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Buhari giving a car to each niger republic citizen. He did this unilaterally. No senate nor house of rep. permission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aE0a4TuUI |
Itsokayo:Hope the man wasn't forced into it |
yomi961:Atifku, another Fulani man ![]() Are you out of your senses ?It's Tinubu shetima All the way |
walkbrazil4k:All Putin wants is for him to resign. And he should have done that long since and save life's of his people and the country. The west urged him to stay as they know Putin will put his own man. A pro Russia as president |
Who is this character ![]() So because the one who even could be among the guilty ones denied something then it's false.?? Are u a Nigerian ![]() I swear i know Nigerian police could do even worse. Go to Idimu Police station in Lagos and ask. You'll almost faint of witnessing such police brutality...and it's been on since i knew the station when i was in primary school |
Who is this character ![]() So because the one who even could be among the guilty ones denied something then it's false.?? Are u a Nigerian ![]() I swear i know Nigerian police could do even worse. Go to Idimu Police station in Lagos and ask. You'll almost faint..and it's been on since i knew the station when i was in primary school |
dre11:DONT BE CAJOLED. THIS IS A TRIBAL THING. It's the Fulani. If you make mistake of counting it again a party, you'll be voting in another Fulani man. And they'll all slaughter you all one by one. Obituary is not the solution |
this SATAN stole the story from another place after it's been debunked as being FAKE news. It's all false. It's fake news Those people are about 17 in numbers. Their leader wanted a space to contest and the governor of the state denied them and gave those whom he promised should they leave PDP for APC. they did and got booked for the positions which angered these 17 people. I could give you my cousins phone number to call. His maternal uncle is one of them. So am narrating to you inside story. Go to your president of biafra |
It's them. The OBItuary people. Always defaming others characters to win competition. Their own INEC s social media and ballot paper is blackmailing |
gasparpisciotta:NON!!!!! he was a total failure |
DaddyFreeze2020:U mean voted Buhari ![]() I swear Obituary would have done WORSE |
bigpicture001:Your usual comments shows you are an illuminati. Their agent |
LaSenior:You must vote for him since you are a big time liar yourself |
I want to write INEC that even if Obituary makes a 2nd position, he should be declared winner . Even if he wins 50,000 votes of 45 million intending to vote. The award is actually for his lying. |
Akurakambe:Are u not ashamed . You people need send Obituary to jail. I hate the face of a liar. |
Salewa97:These eastern boys always desperate to be rich. They are so bad to live with. Lagos need to keep them all away from Lagos |
onthehill:AHHHH!!!! This stupid man is a bloody bloody LIAR. he wants to attract people's sympathy and make them feel he's being chased or victimized. No one need go to his school to know he attended unless it's a local collage school. Now i HATE him for telling lies. I swear I'll make sure anyone i know don't vote for him. I don't like bastard liars |
Salewa97:Not being tribalistic, there's high need for is all to reorientate these people from southeast. You just read a Nigerian killed in Italy, like many throughout the whole world. The way Nigerians were killed horribly in south Africa. What almost happened to Nigerians in Ghana. It is actually these south-easterners killing us. Their greed for wealth and the mentality of "make money by all means" is too unprecedented. They are always the SCUMS were ever they are found. It's high time they are taught to have an change of their thinking. They all wanna be like Ezego. |
Vulturereloaded:If you blame Tinubu for bringing Buhari, I'll tell you those to also blame; The entire US. Obama. All Nigerians who blamed Jonathan including me. Your people in southeast for giving him required number with which he defeated Jonathan (25%) and many more. Do you blame Tinubu for what we all are guilty of ?U must be out of your thinking for that my guy |
Oilwell:Head of service is never appointed by the governor. It's a federal thing. They got their ranks and positions. I'm each state the next senior man takes position. He's not a commissioner and definitely not in Obi's cabinet |
DEVELOPMENT. just simply compare the state of each contenders. Or the state they once govern. Even for over 80% of their times, both Atiku and Obi stays in Lagos. They got their investments in Lagos. So you judge that for yourself who owns this |
Eriokanmi:See this chiidi who was born in Lagos can now speak Yoruba very well. Even bears Yoruba name on nairaland |
Christistruth00:Funny thing is that i read online an interview where one chukwudi was saying he's from.Lagos. many of these Igbo Easterners claim Lagos but Tinubu a Yoruba man is not from Lagos |
saintrow1:Try it in any ibo land and you be dead in a minute. We warned you all..the Ibos have evil mind |
floret23:You lied. Am.from EDE. Osun state .they only wanted Oyetola out..and that's by his goons in APC. NO SINGLE osun indigene would vote against Tinubu unless foreigners living here |
XerXers:See the 20 people that will vote Obi in 2023.. they are party members. They even look like they don't like what they are doing |
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon invite erstwhile governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, over the $115 million allegedly received from former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, by Fidelity Bank. But the anti-graft commission is reportedly seeking clarifications from his successor, Governor Willy Obiano. Sources at the EFCC noted that during the build-up to the 2015 presidential election, Alison-Madueke invited Nnamdi Okonkwo, Managing Director, Fidelity Bank, to help her handle some cash, which would be disbursed to electoral officials and groups. It was learnt that Okonkwo recently arrested by EFCC told his interrogators that he was under instructions from Obi, believed to be one of the owners of the bank, to go to Alison-Madueke’s residence in Abuja for a “financial transaction that could benefit the bank https://igberetvnews.com/4451/just-in-diezani_115-fraud-efcc-set-to-invite-peter-obi/#forward |
In 2009. Peter Obi in the web of ₦250 million controversy https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/gov-obi-in-the-web-of-n250-million-controversy/amp/ |
............... Peter Obi, the ex-governor of Anambra State in Southeastern Nigeria, is widely regarded in Nigeria as an advocate of good governance, openness, and transparency. In addition to speeches on his governance records and statistics-laden prescriptions for Nigeria’s development, he likes to talk about how hugely successful he became in business before diving into politics. In speeches and in printed literature, Mr Obi is never shy, reeling out his numerous business affiliations and accomplishments. On his website, for example, the former governor said he “was chairman of Next International Nigeria Ltd, then chairman and director of Guardian Express Mortgage Bank Ltd, Guardian Express Bank Plc, Future View Securities Ltd, Paymaster Nigeria Ltd, Chams Nigeria Ltd, Data Corp Ltd and Card Centre Ltd.” On that same platform, the former governor also described himself as the youngest board chairperson ever appointed by Fidelity Bank Plc, a 34-year old Nigerian lender listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. But beyond the facade of priggish speeches and appearances, an investigation by PREMIUM TIMES has now shown that Mr Obi is not entirely transparent in his affairs as he likes Nigerians to believe. The investigation is part of the global International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)-led Pandora Papers project. The project saw 600 journalists from 150 news organisations around the world poring through a trove of 11.9 million confidential files, contextualising information, tracking down sources and analysing public records and other documents The leaked files were retrieved from some offshore services firms around the world that set up shell companies and other offshore entities for clients, many of them influential politicians, businesspersons and criminals, seeking to conceal their financial dealings. The two-year collaboration has so far revealed the financial secrets of not less than 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 public officials in more than 91 countries and territories. Mr Obi is one of the individuals whose hidden business activities was thrown open by the project. Indeed, he has a number of secret business dealings and relationships that he has for years kept to his chest. These are businesses he clandestinely set up and operated overseas, including in notorious tax and secrecy havens in ways that breached Nigerian laws. PREMIUM TIMES contacted Mr Obi with written questions and had an in-person interview with him weeks ahead of this publication. The former governor admitted that he did not declare these companies and the funds and properties they hold in his asset declaration filings with the Code of Conduct Bureau, the Nigerian government agency that deals with the issues of corruption, conflict of interest, and abuse of office by public servants. He said he was unaware that the law expected him to declare assets or companies he jointly owns with his family members or anyone else. The Pandora Papers, the biggest cross-border collaboration of journalists in history, is an investigation into a vast amount of previously hidden offshore companies, exposing secret assets, covert deals and hidden fortunes of the super-rich – among them more than 130 billionaires – and the powerful, including more 30 world leaders and hundreds of former and serving public officials across the world. The confidential documents also feature a global cast of fugitives, convicts, celebrities, football stars and others, including judges, tax officials, spy chiefs and mayors. The leaked records came from 14 offshore services firms from around the world that set up shell companies and other offshore nooks for clients like Mr Obi, who seek to shroud their financial activities, often suspicious, in secrecy. Code-of-Conduct-Tribunal-HQ Code of Conduct Tribunal HQ Peter Obi, his daughter and a secret business Mr Obi has two children- a daughter, Gabriella Nwamaka Frances Obi, and a son, Gregory Peter Oseloka Obi. Sometime in 2010, more than four years after he became governor, the politician developed an appetite to set up his first discreet company in the British Virgin Island. He named the company Gabriella Investments Limited, after his daughter To set up what has now become a convoluted business structure, Mr Obi first approached Acces International, a secrecy enabler in Monaco, France, to help him incorporate an offshore entity in one of the world’s most notorious tax havens noted for providing conduits for wealthy and privileged corrupt political elites to hide stolen cash to avoid the attention of tax authorities. Tax havens are politically and economically stable offshore jurisdictions or countries with extensive laws and systems that provide little or no tax obligations, but enable high secrecy and privacy protection for foreign individuals and businesses. Mr Obi also paid Acces International to provide nominee directors for the company. Nominee directors are residents of tax havens paid to sit on boards of companies to hide the identities of real owners of offshore firms. So, after accepting a brief from the then governor or his representatives, Acces International officials headed to the British Virgin Island, a notorious tax haven, where it contracted a local registered agent – Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee Trust (BVI) Limited (Alcogal) — to set up Gabriella Investments Limited for Mr Obi. The 36-year old Alcogal is a Panamanian law firm that went on to open overseas subsidiaries offering company formation and registered agent services in BVI, Seychelles, Belize, and Bahamas, and the preparation of corporate documentation in relation to the companies formed. It also provides trust services through its subsidiary trust companies in Panama, BVI, and Belize. After extensive documentation, Gabriella Investment Limited was born on November 17, 2010, with registration number 1615538. Two figureheads – Antony Janse Van Vuuren and Lance Lawson — were appointed its first directors while ultimate control resided with Mr Obi. On the same day the company was incorporated, the nominee directors met and issued 50,000 shares of Gabriella Investment in favour of Hill International Holding Corporation, a shell International Business Company operating under the laws of Belize, another tax haven. The director of the company is Mr Van Vuuren, also one of the directors of Gabriella Investment. It is unclear what businesses Mr Obi transacted with the entities but in some communications, they were sometimes referred to as investment vehicles. Mr Obi told PREMIUM TIMES the offshore entity is the holding company for most of his assets and that the business structure he adapted was to enable him to avoid excessive taxation. “I am sure you too will not like to pay inheritance tax if you can avoid it,” he told the reporters who interviewed him. The Memorandum of Incorporation of Gabriella Investment said it was set up to carry on or undertake any business or activity, including trading of any commodities or goods, to do any act or enter into any transactions. Recalibrating the structure and bringing family under the umbrella Mr Obi has since rearranged his offshore businesses. First, he renamed Gabriella Investment. Beginning February 10, 2017, the company became known as PMGG Investments Limited in what is a combination of the first letters of the first names of Mr Obi’s nuclear family. P for Peter (ex-governor), M for Margaret (the ex-governor’s wife), G for Gabriella (the ex-governor’s daughter) and G for Gregory (the ex-governor’s son). Mr Obi has also now created a trust known as The Gabriella Settlement, an entity also registered in the BVI. According to Fidelity Investments, a trust is a fiduciary arrangement that allows a third party, or trustee, to hold assets on behalf of a beneficiary or beneficiaries. Experts believe that trusts are traditionally used for minimising taxes even though they can offer other estate plan benefits as well. By the current structuring of Mr Obi’s wealth and offshore businesses, The Gabriella Settlement, which appears to hold all or a majority of his assets, is the sole shareholder of PMGG Investments. In turn, a New Zealander entity, Granite Trust Company Limited is the sole trustee of The Gabriella Settlement. Sam Access International, the Monaco-based secrecy enabler Mr Obi first hired in 2010 to set up his offshore structure, was until August 23, 2019, the sole shareholder of Granite Trust. FIRS Headquarters FIRS Headquarters Antony Janse Van Vuuren, who has acted as a consistent and perpetual director for almost all of Mr Obi-related offshore entities popped up again, making the filing that brought in another Monaco-based company, Rhone Acces Sam as the sole shareholder of Granite Trust. However, Rhone Trust and Fiduciary S.A., a Swiss entity, is the ultimate holding company for Granite Trust. Mr Peter Obi and his Man Friday A central and recurring figure in former Governor Obi’s network of offshore companies and on whom the politician appears to place immense trust is Antony Janse Van Vuuren, a 70-year old South African based in the principality of Monaco in France. Experts in Illicit Financial Flows consider Monaco a tax haven because of its generous tax laws and policies. According to KPMG Multi Family Office, the principality of roughly 30,000 inhabitants does not charge wealth tax, property tax, investment income tax, and capital gains tax. It also does not tax dividends and directors’ fees and unless they are French nationals, resident individuals are not subject to personal income tax while inheritance tax is zero per cent for spouses and direct beneficiaries. It is unclear if it was this mouth-watering tax regime that attracted Mr Obi to Monaco. What is however clear is that, in 2010, four years after he became governor, the politician or his representatives hired Monaco-based Acces International, where Mr Van Vuuren has been partner and director for 25 years, to help him create a secret and intricate scheme for managing his assets. Mr Obi told PREMIUM TIMES that British Lloyds Bank’s advice informed his offshore structure decision. From Monaco in France to Tortola in the BVI, to Wellington in New Zealand, and to Geneva in Switzerland, Mr Van Vuuren has travelled around the world running business errands for Mr Obi and taking major decisions on his behalf. While Mr Obi stays comfortably behind the curtain, the South African has remained the face of the ex-governor’s companies and the assets they hold. For the past decade, he is the politician’s number one business arranger in the offshore world as well as the custodian of the politician’s business-related documents and correspondences. Mr Van Vuuren, a veteran nominee director for possibly tens or hundreds of shell companies, attended the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting and Business Management. He also obtained an MBA from Durham University in 1977. A History of Playing Offshore A 1991 leaked incorporation document reveals a certain Peter Obi and two other individuals – Donatus Ogbogu and Uche Okagbue – to have incorporated Beauchamp Investments Limited in Barbados. The firm was incorporated as an international business company on August 20, 1991, with registration number 7305. The setting up of the company was handled at the time by a certain Peter L. Chase. What businesses the company does and what assets it holds remain unclear. Mr Obi denied knowledge of the firm as well as of Messrs Ogbogu and Okagbue. He said the individual who incorporated Beauchamp was possibly another businessman who happened to bear a similar name as him. However, Next International (UK) Limited, another of the former governor’s overseas companies, was incorporated on May 16, 1996, in London. Mr Obi and his wife, Margaret, were listed as directors while Next International (Nigeria) Limited (with 999 ordinary shares) and Mr Obi (with one ordinary share) were listed as shareholders. The exact businesses the company undertook in its 25-year history remained unclear, although, on March 8, 2001, the firm reported taking a mortgage from Lloyds TSB Bank Plc for a property on 53 Clyde Road, Croydon. Breaking the Law: Number 1 In Nigeria, a person is statutorily obligated to withdraw from engaging in or directing a private business, except if it is farming, upon becoming a public officer, Section Six (6) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act stipulates. However, our investigation, based on records obtained from the UK Companies House shows that Mr Obi continued to be a director of Next International (UK) Limited for 14 months after becoming the governor of Anambra State, thereby breaking Nigeria’s law. The politician resigned from the company on May 16, 2008, 14 months after he assumed duties as Anambra governor. He took office on March 17, 2006. READ ALSO: Pandora Papers: An offshore data tsunami Mr Obi did not dispute the records PREMIUM TIMES cited but he claimed he “resigned immediately” by handing his wife his resignation letter. He suggested that his company might have failed to effect the changes on time or the UK Companies House did not immediately document his exit. But the UK companies registry said Mr Obi indeed resigned on May 16, 2008, and that it received his notice of resignation for electronic filing on June 16, 2008. Breaking the law: Number 2 Nigerian public officers are required to declare “immediately after taking office and thereafter all” their properties, assets, and liabilities and those of his (or her) unmarried children under the age of eighteen years,” Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution stipulates (Section 11, Part of the Fifth Schedule). PREMIUM TIMES investigation also found that Mr Obi breached this constitutional provision on assets declaration. We can authoritatively report that Mr Obi did not declare to the Code of Conduct Bureau the companies he tucked away in offshore secrecy havens. Mr Obi caused to be created for him a structure of secrecy that had previously, until the Pandora Papers investigation, meant he could continue to hold foreign assets in a way that breaches Nigeria’s law without the knowledge of authorities in the country. In an extra layer of secrecy, Mr Obi used paid nominees as directors, while he remains the ultimate beneficial owner, making it nearly impossible to discover his interests in those companies but we obtained rare incorporation documents proving his link. Otherwise, Mr Obi could have forever hoped to continue to hold the assets, that he did not declare when he had a statutory obligation to do so as a governor, without any authority or the public calling him to account. In his response, Mr Obi ridiculously suggested that those offshore companies and assets are jointly owned with his family members and that he was not under obligation to declare companies jointly owned. “I don’t declare what is owned with others,” Mr Obi told PREMIUM TIMES. “If my family owns something I won’t declare it. I didn’t declare anything I jointly owed with anyone.” This is contrary to the position of the Constitution, which specifies the declaration of all assets, whether jointly or partly owned, PREMIUM TIMES’ reporters told Mr Obi. He said he was not aware of that provision of the law. Nevertheless, leaked records show Mr Obi is the sole ultimate beneficial owner of the offshore companies. So he did not even jointly own it with anyone....... Read more here.. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/487997-pandora-papers-inside-peter-obis-secret-businesses-and-how-he-broke-the-law.html |
Oilwell:Home being a drug lord, your journalist did the job he was paid to do. Even you yourself if you could be sincere for a little bit and read the story again and make use of your intelligence would know your journalist was only trying to be sensational. He's a bloody LIAR paid to do a clean hatchet job |
Oilwell:That deception you were made to believe. Obi lies much of abandoning frivolities but it's been confirmed many times that he lied. Said he never boarded a private jet but it was shown he had. He never has a house abroad but it was shown he lied. Likewise in many cases i could bring to you. How then could one be so foolish enough to believe anything that guy says?? |
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. OBI. No man till date is known to have been groomed to a high status in Nigeria by this Obi. No single one has been credited to him except street businesses. ATIKU. The Adamawa man has successfully built to some extent, vibrant people who are now known both in political class as well as other fields. Though not much, he has tried in his own capacity. TINUBU. I don't know of people are aware that at one time these people were in Tinubu's cabinet when he was the governor of Lagos. Fashola Aregbesola Lai mohammed Sunday Dare Opeyemi Bamidele Obanikoro Many of the serving governors and senates as well as the national assemblies..even the current senate president as well as the speaker were nurtured to position by this astute and altruistic gentle man |

