoruba are agitating to get out of Nigeria. Biafra are saying no erection in Biafra land.

My take.......since neither APC nor PDP is willing to identify with the demands of the Igbo man, they all should join and back APGA to kukuma play the regional Politics and work well for their people

People running from one party to another but your state problem is bigger than your party own now by the time they voted you in and you are face with these problems where will you run to
Same goes to those for presidency if you can't withstand party problem is it Nigeria problem you will survive? Bunch of weaklings!

Ttalk:
Why are this people always run away from contest, they just want to be placate and fed like a baby. Politics is not for the lillyliver who are even afraid to contest against his own people in the same region. Is that the type of people that would compete with other Nigerians?

No wonder they stayed put in a ready made PDP and are so blind to see the party is already in extinct mode

Which contest? It seems you don't have an idea how the governors handle primaries in their state?

When you suddenly see a delegate list totally different from what you had thought 48hours to the primaries, what will you do?

Go ahead with primaries you have lost already?

PDP again

Light78:
Click like for Osinbanjo



Click share for Tinubu


Let us see who wins here

Both won't fly... GEJ is coming back

He won't be missed

PDP needs to get it self together

Greedy Politician......


You can't have your way all the TIME.....

Malory:
PDP is dead and buried. Peter Obi is a movement. Nigeria should not miss this opportunity to elect competent Peter Obi as the president

Peter Obi is a movement indeed and that is why he's moving from one party to another. The major constraint he has is lack of solid political base. And unfortunately also, most of you his social media followers are intolerant of contrary views as a result you see anybody who challenge Obi in whatever form as your enemy.

E go hard before he go smell presidency.

Foreigna2:


Yorubas have a backup party. SDP.
Yorubas are not chickening out of party primaries.
Yorubas have structure and funds to work with.
Yorubas have political leaders who are pushing the vision.

Apart from twitter likes and retweet, what do you guys have? Nothing.

Hehehehe. Congratulations, we have no backup plañ other than to ensure no Yoruba emerges President without coming to pay ishakole to South East and South South for jointly assisting your son Aremu Obasanjo emerge President and successfully govern Nigeria even without the support of his own hate-filled brothers that accuse others of their stock in trade. So after we jointly voted a Yoruba twice as President, you want us to vote for Tinubu again while refusing to vote Jonathan when he needed the support of his fellow Southerners. The truth is that SW should prepare for a lonely political journey to SDP, because the East and my people in south south are ready to align with the North to make GEJ president again in APC to pay some people for betrayal. Heheheh

pinkPUSSY:


None is going anywhere... Face the reality!!

But they did not pursue Obi out of PDP

Light78:
Click like for Osinbanjo




Click share for Tinubu



Let us see who wins here

What frustrated OBI TWITTER
you are setting it up for Osinbajo
It will surely be on line
Not real
The real people have endorsed Jagaban
Let pastor retire with PMB.... they don't have the answers

Okoroawusa:
PDP that all of you should have resigned from since ...
PDP has never favoured the Igbo race

I tell you. We spoke up but a lot of folks went deaf. Too late!

Ddokie:


Which contest? It seems you don't have an idea how the governors handle primaries in their state?

When you suddenly see a delegate list totally different from what you had thought 48hours to the primaries, what will you do?

Go ahead with primaries you have lost already?

The governors you are talking about are they not from your tribe? Therefore, the problem of this country is general and stop blaming other tribes for your problem.

BabaIbo:

Both are almost the same but PDP is the architect of the problem/challenges the country is facing now.

has it been this bad during PDP regime. Even if PDP is the architect like you claim, on what ground did APC win? Has APC fulfilled any of the promises on which they rode to victory?