By Miftaudeen Raji

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has said tribalism and religion are some of the reasons Nigeria has remained as the world’s capital of poverty.

Obi lambasted former Kano State Governor and presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP Rabiu Kwankwaso, saying the NNPP candidate has been playing on ethnicity and religion at the expense of competence and focus on rescuing the country’s economy.

The Labour Party candidate made the assertion in an interview with Arise Television Morning Show.

Obi described the comments by Kwankwaso that Northerners will not vote for him (Obi) because he is from the South East as tribalistic.

Kwankwaso had said, “What I’m telling you is that if anybody from the South-East now, under this circumstance, becomes the presidential candidate of our party or any other party, the implications is that because of the activities and other issues that are really on the ground, northern voters will certainly go for their northern candidate and another party.
“So, the thinking is not whether I like it or I don’t, the fact remains that everybody will lose. He will lose and I will lose.”

In his reply to Kwankwaso, Obi said, “The comments from Kwankwaso is why we are where we are today, we vote for Incompetence based on the primitive ponsideration of tribe & religion.”

Obi noted that Nigeria is in a critical situation, and needs an economically-savvy leader to salvage the country.

He said Nigeria and its economy are in a coma and only barely survive.

According to him, the country will soon default on its debt servicing due to myriads of economic woes in the country.

He said, “We choose to vote for incompetence based on a primitive consideration of ethnicity and religion.

“Tell me, today, you can’t travel from Abuja to Kaduna by air, by road, or by train. Is it because somebody from the South-East is in charge?

“You can’t travel from Abuja to Minna by road, is it because somebody from the South-East is in charge?

“Yesterday, we had an attack on the presidential convoy in Katsina, is it because a person from the South-East is in charge?

“Show me where you can buy food cheaper.

“You have not talked about electricity, or that people are prospering in the North because northerners are in power? In the South-West, because they are in power or in the South-East.

“We have a huge problem and if you don’t know, this country will soon default on their debt servicing.”

Obi referenced reports by the Debt Management Office that Nigeria’s debt profile has hit N41.6 trillion, having risen by N2.04 trillion in the first quarter of 2022.

The DMO had said, with the increase in the country’s debt profile, its total public debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) now stands at 23.27 per cent, as against 22.43 per cent on December 31, 2021.

The Office, in a statement, had said that the amount represented the domestic and external debt stocks of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory, adding that the comparative figures for December 31, 2021, were N39.56 trillion or $95.78 billion.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/likes-of-kwankwaso-reason-nigeria-still-worlds-poverty-capital-peter-obi/

Truth

This politicians have nothing to offer. Playing up to the gallery

May God lead you if truly you can salvage this country.

We are tired of the mess we are into at the moment. We have only one country and I pray for Nigerians to take the change into their hands instead.

I am hereby Obidient for the first time.

He no dey hard dem before dere hero turn to rubbish for dere face once isn't ready to dance to dere tunes....

Kwankwaso is overrated.

Obi should know the more he attacks the likes of Kwankwaso, the less northern votes he'll win.

Golan007:
Obi should know the more he attacks the likes of Kwankwaso, the less northern votes he'll win.

Is this an attack?

This response is mere clarification.

Golan007:
Obi should know the more he attacks the likes of Kwankwaso, the less northern votes he'll win.

So saying the honest truth means you are attacking someone?

doggedfighter:




Is this an attack?

It's a pleasant massaging of ego.

doggedfighter:




Is this an attack?

This response is mere clarification.

I wonder o. Just like telling someone that this is morning means you are attacking the person.

inoki247:
He no dey hard dem before dere hero turn to rubbish for dere face once isn't ready to dance to dere tunes....

Didn't you benefit from Awo's free Education?

By Miftaudeen Raji

This kind of headline is not good.

Is damaging politically

I watched the interview with utmost disdain and disappointment from Kwakwanso.

Yes, he is a well known and documented religious and ethnic bigot, but I expected that the terror and death that stares every northerner in the face daily have reset their animal brains.

The man lacked tact! I hate people who are insensitive and tactless.

The Vanguard has done quack journalism in a bid to arm twist what PO said, the joke is on them. Obviously reading the excerpts from their write up and watching the video,

PO was asked what he thought about what Kwankwanso said,

What Kwankwanso said was, People from the North will not vote for people from the South East because of concerns of what is happening in the region...

POs response was, That type of thinking from nigerians (The thinking that I should only vote for a person from my tribe) is the reason why the country has remained the poverty capital of the world.

Its clear what PO said and that he was referring to Nigerians who approach politics from a tribal point of view, Use your tongue to count your teeth.

When it suits them they will talk about competency, and when it catches their fancy they will shout Tinubu must not field Muslim/Muslim ticket. They are bunch hypocrites.

helinues:


This kind of headline is not good.

Is damaging politically

Abeg keep quiet.
You come here everyday to insult Igbos, you have no moral right to advise anyone.

Every flying monkey should continue...

You read it that soon, to service debts loans would be near impossible...

When this house crashes, only those who have survival ingrained in their DNA would live.

Eniitankorede:
When it suits them they will talk about competency, and when it catches their fancy they will shout Tinubu must not field Muslim/Muslim ticket. They are bunch hypocrites.

Muslim Muslim ticket so that Boko Haram can finally take the place of SSG, SP and Speaker and Chief justice?
Have it your way!

You are funny. You want him to keep quiet while kwankwaso rubbish him and turn it into ethnic supremacy?, Never!. Not possible, how many votes did kwankwaso deliver to PDP presidential in 2019? Those that will vote obi will vote him..... By the way that's the honest truth right there. This statement alone will bring more votes across board. By the way not all northerners supports kwankwaso.

Golan007:
Obi should know the more he attacks the likes of Kwankwaso, the less northern votes he'll win.

doggedfighter:




Is this an attack?

This response is mere clarification.

The writer made it look like an attack while it's a defense.

Motives dey

ChoCho54:
Muslim Muslim ticket so that Boko Haram can finally take the place of SSG, SP and Speaker and Chief justice?
Have it your way!

Is that not what your Obituary is saying? That you should stop talking religion? Hypocrites bunch.

The latest release from INEC on 30th May, 2022 put voter registration as at the time as follows:
South East- 10,574,956;
South South- 14,226,471;
South West- 17,419,669.
Total South- 42,221,096.

North Central 14,388,386;
North East- 12,025,167;
North West- 21,215,186.
Total North- 47,628,739.

Gd Total- 89,849,835.

The last update of No of INEC Registered Voters of the Igbo of the South East with PVCs are as follows:

S/E Igbo with PVCs Residents- 10,574,956;
S/E Igbo with PVCs resident in the 19 Northern States + Abuja - 12,800,226;
S/E Igbo with PVCs resident in South South- 6,125,525
S/E Igbo with PVCs resident in the South West- 6,505, 555.

Total Igbo population nationwide with PVCs is 36,006262.

One can see that the Igbo of the South-East with PVCS nationwide are the highest in voter strength and spread. Well coordinated, the Igbo nation including the Igbo of Rivers, Anioma, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Edo, Kogi, Benue, and the very few in Bayelsa can almost alone produce the President of Nigeria.

.

Our friends,His Excellency Senator Kwakwanso and Sen Dino Melaye who have been speaking derogatorily to the Igbo, please take note.

Golan007:
Obi should know the more he attacks the likes of Kwankwaso, the less northern votes he'll win.

We should never be afraid to say the truth even if it mean we don't win.

ezegold4we:
The latest release from INEC on 30th May, 2022 put voter registration as at the time as follows:
South East- 10,574,956;
South South- 14,226,471;
South West- 17,419,669.
Total South- 42,221,096.

North Central 14,388,386;
North East- 12,025,167;
North West- 21,215,186.
Total North- 47,628,739.

Gd Total- 89,849,835.

The last update of No of INEC Registered Voters of the Igbo of the South East with PVCs are as follows:

S/E Igbo with PVCs Residents- 10,574,956;
S/E Igbo with PVCs resident in the 19 Northern States + Abuja - 12,800,226;
S/E Igbo with PVCs resident in South South- 6,125,525
S/E Igbo with PVCs resident in the South West- 6,505, 555.

Total Igbo population nationwide with PVCs is 36,006262.

One can see that the Igbo of the South-East with PVCS nationwide are the highest in voter strength and spread. Well coordinated, the Igbo nation including the Igbo of Rivers, Anioma, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Edo, Kogi, Benue, and the very few in Bayelsa can almost alone produce the President of Nigeria.

.

Our friends,His Excellency Senator Kwakwanso and Sen Dino Melaye who have been speaking derogatorily to the Igbo, please take note.

This is fake news. INEC never released numbers based on tribal lines.

Eniitankorede:



Is that not what your Obituary is saying? That you should stop talking religion? Hypocrites bunch.

Muslim Muslim ticket will seal the obituary of your candidate. Try and see.

endsarrrs:
This politicians have nothing to offer. Playing up to the gallery

Like you play with your pussy..
No wonder you can relate

Golan007:
Obi should know the more he attacks the likes of Kwankwaso, the less northern votes he'll win.

Guy I will karate chop your throat
Nothing for kwankwaso but Obi is the one that needs cautioning in this instance?
Be serious for once...

If Obi said anything even remotely close about the North to what kwankwaso said, some people would act like Heaven is falling

So far total silence from the North. It is well

ChoCho54:
Muslim Muslim ticket will seal the obituary of your candidate. Try and see.

Just like the north will seal the fate of Peter Obi. Let the poverty continue until you all get sense that competence is most important, not religion.

So stating the honest true virtue you not bombarding anyone

ChoCho54:
I watched the interview with utmost disdain and disappointment from Kwakwanso.

Yes, he is a well known and documented religious and ethnic bigot, but I expected that the terror and death that stares every northerner in the face daily have reset their animal brains.

The man lacked tact! I hate people who are insensitive and tactless.

Toh

You wouldn't have said all this had Kwankwaso agreed to be Obi's vice.

Justification for the misleading headline are expected from Obi's supporters which you have vindicated with your comments.

The writer made it look like an attack while it's a defense. Motives dey

For how long would you people continue to be falling for cheap baits?

PO2023

Because he refused to be Peter Obi's VP if he had accepted he wouldn't have been called names... Rubbish set of people.

Lessonteacher:
By Miftaudeen Raji

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has said tribalism and religion are some of the reasons Nigeria has remained as the world’s capital of poverty.

Obi lambasted former Kano State Governor and presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP Rabiu Kwankwaso, saying the NNPP candidate has been playing on ethnicity and religion at the expense of competence and focus on rescuing the country’s economy.

The Labour Party candidate made the assertion in an interview with Arise Television Morning Show.

Obi described the comments by Kwankwaso that Northerners will not vote for him (Obi) because he is from the South East as tribalistic.

Kwankwaso had said, “What I’m telling you is that if anybody from the South-East now, under this circumstance, becomes the presidential candidate of our party or any other party, the implications is that because of the activities and other issues that are really on the ground, northern voters will certainly go for their northern candidate and another party.
“So, the thinking is not whether I like it or I don’t, the fact remains that everybody will lose. He will lose and I will lose.”

In his reply to Kwankwaso, Obi said, “The comments from Kwankwaso is why we are where we are today, we vote for Incompetence based on the primitive ponsideration of tribe & religion.”

Obi noted that Nigeria is in a critical situation, and needs an economically-savvy leader to salvage the country.

He said Nigeria and its economy are in a coma and only barely survive.

According to him, the country will soon default on its debt servicing due to myriads of economic woes in the country.

He said, “We choose to vote for incompetence based on a primitive consideration of ethnicity and religion.

“Tell me, today, you can’t travel from Abuja to Kaduna by air, by road, or by train. Is it because somebody from the South-East is in charge?

“You can’t travel from Abuja to Minna by road, is it because somebody from the South-East is in charge?

“Yesterday, we had an attack on the presidential convoy in Katsina, is it because a person from the South-East is in charge?

“Show me where you can buy food cheaper.

“You have not talked about electricity, or that people are prospering in the North because northerners are in power? In the South-West, because they are in power or in the South-East.

“We have a huge problem and if you don’t know, this country will soon default on their debt servicing.”

Obi referenced reports by the Debt Management Office that Nigeria’s debt profile has hit N41.6 trillion, having risen by N2.04 trillion in the first quarter of 2022.

The DMO had said, with the increase in the country’s debt profile, its total public debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) now stands at 23.27 per cent, as against 22.43 per cent on December 31, 2021.

The Office, in a statement, had said that the amount represented the domestic and external debt stocks of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory, adding that the comparative figures for December 31, 2021, were N39.56 trillion or $95.78 billion.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/likes-of-kwankwaso-reason-nigeria-still-worlds-poverty-capital-peter-obi/