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Even those promoting Tinubu are as bubble-headed as the man himself. Continue your "good" job, you guys are indirectly helping the ministry. yeye!

KikBuhari2Daura:
A vote for Obi is a backyard vote for Tinubu dont make that mistake . Obi cannot win any of the 19 states of the North

Neither can Atiku win any of the States in the South. While Obi can say today that He is 100% sure of South East and South South, Nether Atiku nor Tinubu can boast of being sure of two regions. The icing of victory will come from middle belt and Christian North. So, help me analyse for your self what the Chances of Obi are in Benue, Abuja, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna, Taraba, Kogi, Bauchi, Adamawa, Gombe Niger. When you do the analysis yourself, come back and tell us who you should advice to go prepare his acceptance speech.

FreeStuffsNG:
It reminds me of the charge by these patriotic Nigerians of SE origin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FaRTOBDJck

According to them " (Asiwaju) Tinubu is 100 times better than Obi".
Those are the Nigerians who will vote against those candidates who are less competent.
Asiwaju is the most brilliant and visionary leader among them all.

It's either you don't know what the meaning of brilliance is or you are shameless enough to say Tinubu is the most brilliant. Please, if he is the most brilliant in your clan, he has entered the national politics now.

Please tell me, how brilliant was his narrative about recruiting 50million youths into the army and feed the with Agbado and cassava. First, let leave his mean consideration of feeding people with Agbado and cassava, what is brilliant about dumping 50 million people into a camp where they will not be productive but mere boots to fight. Who does that.

Again, that makes us worry about his idea on how to fight insecurity. Why Obi has maintained that the most potent way is to have more youths engaged in production dentures that will keep the on the right track, Tinubu thinks we have to expand our battle front with 50 million Soldiers. Maybe, he is indirectly telling is to create room for elimination of our teaming youth population. How brilliant is that.

Tinubu said he is not worried about the naira exchange rate, after all Nigerian are paid in Naira. Please, jokes apart, are you not worried that this man has lost even the small knowledge of economy that he had.

If that is brilliance to you, then we shouldn't be have a conversation with all you Tinubu e-warriors

Oh, I was expecting Abike Dabiri to say "an Igbo Doctor", but they put it as an American based Nigerian Doctor. Shame on them, whe n it is bad news, it will be "all these Igbo dis and date".

I am proud of Dr Ozua and I encourage more Igbos to do same. Let's teach them what it means to evolve above the pettiness of tribalism.

[quote author=PandoraObi post=115446636]Peter Obi Victory is like enyimba FC of aba winning Barcelona FC of Spain [/quote


That's why it will be very interesting. Peter Obi's victory will be uncommon and phenomenal. It will be the making of a history. Just wait and count your self lucky that you will witness this important event in history.

What Abians need to avoid are people like you that have made Abians miss the best candidates for Governorship in Abia for too long. Thank your God you did not suggest that they should support PDP, I for lose my temper on you. You are among the shameless Abians who careless about how the state has been raped for ages.

If you like, cook all the propaganda, the old cartel must go down this time. The governance in Abia is an organized crime, it must end this time.

Occurstaem:
What of his achievements in governance?

We are still struggling to see the achievements of Tinubu, can you help us list them. I mean landmark achievements that will shake table. Bear in mind before you begin to list the achievements, spare us the talk about him recruiting politicians to take over from him. That sounds stupid. You cannot make celebrate autocracy in democracy.

Also, bear in mins that smaller States like Gombe, Delta, Aka Ibom, Ebonyi, since 1999 till date, have build Universities, airports, massive road projects, massive urban housing, schools, urban renewal and numerous Bridges from the scratch (not like the business venture in Lekki tolled road). with these in mind, kind you now tell us the exceptional performance of Tinubu that you guys were talking about.

Notice that I did not Include Anambra in the States I mentioned above, I will list theirs, from 1999 till date and list among them those achieved by Obi. Let me give you one ice breaker on Anambra, do you know that Anambra is the first State to have their own Refinery (Orient)?

Ok, let's hear you.

Bros, you are heartless.

But, I notice one thing. The intelligent e-warriors of APC seem to have gone quiet or left the camp. It so much looks like what the BAT team can mobilize now are intellectual Lilliputians that cannot make sound debate. They all say the same thing like they are programmed to push only one narrative. Many of them were not born or were very small by 1999 and are not well read to have some historical understanding of Nigeria and their Lagos they frequently use as selling point for BAT.

There is so much echo in the hall of APC. I don't honestly know what is giving them hope. Jokes apart, if Tinubu is not seeing the signs, then he must be worse than Buhari intellectually. If I were to be from that region, I will quickly book my space in LP, infact I thought Ambode would have balled up and move to LP as rumored. Things will definitely happen.

Gbum!!!!

I think we all should take some time and read this. It is very expository, particularly the role of the Igbos on June 12. Tactically, Chuks Iloegbunam connered Tinubu on his claim of being in the frontline NADECO battle. Also, some misinformed Yoruba guys think NADECO was led led and dominated by the Yorubas, please read and be informed.

Truth is that Igbos have fought for the Yorubas more than the Yorubas have fought for the Igbos. Even when June 12 election was put on hold by IBB, Humphrey Nwosu, an Igbo man who was the Chairman of National Electoral Commission (NEC), at the risk of his own life, announced the result of the election against the instruction of IBB. He was arrested for that. We have not heard Yorubas appreciate him for that. In the NADECO struggle, Igbos were in the front of it. It is important to also read was was written above how Zik and Ojukwu made sure that Awo was kept in Calabar instead of Northern prison. He was made very comfortable there under the watch of eastern government.

In 1999, Orji Uzo Kalu was one of the highest contributors to Obasanjo's campaign, even against his own brother Ekwueme who was the front-line convener of the process for PDP formation. The Igbos stood behind OBJ, even when Ojukwu was contesting. We have been the closest to theYorubas, irrespective of the banters.

NyamiriFlathead:
Ex-aide of former president Goodluck Jonathan Reno Omokri has said no amount of attacks can bring down Chairman of The Nation Newspaper Editorial Board, Sam Omatseye.
He stated this while reacting to the alleged death threats on Omatseye after the latter’s opinion article entitled ‘Obi’ went viral.
On Tuesday, Omatseye asked the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to call his supporters to order over threats to his life.
Omokri said: “You say your movement is not linked to IPOB. Yet, look at what you are doing to Sam Omatseye. Is it not exactly the same IPOB strategies you used on me? Go and study how IPOB operates.
It is the same modus operandi these guys are using.
“Death threats, organised social media bullying, the foulest insults known to man, propaganda photos, attacks on Mr. Omatseye’s ethnicity, and members of his family, etc! By their fruits, you shall know them.
“Sam Omatseye is one of the most intelligent men in Nigeria bar very few. We belong to different political
camps and almost polar opposite philosophical persuasions, but he is a near-genius with the pen.
And a million IPOB mob posing as something else can’t bring him down!
“May God bless and protect Sam Omatseye and his family from these IPOB mobs in disguise. In Christ’s Name!”
https://thenationonlineng.net/Obi-nothing-can-bring-sam-omatseye-down-reno-omokri

mynd44
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You want to know what it means to be a bright Journalist? Oya, read Chuks Iloegbunam:

Some have called you foolish, dear Sam Omatseye. Others insist that you are plain stupid. There are those who hold you to be beneath contempt. Their howls of execration upon you are in reaction to your August 1, 2022 article entitled Obi. For me, however, you are a dear friend. Our friendship started in the 1980s at Newswatch magazine where both of us practiced journalism before you travelled to the United States for further studies.



It continued upon your return and strengthened to the point that, sometimes, you get the producers of your TV Continental programme to connect me to field questions live. Besides, living in different states, we often chat by telephone. I demonstrated our amity again last May when I was in Nigeria’s commercial capital for the Lagos International Book Fair. I phoned you and, within the hour, you were at my stand where we spent quality time reminiscing about the good old days and prognosticating on the future of our dear fatherland.



Armed with this handle of friendship, I have just the one advice for you: Be careful. It is in elaboration of this counsel that I write all that you read hereon. Please look back to the time of the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967 to 1970. You will find that, military or civilian, none of the political actors of that era is still in a position to fight elections today. The final curtain long fell for most of them. Of the lot that remains, some have become vegetables, or are propped up with a suffusion of drugs or would not find their way to the loo unless hired attendants or swearing relatives point it out. Together with the handful that is still blessed with something close to robust health, they have one thing in common. They are seated, restless or restive, in various existential departure halls, clutching fitfully at their boarding passes and waiting for that inevitable voice that cannot be disobeyed, to announce their flights into past tense.

In a broad sense, the departed leave their legacies, good, bad or ugly, for those standing in line and waiting their turns to also check out. What legacies, dear Sam, are you and I feverishly working day and night to leave for those coming in our wake? When you write an article that denigrates the Igbo nation of over 50 million people, and make nonsense of some of those things that mean the most to them, do you really believe that your disposition is justified by the pay and perquisites that accrue to you at Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s The Nation newspapers?



This is you: “The Biafran babblers are alive and well. They just swapped icons, rechristened the shrines and rewrote the rites. They left the prophet for a secular priest. They have had a switch of battle gear.”



This clearly is a perfidious way of sentencing Ndigbo to the status of the bat that is neither bird nor mammal. Their fight for Biafra five decades ago was stopped. Their fight now for democratic integration impels you to call them babblers, i.e., people who are no more than endless talkers of nonsense. One would think that the bat sobriquet aptly becomes your Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose initials provide the BAT acrostic that he wears like a badge. I will sooner return to the BAT.



This, again, is your characterisation of the Igbo: “They can say they have a legitimate tribe and rhetoric. They may pretend to love Nigeria. They may claim to embrace INEC, cling to a political party no one in the police or DSS will harangue.”



Isn’t this the height of Igbophobia? We may go back in history. Before Tinubu, there were other Yoruba presidential candidates, including Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief M. K. O. Abiola, General Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Chief Olu Falae. None of these personages indexed their presidential ambition on stoking inter-tribal animosity between the Yoruba and the Igbo. As a matter of fact, Chief Philip Ezebuilo Umeadi, Igbo and one of the oldest Senior Advocates of Nigeria, was Papa Awolowo’s running mate in the 1979 presidential election.


*Chuks Iloegbunam


Why does it make sense to you and to your principal that the only route to his vaulting presidential ambition must be one that sunders two ethnic groups that have since before the amalgamation been living together in amity, harmony and peace, two peoples that have always, in peace or in peril, lent each other a helping hand?



At the height of the Western Nigeria political crisis of the mid 1960s that pitted Chief Awolowo against Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the former’s Action Group (AG) and Dr. M. I. Okpara’s National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) entered into a coalition that birthed the United Progressives Grand Alliance (UPGA). We have it on Wole Soyinka’s authority – see page 73 of his autobiographical You Must Set Forth At Dawn(Bookcraft, Ibadan 2006) that Dr. Okpara lent the then incarcerated Awo a voice by dispatching Mazi Anyogu Elekwachi Ukonu and a complement of seasoned broadcasters that installed a transmitter right inside Awolowo’s Ibadan home.



Ndigbo were not a part of Awolowo’s treason trial and his imprisonment for ten years. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe even said that he was the one that insisted on Awolowo being imprisoned in Calabar, rather than in Northern Nigeria where the chief feared that poisoning could end his life.



It was not the Igbo that nullified Chief Abiola’s victory in the 1993 presidential election. Rather, Ndigbo were in the forefront of the NADECO (National Democratic Coalition) struggle against the gross injustice. At least a third of those that formed the NADECO were Igbo, according to a list in Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics, Chief Segun Osoba’s autobiography published in 2020 by Diamond Publications Limited, Lagos. They included Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, the late Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Okwadike (Dr.) Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Prof Anya O. Anya, Chief Ralph Obioha, Chief Empire Kanu, Chief Michael Anyiam, Chief E. Duru, Chief Vincent Nwizugbo and Dr. Uma Eleazu,



NADECO had an international arm. In the United Kingdom, its meetings were held in the late Raph Uwechue’s Africa Books Limited offices in Hammersmith London. Chief Uwechue was Igbo. Dear Sam, I do not know exactly where you were at the time, and I concede that, among Nigerian politicians, there is something known as selective amnesia. If, therefore, your Tinubu, who lived in London for a portion of his exile, does not remember Uwechue’s role in NADECO, I am sure that none of General Alani Akinrinade, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi and Professor Sylvester Monye will forget.



All the Igbo fighters for June 12 were not dissuaded by the fact that their struggle was to actualise the electoral mandate of Chief Abiola, a Yoruba politician. Apart from incarceration, harassment by security operatives and the alienation of exile, some of these men paid heavily in other ways for their commitment to cause of justice. Chief Bobo Nwosisi died in exile in London. Chief Obioha lost his bank, the First African Trust Bank Limited.



In the light of the above, readers would have to judge for themselves whether or not it is right for you, Sam, to say the following of Ndigbo: “They have transferred the temperament of their former master into the new. And they have not spared any incoherence, any lack of finesse, and threats and tantrums, any show of rabid, primitive cants, or any ululations. They have abused, cursed, thrown imprecations. They have hugged lies about their candidate. They have pelted lies about others. They have distorted material. Obi has turned out to be an excuse for even closet Biafrans to betray open emotions about Biafra without being accused of it.”



To be sure, your writing is not an aberrant occurrence. On July 17, 2022, an Adedamola Adetayo posted on the Internet an anti-Igbo diatribe in which he said, among other things that “They have a POLITICAL ZIONISM already in play. It is in the thing they deceptively call Obidients. That Movement is going to RALLY the Igbos of Lagos in a way that they haven’t ever been rallied. THEY ARE SET TO DETERMINE THE LEADERSHIP OF LAGOS. The priority is to remove Tinubu first. In future they will call the shot. This is what Peter Obi is all about. He has no plans for any Presidency. I can imagine that the ZIONISTS already have their IPOB/UGM all over the places in Lagos, in the Garrisons called Markets, under cover, masquerading as Igbo traders.”



Years before this ranting Adedamola Adetayo, John Femi Kusa, who had been a script editor at The Guardian in Lagos, also showed his claws. In March 2019, he published an article on the Internet with this sentence of a title: Okota: The Igbo Question, Jimi Agbaje, Afenifere And The Rest Of Us. In it, he claimed that, “The major problem, in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person’s land…Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generosity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND. Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam?”



Dear Sam, your Obi piece is as incendiary as the hateful views of Kusa and Adetayo. Kusa, now well into his 70s will not physically go feeding the Igbo raw yam. But all the vitriol you guys have been pushing against the Igbo is the stuff that leads the M. C. Oluomos into mindless violence and murder and arson and brigandage. You pen pushers of evil are the ones that egg on the rabble into wielding guns and cudgels and massacring innocent people for transient political offices. Is it right to promote this permittivity simply so that Tinubu will attain his wild goose chase of the presidential crown?



Kusa schooled at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, earning a degree in Mass Communication. All through his years in the Igbo country, not once was he molested or denied his citizenship on account of his origin. Did his welcome at Nsukka lead him into believing that the town was a part of the Yoruba country? According to Facebook, the acerbic Adetayo guy schooled at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, and earned a degree there without abuse, let or hindrance. Maybe it got fixed inside his brain that Awka is an extension of Lagos, or that Azikiwe after whom the institution was named was his progenitor.



If there are Ndigbo who say that Lagos is a no man’s land, can one Igbo person be put up who simply seized a piece of land in the metropolis and converted it to his use? If Nigerians, including Tinubu’s daughters, who have being buying up choice properties in New England, United States, can own houses in Europe, North America, the Middle East and elsewhere, why must it rankle that Ndigbo own property in Lagos? Why must ownership of landed property in one’s own country lead to calumniation and physical harm? Is it not too steep a price to pay in order that Tinubu should become Nigeria’s president?



The Igbo were not responsible for the recent bloody massacre of congregants inside the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. The Igbo are not among those sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Afenifere leader Chief Reuben Fasanranti’s daughter. The herdsmen marauding, pillaging and plundering Yoruba land, looting, raping women, destroying farmlands and spreading death and destruction are not Igbo. The Igbo man did not kill a soul. He did not contest the governorship of Lagos. He hasn’t ever claimed ownership of Iga Idungaran. The Igbo always lived in peace with the Yoruba – until Tinubu surfaced with his divisive politics. Are the vociferous Igbo supporters of Tinubu no longer of the ethnic group because of their partisan predilection?



Sam, informed readers of your articles are aware that your allusions to classical Anglo-Saxon, Greek and Roman mythologies and literary divergences are no more than an egregious attempt at appropriating the intellectual centre circle. Otherwise, you would appreciate the importance of adding depth to your fulminations. Any owner of a book of quotable quotes or a glossary of literary terms can fill their verbiage with citations. But that is no scholarship, my friend.



Look at you: “Obi is like Zik, Kanu like Ojukwu. One is a flair, the other a flare.” Yet, it doesn’t strike you as reasonable to accord some of Zik’s aptitude to Peter Obi, a man who earned an honours degree in Philosophy from Nigeria’s premier indigenous university that was built by the great Zik of Africa. And Ojukwu is no more than a flare. By impugning him with combustibility, you forget that in January 1967, Ojukwu went to Aburi, Ghana, not with an incendiary device, but with the sole purpose of putting out the smoldering fire that was threatening to become a national conflagration. You forget that it was not Ojukwu but those that reneged on the Aburi Accord that tossed a lit match in an ocean of gasoline.



I agree with those that have invested you with the coronet of a seasoned journalist. Except that your coronation disdains the fact that your brand of perceptive journalism is only seasonal. That explains why it bothers you that “Obi hops from church to church,” but means absolutely nothing to you that as Dele Sobowale reported in the Sunday Vanguard of July 10, 2022 “…Bola Tinubu has charged the Supreme Council for Sharia in the country to create a department of political affairs to create political awareness among the faithful towards producing a Muslim President in 2023.” Neither do you care a hoot that, as Dr. Sobowale added in the same article “Tinubu has followed up that injunction to the Supreme Council for Sharia, by making secret pledges to expand the reach of Sharia to more Southern States if elected.”



Rather, you call Peter Obi a hypocrite. But Mr. Obi gave his date of birth, the name of his parents, the town he hails from, the schools he attended and the businesses he is into. All were found to be correct. Not being at all interested in the truth, you threw Mr. Obi’s data out of the window because you must be seen to be frantically propagating a character of disputed age, of unknown pedigree, unascertained genealogy, unsubstantiated name, uncorroborated curriculum vitae, and unverified academic diplomas.



You shout from the rooftops that Peter Obi is not fit to govern. But you posit as fit for the presidential palace a specimen of incontinence, tremulous lower extremities, slurred speech, unsteady gait and memory lapses. You cannot be serious, my friend.



Of course, it is your entitlement to advertise even ordure if that captures your fancy, but you may not carry on as though your readers are imbecilic. By raising the Biafran bogey, your intention was clearly to create doubt and apprehension. But your gambit only registered a calamitous failure. Jonathan was President of this country. It didn’t obliterate Niger Delta agitation. Buhari is president of this country; those of his people campaigning for the Islamic State haven’t thrust their swords in their scabbards. You have a fondness for excoriating Nnamdi Kanu. Excellent!



Except that your seasonal flair for journalism has never prompted you into examining the Sunday Igboho phenomenon. You make yourself a laughing stock by encapsulating in ethnic strictures the pan-Nigerian Peter Obi Movement that is youth led. You reckon not one bit that the youths that are sick and tired of the sanguinary dreariness and aridity of your principal’s vanishing epoch.



Nonetheless, you cannot contest the truism that, in the last analysis, everything goes and turns round. All metals are bound for the anvil. We are here today – those, like Peter Obi and his equally competent and credible running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, that wish to place a new heart in the Nigerian nation; and others like your principal and his paid battalions of blinkered acolytes that, as Pa Ayo Adebanjo finely put it, are only interested in continuing and escalating the rot they inflicted on hapless Nigerians in 2015. Whatever tomorrow brings, you must continue to ruminate over the legacy you will leave for coming generations. Every one of us will have their entrance and their exit, it being a settled fact that obituary’s certitude rings true for all comers, not just for Peter Obi as you wantonly asserted.



*Chuks Iloegbunam is the author of the upcoming book on Mr. Peter Obi entitled The Promise of a New Era.

https://ugowrite..com/2022/08/everyones-obituary-is-inevitable.html

Chinkoalhaji34:
Jagaban is the architect of modern Lagos. His foresight in making sure he brings investments that transcend his tenure is a thing other governors should emulate. He will be the next president of Nigeria.

Is it not suspicious that all of you use the same terms, and thought line. It is not common to have many people use the same exact terms in describing a thing or person except they were prepped to deliver the narrative that way. This Statement " Jagaban is the architect of modern Lagos. His foresight in making sure he brings investments that transcend his tenure is a thing other governors should emulate" has been over used by Tinubu supporters and that makes me believe that his supporter have no mind of their own. They are mere copy and paste, and very unintelligent like their Lord and savior.

Again, ask them to explain that statement and give in specifics what the achievements of Tinubu were, they will expose the hollowness of their skull. They will burn out in no time, because their lies will feel stale to them.

I am very happy that indirectly, you guys have accepted the fact that Obi is the guy to face in this election. APC has mobilized set of e-rats to keep punching on Obi, hoping to change his hard earned personality. PDP on their own are busy looking for where to have a grip to pull him down, but unfortunately, he is very straight. Bros! eno go work.

If you like, bring a picture of him on top of a prostitute, people have resolved to make him the president. As we speak, the whole of Christain North are battle ready, The South East is just looking at the Calender, counting down. The South South are waiting for their pound of flesh, to pay Tinubu back with the coin he paid Jonathan. You will be hit by the Tsunami the will re-set you.

The mistake PDP and APC made was to think that Nigerians are still sleeping or that the juju used on them in 2015 will work again. Sorry, count this as one of those bad market days. Obi's emergence will retire the last stock of the old political cartel that have been quizzing Nigeria by the neck since 1999. After his 8 years, we will have a whole new set of transformative Politician that we pilot our new Nigeria. Any one against this plan is against the good plan God has for Nigeria and therefore an enemy of Nigeria. Simple!

Chinkoalhaji34:
Jagaban is the architect of modern Lagos. His foresight in making sure he brings investments that transcend his tenure is a thing other governors should emulate. He will be the next president of Nigeria.

Mediocre, if in your mind what you see in Lagos is "Modern", then there is no little in your sense of judgement. Lagos, 20 years under the control of Tinubu and his acolytes has remains northing but a huge disappointment. I want to give you an example, go and get a picture of Asaba in 1999 and the Picture today, same with Warri and Sapele and compare the degree of transformation with what you have in Lagos, despite the huge FG and private sector contributions there. You people are classical example of what Stockholm syndrome is.

What Jakande before them achieved in four years has dwarfed what your criminal team have been grappling with since 1999. Keep tryimg, we will continue to bust your crafted lies you want to feed Nigerians.

Chinkoalhaji34:
A video of former governor and 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi explaining how he got the funds used to acquire his home situated in the United Kingdom after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invited him for an inquiry have caused a stir on social media.

Recall that Peter Obi was once invited by the EFCC after leaked files published by Premium Times, showed that Obi operated a foreign account and did not declare it in his asset declaration form provided by the Code of Conduct Bureau.

The former governor, who later denied making any statement on his invitation by EFCC, in a recent video that has surfaced was captured explaining and showing documents of how he acquired his house in the United Kingdom.

Obi Pandora is the guy with the most lie in Nigeria. He can't just live a day without lying.

you no de tire? every minute it is about Peter Obi, and even the point you are pursuing is very funny. ok, he has a house, so what. your problem is that he lied about owning a house from money he made legitimately, but you care less about the one that has warehoused your destiny.

PresidObi:
Sorry for how you feel bad about the whole thing, it was a campaign promise by Buhari and APC, the failure to complete it is a failure. And yet someone is there lying that it has been completed. How you failed to see all that and veered off completely to typing a whole volume is a mystery.

Stop beating around the bush.

No! it is important to propagate the right narrative, completed or not, we should not make it look like second Niger Bridge is one big favour for only the Igbos.

diadem10:
Heavyweight indeed.



Ment. All the big churches are in Lagos. Have they been islamised yet? Na ment? A good brain would know that since Tinubu didn't islamise his wife and Lagos, he won't islamise anyone. Stop limiting politics and competency to religion.

Like, you could see the high strides which Tinubu achieved in Lagos such as his legacies which include Lekki seaport, lekki trade zone, BRT, Eko Atlantic, BRT terminal, high increase in Lagos revenue even at the time Obasanjo withheld Lagos allocation for several years yet Tinubu made Lagos' thrived regardless. But rather than look at these, you're limiting Tinubu to his religion. How is Peter Obi who's got no achievement whatsoever better than Tinubu's enormous legacies in Lagos? Na ment? Tinubu is a first class graduate of accounting whereas Peter Obi is only a D pass graduate of philosophy.

Also, Tinubu is the most liberal leader who always ensure he brings in intelligent talents to nurture and work with him, irrespective of their religion or Tribes. People such as Fashola, Sanwo Olu, Osinbajo, Igbokwe etc..

Point is most Muslims in the southwest are different from the Northern Muslims. They don't allow religion to cage them. Personally, I hope for when religion would only be limited to home and religious houses because that's where it belongs. By limiting religion to only homes and religious houses, this would create more secular carefree avenue for people to use their brain to think outside of the box and improve their environment. Religion or non religion shouldn't be a determinant in any of our settings. Competence should always be championed and should be the main determinant.

Now on the question why Tinubu chose a Northern Muslim despite being a Muslim. It's a political strategic move. He chose a Northern leader from the core North which happens to be a Muslim since almost all the Northern leaders are Muslims anyway.

You all know that most of the leaders in the South are Christians while Muslims are the majorities in the North. Let imagine for example that a Northern Christian happened to get the presidential ticket of a huge platform, who do you think he would choose as his deputy in the South? Of course a popular Southern who may eventually end up being a Christian. Why? Because majority of the leaders in the South are Christian hence choosing one of the popular Southern leaders could end up being a Christian. That was exactly what Tinubu did. It's a political strategic move.

That's why religion shouldn't be a determinant in any settings because it's only a personal thing. Imagine if Shettima was only seen as a Northern Nigerian while Tinubu was seen as a Southern Nigerian. That already balanced the equation and criteria needed instead of bringing in religion into the prism. Point is when you look at Europe, American and Canada, they don't care about your religion whether you're Christian, Muslim or Atheist. What they care about is your competence irrespective of your religion. You wouldn't care about the religion of a doctor who's to operate on you but his competence. Religion shouldn't be a ticket for you to get your way out of your incompetence and I'm talking about Peter Obi who achieved absolute nothing in his Anambra state.

Meanwhile, I believe Tinubu chose Shettima as his deputy because Zulum was Shettima's protégé. Zulum would have been the perfect fit but he wanted a second term as a governor hence Shettima. This isn't about religion.

Please, what did you say were Tinubu's legacies? Lagos such as his legacies which include Lekki seaport, lekki trade zone, BRT, Eko Atlantic, BRT terminal? Lies!!! What years were those projects started?

Bros, Tinubu did not embark on those projects. Please give credit to whom it is due. It is criminal to keep dressing Tinubu in borrowed robes at the detriment of those that really made efforts for change. For some of you that were either too small or were not born when Tinubu was in power, the popular position was that Marwa as Military governor before him did better. You guys should just stop! we have had enough, are you not tired? That was how you over polished Buharis and sold a dead horse to Nigerians. You have come again. It will not work this time.

PresidObi:
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Seriously, what is this thing about second Niger bridge like it is an allocation to the Igbos. You guys are really funny. For your information, no region or state can claim maximum benefit to any road constructed. I am sure many Igbos will will pray that the Lokoja-Auchi road be made super high way, I am sure many Igbos will pray that Lagos Ibadan road be ten lanes, Igbos will equally be thankful that the Oweto bridge and road be completed fast. This is because it is possible that the Igbos might use the road more than the locals. Same way none Igbos may use the second Niger bridge more than so majority of the Igbos. That's how it is.

The Second Nigeri bridge is not for the Igbos, it is for every Nigeria. Those coming from South-South, going to North or South-West will use the bridge. The Dangotes of this world will be the biggest beneficiaries of the project. Those that will come to Onitcha, Aba, PH for any business will be the greatest beneficiaries of that project. The Bridge will not add extra allocation to South East, instead, it will be source of income for the FG because it will be tolled.

Please, when you think of something good for the South East, think of something that will benefit them exclusively, not a project that is for every Nigeria. They are building rail projects that will employ people in South West and North, why have they not considered that for the South East.

I repeat, second Niger bridge is not a special gift for the Igbos, it is a Nigerian Business venture, don't think you can fool us. We have been moving in and out of the east for years, have we died? The much that bridge can do is to reduce travel time by about 30 minutes for those going to South East and South-South. That's what the noise is about.

But, come to think of it, who said Buhari gave us Second Niger bridge. It was a project already settled by GEJ, Buhari even slowed it down just to make it look like it is his project. Oga, our eyes dey clear.

patroit001:
another brainwashed OBIdient

When you say "brainwashed" who is brainwashing who. Obedience movement is the only political movement that is voluntary, where people step out to say "enough is enough". I am one of them, and I want to say to you "wake up"!!!!.

BluntCrazeMan:
From earlier thread....
(TEE MAC: TINUBU IS MY IN-LAW, HE’S 86, NOT FIT TO RUN NIGERIA.)
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https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/07/28/tee-mac-tinubu-is-my-in-law-hes-86-not-fit-to-run-nigeria/
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The fact that Tee Mac is so close to the Tinubu’s family does not mean anything, and cannot be taken as something to be grabbed upon.
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If anybody wants to use the words of Tee-Mac serious, then a court case should be filed, where Tee-Mac would be summoned to come and prove himself beyond every reasonable doubts that “Tinubu is actually 86-years, and not 70-years..”
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With that officially declared, and the judgement given by the courts, and then dragged legally to its very end, we can now know where we stand.
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Whether Tinubu lied on oath or not.
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So, if the opposition parties are ready to use the Tee-Mac’s statements purposefully, it's up to them to do the needful immediately..
Otherwise, sharing the comments online and on the social-media is totally useless and inconsequential.
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Meanwhile..
I am still waiting for the real Tee-Mac to come out and deny the other comment...

Which Court, we don't need to go to Court, we already know and we will make our mind known in the ballot.

Two things are there: It is Tinubu is truly the age he is quoting or he is 86 years old, either way, the odds are against him.
If he is how old he claims to be, it means he has a serious illness that making him age fast, which is a red flag, as we cannot hand Presidency to someone with compromising health situation. If he is 86 year, it is a problem because he is morally and legally encumbered.

He is just not the right guy

EfonAlaaye2023:
which Obi? if obi even win kwankwaso in 2023 then there is hope for southeast presidency in 2031

Do not brag, wait and see. They don't tell blind man that it is raining. If Obi is not the guy, why are you dying on his matter. Keep lying to your self.

I repeat, as it stands now, there is no other candidate that is sure of sweeping one region massively except Obi. Mention the person and tell me where he will sweep. One this I respect some Yorubas for, I mean the informed ones, they are not swayed by the pettiness some of you express and they will do what is in their mind without making noise about it. I am very sure that Prof Yemi Osibanjo will vote Obi quietly. I know the true Yoruba elders will vote Obi, I know the refined and independent minded Yorubas will vote Obi.

The same way, if Yemi Osibanjo came out and Orji Uzo came out, majority of Igbos would have voted Osibanjo. That is how it is and how it should be. For some of you still left in the past, try and hurry up and catch up with others. We have passed that type of Politics because Nigeria is collapsing. We are done with Oga pata pata kind of president. We need a president that can relate with us and speak with us. A president that can walk into the market to know the cost of tomatoes, not the type that will surround himself with the characters that feel they are better than us, and they feed like "na we dey here".

EfonAlaaye2023:
no one can match Tinubu among your leaders in east

Obi is already facing him and you are seeing result already.

GoodLife4live:
You lied seriously ... Anambra is a failed State... I was in anambra during bobi tenor ... He failed woefully ... He didn't do anything at all ... Show us 3 of his achievements today that anambranians including other Nigerians are benefiting from ? ... Obi is pathological liar and a bigoted human being... Obi didn't do anything in anambra ... If truly all what you said are truth .. Anambra will not be under developed... We can all see feel the impart
of tinubuu effectiveness of continuety development/ leadership in Lagos ...

Get out, if you cannot help yourself, no one can help you. If the apparent is not visible to you, your case is hopeless. Go an deal with your case and leave Obi mater. When your mates were listening to news and were reading papers, you were busy watching premiership and you want to burden another person with your ignorance.

BetterNija:
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At times when you people talk, we begin to ask , where exactly have u deposited your brain �?
Same Obi that never conduct LG election for good 7years as Anambra Govenror.
Same Obi that never pay both health workers and other state workers for over 3years ..
Have u ever heard of any strike in Lagos state by civil servant before , Either under Tinubu or those he influenced their election?
Are u not aware of creation of new LG which they refer to LCDA by Tinubu , which OBASANJO refused to pay him the Federal allocations for years , yet the workers get paid at the due ..
Are u not aware of independence electricity generation Tinubu initiated as a Govenror in Lagos state ?
If truly Obi has make Anambra better than Lagos, why influx of all your people , including Obi to Lagos state ?
If you're talking about another thing to bring Tinubu down or compare him to Obi, it should never be about performances and antecedents. .
Tinubu as a Govenror, all tribes , religion are well represented and inclusive in his cabinet, can Obi ever try that in his entirety, appointing a Yoruba Muslim man into his government as ANAMBRA state Govenror? Appoint Hausa Muslim man as a commissioner in Anambra state under his leadership as Anambra Govenror?

You that has his brain intact, how come you did not think out what led to him not having LG election, that there was several Court cases that prevented that. Please, bring your evidence that Teachers and Doctors were owed under Obi, unfortunately I am sure you were too small to know anything that time or had no newspaper that time. You would have know that before Obi, Anambra was almost a gone State, with all institution dowm, with years of salary arrears. That was what Obi inherited and cleared all before he left office, including pensions and gratuity, without borrowing. No State governor, I repeat, no State governor had faced and surmounted that kind of wahala with excellence.

Know this and know peace, there is nothoing you can use to fault Obi.

EfonAlaaye2023:
none of your leaders in east can match Tinubu intelligentsia and political sagacity



continue badmouthing him, it won't stop his victory

Stop throwing terms that you have been scripted to be posting. He is just a con man that has conned Lagosians for years. So, because you have been conned for too long you now want to make people with clear head to see the man scamming you as super intelligent, no, it is you being under the spell of a con artist.

His "sagacity" begins and ends in Lagos, if he was to be from Anambra, they for don bench am since. When you survive politics in Anambra, you know you are strong, not mouth. And let me tell you, when people like Arthor Nzeribe were in the scene, Tinubu was no where near him, but Nzeribe was contained. Orjiuzo was already playing with big boys with the kind of money Tinubu had not seen by 1999, he came with a bang and with all kind of contacts, he was benched. We cannot be caged by one man, not possible.

So, that he has risen to the top on the mumuism of his people does not make him the National champion. Now, he has come out to the National, let him come and show sagacity let's see.

Didi2d:
Tinubu graduated with first class while Obi graduated with third class...

You guys have no shame. We are busy searching for his certificates, you want to implicate him further by giving him first class. Tomorow they will blame Olanipekun. Be careful, you want to drag him out further.

Chai, Agbado and Lagos. Hmm.

Realist12:
and Obi is the best Y'all can present? Obi isn't half as intelligent and accomplished as Tinubu or his mentees .

My dear, being conning and being intelligent are not the same. Put Obi's personal achievement on the table and put that of Tinubu and check yourself. I need you to tell me what you mean by being intelligent, infact, tell me one public statement of Tinubu that speaks to his intelligence. He is intelligent and he was scammed by the North and collected a cheque that will bounce from them as APC ticket, and the lured him into political suicide by agreeing to Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Accomplishment, I will rather respect a decent banker that has a modest life with his Corolla than a Yahoo Yahoo boy with Venza. How you know smart guys is how far they went in the Private sector. Tell me, how far did Tinubu go in the Private sector, as Auditor of an oil Company? Even Deziani Madueke would have been his boss given the position she attained. For G-sake, Obi chaired a major bank in Nigeria, that is not beans. I am sure even you is struggling to get employed in a Micro-finance bank.

Go and check the achievements of Tinubu and Obi. See what you will do, compare before him and after him how he performed in relation to those that before him and after him. Compare Jakande before Tinubu and Fashola after Tinubu. then Compare Ngige before Obi and Obiano after Obi. Then, compare their achievements in key Human Capital Development areas.

1. What was the ranking of Lagos in education during Tinubu's time and that of Anambra in Obi's time
2. Check what was the level of funding of education in Tinibu's time and compare that of Obi
3. Compare the funding in health in Obi's time and that of Tinubu
4. Go to road construction and check how many kM of roads both constructed.

Please, use true data, not the spin-doctors' script.

And while you are comparing, also check the amount these states have, so that you can measure percentage achievement with the amount they had. Tinubu is simply a con man, that is where his intelligence is high. But again, his conning self can only survive in Lagos, if he were to be a governor in Anamabra, he would have known that no everyone can be fooled with Agbado and Cassava.

Odin13:
He can’t give what he don’t have

The North is behind its own in a quest to unify the country.

Is not about IPOB and Ekpa as Obi sponsors , nobody really cares about Obi and his noise .. so marketing is never an option for him.. who will he consult ? Even for consulting sake .. his father ?

Nigeria need peace unity to progress .. we need to push Apc bandits and IPOB esn Ekpa .. all fools need to be flushed out of the country for national growth

Power to the people
Atiku/Okowa 2023

Just so that you know, Obi is not hoping to win in the North. He almost has what he needs up there already - the Christian Population and the few other informed Northerners that will yield to the project to take back Nigeria. The determine vote will come from North Central and SS. So, ask yourself who is likely taking those places. Why I mentioned "Christian North" is not because Obi is Christian, but because APC quizzed the tail of a sleeping lion by telling the Christians in the North that they are insignificant and they want to show their straighten to the advantage of Obi.

Just so that you know, even in South West, there are quite a number that will support Obi, far more than APC or PDP will get from the SS and SE. This is not an ethnic issues, as much as you want to try to make Obi look like Igbo project you will keep giving yourselves false hope that others will not vote him. Between now and when campaigns will start officially, Obedience movement would have solidified in their core areas. Consultation will be going on quietly with the Religious leaders, and the minorities that will swing the vote.

As it stands today, the only candidate that can sweep a region or two clean is Obi, no other candidate can boast of that, you can counter this with a more convincing data.

Why is everywhere quiet. I feel so disappointed with some Yorubas that market Tinubu as the best they can offer. They have automatically de-marketed themselves as lacking in Presidential material, even when we know they have fantastic guys that are waaay qualified to make a refined and a president the reflects the future Nigerians are aspiring to have. Jokes apart, the North is playing a card on the Yoruba's head if they don't know. They know, and say it, that Yorubas supported Buhari thinking that he will die, so that they will take power. They want to give them the package in its real form and to avenge the Yaradua issue.

You people should drop this ego fight and get serious with what is facing us- saving Nigeria. I am sure, even the supporters of BAT know deep-down that he is a hard sale. Unfortunately, ethnic shells are covering our eyes, others think it is like being in ManU and other in Arsenal and you have to support your club no matter. Guys, this is a serious business, Nigeria is collapsing, and the architects of it's destruction are busy pumping their ego as the "owners of Nigeria". Be wise!